me And to call a destruction upon my self and young Children where the intentions of my heart have been innocent at least of this great offence may be believed will find no easie content to flesh and bloud But with much sadnesse I am come to a resolution of that which I think best becomes me to look upon that which is most principal in its self which doubtless is the prosperity of your Sacred Person and the Commonwealth infinitely beyond any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the honor and justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might be pleased to have spared that Declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships So now to set your Conscience at liberty I do most humbly beseech you for the preventing of such mischief as may happen by your refusal to Pass the Bill by this means remove I cannot say praised be God this Accursed but I confesse this Unfortunate thing out of the way towards that blessed Agreement which God I trust will establish for ever between you and your Subjects Sir my Consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the world can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done And as by God's grace I forgive all the world with all chearfulnesse imaginable in the just acknowledgement of your exceeding Favours And onely Beg that in your goodnesse you would be pleased to cast your Gracious regard upon my poor Son and his Sisters lesse or more and no otherwise than their unfortunate Father shall appear more or lesse guilty of his death God long preserve your Majesty Tower May 4. 1640. Your Majesties most humble and faithful subject and servant STRAFFORD And then with much reluctancy the King being overcome rather than perswaded Passed by Proxies In hane formam The Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford extorted by a prevailing Faction by force from the Parliament 16 and 17. CAR. 1. Repealed by a Free and Full-Parliament 13 and 14. CAR. 11. WHereas the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parlament Assembled have in the names of themselves and all the Commons of England Impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford of High-treason for indeavouring to subvert the Ancient and Fundamental Laws and Government of his Majesties Realms of England and Ireland And to Introduce a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government against Law into those Kingdoms and for exercising a Tyrannous and Exorbitant Power over and against the Laws of the said Kingdoms over the Liberties Estates and Lives of his Majesties Subjects and likewise for having by his own Authority commanded the Laying and Assessing of Souldiers upon his Majesties Subjects in Ireland against their Consent to Compel them to obey his unlawful Commands and Orders made upon Paper-Petitions in Causes between Party and Party which accordingly was executed upon divers of his Majesties Subjects in a warlike manner within the said Realm of Ireland and in so doing did Levy War against the Kings Majesty and his Leige People in that Kingdom And also for that he after the unhappy Dissolution of the last Parliament did slander the House of Commons to his Majesty and did Counsel and Advise his Majesty That he was loose and absolved from Rules of Government and that he had an Army in Ireland c. For which he deserves to undergo pains and forfeiture of High-Treason And the said Earl hath been an Incendiary between Scotland and England All which Offences have been sufficiently proved against the said Earl upon his Impeachment Be it therefore Enacted c. that the said Earl of Strafford for the heinous Crimes and Offences aforesaid Stand and be Adjudged and Attainted of High-treason And shall suffer such Pain of Death and Incurr the forfeitures of his Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance in the said Kingdomes of England and Ireland which the said Earl or any other to his use or in trust for him have or had the day of the first Sitting of this present Parliament or at any time since Provided that nothing be Declared Treason hereafter but what might have been Declared for had this Act never been Passing Saving to all Persons and Bodies Corporate excepting the Earl and all Rights Titles Interests they did injoy the first day of this Parliament Any thing herein Contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That the Passing of this present Act determine not this Session of Parliament c. A Bill 1. So false in the matter of it grounded on the Evidence of Papists sworn enemies to the English Name and State that wanted only the death of this great Instrument of Government to commit those mischiefs they accused him of the Faction Carressing those very Rebels to assist them in shedding my Lord of Strafford's bloud that afterwards imbrued their hands in the bloud of so many innocent Protestants in Ireland 2. So shameful in the manner of it that as the Devil upbraids unhappy souls with those very crimes they tempted and betrayed them to so those very men made use of it to pollute the King's honour that had even forced him to it though the heaviest Censure was himself Who never left bewailing his Compliance or Connivance with this Murder till the issue of his bloud dried up those of his tears A Bill which might well accompany the other Bill about the Parliaments Sitting during pleasure this passing away the King's Honour and the other his Prerogative Neither was the Bill sooner Passed than his Execution was Ordered The King's intercession in a Letter sent by his own Son the Prince for so much intermixture of mercy with the publick Justice as to permit the Earl either to live out his sad life in a close Imprisonment or at least that his soul that found so much Injustice on earth might have a Week to prepare it's self for the mercy of Heaven Rather quickening the bloudy mens Counsels who thought not themselves safe as long as he was so and whose fears and jealousies created or entertained stories every minute of his escape or rescue than mitigating them And therefore the second day after a great man must be surprized secured as soon as accused tried as soon as secured condemned as soon as tried and executed as soon as condemned the very day Sir Henry Vane the Younger that contributed so much to this Murder was Executed afterwards After six months Imprisonment and twenty one whole days Trial wherein he answered the whole House of Commons for six or seven hours each day to the infinite satisfaction of all impartial Persons He was brought with a strong and solemn Guard to the Scaffold on Tower-hill In his passage thither he had a sight of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury whose prayers and blessings he with low obeysance begged and the pious Prelate bestowed them
before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am
his Victories He using this success to no other end than as earnestly to intreat them himself and all the Noblemen and Gentlemen in his Army as earnestly to accept of peace as if he had been conquered he should have begged it Willing he was to settle peace at home and yet scorned to accept of unhandsom terms from abroad All the world saw his Majesties inclination to a peace and the Rebels implacable resolution to go on with the war The Conspirators had need of their Brethren the Scots and the Scots upon the refusal of his Majesties Propositions were ashamed of them whence when they were not likely to be assisted from abroad they beg but upon hard conditions a peace at home Conditions that his Majesty would not yield to in his lowest condition though he would have done any thing but sin to obtain peace at the highest A peace that they must have yielded to had not they new-modelled their design and their army by a self-denying Ordinance cashiering all Officers that retained any degree of sobriety and a new model taking in all Sectaries to enlarge and make desperate their party Sad is the news the Rebels hear from all parts of England but very good that which his Majesty heard from Scotland where his friends increased as much as theirs decreased here such moderate men as Essex the Earl of Manchester and Denbigh laying down their Commissions when they saw such taking Commission as had laid down all thoughts of peace They were first entertained because a war could not be begun without the countenance of sober men but afterwards they were laid aside by the politick self-denial Ordinance because the war would be no longer continued by such In a word to such success had the conduct and magnanimity of his Majesty arrived that 1645. he writes to the Queen That he might without being too sanguine affirm that since the Rebellion his affairs were never in so hopeful a way Not to mention his great personal valour at Naseby a valour and conduct that deserved success though at last it wanted it the King having other virtues that were to be rendred glorious by sufferings as this had been by actions and therefore he was Betrayed not Overcome Sold and not Conquered And yet as his great Spirit at his best fortune endeavoured an honourable Peace so at his worse he would not admit of a dishonourable one for measuring his Propositions not by the event of affairs but by his own Conscience he stands to the same terms when Defeated as he did when Conqueror never betraying his Peoples Liberties to those Usurpers in hope of a Peace in the defence of which he thought fit to undertake a war I know not which is most magnanimous that he should with so much hazard venture his Person so resolutely and manage his cause against their Politicians and Divines so bravely or that he should with so much honour correspond with the Parliament in his own single Person answering the arguments of the one and the proud messages of the other and gaining that Conquest by his Pen that he could not by his Sword He is contented to discharge all his Garrisons and Armies and that excellent Association in the VVest formed by the Prince with the assistance of Sir Edward Hide c. being upon a design of overcoming his Enemies as he did Henderson c. and all that had the happiness to know him by his own Person and being likely to do more by a Peace than either others or indeed he himself could do by a war cutting those more than Gordian knots with the sharpness of his own single reason that could not be by the edge of all Englands Sword when the Scots after many debates with the English had not the courage to stand to their Promise Oath and Honour in keeping the Kings Person he owned a magnanimity whereby he kept Free even when delivered his own Conscience they could not be true to duty when tempted with 800000 â— nor he unworthy to his trust though tempted with three Kingdoms And now that King that with his bare presence had raised an Army in the beginning of the war that gave a Cheque to Rebellion four years now by his own Conduct when he had not one as they phrased it Evill Counsellor about him and gallant Sufferings he raised the City and all the Kingdom to reduce the Rebels to reason there being in his lowest condition 54000 Men and most of them such as had Engaged against him up in his defence in Scotland Wales Ireland and England and things were brought to that pass by his excellent managery that the very Army that overcamâ— him did not think themselves safe but under his Protection and therefore they ventured their Masters displeasure to gain the Kings Person each Party thinking its self more or less considerable as they wanted or injoyed him The Parliament as they call it Voting his Concessions Satisfactory on the one hand and the Army declaring their Propositions to the King unreasonable They that durst fight his Armies yet so farr Reverenced his Person that they did that to him in his lowest condition that is usually done to Princes in their highest and that is Flatter him the one saying that he had done enough and the other that he had done too much What a brave sight it was to see him able to manage his greatest misfortunes with Honour and his Enemies their greatest Victories with Confusions the Army against the Houses the Commons against the Lords yea one part against another the City for and against both the Common Souldiers by a new way of Agitation whereby they could spread and manage any treason sedition intelligence plot and design throughout the Army in a moment by two or three of the most active or desperate in a Company or Regiment And he all the while above all these enjoying the calm that sits in the Upper Region neither yielding to his Enemies nor his misfortues insomuch that when they were so barbarous as to let him want Linnen he said They had done so for two months but he would not afford them the pleasure of knowing that he wanted Yea and when some of them were too sawcy with him in private he could though their Prisoner civillize them with his look and Cane In a word the Kings fortitude appeared as eminent as his other vertures though ecclypsed as the Divine power is to some mens apprehensions by his mercy in that he could say to the last that he should never think himself weakned while he enjoyed the use of his reason and while God supplied with inward resolutions what he denied him in outward strength by which resolution he meant not a morosity to deny what is fit to be granted but a spirit not to grant what Religion and Justice denied I shall never think my self they are his own Royal expressions less than my self while I am able thus to preserve the integrity of my
Conscience A Prince thus excellent in himself and choice in his Council made up of persons eminent for their services for or against him for parts and abilities he equally valued in his enemies and in his friends and when he saw hopefull and accomplish'd persons lavishing their worth upon a faction and a private interest if they were not of desperate principles he would encourage them to lay it out upon the government and the publick good A Prince that never suffered a subject to goe sad from him never denied his people but what they have seen since that they could not saefly enjoy That Prince who besides the great examples he gave them and the great intercessions and services he did for them begun his Reign with the highest Act of Grace that he could or any King did in the World I mean the granting of the Petition of Right wherein he secured his Peoples estates from Taxes that are not given in Parliament and their Lives Liberties and Estates from all Proceedings not agreeable to Law A King that permitted his chief favourite and Counsellor the D. of Buckingham whose greatest fault was his Majesties favour to satisfie the Kingdom both in Parliament and Star-chamber in the way of a publick Process And gave up Mainwaring and Sibthorpe both as I take it his Chaplains to answer for themselves in Parliament saying He that will preach more than he can prove Let him suffer Yea and was contented to hold some part of his Revenue as Tunnage Poundage c. which was derived to him from his Ancestors by Inheritance by gift from the Parliament A Prince that pardoned and preferred all his Enemies that though accountable to none but God gave yet a just account of himself and treasures to the People saving them in two years from ordinary expences 347264 l. 15s 6d and gaining them by making London the bank for Spanish Dutch and Danish treasures 445981 l. 2s 3d. that dashed most of the Projects that were proposed to him for raising money and punished the Projectors that designed no worse things in Religion than Uniformity Peace Decency Order the rights and maintenance of the Church and the honour of Churchmen and in the State no more than the necessary defence of the Kingdom from dangers abroad and disorders at home which he maintained several years at his own charge that by destroying several of the Dutch Herring Busses and forcing the rest with all Dutch Merchants to trade only by permission in the Narrow Seas opened a brave trade to the English Nation A King that took so much pains to oblige his Loving Subjects going twice in person as far as Scotland though against the inclination of most of his Counsellours who looked upon the Scotch Faction as a sort of people that under the pretence of a specious way of plain speaking and dealing concealed the greatest animosities and reaches and twice with an Army rather to pacifie than overthrow the Rebels treating with them as a Father of his Country when in all probability he might have ruined them if he had proceeded against them 1639. and 1640. as a King and not in imitation of the Divine Majesty wrapped up the dreadful power he carried then with him in gracious condescentions of mercy A King that of 346. Libellers seditious Writers discovered Conspirators against his Crown Dignity and Authority in Church and State put none to death and punished but five throughout his whole Reign A King in whose Reign there were such good Canons made that Judge Crooke a Dissenter about Ship-money blessed God when he read them that he lived to see such Canons made for the Church A King that publickly declared That he was rosolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of his subjects One of the two Propositions he made the Parliament 1640. being to desire them to propose their grievances wherein he promised them to concurr so heartily and clearly with them that all the VVorld might see That his intentions ever have been and are to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And to shew his good inclination to Religion married his eldest Daughter to an ordinary Protestant Prince And to the welfare of the Kingdom he tyed himself to a Triennial Parliament allowing this Parliament to sit as long as they thought fit and for a time to order the Militia entreating them to set down what they thought necessary for him to grant or them to enjoy vacating for their sake the Courts of Star-Chamber and High-Commissions the VVards the Forrests the Court on the Marches of Wales and the North Monopolies Ship-money his haereditary right to Tunnage and Poundage the Bishops Votes in Parliament and doing so much for peace that one asking Mr. Hampden a leading Card amongst them VVhat they would have him do more was answered That renouncing all his Authority he should cast himself wholly on the Parliament Yea as if this had not been enough A King that suffered all his Ministers of State to clear their innocency before publick Judicatures in the face of the World and though accountable only to him for their actions yet ready to appeal to their very accusers themselves for their Integrity And yet not so willing to remit his friends to Justice as his Enemies to favour if either they had hearkned to the re-iterated Proclamations of Pardon sent to them during the War or acquiesced in the Amnesty offered to and accepted by them after it an Amnesty that they might have securely trusted to when he bestowed upon them not only their lives but likewise for some years all the power over the Militia of the Kingdom to make good that pardon by which they held their lives neither had they only the Sword in their hands to defend but all places of trust authority and Judicature to secure and inrich themselves the King allowing them for so long a time not only to enjoy all their own places but to dispose of all others adding this favour too that they who grudged him a power to raise money to supply his occasions should have what power they pleased to raise money to satisfie their own demands and when he had confirmed the pardon of the Kingdom in general he offered the renovation of all Charters and Corporation Privileges in particular denying nothing that their ambition or covetousness could desire or his Conscience grant being willing to be no King himself that his people might be happy Subjects and to accept of a titular Kingdom on condition they had a peaceable one In Religion its self wherein he denyed most because he had less poweâ— to grant those points being not his own Prerogatives but those of the King of Kings he grants his Adversaries Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their followers on condition he might have the same liberty to himself and his followers desiring no more than to enjoy that freedom as a Soveraign that they claimed as Subjects Any thing he yielded they should
Imprisoned and Impeached for the peoples sake in spight of the peoples teeth both those that were at first against him being undeceived and those that were always for him indeed the whole Nations of England and Scotland venturing their lives to rescue the King when he was imprisoned in their name accused for shedding their bloud when they were killed by their fellow Subjects because they desired to save his A King that saw a Parliament accuse him of Breach of Priviledges when he came but to demand five men suspected for holding Intelligence with a Forraign Nation and yet the same Parliament suffer tamely its own Army to pull out by the ears more than half of the best Members that remained there for promoting the peace of their and Vote it the Priviledge of the Subjects to make tumults from all parts of the kingdom about Westminster to fright King and Bishops from the Parliament and a Breach of their Priviledge for the same people in throngs there from as many parts of the kingdom to Petition the return of the one and the other He from whom they extorted so much liberty in pretence for the Subject had neither liberty for himself being confined to hard Prisons and harder Limitations and Propositions nor for the Subjects who had they injoyed their own freedom had never endured his captivity He that could not deny the kingdom a Free-Parliament consisting of above an hundred Lords Spiritual and Temporal and five hundred Commons lived to see that very Parliament Exclude all its Lords and Reduce the five hundred Commons to thirty who in the name of the people when there was not one in five thousand of them but would have ventured his life against it threaten his life whom they had sworn when they entred that House to defend prepare to judge him who called them there to consult with them talk as if they would put a period to his days who gave them their being little dreaming that while they aimed at his Royal Neck they cut off their own for what is a Parliament called to advise with the King if there be no King to advise with He must be tried in whose name all others are tried by that Law himself hath made by those people that had sworn protested and covenanted with hands lift up to the most high God in publick and pawned their souls and all that they had privately to restore him whose only fault was that he went from that Parliament that murdered him when he returned to them Riddles Cromwell Whaley Ireton c. and the Army weep and grieve but the Hiena weeps when it intends to devour at the hard conditions the Houses put upon him and the Houses are displeased with the Armies hard usage of him and yet both ruin him the one bringing him to the Block and holding him there by the Hair of the Head and the other cutting off his Head The Scots durst not trust the Cavaliers with him nor the Houses the Scots nor the Army a King at lowest advanceth that party where he is though a prisoner the Houses nor the Juncto all the Army nor N. the Juncto being never safe till he put his finger into the Royal Neck to see after execution whether the head were really severed from the body All the quarrel was that the Cavaliers kept the King from the Parliament and the meaning of it it seems was That they kept him from the Block A Prince they destroyed that they durst not despise all the Grandees in the Army not daring to own the least murtherous thoughts towards him publickly when they set Agitators i. e. two active Souldiers out of every Regiment in the Army now modelled into such desparate Sects and Villanies to consult about the horrid Fact in private and to draw a bloudy Paper as the Agreement of the people which was but a conspiracy of Traitors Cromwell assuring the King as he had a soul that he should be restored And his Son Ireton at the same time Drawing up a Remonstrance that he should dye The Army treat him like a Prince and that they might deceive his devout soul the more securely allow him the service of his Chaplains and the Liberty of his Conscience the greatest injoyments left him in this world with a design the more successfully to use him like a Traitor Ah brave Prince that none durst have abused had they owned what they design whom the Houses had saved had they not been Cajoled by the Army and the Army had it not been Cajoled by the Houses The King granted too much saith Sir H. V. to him at the Isle of Wight and too little saith the same man to the Houses and the King must dye when whatsoever they asked they meant his life If the Tears Prayers Petitions Treasures or Bloud of the Nation if the intercession of forraign Princes if the importunity of all the good Relations that these Regicides had whereof one pressed hard on O. C. himself though without effect whence ever after he disowned his Relation and Name if the endeavours of Loyal souls to do that justice upon the Traitors that durst judge their King as one Burghill on Bradshaw as soon as he heard he was to be President who if not betrayed by his friend Cook had died the Villains robes in his own bloud before he could have done it in the Kings If the great Overtures of the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and the Marquiss of Hertford to ransom their Soveraign all ways imaginable even with their own bloud Offering that as they his Servants did all that was done under him so he as King being capable of doing no wrong they might suffer all for him If the horror that seized all Princes of the world Turkish and Heathenish as well as Christian upon the news of it with the hatred and scandal thence arising to the English Nation if the dissent of the Lords and all other persons of any quality that went along with them till now and had never suffered this to have happened the King but that by the just hand of God as bad had happened them that very Army that they imployed to turn his Majesty out of his just Power pulled them out of their usurped one If the Declarations of their own Judges if the strong Prayers and Sermons that could raise Armies against his Majesty indeavouring to advance the like for him if the Rational Pathetick and Powerful Remonstrances from all parts of the kingdom if the pressing of their own Oaths the scandal of Religion the ruin of the Nation if any Laws or Presidents had been of force to have prevented this Crimen post homines natos inauditum it had been only a Theory in some male-content Jesuits melancholy Chamber of Meditation and not the subject of this Book But stay Reader and take that Treason in the retail of it that thou art amazed at in the gross See a King having treated at the
private Education hardly raiseth Youths to that vigor freedom and generosity of spirit that a more publick doth where the Conversation goeth as far as the Instruction and the example of School-fellows beyond the Precepts of Schools-masters the one shewing what they ought to do the other what they may He professed he owed his Elocution and Pronunciation to one of his Fellow-Pupils gallant delivery of the Speeches of Ajâ—x and Vlysses in Ovid for Poetry and Cicero's Oration against Anthony for Prose His Memory to another artificial way of commanding Homers Iliads by heart the success of his Study to the common place and method of a third his invention to the growing fancy of a fourth that lay before him as the Ring-streaked Rods did before Iacobs Sheep or the Aethiopian before the Teeming-woman Richard Norshall saith Bale de Scriptor Brit. c. 7. n. 6. left behinde a Sett of Sermons for every day he was a Bishop and R. Manwaring had a sett of Exercises for every day he was a Scholar doing nothing himself and hearing nothing from others of remark but what he writ down being as Dr. Harris said of Dr. Preston a needless Ingrosser of other mens Notions for he said he had a good Memory if he did not trust it and when he lost a notion the careless man he said made the thief An habit of exactness in his smaller performances rendred him exact in those more considerable he being careful of two things the setling of his voice and his minde The modern Jews have among others a form of Prayer wherein they bless God as well as for their vents of Ejection as mouths for their admission of nourishment Mr. Manwaring though very studious to acquire Learing was more curious to express it knowing that small abilities well set off out-go greater that want that advantage The composing of four witty Verses recommended him to that Eminent School whereof he was Scholar the pronouncing of an ingenious and vigorous Oration gained him that noble Lord who thought it an honor sit to be remembred in an eminent part of the Parsonage-House he gave him to be his atron His Critical skill in Greek and rational Head preferred him Fellow of the Colledge and his discreet carriage and observing head Chaplain to his Lord in all which capacities his performances were not gaudy but proper becoming and always equal usually especially in Divinity managing his Exercises with a pleasing kinde of Magisterium Theologicum to use the old phrase of Matthew Paris Being so full that it was not with him as it was with some men the Platonick year of whose dicourses being not above three days long in which term all the same matter returns again He might be called Good-luck as his Name-sake R. Twiford was because however unhappy in himself yet he brought good success to others as two Worshipful Families can testifie whithersoever he went which made several Places and Persons ambitious at the same time of his presence and service good employments suing for him as earnestly as others had done for good employments though Locusts are generally devourers of all food yet some Locusts as those of St. Iohn are wholsom though course food themselves most troubles are losses yet this Gentlemans very losses were gains in that as he said they made him better acquainted with himself and better known to others Three things he was much resolved on the Redemption of Captives the Converting of Recusants and the undeceiving of the seduced Sectaries and three Dyaries he kept one for the Transactions of his own Life another for the publick Affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the most remarkable passages of Providence that hapned in the world Many rich persons he effectually exhorted to good Works much Alms he industriously Collected his charitable Collections he carefully preserved and discrâ—etly disposed of not only for the relief of want but as he said of the Primitive Oblations to incourage virtue keeping a Discipline as he would say all charitable people should over the Poor who especially if beggars by reason of their wandring life are under none as moâ—â— is no predicament but may be reduced to any He profited much by his Books more by his Company which at the same time improved his parts and credited them good acquaintance at once instruct and by their various Interests set off one another Two of whom died the very same day and near as could be guessed certainly their Stars were as intimate as they and there was the like correspondence in their Genitures that was in their Affections the same hour The first Canon of our Church injoyning every Minister to Preach four times a year at least for the asserting of the Kings Authority and Supremacy Dr. Manwaring observing the diminution of both Sermons the one at Court before a Royal Auditory the other at his own Parish at St. Giles in the Fields before a noble one In both which places he was looked upon as an Eminent Preacher as became the Kings subject and Chaplain maintained at that time when the Kings necessity put him upon the Loan and his Authority commanded it much against the grain of the people as they were at that time humored That the Kings Royal Command in Imposing of Loans and Taxes though without common consent in Parliament doth oblige the subjects Conscience upon pain of Eternal damnation and that the Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies A Position for which he was Charged 1627. by Mr. Rous in Parliament aggravated by Mr. Pym into five Branches 1. His indeavor to infuse into His Majesties Conscience a perswasion of a Power not limited with Laws which he said King Iames in a Parliament Speech 1619. called Tyranny accompanyed with Perjury 2. His indeavor to perswade the Consciences of the subjects that they are bound to obey Illegal Commands yea he damns them for not obeying them 3. He robs the subject of the property of their Goods 4. He brands them that will not loose this property with most scandalous and odious Titles to make them hateful both to Prince and People 5. He indeavoureth to blow up Parliaments and Parlimentary Power which five were drawn up into one great one to use Mr. Pyms words Serpens qui serpentem devorat fit Draco viz. A mischievous Plot to alter and subvert the Frame and Government of the State and Common-wealth and Iune the thirteen 1628. censured thus 1. To be imprisoned during the pleasure of the House 2. To be fined a thousand pounds 3. To make his submission at the Bar in this House the House of Lords and the House of Commons at the Bar there in verbis conceptis by a Committee of this House 4. To be suspended from his Ministerial Function three years and in the mean time a sufficient Preaching man to be provided out of the Profits of his Living and this to be left to be performed by the Ecclesiastical Court 5.
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of north-North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
goodcome off serving his Majesty at Sea as he had done at Land and commanding the Ships fallen from the Parliament when there were no more to be commanded for the King to watch and supply the Coasts of Ireland and infest those of England He was in his way to the West-Indies divided from his Illustrious Brother Prince Rupert one of the most expert Sea-men as the most general Artist in Europe and from all the living by an Hurricano 1649. â—ad that our Calamities swallowed not only the Royal Branches growing in England but those in Germany too who escaping the Austrian malice perish by the Brittish but true grief for a Valiant man requireth not Womanish tears aâ—d great grief scorns it no tears being able to wash off the guilt of Royal bloud the shame of that Age shed in both parts of the world that beyond the Line and that on this side of it Peace had made him as excellent as his Brother the Prince Elector who for general but especially mechanick Learning and business is the happiest man in the world Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties younger Brother born 1640. died 1660. A Prince of as great hopes as studious great Parts and as great expectation as solid Vertue and promising great actions could make him that having known nothing but Imprisonment for the first years of his life at 8t Iames's Pensehurt and the Isle of Wight and Banishment in the later grew by his affliction so knowing that at eight years of Age he could tell his Majesty when he sending for him the day before he died he bid him not take the Crown before his Brothers Charles and Iames he would be first torn by wild Horses before he would do it so capable that Ascham who was deputed his Tutor by the Earl of Northumberland protesting that he could discourse nothing to him but what he could after once hearing with more advantage discourse to him again so serious that when Abbot Montague designed his Education in the Catholick way he could say at ten years of Age Hâ— would obey his Mother but he must his Soveraign So resolute that in the battel before Dunkirk 1657. Don Iohn protested he fought like an Englishman and so accomplished that at his return there was not an Artist whom he did not obligingly and satisfactorily converse with in his own way Fata ostendunt non dant Henricos Mr. Endymion Porter mentioned near these two Princes because dear to two Kings 1. To King Iames for his Wit 2. To King Charles I. for his general Learning which with his brave style sweet temper happy travels great experience modern languages and good address recommended him to the Duke of Buckingham who after the journey into Spain begun at first by the Prince the Duke my Lord Cottington and Mr. Endymion Porter introduced him to his Majesty who loved him for his own Ingenuity and for his being a Patron to all that were Ingenious our Endymion had the happiness to be loved by our Sun and Moon the King and Queen but not because he slept He pleased his Majesty not more in time of Peace than he served him in time of War by his Intelligence and Declarations at home and his Negotiations abroad both in France and Holland the reason sure why he was always excepted out of their Indemnities his friends paying for him 1500 l. composition and he dying with his Majesty abroad as his Son did for his Father at home being killed 1644. Loyal bloud like Harvies went round the Portâ—rs from the highest to the meanest 26 of the Name having eminently suffered for his Majesty Sir Nicholas Slanning The Cornish men in the Reign of King Arthur led the Van where is the Conduct of an Army and in King Canutus his time brought up the Rear which is the strength of an Army Sir Nicholas a Cornish Gentleman of an Ancient Family that deserveth the same Character that is bestowed by Mr. Carew upon another Employing themselves to a kind and uninterrupted entertainment of such as visited upon their invitations or their own occasion their frankness confirming their welcome by whatsoever means Provision the best fuel of Hospitality can in the best manner supply Of a Learned and a Martial Education able both to attend the Crusible and the Gun a very knowing Philosopher and a good Souldier led on his Country-men in his resolute Speeches at Westminster being a Gentleman of a stern spirit and brought up the Rear in his Command at Pendennis and other back Harbors of Cornwall over against France for supplies and in the Levant Spanish both Indian and Irish Road where most Merchants touch and whither many are driven being a man of an impregnable Integrity and unwearyed watchfulness and a severe Discipline lost by the Parliament when in Sermones tanquam vetita miscuissent specimen Arcâ—ae amicitiae facere and having with Sir Bevile Greenvile at Landsdown done wonders in advancing from hedge to hedge in the Head of his men in the mouth of Canons and Musquets so that his men thought him Immortal Iuly 5. 1643. lost to his Majesty in a brave assault upon Bristol Iuly 26. following when they saw him mortal In the Catalogue of Compounders I find this Note Sir Nicholas Slanning of Pendennis-Castle Cornwall 1197 l. 13 s. II d. and Col. Henry Lunsford Col. Buck and Col. Trevanian fell there the same time with whom it is fit to mention Sir Charles Trevanian of Caryhey Cornwall Sir Iohn Trelawny and his Son Col. Tho. Tregonnel Col. Ionathan Trelawney Col. Lewis Tremain I think of Nettlecomb Somerset who paid 1560 l. composition Col. George Trevillion Col. Ames Pollard Io. Pegonwell of Anderson Dorset Esq 1735 l. Col. Iames Chudleigh slain at Dartmouth in Devon Col. Bowls slain at Alvon Edmund Tremain Esq Colloecomb Devon 380 l. Men remarkable for their Conduct in keeping their Counsels in disguising their actions and fore-seeing the Designs and Courses of the Enemy being very well acquainted with the passes of the Country and strangely dexterous in gaining Intelligence scouring the Enemy before Bristol as well as the Gray-Sope of that place doth Cloaths men whose Persons generally are like their Houses narrow and little Entrances into spacious and stately Upper-Rooms Sir Richard Prideaux of Tregard compounded for 564 l. at Goldsmiths-hall and others whom I would more largely insist on but that I am 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Herald of another nature and having not taken Letters of Mart to seize on others Callings for their Invading mine do Loyally leave these Ancient Gentlemen to the justice of the King of Arms. Col. Richard Fielding Lord Fielding suffering something in Reputation about Reading which being Deputy-Governor he yielded as was thought too easily but recovering it at Newberry Nazeby and all other Engagements where he stirred not an inch keeping his ground too obstinately a generous shame adding to his Valour and choosing rather to lose his life by his Enemies than that it should be
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army
reply to Cartwrights Answers till his Antagonist laid down the Cudgels For these were inconsiderable troubles given him when we reflect on the great Oppositions and dangerous Motions in Parliament that forced him twice on his knees to the Queen intreating the continuance of her Grace and Favour towards him and the Church the first time and with grief of heart they are his own words craving her Majesties protection the second And add to them the several Contrasts he had with the Lords by whom in Councel upon their sending to him the Complaints of the Norfolk-Ministers against Bishop Preake of Norwich and of the Kentish-Ministers against himself he was forced to write that it was Irregular for Ministers to address themselves to the Council-Table in Affairs of the Church wherein he alone was Intrusted by God and her Majesty and to tell them that it was not for the Queen to sit in her Throne if such men might so boldly offer themselves to reason and dispute as in their Bill they vaunt against the state established in matter of Religion nor for himself to keep his place if every Curate within his Diocess or Province may be permitted so to use him it being impossible as he saith for him to perform the Duty which her Majesty looked for at his hands if he might not without Interruption proceed in that which her Highness had especially committed unto him And that the disorderly flocking and gadding from place to place was dangerous concluding that the sending for him to appear before the Council-Table as a Party and to call his doings in question which from her Majesty were immediately committed unto him and wherein he supposed he had no other Judge but her self and this upon the suggestion of unlearned despicable and troublesome men the meanest and fewest of the places where they lived was a thing unexpected from them from whom as their Pastor he expected all aid and assistance in his Office for the quietness of the Church and State the Credit of the established Religion and the maintenance of the Laws made for the same Neither was this all alas what a sad Complaint doth this Reverend Person make against one Beal Clerk of the Council who reviled and threatned him to his face if he proceeded to put the Ecclesiastical Laws in execution as he had done telling him boldly loudly and bitterly That he would overthrow the Church and that his hands should be shortly stopped His words are That were it not for his Conscience and well-grounded perswasion in the things he did the peace of the Church her Majesty and some Noble Lords constancy to him in the Service he should hardly be able to endure so great a Burden Nay writing to my Lord Hatton the good Arch-bishop saith That my Lord Hatton's kindness did not a little comfort him having received saith he not long since unkinde speeches where I least looked for them onely for doing my duty in the most necessary Business which I have in hand disobedient wilful persons I will term them no worse are animated Laws contemned her Majesties Will and Pleasure little regarded and the Executors thereof in word and deed abused Howbeit these Overthwarts grieve me yet I thank God so the good Prelate goeth on I am contented to sustain all these Displeasures and fully resolved not to depend upon Man but upon God and her Majesty If you saith he to my Lord Burleigh take the part of unlearned young ambitious Disturbers of Order against the established State of Religion and forsake me especially in so good a Cause I shall think my coming to this place to be for my punishment and my very hard hap that when I think to deserve best and in a manner to consume my self to satisfie that which God her Majesty the Church requireth of me I should be evil rewarded and having risen early and sate up late to give all men satisfaction have my Labour lost and called wilful Papist Knave and charged that I require men to subscribe onely to maintain my own Book and so sacrifice the publick to my own private Reputation These were the sufferings of Whitgift Dr. Fulke for writing against the Brownists professeth that he had not an hours rest for twelve years together And how bold Traverse was set up in the Temple against modest Hooker How the loud Lectures of the first of these were cried up against the solid Sermons of the other What siding and bandying there was in the House What confuting in the Afternoon of what was proved in the Morning What Addresses to the Lords of the Council And how meek Mr. Hooker weary of the Contrast was forced to retire is obvious to all that do but dip into the History of Queen Elizabeth's time not to mention either Dr. Baroe or Mr. Barrets Sufferings in Cambridge with Dr. Howson and Mr. Land 's at Oxford for Anti-Calvimsm which was onely another little occasion found to quarrel with Authority and to draw in more persons to their Party many learned men who favoured not the Faction in point of Calvinistical Discipline yet were very Indulgent and serviceable to them in respect to their Calvinistical Doctrine Well during Queen Elizabeth's Reign the Quarrel being confined within the Church and Schools few acted or suffered thereby besides Church-men and Scholars the Laity of the Nobility and Commons seldom engaging either way further than by private tampering encouraging interceding motioning c. and none of them suffering any further than that if they stood to the great and generous Principles of Government and Religion they were censured as Papists profane Enemies of the Power of Godliness c. or so But upon the Entrance of King Iames whom the Factious thought a Presbyterian from his Cradle as frighted to their way in his Mothers belly the Laity and Clergy began to side more openly Dr. Nevil Dean of Canterbury was not so soon with that King from Arch-bishop Whitgift and the rest of the Clergy as Mr. Lewis Pickering a Northamptonshire Gentleman waited upon him from the Presbyterians upon whose return judging by the Kings temper that they who had most Voices and Friends were likely to carry it at least for Liberty and Toleration a great Multitude was thought by them a strong Argument with that Prince they set up the mille-manus Petition called so for the thousand hands they pretended were to it Mr. Cartwright in the mean time Caressing his Majesty with all the Presbyterian Courtships in the world in an Epistle Dedicatory to his Latine Commentary on Ecclesiastes with the Importunity whereof together with the Mediation of some Lords especially the Scotch for now Presbytery had got a whole Nation I mean Scotland of their side there was a Conference held at Hampton-Court before the King and the Lords of the Council between eight Bishops eight Deans and two other Divines on the one side Dr. Reynolds Dr. Sparkes Mr. Knewstubs and Mr. Chadderton on the other The issue whereof notwithstanding
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his
Affairs they considering the streight he was reduced into resolved that they would redress Grievances before they would yield any Subsidies To that purpose they make bold to question his greatest and dearest Favourites and States-men and first the Duke of Buckingham against whom they set the Earl of Bristol and when he could make nothing of it the House of Commons its self with thirteen Articles attaqued that great Person who had no fault as it seems by his Replies but his great Place and his Princes Favour that Party designing thereby to make it dangerous for any person to give the King faithful Counsel or to assist him in keeping up the Government unless in compliance with them as they made it more than evident when they offered the Duke with their Interest upon some Conditions to bring him off Here is the first blow at the greatest stay of Government the Kings Majesty's Council The next thing they do notwithstanding the great danger of the Kingdom is to declare That they must clear the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject that forsooth they are the Demagogâ—es own words they might know whether they could call any thing their own before they should give the King any thing And when Nature Policy and Religion taught the World that his Majesty who had the Care of the Kingdom must not let it perish for the humour of some people that would allow nothing towards the maintenaâ—ce either of themselves or it choosing as one Turner said openly in the House Rather to fall into the hands of Enemies abroad than to submit to the Government as then established at home And some Divines preached what is great reason That his Majesty being Intrusted by God with a Power to defend his Kingdom must have a power too by all means to raise Men and Money in spight of any malicious Factions wherewith he may defend it For this Dr. Mainwaring and Dr. Sibthorpe both as I take it his Majesties Chaplains are questioned not by the Church to whose Cognizance Errours in Doctrines most properly belong but by the Lay-Elders of the House of Commons Yea and if the Farmers of the Custom-house advance any money upon the Kings ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage they shall be questioned for that and for Levying any Imposts upon any Commodities whatsoever That 's the second Blow at his Majesties Prerogative and Revenue wherein I may include the noise they made against Coat and Conduct-money and Free-quarter Having weakned the Civil Power by these Courses they thought it easie to overthrow the Ecclesiastical for the Faction grown bold and considerable by the remisness of a great Prelate and the discontent of others question all Proceedings in Ecclesiastical Courts open a door to several vexatious Suits against several Officers of that Court besides that they questioned Mr. Mountague Mr. Cozens and threatned Bishop Laud Bishop Neile and others that were resolved to stand by the Supream Power of the King in Ecclesiastical Affairs against which they levelled their third Blow And when all this would not do they examine the whole Government for divers years together the disbursment of the Revenue the administrations of War and Peace They rake into Prince Henry and King Iames his death and this with such a deal of stir and tumult that some of them lock the Parliament Doors others make such a noise as rings all over Westminster others force the Speaker Sir Iohn Finch and hold him whether he would or no in the Chair when he would have left the House when it was become rather a Billingsgate Conventicle than an House of Parliament When the turbulent House of Commons was dissolved and the Faction having got a new Maxime That they might say and do what they pleased within the Walls of that House as publick persons whereof they were to give no account as private men lost the benefit of it by that Dissolution the King resolving that they should not make the Parliament a Conspiracy they fall to Libelling Printing popular Insinuations Evasions and Elusions of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws that tended to the securing of the Government secret and open Oppositions to all the ways the King took to raise money though never so legally the just King always consulting his Judges about the Legality of all Taxes before he ordered his Officers to gather them For the first Question in that Kings Reign was Is it just And the next Is it convenient And those men that have imposed Millions on others since grudged to pay then twenty shillings for it was but twenty shillings Ship-money that Mr. Hampden went to Law with the King for and my Lord Say but for four pounds And that five pounds was the occasion of all the stir afterwards made about the Ship-money which cost the Nation fifty seven Millions Sterling since The untoward Reading in the Innes of Court upon Points most dangerous to Government possessing the People with strange Fears and Jealousies about Religion German Horse a French and Arbitrary Government and what not Every publick Action of the King or his Ministers being mis-interpreted Combinations were held between the factious English and discontented Scots whose begging-time being over at Court they bethink of coming to Plunder the Country The Faction gives out that the King had deserted the Protestants of the Palatinate and France when the truth is they had deserted him The Bishops in their Visitations were every where opposed and the Troublesom taught how to elude all Church-Obligations by Common Law In a word notwithstanding that the Kingdom injoyed for the first fifteen years of the excellent King Charles I. his Reign Trade flourished and Gold and Silver in his time was almost as plentiful as in Solomons Learning and all Arts were improved to the heighth and Scholars Encouragements were as great as their Improvements Religion grew up to its primitive Beauty and Purity Law and Justice secured all persons in their just Acquisitions The People had liberty to do any thing by evil the Rich durst not wrong the Poor neither need the Poor envy or fear the Rich. The Treasure of Spain was coined in our Mint and exchanged for our Commodities forreign Nations either feared our Arms or sought our Friendship We claimed and enjoyed the Dominion of the Sea Wars Plagues and Famines were strangers to our Coasts and we were even against our will the happiest People under Heaven except onely for this that we were not sensible either of our Happiness or of the use of it understanding it seems no more improvement of the great blessing of Peace and good Government than wantonness and unthankfulness Notwithstanding fifteen years of the most blessed effects of Justice Wisdom Piety and Peaceableness of an excellent Prince of whom the World was not worthy By the practices of Cardinal Richlieu and others who envied and feared our happiness by the Indigence and Schism of the Scots by the comprehensive Combination in England that had taken in with the
as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
they had done great things for their Sovereign they might suffer greater THE LIFE ACTIONS AND DEATH OF Sir THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of STRAFFORD Protoâ— Martyr for Religion and Allegiance SIR Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford owed his Birth to the best govern'd City London his Breeding to the best modelled School York and a most exact Colledge St. Iohns in Cambr. his Accomplishments to the best Tutors Travel and Experience and his Prudence to the best School a Parliament whither he came in the most active and knowing times with a strong Brain and a large Heart His Activity was eminent in his Country and his Interest strong in King Charles's Parliament where he observed much and pertinently spake little but home contrived effectuallyâ— but closely carried his Designs successfully but reservedly He apprehended the publick Temper as clearly and managed it to his purposes as orderly as any man He spoke least but last of all with the advantage of a clear view of others Reasons and the addition of his own He and his leading Confidents moulded that in a private Conference which was to be managed in a publick Assembly He made himself so considerable a Patriot that he was bought over to be a Courtier so great his Abilities that he awed a Monarchy when disobliged and supported it when engaged the Balance turning thither where this Lord stood The North was reduced by his Prudence and Ireland by his Interest He did more there in two years then was done in two hundred before 1. Extinguishing the very Relicks of the War 2. Setting up a standing Army 3. Modelling the Revenue 4. Removing the very Root and Occasions of new Troubles 5. Planting and Building 6. Setling Ecclesiastical and Civil Courts 7. Recovering the hearts of the People by able Pastors and Bishops by prudent and sober Magistrates by Justice and Protection by Obligations and Rewards 8. Recovering the Churches Patrimony and Discipline 9. Imploying most able and faithful Ministers and Instruments 10. Taking an exact view of all former Presidents Rules and Proceedings 11. An exact correspondence with his Majesty and the Favourites of England None was more conversant in the Factions Intrigues and Designs than he when a Common-wealths-man none abler to meet with them than he when a States-man he understood their Methods kenned their Wiles observed their Designs looked into their Combinations comprehended their Interest And as King Charles understood best of any Monarch under Heaven what he could do in point of Conscience So his Strafford apprehended best of any Counsellour under the Sun what he could do in point of Power He and my Lord of Canterbury having the most particular account of the State of Great Britain and Ireland of any persons living Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished yet Doctrine and Discourse had much allayed the severity of this Earls Nature and Custom more None more austere to see to none more obliging to speak with He observed pauses in his discourse to attend the motion and draw out the humour of other men at once commanding his own thoughts watching others His passion was rather the vigour than the disorder of his wel-weighed Soul which could dispense its anger with as much prudence as it managed any Act of State He gave his Majesty safe counsel in the prosperity of his Affairs and resolute advice in Extremity as a true Servant of his Interest rather than of his Power So eminent was he and my Lord of Canterbury that Rebellion despaired of success as long as the first lived and Schism of licentiousness as long as the second stood Take my Lord of Strafford as accused and you will find his Integrity and Ability that he managed his whole Government either by the Law or the Interest of his Country Take him as dying and you will see his Parts and Piety his Resolution for himself his Self-resignation for the Kingdoms good his Devotion for the Church whose Patrimony he forbad his Son upon his Blessing Take him as dead you will find him glorious and renowned in these three Characters The first of the best King I looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman whose great Abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed to imploy him in the greatest Affairs of State for those were prone to create in him great confidence of undertakings and this was like enough to betray him to great Errors and many Enemies whereof he could not but contract great store while moving in so high a Sphere and so vigorous a lustre he must nedds as the Sun raise many envious Exhalations which condensed by a popular Odium were capable to cast a Cloud upon the brightest Merit and Integrity Though I cannot in my judgment approve all he did driven it may be by the necessities of Times and the Temper of that People more than led by his own disposition to any heighth 〈◊〉 â—igour of Action c. The second of the best Historian He was a person of a generous Spirit fitted for the noblest Exercises and the most difficult parts of Empire his Counsels were bold yet just and he had a vigour proper for the execution of them Of an eloquence next that of his Masters Masculine and excellent He was no less affectionate to the Church than to the State and not contented while living to defend the Government and Patrimony of it he commended it also to his Son when he was about to die and charged his abhorrency of Sacriledge His Enemies called the majesty of his Mind in his Lieutenancie pride and the undaunted execution of his Office on the Contumacious the Insolency of his Fortune He was censured for that fatal errour of following the King to London and to the Parliament after the Pacification at York And 't was thought that if he had gone over to his Charge in Ireland he might have secured both himself and that Kingdom for his Majesties Service But some attribute this Counsel to a necessity of Fate whose first stroke is at the Brain of those whom it designs to ruine and brought him to feel the effects of popular Rage which himself in former Parliaments had used against Government and to find experience of his own devices upon the Duke of Buckingham Providence teacheth us to abhor over-sine Counsels by mischiefs they often bring upon their Authors The third of Common Fame A Gentleman he was of rare Choice and singular Endowments I mean of such as modelled fashioned accomplished him for State-concernments of a searching and penetrating Judgment nimble apprehension ready and fluent in all results of Council most happy in the vein of Speech which was alwayes round perspicuous and express much to the advantage of his sense and so full stocked with Reason that he might be rather said to demonstrate than to argue As these Abilities raised him to State-Administration so his addressing his applying those Abilities so faithfully in promotion of the Royal Interest soon rendred him
a Favourite of the first Admission So that never King had a more Intelligent and withal a firmer Servant than he was to his Majesty But these qualities which rendred him so amiable to his Majesty represented him formidable to the Scots so that some who were not well perswaded of the justness of his Sentence thought he suffered not so much for what he had done already as for what he was like to have done had he lived to the dis-service of that Nation and that he was not sacrificed so much to the Scots revenge as to their fear And certainly his fall was as the first so the most fatal Wound the Kings Interest ever received his three Kingdoms hardly affording another Strafford that is one man his peer in Parts and Fidelity to his Majesty He had a singular passion for the Government and Patrimony of the Church both which he was studious to preserve safe and sound either opining them to be of sacred Extraction or at least prudent constitution relating to holy performances And had he wanted these positive Graces yet in so great a Person it may be commendable that he was eminent for privative and negative Excellencies being not taxable with any vice those petty pleasures being beneath the satisfaction of a Soul so large as his In short saith the ingenious Gentleman He was a man who might have passed under a better notion had he lived in better times This last Period is a Question since this great States-man and his good Masters Goodness was so over-shadowed with their Greatness and their Vertues so lost in their Power as the Sun the aptest parallel of their Lustre and Beneficence is hid in his own lightâ— that they owe their great but glorious Fame to their misfortunes and their Renown to their ruine that levelled their worth otherwise as much out of their reach as their place to vulgar apprehensions Eclipsed Lustre like a veiled Beauty is most looked on when most covered The setting Sun is more glorious than its self in its Meridian because more low and the lowest Planet seems biggest to a common eye So faithful he was and the Archbishop that in the Iuncto consisting of them two and Duke Hamilton they voted a Parliament though they knew themselves the first Sufferers by it and so confident of his Integrity that when he had Treason enough discovered at the late Transactions in York touching the Scots Conspiracy to charge his Enemies with he waved the advantage and secure in his own Innocency fell an Instance of that Maxim That there is no Danger small but what is thought so This was his great Principle Vsurped Royalty was never laid down by perswasion from Royal Clemency for in armis jus omne regni Bishop Land was the man by whose advice he had his Power and Preferment and he was the man according to whose direction he managed it Being no sooner admitted Member of the House of Peers than friend to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and at the same time of the Kings intimate Council and the Bishops intimate Acquaintance his first Act in Council was to advise his Majesty to take Tonnage and Poundage if it might be had as the Gift of the People if not as one of the Duties belonging to his Prerogative a Prerogative without which Kingdoms are not safe for if Kings have not an absolute power when there is need to impose on their Subjects they may not have power when there is occasion to defend them they that weaken their Soveraigns power weaken their own security and when a Prince is reduced to that pass that he cannot help and serve himself he will quickly come to that pass that he shall not be able to protect his people His next was to advise the King to stand by the Farmers of the Custom-house when questioned viz. Sir Iohn Wolstenholm Mr. Daws and Mr. Caermarthin Good Servants are neither to be encouraged in Wrong nor to be forsaken in the Right That Prince must shew himself resolute and stout whose Affairs cannot be managed by cowardly Servants Many counselled the questioning of the refractory Members in the House of Commons that kept the Speaker in his Chair in spight of his teeth locked up the Doors against all Messages from the King detained the Serjeant at Arms by force declared their fellow-Subjects Traytors c. But my Lord of Strafford was for neglecting them the Action if questioned might be made out to the people to be a defence of their Liberty whereas if sleighted it is but a Hubbub and they that were at first condemned by all for their disorder would be if convented at last pitied for their Sufferings The great Richlieu construed an old Maxime of Tacitus thus Criminals never grow considerable till thought so and so raised from despicable Delinquents to a formidable Party Innovation the whole Councel suspected always as bringing with it more Inconveniencies by the Change than Advantage by the Reformation and he condemned upon this observation That where Reformation once drew on a Change the desire of change an hundred times but pretended Reformation Although he had no minde to meddle with the persons of the Seditious in the last Parliament yet he took special notice of the Doctrines of one of them viz. Eliot that said He was not bound to give an account as a private person before the Councel of what he said or did as a publick person in Parliament As if as the wise man would observe with much impatience That August Assembly that advised about Laws to punish Disorders should be the onely Sanctuary for them And a Parliament were no other than the Saturnalia of Rome where Slaves for some days in the year might say and do what they pleased of their Masters It was easie for him to foresee the readiness of the Emperour to yield to a peace when pressed so hard by the Swede but to come one Morning to the Councel when they were most busie and perplexed about the War with France and assure them that France would begg a Peace as they did by the Mediation of Venice was a foresight none owned but one that as it is said of Mazarine Was of all the Councels of Europe Adding That that was a time for England though low to be Courted as it was from Spain Venice Holland Denmark c. and not to be provoked None more diligent to finde out ways to supply the Kings occasions yet none more severe than this Lord against Books of Projects such as Dudley's and others Books designed rather to raise the Jealousies of the People than the Revenue of the King None severer against Libels and others the sad Prognosticks of the sad times approaching yet none more against the vexing imprisoning and mutilating those Offenders than he judging it safer to cut off or pardon than distress any man that is to take away either his power or will to Revenge The vexed and distressed man is continually
before peoples eyes to move or exasperate them the dead and pardoned are forgotten My Lord had vast Affections for the Protestant Interest as appeared by his Proposals in Councel his wishes rather than his hopes and what he would rather then what he could do yet he suspected the Swedes and Scots Assistants as rather an Army of Mercenaries than the Auxiliaries of Friends Two things he said undid us 1. That our Divines had been so careless in opening the ground of Religion that Novelties had got such advantages over ancient Truths as to charge primitive Practices for Innovations 2. That our Lawyers were so byassed in their explications of the ground of the Law that old Laws such as those of Knighthood whereby the Subjects holding of the King as all do originally were either to be Knighted or fined for it and that for Ship-money shall be cried down for new Exactions My Lord applauded his Majesties generous Goodness in stopping the Combate between the Witnesses about Hamiltons Design to entertain all the Scots abroad to serve him against his Prince at home but he feared his easiness afterwards in trusting him He like H. 7. being at once what few men are most suspicious most knowing and most stout whereas usually the suspicious man is one that knows little and fears much Much did he resent the Differences between Protestants and Protestants and more with Bishop Bancroft encouraged he the Dissentions between the Seculars and Jesuits as he did in Civil Matters between some Scots and English advising that the Press might be open to them to discover the nakedness of their Parties and shut to our Disputants the Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the Arminians and Anti-Arminians lest we betray our own Opinions it was his Maxime For Schools positive and practical Divinity onely for Presses and Pulpits A Maxime of as great concernment to the Church as his Contributions for Pauls which to say no more were worthy the Earl of Strafford and Bishop Laud's friend From being a Member of the Councel in the South he was advanced Lord President of the North and thence a while after Lord Deputy of Ireland In the North begun that Animosity between him and Vane about Raby that was not allayed but with his bloud Here he would have strengthned the Law by Prerogative always making good the Prerogative by Law some there complained to him of the Kings Government and he told them They complained of the Laws adding That the little Finger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings Clemency would be heavier than the Kings Loyns He endeavoured to indear his Majesties Government to his best Subjects and render it dreadful to the worst Parts and Merits imployed against the Government by mistake he informed and encouraged to better Imployment but Parts and Merits poysoned by Pride and Ambition he suppressed and sleighted saying He loved not a man of large Parts and a narrow and selfish Spirit He had Worth that was sure to raise Envy and a Prudence to allay it moderating the power he had himself and maintaining that of other Magistrates who might be his Skreen Who as he ingrossed not Business to exercise his Power so he intangled it not to raise a suspicion of his Cunning carrying things on in a plain and open rather than a private and close way not that he feared the effects of Envy on himself calling Envy a Shadow that reflâ—cted 〈…〉 prejudice it and as shadows did more 〈…〉 falls upon than to those stately things it 〈…〉 judging it his Monitor rather than his Danger Son 〈…〉 in the wary Conduct of his Affairs rather thâ—n 〈…〉 avoided them in the smooth course of his 〈◊〉 which wâ—nt above the hazard but not the interruptions of Envy The first Institution of the Presidents Place in the North was to suppress Rebellions and my Lords first caâ—e in â—â—at Place was 〈◊〉 prevent them How carefully did he look out 〈…〉 wise Clergy-men that might instruct and guide how 〈◊〉 did he choose knowing and noble Gentlemen that might govern and 〈◊〉 that rude Corner of the Kingdom equally obnoxious to the 〈◊〉 â—â—ations of the old Superstition that erept thither 〈…〉 the Seas and of the late Innovations that stole in 〈◊〉 from beyond the Tweed both dangerous to the People and 〈…〉 Government Instruction he would say must 〈◊〉 wa◠〈◊〉 Government and Government back Instruction by the 〈…〉 the hearts of men and by the second it â—yes their 〈…〉 the King trusted in his own Person the Eaâ—l 〈…〉 Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the North at onceâ— to 〈◊〉 and secure himself rendring hâ—s Authority plâ—â—â—sible by administring Government to the People by those 〈◊〉 that had most Interest in them and could best awe because they alwayes obliged them admitting many to his assistance and 〈◊〉 to â—is trust His Observations upon the Humors of the â—â—â—â—hern People prompted him to advise his Majesty to a Progress 〈◊〉 â—cotland Anno 1633. to encourage the Loyal Part of that 〈◊〉 on this side the Tweed by his Presence to settle the disloyal 〈…〉 other side by his Laws he having Intelligence from Scoâ—â—â—â—â— tâ—ey are the words of a great Lord then trusted with the Crown of that Kingdom that if the King should long deferr his Coronation the Scots might perhaps incline to make choice of another King This â—rogress by taking in the most popular and great Noble-men of the North to attend His Majesty he managed with a noble Conduct advancing all along the Kings Majesties Interest and Honor of such mighty consequence it is how a Prince appears to his people When he had composed the Affairs of Scotland some defects appearing by dayly Tumults and Commotions in the Government of Ireland this accomplished Person in the Affairs of Rule discovering dayly greater and greater Abilities equal to a Minister of State after he had brought my Lord of Holland to a Submission at the Council-Table and in some measure reduced the Factions that broke out dayly at Court where to use his dear Friend Archbishop Land's words Private Ends appeared every day more and more â—o the prejudice of the publike Service was intreated to the Supream Care under His Majesty of that Kingdom a Trust he managed so well That 1. he discharged Fourscore thousand Pounds the King owed and raised Twenty thousand men and as many thousand Pounds that the King wanted in the year 1634. 2. Reduced the Popish and Protestant Parties to so even a temper that upon some Disorders that year he was able to summon such a Parliament as was able to allay and fix the several Factions to a due temperament guiding the zeal of each Party by such Rules of Moderation as were ever observed most effectual to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms 3. Prevailed with the Church of Ireland to admit of the 39 Articles of the Church of England that as he would say They that agreed for the main in the truth of
Table-book and Common-place rather than his heart Iulius Caesar said other mens wives should not be loose but his should not be suspected And this great Lord advised the Primate of Ireland that as no Clergy man should be in reality guilty of compliance with a Schism so should not he in appearance Adding when the Primate urged the dangers on all sides as Caesar once said You are too old to fear and I too sickly A true saying since upon the opening of his Body it was found that he could not have lived according to the course of Nature six moneths longer than he did by the malice of his Enemies his own Diseases having determined his life about the same period that the Nations distemper did and his Adversaries having prevailed nothing but that that death which he just paying as a debt to Nature should be in the instant hallowed to a Sacrifice for Allegiance and he that was dying must be martyred and just when he put off his Coronet Put on a Crown Philip the I. of Spain said he could not compass his design as long as Lerma lived nor the Scots theirs as long as Strafford acts and with his own single worth bears up against the Plot of three Kingdoms like Sceva in the breach with his single resolution duelling the whole Conspiracy That now being resolved into two Committees the one of Scots the other of English first impeach him Decemb. 17. of High Treason in the House of Lords though so Innocent and so well satisfied in his own present integrity that when he might have kept with an Army that loved him well at York to give Law to those conspitors he came to receive Law from them and when he might have been secure in his Government and in the Head of an Army in Ireland he came to give an account of that Government and Army in England laying down his own Sword to be subject to others and teaching how well he could Govern by shewing how well he could obey yea when he might have retired and charged his Adversaries as Bristow did Buckingham with that conspiracy for the overthrow of Government wherewith they charged him He being able to prove how P. H. H. K. S. H. S. that thirst most for his blood had correspondence with and gave counsel to the Kings Enemies in Scotland and Ireland and England when they could prove no more for the alteration of the Law against him than that he gave advice to the King according to his place to support them yet he tamely yeilded his whole life to be scanned by those that could not be safe but when he was dead and having mannaged the great trust reposed in him by the Laws of Antient Parliaments was not afraid to submit himself to the censure of this Rather than hide his head in some Forreign Nation that offered him Sanctuary saying That England had but one good head and that was to be Cut off meaning His he would loose in his own scorning for services done his own King to beg protection of another The brave man judging that he deserved death that minute he feared it and that he was fit to be Condemned that day he refused to be Tryed appeared in Parliament and Counsel with that resolution that afterwards he appeared at the Bar with till the Scots thinking their guilt could not be pardoned till his Innocence was Impeached and that their vast Accounts amounting to 514128l 9s could not pass till he was laid up to give up his as he was in Decemb. 1640 and the Scots going with the English first Impeached and afwards Ian. 30. compleated their Charge against him which drawn up in two hundred sheets of paper was brought to the Peers by Pym and how Sir Henry V. short Notes multiplied were read Feb. 24. to the Peers before the King and Feb. 25. to the Commons consisting of 28. Articles to which having Counsel allowed him in matter of Law after three dayes debate about it and they allowed to plead but in matters they were restrained to by the House he answered in Westminster-Hall before the King Queen the Prince and Courtiers in an apartment by themselves and the whole Parliament an Audience equal to the greatness of the Earls Person and the Earl of Lindsey being Lord High Constable for the day the Earl of Arundel Lord High Steward on the 22. of March as to matter of Fact in general and the Court adjourning to the next day then in particular to 13 Articles put to him of a suddain as first that he had withdrawn 24000l out of Exchequer of Ireland for his own use Secondly That the Irish Garrisons had in the years 1635 1636. c. been maintained with English Treasure Thirdly That he had preferred infamous and Popish persons such as the Bishop of Waterford c. in the Irish Church To which notwithstanding the surprize of a Vote wherein the Parliament of Ireland charged him of High Treason a Copy whereof was delivered sealed to the Lords at that very instant with purpose to discompose him An emergency that transported him indeed to say in passion That there was a Conspiracy against him which when the Faction aggravated as if he charged with High Treason by both Houses of Parliaments should charge both Parliaments with a Conspiracy though he execused it as meant of particular and private persons â—raving pardon for the inconsiderateness of the expression He answered with an undaunted Presence of spirit with firm Reason and powerful Eloquence to this purpose that the Money he had taken for himself was no other than what Money he had paid for the King before Secondly That he had eased the Kingdom of those Garrisons wherewith it had been burthened during his Predecessors time Thirdly That the Bishop of Waterford had deceived him and satisfied the Law and the next day after Marchâ— 24. to these Articles all the forementioned 28. Articles being 〈◊〉 urged he replyed thus The First Article insisted on That 31. Aâ—â—â—â—sâ—â—33 â—â—33 he being Lord President of the North and Justice of Peace publickly at the York Aâ—â—â—zes declared that some Justices were all for Law but they should find that the Kings little singer should be heavier than the loines of the Law testified by Sir David Fowls c. The Earles Reply That Sir David Fowls was his profest Enemy that his words were clearly inverted that his expression was That the little â—inger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings gracious Clemency was heavier then the Kings loins That these were his words he verified First by the occasion of them they being spoken to some whom the Kings favour had then enlarged from imprisonment at York as a motive to their thank fulness to his Majesty Secondly By Sir William Pennyman a Member of the House who was then present and heard the words which Sir William declaring to be true the House of Commons required Iustice of the Lords against him because he had Voted the Articles as
but his Elegancies and most flouried Periods and studying not only to observe and know those Elegancies but to manage them being much affected with that Orator that prescribed upon a young Students request to know what rendred Men Eloquent Pronunciatio Pronunciatio Pronunciatio Actio Actio Actio Two Studies took up most of his time History for the best Examples of Actions Speeches for the best Patterns of Discourse To propose to our selves saith Cicero the most excellent example in our discourse and life is a good way to improvement seeing that if we imitate the best we shall not be the meanest Sir Henry Martin had besides his own Collection weekly transmitted to him from some Proctors at Lambeth the brief heads of the most important Causes which were Tried in the High-Commission which with some familiar friends in that Faculty he privately Pleaded Acting in his Chamber what was done in the Court he making it his work and exceeding the rest in Amplifying and Aggravating any Fault to move anger and indignation against the Guilt thereof or else in extenuating or excusing it to procure pity obtain pardon or prevail at least for a lesser punishment Whence no Cause came amiss to him in the High-Commission for saith my Author he was not to make now Armor but to put it on and buckle it not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Clients Sir Iohn Finch besides his own Observations had most of the eminent Speeches Discourses and Pleadings of the time which he would perform with friends in his own person so that upon all the great occasions he had afterwards to speak his business was not so much to Compose as to Recollect accommodating rather than new-making his Harangues Thus accomplished for publick Affairs with a Generous Spirit an Active Head a Charming Tongue a Grave and Awing Aspect an Obliging Converse a Serious Temper a Competent Skill in such soft and severe Arts as either Furnish and Adorn the Gentry a Happy Conduct publick thoughts with the Politure of the University and the Inns of Court He was after some years practise and converse so much in Vogue in the Inns of Court for his happy way of Managing Business that he was with the King 's Particular Choice preferred the Queens Atturney and so much in Repute in the Country that he was chosen Parliament-man in that great Parliament 1625 1226 1627. called The Parliaments of Kings And so much in esteem in that Parliament 1627. as by the Unanimous Vote of it to be chosen Speaker as his Cozen Sir Heneage Finch the Recorder was 1621. And when Speaker his Integrity and Ability so Approved in that he was pitched upon as the great Mediator in most Cases between the King and his People ever careful in his Messages of that which King Iames bid Doctor Donne be careful of in his Sermons never to Exasperate the King against his People by too Rigid a Representation of their Carriage nor stirr up the People against the King by too captious an Account of his Commands Having what King Iames commended in my Lord Bacon A peculiar way of handling Matters after a mild and gentle manner Until the Faction grew so Impudent as being Lay-men to question Divines and state questions in Divinity without either the assistance or assent of Convocation as in Doctor Mountague's Case and Doctor Manwaring's 2. To Limit his Majesty in his Ancient Right to Tonnage and Pondage so far as to deny it him unless he would accept of it as their good will and only as Tenant at Will from Year to Year by an Annual grant from them 3. To draw up Seditious Remonstrances of grievances that they only published to exasperate the People never intending by redressing of them to ease them when according to their Promise to Assist him in the War they Engaged the King in they should have presented him with their Subsidies and Supplies 4. To offer violence to their own Body forcing the Sollicitor to keep the Chair one time the Speaker another 5. To create and spread fears and jealousies by feigned Letters and Discoveries 6. To speak Treason in the very Houses of Parliament 7. To examine the Secretary of States Letter and the King 's to search the Signet Office c. 8. To threaten his Friends and ruin his Favourites 9. To Debate whether they should trust the King on his Word and upon Sir Cook 's Motion to carry it in the Negative 10. To Condition with the King about Supplies being resolved not to Relieve his Necessities unless he gratified their Humor 11. To question the Farmers of the King's Custome-house and most of the Officers of the Revenue This Party having designed that the King should neither Injoy his own Revenue nor have any Relief from them 12. To offer such Remonstrances in the House as neither the Speaker nor Clerks would Read I say until the Conspiracy grew so bold as to offer such affronts to Majesty and Government as not only diminished but endangered them for then indeed he discoursed roundly That not to Supply the King now Involved in a Forraign War was the greatest Grievance A poor King as Sir Robert Cotton used to say being the most dangerous thing in the world This importing a Ruin Denial of Subsidies is increasing of Necessities other Miscarriages only an Inconvenience That to raise Jealousies and Fears about Religion and Government answered not the end of their Convention which were called to Consult with the King about the great Affairs of the Kingdom and not to remonstrate Remonstrances instead of remedying Grievances do but aggravate them distracting the People whom they pretend to relieve being Invectives against Government rather than any Reformation of it That Mutual Confidence was the happiest because the most natural for trust first made Kings accommodation between Prince and People That it was inhumane to grant a Gracious King Subsidies at no lower Rate than the Price of his best Servants bloud That the modesty of the Subject should comply with the goodness of the King striving to oblige as the surest way to be obliged And when Speeches would not do this Excellent Person finding the times as his Gracious Master intimated in the first words of his Speech at the opening of this Parliament for actions and not for words and the Seditious made all the civilities and kindnesses shewed them to draw them off their old dangerous Practises Arguments and Incouragements to attempt new ones When they inveighed against my Lord Treasurer Weston as they had done formerly against the Duke of Buckingham It appearing evidently that not the persons of men but the King 's Trust of them was the object of their envy and his Favour though never so virtuous marked them out for ruin And the Invective raised them to such a degree of heat that fearing they should be Dissolved ere they had time to Vent their Passions they began a violence upon their own Body an Example that lasted longer than
they had with the people were quite blasted by the breath of that same furnace of popular obloquy and detraction which they have studied to heat and inflame to the highest degree of infamy and wherein they thought to cast and consume other mens names and honour In the mean time his paticence better served him to bear and charity to forgive than his leasure to answer the many false aspersions cast upon him and give the malice of some men the pleasure to see him take notice of or remember what they so rudely said or barbarously objected against him Being conscious of his own good affections and inclinations for the publick he could not suspect the affections of the publick towards him never in Forraign Parts where the whole Nation lay under the imputation of the miscarriages of the worst part of it gratifying the sprightfulness of a few with any sinister thoughts of the civility of all whereof many might be misled by others that were inclined of themselves His pity towards the errors of all being above his anger at the malice of any His greatest fault was that he was promoted to that trust and honour he had by Arch-bishop Laud as the Arch-bishop's great crime was that he was advanced by the King It was saith the Historian as fatal to be Sejanus friend at last as it would have been to his foe at first It was thought offence enough to make up a branch of that excellent person's Charge as it should seem p. 122. of the necessary Introduction to his Tryal That it appeared out of his diary that Iune 14. 1632. Master Windebank was made one of the Principal Secretaries of State by his procurement of these heinous words being then Printed in capital letters Iune 15. Master Francis Windebank my old friend was sworn Secretary of State which place I obtained of my Gracious Master King Charles for him And it would have been Plea enough against that Charge to have taken the reasons of this favour a great piece of equity as appears out of the Bishops own mouth 1. His Integrity and Faithfulness so singular that he would lay aside all obligations to please any one to satisfie the great obligation that was upon him of doing Iustice. He himself having left behind him this Instance of his Impartiallity In this business meaning the business between the new and old Corporation of Sope-boilers Debated at the Council-board at Theobalds July 12. 1635. and some other of great concernment during the Commission for the Treasury my old friend Sir F. W. forsook me and joyned with the Lord Cottington which put me to the exercise of a great deal of patience The Spaniard while all other Nations are Mercenary and for money will serve on any side will never fight against his own King nor would this Gentleman for any interest engage against his two great Soveraigns as he called them Conscience and Honesty 2. His Lenity and Moderation which was a hapyy mixture of discretion and good nature like the Silken-string running through the Pearl-chain of all his transactions Si virtutum finis ille sit maximus qui plurimorum spectat profectum moderatio omnium pulcherrima est Ambrosius de Paenitent contra Novat l. 1. c. 1. It was the honour of the Romane State as yet being Pagan In hoc gloriari licet nulli gentium mitiores placuisse paenas Having this peculiar commendation That he punished not only offenders that were discovered but those that made it their business to lay snares to discover them It being as dangerous as he observed to take notice of all faults as of none at all that involving the State in endless troubles and jealousies while this only made it obnoxious to some bold attempts which all know it could punish though some presume because it doth connive Binding some of his own Pursevants Grey and Harwood by name to their Good Behaviour as well as their Prisoners being not able to endure those Hell-hounds Horse-leaches that only sucked the corrupted bloud of the Law He was very much pleased in applying a French Story to this purpose Of one so much delighted in troubling men that when Lewis the French King offered to ease him of a number of Suits he earnestly besought his Highness to leave him some 20 or 30 behind whereby he might merrily pass away the time 3. His Publick Spirit his friend the Arch-bishop being not readier to propose publick designs to him than he to close with them by the same Token that a Great Man upon the Rumor spread of his being a Papist for all sober men in their Wits were then Branded with the Nick-names of Papists by those Protestants who King Iames said were frighed out of their wits replied That he knew nothing he had of a Papist but a very great Charity 4. His Plain Dealing a great Jewel in the Court of Princes Quid omnia possidentibus deest they are the words of the great Courtier Seneca Ille qui verum dicat And a resolution rather to displease than betray his Soveraign Offering free but humble Counsels gilding and sweetning his whosesome Pills 5. His Reservedness not so close but that he imparted as much as might invite others to open themselves though so wary as not to discover so much as might give others a hank over him his peculiar faculty was a vast gift of discerning others himself all the while unseen walking as in Gyges his Ring But his great Charge urged against him in the House November 12. 1640. and December 1. was seventy four Letters of Grace to Recusants in four years sixty four Priests discharged by his Warrants and twenty nine by his Verbal Order and twenty three by his Authority under Master Reads hands Father Ioseph the Capuchine of Paris thanks to him for his Favours and Civilities to which though he dyrst not himself yet otâ—ers durst for him offer these satisfactory Answers 1. That what he did he did by his Majesties direction the Kings Majesty declaring that the favours vouchsafed the Roman Catholicks had been performed by special Command and Order given to him in that behalf without any advice or original motion of him who hath only moved herein as he hath been from time to time Commanded They are the King 's own words 2. That that favour which he shewed Catholicks here was to procure the Protestants favour abroad Allegations so reasonable that he desired but the favour to have his Charge set down in Writing and liberty to answer thereunto in a Letter sent from Callis December 6. 1640. Although yet all his Letters carried that respect to his Majesty that he declared He would not alleadge his Majesties authority any further than his Majesty would be pleased to give him leave being willing rather to perish they are his own words than discover any thing to the prejudice of his Majesties affairs And besides none were by him discharged without Bonds Security for their behaving themselves
according to Law And this whole affair was no new thing but the practise of the wise and religious King Iames who understood the interest of the Protestant Religion as well as any Prince in the world and promoted the concerns of it more ways than any man in England in whose Reign Anno 1622. this Letter was sent to the Judges After my hearty Commendations to you HIs Majesty having resolved out of deep reasons of State and in expectation of the like correspondence from Forraign Princes to the Profession of our Religion to grant some Grace and Connivance to the Imprisoned Papists in this kingdom hath Commanded me to Issue out some Writs under the Broad Seal to that purpose c. I am to give you to understand from his Majesty how his Majesties Royal Pleasure is That upon receipt of these Writs you shall make no niceness nor difficulty to extend that his Princely Favour to all such Papists as are Prisoners upon the concerns of Religion only and not matters of State Westminster Colledge August 2. 1622. Your loving friend JO. LINCOLNE The clearness of this honest but unfortunate Gentleman's Proceedings gave so much reputation to him abroad even in his lowest condition wherein great men like Dyals are not looked on because the Sun is off of them as that the Governour of Callice Le Comte de Charraâ— offered him his Coach to Paris with many other unusual Civilities Mounsieur de Chavigny not only commanded Licence for his departure from Callice but expressed great respect to his person and gave order for his accommodation with any thing that that place could afford Cardinal Richlieu invited him to his Ballet with order to Mounsieur Chavigni to bring him to his Eminence and assurance of welcome and an exceeding good Reception as he had March 12. 1640. The Cardinal after extraordinary Civilities bringing him from his own Chamber into the next giving him the upper hand and holding him by the hands Yea the King and Queen of France admitted him to a very great motion of familiarity with them respectively and upon Mounsieur Senetens ordered a Priviledge to be drawn up in as large and as ample manner as he could contrive it to free him and the other English that were Exiles there on the account of their Loyalty from that Confiscation of Estates after their deaths to which other Aliens are obnoxious by the Laws of that Kingdom Upon all which favours he makes this reflection in a letter to his Son So as though in mine own Country it be accounted a Crime to me to be her Majesties Servant yet here I shall have Reputation and receive much Honour by it As not only he did in France but likewise his Son in Rome where Cardinal Barharino treats him at a very high rate of kindness and civility â— remember it was wondered at much by some that a person rendred so odious should escape so well as to injoy his life and estate and more by others that so worthy a man that with his Father these are his own words had served the Crown near fourscore years and had the honour to be employed by the late Queen Elizabeth King Iames and his now Majesty in businesses of great trust should be outed his Secretaries Place and Banished his Country for obeying his Master's Command and that sometimes much against his own mind and opinion insomuch that Master Read protests he did many of them with a very ill will His rule was to be constant but not obstinate in his opinions he was of and when he had proper and secret motions of his own yet to yield as the Orbs do for the order of the Universe to the way of the first Mover Especially since he desired that his Secretary Master Read should come over and give an account of the grounds and reasons of all those transactions wherein he had been ministerial so confident was he of his integrity And after such a fair examination of his Services he requested only the favour of a charitable construction if his Services wherein he said he had no ill intention nor had offended willingly or maliciously and permission to return in safety to England to pass that little time which remained of his life privately in peace and mark these expressions in the Church of England whereof these are the very syllables of his Petition he will in Life and Death continue a true Member and in which he desireth to bestow the rest of his time in devotion for the prosperity thereof So modest were his expectations It was pity he was forced to live and dye among strangers more kind to him than his own Nation who while they perswaded the world he was a Papist had without God's special grace made him so by the unkindness of some Protestants who dressed him and others with Nick-names of Popery as the Heathens did the Martyrs in Beasts Skins that they might first expose and afterwards beat them Only he was happy in this that the Faction did not persecute him so rigidly as all the Court loved him intirely those very Lords that favoured the Conspiracy being very careful of him who lived to see them repent more of their Compliance than he had occasion to do of his Loyalty though his little state the argument of his honesty and generosity was broken his Relations distressed his Son Thomas of the Privy-chamber to the King displaced and what was sadder then all this one of his young Sons commonly called Colonel Windebank Shot to Death at Oxford for Delivering up Blechingdon-house to Cromwell's Horse upon first Summons there being no Foot near whatever Cromwell threatned so much to the disadvantage of Oxford A wonderful passage had it happened in any other age but that wherein men admired nothing not so much from any knowledge they attained in the causes of things as from the multitude of strange effect Some Venison there is not fit for food when first killed till it 's a while buried under-ground Some Mens Memories do not rellish so well till a while after their Interment Of this unfortunate States-men I may say what a wise man said of another Nunc quia Paula domi non sunt bene gesta foresque Paucula successus non habuere suos Creditur esse dolus fuerat quae culpa Putatur â—t scelus infaelix qui modo lapsus erat Rumpatur livor dicam quod sentio certe Infaelix potius quam sceleratus erat THE Life and Death OF Dr THOMAS IACKSON President of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford IT is true this Excellent Person died just when the Rebellion began to offer violence to others yet dying then he could not escape from the violence of it himself Peter Martyrs wife P. Fagius and Martin Buâ—â—rs are reckoned a sort of Queen Maries Martyrs though they dyed before because their bodies were then digged from their Graves and buried in a Dunghill And this great man claimes justly a place in the Catalogue of
Oration used not one R Now the letter R is called the dogged and snarling letter This person could not indure a base and unworthy expression of the worst-deserving of all the adversaries because though it became them well to hear ill yet it did not become the other side to speak so it being below a good cause to be defended by evil speaking which might anger but not convince and discover the ill spirit of the party that managed the cause instead of keeping up the merit of the cause that was managed He was sad all his time but grew melancholy in the latter end of it conscience speaking than loudest when men are able to speak least and all sores paining most near night when he was not of Edward the II. mind who looked upon all those as enemies to his Person who reproved his Vices but of Henry V. who favoured those most when in years and a King that dealt most freely with him when young and a Prince A melancholy that was rather serious than sad rather consideration than a grief and his preparation for death rather than his disease leading to it wherein his losses were his greatest satisfaction and his sufferings his most considerable comfort Being infinitely pleased with two things King Charles the Martyrs rational and heroick management of his Cause and Sufferings and the Peoples being more in love with him and his cause since it miscarried than when it prevailedâ— an argument he thought that it was reason and not power something that convinced the conscience and not something that mens estates or persons that was both the ornament and the strength of the Kings side the reason he chearfully paid three thousand five hundred and forty pounds for his Allegiance as he had chearfully kept to it the only two instances of his life that pleased him If any body demand how he could suffer so much as he did at last and do as much as he did at first and how he could lay out so much to pious uses whom it had cost so dear to be a good subject The Spanish Proverb must satisfie him That which cometh from above let no man question Though indeed he was so innocent in that age that he could not be rich and of the same temper and equal fortune with Judge Cateline that Judge in Queen Elizabeths time that had a fancy full of prejudice against any man that writ his name with an alias and took exception against one on this very account saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias And the party asked him as Cambden tells the story in his Remains What exception his Lordship could take against Iesus Christ alias Iesus of Nazareth A kinsman of whom having a cause in the Kings-bench where he had been Lord Cheif Justice was told by the then Lord Chief Justice That his kinsman was his predecessor in that Court and a great Lawyer And answered by the Gentleman thus My Lord he was a very honest man for he left a small estate There is one more of this name Sir George Berkley too who as it was his policy that in all discourses and debates he desired to speak last because he might have the advantage to sum up all the preceding discouses discover their failures and leave the impression of his own upon the Auditory So it shall be his place to be the last in this short mention in reference to whom remembring the old saying Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine Being not able to say much I will not say little of him this Gentlemans virtue forbidding a short and lame account of him as severely as Iohannes Passeravicius Morositis in Thuanus a good conceited Poet and strangely conceited man allowed not under the great curse that his Herse should be burdened with bad funeral verses Sir George Berkley of Benton in the County of Sommerset 450 l. 00 00 With 60 l. per annum setled Only it will not be amiss to insert an honorable Person in this place who though he appeared not with his Majesty so openly at first yet acted cordially and suffered patiently for him to the last I mean the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord BERKLEY Baron of Berkley Mowgray and Seagrave ONe of those honest persons that though ashamed of the Kings usage in London were sorry for the necessity of his removal out of it which left the City liable to the impostures and practices and his friends there obnoxious to the fallacies and violences of a Faction that had all along abused and now awed the Kings leige people that could not before by reason of their pretences discern what was right nor now by reason of their power own it This noble person did not think it adviseable to go from Westminster because his estate lay near the City yet he served the King there because his inclination especially when he was disabused was for Oxford He was of his Majesties opinion at the first Sitting of the Long Parliament that to comply with the Parliament in some reasonable and moderate demands was the way to prevent them from running into any immoderate and unreasonable The stream that is yielded to run smoothly if it be stopped it fometh and rageth but his honest nature being deceived in the confidence he had in others whom he measured by himself that is the advantage the cunning man hath over the honest pitied their unreasonableness rather than repented of his own charity and hope and ever after went along with them in accommodations for peace but by no means concurred in any preparations for war insomuch that when he despaired of reason from the Houses he was contented to deal with the particular Members of them being willing to hearken to Master Waller and some others Proposal about letting in the King to the City by an Army to be raised there according to the Commissions brought to Town by the Lady Aubigney when he could not open his way by the arguments used by him and others in the Convention Being a plain and honest man the factious papers and discourses took not with him they were so forced dark canting and wrested The Kings Declaration being embraced and as far as he durst published and communicated by him because clear rational and honest He might possibly sit so long at Westminster as to be suspected and blamed for adhering to the Rebellion but he was really with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Middlesex the Lords Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard impeached at Westminster of High-treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom It may be thought a fault that he vouchsafed the Juncto his company when they debated any overtures of peace but it was his commendation that he retired when the Earl of Essex was Voted General the King the Bishops and Delinquents lands seized on the New Seal made the War prosecuted c. And appeared only to ballance
the Faction in such times as he might hope either to bring things to some composure or keep them from confusion offering expedients and protesting against extravagancies especially in the two cases of declaring those that indeavoured the Restitution of the Kings Majesty 1647 1648. Traytors and in the Vote That the Earl of Warwick should fight the Prince These passages cost him a long Imprisonment under the Black-Rod Sequestration from the House and what he bewailed more an utter incapacity of serving his Majesty which he was very much afraid of ever since they had suffered the new model of the Army the greatest errour since the first of raising it For ever after he lived to bewail the mischiefs of a Civil War but not to see any hope of remedy Most Children are notified by their Parents yet some Fathers are made eminent by their Children as Simon of Cyrene is known by this Character the Father of Alexander and Rufus and this honorable person by this happy Remarque that he was Father to the Right Honorable George Lord Berkley who hath been as bountiful to the Church of England and its suffering Members of late witness Doctor Pearson Doctor Fuller c. as his Honorable Ancestors were to the same Church and its devout Members formerly when there were twelve Abbies of their erection which injoyed twenty eight Knights-fees of their donation That Noble Family now as well as then deserving to wear an Abbots Mitre for the Crest of their Armes so loving they have been always to the Clergy and so ready to build them Synagogues and endow them not only with worthy maintenance but with eminent Incumbents such whose gifts the Church wanted more than they its Incomes Honest men in the worst of times finding him their Patron and ingenious men in the best of times enjoying him at once their incouragement and their example being happy to a great degree in that ingenuity himself that he doth so much promote in others May there never want Worthy Men that may deserve such a Noble Patron and may Noble Persons never be wanting that may incourage such Worthy Men. To conclude this honorable Name whose Elogies grow upon our affectionate Pens well may this faithful Family fill their Coat that was Originally as is conceived a plain and therefore noble Cheveren with ten Crosses Patle Or As well in memory of their faithful service in the last Just War here at home as for the memorial of their Ancestors Atchievements in the old Holy War in Palestine where Harding the Progenitor relieved the Christians at Ioppa against the Turks with as much resolution and integrity as they did the Protestants here against those which were so much worse than Infidels as they pretended to be better than Christians or their patronage of afflicted virtue and goodness in that which some called peace but was indeed a solitude and devastation in England For but observe this remarkable passage I know not it is a Paragraph of the Church Historian which more to admire speaking of Iohn Trevisa's Translation his ability that he could his courage that he durst or his industry that he did perform so difficult and dangerous a task having no other Commission than the command of his Patron Thomas Lord Berkley which Lord as the said Trevisa observeth had the Apocalyps in Latine and French then generally understood by the better sort as well as English written on the Roof and Walls of his Chappel at Berkley and which not long since viz. Anno 1622. so remained as not much defaced Whereby we may observe that mid-night being past some early Risers even then began to strike fire and enlighten themselves from the Scriptures It may seem a miracle that the Bishops being thus busie in persecuting Gods Servants and Trevisa so obnoxious to them for this Translation that he lived and died without any molestation Yet other of his Speeches That he had read how Christ had sent Apostles and Priests into the world but never any Monks or begging Friars But whether it was out of respect to his own aged gravity or respect to his Patrons greatness he died full of honor quiet and age blessing the noble Family as Ockam said to Frederick Duke of Saxony with his works and the good they did in the world as it protected him with its power in the good it did to him In Illustrissimam Berkleiorum Familiam Ortu magna domus meritis major Regibus oriunda in regum subsidium magnos majoribus debet honores majores reddit ipsum nobilitans honorem Longas stemmatis tractus adauget longioribus virtutem magnifice bona benigne grandis Cui contigit id quo nec fortuna magna majus habet nec bona melius nempe benefacere posse quantum vellit velle quantum possit Quae cum undiquaque summa sit non est quod optemus nisi sit Perpetua THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOHN DOD AFTER so many honorable persons that could do so much for his Majesty here 's a Reverend Person that could suffer for him one that was not over-fond of the Government when it prospered but faithful to it when it suffered declaring as zealously against the scandalous Rebellion of the Puritans as he had done for their pretended Religion the Non-conformist Cavalier One that bewailed his own scruples and perswaded all men to have a care of them Insomuch as that when Bishop Brownrigge in his younger days went to him for his advice he wished him and other hopeful men not to ensnare themselves into uselesseness In the midst of troublesome times he quietly withdrew himself to heaven He was born at Shotledge in Cheshire the youngest of seventeen Children bred in Westchester and Iesus Colledge in Cambridge At a Disputation at one Commencement he was so facetiously solid wild yet sweet fruits which the stock brought forth before grafted with grace that Oxford-men there present courted him home with them and would have planted him in their University save that he declined it He was a Passive Non-conformist not loving any one the worse for difference in judgment about Ceremonies the better for their unity of affections in Grace and Goodness He used to retrench some hot spirits when envying against Bishops telling them how God under that government had given a marvellous increase to the Gospel and that godly men might comfortably comport therewith under which Learning and Religion had so manifest an improvement He was a good Decalogist and to his dying day how roughly soever used stuck to his own judgment of what he had written on the fifth Commandment of obedience to lawful Authority Some riotous Gentlemen casually coming to the Table of Sir Anthony Cope in Hanwell were half-starved in the midst of a Feast because refraining from Swearing meat and drink to them in the presence of Master Dod of these one after dinner ingeniously professed that he thought it had been impossible for himself to forbear Oaths so long a
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
of the Right of calling Assemblies on Numbers 10. 12. nor chosen by the Clergy and because there was a legal Convocation in being that superseded this Illegal Assembly wherein it was in vain for few Oxthodox men to appear being overvoted by their numerous Antagonists But since he could not serve the King and Church with his parts he did with his Interest chearfully sending the Colledge Plate to the King and zealously when the Committee of the Eastern Association was setled there protesting against any Contribution to the Parliament as against true Religion and a good Conscience for which he was Imprisoned Plundered and tormented and as high winds bring some men to sleep so these storms brought this good Doctor to rest whose dying words as if the cause of his Martyrdom had been Ingraven on his heart breathed up with his Divine Soul Now God bless the King though the worst word that came out of his mouth was to Cromwell That when they destroyed the Church Windows you might be better Imployed A Pupil of his compares him and Dr. Collings Professor to Peter and Iohn running to our Saviors Grave in which race Iohn came first as the youngest and swiftest and Peter entred into the Grave Dr. Collings had much the speed of him in quickness of parts the other pierceth the deeper into under-ground and deep points of Divinity neither was the Influence either of Loyalty or Sufferings confined to his own Person but was effectual upon all his Relations for we finde Richard Ward of London Gentleman Compounding for 0234 l. 00 00 And Henry Ward for 0105 l. 00 00 Besides Mr. Seth Ward the Ornament not only of his Family but of his Countrey expelled Sidney Colledge for his Loyalty tossed up and down for his Allegiance till his incomparable temper and carriage recommended him to the Family of my Lord Weinman at Thame-Parke in Oxfordshire his great skill in Mathematicks opened his way in those sad times to the Astronomy Professorship in Oxford they thought there would be no danger in his abstracted and unconcerned discourses of the Mathematicks his extraordinary worth commanded Respect and Incouragement from Worthy men of all perswasions excepting O. C. who told him when he stood for the Principality of Iesus Colledge in Oxford That he heard he was a deserving Person but withall a Malignant his great Ability especially for Discourse and Business commended him to the Deanery first and afterwards to the Bishoprick of Exeter no Imployment a Clergy-man ever was capable of being above his capacity who writes to the eternal honor of this Doctor his Unkle in the Preface to his Lectures set out with Bishop Brownrigg's his Overseers consent and Dr. Ward Mr. Hodges Mr. Mathewes and Mr. Gibsons pains thus Ille me puerum quandeconnem a Schola privata ubi me tune aegre habui ad Academiam vocavit ille me valetudinarium recreare solitus est omni modo refocillore ille mihi animum ad studia ad motis lenitur Calcáribus praemiisque ante oculos positis accendere solebat ille mihi Librorum usum suppeditavit ille me in Collegii Societatem quam primum Licebat cooplavit ille mihi Magister unicus erat Patronus Spes Ratio studiorum With whole words we will finish this poor account of him whose worth might be guessed by the method of his Study the exactness of his Diary the excellency of his Lectures Novit haec omnia Collegium Sidneianum cui plus quam 30 annorum spatio summa cum prudentiae Integritatis sanctitatis Laude praefuit novit atque admirata est Academia Cantabrigientis ubi Cathedram Professoram D. Margarete tot annos summo cum honore tenuit errorum malleus atque hâ—resum norunt Exteri testantur haec opera quae nunc Edimus ista certe ut non nescires tui meique interesse existam abam caetera norunt Et Tagu Ganges forsan Antipodes Here after these Noble and Loval Ushers comes in the King himself not the exact time he was beheaded on but yet the very minute he suffered for though Charles was Martyred 1648. the King was killed 1644. For it is not the last blow that fells the Oak besides that the lifting up of some hands in the Covenant now inforced was to strike at his life according to the most refined sense of that solemn snare declared by Sir Henry Vane who best understood it having been in Scotland at the contrivance of it at his death Iune 14. when he was most likely to speak sincerely what he understood His Person was in danger when they aimed at his Prerogative The Conclusion is to a discerning person wrapped up in the premises for I reckon his life was in danger when their was nothing left him but his life to lose The Life Reign and Death of the Glorious Martyr CHARLES I. of Blessed Memory I May Praeface this sad Solemnity as the Romans did their more joyful ones that were to be seen but once in an hundred years Come and see what none that is alive ever saw none that is alive is ever like to see again See a King and all Government falling at one stroke A Prince once wished that his People had but one Neck that he might cut them off at one blow here the People saw all Princes with one Neck which they cut at one attempt a stroke levelled not at one King but Monarchy not at one Royal Person but Government See England that boasted of the first Christian King Lucius the first Christian Emperour Constantine the first Protestant Prince Edw. 6. glorieth now in the first Martyr'd King Charles I. A Martyr to Religion and Government The Primitive Institutes of the first of which and the generally owned Principles of the second of which other Princes have maintained with their Subjects blood he with his own Others by Laws and Power kept up both these while they were able he with his Life when he was not able supporting that very Authority it self that supports other Princes throwing himself the great Sacrifice into the breach made upon Power to stop popular fury and choosing rather not to be himself in the World than to yield that that World by his consent should be Lawless or Prophane A Martyr who stood to the Peoples Liberty though with his own Captivity that held up their Rights with the loss of his own had a care of their Posterity with the ruine of his own Family that maintained the Law that secures their lives with his own that could suffer others to distress him but not to oppress his People that could yield to dye but not to betray his Subjects either as Christians or as Englishmen See the last Effort of Virtue Reason Discipline Order bearing up against that of Villany Disorder Licenciousness and things not to be named among men See a King that had deserved a Crown in all mens judgement had he not worn one that other Nations wished theirs
a good Cobler wherein he would strangely meet with all difficulties imaginable so that it was truly said of him That had he been Privy Counsellour to any other Prince he had been an Oracle carrying with H. 4. all his best Counsel on one Horse A King that was received out of Spain with infinite triumphs when our hopes and Prince and out of his wardship with more when our enjoyment and King March 25. 1625. none of the weaknesses of Youth attended with power and plenty having enervated his solid virtue and so the Kingdom promised its self what it enjoyed as long as he enjoyed himself all the benefits of a happy government His Marriage the first act of state in his Reign except his Fathers Funeral whereat he was a Close-mourner hallowing the ascent to his Throne with a pious act of grief unusual for Kings but such as he who preferred Piety before Grandeur was prudent and happy with the most excellent Lady who shared in the comforts only of his good fortune and in all of his bad Reverencing him not his greatness Henrietta Maria youngest Daughter to H. 4. of France whom he had seen by chance in his way to Spain and who hearing of his adventure thither was pleased to say That he might have had a Wife nearer home to whom he was married at Nostredame in Paris by Proxy and at Canterbury by himself never straying from her as he told his Daughter Elizabeth in his thoughts being chast in his discourse hating all obscenity that might offend the Ears much more in converse allowing no vanity that might blot the honour of any of his Subjects and by whom God blessed him and us with 9 Children viz. 1. Charles Iames born May 13. 1628. 2. Charles II. May 29. 1630. 3. Iames Duke of York 4 September 13. 1633. 4. Henry Duke of Glocester Iuly 8. 1639. 5. Mary Princess of Aurange November 4. 1631. 6. Elizabeth Ian 28. 1635. 7. Anne March 17. 1637. 8. Katherine 9. Henrietta Dutchesâ— of Anjou Iune 16. 1644. His first Parliament notwithstanding it was made up of soft Noble and troublesome Commons both made perverse and wanton by long peace and plenty and desire of change of factious demagogues whose humour men of boundless and ambitious hopes made use of he moderated with a clear account given of the whole administration of Government and a benign answer made to all their Petitions to a concession of a few subsidies towards the VVar with Spain which they set him upon and which notwithstanding the disasters of his Navy by storms going out too late and for want of pay coming home too soon undisciplin'd and wasted and the Plagues raging in London ended in an honourable Peace His Coronation frugal he reserving his Treasure for more necessary occasions than Pomp not out of his own inclination for his repair of Pauls his Navy and other instances demonstrate him magnificent but out of his fatherly regard to the condition he found his Kingdomes Treasures in drained by the Scots and not chearfully supplyed by the English without harsh conditions so unwilling were we when we knew not what to do with our Money to secure the whole of our Estates by allowing him a part and yet improved by him so farr as to serve the majesty of the Crown for 15. Years to support a VVar with two of the greatest Potentates in Europe to supply the King of Sweden and bear the charge of the first Scotch Expedition without any considerable contribution from the people They that made him first Necessitous in order to the making of him Odious decried him for covetous because he rewarded not men according to their boundless expectation but according to their exact merit being liberal not vain and loving to do good to the whole Kingdom rather than to particular persons as Steward of a publick treasure rather than a Lord of his own making his Virtue serve the necessities of the Realm which others Vices would not His second Parliament notwistanding the contracts between Buckingham and Bristol the bitterness of the Remonstrators of the Lower House against him and his Instruments of State yet he sweetened so farr he granting their Petition of Right they bestowing on him five Subsidies that their modesty and his goodness strived which should exceed each other A King Of so much honour that when his French Subjects abused his Queen he durst bravely yet liberally dismiss them though he might look for a War to follow which he valued not when by his Caresses he had melted and obliged the Queen to a contentment choosing a foreign war rather than houshold broyles 2. Of so much sence for Religion as to lay out when his estate was low and his debts high 400000l. upon the relief of the French Protestants in embassies of Peace and designs of VVar though both unsuccessfull the unhappiness of his Ministers not any fault of his 3. Of so much prudent goodness as to restore Delinquents such as A. B. Abbot Lord Say to favour to prefer Wentworth and Savile to advance Dr. Potter and other moderate men a course that if it did not oblige but encourage the faction finding such rewards for being troublesome it was because they had but one grievance really however they pretended many and that was Government it self 4. Of so peaceable and good a nature as to choose rather to settle peace at home and abroad by prudence rather than to finish war by violence this the way of bruits more fashionable in the eye of the world the other the way of men more satisfactory to his own breast 5. Of so much Justice that the greatest witnesse the Earl of Castlehaven was not secure if he offended the Laws of God or Man and of so much clemency that the worst witness Hammilton and the Lord Balmarino was safe if he did but offend him he thinking a Kingdom was so troublesome that no man would sin either to enjoy or keep it He subjected his L. Keeper C. and a L. Treasurer to Tryal for Bribery yet would he hardly admit that his enemies should be brought to tryal for Treasons he designed men no harm and he believed all good of them Men in his time feared Laws not Men. He would say Let me stand or fall by my own Counsel I will choose any misery rather than Sin His Acts were alwayes vouched by his Judges and Divines lawful before he would allow them expedient Nay the VVorld saw by his condescentions that he desired not a power to do harm but that as he proved once to a Lord of the Faction he thought that if he had no power to do ill sometimes he might not have power when he needed to do good and Subjects fears of mischief may destroy their hopes of benefit His Prerogative and his Peoples Liberty which made such a noise in the VVorld agreed well in his breast the last being as
in our hearts and so dispose us to a happy conclusion of these civil Wars that I may know better to obey God and Govern my People and they may learn better to obey both God and me nor do I desire any man should be further subject to me than all of us may be subject to God A Prince so merciful so loving to his people and so humble and patient that though severe sometimes to Offenders against the publick and to punish the bad is a mercy to the good yet to amazement tender towards Offenders against himself No Man dyed in his Reign that he could save being sparing of that very blood that others were prodigal of against him Always more ready to end the War by a harmless and rational treaty than by a bloody battle grieving when his pity or peaceableness could not save Offenders of whom he was as appeared by Warrants after several battles as careful as of his own friends alway remembring with tenderness that they were his Subjects even when he was forced to fight against them as Rebels of whom if he took them he took no other revenge than to engage them to be no more deluded and not to endeavour his murther as yet they did afterwards who saved their lives and if they must dye taking care by instructing them that they should goe thither where they should sin no more He reckoned himself never more in his Throne than when in the hearts of his people and when he heard the Parliament gave him Subsidies none dissenting he Wept for Ioy not for the Treasure he had but for the Mine he found his Peoples love He valued not three Kingdoms nor his own life when to be bought with Propositions that ruined his Kingdoms such as the Army brought him the day before he dyed At the reading of the first of which he threw them away and smelling their design to ruine his honour as well as his person said I will suffer a thousand deaths e're I will so prostitute my Honour or betray the Liberties of my People and no wonder if he would not redeem himself at the rate of a publick ruine when he would not do it with the injury of any single person for when the Noble Lady Newburgh proposed to him a way to escape when at her House he refused it saying If I should get away they would cut you in pieces a goodness extending to his very enemies of whom he said that the faction he thought could not forgive him and they are his own words not to make my self a better Christian than I am I think I should not so easily forgive them were they Kings but I tell thee Governour I can forgive them with as good an appetite as ever I eat my dinner after a hunting and that I 'll assure you was not a small one So humble he was Majesty being at the highest hath no other way to increase but to condescend that inviting persons to discourse with himself not with Majesty he would always begin a discourse with a By your favour Sir and when in the Isle of wight recommended a poor old man to Sir Philip Warwick who had much of his trust and affection and told him he was a very honest fellow and had been his best companion for two months together Not to mention his condescention to Dr. Hammond when he had lost his voice to teach him himself and his care of young Gentlemen that were to travel whom he would instruct among many other lessons with this Keep good company and be always doing being as much pleased with the accomplishments of his subjects as some poor spirited Tyrants are with the defects of theirs Besides these virtues that patience not usual to Kings whose power bears hardly the restraints of Equity much less those of Injuries that his Book and Meditations breath throughout which made him say when his Guard would have out a way to poor peoples detriment for him to avoid a showr that as God had given him affliction to exercise his patience so he had given him patience to bear his afflictions Patience that managed the cross humours of his friends and overcame the malice of his enemies breathing out with his Soul in Prayers for them and to make his mercy immortal in a charge to his Son to forgive them Virtues for which he was always admired even by Foreigners and at last applauded even by his enemies Mr. Vines saying that he was sorry he understood not the King sooner it being our unexpressible happiness that we have such a Prince and loss if we should part with him Foreigners apprehensions of him take in these words The King of Morocco's Letter to King Charles the First WHen these our Letters shall be so happy as to come to your Majesties sight I wish the spirit of the righteous God may so direct your mind that you may joyfully embrace the message I send presenting to you the means of exalting the Majesty of God and your own reward amongst men the legal power allotted to us make us common Servants to our Creator then of those people whom we govern So that observing the duties we owe to God we deliver blessings to the World in providing for the publick good of our States we magnifie the honour of God like the Celestial bodies which though they have much veneration yet serve only to the benefit of the World It is the excellency of our bodies to be instruments whereby happiness is delivered unto the Nations Pardon me Sir this is not to instruct for I know I speak to one of a more clear and quick sight than my self but I speak this because God hath been pleased to grant me a happy Victory over some of those rebellious Pyrates that have so long molested that peaceful Trade of Europe and have presented further occasion to root out the Generation of those who have been so pernicious to the good of our Nations I mean since it hath pleased God to be so auspicious to our beginnings in the conquest of Salla that we might joyn and proceed in hope of like success in the War against Tunis Algier and other places Dens and Receptacles for the humane Villanies of those who abhorr rule and government herein whilst we interrupt the corruption of maglinant spirits of the World we shall glorifie the great God and perform a duty that will shine as glorious as the Sun and Moon which all the Earth may see and reverence A work that shall ascend as sweet as the perfume of the most precious odours in the Nostrils of the Lord A work happy and gratefull to men A work whose memory shall be reverenced so long as there shall be any that delight to hear the actions of Heroick and magnanimous spirits that shall last as long as there be any remaining amongst men that love and honour the piety and vertue of noble minds This action I willingly present to you whose piety and vertues
John Hutchinson Col. Robert Tichborne Col. Owen Roe Col. Robert Mainwaring Col. Robert Lilburn Col. Adrian Scroop Col. Algernoon Sidney Col. John Moor Col. Francis Lassells Col. Alexander Rigby Col. Edmund Harvey Col. John Venn Col. Anthony Staply Col. Thomas Horton Col. Thomas Hammond Col. George Fenwyck Col. George Fleetwood Col. John Temple Col. Thomas Wait Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Thomas Honywood Thomas Lord Grey Phillip Lord Lisle William Lord Mounson Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer Sir John Bourchier Sir James Harrington Sir William Brereton Robert Wallop William Heveningham Esquires Isaac Pennington Thomas Atkins Aldermen Sir Peter Wentworth Thomas Trenchard Jo. Blackstone Gilbert Millington Esquires Sir William Constable Sir Arthur Hasilrigg Michael Livesey Richard Salway Humphrey Salway Cor. Holland Jo. Carey Esquires Sir William Armin John Jones Miles Corbet Francis Allen Thomas Lister Ben. Weston Peter Pelham Jo. Gurdon Esquires Francis Thorp Esq. Serjeant at Law Jo. Nutt Tho. Challoner Jo. Anlaby Richard Darley William Say John Aldred Jo. Nelthrop Esquires Sir William Roberts Henry Smith Edmund Wild John Challoner Josias Berneâ—s Dennis Bond Humphrey Edwards Greg. Clement Jo. Fry Tho. Wogan Esquires Sir Greg. Norton Jo. Bradshaw Esquire Serjeant at Law Jo. Dove Esquire John Fowke Thomas Scot Aldermen Will. Cawley Abraham Burrel Roger Gratwicke John Downes Esquires Robert Nichols Esquire Serjeant at Law Vincent Potter Esquire Sir Gilbert Pickering Jo. Weavers Jo. Lenthal Robert Reynolds Jo. Lisle Nich. Love Esquires Sir Edward Baynton Jo. Corbett Tho. Blunt Tho. Boone Aug. Garland Aug. Skenner Jo. Dixwel Simon Meyne Jo. Browne Jo. Lowry Esq. c. Neither were they only bold enough to Vote among themselves this horrid murther but likewise to try the pulse of the people they Proclaim it first at White-hall Gate and when they saw the people indured that afterwards upon Peters motion who said they did nothing if they did it not in the City at Temple-barr and the Exchange Indeed all was hushed and silent but with a dreadful silence made up of amazement and horror the very Traytors themselves not daring to own their new Treason perswaded the Nation that they would not do even what they were most busie about most people being of opinion that they might fright none thinking they durst against all the reason and religion in the world and the great and dreadful obligations of their own Oaths and Protestations murder Him Yet these aforesaid Assassinates meet in the Painted-chamber become now the Jesuits Chamber of Meditation to consult about the slaughter and being heated by one or two of their Demagogues that perswaded them that the Saints saying that there were 5000. as good Saints in the Army as any were in Heaven should Bind the Kings in Chains and the Nobles with Fetters of Iron beseeching them with bended knees and lift up eyes and hands in the peoples name who yet were ready to have stoned them not to let Benhadad go They dare but guarded strongly by a set of Executioners like themselves to Convene before them Ian. 19. 1648. Charles King of England c. hurried against the Publick Faith given him for his Honor and Safety first to Hurstcastlt to see whether he might be poisoned by the unwholesomness of that place and thence with several affronts not to be indured by any man much less a Prince to a place more unwholesom than Westminster and now to be deprived of his life as he had been before of his kingdoms Here the conspiracy might be seen in a body having lost most of its parts save a few villains that would needs take away the Kings life because they would not beg their own life being one of those courtesies we are unwillingly beholding for so hard it is for a man to trust another for his life who he knoweth is conscious that he deserveth not to injoy it contemptible and little A poor Pettifogger Bradshaw that had taken the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy but three Weeks before leading the Herd as President and the whole Plot in his draught Which after a traiterous Speech of Bradshaws opening their pretended authority and resolution to make inquisition for bloud and the Kings laying his Staffe thrice on brazen-faced Cooks back to hold the Libel was read by a Clerk The Traytors Charge of Treason against their Soveraign consisting of sixteen Traiterous Positions THat the said Charles Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited power to govern by and according to the Laws of the Land and not otherwise And by his Trust Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties Yet nevertheless out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself and Unlimited and Tyrannical Power to Rule according to his Will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People yea to take away and make void the Foundations thereof and of all redress and remedy of Mis-government which by the Fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdom were reserved on the Peoples behalf in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parliaments or National meetings in Counsel He the said Charles Stuart for accomplishment of such his designs and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked practises to the same end hath traiterously and maliciously levied war against the Parliament and People therein represented Particularly upon or about the thirtieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and two at Beverley in the County of York and upon or about the thirtieth day of Iuly in the year aforesaid in the County of the City of York and upon or about the twenty fourth day of August in the same year at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where he set up his Standard of war and upon or about the twenty third day of October in the same year at Edge-hill and Keinton field in the County of Warwick and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the same year at Brainford in the County of Middlesex and upon or about the thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and three at Cavesham-bridge near Reading in the County of Berks and upon or about the thirtieth day of October in the year last mentioned at or near the City of Gloucester and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year last mentioned at Newbury in the County of Berks and upon or about the one and thirtieth day of Iuly in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and four at Cropredy-bridge in the County of Oxon and upon or about the thirtieth day of September in the year last mentioned at Bodmin and other places adjacent in the County of Cornwall and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander that he was the greater Robber himself but a petty one And so Sir I think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir to put you in one way believe it you will never do right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the People their due I am as much for them as any of you you must give God his due by rightly regulating his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order To set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not then turning to a Gentleman that touched the Axe said Hurt not the Axe that may hurt me For the King the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whatsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government those Laws by which their Life and Goods may be most their own It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean contrary things and therefore until they do that I mean that you do put the People in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sir it was for this that I am now come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People Introth Sirs I shall not hold you much longer for I will only say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you may take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own salvations Dr. Iuxon Will your Majesty though it may be very well known your Majesties affections to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say somewhat for the worlds satisfaction King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the word and I declare before you all that I dye a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witness it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs Excuse me for this same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col. Hacker he said Take care they do not put me to pain and Sir this if it please you Then a Gentleman coming near the Axe The King said Take heed of the Axe pray take heed of the Axe Then speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to Dr. Juxon for his Night-cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Do's my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then the King turning to Dr. Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr. Juxon There is but one Stage more this Stage is troublesome and turbulent it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven And there you shall find a great deal of cordial Joy and Comfort King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the world Dr. Iuxon You are Exchanged from a Temporal to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange The King then said to the Executioner Is my Hair well Then the King took off his Cloak and George and giving his George to Dr. Juxon said Remember Then the King put off his Doublet and being in his Wastcoat put his Cloak on again and looking on the Block said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put my hands out this way stretching them out then ... After that having said two or three words as he stood to himself with Hands and Eyes lifted up immediately stooping down laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King said thinking he had been going to strike Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and please your Majesty Then the King making some pious and private Ejaculations before the Block as before a Desk of Prayer he submitted without that violence they intended for him if he refused his Sacred Head to one stroke of an Executioner that was disguised then as the Actors were all along which Severed it from his Body In the consequence of which stroke great villanies as well as great absurdities have long sequels the Government of the world the Laws and Liberties of three Kingdoms and the Being of the Church was nearly concerned So fell Charles the First and so expired with him the Liberty and Glory of three Nations being made in that very place an instance of Humane Frailty where he used to shew the Greatness and Glory of Majesty All the Nation was composed to mourning and horror no King ever leaving the world with greater sorrows women miscarrying at the very intimation of his death as if The Glory was departed Men and women falling into Convulsions Swounds and Melancholy that followed them to their graves Some unwilling to live to see the issues of his death fell down dead suddenly after him Others glad of the least Drop of Bloud or Lock of Hair that the covetousness of the Faction as barbarous as their Treason made sale of kept them as Relicks finding the same virtue in them as with Gods blessing they found formerly in his person All Pulpits rung Lamentations and the great variety of opinions in other matters were reconciled in this That it was as horrid a fact as ever the Sun saw since it withdrew at the sufferings of our Saviour and the King as compleat a man as mortality refined by industry was capable to be Children amazed and wept refusing comfort at this even some of his Judges could not
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
fortunam habuit Vell. Patr. l. 2. The Second Epitaph bestowed upon him by the Reverend and Learned Doctor Peirce Caroli Primi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epitaphium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SIstas sacrilegum Pedem viator Ne forsan temeres sacros sepulchri Augusti cineres Repostus hic est In terrae gremio decor stuporque Humani generis senex infans Prudens scilicet Innocensque princeps Regni praesidium ruina regni Vita presidium ruina morte Quem regem potius Patremve dicam O Patrem prius deinde regem Regem quippe sui patremque regni His donumque Dei Deique cura Quem vitaque refert refertque morte Ringente satana cauente Coelo Diro in pegmate gloriae theatro Et Christi cruce victor securi Baptistae emicuit Ruina Faelix Quae Divum Carolus secutus agnum Et post liminio domum vocatus Primae vae patriae fit Inquilinus â— Sic Lucis prius Hesperus Cadentis Resplendet modo Phosphorus reversae Hic vindex fidei sacer vetustae Cui par est nihil nihil secundus Naturae typus absolutioris Fortunae domitor ferendo suae Qui quantum Calicis bibit tremendi Tantundem sibi gloriae reportat Regum maximus unicueque regum In quo res minima est fuisse regem Solas qui supera locatus arce Vel vita poterit funi priore Cum sint relliquiae cadaver umbra Tam sacri capitis vel ipsa sacra Ipsis eulogiis coinquinato Quaeque ipsum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prophanat Sistas sacrilegum pedem viator Tho. Peirce D. D. Mag. Col. apud Oxon Praeses The Third of the excellent Marquiss of Montrosse written with the point of his Sword GReat Good O Just could I but Rate My griefs and thy too rigid Fate I 'de Weep the World to such a strain As it should Deluge once again But since thy loud Tongu'd Blood demands supply's More from Bojareus Hands than Argus Eyes I 'le sing thy Obsequies with Trumpets Sounds And write thy Epitaph with Blood and Wounds WIthin this sacred Vault doth ly The Quintescence of Majesty Which being set more Glorious shines The best of Kings best of Divines Britains shame and Britains glory Mirour of Princes compleat story Of Royalty One so exact That the Elixars of praise detract These are faint shadows But t' indure He 's drawn to the Life in 's Pourtraicture If such another Piece you 'l see Angels must Limn it out or He. And so we shut up this short view of the Life and Reign of this glorious King as Tacitus doth the life of Iulius Agricola a right Noble Roman the names of the persons only changed Quicquid ex Carolo amavimus quicquid mirati sumus manet mansurum quaeest in animis hominum in Aeternitate temporum fam a rerum Horat. Carm. 24. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam â—ihi Sed monumentis quotquot uspiam est Illa Illa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM LAUD Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury I Know not how to begin the History of this incomparable Prelate Dr. Laud but as Baudius doth his Oration on that Peerless Scholar Ioseph Scaliger Verba desunt Rebus Immensis Or as Count Iohannes Picus of Mirandula doth his Complement upon his matchless Barbarus Ego quidem nec possum aut taecere quae dete sentio aut non sentire ea quae de illo debeatur in quo omnia veluti singula summa reperiuntur Sed utinam is essâ—t meae mentis captus ut pro meritis tuis de te sentirem utinam ea dicendi vis ut exprimere aliquando possem quod semper sentio scio quae de te jam Concipio infra fastigia tua Infinitum subsidere scias tu quaecunque loquimur longe esse minora iis quae concipimus tam deesse scias animo verba quam rebus animus deest So hard it is for one of my thoughts and condition to take the dimensions of so great a Worth and so difficut for one of my phrase to express it but the good man expresseth himself being is impatient of Varnish on his own Actions as he was of Paint over others Faces his saying to a Lady That she was well plaistered made all the coloured Dames blush through their Vermilion a much deeper red He was born Octob. 7. 1573. at Reading in Berk-shire and after a wonderful preservation in his infancy from a very sore fit of sickness and a happy education in his child-hood under a very severe School-master who from his Strange Dreams Witty Speeches Generous Spirit Great Apprehension and Nimble Performances promised him that Greatness which he afterwards injoyed saying to him When you are a little great man remember Reading School Admitted in Oxford 1589. chosen Scholar of St. Iohns June 1590. and Fellow Iune 1593. Comencing Bachelor of Arts Iune 1594. and Master Iuly 1599. Ordained Deacon Iune 4. 1600. and Priest April 5. 1601. Doctor Young the Lord Bishop of Rochester that Ordained him finding his study raised above the Systems and Opinions of the age upon the nobler foundation of the Fathers Councils and the Ecclesiastical Historians easily presaged That if he lived he would be an instrument of restoring the Church from the narrow and private principles of modern times to the more free large and publick sentiments of the purest and first Ages 1 Iuly 4. 1604. He proceeded Batchelour of Divinity his Position giving no less offence to Dr. Holland and other Calvinists in the Schools than his Sermon Octob. 26. 1606. did to Dr. Airy and other Puritans at St. Maries and Anno 1608. Doctor being invest ed in his Vicarage of Stanford in Northampton-shire Novemb. 16. 1607. admitted Chaplain to Dr. Neal Bishop of Rochester Aug. 5. 1608. Preaching his first Sermon to King Iames at Theobalds Sept. 17. 1609. inducted into West-Tidbury in Essex which he had in exchange for his Advowson of Northkilworth in Leicester-shire Octob. 28. 1609. and into the Rectory of Cuckston in Kent May 25. 1610. which by reason of the unhealthiness of the place where he was sick for two months of a Kentish Ague he exchanged for Norton to which he was Novemb. 1610. inducted by Proxy May 10. 1611. He was chosen President of St. Iohns having resigned his Fellowship there Octob. 2. 1610. April 18. 1614. Dr. Neal Bishop of Lincoln bestowed on him the Prebend of Bugden and Decemb. 1. 1615. the Arch-deaconry of Huntington as the King whose Chaplain he was sworn Novemb. 3. 1611. Novemb. 1616. gave him the Deanery of â—lâ—cester of which his Majesty was pleased to say to him That he well knew it was a Shell without a Kernel and Aug. 2. 1617. the Rectory of â—bstock in Leicester-shire and Ian. 1. 1620. the Prebend of Westminster whereof he had the Advowson ten years before and Iune 29. 1622. the Bishoprick of St. Davids with the Presidentship of St. Iohns the
Bed was born at London Iuly 7. 1572. bred when his Father was under a Cloud at Westminster near London and Trinity Colledge in Cambridge when he had so much moderation as to appear constantly at our Prayers and Sermons and so much insight into the Protestant Principles as to judge that the distance between the Catholick and Reformed Churches grew not from their Controversies but their Interests not from the Opinions themselves which might be compounded but from the passions of those that managed them which could not be reconciled Neither was he satisfied only to read what men thought but he travelled to see what they did either in Courts as at France and Rome or in Camps as in the Low Countries or in Universities as in St. Omers c. from whence he returned a very accomplished Gentleman fit 1. For a Kings Privy Council to which honor King Iames admitted him 1607. 2. For a Companion of the most honorable Order in the world such he was created by King Iames with Prince Charles and the Earl of Sommerset 1611. that King saying He was a very fit man for the first of those Honors because he could not flatter and for the second because he could not but obey 3. For the Judge of the Court of Honor being a great Master of it 4. For an Ambassador to the Emperor about the Restauration of the Palatinate as he was by King Charles the first 1636. where having proposed reason to the Emperor and disposed most of the Princes to hearken to that reason so far that the Lower Palatinate was granted when Bavaria who got the upper Palatinate into his possession answered at last like a Souldier what he had concealed all the time of the fruitless Treaty That what he had with so much hazzard of his Person and expence of Treasure won by the Sword in defence of the Empire against the Empire he would now maintain with the same Power in the possession The stout Earl to express his disdain of the insignificant answer returned home notwithstanding the interpositions of the Polish and Spanish Ambassadors sent after him to moderate his anger and promise better effects after some weeks patience without so much as taking his leave procuring the like flur for the Imperial Agent that came over hither to excuse their past carriage and to offer new conditions upon strong presumption of Marriage which he had driven very far between the Electors Sister Elizabeth and the King of Poland 5. For a Judge in several extraordinary Courts of Justice an employment befitting the dignity of his Person and the firmness impartiality and resolution of his Spirit 6. For General of the gallant Army that went against Scotland a place suitable to his skill experience and conduct 7. For a Commissioner to examine the Spanish Navy under D'Oquendo 1639. and the design of it upon our Coast which he did discreetly and narrowly discovering more than we could suspect And 8. For a Companion to the Queen Mother of France when she departed from England in which capacity he was to his dying day very serviceable to her and to his Majesty contributing towards his service abroad for Armes Ammunition Intelligence and a good Correspondence near upon 20000 l. and towards his relief at home above 14000 l. Insomuch that the honorable Henry Howard hath paid for debts since his death near upon an 100000 l. He subscribed with the rest of the Nobility 12000 l. and sent more over privately 8000. several ways which had cost him his whole estate or at least a very severe Composition had he not discreetly setled it in Sir Richard Onslow and other Trustees who had done as signal Services for that which they called a Parliament as he had done for his Majesty A Noble man this made up rather of that honesty that desires rather to be than to seem good than of that hypocrisie that desires rather to be than to seem good one that made his business more to deserve opinion than have it as more concerned what thoughts he himself than what others had of him He understood the Religion he professed and professed the Religion he understood he never thought himself so good as he should be unless he strived to be better than he was equal in all conditions under the worst patient because he deserved it and despaired not as long as he could pray under the best sober and thankful because he feared it and presumed not as long as he might offend Supporting himself and friends with this consideration that if things are not so good as he would they should have been yet they were not so bad as he knew they might have been what if I am not so happy as I desire its well I am not so wretched as I deserve They say Favourites are Court-dyals whereon all look when Majesty shines on them and none when it is night with them Our Nobleman was most conspicious in his Eclipses and like the Images of Brutus and Cassius Quod abesset co magius persulgebat Though always in favour because entertained for use not affection not only relying so much on his Masters favour as his Master did on his abilities Goodness consecrated his greatness and his greatness honored his goodness he managed his estate so as to support his honor and employed his honor so as both to support and credit his estate good husbandry may stand with great hâ—nor as well as breadth with heighth he saved his estate by ways thrifty and noble with no loss to his honor travelling to gain experience abroad and save expences at home He might with Francis Russel second Earl of Bedford of that Surname as Queen â—lizabeth merrily complained of him make many Beggars by his Liberality he made none by his Oppression or Injustice being as punctual as his Ancestor Thomas Duke of Norfolk who when he was carried to be buried in the Abbey of Thetford Anno 1524. had made so even with the world that no person could demand a groat of him for debt or restitution of any injury done by him As he was a compleat Gentleman himself so he took a particular care his Posterity should not be defective often with pleasure telling the Ran-counter between a Nobleman of Henry the eighths time and Mr. Pace one of his Secretaries The Nobleman expressing himself in contempt of Learning that it was enough for Noblemens Sons to Wind their Horn and carry their Hawk fair and to leave Study and Learning to the Children of mean Men. Mr. Pace replied That then you and other Noblemen must be content that your Children may Wind their Horns and keep their Hawks while the Children of mean Mâ—n do manage maâ—ter of State But we will make bold with the rest of his Character as we find it in a Book called Observations upon the Statesâ—men and Favourites of England p. 725. only correcting the misnomer there of Philip in stead of Thomas Earl of Arundel and adding that he married
that speaks from his belly called Ventri loquus seems to be another at further distance which whispers and when a man speaketh from the heart the speech seems to come from one at distance and that is God He kept up all Ordinances Prayers Sermons and Sacraments in equal esteem as Scipio in a Controversie between two who should have the sâ—aling Crown due to him that first climbed the walls gives it to them both knowing that they both got up the wall together Especially taking care of Catechizing priding him self as much as Luther did in this Character Discipulus Catechismi that men studying the dark corners of Divinity might not lose themselves in the beaten Road of it looking upon Catechizing as the way of settling Religion at first and maintaining it still Our Saviour is observed not to preach against Idolatry Usury Sabbathâ— breaking among the Jews because not so dangerous in an age wherein saith one Iniquity was spun with a finer thred but against spiritual pride and hypocrisie this his Servant connived not at Debauchery the confessed bewailed and lamented sins of one part of the Nation but was very severe against Sacriledge Disobedience Curiosity and Hypocrisie the maintained sins of the other Mens Consciences he said flew in their faces for the one and would reform them but their Consciences were made parties for the other and would harden them Those sins he said were to be preached against that were grown into so much reputation as to be preached for He looked upon it as equally impertinent to confute an old Heresie which time had confuted and to spend time in reproving those sins which every ones heart reproved him for He read much but orderly drawing up his notions as the King of Sweden used to do his men not above six deep because he would not have them lie in useless Clusters but so that every particular might be drawn into Service but meditated more dispiriting his Books into himself He was glad to go from London to Bristol to avoid the tumults but he was gladder to be translated from Bristol to Heaven quite heart-broken with the Rebellion He never though almost fifty years a Preacher went up a Pulpit but as Luther said he trembled such an aw and reverence of God was upon his heart he preached but once before the King at Oxford and he fainted so great his modesty before men that gracious Prince under whom it was incouragement enough to be a good Divine speaking to the people to pray for him for he said It might be any mans Case and wishing him to retire saying he was a good man and he would with patience wait for him as he did untill the good Bishop being a little refreshed came up again and preached the best Sermon and the last that ever he made What good opinion the Parliament as it was called had of him though not over-fond of Bishops appears by the insuing Order which with the following particulars are transcribed from his Daughter Elizabeths Mouth and Papers The Thirteenth of May 1643. from the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon Information in behalf of the Bishop of Bristol that his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents It is ordered by the Committee that all Profits of his Bishoprick be restored to him and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great age and a person of great Learning and Merit Io. Wylde About the midst of his Life he had a terrible Sickness so that he thought to use his own expression in his Diary that God would put out the Candle of his life though he was pleased only to snuff it By his Will the true Copy whereof I have he desired to be buryed in his Cathedral Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof and as for my worldly Goods Reader they are his own words in his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give and bequeath them all to my dear Wife Elizabeth c. he protested himself on his death-bed a true Protestant of the Church of England and dying Iunii 28. 1644. lyeth buryed according to his own desire above-mentioned with this Inscription Hic jacet Thomas Westfield S. T. D. Episcoporum Infimus peccatorum primus Obiit 25 Junii Anno M D C X L I I. Senio maerore confectus Tu Lector Quisquis es Vale Resipisee Epitaphium ipse sibi dictavit vivus Monumentum Vxor Maestissima Elizabeth Westfield Marito Desideratissimo posuit superstes Thus leaving such as survived him to see more sorrow and feel more misery he was seasonably taken away from the evil to come and according to the Anagram made on him by his Daughter Thomas Westfield I Dwell the most safe Enjoying all happiness and possessing the reward of his pains who converted many and confirmed more by his constancy in his Calling THE Life and Death OF The Right Honourable ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY I Find in the Observations upon the States-men and Favorites of England this honorable person thus consecrated to Immortality He and his whole Family I know not whether more pious or more valiant whether more renowned abroad as Confessors for their Religion or at home as Champions for their Country have been in this last Age an Ornament or Defence to the Crown equally reverenced by the Subjects of it and honored by the Soveraigns This honorable Lords Ancestors were Richard â—irâ—ue and Katherine Ducthess of Suffolk so eminently known for their patience and constancy in suffering for Religion in Q. Maries days in the Palatinate His Father was Peregrine Bertuâ— in his Mothers right Lord Willoughâ—y of Fresâ—y so famous for his valour success and conduct in acting for Religion in Queen Elizabeths time when Commander in Chief 1. Of the second Army of five that the Queen sent to aid the French King 2. Of the third fourth and fifth Brigade she bestowed on the assistance of the Dutch and of the Garrison she intrusted with the keeping of Berwick and the Borders The stout Souldier that brooking not the assiduity and obsâ—quiousness of the Court was wont to say That he was none of the Reptilia which could creep on the ground and that a Court became a Souldier of good skill and a great spirit as a Bed of Doun would one of the Tower â—yons That undaunted man who when an insulting challenge surprized him a Bed of the Gout returned this answer That although he was lame of his Hands and Feet yet he would meet him with a piece of a Rapier in his Teeth That Hero who taking a choice Gennet managed for the war and intended a Present to the King of Spain and being importuned by the Spanish General to return it with an overture of his own choice whether a 1000 l. down or 100 l. a year during his life for it made this magnanimous
an happy guess of what was to come yet his opinion was neither variably unconstant nor obstinately immoveable but framed to present occasions wherein his method was to begin a second advice from the failure of the first though he hated doubtful suspense when he might be resolute This one great defect was his good nature that he could never distrust till it was dangerous to suspect and he gave his Enemy so much advantage that he durst but own him for his Friend One thing he repented of that he advised his Majesty to trust Duke Hamilton his adversary with the affairs of Scotland in compliance with the general opinion rather than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times wrongs him and gives advantage to the subtile while he rather pities their faithlessness than repents of his credulity so great advantage have they that look only what they may do over them that consider what they should do and they that observe only what is expedient over them that judge only what is lawful Therefore when those that thought themselves wise left their sinking Soveraign he stuck to his Person while he lived to his Body when dead and to his Cause as long as he lived himself Attending the first resolutely burying the second honorably and managing the third discreetly undertaking without rashness and performing without fear never seeking dangers never avoiding them Although when his friends were conquered by the Rebels he was conquered by himself returning to that privacy where he was guessed at not known where he saw the world unseen where he made yielding conquest where cheerful and unconcerned in expectation he provided for the worst and hoped for the best in the constant exercise of that Religion which he and his maintained more effectually with their examples than with their Sword doing as much good in encouraging the Orthodox by his presence as in relieving them by his bounty In a word I may say of him as Macarius doth of Iustine there was no vice but he thought below him and no virtue which he esteemed not his duty or his ornament Neither was his prudence narrower than his virtue nor his virtue streighter than his fortune His main service was his inspection into the Intrigues and Reserves of the Parliamentiers at Vxbridge and his Cajoling of the Independants and Scots at London where the issue of his observation was That the King should as far as his conscience could allow comply with the unreasonable desires of an unlimited ambition to make it sensible of the evils that would flow from its own counsels being confident as events have assured us that the people would see the inconvenience of their own wishes and that they would return that power which they sought for but could not manage to its proper place before it became their ruin For unbounded liberty overthroweth its self But alas it was too late to grant them any thing who by having so much were only encouraged more eagerly to desire what they knew the King in honor could not give for when a Prince is once rendred odious or contemptible his indulgencies do him no less hurt than injuries As his Services were great so were his Recreations useful Hunting that manly exercise being both his pleasure and his accomplishment his accomplishment I say since it is in the list of Machiavel's Rules to his Prince as not only the wholesomest and cheapest diversion both in relation to himself and his people but the best Tutor to Horseman-ship Stratagems and Situations by which he may afterwards place an Army whatever Sir Sidney's apprehension was who used to say Next Hunting he liked Hawking worst His other Brothers died in the Field vindicating his Majesties Cause and he pined away in his house mourning for his Majesties Person whom he would have died for and when that could not be died with his innocent temper having rendred him the Kings Bosom Friend as his conscience made him his Good Subject Hic Jacobum Richmondiae ducem ne conditum putes eorundem quibus vixit perpetuum Incolam Cordium Caeca quem non extulit ad honorem sors sed aequitas fides doctrina pietas modesta prudentia neu morte raptum crede agit vitam secundam Caelites Inter animus fama Implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara Dicata sempiternae memoriae Aenigma saeculi omnia Intelligens a nullo Intellectus E vivis migravet non e vita marcido in corpore diu sepultus Intra penates Lugendo consenuit Diu exspiravit vivum Cadaver sero mâ—ritur jam mortuo similis Cogitando vitam absolvit ut contemplando aeternitatem Inter beatorum libros Indefesso studio versatus ut beatoruâ—â— societatis dignior pars esset 165 5 THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord AUBIGNEY Lord Almoner to Her Highness Mary The Queen Mother of England TIme was when the despised Priesthood was so honorable that the same great word signified and the same eminent Persons among the Iews the Aâ—gyptians the Graecians and Romans executed together the two excellent Functions of Priest and Prince Rex Anius Rex Idem hominum Phaebique sacâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—rg Aâ—ncid l. 3 And most of the Roman Emperors were as proud of the sacred Title of Arch-flamens as they were of the Câ—â—racter of Semper Aâ—gusti As to come nearer our selves there were at one time in England three Kings Sons six Dukes eight Earls and fourteen Lords Sons in Holy Orders Time was when Abbies and Monasteries were an easie out-let for the Nobility and Gentry of this Land to dispose of their younger Children that Son who had not mettal enough to manage a sword might have meekness enough to wear a Cowle Clap a vail on the head of a younger daughter especially if she were superannuated not overhandsome melancholy c. and instantly she was provided for in a Nunnery without cost or care of her Parents One eminent instance whereof we have in Ralph Nevil first Earl of Westmerland of that Family whom we behold as the happiest Subject of England since the Conquest if either we account the number of Children or measure the heighth of honor they attained to for of nine Children he had by Margaret his first Wife Abbess of Barking and a second viz. Elizabeth was a Nun And of a eleven by his Wife Ioan one Iane was a Nun all the other seventeen being Lords and Ladies at that time of the highest quality in the Kingdom And no wonder saith our Author if our Earls preferred their Daughters to be Nuns seeing no King of England since the Conquest had four Daughters living to womans estate but he disposed one of them to be a Votary by the
Essex being told when he would have advanced with his sickly Army to recover him that he was past it he himself running for security first to Bristol and thence riding with a few Gentlemen for recruit to London leaving the few Garrisons that party had in those parts to Sir Ralphs mercy who took five of them by Assaults and seven upon Surrendry with three thousand Prisoners five thousand Armes six Ships with sixty four Peices of Ordnance in a fortnights time He was excellent at contriving at the Scaling of Walls as his Souldiers were in executing and yet more excellent in taking hearts being so civil even to the most obstinate that they chose rather to be conquered by him than protected by others ever detesting their bloudiness that came valiant to strong Holds and departing cruel thence knowing no difference either of Age or Sex in their anger though they did in their Lust only it is not be forgotten here how this expert Commander loosing the advantage of Lands-down for want of Ammunition taught his Souldiers to beat and boil Bed-cords to make Match of them From the Devizes Sir Ralph marched into Hampshire and Sussex facing Petworth entring Midhurst and at last sitting down before Arundel Castle in the extreamest part of Suffex which he carryed beating Col. Norton into Chichester and wheeling off in spight of the Enemy that provoked him to fight with disadvantage among lined Hedges and Thickets where he saw many brave men lost to no purpose at Cheriton-down in appearance to Winchester but really to Basing and so to Oxford whence Anno 1645. we finde him after the considerable Recruits he had left the King advancing Westwards and besieging Taunton where when we have observed that his Magazine being blown up he was grievously hurt in the face carrying an honorable scar to his grave our Pen shall leave him giving way to his own Secretary who hath communicated to the world this following account of him 1645. His Majesty the present comfort of the Kingdom being worsted and the Prince the future hope of it appeared taking progress into the West to understand the Countrey before he should govern it and to let the Country understand him the pawn of their future felicity whom it should obey the Lord Hoptons presence raised as many brave men in Cornwall to wait on the Son their Duke as his wise civil and obliging conduct had done on the Father their King under whom designing to relieve Exeter in a body of 10000 Horse and Foot when they were met by my Lord Fairfax at Torrington with 20000. where my Lord despairing of breaking through them drew out four or five Closes off the Enemy lining the hedges and flanking his Foot with Horse who disputed every hedge first with the Dragoons and then with the Reserves and at last with the whole body of the other Army pouring upon them Regiment upon Regiment and when they had lost the hedges maintained the Barricadoes at the end of the Town with push of Pike and the Butt end of their Muskets for three hours and when over-powred there my Lord brought up the Rear and made good the retreat though his Horse was shot under him so that the Foot had time to pass over the adjoyning River and the Horse to guard them my Lord making use of every Avenue in the Town or near to stop the Enemies Career whom if his advice had been followed he had surrounded and overcome with their own Victory And withdrawing to Cornwall he Rendezvouzed again and made 5000. able Horse a body under the Command of so wise as well as Valiant a Commander as the Lord Hopton appeared to be in the late Service might if there had been any hope of the Kings Affairs and since there was not commanded their own terms when the Prince withdrew from them to Scilly at Truero among others this Article offered my Lord himself is remarkable considering it proceeds from an Enemy Lastly for your self besides what is implyed to you in common with others you may be assured of such mediation to the Parliament on your behalf both from my self and others as for one whom for personal worth and many virtues but especially for your care of and moderation towards the Country we honor and esteem above any other of your party whose error supposing you more swayed with Principles of Honor and Conscience we most pity and whose happiness so far as is consistent with the publick welfare we should delight in more than in your least suffering My Lord after much dispute in hope either of assistance from abroad or of an accommodation between the King and Parliament as it was called at home upon the advance of near upon 40000. men towards him disbanded being allowed forty Horse and Arms and twelve men for himself for a while and not long after pardoned for Life but condemned in his Estate A favor like that I read of the Duke De Alva vouchsafed the City of Harlem when he promised them their lives and yet sterved many of them to death saying That though he had promised to give them their lives he had not promised to give them meat Gentle was this Excellent Persons Extraction in the West of England and man-like his Education in the Low-Countries that School of War where Sir William Waller and he learned as is said of Iugurtha and Manus in one Camp what they practised in two The one being no less eminent for his Service under his late Majesty of blessed memory than the other was for his against him The one was the best Souldier the King had the other the most experienced that the pretended Parliament boasted of None fitter to ballance Sir Ralph Hoptons success none likelier to understand his stratagems none abler to undermine his designs than his Fellow-souldier Sir William who understood his method as well as he was acquainted with his Person Both were equally active both equally vigilant But what better Character of this Hero than that which his Master gave him in his Patten for Baron which is his History as well as his honor CArolus Dei gratia Angliae c. Cum nominis nostri posteritatis interest ad clara exempla propaganda utilissime Compertum palam fieri omnibus proemia apud nos virtuti sita nec perire fidelium subditorum officia sed memori benevolo pectore fixissime insidere His praesertim temporibus cum plurimum quibus antehac nimium indulsimus temerata aut superta fides pretium aliorum Constantiae addidit Cumque nobis certo constat Radulphum Hopton Militem de Balneo splendidis antiquis Natalibus tum in caetura sua vita integritatis moris eximium tum in hac novissima tempestate fatalique Regni Rebelli motu rari animi fideique exemplum edidisse Regiae dignitatis in eaque publicae Contra utriusque adversarios assertorem vindicem acerrimum Quippe qui non solum nascenti huic furori
gloriam fortitudinem quae pati tantum potuit THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable SPENCER Earl of NORTHAMPTON SPencer Compton Earl of Northampton Son to William the first Earl of the Family Created 1618. 16. Iac. by Sir Francis Beaumont the Duke of Buckinghams Uncles Daughter had as many remarkables as he said in his life as there were years to his death He was born at Compton in Warwickshire the very same day and hour that the Powder Traytors were defeated at Dun-church in that County an Omen that that life like Caesars who was born at the defeat of a Tumult should be hazarded for the suppressing of Rebellion that was begun with the suppression of Treason The first step he went by himself was to reach the Kings Picture and the first word he ever spoke was the King an argument he used upon his retirement 1641. to those of the party that had so much as to understand worth and making advantage of his solitude for a tempâ—ation pressed him to a neâ—trality why besides the impossibility of being a Neuter he was resolved to stand by the Soveraignty and Government of his Native Country while he could either speak or stand his parts were so great and his appetite to knowledge so large that it was as much as four several Tutors at Home at Cambridge and in France and Italy each taking his respective hour for the Art and Science he professed to keep pace with his great proficiency the vigor of his soul advantaged by the strong constitution of his body as that was by the temperance of his dyer I am informed that in all his life time he took but one Antidote and never purged but once and then the Physick found no obnoxious humor to work upon so healthful was his temper The symbolizing of their sober and grave temperr rendred him as great a Favorite to Prince Charles as his Cousin the Duke of Buckingham was of King Iames being his Companion at home and an Attendant on him abroad particularly in Spain where I am told he waited upon him in the quality of Master of his Robes and Wardrobe and had the honor to deliver all the Presents made by the Prince there amounting to 64000 l. As he held the Kings Train at the Coronation 1525. as Master of the Robes to his Majesty with the Earl of Denbigh who was Master of the Wardrobe Two things he would have nothing to do with 1. Church-lands because his direct Ancestor being not only Chief Gentleman of King Henry the Eighths Bed-chamber but the third man in his favor had not a Shooe-latchet of Abbey-land as there was none in all his ancient paternal estate though saith my Author nothing debarred him save his own abstineâ—ce 2. Inclosures since Captain Powch a poor fellow with a powch wherein he said there was that which would secure his followers though there was nothing in it but a piece of mouldy Cheese with so many thousand people did so much mischief because of Inclosures in Warwick-shire Northampton-shire and Leicester-shire He could not endure jesting with Religion there being no people of what Religion soever but had serious and great thoughts of their Numen nor an oath on any except Judicial and Solemn occasions often repeating that of Prince Henry That he knew no game or Value to be won or lost that was worth an Oath Having been so many years a witness of the Kings Majesties gracious disposition for solong a time had experience of the benefit of his Majesties Government the comfort of the Religion established upon the Faction breaking out of their shell upon the warmth of the present peace and plenty and peeping out of their privacy wherein like the Hedge-hogg they rounded themselves in their prikcles without motion took aim at the government seeing the contracts of the Nobility and tumults of the commonalty walking formerly so ugly they are in themselves with the borrowed face of Religion but now in the heat of their success casting off that cloak break out daily into outrages as much against Policy as Piety as simple as scandalous the licentious having given reins to their loosness are not able to stop themselves he not only dissented from their proceedings in all publick counsels but prepared to second that dissent with Arms wherewith he was the best furnished when there was occasion to make use of them of any Nobleman in England having settled his estate and advanced several thousands towards the publick service making the noblest appearance 1639. against the Scots and the most effectual provision 1642. against the English waiting upon his Majesty to York to advise in the Ardua Regni attest the clearness of his Majesties procedures and vow his assistance as appears by his hand to several publick Declarations from that place from whence summoning as many good Souldiers and honest Gentlemen as were of his acquaintance the one to raise the Country and the other to lead and command by the untained reputation of his name the moderation and sobriety of his principles the exemplary regularity of his person and family the justice and generosity of his dealing with his neighbors and dependants the hospitality and almes of his house the sweetness of his spirit amazed such a Body in Warwick-shire as having seized on the Ordnance at Banbury and marching resolutely against the Lord Brooks checked his Career awed the Country to Allegiance consining that Lord to two or three Garrisons he had suddainly made for his retreat and this notwithstanding a Letter from the Parliament May 30. 1642. to him and such other Lords as they thought most serviceable to his Majesty naming him in the first place and after his generous answer Iune 8. a Charge and Impeachment against him of very great Crimes and Misdemeanors proceeding so vigorously that he in twelve Skirmishes put a great stop to Essex his grand Rendezâ—â—vous at Northampton insomuch as that Essex should say The going away of these sober Lords from us is a great blow not only in regard of thâ—ir interest and reputation but of their vigilance and activity Upon which score hoping to gain them by their worst way of cruelty their kindness they forbear to proclaim my Lord Traytor to render him desperate though in vain as he observed since they had charged him with Misdemeanors that made him irreconcileable Therefore he proceeds securing most of the Armes Ammunition and Garrisons in Warwick-shire Stafford shire and Northampton-shire and settling the Association so as to be able to surnish his Majesty with two thousand of the best disciplined men in all the Kings Army to Keinton-fight and to Besiege Lichâ—ield having made the Country from Garrison to Garrison one Line of Communication when receiving intelligence of â—râ—râ—ton and Gells coming to the Relief of the Place with near four thousand horse and foot he drew out a eleven hundred horse and dragoonsâ— so dextrously that he surprized and routed their house at Hopton heath
mercy of the Usurpers dying a while after of the Small Pox 1655 6. En Nobil Georgii Bar. Chandois cineres paenitentiales qui lachrimis mixti Invitam abluere culpam quae eadem erat Herois paena magnanimo munifico pio maximo viro erat unus error erat veneri una Labes Abi Generosa Iuventus quae tumida ferves vena nec tanti emas paenitere nec in facinus praeceps ruas bis lugendum cum patras cum Luis THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT DORMER Earl of Caernarvon RObert Dormer Grand-Child to Robert Dormer Esq Created Baronet by King Iames Iune 10. 1615. and Baron Dormer of Wing in Buckingham-shire the thirtieth of the same Month in the same year was by King Charles in the fourth year of his Reign made Viscount Ascot and Earl of Caernarvon a Person of whom King Charles the First might say as Lewis the 13 th said of his Favorite Luynes that considering the debonairness of his temper when disposed to be merry he was a very fit man to be trusted with the Kings Majesties Game as he was being by a Grant to him and his Heirs Chief Avenor and with respect to the vastness of his parts when disposed to be serious he was very capable of the most concerning trust which he had by Pattent as Lord Lieutenant His nature was not so much wild as great and his spirit rather extraordinary than extravagant to be admired rather than blamed as what age and experience fixed every day more and more into a comprehensive wisdom a deep understanding a strong resolution and a noble activity His Recreations were rather expensive than bruitish not unmanning his person as Drunkenness c. which he hated perfectly he being prone of those that gave occasion to the scandalous and odiously comparitive Proverb As drunk as a Lord as drunk as a Beggar but if moderately used becoming his Dignity as Gaming c. which he affected inordinately though he left this caution to Posterity That he that makes playing his business makes his business a play and that Gaming swallow Estates as the Gulf did Curtius and his Horse A man knoweth where he begins that pleasure but is utterly ignorant where he shall end besides that there is no pleasure worthy an excellent spirit in high Gaming which can have no satisfaction in it besides either sordid Coveting of what is anothers or a foolish Prodigality of what is their own making that breach in their own inheritance sometimes in one week which they and their Heirs cannot repair in many years The temperature of his minde as to moral habits was rather disposed to good than evil he was a Courtier and a young Man a Profession and an Age prone to such desires as when they tend to the shedding of no Mans bloud to the ruin of no family humanity sometimes connives at though she never approves of so that we may say of this Great man as one doth of a greater That those things we wish in him are fewer than the things we praise Being a Servant not only to his Majesties Prosperity but to his Person waiting on him not out of Interest but out of Love and Conscience no sooner appeared the Conspiracy in Buckingham-shire but he discountenanced it upon all occasions with his interest and when it brake out in the North he Marched to oppose it with two thousand men whom when he could in Parliament neither save the Life of his Majesties most faithful Servant not preserve the Honor of his Majesties Person being resolved rather to perish with the known Laws of the Land than to countenance them that designed the overthrow of them he led to wait on his Majesty to York where having with the rest of the Nobility attested the integrity of his Majesties proceedings and vowed his defence under his Hand and Seal he Rendezvouzed Marching to settle the Commission of Array in Oxford-shire and Buckingham-shire with so much activity that we finde him with the Earls of Cumberland New-castle and Rivers excepted by the Party at Westwinster out of the first Indemnity 1642. they offered for their actions in behalf of his Majesty as the Earl of Bristol the Lords Viscount Newarke and Faulkland Sir Edward Hyde Sir Edward Nicholas Master Endymion Porter were for their Counsels and Writing And having disciplined his Regiment we finde him the Reserve generally to the Kings Horse in all Engagements as first to Prince Rupert in Edge-hill where his error was too much heat in pursuing an advantage against the Enemies Horse in the mean time deserting and leaving naked his own Foot and afterwards to the Lord Willmot at Roundway-down where by Charging near and Drawing up his men to advantage not above six in a File that they might all engage he turned the fortune of the day as he had done at Newbury receiving Sir Philip Stapleton with this Regiment of Horse and Essex his Life-guard with a brisk Charge and pursuing them to their Foot had not a private hand put an end to his life and actions when breathing out his last he asked Whether the King was in safety Dying with the same care of his Majesty that he lived So he lost his life fighting for him who gave him his honor at the first battel of Newbury Being sore wounded he was desired by a Lord to know of him what suit he would have to his Majesty in his behalf the said Lord promising to discharge his trust in presenting his request and assuring him that his Majesty would be willing to gratifie him to the utmost of his power To whom the Earl replied I will not dye with a Suit in my mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery he had Charles now Earl of Caernarvon From his noble extract he received not more honor than he gave it for the blood that was conveighed to him through so many illustrious veins he derived to his Children more maturated for renown and by a constant practice of goodness more habituated to virtue His youth was prepared for action by study without which even the most eminent parts of Noblemen seem rough and unpleasant in dispight of the splendor of their fortune But his riper years endured not those retirements and therefore brake out into manlike exercises at home and travail abroad None more Noble yet none more modest none more Valiant yet none more patient A Physician at his Father-in-laws Table gave him a Lye which put the Company to admire on the one hand the mans impudence and on the other my Lords mildness until he said I 'll take the Lye from him but I 'll never take Physick of him He may speak what doth not become him I 'll not do what is unworthy of me A virtue this not usual in Noblemen to whom the limits of equity seem a restraint and therefore are more restless in injuries In the
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
Master of Arts Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Exeter adorning as well as deserving his Advancements When King Iames that most learned Prince was pleased to honor the University of Cambridge by his Presence and to make Exercises of Scholars the best part of his Entertainment this person then a young man was one of those who were chosen by the University to adorn the reception of the King The part he performed was Iocoserious of Praevaricator a mixture of Philosophy with Wit and Oratory This he discharged to the admiration more than the mirth of the King and other learned Auditors who rejoyed to see such a luxuriance of wit was consistent with innocency that jesting was confined to conveniency and mirth married with that Modesty which became the Muses Among his learned and accurate performances in publick I cannot observe that when he took the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity the Text upon which he chose to Preach his Laine Sermon was Prophetick and preparatory to his after-sufferings Phil. 1. 29. Vobis autem datum c. To you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but to suffer for his sake Which eloquent and pious Sermon he afterwards was to fullfil indeed Quod docuit verbo confirmavit exemplo He made his Doctrine good by his practice taking up the Cross of Christ and following him He was preferred to be Prebend of the Collegiat Church of Eli by the favor and love of the then Bishop of that Seat Dr. Felton a very holy and good man he had also a good Living at Barlow not far from Cambridge a Country Village where he condescended bringing out new and old out of his treasure in his Preaching and Cathechising to ordinary capacities He oft deplored the disuse and want of Catechising After that this great Lamp was set and shined in a Sphere more proper and proportionate being chosen Master of Katherine-hall Here it was wonderful to see how the Buildings the Revenues the Students and the Studiousness of that place increased by the Care Counsel Prudence Diligence and Fame of Dr. Brownrig who had such an eye to all that he oversaw none frequenting the Studies and examining even younger Scholars that they might be incouraged in Learning and Piety He kept up very much as good Learning and good Manners so the honor of Orthodox Divinity and orderly Conformity He kept to the Doctrine Worship Devotion and Government in the Church of England which he would say he liked better and better as he grew older If any out of scruple or tenderness of Conscience was less satisfied with some things no man had a more tender heart or a gentler hand to heal them if worthy ingenious and honest He would convince though not convert Gainsayers and if he could not perswade them yet he would pity and pray for them drawing all with the silken cords of humanity the bands of a mans love He could endure differences among Learned and Godly men in Opinions especially sublime and obscure without distance in affection He thought that Scripture it self in some points was left unto us less clear and possitive that Christians might have wherewith to exercise both Humility in themselves and Charity towards others He very much venerated the first worthy Reformers of Religion at home and abroad yet was he not so addicted to any one Master as not freely to use his own great and mature judgement He hoped every good man had his Retractions either actual or intentional though all had no time to write them as St. Austin did He had the greatest Antipathy against those unquiet and pragmatick Spirits which affect endless Controversies Varieties and Novelties in Religion to carry on a Party and under that Skreen of Religion to advance their private Interests in publick Designs For the Liturgy though he needed a set Form as little as any yet he had a particular great esteem of it 1. For the Honor and Piety of his Martyrly Composers 2. For its excellent matter and prudent method 3. For the good he saw in it to all sober Christians the want of which he saw was not supplyed by any Ministers private Praying and Preaching Not that the Liturgy is unalterable but he judged all such alterations ought to be done by the publick Spirit As for Bishops he was too Learned a man to doubt and too honest to deny the Univerval Custom and Practice of the Church of Christ in all Ages and places for fifteen hundred years according to the pattern at least received from the Apostles who without doubt followed as they best knew the minde of Christ. He was by the favor of K. Charles and the great liking of all good men made Bishop of Exeter Anno 1641. Whereupon a certain man said he wondred Dr. Brownrig would be made a Bishop whom he had heard sometime declare his judgment against Episcopacy This being related to the Bishop he with some passion replyed I never thought much less said as that person hath falsly avâ—rred I thank God I took the Office of a Bishop with a good Conscience and so I hope by Gods mercy I shall both maintain and discharge it And howsoever this excellent Bishop enjoyned not the benefit of the Kings favour and munificence as to his Bishoprick or any other Preferment after the Troubles of the times yet he was ever most unmoveable royal respects of Fidelity Gratitude Love and Obedience Accordingly when O. P. with some shew of respect to him demanded his judgement in some publick Affairs The Bishop with his wonted Gravity and Freedom replyed My Lord the best counsel I can give is that of our Savior Render unto Caesar the things that be Caesars and unto God the things that be Gods With which free Answer O. P. was rather silenced then satisfied This grave Personage when forced to retire was useful to those that were worthy of him and knew how to value him either as a Bishop or a Divine or a Counsellor or a Comforter or a Friend Among those that gave him a Liberal and Noble entertainment Thomas Rich Esq of Shunning in Berk-shire desorveth with honor to be thus Registred that he was the especial Friend of Bishop Brownrig Indeed none could be hospitable to him gratis he always paid for his entertainments by his many excellent Discourses He was alwayes when in health as chearful as far as the Tragedies of the times gave leave as one that had the continual Feast of a good Conscience and as content as if he had a Lords Estate All diminutions and indignities which some men put upon so Worthy and so Venerable a Person he digested into patience and prayers Thus he was in some degree conformable to the Primitive Bishops which were poor and persecuted yea to the great Bishop of our Souls who for our sake made himself of no reputation About a year before he dyed he was invited with much respect and civility to the
things that as he was honoured with King Charles the first his Writ to be Baron in Parliament a favour his Ancestor Robert de Piere-point had in Edward the thirds time but did not enjoy being summoned a Baron in Parliament and dying before he Sate therein by the Title of Baron Piere-point and Viscount Newarke and afterwards 4. Caroli primi Earl of Kingston for his moderate opinions between the extreams then prevailing in Parliaments which he was able to accommodate as to State Affairs as an experienced man and as to Church Affairs as a Christian and a great Scholar Whence he would commend a general learning to young Noblemen upon this ground because the great variety of Debates that came before them wherein the unlearned Gentry either rashly offer dangerous proposals to impose on others oâ— sloathfully rest in a tame yea and nay being easily imposed on by others The effect whereof we found both in his and his hopeful Son the now Illustrious Marquess of Dorchesters learned and rational Defences of the Spiritual Function and Temporal Honors and Imployments of Bishops 1641 2. which though they could not convert any of the obstinate Anti-episcopal men not a speech to satisfie their reason but a grant to gratifie their interest must effect that yet confirmed they the wavering Episcopal party When it came to passe in the Civil Wars of England as it had done in those of Rome that the Seditious Brutus and Cassius were followed by the lower sort of the people Ex subditis Romanorum saith Dion while Caesars Army consisted Ex Romanis nobilibus sortibus This honorable Person and his Eldest Son attended his Majesty the Father with the Sword and the Son with the Pen more fatal to the Faction that the Sword and therefore the first men excepted out of Pardon were such excellent Pen-men as the Lords Viscount Newark and Faulkland Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and Mr. Endintion Porter the quickness of whose honorable Declarations and Replies amazed the Conspiracy as the smartnesse of them betrayed and defeated it their writings being like truth naturally clear and the Rebels like error forced and obscure He brought to his Majesty 4000 men of whose number 2000 were able and willing to serve him with their Persons and the râ—st with their Armes and Money to the value of 24000 l. and having the care of the Country with his near Relation the Duke of New-castle he vigorously opposed the legitimate Commission of Array to the by-blow of the Militia till he was surprized at Gainsborough by the Lord Willoughby of Parrham and being looked upon as a person of great concernment to the Kings affaires the Country calling him usually the good Earl of Kingston sent towards Hull in a Pinnace which Sir Charles Cavendish who knew well the value of that noble person as well as the enemy pursued demanding the Earl and when refused shooting at the Pinnace with a Drake that unfortunately killed him and his servant placed a mark to his friends shot who when they took the Vessel put all the Company to the Sword a just though not a valuable sacrifice to so noble a Ghost which King Charles the I. would have ransomed at as high a rate as his Ancestor Robert Peire-point was redeemed in Edward the III. time who cost that King when taken at Lewis 700 mark the Ransom as money went in those days of a Prince rather than a Subject Robertus Baro Peire-point Comes Kinstoniae quem amici servando occiderunt ab ubinon mors Si caecus amor ipso infestius odio sâ—miae more affectu necat amplexibus strangubat THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS MORTON Bishop of Duresm HE was of the same original and stock with that Eminent Prelate and wise States-man Iohn Morton Loâ—d Chancellor and Arch-bishop of Canterbury by whose contrivance and management the Houses of York and Lancaster were united as appeareth by his Coat-Armor and Pedigree He was born in the ancient and famous City of York March 20. 1564. his Parents were of good repute Mr. Richard Morton a well known Mercer and Mrs. Elizabeth Leedale by whom the Valvasours and Langdales acknowledge themselves to be of his Kindred by whose care he was brought up in Piety and Learning first at York under Mr. Pullen and afterwards at Hallifax under Mr. Maud of whom he always spake with great reverence as a grave Man and a good Scholar and from thence 1582. went to the University of Cambridge at the eighteenth year of his age and there was admitted into St. Iohns Colledge under Dr. Whitacre wherein were so many eminent Scholars at that time as he was wont to say It seemed to be a whole University of its self His Tutor was Mr. Anthony Higgon afterwards Dean of Rippon who lest him to the care of Mr. Hen. Nelson Rector of Hougham in Lincolnshire who lived to see his Pupil pass through all the other Dignities he had in the Church till he came to be Bishop of Duresm and a good many years after Being chosen Scholar of Constables Foundation 1584. In the year 1590. he took his Degree of Master of Arts having performed all his Exercises with great approbation and applause Afterwards he continued his Studies in the Colledge at his Fathers charge for above two years March 17. 1592. he was admitted Fellow meerly for his worth against eight Competitors for the place which he was wont to recount with greater contentment to himself than his advancement to any Dignity he ever enjoyed in the Church About the same time he was chosen Logick Lecturer for the University which place he discharged with much art and diligence as appears by his Lectures found among his Papers fairly written In the same year he was admitted to the Order of Deacon and the next after of Priesthood Having received his Commission from God and the Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of charity but not too forward to take upon him the particular care of souls And accordingly we finde him for the space of five years after this continuing in the Colledge prosecuting his own private Study and reading to such Scholars as were committed to his Care and Tuition Anno 1598. He took his Degree of Bachelor of Divinity and about the same year being Presented Instituted and Inducted to the Rectory of Long-Marston four miles distant from his native City of York he betook himself wholly to the cure of Souls there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence and yet he did not intermit his higher studies the general good of the Church while he attended it To that end he had always kept some person to be his Assistant whom he knew to be pious and learned And this assistance was more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choice of by the
rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will choose rather to neglect their duty safely and creditably than to get a broken pate in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that which will break their hearts too Although he was so resolvedly honest and upon such clear Principles conscientious that he tired the persecutions of his enemies and out-lived the neglect of his friends finding the satisfaction flowing from his duty out-ballancing the sufferings for it 1. When Chaplain much troubled by Arch-bishop Abbot Sir H. Lynde and Mr. P. 1. For Licensing a Book called An Historical Narration of the Iudgment of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs Confessors in Queen Maries dayes concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death Novemb. 27. 1630. 2. For maintaining universal Grace and Redemption in a Passion Sermon at St. Pauls Cross about the same time 2. When Master of Queens Colledge as much persecuted by the Faction for six or seven years from Cambridge to Elyâ— house thence to Ship-board and thence to the Fleet with the same disgrace and torment I mentioned before in Dr. Beals life for being active in sending the University-Plate to the King and in undeceiving people about the proceedings of the pretended Parliament i. e. in sending to the King that which should have been plundred by his enemies and preaching as much for him as others did against him his sufferings were both the smarter and the longer because he would not own the Usurpation so much as to Petition it for favor being unwilling to own any power they had to Imprison him by any address to them to Release him And when in a throng of other Prisoners he had his Liberty he chose to be an exile beyond Sea at Paris rather than submit to the tumult at home at London or Cambridge If he was too severe against the Presbyteries of the Reformed Churches which they set up out of necessity it was out of just indignation against the Presbytery of England which set up it self out of Schism And when he thought it unlawful for a Gentleman of the Church of England to marry a French Presbyterian it was because he was transported by the oppression and out-rage of the English But being many years beyond Sea he neither joyned with the Calvinists nor kept any Communion with the Papists but confined himself to a Congregation of old English and Primitive Protestants where by his regular Life and good Doctrine he reduced some Recusants to and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion so defeating the jealousies of his foes and exceeding the expectation of his friends Returning with his Majesty 1660. he was restored to his own Preferments and after Dr. Loves death the natural Wit and Orator Master of Bennet Colledge Margaret Professor after Dr. Holdsworth in which place he was sure to affront any man that put up Questions against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of Engl. in the worst of times and Dean of Ely made Dean of Ely in which dignity he dyed 1662 3 having this Memorial That he had bred up his Colledge so well in the Principles of Religion and Loyalty that no one there from the highest to the lowest submitted to the Usurpers for there was a through Reformation neither Master Fellow not Scholar being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a Wreck and forfeited in this Land-tempest for lack of a living thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof a severity contrary to the eternal moral of the Jewish Law provided against the Depopulation of Birds-nests that the old and young ones should be destroyed together The Doctors Predecessors Dr. Humphrey Tyndal Master of Queens and Dean of Ely was as is reported offered by a Protestant party in Bohemia to be chosen King in Queen Elizabeths Reign and he refused it alleadging That he had rather be a Subject under Queen Elizabeth than a forraign Prince And the Doctor himself was offered as I have heard honorable accommodations by some in the Church of Rome but he accepted them not because he said He had rather be a poor Son of the afflicted but Primitive Church of England than a Rich Member of the flourishing but corrupt Church of Rome Edvardus Martin S. Th. Dr. Cato sequioris saculi qui nihil ad famam omnia ad conscientiam fecit Rigide pius vir et severe Iustus sibi theatrum omnia ad normam exigens non amplius ambivit quam ut sibi placeret et Deo THE Life and Death OF THE LORD WILLMOT Earl of Rochester THe Lord Wilmot born on All-Souls day in Ireland and bred Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford received a Barony from his Ancestors and conveyed an Earldom to his Posterity of whom a great man said That he was so Great a Scholar that he could give the best advice and so good a Souldier that he could follow it the best of any man in England none more valiant to return a private affront with the hazard of his own Personâ— he gave a box on the ear to one of the most eminent men in this Nation none more patient in taking a disgrace the revenge of which might hazard the publick safety He suffered his Horse to be taken by the bridle and himself to be led out of Command by a Messenger from his Majesty in the Hoad of 700. Horse over whom he was Lieutenant-General in view of the Enemy to the great dissatisfaction of the Army which was ready to Mutiny for the Lord Willmot at that very time when they should fight the Earl of Essex He was Captain of Horse many years in the Low Countries with great respect for his generous Courage and good Discipline and coming thence over was made Commissary General of Horse in the Expedition into Scotland In Holland began that animosity between him and Goring which continued in England His sobriety indeared him to every Army he came to and therefore rendred him suspected and envied in most actions he performed An excellent Commander of Horse and of himself being therefore mistrusted because he would not swear as if Dam-me had been the Oath of Allegiance 1640. Aug. 28. When the Lord Conway let the Scots over â—weed Mr. Willmot was the first man that made head against them standing with a few prime Gentleman when the rest of the Army fled and threw down their Arms to the Enemies Horse and Cannon so effectual that though being over-powered he could not defeat them yet he stunned them so that instead of advancing with an Army next day they submit with a Petition exactly as Mr. Willmot guessed whose opinion was That one resolute action against the Scots should min them who are lost by favors and 〈◊〉 by severities He acted like a Statesman when Commissary in the Expedition against the Scots telling my Lord Conway That he saw his Majesty would be overcome by the English at home if he
overcame not the Scots abroad and he spoke like a Souldier in the Parliament 1641. where whispering with the Lord Peirey and Colonel Ashburnham as they sate together upon the Vote of 300000 l. to be paid the Scots with 25000 l. advance out of the money designed the English Army he stepped up and told Mr. Speaker That if such Papers of the Scots could procure moneys he doubted not but the Officers of the English should soon do the like A wise and brave Speech that when the Army were informed by him how the Parliament slighted them they were ready to Rally them selves against the Parliament as soon that Rallied the multitude against the King he and some others putting themselves into a secret and sworn Juncto to declare with the Army against the rude at fronts offered his Majesty to the subversion of Government notwithstanding all the gracious Concessions made by his Majesty for the support of it but without success Because as his Lordship used to say Treachâ—ry got easily into the Bosome of that Prince that had nothing but Honesty in his heart And because some were admitted into their Counsels against Mr. Wilmots advice who never engaged in a secret design to which there were above four together privy that knew one anothâ—r He obstructed the Faction much in the House of Commons and more when called to the House of Lords stopping their Careere with those Propositions for Accommodation which he offered at Westminster 1641. and to shew he was the same man guided not by Interest but Conscience renewed at Oxford 1644. and making â—se of the sad News of the Irish Rebellion in which affairs having considerable concerns in that kingdome he was always of the Committee to prevent the English with as much dexterity as others did to promote it But when being Posted for a Straffordian he had no longer any power to moderate the Councils of the Faction in the City after he had seen so many injuries and indignities offered his Royal Person so many affronts and scorns put upon the Kingly Office so many scandalous seditious and traiterous Pamphlets against the Government together with the Combinations and Conspiracies which the implacable malice and insatiable ambition of some persons had contrived he went to suppress the Rebellion in the Field being Voted a Traytor by those he indeavoured should not be so At Edge-hill he advised that there should be a good Reserve of Horse to secure the Battel and that the other Horse should by no advantage be drawn out of it There being nothing he said more dangerous than too eager a pursuit before a battle was over He ordered the Horse at Newbery being Lieutenant-General under Prince Rupert in so convenient and spacious a place Downs have been pitched upon as the most commodious Scene of a Horse Engagement advising them by no means to be drawn into any uneven and streight places with so strict an eye upon all advantages and opportunities and in such Ranks that one Troop might be in Subsidiis assistant to another and no part stand naked or fall in the singleness of its own strength but that one may second another from first to last being aware of Livies charge upon Cajus Sempronius Pugnavit incaute inconsulteque non subsidiis firmata acic non equite apte locato the like he did at Cropredy-Bridge bringing off the Kings Rear there with three Charges through with so much execution as routed Sir William Wallers Horse and Foot took all his Ordnances and Gunners among whom one Weems a sworn Servant to his Majesty with the very Leather-guns his Majesty had paid for saying when brought before the King Good Faith his heart was always with his Majesty he being hurt and twice taken Prisoner and twice rescued by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and Sir Robert Howard And of the same nature was his Relief of Banbury when he surrounded the Besiegers in a Net of six miles compass full of snares and stratagems flanked on all hands by his well-ordered Horse His being punctual in his Promise careful in his Pay and Provision for his Souldiers tender of their Lives disposing of them in the easiest way for service and the safest from danger his condescension to satisfie every particular Person the reputation of his Integrity and Skill the moderation of his Principles rendred him as popular in the Army and Country as he was suspected at Oxford whence upon the breaking up of the Parliament there he went over to the Queen in France doing what he could by a generous carriage there to credit that Cause he was not suffered to sight for Often reflecting when he heard of the discontents afterwards in the Kings Army on that of Caesar in the first of his Commentaries Sâ—scire quibuscunque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit aut male re gesta fortunam defuiste aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiae esse convictum It s a remarkable passage that in her Majesties Letter to the Lord Digby Paris April 7. 1645. You think it strange that Willmot is so well entertained here which is done according to the orders which I have under the Kings hand and yours its true his good carriage here hath merited his good entertainment Indeed his negotiations in France Holland where he was formerly very well known by the Name of Willmot the English Gentleman were not less serviceable than his battels in England for by virtue of them and his correspondence with the Lord Willoughby there was a considerable Fleet of the Revolted Ships and his own to entertain the Prince of Wales 1648. as their Commander in Chief attended by my Lord the Lord Hopton c. And when for want of pay and other miscarriages that endeavour by Sea and Land to restore his Majesty failed he set on foot and by healing Propositions brought on the Scots Treaty so far as the admission of the King to the Government of that his ancient Kingdom whither after some services done in Ireland where he had great concerns and a considerable interest he went with his Majesty accommodating the several differences that arose among a people serupulous and capricious enough of themselves and distracted by the sad face of things at that time yet no way better to be ruled in such times than by an indulgence to them of an experiment and trial of the folly and vanity of their own ways and modelling and forming their Rough-hewn Armies and Designs And despairing of any good in that Country upon those mens principles he advised the Attempt 1651. into England to draw off the Force then lying within that Nation coming some months before in person under the name of Williams to pre-dispose his friend in 〈◊〉 kingâ—â—m and Oxfordshire where he had married the Lady â—â—igh of Ditchlâ—y and doing eminent service though in no Command by instructing them to secure the Passes to keep a 〈◊〉 Discâ—pline and offering to March towards London besides the great example of
capacity as this war was some of the Devils Black Guard may be listed among Gods Souldiers yet there were fewer oaths among them than in any Army then in England They say the Cornish-tongue affordeth but two natural oaths or but three at the most The sobriety of this Army which Sir Bevile would say were greater if less some being rather a burden than strength to it made them valiant its the foul Gun and the guilty Conscience that recoils as when Sir William Waller intended to break the Western Association at Landsdown was beaten out of his Lines and Hedges by Sir Bevill and not only so but forced likewise out of an high hill fortified on all sides the passage up very narrow and dangerous between a Wood lined with Musqueteers on the one hand and Hedges on the other gained after four desperate Repulses by Horse Foot and Canon by Sir Bevill and maintained with a Stand of his own Pikes with a gallantry and honor admired by his very enemies until he was unfortunately â—lain in the Head of his Men with the excellent Serjeant Major Lower at his feet and honorable Mr. Leake the Earl of Scarsedales Son with his enemies Colours about his armes to whom this mention is due Mr. Barker Lieutenant Col. Wall Mr. Bostard Captain Iames and Cholwell being found dead not far from him both sides bewailing him and the whole University of Oxford honoring his memory with a Book of Verses whereof these I pitched upon for his Epitaph NOt to be wrought by Malice Gain or Pride To a Compliance with the Triving Side Not to take Armes for Love of change or spight But only to maintain afflicted Right Not to dye Vainly in pursuit of Fame Perversly seeking after Voice and Name Is to resolve Fight Dye as Martyrs do And thus did he Souldier and Martyr too He might like some reserved Men of State Who look not to the Cause but to its Fate Have stood aloof Engaged on neither side Prepared at last to strike in with the Tide But well-weighed Reason told him that when Law Either's Renounced or Misapplied by th' awe Of false-nam'd Patriots that when the Right Of King and Subject is suppress'd by Might When all Religion either is refused As meer pretence or meerly as that used When thus the fury of Ambition swells Who is not active modestly Rebels VVhence in a just Esteem to Church and Crown He offered all and nothing thought his own This thrust him into Action whole and free Knowing no Interest but Loyalty Not loving Arms as Arms or Strife for Strife Nor Wasteful nor yet Sparing of his Life A great Exacter of himself and then By fair commands no less of other men Courage and Iudgment had their equal part Counsel was added to a generous heart Affairs were justly timed nor did he catch At an affected fame of quick dispatch Things were Prepar'd Debated and then done Not rashly Broke or vainly Overspun False Periods no where by design were made As are by those that make the VVar their Trade The Building still was suited to the Ground VVhence every Action issued full and round We know who blind their men with specious Lies With Revelation and with Prophecies Who promise two things to obtain a third And are themselves by the like Motives stir'd By no such Engine he his Soldiers drawes He knew no Arts but Courage and the Cause With these he brought them on as well-train'd Men And with those two he brought them off again When now th' Incensed Legions proudly came Down like a Torrent without Bank or Dam When understood Success urged on their Force That Thunder must come down to stop their Course or Greenvile must step in then Greenvile stood And with himself opposed check'd the Floud Conquest or Death was all his thoughts so Fire Either O'rcomes or doth it self Expire His Courage work't like flames cast Heat about Here there on this on that side none gave out Not any Pike in that renowned Stand But took new force from his inspiring Hand Souldier encourag'd Souldier Man urg'd Man And he urg'd all so much example can Hurt upon Hurt Wound upon Wound did call He was the Butt the Mark the Aim of all His Soul this while retir'd from Cell to Cell At last flew up from all and then he fell But the devoted Stand enraged more From that his Fate plied hotter than before And proud to fall with him sworn not to yeild Each sought an honored Grave so gain'd the Field Thus he being fallen his action Fought anew And the Dead Conquered whiles the Living slew This was not Natures Courage nor that thing We Valor call which Time and Reason bring But Diviner Fury fierce and high Valor transported into Extasie Which Angels looking on us from above Vse to convey into the Souls they love Doctor Lluelin ANd with this constant Principle possess 't He did alone expose his single Breast Against an Armies force and bleeding lay The Great Restorer of th' declining day Thus slain thy Vasiant Ancestor did Lie VVhen his one Barque a Navy durst defie When now encompass'd round he Victor stood And bath'd his Pinnace in his Conquering blood Till all his purple Current dried and spent He fell and left the Waves his Monument Where shall next famous Greenviles Ashes stand Thy Grandsire fills the Sea and thou the Land And there is a third Greenvile the Right Honorable Iohn Earl of Bathe Sir Beviles Son and Heir who having gone on so honorably all the War the Chronicle whereof swells with his name pursuing those great Actions his Father had begun in King Charles I. time that my Lord Dighy and that King writing to the Queen about making him of the Princes Bed-Chamber declare him then the most deserving young Gentleman in England and waited upon King Charles I. so faithfully that as he had been witness of his Majesties gracious intentions and thoughts towards his distracted Kingdoms abroad in his banishment so he was the first Messenger between his Majesty and his Kingdoms in order to his miraculous return home who should be the instrument of the Sons Restauration but Sir Bevile Greenviles Son who had so nobly dyed in defence of the Father And if there be any knowledge above among the blessed of what is done here below among us its King Charles the Martyrs satisfaction that his Son is restored to his Throne and it adds to Sir Bevill Greenviles bliss that his heir is the first messenger in the Kingdom met in Parliament of the Gracious Letters that accomplished that Restauration And here will be the most proper place to mention Sir Richard Greenvile Sir Beviles Brother who staid with the Parliament till two Treaties and the great condescention of his Majesty brought him over first to correspondence and when an opportunity offered its self of performing his Majesty a considerable service by carrying over with him the Government of a very advantageous Port-Town to actual service
contributing very much by possessing my Lord Roberts house taking Lesterman Castle and stopping most of the Passes which he understood very well to the famous streight wherein the Earl of Essex was caught in in Cornwall and a while after very active in besieging Col. Weldens Brigade and the Town of Taunton both at one time As he was up-the fatal defeat at Naseby in getting together 4 or 5 thousand Reformades in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwall where he pursued his Majesties quarrel as long as he had either a Garrison or a Regiment after the Treaty at Tresilian-bridge made between my Lord Hopton and Sir ◠F. for disbanding the Western Forces waiting on his Majesty that now is to Scilly Holland France c. where he was very instrumental in laying the model of the second or the Presbyterian War understanding by a long converse with the Faction their interest and humor of most of them by Sea and Land and that failing he followed his Majesties fortune abroad while he lived being accomplished as well with ingenious Arts that rendred him company for a Prince in time of peace as with those more severe that made him serviceable to him in War his youth and Sir Beviles being bred up in Exeter Colledge to all gentile habits of Learning Vertue and Complaisance yet in the midst of more soft pleasures as well as harder services his solid minde admits nothing scandalous either to his Religion or Cause both which a vertuous suffering pityed by mankind advancing as well as heroick attempts commended by them the first in the eyes of all men deserving that success which the last wanted to which circumspect converse he added frequent conferences to his Masters in the good opinion of those near him and an uninterrupted correspondence in the indefatigable way of Cyphers to keep them upright in their duty that were at distance salving all the strange Phaenomena of the Rebels success and his Majesties misfortunes in intire discourses which he kept of all transactions from first to last besides that he gained his Country much honor by his services to the Crowns of France and Spain evincing that the King of great Britain in his very Banishment had such Attendants his Court even then was the Scene of the most Heroick vertue in Europe as could serve any Prince and would one day restore their own the very sight of whom and some discourse with Sir R. Greenvile c. put many upon prophecying what we have lived to see particularly The Arch-bishop of Avignon sent a Scheme drawn up by one Oneal a great Mathematician demonstrating that his Majesty should return 1660. to London with as great triumph in peace as his blessed Father was 1641. driven out of it by tumults Neither did Sir Richard come over alone to the Kings service for the attractive of his example brought along another eminent Parliament-man that had been very active in the West by name Sir George Chudleigh who 1643. declared That Petitions of Right are commendable and Remonstrances may be lawful but Arms though defensive are ever doubtful my Lot saith he fell to be cast upon the Parliaments side by a strong opinion of the goodness of their Cause which to my judgment then appeared to be so Religion and the Subjects Liberty seemed to me to be in danger but the destruction of the Kingdom cannot be the way to save it nor can the loss of Christian Subjects nor the Subjects loss of their Estates by Plunder and Assessement consist with Piety nor yet with propriety As for Religion his Majesty whom God long preserve hath given us unquestionable security I have cast my self at my Soveraigns feet and implored his gracious pardon I will contend no more in words or deed And this my resolution with the indisputable grounds thereof I thought good to declare to my Friends and Country-men that they may understand my sitting he means at Oxford to proceed from no compulsion He and his Son men of great Reputation in the West redeeming their former miscarriage by very eminent services in Counsel and in Arms and by this time we see the reason why the men at VVestminster who understood nothing but English Proclaimed Sir Richard Greenvile Traytor in three Languages and they which hated Images hanged him in Effigie excepting him out of their pardon even for that very reason for which God took him to his even because he repented Euge virtus suis firmior erroribus uti confracta solidior a sunt ut plurimum ossa nisi errassent Heroes paenitentes fecerant minus To these I may adde Chammo Greenvile of Pughill Cornwall who is 657 l. deep in their Books at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and Thomas Chudley of Aishton Devonshire 430 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES LUCAS HAD not his Ancestor Sir Giles Lucas appeared in the Roll of the Essex Gentry made 12 Hen. 6. 1433. nor his Kinsman Thomas Lucas Esq been Secretary and Counsellor to Iasper Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke 1385. had there not been a succession of Knights and Squires Sheriffs and Justices of that County for eleven Kings Reigns had he not been Brother to the most Illustrious Princess Margaret Dutchess of New-Castle a Lady admired in this Age and to be understood in the next which will be convinced by her that there is no Sex in the minde and that the delicate Piece of the Creation we call Woman having a Male-soul as well as we was not only made for dalliance And to the Right Honorable the Lord Lucas the great instance of a learned wise and sober Nobility who intending with Horse and Arms to wait on his Majesty in the North Aug. 22. 1642. was discovered surprized plundered to a great value carryed to London and imprisoned there till he gave 40000 l. Bail to appear upon summons and not to depart London without leave One of the first that suffered for his Loyalty in his Country and one of the forwardest when he arrived at Oxford where he was made Baron Lucas of Shenfield Ian. 3. 1644. 20 Car. I. in asserting it by sober Counsel and by a well-guided Arms in others Sir Charles Lucas had worth enough to raise a Family himself being the first that entred the breach at Breda the last Siege when Cornet of Horse to Sir Io. Coniers in the Low-Countries where the sweet generosity of his nature to all men his soul being universalized especially those of his own noble disposition there one might have seen running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he would ever have emptied his soul into theirs The greatness of his spirit whose soul came into the world as the Chaldee Oracle phraseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cloathed with a great deal of minde more impregnated than others with rich notions which by way of Theory he comprehended exactly from books and by way of practice from experience and observation together with his prudent reach unwearied patience close
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
Person viz. That this great truth that the imprisoning killing or deposing of any Supream Governor who is Gods Minister in a Nation is against the Will and Word of God should be offered by the Clergy of England to be proved by Scripture and if not regarded to be sealed with their bloud and with the Joynt-attestation of all Protestant Churches and Universities as the great principle of Christian Doctrine about the Peace and Government of Kingdoms and Nations And as he saith in his Letter Feb. 11. 1647. thinking of little else in this world than what he should do for the preservation of his Sacred Majesty than whose sufferings there was nothing greater he said except his vertues as a Christian a Subject an Englishman a Nobleman and an obliged Servant he caused a Rumor to be spread of his design which put the General upon calling him in from his Parole and upon his frank appearance he was dimissed till the Parliament should send for him so being free from his engagement which was as sacred to him as his Allegiance he went to Colchester with all the Horse he had and there incouraged the Souldiers by his own example going with an Halberd on his shoulder to the watch and guard in his turn paying six pence or twelve pence a shot for all the Enemies Bullets the Souldiers could pick up Charging the first day of the siege aâ— Head-gate where the Enemy was most pressing with a Pike till the gate could be shut which at last was but pinned with his Cane and after the Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle when Whaley and Ewres were sent to tell him and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that they should have quarter as Prisoners answering them himself That since the condition of those two Gentlemen and theirs in reference to that service were alike they wished they had all run one hazard and they had thanked the General more for saving the Lives of the two Knights whom they had already executed than for the grant of their own From Colchester my Lord was sent to the remotest Prison they could imagine from his own Countrey and thence fetched up to the Tower where after a handsome escape over the water to Lambeth wherein he was betrayed by the wretched Water-man that carryed him over who discovered him by his munificence the Gold he gave him he spent not his time in thoughts for his own Life but for that of his Majesties conjuring a Lord then sitting to second their Vote against the Ordinance for Tryal of his Majesty with a resolute Declaration to all Kings Princes States Potentates and Nobility to be signed by all the Lords Judges Lawyers Divines Gentry and people of England and this he pressed with most pathetick Arguments whereof one was very remarkable viz. That he understood by his dear-bought experience of those men of the Enthusiasm that let them but meet a well-grounded and justificable Zeal Courage and Resolution greater than their misguided fury to stemme the Torrent of it they would recollect and as he said observing some hesitation in their proceedings who found it easier to Conquer a people than to govern them against their Interest by a small part of themselves it being easier to overthrow another Government than to settle their own in an excellent Letter from the Tower Ian. 9. 1648. full of a Noble and Heroick Spirit which he concludes with this expression That it grieved him that he could do nothing else but rub his fingers upon Paper an imployment that fitted not his Genius Give saith he but the people an honorable example they will follow you and vindicate both you and themselves from being as such a silly Generation that they should suffer themselves to be cozened out of their good known and established Laws and in the place of them be imposed upon by Imaginations and Dreams to which he added another Letter Ian. 15. to a very great man in the Army every line whereof runs with this vigor against their proceedings YOur Party is small and giddy the thing its self is monstrous the Lords and Commons under whom you fought are against you all Princes and Protestants will abhor you Scotland will be dis-united from England Ireland will be lost Trade will be stopped by all Kings and States with people of so dangerous principles all Nations will be ready to invade us many of the Judges to sit upon the King will leave you the Empire of the Sea will be lost the Nation will be infamous to Posterity the Protestant yea Christian Religion will receive a deadly blow to be revenged by all people that profess it no man is sure of his life or any thing he hath the most prudent Form of Rules the world hath known will be overthrown a vast number of people are concerned in those Rules no example will be-friend you all Potentates will be against you and the Prince to be murthered so excellent and knowing in the Art of Government so loved reverenced and desired that of all the Princes that that ever ruled the people that were so happy in the first sixteen years of his Reign were they to chuse would pitch upon him and which is more the only person in whom his enemies may finde security being otherwise like to be torn to pieces by their Fellow-subjects upon the least change the express word of the great God in whose hands you are is against you Prov. 8. 15. 1 Sam 24 5 6. Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. c. the Laws of the Land your own Judges yea your own Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and Pretences all along fly in your faces the Prince the two Dukes and the numerous Royal issue should deter you the Precipice of endless Wars and Desolations you are at the brink of should affright you Words big with his heart which you may see at large at the end of his incomparable Book of Meditations as appears by this close I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it than you will allow your self for all your other Merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most Affectionate Friend How readily he would have dyed for him we may see in his chearfulness to dye with him for being brought before an High Court of Justice as it was called within a moneth after having offered brave Arguments from the Law of the Land the Government of the Nation the nullity of their Court the benefit of his Peerage and the Law that governed the world meaning the Sword by which he was promised quarter for life he heard the Villains ridiculous Sentence with a nobler spirit than they pronounced it telling them That they needed not have used those formalities to murther him And March the ninth the day appointed for the Assassination having conjured his Lady in two Letters That
to his Master In that imployment he was made Prebendary of York and then of Rippon the Dean of which Church having made him his Sub-Dean he managed the Affairs of the Church so well that he soon acquired a greater same and entred into the possession of many hearts and admiration to those many more that knew him There and at his Parsonage he continued long to do the duty of a learned and good Preacher and by his Wisdom Eloquence and Deportment so gained the affections of the Nobility Gentry and Commons of that Country that as at his return thither upon the Restauration of his most sacred Majesty he knew himself obliged enough and was so kinde as to give them a visit so they by their coming in great numbers to meet him their joyful Reception of him their great caressing of him while he was there their forward hopes to enjoy him as their Bishop their trouble at his departure their unwillingness to let him go away give signal Testimonies that they were wise and kinde enough to understand and value his great worth But while he lived there he was like a Diamond in the dust or Lucius Quintius at the plough his low fortune covered a most valuable person till he came to be discovered by Sir Thomas Wentworth Lord President of York whom we all knew for his great Excellencies and his great but glorious Misfortunes This rare person espyed the great abilities of Dr. Bramhall and made him his Chaplain and brought him into Ireland as one whom he believed would prove the most fit Instrument to serve in that design which for two years before his Arrival here he had greatly meditated and resolved the Reformation of Religion and the Reparation of the broken fortunes of the Church The Complaints were many the Abuses great the Causes of the Church vastly numerous but as fast as they were brought in so fast were they referred back by the Lord Deputy to Dr. Bramhall who by his indefatigable pains great sagacity perpetual watchfulness daily and hourly Consultations reduced things to a more tollerable condition than they had been left in by Schismatical principles of some and unjust Prepossessions of others for many years before For at the Reformation the Popish Bishops and Priests seemed to conform and did so that keeping their Bishopricks they might enrich their kindred and dilapidate the Revenues of the Church which by pretended-Offices false Informations Fee-farms at contemptible Rents and ungodly Alienations were made low as Poverty it self and unfit to minister to the needs of them that served the Altar or the noblest purposes of Religion for Hospitality decayed and the Bishops were easily to be oppressed by those that would and they complained but for a long time had no helper till God raised that glorious Instrument the Earl of Strafford who brought over with him as great Affections to the Church and to all publick Interests and as admirable abilities as ever before his time did invest and adorn any of the Kings Vicegerents and God fitted his hand with an Instrument good as his skill was great For the first specimen of his Abilities and Diligence in the recovery of some lost Tythes being represented to his late Majesty of blessed and glorious Memory it pleased his Majesty upon the death of Bishop Downham to advance the Doctor the Biâ—â—oprick of Derry which he not only adorned with an excellent spirit and a wise Government but did more than double the Revenue not by taking away any thing from them to whom it was due but by resuming something of the Churches Patrimony which by undue means was detained in unsitting hands But his care was beyond his Diocésse and his zeal broke out to warm all his Brethren and though by reason of the favor and Piety of King Iames the escheated Counties were well provided for their Tythes yet the Bishopâ—icks were not so well till the Primato then Bishop of Derry by the favor of the Lord Lieutenant and his own incessant and assiduous labor and wise Conduct brought in divers Impropriations cancelled many unjust Alienations and did restore them to a condition much more tollerable for he raised them above contempt yet they were not near to envy but he knew there could not in all times be wanting too many that envied to the Church every degree of Prosperity So Iudas did to Christ the expence of Oyntment and so Dionisius told the Priest when himself stole the Golden Cloak from Apollo and gave him one of Arcadian home-spun that it was warmer for him in Winter and colder in Summer And so ever since the Church by Gods blessing and the favor of Religious Kings and Princes and pious Nobility hath been endowed with fair Revenues inimicus homo the enemy hath not been wanting by pretences of Religion to take away Gods portion from the Church as if his word were intended as an Instrument to rob his Houses But when the Israelites were governed by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and God was their King and Moses his Lieutenant and things were of his management he was pleased by making great provisions for them that ministred in the service of the Tabernacle to consign this truth for ever That Men as they love God at the same rate are to make provisions for his Priests But this to no other end than to represent upon what Religious grounds the then Bishop of Derry did with so much care and assiduous labour endeavor to restore the Church of Ireland to that splendor and fulness which did much conduce to the honor of God and of Religion This wise Prelate rarely well understood it and having the same advantage and blessing as we have now a Gracious King and a Lieutenent Patron of Religion and the Church he improved the â—â—posita Pietatis as Origen calls them The Gages of Piety which the Religion of the ancient Princes and Nobles of this Kingdom had bountifully given to such a comfortable competency that though there be place for present and future piety to inlarge it yet no man hath reason to be discouraged in his duty insomuch that as I have heard from a most worthy hand that at his going into England he gave account to the Archbishop of Canterbury of 30000 l. a year in the recovery of which he was greatly and principally instrumental But the Goods of this World are called Waters by Solomon stollen waters are sweet and they are too unstable to be stopp'd Some of these Waters did run back from their Channel and return to another Course than God and the Laws intended yet his labours and pious Counsels were not the less acceptable to God and to good Men and therefore by a thankful and honorable recognition the Convocation of the Church of Ireland hath transmitted in Record to Posterity their deep resentment of his singular services and great abilities in this whole affair And this honor will for ever remain to that Bishop of Derry he had a
could not kill that great same which his greater worthiness had procured him It was said of Hippâ—sus the Pythagorean that being asked how and what he had done he answered Nondum nihil neque enim mihi adhuc invidetur I have done nothing yet for no man envies me He that doth great things cannot avoid the tongues and teeth of envy But if Calumnies must pass for Evidences the bravest Hero's must always be the most reproached persons in the world Nascitur Aetolicus pravam ingeniosus ad omne Qui facere assuerat patriae non degeneratis Candida de nigris de candentibus atra Every thing can have an ill name and an ill sense put upon it but God who takes care of Reputations as he doth of lives by the order of his providence confutes the slander ut memoria justorum sit in benedictionibus that the Memory of the Righteous might be embalmed with honor And so it hapned to this great man for by a publick warranty by the concurrent consent of both Houses of Parliament the libellous Petitions against him the false Records and publick Monuments of injurious shame were cancell'd and he was restored in integrum to that fame where his great labors and just procedures had first Estated him which though it was but justice yet it was also such honor that it is greater than the virulence of tongues his worthiness and their envy had arm'd against him But yet the great Scene of troubles was but newly open'd I shall not refuse to speak yet more of his troubles as remembring that St. Paul when he discourses of the glory of the Saints departed he tells more of their Sufferings than of their Prosperities as being that Laboratory and Crysable in which God makes his Servants Vessels of honor to his glory The storm quickly grew high transitum a linguis ad gladios and that was indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iniquity had put on Arms when it is armata nequitia then a man is hard put to it The Rebellion breaking out the Bishop went to his Charge at Derry and because he was within the defence of the Walls the execrable Traytor Sir Phelim O Neal laid a snare to bring him to a dishonorable death for he wrote a Letter to the Bishop pretended intelligence between them desired that according to their former agreement such a Gate might be delivered to him The Messenger was not advis'd to be Cautious not at all instructed in the Art of Secrecy for it was intended that he should be search'd intercepted and hanged for ought they car'd but the Arrow was shot against the Bishop that he might be accused for base conspiracy and dye with shame and sad dishonor But here God manifested his mighty care of his Servants he was pleased to send into the heart of the Messenger such affrightment that he directly ran away with the Letter and never came near the Town to deliver it This story was published by Sir Phelim himself who added that if he could have thus ensnared the Bishop he had good assurance the Town should have been his own Sed bonitas Dei praevalitura est super omnem vâ—alitionem hominis The goodness of God is greater than all the malice of men and nothing so could prove how dear that Sacred Life was to God as his rescue from the dangers Stantia non poterant tecta probare Deos To have kept him in a warm house had been nothing unless the Roof had fallen upon his Head that rescue was a remark of Divine Favour and Providence But it seems Sir Phelim's Treason against this worthy man had a correspondent in Town and it broke out speedily for what they could not effect by a malicious stratagem they did in part by open force they turned the Bishop out of Town and upon trifling and unjust pretences search'd his Carriages and took what they pleased till they were ashamed to take more They did worse than Divorce him from his Church for in all the Roman Divorces they said Tuas tibi res habeto Take your Goods and be gone but Plunder was Religion then However though the usage was sad yet it was recompenced to him by taking Sanctuary in Oxford where he was graciously received by that most incomparable and divine Prince but having served the King in York-shire by his Pen and by his Counsels and by his Interests returned back to Ireland where under the excellent Conduct of his Grace the now Lord Lieutenant he ran the risque and fortune of oppressed vertue But God having still resolved to afflict us the good man was forced into the fortune of the Patriarchs to leave his Country and his Charges and seek for safety and bread in a strange Land for so the Prophets were used to do wandring up and down in Sheeps Cloathing but poor as they were the world was not worthy of them and this worthy Man despising the shame took up his Crosse and followed his Master Exilium causa ipsa jubet sibi dulce videri Et de siderium dulce levat patriae He was not ashamed to suffer where the Cause was honorable and glorious but so God provided for the needs of his banished and sent a man who could minister comfort to the afflicted and courage to the persecuted and resolutions to the tempted and strength to that Religion for which they all suffered And here indeed this great Man was Triumphant this was one of the last and best Scenes of his life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Last Days are the best Witnesses of Man But so it was that he stood in publick and brave defence for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England First by his sufferings and great example for verbis tantum Philosophari non est Doctoris sed Histrionis To talk well and not to do bravely is for a Comaedian not a Divine But this great man did both he suffered his own Calamity with great Courage and by his Wise Discourses strengthened the hearts of others For there wanted not diligent Tempters in the Church of Rome who taking advantage of the afflictions of his Sacred Majesty in which state men commonly suspect every thing and like men in Sickness are willing to change from Side to Side hoping for ease and finding none flew at the Royal Game and hoped to draw away the King from that Religion which his most Royal Father the best Man and wisest Prince in the World had Seal'd with the best Bloud in Christendom and which Himself Suck'd in with his Education and had Confirmed by Choice and Reason and Confessed Publickly and Bravely and hath since Restored Prosperously Millitiere was the man witty and bold enough to attempt a zealous and a foolish Undertaking and addressed himself with Ignoble indeed but Witty Arts to perswade the King to leave what was dearer to him than his Eyes It is true it was a Wave dashed against the Rock and an Arrow shot against the
of matter then to learn words yea letters drop by drop but nothing was unconquerable to his pains who had a golden Wit in an iron Body The Warr being over and God having ended the Controversie for that time for reasons best known to his infinite wisdom in a way that cut off the most eminent Divines and Scholars of the Church of England from that Calling to which they were set apart This publick spirited Gentleman for the glory of God the clearing of the holy Scriptures in those dayes of Enthusiasm the imploying and supporting of persecuted Scholars in a way honourable to the Church and themselves then under reproach drew a draught of the Work comprehending the Hebrew Chaldee and Greek Originals with the Samaritan Pentateuch the Samaritan the Greek Septuagint the Chaldee the Syriack the Arabick the AEthiopick the Persian and Vulgar Latine Translations the Latine Translations of the Oriental Texts and Versions out of the best Copies and Manuscripts with many additions to the Spanish and French Bibles and a new method giving the Text and all the Translations in one view with several learned Discourses various Lections about which our Doctor hath a learned Tract against the suggestions of Dr. Owen Annotations Indexes all suitable to so great a Work This draught was by Sr. George Ratcliff that Promoter of all honourable Designs shewed the King abroad who encouraging it with a countenance worthy a Prince set the Doctor with the Bishop of London Dr. Iuxons leave and license and all the other Bishops then living consents upon the compleating of it as he did beginning 1653 and finishing it 1657 with a Grammar preparatory to it agreeable to his Motto Labore Constantia For which and his other services as his late Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary he was upon his present Majesties Return to whom he dedicated the Book preferred to the Bishoprick of Chester a Diocess he had but newly reduced by his discreet practises rational conferences great reputation and unwearied pains to some measure of regularity when it pleased God he died 1661. When their work is done God sends his servants to bed He lyeth buried in St. Pauls Cathedral with this Monument Manet heic novissimam Resurrectionis Angeli Tubam BRIANVS WALTON Cestrensis Episcopus Epitaphium aliud ne quaeras Viator Cui luculentum est vel ipsum nomen Epitaphium Quod si explicatius velis Famam consule non tumulum Interim Hic ille est si nescire fas sit Eximius Doctor Qui sub nupera Tyrannide labanti Ecclesiae Suppetias cum Primis tulit Clero a Rebelli Prophanaque Plebe conculcato Improperium Abstulit Religioni apud nos Reformati Professae Gloriam attulit Dum Fremente licet Gehenna Biblia Polyglotta summo prae caeteris studio excoluit Et Excudi procuravit Inde Utrinque Testamentum promeruit Monumentum Et maximis Impensis posuit Quare Longo titulorum Syrmate superbire non indiget Qui nomen jam scriptum habet In Libro Vitae Decessit Vigiliis St. Andreae Nov. 29. AEtatis LXII Consecrationis 1. Salutis CDICOLXI And that this Doctor may not as the Ottoman Princes to support his own Reputation suppress that of his younger Brothers the eminent men contributing to this great work by their advice assistance or intercessions besides those excellent Personages now living as the most Reverend Fathers in God Gilbert Shelden Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Sterne Lord Archbishop of York Dr. Merick Casaubon who procured them a Targum Hierosolymitanum Dr. Pococke who lent an AEthiopick Psalter and was very helpful in the Arabick Version The great Scholar and Linguist Mr. Thornedyke Sir Tho. Cotton who afforded them many M SS and Rarities Dr. Tho. Greaves Alexander Hughes Prebend of Wâ—lls very helpful about the LXX and the Vulgar Latine Dr. Bruine Rieves then Dean of Chichester and Sequestred now Dean of Windsor Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Sir Tho. Wâ—ndy old Mr. Dudley Lostus of Dublin as famous for his Learning as Illustrious by his ancient Extraction sending over an AEthiopick New Testament to the Right Honorable the Earls of Bedford Rutland Strafford and Westmoreland Sir Anthony Chester Sir Norton Knatchbull Dr. Barlow of Queeâ—ns Colledge in Oxford Sir William Farmer of East Measton in Northampton-shire notwithstanding his heavy Composition 1400 l. 840 l. Sir Francis Burdet Mr. Iohn Ashburnham the Honorable Lords Petre and Caepâ—â— since Earl of Fssex and the great Patrons of Learning Baptist Lord Viscount Cambden and the good Lord Maynard heir to all his Fathers Vertues especially to his respects to learning Vertue Mr. Thomas Smith Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge and Library-keeper Mr. Samuel Clerke of Merton Colledge in Oxford Esquire Bedle and Architypographus of that University Mr. Thomas Hyde Library-keeper there Mr. Richard Drake of Pembroke-hall and to conclude with one that is all as over-looking and Correcting all Dr. Edmund Castle of whom the Bishop saith truly In quo Eruditio summa magna animi modestia convenere who is now about a work next in use and renown to that wherein in reference to the Samaritane the Syriack the Arabick and AEthiopick Version he had a chief hand in I mean a Polyglot Dictionary a man since his worth if his humility did permit it might say of its self as Arias Montanus doth De me ac de meo labore et Industria quantulacunque ea â—st nihil profiteor hoc tamen unum recenseo me seilicet continuo Immortales Deo gratias agere quod 10. Idi omatum cognitionem mihi pro sua clementia et henignitate Impertitus sit I should be ashamed it should be said of us as it was said of some in Arias his time that we envied and disregarded his worth so far ut ad causam dicendam citatus vix venia Impetrata protantorum laborum praemio secossum in Boetica sua in quo se bona consciâ—ntia fretus sacrorum Librorum Lectione ac Lucubratione solaretur acceperit Thuan. hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. I say besides those excellent Personages now living and others already dead and mentioned as Dean Fuller Dr. Hammond Bishop Brownrig Mr. Patrick Young one well-deserving of Critical and Historical Learning his late Majesties Library keeper Sir Iohn Hele who did and suffered much for his Majesty in Dorcetshire and Wiltshire being forced to turn his Lands to Money to compound with the Parliament as they called it having given all his money to the King as did Walter Hele Esq Devon who'paid 4â—â— l. The Earl of â—indsey Dr. Samuel Baker Besides all these there were assistants to this Work these Royalists 1. Mr. Abraham Wheelocke born in White-Church Parish in Shropshire bred Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge where he was Keeper of the publick Library Minister of t. Sepulchres and Professor of the Arabick Tongue erected by Sir Thomas Adams born at Wem in the same County the Father of the City of London who though he suffered
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
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
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
Thomas Fuller bestoweth this Epitaph upon him Hic Johnsone jacet sed si mors cederet herbis Arte fuguata tua cederet illa tuis Col. Henry Gage in whose wreath of Laurel his twice relieving this house in two still foggy nights not knowing his way but as he fought it through four times the number of the wearied men he had with him deserves to be twisted and whose history is drawn up on his Monument which after two Funerals will not suffer him to dye being likely to continue his worth after our ruins as long as Seth intended his stones should Letters after both the destructions of the world in Christ Church Oxford thus P. M. S. Hic situs est Militum chiliarcha Henricus Gage equitis aurati Filius hares Johannis Gage de Haling in agro surriensâ— Armigeri Pronepos Johannis Gage honeratissimi ordinis peris celidis equitis in Belgio meruit supra annos XX. in omnipraeliâ— obsidione Berghae ad Zomam Bredae ac praecipue S. audomori ex Belgio ad M. Brit. regem missus attulit armorum VI. M. Cujus imperio Bostalii aeâ—es expugnavit Mox Basingianis prasidiariis commeatu interclusis strenue rejam desperata suppetias tulit castrum Bamburiense cum Northamptoniae comite liberavit hinc equestri dignitate ornatus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit jamque gubernator Oxon. creatus cum ad Culhami Pontem inhostes jam tertio milites audacter duceret plumbea traject us glande occubuit Die XI Janua 1644. aetat suae 47. funus solemni luctu prosequnti Principes Proceres Milites Academici Cives â—mnes Iam tristissimi ex dessiderio viri ingenio linguarum peritia gloria militari pietate fide amore in principem patriam eminentissimi THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord DIGBY Earl of Bristol THis Noble man was the younger Son of an Ancient Family of the Digbies long flourishing at Coleshull in Warwick-shire who to pass by his Infancy all children are alike in their Long-coats in his Youth as his Son did gave pregnant hopes of that eminency which his Mature Age did produce and coming to Court with an Annuity of fifty pounds a year besides a good Address and choice Abilities both for Ceremonies and business He kenned the Ambassadors craft as well as any man living in his time employed by King Iames in several services to forraign Princes recited in his Patent as the main motives of the Honors conferred upon him among which the Spanish Match managed by him from 1616. to 1623. was his master-piece wherein if his Lordship dealt in generalities and did not press particulars we may guess the reason of it from that expression of his I will take care to have my Instructions perfect and will pursue them punctually If he held affairs in suspence that it might not come to a war on our side it may be he did so with more regard to his Master King Iames his Inclination than his own Apprehension If he said that howsoever the business went he would make his fortune thereby it rather argued the freedom of his spirit that he said so his sufficiency that he could do so than his unfaithfulness that he did do so This is certain that he chose rather to come home and suffer the utmost displeasure of the King of England than stay abroad and injoy the highest favour of the King of Spain He did indeed interceed for Indulgence to Papists but it was because otherwise he could do no good beyond sea for the Protestants The worst saith a learned Protestant that conversed with him much at Exeter during the siege of it and was invited to live with him beyond Sea after it he saying that as long as he had a Loaf the Doctor should have half of it I wish such who causlessly suspect him of Popish Inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong arguments for the Protestant Religion as I heard from him who many years after the contract with the Duke of Buckingham which the Duke fearing his preventing policy as he did the Dukes after-power became a drawn battel under the Kings displeasure and as the Court-cloud makes the Countries shine in the peoples favour yet bestowed his parts and interest in the beginning of the Long-Parliament upon the vindication of the Church as appears by his excellent Speeches for Episcopacy and the peace of the kingdom as he shewed in his admirable discourse 1641. of an Accommodation The reason which together with a suspicion that he was the Author of most of his Majesties Counsels and Declarations inrolled him always among the excepted persons in the number of whom he died banished in France about 1650. having met with that respect in Forreign that he missed in his Native Country 1. For whatever was at the bottom of his actions there was resolution and nobleness at top being carried from Village to Village after the King of Spain without the regard due to his person or place he expressed himself so generously that the Spanish Courtiers trembled and the King Declared That he would not interrupt his pleasures with business at Lerma for any Ambassador in the world but the English nor for any English Ambassador but Don Juan 2. When impure Scioppius upon his Libel against King Iames and Sir Humphrey Bennets complaint to the Arch-Duke against him fled into Madrid my Lord observing that it was impossible to have justice againstâ— him from the Catholick King because of the Jesuites puts his Cousien G. Digby upon cutting him which he did over his Nose and Mouth wherewith he offended so that he carried the mark of his blasphemy to his Grave 3. Where he was an extraordinary Ambassador in Germany upon his return by Hâ—ydelâ—ergh observing that Count Mansfield Army upon whom depended the fortune of the Palsgrave was like to disband for want of money he pawned all his Plate and Jewels to buoy up that Sinking Cause for that time There were besides him of this Family these famous men 1. Sir Iohn Digby a Sommerset-shire Gentleman of good education beyond Seas and of a great temperance and conduct at home careful of removing the jealousies got among the people being of the Earl of Bristol's minde in that that it is easier to compose differences arising from reasons yea from wrongs than from jealousies and that the nicest point in all Treaties is security Commanding a Tertia of the Kings Army which he raised in Sommerset-shire with great vigilance activity and charge spending 25000 l. from the time he waited on his Majesty at Nottingham 1642. having put the Commission of Array in execution in Sommersetshire to the time he 1645. received his deaths wound in a gallant action at Langfort in the foresaid County whereof he died 2. His Brother for parts as well as bloud Sir Kenelme Digby both bred abroad and both out of gratefulness faithful to King Charles who restored them upon his Queens Intercession
dying 1660. a great enemy of Tobacco because of Sir Water Rawleighs testimony of it that he saw the Spanish Negroes throwing the running of their sores and boils in the leaves as they lay in a swet say Yâ— Pauperos Lutheranos good enough for the Dogs the Lutherans Sir Iohn Banks born at Keswicke and bred at Grays-Inn attaining to great experience by solliciting Suits for others and a great Estate by managing those of his own laughing at many at last that smiled at him at first leaving many behind him in Learning that he found before him in time He was one whom the Chollor of S S S worn by Judges and other Magistrates became very well if it had its name from Sanctus Simon Simplicius no man being more seriously pious none more singly honest When Sir Henry Savile came to Sir Edward Cooke then at Bowls in Arch-bishop Abbots behalf and told him he had a Case to propose to him Sir Edward answered if it be a Case in Common-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I cannot presently satisfie you but if it be a point of Statute-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I should undertake to satisfie you without consulting my Books Sir Iohn Banks though ready without his Books on the Bench yet alwayes resolved Cases out of them in his Chamber answerable to his saying to Dr. Sibbs A good Textuary is a good Lawyer as well as a good Divine A Gentleman he was of singular modesty of the Ancient freedom plain heartedness and integrity of minde very grave and severe in his deportment yet very affable in such sort that as Tacitus saith of Agrippa Illi quod est Rarissimum 〈◊〉 facilitâ—s authoritatem nec sâ—veritas amorem diminuit his knowledge in the Law and inward reason of it was very profound his experience in Affairs of State universal and well laid patient he was in hearing sparing but pertinent in speaking very glad always to have things represented truly and clearly and when it was otherwise able to discern through all pretences the real merit of a Cause Being a Religious and moderate man he became of good repute with the people and being an able man he was taken notice of by the King who Knighting him in August 10. Car. I. when Reader of Grays-Inn and the Princes Sollicitor made him in Mr. Noys place Attorney General and in Hil. Term 16 Car. I. Chief Justice in Sir Edward Litletons place in which place he continued at London till his presence being made an Argument for Illegal proceedings he went himself and drew several others he had interest in to Oxford His prudent and valiant Lady with her numerous and noble Off-spring retiring to her House Corfe-Castle in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset-shire and when besieged there by Sir Will. Earl and Sir Tho. Trenchard who wanted this Castle only to make the Sea-Coast their own keeping it against three surprizes a Proclamation Interdicting her the common Markets the clamor of the common people thereabouts the intercepting of 200. weight of Powder strict Watches set about it a while with forty men yeâ— but five at first and then by the benefit of a Treaty wherein shâ— yeilded up the four small pieces to the Enemy on condition she might have her house and so making her adversaries more remiss gained an opportunity to re-inforce the Castle with Commanders Ammunition Provision and Souldiers who notwithstanding the endeavours to corrupt them with Bribes and the Plunder of the Castle notwithstanding the enemies taking the Town and Church the Oath to give no Quarter the Engines they made the Supplies of war sent in every day by the Earl of Warwick their encouraging the Souldiers first with mony twenty pound a man and afterwards with Drink and Opium to Scale the Walls in a desperate Assault kept it six weeks till August 4. 1643. when the Besiegers ran away leaving their Horse Armes Ammunition behind them the vallant Lady her self with her Daughters and Maidservants maintaining one Post in the Castle Captain Laurence Sir Edwards Son and Captain Bond keeping another Sir Iohn died December 28. 1644. and in the 55. year of his age having one Monument in Christ-Church P. M. S. Hoc loco in spem futuri saeculi depositum jacet Io. Bankes qui Reginalis Coll. in hac Acad. Alumnus eques Auratus ornatissimus Attornat Gener. de Com. Banco Cap. Justitiarius a Secretioribus Conciliis Regi Carolo Peritiam Integritaâ—em sidem Egregie praestitit ex aede Christi in Aedes Christi transiliit unicam hinc Monumento suo sub mortem vovens Periodum Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo sit gloria And another 30 l. per annum with other emoluments to be bestowed in pious uses and chiefly to set up a Manufacture of course Cottons in the Town of Kiswick which hath good and is in hopes of better success besides that it cost his Lady and her nine Children for their Fathers Loyalty 1400 l. and her Son-in-law that married her eldest Daughter the excellent Lady Burlace Sir Io. Burlace of Maidmenham Bucks who suffered several imprisonments and decimations from the Kings enemies and was very civil upon all occasions to his friends 3500 l. Sir Bankes Son and Heir to Sir Io. 1974 l. Sir Thomas Gardner born as I am informed near Oxford bred in the Inner-Temple London A Gentleman that won much upon all men by a natural grace that was upon his person and actions and upon his Clients by his Integrity Condescention and Watchfulness Other Lawyers are for the increase of their own number he spent a great deal of his time to consider how to reduce them especially the Atturneys and Solicitors the supernumeraries whereof he would say make no other use of Laws but to finde tricks to evade them or making them right Cobwebs to insnare the people and the Law too being more for promoting good Orders to execute old Laws than for preferring â—ills to make new ones The Faction had no other quarrel with him than the Clowns had with Sir Iohn Cavendish in Wat Tyler and King Richarâ— the Seconds time because he was learned and honest for being made Recorder of London Term. Hil. 11 mo Car. I. they charged him 1. For directing the Lord in setting up the Kings Standard and impressing men against the Scots 2. For promoting Ship-money the Loan and Tonnage and Poundage 3. For prosecuting seditious Libellers Petitioners and Rioters And 4. For procuring his Majesty that noble entertainment 1641. upon his return from Scotland from the City to amuse the Parliament 5. For drawing and carrying on some more sober Petitions than were usual in those times whereupon he retired to York and thence to Oxford where he Sate in the Parliament assisted in the Treaties offering always three things 1. A Committee to state the differences 2. A particular consideration of those things wherein the people are to be relieved and the King
who upon the relation of his condition said Take I pray my counsel I have taken notice of your walking more than twenty miles a day in one furlong upwards and downwards and what is spent in needless going and returning if laid out in progressive motion would bring you into your own Country I will suit you if so pleased with a light habit and furnish you with competent money for a Foot-man A counsel and kindness that was taken accordingly He died 1649. leaving several Manuscripts to several friends to publish but as Aristotle saith against Plato's community of Wives and the educating of Children at a charge what is every mans work is no mans work Sir Simon Baskervile and Dr. Vivian two Natives and Physicians I think of Exeter City in Devon-shire and Studients of Exeter Colledge in Oxford that never took Fee of an Orthodox Minister under a Dean nor of any suffering Cavalier under a Gentleman of an 100 l. a year but with Physick to their bodies as Dr. Hardy saith of the worthy honest and able Dr. Alexander Burnet of Lime-street London a good Neighbor a cordial Friend a careful Physician and a bounteous Parishioner who died 1665. and deserveth to be remembred generally gave relief to their necessities Anthony Lord Gray the eighth Earl of Kent was a conformable Minister of the Church of England at Burback in Leicesterâ—shire 1939. when he was called as Earl of Kent to be a Peer of the Parliament of England at Westminster The Emperor Sigismund Knighting a Doctor of Law saw him slight the Company of Doctors and associate with Knights when smiling at him he said I can make many Knights at my pleasure when indeed I cannot make one Doctor This Earl excused his attendance on the Parliament by his Indisposition not liking their proceedings and continued in the Church-service approving its Doctrine and Discipline for which he was looked on with an evil eye and by God with a gracious one for making like a Diamond set in gold his greatness a support to goodness his Honors not changing his Manners and the mortified Man being no more affected with the addition of Titles than a Corps with a gay Coffin Of which temper was Mr. Simon Lynch born at Groves in Staple-Parish in Kent bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge and made by Bishop Ailmer his Kinsman Minister of North Weale a small Living then worth 40 l. a year in the foresaid County with this Incouragement Play Cousin with this a while till a better comes who profering him Brent-wood-weal three times better afterwards had this answer That he preferred the Weal of his Parishioners souls before any Weal whatsoever Living there 64. years where he kept a good House and brought up 40. Children and dying 1656. Mr. Ioseph Diggons bred in Clare-hall Cambridge in the Reverend Dr. Paskes time for whose sake he gave that Hall 130 l. per annum as he did for the King and Churches sake for which he had suffered as much as a wary man could 700 l. to distressed Royalists Sir Oliver Cromwell who having made the greatest entertainment to King Iames that was ever made Prince by a Subject at his house at Hinchinbrooke Huntingtonshire having been the most honest dealer in the world no man that bought Land of him being put to three pence charge to make good his Title Was to his cost a Loyal Subject beholding the Usurpation of his Nephew God-son and Names Sake with scorn and contempt He died 1654. Sir Francis Nethersole born at Nethersole in Kent bred at Trinity Colledge Cambridge Orator of the University Ambassador to the Princes of the Union Secretary to the Queen of Bohemia eminent in his actions and sufferings for the Royal Family and disposing what great misfortunes left him to erect a School at Polesworth in Warwick-shire for the Education of such as might serve their Soveraign as faithfully as he did his Mr. Chettam born at Cromsal in Lancashire a diligent reader of Orthodox mens works and hearer of their Sermons the effect whereof was his exemplary loyalty and charity giving 7000 l. for the Education of forty poor children at Manchester from six to fourteen years of age with Diet Lodging Apparel and Instruction 1000 l. to buy a Library 100 l. towards the building of a case for it and 200 l. to buy honest and sober books for the Churches and Chappels round about Manchester leaving Dr. Iohnson lately Sub-Almoner and an Orthodox man one of his Feoffes and very Loyal Citizens his Executors Mr. Alexander Strange Bachelor of Divinity born in London bred in Cambridge Minister of the Church of England at Layston and Prebend of St. Pauls who built a Chappel and contributed towards a Free-School in Bunting-field a Mark-town belonging to the said Layston giving for his Motto when he had laid the foundation before he was well furnished to finish it Beg hard or beggard He went to enjoy the peace he loved to make by being the no less prosperous than painful in compounding all differences among his neighbours Decemb. 8. Anno Domini 1650. Aetatis 80. Mr. Michael Vivan a loyal and therefore persecuted Minister in Northumberland at the hundred and tenth year of his age when much broken with changes and alterations between those that would not leave their old Mumpsimus and those that were for their new Sumpsimus had of a suddain his Hair come again as white and flaxen as a childs a new Set of Teeth his Eye-sight and strength recovered beyond what it was fifty years before us an eye-witness hath attested Septemb. 28. 1657. who saw him then read Divine Service without his Spectacles and heard him preach an excellent Sermon without Notes And being asked by the said Gentleman how he preached so well with so few books as he had and lived so chearfully with so few acquaintance answered Of Friends and Books good and few are best Mr. Grigson a Citizen of Bristol who notwithstanding that he paid 300 l. for his Allegiance bestowed as much more on charitable uses saying He liked only that Religion that relieved men when poor not that which made them so in those times when it is a puestion which was sadder That they had so many Poor or that they had made so many Rich. Mr. R. Dugard Bachelor of Divinity a native of Craston-Fliford in Worcestershire a Kings-Scholar under Mr. Bright whom he always mentioned as gratefully as Mr. Calvin did his Master Corderius at Worcester Fellow of Sidney-colledge in Cambridge An excellent Grecian and a general Scholar the greatest Tutor of his time breeding young Gentlemen with a gentle strict hand neither cockering them with indulgence nor discouraging them with severity in the mean between Superstition and Faction zealously did he promote the Kings Cause to satisfie his conscience yet warily so as to secure himself to be a good Benefactor to his Colledge giving it 120 l. and the Library 10 l. and a good help to the distressed Cavaliers
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
lost his life having spared the lives of the worst of men who he knew had God for their Father though they had not the Church for their Mother Sir Christopher Mynnes an honest Shoemakers Son in London by his bold Adventures gaining a brave Estate beyond the Line and by his Heroick actions in all our Sea-fights shewing that he deserved it on this side a plain man and a good Spokes-man Qualities for which the King and Prince Rupert loved him made of an indefatigable Industry and a vast skill and abilities for which they much trusted him yet very familiar among his Souldiers whom he saw well used for Diet Pay and their share in Prizes getting more in buying again the Souldiers share than others did in cheating them of them the more absolute power he as all Sea-Commanders had the more careful he was how he used them he was shot in the mouth yet holding it in his hands continued in his Command all over in bloud as long as the Enemy continued the fight against whom he was so forward that if his advice had been taken in the Bergen Expedition the Dutch had come to London to beg that Peace which they would so hardly yield to at Breda Sir Rich. Stainer a man deserving well of his Majesty about Portugall and Tangier as good a Seaman as most in England as the Sea-men in England are as good as any in Europe either for Fighting or Trading for tame Merchants ships or wild ships Men of War having contributed as much as any for improving the Sea for what it was made neither only for Fish to play in nor only for the Sun to drink of but for Commerce in Traffick Learning and Religion all mankind being one Family Acts 17. that the world may know its self before it be dissolved A pious man at Land in safety as devout at Sea in danger not like those Sea-men whose hearts are like the Rocks they sail by so often in death that they think not of it seeing Gods wonders in the deep he were the greatest wonder of all that were not made more serious and pious by them Iames Ley Earl of Marleborough who not content to be penned in the narrow Island where he was born launched out to the wide world where he might live The Lord Treasurer Ley his Ancestor gained an Estate by his Court-Interest beyond Sea and he gained skill by improving that Estate wherewith he served his late Majesty very seasonably with two or three Ships supplying him with Arms Ammunition and whatever else he wanted from beyond Sea opening the Western Ports and maintaining the passage between England and Ireland and his present Majesty very effectually in advancing his Majesties Interest in Plantations abroad and hazzarding his own life for him at home loosing it in the first Sea-fight with the Dutch Iune 1665. aboard the old Iames whence a little before he died reflecting on the former course of his life he writ to this effect to Sir Hugh Pollard who deserveth a mention not only because he was his friend as Eusebius is known by the name of his friend Paâ—philus whence he is called Eusebius Pamphilus but because being a Gentleman of a good Family and interest in Devonshire descended from Sir Lewis Pollard of Nimet in that County and one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench in King Henry the eights time who had four Sons Knighted before his face Governor of Dartmouth a Port of great Importance well Garrisoned for his late Majesty and Comptroller of the Hushold for his present Majesty very active and venturing for his Majesty in the worst times and very hospitable and noble with his Majesty in the best Observing that rule in keeping up the English honor of a great Table occasionally entertaining rather than solemnly inviting his ghests lest he should over do his own Fortune for fear of under-doing the Inviteds expectation to whom his Feast might be his ordinary fare Which puts me in mind of a King of France who used to lose himself in a Park Lodge where his sauce hunger made the plainest fare a Feast and the Park-keepers taking heart to invite him came with all his Court to whom all his meat was but a morsel Well said the Park-keeper I will invite no more Kings The Letter which Iames Earl of Marlborough writ to Sir Hugh Pollard who dyed 1667. was to this effect 1665. I Am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that what I write proceeds not from any phancying terror of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death than mine example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own Age and Experience will save that labor but there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being the great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding those inexitricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail reasons do perplex us withall God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy words in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same your I hope happy issue Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we die as the beast that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only great and holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays Your true friend Marleborough Old James near the Coast of Holland April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my Request Henry Earl of Huntington one of the first that appeared for his Majesty in Leicester-shire as his Son the honorable Lord Loughborough continued there with the last the constant service of the second during the first War in commanding the Garrisons of his Country
very vigilantly and in the second in disposing of the Provisions in Colchester so carefully and unweariedly attending it every hour in the day for a long time together with his Imprisonment Escape and Exile excusing the Age Infirmities and Retirements of the first Sir Thomas Burton Sir George Villiers Sir Henry Skipwith of Cows who entertained the King nobly Sir Richard Halford Sir Io. Hale Sir Erasmus De la fountain Sir Will. Iones Sir R. Roberts Sir Iohn Shepington George Ashley Esq Tho. Hortop Esq need no other History than the first Commission of Array in their own Country Leicester-shire wherein they were inserted The Catalogue of Compounders wherein they are punished between them 20000 l. the Paper of Loan wherein they contributed towards his Majesties service 25642 l. the several Imprisonments they suffered and Sequestrations they endured The Right Honorable Henry Earl of Bath a Person it is questionable whether of more Honor or Learning being a great Scholar himself often times on occasion speaking for the Bishops once publickly professing it one of the greatest Honors that ever happened to his Family that one thereof Thomas Bouchier by name was once dignified with the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury always asserting the Kings Interest attending him in his Counsel in York and his General in his Affairs in the West till being taken Prisoner 1642. when he was rendred uncapable of serving his King and Kingdom he grew weary of the world paying for his Loyalty 900 l. rich in a contentment that chearfully injoyed its own Estate and troubled its self not with the thoughts of others limiting all desires but those of doing good whereby he might either relieve the needy or incourage the Ingenious A gallant man not in his quarrels with others but in his Victories over himself greater in that he was above affronts than that he retaliated them a happy soul that conversed with its self understood the value of time made use of that Authority great men are happy in to discountenance Vice and the Reputation which is the talent of Noblemen to encourage Vertue The Right Honorable Francis and Mildmay Fane Earls of Westmerland the first that assisted that Majesty which honored them 1624. and the first that suffered for it For the Earl of Westmerland I finde was not in the Parliament at Oxford because in Prison at London having lost his own freedom in defence of the Kingdoms a great Wit and a Patron of it as appears by his Noble Letters to Cleaveland and Cleavelands Heroick reply to him As was the Right Honorable Henry Cary Earl of Munmouth bred up under his Father Sir Robert Cary Earl of Munmouth 1625. Tutor to the Prince for being the first that brought King Iames tydings of the Kingdom with King Charles I. at home and sent by him to travel with this Instruction Be always doing something abroad whence he returned so well skilled in the modern Languages that being a general Scholar he was able to pass away the sad times in Noble studies the fruit whereof are excellent Translations of Spanish French and Italian Authors such as Malvezzi Bentivoglio c. He dyed 1661. and with him the Earldom of the Lord Cary his Eldest Son dying in the Bed of Honor at Marston-Moor Iuly 2. 1644. The first of these Honorable drank no Wine till he was thirty years of Age saying it preyed upon the natural heat and that vinum est Lac sonum bis puerorum the other enjoyed health best in unhealthy places whence he observed that the best Airs for a man are those that are contrary to his temper the moist to the dry and consanguine and the dry to the moist and phlegmatick and the best Diets to those that correct the Air and the best method a care of not going from one extream into another using often that saying Till May be out Leave not off a Clout Next these Scholars comes Henry Earl of Dover created 1627. that was Colonel of a Regiment of Scholars in Oxford as he was I think Captain of the Guard of the Pensioners after the Earl of Norwich at London a Noble Person not to be moved from his Allegiance by those Arguments used to his Son the Lord Viscount Rochford as some-say but as the Kings Declaration of the 12 Aug. 1642. Intimateth to himself by Mr. Pym viz. That if he looked for any Preferment he must comply with them in their ways and not hope to have it in serving the King Being made up of that blunt and plain integrity towards his Prince and firmness to his Friends for which his Ancestor the Lord Hundson was so famous that Queen Elizabeth saith she would trust her Person with the craft of Leicester the prudence of Cecill the reach of Bacon the diligence and publick spirit of Walsingham and the honesty of Hudson he dyed after one Greatrates that pretended to heal Diseases by washing and rubbing the affected places had been tampering with his Head for his deafness at Windsor March 1665. The Earl of Chesterfield created 1628. who never sate in the Long-Parliament after he urged that some course should for shame be taken to suppress the Tumults and was answered God forbid that we should dishearten our friends choosing rather to be a Prisoner to them than a Member of them and that his Person should be restrained rather than his Conscience ensnared The Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield Governess to the Princess Orange doing that service with my Lord Kirkoven Sir William Boswell c. in getting Money Arms Ammunition and old Souldiers in Holland which my Lord would have done in England And what the Ancestor could not do towards the re-establishing of King Charles I. the Successor did towards the restoring of King Charles the II. both in great hazzard and both great expence their Loyalty having cost that Honorable Family 15000 l. est aliquid prodire tenus Essayes in such Cases are remarkable green leaves in the midst of Winter are as much as Flowers in the Spring especially being seasonable when the whole Kingdom asked a Parliaments leave to have a King as Widdows ask their Fathers leave to Marry Mountjoy Blunt Earl of Newport created 4. Car. I. having made as great a Collection by travel of Observations on the State of Europe as he had done by study of Notes in all kind of Learning was called to the great Counsel of Lords at York and attended in all the Counsel at Oxford where considering that time would undeceive the Kingdom and give the King that Conquest over hearts that he failed of over Armies his Counsel was always dilatory and cautious against all hazzards in battels when bare time to consider would recover the Kingdom and break that Faction which the present hurry united He would not easily believe a man that rashly swore there being little truth to be found in him so vainly throws away the great Seal of Truth he would indure none but him that could
said he deserved to lose it from his Friends A kin to that Noble Family of the Villiers that had no fault but too good Natures carrying a Soul as fair as his Body and a carriage Honorable as his Extract being not carryed by the heat of the bloud he had to any thing that might be a stain to that he came from Posterity shall know him with Sir Iohn Smith the last Knight Banneret of England who relieved him being too far engaged at Edgehill as he had before rescued the Standard who being Nobly born Brother to the Lord Carrington strived to hide his Native honor suae fortunae Faber with acquired dignity desiring to be known rather to have died of his Wounds for his Soveraign at Alesford in Hampshire 1644. than that he was born of Noble Parentage in York-shire 1646. It may be said of this numerous Family after the defeat of the King as it was of the English after the Invasion of the Conqueror Some fought as the Kentish who capitulated for their Liberty some fled as those in the North of Scotland some hid themselves as many in the middle of England and Isle of Fly some as those of Norfolk traversed their Titles by Law bold Norfolk men that would go to Law with the Conqueror most betook themselves to patience which taught many a Noble hand to work foot to travel tongue to intreat even thanking them for theiâ— courtesie who were pleased to restore them a shiver of that whole Loaf which they violently took from them Which was the Case of the Honorable Family of the Caries whereof Col. Theodore Cary was the wiliest Col. Edward Cary the most experience Sir Henry Cary the steadiest and Sir Horatio Cary the wariest Commander in the Kings Army The first best read in History the second in Mathematicks and Tacticks the third Experimented Philosophy the fourth in the Chronicles of our Land Indeed the best study for a Gentleman is History and for an English Gentleman is the British History Ernestus Cary Shelford Camb. paid 229 l. at Goldsmiths-hall Iohn Cary of Milâ—on-Clevedon Som. 200 l. Iohn Cary of Marybone Park Middlesex Esq 1200 l. Charles Cary Gotsbrook North. Esq 183 l. The Right Honorable Iohn and Henry Mordant Earls of Peterborough the first of which having been a Papist was converted by a Disputation between Bishop Vsher and a Papist at his house where the Papist confessed himself silenced by the just hand of God upon him for presuming without leave from his Superiors to Dispute with so Learned a Person as Dr. Vsher the other wounded at Newberry and other places where he was a Volunteer for his late Majesty as he was often Imprisoned for his Loyal attempts 1647. 1655. 1657. 1658. 1659. in behalf of our present Soveraign the great Agent and Instrument for whose Restauration was Io. Lord Viscount Mordant of Aviland who was tryed for his life at Westminster and brought the first Letters from his Majesty to the City of London their Loyalty cost that Family 35000 l. whereof 5106 l. 15 s. composition Sir Edward Walgrave an Ancient Northern or Norfolk Gentleman never more than a Knight yet little less than a Prince in his own Country above 70 when he first buckled on his Armour for the English Wars a Brigadine in his Majesties Army one of the first and last in action and a Commander in the Isle of Ree Commanding the Post at Saltash at the Impounding of Essex where his men scattering were thrice rallied by himself though twice unhorsed and the whole Parliament Army stopped till his Majesty approached he lost two sons and 50000 l. in the Wars A Gentleman who deserved his neighbours Character of Strong Bow having brachia projestissima and Tullies commendation nihil egit levi brachio especially falling heavy upon all sacrilegious invaders of Churches who being angry with the King revenged themselves on God destructive Natures delighting to do mischief to others though they did no good to themselves 2. Sir â—ervase Scroop was not so near Sir Edward in his dwelling as in his character who being an aged man engaged with his Majesty at â—dgehill where he received 26 wounds and was left on the ground dead till his son Sir Adrian having some hint of the place where he fell lighted on the body with no higher design than to bring it off honourably and bury it decently still warm whose warmth within few minutes was improved into motion that motion within few hours into sense that sense within a day into speech that speech within certain weeks into a perfect recovery living above 10 years after with a pale look and a Scarff-tied arm a Monument of a Sons affection to a Father as of both to the Father of their Country for whose sake his purse bled there is a vein for silver as well as bloud as well as his body the War standing him and his Soh in 64000 l. whereof 120 l. per annum in Land and 3582 l. in money for Composition for which the Family there was Coll. Io. Scroopâ— is highly esteemed by his Majesty who is happy in that quod in principi rarum ac prope insolitum est ut se putet obligatum aut si putet amet Plin. Ep. ad Trajan 3. William Salisbury of Bochymbid Denb Governour of Denbigh Castle was such another plain and stout Cavalier in his True blew Stockings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who yielded not his Castle till all was lost nor then his loyalty keeping up the Festivals Ministry and prayers of the Church by his example and charity printing Orthodox Books in Welch and buying them in English at his own charge relieving the poor Cavaliers and encouraging the rich zealously but wisely and warily his loyalty cost him and his son Charles Salisbury 781l by way of composition and 100 l. per annum in a way of charity An old Gentleman of a great spirit that would would deal faithfully with any man and spoke so plainly to his Majesty for two hours in private that the good King said nevâ—r did Prince hear so much truth at once He was sure to have his Carolon Christmass day as St. Bernard his bymn See Mr. R. Vaughans Dedic of Bishop Usher and Bishop Prideaux his works to him translated at his charge R. Vaughan whose house Caergay was burned for his loyalty to the ground a great Critick in the Welch Language and Antiquities as was Mr. Rob. Vaughan of Hengour to whom his Country is much engaged for translating the Practice of Piety and other good Books into Welch 4. Sir Thomas Salisbury of Lleweney by Denbigh a Gentleman every way especially in Loyalty and Arms recovering the honour of that ancient and noble Family by his early and effectual adhering to K. Charles I. which was tainted by his Predecessors practices against Q. Elizabeth he hazzarding as much for the established Religion against the Novelties of his time as his Ancestor did for what he thought
one Treasurer of the Northern Army and the other a Collonel both after the defeat at Marston-moor accompanying my Lord of New-Castle beyond Sea whence the first returned with new hopes to serve his Majesty and was slain at Sherburn in Yorkshire 1645. having time enough to rise on his knees and crie Lord have mercy upon me bless and prosper his Majesty A short Prayer at death serveth him whose life was nothing but one continued Prayer and the other died at Paris not much concerned that he was set by and not set by hung up like the Axe when it hath hewed all the hard timber on the Wall unregarded and none of those that desired to embroyl the Nation in a new War and like a knavish Chirurgeon out of design to blister the sound flesh into a sore to gain by the curing of it 24. Coll. Sir â— Applâ—yard Dilling Cumb. the first that entered Leicester and was therefore Governour of it Good always at at bold Onsets but better at prudent Retreats And to conclude all 25. The Lord Bard a Ministers son of our Church that valiantly fought for it coming from the University of Cambridge to the Army advancing by the particular notice his Highness Prince Rupert took of his large Spirit penned within a narrow Fortune from a Commoner by his great Services to a Baron leading on the Left hand â—ertia with Sir G. Lisle at Naseby and bringing off the whole Brigade otherwise likely to be cut off at Alesford he with the two London Prentices Sir T. and W. Bridges are not the only English instances of men of private Occupations arriving at great skill in Martial performances Sir Io. Hâ—wkwood a General in Florence was a Taylor turning his needle to a Sword and his thimble to a Shield he appeared not in our Wars as spirits who are seen once and then finally vanish being often put upon Honorable but Difficult service to keep places with few men against a fierce and numerous Enemy to whom once he set open the gate of Cambden house his charge as if deserted but entertained them so that they spilt not so much Claret Wine in the house as they left bloud before it He would often commend Sir Clement Pastons method of bounty Building a fair House for Hospitality where his serving-men spent their Younger dayes in waiting upon him and an Hospital hard by where they might bestow their Elder years in Recollecting themselves and say that he descended from that man in Norfolk he must be a Norfolk man that went to Law with W. and overthrew the Conqueror All these brave Gentlemen both for Camp and Court for Entertainment and Service in a March for Valor and in a Mask for Ingenuity Gentlemen who were most of them buryed in honour and his Majesties Cause for a while buryed with them whose Ashes should not be thus huddled together deserving a more distinct Commemoration especially those that have been as devout as valiant and as prudent as devout their Wit being as sharp as their Swords and piercing as far into business as those did into bodies Sir Francis Gerard Sir Cecil Trafford and Coll. Francis Trafford Lancash Gent. men worthy Recusants arming themselves in defence of those Laws by which they suffered valuing their allegiance above their opinion and supporting a Government that was imposed upon them rather than betraying it to them that would impose upon the Nation With whom I might reckon Sir Peter Brown and his son of Kidlington Oxfordsh who was slain in the service being mortally wounded at Naseby and dying at Northampton Sir Troilus Turbervile Captain-Lieutenant of his Majesties Life-guard slain in the late Kings march from Newark to Oxford whose bounty to his Souldiers puts me in mind of my Lord Audleys to his Esquires who bestowed the Pension of 500 Marks upon them which the Black Prince bestowed upon him for his service at the battel of Poictiers and when questioned for it by the Prince said These have done me long and faithful service without whose assistance I being a single man could have done little besides the fair Estate left me by my Ancestors enableth me freely to serve your Highness Sir Nicholas Fortescue a Knight of Malta slain in Lancashire whose worth is the more to be regarded by others the less he took notice of it himself a Person of so dextrous an address that when he came into notice he came into favor when he entred the Court he had the Chamber yea the Closet of a Prince a Gentleman that did much in his person and as he would say Let Reputation do tho rest he and Sir Edmund Fortescue were always observed so wary as to have all their Enemies before them and leave none behind them Sir Henry Fortescue being the most Valiant Commander in H. 5th time Sir Ad. Fortescue the strictest Governor he was Porter of Callis in H. 7th time Sir Hen. Fortescue and Sir Io. Fortescue the most learned Lawyers in Henry 6th time Sir Io. Fortescue the wisest Counsellor in Queen Eliz. time whose studies he was Overseer of and these Gentlemen very eminent Souldiers in King Charles I. Reign always prevailing in their parts with parties as much beneath their Enemies in number as above them in resolution and temperance by whom if there were any violence offered the appearance of these Commanders checked they carrying civility in their presence against all rudeness as the Abbot of Battel did a Pardon in his having power to save any Malefactor he saw going to be executed in all executions Col. Cuthbert Coniers of Leighton in Durham slain at Mulpasse in Cheshire Aug. 1644. and Col. Cuthbert Clifton slain near Manchester who could not endure that Rebellion that took Sanctuary in Religion which wanted a refuge its self the horns of the Altar pushing it from him sober men that could not endure to see the English coming to fight now under King Charles as they did 600 years ago under King Herold drunk and not able either to stand to an Enemy so overcome with drink nor fly from him both with Col. Richard Manning slain at Alseford in Hampshire Col. Will. Eure Brother to the late Lord Eure slain at Marston-Moor and his son L. C. Tho. Eure slain at Newberry Col. Tho. Howard son of Sir Francis Howard who gained the battel at Adderton-moor as Eye-witnesses testifie with the loss of his life Iune 30. 1643. one of them that taught the world to plant Lawrels on the brow of the Conquered Col. Thomas Howard son to the Lord William Howard slain at Piâ—rebridge in the County of York the Honorable Sir Francis and Sir Robert Howard of whose Names there were seven Peers with his Majesty Col. Thomas Col. Anthony and Col. Iames Morgan Sir Edward Morgan of Pencoed Mon. whose Loyalty stood him in 1007 l. Sir Iohn Cansfield who interposed himself between his Majesty King Charles and the Prince and the Fury of the Enemy bringing off both
and Hopes d â—â—â—eupon he in disdain threw the Cap down and trampled it under fâ—eâ— An Omen said some what an enemy be would he to the Arch-bishops O der which had never since it needed such a better friend though he suspended the Arch-bishop e When the Chaplains received direction from the King not to dispute without great necessity but if they did George should hold the Coâ—clusien and Charles c. f Mr. Vines saying That he was the best Divine in England III His Carriage while Prince g To whom he was very dear h The Q of Bohemia whose Brideman he was i Who might 〈◊〉 plaâ— uites â—b◠〈◊〉 bâ—â—cts of the peoples disconâ—â—nt k As his own Grandmother the Q of 〈…〉 to England l This K. James was not sinsible of â—ill Arâ—hec Clapped his Cap on his head for â—â—â—ting the Prince goe to Spain and saying That if he returned he would take off â—he Cap from â—he King of England 's head and set 〈◊〉 â—n the K. of Spain's Which â—ad the King melanchâ—lly 〈◊〉 heard hâ— Pâ—â—nce was at Sea IV His Carriage when King 1 His Marriage his Chastiâ—y and Gods blessing him with Children m Given the D. of Chevereux n Trinity Sunday 16â—5 o No Subject fought him for injuring â—hem he having by his power and example â—â—â—ured them in all their Relations 2 His first Parliament p Muâ—ining against their Commander the Lord Wimbleton q With a Plaguâ—bred by theâ— Discontent As discontented mâ—n are most subject to that Distemper 3 His Coronation and Frugality 4 His second Parliament V The Benefits of his Government 1 â—â—s dismission of the Insolent French r Besides Land Merigaged for 120000 l. to the Câ—â—â— and 30000 l. borrowed of the East-India Company s In that tryal of â—umbâ—â— which he judâ—â—d unlawful wherein one Rey would have proved that one Ramsey would have hâ—d him serve D. Hamilton to attain the Kingdom of Scotland whose right to it they blazoned abroad t Which his Enemies knew so well that it was bâ—â— effecâ—ing him Propo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repugnant to his Conscience and thâ—y need not fear a Peace VI The blessing of God 〈◊〉 him and his fortunâ— u Many Arts revived VII His Mercy and Love to his People Humiâ—ity and Patience w Oliver they say could not endure to hear a man speak sence Plato was like to eye because he â—â—med wiser than the Sicilian Tyrant x Being deluded as he said to unworthy thoughts of him but nâ—w convineed to a great reverence of him y There are methodical and siâ—â—wy extracts of his drawâ—â— out of Bishop Laud Mr. Hooker and Bish Andrews therein he draw together all the arguments giving light and strength to them even while he â—â—tomised them z Witness his â—â—um vednass at Prayer when â—he sad News of the Duke of Buckinghams death was brought to him bidding the Chaplain go on when he stopped at the disturbance a Meaning the Bishop of Armagh 〈…〉 IX His Valouâ— Resolution and Conduct b The Senate of Rome thank'd a Consul though he was beaten that he did not despair of the Commonwealth c This was at Edgehill Oct. 13. 1641. a In France a Who had an honest design to undo the whole Conspiracy X What great things the King granted and did for the Nation during the 23 years that he reigned f For which the last Parliament would have given him 600000 l. g At the Isle of Wight XII His Sufferings h As appears by a Letter under Londons handâ— to desire Protection of the French King i And a Lady that formerly had followers for beauâ—y and â—ow for intelligence k â—s Fulke and Ven did a He called them Rebls in the first Speech Oct 3 1640. 〈◊〉 was forced to explain himself afterwards b As he was to that first 1640. by Sir H V. who exâ— asperated them by demanding twice more Subsidies than he had order to d◠〈◊〉 so occasioned their Dissolution And to the Parliament of Scotland by H. and Tra. who under the pretence of being Mediators and Commissioners put the worse constructions they could upon his actions to the Parliament and upon theirs to him a Who after the King death finding their Masters jugglers would have done in much for them as they had done for the King until the Officers would have laid them aside which they could not do till several of them were executed a Where â—nâ— lay with a Sword and Pistal without ready is murder the King if became out while others perswaded him to escape out through that window within b A Vote once before Passed but surreptitiously and repealed by the whole House a And yet neither Lords nor Iudges four hundred fifty of eight hundred Commons confess nor a man in England except twenty Rebels owned it b Villains that overthrowed all the Laws of this Nationâ— to try the King for doing it When he died rather than he would do it c They complain of his Arbitrary Power when there was nothing more Arbitrary than for them First To Vote themselves but twenty in number to be the whole kingdom Secondly To Vote a Conventicle where there were neither Lords nor King nor ten lawfully chosen Commons for a Parliament Thirdly To Vote the Kings defensive war which he made with the assistance of his People a Treason against his People Fourthly To Vote him guilty of that bloud that they shed Fifthly To Vote him a Traytor when there is no Treason but against him And what was more than all the rest to Vote themselves after a Nation had been an hereditary Monarchy for a thousand years the Supream Power of it in an hour d When they began the war against him who with his people was forced to defend himself or be accessary to that overthrow of all Religion and Government which though not believed he saw they aimed at then and all the world saw they designed now e Not till the Traytors had set a force upon the whole Nation those very persons against whom he began the war abhorring the thoughts of calling him in question for it and thinking it a great favour if they could be secured from being called in question for it themselves Observe the impudence of the men these slaves and instruments that durst not fight against the King but in the names of the Lords and Commons yet dare murther him in their own and that for levying war against those Lords and Commons to whom before they could meddle with the King they offered violence themselves f The Parliament as they called it had received such Concessions in order to a peace that this murder could never have been attempted upon the King till these wretches had attempted another violence upon them The Parliament they say delayed this Iudgment when God knows they always abhorred it and these men first turned out of the House for refusing to consent to this murder and then they commit the murder in
ruined themselves as well as his Majesty and made way for that settlement which they had overthrown wherein this Noble Person had as large a share of his Majesties favours in England and Ireland when restored as he had of his afflictions when banishâ—ed as had his elder Brother Sir Charles Berkley Lord Fitz-harding not short of him in Integrity and Loyalty though not so much engaged in Action They say that though busling times are best for the Writer yet quiet times are best for the Liver so though stirring men afford more matter of discourse to Authors yet calm spirits and peaceable men yield most matter of peace and satisfaction to themselves the deep waters are still too lighter passions have a loud voice but the greatest are usually silent and actions of a lesser dimension have a great mention while noble and great actions exceeding Historians expressions exercise their modesty The inward Wheels that set the Engine on work are less observed though of more consequence than those parts that move most visible He that made Interests kept Correspondence engaged Parties sent and procured Supplies disposed of Commissions managed the Designs for the Restauration of his Majesty though the most secret yet was the most effectual Instrument of the great mercy vouchsafed to this Nation Such as this honourable person was who when more than 50000 English-men were corrupted by the arts and success of the Faction and their own covetousness weakness and ambition to a partnership in their guilt in the middest of the cruelties and victories of the Conspiracy that amazed most part of Mankind taught the unskillful the method of Confederacy and Design and in spight of the vigilant because fearful Parricides opened opportunities both of Correspondence with his Majesty and with all true-hearted English-men who communicated Counsels gave mutual Incouragements raised Supplies and kindled Flames that might have devoured the Juncto had it not pleased God that he and Sir Henry Slingsby should be taken and so forced to exchange his Services for Sufferings from Prison to Sequestration from Sequestration to Prison from thence to Decimation For as in the Primitive times when any Calamity happened the Heathens cried Christiani ad Leones so when the least toy took the Christians frighted out of their sences in the head they cried Secure the Cavaliers Secure the Cavaliers and that so long until as the sufferings of the Martyrs converted the world so the generously born afflictions of Loyalty reduced the kingdom it became necessary for them to secure the whole Nation who as one man as acted by one common Genius like the spirits of the world wrought its way into that settlement by a general consent which could not be attained to by any particular combination in which settlement this excellent Person not only enjoyed a freedom from his pressures but a reward for them being made upon the King's Return Comptroller of the Houshold one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Treasurer of the Houshold Governor of in Ireland and of great trust about his Highness the Duke of York in which capacities he looks not to what he might do but what he should measuring his actions by justice and expedience If any person would know more of him let him make his Address to him and he shall find him Courteous let him Petition him and he shall find him extraordinarily Charitable let him go to his Table and he shall find him Hospitable let him Converse with him and he shall find him Exact and Punctual In a word a perfect Country Gentleman at Court one whose very nature is in pay and service to his Majesty gaining him by his Civilities more Hearts than either Laws or Armies can gain Subjects Every time my Lord Fitz-harding smiles the King of England gains one The Roman Lady when asked where her Jewels were brought out her Children and answered These are my Treasures This honourable Person if demanded where are his Services besides those in his own person formerly in times of war and now in times of peace particularly his good husbandry for his Majesty his faithfulness his place and the obligingness of his behaviour he can shew his Sons and say These are my Services of whom besides Sir Maurice Berkley Vice-President of the foresaid Province in Ireland two lately lost their lives with as much honor as they injoyed them viz. FIRST THE EARL OF FALMOUTH AS Treason taints the bloud so Loyalty ennobleth it the one deriving honour as effectually as the other doth guilt This personage inherited his Fathers Services as well as his Spirit being an early confessor of Allegiance and taught to suffer with Majesty as soon as to live he had the advantage of most other Gentlemen that he begun and spent some years of discretion in the experience of troubles and exercise of patience wherein all virtues moral and political are commonly better planted to a thriving as Trees set in Winter than in the warmth and serenity of times or amidst those delights which usually attend Princes Courts in the midst of peace and plenty which are prone either to root up all plants of true virtue and honor or to be contented only with some leaves and withering formalities of them without any real fruits such as tend to the publick good for which Gentlemen should always remember they are born and by providence designed Besides the intimacy of converse between his Sacred Majesty the most condescending Prince in the world and him in their tender years for which King Edward 6. loved Fitz-patriche so well as to have some thoughts of marrying him to his Sister and advancing him to the kingdom besides the sympathy of their spirits visible in the exact symmetry of their persons which indeared Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk so much to Hen. 8. that he was the only person that lived and dyed in the full Favour of that Prince Of whom it is observed That they who were highest in his Favour had their Heads nearest danger There were these remarkable things that recommended this young Gentleman to his Majesties Favour 1. His Happiness of Address much advantaged by the Eminency of his Person the Smoothness of his Voice the Sweetness of his Temper and the Neatness of his Fancy True is that observation of a great States-man if a man mark it well it is in praise and commendation of men as it is in gettings and gains For the Proverb is true That light gains makes heavy purses for light gains come thick whereas great come now and then So it is true that small matters win great commendation because they are continually in use and in note whereas the occasion of any great virtue cometh but on Festivals therefore it doth much adde to a mans Reputation and is as Queen Isabella said like perpetual Letters Commendatory to have good forms And therefore besides several other Messages of Consequence he had the Management of a Complement of very great consequence to the French King for
his Conduct in which he was not only nobly presented by that Prince but highly valued by his own Soveraign 2. His Integrity and Faithfulness in performing Trusts and keeping Secrets whereof several instances of Importance in Holland France and Flanders qualities that capacitated him not only for the service but the friendship of his Master who with the wisest Princes in the world considering the natural distance between them and their Subjects deny them the common comforts of intimate friends and familiars raise some tried persons to the intimacy of companions under the name with us of Favourites among the Romans of Participes Curarum in whose Breasts they may lay their Heads in whose Bosoms they may ease their griefs joys fears hopes suspicions counsels and whatsoever lieth upon them and would otherwise eat the Heart to oppress it in a civil kind of shrift or confession Friendship calming the Affections from storm and tempest and clearing the Understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts for whosoever hath his Mind fraught with many thoughts his Wits and Understanding do clarifie and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another though he be not able to discourse again so much is gained by tossing the thoughts more easily by marshalling them more orderly and seeing how they look when they are cloathed with words that whets that cuts not It 's my Lord Bacons opinion That a man had better relate himself to a Statue or Picture than to suffer his thoughts to perplex himself 3. Activity and Dispatch The Spartans loved four sorts of States-men 1. They that performed business reservedly to prevent noise 2. Effectually avoiding after-claps 3. Sweetly and oblgingly raising no discontents And 4. Quickly affecting not delays 4. And all this wrapped in a good Nature that made it its business to oblige others to his Master as much as he was obliged himself Some Druggs are very wholesome but very bitter good in the Operation but unkind in the Palate And some persons are very useful in their services but so morose in their expressions of them that Masters are afraid of their duties This honourable person was as affable to others as he found his Master was to him his performances being not like Pills that must be wrapped in something else before they could be swallowed but the candor and sereness of his disposition made his employment as amiable as it was serviceable He all sweetness all Balsom healing and helping translated into English the Roman Character Neminem unquam demisit tristem But neither did he esteem these happy qualities of his Person nor the former instances of his Service any way answering the great favours of his Soveraign without some new attempt as much beyond common performances as his obligations were beyond common kindnesses It was not enough to discharge his several Trusts faithfully to wear his Honour and his Grandieur becommingly Manage Affairs usefully to accommodaâ—e all Interests prudently these are too common returns of favour When the same Royal person was to adventure himself to secure our happiness who was himself a great part of it when his Highness the Duke of York was resolved to hazzard that dear life for his Brother and his Country that he had ventured for other Princes and meer Honour when all the hopes and concernments of the Nation were wrapped up in the Admiral and the Engagement neither the intreaties of his Friends nor the tears of his Spouse beseeching him by the Pledges of his Love one in her Armes the other in her Womb could diswade him though in no command save as he said the Commissions of Allegiance and Gratitude from attending that brave Prince in his dangers that he had waited on in affliction to whose quarrel every true English-man owed a life it being the three Nations Engagement and to whose family he owed Estate Honour and every thing he had to loose but a life they being the effects of Royal bounty when he knew he had the prayers of three Nations along with him while he lived with his Highness and their sorrows if he should have dyed with him Whom he had the honor to divertise with his Ingenuity to assist with his Counsel and as it were to redeem with his Death Those several Noblemen with his Highness being like the several king like persons about Richard III. to amuse fate and receive those dreadful Shots aimed at him in their own persons A death he would have undergone ten times over to save that life that was worth three kingdoms which since the Heroick Duke would not save alone by withdrawing he should not loose alone in Fight but as the kindest Wifes in Aethiopia will needs be buried with their Husbands alive so his dearest friends would needs perish with him congratulating their new honours for this reason that they might like the Sacrifice that is first crowned and then offered fall more Nobly and becoming a Princes companions and their bloud though it might dash might not stain their Royal Master Iune the 2. 1665 coming to wait on the Duke with his Soveraigns love in the one hand and his own life in the other but a little before the Fight he fell with two honourable persons one on the one hand and another on the other so near the Duke that his Brains dashed on his Cloaths The brave Prince no doubt reflecting on his friend as Sir Francis Drake did on his when he said Ah Dear I could grieve for thee but is is no time to let down my spirits And the proper bemoaning of a friends death in War being to revenge it resolving to appease his Ghost with Opdams bloud who attended him immediately to the other world with all those terrors about him that shall destroy this to have Victory bleeding by him a Prince in the same danger with him a Soveraign bemoaning him none envying all pittying is a happy way of dying that all men may wish few men obtain When Sejanus lived so much in the Emperours favour as that they two were reckoned and termed friends the Emperour writing to Sejanus thus in a Letter Haec pro amicitia non occultavi the whole Senate dedicated an Altar to the Goddess Friendship When a person shall be so happy as to injoy his Princes favour so grateful as to be ambitious of dangers to deserve it so innocent as not to wrong the meanest person by it being great only that he might be able to be good yet so unhappy as to dye the very beginning of it It is very fit we should Erect a Tomb to Friendship with this Inscription P. M. S. JOcantis fortunae magnum Ludibrium hic Jacet Regis amor spes regni Quem Hispania Cautum Gallia Ingenuum Belgia Assiduum Aula Integerrimum Anglia tota mirata est magnanimum Hic est ille Infaelicis virtutis Falmuthius Maritus charissimus Pater Indulgentissimus Filius humilimus affinis beneficus frater amantissimus Consiliarius fidelissimus Amicus
4. Sir William Courtney who is transmitted to Posterity as partner in great Actions with Sir Francis Dorrington now in France as I take it with her Majesty and Col. Webbe an old German Souldier dear to Prince Rupâ—rt and the best Horse man a Horse-Commander of his time in England Totos Infusa per artus Major in Exiguo regnabat Corpore virtus Eminent for flanking the Enemy about Banbury so dexterously as well as valiantly that with a 1000 Horse he dispersed 5000 of the Enemy though shot in the hand and both the thighs Col. Mâ—rmaduke Holthy the watchful Governor of Monmouth who by his vigilance lost it for upon a contrived Intelligence of the Parliament Forces retiring in some disorder towards Glocester he Commands Kirle with a 100 Horse to pursue them as it was agreed who closed with them and returning got the Town opened to them whence he hardly escaped over the dry graft But regaining it being the Key of South-wales by Sir William Blaxtons resolute On-set with his Horse Brigade next week with as great a Conduct as Kirle lost it with Treachery Col. Richard a Kentish Gentleman of good personal valour under the good old Earl of Cleaveland both at Newberry in the Newberry fights where he exceeded his Command at Sherburn where he exceeded expectation upon the surrender of which place he was taken prisoner and at Colchester where he exceeded belief Sir Thomas Hooper a Wiltshire Gentleman at first a Shoe-maker in England at last a Souldier in the Low-Countries where he attained so much skill as upon his Invitation over by Coll. Goring to have the Command of a Regiment of Dragoons with which Regiment he performed so much service that he was Knighted and which honour he wore so well that to say no more he deserved it often with execution laying that sword over his Enemies shoulders which his Majesty laid over his Sir Will. Manwaring and Sir Henry Fletcher slain both at Westchester Coll. Francis and Col. Io. Stuart in quibus erat insignis piet as in deum mira charit as in proximos singulares observantia in majorâ—s mitis affabilitas in inferiores dulcis humanitas in omnes multiplex doctrina redundans facundia incredibilis Religionis Orthodoxae zelus men in whom Valour was not all their Arts born to adorn as well as defend their Country Sir Iohn Girlington and Mr. William Girlington slain near Melton-Mowbray Leicest and his Widow as I take it of Southam Cave York fined 1400 l. a person that had much learning in his Books more in his Brest where Nations were ranked as orderly as the men in his Regiment and as quietly as the species of his various prospects for he was well seen in Opticks in his eye One too too good for War and deserved to be as far from danger as free from fear Sir Richard Cholmley slain at Lime in Dorsetshire Sir Anthony Maunsel slain at Newberry Sir Tho. Gardiner and his brother slain about Oxford The first with Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby York who suffered 5000 l. deep Henry Cholmley and Richard his son who paid 347 l. Tho. Cholmley of Vale Royal Cheshire who compounded for 450 l. and the Lord Cholmley who paid 7742 l. who might be called as his Ancestor was for 50 years together The Father of his Country who no sooner moved in their respective Countries in his Majesties behalf but it was incredible with what cheerfulness their motion meeting with loyal and well affected inclinations was entertained with all meetings applauding their propositions about this Loyal as the Council of Clermont in France did Pope Vrbane II. Speech about the Holy War with a God willeth it looking upon all the pretensions of God and Spirit on the other side but like the Christians in the foresaid War carrying a Goose with them in their Voyage to Ierusalem pretending it to be the Holy Ghost their thoughts beginning where others ended and having a privy project beyond the publick design The second with Mr. Henry Maunsel of Llandewy Glamorgan Esq and five more Gentlemen of that worshipful name was ready to mortgage their own Estates to secure the Kings selling Land for Gold to purchase propriety with Steel and Iron and were 30000 l. the worse for the War The third extracted of that Nation I mean the French which wanteth a proper word to express stand were over-active when engaged though like a heavy Bell that is long a raising but being got up made a loud sound considering enough before they engaged Gentlemen that deserve a fame in as many Languages as they understood and an honor from as many Persons and Nations as they imitated in their Manners Wisdom Learning and Piety who lived up to the excellency of each part of the World they travelled as if they had been born in it Gentlemen that were Masters of an Universal Speech to express their Universal Learning and to furnish men born not to one Nation but to all having a vast knowledge but that they had vaster minds Sir Nicholas Kemish of Kevenmably in Caermarthen slain at Chepstow in Monmouthshire whose Ancestors bloud was as noble in his vein as in their own who had the Sail of Valour poised with the Ballast of Judgment With a fanned Army as he called it he cunningly surprized Chepstow by a slight with the hazzard of his life keeping it against all force refusing any Treaty with the loss of it the resolute and noble being killed in cold bloud O. C. saying that if he had had a fortnights time longer he had overthrown all the price of their bloud and treasure Col. Hugh and Coll. William Wynn and Sir Lodowick Wyer a Dutch man slain at Banbury where their bad Breakfast discouraged not their Friends from their dinner in the Wars a good Conscience goeth on through difficulties which the bad one needs no Enemy but it self having always a storm in the Heart what ever weather it is in the Face being not like those who see not their own good for too intent looking on it But of these Gentlemen before The Marquess De Vienvill a French Lord slain at the first Newberry fight as Baron Done kinsman to the Prince of Orange fallen at Nottingham the Nobility of all Nations assisting in so just and so general a cause 10. Sir Francis and Sir Richard Dacres the one dying at Marston-Moor and the other at York together with Sir Thomas Dacres whose Ancient and Martial Spirits were not quenched in that age of Peace that gave little countenance and less encouragement to men of Service and Action and those parts though the Frontiers which in Kingdomes are to be looked after as carefully as doors in Houses were so ill furnished that they had nothing left them in the beginning of the Wars but the Primitive Arms of Prayers and Tears and had been easily conquered had not the experienced Souldiers breathed Deer are not caught so soon made their Country as strong