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A48790 Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ... Lloyd, David, 1635-1692. 1668 (1668) Wing L2642; ESTC R3832 768,929 730

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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. Beto● 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 ●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 ●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 51● 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 H●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. Theodo●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. ●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 54● Col. Edwal Chisenhal 69● Sir Richard Cholmley 681 Sir Hugh Cholmley 705 Mr. Chostlen 521 Col. James Chudleigh 658 Sir William Clark 671 Sir Christopher Cletherow 63● Tho. Lord Wentworth E. of Cleveland 57● Mr. John Cleveland 617 Major Lawrence Clifton 670 Col. Cockram 667 Mr. William Collet 634 Dr. Samuel Collins 452 Col. Coniers 67● Col. Co●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 66● Francis Lord Cottington 78 Dr. Rob. Wright Bp. of Coventry 600 Sir William Courtney 680 John Courtney Esq 693 Dr. Abraham Cowley 62● Dr. Cox 687 Sir Richard Crane 667 Mr. John Crane 634 Mr. Richard Crashaw 618 Sir Francis Crawley 29● 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 ●a Lord Stanley E. of Derby 572 ●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 12● Baron Done 68● Rob. Lord Dormer E. of Caernarvon 36● Sir Robert Dormer 70● ●enry Earl of Dover 650 Dr. J. Taylor Bp. of Down Connor 70● Dr. Arthur Duck 592 Mr. R. Dugard 63● 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 61● Dr. Wilford D of Ely 615 D. Edward Martin D. of Ely 461 Sir Michael Ernely 675 L. C. Thomas Eure 670 Sir Ger●ase Eyre 667 Dr. R. Brownrig Bp. of Ex● 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. Fle●ing 645 Sir H. Fletcher 681 Dr. Forbes 642 Sir Nicholas Fortescue 66● ● L. Ruthen E. of Forth c. 67● Sir Robert Foster 588 〈◊〉 Fowler 689 Sir Erasmus de la Fountain 649 〈◊〉 Mark Frank 680 ●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 ●78 ●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 63● Dr. J● Gorsack 531 Geo. Lord Goring E. of Norwich 56● 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. Hai●es 507 Dr. George Hakewill 540 Sir Jo. Hale 649 Sir Richard Halford ib. Sir Edward Hales 691 Mr. John Hales 606 Dr. Jo● Hall Bp. of Norwich 411 Dr. Halsey 5●● 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 70● Sir Richard Hastings 699 ●hristopher Lord Hatton 691 Sir Stephen Hawkins 69● Jo Lord Ha● 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 68● 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 ●ngton 701 Sir William Jones 649 Mr. Jones 688 Mr. Thomas Jones 689 Mr. Inigo Jones 577 Dr. Isaacson 50● 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 ●r Philip King ib. General King 674 Rob. Lord Pierpoint E. of Kingston 434 Dr. W. Bedle Bp. of Kilm●●● 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 52● Dr. Laurence 54● Mr. Joh. Laurence 55● Mr. William Laws 62● Sir Richard Lawdy 67● Sir John Lawson 64● Col. Leak 67● Mr. Leak ib. Mr. Leech 507 Fr. Lord Leigh E. of Chichester 653 Mr. Hamond L'Estrange 707 Dr. Levens 56● Sir R. Leveson 66● 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 58● Dr. Littleton 50● 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 47● Mr. John Lucas 556 Sir Herbert Lunsford 58● Sir Thomas Lunsford ib. Col. Henry Lunsford 658 Mr. William Lyford 608 Mr. Simon Lynch 635 M. Mr. Maden 513 Col. Richard Manning 67● 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 64● Ja. L. ●ey E. of Marleborough 64● Col. John Marrow 66● Dr. Sam. Marsh D. of York 50● Dr. Edward Marten 53● Dr. Edward Martin D. of Ely 46● Sir Henry Martin 59● Mr. Mason 506 Sir Anthony Maunsel 681 Dr. Francis Maunsel 54● Prince MAVRICE 656 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. St. Andrews 643 Major Mercalf 700 Sir Thomas ● etham 671 Dr. Michelson 687 Sir Francis Middleton 696 Sir Richard Minshul 688 Rich. Lord Visc. Molineux 695 Col. Roger Molineux 69● Dr. Nicholas Monk Bp. of Hereford 61● Hen. L. Cary E. of Monmouth 65● 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 43● Dr. James Mountford 53● Dr. John Mountford ib. Lord Muskerry 678 Col. Mynne 664 Sir Christopher Mynnes 647 N. Jo. Lord Napier of March●ston 640 Sir Philip Nesbil 639 Sir Francis Nethersole 636 Francis Nevil Esq 549 Mountjoy Lord Blunt E. of Newport 651 Dr. Jo. ●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. Barwi●●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 Pen●●ddock 555 Col. Pert 665 Dr. John Towers Bp. of Peterborough 601 Jo. Lord
Mordant E. of Peterborough 659 H. Lord Mordant E. of Peterborough 659 Henry Lord Piercy 683 Col. William Pretty 665 Robert Lord Pierpoint E. of Kingston 434 Mr. Pigot 507 Col. Pinchback 696 Sir Paul Pindar 632 Dr. Robert Pink 544 Dr. Pit ib. Dr. Pocklington 512 Sir Hugh Pollard 648 Col. Richard Poor 665 Mr. Endymion Porter 657 Ch. Lord Weston E. of Portland 678 Jer. Lord Weston E. of Portland ib. Dr. Potter Bp. of Carlisle 153 Dr. Ch. Potter D. of Worcester 544 Dr. Hannibal Potter 54● Dr. John Pottinger 616 Dr. John Prideaux 53● Col. Ralph Pudsey 694 Sir Walter Pye 673 Q. Francis Quarles Esq 621 R. Sir George Ratcliff 148 Dr. Ratcliff 544 Col. Cuthbert Ratcliff 694 Sir Thomas Reeves 592 Sir Ab. Reynardson L. M. Lond. 630 Dr. Jo. Richardson Bp. of Ardah 607 Ja. Duke of Richmond 334 Eliz. Countess of Rivers 688 Dr. W. Roberts Bp. of Bangor 599 Dr. Roberts 530 Sir R. Roberts 649 Lord Wilmot E. of Rochester 464 Dr. Jo. Warner Bp. of Rochester 601 Mr. Rogers 507 Dr. W. Chappel Bp. of Ross 607 P. Ruthen E. of Forth c. 674 Jo. Lord Rutherford E. of Tiveot 707 S. Mr. Edw. Sackvile 689 Col. Sr. George 694 Sir Thomas St. Leiger 664 Dr. Jo. Davenant Bp. of Salisbury 281 Dr. B Duppa Bp. of Salisbury 598 Sir Thomas Salisbury 661 Mr. William Salisbury 660 Dr. Robert Sanderson 531 Col. Sandys 668 Mr. George Sandys 637 Rear-Admiral Sansum 678 Sir Thomas Savile E. of Sussex 652 Sir William Savile 683 Col. Scot 668 Sir Gervase Scroop 660 Mr. John Selden 518 W. Lord Seymor D. of Somerset 546 Sir John Shepington 649 Mr. Charles Sherburn 670 Dr. John Sherman 619 Mr. Josias Shute 293 Dr. Robert Sibthorp 277 Captain Simkins 558 Dr. Edward Simson 614 Sir Henry Skipwith 649 Sir Nicholas Slanning 657 Sir Henry Slingsby 552 Sir John Smith 658 Dr. William Smith 541 Sir Thomas Soams 630 Henry Lord Somerset ● Worcester 573 J. Lord Somerset M. Worcester ib. Th. Lord Wriothsley E. of S●utham 661 H. Lord Spencer E. of Sunderland 431 Sir John Spotswood 641 Sir Robert Spotswood ib. Mr. John Squire 508 Mr. Edward Stacy 554 Sir Richard Stainer 647 ●r Stamp 507 Col. Philip Stanhop 651 Ja. Lord Stanley E. of Derby 572 Sir Brian Stapleton 68● Mr. Samuel Stone 508 Sir John Stowel 653 Major Gen. Sir H. Stradling 654 Col. Edward Stradling ib. Col. Jo. Stradling ib. Col. Thomas Stradling ib. Sir Th. Lord Wentworth E. of Straff 1 ●r Alexander Strange 636 Sir Giles Strangeway● 690 Sir Ja. Strangeways ib. Dr. Stringer 544 Sir George Stroud 631 Bern. Lord Stuart E. of Lichfield 327 John Lord Stuart 324 Dr. R. Stuart D. Westminster 609 D. Stiles 511 Sir John Suckling 157 Dr. Swadling 523 Mr. Swift 688 Mr. Humphrey Sydenham 624 Mr. Edward ●ymonds 613 687 T. Mr. Tabor 513 Edward Talbot Esq 67● Dr. J. Taylor Bp. of Down Connor 702 Col. Taylor 665 ●ajor Tempest 645 Col. Anthony Thelwall 661 Mr. Thomkins 56● Mr. Thorp 556 Mr. Ed. Thurman 531 Col. Henry Tiller 666 Jo. Lord Rutherford E. of Tiveot 607 Dr. Tolson 544 Dr. Jo. Towers Bp. of Peterborough 601 Mr. Charles Townley 670 Sir Cecil Trafford 66● Col. Francis Trafford ib. Col. Trevanian 658 Baron Trevor 137 Col. Mark Trevor 14● Arthur Trevor Esq 144 Mr. John Trevor 143 Sir Thomas Tilsley 692 Jo. Lord Tufton E. of Thanet 663 Mr. Tuke 507 Sir Troylus Tubervile 669 Mr. Anthony Tyringham 689 V. Sir William Vavasor 676 Sir William Vaughan 576 Mr. Ephraim Udal 507 Duke of Vendosm 688 Sir Edmund Verney 351 ●arquess de Vieuvil 682 Francis Lord Villiers 678 Sir George Villiers 649 L. Col. Edward Villiers 676 Mr. Michael Vivan 636 Dr. Vivian 635 Mr. Vochier 507 Mr. Peter Vowel 558 W. Sir William Walcot 691 Sir Edward Walgrave 659 Dr. Isaac Walton Bp. of Chester 513 Col. William Walton 694 Dr. Samuel Ward 163 Mr. Seth Ward 167 Mr. Ward 508 Mr. Warfield 507 Dr. Warmstrey D. of Worcester 624 Dr. Jo. Warner Bp. of Rochester 601 Col. T. H. Warren 692 Col. H. Washington 664 Dr. William Wats 504 Dr. Weeks 512 Sir Th. Lord Wentworth F. of Straff 1 Th. Lord Wentworth E. of Cleveland 570 Sir William Wentworth 683 Lord Wentworth 571 Dr. Th. Westfield Bp. of Bristol 300 Dr. R. Stuart D. of Westminster 609 Fr. Lord Fane E. of Westmorland 650 ●ildm Lord Fane E. of Westmorland ib. Ch. Lord Weston E. of Portland 678 Jer. Lord Weston E. of Portland 678 Sir Richard Weston 145 Mr. Weston 505 Col. Tho. Wheatly 696 Mr. Abraham Wheelock 517 Col. Whi●by 696 Sir George Whitmore 630 Mr. Wiborow 689 W. Lord Widdrington 679 Dr. Geo. Wild Bp. of London-derry 622 Dr. Wilford D. of Ely 615 Dr. Jo. Williams A. B. of York 375 Francis Lord Willoughby 706 Lord Wilmot E. of Rochester 464 Dr. Wimberly 507 Marquess of Winchester 577 Sir Francis Windebank 62 Col. Hugh Windham 654 Dr. Th. Winniff Bp. of Lincoln 538 Sir John Wolstenholm 629 H. Lord Somerset M. Worcesler 573 Jo. Lord Somerset M. Worcester 575 Dr. Ch. Potter D. of Worcester 544 Dr. Jo. Gauden Bp. of Worcester 602 Dr Mat. Wren Bp. of Ely 611 Dr. Rob. Wright Bp. of Coventry 600 Sir Edm. Wright L. M. London 630 Mr. Wright 689 Th. Lord Wriothsley E. of Southamp 661 Sir Lodowick Wyer 682 Col. William Wynne 665 Col. Hugh Wynne 682 Y. Mr. Yeomans 565 Dr. Ac. Frewen A. B. York 501 Dr. Jo. Williams A. B. York 375 Dr. Sam. Marth D. of York 502 Z. Dr. Richard Zouch 545 PREPARATIVES TO The last Civil War From 1550 to 1640. AS in Nature there is hardly a Poyson growing any where but in the same place there groweth an Antidote against it so in Nations seldome do the loose principles of Licentiousness Rebellion and Disorder prevail so universally but that in the same Nation the more excellent principles of Reason Religion Laws and Allegiance bear up against them Various have been the shapes and pretences under which the Lusts of men for all the disorders in the world are nothing else but Lust casting off the restraint God hath laid upon it by Government have indeavoured since God set up Government to keep men civil and quiet in this world as he did Religion to prepare them for another world to shake and invalidate the obligations both of Religion and Government in all places of the world for most pretences last but an Age in which time they are looked through exploded abhorred and must be shifted How men willing to live at the highest freedom of a loose Nature have in this Nation endeavoured in several generations to overthrow all the Checks Restraints Rules and Disciplines of Religion is not so properly the business of this place as it is commonly the subject of every discourse elswhere The pretentions and appearances under which those that have made a pretty good shift to suppress all those Principles of Honesty Sobriety and Obedience that Religion curbed them withal within
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 ● roofs in Chancery De●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 ●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 Counc●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
John Hutchinson Col. Robert Tichborne Col. Owen Roe Col. Robert Mainwaring Col. Robert Lilburn Col. Adrian Scroop Col. Algernoon Sidney Col. John Moor Col. Francis Lassells Col. Alexander Rigby Col. Edmund Harvey Col. John Venn Col. Anthony Staply Col. Thomas Horton Col. Thomas Hammond Col. George Fenwyck Col. George Fleetwood Col. John Temple Col. Thomas Wait Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Thomas Honywood Thomas Lord Grey Phillip Lord Lisle William Lord Mounson Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer Sir John Bourchier Sir James Harrington Sir William Brereton Robert Wallop William Heveningham Esquires Isaac Pennington Thomas Atkins Aldermen Sir Peter Wentworth Thomas Trenchard Jo. Blackstone Gilbert Millington Esquires Sir William Constable Sir Arthur Hasilrigg Michael Livesey Richard Salway Humphrey Salway Cor. Holland Jo. Carey Esquires Sir William Armin John Jones Miles Corbet Francis Allen Thomas Lister Ben. Weston Peter Pelham Jo. Gurdon Esquires Francis Thorp Esq. Serjeant at Law Jo. Nutt Tho. Challoner Jo. Anlaby Richard Darley William Say John Aldred Jo. Nelthrop Esquires Sir William Roberts Henry Smith Edmund Wild John Challoner Josias Berne●s Dennis Bond Humphrey Edwards Greg. Clement Jo. Fry Tho. Wogan Esquires Sir Greg. Norton Jo. Bradshaw Esquire Serjeant at Law Jo. Dove Esquire John Fowke Thomas Scot Aldermen Will. Cawley Abraham Burrel Roger Gratwicke John Downes Esquires Robert Nichols Esquire Serjeant at Law Vincent Potter Esquire Sir Gilbert Pickering Jo. Weavers Jo. Lenthal Robert Reynolds Jo. Lisle Nich. Love Esquires Sir Edward Baynton Jo. Corbett Tho. Blunt Tho. Boone Aug. Garland Aug. Skenner Jo. Dixwel Simon Meyne Jo. Browne Jo. Lowry Esq. c. Neither were they only bold enough to Vote among themselves this horrid murther but likewise to try the pulse of the people they Proclaim it first at White-hall Gate and when they saw the people indured that afterwards upon Peters motion who said they did nothing if they did it not in the City at Temple-barr and the Exchange Indeed all was hushed and silent but with a dreadful silence made up of amazement and horror the very Traytors themselves not daring to own their new Treason perswaded the Nation that they would not do even what they were most busie about most people being of opinion that they might fright none thinking they durst against all the reason and religion in the world and the great and dreadful obligations of their own Oaths and Protestations murder Him Yet these aforesaid Assassinates meet in the Painted-chamber become now the Jesuits Chamber of Meditation to consult about the slaughter and being heated by one or two of their Demagogues that perswaded them that the Saints saying that there were 5000. as good Saints in the Army as any were in Heaven should Bind the Kings in Chains and the Nobles with Fetters of Iron beseeching them with bended knees and lift up eyes and hands in the peoples name who yet were ready to have stoned them not to let Benhadad go They dare but guarded strongly by a set of Executioners like themselves to Convene before them Ian. 19. 1648. Charles King of England c. hurried against the Publick Faith given him for his Honor and Safety first to Hurstcastlt to see whether he might be poisoned by the unwholesomness of that place and thence with several affronts not to be indured by any man much less a Prince to a place more unwholesom than Westminster and now to be deprived of his life as he had been before of his kingdoms Here the conspiracy might be seen in a body having lost most of its parts save a few villains that would needs take away the Kings life because they would not beg their own life being one of those courtesies we are unwillingly beholding for so hard it is for a man to trust another for his life who he knoweth is conscious that he deserveth not to injoy it contemptible and little A poor Pettifogger Bradshaw that had taken the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy but three Weeks before leading the Herd as President and the whole Plot in his draught Which after a traiterous Speech of Bradshaws opening their pretended authority and resolution to make inquisition for bloud and the Kings laying his Staffe thrice on brazen-faced Cooks back to hold the Libel was read by a Clerk The Traytors Charge of Treason against their Soveraign consisting of sixteen Traiterous Positions THat the said Charles Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited power to govern by and according to the Laws of the Land and not otherwise And by his Trust Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties Yet nevertheless out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself and Unlimited and Tyrannical Power to Rule according to his Will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People yea to take away and make void the Foundations thereof and of all redress and remedy of Mis-government which by the Fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdom were reserved on the Peoples behalf in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parliaments or National meetings in Counsel He the said Charles Stuart for accomplishment of such his designs and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked practises to the same end hath traiterously and maliciously levied war against the Parliament and People therein represented Particularly upon or about the thirtieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and two at Beverley in the County of York and upon or about the thirtieth day of Iuly in the year aforesaid in the County of the City of York and upon or about the twenty fourth day of August in the same year at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where he set up his Standard of war and upon or about the twenty third day of October in the same year at Edge-hill and Keinton field in the County of Warwick and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the same year at Brainford in the County of Middlesex and upon or about the thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and three at Cavesham-bridge near Reading in the County of Berks and upon or about the thirtieth day of October in the year last mentioned at or near the City of Gloucester and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year last mentioned at Newbury in the County of Berks and upon or about the one and thirtieth day of Iuly in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and four at Cropredy-bridge in the County of Oxon and upon or about the thirtieth day of September in the year last mentioned at Bodmin and other places adjacent in the County of Cornwall and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year
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 comfortabl● 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 Bellasi● 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 do●i Cui maximum monimentum est suum nomen Gulielmus Comptonus Eq. Auratus Comitis Northamptoniae Filius Frater Avun●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
storm where he was killed the first instopping every breach that was made Francis Newport of ●yton upon Severn Sal. compounded for ●284 l. Sir Richard Newport deservedly created Baron Neport of High-Arcall besides many thousand pounds he sent the King paid composition with 170 l. per annum settled 3287 l. Mr. Lewis Blunt a Volunteer was killed near Manchester and Mr. Christopher Blunt at Edgulton house a William Pawlet of Paulstones Southampt paid 544 l. for his allegiance Francis Pawlet and Amos Pawlet Somers 800 l. b Sir William Savil was an eminent and a sober Commander on the Kings side Will. Savil of Wakefield Yorksh. Esq paid 946 l. as he said for the 13 Chapter of the Romans a Henry Leigh of High-Leigh Chester Esq 710 l. Composition George Leigh of Wotton Gloc. 264 l. Coll. Tho. Leigh and Sir Ferdinando Leigh were never sur●rised for want of Foresight nor worsted for want of Resolution Gervase Lee of Norwel Notingh Esq paid 560 l. for charges Tho. Leigh of Adlington Chester 3000 l. Edw. Leigh of Bugeley ibid. 700 l. Thomas Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh faithful to his Majesty in dangerous times paid for his consciencious adherence to his Soveraign 4895l Peter Leigh jun. of Neithertalby Chesh. Esq 778l Will. Leigh Pitminster Somers 120l Sir Richard Lee of Langley Sal. Ber. 8782l Sir Thomas Leigh of Humpstal Ridward Staff 1376 l. Gentlemen these easily distinguished by their actions though agreeing in name Great men when Sirnames are necessary to distinguish obscure persons are Sirnames to themselves a Coll. Hugh Windham a m●●k Lyon was sl●n in Docetshire a Particularly in 〈◊〉 de●eat of Waller at Teux bury a To whom ●e was Gen. ●●man of his Bed-Chamber a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles II. who would not have yielded Pendennis but at the Command of King Charles I. b He that beat Cromwel once in the West Sir James Smith Devon paid for being a Coll. in the Kings Army 188 l. Sir Will. Smith Sir Walter Smith of great Bedwin Wilts with 40l per annum settled paid 685l Composition Thomas of Nibley Ches 40l Edward Smith of Haughton Northam 142l Will. Smith of Stamford Kent 108l Will. Smith of Presly Som. 140l R. Smith Heath Denb 90l F. Smith of Buton Sal. and Cawood Ebor. 194l Edward Smith Dr. of Physick 45l Tho. Smith Steyning Sussex 40l Nich. Smith Theddlethorpe Lincoln 115l Jo. Smith Oxon. 220l Sir Tho. Smith Chester 10l per annum settled and 215l Jo. Smith of Small Corbes Gloc. 600l Jo. Smith Blackthorne Oxon. 107l Rob. Smith Akley Bucks and Will Smith 564l Jo. Smith of Great Milton Oxon. 107l Jo. Smith Swanton Ebor. 38l Rich. Smith of Torrington Devon Merchant 176l Parris Smith of Comb. Somerset 86l Joseph Smith Selby Linc. Clerk 600l Edw. Smith Wakefield York 60l Captain Dudley Smith killed at Roundway-down a Th●● Windsor 1100l b 〈…〉 c Creat●d 166l d Sir William Huddleston of Millain Castle Northum was Sir Edward W. onely Parallel who raised a Regiment at his own Charge and had seven Sons that rid in it for which besides 30000 l. other losses he paid 2248 l. Composition and Sir Henry Lingen of Sutton Her who raised two Regiments and did eminent service in awing Glocester and securing Heresord and Worcestershire with his Bragade of Horse that they said never slept and ●azzarded himself often for his Majesties Restauration for which he paid 6342l as Jo. Lord Scudamore Viscou●t Sleyo in Ireland s●me years Leger Ambassador in France who all these times kept his secret Loyalty to his Soveraign Hospitality in his Family and Charity to the distressed Clergy for which with his son 2690l Not forgetting Sir B. Seudamore a gallant expert Commander Governor of Hereford and Dr. Scudamore who was slain't ●ere nor the R. H. Will. Lord Sturton whose Loyalty cost him 1100l a And the excellent judgment he would give of all the rational discourses i● Religion extant b Particularly in the la●e sickness a F. F. Epist. Dedic Clem. Throg de Haseley VVor. Arm. The Right Honorable Baptist Noel Lord Viscount Cambden 150 l. land per annum and 9000 l. besides 50000 l. other losses a Sir William St. Leager came over with him with his Regiment afterwards Commanding at second Newberry battel the Cornishmen and the Duke of Yorks Regiment Sir Anthony St. Leiger of Ulcomb Kent where it has been a Kinghtly Family 300 years Sir Tho. St. Leiger being Brother-in-law to Edward the 4th was killed commanding Prince Ruperts Life-guard at Newberry second battel Oct. 27. 1644. His son I suppose Sir A. St. Leiger paying 400 l. composition This Ancient Families decays hath been the occasion the issue generall of decayed Estates are projects of many noble Inventions in England preferring to be Masters of a Molebill than dependant on the highest Prince in Christendom a There were in the Kings Army 3 Collonels more of the name viz. Sir Charles Dallison Sir Robert Dallison and Sir William Dallison who spent 130000l therein men of great command in their Country bringing the strength thereof to the reasonable assistance of his Majesty a Edw. Heath of Cotsmore Rutland Esq paid 700 l. composition Jo. Hammond of Elling Norf. 1000 l. R. Heath of Eyerton Chesh. 300 l. b Where fell Coll. Scot. c At which place and time sell the Right Worshipful Sir ● Hurton a Jo. Fortescue Cookill Worc. Esq paid 234l for his Loyalty Jo. Fortescue of Bridlest Esq Devon 202l Sir Faithfull Fortescue came over to his Majesty at Edgehill with his Troop b Major Laurence Clifton and Captain John Clifton slain at Shelford House Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton Not. 7625. c There was Coll. Matth. and Ralph Eure in the Kings Army Sir Sampson Eure Garley Park Hert. paid 110l composition d L. C. Philip Howard Nephew to the second and Cousin Germain to the first slain near Chester e Col. Thomas Morgan of Weston was slain at the first Newberry battel f And his Brother the Honorable Edward Talbot Esq slain together with Mr. Ch. Townley at Marston-moor Volunteers and Mr. Charles Sherburne Col. James Talbor was a Person deserving well of his Majesty Sherrington Talbot of Salwarpe Wor● his Estate suffered 2011l deep g To these Iadde Sir Henry Constable Lord Viscount of Dunbar who died in the service at Scarborough h Who hath three Crowns added to his Arms with this Motto Subditus fidelis Regis Regni salus i There was Collonel Jo. and Collonel Thomas Butler Men much valued and much lamented as Persons of great Interest in the Associated Counties and Collonel Croker a Who lost by the War 733579 l. and his son the most hopeful Charles Lord Viscount Mansfield who had an eminent Command under him died in these times He was General of the Ordnance b I find Sir Charles Cavendish of Wellingon Line 2048l deep in the Goldsmiths-Hall Book and Francis Cavendish of Debridge Derby 480l The Lord Henry Cavendish was a
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 Argument● 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 Impeac●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 〈◊〉 ●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 A●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 greater● 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 C●l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Glo● Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his T●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 Pol●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
MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames ●ollin● in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
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
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 sun● 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
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
Person viz. That this great truth that the imprisoning killing or deposing of any Supream Governor who is Gods Minister in a Nation is against the Will and Word of God should be offered by the Clergy of England to be proved by Scripture and if not regarded to be sealed with their bloud and with the Joynt-attestation of all Protestant Churches and Universities as the great principle of Christian Doctrine about the Peace and Government of Kingdoms and Nations And as he saith in his Letter Feb. 11. 1647. thinking of little else in this world than what he should do for the preservation of his Sacred Majesty than whose sufferings there was nothing greater he said except his vertues as a Christian a Subject an Englishman a Nobleman and an obliged Servant he caused a Rumor to be spread of his design which put the General upon calling him in from his Parole and upon his frank appearance he was dimissed till the Parliament should send for him so being free from his engagement which was as sacred to him as his Allegiance he went to Colchester with all the Horse he had and there incouraged the Souldiers by his own example going with an Halberd on his shoulder to the watch and guard in his turn paying six pence or twelve pence a shot for all the Enemies Bullets the Souldiers could pick up Charging the first day of the siege a● Head-gate where the Enemy was most pressing with a Pike till the gate could be shut which at last was but pinned with his Cane and after the Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle when Whaley and Ewres were sent to tell him and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that they should have quarter as Prisoners answering them himself That since the condition of those two Gentlemen and theirs in reference to that service were alike they wished they had all run one hazard and they had thanked the General more for saving the Lives of the two Knights whom they had already executed than for the grant of their own From Colchester my Lord was sent to the remotest Prison they could imagine from his own Countrey and thence fetched up to the Tower where after a handsome escape over the water to Lambeth wherein he was betrayed by the wretched Water-man that carryed him over who discovered him by his munificence the Gold he gave him he spent not his time in thoughts for his own Life but for that of his Majesties conjuring a Lord then sitting to second their Vote against the Ordinance for Tryal of his Majesty with a resolute Declaration to all Kings Princes States Potentates and Nobility to be signed by all the Lords Judges Lawyers Divines Gentry and people of England and this he pressed with most pathetick Arguments whereof one was very remarkable viz. That he understood by his dear-bought experience of those men of the Enthusiasm that let them but meet a well-grounded and justificable Zeal Courage and Resolution greater than their misguided fury to stemme the Torrent of it they would recollect and as he said observing some hesitation in their proceedings who found it easier to Conquer a people than to govern them against their Interest by a small part of themselves it being easier to overthrow another Government than to settle their own in an excellent Letter from the Tower Ian. 9. 1648. full of a Noble and Heroick Spirit which he concludes with this expression That it grieved him that he could do nothing else but rub his fingers upon Paper an imployment that fitted not his Genius Give saith he but the people an honorable example they will follow you and vindicate both you and themselves from being as such a silly Generation that they should suffer themselves to be cozened out of their good known and established Laws and in the place of them be imposed upon by Imaginations and Dreams to which he added another Letter Ian. 15. to a very great man in the Army every line whereof runs with this vigor against their proceedings YOur Party is small and giddy the thing its self is monstrous the Lords and Commons under whom you fought are against you all Princes and Protestants will abhor you Scotland will be dis-united from England Ireland will be lost Trade will be stopped by all Kings and States with people of so dangerous principles all Nations will be ready to invade us many of the Judges to sit upon the King will leave you the Empire of the Sea will be lost the Nation will be infamous to Posterity the Protestant yea Christian Religion will receive a deadly blow to be revenged by all people that profess it no man is sure of his life or any thing he hath the most prudent Form of Rules the world hath known will be overthrown a vast number of people are concerned in those Rules no example will be-friend you all Potentates will be against you and the Prince to be murthered so excellent and knowing in the Art of Government so loved reverenced and desired that of all the Princes that that ever ruled the people that were so happy in the first sixteen years of his Reign were they to chuse would pitch upon him and which is more the only person in whom his enemies may finde security being otherwise like to be torn to pieces by their Fellow-subjects upon the least change the express word of the great God in whose hands you are is against you Prov. 8. 15. 1 Sam 24 5 6. Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. c. the Laws of the Land your own Judges yea your own Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and Pretences all along fly in your faces the Prince the two Dukes and the numerous Royal issue should deter you the Precipice of endless Wars and Desolations you are at the brink of should affright you Words big with his heart which you may see at large at the end of his incomparable Book of Meditations as appears by this close I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it than you will allow your self for all your other Merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most Affectionate Friend How readily he would have dyed for him we may see in his chearfulness to dye with him for being brought before an High Court of Justice as it was called within a moneth after having offered brave Arguments from the Law of the Land the Government of the Nation the nullity of their Court the benefit of his Peerage and the Law that governed the world meaning the Sword by which he was promised quarter for life he heard the Villains ridiculous Sentence with a nobler spirit than they pronounced it telling them That they needed not have used those formalities to murther him And March the ninth the day appointed for the Assassination having conjured his Lady in two Letters That
taken notice of in the Long Parliament and he was one of them who at York Oxford and Vxbridge for he was at that Treaty made it evident that that Parliament its self by its Factions was become a grievance he himself keeping a middle way between the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberty so widening his Majesties interest to the utmost latitude and extent For all which and for neglecting the Parliaments Summons to return he and his Son Charles paid in way of Composition 2725 l. 00 s. 00 d. Since for his past Loyalty and present serviceableness made Privy-Counsellor to his Majesty King Charles II. and Chancellor to the Dutchy of Lancaster in which places he died 16●4 5. As the Persians look not upon their children until they are ten years old so he wished men not to trust too much to their present settlement till it had attained seven years To this ancient Family relate Mr. Henry Seymor who added Art to his Honor in which respect a learned man calleth him not only his Amicus but his Necessarius and paid for his Loyalty 150 l. as Sir Edward Seymor of Berry Pomery did in Devon 1200 l. Richard Seymor of H●nsord Dorset 0030. 06 8. Io. Seymor of Stockingham Devon Esquire 0105 l. 00 00 The Marquiss of Hertford was the first Commander in Chief for his Majesty in the West and the Earl of Cumberland in the North Commanding first Prince Charles his compleat Regiment of the choice Gentry of York-shire for a Guard to his Father and being excepted out of the Westminster-mens Pardon in the Commission they granted their General he was General of the Northern Associations whole Army bringing to his Majesty 24000 l. and 2000. men for the defence of the Country where he cleared York-shire Durham Cumberland c. settling thirty Garrisons for his Majesty forcing and perswading several persons of quality as Sir Edward Loftus and his Richmond-shire Forces Sir Henry Anderson with those of Cleaveland to return managing the war with that civili●y as if he had been only to have kept the peace of the Country Of all which his Ancestors had the government for an hundred and fifty years in their own right as they had of Westmerland in the right of the Viponts their relations A Family that with nature subsisted and grew by the same things whereby it was first raised virtue that created supporting it till it pleased God it became lately extinct in a person made up of true Honor Valor and Mercy the best mettle bends best this Noble Person died about the 1646. having taught the world That the art of making war hath not a positive form and that it ought to be diversified according to the state of occurrences They that will commit nothing to fortune nor undertake any enterprize whose event appeareth not infallible escape many dangers by their wary conduct but fail of as many successes by their unactive fearfulness It s useless to be too wise and spend that time in a grave gaze on business that might serve for the speedy dispatch of it The great Estate of this Noble Earldom reverted unto Anne the sole Daughter of George Clifford the third brave Earl that King Iames when he met him first said was rather King than Earl of Cumberland the relict of R. Earl of Dorset and since of Phillip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery by whom the had two Daughters the one married to the Earl of Thanet who promoted the Kentish and other Insurrections so far that besides frequent Imprisonments and Decimations it cost him at one clap for Compounding 9000 l. and the other to Iames Earl of Northampton Sir Marmaduke Langdale being none of those English-men who being made Gentlemen before they are men seldom become wisemen was bred so as that he might be able to carry his head on his own shoulders and knowing that Gentility sent to Market will hardly buy a Bushel of Wheat added to his honorable descent most Scholar-like accomplishments and good husbandry by the same token that he bought that estate of Sir William Constable an unhappy man that forgot the honor of his ancient Family before the war for 26000 l. which Sir William afterwards begged of his Comerades during the Usurpation for nothing Sir Marmaduke was esteemed a serious and wise man and therefore he was able to do his Country great service when he stood for the Liberty of the Subject as he did all along in the first years of King Charles I. and the King as great when he saw it necessary to support his Government as he did 1642. when he brought in the whole County of York being Sheriff that year to Petition his Majesty to accept of their assistance and all the Clergy of the North to vindicate his Majesties Cause by their Subscriptions as the Laity had done by their Contributions His first exploit was with the honorable Sir Francis Worsley of ●●●leton in York-shire Colonel of his Majesties Army till taken Prisoner as he was settling the Array who was so good a pay-master and so civil a man in the Army that he might leave that saying in York-shire which his Country-man Sir Thomas de Rockby left in Ireland behind him That he would eat in wooden dishes but would pay for his meat gold and silver Paying for his Loyalty by way of Composition 5000 l. Francis Nevill of Chivel in York-shire Esq who as Palevezine the Italian had in one night his hair turned from black to gray so in a short time from a very active to a very grave person using much that saying of my Lord Burleighs Stay a little and we shall have done the sooner and paying for his Allegiance at Goldsmiths-hall 1000l Richard Nevil of Bellingbere in Berk-shire did 887 l. Thomas Nevil of London Draper 84 l. Nevil of York Esq and Sir Gervase his Son of Awbern in the County of Lincoln 1737 l. Thomas Nevil of Wakefield York 151 l. the Lady Frances Nevil 329 l. William Nevil of Cresse-temple in Essex Esq 211 l. to force York and to give direction to besiege effectually Sir Iohn Hotham where they had driven him in Hull where eminent was his great care and vigilancy His next was settling the Contributions and Quarters of the Country in the easiest method saying That he durst anger the Parliament but he durst not displease his Country-men after this he furnished his Majesty with 3000. Northern-horse at three several times preserving indeed all the horse that were left after the fatal sight at Marston-Moor having before routed 1500. Scotch horse before the City of York and rolling with them till they were a considerable Brigade by that time they came to Hereford Relieving the adjacent Garrisons as he marched along but the most famous action in all these wars was his marching with 2000. horse from Oxford through all the Enemies Quarters and Army to Relieve ●omfret 1644. ordering his march so prudently that under the Enemies Colours he was
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Cr●●ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Ma●quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in resti●uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6● 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nis● beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard G●rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10●l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
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
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir ●ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention
one Treasurer of the Northern Army and the other a Collonel both after the defeat at Marston-moor accompanying my Lord of New-Castle beyond Sea whence the first returned with new hopes to serve his Majesty and was slain at Sherburn in Yorkshire 1645. having time enough to rise on his knees and crie Lord have mercy upon me bless and prosper his Majesty A short Prayer at death serveth him whose life was nothing but one continued Prayer and the other died at Paris not much concerned that he was set by and not set by hung up like the Axe when it hath hewed all the hard timber on the Wall unregarded and none of those that desired to embroyl the Nation in a new War and like a knavish Chirurgeon out of design to blister the sound flesh into a sore to gain by the curing of it 24. Coll. Sir ● Appl●yard Dilling Cumb. the first that entered Leicester and was therefore Governour of it Good always at at bold Onsets but better at prudent Retreats And to conclude all 25. The Lord Bard a Ministers son of our Church that valiantly fought for it coming from the University of Cambridge to the Army advancing by the particular notice his Highness Prince Rupert took of his large Spirit penned within a narrow Fortune from a Commoner by his great Services to a Baron leading on the Left hand ●ertia with Sir G. Lisle at Naseby and bringing off the whole Brigade otherwise likely to be cut off at Alesford he with the two London Prentices Sir T. and W. Bridges are not the only English instances of men of private Occupations arriving at great skill in Martial performances Sir Io. H●wkwood a General in Florence was a Taylor turning his needle to a Sword and his thimble to a Shield he appeared not in our Wars as spirits who are seen once and then finally vanish being often put upon Honorable but Difficult service to keep places with few men against a fierce and numerous Enemy to whom once he set open the gate of Cambden house his charge as if deserted but entertained them so that they spilt not so much Claret Wine in the house as they left bloud before it He would often commend Sir Clement Pastons method of bounty Building a fair House for Hospitality where his serving-men spent their Younger dayes in waiting upon him and an Hospital hard by where they might bestow their Elder years in Recollecting themselves and say that he descended from that man in Norfolk he must be a Norfolk man that went to Law with W. and overthrew the Conqueror All these brave Gentlemen both for Camp and Court for Entertainment and Service in a March for Valor and in a Mask for Ingenuity Gentlemen who were most of them buryed in honour and his Majesties Cause for a while buryed with them whose Ashes should not be thus huddled together deserving a more distinct Commemoration especially those that have been as devout as valiant and as prudent as devout their Wit being as sharp as their Swords and piercing as far into business as those did into bodies Sir Francis Gerard Sir Cecil Trafford and Coll. Francis Trafford Lancash Gent. men worthy Recusants arming themselves in defence of those Laws by which they suffered valuing their allegiance above their opinion and supporting a Government that was imposed upon them rather than betraying it to them that would impose upon the Nation With whom I might reckon Sir Peter Brown and his son of Kidlington Oxfordsh who was slain in the service being mortally wounded at Naseby and dying at Northampton Sir Troilus Turbervile Captain-Lieutenant of his Majesties Life-guard slain in the late Kings march from Newark to Oxford whose bounty to his Souldiers puts me in mind of my Lord Audleys to his Esquires who bestowed the Pension of 500 Marks upon them which the Black Prince bestowed upon him for his service at the battel of Poictiers and when questioned for it by the Prince said These have done me long and faithful service without whose assistance I being a single man could have done little besides the fair Estate left me by my Ancestors enableth me freely to serve your Highness Sir Nicholas Fortescue a Knight of Malta slain in Lancashire whose worth is the more to be regarded by others the less he took notice of it himself a Person of so dextrous an address that when he came into notice he came into favor when he entred the Court he had the Chamber yea the Closet of a Prince a Gentleman that did much in his person and as he would say Let Reputation do tho rest he and Sir Edmund Fortescue were always observed so wary as to have all their Enemies before them and leave none behind them Sir Henry Fortescue being the most Valiant Commander in H. 5th time Sir Ad. Fortescue the strictest Governor he was Porter of Callis in H. 7th time Sir Hen. Fortescue and Sir Io. Fortescue the most learned Lawyers in Henry 6th time Sir Io. Fortescue the wisest Counsellor in Queen Eliz. time whose studies he was Overseer of and these Gentlemen very eminent Souldiers in King Charles I. Reign always prevailing in their parts with parties as much beneath their Enemies in number as above them in resolution and temperance by whom if there were any violence offered the appearance of these Commanders checked they carrying civility in their presence against all rudeness as the Abbot of Battel did a Pardon in his having power to save any Malefactor he saw going to be executed in all executions Col. Cuthbert Coniers of Leighton in Durham slain at Mulpasse in Cheshire Aug. 1644. and Col. Cuthbert Clifton slain near Manchester who could not endure that Rebellion that took Sanctuary in Religion which wanted a refuge its self the horns of the Altar pushing it from him sober men that could not endure to see the English coming to fight now under King Charles as they did 600 years ago under King Herold drunk and not able either to stand to an Enemy so overcome with drink nor fly from him both with Col. Richard Manning slain at Alseford in Hampshire Col. Will. Eure Brother to the late Lord Eure slain at Marston-Moor and his son L. C. Tho. Eure slain at Newberry Col. Tho. Howard son of Sir Francis Howard who gained the battel at Adderton-moor as Eye-witnesses testifie with the loss of his life Iune 30. 1643. one of them that taught the world to plant Lawrels on the brow of the Conquered Col. Thomas Howard son to the Lord William Howard slain at Pi●rebridge in the County of York the Honorable Sir Francis and Sir Robert Howard of whose Names there were seven Peers with his Majesty Col. Thomas Col. Anthony and Col. Iames Morgan Sir Edward Morgan of Pencoed Mon. whose Loyalty stood him in 1007 l. Sir Iohn Cansfield who interposed himself between his Majesty King Charles and the Prince and the Fury of the Enemy bringing off both
with two dangerous wounds in his own body as King Charles I. attested under his own hand The Right Honorable William and Francis Earls of Shrewsbery the one attending his former Majesty in all his Wars with great Charge and Prudence and hardly used by the Parliament who broke th Articles with him and the other following his Majesty that now is in all his streights from Worcester Fight where he ventured to wait upon him with a gallant Company of Gentlemen to his Restauration which he attempted often with the hazzard of his life and saw at last to the great comfort of it according to their Renowed Ancestors the Talbots Motto on their words more manlike than Elegant and like a Nobleman rather than a Pedant Sum Talboti pro defendendo Rege contra Inimicos neither of them when sent to raise Forces for his Majesty whose party deserved not the name of an Army untill the Earl of Shrewsbury came in no more than Henry 7 th did till Sir Gilbert Talbot came to him answering him as their Ancestors did Henry 8th when he sent to him to fortifie Callice who said he could neither fortifie nor sistifie without money The Right Honorable Iohn lately and George Nevill now Lord Abergavenny the first Baron of Abergavenny created so by King Harold 2. a Family so potent then that whereas others boast that they came over with the Conqueror it may speak a bigger word viz. That the Conqueror came in with and by it Noblemen whose plain and honest Natures is as good a sign of their Antiquity as the plainness and simplicity of their Coats and Arms Sequestred and troubled much beyond the Note in the Catalogue of Compounders comes to Iohn Lord of Abergavenny 531 l. I say these and many more Catholicks that were faithful to King Charles I. in his distresses from 1642. to 1648. And Col. Carlese Sir Iames Hamilton and others who were to King Charles II. 1651. in his extremity and Escape make it probable that Marianaes Institutions Suarez his Apology and his Potestas Regia Bell. de Pont. Rom. l. Creswell Philopatus de offic Principum may be Books whose dangerous notion as those of Buchanan and others among us may be published and discoursed among those who abhor them and though they honour the Authors venture their lives to oppose their Tenets Sir Richard Lawdy slain at Cover in Glocestershire and those two old Souldiers that planted a Seminary in the North Sir Ingram Hopton and Sir George Bowles who fell at Winsby near Horn Castle October 1643. William Butler and Sir William Clark two Kentishmen of great Quality slain at Cropredy-bridge Iune 29. 1644. those two Northern men that swallowed the War in earnest Sir Thomas Metham and Sir William Lambton who died at Marston-moor the two hardy Courtiers Sir Thomaas Dallison and Sir Richard Cave Sir Iohn Beaumont of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester who died in the service that good Souldier Col. Croker near Oxon. who paid 909 l. need no more than a mention here Sir Charles Cavendish son to Sir C. Cavendish Grandfather to Sir W. C. and Privy-Counsellor and Treasurer of the Chamber to H. 8. Edw. 6. Queen Mary younger Brother to the most potent William Duke of Newcastle inclined from his youth to Learning particularly the Mathematicks as his Brother was to Chivalry those studies agreeing better with his vigorous soul than other exercises did with his weak body when the liberty of a Camp in the North endangered the very being of Christianity there the Souldiers retaining little of their Religion but their Allegiance as if their service to the King did excuse their care of their duty to God Sir Charles his excellent discourses set off with a most sweet nature and a most strict example prevailed as successfully over the Army as they did a great while over their Enemies keeping though not improving their charge though indeed it was much improved in that it was not impaired all the while he had the charge of it partly by the Valor of his Person and partly by the advantage of his Country making so stout a resistance that they whose successes made them flie in other parts of the Kingdom could a great while but creep in the North a Country that shewed it self as Valiant in what it did as patient in what it suffered their Hands Arms being as good as Backs and Shoulders He was the person intrusted by the Northern parts to welcome her Majesty 1643. with a brave Body of Horse to guard her and the Person intrusted by her with 20 Troops of Horse 2000 Foot and 500 Arms more to protect them Great his care of Ammunition as Master of the Ordnance and greater of Money as Treasurer of the Northern parts till the defeat at Marston-moor when a brave Troop of Gentlemen desired him and his Brother to Lead them up to perish Honorably rather than out-live the consequence of that day after which he went over with his Brother to Holland and France whence returning 1651. upon my Lord Chancellor and others perswasions to compound for his Estate which he protested he had rather loose than have it by composition from the Enemy After the settlement of that and some little Remainder of the Dukes he died if he can die that lives in so Honorable a Monument as the Works of his dearest Sister the Heroick Princess the Dutchess of Newcastles With this Inscription The most generous and charitable man having never Courting yet winning all men the pass to their heart he made through their brain who first admired and then loved him A Character most agreeable to his Honourable Cousin Charles Cavendish Esq Brother to the Right Honorable William Earl of Devonshire whose eminent services and sufferings deserve this Motto Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit a person of no vulgar parts himself and a Patron of those who are above the ordinary Learning Qui arte militari it a inclaruit ut vividae ejus virtuti nihil fuerit impervium it being as impossible for him not to be as not to be active being a Commissioner in the Northern Array secured Lincoln and Gainsborough whence being Governour of that place he issued out to the relief of the surprised Earl of Kingston he was over-powered and his horse carrying him off over the Trent but sticking in the Mud he died magnanimously refusing quarter and throwing the bloud that ran from his wounds in their faces that shed it with a spirit as great as his bloud his goodness was as eminent as his valour and he as much beloved by his Friends as feared by his Enemies Sir Walter Pye of Mind in Herefordshire equally a friend to the Mitre and to the Crown and therefore as zealous in maintaining the last in the Field against Usurpation as he was in Parliament in purging the other of Symony a great lover of Ministers and consecrated men Conceiving it more credit and safety to go
according to Law And this whole affair was no new thing but the practise of the wise and religious King Iames who understood the interest of the Protestant Religion as well as any Prince in the world and promoted the concerns of it more ways than any man in England in whose Reign Anno 1622. this Letter was sent to the Judges After my hearty Commendations to you HIs Majesty having resolved out of deep reasons of State and in expectation of the like correspondence from Forraign Princes to the Profession of our Religion to grant some Grace and Connivance to the Imprisoned Papists in this kingdom hath Commanded me to Issue out some Writs under the Broad Seal to that purpose c. I am to give you to understand from his Majesty how his Majesties Royal Pleasure is That upon receipt of these Writs you shall make no niceness nor difficulty to extend that his Princely Favour to all such Papists as are Prisoners upon the concerns of Religion only and not matters of State Westminster Colledge August 2. 1622. Your loving friend JO. LINCOLNE The clearness of this honest but unfortunate Gentleman's Proceedings gave so much reputation to him abroad even in his lowest condition wherein great men like Dyals are not looked on because the Sun is off of them as that the Governour of Callice Le Comte de Charra● offered him his Coach to Paris with many other unusual Civilities Mounsieur de Chavigny not only commanded Licence for his departure from Callice but expressed great respect to his person and gave order for his accommodation with any thing that that place could afford Cardinal Richlieu invited him to his Ballet with order to Mounsieur Chavigni to bring him to his Eminence and assurance of welcome and an exceeding good Reception as he had March 12. 1640. The Cardinal after extraordinary Civilities bringing him from his own Chamber into the next giving him the upper hand and holding him by the hands Yea the King and Queen of France admitted him to a very great motion of familiarity with them respectively and upon Mounsieur Senetens ordered a Priviledge to be drawn up in as large and as ample manner as he could contrive it to free him and the other English that were Exiles there on the account of their Loyalty from that Confiscation of Estates after their deaths to which other Aliens are obnoxious by the Laws of that Kingdom Upon all which favours he makes this reflection in a letter to his Son So as though in mine own Country it be accounted a Crime to me to be her Majesties Servant yet here I shall have Reputation and receive much Honour by it As not only he did in France but likewise his Son in Rome where Cardinal Barharino treats him at a very high rate of kindness and civility ● remember it was wondered at much by some that a person rendred so odious should escape so well as to injoy his life and estate and more by others that so worthy a man that with his Father these are his own words had served the Crown near fourscore years and had the honour to be employed by the late Queen Elizabeth King Iames and his now Majesty in businesses of great trust should be outed his Secretaries Place and Banished his Country for obeying his Master's Command and that sometimes much against his own mind and opinion insomuch that Master Read protests he did many of them with a very ill will His rule was to be constant but not obstinate in his opinions he was of and when he had proper and secret motions of his own yet to yield as the Orbs do for the order of the Universe to the way of the first Mover Especially since he desired that his Secretary Master Read should come over and give an account of the grounds and reasons of all those transactions wherein he had been ministerial so confident was he of his integrity And after such a fair examination of his Services he requested only the favour of a charitable construction if his Services wherein he said he had no ill intention nor had offended willingly or maliciously and permission to return in safety to England to pass that little time which remained of his life privately in peace and mark these expressions in the Church of England whereof these are the very syllables of his Petition he will in Life and Death continue a true Member and in which he desireth to bestow the rest of his time in devotion for the prosperity thereof So modest were his expectations It was pity he was forced to live and dye among strangers more kind to him than his own Nation who while they perswaded the world he was a Papist had without God's special grace made him so by the unkindness of some Protestants who dressed him and others with Nick-names of Popery as the Heathens did the Martyrs in Beasts Skins that they might first expose and afterwards beat them Only he was happy in this that the Faction did not persecute him so rigidly as all the Court loved him intirely those very Lords that favoured the Conspiracy being very careful of him who lived to see them repent more of their Compliance than he had occasion to do of his Loyalty though his little state the argument of his honesty and generosity was broken his Relations distressed his Son Thomas of the Privy-chamber to the King displaced and what was sadder then all this one of his young Sons commonly called Colonel Windebank Shot to Death at Oxford for Delivering up Blechingdon-house to Cromwell's Horse upon first Summons there being no Foot near whatever Cromwell threatned so much to the disadvantage of Oxford A wonderful passage had it happened in any other age but that wherein men admired nothing not so much from any knowledge they attained in the causes of things as from the multitude of strange effect Some Venison there is not fit for food when first killed till it 's a while buried under-ground Some Mens Memories do not rellish so well till a while after their Interment Of this unfortunate States-men I may say what a wise man said of another Nunc quia Paula domi non sunt bene gesta foresque Paucula successus non habuere suos Creditur esse dolus fuerat quae culpa Putatur ●t scelus infaelix qui modo lapsus erat Rumpatur livor dicam quod sentio certe Infaelix potius quam sceleratus erat THE Life and Death OF Dr THOMAS IACKSON President of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford IT is true this Excellent Person died just when the Rebellion began to offer violence to others yet dying then he could not escape from the violence of it himself Peter Martyrs wife P. Fagius and Martin Bu●●rs are reckoned a sort of Queen Maries Martyrs though they dyed before because their bodies were then digged from their Graves and buried in a Dunghill And this great man claimes justly a place in the Catalogue of
Bruerton by Will bequeathed to Sidney Colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident it was so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel VVard informed me it was invalid in the rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramston who married the Serjeant's Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a farthing and the legal settling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times The delivering his judgement on the King's side in the case of Ship-money cost him much trouble and brought him much honour as who understood the consequence of that Maxime Salus populi suprema lex and that Ship-money was thought legal by the best Lawyers Voted down Arbitrarily by the worst Parliament they hearing no Council for it though the King heard all men willingly against it Yea that Parliament thought themselves not secure from it unless the King renounced his right to it by a new Act of his own Men have a touch-stone to try gold and gold is the touch-stone to try men Sir Noy's gratuity shewed that this Judges inclination was as much above corruption as his fortune and that he would not as well he needed not be base Equally intent was he upon the Interest of State and Maxims of Law as which mutually supported each other He would never have a witness interrupted or helped but have the patience to hear a naked though a tedious truth the best Gold lieth in the most Ore and the clearest truth in the most simple discourse When he put on his Robes he put off respects his private affections being swallowed up in the publick service This was the Judge whom Popularity could never flatter to any thing unsafe nor Favour oblige to any thing unjust Therefore he died in peace 1645 when all others were engaged in a War and shall have the reward of his integrity of the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the World Having lived as well as read Iustinian 's Maxim to the Praetor of Laconia All things which appertain to the well-government of a State are ordered by the Constitution of Kings that give life and vigour to the Law Whereupon who so would walk wisely shall never fail if he propose them both for the rule of his actions For a King is the living Law of his Countrey Nothing troubled him so much as shall I call it the shame or the fear of the consequence of the unhappy Contest between His Excellent Majesty and his meaner Subjects in the foresaid case of Ship-money No enemy being contemptible enough to be despised since the most despicable command greater strength wisdom and interest than their own to the designs of malice or mischief A great man managed a quarrel with Archee the King's Fool but by endeavouring to explode him the Court rendred him at last so considerable by calling the enemies of that person who were not a few to his rescue as the fellow was not onely able to continue the dispute for divers years but received such encouragement from standers by the instrument of whose malice he was as he oft broke out into such reproaches as neither the Dignity of that excellent person's Calling nor the greatness of his Parts could in reason or manners admit But that the wise man discerned that all the Fool did was but a symptome of the strong and inveterate distemper raised long since in the hearts of his Countreymen against the great man's Person and Function This Reverend Judge who when Reader of the Temple carried away the title of the best Lawyer of his time in England and when made Serjeant with fifteen more of whom the Lord Keeper Williams said That he reckoned it one of the Honours of his time that he had passed Writs for the advancement of so many excellent persons Anno 29. Iac. Termino Michaelii had the character of The fairest pleader in England Westminster-Hall was much envied by the Faction upon the same ground that Scaevola was quarrelled with by Fimbria even because totum telum in se recipere he did not give malice a free scope and advantage against him who when the Writ for Ship-money grounded upon unquestionable Presidents and Records for levying Naval Aids by the King 's sole Authority were put in execution and Hambden and Say went to Law with the King the one for four pound two shillings the other for three pound five shilling The inconsiderable summes they were assessed at to the Aid aforesaid went no further than upon this Case put by the King Charles Rex WHen the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all his Subjects in the kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuals and Ammunition and for such time as he shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such danger and peril and by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness and whether in such cases is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided To declare his opinion thus MAy it please your most Excellent Majesty we have according to your Majesties Command severally and every man by himself and all of us together taken into our serious consideration the Case and Questions Signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Letter And we are of opinion That when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under your Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this your kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such peril and danger and that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided Iohn Bramston Richard Hutton George Vernon Iohn Finch Willam Iones Robert Barkley Humphrey Davenport George Crook Francis Crauly Iohn Denham Thomas Trever Richard Weston And afterwards in the Lord Says Case Ter. Hil. Anno 14. Car. Regis in Banco regis with Iones and Berkley to declare That the foresaid Writ being allowed legal the judgment of the Judges upon it consisting of four branches First That the Writ was legal by the King's Prerogative or at leastwise by his Regal power Secondly That the Sheriff by himself without any Jury may make the Assessement Thirdly That the Inland Counties ought to do it at their own Charge and
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 prevailed● 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
the Faction in such times as he might hope either to bring things to some composure or keep them from confusion offering expedients and protesting against extravagancies especially in the two cases of declaring those that indeavoured the Restitution of the Kings Majesty 1647 1648. Traytors and in the Vote That the Earl of Warwick should fight the Prince These passages cost him a long Imprisonment under the Black-Rod Sequestration from the House and what he bewailed more an utter incapacity of serving his Majesty which he was very much afraid of ever since they had suffered the new model of the Army the greatest errour since the first of raising it For ever after he lived to bewail the mischiefs of a Civil War but not to see any hope of remedy Most Children are notified by their Parents yet some Fathers are made eminent by their Children as Simon of Cyrene is known by this Character the Father of Alexander and Rufus and this honorable person by this happy Remarque that he was Father to the Right Honorable George Lord Berkley who hath been as bountiful to the Church of England and its suffering Members of late witness Doctor Pearson Doctor Fuller c. as his Honorable Ancestors were to the same Church and its devout Members formerly when there were twelve Abbies of their erection which injoyed twenty eight Knights-fees of their donation That Noble Family now as well as then deserving to wear an Abbots Mitre for the Crest of their Armes so loving they have been always to the Clergy and so ready to build them Synagogues and endow them not only with worthy maintenance but with eminent Incumbents such whose gifts the Church wanted more than they its Incomes Honest men in the worst of times finding him their Patron and ingenious men in the best of times enjoying him at once their incouragement and their example being happy to a great degree in that ingenuity himself that he doth so much promote in others May there never want Worthy Men that may deserve such a Noble Patron and may Noble Persons never be wanting that may incourage such Worthy Men. To conclude this honorable Name whose Elogies grow upon our affectionate Pens well may this faithful Family fill their Coat that was Originally as is conceived a plain and therefore noble Cheveren with ten Crosses Patle Or As well in memory of their faithful service in the last Just War here at home as for the memorial of their Ancestors Atchievements in the old Holy War in Palestine where Harding the Progenitor relieved the Christians at Ioppa against the Turks with as much resolution and integrity as they did the Protestants here against those which were so much worse than Infidels as they pretended to be better than Christians or their patronage of afflicted virtue and goodness in that which some called peace but was indeed a solitude and devastation in England For but observe this remarkable passage I know not it is a Paragraph of the Church Historian which more to admire speaking of Iohn Trevisa's Translation his ability that he could his courage that he durst or his industry that he did perform so difficult and dangerous a task having no other Commission than the command of his Patron Thomas Lord Berkley which Lord as the said Trevisa observeth had the Apocalyps in Latine and French then generally understood by the better sort as well as English written on the Roof and Walls of his Chappel at Berkley and which not long since viz. Anno 1622. so remained as not much defaced Whereby we may observe that mid-night being past some early Risers even then began to strike fire and enlighten themselves from the Scriptures It may seem a miracle that the Bishops being thus busie in persecuting Gods Servants and Trevisa so obnoxious to them for this Translation that he lived and died without any molestation Yet other of his Speeches That he had read how Christ had sent Apostles and Priests into the world but never any Monks or begging Friars But whether it was out of respect to his own aged gravity or respect to his Patrons greatness he died full of honor quiet and age blessing the noble Family as Ockam said to Frederick Duke of Saxony with his works and the good they did in the world as it protected him with its power in the good it did to him In Illustrissimam Berkleiorum Familiam Ortu magna domus meritis major Regibus oriunda in regum subsidium magnos majoribus debet honores majores reddit ipsum nobilitans honorem Longas stemmatis tractus adauget longioribus virtutem magnifice bona benigne grandis Cui contigit id quo nec fortuna magna majus habet nec bona melius nempe benefacere posse quantum vellit velle quantum possit Quae cum undiquaque summa sit non est quod optemus nisi sit Perpetua THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOHN DOD AFTER so many honorable persons that could do so much for his Majesty here 's a Reverend Person that could suffer for him one that was not over-fond of the Government when it prospered but faithful to it when it suffered declaring as zealously against the scandalous Rebellion of the Puritans as he had done for their pretended Religion the Non-conformist Cavalier One that bewailed his own scruples and perswaded all men to have a care of them Insomuch as that when Bishop Brownrigge in his younger days went to him for his advice he wished him and other hopeful men not to ensnare themselves into uselesseness In the midst of troublesome times he quietly withdrew himself to heaven He was born at Shotledge in Cheshire the youngest of seventeen Children bred in Westchester and Iesus Colledge in Cambridge At a Disputation at one Commencement he was so facetiously solid wild yet sweet fruits which the stock brought forth before grafted with grace that Oxford-men there present courted him home with them and would have planted him in their University save that he declined it He was a Passive Non-conformist not loving any one the worse for difference in judgment about Ceremonies the better for their unity of affections in Grace and Goodness He used to retrench some hot spirits when envying against Bishops telling them how God under that government had given a marvellous increase to the Gospel and that godly men might comfortably comport therewith under which Learning and Religion had so manifest an improvement He was a good Decalogist and to his dying day how roughly soever used stuck to his own judgment of what he had written on the fifth Commandment of obedience to lawful Authority Some riotous Gentlemen casually coming to the Table of Sir Anthony Cope in Hanwell were half-starved in the midst of a Feast because refraining from Swearing meat and drink to them in the presence of Master Dod of these one after dinner ingeniously professed that he thought it had been impossible for himself to forbear Oaths so long a
each side by his great Moderation Prudence and Interest and when these proved unsuccesseful with those who as it is said of a French Rebel had drawn their Swords against their King and so thrown away their Scabbards being capable of no accommodation because not secure from the guilt of their former Crimes but by committing greater to cut off those they had acted against being guided by this Maxime We must kill those from whom in justice we can expect nothing but Execution to Composition paying near 7000 l. at first besides what was af●ter penalty upon penalty was the common false Heraldry of those upstart oppressors squeezed from him by Decimations c. and the constant restraint as it were of his Person all the years from 46 to 60 being but a great Paroule of fourteen years in which time how magnanimous was he in unwearied Overtures of Concessions Requests Arguments Conjurations Threatnings particular and infinite Applications and a ransome too for his dear Masters Life yea offering even himself as being one of the prime Ministers of the Kings commands as an hostage for him and if the Conspirators must needs be fed with bloud to suffer in his stead for whatever he had done amiss and when they chose rather to take away his Majesties life than beg their own and the most impetuous passion of Ambition having swallowed the hopes of Empire carryed them head-long to remove his Majesty that they might Inthrone themselves How piously did he and his many pious relations that made his place a Cloyster rescent the Parricide and the consequents of it giving up themselves to the extrraordinary Devotions in the despised and afflicted way of the Church of England communicating where ever they were only with the Members of that Church to the honor whereof and of baffled piety and virtue its self I cannot conceal though I offend unpardonably against her modesty when I mention a Sister of his that composeth her soul more carefully by Gods word than others do their faces by their Glasses Spends that time in praying keeping inviolably all the Primitive hours of Devotion that is thrown away too commonly in dressing gaming and complementing and bestow her thoughtful and serious Life between the strictest fasting but one sparing Meal in thirty six hours and not so much upon extraordinary occasions the most Liberal Alms both to the sick and to the needy bountiful both in her Skill and in her Charity Indefatigable reading serious discourses and constant prayers How prudently did he supply his Majesty and his Friends and by a discreet Correspondence when he could not reclaim yet he moderated the extravagancies of the times which had over-turn'd all things past the remedy of a Restauration if the extream violence of some men had not been seasonally allayed and corrected by the sober Applications and Interests of others Heartily did he wish well to the least design and attempt for Loyalty and Liberty but wisely did he observe that unsuccessful practices against any Government settle it the Bramble of usurpation as well as the Oak being more fixed and rooted by being shaken All Governments making use of real dangers and when they want them of seigned ones to improve their Revenues and increase their Guards But it is not to be forgotten that when he could not prevail for the Life of his Soveraign he with other Honorable Persons procured Orders and made provisions for and gave attendance on his Funeral reserving himself by his wary proceedings in his Masters cause for the fittest opportunity of his service being not all the time of the Usurpation actually restrained from his pursuit of the Royal Cause but once 1655. by Mannings Treason being sure as he would say That if none betrayed him on the other side of the water none should on this when with the Lords Maynard Lucas Peter Sir Ieffrey Palmer Sir Richard Wingfield c. he was committed to the Tower upon suspicion and as it proved but the bare suspicion of what they called High-Treason In which course he persisted untill it pleased God by divers Revolutions to open a way for the Lord General to settle the Nation in a way most suitable to his own prudent and wary Rules with whom he entred into a very strict and intire Friendship continuing through the correspondency of their discreet and generous tempers to his death the General advising with him about his Majesties Reception and other Affairs of very great consequence and being admitted at the same time with him one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council Lord Lieutenant of Lincoln-shire c. Commander of a Regiment in the Army till it was disbanded one among many other Noblemen of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer for the Tryal of the late Kings Murtherers one of the most Honorable Order of the Garter 16 April 1661. appearing at his Majesties Coronation one of the first subjects in England in capacity of Lord High Chamberlain of England and upon all other occasions in Court Parliament and Country carrying himself as a wise man an ancient Nobleman as a good Patriot and a Loyal Subject till he dyed 1665. at Kensington leaving this Character behinde him that as the Red Rose though outwardly not so fragrant yet is inwardly more Cordial than the Damask so the most excellent Persons virtues are more inwardly solid between God and their own souls than outwardly vaunting in the sight of men he being as plain in his soul as he was in his garb which he resolved should be proud of him rather than he of it Hic jacet Montacutius Comes Lindseiae c. Magnus Angliae Camerarius A Sanctioribus consilii Carolo Primo puriter Secundo Regii ordinis Periscellidis Socius titulis magnus virtutibus major comunis amor olim communius jam damnum nisi post se reliquisset maxima duo nempe haeredem exemplum 1666. THE Lives and Deaths Of four Sufferers of The Honorable House of RICHMOND I. Of the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord D'AUBIGNEY XErxes viewing his vast Army from an high place all at a sight is said to weep at the thought that within an hundred years all those would be mowed down with death What man having in one view the great number of brave Persons that lost their Lives in this War can refrain the mingling of his tears with their bloud Certainly young State-reformers like young Physicians should with the first Fee for their practice purchase a new Church-yard What Erasmus said of his Country-men the Germans that I may see of our party the Cavaliers Nobiles habent pro hominibus that they had Noblemen as thick as the other party had men Insomuch that had the War lasted a little longer the Ladies of England must have been in the same condition with the Gentlewomen in Champaigne in France who some 350. years since were forced to marry Yeomen or Farmers because all the Nobility in that Coun● yet were slain in the Wars in the
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 ●●ould be as little excuse from strict expectations of his latter end ●s they could be none from the summons to it the Series of his li●● carried with it such an awe of God and sence of true Piety and ●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 ●o engage in the Holy War to each of whom was sent a Spindle and Di●taffe the upbrading ensigns of their softness and effeminacy the delica●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 Panegy●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 ●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
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from G●●● Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings pro●eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
meetings of the Vails and Woulds very commodiously to defend and command the Country especially my Lords three darlings as he called them the Woods the Cloathing and the Iron-work of that Country with near a 1000. men and 5000 l. in Plate he waits upon his Majesty at Shrewsbury and thence the Lord Say being too hard for him at home surprizing his house and making an intollerable havock an essay to that plundering wherewith my Lord made them odious in those parts all along to Edgehill Branford and Oxford where his Majesty observed that his Counsels were well-grounded and happy and his performances quick and well-designed His Castle in the mean time too narrow a Sphere for his own activity under the Command of Captain Bridges and some sixty Souldiers being besieged by Massie with 300 Musqueteers and three Companies of Dragoons and two Sakers after a long Siege several Assaults and Batteries when they were almost smoothered by the smoke of Hay and Barns burned about the house yielded Ian. 1642. a loss revenged by my Lord at Newbury Sept. 20. 16●● when with the Earls of Caernarvon and Northampton the true Heir of his Fathers valor Commanding his Majesties Horse there the King said Let Chandois alone his Errors are safe From which Battel he went to Glocester to secure several Garrisons which he kept round about Sudeley to hinder the Correspondence between Glocester and Warwick and consequently between it and London gathering a Cloud about Glocester that only eye-sore to his Majesties Affairs in those parts and disposing of himself at Chettenham the Lord Herbert and Sir Iohn Winter in the Forrest the Irish Forces on this side Berkley and the Oxford at Painswick and Stroud so effectually that he recovreed Sudeley and distressed Glocester till he was called with other Lords Ian. 22. 1643. to the Parliamentary Convention at Oxford made up of such honorable Members as could not with safety and honor sit where they were called by Writ as the King to advise with whom they were called could not at Westminster where he subscribed a Letter of Accommodation to the Earl of Essex Ian. 27. to the Privy-Council and the Conservations of the Peace of the Kingdom of Scotland in pursuance of the Act of Pacification against the Scots Invasion Ian. 29. and to the men at Westminster Feb. 6. 1643. all full of all the reason condescention and all lawful compliance in the world for the Peace of the Kingdom as were the several Messages for Treaty of Peace a free and full Parliament sent during that Session of Parliament which concluded April 15. 1644. with an humble Petition to his Majesty to continue his Care and Resolutions for the maintenance of the true Religion the established Laws frequent Parliaments and Synods strict Discipline in the Army with as much regard as can be to the ease of the Subjects in whose behalf they prayed that the present exigencies of War and Necessity might not be drawn into example For these publick Services he made a shift to deserve besides frequent Imprisonments a Sequestration from his Countreys service and being turned to herd with the Commons this heavy Composition George Lord Chandois 3975 10 00 and what escaped Sequestration he bestowed in generous relief of Reverend and excellent Persons who wanted not their own Estates as long as he had any of his many Cavaliers he entertained all according to their respective qualities he did indeavor to serve and promote among others the accomplished Mr. H. Compton dear to him for his relations sake and dearer for his vertues vertues that sweetned sad times and made the owners of them happier in injoying themselves than the world This excellent Person admitted to his own affections he indeavored to recommend to a Ladies of his acquaintance who vouchsafed him whose Fortune and Person was below few Matches in the Kingdom that respect for my Lords sake while his Lady lived that to his great trouble she would needs force upon himself when she dyed which Mr. Compton was so transported with though my Lord protested against her kindness to him and directed Mr. Compton to prevent it by pressing his Marriage with her telling him one morning as they were abed together that he should finde she was a Woman and fickle above the meekness of his nature and of Religion that in the precepts and examples of it hath taught mankind to suffer the greatest evils before they do the least and supposed its Professors so meek humble patient and charitable that it hath nothing against shedding of bloud more than the Injunctions of nature and Moses he being looked upon as an Apostate who renounceth Christ that quits his patience to give way to wrath to take up a course begun by wicked and branded Cain the first Dueller who as the Syriack Chaldee and LXX read that Text said to his Brother Let us go into the field and continued against all the Civil and Sacred Laws that obtained among all sober people only by the Goths and Vandals who not enduring the ingenious way of ending Controversies by Reason and Law brought in the barbarous kinde of decisions by handling hot Iron walking bare-foot on burning Coals scalding Water and the brutish Combat or Duel and first affront my Lord and since he was like Love not easily provoked afterwards challenge him who in point of honor as young Gallants cant must answer him and shew that he understood not the value of his honorable life only satisfie two or three Hectors that forsooth he feared not death setting up his own Honor against the humor of Orlando Furioso Christs express precept and example of meekness and patience as if it were not an higher honor to pass by and pity trivial offences than only to quarrel with them since by the last we are even with our adversary and by the first above him Loath was my Lord at first and loath both when they had slept at Brentford where Mr. C. had an ominous Dream a fair warning to awaken his reason that like Christ was asleep in this storm of his passion from him who sometimes speaks by dreams sometimes by Visions in the night to sacrifice their lives to their own and a Ladies follies till edged on by some of their unhappy company who swore What Childrens play nay but you shall fight They did very honorably indeed fore-go their Lives the one to the Sword of his Friend and the other to the mercy of the Law Mr. Compton who was told by him that he needed not to have used a Sword to search into his breast which when if he should open he would say he said that he had killed a Friend though he never loved the man as Friend that he feared as an Enemy but was not heard by him who thought it was his art to wooe lying at his mercy as he did which troubled him most of all that he must beg his life of those that had forfeited theirs at the cruel
to save himself 5. That he answered to several Examinations upon the strength of his memory without any the least advantage taken by his Antagonist This Character of his I think very exact that his Head was a well-fitted treasury and his Tongue the fair key to unlock it that he had as great a memory as could be reconciled with so good a judgment that so quick his parts that others study went not beyond his nature and their designed and fore-laid performances went not beyond his sudden and ready accommodations Only he was very open and too free in discourse disdaining to lye at a close guard as confident of the length and strength of his weapon The first eminent Performance that raised him was the entertainment he made 1612. when Proctor to the Spanish Ambassadors brought thither by my Lord Chancellor Elsmere where with the gracefulness of his presence the great ingenuity of his discourses the comeliness of his Addresses the short courtly pleasant method of the Exercises whereof he was Moderator and especially that skill in the Spanish tongue wherewith he had prepared himself he did himself the University and the Nation so much right that the Lord Chancellor of England and of the University in the presence and with the approbation of the Spanish Ambassador took his leave of him with this Character That he had behaved himself so well in this Treat to the Ambassadors that he was fit to serve a King and that he would see him as much wellcomed at Court as they were in the Vniversity He knew the value of an opportunity whereof he would say that every man had it sooner or later and the neglect or improvement of it was the marring or making of every man in the world and therefore he hazarded the expence of his present fortune to furnish himself to a capacity for a new one Having occasion to appear in publick but seldom when he came up he was very careful in the choice pertinenoy and seasonableness of his subject and in the exactness of his composure setting out at once the variety of his learning the strength of his parts and the choiceness of his observation and prudence The greater the performance was whether a Speech or a Sermon or a Debate he was to undertake the more liberty and recreation he took to quicken and open his spirits and to clear his thoughts aiming at two things which he said was all we could add to former perfection 1. Method And 2. Perspicuity He understood well the divided interests and Faction of the Kingdom and knew as well how to make use of them being able to Buoy himself up at any time against any one side by the cosistance of the other presently striking in with William Earl of Pembroke and other Patriots for the publick good of the Nation as soon as he was deserted by George Duke of Buckingham and other Courtiers that aimed only at their own personal interest After four years Imprisonment 40000 l. losses when restored as one of the Minions of the Parliament he disputed for Episcopacy in the House of Lords unanswerably he drew up a Demurrer in behalf of the Bishops in regard of the Tumults that disturbed the freedom of their Votes and Sitting 1641. whereof the Lord Keeper professed it was the strongest Demurrer and the fullest of Law that ever he saw in his life And when with Stenelaidos the Ephor he saw it in vain for that party to stand debating with words which was injured above words he contrived and modelled such an Association in North-Wales to assert that authority under which he had suffered as not only secured that Country against the Rebels but yielded his Majesty several very great and seasonable Supplies Until God punishing Rebellion with success and suffering it to overthrow the best Government that it might with its own weight as Rome did overturn its self For take off the common principles in which Rebels agree and the common persons that keep them together with those principles their variety of humors and interests bring them immediately to a division and so to a ruin Mach. Prince l. 2. c. 3. and on Livy l. 6. c. 2. § 3. And he saw that those rods upon our backs might singly be broken when they could not be broke united and in a bundle He thought it prudence to make that composition in time for Wales to prevent plundering and the making of it the seat of war which he saw must be made for all England and the dreadful stories of his declaring for the Parliament was nothing else but his garrisoning of his own house and discountenancing some stragling Cavaliers that did no good but lye upon the Countrys themselves and draw thither whole Armies of the enemy to lye upon it too There being hardly any ingenious person in England that he incouraged not stealing favours upon them in a way equally suiting with their occasion and their modesty the very wretch that writ the Satyr upon him Printed with Cleavelands Poems owing his heat to the wine in his Cellar and his Vein to his Gold For receiving twenty pieces of him and despairing of more to please his new patrons in the next Ale-house vomited this Libel upon his old one A Libel nothing would be guilty of but Poetry and Beggery AEternitati S. I. Johannes Williams S. Th. Dr. omnium quibus Instruitur quibus regitur gens humana quibus regnamus quibus vivimus Magister artium Coll. Io. Cant. non suit sed quod majus magistrum creavit dum tantum socius omnium rerum hominum sagacissime peritus 1. Westmonasterii Decanus 2. Lincolniae Episcopus Haud quadragenarius quasi ad magna natus potius quam elatus 3. Magni sigilli Custos 4. Serenissimo R. Jacobo a secretioribus consiliis Vsitatos honorum gradus moras devoravit vir honoribus Augustior Cujus ultima lans est quod fuerit inter nos primus majorem enim officiis reddidit quam accepit gloriam grandia fecit grandiora patiens suis illustrior infortuniis uti nube Iris eclipsi Phoebus mensa lautus sed sui pars quota est Festivus facundus Dominus Convivii Florente Ecclesia eum Episcopum nollet Invidia quem jam labantis Archiepiscopum creavit necessitas ruentis Coeli Atlantem vel Atlanti succedaneum Herculem peracto jam duodecimo laborum Anno ab Anno nempe 1628. ad annum 1640. Invita fortuna Duas Absolvit Bibliothecas hanc Westmonasterii illam Cantabrigiae tresque restauravit capellas plurimos suo collegio addidit socios omnes Clandestinis beneficiis sibi demerens bonae Indolis Iuvenes Quem praedicando creta nigraret minor haud paucioribus quam quae devinxit celebrandus Ingeniis Panegyrista sibi est clemens pater Quem nominasse carmen est loqui epigramma dum enim maecenatem sonant Properant ligari verba in numerum fluunt materia
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 W●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. W●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 Quee●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 Caep●● 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 ●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 consci●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 4●● l. The Earl of ●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. 1●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-I●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
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 Ga●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. D●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. Malle● 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 Pe●●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
a 〈◊〉 P●●cl●●m 〈◊〉 M●●●●y at Bland●ord a He declared at his death that C C. told him as he 〈◊〉 on the Road to Exeter that he was ●●●ry Sir Jo. Wagstaffe was not taken being he was a brave Gentleman and might if taken have h●d the benefit of the A●●●cles yea and that several of C. C Troop were dismissed because they ●●ver●ed 〈◊〉 Articles which the Captain prot●sted against though he had with many importunities and protestations put them upon them b When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Henry 7. time by the Western Rebels in Edw. 6. time and by the Parliament forces in King Charles 1. reign and now relieving these 80. distressed Gentlemen not only with necessaries but super●●●ities c Here note Sir Jervase Lucas the noble and active Governor of Belvoir who answered Poinz his Summo●s thus viz That he was not set by the King there to yield to Rebels and that he would not give an Inch of ground which he could maintain with his Sword a Sir Gilbert Gerard 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 near 〈…〉 b D●●●ing his ●re●●● 〈◊〉 think ●●●●●y of him a Cap. Simkins formerly Governour of Beaumoris shot to death for carrying a Letter from the King to Sir Thomas Middleton and being as true as his Steel not to be frighted or flattered to discover any b Laurence Hide D●b●ney South 9● l. composition 〈◊〉 Hide Kenning Berks Esq 538 l. c Much valued by Ar●hb●shop Laud for his de●● e●●y activity and int●g●ity and Sequestred d Berba●ously and foolish ●ascribing that request of his vanity and affectation of strange tongues e Several times calling him the most pious and just Prince in the World Hum Hide Kingston Berks Esq ●aid for his Loyalty 610l Lewis Levens of Heslington York paid for composition 316l and Lewtian Lewins of Ruthall York 130l f Here note 〈…〉 Line 〈◊〉 paid 〈◊〉 Loy●●y and Jo. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 ●llcx Gent. 30● g 〈…〉 with the Lord Beaumont Si. Thomas Beaumont 〈◊〉 Beaumont of York and 〈◊〉 Beaumont paid 5000l composi●ion h Having been of the Kings Army till Liverpool was 〈…〉 quiet ●● the Country be ●●d by Col. Forbes Col. Overten and Litutenant Col Fair●ax perswasion in the Parliament 〈…〉 that Cr●●● did the King this service i Tho●pe and Paleston the Iudges being able to say nothing to him but silence him k H. Morris Weston Salop Mr. Morris of Penny b●n● Denbigh N Morris Emptail York Edw. Morris Devon paid 1200l l R. Blackborn Major paid 242l composition a Which he managed the better by living at Becon● field privately at an equal distance between Oxford and London b Who dyed in prison c Who paid ●●r his life 2000 l. a Who 〈◊〉 great 〈…〉 b Prince Rup●●● with 〈◊〉 H●●e and 2000. Foot upon D●r●●● Downs expecting the 〈◊〉 the Ringing of 〈◊〉 having order not to offer violence to any only to 〈◊〉 them that had taken an Oath among themselves to maintain the Kings Crown and Dignity Note that the gates of the City were s●ut against the Kings Letters for these men so that they c●me not till they were dead a Who was at a vast charge to entertain the Reforma●es from all parts a Note that it ●as the po●●nt 〈◊〉 of the ●●anish Ambassador that 〈◊〉 his life wherupon he said I was pulling off my Double● now I wi●●●ook ●n on my Br●e●● b He 〈◊〉 800l composition Henry Goring Sullington Sussex 40l H. Goring Burton Sussex 250l Bishop John Owen of St. Asaph a He writ several Learned Discourse how the Loyal Clergy should behave themselv●s in the exigencies of th●se times he and Mr. Maurice of ● Lanbeder Den● Another und●unted sufferer ma●●yed two daughters of Doctor Williams Warden of Ru●then one of whom M●s. Maurice su●fe●d ●y the barbarousness of the Round-heads beyond expression as you may see in Mr. Weavers Poems b He having a considerable Command in all his Expeditions a ●ho●e Husband Jo. Lord Lovelace paid for his Loyalty as good as 6951 l. besides dec●nations and constant troubles and his Brother Col. Francis Lovelace b Where the Scotch 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and ●sapn● they would no come to the ●●●l of Repen●auce c Taking 100 Pipes a day first used to it in I●ag●res Sir George We●worth of Welly York paid for his Loyalty 3185 l and Sir George the Earl of S●●offords Brother his life at Mars●on-moor Tho Wentworth of Breton York 340 l. a See M● Herles Ded. to him of his Medit. For murdering killing and destroying they are their own words R ●ertivala Linnen-Webster a His Son hath nobly contributed to Dr. Barrow the excellent Bishop of Man towards the settlement of that business Note that Ferdinando Stanley of Proughton Lanc. paid for his duty 150l Will. Stanley of Woodhall Lanc. 46l Jo Stanley of Dul-yar●● Cumb. 40l a The first in Brigades reaching from Wales to Oxford clearing Monmouth and Glocester of the little Parliament Garrisons b The stream of the people being at my Lords devotion keeping out all forces whatsoever but his Majesties my Lord very watch fully and diligently looking to all those parts to recruit and secure them upon all occasions with ●●r●s and other necessaries as upon the betraying of Monmouth the danger of Chepstow and Lindsey Garrisons a Where being lodged in a g●●en T●●●r●hed house he said ●e ●aid ●n a B●g● u●der a Meadow b It is s●●d of his A c●●●or the Earl of Worcester that he kept himself up in the ●●●●able times ● 8. E 6. Q. M. Q. E by being a W●ll●w and not an Oake c. a Translated by Mr. Rowland Vaughan of Caerg●y Morion A great sufferer for his maiesly his house being burned 1645. by Col. Jo. Jones he did much good in these times by crans●●ting Orthodox Books such as Bishop Usher●s Catechism Dr. Pride●ux his Legacies c An excellent Welch Poet and Antiquary a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 b His Loyalty cost 〈◊〉 400 l. 〈◊〉 a As did Major Cusaw a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 Mallo● be was 〈◊〉 to the Tower c Owing he said his accomplishments to hardships d He had been long bred a Souldier in the Spanish Army a That is Commu●es his fault was 〈◊〉 excell●●cy Viz. that he c●uld with a grace rela●e Magna●●m ●●um m●u●● the little circumstances of great 〈◊〉 a Most of the C●●●s in ●●gl are cist w●●n a ●●●e of their house where ●●y were ●●●n Sir T. Lunsford was Commissioner with Sir J●cob Ashle● to get the ●●●h into a body a●●er Naseby where he ●ed bee● s●abbed but for Sir Jo. ●●●●us b Where he dyed 1644. and was buryed c Which Mr. siliot after 3. hours Conference with him im●private got from according to an Oath he had taken when admitted Lord-keeper to deliver up the Se●l when ever the King sen● for it The saction had taken it from him before but that he had always in appearance Voted according to the sense of the best affected in the House a After th●y had in v●in sam●●ne●