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 â—ollinâ— 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
T. Appleyard 668 Dr. Jo. Richardson Bp. of Ardah 607 Dr. Jo. Bramhal A. B. Armagh 489 Sir Thomas Armstrong 680 Th. Howard E. of Arundel 284 Lord Arundel of Warder 688 Dr. D. Lloyd Dean of St. Asaph 613 Jacob Lord Ashley 644 Sir Bernard Ashley ihid George Ashley Esq 649 Col. Ashton 554 Sir Arthur Aston 644 Sir Henry Audley 688 Alderman Avery 633 B. Col. Bagot 666 Dr. Samuel Baker 512 Dr. Walter Balcanqual 523 Dr. W. Roberts Bp. of Bangar 599 Sir John Banks 586 Lord Bard 668 Dr. Isaac Bargrave D. of Cant. 687 Dr. Joh. Barkham 279 Coll. William Barns 696 Dr. John Barnston 91 Dr. Baron 642 Robert Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 306 Montague Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 315 Dr. Joh. Barwick D. of St. Pauls 610 Sir Simon Baskervile 635 Mr. Basly 507 Henry Earl of Bath 650 Dr. Richard Bayly 541 Dr. William Beal 454 Sir Joh. Beaumont 671 Mr. Beaumont 563 Dr. W. Bedle Bp. of Kilmore 605 Sir Joh Bennet 594 Mr. Bennet 521 Col. Benlow 558 Col. Cassey Bental 694 Joh. Lord Berkley 98 George Lord Berkley 126 Sir Robert Berkley 93 Sir Edward Berkley 109 Sir William Berkley 110 Sir Henry Berkley 114 Sir Maurice Berkley 119 Sir Rowland Berkley 120 Sir George Berkley 122 Richard Berkley Esq 119 Mr. Rowland Berkley 689 Dr. Nicholas Bernard 701 Col. Bernard 696 Mr. Joh. Betley 554 Col. Betoâ— 696 Sir Henry Billingham 698 Col. Francis Billingsley 696 Joh. Lord Biron 487 Richard Lord Biron 489 Sir Philip Biron 488 Sir Nicholas Biron 489 Sir Robert Biron ibid. Cornet Blackbourn 563 Col. Thomas Blague 679 Sir Arthur Blaney 666 Col. John Blaney ibid. Mountjoy Lord Blunt E. of Newport 651 Sir John Bois 680 Mr. Jo. Bois 613 Sir Thomas Bosvile 698 Sir William Boswel 686 Mr. Bourchier 565 Sir Th. Bower 698 Sir George Bowles 671 Col. Bowles 658 â—r Thomas Bowyer 633 Mr. Boyle 678 Sir Mathew Boynton 705 Dr. Jo. Bramhal A. B. Armagh 489 Sir John Bramston 82 Dr. William Bray 512 P. Lord Ruthen E. of Bremford 674 Sir Thomas Bridges 698 Sir William Bridges ibid. Dr. Bridgman Bp. of Chester 622 Col. Brin 645 Jo. Lord Digby E. of Bristol 579 â—r Th. Westfield Bp. of Bristol ibid. Sir Edward Bromfield L. M. London 633 Col. Robert Broughton 666 Col. Edward Broughton ibid. Sir Peter Brown 669 Sir John Brown 674 Dr. Brown D. of Hereford 51â— Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bp. of Exon. 404 Col. Buck 658 Sir William Bulton 698 Sir George Bunkley 689 692 Captain Burleigh 564 Sir Thomas Burton 649 Sir William Butler 690 Col. Jo. But er 671 Col. Tho. Butler ibid. C. Robert Lord Dormer E. of Caernarv 369 Mr. Isaac Calf 511 Duke Hâ—milton E. of Cambridge 642 Sir William Campian 679 Dr. W. Laud A. B. Cant. 225 Sir R. Cauterel 689 Arthur Lord Capel 479 Sir Henry Carew 692 Sir Mathew Carew 665 Sir Francis Carew 693 Sir Alexander Carew 705 Ja. Lord Hay E. of Carlisle 676 Dr. Potter Bp. of Carlisle 153 Dr. Th. comber D. of Carlisle 447 Sir Francis Carnaby 668 Sir William Carnaby ibid. Mr. William Cartwright 422 Hen. Lord Cary E. of Monmouth 650 Sir Rob. Lord Cary E. of Monmouth 650 Henry Cary Lord Falkland 333 Lucius Cary Lord Visc. Falkland 331 Sir Horatio Cary 659 Sir Henry Cary ib. Col. Edward Cary ib. Col. Theodoâ—e Cary ib. Col. Tho. Cary 693 Dr. Catesford 530 Sir Richard Cave 671 Ch. Lord Cavendish Visc. Mansfield 672 Sir Charles Cavendish ib. Charles Cavendish Esq ib. William Chaldwel Esq 688 Mr. Challoner 564 Dr. Chambers 506 George Lord Chandois 365 Dr. W. Chappel Bp. of Cork and Ross 607 K. CHARLES I. 16 Edw. Lord Herbert of Cherbury 372 Dr. Cheshire 507 Dr. â—ryan Walton Bp. of Chester 513 Dr. H. Fern Bp. of Chester 604 Dr. Bridgman Bp. of Chester 622 Earl of Chesterfield 651 Mr. Chettam 636 Mr. Chibbald 507 Fr. Lord Leigh E. of Chichester 653 Dr. Childerley 510 Mr. William Chilling worth 54â— Col. Edwal Chisenhal 69â— Sir Richard Cholmley 681 Sir Hugh Cholmley 705 Mr. Chostlen 521 Col. James Chudleigh 658 Sir William Clark 671 Sir Christopher Cletherow 63â— Tho. Lord Wentworth E. of Cleveland 57â— Mr. John Cleveland 617 Major Lawrence Clifton 670 Col. Cockram 667 Mr. William Collet 634 Dr. Samuel Collins 452 Col. Coniers 67â— Col. Coâ—isby 673 Dr. Geo. Cook Bp. of Hereford 600 Sir William Compton 354 Sir Charles Compton 359 Sir Spencer Compton 361 Sp. Lord Compton E. of Northampt. 353 Mr. Henry Compton 363 Sir Henry Constable Visc. Dunbar 671 Sir Frederick Cornwallis 66â— Francis Lord Cottington 78 Dr. Rob. Wright Bp. of Coventry 600 Sir William Courtney 680 John Courtney Esq 693 Dr. Abraham Cowley 62â— Dr. Cox 687 Sir Richard Crane 667 Mr. John Crane 634 Mr. Richard Crashaw 618 Sir Francis Crawley 29â— Col. Cuthbert Crifton 670 Sir Nicholas Crisp 627 Sir Oliver Cromwel 635 Sir William Crofts 673 John Lord Culpepper 654 Sir Alexander Culpepper 693 Dr. Walter Curle 597 Sir John Curson 700 Sir Patricius Curwen 692 D. Sir Thomas Dacres 682 Sir Francis Dacres ib. Sir Richard Dacres ib. Col. Dalby 665 Sir Thomas Dallison 667 Mr. Dalton 689 H. Lord Danvers E. of Danby 677 Fr. L. D'Aubigney L. Almoner 337 George Lord D'Aubigney 321 Dr. Jo. Davenant Bp. of Salisbury 281 Sir Humprey Davenport 146 Dr. R. Manwaring Bp. of St. Davids 270 Sir Abraham Daws 628 Sir Alexander Denton 700 â—a Lord Stanley E. of Derby 572 â—o Lord Digby E. of Bristol 579 Sir John Digby 580 Sir Kenelm Digby ib Mr. Kenelm Digby 581 Mr. Dubly Diggs 425 Mr. Joseph Diggons 635 Sir Wolstan Dixby 649 Sir Lewis Dives 691 Mr. John Dod 12â— Baron Done 68â— Rob. Lord Dormer E. of Caernarvon 36â— Sir Robert Dormer 70â— â—enry Earl of Dover 650 Dr. J. Taylor Bp. of Down Connor 70â— Dr. Arthur Duck 592 Mr. R. Dugard 63â— Sir H. Constable Lord Visc. Dunbar 671 Dr. Brian Duppa Bp. of Salisbury 598 Dr. Th. Morton Bp. of Duresm 436 Mr. John Dutton 700 E. Dr. Thomas Earls 604 Mr. Eccop 507 Dr. Thomas Eden 593 Mr. Edlin 511 Dr. Matthew Wren Bp. of Ely 61â— Dr. Wilford D of Ely 615 D. Edward Martin D. of Ely 461 Sir Michael Ernely 675 L. C. Thomas Eure 670 Sir Gerâ—ase Eyre 667 Dr. R. Brownrig Bp. of Exâ— 404 F. Earl of Falmouth 105 Fr. Lord Fane E. Westmorland 650 Mildm Lord Fane E. Westmorland ib Thomas Lord Fanshaw 684 Sir Richard Fanshaw 685 Mr. Thomas Farnaby 616 Mr. Anthony Farrington 543 Hen. Cary Lord Faulkland 333 Lucius Cary Visc. Faulkland 331 Dr. Daniel Featly 527 690 Dr. Samuel Fell 531 Richard Lord Fielding 658 Col. Fenwick 694 Dr. H Ferne Bp. of Chester 604 Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh 559 Sir John Finch L. Keeper 52 Col. Fitz-morris 696 Col. Fleâ—ing 645 Sir H. Fletcher 681 Dr. Forbes 642 Sir Nicholas Fortescue 66â— â— L. Ruthen E. of Forth c. 67â— Sir Robert Foster 588 〈◊〉 Fowler 689 Sir Erasmus de la Fountain 649 〈◊〉 Mark Frank 680 â—r
Freeman 507 Dr. Ac. Frewen A. B. York 501 Sir Ferdinando Fisher 695 Mr. Jo. Friar 556 Dr. Thomas Fuller 523 Dr. William Fuller 509 G. Col. Henry Gage â—78 â—ir Jo. Gair L. M. London 631 Sir F. Gamul 692 Sir Thomas Gardiner 587 Alderman Jo. Garnet 633 Alderman Geo. Garnet ib. Sir Henry Garraway L. M. London ib. Dr. Jo. Gauden Bp. of Worcester 602 Sir Arthur Georges 697 Sir Gilbert Gerrard 557 Sir Francis Gerrard 669 Col. John Gerrard 557 Dr. Gifford 507 Sir John Girlington 681 Serjeant W. Glanvile 585 Sir Richard Gleddal 683 Sir Thomas Glenham 551 HENRY Duke of Glocester 656 Dr. G. Goodman Bp. of Glocester 601 Dr. Goad 594 Sir William Godolphin 694 Col. Sidney Godolphin ib. Sir Richard Goodhill 684 Lord Gordon 640 Col. Nath. Gordon 63â— Dr. Jâ— Gorsack 531 Geo. Lord Goring E. of Norwich 56â— Col. Gosnal 700 Ja. Lord Graham M. Montross 638 Lord Grandison 677 Dr. Graunt 506 Anthony Lord Gray E. of Kent 635 Lord Gray of Ruthen 653 Col. Richard Green 696 Sir Bevil Greenvile 468 Mr. Joh. Gregory 86 Dr. Matthew Griffith 521 Mr. Grigson 636 Col. Hugh Grove 554 Sir R. Gurney L. M. London 625 H. Sir Thomas Haggerston 699 Mr. Haiâ—es 507 Dr. George Hakewill 540 Sir Jo. Hale 649 Sir Richard Halford ib. Sir Edward Hales 691 Mr. John Hales 606 Dr. Joâ— Hall Bp. of Norwich 411 Dr. Halsey 5â—â— Ja. Duke Hamilton E. of Cambridge 642 W. Duke Hamilton ib. Dr. Henry Hammond 381 Mr. Hansley 507 Sir John Harper 691 Mr. Harrison 637 Sir William Hart 699 Dr. William Harvey 70â— Sir Richard Hastings 699 â—hristopher Lord Hatton 691 Sir Stephen Hawkins 69â— Jo Lord Haâ— E. of Carlisle 676 Sir Robert Heath 584 Mr. Heath 507 Sir Thomas Hele 691 Sir John Hele 516 691 Walter Hele Esq 517 Mr. Alexander Henderson 707 Edw. Lord Herbert of Cherbury 372 Richard Lord Herbert 645 Sir Edward Herbert ib. Col. Charles Herbert ib. Col. Edward Herbert ib. Dr. Geo. Cook Bp. of Hereford 600 Dr. Nich. Monk Bp. of Hereford 610 Dr. Brown D. of Hereford 510 Col. George Heron 690 Dr. John Hewer 553 Dr. Peter Heylin 525 Dr. Heywood 512 Sir Willoughby Hickman 691 Serjeant Robert Hide 589 Sir Henry Hide 559 Dr. Edward Hide 541 Dr. Hill 507 Col. Jo. Hilton 699 Mr. Hinson 68â— Serjeant Hodskins 589 Sir Robert Holborn 584 Dr. Richard Holdsworth 457 H. Earl of Holland 705 Ralph Lord Hopton 341 Sir Ingram Hopton 671 Thomas Hortop Esq 649 Sir Joh. Hotham and his Son 704 Sir Gilbert Houghton 699 Th. Lord Howard E. of Acundel 284 Col. Thomas Howard 670 L. C. Philip Howard ib. Dr. Thomas Howel 522 Mr. James Howel 522 Dr. Michael Hudson 624 Mr. Henry Hudson 691 Col. Hern 696 Mr. Humes 508 Col. Francis Hungate 696 Anthony Hungerford Esq 691 Col. Jo. Hungerford ib. Sir Fulk Hunks 666 Hen. Earl of Huntington 649 Sir Charles Husley 691 J. Dr. Thomas Jackson 68 Sir John Jacob 628 Dr. Jefferies 531 David Judge Jenkins 589 Dr. Jermin 507 Dr. Thomas Johnson 578 Dr. Will. Johnson A. D. of Hunt â—ngton 701 Sir William Jones 649 Mr. Jones 688 Mr. Thomas Jones 689 Mr. Inigo Jones 577 Dr. Isaacson 50â— Dr W. Juxon A. B. of Cant. 595 K. Sir Nicholas Kemish 682 Edw. Lord Littleton Lord Keeper 582 Col. Posthumus Kerton 694 Lord Kilmurrey ib. Sir Jo. Finch Lord Keeper 52 Mr. Kensey 556 Anthony Lord Gray E. of Kent 635 Dr. R. Kettle 542 Mr. Kibbuts 507 â—r Philip King ib. General King 674 Rob. Lord Pierpoint E. of Kingston 434 Dr. W. Bedle Bp. of Kilmâ—â—â— 605 Lord Kilport 639 Mr. Daniel Kniveton 564 L. Col. Laglin 639 Sir Joh. Lamb 593 Dr. Lamb 513 Sir William Lambton 671 Sir Richard Lane 594 Sir Valentine Lane 699 Dr. Gerard Langbain 517 Sir Marmaduke Langdale 549 Dr. W. Laud A. B. Cant. 225 Mr. Launce 52â— Dr. Laurence 54â— Mr. Joh. Laurence 55â— Mr. William Laws 62â— Sir Richard Lawdy 67â— Sir John Lawson 64â— Col. Leak 67â— Mr. Leak ib. Mr. Leech 507 Fr. Lord Leigh E. of Chichester 653 Mr. Hamond L'Estrange 707 Dr. Levens 56â— Sir R. Leveson 66â— Ja. Lord Ley Earl of Marlborough 648 Dr. Th. Winniff Bp. of Lincoln 538 Rob. Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 306 Mount Lord Bartue E. of Lindsey 315 Sir George Lisle 478 Major Lisle 698 Dr. Rob. Wright Bp. of Litchfield 600 Bern. Lord Stuart E. of Litchfield 327 Edw. Lord Littleton L. Keeper 58â— Dr. Littleton 50â— Sir Evan Lloyd 661 Dr. D. Lloyd D. of St. Asaph 613 Dr. George Wild Bp. of London-derry 622 Mr. Loss 689 Sir Charles Lucas 47â— Mr. John Lucas 556 Sir Herbert Lunsford 58â— Sir Thomas Lunsford ib. Col. Henry Lunsford 658 Mr. William Lyford 608 Mr. Simon Lynch 635 M. Mr. Maden 513 Col. Richard Manning 67â— Ch. L. Cavendish Visc. Mansfield 672 Sir William Manwaring 681 Dr. Rog. Manwaring Bp. of St. Davids 270 Mr. Marbury 507 Jo. L. Napier of Marchiston 64â— Ja. L. â—ey E. of Marleborough 64â— Col. John Marrow 66â— Dr. Sam. Marsh D. of York 50â— Dr. Edward Marten 53â— Dr. Edward Martin D. of Ely 46â— Sir Henry Martin 59â— Mr. Mason 506 Sir Anthony Maunsel 681 Dr. Francis Maunsel 54â— Prince MAVRICE 656 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. St. Andrews 643 Major Mercalf 700 Sir Thomas â— etham 671 Dr. Michelson 687 Sir Francis Middleton 696 Sir Richard Minshul 688 Rich. Lord Visc. Molineux 695 Col. Roger Molineux 69â— Dr. Nicholas Monk Bp. of Hereford 61â— Hen. L. Cary E. of Monmouth 65â— Sir Robert Cary E. of Monmouth ib. Sir John Monson 699 Ja. L. Graham M. Montross 638 Jo. L. Mordant E. of Peterborough 659 H. Lord Mordant E. of Peterborough ib. Col. Thomas Morgan 670 Col. Jo. Morris 563 Dr. Morrison 594 Dr. Th. Morton Bp. of Duresm 43â— Dr. James Mountford 53â— Dr. John Mountford ib. Lord Muskerry 678 Col. Mynne 664 Sir Christopher Mynnes 647 N. Jo. Lord Napier of Marchâ—ston 640 Sir Philip Nesbil 639 Sir Francis Nethersole 636 Francis Nevil Esq 549 Mountjoy Lord Blunt E. of Newport 651 Dr. Jo. â—icholas D. of St. Pauls 609 Sir Martin Noel 629 Mr Noel 688 Mr. Edward Norgate 634 Sp. Lord Compton E. of Northampt. 353 Geo. Lord Goring E. of Norwich 566 Dr. Jos. Hall Bp. of Norwich 411 O. William Lord Ogle 675 Sir Thomas Ogleby 639 Mr. Alexander Ogleby ib. Col. Okian ib. Dr. Oldish 689 Dr. John Oliver 543 Col. Oneal 664 Dr. Lambert Osbaston 616 Col. Jo. Osburn 699 Mr. William Oughrred 608 Sir John Owen 568 Dr John Owen 569 Mr. Owen 570 Dr. W. Paul Bp. of Oxon. 611 P. Mr. Ephraim Pagit 510 Mr. James Palmer 512 Dr. Samuel Pask 504 Dr. W. Paul Bp. Oxon. 611 Dr. Jo. Nicholas D. of St. Pauls 609 Dr. Jo. Barwiâ—â—k D. of St. Pauls 610 John Lord Pawler 652 Sir John Pawlet 675 Sir Robert Peak 577 Dr. John Pearson 612 Sir William Penniman 643 Sir John Pennington 646 Col. John Penâ—â—ddock 555 Col. Pert 665 Dr. John Towers Bp. of Peterborough 601 Jo. Lord
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 54â— Dr. John Pottinger 616 Dr. John Prideaux 53â— 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 â— Worcester 573 J. Lord Somerset M. Worcester ib. Th. Lord Wriothsley E. of Sâ—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 â—r Stamp 507 Col. Philip Stanhop 651 Ja. Lord Stanley E. of Derby 572 Sir Brian Stapleton 68â— 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 â—r Alexander Strange 636 Sir Giles Strangewayâ— 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 â—ymonds 613 687 T. Mr. Tabor 513 Edward Talbot Esq 67â— Dr. J. Taylor Bp. of Down Connor 702 Col. Taylor 665 â—ajor Tempest 645 Col. Anthony Thelwall 661 Mr. Thomkins 56â— 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 66â— Col. Francis Trafford ib. Col. Trevanian 658 Baron Trevor 137 Col. Mark Trevor 14â— 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 â—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 â—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. Whiâ—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
conceived it was not more then the hainousness of their Offences deserved yet had they Petitioned and submitted the next day it would wholly have been remitted 15. That he perswaded his Majesty to an offensive War against the Scots declaring that the Demands made by the Scots this Parliament was a sufficient Cause of a War besides that on the 10th of Octob. 1640. he said That the Nation of Scots were Rebells and Traytors adding that if it pleased his Master to send him back again as he was going to England he would leave the Scottish Nation neither Root nor Branch excepting those that took the aforesaid Oath The Earles Reply That he called all the Scottish Nation Traytors and Rebells no one Proof is produced and though he is hasty in speech yet was he never so defective of his reason as to speak so like a mad Man for he knew well his Majesty was a Native of that Kingdom and was confident many of that Nation were of as Heriock Spirits and as Faithful and Loyal Subjects as any the King had As to the other words of his rooting out the Scots Root and Branch he conceives a short Reply may serve they being proved by a single Testimony onely which can make no sufficient faith in case of life Again the witnesse was very much mistaken if not worse for he deposeth that these words were spoken the tenth day of October in Ireland whereas he was able to evidence he was at that time in England and had been so neer a month before 18. That when the Parliament 13 April 1640. entred upon the Grievances in Church and State the Earl to whom with the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the King referred the business of that Parliament advised his Majesty to press the Commons to supply his Majesties occasions against the Scots before they Redressed any Grievances And when they were in debate about the Supplies perswaded his Majesty to dissolve them by telling him they had denyed to supply him Adding after the dissolution of that Parliament that the King having tried the Affections of his people he was loosed and absolved from all Rules of Government and was to do every thing that Power would admit and that since his Majesty had tried all ways and was refused he should be Acquitted both by God and Man and that he had an Army in Ireland which he might imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience The Earles Reply That he was not the Principal Cause of Dissolving the last Parliament for before he came to the Council-table it was Voted by the Lords to Demand twelve Subsidies and that Henry Vane was Ordered to Demand no lesse But he coming in the interim he perswades the Lords to Vote it again Declaring to his Majesty then present and them the danger of the Breach of Parliament Whereupon it was Voted that if the Parliament would not grant twelve Subsidies Sir Henry Vane would descend to eight and rather than fail to six But Sir Henry not observing his Instructions demanded twelve only without abatement or going lower That the height of this Demand urged the Parliament to deny and their denial moved his Majesty to Dissolve the Parliament so that the chief occasion of the Breach thereof `was as he conceived Sir Henry Vane He confesseth that at the Council-table he Advised the King to an Offensive War against the Scots but it was not untill all fair means to prevent a War had been first attempted Again others were as much for a Defensive War and it might be as free to Vote one as the other Lastly Votes at a Council-board are but bare Opinions and Opinions if pertinaciously maintained may make an Heretick but cannot a Traytor And to Sir Henry Vanes Deposition he said it was onely a single testimony and contradicted by four Lords of the Iunto-tables depositions viz. The Earle of Northumberland the Marquess of Hamilton the Bishop of London and the Lord Cottington who all affirmed that there was no question made of this Kingdome which was then in obedience but of Scotland that was in Rebellion And Sir Henry Vane being twice Examined upon Oath could not remember whether he said this or that Kingdome and the Notes after offered for more proof were but the same thing and added nothing to the Evidence to make it a double Testimony or to make a Privy-councellors Opinion in a Debate at Council High-treason 19. That after the Dissolution of the Parliament April 5. 1640. The said Earl Advised the King to go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money and other Illegal Payments suing in Star-chamber and Imprisoning several that neglected either to gather or pay those Levies Particularly the Londoners who for not Collecting the Ship-money so vigorously as they should have done and refusing to give in the names of such Citizens as were able to Lend Moneyâ— upon the Loan of an 100000l demanded of them were threatned by him at the Council-table That they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom and that no good would be done with them till an Example were made of them till they were laid by the Heeles and some of the Aldermen Hanged up The Earles Reply That there was a present necessity for Money that all the Council-board had Voted with yea before him That there was then a Sentence in Star-chamber upon the Opinion of all the Iudges for the Legality of the Tax of Ship-money and he thought he might advice the King to take what the Iudges had declared was by Law his own He consessed that upon the Refusal of so just a Service the better to quicken the Citizenâ— to the Payment of Ship-money he said They deserved to be Fined Which words perhaps might be circumspectly delivered but conceives cannot be a motive to Treason especially when no ill consequence followed upon them And it would render Men in a sad condition if for every hasty Word or Opinion given in Council they should be Sentenced as Traytors But that he said It were well for the Kings Service if some of the Aldermen were hanged up he utterly denieth Nor is it proved by any but Alderman Garway who is at best but a single Testimony and therefore no sufficient Evidence in Case of Life 20. That he had Advised the King to seise upon the Bullion in the Mint and when the Merchants whose Bullion was seized on to the value of 50000l waited upon him at his house to represent to him the consequence of discrediting the Mint and hindering the Importance of Bullion Answered them that it was the course of other Princes in those exigencies to which the undutifulness of London kinder to the Rebells than to his Majesty had reduced the King And that he had directed the Imfusing of money with Brasse Alleadging to the Officers of the Mint when they represented to him the Inconvenience of that Project that the French King had an Army of horse to Levy his Taxes and search mens Estates and telling my Lord Cottington that
the Arch-bishop and Windebanke Sir Henry Vane affirmeth the words I deny them then there remain four for further Evidence viz. The Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who have all declared upon their honour that they never heard me speak those words nay nor the like Lastly suppose though I granted it not that I spake those words yet cannot the word this rationally imply England because the Debate was concerning Scotland as is yielded on all hands because England was not out of the way of obedience as the Earl of Clare observed well and because there was never the least intention of Landing the Irish Army in England as the foresaid Lords of the Privy Council are able to attest Concluding his defence with a sinewy summary and a close recapitulation of what he had said and a gallant Speech to this purpose My Lords THere yet remains another Treason that I should be guilty of The endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land That they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason Accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Vnder favour my Lords I do not conceive that there is either Statute-law or Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws to be High-treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear off declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for Life and Honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesuâ— Where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundreds of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burnt out to consume me and my Children extreame hard in my opinion that punishment should proceed promulgation of Laws punishment by a Law subsequent to the acts done Take it into your consideration For certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conform our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a Crime that doth proceed the Law What man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords It is hard in another respect that there should be no Token set upon this Offence by which we should know it no Admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man pass down the Thames in a Boat and it be Split upon an Anchor and no Buoy be set as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that owes the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were markâ— out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime where is the token this is High-treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can avail nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisdome and let us rest upon Divine Revelation if you will condemn me before you forewarn the danger Oh my Lords May your Lordships be pleased to give regard unto the presage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such contractive interpretations and these are where Laws are not clear or known If there must be trials of Wits I do humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be somewhat else than the lives and honours of Peers My Lords We find that the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the Books of Curious Arts and burned them And so likewise as I conceive it will be wisdome and providence in your Lordships for your posterity and the whole Kingdomes to cast from you into the fire those bloudy and most misterious Volumes of constructive and arbitrary Treasons and to betake your selves to the plain letters of the Law and Statute that telleth us where the crime is and by telling what is and what is not shews us how to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to be more wise and learned in the killing arts than our forefathers were It is now full two hundred and forty years since ever any man was touched for this alledged crime to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that our fathers have left us and not awaken thâ—se sleepy Lions to our own destructions by taking up a few musty Records that have lain so many Ages by the Walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be nobly pleased to add this to those other misfortunes befallen me for my Sins not for my Treasons that a President should be derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular cause be looked upon as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Commonwealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Commonwealth yet in this particular I indeed speak for it and the inconveniencies and mischiefs that will heavily fall upon us For as it is in the first of King Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put My Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of State that men of wisdome honour and virtue may not with chearfulness and safety be imployed for the publick If you weigh and measure them by Grains and Scruples the publick affairs of the Kingdom will be laid waste and no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to loose MY Lords I have now troubled you longer than I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in Heaven left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my Indiscretion should forfeit for my Child it even woundeth me to the very soul. You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it pass And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the affâ—iction of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquillity of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous Iudgement shall be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus A defence every way so compleat That he whom English Scots and Irish combined against in their Testimonies such English as cavied his virtues and power such Scots as feared his wisdom
him a blow with his Launce saying That he had hired him to Fight against Alexander and not to Rail Only he would innocently say sometimes that he would make bold to deal with the wild and skittish multitude that would not indure their Riders but rushed like the horse to the battel as Alexander did with his Bucâ—phalus take them a little by the Bridle and turn them to the Sun and light Two things rendred his enemies willing if it had been possible to oblige him Cum talis sit utinam noster esset and when that would not be resolved to ruin him For it was a Maxime then a godly and good Malignant was the most dangerous Malignant I remember the Waldenses are set for the greatest enemies to Rome upon three accounts 1. Because they were ancient 2. Because they were Scripture-skilled 3. Because they were very godly 1. His Religion practised to as great a height by him as it was pretended by them 2. His Charity his Hands being every day his Executors and his Eyes his Overseers that relieved poor people as fast as the Conspiracy made them so his goodness finding as many ways to exercise his charity as the men who destroyed Hospitals and made men poor had to make objects of it they not undoing men as fast as he succoured them especially with his counsel to poor Loyalty which carried Fee enough in its very looks to him who thought it honour enough to be Advocate to the King of Heaven as he had been to his dread Soveraign and so bound ex officio to be of Counsel Whence besides the common blessing of good Lawyers That they seldome dye without an Heir or making a Will there accrewed I cannot tell whether more comfort to himself more honour to his afflicted cause or more shame to his malicious adversaries who to use Nazianzen's words when they persecuted him persecuted virtue it self which with his unconfined Soul making the man he might be Imprisoned but not Restrained or if Restrained Cloistered rather than Imprisoned as an holy Anchorite rather than an Offendor retiring from a sad world and not forced from it where when alone never less alone not the suffering but the cause making the punishment as well as the Martyr he thought his body always a streighter prison to his soul than any prison could be to his body In fine he commended his prison for the same reason that Sir Iohn Fortescue commended the Inns of Court Quod confluentium turba studentis meditantis quietem perturbare non possit But I will cloath his free thoughts in the closest restraint with the generous Expressions of a worthy Personage that suffered deeply in those times and injoys only the conscience of having so suffered in these BEat on proud Billows Boreas blow Swell curled Waves high as Iove's roof Your incivility doth show That Innocence is tempest proof Though surly Nereus frown my Thoughts are calm Then strike Affliction for thy wounds are balm That which the World miscalls a Goal A Private Closet is to me Whilst a good Conscience is my Bail And Innocence my Liberty Locks Bars and Solitudes together met Make me no Prisoner but an Anchorit I whilst I wisht to be retir'd Into this Private Room was turn'd As if their Wisdoms had Conspir'd The Salamander should be Burn'd The Cynick hugs his Poverty The Pelican her Wilderness And 't is the Indian's Pride to be Naked on Frozen Cancasus Contentment cannot smart Stoicks we see Make Torments easie to their Apathy These Menacles upon my Arm I as my Mistris's favours wear And for to keep my Ankles warm I have some Iron Shackles there These Walls are but my Garrison this Cell Which men call Goal doth prove my Cittadel So he that strook at Iason's Life Thinking he had his purpose sure By a malicious friendly Knife Did only wound him to a Cure Malice I see wants wit for what is meant Mischief oft times proves favour by th' event I 'm in this Cabinet lock't up Like some High Prized Margaret Or like some great Mogul Or Pope Am Cloystered up from publick sight Retirement is a piece of Majesty And thus proud Sultan I 'm as great as thee Here Sin for want of Food must starve Where tempting Objects are not seen And these Strong Walls do only serve To keep Vice out and keep Me in Malice of late's grown Charitable sure I 'm not Committed but I 'm kept Secure When once my Prince Affliction hath Prosperity doth Treason seem And to make smooth so tough a Path I can learn Patience from him Now not to suffer shews no Loyal Heart When Kings want Ease Subjects must bear a Part. Have you not seen the Nightingale A Pilgrim koopt into a Cage How doth she Chant her wonted Tale In that her Narrow Hermitage Even then her Charming Melody doth prove That all her Boughs are Trees her Cage a Grove My Soul is free as the Ambient Air Although my Baser Part 's Immur'd Whilest Loyal Thoughts do still repair T' Accompany my Solitude And though Immur'd yet I can Chirp and Sing Disgrace to Rebels Glory to my King What though I cannot see my King Neither in his Person or his Coin Yet contemplation is a Thing That renders what I have not Mine My King from me what Adamant can part Whom I do wear Engraven on my Heart I am that Bird whom they Combine Thus to deprive of Liberty But though they do my Corps confine Yet maugre Hate my Soul is Free Although Rebellion do my Body Binde My King can only Captivate my Minde OF THE LOYAL FAMILY OF THE BERKLEYS JOHN Lord BERKLEY IT is reported of the Roman Fabii no less numerous than valiant three hundred and sixty Patricians flourishing of them at once that they were all engaged in one Battel one onely excepted who being under age to bear arms was absent It is recorded of the Family of the Hayes in Scotland in Edward the First 's time that they were all in the Battel at Duplin-Castle except a Child then in his Mothers womb Let it pass to Posterity that the whole Family of the Berkleys were sooner or later involved with his Sacred Majesty in the miseries of the late times and therefore with reason do many of them partake in the happiness of these For besides the foresaid Judge there were several other Honourable Persons of this Name who descended from Kings for their first Ancestor was Son to Harding King of Denmark whence Fitz-Harding the ancient Sir-name of all the Family formerly and the Title of Honour to a Noble Branch of it now and therefore were resolved to hazard all in the Cause of the best King In the List of whose faithful followers as few of more ancient Nobility Robert Harding their Ancestor being made Baron Berkley by King Henry the Second so few of more untainted Loyalty As 1. Sir Iohn Berkley since Lord Berkley much he did by his Interest in Somerset-shire and Devon-shire more in
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 Berneâ—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
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
Hopton so eminently serviceable 1. His great in-sight into the Designs and prudent fore-sight of the events of present Counsel which when most doubted and wavered gave him that great resolution that undertook great difficulties and bore up against greater 2. His experience of War in general and his acquaintance with that seat of it committed to him in particular 3. His renown all over the Kingdom for Piety and Moderation and within his own association for Hospitality Civility and Charity 4. His Name among the Enemies as considerable for his Generousness and Justice as for his Valor and Conduct 5. His Estate that set him above Mercinariness and his care for Money that set his Souldiers above need the occasion of mutinying among themselves or of incivillities towards others This Noble Lord dyed a Bruges September 1652. without any issue besides those of his Soul his great thoughts and greater actions his Barony of Stratton being coferred on the Lord Iohn Berkley younger Son of Sir Maurice Berkley of Bruerton in Somerset-shire so highly concerned with him in the Martial Affairs of the West being one of them that reduced and commanded it he might well share with him the honor and as Queen Eliz. was pleased that none but a King should succeed in her Throne when dying she said My Throne is the Throne of Kings so this Lords Ghost would be infinitely satisfied to see that none but an excellent Souldier should inherit his honor for his honor was the honor of Chivalry Vivat Radulphus Hopton Terris quas domâ—it fama coelo cui vixit anima natalem geminum ipsa mors pariat Quicquid vires potuere quicquid honesti Doli Favente et statore Jove et Fugitivo Pedibus restituentibus rem manibus Fractam Fecit Vir magnus maximis excidens ausibus Cui saepissime in desperata sola salute salus monstrum martis superat fuga strata potestas est unita minor major ut una manus duplam meruit lauream ut pote cujus caput galeam habuit et intus et extra De membris acies de mente triumphat acumen Hac coiere greges hac coiere duces Hostes dextra domat cerebro victoria victa est Praefuit hinc magno Julius inde sibi THE Life and Death OF Sir EDMUND VERNEY SIR Edmund Verney whose Ancestor Iohn Verney stands as eminent in the Catalogue of Gentry made for Buckinghamshire in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. as he doth in the Catalogue of Martyrs from 1637. to 1666. was born April 7. 1596. at London bred most part of his time at Court with an education answerable to his birth 1. Under such a discipline as moulded his tender soul to that frame that was not only advantageous towards the succeeding part of his education but towards the irregularity of his whole life 2. Under that tuition which successively instilled ingenious and good rudiments into his tender breast in the order that was proper to his tender years Age at once maturating his parts enlarging his capacity and advancing his Lectures until several years Education had accomplished his minde with that stock of active useful and manly knowledge which furnished him with those vertues that are a perfection to noble natures and a rest and tranquility to great minds 1. Bridling and checking the irregular sallies of the inferior faculties and the impetuous passions incident to younger years 2. Fashioning his behaviour to that humanity that was due to mankind and that modesty and gravity which was due to himself 3. Regulating his discourse to that temper that became the product of judgment and right reason and raised him to thoughts of imployment worthy and ingenuous abhorring to busie himself vitiously or impertinently In a word when Education had made him a compleat man he bethought himself that he was born to labour as the sparks are made to fly upwards being indued with that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iamblichus calls it that ever moving and restless principle his soul and trusted with those abilities that suggested to him that he was not so far neglected by either God or Nature as to be placed in the world without imployment After sometime spent with my Lord Goring to see the Low-Country Wars and some sallies out with my Lord Herbert Sir Henry Wotton to see the Courts of France and Italy 1618. he goeth with my Lord of Bristol into Spain whence he returned so well accomplished as to be recommended to the service of the Prince where he as zealously opposed the plots and stratagems of the Papists in Spain as his Tutors Hackwell and Winniffe did in England insomuch that he struck an English sorbon Doctor called Maillard a Box on the Ear for visiting one of the Princes Servants sick of a mortal Feavor whereof he died and labouring to pervert him though with so much hazard that he had much ado to keep out of the Inquisition One reason of the Princes hastening out of Spain at whose departure I finde he presented Don Maria de Lande with a cross of ten thick Table-diamonds bought of his Servant Sir Edmund Verney His Master the Prince disposing of Offices about him agreeably to mens inclinations when King made this stout man Knight-Marshal in which capacity he was severely honest in time of peace and undauntedly valiant in time of war saying when by his place he held the Royal Standard at Nottingham That by the grace of God his word always they that would wrest that Standard from his hand must first wrest his soul from his body And accordingly at the battel of Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. when as Julius Caesar commanded his Standard to be thrown among his enemies that the Souldiers might be provoked in honor to fetch it so he adventured with his Majesties colours among the enemy that the Souldiers might be engaged to follow him and was offered his life by a throng of his enemies upon condition he would deliver the Standard he answered That his life was his own and he could dispose of it but the Standard was his and their Soveraigns and he would not deliver it while he lived and he hoped it would be rescued as it was when he was dead selling it and his life at the rate of sixteen Gentlemen which fell that day by his hand One of the strictness and piety of a Puritan of the charity of a Papist of the civility of an English-man whose family the King his Master would say was the model he would propose to the Gentlemen whose carriage was such that he was called the only Courtier that was not complained of At the same time that he ventured his life for his Soveraign at home he sent his Son Sir Ralph Verney to accomplish himself for his service abroad Reliquiae Edmundi Verney vere militis Banneretti qui Deum timendo nisâ—t timere didicit nihil non Ausus nisi quod omnes audent peccare O In
other places being more than the Inhabitants by Whaley with a 1000. Foot and four Troops of Horse who lay before it ten weeks ere Sir William would hearken to any terms as nobly angry with the Fortune of his Cause as disdainfully vext with the disparagement of the siege the Castle able to defie their intire Army having defeated a far by countermining under-ground and throwing Stones and Granadoes above ground yielded not till the whole Kingdom submitted against which it had been folly to loose themselves in an unequal and vain contest to Providence rather than Conquest going off May 8. upon these honorable terms All Officers with Horses Swords Goods Money and Passes with a safe Conduct whether they pleased without any Arrest or Molestation by virtue whereof Sir William had his liberty to settle his Affairs and I know not whether he be or another Sir William Compton of Frith in Kent compounded for 0660 00 00 as he did yet hazzarded all again to serve his Majesty in the Kentish Expedition where in my Lord Gorings absence he Commanded as Major General in which capacity notwithstanding the difficulties he was to wade through he made a comfortablâ— provision for the Army in Greenwich-Park amidst the infinite distractions And when a fatal infatuation and a pannick fear guided them into the Parliaments hands he approving himself more compleat in Gallantry Wisdom Virtue and Honor than years discovered the snare kept them together so as to make honorable terms for them to go upon The laying down of their Arms where they pleased under which pretence he drew them through the Enemy taking many of them Prisoners within a mile of London to the general astonishment of that whole City an action of great consequence as was the satisfaction he gave the Country all along in Essex he marched concerning the Principles whereupon they engaged and the infinite pains and care he took to keep the Garrison in its highest distress in some competent order in Colchester by great Instructions and a greater example where being taken a Prisosoner of War he suffered all the indignities that insulting meanness could offer there being no pretended Plot but there was occasion to take him Prisoner whom O. C. called the sober young man and the godly Cavalier especially in Penruddocks business 1655. and Sir Henry Slingshies 1658. He with the Earl of Oxford the Lord Bellasiâ— Sir Iohn Russel called then the Sealed knot managing all the eight attempts made for his Majesties Restauration from 1652. to 1659. when others having the charge of raising other Countries in pursuance of Sir George Booths design Sir William Compton Sir Thomas Leventhorp and Mr. Fanshaw undertook Hertford-shire and that project failing he doth with incredible industry and prudence observe and improve the struglings of a giddy people now reeling into Liberty by degrees withdrawing the force that awed them and assisting in the gradual changes of the Government suiting with particular persons gust in order to that great change that satisfied all taking care when the Royal interest was in view in a publick Declaration which he with other Noble Reverend and excellent Persons subscribed lest any offence might be taken at the whole party of Cavaleers to the prejudice of the expected settlement from the indiscretions or transports of any single persons promising without any regard to particular Factions or Interests to submit quietly and chearfully to the present power as it was vested in the Council of State in expectation of the future Parliament which producing that blessed effect the three Nations unanimonsly wished for this Noble Person had as great a share in the Comforts as he had formerly in the cares and sufferings being intrusted with the Important place of Master of the Ordnance till he died 1663. at Drury-lane a suddain death to all persons but himself Hem viator Arma foris consilium doâ—i Cui maximum monimentum est suum nomen Gulielmus Comptonus Eq. Auratus Comitis Northamptoniae Filius Frater Avunâ—ulus Carolo I. ab Armis Iuvenis Carolo Secundo a consiliis vix Senex 1663. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES COMPTON TWin to Sir William in actions as well as Birth one History serveth both as well as did once one Picture Of whom one may say as one did of his Country Warwick-shire that it was the Heart but not the Core of England having nothing Course in his life having had the same Education with his Brother saving that he excelled in two great Accomplishments for Pleasure and Business Musick and Mathematicks without the first of which he would affirm that a man was no Company and without the second of no use He took to the same War being as eminent for Sobriety Discipline Moderation Conduct Vigilance and Activity in the field where he Commanded as Colonel as his Brother was in the Garrison where he Commanded as Governor There are two wonders in his life 1. His surprize of Breston-Castle with six men and himself by pretending to bring in Provision according to a Letter he intercepted as he did many reckoning his intelligence the main piece of his service and having always abroad his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his many Eyes and Ears as men of business must which injoyned it the next Towns 2. His having two Pistois clapped in his very face and yet neither fire but the owners which were so sure of his life loosing by his side both their own He was as much for Pasturage and Inclosures in his Country as his Brother was against them answering those that complained Sheep turned Cannibals in Warwick-shire eating up Men Houses and Towns their Pastures make such depopulation That though they make Houses the fewer in that Country they made them the more in the Kingdom Towns being more peopled by Cloathing and Wool than the Country is depopulated by pasturage Indeed to use the words of a modern Author in this Case Corn doth visibly employ the poor in the place where it groweth by Plowing Sowing Mowing inning threshing but Wool invisibly maintaineth people at many miles distance by Carding Spinning Weaving Dressing and Dying so that Abel need not kill Cain the Shepheard undo the Husbandman but both subsist comfortably together What service he did his Majesty and his Father during the Rebellion we may guess by the trust reposed in him since the Restauration his Prudence and Courage having been as effectual against the late Usurpation as the Ash of his Country a stand of which in Pikes in his Country mens hands under his Conduct was impregnable is against viperous Creatures of which it is said that a Serpent incircled with fire and the boughs thereof will in this Dilemma put it self rather on the hazzard of fire than adventure on the fence of Ashen-boughs but it is unhappy that he was like that Ash too of which it is written that being cut down green it burneth clear and bright as if the sap thereof had a
with himself he was translated to the See of Coventry and Litchfield void by the Translation of his old friend Bishop Overal to Norwich And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocesse was larger because the common sort of people were better principled by the care and vigilance of his Predecessor But yet he abated nothing of his former pains and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with them that were not wilfully obstinate in his Diocesse besides Visitations and exact Confirmations Among the works of Charity performed by this Bishop while he was at that See memorable is the Education he bestowed upon one George Canner who like another Didimus of Alexandria or Fisher of Westminster was born blindâ— This youth he brought up first at School and afterwards sent him to Cambridge where he maintained him and his Uncle to look to him at St. Iohns Colledge After he had the Degree of Bachelor of Arts he sent for him to his own Family and instructed him in the whole body of Divinity and then admitted him into Sacred Orders placed him in a Cure in Stafford-shire which Cure the blind man discharged diligently and laudably being a very good Preacher and being able also to perform the whole office of the Church as it is appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer only by the strength of his admirable Memory Anno 1632. He was translated to the See of Duresm void by the death of Bishop Howson a place of great Trust and Honor as well as of greater Emolument For besides the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Affairs as before he had now the care and management of all the Temporal Affairs within the County Palatine of Duresm by virtue of the Palatinate annexed for many hundred years to the Episcopal See in so much that it passed a Maxim there Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And in the same he carryed himself with so much Iustice and Equity for ten years together before these late Troubles put a disturbance in the exercise of his Government that no complaint was made against him to the Parliament except onely the case of Mr. Smart which yet had no relation to the County Palaâ—ine neither could the Charge be made good against him who was but one of the High-Commission How great his fatherly care was for the Spiritual care of the Bishoprick will appear by his pious endeavors in setling Augmentations upon the smaller Benefices he had given a good example long before while he was Bishop of Lichfield in abating a good part of his Fine to increase the portion of the Vicar of Pichley in Northampton-shire as you may see in Mr. Stephens his Preface to Sir Henry Spelmans Book and now in a Work of so much importance he applyed himself for Counsel to three of the most Learned in the Laws Lord Keeper Coventry Mr. Noy Sir Henry Martin who all concurred that the Bishops Authority over Churches appropriate was neither taken away nor any way infringed but that he may now appoint a competent Augmentation having thus fully informed hâ—mself of his just power in a matter of so high Concernment for the advancement of Christian Religion and the good of Souls he resolved to put it in practice as far as God should enable him and trust God with the event He began at home with the Parish of Bishop-Aukland Here he augmented the stipend of the Mother-Church from 16 l. per annum to fourscore and the Chappels belonging from six pounds per annum to thirty intending to extend the like Episcopal care in some proportion over all the rest of his Diocesse but so Pious Heroical a Work became Abortive by the Scotch Invasion c. We are now come to the precipice of this Reverend Bishops outward splendor though neither his glory nor happiness incurred the least diminution by his future sufferings For he was never more happy in his own thoughts nor more glorious in the eyes of all good men then in being exercised in those troubles whereof the continual series of publick Affairs afforded him a perpetual opportunity from this time till his death In one of the Tumults after the beginning of the Long-Parliament this Reverend Bishop was in hazard of his life by the multitude that were beckened thither by the Contrivers of our late Miseries whereof some cryed Pull him out of his Coach others nay he is a good man others but for all that he is a Bishop And he hath often said he believed he should not have escaped alive if a Leading-man among the Rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself Upon this and the like Violations of the Liberty and Freedom essential to all the Members of Parliament when the twelve â—ishops whereof this was one Remonstrated the just Fears they were in and protested their dissent from all Laws which should be enacted till they might attend the service of the House with Freedom and Safety as any one Peer unjustly detained â—rom Sitting may they were all Charged with High-Treason by the House of Commons and Committed to Prison with the Bishop of Coventry and Leichfield at the Usher of the Black-rods house when the other ten went to the Tower Our Bishop being after four months discharged from this his first Imprisonment returned to his Lodgings in Duresm-house and there attended his Devotions and Studies till such time as his adversaries thought fit to give him another occasion to exercise his patience under a second Captivity upon occasion of Baptizing a Child of the Earl of Rutlands according to the Orders of the Church and in custody he remained six months before he could obtain his inlargement After this he staid in Duresm-house till he was thrown out chence by the Souldiers that came to Garrison it a little before that horrid Fact was committed upon the Person of our late Gracious King and after that being importuned by his honourable friend the Earl and Countess of Rutland he became part of their care and family at Exceter-house for some short time but being loath to live at the charge of others while he was able to subsist of himself and thinking the air of the Country might better suit with his declining years he betook himself to sojourn first with Captain Saunders in Hartfordshire and after with Mr. Thomas Rotheram in Bedfordshire till by the great civility and earnest importunity of that noble young Baronet Sir Henry Yelverton he went with him to his house at East-Manduit in Northamptonshire where he found all the tender respect and care from the whole family which a Father could expect from his Children till after a few months he rendred up his happy soul into the hands of his heavenly Father When the House of Commons had Voted for the Dissolving of Bishopricks some prevailed for a Vote of Yearly Allowance to present Bishops during their lives Our Bishop had 800 l. a
burn the City â—earing that he should not dye in his Majesties favour for dying under a suspition of such a thing so unworthy of him and disowned their authority preparing himself for that death he had so often looked in the face both in England and in France for he Commanded in both kingdoms with a becoming frame and temper ennobled with honorable and devout circumstances by the assistance of a faithful Minister that honored his Family and in the company of many Reverend and Noble Friends with the Offices of the Church of England every day from his first imprisonment to his death Iuly 10. 1654. all with as much reverence zeal thankfulness holy sorrows and joys as his great soul could hold When with a religious confidence took his leave chearfully and particularly of all his honorable and good friends he passed through the Guards on whom he bestowed money twice bare-headed out of an humble respect to the people that pittied him on each side till he rather leaped up than ascended the Scaffold upon Tower-hill smiling with a pretty glance of his Eye which was a natural loveliness in him on the Executioner and his Instrument and saying Welcome honest Friend that will do the deed I 'le warrant it And being refused by the Sheriffs Edward Sleigh and Thomas Allen to speak to the people Let us saith he to the Reverend Minister with him speak to God as they did for half an hour afterwards professing he died a faithful Subject to King Charles II. for whom he said he would lay down if he had them a thousand lives and a Son of the Church of England for both whose Restauration he prayed and desiring the people to remember a poor Soveraign abroad who he said deserved to be remembred bowed himself to the stroke of death with Christian meekness and courage extraordinarily mixed together the same time and place but not with the same weak spirit that Don Pantaleon sa dyed wih who for fighting with Mr. Gerard on the New-Exchange where one Mr. Greenaway no ways concerned in the quarrel was killed was brought to dye with him though on a different occasion on Tower hill Upon which day Mr. Peter Vowel a Bedford-shire man School-Master of Isâ—ington being betrayed by a blind Minister he relieved at his house and disowning the pretended High-Court of Justice whom as Ierome of Prague did his adversaries he cited to appear before the great Tribunal was murthered at Charing-Cross a pitiful Minister of theirs sent under pretence of comforting to trepan him passing as severe a sentence on his Soul as they had done on his body dying as they would tell him and he confessed confidently instructing the Souldiery in the dangerous principles they went on in and professing his adherence to the King and the Church desiring that none should be disheartned at his death being assured that sanguinis Martyrum which he said they shed as the Heathens did in their bloudy sacrifices should be semen Ecclesiae commending his soul to Gods mercy and his numerous family to his providence saying He was sure the King should be restored and that his poor family should be better provided for than it could be by him he and Mr. Gerard leaving these principles behind them 1. That men might be excellent if they looked to their thoughts before they became desires and happy if they had but a right Opinion of things and understood That all the good and evil of mans life though it may have its occasions without hath truly and really its causes prevented or lessened or turned into good by a vertuous disposition 2. And that they looked into Opinions before they turned into Passions Major Henshaw escaped by flying and Mr. Somerset Fox by Argument that Massacre as did Mr. Manley a Merchant The noble Gentleman Sir Humphrey Bennet a Brigadire in his Majesties Army Mr. Woodcock Mr. Carrent Mr. Friar Mr. Io. Sumner and Mr. Oliver Allen Mr. Hatgil Baron Mr. Stapely Mr. Mansel Mr. Iackson and Mordant 1658. Mr. Sidney Fotherby and Mr. Tudor a Chirurgeon In which yet Col. Benlow fell Oct. 1651. having been observed active in the engagement at Worcester being shot to death at Shrewsbury a Person very observant in his carriage of that Rule in Mr. Herbert Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In Love or Honour take account of all Shine like the Sun in every corner see Whether thy stock of Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And in his habit of this Affect in things about thee cleanliness That all may gladly board thee as a flow'r Slovens take up their stock of noysomness Before hand and Anticipate their last hour Let thy minds sweetness have his operation Vpon thy Body Cloaths and Habitation And Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh I think of Corkes-would in Cumberland Knight having paid 700 l. for the service of King Charles I. laid down his life for King Charles II. which he ventured magnanimously in the Field at Wiggan in Lancashire with the Earl of Derby with whom he being taken prisoner there lost it resoluteâ—ly by beheading after a Court-Martial at Chestâ—r where he denounced judgment on the Murtherers that passed sentence upon him setting the foulness of their fact with as much power on their Consciences as they did his Loyalty upon his Person and praying as heartily for the Kings person then in danger as for his own soul doing all he could honorably to save his life that he might not be felo de se and nothing dishonorably that he might not be a Traitor to Allegiance comforting himself with that saying of Pope Nicholas Martyrum solennia non funebria tanquam morientium sed utpote in vera vita nascentium natalitia vocantur and be it here remarqued that Sir Henry Fetherston and Col. Iohn Fetherston put as fair for Martyrdom as Sir Timothy which on all occasions to serve his Majesty they declined not by their own Cowardise but escaped by the Divine Providence winning and wearing the name of Confessors One whose Son lay very sick being told by a Physician that his Son was a dead man said I had rather a Physician should call him so an hundred times than a Judge on the Bench once whose pronouncing him for a dead man makes him one Sir Henry Hide Brother as I take it to the Lord High Chancellor bred a Turky Merchant and after the gaining of a considerable Estate and Experience made their Consul at Morea where his integrity and prudence gained him such respect in those parts that his Majesty having some occasion of correspondence at the Port sent him to use his own word Internuncio thither without any design against either the Merchants whom he had a charge to be tender of or Sir Thomas Bendish who had been a Prisoner in the Tower and paid a 1000 l. for his Loyalty to his Majesty by whose Commission he was there Ambassador and who hath published an Apology to clear
unsuitable to his honor as to his inclination Go thy way saith the King thou art a good man So that he might have said when persecuted and imprisoned as our Saviour Io. 10. 32. when reviled for which of my good deeds Sir Christopher Cletherow a great stickler for the Church and a great Benefactor to it a great honorer of Clergy-men in the best times to whom some of his nearest Relations were marryed in the worst espousing their Persons as well as their Cause He was careful by Industry in getting his Estate and forward by Charity to bestow it having learned the best derivation of dives a dividendo dividing much of his Estate among those that were indigent He was much intent upon the clearing and cleansing of the River Thames from Sholes Sands and other obstructing impeachments that might drein dry or divert it so as they might not leave it to Posterity as they found it conveyed to them by their Fathers to Ease Adore and inrich feed and fortisie the City to which we may apply the Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water Sir Henry Garraway Sheriff of London 1628. and Lord Mayor 1639. effectually suppressed the Tumults at Lambeth when he was a Magistrate executing the Ring-leaders and imprisoning the promoters of that Sedition clearing the streets with his Presence and awing the combination with his Orders and zealously opposed the Rebellion at London when a private man For those smart words in a Speech at Guild-Hall These are strange courses my Masters they secure our Bodies to preserve our Liberty they take away our Goods to maintain Popery and what can we expect in the end but that they should hang us up to save our lives he was tossed as long as he lived from prison to prison and his Estate conveyed from one rebel to another He dying of a grievous fit of the Sone used to say I had rather have the Stone in my Bladder than where some have it in the Heart That was the case of Sir Edward Bromfield who was made a prey by the Factious after his Mayoralty 1636. for keeping a strict hand over them during it being troubled as was Alderman Abel for what he levyed of the Sope-money Ship-money and Customs in his Office immediately after it Honest Alderman Avery and the Aldermen Iohn and George Garnet men of that publick honesty that they hated Caesars temper who said Melior causa Cassii sed denegare Bruto nihil possum private respects swaying nothing with them in publick Trusts of very private Devotions knowing well the Import of the good Fathers saying Non est vera Religio cum templo relinquitur pitying the Controversies of our ages which they looked upon as Childrens falling out and fighting about the Candle till the Parents come in and take it away leaving them to decide the differences in the dark fearing that those who would not be such good Protestants now as they might be should not dare to be so good Christians the common Enemy coming in upon us through our breaches as they should Good Benefactors to Churches that we might repair at least what our Fathers built Mr. Thomas Bowyer whose Grand-father Francis Bowyer Sheriff of London 1577. obliged the Church of England much under the Romish persecution under Queen Mary in saving and conveying away one eminent servant of God Dr. Alexander Nowel as he did in the Genevian Persecution in King Charles his time in relieving many keeping above forty Orthodox Ministers Widows in constant pay all his life and leaving an 100 l. to be divided among twenty at his death besides a competent provision left by him to relieve ten Sea-men maimed in Merchants service to put ten poor but hopeful youths forth to Apprentice-ships and to maintain the poor of several Parishes besides private Charities which my hand cannot write because though both his were giâ—ving hands yet his right hand knew not what his left gave Zeaâ—lously he asserted the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church and piously did he retire by a chast coelibacy all his life and by giving over his secular affairs some years before his death to her devotion much delighting to hear honest men and more to converse with them He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at Olaves Iury. Richard Edes and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. Peter Paggon Mr. Charles Iennings Mr. Edward Carleton Mr. Robert Abbot Sir Andrew King Mr. William White Mr. Stephen Baltonâ— Mr. Robert Aldem Mr. Edmund Foster Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp no other Memorial than that Commission of great importance sent them 1643. to London by the Lady D' Aubigney to their lasting honor and executed by them as far as it was possible to their great danger Mr. Iefferson Mr. Austin Mr. Bedle Mr. Batty Mr. Long Mr. Lewis all of Broadstreet Ward Mr. Blunt Mr. Wright Mr. Drake Mr. Walter c. refusing to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion and so were disarmed themselves Mr. Iohn Crane a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire and Apothecary in Cambridge-town with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived himself and to whom he left most of his estate with which he would entertain openly all the Oxford Scholars at the Commencement and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the Usurpation and whereof he bestowed 3000 l. to charitable uses whereof 200 l. to two Bishops Bishop Wren and Bishop Brownrigge 500 l. to forty Orthodox Ministers his fair house to the Cambridge Professor of Physick the rest equally and discreetly on Wisbich where he was born Lyn where he was well acquainted Ipswich where Dr. Butler was born Kingston where his estate lay and Cambridge where he lived where observing the bad effects of naughty fish and fowls bought for the University he gave 200 l. to be lent gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good He died May 1650. Mr. William Collet the faithful and methodical keeper of the Records in the Tower which he neither washed to make them look clear nor corrected to make them speak plain Mr. Selden and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities whereof Mr. William Collet is the Caterer He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire bred a Clerk in London and died beloved and missed by all Antiquaries in the Tower 1644. Mr. Edward Norgate Son to Dr. R. Norgate Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely encouraged in his natural inclination to Limning and Heraldry lest he might by a force upon nature be diverted to worse became the best Illuminer and Herald of his age wherefore and because he was a right honest man the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pictures whence returning by Marseilles he missing the money he looked for and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of that City was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur
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
4. Sir William Courtney who is transmitted to Posterity as partner in great Actions with Sir Francis Dorrington now in France as I take it with her Majesty and Col. Webbe an old German Souldier dear to Prince Rupâ—rt and the best Horse man a Horse-Commander of his time in England Totos Infusa per artus Major in Exiguo regnabat Corpore virtus Eminent for flanking the Enemy about Banbury so dexterously as well as valiantly that with a 1000 Horse he dispersed 5000 of the Enemy though shot in the hand and both the thighs Col. Mâ—rmaduke Holthy the watchful Governor of Monmouth who by his vigilance lost it for upon a contrived Intelligence of the Parliament Forces retiring in some disorder towards Glocester he Commands Kirle with a 100 Horse to pursue them as it was agreed who closed with them and returning got the Town opened to them whence he hardly escaped over the dry graft But regaining it being the Key of South-wales by Sir William Blaxtons resolute On-set with his Horse Brigade next week with as great a Conduct as Kirle lost it with Treachery Col. Richard a Kentish Gentleman of good personal valour under the good old Earl of Cleaveland both at Newberry in the Newberry fights where he exceeded his Command at Sherburn where he exceeded expectation upon the surrender of which place he was taken prisoner and at Colchester where he exceeded belief Sir Thomas Hooper a Wiltshire Gentleman at first a Shoe-maker in England at last a Souldier in the Low-Countries where he attained so much skill as upon his Invitation over by Coll. Goring to have the Command of a Regiment of Dragoons with which Regiment he performed so much service that he was Knighted and which honour he wore so well that to say no more he deserved it often with execution laying that sword over his Enemies shoulders which his Majesty laid over his Sir Will. Manwaring and Sir Henry Fletcher slain both at Westchester Coll. Francis and Col. Io. Stuart in quibus erat insignis piet as in deum mira charit as in proximos singulares observantia in majorâ—s mitis affabilitas in inferiores dulcis humanitas in omnes multiplex doctrina redundans facundia incredibilis Religionis Orthodoxae zelus men in whom Valour was not all their Arts born to adorn as well as defend their Country Sir Iohn Girlington and Mr. William Girlington slain near Melton-Mowbray Leicest and his Widow as I take it of Southam Cave York fined 1400 l. a person that had much learning in his Books more in his Brest where Nations were ranked as orderly as the men in his Regiment and as quietly as the species of his various prospects for he was well seen in Opticks in his eye One too too good for War and deserved to be as far from danger as free from fear Sir Richard Cholmley slain at Lime in Dorsetshire Sir Anthony Maunsel slain at Newberry Sir Tho. Gardiner and his brother slain about Oxford The first with Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby York who suffered 5000 l. deep Henry Cholmley and Richard his son who paid 347 l. Tho. Cholmley of Vale Royal Cheshire who compounded for 450 l. and the Lord Cholmley who paid 7742 l. who might be called as his Ancestor was for 50 years together The Father of his Country who no sooner moved in their respective Countries in his Majesties behalf but it was incredible with what cheerfulness their motion meeting with loyal and well affected inclinations was entertained with all meetings applauding their propositions about this Loyal as the Council of Clermont in France did Pope Vrbane II. Speech about the Holy War with a God willeth it looking upon all the pretensions of God and Spirit on the other side but like the Christians in the foresaid War carrying a Goose with them in their Voyage to Ierusalem pretending it to be the Holy Ghost their thoughts beginning where others ended and having a privy project beyond the publick design The second with Mr. Henry Maunsel of Llandewy Glamorgan Esq and five more Gentlemen of that worshipful name was ready to mortgage their own Estates to secure the Kings selling Land for Gold to purchase propriety with Steel and Iron and were 30000 l. the worse for the War The third extracted of that Nation I mean the French which wanteth a proper word to express stand were over-active when engaged though like a heavy Bell that is long a raising but being got up made a loud sound considering enough before they engaged Gentlemen that deserve a fame in as many Languages as they understood and an honor from as many Persons and Nations as they imitated in their Manners Wisdom Learning and Piety who lived up to the excellency of each part of the World they travelled as if they had been born in it Gentlemen that were Masters of an Universal Speech to express their Universal Learning and to furnish men born not to one Nation but to all having a vast knowledge but that they had vaster minds Sir Nicholas Kemish of Kevenmably in Caermarthen slain at Chepstow in Monmouthshire whose Ancestors bloud was as noble in his vein as in their own who had the Sail of Valour poised with the Ballast of Judgment With a fanned Army as he called it he cunningly surprized Chepstow by a slight with the hazzard of his life keeping it against all force refusing any Treaty with the loss of it the resolute and noble being killed in cold bloud O. C. saying that if he had had a fortnights time longer he had overthrown all the price of their bloud and treasure Col. Hugh and Coll. William Wynn and Sir Lodowick Wyer a Dutch man slain at Banbury where their bad Breakfast discouraged not their Friends from their dinner in the Wars a good Conscience goeth on through difficulties which the bad one needs no Enemy but it self having always a storm in the Heart what ever weather it is in the Face being not like those who see not their own good for too intent looking on it But of these Gentlemen before The Marquess De Vienvill a French Lord slain at the first Newberry fight as Baron Done kinsman to the Prince of Orange fallen at Nottingham the Nobility of all Nations assisting in so just and so general a cause 10. Sir Francis and Sir Richard Dacres the one dying at Marston-Moor and the other at York together with Sir Thomas Dacres whose Ancient and Martial Spirits were not quenched in that age of Peace that gave little countenance and less encouragement to men of Service and Action and those parts though the Frontiers which in Kingdomes are to be looked after as carefully as doors in Houses were so ill furnished that they had nothing left them in the beginning of the Wars but the Primitive Arms of Prayers and Tears and had been easily conquered had not the experienced Souldiers breathed Deer are not caught so soon made their Country as strong
storm where he was killed the first instopping every breach that was made Francis Newport of â—yton upon Severn Sal. compounded for â—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 surâ—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 mâ—â—k Lyon was slâ—n in Docetshire a Particularly in 〈◊〉 deâ—eat of Waller at Teux bury a To whom â—e was Gen. â—â—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 Thâ—â— Windsor 1100l b 〈…〉 c Creatâ—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 â—azzarded himself often for his Majesties Restauration for which he paid 6342l as Jo. Lord Scudamore Viscouâ—t Sleyo in Ireland sâ—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 â—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 iâ— Religion extant b Particularly in the laâ—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 â— 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 Worâ— 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
Ceremonies were the known Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse than lousie for they are Sibbe to the Sarke of Hercules that made him tear his own bowels asunder Doctor Samson Dean of Christ-Church being propter Puritanismum Exauctoratus Whittingam and Goodman backing their Schism with Treason in a Book they writ in defence of Wyat nay some of them growing so bold as being convented before Doctor Grindall then Bishop of London to answer this Question of his Have not we a godly Prince speak is she evil Thus White What a Question is that the fruit doth shew Thomas Rowlands No but the Servants of God are persecuted under her R. Hawkins Why the Psalmist answereth this Question How can they have understanding that work wickedness spoiling my people and that extol vanity Nay from single Affronts to Government they proceed to Conventicles in Fields Woods and Friends Houses and not onely so but Thomas Cartwright the Bell-weather of Non-Conformity presents the Parliament 1572. with a Book called Admonition a Title not well resented in Parliament since Admonition is but the lowest degree of Ecclesiastical Censure and a Preparative if neglected to Suspension and Excommunication wherein were several Grievances represented with this onely Redress prescribed viz. The admission of that Platform which the Presbyterians there exhibited And since one modest Admonition would not do another more severe followeth and a Reply to Doctor Whitgift's Answer to the Admonition with a world of Libels and Pamphlets which they called The new way to work following that Reply they judging it a good way to turn serious Books into Satyrical Pamphlets Finde they did so many Friends and Patrons within the Parliament and without that they erected a Presbytery in Wandsworth sleighted such sober men even of their own Scruples as Master Fox and Doctor Humphred set up Exercises called Prophesyings irregularly and dangerously carrying on Meetings of ill consequence at Cock field in Sufâ—olk at Cambridge and London draw up a Platform of Discipline at London petition the Privy-Council and engage several of them in the Quarrel particularly Leicester Burleigh Traverse his Patron and Walsingham as appears by their Letters to Archbishop Whitgift procure a Conference at Lambeth with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York before the Lords of the Council set up an Assembly of Ministers to sit Jigg by Joul with the Convocation in London engaged so many Lords and Commons under the pretence of the Liberty of the Subject the Grievances of Pluralities and Non-residences Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions to shake the Established Government as forced Archbishop Whitgift to repair with an humble Petition to the Queen to stand by her own Authority as Supream in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil in these her Majesties Realms and Dominions The Lord Burleigh himself was so importuned by them against our Liturgie that he desired them to draw up a better as they had done but that they could not agree Nay some persons private Interests making use of and closing with these Publick Disturbances the Commons come up with a sixteen-fold Petition against the Church to the Lords and many of the Lords were so high that nothing would satisfie my Lord Grey less than the turning out of all the Bishops by Premunire then as they had been in King Henry the Eighth's time and that the Queen should not confer with the Bishops but in the presence of the Temporal Lords A bold Proposal as an honourable Lord then observed that the Lords should appoint her Majesty whom she should confer withal And no wonder now that such Pamphlets as The Epitome The Demonstration of Discipline The Supplication Diotrephes The Minerals Have you any work for the Cooper Martin Marprelate Senior and Iunior Have you any more work for Coopers flew abroad so much that the Synod at Coventry acted so boldly as they did in their Thirteen Canons as a man may call them And that they began to write to one another in this Style We look for Bickering ere long and then a Battel which cannot long endure A boldness excusable when both the Kings of Scots and Denmark interposed in their behalf yea and some of them as Hacket and Arthington set up Designes to murder the Queen and the Privy-Council Traverse himself though otherwise reserved and wary breaking out in his Temple-Lectures to open opposition against Mr. Hooker the Master of it and the great Champion of the Church of England And because they began to be ashamed to make such a stir about Rites Ceremonies c. they added some Sabbatarian Speculations and bold Controversies of Gods Decrees to put weight into the Quarrel and brave that the World might take them not for light Scruplers about indifferent things but the strong Astertors of the Power of Godliness viz. in the keeping of the Sabbath c. the design of Dr. Bounds Book of the Sabbath To this heighth the Impugners of Government and Discipline arrived at in Queen Elizabeth's time in whose Reign these Champions withstood them viz. 1. The Queen true to her Motto Semper eadem would not either by their Greatness Number or Importunity that maintained the Faction be moved to the least diminution of her Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical yea and in her latter days when she observed how the Church and State was overborn by them she grew very severe towards them as Vdal Penry and Cartwright felt they at the Assizes and this in the Star-Chamber till he saved himself by an humble submission 2. The Privy-Council always in Church-Affairs however some Members of it had a kindness for the Faction went along with the Arch-bishop 3. The Arch-bishops Parker and Whitgift notwithstanding the many and great Difficulties they met with kept up the Authority of the Canons and required subscription 4. Fulke Hooker and Rogers kept up the Authority of the Church in Writing Although the Queen was often by them in danger of her life the Arch-bishops made weary of their Lives and Government Mr. Hooker was heart-broken with Calumnies and Oppositions all the Bishops and Ministers of the Church rendred as odious and ridiculous as the Wit and Malice of men could make them The stout Bishop of Exeter went with honourable Scars from the Factions malicious Tongues and Pens to his Grave Arch-bishop Whitgift not onely felt the Fury of this Sect when Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge at what time Carwright was also a Member of that House kept a Fast there in his absence and perswaded all the Scholars but two or three to throw off their Surplices as they did till the good Master returned home Nor did he onely complain of the continual opposition that he met with when Regius Professor from Mr. Cartwright at the same time Margaret Professor in the same University nor of the Indefatigable pains he took to answer Cartwrights Admonitions to the Parliament and to
years before he was imployed thither That as he hath been just and faithful to his Master the King by increasing his Revenue so hath he also much bettered the Trade and Shipping of that Kingdome 11. That he prohibited the exportation of some Native Commodities as Pipe-staves c. and then required great summes of money for license to export them to the Inhansing of the prices of those Commodities half in half The Earles Reply That Pipe-staves were prohibited in King James his time and not exported but by License paying six shillings eight pence a thousand and that he had not raised so much thereby to himself as his Predecessors had done for such Licenses 12. That the said Earl to regulate the Trade of Tobacco prohibited the Importing of it without License In the mean time taking up and buying it at his own rate to his own use and forbidding others to sell any Tobacco by whole-sale but what was made up in Rolls and sealed at both ends by himself Besides other Monopolies of Starch Iron Pots which they said brought the Earl in 100000l sterl besides that though he inhanced the Customes in general yet he drew down the Imposts on Tobacco from 6d to 3d. in the pound The Earles Reply That before his time the King had but ten or twenty pounds per annum for that Custome which now yeilded twenty thousand pounds For the Proclamation it was not set out by his meanes principally or for his private benefit but by consent of the whole Council The prices of Tobacco not exceeding two shillings in the pound And this he conceives cannot be made Treason were all the Articles granted but onely a Monopoly for which he was to be Fined 13. That Flax being the Native Commodity of Ireland and he having much of it growing on his own ground or at his command ordered by Proclamation that none should be vented upon pain of forfeiting it but what was wrought into Yarn and Thread a way not used in Ireland whereby he had the sole sale of that Commodity The Earles Reply That he did endeavour to advance the Manufacture of Linnen rather then of Woollen because the last would be the greater detriment to England That the Primate of Ireland the Arch-Bishop of Dublin Chancellour Loftus and the Lord Mount-Norris all of the Council and Subscribers of the Proclamation were as liable to the Charge as himself That the reducing of that Nation by Orders of the Council-Board to the English Customes from their more savage usages as drawing Horses by their Tails c. had been of former practise That the Project was of so ill avail to him as he was the worse for the Manufacture thirty thousand pounds at least by the Loom he had set up at his own Charge 12. That the said Earl did in a War-like manner by Soldiers execute his severest Orders and Warrants in Ireland dispossessing se veral persons by force of Arms in a time of peace of their houses and estates raising taxes and quartering Souldiers upon those that disobeyed his Orders so leavying War against his Majesties Liege people in that Realm Testified Serjeant Savil. The Earles Reply That nothing hath been more ordinary in Ireland than for the Governours to put all manner of Sentences in execution by the help of Soldiers that Grandison Faulkland Chichester and other Deputies frequently did it Sir Arthur Teningham to this point deposed that in Faulklands time he knew twenty Souldiers assessed upon one man for reâ—using to pay sixteen shillings That his instruction for executing his Commission was the same with those formerly given to the Lord Faulkland and that in both there is express warrant for it That no Testimony produced against him doth evidently prove he gave any Warrant to that effâ—ct and that Serjeant Savil shewed only a Copy of a Warrant not the Original it self which he conceived could not make Faith in Case of life and death in that High Court especially it being not averred upon Oath to agree with the Original which should be upon Record That he conceived he was for an Irish Custom to be Tryed by the Peers of that Kingdome 13. That he obtained an Order of his Majesty That none should complain of any Oppression or Injustice in Ireland before the King or Council in England unless first the party made his address to him using to all his Actions his Majesties Authority and Name yet to prevent any from coming over to Appeal to his Majesty or to complain he by Proclamation bearing date Septemb. 17. 1636. Commanded all Nobility Undertakers and others that held Offices in the said Kingdom of Ireland to make their residence there not departing thence without License seconding that Proclamation with Fines Imprisonments c. upon such as disobeyed it as on one Parry c. Testified by the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roch Marcattee and Parry The Earles Reply That the Deputy Faulkland had set out the same Proclamation That the same Restraint was contained in the Statute of 25. Henry 6. upon which the Proclamation was founded That he had the Kings express Warrant for the Proclamation That he had also power to do it by the Commission granted him and that the Lords of the Councel and their Iustices not only yielded but pressed him unto it That it was done upon just cause for had the Ports been open divers would have taken liberty to go to Spain Doway Rheimes or St. Omers which might have proved of mischievous Consequence to the State That the Earl of Desmond stood at the time of his restraint Charged with Treason before the Councel of Ireland for practising against the Life of one Valentine Coke That the Lord Roch was then a Prisoner for Debt in the Castle of Dublin and therefore incapable of License That Parry was not fined for not coming without License but for several contempts against the Council-Board in Ireland and that in his Sentence he had but only a casting Voice as the Lord Keeper in the Star-Chamber 14. That having done such things as aforesaid in his Majesties Name he framed by his own Authority an unusual Oath whereby among other things people were to Swear That they would not protest against any of his Majesties Royal Commands but submit themselves in all Obedience thereunto An Oath which he Imposed on several Scots in Ireland designing it indeed against the Scottish Covenant on pain of great Fines as H. Steward 5000 l. c. Exile and Imprisonment c. The Earles Reply That the Oath was not violently enjoyned by him upon the Irish Scots but framed in Compliance with their own express Petition which Petition is owned in the Proclamation as the main Impulsive to it That the same Oath not long after was prescribed by the Councel of England That he had a Letter under his Majesties own hand ordering it to be prescribed as a Touch-Stone of their Fidelity As to the greatness of the Fine imposed upon Steward and others he
scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
Perpetuus magnifice benignus dominus Optimus omnium servus Ille Illeâ— Quem Principes optimi pariter perspicacissimi valde adamarunt Intâ—mum habuerunt Nec ullus unquam odio habuit Honoribus negotiis auctus haud Invidendis Fato succubuit heroico Comite Duce Eboracensi victoria Iunii 2. Anno Aetatis Christi 1665. suae 29. Let this little description of this great Man serve like a Flat Grave-stone or Plain Pavement for the present till a Richer Pen erect him a Statelier Monument Sir EDWARD BERKLEY VVE read Gen. 30. 11. the Leah said A Troop cometh and she called the name of the Child Gad. When I have spied out but a Berkley in the Catalogue either of Loyal Commanders or Compounders I find a great throng following for besides another Sir Henry Berkley as we suppose of whom we have this Note Sir Henry Berkley per William Cradock 0300 00 00 Sir Edward Berkley that honest Gentleman that was neither Sued nor did Sue in his life so willing he was to live in private peace and thence it is easily guessed how unwilling he was to engage in publick quarrels until he saw there was no hope of any tollerable Peace but from the success of a just War A Farmer rented a Grange generally reported to be haunted by Fairies and paid a shrewd Rent for the same at each half years end Now a Gentleman asked him how he durst be so hardy as to live in the house and whether no spirits troubled him Truth said the Farmer there be two Saints in Heaven vex me worse than all the Devils in Hell namely the Virgin Mary and Michael the Arch-angel on which days he paid his Rent This was none of Sir Edwards Tenants who were so kindly treated that he would not receive his Rents until he had seen what his Tenants had got and when he took them he would chuse rather to take them in work which his Tenants could do or in commodities which they had to sell then in monies which he knewthey could not spare and he did not want Now those poor people that he used so tenderly himself he was loath should be oppressed by others and that the estates they had got under him should be a Prey to those who aimed at a Tyranny over the Nation from which he knew no way to secure them but to stand by his Prince in whose just authority was lodged the estates and liberties of all his Subjects and there was not a more effectual way to secure poor people in their enjoyments than to support that Soveraignty that had the care of all their interests and would not permit others to wrong them as he could keep them from usurping upon him He did not fight indeed it could not be expected from his years of which he would say That though he could not lift up a hand against the Rebels in the Field yet he would lift up both for his Majesty in his Closet He would assault Heaven and besiege the Throne of Grace but he Contributed he handled not Steel but he laid out Silver and Gold and what was more gave Intelligence It was Scipio Affricanus his great honor he condescended to serve under his younger Brother it was this Gentlemans remarkable character that what he could not do himself he assisted his meaner Relations to do as long as he lived and bequeathed to them his Loyalty and Estate when he died 165 ... Aetatis 64. After a Composition for 0784 l. 00 00 Leaving behind him the character of a good husband being as he would say never reconciled to his Wife because never at distance with her a good Father intending the education more than the pleasing of his Children by the same token that he was very careful what School-masters settled near him the Jews not more mischievously poisoning Springs in England formerly as they were charged than School-masters mis-principling Youth the Well-head of a Nations hope as they were complained of A good Church-man abhorring the laziness of those that as Cicero said never see the Sun either rising or setting and the Indevotion of those that come neither at the beginning of Prayer nor have the patience to stay till the end himself professing that the most concerning part of Divine Service is the Concession and Absolution that commenceth it and the Blessing that concludes it A good friend choice in his acquaintance firm to his friendship clear and plain in his dealing free in his erogations studious in contriving ways to do good A liberal man that devised liberal things In fine A good man whom Nero hated Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY PHilip de Commines telleth us of a Noble Family in Flandert that generally they lost their lives in the Service of their Prince And we find in our own Chronicles that Edmund Duke of Somerset lost his life in the first battel of Saint Albans Duke Henry following him taken in the battel of Hexan and so beheaded a second Duke Edmund and the Lord Iohn of Somerset going the same way in the battel of Teuxbury all of them fighing in the behalf of King Henry and the House of Lancaster but then they heaped not Funeral upon Funeral in so short a time as this honorable Family did in which respect as those of the House of Somerset exceeded the House of Flanders so the House of the Berkleys exceeded the House of Somerset the Earl of Falmouth the elder Brother Keeper of his Majesties Privy Purse and Captain of his Highness Regiment of Gaurds fell the first year of our war with the Dutch Sir William Berkley the younger Brother Governor of Portsmouth and Vice Admiral of the White in the last years Expedition in the second one sad messenger following another with disconsolate â—idings that as waves following waves had swallowed up that good Family parallel to that which the Historian calleth the Mourning Family in Italy did not the same consideration buoy up them that supported the other that these hopeful Personages died in that service for which they were born Patriae geniti toti nati mundo the honor of their Soveraign and the good of their Country Nature that made one industry was to make all these Brothers Heirs One of the younger Brothers gives as the Heralds observe a Martlet for the difference of his Armes a Bird observed to build either in Castles Steeples or Ships shewing saith our Author that the Bearer thereof being to cut out his own fortune must seek by War Learning or Merchandise to advance his estate This Gentleman being Bound to a Merchant trade hath raised many families and restored more and Apprentiship doth neither extinguish native Gentility nor disinable to acquisitive is presumed to have behaved himself as a good Servant because that was the way to be a happy Master for we learn to command by obeying and to know what we should exact from others by what we have performed our selves besides a great Fortune like great Buildings
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
of the Right of calling Assemblies on Numbers 10. 12. nor chosen by the Clergy and because there was a legal Convocation in being that superseded this Illegal Assembly wherein it was in vain for few Oxthodox men to appear being overvoted by their numerous Antagonists But since he could not serve the King and Church with his parts he did with his Interest chearfully sending the Colledge Plate to the King and zealously when the Committee of the Eastern Association was setled there protesting against any Contribution to the Parliament as against true Religion and a good Conscience for which he was Imprisoned Plundered and tormented and as high winds bring some men to sleep so these storms brought this good Doctor to rest whose dying words as if the cause of his Martyrdom had been Ingraven on his heart breathed up with his Divine Soul Now God bless the King though the worst word that came out of his mouth was to Cromwell That when they destroyed the Church Windows you might be better Imployed A Pupil of his compares him and Dr. Collings Professor to Peter and Iohn running to our Saviors Grave in which race Iohn came first as the youngest and swiftest and Peter entred into the Grave Dr. Collings had much the speed of him in quickness of parts the other pierceth the deeper into under-ground and deep points of Divinity neither was the Influence either of Loyalty or Sufferings confined to his own Person but was effectual upon all his Relations for we finde Richard Ward of London Gentleman Compounding for 0234 l. 00 00 And Henry Ward for 0105 l. 00 00 Besides Mr. Seth Ward the Ornament not only of his Family but of his Countrey expelled Sidney Colledge for his Loyalty tossed up and down for his Allegiance till his incomparable temper and carriage recommended him to the Family of my Lord Weinman at Thame-Parke in Oxfordshire his great skill in Mathematicks opened his way in those sad times to the Astronomy Professorship in Oxford they thought there would be no danger in his abstracted and unconcerned discourses of the Mathematicks his extraordinary worth commanded Respect and Incouragement from Worthy men of all perswasions excepting O. C. who told him when he stood for the Principality of Iesus Colledge in Oxford That he heard he was a deserving Person but withall a Malignant his great Ability especially for Discourse and Business commended him to the Deanery first and afterwards to the Bishoprick of Exeter no Imployment a Clergy-man ever was capable of being above his capacity who writes to the eternal honor of this Doctor his Unkle in the Preface to his Lectures set out with Bishop Brownrigg's his Overseers consent and Dr. Ward Mr. Hodges Mr. Mathewes and Mr. Gibsons pains thus Ille me puerum quandeconnem a Schola privata ubi me tune aegre habui ad Academiam vocavit ille me valetudinarium recreare solitus est omni modo refocillore ille mihi animum ad studia ad motis lenitur Calcáribus praemiisque ante oculos positis accendere solebat ille mihi Librorum usum suppeditavit ille me in Collegii Societatem quam primum Licebat cooplavit ille mihi Magister unicus erat Patronus Spes Ratio studiorum With whole words we will finish this poor account of him whose worth might be guessed by the method of his Study the exactness of his Diary the excellency of his Lectures Novit haec omnia Collegium Sidneianum cui plus quam 30 annorum spatio summa cum prudentiae Integritatis sanctitatis Laude praefuit novit atque admirata est Academia Cantabrigientis ubi Cathedram Professoram D. Margarete tot annos summo cum honore tenuit errorum malleus atque hâ—resum norunt Exteri testantur haec opera quae nunc Edimus ista certe ut non nescires tui meique interesse existam abam caetera norunt Et Tagu Ganges forsan Antipodes Here after these Noble and Loval Ushers comes in the King himself not the exact time he was beheaded on but yet the very minute he suffered for though Charles was Martyred 1648. the King was killed 1644. For it is not the last blow that fells the Oak besides that the lifting up of some hands in the Covenant now inforced was to strike at his life according to the most refined sense of that solemn snare declared by Sir Henry Vane who best understood it having been in Scotland at the contrivance of it at his death Iune 14. when he was most likely to speak sincerely what he understood His Person was in danger when they aimed at his Prerogative The Conclusion is to a discerning person wrapped up in the premises for I reckon his life was in danger when their was nothing left him but his life to lose The Life Reign and Death of the Glorious Martyr CHARLES I. of Blessed Memory I May Praeface this sad Solemnity as the Romans did their more joyful ones that were to be seen but once in an hundred years Come and see what none that is alive ever saw none that is alive is ever like to see again See a King and all Government falling at one stroke A Prince once wished that his People had but one Neck that he might cut them off at one blow here the People saw all Princes with one Neck which they cut at one attempt a stroke levelled not at one King but Monarchy not at one Royal Person but Government See England that boasted of the first Christian King Lucius the first Christian Emperour Constantine the first Protestant Prince Edw. 6. glorieth now in the first Martyr'd King Charles I. A Martyr to Religion and Government The Primitive Institutes of the first of which and the generally owned Principles of the second of which other Princes have maintained with their Subjects blood he with his own Others by Laws and Power kept up both these while they were able he with his Life when he was not able supporting that very Authority it self that supports other Princes throwing himself the great Sacrifice into the breach made upon Power to stop popular fury and choosing rather not to be himself in the World than to yield that that World by his consent should be Lawless or Prophane A Martyr who stood to the Peoples Liberty though with his own Captivity that held up their Rights with the loss of his own had a care of their Posterity with the ruine of his own Family that maintained the Law that secures their lives with his own that could suffer others to distress him but not to oppress his People that could yield to dye but not to betray his Subjects either as Christians or as Englishmen See the last Effort of Virtue Reason Discipline Order bearing up against that of Villany Disorder Licenciousness and things not to be named among men See a King that had deserved a Crown in all mens judgement had he not worn one that other Nations wished theirs
forbear to mingle their tears with his bloud All the learning then in the world expressed its own griefs and instructed those of others in most excellent Poems and impartial Histories that vindicated his honor and devulged the base arts of his enemies when their power was so dreadful that they threatned the ruin of all ingenuity as they had murthered the Patron of it While the few Assassinates that crept up and down afraid of every man they met pointed at as Monsters in nature finished not their reason when they had ended his Martyrdom One O. C. to feed his eyes with cruelty and satisfie his solicitous ambition curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in a Coffin to White-hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the Body or no. Others of them delivered his body to be Embalmed with a wicked but vain design to corrupt his Name among infamous Empericks and Chirurgions of their own who were as ready to Butcher and Assassinate his Name as their Masters were to offer violence to his Person with intimations to enquire which were as much as commands to report whether they could not find in it symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of frigidity and natural impotency but unsuccessfully for an honest and able Physician intruding among them at the Dissection by his presence and authority awed the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their opprobrious Masters declaring the Royal body tempered almost ad pondus capable of a longer life than is commonly granted to other men But since their search into his Body for calumnies were vain they run up to Gods Decrees and there found that he was rejected of God and because his Raign was unhappy they concluded that his person was reprobated And when they had indeavoured to race him out of Gods Book of Life and consequently out of the hearts of his People the vain men pull down his Statue both at the West End of Saint Pauls and at the Exchange in the last of which places they plaistered an Inscription which men looked on then as false and Providence hath rendred since ridiculous Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Fond Rebels that thought to use the weighty words of the reverend Dr. Pirrinchief to destroy the memory of that Prince whose true and lasting glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for successors to shew the power of their malice but in a Solid Vertue which flourisheth by age and whose fame gathereth strength by multitude of years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a violent envy and the ruins of time But he had a Monument beyond Marble his Papers with the Bishop of London and others and his Incomparable Book of Meditations and Sollioquies Those Repositories of piety and wisdom which first they suppressed envying the benefit of mankind and when the more they hindered the publication of the Royal Peices the more they were sought after They would have robbed his Majesty of the honor of being the Author of them knowing they should be odious to all posterity for murthering the Prince that composed a Book of so Incredible Prudence Ardent Piety and Majestick and Truly Royal Stile Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elogancies of Davids Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same spirit The ridiculous President in his Examination of Mr. Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a Man for such would that Monster have this excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book But these attempts were as contemptible as themselves were odious the faith of the world in this point being secured 1. By the unimitably exact Stile not to be expressed any more than Ioves thunder but by the Royal Author 2. By those Letters of his which they published of the same periods with these Meditations they suppressed 3. By Colonel Hammonds testimony who heard the King Read them and saw him Correct them 4. By the Arch-bishop of Armaghs evidence who had received commands from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction who had taken them in his Cabinet at Naseby Besides Mr. Roystons command sent him from the King to provide a Press for some Papers he should send to him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King re-called that and sent that other which is now before the Book This was the vile employment of villains while all that was virtuous in the Nation honored the memory of that good Prince who like the being he represented the more he was understood the more he was admired and loved leaving great examples behind him that will be wondered at eastier than imitated Particularly the Duke of Richmond the Marquiss of Hertford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey and the Lord Bishop of London obtained an order to Bury his Corps which four of his Servants Herbert Mildmay Preston and Ioyner with others in a Mourning Equipage had carried to Windsor provided that the expenses exceeded not 500 l. which they did in St. George his Chappel in a Vault discovered them by an honest old Knight they disdaining the ordinary grave the Governor had provided in the body of the Church with Henry the Eighth and Iane Scymour his Wife whose Coffins those were supposed to be that were found there the Officers of the Garrison carrying the Herse and the four Lords bearing up the Corners of the Velvet-pall and my Lord of London following Feb. 9. about three in the afternoon silently and sorrowfully and without any other solemnity than sighs and tears the Governor refusing the use of the Common Prayer though included in their order Because he thought the Parliament as he called them would not allow the use of that by Order which they had abolished by Ordinance Whereunto the Lords answered but with no success That there was a difference between destroying their own Act and dispensing with it and that no power so binds its own hands as to disable its self in some cases Committing the great King to the earth with the Velvet Pall over the Coffin to which was fastned an Inscription in Lead of these words KING CHARLES 1648. Besides which he hath in the hearts of men such Inscriptions as these are 1. The excellent Romans Character given him by Dr. Perrinchief Homo virtuti simillimus per omnia Ingenio diis quam hominibus proprior qui nunquam recte fecit ut recte facere videretur sed quia aliter facere non poterat cuique id solum visum est habere rationem quod haberet Iustitiam omnibus humanis vitiis Immunis semper in potestate sua
Papa alterius Orbis and each word had been decreed by the Crosier than written with the Sword deserved the highest incouragements in that Church whereof it was the best defence which how ever ridiculously at first ascribed to others was so peculiar to him that his very enemies confessed he did it because none else So hard it is to counterfeit the great Genius and Spirit of Honor and there are in such Books the inimitable peculiarities of an incommunicable faculty and condition To which when you adde the exemplary strictness of his Life witness his care in keeping a constant Diary of it He is a good Christian that Audits the account of his soul every day as he a good husband that casts up the expences of his occasions every night The tenderness of his Conscience evident in this and other passages of his Devotion O Deus meus respice servum tuum miserere mei secundum viscera misericordiae â—uae scandalum ecce factus sum nomini tuo dum ambitioni meae aliorum peccatis servio Quin hoc licet aliorum suasu oblatrante tamen conscientia perpetravi Obsecro Domine per miseri cordius Iesu ne in tres in Iudicium cum servo tuo sed exaudi sanguinem ejus pro me pâ—rorantem nec hoc conjugium sit animae meae divortium a sâ—nu tuo O quantum satius esset si vel hujus diei satis memor Marty rium cum Proto-martyre tuo potius perpessus sim negando quod urgebant aut non satis fidi aut non satis pii amici mei Pollicitus sum mihi tenebras peccato huic sed ecce statim evolavit nec lux magis aperta quam ego qui feci ita voluisti Domine pro nimia misericordia tua implere ignominia faciem meam ut discerem quaerere nomen tuum O Domine quam gravis est memoria peccati hujus etiam bodie etiam post tot toties repetit as preces a tristi confusa anima mea coram te prosusas O Domine miserere exaudi preces depressi humiliati valde servi tui Parce Domine remitte peccata quae peccatum hoc Induxerunt secuta sunt c. The constant course of his Devotion is lately published his observations of Gods providences over him to furnish him with matter for his private prayer while he did as the Apostle exhorteth thus watch unto prayer as his sicknesses his falls the causualities in his Family and Affairs he judging nothing too mean for him to remarque that was not below God to do were exact his diet temperate his converse chaste having no Woman about his house reckoning it not every mans gift in Tertullians phrase Salvis oculis videre faeminam the gravity of his Person severity and quickness being well compounded in his face giving a good example always in this plainness of his garb and apparel and when in power good precepts checking saith the Historian such Clergy-men as he saw go in rich or gaudy dresses under his common and tart notion of Ministers of the Church-triumphant Thus as Cardinal Wolsey is reported the first Prelate who made Silks and Sattens fashionable for Clergy-men so this Archbishop first retrenched the usual wearing thereof Once at a Visitation in Essex one in Orders of good Estate and extraction appeared before him very gallant in habit whom he publickly reproved with the plainness of his own apparel My Lord said the Minister you have better Cloaths at home and I have worse whereat his Lordship rested very well contented wearing his hair short and injoyning others so to do not enduring to know any of his kindred if they appeared with flaunting Cloaths long hair or smelt either of Tobacco or Wine I knew saith an Historian a near Kinsman of his by the way to shew the impartiality of his favors in Cambridge Scholar enough but something wilde and lazy on whom it was late before he reflected with favor and that not before his amendment and generally those preferred by him were men of Learning and Ability The great influence of his publick spirit reaching not onely so far as he had power himself but also as far as any had power that either saw his good example or read his effectual admonitions At a Visitation kept in St. Peters Cornhil for the Clergy of London The Preacher discoursing of the painfulness of the Ministerial Function proved it from the Greek deduction of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Deacon so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dust because he must laborare in pulvere in arena work in the dust do hard service in hot weather Sermon ended my Lord then of London proceeded to his Charge to the Clergy and observing the Church ill repaired without and slovenly kept within I am sorry said he to meet here with so true an Etymology of Diaconus for here is both dust and dirt too for a Deacon or Priest either to work in yea it is dust of the worst kinde caused from the ruines of this ancient house of God so that it pittieth his servants to see her in the dust Hence he took an occasion to press the repair of that and other places of Divine Worship so that from this day we may date the general mending beautifying and adorning of all English Churches some to decency and some to magnificence I say it you add these admirable endowments of his Person to the excellent Catalogue of his Actions you might confess that there was reason why he should be envied but no reason why he should be Libelled so often as I have formerly mentioned he was Why his house should be sacked Munday May 11. 1640. about midnight by 500 persons of the rascal riotous multitude according to the Paper posted upon the Exchange exhorting them so to do May 9. to his utter ruine had not he upon timely notice fortified his house taken and punished the Ringleaders in spight of the tumult that brake all the prisons about the Town and severely threatned him in a Libel September 1. with another assault in the Kings absence Why he should receive such a Letter as he did from one Mr. Rocket informing him That he was among the Scots as he travelled through the Bishoprick of Durham he heard them inveigh and rail against the Archbishop exceedingly and they hoped shortly to see him as the Duke was slain by one least suspected Why the Scots Commissioners should name him in the House of Lords an Incendiary and in the House of Commons a Traytor Dec. 16. 17 18. Why he should be committed to the Black Rod and confined being only permitted to go to Lambeth for a Book or two and some Papers for his defence against the Scots where he staid late hearing with comfort the 93. and 94. Psalms and the 50. of Isaiah to avoid the gazing of the people why they should make him as soon as he was confined December 21. sell Plate
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
Empire it â—lourisheth in a too universally dilated Learning being not faithful to the settlements either of Policy or Religion it being no less ready to discover blemishers in the one than incongruities in the other Sophisters saith my smart Author like the Country of the Switz being as able upon the least advantage proposed to engage on the wrong side as on the right As to go no further this excellent Personage being among the Demagogues that had been for twelve years silenced and were now to play the prize in Parliament and shew their little twit-twat but tedious faculties of speaking makes the bitterest Invectives against the Governors and Government of the Church that ever was penned in English which though designed by him its thought to allay the fury of the Faction by some compliance with it carryed things beyond the moderation and decency of that Assembly which he made too hot for himself retiring in cooler thoughts as many more that like Brutus could not lay the storms he had raised to Oxford where his Pen was more honorably employed in detecting the fundamental of Rome their Infallibility and countermining the main props of Westminster their Hypocrisie this as Secretary the other as Student in both laying open the little pretensions whereby the poor people were insnared in their Civil and Religious liberties Much was the gall always in his Ink and very sharp his Pen but even flowing and full his style such as became him whose Learning was not an unsettled Mass of reading that whirled up and down in his head but fixed observations that tempered with solid prudence and experience were the steady Maxims of his soul fitted for all times and occasions he having sate as some Noble mens Sons use to do formerly in the House of Lords behind the Chair of State from his very Childhood and owning a large heart capable of making that universal inspection into things that much becomes a Gentleman being a Master of every thing he discoursed of Insomuch that his general knowledge husbanded by his wit and set off by his Meine and Carriage attracted many to come as far as to see him as he professed he would go to see Mr. Daâ—llee which rendred him no less necessary then admirable at Court until his Curiosity engaging him at Newbury he was strangely slain there dying as he lived till then between his Friends and his Enemies to the Kings great grief who valued him because he understood his Parts and Services in the Treaty at Oxford where he was eminent for two things the continuing of Propositions and the concealing of Inclinations though no man so passionate for his design as never enduring that hope that holds resolution so long in suspence but ever allaying it with that fear that most commonly adviseth the best by supposing the worst His usual saying was I pitty unlearned Gentlemen in a rainy day He was Father to Henry Lord Faulkland whose quick and extraordinary parts and notable spirit performed much and promised more having a great Command in the Countrey where he was Lord Lieutenant a general respect in the House where he was Member a great esteem at Court with his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of York where he was both Wit and Wisdom When there was the first opportunity offered to honest men to act he laid hold of it and got in spight of all opposition to a thing called a Parliament By the same token that when some urged he had not sowed his wilde Oats he is said to reply If I have not I may sow them in the House where there are Geese enough to pick them up And when Sir I. N. should tell him he was a little too wilde for so grave a service he is reported to reply Alas I am wilde and my Father was so before me and I am no Bastard as c. In which contention he out-did the most active Demagogues at their own weapon speaking when Major Huntington and his followers were for the Long-Parliament Sir I. N. L. S. were for the Secluded Members my Lord carryed all the County for an absolute Free Parliament which he lived to see and act in so successfully that he was Voted generally higher in Trust and Services had he not been cut off in the prime of his years as much missed when dead as beloved when living A great instance of what a strict Education for no man was harder bred a general Converse and a Noble Temper can arrive unto and what an Orator can do in a Democracy where the affections of many is to be wrought upon rather then the judgements of few to be convinced A Golden tongue falling under a subtile head under such a constitution hath great influence upon the whole Nation Vi sparsos heroum cineres tumulosque dividuos aeternitati vindicet Monumentum hoc aere perennius memoriae posteris sacrum Condidit L. M. Q. G. Walters tres ultimos Faulklandiae comites extremos jam an helantis naturae conatus lege attende mirare primum prudentiae Civilis normam secundum rectae rationis mensuram tertium ingenii exemplar Ideum Hactenus homines natura genuit nunc Heroas Provectiori mundo Ingenium Crevit Triumviratus animi vi magna Praegrandi spiritu eruditione omni faria Intra fidem supra opinionem ubi viataro et spera ad summa collimani ut mediocria assequaris tot nempe habes in Heroibus nostris documenta quot gesta THE Life and Death Of the most Illustrious JAMES Duke of RICHMOND A Noble person little understood and therefore not easily described modestly reserving himself from men when he sincerely approved himself unto God Great in his Ancestors honor greater in his own virtue and greatest of all in that like the Star he wore the higher he was the less he desired to seem affecting rather the worth than the pomp of nobleness Therefore his courtesie was his nature not his craft and his affableness not a base servile popularity or ambitious insinuation but the native gentleness of his disposition and his true valor of himself He was not a stranger to any thing worth knowing but best acquainted with himself and in himself rather with his weaknesses for Caution than his abilities for Action Hence he is not so forward in the Traverses of War as in Treaties of Peace where his honor enobled his Cause and his moderation advanced it He and my Lord of Southampton managing the several overtures of Peace at London Oxford and Vxbridge with such honourable freedom and prudence that they were not more deservedly regarded by their friends than importunally courted by their enemies who seeing they were such could not be patient till they were theirs though in vain their Honors being impregnable as well against the Factions kindness as against their power At Conferences his conjectures were as solid as others judgments his strict observation of what was past furnishing him for
in Chief of the West where in half an year he got 40. Garrisons well maintained 12000. men well disciplined 1000 l. a month Contribution regularly setled above 400 old Officers Souldiers and Engineers out of the Palatinate the Low Countries and Ireland usefully employed A Press to Print Orders Declarations Messages and other Books to instruct and undeceive the people Prudently managed the Pen upon all occasions being wonderfully quick in clearing this great truth That his Majesty and his Fellowers had no other intention in this war that they were necessitated to than the defence of the Protestant Religion the Laws the Liberty and property of the Subject together with the Priviledge of Parliament And by these ways prospered so well but especially 1. By the choice of his Deputies and Officers as curiously observing other mens worth as he carelesly undervalued his own being choice in his instruments because he was so in his designs well knowing that great actions must be left to the management of great souls 2. By his Discipline of the Army without which Commanders lead thronged Multitudes and not Armies and listed Routs rather than Regiments keeping his Souldiers men that they might not be conquered by their debaucheries first and then by their enemies by moral instructions enduring no Achan to trouble his Camp as well as making them Souldiers that they might not be to learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militari dicere non putaram by military direction 3. By his Pay to his followers pinching himself to gratifie them knowing well what gelt could do and what it was to keep back from men the price of their bloud making them hazard their lives by Fight to earn their pay and by Famine before they got it His three words were Pay well Command well and Hang well 4. By his care to keep open the Trade of the Countries under his Command by Sea and Land 5. By his solemn familiarity neither the Mother of Contempt nor the Daughter of Art and design his language with Caesar to his Country-men was not Milites but Comilitones and with the Husbandman it was not Go ye but Gawee seldom putting them upon any service the most difficult part whereof he undertook not himself in so much that the Country stood as well out of love to his Person as conscience towards his Cause 6. By sharing with them in their wants observing their deserts and rewarding them he never made scales of his Souldiers when they were dead in taking Cities nor Bridges of them when living in bestowing preferments knowing that deserving persons are more deeply wounded by their Commanders neglect than by their Enemies the one may reach to kill the body the other deadneth the spirit 7. By preserving his Souldiers being loath to loose them in a day which he could not breed in a year and understanding the perience and resolution of a veterane Army he had the happy way of securing and entrenching himself for which â—ustavus Adolphus is so famous so as in spight of his enemies to fight for no mans pleasure but his own not cozened by any appearances nor forced by any violence to fight till he thought fitting himself counting it good manners in war to take all advantages and give none especially when the small beginnings of his affairs confined his care more how to save himself handsomelyâ— than set on the enemy giving his enemies occasion to complain that he would not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a man because he would not receivâ— into his â—oâ—y his whole dart A prudent reservation is as useful as a â—esolute onset it being a greater skill to ward off blows than to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresight to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in incountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as the Lord Bacon observes who drew his life with a Pencil as majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent 8. By understanding his Enemies way and the Countreys scituation as to take many advantages by his incredible diligence all his army doing service once every sixth day and prevent all disadvantages by his equally incredible watchfulness 9. By his Piety keeping strict communion with God all the while he was engaged in a war with men He was reckoned a Puritan before the wars for his strict life and a Papist in the wars for exemplary devotion entertaining sober and serious Non-conformists in his House while he fought against the Rebellioâ—s and Factious in the Field And we find him subscribing a Petition to his Majesty 1630. with other Gentlemen of Sommerset shire to prevent unlawful and scandalous Revellings on the Lords day As we observe him publishing Orders for the strict observation of the Lords day the incouragement of good Ministers and People throughout his quarters being very severe in these two Cases 1. Rapines committed among the people And 2. Prophaneness against God saying That the scandal of his Souldiers should neither draw the wrath of God upon his undertaking nor enrage the Country against his Cause By these courses I say he prospered so being so well placed to use Paterculus his words of Sejanus in eo cum judicio Principis certahant studia populi that the enemies Historian May writes this undoubted because an adversaries testimony of him Of all commanders there that sided with the King against the Parliament Sir Ralph Hopton by his unwearied industry and great reputation among the people had raised himself to the most considerable heighth until the Earl of Stamford coming to the West raised Sir Ralph from the Siege of Plymouth with some disadvantage which yet the old Souldier made up again by a Parthian stratagem of a feigned flight entrapping most of the Earls men and to overthrowing the Parliament Forces in so much that the Earl of Stamford desired a truce for twenty days which Sir Ralph condescended to with a design during the truce to bring off Sir Iohn Chadley as he did so happily that the Earl was forced to betake himself to Exeter the whole West consisting of so many rich and flourishing Shires being wholly at his Majesties devotion And when Sir William Waller with the posse of twenty one Counties came upon him he managed Skirmishes and Retreats with so much dexterity that his very Flights conquered for drawing Sir William to the Devizes to Besiege it and making as if he would Treat about the yielding of that place he contrived that he should be surprized with an unexpected Party of Horse on the one side while he drew out upon him on the other with such success that he defeated scattered and ruined him beyond relief the Earl of
aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis secula quando Nec merita praemiis de erant nec premiameritis Quantum a bellis a mendicitate a miseriis A Rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla Beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Vt quantum a Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva Paterna Episceâ—â—arum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRUNRICI memores Praesusis Angelici THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL Bishop of Norwich THIS Reverend Person who hath written most passages of this his life being born at Ashby-de-la-zouch in Leicester-shire of honest and well-allowed Parents his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington the Lord of it was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religious Mother so improved in learning by his careful School-masters and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him that in the fifteenth year of his age his Master and one Mr. Pelset eminent in those parts agreed together to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge whereto he was destined being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling under the last of these Gentlemen who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies undertook he should in seven years be as compleat an Artist Linguist and Divine as any University man his Indentures being Prepared his Time being Set and his Suits Addressed for the pleasing but fatal project as it fell out to him that succeeded when it pleased God to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair that Mr. Nath. Silby Fellow of Emanuel Colledge conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning and hearing the late projected diversion set before his elder Brothers eyes then accidentally at Cambridge the excellency of an Academical life with so much advantage that falling on his Knees to his Father he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance towards the charge he brought the good man to a passionate resolution for the University Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely for many years Partners of one Lesson and for as many of one Bed he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance who would by no means suffer him so much against his own will at two years end to be Master of that School whereof he had been so lately Scholar when being Master of Arts and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H. who well esteemed the Fathers service and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse wherefore he demanded not without some concern why he was not preferred in that Colledge where he was so much applauded and being told his Tutor a person well known to his Lordship filled up the place of that County he perswaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship for an honorable Relation to his Family and the assurance of his favour to whose place notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton upon the suddain news of the Earls death arrived the second day of their strict Election saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs and more opportunities of provision than his Tutors more reduced years he was admitted the twenty third year of his age into a society newly its self admitted to the University writes he which if it hath any equals I dare say hath no superiors for good Order studious Carriage strict Government austere Piety where he spent six or seven years more with such contentment as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield his exercises being plausible especially his Position for which he was first noted in the University that Mundus Senescit a Position saith my Author that was its own confutation the ingenuity thereof arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age His Rhetorique Lecture thronged till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School of Tiverton in Devon upon Dr. Chaddertons motion whom he consulted offered him not so much the pains as the government of it for the acceptance whereof he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London when a Messenger in the Street delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk which telling Dr. Chadderton that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly to that Calling whereto he was destined and must go indirectly to by the West and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment he accepted chearfully and an Atheist one Lilly that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors being removed by the Pestilence at London whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron in answer as he observes to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings enjoyed comfortably for two years when having repaired his House and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state as he walked from Church with a reverend Neighbor Minister he saw a comely and modest Gentlewoman at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner and asking his worthy Friend whether he knew her was told by him he had bespoke her for his Wife as upon due prosecution of the unexpected providence she was for forty nine years after the first two years whereof upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importunity he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna out of his Couriosity to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church with the allowance of his nearest friends under the protection of the Earl of Hertford then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels having provided for his charge Landing at Calais after some crosse winds at Sea and passing not without horror Graveling Dunkirk those late dreadful prisons of the English Winoxberge Ypre Gaunt and Courtray to Bruxels the first observable he met with was an English Inns of Court Gentleman run out of his Estate Religion and Country and turned Bigot and Physician Immediately at first meeting ravishing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady of Zichems Miracles till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling and asked what difference there was between that Ladies Miracles and Vespasians Vestals
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
Elocution the seriousness and greatness of his Spirit admitted him with advantage upon an Act-Sunday to the Pulpit at St. Maries upon a solemn Festival to preach before his Majesty and upon a Fast before the Parliament being after his travels and relation to Sir Will. Russel to whose nearest Relations affecting his great accomplishments recommended him and after one Marriage that intervened providence made way for him and the Earl of Warwick he was setled first at Brightwell in Berk-shire 1641. secondly at Bocking in Essex 1644. thirdly at the Temple London 1659. and at the Bishoprick of Exetâ—r 1660. succeeding in both those places Bishop Brownrigge whose Life he writ and exemplified and at last Bishop of Worcester 1662. where he dyed 1663. having commanding qualities which carryed all the Country where he was to his Opinion about the Covenant 1644. and all the Kingdom to his sentiments about the King and Church the first of whom he vindicated in a pathetick Remonstrance delivered the General the second he asserted vigorously in its Doctrine and Discipline in his Hieraspistes 1653. pleaded for seriously in its Ministers in his Declaration to O. P. about the Edict Ian. 1. 1655. that turned out Orthodox Ministers out of all capacities of subsistence sollicited for effectually in its Tyths and other Priviledges 1649. 1650. c. in other Treatises mourned for pathetically in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Sighs and Groans of the Church 1659. Preached for boldly before the City Feb. 1659. in his Slight Healers in the Temple Dec. the same in Bishop Brownriggs Funeral Sermon before the Parliament April 30. in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cleared unanswerably in his satisfactions given Sir L. Bromfield and other scrupulous but moderate Persons and adorned exemplary by his excellent advices to and conversation among his Clergy his generous and obliging behaviour towards the Gentry and gallant and healing Discourses in Parliament many young Noble-men as Mr. Richard Heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick c. had their Education in his Family more Scholars and Clergy-men owe their parts to his direction several Citizens were inriched by his Correspondence who was as great a Merchant as a Scholar as great a Courtier and States-man as either and indeed the great Restauration was not a little furthered by his universal acquaintance and ubiquitary activity not be paralleled but by his Brother Mr. Gauden his Majesties Purveyor for the Navy an employment to be managed by no one man with such an universal satisfaction as it is now but by himself and 1668. they say Sheriff of London In fine he was born for great things having such a Copia verborum and those so full pregnant and significant joyned with such an active fancy as rarely accompanyeth so sound a Judgment and so deep an Understanding Such a publick Spirit and ready Parts that besides the many motions he made for the promoting of Commenius his way of advancing general Learning Duraeus his indeavour of procuring universal Peace the Royal Societies Noble attempts for compleating Philosophy Bishop Walsons and Dr. Castles Heroick Essayes for propagating the Eastern Learning every man that came to him went the better from him Such great prudence in the managery of Affairs like the providence that governs the world that he could quickly see into the depth and soon turn round all the sides of business so as to be full and clear in his Resolutions and Debates dexterous in his advice upon all straits his Learning being so concocted into an active wisdom that he was fit for any Imployment understanding things so well at first sight that he seldom had a second thought generally standing to the resolution and determination of his first Adde to this the integrity of heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dipped into Justice the stateliness of his Speech the ingenuity aptness freedom and gravity of his fansie the luxuriancy of his ready invention tempered with such solid and serious mixtures such grave Retreats and Closes that it seemed no other than beauty well dressed or goodness appearing in a fair and chearfull Summers day becoming him as smiling doth a good Man and a good Conscience or flouring a laughter as we say doth a generous pleasant and spiritful liquor the apt facetiousness of his native and fluent Wit making way in converse for his more serious and weighty Conception as did his Catholick love tender of all even as appears by his discourse of the Oaths imposed upon them of the poor Quakers themselves but fond of worthy and good men that he picked up all over the Nation in his respect to whom you might 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Historiola haec monstrat quem fama monstrat magis sed ipsa necdum fama quem monstrat satis ille totam solus Implevit tubam tot ora solus Domuit famam quoque fecit modestam Ingens Academiarum certamen quot quin ipse Academiae In quo musae omnes gratiae nullibi magis sorores sub preside religione in tenacissimum sodalitium Coaluere Peralta rerum pondera cum vaga mens indomito Cucurrit animo et natur amexhausit totam mille faeta Artibus mille Scientiis se in eruditionem varians omnigenam et toti cognata encyclopaediae Coelo satur nativo in suam evolavit originem relicto sub tantillo marmore quanto hospite Eo nimirum majore Monumento quo minore tumulo morte pariter etvita modestus Dr. Henry Ferne Fellow and Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Lord Bishop of Chester well known in the late times by his clear resolutions of the Cases in difference between the King and Parliament between our Church and Rome on the one hand and Geneva on the other in all which there were such weight of Arguments such clearness of Expression and such piety and seriousness of Spirit that two Adversaries confessed that that Cause never looked so clearly and devoutly in any writings as in Dr. Ferns and as well known by his Sermons at Oxford then pressing Humiliations holy Vows and Resolutions and at Cambridge and London pressing the keeping of those Vows He dyed within few Moneths after he was made Bishop 1661. being buryed at Westminister without any other Monument than his Name of whom I may say Adeo se occuluit ut vitam ejus pulchram dixeris R. C. et Pudicam dissimulationem I mo vero et mortem Ecce enim in ipso funere dissimulari se passus est Dr. Iohn Earls on whom Merton Colledge where he was bred and buryed bestowed this History in this Epitaph Amice sâ— quis hic sepultus est roges ille qui nec meruit unquam nec quod majus est habuit inimicum qui potuit in Aula vivere et mundum spernere Concionator educatus Inter principes et ipse facile princeps inter Concionatores evangelista Inde festus Episcopus Pientissimus
lost his life having spared the lives of the worst of men who he knew had God for their Father though they had not the Church for their Mother Sir Christopher Mynnes an honest Shoemakers Son in London by his bold Adventures gaining a brave Estate beyond the Line and by his Heroick actions in all our Sea-fights shewing that he deserved it on this side a plain man and a good Spokes-man Qualities for which the King and Prince Rupert loved him made of an indefatigable Industry and a vast skill and abilities for which they much trusted him yet very familiar among his Souldiers whom he saw well used for Diet Pay and their share in Prizes getting more in buying again the Souldiers share than others did in cheating them of them the more absolute power he as all Sea-Commanders had the more careful he was how he used them he was shot in the mouth yet holding it in his hands continued in his Command all over in bloud as long as the Enemy continued the fight against whom he was so forward that if his advice had been taken in the Bergen Expedition the Dutch had come to London to beg that Peace which they would so hardly yield to at Breda Sir Rich. Stainer a man deserving well of his Majesty about Portugall and Tangier as good a Seaman as most in England as the Sea-men in England are as good as any in Europe either for Fighting or Trading for tame Merchants ships or wild ships Men of War having contributed as much as any for improving the Sea for what it was made neither only for Fish to play in nor only for the Sun to drink of but for Commerce in Traffick Learning and Religion all mankind being one Family Acts 17. that the world may know its self before it be dissolved A pious man at Land in safety as devout at Sea in danger not like those Sea-men whose hearts are like the Rocks they sail by so often in death that they think not of it seeing Gods wonders in the deep he were the greatest wonder of all that were not made more serious and pious by them Iames Ley Earl of Marleborough who not content to be penned in the narrow Island where he was born launched out to the wide world where he might live The Lord Treasurer Ley his Ancestor gained an Estate by his Court-Interest beyond Sea and he gained skill by improving that Estate wherewith he served his late Majesty very seasonably with two or three Ships supplying him with Arms Ammunition and whatever else he wanted from beyond Sea opening the Western Ports and maintaining the passage between England and Ireland and his present Majesty very effectually in advancing his Majesties Interest in Plantations abroad and hazzarding his own life for him at home loosing it in the first Sea-fight with the Dutch Iune 1665. aboard the old Iames whence a little before he died reflecting on the former course of his life he writ to this effect to Sir Hugh Pollard who deserveth a mention not only because he was his friend as Eusebius is known by the name of his friend Paâ—philus whence he is called Eusebius Pamphilus but because being a Gentleman of a good Family and interest in Devonshire descended from Sir Lewis Pollard of Nimet in that County and one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench in King Henry the eights time who had four Sons Knighted before his face Governor of Dartmouth a Port of great Importance well Garrisoned for his late Majesty and Comptroller of the Hushold for his present Majesty very active and venturing for his Majesty in the worst times and very hospitable and noble with his Majesty in the best Observing that rule in keeping up the English honor of a great Table occasionally entertaining rather than solemnly inviting his ghests lest he should over do his own Fortune for fear of under-doing the Inviteds expectation to whom his Feast might be his ordinary fare Which puts me in mind of a King of France who used to lose himself in a Park Lodge where his sauce hunger made the plainest fare a Feast and the Park-keepers taking heart to invite him came with all his Court to whom all his meat was but a morsel Well said the Park-keeper I will invite no more Kings The Letter which Iames Earl of Marlborough writ to Sir Hugh Pollard who dyed 1667. was to this effect 1665. I Am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that what I write proceeds not from any phancying terror of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death than mine example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own Age and Experience will save that labor but there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being the great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding those inexitricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail reasons do perplex us withall God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy words in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same your I hope happy issue Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we die as the beast that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only great and holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays Your true friend Marleborough Old James near the Coast of Holland April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my Request Henry Earl of Huntington one of the first that appeared for his Majesty in Leicester-shire as his Son the honorable Lord Loughborough continued there with the last the constant service of the second during the first War in commanding the Garrisons of his Country
by Art as it was by Nature till Art and Valour was rather stifled than overcome by multitude When these Gentlemen in vain encouraging their Countrymen much with their words more with their actions fell rather than as their Companions they would guard their brave heads with their nimble heels The Right Honourable Henry Lord Piercy son of the Right Honourable Henry and brother of the Mirrour of English Nobility for a well-governed Greatness his house being a Colledge for Discipline and a Court for Grandieur the most noble and potent Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Baron Piercy Lacy Poynings Fitz-pain and Brian Knight of the Garter and of the Bath whose Ancestor H. Baron Piercy of Alnewick was at the Coronation of Richard 2. 1377. created Earl of Northumberland a person of a stern spirit and a great capacity the first inclining him to Arms which he handled with honour abroad the other to Studies which he followed with success at home being at once a very stout and a very wise man useful in the Field and in Council having a great command of the Northern Army 1639 1640. and a good stroke in the English Parliament being able with his care of especially in point of pay and interest in the first to awe the second as he did 1641. to give the Army good words and make his Majesty great promises as long as that Army had a being in England and he a Command in it When he could no longer serve his Majesty in Parliament where he must expose his person to the rudeness and his opinion to the suggestions of the multitude he countenanced his affairs in the North where the name could at any time raise an Army and interest to support it where he grew as formidable as he had been rendred in the South contemptible My Lord with great hazzard attended his Majesty in all dangers being thrice dangerously wounded and with great resolutions in all Council at York for preparing for War at Oxford for accommodations of Peace being made Iune 28. 1643. a Peer of the Realm Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the only person intrusted with the conduct of her Majesty from the North to her dear Consort at Oxford and of four deputed to assist her in Councils in France As the Beaver bites off his stones for which he is hunted to save himself so he quitted his Estate to save his Person being excepted from Indemnity though he hazzarded his Majesties displeasure to procure them in order to a peace theirs He died suffering with Majesty beyond Sea having this character That he would not take an affront from the greatest person nor give any to the meanest With whom Sir Iohn Morley the loyal Major of New-Castle Sir Iohn Mallory of Studley York who paid 2219 l. Sir Nich. Cole of New-Castle who paid 564 l. Bryan Cook of Doncast York with 18 l. per annum setled 1832 l. Sir William Wentworth slain at Marston-Moor and Sir George Wentworth of Welly who paid 3188 l. Thomas Wentworth of Bretton York 350 l. The Honourable Sir Francis Fanc of Ashton York 1315 l. Sir Richard Gleddal killed at Marston-Moor Sir Will. Savile Governour of Sheffield where he found Iron Works very serviceable to his Majesty dying in the Service at York Sir Brian Stapleton slain at Rowton-Heath near Chester Sir Tho. Strickland of Thornton Biggs York who paid 943 l. Sir Robert Stapleton an Ingenious person that translated Iuvenals Satyr Plinies Panegyrick and other excellent Authors not only into his own Language but into his own person being a just wit and not only a strong Oxford Metaphor a forced and affected simile a short sentence an unclean ribaldry a jugling Anagram Acrostick or Rime jests saith one for Dutch men and English boys not a fluent tale or a flashy jest but a brisk thought and an equal apprehension of each thing he saw or heard Col. Samuel Tuke as well known by his adventures of 18 years in the German Wars of 5 years in the English Engagement of 12 weeks in the Colchester and Kentish action of 12 years in banishment where he was the first that broke into the Traitor Mannings Closet and caught in the very act of correspondence with the Rebels of some years tuition of young Noblemen being as accomplished a Gentleman himself as Study and Travel could make him The Lord Ethyn Sir Tho. Danby Sir Charles Sir Robert and Sir Tho. Dallison Sir William Dalton the 6 last of whom lost 36000 l. by the War Sir Rich. Goodhill wounded in Wales and died at Worcester Sir George Baker who kept Newcastle against the Scots as they writ themselves to the Parliament with a Noble opposition yielding them not an inch of ground but what they gained with infinite loss and speaking as bigg to use the Scotch mens words at last as at first and letting them bloud to cure them of their Pleurisie of Pride on the wrong side keeping the Besiegers so long until their Victuals grew short and they admired rather than assaulted him yea when they offered the place the Enemy refused it suspecting some deceit in the tender as bad men measure other mens minds by the crooked rule of their own between death and death the Foe without and hardships within being no way dismayed with some mens stealing away the loss of Cowards being gain to an Army they generally resolved rather to lose their lives by whole-sale on the point of the sword than to retail them out by Famine which is the worst of Tyrants and murdereth men in State while they die in not dying and armed with despair valour swells being crushed between two extreams dispute each inch of the Town which was ransacked by the angry men whose passion like heavy bodies down steep hills once in motion move themselves and know no ground but the bottom and keeping the Castle till the Scots after long fasting not measuring their stomachs by the Standard of Physick and dieting themselves till nature by degrees could digest their meat by surfeiting digged many of their Graves with their teeth The Right Honourable Tho. Lord Fanshaw of Ware Park Hertf. Clerk of the Crown to his Majesty who besides that he lent 2000 l. towards the Scots expedition and suffered 30000 l. by the English War paid for his Loyalty 1310 l. as Sir Simon Fanshaw did 600 l. and Tho. Fanshaw of fenkins com Essex Esq with 80 l. per annum setled 500 l. but especially the Honorable Sir Richard Fanshaw my Lords Brother bred in Cambridge whereof he died Burgess and at Court where he died a Minister A Gentleman of great and choice Learning and of a great Wit appearing in Lusiad and oâ— ther Poems as well Originals as Translations to set off that knowledge yet using both as they conduced to the higher Ends of great business and honorable Imployments the one as the weight the other as the Edge of his actions in whom the Statesman saw the burial
a Scythian Bishop found but 15 Christians in his Diocess and left but 15 Heathens there b He hath out a Pentaglot Dictionary of Modern Languages and a Portugez Grammar c The peculiar excellency of his Dodcna's Grove two Parts Translated into French with applause d See â—is lâ—tters to Sir Dudley Carleton in Mr. Hâ—les Remains e Being able to repeat 500 strange words after twice hearing of them and to make use of any mans Exercise or Sermon verbatim if he once but either sâ—w or heard it a As in Bâ—shâ—p Câ—â—â—zens 〈◊〉 Case and several others b The Earl of Câ—â—lisle and G. Lord Berkley especiâ—lly See his Dedicatiâ—ons in his Church History The old Eâ—â—l of Bristol and Bishop offered him a noble compeâ—ency to live with them â—he old Earl being much pâ—â—asâ—d with his company when he was Chaplâ—in to the P. Henat Exeter c See his Sermâ—ns and Meditations the handsome dress of which doth 〈◊〉 their useful matters to the Readers not only head but heart d See their Letters one to another a 〈◊〉 â—â—tidotum Lincolniensâ— b In his Ecclâ—sia vindicata a Mrâ— Puller Mr Sandersen Mr. Lestrange Mr. Hickâ—nan whom he strâ—nâ—gly discovered in the the very â—hrases he had borrowed from him and others to feather his Book a Vpon Arch-bishop Bancrofts motion 1611 b Formerly Fellow of Nâ—w Colâ—â—in Oxf. a His gâ—and Sacriledge of the Church of Rome about the Cup his Parallels his case of Spectaeles and â—is Vertumnus Romanus a See his disputation in his Dipper Dipped a Called the Reasons of the Vniversity of Oxf. which all the Parliament Divines refused to answer a See â—is Seâ—mons full of caâ—es about our Discipâ—â—nâ— and Ceremoâ—is b Seâ— his Lectures there â—e Juramenâ— to 〈…〉 c Seâ—â—is Xl. Sermons â—d Auâ—â—n d See the casâ—s of Love c. lately set out and supposed to be his a And he was of a Commiter in the Jerusalem-chamber March 2â— 1640 〈◊〉 view the lyturgâ— the Dâ—ctâ—â—â—e and Disâ—â—â—line of the Church sâ—â— whose first 〈◊〉 formers and their moderation â—e had a very great veneration and therefore he was very uâ—will 〈…〉 a See his excellent Preface to Bishop Ushers Book of Power and Obedience George Sanderson of Gunthâ—ope Lincoln Compounded for 140l b He succeeded Bishop Jo. Thorneburgh born in Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford acceptable to Queen Elizabeth who preferred him Dean of York and Bishop of Limbrick for his comely presence and to King James who made him Bishop of Bristol and Worcester for his Chymical Extraction and merry heâ—â—t which contributed much to his long life lying in an old Castle in Ireland the flâ—or over head broke down upon him and yet did him and his no â—arm c His style was manly for the strength of it maidenly for the modesty and Elegant for the phrase a Shocting and Bowles a See a Book called Bishop Prideaun his Last Legacy * with Doctor Wickham a 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 That 〈◊〉 â—â—gin to 〈◊〉 it with 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 â—nd it 〈◊〉 satisfaction a With his Patron Dr. Smith â—ackon we Mâ—â— Humphrey Sydenham born at Dalverton in Somersetshire Fellow of Wadham deserving witness his Athenian Babler the namâ— of Silver-tongued Denham b A deserving modest man that suffered much in the late times a Several Gentlemens Wives of his acquaintance a His body being worn out by study and sufferings Rob. Lautence of Bâ—gburgh Somerset compounded for 5D6l James Laurence Her 120 l. Giles Laur. Wore 370. Rob. Laur. Isle Perâ—eâ—le Esq 4500 l. Jo. Laurence Cheswick 200 l. b Hâ—monds poor mans Tyching a Whose 〈◊〉 sâ—â—â— Vâ—lentine Saunders of 〈◊〉 Ruâ—â—â—d Esq 〈◊〉 ser 12 〈◊〉 as hâ—â— Sâ—n 〈◊〉 Sir Orlando Bridgâ—â—â—n Lord Kâ—epâ—r 〈◊〉 for 4 oâ— Val. Saunders 〈◊〉 b Herbert c Juris intergentes qâ—aestiâ—â—um de eâ—dâ—m explicaâ—â—o de legati delinquenâ—is Judice Elementa â—uâ—is prudenciae c. a Reckoning himself so much more or less proficient in the Law of Nations as he more or less rellished Dr. Zouches works who was one of the Iudges at the Tryal of Panâ—aleouha the Portugal Ambassadors Brother upon which occasion that book was written b Of an eminent Family his Cozen Jo. Soames of Burnham in Norfolk compounding for 1430 l. c Mr. Heywood and Mr. Chase who both compounded deeply for their loyalty and suffered extreamly the first having served his Highness the Duke of York from a Child a 〈◊〉 Henryâ— was moved to marry by all â—he Nâ—â—â—â—y because of the convenâ—ences of her years together with her excellent at beauty and purenâ—â—s of 〈…〉 they are be wards of 〈◊〉 Act of Pâ—â—â—ia 〈◊〉 b Of whom shâ—ded in Child beâ— in Henry 8. full favour c 21. Counties a Among other writings of antiquity this Noble Fâ—â—â—â—y keeps a gâ—eâ—t Huntershâ—rn tiâ—ped with silver in â—oken of their dâ—scent from the Sâ—â—mies Lords of Woksale and Guardians of the wâ—ll gamed Forest of Savernake well 〈◊〉 so its 〈…〉 maâ—y haâ—nd 〈◊〉 years ago b Note Sir F. Anderson of New-castle upon Tiâ—e was a Col. in his Majesties Armyâ— and paid for it 1â—00 l. as Sir Henry Anderson of Pentdey Hert. 1730l Stephen Anderson of Mâ—â—by Line 372â— l. Jo. Anderson London 0â—00l Rob. Anderson of Châ—ehester Esq 0407 l. a To whose charity weâ—â— that stately built and richâ—y endewed Hâ—â—â—ital â—al at Appâ—â— by 〈◊〉 Westmâ—â—â—â—â—d Henry the last Earl of Humberlands Daughter married the Right Honorable the Earl of Coâ—â—â—e a Routing Col. Râ—ssâ—er at Moulton Monbâ—ay and the besiedgers though twice in number to his tiâ—â—d forces b Mem. Thâ—â— Sir Edward Musgrave of Layton Camb. paid 1974 l. composition a He was the first man thaâ— taughs Souldiers to â—a Cats Dogs c b With the assistanceâ—â—f his Countrâ—y-man Dr. Rawâ—nson 〈◊〉 excellent Maâ—hemaâ—â—â—â—â— iâ— Queens Col. Oxford c He was once upon making Mâ— Thruscross and other godly men Trustees for the Education of his Children in case it should please Gâ—d he failed in the Waâ—es d In an attempt made â—o vise at Hâ—â—â—â—m mooâ— 16â—5 â—o second Mr. Penruddock Where â—e and Sir Richard Maleverer were taken â—e it remembred that the noble Gentleman Sir Charles Sling-by was kissed at Marston-Moor Lieutenant Col Sliâ—gsby at Newbery a Who afterwards maâ—â—yâ—d Sir Abraham Shipman an active Gentlemen for his Majesty during the wares especially at â—olâ—â—â—ter for which â—e suffered sevâ—â—â—ly and was cast away in a place in the Indies he went to possâ—sse for his â—ajesty a As he did at the Court offering that if either Iudges singly oâ— the learned Counsel at 〈◊〉 would give it under their hands that the High Court of Iustice was a Lawful Iudicaâ—ory he would have pleaded b Note that Edward Ashton of Al denâ—am Sâ—â—sex Esq pâ—â—â— 2000 l. composition Thomas Ashton of â—â—â—kâ—th Lane 192l and T. A. of Westbanke Lane 116l c Where how would â—e seal his eyes and send them to his heart a Wâ—â—h 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—â— and 〈◊〉 that Lâ—â—◠〈…〉 Seâ— b 〈…〉