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A48790	Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...	Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2642; ESTC R3832	768,929	730

health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and

Papa alterius Orbis and each word had been decreed by the Crosier than written with the Sword deserved the highest incouragements in that Church whereof it was the best defence which how ever ridiculously at first ascribed to others was so peculiar to him that his very enemies confessed he did it because none else So hard it is to counterfeit the great Genius and Spirit of Honor and there are in such Books the inimitable peculiarities of an incommunicable faculty and condition To which when you adde the exemplary strictness of his Life witness his care in keeping a constant Diary of it He is a good Christian that Audits the account of his soul every day as he a good husband that casts up the expences of his occasions every night The tenderness of his Conscience evident in this and other passages of his Devotion O Deus meus respice servum tuum miserere mei secundum viscera misericordiae ●uae scandalum ecce factus sum nomini tuo dum ambitioni meae aliorum peccatis servio Quin hoc licet aliorum suasu oblatrante tamen conscientia perpetravi Obsecro Domine per miseri cordius Iesu ne in tres in Iudicium cum servo tuo sed exaudi sanguinem ejus pro me p●rorantem nec hoc conjugium sit animae meae divortium a s●nu tuo O quantum satius esset si vel hujus diei satis memor Marty rium cum Proto-martyre tuo potius perpessus sim negando quod urgebant aut non satis fidi aut non satis pii amici mei Pollicitus sum mihi tenebras peccato huic sed ecce statim evolavit nec lux magis aperta quam ego qui feci ita voluisti Domine pro nimia misericordia tua implere ignominia faciem meam ut discerem quaerere nomen tuum O Domine quam gravis est memoria peccati hujus etiam bodie etiam post tot toties repetit as preces a tristi confusa anima mea coram te prosusas O Domine miserere exaudi preces depressi humiliati valde servi tui Parce Domine remitte peccata quae peccatum hoc Induxerunt secuta sunt c. The constant course of his Devotion is lately published his observations of Gods providences over him to furnish him with matter for his private prayer while he did as the Apostle exhorteth thus watch unto prayer as his sicknesses his falls the causualities in his Family and Affairs he judging nothing too mean for him to remarque that was not below God to do were exact his diet temperate his converse chaste having no Woman about his house reckoning it not every mans gift in Tertullians phrase Salvis oculis videre faeminam the gravity of his Person severity and quickness being well compounded in his face giving a good example always in this plainness of his garb and apparel and when in power good precepts checking saith the Historian such Clergy-men as he saw go in rich or gaudy dresses under his common and tart notion of Ministers of the Church-triumphant Thus as Cardinal Wolsey is reported the first Prelate who made Silks and Sattens fashionable for Clergy-men so this Archbishop first retrenched the usual wearing thereof Once at a Visitation in Essex one in Orders of good Estate and extraction appeared before him very gallant in habit whom he publickly reproved with the plainness of his own apparel My Lord said the Minister you have better Cloaths at home and I have worse whereat his Lordship rested very well contented wearing his hair short and injoyning others so to do not enduring to know any of his kindred if they appeared with flaunting Cloaths long hair or smelt either of Tobacco or Wine I knew saith an Historian a near Kinsman of his by the way to shew the impartiality of his favors in Cambridge Scholar enough but something wilde and lazy on whom it was late before he reflected with favor and that not before his amendment and generally those preferred by him were men of Learning and Ability The great influence of his publick spirit reaching not onely so far as he had power himself but also as far as any had power that either saw his good example or read his effectual admonitions At a Visitation kept in St. Peters Cornhil for the Clergy of London The Preacher discoursing of the painfulness of the Ministerial Function proved it from the Greek deduction of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Deacon so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dust because he must laborare in pulvere in arena work in the dust do hard service in hot weather Sermon ended my Lord then of London proceeded to his Charge to the Clergy and observing the Church ill repaired without and slovenly kept within I am sorry said he to meet here with so true an Etymology of Diaconus for here is both dust and dirt too for a Deacon or Priest either to work in yea it is dust of the worst kinde caused from the ruines of this ancient house of God so that it pittieth his servants to see her in the dust Hence he took an occasion to press the repair of that and other places of Divine Worship so that from this day we may date the general mending beautifying and adorning of all English Churches some to decency and some to magnificence I say it you add these admirable endowments of his Person to the excellent Catalogue of his Actions you might confess that there was reason why he should be envied but no reason why he should be Libelled so often as I have formerly mentioned he was Why his house should be sacked Munday May 11. 1640. about midnight by 500 persons of the rascal riotous multitude according to the Paper posted upon the Exchange exhorting them so to do May 9. to his utter ruine had not he upon timely notice fortified his house taken and punished the Ringleaders in spight of the tumult that brake all the prisons about the Town and severely threatned him in a Libel September 1. with another assault in the Kings absence Why he should receive such a Letter as he did from one Mr. Rocket informing him That he was among the Scots as he travelled through the Bishoprick of Durham he heard them inveigh and rail against the Archbishop exceedingly and they hoped shortly to see him as the Duke was slain by one least suspected Why the Scots Commissioners should name him in the House of Lords an Incendiary and in the House of Commons a Traytor Dec. 16. 17 18. Why he should be committed to the Black Rod and confined being only permitted to go to Lambeth for a Book or two and some Papers for his defence against the Scots where he staid late hearing with comfort the 93. and 94. Psalms and the 50. of Isaiah to avoid the gazing of the people why they should make him as soon as he was confined December 21. sell Plate

Church a respectful carriage towards Church-men his punctal dealing with the Cathedral his good usage to the subordinate Tenants and good House-keeping that as he had got his Lease easily he would keep house on the Church-patrimony exemplarily what he said of Simoniecal Parsons is true of over-charged Tenants They can scarce afford to feed their sheep fat who rent their Pasture too dear These were his faults which were other mens virtue the slander of good and evil varying with the humors of men and the temper of times which turned about him as the Spheres about the Center or as the alterations of his Body about his Soul himself all the while immoveable reckoning that answer of the King when he was moved to interpose in his behalf with the Parliament so much honor to him that he wished it Inscribed on his Tomb. He that will Preach other than he can prove let him suffer I give them no thanks to give me my due I cannot but take notice of what was strange when he spoke and found a great truth by them that lived to see it viz. That whosoever lived to see an happy end of that War which they saw so unhappily begun should observe that no man of what perswasion soever but would be heartily sorry for it and heartily repent of it for they should find so many interests coming in to disappoint them in the end they aimed at in the war that they would wish they had never commenced it One Burgoes Pupilla Oculi was a Book he much recommended to young men to propose to themselves a pattern and Bishop Felton was his pattern was his advice to young Preachers to aim at some particular thing in the reading of any Book was his rule to young Students to be always doing something was his counsel to his young Hearers to Analyse Authors was his direction to young University Men to Pen Sermons and Pray them was his lesson to his young Curates on whom he called often for an account of their Studies dismissing them with this Caution of the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reverence thy self Do nothing unworthy your Calling You cannot be too humble as Men neither can you be too grave and reserved as Ministers Tanti eritis aliis quanti vobis met ipsis But he had his virtues too much to be exactly charactered being of the Captains mind who when another had made a large Recital of his own Atchivements asked him and what have you done Answered Others can tell you that not enduring to give any account of himself any more than the Conqueror at the Olympick Games endured the Laurel due to him until another put it on his Head which we shall hear do in these words Hic Iacet Firtus repulsae nescia sordidae Intaminatis quae fulsit honoribus Nec sumit out ponit secures Arbitrio Popularis aurae Duris ut Ilex tonsus Bipennibus Per damna per Caedes ab ipsis Duxit opes animumque Injuriis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anno Christi 164 ... Episcopatus 9. Aetatis 63. THE Life and Death OF Dr. ROBERT SIBTHORP IT were pitty to sever them in their Character that were so like in their Carriage both making themselves known to the world by the Shibboleth of the Authority of the Church and the Prerogative of the King the first was a rational man and dived to the bottom of his subject the other a smooth man that got in the bottom of his Hearers hearts whose discourse went off plausibly in the ayr of his good delivery though they passed not so well in the steady and fixed way of the Press The Preaching of the Sermon called Apostolick Obedience got him much repute at Court and as much envy for this passage in it viz. That the Prince hath power to direct his Counsel and make Laws and Subjects if they cannot exhibite active obedience in case the thing commanded should be against the Law of God or of nature or were impossible yet nevertheless they ought to yield a passive obedience and in all other cases they are bound to active obedience the time the loan was pressed by the King and so much disgusted by the people in the Country It was liked so well by those that heard it that they would have it Printed and so ill by Arch-bishop Abbot when he read it that he would not License it But it seems that Sermon that was not approved of by the Arch-bishop was not so much as questioned by the Parliament which found so much the more fault in the man as they found the less fault in the Sermon which vexed them grievously since they could not but be angry at it and could not punish it it being smart against their late courses yet cautious within their standing Laws But being an active man and if he had any fault it was too much heat he doth not only assert the doctrine of the Kings Prerogative and the Subjects but he suppresseth the impugners of it complaining with Dr. Lamb even of the Bishop of Lincoln against the Loan to the Council-board and pursuing that complaint in Star-chamber But the best jest is that those very people that found fault with this Sermon made it a Branch of their Articles against Arch-bishop Laud that he blotted several passages about Sabbath-breaking Evil Counsellors Popery which they say the Doctor had cunningly interwoven into his discourse to sweeeen the harsh point of the Prerogative out of that Sermon when indeed that Sermon came out with so much care on all sides that the King commanded four Bishops to view and judge it and every passage in it All the preferment that he had was his Vicarage of Brackley and a poor Prebends of Peterburgh though so deserving of the Church in that Diocess that Dr. Iohn Towers Bishop of Peterburgh in a Letter to my Lord of Canterbury wished him as heartily in the Deanery as he did himself in the Pallace It may be some that were in the Historians Character sola socordia innocentes that had flegm enough to make them as they phrase it discreet and moderate judged him one of those unhappy men that had a certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heat or activity of spirit that is say they wonderful apt without a due corrective of wisdom and knowledge to break forth into intemperate carriage and disturb the peace and censured him as Tacitus doth some stirring Commonwealths-men Quod per abrupta inclarescerent sed in nullum Reipusum talking that zeal like Quick-silver must be allayed with wisdom and calling honest men in Livies phrase Spiritus magni magis quam utiles But let us hear in this case a most learned and a most ingenious person It s not for superiors to frown upon and brow-beat those who are hearty and exact in the management of their Ministry and with a grave and insignificant Nod to call a well-regulated and resolved zeal want of prudence and moderation such discouraging of men in

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 Bi●●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 Bishop●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 ●●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