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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

of the innocency of his intentions exempt and clear from the guilt of treason and disloyalty The other of the greatness of his heart For at his arraignment he was so little dejected by what might be alledged and proved against him that he rather grew troubled with choler and in a kind of exasperation despised his Jury though of the Order of Knighthood and of the special Gentry claiming the privilege of trial by the Peers and Baronage of the Realm so prevalent was that of his native Genius and the hautiness of his spirit which accompanied him to his last and till without any diminution of courage it brake in pieces the cords of his magnanimity for he died suddenly in the Tower and when it was thought the Queen did intend his enlargment with the restitution of his possessions which were then very great and comparable to most of the Nobility Hatton SIR Christopher Hatton came into the Court as his opposite Sir John Perrot was wont to say by the Galliard for he came thither as a private Gentleman of the Inns of Court in a Mask and for his activity and Person which was tall and proportionable taken into Favour he was first made Vice-Chamberlain and shortly afterward advanced to the place of Lord Chancellor a Gentleman that besides the graces of his Person and Dancing had also the adjectaments of a strong and subtil capacity one that could soon learn the discipline and garb both of the times and Court the truth is he had a large proportion of gifts and endowments but too much of the season of Envy and he was a meer vegetable of the Court that sprung up at night and sunk again at his noon Lord Effingham MY Lord of Effingham though a Courtier betimes yet I find not that the Sun-shine of her Favour broke out upon him until she took him into the Ship and made him High-Admiral of England For his extract it may suffice that he was the Son of a Howard and of a Duke of Norfolk And as for his Person as goodly a Gentleman as the Times had any if Nature had not been more intentive to compleat his Person than Fortune to make him rich For the times considered which were then active and a long time after lucrative he died not wealthy yet the honester man though it seems the Queen's purpose was to tender the occasion of his advancement and to make him capable of more Honour which at his return from Cardize-Accounts she conferred on him creating him Earl of Nottingham to the great discontent of his Colleague my Lord of Essex who then grew excessive in the appetite of her favour and in truth was so exorbitant in the limitation of the Soveraign aspect that it much alienated the Queen's grace from him and drew others together with the Admiral to a combination and to conspire his ruine And though I have heard it from that party I mean of the Admirals faction that it lay not in his proper power to hurt my Lord of Essex yet he had more Followers and such as were well skilled in setting of the Gyn. But I leave this to those of another Age. It is out of doubt that the Admiral was a good honest and a brave Man and a faithful servant to his Mistriss and such a one as the Queen out of her own Princely Judgment knew to be a fit Instrument for that service for she was no ill Proficient in the Reading of Men as well as Books and his sundry expeditions as that aforementioned and 88. doth both express his worth and manifest the Queen's Trust and the opinion she had of his Fidelity and Conduct Moreover the Howards were of the Queen's Alliance and Consanguinity by her Mother which swayed her Affection and bent it toward this Great House and it was a part of her Natural Propension to Grace and Support Ancient Nobility where it did not intrench neither invade her Interest for on such trespasses she was quick and tender and would not spare any whatsoever as we may observe in the case of the Duke and my Lord of Hereford whom she much favoured and countenanced till they attempted the Forbidden Fruit The fault of the last being in the severest interpretation but a trespass of incroachment But in the first it was taken for a Riot against the Crown and her own Soveraign power and as I have ever thought the cause of her aversion against the rest of the House and the Duke 's great Father-in-law Fitz Allen Earl of Arundel a person of the first rank in her affections before these and some other jealousies made a separation between them this Noble Lord and the Lord Thomas Howard since Earl of Suffolk standing alone in her Grace the rest in Umbrage Sir John Packington SIr John Packington was a Gentleman of no mean family and of form and feature no way despisable for he was a brave Gentleman and a very fine Courtier and for the time he stayed there which was not lasting very high in her grace but he came in and went out and through disassiduity drew the Curtain between himself and the light of her grace and then death overwhelmed the remnant and utterly deprived him of recovery And they say of him that had he brought less to the Court than he did he might have carried away more than he brought for he had a time on it but an ill husband of opportunity Lord Hunsdon MY Lord of Hunsdon was of the Queen's nearest Kindred and on the decease of Sussex both he and his Son took the place of Lord Chamberlain he was a fast Man to his Prince and firm to his Friends and Servants and though he might speak big and therein would be born out yet was he not the more dreadful but less harmful and far from the practice of my Lord of Leicester's Instructions for he was downright and I have heard those that both knew him well and had interest in him say merrily of him that his Latin and his Dissimulation were both alike and that his custom of Swearing and obscenity in Speaking made him seem a worse Christian than he was and a better Knight of the Carpet than he should be As he lived in a ruffling time so he loved Sword and Buckler Men and such as our Fathers were wont to call Men of their hands of which sort he had many brave Gentlemen that followed him yet not taken for a popular and dangerous Person And this is one that stood amongst the Togati of an honest stout heart and such a one as upon occasion would have fought for his Prince and his Country for he had the charge of the Queen's Person both in the Court and the Camp at Tilbury Raleigh SIR Walter Raleigh was one that it seems Fortune had pickt out of purpose of whom to make an Example or to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could doe for she tost him up of nothing and too and fro to Greatness

my Lord of Leicester and Burleigh out of France containing many fine passages and secrets yet if I might have been beholding to his Cyphers whereof they are full they would have told Pretty Tales of the times But I must now close up and rank him amongst the Togati yet chief of those that laid the foundation of the Dutch and French Wars which was another piece of his fineness and of the times with one observation more That he was one of the Great Allies of the Austrian Embracements For both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to the Fiend in the Gospel that sowed his tares in the night so did they their seeds of division in the dark And it is a likely report that they father on him at his return That he said unto the Queen with some sensibility of the Spanish designs on France Madam 〈◊〉 beseech you be content not to fear The Spaniard hath a great Appetite and an Excellent Digestion but I have fitted him with a bone for this Twenty years that your Majesty shall have no cause to doubt him provided that if the fire chance to slack which I have kindled you will be ruled by me and now and then cast in some English fewel which will revive the flame Willoughby MY Lord Willoughby was one of the Queen's first Sword-men He was of the Ancient Extract of the Bartues but more ennobled by his Mother who was Dutchess of Suffolk He was a great Master of the Art Military and was sent General into France and commanded the Second of Five Armies that the Queen sent thither in aid of the French I have heard it spoken that had he not slighted the Court but Applyed himself to the Queen he might have enjoyed a plentiful portion of her Grace And it was his saying and it did him no good That he was none of the Reptilia intimating that he could not creep on the ground and that the Court was not in his Element for indeed as he was a Great Souldier so was he of a Suitable Magnanimity and could not brook the Obsequiousness and Assiduity of the Court and as he then was somewhat descending from youth happily he had an animam revertendi and to make a safe Retreat Sir Nicholas Bacon I Come to another of the Togati Sir Nicholas Bacon An arch-piece of Wit and Wisdom He was a Gentleman and a man of Law and of great knowledge therein whereby together with his other parts of Learning and Dexterity he was promoted to be Keeper of the Great Seal and being of kin to the Treasurer Burleigh had also the help of his hand to bring him into the Queen's favour for he was abundantly factious which took much with the Queen when it was suited with the season as he was well able to judge of his times He had a very quaint saying and he used it often to good purpose That he loved the jest well but not the loss of his Friend He would say That though he knew Vnusquisque suae fortunae faber was a true and good principle yet the most in number were those that marred themselves But I will never forgive that man that loseth himself to be rid of his jest He was Father to that Refined Wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the publick stage and of late sat in his Father's room as Lord Chancellour Those that lived in his age and from whence I have taken this little Model of him gives him a lively Character and they decypher him for another Solon and the Synon of those times such a one as Oedipus was in dissolving of Riddles Doubtless he was as able an Instrument and it was his commendation that his head was the Mawl for it was a great one and therein he kept the Wedge that entred the knotty pieces that came to the Table And now I must again fall back to smooth and plain a way to the rest that is behind but not from the purpose There were about these times two Rivals in the Queen's favour Old Sir Francis Knowls Comptroller of the House and Sir Henry Norris whom she called up at a Parliament to sit with the Peers in the higher House as Lord Norris of Ricot who had married the daughter and heir of the old Lord Williams of Tame a Noble person and to whom in the Queen's adversity she had been committed to safe custody and from him had received more than ordinary observances Now such was the goodness of the Queen's Nature that she neither forgot good turns received from the Lord Williams neither was she unmindfull of this Lord Norris whose Father in her Father's time and in the business of her Mother died in a Noble cause and in the justification of her innocency Lord Norris MY Lord Norris had by this Lady an ample Issue which the Queen highly respected for he had Six Sons and all Martial brave men The first was William his eldest and Father to the late Earl of Berkshire Sir John vulgarly called General Norris Sir Edward Sir Thomas Sir Henry and Maximilian Men of an haughty courage and of great experience in the conduct of Military affairs And to speak in the Character of their merit they were persons of such renown and worth as future times must out of duty owe them the debt of an honourable memory Knowls SIr Francis Knowls was somewhat of the Queen's affinity and had likwise no incompetent Issue for he had also William his eldest and since Earl of Banbury Sir Thomas Sir Robert and Sir Francis if I be not a little mistaken in their names and martialling and there was also the Lady Lettice a Sister of these who was first Countess of Essex and after of Leicester And these were also brave men in their times and places but they were of the Court and Carpet not led by the genius of the Camp Between these two Families there was as it falleth out amongst Great ones and Competitors for favour no great correspondency and there were some seeds either of emulation or distrust cast between them which had they not been disjoyned in the residence of their persons as it was the fortune of their imployments the one side attending the Court the other the Pavilion surely they would have broken out into some kind of hostility or at least they would have wrestled one in the other like Trees incircled with Ivy For there was a time when both these Fraternities being met at Court there passed a challenge between them at certain exercises the Queen and the old men being spectators which ended in a flat quarrel amongst them all And I am perswaded though I ought not to judge that there were some reliques of this feud that were long after the causes of the one Families almost utter extirpation and of the others improsperity For it was a known truth that so long as my Lord of Leicester lived who was the main pillar of the one side as

Respiration she uttered this Verse of the Psalms A Domino factum est istud est mirabile in oculis nostris which we find to this day on the stamp of her gold with this on her silver Posui Deum adjutorem meum Her Ministers and Instruments of State such as were participes curarum and bore a great part of the burthen were Many and those Memorable but they were onely Favourites not Minions such as Acted more by her own Princely rules and judgments than by their own wills and appetites which she Observed to the last for we find no Gaveston Vere or Spencer to have swayed alone during forty four years which was a well settled and Advised Maxim for it valued her the more it Awed the most secure and it took best with the people and it starved all Emulations which are apt to rise and vent in obloquious acrimony even against the Prince where there is onely Amator Palatii The Principal note of her Reign will be that she ruled much by Faction and Parties which her self both made upheld and weakned as her own great judgment advised For I disassent from the common received opinion that my Lord of Leicester was Absolute and Above all in her Grace and though I come somewhat short of the knowledge of those times yet that I might not Rove and shoot at Random I know it from assured Intelligence that it was not so For proof whereof among many that I could present I will both relate a short and therein a known truth And it was thus Bowyer a Gentleman of the Black rod being charged by her Express Command to look Precisely to all Admissions into the Privy-Chamber one day stayed a very Gay Captain and a follower of my Lord of Leicester's from Entrance For that he was neither well known nor a Sworn Servant to the Queen at which Repulse the Gentleman bearing high on my Lord's favour told him he might perchance procure him a Discharge Leicester coming into the Contest said Publickly which was none of his wont that he was a Knave and should not continue long in his Office and so turning about to go in to the Queen Bowyer who was a bold Gentleman and well beloved stept before him and fell at her Majesties feet Related the story and humbly craves her Grace's Pleasure and whether my Lord of Leicester was King or her Majesty Queen Whereunto she replyed with her wonted Oath God's death my Lord I have wisht you well but my favour is not so lockt up for you that others shall not partake thereof for I have Many Servants unto whom I have and will at my Pleasure bequeath my Favour and likewise Resume the same and if you think to Rule here I will take a Course to see you forth Coming I will have here but one Mistress and no Master and look that no ill happen to Him lest it be severely Required at your hands Which so quelled my Lord of Leicester that his Feigned Humility was long after one of his best vertues Moreover the Earl of Sussex then Lord Chamberlain was his profest Antagonist to his dying day And for my Lord of Hunsdon and Sir Thomas Sackvile after Lord Treasurer who were all Contemporaties he was wont to say of them that they were of the Tribe of Dan and were Noli me tangere's Implying that they were not to be Contested with for they were indeed of the Queen 's near kindred From whence and in more instances I Conclude that she was Absolute and Soveraign Mistress of her Graces and that all those to whom she distributed her Favours were never more than Tenants at will and stood on no better ground than her Princely Pleasure and their own Good behaviour And this also I present as a known Observation that she was though very capable of Counsel absolute enough in her own Resolutions which was ever Apparent even to her last in that her Aversation to grant Tirone the least drop of her Mercy though Earnestly and Frequently Importuned by the whole Councel of State with very many Pressing Reasons and as the state of her Kingdom then stood I may speak it with Assurance Necessitated Arguments If we look into her Inclination as it is disposed either to Magnificence or Frugality we shall find in them many Notable Considerations for all her Dispensations were so poysed as though Discretion and Justice had both agreed to stand at the beam and see them weighed out in due Proportion the Maturity of her Years and Judgment meeting in a concurrency and at such an Age as seldom lapseth to Excess To consider them apart We have not many Precedents of her Liberality or of any large Donatives to particular men my Lord of Essex Book of Parks only Excepted which was a Princely gift and some few more of a lesser Size to my Lord of Leicester Hatton and others Her Rewards consisted chiefly in Grants of Leases of Offices Places of Judicature but for Ready Money and in any Great sums she was very sparing which we partly conceive was a Vertue rather drawn from Necessity than her Nature for she had many layings out and to her last Period And I am of opinion with S. Walter Raleigh that those many Brave Men of our Times and of the Militia Tasted little more of her Bounty than in her Grace and Good word with their due Entertainment for She ever paid the Souldiers well which was the Honour of her Times and more than her Great Adversary of Spain could Perform So that when we come to the consideration of her Frugality the observation will be little more than that her Bounty and it were so Inter-woven together that the one was suited by an honourable way of Spending the other limited by a Necessitated way of Sparing The Irish Action we may call a malady and a Consumption of her Times for it Accompanied her to her End and it was of so Profuse and vast an Expence that it drew near a distemperature of State and of Passion in her self For toward her last she grew Hard to Please her Arms being Accustomed to prosperity and the Irish prosecution not answering her Expectation and wonted success for a good while it was an Unthrifty and Inauspicious war which did much disturb and Mislead her judgment the more for that it was a Precedent which was taken out of her own pattern For as the Queen by way of diversion had at the coming to the Crown supported the revolted States of Holland so did the King of Spain turn the Trick on her self towards her going out by cherishing the Irish rebellion Where it falls into consideration what the State of the Kingdom and the Crown Revenues were then able to Embrace and Endure if we look into the Establishment of those times with the list of the Irish Army considering the defeatments of Blackwater with all precedent Expences as it stood from my Lord of Essex's undertaking to the surrender of Kingsale under the

family his servants and his own creatures such as were bound by the rules of safety and obligations of fidelity to have looked better to the steering of that Boat wherein they themselves were carried and not have suffered it to float and run on ground with those empty Sails of Fame and Tumour of popular applause Me thinks one honest man or other that had but the office of brushing his clothes might have whispered in his ear My Lord look to it this multitude that follows you will either devour you or undoe you strive not to rule and over rule all for it will cost hot water and it will procure envy and if needs your Genius must have it so let the Court and the Queens presence be your station But as I have said they had suckt too much of their Lord's milk and instead of withdrawing they blew the coals of his ambition and infused into him too much of the spirit of glory yea and mixed the goodness of his nature with a touch of revenge which is ever accompanied with a destiny of the same fate And of this number there were some insufferable Natures about him that towards his last gave desperate advice such as his integrity abhorred and his fidelity forbade Amongst whom Sir Henry Wotton notes without injury his Secretary Cuffe a vile man and of a perverse nature I could also name others that when he was in the right course of recovery and setling to moderation would not suffer a recess in him but stirred up the dregs of those rude humours which by time and his affliction out of his own judgment he sought to repose or to give them all a vomit And thus I conclude this Noble Lord as a mixture between prosperity and adversity once the Child of his great Mistresses favour but the Son of Bellona Buckhurst MY Lord of Buckhurst was of the Noble House of the Sackvils and of the Queens consanguinity his Father was Sir Richard Sackvil or as the people then called him Fill sack by reason of his gaeat wealth and the vast patrimony which he left to his Son whereof he spent in his youth the best part untill the Queen by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion He was a very fine Gentleman of person and endowments both of art and nature but without measure magnificent till on the turn of his humour and the allay that his years and good counsels had wrought upon those immoderate courses of his youth and that height of spirit inherent to his House And then did the Queen as a most judicious and indulgent Prince when she saw the man grow stayed and setled give him her assistance and advanced him to the Treasurship where he made amends to his House for his mis-spent time both in the increasement of Estate and Honour which the Queen conferred on him together with the opportunity to remake himself and thereby to shew that this was a Child that should have a share in her grace and a taste of her bounty They much commend his Elocution but more the excellency of his Pen for he was a Schollar and a person of a quick dispatch Faculties that yet run in the bloud And they say of him that his Secretaries did little for him by the way of Inditement wherein they could seldom please him he was so facete and choice in his Phrase and Stile And for his Dispatches and the content he gave to Suiters he had a Decorum seldom since put in practise for he had of his Attendants that took into Roll the names of all Suiters which the Date of their first Addresses and these in their Order had hearing so that a fresh man could not leap over his head that was of a more ancient edition except in the urgent affairs of State I find not that he was any ways inshared in the factions of the Court which were all his times strong and in every mans note The Howards and the Cecils on the one part My Lord of Essex c. on the other part For he held the staff of the Treasury fast in his hand which once in the year made them all beholding to him And the truth is as he was a wise man and a stout he had no reason to be a partaker for he stood sure in bloud and in grace and was wholly intentive to the Queens service and such were his abilities that she received assiduous proofs of his sufficiency and it hath been thought that she might have had more cunning instruments but none of a more strong judgment and confidence in his ways which are symptoms of magnanimity and fidelity whereunto me thinks this Motto hath some kind of reference Aut nunquam tentes aut perfice As though he would have charactered in a word the Genius of his House or exprest somewhat of an higher inclination than lay within his compass That he was a Courtier is apparent for he stood always in her eye and favour Lord Mountjoy MY Lord Mountjoy was of the ancient Nobility but utterly deceived in the support thereof Patrimony through his Grandfather's excess in the Action of Bullen his Father's vanity in the search of the Philosophers stone and his Brother 's untimely prodigalities all which seemed by a joynt conspiracy to ruine the House and altogether to annihilate it As he came from Oxford he took the Inner-Temple in his way to Court whither he no sooner came but without asking he had a pretty strange kind of admission which I have heard from a discreet man of his own and much more of the secrets of those times He was then much about twenty years of age of a brown hair a sweet face a most neat Composure and tall in his person The Queen was then at White-Hall and at dinner whither he came to see the fashion of the Court the Queen had soon found him out and with a kind of an affected frown asked the Lady-Carver What he was she answered She knew him not Insomuch as enquiry was made from one to another who he might be till at length it was told the Queen he was Brother to the Lord William Mountjoy This inquisition with the eye of Majesty fixed upon him as she was wont to doe and to daunt men she knew not stirred the bloud of this young Gentleman insomuch as his colour came and went which the Queen observing called him unto her and gave him her hand to kiss encouraging him with gravious words and new looks and so diverting her speech to the Lords and Ladies she said That she no sooner observed him but that she knew there was in him some Noble bloud with some other expressions of pitty towards his house And then again demanding his name she said Fail you not to come to the Court and I will bethink my self how to doe you good And this was his inlet and the beginnings of his grace Where it falls into consideration That though he wanted not Wit and Courage for

he had very fine Attractions and being a good piece of a Schollar yet were they accompanied with the retractiveness of bashfulness and a natural Modesty which as the Tone of his House and the Ebbe of his Fortune then stood might have hindred his Progression had they not been re-inforced by the infusion of Soveraign Favour and the Queen 's Gracious Invitation And that it may appear how low he was and how much that Heretick Necessity will work in the dejection of good spirits I can deliver it with assurance that his exhibition was very scant until his Brother died which was shortly after his admission to the Court and then was was it no more than 1000 Marks per Annum wherewith he lived plentifully in a fine way and garb and without any great Sustentation during all her Times And as there was in his nature a kind of backwardness which did not befriend him nor suit with the motion of the Court so there was in him an inclinations to Armes and a humour of Travelling which had not some wise Men about him laboured to remove and the Queen her self laid in her commands he would out of his natural propension have marred his own market For as he was grown by reading whereunto he was much addicted to the Theory of a Souldier so was he strongly invited by his Genius to the acquaintance of the Practick of the War which were the causes of his excursions for he had a Company in the Low-Countries from whence he came over with a Noble acceptance of the Queen but somewhat restless in honourable thoughts he exposed himself again and again and would press the Queen with the pretences of visiting his Company so often that at length he had a flat denial and yet he stole over with Sir John Norris into the Action of Britain which was then a hot and active War whom he would always call his Father honouring him above all men and ever bewailing his end so contrary he was in his esteem and valuation of this great Commander to that of his Friend my Lord of Essex Till at last the Queen began to take his Decessions for Contempts and confined his residence to the Court and her own Presence And upon my Lord of Essex's fall so confident she was in her own Princely judgment and opinion she had conceived of his worth and conduct that she would have this Noble Gentleman and none other to finish and bring the Irish War to a propitious end For it was a prophetical Speech of her own That it would be his fortune and his honour to cut the thred of that fatal Rebellion and to bring her in peace to the Grave Where she was not deceived for he atchieved it but with much pains and carefulness and not without the fears and many jealousies of the Court and Times wherewith the Queen's age and the malignity of her setting times were replete And so I come to his dear Friend in Court Master Secretary Cecil whom in his long absence from Court he adored as his Saint and courted for his onely Maecenas both before and after his departure from Court and during all the time of his Command in Ireland well knowing that it lay in his power and by a word of his mouth to make or marr him Cecil SIR Robert Cecil since Earl of Salisbury was the Son of the Lord Burleigh and the Inheritor of his Wisdom and by degrees Successor of his Places and Favours though not of his Lands for he had Sir Thomas Cecil his Elder Brother since Created Earl of Exeter He was first Secretary of State then Master of the Wards and in the last of her Raign came to be Lord Treasurer all which were the steps of his Father's greatness and of the Honour he left to his House For his person he was not much beholding to Nature though somewhat for his Face which was the best part of his outside but for his inside it may be said and without soloecisme that he was his Father's own Son and a pregnant proficient in all Discipline of State He was a Courtier from his Cradle which might have made him betimes yet at the Age of Twenty and upwards he was much short of his after-proof but exposed and by change of Climate he soon made shew what he was and would be He lived in those times wherein the Queen had most need and use of Men of Weight and amongst able ones this was a Chief as having his sufficiency from his Instructions that Begat him the Tutorship of the Times and Court which were then the Academies of Art and Cunning for such was the Queen's condition from the Tenth or Twelfth of her Raign that she had the happiness to stand up whereof there is a former intimation though invironed with more Enemies and assaulted with more dangerous Practises than any Prince of her Times and of many Ages before Neither must we in this her Preservation attribute too much to Humane Policies for that God in his Omnipotent Providence had not onely ordained those Secondary Meanes as Instruments of the Work but by an Evident Manifestation that the same Work which she acted was a Well-pleasing Service of his own out of a peculiar care had decreed the Protection of the Work-Mistriss and thereunto added his abundant blessing upon all and whatsoever she undertook which is an observation of satisfaction to my self that she was in the right though to others now breathing under the same form and frame of her Government it may not seem an Animadversion of any worth but I leave them to the peril of their own folly And so again to this great Master of State and the Staff of the Queen's declining Age who though his little crooked Person could not promise any great supportation yet it carried thereon a Head and a Head-piece of a vast content and therein it seems Nature was so diligent to compleat one and the best part about him as that to the perfection of his Memory and Intellectuals she took care also of his Sences and to put him in Linceos Oculos or to pleasure him the more borrowed of Argus so to give unto him a prospective sight and for the rest of his sensitive vertues his Predecessor Walsingham had left him a Receit to smell out what was done in the Conclave and his good old Father was so well seen in the Mathermaticks as that he could tell you through all Spain every part every Ship with the Burthens whither bound with preparation what impediments for diversion of Enterprises Counsels and Resolutions And that we may see as in a little Map how docible this little man was I will present a taste of his Abilities My Lord of Devonshire upon the certainty the Spaniard would invade Ireland with a strong Army had written very earnestly to the Queen and the Council for such Supplies to be sent over that might enable him to march up to the Spaniard if he did Land and follow