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A94193	Aulicus coquinariæ or a vindication in ansvver to a pamphlet, entituled The court and character of King James. Pretended to be penned by Sir A.W. and published since his death, 1650.	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.; Heylyn, Peter, 1660-1662, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing S645; Thomason E1356_2; ESTC R203447	57,703	213

of State and Cecil the Imenire facias thereof Sir Walter Ralegh was a Gentleman of good alliance Sr. Walter Ralegh in the west of England and very well descended He began his Improvements by the Vniversity and Inns of Court the latter was alwaies the place of esteem with the Queen which she said fitted youth for the future But he staid not there And as his fate would have him of the Sword first so his destinie drew him on to have a mixt reputation with the Gown For he was often called to Councell but never sworn He was twice in Expeditions of Land-service into Ireland under Generall Norris and Grey a Volunteer in either as also in the Low-Countries and a voiage at Sea ere he was known at Court And such waies as these were his Introductions the best hopes of his rising some Naturall parts he had a good wit and judgement but his best weapon was his tongue which gave him repute to be learned then but after he improved to a great value in his future troubles the best School to a wise man He had a quarrel with Grey in Ireland which being referred to a Councell of Warre it had like to cost him his life But by reference came afterwards to repetition at home before the Lords Grey had the better cause but Ralegh the advantage in pleading who so took them especially Lester that the Queen was told the tale and somewhat more of him And no sooner he came to be known to Her but She took him to grace In whom as in other of the like form their alwaies meet oposites Enemies of greater ranck and they kept him under sometimes in sometimes out which when it fell out to be so he would wisely decline himselfe out of the Court-rode And then you found him not but by fame In voyages to the West Indies Gueana New Plantations Virginia or in some Expeditions against the Spaniard Against whom his and other the like successe of Drake Candish Forlisher Hawkins with other Island-voyages neer home confirm'd Ralegh a grand Opposer of the generall peace which King James brought in with him and that brought Ralegh to his ruin And for all these his good parts he rose to no more then Governor of Jersey Lord Warden of the Stannaries in the West and Captain of the Guard to the Queens person which last place brought him to esteem in the Court but not in the State at all Yet busie he had been heretofore to speak his mind of the Generall affaires and therein he pleased his late Mistresse For then his inclination went with the humour of those times of War But now his Councell came out of season For at the entrance of the King He was presented by Ralegh with a Manuscript of his own against the peace with Spain It was alwaies his table talk to beget the more esteem which took accordingly And the way to make him the contrary was the work of the Spanish faction Either to buy him out of that humour or to abuse him into a worse condition which was thus effected And indeed to mould this Treason His Treason there was a medly of divers conditions but the contrivers were two Priests Watson and Clarke and count Arembergh Embassedor Extraordinary for the Arch-Duke who brought in the Lord Cobham and he his brother George Brooke and he Parham and these the Lord Grey of Wilton Then came in Sir Walter Ralegh the wisest of them all who dallied like the flie with the flame till it consumed him Willing he was it seemes to know it and thought by his wit to over-reach the confederates whom he knew well enough though none but Cobham for a good while dealt with him And with him Ralegh plaid fast and loose till himselfe was caught in the Gin. There was one Mathew De Lawrencie here at London a Merchant of Antwerpe with whom Cobham held Intelligence for many years before for some reasons of State connived at by the late Queen and her Councel This Man was the property whom Arenbergh made use of to Cobham who now was much discontented These 3. made the first step to the contrivement And it hath bin my jealousie that Lawrency betrayed it to this State for I never could be assured how it was discovered though I have bin often present with Sir Walter in his Imprisonment when he privately discoursed hereof But being ripe they were severally examined resirained first to their owne homes not without watchful eyes on either of them then to Imprisonment and lastly to their Tryals at Winchester whither the Terme removed out of this evermore Pestilentiall City And on the 17. November 1602. His arraignment the day of Arraignment for Ralegh and the Jury called to the Bar. Against whose Persons he did not except nor could for they were the most able sufficient in Middlesex where the fact had its scene I shall name them Sir Ralphe Conisby Sir Thomas Fowler Sir Edward Peacock Sir William Roe Knights Henry Godwin Bobert Wood Thomas Walker Thomas Whitley Thomas Highgate Robert Kempton John Chalke and Robert Bromley Esquries The Indictment was managed by the King's Atturney Sir Edward Cook Serjeant Heal and Ser. Philips and drawne from the 9. Iun. 1603. The accusation was double against the King and the State The personall had 2. parts first against his life Secondly to disable his title to this Crowne To the first was read Brookes confession That his Brother Cobham used these speeches That it would never be well till the King and his cubs were taken away and said that he thought it proceeded from Ralegh To this Ralegh answered That Brookes was his enemy It was replyed but Cobham was ever your friend and it would seeme a strange malice in Brooks to ruin his brother to undo you To the second part there was produced a Booke which I have read a defence of the Queens proceedings against Mary Queen of Scots which Cobham confessed Ralegh had delivered to him and he to Brookes and Brookes to Gray upon Cobhams discontent Ralegh acknowledged that it contained matter of scandal to the Kings title And that he had leave of Sir Robert Ceill after his Fathers death to search his study for Cosmographicall Manuscripts of the Wests-Indies and so lighted on this Book Sir Robert Cecill then present upon the Bench acknowledged this lease and said He would then as really have trusted him as any man Sir Robert Cecils words though since for some Infirmities of Sir Walter the bonds of affection were crackt and yet reserving his duty to the King which may not be dispensed withall in this his Masters service he swore by God he loved him and had a great conflict in himself that so compleat a member was fallen from this State And this passage needs no soothing to excuse Cecill either for the Father or the Son For I have heard Sir Robert Cecil when he was Salisbury say publickly at his own table That he

had an eye of favour upon Blunt often saying That She presaged him the Man to end Her cares in that Kingdome And She was a true Prophetesse though not in Her time but in Her Successor King James This Blunt was a Gallant Gentleman and learned on whom She bestowed a Jewell for his behaviour at a Tilting which he wore after tackt with a Scarlet Riband upon his Arme and for no other cause Essex must needs fight with him and was runne through the Arme for his labour But Essex got Imployments from them all offering the Service evermore at lesse charge of Men and Money then others his Competitors And over he goes Deputy of Ireland and Generall Deputy of Ireland and Generall of all the forces there with Commission strickt enough to imbound his Popularity with the Souldiery and his own family which followed him in Troops either to devour or undo him No sooner landed but ere he drew sword on the Enemy he dubbs Knighthood upon seven Gentlemen Volunteers which honour he had very lavishly bestowed at Cadiz and was therefore soundly chidden by the Queen And now restrained by his Commission with much a do unlesse to Men of known Merit and those after Battaile For this first Act the Queene swore he began his Rant Of which he had present Intelligence from his deerest Friend and Uncle Sir Francis Knowls a Councelor of State Sr. Francis Knowles his Correspondent and Controwler of Her Houshold and after Earl of Banbury Who spared not his advise and Councel at all times And between them there passed Intelligence with every dispatch whose letters and papers Principall from Essex and Copies to him I have seen by which there appears even from the beginning of that Imployment a very plaine and Intentional resolution in Essex to make himself Master of his own Ambition and by this way and meanes to effect it grounding all his discontents and dislikes that the Queens eare was open to his Enemies at Court. And therefore it behooved him to guard himself which he resolv'd to do by help of his Friends and fate And indeed having fallen into remarkeable offences together with the Treaties with Tyrone the Arch-Rebell without Order from England and without acquainting his Councell of Warre with whose advise he was limitted to act 'T is true Treats with Tyrone he advanced against the Enemy and soon accepts an Invitation to a Treaty accompanied with his Councell of Warre But comming to the brinck of a River the place assigned he plunges his Horse to the Midde stream alone and there meets him Tyrone on Horseback where their private discourse gave sufficient Caution to all that looked on a-loof-off that Essex meant no fair play for his Mistresse For which fact and no blow stroock in all this time Men and Money wasted He was soundly blamed by the Councell at home and no more letters from the Queens own hand which he usually received afore In great choler Returns home as to Dispute or Revenge and without leave from hence he leaves his Command to a Lieutenant and comes over with a hundred Gentlemen his best Confidents hastens to Court ere it was known to any but to his deer Vncle to whom he writes Deer Vncle Receiving your last at my entring on Ship-board Ireturn the accounts thereof at my Landing being resolved with all speed and your Silence to appear in the face of my Enemies not trusting afarre off to my own Innocency or to the Queens favour with whom they have got so much power c. At sight of him with amaze to the Queen She swore God's death my Lord what do you here Your presence is most unwelcome without Tyrone's head in your Portmantle But he falling more to a Dispute then any Excuse She in disdaine to be taught but what She pleased to do Bid him begone his bootes stunck And so was he presently commanded is committed censured and committed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to Lambeth where not long after he was convented before a Committee of the Councel and Correctionem not ad destructionem The Queen very gracious hoping his offences might discerne favour for according to his Examinations then and the merit of his cause I have seen his Vncles papers breviates who was one of his Judges intended as his Censure to condemnation and so fitted for further Tryall But the day before they had other direction from the Queen saying he was young enough to mend and make amends for all And so their Censures shew'd him his Errors and left him to Her grace and mercy only restraining him to his own House against Saint Clements Not without dayly letters from Knowles with advice to be rid of his ranting followers Captaines and Sword-men of the Town flocking and Incouraging him to a Revenge on his Enemies It was not long that he could contain Saying His rebellious rising he was engaged to go on And on a Sunday morning the Councell sat which was usuall untill the late Arch-Bishop Lawd in honour of the Morning Sacrifice altered that course to the Afternoon Then the first flame brake out To him Imprisons the Clerk of the Councell they sent their Clerke of the Councell to know the reason from his Lordship of the meeting of so many weaponed Men at his house But the Messenger not returning being kept Prisoner the chiefest Councelours commanded by the Queen came to him and no sooner entered Essex house but the Gates were clapp'd too all their Train kept out the Court-yard full of Gallants Some cryed kill them Imprison them and the Lords of the Councell To the Court seise the Queen and be our own Carvers Essex comes down with all reverence ushers them up resolving to detain them Prisoners and pledges for his Successe Indeed in this hurly burly of advice he took the worst For leaving them in safety with Sir Ferdinando Gorges He with the Earle of Southampton in one boat and some others in other boats took water at his Garden staires and landing neer the Bridge went on foot up the streets with such stragling company as came in their way To whom he protested that the Queen should have been murthered and his and other good Councellors lives in perill by enemies of the State that forced a power from the Queene to the emiment destruction of the Kingdome These speeches with their swords drawne took little effect with the people who came running out of the Churches being Sermon-time without weapons or any offensable assistance contrary to his expectation But on he goes to Sir Thomas Smith's where he kept his Shreevealty neere Fan-church his confiding friend by whose countenance he hoped to worke with the Multitude He being absent at Paul's Crosse Sermon Essex staid no longer then to shift his shirt and so passed through Cheape-side to Paul's west-end where he found his first opposition by some forces got together by the Bishop of London and the trained band And after

Proclametion That Essex and Southampton were Traitors all those that followed their faction Many dropping from the Crowd there was little defence by his party though some were killed and himselfe forsaken of the wisest He retires back to Queenhithe and so to Essex-house by water where finding the Birds flowen the Councellors released by their Keeper who in hope of pardon accompained them to the Queenes presence discovering so much as he knew concerning his Lord who finding himselfe too weake to withstand the force of a peece of Cannon mounted upon the Church to batter his House He and Southampton yeelded themselves Prisoners to the Tower Arraigned and executed where being arraigned and condemned Southamton had repreeve and after pardon But Essex the reward of his merits and Executed in March 1601. upon the Inner Hill in the Tower to the regret of None either wise or honest Leaving behind him one onely Son the last of his Line William Cecill Cecils Pamp. 10. illustrate from the family of Cecils who suffered persecution in the times of Henry 8. Edward 6. and Queen Mary he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth so soone as she was setled in her Crowne then Secretary and Councellor of State Afterwards created Baron of Burligh Then made Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the Garter and died Chauncellor of the Vniversity of Cambridge Anno 1598. Intomb'd at Westminster leaving two Sons The elder Thomas was then Lord President of the North And afterwards created Earle of Exeter by King James and privy Councellor of State He died Anno discreet and honourable whom the world could never tax with any taint The other son Robert Sr. Robert Cecill was the second But a true Inheriter of his Fathers wisdome and by him trained up to future perfections of a Judicious States-man after his Knighthood the first imployment from Court for he was not at all bred out of it sent him Assistant with the Earle of Darby Embassadour to the French King At his returne the Queen took him second Secretary with Sir Fr. Walsingham after whose decease he continued Paincipal and so kept it to his death Not relinquishing any Preferment for the Addition of a Creater A remarkeable Note which few men of the Gowne can boast of His Father liv'd to see him setled in these preferments and after Master of the Wards and Liveries These he held to the Queenes death Being in all Her time used amongst the Men of weight as having great sufficiencies from his Instruction who begat him Those offices here in public with perpetual Correspondence by Emissaries of his own into Scotland might no doubt make him capable of Reception with King James who was to be advised by him how to be received here of his people Without any necessity then to make use of Sir George Hewmes or his Initiatiation afterwards with any juggling trickes Pamp 13. his merrits certainly appeared to the King who not onely not diminished his forformer preferments But often added to them even to the day of his death As first Baron of Essenden then Viscount Cranborne after Earle of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lastly Lord Treasurer of England He was a Councellor of singular merit A very great discoverer of the late Queens enemies abroad and of private Assinations at home For which She valued him and the Papists hated him which they published by several Manuscripts which I have seen and printed Libels and that most pestilent against his birth and honour threatning to kill him which himselfe answered wisely learnedly and religiously Extant in English and Latine Adversus Perduelles Indeed It behoved the King to bestow upon him the waight of the Treasurers Staffe The Cofers then in some want which the King was not likely soon to Recover but rather to increase in debt having the addition of wife and children to boot And being now come with common opinion into the Capacity by his additional Crownes to reward his old servants and to appear obliging unto new Ones The world wondering at the worth of this great Councellor I know not upon what score our Pamphleter should endeavour to scandal his memory Which he rancks into Numbers of ill Offices to his Nation Pamp. 12. as the burning of a whole cart-load of Parliaments Presidents which no man can be so sottish as to beleeve that knowes the strict concerving of those Records by sworne Officers As for the Baronets Baronets It was the earnest suite of two hundred prime Gentlemen of Birth and estates to my knowledge for I copied the list before ever it came this Lord. And as true it is That this Lord's Reception thereto was in the same words which our Pamphlet puts upon the King That it would discontent the Gentry to which themselves replyed Nay my Lord It will rather satisfie them in advance of Dignity before others who now come behind those Meaner Men whom the King was forced to Knight for his own honor and some merits of theirs having no other Reward or money to spare and therein not much to blame to oblige them that way As for that supposed jugling Pamp. 13. which the Duke of Bullion should discover As it was never known to wiser men So we may take it a devise of his who in these as in other such like of his own may truly merit that Character which he bestowes before On the good Gentleman Pamp. 9. I desire pardon if I speake much and truth in the memory of this Noble Lord being somewhat concerned to speak my owne knowledge I know that this Earle of Salesbury declining his health with continuall labour for the good of this Nation both in the former and in this his Soveraign's Service And am willing to give some light thereof to such as are pleased to read these particulars being an Account of his concernments For first Salisbury his service to the State Mannors Lands he found the King's Mannors and fairest possessions most unsurveyed and uncertain rather by report then by Measure Not more known then by ancient Rents the Estate granted rather by chance then upon knowledge The Custody-Lands Custody-hands antiently termed Crown-Lands much charged upon the Sheriffs yearly discharged by annual pensions A Revenue which seemed decayed by descent of times and worne out of all remembrance these he evermore revived by Commissioners of Asserts The Woods Woods were more uncertain then the rest No man knew the Copices Number of acres growth or value nor of Timber-Trees either Number or worth So as truly he might well find himself in a Wood indeed The Trees wasted without controwle because no Record kept thereof These he caused to be numbred marked and valued easily to be questioned when thereafter missing The Copy-hold Lands Copy-holds where the arbitrary sines ceased by the discretion of the Stewards and did seldome yeeld the Parsons part and that also vanish'd in fees and charges The State was then after like