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
forbear to mingle their tears with his bloud All the learning then in the world expressed its own griefs and instructed those of others in most excellent Poems and impartial Histories that vindicated his honor and devulged the base arts of his enemies when their power was so dreadful that they threatned the ruin of all ingenuity as they had murthered the Patron of it While the few Assassinates that crept up and down afraid of every man they met pointed at as Monsters in nature finished not their reason when they had ended his Martyrdom One O. C. to feed his eyes with cruelty and satisfie his solicitous ambition curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in a Coffin to White-hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the Body or no. Others of them delivered his body to be Embalmed with a wicked but vain design to corrupt his Name among infamous Empericks and Chirurgions of their own who were as ready to Butcher and Assassinate his Name as their Masters were to offer violence to his Person with intimations to enquire which were as much as commands to report whether they could not find in it symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of frigidity and natural impotency but unsuccessfully for an honest and able Physician intruding among them at the Dissection by his presence and authority awed the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their opprobrious Masters declaring the Royal body tempered almost ad pondus capable of a longer life than is commonly granted to other men But since their search into his Body for calumnies were vain they run up to Gods Decrees and there found that he was rejected of God and because his Raign was unhappy they concluded that his person was reprobated And when they had indeavoured to race him out of Gods Book of Life and consequently out of the hearts of his People the vain men pull down his Statue both at the West End of Saint Pauls and at the Exchange in the last of which places they plaistered an Inscription which men looked on then as false and Providence hath rendred since ridiculous Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Fond Rebels that thought to use the weighty words of the reverend Dr. Pirrinchief to destroy the memory of that Prince whose true and lasting glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for successors to shew the power of their malice but in a Solid Vertue which flourisheth by age and whose fame gathereth strength by multitude of years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a violent envy and the ruins of time But he had a Monument beyond Marble his Papers with the Bishop of London and others and his Incomparable Book of Meditations and Sollioquies Those Repositories of piety and wisdom which first they suppressed envying the benefit of mankind and when the more they hindered the publication of the Royal Peices the more they were sought after They would have robbed his Majesty of the honor of being the Author of them knowing they should be odious to all posterity for murthering the Prince that composed a Book of so Incredible Prudence Ardent Piety and Majestick and Truly Royal Stile Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elogancies of Davids Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same spirit The ridiculous President in his Examination of Mr. Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a Man for such would that Monster have this excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book But these attempts were as contemptible as themselves were odious the faith of the world in this point being secured 1. By the unimitably exact Stile not to be expressed any more than Ioves thunder but by the Royal Author 2. By those Letters of his which they published of the same periods with these Meditations they suppressed 3. By Colonel Hammonds testimony who heard the King Read them and saw him Correct them 4. By the Arch-bishop of Armaghs evidence who had received commands from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction who had taken them in his Cabinet at Naseby Besides Mr. Roystons command sent him from the King to provide a Press for some Papers he should send to him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King re-called that and sent that other which is now before the Book This was the vile employment of villains while all that was virtuous in the Nation honored the memory of that good Prince who like the being he represented the more he was understood the more he was admired and loved leaving great examples behind him that will be wondered at eastier than imitated Particularly the Duke of Richmond the Marquiss of Hertford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey and the Lord Bishop of London obtained an order to Bury his Corps which four of his Servants Herbert Mildmay Preston and Ioyner with others in a Mourning Equipage had carried to Windsor provided that the expenses exceeded not 500 l. which they did in St. George his Chappel in a Vault discovered them by an honest old Knight they disdaining the ordinary grave the Governor had provided in the body of the Church with Henry the Eighth and Iane Scymour his Wife whose Coffins those were supposed to be that were found there the Officers of the Garrison carrying the Herse and the four Lords bearing up the Corners of the Velvet-pall and my Lord of London following Feb. 9. about three in the afternoon silently and sorrowfully and without any other solemnity than sighs and tears the Governor refusing the use of the Common Prayer though included in their order Because he thought the Parliament as he called them would not allow the use of that by Order which they had abolished by Ordinance Whereunto the Lords answered but with no success That there was a difference between destroying their own Act and dispensing with it and that no power so binds its own hands as to disable its self in some cases Committing the great King to the earth with the Velvet Pall over the Coffin to which was fastned an Inscription in Lead of these words KING CHARLES 1648. Besides which he hath in the hearts of men such Inscriptions as these are 1. The excellent Romans Character given him by Dr. Perrinchief Homo virtuti simillimus per omnia Ingenio diis quam hominibus proprior qui nunquam recte fecit ut recte facere videretur sed quia aliter facere non poterat cuique id solum visum est habere rationem quod haberet Iustitiam omnibus humanis vitiis Immunis semper in potestate sua
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
Charms especially since in both it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical times and washings Whereupon the Gentleman surprized and disavowing that learning referred him to their Divines the most eminent whereof was Costerus who having invited him to the Colledge at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church out of which no Salvation till he satisfied him he came not thither with any doubt of his own Profession but for the same of his Learning and a particular account of the aforesaid Miracles in order to which a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles with many other incident particulars which Mr. Hall modestly yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn who sate at the end of the Table as sorry a Gentleman of his Country for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Dominatio Vestra should depart without further satisfaction offered him another Conference next morning which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it he excused as bootlesse both sides being so throughly settled Thence not without a great deliverance from Free-booters a suspicious Convoy and Night they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw where finishing a second part of Meditations to the first he had published just upon his travels in his return up the Mosa reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist to our denial of Transubstantiation and answering some furious Invectives against our Church with an intimation of the Lawsâ— disabling him to return upon theirs He incensed a Sorbonist Prior so far that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw and in his way to Brussels describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well that he was charged as a Spy until he told them he was only an attendant of Sir Edmund Bacon Grand-child to the famous Lord Chacellor of that name in England travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador whom he waited on not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him along the fair River Schield by Vlushing where the curiosity of visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh parted him from his Company whom the Tide would not stay for and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous passage But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained a year and a half after his useful extravagancies he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury to perswade his Patron to reason who complemented him out of so ungainful a change and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ as he said to buy Books wished him to wait upon him as he did when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princes Court where his meditations were veryacceptable and on the Tuesday following by the Princes order that he gave him his hand and commanded him his service and when his Patron who knowing he would be taken up wished him now at home gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies with welcome and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham wherein and the Princes service he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner offering him honorable Preferment for constant residence at Court and his Lord no less advantagious for his stay at Waltham where his little Catechism did much good his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more and his select prayer without which he never performed any exercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day most of all During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham four eminent Services he went through 1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries swallowed up by a wilful Recusant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever where being collated Prebend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters he discovered counterfeited Seals Rasures Interpolations and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church until revicted by Common-Law the Adversary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40 l. per annum A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them upon the renewal of the Suit his Colleague in whose name it ran being dead the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter the very day before the tryal fell mad His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated Sir Walter offered first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease Secondly to make each Prebends place 30 l. per annum which Composition being furthered by Spalato and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some abatement in consideration of the Orphans condition and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one Mr. Lee who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people 2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France whence returning with much ado after a hard journey by Land in Company with his dear Du Moulin and an harder by Sea he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester was so sure of in the Doctors absence that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house 3. His Majesties service in Scotland which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people whereupon he was after a gracious acknowledgement of his service called to a mild account his Royal Master not more freely professing what informations had been given against him than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs and required him to declare his judgment in the five points in answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland that the King understood was privately sent to him which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there and approbation from his Majesty beyond his hopes 4. The reason why those five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there sent
him as one of the four Brittish Divines to Dort where his weak body agreeing not with the unquietness of those Garrisoned Towns after some pathetick Speeches and motions for accommodation after the expedient called Sintentia 4. Theol. Brit. for reconciliation and the Elegant Latine Sermon the night before he preached which he was wonderfully refreshed and enlivened beyond what he had been a moneth before for Peace he retired first to my Lord Ambassador Carletons at the Hague and with his Majesties leave Dr. Goad being substituted in his place to England taking his farewell of the Synod in these words Non facile vero mecum in gratiam redierit Cadaverosa haec moles quam aegre usque circum gesto quae mihi hujus conventus celebritatem toties inviderit jamque prorsus invitissimum a vobis Importune avocat divellit neque enim ullus est sub coalo locus aeque coalis aemulus in quo tentorium mihi figi malverim cujusque adeo gestiet mihi animus meminisse Beatos vero vos quibus hoc frui datur non dignus eram ego ut fidelissimi Romani querimoniam imitari liceat qui Christi ecclesiae suae nomine sanctam hanc provinciam diutius sustinerem illud vero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nempe audito quod res erat non alia me quam adversissima hic usum valetudine serenissimus rex meus misertus miselli famuli sui revocat me domum quippe quod cineres meos aut sandapylam nihil vobis prodesse norit succentariavitque mihi virum e suis selectissimum quantum Theologum De me profecto mero jam silicernio quicquid fiat viderit ille Deus meus cujus ego totes sum vobis quidem ita faeliciter prospectum est ut sit cur infirmitati meae haud Parum gratulemini cum hujusâ—odi instructissimo succedaneo caetum hunc vestrum beaverit Neque tamen committam 〈◊〉 Deus mihi vitam vires indulserit ut Corpore simul animo abesse videar Interea sane huic Synodo ubicunque terrarum sim vobis constliis conatibusque meis quibuscunque res vâ—stras me pro virili sedulo ac serio promoturum sancte voveo Interim vobis omnibus ac singulis Honoratissimi Domini Legati Reverendissime praeses gravissimi assessores scribae doctissimi symmystae Colendissimi tibique venerandissima Synodus universa aegro animo ac corpore aeternum valedico Rogovos omnes obnixius ut precibus vestris imbecillem reducem facere comitari prosequi velitis Though yet surviving all his Colleagues and living to see them and the whole Synod charged with a pre-ingagement by Oath to Vote down the Remonstrants and living likewise to vindicate them with the States and Princes that deputed them who had deserved well of him the President and Assistants waiting upon him by publick Vote the Deputies of the States by Daniel Hensâ—us with acknowledgement of his service in a Golden Medal containing the Pourtraict of the Synod These were his publick employments neither were his private less eminent 1. His Theses at Cambridge when Batchelor and Doctor of Divinity as seasonably chosen as prudently asâ—erted against the Adversaries of our Doctrine and of our Discipline 2. His Meditations and Sermons plausible at the Princes Court that failed and at the Earl of Carlisles that stood by him 3. His Letters and Resolutions that setled so many eminent Persons and obliged more solid and witty 4. His accorded truths upon the Dutch quarrel which we composed there raised here after Mr. Mountagues Books which expressed Overall rather than Arminius and the sidings in Press Pulpits and Parliaments thereupon out of Bishop Overall and our Divines at Dorts propositions shewing that these parties mistaked rather than mis-believed so reasonable that being presented to his Majesty Charles I. by Dr. Young the worthy Dean of Winchester with a Petition to confine the Debates thereof in their University and silence them in the Church Mr. Mountague offered to subscribe them on the one hand and most Anti-monstrants English Scottish and French on the other 5. His prudent assertion That when as the Papists urge us where our Church was before Luther and we produce witnesses of itâ— in every age with some disadvantage since our Church is not another from theirs but the same more Reformedâ— the Church of Rome is an ancient and true Church only it hath new Errors an assertion which with his former expedient exposed him so far to the zeal of narrow-sighted men that an Apologetical advertisement a rational reconciler backed by Bishop Mortor Bishop Davenant Dr. Prideaux and Dr. Primroses unquestionable testimony and his own moderation in silencing all the Writers of both sides as there were indeed to lay hold of any Controversie in order to the publick disturbance were little enough to allay the jealousie of his Lukewarmness and abatement of former zeal when alas he was only grown older and so wiser especially since it was but a little before that he was made Bishop of Exeter having refused Glocester where Providence setled him 1. By the delay of the Duke of Buckinghams Letter which coming two hours sooner had defeated him 2. By the unthought of Addition of the R. of St. Breock to a poor Bishoprick 3. By a prudent resolution put into his heart notwithstanding the spies laid upon him the jealousie entertained of him The expostulating Letters and wary Cautions sent to him his contests with Lords his three purgations of himself from some envious suggestions upon his knees before his Majesty in so much that he declared that be would be a Bishop no longer while so liable to mis informations to follow those courses which might most conduce to the peace and happiness of his new and divided charge winning the misguded encouraging the painful and corresponding so fairly withall his numerous Clergy who submitted to all anciently received Orders but two that fled from censure 6. His successful Letter to the House of Commons about their delay of supply and misapprehensions 7. His happy unanimity within his charge till the last year he was there when some factious Neighbor unkindly undermined him in the choice of Convocation-men for the Convocation 1639. only desiring to recommend grave persons to their Election leaving them to their freedom of choice and they polling to his face for persons he heard not of though he carryed it and at his return home was nobly welcomed by hundreds of the Diocesse which that year by his Majesties special favor he exchanged for that of Norwich which his prudent management of the former of Exceter wherein he miscarried only in some inadverted expressions which yet he submitted to the Churches censure and in an over-credulous Charity whereby yet he designed the Kingdoms peace First his motion to the Archbishop for a General Counsel of his Majesties three Kingdoms to shame the Scottish insolence and the English pretences against Episcopacy
affrighted by it It being very observable that a learned Doctor of Physick present at the Opening and Embalming of this Lord and the Duke Hamilton delivered at a publick Lecture That the Lord Capel 's was the least heart and the Duke the greatest that ever he saw agreeable to the observation in Philosophy that the spirits contracted within the least compass are the cause of the greatest courage Three things are considerable in this incomparable person 1. His un-interrupted Loyalty keeping pace with his life for his last breath was spent in proclaiming King Charles the Second in the very face of his enemies as known to him to be Virtuous Noble Gentle Just and a great Prince A perfect Englishman in his Inclination 2. His great merit and modesty whereof King Charles the First writes thus to his Excellent Queen There is one that doth not yet pretend that deserves as well as any I mean Capel Therefore I desire Thy assistance to finde out something for him before he ask 3. The blessing of God upon his Noble but Suffering Family who was a Husband to his excellent Widow and a Father to his hopeful Children whom not so much their Birth Beauty and Portion though they were eminent for these as their Virtues Married to the best Blood and Estates in the Land even when they and the Cause they suffered for were at the lowest It s the happiness of good men though themselves misâ—rable that their Seed shall be Mighty and their Generation Blessed A Religious man that used to say as his Tutor Dr. Pashe under whom he was bred at Clare-hall in Cambridge That when he had kept the Sabbath well he found the greater blessing upon all he did afterwards that was as good in all his private Relations as in his several publick Capacities especially in that of a husband of which state he saith That it doubled his joyes divided his grief and created new and unthought of contentments A sober Gentleman that loved not to hear a man talk a greater variety of things than he could rationally discourse and used only those Recreationâ— of which he could give a Philosophical account how they refâ—eâ—hed his minde or recovered his body so good natured that he would have all his Servants and Dependants his Friends none stricter in the Discipline of his Family none more obliging in the sweetness of his converse Who would say he observed that the disobedience of men to us was no other than the punishment of our disobedience to God The meekest man living that had the arâ— as well as the grace by yielding to pacifie wrath Of an happy mean and temperament between the too thin and open and the too close hating a troublesome nature as bad as an Infection A diserect person that would not suffer the infelicity of one of his Affairs to distemper him so as to loose all consideration to guide him in the rest that had always a friend to advise and an example to imitate retaining the decency of his own natural evenness saying That he was a wise-man that was able to make wise-men his instruments A good Father that expected so much blessing in the Education of his Children as he made prayers for them Possinâ—â—â—â—oâ— Lachrimarum Liberi perire A good Christian that set apart half an hour every day of his retirement to think of Eternity a good temper that would fairly guide and not directly contradict any manâ— little regarding applause knowing as he would say notably that the vulgar are easily tired with constant vertue and as easily taken with a started novelty and living not to various opinion or favor but conscience and wisdom one that hated the flatterer who would say struck him before and the lyâ—r that hit him behind both in sâ—nsibly both dangerously A Nobleman that resolved to be happy by two things 1. A moderate using of the present and 2. An indifferent expectation of what is to come and thought him a great Crafts-master that could shadow the opposition that businesses have one with another that esteemed that only his that he had Liberally or Charitably given that observed it was not expenceâ— but a carelesseness how and what we spend that ruineth an Estate that desired to gain respect not by little observances but by a constant fair carriage that entertained reports always with Quaeries and a temperate Belief that would say that every action of his that was unhappy precipitated and rash that made his afflictions tolerable by making his desires moderate that used to say that he scarce knew a man capable of a true friend That writes of the most exalted fortune that it hath little contentment without some popular good will and therefore he advised the greatest man to be careful how he gave a publick disgrace to the meanest person He would say that there are so many circumstances in the way to an Estate or Greatness that a peremptory man that went alone seldom attained either that no man is so unhappy as that he must lye to live and that there was a civil art to be free in courtesie loving in Society and heedful in observation This excellent Personage declaring openly in the House of Lords That the Kings Majesty had granted so much for the security and peace of the Kingdom that they who asked more intended the disturbance of it following his Majesty to York and with other Lords attesting the integrity of his Majesties Proceedings there in order to Peace and promising to assist him with his Life and Fortune against all other pretended Authority in case it came to a War notwithstanding a summons from Westminster to which he and others made a civil return and an impeachment of High-Treason for going from Westminster to York at the Kings Command whereof he took no notice settling his Estate in Sir Edward Capell and other Trustees who I finde compounded for 4706 l. 07s II d. Advanced his Majesty between eight and nine hundred Horse and 12000 l. in Money and Plate and if he had had the happyness of being imployed in his own Country the fatal error of that time as he was far off in the borders of Wales we had heard more of him however we finde him subscribing the Declarations of the Parliament at Oxford 1643. and the Messages for Peace from the Army in the field attending his present Majesty to cornwall where he was hurt in two or three several Engagements once venturing himself very far to save the Foot managing the Correspondence between him and the Members at Westminster in order to an accommodation with great Caution against their subtile design who would divide the Princes Interest and his Fathers following him to Scilly Iersey and the Fleet then falling to him whence he betakes himself home to form the design 1647 1648. that was then brewing in the three Kingdoms for the safety and liberty of the Kings Majesty offering among others this consideration to a very eminent
himself about Sir H. death where the Visier being bribed as it is the fashion there to betray him to the Faction of Merchants which the honorable Sir Sackevill Crow a Gentleman able and willing to do his Majesty as much service as any man in England in his lowest condition though he hath and doth inâ—initely suffer for it in his highest had to do with keeping up his Majesties Reputation at Constantinople in spight of them as long as it pleased God to preserve his life in England who sent him in the Sâ—irna-Fleet with other honest persons that there sided with him to England where after some moneths Imprisonment in the Tower he was by an High-Court of Justice which refused him the Liberty of pleading in Italian the language he was most ready and expressive in sentenced and accordingly March 4. 1650. out of malice to his Brother and Master as if they had a design against the peoples Trades beheaded near the Exchange where being attended by Dr. Hide Bishop Vsher had been with him before he owned the King and Church of England Allegiance he said being incorporated in his Religion he protested he was sent to the Levant to serve and protect all and injure none as a Messenger to take care of the English Interest there untill his Majesty had settled an Ambassador he blessed God for giving him the advantage of paying that Debt due by nature upon the account of grace and this way bringing him to himself he cleared his Brother and all other persons from any design against the English Merchants and offered all the satisfaction in the world to any person that desired it the Axe doing that at one blow which his many Diseases would have done within a few weeks for he was not able either to rise or fall himself though he was able to dye Dr. Levens This Learned Gentleman descended of an ancient Family in Oxford-shire near Bolley within a mile of the University His Education was truly generous his Profession the Civil Law wherein he was graduated a Doctor and in which he was excellently known before these Wars He continued most part of the War at Oxford and his own adjacent dwelling till such time as the surrender of the said City into the hands of the Parliament where he had the same terms and was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation which being forced to accept and lay down his Arms he again re-assumed his wonted studies But after the Murther of the late King this Gentleman very considerable in his numerous acquaintance prudence and integrity considering the confusion impendent ruine of Church and State became engaged for the Son our present Soveraign as before for his Royal Father several Consultations and private Meetings were held by him and others in order to his service to which purpose he also received Commission from the King then in France for several Officers of these Forces designed to be raised and other instructions as the Affairs proceeded But the sagacious industry of the Parliaments spyes lighting upon some glimpses of this business which they followed so close that they discovered Dr. Levens to be the chief Agitator and Manager of the plot in whose breast the Cabal was principally lodged An Order thereupon was made by the Council of State and a Warrant signed by Bradshaw the President to seize and bring him before them and to search his Chamber and break up his Trunks for Papers he then being at London the place most expedient for the design which accordingly was done a file or two of Musqueteers guarding and securing the House where the said Papers were among which there were blank Commissions signed by the King to the purport aforesaid were found with him and carryed to the Council who thereupon ordered him to be proceeded against as a Spie and referred him to a Councel of War Accordingly he was soon afterwards tryed by a Court-Martial where he not excused himself but acknowledged their Allegations against him and the Justice of his Cause of which he told them he was no way ashamed but if it must be so he would willingly lay down his life in the owning of it He told them moreover he was indispensably bound by the Laws of God and this Kingdom to do what he did and so referred himself to them They very earnestly pressed him to reveal the other parties engaged with him and gave him fallacious hopes of life if he would freely declare them but those offers prevailed not with him being resolved to suffer and take all upon himself rather than to ruine others whom they could not fasten upon without his discovery So the Court proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be hanged over against the Exchange in Cornhill in Exchange time which after some little preparation was executed he being brought in a Coach from the Mews with the Executioner Vizarded with him and a Troop of Horse to guard him to the said place where the Sheriffs received him into their charge After he alighted and some words passed between them concerning the said discovery he told them they should not expect it and desired them to forbear any further trouble to that purpose and so â—ascending up the Ladder where he prayed very fervently for the King and the Church and commending his soul into the hands of his Redeemer and so concluded his last breath on the eighteenth of Iuly 1650. Col. Eusebius Andrews an honest and Religious man bred in my Lord Capels Family whose Secretary he was and a good Lawyer of Grays-Inn engaging in his Majesties cause from 1642. to tâ—e surrender of Worcester 1645. when taking neither Covenant Protestation negative Oath nor engagement in London he followed his Profession till one Io. Bernard formerly a Major under him because of his good parts and sober demeanor admitted to his familiarity brought one Captain Helmes and Mr. Bâ—nson formerly belonging to Sir Iohn Gell who was hanged on this occasion Oct. 7. 1650. to save his Arrears repenting that ever he had served the Parliament and praying heartily for the King to his acquaintance who insinuated the discontents of Sir Io. Gell and other Reformadoes the designs of the Levellers and Agitators and Letters from Mr. Rushworth to be sent by Mr. Brown Bushel a Sea-Captain very active in bringing the Fleet to the Princes command taken as he was waiting an opportunity to serve the King at London and tossed from Custody to Custody till he went to the Tower where it went so hard with him for necessaries that his Wife was forced to go with his daily provision from Covent-Garden to the Tower every day and thence being condemned for delivering up Scarborough to his Majesty to the Scaffold at Tower-hill under which being deluded with a promise of pardon that very day he was for fear of the Sea-men that loved him beheaded suddainly April 29. 1651. beyond Sea Sir Io. Gells Interest in the Country and his regret that
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