French hands for Caution The next day news came that France and Holland were agreed Then the obloquy was turned from treachery to folly The Ministers were now Fools that some days before were Villains And indeed the Coffee-houses were not to be blamed for their last apprehensions since if that Conjunction had taken effect then England had been in a far worse case then now it is and the War had been turned upon us But both Kings knowing their Interests resolved to Joyn against them who were the Common Enemies to all Monarchies and I may say especially to ours their only Competitor for Trade and Power at Sea and who only stand in their way to an universal Empire as great as Rome This the States understood so well and had swallowed so deep that under all their present distress and danger they are so intoxicated with that vast ambition that they slight a Treaty and refuse a Cessation All this you and the whole Nation saw before the last War but it could not then be so well timed or our Alliances so well made But you judged aright that at any rate Delenda est Carthago That Government was to be brought down And therefore the King may well say to you 'T is your War He took his measures from you and they were just and right ones and He expects a suitable assistance to so necessary and expensive an Action which He has hitherto maintained at His own charge and was unwilling either to trouble you or burden the Country until it came to an inevitable necessity And His Majesty commands me to tell you that unless it be a certain Sum and speedily raised it can never answer the Occasion My Lords and Gentlemen Reputation is the great support of War or Peace This War had never begun nor had the States ever slighted the King or ever refused Him Satisfaction neither had this War continued to this day or subsisted now but that the States were deceived in their measures and apprehended His Majesty in that great want of money that He must sit down under any Affronts and was not able to begin or carry on a War Nay at this day the States support themselves amongst their People by this only falshood that they are assured of the temper of England and of the parliament and that you will not supply the King in this War And that if they can hold out till your meeting they will have new life and may take new measures There are lately taken two of their principal Agents with their Credentials and Instructions to this purpose who are now in the Tower and shall be proceeded against according to the Law of Nations But the King is sufficiently assured of His people Knows you better and can never doubt His Parliament This had not been mentioned but to shew you of what importance the frankness and seasonableness of this Supply is as well as the fulness of it Let me say the King has brought the States to that condition that your hearty conjunction at this time in supplying His Majesty will make them never more formidable to Kings or dangerous to England And if after this you suffer them to get up let this be remembred The States of Holland are Englands eternal Enemy both by Interest and Inclination In the next place to the supply for the carrying on of the War His Majesty recommends to you the taking care of His Debts What you gave the last Session did not near answer your own expectation Besides another confiderable Aid you designed His Majesty was unfortunately lost in the birth so that the King was forced for the carrying on of His affairs much against His will to put a stop to the payments out of the Exchequer He saw the pressures upon himself and growing inconveniencies to His People by great Interest and the difference through all His Business between Ready money and Orders This gave the King the necessity of that proceeding to make use of His own Revenue which hath been of so great effect in this War But though he hath put a stop to the trade and gain of the Bankers yet he would be unwilling to ruine them and oppress so many Families as are concerned in those Debts Besides it were too disprortionable a burden upon many of His good Subjects But neither the Bankers nor they have reason to complain if you now take them into your care and they have paid them what was due to them when the Stop was made with Six per Cent. Interest from that time The King is very much concern'd both in Honour and Interest to see this done And yet he desires you not to mis-time it but that it may have only the second place and that you will first settle what you intend about the Supply His Majesty has so fully vindicated His Declaration from that Calumny concerning the Papists that no reasonable scruple can be made by any good man He has sufficiently justified it by the time it was published in and the effects He hath had from it and might have done it more from the agreeableness of it to His own natural disposition which no good English man can wish other then it is He loves not bloud or rigorous severities but where mild or gentle ways may be used by a wise Prince He is certain to choose them The Church of England and all good Protestants have reason to rejoyce in such a Head and such a Defender His Majesty doth declare His care and Concerns for the Church and will maintain them in all their Rights and Priviledges equal if not beyond any of His Predecessors He was born and bred up in it It was that his Father died for We all know how great temptations and offers He resisted abroad when He was in His lowest condition And He thinks it the Honour of His Reign that He hath been the Restorer of the Church 'T is that He will ever maintain and hopes to leave to posterity in greater lustre and upon surer grounds then our Ancestors ever saw it But His Majesty is not convinc'd that violent ways are the Interest of Religion or the Church There is one thing more which I am commanded to speak to you of Which is the jealousie that hath been foolishly spread abroad of the Forces the King hath raised in this War Wherein the King hath opened himself freely to you and confessed the fault on the other hand For if this last Summer had not proved a miracle of Storms and Tempests such as secured their East-India Fleet and protected their Sea-coast from a discent nothing but the true reason want of Money could have justified the defect in the number of our Forces 'T is that His Majesty is providing for against the next Spring having given out Orders for the raising of seven or eight Regiments more of Foot under the Command of Persons of the greatest Fortunes and Quality And I am earnestly to recommend to you that in your Supplies
nothing but inconstancy never proved more false to any then she did to him And his unshaken faithfulness to His Majesty from whose Interest no Temptation could ever allure him together with the Figure he made and the High Station wherein he deservedly stood was so far from defending him against that it subjected him to the Euvy and exposed him to the spleenful hate and insatiable Revenge of those who became his inveterate and implacable Enemies for no other reason then his extraordinary Zeal to have His Majesty safe in his Person by being Great in the Hearts of his Subjects and Raign without a Competitor and thereby become Formidable to his Enemies and be able like his Predecessors to give Laws to the Neighbouring Princes The only way to promote the publick Good maintain the Security of Religion the Safety of the Government and advance the Honour of the English Nation Wherefore they having resolved upon his ruine and knowing that the higher he mounted the more likely he would be to fall and if he did fall it would be with the greater precipitancy and danger They rack'd all their Inventions and improved all their Interest at Court to have him advanc'd to higher Honour although he was already exalted even above his own Ambition and thereby involved into so much danger that he was forced every Night to keep a constant Guard about his House thereby to secure his Person from the bloody Attempts of Popish Raviliacks or Roman Godfredizers So that this hopeful project not succeeding according to expectation may he rend by the future Ages in the British Chronicles to his immortal Glory and the shame and infamy of his Enemies But although they were not able with all their combinated strengths to trample him into an Ignominious Grave yet they quickly after found an occasion of Triumph upon the taking from him his Honourable Employment to which he ascended upon abundance of Merit used with abundance of Impartiality and resigned with as much Innocency and Honour in the following manner About November 1673. The King was pleased to send for his Lordship to Whitehall where upon His Majesties Command he resigned the Great Seal of England to be disposed of as His Majesty should think fit And thus this mighty Minister of State who had to the satisfaction and admiration of all good Men and to the hurt and prejudice and therefore to the hate and envy of none but the Papists improved that Power whereunto the Grace and Favour of his Soveraign had raised him did without any kind of murmuring or repining lay it down again at the Feet of him from whom he at first derived it Never abating of his usual Briskness nor altering the natural chearfulness of his Temper upon the loss of his Honorary Places but on the contrary when he had delivered the Seal he put on his Sword accounting it as much Honour and Happiness to walk with that by his side unenvied as to have the Mace and Purse carried before him with abundance of Emulation and Grudge besides danger In the Afternoon he was visited at his Mansion-house by his Highness Prince Rupert and divers other Peers and Gentlemen of Quality who gratefully acknowledged themselves to be extreamly oblig'd by his just and honest discharge of that Trust which had been reposed in him for which they returned him thanks And many whose tedious or difficult Suits were discharged by his dexterity and wisdom will ever remember him with Honour and Veneration For by his admirable Prudence deep Judgment and quick Apprehension he used presently and that with abundance of Facility and Ease to penetrate into the most intricate and difficult Causes and disperse those Cloudy Mists wherewith the subtile Lawyer had darkened and perplexed the Just and Honest Title as the Author of the Character of a Loyal States-man ingeniously expresses it His choice sagacity Strait salv'd the knot that subtle Lawyers ty'd And through all Foggs discern'd the oppressed side Banish'd delays and so this Noble Peer Became a Star of Honour in our Sphere A needful Atlas of our State c. And indeed he manag'd the Court of Chancery with such an unbyass'd Judgment and Uprightness that forced even those who lost the Cause to admire his sagacity and confess the equality of his Justice THE SECOND PART OF RALEGH Redevivus THE discarding the great SHAFTSBVRY was some abatement to the excessive sorrow of his Papist Enemies and proved a seasonable allay to that tormenting Grief which peradventure might otherwise Vulter-like have prey'd upon and fretted and consumed their Vitals and thereby have saved the World from that trouble it hath already felt and may expect from them But not containing themselves with his being discarded resolved still to prosecute his ruin and thereby render their revenge the more full and compleat And in order thereunto they first vainly attempted to Murder his unblemished Reputation and bring his Loyalty into Suspicion and then with an insernal Impudence accused him of High-Treason the same Project whereby they have since so often unsuccessfully attempted his ruin obligeing Collonel to pursue and prosecute the Accuation and to make him the more capable of performing it they did with all the Art and Industry wherewith Hell and Rome could furnish them make a narrow search and exact scrutiny into the several Offices he had passed through hoping there to find some casual accident or other which might by their Hellish Pollicy have been improved to High-Treason well knowing that suddain surprize the want of a true information or the falling short of a full and clear underderstanding of some material Circumstances might expose the most profound and exactest Judge in the World to a mistake in Judgment Yet to their amazement and anguish and the glory and of that Divine Providence whereby the Almighty who fore-sees the issue and events of all sublunary Actions wisely orders and disposes all things to the advantage of the favourites of Heaven they found no such casual flips or oversights in his management that could any way answer the pains they had taken in searching the Records of his Actions or favour the Designs they were carrying on against him For having with a complicated malice and impatiency of destroying him who of all others stood most in the way of their other Designs amaz'd together and mustered up all the worst things which those Infallible Vipers by the force of their Roman Venom were able to draw and attract out of the Court Rolls so disgested and phrased as might best serve the purpose to which they were designed and presented them to the King 's Learned Council in the Law for their judgment whether there were any thing contained therein upon which they might find matter whereon to ground an accusation of Treason They did after a serious perusal of the several particulars and pretended Crimes affirm to their everlasting Honour that there was nothing which amounted to Treason contained therein So that all their pains and
to His Majesty And may it please Your Lordships as Heaven has been so propitious to the Earl to remove him far above the reach of his Enemies Fury so I am firmly assured that the same Almighty Power will always protect your Lives and Honours from the dire effects of Romish Policy and all the Jesuitical Crafts and subtle Artifices of the Antichristian Crew And render the implacable malice of those whom all intelligent Men begin now to see are Your Enemies without cause unable to effect any thing to Your prejudice And make it serve only as a File to set off the Glory of Your Loyalty or like an Eclipse to the Sun make the Lustre of Your Innocence appear to the whole World with the more Brightness and Splendour or at least enable You to take an extraordinary pleasure and satisfaction in the delightful contemplation That Your Name shall live when theirs are dead and survive with Honour whilst theirs with Infamy and Shame shall be buried in Oblivion and that the remembrance of your Virtues shall be to all succeeding Ages as Odoriferous as the Aramalick Spices and the exhilerating Perfumes of Arabia or the delightful fragrancy which naturally flows in the Months of April and May from a Garden of Roses When the remembrance of their wicked and treacherous Enterprises shall be nauseous and offen five to all Men. But the Fabrick being so small I must not suffer the entrance into it to exceed an equal proportion nor by enlarging my dull praises of the deceased Earl injuriously detain your Lordships too long from the Harmony of his Actions the Reviewing whereof afford abundantly more delight and satisfaction than any thing I am able to say in his commendation can probably yield And therefore wishing your Lordships may long shine as Stars in our British Hemisphere and in conjunction with our glorious Sun send forth such Illustrious Beams and powerful Rayes as may effectually dispel those sable Clouds which have so long overspread and darkened our Island I commend Your Lordships to the protection of him that sits in the Heavens and laughs at the Machivilian Plots of Rome and sees and derides all their subtile Enterprises hoping he will graciously defend you from all impending dangers by hiding you in the hollow of his Hand and under the shadow of his Wing And humbly beg you would put a candid construction upon my presuming so rudely to obtrude a Dedication upon you and intreat a favourable Acceptance of the mean and incongruous Present of him who is really ambitious to subscribe himself Your Lordships Most hnmble most obedient and most devoted Servant S.N. RAWLEIGH Redivivus Or the STATE Polititian BEING An Historical Account of the Life and Death of that Wise and Loyal States-man Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury PART I. STate Policy is a kind of Heavenly Knowledge which is by God and Nature locked up as a sacred Jewel in a few very rare Cabinets purposely framed and designed for that use by the all wise God and is so essential to the peace and flourishing condition of a Nation that we ought to pay it all the reverence and veneration imaginable and account it too sacred to be exposed and prostituted to the view of base and vulgar eyes But as the best things converted into putrefaction are the most nauseous and hurtful so this Noble and Angelical Science hath been strangely abused by some sordid pretenders to it And every Age hath produced some Achitophels who have abused the divine treasure bestowed upon them by the great Jehovah for the Service of their Country and the promoting the Civil and Sacred Interest of the Common-wealth wherein they live by making it only subserviant to their base and wicked ends These are a sort of men that have indeed the Wisdom of the Serpent but not a Dove-like innocency and can like him clothe all their cursed Designs and Hellish Machinations whereby they intend the ruin of their Prince the Religion they pretend to own and practice together with the famous and flourishing Kingdom wherein they live unhappy in nothing so much as the producing such unnatural and ungrateful Animals with subtil and specious pretences of Loyalty Prerogative Decency and Order and what not accounting Heaven and future bliss a meer bubble and the checks of Conscience too inconsiderable a trifle to impede sacrificing all that is Sacred to Ambition and aspire to Wealth and Grandeur by others ruine and destruction since if the Great Alexander the Conquering Pomp or the Victorious Caesar had boggled at invading other Mens Rights they could never have obtain'd so much Renown and Glory Nor had their Names swelled or looked so big in the Rolls of Fame Whilst the honest Politician is the Atlas of the falling State cures her when sick cements it when dis-joynted meets her in her several Emergencies with suitable reliefs And like a skilful Pilate manages the Helm with such skill and dexterity that he carries her safely through all perplexing intricasies and secures her in the Harbour of Peace and Tranquility where she Rides free from the danger of those boisterous Storms that threatned her Ruine Such an one was Philip de Comines to Lewis 11. and Cromwell to Henry 8. Such was Burleigh to our late Protestant Queen whose sedate Councils like a sacred Oracle very much influenced the prosperity of her Raign which was so extraordinary that no History affords a paralel and future Ages will read her happy Annals with a Divine Wonder And such an one was our paralel the ingenious Sir Walter Rawleigh to King James for whom he did several eminent pieces of Service as well in order to the bringing him to and placing him upon the English Throne as afterwards Notwithstanding which he was so unhappy as to lose the Favour of his Prince and be abandoned to the rage and malice of his Enemies And such an one was the unparalell'd Shaftesbury whose Policy was always founded upon the solid Basis of Piety and Judgment upon which firm Foundation he endeavour'd to raise the admirable superstructure of Royal Government in the Prince free from all manner of Arbitrary severity and a willing subjection in the People without any kind of force or compunction so uniting the Interest of the Governour with that of the governed and knitting both with such reciprocal mixtures that the welfare of the one might be unavoidably involv'd in the good of the other That Majesty might be maintained in its just Splendour and the Royal Prerogatives of the Crown preserved from suffering any kind of diminution And yet the Liberty of the Subject remain and Property be no way infringed or violated In a word his Wisdom in contriving the peaceable Restoration of his Majesty to his Crown and Kingdom his sagacity in Counselling whilst in that capacity his Faithfulness in the discharge of places of Trust his exact Administration of Justice to his Fellow Subjects his Loyalty and Obedience to his Majesty at all times his invincible
by no other Rule or Law than his pleasure as if he were their Absolute Lord and had bought all the People of England for his Slaves Doubtless he would pretend only to have Conquered England at his own Expence and were there as much Truth as there is Falshood in that pretence yet he could not but know that the Right of the Peoples Deputies to their Antient Powers and Priviledges would remain good against him as against their publick capital Enemy Whom every man ought to destroy until by some agreement with the Body of the People in Parliament some sort of governing Power in him were submitted unto that hereby he might cease to be a publick Enemy and Destroyer and become a King or Governour according to the conditions accepted by the People and if he would so pretend he could not be so discharged from his publick Enmity by any Condition or Agreement made with a part of the Peoples chosen Deputies whilst he shut out the other part for no part of the Representatives Body are trusted to consent to any thing in the Nations behalf if the whole have not their free Liberty of Debating and Voting in the Matters propounded If he would pretend no higher than to be our Conquerour who for Peace and his own safeties sake was content to cease from being a publick Enemy and to be admitted a Governour he would not compass those ends by forcibly excluding as now he does whom he pleases of the Representative Body of People who were to submit to him on the Peoples behalf therefore he either takes upon him to be such a Conqueror as scorris the Peoples acceptance of him by their Representative as their Governour and fears not to remain a publick Enemy or else he takes himself to be such an unheard of Soveraign that against him the People have no claim of Property or Right in themselves or any thing else for he hath now declared that the Peoples choice cannot give any man a Right to sit in Parliament but the Right must be derived from his gracious Will and Pleasure with that of his Councellors and his Clerks Ticket only must be their evidence for it Thus hath he exalted himself to a Throne like unto God's as if he were of himself and his power from himself and we were all made for him to be commanded and disposed of by him to work for him and serve his Pleasure and Ambition A little after there is an Instance of Chief-Justice Tresilian who was executed at Tyburn in the time of Richard the Second for advising the King that he might at any time dissolve the Parliament and command the Members to depart under the penalty of Treason Divers other Protestations were contained in that Instrument against the Arbitrariness and Tyranny of that proceeding and in conclusion they declare they will pour out their complaints before the Lord against their powerful Oppressors hoping he will redeem his People out of the hands of wicked and deceitful Men. This Protestation was Signed by One hundred and seventeen persons whereof Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper was chief and many others of great Loyalty and Integrity some whereof are since dead but many yet survive and as a reward of their Loyalty enjoy Places of Honour and Profit under his present Majesty By this we may easily discern the Opinion he had of the Illegal and Arbitrary proceedings of Cromwell and how much of the sufferings of the Loyal Party would have been prevented had that point of a free Parliament been then gained and consequently His Majesties Restauration must have happened sooner than it did This Remonstrance had not power enough however to work their present admission into the House so that that part of a Parliament which was suffered to sit did every thing to the desire of Cromwell answering both those ends for which they were Convened viz. the raising Money and confirming his Title which was no sooner done but he Prorogued them until he had occasion to Fleece them again which interval was laid hold on by this true English Gentleman as a fit opportunity to engage them when they met again to do themselves and the Nation Justice by admitting him and the rest of the Members that were kept out by the Protector to take their place in Parliament and so managed some of the Members who were moderate men that they resolved not to be so basely trampled on by the Tyrant any longer The Prorogation being expired the Parliament make their appearance at Westminster where the Protector makes a fair Speech to them promising them strange things if they would go on and prosecute his Designs But notwithstanding this Speech the Commons were no sooner retired to their House than Cromwell discovered to his no small perplexity that the Face of his beloved Parliament from whose tractableness and compliance he had promised himself the greatest happiness imaginable was strangely altered For they presently fell to Voting That no Member legally Chosen and Returned could be excluded from performing their Duty but by consent of Parliament and thereupon immediately proceeded to the calling over their House and admitted Sir Anthony and the rest who had subscribed the Remonstrance to the no good liking of the Protector who were no sooner in and the House full but they so influenced the rest that they soon became the majority and began to undo what the others had done in their absence and presumed so far as to question the Tyrants Power Wherefore finding them so bold he concluded it would not be convenient to let a business of so high a nature run too far lest it should if neglected put a period to all his ambitious Designs Wherefore going to his Pageant House of Lords he sent for them and after having made a large Speech to them in the conclusion told them That it did concern his Interest as well as the publick Peace and Tranquility of the Nation to terminate that Parliament and therefore he did then dissolve them and put an end to their Sitting The constant correspondence he alwaies maintained with the Royal Party and that almost to the hazard of his Life and Family are sufficient Testimonies of his sincerity to his Masters Interest and Service his House was a Sanctuary for distressed Royalists and his correspondence with the Kings Friends though closely managed as the necessities of those times required are not unknown to those that were the principal managers of his Majesties Affairs at that time This made Cromwell so apprehensive of this great Assertor of his Countries Rights and Opposer of Arbitrary Government and Enthusiasm that though his vast Abilities were known at least to equal the ablest Pilot of the State which was the only motive that induced the Usurper in the infancy of his Usurpation to nominate him for one of his Council in hope thereby to allure him to his Interest and wheadle and Wire-draw him into a compliance with his ambitious and mischievous designs yet we cannot
find him amongst the Creatures of his Cabinet Council nor amongst the Eleven Major Generals to whom the Care of the Nation was committed No their Principles their Aims and Designs were incompatible one was for Subverting the other for Maintaining the Antient standing Fundamentals of the Nation which once dissolved it was impossible but an Universal Deluge of Confusion Blood and Rapine must ensue This made our brave Patriot with divers of the Heroick English Race to the utmost oppose the growth of a Protectorian Tyranny And when the Rump had again usurped the Power into their hands they endeavoured to oblige him by nominating him to be one of their Council of State and one of the Commissioners for the managing their Army Notwithstanding which he continued his Intelligence with and Endeavours for the Restoration of his Soveraign So that we find him accused before them for keeping Intelligence with the King and for having raised Men to joyn with Sir George Booth in attempting to restore and bring His Majesty that now is to his Rightful Throne Many persons of great note were imprisoned on the account of this Plot and amongst the rest Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper who was really guilty if there could be any Guilt in Loyalty and an honest endeavour to free his Country from those deplorable miseries under which it then groaned for indeed he was a principal contriver of the Business being one of the secret Cabal and had always kept Intelligence with Sir George and had raised a party in Dorset-shire to joyn with him which upon the miscarrying of the Design timely dispersed themselves And although no man knew better then he how to obviate the Reasons of the House and plead his own Cause yet he was not without great difficulty cleared and discharged of that Imputation by the Rump who shortly after intrusted him with the Custody of the Tower of London the Command of a Regiment of Horse and gave him with six others to assist him the Government and Command of their Army So that now he began to advance the great work of Restoring his Majesty with more success and speed than before To which end he and Eight more who had been of the Old Council of State sent a Letter to General Monke to proceed in his generous Undertakings for the advantage and settlement of the three Nations and perswaded him to come to London in order to the better prosecuting what he had so well begun Whereupon the General having disposed and ordered all things according to his desire advanced towards England accompanied with several English Gentlemen who held correspondence with him and being acquainted with the Generals Designs went thither on purpose to accompany him hither where he was no sooner arrived but he was highly Honoured and Complemented by the Rump and made one of the Council who was to order and dispose of publick Affairs but to qualifie them for this Trust they were to have an Oath imposed upon them wherein they were to abjure the Royal Family But that being directly contrary to the generous Designs of those two Noble Patriots of the Royal Cause and bold Adventurers for the Interest of their injured Soveraign the one by his Head to contrive and the other by his Arms to execute what was contrived as well as assist in Counselling and Advising They opposed it as unreasonable and a Snare to their Consciences and by their influence upon Colonel Morly procured it to be so warmly opposed that both Oath and Council fell and came to nothing Doctor Clarges having happily discovered that Lambert and others were making parties and drawing Forces together to oppose their Loyal Designs repaired immediately to Sir Anthony accounting him the fittest person to be acquainted with a business of that nature being not only firm to the Kings Interest but by his Wisdom and Policy knew how to undermine those who were averse to it wherefore having related the particulars to him desiring him to communicate it to the Council and prevail with them to take speedy care about it lest if neglected it should prove of dangerous consequence Which he did accordingly and so managed the Council that timely care was taken in it and even that attempt of Lamberts which in it self threatened the contrary was by his Skill dexterously managed for the advantage of his Majesties Interest and the hastening his happy Restoration General Monke having forced the Parliament to admit the secluded Members they were no sooner seated in the House but they fell to such kind of work as plainly discovered to all intelligent Men what would be the Issue of those things which were then transacted for they ordered the Release of all those who were Imprisoned for Petitioning for a Free Parliament together with the Members of the Common-Council of London They inlarged the Generals Commission constituting him one of the Generals at Sea Discharged Sir George Booth and others committed upon the account of his Rising and ordered the Examination of him and his Lady to be taken off the File and given to them Then having appointed a free Parliament to meet in the April following they Dissolved themselves appointing a Council of State to govern in the mean while consisting for the most part of Loyal Gentlemen whose Names were as follows Arthur Ansley Lord President William Pierpoynt John Crew Richard Knightly Colonel Popham Colonel Morley Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir Gilbert Gerard Lord St. John Sir Thomas Widdrington Sir John Evelin Sir William Waller Sir Richard Onslow Serjeant Maynard Sir William Lewis Colonel Montague Colonel Hanly Colonel Norton Denzill Hollis Sir John Temple Colonel Tompson Sir John Trever Sir John Holland Sir John Poltis Colonel Birch Sir Harbottle Grimston John Swinton John Weaver Colonel Rossiter Lord Fairfax Lord General Monke This Council was so influenc'd by the two great Contrivers and Managers of the happy change that everything done by them tended to the furthering thereof And April 25. 1660. the new Parliament met in both Houses which was the most considerable step they had yet made towards the accomplishing their great End and gave an entrance to and made way for the perfecting the whole Contrivance For His Majesty immediately hereupon dispatcht away Sir John Greenvil who was afterwards created Earl of Bath with Letters to both Houses of Parliament and General Monke which were delivered to them upon the first day of May being but the seventh day after the opening of the Parliament together with his Majesties gracious Declaration to all his Loving Subjects Wherein he expresses abundance of compassion and tenderness to the Nation which had been so long harrass'd by an unnatural War These Letters and the Declaration were received by the Parliament with a Joy and Veneration so extraordinary that I find my self at a loss for words wherewith to express it And their pleasure and satisfaction was such that in an extasie of Joy they suddenly drew the Curtain and exposed the Beautiful and Glorious Scene to the
That he whose Counsels had been so successful in contriving His Restoration might be highly necessary and very much conduce to the Establishment of Him in His Kingdom and to shew the extraordinary Esteem he had for his Parts and Abilities he advanced him to be one of the first Rank in the Council placing him above his Royal Brother the Duke of Gloncester and even General Monke himself whom his Majesty use to 〈◊〉 Political Father And having in sundry respects saith Sir William Dugdale in his History of the Baronage of England whom we cannot suspect of Partiality manifested his Loyalty to Charles the First and his great Affection to his Country in the late perilous and difficult Times and likewise to our present Soveraign by his prudent and seasonable Advice and Consultation with General Monke in order to His Majesties Restoration in consideration of these his acceptable Services he was by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster upon the 20th day of April in the Thirteenth Year of His Majesties Raign advanced to the Degree and Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Ashly of Wimbourne St. Giles and to the Heirs Males of his Body This Honour was conferred upon him in the Banqueting-House at White-hall three days before His Majesties Coronation in order to his assisting in the performance of that splendid Ceremony And when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the Grand Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several Noble Persons choice was made of this Honourable Lord to be of the number of that Court his Majesty deeming him to be a Person whose Prudence and Loyalty render'd him as deserving of the Honour to which his Majesty therein preferred him as any other contained in that Commission And as if his Majesty had so high a Valuation for his Lordship that he thought his profound Parts and exemplary Loyalty merited a perpetual confluence of Royal Favours he raised him at several times to higher degrees of Honour making him Chancellor of his Exchequer Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer Lord Lieutenant of the County of Dorset and one of the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury But all these being too small to compensate his Merits and demonstrate the Royal Bounty and Princely Gratitude of his Soveraign whose Generous Nature inclines him to delight in nothing more then to reward like a King He was advanced to the Title and Dignity of an Earl being in the year 1672. created Earl of Shaftesbury and Lord Cooper of Paulet to him and the Heirs Males of his Body by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster upon the 23 d. day of April in the Twenty Fourth Year of his Majesties Raign And in November following upon the Resignation of Sir Orlando Bridgeman his Majesty to gratifie the uninterrupted good Services of the Earl of Shaftesbury Chancellor of his Exchequer and one of the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury was pleased to give unto him the Keeping of the said Great Seal with the Title of Lord High Chancellor of England these are the words of the Gazette being the second Person that had enjoyed that Title since his Majesties Raign Whereby he was placed by his Great Master in the highest Orb that any Subject could possibly move in The Kings Conscience being as it were committed to his Care and Management And with what Prudence and Candour Honour and Integrity he acquitted himself in that great and weighty Imployment the Transactions of the Court of Chancery during the time of his Chancellorship will best testisie Justice then run in an equal Channel so that the Cause of the Rich was not suffer'd to swallow up the Rights of the Poor nor was the strong or cunning Oppressor permitted to devour the weak or unskilful Opposer but the abused found Relief suitable to their Distress and those by whom they were abused a severe Reprehension answerable to their Crimes The mischievous Consequences which commonly arise from the delays and other practices of that Court were by his ingenious and judicious Management very much abated and every thing weighed and determined with such an exact Judgment and Equity that it almost exceeds all possibility of belief And because the Traducers of this Lords Loyalty not only reproach him with the Tap which was an unquestionable Mark of Loyalty and Honour it being got in conducting his Majesty to his Crown and Kingdom but have likewise quarrel'd at his constant Faithfulness to the Royal Interest and endeavour'd to abuse every thing he did for his Majesties Service as they have done the speech he made to the Parliament upon the account of the Dutch War And that the World may see the temper of the Men and upon what ground it is they were his Enemies I have set down the Speech verbatim as follows My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commous THe King hath spoken so fully so excellently well and so like Himself that you are not to expect much from me There is not a word in His Speech that hath not its full weight And I dare with assurance say will have its effect with you His Majesty had called you sooner and His Affairs required it but that He was resolved to give you all the ease and vacancy to your own private Concerns and the People as much respit from Payments and Taxes as the necessity of His Business or their Preservation would permit And yet which I cannot but here mention to you by the Crafty insinuations of some ill affected persons there have been spread strange and desperate Rumours which your Meeting together this day hath sufficiently proved both malicious and false His Majesty hath told you that He is now engaged in an important very expensive and indeed a War absolutely necessary and unavoidable He hath referred you to His Declaration where you will find the Personal indignities by Pictures and Medals and other publique affronts His Majesty hath received from the States their Breach of Treaties both in the Surinam and East-India business and at last they came to that heighth of Insolence as to deny the honour and right of the Flag though an undoubted Jewel of this Crown never to be parted with and by them particularly owned in the late Treaty of Breda and never contested in any Age. And whilest the King first long expected and then solemnly demanded Satisfaction they disputed His Title to it in all the Courts of Christendom and made great Offers to the French King if he would stand by them against us But the most Christian King too well remembred what they did at Munster contrary to so many Treaties and solemn Ingagements and how dangerous a Neighbour they were to all Crowned heads The King and His Ministers had here a hard time and lay every day under new Obloquies Sometimes they were represented as selling all to France to make this War Portsmouth Plymouth and Hull were to be given into the
to kill the Earl of Shaftsbury as being the great encourager and influencer of the rest not long after which Matteson pull'd a Pistol out of his Pocket in Mr. Prance's Shop affirming he would therewith do Shaftsbury's business having provided the same for that purpose several others also assures Mr. Prance that he would speedily be destroyed But after this their rage was heigthned and they supposed themselves obliged to a greater vigilancy in accomplishing his ruine upon the account of a Speech which was said to be spoken by him in the House of Lords March 25. 1679. upon occasion of the Houses Resolving it self into State of England which was to the following Effect MY LORDS YOV are now appointing the consideration of the State of England to be taken up in a Committee of the whole House some day the next Week I do not know how well what I have to say may be received for I never study either to make my Court well or to be popular I alwaies speak what I am commanded by the dictates of the Spirit within me There are some other considerations that concern England so nearly that without them you will come far short of Safety and Quiet at home We have a little Sister and she hath no Breasts what shall we do for our Sister in the day when she shall be spoken for If she be a Wall we will build on her a Palace of Silver if she be a Door we will inclose her with Boards of Caedar We have several little Sisters without Breasts the French Protestant Churches the two Kingdoms of Ireland and Scotland the forraign Protestants are a Wall the only Wall and Defence to England upon it you may build Palaces of Silver glorious Palaces The protection of the Protestants abroad is the greatest power and security the Crown of England can attain to and which can only help us to give check to the growing greatness of France Scotland and Ireland are two Doors either to let in good or mischief upon us they are much weakned by the Artifice of our cunning Enemies and we ought to enclose them with Boards of Caedar Popery and Slavery like two Sisters go hand in hand sometimes the one goes first sometimes the other but wherever the one enters the other is always following close at the Heels In England Popery was to have brought in Slavery in Scotland Slavery went before and Popery was to follow I do not think your Lordships or the Parliament have Jurisdiction there It is a Noble and Ancient Kingdom they have an Illustrious Nobility a Gallant Gentry a Learned Clergy and an understanding worthy People but yet we cannot think of England as we ought without reflecting on the condition thereof They are under the same Prince and the influence of the same Favourites and Councils When they are hardly dealt with can we that are Richer expect better usuage For 't is certain that in all absolute Governments the poorest Countries are most favourably dealt with When the Ancient Nobility there cannot enjoy their Royalties their Shrievaldoms and their Stewardies which they and their Ancestors have possessed for several hundred of years but that now they are enjoyn'd by the Lords of the Council to make Deputations of their Authorities to such as are their known Enemies can we expect to enjoy our Magna Charta long under the same persons and Administration of Affairs If the Council-Table there can imprison any Nobleman or Gentleman for several years without bringing him to Tryal or giving the least Reason for what they do can we expect the same men will preserve the Liberty of the Subject here My Lords I will confess that I am not very well vers'd in the particular Laws of Scotland but this I do know that all the Northern Countries have by their Laws an undoubted and inviolable Right to their Liberties and Properties yet Scotland hath out-done all the Eastern and Southern Countries in having their Lives Liberties and Estates subjected to the Arbitrary Will and Pleasure of those that govern They have lately plundered and harassed the richest and wealthiest Countries of that Kingdom and brought down the barbarous Highlanders to devour them and all this almost without a colourable pretence to do it Nor can there be found a Reason of State for what they have done but that those wicked Ministers designed to procure a Rebellion at any Rate which as they managed it was only prevented by the miraculous hand of God or otherwise all the Papists in England would have been armed and the fairest opportunity given in the nick of time for the execution of that wicked and bloody Design the Papists had and it is not possible for any man that duly considers it to think other but that those Ministers that acted that were as guilty of the Plot as any of the Lords that are in Question for it My Lords I am forced to speak this the plainer because till the pressure be fully and clearly taken off from Scotland 't is not possible for me or any thinking man to believe that good is meant us here We must still be upon our guard apprehending that the Principle is not changed at Court and that those men that are still in place and Authority have that influence upon the mind of Our Excellent Prince that he is not nor cannot be that to us that his own Nature and Goodness would incline him to I know your Lordships can order nothing in this but there are those that hear me which can put a perfect cure to it until that be done the Scottish Weed is like Death in the pot Mors in Olla But there is something too now I consider that most immediately concerns us their Act of Twenty two Thousand Men to be ready to invade us upon all occasions This I hear that the Lords of the Council there have treated as they do all other Laws and expounded it into a standing Army of Six Thousand Men. I am sure we have Reason and Right to beseech the King that that Act may be better considered in the next Parliament there I shall say no more for Scotland at this time I am afraid your Lordships will think I have said too much having no concern there but if a French Nobleman should come to dwell in my House and Family I should think it concerned me to ask what he did in France for if we were there a Felon a Rogue a Plunderer I should desire him to live elsewhere and I hope your Lordships will do the same thing for the Nation if you find Cause My Lords Give me leave to speak two or three words concerning our other Sister Ireland Thither I hear is sent Douglas's Regiment to secure us against the French Besides I am credibly informed that the Papists have their Arms restor'd and the Protestants are not many of them yet recovered from being the suspected Party The Sea-Towns as well as the In-land are full of Papists That Kingdom
being Landed at Pool in Dorsetshire the Gentlemen of the County to shew the extraordinary respect they had to his Lordship and although they were not invited yet they got together and went in a body to meet the Corps and accompany'd it to his ancient Seat at Wimbourn St. Giles's where he was decently and honourably Interred and will have a stately Monument erected over him He made his Countess Sir William Cooper c. Executors of his Will wherein he gave very liberally to his Grand-Son the Lord Ashley and Intailed the whole Estate upon him after the death of his Son the present Earl of Shaftsbury And as he had formerly been the making of several of his Servants and others by his Liberality so he was no less bountiful at his Death having left very considerable Legacies to his Servants especially those who were with him in Holland besides several Gifts to pious and charitable uses And having thus traced this Nobleman from the Cradle through all the Labyrinths and Vicissitudes of his Life to the Hour of his Death and from thence to his Envied Grave I shall conclude this Tract with his Character a Character so extraordinary and rare that it will certainly deserve and therefore justly command the Admiration of all men But I will fist incert the Elegy and Character of Sir Walter Rawleigh wherewith the Author of his Life concludes his History thereof GReat Heart who taught thee so to die Death yielding thee the Victory Where took'st thou leave of life If here How could'st thou be so far from fear But sure thou diest and quit'st the state of Flesh and Blood before that fate Else what a Miracle was wrought To triumph both in flesh and thought I saw in every stander by Pale Death Life only in thine Eye The Legacy thou gav'st us then We 'll sue for when thou diest agen Farwel Truth shall this Story say We died Thou only livest that day Thus died that Knight who was Spain's Scourge and Terrour and Gondamor's Triumph whom the whole Nation pitied and several Princes interceded for Queen Elizabeths Favourite and her Successors Sacrifice a Person of so much Worth and so great Interest that King James would not execute him without an Apology One of such incomparable Policy that he was too hard for Essex was the Envy of Leicester and Cicill's Rival who grew jealous of his excellent Parts and was afraid of being supplanted by him His Head was wished on the Secretarie's Shoulders and his Life valued by some at an higher Rate than the Infanta of Spain though a Lady incomparably excelling in both the Gifts of Mind and Body Authors are perplex'd under what Tophick to place him whether of Statesman Sea-man Souldier Chymist or Chronologer for in all these he did excell he could make every thing he read or heard his own and his own he could easily improve to the greatest Advantage He seemed to be Born to that onely which he went about so dexterous was he in all his Undertakings in Court Camp by Sea by Land with Sword and with Pen. The Earls person was somewhat small but very comely God and Nature having distributed in the framing thereof an exact agreeableness and an equal proportion to every Part and Member But as the smallest Cabinets usually inclose the Richest Jewels so his little Body inclosed a great and vastly Capatious Soul the Virtues and Perfections whereof as far transcended the generallity of the offspring of Adam as Gold exceeds Silver or Diamonds transcends Pebles in value He had a couragious and undaunted Mind a deep Judgment and a quick and ready Apprehension he was Religious towards God Loyal to his Prince True to his Country Faithful to his Friends Charitable to his Enemies Liberal to the Poor Chaste in his Affections and made the keeping of his Solemn Contracts in Marriage Sacred and Inviolable and the preserving his Chaste Soul free from Polution a considerable part of his Religion He was Courteous and Affable in his Carriage towards all Men Sociable and Free in his Converse yet so wonderfully reserved as to any of his great Designs and Projects that he never revealed his Intentitions to the nearest Relations or the most intimate Friends which made him so extraordinary usefull to His Majesty in the late Times and rendered him capable of ordering and disposing all publick Actions and Councils so that they naturally tended towards his Restoration 'T was his close and reserv'd temper that rendered the penetrating into his Sentiments and Intentions a work so intricate and perplexing that the greatest diligence of the many Spies who had their Eyes constantly fix'd upon and perpetually watched and pried into his Actions were not able to effect it and made it a Task too hard and difficult even for Cromwel himself to perform It was that which rendered those who undertook it unable to prove him Guilty of a Plot wherein he was really engaged and was a principal promoter and contriver thereof Viz. The rising of Sir George Booth And this close and reserved temper strongly argues his Innocency in the late charge of Treason for can any Man in his right Senses imagine that the Earl who had till now been so reserved and private in all his Designs even to near Relations noble Personages and familiar Friends should all on a suddain relinquish his constant and avowed Practice and transform himself into a perfect Changeling by freely discovering that he designed no less than Rebelling against his Soveraign The levying Men the forming of an Army and deposing the King and thereby put himself into the Power and expose his Life and Honour to the mercy of Six or Eight needy and mercinary Fellows That he should do so will appear very improbable if we reflect upon the temper of the Earl and the condition of the Men who pretended to such a familiarity with him and insight into his Designs unless we can suppose that the longer he lived the more foolish he grew or that the more experience he had of the endeavours of the Papists to effect his Ruine by fixing the Guilt of Treason upon him the more careful he would be to furnish them with Witnesses to prove and make good their Charge He was such a Proficient in Wisdom and Policy that he seem'd like a Second Solomon and so clear an understanding of the Mysteries both of Law and Divinity that he could easily and with great readiness resolve the most difficulty Queries and discuss the greatest Mysteries and Critical Nicities thereof Which made Dr. Ward Bishop of Sailsbury who held an intimate Correspondence with him delight in his Converse and value his acquaintance at a high rate And so did Sir Matthew Hailes Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench and many more both Lawyers and Divines who had the happiness to be acquainted with him And occasioned His Majesty as it is said upon the being informed of his desiding a very difficult Case when he was Chancellor to affirm as
in a Rapture That he had a Chancellor who was Master of more Law than all His Judges and was possessed of more Divinity than all his Bishops Nor was he less skilled in the Mysteries of Trade and Merchandise wherein he projected and accomplished several great things as well for the benefit of others and the good of the Publick as the enriching of himself But in nothing did he more excell than in the steddiness aad evenness of his Temper not valuing or exalting himself upon the account of Court Preferments or popular Applause For having been a considerable Agent in accomplishing His Majesties Restoration he assisted in Conducting Him back from his Banishment to the Possession of his Crown and Kingdom And as a Reward of his Loyalty was highly advanced in the Opinion and Dignified with the Favour of his Soveraign And his Temples deservedly Incircled with a flourishing Coronet by the Hand of Majesty By whom he was raised to the very Top and Pinacle of Honour placed in the Highest Seat of Justice and Enrich'd with a Power to distribute Judgment and Equity to the Nation Glories enough to have Dazl'd a Soul less steady than his and swell'd it with Pride and Arrogancy Whilst he ascended the several Steps to Honour and mounted to the Highest Seat of Dignity with a becoming Gravity and an admirable Composedness and Equality of Mind Nor did all that Sublimity and Grandure wherewith he was Inviron'd beget any kind of Haughtiness in him or make him Treat those with Scorn and Contempt that moved in a lower Sphere For you might have seen him when Shining in the very Meridion of his Glory and arrived at the Achme of Power and Authority with a wonderfull Humility and Condescention stop to Reserve the Complaint of the meanest Supplicant and with an unwearied Diligence patiently hearing the Cause of the Poorest and do them Justice and Relieve them when Oppressed as soon and with as much Pleasure as he would the Rich and the Honourable But that which is yet more Admirable and Astonishing He descended from the height of Glory with a perfect Unconcernedness and laid down the Ensigns of his Grandure with a smiling Countenance whereby he suffered an Eclipse of his Honour without any Diminution of his Brightness and the divesting him of his Ensigns deprived him not of one single Ray of his Lustre but with the Heart of an Ancient Roman he dismounted the Curul without the least Disturbance or Regret and discovered them and in his late Imprisonments and the Reproaches and Calumnies wherewith he hath been sufficiently Loaded a Noble Soul firmly fixed in his own Worth and shining like the Sun with a perpetual Equality of Light without suffering any manner of Decrease or Abatement of his Lustre and Brightness And thereby gave sufficient Demonstration that he was PAR SINE PARI Soon after the News of his Death owned at London this following ELEGY Was written by an Ingenious Person to Illustrate the Greatness of his Loss THE Busie Statesmen who by Toyls unblest Torment themselves to give their Country rest Those publick great First-Movers of the State Who almost turn the mighty Wheels of Fate Roul the vast Stone like Sysyphus in vain Whilst Deaths last Call ends a whole Ages Pain The Graves long Rubicon must All pass o'er Whence launching Caesars can return no more Farewel Great Shaftsbury Times Sythe can stretch Where malice sword and axes ne'er could reach Thy Life Great Statesman stood in Fate so high That thou by nought but Heaven's own Hand could't Die Yes Heaven alone compiles thy Funeral Vrn Less than the Sun the Phoenix shall not burn What did wise Solon or Lycurgus do Lycurgus Dy'd like thee an Exile too And whilst proud Belgia thy Bones Entombs And triumphs at the Glory it assumes Belgia who in thy Fate has now done more Than all her Trumps or Opdams could before Belgia has vanquisht more in thy one Grave Than all the Wounds her Thunder ever gave Sleep then thou Activ'st of Mankind Oh make Thy last low bed and Deaths long Requient take Thou who whilst living kept'st the World awake Oh may thy Funeral-Rites walk that large round Till to thy Western-shore thy Loss resound Till Carolina shall in Mourning stand With all the Cypress of a Widdow'd Land Let Fools and Knaves through their false Opticks find Thy Spots and be to all thy Brightness blind Let Envy all her monstrous Forms suggest And lodge the Raven in the Eagles Nest Let 'em rail on and vent their hurtless Gall Whilst Shaftsbury's Renown surmounts 'em all From his clear Fame the dissolv'd Clouds shall throw And leave the Earthly Vapours all below Yes Mighty Man lay thy great Reliques down Thou Idol of the Croud Friend of the Crown Shaftsbury in popular Arts and Hearts so learn'd As with his Weight the Scale of Nations turn'd Foe To him the Kingdoms Genius bended low The Thrones best Friend Romes formidablest If the best Gifts which the kind Stars dispense The highest Prodigies of Wit and Sense For Immortality Foundations lay No Greater Soul e're lodg'd in Walls of Clay Swiftly his restless Orb of Fire went round And Light and Warmth we from his Influence found His kindest Rays and temperate Heat The Protestants still favour'd Climates met There his best Aspect smil'd whilst Rome alone Felt all the Fury of his Torrid Zone This was the Cause did such great Foes engage With such keen Malice and such Mortal Rage For this so high the Roman Vengeance boyls With Fires more hot than their Old Smithfield Piles But Heaven's kind Call has all their Engines crost Heav'n that has lodg'd thee on that safer Coast Whence thou lookst down and seest thy mighty Hunters lost EPITAPH UNder this Stone does Sleeping lye All that was Earth of Shaftsbury But Funeral-Tears and weeping Eyes Infallibility denies Whilst his Wish'd Death 's enough to be The Subject of a Jubilee A more Sworn Foe to Roman Pride Not Hannibal himself e'er Di'd For which his Deathless Fame below His Soul above His Soul Ah no! From Heav'n's lockt out too sure if they Who succeed Peter keep the Key Doom'd to Hells hottest burning Seat It the Popes Curse can do the Feat If Papal Rage and Roman Spight For any but themselves Hell-fire can light FINIS Books lately Printed for and sold by Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry THE Compleat Works of that Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. Isaac Ambrose Bentivolio and Vrania in six Books by Nathaniel Ingelo D. D. the fourth Edition with large Amendments wherein all the obscure Words throughout the Book are interpreted in the Margin which makes this much more Delightful to read than the former Editions Mr. James Janeway's Legacy to his Friends containing Twenty Seven Famous Instances of Gods Providences in and about Sea-dangers and Deliverances with the Names of several that were Eye Witnesses to many of them An Historical Account of the Heroick Life and Magnanimous Actions of the most
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