Nations Insomuch that though my Lord Goring would not admit Sir Iohn Suckling into the Secret Councils they held in the North because he was too free and open-hearted yet the King gave him a Command there because he was valiant and experienced He raised a Troop of Horse so richly accoutred that it stood him in 12000 l. bestowing the Horses Armes and Cloaths upon each person that was Listed under him which puts me in mind of the Duke of Burgundy's rich preparations against Swisse of which Expedition it was said The Enemy were not worth the Spurrs they wore And of his late Majesties report upon the bravery of his Northern Army That the Scots would sight stoutly if it were but for the English mens fine cloaths And of another passage at Oxford where the King in some discourse of the Earl of Holland and other Commanders in the first Expedition against the Scots was pleased to express himself to this purpose That the Army was not in earnest which made him chuse such Commanders in Chief But indeed it became him better to sit among a Club of Wits or a Company of Scholars than to appear in an Army for though he was active he was soft and sweet withal insomuch that Selden went away with the character of Deep and Learned Hillingworth was reckoned Rational and Solid Digby Reaching and Vigorous Sands and Townsend Smooth and Delicate Vaughan and Porter Pious and Extatical Ben. Iohnson Commanding and Full Carew Elaborate and Accurate Davenant High and Stately Toby Mathewes Reserved and Politick Walter Mountague Cohaerent and Strong Faulkland Grave Flowing and Steddy Hales Judicious and Severe but Sir Iohn Suckling had the strange happiness that another Great Man is eminent for to make whatsoever he did become him His Poems being Clean Sprightly and Natural his Discourses Full and Convincing his Plays Well-humored and Taking his Letters Fragrant and Sparkling only his Thoughts were not so loose as his Expression witness his excellent Discourse to my L. of Dorset about Religion that by the freedom of it He might as he writes to my Lord put the Lady into a cold sweat and make him be thought an Atheist yet he hath put wiser heads into a better temper and procured him the reputation of one that understood the Religion that he Professed among all persons except those that were rid by that fear of Socinianism so that they suspected every man that offered to give an account of his Religion by reason to have none at all nor his Life so Vain as his Thoughts though we must allow to his sanguine composition and young years dying at 28. some thing that the thoughts and discipline of time experience and severer years might have corrected and reduced Amo in juvene quod amputem But his immature death by a Feavor after a miscarriage in his Majesties service which he laid to heart may be a warning to young men of his quality and condition whose youth is vigorous pleasures fresh joynts nimble bodies healthful enjoyments great to look on his ghastly face his hollow eyes his mouldring body his noisom dust and to entertain but this one thought that what he was they are and what he is they shall be that they stand on his Grave as the Romans did on their Friends with these words Go we shall follow thee every one in his own order Rejoyce O young man in the days of thy youth but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment A Gallant would do well with the Noble Ioseph of Arimathea in their Gardens and among their pleasures He died Anno 164 ... leaving behind him these thoughts of those times to his dear friend Mr. Iermin since the Right Honorable Earl of St. Albans 1. That it is fit the King should do something extraordinary at this present is not only the opinion of the wise but their expectation 2. Majesty in an Eclips is like the Sun most looked upon 3. To lye still in times of danger is a calmness of mind not a magnanimity when to think well is only to dream well 4. The King should do before the People desire 5. The Kings friends have so much to do to consult their own safety that they cannot advise his the most able being most obnoxious and the rest give the King council by his desires and set the Sun or interest that cannot err by passions which may 6. The Kings interest is union with his People 7. The People are not to be satisfied by little Acts but by Royal Resolutions 9. There 's no dividing of a Faction by particular obligations when it is general for you no sooner take off one but they set up another to guide them 10. Commineus observes That it is fit Princes should make Acts of Grace peculiarly their own because they that have the art to please the people have commonly the power to raise them 11. The King must not only remove grievances by doing what is desired but even jealousies by doing something that is not expected for when a King doth more than his people look for he gives them reason to believe that he is not sorry for doing what they desired otherwise a jealous people may not think it safe enough only to limit the Kings power unless they overthrow it 12. The Queen would do well to joyn with the King not only to remove fears especially since she is generally believed to have a great interest in the Kings affection but to arrive beyond a private esteem and value to an universal honor and love 13. The conservation of the general should guide and command the particulars especially since the preferment of one suspected person is such a dash to all obliging acts 14. Q. Whether the Kings way to preserve his obnoxious friends is not to be right with his distempered people 15. Q. Whether the way to preserve power be not to part with it the people of England like wantons not knowing what to do with it have pulled with some Princes as Henry the Third King Iohn Edward the Second for that power which they have thrown into the hands of others as Q. Elizabeth 16. Q. Whether it be not dangerous to be insensible of what is without or too resolved from what is within And these Advises to his friends about him at that time when he best understood himself 1. Do not ill for Company or good only for Company 2. Shun jests in Holy things and words in jest which you must give an account of in earnest 3. Detract from none but your self and when you cannot speak well of a man say nothing 4. Measure life not by the hopes and injoyments of this world but by the preparation it makes for another looking forward what you shall be rather than backward what you have been 5. Be readier to give than to take applause and neither to give nor to take exceptions 6. It s as much more to forgive one injury than
his thoughts were fixed being wholly taken up with the love and admiration of Jesus Christ and him crucified The reading to younger Scholars and some Employments imposed by the Founder were rather recreations and assistances than divertisements from that intended work The Offices which out of duty not desire were never the most profitable but the most ingenuous not such as might fill his purse but increase his knowledge It was no small accession of respect unto him or rather a consequent of the good repute which he had already gained that those two Noble Hostages Mr. Edward and Mr. Richard Spencers Sons to the Right Honourable Robert Lord Spencer Baron of Wormleighton were commended to his charge whom he restored fully instructed with all good Literature the glory of learned and religious Nobility and the very Ornaments of the Countrey where they lived for which faithful discharge of his great trust he and his Memory were ever in singular veneration with that whole Family and their Alliances His Discourse was very facetious without offence when time and place and equality of persons permitted it He was entregent as our neighbours speak it a man upon occasions offered of Vniversal Conversation When he was chosen into Office the Governour of the Colledge was wont to give this testimony of him That he was a man most sincere in Elections and that in a dubious victory of younger wits it was the safest experiment for an happy choice to follow the Omen of his Iudgment He read a Lecture of Divinity in the Colledge every Sunday morning and another day of the week at Pembroke Colledge then newly erected by the instance of the Master and Fellows there He was chosen Vice-President for many years together who by his place was to moderate the Disputations in Divinity In all these he demeaned himself with great depth of Learning far from that knowledge which puffeth up but accompanied with all gentleness courtesie humility and moderation From the Colledge he was preferred to a Living in the Bishoprick of Durham in their Donation and from thence with consent from the same Colledge obtained where no request could be denied him removed to the Vicarage of Newcastle a very populous Town furnished with multitudes of men and no small variety of opinions It was a difficult task and onely worthy of so pious an Undertaker so to become all things to all men that by all means he might gain some This was the place where he was appointed by his Friends to be a Merchant but he chose rather to be a Factor for Heaven One precious soul refined pollished and fitted for his Masters use presented by him was of more value to him than all other purchases whatsoever He adorned the Doctrine of the Gospel which he preached and professed with a sutable Life and Conversation manifesting the signes of a true Apostle in all things shewing himself a pattern of good works in Doctrine incorruptness gravity sincerity sound speech that cannot be condemned that they which were of the contrary part might be ashamed having no evil thing to say of him Titus 2. 7 8. I lately received Letters saith the worthy Compiler of his Life from a Gentleman who lived there at the same time with him who gave this Testimony of him He was a man very studious humble courteous and charitable At Newcastle when he went out what money he had he usually gave to the Poor who at length flocked so unto him that his Servant took care that he had not too much in his pocket At a certain time Doctor Henderson the Town 's Physician his neighbour and intimate acquaintance having made a Purchase sitting sad by him and fetching a sigh he demanded what was the reason he said that he had a payment to make and wanted Money Doctor Iackson bade him be of a good chear for he would furnish him and calling for his Servant told him the Physician 's need and asked what money he had The man stepping back silent the Doctor bid's him speak at length the man said fourty shillings he bade him fetch it for Master Henderson should have it all at which Master Henderson turned his sadness into laughter Doctor Iackson demanded his reason he said he had need of 400 or 500 pound Doctor Iackson answered that he thought fourty shillings to be a great sum and that he should have it and more also if he had had it Thus in a place of busie Trade and Commerce his mind was intent upon better things willing to spend and to be spent for them not seeking theirs but them After some years of his continuance in this Town he was invited back again to the University by the death of the President of the same Colledge being chosen in his absence at so great a distance so unexpectedly without any suit or petition upon his part for he knew nothing of the vacancy of the Place but by the same Letters that informed him that it was conferred upon himself A preferment of so good account that it hath been much desired and eagerly sought after by many eminent men but never before went so far to be accepted of Upon his return to Oxford and admission to his Government they found no alteration by his long absence and more converse with the world but that he appeared yet more humble in his elder times and this not out of coldness and admission of spirit but from a prudent choice and experience of a better way not without a great example of Paul the aged who when he had Authority to command that which is convenient yet for love's sake chose rather to beseech Epistle to Philemon He ruled in a most obliging manner the Fellows Scholars Servants Tenants Nemo ab eo tristis discessit no man departed from him with a sad heart excepting in this particular that by some misdemeanour or willing errour they had created trouble or given any offence unto him He used the Friends as well as the Memory of his Predecessors fairly He was Presidents pacificus a lover and maker of peace He silenced and composed all differences displeasures and animosities by a prudent impartiality and the example of his own sweet disposition All men taking notice that nothing was more hateful than hatred it self nothing more offensive to his body and mind it was a shame and cruelty as well as presumption to afflict his peaceable spirit It is a new and peculiar Art of Discipline but successfully practised by him that those under his Authority were kept within bounds and order not so much out of fear of the penalty as out of love to the Governour He took notice of that which was good in the worst men and made that an occasion to commend them for the good sake and living himself tanquam nemini ignosceret as if he were so severe that he could forgive no man yet he reserved large pardons for the imperfections of others His nature was wholly composed of the properties of
in at his throat with a Musket-bullet and out at his back whereof indeed he fell but would not die until the Enemy over-powering his men each of whom inspired by his example now as by his command before was a Berkley the Sun setting each little star appears and had like him the art of incountring but not of escaping took the Ship not till two hours after his fall when his brave Soul scorning to be a prisoner to the Dutch and to his own body too left him just as the Enemies came and took him He never spoke after this unhappy shot but his look did which from his eye dispersed as much valour as he did before with his hand fresh Orders issuing still from his aspect which a man looked on and vowed either a brave revenge or as brave a death either what the dying Captain aimed at Victory or what he enjoyed Honour The Ship the Swiftsure with so many men and Guns and so good a sailer as she was of the second Rate was a great prize to the Hollanders but this person a greater though dead the Honourable Carcase being of so great a value and if the Cabinet was so rich what was the Jewel that the States paid for it the old value of a Province and thought to demand for it the liberty of a whole Fleet of prisoners Great was the respect they gave him in their care to embalm and lay him in State in the great Church at the Hague proud it seems of their enemy where as many came to see him now dead as feared him before the throng now standing before his corps but tremblingly as before they did before his person Greater was the Honour of their Reasons for that respect viz. to use their own words For the Dignity of his Person the Greatness of his Command and the Renown of his Valour and Conduct Greatest of all was the esteem they seemed to have of him when they thought him a present fit to oblige His Majesty of Great Brittain at that time when they were most to seek for some effectual way of addressing themselves to him in order to an accommodation as they sent him Aug. 23. 1666. with Honour enough certainly since Sir Berkley's Body was the greatest Present the High and Mighty States could send and the onely kindness the most Puissant and Sacred Majesty of the King of Great Brittain would at that time accept at their hands TO enbalm him then were vain when spreading Fame Supplies the want of Spices where the name Its self preserving may for Ointment pass And he still seen lye coffin'd as in glass While thus his Bud's full Flower and his sole Beginning doth reproach anothers whole Coming so perfect up that there must needs Have been found out new Titles for new Deeds Though Youth and Laws forbid which will not let Statues be raised or he stand Brazen yet Our minds retain this Royalty of Kings Not to be bound to time but Judge of things And worship as they merit there we do Place him at height and he stands Golden too Sir HENRY BERKLEY THis Gentleman was well known for his Ancient and Honourable Family his good Education his great Observations and Experience his famous Hospitality his rich and happy Tenants and Dependants whereof he carried 500 to the Kings side the orderly Government of his Family where as it is said of Theodosius his Court-Votaries themselves might learn Discipline the exemplariness of his Devotion honouring God as sincerely as God had graciously honoured him the plainness of his temper his word being parchment and his very yea an obligation the humility of spirit which made him like a fixed Star the higher he was the less he seemed his Zeal for the Church both as Patriot Patron and Parishioner his word was All the service I can do I will do for Gods Church for all the comfort I look for I hope for in Gods Church his serviceableness in the Countrey in all publick Capacity that found him out deciding an hundred controversies at a cheaper rate in his Hall than one is ended at Westminster keep up he did indeed the Authority of the Law Order and good Government but cavils and brawls he discountenanced that reputation that was the result of all these Vertues enabled him to do so much towards the assistance of his Dread Soveraign now cheated of all the Supports and Ornaments of Government but those Subjects hearts who when the King had yeelded all that in reason could be expected from him ventured Lives and Fortunes rather than he should do as Hampden said when he was asked what they would have the King do more answered Throw himself and all his concernments upon our good affections In good time Kings are intrusted by the great Governour of the World in a way of deputation and by the Inhabitants of the World in a way of consent with the Lives Liberties and Estates of all their Subjects and those Kings shall intrust themselves and all their charge back again with the worst of those Subjects as with Sir Iohn Stowel Sir Ralph Hopton and the Lord Pawlet to help the Marquess of Hertford to the first Army that was able to face potent and successful Rebellion and clear Somerset-shire and Dorset-shire of it until the Loyal Party was besieged in Sherburne many weeks in which time to borrow the words of their own Historian May Many Sallies were made out of that Garrison and sharp Encounters performed with great courage the Parliament side so he calleth the Faction being in firm hope to have taken them at last which was conceived a thing of great moment and advantage to their affairs if they could have possessed the persons of so many men considerable both in their Persons and Valour and who mark it proved afterwards very strong and cruel Enemies yet saith he that hope was frustrate for about the beginning of October they all escaped out of Sherburne The Earl nevertheless pursued after them and in the chase took Mr. Pallart Sir Henry Sir Iohn and Sir Charles Berkley Prisoners and in them as they imagined the strength of the Kings Cause in those parts The good old Gentleman Sir Henry being neither consined in his affections nor yet disabled in his Estate attendeth that Cause with considerable supplies that he could not wait on in person 1. With that zeal Amilcar made his son Hannibal swear at thirteen to be an irreconcileable enemy of Rome engaging all his sons to a constant service against the Conspiracy upon the blessing of a father obliging them to serve the Father of their Countrey usually saying That in vain did they look for an Estate from him unless they could be protected in that Estate by the King and the Laws There was nothing more usual since the faction raised tumults and reduced and listed those tumults into Armies to force the King to that which they despaired with reason to convince him of but they endeavoured to cant most of his
hath this Character in all the Britannia's which escaped the Index Expurgatorius that for what reasons the Inquisitors knew best blotted these words out Verae Nobilitalis Ornamentis vir longe Honoratissimus and Iohn Lord Harrington Executor to the Lady Francis Sidney Daughter of Sir Henry Aunt of Sir Philip Sidney Relict of Thomas Ratcliffe the third Earl of Sussex and Foundress of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge the third Master of that House 1609. and by his Patron and Predecessor Bishop Mountague Arch-Deacon of Taunton where so moderate and milde his Government that there was not in the first eight years of his Government a Negative voice in any affair of the House he taking care to beget a general understanding about any matter in debate in private before they sate upon it in publick tuning each string before they set to a Consort his Discipline so becoming and exemplary that Sir Francis Clerk of East-Soton in Bedfordshire coming privately to Cambridge to see unseen took notice of Dr. Wards daily Presence in the Hall with the Scholars Conformity in Caps and diligent performance of Exercises to so good purpose the careful observation of old Statutes is the best Loadstone to attract new Benefactors that he augmented all the Scholarships in the Foundation Erected a new fair and firm Range of Building and Founded four new Fellowships discovering by the way such skill in Architecture and Arithmetick that staying at home he did provide to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing of the aforesaid Building 5. Such his Reputation for deep skill in Divinity that he with the Reverend Dr. Davenant of Queens Dr. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Hall Dean of Worcester was sent from the Church of England by King Iames to the Synod at Dort to assist the Dutch Churches in the five Controversies of Predestination and Reprobation of the extent of Christs death of the power of mans free will both before and after his Conversion and of the Elects perseverance and to that purpose with Dr. Davenant sent for by that Learned and deep-sighted Prince to Royston October 8. 1618. where His Majesty vouchsafed his familiar Discourse with them for two hours together commanding them to sit down by him till he dismised them with this solemn Prayer which the good man would recollect with pleasure That God would bless their endeavours At that Synod besides the common Applause he had with his Brethren testified by the 10 l. a day allowed them there the entertainments given them at the Hague Amsterdam Rotterdam Vtrecht and Leiden by the 200 l. the Meddals and the Commendatory Letter sent with them at parting thence had they this peculiar Character that he was slow but sure recompensing in the exactness of his notion what he wanted in the quickness of it being but once contradicted and that at the first opening of that middle way he and his good Friend Davenant opened to them which surprized some in the Synod at first but reconciled the Synod to them and to its self at last the moderate that cut the hair in a Controversie like those that part a Fray meet with blows on both sides at first but embraced by those very arms that were lift upon them at last Bishop Carleton came home with this Commendation in the States publick Letter to King Iames. Dominus G. Landavensis Episcopus imago expressa virtutis Effigies Dr. Ward returned with these Testimonies from the most Eminent Scholars in those Parts Modestia ipsa quae plus celavit eruditionis quam alii habent Literarum Abyssus taciturnus profundus qui quot verba tot expressit e sulco pectoris or acula c. and among the rest in iis eam eruditionem pietatem pacis studium eumque zelum deprehendimus ut cum ipsius beneficii causa Majestatituae multum debeamus they are the States expressions to the King in their foresaid Letter of thanks Magna pars ipsius beneficii nobis videatur quod ipsi ad nos missi sunâ— with which testimonial Letters they came over and presented themselves to King Iames who seeing them out at a window when first entring the Court Here comes said he my good Mourners alluding to their black habit and the late death of Queen Anne When he was to perform any exercise as the part assigned him in the English Colledge which was generally to oppose because of his acuteness and variety of reading or to give his weekly account to the King as they all did by turns the expectation was great especially in one respect as King Iames would say that he would set down no idle or impertinent word 6. So good a man that he was Tutor as well as Master to the whole Colledge yea kept almost as big a Colledge by his goodness as he governed by his place more depending upon him there and abroad as a Benefactor than did as a Governor Being a great recommender as well as incourager of Worth he used to say that he knew nothing that Church and State suffered more by than the want of a due knowledg of those Worthy men that were peculiarly enabled and designed to serve both And as another Argument of his goodness he went alwayes along with the moderate in the censures of Preachers in the University practices in the Courts that were under his Jurisdiction And in Opinions in the Convocation whereof he was a Member much pleased with a modest soft way that might win the persons and smoother their errors being much pleased with his Friend Mr. Dods saying that men should use soft words and hard Arguments And this so much known to others though so little observed by him this meek and slow speeched Moses his face shining to all men but himself that it procured six or 7000 l. Improvement in his time to the Colledge besides the Building of that Chappel which he Dedicated by his own burial being the first that was buried there His Virgin body injoying a Virgin grave like that of the Lord wherein never man lay Sleeping there where the Franciscans had a dormitory The best Disputant having his Grave where the best Philosophers and School-Divines had their Beds and the modest man resting where that modest order slept who called themselves Minorites from Iacobs words Gen. 32. 10. Sum minor omnibus beneficiis suis. Yea his Adversaries themselves admiring him so far that he was named one of the Committee for Religion in the Ierusalem Chamber 1642. whither he came with hope that moderation and mutual compliance might finde expedients to prevent if not the shaking yet the overturning of Church and State so the wary Merchants throws somethings over-board to save the Ship which escapes not by struggling with the storm but by yielding to it And inserted one of their Assembly whither he came not being not called by the King one of the flowers of whose Crown it is to call Assemblies as appears by Bishop Andrews his Learned Sermon
the abstractions refined what was rugged for many ages lost its horror and pleased and the thornes of Philosophy turned Roses by him that the Theatre was thin to his School and Comedy was not half so good entertainment as his Philosophy So ravishing by the comeliness of his presence for his body was as handsome as his soul and the beauties of his discourse in his Sermons made up of learned and holy extasies that by a strength mixed with sweetness vigorous and fair he winged up his hearers hearts to the same height with his own expressed strict vertue into the greatest pleasure strowed the streight way to ease and delight chained up all thoughts to his ravishing with a Masculine vigor his hearers not only by way of perswasion but command He speaks and streight our thoughts are his not ours What 's in our souls his Verse controuls We quit our minds and he commands our powers He shufstes souls with us And frames us thus or thus We change our humors as his discourse doth flowers In fine to have a person compleat in the circle both of Arts and Vertues Whose universal Genius did know The whole worlds posture and mixt Idiom too But these as modern faculties his soul Reared higher up learnt only to controul In abler Works and Tengues yet more refin'd Thou wed'st thy self till they grew to thy mind They were so wrapt about thee none could tell A difference but that Cartwright did excell So just a Poet that Ben. Iohnson our ablest Judge and Professor of Poetry said with some Passion My Son Cartwright writes all like a man What had Ben. said had he read his own Eternity in that lasting Elegy given him by Mr. Cartwright or that other by his good friend Mr. Robert Waring neither of which pieces are easily to be imitated dropping not a line against the Laws either of Art or Vertue the best times best ready and clear to teach and please in whom Poetry now expiring as dying things contract all their strength and vigor to one great action collected all its rich Beauties Wit Art Iudgement in one rich soul That fill'd the Stage the Schools and Pulpit too An universal Wit All things and men could fit So shap'd for ev'ry one As born for that alone Not as where Growth Sense Reason one controuls But as if he had had three rational souls He wrote so brave a Verse that none knew which Is best the Art or Wit it s all so rich His fancies are all New His Language choice and true The whole Contexture wrought Above our reach or thought Dramatick Lyrick and Heroick thou Knew'st when to vary shapes and where and how Confined neither to one shape nor to one language being as Elegant in Latine Greek French and Italian as in English sense and reason speak all Languages To have the same person cast his net and catch souls as well in the Pulpit as the Stage and as well in the Schools as in both Where language he to sence did reconcile Reducing reason into square and file Whose stubborn knots retain'd their strength though spread And moulded in a soft and even thread When that his Voice did charm th' attentive throng And every ear was hook'd unto his tongue The numerous praess closing their souls in one Stood all transform'd into his passion To see all Learning like unpolished Jewels framed into Figures smoothed into pleasure and a Miracle of Industry and Wit sitting sixteen hours a day at all manner of knowledge and by the happy Alchymis of wit turning the Axioms of Aristotle the Problems of Euclide the summes of Aquinas the Code of Iustinian the Contexture of History the learning of Rabbines the Mythology of Gentilism the Fathers Councels Martyrologyes and Liturgicks and Christians the Poetry Oratory and Criticism of the world into a good Man a great Schollar a most ingenious Poet and Orator and an excellent Preacher in whom hallowed fancies and reason grew Visions and holy passions Raptures and Extasies and all this at thirty years of age When he dyed Proctor of the University 1643. of a Malignant Fever then raging in that Garrison and heart-grief expressing its self thus I see the seeds of miseries that will continue an age and a blot upon our Nation and Religion that will last with the world Dr. Lluelin on the Death of Mr. W. Cartwright THey that have known thee well search'd thy parts Through all the Chain of Arts Thy apprehension quick as active light Clear Iudgment without night Thy fansie free yet never wild or mad With wings to fly and none to gadde Thy Language still in Rich yet comely Dresse Not to expose thy minde but to expresse They that have known thee thus sigh and confess They wish they 'd known thee still or known thee less To these the wealth and beauties of thy minde Be other Vertues joyn'd Thy modest soul strongly confirm'd and hard Ne're beckned from its guard But bravely fixt midst all the baits of Praise Deeming that Musick treacherous Layes Those put that Rate and Price upon thy breath Great Charles enquires thy health the Clouds thy death For nobler Trophies can no Ashes call Kings greet thy safety Thunder speaks thy fall THE Life and Death OF Mr. DUDLEY DIGGES YOunger Son of Sir Dudley Digges Master of the Rolls and Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford whose pregnant soul inured from its Childhood to great and rich thoughts by an innate habit of observing it was his friend Mr. Masters of New Colledge that vast Scholar general Artist and Linguist and soring Wit rule to Pâ—pils look on nothing without an observation a great Memory raised by meditation method exercise and discourse he reading few things that he did not cast into some choice thoughts which he set down in writing or expressed in converse He finding that true which the Rabby propounds as experimental he learned much of his Masters or Books by taking in their notions more of his Fellows and Companions by strengthning his notions with theirs and twisting rayes by a fansie corrected in its luxuriancesâ— a while by others judgement the Beaumont to this Fletcher Whose thoughts and his thoughts dresse appear'd both such That 't was his happy fault to do too much And when by marking the arguments reasons of their alteration why that phrase least proper this passage more cautious and advised he was able to make his own by his own which let it smile but not giggle inflamed by that only way to be excellent imitation When the great soul of the Author lies upon the capable soul of the Reader as Elishas body upon the Child phancy upon phancy reason upon his reason till he be warmed and quickened into the same great accomplishments by an exact and unerring reason that apprehended things in the same order and coherence they subsist whose Idea answered the order of the world as near abating humane frailties as that did the first Idea
with himself he was translated to the See of Coventry and Litchfield void by the Translation of his old friend Bishop Overal to Norwich And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocesse was larger because the common sort of people were better principled by the care and vigilance of his Predecessor But yet he abated nothing of his former pains and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with them that were not wilfully obstinate in his Diocesse besides Visitations and exact Confirmations Among the works of Charity performed by this Bishop while he was at that See memorable is the Education he bestowed upon one George Canner who like another Didimus of Alexandria or Fisher of Westminster was born blindâ— This youth he brought up first at School and afterwards sent him to Cambridge where he maintained him and his Uncle to look to him at St. Iohns Colledge After he had the Degree of Bachelor of Arts he sent for him to his own Family and instructed him in the whole body of Divinity and then admitted him into Sacred Orders placed him in a Cure in Stafford-shire which Cure the blind man discharged diligently and laudably being a very good Preacher and being able also to perform the whole office of the Church as it is appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer only by the strength of his admirable Memory Anno 1632. He was translated to the See of Duresm void by the death of Bishop Howson a place of great Trust and Honor as well as of greater Emolument For besides the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Affairs as before he had now the care and management of all the Temporal Affairs within the County Palatine of Duresm by virtue of the Palatinate annexed for many hundred years to the Episcopal See in so much that it passed a Maxim there Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And in the same he carryed himself with so much Iustice and Equity for ten years together before these late Troubles put a disturbance in the exercise of his Government that no complaint was made against him to the Parliament except onely the case of Mr. Smart which yet had no relation to the County Palaâ—ine neither could the Charge be made good against him who was but one of the High-Commission How great his fatherly care was for the Spiritual care of the Bishoprick will appear by his pious endeavors in setling Augmentations upon the smaller Benefices he had given a good example long before while he was Bishop of Lichfield in abating a good part of his Fine to increase the portion of the Vicar of Pichley in Northampton-shire as you may see in Mr. Stephens his Preface to Sir Henry Spelmans Book and now in a Work of so much importance he applyed himself for Counsel to three of the most Learned in the Laws Lord Keeper Coventry Mr. Noy Sir Henry Martin who all concurred that the Bishops Authority over Churches appropriate was neither taken away nor any way infringed but that he may now appoint a competent Augmentation having thus fully informed hâ—mself of his just power in a matter of so high Concernment for the advancement of Christian Religion and the good of Souls he resolved to put it in practice as far as God should enable him and trust God with the event He began at home with the Parish of Bishop-Aukland Here he augmented the stipend of the Mother-Church from 16 l. per annum to fourscore and the Chappels belonging from six pounds per annum to thirty intending to extend the like Episcopal care in some proportion over all the rest of his Diocesse but so Pious Heroical a Work became Abortive by the Scotch Invasion c. We are now come to the precipice of this Reverend Bishops outward splendor though neither his glory nor happiness incurred the least diminution by his future sufferings For he was never more happy in his own thoughts nor more glorious in the eyes of all good men then in being exercised in those troubles whereof the continual series of publick Affairs afforded him a perpetual opportunity from this time till his death In one of the Tumults after the beginning of the Long-Parliament this Reverend Bishop was in hazard of his life by the multitude that were beckened thither by the Contrivers of our late Miseries whereof some cryed Pull him out of his Coach others nay he is a good man others but for all that he is a Bishop And he hath often said he believed he should not have escaped alive if a Leading-man among the Rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself Upon this and the like Violations of the Liberty and Freedom essential to all the Members of Parliament when the twelve â—ishops whereof this was one Remonstrated the just Fears they were in and protested their dissent from all Laws which should be enacted till they might attend the service of the House with Freedom and Safety as any one Peer unjustly detained â—rom Sitting may they were all Charged with High-Treason by the House of Commons and Committed to Prison with the Bishop of Coventry and Leichfield at the Usher of the Black-rods house when the other ten went to the Tower Our Bishop being after four months discharged from this his first Imprisonment returned to his Lodgings in Duresm-house and there attended his Devotions and Studies till such time as his adversaries thought fit to give him another occasion to exercise his patience under a second Captivity upon occasion of Baptizing a Child of the Earl of Rutlands according to the Orders of the Church and in custody he remained six months before he could obtain his inlargement After this he staid in Duresm-house till he was thrown out chence by the Souldiers that came to Garrison it a little before that horrid Fact was committed upon the Person of our late Gracious King and after that being importuned by his honourable friend the Earl and Countess of Rutland he became part of their care and family at Exceter-house for some short time but being loath to live at the charge of others while he was able to subsist of himself and thinking the air of the Country might better suit with his declining years he betook himself to sojourn first with Captain Saunders in Hartfordshire and after with Mr. Thomas Rotheram in Bedfordshire till by the great civility and earnest importunity of that noble young Baronet Sir Henry Yelverton he went with him to his house at East-Manduit in Northamptonshire where he found all the tender respect and care from the whole family which a Father could expect from his Children till after a few months he rendred up his happy soul into the hands of his heavenly Father When the House of Commons had Voted for the Dissolving of Bishopricks some prevailed for a Vote of Yearly Allowance to present Bishops during their lives Our Bishop had 800 l. a
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their