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
taken notice of in the Long Parliament and he was one of them who at York Oxford and Vxbridge for he was at that Treaty made it evident that that Parliament its self by its Factions was become a grievance he himself keeping a middle way between the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberty so widening his Majesties interest to the utmost latitude and extent For all which and for neglecting the Parliaments Summons to return he and his Son Charles paid in way of Composition 2725 l. 00 s. 00 d. Since for his past Loyalty and present serviceableness made Privy-Counsellor to his Majesty King Charles II. and Chancellor to the Dutchy of Lancaster in which places he died 16â—4 5. As the Persians look not upon their children until they are ten years old so he wished men not to trust too much to their present settlement till it had attained seven years To this ancient Family relate Mr. Henry Seymor who added Art to his Honor in which respect a learned man calleth him not only his Amicus but his Necessarius and paid for his Loyalty 150 l. as Sir Edward Seymor of Berry Pomery did in Devon 1200 l. Richard Seymor of Hâ—nsord Dorset 0030. 06 8. Io. Seymor of Stockingham Devon Esquire 0105 l. 00 00 The Marquiss of Hertford was the first Commander in Chief for his Majesty in the West and the Earl of Cumberland in the North Commanding first Prince Charles his compleat Regiment of the choice Gentry of York-shire for a Guard to his Father and being excepted out of the Westminster-mens Pardon in the Commission they granted their General he was General of the Northern Associations whole Army bringing to his Majesty 24000 l. and 2000. men for the defence of the Country where he cleared York-shire Durham Cumberland c. settling thirty Garrisons for his Majesty forcing and perswading several persons of quality as Sir Edward Loftus and his Richmond-shire Forces Sir Henry Anderson with those of Cleaveland to return managing the war with that civiliâ—y as if he had been only to have kept the peace of the Country Of all which his Ancestors had the government for an hundred and fifty years in their own right as they had of Westmerland in the right of the Viponts their relations A Family that with nature subsisted and grew by the same things whereby it was first raised virtue that created supporting it till it pleased God it became lately extinct in a person made up of true Honor Valor and Mercy the best mettle bends best this Noble Person died about the 1646. having taught the world That the art of making war hath not a positive form and that it ought to be diversified according to the state of occurrences They that will commit nothing to fortune nor undertake any enterprize whose event appeareth not infallible escape many dangers by their wary conduct but fail of as many successes by their unactive fearfulness It s useless to be too wise and spend that time in a grave gaze on business that might serve for the speedy dispatch of it The great Estate of this Noble Earldom reverted unto Anne the sole Daughter of George Clifford the third brave Earl that King Iames when he met him first said was rather King than Earl of Cumberland the relict of R. Earl of Dorset and since of Phillip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery by whom the had two Daughters the one married to the Earl of Thanet who promoted the Kentish and other Insurrections so far that besides frequent Imprisonments and Decimations it cost him at one clap for Compounding 9000 l. and the other to Iames Earl of Northampton Sir Marmaduke Langdale being none of those English-men who being made Gentlemen before they are men seldom become wisemen was bred so as that he might be able to carry his head on his own shoulders and knowing that Gentility sent to Market will hardly buy a Bushel of Wheat added to his honorable descent most Scholar-like accomplishments and good husbandry by the same token that he bought that estate of Sir William Constable an unhappy man that forgot the honor of his ancient Family before the war for 26000 l. which Sir William afterwards begged of his Comerades during the Usurpation for nothing Sir Marmaduke was esteemed a serious and wise man and therefore he was able to do his Country great service when he stood for the Liberty of the Subject as he did all along in the first years of King Charles I. and the King as great when he saw it necessary to support his Government as he did 1642. when he brought in the whole County of York being Sheriff that year to Petition his Majesty to accept of their assistance and all the Clergy of the North to vindicate his Majesties Cause by their Subscriptions as the Laity had done by their Contributions His first exploit was with the honorable Sir Francis Worsley of â—â—â—leton in York-shire Colonel of his Majesties Army till taken Prisoner as he was settling the Array who was so good a pay-master and so civil a man in the Army that he might leave that saying in York-shire which his Country-man Sir Thomas de Rockby left in Ireland behind him That he would eat in wooden dishes but would pay for his meat gold and silver Paying for his Loyalty by way of Composition 5000 l. Francis Nevill of Chivel in York-shire Esq who as Palevezine the Italian had in one night his hair turned from black to gray so in a short time from a very active to a very grave person using much that saying of my Lord Burleighs Stay a little and we shall have done the sooner and paying for his Allegiance at Goldsmiths-hall 1000l Richard Nevil of Bellingbere in Berk-shire did 887 l. Thomas Nevil of London Draper 84 l. Nevil of York Esq and Sir Gervase his Son of Awbern in the County of Lincoln 1737 l. Thomas Nevil of Wakefield York 151 l. the Lady Frances Nevil 329 l. William Nevil of Cresse-temple in Essex Esq 211 l. to force York and to give direction to besiege effectually Sir Iohn Hotham where they had driven him in Hull where eminent was his great care and vigilancy His next was settling the Contributions and Quarters of the Country in the easiest method saying That he durst anger the Parliament but he durst not displease his Country-men after this he furnished his Majesty with 3000. Northern-horse at three several times preserving indeed all the horse that were left after the fatal sight at Marston-Moor having before routed 1500. Scotch horse before the City of York and rolling with them till they were a considerable Brigade by that time they came to Hereford Relieving the adjacent Garrisons as he marched along but the most famous action in all these wars was his marching with 2000. horse from Oxford through all the Enemies Quarters and Army to Relieve â—omfret 1644. ordering his march so prudently that under the Enemies Colours he was
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
he had served the Parliament and not only so but brought him to Sir Io. Gells Company who expressed himself very sensible of the Parliaments ill requital of him and his desire to be represented as a Loyal Subject to King Charles II. and likewise offered him the model of a design and engagement entred into by the Buckingham Dorset and Kentish Gentry with Overtures of Money to go over and promote the said design with his Majesty in Sir Iohn Gells Sir Guy Palmes Sir Io. Curson Sir Thomas Whitmore Mr. Fitz Herbert and Sir Andrew Knovelaes and the aforesaid Gentlemens names appointing Col. Andrews to go to Graves-end to meet with the Kentish Gentlemen whereof none came there where the betrayed man was taken March 24. 1640. with Dr. Hâ—nry Edwards Mr. Clarke and Sir Henry Chichley who were casually with him and being brought to Lond. examined before the Council of State by Scot so punctually to each circumstance of his life his several Lodgings Names and Acquaintances Removes Abodes Correspondencies and Interests since 1646. that he saw he was betrayed and therefore set down a plain Narrative being sensible as he said that Bradshaw had set a spie upon him for four years together after which examination and being confronted by Sir Io. Gell who was trepanned as well as himself he was kept close Prisoner for sixteen weeks together in the Tower and after a Rational Learned Accurate and brave Plea in the behalf of the Freemen of England against the Authority of the High Court of Justice sentenced to be beheaded as he was on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. when as he said the fear of Isaac had banished all other fears after holy preparations for death with the assistance of Dr. Swadling the Sequestred Minister of St. Botolph Aldgate who thanked him for his three dayes converse with him excellent Letters and Discourses to his Friends for he was an exact Orator a Divine Will where having little else left he bequeathed good Instructions to and prayed for his only Daughter Mavilda Andrews a satisfactory account of his Faith and Charity in the clear way of Dialogue to the Doctor to whom he had unbosomed himself in private before the people earnest prayers both of his own and the Doctors who professed himself his Scholar rather than Instructor comforting himself in the honorable kind of his Death answerable to his Birth and Quality in the good Cause of it wherein he said his Judgment was satisfied and his Conscience setled and in the blessed issue of it hoping it would bring him to the presence of Christ King Charles and his good Lord Capel no face of the many that looked on him he observed but had something of pity in it he was enrolled in the noble Army of Martyrs with such incredible constancy that it much confirmed his friends and amazed his foes One of the greatest of whom said Alas poor innocent a better Speech from a private person than a publick Magistrate bound by his Usurped place not only to pity but protect afflicted Innocence especially in so sweet and amiable a nature as Mr. Andrews whom all good men did love and few bad men did hate all men knowing that all his fault was to use his own words a believing nature wrought upon by treacherous men whereof one I mean Bernard was hanged four years after wards at Tyburn for robbing Col. Winthorps House at Westminstâ—r Discite Iustitiam moniti In this Rubrick Mr. Beaumont an Orthodox Minister of Pontefract noted for his Loyal Resolute and constant Adherence to the Royal Cause and for setling at his House the design for surpriâ—zing Pontefract and keeping Intelligence Stating and Regulating Contributions bringing in relief spying the enemies Lines and advantages and going out in several parties to secure it when it was taken murdered by a Councel of War who took sentenced and executed him in two hours Feb. 15. 1648. deserves to have one name being an instance of an extraordinary Cruelty in one respect that with a Fanatick respect to the Law Deut. 13. 6. his nearest relation was forced to have a hand in his execution contrary to the Civil Law among Heathens Filius non torquetur in Caput parentis And Col. Iohn Morris Governor of Pontefract wichh he had with extream pains taken and with extream hardship kept the last Garrison in England for the King being forced to render himself and five more upon discretion and after two and twenty weeks imprisonment sentenced at York where he convinced them that it was against the Law of Arms that a Souldier should be tryed by a Jury and against all the Laws of the Land that a Subject should dye for acting according to an acknowledged Soveraigns Commission and yet as his Master the Earl of Strafford under whom he had his Education he was against all the Laws in being murthered August 23. 1649. Sealing his Allegiance to his Soveraign as his Soveraign had the Libertiâ—â— of his people with his bloud refusing to do an extraordinary act which like Sampson Eliah c. he was urged to do to save himself Gyants were products of the Copulations between the Sons of God and the Daughters of men Copulations unlawful not because they were too near but because they were too far a-kin and Monsters must be the issue of the horrid mixture of an extraordinary example by Commission from God and ordinary actions of meer men who alledge Heaven to justifie the mischiefs of Hell Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit Deserves another mention as honest Cornet Blackborn who after 7. years faithful service to his Soveraign for whom he prayed to his last was murthered at the same time because of the same successless attempt I say successless Our Soveraign the Copy like God the Original coming not in the tempestuous winde of War the fire of Fury or Earthquake of open enmity but in the still voice of a peaceable composition and to shew that this should not be mans work God suffered both the Wise-men of the North the Men of Kent and Cheshire Chief-men to fail in their Loyal indeavours that it might be Gods work and justly marvellous in our eyes must needs have a third mention and Captain Burleigh murdered at Winchester by Wild Feb. 10. 1647. for beating up Drum according to his Allegiance in the Isle of Wight for his Majesty when deposed by the Vote of Non-Addresses and affronted in that place which should have been his Sanctuary the disgrace of Law yet indicted for levying War against the King when Rolfe against was whom proved a design of Assassinating his Majesty was in the same time and place acquitted claims a fourth place in the bloudy Calender all Courts then casting Loyalty as the Maids Graves at Colen do in a night Vomit up all mens bodies buryed there And let Mr. Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleet-street and in the Wars one of his Majesties Messengers for bringing the Kings Seal to London
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
one Treasurer of the Northern Army and the other a Collonel both after the defeat at Marston-moor accompanying my Lord of New-Castle beyond Sea whence the first returned with new hopes to serve his Majesty and was slain at Sherburn in Yorkshire 1645. having time enough to rise on his knees and crie Lord have mercy upon me bless and prosper his Majesty A short Prayer at death serveth him whose life was nothing but one continued Prayer and the other died at Paris not much concerned that he was set by and not set by hung up like the Axe when it hath hewed all the hard timber on the Wall unregarded and none of those that desired to embroyl the Nation in a new War and like a knavish Chirurgeon out of design to blister the sound flesh into a sore to gain by the curing of it 24. Coll. Sir â— Applâ—yard Dilling Cumb. the first that entered Leicester and was therefore Governour of it Good always at at bold Onsets but better at prudent Retreats And to conclude all 25. The Lord Bard a Ministers son of our Church that valiantly fought for it coming from the University of Cambridge to the Army advancing by the particular notice his Highness Prince Rupert took of his large Spirit penned within a narrow Fortune from a Commoner by his great Services to a Baron leading on the Left hand â—ertia with Sir G. Lisle at Naseby and bringing off the whole Brigade otherwise likely to be cut off at Alesford he with the two London Prentices Sir T. and W. Bridges are not the only English instances of men of private Occupations arriving at great skill in Martial performances Sir Io. Hâ—wkwood a General in Florence was a Taylor turning his needle to a Sword and his thimble to a Shield he appeared not in our Wars as spirits who are seen once and then finally vanish being often put upon Honorable but Difficult service to keep places with few men against a fierce and numerous Enemy to whom once he set open the gate of Cambden house his charge as if deserted but entertained them so that they spilt not so much Claret Wine in the house as they left bloud before it He would often commend Sir Clement Pastons method of bounty Building a fair House for Hospitality where his serving-men spent their Younger dayes in waiting upon him and an Hospital hard by where they might bestow their Elder years in Recollecting themselves and say that he descended from that man in Norfolk he must be a Norfolk man that went to Law with W. and overthrew the Conqueror All these brave Gentlemen both for Camp and Court for Entertainment and Service in a March for Valor and in a Mask for Ingenuity Gentlemen who were most of them buryed in honour and his Majesties Cause for a while buryed with them whose Ashes should not be thus huddled together deserving a more distinct Commemoration especially those that have been as devout as valiant and as prudent as devout their Wit being as sharp as their Swords and piercing as far into business as those did into bodies Sir Francis Gerard Sir Cecil Trafford and Coll. Francis Trafford Lancash Gent. men worthy Recusants arming themselves in defence of those Laws by which they suffered valuing their allegiance above their opinion and supporting a Government that was imposed upon them rather than betraying it to them that would impose upon the Nation With whom I might reckon Sir Peter Brown and his son of Kidlington Oxfordsh who was slain in the service being mortally wounded at Naseby and dying at Northampton Sir Troilus Turbervile Captain-Lieutenant of his Majesties Life-guard slain in the late Kings march from Newark to Oxford whose bounty to his Souldiers puts me in mind of my Lord Audleys to his Esquires who bestowed the Pension of 500 Marks upon them which the Black Prince bestowed upon him for his service at the battel of Poictiers and when questioned for it by the Prince said These have done me long and faithful service without whose assistance I being a single man could have done little besides the fair Estate left me by my Ancestors enableth me freely to serve your Highness Sir Nicholas Fortescue a Knight of Malta slain in Lancashire whose worth is the more to be regarded by others the less he took notice of it himself a Person of so dextrous an address that when he came into notice he came into favor when he entred the Court he had the Chamber yea the Closet of a Prince a Gentleman that did much in his person and as he would say Let Reputation do tho rest he and Sir Edmund Fortescue were always observed so wary as to have all their Enemies before them and leave none behind them Sir Henry Fortescue being the most Valiant Commander in H. 5th time Sir Ad. Fortescue the strictest Governor he was Porter of Callis in H. 7th time Sir Hen. Fortescue and Sir Io. Fortescue the most learned Lawyers in Henry 6th time Sir Io. Fortescue the wisest Counsellor in Queen Eliz. time whose studies he was Overseer of and these Gentlemen very eminent Souldiers in King Charles I. Reign always prevailing in their parts with parties as much beneath their Enemies in number as above them in resolution and temperance by whom if there were any violence offered the appearance of these Commanders checked they carrying civility in their presence against all rudeness as the Abbot of Battel did a Pardon in his having power to save any Malefactor he saw going to be executed in all executions Col. Cuthbert Coniers of Leighton in Durham slain at Mulpasse in Cheshire Aug. 1644. and Col. Cuthbert Clifton slain near Manchester who could not endure that Rebellion that took Sanctuary in Religion which wanted a refuge its self the horns of the Altar pushing it from him sober men that could not endure to see the English coming to fight now under King Charles as they did 600 years ago under King Herold drunk and not able either to stand to an Enemy so overcome with drink nor fly from him both with Col. Richard Manning slain at Alseford in Hampshire Col. Will. Eure Brother to the late Lord Eure slain at Marston-Moor and his son L. C. Tho. Eure slain at Newberry Col. Tho. Howard son of Sir Francis Howard who gained the battel at Adderton-moor as Eye-witnesses testifie with the loss of his life Iune 30. 1643. one of them that taught the world to plant Lawrels on the brow of the Conquered Col. Thomas Howard son to the Lord William Howard slain at Piâ—rebridge in the County of York the Honorable Sir Francis and Sir Robert Howard of whose Names there were seven Peers with his Majesty Col. Thomas Col. Anthony and Col. Iames Morgan Sir Edward Morgan of Pencoed Mon. whose Loyalty stood him in 1007 l. Sir Iohn Cansfield who interposed himself between his Majesty King Charles and the Prince and the Fury of the Enemy bringing off both
his House Goods Library Estate and Livings seized on to the great scandal of all the Reformed Divines among whom he was deservedly famous and died confessing his Faith and asserting the Doctrine Discipline and Worship of our Church to Dr. Leo Chaplain to the Dutch Ambassador 29. Col. Edwall Chisenhall a Lancashire Gentleman who as I am informed at Latham-house when the Enemy bragged of their provision sallied out and stole their Dinner and decoying them upon pretence that the house was open killed 500 of them upon the place for which he paid 800 l. 30. Col. Iordan Bovile that often deceived the Enemy as the Gibeonites did the Israelites with passes of false-dated Antiquity who could have thought that Clouted shooes could have covered so much subâ—ilty who often in his own single person took Lievery and Seisin of a breach which his followers were to possesse as frugal as noble as thrift is the fewel of magnificence Sir Giles and Sir Iames Strangways Dorsetshire Gentlemen of an ancient Family great Estates and a good Repute deserving very much of their Country in the Parliaments at Westminster and Oxford of their King in the Field and of the publick good to which their frequent motions in the House and quick actions in the Field always tended in both furnished with that Oratory that used to settle Kingdoms who made speaking an Art which was a talk built in their youth men for which a School-masters name was a name of great Veneration in that Family Father its self being but second to it For Deeds of age are in their Causes then And we are taught but Boys we are so made men Gentlemen of a general Learning but particularly seen in the Affairs of their own Country for which they deserved honors but despised them stout men that flattered none but boast themselves more true just and faithful than any thing but their own memories Memories that forgot nothing but their Injuries which they were so forward to cancel in an act of Oblivion though they were generally excepted out of their Enemies The eldest of the two one of the Feoffees in trust appointed by Mr. Nich. Wadham 1612. who as Absalom being childless erected that uniform and regular Colledge in Oxford called by his name to perpetuate his memory to oversee the finishing of his noble Foundation which he did faithfully being himself a good benefactor to it as he was to all ingenious designs and persons especially in these late times wherein he was as liberal as the Arts he was master of died 54 years after full of years and honour about Christmass 1666. their Loyalty having cost that Family at least 35000 l. To whom I may add Sir Will. Walcot taken with him at Sherburn Castle Aug. 15. 1645. when the Earl of Bristols brother in Law Sir Lewis Dives a Gentleman so famous for his services in Bedfordshire and the Associated Counties in the English War and after a cleanly escape through an House of Office at Whiteball in the Irish and for his great sufferings all along with his Majesty beyond Sea to the loss of 164000 l. after a brave resistance delivered it up to the Enemy not before his Majesty had delivered up almost the whole Kingdom 2 Sir Iohn and Sir Thomas Hele Gentlemen of great Estates and Repute whose withdrawing from the Parliament with Walter Hele of Whimston Devon brought his Majesties Cause great credit for the justness of it rich contributions for the supply of it and abundance of men who trusted much to the prudence and conduct of the foresaid Gentlemen to maintain it 3. Sir Io. Harper of Swakeston Com. Derb. who besides 110 l. setled from him paid 4000 l. composition for being one of the first that resisted the Rebellion in those parts and one of the last that stood out against it for which they would have buried his Grave as the Israelites did Moses as well as himself the people were so fond of him 4. Anthony Hungerford of Black Barton Oxon. Esq and Col. Io. Hungerford who paid for their Loyalty 3989l 5. Sir Willoughby Hickman of Gainsborough and Sir Charles Hussey of Holten-Holy Linc. who paid 2474l between them 6. Henry Hudson of London Esq 3700l Sir Edward and Sir Iohn Hales contributing freely to the first War and hazzarding far in the second bringing the whole Country of Kent to declare as one man for his Majesty 1648. and maintaining them at their own charge in the fields for some days while they did declare so The Authors of the two famous petitions of Kent 1642. 1647 8. Sir Edward while continuing in Parliament going a middle way between the extreams of Popery and Libertinism severe both against the Catholick and the Scots All which services cost them 64000 l. 2. Sir George Bunkley of whom before famous for his relief of Basing 3. Sir Henry Carew another hopeful son of the Earl of Monmouth who had the Command of Kingsworth and which was more of himself being an excellent Scholar and a sober man not to be expressed but in his own Poetry and his own picturing 4. Sir Thomas Tilsley a Brigadeer Governour I think of Lichfield under King Charles I. 1645. and Major General of the English under King Charles II. 1651. by whom appointed to assist the Earl of Derby in raising the Lancashire and Cheshire Forces he approved himself a faithful and an able man till he was slain at Wigan Aug. 25. 1651. with Sir F. Gamul many years his fellow Souldier and now his fellow Sufferer men of good hands and hearts of exact lives as well as great parts each way proportionable in nothing redundant or defective abhorring as they called them ill-favoured and unclean sins The Grave hath every where a good stomach but where these were buried a Boulimia or greedy worm devouring their Honourable bodies as Aceldama did tread Corpses in 48 hours their bodies being taken away as greedily as the Treasure in Iosephus was out of Davids Grave though by the way it was strange there should be treasure in Davids Tomb who said Ps. 49. 17. Man shall carry nothing away with him Col. Thomas and Col. H. Warren the most valiant men that lived because the most prepared to die Twins of Valour and Piety loving in their lives and in their deaths not divided The Sun warms not near himself but at distance where he meets opposition the warm spirits of these Gentlemen discovered not it self in the peace they had at home but in the dangers they met abroad The praying Souldiers that wrestled with God before they strive with the Enemy and besieged Heaven to take it by violence before they assaulted a Town Members of the thundering Legion Men in whom afflictions looked lovely they enjoying themselves in the great difficulties they struggled with as the Bird flutters about its Cage a while and finding no passage out sits and sings Sir John Wake 180 l. Sir Hugh Windkelford Somers 692 l. Ed. Windham
calm of Cowardize seized on the Enemies hearts as that their skirmishes were rather Executions than frights but our sins put a stop to their success 16. Sir Io. Monson of South-Carleton Lincoln a good Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any in Oxford assisting in all Counsels and one in all Treaties for which he paid 2642 l. being permitted a quiet retirement for the same reason King Iohn being urged to untomb the bones of an Enemy permitted him a quiet grave Oh no said he were all my Enemies as honorably buryed To whom I must annex Sir Steven Hawkings never separated from him either in his services or sufferings a Commander of his Majesties Army and an eminent man in his Counsel as were Sir Thomas Haggerston Sir Gilbert Houghton Sir William Hart Sir Richard Hastings and Col. Io. Hilton Persons cut out by nature for Superiority and Command being like Saul taller by the head and shoulders than their Brethren and deserving it every where but among our phanaticks who raised mean men to Authority as the Goths had a Law always to chuse a short thick man for their King most of them bred Scholars and when exchanging their Caps for Helmets not putting off their Learning with their Habit. For though bookishness may be unactive yet Scholarship doth accomplish a Souldier and make him wield his Sword the steadier as appeared in Sir Io. Heydon who was a great Scholar especially in the Mathematicks whereby he overthrew the Astrologers upon their own principles and a good Souldier as were Col. Gosnall and Mr. Iohn Dutton both active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxford the last of whom was an instance of that great truth that Riches may be wanted with Pride and injoyed with Humility he being one of the Richest one of the meekest men in England not so rich in the great Estate he had as in the good works he did Notwithstanding that I find this Note in Goldsmiths-hall viz. Io. Dutton of Sherburn Gloc. Esq 5216 l. William Dallison of Greetwell Linc. 600 l. Fr. Drew Holcomb-Regis Devon 500 l. R. Davies Gwysanney Flint Esq 645 l. Will. Dâ—venport of Broomhall Ches Esq 745 l. Sir Will. Darcy of Witton Castle Durham 2457 l. Sir Robert Dormer and Sir Io. Curson of Oxfordshire who were both taken at Watlington in the same County as they sate upon his Majesties Commission of Array for which besides long Imprisonment they paid 12000 l. and Sir Io. Curson losing of a son in the service as did Sir Alexander Denton Knight of the shire for Bucks and losing his own life with heart-breaking grief in Prison as his son Col. George Denton did his with thirty wounds in the field Sir Tho. Malleâ— Exon. 871l Sir F. Moreton Howd York 828l Major Metcalf whom a shot took out of the hands of a lingring disease quickly cutting off what had been long a fretting Capt. Charles Osburn Capt. Tho. Meynel at the relief of Pontfract Col. Gilbert Marhkam and messenger at Nazeby Capt. Haggerston eldest son of Sir Tho Haggerston slain in Lanc. Coll. Holyland Sir Jo. Mary Mr. Tho. Davison Black Dur. paid 1412l composition Tho. Earl Down 6000l Tho Dove Upton Norf. 930l Math. Davis Sherb Dors. 300 l. Sir Will. Dalston Sir G. Dalston Cumb 4000l Jo. Davis of Raxford Devon and Pangborn Berks. Esq 1400l P. Dayrill Lilling Bucks Esq 700l Sir Tho. Delves Dor. Chester 1484. Sir Fr. Dowse Wall south 570l Fr. Lord Denniscomb 6042l in land and money Sir Edw. De Leyn Hallaxton Linc. 1000l Edw. Dyer Sarkam Park Ed. Dymock of the Race of the Kings Champions Esq 8633l in land and money Sir Lodowick Dyer 1500l in land and money Sir Wolston Dixey of Normator Derby Esq 1835l G. Digby of Landon Staff 1440l Phil. Dracot of Pavisley Recus 816l Sir Ralph Dutton Coll. in the Kings Army 500l Sir Drue and Col. Edw. Druery 1100l Coniers Lord Darcy of Hornby Castle York a noble Gentleman worthy his ancient Family 5464 l. in land and money 17. Doctor William Harvey the Eldest Son of Master Thomas Harvey who had as good a faculty in improving his Sons money with which they all trusted him in Land as they had to get it born at Folkston in Kent bred ten years in Cajus Colledge in Cambridge five years at Padua whence he became so accomplished with such a mixture of Foreign and Domestick Learning as to be Physician in Ordinary to King Iames and King Charles I. to establish in the world against opposition in his life time that new but noble Opnion of the Circulation of the bloud received as generally at last as it was strangers are apt to be suspected distrusted at first all those Riolanus c. shaking hands with him that hand tilted Pens against him yet notwithstanding his great Worth and Obligations upon mankind he suffered 2000 l. deep for attending his Master King Charles I. in these Wars at Oxford he was turned out of the Wardenship of Merton Colledge Oxon. and which was of worse consequence than all the rest having made a good progress to lay down a Practice of Physick conformable to the Thesis of the Circulation of the bloud he was plundered of his Papers by those men who not contented to murther the people of their own time destroyed thereby those that were unborn He died Iune 3. 1657. and the 80 th year of his age a Bachelor leaving behind him three Monuments I His four Books De Circulatione Sanguinis de Generatione de Ovo exercitatio Anatomica de motu cordis sanguinis in Animalibus in quibus scientiam humani corporis Physicae partem utilissimam mirabili sagac detexit demonstravit Vid. Gassend vit Peâ—â—es l. 4. p. 323. 2 His Benefactions whereby he hath been a second Linacer to the Excellent Colledge of Physicians in London 3 His Statue in that Colledge with this Insription Industria Sagacitate Successu Nobilis Perpetuos Sanguinis Aestus Circulari Gyro Fugient is Primus Promulgavit Mundo Nec Passus ultra Mortales Sua Ignorare Primordia Aureum Edidit de ovo atque pullo librum sic novis inventis apollineam ampliavit artem meruitque esse stator perpetus 18. Dr. William Iohnson Fellow of Queens and Dr. Nicholas Bernard Fellow of Cambridge Parallels in most of their vertues and most of their sufferings The first at once the most witty and pious man living the other Master of the greatest Mirth and seriousness in the World Both happy in sanctified Fancies and Parts both bred with eminent men the one with B. B. the other with Bishop Vsher whose Instrument he was in making many and useful Observations and Collections and whose Trustee he was in reference to his Reputation and Remains the first of which he often vindicated and the latter he often published both suffering equally the one turned out of his Fellowship and all his Preferments in England and the other out of his Deanery
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
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
them as friends yet deprived and imprisoned they were so that the good Doctor could attend his Sacred Majesty now calling for him no otherwise than by the excellent Sermons he earnestly demanded and the Doctor dutifully sent and gaining no more favour till the Kings death but with the mediation of his Brother-in-law Sir Iohn Temple than to be his own prisoner at the honorable Sir Philip Warwicks house at Clapham in Bedford-shire whence on the approach of that unparallelled villany he drew up most pathetique Addresses to the Army that perpetrated it and an unanswerable Reply to Ascham and Goodwyn those two only monsters of mankind that durst defend it Which when now past though it transported him as far as either affection or duty could carry him yet sunk him not in an useless amazement for redoubling his fasting his tears and solemn prayer he resumed his wonted studies And Reflecting on the Atheism that Horrid Fact and other Black Circumstances threatned he published his equally seasonable and applauded Reasonableness of Christian Religion Considering that there was not a more dangerous step to irreligion than for those who durst not but own it yet to deprave it to a most scandalous Theory and a most horrid Systeme he cleared its wrested Original in two Latine Quarto Volumes with Reference to the Jewish and Heathen Customs the Primitive usages among Christians and Heretiques the Importance of the Hellenistical Dialect by which means in a manner he happened to take in all the difficulties of the New Testament a Collation of several Greek Copies and a New Translation drawn up many years ago for his own use which on second thoughts to serve all capacities he cast into the present frame and method of the Annotations on the New Testament The careful and publick spirited man adverting that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religion though never so cleared could not inwardly oblige without a power confessed did outwardly awe Upon the Archbishop of Armaghs request 1. To clear some Exceptions Blondel had made against his Edition of Ignatius from some Eastern Counsels 2. And according to his promise of a fuller account to publish that in Latine which he had writ to him in English as well for his own honor whom Salmasius had unworthily called Nebulo as the honor of Episcopacy now as L. Capellus intimated in his Thesis of Church-government at Sedan deserted by all men he drew up those nervous and unanswerable Dissertations Thus cleared and vindicated he our Religion in bonds that was first published there notwithstanding 1. The loss of his dear Mother whose last blessing he was forbid to attend her For 2. The defeat of his Majesty at Worcester from whose own hand he received then a most gracious letter for the satisfaction of his Loyal Subjects concerning his adherence to the established Religion of the Church of England wherein his Royal Father lived a Saint and died a Martyr And 3. The calamity that fell on the honorable Sir Iohn Packingtons Family thereupon at Westwooâ—â—â— whither he was now removed Bearing up himself with the providence of his Maâ—esties miraculous Deliverance in expectation of his no less miraculous Restauration To use his own words That God who had thus powerfully rescued him out of Aegypt would not suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his possage be through the Red Sea he would at last bring him unto Canaan that he should come out of tribulation as gold out of the fire purified but not consumed But others having not that happy prospect of nor those pious and â—iducial reflections on those occurrences and therefore some in that dark juncture falling on the one side to the Pompous way of the Catholicks others on the other side to that more Novel of the Schismaticks the prudent watchman equally provided for both For the first in his Treatise of Heresie and Schism his discourses against the Catholick Gentleman and his Armor-bearer S.W. and his Tract of Fundamentals Forthe second in his six Queries his Replies to Mr. Cawdry Mr. Ieanes and the noble provincial Assembly at London on the Presbyterian account and to Mr. Owen and Mr. Tombes on the Independants and Anabaptists adding that pathetick Paraenesis upon the Interdict Ian. 1. 1655. writ first in his Tears and then with his Ink he looking on this sad dispensation as a reproaching to use his own words his and his brethrens former unprofitableness By casting them out as straw to the Dunghall A dispensation that had even broken his great heart had he not admitted of an expedient that secured all real duties in the Family where he was Neither was he more troubled for the Silence imposed on the Orthodox Ministry at present than amazed at the failure threatned them for the future both in the superior order of Episcopacy which he provided against by a correspondence with his Majesty abroad and in the inferior of Priesthood which he designed to supply a seminary of pious learned and â—ellâ— pâ—â—ncipled Pensioners be kept on foot till his death in a way more suitable to his Heroick minde than his low fortune in which business it was observable how his choice fixed on piety it being his prinple That exemplary virtue must restore the Church But the Nation being too narrow a circle for his diffusive goodness his care extended to the banished abroad as well as his vigilance to the afflicted at home and several sums of money did he send over notwithstanding that the Vsurpers discovered it and convented him whose commanding worth awed them to that reverence of him that when others were amazed at the surprized he made it only an opportunity of saying something home to the fierce Monster concerning his soul and discourse the appropriate ways remaining to alleviate at least if not expiate for them coming off with a new experiment of his old observation That they who least considered hazzard in the doing of their duties fared still best Amidst which sad diversion his labours yet grew up in an un-interrupted course His Review of the Annotations his Exposition of the Book of Psalms his Pacifick Discourse of Gods Grace and Decrees to Bishop Sanderson upon some Letters that passed between that reverend and learned Prelate and Dr. Pierce his Latine Tract of Confirmation in answer to Mr. Daillee together with his Enterprize upon the Old Testament begun at the Provâ—rbs and pursued to a third part of that Book until at the opening of the year 1660. when all things tended visibly to the great Restauration and the good Dr. was invited to London to assist in the great work of the composure of breaches in the Church against which undertaking and the ensuing publick employments he was to expect He 1 Examined his inclinations temptations and defects with the assistance of his friends 2. He contrived such publick good works as he might lay himself out in the Diocess of Worcester designed his charge And 3. Fell to
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
be no exceptions From Nottingham-shire he passed with some Troops to countenance the Commission of Array in other Counties and particularly in Oxford-shire to secure the University from the Rebels and the Scholars and their Plates for his Majesty when assaulted by the Forces of Northampton and betrayed by the Town of Brackley so that he lost his Carriages and Cabinet he writes to Mr. Clark of Craughton in whose Custody they were to restore them Which if you do saith he I shall represent it to his Majesty as sty as an acceptable service if not assure your self I shall finde a time with advantage to re-pay my self out of your Estate and consider that as Rebellion is a weed of an hasty growth so it will decay as suddenly and that there will be a time for the Kings Loyal Subjects to repair their losses sustained by Rebells and Traytors Upon the sending of which Letter to the Parliament and their proclaiming him and his Adherents Traytors for their Allegiance to their Soveraign he marched to Worcester a very commodiously situated place taking it in and Garrisoning it decoying thither the Lord Say Colonel Nath. Fines and Sandys into a trap by a mistake of Prince Rupert for the Earl of Essex and gaining the first Victory and Reputation to his Majesties Side and Party which was judged never able either to form an Army or to aim at Victory How valiantly and warily he led on the Kings Horse at the first Newbery Fight when Col. Middleton protested there was no dealing with Biron who would give no advantage is well known and how prudently and industriously he pursued his Majesties Interest about Wales where he was Field Marshall General may be guessed by the Command given him of that Important Place both for passage into Ireland and Westchester and power over the Circuit of four Counties for Contribution where his Honorable and Obliging Deportment his judicious Works his frequent Sallies his great Word Cconsider so much you know as you consider his magnanimous performance in most Storms in Person his great Art of keeping both Town and Garrison contented with Cats Dogs yea and those failing with but one meal in three dayes while there was any hope of Relief refusing nine summons and not answering the tenth till his messenger returned with assurance that there was no hope of relief when he yielded upon the most honorable terms for himself and the whole Garrison that were given in England except those he afterwards gained at Caernarvon having indured a long and gallant Siege the benefit whereof he injoyed with a notable escape or two to rally the decayed and scattered spirits of the Kingdom into further attempts for his Majesty travelling invisibly and with incredible speed from place to place for a year together not sleeping four nights together in a place for a year till the fatal drowsiness hanging over the Kingdom put him upon taking his rest too and withdrawing to France to follow his ingenious Studies which the War had interrupted in the course but not in the effect of them his admirable discourse to his Mother discovering him as compleat a Scholar him as compleat a Scholar as he was an accomplished Gentleman dying oppressed with the sad thoughts of the consequence of the horrid Murther of his sacred Master about 1650. whose Monument is supported by four excellent Brothers I. Sir Philip Biron a Gentleman of a wide and capacious soul to grasp much and of an enlarged heart to communicate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Servant of love a great Master of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of love as if with Socrates he that knew every thing knew nothing but how to love After many signal services in York-shire in each whereof there was always observed something of a judicious stratagem in a general Storm by the whole Parliament Army upon Tork he was killed in the Head of his Regiment which never went out but he would tell them That never brave man came to any thing that resolved not either to Conquer or perish July 19. 1644. II. The Right Honorable Sir Richard now Lord Biron of Rochdale succeeding his noble Brother in that honor King Charles I. Octob. 24. 1643. invested him with to be Chronicled for his Government in and many surprizes of the enemy about Newark III. Sir Nicholas Biron as excellent a Commander of Foot as Sir Iohn was of Horse one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Life-guard of the world by his Piety and by his Prudence a person whom his late Majesty in all Engagements would have always near him IV. Sir Robert Biron all Colonels in his Majesties Army this last excellent Person higher in his relation to God by his second Birth contingit sanguine Coelum than to his Noble Family by his first All these Heroes deserving that Epitaph the great Family De Haro have always upon their Graves viz. Regum subditi amici THE Life and Death OF Dr. IOHN BRAMHALL Lord Archâ—bishop of Armagh c. HE was bred in Cambridge in Sydney Colledge under Mr. Hulet a grave and a worthy man and he shewed himself not only a fruitful Plant by his great progress in his Studies but made him another return of gratitude taking care to provide him a good Imployment in Ireland where he then began to be greatly interested It was spoken as an honor to Augustus Caesar that he gave his Tutor an honorable Funeral and Marcus Antonius erected a Statue unto his and Gratian the Emperor made his Master Ausonius to be Consul And our worthy Primate knowing the obligation which they pass upon us who do Obstetricari gravidae animae help the parturient Soul to bring forth fruit according to its seminal powers was careful not only to reward the industry of such persons so useful to the Church in the cultivating infantes plamarum young Plants whose joynts are to be stretched and made streight but to demonstrate that his Scholar knew how to value his Learning when he knew so well how to reward the Teacher Having passed the course of his studies in the University and done his Exercise with that Applause which is usually the reward of pregnant Wits and hard he was removed into York-shire where first in the City of York he was an assiduous Preacher but by the disposition of the Divine Providence he happened to be engaged at North-Alerton in Disputation with three pragmatical Romish Priests of the Jesuits Order whom he so much worsted in the Conference and so shamefully disadvantaged by the evidence of the Truth represented wisely and learnedly that the famous Primate of York Arch-bishop Matthews a learned and an excellent Prelate and most worthy Preacher hearing of that Triumph sent for him and made him his Chaplain in whose service he continued until the death of the Primate but in that time had given so much Testimony of his great Dexterity in the Conduct of Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs that he grew dear
of matter then to learn words yea letters drop by drop but nothing was unconquerable to his pains who had a golden Wit in an iron Body The Warr being over and God having ended the Controversie for that time for reasons best known to his infinite wisdom in a way that cut off the most eminent Divines and Scholars of the Church of England from that Calling to which they were set apart This publick spirited Gentleman for the glory of God the clearing of the holy Scriptures in those dayes of Enthusiasm the imploying and supporting of persecuted Scholars in a way honourable to the Church and themselves then under reproach drew a draught of the Work comprehending the Hebrew Chaldee and Greek Originals with the Samaritan Pentateuch the Samaritan the Greek Septuagint the Chaldee the Syriack the Arabick the AEthiopick the Persian and Vulgar Latine Translations the Latine Translations of the Oriental Texts and Versions out of the best Copies and Manuscripts with many additions to the Spanish and French Bibles and a new method giving the Text and all the Translations in one view with several learned Discourses various Lections about which our Doctor hath a learned Tract against the suggestions of Dr. Owen Annotations Indexes all suitable to so great a Work This draught was by Sr. George Ratcliff that Promoter of all honourable Designs shewed the King abroad who encouraging it with a countenance worthy a Prince set the Doctor with the Bishop of London Dr. Iuxons leave and license and all the other Bishops then living consents upon the compleating of it as he did beginning 1653 and finishing it 1657 with a Grammar preparatory to it agreeable to his Motto Labore Constantia For which and his other services as his late Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary he was upon his present Majesties Return to whom he dedicated the Book preferred to the Bishoprick of Chester a Diocess he had but newly reduced by his discreet practises rational conferences great reputation and unwearied pains to some measure of regularity when it pleased God he died 1661. When their work is done God sends his servants to bed He lyeth buried in St. Pauls Cathedral with this Monument Manet heic novissimam Resurrectionis Angeli Tubam BRIANVS WALTON Cestrensis Episcopus Epitaphium aliud ne quaeras Viator Cui luculentum est vel ipsum nomen Epitaphium Quod si explicatius velis Famam consule non tumulum Interim Hic ille est si nescire fas sit Eximius Doctor Qui sub nupera Tyrannide labanti Ecclesiae Suppetias cum Primis tulit Clero a Rebelli Prophanaque Plebe conculcato Improperium Abstulit Religioni apud nos Reformati Professae Gloriam attulit Dum Fremente licet Gehenna Biblia Polyglotta summo prae caeteris studio excoluit Et Excudi procuravit Inde Utrinque Testamentum promeruit Monumentum Et maximis Impensis posuit Quare Longo titulorum Syrmate superbire non indiget Qui nomen jam scriptum habet In Libro Vitae Decessit Vigiliis St. Andreae Nov. 29. AEtatis LXII Consecrationis 1. Salutis CDICOLXI And that this Doctor may not as the Ottoman Princes to support his own Reputation suppress that of his younger Brothers the eminent men contributing to this great work by their advice assistance or intercessions besides those excellent Personages now living as the most Reverend Fathers in God Gilbert Shelden Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Sterne Lord Archbishop of York Dr. Merick Casaubon who procured them a Targum Hierosolymitanum Dr. Pococke who lent an AEthiopick Psalter and was very helpful in the Arabick Version The great Scholar and Linguist Mr. Thornedyke Sir Tho. Cotton who afforded them many M SS and Rarities Dr. Tho. Greaves Alexander Hughes Prebend of Wâ—lls very helpful about the LXX and the Vulgar Latine Dr. Bruine Rieves then Dean of Chichester and Sequestred now Dean of Windsor Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Sir Tho. Wâ—ndy old Mr. Dudley Lostus of Dublin as famous for his Learning as Illustrious by his ancient Extraction sending over an AEthiopick New Testament to the Right Honorable the Earls of Bedford Rutland Strafford and Westmoreland Sir Anthony Chester Sir Norton Knatchbull Dr. Barlow of Queeâ—ns Colledge in Oxford Sir William Farmer of East Measton in Northampton-shire notwithstanding his heavy Composition 1400 l. 840 l. Sir Francis Burdet Mr. Iohn Ashburnham the Honorable Lords Petre and Caepâ—â— since Earl of Fssex and the great Patrons of Learning Baptist Lord Viscount Cambden and the good Lord Maynard heir to all his Fathers Vertues especially to his respects to learning Vertue Mr. Thomas Smith Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge and Library-keeper Mr. Samuel Clerke of Merton Colledge in Oxford Esquire Bedle and Architypographus of that University Mr. Thomas Hyde Library-keeper there Mr. Richard Drake of Pembroke-hall and to conclude with one that is all as over-looking and Correcting all Dr. Edmund Castle of whom the Bishop saith truly In quo Eruditio summa magna animi modestia convenere who is now about a work next in use and renown to that wherein in reference to the Samaritane the Syriack the Arabick and AEthiopick Version he had a chief hand in I mean a Polyglot Dictionary a man since his worth if his humility did permit it might say of its self as Arias Montanus doth De me ac de meo labore et Industria quantulacunque ea â—st nihil profiteor hoc tamen unum recenseo me seilicet continuo Immortales Deo gratias agere quod 10. Idi omatum cognitionem mihi pro sua clementia et henignitate Impertitus sit I should be ashamed it should be said of us as it was said of some in Arias his time that we envied and disregarded his worth so far ut ad causam dicendam citatus vix venia Impetrata protantorum laborum praemio secossum in Boetica sua in quo se bona consciâ—ntia fretus sacrorum Librorum Lectione ac Lucubratione solaretur acceperit Thuan. hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. I say besides those excellent Personages now living and others already dead and mentioned as Dean Fuller Dr. Hammond Bishop Brownrig Mr. Patrick Young one well-deserving of Critical and Historical Learning his late Majesties Library keeper Sir Iohn Hele who did and suffered much for his Majesty in Dorcetshire and Wiltshire being forced to turn his Lands to Money to compound with the Parliament as they called it having given all his money to the King as did Walter Hele Esq Devon who'paid 4â—â— l. The Earl of â—indsey Dr. Samuel Baker Besides all these there were assistants to this Work these Royalists 1. Mr. Abraham Wheelocke born in White-Church Parish in Shropshire bred Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge where he was Keeper of the publick Library Minister of t. Sepulchres and Professor of the Arabick Tongue erected by Sir Thomas Adams born at Wem in the same County the Father of the City of London who though he suffered
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
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
the First that firm Protestant who could not be moved from his Religion though he was in the heart of Spain and France was in his bosom either by power or love said of him when going under his Roof at Naseby fight that he found not so much faith as he did in him though a Papist bred at Saint Omers and travelled for many years in Spain and Italy no not in Israel For it was he whose frugality whereof his plain Freeze cloaths at Court were a great example enabled him and his Loyalty which he said whatever other Romanists practised was incorporated into his Religion often relating with pleasure that Gospel for the day when the Imperialists beat the Bohemians was Reddite Caesari quae sunt Casaris Deo qui sunt Dei urged him when his Majesties Protestant Subjects made him afraid and ashamed to stay in London to send men with ready money when the King wanted it and the Country-people would do no more without it to bear the charges of his Majesties and his Followers carriages and other accommodations to York besides that he was seen to give Sir Iohn Biron 5000 l. Sterling to raise the first horse that were raised for the King in England and his own Officers 40000 l. Sterling to raise two Armies 1642. and 1643. for his Majesty in Wales over and above 40000 l. Sterling in gold at three several times sent his Majesty in person and the unwearied pains the close imprisonments the many iminent dangers of his life and most of these hardships endured when he was eighty years of age and the great services he performed in South-wales where the greatness of his fortune and family improved by the sweetness and munificence of his person raised him an interest that kept those parts both a sanctuary to his Majesties person when he was in streights and the great relief of his Cause both with men and money when he was in want till that victorious Army that had reduced the whole kingdom besieged him who hearing of his Son the Lord Glamorgans landing with considerable Irish forces writes to them That if they would make him undelaid reparations for his Rents they had taken he would be their quiet Neighbor adding that he knew no reason he had to render his House the only House he had he being an infirm man and his goods to Sir Thomas Fairfax they being not the Kings to dispose of and that they might do well to consider his condition now eighty four years of age At last upon very honorable Articles three months time without being questioned for any action in relation to the war being allowed them to make their composition surrendring the very last Garrison in England or Wales that held out for his Majesty for whom the Marquiss lost his great estate being Plundered and Sequestred and in his old age Banished his Country being excepted out of all the Indemnities of his enemies and as I am told left out of the care of his friends among whom he died poor in Prison whither he was fetched in a cold Winter 1648. supported only by his chearful nature whereof his smart Apothegms and Testimonies as when his Majesty had pardoned some Gentlemen upon their good words that had prejudiced his service in South-Wales the Marquiss told him That was the way to gain the Kingdom of Heaven but not his Kingdom on Earth and used to reprove him out of some old Poet as Gower Chawcer c. often repeating that passage of Gower to him A King can kill a King can Save A King can make a Lord a Knave And of a Knave a Lord also And when he saw a ghastly old woman he would say How happy were it for a man going to Bed to his Grave to be first Wedded to this Woman When he was in Bala in Merionith-shire and the people were afraid to come at him for fear he was a Round-head Oh said he this misunderstanding undoeth the world And when the Major came and excused the Town to him Do you see now said he if the King and Parliament understood one another as you and I do they would agree as you and I do What when forbid Claret for the Gout said he shall I quit my old friend for my new enemy When a Mâ—â—quet-bullet at the siege of Ragland glancing on a Marble-pillar in the withdrawing Room where my Lord used to entertain his friends with pleasant discourses after meals hit his head and fell flat on the ground he said That he was flattered to have a good head-piece in his younger days but he thought he had one in his old age which was Musquet-proof Excusing a vain-glorious man as he would put a charitable construction upon most mens actions he said That vain-glory was like Chaff that kept a mans spirit warm as that did the Corn Adding if you set a man on his Horse let him have his Horse When a conceited Servant told him once that he should not have done so and so I would answered he give gold for a Servant that is but nothing for one that seems to be wiser than his Master Two men very like another the one a Papist the other a Protestant one of them set the other to take the Oath of Supremacy for him whereupon said the Marquiss If the Devil should mistake you one for the other as the Iustices did he would marr the coâ—â—â—it When it was told him he should be buried at Windsor Then said he I shall take a better Castle when dead than ever I lost when alive He desired Sir Thomas Fairfax to comprehend his two Pigeons within the Articles who wondering at his chearfulness was told That he suffered chearfully because he did before reckon upon it His goverment of his family was remarkable Dr. Bayley protesting that in three years he saw not a man drunk he heard not an oath sworn and though it was half Protestant half Papist he observed not a crosse word given the whole house being as the Master not only chearful but sober and indeed to keep them so he would wind up the merriest reparties with a grave and serious conclusion no Servants better disciplined or incouraged than his With him it is fit to mention 1. His Son the Earl of Glamorgan since Marquiss of Worcester who was as active in raising Irish forces for his Majesty having made the pacification there wherein it was thought he went beyond his Commission as his Father was in raising the Welch nay indeed Commanded the Welch to Glocester and other plaees with success in the years 1642 1643. as he would have done the Irish had he not been obstructed 1644. as he writes to the Lord Hopton c. to the Relief of Chester for which services he was Misunderstood by his friends Sequestred and Banished by his enemies continuing with his Majesty in that condition till his Restauration A great Mechanick eminent both at home and abroad for the Engines and Water-works
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
to the whole Nation for Integrity and Loyalty may be so to all persons of his quality in every passage of his life 1. To young Gentlemen younger Sons to considerable Families bound Apprentises in London in this careful obliging service to Mr. Coleby a Silk-man in Cheap-side who dying left him his Shop worth 6000 l. 2. To those happy men that having gained estates in their younger days to serve themselves should accomplish themselves against their riper years to serve their Country in his travels upon his enusing on the foresaid estate into France and Italy where he improved himself and by observing the Trades of the respective Marts as he passed laid the foundation of his future Traffick 3. To single Persons in his discreet Marriage into a Family Mr. Sandfords at that time commanding at once most of the money and by that most of the Nobility Gentry and great Trades-men of England 4. To Persons in Trust in the faithful discharge of a joynt power he the Earls of Dorset and Essex were invested with by a charitable person of an 100000 l. deep towards the buying of Impropriations to be Legally and bona fide laid to the Church 5. To Magistrates going through all Offices in the places he lived in a Benefactor in each place particularly to his Company the Cloath-workers whereof he was Warden to the Hospital of St. Bartholomews whereof he was Waâ—den and to the City whereof he was Alderman Sheriff and Lord Mayor promoting the Loanes the King had occasion for advancing the Commission of Array when the Kingdoms condition required it entertaining his Majesty 4000 l. deep at his own charge when he knew how much his Majesties reputation would gain in the Country by the appearance of a good correspondence between him and the City Appeasing the tumults when 63. years of age one night with 30. or 40. Lights and a few Attendants whereof his Son-in-law Sir Iohn Pettus was one rushing suddainly out of the house upon thousands with the City Sword drawn who immediately retired to their houses and gave over their design In countenancing his Majesties legal Proclamations and neglecting the Conspiracies traiterous Ordinances â—ffering the King as Sir Iohn Pettus assumed me who went many times a day in those times from Sir Richard to his Majesty and from his Majesty back again to Sir Richard to stand upon the Priviledges of the City with his Majesty against the Faction as they stood upon the Priviledges of Parliament against him refusing to appear out of the Liberties of the City before the Parliament till he was commanded to do so by the Kingâ— whom he would obey with his ruin when besides a long attendance at his own charge the City not contributing a farthing towards it not to this day in the House of Peers who sent for him every day in a whole month with his Counsel on purpose to undo him he was deprived of Maâ—oralty Honor and all capacity of bearing any Office in the Kingdom kept seven years Prisoner in the Tower refusing to pay the 5000 l. imposed upon him for his Liberty urging that by the Law of the Land he should not suffer twice for the same fault Plundered Sequestâ—ed and Troubled by several seizures of Estates and Debts not ended till 57. after it had gone through 13. Committeesâ— to him and his heirs the Right Honorable the Lord Richardson and the Right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Pettus his Lady to the loss of 40000 l. He died Oct. 6. in the year of our Lord 1647. and of his age 69. being buried at Olaves-Iury London with the Lyturgy in the very reign of the Directory His Loyal Relations so ordering it that the Coaches should stop all passages into the Church and that three Orthodox Ministers should attend at the Grave one ready upon the least disturbance to go on where the other had been interrupted that he might have the benefit of that decent Order when dead which he maintained when alive Famous Walwin added a Dagger to the City Armes for stabbing one Rebel What deserved renowned Gurney that if backed by Authority had stabbed Rebellion itâ—self Sir Nicholas Crisp a Citizen and a Citizens Son having a great Estate by his Birth and Marriage raised it by his Parts whereby besides his interest at the Custom-house he projected such a Trade to Guinia and other parts before the Wars as would have been worth to him 50000 l. a year and to Holland France Spain â—â—aly Norway Turky and Muscovy in the Wars as was worth to the King though wandring up down his Kingdom and forced away from his great Mart 100000 l. yearly Sir Nicholas keeping most Ports open for his Majesties occasions Ships ready for his service and a Correspondence between him and London Bristow c. and all other parts very useful for his Affairs neither was he less active in the Field as Colonel having trained up himself in the City Militia for the service of the Kingdom in leading armed men then at Court as Counsellor to raise and arm them commanding a Regiment of Horse he himself had raised and paid The Polypus puts not on more shapes to deceive the Fisher than Sir Nicholas did to escape those that laid snares for him one while you should meet him with thousands in Gold another while in his way to Oxford riding in a pair of Panniars like a Butter-woman going to Market at other times he was a Porter carrying on his Majesties Interest especially in the design of Mr. Challoner and Thomkins in London he was a Fisher-man in one place and a Merchant in another The King would say of him that he was a man of a clear head that by continual Agitation of thoughts went on smoothly in his business sticking not at any difficulties all the succors the King had from his Queen and others beyond Sea especially from Holland came through his hands and most of the relief he had at home was managed by his conveyance neither was he less valiant than prudent his heart being as good as his head For after he had bravely Convoyed the Train of Artillery from Oxford to Bristol and was Sept. 1643. quartered at Rouslidge near Gloucester a Person of Quality in the Country but of no Command in the Army Sir Iames Envyon not only incommoded his quarters in which particular he was very civil to him but because he would not draw up his Regiment to satisfie a friend of his about some Horses that were stollen there offering to take all other care to finde them that way for many reasons being by him proved inconvenient sent him a challenge adding that if he met him not he would Pistol him against the wall Sir Nicholas met to offer him all Christian satisfaction in the world which not being accepted many passes Sir Iames made at him he in his own defence much against his will and to his grief to his dying day happened to run him through yet making his peace
with him while he lived and offering himself upon a tryal by a noble Counsel of War by whom after an affixer set and a Proclamation for any person to come in and prosecute him none appearing he was quitted Oct. the second 1643. His pious Relations at London something misled I think by some modern Preachers more taken with the seriousness of their preaching and praying than the irregularity of their proceedings befriended him with the Parliament during the Usurpation as he did them with his Majesty after the Restauration having been thousands out of purse to his Majesties Father before the Wars in Custom-house he had a considerable interest in the farming of it since having a peculiar faculty of advancing Trade and consequently Tallage till he dyed 1666. his body being buryed in Mildred Breadstreet with his Ancestors and his heart at a Chappel in Hammersmith built at his Charge He was well known by his large heart in inventing some new kind of Benefaction there as he was by his large head in finding out new Inventions having done many good works in and about the City while he lived and left considerable Legacies there when he dyed Deserving a Marble Monument for his new way of making Brick and an Epitaph as clear as he could speak for the obscure way safe to himself and friends though dark to his foes he had to write expressing himself in these sad times as O. P. whose abilities were not to be gathered from his words any more than his meaning save that the more intangled they were they were the more judicious his Interest obliging him to a Reserve for he durst neither clearly own his thoughts nor totally disclaim them but opening them with such advantages that he was neither mistaken by his friends nor understood by his enemies We must not separate Sir Nicholas Crisp from the Worshipful Sir Iohn Iacob his partner both in the Farming of the Custom-house and his sufferings about them a man ever forward to assist his Majesty saying What! shall I keep my Estate and see the King want where withall to protect it if it please God to bless the King though I give him all I have I can be no looser if not though I keep all I can be no saver and to relieve the Clergy valuing more their Prayers and Gods blessing than his own Estate employing under him only those honest Cavaliers that suffered with him On whose Grave and Sir Abraham Dawes whose misfortues for his Integrity and Loyalty are recompensed in the blessing of his Posterity both his Children and Grand-children flourishing in an Honorable and Worshipful Estate in Surrey indued with excellent Parts good and obliging Tempers a great Reputation and considerable Estates whereby they are as able to serve their present Soveraign as their Ancestor was the Father who when discouraged to advance his share of the 100000 l. with Sir N. C. Sir I. I. Sir I. W. the King had need of with threatnings that he should re-imburse it or as much to the Parliament answered no more But that is the worse that can happen God be thanked I love my Allegiance so well that I cannot only pay it but pay for it And the Worshipful Sir Iohn Wolsten-holm still by the blessing of God upon his chearful spirit which is the result of a good nature and a good Conscience surviving all his sufferings and doing his Majesty and the Kingdom eminent service in the great Trust committed to him though almost eighty years of Age with incredible activity and dispatch eminent for his exemplary Hospitality and Charity his great care to keep a good understanding in the City and his readiness to encourage any publick good work tenderly asking for Sion Colledge and other ruined places as my good friend Mr. Whitle Secretary of the Custom-house who is never wanting to speak a good word for a good work hath often told me to which he hath been formerly a good Benefactor I may say of him as Mr. Crashaw doth of Mr. Aston THe modest front of this small floor Believe me Reader can say more Than many a braver Marble can Here lies a truly honest man One whose Conscience was a thing That troubled neither Church nor King One of those few that in this Town Honour'd all Preachers heard their own Sermons he heard yet not so many As left no time to practice any He heard them Reverendly and then His practice preach'd them o're agen His Parlor-Sermons rather were Those to the Eye than to the Ear. His prayers took their price and strength Not from the loudness nor the length He lov'd his Father yet his Zeal Tore not off his Mothers Veil To th' Church he did allow her Dress True Beauty to true Holiness Peace which he lov'd in Life did lend Her hand to bring him to his End Sir Martin Noel Farmer of part of the Customs born at Stafford in Stafford-shire and dying in Bishops-gate London was very like Sir Nicholas Crisp in the activity of a designing spirit being in all forty several Inventions for Trade and the Charity of a publick one having built and indowed a fair Hospital in the Town of his Nativity one of the first in that kind in that Country and he drew the first Letter with a flourish being bred a Scrivener while he lived besides what he left when he dyed 1665. and was buryed by his own order at old Iury Church with only the Office in the Common-prayer said at his Funeral and the Book put into his Grave Sir Edmund Wright Lord Mayor 1640. Memorable for his Justice to one Clergy-man in his Office Mr. Chestlen of Sr. Matthews Fryday-street molested by a combination in the Parish to pay him no Tythe to weary him out and bring Burton now brought home in a bold affront to publick justice in who appealing to him according to the Statute 37 Hen. 8. found him so resolvedly honest that when Pennigton threatned him to stave him off from doing justice he replyed What shall I be afraid to do justice and ordered him his Tithes pursuing his order so far as to commit them to the Goal without Bail or main-prize that refused to submit to that order till two of the then House of Commons took the Prisoners out of Newgate by force whither they were sent by Law and his Charity to all Clergy-men deprived of their places out of it Sir Abraham Reynardson Lord Mayor 1648. and Imprisoned in the Tower two moneths for not consenting to his Majesties murther and the alteration of the Government which proved the end of that War which Sir Richard Gurney so seasonably would have prevented in the beginning of it and not discharged till he had paid 2000 l. fine and as far as lay in his enemies who had destroyed the foundation of honor lost his honor in a way that increased it In reference to whom be it remembred that his Lady would not suffer the messenger that brought the Proclamation for
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
very vigilantly and in the second in disposing of the Provisions in Colchester so carefully and unweariedly attending it every hour in the day for a long time together with his Imprisonment Escape and Exile excusing the Age Infirmities and Retirements of the first Sir Thomas Burton Sir George Villiers Sir Henry Skipwith of Cows who entertained the King nobly Sir Richard Halford Sir Io. Hale Sir Erasmus De la fountain Sir Will. Iones Sir R. Roberts Sir Iohn Shepington George Ashley Esq Tho. Hortop Esq need no other History than the first Commission of Array in their own Country Leicester-shire wherein they were inserted The Catalogue of Compounders wherein they are punished between them 20000 l. the Paper of Loan wherein they contributed towards his Majesties service 25642 l. the several Imprisonments they suffered and Sequestrations they endured The Right Honorable Henry Earl of Bath a Person it is questionable whether of more Honor or Learning being a great Scholar himself often times on occasion speaking for the Bishops once publickly professing it one of the greatest Honors that ever happened to his Family that one thereof Thomas Bouchier by name was once dignified with the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury always asserting the Kings Interest attending him in his Counsel in York and his General in his Affairs in the West till being taken Prisoner 1642. when he was rendred uncapable of serving his King and Kingdom he grew weary of the world paying for his Loyalty 900 l. rich in a contentment that chearfully injoyed its own Estate and troubled its self not with the thoughts of others limiting all desires but those of doing good whereby he might either relieve the needy or incourage the Ingenious A gallant man not in his quarrels with others but in his Victories over himself greater in that he was above affronts than that he retaliated them a happy soul that conversed with its self understood the value of time made use of that Authority great men are happy in to discountenance Vice and the Reputation which is the talent of Noblemen to encourage Vertue The Right Honorable Francis and Mildmay Fane Earls of Westmerland the first that assisted that Majesty which honored them 1624. and the first that suffered for it For the Earl of Westmerland I finde was not in the Parliament at Oxford because in Prison at London having lost his own freedom in defence of the Kingdoms a great Wit and a Patron of it as appears by his Noble Letters to Cleaveland and Cleavelands Heroick reply to him As was the Right Honorable Henry Cary Earl of Munmouth bred up under his Father Sir Robert Cary Earl of Munmouth 1625. Tutor to the Prince for being the first that brought King Iames tydings of the Kingdom with King Charles I. at home and sent by him to travel with this Instruction Be always doing something abroad whence he returned so well skilled in the modern Languages that being a general Scholar he was able to pass away the sad times in Noble studies the fruit whereof are excellent Translations of Spanish French and Italian Authors such as Malvezzi Bentivoglio c. He dyed 1661. and with him the Earldom of the Lord Cary his Eldest Son dying in the Bed of Honor at Marston-Moor Iuly 2. 1644. The first of these Honorable drank no Wine till he was thirty years of Age saying it preyed upon the natural heat and that vinum est Lac sonum bis puerorum the other enjoyed health best in unhealthy places whence he observed that the best Airs for a man are those that are contrary to his temper the moist to the dry and consanguine and the dry to the moist and phlegmatick and the best Diets to those that correct the Air and the best method a care of not going from one extream into another using often that saying Till May be out Leave not off a Clout Next these Scholars comes Henry Earl of Dover created 1627. that was Colonel of a Regiment of Scholars in Oxford as he was I think Captain of the Guard of the Pensioners after the Earl of Norwich at London a Noble Person not to be moved from his Allegiance by those Arguments used to his Son the Lord Viscount Rochford as some-say but as the Kings Declaration of the 12 Aug. 1642. Intimateth to himself by Mr. Pym viz. That if he looked for any Preferment he must comply with them in their ways and not hope to have it in serving the King Being made up of that blunt and plain integrity towards his Prince and firmness to his Friends for which his Ancestor the Lord Hundson was so famous that Queen Elizabeth saith she would trust her Person with the craft of Leicester the prudence of Cecill the reach of Bacon the diligence and publick spirit of Walsingham and the honesty of Hudson he dyed after one Greatrates that pretended to heal Diseases by washing and rubbing the affected places had been tampering with his Head for his deafness at Windsor March 1665. The Earl of Chesterfield created 1628. who never sate in the Long-Parliament after he urged that some course should for shame be taken to suppress the Tumults and was answered God forbid that we should dishearten our friends choosing rather to be a Prisoner to them than a Member of them and that his Person should be restrained rather than his Conscience ensnared The Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield Governess to the Princess Orange doing that service with my Lord Kirkoven Sir William Boswell c. in getting Money Arms Ammunition and old Souldiers in Holland which my Lord would have done in England And what the Ancestor could not do towards the re-establishing of King Charles I. the Successor did towards the restoring of King Charles the II. both in great hazzard and both great expence their Loyalty having cost that Honorable Family 15000 l. est aliquid prodire tenus Essayes in such Cases are remarkable green leaves in the midst of Winter are as much as Flowers in the Spring especially being seasonable when the whole Kingdom asked a Parliaments leave to have a King as Widdows ask their Fathers leave to Marry Mountjoy Blunt Earl of Newport created 4. Car. I. having made as great a Collection by travel of Observations on the State of Europe as he had done by study of Notes in all kind of Learning was called to the great Counsel of Lords at York and attended in all the Counsel at Oxford where considering that time would undeceive the Kingdom and give the King that Conquest over hearts that he failed of over Armies his Counsel was always dilatory and cautious against all hazzards in battels when bare time to consider would recover the Kingdom and break that Faction which the present hurry united He would not easily believe a man that rashly swore there being little truth to be found in him so vainly throws away the great Seal of Truth he would indure none but him that could
in the world one in most great Actions from 1624. to 1645. to accomplish himself for the service of his own Country where he was Governor of Litchfield Staffordshire keeping with Col. Lanâ— Sir Richard Bagot Dr. Bird and my Lord Loughborough that Country in good order by suppressing the Moor-Lander though as envy always must be expected if it will not be surprised by worth most men supposing their Bayes to wither if others flourish some found fault with his Actions because they did them not themselves which he indured being used to hardship having not eaten his bread nor fasted neither in one place He was slain at Nazeby Harvy Bagot of Parkhall Warwick Esq paid 600l Composition 12. Col. Henry Tillier one of those eminent Commanders brought over by Prince Rupert from the Palatinate zealous for Religion and therefore might be called as well as Robert Fitzwalter Marshall of Gods Army and holy Church worth will not long want a Master his judgement was much relied on in the Relief of Newark in the ordering of Marston-moor fight where with Major General Porter he was taken Prisoner in the siege of Bristol at the Delivery whereof he Vavasor and Mynne drew up the Articles as he did those of Oxford taking as many of the Garrison as would be Listed into pay under him for the French service as the Spanish Ambassador did for the Spanish 13. Col. Robert and Col. Sir Edward Broughton the last of whom did his Majesty Knight service in Cheshire and Newark 1645. 1646. at Worcester 1651. being one of the few Loyal Subjects that appeared there in Cheshire 1659. with the Lord Booth for which he was long Imprisoned in the Gatehouse whereof he was afterwards Keeper woing the Widow whose Prisoner he was and in the Seaâ—fight 1665. between us and the Dutch with his Highness the Duke of York where he valiantly lost his life scorning to fall though in effect killed and in his stubborn way blundring out Commands when he could not speak them 14. Col. Sir Arthur Blainey and Col. Iohn Blainey bred in Ireland and after he had lost his arm in Anglesea a with success shewed it depended not on Valour 1648. killed there The first the plainer man and greater Souldier the second the faster man and deeper Politician whom his own Country cry up for such a man that it will be a question hereafter whether ever there was such a man When invited thither by the Right Honorable Lord Buckley an eminent Gentleman for his Majesty in Northwales basely murdered by one Chedle of the other side 15. Sir Fulke Hunkes an old Souldier from Ireland whose Valor was attended with such meekness that upon all occasions the biass of his inclination did still hang 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he took as much pains to bring over his old acquaintance on the other side by perswasions and Letters as to conquer them by force And indeed so weighty his overtures that qui deliberarun desâ—iverunt they that came to themselves and considered came over to him and revolted 16. Sir R. Leveson of Frentham Staff who with 360 l. per annum setled paid 6000 l. composition a great instance of Commines his rule that they who have the art to please the people have power to raise them He prevented all jealousies of his Majesties proceedings much more complaints doing what the people about desired before they desired it being very tender in bestowing Commands and Trusts since no man is served with a greater prejudice than he that employs suspected Instruments Coll. Tho. Leveson a Gentleman fearless of death always and yet always prepared for it that never begged or bought Command winning all he wore Governour of Dudley which he held till May 13. 1646. 17. Sir Tho. Dallison a Lancashire Gentleman of great service in Prince Ruperts Brigade whose Loyalty cost him his life at Nazeby and 12000 l. in his Estate being one of those noble persons whose too much courage as Buchanan saith in all defeats of the Scots was the reason they were conquered and their pursuing their Enemies too far the cause of their being beaten by them 18. Sir Richard Crane bred in the Palatinate serving the Prince Elector with whose son Prince Rupert he came over 1642. to serve his own Soveraign a Gentleman very careful against all ill opinions of his courage or prudence knowing that if the Enemy over-awed or over-reached him they for ever after had his measure Slain at a sally out of Bristol 1645. Be it here remembred that the Worshipful Iohn Crane Esq of Lorton Bucks paid 1080 l. composition 19. Coll. Anthony Eyre Coll. Rowland Eyre and Sir Gervase Eyre Robert Eyre of West Cabfield Wilts Esq hazzarded their lives and spent above 40000 l. in his Majesties Service commended not only by their side which may be partial but by their Enemies who cannot be suspected so for commanding their looks words and actions yea their very dress garb and accent as well as the pretenders by a rule and watching shrewdly in all Skirmishes the advantage of Ground Wind and Sun each singly considerable but little less than an Army when all put together 20. Coll. Cockram an Agent well versed in the humors and intriguies of the Danish Polish Swedish and other Northern Courts whence he procured considerable supplies both for England and Scotland reducing the former Leagues of those Crowns to more exact particulars with reference to the present state of his Majesties affairs 21. Coll. Edward Hammond Coll. Francis and Iohn Heath all astive in Colchester 22. Coll. Sandys slain at Alford Hampshire besides there were in the service of the name Coll. H. Sandys of St. Michaels Bedw Worcest 1400 l. Sir Martin Sandys Coll. Robert Sandys Coll. Sam. Sandys of Vmbersâ—â— Worcest Esq 1445 l. and Sir Tho. Sandys the first of whom would usually rise out of his bed dress him open the doors walk round about the field fight now striking now defending himself and return to bed not wakened the second for parentage person grace gesture valour and many other excellent parts among which skill in Musick he was the most acceptable person in all places he came of his time except his Enemies Quarters where his person was very terrible his actions more There is a Bird which hath looks like a man which killing a man comes to the Water to drink pineth away by degrees and never after enjoyeth it self An unhappy duel was a covering to one of these Gentlemens eves all his days ever after his Conscience loathing what he had surfeited on refused all challenges with more honour than others accepted them The fourth of these Gentlemen altered the Scene of the War from Defending to Offending and from Speeches to Syllogisms of Fire and Sword gaining much goods and doing more good in shewing that the King was not deserted 23. Sir Francis and Sir William Carnaby both Gentlemen of good quality of Thornum in Northumb. 10000 l. the worse for the War The
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army 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
as Ghosts do about the seat of their hid treasure 11. Sir Arthur Georges Chelsey Middlesex 512 l. Sir Richard Grosven Eaton-Chester 5350 l. in Land and Money Sir H. Gibbs and Thomas his son of Huntingtonâ— Warwick 517 l. Sir Io. Gibson of Weston York 1947 l. in Land and Money Sir H. Griffith of Agnisborton York 10649 l. in Land and Money Walter Grosvenor of Totten-hall Staff 300 l. Fulk Grosvenor Morhal War Esq 356 l. Ralph Goodwin Ludlow Esq Angel Gray Kingston Marwood Esq 718 l. Anthony Gosborough Sapley Huut. Esq 440 l. Richard Goddard Swinden Wilts Esq 413 l. Sir Tho. Gemham of Gemham Suffolk 951 l. Henry Gilbert Locked Derby Esq 680 l. Sir Tho. Garden Cuddleston York 982 l. Sir Edward Griffin Dingley Northam 1700 l. Sir Thomas Gower senior and junior Stilnam York 1730 l. Richard Goddard Sarum Wilts Esq 862 l. Sir Charles Gawdy Growsbal Suff. 4264 l. in Land and Money Mich. Grigg Hadley Middl. Esq 1060 l. Robert Gosnal Otley Suff. Esq 600 l. Sir Richard Graham Norton York 1384 l. Tho. Goodale Lichfield Esq 830 l. Iohn Gifford of Brightley Devon Esq 11 6 l. Samuel Gorges Wruxal Som. Esq 582 l. Sir Gordicke Ribston York 1343 l. Sir Richard Grimes Pecham Surrey 500 l. Peter Griffith Carnoy Flint Esq 113 l. A Catalogue of Worthies that instilled into their respective Neighbours the good principles of Allegiance and were able to go to the charge of then most of them most active as natural motions are most swift towards the end of the War when the air being corrected by cold and nipping misfortune there was no danger of taking the Kings side as some did in warmer times only by Infections professing themselves better able to manage great miscarriages than a great success most of them provided for the War suitable supplies while others performed in it great actions Admiral Colligni was wont to say He that would paint the Beast War must first begin to shape the Belly meaning that the chiefest care in War should be the supply of the Army Many of whose Ladies deserve to be mentioned among these men for having done in the War more then Women One especially who trained a Pigeon to carry Letters which were sent as they were written with the wing of a Fowl all of them at last conquering that party by yielding which they could not by fighting lurking in corners as Truth doth often fearing her Judges though never suspecting her Cause till the Conquerors having so much choice had in effect none at all being able among so many Governments to pitch upon none fell of the Collick I mean the Divisions in the r own bowels partly as well as Cowardise the disease of their hearts and these Gentlemen who followed the Crown with the Cross at first and afterwards endured the Cross without the Crown at last injoyed the Crown without the Cross. They who never refuse what God carveth them do never cut ill for themselves being contented to see much misery upon condition their eyes should not be put out and they in compliance with their fortunes should not be compelled to do any thing unworthy of their Birth patiently bearing their Masters loss of his Crown of Gold in consideration that their Saviour wore one of Thorns being comforted with this general Opinion that his Majesties worse Vice was his Vertue Jo. Warden Ches 600 l. Sir Tho. Wildbraham Woodhay Ches 2500l W. Waldron Wells Somerset â—sque 630l Arth. Warren Lond. Esq 850l Jo. Were Silvert Devon Esq 526l R. Walker Exon. 886 l. Sir W. VValter Sarsd Oxon 1607l Edw. Whitchot of Bishops-Norton Linc. Esq 1700l in land and money Dr. Maurice Williams of Oriel Col. Oxon. 1100l Jo. Walpool Spalding Linc. Esq 450l Sir Michael Wharton of Benly York 9999l in land and money 12. Sir Thomas and Sir William Bridges both Colonels able to serve his Majesty in the War and one or both Prentices but of very good Families ready to serve their Country in time of Peace by their good service under Command deserving one Sir Thomas as discreetly deserting both in time while he might have good conditions when untenable as he stoutly maintained Leicester while tenable Sir Henry Billingham well known for his eminent services not only in Kent but in Christendom and Thomas Billingham Esq who seeing the differences among us grown so great that they could not be united by either Law or Reason endeavored to cut them asunder with their Swords much against their wills not that they were worse Souldiers than others but that they were better Christians their demurre being not in their Courage but Conscience Sir Thomas Bower of Lethoru Sussex a Gentleman whose soul was enriched with many vertues whereof the most Orient was his Humility which took all mens affections without resistance but those men who had guts and no bowels to whom he paid 2033 l. and he said he had a cheap penny-worth of the Peace of his Conscience Sir Thomas Bosvile Eynsford Kent 205 l. of whom and of Col. Bamfield who conveyed away his Highness the Duke of York from St. Iames that rule holds not true that Ambition is the spur of a Souldier 13. Sir William Bulton of Shaws Wiltshire a Gentleman to whom his Ancestors honor were a spur to Vertue his Parents not satisfying themselves that they had begot him honor unless they bred him so too and implanted in him those Vertues to support the Family that raised it by Dr. Prideaux his tuition whose Pupil he was at Exeter Col. Oxon. and Sir Arthur Hoptons Company whom he attended in his Embassie through France into Spain by Geneva untainted with the levity of the French the pride of the Spaniard the superstition of Italy or the novelties of Geneva but nobly accomplished for the service of his Country had it been capable of it Having a large Estate and no Children his Hospitality was exemplary his charity to his poor Neighbors great to poor Ministers and Cavaliers greater to poor Scholars at School and the University greatest of all his Devotion according to the way of the Church of England strict both at his Parish Church and in his Family and his duty and conscience justly valued above his Estate whereof besides his contributing to his Majesty he paid 2380 l. composition to the enemy dying April 1660. and buried at North-Wraxall the 12 th of the same moneth with this noble Character of a most beloved Patriot a most indulgent Husband a loving Brother a fast Friend a good Landlord a bountiful Master and a very just man 14. Sir Thomas Ailesbury one of the Masters of Request to King Charles I. whose Ancestors were High-Sheriffs of Bedford and Buckinghamshire often in Edw. 2. and Edw. 3. time the Countess of Clarendons Father and the Dutchess of Yorks Grandfather suffering much in his Estate at home and dying I think banished abroad 15. Sir William Valentine Lane and Col. Io. Osburn Prince Ruperts old Souldiers at whose advance such a
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
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty
Bruerton by Will bequeathed to Sidney Colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident it was so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel VVard informed me it was invalid in the rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramston who married the Serjeant's Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a farthing and the legal settling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times The delivering his judgement on the King's side in the case of Ship-money cost him much trouble and brought him much honour as who understood the consequence of that Maxime Salus populi suprema lex and that Ship-money was thought legal by the best Lawyers Voted down Arbitrarily by the worst Parliament they hearing no Council for it though the King heard all men willingly against it Yea that Parliament thought themselves not secure from it unless the King renounced his right to it by a new Act of his own Men have a touch-stone to try gold and gold is the touch-stone to try men Sir Noy's gratuity shewed that this Judges inclination was as much above corruption as his fortune and that he would not as well he needed not be base Equally intent was he upon the Interest of State and Maxims of Law as which mutually supported each other He would never have a witness interrupted or helped but have the patience to hear a naked though a tedious truth the best Gold lieth in the most Ore and the clearest truth in the most simple discourse When he put on his Robes he put off respects his private affections being swallowed up in the publick service This was the Judge whom Popularity could never flatter to any thing unsafe nor Favour oblige to any thing unjust Therefore he died in peace 1645 when all others were engaged in a War and shall have the reward of his integrity of the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the World Having lived as well as read Iustinian 's Maxim to the Praetor of Laconia All things which appertain to the well-government of a State are ordered by the Constitution of Kings that give life and vigour to the Law Whereupon who so would walk wisely shall never fail if he propose them both for the rule of his actions For a King is the living Law of his Countrey Nothing troubled him so much as shall I call it the shame or the fear of the consequence of the unhappy Contest between His Excellent Majesty and his meaner Subjects in the foresaid case of Ship-money No enemy being contemptible enough to be despised since the most despicable command greater strength wisdom and interest than their own to the designs of malice or mischief A great man managed a quarrel with Archee the King's Fool but by endeavouring to explode him the Court rendred him at last so considerable by calling the enemies of that person who were not a few to his rescue as the fellow was not onely able to continue the dispute for divers years but received such encouragement from standers by the instrument of whose malice he was as he oft broke out into such reproaches as neither the Dignity of that excellent person's Calling nor the greatness of his Parts could in reason or manners admit But that the wise man discerned that all the Fool did was but a symptome of the strong and inveterate distemper raised long since in the hearts of his Countreymen against the great man's Person and Function This Reverend Judge who when Reader of the Temple carried away the title of the best Lawyer of his time in England and when made Serjeant with fifteen more of whom the Lord Keeper Williams said That he reckoned it one of the Honours of his time that he had passed Writs for the advancement of so many excellent persons Anno 29. Iac. Termino Michaelii had the character of The fairest pleader in England Westminster-Hall was much envied by the Faction upon the same ground that Scaevola was quarrelled with by Fimbria even because totum telum in se recipere he did not give malice a free scope and advantage against him who when the Writ for Ship-money grounded upon unquestionable Presidents and Records for levying Naval Aids by the King 's sole Authority were put in execution and Hambden and Say went to Law with the King the one for four pound two shillings the other for three pound five shilling The inconsiderable summes they were assessed at to the Aid aforesaid went no further than upon this Case put by the King Charles Rex WHen the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all his Subjects in the kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuals and Ammunition and for such time as he shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such danger and peril and by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness and whether in such cases is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided To declare his opinion thus MAy it please your most Excellent Majesty we have according to your Majesties Command severally and every man by himself and all of us together taken into our serious consideration the Case and Questions Signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Letter And we are of opinion That when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under your Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this your kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such peril and danger and that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided Iohn Bramston Richard Hutton George Vernon Iohn Finch Willam Iones Robert Barkley Humphrey Davenport George Crook Francis Crauly Iohn Denham Thomas Trever Richard Weston And afterwards in the Lord Says Case Ter. Hil. Anno 14. Car. Regis in Banco regis with Iones and Berkley to declare That the foresaid Writ being allowed legal the judgment of the Judges upon it consisting of four branches First That the Writ was legal by the King's Prerogative or at leastwise by his Regal power Secondly That the Sheriff by himself without any Jury may make the Assessement Thirdly That the Inland Counties ought to do it at their own Charge and
Subjects out of their Loyalty and against that artifice it was observable what advantage His Majesty had on his side for whereas the combination was forced to flie to the shifts of some pretended fears and wild fundamentals of State with the impertinent as well as dangerous allegation of self-defence since they who should have been Subjects were manifestly the first assaulters of the King and the Laws first by unsuppressed tumults and then by listed Forces His Loyal Subjects had the Word of God the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths requiring obedience to the Kings just Command but to none other under heaven without or against him in the point of raising armes And those that would not be juggled out of their duty they indeavoured to disgrace out of a capacity of an effectual performance of it by a bold and notorious falsehood viz. That there was not one godly man with the King and as God would have it most of the eminent men in this County for his Majesty were in as much repute with the people before the war for their piety by the same token that notwithstanding the partiality and the popular heats wherewith the elections to that Parliament 1640. were carried in many places most of them were Members of that Parliament as they were after in disgrace with the Rabble for their Loyalty For to avoid a scandal upon the Kings government and the individious consequences of maintaining too stiffly even a just Liberty upon the Lords day We find Orders drawn up and sent in a Petition to the Kings Majesty by Iohn Harrington Esq. Custos Rotulorum to be delivered by the Earl of Pembroke Lord Lieutenant of that County To the first of which we find subscribed George Sydenam Knight Henry Berkley Knight And to the second Iohn Lord Pawlet Iohn Stawell Ralph Hopton Francis Doddington As severe though not so fantastical in that point as the very Precisians themselves for these are their words May it please your Majesty to grant us some particular Declaration against unlawful Assemblies of Church-Ales Clearks-Ales and Bid-Ales and other intollerable disorders to the great contempt of Authority and to uphold civil feasting between neighbour and neighbour in their houses and the orderly and seasonable use of manly exercises and activities which we shall be most ready to maintain an even moderation between prophanness and nicety between a licentiousness to do any thing and a liberty to do nothing at all In which temper after unsufferable Imprisonments rude Robberies called after the Germane Mode Plunder from planum facere to level or plane all to nothing or pluming unheard of Sequestrations and at last with much ado a Composition or paying as we do sometimes Highway-men for his own estate which besides the vast charge he was at to have the favour of that Oppression amounted to 1275 l. 00 00 For this is Recorded Sir Henry Berkley of Tarlington in Sommersetshire 1275 l. 00 00 He died Anno Christi 165 ... Aetatis 7 ... Tyrannidis 4. Being buried not without hope of his own and his causes resurrection Hic Decios Agnosce tuos magnae aemula Romae Aut Prior hac aut te his Scotia major adhuc Unus Turma fuit Barclaius copia solus Una cum natis Agminis Instar erat Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY TO all these I could adde Sir William Berkley whose Man was Governor of Virginia in the late times when Princes were forced to go a Foot and Servants Ride on Horse-back and he himself in these when there have been made such orders for the improvement of the Plantation as are inferior only to the rules given him for the first erection of it which yet were none of the strictest for otherwise as Infants must be swathed not laced so young Plantations will never grow if streightned with as hard Laws as setled Common-wealths though they proved the most effectual those people giving no reason for that bitter rather than false jest spoken of one of our late Western Plantations consisting most of dissolute people Christian Savages among the Pagan Negroes That it was very like unto England as being spit out of the very Mouth of it This Gentleman aiming at two things that may do much good and that is 1. Justice in Dealings witness the brave Edicts made at a Convention there 1662. That their dealings among the Negroes there may be as naked as their going 2. A Sober Religion that may bless the Christians there and convert the Heathens in one of whom it is more to overcome Paganism than to master an 100 Pagans witness the very reasonable Proposals made both for the supporting and propagating of Religion in that Country for the maintenance of their Ministers and the discipline of their Church to the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London and since Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury who encouraged the prudential part of their design in a way of great incouragement to the present generation and of great blessing to posterity Sir EDWARD BERKLEY ANd from him it were pity to part his inseparable companion in Loyalty and Sufferings Sir Edward Berkley that living confutation of Machiavell who thought religion spoiled a generous person as bad as a Shower of Rain doth his Plume of Feathers on a rainy day being at once most pious and most gallant of as much humble devotion as generous and daring valour as meek towards God as he was brave towards an enemy very well known for the hardness of his body and more honored for the generosity of his mind First he learned to follow others and afterwards to command himself being so much the more happy in his providence forward as had he gone farther in his experience backward being as knowing himself as he was happy in commanding others that were so Extreamly careful of his first enterprizes knowing that a Commanders reputation once raised will keep its self up like a round body some force is required to set it up though when it is up it will move its self Three things he abhorred in his followers 1. Scoffing at Religion a sin unusual never a civil Nation in the world being guilty of it 2. Useless for either the scoffer believes what he scoffs at and so he puts a great affront upon his conscience or he doth not and then it s in vain to cry down that Religion with raillery that is supported so much by demonstration And 3. Debauchery being of Gustavus Adolphus that true Souldier as well as great Kings temper Who when he first entred Germany and perceived how many women followed his Camp some being Wives for which they wanted nothing but Marriage others Laundresses though defiling more than they washed At a Passage over a River ordered the Bridge to be taken down that these feminine impediments might not follow as soon as his Souldiers were over Whereupon they made such pannick shreeks as seized the Souldiers hearts on the other side the River who
would one Stratagem twice being it is Hannibal's character inverted excellent at using keeping and improving Advantages as the foregoing Gentleman was at gaining them And never coming on the Stage to act any Part but what he was so much Master of as to come off with applause as one that understood as well his own defects as abilities Upon all occasions of the Kings Armies withdrawing from those parts he kept all places in such subjection to his Majesty that at their return they found all things so well that they wondred to see themselves there when elsewhere a constant awe and love keeping those coasts loyal But it was so As clocks once set in motion do yet go The hand being absent or as when the quill Ceaseth to strike the string yet trembleth still So grave and reserved a man might have escaped but that the serious combination measuring other people by themselves looked on those men as most dangerous that were most sober His Estate indeed being so great that it was malignant too and as once a merry servant of his said and by the way his Service was such Preferment and a Relation to him so much more than Wages from others that he had as many ingenious Gentlemen to wait upon him for his divertisement as others of his quality had meaner people for their service If they could finde nothing else against him surely they would sequester him for Original sin At which and his other vexations being but a prisoner at large all the while he was resolved not to be at leisure to seem sorrowful that he might be the more serviceable for though as the Tortoise keeps in his shell all the winter so he retired in the sharpness of the late times yet he had all occurrences waiting upon him when he seemed not to take any notice of them One asked a grave Matron how her Maids came by so good Husbands when they seldome went abroad O said she good Husbands come home to them That Text of Solomon Fear God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change cost him they said three thousand four hundred sixty odd pounds blessing God for the benefits he hoped the Kings good Subjects should receive from their bitter usage which might prove wholsome Physick God sanctifying the malice of enemies the Serpents poyson may be used as an Antidote to do the office of a friend And supplying loyalty as freely as he had paid for it usually concluding his honest Discourses among friends with these two sayings Nothing undoeth us but security and We may well spare our superfluities to serve the Kings necessities To conclude a man this so happy in his Invention that in all his Loyal and Worthy Designs he was never at a loss but so projected all his courses that a second began commonly where the first failed and he would fetch strength from that which succeeded not A great observer of common occurrences the result of which enabled him to Advise and a religious one of extraordinary especially wonderfull emergencies for he thought that the ordinary course of things declared the glory of God The artificial mixture of them was an instance of the art of God and Men managing the subtile engine of the Universe The alteration of them as in a miracle did discover the will of God but the disturbance of nature as in Prodigies proclaimed approaching judgements which made him serious though not ensnared to those two credulous and superstitious Principles Fear and Ignorance which usually manage and deprave mens conclusions and affections Sir GEORGE BERKLEY IT is reported that in the last battel against the Turks for the defence of Christendom there was such a slaughter of the French Gentry engaged in that war upon the French Kings motion to them one day in his Palace that it was fitter they should appear in Arms against the enemies of Christendom than in their Silks and Feathers among their Ladies that there was hardly throughout all France a Family of quality that was not in Mourning It s certain that in the late and we hope the last controversie between the Government and the Faction there fell such a share of the publick calamities upon this Name involved therein by their own Consciences that permitted them not to sit down and injoy their own Estates at home while the State and Church were in so much danger abroad that I find but one person of any eminency and that is Alderman Berkley of London of the name that suffered not sooner or later on the Kings side For not to mention Francis Berkley of London Gentleman who no doubt might answer as the mannerly Gentleman did King Iames when he asked him what Kin he was to such a Lord of his Name Said Please your Majesty my elder Brother is his Cousien Germane And might be owned as once a Howard was by an honorable person of the name under whom he was impressed his Father interceding for his release the Lord asked for his name and when he replied that his name was Howard Said That his Cousien Howards Son should not be a Foot-souldier adding we are not all born to be rich though we are born to be great This Gentleman for his great happiness in conveighing Intelligence from London to Oxford travelling under the notions of a Pedlar and Chirurgeon for forming Combination here for his Majesty under the colour of Trade for securing and relieving his Majesties friends for being one of them that with Master Iohn Fountain and others at London who when they were demanded what they would be pleased to lend for the carrying on of the war Answered That it was against the Petition of Right to answer Yea or Nay whereupon Master Fountain was by the House committed to the Gate-house declaring forsooth against his judgment lest it should draw on others to the like honest error for indeavouring to publish every where the Kings Papers and Declarations to disabuse his Majesties good Subjects He was sixteen times Imprisoned thrice Plundered twice Banished and glad to Compound for the poor remainder of his Estate five hundred sixty two pounds four shillings and two pence Nor Thomas Berkley of Worcester Gentleman one of those happy men that are only to be found in England living in the temperate Zone between Greatness and Want France and Italy being in this case like a False Dye which hath no points between Sink and Ace Nobility and Peasantry who deserved so well of his Majesty in his Person in his Relation and in his Estate that he was forced besides several irregular sums extorted from him to lay down for his Loyalty in the Corban of the conspiracy Goldsmiths-hall four hundred twenty six pounds fifteen shillings and six pence A sum that deserves a mention for we are resolved none shall be denied admittance to the Temple of Honor who hath been at so great a charge to go through the Temple of Virtue Nor Edmund Berkley of Hereford shire the man
the Faction in such times as he might hope either to bring things to some composure or keep them from confusion offering expedients and protesting against extravagancies especially in the two cases of declaring those that indeavoured the Restitution of the Kings Majesty 1647 1648. Traytors and in the Vote That the Earl of Warwick should fight the Prince These passages cost him a long Imprisonment under the Black-Rod Sequestration from the House and what he bewailed more an utter incapacity of serving his Majesty which he was very much afraid of ever since they had suffered the new model of the Army the greatest errour since the first of raising it For ever after he lived to bewail the mischiefs of a Civil War but not to see any hope of remedy Most Children are notified by their Parents yet some Fathers are made eminent by their Children as Simon of Cyrene is known by this Character the Father of Alexander and Rufus and this honorable person by this happy Remarque that he was Father to the Right Honorable George Lord Berkley who hath been as bountiful to the Church of England and its suffering Members of late witness Doctor Pearson Doctor Fuller c. as his Honorable Ancestors were to the same Church and its devout Members formerly when there were twelve Abbies of their erection which injoyed twenty eight Knights-fees of their donation That Noble Family now as well as then deserving to wear an Abbots Mitre for the Crest of their Armes so loving they have been always to the Clergy and so ready to build them Synagogues and endow them not only with worthy maintenance but with eminent Incumbents such whose gifts the Church wanted more than they its Incomes Honest men in the worst of times finding him their Patron and ingenious men in the best of times enjoying him at once their incouragement and their example being happy to a great degree in that ingenuity himself that he doth so much promote in others May there never want Worthy Men that may deserve such a Noble Patron and may Noble Persons never be wanting that may incourage such Worthy Men. To conclude this honorable Name whose Elogies grow upon our affectionate Pens well may this faithful Family fill their Coat that was Originally as is conceived a plain and therefore noble Cheveren with ten Crosses Patle Or As well in memory of their faithful service in the last Just War here at home as for the memorial of their Ancestors Atchievements in the old Holy War in Palestine where Harding the Progenitor relieved the Christians at Ioppa against the Turks with as much resolution and integrity as they did the Protestants here against those which were so much worse than Infidels as they pretended to be better than Christians or their patronage of afflicted virtue and goodness in that which some called peace but was indeed a solitude and devastation in England For but observe this remarkable passage I know not it is a Paragraph of the Church Historian which more to admire speaking of Iohn Trevisa's Translation his ability that he could his courage that he durst or his industry that he did perform so difficult and dangerous a task having no other Commission than the command of his Patron Thomas Lord Berkley which Lord as the said Trevisa observeth had the Apocalyps in Latine and French then generally understood by the better sort as well as English written on the Roof and Walls of his Chappel at Berkley and which not long since viz. Anno 1622. so remained as not much defaced Whereby we may observe that mid-night being past some early Risers even then began to strike fire and enlighten themselves from the Scriptures It may seem a miracle that the Bishops being thus busie in persecuting Gods Servants and Trevisa so obnoxious to them for this Translation that he lived and died without any molestation Yet other of his Speeches That he had read how Christ had sent Apostles and Priests into the world but never any Monks or begging Friars But whether it was out of respect to his own aged gravity or respect to his Patrons greatness he died full of honor quiet and age blessing the noble Family as Ockam said to Frederick Duke of Saxony with his works and the good they did in the world as it protected him with its power in the good it did to him In Illustrissimam Berkleiorum Familiam Ortu magna domus meritis major Regibus oriunda in regum subsidium magnos majoribus debet honores majores reddit ipsum nobilitans honorem Longas stemmatis tractus adauget longioribus virtutem magnifice bona benigne grandis Cui contigit id quo nec fortuna magna majus habet nec bona melius nempe benefacere posse quantum vellit velle quantum possit Quae cum undiquaque summa sit non est quod optemus nisi sit Perpetua THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOHN DOD AFTER so many honorable persons that could do so much for his Majesty here 's a Reverend Person that could suffer for him one that was not over-fond of the Government when it prospered but faithful to it when it suffered declaring as zealously against the scandalous Rebellion of the Puritans as he had done for their pretended Religion the Non-conformist Cavalier One that bewailed his own scruples and perswaded all men to have a care of them Insomuch as that when Bishop Brownrigge in his younger days went to him for his advice he wished him and other hopeful men not to ensnare themselves into uselesseness In the midst of troublesome times he quietly withdrew himself to heaven He was born at Shotledge in Cheshire the youngest of seventeen Children bred in Westchester and Iesus Colledge in Cambridge At a Disputation at one Commencement he was so facetiously solid wild yet sweet fruits which the stock brought forth before grafted with grace that Oxford-men there present courted him home with them and would have planted him in their University save that he declined it He was a Passive Non-conformist not loving any one the worse for difference in judgment about Ceremonies the better for their unity of affections in Grace and Goodness He used to retrench some hot spirits when envying against Bishops telling them how God under that government had given a marvellous increase to the Gospel and that godly men might comfortably comport therewith under which Learning and Religion had so manifest an improvement He was a good Decalogist and to his dying day how roughly soever used stuck to his own judgment of what he had written on the fifth Commandment of obedience to lawful Authority Some riotous Gentlemen casually coming to the Table of Sir Anthony Cope in Hanwell were half-starved in the midst of a Feast because refraining from Swearing meat and drink to them in the presence of Master Dod of these one after dinner ingeniously professed that he thought it had been impossible for himself to forbear Oaths so long a
Barons of the Exchequer in which place he was tender of two things the Churches and the Kings Rights having never as we heard taken Fee when a Pleader either of an Orthodox Minister or of a Kings Servant The first Books of the Law he would recommend to young Students was the Historical as the years and tearms of Common-law permitting Finch Dodderidge Fortescue Fulbeck and others that writ of the nature of the Law among which Books the Register is authentique Speculum Iustitiariorum is full and satisfactory Glanvill de Legibus consuetudinibus Regni Angliae is useful and practical the Old Tenures tried and approved Bracton methodical rational and compleat Britton learned and exact though his Law in some cases be obsolete and out of date Fleta deep and comprehensive Fortescue sinewy and curious Stuthams Abridgement well contrived and of ready use Littletons Tenures sound exact and the same thing to us Common Lawyers that Iustinians Institutes is to Civil Lawyers Littleton being deservedly said not to be the name of a Lawyer but of the Law it self Fitz-Herberts Abridgement and Natum brevium elaborate and well-digested Collections Doctor and Student A good account of the nature grounds and variety of Laws Stamfords Pleas of the Crown and Prerogative weighty smart and methodical Rastals Book of Entries and the Lord Brooks's Abridgement commended by my Lord Cook as good repertories of the year-books of the Law Theobalds Book of Writs sound and full the next explanatory Books were the next in which kind Cooks Works and Ploydens Commentaries pass for Oracles and Mr. Lambards Books for the most exquisite Antiquities and in the third place Reports among which those of Cook and Crook are profound fundamental and material those of Popham Hobart Owen Hutton Winch Lea Hetley Leonard Brownlow Bulstrode Yelverton Bridgeman are sinewy clear pertinent useful and approved and especially a man must have the Year-books and Statutes His Counsel to the King was with the like freedom as these directions to the young Gentlemen and his Judgment on the Bench with as much faithfulness as either The English in a year of great mortality amongst them had their children born without their cheek-teeth This Judge especially in sad times and in a sad case would have all Pleadings without biting his Nature was pitiful and ingenuous insomuch that he might be called as Tostanus was The Patron of Infirmities His Discourse was always charitable either to excuse their failings or mitigate their punishments The favour he shewed others he found not himself His concurring with his Brethren about Ship-money being aggravated with the most odious circumstances and punished with the severe usage of a Prison a Fine and the loosing of his Place a great argument certainly of his Integrity that in a searching Age he that had been Judge near upon twenty years could be found guilty of no fault but avowing the Law according to his Judgement and being of opinion That the King in case of danger whereof he was Iudge might tax the Nation to secure its self An opinion so innocent that Justice Hutton himself who went to his grave with the reputation of an honest Judge would protest he could heartily wish true it being as much for the Interest of the Nation as it seemed to him against the Law of it So legal that Baron Denham though he was sick and could not debate it with his Brethren and something scrupulous that if he had been there he could not have agreed with them yet it appears his dissent was not from his apprehension of the injustice of the Tax called Ship-money in general but from some particular irregularity in the proceeding with Mr. Hampden in particular as appears from this Certificate dated May 26. 1638. directed to the Lord Chief Justice Brampston May it please your Lordship I Had provided my self to have made a short Argument and to have delivered my Opinion with the Reasons but by reason of want of rest this last night my old Disease being upon me my sickness and weakness greatly increased insomuch as I cannot attend the business as I desire and if my opinion be desired it is for the Plaintiff Iohn Denham And this reason added to it That he thought His Majesty could not seize on any Subjects Goods without a Court-Record c. And so harmless that it was but twenty shillings that Hampden paid with all this ado after Monarchy and Liberty was brought to plead at the Bar. And Judge Crook himself who was one that dissented from his Brethrens opinions about Shipmoney though he had once subscribed it by the same token that the People would say at that time That Ship-money might be had by Hook it should never be had by Crook would say of Hampden That he was a dangerous man and that men had best take heed of him Remarkable here the difference between His Majesties temper and the Parliaments they punished five of the Judges for that very liberty of opinion which they themselves asserted under the notion of Liberty of Conscience that voted against their Sentiments severely The King entertained those two that voted against his Judgement and Interest too with respect the one dying with a Character from his Master of an upright man and the other being dismissed upon his own earnest Petition with the honour of having been a good Servant as is evident from this humble Petition of his to His Majesty To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Your Majesties humble Servant George Crook Knight one of the Iustices of Your Bench Humbly â—heweth THat he having by the Gracious Favour of Your Majesties late Father of blessed Memory and of Your Majesty served Your Majesty and your said late Father as a Judge of Your Majesties Court of Common-Pleas and of Yâ—ur Highness Court called the Kings-Bench above this sixteen years is now become very old being above the age of 80 years and by reason of his said age and dullness of hearing and other infirmities whereby it hath pleased God to visit him he findeth himself disabled any longer to do that Service in your Courts which the Place requireth and he desireth to perform yet is desirous to live and die in your Majesties Favour His most humble Suit is That your Majesty will be pleased to dispence with his further Attendance in any your Majesties Courts that so he may retire himself and expect Gods good pleasure And during that little remainder of his life pray for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign George Crook And this Gracious Answer of his Majesty to him The KINGS Answer UPon the humble Address by the humble Petition of Sir George Crook Knight who after many years Service done both to Our deceased Father and Our Self as Our said Fathers Serjeant at Law and one of His and Our Judges of Our Benches at Westminster hath humbly besought Us by reason of the Infirmity of his old Age which disableth him to continue
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
reproving sin as to spare the person and yet so discreetly tender towards the person as not to countenance sin A man that would not give his heart the lie with his tongue by not intending what he spoke or his tongue the lie with his actions by not performing what he promised that had rather friendly insinuate mens errors to themselves than detractingly blaze them to others a man that would not put off his Devotion for want of leisure nor his Charity for want of Ability that thought it better to deny a request for that was onely discourtesie than not to perform a promise for that is injury that would not rebuke as the Philosopher would beat his servant in anger angry reproofs being like scalding potions that work being to be done with compassion rather than passion Many excellent books were dedicated to him its pity but there should be an intire book made of him Vivere Deo incepit eodem quo credebat Deum vixisse hominibus nempe Mortii 25. 1641. Ne dignissimum virum qui nil servâ—ra dignum perire passus est vel fuisse seri nepotes nesciant hoc Monumentum aeter â—itati sacrum esse voluit W. D. E. A. Qui cordicitus amavit Pristinae sidei virum decoctum generosum pectus honesto Annex we to both their Lives THE Life and Death OF IOHN DAVENANT Lord Bishop of Salisbury THeir good Friend who told Dr. Ward when he saw what his and other mens indulgence to dissenting persons was like to come to that he was ashamed to live when he should have nothing left him but to live and when such immoderate courses were taken by them against Government for whom he and others had so often interceded for moderation from the Government to see the most irreligious things done under the pretence of Religion to see that he that had with so much success moderated Controversies in the Schools offered expedients in Convocations decided the Debates of Synods his prudent directions interpositions seasonable and obliging Authority contributing much to the peaceable end of that Convention governed Universities perswaded Kings nay and by reason of his agreement with the Faction in some Doctrines done them many favours in Discipline could not among the leading men of the party that he had so much obliged by their Oaths and their Allegiance by the honor of Religion and the dangers of it by love to Brethren or respect to the designs of enemies by the spirit of Peace and the God of love by their bowels towards their Country or their Fosterity the Children yet unborn by the prayers and tears of their ancient Friend and a Reverend Bishop gain so much as Christian accommodation and mutual forbearance but after a most excellent Tract of the Peace of the Christian world wherein he taught how that the few necessary things wherein men agreed should be of more power to unite them than the indifferent things wherein they dissented should have power to divide them That the Christian world might have unity in the few Fundamentals that are necessary liberty in the things that were indifferent and so Charity in all things despairing of perswading men to peace by Arguments who were set on War and Tumults by their Lusts which were to be subdued rather than convinced He died of an old Consumption improved with new grief for the misery of those times which he fore-saw sad and saw dangerous April 1641. being though his Father was a Citizen living in Watling-street London extracted of an ancient Family of Davenants-Land in Essex he was remarkably born in the seventh Month after Conception and such Births if well looked too prove vigorous and as remarkably preserved in the first half seven years from his Birth falling down an high pair of stairs and rising at the bottom with so little harm that he smiled They say when Chryâ—omes smile it is because of some intercourse between them and the little ones Guardian Angels when this Infant smiled it was certainly at the preservation of him by such an Angel and beyond all these preferred when his Father in his life-time not allowing him to be Fellow no more than he would his rich Relations to one of whom he said when he had given his voice against him Cousin I will satisfie your Father that you have worth but not want enough to be one of our Society he was against his will made Fellow of Queens the Provost alledging to him that Preferment was not always a relief for want but sometimes an encouragement for worth and against seven Competitors made Margaret Professor Dr. Whitacre having when present at some of his youthful exercises the earnest of his future maturity pronounced that he would in time prove the honor of the Vniversity when but a private Fellow of a Colledge and before three others chosen Master of Queens when not forty years of age and Bishop of Salisbury upon the death of Dr. Toulson his Brother-in-law that he might provide for his Sister and her numerous family when he had not a Friend at Court but the King The rest of his Life take in this Epitaph Hic jacâ—t omne gâ—nae eruditionis modesta Epitome Cui judicium quod asservit Maxime discretiorum quicquid uspiam est literarum Hebraicarum Ethnicarum aut Christianarum omnes linguas artes historias quicquod praedicarunt patres disputarunt Scholastici decreverunt consilia in sobriam pacificam practicam concox it Theologiam Quae in concionibus dominat a est Scholis Imperavit Synodis leges dedit Prudens pariter ac simplex ille ille cui severior vita quam opinio ut pote strictius vitam agens quam sententiam Doctrina magna lux ecclesiae exemplo major Cujus libri omnes una hac notabantur Inscriptione Praefuit qui Profuit qui Regem venerabatur sed timebat Deum non tam suo quam publico morbo succubuit Aprilis 3. 1641. extremam in haec verba agens animam Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum THE Life and Death OF THOMAS HOWARD Earl of Arundel THomas Howard Earl of Arundel and Surrey the first Earl and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the Garter Son to Philip Earl of Arundel Grand-son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Gandfather to Thomas now Duke of Norfolk to whom the honor of that Dukedom was restored 1661. by his Majesty King Charles the Second which was lost for his Ancestors great kindness to his Great Grand-Mother Mary Queen of Scots whose life Thomas the foresaid Duke of Norfolk endeavored to save with the loss of his own and Courting her love lost his Mistress Queen Elizabeth who spilt that bloud then called amorous rather than traiterous that he intended to make Royal and to prevent a Marriage between him and the Queen of Scots divorced his Head from his Body making him contented to lie in his Ancestors cold Grave for aspiring to a Queens warm
sequestred by the Parliament he brought 600 Horse and Foot to his Majesty with whom he did more service than any Gentleman in York-shire being always in action till he was overpowered by Sir H. Ch. at Gisâ—orough where he was taken prisoner till exchanged for Col. Sanderson with an undaunted Industry upon all occasions pursuing his Majesties interest both when he was taken with Iohn Berkely in the West and with divers other Gentlemen in the North being a Prisoner in Hull off and on during the whole Usurpation till being trepanned by some words of the Officers of that Garrison against the Usurper together with some Inclination towards his Majesty after some cautious pauses to sound the villains made use there of some old Commissions he had under his Majesties hand for which being brought before a packed Court of his enemies he was condemned to be murthered Iune 8. 1658. notwithstanding that he there discovered the juggle and plot of the Officers and the Impossibility of the thing it self as he was notwithstanding the Intercession of his Nephew the Lord Viscount Faâ—lcon-bridge the Sultan being as he said Inexorable to perswade people forsooth of the horror of the Fact not to be pardoned in a relation laying down after devout and serious prayers together with a short speech declaring upon his death the odiousness of the Trepan and his sorrow that it was not for some more effectual service to his Majesty with courage and resolution saying he was ready to submit his Neck to the Executioners stroke In the Company of Dr. Iohn Hewet a Norfolke man by extraction and Birth and a Cambridge man by Education carrying the Gentility of his Family in the gentileness of his behaviour He stayed not long in Cambridge to be a Scholar before he came to London where in those dayes young men learned to be preachers whom so sweet his voyce and so comely his presence and behaviour that as many came to hear him read prayers then as afterwards flocked to hear him preach So devout grave and distinct his pronunciation that it is probable the prayers of the Church had never been turned out of it if Moses had been so preached that is edifyingly read the seriousness of the office suiting with the weight of the prayers in our Synagogues and those maintain the true worth of Common-Prayer in their arguments did not undervalue them in their Administration His civility and good carriage preferred him to a relation to the Earle of Lindsey as Chaplain and to his virtuous Sister as husband with whom he went through the blackest adversity guilding it with that serenity of temper which others want in their brightest prosperity which together with the smoothness the pleasure of his converse and diligence of his discourses the sweetness of his gesture each part the lifted-up hands the Heaven-ward fixed eyes his sweetly grave and sober countenance and the erect posture preaching eloquently their respective Sermons and the whole one great Rhetorick Schemâ— begat him great applause as that did great envy in so much that when he was convented for the supposed entertainment of my Lord of Ormond his journey to Bruges and the feigned Plot of burning London to make him odious in that place where he was so popular the Usurper did not so much examine as revile him discovering his own spleen rather than the good Doctors design telling him among other approbrious Imputations that he was in the City as a Torch set in the midst of a sheaf of Corne and when he was sentenced by the bloud-hounds for denying their authority and illegal and arbitrary way of proceeding alledging against them the known Law of the Land in the best authorities and presidents no intercession of the Tyrants own dearest Daughter Cleâ—poole who immediately upon it fell mad and before her death told him such bloody things as hastened his both dying not long after the Doctor after whose death the prosperous villany never saw good day could prevail for his life no nor of those very Ministers who were suspected out of aemulation to irritate him to thirst after his innocent blood and therefore for shame beseeched him to save it But Iune 8th aforesaid having made his peace with God and by his charitable Letters to all persons he might of infirmity at anytime have offended as much as in him lay endeavoured to be at peace with all men he came with an holy resolution to the Scaffold at Tower-hill in the company of Dr. Wild Dr. Warmestry and Dr. Berwick of each of whom more hereafter as he said To bear witness to the truth as he did to the Religion Laws and Liberties of England denying upon his death the matters laid to his charge and there with Christan magnanimity sealed it by being beheaded with his bloud As did Colonel Ashton a Prisoner for debt who being allowed a little liberty upon design fell into some emissaries company who as he said upon his death spoke those dangerous words which they testified against him and for that was Hang'd Drawn and Quartered Iuly 2. 1658. in Tower-street as did Mr. Iohn Betley a young man of excellent parts in Cheap-side who after he was thought dead pulled off his Cap and looked upon the people and Mr. Edward Stacy who suffered two days after the last Martyr under the Usurpation Under which suffered Col. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the Parish of Ewford in the County of Wilts Esq a Pious Honest Meek and very grave Gentleman of serious Thoughts and few Words that was all fear and reverence in the Church that heaven he called it where God was more than he making Conscience of giving God to use his own Word his Day and Due and all integrity without an integrity made up of Iustice of which he would say he could not offer an injury to any but thereby he taught that person to injure him adding that our honesty was our security and Charity of which he would often with contentment repeat that Verse of his dear Herbert Ioyn hands with God to make a Man to live Who undertaking with the whole Nation for that noble Engagement was national for his Majesties Restauration the just Priviledges of Parliament the Rights and Liberties of the People and the established Religion rose with Sir Ioseph Wagstaffe in the West upon confidence of the generality of the design the discontents of the lately dissolved Parliament though betrayed by Manning Colonel Mannings Son who was slain at Aâ—esford-fight who was formerly Secretary to the Earl of Pembroke and then Clerke to one of his Majesties Secretaries betrayed all his Majesties correspondencies till Colonel Tukes broke into his Chamber and caught him in the very fact for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country appearing on Munday Mâ—rch 9. at Salisbury in the Assize time whence having seized the Lawyers horses and the Judges Rolls and Nicholas Commissions they marched to Chard in Sommerset-shire where Colonel
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Crâ—â—ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Maâ—quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restiâ—uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6â— 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nisâ— beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard Gâ—rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10â—l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
April 13. 1578. at Tottenham-high-crosse in Middlesex where his Father was the faithful Minister who having bred himself to a competent skill in Latine sent him to Westminster under Mr. Cambden to learn Greek at fourteen as he did him to Trinity-colledge in Cambridge to accomplish himself with the Arts and Sciences at eighteen whereof being Master at twenty five as Bachelor of Divinity at thirty two when after vast instances of his proficiency in Critical and Historical Learning whereof his Catholique History as good of the great world as his Master Cambden is of Great Brittain Printed 1652. at Oxford a vast heap of Commentaries and Glosses upon the most known Authors lying in his Study and several Treaties as his Notae Selectiores in Horatium Praelectiones in Persii satyras Dii Gentium Sanctae linguae soboles Anglicanae linguae vocabularium Etymologicum Tractatus de justificatione A Treatise concerning Divine Providence in regard of evil or sin The knowledge of Christ in two Treaties dedicated to the Countess of Maidston Positive Divinity in three parts containing an Exposition of the Creed the Lords Prayer and the Decalogue worn out in the hands of private friends gave a very good account he was preferred for four years Chaplain to Sir Moyle Finch and upon his death whose Funeral Sermon he Preached with great applause returning to the University for three years Preacher in a private Parish at Cambridge and then Commencing Doctor at fourty advanced Rector of Eastling in the Diocess of Canterbury by the Viscountess Maidston Sir M. Finches Relict and Prebend of Coringam where being a man of an erect and tall though not very strong body a chearful soul a strong memory and quick senses to his last he continued with infinite satisfaction to all his Neighbors being complaiâ—ant as well as studious but the ignorant thirty years dying suddainly if his death who had lived so well 73. years might be thought suddain for he went to bed over night not to awake till the great morning sleeping his last even without a Metaphor 1652. having written over his Chronicon Catholicum Egregium Absolutissimum opus summa Industria omnigena eruditione magno Iudicio et multorum annorum vigilis perductum saith Dr. Edward Reynolds then Vice-Chancellor in his License prefixed to it with his own hand though very ancient in as neat a Character almost as the Printer published it Ipsos Saturni tumularunt viscera natos et Genitus rursus pars Genitoris erat Scilicet in proprios saevit gula temporis artus dumque necat serpens omnia primus obit Sed iu defunctis tribuisti saecula saeclis Qui vel praeteritos scis revocare dies Vmbras atque orcum redimcns e faâ—cibus orci nam sine te Manes bis poâ—uere â—â—ri Natales ante orte tuos posi â—â—nerâ— vâ—â—â—x Huic monstras aevo pristâ— of 〈◊〉 novo Tempore nata prius nunc gignit Aleâ—â—â—â—a tempus vitam alii mundo debet aeâ—â—â—stâ—tibi H. Birchhed Coll. Om. An. Soc. Saecula qui vasta reparasti lapsa ruina Aequum est ipse feras mansuram in saecula famam Rob. Creswell Col. Trin. Cant. St. Austines Retractations was the noblest of his Works and his Declaration about the Sermon before King Iames at Royston 1616 17. after the two Professors of Cambridge gave in their judgement against his Exposition of Rom. 7. for which Armenius had been lately blamed was the most ingenious of his Dr. Wilford Fellow and Master of Bennet Colledge in Cambridge Vice-Chancellor of that University Archdeacon of Bedford and Dean of Ely well seen in the Statutes of the University the Canons of the Church and the Laws of the Land a good Scholar and a strict Governor able to instruct men to do well to restrain them from doing ill He dyed Iuly 1667. having strugled much with bad manners and sad times wherein in promoting his Majestieâ—â—â—rvice he was discreet close and active he did as the gladiators â—â—ed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honeste decumbere neither suffered Religion only with his Majesty but all ingenuity too For Thomas Farnaby that excellent Gramarian Rhetorician and Critick as appears by his own systems and his Notes upon most Classick Latine Authors so often Printed here and oftner beyond Sea his life being taken up in making those excellent Collections he had been forty years instilling those principles of Loyalty and Religion into young Gentlemen for which with those Gentlemen he suffered it was a good sight to see Sir Thomas Moore when Chancellor condescend to ask blessing humbly on his knees in the middle of Westminster-Hall of his Father then Puisne Judge and it was a sad sight to see so many Bishops and Doctors at Ely-House thank plain Mr. Farnaby for teaching them those Maxims Loyalty in the School Affliction by his Patience which he had taught them in the Grammar-School by his Lectures The War spent him many of those thousands he had got in Peace he throwing as the Mariners his Goods over-board to secure himself and his Conscience keeping a calm within in the middle of a storm without The Parliament not forcing from him so much but he sent in more to the King His discovering the false Glosses and Comments put upon words and things in those times was as good service as the light and clearness he gave to the words and things of the old-times and when he could not correct the times to duty he retired though with trouble to his old way of breeding up young Gentlemen that should hereafter alter them planting a Nursery in the advantageous way of Boarding and Schooling which he always managed together and he would say it was not worth the while to undertake them asunder for the next Age that would make amends for this being Master of a grave Prudence to calm the unswayed humorsom Children and a good Spirit and fancy to raise the depressed Genius of others fixing and reducing each temper as Socrates did Alcibiades to an usefulness One that understood Greek and Latine Authors so as to understand himself Dr. Iohn Pottinger the Famous Master of Winchester who hath bred so many excellent men of late Fellow of New Colledge as Dr. Ailmer Dr. Sharwicke Dr. Ailworth Mr. Turner Mr. Ken c. able by their great Parts to master that Faction that with force mastered him The very discipline and method of his excellent School was able to instill learning like a Watch once well set that goeth always even without him to the dullest capacity and his fancy parts and incouraging temper put life into that Learning instilling not the Learning only but the Life of Authors especially Homer into his Scholars who came generally to the University in my time with more vigorous parts than others went out fit although otherwise he was a man as once Tully spake qui opprimi potius onere officii maluit quam illud deponere yet what pains he took to
London 1644 1645 1646. and to rise in Arms for him about Kingston where being defeated taken at St. Neots after a tedious imprisonment notwithstanding his sickness and infirmities tried for his life and beheaded in the Pallace-yard Westmin recommending with his last words to the deluded People the Kings Government and the established Religion The Right Honorable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham who with Sir Io. Hotham the Earl of Stamford Sir Hugh and Sir H. Cholmley Sir Christopher Wray Sir Edward Ayscough c. all Converts afterwards in being as active in setling the Militia of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in obedience to the Parliament as other persons of quality were in prosecuting the Commission of Array in obedience to his Majesty was warned by a Letter under his Majesties hand dated at York Iune 4. 1642. to desist from Assembling the people in those parts upon any pretence whatsoever upon his allegiance and answered with much modesty and humility that though he could not presently desist without falsifying the trust reposed in him by the Parliaments particular Directions according to an Ordinance voted by the Lord Keeper Littleton and the Lord Chief Justice Banks whose judgments swayed his younger one as he said to this action so unsuitable to his Majesties liking yet nothing should pass by his Commands but what should tend to his Majesties honour and safety Agreeably to which ingenious Declaration when he saw into the bottom of the factious designs he was so active for his Majesties honour and safety in the House of Lords and the City of London 1645 1646 1647. that with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Hunsden and Maynard all a while deluded by the Iuncto and because they presumed to be undeceived at last punished by them being impeached of high Treason for levying War against the King by endeavouring to make the City and Kingdom for him chose rather to hazzard himself 1648 1649 for a conquered and a captive Soveraign assisting and attending his Son in Holland and the Fleet as long as there was any likelihood of serving him than to have a share any longer in a conquering and prosperous Rebellion though it cost him several imprisonments and molestations besides 5000 l. composition Prosecuting his Loyalty by providing Arms for his Majesties Friends 1655 1657 1658 1659. at his own charge till the Restauration when having a large Estate and great experience in he was made Governour of the Caribee Islands 1660. where going during the late War upon a design of recovering St Christophers newly seized by the French he was cast away with most of his Fleet by an Hurricane 1666. being succeeded in his Government and Honor by his brother the Right Honorable G. Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666. A blessed Cause this to use the words of that ornament of his ancient and worshipful Family in Suffolk and Norfolk Mr. Hammond L'Estrange who enobled his sufferings as well as the cause he suffered for by his Writings especially his Alliance of Liturgies a Book full of that Various Reading not common in men of his quality and his History of King Charles I. a piece compiled with that ingenuity prudence and moderation as was not vulgar in the Writers of his Time that won its conquering Enemies all but one that sacrificed his Reason and Conscience to his ambition who yet in the midst of his greatness had not one minutes rest from those Fears his Conscience and common foresight that Right and Truth which are greater notwithstanding all his Arts and Methods of settling himself should prevail And there being nothing left now for the Kings Cause to conquer but those principles of Religion and those Ministers that supported the Faction those stood not out against its Evidence and Arguments for 1. Mr. Alexander Henderson a Moderator of that is in effect Archbishop in all the Assemblies in Scotland one in all the Treaties of England one of the ablest Presbyterians in both Kingdoms being overcome with his Majesties Arguments at Newcastle where he was Ordered to converse with and convert his Majestie when as all his Confinements his Pen gained those Victories which were denied his Sword went home heart-broken with Conscience of the injuries he had done to the King he found every way so excellent To whom I may joyn 2. Iohn Rutherford a Layman who was so far won by his Majesty then their Prisoner as to hazzard his life seven times for his rescue for which after a great reputation he gained in the King of France his service and great integrity and ability in serving his own Master he was 1660. made Governour of Dunkirk and 1662. Governour of Tangier and Earl of Tiveot both which Garrisons he fortified impregnably being a man of a great reach in Trade Encamping and Fortification and of an unwearied Industry and Diligence laying the design of the Mole in the last of those places which when finished will be a Piece of the greatest concernment in Christendom He was cut off 1664 5. in a Sally out as he was a very forward and daring man upon the perfidious Moors whom he had reduced to the most honourable peace that ever was enjoyed at Tangier to recover a Wood that was a great shelter to the Enemy and would have been of vast advantage unto us They that begin Wars know not how to end them without horrid scandals to Religion and an unparallel'd violence offered to all the Laws and Rights in the World On which consideration many returned to sober principles of Allegiance and indeed all rational men acquiesce in the present establishment according to their respective consciences actively or passively in gratitude to his Majesty and the Government for their former Indemnity that since his Majesty as a Father looked on all his Subjects as sons yet caressed his Prodigals those Subjects that came to themselves and acknowledged their errour with extraordinary kindness and tenderness out-doing all his promises and engagements Let the World see that his promises made and performed were not the effects of necessity but the fruits of a gracious and Princely mind like his Grandfather H. IV. of France not only pardoned the former Errours of those that were seduced against him and his Father but preferred and trusted them too They may make good his late Majesty of blessed memory his Royal word and engagement for them Medit. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will be more loyal and faithful to his Majesty than those Subjects who being sensible of their own errours and his injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Mr. Cauton and Mr. Nalton was banished and Mr. Christopher Love born in Wales and bred under Dr. Rogers in New-Inn◠Hall Oxon. Minister first of St. Ann Aldersgate and afterwards of St. Lawrence Jury was beheaded for owning the Kings Interest by those with whom he opposed it so far as
Chaplains some the Bishop of Londons c For so they are when licenced d As one Howes prayes to God to pâ—â—serve the Prince from being bâ—â—d up in Popery whereof thâ—â—e was gâ—eat fear e Deus maâ—ura gratia f Though given to Bishops of former times at appears in St. Cyprian and St. Augustines Letters g Note that Windebanke was at disâ—â—â—ve from the A. B. of 〈◊〉 h Reply to fither p. 388 a See his Dâ—otions His excellent Defence of himself 1. His General Speech a His Tâ—yal was revivâ—d upon theiâ— sâ—cond Invasiâ—n b Making the R. W. sir 〈…〉 his 〈◊〉 his Executor a The Commens would have had him 〈◊〉 drawn and quartered because he refused the â—â—â—istance of Mr. Marshall b Observe that he had set 〈◊〉 of prayer 〈◊〉 every conâ—â—â— he â—ell intoâ— See his 〈◊〉 c His facâ— was so â—udoy that they thought he had painted it untill they saw it turn as pale as ashes instantly aâ—â—er the blow A Prophetical 〈◊〉 exactly fallen out to be 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Gâ—eces Châ—ratler of K. Charles the Maâ—yr Libâ— De vitae contempt cop 4. a Vix adductus uâ— celeberrimum contraâ— â—ishâ—rum librum suo â—der et nomine a Libri quoâ— Amalâ—hra sibillâ— Tarquiniâ— venâ—m pâ—aebuit b Pellis Amaltheae Caprae in qua dicitur Jupiter res humanas escripsisle a Having so when King James come in an opportunity to shew himself b He Read the Lecture Founded by Mr. May. 13. 〈◊〉 a 43 Eliz. b See the Free-holders Grand Inquest ☞ a Aâ— to Dr. Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle a He 〈◊〉 â—beâ— it at Northampton Assizes 16â—â— a Dissertaâ—â—â—â— pale ad Do 〈…〉 to the Câ—â—loâ—â—ian 〈◊〉 lictiones de 〈…〉 Hoard about Fâ—â—e-will b Wâ—ere â—is Ancestors had continued in a Worshipful de grâ—e from Sir John Dave 〈◊〉 who lived in the time 〈…〉 c 〈◊〉 tribus 〈…〉 Ovid de â—â—illibus l. 4 Eâ—â—g 10 a Boyer 〈◊〉 confâ—ssâ—â— thaâ— Doctor Davenants experience and skill 〈◊〉 Laws and Histo its gaze them 〈◊〉 for the better â—deâ—â—â—â— of then Deâ—ates and Votes and iâ— was he that told A. B. L. when he would have Excommuniâ— caâ—d Bishop Goodman upon a third admonition pronounced by him three quarters of an hour in these words My Lord of Glocester 1 admonish you to subscribe c. that he doubted that procedure was not agreâ—able to the Laws of the Church in general or this Land in particular whereupon his Lordship thanked him and desisted b When going out from a Bishops house where he met with loose company and the Bishop proâ—â—ered to light him down slairs My Lord my Lord said he Let us light others by ouâ— unblameable conversation though otherwise more sensible of his own infirmities than others being humble and therefore charitable when a Childe and soothed by the Servants that John did not so or so c. he would say it was John only did so c Submitting humbly to His Majesty about the Sermon against the Kings Declaration for silencing all Disputes about the five Articles 1636. Saying that he might be undiscreet but he would not be disobedient d Therefore once he would not ride on Sunday 〈◊〉 to Court though sent for a An Eâ—â—â—dom that belongâ—â— to the Lord of Arundel 〈◊〉 b His incestor John Howard created Duke of Norfolk by Rich. III. July 4. 1483. 1 Rich III. a See the 〈…〉 upon the Lord Sâ—encer b Nâ—blâ— communicated to â—ll ingâ—niâ—us persons by the Honourable II. Howard of Norfolk greater in his own worth than in any 〈◊〉 a Tertulli â—n b When he or his 〈◊〉 any occasion to Hank he would nâ—t suffer his retainers to break any Hedge but his own without sufficient satisfaction April 6. 1584. ☞ a Tertullian a Mark at last tall people may be Porters to Lords saith one that â—elt the effects of moderation very little people may be Dwarss to Ladies whiles men of a middle stature may tâ—ant Masters many notorious for extremities may finde many to advance them whilst moderate men state few to Prefer them a 〈…〉 a With the â—roward thou shalt learn frowardness a 〈…〉 b Ezek 20. 40. c Deut. 32. 2. d Where 〈◊〉 Spight a bad name of a good man was his Master e Dr. Bâ—wlâ— and Dr. Westfield at Mâ—â—y le Bow in Cheapside f His observation of Curacies His. Advice a Dâ—â— Hâ—ylin obâ—â—rveth that Hâ—â—â—â— been a â—â—al Letter 〈◊〉 England b Hâ—â— inclinâ—tion His Education Thirteen benâ—fits of a good Education a His â—â—rriage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b At that battel whereof 1500. English under Sir Hor. and Sir F. Vere every man was hurt a Lincolnâ—shire being the Aâ—â—â—y of England b The third part of Lincoln-shire c At the Dutch did by Grotius his Maâ—e Liberum Oâ—e â—â—ssage â—onteâ—niâ—g him 〈◊〉 very â—emaâ—kâ—ble vizâ— That a 〈◊〉 being maintained by â—is Sâ—queâ—tred Loâ—d and upon sâ—me tâ—ouble of conscience offâ—â—ing 〈…〉 what he had â—â—â—ten by it had this answer That if he was so conscious as to make restituâ—â—â— oâ— he would be so â—oble as to give it hâ—â— being as willing to maintain a good work as thâ—se that Sequeâ—â—red him a The Lady Sophia wise to Sir R. Chawoâ—seth a His opinion is thâ—â— souls were equal b Master Stroud whose Speech most provoked him a Called so because it was fought near a Village called Keinton in Warwickshire b Daughter â—o the R. Hon. the â—arl of Suffolk a It s very observablâ— that he drew Hazlerigge and others into a disadvantageous Engagement in the Devizes by his provoking and tempting Forâ—orn a Maxima parâ— peccatorum tolletur sed peccatorum testii asâ—â—deat Sept. 24. 1645. a Thâ—se Lodging at Oxford was the Râ—â—â—â—zâ—cus of all the Eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time b When be with others went upon the King summons to York and there testified publickly the Kings gracious intentions and vowed to stand by him who stood for the Liberties and Laws of the Kingdom with his life and fortune he was the Author of most of those Declarations the quickness whereof the eneâ—y admired as they felt their efficacy he writing generally twenty four or thirty Printed sheets a week with 〈◊〉 dispatch from May 1. 10 October 1. c In an unanswerable Treatise of Infallibility seconded by Dr. Hamond d In his Aâ—liâ—us wherein he condescâ—nded to undecâ—iâ—e the people as the head boweth to take a thorne cut of the foot No Eminent Schoâ—ar or sober Nobleman that did frequent his well-oraâ—â—red house came to observe the method of his Learned and his Lociâ—s piâ—us Study their â—xect hâ—urs their strict Devotion and exemplary Dyet My Lords hoâ—se being like Theodosiusâ—is â—is Ceviâ— a 〈…〉 Perfection e 〈◊〉 first Newbury fighâ— Sept. 20 164◠〈…〉 Bâ—lâ—t f In Richards Parliament as it was called joyning with the Commonwealths-men against the Vsu â—ed Monarchy to make way for the true one g His Religiouss Mother the Laâ—y Faulkland