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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52673	Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorits written by Sir Robert Naunton ...	Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635.	1641 (1641)	Wing N250; ESTC R12246	37,238	44

the violences of nature but especially of the exorbitances of the tongue and so I conclude him with this double observation the one of the innocency of his intentions exempt and clear from the guilt of Treason and disloyalty the other of the greatnesse of his heart for at his arraignment he was so little dejected by what might be alleaged and proved against him that he rather grew troubled with choller and in a kinde of exaspiration despised his Iury though of the order of Knighthood and of the speciall Gentry claiming the priviledge of tryall by the Peers and Barronage of the Realm so prevalent was that of his native genious and the haughtinesse of his spirit which accompanied him to his last and till any diminution of courage it brake in peeces the cords of his magnanimity for he dyed suddenly in the Tower and when it was thought the Queen did intend his inlargement with the restitution of his possessions which were then very great and comparable to most of the Nobility Hattor SIR Chrystopher Hatton came into the Court as his opposite Sir Iohn Perrot was wont to say by the Galliard for he came thither as a private Gentleman of the Innes of Court in a Mask and for his activity and person which was tall and proportionable taken into her 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 subtill 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 finde not that the Sunshine of her favour broke out upon him untill she took him into the Ship and made him high Admirall of England for his extract it may suffice that he was the sonne of a Howard and of a Duke of Norfolk And for his person as goodly a Gentleman as the times had any if nature had not been more intentive to compleat his person then Fortune to make him rich for the times considered which were then active and a long time after lucrative he dyed not wealthy yet the honester man though it seems the Queens purpose was to tender the occasion of his advancement and to make him capable of more honour which at his return from Cadize accounts she conferred it upon him creating him Earl of Nottingham to the great discontent of his Colleague my Lord of Essex who then grew accessive in the Appetite of her favour and the truth was so exorbitant in the limitation of the Soveraigne aspect that it much alienated the Queens grace from him and drew others together with the Admirall to a combination and to conspire his ruine and though I have heard it from that party I mean of the Admiralls 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 gin but I leave this to these of an other age It is out of doubt that the Admirall was a good honest and a brave man and a faithfull servant to his Mistris and such a one as the Queen out of her own Princely judgement 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 afore mentioned and 88. doth both expresse his worth and manifest the Queens trust and the opinion she had of his fidelity and conduct Moreover the Howards were of the Queens alliance and consanguinity by her mother which swayed her affection and bent it toward this great house and it was a part of her naturall 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 trespasse of incroachment but in the first it was taken for a ryot 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 Dukes great Father in Law Fitz Allen Earl of Arundell 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 Iohn Packington SIR Iohn Packington was a Gentleman of no mean family and of form and feature no way dispiseable for he was a brave Gentleman and a very fine Courtier and for the time which he stayed there which was not lasting very high in her grace but he came in and went out and thorough 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 lesse to the Court then he did he might have carried away more then he brought for he had a time on it but an ill husband of opportunity Lord Hunsdon MY Lord of Hunsdon was of the Queens neerest Kindred and on the decease of Sussex both he and his sonne took the place of Lord Chamberlain he was a fast man to his Prince and firm in his friends and servants and though he might speak big and therein would be born out yet was he not the more dreadfull but lesse harmfull and farre from the practise of my Lord of Leicesters instructions for he was down right and I have heard those that both knew him well and had interest in him say merrily of him that his Latine and his dissimulation were both alike and that his custome of swearing and obscenity in speaking made him seem a worse Christian then he was and a better Knight of the Carpet then 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 Gentleman 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 Queens person both in the Court and in the Camp at Tilbury Rawleigh SIR Walter Rawleigh was on that it seems fortune had pickt out of

Souldiery vvhich all flockt unto him as foretelling a mortality and are commonly of blunt and too rough Counsells and many times dissonant from the time of the Court and the State the other sort vvere of his family his servants and his ovvn creatures such as vvere 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 runne on ground with those empty Sailes of Fame and Tumor of popular applause me thinks one honest man or other that had but the office of brushing his cloaths might have whispered in his ear my Lord look to it this multitude that followes you will either devoure you or undo 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 Lords milk and insteed of withdrawing they blew the Coals of his ambition and infused into him too much of the Spirit of glory yea and mixed the goodnesse 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 of insufferable natures about him that towar is his last gave desperate advice such as his integrity abhorred and his fidelity forbad amongst whom Sir Henry ●ott●n notes without injury his Secretary Cuffe a vileman and of a perverse nature I could also name others that when he was in the right course of recovery and settling to moderation would not suffer a recesse in him but stirred up the dregs of those rude humors which by time and his affliction out of his own judgement 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 childe of his great Mistris favour but the sonne of Bellona Buckhurst MY Lord of Buckhurst was of the noble House of the Sackvills and of the Queens consanguinity his Father was Sir Richard Sackvill or as the people then called him Fill-sack by reason of his great wealth and the vast Patrimony which he left to this his sonne 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 indowments both of art and nature both without measure magnificient till on the turn of his humour and the allay that his yeers and good Councells 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 juditious and indulgent Prince when she saw the man grow stayed and settled give him her assistance and advanced him to the Treasureship where he made amends to his house for his mispent time both in the increasment 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 childe 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 Scholler and a person of a quick dispatch faculties that yet runne in the bloud and they say of him that his Secretaries did little for him by the way of inditement wherein they could seldome please him he was so facet and choice in his phrase and style and for his dispatches and the content he gave to Suitors he had a decorum seldome since put in practise for he had of his attendants that took into rowl the names of all Suitors with the date of their first adresses 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 affaires of State I finde not that he was any wayes insnared in the factions of the Court which were all his times strong and in every mans note the Howards and the ●●cills of 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 yeer made then 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 proofes of his sufficiency and it hath been thought that she might have more cunning instruments but none of a more strong judgement and confidence in his wayes which are symptomes of magnanimity and fidelity whereunto methinks this Motto hath some kinde of reference aut nunq iam tentes aut perfice As though he would have charactered in a word the Genius of his House or exprest somewhat of an higher inclination then lay within his compasse That he was a Courtier is apparent for he stood alwayes in her eye and favour Lord Mountjoy MY Lord Mountioy was of the ancient Nobility but utterly deceived in the support thereof Patrimony through his Grandfathers excesse in the action of Bullen his Fathers vanity in the search of the Philosophers stone and his Brothers 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 tho Inner-Temple in his way to Court whither no sooner came but without asking he had a pretty strange kinde 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 yeers 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 kinde of an affected frown asked the Lady Car●er what he was she answered she knew him not insomuch as an inquiry 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 Mountioy this inquisition with the eye of Majesty fixed upon him as she was wont to do and to dant 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 kisse incouraging him with gratious 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