Zerâ—bbabel who repaired the Temple and restored its beauty but he was the Ioshuah the High-priest who under him ministred this blessing to the Congregations of the Lord. But his care was not determined in the exterior part only and accessaries of Religion he was careful he was prosperous in the interior to reduce that Divine and Excellent Service of our Church to publick and constant Exercise to Unity and Devotion and to cause the Articles of the Church of England to be accepted as the rule of publick Confessions and Perswasions here that they might be populus unius labii of one Heart and of one Lip building up our hopes of heaven upon a most holy Faith and taking away that Shibboleth which made this Church lisp too undecently or rather in some little degree to speak the Speech of Ashdod and not the Language of Canaan and the excellent and wise pains he took in this particular no man can demonstrate or reproach but he that is not willing to confess that the Church of England is the best Reformed Church in the World God by the prosperity of his labours and a blessed effect gave testimony not only of the piety and wisdom of his purposes but that he loves to bless a wise instrument when it is vigorously exerted in a wise and religious labour He overcame the difficulty in defiance of all such pretences as were made even from Religion it self to obstruct the better procedure of real and material Religion These were great things and matter of great envy and like the Fiery Eruptions of Vesuvius might with the very Ashes of Consumption have buried another man At first indeed as his blessed Master most Holy Jesus had so he also had his annum acceptabilem At first the product was nothing but great admiration at his stupendious parts and wonder at his mighty diligence and observation of his unusual zeal in so good and great things But this quickly passed into the natural Daughters of Envy Suspition and Detraction the spirit of Obloquy and Slander His zeal for recovering of the Church Revenues was called Oppression and Rapine Covetousness and Injustice his care of reducing Religion to wise and justifiable Principles was called Popery and Arminianism and I know not what names which signifie what the Authors are pleased to mean and the People to construe and to hate The intermedial prosperity of his person and fortune which he had as an earnest of a greater reward to so well meant labours was supposed to be the production of illiberal arts and ways of getting and the necessary refreshment of his wearied spirits which did not always supply all his needs and were sometimes less than the permissions even of prudent charity they called Intemperance Dederunt enim malum Motelli Naevioâ— poetae their own surmises were the three Bills of Accusation and the splendor of his great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or doing of good works was the great probation of all their calumnies But if Envy be the Accuser what can be the Defences of Innocence Saucior invidiae morsu quaerenda medola est Dic quibus in terris sentiet aeger opem Our B.S. knowing the unsatisfiable angers of Men if their Money or Estates were medled with refused to divide an Inheritance amongst Brethren It was not to be imagined that this great person invested as all his Brethren were with the infirmities of Mortality and yet imployed in dividing and recovering and apportioning of Lands should be able to bear all that reproach which jealousie and suspicion and malicious envy could invent against him But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said Sophocles And so did he the affrightments brought to his great fame andreputation made him to walk more warily and do justly and walk prudently and conduct his affairs by the measures of the Laws as far as he understood and indeed that was a very great way But there was aperta Iustitia clausa Manut Justice was open but his Hand was shut and though every Slanderer could tell a Story yet none could prove that ever he received a Bribe to blind his Eyes to the value of a Pair of Gloves It was his own expression when he gave Glory to God who had preserved him Innocent But because every mans Cause is right in his own Eyes it was hard for him so to acquit himself that in the Intrigues of Law and Difficult Cases some of his enemies should not seem when they were heard alone to speak reason against But see the greatness of Faith and Prudence and how greatly God stood with him when the numerous Armies of vexed people Turba gravis paci placidaeque inimica quieti heaped up Catalogues of Accusations when the Parliament of Ireland imitating the violent Procedures of the then disordered English when this glorious Patron was taken from his Head and he was disrobed of his great defences when the Petitions were invited and Accusations furnished and Calumny was rewarded and managed with Art and Power when there was above two hundred Petitions put in against him and himself denied leave to answer by Word of Mouth when he was long Imprisoned and Treated so that a guilty man would have broken into affrightment and pittiful and low considerations yet then he standing almost alone like Callimachus at Marathon invested with Enemies and covered with Arrows defended himself beyond all the powers of Guiltiness even with the defences of Truth and the bravery of Innocence and answered the Petitions in Writing sometimes twenty in a day with so much Clearness Evidence of Truth Reallity of Fact and Testimony of Law that his very Enemies were ashamed and convinced they found that they had done like Aesops Viper they licked the File till their Tongues bled but himself was wholly invulnerable They were therefore forced to leave their Muster-rolls and decline their Particulars and fall to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to accuse him for going about to subvert the Fundamental Laws the way by which great Strafford and Canterbury fell which was a device when all reasons failed to oppress the Enemy by the bold Affirmation of a Conclusion they could not prove they did like those Gladiatores whom the Romans called Reâ—iaries when they could not Stab their Enemies with their Daggers they threw Nets over him and covered him with a general mischief But the Martyr King Charles the First of most Glorious and Eternal Memory seeing so great a Champion likely to be oppressed with numbers and despair sent what rescue he could his Royal Letter for his Bayl which was hardly granted to him and when it was it was upon such hard terms that his very delivery was a persecution So necessary it was for them who intended to do mischief to the publick to take away the strongest Pillars of the House This thing I remark to acquit this great man from the tongue of slander which had so boldly spoken that it was certain some thing would stick yet was impotent and unarmed that it
would likewise in this Nation over-rule all Power Authority Order and Laws that keep them within compass from without when those unruly Lusts Pride Ambition Animosity Discontent Popularity Revenge c. would over-run all those Banks that were raised against them have been 1. The Dubiousness of the Royal Title the ground of thirty six Rebellions one hundred forty six Battle since the Conquest In all which though the Rebels were usually the most the Loyallists were always the best and when the many followed sometimes a prosperous Villany the most noble and excellent stood to or fell with an afflicted right and bore down all umbrages with this real truth That the Crown took off all defects and that any man may pretend arguments to begin a War when but few can make arguments when it is begun to make an end of it 2. The Liberty of the Subject forsooth the old Quarrel for which the Throng and Rabble would venture much when wiser men maintained that there was no greater oppression in the world than a Liberty for men to do what they pleased and that Government is the great security of freedome 3. Religion for whose sake so many resisted Authority when one of the Maximes of this Religion is that none should resist upon pain of damnation and albeit the Factious in all Ages have been many that have taught men for Religions sake to disobey Authority yet the sober in those Ages have been as many that taught them that for Religion-sake they should obey them that have the rule over them But when towards the last that is the worst Ages of the world wickedness grows wiser upon the experiences and observations of former times and twists all these pretensions into one there have been excellent persons that with their lives and fortunes asserted Government and have been Confessors and Martyrs to this great truth That it is upon no pretence lawâ—â—l to resist the Supream Authority of a Nation a truth that keeps up the world without which it had been long ere this a desolation Upon the Reformation in Henry the eighth's time it fell out in England as Luther observes it did in most other reformed Churches that the Papists finding that their way was so odious that it was to no purpose for it to appear here with open face to settle it self therefore did they under several covert pretexts and cunning scruples endeavour to unsettle all other ways and when it could not establish it self to hinder all other Professions from being established that at least they might watch some opportunities whereof there are many offered in distracted times For no sooner was our Church setled on the Primitive principles of Religion and Government than some of those that fled into the free States and the places of popular reformation in Germany returning when most preferments were gone and living upon the Liberality of well-disposed People set up some popular scruples against the established Government and among the rest Iohn Hooper having been long in Switzerland upon his election to be Bishop of Gloucester scrupled several Ornaments and Rights of our Church the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland having a design to oblige all Parties in order to a project he had set up to convey the Crown to his own family to preserve the Reformation though he died a Papist writes to Arch-Bishop Cranmer to dispence with the publick Laws to satisfie a private mans humor and when his Letter would not do makes the young King write another and now Cranmer and Ridley stand up for these great Principles of Government Let private Spirits yeild to publick establishments there is no end of yeilding to scruples one scruple indulged begetting another so long till there be no more Law than pleaseth the humoursome be well advised in making Laws and resolute in keeping them Notwithstanding that the learned and wise Ridley suffered almost as much for his asserting the Government of our Church at that rate from the Puritans as he did afterwards for asserting the Doctrine of it from the Papists he was Martyr to the Protestant Church and a Confessor to the Church of England Hooper not being reconciled to him until the Sun of their lives was going down and their heart-burning upon this occasion was not quenched till the Fire was kindled that burned both their bodies The Lord Admiral Seymour was a back-Friend to Common-Prayer and old Latimer takes him and others up for it I have heard say when that the good Queen that is gone had ordained in her house daily Prayers both before noon and afternoon the Admiral getteth him out of the way like a mole digging in the earth he shall be Lots wife to me as long as I live He was I heard say a covetous man a covetous man indeed I would there were no more in England He was I heard say a seditious man a contemner of Common-Prayer I would there were no more in England Well! he is gone I would he had left none behind him Yea when the death of King Edward the sixth put an end to these differences among Protestants but putting an end to the publick profession of the Protestant Religion it self in this Nation the forementioned scruples accompanied some hot-Spirited men to their exiles under Queen Mary When Master Calvins Authority who forsooth observed some Tolerabiles Ineptiâ in our establishment and Master Knox Master Whittingam Goodman and Foxes zeal cried down the whole Platform of our English Reformation the judgement and gravity of Master Horn afterwards Bishop of Winchester the learning of Bishop Poynet and Iuel the piety and prudence of Doctor Sands and Doctor Coxe the moderation and calmness of Master afterwards Archbishop Grindall and Chambers the Reputation of Sir Iohn Cheeke Sir Anthony Cooke Francis afterwards Sir Francis Knolles bore it up until it pleased God that with Queen Elizabeth it was again established and restored by the Law of the Realm In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign all persons were so intent upon obviating the Publick Dangers that they had no leasure to minde particular Animosities though as the Danow and the Savus in Hungary run with party-colour'd Waters in the same Channel so the several sorts of Protestants upon that alteration with several Opinions maintained the same Religion until the year 1563. when the Canons and Articles of the Church being confirmed the Governours of the Church began as it was their duty to press Conformity and they whom it concerned to oppose that Establishment refused subscription Father Foxe as Queen Elizabeth used to call him pulling out his Greek Testament and saying He would subscribe to that and that he had nothing in the Church save a Prebend of Salisbury and if they would take that away much good may it do them Laurence Humphred determining something de Adiaphoris non juxtà cum Ecclesia Anglicanâ They are Camdens own words Nay Anthony Gibby of Lincolnshire declaring in Print That the
stood by that that was a point worth his consideration The Earles Reply That he expected some proof to evidence the two first particulars but he hears of none For the following words he confessed probably they might escape the Door of his Lips nor did he think it much amiss considering the present posture to call that Faction Rebels As for the last words objected against him in that Article he said that being in conference with some of the Londoners there came to his hands at that present a Letter from the Earl of Lichester then in Paris wherein were the Gazettes enclosed relating that the Cardinal had given order to â—evy Money by Souldiers This he onely told the Lord Cottington standing by but he made not the least Application thereof to the English affairs 21. That being Lieutenant-General of the Northern Forces against the Scots 1639. he Imposed 6d per diem on the Inhabitants of York-shire for the maintenance of Trained Bands by his own Authority threatning them that refused with imprisonment and other penalties little below those inflicted for High-Treason The Earles Reply That his Majâ—sty coming to York it was thought necessary in regard the Enemy was upon the Borders to keep the Trained-bands on foot for the defence of the Country and therefore the King directed him to Write to the Free-holders in York-shire to declare what they would do for their own defence that they freely offered a months pay nor did any man grudge against it Again it was twice propounded to the great Council of Peâ—rs at York that the King approved it as a just and necessary act and none of the Council contradicted it which he conceived seemed a tacit allowance of it That though his Majesty had not given him special Order therein nor the Gentry had desired it yet he conceived he had power enough to Impose that Tax by Vertue of his Commission But he never said that the Refusers should he guilty of little less than High-â—reason which being proved by Sir William Ingram he was but a single Testimony and one who had formerly mistaken himself in what he had deposed 22. That he being Lieutenant-General against the Scots suffered New-Castle to be Lost to them with design to incense the English against the Scots And that he ordered my Lord Conway to Fight them upon disadvantage the said Lord having satisfied him that his Forces were not equal to the Scots out of a malicious desire to Engage the two Kingdomes in a National and Bloudy War The Earles Reply That he admired how in the third Article he being charged as an Incendiary against the Scots is now in this Article made their Confederate by Betraying New-Castle into their hands But to answer more particularly he said That there were at New-Castle the 24. of August ten or twelve thousand Foot and two thousand Horse under the Command of the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Ashley and that Sir Jacob had writ to him concerning the Town of New-castle that it was Fortified which also was under his particular Care and for the passage over the River of Tine His Majesty sent special direction to the Lord Conway to secure it and therefore that Lord is more as he conceives responsible for that miscarriage than himself These replies were so satisfactory in themselves and so nobly managed by him that they exceeded the expectation of the Earles Friends and defeated that of his Enemies Insomuch that finding both the number and the weight of their former Articles ineffectual their multitude being not as they designed able to hide their weakness they would needs force him the next day notwithstanding a â—it of the Stone that made it as much as his life was worth to stir abroad which though testified by the Leiutenant of the Tower they measuring the Earles great spirit that scorned to owe his brave Life to ignoble Acts by their own mean one believed not and when convinced aiming at his ruin rather than tryal regarded not to answer others I mean those obscure Notes that Sir Henry Vane whose covetousness having as great a mind to a part of the Earles Estate as others ambition had to the snips of his Power betrayed his trust and honour to satisfie his malice took under his Hat at Council-board May 5. 1040. the day the last Parliament was Dissolved treacherously laid up in his Closet maliciously and by his own Son Harry who must be pretended forsooth as false to the Father as ever the Father had been to his Master and when sent to one Closet finding a little Key there to have ransacked another where these Notes lay conveyed to Master Pym slyly by Master Pym and the Commons who would needs have a conference with the Lords that very afternoon urged so vehemently that the Lords who thought it reasonable that the Earles Evidence might be heard as well as his Adversaries were bassled to a compliance with the Commons in this Vote that the Earl should appear April 13th as he did And when these Notes were Read viz. No danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. C. H. How can we undertake an Offensive War if we have no money L. L. Ir. Borrow of the City an hundred thousand pounds go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money your Majesty having tried the affections of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rules of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty hath tryed all ways and being refused shall be Acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may Imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on foot and if any of them stir we will make them smart Answered thus calmly and clearly his nature being not overcome nor his temper altered by the arts of his Adversaries That being a Privy Counsellor he conceived he might have the freedom to Vote with others his opinion being as the exigent required It would be hard measure for Opinions Resulting from such Debates to be prosecuted under the notion of Treason And for the main Hint suggested from these words The King had an Army in Ireland which he might Imploy here to reduce this Kingdom he Answereth That it is proved by the single Testimony of one man Secretary Vanâ— not being of validity in Law to create faith in a Case of Debt much less in Life and Death That the Secretaries Deposition was very dubious For upon two Examinations he could not Remember any such words And the third time his Testimony was various but that I should speak such words and the like And words may be very like in Sound and differ in Sense as in the words of my charge here for there and that for this puts an end to the Controversie There were present at this Debate but eight Privy Counsellors in all two are not to be produced
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
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
no Modern Authors and none of note escaped him but with design to enlarge clear up or correct their Annotations twice Printed in English and now Translated to Latine to be a noble part of that grand Collection called Critica Sacra the depth of his Rabbinical and Talmudical reading the breadth of his Eastern and Western Antiquities his perusal of all Councils his command of all Scholiasts his comprehension of all Architecture Magick Chimistry Modes Coins Measures Weights Customes Proverbs c. and whatever else can properly come under a great Schollar's cognizance that aimed not at the empty and floating notions of Surface-learning but at Omne Scibile A compleat Scheme Frame and Idea within himself proportionable in all things to the order and method of being without him drawing his Intellectual Circle of Arts and Sciences in no narrower compass than that real one of things in the Universe Insomuch that I cannot believe as one suggesteth he lived to the twenty fourth year of his age before he could buy Books and but to the thirty ninth of it to read them unless I admit what is more strange but affirmed by another That his Candle was not out one night for eleven of those years This industry this Proficiency escaped not the observation of the Reverend Doctor Duppa then Dean of Christ-Church since successively Lord Bishop of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester as great a Patron of ingenuity in others as Master of it in himself who admitted him first to his favour next to his service wherein he was first Chaplain of Christ-Church and next to that Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum no Preferment compatible with his Age being above his Deserts For which Preferment in gratitude to his Master and the Church he dedicated Ridleyes View of the Civil Law to him and his life in clearing up the Scripture difficulties in that method he had begun to it For when his Lord called upon him to Preach and exercise his Ministerial Function He said The Harvest is confessedly great but then the Labourers are not few and if while so many are thus excellently imployed about the rest of the Building some one or other do as well as he can towards the making good of the Ground-work I think he may be let alone at least The hopes of the Superstruction dependeth upon the assurance of the Foundation I shall give them leave to be Pillars this I am sure is the Corner-stone and I need not not tell you how rejected I mean not of all but of the Common Builders And in this course of Study he intended to spend the rest of his life Neither did the vigilant Doctor Duppa alone take notice of this deserving Person For 1. The blessed Arch-bishop Laud now intent upon the Recovery of Primitive Christianity the Restauration of Ancient Learning and the Settlement of a Flourishing Church employed and encouraged this great Master of the two first and as great ornament of the third 2. The publick spirited Bishop Linsey designing his excellent Edition of Theodoret repaired to this great Transcript of that and all other Fathers 3. Great Selden 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confessed this Gentleman a confutation of his opprobrious Preface against the Clergy in his Book of Tythes sending no less than eighty seven doubts in several sorts of learning to be resolved by him 4. The learned Bishop Mountague meditating a Church History equal to if not above that of Baronius consulted this great Antiquary the familiarity between them when Master Gregory was but thirty years old you have in his own words about the occasion of his Tract called Episcopus puerorum in die Innocentium Having Consulted with the most likely men I knew where about I then was to what Moment of Antiquity this speaking of the Monument afore mentioned in the Margin at Salisbury could refer The Answer was They could not tell so the late learned Bishop Mountague who also earnestly appointed me to make further enquiry after the thing not doubting but that there would be something in the matter at least of curious if not substantial observation 5. There was a Club of great wits at Oxford that met twice a week to consult this Oracle than whom none communicated his Notions more readily none expressed himself more satisfactorily wherefore the most learned Jews and Christians Protestants and Papists kept correspondence with him and an Armenian Priest lodged with him some time at the Colledge by the same Token that he saith himself He had occasion to shew this Priest the Chappel and perceiving him to cast his Eye upon the Organ he asked whether there were any such sight to be seen in their Churches he answered No such matter neither did he know till it was told him what to call them yet this man had lived fourteen years under two Patriarchs Constantinople and Alexandria And in the Greek Liturgy we read of Musick enough And to close this Album Amicorum he travelled through twelve Languages without any guide except Mr. Dod the Decalogist whose Society and Directions for the Hebrew Tongue he enjoyed one Vacation near Banbury for which Courtesie he gratefull◠remembred him as a man of great Piety Learning Gravity and Modesty of which Graces also this Personage was as great a possessor as admirer But this heighth of worth and honour must by the method of sublunary things be attended with its fall This great height of our Church is now in its meridian and it must Set. One dismal cloud overwhelming Religion Learning and his great Spirit the Repository of both for immoderate study an hereditary Gout of twenty years continuance which his poor Parents were rich enough to bequeath him and heart-sorrow brings him to his Grave Marck 13. 1646. with Ichabod in his mouth Ah the glory is departed yet not as one without hope for he concludes a Dedication to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury and his life with these words The great Genius of this place must now burn a while like those subterraneous Olibian Lamps under the Earth we shall behold it but not now we shall behold it but not nigh Which those about him heard not uttered then with more grief than we after him see now fulfilled with joy By this time your expectation is raised concerning the great particulars that made up this Eminent Person In a word a Memory Strong and Active containing not a confused Heap but a rational Coherence of Notions an Imagination Quick and Regular a Judgment Deep and Searching an Apprehension Ready and Natural such a readiness to take flame and blaze from the least occasion presented or the least Sparks of anothers knowledge delivered as is very discernable to those that intently observe the little occasions he takes from one observation to make another a Patience Invincible that never rested in its unconfined enquiries of any difficulty but at the bottome of it a Good Nature Composed and Settled a Communicativeness that
Exercised and Improved him an Obliging Carriage that gave Access to the meanest Scholar and had it of the greatest a Distinct Understanding that could as well Touch and Apprehend the least matters as Compass and Comprehend the greatest a Down-right Plain and Honest Temper and what crowned all a Serious and Holy Frame of Spirit discovering its self in his Life and his Writing where you will meet with such expressions as these When I am indeed able for these things speaking of Preaching I doubt not to have him with my mouth because I mean to leave my self out I have thus much left to wish and I hope I do it well to his Book meaning the Scripture that it might be read as far as this is possible in a full and fixed Translation and upon that a clear and disingaged Commentary The way to do this will not be to do the work a great and undertake the whole or any considerable part of the Book by one man if he could live one Age. He that goeth upon this with any interest about him let him do otherwise never so admirably he doth indeed but Translate an Angel of Light into the Devil I would not Render or Interpret one parcel of Scripture to an end of my own though it were to please my whole Nation by it to gain the World One asked him whether the Alcoran had any thing in it that could work upon a Rational Belief He answered That that which is every where called Religion hath more of Interest and the strong impressions of Education than perhaps we consider of There is no Scholar that would not know where lies the Remains of this great man Christ-Church hath his Body the Church of England his Heart whose Religion he designed to clear up in life and sealed with his death a death that was so much more a Martyrdom in his Bed than others were upon the Scaffold as it is a more exquisite misery to dye daily with grief than once by an Executioner His honest Epitaph is this NE premus Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jacent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui Te quovis vincet Idiomate At ne molestus sis Ausculta Causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et Avitâ Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatû Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut cupesseret Vade Nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Printed Works are RIdleyes View of the Law with his Notes Posthuma Or a Collection of Notes and Observations translated into Latine by Master Stokes and inserted into the Critica Sacra M. SS Among the many early fruits of his younger studies which his modesty kept by him to ripen A Translation of an Ancient Peice of Chronography by Melala which gave great light to the State of Primitive Christianity is one And Akibla a Book proving East-adoration before Popery because ever since the Floud THE Life and Death OF JOHN BARNSTON Doctor of Divinity THE greatest parts was not protection enough you observe in the last Instance against the Barbarism of that Age nor yet the best nature any security as you may perceive by this against the inhumanity of it For there was one Iohn Barnston D. D. born of an ancient Family in Cheshire his birth deserved civility bred Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford his education pleaded for favour Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton and Residentiary of Salisbury his preferments should have gained him respect a peaceable and good Disposition whereof take this eminent instance He sat Judge in the Consistory when a Church-warden out of whose house a Chalice was stolen was Sued by the Parish to make it good to them because not taken out of the Church-chest where it ought to be reposited but out of his private house The Church-warden Pleaded That he took it home only to Scoure it which proving in-effectual he retained it till next morning to Boil out the in-laid Rust thereof Well said the Doctor I am sorry that the Cup of Union and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord between you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but that either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some charity come to pass accordingly He Founded an Hebrew Lecture in Brazen-Nose Colledge a piece of charity this that should have covered a multitude of offences Hospitality they say hath slept since 1572. in the Grave of Edward Earl of Derby this Gentlemans Father's Master and was a little awaked by this Gentleman his Sons Chaplain and Friend from the year 1620. to the year 1640. carrying with him that genius of Cheshire Hospitality and free to his own Family which is Generosity to Strangers which is Courtesie and to the Poor which is Charity A Native of Northampton-shire observeth that all the Rivers of that County are bred in it besides those Ouse and Charwell it lendeth unto other Shires So this good House-keeper had provisions arising from his own grounds both to serve himself and to supply others who if poor were in his house as in their own The peculiar grace of his charity was that with the good man in Plutarch he would sometimes steal Largesses under the Pillows of Ingenious Men who otherwise might refuse them relieving so at once as well the modesty as the poverty of his Clients not expecting but preventing their request God forbid the Heavens should never Rain till the Earth first openeth her Mouth seeing some grounds will sooner burn than chap. It was the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon's observation in his excellent Speech Octob. 13. 1660. before the King's Majesty and both Houses of Parliament That good Nature was a virtue so peculiar unto us and so appropriated by Almighty God to this Nation that it can be translated into no other Language and hardly practised by any other People This good nature was the praedominant temper of this good man appearing in the chearfulness of his spirit the openness and freedom of his converse and his right English inclination so that the spirit of fears and jealousies that spiritus Calvinianus spiritus Melancholicus that prevailed in the beginning of these times like the louring of the Sky before a Storm was as inconsistent with his temper and spirit as it was contrary to other sober persons opinion and interest His first disturbance was by some Croaking Lectures the Product of the extraordinary heat of that time out of the mud of Mankind who vied with him in long and thin discourses in reference to whom he would apply a Story he took much pleasure in When a Noble-man of this Nation had a controversie in Law with a Brewer who had a Garden and a Dwelling-house bordering upon his The Brewer gave it in charge to his Servant to put in so many Hogsheads of Water more into all his Brewings than he was wont to do telling him that such a supply
must have low and humble Foundations When the Dutch Encroachments allowed our Merchants no more Trade than they tought for Master Berkley as willingly served the King to vindicate and recover Trade as he had done his Master to understand it What was extravagancy in the young Merchant becomes courage and resolution in the Sea-men and Souldiers war and publick affairs exercising that spirit that was too big for soft peace and private business He was content to go first a Volunteer to observe the Conduct and Discipline of others and after evident trials of his personal valour to set out as Captain to exercise his own though yet not taking notice so much that he was advanced by his Princes favour to be a Captain over his men as that he was in his Service a Fellow-souldier with them The Conqueror when he first Landed his Forces in this Nation burnt all his Ships that despair to return might make his men the more valiant Younger Brothers they are the words of an ingenious Author being cut off at home from all hopes are more zealous to purchase an honorable support abroad their small arteries with great spirits have wrought miracles and their resolution hath driven success before it When the Orator was asked What was that that made an Orator successful He answered Action What next Action What next again Action Wonderful like saith the Lord Verulam is the case of boldness in Sea-affairs What first Boldness What second and third Boldness Though he never tempted dangers yet he never avoided them witness the Streights Expedition wherein though expectation commonly out-doeth ordinary performances yet he out-did expectation its self resolving not to Yeild even when it was impossible to Overcome and when Stiffled rather than Mastered he might have had Quarter with more honor than his enemies could give it yet Antaeus like taking courage from his misfortunes his courage whetted with anger and revenge not only fills up the great breach made in the Ship by the loss of an excellent Commander but managed it too with such a present courage as not only out-faced danger but even commanded and disciplined it too scattering a new vigor upon his new Command here then on this on that side his examples quickning his authority so that his very Conqueror became his Prize when he had men enough left to master the Ship and yet not enough without some more assistance to Man it winning on the enemy even when he seemed to have lost himself Great was the value others put on the Prizes now and at other times taken by him greater the esteem he had of the actions themselves which at Court deserved a Knight-hood an Honor that by an over-value of themselves make some fearful of those services that gained them that value yet raised rather than abated his resolution as well remembring the custome which is used at the Creation of some Knights wherein the Kings Master-Cook cometh forth and presents his great Knife to the new made Knights admonishing them to be faithful and valiant otherwise he threatneth them that that very Knife is prepared to cut off their Spurs And in the Fleet gained a Vice-Admirals Command a power the greater it was the more careful he was not to abuse it managing his authority at Sea as if what Sea-Captains seldom do he should give an account of it at Land None so wary in Council none so bold in Execution Valour in acting doth well in him that is under the direction of others prudence in advising becomes him who is to guide the ones excellency lying in not seeing dangers the others in seeing them His goodness sweetned his greatness and the best mettal and blade is that which bends and his industry and patience set off his goodness pains having knit the joynts of his Soul and made them more solid and compacted and his piety both of them seeing so much of God in the deep he saw the proper reason of that common Proverb He that cannot pray let him go to Sea And understanding himself so well that he was none of those Sea-men who as if their hearts were made of those Rocks they Sail by are so always in death that they never think of it Most young men when advanced are transported with the Footboys fancy in Huartus that thought himself a Monarch and the Doctor in Acosta that apprehended himself King and Pope so apt is heighth to turn the brain This Gentleman was of the Nobleman in Laurentius his temper that though otherwise very sensible yet was perswaded that he was Glass so much affected was he with the consideration of his frailty and mortality In all his great actions you might spye in his looks that he had a Monitor like the Emperors Boy following him with a Memento te esse mortalem In this capacity he rides in the Fleet under the command of Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle when Iune 2. 1665. the Engagement between the Dutch and the English began wherein his place was ordered towards the Rear though his spirit made to the Front had Discipline endured it in reference to which he thought it greater service to submit to the command of Superiours than to be forward in the Engagement with his Enemies lest otherwise he might be served as the French Souldier was in Scotland about a hundred year ago who first mounted the Bulwark of a Fort besieged whereupon ensued the gaining of the Fort But Marshal de Thermes the French General first Knighted him and then hanged him within an hour after because he had done it without command The evil example out-weighed the good service The posture was so unhappy that he as well as Sir George Ascue his Admiral were parted from the Fleet first and afterwards from one another Castor and Pollux asunder betokened ill luck to the Sea-men and misfortunes following each other as waves do Sir William was divided from himself some of his Officers not thinking fit to obey what he thought fit to command and their performances were like to succeed when neither would follow and both could not handsomely go abreast In this condition he resolved his Valour should make amends for his misfortune and though he was unhappy he would not be unworthy too he had rather die ten times than once survive his Credit The sweetness of life being not able to make him swallow down the bitterness of disgrace He attempted a probability of success with a certainty of his own danger not without reason when the ignominy of a quarter from the Enemy he had to deal with was more intolerable than the pains of a death of which a Sea-man thinks that as it is far hotter under the Tropick in the coming to the Line than under the Line it self so the fear and fancy in preparing for death is more terrible than death it self Berkley against the whole Fleet himself a Navie yet carrying nothing about him impenetrable but his mind About six a clock he was shot
vowed not to stir a foot except with these their Baggage which the King was forced to wink at for the present smiling out his anger and permitting now what he might and did amend afterwards But greatest Piety the best Cause the strictest Discipline the most faithful Service may miscarry in this world where we are sure no person can discern either the love or the hatred of the great Governor of the world by any thing that is under the Sun For he saw prosperous Villany trampling on unhappy Allegiance the best King lying down under the stroke of the worst Executioner and himself forced to compound for his estate with those very Rebels he now scorned and formerly defied overcome in all things but his mind For the note runs thus in that Record which we are bound to forgive but History will not forget Sir Edward Berkley of Pull Som. 0770 l. 00 00 In the primitive times like these I write of made up of suffering when the surviving Christians endeavoured to preserve the memory of their Martyrs for imitation and those few that escaped persecution advanced the honor of Confessors for their incouragement they had books called Dyptychs because filled on both sides with holy Names on the one side of those that died in the great cause on the other side of those that suffered for it being hardly thought by that wicked world worthy to live and yet not so happy as to be suffered to dye I am sensible I could fill this Volume with those eminent Assertors of Loyalty that are still alive of this Family to serve the Soveraign they suffered for and the great Martyrs of it that sealed their Allegiance with their bloud but foreseeing a fair opportunity elsewhere to do them the utmost right I am able that is to give the world a faithful Narrative of their exemplary virtues which though they may often times tempt to the liberty of a Panegyrick yet they still perswade to as strict an observance of truth as is due to an History For that Pen expresseth good men most elegantly that draweth their lives most faithfully In the mean time Let the very names of these worthy persons be Histories their very mention carry with it a Chronicle Sir MAVRICE BERKLEK ALthough as my Lord Bacon observes De Augmentatione Scientiarum l. 2. c. 13. Nature hath planted in all men fear twisted together with the principles of self-preservation as the great instrument of it and wariness as the great effect of fear Although all things as he saith be if we should look into them full of Panick fear nay though retiredness added to caution studiousness to retiredness simplicity and innocency of behaviour added to studiousness might have excused this Gentleman from the noise and much more from the sufferings of the late times yet the bare unhappiness of thinking Rationally of wishing Loyally of relieving Charitably of endeavouring to keep the peace of his Country Prudently cost him at Goldsmith-Hall where lay The Treasures of wickedness One thousand three hundred seventy two pounds deep besides the several inroads made upon his Estate and Lands by the Garrison of Glooester to which he would not Contribute freely he was forced to submit patiently And according to the method intimated in the Holy History that what the Catterpillar left the Canker-worm destroyed what Glocester left Essex his Army swallowed and what escaped them Sequestration seized RICHARD BERKLEY Esq THE elegant variety of beings in the world doth not more naturally conduce to the service of the world than the admirable diversity of mens gifts and abilities doth serve the necessities of those times and places to which they are appointed The former Gentleman was so studious that he might have been served as Vlrick Fugger was chief of the whole Family of the Fuggers in Auspurgh who was disinherited of a great Patrimony only for his studiousness and expensiveness in buying costly M. SS and yet his very thoughts and meditations served his Majesty giving great satisfaction to those that doubted and as great directions and countenance to those that managed that Cause which he called The Supporting of the government of the world This worthy personage was so active that he would say often That the greatest trouble to him was that he could not think and yet as corrected Quick-silver is very useful so his reduced quickness became very serviceable to ballance that of the Gloucester Officers who were at once the most indefatigable at home and the most troublesom abroad of any in England and never so well met with as by the vigilancy of this person who would not be surprised and his industry that could not be quiet An un-experienced Sailer would think Ballast unnecessary and Sails dangerous to a Ship and ordinary men judge so staid a man as Sir Maurice useless and so nimble a man as this Esquire not safe in great trust while wise men look on an even lay of both as the best temper but as some full word cannot be delivered of all that notion and sense with which it is pregnant without variety of expressions so this great spirit cannot be understood or made out without the large Paraphrase of such a multitude of excellent Instances as this place and method will not permit Only according to the Spanish Proverb Yr a la soga con el Calderin Where goeth the Buckle there goeth the Rope When his Master Set it was Night with him and when his Majesty laid down his life he was put to lay down for his lively-hood 0526 l. 00 00 As another of his name did 0020 00 00 though yet all these three had wherewithal to promote any Loyal Design that was offered and to relieve any Cavalier that wanted their Houses being the common Sanctuaries for distressed Loyalty whom they would see employed in a way suitable to their respective abilities and subservient to the publick design not enduring that their houses should be Hospitals or down-right begging a good Subjects calling A Husband-man pretended and made out his relation to Robert Groasthead Bishop of Lincolne and thereupon was an humble Suitor to him for an Office about him Cousin saith the Bishop to him If your Cart be broken I le mend it if your Plough old I will give you a new one But an Husband-man I found you and an Husband-man I le leave you Neither must we omit Sir ROWLAND BERKLEY of Cotheridge in the County of Worcester OF whom when he was pitched upon to manage a part of the Worcester Association we may say as Puterculus did of another Non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus quis eminebat being a steady man that looked not at few things but saw thorow the whole Systheme of Designs and comprehended all the Aspects and Circumstances of it putting Affairs notwithstanding that they ran sometimes against his Biass by some rubs of unusual impediments into an easie and smooth course using never one counsel any more than the Lord H.
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
twelve poor people in a constant allowance out of hose Livings besides his constant repairing of the Houses and furnishing of the Churches wheresoever he came 2. When he was chosen with much opposition both there and at Court Anno 1618. he set up a great Organ in St. Iohns Chappel being to be tracked every where by his great Benefactions Allowing the fifth part of all his Incomes to charitable and pious uses He built a Chappel and repaired the Cathedral at St. Davids Upon occasion both of the abrupt beginning and ending of publick Prayers on the fifth of November he settled a better order in the Kings Chappel as Dean of that Chappel prevailing with that Gracious King that he would be present at the Liturgy as well as the Sermon and that at whatsoever time of Prayers he came the Priest who Ministred should proceed to the end of Prayers which was not done before from the beginning of King Iames his reign to that day 1629 1630. He furnished the Library of Oxford with 1300 Hebrew Arabick Persian Manuscripts and choise Antiquities the University with their excellent Statutes and a large new Charter and St. Iohns Colledge in it with useful and curious buildings a Colledge that as well as Christ-Church might be called Canterbury Colledge From the year 1630. to the year 1640. he recovered hundreds of Impropriations in Ireland procuring of King Charles to give all Impropriations yet remaining in the Crown within the Realm of Ireland to that poor Church 1630. He set upon the repair of St. Pauls the only Cathedral in Christendom of that name allowing besides a great sum to begin it five hundred pounds a year while he was Bishop of London and no doubt after he was Arch-bishop of Canterbury till it was finished 1633. He retrenched the extraordinary Fees at Court for Church-preferments sometimes to prevent the Extortion of inferior Officers doing poor Ministers business himself rather than they should be at the charge of having it done by others 1634. He began the settlement of the Statutes of all the Cathedrals of the new foundation whose Statutes are imperfect and not confirmed and finished those of Canterbury 1635. He procured and bought settled Commendams whereof several sine Cura on the small Bishopricks of Bristol Peterbourgh St. Asaph Chester and Oxford 1636. He set up a Greek Press in London buying both Matrices and Press for Printing of the Library M. SS and others he intended to make a rare Collection of The same year he erected an Arabick Lecture in Oxford first settled there for his life and afterwards for ever as he did an Hospital at Reading with 200 l. per annum Revenue established in a new way 1637. A Book in Vellam of the Records in the Tower that concern the Clergy at his own charge Transcribed and left in his Study at Lambeth for posterity A new Charter for the Town of Reading and a new Charter and Statutes for the Colledge and University of Dublin 2. What he Intended 1. He had cast a Model for the increase of the Stipends of poor Vicars 2. He intended to see the Tithes of London setled between the Clergy and the City 3. He thought to have setled some hundreds a year upon the Fabrick of St. Pauls towards the repair till that be finished and to keep it in good state afterwards communicating likewise to a friend to rebuild the great Tower some yards higher than before 4. He purposed to have opened the great Square at Ouford between Saint Maries the Schools Brasen-Nose and All-Souls 5. He resolved to set on foot the buying in of Impropriations hoping to be able to buy in two or three in a year Not to mention his Entertainments of the King and Queen to the honor and advantage of the University of Oxon when he was Chancellor there his bestowing all his favors upon no other condition than something to be done by his Clients in acknowledgement of them for the Church So he obliged Bishop Bancroft to build the Bishoprick a House another to bestow the Patronage of upon St. Iohns A third to raise the Stipends of three Vicarages in his gift c. His preferring of Church-men to the greatest Places of Trust to honor Religion too much despised in the later times For see his design in the advancement of that good man Bishop Iuxon as it is expressed in his Diary and an exact Diary is a window to his heart that maketh it March 6. William Iuxon Lord Bishop of London made Lord High-Treasurer of England no Church-man had it since Henry the Sevenths time I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honor and the King and the State service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more His daily Hospitality and weekly Almes and other the great effects of a very great spirit that had not so great a prize in its hand as he had a large heart to dispose thereof for the general good looking upon himself as the Steward rather than the Master of his great Revenues might have excused his height from envy as well as that of the heavens that are not maliced because high but reverenced because benign none grudging them either the Place they hold or the Vapors they draw up because all are blessed with the Influences they shed and the Showers they send And the rather because he was as great himself as his performances and his preferments were not only means to do good works but the just reward of great parts parts every way becoming the greatest Clergy-man and States-man and indeed few or none envied his preferments that were not afraid of his abilities he being reckoned one of the greatest Scholars of our Nation His judgment being as acute witness the exactest Piece ever writ on that subject his Controversie with Fisher as his Eye was piercing his Memory as firmly retaining his Observations as his Apprehension took them Discerningly and his Industry collected them Vnweariedly He was not advanced because he would keep a good House repair his Barns c. any Dunce may do this but because he seemed born to the honor he was raised to owing his degree not only to Favour but to Nature too he being exact in all the recommending excellencies of humane accomplishments thought deserving more honor beyond Sea than those he was envied for here In all those Arts and Sciences he honored with some thoughts about he was not so much skillful as commanding not only knowing but a Master and having gone through the difficulties of Ingenuity with as much success as a Scholar as he did the difficulties of Government as a Statesman in both a Primate in both excelling The forementioned Piece composed with such an authentick and unerring accuracy as if there had been a Chair of Infallibility at Lambeth as well as at Rome and he had been indeed what his Predecessors have been called
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 â—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 pâ—rorantem nec hoc conjugium sit animae meae divortium a sâ—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
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
still-born have hastned to their Tomb God that Rewards him now forbad his store Should all lie hid and he but give i th' ore Many are stamp't and shap't and do still shine Approv'd at Mint a Firm and perfect Coyne Witness that Mart of Books that yonder stands Bestow'd by him though by anothers Hands Those Attick Manuscripts so rare a Piece They tell the Turk he hath not conquer'd Greece Next these a second beauteous heap is thrown Of Eastern Authors which were all his own Who in so various Languages appear Babel could scarce be their Interpreter To these we may that fair-built Colledge bring Which proves that Learnings no such Rustick thing Whose Structure well contriv'd doth not relate To Antick Fineness but strong lasting state Beauty well mixt with Strength that it Complies Most with the Gazer's use much with his Eyes On Marble Columns thus the Arts have stood As wise Seth's Pillar 's sav'd 'em in the Flood But did he leave here Walls and onely own A Glorious Heap and make us Rich in Stone Then had our Chanc'lor seem'd to fail and here Much honor due to the Artificer But this our prudent Patron long fore-saw When he refin'd Rude Statutes into Law Our Arts and Manners to his Building falls And he Erects the Men as well as Walls Thus Solons Laws his Athens did Renown And turn'd that throng of Buildings to a Town Yet neither Law nor Statute can be known So strict as to himself he made his own Which in his Actions Inventory lies Which Hell or Prinne can never scandalize Where every Act his Rigid Eye surveys And Night is Bar and Iudge to all his dayes Where all his secret thoughts he doth comprize And ev'ry Dream is summon'd t' an Assize Where he Arraigns each Circumstance of care Which never parts dismis'd without a Prayer See! how he sifts and searches every part And ransacks all the Glosets of his heart He puts the hours upon the Rack and Wheel And all his minutes must confess or feel If they reveal one Act which forth did come When humane frailty crept into the Loome If one thred stain or sully break or faint So that the man does interrupt the Saint He hunts it to its death nor quits his fears Till 't be imbalm'd in Prayers or drown'd in Tears The Sun in all his journey ne're did see One more devote or one more strict then He. Since his Religion then 's unmixt and Fine And Works do warrant Faith as Ore the Mine What can his Crime be now Now you must lay The Kingdom Laws subverted in his way See! No such Crime doth o're his Conscience grow Without which Witness ne're can make it so A clear Transparent White bedecks his minde Where nought but innocence can shelter finde Witness that Breath which did your stain and blot Wipe freely out though Heaven I fear will not VVitness that calm and quiet in his Brest Prologue and Preface to his place of Rest VVhen with the VVorld he could undaunted part And see in Death nor Meagre looks nor dart When to the fatal Block his gray Age goes VVith the same ease as when he took Repose He like old Enoch to his Bliss is gone 'T is not his Death but his Translation The second by Mr. Iohn Cleveland On the Right Reverend Father in God Wil. Laud Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I Need no Muse to give my Passion vent He brews his Tears that studies to Lament Verse chymically weeps that pious rain Distilled with Art is but the sweat o' th' brain VVho ever sob'd in Numbers Can a groan Be quaver'd out by soft Division 'T is true for Common formal Elegies Not Bushels VVells can match a Poets Eyes In wanton VVater-works hee 'l tune his Tears From a Gâ—neva Jig up to the Spheres But when he mourns at distance weeps aloof Now that the Conduit-head is his own Roof Now that the fate is Publick we may call It Britains Vespers Englands Funeral VVho hath a Pencil to express the Saint But he hath Eyes too washing off the Paint There is no Learning but what Tears surround Like to Seth's Pillars in the Deluge drown'd There is no Church Religion is grown From much of late that She 's increas'd to none Like an Hydropick body full of Rheumes First swells into a body then consumes The Law is dead or cast into a Trance And by a Law-dough-bak't an Ordinance The Lyturgy whose doom was Voted next Dy'd as a Comment upon him the Text. There 's nothing lives Life is since he is gone But a Nocturnal Lucubration Thus have you seen Deaths Inventory read In the Summe Total Canterbury's dead A sight would make a Pagan to Baptize Himself a Convert in his bleeding Eyes VVould thaw the Rabble that fierce Beast of ours That which Hyena-like weeps and devours Tears that flow brackish from their Souls within Not to repent but pickle up their Sin Mean time no squalid grief his look defiles He guilds his sadder fate with Noble smiles Thus the Worlds eye with reconciled streams Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams How could success such Villanies applaud The State in Sâ—rafford fell the Church in Laud The Twins of publick rage adjudg'd to die For Treasons they should Act by Prophecy The Facts were done before the Laws were made The Trump turn'd up after the Game was play'd Be dull great Spirits and forbear to climbe For Worth is Sin and Eminence a Crime No Church-man can be innocent and high 'T is height makes Grantham Steeple stand awry The III. By Mr. H. Birched Sometimes Fellow of All-Souls Reverendissimo in Christo Patri D. Guliel Laud Dom. Archiep. Cantuariensi Parentalia Dithyrambus Heb. Sheteph Oda Nempe erratica vel missa ECclesiae pene heic triumphantis Archangelum ah vere nimis Jam militantis Archimartyrem quâ nam Sat Celebrabimus Apotheosi Qui sidelitate non fide Romanus Christi sponsam Schismaticis deformatam defloratam haereticis Primaevae restituebas virginitati clariori Pulchritudinis Pompae Tu pietatem doctrinali pabulo fovebas nec non decoro vestiebas Disciplinae Lautus amictu Torpeat ne Nuda Sanctitas Aut famelica Languescat Perfecta Religio nec umbra nec cadaver est Testor ut Aedem sacratam Literataque testor maenia te nunquam Ambiisse titulum novae fundationis aut ecclesiae Attamen Novatae simulatione honesta beneficentiam condidisti magnificus simul modestus hac etiam templi renovatione Antiquitatis aemulus Nec matri natus erat gratior ecclesiae quam Nutrici alumnus academiae suffulciit eam dextera vestra firmis Aedificiorum Justinis Legum Columnis mage mansuris Accepit Pumiceum Sed Marmoreum Reliquit heu Lycaeum At Athenae vel relictae linqui non videntur donec ades muneribus perennis Cujus Laudibus Beneficia sua Materiam suppeditarunt verba Amalthaea folia vel Amalthaea Diphthera Salomonis Pancarpia
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
of all to his undertakings in the Low Countries where his entertainments were free and noble his carriage towards Officers and Souldiers obliging especially those of his own Country his Engagements in every Action and Council remarkable his Designs on the Enemy restless and his Assaults forward being with the first generally at a Breach or Pass thrice Unhorsed but never daunted before Newport His courage growing from his dangers seldom using a Bed abroad and having little use of it as sleeping but four hours a night usually at home hardening thereby his body and knitting his soul. The first Expedition wherein he appeared was in the Company of the Earls of Essex and Nottingham to Cales where his great spirit was so impatient of delay that when it was Voted they should set upon the Town and Ships he and the Earl of Essex threw up their Caps and were so forward that he was Knighted in the Market-place where he said An old Woman with a Stone knocked down the Esquire and the General commanded him to rise a Knight His next adventure was with Sir Thomas Vere to Brill where he bestowed his time in observing the exact way of modern and regular Fortification His third Expedition was with Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury then Ambassador to make observation upon the Renowned French King H. 4. and his Court the safest and most useful travelling is in an Ambassadors Company and the best places to travel in is Holland to see all the world and France to see any part of it Whence he stepped to see the siege of Amiens so honorably managed by Sir Iohn Baskervile and Sir Arthur Savage His fourth sally was after a Voyage with the Earl of Cumberland to take the Spanish Câ—rickes at Porto Rico with the Northern Ambassadors the Lord Zouch and Dr. Perkins to view the strength Interest and Alliance of the Danes Swedes Muscovians c. and upon his return a short journey after the Earl of Essex to see the obstructions to and the benefits of the Conquest of Ireland And the last Voyage under Queen Elizabeth was with his Country-men Sir Richard Leveson and Sir William Mounson to take the great Caricke worth 1000000 Crowns in the very â—ight of the Spanish â—leet and under their Castle to the great loss of the Spaniard but the infinite advantage of the English who were looked upon now as a people to be feared not to be invaded thus diverting the power of Spain that ever and anon threatned us to defend its self Upon King Iames his arrival he took a private journey to view the Interests Rarities Politicks Magnificences and the Designs of Italy to prepare himself with the more advantage to wait on the Earl of Nottingham in the splendid Ambassie to the slow and reserved Court of Spain whence after a view of the famous siege of Ostâ—ndâ— he returned to be one of the Knights of the Bath at the Installation of Charles Duke of York afterwards King of England And so during the peaceable Reign of King Iames the accomplished Lord setled in Lincoln-shire attended as was occasion 1. The Parliament with very useful suggestions in the three points he spake most to viz. Plantations Trade the Draining of the Fensâ— with other Improvements of our Country and Commodities 2. The Court upon Solemn times with a grave and exemplary aspect and presence 3. The Courts of Justice reckoning the meanest service of Justice not too low for his Lordship which was high enough for a King in his Country with tried Arts of Government severe proceedings against Idleness and dissoluteness several ways to employ and enrich his Neighbors and wholsom orders for the execution of Laws And 4. appearing at home sometime at half-light sometimes like himself as Affairs required improving his Estate as formerly by saving expences and gaining experience in travel So now by Rich Matches equally advancing his Revenue and Honor. 2. By thrifty management 3. Noble Traffick he having learned at Florence and Venice that Merchandise is consistent with Nobility and that the Stamel dy is no stain to the Scarlet Robe and a due improvement of his Estate with due incouragement to his Tenants whose thriving was his security as well as honor and tender regard of his Neighbors disdaining as much to offer an injury to those beneath him as he did to receive one from those above him Such his tenderness of the poor that thronged about his doors as if his house had been then what it was formerly an Hospital the Neighbor Gentry complaining of him merrily as Queen Elizabeth did of F. Russel the second Earl of Bedford That he made all the beggars Such the exactness of his pay and word to all he dealt with On mine Honor was the best assurance from him in the world Such the good Government and civility of his Family a Colledge rather than a Palace where the Neighborhood were bred rather than hired and taught to command themselves by serving him So great his care against Inclosures Whereas no grass groweth where the Grand Seigniors horse sets his foot so nothing but grass grows where some rather great than good men set their evil but powerful eyes His House-keeping so noble having his fish especially Pikes of which he would say it being the Water-Tyrant that destroyed more fish than it was worth that it was the costliest dish at his Table a dish of more State than Profit his Fowl his Beef Mutton Venison and Corn of his own So happy his way of ending Controversies among his Neighbors and consequently so many ways did he serve support and sweeten the Government that he was created Earl of Lindsey 1626. and after the ill success of the Lord Wimbledon and the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham as a man reserved for hazzards and extremities he when all men stood amazed expecting upon what great Person the Dukes Command at Sea should be conferred was pitched upon as Commander in Chief of the Fleet making up in Gallantry Courage and Experience what he wanted in Presence his contracted worth was the more vigorous little Load-stones do in proportion draw a greater quantity of Steel than those that be far greater because their Poles are nearer together and their virtue more united towards which place Sept. 8. 1628. from Portsmouth arriving at the Bar of the Haven with reasonable speed of Wind and Weather which though fortified by Cardinal Richlieu's monstrous Boomes Chains and Barracado's exceeding all Narration and History he bravely attempted passing the Out-works and Bulwarks to the very mouth of the Haven untill a cross-winde returned them foul one upon another from which great dangers and greater service he brought off the Fleet with a retreat as honorable as Conquest that the effect of Conduct and Prudence and this of Fortune 1630. He was admitted of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council and in right of his Ancient Family Lord
nec dum omnibus manifesto optimis Consiliis fortis in Curia Senator restiterit sed insinuante se latius veneno crescente ferocia domum ad sâ—os reversus fortior miles in agro suo Somersetensi vicinis partibus omni ope manu iniquissimam causam oppugnaverit in Arce praesertim Sherborniana sub Auspiciis Marchionis Hertfordiae egregiam operam navaverit Mox ulterius progressus pollenti in Devonia factionis Tyrannide munitissima civitate in faedus illecta jam undique bonis subditis perniciem minante ipse pene in Regione Hospes Contracto e Cornubio milite primoribus statim impetum eorum repressit jacentesque afflictas nostras partes mirifica virtute recreavit Et licet summis necessitatibus Conflictanti exigua pars Negotii hostes erant tantum abfuit ut vel illis vel istis succumberet ut contra Copias auctiores bellico apparatu instructissimas saepius signis Collatis in acie dimicans semper superior excesserit Testis Launcestionia Salt ash Bradock aliaque obscura olim nomina loca nunc victoriis illius perduellium cladibus nobilitata vix etiam ab his respiraverat cum novus belli furor lassas jam fere continuis praeliis laxatas vires Numerossimo excercitu adortus uberiorem triumphandi dedit materiam Cum ille in campis Stratoniae in difficillimis licet angustiis redactus inops militaris instrumenti Consumpto jam pulvere tormentario armatos inermis vallo munito inter sola causa virtute animatus ita retudit concidit castris exuit ut totam belli molem cum ipsis Authoribus profligavit Quicquid fugae illius residuum erat inter urbis unius maenia eaque arcta obsidione astricta Concluso Qua quidem pugna memorabili praeter quod miserum popellum jugo intollerabili levaverat sedes suas expulsis Ecclesias Pastoribus pacem omnibus firma mentum pacis obsequium restituerit Et jam sequenti armorum nostrorum felicitate quae partes Regni occidentales maturius ad officium verum Dominum redierunt viam apperuisse momentum ingens extitisse libentissime profitemur In hac opera laudabili cum praefatus Radulphus perstitert adhuc invicto animo industria indefessa nullo arduo quantum vis labore periculo excusatus cumque mille argumentis testatum fecerit Honorem salutemque nostram sibi omni fortuna capite potiorem nos virum fortissimum optimeque affectum animum benigno stu dio prosequi amplius demereri volentes hunc praeconio merito ornandum propriori ad nos gradu extollendum censuimus Sciatis igitur nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia vero motu praefatum Radulphum Hopton ad statum gradum stylum Dignitatem Titulum Honorem Baronis Hapton de Statton in Comitatu nostro Cornubiae c. In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fecimus Patententes Teste meipso apud Oxon quarto die Septembris Anno Regni nostri Decimo nono Jones HIs two great Actions the one at Liscard the other at Stratton cannot be better described than by an Eye-witness whose words are these as he saith out of a Manuscript corrected with Sir Ralphs own hand communicated to him by his Secretary Mr. Tredus At Liscard a little before the Fight began the Kings party took it into seasonable consideration that seeing by the Commission the Lord Mohun brought from Oxford four Persons viz. the said Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Iohn Berkley and Colonel Ashburham were equally impowered in the managing of all Military matters and seeing such equality might prove inconvenient which hitherto had been prevented with the extraordinary moderation of all parties in ordering a Battel it was fittest to fix the Power in one Chief and general consent setled it in Sir Ralph Hopton He first gave order that publick prayers should be read in the Head of every Squadron and it was done accordingly and the Enemy observing it did style it saying of Mass as some of their Prisoners did afterwards confess Then he caused the Foot to be drawn in the best order they could and placed a Forlorn of Musqueteers in the little Inclosures wringing them with the few Horse and Dragoons he had This done two small Minion Drakes speedily and secretly fetched from the Lord Mohun's House were planted on a little Burrough within random-shot of the Enemy yet so that they were covered out of their sight with small parties of Horse about them These concealed Minions were twice discharged with such success that the Enemy quickly quitted their ground and all their Army being put into a Rout the Kings Forces had the Execution of them which they performed very sparingly taking 1250. Prisoners all their Canon and Ammunition and most of their Colours and Arms and after publick thanks taking their repose at Liscard Stratton Fight succeeds on Thursday the 16. of May 1643. THe Kings Army wants Ammunition and hath a steep-hill to gain with all disadvantage and danger The Horse and Dragoons being not five hundred and the Foot two thousand four hundred THe Parliament Army well furnished and Barricado'd upon the top of the hill their Foot 3400 and their Horse not many indeed having dispatched 1200 to surprize the Sheriff and Commissioners at Bodmin ON the Kings side order was given to force the passage to the top of the hill by four several Avenues the ascent was deep and difficult resolutely did his Majesties Forces get up and obstinately did the Enemy keep them down The fight continued doubtful with many countenances of various events from four in the morning till three in the afternoon amongst which most remarkable the smart charge made by M. G. Chudleigh with a stand of Pikes on Sir Bevile Greenvil who fell nobly himself and had lost his Squadron had not Sir Iohn now Lord Berkley who led up the Musqueteers on each side of Sir Bevil seasonably relieved it so resolutely re-inforcing the Charge that Major General Chudleigh was taken Prisoner Betwixt three and four of the Clock the Commanders of the Kings Forces who embraced those four several ways of ascent met to their mutual joy almost on the top of the hill which the routed Enemy confusedly forsook In this service though they were Assailants they lost very few men and no considerable Officer killing of the Enemy about three hundred and taking seventeen hundred Prisoners all their Canon being thirteen pieces of Brass Ordnance and Ammunition seventy Barrels of Powder with a Magazine of Bisket and other Provision proportionable For this Victory publick Prayer and Thanksgiving was made on the hill then the Army was disposed of to improve their success to the best advantage Nothing had sunk his great spirit but the fate of Kingdoms with whose ruine only he was contented to fall and disbanded his Souldiers upon honorable terms Five things made my Lord
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
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
to save himself 5. That he answered to several Examinations upon the strength of his memory without any the least advantage taken by his Antagonist This Character of his I think very exact that his Head was a well-fitted treasury and his Tongue the fair key to unlock it that he had as great a memory as could be reconciled with so good a judgment that so quick his parts that others study went not beyond his nature and their designed and fore-laid performances went not beyond his sudden and ready accommodations Only he was very open and too free in discourse disdaining to lye at a close guard as confident of the length and strength of his weapon The first eminent Performance that raised him was the entertainment he made 1612. when Proctor to the Spanish Ambassadors brought thither by my Lord Chancellor Elsmere where with the gracefulness of his presence the great ingenuity of his discourses the comeliness of his Addresses the short courtly pleasant method of the Exercises whereof he was Moderator and especially that skill in the Spanish tongue wherewith he had prepared himself he did himself the University and the Nation so much right that the Lord Chancellor of England and of the University in the presence and with the approbation of the Spanish Ambassador took his leave of him with this Character That he had behaved himself so well in this Treat to the Ambassadors that he was fit to serve a King and that he would see him as much wellcomed at Court as they were in the Vniversity He knew the value of an opportunity whereof he would say that every man had it sooner or later and the neglect or improvement of it was the marring or making of every man in the world and therefore he hazarded the expence of his present fortune to furnish himself to a capacity for a new one Having occasion to appear in publick but seldom when he came up he was very careful in the choice pertinenoy and seasonableness of his subject and in the exactness of his composure setting out at once the variety of his learning the strength of his parts and the choiceness of his observation and prudence The greater the performance was whether a Speech or a Sermon or a Debate he was to undertake the more liberty and recreation he took to quicken and open his spirits and to clear his thoughts aiming at two things which he said was all we could add to former perfection 1. Method And 2. Perspicuity He understood well the divided interests and Faction of the Kingdom and knew as well how to make use of them being able to Buoy himself up at any time against any one side by the cosistance of the other presently striking in with William Earl of Pembroke and other Patriots for the publick good of the Nation as soon as he was deserted by George Duke of Buckingham and other Courtiers that aimed only at their own personal interest After four years Imprisonment 40000 l. losses when restored as one of the Minions of the Parliament he disputed for Episcopacy in the House of Lords unanswerably he drew up a Demurrer in behalf of the Bishops in regard of the Tumults that disturbed the freedom of their Votes and Sitting 1641. whereof the Lord Keeper professed it was the strongest Demurrer and the fullest of Law that ever he saw in his life And when with Stenelaidos the Ephor he saw it in vain for that party to stand debating with words which was injured above words he contrived and modelled such an Association in North-Wales to assert that authority under which he had suffered as not only secured that Country against the Rebels but yielded his Majesty several very great and seasonable Supplies Until God punishing Rebellion with success and suffering it to overthrow the best Government that it might with its own weight as Rome did overturn its self For take off the common principles in which Rebels agree and the common persons that keep them together with those principles their variety of humors and interests bring them immediately to a division and so to a ruin Mach. Prince l. 2. c. 3. and on Livy l. 6. c. 2. § 3. And he saw that those rods upon our backs might singly be broken when they could not be broke united and in a bundle He thought it prudence to make that composition in time for Wales to prevent plundering and the making of it the seat of war which he saw must be made for all England and the dreadful stories of his declaring for the Parliament was nothing else but his garrisoning of his own house and discountenancing some stragling Cavaliers that did no good but lye upon the Countrys themselves and draw thither whole Armies of the enemy to lye upon it too There being hardly any ingenious person in England that he incouraged not stealing favours upon them in a way equally suiting with their occasion and their modesty the very wretch that writ the Satyr upon him Printed with Cleavelands Poems owing his heat to the wine in his Cellar and his Vein to his Gold For receiving twenty pieces of him and despairing of more to please his new patrons in the next Ale-house vomited this Libel upon his old one A Libel nothing would be guilty of but Poetry and Beggery AEternitati S. I. Johannes Williams S. Th. Dr. omnium quibus Instruitur quibus regitur gens humana quibus regnamus quibus vivimus Magister artium Coll. Io. Cant. non suit sed quod majus magistrum creavit dum tantum socius omnium rerum hominum sagacissime peritus 1. Westmonasterii Decanus 2. Lincolniae Episcopus Haud quadragenarius quasi ad magna natus potius quam elatus 3. Magni sigilli Custos 4. Serenissimo R. Jacobo a secretioribus consiliis Vsitatos honorum gradus moras devoravit vir honoribus Augustior Cujus ultima lans est quod fuerit inter nos primus majorem enim officiis reddidit quam accepit gloriam grandia fecit grandiora patiens suis illustrior infortuniis uti nube Iris eclipsi Phoebus mensa lautus sed sui pars quota est Festivus facundus Dominus Convivii Florente Ecclesia eum Episcopum nollet Invidia quem jam labantis Archiepiscopum creavit necessitas ruentis Coeli Atlantem vel Atlanti succedaneum Herculem peracto jam duodecimo laborum Anno ab Anno nempe 1628. ad annum 1640. Invita fortuna Duas Absolvit Bibliothecas hanc Westmonasterii illam Cantabrigiae tresque restauravit capellas plurimos suo collegio addidit socios omnes Clandestinis beneficiis sibi demerens bonae Indolis Iuvenes Quem praedicando creta nigraret minor haud paucioribus quam quae devinxit celebrandus Ingeniis Panegyrista sibi est clemens pater Quem nominasse carmen est loqui epigramma dum enim maecenatem sonant Properant ligari verba in numerum fluunt materia
quem non reperit argutum facit THE Life and Death OF HENRY HAMOND D. D. WHEN Doctor Henry Hamond was born Aug. 18. 1605. at Chersey in Surrey a place equally indeared to the pious but unfortunate King Henry VI. for bestowing on him a charitable Burial and to the excellent but not understood King Charles I. for giving this man a seasonable birth the hopeful circumstances of his relations promised as much in his Infancy as the eminent passages of his life performed in his Manhood Son he was to Dr. Iohn Hamond that exact Critick Grandchild to Dr. Alexander Nowel that reverend Divine God-son to Prince Henry that great Spirit To Eaton he was sent in his Long-coats initiated in Latine Greek yea and Hebrew too Languages that seemed to be his Mother tongue so early were they rather infused to him than acquired by him by his Fathers care and to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford at thirteen by Mr. Allens assistance his good friend and Mr. Bush his diligence his excellent School-master Here they that taught him Philosophy were not ashamed to learn of him the Tongues especially the Hebrew so rare a Quality in that age that at first admission as he had no less than eight Batchellors his Schollars for Greek so he entertained four Masters his Pupills for Hebrew wherein as in the whole Circle of Learning that though his Father and in him all his Interest dyed yet his own merit recommended him at once to the honor and advantage of Demy in that Colledge at fourteen years of age of Fellow at nineteen of Natural Philosophy-Reader at twenty and the Orator at Dr. Langtons Funeral at twenty two Having taken his Degree the ordinary method of those times had preposted his soul and ennarrowed his spirit by the contrived and interested systems of modern and withall obnoxous Authors but that his larger Genius and second thoughts prompted his great soul to a study equal with its self that took in all humane and sacred Learning from the clearest and most dis-interested sources of both wherein he gave on all the occasions his fifteen years continuance in the University offered him such pregnant Specimens of a vast proficiency as might be expected from that indefatigable man that constantly studyed twelve hours a day and left Notes and Indexes at the beginning and end of each Book upon almost all the Classick Authors extant This industry and this eminence could not in those days wherein Religion and Learning were at their fatal heighth both of perfection and encouragement escape either observation or preferment therefore being ordained at twenty four viz. 1629. and Batchelor of Divinity at twenty six viz. 1631. and regularly both in conformity as well to the Statutes of the House as to the Canons of the Church Anno 1633. he Preached Dr. Frewens Course the President of his Colledge since Lord Archbishop of York at Court with that success that with the Right Honorable the Earl of Leicesters favour then his Hearer he was upon an honest resignation of his Fellowship inducted Aug. 22. of that year to Pensehurst as not long after by the Reverend Father in God Brian Lord Bishop of Chichester then and since of Salisbury and Winchester he was dignified at Chichester His Preferments were not so suitable to his Desert as his Carriage was to his Preferment For When Rector of Pensehurst His Sermons were not undigested and shallow effusions but rational and just discourses his method was which he recommended to his Friends after every Sermon to resolve upon the ensuing subject and so pursue the course of study he was then in hand with reserving the close of the week for the Provision of the next Lords-day whereby not only a constant progress was made in Science but materials unawares were gained unto the immediate future work for he said be the subject treated of never so distant somewhat will infallibly fall in conducible to the present purpose but preaching being the least part of Religion Prayer and Devotion that power of Godliness was observed by himself and his Family guided by his good and prudent Mother publickly and privately every day according to the strictest rules of the Church for the assistance wherein he allowed a Curate a comfortable Salary His Administration of the Sacrament was as of old frequent and monethly wherein the Assertors was by his instruction and example restored to that repute as it not only relieved the aged and apprentised the young poor of Penshurst but afforded a surplusage to the necessities of Neighbor Parishes But that his other cares might be the more successful he brought an able School-master into the Town and the Church Catechism into the Church which with his half hours exposition before Evening Prayer he rendred so fully intelligible to the meanest capacity that he observed the older as well as the younger hearers reaped more benefit than from his Sermons Yet a Ministers converse must enforce his Doctrine and the endearing of his Person must recommend his instruction very Hospitable he was at all times especially those more solemn at his Table very charitable at his door besides the tenth of his Estate set apart for the poor in weekly Pensions and his Corn sold them below Market prices which though as he said he had reason to do it gaining thereby the charge of Portage was a great benefit to them who besides the abatement of price and possibly forbearance saved thereby a days work Very civil he was in letting his Tythes whereof one memorable instance in this Having let the tythe of a large Meadow and received half the Money at the beginning of the year the meadow was drowned and when the Tenant offered the payment he generously returned him the first with this Noble reflexion God forbid I should take the tenth where you have not the nine parts Very punctual he was in visiting the sick whose request he prevented in his addresses both in person and by writing taking as he would say the opportunity of that serious time to instill the most serious instruction but withall intimating the folly of remitting the great business of eternity to the last hour which God designed for the commensurate employment of the life so much Charity exercised among his Neighbors taught them that love among themselves that no difference there in his time went beyond his mediation and that kindness for him who had the rare happiness obliging both parties that as long as he was there he had never any trouble for his Dues and when forced thence no care for his Books and Estate which when plundred were redeemed and reserved for him by his Neighbors to the end of the War When Arch-Deacon so frequent were his publick Sermons at the Cross and elsewhere so earnest and pathetick his Discourses for obedience and union which his zeal and prudence charged as the Interest of the Clergy who saw
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
his regular thoughts sober nature made accurate by art not gadding confusedly to divers objects but proceeding rationally from one to another By a methodical study of choice and useful learning overcame the Intelligible World as soon as Alexander did the Real that is at thirty the product whereof besides University performances crowned with University applause That he did best there where all do well Performances wherein words had the life and air of things where humors appeared as lively in his expression as they did abroad in others actions yea common things grew proper in his Charms rather than Speeches wherein his thoughts were so ordered so expressed as if he did not discourse but see words and things falling into their order so naturally and easily as nothing fell amiss as if the Scholar as well as the Wiseman were all things That life that Venus of all things which we conceive or shew proportioned Decency was not found scattered in him here or there but like the soul wholly every where exercises wherein he spake not only phancy to please but reason to convince vexing and filing the roughest subject by the Chimistry and heat of a great spirit into comelinesse not pouring in the Ore or Grosse but in fair Coin and choice distillations dispensing his learning well skilled when to spare and when to entertain He gave the right blush and colour unto things low without creeping high without losse of wings smooth yet not weak and by a through care big without swelling without Painting fair I say besides Academical exercises the onely issue of this noble Gentlemans great parts and unwearied Studies was a subtle and solid Treatise in the beginning of our Civil Wars of the difference between King and Parliament so full that they who have since handled that Controversie have written plura non plus yea aliter rather than alia of that subject A choice Feaver called a New Disease in Oxford Garrison seizing on him and other persons of pure spirits and nobly tempered bodies 1643 4. prevented him in those great services he was qualified for in his generation which indeed deserved him not being likely to have turned him out of the University by a Malignant Visitation if he had not been called out of the world by a Malignant disease Of him and of the foresaid 1. Mr Masters of New Colledge 2. Mr. Sugge the excellent Philosopher of Wadham Colledgâ— that lived to be Expelled the University by those that had no regard either to the greatest learning or the sweetest natures and dying just when restored again to it 3. Mr. Robert Waring of Christ-Church well known by his Poetry in Latine and English better by his Oratory a Specimen whereof you have in as an ingenious a little Piece as this age hath seen I mean Effigies Amoris made up of learning and phansie what charms and what convinceth and best of all for his â—idelitâ— chusing rather to retire to Shropshire and bury his vast parts in the Solitudes of a Country Life than so much as see the force offered the University which he had heard was offered the whole Kingdom going away 1647. when Proctor with the Keys of the University rather than he would deliver them to Usurpers 4. Dr. Barten Holiday known well by his Plays the marriage of the Arts c. His Lectures on Moral Philosophy his well languaged Sermons his admirable Translation of Persâ—â—â— a new thing to use his own words Persius Vnderstood adding in his elegant way To have committed no fault in my Translation had been to Translate my self and put off Man Dying Arch-deacon of Oxford 1662 3. Forced to practise Physick in the sad times wherein be corresponded with Dr. Creed of St. Iohns whose life is in his Epitaph at Christ-Church in Oxford Hic subtus jacent tantillaeviri magni reliquiae Gulielmi Creed qui Coll. D. Iohannis Batista Alumnus olim socius Academiae Dein Procurator S. S. Theol. Doctor non ambitu sed suo merito Professor Regius hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus Archdiaconus Wiltoniae Ecclesiae Sarum Residentiarius honores non quaesitos sed oblatos ultro modeste tulit prudenter gessit vivus Academiae Ecclesiae ornamentum mortuus utriusque triste desiderium Fatis cessit Anno Aetatis XLVII XIV Cal. Aug. A. D. 1663. Doctor Morris who lives in this Character on his Tomb at Christ-Church aforesaid Exuvia Instructissimi viri Io. Morris S. Th. Doctoris serenissimo Regi Carolo a Sacris Ecclesiae hujus Cathedralis Prebendarii Linguae S. S. in hac Academia Regii Professoris Qui ne funere ipsius ipsa conderetur Lingua Hebraica in illam Candidatos annuis Instigavit Impensis Bibliothecam ipsius aedis Curavit Illam etiam omnium animarum Heb. Suppellectile in perpetuum augere Caesarea Ejus precibus excitata munificentia praelecturam Hebraeam hâc praebendâ ornavit Demum Post fidele servitium Deo Ecclesiae Regi Academiae Huic aedi peractum regnum cum Christo est Auspicatus Die Regis Caroli Inaugurali nempe Martii 25. A. D. 1648. Aetatis suae 53. 6. Mr. Burton the Author of the Anatomy of Melancholy a Book as full of all variety of learning as himself wherein Gentlemen that have lost time and are put upon an aftergame of learning pick many choice things to furnish them for discourse or writing Who as he lived a conceited life un-regarded and un-regarding the world a meer Scholar who meeting with the Earl of Dorset asked his Name and when he heard it was Dorset called him Mr. Dorset discourseth for an hour together so he hath at Christ-Church where he was Student forty years this conceited Epitaph Paucis notus Paucioribus ignotus Hic Jacet Democritus Junior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit melancholia 7. Dr. Wats of Lincoln Colledge a good Linguist and Philosopher that translated several of my Lord Bacons Books with as much vigor as the honorable Author writ them one so intent on his Soul that he minded not he had a Body 8. Modest Mr. Sparks of Corpus Christi well skilled in the Tongues and Fathers better known Abroad than at Home an hour of whose discouse in his Chamber was more useful than a days study in the choicest Library who died 1656. 9. Mr. Childmead a choice Mathematician a good Linguist and a quaint Orator his parts kept unknit by more ingenious exercises 10. Mr. Mede and Mr. Powell of Christ-Church killed in his Majesties Service being of the Regiment of Scholars who put the Buff upon their Gowns under the Earl of Dover the last of whom would say That he could never read or hear a dull discourse but it disordered him saying as Tully in the case of deriding ridiculous Hircus Dum illum lego pene factus sum ille 11. Mr. Taylor of Magdalen Colledge when turned out in the late times was Chaplain to the Lord Weinman of Thame Parke after Dr. Ward now Lord
Persons of Quality as the Sons of the Earl of Lindsey the Lord Fairfax whose Son Sir Charles was his Gentleman-Usher desired to be admitted for Education 13. His Industry so great as if his labours were as it is said of his Kinsman Arch-bishop Morton his Recreation and his Motto Severus his who died at York where this Bishop was born Laboremus or Iulius Maximinus Quo major eo laboriosior 14. His Acquaintance the most grave and learned men of our own and forreign Churches Spanhemius Rivet Willius c. 15. His Retainers and Chaplains the most Eminent men in either University and Bishop Brownrig was one of them made by him Arch-deacon of Coventry and Prebendary of Durham the last of which preferments he held in Commendam with his Bishoprick till he died 16. His aptness to teach by every thing he did like Socrates whom he resembled in another particular in that he usually confuted his Adversaries always out of something they granted 17. His Converts Bishop Crofts of Hereford the Lady Cholmeley Dr. Swinborne Mr. Theoph. Higgens and twelve eminent Papists more 18. His Small Stature actuated by a great spirit 19. His affable virtues and parts 20. His extraordinary though secret mortification all which virtues and performances rendred him a Saint in his life a Doctor in his works a Confessor in his sufferings and a Martyr in his charity in visiting persons Sick of the Plague who being buried in Saint Peters Eâ—ston-mauduit hath this Monument In Memoria Sacra hic vivit usque usque vivat exiguum etiam illud quod mortale fuit viri pietate literis hospitalitatâ— eleemosinis Celeberrimi Reverendi in Christo patris ac Domini Thomae Dunelmensis Episcopi Eoque nomine Comitis Palatini Clara Mortonorum familia Oriundione Quem Richardo peperit Elizabetha Leâ—dale Sexto de 19. puerperiâ— Eboraci in lucem Editum Quem Col. Sancti Joh. Evangelistae in Acad. Cant. Alumnum fovit Instructissimum socium Ambivit selectissimuâ— Benefactorem sensit munificentissimum ornamentum celebrabit perpetuo singulare Marstonienis Alesfordiensis Stopfordiensis Rectorem sedulum Eboracensis Canonicum Pium  Quem Ecelesia Glocestrensis Wintoniensis Decanum Providum  Cestrensis Leich Covent Dunelmensis  Praesulem vigilantem   Habuere Qui post plurimos pro sancta Ecclesia Catholica Exantlatos Labores Elucubrata volumina toleratas afflictiones Diuturna heu nimium Ecclesiae procella hinc inde Iact at us huc demum Appulsus bonis exutus omnibus bona preterquam fama conscientia tandem etiam corpore senex Caelebs hic Requiescit in Domino Felicem praestolans Râ—surrectionem Quam suo demum tempore bonus debit Deus Amen Nullo non dignus Elogio Eo vero dignior quod nullo se dignum existimaverit Obiit Crastinâ— S. Mathaei Salutis 1659. Sepultus Festo S. Michaelis Anno Aetatis 95. Episcopatus 44. THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS COMBER Dean of Carlisle DOctor Thomas Comber Son of Comber Clarenciaux King of Armes was born at Shermanbury in Sussex on New-years-day and Baptized on the day of Epiphany 1575. the twelfth Child of his Father as Bellarmine Baronius Scultetus and many eminent men were who were the vigorous off-spring of their decayed Parents His first Education was at Horsham in the same County under a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who studying his meek but active temper as much as he did his Books rather mildly led than severely drive him to whom a frown was as bad as correction and a correction as bad as death whose great industry and happy memory taking in all the learning instilled into him and retaining all he had taken in twice reading sufficing him to gain any piece of an Author at eight years of age furnished him with so much skill in Greek and Latine Poetry History and Oratory as with Mr. Titchburns his exemplary Tutors improvement of him in Hebrew Syriack Arabick besides Logick Ethicks and a smattering in the Mathematicks recommended him after three years continuance in Trinity Colledge Cambridge where he was admitted to Dr. Nevill then intent upon planting a good Nursery in that Colledge knowing that learning propagates by example and one good Scholar begets another as one lights his Candle at the Candle of his Neighbour to be Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Foundation Where his proficiency was the effect 1. Of St. Bernards method which was written upon many of his Books ut Legeret Intelligendi fecit cupidites ut Intelligeret oratio Impetravit ut Impetraret quid nisi vitae sanct it as promeruit sic cupiat sic orat sic vivat qui se proficere desiderat 2. The industry he commended to others in these Instructions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shun Idleness as the common sewer that takes in all temptation employ your selves well or you will be employed ill 3. And the good example of other Students and he would use often that of Seneca magnum est quod a sapiente viâ—o vel tacente proficias and the accomplished man now dexterous in Hebrew Arabick Coptick Samaritane Syriack Chaldee Persian Greek Latine French Spanish and Italian and well versed in the Greek and Latine Fathers Schoolmen Councels and Modern Writers Great Abilities very much sweetned by his great Modesty and Humility appeared first an exellent Tutor bringing up his Pupils rather as Friends and Companions than Scholars stealing his vast Learning to them by Discourse and Converse rather than inculcating it by Set-Lectures and training them up to vertue and knowledge by his example more effectually than others did by Precepts giving this reason for it afterwards to other Tutors That young men admitted to the Company of those that were their Seniors would be decoyed into excellency being ashamed to speak or do any thing below the Company they kept And then a melting Preacher preaching as much by his silent and grave Gesture composed to a smiling sweetness as by his learned and honest Sermons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After that having filled his own Country with his hopes and name he travelled three years secured from the Vices of foraign Nations by his chast gravity and sage prudence and very capable of their vertues by exact Observations and good Company being all the while he was in France at the house of the Judicious Learned and Religious Mounsieur Moulin the Buckler of the Protestant profession Frequent Disputes at which he was so much of Chrysippus his faculty in disputando pressus concisus subactus that he was imployed at the command of our late famous King to Dispute at St. Andrews in Scotland in publick with the Divines there who admired him much for his solid quickness and various Learning Holy Conference the fruit whereof was the conversion of several Jews the good effect of Oriental Learning and particularly one Bardesius by name whom he convinced that it was impossible to maintain the truth of the Old
his personal valor in six several desperate Engagementâ— especially in the latter end of the Worcester Fight to gain his 〈◊〉 time to retreat with whom he went by the conduct of a Scout he had made use of formerly to Boscobell where parting 〈◊〉 without 〈◊〉 unusual to so valiant a person my Lord 〈◊〉 to go towards London to meet his Majesty according to appointmentâ— at the Green-dragon at the â—intry in Thames-street but finding the ways strictly guarded retired to Mr. Whitegreaves Mr. Huâ—â—â—â—â— and Col. Lanes where after several consultations had for his Majeâ—ties safe transportation my Lord bethought himself of one Mr. Elden formerly Captain in the Kings Army and now a Merchant in lynn that had befriended the Lord â—erkley in the like care with whom he had contrived the Voyage but that the Ship-master they agreed with tailed them and then supporting and directing his Majesty in all emergencies with an invincible courage his Lord hâ—pâ—â— him up and down through inâ—inite windings and turniâ—gs till happening upon a Vessel in brighthelmâ—sted in Sussex the Master whereof was charmed by his Lordship under pretence of selling his Coals at the isle of wight to carry them that way and then my Lord pretending that his mind altered after a well acted quarrel with the honest Master of the Vessel to the Coast of France where he stayed not long with his Majesty but being Created Earl of Rochester undertook a successful 〈◊〉 to the Imperial Diet at the Ratisbone where he procured a considerable sum of money for the present and a very fair promise of the Emperors and the Princes assistance for the future and in his return settled a correspondency for the like purpose in England whither he ventured several times in person particularly 1655. at Hâ—ssamMoor near York where the appearance of Cavaleers at the day appointed not answering expectation my Lord and Sir Nicholas Armorer escaped from the midst of three thousand men that had as it were inclosed them to Ailesbury and from the very hands of the Usurpers Instruments thence into Flanders where he served the King of Spain very happily that he might be able to serve his Master till he died not long before his Majesties Restitution like Moses having after several years traversing a Wilderness only a Prospect of Caanan and the land of rest and settlement P. M. Baronis Willmot Caroli Secundi fidus Achates Vt imi servus Philanax Philo Cawlos Comes Regis Pariter Regni Adeo officii tenax ut ab Afflcta Sed justa regis causa eum dimoveant Nec amicorum injuriae nec inimicorum Prosperum scelus ultimi saeculi Aristides THE Life and Death OF Sir BEVILE GREENVILE Father of the Right Honorable the Earl of Bathe THere are two ancient Families in this Gentlemans name the Beviles that have flourished six hundred years in Cornwall at Gwarnack in his Christian Name and the Greenviles that have continued in great honor at Bediford in Devonshire above five hundred years in his Surname And there were the two eminent Virtues of those Families in his nature his names being to him not only significations of Honor but intimations of Virtue according to that admonition given by Alexander to one of his Followers Either quit your good name or leave your bad manners meekness wariness good nature and ingenuity the character of the one valor and prowess the known honor of the other His Ancestor Sir R. Greenvile assisted King William Rufus 1113. against the Welch Rebells successfully dedicating the Spoils of the war to the honor of Almighty God in maintaining a Religious House Sir Bevile Greenvile attended King Charles the First against the English 1641. consecrating his services to the Glory of God and the settlement of the Church usually saying That he counted it the greatest honor of his Family that one of it meaning Will. de Greenvile above three hundred years before under Edw. the First was Archbishop of York and in the Councel of Vienna next the Archbishop of Triers being for his publick spirit and activity especially in improving the Trade maintaining the Priviledges and keeping up the Discipline of his Country called to advise with his Majesty in Parliament about the great affairs of the kingdom he would not continue there without him But when he saw that he was more likely to be suppressed by his Majesties adversaries than his Majesty was to be supported by his friendship at Westminster he withdrew with many more Devonshire and Cornish Gentlemen that deserved Queen Elizabeths Character of these Countrymen That they were all born Courtiers with a becoming confidence to give their Country by rational Declarations the same satisfaction about the state of affairs that they had already in their own breast forcing not the Country till they had convinced and perswaded it asserting Authority the ligament of civil society against violence the publick interest against private designs liberty against licentiousness and oppression and this upon such moderate principles to widen rather than narrow their interest and in so civil terms as won those generous people that were not to be forced like compleat Orators making happy applications to the several humors and Genius of all persons with Alcibiades shifting disposition as they altered place yea so prudentially did they manage their expressions that the men at Westminster should not despair of their compliance with them until they were in a capacity to appear against them when they had secured the Port-towns the Fishing-trade for Herring and Pilchards the Mines the Markets for the Manufactures of that Country Kersies Bonelace c. and setled as good a correspondence between Devonshire and Cornwall by Sir Bevile Greenviles advice as was before by Sir Theo. Greenvile's device who built Baddiford-bridge as Sir Bevile secured it They appear in a great body near Pendennis whereof Sir Nicholas Slaning another excellent Patriot of Cornwall was Governor and Launston the County-town of Cornwall which Sir Bevile Greenvile possessed himself of The Body he trained to war he disciplined to piety piety not like the Cornish Diamond counterfeit and strictness least as Pilchards in this Country being persecuted by their fellow-fish the Tunny and Hake fall into the Fisher-mens Nets so the Country-people abused by the incivilities of their friends the Cavaleers might be taken in the Snares of their enemies the Faction As the Ambergreese found sometimes in this Country hath a more fragrant scent compounded with other things than when singly its self so this noble Gentleman gained a greater repute when joyning counsels and endeavors with others than when he acted alone The neighbor Counties were on fire these Counties look to themselves Sir Bevile wished that his Army were all of them as good as his Cause but it is not to be expected that all should be Fish that are caught in a Drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a
watchfulness setled integrity circumspect activity advantageous temperance and good conversation gained the repute of the best Commander of Horse in the world in which capacity he had the Command of a Colonel in the Shew as he called it against Scotland and of General of Horse in the real War against the English and that in the North assisting the Earls of Cumberland and Newcastle to form an Army where the best Horse were to be raised from whence after some notable defeats of the Lord Fairfax which some said were remembred at Colchester he carryed 2000. Horse to assist his Majesty with whom we finde him eminent both for his direction and execution about the hill near Newbery and Eâ—born-Heath which he maintained with one Regiment well disposed and lined with Musqueteers and a Drake with small shot against the gross of Eâ—â—ex his Armyâ— the Leading-man of which he Pistolled himself in the Head of hiâ— Troop giving close fire himself and commanding others to do the like After this first battel of Newbery and his recovery froâ— his seven wounds received there being at Cawood Castle when it was assaulted with extraordinary skill and valor he forced his way through the enemies quarters to such places as he thought convenient with such confidence and magnanimity that his very name became a terror in the North raising by the very Alarm three Sieges and reducing two strong Garrisons At Marston-Moor being commanded to lead the Kings Left Wing against the Parliaments Right consisting of Fairfax his Troops and Scots he routed them for two miles together with a violent Charge and afterwards saved most of those that were saved in that fatal battel making it his business to pick up a Regiment of Veteranes saying He must make much of a Souldier for he was long in the making and not one in twenty lived to it At Newark he gave as great a proof of his good Discipline as he did of his personal Valor strict though not severe in his Commands being none of those that reckoned it the very spirit of Policy and Prudence where men refuse to come up to Orders and Law to make Orders and Law come down to them and for their so doing have this infallible Recompence that they are not at all the more loved but much the less feared and which is a sure consequence of it accordingly respected Disobedience if complied with is infinitely incroaching and having gained one degree of Liberty upon indulgence will demand another upon claim Free in his rewards to persons of desert and quality very zealous on all occasions against the Rebellion being usually known to deliver himself in these words That he preferred the style of Loyalty before any Dignity earth could confer upon him In his Charge serious and vigilant remiss in nothing that might expedite or improve his dispatch in Affairs of Government as compassionate as couragious never killing the man he durst spare and very ready at all times to afford what himself could not receive Free-quarter to which I need adde only his brave and successeful Attempt in the famous march from Berkley Castle with part of his Regiment between Slym-bridge and Bevâ—rston Castle upon Col. Massies Garrisons with his incomparable Gallantry at Tidbury his brave answer at Berkley Castle at the refusal of two summons viz. That he would eat Horse-flesh â—irst and Mans-flesh when that was done before he would yield But having trod many uncouth parts for his Majesties restitution and breaking his Parol with the General upon good advicâ— had before to satisfie his Conscience in that point he formed an hopeful Association among the Gentlemen of his own Country the beginning whereof was indeed so distracted that he advised them to retire quietly to their own homes until they had a fairer opportunity who intreated him to command them promising to live and die with him one and all as he did securing them on all hands by a party of choice Horse from the Incursions of the Enemy and disposing them in Quarters most for their advantage and safety all along till taking the Earl of Warwicks House and Arms in his way they came from Burnt-wood to Colchester which shutting the gates against him he reduced with his very appearance and when the next day begirt he entertained the Enemies whole Army with such Conduct and Resolution in the hedges and Suburbs round the Town that had they all fallied out as he advised them they had as some Prisouers acknowledged bidden fair for the overthrow of that whole Army But the enemy falling next day to form a Leaguer he considering there was no marching out of the Country about being Champion ground wherein for want of Horse they would be instantly cut off Victualled and furnished the Town in spight of the Army from the Stores and Countrey adjoyning and made its ruines above belief defensible to give time to other Countreys while the Army was there to Associate expecting the Northern relief and likewise to weather the Army its self by hard duty unseasonable weather and continual sallies sending out some excellent Persons to countenance the Levy of more Forces in other Countries and keep intelligence from whom several small parties came in through the Leaguer and ordering all the Town Arms into the Magazine and listing the Towns-men into Companies Iuly 7. Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle made a grand Sally that cleared one side of the Leaguer Streets Hills Hedges and all to the loss of near a thousand six hundred killed several stealing into the Town and many running home Iuly 12. Sir Charles took care for a convenient distribution of the Provision left among the Towns-people and Souldiers and of Declarations to be sent into Kent and Essex and to the Army promising from his Majesty Arrears and Indemnity to such as laid down their Armes or would joyn with them towards the Peace and Settlement of the Kingdom Iuly 29. Sir Charles advised that the Horse should break out through the Leaguer towards the North but in vain the false Towns-men that should make their way as Pioneers deserting them August 17. He and the Lord Capell in a Letter to the General desired twenty days respite to inform themselves about their intended Relief and that being denied the Relief failing the great Northern Army beaten their Ammunition spent to a Barrel and a half of Powder and their Provision to two Horses and one Dog the whole Kingdom stupid and Sir Charles his admirable overture after a general protestation that they would not accept of dishonorable terms nor desert one another of a general Sally to perish nobly or honorably Relieve themselves being when all things were ready to a minute for the executing of it defeated yielded and by the Generals order retired to the Kings-head till Sir Charles was sent for with Sir George Lisle Colonel Farre and Sir Bernard Gascoin to a Councel of War by which he was Condemned to dye immediately Sir Charles asking
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
his friends by Letters a way he much delighted in without He died 1656. having spent most of his suffering time in reconciling differences among his indiscreet friends and in encouraging hope which he would say was at the bottom of the box among his desponding acquaintance a person that was not sensible of his oppression because he was not subject to passion With Dr. Smith were Dr. Ailworth of All-Souls Dr. Edward Hide Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Rector of Brightwel in Berk-shire and a grave Preacher as long as he was permitted to the great satisfaction of good people at Holywell in Oxford writing good Books such as The Christian Legacy and A Vindication of the Church of England and giving good instructions to young men such as he designed Nurseries for the Church of England recommending to them a methodical Learning an exemplary zeal at their devotion and a strict life making great use of Bodley's Library while he was permitted and when forbidden retiring to his own He died at Salisbury 1658. where I think his Reverend Brother is Bishop of the Stone under which God exercised his patience as he did under the usurpation his faith and heroick charity Whose advice was by all means use to be alone be acquainted with your selves and keep your selves discreetly in a capacity of serving the Church for he would say did all men comply the Church would be at a loss for Champions to defend her at present and were all obnoxious the Church might be at a loss for Worthies to propagate it for the future Dr. Richard Bayly for forty years President of St. Iohns and for above thirty Dean of Salisbury an excellent Governor a good Landlord preferred by Bishop Laud his kinsman one of whose Executors he was at St. Iohns as Dr. George Walker another allyed to him was at the University Colledge in Oxford whereof he was thrice Vice-chancellor much a Gentleman and therefore in the late times much a Sufferer when P. E. of P. told his Masters at Westminster how among other Exploits he had done at Oxford he had by force turned out Dr. Bayly and his wife with six pretty children out of St. Iohns He lived chearfully behind the Schools all the sad times as he died hospitably in St. Iohns in better A right primitive Church-man for his good Table great Alms just and generous Dealings and the Repair of every place he came to Thrifty but not covetous giving his need his honor and his friend his due Never saith our sweet Singer was scraper brave man get to live than live and use it Dr. R. Kettle and Dr. Hannibal Potter both Presidents of Trinityâ—Colledge â—Colledge men that if they could not play on the Fiddle that is if they were not so ready Scholars yet could build and govern Colledges and make as Themosticles a little City or Colledge a great one the Whetstone is dull its self that whets the things Dr. Metcalf was a better of St. Iohns in Cambridge than Dr. Whitacres because the first though a Sophister put a fallacy upon him cosensu diviso ad sensum compositum found the Colledge spending scarce 200 Marks per annum and left it spending by his own and his friends benefactions a thousand and the other though a great Scholar following Studies and remitting matters to others to the general decay of the Colledge The Government of a Colledge is commended by the proficiency of the Students among whom its honor enough to the House to mention 1. Mr. William Chillingworth born in Oxford and so falling out of his Mothers arms into the Muses lap a general Scholar made ready in himself by teaching others taking great delight in directing and encouraging young men and in disputing with the elher so accute and subtile a Disputant that the best disputation that ever was heard in Oxford Schools was when he Mr. Halke and Dr. Hammond disputed together Admirable at opposing and overthrowing any Position though solid and wary enough at answering and Dr. Potter being sickly sent for him to reply to Mr. Knots Answer to his Book of Charity whereupon having obtained leave to travel he resolved to finde out Mr. Knot himself and agreeably to his great spirit designing to answer not onely that Book but all that could be said for Popery to dive by converse and dispute with the choicest Romanists in the world to the bottom of all the Intrigues and Quirks of that Controversie to which end he entred himself of one of their best Colledges whereof upon the stupendious reach of his reason he became presently Sub-Rector continuing there until by continual discourses wherewith he tired them all he had distilled the quintessence of their reason into a book answering it upon his return in the Book called The Religion of Protestants a saâ—e way to salvation which was never answered but with a War sent amongst us with the extract of Catholick reason called by unreasonable men that make Christianity a Supersedeas for Humanity Socinianism approved by Dr. Fell Dr. Bayley and Dr. Prideaux his adversary who compared his Book to a Lamprey fit for food if the venemous string was taken out of it As great his faculty in reclaiming Shismaticks as in confuting Papists seldom either discoursing or preaching but he convinced the parties he spoke or preached to His great skill in Mathematicks whereby he drew several regular Fortifications against Glocester and elsewhere being called The Kings little Engineer and Black-art-man fixing and clearing his reason in all subjects he had occasion to insist upon His counsel was that young men should be sure to be good Artists and then the Arts knitting together all other learning they would be good Scholars He was taken prisoner by the Enemies Forces who found him sick and by hard usage hastened his death 1645. being buried at Arundle-castle with this Character from an adversary That his Head was made for contrivances and his Heart for that which makes men wise viz. Doubts and Scruples resting no where in his disquisition but upon first principles 2. Mr. Anthony Farington Bachelor of Divinity an excellent Tutor and Governor while Fellow of that House an imitable Preacher for High Rhetorick Copious Learning and Moral Instructions while resident in the University a grave Pastor and charitable Neighbour while Vicar of Bray and Preacher at Windsor and so honest and orthodox that the old Proverb true of his predecessor who kept his Vicaridge under Henry the eighth Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth saying He was no Turncoat keeping always to his principles which was this that he would live and dye Vicar of Bray and turn his Mill with the Wind rather than loose his Grist could not be applied to him The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still He after Ireton who had been of the same House with him had revenged a piece of discipline he exercised upon him for his ominous knavery in affronting his superiors whereupon Mr. Farington
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
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-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
Elocution the seriousness and greatness of his Spirit admitted him with advantage upon an Act-Sunday to the Pulpit at St. Maries upon a solemn Festival to preach before his Majesty and upon a Fast before the Parliament being after his travels and relation to Sir Will. Russel to whose nearest Relations affecting his great accomplishments recommended him and after one Marriage that intervened providence made way for him and the Earl of Warwick he was setled first at Brightwell in Berk-shire 1641. secondly at Bocking in Essex 1644. thirdly at the Temple London 1659. and at the Bishoprick of Exetâ—r 1660. succeeding in both those places Bishop Brownrigge whose Life he writ and exemplified and at last Bishop of Worcester 1662. where he dyed 1663. having commanding qualities which carryed all the Country where he was to his Opinion about the Covenant 1644. and all the Kingdom to his sentiments about the King and Church the first of whom he vindicated in a pathetick Remonstrance delivered the General the second he asserted vigorously in its Doctrine and Discipline in his Hieraspistes 1653. pleaded for seriously in its Ministers in his Declaration to O. P. about the Edict Ian. 1. 1655. that turned out Orthodox Ministers out of all capacities of subsistence sollicited for effectually in its Tyths and other Priviledges 1649. 1650. c. in other Treatises mourned for pathetically in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Sighs and Groans of the Church 1659. Preached for boldly before the City Feb. 1659. in his Slight Healers in the Temple Dec. the same in Bishop Brownriggs Funeral Sermon before the Parliament April 30. in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cleared unanswerably in his satisfactions given Sir L. Bromfield and other scrupulous but moderate Persons and adorned exemplary by his excellent advices to and conversation among his Clergy his generous and obliging behaviour towards the Gentry and gallant and healing Discourses in Parliament many young Noble-men as Mr. Richard Heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick c. had their Education in his Family more Scholars and Clergy-men owe their parts to his direction several Citizens were inriched by his Correspondence who was as great a Merchant as a Scholar as great a Courtier and States-man as either and indeed the great Restauration was not a little furthered by his universal acquaintance and ubiquitary activity not be paralleled but by his Brother Mr. Gauden his Majesties Purveyor for the Navy an employment to be managed by no one man with such an universal satisfaction as it is now but by himself and 1668. they say Sheriff of London In fine he was born for great things having such a Copia verborum and those so full pregnant and significant joyned with such an active fancy as rarely accompanyeth so sound a Judgment and so deep an Understanding Such a publick Spirit and ready Parts that besides the many motions he made for the promoting of Commenius his way of advancing general Learning Duraeus his indeavour of procuring universal Peace the Royal Societies Noble attempts for compleating Philosophy Bishop Walsons and Dr. Castles Heroick Essayes for propagating the Eastern Learning every man that came to him went the better from him Such great prudence in the managery of Affairs like the providence that governs the world that he could quickly see into the depth and soon turn round all the sides of business so as to be full and clear in his Resolutions and Debates dexterous in his advice upon all straits his Learning being so concocted into an active wisdom that he was fit for any Imployment understanding things so well at first sight that he seldom had a second thought generally standing to the resolution and determination of his first Adde to this the integrity of heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dipped into Justice the stateliness of his Speech the ingenuity aptness freedom and gravity of his fansie the luxuriancy of his ready invention tempered with such solid and serious mixtures such grave Retreats and Closes that it seemed no other than beauty well dressed or goodness appearing in a fair and chearfull Summers day becoming him as smiling doth a good Man and a good Conscience or flouring a laughter as we say doth a generous pleasant and spiritful liquor the apt facetiousness of his native and fluent Wit making way in converse for his more serious and weighty Conception as did his Catholick love tender of all even as appears by his discourse of the Oaths imposed upon them of the poor Quakers themselves but fond of worthy and good men that he picked up all over the Nation in his respect to whom you might 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Historiola haec monstrat quem fama monstrat magis sed ipsa necdum fama quem monstrat satis ille totam solus Implevit tubam tot ora solus Domuit famam quoque fecit modestam Ingens Academiarum certamen quot quin ipse Academiae In quo musae omnes gratiae nullibi magis sorores sub preside religione in tenacissimum sodalitium Coaluere Peralta rerum pondera cum vaga mens indomito Cucurrit animo et natur amexhausit totam mille faeta Artibus mille Scientiis se in eruditionem varians omnigenam et toti cognata encyclopaediae Coelo satur nativo in suam evolavit originem relicto sub tantillo marmore quanto hospite Eo nimirum majore Monumento quo minore tumulo morte pariter etvita modestus Dr. Henry Ferne Fellow and Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Lord Bishop of Chester well known in the late times by his clear resolutions of the Cases in difference between the King and Parliament between our Church and Rome on the one hand and Geneva on the other in all which there were such weight of Arguments such clearness of Expression and such piety and seriousness of Spirit that two Adversaries confessed that that Cause never looked so clearly and devoutly in any writings as in Dr. Ferns and as well known by his Sermons at Oxford then pressing Humiliations holy Vows and Resolutions and at Cambridge and London pressing the keeping of those Vows He dyed within few Moneths after he was made Bishop 1661. being buryed at Westminister without any other Monument than his Name of whom I may say Adeo se occuluit ut vitam ejus pulchram dixeris R. C. et Pudicam dissimulationem I mo vero et mortem Ecce enim in ipso funere dissimulari se passus est Dr. Iohn Earls on whom Merton Colledge where he was bred and buryed bestowed this History in this Epitaph Amice sâ— quis hic sepultus est roges ille qui nec meruit unquam nec quod majus est habuit inimicum qui potuit in Aula vivere et mundum spernere Concionator educatus Inter principes et ipse facile princeps inter Concionatores evangelista Inde festus Episcopus Pientissimus
or governed he did it exactly according to the old Injunctions of the Realm the Canons of the Church and the Laws and Statutes of the place of all which his Visitation Articles were an exact Collection For which by men ignorant and impatient he was cried down into Prison without ever being heard for fifteen years together by a Parliamentary power and by the same power as St. Paul Act. 16. 39. was intreated out of his bonds by them that put him in discharged out out-living by a strong constitution used to hardship never seeing Fire in the coldest time nor bating the hardest Meat in his weakest years seldome a bed till eleven a clock at night and always up at five in the morning at his hours walk without either Fire or Candle and continual Study diverting his thoughts whereof his Accurate and Critical Vindication of the Scripture against the Socinian Glosses is a very great instance Printed at the end of the Critica Sacra a small part of a vast Treasure of such choice observations If he discoursed he did it to his last with a vast comprehension and memory of particular and minute circumstances though at never so great a distance of time or place If he had relation to any Colledge as he had to Peter-house and Pembroke-hall and I think St. Iohns Cambridge as Visitor and Charter-house as Governor he looked to the concernments of each place narrowly he incouraged hopeful men in them bountifully and kept up the interest of the Church as he did every where strictly if it was a time of Parliament or Convocation he attended them carefully and constantly for he knew that a Vote may sometimes save or loose a kingdom This Eminent Prelate dying 1667. above 80. years of age was buried in a Chappel erected at his own charge in Cambridge with the greatest solemnity seen in the memory of man performed by the whole University ordered by an Herald Dr. John Pearson Master of Trinity-colledge and Margaret Professor making an excellent Funeral Oration upon the occasion and all the Company besides that they laid the rich Miter and Crosier upon the Altar making the greatest offering that ever was seen in the University I wish him so good an Historian of his life as he had been of the Church if he had undertaken what Bishop Andrews imposed upon him before he understood Sir Henry Spelman was about it viz The Collection of Counsels and so good an Epitaph David LLoyd Dr. of Law born in Mongomeryshire or Shropshire bred in All-souls Oxon sometime Comptroller of the Earl of Derbies house and Chaplain to his Family Warden of Ruthen Denbighshire and Dean of St. Asaph an ingenious Gentleman of greater spirit than estate well esteemed of by the neighbour Gentry where he lived and not understood by the populacy a great agent and sufferer for his Majesty well understanding how to take off his enemies and ingage his friends He died 1662 3. Dr. Iohn Barneston born of a good Family in Cheshire to which he was an ornament bred Fellow of Brasen-nâ—se-colledge in Oxon to which he was a benefactor founding there a Lecture for Hebrew where he had been an excellent Proficient in Greek that that Colledge which is so eminent for Philosophy should be as excellent for the Tongues Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton to whom he was Counsellor and Residentiary of Salisbury where he was an hospitable House-keeper a chearful Companion and a peaceable Man by the same token that a Church-warden being brought before him by the Parish in a Consistory for having lost the Chalice out of his House which should have been kept in the Church he perceiving that the Church-warden had carried it home with an honest intent not to Imbezzle but to scoure it ended the controversie thus Well I am sorry that the Cup of Vnion and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord among you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some other as good will be sent you Which by a charity as secret as the offer was prudent was performed not only on the Doctors motion but his charge too who rested in that peace he lived when the whole Nation was imbroiled in a war 1642. About which time died Mr. Io. Bois who credited Elesmeth in Suffolk by his Birth Hadley School and Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge by his Education Boxworth in Cambridgeshire where he was Parson and Ely-church where he was Prebendary by his preferment His voluntary Greek Lecture read a Bed early in the morning to young Scholars whereof Mr. Gataker was one improved him much and the young men of those times more King Iames his Translation of the Bible wherein he was an eminent instrument Sir Henry Savils Chrysostome whereof he was the Supervisor and the choice Notes and Criticisms that go up and down among learned men whereof he was the Author will preserve his memory in the world as long as it is either religious or learned Bishop Andrews who made it not his business to finde preferment for men but men for preferment stole those they had upon him and Mr. Nicholas Fuller in a way equally agreeable to their modesty and merit As Bishop Laud did for Mr. Edward Symonds a native of Cottered in Hertsordshire Scholar of Peter-house in Cambridge and Minister of Little Rayne in Essex before the wars so strict his life and so plain piercing and profitable his preaching whereof some very pertinent Sermons extant are instances that he was looked upon as a Puritan yet in the wars so early his care in vindicating his Majesty in a Book bearing that Title in principling his Country against Rebellion in some controversies with Stephen Marshall whom he after visited in his Bed at Westminster telling him That if he had taken him for a Wild Beast he would not have rouzed him in his Den and afterwards in being instrumental to set forth his late Majesties true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he was Sequestred of his Living and forced first to Worcester then to Exeter and Barnestable after that to France and at last to London where he died 1649. being buried in St. Peters Pauls-wharfe where he often preached and elaborately for being requested once to Preach upon a small warning and told that the plain Auditors would be best pleased with his plain performance he answered I can content them but not mine own Conscience to preach with so little preparation The Earl of Kildare being accused before Henry the eighth for burning the Cathedral Church of Cassiles in Ireland professed ingeniously That he would never have burned the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Several persons being urged with their severity to this good man answered He had never suffered so had he not been a stubborn Kingling and Prelatist Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum Dr. Edward Simson born
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
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
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
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
the old Religion against what he supposed the new in his Under him the Welch at Brentford made good the Greek Proverb with right Brittish valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that flieth will fight again those who being little better than naked cannot be blamed for using swift heels at Edgehill must having resolution to arm their minds as soon as they had armour to cover their bodies be commended for using as stout arms as any in this fight which cost the Family though Sir Thomas died not long after 2000 l. 5. Sir Evan Lloyd of Yale a sober Gentleman and one of the first that waited on his Majesty at Wrexam for which he suffered deeply several times till his Majesties Restauration by whom he was made Governour of Chester a City of which it is said that it was more honour to keep a Gate in it than to command a whole City elsewhere seeing East Gate therein was committed formerly to the Earl of Oxford Bride Gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water Gate to the Earl of Derby and North Gate to the Major He died as soon as he was invested in his Government 1663 4. Godfrey Lloyd Charles Lloyd and Tho. Lloyd were Collonels in the Kings Army and Coll. Rob. Ellis a vigilant sober active and valiant Commander 240 l. Sir Francis Lloyd Caerm 1033 l. Walt. Lloyd Lleweny Carding Esq 1033 l. 6. Col. Anthony Thelwall a branch of the Worshipful Family of the Thelwalls of Plasyward near Ruthin in Denbighshire known for his brave Actions at Cropredy where his Majesty trusted him with a thousand of the choicest men he had to maintain as he did bravely the two advantagious Villages Burley and Nelthorp and at the second Newberry fight where he did wonders with the reserve of Sir G. Lisles Tertia and had done more had he not been slain for not accepting of Quarter Not long after Daniel Thelwall of Grays-Inn Esq paid 540 l. composition Io. Thelwall of Pace-Coch Denb Esq 117 l. The Right Honorable Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy-Counsellor to both Kings Charles I. and II. bred in the strictest School and Coll. Eaton by Windsor and Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to a great insight into general and various Learning and in the Low-Countries and France to a great happiness in Experiences and Observations in the Affairs of War Trade and Government the result of which and his retired studies by reason of the troubles of the Age and the infirmities of his body much troubled with the Stone with a sharp fit whereof he died 1667. was as King Charles the First who conversed with him much in his Closet called it and King Charles the Second who came often with the Counsel to his House and Bed side found it Safe and clear Counsel a sober and moderate Spirit the reason together with the general opinion of his great integrity and unblemished reputation he was so much reverenced and courted by the Parliament as they called it and so often imployed in seven Publick Messages and three solemn Treaties between the King and Parliament a serious temper and deep thoughts understanding Religion well he was reckoned the best Lay-Divine by his Polemical and Practical Discourses after the Kings death in England and practising it better Prayers Sermons and Sacraments being performed in no Family more solemnly than in his house private preparations before the monethly Communion used no where more seriously than that of all that belonged to his noble retinue in his Closet his stipends to the poor Clergy and Gentry in the late times were constant and great near upon besides what he sent beyond Sea 1000 l. a year his charity to the Poor of each place where he had either his residence or estate Weekly Monethly Quarterly and Yearly above 500 l. a year among those few Ministers reduced into distress by the late fire he bestowed besides particular largesses and a resolution to take them if unprovided to any Preferments that should fall in his Gift an 100 Pieces in Gold giving always his Livings to the choicest men recommended to him by the Fathers of the Church whose judgements he much relied upon in those Cases in the Kingdom he reckoned it certainly a more blessed thing to give than receive when besides his great Hospitality during his life and his manifold and large Benefactions at his death he gave away so much for publick good and as I am told received not one farthing all the while either as Lord Treasurer or Privy Counsellor for his own private advantage He was one of the Honorable Lords who offered his life to save his Majesty pleading that he had been the Instrument of his Government and hazzarded it to bury him His Composition was 3466l in Money and 250 l. a year in Land taken from him and his losses in the War 54000 l. Sir Walter VVrotsley not VVriothsley of VVrotsley Stafford 1332 l. 10 â— with 15 l. per annum Land taken from him Sir Frederick Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold Comptroller and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty whose old Servant he had been and his Fathers and Uncles before him at his Restauration and made Baron Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk at his Majesties Coronation The Temple of Honor being of right open to him in time of Peace who had so often hazzarded himself in the Temple of Vertue in the time of War particularly at Copredy-bridge where the Lord Willmot twice Prisoner was rescued once by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and the next time by Sir R. Howard Sir F. being as the last Pope said of this a Man of so chearful a spirit that no sorrow came near his heart and of so resolved a mind that no fear came into his thoughts so perfect a Master of Courtly and becoming Raillery that he could do more with one word in Jest than others could do with whole Harangues in Earnest a well-spoken man competently seen in modern Languages of a comely and goodly Personage died suddainly of an Apoplectical fit Ian. 7. 1661. Pope Innocent being in discourse about the best kind of death declared himself for suddain death suddain not as unexpected that we are to pray against but suddain as unfelt that he wished for To him I may adde Sir Will. Throgmorton Knight Marshall to his Majesty who died 166â— A Gentleman of an Ancient Family to whom a great spirit was as Hereditary as a great Estate who did much service to his Majesty in England and was able to do more to him and his Friends in Holland where he was formerly a Souldier and then an Inhabitant worth is ever at home and carryâ—th its welcome with it wherever it goeth who had lost his life sooner with a Bullet got into his body had not he done as they say Mr. Farnaby the Grammarian did who coming over from the Dutch Camp poor and wounded at Billingsgate met with a poor Butterwoman of whom he bought as
much as he was able to pay for melted it down and scoured his body with it when he kept School first in a Cellar in Aldersgate-street In the Wars there were for personal Valour very eminent Sir Baynam and Sir Clement Throgmorton who whilest others boast of their French bloud may with their English Family vie Gentry with any of the Norman Extraction 1 For Antiquity four Monasyllables being by common pronunciation crowded into their Name The Rock More Town 2 For numerosity being branched into so many Countries 3 For Ingenuity Character'd by Cambden to be fruitful of sine Wits and to them Sir Simon Archer of Tanworth in Warwickshire and his Son there of his studiousness as well as Estate a great Antiquary careful in collecting and courteous in communicating singular Rarities which were carelesly scattered up and down these Wars and prudently brought up by him and the Honorable Persons fore-going who were not as the Toads who suck up the precious stone in their head envying the use of it sparing no cost for their love to Antiquity and being put to many thousand pounds charge for their hatred of Novelty as was The Honorable Iohn Son to Nich. Tuston created Earl of Thanet an exemplary Person in the strictness of his Life and the good Government of his Family who for encouraging the Kentish mens Loyalty though he left them upon their unconstancy paid for his own 9000 l. and Tho. Lord Viscount Falconbridge 5012 l. for his Col. Mynne Governor of Hereford there were in the Army besides Col. Robert and Col. Nicholas Mynne one or both Knights Harbingers and signing the Articles at the Rendition of Bristol an experienced Commander first in Ireland and afterwards coming over with a Brigade 1653. over whom he was General in England distressing Glocestâ—r from Berkly and thereabout with continual Skirmishes Massie saying He had plaid till these came over A restless man in pursuit of some project every day to hearten and employ his own Souldiers and weary the Enemy as he was going to joyn the Forces of Hereford and Worcestershire at Castlelane with a design on Glocester and others not keeping touch with him he was cut off with the best Regiment made so by continual exercise within three miles of Glocester in disadvantagious Inclosures the consequence whereof was the defeating of the Kings Power in Southwales being much missed by his Friends and honored by his Foes who gave him a stately Burial 1644. in Testimony of his Worth and Valor being the fairest and shrew dest Enemy in Christendom whose Monument shall be supported by First Col. H. Washington who blocked up Glocester on Tewxbury side a Gentleman though disobliged by being put upon designs without Money to pursue them never suffered his Heat and Feaver to turn to a Frenzy unworthily attempting what he could not handsomely atchieve though vext that his swelling and prosperous sails should be silled rather with airy promises than real supplies and Eversham scoured the hedges near Stopwash a Border-Town of Cheshire to make way for Prince Rupert to enter into that Important Garrison kept Worcester till his Majesty under his hand Iune 10. 1646. commanded him to yield it against all Assaults and Summons and did Wonders by Patience and Resolution at Colchester as he did at the first taking of Bristol the first breach whereof entred was called by his name made terrible thereafter by his brave Regiment of Dragoons whose fierce and active Gallantry bestowed a Proverb on every resolute Exploit Away with it quoth Washington Secondly The Honorable Col. Oneal the onely Protestant of his Family it s a question whether gaining more honor by his hard service about Glocester and in both the Newberries with King Charles the I. or by his assiduous Negotiations and Messages posting from place to place in Holland where he was warned to the Countess of Chesterâ—ield in France where he was welcome to the best Cavaliers and Germany for King Charles the II. especially in the various Occasions Opportunities and Revolutions 1659. at Fontarabia Scotland Flanders England c. that made way for his Majesties Restauration who let him to Farm the Post-Office He died 1664. It s more to be called an Oneal than an Emperor in Ireland 3. By Collonel Will. Pretty who when Backehouse sent him word he woulk Breakfast with him returned that then he would Dine at Glocester a Gentleman that loved his last thoughts as Mothers the youngest Child best declaring siercely Sept. 2. 1645. That Bristol was Tenable by force and needed not the courteste or charm of words meaning Treaties with Fairfax to maintain it onely the Souldiery were to be refreshed and the Bayes of Victory are not to be plucked up till by fair opportunities they are grown ready 4. Collonel Pert who received his Deaths wound 1645. in Cornwall not to be gained by Power or Policy from the ground he stood in the Riddle of the Army never appearing what he was nor being what he appeared giving his Enemies always too little hope to trust and too little to distrust him Such must be as dark as midnight who must perform actions as bright as Noon-day 5. Col. Taylor there was one Mr. Taylor Resident for his Majesty with the Emperor in honorable esteem who made the Glocestershire Forces pay as he said Cost and Dammage for the death of Col. Mynne at last killed himself 1645 at Bristol when unus homo pereundo restituit rem where he died in the bed of honor about which we can only draw the Curtain Richard Taylor ofâ—rnely â—rnely Sussex paid 500 l. composition Jo. Talbot of Thornton York 800 l. Sir Jo. Talbot Lanc. 600 l. Tho. Taylor Ocle Pichard Her 265 l. Rich. Taylor Clapham Bedf. Esq 450 l. 6. Col. Rich. Poore that little man and great Souldier slain in Wales 7. As was Col. Will. Wynne of Berthu at Wem the Bulwark of Northwales which as Souldiers cry was all and one his because of his large alliance obliging spirit exemplary sobriety great conduct and fidelity to which the Enemy never entred while he lived no more than the English could while Owen Glendower Commanded such a strong Line of Communication he had formed in all the Marches and so watchful and active was he in maintaining that Line The Worshipful Wynnes of Gwyddir were great sufferers for his Majesty 8. Col. Dalby that excellent Engineer killed at Wingfield Mannor Derbyshire 9. Col. Io. Marrow slain near Sandiway in Cheshire 10. Sir Matthew Carew whose Misfortunes were his advantage It is an ill wind that bloweth no body good his Company being delightful when his service though prudent and valiant was unsuccessful and he fit to stand before Princes and not before mean men a man of spirit for his non Faelix carrying a badge of Valor no blemish but Beauty Mars hath his spots as well as Venus in his face Sir Francis Carew Beddington Surrey paid 1000l Composition 11. Col. Bagot who had travelled most places
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
with two dangerous wounds in his own body as King Charles I. attested under his own hand The Right Honorable William and Francis Earls of Shrewsbery the one attending his former Majesty in all his Wars with great Charge and Prudence and hardly used by the Parliament who broke th Articles with him and the other following his Majesty that now is in all his streights from Worcester Fight where he ventured to wait upon him with a gallant Company of Gentlemen to his Restauration which he attempted often with the hazzard of his life and saw at last to the great comfort of it according to their Renowed Ancestors the Talbots Motto on their words more manlike than Elegant and like a Nobleman rather than a Pedant Sum Talboti pro defendendo Rege contra Inimicos neither of them when sent to raise Forces for his Majesty whose party deserved not the name of an Army untill the Earl of Shrewsbury came in no more than Henry 7 th did till Sir Gilbert Talbot came to him answering him as their Ancestors did Henry 8th when he sent to him to fortifie Callice who said he could neither fortifie nor sistifie without money The Right Honorable Iohn lately and George Nevill now Lord Abergavenny the first Baron of Abergavenny created so by King Harold 2. a Family so potent then that whereas others boast that they came over with the Conqueror it may speak a bigger word viz. That the Conqueror came in with and by it Noblemen whose plain and honest Natures is as good a sign of their Antiquity as the plainness and simplicity of their Coats and Arms Sequestred and troubled much beyond the Note in the Catalogue of Compounders comes to Iohn Lord of Abergavenny 531 l. I say these and many more Catholicks that were faithful to King Charles I. in his distresses from 1642. to 1648. And Col. Carlese Sir Iames Hamilton and others who were to King Charles II. 1651. in his extremity and Escape make it probable that Marianaes Institutions Suarez his Apology and his Potestas Regia Bell. de Pont. Rom. l. Creswell Philopatus de offic Principum may be Books whose dangerous notion as those of Buchanan and others among us may be published and discoursed among those who abhor them and though they honour the Authors venture their lives to oppose their Tenets Sir Richard Lawdy slain at Cover in Glocestershire and those two old Souldiers that planted a Seminary in the North Sir Ingram Hopton and Sir George Bowles who fell at Winsby near Horn Castle October 1643. William Butler and Sir William Clark two Kentishmen of great Quality slain at Cropredy-bridge Iune 29. 1644. those two Northern men that swallowed the War in earnest Sir Thomas Metham and Sir William Lambton who died at Marston-moor the two hardy Courtiers Sir Thomaas Dallison and Sir Richard Cave Sir Iohn Beaumont of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester who died in the service that good Souldier Col. Croker near Oxon. who paid 909 l. need no more than a mention here Sir Charles Cavendish son to Sir C. Cavendish Grandfather to Sir W. C. and Privy-Counsellor and Treasurer of the Chamber to H. 8. Edw. 6. Queen Mary younger Brother to the most potent William Duke of Newcastle inclined from his youth to Learning particularly the Mathematicks as his Brother was to Chivalry those studies agreeing better with his vigorous soul than other exercises did with his weak body when the liberty of a Camp in the North endangered the very being of Christianity there the Souldiers retaining little of their Religion but their Allegiance as if their service to the King did excuse their care of their duty to God Sir Charles his excellent discourses set off with a most sweet nature and a most strict example prevailed as successfully over the Army as they did a great while over their Enemies keeping though not improving their charge though indeed it was much improved in that it was not impaired all the while he had the charge of it partly by the Valor of his Person and partly by the advantage of his Country making so stout a resistance that they whose successes made them flie in other parts of the Kingdom could a great while but creep in the North a Country that shewed it self as Valiant in what it did as patient in what it suffered their Hands Arms being as good as Backs and Shoulders He was the person intrusted by the Northern parts to welcome her Majesty 1643. with a brave Body of Horse to guard her and the Person intrusted by her with 20 Troops of Horse 2000 Foot and 500 Arms more to protect them Great his care of Ammunition as Master of the Ordnance and greater of Money as Treasurer of the Northern parts till the defeat at Marston-moor when a brave Troop of Gentlemen desired him and his Brother to Lead them up to perish Honorably rather than out-live the consequence of that day after which he went over with his Brother to Holland and France whence returning 1651. upon my Lord Chancellor and others perswasions to compound for his Estate which he protested he had rather loose than have it by composition from the Enemy After the settlement of that and some little Remainder of the Dukes he died if he can die that lives in so Honorable a Monument as the Works of his dearest Sister the Heroick Princess the Dutchess of Newcastles With this Inscription The most generous and charitable man having never Courting yet winning all men the pass to their heart he made through their brain who first admired and then loved him A Character most agreeable to his Honourable Cousin Charles Cavendish Esq Brother to the Right Honorable William Earl of Devonshire whose eminent services and sufferings deserve this Motto Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit a person of no vulgar parts himself and a Patron of those who are above the ordinary Learning Qui arte militari it a inclaruit ut vividae ejus virtuti nihil fuerit impervium it being as impossible for him not to be as not to be active being a Commissioner in the Northern Array secured Lincoln and Gainsborough whence being Governour of that place he issued out to the relief of the surprised Earl of Kingston he was over-powered and his horse carrying him off over the Trent but sticking in the Mud he died magnanimously refusing quarter and throwing the bloud that ran from his wounds in their faces that shed it with a spirit as great as his bloud his goodness was as eminent as his valour and he as much beloved by his Friends as feared by his Enemies Sir Walter Pye of Mind in Herefordshire equally a friend to the Mitre and to the Crown and therefore as zealous in maintaining the last in the Field against Usurpation as he was in Parliament in purging the other of Symony a great lover of Ministers and consecrated men Conceiving it more credit and safety to go
from the Parliament house than to be driven he retired to serve his Majesty in Herefordshire Worcestershire and Glocestershire against the Scotified English expending 20000 l. as he had gone into the North against the Frenchified Scots expending 5000 l. of a grateful Guest becoming a bountiful Host to his Majesty For which services he was twice a Prisoner in the Wars at Hereford and Bristol and four times after suffered in Goldsmiths-hall which like the Doomesday Book of the Conqueror omitted nec Lucum nec Lacum nec Locum though Favourites were rated nec adspatium nec ad pretium as it was said of the Abby of Crowland in that Book 2649. as Sir Edmund Pye of Lachamstead Bucks was 3225. Sir Walter Pye was prisoner with Sir William Crofts the R. Bishop of Herefords elder brother who being a person of very great abilities had left the Court 1626. for some words against the D. of B. in its prosperity and being of great Integrity came to help it 1640. in its adversity insomuch that King Charles I. when he saw him put on his armour at Edge-hill admired it first and afterwards was very glad of it being he said the only man in England he feared being looked upon as able enough to be Secretary of State always and as the fittest man at that time being a man inured to great observations and constant business from his childhood and Coll. Conisby a near relation no doubt and no disgrace to him to Sir Conisby High Sheriff of Hertfordshire who being told that some Enemies had prevailed to make him Sheriff answered I will keep never a Man the more nor never a Dog the less for all that and who for publishing his Majesties Proclamation and executing his Commission of Array was a Prisoner in the Fleet I think as long as his soul was prisoner in his body his person being first seized and then his Estate were the persons with whose death Fines threatned the Earl of Forth in case he should proceed against any of their way knowing them worth their whole Party Herod might have salved his oath because St. Iohn â—aptist was worth more than half the Kingdom France France France pronounced by the Herald of France answered to all the Titles of Castile Arragon c. pronounced by him of Spain Patrick Ruthen Earl of Forth and Brentford a Scotch man and therefore an excellent Souldier bred in the Low-Countries many years and serving his Majesty of Sweden in Germany as many A wary man as appeared in his ordering for he modelled that fight the Battle at Edge-hil and a stout man as was seen at Brentford and Glocester leading his forces so gallantly in the first of these places that with his own Regiment he cut off three of the best belonging to the Parliament and drawing his line so near and close about the other that he was shot in the head in both the Newberry battles Brandean Heath fight and near Banbury in all which places considering the hazzard of his person shot in the arms mouth leg and shoulder admirable was the stediness of his spirit and his present courage and resolution to spie out all advantages and disadvantages and give direction in each part of a great Army A hail man made for the hardship of Souldiers being able to digest any thing but injuries the weight of his mean birth depressed not the wings of his great mind which by Valour meditated advancement being resolved as the Scotch man said of his Country-men when sent abroad young to do or dee He had a faculty of sending to a besieged City by significant Fire-works formed in the air in legible characters and a Princes always though by the fortune of War he had it sometimes imprisoned in a poor mans purse minding not the present benefit but the happy issue of the War this being the only way to secure that This old Priam having buckled on his armour in vain left his Country to advise the Prince in Holland France and at Sea when there was no fighting for his Father at Land Having seen the Scots after his very intercessions accept of his Master for their Prince he designed as old as he was broken with years and hardship to march in the head of an Army to settle him in England but though bearing up his spirit with a Review of his great actions and renowned life as a man having passed a large Vale takes great pleasure to look back upon it from the Hill he resteth on he did about 1650. being sure that as the Air however depressed by a certain Elastical power will yet recover its place so the Consciences of the English and Scots however kept under would yet in time get up their sentiments of Duty and Allegiance Many Captains great actions had been greater if reported less but this noble person will be believed the more because expressed so little It is pity the Scots brave spirits should be debauched to Rebellion who do so bravely for their allegiance Coll. Leak slain at Newark and Mr. Leak found dead with his Enemies Colours about his arms at Lands-down fight both sons to the Right Honourable Francis Leak and brothers to the Right Honourable Nicholas now Baron Deincourt and Earl of Scarcedale both active in his Majesties service being in the number of the Peers reckoned in the Declaration of the Parliament at Oxford to the Parliament at Edenburgh absent thence on his Majesties occasions in setling his Contributions and money his Garrisons and Ports together with his Army and the discipline of it both eminently suffering as it should seem by this Note Francis Lord Deincourt P. Lancelot Leak and Tho. Leak Esq with 382 l. per annum setled 1994 l. 12 s. 7 d. Molumenta Dolumenta the Shipwracks of some are the Sea-marks of others the last Dog catching the Hare when all the rest tired themselves in running after it The Right Honourable William Lord Ogle who having bestirred himself among the ancient Tenants of his Family in the North for the cold wind of the North keep their Estates long close to the owners while the warm Gales of the South make them as the Fable is of the Cloak often shift them to raise a brave Brigade of Horse and after some services there being sent for to Oxford he submitted himself discreetly in the disposal of them exchanging his Field Command for a Garrison one being as I read Governour of Winchester which he kept as long as there was a piece of it tenable with Sir Will. Courtney Sir Iohn Pawlet William Pawlet Paulstones South 544 l. He died in these times but his honour died not with him being as I take it devolved upon a younger son of my Lords Grace of Newcastle Sir Michael Ernely an old Souldier bred in the Low-Countries that used himself by lying on the Ground Watching Hunger and other exercises of hardship in his first and lowest capacities in the War as fitted him
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
20000 l. in the service of the King to whom he owed his honour gave 5306 l. in Land and Money to keep it the onely Estate then left good men the second having hazzarded his life with his Estate spending then 15000 l. with Sir George Booth c. to restore his Majesty 1659. for which he was imprisoned like Isaac offered and not sacrificed lost it afterwards of the Small Pox I think that infections and unclean disease seizing on that breath where life spirit and pleasure always dwell snatching as rude hands do Roses before half seen or understood now ripe in the blossom To whom I may add Sir Kennes of Kevenmably Glam 3500 l. and Edward Kennes of Kennes Mannor 1000 l. H. Earl of Kingston 7499 l. Io. Kellon of Totnes Devon Esq 663 l. who reckoned it cheaper to pay than to swear and valued their souls above their Estates a Character of whose Loyalty is engraven on every part of their Estates as the Arms of the Shugboroughs are on every stone of their Land the impression of the Usurpers violence being like the Print of Iudas hands and feet where he fell Indelible Men that abhorred a barren Religion as much as Christ did the fruitless Fig tree when he wrought once as he often spake a Parable that whole Tree being but the Bark and barren Professors the Timber and could not endure those mens Creeds who made their own Articles with God and Kings and were so troubled with a Vertigo that they thought Sun and Stars were subject to the Falling Sickness and invented new bonds for supposed weak Kings as the Virgin Mary is said to drop her Girdle to swath the Faith of weak Thomas The first of which foresaid noble persons built a Spitle where God had provided a Bethesda with his charity seconding Gods mercy God giving the cure and he building the Harbour for impotent persons Richard Lord Viscout Molineux and Col. Roger Molineux of Lincolnshire and Sir Ferdinando Fisher of Northumberland persons of generous active sweet and obliging natures able stout and condescending living with that zeal devotion piety that others die with weeping out at night the debts their souls contracted in the day setting peaceably and innocently as the unspotted Sun doth in water Gentlemen that had more Vertues united in them than we can pick up scattered here and there in Books and other men doing more than others teach in whom Religion guided their other qualities as the higher sphere doth the rest The last drowned unhappily in his passage to the Isle of Man to assist that Place of whom see Peter de Cardonnel a French Gentleman Parentatio Generosis manibus Ferdin Fisher juxta monam Insulam Anno M D C X L VI. nausragio absorpti The Lord Moulineux paid 1140 l. in Land and Money To whom I may add Exequiae viri Generosissimus Jo. Chichesterii Gubernatoris de Derry Militum tribuni Illustrissimi Domini Arthuri Comitis Dongalliae c. fratris natu secundi  Qui  Vitae Integritate Coetaneos omnes Morum Suavitate Juventutis suae Virtutis Magnanimitate Multis Parasangis precessit Quique postqitam A Peregrinationibus omnem Politiam Pace veram pietatem Bello triumphorum panopliam reportasset Nescio quo Equi ferocientis Infortunio in stagnum molundinis verticosum Standmills juxt a Belsast Collapsus expiravit Et corpus solo Animam coelo tradidit April 14. 1643. Isaac Mountain and George his son Esquires of Westow York paid 1155 l. 11 s. composition Sir Jo. Mill and Col. Tho. Mill his son Nutshelling South 1350 l. R. Mollineux Tweshal Nottingh Esq 250l Sir Richard Malleverer Ollerton Malleverer York 3287 l. Sir William Massey Duddington Chesh. 234 l. Col. Sir Jo. Mallery Studley York 2219 l. Sir George Mompesson Sar. Wilts 561 l. Robert Maston Hidden Berks. 522 l. Robert Mellish Bugnal Not. Esq 3986 l. in Land and Money H. Merry of Borton Port Derb. Esq 1640 l. Hum. Mathew Castlemoneth Glam Esq 1327 l. Sir William Masters Circenster 1483 l. Sir Tho. Milward at Der. 360 l. Sir G. Middleton Col. of Layton Lanc. 2646 l. in Land and Money Sir Roger Mostyn Flintsh Esq 852 l. Robert Mulso Fendon North. Esq 500 l. Sir Edward Morgan Col. of Pencoed Monm 1007 l. besides Col. Anthony James and Thomas Morgan the last of whom I think was the brave person that was killed in the Cheshire business 1659. scorning that so brave a design should be lost without bloud shed there were Col. Sir Francis and Col. Will. Middleron slain at Hopton Heath Staff Col. Edward and Mr. George Middlemore of Kings Norton 564 l. Sir Edward Musgrave Layon Camb. 960 l. Sir Philip Musgrave who took Appleby 1644. for his Majests and so eminent in that years brave attempt Col. William Musgrave 640 l. Jo. Martin Yorecomb Devon Esq 424 l. Jo. Millecent Linton Camb. Esq 6162 l. Ambrose Mannason Trecarre Cornwal Esq 901 l. Col. Franc. Manley Erbistock Denb 264 l. Tho. Mercalf Pallasby York 866 l. Jo. Morsham Cuxon Kent Esq 356 l. Of all whom I may say as one did of Heraclytes his Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhat I know of them is excellent so I believe is what I know not 10. Col. George Heron of Chipcase Northumberland slain at Marston-Moor where fell Sir William Wentworth Father and Son Col. Hern son of Sir Edward Hern slain with Col. Beton a Northampton-shire Gentleman at Gainsborough Linc. Col. Bernard with divers other Gentlemen put to the Sword at Cannon-Froom Heref. Iuly 1645 Col. Francis Hungate of Saxton Yorkshire slain at Chester Col. William Barne slain at Malpass Cheshire Coll. Francis Billingsley slain at Bridge-north Shropshire Col Thomas and Roger Whitheyâ— one of whom was slain at Conway Castle Caern Col. Tho. Wheatly Col. Pinchback and Col. Fitz Morris slain at Newberry Col. Richard Green slain at Iâ—â—ston Castle Cheshire Men that could look upon the saddest things with the most cheerful tempers and a Mirth that was the spirits and flowerings of various wit neither blaspheming God nor abusing man taking its just turn with more retired and deep discourse fetched not from Books but the rich notions of their own minds Natures better Table Book Men whose Wits were the greatest things of their Times except their Judgment which governed the ebbs and flows of their Fancies as the Moon doth those of Waters How did their Notions throng and crowd about their tongue and discourse their Wit flowing faster than others Ink-men of gallant but not extravagant spirits overcoming the follies of their own side as well as the cheats of the other their vigorous souls like Stars sparkling but not burning and warm with generous not sordid heats minds large and high as the Heaven the seat of their souls humble as the Grave the seat of their bodies The sacred names of Friendship and of Love torn from the World with as much reluctancy as their Souls from their Bodies about whose Graves methinks I could stand still
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
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention