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lord_n	esquire_n	john_n	richard_n	12,495	5	9.7776	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97083	Britannicæ virtutis imago. Or, The effigies of true fortitude, expressed to the life, in the famous actions of that incomparable knight, Major Generall Smith, who is here represented, June, 1644.	Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.	1644 (1644)	Wing W649; Thomason E53_10; ESTC R21145	21,181	34

Britannicae Virtutis Imago OR THE EFFIGIES OF TRVE FORTITVDE Expressed to the life in the famous actions of that incomparable Knight Major Generall SMITH Who is here represented June 1644. OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall in the Yeare 1644. THE DEDICATION TO the Immortall memory of that ever famous Gentleman The Glory of our English Nation Sir John Smith Knight Major Generall of his Majesties Westerne Army under Command of the Right Honourable the Lord Hopton His servant and admirer consecrateth this E. W. Britanicae Virtutis Imago OR The Life and Death of renowned Sir IOHN SMITH WHen the Reigne of James the prudent Monarch of Great Britaines united Empire drew neare a period at Skilts in Warwick-shire a Mannour of the Sheldons was borne this ornament of our Nation I am now to treat of by a choyce and selected branch of the stout and valiant Markhams of Nottinghamshire married to Sir Francis Smith of Wotton Wavers in the County of Warwicke Heire to the Noble and ancient Family of the Caringtons famous for Sir Michael Carington Standard bearer to our first Richard in the Holy-land and renowned for the loyalty of John Carington Esquire to his Lord and Soveraigne King Richard the second upon whose deposall he was forct to flie into Italy where he grew famous for many brave and valiant acts yet at his returne he chang'd his name to Smith which all his Posterity have ever since retained untill now it hath pleased His royall Majesty to renew the ancient name of this Family in the present Lord Carington Sir John Smith's eldest brother The Escucheon of this Family is of so neere a semblance to the badge of the most Noble Order of the Garter that in my judgement it convinces it selfe to be a kingly guift bestowed upon them for some notable service atchieved by their Predecessours The particular definition whereof I leave to the Heralds as a star visible onely in their Horizon But I am sure I doe not remember to have seene any Family in England excepting this to beare in a white Field a red Crosse in a forme so genuine to that we call St Georges This Sir Francis Smith was a Gentleman of that integrity of life and noble nature that to this day his memory is still precious amongst those that knew him He was remarkeably happy for many worthy children and faire possessions but especially in his Consort a Lady of those excellencies that we could expect no ordinary peice of nature from her being also eminent for her hospitality and charity but especially for her loyalty so firme and spotlesse that it is almost incredible and beyond example what that noble Lady hath sustained when for a small contribution she might have secured her selfe she rather choosing with a magnanimous patience to undergo the losse of all then in the least manner to comply with the Kings enemies Before the birth of the Heroike child this vertuous Lady and her Knight fell dangerously sicke as if they had both contributed their utmost powers to his perfections Nature perceives him to fit her expectation and therefore impatient we should longer expect her bounty exposes him to the world at least a moneth before the usuall time It may be she desired that even in his birth the child should make the first triall of his valour and beyond example there expresse his magnanimity and contempt of danger I shall not need to aske pardon if I passe by his infancy as affording nothing but meerly shadowes of a great spirit inclosed in that little casket in a sleepe as it were expecting his maturity His infancy past he is brought from his nurse and committed to his mothers care where his education could not choose but be excellent for without vanity I speake it this Kingdome affords not a Lady that hath given more happy testimonies of her skill in that kind In the time of his childhood his sweet and tractable nature made him singularly beloved in his Fathers Family and to this day many of them much please themselves with his pretty policies and witty stratagems to compasse his sports and deceive such as held a hand over him He is no sooner capable of learning but he is sent to a Kinsmans house amongst other young Gentlemen allied unto him to lay the foundation of a Scholler where notwithstanding his active disposition he profited so well that after some reasonable preparative his Parents desirous to make him more accomplisht sent him to study and travell beyond Seas where he made so good a progresse both in the Greeke and Latine tongues that in one of the prime Classes he obtained the Emperours Chayre a Seat of eminent difference from all the rest and due to him that is judged to excell his fellowes But neverthelesse he is impatient of this manner of life his noble mind aspires to greater actions and will no longer be contain'd in this course The Almighty begins to call him to that state wherein he is pleased to imploy him Who will not be satisfied untill he be sent for England where arriving contrary to his friends desire he finds a welcome accompanied with rebukes which he long patiently sustained without any effect at last meerly to comply with them against his owne nature he takes his course the second time for the Low Countries where he takes his books in hand and againe falls to his study not without dayly conflicts with himselfe in overcoming his contrary inclination But there he demonstrated his vertue in conquering himselfe to satisfie the desires of his Parents and friends declaring he knew as well how to master his passions as his bodily enemies Which in a thing of that nature so to overcome himselfe considering his age and spirit was very remarkeable In the place where now he resides there happens a Commotion in some sort resembling ours where the dreggs and rude multitude of the City bandy against their Prince Magistrates and Nobility in such sort that nothing but ruine seemed to hang over the heads of the latter The Rebells were so numerous and violent growing dayly so insolent that at last the best sort were compell'd to endeavour their owne defence in the best manner they could for divers of their persons and houses were violated and plundered the same being imminent to the rest wherefore they arme themselves as they can and resolve to resist if any one shall hereafter be assaulted This quickly produced a Skitmish wherein the multitude prevayling our gallant young Student heares of it and can no longer containe himselfe but goes out of the Colledge where he resided takes armes from the next he meets in the street and joynes to the weaker side putting himselfe into the head of them where with his brave carriage he doth so encourage and revive them as if his valour had an influence upon each in particular Wherefore they give a fresh assault to the enemy and that with so good successe that they foyled their vanquishers who were soone