last of January they found their Food would last but six Weeks longer but they had recourse to God for a Supply and looking out one bright day they saw a great She-Bear with her Cub coming towards the Tent her they slew with their Lances the Cub escaping they drew her into the Tent and this Bears served them 20 Days In March the Days so lengthned that the Fowl and Foxes came abroad of which Foxes by Traps they catched fifty and sixty Fowl as big as Pidgeons and they had killed seven more Bears so that with two or three Meals a Day their Strength was much increased In May the First the Weather grew warm so that they went out to seek Provision In this Month there came two Ships of Hull into the Sound who knowing some Men had been left there the Year before and being desirous to know whether they were dead or alive the Master manned a Shallop to go as near the Shoar as they could and so over the Ice to the Tent. When these Men came near the Tent they haled them with the usual word of the Sea crying Hey to which one of them in the Tent answered again Ho which sudden Answer almost amazed them all but perceiving them to be the very Men to their Ship where they stay'd till the London Fleet came which was three Days after They went aboard the Admiral where Captain William Goodler was who made them very welcome gave them Apparel to the Value of Twenty Pounds and after fourteen Days Refreshment they grew all perfectly well Thus they continued in the Fleet till the 20th of August when they set sail and at last came safe into the River of Thames and the Muscovy Merchants dealt very well by them The Names of these eight Persons were VVilliam Fakely Gunner Edward Pelham Gunner's-Mate that wrote this Story John VVise and Robert Goodfellow Seamen Thomas Ayres Whale-cutter Henry Beer Cooper John Dawes and Richard Kellet Land-men Clark's Mirr C. 105. P. 512 513. c. Stow's Annals P. 1017. 3. Horrible was that Tragedy which the Western Indies beheld in the Persons of seven Englishmen the Relation of it take as followeth The fore-mention'd seven being in St. Christopher's-Istand had prepared themselves for a Voyage of one Night and had taken with Provisions for no longer a time but a Tempest intercepted their Return and carried them so far off into the Sea that they could not find Land in less than seven Days in which they were so sparing of their one Nights Provision that they made it serve them to the fifth day that past they must wrestle with meer Famine which was so much the more grievous to them in regard the Sun was extream hot that dried up their parched Throats exhaled the Saltness from the troubled Sea They had now little Hope of retrieving themselves from their intricate Error and were therefore forced O cruel Necessity to cast Lots among themselves to see whose Flesh and Blood should satisfie the Hunger and Thirst of the rest The Lot fell upon him who first gave the Counsel who was not only unaffrighted at his hard Fortune but encouraged the rest who had a kind of Horror as to what they went about he told them that Fortune was a Favourer of the Bold that there was no possibility of Escape unless they immediately staid their slying Life by humane Flesh that for his part he was well content and that he thought himself happy if he could serve his Friends when he was dead With such Words as these he so perswaded them that one drawn out by Lot also cut his Throat of whose Carcass I tremble to relate it each of them was so desirous of a piece that it could scarce be divided so quickly They fell to the Flesh wirh eager Teeth and sucked out the Blood into their thirsty Stomachs One only was found amongst them who being nearly related to the dead Person resolved to endure all things rather than to pollute himself with the Blood of his Friend but the next day his Famine drove him into such a Madness that he threw himself over-board into the Sea His Associates would not suffer so delicate a repast as his Carcass to be so unseasonably snatched from them But this Madness had already so vitiated his Blood and the Flesh all about the Veins that in the whole Body there was scarce any thing found fit to eat save only his Bowels At last it pleased God to shew them Mercy in their wandering and distress and brought their small Ship to the Isle of St. Martin in which they were kindly receiv'd by the Dutch Garrison and sent back to the rest of their Friends where scarce had they set Foot on the Shoar but they were accused of Murder but inevitable Necessity pleading in their Behalf they were set free by the Magistrate Nich. Tulpii Observ Med. L. 1. C. 43. P. 81. Wanley's Wonders of the Little World P. 638. 4. Richard Clark of Weymouth in Dorsetshire was a known Pilot and Master of the Ship called the Delight which Anno Dom. 1583. went with Sir Humphrey Gilbert for the discovery of Norembege It happened that without any Neglect or Default of his the Ship struck on Ground and was cast away on Thursday August 29. in the same Year Of them that escaped Shipwrack sixteen got into a small Boat of a Tun and a half which had but one Oar to work withal they were seventy Leagues from Land and the weather so foul that it was not possible for a Ship to brook half a Course of Sail. The Boat being over-burden'd one of them Mr. Hedley made a Motion to cast Lots that those four which drew the shortest should be cast over-board provided if one Lot fell on the Master he notwithstanding should be preserved in whom all their Safety was concerned The Master disavowed the Acceptance of any such Priviledge replying They would live or die together On the fifth day Mr. Hedly who first mention'd Lot-drawing and another died whereby their Boat was somewhat alighted Five Days and Nights they saw the Sun and Stars but once so that they only kept up their Boat with their single Oar as the Sea did drive it They continued four Days without sustenance save what the Weeds which swam into the Sea and salt Water did afford On the Seyenth Day about Eleven of the Clock they had sight of and about Three they came on the South part of New-found-land All the time of their being at Sea the Wind kept continually South if it had shifted to any other Point they had never come to Land but it turn'd North within half an Hour of their Arrival Being all come to Shoar they kneel'd down and gave God praise for their miraculous Deliverance There they remained three Days and Nights having their plentiful Repast upon Berries and wild Pease After five Days rowing along the Shoar they happened on a Spanish Ship of Sir John de Luz which courteously brought them home to Biscay Here the Vistiors of the Inquisition came aboard the Ship put them on Examination but by the Master's Favour
Tower this Son being at Sea and engaged in the Fight between a Squadron of the Parliament and the Dutch in the Leghorn-Road the Ship wherein he was which I think was the Providence was blown up and it was supposed all the Men lost about a Month or two afterwards the Doctor being at Sir John Robinson's House his Son to the great admiration of his Father and Master came at that instant to them told them that sitting on a Pole upon the Poop by the Flag-staff he was blown up into the Sea and there continued on the Pole till next day when the Dutch found him pitied him and took him aboard with them and so saved him This was related to me by the Worshipful William Garraway of Ford in Sussex Esq 7. The following Relations are to be found in Mr. Mather's Book of Providence Remarkable was that which happened to Jabez MMusgrove of Newbery who being shot by an Indian the Bullet entred in at his Ear and went out at his Eye on the other side of his Head yet the Man was preserved from Death yea and is still in the Land of the Living 8. Remarkable was that Deliverance mentioned by Mr. Janeway wherein that gallant Commander Major Edward Gibbons of Boston in New-England and others were concerned The substance of the Story is this A New-England Vessel going from Boston to some other parts of America was through the Continuance of contrary Winds kept long at Sea so that they were in very great straits for want of Provision and seeing they could not hope for any Relief from Earth or Sea they apply themselves to Heaven in humble and hearty Prayers but no Calm ensuing one of them made this sorrowful motion that they should cast Lots which of them should die first to satisfie the ravenous Hunger of the rest After many a sad Debate they come to a result the Lot is cast and one of the Company is taken but where is the Executioner to be found to act this Office upon a poor Innocent It is Death now to think who shall act this bloody part in the Tragedy But before they fall upon this in-voluntary Execution they once more went unto their Prayers and while they were calling upon God he answer'd them for there leapt a mighty Fish into the Boat which was a double Joy to them not only in relieving their miserable Hunger which no doubt made them quick Cooks but because they looked upon it to be sent from God and to be a token of their Deliverance But alas their Fish is soon eaten and their former Exigencies come upon them which sink their Spirits into Despair for they know not of another Morsel To Lot they go again the second time which falletn upon another Person but still none can be found to sacrifice him they again send their Prayers to Heaven with all manner of fervency when behold a second Answer from above a great Bird lights and fixes it self upon the Mast which one of the Company espies and he goes and there she stands till he took her with his Hand by the Wing This was Life from the Dead the second time and they feasted themselves herewith as hoping that second Providence was a fore-runner of their compleat Deliverance But they have still the same Disappointments they can see no Land they know not where they are Hunger increaseth again upon them and they have no hopes to be sav'd but by a third Miracle They are reduced to the former course or casting Lots when they were going to the heart-breaking work to put him to death whom the Lot fell upun they go to God their former Friend in Adversity by humble and hearty Prayers and now they look and look again but there is nothing Their Prayers are concluded and nothing appears yet still they hoped and stayed till at last one of them espies a Ship which put new Life into all their Spirits Their bear up with their Vessel they Man their Boar and desire and beg like perishing humble Supplicants to Board them which they are admitted The Vessel proves a French Vessel yea a French Pyrate Major Gibbons petitions them for a little Bread and offers Ship and Cargo for it But the Commander knows the Major from whom he had received some signal Kindnesses formerly at Boston and replied readily and chearfully Major Gibbons not a hair of you or your Company shall perish if it lie in my power to preserve you And accordingly he relieveth them and sets them safe on Shoar 9. Mr. James Janeway hath published several other Remarkable Sea-Deliverances of which some belonging to New-England were the Subjects He relates and I am inform'd that it was really so that a small Vessel the Master's Name Philip Hungare coming upon the Coast of New-England suddenly sprang a Leak and so Foundered In the Vessel there were eighteen Souls twelve of which got into the Long-Boat They threw into the Boat some small matters of Provision but were wholly without Fire These twelve Men sailed five hundred Leagues in this small Boat being by almost miraculons Providences preserved therein for five Weeks together God sent Relief to them by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat which they eat raw and well pleased therewith They also caught a Shark and opening his Belly sucked his Blood for Drink At the last the Divine Providence brought them to the West-Indies Some of them were so weak as that they soon died but most of them lived to declare the Works of the Lord. 10. Remarkable is the Preservation of which some belonging to Dublin in Ireland had Experience whom a New-England Vessel providentially met in an open Boat in the wide Sea and saved them from perishing Concerning which memorable Providence I have received the following Narrative A Ship of Dublin burdened about seventy Tuns Andrew Bennet Master being bound from Dublin to Virginia this Vessel having been some Weeks at Sea onward of their Voyage and being in the Latitude of 39. about 150 Leagues distant from Cape-Cod in New-England on April 18. 1681. A day of very stormy Weather and a great Sea suddenly there sprang a Plank in the fore part of the Ship about six a Clock in the Morning whereupon the Water increased so fast in the Ship that all their Endeavouts could not keep her from sinking above half an Hour so when the Ship was just sinking some of the Company resolved to lanch out the Boat which was a small one They did accordingly and the Master the Mate the Boatswain the Cook two Fore-mast-men and a Boy kept such hold of it when a Cast of the Sea suddenly helped them off with it that they got into it The heaving of the Sea now suddenly thrust them from the Ship in which there were left nineteen Souls viz. sixteen Men and three Women who all perished in the mighty Waters while they were trying to make Rafters by cutting down the Masts for the preservation of their Lives as
of it Catesby and the rest posted into Warwickshire and began an open Rebellion being joyned with about Eighty more and so Trooping together broke open the Stables belonging to Warwick-Castle and took thence some great Horses Thence into Worcestershire and so to Staffordshire where they rifled the Lord Windsor's House of all the Armour Shot Powder c. But being pursued by the high Sheriff of Worcestershire and his Men who rush'd in upon them both the Wrights were shot through and slain with one Musquet-Bullet the rest being taken were carry'd Prisoners to London being all the way gaz'd at revil'd and detested by the common People for their horrid and horrible Treason and so at last they receiv'd the just Guerdon of their Wickedness See a fuller Account in Bishop Carleton's Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercy III. In the Reign of King Charles the First 1. Sir John Temple Master of the Rolls and one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council within the Kingdom of Ireland and who was Father of the present Sir William Temple relates in his History of the Irish Rebellion in 1641. and which History was first Printed in London in 1646. there in P. 16 17 and 18 sets down that the first Plot for the Rebellion carried on with so great Secresie as none of the English had Notice of it before it was ready to be put in Execution and that on the 22d of October 1641. In the very Evening before the Day appointed for a Surprizal of the Castle and City of Dublin Owen O Conall a Gentleman of an Irish Family but one who had been bred a Protestant and who had been drinking that Evening came to the Lord Justice Parsons there about Nine of the Clock and acquainted him with a Conspiracy for the seizing upon His Majesty's Castle of Dublin and the Magazine therein the next day but he did then make such a broken Relation of a Matter that seem'd so incredible in its self as that his Lordship did then give but very little Belief to it at first in regard it came from an obscure Person and one he conceived somewhat distemper'd in Drink but in some Hours after O Conall being somewhat recover'd from his said Distemper was examin'd upon Oath before the Lords Justices and his Examination gave such a particular Account of the Conspiracy and the Conspirators therein that caused the Lords Justices to sit up all that Night in Consultation for the strengthning of the Guards in the Castle of Dublin and likewise of the whole City and for the seizing of the Persons of the Conspirators that the Execution of the Plot was thereby prevented and otherwise the Castle of Dublin had been the next day in the Possession of the Rebels of Ireland and all the Protestants in Dublin had been the next day massacred The Papists planted the Soveraign Drug of Arminianism here in England on purpose to promote Divisions among us and endeavoured to Advance Arbitrary Power and inflame the Puritans as the Author of the History of Popish Sham-Plots from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth tells us out of a Letter sent to the Rector of Brussels And Cardinal Richlieu sent over one Chamberlain hither who for four Months had Consultations with the Jesuits how to stir up the Scots and foment our Broils as may be seen in Dr. Heylin's Life of Archbishop Laud and Habernfeild's Plot c. Or to speak in the very Words of the late Learned Bishop of Lincoln Dr. Barlow When King James slept with his Fathers and was Translated to a better Kingdom out of the reach of Popish Conspirators their Designs slept not they prosecuted their Plots and Conspiracies to Ruin our Church and Establish'd Religion as much in Charles the First as in his Father's time and at last it came to this Issue that other Means failing the King and Arch-Bishop must be taken away This was discover'd by an Honourable Person Andreas ab Habernfeild to the English Embassador Sir W. Boswel at the Hague and by him to the Arch-Bishop and by him to the King and the Original Copy of the Discovery being found in the Arch-Bishop's Library after his Death was then publish'd and is in print in many Hands and among others in mine In the mean time adds my Author the Civil Wars began and our Popish Conspirators are first in Arms and the bloody Rebellion and in Ireland murder'd above 100000 Protestants in cold Blood without any Provocation given but to kill Hereticks which according to them was Lawful and Meritorious And farther when in Process of that fatal Rebellion carry'd on by English and covertly by Popish Rebels that good King was taken and a Council of Priests and Jesuits sitting in London signified the Condition of Affairs here to a Council of their Confederates at Paris and they transmitted the Case to Rome from whence Directions and Commands were return'd back again to London in short it was determined that it was for the Interest of the Catholick Cause that the King shculd die and accordingly their Council of Priests and Jesuits in London voted his Death This saith the same Reverend Author is now notoriously known to be true and in print publish'd to the World by Reverend and Learned Person who if any shall call him to Account for it is so convinced of the Ttuth of what he writ that he publickly offers to make it good viz. Dr. Du-Moulin Canon of Canterbury in two Books written to the same purpose See more in Bishop Barlow's Book called Popish Principles c. inconsistent with the Safety of Protestant Princes The Irish Papists when they had promised to furnish his Majesty with 10000 Men for the helping of him against the Parliament did not but endeavour'd to cut off the King's Army there by Force and Treachery and employ'd Commissioners to Rome France Lorrain and Spain to invite a Foreign Power into England See Fowles Hist of Rom. Treasons and the Lord Orcery 's Answer to Peter Welsh About 30 Priests or Jesuits were met together by a Protestant Gentleman between Roan and Diep to whom they said taking him to be one of their Party they were going to England and would take Arms in the Independant Army to be Agitators The Romish Priest and Confessor is known who when he saw the fatal Stroke given to the King flourish'd with his Sword and said Now the greatest Enemy we had in the World is gone When the Murder was cried down as the greatest Villany the Pope commanded all the Papers about the Queen to be burnt Many intelligent Travellers told what Joy there was in the English Convents beyond Seas and the Seminaries upon Tidings of the King's Death Benedictines were afraid lest the Jesuits should get their Lands and the English Nuns contended who should be Abesses the Fryars of Dunkirk were jealous lest the Jesuits should engross all the Glory to themselves Du-Moul Answer to Plul. Angl. And tho' the Papists during the Civil Wars flock'd to the King's
a poor Old Man that passed that way and cast him upon it When the Soldiers were come and asked Where was Antistius pointing to the Fire he said he was there burning to make him amends for that Cruelty he had used him with The Soldiers that saw how deep he was stigmatized though it was probable enough believed him and by this means Antistius obtained his Safety Val. Max. L 6. C. 8. p. 181. Lips Monit L. 2. C. 13. p. 332. 5. Cornutus having hid himself was no less wittily and faithfully preserved by his Servants in those difficult Days of Marius and Sylla for they having found the Body of a Man set Fire about it and being asked of such as were sent out to kill their Master What they were about with an officious Lye they told them They were performing the last Offices for their dead Master who hearing this sought no further after him Plut. in Mario p. 431. 6. One Mr. Dissen living within Two Miles of Chipping-Norton told me about Three and twenty Years ago when I was in familiar Discourse with him his Wife being present That he had found by his Personal Experience that Honesty was the best Policy for he being Steward some Years to a Gentleman in that Neighbourhood and approving him just and faithful in all the Offices he was employed in his Master so affected him and he his Master's Daughter that by a free Consent both of the one and the other he married the Daughter and inherited the Estate 7. A Kinsman of mine one Thomas Huxley being Bayliff to one Mr. Ireland of Albrighton near Shrewsbury and approving himself very honest and obliging in his place both to Master and Tenants insomuch that every Body spoke well of him except One or Two of a different Principle from him for his Mistriss was a Romanist who objected against him his Reading some particular Books that served not for their Cause as Fox's Martyrology c. at last upon ill Words and Execrations from his Master who afterwards turned to the Roman Communion he left the Service came to my House and for some time sojourned there 'till at last his Master who had parted with him with some regret sent for him to my Patron 's House Mr. Clayton's and motioned him to another Place under a Welsh Gentleman in Carnarvon-shire as I take it Mr. Vaughan of Lloyd-yarth near Llanvilling where he hath continued ever since and prospered well and married comfortably Since I came into these parts he wrote me word That he had made a Reflection upon his Life past and design'd to form it into a Book with an intention to publish it after his Death if I thought fit and requested of me some Rules for the future Management of his Conversation CHAP. LVII Good Masters and Mistresses Remarkable 1. THE late Countess of Warwick was so careful for the Good of her Servants that she exacted their Attendance on Publick Worship and reverent Behaviour there Her Eyes surveyed her Chappel and none could be absent but she would miss them She instructed them personally and familiarly scattered Books in all the Common Rooms and Places of Attendance that those who waited might not lose their time She prepared them for and perswaded them to the frequent Participation of the Lord's Supper and made Religion the Footstep to Preferment using Psal 101 for the Rule of her Oeconomy Dr. Walker in her Life 2. Sir Matthew Hale was a very gentle Master tender of all his Servants he never turned any away except they were so faulty that there was no hope of reclaiming them When any of them had been long out of the way or had neglected any part of their Duty he would not see them at their first coming home and sometimes not 'till the next Day least when his Displeasure was quick upon him he might have child them indecently and when he did reprove them he did it with that Sweetness and Gravity that it appeared he was more concerned for their having done a Fault than for the Offence given by it to himself but if they became immoral or unruly then he turned them away for he said He that by his Place ought to punish Disorders in other People must by no means suffer them in his own House He advanced his Servants according to the time they had been about him and would never give occasion to Envy amongst them by raising the younger Clerks above those who had been longer with him He treated them all with great Affection rather as a Friend than a Master giving them often good Advice and Instruction He made those who had good Places under him give some of their Profits to the other Servants who had nothing but their Wages When he made his Will he left Legacies to every one of them but he expressed a more particular kindness for one of them Robert Gibbon of the Middle-Temple Esq in whom he had that Confidence that he left him one of his Executors See his Life written by Dr. Burnet p. 96 97. 3. Mr. John Carter did not carry himself as a Master to his Servants but as a familiar Friend to his Friends He would make them to sit down with him at his Table and would drink to them at his Meals See his Life 4. Dr. Chaderton was married Fifty three Years and yet in all that time he never kept any of his Servants from Church to dress his Meat saying That he desired as much to have his Servants know God as himself If at any time he had a Servant upon Tryal tho' they could do as much Work as Three others yet if they were given to Lying or any other Vice he would by no means suffer them to dwel in his House See his Life CHAP. LVIII Good Pastors Bishops and Ministers YE are the salt of the earth saith our Saviour to his Disciples with an especial respect I suppose to their future Apostolical Function Certainly there is a double Portion of Knowledge and a greater Measure of Prudence and a higher Strain of Piety and Exemplary Devotion required in them that are Spiritual Guides than others The Copy must be writ fair or the Scholar will suffer a great Disadvantage Men had need be very wise and very good that lead others and though the Ministerial Office be full of Duty and Burden and Temptation that ought to be a stronger Argument to Caution and Diligence 1. Ignatius writing to Polycarp commends to him the Congregation at Antioch praying him to be careful of the Business there 's and especially for the Election of a Godly Bishop in his room Clark's Marr. of Eccl. Hist 2. Basil the Great fearing the Growth of Arrianism in Pontus hasted thither to Instruct the Weak and Confirm the Wavering and tho' there had been a Difference between Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea and him upon danger of a Persecution from Valens the Arrian Emperour he hasted to Caesarea and was reconciled to Eusebius Ibid. 3. Fulgentius before his Death prayed
the King's Absence these Penalties were inflicted upon the chief Officer whose manifest Corruptions the Hatred of the People to Men of that Profession who are apt to abuse their Science and Authority procured in Parliament to be thus punished Sir Ralph Hengham Chief Justice of the King's-Bench was Fined 7000 Marks Sir John Loveton Justice of the Lower Bench 3000 Sir William Brompton Justice 6000 Sir Solomon Rochester 4000 All Itenerant Justices Sir Richard Boyland 4000 All Itenerant Justices Sir Tho. Sadington 2000 All Itenerant Justices Sir Walter Hopton 2000 All Itenerant Justices Sir W. Sakam 3000 Robert Lithbury Master of the Rolls 1000 Roger Leicester 1000 Henry Bray Escheator and Judge for the Jews 1000 Sir Adam Stratton Chief Baron of the Exchequer was Fined 34000 Marks See the Relation of that memorable Parliament begun An. Regni 10. Richard II. p. 36 37. 2. Sir Francis Bacon Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans that Atlas of Learning suffer'd for but his Connivance at the Bribery and Corruption of his Servants and was by the Parliament put out of the Office of Lord Chancellor Ibid. 3. Judge Morgan who gave the Sentence of Death upon the Lady Jane Grey presently after fell and and in all his distracted Fits cried out continually Take away the Lady Jane Take away the Lady Jane from me and in this extream Distemper ended his Life Fox's Martyrol 4. June 24. 1678. Mr. Daniel Bachelor Minister told me of a Citizen of London to whom he was sent for in his Sickness whâ—n God had let loose Conscience upon him The Man repeated over all the Commandments and confessed the Sins be was guilty of against each Command such as Incest and Adultery lived in many Years The Chastity of his Servant he sollicited but was repulsed But his Master-Sin was Perjury taking false Oaths and hiring Met Knights of the Post as they are called frequently to do so The Devil led him into that Sin first as he said thus He wanted Proof for a Debt that was a just Debt and hired one of those who procured his Debt that was just in this unjust way By this he contracted Hardness of Heart and plunged himself in Villainies of that nature There were above an Hundred Actions against him when he died He fell sick on a Friday lay about ten Days under the horrid gnawings of the Worm that dieth not upon his Bed not in Distraction but Desperation crying out once in his presence I am damned for ever and added most fearful to hear Amen Amen Amen and had an Expression so blasphemous of the Holy and Ever-blessed God that for Horror I shall draw a Veil over it Yet some have Robb'd hard by the Gallows And this poor Wretch thus hung up in Chains by the Lord did not awaken sufficiently one of his Knights of the Post that came to see him while the Minister my Friend was present O take heed said he by my Example now I smart for what I have done and put you upon doing The Man in Health told him he was melancholick and was not moved He had a Charge to relate this woful Death of his to his Sister with whom he had been incestuously Wicked She gave a seemingly courteous Reception to him and seemed sensible of it The Minister my Friend when he had done his Errand coming down from her Chamber at the Door of which he had left his Galosho's missing them went up again and over-heard her say to a Companion of hers there The Fool thought I had been in earnest The Man though he had unjustly ravish'd Thousands out of Men died miserably poor This Relation was sent me by the Reverend Mr. Singleton now living in Hoxdon-Square near the City of London and is printed in the same Words I received it 5. It may not be altogether impertinent to take notice here what King Charles the I. applied to himself on the Scaffold that for one unjust Sentence which he had suffer'd to pass meaning the Earl of Strafford God had suffered the like unjust Judgment to be passed on him â—ee his Speech on the Scaffold 6. Sir P. P. in Letter to the Bishop of Lincoln saith That in the famous Marriage-Cause between Mrs. Isabella Jones and Sir Robert Carr in the Arches where Sir Robert Carr was claimed by her for her Husband though for want of full Proof of the Marriage Sir Giles Sweit the Dean of the Arches pronounced Sentence against the Marriage yet condemning Sir Robert Carr in 1500 Pound Costs to Mrs. Jones Which the Judge did because he was in Conscience convinced that Sir Robert Carr and Mrs. Jones were really married To this Sir Peter Pett in the aforesaid Letter adds I can saith he at any time acquaint you with the Circumstances of that Cause and give you an Account of the Remarkable Judgments of God inflicted on the Persons who tampered with the Witness in that Cause whereby the Marriage failed of Sentence Remains of Dr. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln p. 368. 7. The Emperor of Muscovy sent for a Judge who had taken a Bribe viz. a Goose with its Belly full of Gold commanded him and the other Judges to appear before him not discovering the least Displeasure They all appeared chearful he commanded the Hangman to be brought in and ask'd him if he knew how to cut up a Goose Answer being made very well Then said the Emperor take away that Judge and cut him up after the same manner which was forthwith done accordingly Smythy's Treatise of Restitution p. 19. who says he had the Relation from a Minister whose Brother was an Eye-witness CHAP. CXXXV Divine Judgments upon Lying and Slandering OVR Tongues are the Indexes of our Mind to signifie the Thoughts and Meanings thereof to the World if the one agree not to the other the Motions are false and the Wheels out of order What is a Clâ—â—k good for if it doth not tell the true Hour of the Day Lyars are shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven and deserve but little Favour upon Earth and some times meet with just Punishments Prov. 19.5 1. Alexander the Great having read a History out of Aristobulus wherein the Author had intermingled certain counterfeit Praises flung the Book into the River saying the said Writer deserved to be flung there himself Coguet's Polit. Disc p. 130. 2. The Emperor Trajan sirnamed the Good Prince took away from the Son of Cabalus the Kingdom of Dacia that is Transilvania and Valachia only because he caught him in a Lye and told him That Rome the Mother of Truth could not permit a Lyar to possess a Kingdom Ibid. 3. Cyrus told the King of Armenia That a Lye was not capable of Pardon Ibid. 4. Monstrelet writes That Popiel King of Poland who had ever in his Mouth these Words If it be not true I would the Rats might cat me that he was so assailed by Rats in a Banquet that neither his Guards nor Fire nor Water could preserve him from them Ibid.
that time as he told his Son a very wicked Boy 21. John Evelyn shewed us at the Royal Society a Note under Mr. Smyth's Hand the Curate of Deptford that in November 1679 as he was in Bed sick of an Ague came to him the vision of a Master of Arts with a white Wand in his Hand and told him That if he did lie on his back three Hours viz. from ten to one that he should be rid of his Ague He lay a good while on his Back but at last being weary he turned and immediately the Ague attacked him afterwards he strictly followed the Direction and was perfectly cured He was awake and it was in the Day-time 22. A Dutch Prisoner at Woodbridge in Suffolk in the Reign of Charles II. could discern Spirits but others that stood by could not The Bell tolled for a Man newly deceased The Prisoner saw his Phantome and did describe him to the Parson of the Parish who was with him exactly agreeing with the Man for whom the Bell tolled Says the Prisoner now he is coming near to you and now he is between you and the Wall the Parson was resolved to try it and went to take the Wall of him and was thrown down but could see nothing This Story is credibly told by several Persons of Belief Dr. Hooke the Parson of the Parish has often told this Story of which I know many more particulars 23. Vavasor Powell saw several Apparitions See page 8. of his Life As concerning Apparitions of a Man 's own self there are sundry Instances some whereof I shall here set down 24. The Beautiful Lady Diana Rich Daughter of the Earl of Holland as she was walking in her Father's Garden at Kensington to take the fresh Air before Dinner about Eleven a Clock being then very well met with her own Apparition Habit and every thing as in a Looking-Glass About a Month after she died of the Small-pox And 't is said that her Sister the Lady Isabelta Thinne saw the like of her self also before she died This Account I had from a Person of Honour 25. Mrs. E. W. Daughter of Sir W. W. affirms that Mrs. J. her Father's Sister saw her self i. e. her Phantome half a Year before she died or a quarter of an Hour together She said further that her Aunt was sickly Fourteen Years before she died and that she walked Living i. e. her Apparition and that she was seen by several at the same time The like is reported of others 26. Mr. Trehern B. D. Chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper a Learned and sober Person was the Son of a Shoe-maker in Hereford One Night as he lay in Bed the Moon shining very bright he saw the Phantome of one of the Apprentices sitting in a Chair in his red Wastcoat and Head-band about his head and Strap upon his Knee which Apprentice was really a Bed and asleep with another Fellow-Apprentice in the same Chamber and saw him 27. When Sir Richard Nepier M. D. of London was upon the Road coming from Bedfordshire the Chamberlain of the Inn shewed him his Chamber the Doctor saw a dead Man lying upon the Bed He look'd more wistly and saw it was himself He was then well enough in Health He goes forward in his Journey to Mr. Steward's in Berkshire and there died This Account I have in a Letter from Elias Ashmole Esquire They were intimate Friends Thus far Mr. Aubery CHAP. V. Revelation of secret or future Things by express Voice BY this Title I do not mean any Declarations Discoveries Confessions or Predictions made by any Person living but only such as are uttered either with only an audible Voice alone or with a Voice proceeding from some Phantasm or Apparition either in the likeness of some deceased Person Friend or Relation or of some Ghost dressed up in the Figure of some Animal that we are generally acquainted with as the Serpent to Eve the Ass to Balaan c. Histories are full of Testimonies and Instances of this kind to enquire after all would be a wild Chase and nauseous to the Reader as well as laborious to the Writer We will call a few out of many for a Specimen which will give such a lustre to the Theme we are upon that will certainly run us up in our Meditations and Searches to Digitus Dei the Finger of God as having a signal stroke in all such Voices and Occurrences as cannot with any shew of Reason be imputed or ascribed to any Inarticulate Inorganical Irrational Being which yet appears to be the only Immediate Instrument they proceed fro◠1. In Jerusalem before the Destruction of it by Titus Vespasian at the Feast of Pentecost the High-Priest entering into the Temple to offer the usual Sacrifices which at that time God regarded no more there was a sudden Noise heard and a Voice immediately following it which said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us depart hence Gaffarella's unheard of Curios Part 2. Ch. 3. out of Josephus Besides we know that our blessed Saviour had by express Words Predicted the same dismal Calamity to that place and People with a particulat notation of the Time when it should happen viz. before the then present Generation should be passed away 2. An Inhabitant of the Town of Guilford in Surrey who was possest of some Copy-hold Land which was to descend to his Children or in default of such Issue to his Brother dies having no Child born And his Wife apprehending her self not to be with Child which her Husbands Brother asked her immediately after his Brother's death she told him she believed she was not but afterward proved to be Which when she knew she went by the instigation of Neighbours to her Brother and told him how it was with her He railed at her called her Whore and told her That she had procured some Body to g et her with Child knowing that such a Field must be Inherited by the Posterity of her Husband but her whoring should not fool him out of the Estate The poor Woman went home troubled that not only her Child should lose the Land but which was worse that she should be thought a Whore However she quieted her self and resolved to sit down with the loss When her times came she was delivered of a Son he grew up and one Summer's Night as she was undressing him in her Yard her Husband appeared and bid her go to his Brother and demand the Field which she did but was treated very ill by him He told her That neither she nor her Devil for she had told him her Husband appeared and bid her speak to him should make him forego his Land Whereupon she went home again But some time after as her Brother was going out of this Field home-ward the dead Man appears to him at the Stile and bids him give up the Land to the Child for it was his Right The Brother being greatly frighted at this runs away and not long
the Odiousness of the Fact and to impute the Treason to the discontented Puritans Fawkes coming into Flanders found Owen unto whom after the Oath he declared the Plot which he very well approved of but Sir William Stanley being now in Spain Owen said that he would hardly be drawn into the Business having Suits now in England at the Court Yet he promised to engage him all that he could and to send into England with the first so soon as the Plot had taken Effect Upon this Fawkes to avoid further Suspicion kept still in Flanders all the beginning of September and then returning receiv'd the Keys of the Cellar and laid more Powder Billets and Faggots which done he retired into the Country and there kept till the end of October In the mean time Catesby and Peircy meeting at the Bath it was there concluded that because their numbec was but few Catesby himself should have power to call in whom he would to assist their design by which Authority he took in Sir Everard Digby of Rutlandshire and Francis Tresham Esq of Northamptonshire both of them of sufficient State and Wealth For Sir Everard offer'd Fifteen Hundred Pounds to forward the Action and Tresham Two Thousand But Peircy disdaining that any should out-run him in Evil promised Four Thousand Pounds out of the Earl of Northumberland's Rents and ten swift Horses to be used when the Blow was past Against which time to provide Ammunition Catesby also took in Ambrose Rookwood and John Grant two Recusant Gentlemen and without doubt others were acquainted also with it had these two grand Electors been apprehended alive whose own Tongues only could have given an Account of it The business being thus forwarded abroad by their Complices they at home were no less active For Peircy Winter and Fawkes had stored the Cellar with thirty fix Barrels of Gunpowder and instead of Shot has said upon them Bars of Iron Logs of Timber Massie stones Iron Crows Pickaxes and all their working Tools and to cover all great Store of Billets and Faggots so that nothing was wanting against that great and terrible day Neither were the Priests and Jesuits slack on their parts who usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the good Success of their expected Hopes Upon Thursday in the Evening ten Days before the Parliament was to begin a Letter directed to the Lord Monteagle was deliver'd by an unknown Person to his Footman in the Street with a strict Charge to give it into his Lords own Hands which accordingly he did The Letter had neither Date nor Subscription and was somewhat unlegible This Letter was imparted to the Earl of Salisbury then Principal Secretary and they both presently acquainted the Lord Chamberlain next to the Earl of Worcester and Northampton and last to the King as followeth My Lord Out of the Love I bear to some of your Friends I have a care of your Preservation Therefore I would advise you as you tender your Life to devise some Excuse to shift off your Attendance at this Parliament For God and Man have concurr'd to punish the Wickedness of this time And think not slightly of this Advertisement but retire your self into your Country where you may expect the Event in safety For though there be no Appearance of any Stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible Blow this Parliament and yet they shall not see who hurts them This Counsel is not to be contemned because it may do you good and can do you no harm For the danger is past so soon as you have burnt the Letter and I hope God will give you the Grace to make a good use of it to whose holy Protection I commend you His Majesty after reading this Letter pausing a while and then reading it again deliver'd his Judgment that the Stile of it was too quick and pithy to be a Libel proceeding from the Superfluities of an idle Brain and by these Words That they should receive a terrible Blow at this Parliament and yet should not see who hurt them he presently apprehended that a sudden Danger by a Blast of Gunpowder was intended by some base Villain in a Corner though no Insurrection Rebellion or desperate Attempt appear'd And therefore wished that the Rooms under the Parliament-House should be thoroughly searched before himself or Peers should sit therein Hereupon it was concluded that the Lord-Chamberlain according to his Office should view all Rooms above and below but yet to prevent idle Rumours and to let things ripen further it was resolved that this Search should be deferr'd till Monday the day before the Parliament met and that then it should be done with a seeming slight Eye to avoid Suspect According to this Conclusion the Earl of Suffolk Lord-Chamberlain upon Monday in the Afternoon accompanied with the Lord Monteagle repair'd into these Under-Rooms and finding the Cellar so fully stored with Wood and Coals demanded of Fawkes the counteffeit Johnson who stood there attending as a Servant of small Repute who owned the place He answer'd that the Lodgings belong'd to Master Thomas Peircy and the Cellar also to lay in his Winter-Provision himself being the Keeper of it and Master Thomas Peircy's Servant whereunto the Earl as void of any Suspicion told him That his Master was well provided for Winter Blasts But when they were come forth the Lord Monteagle told him That he did much suspect Peircy to be the Inditer of the Letter knowing his Affection in Religion and the Friendship betwixt them professed so that his Heart gave him as he said when heard Peircy named that his Hand was in act The Lord-Chamberlain returning related to the King and Council what he had seen and the Suspition that the Lord Monteagle had of Peircy and himself of Johnson his Man all which increased His Majesties Jealousie so that he insisted contrary to the Opinion of some that a harrow Search should be made and the Billets and Coals turn'd up to the bottom and accordingly the Search was concluded to be made but under colour of searching for certain Hangings belonging to the House which were missing and conveyed away Sir Thomas Knevet a Gentleman of His Majesties Privy-Chamber was employ'd herein who about Midnight before the Parliament was to begin went to the place with a small but trusty number of Persons And at the Cellar Door entring in finding one who was Guy Fawkes at so unseasonable an Hour cloaked and booted he apprehended him and ransacking the Billets he found the Serpent's Nest stored with Thirty six Barrels of Powder and then searching the Villain he found a Dark-Lanthorn about him three Matches and other Instruments for blowing up the Powder And being no whit daunted he instantly confessed his Guiltiness vowing that if he had been within the House he would have blown up House and self and all and before the Council lamented nothing so much as that the Deed was not done saying The Devil and not God was the Discoverer
20. Wroughton-Mannor in Wiltshire It was founded finished and endowed by himself alone disbursing Thirteen thousand Pounds paid down before the ensealing of the Conveyance for the Ground whereon it stood with some other Appurtenances besides Six thousand pound expended in the Building thereof and that vast yearly Endowment whereof heretofore not to mention the large Sums bequeathed by him to the Poor to Prisons to Colledges to mending High-ways to the Chamber of London besides the Twenty thousand Pounds left to the Discretion of his Executors He died 1611. in the Ninth Year of King James's Reign 3. Anno Dom. 1552. King Edward the Sixth in the Sixth Year of his Reign founded the Hospitals of Christ-Church in London and of St. Thomas in Southwark and the next Year of Bridewel for the Maintenance of three sorts of Poor The first for the Education of poor Children the second for impotent and lame Persons the third for idle Persons to imploy and set them on work A Princely Gift whereby Provision was made for all sorts of poor People such as were poor either by Birth or Casualty or else wilfully poor Besides by the said vertuous Prince were founded two Free-Schools in Louth in Lincolnshire with liberal Maintenance for a School-master and Usher in them both Likewise Christ's-Colledge in the University of Cambridge enjoyeth a Fellowship and three Scholars by the Gift of the said Excellent Prince 4. Sir William Cecil not long since Lord Treasurer in his Life-time gave thirty Pounds a year to â—t John's-Colledge in Cambridge he founded also an Hospital at Stamford for twelve poor People allowing to each of them six Pounds per Annum He also left great Sums of Money in trust in the hands of Mr. John Billet one of his Executors who has as carefully performed that Trust and partly by this Means and partly out of his own Estate hath done those excellent Works He repaired at the expence of divers hundred Pounds the Great Church in the City of Bath he enlarged the Hot and Cross-Bath there walling them about He built an Hospital there to entertain twelve poor People for a Month at the Spring and three Months at the Fall of the Leaf with Allowance of Four Pence a day he gave Two hundred Pounds to the Repairs of St. Martins-Church an hundred Marks to St. Clements to build a Window five Pounds to each of the four Parishes in Westminster for twelve years Upon the Building of the Market-House there he bestowed Three hundred Pounds whereof it made ten Pounds a year for the Benefit of the Poor He also gave twenty Pounds per Annum to Christ's Hospital till two hundred Pounds came out 5. Robert Earl of Dorchester Anno 1609. by his last Will and Testament ordained an Hospital to be built in East Green-street in Sussex allowing to the Building thereof a thousand Pounds to the which the Executors have added a thousand Pounds more and three hundred and thirty Pounds of yearly Revenue to maintain twenty poor Men and ten poor Women to each of them ten Pounds by the Year and besides to a Warden twenty Pounds and to two Assistants out of the Town to be chosen three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence a-piece per Annum 6. John Whitgift Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at his own proper Charge caused an Hospital to be built at Croyden for the Maintenance of Thirty poor People with a Free-School having a Master and an Usher and laid unto it Two hundred Pounds per Annum besides the Charge of the Building which is supposed to have cost Two thousand Pounds more 7. William Lamb Clothworker gave to these charitable Uses following He built the Conduit near Holborn with the Cock at Holborn-Bridge bringing the Water more than Two thousand Yards in Pipes of Lead at the Charge of Fifteen hundred Pounds He gave also to these Uses following To Twelve poor People of St. Faiths Parish Weekly Two pence a-piece To the Company of Clothworkers four Pounds per Annum For Reading Divine Service in St. James's Church Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays and for four Yearly Sermons and for Twelve poor Men and Twelve poor Women so many Gowns Shirts Smocks Shooes he gave Lands to the Yearly Value of thirty Pounds to each of the Towns of Ludlew and Bridgnorth One hundred Pounds to Christ's-Hospital Yearly six Pounds and to purchase Lands ten Pounds to St. Thomas's Hospital Yearly four Pounds to the Savoy to buy Bedding ten Pounds He erected a Free-School at Sutton Valens in Kent with Allowance to the Master of twenty Pounds to the Usher eight Pounds He built six Alms-Houses there with the Yearly Maintenance of ten Pounds He gave also toward the Free-School at Maidstone in Kent to set the poor Clothiers on work in Suffolk he gave One hundred Pounds 8. Sir Wolston Dixy Mayor free of the Skinners gave as followeth To the Maintenance of a Free-School in Dosworth yearly twenty Pounds to Christ's-Hospital in London yearly for ever Forty two Pounds for a Lecture in St. Michael Bassings-Hall yearly ten Pounds to the Poor of Newgate twenty Pounds to the two Compters of Ludgate and Bethlehem to each of them ten pounds to the four Prisons in Southwark twenty pounds thirteen shillings four pence to the Poor of Bassing-Hall ten pounds to Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge to buy Lands to maintain two Fellows and two Scholats Six hundred pounds to the Building of the Colledge fifty pounds to be lent unto poor Merchants Five hundred pounds to the Hospital of St. Bartholomew and St. Thomas each of them Fifty pounds to the Poor of Bridewel twenty pounds to poor Maids Marriages One hundred pound to poor Strangers of the Dutch and French Churches fifty pounds towards the Building of the Pest-house Two hundred pounds The Sum of these Gifts in money amounted to more than Seventeen hundred pounds and the yearly Annuities to Seventy two pounds 9. Sir John Gresham Mercer and Mayor of London Anno 1548. in the Second Year of King Edward the Sixth gave ten pounds to the Poor to every Ward in London which was Twenty four within the City And to One hundred and twenty poor Men and Women to every one of them three Yards of Cloth for a Gown of eight or nine Shillings a yard to Maids Marriages and the Hospitals in London above Two hundred pounds He also founded a Free-School at Holt a Market-Town in Norfolk 10. Mr. Thomas Ridge Grocer gave to charitable Uses One thousand one hundred sixty three pounds Six shillings and eight pence viz. To the Company of Grocers to be lent to two young Men free of the Company an hundred pounds to his Men and Maid-Servants Sixty three pounds six shilling eight pence unto the Hospitals about London One hundred pounds unto Preachers Four hundred pounds to poor Tradesmen in and about London Three hundred pounds for a Lecture in Grace-Church One hundred pounds and in Gowns for poor Men One hundred pounds 11. Mr. Robert Offley Haberdasher gave Six
be paid by 40 shillings apiece 13. For the Marriages of poor Maids in Reading in the same manner 100 l. 14. For the Marriages of poor Maids in Newbery that have served 7 years the same Master or Mistress 50 l. 15. To set on work idle vagrant Boys in Bridewel 200 l. 16. Towards Finishing the Pinacles of the Steeple of S. Marys in Reading 50 l. 17. To be lent upon Bond with Sureties to several honest industrious poor Clothiers in Reading first for 7 years then for 3 years to others and so on gratis for ever 500 l. viz. 50 l. apiece 18. To the Clothiers of Newbery the same Sum for the like use viz. 500 l. 19. To poor industrious Merchant-Adventurers in London to be lent by 300 l. in a parcel gratis from 3 years to 3 years in like manner as before 300 l. 20. To his Brother William Kendrick and Children 2000 l. and a Gold-Ring 21. To his Sister Anna Newman of Reading 1000 Marks 22. To her Children 2000 Marks c. 23. To his Sister Alice Vigures of Exeter 500 l. 24. To her Children 1000 l. 25. To his Brother James Winch of Purley in the County of Berks and Children 1000 l. 26. To old Elizab. Kendrick his Uncle's Daughter 50 l. 27. To Tho. Newman at Delf in Holland Servant to his Partner 1000 l. 28. To his Kinsman and late Servant Sim. Gaudy 1000 l. 29. To Arth. Aynscomb Merchant then at Antwerp Shearer with him in Trade 500 l. 30. To Barney Reymes Merchant at Delf another Shearer 500 l. 31. To Mr. John Quarles who was his Master and then kept his Accompts 500 l. forgiving him also a Debt of 300 l. 32. To Mr. George Lowe Merchant and former Partner 300 l. 33. To Tho. Billingslie Son of Sir H. B. 200 l. forgiving him also a Debt of 200 l. more 34. To the Executors of Tho. Jackson Merchant 300 l. 35. To Luces van Punon of Middleburgh 50 l. 36. To Jeremiah Poets of Middleburgh 20 l. 37. To William Powle his Covenant-Servant 200 l. 38. To And Kendrick his Apprentice 300 l. and in lieu of what he had received with him 100 l. 39. To another Apprentice Chr. Packe 100 l. 40. To his House-keeper 20 l. To two of his Maids 20 l. apiece To his Drawer 50 l. to another Drawer 25 l. To his Drawers Servants 25 l. To his twelve Clothworkers Rowers and Shearers 130 l. To Bigge and Salisbury that pressed and folded his Cloth 25 l. To his Porters at the Water-side 10 l. To Packers 10 l. To his Water-bearer 3 l. To the Washer 5 l. To W. Bealde of Reading Clothier 50 l. to another Clothier 50 l. To another Clothier Tho. Newman 100 l. To John Skegmere Secretary to the Merchant-Adventurers 100 l. To R. B. a Partner 300 l. To Mr. W. T. 5 l. To Officers of the Company 15 l. For Service at 6 a Clock in Reading 250 l. the like at Newbery 250 l. to another 100 l. For a Dinner for the Drapers at his Funeral 40 l. Extracted out of the Copy printed A. C. 1625. 23. The Lady Alice Dutchess Dudley gave many hundred pounds toward the Building of St. Giles's Church the Church being finished she gave Hangings of Watchid Taffety to cover the upper-end of the Chancel and those bordered with a silk and silver Fringe Item For the back of the Altar a rich green Velvet Cloth with these three Letters in Gold IHS embroidered on it Two Service-Books in Folio embossed with Gold A gree Velvet Cloth with a rich deep Gold Fringe to cover the Altar on Sundays A Cambrick-Altar Cloth with a deep Bonelace round about another fine Damask-Altar Cloth Two Cusâ—ins for the Altar rickly embroidred with Gold A large Turkey Carpet to be spread on the Week-days over it A beautiful Skreen of Carved Work which was placed where the former in the old Church stood Moreover she gave a neat Pair of Organs with a Case richly Gilded Item Ver costly handsom Rails to guard the Lord's Table from prophane uses It. The Communion-Plate of all sorts in Silver and gilt for that sacred use she was at the Charge of Paving the upper-end of the Church wih Marble-stones She gave the great Bell and was at the Charge of Casting and Hanging the other five Bells She gave to the Church of Stonelay in Warwickshire as also to the Churches of Mancester Leke-Wotton Ashow Kenelworth and Monks-Kirby Twenty pounds per Annum apiece for a perpetual Augmentation to the poor Vicaridges of those respective Churches for ever She bestowed on the same Churches as also upon the Churches of Bedford Acton St. Albans Patshill divers pieces of costly Plate for the Celebration of the Holy Communion in each of them And she purchased a fair house and Garden near the said Church of St. Giles's and gave it for a perperual Mansion to the Incumbents after three Lives She also allowed a yearly Stipend to the Sexton of that Churchâ—â— Tole the great Bell when the Prisoners condemned to die were passing by and to Ring out after they were executed She likewise gave great Sums of Money for the Repairing the Cathedral Church of Litchfield and for the Re-edifying of St. Sepulchres in London All these with many more were the Product of her great Charity whilst she lived and thereby made her own Eyes her Overseers and her own Hand her Executors At her Death she gave for Redemption of Christian Captives from the Hands of Infidels One hundred pounds per Annum for ever To the Hospital in St. Giles's Four hundred pounds for Twenty pounds a year for ever For the placing out for ever of poor Parish-Children of St. Giles's Apprentices Two hundred pounds to purchase 10. l. per Annum To the Poor of the Parishes of Stoneley Kenilworth Leke-Wotton Ashow Bedford and Passhill aforesaid and also of Lichborow and Blakesley One hundred pounds per Annum And upon the Day of her Funeral Fifty pounds to be distributed among the Poor She gave to Fourscore and ten Widows according to the number of the years she had lived to each one a Gown and fair white Handkerchief to attend the Hearse wherein her Body was carried and One shilling apiece for their Dinner after that Solemnity was performed which was on the 16th of March 1668. She gave to every place where her Corps should rest in its passage from London unto Stoneley aforesaid in Warwickshire where she had a Noble Monument prepared by her self She ordered that Six pence should be given to every poor Body that should meet her Corps on the Road. She gave to Blakesley Lichborow and Patshill Ten pounds apiece to be distributed among the Poor the same day her Corps was interred to Stoneley Fifty pounds distributed the same day Thus this Illustrious Dutchess did in her Life and at her Death and doubtless for all her good Deeds she has her Reward in Heaven by God's Mercy and Christ's Merits See the Narrative of her Life
sometimes one sometimes more fell into a great and dreadful Shaking and Trembling in their whole Bodies and all their Joynts with such Risings and Swellings in their Bellies and Bowels sending forth such Shriekings Yeanlings Howlings and Roatings as not only affrighted the Spectantors but caused the Dogs to bark the Swine to cry and the Cattel to run about to the astonishmen of all that heard them By these Artifices one William Spencer was drawn by them to leave the Church and to follow them whereupon at several times he fell into the same quaking Fits and lying with one of them three several Nights the last being much troubled and not able to sleep upon a sudden he heard something buzzing and humming about the Quakers Head like an Humble-bee which did sore affight him whereupon he sought to rist but the suaker perswaded him to lie still and immediately there arose a great Wind and Storm which shook the House wherein they lay which adding much to his former fear he again attempted to arise but the Quaker still pressed him to lye still perswading him to expect the Power to come which they often promised to their Proselites and thereupon he again heard the former humming Noise which more and more terrified him so that he strove vehemently to rise but the Quaker laid his Head upon Spencer's Shoulder and did blow hard like the hissing of a Goose several times towards his Face or Mouth which made him leap out of his Bed in a great astonishment crying for a Light and Guide to conduct him to a Neighbours House and upon this occasion left them altogether testisying the truth thereof to the Quaker's Face before many Witnesses the Quaker not denying it Attested under several hands Ibid. 5. A. C. 1654. A grave Minister at the earnest desire of some Friends went with John Ward and Anthony Hunter to a Meeting of the Quakers at the House of John Hunter in Benfield-side in the County of Durham where he found about twenty Persons sitting all silent And after we had sate a while saith the Minister that gave this Relation under his Hand all being mute the Lord moved me to arise and call upon his Name by Prayer I was no sooner up but my Legs trembled greatly so that it was some difficulty to me to stand but after I had Prayed a short space the trembling ceased Whilst I prayed to God as a Creator there was but little disturbance but when I cryed in me Name to Jesus Christ my Mediator God in my Nature in the highest Glory appearing and interceding for his Saints then the Devil roared in the deceived Souls in a most strange and dreadful manner some howling some sereeching yealling roaring and some had strange confused kind of humming and singing Noise Such a representation of Hell I never heard of there was nothing but Horror and Confusion After I had done Praying not opening mine Eyes before I was amazed to see about the one half of those miserable Creatures so terribly shaken with such strange violent various Motions that I wondred how it was possible for some of them to live In the midst of this Confusion one of them asked me if I was come to torment them to whom I applyed that Word Mat. 8.29 where the Devils asked Christ the same Question And whilst I spake something of Faith they declared that they were come to the Faith of Devils Jam. 2.19 who believe and tremble but he said that we were not attained to such a Faith After two Hours as we were departing out of House one of them cursed me with these Words All the Plagues of God be upon thee whereupon I return'd and Prayed for such of them as had not committed the unpardonable Sin Ibid. 6. A. C. 1656. There was one John Toldervy lately Servant to Colonel Webb living in Cornhill London who published a Book called The Foot out of the Snare wherein he declares how he was seduced by the Quakers c. Wherein he tells us that the first Principle infused into him was against the Ministers and Scriptures then against all Compliments and Greetings and Ornaments c. A short time saith he after my complyance with the Spirit that entred into me my Master coming from the Wells I reached a Stool took him by the Arm and bade him sit down William Webb not bowing nor pulling off my Hat nor calling him Master but added how doth thy Body do whereupon he answered John what is the matter where is the Servants Obedience where is the Masters Honour To which I answered my Master was the faithful Spirit c. and that all the Ministers particularly Feak his Minister were Ministers of the Devil c. Once when his Master and his company were at Dinner he took a Stool and sate down at the upper end of the Table saying that he was the Servant of the living God and had more right to the Creatures then his Master After this saith he I was resolved to be wholly taught by the Light within me and so never to sin any more and when Customers came into the Shop I durst nor ask what they wanted nor make in the Price of Wares more then one Word nor use any word but thee and thou nor pull of my Hat nor call divers of our Wares by the usual names but gave them other names which made me unfit for my Calling whereby I should live Upon this necessity and by command of the Spirit within him he fared hard feeding upon Stalks and Leaves of Cabbages he took up in the Streets pining away was put upon expectation of Revelations had several Spirits appeared before him with musical Noises and was so haunted with repeated Apparitions and contradictory Motions of the Spirit 'till at last by the occasion thereof he burnt his Leg in the Fire and became so Brain-sick with these Courâ—es and frequent Watchings together that he was near at Death's-door At last it pleased God to give him some Respite for the refreshment of his Body and the quiet of his mind upon which he wrote the Book above-mentioned the whole Narrative is tiresome and sad to relate Mr. Clark hath abridged it and I have abridged his Abridgment Ibid. CHAP. LXXXVII Satan permitted to Disturb the Quiet and Peace of Persons or Families c. THE Devil is the greatest Make-bate and the archest Beautifeu in the World setting Menâ—â— odds with one another at odds with themselves and with God to promoting Variance sometimes in our Families and Societies and sometimes in our own Breasts and this he doth not always in a clandestine way by secret Injections and temptations but sometimes by Actions palpably Diabolical wherein his cloven Foot is conspicuous and evident enough and wherein his Art and Malice is plain enough to be seen by any that have not abdicated their common Sense as well as their Reasonable and Religious Principles 1. In the 1678 on the Sunday after Twefth-day William Medcalfe and his Wife
promising to pray for the Man and to get all the Force that he could in the Town to joyn with him he returns home about Eleven of the Clock at Night and finding there several Persons whom he intended to have sent for he desired them to joyn their Prayers with his on this Man's behalf which they continued for some part of he Night The next Morning Mr. Balsom going to Visit him again sound him in a very comfortable Condition and asked him how he did he answered Through the Goodness of God I have overcome Satan and am now as full of Comfort as I was before of Trouble Thus he continued cheerful tho' very weak all that Day and the next Morning died no Disease being apparent on him Clark's Martyr c. Wonderful Prod. p. 47. 4. The Devil of Mascon that so long molested the House of Mr. Perrheaud complained that he could not do any hurt there because they prayed so much Printed Narrative 5. Senercleus tells of a plain Country Fellow at Friburg in Germany to whom as he lay on his Death-bed the Devil appeared in the Shape of a tall grim Man claiming his Soul saying Thou hast been a notorious Sinner and I am now come to set down all thy Sins And thereupon drew out Paper and Ink and sitting down at a Table that stood by began to write The sick Man said My Soul is Christ's and all my Sins are nailed to his Cross but if thou desirest to set down my Sins write thus All our Righteousnesses are as filthy Rags The Devil set that down and bid him say on He did But thou Lord hast promised for thine own Name's-sake to blot out all our Iniquities and to make our Scarlet Sins White as Snow The Devil would not write these Words but was very earnest with the Man to go on with his former Confession Then said the sick Man with great cheerfulness The Son of God appeared to destroy the Works of the Devil Whereupon the Devil vanished and shortly after the sick Man died Clark's Mirrour ch 7. p. 33. 6. Mr. White of Dorchester to the Devil standing at his Bed's Feet said If thou hast nothing else to do thou mayest stand there still and I will betake myself to my Rest. And so composing himself to Sleep the Devil vanished away Ibid. 7. Luther lodging in the Castle at Wartzburg being troubled with Noises of the Devil 's making drove him away with saying Omnia subjecisti pedibus ejus Thou hast put all Things under his Feet Ibid. 8. Mr. Jos Allein in his Illness a little before his Death uttered these Words Away thou foul Fiend thon Enemy of all Mankind Art thou come now to molest me Now that I am just going now I am so weak and Death is upon me Trouble me not for I am none of thine I am the Lord 's Christ is mine and I am his His by Covenant I have sworn my self to be the Lords and his I will be Therefore be gone be gone be gone c. See his Life 9. A. C. 1663. One Thomas Sawdie a Boy of twelve Years of Age. Servant to Joh. Roberts of Trebilian in the Parish of Lawrack and County of Cornwal being possest by the Devil in a strange manner from whom he had received Money and falling sick after it sometimes with Fits like the Epilepsie in which he would continued for the space of seven or eight Hours sometimes like the Convulsion of which he had forty or fifty in a Day swelling of his Throat Distension of Limbs tearing off his Hair biting his own Flesh hollowing yelling whilstling neighing like a Stone-Horse lying as in a dead Sleep all Night halled out of his Bed and laid under the Bed with Arms spread abroad and such a stiffness in his Limbs that there was no bending of them without breaking them flying away from his Friends and in his Flight throwing off all his Cloaths Shirt and every thing presently drawing his Hands out and putting them in again when bound strait with a Napkin in three hard Knots getting his Legs one Arm and most of his Head through a Window where the Moulins were scarce three Inches asunder shooting his Body into a little Hole in the Wall up to the Waste of no capacity in the ordinary Course of Nature to contain such a Body as his was c. yet at last this Boy by the Prayers of three or four Ministers and other Neighbors was recovered out of this Share of the Devil He affirmed after his Recovery That at prayers he felt something as alive move out of his Belly towards his Throat upon which he then cried out He is gone he is gone and that the next Morning in the Field he went out like a Rat into a Fire which appeared near the hedge and both ascended into the Air and seemed to pass over to St. German's Town Attested by Mr. Toms Ministers Mr. Lydston Ministers Mr. Travers Ministers Mr. Teag Ministers John Roberts the Boy 's Master and Elizabeth his Wife Dorothy Sawdie Mrs. Jane Brooking and Mrs. Isabel her Daughter Tho. Geffery Hen. Palmer Constable With several others See the Printed Relation called A Return of Prayer Printed 1664. CHAP. XCV Satan hurting by Obsessions Possessions c. BY Obsessions I mean immediate Attempts and Assaults made upon the Disturbed Person by Satan or his Agents in such a manner as to discover themselves plainly to be of the Diabolical kind By Possessions the Insults of Satan in the very Body of the Person and this last way of Vexation I look upon as one of the worst when the Devil hath Power not only to Besiege the Town but to Enter the very castle and Domineer there and though there are some very late Authors that resolve all the History of the Demoniacks in the Gospel into Physical Distemperature of the Brain or Hypochondria yet I think they will be hard put to it to solve all the Difficulties and strange Occurrences of subsequent History 1. Mr. John Bruen of Stapleford in Cheshire Records the Story of a Boy called Thomas Harrison of Northwich about Eleven or Twelve Years of Age possessed with the Devil who by his Torments was brought so low that he was almost nothing but Skin and Bone yet for the space of Twenty four Hours every day having only one half hour respite which they call'd his Awaking time and wherein they gave him some Food he was of that extraordinary strength that if he folded his hands together no Man could pull them asunder if he rolled his Head or tossed his whole Body no Man could stay or restrain him He would to the great Astonishment of the Hearers Howl like a Dog Mew like a Cat Roar like a Bear Froth like a Boar when any pray'd with him his passions were strongest his Rage and Violence greatest ready to flye in their Faces and to drown their Voices by his yellings and outcries If any one came near him with a Bible though under
at Prayer Afterwards the Minister reading Psal 91. the Man standing by him to hold the Candle somewhat presently beat out the Light whereupon the Man said Some body else must hold the Candle Presently a Knife was thrown at the Minister which fell behind him his Brother said that he saw it come Then a Chopping-knife was thrown it was supposed at the Man's Wife Whereupon the Man said These things are thrown at others for my sake At length he fell down upon his Knees and confessed That he had been an Hypocrite and a Pilfering Fellow and that he had Robbed his Master c. and he was willing to separate the Things which he had taken wrongfully from the rest and did accordingly laying forth several things which he said were none of his naming the Persons from whom he had taken them And as a great Chest was carrying forth Trenchers Platters and other things were thrown about in so dreadful a manner that one not much noted for Religion said Pray you let us go to Prayer and indeed that was their only Refuge Praying Reading and Singing Psalms And tho' divers things were thrown as a Dish several times which gave Mr. Bennet once a smart Blow on the Cheek the Man's Boots a Chopping-knife twice Crabs out of a Tub standing in the midst of the Room a Firebrand a Hammer and a Bible yet at Prayer all was quiet In the Morning after Mr. Bennet and his Brother were come away before they got home they heard that the House was on fire Mr. Bennet was thereupon sent for again in the mean time they had carried away their Goods pulled off the Thatch and quench'd the Fire yet it kindled again and again till all th Man's Goods were carried out And when these People whose House was burnt down to the Ground together with all their Goods were removed into the Field all was quiet in the second House but some things were thrown in the Field and some noise heard among the Houshold-stuff Thus these poor Creatures were distressed their House burnt down that to which they removed several times fired and they with their Goods forced to lie in the open Fields for several Days and Nights together being made a sad Spectacle to all sorts of People that came far and near to see and hear of the Business Afterwards a Fast-day was kept by four neighbouring Ministers and Sermons preached on these Texts Job 11.13 Amos 3.6 Luke 13.2 3. Isa 33.14 15 16. The Congregation was great and the distressed Persons diligently attentive After which they were not at all troubled any more in that manner See the Narrative written by Mr. Bennet and published by Mr. Clark in his Examples Vol. II. p. 594 c. See more of the Darbyshire Woman that cozen'd a Boy of some Money in the Chapter of Divine Judgments upon Cursing and of John Duncalf that stole a Bible in the Chapter of Lying and Slandering Humane Judgments are so often inflicted in these Cases and our Prisons are so loud with the Cries of poor guilty Malefactors and the Gallows so conspicuous in every Country that it is less necessary to enquire for particular Instances of Divine Vengeance CHAP. CXV Remarkable Instances of Restitution We find in the old Mosaic Oeconomy strict Laws for Restitution Exod. 22.1 Lev. 6.2 c. Prov. 6.31 Scripture Precedents 1 Sam. 12.2 3. Nehem. 6.11 12 13. Luke 19.8 In short these four Reasons are urged by a late Author for the Necessity of it God doth strictly require it be severely punisheth the Neglect of it accepts of no Service till it be performed nor is there any true Repentance or Salvation without it 1. The Turkish Religion requires it Their Law is If any Man hath any Ill-gotten Goods in his Possession he must make speedy Satisfaction and if not able he must give a Bill under his Hand to restore it so soon as he is able Smythy's Treatise of Restitution p. 10. Selymus a Turkish Emperor lying upon his Death-bed tormented in Mind Pyrrhus one of his Basha's advised him for the quieting of his Thoughts to bestow the Wealth which he had wrongfully taken from the Persian Merchants upon a Hospital for the Poor But that would not satisfie his guilty Conscience and therefore he required that the Money should be returned to the Merchants themselves saying They are without the Obedience of God that do not Repent and Restore Ibid. 2. A Person in London having stole a Child and conveyed him beyond the Seas was so mightily disquieted in his Mind that he wrote to Mr. Smythy Curate at St. Giles's Cripplegate earnestly desiring him in his next Preparatory Sermon for the Sacrament to resolve two Questions 1. Whether one that hath stolen a Child and conveyed him beyond Sea could by any means be a worthy Communicant 2. If he might what was necessary in order to it The Questions were answered But there was no more possible to be done in that case the Child being not to be found and the Parents I suppose dead but to give the Money received for the Child to the Poor Which was done accordingly Ibid. 3. A younger Brother being covetous of an Estate sold his eldest Brother and conveyed him beyond the Seas Afterwards the Remorse of his Conscience was so great that he could not rest till he had used all possible Means for the Regaining of him Merchants engaged their Factors to enquire for him He had run away from his Master herded with a wild savage sort of Brutish People who lived in Woods and Forests with a Gun or Bow to get their Living was sent back to the Possession of his Inheritance but not capable of enjoying it being for the most part raging Mad and in his Intervals nothing would satisfie him but to return again to that wild foraging course of Life Ibid. 4. Mr. Burroughs in his Sermon on that Text Psal 17.14 hath these Words These Hands of mine had once that given to them to be a means to convey to restore that which was taken wrongfully 50 Years before The Wrong was 50 Years ago and after 50 Years the Conscience of the Man troubles him and he comes to bring to restore that wrong and desires it may be conveyed to such a place where he had done the wrong Burroughs's Gospel-Conversation p. 357. 5. Mr. Samuel Fairclough at Thirteen Years of Age hearing his Godfather Mr. Samuel Ward of Haveril Preaching upon Zacheus his Restitution and oft repeating Non dimittitur peccatum nisi restituatur oblatum was so touch'd with remorse for the robbing of one Goodman Jude's Orchard together with another School-Boy one John Trigg afterwards a Famous Physician in London that after a restless Night on Monday Morning he goes to Trigg tells him he was going to Goodman Jude's to carry him Twelve Pence for his Three penny-worth of Pears of which he had wrong'd him Trigg fearing a Whipping from his Master answer'd Thou talkest like a Fool Sam God will forgive us ten
declared himself Innocent caused his Tongue to be cut out and cast to them again seized upon any that stood near when he wanted Game for the Wild Beasts suborned Persons to go into the Senate-House and declare him whom he had a mind to murder as a Publick Enemy would Command the Executioner so to strike that Persons might feel themselves die Disannulled Persons Wills because they had not made him their Heir Slew many Rich Men confiscated the Estates of others levied unheard-of Taxes would with an Artificial Engine vie with the Thunder of Heaven throw up a Stone at such times saying Either do thus kill me or I will kill thee Wished all the People of Rome had but one Neck that he might cut them off at one blow At last two of the Tribunes conspired against him slew him and his Wife Caesonia and took his younger Daughter and dashed her Brains against the Walls In his Closet were found two Books one called the Sword the other the Dagger containing the Names of all those he designed for Slaughter and a great Chest stored with all sorts of most deadly Poisons Ibid. in ejus vit 5. Andronicus who Traiterously murdered the Son and Heir of Emanuel the Emperor causing him to be tyed in Sack and so drowned in the Sea then by Violence took Possession of the Empire of Constantinople and proceeded to Rapes and Debaucheries not abstaining from his own Sisters murdering most of the Nobility was afterwards besieged taken degraded despolied of all his Ornaments his Eyes pluck'd out and he upon an Asse's back with his Face towards the Tail and the Tail in his Hand and a Rope about his Neck led through the Streets of Constantinople the People shouting throwing Dung Dirt and Chamber-Pots upon him then carried to the Gallows and there hanged Beard 's Theater 6. Charles King of Navarre a cruel Oppressor and Tyrant over his Subjects as also a great Letcher doting upon a Whore which he kept at Threescore Years of Age one day returning from her and entring into his Chamber went quaking to Bed and half frozen with Cold they tried by blowing upon him with Brazen Bellows Aqua-vitae and hot Blasts to revive Nature but it happening that a spark of Fire flew between the Sheets and inflamed the dry Linen and Aqua-vitae so that in an instant his late quivering Bones were half burnt He lived in great Torment for Fifteen days after and then miserably died Ibid. 7. Julian the Apostate and Persecutor nubecula fuit citò transivit as Athanasius said of him 8. King John of England by his Exactions gathered much Money the Sinews of War of his Subjects but lost his People's Affections the Joints of Peace 9. Richard the Third and Queen Mary as they had the bloodiest so the shortest Reigns of any since the Conquest 10. The fearful Judgment by Rats inflicted upon the Archbishop of Mentz for burning up the Poor of the Country in his Barn is related before 11. Novellus Carrarius Lord of Pavia after many Cruel Murders and Bloody Practices at last falling in Love with a Virgin of Excellent Beauty and Chastity and her Parents refusing to send her to him at his Command he took her out by violence forced her to his Lust and then chopt her into small pieces and sent her in a Basket to her Parents Her poor Father carried it to the Senate of Venice to consider of the Fact and revenge the Cruelty The Venetians made War upon him seized him and hanged him up with his two Sons Beard 's Theater 12. John Pontanus and Budaeus both tell of a Devilish Fellow that for a Spleen taken against his Master for some rough Usage in his Master's absence broke in upon his Mistress bound her Hand and Foot takes her three Children carries them up to the Battlements and when his Master came first threw down one then another to the Pavement and dashed them to pieces the Father begging upon his Knees for the Life of the other he tells him the only way to Ransom it was by cutting off his own Nose The poor Father doth so and disfigured his Face strangely This Limb of the Devil with a loud Laughter tumbles down the other and last of all most desperately cast himself after Beard 's Theater c. CHAP. CXXXVIII Divine Judgments upon Hereticks Schismaticks c. BY Heresie I mean an obstinate Assertion and Defence of some Doctrine contrary to the Essential Truth of our Religion By Schism an uncharitable Separation from our Brethren upon unnecessary and unwarrantable grounds And surely if we are bound to pursue after those things that make for Peace and Vnity in our Civil much more in our Religious Societies And 't is hard to offend in these cases without incurring the Indignation of Heaven God seldom permits the Authors and Principal Fomentors of such Division to go unpunished even in this World 1. Antioch being overspread with the Arian Heresie was punished with a terrible Earthquake and Fire mixt with it which consumed Multitudes of Persons Evagr. 2. Arius himself the Author as he was easing Nature his Bowels gushed out and he died miserably Theod. 3. Simon Magus attempting to shew his Power by flying in the Air fell down and broke his Thigh and so died Isaack's Chron. p. 186. 4. Manes or Manichaeus was slain by the King of Persia and his Skin stuff'd Chaff Simps 5. Emeritus Bishop of the Donatists at a Council held at Caesarea being challenged by St. Augustine to a Disputation could not be perswaded thereto by Parents or Friends through a distrust of his own Cause tho' in his own City and in the midst of his Friends Which through the Mercy of God turned much to the Advantage of the Church Clark's Mirr of Eccl. Hist 6. Nestorius being in the Council of Ephesus summoned by Theodosius Minor was condemned to Banishment in Oasis for the Blasphemous Opinions he had vented against the Deity of our Saviour Christ was struck with an Incurable Disease whereby his Tongue rotted and breeding many Worms was devoured by them so that he ended his Life miserably Ibid. p. 87. 7. Cerinthus the Heretick being at a Bath at Ephesus the Apostle St. John seeing him called upon those that were with him to depart lest the House should fall upon their Heads and immediately after their departure it fell upon Cerinthus and his Associates and killed them Euseb Eccl. Hist 8. Montanus despaired and hanged himself Niceph. Centur. Magdeburg c. 9. The Emperor Valens an Arian Heretick was burnt by the Goths in Village leaving no Successor behind him Sozom. 10. Benchocab the Famous Pseudo-Messiah under the Reign of the Emperor Adrian who drew many Disciples after him was himself and all his Followers slain called therefore by the Jews Bencâ—zby the Son of a Lye Euseb 11. Heraclius the Emperor a Monothelite having raised great Army against his Enemies in one Night 50000 of them died and himself fell presently sick and died also
J. with whom I only leave for their Direction and Encouragement 1 Cor. 15.58 Mat. 28.20 The Lay men whom I put in Joynt-Trust are Mr. B. Mr. M. Mr. B. and plain-hearted T. H. all whose Faces I hope to see in Heaven with them I leave for their Refreshment when taking some steps about it Mat. 25.39 40 for Eternity is the place I would be for to which when gone I am but a little before and you a little behind This Lecture he kept up by his constant cost and care from Aug. 4. 1653. Monthly until Jan. 2. 1659. whereof he kept an exact Account in a Catalogue wherein he took notice of the day of the Month the Place the Persons that Preached and their Texts some hints of the Congregation both number and seriousness See his Life And having thus made use of some of his Memorials we shall add what himself said of the ' writing of them in these words The occasion of making and writing these things was a thought I had what was become of all my Fore-fathers and what what Price I should set upon one of their Manuscripts concerning the state of our Family Nation or Church of God in it 500 Years since Whereupon I resolved this Work formy Son's sake and Posterity's imitation when it may be said of us in this Generation as of Israel once in that Exod. 1.6 And Joseph died and all his Brethren and all that Generation I John Machin called by him who separated me from the Womb Gal. 1.15 to the hope of having my Name in the Book of Life and likewise to be an Embassador of my Lord Christ Jesus was in my great Master's Work at Astbury in Cheshire Anno 1655. when I first set Pen hereunto See his Life 67. Part of Mr. Richard Baxter's Last Will as I find it published by Mr. Sylvester in the Narrative of his Life I Richard Baxter of London Clerk an unworthy Servant of Jesus Christ drawing to the end of this Transitory Life having through God's great Mercy the free use of my Understanding do make this My Last Will and Testament My Spirit I commit with Trust and Hope of the Heavenly Felicity into the hands of Jesus my glorified Redeemer and Intercessor and by his Mediation into the hands of God my Reconciled Father the Infinite Eternal Spirit Light Life and Love most Great and Wise and Good the God of Nature Grace and Glory of whom and through whom and to whom are all things my absolute Owner Ruler and Benefactor whose I am and whom though imperfectly I serve seek and trust to whom be Glory for ever Amen To him I render most humble Thanks that he hath filled up my Life with abundance of Mercy pardon'd my Sins by the Merits of Christ and vouchsafed by his Spirit to renew and seal me as his own and to moderate and bless to me my long-sufferings in the Flesh and at last to sweeten them by his own Interest and comforting Approbation who taketh the cause of Love and Concord as his own Now let the Reader Judge adds the Reverend Mr. Sylvester in his Preface to Mr. Baxter 's Life whether any thing in all this can in the least infer his doubting or denyal of a fature state as some have reported 68. The Reverend Mr. John Dunton late Rector of Aston Clinton in Bucks after he had in his Last Will bequeathed his Soul to God who gave it speaking next concerning his Funeral he adds That 't is his desire that his Funeral might not be performed till Five days after his decease Which Request was occasioned by his first Wife 's lying seemingly dead for three days and afterwards coming to Life again to the Admiration of all that saw her 69. A Copy of the Will made by the Reverend Dr. Samuel Annesly who departed this Life on Thursday Decemb. 31. 1696. in the 77th Year of his Age. IN the Name of God Amen I Dr. Samuel Annesly of the Liberty of Norton-Folgate in the County of Middlesex an unworthy Minister of Jesus Christ being through Mercy in Health of Body and Mind do make this my Last Will and Testament concerning my Earthly Pittance Formy SOVL I dare humbly say it is through Grace devoted unto God otherwise than by LEGACY when it may live here no longer And I do believe that my BODY after its sleeping a while in Jesus shall be reunited to my Soul that they may both be for ever with the Lord. Of what I shall leave behind me I make this short disposal My Just Debts being paid I give to each of my Children One Shilling and all the rest to be equally divided between my Son Benjamin Annesly my Daughter Judith Annesly and my Daughter Ann Annesly whom I make my Executors of this my Last Will and Testament revoking all former and confirming this with my Hand and Seal this 29th day of March 1693. SAMVEL ANNESLY 70. Cardinal Richelieu was visited by the King in his last Sickness which saith my Author was the greatest Favour he could receive from any Mortal Man seeing that having lived altogether for his King he was to die near him and almost in his Arms. He desired in his Sickness That he might live no longer than he was able do the King and the Kingdom of France Service He expired Decemb. 4. St. N. 1642. aged 58. He was buried in the College of Sorbonne where he had caused his Monument to be built during his Life Gabriel Du-gres in the Life of Jean Arman Du Plessis D. of Richelieu p. 65. 71. Cardinal Mazarine thus expressed himself to the Queen-Mother of France before his Death Madam your Favours have undone me were I to live again I would be a Capuchin rather than a Courtier This with some others following I am not now able to cite my Authors for having taken the Abstracts out of borrowed Books several Years ago 72. Sir John Mason Privy-Counsellor to four Princes expressed himself thus Seriousness is the best Wisdom Temperance the best Physick a good Conscience the best Estate and were I to live again I wold change the Court for a Cloyster my Privy-Counsellor's Bustles for an Hermit's Retirement and the whole Life I have lived in the Palace for one hours enjoyment of God in the Chapel All things else forsake me except my God my Duties and my Prayers 73. Hugo Grotius wish'd that he might exchange all his Learning and Honour for the plain Integrity of Jean Vrich who was a Poor Religious Man that spent Eight hours of his Day in Prayer Eight in Meat and Sleep and Eight in Labour 74. Salmasius his last Reflections were to this purpose Oh! I have lost a World of Time Time that most Precious thing in the World whereof had I but one Year more it should be spent in David's Psalms and Paul's Epistles O Sirs mind the World less and God more The Fear of the Lord this is Wisdom 75. Mr. Selden to Archbishop Vsher Notwithstanding my curious Enquiries
His honour or profane this ground Let no black-mouth'd breath'd rank Curr Peaceful James his Ashes stur Princes are Gods O do not then Rake in their Graves to prove them Men. 56. Vpon the King of Sweden Upon this Place the great Gustavus died While Victory lay weeping by his side 57. Vpon Sir Francis Vere When Vere sought Death arm'd with his Sword and Shield Death was afraid to meet him in the Field But when his Weapons he had laid aside Death like a Coward struck him and he died 58. Another Here lieth Richard A Preene One Thousand Five Hundred Eighty Nine Of March the xx day And he that will die after him may 59. Another Here lieth he who was born and cryed Told Threescore Years fell sick and dyed 60. At Farlam on the West Marches toward Scotland near Naworth-Castle John Bell broken brow Ligs under this stean Fovr of mine een Sons Laid it on my weam I was a Man of my Meat Master of my Wife I lived on my own Land With mickle strife 61. In St. Paul 's was this Here lies John Dod a Servant of God to whom he is gone Father or Mother Sister or Brother he never knew none A Headborough and a Constable a Man of Fame The first of his House and last of his Name Died buryed and deceas'd the Fifteenth of May One Thousand Five Hundred and Fifteen being Whitson-Monday 62. On Mr. Burbidge the Tragedian Exit Burbidge 63. On Mr. Weymark a constant Walker in Paul ' s. Defessus sum ambulando 64. In St. Mary Saviours this Here lies William Emerson Who lived and died an honest Man 65. In the North-Country this Here ligs John Hubberton And there ligs his Wife Here ligs his Dagger And there ligs his Knife Here ligs his Daughter And there ligs his Son Heigh for brave John Hubberton 66. Vpon JOhn Death Here lies John Death the very same That went away with a Cousin of his Name 67. Vpon Mr. Parsons Organist at Westminster Death passing by and hearing Parsons play Stood much amazed at his depth of Skill And said this Artist must with me away For Death bereaves us of the better still But let the Quire while he keeps time sing on For Parsons rests his Service being done 68. On Mr. Charles Wray When I in Court had spent my tender Prime And done my best to please an Earthly Prince Even sick to see how I had lost my Time Death pitying mine Estate removed me thence And sent me mounted upon Angels Wings To serve my Saviour and the King of Kings 69. Many and sundry Opinions were conceived of Joan of Arck some judging her miraculously raised up by God for the good of France others that she was but a meer Impostor We will suspend our Judgment herein and referr you to the Epitaph which we find thus written on her Here lies Joan of Arck the which Some count Saint and some count Witch Some count Man and something more Some count Maid and some a Whore Her Life 's in question wrong or right Her Death 's in doubt by Laws or might Oh Innocence take heed of it How thou too near to Guilt dost sit Mean time France a Wonder saw A Woman Rule ' gainst Salique Law But Reader be content to stay Thy censure till the Judgment-day Then shalt thou know and not before Whether Saint Witch Man Maid or Whore 70. An Epitaph upon Sir Philip Sidney England Netherland the Heavens and the Arts All Soldiers and the World have made six Parts Of the Noble Sidney for none will suppose That a small heap of Stones can Sidney inclose England hath his Body for she it bred Netherland his Blood in her Defence shed The Heavens his Soul the Arts his Fame All Soldiers his Grief the World his Good Name 71. The following Epitaph was written upon the Tomb-stone of JOHN WHITE Esq a Member of the House of Commons in the Year 1640. and Father to Dr. Annesley's Wife lately deceased Here lies a John a burning shining Light Whose Name Life Actions all alike were WHITE 72. Mrs. Wilkinson with her Child went to Heaven from her Childbed on whose Tomb-stone a learned Doctor wrote the following Lines viz. Here lies Mother and Babe both without sins Next Birth will make her and her Infant Twins See Mr. Adams 's Sermon in the Continuation of Morning Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience 73. Vpon Richard Howkins Here lies Richard Howkins who out of his store Gave Twenty good Shillings for the use of the Poor Upon condition his Body shoul'd ne'er be removed Until the appearing of our dearly Beloved 74. On the Tomb-stone of a great Scold was written Her Husband prays if by her Grave you walk You gently tread for if she 's wak'd she 'll talk 75. Vpon Mr. West Here lies Ned West of Men the best Well loved by his Wife But Oh he 's gone his Thread is spun And cut off by the Knife Of cruel Atropos Oh Jade Rokcy and flinty hearted Maid To kill so good a Man Take from my Wooff two Inches off And let him live again 76. On the Tomb of the Electeress Dowager of Saxony are to be seen the following Devices and Motto's I. Piety with an Heart in which some Beams from the Name Jehovah are centered with this Motto From him and to him II. Clemency with a Cloud of Dew hanging over the Land with this Motto Water is common to all III. Friendliness with a Sun piercing a dark Cloud over-against a Rainbow and this Motto He enlightens and makes glad IV. Magnanimity with a Rock upon which some Thunderbolts are darted with this Motto They don't terrifie V. Liberality with a Fountain from whence some Hands were taking out Water with this Motto So much the more plentiful VI. Patience with a Crucible full of Gold standing in the Fire with this Motto I burn but I am cleansed from my Dross or I shall come out more pure VII Pity or Compassion with a Silk-Worm beginning to Spin with this Motto I will serve you with my Bowels And VIII Humility with a Violet Flower growing in the Grass with this Motto The more humble the more fragrant Flying Post Nov. 21. 1696. 77. I find I have inserted in my Paper-book an Epitaph upon the Tomb of the Earl of Warwick in whose Death the Family was extinct Within this Marble doth Entombed lie Not one but all a Noble Family A Pearl of such a price that soon about Possession of it Heaven and Earth fell out Both could not have it so they did devise This fatal Salvo to divide the Prize Heaven shares the Soul and Earth his Body takes Thus we lose all while Earth and Heaven part stakes But Heaven not brooking that the Earth should share In the least Atom of a Piece so rare Intends to sue out by a new revize His Habeas Corpus at the Grand Assize Mr. Barker's Flores 78. I have read of a certain Prince who would have