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A96700 England's vvorthies. Select lives of the most eminent persons from Constantine the Great, to the death of Oliver Cromwel late Protector. / By William Winstanley, Gent. Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. 1660 (1660) Wing W3058; Thomason E1736_1; ESTC R204115 429,255 671

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Sleidan Speed Stow Sozomenus Sabellicus Stapleton Suetonius Spenser Sir Philip Sidney Serres Selden T Theodoritus Tibullus Tacitus Trussel Nicholas Trivet Tertullian V Victor Verstigan Virgil W Will. of Newberry Will. of Malmsbury Walsingham Weever Waller X Xenophon Z Zosimus The Reader is desired to correct these Errata's with his Pen the most material being in Sir Walter Raleigh's Life his Letter to the Duke of Buckingham should have been placed after his Voyage to Guyana PAge 17. line 30. read falne p. 24. l. 25. for Danes read English l. 32. r. depart p. 44 l. 17. r. Denmark p. 80. l. 1. r. his l. 11. r. sky p. 92. l. 6. for himself r. him p. 101. l 6. r. progress p. 129. l. 18. after enterprize r. which they refused p. 186. l. 8. r. the. p. 207. l. 12. r. they p. 228. l 27. r. bait p. 251. in the title r. Sir Walter Raleigh p. 253. l. 17. r. Rams l. 29. r. unfortunately p. 255. l. 16. r. intercessor p. 279. l. 18. r. Pallas p. 329. l. 2. r. Strafford p. 333. l. 19. r. Strafford p. 405. l. 3. r. Louden p. 477. l. 29. r. fit p. 520. l. last r. Ship p. 562. l. 33. r. tail The Names of those whose Lives are written in this Book 1 COnstantine the Great Folio 1 2 King Arthur Folio 8 3 Dunstan Folio 16 4 Edmond Ironside Folio 22 5 Edward the Confessor Folio 29 6 William the Conqueror Folio 38 7 Thomas Becket Folio 49 8 Richard the First Folio 55 9 Edward the Third Folio 66 10 Edw. the Black Prince Folio 79 11 Sir John Hawkwood Folio 88 12 Geoffery Chaucer Folio 91 13 Henry the Fifth Folio 98 14 John D. of Bedford Folio 115 15 Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick Folio 125 16 Richard the Third Folio 140 17 Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey Folio 145 18 Cardinal Wolsey Folio 151 19 Sir Thomas Moor Folio 155 20 Thomas Cromwel Earl of Essex Folio 170 21 Sir Philip Sidney Folio 179 22 Robert E. of Leicester Folio 186 23 The Lord Burleigh Folio 195 24 Sir Francis Drake Folio 205 25 Sir Francis Walsingham Folio 215 26 Sir Nicholas Bacon Folio 219 27 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex Folio 221 28 Sir Robert Cecil Folio 238 29 Sir Tho. Overbury Folio 241 30 Sir Walter Rawleigh Folio 250 31 Mr. Wil. Cambden Folio 261 32 Mr. Tho. Sutton Folio 268 33 Sir Francis Bacon Folio 273 34 Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester Folio 289 35 Doctor Donne Folio 298 36 George Villiers Duke of Buckingham Folio 308 37 Sir Henry Wotton Folio 319 38 Tho. Wentworth Earle of Strafford Folio 329 39 William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Folio 343 40 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex General of the Parliaments Forces Folio 350 41 Sir Charles Lucas Folio 356 42 King Charles Folio 363 43 The Lord Capel Folio 433 44 James Marquesse of Montross Folio 446 45 Bishop Usher Folio 469 46 John Lilburne Folio 479 47 Oliver Cromwel Folio 525 Englands Worthies Select Lives of the most Eminent PERSONS of the Three Nations from Constantine the Great to the Death of the late Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell COnstantine for his many Victories sirnamed the Great was Son to Constantius Emperour of Rome his Mother was named Hellena being Daughter unto Caelus a Brittish Prince though some Jews and Gentiles out of hatred to her Religion have reported her to be an Inholder or Hoastess he was born in England as all Writers affirm two petty Greek Authors only dissenting who deserve to be arraigned of felony for robbing our Country of its honor Colchester was the place where he first beheld the light as the Ancient Poet Necham sung From Colchester there rose a Star The Rayes whereof gave glorious light Throughout the world in Climates far Great Constantine Romes Emperour bright At such time as he was Caesar under Constantius his Father he was left at Rome as Hostage with Galerius the Emperour but perceiving his death to be by him attempted he posted to Brittain in all haste to his father who was newly returned to the City of York from an expedition he had made against the Picts and Caledonians Constantius at the time of his sons arrival was sick of the Plague whereof he died immediately afterwards the sight of his son at the present so revived his spirits that raising himself upon his bed he set the Crown Imperial upon his head and in the presence of his Privy Councellours spake to this effect Now is my death to me more welcome and my departure hence more pleasant seeing I shall leave my unaccomplished actions to be performed by thee my Son in whose person I question not but that my memorial shall be retained as in a monument of eternal fame What I had intended but by death prevented see thou accomplish let thine Empire be governed uprightly by Justice protecting the innocents from the tyranny of oppressours wiping away all tears from the eyes of Christians for therein above all things have I esteemed my self happy to thee therefore I commend my Diadem and their defence taking my Faults along with me to my grave but leaving my Vertues to revive and live in thee With the conclusion of which words he concluded his life leaving his Subjects sorrowful for his departure but the grief they received by the death of the Father was mittigated in the hopes they conceived of his Son who so resembled his Father in all vertuous conditions that though the Emperour was changed yet his good government remained For as one writes Sol occubuit nox nulla secuta est The sun was gone but night was none Another writes thus of him Great Constantine preserv'd by Heavens decree Of mighty Rome the Emperour to be Constantine thus chosen Emperour in Brittain was confirmed Emperour by the Senate of Rome who like the Persians adored the rising Sun giving approbation to what they could not remedy his first expedition was against the Picts and Caledonians which War his Father had begun but death prevented him to finish it leaving the prosecution thereof to his son Constantine that the Fabrick of so many victories by him atchieved might have the foundation thereof laid in Brittain nor was his success contrary to his expectation subduing the inhabitants that were most remote witnesses saith one of the suns set or going down Whilest Constantine was thus busied in Brittain Maxentius by the tumultuous souldiers was proclaimed Emperour at Rome whose sister Fausta Constantine had married but his tyrannical usurpation grew so odious to the Senate that they sent to Constantine for his aid who willingly hearkening to what they so earnestly desired prepared his forces against the new elected Emperour Maximianus the Father of the Tyrant faining to abhor the outragiousness of his son but seeking indeed to uphold him in his tyranny repaired to his Son in law Constantine with an intent to murther him but revealing his intentions to his Daughter Fausta was by her detected and being taken was
approaching both sides prepare themselves for action a great party of the Royalists was trouted by Cromwel at Islip-Bridge divers of the Commanders taken prisoners the remainder of the party flying to Bletchtington House were there besieged and taken with the same success at Bampton-bush he took Vaughan and Littleton and defeated their forces The King in the mean time marched Northward with his Army and took the strong and considerable Town of Leicester Soon after was that dismal Battel at Naseby where the fate of England was to be determined the number of both sides were not much unequal nor the ordering of their Battalia's much unlike the Kings Front was filled with brave Troops of Horse the Foot stood in the second body the right Wing was commanded by the Princes Rupert and Maurice the left by Sir Jacob Ashley other Commanders of great quality sustaining their parts The Parliamentarian Foot made a firm body in the midst the wings were guarded by the Horse the right wing was commanded by Cromwel the left wing by Ireton the Foot being divided into two bodies was commanded by Major General Skippon fortune at the first favoured the Royalists The Parliaments left wing being routed by Prince Rupert the commander Ireton wounded and taken Prisoner but betwixt the two other Wings the case was different Cromwel coming on with so great force that he routed and overthrew the Kings left Wing the Battel seemed in an equal ballance the Wings on both sides being scattered but after some sharp dispute the Royalists were routed their Horse disserting the Foot fled to Leicester the cumbersome plunder of which place being reputed the occasion of that defeat The Kings Standard and one hundred other Colours were taken all the Ordnance the Kings Coach Cabbinet Letters a rich booty of Jewels a great quantity of Gold and Silver and almost five thousand prisoners which may seem the more strange since on both sides there were not five hundred slain To proceed the loss of that day lost the King his Crown for presently after this Leicester Bath Sherburn yea and Bristol it self were yielded up the Town of Taunton long besieged by Goring was relieved by General Fairfax who soon after took Tiverton and Dartmouth and then marching into Cornwal at a place called Torrington gave the Lord Hopton a great overthrow Cromwel in the mean time took Basin and Winchester the Devizes and Barcklay were taken by other Commanders Wodstock by Rainsborough and Carlile by the Scots who marching from thence to besiege Newark were called back to the relief of their own Countrey then almost subdued by the Marquess of Montross of whom I shall insert the less having particularized it in his Life This Marquess at first sided with the Covenanters participated of their counsels and was the first man when the Scots invaded England Anno 1639. that set footing on English Ground but afterwards detesting their doings he became the most bitter enemy to them that ever they had About the beginning of the year 1644. when the Scottish Covenanters came into England to assist the Parliament Montross went to Oxford to the King to offer his service against the Covenanters in Scotland The King to fit him for-that purpose created him a Marquess and gave him his Commission to be Lord Governour of Scotland and General of all his Forces Scotland being then wholly under the Covenanters it was agreed that the Earl of Antrim should by the beginning of April send over into Argile where the passage is short into Ireland ten thousand Irish as a stock to begin withal this promise at the appointed time Antrim performed in part but was very deficient in the number of Souldiers for instead of ten thousand he sent scarce twelve hundred under the conduct of Macdonald Montross notwithstanding with these men and the addition of his Atholians patcht up an Army with which he afterwards performed such exploits as would pose Antiquity amongst all the Camps of their famed Heroes to finde a parallel to this Army The first Summer after his arrival in Scotland he gave the Earl of Argile a great overthrow fiteen hundred of his men being slain and taken afterwards at a place called Kilsithe having scarce 4000. Highlanders and Irish he encountered and overthrew the States great Army slew above five thousand of them and dispersed the rest hereupon is their Army sent for all Scotland being almost at his devotion Sir David Lesley returned with the Horse and at Selkirk gave Montross a defeat The King in the mean time was routed at Routen Heath by Pointz a Commander of the Parliaments Army the Lord Digby the next moneth was beaten at Sherburn in Yorkshire and afterwards utterly defeated at Carlisle Chester long defended by Biron was yielded up and Ashley himself the Kings General vanquished by Morgan and taken prisoner with one thousand six hundred of his men The King had now no Garrisons left but Oxford Newark Banbury Wallingford Worcester Ragland and Pendennis Newark was straitly besieged by Leven Pointz and Rossiter Oxford wherein the King was himself began to be blocked up by Ireton and Fleetwood and every day the coming of Fairfax himself and a straiter Siege of that City was expected the King resolved therefore to go out of Oxford before this should happen and communicating his mind to some secret and faithful Councellours above all other places he pitched upon the Scottish Camp to the Scots therefore as they lay before Newark the King sent Montruel the French Ambassadour and himself soon after as Ashburnhams man with a Cloak-bag behinde him escaped unknown out of Oxford and came to Newark to the Scots hoping to be received with great humanity by such good Subjects as they boasted themselves to be But now both Fortune and Fidelity failed the distressed King the Scots they first betray him and then Pontius Pilate like washed their hands to declare their Innocency They delivered the King to the English upon Conditions as they pretended that no violence should be offered to his Person the English now having their King a Prisoner carry him first to Holnbey Castle then to Roiston thence to Hatfield not long after to Causam then to the Earl of Bedfords House near Ouborn soon after to Hampton Court the most stateliest of all his Palaces but with what content to his dejected minde let others judge to see his Palace turned into a Prison and himself to be a Captive must needs be a sorrow fitter for out amazement then expression for certainly as joy is most sweet to them who have tasted the miseries of sorrow so sorrow is most bitter to them who have alwayes lived in bliss as one of our modern Poets sings The very thought renews the memory Of my precedent lives felicity Whereby I know my sorrow is the more Who hapless now liv'd happy heretofore To hurry him out of his right minde he did not long stay at Hampton Court but by a crafty excuse he was juggled into the