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Institutions, or, Advice to his grandson in three parts / by William Higford ...
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Higford, William, 1581?-1657.
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bonos in bonis All compacts with wicked men or in wicked things are male icta foedera A Friend is tried in Adversity Si possides amicum saith Syracides 〈◊〉 tentationibus posside eum 〈◊〉 facile credas ei A good close not to be too credulous but to try before you trust true friends being very rare among so many Professors of friendship Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen The Italians have a proverb God shield me from my friends I will look to my Enemies my self It may be an advantage to have an Enemy he will make you stand the surer upon your guard you eye his motions and avenues but a friend which bosometh with you who can prevent He is like a subterraneous engine which wil blow you up before you hear the report And therefore Seneca well adviseth Sic am a tanquam osurus c. Never love so much but reserve your self that if your friend shall become your enemy he shall not have power to do you hurt and yet withall never hate so much but leave an open gap or overture to let in love Your hatred must be mortall your love immortall Love abideth for ever The next in order are your Neighbours a good Neighbour near is better than a brother afar off with whom in respect of nearnesse you are to converse There are two Honorable Neighbours that in effect encircle your Estate 1 The Right Honorable Viscount Tracy wâ—o hath the preheminence of all the Families in these parts for Antiquity Your Ancestors have from them received much honour by divers Trusts and Services recommended and reposed in them Their lands at Alderton lye promiscuously with yours and many differences have arisen between the respective Lords Tenants which have been alwaies composed in an amicable way Many graces and favours I have received in my Country have proceeded from this Honorable Lord and his Son Sir Robert Tracy the true Inheritor of his Honours Vertues And though I might command you yet had I rather intreat you to assist me to pay that deep debt of duty and service which I ow to those of that Honorable Family The other is the Lord Chandos nay the Lord Butlers long before as I am very well able to set forth The Lord Edmund Chandos Knight of the Garter in much infirmity of body did adventure towards Glocester to do Sr. Iohn Higford honour when he was first High Sheriff but falling more sick in the Journey returned to his Castle and died before the Assizes were ended The Lord Giles Chandos employed Sr. Iohn Higford in the Government of his Estate and in the Lieutenancy of the County for his good service done therein promoved him to the Queens Majestie a great Housewife of her Honour who dignified him with the order of a Knight in those days communicable only to persons of worth and quality 14. Sept. 1591. At which time also her said Majestie created Sr Iohn Scudamore Knight the goodlyest Parsonage then in the Court of England and in high favour her Majestie using many gracious speches to them both The Lord Grey Chandos truely noble both in learning and Armes brought me first into the Commission of the Peace and did me many Graces both in Court and Country This noble Lord with whom you are almost coetaneous hath shewed many remarkable Indices of his Prowess and Honour Nec imbellem feroces Progenerant Aquilae columbam Follow the train of your Ancestors and so grow up in his favour Principibus placuisse viris haud ultima laus est You have also many other worthy Gentlemen your Neighbours and some of your Alliance too from whom your Ancestors have received many high favours Your Ancestors knew no other way to continue their good Affections but Affability Sweetness and mutuall Offices of love Morosity and strangeness will loose your friends and benefit you nothing at all Descendendo ascendes The next Companions in order are your servants and Domesticks but these are ill companions lest they prove insolent It is written of Nero the worst of Princes Non habuisse ingenium supra servos when the great affaires of State were in debate in the Senat house he was conversant with his Favourite Tigillinus and the rest of his servants And this hath also been a disparagement to many worthy Gentlemen who affecting to be the best of their company have negclected the converse of their superiors many times to their great disadvantage That you may be the better obeyed by your servants you must carefully govern your self that by your own example you may the better govern them Longum est iter per praecepta breve efficax per exempla In the choice of your servants you must take care that they be negotiis pares and then enjoyn them business enough and exact accounts from them lest by remissness they grow idle and unserviceable Pay them their due Salaries so will they be the more tyed and assured to you Non manebit apud te opus mercenarti usque mane Your Commands must be lawfull pious and religious tantum in Domino remembring that as they are your Servants so they are Gods Freemen Holy David will direct you in the choice of them He that leadeth a Godly life he shall be my servant Faithfull Abraham will inform you how to govern them I know saith God that Abraham will Command his Houshold that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and judgment Abraham had a good servant whom he employed in the negotiation of his sons marriage if you finde such a servant let your soul love him and defraud him not of liberty neither leave him a poor man The next Companions will be your Tenants who are your Neighbours and will have recourse unto you in respect of their Estates which they hold of you Tillage is the preservation of a Commonwealth in providing bread which is called the Staff of man whereupon he leaneth which Staff if it fail Man falleth to the ground Terra dicitur a terendo and in a Fine Tillage-land is first set down because it is worthyer than any other land For as Cicero saith Omnium rerum ex quibus aliquid exprmiitur nihil est Agricultura melius nihil uberius nihil dulcius nihil homine libero dignius By this Kings have their Subsidies and the Bodies of men for supply of their Armies for as Tacitus saith Ex agro supplendum robur exercitus and Incumbents also recieve their full Tithes These Men live innocent lives without deceit they onely rely upon God who giveth the former and the later rain To inclose or not to suffer them to renue their Estates whereby desolation shall ensue draweth on a woe They hold of you by Fealty that is Fidelity to be faithfull unto you for the Lands they hold you must in Relation give them protection whereby they may follow their excessive labours Finiunt reaprantque labores Your Ancestors have been
Corrigenda mutanda Pag. 45. lin 11. lege ab aliis dissidet 47.21 translatio nostra 105.4 omnesue ad unumferè Nam sunt inter Reformatos qui de lectione hujus nominis non male sentiant quos aliquando nominabo si à me nominari volent 107.7 Loca ubi Iehova c. Tota haec notatio deleri posset â—uum antea verbis Merceri cadem dicta sint INSTITUTIONS OR ADVICE TO HIS GRANDSON In Three Parts By William Higford Esq Disce Puer virtutem ex me Virg. LONDON Printed by Tho. Warren for Edmund Thorâ— of Oxford MDCLVIII To his Noble friend Iohn Higford Esq SIR I Have by your permission gathered out of your Manuscript what I conceive to be fittest for the publick use Young Gentlemen who shal read this will acknowledge your favour in imparting it And I shall think my pains well requited if they please to take the good Advice humbly presented to them from the Noble and Learned Author under your beloved Name by the Transcriber Epitaphium Gulielmi Higford HIc jacet Higfordus Quis Saxo sufficiâ— iâ—…i Inscriptum Nomen Caetera Fama docet Higford lyes here we onely write his Name â—pon the Grave and leave the rest to Fame Fama loquitur Give me my Trumpet that I may proclaim â—…b lasting sounds the Noble Higfords Name That this ungrateful world may know He 's gone And know whom they have lost For he was one Whom onely few that is the wise did know And rightly value while he liv'd but now All must lament and love So the sun's light It estimate by the dark shade of night He was a light indeed when he drew nigh And with his beams shin'd on our Company All clouded brows were clear'd and every Face T is beautify'd with smiles such comely Grace Appear'd in his behaviour such true wit Sharp wit but inoffensive alwayes fit For the occasion and the persons still Mingled with his discourse â—…ad wit at will And Learning too he had in readinesse Such as his Book conteins worthy o' th presse His Manuscript to his â—oâ—…s son O when Will it come forth for th' use of Gentlemen He was wel read in Books and Men both these Study'd made what he sâ—…ke or wrote to please Old Authors he lov'd best and well he knew The Old Religion from the late and nâ—w And though he read and honour'd Bellarmine And great Aquinas he did not decline From th' English Church but held fast to his death The Reformation of Queen Elzabeth Wherein he had been bred ever the same Warping neither to Rome nor Amsterdam One note of his Religious minde take hence Exemplar to us all his Patience Among his Papers Gather what his Muse Hath left us in remembrance 't was his use Of Honour'd persons Chandos Button do Live in his Verses still and Capel too Let Higford also live with them His Name With lasting sounds my Trumpet shall proclaim THE PREFACE MAn is a proud Creature ambitious of Immortality but it is denyed him by the immutable Law of God edicted against all flesh Once to dye Omnia mors poscit lex est non poena perire But yet he solaceth himself with a phansy of Immortality at leastwise to live in specie and by his Posterity more conspicuously in his First-born to recontinue his memory Haeres est alter ipse saith Syracides filius est pars patris mortuus est pater quasi non est mortuus quia reliquit similem sibi The Application Dear Cosin reflecteth upon you You are to me both my Cosin and my Son my Cosin by the remotion of a degree but my Son according to the Civil Law Jure repraesentationis because you represent the person of my dear Son your late Father now with God so that in you are invested all his Rights and Prerogatives of Birth and upon you by Gods mercy it likely to descend all the Honour if any such be right and travel of our Ancesters and in you we all must live And because in this your absence from Dixton I cannot impart my solicitous thoughts unto you nor acquit my self of that reciprocal duty I owe you nor manifest the entire affection which I bear you by personal conference love must creep where it cannot go and therefore not knowing otherwise how to make my approaches unto you I have framed and dedicated unto you this ensuing addresse that it may be if worthy your perusal a support to your tender youth apt to slip and a Guide unto you in this your journey upon earth and also a Present or Token of my love unto you upon the entrance of this new year which together with the whole course of your life I heartily pray may be successefull and happy Machiavel in his third book of his Decads upon Livy ch 34. a book which I would recommend unto to you in his due time for I am not of the opinion of those rigid Divines that place so deep a searcher into Histories and Roman Antiquities amongst their Apocrypha books recounteth that in the institution of a young Nobleman or Gentleman for Gentlemen are Nobiles minores three things are very considerable 1. That he descend from worthy parents for that will be presumed that Children will be such as their parents were until the contrary doth appear Fortes creantur fortibus bonis 2. The choice of his Company and Converse for this doth very much demonstrate what the person is in his Genius and disposition as Syracides well observeth All flesh will resort unto their like and every man will keep company with such as himself 3. That he be very carefull how he demean himself in the entrance of his youth that he act nothing which shall be vile sluggish or remiss but that his actions savour of quicknesse and magnanimity and if opportunity invite him thereunto that he undertake some noble Essay aliquod egregium facinus some notable adventure thereby to give reputation and lustre unto his subsequent life INSTITUTIONS OR ADVICE TO HIS GRANDSON The First Part. NOSCE TEIPSUM was a document in especial esteem amongst the ancient Philosophers and to know your Origin and birth is to know a good part of your self I have in my custody six Offices or Inquisitions in serie which also are transcribed into the several Offices at London all which I will take care faithfully to leave unto you because it shall not be through my default that you lose any of your just rights either in honour or profit these Offices and the quiet enjoyment of your Ancestors ensuing thereupon being in truth the very Nerves and Sinews of your estate and the Conduits whereby it doth appear how their blood runneth in your veins of all which I shall be ready to give you an account But I beseech you this your descent be it what it will that you make no boasting or ostentation thereof or comparisons with other Gentlemen than which nothing is more vile or putid but