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
Thomas Fuller bestoweth this Epitaph upon him Hic Johnsone jacet sed si mors cederet herbis Arte fuguata tua cederet illa tuis Col. Henry Gage in whose wreath of Laurel his twice relieving this house in two still foggy nights not knowing his way but as he fought it through four times the number of the wearied men he had with him deserves to be twisted and whose history is drawn up on his Monument which after two Funerals will not suffer him to dye being likely to continue his worth after our ruins as long as Seth intended his stones should Letters after both the destructions of the world in Christ Church Oxford thus P. M. S. Hic situs est Militum chiliarcha Henricus Gage equitis aurati Filius hares Johannis Gage de Haling in agro surriensâ— Armigeri Pronepos Johannis Gage honeratissimi ordinis peris celidis equitis in Belgio meruit supra annos XX. in omnipraeliâ— obsidione Berghae ad Zomam Bredae ac praecipue S. audomori ex Belgio ad M. Brit. regem missus attulit armorum VI. M. Cujus imperio Bostalii aeâ—es expugnavit Mox Basingianis prasidiariis commeatu interclusis strenue rejam desperata suppetias tulit castrum Bamburiense cum Northamptoniae comite liberavit hinc equestri dignitate ornatus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit jamque gubernator Oxon. creatus cum ad Culhami Pontem inhostes jam tertio milites audacter duceret plumbea traject us glande occubuit Die XI Janua 1644. aetat suae 47. funus solemni luctu prosequnti Principes Proceres Milites Academici Cives â—mnes Iam tristissimi ex dessiderio viri ingenio linguarum peritia gloria militari pietate fide amore in principem patriam eminentissimi THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord DIGBY Earl of Bristol THis Noble man was the younger Son of an Ancient Family of the Digbies long flourishing at Coleshull in Warwick-shire who to pass by his Infancy all children are alike in their Long-coats in his Youth as his Son did gave pregnant hopes of that eminency which his Mature Age did produce and coming to Court with an Annuity of fifty pounds a year besides a good Address and choice Abilities both for Ceremonies and business He kenned the Ambassadors craft as well as any man living in his time employed by King Iames in several services to forraign Princes recited in his Patent as the main motives of the Honors conferred upon him among which the Spanish Match managed by him from 1616. to 1623. was his master-piece wherein if his Lordship dealt in generalities and did not press particulars we may guess the reason of it from that expression of his I will take care to have my Instructions perfect and will pursue them punctually If he held affairs in suspence that it might not come to a war on our side it may be he did so with more regard to his Master King Iames his Inclination than his own Apprehension If he said that howsoever the business went he would make his fortune thereby it rather argued the freedom of his spirit that he said so his sufficiency that he could do so than his unfaithfulness that he did do so This is certain that he chose rather to come home and suffer the utmost displeasure of the King of England than stay abroad and injoy the highest favour of the King of Spain He did indeed interceed for Indulgence to Papists but it was because otherwise he could do no good beyond sea for the Protestants The worst saith a learned Protestant that conversed with him much at Exeter during the siege of it and was invited to live with him beyond Sea after it he saying that as long as he had a Loaf the Doctor should have half of it I wish such who causlessly suspect him of Popish Inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong arguments for the Protestant Religion as I heard from him who many years after the contract with the Duke of Buckingham which the Duke fearing his preventing policy as he did the Dukes after-power became a drawn battel under the Kings displeasure and as the Court-cloud makes the Countries shine in the peoples favour yet bestowed his parts and interest in the beginning of the Long-Parliament upon the vindication of the Church as appears by his excellent Speeches for Episcopacy and the peace of the kingdom as he shewed in his admirable discourse 1641. of an Accommodation The reason which together with a suspicion that he was the Author of most of his Majesties Counsels and Declarations inrolled him always among the excepted persons in the number of whom he died banished in France about 1650. having met with that respect in Forreign that he missed in his Native Country 1. For whatever was at the bottom of his actions there was resolution and nobleness at top being carried from Village to Village after the King of Spain without the regard due to his person or place he expressed himself so generously that the Spanish Courtiers trembled and the King Declared That he would not interrupt his pleasures with business at Lerma for any Ambassador in the world but the English nor for any English Ambassador but Don Juan 2. When impure Scioppius upon his Libel against King Iames and Sir Humphrey Bennets complaint to the Arch-Duke against him fled into Madrid my Lord observing that it was impossible to have justice againstâ— him from the Catholick King because of the Jesuites puts his Cousien G. Digby upon cutting him which he did over his Nose and Mouth wherewith he offended so that he carried the mark of his blasphemy to his Grave 3. Where he was an extraordinary Ambassador in Germany upon his return by Hâ—ydelâ—ergh observing that Count Mansfield Army upon whom depended the fortune of the Palsgrave was like to disband for want of money he pawned all his Plate and Jewels to buoy up that Sinking Cause for that time There were besides him of this Family these famous men 1. Sir Iohn Digby a Sommerset-shire Gentleman of good education beyond Seas and of a great temperance and conduct at home careful of removing the jealousies got among the people being of the Earl of Bristol's minde in that that it is easier to compose differences arising from reasons yea from wrongs than from jealousies and that the nicest point in all Treaties is security Commanding a Tertia of the Kings Army which he raised in Sommerset-shire with great vigilance activity and charge spending 25000 l. from the time he waited on his Majesty at Nottingham 1642. having put the Commission of Array in execution in Sommersetshire to the time he 1645. received his deaths wound in a gallant action at Langfort in the foresaid County whereof he died 2. His Brother for parts as well as bloud Sir Kenelme Digby both bred abroad and both out of gratefulness faithful to King Charles who restored them upon his Queens Intercession
much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
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
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
me And to call a destruction upon my self and young Children where the intentions of my heart have been innocent at least of this great offence may be believed will find no easie content to flesh and bloud But with much sadnesse I am come to a resolution of that which I think best becomes me to look upon that which is most principal in its self which doubtless is the prosperity of your Sacred Person and the Commonwealth infinitely beyond any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the honor and justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might be pleased to have spared that Declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships So now to set your Conscience at liberty I do most humbly beseech you for the preventing of such mischief as may happen by your refusal to Pass the Bill by this means remove I cannot say praised be God this Accursed but I confesse this Unfortunate thing out of the way towards that blessed Agreement which God I trust will establish for ever between you and your Subjects Sir my Consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the world can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done And as by God's grace I forgive all the world with all chearfulnesse imaginable in the just acknowledgement of your exceeding Favours And onely Beg that in your goodnesse you would be pleased to cast your Gracious regard upon my poor Son and his Sisters lesse or more and no otherwise than their unfortunate Father shall appear more or lesse guilty of his death God long preserve your Majesty Tower May 4. 1640. Your Majesties most humble and faithful subject and servant STRAFFORD And then with much reluctancy the King being overcome rather than perswaded Passed by Proxies In hane formam The Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford extorted by a prevailing Faction by force from the Parliament 16 and 17. CAR. 1. Repealed by a Free and Full-Parliament 13 and 14. CAR. 11. WHereas the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parlament Assembled have in the names of themselves and all the Commons of England Impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford of High-treason for indeavouring to subvert the Ancient and Fundamental Laws and Government of his Majesties Realms of England and Ireland And to Introduce a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government against Law into those Kingdoms and for exercising a Tyrannous and Exorbitant Power over and against the Laws of the said Kingdoms over the Liberties Estates and Lives of his Majesties Subjects and likewise for having by his own Authority commanded the Laying and Assessing of Souldiers upon his Majesties Subjects in Ireland against their Consent to Compel them to obey his unlawful Commands and Orders made upon Paper-Petitions in Causes between Party and Party which accordingly was executed upon divers of his Majesties Subjects in a warlike manner within the said Realm of Ireland and in so doing did Levy War against the Kings Majesty and his Leige People in that Kingdom And also for that he after the unhappy Dissolution of the last Parliament did slander the House of Commons to his Majesty and did Counsel and Advise his Majesty That he was loose and absolved from Rules of Government and that he had an Army in Ireland c. For which he deserves to undergo pains and forfeiture of High-Treason And the said Earl hath been an Incendiary between Scotland and England All which Offences have been sufficiently proved against the said Earl upon his Impeachment Be it therefore Enacted c. that the said Earl of Strafford for the heinous Crimes and Offences aforesaid Stand and be Adjudged and Attainted of High-treason And shall suffer such Pain of Death and Incurr the forfeitures of his Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance in the said Kingdomes of England and Ireland which the said Earl or any other to his use or in trust for him have or had the day of the first Sitting of this present Parliament or at any time since Provided that nothing be Declared Treason hereafter but what might have been Declared for had this Act never been Passing Saving to all Persons and Bodies Corporate excepting the Earl and all Rights Titles Interests they did injoy the first day of this Parliament Any thing herein Contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That the Passing of this present Act determine not this Session of Parliament c. A Bill 1. So false in the matter of it grounded on the Evidence of Papists sworn enemies to the English Name and State that wanted only the death of this great Instrument of Government to commit those mischiefs they accused him of the Faction Carressing those very Rebels to assist them in shedding my Lord of Strafford's bloud that afterwards imbrued their hands in the bloud of so many innocent Protestants in Ireland 2. So shameful in the manner of it that as the Devil upbraids unhappy souls with those very crimes they tempted and betrayed them to so those very men made use of it to pollute the King's honour that had even forced him to it though the heaviest Censure was himself Who never left bewailing his Compliance or Connivance with this Murder till the issue of his bloud dried up those of his tears A Bill which might well accompany the other Bill about the Parliaments Sitting during pleasure this passing away the King's Honour and the other his Prerogative Neither was the Bill sooner Passed than his Execution was Ordered The King's intercession in a Letter sent by his own Son the Prince for so much intermixture of mercy with the publick Justice as to permit the Earl either to live out his sad life in a close Imprisonment or at least that his soul that found so much Injustice on earth might have a Week to prepare it's self for the mercy of Heaven Rather quickening the bloudy mens Counsels who thought not themselves safe as long as he was so and whose fears and jealousies created or entertained stories every minute of his escape or rescue than mitigating them And therefore the second day after a great man must be surprized secured as soon as accused tried as soon as secured condemned as soon as tried and executed as soon as condemned the very day Sir Henry Vane the Younger that contributed so much to this Murder was Executed afterwards After six months Imprisonment and twenty one whole days Trial wherein he answered the whole House of Commons for six or seven hours each day to the infinite satisfaction of all impartial Persons He was brought with a strong and solemn Guard to the Scaffold on Tower-hill In his passage thither he had a sight of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury whose prayers and blessings he with low obeysance begged and the pious Prelate bestowed them
with tears having a little Weeping bitterly before the King when the Bill of Attainder Passed before by Sir Dudley Carleton been informed what the Parliament demanded of the King and what the King had granted the Parliament Information that amazed him indeed at first but at last made him infinitely willing to leave this sad world and there managed the last Scene of his life with the same gallantry that he had done all the rest looking death in the face with the same presence of spirit that he had done his enemies Being accompanied besides his own Relations and Servants by the Primate of Armagh who however mis-represented in this matter was much afflicted all along for this incomparable person's hard measure who among other his vertues owned so singular a love to this Reverend and Learned Person that taking his leave of Ireland the last time he was there he begged his blessing on his Knees and the last minute he was in the world desired him to accompany him with his Prayers Addressing his last Speech to him Thus My Lord Primate of Ireland IT is my very great comfort I have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known these many years and I do thank God and your Lordship for it that you are here I should be very glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but I doubt I shall not the noise is so great My Lords I am come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay that last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Jesus Christ to righteousness and life eternal Here he was a little interrupted My Lords I am come hither to submit to that judgment which hath Passed against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I thank God I do freely forgive all the world a forgiveness that is not spoken from the teeth outwards as they say but from the very heart I speak in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not a displeasing thought arising in me towards any man living I thank God I can say it and truely too my Conscience bearing me witness that in all my employment since I had the honour to serve his Majesty I never had any thing in the purpose of my heart but what tended to the joynt and individual prosperity of King and People although it hath been my ill fortune to be misconstrued I am not the first that hath suffered in this kind It is the common portion of us all while we are in this life to err we are very subject to be mis-judged one of another There is one thing I desire to free my self of and I am very confident speaking it now with so much chearfulness that I shall obtain your Christian charity in the belief of it I was so far from being against Parliaments that I did always think the Parliaments of England were the most happy Constitutions that any Kingdom or Nation lived under and the best means under God to make the King and People happy For my Death here I acquit all the world and beseech the God of heaven heartily to forgive them that contrived it though in the intentions and purposes of my heart I am not guilty of what I dye for And my Lord Primate it is a great comfort to me that his Majesty conceives me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as is the utmost Execution of this Sentence I do infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and I beseech God to return it into his own bosome that he may find mercy when he stands in most need of it I wish this Kingdom all the prosperity and happiness in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do most humbly recommend this to every one who hears me and desire they would lay their hands upon their hearts and consider seriously whether the beginning of the Happiness and Reformation of a Kingdom should be written in Letters of Bloud Consider this when you are at your houses and let me never be so unhappy as that the last of my bloud should rise up in judgment against any one of you But I fear you are in a wrong way My Lords I have but one word more and with that I shall end I profess that I dye a true and obedient Son to the Church of England wherein I was born and in which I was bred Peace and prosperity be ever to it It hath been objected if it were an objection worth the answering that I have been inclined to Popery but I say truly from my heart that from the time I was one and twenty years of age to this present going now upon forty nine I never had in my heart to doubt of this Religion of the Church of England nor ever had any man the boldness to suggest any such thing to me to the best of my remembrance And so being reconciled by the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour into whose bosome I hope I shall shortly be gathered to those eternal happinesses which shall never have an end I desire heartily the forgiveness of every man for any rash or unadvised words or any thing done amiss And so my Lords and Gentlemen farewel farewel all the things of this world I desire that you would be silent and joyn with me in prayer and I trust in God we shall all meet and live eternally in heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happiness where every tear shall be wiped away from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God bless this Kingdom and Jesus have mercy upon my soul. AN EPITAPH ON THE Earl of Strafford HEre lies wise and valiant Dust Huddled up 'twixt Fit and Iust Strafford who was hurried hence 'Twixt Treason and Convenience He spent his time here in a mist A Papist yet a Calvinist His Prince's nearest Ioy and Grief He had yet wanted all Relief The Prop and Ruin of the State The peoples violent Love and Hate One in extreames lov'd and abhorr'd Riddles lye here and in a word Here lies Bloud and let it lye Speechless still and never cry Exuâ—ge cinis tuumque â—â—us qui potis es scribe Epitaphium Nequit Wentworthi non esse facundus vel cinis Effare Marmor quem caepisti Comprehendere Macte Exprimere Candidius meretur urna quam quod rubris Notatum est litteris Elogium Atlas Regiminis Monarchichi hie jacet â—assus Secunda Orbis Britannici Intelligentia Rex Politiae Prorex Hiberniae Straffordii virtutum Comes Mens Iovis Mercurii ingenium lingua Apollinis Cui Anglia Hiberniam debuit seipsum Hibernia Sydus Aquilonicum quo sub rubicunda vespera accidente Nox simul dies visa est dextroque oculo flevit Laevoque laetata est Anglia Theatrum Honoris itemque
scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
conferences with God by prayer and meditations were never omitted upon any occasion whatsoever When he went the yearly Progress to view the Colledge Lands and came into the Tenants houses it was his constant custome before any other business discourse or care of himself were he never so wet or weary to call for a retire Room to pour out his soul unto God who led him safely in his journey And this he did not out of any specious pretence of holiness to devour a Widows House with more facility Rack their Rents or Change their Fines for excepting the constant Revenue to the Founder to whom he was a strict accountant no man ever did more for them or less for himself For thirty years together he used this following Anthem and Confession of the holy and undivided Trinity Salva nos libera nos vivifica nos Obeat a Trinit as Save us deliver us quicken us Oblessed Trinity Let us praise God the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit let us praise and super-exalt his name for ever Almighty and everlasting God which hast given us thy Servants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the Holy Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Vnity We beseech thee that through the stedfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity which livest and raignest c. This he did perform not only as a sacred Injunction of the Founder upon him and all the Society but he received a great delight in the performance of it No man ever wrote more highly of the Attributes of God than he and yet he professes that he always took more comfort in admiring than in disputing and in praying to and acknowledging the Majesty and Glory of the blessed â—rinity than by too curiously prying into the Mystery He composed a book of Private Devotions which some judicious men having perused the same much extolled and admired as being replenished with holy truths and divine meditations which if it be not already annexed to this book I hope the Reader will shortly enjoy in a portable Volumn by it self Thus have many Scholars and Polemical men in their elder times betaken themselves to Catechizing and Devotion as Pareus Bishop Andrews Bishop Vsher and Bellarmin himself seems to prefer this Book De ascensione mentis ad Deum Of the ascension of the soul to God before any other parts of his works Books saith he are not to be estimated Ex multitudine folliorum sed ex fructibus By the multitudes of the leaves but the fruit My other books I read only upon necessity but this I have willingly read over three or four times and resolve to read it more often whether it be saith he that the love towards it be greater than the merit because like another Benjamin it was the Son of mine old age He seemed to be very Prophetical of the ensuing times of Trouble as may evidently appear by his Sermons before the King and Appendix about the signs of the times or divine fore-warnings therewith Printed some years before touching the great tempest of wind which fell upon the Eve of the fifth of November 1636. He was much astonished at it and what apprehension he had of it appears by his words This mighty wind was more then a sign of the time the very time it self was a sign and portends thus much that though we of this kingdom were in firm league with all Nations yet it is still in God's power we may fear in his purpose to plague this kingdom by this or like tempests more grievcously then he hath done at any time by Famine Sword or Pestilence to bury many living souls as well of superiour as inferior rank in the ruine of their stately Houses or meaner Cottages c. Which was observed by many but signally by the Preface to Master Herberts Remains I shall not prevent the Reader or detain him so long from the original of that book as to repeat Elogies which are there conferred upon him I cannot forbear one passage in that Preface wherein he made this profession I speak it in the presence of God I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our Writers in this rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation he hath given me in the Christian religion against the Atheist Iew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome As he was always a reconciler of differences in the private government so he seriously lamented the publick breaches of the kingdom for the divisions of Reuben he had great thoughts of heart At the first entrance of the Scots into England he had much compassion for his Country-men although that were but the beginning of their sorrows He well knew that war was commonly attended with ruin and calamity especially to Church and Churches and therefore that prayer was necessary and becoming of them Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris c Give peace in our time O Lord because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God One drop of Christian blood though never so cheaply spilt by others like water upon the ground was a deep corrosive to his tender heart Like Rachel weeping for her children he could not be comforted his body grew weak the chearful hue of his countenance was empaled and discoloured and he walked like a dying mourner in the streets But God took him from the evil to come it was a sufficient degree of punishment to him to see it it had been more than a thousand deaths unto him to have beheld it with his eyes When his death was now approaching being in the Chamber with many others I over-heard him with a soft voice repeating to himself these and the like ejaculations I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope my soul waiâ—eth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning As for me I will behold thy face in right cousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness And he ended with this Cygnean caution Psal. 116. 5 6 7. Cracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee And having thus spoken soon after he surrendred up his spirit to him that gave it If you shall enquire what this charitable man left in Legacy at his Death I must needs answer That giving all in his life time as he owed nothing but love so he left nothing when he dyed The poor was his heir and he was the administrator of his own goods or to use his own expression in one of his last Dedications he had little else to leave his Executors but his Papeâ— only which the Bishop of Armagh being at his Funeral
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
to perform Us such service as he much desireth to have according to his duty done his further Attendance might be by Us in Our Grace dispensed with To the end all Our loving Subjects who have and shall faithfully serve Us as We declare this Our Servant hath done may know That as We shall never expect much less require or exact from them performances beyond what their healths and years shall enable them so We shall not dismiss them without an Approbation of their Service when We find they shall have deserved it much less expose them in their old Age to neglect As Our Princely Testimony therefore that the said Sir George Crooks being dispensed withal proceeds from Us at the humble Request of the said Sir George Crook which We have cause and do take well that he is rather willing to acknowledge his Infirmity by his great Age occasioned than that by concealing of the same any want of Justice should be to Our People and not out of any Our least displeasure conceived against him Do hereby Declare Our Royal Pleasure That We are graciously pleased and do hereby dispence with the said Sir Crook's further Attendance in the said Courts or in any Our Circuits And as a Token of Our Acceptation of his former good and acceptable Service by the said Sir George Crook done to Our deceased Father and Our Self do yet continue him one of Our Judges of Our said Bench And hereby Declare Our further Will and Pleasure to be That during his the said Sir Crook's life there shall be continued and paid by Us to him the like Fee and Fees as was to him or is or shall be by Us paid to any other of Our Judges of Our said Bench at Westminster and all Fees and Duties saving the Allowance by Us to Our Judges for their Circuits onely After which Honourable Discharge from his Service at Court God gave him a Quietus est from this Life at Waterstock in Oxfordshire Anno Christi 1641. Aetatis 82. Caroli I. 17. When he lived to see the New Canons made 1640. so much aggravated by others yet so much admired by him that upon the sight of them he blessed God that he lived to see so much good by a Convocation There passeth a pleasant Tradition in Cornwal how there standeth a man of great strength and stature with a Black in his hand at Polston Bridge the first Entrance into Cornwal as you pass towards Launceston where the Assizes are holden ready to knock down all the Lawyers that should offer to plant themselves in that County This man was brought to Westminster-Hall door Anno 1641. no honest or able Lawyer daring to appear there upon pain of forfeiting either his Conscience in complying with the Tumult or his Estate Liberty yea and Life too in dissenting from it Otherwise our Judge deserved to be Comes Imperii primi Ordinis according to the Constitution of Theodosius the Emperor allowing that honor to Lawyers Cum ad viginti annos observatione Iugi ac sedulo docendi labore pervenerint Having been twenty years a Judge that would hear patiently help Witnesses laboring in their Delivery condescendingly check forward Speakers gravely dealt impartially his private Inclinations being swallowed up in the common Concern as Rivers loose their names in the Ocean Cut off Delays and impertinent Controversies discreetly was zealous of kindness because fearful of Bribes Great obligations upon persons in Place like wandering Preachers Sermons end in begging merciful in his Judgement A Butcher may not be of the Jury much less should he be a Judge Being outed his Place with as much honor as others are advanced glorying in that though the Parliament could make him no Judge they could not make him no upright Judge He lived privately the rest of his days having besides the estate got by his Practice no mean estate by his Birth and by his Marriage having little reflection on his own condition he was so taken up with the sad condition of the whole Kingdom Vitae est avidus quisquis non vult mundo secum pereunte mori And thus we leave our Judge to receive a just reward of his Integrity from the Judge of Judges as well as from the King of kings at the great Assize of the world Plinic reports it as worthy a Chronicle that Chrispinus Hâ—llarus with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitol seventy four of his children and childrens children attending on him this Reverend Person sacrificed to Allegiance himself attended with many well resolved Relations round about him For it is fit posterity should hear of Col. Mark Trevor since deservedly ennobled in Ireland for Valour that feared no dangers Activity that went through all hardships Integrity that was proof against all corruptions Iohn Trevor a Person that suffered not his parts to be depressed by his fortune but to make his minde the more proportionable he made it his business to be as able in Prudence and Knowledge as he was in Estate for which he suffered twice severely that Party being of the Miller of Matlocks minde of whom we read this pretty Story Molendarius de Matlocki tollavit bis eo quod ipse audivit Rectorem de eadem villa dicere in Dominica Ram. Palm Tolle tolle That is the Miller of Matlock took Toll twice because he heard the Rector of the Parish read on Palm-Sunday Tolle tolle that is Crucifie crucifie him There was ARTHVR TREVOR Esq A Lawyer of the Temple that died lately and suddenly a Passage others may censure we must pity since sudden and rash Judgement is always sinful but sudden and unexpected death is not always penal Nothing so certain as that we shall die nothing so uncertain as how we shall die Therefore Life should be in our apprehension what it was in the Philosophers definition a Constant Meditation of Death Epiminondas came to a careless Soldier that was asleep when he should watch and run him through saying Sleeping I found thee sleeping I leave thee And God sometime surprizeth a loose man that lives carelesly with a Careless I found thee and careless I leave thee for ever A man that lives as if he had onely a body desires to die so too and therefore wisheth to depart without delay that he may go without pain being of Caesars minde who was not afraid of death but of dying But the man that makes so much use of his soul that he knoweth he hath one desires rather to be taken than snatched out of the world ut sentiat se mori and to use the words of Judicious Mr. Hooker in defence of that necessary Prayer in our Liturgy which no devout man would leave out From sudden death against which we have not prepared our selves and which alloweth us no respite for preparation good Lord deliver us for vertuous considerations is prevailed upon by wisdom to desire as slow and deliberate death against the stream of sensual in clination content to endure the longer grief
the affections of the Irish Subjects from the subjection of England Sixthly That they had agreed together to draw away the Subjects of Scotland from the King Seventhly That to preserve himself and the said Earl he had laboured to subvert the Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament in Ireland An Impeachment they drew that they might confine him but prosecuted not lest they should shame themselves but permitting him to go whither he would they waited the event of things and when that fell out much beyond their expectation they adventured to condemn him unheard In all their Treaties with his Majesty inserting Sir George Ratcliffe that Mr. Hampden said was one of the most dangerous men that adhered to the King for one that they would have utterly excluded Pardon The main instance whereby they intended to render him odious was doubtless his severity to the Children and Relations of those that came under the lash as disaffected to the Government but since Proles est pars parentis and one part of the body suffereth for the offences of the other the hand steals the feet are stocked the tongue forswears the ears are cut off it is thought conâ—istent with Divine Justice and necessary for humane prudence to correct the Children with the Parents that those people that are so hardy as to adventure their own Concerns for the disturbance of the Publick may yet be fearful of troublesome practises with regard to the Interest of their Innocent Children those Pledges Common-wealths have that men will be quiet When he had privately detected the Conspiracious laid open the Plots and taken off many Instruments of the Faction he died Anno 165. ... Leaving these remarques behinde him 1. That with Tamerlain he never bestowed place on a man that was over-ambitious for it 2. That he feared more the committing than the discovery of an Irregularity That he gave away to Charitable Uses a tenth of what he got that he loved a Grave rather than a gawdy Religion often using Tully's saying of the Roman Lady in reference some practices of the Roman Church that she danced better than became a modest Woman Being dead in the lower part of his body of a Palsie as we are informed his Soul retired to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Upper-room of his Clay Cottage as much employed in Contemplation the latter end of his Life as he had been in action in the beginning Ne Ingentes Augustissimi viri ruinae etiam Perirent Memoriae G. Ratcliffe Equitis Aurati D. D. C. Q. L. M. E. M. Monumentum saltem chartaceum ne desideret vir ultra Marmora perrenandus THE Life and Death OF DOCTOR POTTER Lord Bishop of Carlisle IN a time when this Kingdom flourished with Magnificent Edifices the Trade of the Nation had brought the Wealth of the Indies to our doors Learning and all good Sciences were so cherished that they grew to Admiration and many Arts of the Ancients buried and forgotten by time were revived again no Subjects happier though none less sensible of their Happiness Security increasing the Husband mans stock and Justice preserved his Life the poor might Reverence but needed not fear the Great and the Great though he might despise yet could not injure his more obscure Neighbor and all things were so administred that they seemed to conspire to the Publick good except that they made our Happiness too much the cause of our Civil Commotions and brought our Felicity to that height that by the necessity of humane Affairs that hath placed all things in motion it must necessarily decline At this happy time thus happily expressed by Dr. Perrinchiefe and Dr. Bates it was that I will not say the City of London for the better part of it abhorred it but to phrase the Men the Lord Digby's way I know not what 15000 Londoners all that could be got to subscribe complained in a Petition that Trade was obstructed Grievances increased Patents and Monopolies multiplied meerly because of the Bishops who were looked upon as the Great Grievance of the Kingdom in somuch that this Doctor who was born in a Puritane place at Westmester within the Barony of Kendal in Westmerland in Puritane times when that party guided Affairs 1578. Bred under a Puritane School-Master one Mr. Maxwell at School in the place where he was born and under a Puritane Tutor in Queens Colledge in Oxford and looked upon as so great a Puritane in King Iames his time that they would say in jest that the noise of an Organ would blow him out the Church and therefore he was called tho Puritanical Bishop though his love to Musick no doubt was as great as his Skill and his Skill so good that he could bear a part in it yet because he was a Bishop he was slighted when he came to London as Iuke warm and forsaken as Popish that had been so followed formerly as the most godly and powerful Preacher He had been a great Tutor at Queens where he had learned to train others by the Discipline he had undergone himself insomuch that when Bishop 33 Eminent Divines Lawyers Physicians and Statesmen formerly his Pupils waited on him together for his blessing He managed prudently as he was chosen into it unexpectedly and unanimously when an hundred miles off the Government and Provostship of that Colledge Vbi se ferebat Patrem-familia providum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec Collegio gravis fuit aut onerosus He resigned it self-denyingly judging that his Northern charge had more need of him as an able and skilful Minister than Queens Colledge as a Provost The meek and humble man looked not for Preferment yea avoided it with an hearty nolo Episcopari And his gracious Master King Charles unexpectedly when he was buried in his Living and resolvedly when there was a considerable Competition and not an inconsiderable opposition saying He would consider his old Servant and the good man whom he liked the better for being a man of few words but a sweet Preacher called at Court The Ponetential Preacher for being peaceable in his practice though singular in his Opinion and being not humorsome though precise having the severe strictness though not the sower leaven of the Pharisees His gracious Master not so much honoring him as he did the Function and that age in the freedom of his Noble and unsought for choice The man being so exemplary in his carriage that several Recusants that could not go with him to Church yet conversed much with him Because said they they would go with him to Heaven So good a Master of his Family that his House was a Church where Family-duties constant Prayers Catechizing reading Scriptures Expounding godly Conference speaking to one another in Psalms and Spiritual Hymns were performed so regularly and so constantly that hundreds left their distant Habitations to be near him though all accommodations about him were so much the dearer as his Neighborhood was the more precious It was as great a happiness
Soveraign an Argument that Religion Justice or the love of Liberty which are alwayes uniform but unworthy Interests that vary with hopes and fears had the strongest influence upon them Nay they must overcome the Parliament it by whose pretended Authority they had hitherto the City of London at whose charge they had hitherto fought and the first Leaders of the Army by whose Reputation it was first raised and by whose skill and activity it so long prospered The Kings prudence and their own jealousies combinations in crimes conclude in jealousies each party thinking the advantage of the other too great having committed and injealousied them They must Conquer Scotland and their dear Brethren and take the King off from the Presbyterians by their arts and insinuations inveighing him into the pit they had laid for him in the Isle of Wight for his escape from Hampton-Court by the withdrawing of the Centinels from their usual posts appeared to be their design they must oppose the highest reason in the world offered by the King there intent upon the settlement of the Nation for a Personal Treaty agreeable to the sense of the whole kingdom 1. By Preliminary Articles which they knew the King could not yield to and upon his refusal four Votes of No Addresses to him which they could never have compassed had they not sent half the Members away to the Country upon pretence of expediting the Contributions and tired the other half with late Sitting from ten in the morning till twelve at night and withal the Menaces of the Officers that came with Remonstrances to the House and the terror of the Army two Regiments whereof under colour of guarding but indeed for awing the Parliament were quartered at Whitehall They must endure the clamors of an undone people deluded with pretences of avoiding Tyranny into Slavery 1. For an excellent Religion broken into Schismes and Heresies 2. For Prayers and Fasts made to serve impious designs and promote prosperous crimes 3. For Liberty become an empty name the common ways of confinement being too little to secure those that would not break the Law men lingring in strange imprisonment knowing neither their crimes nor their accusers because they had not guilt enough for condemnation thousands forced to be Exiles in strange lands or Slaves at home 4. For Propriety hedged no longer by Law but become a prey to the fraud and violence of the Conspirators 5. For great Virtues become as dangerous as formerly great crimes were 6. For Converse become a snare spies in each company watching mens words and searching into their thoughts 7. For the Parliament become a Conspiracy divided in its self and enslaved to its vassals who made Laws according to their interests and executed them according to their lusts The whole Nation now better understanding their good and wise Prince the publick interest and themselves panted for a return to the obedience of the most incomparable Government and most inestimable Prince in the world Insomuch so admirable were the returns of Divine Justice at that time that the very same Convention that first stirred up this way of tumultuary Petitions against the King were now forced to complain That the honor and safety of Parliaments for so they called the poor remainder of that Assembly was indangered by Petitions They must rescinde the City Petitions and their own Votes that the Kings Concessions were a safe ground for the Parliament to settle the Peace of the kingdom on The King having granted so much as the people might see he was not as he was reported obstinate against his own happiness and the Nations peace and so gratified not his Enemies and yet so discreetly that he deserted not his Friends his wisdom tempering prudently their harsh Propositions and his Reason urging effectually his own They must cast off all obedience to their own Superiors as well as to the King and imprison the Parliament as well as the King Violate their Protestation and renounce their Solemn League and Covenant disown the Lords House and leave not above sixty of almost five hundred Members in the House of Commons In fine they must go against their own Prayers Sermons Engagements and Consciences against the very foundations of Government in the world and the sentiments of Mankind about it against the known Laws of the Land and against truths as clear as the Sun in these unheard-of Propositions I. That the People under God are the Original of all just Power II. That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the People have the Supream Authority of this Nation III. That whatsoever is Enacted and Declared for Law by the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law IV. That all the people of this Nation are concluded thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and Peers be not had thereunto V. That to raise Arms against the peoples Representative is Treason VI. That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and on that account is guilty of the Bloud-shed throughout the Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud Bold and ridiculous men That think with one breath to alter the notion of Good and Evil and to make their Usurpations just because they had the face to declare them so Qui amici veritatis esse possent sine labore ut peccent Laborant Greg. de curâ past They who might have been honest with so much ease what pains do they take to be wicked For these and many more restraints they must break through before they came at the Kings Life Towards the taking away of which they pack a Court of Iustice as they called them though it had nothing to do with Justice but that it deserved to be the object of it of such people as the Ring-leader of them O. C. called at the Table of an Independent Lord A Company of Rascals whom he knew to be so and would so serve Invested with a power to Cite Hear Iudge and punish Charles Stuart King of England Reader I know not with what temper thou readest these lines I tremble when I writ them One or two Brewers two or three Coblers many of them Mechanicks all poor Bankrupts one turned out of the House for a Rape another for writing a Blasphemous Book against the Trinity and another a known Adulterer Men so low that no lesser crime could raise them and so obnoxious there was no other way for them to hope for impunity men fitter to stand at a Bar than to sit on the Bench. These though a search was made for a number of men that could not blush at nor fear any guilt yet many of them abhorred the villany and left them others stayed with a design to disturb it went to act the murther not as other Regicides Ravillaic c. used to do privately or as they themselves used to Preach it in a
fortunam habuit Vell. Patr. l. 2. The Second Epitaph bestowed upon him by the Reverend and Learned Doctor Peirce Caroli Primi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epitaphium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SIstas sacrilegum Pedem viator Ne forsan temeres sacros sepulchri Augusti cineres Repostus hic est In terrae gremio decor stuporque Humani generis senex infans Prudens scilicet Innocensque princeps Regni praesidium ruina regni Vita presidium ruina morte Quem regem potius Patremve dicam O Patrem prius deinde regem Regem quippe sui patremque regni His donumque Dei Deique cura Quem vitaque refert refertque morte Ringente satana cauente Coelo Diro in pegmate gloriae theatro Et Christi cruce victor securi Baptistae emicuit Ruina Faelix Quae Divum Carolus secutus agnum Et post liminio domum vocatus Primae vae patriae fit Inquilinus â— Sic Lucis prius Hesperus Cadentis Resplendet modo Phosphorus reversae Hic vindex fidei sacer vetustae Cui par est nihil nihil secundus Naturae typus absolutioris Fortunae domitor ferendo suae Qui quantum Calicis bibit tremendi Tantundem sibi gloriae reportat Regum maximus unicueque regum In quo res minima est fuisse regem Solas qui supera locatus arce Vel vita poterit funi priore Cum sint relliquiae cadaver umbra Tam sacri capitis vel ipsa sacra Ipsis eulogiis coinquinato Quaeque ipsum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prophanat Sistas sacrilegum pedem viator Tho. Peirce D. D. Mag. Col. apud Oxon Praeses The Third of the excellent Marquiss of Montrosse written with the point of his Sword GReat Good O Just could I but Rate My griefs and thy too rigid Fate I 'de Weep the World to such a strain As it should Deluge once again But since thy loud Tongu'd Blood demands supply's More from Bojareus Hands than Argus Eyes I 'le sing thy Obsequies with Trumpets Sounds And write thy Epitaph with Blood and Wounds WIthin this sacred Vault doth ly The Quintescence of Majesty Which being set more Glorious shines The best of Kings best of Divines Britains shame and Britains glory Mirour of Princes compleat story Of Royalty One so exact That the Elixars of praise detract These are faint shadows But t' indure He 's drawn to the Life in 's Pourtraicture If such another Piece you 'l see Angels must Limn it out or He. And so we shut up this short view of the Life and Reign of this glorious King as Tacitus doth the life of Iulius Agricola a right Noble Roman the names of the persons only changed Quicquid ex Carolo amavimus quicquid mirati sumus manet mansurum quaeest in animis hominum in Aeternitate temporum fam a rerum Horat. Carm. 24. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam â—ihi Sed monumentis quotquot uspiam est Illa Illa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM LAUD Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury I Know not how to begin the History of this incomparable Prelate Dr. Laud but as Baudius doth his Oration on that Peerless Scholar Ioseph Scaliger Verba desunt Rebus Immensis Or as Count Iohannes Picus of Mirandula doth his Complement upon his matchless Barbarus Ego quidem nec possum aut taecere quae dete sentio aut non sentire ea quae de illo debeatur in quo omnia veluti singula summa reperiuntur Sed utinam is essâ—t meae mentis captus ut pro meritis tuis de te sentirem utinam ea dicendi vis ut exprimere aliquando possem quod semper sentio scio quae de te jam Concipio infra fastigia tua Infinitum subsidere scias tu quaecunque loquimur longe esse minora iis quae concipimus tam deesse scias animo verba quam rebus animus deest So hard it is for one of my thoughts and condition to take the dimensions of so great a Worth and so difficut for one of my phrase to express it but the good man expresseth himself being is impatient of Varnish on his own Actions as he was of Paint over others Faces his saying to a Lady That she was well plaistered made all the coloured Dames blush through their Vermilion a much deeper red He was born Octob. 7. 1573. at Reading in Berk-shire and after a wonderful preservation in his infancy from a very sore fit of sickness and a happy education in his child-hood under a very severe School-master who from his Strange Dreams Witty Speeches Generous Spirit Great Apprehension and Nimble Performances promised him that Greatness which he afterwards injoyed saying to him When you are a little great man remember Reading School Admitted in Oxford 1589. chosen Scholar of St. Iohns June 1590. and Fellow Iune 1593. Comencing Bachelor of Arts Iune 1594. and Master Iuly 1599. Ordained Deacon Iune 4. 1600. and Priest April 5. 1601. Doctor Young the Lord Bishop of Rochester that Ordained him finding his study raised above the Systems and Opinions of the age upon the nobler foundation of the Fathers Councils and the Ecclesiastical Historians easily presaged That if he lived he would be an instrument of restoring the Church from the narrow and private principles of modern times to the more free large and publick sentiments of the purest and first Ages 1 Iuly 4. 1604. He proceeded Batchelour of Divinity his Position giving no less offence to Dr. Holland and other Calvinists in the Schools than his Sermon Octob. 26. 1606. did to Dr. Airy and other Puritans at St. Maries and Anno 1608. Doctor being invest ed in his Vicarage of Stanford in Northampton-shire Novemb. 16. 1607. admitted Chaplain to Dr. Neal Bishop of Rochester Aug. 5. 1608. Preaching his first Sermon to King Iames at Theobalds Sept. 17. 1609. inducted into West-Tidbury in Essex which he had in exchange for his Advowson of Northkilworth in Leicester-shire Octob. 28. 1609. and into the Rectory of Cuckston in Kent May 25. 1610. which by reason of the unhealthiness of the place where he was sick for two months of a Kentish Ague he exchanged for Norton to which he was Novemb. 1610. inducted by Proxy May 10. 1611. He was chosen President of St. Iohns having resigned his Fellowship there Octob. 2. 1610. April 18. 1614. Dr. Neal Bishop of Lincoln bestowed on him the Prebend of Bugden and Decemb. 1. 1615. the Arch-deaconry of Huntington as the King whose Chaplain he was sworn Novemb. 3. 1611. Novemb. 1616. gave him the Deanery of â—lâ—cester of which his Majesty was pleased to say to him That he well knew it was a Shell without a Kernel and Aug. 2. 1617. the Rectory of â—bstock in Leicester-shire and Ian. 1. 1620. the Prebend of Westminster whereof he had the Advowson ten years before and Iune 29. 1622. the Bishoprick of St. Davids with the Presidentship of St. Iohns the
The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other Neighbor Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse than a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body And at every cleft profanneness and irreligion is entring in While as Prosper speaks men that introduce profaneness are cloaked over with the Name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the substance and dwell too much in Opinion And that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruine is now fallen into danger by her own 4. The last particular for I am not willing to be too long is my self I was born and baptized in the bosom of the Church of England Established by Law in that Profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to die What clamors and slanders I have endured for laboring to keep an Uniformity in the external service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High-Treason in Parliament a Crime which my soul ever abhorred This Treason was Charged to consist of two parts an endeavor to subvert the Laws of the Land And a like endeavor to overthrow the true Protestant Religion Established by Law Besides my answers to the several Charges I protested mine innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners protestations at the Bar must not be taken I must therefore come now to it upon my death being instantly to give God an account for the truth of it I do therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death that I never endeavored the subversion either of Law or Religion and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine for my innocency in this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an Enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I dislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many ways and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima And that being the highest Court over which no other hath Jurisdiction when 't is misinformed or misgoverned the subject is left without all Remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me And humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man And so I heartily desire you to joyn in prayer with me His Graces Prayer upon the Scaffold O Eternal God and Merciful Father look down upon me in Mercy in the Riches and Fulness of thy Mercies Look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my Sins to the Cross of Christ but not till thou hast bathed me in the Blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the Wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I most humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instance full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to die for thine honor the Kings happiness and this Chuches preservation And my zeal to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I come now to suffer I say in this particular of Treason But otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present Judgment upon me And when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own eyes Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more than miserable Kingdom O Lord I beseech thee give grace of Repentance to all blood-thirsty people But if they will not repent O Lord confound their designs defeat and frustrate all their designs and endeavors which are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his Posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the Honor and Conservation of Parliaments in their just Power the Preservation of this poor Church in her Truth Peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Laws and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with religious dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their days So Amen Lord Jesu Amen And receive my soul into thy bosom Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Lord Arch-bishop's Prayer as he Kneeled by the Block LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Vmbra Mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon Nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke through the jaws of death So Lord receive my soul and have mercy upon me and bless this kingdom with plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Many there was to see so able an Head struck off at one blow as it was upon these words of his spoken aloud Lord receive my Soul And more crouded to see so good a man buried at his own Church of Barking in London by the Common-prayer which was Voted down at the same time that he was Voted to dye in hope both of that resurrection which he hath had already with the Cause he dyed for being removed in Iuly 1663. from Barking in London to Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford with his friend and successor in that Colledge the Deanery of the Chappel Bishoprick of London and Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury raised by him where he was Interred with these Monuments The first by Dr. M. Lluelin then Student of Christ-church An Elegy on the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Attached the 18. of December 1640. Beheaded the 10. of January 1644. Most Reverend Martyr THou since thy thick Afflictions first begun Mak'st Dioclesian's days all Calm and Sun And when thy Tragick Annals are compil'd Old Persecution shall be Pitty stil'd The Stake and Faggot shall be Temperate Names And Mercy wear the Character of Flames Men Knew not then Thrift in the Martyrs Breath Nor weav'd their Lives into a four years Death Few ancient Tyrants do our Stories Taxe That slew first by delays then by the Axe But these Tiberius like alone
still-born have hastned to their Tomb God that Rewards him now forbad his store Should all lie hid and he but give i th' ore Many are stamp't and shap't and do still shine Approv'd at Mint a Firm and perfect Coyne Witness that Mart of Books that yonder stands Bestow'd by him though by anothers Hands Those Attick Manuscripts so rare a Piece They tell the Turk he hath not conquer'd Greece Next these a second beauteous heap is thrown Of Eastern Authors which were all his own Who in so various Languages appear Babel could scarce be their Interpreter To these we may that fair-built Colledge bring Which proves that Learnings no such Rustick thing Whose Structure well contriv'd doth not relate To Antick Fineness but strong lasting state Beauty well mixt with Strength that it Complies Most with the Gazer's use much with his Eyes On Marble Columns thus the Arts have stood As wise Seth's Pillar 's sav'd 'em in the Flood But did he leave here Walls and onely own A Glorious Heap and make us Rich in Stone Then had our Chanc'lor seem'd to fail and here Much honor due to the Artificer But this our prudent Patron long fore-saw When he refin'd Rude Statutes into Law Our Arts and Manners to his Building falls And he Erects the Men as well as Walls Thus Solons Laws his Athens did Renown And turn'd that throng of Buildings to a Town Yet neither Law nor Statute can be known So strict as to himself he made his own Which in his Actions Inventory lies Which Hell or Prinne can never scandalize Where every Act his Rigid Eye surveys And Night is Bar and Iudge to all his dayes Where all his secret thoughts he doth comprize And ev'ry Dream is summon'd t' an Assize Where he Arraigns each Circumstance of care Which never parts dismis'd without a Prayer See! how he sifts and searches every part And ransacks all the Glosets of his heart He puts the hours upon the Rack and Wheel And all his minutes must confess or feel If they reveal one Act which forth did come When humane frailty crept into the Loome If one thred stain or sully break or faint So that the man does interrupt the Saint He hunts it to its death nor quits his fears Till 't be imbalm'd in Prayers or drown'd in Tears The Sun in all his journey ne're did see One more devote or one more strict then He. Since his Religion then 's unmixt and Fine And Works do warrant Faith as Ore the Mine What can his Crime be now Now you must lay The Kingdom Laws subverted in his way See! No such Crime doth o're his Conscience grow Without which Witness ne're can make it so A clear Transparent White bedecks his minde Where nought but innocence can shelter finde Witness that Breath which did your stain and blot Wipe freely out though Heaven I fear will not VVitness that calm and quiet in his Brest Prologue and Preface to his place of Rest VVhen with the VVorld he could undaunted part And see in Death nor Meagre looks nor dart When to the fatal Block his gray Age goes VVith the same ease as when he took Repose He like old Enoch to his Bliss is gone 'T is not his Death but his Translation The second by Mr. Iohn Cleveland On the Right Reverend Father in God Wil. Laud Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I Need no Muse to give my Passion vent He brews his Tears that studies to Lament Verse chymically weeps that pious rain Distilled with Art is but the sweat o' th' brain VVho ever sob'd in Numbers Can a groan Be quaver'd out by soft Division 'T is true for Common formal Elegies Not Bushels VVells can match a Poets Eyes In wanton VVater-works hee 'l tune his Tears From a Gâ—neva Jig up to the Spheres But when he mourns at distance weeps aloof Now that the Conduit-head is his own Roof Now that the fate is Publick we may call It Britains Vespers Englands Funeral VVho hath a Pencil to express the Saint But he hath Eyes too washing off the Paint There is no Learning but what Tears surround Like to Seth's Pillars in the Deluge drown'd There is no Church Religion is grown From much of late that She 's increas'd to none Like an Hydropick body full of Rheumes First swells into a body then consumes The Law is dead or cast into a Trance And by a Law-dough-bak't an Ordinance The Lyturgy whose doom was Voted next Dy'd as a Comment upon him the Text. There 's nothing lives Life is since he is gone But a Nocturnal Lucubration Thus have you seen Deaths Inventory read In the Summe Total Canterbury's dead A sight would make a Pagan to Baptize Himself a Convert in his bleeding Eyes VVould thaw the Rabble that fierce Beast of ours That which Hyena-like weeps and devours Tears that flow brackish from their Souls within Not to repent but pickle up their Sin Mean time no squalid grief his look defiles He guilds his sadder fate with Noble smiles Thus the Worlds eye with reconciled streams Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams How could success such Villanies applaud The State in Sâ—rafford fell the Church in Laud The Twins of publick rage adjudg'd to die For Treasons they should Act by Prophecy The Facts were done before the Laws were made The Trump turn'd up after the Game was play'd Be dull great Spirits and forbear to climbe For Worth is Sin and Eminence a Crime No Church-man can be innocent and high 'T is height makes Grantham Steeple stand awry The III. By Mr. H. Birched Sometimes Fellow of All-Souls Reverendissimo in Christo Patri D. Guliel Laud Dom. Archiep. Cantuariensi Parentalia Dithyrambus Heb. Sheteph Oda Nempe erratica vel missa ECclesiae pene heic triumphantis Archangelum ah vere nimis Jam militantis Archimartyrem quâ nam Sat Celebrabimus Apotheosi Qui sidelitate non fide Romanus Christi sponsam Schismaticis deformatam defloratam haereticis Primaevae restituebas virginitati clariori Pulchritudinis Pompae Tu pietatem doctrinali pabulo fovebas nec non decoro vestiebas Disciplinae Lautus amictu Torpeat ne Nuda Sanctitas Aut famelica Languescat Perfecta Religio nec umbra nec cadaver est Testor ut Aedem sacratam Literataque testor maenia te nunquam Ambiisse titulum novae fundationis aut ecclesiae Attamen Novatae simulatione honesta beneficentiam condidisti magnificus simul modestus hac etiam templi renovatione Antiquitatis aemulus Nec matri natus erat gratior ecclesiae quam Nutrici alumnus academiae suffulciit eam dextera vestra firmis Aedificiorum Justinis Legum Columnis mage mansuris Accepit Pumiceum Sed Marmoreum Reliquit heu Lycaeum At Athenae vel relictae linqui non videntur donec ades muneribus perennis Cujus Laudibus Beneficia sua Materiam suppeditarunt verba Amalthaea folia vel Amalthaea Diphthera Salomonis Pancarpia
uncomeliness which might easily grow among us in the outward profession of Religion for want of observing such uniformity and decency in Religion as were required by the Laws and Cannons of this Church and State He added that he had further a desire as much as he could to relieve the poor and depressed condition of many Ministers which he had to his grief observed in Wales and England where their discouragements were very great by reason of the Tenuity and Incompetency of their Livings That in his Visitations he had sometime seen it with grief among twenty Ministers not one had so much as a decent Garment to put on nor did he belive their other Treatment of Life was better that he found the sordid and shameful Aspect of Religion and the Clergy gave great advantages to those that were Popishly inclined who would hardly ever think it best for them to joyn with that Church which did not maintain either its own honor or the Clergy to some competency and comeliness Much more discourses his Lordship was pleased to use at several times to this purpose which commands my charity to clear him as far as I can judge of any tincture of Popery truly so called or of any Superstition which placeth a Religion in the nature and use of that thing which God hath not either particularly commanded or in general permitted I suppose he thought that where God hath allowed to his Church and to every private Christian so far as may consist with the Churches order and peace a liberty of Ceremonious and circumstantial Decency as to Gods Worship there neither he was to be blamed nor did he blame other men if they kept within those discreet and inoffensive bounds which either the Churches publick peace required or its indulgence to promote Christians permitted That uniformity he pressed was not more advantageous to Religion which must of necessity have been propagated when Controversies had been turned to Devotion then it was necessary for the State which cannot be secure as long as there is a mark of distinction under which all male-contents may shrewd themselves a note of Separation whereby the Factions may reckon their parties and estimate their strength and a way open to popularity to the ambition of any whose interest or desperateness shall adventure to make himself head of so great a party He was a person of so great abilities which are the designations of nature to dignity and command that they raised him from low beginnings to the highest office the Protestant profession acknowledgeth in the Church and he was equal to it His learning appeared eminent in his book against Fisher and his piety illustrious in his Diary He was of so publick a spirit that both the Church and States have lasting Monuments of the virtuous use he made of his Princes favour At his admittance into which he dedicated all the future emoluments of it to the glory of God and the good of men by a projection of many noble works most of which he accomplished and had finished the rest had not the fate of the Nation checked the current of his design and cut off the course of his life He was not contented by himself only to serve his generation for so he might appear more greedy of fame than desirous of the universal benefit but he endeavoured to render all others as Heroick if they aimed at a capacity for his friendship for I have heard it from his enemies no great man was admitted to a confidence and respect with him unless he made address by some act that was for the common good or for the ornament and glory of the Protestant Faith Learned men had not a better friend nor Learning it self a greater advancer he searched all the Liberaries of Asia and from several parts of the world purchased all the ornaments and helps of literature he could that the English Church might have if possible by his care as many advantages for knowledge as almost all Europe did contribute to the Grandeus of that Rome The outward splendor of the Clergy was not more his care than their honor by a grave and pious Conversation He would put them into a power of doing more good but was sore against their vices and vanities he scorned a private Treasure and his friends were rather relieved than raised to any greatness by him in his election of friends he was determined to the good and wise and such as had both parts and desires to profit The Church had his closest embraces if otherwise it happened their fraud not his choice deserved the blame Both Papists and Sectaries were equally his enemies one party feared and the other hated his vertues Some censured his zeal for Discipline above the patience of the Times but his greatest unhappiness was that he lived in a Factious Age and corrupt State and under such a Prince whose vertues not admitting an in mediate approach for Accusations was to be wounded by those it caressed But when Faction and Malice are worn out by time Posterity shall ingrave him in the Albe of the most excellent Prelacy the most indulgent Fathers of the Church and the most injured Martyrs His bloud was accompanyed with some tears that fell from those Eyes that expected a pleasure at his Death and it had been followed with a general Mourning had not the publick Miseries and the present Fears of Ruine exacted all the stock of grief for other Objects His very Enemy Sir Edward Deering would confess that let him die when he would St. Paul would be his Monument and his Book against Fisher his Epitaph THE Life and Death OF Dr. ROGER MANWARING Lord Bishop of St. Davids THE Daughter of the Duke of Exeter having nothing to do invented the Rack in the Tower therefore called the Duke of Exeters Daughter to this day and this Bishop used to say that he was troubled with people who if they were not employed about him were so idle that they would have been a trouble to themselves In purchases we value Houses at nothing because they turn to little Profit and are kept up with a very great Charge This Bishop valued his Kindred and Extraction though as Noble as any in Cheshire not much because the bare honor of them contributed little towards the maintenance of them in which respect he observed Feb. the third the first day he went to School as strictly as Nov. 9. the first day he came into the world owing to the first only his Being to the other his being a Man He was much for Mothers Nursing their own Children alledging from Caligula in Dio Cassius who was of his Nurses disposition and not of his Parents when he was as mischievous as brutishness armed with power could make him that as the Nurse was who had the forming of his first Idea's and the moulding of his first constitution so the Child proved and more against Fathers keeping their Children at home under their own tuition because
reproving sin as to spare the person and yet so discreetly tender towards the person as not to countenance sin A man that would not give his heart the lie with his tongue by not intending what he spoke or his tongue the lie with his actions by not performing what he promised that had rather friendly insinuate mens errors to themselves than detractingly blaze them to others a man that would not put off his Devotion for want of leisure nor his Charity for want of Ability that thought it better to deny a request for that was onely discourtesie than not to perform a promise for that is injury that would not rebuke as the Philosopher would beat his servant in anger angry reproofs being like scalding potions that work being to be done with compassion rather than passion Many excellent books were dedicated to him its pity but there should be an intire book made of him Vivere Deo incepit eodem quo credebat Deum vixisse hominibus nempe Mortii 25. 1641. Ne dignissimum virum qui nil servâ—ra dignum perire passus est vel fuisse seri nepotes nesciant hoc Monumentum aeter â—itati sacrum esse voluit W. D. E. A. Qui cordicitus amavit Pristinae sidei virum decoctum generosum pectus honesto Annex we to both their Lives THE Life and Death OF IOHN DAVENANT Lord Bishop of Salisbury THeir good Friend who told Dr. Ward when he saw what his and other mens indulgence to dissenting persons was like to come to that he was ashamed to live when he should have nothing left him but to live and when such immoderate courses were taken by them against Government for whom he and others had so often interceded for moderation from the Government to see the most irreligious things done under the pretence of Religion to see that he that had with so much success moderated Controversies in the Schools offered expedients in Convocations decided the Debates of Synods his prudent directions interpositions seasonable and obliging Authority contributing much to the peaceable end of that Convention governed Universities perswaded Kings nay and by reason of his agreement with the Faction in some Doctrines done them many favours in Discipline could not among the leading men of the party that he had so much obliged by their Oaths and their Allegiance by the honor of Religion and the dangers of it by love to Brethren or respect to the designs of enemies by the spirit of Peace and the God of love by their bowels towards their Country or their Fosterity the Children yet unborn by the prayers and tears of their ancient Friend and a Reverend Bishop gain so much as Christian accommodation and mutual forbearance but after a most excellent Tract of the Peace of the Christian world wherein he taught how that the few necessary things wherein men agreed should be of more power to unite them than the indifferent things wherein they dissented should have power to divide them That the Christian world might have unity in the few Fundamentals that are necessary liberty in the things that were indifferent and so Charity in all things despairing of perswading men to peace by Arguments who were set on War and Tumults by their Lusts which were to be subdued rather than convinced He died of an old Consumption improved with new grief for the misery of those times which he fore-saw sad and saw dangerous April 1641. being though his Father was a Citizen living in Watling-street London extracted of an ancient Family of Davenants-Land in Essex he was remarkably born in the seventh Month after Conception and such Births if well looked too prove vigorous and as remarkably preserved in the first half seven years from his Birth falling down an high pair of stairs and rising at the bottom with so little harm that he smiled They say when Chryâ—omes smile it is because of some intercourse between them and the little ones Guardian Angels when this Infant smiled it was certainly at the preservation of him by such an Angel and beyond all these preferred when his Father in his life-time not allowing him to be Fellow no more than he would his rich Relations to one of whom he said when he had given his voice against him Cousin I will satisfie your Father that you have worth but not want enough to be one of our Society he was against his will made Fellow of Queens the Provost alledging to him that Preferment was not always a relief for want but sometimes an encouragement for worth and against seven Competitors made Margaret Professor Dr. Whitacre having when present at some of his youthful exercises the earnest of his future maturity pronounced that he would in time prove the honor of the Vniversity when but a private Fellow of a Colledge and before three others chosen Master of Queens when not forty years of age and Bishop of Salisbury upon the death of Dr. Toulson his Brother-in-law that he might provide for his Sister and her numerous family when he had not a Friend at Court but the King The rest of his Life take in this Epitaph Hic jacâ—t omne gâ—nae eruditionis modesta Epitome Cui judicium quod asservit Maxime discretiorum quicquid uspiam est literarum Hebraicarum Ethnicarum aut Christianarum omnes linguas artes historias quicquod praedicarunt patres disputarunt Scholastici decreverunt consilia in sobriam pacificam practicam concox it Theologiam Quae in concionibus dominat a est Scholis Imperavit Synodis leges dedit Prudens pariter ac simplex ille ille cui severior vita quam opinio ut pote strictius vitam agens quam sententiam Doctrina magna lux ecclesiae exemplo major Cujus libri omnes una hac notabantur Inscriptione Praefuit qui Profuit qui Regem venerabatur sed timebat Deum non tam suo quam publico morbo succubuit Aprilis 3. 1641. extremam in haec verba agens animam Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum THE Life and Death OF THOMAS HOWARD Earl of Arundel THomas Howard Earl of Arundel and Surrey the first Earl and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the Garter Son to Philip Earl of Arundel Grand-son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Gandfather to Thomas now Duke of Norfolk to whom the honor of that Dukedom was restored 1661. by his Majesty King Charles the Second which was lost for his Ancestors great kindness to his Great Grand-Mother Mary Queen of Scots whose life Thomas the foresaid Duke of Norfolk endeavored to save with the loss of his own and Courting her love lost his Mistress Queen Elizabeth who spilt that bloud then called amorous rather than traiterous that he intended to make Royal and to prevent a Marriage between him and the Queen of Scots divorced his Head from his Body making him contented to lie in his Ancestors cold Grave for aspiring to a Queens warm
person nor failed but by doing it by his Lieutenants Here rather oppressed with number than conquered by prowess opposing his single Regiment to a whole Brigade and his Person to a whole Company after eighteen wounds passages enough to let out any soul out of a body above sixty but that great one of the Earl of Lindsey he was forced to yield himself first to the numerous Enemies about him and next day being hardly used to the Enemy Death his Side winning the day and loosing the Sun that made it Vpon Edgehill the Noble Lindsey did Whilst Victory lay bleeding by his side At Edgehill that was true of him and his Country-men the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire that was observed of Cataline and his followers That they covered the same place with their Corps when dead where they stood in the Fight whilst living This was the Noble Lord that pursued twelve French Vessels in his own single one to their Haven heated at once with anger and shame He of whom it is said that when the Duke of Buckingham returning from the Isle of â—hee was told by his Majesty That the neglect of his Releif must lodge on his friend and confident Holland He acknowledged That indeed he had very affectionately intrusted him in ordinary affairs but never had him in such an esteem as to second him in armes that place being more proper for my Lord of Lindsey whose judgement of that expedition was that it was Friendship in Earnest and War in Iest. He who when all men were amazed at the Dukes fall was assigned his successor And certainly saith one there present he was a man of no likely Presence but of considerable experience by his former Expeditions and one that to the last of his life made good his Faith with gallantry and courage notwithstanding his ill success the times fate rather than his Heros O Stratiarcha tuo qui funere vitam Expiraturi renovas nefunere regni Vt cum sanguinco sol declinavere axe Clarior ego fulâ—or succedit olympo Inter mavortis densut a tonitrua quanti Cordis erat majore ferens quam mente ferini Par Decio sacrum occumbens generale Cadendi Certus at occasu recidivi certior ortus Confirmans Actis Pompeii Dicta Britannis Nunc opus est ut stem non est opus ipse superstem Solus erat clypeus virtus Haec Aegide major Enecuit totas etiam sine Gorgone turmas Busta Polymniadis nostri sed Palma Coronat Dumque jacet victus victrici morte triumphat Sic ubi succumbunt arces saevitur in omnes Subjectos ubicuuque lares spargantque ruinam Exemplo tamen usque viget Dux ante secundi Iam belli Genius devoto in milite pugnax Quippe animant manes sociorum Corda viroque Mens uno vixit vivit nunc umbra viri itim THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable MOUNTAGUE Earl of LINDSEY Son and and Heir of ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY LOve is as strong as Death both when it descends as it was in the Duke of Chastillions Case who ventured his own life through twenty thousand men to rescue his Son and this noble Lord who observing his great Father like to be lost in a Croud rather than an Army took with him not so many as he desired but so many as he could finde about him either to rescue the noble Lord or to perish with him made an attempt worthy his Relation and Cause through three thousand men wherein when he could not save his dear Father he was taken with him and after his death so valued by his Majesty that he sent a Trumpet immediately to exchange him for the Lord Saint-Iohns Earl of Bullingbrook and so esteemed on by the enemy that they would not part with him for all their Prisoners taken by his Majesty so true was that observation of his Majesty That he â—ought Gold to Dirt. His education happy as he used to observe himself in six things 1. The example of a wise and good Father 2. The Learning and Experience of discreet and knowing Tutors whom he mentioned with no less honor than Aristotle was remembred by Alexander who equalled him that gave him Education with his Father that gave him Being or his Master by Augustus who gave him so honorable an Interment or his Tutor by M. Antonius who erected him a Statue or Ausonius by Gratian who made him Consul 3. Travel and Observation which fixed those notions in his minde that lay so loose in others 4. Hardship and Patience to which he was used in a way of choice when he travelled abroad that he might use it in a way of necessity if there were occasion at home 5. Good and useful Company generally above seldom beneath himself knowing that gold in the same Pocket with silver loseth both of its colour and weight 6. An Inquisitive Nature not contented with the superficial and narrow notions others acquiesced in from Tradition and Authors but with a large soul enquiring after such an account of things as was derived immediately and genuinely from the nature of the things themselves Happy in observing that rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember to distrust and wishing heartily for a systeme of principles gathered by observation and experience upon the systeme of nature The result of these and other advantages was a competent skill in Arts especially Phylosophy Mathematicks Physick and the two parts belonging to it Chirurgery and Botanism or a great skill and insight in Herbs and Flowers and Arms this accomplishing him for publick Service and the other being the satisfaction and ornament of his private Life the one being gained by experience in the Low-Country Wars where he learned in the time of our peace what rendred him serviceable in the time of our war the other by severe study weighing observations and good discourse His converse gave the world a singular pattern of harmless and inoffensive mirth of a nobleness not made up of fine Cloaths and Courtship a sweetness and familiarity that at once gained love and preserved respect a grandeur and nobility safe in its own worth not needing to maintain it self by a jealous and morose distance the confirmed goodness of his youth not only guarding his minde from the temptation to vice but securing his same too from the very suspition of it So out-stripping in wisdom temperance and fortitude not only what others did but even what they wrote being as good in reality as in pretence to which he added this unusual glory that since there was but a small partition between the Kings of Iuda's beds and the Altar through which they said David had a secret passage arguing the nearness there should be between Religion and Honor and that the Crosse was an ornament to the Crown and much more to the Coronet he satisfied not himself with the bare exercise of Virtue but he sublimated it and made it Grace As he understood himself well so he did his Estate being taught to
each side by his great Moderation Prudence and Interest and when these proved unsuccesseful with those who as it is said of a French Rebel had drawn their Swords against their King and so thrown away their Scabbards being capable of no accommodation because not secure from the guilt of their former Crimes but by committing greater to cut off those they had acted against being guided by this Maxime We must kill those from whom in justice we can expect nothing but Execution to Composition paying near 7000 l. at first besides what was afâ—ter penalty upon penalty was the common false Heraldry of those upstart oppressors squeezed from him by Decimations c. and the constant restraint as it were of his Person all the years from 46 to 60 being but a great Paroule of fourteen years in which time how magnanimous was he in unwearied Overtures of Concessions Requests Arguments Conjurations Threatnings particular and infinite Applications and a ransome too for his dear Masters Life yea offering even himself as being one of the prime Ministers of the Kings commands as an hostage for him and if the Conspirators must needs be fed with bloud to suffer in his stead for whatever he had done amiss and when they chose rather to take away his Majesties life than beg their own and the most impetuous passion of Ambition having swallowed the hopes of Empire carryed them head-long to remove his Majesty that they might Inthrone themselves How piously did he and his many pious relations that made his place a Cloyster rescent the Parricide and the consequents of it giving up themselves to the extrraordinary Devotions in the despised and afflicted way of the Church of England communicating where ever they were only with the Members of that Church to the honor whereof and of baffled piety and virtue its self I cannot conceal though I offend unpardonably against her modesty when I mention a Sister of his that composeth her soul more carefully by Gods word than others do their faces by their Glasses Spends that time in praying keeping inviolably all the Primitive hours of Devotion that is thrown away too commonly in dressing gaming and complementing and bestow her thoughtful and serious Life between the strictest fasting but one sparing Meal in thirty six hours and not so much upon extraordinary occasions the most Liberal Alms both to the sick and to the needy bountiful both in her Skill and in her Charity Indefatigable reading serious discourses and constant prayers How prudently did he supply his Majesty and his Friends and by a discreet Correspondence when he could not reclaim yet he moderated the extravagancies of the times which had over-turn'd all things past the remedy of a Restauration if the extream violence of some men had not been seasonally allayed and corrected by the sober Applications and Interests of others Heartily did he wish well to the least design and attempt for Loyalty and Liberty but wisely did he observe that unsuccessful practices against any Government settle it the Bramble of usurpation as well as the Oak being more fixed and rooted by being shaken All Governments making use of real dangers and when they want them of seigned ones to improve their Revenues and increase their Guards But it is not to be forgotten that when he could not prevail for the Life of his Soveraign he with other Honorable Persons procured Orders and made provisions for and gave attendance on his Funeral reserving himself by his wary proceedings in his Masters cause for the fittest opportunity of his service being not all the time of the Usurpation actually restrained from his pursuit of the Royal Cause but once 1655. by Mannings Treason being sure as he would say That if none betrayed him on the other side of the water none should on this when with the Lords Maynard Lucas Peter Sir Ieffrey Palmer Sir Richard Wingfield c. he was committed to the Tower upon suspicion and as it proved but the bare suspicion of what they called High-Treason In which course he persisted untill it pleased God by divers Revolutions to open a way for the Lord General to settle the Nation in a way most suitable to his own prudent and wary Rules with whom he entred into a very strict and intire Friendship continuing through the correspondency of their discreet and generous tempers to his death the General advising with him about his Majesties Reception and other Affairs of very great consequence and being admitted at the same time with him one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council Lord Lieutenant of Lincoln-shire c. Commander of a Regiment in the Army till it was disbanded one among many other Noblemen of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer for the Tryal of the late Kings Murtherers one of the most Honorable Order of the Garter 16 April 1661. appearing at his Majesties Coronation one of the first subjects in England in capacity of Lord High Chamberlain of England and upon all other occasions in Court Parliament and Country carrying himself as a wise man an ancient Nobleman as a good Patriot and a Loyal Subject till he dyed 1665. at Kensington leaving this Character behinde him that as the Red Rose though outwardly not so fragrant yet is inwardly more Cordial than the Damask so the most excellent Persons virtues are more inwardly solid between God and their own souls than outwardly vaunting in the sight of men he being as plain in his soul as he was in his garb which he resolved should be proud of him rather than he of it Hic jacet Montacutius Comes Lindseiae c. Magnus Angliae Camerarius A Sanctioribus consilii Carolo Primo puriter Secundo Regii ordinis Periscellidis Socius titulis magnus virtutibus major comunis amor olim communius jam damnum nisi post se reliquisset maxima duo nempe haeredem exemplum 1666. THE Lives and Deaths Of four Sufferers of The Honorable House of RICHMOND I. Of the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord D'AUBIGNEY XErxes viewing his vast Army from an high place all at a sight is said to weep at the thought that within an hundred years all those would be mowed down with death What man having in one view the great number of brave Persons that lost their Lives in this War can refrain the mingling of his tears with their bloud Certainly young State-reformers like young Physicians should with the first Fee for their practice purchase a new Church-yard What Erasmus said of his Country-men the Germans that I may see of our party the Cavaliers Nobiles habent pro hominibus that they had Noblemen as thick as the other party had men Insomuch that had the War lasted a little longer the Ladies of England must have been in the same condition with the Gentlewomen in Champaigne in France who some 350. years since were forced to marry Yeomen or Farmers because all the Nobility in that Counâ— yet were slain in the Wars in the
two Voyages of King Lewis to Palestine and thereupon ever since by Custom and Priviledge the Gentlewomen of Champaign and Brye ennoble their Husbands and give them honor in marrying them how mean so ever before George Lord Aubigney younger Brother to the Duke of Richmond born 1615. in London bred for the most part in France owing his Education to that Country whence he had that he was bred for his Honor the Lordship of Aubigny a Town and Seigniory adorned with many priviledges an ample territory and a beautiful Castle in the Province of Berry in France bestowed by Charles the sixth on Robert the second Son of Alan Stuart Earl of Lenox in Scotland for his many signal Services against the English and was till of late and it s hoped will be the honorary title and possession of the second branch of that Noble and Illustrious Family hence called by the name of Lords of Aubigny A Person whose life was nought else but serious preparations for death his younger apprehensions when living being of the mature with the oldest mens thoughts when dying well knowing that his extraction and conditions â—â—ould be as little excuse from strict expectations of his latter end â—s they could be none from the summons to it the Series of his liâ—â— carried with it such an awe of God and sence of true Piety and â—eligion as clearly evinced he had strong and habituated Meditations of that Levelling Day wherein the highest stands on the same ground with the meanest Religion was not then thought a stain 〈◊〉 honor and the minding of heaven the business only of those who had nothing to do on earth A person that had so much the character of Titus The delight of mankind that he was born to conquer by love and could he but have been heard to speak he need not Pretty was the return he made when disswaded from Embarking himself in the best cause in the world I would have all those that refuse serving in this War served as they that were backward â—o engage in the Holy War to each of whom was sent a Spindle and Diâ—taffe the upbrading ensigns of their softness and effeminacy the delicaâ—y of our mould and make speaking of Noblemen the quickness of our spirits the sprightliness of our faculties the exact proportion of our parts the happiness of our address the accomplishments of our persons the soundness of our constitutions and it may be whatever Aristotle thought the difference of our souls the happiness of our opportunities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mithridates called Occasion the Mother of all affaires And in fine our being born happy and as the Panegyâ—ist of Constantine Enrolled in the list of Felicity as soon as of Nature engageth us to do so much more than others as we are more than others The hardest temptation he ever found against virtue was a kind of blush and shame in the owning of it with much regret reflecting on mens glorying in their shame and being ashamed of their glory But I thank God he would say I can undergo the bloudless martyrdom of a Blush and the greatest help to it resolution business taking up all the parts of time and the workings of a restless minde temperance and sobriety seriousness and patience consideration and circumspection according to the Duke of Bavares Motto and Medal prudence with a Ballance in her hand Know Choose Execute quickly and which included all a mean or moderation My Lord being very much pleased with the story of the French King who one day inquiring of an experienced man how to govern himself and his kingdom had a large sheet of Paper presented to him with this one word instead of the many precepts he looked for Modus a Mean His good example had pressed many to the service of virtue when it flourished when the war broke out he was told by a prevailing Member that the Scots must be kept in Arms to awe the English as long as the Sons of Zeruiah were too hard for the well-affected engaged as many to the service of it when afflicted for with three hundred Gentlemen worth near 300000 l. he came to assist his Majesty marching along with him till he came to Edge-hill where come in to the succor of the Lord General it s a question whether was more remarkable his conduct or courage his followers being so advantageously placed that every particular man performed eminent service to borrow a few words belonging to the courage of the English in the battel of Newport 1600. to express the valor of these Gentlemen in the battel of Keinton Et fere nemo in illis Cohortibus vel ordine vel animo ante vulgus â—uit quem non dies iste sicuti virtute sic teste virtutis vulnere Insignivit Himself persisting in the Fight though most of his party were dead round about him till his bloud more Royal now that it was shed for one good King than that it was extracted from many great ones issuing out at twelve wounds left him weak indeed but not spiritless his soul loath to withdraw not only when the party it commanded but also when the body it lived in deserted it In which condition he was carried to Abingdon and thence when dead not long after to Christ-Church in Oxford where he was buried with as many sighs as blasted hopefulness and expectation is attended with there being not a sadder sight next the publick Calamities than to see a great virtue accomplished by industry and observation by a suddain and surprizing stroke made useless to others but in the example and to himself as to any employment in this world besides the sitting of him for a better Leaving behind him First An honorable Lady that espousing his Quarrel as well as his Cause like Dame Margaret Dimocke wife to Sir Iohn Dimocke who in King Richards time came to the Court and claimed the place to be the Kings Champion by virtue of the Tenure of her Mannor of Scrinelby in Lincoln-shire to Challenge and Defie all such as opposed the Kings Right to the Crown appearing with a spirit equal to her Relations and above her Sex if there be any Sex in souls in her heroick expressions upon her dear Lords death in a Letter to Archbishop Laud dated Ian. 2. I Confess I cannot as yet be so much my self as to overcome my passion though I know my Lord died in a just and honorable action and that I hope his soul finds which consideration is the only satisfaction of Your Graces humble Servant Kath. Aubigney Secondly In her Noble Attempts First in venturing to settle a correspondency between London and Oxford and then carrying the Kings Commission of Array in her own person to several Lords and Gentlemen of both Houses and Citizens made before-hand to seize into their Custody the Kings Children some of the pretended Members the wrong Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia the City Out-works and Forts the
Tower of London and all the Magazines letting in the Kings Forces and this to be begun by Tumults to be raised about unreasonable Taxes imposed without authority with many other noble enterprizes so like her illustrious husband that her character is as deeply inlaid in his as Phidias his Picture was in that of Minerva Hic jacet pudor venustâ—s invictus animus quicquid uspiam est aut dotum aut virtutum unico Inclusum Aubigney in quo vix aliud humanum erat nist quod natus sit mortuus licet vel sic mori est esse Immortalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nobili quo vixit sanguinis Purpura nobiliori quem fudit Alii diutius vitam tenuerunt nemo tam fortiter Reliquit THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord STUART Acts 22. 22. Heb. 11. 38. The wicked Iews said of St. Paul Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live St. Paul said of the godly Iews Of whom the world was not worthy AN Ingenious Person in a Dedicatory Epistle to the Illustrious Esme Stuart Duke of Richmond the most hopeful Son and Heir of Iames Duke of Richmond of whom more hereafter descants on these words thus Here I perceive heaven and hell mercy and malice Gods spirit and Mans spight resolved on the question that it is not fit that good men should live long on earth the same conclusion being bottomed upon different premises Wicked men think this world too good God knoweth it too bad for his people to live in Henceforward I shall not wonder that good men dye so soon but that they live so long since wicked men desire their Room here upon Earth and God their Company in Heaven and that this young Nobleman so soon exchanged his Coronet for a Crown A Nobleman of happy and assiduous Studies not in Plays and Romances the follies of good Wits but in the disquisition of solid and masculine knowledge as if he as well as Philostratus had been born a Man and his soul known no Childhood never did vice in youth finde a more confirmed goodness so impregnable was he against the temptations that gain easie access to those of his rank and quality that they could neither insinuate into him by their allurements nor force him by their importunities securing both his minde from the infection of vice and his same from the suspition A Nobleman being to think of himself as Caesar did of his Wiâ—e that others may live so as not to be condemned but he so as not to be suspected his virtue was not his stupidity or heaviness but his choice when he could have been as handsomly and takingly vicious as he was virtuous the severe exercises of his virtues being mingled with such charms from his parts and ingenuity that his very seriousness was as alluring as others divertisements and pleasures A quick and peircing Apprehension a faithful and retenâ—tive Memory a sprightful and active Fancy and a Judgement over-ruling them all neither prejudicated by vulgar opinions nor easily cozened by varnished and plausible error that deserved to live the ornament of better times and to dye engaging against those vices that were the shame of these There are a sort of Apes in India thus caught by the Natives They dress a little Boy in his sight and undress him again leaving all the Childs Apparel behind them in the place and then depart a competent distance The Ape presently attireth himself in the same garments till the Childs Cloaths become his Chains putting off his Feet by putting on his shoes The mimical Doâ—terels of Lincolnshire are thus taken As the Fowler stretcheth forth his armes and leggs going towards the Bird the Bird extendeth his leggs and wings apprâ—aching the Fowler till surprized in the Net The sweet carriage and exemplary virtue which he exercised really towards some of the Faction brought them to comply with him so far at least in pretence a while that at last they were his Converts in truth His valor conquering many his goodness more souls yielding to his virtues while bodies only lay prostrate beâ—fore his Sword Of all his virtues his patience was the most reâ—markable whereby he hardened his body to the same temperament that travel had done his soul he knew no bed for several times but that earth he sleeps on now and Pulvinar was a true Latine word for his Pillow â—afraid of softness even in his Furniâ—ture not willing to go to any Bed but that people had in those times when the Proverb rise which expresseth lying a Bed by these words Lying in Straw And this patience born up by a principle as noble as it self I mean a Religion made up of these two great parts Love and Immitation of God This noble person being of that brave Opinion That of so many divers Religions and manâ—ners of serving God which are or may be in the world they seem to be the most noble and to have the greatest appearance of truth which draw the soul into its self and cause it by pure contemplation to admire love adore dwell with imitate and enjoy the infinite Majesty of God the first cause of all things and the Essence of Essences acknowledge it in general without the nicety of particulars to be goodness perfection inâ—â—uiteness wholly incomparable This is to approach the Religion of Angels and the Humanity of Christ that shadow agreeing with the Divinity as equal-made Dyals with the Sun For his winged and soaring reason as high as theirs that pretend nothing above it acquiesced rather in the humble obedience of faith than in the critical researches of curiosity And his sprightly wit bestowed it self not in jesting upon but in adorning and obeying Religion being none of them that commence wit by blasphemy and cannot be ingenious but by being impious Indeed there was as manly a a beauty in his carrage as in his Face and a grace in each of his actions as of his Limbs charming all places he came to rather than conquering them having as generous a confluence of Noble Endowments in his Minde as he had of Noble Bloud in his Veins Worth this like a rich vein of Ore that forfeits the land it is in to his Majesty that rendred him too good to be injoyed by us For when it was necessary for him otherwise born for the sweetness and calm of peace to offer violence to and deny his nature to perform his duty in assisting that Majesty to which he was allyed as well as obliged in the defence of that Law and Liberty which his Ancestors had established as much his Inheritance as his Honor after several actions by which he shall ever live the pattern of a religious sober active watchful and resolved Souldier he came to that wherein he died the pattern of an excellent man for following my Lord Hopton as ambitious to observe his conduct as he was to attain his other great virtues at Brandonheath or
Cheriton-down near Alesford in Hampshire the Army standing ready to receive Sir William Waller and observing he had the advantage of a hill my Lord saying That he lay so there that he did but tempt them to beat him commands a Vanguard of Light Horse up the hill with such brave resolution that he gained it and that quickly rather because he supposed it only a shew of the enemy to amuse us while he stole his main body away In the mean time discreetly composing a difference arising in the command and service the bane generally of the Kings affairs with these two words Let us dispute the main with the enemy and we shall have time enough to dispute punctilioes among our selves and finding them possessed of another after a pause whether he should follow them considering the thick Hedges and Bushes wherein they were set ordering a Party to skirt those Hedges and Bushes he followed directly to gain a commodious hollow that lay between them where many a gallant man had his Grave not daunted with the fall of two horses under him nor with six wounds given and the death of near five hundred men round about him till like the Phoenix and the World he expired in his brave heat and fire March 29. 1644. and besides the Monument in each heart that knew him had one by his Brother in Christ-Church Chappel in Oxford Fratres Amiclaeis Pollux Castorque O utinam reversis sortibus vicissim uterque utriusque morte vivereret vos uno mors perimit funere Quam nec vis nec vi potentior virtus nec egregia Indoles movit nec regis vota nec regni In quibus coalvit juncta Marti Venus vis gladii magna formae major Caroli Rosae Leones THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable BERNARD Lord STUART Earl of Litchfield IT is hard for a Physician to prescribe proper Physick to such a Patient who hath a hot Liver and a cold Stomach because what is good for the one is nought for the other and it was hard for a Nobleman to give satisfaction to the Critical temper of those times if he took his liberty in a Jovial conversation he was a scandal to his own party if he reâ—strained it by a strict carriage he was looked on as the most dangerous Enemy against the Faction Some of the Kings Friends came as their example eating and drinking and behold cry they of the hot temper Gluttons and Wine-bibbers some came fasting behold cry they of the Cool thoughts they have a Devil This excellent Lord being of the last number and having as great command of himself by temperance as he had over others by Commission was as much the object of the Factions envy as men of another Genius miserably enslaved by their lusts before they were vanquished by the enemy were of their scorn The youngest Brother of five in this Noble Family that served his Majesty and of three that dyed for him whose young and bashful virtues like the unripe and blushing glories of the Rose lying close and shut till the Sun and Majesty called them out and Maiden accomplisht men walking up and down in their vail yet have left these instructions to mankind that they have Parentes Parricidas who leave their Children by their pains great Estates and by their carelesness mean understanding the one being a constant blemish and reproach to the other besides that a full Estate not seasoned with Learning and Piety hath nothing grows on it besides Lust and Vanity as a fat heap of muck produceth nothing but weeds and trash as we see good ground grow mossie and barren for want of culture sowe observe good wits grow more vicious than those of less hope and pregnancy The happiness of having the minds and manners of Children formed and seasoned while they are pliant and ductile before license break out into Pride and Luxury before Lust groweth head-strong and intractable while they are a rusatabula tender trees and capable of shaping omnium hominum gravida est anima said Philo and want Masters as Midwives to shape and fashion the Off-spring of them The advantage of living according to the Hebrew Proverb before a great eye even the eye in the Scepter and Wheel alwayes wakeful upon our actions a strict ear always attentive on our words an indefatigable hand ever writing the account of our works a severe Cato constantly attending our performances The way to improvement is in each action to aim at excellency he that aims at heaven will shoot high that man will fail at last that alloweth himself one remiss and careless thought especially great Persons who like the great Luminaries step not amiss but all people gaze at them the least spot and mote in them being as visible as those in the Sun and other Lights that represent them and their infirmities are as visible as King Ozias his Leprosie which was in his fore-head and so between great thoughts of honor and ingenious Sentiments of shame are under the happy necessity of doing well because they have not the convenience of doing ill which necessity by holy thoughts may in time be ratified and sublimated into choice apart from all respects as those Lights we mention shined when there were no Spectators A full Theatre raiseth any mans thoughts it should the Noblemans besides that the â—oil sets off the Diamond and greatness illustrates goodness it being the triumph of vertue as Plato said to have sin in power and virtue in will These are the observations resulting from this Noble Persons virtues as so many beams from a great Light A person cast into the troubles of the times almost as early as the Germain Children used to be thrown into the streams of the Rhine to see how well they could wade as they tryed how well they could swim A person humble in greatness sober in plenty temperate in opportunities moderate in excesses calm in the midst of Affairs and business uniform and equal in vicissitudes that like Regio Montanus chained all the Butter-flies of appetites and thoughts that could do what he would and would do nothing but what he should that in the greatest occasions of evil shewed the greatest reflexions of good The truly great man in St. Bernard Cui faeliciâ—as arrisit non irrisit on whom Fortune smiled but deceived him not he enjoying the satisfactions of a Votary in the midst of the pleasures of the Court whose glory and vertue fed on bitter afflictions as the Sun doth on Salt-waters and might have used Lewis the XII Impress Inter eclipses Exorior A person Noble not by injoying greatness but by despising it Quanta felicitas inter delicias pariter ruinas mundi erectum stare one that husbanded time so well that even when young in years was old in hours and had age in his thoughts the first whereof were so wise when young that they needed not old or seconds Having a reposed nature happy in a
an happy guess of what was to come yet his opinion was neither variably unconstant nor obstinately immoveable but framed to present occasions wherein his method was to begin a second advice from the failure of the first though he hated doubtful suspense when he might be resolute This one great defect was his good nature that he could never distrust till it was dangerous to suspect and he gave his Enemy so much advantage that he durst but own him for his Friend One thing he repented of that he advised his Majesty to trust Duke Hamilton his adversary with the affairs of Scotland in compliance with the general opinion rather than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times wrongs him and gives advantage to the subtile while he rather pities their faithlessness than repents of his credulity so great advantage have they that look only what they may do over them that consider what they should do and they that observe only what is expedient over them that judge only what is lawful Therefore when those that thought themselves wise left their sinking Soveraign he stuck to his Person while he lived to his Body when dead and to his Cause as long as he lived himself Attending the first resolutely burying the second honorably and managing the third discreetly undertaking without rashness and performing without fear never seeking dangers never avoiding them Although when his friends were conquered by the Rebels he was conquered by himself returning to that privacy where he was guessed at not known where he saw the world unseen where he made yielding conquest where cheerful and unconcerned in expectation he provided for the worst and hoped for the best in the constant exercise of that Religion which he and his maintained more effectually with their examples than with their Sword doing as much good in encouraging the Orthodox by his presence as in relieving them by his bounty In a word I may say of him as Macarius doth of Iustine there was no vice but he thought below him and no virtue which he esteemed not his duty or his ornament Neither was his prudence narrower than his virtue nor his virtue streighter than his fortune His main service was his inspection into the Intrigues and Reserves of the Parliamentiers at Vxbridge and his Cajoling of the Independants and Scots at London where the issue of his observation was That the King should as far as his conscience could allow comply with the unreasonable desires of an unlimited ambition to make it sensible of the evils that would flow from its own counsels being confident as events have assured us that the people would see the inconvenience of their own wishes and that they would return that power which they sought for but could not manage to its proper place before it became their ruin For unbounded liberty overthroweth its self But alas it was too late to grant them any thing who by having so much were only encouraged more eagerly to desire what they knew the King in honor could not give for when a Prince is once rendred odious or contemptible his indulgencies do him no less hurt than injuries As his Services were great so were his Recreations useful Hunting that manly exercise being both his pleasure and his accomplishment his accomplishment I say since it is in the list of Machiavel's Rules to his Prince as not only the wholesomest and cheapest diversion both in relation to himself and his people but the best Tutor to Horseman-ship Stratagems and Situations by which he may afterwards place an Army whatever Sir Sidney's apprehension was who used to say Next Hunting he liked Hawking worst His other Brothers died in the Field vindicating his Majesties Cause and he pined away in his house mourning for his Majesties Person whom he would have died for and when that could not be died with his innocent temper having rendred him the Kings Bosom Friend as his conscience made him his Good Subject Hic Jacobum Richmondiae ducem ne conditum putes eorundem quibus vixit perpetuum Incolam Cordium Caeca quem non extulit ad honorem sors sed aequitas fides doctrina pietas modesta prudentia neu morte raptum crede agit vitam secundam Caelites Inter animus fama Implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara Dicata sempiternae memoriae Aenigma saeculi omnia Intelligens a nullo Intellectus E vivis migravet non e vita marcido in corpore diu sepultus Intra penates Lugendo consenuit Diu exspiravit vivum Cadaver sero mâ—ritur jam mortuo similis Cogitando vitam absolvit ut contemplando aeternitatem Inter beatorum libros Indefesso studio versatus ut beatoruâ—â— societatis dignior pars esset 165 5 THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord AUBIGNEY Lord Almoner to Her Highness Mary The Queen Mother of England TIme was when the despised Priesthood was so honorable that the same great word signified and the same eminent Persons among the Iews the Aâ—gyptians the Graecians and Romans executed together the two excellent Functions of Priest and Prince Rex Anius Rex Idem hominum Phaebique sacâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—rg Aâ—ncid l. 3 And most of the Roman Emperors were as proud of the sacred Title of Arch-flamens as they were of the Câ—â—racter of Semper Aâ—gusti As to come nearer our selves there were at one time in England three Kings Sons six Dukes eight Earls and fourteen Lords Sons in Holy Orders Time was when Abbies and Monasteries were an easie out-let for the Nobility and Gentry of this Land to dispose of their younger Children that Son who had not mettal enough to manage a sword might have meekness enough to wear a Cowle Clap a vail on the head of a younger daughter especially if she were superannuated not overhandsome melancholy c. and instantly she was provided for in a Nunnery without cost or care of her Parents One eminent instance whereof we have in Ralph Nevil first Earl of Westmerland of that Family whom we behold as the happiest Subject of England since the Conquest if either we account the number of Children or measure the heighth of honor they attained to for of nine Children he had by Margaret his first Wife Abbess of Barking and a second viz. Elizabeth was a Nun And of a eleven by his Wife Ioan one Iane was a Nun all the other seventeen being Lords and Ladies at that time of the highest quality in the Kingdom And no wonder saith our Author if our Earls preferred their Daughters to be Nuns seeing no King of England since the Conquest had four Daughters living to womans estate but he disposed one of them to be a Votary by the
Praetor in Tyberius his time was to handle a Chamber-pot having a Ring on his Finger graved with the Emperors Image 3. A very great resolution in the strength of which in the great difference between the French King and Cardinal de Retz at Paris he and others of the Channons of Nostredame durst serve the Majesty of afflicted truth before that of a glorious King and indure the Restraint of Imprisonment that he might injoy Liberty of Conscience To smell to a Turf of fresh earth is wholesom for the body no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul therefore the sight of death when it surprized him with a choice Feavor 1664 5. was neither strange nor terrible to him who died daily Interest Posterorum novisse 1. Jacobum Richmondiae ducem qui illustris licet modeste latuit 2. Georgium Dominum Aubigney placide Animosum Heroem 3. Johannem Dominum Stuart stupendum Iuvenem qualis hic esset Senex 4. F. Dominum Aubigney in quo ut olim apud Iudeos Regalis sacerdotalis arctissime consociabantur tribus ut-pote summe pio nobili 5. Bernardum Comitem Lichfieldiae cui morum venustas quanta pâ—ncis contigit desideratur omnibus Fratres arctiori virtutis quam sanguinis faederati nexu qui eosdem mores per omnes fortunae vices sibi similes finxere Quinque it a compositos ut quod uni vix contigit unum hominum agerent quos eadem agere pati semper necessarium fuit quia non novere nisi optima Firmius vel Stoica Catena vinculum ubi Perpetuam animorum cognationem inducit non eandem Parentem habuisse sed eandem vivendi originem Rationem quod vim habuit vitaliorem ejusdem honesti affectu Imbui potius quam eodem sanguine eadem numerare bona mala chariora longe nomina quam communia pignora Curatii Horatii Anglicani quos pro regia causa non homines Credas sed tot concurrere gentes quibus Addendus Esme Dux Richmondiae Jacobi Filius unicus una quicquid est amabile Patres guod optent aut quod orbi lugeant correptus levi Febricula vita decessit Parisiis decessere quot una spes Parentum Eheu delicias breves Quicquid placet mortale non placet diu Quicquid placet mortale ne placeat nimis THE Life and Death OF RALPH Lord HOPTON SOn of Sir R. Hopton born 1601. in South-Wales where his Mother had relations and bred in Somersetshire where his Father had his seat His education such that he learned to pray as soon as he could speak and to read as soon as he could pray before three year old he read any character or letter whatsoever in our Printed Books and within a while any tolerable Writing Hand getting by heart at four years and an half five or six hundred Latine and Greek words together with their Genders and Declensions Horrori fuit Ingenium From a strict School and able School-Master in the Country he was sent to a well-governed Colledge and an excellent Tutor Mr. Sanderson after Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln of Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford who put his young reason by his judicious and exact method into such a frame that he would bless God for it he had a habit which men of a superficial education sleight immethodical thoughts were strangers to of considering matters proposed to him leisurely and soberly of recollecting the proper circumstances of a business pertinently of looking through sophismes and appearances discerningly of searching into the bottome of things quickly of observing advantages and disadvantages in Marching Qâ—artering Rallying Leaguering c. dexterously It s a great matter to put young and flexible faculties by being solidly grounded in the Initiatory Arts and Sciences or in the exact notions and apprehensions of things into an unerring and comprehensive frame of thoughts reasoning and discourse But as youth not yet accustomed to dissembling easily discloseth its temper he soon discovered by those rancounters which he had with his School-fellows and Fellow-pupils in the School and Colledge as prolusions to those engagements he afterwards had in the Field that he was born for action the life of a Man rather than speculation the life of a Scholar Letting it suffice others to meditate upon the great things which former ages have done while he did great things which future ages might meditate upon They may rest when they have raised a Scheme a Frame and Idea within themselves proportionable to the order and method of things without them while he compently understanding this all was urged by his eager virtues to perform things as great as those he under stood and actions as great as his thoughts From the University therefore he goeth to the Camp putting off his Gown to put on his Corslet and exchanging his Pen for his Sword First exercising himself in the Low-Countryes the then Nursery of English Gentry as a Volunteer and afterwards practising in the Palatinate as Captain where he gathered such choice observations principles and maximes of war that being an eye-witness in the long Parliament wherein he was chosen a Member of their dangerous proceedings which he opposed with strong reasonings in the House and offered to contradict against the Ringleaders of the Faction with his Sword and Life challenging several of them in Westminster-hall he privately retired to countenance the Kings more just proceedings in the Country giving order for providing Armes and Ammunition at his own charge and direction to secure and fortifie all such places as were tenable in Sommersetshire Wiltshire and Devonshire out of his own experience until he Sir Bevill Greenvill Sir Io. Stawell and Sir Nicholas Flanning raised with their interest and arguments Sir Ralph Hopton pleading the Kings at the Assizes Sessions and all other publick meetings of the Country that his eloquence had as great success upon the wavering populacy as his Armes had against the most obstinate Rebels a choice Army in the West an instance of what great concernment it was to keep the Militia in the Crown and not to separate the Sword from the Scepter not to make a war as he declared to the Country but to prevent it Thus Caesar that fought best in his age spake so too and the sharpness of his wit was equal to that of his Sword With which Army the Marquiss of Hertford then Commander in Chief with his direction Aug. 3. 1643. defeated the Faction in Sommersetshire took Shepton-Mallet cleared Dorsetshire maintained Sherburn with such conduct and resolution as daunted the men at Westminster for two months and Octob. 3. breaking through the Besiegers who thought to use their own words to put an end to the war if they could but take him and one or two more men of so considerable fortunes valor and conduct as both raised and kept up the war Whereupon non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus qui eminebat he was chosen Commander
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from Gâ—â—â— Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings proâ—eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
understood he the interest of all his places and resolutely he maintained them What saith he shall the Liberties of Westminster he infringed when the chief Favorite is Steward and the Lord Keeper Dâ—an and I the Contemptible man that must be trampled on When he was in trouble what passion what insinuation what condescension hath he at command when Petitioned to how quickly he looked through men and business how exactly would he judge and how resolutely conclude without an immediate intimation from his Majesty or the Duke Many eyes were upon him and as many eyes were kept by him upon others being very watchful on all occasions to accommodate all emergencies and meet with all humors always keeping men in dependance on the Duke according to this intimation of his Cabal 287. Let him hold it but by your Lordships favor not his own power A good way had he been constant to it the neglect whereof undid him for designing the promotion of Dr. Price to the Bishoprick of Armagh he moved it to the Duke who told him it was disposed of to Dr. Vsher. Whereupon he went his own way to advance that man and overthrew himself for then his Lord let him feel what he had threatned my Lord Bacon when he advanced him That if he did not owe his Preferment always to his favor he should owe his fall to his frown The peremptoriness of his judgment rendred him odious his compliance with Bristol suspected and his Sermon at King Iames's Funeral his tryal rather than his Preferment obnoxious His spirit was great to act and too great to suffer It was prudence to execute his Decrees against all opposition while in power it was not so to bear up his miscarriages against all Authority while in disgrace A sanguine Complexion with its Resolutions do well in pursuit of success Flegm and its patience do better in a Retreat from micarriages This he wanted when it may be thinking fear was the passion of King Charles's Government as well as King Iames he seconded his easie fall with loud and open discontents and those discontents with a chargeable defence of his Servants that were to justifie them and all â—â—th that unsafe popularity invidious pomp and close irregularity that laid him open to too many active persons that watched him Whether his standing out against Authority to the perplexing of the Government in the Star Chamber in those troublesome times his entertainment and favor for the Discontented and Non-Conformists his motions for Reformation and Alteration in twelve things his hasty and unlucky Protestation in behalf of the Bishops and following actions in England and Wales where it s all mens wonders to hear of his Mâ—ruit su◠〈…〉 had those private grounds and reasons that if the Bishop could have spoken with the King but half an hour he said would have satisfied him the King of Kings only knoweth to whom he hath given I hope a better account than any Historian of his time hath given for him But I understand better his private inclinations than his publick actions the motions of his nature than those of his power the Conduct of the one being not more reserved and suspicious than the effects of the other manifest and noble for not to mention his Libraries erected and furnished at St. Iohns and Westminster his Chappel in Lincoln Colledge the Repairs of his Collegiate Church his Pensions to Scholars more numerous than all the Bishops and Noble-men besides his Rent Charges on all the Benefices in his gift as Lord Keeper or Bishop of Lincoln to maintain hopeful youth according to a Statute in that Case provided Take this remarkable instance of his Munificence that when Du Moulin came over he calleth his Chaplain now the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and telleth him he doubted the good man was low wishing him to repair to him with some Money and his respects with assurance that he would wait upon him himself at his first leisure The excellent Doctor rejoyceth that he could carry him no less than twenty pounds The Noble Bishop replyed he named not the summe to sound his Chaplains minde adding that twenty pounds was neither fit for him to give nor for the Reverend Forreigner to receive Carry said he an hundred pounds He is Libelled by common fame for unchaste though those that understood the privacies and casualties of his Infancy report him but one degree removed from a Misogonist Though to palliate his infirmities he was most compleat in Courtly addresses The conversableness of this Bishop with Women consisted chiefly if not only in his Treatments of great Ladies and Persons of honor wherein he did personate the compleatness of Courtesie to that Sex otherwise a Woman was seldom seen in his house which therefore had alwayes more Magnificence than Neatness sometimes defective in the Punctilio's and Niceties of Daintiness lying lower than Masculine Cognizance and as level for a Womans eye to espy as easie for her hand to amend He suffereth for conniving at Puritans out of hatred to Bishop Loud and for favoring Papists out of love to them yet whatever he offered King Iames when the Match went on in Spain as a Counsellor or whatever he did himself as a Statesman such kindness he had for our Liturgy that he translated and Printed it at his own Cost into Spanish and used it in the Visitation of Melvin when sick to his own peril in the Tower and such resolution for Episcopacy that his late Majesty of blessed Memory said once to him My Lord I commend you that you are no whit daunted with all Disasters but are zealous in defending your Order Please it your Majesty replyed the Archbishop I am a true Welshman and they are observed never to run away till their Generall first forsakes them no fear of any flinching while your Majesty doth countenance our Cause His Extraction was Gentile and Antient as appeared from his Ancestors estate which was more than he could purchase without borrowing when at once Lord Keeper Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster His minde great and resolute insomuch that he controuled all other advices to his last to his loss in Wales and daunted Sir Iohn Cook as you may see in his Character to his honor in England His Wariness hath these Arguments 1. That he would not send the Seal to the King but under Lock and Key 2. That being to depute one to attend his place at the Coronation of King Charles the First he would not name his Adversary Bishop Laud to gratifie him nor yet any other to displease the King but took a middle way and presented his Majesty a List of the Prebendaries to avoid any exception referring the Election to his Majesty himself 3. That he proposed a partial Reformation of our Church to the Parliament to prevent an utter extirpation by it 4. That he exposed others to the censure of the Parliament 1625.
his Devotion in behalf of the Nation now under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure But on the fourth of April a sharp Fit of the Stone seized him which put him who at other times would say I am not dying yet into such apprehensions of his danger that he told the mournful Spectators of his agonies That he should leave them in Gods hands who would so provide that they should not finde his removal any loss adding That they should turn their prayers for his recovery into intercessions for his happy change I pray said he very passionately let some of your fervor be employed that way Being pressed to make it his own request to God that he might be continued to serve the Church he allowed this a part of his devotion viz. That if his life might be useful to any one soul he besought Almighty God to continue him and by his grace to ennable him to employ that life he so vouchsafed industriously and successfully Adding for the Church that sincere performance of Christian duties so much decayed to the equal supplanting and scandal of that holy Calling that those who professed that Faith might live according to the rules of it and to the form of Godliness superadd the power of it restraining the ex tempore irregularities of his friends ejaculations with that grave saying Let us call on God in the voice of his Church But now through the long suppression of Urine the bloud being grown Thin and Serous and withal Eager and Tumultuous through the mixture of Heterogeneous parts this excellent person fell to a violent bleeding whereat the standers by being amazed he said chearfully It was a mercy and that to bleed to death was one of the most desireable passages out of this world and found no ease but that the pain of the Humors stoppage relieved the Stone the Lethargy that and the Flux of Bloud the Lethargy which variety of tortures exercised not only his patience but his thankfulness too crying out in his greatest extreamities Blessed be God blessed be God He made his Will with chearfulness the oversight whereof he intrusted with his intimate and approved friend Dr. Henâ—hman now Lord Bishop of London and received the Sacrament April 20. and 22. then Good-friday and Easter-day being very much concerned that he could not be with the Congregation and saying very passionately Alas must I be Excommunicated So far was he from their opinion who in their most healthful days make this not their Penance but their election and choice April 25. he bled with greater violence than before beyond all remedy by applications or revulsives until the torrent ceased the fountain being exhausted and the good Doctor became so weak so cold and so dispirited that he had strength enough only to persevere in his Devotions which he did to the last moment of his life a few minutes before his death breathing out those words which best became his Christian life Lord make haste The same day that commenced the Nations happiness the Convention of a Free-Parliament concluded his life just when it was like to be most comfortable to himself and serviceable to the Church As if this great Champion of Religion and pattern of all virtue were reserved for exigence and hazzard for persecution and suffering for he resigned his pure and active soul to him that gave it April 25. 1660. HIS CHARACTER A Soul that dwelt nobly in a strong and comely Body whose Proportions were just and graceful his Face was serene and majestick his Eye quick and sprightful his Complexion clear and florid and the whole Man abating the redness of his Hair which yet elsewhere might be an advancing to him a beauty delicate but vigorous and patient of the severest toil and hardship never approaching the fire never subject to any infirmities save Feavers wherein yet his temperance relieved him until immoderate study altered his constitution Nobly was his soul seated and noble it was and just to the promise of his outward shape 1. His Sight was admirably quick and distinct His Ear was accurate and he naturally able to perform his part to a Harpsicon or Theorbo in the relieved intervals of his day labours and night studies 3. His Elocution was free and graceful prepared at once to charm and command his audience when impaired at his Country charge reduced by his late sacred Majesty with equal skill and candor to its natural modulation 4. His Invention was rich and flowing outgoing his dexterous Amanuensis and overflowing his Periods an hours meditation at night until he observed that prejudicial to his sleep and then in the morning suffced for two Sermons a Sunday 8. or 9. hours dispatched most of his small Tracts as that touching Episcopacy drawn immediately upon my Lord of Salisbury late of Winchesters motion in a friends Chamber who professeth that sitting by all the while he remembreth not that he took off Pen from Paper till he had done five sheets having amidst his other diversions been frequently his own days workâ— His Memory was more faithful to things than to words it being harder with him to get one Sermon by heart than to Pen twenty 6. His speech was so happy that being defective only in its redundance his late Sacred Majesty the greatest Judge and Master of English Rhetorick in this later Age ennobled him and it with this Character That he was the most Natural Orator he ever heard 7. His judgment was strong in his Writings piercing in business equally able to unravel the designs of others and model his own though as the excellent Author of his life observeth the finding out the similitudes of different things wherein the fancy is conversant is usually a bar to the discerning the disparities of similar appearances which is the business of discretion and that store of notions which is laid up in Memory assists rather confusion than choice upon which ground the greatest Clerks are frequently not the wisest men yet the incomparable Doctor owned at once the highest phansie and the deepest judgment Great his natural abilities greater his acquired through the whole Circle of the Arts accurate and Eloquent he was in the Tongues exact in Ancient and Modern Writers well versed in Philosophy better in Philology Learned in School-Divinity a Master in Church Antiquity made up of Fathers Councels Ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks Eminent indeed his Intellectuals more eminent his Moralls for 1. His temper though sanguine which he observed a Providence was chaste to an Antipathy against the very appearances of wantonness twice his Houshold cares inclined him to a Marriage yet he forbore the first time out of respect to the Lady for whom a better Fortune had a kindness and the second time upon St Paul and St. Ieromes advice for the present exigence ever since espousing what he preserved inviolate unto his death the more eminent perfection of spotless Virgin chastity 2. His appetite was
Charms especially since in both it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical times and washings Whereupon the Gentleman surprized and disavowing that learning referred him to their Divines the most eminent whereof was Costerus who having invited him to the Colledge at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church out of which no Salvation till he satisfied him he came not thither with any doubt of his own Profession but for the same of his Learning and a particular account of the aforesaid Miracles in order to which a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles with many other incident particulars which Mr. Hall modestly yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn who sate at the end of the Table as sorry a Gentleman of his Country for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Dominatio Vestra should depart without further satisfaction offered him another Conference next morning which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it he excused as bootlesse both sides being so throughly settled Thence not without a great deliverance from Free-booters a suspicious Convoy and Night they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw where finishing a second part of Meditations to the first he had published just upon his travels in his return up the Mosa reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist to our denial of Transubstantiation and answering some furious Invectives against our Church with an intimation of the Lawsâ— disabling him to return upon theirs He incensed a Sorbonist Prior so far that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw and in his way to Brussels describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well that he was charged as a Spy until he told them he was only an attendant of Sir Edmund Bacon Grand-child to the famous Lord Chacellor of that name in England travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador whom he waited on not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him along the fair River Schield by Vlushing where the curiosity of visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh parted him from his Company whom the Tide would not stay for and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous passage But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained a year and a half after his useful extravagancies he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury to perswade his Patron to reason who complemented him out of so ungainful a change and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ as he said to buy Books wished him to wait upon him as he did when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princes Court where his meditations were veryacceptable and on the Tuesday following by the Princes order that he gave him his hand and commanded him his service and when his Patron who knowing he would be taken up wished him now at home gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies with welcome and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham wherein and the Princes service he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner offering him honorable Preferment for constant residence at Court and his Lord no less advantagious for his stay at Waltham where his little Catechism did much good his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more and his select prayer without which he never performed any exercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day most of all During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham four eminent Services he went through 1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries swallowed up by a wilful Recusant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever where being collated Prebend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters he discovered counterfeited Seals Rasures Interpolations and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church until revicted by Common-Law the Adversary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40 l. per annum A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them upon the renewal of the Suit his Colleague in whose name it ran being dead the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter the very day before the tryal fell mad His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated Sir Walter offered first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease Secondly to make each Prebends place 30 l. per annum which Composition being furthered by Spalato and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some abatement in consideration of the Orphans condition and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one Mr. Lee who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people 2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France whence returning with much ado after a hard journey by Land in Company with his dear Du Moulin and an harder by Sea he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester was so sure of in the Doctors absence that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house 3. His Majesties service in Scotland which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people whereupon he was after a gracious acknowledgement of his service called to a mild account his Royal Master not more freely professing what informations had been given against him than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs and required him to declare his judgment in the five points in answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland that the King understood was privately sent to him which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there and approbation from his Majesty beyond his hopes 4. The reason why those five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there sent
sententiarum frustra gemmas habent To Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Demosthenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Seneca Plus aliquid semper dicit quam dicit To Ignatius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So called for his Piety To Athanasius who for his Strenuousnesse in Disputation was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Chrysostome who was said to be Theatrum quoddam Divinae eloquentiae in quo Deus abunde videri voluit quid posset vitae sanctitas cumvi dicendi conjuncta To Clemens Alex. Inter eloquentes summe doctos inter doctus summe eloquens To Saint Basil the Great upon whom Nazianzen bestowed this Epitaph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermo tuus tonitru vitaque fulgar erat To Saint Ierom. Blandum facundiae nomen summus in omnibus artifex To Hilary Lucifer Ecclesiarum pretiosus lapis pulchro sermone universa loquitur si semina aliqua secus viam cecidisse potuissent tamen abeo messis exorta est magna To St. Cyprian who had the name of Cicero Christianus Discernere nequeas utrumne gratior in eloquendo an facilior in explicando an potentior in persuadendo fuerit To Saint Bernard Cujus ego meditationes vinum Paradisi ambrosiam animarum pabulum Angelicum medullam pietatis vocare soleo He was one that taught this Church the Art of Divine Meditation one that always made it his businesse to see and search into the things of God with a zealous diligence rather than a bold curiosity Antiqua probitate simplicitate virum eruditis pietate piis eruditionis laude Antecellentem ita secundas doctrinae ferentem ut pietatis primas obtineret Those that were most eminent for learning he excelled in piety and those that were most famous for piety he excelled in learning this High-priests Breast was so richly adorned with the glorious Vrim and with the more precious Jewel of the Thummim The Church fared the better for his wrestling Prayers and the State for his Holy Vows One he was of a serene mild and calm aspect as smooth as his wit and tongue though living long but once a Child in understanding though always so in humility and innocence whereby he suppled those adversaries into a moderation that could not be perswaded to a conversion they observing his industry neither ceasing nor abating with his preferments valuing his time as much and giving account of it as well as any man not to his dying day waving any pains agreeable to his Calling till forbidden by men or disenabled by God when it was observed that he was as diligent a Hearer as he had been a Preacher He would not be Buried in the Church but he Lives in it by his great Charity allowing a weekly Contribution to the poor among whom he lived out of his little remainder which he observed like the Widows Barrel of Meal and Cruse of Oyl to increase by being dispersed leaving 30 l. a peice to the Widows of the Town where he was born and the City where he died 2. His Moderation which is known unto all men 3. His Children of whom I may say as St. Ambrose doth of Theodosius Non totus recessit reliquit nobis Liberos in quibus cum debemus agnoscere et in quibus cum cernimus et tenemus 4. His Works which praise him as much as all men praise them and to which we may affix Nazianzens Character of Basils Works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Obiit Sept. 8. 1656. Sepultus 29. Tunc Ecclesiae militantis Angelus adjunxit latus triumphantis chorâ— caelestem adauxit constellationem gloriae Album pro Episcopali pulla Induens victricem palmam Pro extorto pastorali pedo Istam Coronam sideream pro tenui decussa Cydari Coelo quod meditabatur Deo fruens qui omnia quibus degebat loca piis cogitatibus coelum fecit Cujus scripti quae venusta Lumina qualesque nervi Cujusque vitae quam concinna pietas THE Life and Death OF Mr. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT NOT only all the Wisdom but all the Wit of the Age wherein both Wit and Wisdom were at a fatal height attended that Cause that commanded not only the Arms of the most Valiant but the Parts of the most Learned these deserving the Bayes for the vast reason they urged in his Majesties behalf as the other the Laurel for the great things they under-went for his Majesties person among whom Mr. William Cartwright Son of Tho. Cartwright of Burford in the County of Oxford born Aug. 16. 1615. bred at the Kings School in Westminster under Dr. Osbaston and in Christ-Church in Oxford under Mr. Terrent deserves to be as well known to Posterity as he was admired in his own time whose very Recreations hath above fifty of the choicest Pens to applaud them his high abilities were accompanyed with so much candor and sweetness that they made him equally loved and admired his vertuous modesty attaining the greatest honor by avoiding all His soul naturally great and capable had he said three advantages to fill it great spirited Tutors choice Books and select Company it was his usual saying That it was his happiness that he neither heard nor read any thing vulgar weak or raw till his minde was fixed to notions exact as reason and as high as fancy It s a great care due to our first years That generous thoughts be instilled into us imitation and observation raised his parts and an humor of expressing every excellent Piece he saw and indeed each brave notion he met with and he was an exact Collector whereby he translated not only brave mens thoughts to his own words but their very Heart and Genius to his own constitution made up of strong Sence compact Learning clean sharp full and sure Wit brave passions even and high Language in â—ine a great fansie with as great judgment that could do and be what it would no man can tell as Aristotle said of AEschron the Poet what this prodigious man could not do None humored things and persons out of his own observation more properly So much valued at Court for his Poetry that the King and Queen enquired very anxiously of his health in his last sickness admirable his performances wherein as my Lord of Monmouth Charactereth them was wit for youth and wisdom for the wise So admired in Christ-Church for his easie natural proper and clear Oratory especially his Lectures on the Passions which in his Descriptions seem but varieated reason those wild beasts being tuned and composed to tameness and order by his sweet and harmonious language that Dr. Fell said Cartwright was the utmost mâ—n could come to So thronged in the Metaphysick School where no performance ever like his and his learned Predecessor Mr. Tho. Barlow of Queens when Aristotle ran as smooth as Virgil and his Philosophy melting as his Plays and his Lectures on that obscure Book which Aristotle made not to be understood as clear as his Poems
Testament but by allowing the New and friendly Communications an instance whereof we have in the honorable mention the Learned Morinus in animad in censuram exercit eccles in Pentat Samarit p. 419. makes of this worthy Doctor haec verba Alius praeterea Codex Samaritanus celebratur dicitur esse Archiepiscopi Armachani ab eo e Palestina in Hiberniam exportatus qui Leidensibus Academicis nonnullo tempore fuit commodatus Istum Codicem vir Clarissimus Thomas Comberus Anglus quem honoris officii reddendi causa nomino cum textu Iudaico verbum e verbo imo literam cum litera maxima diligentia et indefesso Labore comparavit differentiasque omnes juxta capitum versuum ordinem digestas ad me misii humanissime officiocissime Being exquisitely accomplished by these methods he was preferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury Chaplain to his Majesty and by his Majesty Master of the Colledge whereof he had been so worthy a Fellow where he wrapped up in his studies took only these cares upon himself 1. That a good understanding shoulâ— be kept among the Fellows preventing by his lenity and moderation justice and prudence all Divisions and suppressing by his Aâ—â—rity all Parties and Factions 2. That Elections should be sincere respecting worth in the meanest person and not gratifying unâ— worthiness in the richest usually answering powerful intercessor and importunate friends thus Sirs perswade your Gardiner upon your importunity to plant a withered and hopeless Herb or Tree if I should commit an error in the first Election the error will continue in the whole Foundation I had rather maintain â— Child of weak parts anywhere else than admit him to Trinity the example will do much more harm to the Colledge than the Preferment can do to the Child 3. That young mens studies should be methodical and useful examining privately their Proficiencies and looking publickly to their Exercises taking care to dispose of them all according to their respective capacities Anno 1631 2. He was Vice-chancellor of the University where he was very strict in observing the Statutes very watchful over the publick performances the jocose that they should not be too loose or abusive the serious that they should not be too perfunctory and the Religious whether Sermons Prayers or Disputations that they should not be what they were but too apt to be too Factious witness the dangerous Position of Mr. Bernard Lecturer of St. Sepulchres at St. Maries which he speedily reported to Archbishop Laud and vigorously prosecuted in the High-commission The Articles were these for otherwise he often absented himself from the Consistory when they made a man an offendor for a word 1. That Gods Ordinances blended with the Innovations of men cease to be Gods Ordinances 2. That it is impossible to be saved in the Church of Rome without repentance for being of it 3. That reason is not limited to the Royal bloud and that he is a Traytor against a Nation that depriveth it of its Ordinances c. 4. That those who shamefully symbolize with the Church of Rome as some among us do in Pelagian Errors and Superstitious Ceremonies are to be prayed either to their Conversion or to their Confusion But a while after these and other Principles which he thought fit to punish others thought fit to practice whereupon having in vain strived against the stream of a popular inundation now overflowing its banks by Letters to his friends by publick Petitions and by supplies to his Majesty the honorable Sir Charles Wheeler then Fellow of his house managing the design for carrying the Plate of the University to the King at York conceiving it unfitting that they should have superfluities to spare while his Majesty wanted necessaries to spend and not knowing indeed in those times when the Countess of Rivers house at Long-Melford was plundered to the value of 20000 l. where to deposite their Plate better than in his Majesties hand Heir to his Ancestors the Founders Paramount of all houses this worthy Doctor was the better fitted to suffer comfortably because he had acted in all his capacities as Master of the Colledge Dean of Carlisle and Rector of Worpesden in Surrey so conscientiously as he did when for refusing the Covenant and contributing to the Rebellion he was imprisoned plundered and deprived of all his Preferments 1642. Possessing his meek and calm soul in patience humility and faith which were a part of his Grace before and after his Meals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 submitting to Providence and kissing the Rod without any other reflexion on the instruments of his sufferings than God forgive them weeping indeed sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so melting is the good mans disposition for the horror of the sins they went on in but taking the spoiling of his goods joyfully Oh his frequent Ejaculations in English Greek and Latine his clear Prospect into the late Revolutions and Restaurations his extraordinary Comforts in the worst time his constant Almes-giving and Charity his Fast and Letanies the tenderness of his heart melting at several passages of Scripture his dear Consort read to him often saying Happy are they that believe and not see oh his constancy to friends and love even to enemies preferring many of his Predecessors Servants meerly because of the pick between them two being kind to them only because their Master was unkind to him The calmness of his spirit under the rack of his torment answering those that asked him how he did constantly Very well I thank God so great the peace of a good man that melted his own will into the will of God O with what flaming Devotion and holy Reverence he received his Viaticum the Seal of his Pardon that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sacrament of the Lords Supper a little before his death when in a cold frosty morning he took off all his Caps and sate upon his Bed bare-headed in honor of the Lord Jesus there Crucified before him immediately after crying Nunc Dimittis and desiring to be dissolved and to be with Christ only he sent just as he was a dying to his dear Consorts ancient Parents and an aged friend in the Town to prepare for death telling them and his loving Wife that he should be loath to be happy without them suggesting to her likewise that when she saw him close his eyes she should not be troubled but conceive that he was fallen asleep He was buryed I think in Trinity Colledge Chappel March 29. 1653. the Revered Dr. Boreman Rector of St. Giles in the Fields Preaching his Funeral Sermon to whom I owe this faithful account of this blessed man as I do the following Epitaph to the Reverend Dr. Duport Dean of Peterburgh Epitaphium Reverendissimi Doctissimique Domini Doctoris Combar c. qui devotam Deo animam reddidit Feb. 28. 1653. Postquam annos 78. plus minus cum celebritate nominus compleverat COs priscae pietatis tque
rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will choose rather to neglect their duty safely and creditably than to get a broken pate in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that which will break their hearts too Although he was so resolvedly honest and upon such clear Principles conscientious that he tired the persecutions of his enemies and out-lived the neglect of his friends finding the satisfaction flowing from his duty out-ballancing the sufferings for it 1. When Chaplain much troubled by Arch-bishop Abbot Sir H. Lynde and Mr. P. 1. For Licensing a Book called An Historical Narration of the Iudgment of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs Confessors in Queen Maries dayes concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death Novemb. 27. 1630. 2. For maintaining universal Grace and Redemption in a Passion Sermon at St. Pauls Cross about the same time 2. When Master of Queens Colledge as much persecuted by the Faction for six or seven years from Cambridge to Elyâ— house thence to Ship-board and thence to the Fleet with the same disgrace and torment I mentioned before in Dr. Beals life for being active in sending the University-Plate to the King and in undeceiving people about the proceedings of the pretended Parliament i. e. in sending to the King that which should have been plundred by his enemies and preaching as much for him as others did against him his sufferings were both the smarter and the longer because he would not own the Usurpation so much as to Petition it for favor being unwilling to own any power they had to Imprison him by any address to them to Release him And when in a throng of other Prisoners he had his Liberty he chose to be an exile beyond Sea at Paris rather than submit to the tumult at home at London or Cambridge If he was too severe against the Presbyteries of the Reformed Churches which they set up out of necessity it was out of just indignation against the Presbytery of England which set up it self out of Schism And when he thought it unlawful for a Gentleman of the Church of England to marry a French Presbyterian it was because he was transported by the oppression and out-rage of the English But being many years beyond Sea he neither joyned with the Calvinists nor kept any Communion with the Papists but confined himself to a Congregation of old English and Primitive Protestants where by his regular Life and good Doctrine he reduced some Recusants to and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion so defeating the jealousies of his foes and exceeding the expectation of his friends Returning with his Majesty 1660. he was restored to his own Preferments and after Dr. Loves death the natural Wit and Orator Master of Bennet Colledge Margaret Professor after Dr. Holdsworth in which place he was sure to affront any man that put up Questions against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of Engl. in the worst of times and Dean of Ely made Dean of Ely in which dignity he dyed 1662 3 having this Memorial That he had bred up his Colledge so well in the Principles of Religion and Loyalty that no one there from the highest to the lowest submitted to the Usurpers for there was a through Reformation neither Master Fellow not Scholar being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a Wreck and forfeited in this Land-tempest for lack of a living thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof a severity contrary to the eternal moral of the Jewish Law provided against the Depopulation of Birds-nests that the old and young ones should be destroyed together The Doctors Predecessors Dr. Humphrey Tyndal Master of Queens and Dean of Ely was as is reported offered by a Protestant party in Bohemia to be chosen King in Queen Elizabeths Reign and he refused it alleadging That he had rather be a Subject under Queen Elizabeth than a forraign Prince And the Doctor himself was offered as I have heard honorable accommodations by some in the Church of Rome but he accepted them not because he said He had rather be a poor Son of the afflicted but Primitive Church of England than a Rich Member of the flourishing but corrupt Church of Rome Edvardus Martin S. Th. Dr. Cato sequioris saculi qui nihil ad famam omnia ad conscientiam fecit Rigide pius vir et severe Iustus sibi theatrum omnia ad normam exigens non amplius ambivit quam ut sibi placeret et Deo THE Life and Death OF THE LORD WILLMOT Earl of Rochester THe Lord Wilmot born on All-Souls day in Ireland and bred Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford received a Barony from his Ancestors and conveyed an Earldom to his Posterity of whom a great man said That he was so Great a Scholar that he could give the best advice and so good a Souldier that he could follow it the best of any man in England none more valiant to return a private affront with the hazard of his own Personâ— he gave a box on the ear to one of the most eminent men in this Nation none more patient in taking a disgrace the revenge of which might hazard the publick safety He suffered his Horse to be taken by the bridle and himself to be led out of Command by a Messenger from his Majesty in the Hoad of 700. Horse over whom he was Lieutenant-General in view of the Enemy to the great dissatisfaction of the Army which was ready to Mutiny for the Lord Willmot at that very time when they should fight the Earl of Essex He was Captain of Horse many years in the Low Countries with great respect for his generous Courage and good Discipline and coming thence over was made Commissary General of Horse in the Expedition into Scotland In Holland began that animosity between him and Goring which continued in England His sobriety indeared him to every Army he came to and therefore rendred him suspected and envied in most actions he performed An excellent Commander of Horse and of himself being therefore mistrusted because he would not swear as if Dam-me had been the Oath of Allegiance 1640. Aug. 28. When the Lord Conway let the Scots over â—weed Mr. Willmot was the first man that made head against them standing with a few prime Gentleman when the rest of the Army fled and threw down their Arms to the Enemies Horse and Cannon so effectual that though being over-powered he could not defeat them yet he stunned them so that instead of advancing with an Army next day they submit with a Petition exactly as Mr. Willmot guessed whose opinion was That one resolute action against the Scots should min them who are lost by favors and 〈◊〉 by severities He acted like a Statesman when Commissary in the Expedition against the Scots telling my Lord Conway That he saw his Majesty would be overcome by the English at home if he
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
be no exceptions From Nottingham-shire he passed with some Troops to countenance the Commission of Array in other Counties and particularly in Oxford-shire to secure the University from the Rebels and the Scholars and their Plates for his Majesty when assaulted by the Forces of Northampton and betrayed by the Town of Brackley so that he lost his Carriages and Cabinet he writes to Mr. Clark of Craughton in whose Custody they were to restore them Which if you do saith he I shall represent it to his Majesty as sty as an acceptable service if not assure your self I shall finde a time with advantage to re-pay my self out of your Estate and consider that as Rebellion is a weed of an hasty growth so it will decay as suddenly and that there will be a time for the Kings Loyal Subjects to repair their losses sustained by Rebells and Traytors Upon the sending of which Letter to the Parliament and their proclaiming him and his Adherents Traytors for their Allegiance to their Soveraign he marched to Worcester a very commodiously situated place taking it in and Garrisoning it decoying thither the Lord Say Colonel Nath. Fines and Sandys into a trap by a mistake of Prince Rupert for the Earl of Essex and gaining the first Victory and Reputation to his Majesties Side and Party which was judged never able either to form an Army or to aim at Victory How valiantly and warily he led on the Kings Horse at the first Newbery Fight when Col. Middleton protested there was no dealing with Biron who would give no advantage is well known and how prudently and industriously he pursued his Majesties Interest about Wales where he was Field Marshall General may be guessed by the Command given him of that Important Place both for passage into Ireland and Westchester and power over the Circuit of four Counties for Contribution where his Honorable and Obliging Deportment his judicious Works his frequent Sallies his great Word Cconsider so much you know as you consider his magnanimous performance in most Storms in Person his great Art of keeping both Town and Garrison contented with Cats Dogs yea and those failing with but one meal in three dayes while there was any hope of Relief refusing nine summons and not answering the tenth till his messenger returned with assurance that there was no hope of relief when he yielded upon the most honorable terms for himself and the whole Garrison that were given in England except those he afterwards gained at Caernarvon having indured a long and gallant Siege the benefit whereof he injoyed with a notable escape or two to rally the decayed and scattered spirits of the Kingdom into further attempts for his Majesty travelling invisibly and with incredible speed from place to place for a year together not sleeping four nights together in a place for a year till the fatal drowsiness hanging over the Kingdom put him upon taking his rest too and withdrawing to France to follow his ingenious Studies which the War had interrupted in the course but not in the effect of them his admirable discourse to his Mother discovering him as compleat a Scholar him as compleat a Scholar as he was an accomplished Gentleman dying oppressed with the sad thoughts of the consequence of the horrid Murther of his sacred Master about 1650. whose Monument is supported by four excellent Brothers I. Sir Philip Biron a Gentleman of a wide and capacious soul to grasp much and of an enlarged heart to communicate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Servant of love a great Master of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of love as if with Socrates he that knew every thing knew nothing but how to love After many signal services in York-shire in each whereof there was always observed something of a judicious stratagem in a general Storm by the whole Parliament Army upon Tork he was killed in the Head of his Regiment which never went out but he would tell them That never brave man came to any thing that resolved not either to Conquer or perish July 19. 1644. II. The Right Honorable Sir Richard now Lord Biron of Rochdale succeeding his noble Brother in that honor King Charles I. Octob. 24. 1643. invested him with to be Chronicled for his Government in and many surprizes of the enemy about Newark III. Sir Nicholas Biron as excellent a Commander of Foot as Sir Iohn was of Horse one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Life-guard of the world by his Piety and by his Prudence a person whom his late Majesty in all Engagements would have always near him IV. Sir Robert Biron all Colonels in his Majesties Army this last excellent Person higher in his relation to God by his second Birth contingit sanguine Coelum than to his Noble Family by his first All these Heroes deserving that Epitaph the great Family De Haro have always upon their Graves viz. Regum subditi amici THE Life and Death OF Dr. IOHN BRAMHALL Lord Archâ—bishop of Armagh c. HE was bred in Cambridge in Sydney Colledge under Mr. Hulet a grave and a worthy man and he shewed himself not only a fruitful Plant by his great progress in his Studies but made him another return of gratitude taking care to provide him a good Imployment in Ireland where he then began to be greatly interested It was spoken as an honor to Augustus Caesar that he gave his Tutor an honorable Funeral and Marcus Antonius erected a Statue unto his and Gratian the Emperor made his Master Ausonius to be Consul And our worthy Primate knowing the obligation which they pass upon us who do Obstetricari gravidae animae help the parturient Soul to bring forth fruit according to its seminal powers was careful not only to reward the industry of such persons so useful to the Church in the cultivating infantes plamarum young Plants whose joynts are to be stretched and made streight but to demonstrate that his Scholar knew how to value his Learning when he knew so well how to reward the Teacher Having passed the course of his studies in the University and done his Exercise with that Applause which is usually the reward of pregnant Wits and hard he was removed into York-shire where first in the City of York he was an assiduous Preacher but by the disposition of the Divine Providence he happened to be engaged at North-Alerton in Disputation with three pragmatical Romish Priests of the Jesuits Order whom he so much worsted in the Conference and so shamefully disadvantaged by the evidence of the Truth represented wisely and learnedly that the famous Primate of York Arch-bishop Matthews a learned and an excellent Prelate and most worthy Preacher hearing of that Triumph sent for him and made him his Chaplain in whose service he continued until the death of the Primate but in that time had given so much Testimony of his great Dexterity in the Conduct of Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs that he grew dear
up all he was a Wise Prelate a Learned Doctor a Just Man a True Friend a great Benefactor to others a thankful Beneficiary where he was obliged himself He was a faithful Servant to his Masters a Loyal Subject to the King a zealous Assertor of his Religion against Popery on the one side and Fanaticism on the other The practice of his Religion was not so much in Forms and exterior Ministries though he was a great observer of all the publick Rites and Ministries of the Church as it was doing good for others He was like Myson whom the Scythian Anacharsis so greatly praised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he governed his Family well he gave to all their due of maintenance and duely he did great benefit to Mankind he had the fate of the Apostle St. Paul he passed through evil report and good report as a deceiver and yet true He was a man of great business and great resort Semper aliquis Cydonis domo as the Corinthian said there was always some-body in Cydons house He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he divided his Life into labour and his Book he took care of Churches when he was alive and even after his death having left five hundred pounds for the repair of his Cathedral of Armagh and St. Peters Church in Drogheda He was an excellent Scholar and rarely well accomplished first instructed to great excellency by natural parts and then consummated by Study and Experience Melancthon was used to say that himself was a Logician Pomeranus a Grammarian Iustus Ionas an Orator but that Luther was all these It was greatly true of him that the single perfections which make many men eminent were united in this Primate and made him Illustrious At at Quintilium perpetuus sopa Vrget Cui pudor justitiae sorer Incorrupta fides nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem It will be hard to finde his equal in all things Fort asse tanquam Phaenix anno quingente simo nascitur that I may use the words of Seneca nec est mirum ex intervallo magna generari mediocria in turbam nascentia saepe fortuna producit eximia vero varitate commendat For in him was visible the great lines of Hookers Judiciousness of Iewells Learning of the Acuteness of Bishop Andrews He was in more great things than one and as one said of Phidias he could not only make excellent Statues of Ivory but he could work in Stone and Brass He shewed his Equanimity in Poverty and his Justice in Riches he was useful in his Country and profitable in his Banishment For as Paraeus was at Anvilla Luther at Wittenburg St. Athanasius and St. Chrysostome in their Banishment St. Ierome in his Retirement at Bethlehem they were Oracles to them that needed it so was he in Holland and France where he was abroad and besides the particular endearments which his friends received from him he did do Relief to his Brethren that wanted and supplied the Souldiers out of his Store in York-shire when himself could but ill spare it but he received publick thanks from the Convocation of which he was President and publick Justification from the Parliament where he was Speaker So that although as one said Miraculâ— instar vitae iter si longum sine off ensione percurrere yet no man had greater enemies and no man had greater justifications Johannes Bâ—amhall S. Th. Dr. Ecclesiae Anglicanae filius observantissimus Hybernicae Primas Pater dignissimus utrinsque vindex acerrimus Martii 12 mo 1662 3. Caetera narrabunt posteri Historia enim An. Britanniae Hiberniae cujus pars quanta est vir bonus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amplissimo praesuli in Epitaphium cedet ut Ecclesia restaurata in Monumentum Erat nempe ille ex beatorum Plinianorum numero quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere feribenda aut seribere legendae THE Life and Death OF Dr. ACCEPTED FREWEN Lord Arch-bishop of York THE three last Arch-bishops of York were men of as great sufferings as enjoyments I. Dr. Richard Neile born in Westminster whereof he was Dean and bred in St. Iohns Colledge Cambridge whereof he was Fellow going by the favor of the Cecills bred in the same Colledge with him through several Preferments and Dignities from the Vicaridge of Chesthunt in Hertford-shire to the Deanery of Westminster and by the bounty of his two Royal Masters who had the same apprehensions with him about the Church a publick body he would call it not only to be taught by Preachers its duties but to be kept as long as men are men by Discipline and Government from scandals came by the intermediate advancements of Rochester 1608. Coventry and Lichfield 1610. Durham 1617. Winchester 1627. from the Deanery of Westminster to the Arch-bishoprick of York 1632. was much envied for his Preferment more for his Principles most of all for his Favorites and followings the Parliament in 1628. threatning for preferring Dr. Laud to be a Bishop and the Faction 1641. charging Bishop Laud for making him an Arch-bishop II. Arch-bishop Williams of whom before III. Arch-bishop Frewen bred Demy Fellow and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a general Scholar and a good Orator made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1643 4. a Preferment he suffered rather than enjoyed and after fourteen or fifteen years sufferings and privacy with his Relations in London upon his Majesties Restauration Installed Arch-bishop of York His particular temper was that by his goodly presence and great Retinue he hazarded the envy of people to avoid contempt a thing he would say a man should avoid as death it being an undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselesness and inable attended with an untoward endeavor to engage the world in the same belief and slight esteem a rising man prevent as ruine to be thought down is the very Preface to be so a contempt like the Planet Saturn hath first an ill Aspect and then a destroying influence and a Governor provide against as a deposing what obedience can he expect from them that give him not so much as respect the carriage cannot reverence the person over whom the heart insults nor the actions submit if the apprehensions rebel Reputation is power which who despises weakens for where there is contempt there can be no aw and where there is no aw there will be no subjection and we have known that the most effectual method of disobedience is first to slur a Governors person and then to overthrow his power He knew that though he must approve himself to wise men by his vertues he must take the vulgar that see not beyond the surface with his carriage they as the Spaniard being of opinion that if you would know a man you must know him by his gate He dyed 1663 4. P. M. Accepti Freweni quis seit si ultra quaeras jam dignus es qui nescias THE Life and Death OF Dr.
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
he had served the Parliament and not only so but brought him to Sir Io. Gells Company who expressed himself very sensible of the Parliaments ill requital of him and his desire to be represented as a Loyal Subject to King Charles II. and likewise offered him the model of a design and engagement entred into by the Buckingham Dorset and Kentish Gentry with Overtures of Money to go over and promote the said design with his Majesty in Sir Iohn Gells Sir Guy Palmes Sir Io. Curson Sir Thomas Whitmore Mr. Fitz Herbert and Sir Andrew Knovelaes and the aforesaid Gentlemens names appointing Col. Andrews to go to Graves-end to meet with the Kentish Gentlemen whereof none came there where the betrayed man was taken March 24. 1640. with Dr. Hâ—nry Edwards Mr. Clarke and Sir Henry Chichley who were casually with him and being brought to Lond. examined before the Council of State by Scot so punctually to each circumstance of his life his several Lodgings Names and Acquaintances Removes Abodes Correspondencies and Interests since 1646. that he saw he was betrayed and therefore set down a plain Narrative being sensible as he said that Bradshaw had set a spie upon him for four years together after which examination and being confronted by Sir Io. Gell who was trepanned as well as himself he was kept close Prisoner for sixteen weeks together in the Tower and after a Rational Learned Accurate and brave Plea in the behalf of the Freemen of England against the Authority of the High Court of Justice sentenced to be beheaded as he was on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. when as he said the fear of Isaac had banished all other fears after holy preparations for death with the assistance of Dr. Swadling the Sequestred Minister of St. Botolph Aldgate who thanked him for his three dayes converse with him excellent Letters and Discourses to his Friends for he was an exact Orator a Divine Will where having little else left he bequeathed good Instructions to and prayed for his only Daughter Mavilda Andrews a satisfactory account of his Faith and Charity in the clear way of Dialogue to the Doctor to whom he had unbosomed himself in private before the people earnest prayers both of his own and the Doctors who professed himself his Scholar rather than Instructor comforting himself in the honorable kind of his Death answerable to his Birth and Quality in the good Cause of it wherein he said his Judgment was satisfied and his Conscience setled and in the blessed issue of it hoping it would bring him to the presence of Christ King Charles and his good Lord Capel no face of the many that looked on him he observed but had something of pity in it he was enrolled in the noble Army of Martyrs with such incredible constancy that it much confirmed his friends and amazed his foes One of the greatest of whom said Alas poor innocent a better Speech from a private person than a publick Magistrate bound by his Usurped place not only to pity but protect afflicted Innocence especially in so sweet and amiable a nature as Mr. Andrews whom all good men did love and few bad men did hate all men knowing that all his fault was to use his own words a believing nature wrought upon by treacherous men whereof one I mean Bernard was hanged four years after wards at Tyburn for robbing Col. Winthorps House at Westminstâ—r Discite Iustitiam moniti In this Rubrick Mr. Beaumont an Orthodox Minister of Pontefract noted for his Loyal Resolute and constant Adherence to the Royal Cause and for setling at his House the design for surpriâ—zing Pontefract and keeping Intelligence Stating and Regulating Contributions bringing in relief spying the enemies Lines and advantages and going out in several parties to secure it when it was taken murdered by a Councel of War who took sentenced and executed him in two hours Feb. 15. 1648. deserves to have one name being an instance of an extraordinary Cruelty in one respect that with a Fanatick respect to the Law Deut. 13. 6. his nearest relation was forced to have a hand in his execution contrary to the Civil Law among Heathens Filius non torquetur in Caput parentis And Col. Iohn Morris Governor of Pontefract wichh he had with extream pains taken and with extream hardship kept the last Garrison in England for the King being forced to render himself and five more upon discretion and after two and twenty weeks imprisonment sentenced at York where he convinced them that it was against the Law of Arms that a Souldier should be tryed by a Jury and against all the Laws of the Land that a Subject should dye for acting according to an acknowledged Soveraigns Commission and yet as his Master the Earl of Strafford under whom he had his Education he was against all the Laws in being murthered August 23. 1649. Sealing his Allegiance to his Soveraign as his Soveraign had the Libertiâ—â— of his people with his bloud refusing to do an extraordinary act which like Sampson Eliah c. he was urged to do to save himself Gyants were products of the Copulations between the Sons of God and the Daughters of men Copulations unlawful not because they were too near but because they were too far a-kin and Monsters must be the issue of the horrid mixture of an extraordinary example by Commission from God and ordinary actions of meer men who alledge Heaven to justifie the mischiefs of Hell Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit Deserves another mention as honest Cornet Blackborn who after 7. years faithful service to his Soveraign for whom he prayed to his last was murthered at the same time because of the same successless attempt I say successless Our Soveraign the Copy like God the Original coming not in the tempestuous winde of War the fire of Fury or Earthquake of open enmity but in the still voice of a peaceable composition and to shew that this should not be mans work God suffered both the Wise-men of the North the Men of Kent and Cheshire Chief-men to fail in their Loyal indeavours that it might be Gods work and justly marvellous in our eyes must needs have a third mention and Captain Burleigh murdered at Winchester by Wild Feb. 10. 1647. for beating up Drum according to his Allegiance in the Isle of Wight for his Majesty when deposed by the Vote of Non-Addresses and affronted in that place which should have been his Sanctuary the disgrace of Law yet indicted for levying War against the King when Rolfe against was whom proved a design of Assassinating his Majesty was in the same time and place acquitted claims a fourth place in the bloudy Calender all Courts then casting Loyalty as the Maids Graves at Colen do in a night Vomit up all mens bodies buryed there And let Mr. Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleet-street and in the Wars one of his Majesties Messengers for bringing the Kings Seal to London
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
the Bishop indulged and Sir Iohn prosecuted though both at last suffered by them Sir Iohn hardly seven times in these Wars escaping for his life at his House in Northampton-shire whence coming to hide himself in London he dyed in the Bell-Inn in St. Martins lane London sundry losses by plunder having paid after for composition 628 l. Sir Henry Martin born in London bred in New-Colledge Oxford the smallness of whose Estate was the improvement of his Parts being left but 40 l. a year which made him a Student where as he would say 80 l. would have made him a Gentleman pleading in his Chamber by Bishop Andrews advice who directed him to the study of the Civil Law the important Causes transmitted to him weekly from Lambeth he attained to a great faculty in amplifying and aggravating extenuating any thing at the Court wherefore he became an eminent Advocate in the High-Commission no Cause coming amiss to him who was not now to make new Armor but to buckle on the old not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Client and was made Judge of the Prerogative for Probate of Wills and of the Admiralty in Causes concerning Forreign Trade whence King Iames would say pleasantly of him That he was a mighty Monarch in his Jurisdiction over Land and Sea the living and the dead in the number of which last he was for fear and grief 1642. Dr. Thomas Eden born at Ballington-Hall in Essex Fellow and Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge where he always concurred with the old Protestants in his Votes in censuring extravagant Sermons c. and joyned issue with them in his suffering only he that was so excellent an Advocate for others pleaded so well for himself that he was permitted to dye in Cambridge where he bestowed 1000 l. since nothing was left him to live on elsewhere his Places of Chancellor of Ely Commissary of Sudbury and Westminster Professor of Law in Gresham-Colledge being Sequestred as he did 1646. leaving Sir Iames Bunce a great Agent and sufferer for his Majesty being twelve years banished his Executor on this score being an utter stranger to him Sir Iames asking the Doctors advice about a â—lause in a Will wherein he was Executor and being told by him that it was capable of a double sense replyed Tell me what you think in your Conscience is the very minde of the Testator which I am resolved whatever it cost me to make good Dr. Cowel observed of Dr. Eden that had a happy name which commends to a Favourite that might be easily pronounced Dr. Morrison and Dr. Goad both of Kings great Civilians and great sufferers the first a great friend of Bishop Williams the second of Bishop Laud at first the Faction was not perfect in the art of persecution being more loose and favourable in their language of Subscriptions but afterwards grew so punctual and particular therein that the persons to whom they were tendered must either strangle their Consciences with the acceptance or lose their Estates for the refusal thereof Sir Richard Lane a Gentleman not lost in the retiredness of a good judgment but being able to expose his merit as well as gain it by a quick fancy sending before a good Opinion of himself to make way for his Person with this Caution That he took care he should not sink with two great an expectation Whence in an Assembly wherein they used to Epithet every man with reference to their most obvious defects or vertues he was called Tho. Wary and with good reason he keeping his converse as among Superiors within the compass modesty and reverence so among equals within the Rules of a sweet and honest respect it being he said both to command our own Spirits and endear our friends a great art not to be too familiar or presume too much on the goodness of other natures upon that of a mans own besides that he thought it injustice to give our familiars the froth of our Parts reserving the more solid part for strangers though he exposed not his good humors but upon an equal Theatre a mans esteem rising not from shewing himself but from keeping himself regular and equal as well in mean and common as in great and extraordinary actions pretending to nothing he had not left being discovered albeit when once men have a good opinion they seldom take pains to disabuse themselves he might be suspected in what he had and being sure of Correspondents knowing that a single interest or abilities would sink under Court-affairs He was preferred the Princes Sollicitor and Attorney in the best times and his Father Keeper of the Seal in the worst not parting from his Majesty till he did with his own soul dying with a good Conscience abroad with more comfort than if he had dyed with a good Estate at home having discharged his place under a distressed Soveraign with much courage as well as skill leaving this opinion behind that Projectors of new Engines were not to be too much encouraged in a populous Country since by easing many of their labor they out more of their livelihood and so though beneficial to private persons are pernicious to the publick to which what imployeth most is most advantageous Sir Iohn Bennet as much persecuted by the Parliament as by the High-Commission THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM JUXON Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury BOrn at Chichester in Sussex and bred in St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow and President his deep and smooth parts as appears by his Speeches and Poetry on publick Occasions particularly on King Iames his death exceeding his years and yet his modesty and other vertues so exceeding as to hide his Parts had not he been discovered for Preferment by the Perfume of his worth as the Roman Gentleman was by the sweet Odour of his Cloaths for punishment Bishop Laud had taken great notice of his Parts and Temper when he was Fellow with him but greater of his Integrity and policy when a stickler in the Suit about President-ship of the Colledge against him When observing him a shrewd Adversary he thought he might be a good Friend being though Doctor of Law yet a great Master of Divinity all hearing him Preach with great pleasure and profit so much he had of Paul and Apollos of learned plainness and an useful elaborateness when he preached saith one that heard him Of Mortification Repentance and other Christian Practicks he did it with such a stroke of unaffected Floquence of potent Demonstration and irresistible Conviction that jew Agrippaes Festaes or Felixes that heard but must needs for the time and fit be almost perswaded to be penitent and mortified Christians Dr. Laud finding him shining in each place he was as the Divine Lights in their Orbs without noise his Birth so Gentile that it was no disgrace to his Parts though not so Illustrious but that his Parts might be an Ornament to him his Vertues so modest that they
attended all those even the meanest that went to it for their Conscience When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came no doubt he had his choice whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland or an equal dignity in England that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service and the sad state of that Church and so he underwent that rudeness there to the danger of his life from those under him that he had here from those above him notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons to feed the peoples souls and not their humors a wholesom Discipline that struck at their pertinacy not their persons and even course of Holiness and Devotion made up of Fasting and Prayer whereby he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach by the pattern of his Life as well as the rules of his Doctrine a generous and magnificent hospitality entertaining all his Diocess civilly that so unworthily not knowing him till they had lost him entertained him a diffusive charity demonstrating that he sought them not theirs to poor Widows young Catechists hopeful Scholars needy Gentlemen and others his Pensioners at Derry Dublin and Faughen in Ireland Glascow in Scotland London Oxford and Cambridge in England by which and other parts of his Pastoral cares his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sacrament the following day at St Brides in the same City he felt it by a Paroxism seizing his heart whereof he died the Friday after having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully as one assured of Life having lived as one assured of Death saying Thy will be done in earth in terra mea with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body being a pure Virgin espoused only to Christ and besides that he laid out 5000 l. per annum since he was Bishop in charitable uses and 200 l. per annum in Buildings he bequeathed his whole Estate save some of his best Folio Books given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library and an 100l towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity but such his huge ingenuity as well as his goodness he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity yea and something of his Office too in a Benediction and Prayer Dr. Warmestry a Scholar of Westminster Student of Christ-church and at last Dean of Worcester for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time as the sitting of the Convocation after the Parliament and the making of new Canons when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones And in the second offering expedients to remove what had been so according to the Levitical Law covering the pit which they had opened yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude while there was any hope of them in things that her judged circumstantial and prudential was not affraid to be undone by them when they grew desperate for those things that he understood were essential He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loyalists the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs and the Penitentiarygeneral for visiting the sick very zealous in converting Infidels very industrious in reclaiming the loose very careful in comforting the sad satisfying the doubtful and establishing the wavering very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death and very cautious against giving any offence He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow Preaching Mr. Humphrey Sydenham born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire bred Fâ—llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford so eloquent a Preacher as it seems by his The Athenian Babler and other admirable Sermons since published that he was commonly called The Silver-tongued Sydenham but withal so honest a man that he was in danger of being turned out in these times as not fit its the phrase of the times to Preach the Gospel As if wit could be better imployed any way than to please men to heaven and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing as well as Temples Altars Sacrifices from Satans service who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods who gave it to save souls He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels and Charity too so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations Dr. Michael Hudson a Gentleman of great parts and greater courage hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons attempting many of them and taking some being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England of any person in his Majesties Army The reason why he conducted him so safely having made many journeys before between Newcastle and Oxford about the terms of his security there through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House and after an escape thence a year in the Tower whence being permitted to take Physick in London he got out after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower with a Basket of Apples on his Head in a disguise to the King at Hampton-Court and from thence to Lincolnshires where he raised a party for his Majesty having engaged the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design 1648. In the head of which after quarter given he was killed barbarously Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire being thrown down when his Head was cloven asunder into a Mote and when he caught hold of a Spout to save himself as he was falling a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers as others now he was fallen into the Water Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes and begging to dye at Land knocked him on the Head cutting off his Tongue and Teeth and carrying them about the Country the Trophies of their shame but his immortal honor who besides his life lost 2000 l. in a personal estate and 900 l. a year leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons himself being not vouchsafed a grave till an Enemy of more wit and charity than his fellows said Since he is dead let him be buried THE Life and Death OF Sir RICHARD GURNEY Sometime Lord Mayor of London SIR Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet born April 17. 1577. at Croydon in Surrey was by his Majesty King Charles I. honored with this Title that he might be a pattern
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their
the old Religion against what he supposed the new in his Under him the Welch at Brentford made good the Greek Proverb with right Brittish valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that flieth will fight again those who being little better than naked cannot be blamed for using swift heels at Edgehill must having resolution to arm their minds as soon as they had armour to cover their bodies be commended for using as stout arms as any in this fight which cost the Family though Sir Thomas died not long after 2000 l. 5. Sir Evan Lloyd of Yale a sober Gentleman and one of the first that waited on his Majesty at Wrexam for which he suffered deeply several times till his Majesties Restauration by whom he was made Governour of Chester a City of which it is said that it was more honour to keep a Gate in it than to command a whole City elsewhere seeing East Gate therein was committed formerly to the Earl of Oxford Bride Gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water Gate to the Earl of Derby and North Gate to the Major He died as soon as he was invested in his Government 1663 4. Godfrey Lloyd Charles Lloyd and Tho. Lloyd were Collonels in the Kings Army and Coll. Rob. Ellis a vigilant sober active and valiant Commander 240 l. Sir Francis Lloyd Caerm 1033 l. Walt. Lloyd Lleweny Carding Esq 1033 l. 6. Col. Anthony Thelwall a branch of the Worshipful Family of the Thelwalls of Plasyward near Ruthin in Denbighshire known for his brave Actions at Cropredy where his Majesty trusted him with a thousand of the choicest men he had to maintain as he did bravely the two advantagious Villages Burley and Nelthorp and at the second Newberry fight where he did wonders with the reserve of Sir G. Lisles Tertia and had done more had he not been slain for not accepting of Quarter Not long after Daniel Thelwall of Grays-Inn Esq paid 540 l. composition Io. Thelwall of Pace-Coch Denb Esq 117 l. The Right Honorable Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy-Counsellor to both Kings Charles I. and II. bred in the strictest School and Coll. Eaton by Windsor and Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to a great insight into general and various Learning and in the Low-Countries and France to a great happiness in Experiences and Observations in the Affairs of War Trade and Government the result of which and his retired studies by reason of the troubles of the Age and the infirmities of his body much troubled with the Stone with a sharp fit whereof he died 1667. was as King Charles the First who conversed with him much in his Closet called it and King Charles the Second who came often with the Counsel to his House and Bed side found it Safe and clear Counsel a sober and moderate Spirit the reason together with the general opinion of his great integrity and unblemished reputation he was so much reverenced and courted by the Parliament as they called it and so often imployed in seven Publick Messages and three solemn Treaties between the King and Parliament a serious temper and deep thoughts understanding Religion well he was reckoned the best Lay-Divine by his Polemical and Practical Discourses after the Kings death in England and practising it better Prayers Sermons and Sacraments being performed in no Family more solemnly than in his house private preparations before the monethly Communion used no where more seriously than that of all that belonged to his noble retinue in his Closet his stipends to the poor Clergy and Gentry in the late times were constant and great near upon besides what he sent beyond Sea 1000 l. a year his charity to the Poor of each place where he had either his residence or estate Weekly Monethly Quarterly and Yearly above 500 l. a year among those few Ministers reduced into distress by the late fire he bestowed besides particular largesses and a resolution to take them if unprovided to any Preferments that should fall in his Gift an 100 Pieces in Gold giving always his Livings to the choicest men recommended to him by the Fathers of the Church whose judgements he much relied upon in those Cases in the Kingdom he reckoned it certainly a more blessed thing to give than receive when besides his great Hospitality during his life and his manifold and large Benefactions at his death he gave away so much for publick good and as I am told received not one farthing all the while either as Lord Treasurer or Privy Counsellor for his own private advantage He was one of the Honorable Lords who offered his life to save his Majesty pleading that he had been the Instrument of his Government and hazzarded it to bury him His Composition was 3466l in Money and 250 l. a year in Land taken from him and his losses in the War 54000 l. Sir Walter VVrotsley not VVriothsley of VVrotsley Stafford 1332 l. 10 â— with 15 l. per annum Land taken from him Sir Frederick Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold Comptroller and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty whose old Servant he had been and his Fathers and Uncles before him at his Restauration and made Baron Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk at his Majesties Coronation The Temple of Honor being of right open to him in time of Peace who had so often hazzarded himself in the Temple of Vertue in the time of War particularly at Copredy-bridge where the Lord Willmot twice Prisoner was rescued once by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and the next time by Sir R. Howard Sir F. being as the last Pope said of this a Man of so chearful a spirit that no sorrow came near his heart and of so resolved a mind that no fear came into his thoughts so perfect a Master of Courtly and becoming Raillery that he could do more with one word in Jest than others could do with whole Harangues in Earnest a well-spoken man competently seen in modern Languages of a comely and goodly Personage died suddainly of an Apoplectical fit Ian. 7. 1661. Pope Innocent being in discourse about the best kind of death declared himself for suddain death suddain not as unexpected that we are to pray against but suddain as unfelt that he wished for To him I may adde Sir Will. Throgmorton Knight Marshall to his Majesty who died 166â— A Gentleman of an Ancient Family to whom a great spirit was as Hereditary as a great Estate who did much service to his Majesty in England and was able to do more to him and his Friends in Holland where he was formerly a Souldier and then an Inhabitant worth is ever at home and carryâ—th its welcome with it wherever it goeth who had lost his life sooner with a Bullet got into his body had not he done as they say Mr. Farnaby the Grammarian did who coming over from the Dutch Camp poor and wounded at Billingsgate met with a poor Butterwoman of whom he bought as
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl
their name g Observe all the practices and commotions they talk of as of late raised for the King were but the endeavours of those very men that first employed the Army against the King to rescue the King and themselves from the power of that Army and whereas these wretches say the Parliament Order the Kings Tryal it was the Parliament that encouraged all those tumults and commotions 47 48. to deliver the King from that Tryal a By Dendy the Kings own Serjeant at Arms Son b Not being permitted to breakfast being reviled all the way by P. and â—thers that rid by him the King being put upon a loan 〈◊〉 Iade a He was born so b He was a free Monarch c What his design and theirs were the world hath lately seen d He dâ—ed because he would not allow an Arbitrary Power and they killed him by an Arbitrary Power e He levied war to defend a King and they to murder one f Have dare they take away his life for levying war in his own defence against the Seditious part of the Parliament and 〈◊〉 Army of Rebels when these the Parliaments sworn servants lay violent handâ— on the whole Parliament to take away his life He would have punished two or three rebellious Parliament-men they turn out the whole House he fought the traiterous Army they senâ— against him these Members of that Army turn out those they fought under he must be a Traytor against the Parliament and yet within a fortnight before they set on his assassinatioâ— they break trouble and abuse that Parliament as if it were Treason to be against the Parliament when they were against the King but no Treason to be against them when now they were for him a With the danger of her life b Pointing at Col. Cobbet that brought him from the Isle of Wight where he said be Treated with many honorable Lords Gentlemen and is this the end of the Treaty c Both parts of the impudent Assertion equally â—rue 1. That he was now Iudged by the People and that he was at first chosen by them a On Sunday whâ—n its against all Canons to faâ—t none ever doing so but these and the Scots Prestiâ—â—s who would needs Proclaim a Fast that day because the King designed to Feast the Embassador of Denmark b As they had Voted it Ordering c That ordered that none should make any disturbance on pain of death d C. Downs that thought it fit the King should be heaâ—d by the Lords and Commons a Wherein â—e was earnest not for his own concerns but for those of the kingdom b Though he offered much â—o say for the peace of the kingdom which if the meanest man had offered he should have been heard c This was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Commons of England in Parliament appointed them a Court whereas they neither did iâ— nor â—â—uld do it a All dâ—claring for a Peâ—sonal Tâ—â—aty a Secluding 140. Members b Imprisoning the Chief Citizens â—iding triumphâ—nâ—y through the streets of London and seizing the Tower c. c On shipboard in Summer timeâ— others sold slaves d Suffering nasty Confinements and ignominous Tortures The method leading to the Kings death a C. Downs disturbed the their proceedings declaring that what the King offered should be heard b Declaring that it was contrary to the known Laws and Customs of England that the King should be brought to Tryal a I. B. Dr. P. Character of him b Dr. D formerly History Professor of Cambridge set there by F. Brookes where reading in the stift lines of Tacitus he discovered so much of a popular spirit that he was complaiâ—ed of about his dâ—scourses of 〈◊〉 three sorts of government a Set on by the Instructors of their villaâ—ny Hereabouts he was stopped being not permitted to speak any more of Reasons a Telling them that it was not a slight thing that they were about a A motion so reasonable that Colonel Downs could not but presse them to hearken to it so far that they had adjourned not to consider what the King had offered but to check Col. D. into a compliance b They utterly refused his Queen that liberty a After the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man replied that it was not 〈◊〉 but the Churches choice for the dâ—y Whereat his majesty was much comforted b Meaning Col. Thomiâ—son a Strafford b Pointing to Dr. Juxon c Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote d Meaning if he did blunt the edge a Pointing to Dr. Juxon b It is thought to give it to the Prince a They had provided I 〈◊〉 Gâ—appâ—es to pull him down b They sold Chips of the Block and Sands discoâ—â—red with his bloud c Others Proclaimed his Son in the face of his Fathers murtherers a Impâ—isoâ—ing the Bishop of London and searching Pocketâ—s and Cloaths b See M. Iconoclastes a Though they were seign to carry it aâ— fit had been discovered by chance by walking on the hollow part of it b The place exactly answering the designation of his 〈◊〉 in last Will and Testament and lying under an Herse that lay there all Q Elizabeths reign besides that no Subject had newer been buried in that Qâ—ire 1 〈…〉 a at London House 2 The 〈◊〉 it raised him All these passages are transcribed out of his Graces own Diurnal His good works doue a With new Priviledge as large as those in Cambridg since 11. the eighth hâ—s time b Wherein be did intend to hang as great and as tuneable a Ring of Bells as any are in the world a Only the irregular marrying of W. E D. E. M Dec. 26. 1605. St. Stephens day b Printed at Oxford 1666 His sufferings Dr. P. life K. Charles § The crimes laid to his Charge and reasons of his sufferings a And Homil p. 64 65. and Teâ—tul de Oâ—ig errot c. 2. 17. Statuse 3 lid 6. 10. b As ancient at Constancines time sec Polyd Virg. de Invent. ceruâ—â— l. 6. 2. Durand Ration c. a And the Preces privatae in Queen Elizâ—b time b And it was pretly thâ—â— swere 〈◊〉 was offended much the new Crucifix whereas he 〈◊〉 no notice of the old crucifix that wathere many years before See Antiq. Bâ—ic p. 33. 102. c One swore against him that a man bowed to the Virgin Maries Pictures over St. Maries door in Oxon. a Exod. 40 9 10 11. 1 Kings 8. 1 Chron 5 6 â—â— Chron 34. 8 Ezra 6 15 16 17. b Euseb. Eccles. Hist. 10. 3 de vita Coudant â— 4. 40. vid. Câ—â—â—it de Coâ—sect Eccles. Inst. ti cod l. ◠〈◊〉 5. de Sacro saâ—ctâ—â— Ecclesus c Doctor Bound Bradâ—um and Thâ— ashâ— then 〈◊〉 Iewish opâ—â—â—â—s d Iâ—stiâ— l. 2. c. 8. §. 34. e V d. Arâ—â—ii problemata de Encaeniis Grat de Conserev dist 1. f For which trey searched the 〈◊〉 book b Some his
affrighted by it It being very observable that a learned Doctor of Physick present at the Opening and Embalming of this Lord and the Duke Hamilton delivered at a publick Lecture That the Lord Capel 's was the least heart and the Duke the greatest that ever he saw agreeable to the observation in Philosophy that the spirits contracted within the least compass are the cause of the greatest courage Three things are considerable in this incomparable person 1. His un-interrupted Loyalty keeping pace with his life for his last breath was spent in proclaiming King Charles the Second in the very face of his enemies as known to him to be Virtuous Noble Gentle Just and a great Prince A perfect Englishman in his Inclination 2. His great merit and modesty whereof King Charles the First writes thus to his Excellent Queen There is one that doth not yet pretend that deserves as well as any I mean Capel Therefore I desire Thy assistance to finde out something for him before he ask 3. The blessing of God upon his Noble but Suffering Family who was a Husband to his excellent Widow and a Father to his hopeful Children whom not so much their Birth Beauty and Portion though they were eminent for these as their Virtues Married to the best Blood and Estates in the Land even when they and the Cause they suffered for were at the lowest It s the happiness of good men though themselves misâ—rable that their Seed shall be Mighty and their Generation Blessed A Religious man that used to say as his Tutor Dr. Pashe under whom he was bred at Clare-hall in Cambridge That when he had kept the Sabbath well he found the greater blessing upon all he did afterwards that was as good in all his private Relations as in his several publick Capacities especially in that of a husband of which state he saith That it doubled his joyes divided his grief and created new and unthought of contentments A sober Gentleman that loved not to hear a man talk a greater variety of things than he could rationally discourse and used only those Recreationâ— of which he could give a Philosophical account how they refâ—eâ—hed his minde or recovered his body so good natured that he would have all his Servants and Dependants his Friends none stricter in the Discipline of his Family none more obliging in the sweetness of his converse Who would say he observed that the disobedience of men to us was no other than the punishment of our disobedience to God The meekest man living that had the arâ— as well as the grace by yielding to pacifie wrath Of an happy mean and temperament between the too thin and open and the too close hating a troublesome nature as bad as an Infection A diserect person that would not suffer the infelicity of one of his Affairs to distemper him so as to loose all consideration to guide him in the rest that had always a friend to advise and an example to imitate retaining the decency of his own natural evenness saying That he was a wise-man that was able to make wise-men his instruments A good Father that expected so much blessing in the Education of his Children as he made prayers for them Possinâ—â—â—â—oâ— Lachrimarum Liberi perire A good Christian that set apart half an hour every day of his retirement to think of Eternity a good temper that would fairly guide and not directly contradict any manâ— little regarding applause knowing as he would say notably that the vulgar are easily tired with constant vertue and as easily taken with a started novelty and living not to various opinion or favor but conscience and wisdom one that hated the flatterer who would say struck him before and the lyâ—r that hit him behind both in sâ—nsibly both dangerously A Nobleman that resolved to be happy by two things 1. A moderate using of the present and 2. An indifferent expectation of what is to come and thought him a great Crafts-master that could shadow the opposition that businesses have one with another that esteemed that only his that he had Liberally or Charitably given that observed it was not expenceâ— but a carelesseness how and what we spend that ruineth an Estate that desired to gain respect not by little observances but by a constant fair carriage that entertained reports always with Quaeries and a temperate Belief that would say that every action of his that was unhappy precipitated and rash that made his afflictions tolerable by making his desires moderate that used to say that he scarce knew a man capable of a true friend That writes of the most exalted fortune that it hath little contentment without some popular good will and therefore he advised the greatest man to be careful how he gave a publick disgrace to the meanest person He would say that there are so many circumstances in the way to an Estate or Greatness that a peremptory man that went alone seldom attained either that no man is so unhappy as that he must lye to live and that there was a civil art to be free in courtesie loving in Society and heedful in observation This excellent Personage declaring openly in the House of Lords That the Kings Majesty had granted so much for the security and peace of the Kingdom that they who asked more intended the disturbance of it following his Majesty to York and with other Lords attesting the integrity of his Majesties Proceedings there in order to Peace and promising to assist him with his Life and Fortune against all other pretended Authority in case it came to a War notwithstanding a summons from Westminster to which he and others made a civil return and an impeachment of High-Treason for going from Westminster to York at the Kings Command whereof he took no notice settling his Estate in Sir Edward Capell and other Trustees who I finde compounded for 4706 l. 07s II d. Advanced his Majesty between eight and nine hundred Horse and 12000 l. in Money and Plate and if he had had the happyness of being imployed in his own Country the fatal error of that time as he was far off in the borders of Wales we had heard more of him however we finde him subscribing the Declarations of the Parliament at Oxford 1643. and the Messages for Peace from the Army in the field attending his present Majesty to cornwall where he was hurt in two or three several Engagements once venturing himself very far to save the Foot managing the Correspondence between him and the Members at Westminster in order to an accommodation with great Caution against their subtile design who would divide the Princes Interest and his Fathers following him to Scilly Iersey and the Fleet then falling to him whence he betakes himself home to form the design 1647 1648. that was then brewing in the three Kingdoms for the safety and liberty of the Kings Majesty offering among others this consideration to a very eminent