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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

my Lord of Leicester who had married his Mother a tie of affinity which besides a more urgent obligation might have invited his care to advance him his Fortune being then and through his Fathers infelicity grown low But that the son of a Lord Ferrers of Chartley Viscount Hartford and Earl of Essex who was of the ancient Nobility and formerly in the Queen 's good grace could not have room in her favour without the assistance of Leicester was beyond the rule of her nature which as I have elsewhere taken into observation was ever inclinable to favour the Nobility Sure it is That he no sooner appeared in Court but he took with the Queen and Courtiers and I believe they all could not choose but look through the Sacrifice of the Father on his living Son whose image by the remembrance of former passages was afresh like the bleeding of men murdered represented to the Court and offered up as a subject of compassion to all the Kingdom There was in this young Lord together with a most goodly Person a kind of urbanity or innate courtesie which both won the Queen and too much took upon the people to gaze upon the new adopted Son of her favour And as I go along it were not amiss to take into observation two notable quotations The first was a violent indulgency of the Queen which is incident to old age where it encounters with a pleasing and suitable object towards this Lord all which argued a non-perpetuity The second was a fault in the Object of her grace my Lord himself who drew in too fast like a child sucking an over uberous Nurse and had there been a more decent decorum observed in both or either of those without doubt the unity of their affections had been more permanent and not so in and out as they were like an Instrument ill tuned and lapsing to discord The greater errour of the two though unwillingly I am constrained to impose on my Lord of Essex or rather on his youth and none of the least of his blame on those that stood Sentinels about him who might have advised him better but that like men intoxicated with hopes they likewise had suckt in with the most and of their Lords receipt and so like Caesar's would have all or none A rule quite contrary to nature and the most indulgent Parents who though they may express more affection to one in the abundance of bequests yet cannot forget some Legacies just distributives and divide●ds to others of their begetting And how hateful partiality proves every days experience tells us out of which common consideration might have framed to their hands a maxim of more discretion for the conduct and management of their now graced Lord and Master But to omit that of Infusion and to doe right to truth My Lord of Essex even of those that truly loved and honoured him was noted for too bold an Ingrosser both of fame and favour And of this without offence to the living or treading on the Sacred Urne of the Dead I shall present a Truth and a passage yet in memory My Lord Mounjoy who was another Child of her favour being newly come to Court and then but Sir Charles Blunt for my Lord William his elder brother was then living had the good fortune one day to run very well a Tilt and the Queen therewith was so well pleased that she sent him in Token of her Favour a Queen at Chesse of Gold Richly Enamelled which his Servants had the next day fastned on his Arme with a Crimson Ribband which my Lord of Essex as he passed through the Privy Chamber espying with his Cloak cast under his Arme the better to commend it to the view enquired what it was and for what cause there fixed Sir Foulk Grevil told him That it was the Queen's Favour which the day before and after the Tilting she had sent him whereat my Lord of Essex in a kind of Emulation and as though he would have limitted her Favour said Now I perceive every Fool must have a Favour This bitter and Publick Affront came to Sir Charles Blunt's eare who sent him a Challenge which was accepted by my Lord and they met near Mary-bone-Park where my Lord was hurt in the Thigh and Disarmed the Queen missing the Men was very curious to learn the truth and when at last it was whispered out she Swore by God's Death it was fit that some one or other should take him down and teach him better Manners otherwise there would be no rule with him And here I note the inition of my Lord's Friendship with Mountjoy which the Queen her self did conjure Now for fame we need not goe far for my Lord of Essex having born a grudge to General Norris who had unwittingly offered to unpertake the Action of Britain with fewer men than my Lord had before demaned on his return with Victory and a glorious report of his valour he was then thought the onely man for the Irish War wherein my Lord of Essex so wrought by despising the number and quality of Rebels that Norris was sent over with a scanted force joyned with the relicks of the veterance Troops of Britain of set purpose as it fell out to ruine Norris and the Lord Burrowes by my Lord's procurement sent at his heels and to command in chief and to confine Norris only to his Goverment at Munster which brake the great heart of the General to see himself undervalued and underminded by my Lord and Burrowes which was as the Proverb speaks it Imberbes docere senes My Lord Burrowes in the beginning of his prosecution died whereupon the Queen was fully bent to have sent over Mountjoy which my Lord of Essex utterly disliked and opposed with many reasons and by arguments of contempt against Mountjoy his then professed friend and familiar so predominant were his words to reap the honour of closing up that War and all other Now the way being opened and plained by his own workmanship and so handled that none durst appear to stand for the place at last with much adoe he obtained his own ends and with all his fatal destruction leaving the Queen and the Court where he stood firm and impregnable in her grace to men that long had sought and watcht their times to give him the trip and could never find any opportunity but this of his absence and of his own Creation And these are the true observations of his appetite and inclinations which were not of any true proportion but carried and transported with an over-desire and thirstiness after fame and that deceitfull fame of popularity And to help on his Catastrophe I observe likewise two sorts of people that had a hand in his fall the first was the Souldiery which all flockt unto him as foretelling a mortality and are commonly of blunt and too rough Counsels and many times dissonant from the time of the Court and the State The other sort were of his

my Lord of Leicester and Burleigh out of France containing many fine passages and secrets yet if I might have been beholding to his Cyphers whereof they are full they would have told Pretty Tales of the times But I must now close up and rank him amongst the Togati yet chief of those that laid the foundation of the Dutch and French Wars which was another piece of his fineness and of the times with one observation more That he was one of the Great Allies of the Austrian Embracements For both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to the Fiend in the Gospel that sowed his tares in the night so did they their seeds of division in the dark And it is a likely report that they father on him at his return That he said unto the Queen with some sensibility of the Spanish designs on France Madam 〈◊〉 beseech you be content not to fear The Spaniard hath a great Appetite and an Excellent Digestion but I have fitted him with a bone for this Twenty years that your Majesty shall have no cause to doubt him provided that if the fire chance to slack which I have kindled you will be ruled by me and now and then cast in some English fewel which will revive the flame Willoughby MY Lord Willoughby was one of the Queen's first Sword-men He was of the Ancient Extract of the Bartues but more ennobled by his Mother who was Dutchess of Suffolk He was a great Master of the Art Military and was sent General into France and commanded the Second of Five Armies that the Queen sent thither in aid of the French I have heard it spoken that had he not slighted the Court but Applyed himself to the Queen he might have enjoyed a plentiful portion of her Grace And it was his saying and it did him no good That he was none of the Reptilia intimating that he could not creep on the ground and that the Court was not in his Element for indeed as he was a Great Souldier so was he of a Suitable Magnanimity and could not brook the Obsequiousness and Assiduity of the Court and as he then was somewhat descending from youth happily he had an animam revertendi and to make a safe Retreat Sir Nicholas Bacon I Come to another of the Togati Sir Nicholas Bacon An arch-piece of Wit and Wisdom He was a Gentleman and a man of Law and of great knowledge therein whereby together with his other parts of Learning and Dexterity he was promoted to be Keeper of the Great Seal and being of kin to the Treasurer Burleigh had also the help of his hand to bring him into the Queen's favour for he was abundantly factious which took much with the Queen when it was suited with the season as he was well able to judge of his times He had a very quaint saying and he used it often to good purpose That he loved the jest well but not the loss of his Friend He would say That though he knew Vnusquisque suae fortunae faber was a true and good principle yet the most in number were those that marred themselves But I will never forgive that man that loseth himself to be rid of his jest He was Father to that Refined Wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the publick stage and of late sat in his Father's room as Lord Chancellour Those that lived in his age and from whence I have taken this little Model of him gives him a lively Character and they decypher him for another Solon and the Synon of those times such a one as Oedipus was in dissolving of Riddles Doubtless he was as able an Instrument and it was his commendation that his head was the Mawl for it was a great one and therein he kept the Wedge that entred the knotty pieces that came to the Table And now I must again fall back to smooth and plain a way to the rest that is behind but not from the purpose There were about these times two Rivals in the Queen's favour Old Sir Francis Knowls Comptroller of the House and Sir Henry Norris whom she called up at a Parliament to sit with the Peers in the higher House as Lord Norris of Ricot who had married the daughter and heir of the old Lord Williams of Tame a Noble person and to whom in the Queen's adversity she had been committed to safe custody and from him had received more than ordinary observances Now such was the goodness of the Queen's Nature that she neither forgot good turns received from the Lord Williams neither was she unmindfull of this Lord Norris whose Father in her Father's time and in the business of her Mother died in a Noble cause and in the justification of her innocency Lord Norris MY Lord Norris had by this Lady an ample Issue which the Queen highly respected for he had Six Sons and all Martial brave men The first was William his eldest and Father to the late Earl of Berkshire Sir John vulgarly called General Norris Sir Edward Sir Thomas Sir Henry and Maximilian Men of an haughty courage and of great experience in the conduct of Military affairs And to speak in the Character of their merit they were persons of such renown and worth as future times must out of duty owe them the debt of an honourable memory Knowls SIr Francis Knowls was somewhat of the Queen's affinity and had likwise no incompetent Issue for he had also William his eldest and since Earl of Banbury Sir Thomas Sir Robert and Sir Francis if I be not a little mistaken in their names and martialling and there was also the Lady Lettice a Sister of these who was first Countess of Essex and after of Leicester And these were also brave men in their times and places but they were of the Court and Carpet not led by the genius of the Camp Between these two Families there was as it falleth out amongst Great ones and Competitors for favour no great correspondency and there were some seeds either of emulation or distrust cast between them which had they not been disjoyned in the residence of their persons as it was the fortune of their imployments the one side attending the Court the other the Pavilion surely they would have broken out into some kind of hostility or at least they would have wrestled one in the other like Trees incircled with Ivy For there was a time when both these Fraternities being met at Court there passed a challenge between them at certain exercises the Queen and the old men being spectators which ended in a flat quarrel amongst them all And I am perswaded though I ought not to judge that there were some reliques of this feud that were long after the causes of the one Families almost utter extirpation and of the others improsperity For it was a known truth that so long as my Lord of Leicester lived who was the main pillar of the one side as

new Farmers So that we may take this also into observation that there were of the Queen's Council that were not in the Catalogue of Saints Now as we have taken a view of some particular Notions of her Times her Nature and Necessities It is not beside the text to give a short Touch on the Helps and Advantages of her Reign which were without Parallel for she had neither Husband Brother Sister nor Children to Provide for who as they are Dependants of the Crown so doe they Necessarily draw maintenance from thence and do oftentimes Exhaust and Draw deep especially when there is an ample fraternity of the bloud Royal and of the Princes of the Bloud as it was in the time of Edward the third and Henry the fourth for when the Crown cannot the Publick ought to give them Honourable Allowance for they are the Honour and Hopes of the Kingdom and the Publick which enjoys them hath a like interest in them with the Father that begot them and our Common-Law which is the Inheritance of the Kingdom did ever of old provide aids for the Primogenitures and the eldest Daughter So that the multiplicy of Courts and the Great Charge which necessarily follow a King and Queen a Prince and the Royal Issue was a thing which was not in rerum natura during the space of forty years and which by time was worn out of memory and without the consideration of the present times Insomuch that the aids given to the late and right noble Prince Henry and to his Sister the Lady Elizabeth were at first generally received for impositions of a new Coynage Yea the late impositions for Knighthood though an ancient Law fell also into the imputation of a Tax of novelty for that it lay long covered in the embers of division between the Houses of York and Lancaster and forgotten or connived at by the succeeding Princes So that the strangeness of the observation and difference of those later reigns is that the Queen took up beyond the power of the Law which fell not into the murmur of the people and her successors nothing but by warrant of the Law which nevertheless was conceived through disuse to be Injurious to the Liberty of the Kingdom Now before I come to any further mention of her Favourites for hitherto I have delivered but some Obvious Passages thereby to prepare and smooth a way for the rest that follows it is requisite that I Touch on the Relicks of the other Reign I mean the Body of her Sisters Council of State which she Retained intire neither Removing nor Discontenting any although she knew them averse to her Religion and in her Sisters time Perverse towards her Person and privy to her Troubles and Imprisonment A prudence which was incomparible with her Sisters nature for she both dissipated and Persecuted the major part of her Brother's Council But this will be of certainty that how Compliable soever and Obsequious she found them yet for a good space she made little use of their Counsels more than in the Ordinary course of the Board for she held a Dormant Table in her own Princely Breast yet she kept them together and their Places without any sudden Change so that we may say of them That they were of the Court not of the Council For whilest she Amused them with a kind of Promissive Disputation concerning the Points Controverted by both Churches she did set down her own Reservations without their Privity and made all her Progressions Gradations But so that the Tenents of her secrecy with intent of her establishment were Pitcht before it was known where the Court would sit down Neither do I find that any of her Sisters Council of State were either Repugnant to her Religion or Opposed her doings Englefield Master of the Horse excepted who withdrew himself from the Board and shortly after from out her Dominions so Plyable and Obedient they were to Change with the Times and their Princes And of this there will fall in here a Relation both of Recreation and of known Truth Paulet Marquess of Winchester and Lord Treasurer having served then four Princes in as Various and Changeable seasons that I may well say time nor any age hath yielded the like precedent This Man being noted to grow High in her Favour as his Place and Experience required was questioned by an Intimate friend of his how he stood up for Thirty years together amidst the Changes and Reigns of so many Chancellors and Great Personages Why quoth the Marquess Ortus sum ex salice non ex quercu I was made of the plyable Willow not of the stubborn Oak And truly the Old Man hath Taught them all especially William Earl of Pembroke for they two were ever of the King's Religion and over-zealous professors Of these it is said that being both younger Brothers yet of Noble Houses they spent what was left them and came on trust to the Court where upon the bare stock of their Wits they began to Traffick for themselves and prospered so well that they Got Spent and Left more than any Subjects from the Norman Conquest to their own Times whereunto it hath been prettily replyed that they lived in a Time of Dissolution To conclude then of any of the former reign it is said that these two lived and dyed chiefly in her favour The latter upon his son's marriage with the Lady Katharine Grey was like utterly to have lost himself But at the Instant of the consummation Apprehending the insafety and danger of an inter-marriage with the Bloud-Royal he fell at the Queen's feet where he both Acknowledged his Presumption with tears and projected the Cause and the Divorce together and so quick he was at his work for it stood him upon that upon Repudiation of the Lady he clapt up a marriage for his Son the Lord Herbert with Mary Sidney daughter to Sir Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy of Ireland the blow falling on Edward late Earl of Hereford who to his cost took up the Divorced Lady of whom the Lord Beauchamp was born and William Earl of Hereford is descended I come now to present Those of her own Election which she either admitted to her secrets of State or took into her Grace and Favour of whom in their order I crave leave to give unto posterity a cautious description with a short Character or Draught of the persons themselves For without offence to others I would be true to my self their memories and merits distinguishing them of the Militia from the Togati and of these she had as many and those as able Ministers as any of her Progenitors Leicester IT will be out of doubt that my Lord of Leicester was one of the first whom she made Master of the Horse he was the youngest Son then living of the Duke of Northumberland beheaded primo Mariae and his Father was that Dudley which our Histories couple with Epson and both so much Infamed for the Caterpillars of

of the innocency of his intentions exempt and clear from the guilt of treason and disloyalty The other of the greatness of his heart For at his arraignment he was so little dejected by what might be alledged and proved against him that he rather grew troubled with choler and in a kind of exasperation despised his Jury though of the Order of Knighthood and of the special Gentry claiming the privilege of trial by the Peers and Baronage of the Realm so prevalent was that of his native Genius and the hautiness of his spirit which accompanied him to his last and till without any diminution of courage it brake in pieces the cords of his magnanimity for he died suddenly in the Tower and when it was thought the Queen did intend his enlargment with the restitution of his possessions which were then very great and comparable to most of the Nobility Hatton SIR Christopher Hatton came into the Court as his opposite Sir John Perrot was wont to say by the Galliard for he came thither as a private Gentleman of the Inns of Court in a Mask and for his activity and Person which was tall and proportionable taken into Favour he was first made Vice-Chamberlain and shortly afterward advanced to the place of Lord Chancellor a Gentleman that besides the graces of his Person and Dancing had also the adjectaments of a strong and subtil capacity one that could soon learn the discipline and garb both of the times and Court the truth is he had a large proportion of gifts and endowments but too much of the season of Envy and he was a meer vegetable of the Court that sprung up at night and sunk again at his noon Lord Effingham MY Lord of Effingham though a Courtier betimes yet I find not that the Sun-shine of her Favour broke out upon him until she took him into the Ship and made him High-Admiral of England For his extract it may suffice that he was the Son of a Howard and of a Duke of Norfolk And as for his Person as goodly a Gentleman as the Times had any if Nature had not been more intentive to compleat his Person than Fortune to make him rich For the times considered which were then active and a long time after lucrative he died not wealthy yet the honester man though it seems the Queen's purpose was to tender the occasion of his advancement and to make him capable of more Honour which at his return from Cardize-Accounts she conferred on him creating him Earl of Nottingham to the great discontent of his Colleague my Lord of Essex who then grew excessive in the appetite of her favour and in truth was so exorbitant in the limitation of the Soveraign aspect that it much alienated the Queen's grace from him and drew others together with the Admiral to a combination and to conspire his ruine And though I have heard it from that party I mean of the Admirals faction that it lay not in his proper power to hurt my Lord of Essex yet he had more Followers and such as were well skilled in setting of the Gyn. But I leave this to those of another Age. It is out of doubt that the Admiral was a good honest and a brave Man and a faithful servant to his Mistriss and such a one as the Queen out of her own Princely Judgment knew to be a fit Instrument for that service for she was no ill Proficient in the Reading of Men as well as Books and his sundry expeditions as that aforementioned and 88. doth both express his worth and manifest the Queen's Trust and the opinion she had of his Fidelity and Conduct Moreover the Howards were of the Queen's Alliance and Consanguinity by her Mother which swayed her Affection and bent it toward this Great House and it was a part of her Natural Propension to Grace and Support Ancient Nobility where it did not intrench neither invade her Interest for on such trespasses she was quick and tender and would not spare any whatsoever as we may observe in the case of the Duke and my Lord of Hereford whom she much favoured and countenanced till they attempted the Forbidden Fruit The fault of the last being in the severest interpretation but a trespass of incroachment But in the first it was taken for a Riot against the Crown and her own Soveraign power and as I have ever thought the cause of her aversion against the rest of the House and the Duke 's great Father-in-law Fitz Allen Earl of Arundel a person of the first rank in her affections before these and some other jealousies made a separation between them this Noble Lord and the Lord Thomas Howard since Earl of Suffolk standing alone in her Grace the rest in Umbrage Sir John Packington SIr John Packington was a Gentleman of no mean family and of form and feature no way despisable for he was a brave Gentleman and a very fine Courtier and for the time he stayed there which was not lasting very high in her grace but he came in and went out and through disassiduity drew the Curtain between himself and the light of her grace and then death overwhelmed the remnant and utterly deprived him of recovery And they say of him that had he brought less to the Court than he did he might have carried away more than he brought for he had a time on it but an ill husband of opportunity Lord Hunsdon MY Lord of Hunsdon was of the Queen's nearest Kindred and on the decease of Sussex both he and his Son took the place of Lord Chamberlain he was a fast Man to his Prince and firm to his Friends and Servants and though he might speak big and therein would be born out yet was he not the more dreadful but less harmful and far from the practice of my Lord of Leicester's Instructions for he was downright and I have heard those that both knew him well and had interest in him say merrily of him that his Latin and his Dissimulation were both alike and that his custom of Swearing and obscenity in Speaking made him seem a worse Christian than he was and a better Knight of the Carpet than he should be As he lived in a ruffling time so he loved Sword and Buckler Men and such as our Fathers were wont to call Men of their hands of which sort he had many brave Gentlemen that followed him yet not taken for a popular and dangerous Person And this is one that stood amongst the Togati of an honest stout heart and such a one as upon occasion would have fought for his Prince and his Country for he had the charge of the Queen's Person both in the Court and the Camp at Tilbury Raleigh SIR Walter Raleigh was one that it seems Fortune had pickt out of purpose of whom to make an Example or to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could doe for she tost him up of nothing and too and fro to Greatness

and from thence down to little more than to that wherein she found him a bare Gentleman Not that he was less for he was well-descended and of good alliance but poor in his beginnings and for my Lord of Oxford's Jest of him the Jack and an Upstart we all know it savours more of Emulation and his Humour than of Truth and it is a certain Note of the Times that the Queen in her Choice never took into her Favour a meer New Man or a Mechanick as Comines observes of Lewis the Eleventh of France who did serve himself with Persons of unknown Parents such as was Oliver the Barber whom he created Earl of Dunoyes and made him ex secretis consiliis and alone in his favour and familiarity His approaches to the University and Inns of Court were the grounds of his improvement but they were rather excursions than sieges or settings down for he stayed not long in a place and being the youngest Brother and the House diminished in Patrimony he foresaw his own destiny that he was first to rowl through want and disability to subsist otherways before he could come to a repose and as the Stone doth by long lying gather Moss He first exposed himself to the Land service of Ireland a Militia which then did not yield him food and rayment for it was ever very poor nor had he patience to stay there though shortly after he came thither again under the Command of my Lord Gray but with his own Colours flying in the field having in the interim cast a new chance both in the Low-Countries and in a Voyage to Sea and if ever Man drew Vertue out of Necessity it was he therewith was he the great example of Industry and though he might then have taken that of the Merchant to himself Per mare per terras currit mercator ad Indos He might also have said and truly with the Philosopher Omnia mea mecum porte for it was a long time before he could brag of more than he carried at his back and when he got on the winning side it was his commendations that he took pains for it and underwent many various adventures for his after-perfection and before he came into the publick note of the World And that it may appear how he came up Per ardua Per variot causus per tot discrimina rerum not pulled up by chance or by any gentle admittance of Fortune I will briefly describe his native parts and those of his own acquiring which was the hopes of his rising He had in the outward man a good presence in a handsome and well compacted person a strong natural wit and a better judgment with a bold and plausible tongue whereby he could set out his parts to the best advantage and to these he had the adjuncts of some generall Learning which by diligence he enforced to a great augmentation and perfection for he was an indefatigable Reader whether by Sea or Land and none of the least observers both of men and the times and I am confident that among the second causes of his growth that variance between him and my Lord Grey in his descent into Ireland was a principal for it drew them both over the Council Table there to plead ●heir cause where what advantage he had in the cause I know not but he had much better in the telling of his tale and so much that the Queen and the Lord 's took no slight mark of the man and his parts for from thence he came to be known and to have access to the Queen and the Lords and then we are not to doubt how such a man would comply and learn the way of progression And whether Leicester had then cast in a good word for him to the Queen which would have done no harm I do not determine But true it is He had gotten the Queen's ear at a trice and she began to be taken with his elocution and loved to hear his reasons to her demands and the truth is she took him for a kind of Oracle which netled them all yea those that he relied on began to take his sudden favour for an Alarm and to be sensible of their own supplantation and to project his which made him shortly after sing Fortune my foe c. So that finding his favour declining and falling into a recess he undertook a new peregrination to leave that Terra infirma of the Court for that of the Wars and by declining himself and by absence to expel his and the passion of his enemies which in Court was a strange device of ecovery but that he knew there was some ill office done him that he durst not attempt to mind any other ways than by going aside thereby to teach envy a new way of forgetfulness and not so much as to think of him howsoever he had it always in mind never to forget himself and his device took so well that at his return he came in as Rams do by going backward with the greater strength and so continued to her last great in her grace and Captain of the Guard where I must leave him but with this observation That though he gained much at the Court yet he took it not out of the Exchequer or meerly out of the Queen's purse but by his wit and the help of the Prerogative for the Queen was never profuse in the delivering out of her treasure but payed many and most of her servants part in money and the rest with grace which as the case stood was taken for good payment leaving the Arrear of recompence due to their merit to her great Successor who payed them all with advantage Grevil SIR Foulk Grevil since Lord Brook had no mean place in her favour neither did he hold it for any short term for if I be not deceived he had the longest lease and the smoothest time without rub of any of her Favourites He came to the Court in his youth and prime for that is the time or never He was a brave Gentleman and honourably descended from William Lord Brook and Admiral to Henry the seventh Neither illiterate for he was as he would often profess a friend to Sir Philip Sidney and there are of his now extant some fragments of his Poem and of those times which do interest him in the Muses and which shews the Queen's election had ever a noble conduct and its motions more of verture and judgment than of fancy I find that he neither sought for or obtained any great place or preferment in Court during all the time of his attendance neither did he need it for he came thither backt with a plentiful Fortune which as himself was wont to say was the better held together by a single life wherein he lived and dyed a constant Courtier of the Ladies Essex MY Lord of Essex as Sir Henry Wotton a Gentleman of great parts and parly of his time and retinue observes had is introduction by

family his servants and his own creatures such as were bound by the rules of safety and obligations of fidelity to have looked better to the steering of that Boat wherein they themselves were carried and not have suffered it to float and run on ground with those empty Sails of Fame and Tumour of popular applause Me thinks one honest man or other that had but the office of brushing his clothes might have whispered in his ear My Lord look to it this multitude that follows you will either devour you or undoe you strive not to rule and over rule all for it will cost hot water and it will procure envy and if needs your Genius must have it so let the Court and the Queens presence be your station But as I have said they had suckt too much of their Lord's milk and instead of withdrawing they blew the coals of his ambition and infused into him too much of the spirit of glory yea and mixed the goodness of his nature with a touch of revenge which is ever accompanied with a destiny of the same fate And of this number there were some insufferable Natures about him that towards his last gave desperate advice such as his integrity abhorred and his fidelity forbade Amongst whom Sir Henry Wotton notes without injury his Secretary Cuffe a vile man and of a perverse nature I could also name others that when he was in the right course of recovery and setling to moderation would not suffer a recess in him but stirred up the dregs of those rude humours which by time and his affliction out of his own judgment he sought to repose or to give them all a vomit And thus I conclude this Noble Lord as a mixture between prosperity and adversity once the Child of his great Mistresses favour but the Son of Bellona Buckhurst MY Lord of Buckhurst was of the Noble House of the Sackvils and of the Queens consanguinity his Father was Sir Richard Sackvil or as the people then called him Fill sack by reason of his gaeat wealth and the vast patrimony which he left to his Son whereof he spent in his youth the best part untill the Queen by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion He was a very fine Gentleman of person and endowments both of art and nature but without measure magnificent till on the turn of his humour and the allay that his years and good counsels had wrought upon those immoderate courses of his youth and that height of spirit inherent to his House And then did the Queen as a most judicious and indulgent Prince when she saw the man grow stayed and setled give him her assistance and advanced him to the Treasurship where he made amends to his House for his mis-spent time both in the increasement of Estate and Honour which the Queen conferred on him together with the opportunity to remake himself and thereby to shew that this was a Child that should have a share in her grace and a taste of her bounty They much commend his Elocution but more the excellency of his Pen for he was a Schollar and a person of a quick dispatch Faculties that yet run in the bloud And they say of him that his Secretaries did little for him by the way of Inditement wherein they could seldom please him he was so facete and choice in his Phrase and Stile And for his Dispatches and the content he gave to Suiters he had a Decorum seldom since put in practise for he had of his Attendants that took into Roll the names of all Suiters which the Date of their first Addresses and these in their Order had hearing so that a fresh man could not leap over his head that was of a more ancient edition except in the urgent affairs of State I find not that he was any ways inshared in the factions of the Court which were all his times strong and in every mans note The Howards and the Cecils on the one part My Lord of Essex c. on the other part For he held the staff of the Treasury fast in his hand which once in the year made them all beholding to him And the truth is as he was a wise man and a stout he had no reason to be a partaker for he stood sure in bloud and in grace and was wholly intentive to the Queens service and such were his abilities that she received assiduous proofs of his sufficiency and it hath been thought that she might have had more cunning instruments but none of a more strong judgment and confidence in his ways which are symptoms of magnanimity and fidelity whereunto me thinks this Motto hath some kind of reference Aut nunquam tentes aut perfice As though he would have charactered in a word the Genius of his House or exprest somewhat of an higher inclination than lay within his compass That he was a Courtier is apparent for he stood always in her eye and favour Lord Mountjoy MY Lord Mountjoy was of the ancient Nobility but utterly deceived in the support thereof Patrimony through his Grandfather's excess in the Action of Bullen his Father's vanity in the search of the Philosophers stone and his Brother 's untimely prodigalities all which seemed by a joynt conspiracy to ruine the House and altogether to annihilate it As he came from Oxford he took the Inner-Temple in his way to Court whither he no sooner came but without asking he had a pretty strange kind of admission which I have heard from a discreet man of his own and much more of the secrets of those times He was then much about twenty years of age of a brown hair a sweet face a most neat Composure and tall in his person The Queen was then at White-Hall and at dinner whither he came to see the fashion of the Court the Queen had soon found him out and with a kind of an affected frown asked the Lady-Carver What he was she answered She knew him not Insomuch as enquiry was made from one to another who he might be till at length it was told the Queen he was Brother to the Lord William Mountjoy This inquisition with the eye of Majesty fixed upon him as she was wont to doe and to daunt men she knew not stirred the bloud of this young Gentleman insomuch as his colour came and went which the Queen observing called him unto her and gave him her hand to kiss encouraging him with gravious words and new looks and so diverting her speech to the Lords and Ladies she said That she no sooner observed him but that she knew there was in him some Noble bloud with some other expressions of pitty towards his house And then again demanding his name she said Fail you not to come to the Court and I will bethink my self how to doe you good And this was his inlet and the beginnings of his grace Where it falls into consideration That though he wanted not Wit and Courage for

on his prosecution against the Rebels Sir Robert Cecil besides the general dispatch of the Council as he often did Wrote this in private for these two began then to Love dearly My Lord Out of the abundance of my affection and the care I have of your well-doing I must in private put you out of doubt for of fear I know you cannot be otherwise sensible than in the way of Honour that the Spaniard will not come unto you this year for I have it from my own what preparations are in all his parts and what he can doe for be confident he beareth up a reputation by seeming to embrace more than he can gripe but the next year be assured he will cast over unto you some forlorn hopes which how they may be reinforced beyond his present ability and his first intention I cannot as yet make any certain judgement but I believe out of my intelligence that you may expect their Landing in Munster and the more to distract you in several places as at King's-Saile Beer-haven Baltimore where you may be sure coming from Sea they will first fortifie and learn the strength of the Rebels before they dare take the field howsoever as I know you will not lessen not your care neither your defences l … and whatsoever lies within my power to doe you and the publick service rest thereof assured And to this I would add much more but it may as it is suffice to present much as to his abilities in the Pen that he was his Crafts-master in foreign intelligence And for domestique affairs as he was one of those that sate at the Stern to the last of the Queen so he was none of the least in skill and in the true use of the Compass And so I shall only vindicate the scandal of his death and conclude him For he departed at St. Margaret's neer Marleborough in his return from the Bath as my Lord Viscount Cranborn my Lord Clifford his Son and Son-in-law my self and many more can witness But that the day before he swounded in the way was taken out of the Litter and laid into his Coach was a truth out of which that falshood concerning the manner of his death had its derivation tho' nothing to the purpose or to the prejudice of his worth Vere SIR Francis Vere was of the ancient and of the most Noble extract of the Earls of Oxford And it may be a question whether the Nobility of his House or the Honour of his Atchievements might most commend him but that we have an authentick Rule to decide the doubt Nam genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco For though he were an Honourable Slip of that ancient Tree of Nobility which was no disadvantage to his vertue yet he brought more glory to the Name of Vere than he took of Bloud from the Family He was amongst the Queens Sword-men inferiour to none but superior to many Of whom it may be said To speak much of him were the way to leave out something that might add to his praise and to forget more that could add to his Honour I find not that he came much to the Court for he lived almost perpetually in the Camp but when he did no Man had more of the Queen's Favour and none less envyed for he seldom troubled it with the jealousie and alarms of supplantations his way was another sort of undermining They report that the Queen as she loved Martial Men would Court this Gentleman as soon as he appeared in her Presence And surely he was a Souldier of great worth and Commanded Thirty years in the Service of the States and Twenty years over the English in Chief as the Queen's General and he that had seen the Battel of Newport might there best have taken him and his Noble Brother my Lord of Tilbury to the Life Worcester MY Lord of Worcester I have here put last but not least in the Queen's Favour He was of the ancient and Noble Blood of the Bewfords and of her Grandfather's Line by the Mother which the Queen could never forget especially where there was a concurrency of old blood with fidelity a mixture which ever sorted with the Queen's Nature And though there might appear something in this House which might avert her Grace though not to speak of my Lord himself but with due reverence and Honour I mean contrariety or suspicion in Religion yet the Queen ever respected this House and principally this Noble Lord whom she first made Master of the Horse and then admitted of her Council of State In his youth part whereof he spent before he came to reside at Court he was a very fine Gentleman and the best Horseman and Tilter of the Times which were then the Manlike and Noble Recreations of the Court and such as took up the Applause of Men as well as the Praise and Commendadation of Ladies And when years had abated these Exercises of Honour he grew then to be a faithful and profound Counsellor And as I have placed him last so was he the last Liver of all the Servants of her Favour and had the honour to see his Renowned Mistriss and all of them laid in the places of their Rest And for himself after a Life of a very Noble and Remarkable Reputation he died Rich and in a Peaceable Old Age. A fate that I make the last and none of the slightest Observations which befel not many of the rest for they expired like unto Lights blown out with the Snuff stinking not commendably extinguished and with Offence to the standers by And thus have I delivered up this my poor Essay A little Draught of this great Princess and her Times with the Servants of her State and Favour I cannot say I have finished it for I know how defective and imperfect it is as limbed onely in the original nature not without the active blemishes and so left it as a task fitter for remote times and the sallies of some bolder Pencil to correct that which is amiss and draw the rest up to life As for me to have endeavoured it I took it to consideration how easily I might have dasht in too much of the strain of pollution and thereby have defaced that little which is done For I profess I have taken care so to master my Pen that I might not ex animo or of set-purpose discolour truth or any of the parts thereof otherwise than in concealment Happily there are some which will not approve of this modesty but will censure me for pusillanimity and with great cunning Artists attempt to draw their Line further out at large and upon this of mine which may with somewhat more ease be effected for that the frame is ready made to their hands and then happily I could draw one in the midst of theirs But that modesty in me forbids the defacements of Men departed whose Posterity yet remaining enjoys the merit of their