Gentleman of the Bed-chamber Master of the Wardrobe and invested with such Honours and Offices as he was capable of and that inabled him to live in a noble way during his life and to leave his Daughters great Fortunes but had you seene how the Lords did vye courtesies to this poore Gentleman striving who should ingrosse that Commodity by the largest bounty you could not but have condemned them of much basenesse especially seeing when at this time Offices and great places of Honour will not be accepted from that Sonne that the very Barber of whose Father was so much courted but to speake a good word in their behalfes Surely the times are much altered And now all preparation was made to meet the King in York that he might in that Northerne Metropolis appear like a King of England and take that State on him there which was not known in Scotland There met him all the Lords of the Councell and there did they all make Court to the Scotch-men that were most in favour with the King and there did the Scotch Courtiers lay the first foundation of their English Fortunes the chiefe of them was Sir George Hewme a kinde of Favourite but not such as after appeared with young Faces and smooth Chins but one that for his wisdome and gravity had beene in some secret Councels with his Master which created that dearnesse between them and the chiefe of those secrets was that of Gowries Conspiracy though that Nation gave little credit to the Story but would speak both sleightly and despitefully of it and those of the wisest of that Nation yet there was a weekly commemoration by the Tuesday Sermon and an anniversary Feast as great as it was possible for the Kings preservation ever on the fifth of August upon which day as Sir John Ramsey after E. of Holdernesse for his good service in that preservation was the principall guest so did the King grant him any Boone he would aske that day but had such limitations set to his asking as made his suit as unprofitable unto him as that he asked it for was unserviceable to the King and indeed did make the English beleeve as little the truth of that story as the Scots themselves did and yet on my conscience the good Gentleman did in that as a Lyer often doth by telling a Lye often beleeveth it to be a very truth but the truth was although he was not a man capable of much himselfe yet had it been true there was too little done for him being not true too much for being an Earle he was in very little esteeme either with his Master or with the better sort of Courtiers And I pray God that the effects of those Sermons in the Fathers time for that service cause no ill effects or be not one cause of Gods anger towards us in the Sons reigne This Sir George Hewme being the only man that was the Guider of the King and his affaires all the wiser sort of English made their addresses unto him amongst those Sir Robert Cicill a very wise man but much hated in England by reason of the fresh bleeding of that universally beloved Earle of Essex and for that was clouded also in the Kings favour he came to Yorke but lay close unseen or scarce knowne to be in the City untill he knew what entertainment he should receive from the King for he was in his owne and all mens opinions so under the Hatches as not ever to appeare above board againe nor did any of the Countre-faction to Essex besides himselfe ever attaine to the Kings favour but those friends raised by his wit and purse did so co-operate of which Sir Roger Aston that plaine man was principall for which he lost not his labour that Sir George Hewme and Sir Robert Cicill had many secret meetings and did so comply that Sir Robert Cicill to the admiration of all did appeare and come out of his Chamber like a Giant to run his race for Honour and Fortune and who in such dearnesse and privacy with the King as Sir Robert Cicill as if he had been his faithfull Servant many yeares before yet did not either his Friends wit or wealth raise him so much as some beleeve as the ill offices done by him to this Nation in discovering the nature of the people and shewing the King the way how to enhance his Prerogative so above the Lawes that he might inslave the Nation which though it took well then yet it hath been of sad and dangerous consequence in after times For first He caused a whole Cart-load of Parliament Presidents that spake the Subjects Liberty to be burnt Next raising two hundred thousand pound for making two hundred Baronets telling the King he should finde his English Subjects like Asses on whom he might lay any burthen and should need neither Bit nor Bridle but their Asses eares And when the King said It would discontent the generality of the Gentry He replyed Tush Sir you want the money that will doe you good the Honour will doe them very little And by these courses he raised himselfe friends and family to Offices Honours and great Possessions Yet as a punishment he lived long enough to have lost all had not Death prevented him between the Bath and London For the Duke of Bullion being then here about the overture of that unfortunate Match betweene the Palsgrave and the Lady Elizabeth had so done his errand and discovered his juggling It is most certaine he had been stript of all at his returne which he well understanding from his Friends at Court did expedite his end but he dyed opportunely to save his honour and his estate for his posterity though to leave a marke of ignominy on himselfe by that Herodian disease and that for all his great Honours and Possessions and stately Houses he found no place but the top of a Mole-hill neare Marleborough to end his miserable life so that it may be said of him and truly he dyed of a most loathsome disease and remarkable without house without pitty without the favour of that Master that had raised him to so high an estate and yet must he have this right done him which is also a note of the misfortune of our times there hath not been any since his time that equalled him to fulfill the Proverbe Seldome comes a better he had great parts was very wise full of honour and bounty a great lover and rewarder of Virtue and able parts in others so they did not appeare too high in place or looke too narrowly into his actions The next that came on the publick Theatre in favour was Henry Howard a younger Son of the Duke of Norfolke and Lord Thomas Howard the one after Earle of Northampton the other Earle of Suffolk Lord Chamberlaine and after Lord Treasurer who by Salisburies greatnesse with that Family rather then by any merit or wisdome in themselves raised many great Families of his Children
very nothing but never wrote he any thing to accuse Rawleigh by which you may see the basenesse of these Lords the credulity of the King and the ruine of Sir Walter Rawleigh I appeale now to the judgement of all the world whether these six Lords were not the immediate Murtherers of Sir Walter Rawleigh and no question shall be called to a sad account for it And thus have you a true relation of the Treason and Traytors with all the windings and turnings in it and all passages appertaining to it and by it you may see the slavery these great men were inslaved in by Salisbury that none durst testifie such a truth as the not testifying lost their most precious Soules And now doth the King returne to Windsor where there was only an apparition of Southamptons being a Favourite to his Majesty by that privacy and dearnesse was presented to the Court-view but Salisbury liking not that any of Essex his faction should come into play made that apparition appeare as it were in transitu and so vanished by putting some jealousies into the Kings head who was so farre from jealousie that he did not much desire to be in his Queenes company yet love and regality must admit of no partnership Then was there in requitall of the Spanish Embassadours two stately Embassies addressed the one to Spaine the other to the Arch Duke to have that peace they so dearly purchased confirmed and sworne to by ours as formerly by them the old Lord Admirall was sent to Spaine the Earle of Hartford for Bruxels that the Duke of Leonox might have the better opportunity The Spaniard was astonied at the bravenesse of our Embassie and the handsome Gentlemen in both which few Embassies ever equalled this for you must understand the Iesuites reported our Nation to be ugly and like Devils as a punishment sent to our Nation for casting off the Popes supremacy and they pictured Sir Francis Drake generally halfe a Man halfe a Dragon When they beheld them after the shape of Angels they could not well tell whether to trust their own eyes or their Confessors reports yet they then appeared to them as to all the world monstrous Lyers The Embassadour had his reception with as much state as his entertainment with bounty the King defraying all charges and they were detained at their Landing longer then ordinary to have provisions prepared in their passage to Madrid with all the bounty was possible to make the whole Country appeare a Land of Canaan which was in truth but a Wildernesse In their abode there although they gave them Roast-meat yet they beat them with the spits by reporting that the English did steale all the Plate when in truth it was themselves who thought to make Hay while the Sunne shined not thinking ever more to come to such a Feast to fill their purses as wel as their bellyes for food and coyne are equally alike scarce with that Nation this report passed for currant to the infinite dishonour of our Nation there being at that time the prime gallantry of our Nation Sir Robert Mansell who was a man borne to vindicate the Honour of his Nation as of his owne being Vice-Admirall and a man on whom the old Admirall wholly relyed having dispatched the Ships to be gone the next morning came in very late to Supper Sir Richard Levison sitting at the upper end of the Table amongst the Grandees the Admirall himselfe not supping that night being upon the dispatch of Letters the Table upon Sir Robert Mansells entrance offered to rise to give him place But he sat down instantly at the lower end and would not let any man stirre and falling to his meat did espy a Spaniard as the Dishes emptied ever putting some in his bosome some in his breeches that they both strutted Sir Robert Mansell sent a Message to the upper end of the table to Sir Richard Levison to be delivered in his eare that whatsoever he saw him doe he should desire the Gentlemen and Grandees to sit quiet for there should be no cause of any disquiet on the sudden Sir Robert Mansell steps up takes this Spaniard in his armes at which the table began to rise Sir Richard Levison quiets them brings him up to the end amongst the Grandees then pulls out the Plate from his bosome breeches and every part about him which did so amaze the Spaniard and vindicate that aspersion cast on our Nation that never after was there any such syllable heard but all honour done to the Nation and all thanks to him in particular From thence next day they went for Madrid where all the royall entertainment Spain could yeeld was given them and at the end of the Grand entertainment and Revells which held most part of the night as they were all returning to their Lodgings the street being made light by white Wax lights and the very night forced into a day by shining light as they were passing in the street a Spaniard catcheth off Sir Robert Mansells Hat with a very rich jewell in it and away he flyes Sir Robert not being of a spirit to have any thing violently taken from him nor of such a Court-like complement to part with a jewell of that price to one no better acquainted with him hurls open the Boote followes after the fellow and some three Gentlemen did follow him to secure him houseth the Fellow in the house of an Allagozy which is a great Officer or Judge in Spaine this Officer wondering at the manner of their comming the one without his hat and sword in his hand the other with all their swords Demands the cause They tell him He saith surely none can think his house a sanctuary who is to punish such offenders But Sir Robert Mansell would not be so put off with his Spanish gravity but enters the House leaving two at the Gate to see that none should come out whiles he searched A long while they could finde nothing and the Allagozy urging this as an affront at last looking downe into a Wel of a smal depth he saw the fellow stand up to the neck in Water Sir Robert Mansell seized on his Hat and Jewell leaving the fellow to the Allagozy but he had much rather have fingered the Jewell and in his gravity told Sir Robert Mansell hee could not have it without forme of Law which Sir Robert dispensed with carrying away his Hat and Jewell and never heard further of the businesse now the truth was this fellow knew his Burrough well enough as well as some Theeves of our Nation after they have done a Robbery would put themselves into a Prison of their acquaintance assuring themselves none would search there or rather as our Recorders of London whose cheif revenue for themselves and servants is from Theeves Whores and Bawds therefore this story cannot seeme strange in England The other Embassadour sent to the Arch Duke was the old Earle of Hertford who was conveyed over in one of the
face at the Dukes foot kissing it vowing never to rise till he had his pardon then was he againe reconciled and since that time so very a slave to the Duke and all that Family that he durst not deny the command of the meanest of the kindred nor oppose anything by this you see a base spirit is ever most concomitant with the proudest minde and surely never so many brave parts and so base and abject a spirit tenanted together in any one earthen Cottage as in this one man I shall not remember his basenesse being out of his place of pinning himselfe for very scraps on that Noble Gentleman Sir Julius Caesars Hospitality that at last he was forced to get the Kings Warrant to remove him out of his house yet in his prosperity the one being Chancellor and the other Master of the Rolls did so scorne and abuse him as he would alter any thing the other did And now Buckingham having the Chancellor Treasurer and all great Officers his very slaves swels in the height of pride summons up all his Country kindred the old Countesse providing a place for them to learne to carry themselves in a Court-like garbe but because they could not learne the French Dances so soon as to be suitable to their gay Clothes Country Dances for their sakes only must be the garbe of the Court and none else must be used Then must these women-kindred be married to Earles Earles eldest Sonnes Barons or chiefe Gentlemen of greatest estates insomuch that the very female kindred were so numerous as were sufficient to have peopled any Plantation nay very Kitchin-wenches were married to Knights eldest sonnes yet as if England had not matches enough in the Kingdome they married like the house of Austria in their own kindred witnesse the Earle of Anglesea married a cousen German to whom he had given earnest before so that King James that naturally in former times hated women had his Lodgings replenished with them and all of the Kindred The Brethren great Earls Little children did run up and downe the Kings Lodgings like little Rabbitstarters about their boroughs Here was a strange change that the King who formerly would not endure his Queen and children in his Lodgeings now you would have judged that none but women frequented them nay that was not all but the kindred had all the houses about White-Hall as if they had been Bulwarks and Flankers to that Cittadell But above all the Miracles of those times old Sir Anthony Ashley who never loved any but boyes yet he was snatcht up for a kinswoman as if there had been a concurrency thorow the Kingdom that those that naturally hated women yet should love his kindred as well as the King him And the very old Midwives of that kindred flockt up for preferment of which old Sir Christopher Perkins a woman-hater that never meant to marry nay it was said he had made a vow of Virginity yet was coupled to an old Midwife so that you see the greatnesse of this Favourite who could force by his power over the King though against Nature But I must tell you this got him much hatred to raise brothers and brother-in-laws to the highest rank of Nobility which were not capable of the place of scarce a Iustice of the Peace only his brother Purbeck had more wit and honesty then all the kindred beside and did keep him in some bounds of honesty and modesty whilst he lived about him and would speake plaine English to him for which plainnesse when they had no colour to put him from his brother they practised to make him mad and thought to bring that wicked stratagem to effect by countenancing a wicked Woman his Wife the Lord Cookes Daughter against him even in her base and lewd living And now is Purbeck mad indeed and put from Court Now none great with Buckingham but Bawds and Parasites and such as humoured him in his unchaste pleasures so that since his first being a pretty harmlesse affable Gentleman he grew insolent cruell and a monster not to be endured And now is Williams sometimes Chaplaine to the Lord Keeper Egerton brought into play made a privie-Councellor Deane of Westminster and of secret Councell with the King he was also made Bishop of Lincolne and was generally voyced at his first step to marry Buckinghams Mother who was in her husbands time created a Countesse he remaining still a C. silly drunken sot and this was the first president of this kinde ever known Williams held her long in hand and no doubt in nature of her Confessor was her secret friend yet would not marry at present which afterwards was cause of his downfall Then was there a Parliament summoned in which Bacon for his bribery and injustice was thrust out being closely prosecuted by one Morby a Woodmonger and one Wrenham formerly deeply censured in the Star-Chamber for accusing him of bribery and injustice Bacon was by Parliament justly put out of his place and but only for the Votes of the Bishops had been degraded the Bishops might have done better to have kept their voyces to have done themselves service at this time but surely that with some other injustice of theirs had so filled up their measure of iniquity that now Gods anger is kindled against them In Bacons place comes Williams a man on purpose brought in at first to serve turnes but in this place to doe that which none of the Layity could be found bad enough to undertake whereupon this observation was made that first no Lay-man could be found so dishonest as a Clergy man next as Bacon the Father of this Bacon did receive the seales from a Bishop so a Bishop againe received them from a Bacon and at this did the Lawyers fret to have such a flower pulled out of their Garland This Williams though he wanted much of his Predecessors abilities for the Law yet did he equall him for learning and pride and beyond him in the way of bribery this man answering by Petitions in which his servants had one part himselfe another and so was calculated to be worth to him his servants 3000. l. per annum by a new way never found out before And now being come to the height of his preferment he did estrange himselfe from the company of the old Countesse having much younger ware who had keyes to his chamber to come to him yet was there a necessity of keeping him in this place for a time the Spanish Match being yet in chase and if it succeeded this man was to clap the great Seale through his ignorance in the Lawes to such things that none that understood the danger by knowing the Lawes would venture upon and for this designe was he at first brought in no Prince living knowing how to make use of men better then King James Now was also Suffolke turned out of his place of Lord Treasurer and a fellow of the same Batch that Williams was brought into his place
hereafter you shall understand it was so and that the King durst not avow his own act brought him off from that Parliament but Buckingham hated the King ever afterwards The reason the King so hated Buckingham besides his being weary of him for his now stalenesse was his marriage after which the Kings edge was ever taken off from all Favourites as well as him yet this had so much the over awing power of him that hee durst not make shew to affect any other there was one Inniossa a Spanish Embassador extraordinary here beingan old Soldier and a gallant fellow who thought that Buckingham did not give that respect to him was due to his own person or to the person of so great a King whose person he represented Inniossa therefore did as much scorn and slight Buckingham the Prince whom he sound wholly governed by Buckingham for now Buckingham had found by many passages the Kings desire to be rid of him he made Court to the Prince and so wrought himself into his affection that Damon and Pythias were not more dear each to other which by no means could the old King away with nor in truth did any other like or approve of the Prince his poor spirit fearing it foretold his future inclination that could ever indure any familiarity with such an one as had put such foul scorns and affronts on him in his time of greatnes with the Father especially such as called to minde the bravery of his brother who hated the whole Family for their generall basenesse although none of them had ever offended him in particular as this man had done the Prince at two severall times once before an infinite concourse by bidding him in plaine termes kisse his Arse a second time offering to strike him saying in most undutiful terms By God it shall not bee so nor you shall not have it lifting up his hand over his head with a Ballon-Bracer that the Prince said What my Lord I thinke you intend to strike me The first of these audacious affronts was at Royston the second at Greenwich before about 400. people Neither of which were to bee indured by a private person but by a Prince from a private person surely it shewed a much lesse spirit then should have been inherent to a Prince and after this to bee so deare with him as to be governed by him all his life time more then his Father was in the prime of his affection I can give it no title meane enough it had been worthy the Noble minde of a Prince to have forgotten such injuries as never to have revenged them when he had been King but never to have suffered him to have come neare his Court to upbraid him with the sight of so much scorn and that publickly offered him before But at that time I well remember some Critticks in Court did not stick to read his future destiny This Inniossa being a brave daring Gentleman used some speeches in the derogation of the Prince and Buckingham as if they were dangerous to the old King nay Inniossa sent one Padro Macestria a Spanish Jesuite and a great States-man to King James to let him know that he under confession had found the King was by Buckingham or by his procurement to be killed but whether by poyson Pistoll Dagger c. that he could not tell The King after the hearing of this was extream melancholly and in that passion was found by Buckingham at his returne to him The King as soon as ever he espied him said Ah Stenny Stenny for so he ever called him in familiarity wilt thou kill me at which Buckingham started and said who Sir hath so abused you at which the King sat silent out went Buckingham sretting and fuming asked who had been with the King in his absence It was told him Padro Macestria then who brought him to the King it was replyed the Earl of Kelly then flew Buckingham on him to know how he durst bring any one in to the King in his absence or without his licence Kelly stood up close to him for you must know Kelly was the truest alarum to give warning of the downefall of a Favourite of any in the Court and knew his power could doe him no hurt with the King in present although it utterly cast him out of all favor from the King in future Then Buckingham questioned Padro Macestria but that quarrel was interposed and undertook by Inniossa who told him he would maintaine him a Traytor and that were his Masters person off him he was a Chivalier and better borne then himselfe and would make it good on him with his Sword Which high comparison though I beleeve true enough together with his generous Charge and Challenge Buckingham for that time swallowed and only thought of this shift to vindicate himselfe on Inniossa which was to cause the Prince to write a Letter of complaint to the King of Spaine for abusing him and Buckingham but the King of Spaine returned the Letter in a kind of scorne to Inniossa not as blaming him but rather commending him and Inniossa in scorne sent it to the Prince as if he should say there is your Letter to wipe which is all it is fit for Now have you heard what made the King hate Buckingham you shal also hear the reason of Buckinghams extreame hatred to the King which was beleived the cause of his so speedy death Yelverton a very faithful servant to the King and his Atturney General and no lesse affectionate to Somerset being formerly raised by him without any seeking of his or so much as within his thought insomuch as to expresse his love to Somerset he desired to lay downe that great place rather then aggravate as his place required against him This man as well out of his faithfulnesse to the King as affection to Somerset was made choyce of to worke the downefall of Buckingham in which he apparently shewed himselfe But Buckingham as I told you before out of the Kings feare that durst not maintaine his owne designe but left his Instruments to the mercy of Buckinghams tyranny being once gotten out of the toile like a chased Boare foamed and bit at all came neare him and amongst them first fastned on Yelverton put him out of his place and committed him close Prisoner to the Tower Yelverton having shewed himselfe so faithfull to his Master and he againe so unfaithfull to him to leave him to undergo the whole burden of Buckinghams fury did fly out in some passion before Sir Allen Appesly then Lieutenant of the Tower and Buckinghams great creature Appesly telling the Duke of some passages in his passion the Duke one night about 12. a clock came in a a disguise and with the Lieutenant only entred Yelvertons longing Yelverton at first sight started verily beleeving he came in that manner to murther him yet at last recollected himselfe and said My Lord have you the Kings Warrant for this the Duke said no
then said Yelverton how dare you enter a close prisoners lodging it is as much as your life is worth And assure your selfe Master Lieutenant the King shall know of this and you must answer it My Lord said I come to you as a friend though formerly I confesse upon just cause your mortall enemy only to aske you but two questions which if you will resolve me I vow to be a greater friend now then ever an enemy and can and will restore you foure-fold Yelverton told him if they were such as he might hee would The first he asked was What wrong he had ever done him that he so greedily thirsted after his blood Yelverton replyed never any but I was set on by a power that I could not withstand to doe what I did he asked him by whom by the King your Master said he who hates you more then any man living which you might well understand when in his Speech to the Parliament he said he would not spare any no not any that were dearest to him or lay in his bosome by which he pointed them to you Wel said Buckingham I see you have dealt like a Friend with me by many other concurrences as well as by this give me your hand henceforth you are my friend and I am yours and I will raise you highet then I have cast you downe which he had made good had Yelverton lived to have injoyed it for he was instantly released and the next preferment he gratified him with was a Judges place and he had been Lord Keeper had not death prevented it And if there were no other reason but his change from a mortall enemy to so firme a friend this were sufficient to confirme the truth of this story But the Authour had this from Yelvertons owne relation and cannot commend Yelverton because it is verily beleeved this hastened the Kings death Now have you heard the true causes of Buckinghams hatred to the King and the Kings to Buckingham the King having the more power to revenge had the lesse courage Buckingham lesse power but more courage sharpened with revenge And however the World did beleeve the Kings inclination was out of a religious ground that he might not revenge yet it was no other but a cowardly disposition that dust not adventure But although the King lost his opportunity on Buckingham yet the black plaister and powder did shew Buckingham lost not his on the King and that it was no fiction but a reallity that Padro Macestria had formerly told the King And now to returne from this digression which is not impertinent besides a great secret the Prince returnes from Spaine contrary to expectation in which the wisdome and gravity of the Spaniard failed him especially if they did beleeve Padro Macestria besides nature could not long support the old King and then the Spaniard might have made no little advantage by injoying such a pledge But they have confessed their errour yet doe palliate it with having the Prince his faith and his proxie left with Digby and got thence with the very same tricke Sir Francis Michell said he got out of the Inquisition at Rome Now is all the fault laid on Digbyes false play and unfaithfulnesse to his Master and combining with the Spaniard and by this peece of service expressing his hatred to the Spaniard for his owne ends the Subjects of England having ever naturally hated them Buckingham the most hated man then living from an accused man in the former Parliament came to be the very darling of this Parliament and a favourite to the whole Kingdome which after King James his death he as soone lost againe so inconstant are the multitude In the Banquetting-house before both Houses of Parliament is Buckingham to give an account of this voyage which he did at large and to every full point as a further attestation he saith how say you Sir to which the Prince answered I yea or yes and through all his discourse laboured to make Bristoll as hatefull to this Parliament as himselfe had been to the former which had these things delivered by him and attested by the Prince been truths he had justly deserved death the accusations were foule and little lesse then treason without any legislative power Digby had some friends who instantly sent this Declaration into Spaine Digby acquaints that King takes his leave of him for England that King sets his danger before him offers if he will stay with him seeing it is for his sake he is like to suffer he would make him much greater in Honour and fortune then his Master can doe Digby gives him thankes but sayes he served so just a Master that would not condemne him unheard and should he yet he had much rather suffer under innocency then lye under the imputation of a false accusation of a fugitive and Traytor for the highest preferment in the World Away therefore comes he puts himselfe into a desperate passage least the Parliament should have been dissolved before his comming and so no place or meanes left him for his defence but must lye under those false calumnies and was here as the Prince came into Spaine sooner then either looked for or welcome Into the Parliament comes he with his Hat full of papers where he puts himselfe upon this point that if there were one syllable true that Buckingham had delivered if this holding up a Paper in his hand be a true copy I will yeeld my selfe guilty of all treasons can be laid to my charge and said these papers pointing to his Hat shall make it manifest Besides some of them shall make Buckingham appeare a very monster in his lascivious carriages too too unchaste for the eares of this Honourable Assembly Bristoll was instantly committed close prisoner to the Tower for a contempt the next day hee was riding through Cheap-side in his Coach by which it appeares Buckinghams power was in the wane with his old Master his relation and accusation being scandalous and false nor ever durst hee bring Bristol to any further tryall Whether this wound was deeper given by Bristol to Buckingham or the Prince I will leave to the reader to judge and will not my selfe determine And how Bristol hath since stood in favour with the Prince since he was King may give a conjecture that he tooke it as a wound to himselfe I am sure it was an ill omen and hath since given him lesse credit with his Subjects And in this Parliament doth Buckingham by his under-hand Ministers and Agents accuse Cranfield the Lord Treasurer in which the Prince also shewes himselfe Cranfield was so hated a fellow for his insolency that a small accusation would serve the turne as this truly was had his care of expending the Kings Treasure been out of a true zeale for it should seeme that the Prince sending for monies Cranfield restrained his Expresse using some words that the journey it selfe was foolishly undertaken and now must be maintained by
purpose one Noy a very famous Lawyer as ever this Kingdome bred and formerly a great Patriot and the only searcher of Presidents for the Parliaments by which he grew so cunning as he understood all the shifts which former Kings had used to get monies with This man the King sends for tels him he wil make him his Attorney Noy like a true Cynick as he was for that time went away not returning to the King so much as the civility of a Thankes nor indeed was it worth his thankes I am sure he was not worthy of ours For after the Court sollicitings had bewitched him to become the Kings he grew the most hatefull man that ever lived And it s to me a wonder that this Parliament of Wonders doth not enact a Law that his very name should never more be in this Kingdome he having been as great a Deluge to this Realme as the Flood was to the whole World for he swept away all our Priviledges and in truth hath been the cause of all these miseries this kingdome hath since been ingulphed whether you consider our Religion he being a great Papist if not an Atheist and the protector of all Papists and the raiser of them up unto that boldnesse they were now growne unto who formerly had some moderation or if you consider our Estates and Liberties they were impoverished and enthralled by multitudes of projects and illegall wayes this Monster was the sole Author of all But first now because there must be some great man as a Captaine Projector to lead some on and hearten others to follow Sir George Goring leads up the March and Dance with the Monopolie of Tobacco and Licensing of Tavernes setting some up where and as many as he pleased and this done by a Seale appendicular to an Office erected by him for that purpose as if authorised by a Law besides all this hee hath Pensions out of the pretermitted Customs insomuch as I have heard it most credibly reported that his Revenue was 9000. l. per annum all of these kindes and for this peece of good service he was made a Lord and Privy Councellour to countenance his traine of Projectors the better Then did Weston enhance the Customes and laid new and heavyer impositions on all things exported or imported with such unconscionable rates upon Tobacco that millions of pounds of it lay rotting in the Custome-house the Merchants refusing to pay the Custome besides losse of all other charges for the Tobacco it selfe In short there was not any thing almost that any man did eate drinke or weare or had in his house from forraigne parts or scarce any domesticke commodities exempted but he paid as it were an Excise for it yea at last even Cards and Dice escaped not but they were monopolized by a great Councellour the Lord Cottington yea to keep their hands in ure they got Patents for the very Rags Marrow-bones Guts and such like Excrements as were thought of no use but to be cast on the Dunghils and he was held the bravest Common-wealths man that could bring in the most money yet the Kings private Purse or publick Treasury little or nothing bettered but to impoverish and vex the Subject and to no other end for which he was ordinarily rewarded with honour This good service the quite contrary way did Weston and Noy doe for the King and I beleeve you shall see God reward them and their posterity for the one like a Jonas Gourd sprang up suddenly from a beggerly estate to much Honour and great Fortunes will shortly wither the other his Son and Heire was killed in France presently after his death and when both are dead let their names and memory rot and be extinct from the face of the earth Now doth Buckingham provide for another forraigne Enterprise but carried so close I could never learne what it was nor did any wise men much inquire after it assuring themselves that such counsells could produce no better effects than those former In the beginning yea even at the very entrance thereunto he did so stinke in the Nostrils of God and Man that God made one Felton his Instrument to take such a Monster as he was indeed from his longer domineering amongst men by a blow as fearefull as strange after which he had not time to say Lord have mercy on him a just judgement on him that forsooke God to seeke to the Devill by Witches and Sorcerers in his life one whereof was Doctor Lamb who was his great defensitive preserver as he thought him whose fate it was to be brained by a Shoo-makers Last when he least look'd for it the other was stabb'd the next morning after that night he had caused a Fellow to be hanged not suffering him to have that nights respite after his sentence and offence what ere it was to repent him of his sins with this vow he would neither eate nor drinke untill he see him dye God in requitall of his mercilesse cruelty would neither suffer him to eate nor drinke before he dyed by that dismall stroake of a poore tenpenny knife of the said Feltons setting home Thus neare alike in time and manner were these two hellish Agents Catastrophees And now is set that great Sun or rather portendous Comet from whose influences all the Officers and Ministers had by reflexion their life and heat After his death the very name of a Favourite dyed with him none singly engrossing the Kings eare and favour but a regular motion was set to all Officers as appertained to their severall places as to the Arch-Bishop the mannagement and chiefe super-intendency of the Church to the Lord Treasurer the Exchequer and the Customs to the Lords Keepers of the Great and Privie Seales what belonged to equity to the Judges what belonged to Law so that one would have thought all things now went so just and equall and in their proper Channell as none but might now expect from that new and better government halcyon dayes But it far'd farre otherwise God being angry at the Nations sins the generall juggling of the State was one and a great one all those procedures being but in appearance righteous nothing really so but like the Apples of Sodome faire in shew rotten and corrupt within For now instead of the late but one Favourite every great Officer and Lord of the Councell proved a very Tyrant and it appeared that not their vertues but the former Favourites power only did restraine them from being so for that falling together with himselfe as you have heard and they left to their owne Arbitrary power you would verily have beleeved that Hell had been broke loose And to make good that Metaphor one of the Councell being told by a Gentleman that the country was much troubled at a certaine great grievance replyed Doth that trouble them by God there are seaven worse Devills to be shortly let out amongst them And in sober sadnesse they all might truly have undergone the name of
and Carlisle vast consumers especially Carlisle of what they got ibid. 6 Montgomery for a time a Favourite p. 56. Vpon whose wane after a contention between the English and Scots out of whether Nation the next Favourite should come Câ—r arose a Favourite p. 57 How tended and tendred by the King when in a Tilting with the Lord Dingwel he had broke his leg p. 58 Sir Tho. Overbury taken into great favor by Car. p. 59 Salisbury and Suffolk in favour of this new Favourite regardfull of his Creature Overbury are both used by him yet through his insolency both neglected p. 60 Northamptons plot upon Overbury for his scorn of him ib Overbury a tart reprover of Somerset concerning Suffolks daughter Essex's wife p. 62 He is therefore plotted against to be removed out of the way on an Embassy to France or upon refusal c. p. 64 Being committed to the Tower he was there pâ—ysoned See the foulenesse of that businesse p. 65. c. After that Somerset marrys the Lady in which mâ—tter was seen the high corruption of the then times p. 70 c In this Favourites time came over the Palsgrave and married the Kings daughter the La. Elizabeth p. 76 Shortly after Prince Henry dyed ib. His death foretold by Bruce banished therefore by Salisbury who died in May the Prince in November following p. 78 Ingram and Cranfield Projectors made use of in Court but like Projectors as they were kept under by Somerset which were more highly regarded by the after Favourite p. 80 81. which was 8 Favourite Mr. Mr. George Villers p. 82 Zouch Goring Finit and Millicent the Court fooles as well as Archee with whose jollity this Favourite was ushered in p. 84 85. Winwood brought in Secretary of State by Somerset and by him unworthily used ruined him by discovering the poysoning of Overbury p. 86 c. It being made publickly known unto the King See his seeming serious charge upon the Judges for their impartiall sifting out and punishing the Complotters thereof in p. 92 The Kings dissimulation to Somerset p. 95 Who by a device of Sir George Moores after Elways Lieutenant of the Tower was tamely led from the Tower to his Arraignment p. 108 c. Mrs Turner Weston Franklin and Sir Gervase Elwayes executed for that businesse p. 113 This Favourite displaceth the wel-deserving Admirall the E. of Nott. and gets that place to himself p. 114 The next great Office his power reacheth at to dispose is Egertons Lord Chancellorship to whom he sends Bacon for the Seal p. 115. To whom Buckingham the Favourite sends a message p. 116. Whereto see his Answer p. 117 Buckinghams course to raise and maintain his kindred p. 119 Bacons proud carriage so soon as made Lord Chancellor the King being soon after gone to Scotland p. 121 After him degraded for his bribery by a Parliament comes Williams Dean of Westminster Bishop of Lincolne p. 127 Who was in bribery inferior to none p. 130 The Lord Treasurer Suffolk being turned out one of the afore named Projectors Cranfield was brought in by Buckingham p. 131. His censure in the House of Peers p. 132 He and the Prince go into Spaine disguised and under the names of Jack and Tom Smith p. 133 Taking their way by France the Prince eyed there that Lady whom he after married ib. Through Buckinghams miscarriages in Spaine and his spleen against Bristoll the Match with Spain was dissolved 133 c. The King now hates Buckingham p. 139 Buckingham hates the King p. 144 Which proved the Kings suggested cause true p. 149 After which his darke dealing with the King See a passage from one of the Kings Servants to the Duke p. 161 162 In the Court of King Charles beginning p. 176. the observations are AS his Fathers reigne began with a great Plague His with a greater p. 176 He was not crowned with the wonted solemnity nor took he the usuall Oath p. 177 With him arose also his Fathers favourite ib. The first Parliament he called gave him two intire Subsidies c. p. 179 Buckingham being questioned about the former Kings death dissolved that Parliament ib. Which was ill relished by the people p. 180 Williams the Lord Keeper turned out of his place and Coventry put in p. 181 Buckingham sent into France for that Lady the King had seen there ib. Through his instigation the King prepares for a war against Spaine and France p. 182 Wimbletons unsuccesfull expedition in Spaine ib. Denbigh is sent to aide Rochel ib. Buckinghams losse of many brave Gentlemen in the Isle of Rees expedition p. 183. where comes in a large supplement which the former Edition of this Book had not For these unjust Quarrels management the King pawned his Plate to Amsterdam p. 184 Cottington sent to beg a peace with Spaine ib. Rochels reliefe not really performed ib. Buckinghams ambition after higher Titles and Offices p. 186. Weston after Cranfield made Lord Treasurer by Buckinghams procurement p. 188 Shifts to raise monies p. 191 Noy made the Kings Attorney p. 195 By whom many Projects were put in practise p. 196 Buckingham intending some great secret Designe abroad was slaine by Felton p. 199 Amongst whom the managing of Affaires then was p. 201 After his death no bettering in the State but worse p. 202 Weston if not ballanced by Laud had been worse in Tyrannizing then Buckingham p. 203 Councell Table c. scourges to the people ib. Coventry a very corrupt man whose time reached to this very Parliament yet not questioned for it p. 206 Finch made chiefe Judge of the Common Pleas ib. Fees in all Courts taken excessively p. 207 The Bishops and other Court Clergy preacht away the peoples liberties and proprieties ib. Their turne now to loose both p. 208 Strafford the ablest States-man since Salisburie p. 209 First brought in by Weston ib. He failed in his ignorance of the peoples temper and of the Kings disability and faithfulnesse in weighty matters and great Agents p. 211 212 He was the greatest Subject not being a Favourite that ever was ibid. Observations upon this K. from his childhood p. 215 Certain observations before Q Eliz. death p. 223 FINIS Q. E. death K. Iames proclaimed King Sir Roger Aston K. James his Barber After made gentleman of the Bed-chamber c Sir Georgâ— Hewme a kind of Favouritâ— Sir Robert Cicill a favourite Mr. Iames Hay a Favourite His rise His sumptuous feast His accomplishment A great Plague A narration of the Treason charged on Rawleigh Mr. Carre his rise Mr. Carre Knighted Northamptons plot upon him The plot against Overbury S. W. B. Pr. Henry and Salisbury's death Ingram and Cranfield Projectors Mr. George Villiers a Favourite K. James his parting with Somerset * S. H. M. Somersets Tryall Buckinghams Message to Bacon Bacons Answer Buckinghams course to raise his kindred He is scorned The Prince goes into Spaine Cranfield accused in parliament