â—â—ve enough to spend And when they have spent somewhat to leave Now if any Injury should be offered to his Wife and Children who is so out of Patience as the Husband He chafes he sumes he prepareth himself immediately to revenge And if the Enemies come or the War be menaced first he provideth that his Wife and Children be conveyed into sasty Then he himself maketh him ready to meet his Enemy He offereth his Body to the Stroke his Blood to be poured out his Life to be taken from him rather than they shall have one Finger hurt And this so natural so common so don of all men that it is no News it is no Wonder No man mervaileth at it For it is seen every day Even the Wild Beasts wil do as much to defend their Mates Fight to the Death with the Hunter to keep him from the Den where his Female and his Whelps do ly And here you bring in Theodotus Husband to Amala Suenta from Rome Philip Viscount from Milain in Lumbardy Iaques de la Nardie Q. Ianes Husband from Naples They were Monsters of Mankind Examples of Unkindness Spectacles of Devilish Cruelty Of which yet not one of them escaped unrevenged And what wil ye make a general Rule of this So shal ye extinct and deface al natural Affection al Order of Love al Course of Kindnes So may you bring in Nere that killed his Mother because she seemed to mislike some of his Vices Selimus that killed his Father because he thought he â—ept the Kingdom of the Turks too long from him Asedeâ— that killed her own Children in despite of her Husband Caâ—â—line that killed his own Son because a rich Widow would not els marry him Baâ—â—ianus that killed his Brother Gâ—ta because he would rule alone And all the Rabblâ—ment of â—ather-â—illers and Mother-killers Son killers and Daughter-killers the Murtherers of their Brethren and Sillers their masters and their chief Friends And prove that there is no Love nor Trust in Father or Mother Son nor Daughter Brother nor Sister Kit nor Kin even Tymons Sect. And very much better did Christ reason with Siâ—â—â— the Pharisee He whom more is forgiven saith he more doth love As who would say he that hath more kindness shewâ—â— him as the Benefit is greater so is his Love more affectionate to him or her of whom he received it Which if it be true who then can â—â—â—e a more Affection a greater Love and earnâ—â—â—er Care and a fâ—rventer Dearness of mind towards the Queen than he whom she chuseth above all men whom she preferreth to al the rest to whom she giveth al that ever she hath and her self also Yea whom she maketh her self In that by this Knot they be both but one Body Can this man ever hate her Can he speak evil of her Or can he suffer that the least Tittle in the world should grieve her Mind Sooner will he abide any Pain any Grief any Torment himself For what can be a greater Grief or painful Disease to him than that she of whom he received so unspeakable a Benefit should perceive in him the least spot of Unkindness Except he be a wild Beast in a Man's Likeness a Devil and a Monster of Mankind as Nero was and these whom ye named of whom ye have found out three since the World began And I think you shal not tho von search never so neer find out so many more The Comfort the Ease of Mind the Pleasure the Contentation that her Majesty shal have of a loving husband is unable with Words to be declared and no Man or Woman can believe it til they have proved it Whereof what greater Argument can there be than this that of so many Thousand as be maried you shall not se among five Hundred one which once hath been maried Men or Women I say that when by misfortune one of the Couple dyeth wil abide sole without wedding again They think in the mean space their Houses naked their Table without Comfort their Bed without Joy themselves half maimed and to lack in al Purposes one of their Things most necessary and as Aristophanes saith in Plato indeed they feel that the one Half of themselves all the while is away This far to the first two Points of your Oration Now I come to the Third and last Point wherein ye disputed what were best for the Commonwealth and for the whole Realm And here methought you began to handle us very ungently Ye asked us what Fault we find with the Government now and wherein we do lack a man or Husband to the Queen To the First if we should answer ye would bring us in a Displeasure with the Council as tho we disliked their Doings To the Second if we should we might seem to note the Queens Majesty as insufficient to Rule her Realm Pretty Streights ye have devised to make us hold our Peace 〈◊〉 this will not make us agree to your Opinion What lack we say you Mary even that which you know your self For you were present and a Goer with them your self the whole Parlament lacked you know what wel enough What was their suite to her Majesty I pray you What required they by the Mouth of our Speaker Were they then of your Opinion or of mine touching that Matter Why did not you declare so much in the Parlament before they went to make their Petition to her Highnes as ye have done here ye might have stayed them peradventure that they should not with such humble and earnest Requests have moved her Majesty to have Compassion upon her poor Realm and to think upon Marriage wherein we might se some speedy Hope of Succession from her Highnes But you durst not you saw so many even al men bent to the contrary And you know wel enough you should not escape unanswered at the ful And possibly you were not of that Opinion at that time But now you be Wel if you be so now to all other Reasons I have answered to the rest this I have to say If in al such kind of Reasons whether a Thing is better to be don or no the Authority and Judgment of wife sober and discrete men ought to have greatest weight I can bring in the Authority of the greatest wisest sagest gravest best learned and expert men in th' affairs of the Realm and maintaining of the Common-wealth as you your self can witnes which were against your Opinion at that Time and on my side And if you like a Philosopher will not suffer me to use Authority I wil not fly your Reasons but as I began I wil answer stil as I have don And ye compare Q. Maries Time to this and make this Time so much better than the other as you lift your self wherin I wil not tâ—ive with you you shal find me so good a fellow yet as Craesus said to Cambyses who would needs be better esteemed than his Father the wife and great Conqueror Cyrus
the Chapters in manner as they were at the first But the Tables or any Draughts of them he could not find And he doubted that neither his Leisure nor Wit nor Memory of old Books and the Places of them which were formerly more ready and fresh â—o him than they were at present would serve him to make the Instructions again Wherefore he prayed that Lord to look out the Book but especially the Tables This he wrote from his House at Chanon Row April 22d This Book as it seems the Lord Treasurer found out among his Papers and sent it to the Secretary according to his Request which he had desired to see as he said to the said Lord anquam filium postliminio redeuntem perditum quasi iterum inventum This Book is mentioned and no more but mentioned in the History of Queen Elizabeth by Mr. Cambdâ—n only that he calls it an exact Commentary and worth the publishing After I had made great Enquiry after it without success at length I fortunately met with Sir Thomas his own rude Draught of it in several Tables of his own hand shewn and communicated to me by the obliging Favour and kindness of Sir Edward Smith A true Extract whereof I have made and presented to the Readers in the Appendix April 25th the Lord Burghley sent a Gentlemen to Sir Thomas to visit him in this his Valetudinary State Which he took kindly and gave him an account of his Sickness and of his Progress in Physic. Which was to this Tenor That he had put himself into the Physicians hands and they according to their Method first fell to Purging him to free his Body from peccant Humours as a Preparatory to other Physic. A Practice which he did not like of because it would make a great Disturbance of the whole Body and affect the Parts that were well and in a good State And so indeed it happened to him For this Physic put his whole Body and all the Parts of it into a Commotion and Indisposition When it was perfectly well before as appeared by his Urine and by his own Feeling and Apprehension of himself But after he had taken this Preparatory Physic there was no part of his Body which was not brought out of Frame His Urine so troubled so high coloured and so confused Which did bespeak a Seditious Rout of Humours raised in his Body as he spake This being a little setled they gave him a Pill which was as insuccesful as the other For it gave him scarcely a Stool and that with abundance of Wrack and Torment and left such an unpleasant and bitter Relish in the Stomach that he was forced to vomit it up again The next Course that was taken with him was Shaving his Head and wearing a Cap Which one Dr. Langton was the chief Prescriber of accounted of Excellent Use for those that were troubled with great Rheums And was himself present when it was laid on The Effect whereof was to be seen after Eight or Ten Days Sir Thomas was very unsatisfied with his Physicians who for two or three Months had been thus tampering with his Body and with no manner of success whereas he was for a speedier Work and declared himself of the Smiths mind his Namesake in Plato who willed the Physician to give him a thing that would speedily rid him of his Diseasâ— that he might again Sustain his Wife and Family with his Labour or else be rid quickly For he had no leisure to attend the long Prorogation of thin Diet and protracting Phisic That Mind said he which the Smith had of necessity I have of Will and Desire and ever had Not to live being unserviceable to my Prince and the Common Wealth In the beginning of May his Physic having greatly weakned his Body and all his good Humours dryed therewith and his Sickness so obstinate that it little cared for Medicine all his Physicians with one accord agreed advising him to forbear all further Medicaments and to apply himself to Kitchin Physic giving him leave to Eat and Drink what he would and what his Appeite desired And so he resolved to retire home to his House called Mounthaut in Essex a Mannor House of his where now stands Hill Hall the present Dwelling of Sir Edward Smith Baronet before mentioned And here he trusted to leave his Sickness or his Life Whether pleaseth God said he that is best But if it were in my Choice I would leave them both at once Yet must I keep life so long as I can and not leave the Station wherein God hath set me by my default and without his Calling And so mind I to do Trusting very shortly to have some plain signification from his Majesty to whither Haven I shall apply my Ship of Death or Health Blessed be his Holy Will God gave not our Knight his Desire that is a Speedy Death or speedy Recovery For he continued in a decaying consumptive Wasting Condition all this Year and onward the next till August putting a Conclusion to his generous and most useful Life at his beloved Retirement of Mounthal or Mounthaut as he delighted to call it on the 12th day of the said Month in the Year 1577. in the Sixty Fifth Year of his Age in an easie and quiet Departure And he never was afraid of Death He was attended to his Grave with a Decency and Splendor becoming the high Place and Figure he had made There assisted in Mourning at his Funerals George Smith his Brother and William the said Georges Son Wood Sir Thomas's Nephew Altham Nicols Recordor of Walden Wilford Goldweâ— Dr. Pern Dr. Levine and many more Of whom as some were his Relations others the Neighbouring Gentry and his Worshipful Friends so several were Learned men that came as it seems from the University to pay their last respects to that Grave Head Venerable for his profound and Universal Learning and that had so well merited of the Learned World He was Buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Theydon Mount where he dyed On the North side whereof at the upper end there still remains a fair Monument dedicated to his Memory Tho' the Church hath since been beat down by Lightning and rebuilt by his Nephew Sir William Smith He is represented by a Statue of Marble lying upon his right side in Armour a loose Robe about him with the Arms of the Knighthood of the Garter upon the left Arm of the said Robe denoting him Chancellor of the Garter Placed under an Arch or Semicircle on which is Engraven this English Stanza What Earth or Sea or Skies contain What Creatures in them be My Mind did seek to know My Soul the Heavens continuallie Upward on the highest part of the Monument was placed his Coat of Armes which was three Altars flaming supported with as many Lions Round which were these two Verses Written alluding to the Fire or Flame there Tabisicus quamvis
those that should succeed him of a long time were like to take to Learning he gave all his Latin and Greek Books to Queens College in Cambridge where he had been brought up and his great Globe of his own making but so that the Master and Fellows having Warning so soon as he was dead or at the least so soon as he was Buried or before the which he willed they should have with a true Inventory carried to them of his said Books sent Carts to fetch them away within Tenor Twelve Days And these he gave also upon Condition that they chained them up in their Library or did distribute them among the Fellows such as would best Occupy them But so that they did it by Indenture and Condition that when they departed from the College they restored them to the College again But in case the Master and Fellows of the said College would not fetch them away sending some careful Man to see them well trussed and packed then he gave them to Peter House upon like Condition If neither of them would do it then he Willed his Executors to Sell or use them at their Discretion But yet of many of his Books he made gifts to his Learned Friends or Scholars at the University As to Mr. Shaw Parson of the Parish wherein he lived Chrysostoms Works in five Volumes Origen in two Volumes Luthers Works Bucer Galatinus Felvus super Psaltcrium Pet. Martyr in lib. Iudicum And as he gave these Divinity Books to a Divine so to one Tho. Crow a Physician whom he called his Servant he gave these Books of Galen de Compositione Medicamentâ—rum de Alimentorum Facultatibus Methodus Melendi Petrus Pena de Herbis Antidotarium speciale Turners Herbal Fallopii Opera Rendelâ—tius And besides these he gave him the Monument of Martyrs in two Volumnes and a Latin Bible in Quarto Gilded Also to Sir Clement Smith so called I suppose because he was in Priests Orders then a Resident of Queens College and the same I conjecture with him that was after Doctor of Divinity a Younger Son of his Brother George he gave or rather lent itus Livius Aristotle in Greek and Plato in Greek and Latin Tullies Works and Ten more of his Books which the said Clement would chuse on Condition that when he went away from the College he should restore them to the College again He gave a standing Massy Cup which had the Seven Planets in the Cover to the Queen as most worthy having all the good Gifts endued by God which he ascribed to the Seven Planets they be the Words of the Will Praying her Majesty to take that simple gift in good worth as coming from her Faithful and Loving Subject And in case of any Ambiguity or Doubt arising in any part of his Will he gave Authority to his Executors to add to it to make it more plain with good Advice so that they kept the true meaning and sense And then himself gave a general Explanation of one chief Part of his Will namely That he would have him that should enjoy the House and Mannor of Theydon at Mount to be able to keep House there to the Relief of the Poor and to set Neighbours at Work But if the Executors could not reconcile some Ambiguity that might happen in his Will that then they should stand to the Decision and Judgment of his Cosen Nicols a Lawyer Mr. Henry Archer a worthy Gentleman of the Parish of Theydon Garnons afterwards Living and Dying at Low Leyton and Parson Shaw aforementioned whom he made Supervisors of his Will Which he did in a great point of Wisdom to avoid Controversies of Law Which oftentimes break Friendship and swallow up an Estate so contended for He made his Youngest Brother George Smith who had several Children and his Nephew by his Sister Iohn Wood his Executors This Will is said to be reviewed and corrected by him after the Death of his Nephew William Smith of Walden the Son as it seems of his second Brother Iohn Smith Febr. 18. 1576. when he Signed with his Hand every Page All his Manors Lands and Tenements he had already given by Indenture made between him on the one part and Francis Walsingham Secretary to the Queen Iames Altham Henry Archer Esquires Humphrey Mitchel and his Nephew Iohn Wood on the other Part bearing date Febr. 4th in the 19th year of the Queen This Will was proved 15. Aug. 1577. before Tho Yale by Iohn Wood that is three days after Sir Thomas's Death And by George Smith not before May 14. 1578. I do not meet with many Bequests of Charity in this Will because those Acts he seemed to have done as the wisest and surest Course in his Life time when himself might see them truly and justly performed CHAP. XVII Observations upon Sir Thomas Smith NOW to make a few Observations upon this Wise and Learned Gentleman And first Of his Learning For he was one of the greatest Scholars of his Age and one of those many brave Shoots that the University of Cambridge then produced As Denny Châ—ke Haddon Ascham Ponet Cecil and some others that for their Merits and Parts were transplanted to the Court His Profession was the Civil Law and he was the first Regius Professor of it in the University placed therein by the Royal Founder King Henry VIII whose Scholar he was But tho' that were his Profession yet he was a Man of General Learning He was a great Platonist Which Noble and Useful Philosophy he and Cheke brought into Study in the University accustomed before to the crabbed barbarous useless Schoolmen Haddon speaking to him of Plato calleth him Plato tuus Your Plato who he told him called upon him to serve his Country and to be ready too to give it all that he had received from it He understood Physic well In his Oration for the Queens Marrying against him that had declaimed for her single Life and among other Reasons for it urged the Diseases and Infirmities that attended Child-bearing he asserted on the contrary how it preserved Women from Diseases and other Inconveniences and cleared their Bodies amended their Colour and prolonged their Health and undertook to bring the Authorities and Reasons of Physic for it And when in March 1574. the Lord Treasurer had a sit of an Ague Smith shewed his skill that Way by the Judgement that he made of it saying That he trusted it was but Diaria coming of a sudden Obstruction in the Pores of his Skin as he told him by Cold That which in a rare Body and tenderly kept must needs be till either by Evaporation or Sweat the same be opened again And so he hoped that now that Lord had but the weariness of that Accident and no formed Ague His Skill herein also appeared in his Discoursing so learnedly of his own Distemper as we heard before And here I will set down a Recipe I find in
This Seat now flourisheth in Plenty Reputation and Honour possessed by the Line of his Younger Brother Whereby Sir Thomas Smith's Name and Memory still Lives according to his Design and Intent in that Structure And tho' it wants nothing in the Inside as well as the Out to adorn and beautifie it yet the choicest Furniture is an excellent Original of the Builder hanging up in the Parlour with these two Verses written round the frame of the Picture Cernitur Essigies factis vera at Penicillus Corporis atque umbrae tâ—ntum simulacra râ—poâ— And underneath LOVE AND FEAR Aetat 〈◊〉 xxxiii Having no Child his Lady enjoyed this Manor of Mounthaut or Mounthal for her Life and then it descended to his Brothers Son Sir William Smith Son of George a brave Gentleman and Soldier in Ireland being a Colonel there Till having attained to Thirty Years of Age he returned into England and possest his Deceased Uncles Estate He married into the Family of Fleetwood of the Vache in Backs and had divers Issue And was of great Figure and Service in the County of Essex All which may be better known by the Inscription upon a Noble Monument for himself and his Lady set up on the Southside of the Chancel opposite to that of Sir Tho. Smith his Uncle Which was as follows To theâ—pious Memory of her Loved and Loving Husband Sir William Smith of Hilhal in the County of Essex Knight Who till he was Thirty Years old followed the Wars in Ireland with such Approbation that he was â—â—osen one of the Colonels of the Army But his Uncle Sir Thomas Chancellor of the Garter and Principal Secretary of State 〈◊〉 two Princes King Edward VI. and the late Queen Elizabeth of famous Memory dying he returned to a full and fair Inheritance And so bent himself to the Affairs of the Country that he grew alike famous in the Arts of Peace as War All Offices there sorted with a man of his Quality he right worshipfully performed and dyed one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the 〈◊〉 A Place of no small Trust and Credit Bridget his unfortunate Widow who during the time of Thirty Seven Years bare 〈◊〉 three Sons and four Daughters Daughter of Thomas Fleetwood of the Vache 〈◊〉 the County of Bucks Esquire and sometime time Master of the Mint to allay her Languer and Longing after so dear a Companion of her Life rather to express her Affection than his Office this Monument erected Destinating it to her self their Children and Posterity He lived Years Seventy Six Died the 12. of Decemb. 1626. CHAP. XVIII Sir Thomas Smith's Vertuous Accomplishments WE have seen Sir Thomas in his Secular Circumstances as his Learning Wealth and Honour made him lookt upon and admired in the Eye of the World But what doth all this Confer to the true Reputation of a man without inward vertuous Qualifications These were other and better things that added a Lustre and Glory to our Knight For his Learning was accompanied with Religion and his Honour became more illustrious by the excellent Accomplishments of his Mind He was brought up in the Profession of the Gospel from his tender years and ever after stuck to it and professed it and that openly and as he had Occasion delivered and rescued good men from the Persecutions and Dangers that Religion exposed them to tho' he thereby sometimes ran himself into no small hazzard He lost his Preferments upon the Change of Religion under Queen Mary when if he had been minded to have complyed he might have had what he pleased But he was of a stout and constant Mind When he was in Place and Office abroad or in the Court the Principles he governed himself by were Truth and Integrity an inviolable Love to Justice and righteous Dealing a most unchangeable Faithfulness and Zeal to the Concerns of his Queen and Country His Life and Manners were unreproveable of a grave and yet obliging Behaviour And sometimes he would take the Liberty to be ingeniously merry and cheerful among his Friends A perfect stranger he was to the Practices of some Courtiers namely to those of Fraud and Falsehood Flattery and Treachery Vice and Corrupt Manners Such a Description do the Muses in their ears give him Non Fraude Dâ—love Non ullo vicius Fuco Patriaeque suisque Regâ—nâ—quâ— suae fidus nâ—n perfidus ulli At fidus cunclis Cato viâ—â— mâ—ribus ore Sincerus sine Fraude bonus â—â—ne suspicione Neâ— lâ—vitate vacans sic gravitate severus Ut tamâ—n atque jocos admitteret atque lepores Innocuos nihilumque prius sibi duceret Aequo Atque Bono cui se suaque omnia vota sacravit And again the same Muses shewing the Reasons of his safety under the rigorous Times of Queen Mary notwithstanding he would not change nor dissemble his Faith nor comply with the Religion that was uppermost give us a Relation of his Vertues which shone so bright that with them he did as it were charm the Government to spare him Nec tamen interea parti assentarier ulli Nec simulare Fidem nec dissimulare solebat Mirifica Virtute omnes Gravitate colenda Moribus antiquis Charitum Aonidumque Favore Numine coelesti non Impietate nec Arte Illicita nec Perfidia neque Fraudibus ullis Vir bonus sapiens qualem vix repperit altrum Phaebus Apollo unquam sibi conciliabat amicos But as there is nothing so good but will find Accusers and Slanderers so it happened to him For his Excellences created him Envy and Enviers And some there were in King Edward's time that laid several gross Vices to his charge but most unjustly As tho' he were proud a Lover of Money and that for the sake of it he extorted and opprest that he was a Buyer and Seller of Spiritual Preferments and chopt and changed Lands Finally that in the Changes of Religion he was a Complier But these were all most false Calumniations but such as he was fain to write some Sheets of Paper to vindicate himself of whereby he was forced to set forth his own Vertues unwillingly His Spirit was brave and great being a Man of a resolute and Active Mind Faithful and Diligent when Ambassador and Secretary Somewhat hasty and impatient when public Matters went not as they ought being hindred by designing men for private Profit or secret Grudge And so I find him somewhere describing himself when Haughtiness was once laid to his Charge I cannot deny but I am of Nature hault of Courage and stomach to contemn all Perils and worldly things or Dangers to do my Master Service and likely more would be but that I am by such things he means Accusations and Slanders sometime plucked back and so again contented to rule my self being able I thank God to serve in the Body and Thilles as Carters call it as well as in the Room of a Forehorse His Apparel was usually good and like a Courtier For