T. Appleyard 668 Dr. Jo. Richardson Bp. of Ardah 607 Dr. Jo. Bramhal A. B. Armagh 489 Sir Thomas Armstrong 680 Th. Howard E. of Arundel 284 Lord Arundel of Warder 688 Dr. D. Lloyd Dean of St. Asaph 613 Jacob Lord Ashley 644 Sir Bernard Ashley ihid George Ashley Esq 649 Col. Ashton 554 Sir Arthur Aston 644 Sir Henry Audley 688 Alderman Avery 633 B. Col. Bagot 666 Dr. Samuel Baker 512 Dr. Walter Balcanqual 523 Dr. W. Roberts Bp. of Bangar 599 Sir John Banks 586 Lord Bard 668 Dr. Isaac Bargrave D. of Cant. 687 Dr. Joh. Barkham 279 Coll. William Barns 696 Dr. John Barnston 91 Dr. Baron 642 Robert Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 306 Montague Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 315 Dr. Joh. Barwick D. of St. Pauls 610 Sir Simon Baskervile 635 Mr. Basly 507 Henry Earl of Bath 650 Dr. Richard Bayly 541 Dr. William Beal 454 Sir Joh. Beaumont 671 Mr. Beaumont 563 Dr. W. Bedle Bp. of Kilmore 605 Sir Joh Bennet 594 Mr. Bennet 521 Col. Benlow 558 Col. Cassey Bental 694 Joh. Lord Berkley 98 George Lord Berkley 126 Sir Robert Berkley 93 Sir Edward Berkley 109 Sir William Berkley 110 Sir Henry Berkley 114 Sir Maurice Berkley 119 Sir Rowland Berkley 120 Sir George Berkley 122 Richard Berkley Esq 119 Mr. Rowland Berkley 689 Dr. Nicholas Bernard 701 Col. Bernard 696 Mr. Joh. Betley 554 Col. Betoâ— 696 Sir Henry Billingham 698 Col. Francis Billingsley 696 Joh. Lord Biron 487 Richard Lord Biron 489 Sir Philip Biron 488 Sir Nicholas Biron 489 Sir Robert Biron ibid. Cornet Blackbourn 563 Col. Thomas Blague 679 Sir Arthur Blaney 666 Col. John Blaney ibid. Mountjoy Lord Blunt E. of Newport 651 Sir John Bois 680 Mr. Jo. Bois 613 Sir Thomas Bosvile 698 Sir William Boswel 686 Mr. Bourchier 565 Sir Th. Bower 698 Sir George Bowles 671 Col. Bowles 658 â—r Thomas Bowyer 633 Mr. Boyle 678 Sir Mathew Boynton 705 Dr. Jo. Bramhal A. B. Armagh 489 Sir John Bramston 82 Dr. William Bray 512 P. Lord Ruthen E. of Bremford 674 Sir Thomas Bridges 698 Sir William Bridges ibid. Dr. Bridgman Bp. of Chester 622 Col. Brin 645 Jo. Lord Digby E. of Bristol 579 â—r Th. Westfield Bp. of Bristol ibid. Sir Edward Bromfield L. M. London 633 Col. Robert Broughton 666 Col. Edward Broughton ibid. Sir Peter Brown 669 Sir John Brown 674 Dr. Brown D. of Hereford 51â— Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bp. of Exon. 404 Col. Buck 658 Sir William Bulton 698 Sir George Bunkley 689 692 Captain Burleigh 564 Sir Thomas Burton 649 Sir William Butler 690 Col. Jo. But er 671 Col. Tho. Butler ibid. C. Robert Lord Dormer E. of Caernarv 369 Mr. Isaac Calf 511 Duke Hâ—milton E. of Cambridge 642 Sir William Campian 679 Dr. W. Laud A. B. Cant. 225 Sir R. Cauterel 689 Arthur Lord Capel 479 Sir Henry Carew 692 Sir Mathew Carew 665 Sir Francis Carew 693 Sir Alexander Carew 705 Ja. Lord Hay E. of Carlisle 676 Dr. Potter Bp. of Carlisle 153 Dr. Th. comber D. of Carlisle 447 Sir Francis Carnaby 668 Sir William Carnaby ibid. Mr. William Cartwright 422 Hen. Lord Cary E. of Monmouth 650 Sir Rob. Lord Cary E. of Monmouth 650 Henry Cary Lord Falkland 333 Lucius Cary Lord Visc. Falkland 331 Sir Horatio Cary 659 Sir Henry Cary ib. Col. Edward Cary ib. Col. Theodoâ—e Cary ib. Col. Tho. Cary 693 Dr. Catesford 530 Sir Richard Cave 671 Ch. Lord Cavendish Visc. Mansfield 672 Sir Charles Cavendish ib. Charles Cavendish Esq ib. William Chaldwel Esq 688 Mr. Challoner 564 Dr. Chambers 506 George Lord Chandois 365 Dr. W. Chappel Bp. of Cork and Ross 607 K. CHARLES I. 16 Edw. Lord Herbert of Cherbury 372 Dr. Cheshire 507 Dr. â—ryan Walton Bp. of Chester 513 Dr. H. Fern Bp. of Chester 604 Dr. Bridgman Bp. of Chester 622 Earl of Chesterfield 651 Mr. Chettam 636 Mr. Chibbald 507 Fr. Lord Leigh E. of Chichester 653 Dr. Childerley 510 Mr. William Chilling worth 54â— Col. Edwal Chisenhal 69â— Sir Richard Cholmley 681 Sir Hugh Cholmley 705 Mr. Chostlen 521 Col. James Chudleigh 658 Sir William Clark 671 Sir Christopher Cletherow 63â— Tho. Lord Wentworth E. of Cleveland 57â— Mr. John Cleveland 617 Major Lawrence Clifton 670 Col. Cockram 667 Mr. William Collet 634 Dr. Samuel Collins 452 Col. Coniers 67â— Col. Coâ—isby 673 Dr. Geo. Cook Bp. of Hereford 600 Sir William Compton 354 Sir Charles Compton 359 Sir Spencer Compton 361 Sp. Lord Compton E. of Northampt. 353 Mr. Henry Compton 363 Sir Henry Constable Visc. Dunbar 671 Sir Frederick Cornwallis 66â— Francis Lord Cottington 78 Dr. Rob. Wright Bp. of Coventry 600 Sir William Courtney 680 John Courtney Esq 693 Dr. Abraham Cowley 62â— Dr. Cox 687 Sir Richard Crane 667 Mr. John Crane 634 Mr. Richard Crashaw 618 Sir Francis Crawley 29â— Col. Cuthbert Crifton 670 Sir Nicholas Crisp 627 Sir Oliver Cromwel 635 Sir William Crofts 673 John Lord Culpepper 654 Sir Alexander Culpepper 693 Dr. Walter Curle 597 Sir John Curson 700 Sir Patricius Curwen 692 D. Sir Thomas Dacres 682 Sir Francis Dacres ib. Sir Richard Dacres ib. Col. Dalby 665 Sir Thomas Dallison 667 Mr. Dalton 689 H. Lord Danvers E. of Danby 677 Fr. L. D'Aubigney L. Almoner 337 George Lord D'Aubigney 321 Dr. Jo. Davenant Bp. of Salisbury 281 Sir Humprey Davenport 146 Dr. R. Manwaring Bp. of St. Davids 270 Sir Abraham Daws 628 Sir Alexander Denton 700 â—a Lord Stanley E. of Derby 572 â—o Lord Digby E. of Bristol 579 Sir John Digby 580 Sir Kenelm Digby ib Mr. Kenelm Digby 581 Mr. Dubly Diggs 425 Mr. Joseph Diggons 635 Sir Wolstan Dixby 649 Sir Lewis Dives 691 Mr. John Dod 12â— Baron Done 68â— Rob. Lord Dormer E. of Caernarvon 36â— Sir Robert Dormer 70â— â—enry Earl of Dover 650 Dr. J. Taylor Bp. of Down Connor 70â— Dr. Arthur Duck 592 Mr. R. Dugard 63â— Sir H. Constable Lord Visc. Dunbar 671 Dr. Brian Duppa Bp. of Salisbury 598 Dr. Th. Morton Bp. of Duresm 436 Mr. John Dutton 700 E. Dr. Thomas Earls 604 Mr. Eccop 507 Dr. Thomas Eden 593 Mr. Edlin 511 Dr. Matthew Wren Bp. of Ely 61â— Dr. Wilford D of Ely 615 D. Edward Martin D. of Ely 461 Sir Michael Ernely 675 L. C. Thomas Eure 670 Sir Gerâ—ase Eyre 667 Dr. R. Brownrig Bp. of Exâ— 404 F. Earl of Falmouth 105 Fr. Lord Fane E. Westmorland 650 Mildm Lord Fane E. Westmorland ib Thomas Lord Fanshaw 684 Sir Richard Fanshaw 685 Mr. Thomas Farnaby 616 Mr. Anthony Farrington 543 Hen. Cary Lord Faulkland 333 Lucius Cary Visc. Faulkland 331 Dr. Daniel Featly 527 690 Dr. Samuel Fell 531 Richard Lord Fielding 658 Col. Fenwick 694 Dr. H Ferne Bp. of Chester 604 Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh 559 Sir John Finch L. Keeper 52 Col. Fitz-morris 696 Col. Fleâ—ing 645 Sir H. Fletcher 681 Dr. Forbes 642 Sir Nicholas Fortescue 66â— â— L. Ruthen E. of Forth c. 67â— Sir Robert Foster 588 〈◊〉 Fowler 689 Sir Erasmus de la Fountain 649 〈◊〉 Mark Frank 680 â—r
Freeman 507 Dr. Ac. Frewen A. B. York 501 Sir Ferdinando Fisher 695 Mr. Jo. Friar 556 Dr. Thomas Fuller 523 Dr. William Fuller 509 G. Col. Henry Gage â—78 â—ir Jo. Gair L. M. London 631 Sir F. Gamul 692 Sir Thomas Gardiner 587 Alderman Jo. Garnet 633 Alderman Geo. Garnet ib. Sir Henry Garraway L. M. London ib. Dr. Jo. Gauden Bp. of Worcester 602 Sir Arthur Georges 697 Sir Gilbert Gerrard 557 Sir Francis Gerrard 669 Col. John Gerrard 557 Dr. Gifford 507 Sir John Girlington 681 Serjeant W. Glanvile 585 Sir Richard Gleddal 683 Sir Thomas Glenham 551 HENRY Duke of Glocester 656 Dr. G. Goodman Bp. of Glocester 601 Dr. Goad 594 Sir William Godolphin 694 Col. Sidney Godolphin ib. Sir Richard Goodhill 684 Lord Gordon 640 Col. Nath. Gordon 63â— Dr. Jâ— Gorsack 531 Geo. Lord Goring E. of Norwich 56â— Col. Gosnal 700 Ja. Lord Graham M. Montross 638 Lord Grandison 677 Dr. Graunt 506 Anthony Lord Gray E. of Kent 635 Lord Gray of Ruthen 653 Col. Richard Green 696 Sir Bevil Greenvile 468 Mr. Joh. Gregory 86 Dr. Matthew Griffith 521 Mr. Grigson 636 Col. Hugh Grove 554 Sir R. Gurney L. M. London 625 H. Sir Thomas Haggerston 699 Mr. Haiâ—es 507 Dr. George Hakewill 540 Sir Jo. Hale 649 Sir Richard Halford ib. Sir Edward Hales 691 Mr. John Hales 606 Dr. Joâ— Hall Bp. of Norwich 411 Dr. Halsey 5â—â— Ja. Duke Hamilton E. of Cambridge 642 W. Duke Hamilton ib. Dr. Henry Hammond 381 Mr. Hansley 507 Sir John Harper 691 Mr. Harrison 637 Sir William Hart 699 Dr. William Harvey 70â— Sir Richard Hastings 699 â—hristopher Lord Hatton 691 Sir Stephen Hawkins 69â— Jo Lord Haâ— E. of Carlisle 676 Sir Robert Heath 584 Mr. Heath 507 Sir Thomas Hele 691 Sir John Hele 516 691 Walter Hele Esq 517 Mr. Alexander Henderson 707 Edw. Lord Herbert of Cherbury 372 Richard Lord Herbert 645 Sir Edward Herbert ib. Col. Charles Herbert ib. Col. Edward Herbert ib. Dr. Geo. Cook Bp. of Hereford 600 Dr. Nich. Monk Bp. of Hereford 610 Dr. Brown D. of Hereford 510 Col. George Heron 690 Dr. John Hewer 553 Dr. Peter Heylin 525 Dr. Heywood 512 Sir Willoughby Hickman 691 Serjeant Robert Hide 589 Sir Henry Hide 559 Dr. Edward Hide 541 Dr. Hill 507 Col. Jo. Hilton 699 Mr. Hinson 68â— Serjeant Hodskins 589 Sir Robert Holborn 584 Dr. Richard Holdsworth 457 H. Earl of Holland 705 Ralph Lord Hopton 341 Sir Ingram Hopton 671 Thomas Hortop Esq 649 Sir Joh. Hotham and his Son 704 Sir Gilbert Houghton 699 Th. Lord Howard E. of Acundel 284 Col. Thomas Howard 670 L. C. Philip Howard ib. Dr. Thomas Howel 522 Mr. James Howel 522 Dr. Michael Hudson 624 Mr. Henry Hudson 691 Col. Hern 696 Mr. Humes 508 Col. Francis Hungate 696 Anthony Hungerford Esq 691 Col. Jo. Hungerford ib. Sir Fulk Hunks 666 Hen. Earl of Huntington 649 Sir Charles Husley 691 J. Dr. Thomas Jackson 68 Sir John Jacob 628 Dr. Jefferies 531 David Judge Jenkins 589 Dr. Jermin 507 Dr. Thomas Johnson 578 Dr. Will. Johnson A. D. of Hunt â—ngton 701 Sir William Jones 649 Mr. Jones 688 Mr. Thomas Jones 689 Mr. Inigo Jones 577 Dr. Isaacson 50â— Dr W. Juxon A. B. of Cant. 595 K. Sir Nicholas Kemish 682 Edw. Lord Littleton Lord Keeper 582 Col. Posthumus Kerton 694 Lord Kilmurrey ib. Sir Jo. Finch Lord Keeper 52 Mr. Kensey 556 Anthony Lord Gray E. of Kent 635 Dr. R. Kettle 542 Mr. Kibbuts 507 â—r Philip King ib. General King 674 Rob. Lord Pierpoint E. of Kingston 434 Dr. W. Bedle Bp. of Kilmâ—â—â— 605 Lord Kilport 639 Mr. Daniel Kniveton 564 L. Col. Laglin 639 Sir Joh. Lamb 593 Dr. Lamb 513 Sir William Lambton 671 Sir Richard Lane 594 Sir Valentine Lane 699 Dr. Gerard Langbain 517 Sir Marmaduke Langdale 549 Dr. W. Laud A. B. Cant. 225 Mr. Launce 52â— Dr. Laurence 54â— Mr. Joh. Laurence 55â— Mr. William Laws 62â— Sir Richard Lawdy 67â— Sir John Lawson 64â— Col. Leak 67â— Mr. Leak ib. Mr. Leech 507 Fr. Lord Leigh E. of Chichester 653 Mr. Hamond L'Estrange 707 Dr. Levens 56â— Sir R. Leveson 66â— Ja. Lord Ley Earl of Marlborough 648 Dr. Th. Winniff Bp. of Lincoln 538 Rob. Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 306 Mount Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 315 Sir George Lisle 478 Major Lisle 698 Dr. Rob. Wright Bp. of Litchfield 600 Bern. Lord Stuart E. of Litchfield 327 Edw. Lord Littleton L. Keeper 58â— Dr. Littleton 50â— Sir Evan Lloyd 661 Dr. D. Lloyd D. of St. Asaph 613 Dr. George Wild Bp. of London-derry 622 Mr. Loss 689 Sir Charles Lucas 47â— Mr. John Lucas 556 Sir Herbert Lunsford 58â— Sir Thomas Lunsford ib. Col. Henry Lunsford 658 Mr. William Lyford 608 Mr. Simon Lynch 635 M. Mr. Maden 513 Col. Richard Manning 67â— Ch. L. Cavendish Visc. Mansfield 672 Sir William Manwaring 681 Dr. Rog. Manwaring Bp. of St. Davids 270 Mr. Marbury 507 Jo. L. Napier of Marchiston 64â— Ja. L. â—ey E. of Marleborough 64â— Col. John Marrow 66â— Dr. Sam. Marsh D. of York 50â— Dr. Edward Marten 53â— Dr. Edward Martin D. of Ely 46â— Sir Henry Martin 59â— Mr. Mason 506 Sir Anthony Maunsel 681 Dr. Francis Maunsel 54â— Prince MAVRICE 656 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. St. Andrews 643 Major Mercalf 700 Sir Thomas â— etham 671 Dr. Michelson 687 Sir Francis Middleton 696 Sir Richard Minshul 688 Rich. Lord Visc. Molineux 695 Col. Roger Molineux 69â— Dr. Nicholas Monk Bp. of Hereford 61â— Hen. L. Cary E. of Monmouth 65â— Sir Robert Cary E. of Monmouth ib. Sir John Monson 699 Ja. L. Graham M. Montross 638 Jo. L. Mordant E. of Peterborough 659 H. Lord Mordant E. of Peterborough ib. Col. Thomas Morgan 670 Col. Jo. Morris 563 Dr. Morrison 594 Dr. Th. Morton Bp. of Duresm 43â— Dr. James Mountford 53â— Dr. John Mountford ib. Lord Muskerry 678 Col. Mynne 664 Sir Christopher Mynnes 647 N. Jo. Lord Napier of Marchâ—ston 640 Sir Philip Nesbil 639 Sir Francis Nethersole 636 Francis Nevil Esq 549 Mountjoy Lord Blunt E. of Newport 651 Dr. Jo. â—icholas D. of St. Pauls 609 Sir Martin Noel 629 Mr Noel 688 Mr. Edward Norgate 634 Sp. Lord Compton E. of Northampt. 353 Geo. Lord Goring E. of Norwich 566 Dr. Jos. Hall Bp. of Norwich 411 O. William Lord Ogle 675 Sir Thomas Ogleby 639 Mr. Alexander Ogleby ib. Col. Okian ib. Dr. Oldish 689 Dr. John Oliver 543 Col. Oneal 664 Dr. Lambert Osbaston 616 Col. Jo. Osburn 699 Mr. William Oughrred 608 Sir John Owen 568 Dr John Owen 569 Mr. Owen 570 Dr. W. Paul Bp. of Oxon. 611 P. Mr. Ephraim Pagit 510 Mr. James Palmer 512 Dr. Samuel Pask 504 Dr. W. Paul Bp. Oxon. 611 Dr. Jo. Nicholas D. of St. Pauls 609 Dr. Jo. Barwiâ—â—k D. of St. Pauls 610 John Lord Pawler 652 Sir John Pawlet 675 Sir Robert Peak 577 Dr. John Pearson 612 Sir William Penniman 643 Sir John Pennington 646 Col. John Penâ—â—ddock 555 Col. Pert 665 Dr. John Towers Bp. of Peterborough 601 Jo. Lord
conceived it was not more then the hainousness of their Offences deserved yet had they Petitioned and submitted the next day it would wholly have been remitted 15. That he perswaded his Majesty to an offensive War against the Scots declaring that the Demands made by the Scots this Parliament was a sufficient Cause of a War besides that on the 10th of Octob. 1640. he said That the Nation of Scots were Rebells and Traytors adding that if it pleased his Master to send him back again as he was going to England he would leave the Scottish Nation neither Root nor Branch excepting those that took the aforesaid Oath The Earles Reply That he called all the Scottish Nation Traytors and Rebells no one Proof is produced and though he is hasty in speech yet was he never so defective of his reason as to speak so like a mad Man for he knew well his Majesty was a Native of that Kingdom and was confident many of that Nation were of as Heriock Spirits and as Faithful and Loyal Subjects as any the King had As to the other words of his rooting out the Scots Root and Branch he conceives a short Reply may serve they being proved by a single Testimony onely which can make no sufficient faith in case of life Again the witnesse was very much mistaken if not worse for he deposeth that these words were spoken the tenth day of October in Ireland whereas he was able to evidence he was at that time in England and had been so neer a month before 18. That when the Parliament 13 April 1640. entred upon the Grievances in Church and State the Earl to whom with the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the King referred the business of that Parliament advised his Majesty to press the Commons to supply his Majesties occasions against the Scots before they Redressed any Grievances And when they were in debate about the Supplies perswaded his Majesty to dissolve them by telling him they had denyed to supply him Adding after the dissolution of that Parliament that the King having tried the Affections of his people he was loosed and absolved from all Rules of Government and was to do every thing that Power would admit and that since his Majesty had tried all ways and was refused he should be Acquitted both by God and Man and that he had an Army in Ireland which he might imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience The Earles Reply That he was not the Principal Cause of Dissolving the last Parliament for before he came to the Council-table it was Voted by the Lords to Demand twelve Subsidies and that Henry Vane was Ordered to Demand no lesse But he coming in the interim he perswades the Lords to Vote it again Declaring to his Majesty then present and them the danger of the Breach of Parliament Whereupon it was Voted that if the Parliament would not grant twelve Subsidies Sir Henry Vane would descend to eight and rather than fail to six But Sir Henry not observing his Instructions demanded twelve only without abatement or going lower That the height of this Demand urged the Parliament to deny and their denial moved his Majesty to Dissolve the Parliament so that the chief occasion of the Breach thereof `was as he conceived Sir Henry Vane He confesseth that at the Council-table he Advised the King to an Offensive War against the Scots but it was not untill all fair means to prevent a War had been first attempted Again others were as much for a Defensive War and it might be as free to Vote one as the other Lastly Votes at a Council-board are but bare Opinions and Opinions if pertinaciously maintained may make an Heretick but cannot a Traytor And to Sir Henry Vanes Deposition he said it was onely a single testimony and contradicted by four Lords of the Iunto-tables depositions viz. The Earle of Northumberland the Marquess of Hamilton the Bishop of London and the Lord Cottington who all affirmed that there was no question made of this Kingdome which was then in obedience but of Scotland that was in Rebellion And Sir Henry Vane being twice Examined upon Oath could not remember whether he said this or that Kingdome and the Notes after offered for more proof were but the same thing and added nothing to the Evidence to make it a double Testimony or to make a Privy-councellors Opinion in a Debate at Council High-treason 19. That after the Dissolution of the Parliament April 5. 1640. The said Earl Advised the King to go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money and other Illegal Payments suing in Star-chamber and Imprisoning several that neglected either to gather or pay those Levies Particularly the Londoners who for not Collecting the Ship-money so vigorously as they should have done and refusing to give in the names of such Citizens as were able to Lend Moneyâ— upon the Loan of an 100000l demanded of them were threatned by him at the Council-table That they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom and that no good would be done with them till an Example were made of them till they were laid by the Heeles and some of the Aldermen Hanged up The Earles Reply That there was a present necessity for Money that all the Council-board had Voted with yea before him That there was then a Sentence in Star-chamber upon the Opinion of all the Iudges for the Legality of the Tax of Ship-money and he thought he might advice the King to take what the Iudges had declared was by Law his own He consessed that upon the Refusal of so just a Service the better to quicken the Citizenâ— to the Payment of Ship-money he said They deserved to be Fined Which words perhaps might be circumspectly delivered but conceives cannot be a motive to Treason especially when no ill consequence followed upon them And it would render Men in a sad condition if for every hasty Word or Opinion given in Council they should be Sentenced as Traytors But that he said It were well for the Kings Service if some of the Aldermen were hanged up he utterly denieth Nor is it proved by any but Alderman Garway who is at best but a single Testimony and therefore no sufficient Evidence in Case of Life 20. That he had Advised the King to seise upon the Bullion in the Mint and when the Merchants whose Bullion was seized on to the value of 50000l waited upon him at his house to represent to him the consequence of discrediting the Mint and hindering the Importance of Bullion Answered them that it was the course of other Princes in those exigencies to which the undutifulness of London kinder to the Rebells than to his Majesty had reduced the King And that he had directed the Imfusing of money with Brasse Alleadging to the Officers of the Mint when they represented to him the Inconvenience of that Project that the French King had an Army of horse to Levy his Taxes and search mens Estates and telling my Lord Cottington that
the Arch-bishop and Windebanke Sir Henry Vane affirmeth the words I deny them then there remain four for further Evidence viz. The Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who have all declared upon their honour that they never heard me speak those words nay nor the like Lastly suppose though I granted it not that I spake those words yet cannot the word this rationally imply England because the Debate was concerning Scotland as is yielded on all hands because England was not out of the way of obedience as the Earl of Clare observed well and because there was never the least intention of Landing the Irish Army in England as the foresaid Lords of the Privy Council are able to attest Concluding his defence with a sinewy summary and a close recapitulation of what he had said and a gallant Speech to this purpose My Lords THere yet remains another Treason that I should be guilty of The endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land That they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason Accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Vnder favour my Lords I do not conceive that there is either Statute-law or Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws to be High-treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear off declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for Life and Honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesuâ— Where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundreds of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burnt out to consume me and my Children extreame hard in my opinion that punishment should proceed promulgation of Laws punishment by a Law subsequent to the acts done Take it into your consideration For certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conform our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a Crime that doth proceed the Law What man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords It is hard in another respect that there should be no Token set upon this Offence by which we should know it no Admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man pass down the Thames in a Boat and it be Split upon an Anchor and no Buoy be set as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that owes the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were markâ— out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime where is the token this is High-treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can avail nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisdome and let us rest upon Divine Revelation if you will condemn me before you forewarn the danger Oh my Lords May your Lordships be pleased to give regard unto the presage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such contractive interpretations and these are where Laws are not clear or known If there must be trials of Wits I do humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be somewhat else than the lives and honours of Peers My Lords We find that the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the Books of Curious Arts and burned them And so likewise as I conceive it will be wisdome and providence in your Lordships for your posterity and the whole Kingdomes to cast from you into the fire those bloudy and most misterious Volumes of constructive and arbitrary Treasons and to betake your selves to the plain letters of the Law and Statute that telleth us where the crime is and by telling what is and what is not shews us how to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to be more wise and learned in the killing arts than our forefathers were It is now full two hundred and forty years since ever any man was touched for this alledged crime to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that our fathers have left us and not awaken thâ—se sleepy Lions to our own destructions by taking up a few musty Records that have lain so many Ages by the Walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be nobly pleased to add this to those other misfortunes befallen me for my Sins not for my Treasons that a President should be derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular cause be looked upon as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Commonwealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Commonwealth yet in this particular I indeed speak for it and the inconveniencies and mischiefs that will heavily fall upon us For as it is in the first of King Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put My Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of State that men of wisdome honour and virtue may not with chearfulness and safety be imployed for the publick If you weigh and measure them by Grains and Scruples the publick affairs of the Kingdom will be laid waste and no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to loose MY Lords I have now troubled you longer than I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in Heaven left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my Indiscretion should forfeit for my Child it even woundeth me to the very soul. You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it pass And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the affâ—iction of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquillity of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous Iudgement shall be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus A defence every way so compleat That he whom English Scots and Irish combined against in their Testimonies such English as cavied his virtues and power such Scots as feared his wisdom
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
us up then the Lord took him up not immediately Miracles being ceased but in and by the hands 1. Of Generous and Noble Guardians that much improved his Estate as well as himself 2. Of two Excellent School-Masters and Tutors in Memory of whom he kept his own Birth-day as the Athenians did that of Theseus doing alwayes some thing in Memory of his Teachers as they sacrificed a Ramme in Memory of his having designed we know not whether performed the endowment of a School where because 1. Raw Youths took Sanctuary in this Profession furnished only with a Rod and a Serida 2. Hopeful men slur it over in their way to a more profitable Employment 3. Indiscreet men meddle with this that understand Books but not Tempers well 4. Men undertake it against their Genius neither with delight nor dexterity who had as lieve be School-boys as School-Masters being ticed to the School as Coopers Dictionary or Scapulaes Lexicon is chained to the Desk or if good School-Masters they grow Rich and neglect it or if poor they are Masters to the Children and slaves to their Parents He intended an able discreet grave and dexterous man should be competently incouraged while he was able and provided for when not able to follow the School at the place either where he was born or which he valued more at the place where he was bred He would bless God that he had staid so long at the Gate of Wisdom supported like Wisdoms House in the Scripture by seven Pillars meaning the seven Liberal Sciences before he entred the Temple of it meaning the Profession of the Law That he might not be reckoned among those Sir Iohn Dodderidge calleth Doctum quoddam Indoctorum hominum genus natural abilities have gone far but Ingenious Education goeth further to understand our Law of which Sir Henry Finch observeth That the sparks of all other Sciences in the world are raked up under the ashes of the Law Which when admitted at the Temple he plied with 1. Reading 2. Hearing 3. Conference 4. Meditation 5. Recollection and 6. A good Common-place of Axioms Principles Rules and Aphorisms Apes debemus Imitori quae ut vagantur flores ad mel faciendum Idoneum Idoneos corpunt deinde quicquid attulere disponunt ac per favos digerunt Ita debemus quaecunque ex diversa Lectione congestimus separare melius enim distinct a servantur Sen. Epist. untill his Country-man Sir Randolph Crew and the great observer of Young men took special notice of him And likewise adorned with a grave Aspect vultu non destruens verba not contradicting that to the subtile eyes of those that dwell on Faces and from the workings of the Countenance discern the Intrigues of the minde which he spake to the Judicious Ear A sober and patient temper a reserved minde Modestus Incestus compositus ac probus vultus conveniens prudenti viro gestus And what was more practised with so much success and integrity that he had insinuated himself into the best acquaintance and most profitable practises of his time having been Steward to sixteen several Persons of Quality Executor to above three hundred Wills Feoffee in trust for fifty several considerable Estates Guardian to forty three several Orphans twice Reader of Grayes-Inn called to be Sergeant Term Mich. Anno 21. Iacobi Regis made Judge of the Common-Pleas 5. Caroli 1. upon Sir Henry Yelvertons Death and 7. Caroli 1. was preferred Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the place of Sir Iohn Walter then discharged 5. Car. and dead 8. Novemb. 6. Car. in the right though not in the exercise of which place he died 164 ... Receiving the Absolution and Communion when sick according to the Common-Prayer and ordering his burial when dead so too as did Judge Hutton Baron Denham Sir Iohn Brampston and all the Eminent Lawyers of that time by particular Clauses in their Wills being observed many of them to have wept their Common-Prayers left behinde in their Closets into bluts and blots all over A Monument for the Iudges that suffered about Ship-money P. M. S. Uno sub Monumento claudantur unanimes reliquiae quibus olim una anima unicus Calculus Quos conjunxit ostracismus nec dividat Epitaphium Erudite pertinax Trevor Mansuete magnanimus Davenport prudentissimo patiens Westonus tria Legum Anglicanarum Oracula Quibus regi pio servire summa videbatur Libertas ruente Regno cecidere-Divinae legis tam devote observantes quam tantos Patriae exacte callidi Ne tantos viros longa temporum Injuriâ vel Sacrilegiâ sequioris saeculi Incuria oblivioni traditos Perpetuae Vel fuisse Laboraret Annalium fides sacram saltem eorum memoriam in Epitaphio superstitem voluit D. W. Onely let us add to Sir Humphrey Davenport a relation of his we suppose thus dealt with Will. Davenport of Boom-hall Chester Esq compounded for 0745 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE RATCLIFFE THIS Gentleman might say as one of the fore-going Judges did That he had been a very happy man had it not been for that he was born in that age wherein it was fatal to give good counsel He was Born Anno 1587. at ... in York-shire most of his relation taking to the Sword that gives laws whereof 3. slain at Museleburgh-field 2. died in the suppression of the Northern Rebellion 63 in 88. and 2. whereof that excellent person Sir Iohn Ratcliffe who when with Sir Charles Rich being sick and desired by the Duke of Buckingham to retire into the Ships returned No they came to fight and leaning on their Pikes challenged death its self at the Isle of Rhee He was bred to the Laws that were made by the Sword so earnest was he in the behalf of those laws when there was a suspicion that they should be made void by an Arbitrary power and Prerogative that I find Sir Thomas Wentworth removed from York-shire to Essex and Sir George Ratcliffe to Hertford-shire to be confined for stickling in the Parliaments Anno 1625 1626. and yet so zealous he was for the Kings Prerogative and just Power when it was in a real hazard to be over-born with tumults and combinations in the behalf of pretended Laws that I find Sir George Ratcliffe involved in all the Earl of Straffords troubles None will question his worth that considereth him as the great Consident of that Earl in his affairs and all persons must needs confess his faithfulness that observeth him that excellent persons companion in all his sufferings The Lord Viscount Wentworth understood men and therefore when he was advanced President in the North he made him Atturney General at York and he was so sensible of serviceableness there that when he was called to the Leiutenancy of Ireland he carried him as his chief favourite over thither Where his contrivance was so good that Cardinal Mazarine gave 10000. Pistols for a Copy of a model pretended to be Sir George Ratcliffes Intituled A model for
of all to his undertakings in the Low Countries where his entertainments were free and noble his carriage towards Officers and Souldiers obliging especially those of his own Country his Engagements in every Action and Council remarkable his Designs on the Enemy restless and his Assaults forward being with the first generally at a Breach or Pass thrice Unhorsed but never daunted before Newport His courage growing from his dangers seldom using a Bed abroad and having little use of it as sleeping but four hours a night usually at home hardening thereby his body and knitting his soul. The first Expedition wherein he appeared was in the Company of the Earls of Essex and Nottingham to Cales where his great spirit was so impatient of delay that when it was Voted they should set upon the Town and Ships he and the Earl of Essex threw up their Caps and were so forward that he was Knighted in the Market-place where he said An old Woman with a Stone knocked down the Esquire and the General commanded him to rise a Knight His next adventure was with Sir Thomas Vere to Brill where he bestowed his time in observing the exact way of modern and regular Fortification His third Expedition was with Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury then Ambassador to make observation upon the Renowned French King H. 4. and his Court the safest and most useful travelling is in an Ambassadors Company and the best places to travel in is Holland to see all the world and France to see any part of it Whence he stepped to see the siege of Amiens so honorably managed by Sir Iohn Baskervile and Sir Arthur Savage His fourth sally was after a Voyage with the Earl of Cumberland to take the Spanish Câ—rickes at Porto Rico with the Northern Ambassadors the Lord Zouch and Dr. Perkins to view the strength Interest and Alliance of the Danes Swedes Muscovians c. and upon his return a short journey after the Earl of Essex to see the obstructions to and the benefits of the Conquest of Ireland And the last Voyage under Queen Elizabeth was with his Country-men Sir Richard Leveson and Sir William Mounson to take the great Caricke worth 1000000 Crowns in the very â—ight of the Spanish â—leet and under their Castle to the great loss of the Spaniard but the infinite advantage of the English who were looked upon now as a people to be feared not to be invaded thus diverting the power of Spain that ever and anon threatned us to defend its self Upon King Iames his arrival he took a private journey to view the Interests Rarities Politicks Magnificences and the Designs of Italy to prepare himself with the more advantage to wait on the Earl of Nottingham in the splendid Ambassie to the slow and reserved Court of Spain whence after a view of the famous siege of Ostâ—ndâ— he returned to be one of the Knights of the Bath at the Installation of Charles Duke of York afterwards King of England And so during the peaceable Reign of King Iames the accomplished Lord setled in Lincoln-shire attended as was occasion 1. The Parliament with very useful suggestions in the three points he spake most to viz. Plantations Trade the Draining of the Fensâ— with other Improvements of our Country and Commodities 2. The Court upon Solemn times with a grave and exemplary aspect and presence 3. The Courts of Justice reckoning the meanest service of Justice not too low for his Lordship which was high enough for a King in his Country with tried Arts of Government severe proceedings against Idleness and dissoluteness several ways to employ and enrich his Neighbors and wholsom orders for the execution of Laws And 4. appearing at home sometime at half-light sometimes like himself as Affairs required improving his Estate as formerly by saving expences and gaining experience in travel So now by Rich Matches equally advancing his Revenue and Honor. 2. By thrifty management 3. Noble Traffick he having learned at Florence and Venice that Merchandise is consistent with Nobility and that the Stamel dy is no stain to the Scarlet Robe and a due improvement of his Estate with due incouragement to his Tenants whose thriving was his security as well as honor and tender regard of his Neighbors disdaining as much to offer an injury to those beneath him as he did to receive one from those above him Such his tenderness of the poor that thronged about his doors as if his house had been then what it was formerly an Hospital the Neighbor Gentry complaining of him merrily as Queen Elizabeth did of F. Russel the second Earl of Bedford That he made all the beggars Such the exactness of his pay and word to all he dealt with On mine Honor was the best assurance from him in the world Such the good Government and civility of his Family a Colledge rather than a Palace where the Neighborhood were bred rather than hired and taught to command themselves by serving him So great his care against Inclosures Whereas no grass groweth where the Grand Seigniors horse sets his foot so nothing but grass grows where some rather great than good men set their evil but powerful eyes His House-keeping so noble having his fish especially Pikes of which he would say it being the Water-Tyrant that destroyed more fish than it was worth that it was the costliest dish at his Table a dish of more State than Profit his Fowl his Beef Mutton Venison and Corn of his own So happy his way of ending Controversies among his Neighbors and consequently so many ways did he serve support and sweeten the Government that he was created Earl of Lindsey 1626. and after the ill success of the Lord Wimbledon and the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham as a man reserved for hazzards and extremities he when all men stood amazed expecting upon what great Person the Dukes Command at Sea should be conferred was pitched upon as Commander in Chief of the Fleet making up in Gallantry Courage and Experience what he wanted in Presence his contracted worth was the more vigorous little Load-stones do in proportion draw a greater quantity of Steel than those that be far greater because their Poles are nearer together and their virtue more united towards which place Sept. 8. 1628. from Portsmouth arriving at the Bar of the Haven with reasonable speed of Wind and Weather which though fortified by Cardinal Richlieu's monstrous Boomes Chains and Barracado's exceeding all Narration and History he bravely attempted passing the Out-works and Bulwarks to the very mouth of the Haven untill a cross-winde returned them foul one upon another from which great dangers and greater service he brought off the Fleet with a retreat as honorable as Conquest that the effect of Conduct and Prudence and this of Fortune 1630. He was admitted of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council and in right of his Ancient Family Lord
other places being more than the Inhabitants by Whaley with a 1000. Foot and four Troops of Horse who lay before it ten weeks ere Sir William would hearken to any terms as nobly angry with the Fortune of his Cause as disdainfully vext with the disparagement of the siege the Castle able to defie their intire Army having defeated a far by countermining under-ground and throwing Stones and Granadoes above ground yielded not till the whole Kingdom submitted against which it had been folly to loose themselves in an unequal and vain contest to Providence rather than Conquest going off May 8. upon these honorable terms All Officers with Horses Swords Goods Money and Passes with a safe Conduct whether they pleased without any Arrest or Molestation by virtue whereof Sir William had his liberty to settle his Affairs and I know not whether he be or another Sir William Compton of Frith in Kent compounded for 0660 00 00 as he did yet hazzarded all again to serve his Majesty in the Kentish Expedition where in my Lord Gorings absence he Commanded as Major General in which capacity notwithstanding the difficulties he was to wade through he made a comfortablâ— provision for the Army in Greenwich-Park amidst the infinite distractions And when a fatal infatuation and a pannick fear guided them into the Parliaments hands he approving himself more compleat in Gallantry Wisdom Virtue and Honor than years discovered the snare kept them together so as to make honorable terms for them to go upon The laying down of their Arms where they pleased under which pretence he drew them through the Enemy taking many of them Prisoners within a mile of London to the general astonishment of that whole City an action of great consequence as was the satisfaction he gave the Country all along in Essex he marched concerning the Principles whereupon they engaged and the infinite pains and care he took to keep the Garrison in its highest distress in some competent order in Colchester by great Instructions and a greater example where being taken a Prisosoner of War he suffered all the indignities that insulting meanness could offer there being no pretended Plot but there was occasion to take him Prisoner whom O. C. called the sober young man and the godly Cavalier especially in Penruddocks business 1655. and Sir Henry Slingshies 1658. He with the Earl of Oxford the Lord Bellasiâ— Sir Iohn Russel called then the Sealed knot managing all the eight attempts made for his Majesties Restauration from 1652. to 1659. when others having the charge of raising other Countries in pursuance of Sir George Booths design Sir William Compton Sir Thomas Leventhorp and Mr. Fanshaw undertook Hertford-shire and that project failing he doth with incredible industry and prudence observe and improve the struglings of a giddy people now reeling into Liberty by degrees withdrawing the force that awed them and assisting in the gradual changes of the Government suiting with particular persons gust in order to that great change that satisfied all taking care when the Royal interest was in view in a publick Declaration which he with other Noble Reverend and excellent Persons subscribed lest any offence might be taken at the whole party of Cavaleers to the prejudice of the expected settlement from the indiscretions or transports of any single persons promising without any regard to particular Factions or Interests to submit quietly and chearfully to the present power as it was vested in the Council of State in expectation of the future Parliament which producing that blessed effect the three Nations unanimonsly wished for this Noble Person had as great a share in the Comforts as he had formerly in the cares and sufferings being intrusted with the Important place of Master of the Ordnance till he died 1663. at Drury-lane a suddain death to all persons but himself Hem viator Arma foris consilium doâ—i Cui maximum monimentum est suum nomen Gulielmus Comptonus Eq. Auratus Comitis Northamptoniae Filius Frater Avunâ—ulus Carolo I. ab Armis Iuvenis Carolo Secundo a consiliis vix Senex 1663. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES COMPTON TWin to Sir William in actions as well as Birth one History serveth both as well as did once one Picture Of whom one may say as one did of his Country Warwick-shire that it was the Heart but not the Core of England having nothing Course in his life having had the same Education with his Brother saving that he excelled in two great Accomplishments for Pleasure and Business Musick and Mathematicks without the first of which he would affirm that a man was no Company and without the second of no use He took to the same War being as eminent for Sobriety Discipline Moderation Conduct Vigilance and Activity in the field where he Commanded as Colonel as his Brother was in the Garrison where he Commanded as Governor There are two wonders in his life 1. His surprize of Breston-Castle with six men and himself by pretending to bring in Provision according to a Letter he intercepted as he did many reckoning his intelligence the main piece of his service and having always abroad his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his many Eyes and Ears as men of business must which injoyned it the next Towns 2. His having two Pistois clapped in his very face and yet neither fire but the owners which were so sure of his life loosing by his side both their own He was as much for Pasturage and Inclosures in his Country as his Brother was against them answering those that complained Sheep turned Cannibals in Warwick-shire eating up Men Houses and Towns their Pastures make such depopulation That though they make Houses the fewer in that Country they made them the more in the Kingdom Towns being more peopled by Cloathing and Wool than the Country is depopulated by pasturage Indeed to use the words of a modern Author in this Case Corn doth visibly employ the poor in the place where it groweth by Plowing Sowing Mowing inning threshing but Wool invisibly maintaineth people at many miles distance by Carding Spinning Weaving Dressing and Dying so that Abel need not kill Cain the Shepheard undo the Husbandman but both subsist comfortably together What service he did his Majesty and his Father during the Rebellion we may guess by the trust reposed in him since the Restauration his Prudence and Courage having been as effectual against the late Usurpation as the Ash of his Country a stand of which in Pikes in his Country mens hands under his Conduct was impregnable is against viperous Creatures of which it is said that a Serpent incircled with fire and the boughs thereof will in this Dilemma put it self rather on the hazzard of fire than adventure on the fence of Ashen-boughs but it is unhappy that he was like that Ash too of which it is written that being cut down green it burneth clear and bright as if the sap thereof had a
capacity as this war was some of the Devils Black Guard may be listed among Gods Souldiers yet there were fewer oaths among them than in any Army then in England They say the Cornish-tongue affordeth but two natural oaths or but three at the most The sobriety of this Army which Sir Bevile would say were greater if less some being rather a burden than strength to it made them valiant its the foul Gun and the guilty Conscience that recoils as when Sir William Waller intended to break the Western Association at Landsdown was beaten out of his Lines and Hedges by Sir Bevill and not only so but forced likewise out of an high hill fortified on all sides the passage up very narrow and dangerous between a Wood lined with Musqueteers on the one hand and Hedges on the other gained after four desperate Repulses by Horse Foot and Canon by Sir Bevill and maintained with a Stand of his own Pikes with a gallantry and honor admired by his very enemies until he was unfortunately â—lain in the Head of his Men with the excellent Serjeant Major Lower at his feet and honorable Mr. Leake the Earl of Scarsedales Son with his enemies Colours about his armes to whom this mention is due Mr. Barker Lieutenant Col. Wall Mr. Bostard Captain Iames and Cholwell being found dead not far from him both sides bewailing him and the whole University of Oxford honoring his memory with a Book of Verses whereof these I pitched upon for his Epitaph NOt to be wrought by Malice Gain or Pride To a Compliance with the Triving Side Not to take Armes for Love of change or spight But only to maintain afflicted Right Not to dye Vainly in pursuit of Fame Perversly seeking after Voice and Name Is to resolve Fight Dye as Martyrs do And thus did he Souldier and Martyr too He might like some reserved Men of State Who look not to the Cause but to its Fate Have stood aloof Engaged on neither side Prepared at last to strike in with the Tide But well-weighed Reason told him that when Law Either's Renounced or Misapplied by th' awe Of false-nam'd Patriots that when the Right Of King and Subject is suppress'd by Might When all Religion either is refused As meer pretence or meerly as that used When thus the fury of Ambition swells Who is not active modestly Rebels VVhence in a just Esteem to Church and Crown He offered all and nothing thought his own This thrust him into Action whole and free Knowing no Interest but Loyalty Not loving Arms as Arms or Strife for Strife Nor Wasteful nor yet Sparing of his Life A great Exacter of himself and then By fair commands no less of other men Courage and Iudgment had their equal part Counsel was added to a generous heart Affairs were justly timed nor did he catch At an affected fame of quick dispatch Things were Prepar'd Debated and then done Not rashly Broke or vainly Overspun False Periods no where by design were made As are by those that make the VVar their Trade The Building still was suited to the Ground VVhence every Action issued full and round We know who blind their men with specious Lies With Revelation and with Prophecies Who promise two things to obtain a third And are themselves by the like Motives stir'd By no such Engine he his Soldiers drawes He knew no Arts but Courage and the Cause With these he brought them on as well-train'd Men And with those two he brought them off again When now th' Incensed Legions proudly came Down like a Torrent without Bank or Dam When understood Success urged on their Force That Thunder must come down to stop their Course or Greenvile must step in then Greenvile stood And with himself opposed check'd the Floud Conquest or Death was all his thoughts so Fire Either O'rcomes or doth it self Expire His Courage work't like flames cast Heat about Here there on this on that side none gave out Not any Pike in that renowned Stand But took new force from his inspiring Hand Souldier encourag'd Souldier Man urg'd Man And he urg'd all so much example can Hurt upon Hurt Wound upon Wound did call He was the Butt the Mark the Aim of all His Soul this while retir'd from Cell to Cell At last flew up from all and then he fell But the devoted Stand enraged more From that his Fate plied hotter than before And proud to fall with him sworn not to yeild Each sought an honored Grave so gain'd the Field Thus he being fallen his action Fought anew And the Dead Conquered whiles the Living slew This was not Natures Courage nor that thing We Valor call which Time and Reason bring But Diviner Fury fierce and high Valor transported into Extasie Which Angels looking on us from above Vse to convey into the Souls they love Doctor Lluelin ANd with this constant Principle possess 't He did alone expose his single Breast Against an Armies force and bleeding lay The Great Restorer of th' declining day Thus slain thy Vasiant Ancestor did Lie VVhen his one Barque a Navy durst defie When now encompass'd round he Victor stood And bath'd his Pinnace in his Conquering blood Till all his purple Current dried and spent He fell and left the Waves his Monument Where shall next famous Greenviles Ashes stand Thy Grandsire fills the Sea and thou the Land And there is a third Greenvile the Right Honorable Iohn Earl of Bathe Sir Beviles Son and Heir who having gone on so honorably all the War the Chronicle whereof swells with his name pursuing those great Actions his Father had begun in King Charles I. time that my Lord Dighy and that King writing to the Queen about making him of the Princes Bed-Chamber declare him then the most deserving young Gentleman in England and waited upon King Charles I. so faithfully that as he had been witness of his Majesties gracious intentions and thoughts towards his distracted Kingdoms abroad in his banishment so he was the first Messenger between his Majesty and his Kingdoms in order to his miraculous return home who should be the instrument of the Sons Restauration but Sir Bevile Greenviles Son who had so nobly dyed in defence of the Father And if there be any knowledge above among the blessed of what is done here below among us its King Charles the Martyrs satisfaction that his Son is restored to his Throne and it adds to Sir Bevill Greenviles bliss that his heir is the first messenger in the Kingdom met in Parliament of the Gracious Letters that accomplished that Restauration And here will be the most proper place to mention Sir Richard Greenvile Sir Beviles Brother who staid with the Parliament till two Treaties and the great condescention of his Majesty brought him over first to correspondence and when an opportunity offered its self of performing his Majesty a considerable service by carrying over with him the Government of a very advantageous Port-Town to actual service
of matter then to learn words yea letters drop by drop but nothing was unconquerable to his pains who had a golden Wit in an iron Body The Warr being over and God having ended the Controversie for that time for reasons best known to his infinite wisdom in a way that cut off the most eminent Divines and Scholars of the Church of England from that Calling to which they were set apart This publick spirited Gentleman for the glory of God the clearing of the holy Scriptures in those dayes of Enthusiasm the imploying and supporting of persecuted Scholars in a way honourable to the Church and themselves then under reproach drew a draught of the Work comprehending the Hebrew Chaldee and Greek Originals with the Samaritan Pentateuch the Samaritan the Greek Septuagint the Chaldee the Syriack the Arabick the AEthiopick the Persian and Vulgar Latine Translations the Latine Translations of the Oriental Texts and Versions out of the best Copies and Manuscripts with many additions to the Spanish and French Bibles and a new method giving the Text and all the Translations in one view with several learned Discourses various Lections about which our Doctor hath a learned Tract against the suggestions of Dr. Owen Annotations Indexes all suitable to so great a Work This draught was by Sr. George Ratcliff that Promoter of all honourable Designs shewed the King abroad who encouraging it with a countenance worthy a Prince set the Doctor with the Bishop of London Dr. Iuxons leave and license and all the other Bishops then living consents upon the compleating of it as he did beginning 1653 and finishing it 1657 with a Grammar preparatory to it agreeable to his Motto Labore Constantia For which and his other services as his late Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary he was upon his present Majesties Return to whom he dedicated the Book preferred to the Bishoprick of Chester a Diocess he had but newly reduced by his discreet practises rational conferences great reputation and unwearied pains to some measure of regularity when it pleased God he died 1661. When their work is done God sends his servants to bed He lyeth buried in St. Pauls Cathedral with this Monument Manet heic novissimam Resurrectionis Angeli Tubam BRIANVS WALTON Cestrensis Episcopus Epitaphium aliud ne quaeras Viator Cui luculentum est vel ipsum nomen Epitaphium Quod si explicatius velis Famam consule non tumulum Interim Hic ille est si nescire fas sit Eximius Doctor Qui sub nupera Tyrannide labanti Ecclesiae Suppetias cum Primis tulit Clero a Rebelli Prophanaque Plebe conculcato Improperium Abstulit Religioni apud nos Reformati Professae Gloriam attulit Dum Fremente licet Gehenna Biblia Polyglotta summo prae caeteris studio excoluit Et Excudi procuravit Inde Utrinque Testamentum promeruit Monumentum Et maximis Impensis posuit Quare Longo titulorum Syrmate superbire non indiget Qui nomen jam scriptum habet In Libro Vitae Decessit Vigiliis St. Andreae Nov. 29. AEtatis LXII Consecrationis 1. Salutis CDICOLXI And that this Doctor may not as the Ottoman Princes to support his own Reputation suppress that of his younger Brothers the eminent men contributing to this great work by their advice assistance or intercessions besides those excellent Personages now living as the most Reverend Fathers in God Gilbert Shelden Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Sterne Lord Archbishop of York Dr. Merick Casaubon who procured them a Targum Hierosolymitanum Dr. Pococke who lent an AEthiopick Psalter and was very helpful in the Arabick Version The great Scholar and Linguist Mr. Thornedyke Sir Tho. Cotton who afforded them many M SS and Rarities Dr. Tho. Greaves Alexander Hughes Prebend of Wâ—lls very helpful about the LXX and the Vulgar Latine Dr. Bruine Rieves then Dean of Chichester and Sequestred now Dean of Windsor Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Sir Tho. Wâ—ndy old Mr. Dudley Lostus of Dublin as famous for his Learning as Illustrious by his ancient Extraction sending over an AEthiopick New Testament to the Right Honorable the Earls of Bedford Rutland Strafford and Westmoreland Sir Anthony Chester Sir Norton Knatchbull Dr. Barlow of Queeâ—ns Colledge in Oxford Sir William Farmer of East Measton in Northampton-shire notwithstanding his heavy Composition 1400 l. 840 l. Sir Francis Burdet Mr. Iohn Ashburnham the Honorable Lords Petre and Caepâ—â— since Earl of Fssex and the great Patrons of Learning Baptist Lord Viscount Cambden and the good Lord Maynard heir to all his Fathers Vertues especially to his respects to learning Vertue Mr. Thomas Smith Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge and Library-keeper Mr. Samuel Clerke of Merton Colledge in Oxford Esquire Bedle and Architypographus of that University Mr. Thomas Hyde Library-keeper there Mr. Richard Drake of Pembroke-hall and to conclude with one that is all as over-looking and Correcting all Dr. Edmund Castle of whom the Bishop saith truly In quo Eruditio summa magna animi modestia convenere who is now about a work next in use and renown to that wherein in reference to the Samaritane the Syriack the Arabick and AEthiopick Version he had a chief hand in I mean a Polyglot Dictionary a man since his worth if his humility did permit it might say of its self as Arias Montanus doth De me ac de meo labore et Industria quantulacunque ea â—st nihil profiteor hoc tamen unum recenseo me seilicet continuo Immortales Deo gratias agere quod 10. Idi omatum cognitionem mihi pro sua clementia et henignitate Impertitus sit I should be ashamed it should be said of us as it was said of some in Arias his time that we envied and disregarded his worth so far ut ad causam dicendam citatus vix venia Impetrata protantorum laborum praemio secossum in Boetica sua in quo se bona consciâ—ntia fretus sacrorum Librorum Lectione ac Lucubratione solaretur acceperit Thuan. hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. I say besides those excellent Personages now living and others already dead and mentioned as Dean Fuller Dr. Hammond Bishop Brownrig Mr. Patrick Young one well-deserving of Critical and Historical Learning his late Majesties Library keeper Sir Iohn Hele who did and suffered much for his Majesty in Dorcetshire and Wiltshire being forced to turn his Lands to Money to compound with the Parliament as they called it having given all his money to the King as did Walter Hele Esq Devon who'paid 4â—â— l. The Earl of â—indsey Dr. Samuel Baker Besides all these there were assistants to this Work these Royalists 1. Mr. Abraham Wheelocke born in White-Church Parish in Shropshire bred Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge where he was Keeper of the publick Library Minister of t. Sepulchres and Professor of the Arabick Tongue erected by Sir Thomas Adams born at Wem in the same County the Father of the City of London who though he suffered
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
very vigilantly and in the second in disposing of the Provisions in Colchester so carefully and unweariedly attending it every hour in the day for a long time together with his Imprisonment Escape and Exile excusing the Age Infirmities and Retirements of the first Sir Thomas Burton Sir George Villiers Sir Henry Skipwith of Cows who entertained the King nobly Sir Richard Halford Sir Io. Hale Sir Erasmus De la fountain Sir Will. Iones Sir R. Roberts Sir Iohn Shepington George Ashley Esq Tho. Hortop Esq need no other History than the first Commission of Array in their own Country Leicester-shire wherein they were inserted The Catalogue of Compounders wherein they are punished between them 20000 l. the Paper of Loan wherein they contributed towards his Majesties service 25642 l. the several Imprisonments they suffered and Sequestrations they endured The Right Honorable Henry Earl of Bath a Person it is questionable whether of more Honor or Learning being a great Scholar himself often times on occasion speaking for the Bishops once publickly professing it one of the greatest Honors that ever happened to his Family that one thereof Thomas Bouchier by name was once dignified with the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury always asserting the Kings Interest attending him in his Counsel in York and his General in his Affairs in the West till being taken Prisoner 1642. when he was rendred uncapable of serving his King and Kingdom he grew weary of the world paying for his Loyalty 900 l. rich in a contentment that chearfully injoyed its own Estate and troubled its self not with the thoughts of others limiting all desires but those of doing good whereby he might either relieve the needy or incourage the Ingenious A gallant man not in his quarrels with others but in his Victories over himself greater in that he was above affronts than that he retaliated them a happy soul that conversed with its self understood the value of time made use of that Authority great men are happy in to discountenance Vice and the Reputation which is the talent of Noblemen to encourage Vertue The Right Honorable Francis and Mildmay Fane Earls of Westmerland the first that assisted that Majesty which honored them 1624. and the first that suffered for it For the Earl of Westmerland I finde was not in the Parliament at Oxford because in Prison at London having lost his own freedom in defence of the Kingdoms a great Wit and a Patron of it as appears by his Noble Letters to Cleaveland and Cleavelands Heroick reply to him As was the Right Honorable Henry Cary Earl of Munmouth bred up under his Father Sir Robert Cary Earl of Munmouth 1625. Tutor to the Prince for being the first that brought King Iames tydings of the Kingdom with King Charles I. at home and sent by him to travel with this Instruction Be always doing something abroad whence he returned so well skilled in the modern Languages that being a general Scholar he was able to pass away the sad times in Noble studies the fruit whereof are excellent Translations of Spanish French and Italian Authors such as Malvezzi Bentivoglio c. He dyed 1661. and with him the Earldom of the Lord Cary his Eldest Son dying in the Bed of Honor at Marston-Moor Iuly 2. 1644. The first of these Honorable drank no Wine till he was thirty years of Age saying it preyed upon the natural heat and that vinum est Lac sonum bis puerorum the other enjoyed health best in unhealthy places whence he observed that the best Airs for a man are those that are contrary to his temper the moist to the dry and consanguine and the dry to the moist and phlegmatick and the best Diets to those that correct the Air and the best method a care of not going from one extream into another using often that saying Till May be out Leave not off a Clout Next these Scholars comes Henry Earl of Dover created 1627. that was Colonel of a Regiment of Scholars in Oxford as he was I think Captain of the Guard of the Pensioners after the Earl of Norwich at London a Noble Person not to be moved from his Allegiance by those Arguments used to his Son the Lord Viscount Rochford as some-say but as the Kings Declaration of the 12 Aug. 1642. Intimateth to himself by Mr. Pym viz. That if he looked for any Preferment he must comply with them in their ways and not hope to have it in serving the King Being made up of that blunt and plain integrity towards his Prince and firmness to his Friends for which his Ancestor the Lord Hundson was so famous that Queen Elizabeth saith she would trust her Person with the craft of Leicester the prudence of Cecill the reach of Bacon the diligence and publick spirit of Walsingham and the honesty of Hudson he dyed after one Greatrates that pretended to heal Diseases by washing and rubbing the affected places had been tampering with his Head for his deafness at Windsor March 1665. The Earl of Chesterfield created 1628. who never sate in the Long-Parliament after he urged that some course should for shame be taken to suppress the Tumults and was answered God forbid that we should dishearten our friends choosing rather to be a Prisoner to them than a Member of them and that his Person should be restrained rather than his Conscience ensnared The Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield Governess to the Princess Orange doing that service with my Lord Kirkoven Sir William Boswell c. in getting Money Arms Ammunition and old Souldiers in Holland which my Lord would have done in England And what the Ancestor could not do towards the re-establishing of King Charles I. the Successor did towards the restoring of King Charles the II. both in great hazzard and both great expence their Loyalty having cost that Honorable Family 15000 l. est aliquid prodire tenus Essayes in such Cases are remarkable green leaves in the midst of Winter are as much as Flowers in the Spring especially being seasonable when the whole Kingdom asked a Parliaments leave to have a King as Widdows ask their Fathers leave to Marry Mountjoy Blunt Earl of Newport created 4. Car. I. having made as great a Collection by travel of Observations on the State of Europe as he had done by study of Notes in all kind of Learning was called to the great Counsel of Lords at York and attended in all the Counsel at Oxford where considering that time would undeceive the Kingdom and give the King that Conquest over hearts that he failed of over Armies his Counsel was always dilatory and cautious against all hazzards in battels when bare time to consider would recover the Kingdom and break that Faction which the present hurry united He would not easily believe a man that rashly swore there being little truth to be found in him so vainly throws away the great Seal of Truth he would indure none but him that could
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl
calm of Cowardize seized on the Enemies hearts as that their skirmishes were rather Executions than frights but our sins put a stop to their success 16. Sir Io. Monson of South-Carleton Lincoln a good Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any in Oxford assisting in all Counsels and one in all Treaties for which he paid 2642 l. being permitted a quiet retirement for the same reason King Iohn being urged to untomb the bones of an Enemy permitted him a quiet grave Oh no said he were all my Enemies as honorably buryed To whom I must annex Sir Steven Hawkings never separated from him either in his services or sufferings a Commander of his Majesties Army and an eminent man in his Counsel as were Sir Thomas Haggerston Sir Gilbert Houghton Sir William Hart Sir Richard Hastings and Col. Io. Hilton Persons cut out by nature for Superiority and Command being like Saul taller by the head and shoulders than their Brethren and deserving it every where but among our phanaticks who raised mean men to Authority as the Goths had a Law always to chuse a short thick man for their King most of them bred Scholars and when exchanging their Caps for Helmets not putting off their Learning with their Habit. For though bookishness may be unactive yet Scholarship doth accomplish a Souldier and make him wield his Sword the steadier as appeared in Sir Io. Heydon who was a great Scholar especially in the Mathematicks whereby he overthrew the Astrologers upon their own principles and a good Souldier as were Col. Gosnall and Mr. Iohn Dutton both active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxford the last of whom was an instance of that great truth that Riches may be wanted with Pride and injoyed with Humility he being one of the Richest one of the meekest men in England not so rich in the great Estate he had as in the good works he did Notwithstanding that I find this Note in Goldsmiths-hall viz. Io. Dutton of Sherburn Gloc. Esq 5216 l. William Dallison of Greetwell Linc. 600 l. Fr. Drew Holcomb-Regis Devon 500 l. R. Davies Gwysanney Flint Esq 645 l. Will. Dâ—venport of Broomhall Ches Esq 745 l. Sir Will. Darcy of Witton Castle Durham 2457 l. Sir Robert Dormer and Sir Io. Curson of Oxfordshire who were both taken at Watlington in the same County as they sate upon his Majesties Commission of Array for which besides long Imprisonment they paid 12000 l. and Sir Io. Curson losing of a son in the service as did Sir Alexander Denton Knight of the shire for Bucks and losing his own life with heart-breaking grief in Prison as his son Col. George Denton did his with thirty wounds in the field Sir Tho. Malleâ— Exon. 871l Sir F. Moreton Howd York 828l Major Metcalf whom a shot took out of the hands of a lingring disease quickly cutting off what had been long a fretting Capt. Charles Osburn Capt. Tho. Meynel at the relief of Pontfract Col. Gilbert Marhkam and messenger at Nazeby Capt. Haggerston eldest son of Sir Tho Haggerston slain in Lanc. Coll. Holyland Sir Jo. Mary Mr. Tho. Davison Black Dur. paid 1412l composition Tho. Earl Down 6000l Tho Dove Upton Norf. 930l Math. Davis Sherb Dors. 300 l. Sir Will. Dalston Sir G. Dalston Cumb 4000l Jo. Davis of Raxford Devon and Pangborn Berks. Esq 1400l P. Dayrill Lilling Bucks Esq 700l Sir Tho. Delves Dor. Chester 1484. Sir Fr. Dowse Wall south 570l Fr. Lord Denniscomb 6042l in land and money Sir Edw. De Leyn Hallaxton Linc. 1000l Edw. Dyer Sarkam Park Ed. Dymock of the Race of the Kings Champions Esq 8633l in land and money Sir Lodowick Dyer 1500l in land and money Sir Wolston Dixey of Normator Derby Esq 1835l G. Digby of Landon Staff 1440l Phil. Dracot of Pavisley Recus 816l Sir Ralph Dutton Coll. in the Kings Army 500l Sir Drue and Col. Edw. Druery 1100l Coniers Lord Darcy of Hornby Castle York a noble Gentleman worthy his ancient Family 5464 l. in land and money 17. Doctor William Harvey the Eldest Son of Master Thomas Harvey who had as good a faculty in improving his Sons money with which they all trusted him in Land as they had to get it born at Folkston in Kent bred ten years in Cajus Colledge in Cambridge five years at Padua whence he became so accomplished with such a mixture of Foreign and Domestick Learning as to be Physician in Ordinary to King Iames and King Charles I. to establish in the world against opposition in his life time that new but noble Opnion of the Circulation of the bloud received as generally at last as it was strangers are apt to be suspected distrusted at first all those Riolanus c. shaking hands with him that hand tilted Pens against him yet notwithstanding his great Worth and Obligations upon mankind he suffered 2000 l. deep for attending his Master King Charles I. in these Wars at Oxford he was turned out of the Wardenship of Merton Colledge Oxon. and which was of worse consequence than all the rest having made a good progress to lay down a Practice of Physick conformable to the Thesis of the Circulation of the bloud he was plundered of his Papers by those men who not contented to murther the people of their own time destroyed thereby those that were unborn He died Iune 3. 1657. and the 80 th year of his age a Bachelor leaving behind him three Monuments I His four Books De Circulatione Sanguinis de Generatione de Ovo exercitatio Anatomica de motu cordis sanguinis in Animalibus in quibus scientiam humani corporis Physicae partem utilissimam mirabili sagac detexit demonstravit Vid. Gassend vit Peâ—â—es l. 4. p. 323. 2 His Benefactions whereby he hath been a second Linacer to the Excellent Colledge of Physicians in London 3 His Statue in that Colledge with this Insription Industria Sagacitate Successu Nobilis Perpetuos Sanguinis Aestus Circulari Gyro Fugient is Primus Promulgavit Mundo Nec Passus ultra Mortales Sua Ignorare Primordia Aureum Edidit de ovo atque pullo librum sic novis inventis apollineam ampliavit artem meruitque esse stator perpetus 18. Dr. William Iohnson Fellow of Queens and Dr. Nicholas Bernard Fellow of Cambridge Parallels in most of their vertues and most of their sufferings The first at once the most witty and pious man living the other Master of the greatest Mirth and seriousness in the World Both happy in sanctified Fancies and Parts both bred with eminent men the one with B. B. the other with Bishop Vsher whose Instrument he was in making many and useful Observations and Collections and whose Trustee he was in reference to his Reputation and Remains the first of which he often vindicated and the latter he often published both suffering equally the one turned out of his Fellowship and all his Preferments in England and the other out of his Deanery
to say at Uxbridge There was no peace to be made with the King the difference between him and the Parliament being as wide as that between Heaven and Hell He suffered 1650. when the Presbyterians were in open War for the King against the Sectaries that were for the Parliament FINIS An Advertisement THere are two other Books of this Authors in the Press and will be shortly published The one entituled CHVRCH WORTHIES Or the Lives of the Right Reverend Arch-bishops the Reverend Bishops Doctors and eminent Divines since the Reformation The other entituled STATE WORTHIES Being Observations on the States-men and Favorites of England since the Reformation their Prudence and Policies Successes and Miscarriages Advancements and Falls during the Reigns of King Henry VIII King Edward VI. Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King Iames and King Charles I. Both to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet A. E. 6. 4. 1550. A. Ed. 6. 7. 1553. Q. M. 2. 3. 1557 8. Q. El. 1. 1560 1. 1567. 1582 1583 a Being born his Mother coming casually to London in Chanceâ— Lane in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West and Christned there April 22. 1593. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Meditat. 2. Dr. R. P. Life of King Charles l. H. Lin Kiâ—g Charles â— a Injuriae sprelae exolescunt b Having a design upon Spain as Spain had upon them c In which Tryal he was one of the Iudges a 〈…〉 The Earl is made L. L. of Ireland 1633 His Câ—unsels â—o the King â—bouâ— the Scotish and English tumults Lysunachâ—â— Nâ—canoâ—s uâ—â—ying of the Knot a By the Londoners b Barbarino's meanes Protector of the English * See the Letter between them in our Chronicles See the shoâ— Notes of the Lord Lieutenant Lord Archbishop Coâ—ting c. in Hist. King Charls l. pag. 310. Sanders The Earls â—ank Advice about a Parliament * And therefore the Scots accuse him for prefâ—rring Bp. Bramhal Bp. Chappel For which his Commission was dated the 21 Mâ—â—â—â—h 163â— Sir Harry Vâ—nâ—'s Notes against the Earl of Strafford that ruined him The Earls full and notable Answer to those Notesâ— The Earles gallant come off See Dr. P. life K. Ch. I. p. 23. What shifts they were forced to make to get his head The Bishops that were sent for were Dr. Usher A. B. of Armagh Dr. Juxon Bishop of London Dr. Morton Bishop of Durham Dr. Poller Bishop of Carlisle Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln who told the King that he need not scruple shewing mercy Some cunning persons suggest be sent to the King scorning to owe his life after so much service to a bare promise The Earl of Straffords remarkable Letter to the King The notorious Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford How true you may see in the â—yal a The Seditious Party there b Not a tenth part all sober men being afraid and ashamed of it Where there is none of this proved yea what they insisted upon was proved but by one Witness Sir Hâ— V. and him 〈◊〉 by 4 honourable Lords that were present with Sir H. V. when the words he deposed should be spoken c None of the things Alledged against him being Treasons in particular the whole could not amount to Treason d If that had been there had been no need of this Bill a As that Captain â—llingsley should come with an 10â— men and â— the â—retence of a Guard to the Tower to Rescut the Earl That the 〈◊〉 B other should wâ—â—â—elow the â—ower to that purpose That Balsores Son should have 20000l with he Ear'â—s Daughâ—er c b The very Lâ—aies took Notes The Earl of Strafford's Speech on the Scaffold * The Right Honorable the then Earl now the Duke of Newcastle Declaration Aug. 10. Their Ancient Sirname is Herbert a As one Dr. Tunter and one Clement Cook did a Wherewithall Westminster rung The Lord Finche Speech in his own defence In his Speeches 4. Car. 1. Created 〈◊〉 April 7. 1640 Ilis crimâ—s His good qualities â—or the Secretaries place ☞ * D. H. ☜ His Petition to the Parliament C. C. Oxon. Peterburgh Admin Card. de Rich. P. 283. F. O. p. 12. a Aeâ—ernitas nodosa pusterâ—ta b Araâ—â—c Câ—t Bodl. â— 24 25. c 2 Sam. 18. 18. d Plutarch § His Birth § His Education § His Works * M. S. in Arch. Baror Bibl. Bod l. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e His Account of the 70 Translation f His discourse of the â—lonument at Salisbury of a little Boy habited in Episcopal Robes § His Preferment His Desigr and the disposal of his Study Epist. Dedit to the Bishop of Salisbury § His Patrons and Acquaintance a In his Review of his M. SS § His Death His Prophecy § His Character a Bacon Aug Scient p. 2. 1. His sayings of Preaching 2. Of the Interpretation of Scripture Of the Alcoran § His Burial He died at Kidlington and was buried at Christ-Church ☞ A comparison between the despised pains of worthy men and the admired nothing of the unworthy ☞ E. W. ☞ * It was Demosthenes his case about the letter P. Mr. Mede could not for his life pronounce Carolus Rex Britannicae saying that he made up that in hearty prayers that he wanteâ— in plain prenunciation § Latine Professor in Paris Queting for it 1 Pet 1. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he câ—nceived to signifie affliction that trieth saith saying that the word especially should be rendred exploratorum rather thâ—â— exploraâ—â— History of Parliament p. 79. * Verborum minutiae rerum frangunt pendera A. Gel. * Called Registrum Cancellariae Vide Epist. Coci Commeatar in Littlen on Ploydens Comment 5. 8. 6 a Institutes Exposition of Magna Charta and other Ancient Statutes Pleas of the Crown Iurisdiction of Courts Books of Entry and Reports Books of which it might be said â—s it was said of Plutarch in another respect that if all Law were lost it might be found in him * And when others pressed for the place the King said Peremptâ—rily that Potteâ— should have it this was 1628 * Whereof the 16th is in Print a Who is supposed created as if he had been so a Whispering nothing in some â—â—dies ear a The Earls are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they carry on their heads a Corcâ—â—t the Emblem of Nobility in the fashion of a Tombe the Emblem of Mortality Mr. Savage a person that was with him in his sickness * Which said Sir Dudley Carleton in his Speâ—ch to the States they saw only being not much made of there a For our Diâ—ines managed thâ—ir business privately among themselves before they debaâ—d it at the Synod b So they were accounted anciently b At St. Johns and in his own Colledge till he dyed I His Extraction Birth a Whose Daughter Maâ—gareâ— married J. 4 of Scotland b Aethaling 's Daughter married Malcolme Conmor K. of Scots c Dr. P. in his life II His Education
as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
before peoples eyes to move or exasperate them the dead and pardoned are forgotten My Lord had vast Affections for the Protestant Interest as appeared by his Proposals in Councel his wishes rather than his hopes and what he would rather then what he could do yet he suspected the Swedes and Scots Assistants as rather an Army of Mercenaries than the Auxiliaries of Friends Two things he said undid us 1. That our Divines had been so careless in opening the ground of Religion that Novelties had got such advantages over ancient Truths as to charge primitive Practices for Innovations 2. That our Lawyers were so byassed in their explications of the ground of the Law that old Laws such as those of Knighthood whereby the Subjects holding of the King as all do originally were either to be Knighted or fined for it and that for Ship-money shall be cried down for new Exactions My Lord applauded his Majesties generous Goodness in stopping the Combate between the Witnesses about Hamiltons Design to entertain all the Scots abroad to serve him against his Prince at home but he feared his easiness afterwards in trusting him He like H. 7. being at once what few men are most suspicious most knowing and most stout whereas usually the suspicious man is one that knows little and fears much Much did he resent the Differences between Protestants and Protestants and more with Bishop Bancroft encouraged he the Dissentions between the Seculars and Jesuits as he did in Civil Matters between some Scots and English advising that the Press might be open to them to discover the nakedness of their Parties and shut to our Disputants the Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the Arminians and Anti-Arminians lest we betray our own Opinions it was his Maxime For Schools positive and practical Divinity onely for Presses and Pulpits A Maxime of as great concernment to the Church as his Contributions for Pauls which to say no more were worthy the Earl of Strafford and Bishop Laud's friend From being a Member of the Councel in the South he was advanced Lord President of the North and thence a while after Lord Deputy of Ireland In the North begun that Animosity between him and Vane about Raby that was not allayed but with his bloud Here he would have strengthned the Law by Prerogative always making good the Prerogative by Law some there complained to him of the Kings Government and he told them They complained of the Laws adding That the little Finger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings Clemency would be heavier than the Kings Loyns He endeavoured to indear his Majesties Government to his best Subjects and render it dreadful to the worst Parts and Merits imployed against the Government by mistake he informed and encouraged to better Imployment but Parts and Merits poysoned by Pride and Ambition he suppressed and sleighted saying He loved not a man of large Parts and a narrow and selfish Spirit He had Worth that was sure to raise Envy and a Prudence to allay it moderating the power he had himself and maintaining that of other Magistrates who might be his Skreen Who as he ingrossed not Business to exercise his Power so he intangled it not to raise a suspicion of his Cunning carrying things on in a plain and open rather than a private and close way not that he feared the effects of Envy on himself calling Envy a Shadow that reflâ—cted 〈…〉 prejudice it and as shadows did more 〈…〉 falls upon than to those stately things it 〈…〉 judging it his Monitor rather than his Danger Son 〈…〉 in the wary Conduct of his Affairs rather thâ—n 〈…〉 avoided them in the smooth course of his 〈◊〉 which wâ—nt above the hazard but not the interruptions of Envy The first Institution of the Presidents Place in the North was to suppress Rebellions and my Lords first caâ—e in â—â—at Place was 〈◊〉 prevent them How carefully did he look out 〈…〉 wise Clergy-men that might instruct and guide how 〈◊〉 did he choose knowing and noble Gentlemen that might govern and 〈◊〉 that rude Corner of the Kingdom equally obnoxious to the 〈◊〉 â—â—ations of the old Superstition that erept thither 〈…〉 the Seas and of the late Innovations that stole in 〈◊〉 from beyond the Tweed both dangerous to the People and 〈…〉 Government Instruction he would say must 〈◊〉 wa◠〈◊〉 Government and Government back Instruction by the 〈…〉 the hearts of men and by the second it â—yes their 〈…〉 the King trusted in his own Person the Eaâ—l 〈…〉 Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the North at onceâ— to 〈◊〉 and secure himself rendring hâ—s Authority plâ—â—â—sible by administring Government to the People by those 〈◊〉 that had most Interest in them and could best awe because they alwayes obliged them admitting many to his assistance and 〈◊〉 to â—is trust His Observations upon the Humors of the â—â—â—â—hern People prompted him to advise his Majesty to a Progress 〈◊〉 â—cotland Anno 1633. to encourage the Loyal Part of that 〈◊〉 on this side the Tweed by his Presence to settle the disloyal 〈…〉 other side by his Laws he having Intelligence from Scoâ—â—â—â—â— tâ—ey are the words of a great Lord then trusted with the Crown of that Kingdom that if the King should long deferr his Coronation the Scots might perhaps incline to make choice of another King This â—rogress by taking in the most popular and great Noble-men of the North to attend His Majesty he managed with a noble Conduct advancing all along the Kings Majesties Interest and Honor of such mighty consequence it is how a Prince appears to his people When he had composed the Affairs of Scotland some defects appearing by dayly Tumults and Commotions in the Government of Ireland this accomplished Person in the Affairs of Rule discovering dayly greater and greater Abilities equal to a Minister of State after he had brought my Lord of Holland to a Submission at the Council-Table and in some measure reduced the Factions that broke out dayly at Court where to use his dear Friend Archbishop Land's words Private Ends appeared every day more and more â—o the prejudice of the publike Service was intreated to the Supream Care under His Majesty of that Kingdom a Trust he managed so well That 1. he discharged Fourscore thousand Pounds the King owed and raised Twenty thousand men and as many thousand Pounds that the King wanted in the year 1634. 2. Reduced the Popish and Protestant Parties to so even a temper that upon some Disorders that year he was able to summon such a Parliament as was able to allay and fix the several Factions to a due temperament guiding the zeal of each Party by such Rules of Moderation as were ever observed most effectual to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms 3. Prevailed with the Church of Ireland to admit of the 39 Articles of the Church of England that as he would say They that agreed for the main in the truth of
Articles of Perth were but Encouragements to put up bolder finding that Force could obtain that which Modesty and Submission had never compassed and imputing all kindness to the Kings Weakness rather than Goodness His apprehensions in that affairs were as they were taken at Councel-Table-Debates about that business to this purpose In general after the Delivery of a Paper consisting of twenty seven Heads at Councel Board Dec. 5. 1639. against the Kings Indulgence to them he voted that they were to be Reduced by force being a people as his Majesty observed of them lost by favors and won by punishments in an Offensive War that would he would pawn his head on it put a period to all the Troubles in five moneths whereas a Defensive War will linger many years In particular Advising the setting up of the Commission of Array and Amassing a gallant Army for Honor and Service consisting of 24000 Foot 12000 Horse and 2000 Volunteers Lords and Gentlemen that brought the Scots to a Submission and Pacification such as it was which the Scots falsifying and breaking obtruding false Articles and observing none of the true ones he considering that they who had broken the Peace out of a desire of War would never leave the War out of a desire of Peace but would have if not rendred unable as well as unwilling as constant fits of Rebellion as they had of lusts or want advised the calling of a Parliament the most Authentick way of managing the Government Freeely saying in Councel That he knew a Parliament if but rightly tempered was so able to settle these Distractions that if he were sure to be the first man that should be ruined by it he would advice the Calling of it Altered the Model of the Army discharging the Hunting Lords as they were then called and recommending the Right Honorable and Well-beloved Earl of Northumberland General himself undertaking the place of Lieutenant General not doubting to chase the Rebels to use his own words in two moneths had not the Lord Conway whether out of design or weakness not yet decided disheartned the Army by the unsuccessfulness and indiscretion of his first Encounter and the English Lords prevented the Victory by a Petition for Peace and a Parliament to the King whose tenderness of his Subjects blood and prudence not to sully his glory with an unequal Combate would not permit him to fight when the gains of a Victory could not ballance the hazard of attempting it His Advices against the Faction were prudent and the Remedies seasonable 1. The exploding of their Doctrine when urged by some men whose compliance with the factious way was called Moderation in their own and the discovering of their practices in the Examen Conjurationis Scoticae Or The ungirding of the Scots Armor the Authour his servant and the thing his design to let the world see what it afterwards felt 2. Bringing all the Scots in Ireland to declare against the dangerous Covenant of Scotland 3. Making the loyal and ready Assistance of the Parliament of Ireland in 39. a president for that of England in 40. 4. And returning as seasonably to lay open their pretences and obviate their reaches in Treaties as he had done their Plot in Parliaments willing enough to hear of a present Peace but more willing to provide a future Security saying He could pardon but not trust a Scot. He managed his Army as Lieutenant General as if he had been ready to fight them and yet he ordered his Advices as if he were willing to close with them As they judged it their best way to ask with their Sword in their hands so thought he it the most expedient method to answer them so Since though God never intrusted Subjects with the Sword to obtain their priviledges yet he did Kings with it to awe to duty He knew what he did when he commanded the Governors of Barwick and Carlile to watch the Invaders on the Borders at the same time that he looked to them in Councels where he was resolved they should not obtain that by a Pacification that they could not hope for by a Battel perswading His Majesty to examine the Conspiracy to the bottom before he composed it lest the skinned Sore might rankle To which purpose he would deal with the Tumult not joyntly and all together where they were bold and reserved but singly and one by one for in that capacity Rebels are fearful and open though it was not then possibly so advised a saying yet it hath appeared since to be a very faithful and useful one that he hasting into England out of Ireland as they did out of Scotland should say upon the Delivery of his Sword If ever I return to this Honorable Sword I shall not leave of the Scots Faction neither Root nor Branch As Sylla said of Caesar there are many Marius'es in that Boy so he would say of this Conspiracy when low there are many Villanies in this Plot. He could endure as little the petulancy of the Scots as they could his prudence and Government When they having leavied Men and Mony seized the Kings Magazines and strong Holds raised Forts begirt his Castles affronted his Proclamations summoned Assemblies proclaimed Fasts deprived and excommunicated Bishops abolished Episcopacy issued out Warrants to choose Parliament Commissioners appealed from the King to the people trampled on Acts of Parliament discharged Counsellors and Judges of their Allegiance confirmed all this by a League and Covenant swearing to do what otherwise they would not have done that their consciences might oblige them to do that because they had sworn which because not lawful to be done was not lawful to be sworn He leavied Men and Money disarmed the Irish and Scots secured his Garrisons and Ports had an Army ready to serve His Majesty and five Subsidies to maintain it and confirmed all with an Oath imposed to abjure that Covenant He returns in 39. after five moneths absence having done as much as had been done in five score years before towards the reducing of the Natives of Ireland to the civility trade and plenty of England and disposing their Revenue so as to repay England the charge it had been at with Ireland when Walsingham wished it one great Bogge Neither was he less careful of the Churches Doctrine than Discipline forbidding the Primate's obtruding the Calvinists School points for Articles of Faith and in stead of the Polemick Articles of the Church of Ireland to recieve the positive plain and orthodox Articles of the Church of England neither admitting high Questions nor countenancing the men that promoted them aiming at a Religion that should make men serious rather than curious honest rather than subtile and men lived high but did not talk so equally disliking the Trent Faith consisting of Canons Councels Fathers c. that would become a Library rather than a Catechism and the Scots Confessions consisting of such School Niceties as would fill a mans large
Table-book and Common-place rather than his heart Iulius Caesar said other mens wives should not be loose but his should not be suspected And this great Lord advised the Primate of Ireland that as no Clergy man should be in reality guilty of compliance with a Schism so should not he in appearance Adding when the Primate urged the dangers on all sides as Caesar once said You are too old to fear and I too sickly A true saying since upon the opening of his Body it was found that he could not have lived according to the course of Nature six moneths longer than he did by the malice of his Enemies his own Diseases having determined his life about the same period that the Nations distemper did and his Adversaries having prevailed nothing but that that death which he just paying as a debt to Nature should be in the instant hallowed to a Sacrifice for Allegiance and he that was dying must be martyred and just when he put off his Coronet Put on a Crown Philip the I. of Spain said he could not compass his design as long as Lerma lived nor the Scots theirs as long as Strafford acts and with his own single worth bears up against the Plot of three Kingdoms like Sceva in the breach with his single resolution duelling the whole Conspiracy That now being resolved into two Committees the one of Scots the other of English first impeach him Decemb. 17. of High Treason in the House of Lords though so Innocent and so well satisfied in his own present integrity that when he might have kept with an Army that loved him well at York to give Law to those conspitors he came to receive Law from them and when he might have been secure in his Government and in the Head of an Army in Ireland he came to give an account of that Government and Army in England laying down his own Sword to be subject to others and teaching how well he could Govern by shewing how well he could obey yea when he might have retired and charged his Adversaries as Bristow did Buckingham with that conspiracy for the overthrow of Government wherewith they charged him He being able to prove how P. H. H. K. S. H. S. that thirst most for his blood had correspondence with and gave counsel to the Kings Enemies in Scotland and Ireland and England when they could prove no more for the alteration of the Law against him than that he gave advice to the King according to his place to support them yet he tamely yeilded his whole life to be scanned by those that could not be safe but when he was dead and having mannaged the great trust reposed in him by the Laws of Antient Parliaments was not afraid to submit himself to the censure of this Rather than hide his head in some Forreign Nation that offered him Sanctuary saying That England had but one good head and that was to be Cut off meaning His he would loose in his own scorning for services done his own King to beg protection of another The brave man judging that he deserved death that minute he feared it and that he was fit to be Condemned that day he refused to be Tryed appeared in Parliament and Counsel with that resolution that afterwards he appeared at the Bar with till the Scots thinking their guilt could not be pardoned till his Innocence was Impeached and that their vast Accounts amounting to 514128l 9s could not pass till he was laid up to give up his as he was in Decemb. 1640 and the Scots going with the English first Impeached and afwards Ian. 30. compleated their Charge against him which drawn up in two hundred sheets of paper was brought to the Peers by Pym and how Sir Henry V. short Notes multiplied were read Feb. 24. to the Peers before the King and Feb. 25. to the Commons consisting of 28. Articles to which having Counsel allowed him in matter of Law after three dayes debate about it and they allowed to plead but in matters they were restrained to by the House he answered in Westminster-Hall before the King Queen the Prince and Courtiers in an apartment by themselves and the whole Parliament an Audience equal to the greatness of the Earls Person and the Earl of Lindsey being Lord High Constable for the day the Earl of Arundel Lord High Steward on the 22. of March as to matter of Fact in general and the Court adjourning to the next day then in particular to 13 Articles put to him of a suddain as first that he had withdrawn 24000l out of Exchequer of Ireland for his own use Secondly That the Irish Garrisons had in the years 1635 1636. c. been maintained with English Treasure Thirdly That he had preferred infamous and Popish persons such as the Bishop of Waterford c. in the Irish Church To which notwithstanding the surprize of a Vote wherein the Parliament of Ireland charged him of High Treason a Copy whereof was delivered sealed to the Lords at that very instant with purpose to discompose him An emergency that transported him indeed to say in passion That there was a Conspiracy against him which when the Faction aggravated as if he charged with High Treason by both Houses of Parliaments should charge both Parliaments with a Conspiracy though he execused it as meant of particular and private persons â—raving pardon for the inconsiderateness of the expression He answered with an undaunted Presence of spirit with firm Reason and powerful Eloquence to this purpose that the Money he had taken for himself was no other than what Money he had paid for the King before Secondly That he had eased the Kingdom of those Garrisons wherewith it had been burthened during his Predecessors time Thirdly That the Bishop of Waterford had deceived him and satisfied the Law and the next day after Marchâ— 24. to these Articles all the forementioned 28. Articles being 〈◊〉 urged he replyed thus The First Article insisted on That 31. Aâ—â—â—â—sâ—â—33 â—â—33 he being Lord President of the North and Justice of Peace publickly at the York Aâ—â—â—zes declared that some Justices were all for Law but they should find that the Kings little singer should be heavier than the loines of the Law testified by Sir David Fowls c. The Earles Reply That Sir David Fowls was his profest Enemy that his words were clearly inverted that his expression was That the little â—inger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings gracious Clemency was heavier then the Kings loins That these were his words he verified First by the occasion of them they being spoken to some whom the Kings favour had then enlarged from imprisonment at York as a motive to their thank fulness to his Majesty Secondly By Sir William Pennyman a Member of the House who was then present and heard the words which Sir William declaring to be true the House of Commons required Iustice of the Lords against him because he had Voted the Articles as
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
years before he was imployed thither That as he hath been just and faithful to his Master the King by increasing his Revenue so hath he also much bettered the Trade and Shipping of that Kingdome 11. That he prohibited the exportation of some Native Commodities as Pipe-staves c. and then required great summes of money for license to export them to the Inhansing of the prices of those Commodities half in half The Earles Reply That Pipe-staves were prohibited in King James his time and not exported but by License paying six shillings eight pence a thousand and that he had not raised so much thereby to himself as his Predecessors had done for such Licenses 12. That the said Earl to regulate the Trade of Tobacco prohibited the Importing of it without License In the mean time taking up and buying it at his own rate to his own use and forbidding others to sell any Tobacco by whole-sale but what was made up in Rolls and sealed at both ends by himself Besides other Monopolies of Starch Iron Pots which they said brought the Earl in 100000l sterl besides that though he inhanced the Customes in general yet he drew down the Imposts on Tobacco from 6d to 3d. in the pound The Earles Reply That before his time the King had but ten or twenty pounds per annum for that Custome which now yeilded twenty thousand pounds For the Proclamation it was not set out by his meanes principally or for his private benefit but by consent of the whole Council The prices of Tobacco not exceeding two shillings in the pound And this he conceives cannot be made Treason were all the Articles granted but onely a Monopoly for which he was to be Fined 13. That Flax being the Native Commodity of Ireland and he having much of it growing on his own ground or at his command ordered by Proclamation that none should be vented upon pain of forfeiting it but what was wrought into Yarn and Thread a way not used in Ireland whereby he had the sole sale of that Commodity The Earles Reply That he did endeavour to advance the Manufacture of Linnen rather then of Woollen because the last would be the greater detriment to England That the Primate of Ireland the Arch-Bishop of Dublin Chancellour Loftus and the Lord Mount-Norris all of the Council and Subscribers of the Proclamation were as liable to the Charge as himself That the reducing of that Nation by Orders of the Council-Board to the English Customes from their more savage usages as drawing Horses by their Tails c. had been of former practise That the Project was of so ill avail to him as he was the worse for the Manufacture thirty thousand pounds at least by the Loom he had set up at his own Charge 12. That the said Earl did in a War-like manner by Soldiers execute his severest Orders and Warrants in Ireland dispossessing se veral persons by force of Arms in a time of peace of their houses and estates raising taxes and quartering Souldiers upon those that disobeyed his Orders so leavying War against his Majesties Liege people in that Realm Testified Serjeant Savil. The Earles Reply That nothing hath been more ordinary in Ireland than for the Governours to put all manner of Sentences in execution by the help of Soldiers that Grandison Faulkland Chichester and other Deputies frequently did it Sir Arthur Teningham to this point deposed that in Faulklands time he knew twenty Souldiers assessed upon one man for reâ—using to pay sixteen shillings That his instruction for executing his Commission was the same with those formerly given to the Lord Faulkland and that in both there is express warrant for it That no Testimony produced against him doth evidently prove he gave any Warrant to that effâ—ct and that Serjeant Savil shewed only a Copy of a Warrant not the Original it self which he conceived could not make Faith in Case of life and death in that High Court especially it being not averred upon Oath to agree with the Original which should be upon Record That he conceived he was for an Irish Custom to be Tryed by the Peers of that Kingdome 13. That he obtained an Order of his Majesty That none should complain of any Oppression or Injustice in Ireland before the King or Council in England unless first the party made his address to him using to all his Actions his Majesties Authority and Name yet to prevent any from coming over to Appeal to his Majesty or to complain he by Proclamation bearing date Septemb. 17. 1636. Commanded all Nobility Undertakers and others that held Offices in the said Kingdom of Ireland to make their residence there not departing thence without License seconding that Proclamation with Fines Imprisonments c. upon such as disobeyed it as on one Parry c. Testified by the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roch Marcattee and Parry The Earles Reply That the Deputy Faulkland had set out the same Proclamation That the same Restraint was contained in the Statute of 25. Henry 6. upon which the Proclamation was founded That he had the Kings express Warrant for the Proclamation That he had also power to do it by the Commission granted him and that the Lords of the Councel and their Iustices not only yielded but pressed him unto it That it was done upon just cause for had the Ports been open divers would have taken liberty to go to Spain Doway Rheimes or St. Omers which might have proved of mischievous Consequence to the State That the Earl of Desmond stood at the time of his restraint Charged with Treason before the Councel of Ireland for practising against the Life of one Valentine Coke That the Lord Roch was then a Prisoner for Debt in the Castle of Dublin and therefore incapable of License That Parry was not fined for not coming without License but for several contempts against the Council-Board in Ireland and that in his Sentence he had but only a casting Voice as the Lord Keeper in the Star-Chamber 14. That having done such things as aforesaid in his Majesties Name he framed by his own Authority an unusual Oath whereby among other things people were to Swear That they would not protest against any of his Majesties Royal Commands but submit themselves in all Obedience thereunto An Oath which he Imposed on several Scots in Ireland designing it indeed against the Scottish Covenant on pain of great Fines as H. Steward 5000 l. c. Exile and Imprisonment c. The Earles Reply That the Oath was not violently enjoyned by him upon the Irish Scots but framed in Compliance with their own express Petition which Petition is owned in the Proclamation as the main Impulsive to it That the same Oath not long after was prescribed by the Councel of England That he had a Letter under his Majesties own hand ordering it to be prescribed as a Touch-Stone of their Fidelity As to the greatness of the Fine imposed upon Steward and others he
stood by that that was a point worth his consideration The Earles Reply That he expected some proof to evidence the two first particulars but he hears of none For the following words he confessed probably they might escape the Door of his Lips nor did he think it much amiss considering the present posture to call that Faction Rebels As for the last words objected against him in that Article he said that being in conference with some of the Londoners there came to his hands at that present a Letter from the Earl of Lichester then in Paris wherein were the Gazettes enclosed relating that the Cardinal had given order to â—evy Money by Souldiers This he onely told the Lord Cottington standing by but he made not the least Application thereof to the English affairs 21. That being Lieutenant-General of the Northern Forces against the Scots 1639. he Imposed 6d per diem on the Inhabitants of York-shire for the maintenance of Trained Bands by his own Authority threatning them that refused with imprisonment and other penalties little below those inflicted for High-Treason The Earles Reply That his Majâ—sty coming to York it was thought necessary in regard the Enemy was upon the Borders to keep the Trained-bands on foot for the defence of the Country and therefore the King directed him to Write to the Free-holders in York-shire to declare what they would do for their own defence that they freely offered a months pay nor did any man grudge against it Again it was twice propounded to the great Council of Peâ—rs at York that the King approved it as a just and necessary act and none of the Council contradicted it which he conceived seemed a tacit allowance of it That though his Majesty had not given him special Order therein nor the Gentry had desired it yet he conceived he had power enough to Impose that Tax by Vertue of his Commission But he never said that the Refusers should he guilty of little less than High-â—reason which being proved by Sir William Ingram he was but a single Testimony and one who had formerly mistaken himself in what he had deposed 22. That he being Lieutenant-General against the Scots suffered New-Castle to be Lost to them with design to incense the English against the Scots And that he ordered my Lord Conway to Fight them upon disadvantage the said Lord having satisfied him that his Forces were not equal to the Scots out of a malicious desire to Engage the two Kingdomes in a National and Bloudy War The Earles Reply That he admired how in the third Article he being charged as an Incendiary against the Scots is now in this Article made their Confederate by Betraying New-Castle into their hands But to answer more particularly he said That there were at New-Castle the 24. of August ten or twelve thousand Foot and two thousand Horse under the Command of the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Ashley and that Sir Jacob had writ to him concerning the Town of New-castle that it was Fortified which also was under his particular Care and for the passage over the River of Tine His Majesty sent special direction to the Lord Conway to secure it and therefore that Lord is more as he conceives responsible for that miscarriage than himself These replies were so satisfactory in themselves and so nobly managed by him that they exceeded the expectation of the Earles Friends and defeated that of his Enemies Insomuch that finding both the number and the weight of their former Articles ineffectual their multitude being not as they designed able to hide their weakness they would needs force him the next day notwithstanding a â—it of the Stone that made it as much as his life was worth to stir abroad which though testified by the Leiutenant of the Tower they measuring the Earles great spirit that scorned to owe his brave Life to ignoble Acts by their own mean one believed not and when convinced aiming at his ruin rather than tryal regarded not to answer others I mean those obscure Notes that Sir Henry Vane whose covetousness having as great a mind to a part of the Earles Estate as others ambition had to the snips of his Power betrayed his trust and honour to satisfie his malice took under his Hat at Council-board May 5. 1040. the day the last Parliament was Dissolved treacherously laid up in his Closet maliciously and by his own Son Harry who must be pretended forsooth as false to the Father as ever the Father had been to his Master and when sent to one Closet finding a little Key there to have ransacked another where these Notes lay conveyed to Master Pym slyly by Master Pym and the Commons who would needs have a conference with the Lords that very afternoon urged so vehemently that the Lords who thought it reasonable that the Earles Evidence might be heard as well as his Adversaries were bassled to a compliance with the Commons in this Vote that the Earl should appear April 13th as he did And when these Notes were Read viz. No danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. C. H. How can we undertake an Offensive War if we have no money L. L. Ir. Borrow of the City an hundred thousand pounds go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money your Majesty having tried the affections of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rules of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty hath tryed all ways and being refused shall be Acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may Imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on foot and if any of them stir we will make them smart Answered thus calmly and clearly his nature being not overcome nor his temper altered by the arts of his Adversaries That being a Privy Counsellor he conceived he might have the freedom to Vote with others his opinion being as the exigent required It would be hard measure for Opinions Resulting from such Debates to be prosecuted under the notion of Treason And for the main Hint suggested from these words The King had an Army in Ireland which he might Imploy here to reduce this Kingdom he Answereth That it is proved by the single Testimony of one man Secretary Vanâ— not being of validity in Law to create faith in a Case of Debt much less in Life and Death That the Secretaries Deposition was very dubious For upon two Examinations he could not Remember any such words And the third time his Testimony was various but that I should speak such words and the like And words may be very like in Sound and differ in Sense as in the words of my charge here for there and that for this puts an end to the Controversie There were present at this Debate but eight Privy Counsellors in all two are not to be produced
scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
Subjects out of their Loyalty and against that artifice it was observable what advantage His Majesty had on his side for whereas the combination was forced to flie to the shifts of some pretended fears and wild fundamentals of State with the impertinent as well as dangerous allegation of self-defence since they who should have been Subjects were manifestly the first assaulters of the King and the Laws first by unsuppressed tumults and then by listed Forces His Loyal Subjects had the Word of God the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths requiring obedience to the Kings just Command but to none other under heaven without or against him in the point of raising armes And those that would not be juggled out of their duty they indeavoured to disgrace out of a capacity of an effectual performance of it by a bold and notorious falsehood viz. That there was not one godly man with the King and as God would have it most of the eminent men in this County for his Majesty were in as much repute with the people before the war for their piety by the same token that notwithstanding the partiality and the popular heats wherewith the elections to that Parliament 1640. were carried in many places most of them were Members of that Parliament as they were after in disgrace with the Rabble for their Loyalty For to avoid a scandal upon the Kings government and the individious consequences of maintaining too stiffly even a just Liberty upon the Lords day We find Orders drawn up and sent in a Petition to the Kings Majesty by Iohn Harrington Esq. Custos Rotulorum to be delivered by the Earl of Pembroke Lord Lieutenant of that County To the first of which we find subscribed George Sydenam Knight Henry Berkley Knight And to the second Iohn Lord Pawlet Iohn Stawell Ralph Hopton Francis Doddington As severe though not so fantastical in that point as the very Precisians themselves for these are their words May it please your Majesty to grant us some particular Declaration against unlawful Assemblies of Church-Ales Clearks-Ales and Bid-Ales and other intollerable disorders to the great contempt of Authority and to uphold civil feasting between neighbour and neighbour in their houses and the orderly and seasonable use of manly exercises and activities which we shall be most ready to maintain an even moderation between prophanness and nicety between a licentiousness to do any thing and a liberty to do nothing at all In which temper after unsufferable Imprisonments rude Robberies called after the Germane Mode Plunder from planum facere to level or plane all to nothing or pluming unheard of Sequestrations and at last with much ado a Composition or paying as we do sometimes Highway-men for his own estate which besides the vast charge he was at to have the favour of that Oppression amounted to 1275 l. 00 00 For this is Recorded Sir Henry Berkley of Tarlington in Sommersetshire 1275 l. 00 00 He died Anno Christi 165 ... Aetatis 7 ... Tyrannidis 4. Being buried not without hope of his own and his causes resurrection Hic Decios Agnosce tuos magnae aemula Romae Aut Prior hac aut te his Scotia major adhuc Unus Turma fuit Barclaius copia solus Una cum natis Agminis Instar erat Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY TO all these I could adde Sir William Berkley whose Man was Governor of Virginia in the late times when Princes were forced to go a Foot and Servants Ride on Horse-back and he himself in these when there have been made such orders for the improvement of the Plantation as are inferior only to the rules given him for the first erection of it which yet were none of the strictest for otherwise as Infants must be swathed not laced so young Plantations will never grow if streightned with as hard Laws as setled Common-wealths though they proved the most effectual those people giving no reason for that bitter rather than false jest spoken of one of our late Western Plantations consisting most of dissolute people Christian Savages among the Pagan Negroes That it was very like unto England as being spit out of the very Mouth of it This Gentleman aiming at two things that may do much good and that is 1. Justice in Dealings witness the brave Edicts made at a Convention there 1662. That their dealings among the Negroes there may be as naked as their going 2. A Sober Religion that may bless the Christians there and convert the Heathens in one of whom it is more to overcome Paganism than to master an 100 Pagans witness the very reasonable Proposals made both for the supporting and propagating of Religion in that Country for the maintenance of their Ministers and the discipline of their Church to the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London and since Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury who encouraged the prudential part of their design in a way of great incouragement to the present generation and of great blessing to posterity Sir EDWARD BERKLEY ANd from him it were pity to part his inseparable companion in Loyalty and Sufferings Sir Edward Berkley that living confutation of Machiavell who thought religion spoiled a generous person as bad as a Shower of Rain doth his Plume of Feathers on a rainy day being at once most pious and most gallant of as much humble devotion as generous and daring valour as meek towards God as he was brave towards an enemy very well known for the hardness of his body and more honored for the generosity of his mind First he learned to follow others and afterwards to command himself being so much the more happy in his providence forward as had he gone farther in his experience backward being as knowing himself as he was happy in commanding others that were so Extreamly careful of his first enterprizes knowing that a Commanders reputation once raised will keep its self up like a round body some force is required to set it up though when it is up it will move its self Three things he abhorred in his followers 1. Scoffing at Religion a sin unusual never a civil Nation in the world being guilty of it 2. Useless for either the scoffer believes what he scoffs at and so he puts a great affront upon his conscience or he doth not and then it s in vain to cry down that Religion with raillery that is supported so much by demonstration And 3. Debauchery being of Gustavus Adolphus that true Souldier as well as great Kings temper Who when he first entred Germany and perceived how many women followed his Camp some being Wives for which they wanted nothing but Marriage others Laundresses though defiling more than they washed At a Passage over a River ordered the Bridge to be taken down that these feminine impediments might not follow as soon as his Souldiers were over Whereupon they made such pannick shreeks as seized the Souldiers hearts on the other side the River who
Oration used not one R Now the letter R is called the dogged and snarling letter This person could not indure a base and unworthy expression of the worst-deserving of all the adversaries because though it became them well to hear ill yet it did not become the other side to speak so it being below a good cause to be defended by evil speaking which might anger but not convince and discover the ill spirit of the party that managed the cause instead of keeping up the merit of the cause that was managed He was sad all his time but grew melancholy in the latter end of it conscience speaking than loudest when men are able to speak least and all sores paining most near night when he was not of Edward the II. mind who looked upon all those as enemies to his Person who reproved his Vices but of Henry V. who favoured those most when in years and a King that dealt most freely with him when young and a Prince A melancholy that was rather serious than sad rather consideration than a grief and his preparation for death rather than his disease leading to it wherein his losses were his greatest satisfaction and his sufferings his most considerable comfort Being infinitely pleased with two things King Charles the Martyrs rational and heroick management of his Cause and Sufferings and the Peoples being more in love with him and his cause since it miscarried than when it prevailedâ— an argument he thought that it was reason and not power something that convinced the conscience and not something that mens estates or persons that was both the ornament and the strength of the Kings side the reason he chearfully paid three thousand five hundred and forty pounds for his Allegiance as he had chearfully kept to it the only two instances of his life that pleased him If any body demand how he could suffer so much as he did at last and do as much as he did at first and how he could lay out so much to pious uses whom it had cost so dear to be a good subject The Spanish Proverb must satisfie him That which cometh from above let no man question Though indeed he was so innocent in that age that he could not be rich and of the same temper and equal fortune with Judge Cateline that Judge in Queen Elizabeths time that had a fancy full of prejudice against any man that writ his name with an alias and took exception against one on this very account saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias And the party asked him as Cambden tells the story in his Remains What exception his Lordship could take against Iesus Christ alias Iesus of Nazareth A kinsman of whom having a cause in the Kings-bench where he had been Lord Cheif Justice was told by the then Lord Chief Justice That his kinsman was his predecessor in that Court and a great Lawyer And answered by the Gentleman thus My Lord he was a very honest man for he left a small estate There is one more of this name Sir George Berkley too who as it was his policy that in all discourses and debates he desired to speak last because he might have the advantage to sum up all the preceding discouses discover their failures and leave the impression of his own upon the Auditory So it shall be his place to be the last in this short mention in reference to whom remembring the old saying Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine Being not able to say much I will not say little of him this Gentlemans virtue forbidding a short and lame account of him as severely as Iohannes Passeravicius Morositis in Thuanus a good conceited Poet and strangely conceited man allowed not under the great curse that his Herse should be burdened with bad funeral verses Sir George Berkley of Benton in the County of Sommerset 450 l. 00 00 With 60 l. per annum setled Only it will not be amiss to insert an honorable Person in this place who though he appeared not with his Majesty so openly at first yet acted cordially and suffered patiently for him to the last I mean the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord BERKLEY Baron of Berkley Mowgray and Seagrave ONe of those honest persons that though ashamed of the Kings usage in London were sorry for the necessity of his removal out of it which left the City liable to the impostures and practices and his friends there obnoxious to the fallacies and violences of a Faction that had all along abused and now awed the Kings leige people that could not before by reason of their pretences discern what was right nor now by reason of their power own it This noble person did not think it adviseable to go from Westminster because his estate lay near the City yet he served the King there because his inclination especially when he was disabused was for Oxford He was of his Majesties opinion at the first Sitting of the Long Parliament that to comply with the Parliament in some reasonable and moderate demands was the way to prevent them from running into any immoderate and unreasonable The stream that is yielded to run smoothly if it be stopped it fometh and rageth but his honest nature being deceived in the confidence he had in others whom he measured by himself that is the advantage the cunning man hath over the honest pitied their unreasonableness rather than repented of his own charity and hope and ever after went along with them in accommodations for peace but by no means concurred in any preparations for war insomuch that when he despaired of reason from the Houses he was contented to deal with the particular Members of them being willing to hearken to Master Waller and some others Proposal about letting in the King to the City by an Army to be raised there according to the Commissions brought to Town by the Lady Aubigney when he could not open his way by the arguments used by him and others in the Convention Being a plain and honest man the factious papers and discourses took not with him they were so forced dark canting and wrested The Kings Declaration being embraced and as far as he durst published and communicated by him because clear rational and honest He might possibly sit so long at Westminster as to be suspected and blamed for adhering to the Rebellion but he was really with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Middlesex the Lords Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard impeached at Westminster of High-treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom It may be thought a fault that he vouchsafed the Juncto his company when they debated any overtures of peace but it was his commendation that he retired when the Earl of Essex was Voted General the King the Bishops and Delinquents lands seized on the New Seal made the War prosecuted c. And appeared only to ballance
a good Cobler wherein he would strangely meet with all difficulties imaginable so that it was truly said of him That had he been Privy Counsellour to any other Prince he had been an Oracle carrying with H. 4. all his best Counsel on one Horse A King that was received out of Spain with infinite triumphs when our hopes and Prince and out of his wardship with more when our enjoyment and King March 25. 1625. none of the weaknesses of Youth attended with power and plenty having enervated his solid virtue and so the Kingdom promised its self what it enjoyed as long as he enjoyed himself all the benefits of a happy government His Marriage the first act of state in his Reign except his Fathers Funeral whereat he was a Close-mourner hallowing the ascent to his Throne with a pious act of grief unusual for Kings but such as he who preferred Piety before Grandeur was prudent and happy with the most excellent Lady who shared in the comforts only of his good fortune and in all of his bad Reverencing him not his greatness Henrietta Maria youngest Daughter to H. 4. of France whom he had seen by chance in his way to Spain and who hearing of his adventure thither was pleased to say That he might have had a Wife nearer home to whom he was married at Nostredame in Paris by Proxy and at Canterbury by himself never straying from her as he told his Daughter Elizabeth in his thoughts being chast in his discourse hating all obscenity that might offend the Ears much more in converse allowing no vanity that might blot the honour of any of his Subjects and by whom God blessed him and us with 9 Children viz. 1. Charles Iames born May 13. 1628. 2. Charles II. May 29. 1630. 3. Iames Duke of York 4 September 13. 1633. 4. Henry Duke of Glocester Iuly 8. 1639. 5. Mary Princess of Aurange November 4. 1631. 6. Elizabeth Ian 28. 1635. 7. Anne March 17. 1637. 8. Katherine 9. Henrietta Dutchesâ— of Anjou Iune 16. 1644. His first Parliament notwithstanding it was made up of soft Noble and troublesome Commons both made perverse and wanton by long peace and plenty and desire of change of factious demagogues whose humour men of boundless and ambitious hopes made use of he moderated with a clear account given of the whole administration of Government and a benign answer made to all their Petitions to a concession of a few subsidies towards the VVar with Spain which they set him upon and which notwithstanding the disasters of his Navy by storms going out too late and for want of pay coming home too soon undisciplin'd and wasted and the Plagues raging in London ended in an honourable Peace His Coronation frugal he reserving his Treasure for more necessary occasions than Pomp not out of his own inclination for his repair of Pauls his Navy and other instances demonstrate him magnificent but out of his fatherly regard to the condition he found his Kingdomes Treasures in drained by the Scots and not chearfully supplyed by the English without harsh conditions so unwilling were we when we knew not what to do with our Money to secure the whole of our Estates by allowing him a part and yet improved by him so farr as to serve the majesty of the Crown for 15. Years to support a VVar with two of the greatest Potentates in Europe to supply the King of Sweden and bear the charge of the first Scotch Expedition without any considerable contribution from the people They that made him first Necessitous in order to the making of him Odious decried him for covetous because he rewarded not men according to their boundless expectation but according to their exact merit being liberal not vain and loving to do good to the whole Kingdom rather than to particular persons as Steward of a publick treasure rather than a Lord of his own making his Virtue serve the necessities of the Realm which others Vices would not His second Parliament notwistanding the contracts between Buckingham and Bristol the bitterness of the Remonstrators of the Lower House against him and his Instruments of State yet he sweetened so farr he granting their Petition of Right they bestowing on him five Subsidies that their modesty and his goodness strived which should exceed each other A King Of so much honour that when his French Subjects abused his Queen he durst bravely yet liberally dismiss them though he might look for a War to follow which he valued not when by his Caresses he had melted and obliged the Queen to a contentment choosing a foreign war rather than houshold broyles 2. Of so much sence for Religion as to lay out when his estate was low and his debts high 400000l. upon the relief of the French Protestants in embassies of Peace and designs of VVar though both unsuccessfull the unhappiness of his Ministers not any fault of his 3. Of so much prudent goodness as to restore Delinquents such as A. B. Abbot Lord Say to favour to prefer Wentworth and Savile to advance Dr. Potter and other moderate men a course that if it did not oblige but encourage the faction finding such rewards for being troublesome it was because they had but one grievance really however they pretended many and that was Government it self 4. Of so peaceable and good a nature as to choose rather to settle peace at home and abroad by prudence rather than to finish war by violence this the way of bruits more fashionable in the eye of the world the other the way of men more satisfactory to his own breast 5. Of so much Justice that the greatest witnesse the Earl of Castlehaven was not secure if he offended the Laws of God or Man and of so much clemency that the worst witness Hammilton and the Lord Balmarino was safe if he did but offend him he thinking a Kingdom was so troublesome that no man would sin either to enjoy or keep it He subjected his L. Keeper C. and a L. Treasurer to Tryal for Bribery yet would he hardly admit that his enemies should be brought to tryal for Treasons he designed men no harm and he believed all good of them Men in his time feared Laws not Men. He would say Let me stand or fall by my own Counsel I will choose any misery rather than Sin His Acts were alwayes vouched by his Judges and Divines lawful before he would allow them expedient Nay the VVorld saw by his condescentions that he desired not a power to do harm but that as he proved once to a Lord of the Faction he thought that if he had no power to do ill sometimes he might not have power when he needed to do good and Subjects fears of mischief may destroy their hopes of benefit His Prerogative and his Peoples Liberty which made such a noise in the VVorld agreed well in his breast the last being as
forbear to mingle their tears with his bloud All the learning then in the world expressed its own griefs and instructed those of others in most excellent Poems and impartial Histories that vindicated his honor and devulged the base arts of his enemies when their power was so dreadful that they threatned the ruin of all ingenuity as they had murthered the Patron of it While the few Assassinates that crept up and down afraid of every man they met pointed at as Monsters in nature finished not their reason when they had ended his Martyrdom One O. C. to feed his eyes with cruelty and satisfie his solicitous ambition curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in a Coffin to White-hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the Body or no. Others of them delivered his body to be Embalmed with a wicked but vain design to corrupt his Name among infamous Empericks and Chirurgions of their own who were as ready to Butcher and Assassinate his Name as their Masters were to offer violence to his Person with intimations to enquire which were as much as commands to report whether they could not find in it symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of frigidity and natural impotency but unsuccessfully for an honest and able Physician intruding among them at the Dissection by his presence and authority awed the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their opprobrious Masters declaring the Royal body tempered almost ad pondus capable of a longer life than is commonly granted to other men But since their search into his Body for calumnies were vain they run up to Gods Decrees and there found that he was rejected of God and because his Raign was unhappy they concluded that his person was reprobated And when they had indeavoured to race him out of Gods Book of Life and consequently out of the hearts of his People the vain men pull down his Statue both at the West End of Saint Pauls and at the Exchange in the last of which places they plaistered an Inscription which men looked on then as false and Providence hath rendred since ridiculous Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Fond Rebels that thought to use the weighty words of the reverend Dr. Pirrinchief to destroy the memory of that Prince whose true and lasting glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for successors to shew the power of their malice but in a Solid Vertue which flourisheth by age and whose fame gathereth strength by multitude of years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a violent envy and the ruins of time But he had a Monument beyond Marble his Papers with the Bishop of London and others and his Incomparable Book of Meditations and Sollioquies Those Repositories of piety and wisdom which first they suppressed envying the benefit of mankind and when the more they hindered the publication of the Royal Peices the more they were sought after They would have robbed his Majesty of the honor of being the Author of them knowing they should be odious to all posterity for murthering the Prince that composed a Book of so Incredible Prudence Ardent Piety and Majestick and Truly Royal Stile Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elogancies of Davids Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same spirit The ridiculous President in his Examination of Mr. Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a Man for such would that Monster have this excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book But these attempts were as contemptible as themselves were odious the faith of the world in this point being secured 1. By the unimitably exact Stile not to be expressed any more than Ioves thunder but by the Royal Author 2. By those Letters of his which they published of the same periods with these Meditations they suppressed 3. By Colonel Hammonds testimony who heard the King Read them and saw him Correct them 4. By the Arch-bishop of Armaghs evidence who had received commands from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction who had taken them in his Cabinet at Naseby Besides Mr. Roystons command sent him from the King to provide a Press for some Papers he should send to him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King re-called that and sent that other which is now before the Book This was the vile employment of villains while all that was virtuous in the Nation honored the memory of that good Prince who like the being he represented the more he was understood the more he was admired and loved leaving great examples behind him that will be wondered at eastier than imitated Particularly the Duke of Richmond the Marquiss of Hertford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey and the Lord Bishop of London obtained an order to Bury his Corps which four of his Servants Herbert Mildmay Preston and Ioyner with others in a Mourning Equipage had carried to Windsor provided that the expenses exceeded not 500 l. which they did in St. George his Chappel in a Vault discovered them by an honest old Knight they disdaining the ordinary grave the Governor had provided in the body of the Church with Henry the Eighth and Iane Scymour his Wife whose Coffins those were supposed to be that were found there the Officers of the Garrison carrying the Herse and the four Lords bearing up the Corners of the Velvet-pall and my Lord of London following Feb. 9. about three in the afternoon silently and sorrowfully and without any other solemnity than sighs and tears the Governor refusing the use of the Common Prayer though included in their order Because he thought the Parliament as he called them would not allow the use of that by Order which they had abolished by Ordinance Whereunto the Lords answered but with no success That there was a difference between destroying their own Act and dispensing with it and that no power so binds its own hands as to disable its self in some cases Committing the great King to the earth with the Velvet Pall over the Coffin to which was fastned an Inscription in Lead of these words KING CHARLES 1648. Besides which he hath in the hearts of men such Inscriptions as these are 1. The excellent Romans Character given him by Dr. Perrinchief Homo virtuti simillimus per omnia Ingenio diis quam hominibus proprior qui nunquam recte fecit ut recte facere videretur sed quia aliter facere non poterat cuique id solum visum est habere rationem quod haberet Iustitiam omnibus humanis vitiis Immunis semper in potestate sua
Prebend of Westminster and Parsonages of Creek and â—â—â—sâ—ck in Commendam with it whereunto he was chosen Octob. 10. and Consecrated Novemb. 18. by the Lords Bishops of London Worâ—â—ster Chichâ—ster Fly Landaffe and Oxford the Arch-bishop Abbot being though irregular for casual Homicide King Charles finding how he managed these Preferments King Iames had bestowed upon him advanced him Iune 20. 1626. to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells in the room of Bishop Lake then deceased and Octob. 2. the same year Dean of the Chappel in the place of Bishop Andrews then departed and Iune 17. 1628. Bishop of London and Aug. 6. 1633. Arch-bishop of Canterbury instead of Arch-bishop Abbot then newly dead the highest honor a Subject can be raised to in England or a Minister in the Protestant Church and as if these honors were not equal to his merit at the same time that he was Installed Arch-bishop of Canterbury he was twice offered once Aug. 7. 1633. and the second time Aug. 17. following to be Cardinal he both returning the Messenger whom de discovered to his Majesty this Answer like himself That there was somewhat within him that would not suffer that till Rome was other than it is 2. It must needs be imagined that these preferments raised him as much envy as advantage and indeed though he was singular in other felicities he was wrapped in the common unhappiness in this case For Christmas 1610. Arch bishop Abbot set the good Lord Chancellor Ellsmen to suggest to King Iames his being Popishly affected Octob. 3. 1623. he went to the Lord Keeper Williams who he found had done him many ill offices who Octob. 3. 1623. he saith in his Diary quarelled him gratis in the Duke of Buckingham their Joynt-patrons Withdrawing-chamber April 3. 1624. He went to Arch-bishop Abbot about a course he had taken to ease the Church in times of paying the Subsidies to be given that Parliament which the Lord Keeper Williams and the Bishop of Durham approved so well that they confessed it was the best office that was done for the Church for seven years before His Grace was very angry Asked what he had to do to make any Suit for the Church telling him that never any Bishop attempted the like at any time nor would any but himself have done it that he had given such a wound in speaking to any Lord of the Laity about it as he could never make whole again that if the Lord Duke did fully understand what he had done he would never indure him to come near him again Whereunto he calmly replied That he thought he had done very good offices for the Church and so did his betters think If his Grace thought otherwise he was sorry he had offended him hoping that he having done what he did out of a good mind for the support of many poor Vicars abroad in the Countrey who must needs sink under three Subsidies a year his Error if it were one was pardonable Ian. 25. 1624. He was forced to declare the whole affair about the Earl of D's Marriage which happened twenty years before when he was a young man and that Lords Chaplain to the Duke of B. ill willers notwithstanding his growing merit and services whispering and suggesting up and down that supposed old miscarriage Nay again April 9. 1625. he writes thus in his Diary The Duke of Buckingham most Venerable to me by all Titles certified me that some body I know not out of what envy had blemished my Name with King Charles his most Excellent Majesty taking occasion from the error I fell into I know not by what fate heretofore in the Case of Charles Earl of Devon-shire Decemb. 26 1605. April 11. the Duke of Buckingham met him and informed him what Secretary C. had suggested against him to the Lord High-Treasurer of England and he to the Duke Ian. 17. 1627. He shewed the King reasons why the Papers of the deceased Bishop of Winchester concerning Bishops that they are Iure Divino should be Printed and was opposed then by several Grandees who were of the humor the Historian expresseth thus That they liked not their own happiness if others had the honor of contriving it receiving no counsels but what they themselves first gave In Octob. 1627. The Dean of Canterbury and Sir Dudley Digges told Dr. W. that if things went not well in the Isle of Rhee there must be a Parliament and some must be Sacrificed and B. L. as like as any which gave him great trouble Till the King desired him Not to trouble himself with any reports before he saw him forsake his other friends Iune 1. 1628. The House of Commons put him into their black Lists of Innovators and Incendiaries by the same Token that one in that House stood up and said Now we have named these persons let us think of some Causes And Sir E. C. answered Have we not named my Lord of Buckingham without shewing a Cause and may we not be as bold with them Wherefore he enters the Dissolution of that Convention in his Manual March 10. thus The Parliament which was broken up this 10th of March laboured my Ruin March 29. 1629. Sunday two Papers were found in the Dean of Pauls his Yard before his House one of which to this effect concerning him Laud look to thy self be assured thy life is sought as thou art the fountain of all wickedness Repent Repent thee of thy monstrous sins before thou be taken out of the world c. And assure thy self neither God nor the World can endure such a vile Counsellor to live or such a whisperer c. Ian. 26. was thus noted by his Lordship This day discovered to me that which I was sorry to find in L. T. Weston and F. C. Cottington sed transeat Feb. 28. Master Chancellor of London Dr. Duck brought me word how miserably I was slandered by some Separatists I pray God give me patience and forgive them Roiter the Felon that broke Prison his Charge of Treason against him Novemb. 13. 1633. the Lady Davies Prophecy of him that he should dye before Novemb. 5. 1634. Green the Printers swaggering with his drawn Sword in St. Iames's Court that he would have Justice of the King against him or that he would take another Course with him himself The falsehood and practises of L. T. whereof he advertised his Majesty Some 37. Libels against him up and down the Streets of London we had thought worthy remembring had not he thought it fit they should not be forgotten But for which of his good deeds The enjoyment of great and and many Preferments might indeed raise him malice but his design by all those Preferments to do great and many good works might have recovered him love for surely none needed to have envied that mans Preferment that considereth what he did or what he intended 1. What he did 1. 1607. No sooner was he Invested in any of his Livings than he Invested
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
vilescunt collata voluminibus Pantoglossis Quae undiquaque colligi studuit ambitus tuuâ— Queis emptis careas unus emptor Neve quid oxonio neges negabas soli tibi ipsi tua Thesaurus at cimeliorum Inventus poterat magis latere Nisi Addidisses huic Babeli Interpretem hominis gestiens Lapsum secundum restituisse novus Linguarum soter uti Christus mentium More ore ut unitas sit uniformitasque nobis Haec autem Apertis manibus munificentia Induxit manicas ac pedicas tulit Huic Isodaemoni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sua capiti capitalis erat doctrina Proh crimina Inaudita Nam Christianos ut Tyranni Pristinos Pellibus Indutos pecorinis Praedas lethiferis exposuere feris Sic formas monstrosas factis ejus Induxerunt hostes Quo saevius discerperetur Plebis ab Hydrâ Qui laetus summos ubi sursum ascendit honores Et Gentilitiae instar Alaudae Alacritate non minore decidit deorsum Et cum delatorum Vipereos Gyros ut Paulus serpentem excusserat illaesus Post lustrum moriendi Quum perpessus erat vitae mortrique senium Index severus sibi Condonator Judicibus severior Nolens deserere crucem sive Coronam ut salvus esset cum periculo salutis certiore ubi sesqui Martyrium Pro nobis vixisset Gratitudine aemulâ Ipso Immolatur pro Deo vel Sacrificio victima A CHARACTER OF ARCH-BISHOP LAUD THE Pregnancy of his Child-hood promised the Wisdom of his Riper Years and obliged his Friends beyond their Abilities to his Support and Strangers beyond Expectation to his Encouragement Some Persons offering him great sums of money for his maintenance in his younger years upon the bare security of his arts which paid them well in his more reduced age None more observant of Favour none more mindful of Kindnesses and none more grateful for Civilities He was so wise as seldom to forget an Injury in the consequence of it and so Noble as ever to remember Love in the return of it His honest Parents conveighed him an excellent temper and that temper a brave spirit which had the advantage of his birth a place at an equal distance from the University where he was to be a Scholar and the Court where he was to be a Man In the first of these his Indefatigable Industry his Methodical Study his Quick Apprehension his Faithful Memory his Solid Judgment his Active Fancy his Grave and Quick Countenance his Sharp and Piercing Eyeâ— raised by Discreet and Wary Steps to all the Preferments and commended him to all Imployments of the University When Proctor whereof he was admitted for his prudence May 4. 1603. to the Earl of Devonshire's Service September 3. 1603. which hazarded and when Divinity Reader 1602. observed by the Lords of Rochâ—stâ—r and Lincoln for his judgment which advanced him as his design was above the level of Modern Sciolists So were his Studies not prepossessed with the partial Systems of Geneva but freely conversant with the impartial Volumes of the Church Catholick He had an infallible apprehension of the Doctrine and Discipline and a deep insight into the interest of Christianity This Capacious Soul conversed with the most knowing of all Judgments to find the bottom of all Errors and with the most judicious of his own to discern the grounds of all truth He had his Eye to the University to reduce it when Head of Saint Iohns on the lower functions of the Church in his Pastoral charges to reform them and upon the higher when Dean of Glouâ—estâ—r Prebend of Wâ—sâ—minster and Bishop of St. David to settle them He was a man of that search and judgment that he found out the principles of Government that were true to the Church of that faithfulness and resolution that amidst all discouragements he was true to themâ— The Church-government he found by many private-spirited-men accommodated to their ease and interest he adjusted to truth and settlement consulting not humors which are uncertain as Interest but truth which is certain as Eternity Arch-bishop Abbots yield and they will be pleased at last was a great miscarriage Arch-bishop Lauds Resolve for there is no end of yielding was great policy His great reach in Government suitable to that Kings apprehensions commended him to King Iames his vast ability and integrity to King Charles and the Duke of Buckingham to the first whereof he was Privy-Councellor to the other a bosom friend before both whom he laid the best representation and Ideas of the English Government as to things and persons in several abstracts of any man under heaven I have heard a States-man say That none knew Ioints Turnings Flexures Interests of all Parties in Church or State that were either to be encouraged or suppressed with the seasons and opportunities to do it so well as Doctor Laud. Discerning was his Fore-sight compleat his Intelligence exact his Correspondence quick his Dispatches seasonable and effectual his Sermons and Discourses inquisitive and observing his Converse His Instruments were able and knowing men that were faithful to the Church as he was in Manwaring and Mountague's Case to them Knowing well as he wrote to my Lord of Buckingham that discouragement would deter men of parts whom incouragement might make serviceable He knew no man better how to temper a Parliament having a Catalogue of all the Nobility and Gentry with their interest and inclination in his eye He understood none more exactly what was to be discoursed and proposed to them having a clear apprehension of the several junctures and tendencies of affairs He entertained no thought but what was publick in his breast no man but was nobly spirited in his familiarity Ever watchful he was of all opportunities to advance the Churches honour 1. In her Sons as Bishop Iuxon c. 2. Her Discipline as in his several Visitations Articles in Star-Chamber and High-Commission matters 3. In her Indowments as the buying of Impropriations in Ireland 4. In her Priviledge as the Canon of England 5. In her Ornaments as the repairing of St. Pauls and most other Churches in his Province 6. In her Universities as the Statutes of Oxford the Priviledges of Cambridge and his vast gifts of Oriental Books and Buildings and his vaster design for both and as watchful against all the designs to undermine it The Feoffees for Impropriations he laid aside the Sabbatizing and Predestinarian Controversies he silenced the Licentious Press he reduced Dignities and Preferments he worthily filled up Bribes at Court he retrenched no Interest no Alliance could ever advance an unworthy Person while he lived Breed up your Children well and I will provide for them was his saying to all his Relations Many a man would be disobliged by his sternness at first view for whom if deserving he would afterwards contrive kindnesses by after and unexpected favours No place of experience did he ever miss none of employment did he ever decline He would never see Authority bafled but ever wave
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
High Chamberlain of England 1631. Upon the Trial of a Combate between Donald Rey and David Ramsey he was constituted Lord High-Constable of England for the day 1635. He is Commander in Chief of forty sail assisted by the Vice Admiral the Earl of Essex to secure the Kingdoms Interest Trade and Honor in the narrow Seas against all Pyrates and Pretenders that either Invaded our Rights by the Pen or might incroach upon them with the Sword And in the years 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641. when he had looked through the whole Plot of the Conspirators on the one hand and comprehended the gracious Overtures and design of his Majesty on the other when the Expedients he offered were neglected the warnings he gave of the consequence of such proceedings slighted the earnest Arguments he urged publickly and privately were not regarded and all the Interest and Obligation he had in the Conspirators forgotten withdrew after his Majesty that he might not seem to countenance those courses by his presence which he could not hinder being not able to stop the Current of the â—umults he was resolved not to seem to approve it but followed his Royal Master to York to injoy the freedom of his Conscience where we finde him among other Noble Persons attesting under their hands his Majesties averseness to War as long as there was any hope of Peace and when neither He nor any of his Loyal Subjects when neither Law nor Religion neither Church nor State could be secured from the highest violations and prophanations men could offer or Christians endure without a War and the King not having his Sword in vain but drawing it for a terror to evil doers and an encouragement to them that did well He and his Son the Lord Willoughby of Eresby afterwards Earl of Lindsey first joyned with the rest of the Nobility in a Protestation of their resolution according to their Duty and Allegiance to stand by his Majesty in the maintenance of the Established Laws and Religion with their Lives and Fortunes and accordingly raised the Countreys of Lincoln Nottingham c. as his retainers in love and observance to whom the holding up of his hand was the displaying of a Banner as other Honorable and Loyal Persons did other parts of England untill his Majesty with an incredible diligence and prudence up and down the Kingdom discovered to the deluded people his own worth deserving not only their reverence but also their Lives and Fortunes incouraging the good with his discourses exciting the fearful by his example concealing the Imperâ—ections of his Friends but always praysing their virtues and prevailing upon all not too guilty or too much debauched so far as to raise an Army that amazed his Enemies who had represented him such a Prodigy of Folly and Vice that they could not imagine any person of Prudence or Conscience would appear in his service expecting every day when deserted by all as a Monster he should in Chains deliver himself up to the Commands of the Parliament and surprized even his Friends who despaired that ever he should be able to defend their Estates Lives or Liberties by a War who to make his people happy if they had not despised their own mercies had by passing Acts against his own Power to Impress Souldiers his right in Tonnage and Poundage the Stannary Courts Clerk of the Market the Presidial Court in the North and Marches of Wales deprived himself of means to manage viz. of a Revenue without which no Discipline in an Army as without Discipline no Victory by it and who esteemed it an equal misery to expose his people to a War and himself to ruine Yet an Army by the large Contributions and extraordinary endeavors of this Noble Lord and other Honorable persons to be be mentioned in due time which being under several who could abide no Equal as none of them could endure a Superior having no Chief or indeed being all Chiefs the Swarm wanted a Master 〈◊〉 a Supream Commander who should awe them all into obedience It was observed by Livy that in the great Battel the Criâ—â—cal day of the worlds Empire betwixt Hannibal and Scipio that the Shouts of Hannibals Army was weak the voices disagreeing as consisting of divers I angâ—ages and the shouting of the Romans far more terrible as being all as one voice When they who agreed in few other particulars conspired in this that the Earl of Lindsey pitched upon as Lord General of the Army by his Majesty was an expedient worthy the choice and prudence of a Prince to command and train a fresh Army to credit and satisfie a suspecting people when they saw the Kings Cause managed by persons of such Integrity Popularity and Honor as they could trust their own with In which Command his first service was the drawing up of Articles for Discipline to be observed by the Army wherein he took care 1. Of Piety as the true ground of Prowess 2. Of Chastiâ—y remembring how Zisca intangled his enem is by commanding so many thousand Women to cast their Keâ—cheifs and Partlets on the ground wherein the other Army were caught by the Spurs and ensâ—ared Little hopes that they will play the Men who are overcome by Women 3. Civility that he might win the Country in order to the reducing of the Faction it being sad to raise more enemies by boisterousness in their Marches and Quarters than they engaged by their Valour in the Field so increasing daily the manyâ— headed Hydra 4. Sobriety without which he said the Engagement would prove a Revel and not a War and besides the scandal render the best Army unfit either for Council or Action and uncapable of meeting with a sober enemies active designs much less of carrying on any of their own so loosing the great advantages of war as G. Adolphus called them Surprizes Next the Discipline of the Army he took care of their numbers a great Army being not easily manageable and the Commands of the General cool and loose some virtue in passing so long a journey through so many and next that of their suitableness and agreeableness one with another and after that of their order that they might help one another as an Army rather than hinder one another as a Croud and then their Provision and Pay that they might not range for Necessaries when they should fight for Victory Thirty thousand men as brave Gonzaga said thus disciplined and thus accommodated are the best Army as being as good as a Feast and far better than a Surfeit In the Head of this Army a foot with a Pike in his Hand having trained up his Souldiers by Skirmishes before he brought them to Battle he appeared at Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. too prodigal of his Person which was not only to fill one Place but to inspire and guide the whole Army But that it is a Maxime of the Duke of Roan That never great person performed great undertaking but by making war in
person nor failed but by doing it by his Lieutenants Here rather oppressed with number than conquered by prowess opposing his single Regiment to a whole Brigade and his Person to a whole Company after eighteen wounds passages enough to let out any soul out of a body above sixty but that great one of the Earl of Lindsey he was forced to yield himself first to the numerous Enemies about him and next day being hardly used to the Enemy Death his Side winning the day and loosing the Sun that made it Vpon Edgehill the Noble Lindsey did Whilst Victory lay bleeding by his side At Edgehill that was true of him and his Country-men the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire that was observed of Cataline and his followers That they covered the same place with their Corps when dead where they stood in the Fight whilst living This was the Noble Lord that pursued twelve French Vessels in his own single one to their Haven heated at once with anger and shame He of whom it is said that when the Duke of Buckingham returning from the Isle of â—hee was told by his Majesty That the neglect of his Releif must lodge on his friend and confident Holland He acknowledged That indeed he had very affectionately intrusted him in ordinary affairs but never had him in such an esteem as to second him in armes that place being more proper for my Lord of Lindsey whose judgement of that expedition was that it was Friendship in Earnest and War in Iest. He who when all men were amazed at the Dukes fall was assigned his successor And certainly saith one there present he was a man of no likely Presence but of considerable experience by his former Expeditions and one that to the last of his life made good his Faith with gallantry and courage notwithstanding his ill success the times fate rather than his Heros O Stratiarcha tuo qui funere vitam Expiraturi renovas nefunere regni Vt cum sanguinco sol declinavere axe Clarior ego fulâ—or succedit olympo Inter mavortis densut a tonitrua quanti Cordis erat majore ferens quam mente ferini Par Decio sacrum occumbens generale Cadendi Certus at occasu recidivi certior ortus Confirmans Actis Pompeii Dicta Britannis Nunc opus est ut stem non est opus ipse superstem Solus erat clypeus virtus Haec Aegide major Enecuit totas etiam sine Gorgone turmas Busta Polymniadis nostri sed Palma Coronat Dumque jacet victus victrici morte triumphat Sic ubi succumbunt arces saevitur in omnes Subjectos ubicuuque lares spargantque ruinam Exemplo tamen usque viget Dux ante secundi Iam belli Genius devoto in milite pugnax Quippe animant manes sociorum Corda viroque Mens uno vixit vivit nunc umbra viri itim THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable MOUNTAGUE Earl of LINDSEY Son and and Heir of ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY LOve is as strong as Death both when it descends as it was in the Duke of Chastillions Case who ventured his own life through twenty thousand men to rescue his Son and this noble Lord who observing his great Father like to be lost in a Croud rather than an Army took with him not so many as he desired but so many as he could finde about him either to rescue the noble Lord or to perish with him made an attempt worthy his Relation and Cause through three thousand men wherein when he could not save his dear Father he was taken with him and after his death so valued by his Majesty that he sent a Trumpet immediately to exchange him for the Lord Saint-Iohns Earl of Bullingbrook and so esteemed on by the enemy that they would not part with him for all their Prisoners taken by his Majesty so true was that observation of his Majesty That he â—ought Gold to Dirt. His education happy as he used to observe himself in six things 1. The example of a wise and good Father 2. The Learning and Experience of discreet and knowing Tutors whom he mentioned with no less honor than Aristotle was remembred by Alexander who equalled him that gave him Education with his Father that gave him Being or his Master by Augustus who gave him so honorable an Interment or his Tutor by M. Antonius who erected him a Statue or Ausonius by Gratian who made him Consul 3. Travel and Observation which fixed those notions in his minde that lay so loose in others 4. Hardship and Patience to which he was used in a way of choice when he travelled abroad that he might use it in a way of necessity if there were occasion at home 5. Good and useful Company generally above seldom beneath himself knowing that gold in the same Pocket with silver loseth both of its colour and weight 6. An Inquisitive Nature not contented with the superficial and narrow notions others acquiesced in from Tradition and Authors but with a large soul enquiring after such an account of things as was derived immediately and genuinely from the nature of the things themselves Happy in observing that rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember to distrust and wishing heartily for a systeme of principles gathered by observation and experience upon the systeme of nature The result of these and other advantages was a competent skill in Arts especially Phylosophy Mathematicks Physick and the two parts belonging to it Chirurgery and Botanism or a great skill and insight in Herbs and Flowers and Arms this accomplishing him for publick Service and the other being the satisfaction and ornament of his private Life the one being gained by experience in the Low-Country Wars where he learned in the time of our peace what rendred him serviceable in the time of our war the other by severe study weighing observations and good discourse His converse gave the world a singular pattern of harmless and inoffensive mirth of a nobleness not made up of fine Cloaths and Courtship a sweetness and familiarity that at once gained love and preserved respect a grandeur and nobility safe in its own worth not needing to maintain it self by a jealous and morose distance the confirmed goodness of his youth not only guarding his minde from the temptation to vice but securing his same too from the very suspition of it So out-stripping in wisdom temperance and fortitude not only what others did but even what they wrote being as good in reality as in pretence to which he added this unusual glory that since there was but a small partition between the Kings of Iuda's beds and the Altar through which they said David had a secret passage arguing the nearness there should be between Religion and Honor and that the Crosse was an ornament to the Crown and much more to the Coronet he satisfied not himself with the bare exercise of Virtue but he sublimated it and made it Grace As he understood himself well so he did his Estate being taught to
two Voyages of King Lewis to Palestine and thereupon ever since by Custom and Priviledge the Gentlewomen of Champaign and Brye ennoble their Husbands and give them honor in marrying them how mean so ever before George Lord Aubigney younger Brother to the Duke of Richmond born 1615. in London bred for the most part in France owing his Education to that Country whence he had that he was bred for his Honor the Lordship of Aubigny a Town and Seigniory adorned with many priviledges an ample territory and a beautiful Castle in the Province of Berry in France bestowed by Charles the sixth on Robert the second Son of Alan Stuart Earl of Lenox in Scotland for his many signal Services against the English and was till of late and it s hoped will be the honorary title and possession of the second branch of that Noble and Illustrious Family hence called by the name of Lords of Aubigny A Person whose life was nought else but serious preparations for death his younger apprehensions when living being of the mature with the oldest mens thoughts when dying well knowing that his extraction and conditions â—â—ould be as little excuse from strict expectations of his latter end â—s they could be none from the summons to it the Series of his liâ—â— carried with it such an awe of God and sence of true Piety and â—eligion as clearly evinced he had strong and habituated Meditations of that Levelling Day wherein the highest stands on the same ground with the meanest Religion was not then thought a stain 〈◊〉 honor and the minding of heaven the business only of those who had nothing to do on earth A person that had so much the character of Titus The delight of mankind that he was born to conquer by love and could he but have been heard to speak he need not Pretty was the return he made when disswaded from Embarking himself in the best cause in the world I would have all those that refuse serving in this War served as they that were backward â—o engage in the Holy War to each of whom was sent a Spindle and Diâ—taffe the upbrading ensigns of their softness and effeminacy the delicaâ—y of our mould and make speaking of Noblemen the quickness of our spirits the sprightliness of our faculties the exact proportion of our parts the happiness of our address the accomplishments of our persons the soundness of our constitutions and it may be whatever Aristotle thought the difference of our souls the happiness of our opportunities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mithridates called Occasion the Mother of all affaires And in fine our being born happy and as the Panegyâ—ist of Constantine Enrolled in the list of Felicity as soon as of Nature engageth us to do so much more than others as we are more than others The hardest temptation he ever found against virtue was a kind of blush and shame in the owning of it with much regret reflecting on mens glorying in their shame and being ashamed of their glory But I thank God he would say I can undergo the bloudless martyrdom of a Blush and the greatest help to it resolution business taking up all the parts of time and the workings of a restless minde temperance and sobriety seriousness and patience consideration and circumspection according to the Duke of Bavares Motto and Medal prudence with a Ballance in her hand Know Choose Execute quickly and which included all a mean or moderation My Lord being very much pleased with the story of the French King who one day inquiring of an experienced man how to govern himself and his kingdom had a large sheet of Paper presented to him with this one word instead of the many precepts he looked for Modus a Mean His good example had pressed many to the service of virtue when it flourished when the war broke out he was told by a prevailing Member that the Scots must be kept in Arms to awe the English as long as the Sons of Zeruiah were too hard for the well-affected engaged as many to the service of it when afflicted for with three hundred Gentlemen worth near 300000 l. he came to assist his Majesty marching along with him till he came to Edge-hill where come in to the succor of the Lord General it s a question whether was more remarkable his conduct or courage his followers being so advantageously placed that every particular man performed eminent service to borrow a few words belonging to the courage of the English in the battel of Newport 1600. to express the valor of these Gentlemen in the battel of Keinton Et fere nemo in illis Cohortibus vel ordine vel animo ante vulgus â—uit quem non dies iste sicuti virtute sic teste virtutis vulnere Insignivit Himself persisting in the Fight though most of his party were dead round about him till his bloud more Royal now that it was shed for one good King than that it was extracted from many great ones issuing out at twelve wounds left him weak indeed but not spiritless his soul loath to withdraw not only when the party it commanded but also when the body it lived in deserted it In which condition he was carried to Abingdon and thence when dead not long after to Christ-Church in Oxford where he was buried with as many sighs as blasted hopefulness and expectation is attended with there being not a sadder sight next the publick Calamities than to see a great virtue accomplished by industry and observation by a suddain and surprizing stroke made useless to others but in the example and to himself as to any employment in this world besides the sitting of him for a better Leaving behind him First An honorable Lady that espousing his Quarrel as well as his Cause like Dame Margaret Dimocke wife to Sir Iohn Dimocke who in King Richards time came to the Court and claimed the place to be the Kings Champion by virtue of the Tenure of her Mannor of Scrinelby in Lincoln-shire to Challenge and Defie all such as opposed the Kings Right to the Crown appearing with a spirit equal to her Relations and above her Sex if there be any Sex in souls in her heroick expressions upon her dear Lords death in a Letter to Archbishop Laud dated Ian. 2. I Confess I cannot as yet be so much my self as to overcome my passion though I know my Lord died in a just and honorable action and that I hope his soul finds which consideration is the only satisfaction of Your Graces humble Servant Kath. Aubigney Secondly In her Noble Attempts First in venturing to settle a correspondency between London and Oxford and then carrying the Kings Commission of Array in her own person to several Lords and Gentlemen of both Houses and Citizens made before-hand to seize into their Custody the Kings Children some of the pretended Members the wrong Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia the City Out-works and Forts the
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
an happy guess of what was to come yet his opinion was neither variably unconstant nor obstinately immoveable but framed to present occasions wherein his method was to begin a second advice from the failure of the first though he hated doubtful suspense when he might be resolute This one great defect was his good nature that he could never distrust till it was dangerous to suspect and he gave his Enemy so much advantage that he durst but own him for his Friend One thing he repented of that he advised his Majesty to trust Duke Hamilton his adversary with the affairs of Scotland in compliance with the general opinion rather than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times wrongs him and gives advantage to the subtile while he rather pities their faithlessness than repents of his credulity so great advantage have they that look only what they may do over them that consider what they should do and they that observe only what is expedient over them that judge only what is lawful Therefore when those that thought themselves wise left their sinking Soveraign he stuck to his Person while he lived to his Body when dead and to his Cause as long as he lived himself Attending the first resolutely burying the second honorably and managing the third discreetly undertaking without rashness and performing without fear never seeking dangers never avoiding them Although when his friends were conquered by the Rebels he was conquered by himself returning to that privacy where he was guessed at not known where he saw the world unseen where he made yielding conquest where cheerful and unconcerned in expectation he provided for the worst and hoped for the best in the constant exercise of that Religion which he and his maintained more effectually with their examples than with their Sword doing as much good in encouraging the Orthodox by his presence as in relieving them by his bounty In a word I may say of him as Macarius doth of Iustine there was no vice but he thought below him and no virtue which he esteemed not his duty or his ornament Neither was his prudence narrower than his virtue nor his virtue streighter than his fortune His main service was his inspection into the Intrigues and Reserves of the Parliamentiers at Vxbridge and his Cajoling of the Independants and Scots at London where the issue of his observation was That the King should as far as his conscience could allow comply with the unreasonable desires of an unlimited ambition to make it sensible of the evils that would flow from its own counsels being confident as events have assured us that the people would see the inconvenience of their own wishes and that they would return that power which they sought for but could not manage to its proper place before it became their ruin For unbounded liberty overthroweth its self But alas it was too late to grant them any thing who by having so much were only encouraged more eagerly to desire what they knew the King in honor could not give for when a Prince is once rendred odious or contemptible his indulgencies do him no less hurt than injuries As his Services were great so were his Recreations useful Hunting that manly exercise being both his pleasure and his accomplishment his accomplishment I say since it is in the list of Machiavel's Rules to his Prince as not only the wholesomest and cheapest diversion both in relation to himself and his people but the best Tutor to Horseman-ship Stratagems and Situations by which he may afterwards place an Army whatever Sir Sidney's apprehension was who used to say Next Hunting he liked Hawking worst His other Brothers died in the Field vindicating his Majesties Cause and he pined away in his house mourning for his Majesties Person whom he would have died for and when that could not be died with his innocent temper having rendred him the Kings Bosom Friend as his conscience made him his Good Subject Hic Jacobum Richmondiae ducem ne conditum putes eorundem quibus vixit perpetuum Incolam Cordium Caeca quem non extulit ad honorem sors sed aequitas fides doctrina pietas modesta prudentia neu morte raptum crede agit vitam secundam Caelites Inter animus fama Implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara Dicata sempiternae memoriae Aenigma saeculi omnia Intelligens a nullo Intellectus E vivis migravet non e vita marcido in corpore diu sepultus Intra penates Lugendo consenuit Diu exspiravit vivum Cadaver sero mâ—ritur jam mortuo similis Cogitando vitam absolvit ut contemplando aeternitatem Inter beatorum libros Indefesso studio versatus ut beatoruâ—â— societatis dignior pars esset 165 5 THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord AUBIGNEY Lord Almoner to Her Highness Mary The Queen Mother of England TIme was when the despised Priesthood was so honorable that the same great word signified and the same eminent Persons among the Iews the Aâ—gyptians the Graecians and Romans executed together the two excellent Functions of Priest and Prince Rex Anius Rex Idem hominum Phaebique sacâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—rg Aâ—ncid l. 3 And most of the Roman Emperors were as proud of the sacred Title of Arch-flamens as they were of the Câ—â—racter of Semper Aâ—gusti As to come nearer our selves there were at one time in England three Kings Sons six Dukes eight Earls and fourteen Lords Sons in Holy Orders Time was when Abbies and Monasteries were an easie out-let for the Nobility and Gentry of this Land to dispose of their younger Children that Son who had not mettal enough to manage a sword might have meekness enough to wear a Cowle Clap a vail on the head of a younger daughter especially if she were superannuated not overhandsome melancholy c. and instantly she was provided for in a Nunnery without cost or care of her Parents One eminent instance whereof we have in Ralph Nevil first Earl of Westmerland of that Family whom we behold as the happiest Subject of England since the Conquest if either we account the number of Children or measure the heighth of honor they attained to for of nine Children he had by Margaret his first Wife Abbess of Barking and a second viz. Elizabeth was a Nun And of a eleven by his Wife Ioan one Iane was a Nun all the other seventeen being Lords and Ladies at that time of the highest quality in the Kingdom And no wonder saith our Author if our Earls preferred their Daughters to be Nuns seeing no King of England since the Conquest had four Daughters living to womans estate but he disposed one of them to be a Votary by the
same token that Bridget the fourth Daughter of King Edward the fourth was a Nun at Dartford in Kent the last English Princess that entred into a Religious Order If former Ages so much the piety of their Noblemen for that the Earls of Devonshire Courtneys the Earls of Essex Bouchers the Earls of Warwick the Dukes of Lancaster Beausort for having two Priests a piece of their respective Families this Age may observe one Priest of noble Family of the Earl of Manchester Mr. Mountague one of the Earl of Baths Mr. Greenvile one of the Earl of Northamptons Mr. Compton one of the Earl of Kent one of the Lord Crews Dr. Crew and to name no more one of the Duke of Richmonds the Lord Aubignâ—y one of those illustrious persons that made us happy in that Age Plato wished for When princes were Philosophers and Philosophers Princes Who was born in London 1609. and bred when a Child not as those who in point of judgment are never to be of age but only able in pleasures but as he would say In those Arts whereby a man might be good Company to himself for his honorable Relations perceiving in him more than ordinary natural perfections were careful to bestow on him Education in piety and Learning suitable to his high Birth he meeting their care with his towardliness being apt to take fire and blaze at the least spark of instruction put into him The sharpness of Winter correcting the rankness of the earth cause the more healthful and fruitful Summers so the strictness of his breeding compacted his soul to the greater patience and piety which with other virtues and abilities raised him to so much reputation in the Court and University of Paris that he was preferred Canon of Rotterdam 1641. Lord Abbot of in France a place worth 1200 l. a year 1643 4. and was in nomination for a Cardinals dignity upon the inthronization of Pope Innocent the tenth 1644 5. as appears by this passage in a Letter My Lord Aubigney is now made an Abbot the Queen of France hath given him one worth 2400. Pistols per annum there is a speech that he shall be a Cardinal Sir Kâ—nelme Digby goeth Ambassador to Rome to the new Pope from the Queen c. And this the necessity of affairs or at least the conceived necessity will cast it meaning the Cardinalship upon the Lord you know i. e. Aubigney who hath very powerful advancers by his friends in this Court and is much liked and in a manner accepted of in Italy he himself declaring himself in so hopeful a way for it that he had thereupon taken the Sentane Paris Octob. 21. 1644. Of which dignities I may as St. Ierome doth in another case Habuit ut calcaret only he would bless God that he had that time to think how to live well that poorer persons were forced to imploy in thinking how to live and that his Place gave so much countenance to his Actions that against the too prevalent customs of the world they might have the authority of Examples and so much power to his words that against the fond opinions of the world they might have the force of Rules especially since his advancements brought with it abilities for that which is Gods nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore mans duty viz. to do good the paceful comeliness of his body at once representing and adorning the virtues and beauties of his charmed hearts to the love of the first beauty with as much success as ever fair Tablets did Eyes to the admirations of the fair things they represented and commanded souls to duty as happily as Edward the fourth that goodly Prince who as Commâ—nes observed won London twice by his presence and aspect awed and obliged his Subjects to Allegiance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Max. Tyr. A fair soul in a fair body is as a River that windingly creepeth with many wavy turnings within the Enamel of a beautiful Meadow pleasing and refreshing the world Tecum vident Milites admirantur diligunt sequuntur oculis animo tenent Deo se obsequi putant cujus tam pulchra sorma est tam certa divinitas Therefore in his discourses with Ladies he used to urge to them the advantage they had to reform a debaâ—ched world with the instance of the women in Ludovicus Vives who so reclaimed a loose City by vouchsafing none their favors but the virtuous the beauty of whose soul since the soul wears all the beauties of the universe contracted in it as Aaron did all the glories of the world embroidred upon him answered to that of their own bodies as Diamonds and Pearls do to rich Cabinets and Pearls And now I speak of souls his good soul slept not in the body affording only now and then some glimmerings of common sence and reason but sparkled briskly being to a stupid world a great argument of the Deity it worshipped Hoc nempe habuit argumentum divinitatis suae quod illam divina delectaverint nec ut alienis interest sed ut suis. Sen. And indeed he used to say that he much questioned the integrity and consequently the state of that soul that besides the exemplariness and communion of publick devotion did not use to retire to the intimacy of that more private consisting chiefly in these great parts 1. Self-examination consideration and meditation soliloquies for which in every place he resided he prepared a Closet dressed as his breast for holy and serious thoughts pleasantly yet dark scituated and furnished with two things the matters of his Devotion and of his Charity wherein he expended the thrid part of his revenue yearly in such a way that it was almes to the poor souls as well as relief to the distrested bodies which he esteemed the life because the effect and the expensive tryal of his devotion and this Closet he consecrated into a private Chappel by his solemn entrance into it never without a prayer The words of his friend He taking it for a certain argument that the serious belief of a God and of the World to come is much wanting in his heart who dares be nought idle or sinfully merry if he can but get out of mans sight and congnizance which office he kept as constant on his servent heart as ever the people of God of old kept up the continual Burnt-offering upon the Altar making as much conscience of laying out his time as he did of expending his estate And the result of all these accomplishments was 1. A moderate and tender spirit towards all sorts of Christians expressing himself to several Ministers of the Church of England with such a latitude that upon the principleâ— he expressed he might have held communion with them and they with him concluding his discourses with this That he approved not a nice scrupulous and uncharitable religion 2. A great reverence to himself being as much afraid to concern his divine soul in any mean office as Paulus the
mercy of the Usurpers dying a while after of the Small Pox 1655 6. En Nobil Georgii Bar. Chandois cineres paenitentiales qui lachrimis mixti Invitam abluere culpam quae eadem erat Herois paena magnanimo munifico pio maximo viro erat unus error erat veneri una Labes Abi Generosa Iuventus quae tumida ferves vena nec tanti emas paenitere nec in facinus praeceps ruas bis lugendum cum patras cum Luis THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT DORMER Earl of Caernarvon RObert Dormer Grand-Child to Robert Dormer Esq Created Baronet by King Iames Iune 10. 1615. and Baron Dormer of Wing in Buckingham-shire the thirtieth of the same Month in the same year was by King Charles in the fourth year of his Reign made Viscount Ascot and Earl of Caernarvon a Person of whom King Charles the First might say as Lewis the 13 th said of his Favorite Luynes that considering the debonairness of his temper when disposed to be merry he was a very fit man to be trusted with the Kings Majesties Game as he was being by a Grant to him and his Heirs Chief Avenor and with respect to the vastness of his parts when disposed to be serious he was very capable of the most concerning trust which he had by Pattent as Lord Lieutenant His nature was not so much wild as great and his spirit rather extraordinary than extravagant to be admired rather than blamed as what age and experience fixed every day more and more into a comprehensive wisdom a deep understanding a strong resolution and a noble activity His Recreations were rather expensive than bruitish not unmanning his person as Drunkenness c. which he hated perfectly he being prone of those that gave occasion to the scandalous and odiously comparitive Proverb As drunk as a Lord as drunk as a Beggar but if moderately used becoming his Dignity as Gaming c. which he affected inordinately though he left this caution to Posterity That he that makes playing his business makes his business a play and that Gaming swallow Estates as the Gulf did Curtius and his Horse A man knoweth where he begins that pleasure but is utterly ignorant where he shall end besides that there is no pleasure worthy an excellent spirit in high Gaming which can have no satisfaction in it besides either sordid Coveting of what is anothers or a foolish Prodigality of what is their own making that breach in their own inheritance sometimes in one week which they and their Heirs cannot repair in many years The temperature of his minde as to moral habits was rather disposed to good than evil he was a Courtier and a young Man a Profession and an Age prone to such desires as when they tend to the shedding of no Mans bloud to the ruin of no family humanity sometimes connives at though she never approves of so that we may say of this Great man as one doth of a greater That those things we wish in him are fewer than the things we praise Being a Servant not only to his Majesties Prosperity but to his Person waiting on him not out of Interest but out of Love and Conscience no sooner appeared the Conspiracy in Buckingham-shire but he discountenanced it upon all occasions with his interest and when it brake out in the North he Marched to oppose it with two thousand men whom when he could in Parliament neither save the Life of his Majesties most faithful Servant not preserve the Honor of his Majesties Person being resolved rather to perish with the known Laws of the Land than to countenance them that designed the overthrow of them he led to wait on his Majesty to York where having with the rest of the Nobility attested the integrity of his Majesties proceedings and vowed his defence under his Hand and Seal he Rendezvouzed Marching to settle the Commission of Array in Oxford-shire and Buckingham-shire with so much activity that we finde him with the Earls of Cumberland New-castle and Rivers excepted by the Party at Westwinster out of the first Indemnity 1642. they offered for their actions in behalf of his Majesty as the Earl of Bristol the Lords Viscount Newarke and Faulkland Sir Edward Hyde Sir Edward Nicholas Master Endymion Porter were for their Counsels and Writing And having disciplined his Regiment we finde him the Reserve generally to the Kings Horse in all Engagements as first to Prince Rupert in Edge-hill where his error was too much heat in pursuing an advantage against the Enemies Horse in the mean time deserting and leaving naked his own Foot and afterwards to the Lord Willmot at Roundway-down where by Charging near and Drawing up his men to advantage not above six in a File that they might all engage he turned the fortune of the day as he had done at Newbury receiving Sir Philip Stapleton with this Regiment of Horse and Essex his Life-guard with a brisk Charge and pursuing them to their Foot had not a private hand put an end to his life and actions when breathing out his last he asked Whether the King was in safety Dying with the same care of his Majesty that he lived So he lost his life fighting for him who gave him his honor at the first battel of Newbury Being sore wounded he was desired by a Lord to know of him what suit he would have to his Majesty in his behalf the said Lord promising to discharge his trust in presenting his request and assuring him that his Majesty would be willing to gratifie him to the utmost of his power To whom the Earl replied I will not dye with a Suit in my mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery he had Charles now Earl of Caernarvon From his noble extract he received not more honor than he gave it for the blood that was conveighed to him through so many illustrious veins he derived to his Children more maturated for renown and by a constant practice of goodness more habituated to virtue His youth was prepared for action by study without which even the most eminent parts of Noblemen seem rough and unpleasant in dispight of the splendor of their fortune But his riper years endured not those retirements and therefore brake out into manlike exercises at home and travail abroad None more Noble yet none more modest none more Valiant yet none more patient A Physician at his Father-in-laws Table gave him a Lye which put the Company to admire on the one hand the mans impudence and on the other my Lords mildness until he said I 'll take the Lye from him but I 'll never take Physick of him He may speak what doth not become him I 'll not do what is unworthy of me A virtue this not usual in Noblemen to whom the limits of equity seem a restraint and therefore are more restless in injuries In the
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
quem non reperit argutum facit THE Life and Death OF HENRY HAMOND D. D. WHEN Doctor Henry Hamond was born Aug. 18. 1605. at Chersey in Surrey a place equally indeared to the pious but unfortunate King Henry VI. for bestowing on him a charitable Burial and to the excellent but not understood King Charles I. for giving this man a seasonable birth the hopeful circumstances of his relations promised as much in his Infancy as the eminent passages of his life performed in his Manhood Son he was to Dr. Iohn Hamond that exact Critick Grandchild to Dr. Alexander Nowel that reverend Divine God-son to Prince Henry that great Spirit To Eaton he was sent in his Long-coats initiated in Latine Greek yea and Hebrew too Languages that seemed to be his Mother tongue so early were they rather infused to him than acquired by him by his Fathers care and to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford at thirteen by Mr. Allens assistance his good friend and Mr. Bush his diligence his excellent School-master Here they that taught him Philosophy were not ashamed to learn of him the Tongues especially the Hebrew so rare a Quality in that age that at first admission as he had no less than eight Batchellors his Schollars for Greek so he entertained four Masters his Pupills for Hebrew wherein as in the whole Circle of Learning that though his Father and in him all his Interest dyed yet his own merit recommended him at once to the honor and advantage of Demy in that Colledge at fourteen years of age of Fellow at nineteen of Natural Philosophy-Reader at twenty and the Orator at Dr. Langtons Funeral at twenty two Having taken his Degree the ordinary method of those times had preposted his soul and ennarrowed his spirit by the contrived and interested systems of modern and withall obnoxous Authors but that his larger Genius and second thoughts prompted his great soul to a study equal with its self that took in all humane and sacred Learning from the clearest and most dis-interested sources of both wherein he gave on all the occasions his fifteen years continuance in the University offered him such pregnant Specimens of a vast proficiency as might be expected from that indefatigable man that constantly studyed twelve hours a day and left Notes and Indexes at the beginning and end of each Book upon almost all the Classick Authors extant This industry and this eminence could not in those days wherein Religion and Learning were at their fatal heighth both of perfection and encouragement escape either observation or preferment therefore being ordained at twenty four viz. 1629. and Batchelor of Divinity at twenty six viz. 1631. and regularly both in conformity as well to the Statutes of the House as to the Canons of the Church Anno 1633. he Preached Dr. Frewens Course the President of his Colledge since Lord Archbishop of York at Court with that success that with the Right Honorable the Earl of Leicesters favour then his Hearer he was upon an honest resignation of his Fellowship inducted Aug. 22. of that year to Pensehurst as not long after by the Reverend Father in God Brian Lord Bishop of Chichester then and since of Salisbury and Winchester he was dignified at Chichester His Preferments were not so suitable to his Desert as his Carriage was to his Preferment For When Rector of Pensehurst His Sermons were not undigested and shallow effusions but rational and just discourses his method was which he recommended to his Friends after every Sermon to resolve upon the ensuing subject and so pursue the course of study he was then in hand with reserving the close of the week for the Provision of the next Lords-day whereby not only a constant progress was made in Science but materials unawares were gained unto the immediate future work for he said be the subject treated of never so distant somewhat will infallibly fall in conducible to the present purpose but preaching being the least part of Religion Prayer and Devotion that power of Godliness was observed by himself and his Family guided by his good and prudent Mother publickly and privately every day according to the strictest rules of the Church for the assistance wherein he allowed a Curate a comfortable Salary His Administration of the Sacrament was as of old frequent and monethly wherein the Assertors was by his instruction and example restored to that repute as it not only relieved the aged and apprentised the young poor of Penshurst but afforded a surplusage to the necessities of Neighbor Parishes But that his other cares might be the more successful he brought an able School-master into the Town and the Church Catechism into the Church which with his half hours exposition before Evening Prayer he rendred so fully intelligible to the meanest capacity that he observed the older as well as the younger hearers reaped more benefit than from his Sermons Yet a Ministers converse must enforce his Doctrine and the endearing of his Person must recommend his instruction very Hospitable he was at all times especially those more solemn at his Table very charitable at his door besides the tenth of his Estate set apart for the poor in weekly Pensions and his Corn sold them below Market prices which though as he said he had reason to do it gaining thereby the charge of Portage was a great benefit to them who besides the abatement of price and possibly forbearance saved thereby a days work Very civil he was in letting his Tythes whereof one memorable instance in this Having let the tythe of a large Meadow and received half the Money at the beginning of the year the meadow was drowned and when the Tenant offered the payment he generously returned him the first with this Noble reflexion God forbid I should take the tenth where you have not the nine parts Very punctual he was in visiting the sick whose request he prevented in his addresses both in person and by writing taking as he would say the opportunity of that serious time to instill the most serious instruction but withall intimating the folly of remitting the great business of eternity to the last hour which God designed for the commensurate employment of the life so much Charity exercised among his Neighbors taught them that love among themselves that no difference there in his time went beyond his mediation and that kindness for him who had the rare happiness obliging both parties that as long as he was there he had never any trouble for his Dues and when forced thence no care for his Books and Estate which when plundred were redeemed and reserved for him by his Neighbors to the end of the War When Arch-Deacon so frequent were his publick Sermons at the Cross and elsewhere so earnest and pathetick his Discourses for obedience and union which his zeal and prudence charged as the Interest of the Clergy who saw
aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis secula quando Nec merita praemiis de erant nec premiameritis Quantum a bellis a mendicitate a miseriis A Rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla Beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Vt quantum a Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva Paterna Episceâ—â—arum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRUNRICI memores Praesusis Angelici THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL Bishop of Norwich THIS Reverend Person who hath written most passages of this his life being born at Ashby-de-la-zouch in Leicester-shire of honest and well-allowed Parents his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington the Lord of it was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religious Mother so improved in learning by his careful School-masters and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him that in the fifteenth year of his age his Master and one Mr. Pelset eminent in those parts agreed together to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge whereto he was destined being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling under the last of these Gentlemen who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies undertook he should in seven years be as compleat an Artist Linguist and Divine as any University man his Indentures being Prepared his Time being Set and his Suits Addressed for the pleasing but fatal project as it fell out to him that succeeded when it pleased God to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair that Mr. Nath. Silby Fellow of Emanuel Colledge conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning and hearing the late projected diversion set before his elder Brothers eyes then accidentally at Cambridge the excellency of an Academical life with so much advantage that falling on his Knees to his Father he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance towards the charge he brought the good man to a passionate resolution for the University Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely for many years Partners of one Lesson and for as many of one Bed he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance who would by no means suffer him so much against his own will at two years end to be Master of that School whereof he had been so lately Scholar when being Master of Arts and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H. who well esteemed the Fathers service and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse wherefore he demanded not without some concern why he was not preferred in that Colledge where he was so much applauded and being told his Tutor a person well known to his Lordship filled up the place of that County he perswaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship for an honorable Relation to his Family and the assurance of his favour to whose place notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton upon the suddain news of the Earls death arrived the second day of their strict Election saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs and more opportunities of provision than his Tutors more reduced years he was admitted the twenty third year of his age into a society newly its self admitted to the University writes he which if it hath any equals I dare say hath no superiors for good Order studious Carriage strict Government austere Piety where he spent six or seven years more with such contentment as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield his exercises being plausible especially his Position for which he was first noted in the University that Mundus Senescit a Position saith my Author that was its own confutation the ingenuity thereof arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age His Rhetorique Lecture thronged till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School of Tiverton in Devon upon Dr. Chaddertons motion whom he consulted offered him not so much the pains as the government of it for the acceptance whereof he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London when a Messenger in the Street delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk which telling Dr. Chadderton that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly to that Calling whereto he was destined and must go indirectly to by the West and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment he accepted chearfully and an Atheist one Lilly that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors being removed by the Pestilence at London whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron in answer as he observes to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings enjoyed comfortably for two years when having repaired his House and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state as he walked from Church with a reverend Neighbor Minister he saw a comely and modest Gentlewoman at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner and asking his worthy Friend whether he knew her was told by him he had bespoke her for his Wife as upon due prosecution of the unexpected providence she was for forty nine years after the first two years whereof upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importunity he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna out of his Couriosity to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church with the allowance of his nearest friends under the protection of the Earl of Hertford then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels having provided for his charge Landing at Calais after some crosse winds at Sea and passing not without horror Graveling Dunkirk those late dreadful prisons of the English Winoxberge Ypre Gaunt and Courtray to Bruxels the first observable he met with was an English Inns of Court Gentleman run out of his Estate Religion and Country and turned Bigot and Physician Immediately at first meeting ravishing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady of Zichems Miracles till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling and asked what difference there was between that Ladies Miracles and Vespasians Vestals
Bishop of Exceter and Mr. Ashwell and when restored chosen by the Fellows for President of that Colledge wherâ— he had been so usefully a Fellow and a Tutor but superior power guiding that choice as it happened very well another way he was entertained Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England by whom he was preferred Rector of the great Parish of St. Andrews Holborn where he was buried 1665. 12. Dr. Meredith Fellow of All-Souls Chaplain to the Earl of Newburgh Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster who bestowed on him an Hospital in Leicester-shire belonging to that Dutchy out of which and his Fellowship he was turned 1647. and restored to both 1660. when he succeeded Dr. Sheldon now Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the Wardenship of the Colledge as he did Dr. Monke in the Provostship of Eaton an excellent Companion where-ever he was entertained in the time of the Troubles when he was every where welcome so good his nature and where ever he entertained since for then he made excellent persons as welcome as they had done him of a noble spirit in his Magnificent Treatments to the Rich and Liberal Erogations to the Poor weekly while he lived and yearly when he died 1665. 13. Dr. Peter Turner of Mâ—rton Colledge active in composing the new Statutes of the University of Oxford and most elegant in expressing them and the excellent Preface to them 14. Iohn Graves the excellent Mathematician Linguist and Traveller of the same House as famous for his discourse of Pyramids as the Kings of Aegypt thought to make themselves by building them Brother to the reverend Dr. Graves a very sober person a general Scholar and an exact Linguist sometimes Scholar of the Charterâ—house and Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford and now Prebend of Peterburgh whom I will wrap up in the same character wherein I finde another very learned Linguist and Critick Mr. H. Iacob of Merton Colledge express his great friend Mr. H. Brigges in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Translated by Mr. H. Briched of All-Souls Circuitor terrae stellisque Coambulo cujus Ad sphaeram Cerebri movit uterque Polus Vixisti mathesin quadrans ad pectora voces Normatus factis sidereusque â—ide Nec moritur studium vel in ipsa morte sepultus Commetire solum corpore mente polum 15. Master Francis Newman Fellow of All-Souls a Person of great parts and a good carriage who coming by White-hall when the King was put to death he laid the horrid fact so to heart that coming home to Master Heywoids house at Westminster whose Sister he had married he fell into such an agony that going up immediately into his Chamber he told his friends about him though he was then as well as ever he was in his life that he should never stir out of that Chamber alive as his heart breaking under the great weight of his grief for the horror of the act its self and his thoughts for he was a fore-seeing man of the sadness of the consequence of it he did not dying 1649. All hopeful persons that had the happiness to know what was excellent and best abilities to attain it lighting each others Torch and warming one another as embers by converse Of whom one of their acquaintance leaves this Memorial to Posterity Si nostri memor Gens posterorum haud ulla magis virtute gloriaque censeri volo quam quod altum Masterum suavissime strenuum Diggesium mellifluum Waringum cui communium locorum methodus Index rerum pariter verbo rum optima ubique eruditum Stotevill Chidmea Mede Powellos utrosque fratres stupendum Gregorium modestum Sparke Rouse Bogan Wats Taylerum Acutissimum Sugge magnificum Meredith maximum Turnerum Gravium Newman Sanderum prudentissime Doctum saeculi sui gloriam pudorem amore pro secutus sum sumo in illustri Oxon. Ingeniorum Olim minimus amore sancto nulla quem sequens dies expunget aevo dum decus suum Piis constabit literis honos aetas virtutum ferox Aurei propago secli Orta coelo pectora O dulce mentium contubernium Illi enim non erant fluxa quos tuentibus figura monstrat quosque contrectat manus erant illi animarum Igneus vigor Quae quasi separatae corporise contagione nil traxere O quibus nomen obtigit Livore majus senecta temporum exorsque Lethi O cultos mihi semper colendos antiqua fide sublime Coelo laetus efferam caput si me benignus Eruditorum Chorus Consentiensque post-humae gentis favor tali coronae accensere ultimum velit H.G.D.H.A. THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable HENRY SPENCER Earl of Sunderland THis Noble Person whose Ancestor when created Baron of Wormeleighton in Warwick-shire primo Iacobi as he said for the report of his being the greatest Moneyed man in England was the fifth Knight of his Family in an immediate succession descended from the Spencers Earls of Gloucester and Winchester was himself when made Earl for his great merit in Court and Camp 19 Car. 1. 1643. the thirty ninth Gentleman bearing arms successively in his house being allied as it appeared then to all the Nobility that time at Court but Duke Hamilton A taunt a Boy gave him when a Child proved a sober Precept to him when a Man and the bare being upbraided that he would be a wicked and an useless Nobleman obliged him ever after to approve himself otherwise When Monicaes St. Augustines Mothers Companion called her Toss-pot in her anger it gave her occasion to be sober and temperate all her life Bitter Jeers sometimes makes wholsom Physick when God sanctifieth malice to do the office of good will Mr. Perkins having taken so much liberty in his younger years as cost him many a sigh in his reduced age heard a Tutor in the next Chamber to him chiding a Pupil thus What will you be such a Bake-hell as Perkins and immediately upon it was reclaimed and the Quick-silver of his extravagant studies and courses fixed to a very great improvement Three dayes were very lucky to him May 6. Iuly 11. and September 19. and two unlucky Sept. 20. and Ian. 6. Great men have their great days it was the sixth of April whereon Alexander was born the sixth of April that he conquered Darius the sixth of April that he won a battel at Sea and a sixth of April that he dyed on On the thirtieth of September Pompey the Great was born on the thirtieth of September he triumphed for his Asian Conquest and on the thirtieth of September he dyed on On the nineteenth of August Augustus was adopted on the nineteenth of August he began his Consulship on the nineteenth of August he Conquered the triumviri and on the nineteenth of August he dyed The sixth
Earl of Huntington then Lord President of the North to be his Chaplain for his dexterity and acuteness in disputing with the Romish Recusants for it was Queen Elizabeths express command to that Lord to convince them by arguments rather than suppress them by force and this She expressed as his Lorship was wont to say in the words of the Prophet Nolo mortem peccatoris But the Earl dying presently after he returned to his privacy at Marston where he continued not long before the Lord Sheffield who succeeded as Lord President commanded him to hold a publick Conference before his Lordship and the Council at the Mannor-house in York with two Romish Recusants then Prisoners in the Castle which he performed with great satisfaction to the Auditory among whom were many of the chief Gentry and Clergy of Yorkshire Anno 1602. Began the great Plague at York at which time he carried himself with much Heroical Charity For the Poor being removed to the Pest-house he made it his frequent use to visit them with food both for their Bodies and Souls His chief Errand was to comfort them pray for them and with them and to make his coming more acceptable he carried with him a Sack of Proviston usually for them that wanted it And because he would not have any body to run any hazard thereby but himself he seldom suffered any of his Servants to come near him but sadled and unsadled his own Horse and had a private door made on purpose into his House and Chamber In the year following he with Dr. Cracanthorp attended the Queens Embassador the Lord Ewre into Germany and Denmark being desirous to improve himself by seeing forraign Kingdoms Churches and Universities In this Voyage he improved his time so well partly in furnishing his Library with Books at Frankfort and elsewhere but chiefly in his conversation with Learned men and his forraign Observations that he always highly valued that opportunity At his return he was sollicited by Roger Earl of Rutland to be his Domestical Chaplain which proffer he was more willing to accept for the privacy he hoped to enjoy in a place where he was not known for making use of the Treasure of Books he had got in his Travels and rather because he was brought so much nearer London than before whither he must have many occasions to go for the putting forth of such Books as he had a design to write For it was not long after that he printed his first part of Apologia Catholica About which time the Arch-bishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisite Preacher conferr'd upon him a Prebend in that Metropolitical Church Anno. 1606. He took the Degree of Doctor in Divinity with the great approbation of both Professors in Divinity Dr. Iohn Overall that profound Scholar and Dr. Thomas Playford that acute Disputant and acurate Preacher who were both of them very competent Judges of mens abilities And about the same time he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to King Iames and by him made Dean of Glocester and assumed by the Lord President of Wales for one of his Majesties Council for the Marches In his first journey to Gloucester he went by Oxford at the Act-time where he was incorporated and admitted to the same Degree that he had in Cambridge where also he was much taken with the exercises of Mr. Daniel Featly then a proceeder and carryed great Friendship to him ever after At which time he fell into acquaintance with that famous Dr. Iohn King then Dean of Christ-Church afterwards Bishop of London which afterwards grew so intimate that the Bishop made choice of him to perform the last offices to him both at his Death and Burial Anno. 1609. He succeeded Dr. George Abbot in the Deanery of Winchester Then Bishop Bilson conferred on him the Rectory of Alesford in the next year a Parliament being held he preached the Sermon to the Convocation upon Matth. 5. 13. Vos estis sat terra with general applause and should have been Prolocutor but in modesty declined it and preferring a Friend of his to it In his abode at London he took his Lodging at Dean Overals who gave him the opportunity of a very early acquaintance with the Learned Isaac Casaubon then newly come out of France and entertained by the Dean The love thus begun was never intermitted in their lives nor obliterated by death as appeareth by Casaubons Monument in Westminster-Abby set up at the Charge of Morton About the same time he had acquaintance with several eminenâ— foraign Scholars and Divines as namely Scultetus Chaplain to the Elector Palatine Diodati Du Moulin whose worth is very well known by their Learned works in Print While he continued in Winchester a certain great Person passionately told the King that Dr. Morton had spoiled one of the best Deaneries in England It concerned the Dean to vindicate his goâ—â— name from that foul and unjust aspersion And therefore acquainted his Brethren of the Chapter with it they were very forward to give a Testimonial under their Hands and Seals That he had been one of the best Deans that ever had been at Winchester in their times and some of them were very ancient Anno. 1616. Iuly 7. He was Consecrated Bishop of Châ—ster while necessaries were prepared for his journey thither he retired himself to Clay Hall in Essex upon the earnest invitation of his Noble Friend Sir Christopher Hatton and there fell sick of a dangerous Fever but being happily recovered presently put himself upon his journey towards his great Work and was met on the borders of his Diocesse and brought into the City of Chester by such a great number of Knights and other the best Gentlemen of the Country besides the Clergy as may give a lasting testimony to their honor as well as his in shewing such a Religious respect to their Bishop When he was setled in his Bishoprick and Rectory of Stopford which he had to keep Hospitality in that Hospitable County he found all the inconveniencies which he fore-saw and some also which he could not fore-see at so great a distance for beside the great number of Romish Recusants which hath alwayes been observed in this Diocesse he found another sort of Recusants better known by the name of Non-Conformists who though they were not so many in number as the other yet had so much perverseness and obstinacy with them as made them equal or rather superior in relation to the trouble he had with them To reduce these Recusants to their obedience to the Church God blessed him with great success to the great content of his Majesty Anno 1618. March 6. At the motion of that great Pattern of Episcopal perfection Dr. Andrews then Bishop of Eli who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer Neighbor as he said of the same Province
Persons of Quality as the Sons of the Earl of Lindsey the Lord Fairfax whose Son Sir Charles was his Gentleman-Usher desired to be admitted for Education 13. His Industry so great as if his labours were as it is said of his Kinsman Arch-bishop Morton his Recreation and his Motto Severus his who died at York where this Bishop was born Laboremus or Iulius Maximinus Quo major eo laboriosior 14. His Acquaintance the most grave and learned men of our own and forreign Churches Spanhemius Rivet Willius c. 15. His Retainers and Chaplains the most Eminent men in either University and Bishop Brownrig was one of them made by him Arch-deacon of Coventry and Prebendary of Durham the last of which preferments he held in Commendam with his Bishoprick till he died 16. His aptness to teach by every thing he did like Socrates whom he resembled in another particular in that he usually confuted his Adversaries always out of something they granted 17. His Converts Bishop Crofts of Hereford the Lady Cholmeley Dr. Swinborne Mr. Theoph. Higgens and twelve eminent Papists more 18. His Small Stature actuated by a great spirit 19. His affable virtues and parts 20. His extraordinary though secret mortification all which virtues and performances rendred him a Saint in his life a Doctor in his works a Confessor in his sufferings and a Martyr in his charity in visiting persons Sick of the Plague who being buried in Saint Peters Eâ—ston-mauduit hath this Monument In Memoria Sacra hic vivit usque usque vivat exiguum etiam illud quod mortale fuit viri pietate literis hospitalitatâ— eleemosinis Celeberrimi Reverendi in Christo patris ac Domini Thomae Dunelmensis Episcopi Eoque nomine Comitis Palatini Clara Mortonorum familia Oriundione Quem Richardo peperit Elizabetha Leâ—dale Sexto de 19. puerperiâ— Eboraci in lucem Editum Quem Col. Sancti Joh. Evangelistae in Acad. Cant. Alumnum fovit Instructissimum socium Ambivit selectissimuâ— Benefactorem sensit munificentissimum ornamentum celebrabit perpetuo singulare Marstonienis Alesfordiensis Stopfordiensis Rectorem sedulum Eboracensis Canonicum Pium  Quem Ecelesia Glocestrensis Wintoniensis Decanum Providum  Cestrensis Leich Covent Dunelmensis  Praesulem vigilantem   Habuere Qui post plurimos pro sancta Ecclesia Catholica Exantlatos Labores Elucubrata volumina toleratas afflictiones Diuturna heu nimium Ecclesiae procella hinc inde Iact at us huc demum Appulsus bonis exutus omnibus bona preterquam fama conscientia tandem etiam corpore senex Caelebs hic Requiescit in Domino Felicem praestolans Râ—surrectionem Quam suo demum tempore bonus debit Deus Amen Nullo non dignus Elogio Eo vero dignior quod nullo se dignum existimaverit Obiit Crastinâ— S. Mathaei Salutis 1659. Sepultus Festo S. Michaelis Anno Aetatis 95. Episcopatus 44. THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS COMBER Dean of Carlisle DOctor Thomas Comber Son of Comber Clarenciaux King of Armes was born at Shermanbury in Sussex on New-years-day and Baptized on the day of Epiphany 1575. the twelfth Child of his Father as Bellarmine Baronius Scultetus and many eminent men were who were the vigorous off-spring of their decayed Parents His first Education was at Horsham in the same County under a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who studying his meek but active temper as much as he did his Books rather mildly led than severely drive him to whom a frown was as bad as correction and a correction as bad as death whose great industry and happy memory taking in all the learning instilled into him and retaining all he had taken in twice reading sufficing him to gain any piece of an Author at eight years of age furnished him with so much skill in Greek and Latine Poetry History and Oratory as with Mr. Titchburns his exemplary Tutors improvement of him in Hebrew Syriack Arabick besides Logick Ethicks and a smattering in the Mathematicks recommended him after three years continuance in Trinity Colledge Cambridge where he was admitted to Dr. Nevill then intent upon planting a good Nursery in that Colledge knowing that learning propagates by example and one good Scholar begets another as one lights his Candle at the Candle of his Neighbour to be Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Foundation Where his proficiency was the effect 1. Of St. Bernards method which was written upon many of his Books ut Legeret Intelligendi fecit cupidites ut Intelligeret oratio Impetravit ut Impetraret quid nisi vitae sanct it as promeruit sic cupiat sic orat sic vivat qui se proficere desiderat 2. The industry he commended to others in these Instructions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shun Idleness as the common sewer that takes in all temptation employ your selves well or you will be employed ill 3. And the good example of other Students and he would use often that of Seneca magnum est quod a sapiente viâ—o vel tacente proficias and the accomplished man now dexterous in Hebrew Arabick Coptick Samaritane Syriack Chaldee Persian Greek Latine French Spanish and Italian and well versed in the Greek and Latine Fathers Schoolmen Councels and Modern Writers Great Abilities very much sweetned by his great Modesty and Humility appeared first an exellent Tutor bringing up his Pupils rather as Friends and Companions than Scholars stealing his vast Learning to them by Discourse and Converse rather than inculcating it by Set-Lectures and training them up to vertue and knowledge by his example more effectually than others did by Precepts giving this reason for it afterwards to other Tutors That young men admitted to the Company of those that were their Seniors would be decoyed into excellency being ashamed to speak or do any thing below the Company they kept And then a melting Preacher preaching as much by his silent and grave Gesture composed to a smiling sweetness as by his learned and honest Sermons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After that having filled his own Country with his hopes and name he travelled three years secured from the Vices of foraign Nations by his chast gravity and sage prudence and very capable of their vertues by exact Observations and good Company being all the while he was in France at the house of the Judicious Learned and Religious Mounsieur Moulin the Buckler of the Protestant profession Frequent Disputes at which he was so much of Chrysippus his faculty in disputando pressus concisus subactus that he was imployed at the command of our late famous King to Dispute at St. Andrews in Scotland in publick with the Divines there who admired him much for his solid quickness and various Learning Holy Conference the fruit whereof was the conversion of several Jews the good effect of Oriental Learning and particularly one Bardesius by name whom he convinced that it was impossible to maintain the truth of the Old
rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will choose rather to neglect their duty safely and creditably than to get a broken pate in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that which will break their hearts too Although he was so resolvedly honest and upon such clear Principles conscientious that he tired the persecutions of his enemies and out-lived the neglect of his friends finding the satisfaction flowing from his duty out-ballancing the sufferings for it 1. When Chaplain much troubled by Arch-bishop Abbot Sir H. Lynde and Mr. P. 1. For Licensing a Book called An Historical Narration of the Iudgment of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs Confessors in Queen Maries dayes concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death Novemb. 27. 1630. 2. For maintaining universal Grace and Redemption in a Passion Sermon at St. Pauls Cross about the same time 2. When Master of Queens Colledge as much persecuted by the Faction for six or seven years from Cambridge to Elyâ— house thence to Ship-board and thence to the Fleet with the same disgrace and torment I mentioned before in Dr. Beals life for being active in sending the University-Plate to the King and in undeceiving people about the proceedings of the pretended Parliament i. e. in sending to the King that which should have been plundred by his enemies and preaching as much for him as others did against him his sufferings were both the smarter and the longer because he would not own the Usurpation so much as to Petition it for favor being unwilling to own any power they had to Imprison him by any address to them to Release him And when in a throng of other Prisoners he had his Liberty he chose to be an exile beyond Sea at Paris rather than submit to the tumult at home at London or Cambridge If he was too severe against the Presbyteries of the Reformed Churches which they set up out of necessity it was out of just indignation against the Presbytery of England which set up it self out of Schism And when he thought it unlawful for a Gentleman of the Church of England to marry a French Presbyterian it was because he was transported by the oppression and out-rage of the English But being many years beyond Sea he neither joyned with the Calvinists nor kept any Communion with the Papists but confined himself to a Congregation of old English and Primitive Protestants where by his regular Life and good Doctrine he reduced some Recusants to and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion so defeating the jealousies of his foes and exceeding the expectation of his friends Returning with his Majesty 1660. he was restored to his own Preferments and after Dr. Loves death the natural Wit and Orator Master of Bennet Colledge Margaret Professor after Dr. Holdsworth in which place he was sure to affront any man that put up Questions against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of Engl. in the worst of times and Dean of Ely made Dean of Ely in which dignity he dyed 1662 3 having this Memorial That he had bred up his Colledge so well in the Principles of Religion and Loyalty that no one there from the highest to the lowest submitted to the Usurpers for there was a through Reformation neither Master Fellow not Scholar being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a Wreck and forfeited in this Land-tempest for lack of a living thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof a severity contrary to the eternal moral of the Jewish Law provided against the Depopulation of Birds-nests that the old and young ones should be destroyed together The Doctors Predecessors Dr. Humphrey Tyndal Master of Queens and Dean of Ely was as is reported offered by a Protestant party in Bohemia to be chosen King in Queen Elizabeths Reign and he refused it alleadging That he had rather be a Subject under Queen Elizabeth than a forraign Prince And the Doctor himself was offered as I have heard honorable accommodations by some in the Church of Rome but he accepted them not because he said He had rather be a poor Son of the afflicted but Primitive Church of England than a Rich Member of the flourishing but corrupt Church of Rome Edvardus Martin S. Th. Dr. Cato sequioris saculi qui nihil ad famam omnia ad conscientiam fecit Rigide pius vir et severe Iustus sibi theatrum omnia ad normam exigens non amplius ambivit quam ut sibi placeret et Deo THE Life and Death OF THE LORD WILLMOT Earl of Rochester THe Lord Wilmot born on All-Souls day in Ireland and bred Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford received a Barony from his Ancestors and conveyed an Earldom to his Posterity of whom a great man said That he was so Great a Scholar that he could give the best advice and so good a Souldier that he could follow it the best of any man in England none more valiant to return a private affront with the hazard of his own Personâ— he gave a box on the ear to one of the most eminent men in this Nation none more patient in taking a disgrace the revenge of which might hazard the publick safety He suffered his Horse to be taken by the bridle and himself to be led out of Command by a Messenger from his Majesty in the Hoad of 700. Horse over whom he was Lieutenant-General in view of the Enemy to the great dissatisfaction of the Army which was ready to Mutiny for the Lord Willmot at that very time when they should fight the Earl of Essex He was Captain of Horse many years in the Low Countries with great respect for his generous Courage and good Discipline and coming thence over was made Commissary General of Horse in the Expedition into Scotland In Holland began that animosity between him and Goring which continued in England His sobriety indeared him to every Army he came to and therefore rendred him suspected and envied in most actions he performed An excellent Commander of Horse and of himself being therefore mistrusted because he would not swear as if Dam-me had been the Oath of Allegiance 1640. Aug. 28. When the Lord Conway let the Scots over â—weed Mr. Willmot was the first man that made head against them standing with a few prime Gentleman when the rest of the Army fled and threw down their Arms to the Enemies Horse and Cannon so effectual that though being over-powered he could not defeat them yet he stunned them so that instead of advancing with an Army next day they submit with a Petition exactly as Mr. Willmot guessed whose opinion was That one resolute action against the Scots should min them who are lost by favors and 〈◊〉 by severities He acted like a Statesman when Commissary in the Expedition against the Scots telling my Lord Conway That he saw his Majesty would be overcome by the English at home if he
watchfulness setled integrity circumspect activity advantageous temperance and good conversation gained the repute of the best Commander of Horse in the world in which capacity he had the Command of a Colonel in the Shew as he called it against Scotland and of General of Horse in the real War against the English and that in the North assisting the Earls of Cumberland and Newcastle to form an Army where the best Horse were to be raised from whence after some notable defeats of the Lord Fairfax which some said were remembred at Colchester he carryed 2000. Horse to assist his Majesty with whom we finde him eminent both for his direction and execution about the hill near Newbery and Eâ—born-Heath which he maintained with one Regiment well disposed and lined with Musqueteers and a Drake with small shot against the gross of Eâ—â—ex his Armyâ— the Leading-man of which he Pistolled himself in the Head of hiâ— Troop giving close fire himself and commanding others to do the like After this first battel of Newbery and his recovery froâ— his seven wounds received there being at Cawood Castle when it was assaulted with extraordinary skill and valor he forced his way through the enemies quarters to such places as he thought convenient with such confidence and magnanimity that his very name became a terror in the North raising by the very Alarm three Sieges and reducing two strong Garrisons At Marston-Moor being commanded to lead the Kings Left Wing against the Parliaments Right consisting of Fairfax his Troops and Scots he routed them for two miles together with a violent Charge and afterwards saved most of those that were saved in that fatal battel making it his business to pick up a Regiment of Veteranes saying He must make much of a Souldier for he was long in the making and not one in twenty lived to it At Newark he gave as great a proof of his good Discipline as he did of his personal Valor strict though not severe in his Commands being none of those that reckoned it the very spirit of Policy and Prudence where men refuse to come up to Orders and Law to make Orders and Law come down to them and for their so doing have this infallible Recompence that they are not at all the more loved but much the less feared and which is a sure consequence of it accordingly respected Disobedience if complied with is infinitely incroaching and having gained one degree of Liberty upon indulgence will demand another upon claim Free in his rewards to persons of desert and quality very zealous on all occasions against the Rebellion being usually known to deliver himself in these words That he preferred the style of Loyalty before any Dignity earth could confer upon him In his Charge serious and vigilant remiss in nothing that might expedite or improve his dispatch in Affairs of Government as compassionate as couragious never killing the man he durst spare and very ready at all times to afford what himself could not receive Free-quarter to which I need adde only his brave and successeful Attempt in the famous march from Berkley Castle with part of his Regiment between Slym-bridge and Bevâ—rston Castle upon Col. Massies Garrisons with his incomparable Gallantry at Tidbury his brave answer at Berkley Castle at the refusal of two summons viz. That he would eat Horse-flesh â—irst and Mans-flesh when that was done before he would yield But having trod many uncouth parts for his Majesties restitution and breaking his Parol with the General upon good advicâ— had before to satisfie his Conscience in that point he formed an hopeful Association among the Gentlemen of his own Country the beginning whereof was indeed so distracted that he advised them to retire quietly to their own homes until they had a fairer opportunity who intreated him to command them promising to live and die with him one and all as he did securing them on all hands by a party of choice Horse from the Incursions of the Enemy and disposing them in Quarters most for their advantage and safety all along till taking the Earl of Warwicks House and Arms in his way they came from Burnt-wood to Colchester which shutting the gates against him he reduced with his very appearance and when the next day begirt he entertained the Enemies whole Army with such Conduct and Resolution in the hedges and Suburbs round the Town that had they all fallied out as he advised them they had as some Prisouers acknowledged bidden fair for the overthrow of that whole Army But the enemy falling next day to form a Leaguer he considering there was no marching out of the Country about being Champion ground wherein for want of Horse they would be instantly cut off Victualled and furnished the Town in spight of the Army from the Stores and Countrey adjoyning and made its ruines above belief defensible to give time to other Countreys while the Army was there to Associate expecting the Northern relief and likewise to weather the Army its self by hard duty unseasonable weather and continual sallies sending out some excellent Persons to countenance the Levy of more Forces in other Countries and keep intelligence from whom several small parties came in through the Leaguer and ordering all the Town Arms into the Magazine and listing the Towns-men into Companies Iuly 7. Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle made a grand Sally that cleared one side of the Leaguer Streets Hills Hedges and all to the loss of near a thousand six hundred killed several stealing into the Town and many running home Iuly 12. Sir Charles took care for a convenient distribution of the Provision left among the Towns-people and Souldiers and of Declarations to be sent into Kent and Essex and to the Army promising from his Majesty Arrears and Indemnity to such as laid down their Armes or would joyn with them towards the Peace and Settlement of the Kingdom Iuly 29. Sir Charles advised that the Horse should break out through the Leaguer towards the North but in vain the false Towns-men that should make their way as Pioneers deserting them August 17. He and the Lord Capell in a Letter to the General desired twenty days respite to inform themselves about their intended Relief and that being denied the Relief failing the great Northern Army beaten their Ammunition spent to a Barrel and a half of Powder and their Provision to two Horses and one Dog the whole Kingdom stupid and Sir Charles his admirable overture after a general protestation that they would not accept of dishonorable terms nor desert one another of a general Sally to perish nobly or honorably Relieve themselves being when all things were ready to a minute for the executing of it defeated yielded and by the Generals order retired to the Kings-head till Sir Charles was sent for with Sir George Lisle Colonel Farre and Sir Bernard Gascoin to a Councel of War by which he was Condemned to dye immediately Sir Charles asking
said many years before the war that he would prove either the best or the worst instrument that ever this kingdome bred with a cast of his Military Office in Plundering him and Quartering himself in a spight mean as himself upon him He was with many children turned out of all likely to have been starved had not the honorable Sir Iohn Robinson and his good Parishioners at Milk-street entertained him charitably in those sad times when being about to write Mr. Hales his Life 1658. he ended his own leaving two Volumes of nervous and elegant Sermons behind him together with the memory of an holy honest rational sober modest and patient Confessor Dr. Iohn Oliver first of Magdalen Hall and afterwards of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford Tutor to several eminent Persons but to none more than the Right Honorable Edward Earl of Clarenden Lord High-Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford and fellow Pupil under Dr. Buckner to Dr. Hammond His moderate expedients did much in the Colledge while he was Fellow to reconcile differences and his even carriage at Lambethâ— where he was Chaplain 1640. to mitigate prejudices permitting none that came to him as a Licenser to go away unsatisfied either with a slurr put upon what they cannot endure a contempt of their pains though never so despicable or a disrespect upon their persons though never so mean 1643. he was forced to fly from his Livings and Dignities when it pleased God by the promotion of Dr. Frewen to the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichsield to open a way to him into his Presidentship which he held till 1646. when being ejected with his Brethren he had a very hard time of it his charity not foreseeing the future miseries though never exceeding yet making even with his Income youth may make even with the year though age if it will hit shoots a Bow short and lessens still his Stake as the day lessens and his life with it till the Secluded Members restored him being not turned out formally but forced prudently to retire 1659. his Majesty advancing him to the Deanery of Worcester 1660. and dying 1661. lâ—â—ving considerable Legacies to the Cathedral of Worcester Magdalâ—n Colledge in Oxford and St. Pauls in London And bequeathing this Memorial among the Scholars of the House that he let them know he was President so as that he remembred that they were his Fellows using to the younger sort that of Divine Herbert Fool not for all may have if they dare try a glorious life or grave The learned and honest Dr. Robert Pinke and Dr. Stringer Wardens of New Colledge Dr. Ratcliffe Principal of Brazen-Nose Dr. Tolson Provost of Oriel Dr. Pit of Wadham most of them great Benefactors to their respective Colledges particularly Dr. Tolson having with the then Fellows contributed largely to the rebuilding and finishing of that neat Colledge which they were not suffered long to injoy Sic vos non vobis c. Dr. Laurence of Baliol Colledge Margaret Professor much troubled about a Sermon he preached at Whitehall 1637. wherein he moderately stated the real presence saying We must believe he is there though we must not know how that he was there the Church always said but con sub trans the Church said not c. and at last cast out by force to beg his Bread with the rest of his Brethren Dr. Christopher Potter native of Westmerland Scholar at the Pregnant School of Appleby Fellow and Provost of Queens Colledge Prebend of Windsor and Dean of Worcester a person of great learning devout life courteous carriage comely presence and a sweet nature It was conceived a daring part of Tho. Cecill to injoyn his Carpenters and Masons not to omit a days work at the building of Wimbledon-house in Surrey though the Spanish Armado 1588. all that while shot off their guns whereof some might be heard to the place It was a bold loyalty and charity in this Doctor to send all his plate to the King saying he would drink with Diogenes in the hollow of his hand before his Majesty should want when he did not know but all his estate should be seized by the enemy and to give so much to the poor when he had a Wife and many Children to provide for yet having heard in a Sermon at Saint Pauls that to give to the poor was an infallible way to be rich our selves he did as a good hearer should try it and found it true A strict Puritan he was when Preacher at Abingdon in his Doctrine and always one in his Life His excellent Book against the Papists called Charity Mistaken 1634. was not only learned but what is sometimes wanting in Books of that controversie in each phrase weighed and discreet submitting it to the censure of his friends before it came under the eye of the world as was his Consecration Sermon at the Instalment of his Uncle Bishop Potter of Carlisle 1629. The cavils against both which malice snarling where it could not bite he answered not partly because of his sickly body which was impatient of study and partly because of his peaceable temper not much inclined to controversies But chiefly because he would say a controversie would be ended by writing when a fire would be quenched with oyle New matter still riseth in the agitation and gives hint to a fore-resolved opposite of a fresh disquisition silence hath sometimes quieted misraised brabbles never interchange of words and indeed he was not worthy to be satisfied that would after such satisfactory discourses yet wrangle Robert Pinke a grave Governor often Vice-chancellor with great integrity managing the Elections at Winchester and the Revenues of New-colledge rich not in his estate but in his minde having made little his measure he reckoned all above a treasure He that needs five thousand pounds to live He is not so rich as he that needs but five Dr. Ratcliffe one firm to his purpose though the matter never so small not to be moved by advantages never so great constancy knits the soul who breaks his own bonds forfeiteth himself what nature makes a ship he makes a shelf Dr. Tolson a plain Northern-man that loved to do things by degrees and like his successor Dr. Io. Saunders to collect others opinion of affairs before he declared himself speaking to a business as Mr. Humpden used last being willing to leave little to hazard when he had time to bring an affair within the compass of skill Dr. Laurence did all things like a man hating the Lay hypocrisie of simpring Who fears to do ill sets himself to Task Who fears to do Well sure should wear a Mask Dr. Potter a person that lived by rule as all things do securing his temperance with two sconces viz. Carving and Discoursing a shop of rules a well trusted pack whose every parcel under writes a Law having his humors as God gave them him under Lock and Key Who keeps no Guard upon himself
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
sacrifices for Ascham and Dorislaus escaped with his life in eleven years durance out of which he got 1656. not by creeping out of the Window by cowardly compliance but going forth at the Door fairly set open for him by Divine Providence hazarding his life for that which was the life of his life his Conscience He died at his house at Cowbridge his age having some years before given him a quietus est from publick imployments Dec. 6. 1663. INgratiis Pollentiae Invidiae Doli Frui miseriis ad voluptatem pati Carcerem in Asylum consecrare pectoris Instar reatu non prophanati aut metu Eatenus se vincere ac fati vices Vt forte fortunatus Invita foret Hoc est proselitare mala Damna 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sicci Beare vincla martyrii gradu Athleta tantus Jenkins qui de verbulis Myrmidonas ut formiculis tonans parit Sementa Cadmi literas belle exprimant Armata sulcis cressit ex Atris cohors Haec dextra turmas parturit penna fluit Ros plumea unde plumiceps oriâ—ur genus Ab ere non solidati at aerumna viri Hujusce nomen fit vice Auctoraminis Tu concoquebas famem diros cibos Qui devorantem sicut Ichneumon vorant Inedia cujus militum fovit fidem Vitalioris pabulo constantiae Vel ipsa macies ut saga famelica gregi Cadaveroso spiritum Infudit novum Mens gravior Auro puriorque stat tibi Quamvis in aevo Forreae rubiginis Vbi schismatum aemulatio ac pro formula Mera tenentur aut recusantur preces Qua Christianum sapere virtutes docet Eruncinare Gratiae ut zizania Successa titulo ne superbirent boni Bellum in duellum contrahis Ovantum licet Rebellionem criminans Rebellium Troglodytae ut execrantur ortivum Iubar Veniam repudias cum coinquinat favor Nec malis animum quam Catenari pedes Fastidioque nobilis justo doces Quod cedere est passiva Perduellio Fastu Pylagorae dum venenati tument Massaculoque regium Sceptrum Imputant Potentiae quanquam urbicae subsellia Turgentiore in solia tollunt Ambitu Is perspicaci tibi Cometalis nitor Conspicuus ipso fit minus fastigio Putrisque Trunci concolor radiis micat Quem nox in ignem vertit in lignum dies Fucatus horum lumine obruitur decor Cum patuit cum Latuit effulsit tuus Iustitia Caeca deviet seductilis Tua nisi Libram studia nutantem regant Pseudophoros pessundaturam qui struunt Ecclesiam puram sacrilegii strophis Et Araneosis Antinomiarum plagis Quas virulentis nent in Aucupium fibris Volaticos Irretiunt Araneos Aptis opifices Retium suspendere Balucia tu lege jureque logico Percontumacia Corda Rhetoricae moves Ac veritate fretus Incompta fugas Fallaciam quam vel fugere victoria est Cessere grandes dispari numero duces Rationibus superantur Innumeri tuis Causam ecce captus Imperatricem Capit Victus domat quicunque bis victor Cluvit The best Professors of the Canon and Civil Law the Law of Nations suffered with his Majesty as well as those of the Common-Law of England As 1. Dr. Arthur Duck a Person of most smooth language and rough speech i.e. of a Masculine style disadvantaged by an harsh utterance born at Heavy-tree in Devonshire of rich and gentile Parents bred in All-Souls Oxon the Gentlemans Colledge preferred Chancellor of Wells and London and designed Master of the Rolls the Lawyers advancement Marryed to a pious and wealthy Consort the devout mans Fortune whose life was what all our lives should be gratitude 1. To God in the strictness of his life and the good government of his Family reading two Chapters of the Bible every day to himself and three to his Houshold 2. To his Ministry Mr. Gataker and others of whom he deserved though a Lawyer the Epithite Athens gave some Physicians viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that would take nothing of them but give money to them with other incouragements which he called Fees to them at the Throne of Grace 3. To Gods poor especially at Wells where he was much missed to whom he gave he said what he got of the rich 4. To the Founder of the Colledge Archbishop Chichley where he had his Education in drawing up his life in Latine as elegant as his foundation 5. To his Majesty giving to him 6000 l. and paying for him in way of composition 2000 l. besides the many troubles he indured for him among others many years absence from his dear and sick Wife and the several services he performed to him the last whereof was his appearance a Civil Lawyer to assist his Majesty at the Treaty at the Isle of Wight whence returning home sad a sunk heart cannot be buoyed up again he dyed at Cheswicke Middles on the Lords-day and in effect in the Church 1648. when no true English-man could say he lived leaving two Daughters since marryed to two Gentlemen of his Name and Kindred Sir Thomas Reeves born at Little-langton in Dorset-shire and bred in New-Colledge in Oxford Dr. Ducks Colleague at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight Judge Advocate and Dr. Zouch his Colleague in the Admiralty so well skilled in Common-Law as well as Civil and in Divinity as both that he could have practised at Westminster as well as Doctors-Commons and at the Pulpit of St. Pauls as well as the Consistory being capable of the Ministry-maintenance for which he pleaded with much Law and Learning more Reason and Equity in his Vicars plea. A plea saith my Author oftner made than heard oftner heard than pityed and oftner pityed than redressed so unequal is the contest between a poor Vicars plea and wealthy Impropriators purse His general Learning and polite Latine no hair hanging at the neb of his Pen appears in his most critical Books of Sea-fights his Valour though Ancient in our late Wars gave good evidence of its self in several Land-battels Dr. Duck in the tryal of combat between the Lord Rey and Ramsey 1631. before the Earl Marshal spoke in the Kings behalf as if he would as he did afterwards suffer for him and Dr. Reeves in my Lord Reys behalf as if he had not been his Advocate onley but his Second He dyed where he was born 1652. Sir Iohn Lamb a man of his name so calm in publick that none could anger him though as if his temper changed with his place so angry sometimes in private that none could please him an error that was like to ruine saved him exposing indeed his Person to a Parliament but as the like accident preferred Sir Walter Raleigh discovering his parts so that Bishop Williams brought him off from his troubles and on to his Preferment First getting him Knighted and then advanced to the Deanery of the Arches Sir Iohn being opposed by the Bishop about an Officials place in Leicester which he carryed against him fell fowl with him about Puritans whom
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
lost his life having spared the lives of the worst of men who he knew had God for their Father though they had not the Church for their Mother Sir Christopher Mynnes an honest Shoemakers Son in London by his bold Adventures gaining a brave Estate beyond the Line and by his Heroick actions in all our Sea-fights shewing that he deserved it on this side a plain man and a good Spokes-man Qualities for which the King and Prince Rupert loved him made of an indefatigable Industry and a vast skill and abilities for which they much trusted him yet very familiar among his Souldiers whom he saw well used for Diet Pay and their share in Prizes getting more in buying again the Souldiers share than others did in cheating them of them the more absolute power he as all Sea-Commanders had the more careful he was how he used them he was shot in the mouth yet holding it in his hands continued in his Command all over in bloud as long as the Enemy continued the fight against whom he was so forward that if his advice had been taken in the Bergen Expedition the Dutch had come to London to beg that Peace which they would so hardly yield to at Breda Sir Rich. Stainer a man deserving well of his Majesty about Portugall and Tangier as good a Seaman as most in England as the Sea-men in England are as good as any in Europe either for Fighting or Trading for tame Merchants ships or wild ships Men of War having contributed as much as any for improving the Sea for what it was made neither only for Fish to play in nor only for the Sun to drink of but for Commerce in Traffick Learning and Religion all mankind being one Family Acts 17. that the world may know its self before it be dissolved A pious man at Land in safety as devout at Sea in danger not like those Sea-men whose hearts are like the Rocks they sail by so often in death that they think not of it seeing Gods wonders in the deep he were the greatest wonder of all that were not made more serious and pious by them Iames Ley Earl of Marleborough who not content to be penned in the narrow Island where he was born launched out to the wide world where he might live The Lord Treasurer Ley his Ancestor gained an Estate by his Court-Interest beyond Sea and he gained skill by improving that Estate wherewith he served his late Majesty very seasonably with two or three Ships supplying him with Arms Ammunition and whatever else he wanted from beyond Sea opening the Western Ports and maintaining the passage between England and Ireland and his present Majesty very effectually in advancing his Majesties Interest in Plantations abroad and hazzarding his own life for him at home loosing it in the first Sea-fight with the Dutch Iune 1665. aboard the old Iames whence a little before he died reflecting on the former course of his life he writ to this effect to Sir Hugh Pollard who deserveth a mention not only because he was his friend as Eusebius is known by the name of his friend Paâ—philus whence he is called Eusebius Pamphilus but because being a Gentleman of a good Family and interest in Devonshire descended from Sir Lewis Pollard of Nimet in that County and one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench in King Henry the eights time who had four Sons Knighted before his face Governor of Dartmouth a Port of great Importance well Garrisoned for his late Majesty and Comptroller of the Hushold for his present Majesty very active and venturing for his Majesty in the worst times and very hospitable and noble with his Majesty in the best Observing that rule in keeping up the English honor of a great Table occasionally entertaining rather than solemnly inviting his ghests lest he should over do his own Fortune for fear of under-doing the Inviteds expectation to whom his Feast might be his ordinary fare Which puts me in mind of a King of France who used to lose himself in a Park Lodge where his sauce hunger made the plainest fare a Feast and the Park-keepers taking heart to invite him came with all his Court to whom all his meat was but a morsel Well said the Park-keeper I will invite no more Kings The Letter which Iames Earl of Marlborough writ to Sir Hugh Pollard who dyed 1667. was to this effect 1665. I Am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that what I write proceeds not from any phancying terror of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death than mine example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own Age and Experience will save that labor but there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being the great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding those inexitricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail reasons do perplex us withall God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy words in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same your I hope happy issue Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we die as the beast that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only great and holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays Your true friend Marleborough Old James near the Coast of Holland April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my Request Henry Earl of Huntington one of the first that appeared for his Majesty in Leicester-shire as his Son the honorable Lord Loughborough continued there with the last the constant service of the second during the first War in commanding the Garrisons of his Country
the old Religion against what he supposed the new in his Under him the Welch at Brentford made good the Greek Proverb with right Brittish valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that flieth will fight again those who being little better than naked cannot be blamed for using swift heels at Edgehill must having resolution to arm their minds as soon as they had armour to cover their bodies be commended for using as stout arms as any in this fight which cost the Family though Sir Thomas died not long after 2000 l. 5. Sir Evan Lloyd of Yale a sober Gentleman and one of the first that waited on his Majesty at Wrexam for which he suffered deeply several times till his Majesties Restauration by whom he was made Governour of Chester a City of which it is said that it was more honour to keep a Gate in it than to command a whole City elsewhere seeing East Gate therein was committed formerly to the Earl of Oxford Bride Gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water Gate to the Earl of Derby and North Gate to the Major He died as soon as he was invested in his Government 1663 4. Godfrey Lloyd Charles Lloyd and Tho. Lloyd were Collonels in the Kings Army and Coll. Rob. Ellis a vigilant sober active and valiant Commander 240 l. Sir Francis Lloyd Caerm 1033 l. Walt. Lloyd Lleweny Carding Esq 1033 l. 6. Col. Anthony Thelwall a branch of the Worshipful Family of the Thelwalls of Plasyward near Ruthin in Denbighshire known for his brave Actions at Cropredy where his Majesty trusted him with a thousand of the choicest men he had to maintain as he did bravely the two advantagious Villages Burley and Nelthorp and at the second Newberry fight where he did wonders with the reserve of Sir G. Lisles Tertia and had done more had he not been slain for not accepting of Quarter Not long after Daniel Thelwall of Grays-Inn Esq paid 540 l. composition Io. Thelwall of Pace-Coch Denb Esq 117 l. The Right Honorable Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy-Counsellor to both Kings Charles I. and II. bred in the strictest School and Coll. Eaton by Windsor and Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to a great insight into general and various Learning and in the Low-Countries and France to a great happiness in Experiences and Observations in the Affairs of War Trade and Government the result of which and his retired studies by reason of the troubles of the Age and the infirmities of his body much troubled with the Stone with a sharp fit whereof he died 1667. was as King Charles the First who conversed with him much in his Closet called it and King Charles the Second who came often with the Counsel to his House and Bed side found it Safe and clear Counsel a sober and moderate Spirit the reason together with the general opinion of his great integrity and unblemished reputation he was so much reverenced and courted by the Parliament as they called it and so often imployed in seven Publick Messages and three solemn Treaties between the King and Parliament a serious temper and deep thoughts understanding Religion well he was reckoned the best Lay-Divine by his Polemical and Practical Discourses after the Kings death in England and practising it better Prayers Sermons and Sacraments being performed in no Family more solemnly than in his house private preparations before the monethly Communion used no where more seriously than that of all that belonged to his noble retinue in his Closet his stipends to the poor Clergy and Gentry in the late times were constant and great near upon besides what he sent beyond Sea 1000 l. a year his charity to the Poor of each place where he had either his residence or estate Weekly Monethly Quarterly and Yearly above 500 l. a year among those few Ministers reduced into distress by the late fire he bestowed besides particular largesses and a resolution to take them if unprovided to any Preferments that should fall in his Gift an 100 Pieces in Gold giving always his Livings to the choicest men recommended to him by the Fathers of the Church whose judgements he much relied upon in those Cases in the Kingdom he reckoned it certainly a more blessed thing to give than receive when besides his great Hospitality during his life and his manifold and large Benefactions at his death he gave away so much for publick good and as I am told received not one farthing all the while either as Lord Treasurer or Privy Counsellor for his own private advantage He was one of the Honorable Lords who offered his life to save his Majesty pleading that he had been the Instrument of his Government and hazzarded it to bury him His Composition was 3466l in Money and 250 l. a year in Land taken from him and his losses in the War 54000 l. Sir Walter VVrotsley not VVriothsley of VVrotsley Stafford 1332 l. 10 â— with 15 l. per annum Land taken from him Sir Frederick Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold Comptroller and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty whose old Servant he had been and his Fathers and Uncles before him at his Restauration and made Baron Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk at his Majesties Coronation The Temple of Honor being of right open to him in time of Peace who had so often hazzarded himself in the Temple of Vertue in the time of War particularly at Copredy-bridge where the Lord Willmot twice Prisoner was rescued once by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and the next time by Sir R. Howard Sir F. being as the last Pope said of this a Man of so chearful a spirit that no sorrow came near his heart and of so resolved a mind that no fear came into his thoughts so perfect a Master of Courtly and becoming Raillery that he could do more with one word in Jest than others could do with whole Harangues in Earnest a well-spoken man competently seen in modern Languages of a comely and goodly Personage died suddainly of an Apoplectical fit Ian. 7. 1661. Pope Innocent being in discourse about the best kind of death declared himself for suddain death suddain not as unexpected that we are to pray against but suddain as unfelt that he wished for To him I may adde Sir Will. Throgmorton Knight Marshall to his Majesty who died 166â— A Gentleman of an Ancient Family to whom a great spirit was as Hereditary as a great Estate who did much service to his Majesty in England and was able to do more to him and his Friends in Holland where he was formerly a Souldier and then an Inhabitant worth is ever at home and carryâ—th its welcome with it wherever it goeth who had lost his life sooner with a Bullet got into his body had not he done as they say Mr. Farnaby the Grammarian did who coming over from the Dutch Camp poor and wounded at Billingsgate met with a poor Butterwoman of whom he bought as
much as he was able to pay for melted it down and scoured his body with it when he kept School first in a Cellar in Aldersgate-street In the Wars there were for personal Valour very eminent Sir Baynam and Sir Clement Throgmorton who whilest others boast of their French bloud may with their English Family vie Gentry with any of the Norman Extraction 1 For Antiquity four Monasyllables being by common pronunciation crowded into their Name The Rock More Town 2 For numerosity being branched into so many Countries 3 For Ingenuity Character'd by Cambden to be fruitful of sine Wits and to them Sir Simon Archer of Tanworth in Warwickshire and his Son there of his studiousness as well as Estate a great Antiquary careful in collecting and courteous in communicating singular Rarities which were carelesly scattered up and down these Wars and prudently brought up by him and the Honorable Persons fore-going who were not as the Toads who suck up the precious stone in their head envying the use of it sparing no cost for their love to Antiquity and being put to many thousand pounds charge for their hatred of Novelty as was The Honorable Iohn Son to Nich. Tuston created Earl of Thanet an exemplary Person in the strictness of his Life and the good Government of his Family who for encouraging the Kentish mens Loyalty though he left them upon their unconstancy paid for his own 9000 l. and Tho. Lord Viscount Falconbridge 5012 l. for his Col. Mynne Governor of Hereford there were in the Army besides Col. Robert and Col. Nicholas Mynne one or both Knights Harbingers and signing the Articles at the Rendition of Bristol an experienced Commander first in Ireland and afterwards coming over with a Brigade 1653. over whom he was General in England distressing Glocestâ—r from Berkly and thereabout with continual Skirmishes Massie saying He had plaid till these came over A restless man in pursuit of some project every day to hearten and employ his own Souldiers and weary the Enemy as he was going to joyn the Forces of Hereford and Worcestershire at Castlelane with a design on Glocester and others not keeping touch with him he was cut off with the best Regiment made so by continual exercise within three miles of Glocester in disadvantagious Inclosures the consequence whereof was the defeating of the Kings Power in Southwales being much missed by his Friends and honored by his Foes who gave him a stately Burial 1644. in Testimony of his Worth and Valor being the fairest and shrew dest Enemy in Christendom whose Monument shall be supported by First Col. H. Washington who blocked up Glocester on Tewxbury side a Gentleman though disobliged by being put upon designs without Money to pursue them never suffered his Heat and Feaver to turn to a Frenzy unworthily attempting what he could not handsomely atchieve though vext that his swelling and prosperous sails should be silled rather with airy promises than real supplies and Eversham scoured the hedges near Stopwash a Border-Town of Cheshire to make way for Prince Rupert to enter into that Important Garrison kept Worcester till his Majesty under his hand Iune 10. 1646. commanded him to yield it against all Assaults and Summons and did Wonders by Patience and Resolution at Colchester as he did at the first taking of Bristol the first breach whereof entred was called by his name made terrible thereafter by his brave Regiment of Dragoons whose fierce and active Gallantry bestowed a Proverb on every resolute Exploit Away with it quoth Washington Secondly The Honorable Col. Oneal the onely Protestant of his Family it s a question whether gaining more honor by his hard service about Glocester and in both the Newberries with King Charles the I. or by his assiduous Negotiations and Messages posting from place to place in Holland where he was warned to the Countess of Chesterâ—ield in France where he was welcome to the best Cavaliers and Germany for King Charles the II. especially in the various Occasions Opportunities and Revolutions 1659. at Fontarabia Scotland Flanders England c. that made way for his Majesties Restauration who let him to Farm the Post-Office He died 1664. It s more to be called an Oneal than an Emperor in Ireland 3. By Collonel Will. Pretty who when Backehouse sent him word he woulk Breakfast with him returned that then he would Dine at Glocester a Gentleman that loved his last thoughts as Mothers the youngest Child best declaring siercely Sept. 2. 1645. That Bristol was Tenable by force and needed not the courteste or charm of words meaning Treaties with Fairfax to maintain it onely the Souldiery were to be refreshed and the Bayes of Victory are not to be plucked up till by fair opportunities they are grown ready 4. Collonel Pert who received his Deaths wound 1645. in Cornwall not to be gained by Power or Policy from the ground he stood in the Riddle of the Army never appearing what he was nor being what he appeared giving his Enemies always too little hope to trust and too little to distrust him Such must be as dark as midnight who must perform actions as bright as Noon-day 5. Col. Taylor there was one Mr. Taylor Resident for his Majesty with the Emperor in honorable esteem who made the Glocestershire Forces pay as he said Cost and Dammage for the death of Col. Mynne at last killed himself 1645 at Bristol when unus homo pereundo restituit rem where he died in the bed of honor about which we can only draw the Curtain Richard Taylor ofâ—rnely â—rnely Sussex paid 500 l. composition Jo. Talbot of Thornton York 800 l. Sir Jo. Talbot Lanc. 600 l. Tho. Taylor Ocle Pichard Her 265 l. Rich. Taylor Clapham Bedf. Esq 450 l. 6. Col. Rich. Poore that little man and great Souldier slain in Wales 7. As was Col. Will. Wynne of Berthu at Wem the Bulwark of Northwales which as Souldiers cry was all and one his because of his large alliance obliging spirit exemplary sobriety great conduct and fidelity to which the Enemy never entred while he lived no more than the English could while Owen Glendower Commanded such a strong Line of Communication he had formed in all the Marches and so watchful and active was he in maintaining that Line The Worshipful Wynnes of Gwyddir were great sufferers for his Majesty 8. Col. Dalby that excellent Engineer killed at Wingfield Mannor Derbyshire 9. Col. Io. Marrow slain near Sandiway in Cheshire 10. Sir Matthew Carew whose Misfortunes were his advantage It is an ill wind that bloweth no body good his Company being delightful when his service though prudent and valiant was unsuccessful and he fit to stand before Princes and not before mean men a man of spirit for his non Faelix carrying a badge of Valor no blemish but Beauty Mars hath his spots as well as Venus in his face Sir Francis Carew Beddington Surrey paid 1000l Composition 11. Col. Bagot who had travelled most places
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army
London 1644 1645 1646. and to rise in Arms for him about Kingston where being defeated taken at St. Neots after a tedious imprisonment notwithstanding his sickness and infirmities tried for his life and beheaded in the Pallace-yard Westmin recommending with his last words to the deluded People the Kings Government and the established Religion The Right Honorable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham who with Sir Io. Hotham the Earl of Stamford Sir Hugh and Sir H. Cholmley Sir Christopher Wray Sir Edward Ayscough c. all Converts afterwards in being as active in setling the Militia of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in obedience to the Parliament as other persons of quality were in prosecuting the Commission of Array in obedience to his Majesty was warned by a Letter under his Majesties hand dated at York Iune 4. 1642. to desist from Assembling the people in those parts upon any pretence whatsoever upon his allegiance and answered with much modesty and humility that though he could not presently desist without falsifying the trust reposed in him by the Parliaments particular Directions according to an Ordinance voted by the Lord Keeper Littleton and the Lord Chief Justice Banks whose judgments swayed his younger one as he said to this action so unsuitable to his Majesties liking yet nothing should pass by his Commands but what should tend to his Majesties honour and safety Agreeably to which ingenious Declaration when he saw into the bottom of the factious designs he was so active for his Majesties honour and safety in the House of Lords and the City of London 1645 1646 1647. that with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Hunsden and Maynard all a while deluded by the Iuncto and because they presumed to be undeceived at last punished by them being impeached of high Treason for levying War against the King by endeavouring to make the City and Kingdom for him chose rather to hazzard himself 1648 1649 for a conquered and a captive Soveraign assisting and attending his Son in Holland and the Fleet as long as there was any likelihood of serving him than to have a share any longer in a conquering and prosperous Rebellion though it cost him several imprisonments and molestations besides 5000 l. composition Prosecuting his Loyalty by providing Arms for his Majesties Friends 1655 1657 1658 1659. at his own charge till the Restauration when having a large Estate and great experience in he was made Governour of the Caribee Islands 1660. where going during the late War upon a design of recovering St Christophers newly seized by the French he was cast away with most of his Fleet by an Hurricane 1666. being succeeded in his Government and Honor by his brother the Right Honorable G. Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666. A blessed Cause this to use the words of that ornament of his ancient and worshipful Family in Suffolk and Norfolk Mr. Hammond L'Estrange who enobled his sufferings as well as the cause he suffered for by his Writings especially his Alliance of Liturgies a Book full of that Various Reading not common in men of his quality and his History of King Charles I. a piece compiled with that ingenuity prudence and moderation as was not vulgar in the Writers of his Time that won its conquering Enemies all but one that sacrificed his Reason and Conscience to his ambition who yet in the midst of his greatness had not one minutes rest from those Fears his Conscience and common foresight that Right and Truth which are greater notwithstanding all his Arts and Methods of settling himself should prevail And there being nothing left now for the Kings Cause to conquer but those principles of Religion and those Ministers that supported the Faction those stood not out against its Evidence and Arguments for 1. Mr. Alexander Henderson a Moderator of that is in effect Archbishop in all the Assemblies in Scotland one in all the Treaties of England one of the ablest Presbyterians in both Kingdoms being overcome with his Majesties Arguments at Newcastle where he was Ordered to converse with and convert his Majestie when as all his Confinements his Pen gained those Victories which were denied his Sword went home heart-broken with Conscience of the injuries he had done to the King he found every way so excellent To whom I may joyn 2. Iohn Rutherford a Layman who was so far won by his Majesty then their Prisoner as to hazzard his life seven times for his rescue for which after a great reputation he gained in the King of France his service and great integrity and ability in serving his own Master he was 1660. made Governour of Dunkirk and 1662. Governour of Tangier and Earl of Tiveot both which Garrisons he fortified impregnably being a man of a great reach in Trade Encamping and Fortification and of an unwearied Industry and Diligence laying the design of the Mole in the last of those places which when finished will be a Piece of the greatest concernment in Christendom He was cut off 1664 5. in a Sally out as he was a very forward and daring man upon the perfidious Moors whom he had reduced to the most honourable peace that ever was enjoyed at Tangier to recover a Wood that was a great shelter to the Enemy and would have been of vast advantage unto us They that begin Wars know not how to end them without horrid scandals to Religion and an unparallel'd violence offered to all the Laws and Rights in the World On which consideration many returned to sober principles of Allegiance and indeed all rational men acquiesce in the present establishment according to their respective consciences actively or passively in gratitude to his Majesty and the Government for their former Indemnity that since his Majesty as a Father looked on all his Subjects as sons yet caressed his Prodigals those Subjects that came to themselves and acknowledged their errour with extraordinary kindness and tenderness out-doing all his promises and engagements Let the World see that his promises made and performed were not the effects of necessity but the fruits of a gracious and Princely mind like his Grandfather H. IV. of France not only pardoned the former Errours of those that were seduced against him and his Father but preferred and trusted them too They may make good his late Majesty of blessed memory his Royal word and engagement for them Medit. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will be more loyal and faithful to his Majesty than those Subjects who being sensible of their own errours and his injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Mr. Cauton and Mr. Nalton was banished and Mr. Christopher Love born in Wales and bred under Dr. Rogers in New-Inn◠Hall Oxon. Minister first of St. Ann Aldersgate and afterwards of St. Lawrence Jury was beheaded for owning the Kings Interest by those with whom he opposed it so far as
a Scythian Bishop found but 15 Christians in his Diocess and left but 15 Heathens there b He hath out a Pentaglot Dictionary of Modern Languages and a Portugez Grammar c The peculiar excellency of his Dodcna's Grove two Parts Translated into French with applause d See â—is lâ—tters to Sir Dudley Carleton in Mr. Hâ—les Remains e Being able to repeat 500 strange words after twice hearing of them and to make use of any mans Exercise or Sermon verbatim if he once but either sâ—w or heard it a As in Bâ—shâ—p Câ—â—â—zens 〈◊〉 Case and several others b The Earl of Câ—â—lisle and G. Lord Berkley especiâ—lly See his Dedicatiâ—ons in his Church History The old Eâ—â—l of Bristol and Bishop offered him a noble compeâ—ency to live with them â—he old Earl being much pâ—â—asâ—d with his company when he was Chaplâ—in to the P. Henat Exeter c See his Sermâ—ns and Meditations the handsome dress of which doth 〈◊〉 their useful matters to the Readers not only head but heart d See their Letters one to another a 〈◊〉 â—â—tidotum Lincolniensâ— b In his Ecclâ—sia vindicata a Mrâ— Puller Mr Sandersen Mr. Lestrange Mr. Hickâ—nan whom he strâ—nâ—gly discovered in the the very â—hrases he had borrowed from him and others to feather his Book a Vpon Arch-bishop Bancrofts motion 1611 b Formerly Fellow of Nâ—w Colâ—â—in Oxf. a His gâ—and Sacriledge of the Church of Rome about the Cup his Parallels his case of Spectaeles and â—is Vertumnus Romanus a See his disputation in his Dipper Dipped a Called the Reasons of the Vniversity of Oxf. which all the Parliament Divines refused to answer a See â—is Seâ—mons full of caâ—es about our Discipâ—â—nâ— and Ceremoâ—is b Seâ— his Lectures there â—e Juramenâ— to 〈…〉 c Seâ—â—is Xl. Sermons â—d Auâ—â—n d See the casâ—s of Love c. lately set out and supposed to be his a And he was of a Commiter in the Jerusalem-chamber March 2â— 1640 〈◊〉 view the lyturgâ— the Dâ—ctâ—â—â—e and Disâ—â—â—line of the Church sâ—â— whose first 〈◊〉 formers and their moderation â—e had a very great veneration and therefore he was very uâ—will 〈…〉 a See his excellent Preface to Bishop Ushers Book of Power and Obedience George Sanderson of Gunthâ—ope Lincoln Compounded for 140l b He succeeded Bishop Jo. Thorneburgh born in Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford acceptable to Queen Elizabeth who preferred him Dean of York and Bishop of Limbrick for his comely presence and to King James who made him Bishop of Bristol and Worcester for his Chymical Extraction and merry heâ—â—t which contributed much to his long life lying in an old Castle in Ireland the flâ—or over head broke down upon him and yet did him and his no â—arm c His style was manly for the strength of it maidenly for the modesty and Elegant for the phrase a Shocting and Bowles a See a Book called Bishop Prideaun his Last Legacy * with Doctor Wickham a 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 That 〈◊〉 â—â—gin to 〈◊〉 it with 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 â—nd it 〈◊〉 satisfaction a With his Patron Dr. Smith â—ackon we Mâ—â— Humphrey Sydenham born at Dalverton in Somersetshire Fellow of Wadham deserving witness his Athenian Babler the namâ— of Silver-tongued Denham b A deserving modest man that suffered much in the late times a Several Gentlemens Wives of his acquaintance a His body being worn out by study and sufferings Rob. Lautence of Bâ—gburgh Somerset compounded for 5D6l James Laurence Her 120 l. Giles Laur. Wore 370. Rob. Laur. Isle Perâ—eâ—le Esq 4500 l. Jo. Laurence Cheswick 200 l. b Hâ—monds poor mans Tyching a Whose 〈◊〉 sâ—â—â— Vâ—lentine Saunders of 〈◊〉 Ruâ—â—â—d Esq 〈◊〉 ser 12 〈◊〉 as hâ—â— Sâ—n 〈◊〉 Sir Orlando Bridgâ—â—â—n Lord Kâ—epâ—r 〈◊〉 for 4 oâ— Val. Saunders 〈◊〉 b Herbert c Juris intergentes qâ—aestiâ—â—um de eâ—dâ—m explicaâ—â—o de legati delinquenâ—is Judice Elementa â—uâ—is prudenciae c. a Reckoning himself so much more or less proficient in the Law of Nations as he more or less rellished Dr. Zouches works who was one of the Iudges at the Tryal of Panâ—aleouha the Portugal Ambassadors Brother upon which occasion that book was written b Of an eminent Family his Cozen Jo. Soames of Burnham in Norfolk compounding for 1430 l. c Mr. Heywood and Mr. Chase who both compounded deeply for their loyalty and suffered extreamly the first having served his Highness the Duke of York from a Child a 〈◊〉 Henryâ— was moved to marry by all â—he Nâ—â—â—â—y because of the convenâ—ences of her years together with her excellent at beauty and purenâ—â—s of 〈…〉 they are be wards of 〈◊〉 Act of Pâ—â—â—ia 〈◊〉 b Of whom shâ—ded in Child beâ— in Henry 8. full favour c 21. Counties a Among other writings of antiquity this Noble Fâ—â—â—â—y keeps a gâ—eâ—t Huntershâ—rn tiâ—ped with silver in â—oken of their dâ—scent from the Sâ—â—mies Lords of Woksale and Guardians of the wâ—ll gamed Forest of Savernake well 〈◊〉 so its 〈…〉 maâ—y haâ—nd 〈◊〉 years ago b Note Sir F. Anderson of New-castle upon Tiâ—e was a Col. in his Majesties Armyâ— and paid for it 1â—00 l. as Sir Henry Anderson of Pentdey Hert. 1730l Stephen Anderson of Mâ—â—by Line 372â— l. Jo. Anderson London 0â—00l Rob. Anderson of Châ—ehester Esq 0407 l. a To whose charity weâ—â— that stately built and richâ—y endewed Hâ—â—â—ital â—al at Appâ—â— by 〈◊〉 Westmâ—â—â—â—â—d Henry the last Earl of Humberlands Daughter married the Right Honorable the Earl of Coâ—â—â—e a Routing Col. Râ—ssâ—er at Moulton Monbâ—ay and the besiedgers though twice in number to his tiâ—â—d forces b Mem. Thâ—â— Sir Edward Musgrave of Layton Camb. paid 1974 l. composition a He was the first man thaâ— taughs Souldiers to â—a Cats Dogs c b With the assistanceâ—â—f his Countrâ—y-man Dr. Rawâ—nson 〈◊〉 excellent Maâ—hemaâ—â—â—â—â— iâ— Queens Col. Oxford c He was once upon making Mâ— Thruscross and other godly men Trustees for the Education of his Children in case it should please Gâ—d he failed in the Waâ—es d In an attempt made â—o vise at Hâ—â—â—â—m mooâ— 16â—5 â—o second Mr. Penruddock Where â—e and Sir Richard Maleverer were taken â—e it remembred that the noble Gentleman Sir Charles Sling-by was kissed at Marston-Moor Lieutenant Col Sliâ—gsby at Newbery a Who afterwards maâ—â—yâ—d Sir Abraham Shipman an active Gentlemen for his Majesty during the wares especially at â—olâ—â—â—ter for which â—e suffered sevâ—â—â—ly and was cast away in a place in the Indies he went to possâ—sse for his â—ajesty a As he did at the Court offering that if either Iudges singly oâ— the learned Counsel at 〈◊〉 would give it under their hands that the High Court of Iustice was a Lawful Iudicaâ—ory he would have pleaded b Note that Edward Ashton of Al denâ—am Sâ—â—sex Esq pâ—â—â— 2000 l. composition Thomas Ashton of â—â—â—kâ—th Lane 192l and T. A. of Westbanke Lane 116l c Where how would â—e seal his eyes and send them to his heart a Wâ—â—h 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—â— and 〈◊〉 that Lâ—â—◠〈…〉 Seâ— b 〈…〉
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty
to do many courtesies as it is to suffer once than to do many times for a friend he may do what he will that will do but what they may 7. It s the ruin of many men that because they cannot be best they will be none and if they may not do as well as they would they will not do as well as they may 9 Whiles wisdom makes art the ape of nature pride makes nature the ape of art The proud man shapes his body to his apparel the wise man his apparel to his body there is great reason that we should be ashamed of our pride no reason to be proud of that which is only the covering of our shame 10. Entertain no thoughts that will blush in words 11. Be in the company of those among whom thou mayst be wise rather than with those among whom thou mayst be accounted so 12. In things necessary go along with the ancient Church in things indifferent with the present 13. Neither upbraid men with your own kindness nor forget theirs 14. Be not constant against reason nor change your mind without it 15. Believe not all you hear nor speak all you believe 16. Acknowledge ignorance and learn rather than pretend knowlegde and be ignorant 17. Do well to satisfie a good Conscience and you shall hear well by a good report 18. Measure not your self by other mens reports nor others by your own thoughts 19. Live as men that shall dye and prepare to dye as men that shall live for ever Ne hae zelantis animae sacriores Scintillulae ipsum unde deciderant spirantes Coelum Author magnus ipsa quam Aliis dedit careret memoria Interesse Posteris putavimusbrevem Honoratissimi Viri Iohannis Sucklingii vitam historia esse perennandam Ut pote qui nobilissima Sucklingiorum Familiaeoriundus cui tantum reddidit quantum accepit honorem Nat. Cal. April 1613. Withamiae in Agro Middles Renatus ibid. Maii 7 mo denatus 164 ... haud jam Trigesimus scriptu dignissima fecit factu dignissima scripsit Calamo pariter gladio celebris pacis artium gnarus belli THE Life and Death OF Dr. SAMUEL WARD PASS now from a pretty Gentleman that was all wit and festivity time and place making the connexion to a Reverend person that was all gravity and judgment and sad certainly the Cause of the Faction when the wittiest part of mankind laughed at it and the most judicious declined it among whom as none more solid so none more zealous than Dr. Samuel Ward born at Bishops-Middleham in the Bishoprick of Durham being a Gentleman of more ancientry than estate bred first Scholar of Christs then Fellow of Emanuel and afterwards Master of Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge and Margaret Professor therein for above twenty years His character which one who knew him as well as most men and could judge of him as well as any man doth bestow upon him is this AGe perge cathredam ornare quod facis sacram Subtilitate non levi rapida vaga Sed orthadoxa quam coronat veritas Et justa firmat solidit as patiens librae Antiquitatis crypta tu penetras frequens Scholasticorum tu profundes vortices Te nulla fallit nulla te scium latet Distinctionum tela rationum stropha Tam perspicacem mente judicio gravem Linguis peritum tamque nervosum stylo His addo genium temperatum animo Placidum modestum lite rixosa procul GO to go on deck as thou dost the Chair With subtilty not light slight Vageas Hair But such as truth doth Crown and standing sure Solidly fixed will weighing well endure Antiquities hid depths thou oft dost sound And School-mens Whirl-pools which are so profound Distinctions threads none can so finely weave Or reason wrench thy knowledge to deceive None thy Quick-sight grave Judgment can beguile So skill'd in Tongues so sinewy in stile Add to all these that Peaceful Soul of thine Meek modest which all brawlings doth decline He turned with the times as a Rock riseth with the Tide and for his uncomplying there with was imprisoned in St. Iohns Colledge He was counted a Puritane before these times and Papish in these times and yet being alwayes the same was a true Protestant at all times How many men suffered in this one 1. First an exact Linguist by the same token that when towards the most excellent and last Translation of the Bible in King Iames his time the Prayer of Manasseh and the rest of the Apocrypha was committed to his trust among Eight other Cambridge Men when he was but Master of Arts of Emanuel Colledge the Revisers never reviewed his performance Dr. Smith and Dr. Reynolds who were Intrusted with the last Revises saying We have heard of second thoughts Correcting the first but thought shall Correct the twentieth And not many passages cost him fewer for he would say had never been a Scholar but for a habit of exactness which he got under an accurate Master and there is no other advantage in either going to good Schools or continue in Universities than to keep the Soul from being unravelled and loose by a constant acting of thoughts and expressions to the Rule of accuracy taught in those Schools and practiced in those Universities whence by never missing exactness of thoughts seldom failed of hitting things and his steady words seldom fell either beyond besides or short of his thoughts 2. A sound Scholar and therefore by an Excellent Scholar as well as good man Bishop Iames Mountague chosen Chaplain for his Family and Assistant for his Study 3. A discreet man and upon that score by the same Bishop chosen by him his Notery that is his Eye and his Ear For when Mr. Thrash the violent Sabbatarian came to be Ordained and it was a Question whether he had ever sucked of the Breast of the Universities or brought up by hand in some petty School Mr. Ward refused him as altogether insufficient however afterwards he crept into Christian Orders to broach Judaizing Doctrines by some rash hands which might wish with Martianus a Bishop of Constantinople who made Sabbatius a Jew and turbulent man Priest they had been laid on Thorns and Briars than on such a mans head upon a Certificate which was then matter of Courtesie and not matter of Conscience the good Bishop trusting to his own Eye for the sufficiency and to other mens hands for the carriage of the Man an error in the first concoction is seldom corrected in the second an unworthy and therefore turbulent man for worthless men must make up that in trouble which they lack in worth Dwarfs are troublesome and peevish and Children clamber where they cannot reach being not so easily got out of the Church by suspension and deprivation as might be kept out without Ordination which doth perpetuate the Faction and make the Party Immortal 4. A grave governor and successeful and therefore by the Honorable H. Lord Grey Earl of Kent who
hath this Character in all the Britannia's which escaped the Index Expurgatorius that for what reasons the Inquisitors knew best blotted these words out Verae Nobilitalis Ornamentis vir longe Honoratissimus and Iohn Lord Harrington Executor to the Lady Francis Sidney Daughter of Sir Henry Aunt of Sir Philip Sidney Relict of Thomas Ratcliffe the third Earl of Sussex and Foundress of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge the third Master of that House 1609. and by his Patron and Predecessor Bishop Mountague Arch-Deacon of Taunton where so moderate and milde his Government that there was not in the first eight years of his Government a Negative voice in any affair of the House he taking care to beget a general understanding about any matter in debate in private before they sate upon it in publick tuning each string before they set to a Consort his Discipline so becoming and exemplary that Sir Francis Clerk of East-Soton in Bedfordshire coming privately to Cambridge to see unseen took notice of Dr. Wards daily Presence in the Hall with the Scholars Conformity in Caps and diligent performance of Exercises to so good purpose the careful observation of old Statutes is the best Loadstone to attract new Benefactors that he augmented all the Scholarships in the Foundation Erected a new fair and firm Range of Building and Founded four new Fellowships discovering by the way such skill in Architecture and Arithmetick that staying at home he did provide to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing of the aforesaid Building 5. Such his Reputation for deep skill in Divinity that he with the Reverend Dr. Davenant of Queens Dr. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Hall Dean of Worcester was sent from the Church of England by King Iames to the Synod at Dort to assist the Dutch Churches in the five Controversies of Predestination and Reprobation of the extent of Christs death of the power of mans free will both before and after his Conversion and of the Elects perseverance and to that purpose with Dr. Davenant sent for by that Learned and deep-sighted Prince to Royston October 8. 1618. where His Majesty vouchsafed his familiar Discourse with them for two hours together commanding them to sit down by him till he dismised them with this solemn Prayer which the good man would recollect with pleasure That God would bless their endeavours At that Synod besides the common Applause he had with his Brethren testified by the 10 l. a day allowed them there the entertainments given them at the Hague Amsterdam Rotterdam Vtrecht and Leiden by the 200 l. the Meddals and the Commendatory Letter sent with them at parting thence had they this peculiar Character that he was slow but sure recompensing in the exactness of his notion what he wanted in the quickness of it being but once contradicted and that at the first opening of that middle way he and his good Friend Davenant opened to them which surprized some in the Synod at first but reconciled the Synod to them and to its self at last the moderate that cut the hair in a Controversie like those that part a Fray meet with blows on both sides at first but embraced by those very arms that were lift upon them at last Bishop Carleton came home with this Commendation in the States publick Letter to King Iames. Dominus G. Landavensis Episcopus imago expressa virtutis Effigies Dr. Ward returned with these Testimonies from the most Eminent Scholars in those Parts Modestia ipsa quae plus celavit eruditionis quam alii habent Literarum Abyssus taciturnus profundus qui quot verba tot expressit e sulco pectoris or acula c. and among the rest in iis eam eruditionem pietatem pacis studium eumque zelum deprehendimus ut cum ipsius beneficii causa Majestatituae multum debeamus they are the States expressions to the King in their foresaid Letter of thanks Magna pars ipsius beneficii nobis videatur quod ipsi ad nos missi sunâ— with which testimonial Letters they came over and presented themselves to King Iames who seeing them out at a window when first entring the Court Here comes said he my good Mourners alluding to their black habit and the late death of Queen Anne When he was to perform any exercise as the part assigned him in the English Colledge which was generally to oppose because of his acuteness and variety of reading or to give his weekly account to the King as they all did by turns the expectation was great especially in one respect as King Iames would say that he would set down no idle or impertinent word 6. So good a man that he was Tutor as well as Master to the whole Colledge yea kept almost as big a Colledge by his goodness as he governed by his place more depending upon him there and abroad as a Benefactor than did as a Governor Being a great recommender as well as incourager of Worth he used to say that he knew nothing that Church and State suffered more by than the want of a due knowledg of those Worthy men that were peculiarly enabled and designed to serve both And as another Argument of his goodness he went alwayes along with the moderate in the censures of Preachers in the University practices in the Courts that were under his Jurisdiction And in Opinions in the Convocation whereof he was a Member much pleased with a modest soft way that might win the persons and smoother their errors being much pleased with his Friend Mr. Dods saying that men should use soft words and hard Arguments And this so much known to others though so little observed by him this meek and slow speeched Moses his face shining to all men but himself that it procured six or 7000 l. Improvement in his time to the Colledge besides the Building of that Chappel which he Dedicated by his own burial being the first that was buried there His Virgin body injoying a Virgin grave like that of the Lord wherein never man lay Sleeping there where the Franciscans had a dormitory The best Disputant having his Grave where the best Philosophers and School-Divines had their Beds and the modest man resting where that modest order slept who called themselves Minorites from Iacobs words Gen. 32. 10. Sum minor omnibus beneficiis suis. Yea his Adversaries themselves admiring him so far that he was named one of the Committee for Religion in the Ierusalem Chamber 1642. whither he came with hope that moderation and mutual compliance might finde expedients to prevent if not the shaking yet the overturning of Church and State so the wary Merchants throws somethings over-board to save the Ship which escapes not by struggling with the storm but by yielding to it And inserted one of their Assembly whither he came not being not called by the King one of the flowers of whose Crown it is to call Assemblies as appears by Bishop Andrews his Learned Sermon