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A53043	A commemoration sermon preached at Darby, Feb. 18, 1674, for the Honourable Colonel Charles Cavendish, slain in the service of King Charles the First, before Gainsborough in the year 1643 / by William Nailour.	Nailour, William, 1627 or 8-1678.; Cavendish, Charles, 1620-1643.	1675 (1675)	Wing N85; ESTC R5836	9,370	30

Imprimatur Ex Aed Lambethanis Martii 16. 1674. Tho. Tomkyns A COMMEMORATION SERMON Preached at DARBY Feb. 18. 1674. For the Honourable Colonel Charles Cavendish Slain in the Service of King Charles the First before Gainsborough in the Year 1643. By WILLIAM NAILOUR 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by Andrew Clark for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1675. To the Right Honourable WILLIAM EARL of DEVONSHIRE My Lord THese Papers take shelter under Your great Name to You they belong of Right as the nearest Relation The Person here spoke of was Your Dear Brother You suffered much in that Cause for which He was Slain He was a Martyr You was a Confessor He fought upon Your Expense Your Money raised his Regiment If I have fallen short as needs I must in the Description of so brave a Man impute that to the Excellency of the Subject the best Faces of all others are the hardest to hit to draw unto the Life If any ask why I would offer to undertake this business To them I answer The last words of a Dying person the Will is such To me are Sacred by no means to be neglected I have but done my Duty and though I fail in all points else however I shall hope at least to gain this Obsequii Gloriam the praise of a Ready Obedience Knowing Your Lordships Goodness so very well I am inclined to thinks You will not refuse the First Fruits of his Pen who subscribes himself in good earnest Your Lordships Most devoted as most obliged Servant W. Nailour Southampton House March 29. 1675. 2 SAM iii. 38. Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel ' T IS a Law of the twelve Tables Honoratorum virorum laudes in concione memorantur Let the Names of Honourable Persons be celebrated in publick Assemblies in Funeral Orations and it is most equal meet and right that they whose Works praise them in the gates should be commended there too where there is the greatest concourse of the People The Roman Oratour viewing the Troubles which ensued the fall of L. Crassus takes his Death at the hands of the Gods as an Act of Grace and Favour Sed ii tamen Remp. casus secuti sunt ut mihi non crepta L. Crasso à Diis immortalibus vita sed donata mors esse videatur Cic. not as an expression of their wrath and indignation When I reflect upon the distractions and confusions which followed the Death of Colonel Cavendish methinks the Powers above did not snatch away his Life in anger but rather conferred Death upon him in pure kindness that so his eyes might not behold what his great Spirit could never brook I mean the sight of Rebels triumphing Usurpers domineering A dying Emperor in Ammianus Marcellinus tells us Humile est coelo sideribusque conciliatum lugeri Principem that it is low mean and effeminate to moan and bewail the Death and departure of a Princely Person who hath exchang'd a corruptible Crown for one that fadeth not away All this I grant and yet with all 't is manly enough to rehearse the brave Actions of Heroick Persons after their Death and offer them to the present and future Ages for imitation That 's my business at this time to represent the Glorious Exit the Honourable Fall of the truly Noble and Valiant Charles Cavendish this day is design'd for his Commemoration Give me leave then to arrest your thoughts to rouse up your Memories with this question Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel These words were utter'd by David upon the death of Abner one of great Name among the Souldiers I will look over the words as they lie in order with some observation and after that I shall apply them to my present purpose The first Observation I make is this A Great mans Death passes not without a signal remark and publick notice the King talks of it the Court does ring of it And the King said unto his Servants Know ye not that there is a Prince fallen c. Private men may steal into their graves without notice and lie there as obscurely as they liv'd here but Great men can't do so thus the light of a smaller Star may be intercepted and no body heed it but if the Sun is eclipsed all observe it Great men are the main wheels in this Machine of the World and if they fall off they make a great alteration whereas meaner men are as the Dust upon these Wheels and if that falls off who does mind it When the Grand Signior lay a Dying and they ask'd him about his Successor he demanded thereupon Will there be any World when I am dead He thought his Change would change the Universe The Fall of a Great man does amuse the World alter its Figure and put things into another posture but when a Poor man Falls we consider it no more then when one Atome in a Sun-beam strikes down another When a tall Ceder or a stately Oak does fall 't is with a great noise but 't is not so with the smaller wood the lower shrubs When tidings came that the Great Pan was dead that report was eccho'd with howlings and ejulations and the Death of a great Commander creates a Pannick fear gives a whole Army terrour and amazement whereas the death of a Common Souldier makes no hubbub is undiscern'd not lamented The Death of a great Person can't go by us without notice This then gives you a just account of your present meeting A great Man is fallen I mean the Honourable Charles Cavendish second Son to the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire deceased and Christian his Wife my Noble Mistriss He was slain in the Service of his Lord and Soveraign Charles the First of Blessed memory before Gainsborough in the Year 1643. His Body was carried to Newark a Garrison of the Kings and there buried in the best manner that is according to the Rites of the Church of England The Corps of this brave Person we have brought to this Place to be laid in the Sepulchre of his Ancestours Now 't is not fit such Dust as this should be hudled up in the dark should be translated in silence which deserves the fairest Epitaph the noblest Monument the best Encomiast O that this Achilles had his Homer too That the Name of Colonel Cavendish might last with Ages might vie with Eternity What Seneca says of the Stout Cannius let us engrave upon the Tomb of the undaunted Cavendish Dabimus te Aeternitati sacrum Caput And that for the First Observ The Second follows Extraordinary Persons are not exempted from the Common Laws of Mortality the Prince and the Great man fall too they must go the way of all Flesh and Death must feed upon them Great men and Potentates of the earth are terrestrial Deities I have said Ye