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

you in the mean time see that you lodge in the Court vvhich vvas then at White-Hall vvhere you may follovv your Book read and discourse of the Warres But to our purpose it fell out happily to those and as I may say to those times that the Queen during the calm of her raign vvas not idle not rockt a sleep vvith security for she had been very provident in the Reparation and Augmentation of her Shipping and Ammunition and I knovv not vvhether by a foresight of policy or an instinct it came about or vvhether it vvas an act of her compassion But it is most certain that she sent Levies and no small Troopes to the assistance of the revolted States of Holland before she had received any affront from the King of Spain that might deserve or tend to a breach in hostility vvhich the Papists to this day maintain vvas the provocation and cause of the after Warres but omitting vvhat might be said to this point those Netherland Warres vvere the Queens Seminaries and the Nurseries of very many brave Souldiers and so vvere likevvise the Civill Warres of France vvhither she sent five severall Armies the Fenceschooles that inured the youth and Gallantry of the Kingdome and it was a Militia wherein they were daily in acquaintance with the discipline of the Spaniard● who were then turned the Queens inveterate enemies And this have I taken into observation her Di●s Halci●nii those yeers of hers which were more serene and quiet then those that followed which though they were not lesse propitious as being touched more with the point of honour and victory yet were they troubled and ever clouded over both with domestiques and forraign macchinations and it is already quoted they were such as awakened her spirits and made her cast about how to defend rather by offending and by the way of diversion to prevent all invasions then to expect them which was a peice of policy of the times and with this I have noted the causes or principia of the Warres following and likewise pointed to the seed-plots from whence she took up those brave men and plants of honour which acted on the theatre of Mars and on whom she dispersed the rayes of her grace which were persons in their kindes of rare vertues and such as might out of height of merit pretend interest to her favour of which rank the number will equall if not exceed that of the Gown-men in recount of whom I proceed with Sir Philip Sydney Sir Philip Sydney HE was sonne to Sir Henry Sydney Lord Deputy of Ireland and President of Wales a person of great parts and in no mean grace with the Queen his Mother was Sister to my Lord of Leicester from whence we may conjecture how the Father stood up in the place of honour and imployment so that his descent was apparantly noble on both sides for his education it was such as travell and the university could afford or his Tutors infuse for after an incredible proficiency in all the species of learning he left the Academiall life for that of the Court whither he came by his Vncles invitation famed aforehand by a noble report of his accomplishments which together with the state of his person framed by a naturall propension to Armes he soon attracted the good opinion of all men and was so highly prized in the good opinion of the Queen that she thought the Court deficient without him and whereas through the fame of his deserts he was in the election for the Kingdome of Pole she refused to further his advancement not out of emulation but out of fear to loose the jewell of her times he married the Daughter and sole heir of Sir Francis Walsingham then Secretary of State a Lady destinated to the Bed of honour who after his deplorable death at Zutphen in the Netherlands where he was Governour of Vl●ishing and at the time of his Vncles being there was married to my Lord of Essex and since his death to my Lord of Saint Albons all persons of the sword and otherwise of great honour and vertue They have a very quaint and factious figment of him that Mar● and Mercury fell at variance whose servant he should be and there is an Epigrammist that saith that Art and Nature had spent their excellencies in his fashioning and fearing they should not end what they begun they bestowed him on Fortune and nature stood musing and amased to behold her own work But these are the petulancies of Poets Certain it is he was a noble and matchlesse Gentleman and it may be justly said without hiperboles of fiction as it was of Coto 〈◊〉 that he seemed to be borne to that onely which he went about Versalitis ingenii as Plutarch hath it but to speak more of him were to make him lesse Sir Francis Walsingham SIR Francis Walsingham as we have said had the honour to be Sir Philip Sydneys Father in Law he was a Gentleman at first of a good house but of a better education and from the Vniversity travelled for the rest of his learning he was doubtlesse the best Ling●ist of the times but knew best how to use his own tongue whereby he came to be imployed in the cheifest affairs of State he was sent Ambassador into France and stayed there Leiger long in the heat of the Civill Warres and at the same time that Monsieur was here a Suitor to the Queen and if I be not mistaken he played the very same part there as since Gundam●re did heer at his return he was taken principall Secretary and was one of the great Engines of State and of the times high in the Queens favour and a watchfull servant over the safety of his Mistris They note him to have had certain curiosities and secret wayes of intelligence above the rest but I must confesse I am to seek Wherefore he suffered Parry to play so long on the hook before he hoysed him up and I have been a little curious in the search thereof though I have not to do with the Arcan● Imperii For to know is sometimes a burthen and I remember that it was Ovids c●imen aut error that he saw too much But I hope these are Collateralls of no danger but that Parry having an intent to kill the Queen made the way of his accesse by betraying of others and impeaching of the Priests of his own correspondency and thereby had accesse and conference with the Queen and also oftentimes familiar and private conference with Walsingham will not be the quere of the Mystery for the Secretary might have had end of discovery on a further maturity of the Treason but that after the Queen knew Parryes intent why she should then admit him to private Discourse and Walsingham to suffer it considering the condition of all assaylngs and to permit him to go where and whether he listed and onely on the security of a dark sentinell set over him was a peece of reach and hazard

beyond my apprehension I must again professe that having read many of his Letters for they are commonly sent to my Lord of Leicester and Burleigh out of France containing many fine passages and secrets yet if I might have been beholding to his Cyphers whereof they are full they would have told pretty tales of the times but I must now close up and rank him amongst the Togati yet chief of those that layed the foundation of the French and Dutch Warres which was another peece of his finenesse and of the times with one observation more that he was one of the great allayes of the Austerian embracements for both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to the fiend in the Gospel that sowed his tares in the night so did they their feeds of division in the dark and it is a likely report that they father on him at his return that the Queen said unto him with some sensibility of the S●anish designes on France Madam I beseech you be content not to fear the Spaniard hath a great appetite and an excellent digestion but I have fitted him with a Bone for this twenty yeers that your Majesty shall have no cause to doubt him provided that if the fire chance to slack which I have kindled you will be ruled be me and now and then cast in some English fewell which will revive the flame Willoughby MY Lord Willoughby was one of the Queens first sword men he was of the ancient extract of the Bart●●s but more ennobled by his Mother who was Dutches of Suffolk He was a great Master of the Art Military and was sent Generall into France and commanded the second of five Armies that the Queen sent thither in ayd of the French I have heard it spoken that had he not slighted the Court but applyed himself to the Queen he might have enjoyed a plentifull portion of her grace and it was his saying and it did him no good that he was none of the R●plitia intimating that he could not creep on the ground and that the Court was not his Element for indeed as he was a great Souldier so was he of a sutable magnanimity and could not brook the obsequiousnesse and a●●iduity of the Court and as he then was somewhat descending from youth happily he had an animam re●crendi and to make a safe retreat Sir Nicholas Bacon I Come to another of the Togati Sir Nicholas Bacon an arch peice of Wit and Wisedome he was a Gentleman and a man of Law and of great knowledge therein whereby together with his other parts of learning and dexterity he was promoted to be Keeper of the great Seal and being of Kin to the Treasurer Burleigh had also the help of his hand to bring him into the Queens favour for he was abundantly factious which took much with the Queen when it was suited with the season as he was well able to judge of his times he had a very quaint saying and he used it often to good purpose that he loved the jest well but not the losse of his friend he would say and that though he knew it Vansquisque si●● fortune ●ober was a true and good principle yet the most in number were those that marred themselves but I will never forgive that man that looseth himself to be rid of his jest He was Father to that refined wit which since hath acted a disasterous part on the publike stage and of late sate in his Fathers room as Lord Chancellor those that lived in his age and from whence I have taken this little modell of him gives him a lively Character and they decipher him for another Solo● and the Synon of those times such a one as Aedipus was in dissolving of riddles doubtlesse he was as able an instrument and it was his commendation that his-head was the Mawle for it was a great one and therein he kept the Wedge that entred the knotty peeces that came to the Table and now I must again fall back to smooth and plain away to the rest that is behinde but not from the purpose There were about these times two Rivals in the Queens favour old Sir Francis Knowles Controuller of the House and Sir Henry Norris whom she called up at a Parliament to sit with the Peers in the higher House as Lord Norris of R●cott who had married the Daughter and Heir of the old Lord Williams of Tain a Noble person and to whom in the Queens adversity she had been committed to safe custody and from him had received more then ordinary observances Now such was the goodnesse of the Queens nature that she neither forgot the good turns received from the Lord Williams neither was she unmindefull of this Lord Norris whose Father in her Fathers time and in the businesse of her mother dyed in a noble cause and in the jnstification of her innocency Lord Norris MY Lord Norris had by this Lady an ample issue which the Queen highly respected for he had six sonnes and all Martiall brave men the first was William his eldest and Father to the late Earl of Bark-shire Sir Iohn Vulgarly called Generall Norris Sir Edward Sir Thomas Sir Henry and Maximilian men of an haughty courage and of great experience in the conduct of Millitary affairs and to speak in the Character of their merit they were such persons of such renown and worth as future times must out of duty owe them the debt of an honourable memory Knowles SIR Francis Knowles was somewhat of the Queens affinity and had likewise no incompetent issue for he had also William his Eldest and since Earl of Banbury Sir Thomas Sir Robert and Sir Francis if I be not a little mistaken in their names and Marshalling and there was also the Lady Lettice a Sister of these who was first Countesse of Essex and after of Leicester and these were also brave men in their times and places but they were of the Court and Carpet not led by the genious of the Camp Between these two Families there was as it falleth out amongst great Ones and Competitors for favour no great correspondency and there were some Seeds either of emulation or distrust cast between them which had they not been disjoyned in the residence of of their persons as it was the Fortune of their employments the one side attending the Court the other the Pavillion Surely they would have broken out into some kinde of hostility or at least they would have wrastled one in the other like Trees incircled with joy for there was a time when both these Fraternities being met at Court there passed a challenge between them at certain exercises the Queen and the old men being Spectators which ended in a flat quarrell amongst them all and I am perswaded though I ought not to judge that there were some reliques of this fewd that were long after the causes of the one Families almost utter extirpation and of the others improsperity