the Battels Sieges and other remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of â—he Reign of King Charles the First in 1625. to his Maâ—esties happy Restauration 1660. And among other parâ—iculars The Debates and Proceedings in the Four First Parliaments of King Charles the First with their Dissoâ—utions The Siege of Rochel The Petition of Right The Murther of the D. of Buckingham by Felton The Tunults at Edinborough in Scotland upon Reading the Common-Prayer The Et caetera Oath The Cursed Plots and Designs of the Jesuits and other Papists for imbroiling â—hese Three Kingdoms The Insurrection of the Apprentices and Seâ—men and their Assaulting of Archâ—ishop Laud'â— House at Lambeth Remarks on the Tryâ—l of the E. of Strafford and his last Speech The horâ—id and bloody Rebellion of the Papists in Ireland and â—heir Murthering above Two Hundred Thousand Proâ—estants in 1641. The Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom with the King's Answer thereunto The Proâ—eedings about the Five Impeached Members An Acâ—ount of the Parliament at Oxford January 22. 1643. with their Proceedings and Dissolution An Abstract of â—he Fights between the King and Parliament The Death of A B. Laud Mr. Chaloner and Tomkins Sir John Hoâ—haâ— Sir Aleâ—ander Carew Duke Hamilton Earl of Holâ—and Lord Capel and others The Illegal Tryal of King Charles the First aâ— large with his last Speech at his Sufâ—ering Jan. 30. 1648. Together with the most consideâ—able matters which happened till the Year 1660. Illustâ—ated with Pictures of several Remrkable Accidents â—uriously engraven on Copper Plates Price One Shilling III The Protestant Scool-Mister Or THE Protestant Instructed wherein the most Considerable Errors of the Papists are discovered and the Protestant Religion is vindicated from Hereâ—â— and Novelty 2. The Image of Antichrist or the Usuâ—pation of the Pope and Church of Rome over King and Emperours in several Examples of the Tyranny 〈◊〉 the Pope over several Kings of England c. 3. Thâ— Cruelties and Persecutions of the Papists against thâ— Waldenses in Piedmont Bohemia Germany Poland Lithuaniâ—â— and France with an Account of the bloody Massacre aâ— Paris and the terrible Sieges of Sancerre and Rochâ—â— 4. The Cruelties of the Papists in Italy Spain Portugaâ— and the Low Countries with a Relation of the Originâ—â— Practices and cruel Tortures of the Spanish Inquisition 5. The Persecution of the Protestants in Scotland and Irâ—land With a Prophecy thereof by Dr. James Vsher Archbishop of Armagh forty years before it came to pasâ— which exactly fell out 6. The Persecution of the Prâ—testants in England for near six hundred years with the Plo's and Conspiracies against the Life of Queen Elizâ—beth Likewise the Spanish Invasion The Gunpowder-Treâ—son The Burning of London The Late Horrid Popish Ploâ— and the Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey 7. Plaâ—â— and easie Directions for Spelling and Reading of Englisâ— with all necessary Rules for reading the English Tongue more useful than any other Book of this kind 8. God Judgment upon Popish Persecutors discovered in somâ— eminent Examples 9. A Prayer of King Edward thâ— Sixth a while before his Death against Popery 10. 〈◊〉 Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her Army at Tilbury-Canâ— in the Spanish Invasion 1588. Concluding with Prayer and Graces The whole being illustrated with manâ— Pictures curiously engraven in Copper describing thâ— variety of Torments and Cruelties exercised by the Papists upon Protestants in most Countries in Europe Priâ—one Shilling All three Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell nexâ— to the Widdow Kemps Coffee-House in Exchange-Alleâ— over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill
the foregoing dreadful Examples CHAP. II. The miserable ends of Magicians Conjurors and Witches with an account of Apparitions Possessions and other strange and wonderful Feats and Illusions of the Devil THat there are really Magicians Conjurers and Witches who have commerce and familiarity with evil Spirits is so clear and plain both from holy Scripture Councils Canon Civil Laws in all Nations that none but those Atheists who would endeavour to persuade themselves there are no Spirits and consequently no other Life after this ever denied it but since the reality of this converse with Demons and their appearances and Possessions has been so clearly demonstrated in former Ages but especially in this by persons of most acute judgment and Learning wherein they have fully answered all Objections to the contrary I shall not now ingage in the least in the controversy but shall only give an account of the miserable deaths of some Persons mentioned in History who were concerned in these cursed Arts and likewise of some remarkable Apparitions and actions of evil Spirits and their taking possession of the Bodies of several Persons and tormenting them with several other strange Feats and illusions of Satan as I have collected them from very credible and approved Authors together with the danger of those who are so vainly curious in knowing future events as to enquire or ask Counsel of any of these Sorcerers which is so strictly forbid in the Law of Moses I. Saul the first King of Israel being much disturbed in mind for fear of the Army of the Philistines which came against him would by all means know aforehand the issue of this doubtful War now whereas before whil'st he performed the duty of a good King and obeyed the Commandments of God he had cleansed his Realm of Witches and Inchanters yet he is now so sensless as in his extremity to ask Counsel of them adding this wickedness to all the rest of his Sins that the measure thereof might be full he went therefore to a Witch to know his Fate who caused a Devil to appear to him in the shape of Samuel and foretel him of Gods just Judgment upon him in the final ruine and destruction of himself and his Family An example not much unlike this in the Event we find recorded of Natholicus the 31 King of the Scots who after he had unjustly usurped the Crown and Scepter and by much blood-shed had obtained the Throne of that Kingdom without any legal Right or Title thereunto he endeavoured by the same means to confirm and establish the Government to himself and therefore as guilt is always accompanied with suspition and sear he sent one of his trustiest Servants to a Witch to enquire of things to come both how long he should enjoy the Crown and how many years he should live the Witch answered That he should not live long but should shortly be murdered not by his Enemy but by his familiar Friend and when the Messenger was very earnest to know who should kill him she answered He himself should do it the man at first heard this with detestation abhorring the thought of any such Villany yet at length considering that it was not safe to discover the Witches answer and on the other side that it could not be long concealed he resolved for his own security rather to kill the Tyrant with the favour of many than to save him alive with the hazard of his own head therefore as soon as he was returned home he desired the King that he might speak with him in private about the Witches answer there he suddenly slew him gave him his just desert both for his horrible cruelty and wicked Sorcery let all those that make no conscience of running to Witches either for lost goods reconvery of their own or Friends health or upon any other occasion remember this example either for their instruction to amend or for their terrour if they continue that devilish practice Buchan Hist Scot. lib. 4. II. As divers very worthy Authors have credibly related several wicked actions committed by Magicians Witches so some of them have recorded the manner of their entring themselves into that cursed profession and the Ceremonies thereof as they have been discovered by those who have renounced those detestable practices which it may not be improper here briefly to relate The Wizards and Witches being met at a place and time appointed the Devil there appears to them in human shape admonishing them to be faithful and promising them success and length of Life then those that are present recommend the Person who is to be entred the Devil then requires him to renounce the Christian Faith and Sacraments and giving him his hand tells him that this alone is not sufficient but that he must worship him likewise and give himself to him Body and Soul for ever and bring as many as possibly he can into the same Society and that he must prepare himself certain Ointments and then be confirmed therein Manlius writes that in the Year 1553 Two Witches stole a Neighbours Child and murdering it cut it in pieces and put it into a Kettle to boil when the sorrowful Mother looking for her Infant came by chance into the house found the Limbs thereof horribly consumed for which abominable Fact the Authors of it were burnt having confessed this their villany Another Author says two other Witches are reported to have killed abundance of Children and that in Germany Eight Witches were taken who confessed they had murdered an hundred forty and five Children in making their Ointments they are also reported to have each of them a Spirit or Imp attending on them who are to assist and obey them in all things and to give them notice of their solemn Meetings or appointments at which time it is said they separate themselves from all company and night being come they strip themselves naked ane anoint themselves with their Ointments then are they carried out of the house either by the window door or Chimney mounted on their Imps to their meeting place which is sometimes many hundred miles from their dwellings where they find great numbers of Wizards and witches arrived by the same means who all make their accustomed reverence to Lucifer in his Throne adoring him proclaiming him their Lord and rendring him all honour as their King this Solemnity being finished they fit at Table where no delicate meats are wanting to please their appetites after which they dance and the Incubusses in the shape of proper men satisfy the lusts of the Witches and the Succubusses serve for Whores to the Wizards sometimes at their solemn Assemblies the Devil commands each to tell what wickedness he hath done and according to the detestableness thereof he is honoured and applauded these and many other such wonderful things are mentioned by Authors of good credit and several Persons have made Confession and given an account thereof III. In the year 1645. One Rebecca
that kind which may bear a sober construction whereof I will glean two or three in the Dukes case Being to take his leave of the Bishop of Canterbury then of London after courtesies of course had passed between them My Lord saith the Duke I know your Lordship hath worthily good access to the King our Soveraign let me pray you to put His Majesty in mind to be good as I no ways distrust unto my poor Wife and Children at which words or at his countenance in the delivery or at both the Bishop being somewhat troubled took the liberty to ask him whether he had ever any secret abodement or presage in his mind No said the Duke But I think some adventure may kill me as well as another man The very day before he was slain feeling some indisposition of body the King was pleased to give him the honour of a visit and found him in his bed where after much serious and private conference the Duke at His Majesties departing imbraced him a very unusual and passionate manner and in like sort his Friend the Earl of Holland as if his Soul had divined he should see them no more which infusions toward fatal ends have been observed by some Authors of no light Authority On the very day of his death the Countess of Denbigh his Sister received a letter from him whereunto all the while she was writing her answer she bedewed the Paper with her tears and after a bitter passion whereof she could yield no reason but that her dearest Brother was to be gone she fell down in a swound her said letter ended thus I will pray for your happy return which I look at with a great Cloud over my head too heavy for my poor heart to bear without torment but I hope the great God of Heaven will bless you The day after his murder the Bishop of Ely her devoted Friend who was thought the fittest preparer of her mind to receive such a doleful accident came to visit her but hearing she was at rest he attended till she should awake of her self which she did with the affrightment of a dream her Brother seeming to pass through a Field with her in her Coach where hearing a sudden shout of the People and asking the reason it was answered to have been for joy that the Duke of Buckingham was sick which natural impression she had scarce related to her Gentlewoman before the Bishop was entred into her Bedchamber for a chosen Messenger of the Dukes most sudden Death Wottons Remains The Continuator of Bakers Chronicle mentions several other Presages of this Dukes untimely end as that his Picture fell down in the High Commission Chamber at Lambeth on the same day that Doctor Lamb his great Favourite was slain in the City of London for a Conjurer also that the Lady Davis who was reputed a great Prophetess had in June foretold that the Dukes fatal time would not come till August and lastly that one Mr. Towerson an Officer of the Custom-house was charged by a Phantasme or Spirit like the Dukes Father to tell him That if he changed not his Courses he would shortly become a great Fairing to the City of London which afterward was thought accomplished by his death which happened Aug. 23. 1628. and the day before Bartholomew Fair which was occasioned by the treachery of John Felton who waiting upon the Duke at Portsmouth gave him with a back blow a deep wound in his left side which the Duke himself pulling out sunk under the Table in the room and immediately expired one thing in this enormous accident saith Sir Henry Wotton is I must confess to me beyond all wonder as I received it from a Gentleman of judicious and diligent observation and one whom the Duke much favoured That within the space of not many minutes after the Dukes fall and removal of the body into the first room there was not a living creature in either of the Chambers near the Body no more than if it had lain in the Sands of Ehiopia whereas commonly in such cases you shall note every where a sudden conflux of People to the place to hearken and see but it seems the horrour of the fact stupified all Curiosity Reliquiae Wottonianae III. In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth there was one Mr. Gresham a Merchant of London who was sailing homeward from Palermo a City in Sicily wherein was dwelling at that time one Antonio sirnamed The Rich who had at one time two Kingdoms morgaged to him by the King of Spain Mr. Gresham crossed by contrary winds was constrained to anchor under the Lee of the Island of Strombulo where was a burning Mountain Now about the Mid-day when for a certain space the Mountain used to forbear sending forth flames he with Eight of the Sailors ascended the Mountain approaching as near the Vent as they durst where amongst other Noises they heard a voice cry aloud Dispatch Dispatch the Rich Antonio is coming terrified herewith they hasted their return and the Mountain presently vomited out fire and from so dismal a place they made all the haste they could but desiring to know more of this matter since the Winds still thwarted their course they returned to Palermo and forthwith inquiring for Antonio they found that he died about that very Instant so near as they could compute when that voice was heard by them Mr. Gresham at his return into England reported this to the King and the Mariners being called before him confirmed the same on their Oaths This wrought so deep an impression upon Mr. Gresham that he gave over all Merchandizing and distributed his Estate partly to his kindred and partly to good uses retaining only a Competency for himself and so spent the rest of his daies in a solitary Devotion Sandys Travels lib 4. IV. It is a very memorable thing which from the mouth of a very credible Person who saw it George Buchanan relates concerning James the Fourth King of Scotland who intending to make a War with England a certain Old Man of a very venerable Aspect and clad in a long Blew Garment came to him at the Church of St. Michaels at Linlithgow while he was at his Devotion and leaning over the Canons Seat where the King sate said I am sent unto thee O King to give thee warning that thou proceed not the War thou art about for if thou do it will be thy Ruine And having so said he withdrew himself back among the multitude The King after Service was ended enquired earnestly for him but he could no where be found neither could any of the standers by feel or perceive how when or where he passed from them having as it were vanished in their hands but no warning could divert his destiny which had not been destiny if it could have been diverted His Queen also had acquainted him with the Visions and Affrightments of her sleep that her Chains and Armlets appeared to be turned into
Pearl that she had seen him fall from a great Precipice that she had lost one of her Eyes But he answered These were but Dreams arising from the many thoughts and cares of the day and therefore marched on and fought with the English and was slain in Flodden Field with a great number of his Nobility and common Souldiers upon Sept. 9. 1513. Bakers Chronicle V. The Lord Hastings was arrested by Richard the Third called Crook-back because he would not joyn with him against the young King Edward the Fifth and in making Richard King who was already Protector And being charged with High Treason Richard wished him to make haste to be confessed for he swore by St. Paul his usual Oath That he would not touch Bread or Drink till his head was off whereupon he was led forth unto the Green before the Chappel within the Tower where his Head was laid upon a log of Timber and there stricken off In this man's death we may observe how inevitable the blows of Destiny are for the very night before his death the Lord Stanly sent a secret Messenger to him at midnight in all haste to acquaint him with a Dream he had in which he thought that a Bore with his Tushes so goared them both in the heads that the blood ran about their shoulders And because Richard Protector gave the Bore for his cognizance in his Arms the dream made so fearful an impression upon his heart that he was throughly resolved to stay no longer and had made his Horse ready desiring the Lord Hastings by all means to go with him presently thereby to be out of the danger before day-light But the Lord Hastings answered the Messenger Good Lord doth your Master lean so much to such Trifles to put such faith in Dreams which either his own Fear fancieth or else do rise in the nights rest by reason of the daies thoughts Go back therefore to thy Master and commend me to him and pray him to be merry and have no fear for I assure him I am as sure of the man be thinketh of as of mine own head The man he meant was one Catesby who deceived him and was himself the first mover to rid him out of the way Another warning he had the same morning in which he was beheaded his Horse twice or thrice stumbled with him almost to falling which though it often happen to such to whom no mischance is towards yet hath it of old been observed to be many times a foregoing token of some great misfortune Bakers Chronicle VI. There was an Italian called David Risio who had followed the Ambassador of Savoy into Scotland and in hope of bettering his Fortune gave himself to attend the Queen Mary at first in the Quality of a Musician afterward growing into more favour he was admitted to write her French Letters and in the end was preferred to be Principal Secretary of State had only the Queens Ear and Governed all Affairs at Court Yea to that excess of Pride and Arrogancy was he grown that he would out-brave the King in his Apparel in his Houshold-furniture in the number and forts of his Horses and in deed in every thing else This man had warning given him more than once by Joh. Damiot a French Priest who was thought to have some skill in Magick to do his business and be gone for that he could not make good his part nor stand against those that opposed him to whom he answered disdainfully The Scots are given more to brag than fight Some few daies before his death being warned by the same Priest to take heed of the Bastard he replyed That whilst be lived he should not have credit nor Power enough in Scotland to do him hurt for he thought the Earl of Murray to be the man of whom he was advertised to take heed but being found one day in the Queens Bed-Chamber the first stroke was given him by George Douglas base Son to the Earl of Anges after whom every man inflicted his wound till he was dispatched this was in the year 1565. Spâ—â—swoods Hist of Scotland VII Dr. Hâ—ylin in the Life of William Laud Arch. Bishop of Canterbury mentions these as the strange Presages of his fall and death On Friday night the 27th of Decemh 1639. there happened such a violent Tempest that many of the Boats which were drawn to Land at Lambeth were dasht one against another and broke to pleces the Shafts of two Chimneys were blown down upon the Roof of his Chamber and beat down both the Lead and Rafters upon his Bed in which Ruine he must needs have perished if the roughness of the Water had not forced him to keep his Chamber at Whitehall The same night at Croydon a retiring place belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury one of the Pinnacles fell from the Steeple beating down the head and roof of the Church above twenty foot square The same night too at the Cathedral Church in Canterbury one of the Pinnacles upon the Belfry Tower which carryed a Vane with this Archbishops Arms upon it was violently strucâ— down but carryed a great distance from the Steeple and fell upon the roof of the Cloister under which the Arms of the Archbishops See it self were engraven in stone which Arms being broken in pieces by the former gave occasion to one that loved him not to collect this Inference That the Arms of the present Archbi hop of Canterbury breaking down the Arms of the See of Canterbury not only presaged his own fall but the Ruine of the Metropolitical Dignity by the weight thereof But of these he took not so much notice as he did of an Accident which happened on St. Simon and Judes Eve not above a week before the beginning of the Long Parliament 1640. which drew him to his fatal Ruine On which day going to his upper Study to send some Manuscripts to Oxford he found his Picture which was at full length and taken as near the Life as the Pencil could express it to be fallen on the floor annd lying flat on its sace the string being broke by which it was hanged against the Wall yet the sight whereof he took such a sudden apprehension that he began to fear it as an Omen of that Ruine which was coming toward him and which every day began to be threatned to him as the Parliament grew nearer and nearer to consult about it These things occasioned him to look back on a former misfortune which chanced Septemb. 19. 1633. being the very day of his Translation to the See of Canterbury when the Ferry Boat transporting his Coach and Horses with many of his Servants in it sunk to the bottom of the Thames Heylins Life A.B. Land VIII Duncan King of Scots had two principal Men whom he imployed in all matters of Importance called Mackbeth and Banquo these two travelling together through a Forrest were met by three Witches or Wizards as the Scots call them whereof the first
he furiously loved seigned himself sick and sent for all his Uncles Princes of Pomerania being twenty in number to come and see him whom lying in his Bed he earnestly desired That if he chanced to die they would make choice of one of his Sons to be King which they willingly promised in case the Lords of the Kingdom would consent thereunto The Queen enticed them all one by one to drink a Health to the King which as soon as they had done they took their leaves But they were scarce got out of the King's Chamber before they were seized with intolerable pains by the corroding of the Poison wherewith the Queen had intermingled their Drink in a short time they all died The Queen gave it out as a Judgment of God upon them for having conspired the death of the King and prosecuting this Accusation caused their bodies to be taken out of their Graves and cast into the Lake Goplo over a City called Crusphitz But by a miraculous Transformation an innumerable company of Rats and Mice did rush out of those Bodies which gathering together in crouds went and assaulted the King as he was with great Jollity feasting in his Pallace The Guards endeavoured to drive them away with Weapons and Fire but all in vain The King perplexed with this extraordinary danger fled with his Wife and Children into a Fortress that is yet to be seen in that Lake of Goplo whither he was pursued with such a number of these creatures that the Land and the Waters were covered with them and they cryed and hissed most fearfully they entred in at the Window of the Fortress having scaled the Walls and there they devoured the King his Wife and Children alive and left nothing of them remaining by which means all the Race of the Polonian Princes was utterly extinguished and Pyast a Husbandman at the last was elected King Heylins Cosmography IV. Hatto the Second Duke of Franconia Sirnamed Bonosus Abbot of Fulden was Chosen Archbishop of Mentz in 968. at which time was a grievous Dearth and the Poor being ready to starve for want of food he caused great companies of them to be gathered together and put into Barns pretending that they should receive Corn and other Relief but he caused the Barns unmercifully to be set on fire and the Poor People to be miserably burnt therein saying withal That the Poor were like the Rats and Vermine who did eat up the fruits of the Land But not long after an Army of Rats gathered themselves together no man can tell from whence and set upon him so furiously that into what place soever he retired himself they would come and fall upon him if he climbed on high into Chambers they would ascend the Wall and enter at the Windows and other small chinks and crevises the moremen attempted to destroy them the more outragious they seemed and the more to increase in number The wretched Prelate seeing he could find no place by Land safe for him resolved to seek some resuge on the Waters and got into a Boat to convey himself to a Tower in the midst of the Rhine near a little City called Bingen but the Rats threw themselves by innumerable heaps into the Rhine and swum to the foot of the Tower and clambering up the Wall entred therein and fell upon him gnawing and biting and throtling and tearing and tugging him most miserably till he died This Tower is yet to be seen and at this day called Rats Tower It is also remarkable that whiles the Archbishop was yet alive and in perfect health the Rat 's gnawed and razed out his Name written and painted upon many Walls Heylins Cosmog V. Clearchus after he had put to death the greatest part of the Nobility and men of chiefest Account in the City of Heraclea usurped a Tyrannical Authority over them and amongst other horrid Cruelties and Enormities he constrained the Widdows of those whom he had murdered to marry those Villains his followers whom he allotted to them insomuch that many with grief and anger killed themselves Now there were two Persons of a stout and couragious Temper who pitying the miserable condition of their Country were resolved to venture their Lives to deliver the miserable People out of his wretched hands whereupon they came accompanied with fifty others of the same mind and resolution pretending as if they would have him decide a private Quarrel between them but as soon as they had opportunity they all joyntly fell upon the Tyrant and with their Swords hewed him to pieces even in the very midst of his Guards Beards Theatre VI. Andronicus was one of the most cruel Tyrants that ever lived for he exceeded in all kind of wickedness as Ambition Murder Adultery Incest and the like He was so treacherous and disloyal that he traiterously murdered the Son and Heir of Emanuel the Emperour causing him to be tyed up in a Sack and so drowned in the Sea After which he by violence took possession of the Empire of Constantinople and like a strong Thief seized upon that which was none of his own Having thus attained his desire he began to rage and rave committing all manner of Villanies and Debaucheries ravishing Women and Virgins and afterward giving them to his Pimps and Ruffians to be abused yea he committed a Rape upon one of his own Sisters and to secure himself in this Tyrannical Estate he murdered most of his Nobility and all others that had any shew of Civility or Honesty living altogether by Robbery and Extortion whereupon his Subjects tyred out by the multitude of Evils which he daily committed were no longer able to endure his vile Outrages and Indignities and therefore rise up against him and after besieging him for some time they at last got him into their hands whom they used with as much cruelty as he had exercised upon them For having degraded him and despoyled him of all his Imperial Ornaments they pluckt out one of his Eâ—es and then set him upon an Ass with his face to the Tayl which he held in his hand instead of a Scepter and a Rope about his Neek instead of a Crown in this attire and order they led him through all the Streets of Constantinople the people shouting and reviling him on all sides some throwing dung others dirt and spittle upon him and Women their Chamberpots upon his Head lastly he was carryed to the Gallows and there hanged Beards Theatre VII Pyrrhus King of Epirus was a restless Tyrant his whole delight was in Murder and Bloodshed but at last having cunningly gotten into the City of Argos whil'st the Citizens made head against him he was hurt with a Pike whereupon he fell upon him that hurt him who was a Person of a mean condition whose Mother a poor old Woman was at that time got upon the top of a House to see the Fight and perceiving that it was her Son whom Pyrrhus assaulted she was so affrighted to see
Fetters mount from thy Body and go thy way Oâ—â— of his Life p. VII Hâ—â—o Grotius the greatest Schollar that his Age boasted of after so many Embassys happily performed abroad and as many Transactions well managed at home After an exact survey of all the Hebrew Greek and Latin Learning after an unanswerable Treatise of the Truth of the Christian Religion and many other Elaborate Discourses in Divinity and other parts of Learning concluded his Life with this Protestation That he would give all his Learning and Honour for the plain Integrity and harmless innocence of John Urick who was a devout poor man that spent Eight hours of his time in Prayer Eight in Labour and but Eight in Sleep and other necessaries He also made this complant to another who admired his astonishing Industry Ah! Vitam perdidi operose nihil agendo Ah! I have lost my Life in doing nothing industriously and gave this direction only to another who desired it as knowing his great Wisdom and Learning Be serious When he was on his Death-Bed he sent for a Minister professing himself to be the poor Publican saying That he had nothing to trust to but the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ and wishing that all the world saw as much reason in Religion as he did Dying Mens words p. 162. VIII Salmasius that Excellent French Schollar whom the Learned men of his time never mention without such Expressions as these vir nunquam satis laudatus c. A man never enough to be praised nor to be mentioned without admiration went out of the World with these words in his mouth Oh I have lost a world of Time Time that most precious thing in the world whereof had I but one year longer it should be spent in Davids Psalms and St. Pauls Epistles Oh Sirs said he to these about him mind the World less and God more all the Learning in the world without true Piety and the Fear of God is nothing worth The fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from Evil that is understanding Ibidâ—m p. 161. IX Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State in Queen Elizabeths Reign toward the latter end of his Life writ to the Lord Chancellor Burleigh to this purpose We have lived enough to our Countrey to our Fortunes and to our Soveraign it is high time we begin to live to our selves and to our God in the multitude of Assairs that passed through our hands there must be some miscarriages for which a whole Kingdom cannot make our peace And being observed to be more melancholy than usual some Court Humorists were sent to divert him Ah said Sir Francis while we laugh all things are serious round about us God is serious when he preserveth us and hath patience toward us Christ is serious when he dyeth for us the Holy Ghost is serious when he striveth with us the Holy Scripture is serious when it is read before us Sacraments are serious when they are administred to us The whole Creation is serious in serving God and us those that are in Heaven and Hell are serious and shall a man that hath one foot in the grave jest and laugh Wanly Hist Man p. 646. X. Sir Tho. Smith after he had many years served Q. Elizabeth also as Secretary of State and done many considerable Services to the Kingdom A quarter of a year before he dyed layd aside all publick Imployment and discharging all his worldly Affairs and Attendants sent to two Reverend Divines his singular good Friends intreating them to draw him out of the word of God the plainest and axactest way of making his peace with God and living Godly in this present world adding That it was great pity men knew not or at least did not seriously consider to what end they were born into this world till they were ready to go out of it Fair warning p. 168. XI Doctor Donne a Person of as great Parts and Spirit as any this Nation ever beheld when he was upon his Death-bed took his solemn farewell of his most considerable Friends leaving this with them I repent of all my Life but that part of it which I spent in communion with God and doing good That Person in a dying hour shall wish himself not a man who hath not been a good Christian Idem p. 164. XI Arch-Bishop Vsher that Famous Learned and most pious Divine after his indefatigable pains as a Christian a Schollar a Bishop and a Preacher went out of the world with this Prayer Lord forgive me my sins of Omission and desired to dye as Mr. Perkins did imploring the mercy and favour of God Idem p. 164. XIII Sir Philip Sydney a Subject indeed of England but they say chosen King of Poland whom Q. Elizabeth called Her Philip and the Prince of Orange called his Master whose Friendship the Lord Brooks was so proud of that he would have this to be part of his Epitaph Here lyeth Sir Philip Sidneys Friend whose Death was lamented in Verse by the then Kings of France and Scotland and the two Universities of England This great man lamented so much at his Death the innocent vanity of his Life in writing his Arcadia that to prevent the unlawful kindling of heats in others he would have committed it to the Flames himself and left this farewel among his Friends Love my Memory cherish my Friends their Faith to me may â—ssure you they are honest but above all govern your Will and Affections by the Will and Word of your Creator and in me behold the end of this world and all its vanities Ibidem p. 136. XIV Sir Henry Wotton after his many years study with great proficiency and applause in the University his near Relation to the great Favourite the E. of Essex his intimacy with the Duke of Tuscany and James the 6th King of Scotland his Embassyes to Holland Germany Venice c. was only ambitious of the Provostship of Eaton being exceeding desirous to retire thither to injoy his beloved Study and Devotion saying often That this was the happiest time of his life it being the utmost happiness which a man could attain to to be at leasure to be and to do good never reflecting on the spending of his former years without tears and would often say How much time have I to repent of and how little to do it in Idem p. 154. XV. Sir John Mason Privy Councellor to King Hen. 8. and K. Edw. 6. upon his death-Bed called for his Clerk and Steward to whom he spake to this purpose I have seen five Princes and been Privy Councellor to four I have seen the most observable matters in Forreign parts and been present at most Transactions for 30 years together and I have learned this after many years experience that Seriousness is the greatest wisedom Temperance the best Physick and a good Conscience is the best Estate and were I to live again I would change the Court for a Church my Privy
gave command to his Reverend Chaplain to preach abroad and to let all men know how severely God had disciplined him for his sins by his afflicting hand that his sufferings were most just tho he had laid ten thousand times more upon him and how God had laid on him one stripe upon another because of his grievous provocations till he had brought him home to himself and declaring that from the bottom of his soul he did detest and abher the whole course of his former wicked life and admired the goodness of God who had given him a true sense of his pernicious opinions and vile practises warning all men in the name of God and as they regard the welfare of their souls no more to deny his Being or his providence or despise his goodness no more to make a mock of sin or contemn the pure and excellent Religion of the ever Blessed Redeemer through whose Merits alone he who was one of the greatest of Sinners did yet hope for mercy and forgiveness and in this Penitent and Religious temper and frame of Spirit he sometime after gave up the Ghost Rechesters Life and Sermon XIX I shall conclude all with some brief remarks out of the Life of that Excellent and Worthy Person the late Lord Chief Justice Hales as lately published by a Reverend Divine This Gentleâ—an was descended rather from a good than a Noble Family and about the Seventeenth year of his Age went to Oxford where he was placed under an able Tutor and was an extraordinary proficient but the Stage-Plays coming thither he was so much corrupted by seeing many Plays that he almost wholly forsook his Studies of which mischief being sensible he at his coming to London resolved â—ver to see a Play again to which he constantly adhered but one â—rruption of the mind draws on another so that he fell into many â—uthful vanities and kept too much ill Company with some vain â—eople till a sad accident drove him from it for he with some other â—oung Persons being invited out of Town to be merry one of the â—ompany called for so much Wine and went on in such excess that though Mr. Hale would have prevented it he fell down as dead â—efore them so that all that were present were not a little affrighted 〈◊〉 it who did what they could to bring him to himself again This â—â—d Particularly affect Mr. Hale who thereupon went into another â—om and shutting the door fell on his knees and prayed earnestly 〈◊〉 God both for his Friend That he might be restored to life again â—nd that himself might be forgiven forgiving such countenance to so â—uch excess and he vowed to God that he would never again keep â—â—mpany in that manner nor Drink allealth while he lived His friend recovered and he most Religiously kept his vow till his â—ying day and though he was afterwards pressed to drink healths â—rticularly the Kings which was set up by too many as a distinâ—uishing mark of Loyalty and drew many into great excess after â—is Majesties happy Restoration but he would never dispence with is Vow though he was roughly treated for this sometimes which â—â—me hot and indiscreet men call obstinacy This wrought such an â—â—tire change on him that now he forsook all vain Company and â—vidâ—d himself between the duties of Religion and the studies of â—s Profession in the former whereof he was so regular that for six â—â—d Thirty years time he never once failed going to Church on the â—â—rds day though he was acquainted with all sorts of Learning â—â—t he seemed to have made the study of Divinity the chiefest of all â—hers He was a very merciâ—ul and upright Judg and would hear no â—auses but in open Court which a great Peer once complained of 〈◊〉 the King But his Majesty bid him content himself that he was no â—rse used and said He verily believed he would have used himself no â—ttâ—r if he had gone to sollicitâ— him in any one of his own Causes He â—ade it as a Rule to himself That in the administration of Justice 〈◊〉 was intrusted for God the King and Countrey and therefore ought 〈◊〉 do it uprightly deliberately and resolutely and yet was much conâ—rned that though it was his duty to serve in the Office he was calâ—â—d to yet was it a great consumer of that little time we have here â—â—ch he thought might be better spent in a piâ—us Contemplative life â—â—d a due provision for Eternity J. Hales Life To conclude The most learned wise and sâ—â—ious Persons in all aâ—es have all concurred in their Judgments as to a future State and â—â—ve thought it to be the greatest wisdom in this world to be truly â—eligious and to work out their Salvation with fear and trembling FINIS There are lately published Three very useful anâ— necessary Books which are sold by Nathâ— Crouch at the Bell next door to the Widow Kemp's Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill I. HIstorical Remarques and Observations of the Antient and Present State of London and Westminster shewing the Foundation Walls Gates Towers Bridges Churches Rivers Wards Halls Companies Government Courts Hospitals Schools Inns oâ— Court Charters Franchises and Priviledges thereof with an Account of the most Remarkable Accidents 〈◊〉 to Wars Fires Plagues and other occurrences for above 900 years past in and about these Cities and among other particulars the Poisoning of K. John by 〈◊〉 Monk The Resolution of K. Henry 3. utterly to destroâ— and consume the City of London with Fire for joyning with the Barons against him and his seizing their Charters Liberâ—â—â— and Customs into his hands The Rebellion of Waâ—â—â—yler who was slain by the Lord Mayor iâ— Smithfield and the Speech of Jack Straw at his Execution the deposing of R. Rich. 2. and his mournful Speech at his resigning the Crown with the manner 〈◊〉 his being Murdered The Dâ— of York's coming into thâ— Parliament and claiming the Crown in K. Henry 6. time The Murder of K. Henry 6. and likewise of Edw. 〈◊〉 and his Brother by Rich. 3. called Crook-back Thâ— Execution of Empson and Dudley the Insurrection iâ— London in K. Henry 8. time and how 411 Men and Women went through the City in their Shifts and Ropes about their necks to Westm Hall where they were pardoned by the King The Speeches of Q. Ann Bullen 〈◊〉 Lord Protector and Q. Jane Gray at their several Deaâ—â— upon Tower hill With several other Remarques in all the Kings anâ— Queens Reigns to this Year 1681. And a description 〈◊〉 â—e manner of the Tryal of the late L. Stafford in West Hall â—llustrated with Pictures of the most considerable matters â—uriously Ingraven on Copper Plates with the Arms of the â—5 Companies of London and the time of their Incorâ—orating by Rich. Burton Author of the History of the Wars of England c. Price One Shilling II. The Wars in England Scotland and Ireland Or AN Impartial Account of all