scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord high-High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames â—ollinâ— in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
they had done great things for their Sovereign they might suffer greater THE LIFE ACTIONS AND DEATH OF Sir THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of STRAFFORD Protoâ— Martyr for Religion and Allegiance SIR Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford owed his Birth to the best govern'd City London his Breeding to the best modelled School York and a most exact Colledge St. Iohns in Cambr. his Accomplishments to the best Tutors Travel and Experience and his Prudence to the best School a Parliament whither he came in the most active and knowing times with a strong Brain and a large Heart His Activity was eminent in his Country and his Interest strong in King Charles's Parliament where he observed much and pertinently spake little but home contrived effectuallyâ— but closely carried his Designs successfully but reservedly He apprehended the publick Temper as clearly and managed it to his purposes as orderly as any man He spoke least but last of all with the advantage of a clear view of others Reasons and the addition of his own He and his leading Confidents moulded that in a private Conference which was to be managed in a publick Assembly He made himself so considerable a Patriot that he was bought over to be a Courtier so great his Abilities that he awed a Monarchy when disobliged and supported it when engaged the Balance turning thither where this Lord stood The North was reduced by his Prudence and Ireland by his Interest He did more there in two years then was done in two hundred before 1. Extinguishing the very Relicks of the War 2. Setting up a standing Army 3. Modelling the Revenue 4. Removing the very Root and Occasions of new Troubles 5. Planting and Building 6. Setling Ecclesiastical and Civil Courts 7. Recovering the hearts of the People by able Pastors and Bishops by prudent and sober Magistrates by Justice and Protection by Obligations and Rewards 8. Recovering the Churches Patrimony and Discipline 9. Imploying most able and faithful Ministers and Instruments 10. Taking an exact view of all former Presidents Rules and Proceedings 11. An exact correspondence with his Majesty and the Favourites of England None was more conversant in the Factions Intrigues and Designs than he when a Common-wealths-man none abler to meet with them than he when a States-man he understood their Methods kenned their Wiles observed their Designs looked into their Combinations comprehended their Interest And as King Charles understood best of any Monarch under Heaven what he could do in point of Conscience So his Strafford apprehended best of any Counsellour under the Sun what he could do in point of Power He and my Lord of Canterbury having the most particular account of the State of Great Britain and Ireland of any persons living Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished yet Doctrine and Discourse had much allayed the severity of this Earls Nature and Custom more None more austere to see to none more obliging to speak with He observed pauses in his discourse to attend the motion and draw out the humour of other men at once commanding his own thoughts watching others His passion was rather the vigour than the disorder of his wel-weighed Soul which could dispense its anger with as much prudence as it managed any Act of State He gave his Majesty safe counsel in the prosperity of his Affairs and resolute advice in Extremity as a true Servant of his Interest rather than of his Power So eminent was he and my Lord of Canterbury that Rebellion despaired of success as long as the first lived and Schism of licentiousness as long as the second stood Take my Lord of Strafford as accused and you will find his Integrity and Ability that he managed his whole Government either by the Law or the Interest of his Country Take him as dying and you will see his Parts and Piety his Resolution for himself his Self-resignation for the Kingdoms good his Devotion for the Church whose Patrimony he forbad his Son upon his Blessing Take him as dead you will find him glorious and renowned in these three Characters The first of the best King I looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman whose great Abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed to imploy him in the greatest Affairs of State for those were prone to create in him great confidence of undertakings and this was like enough to betray him to great Errors and many Enemies whereof he could not but contract great store while moving in so high a Sphere and so vigorous a lustre he must nedds as the Sun raise many envious Exhalations which condensed by a popular Odium were capable to cast a Cloud upon the brightest Merit and Integrity Though I cannot in my judgment approve all he did driven it may be by the necessities of Times and the Temper of that People more than led by his own disposition to any heighth 〈◊〉 â—igour of Action c. The second of the best Historian He was a person of a generous Spirit fitted for the noblest Exercises and the most difficult parts of Empire his Counsels were bold yet just and he had a vigour proper for the execution of them Of an eloquence next that of his Masters Masculine and excellent He was no less affectionate to the Church than to the State and not contented while living to defend the Government and Patrimony of it he commended it also to his Son when he was about to die and charged his abhorrency of Sacriledge His Enemies called the majesty of his Mind in his Lieutenancie pride and the undaunted execution of his Office on the Contumacious the Insolency of his Fortune He was censured for that fatal errour of following the King to London and to the Parliament after the Pacification at York And 't was thought that if he had gone over to his Charge in Ireland he might have secured both himself and that Kingdom for his Majesties Service But some attribute this Counsel to a necessity of Fate whose first stroke is at the Brain of those whom it designs to ruine and brought him to feel the effects of popular Rage which himself in former Parliaments had used against Government and to find experience of his own devices upon the Duke of Buckingham Providence teacheth us to abhor over-sine Counsels by mischiefs they often bring upon their Authors The third of Common Fame A Gentleman he was of rare Choice and singular Endowments I mean of such as modelled fashioned accomplished him for State-concernments of a searching and penetrating Judgment nimble apprehension ready and fluent in all results of Council most happy in the vein of Speech which was alwayes round perspicuous and express much to the advantage of his sense and so full stocked with Reason that he might be rather said to demonstrate than to argue As these Abilities raised him to State-Administration so his addressing his applying those Abilities so faithfully in promotion of the Royal Interest soon rendred him
the Arch-bishop and Windebanke Sir Henry Vane affirmeth the words I deny them then there remain four for further Evidence viz. The Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who have all declared upon their honour that they never heard me speak those words nay nor the like Lastly suppose though I granted it not that I spake those words yet cannot the word this rationally imply England because the Debate was concerning Scotland as is yielded on all hands because England was not out of the way of obedience as the Earl of Clare observed well and because there was never the least intention of Landing the Irish Army in England as the foresaid Lords of the Privy Council are able to attest Concluding his defence with a sinewy summary and a close recapitulation of what he had said and a gallant Speech to this purpose My Lords THere yet remains another Treason that I should be guilty of The endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land That they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason Accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Vnder favour my Lords I do not conceive that there is either Statute-law or Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws to be High-treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear off declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for Life and Honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesuâ— Where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundreds of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burnt out to consume me and my Children extreame hard in my opinion that punishment should proceed promulgation of Laws punishment by a Law subsequent to the acts done Take it into your consideration For certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conform our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a Crime that doth proceed the Law What man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords It is hard in another respect that there should be no Token set upon this Offence by which we should know it no Admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man pass down the Thames in a Boat and it be Split upon an Anchor and no Buoy be set as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that owes the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were markâ— out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime where is the token this is High-treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can avail nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisdome and let us rest upon Divine Revelation if you will condemn me before you forewarn the danger Oh my Lords May your Lordships be pleased to give regard unto the presage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such contractive interpretations and these are where Laws are not clear or known If there must be trials of Wits I do humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be somewhat else than the lives and honours of Peers My Lords We find that the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the Books of Curious Arts and burned them And so likewise as I conceive it will be wisdome and providence in your Lordships for your posterity and the whole Kingdomes to cast from you into the fire those bloudy and most misterious Volumes of constructive and arbitrary Treasons and to betake your selves to the plain letters of the Law and Statute that telleth us where the crime is and by telling what is and what is not shews us how to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to be more wise and learned in the killing arts than our forefathers were It is now full two hundred and forty years since ever any man was touched for this alledged crime to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that our fathers have left us and not awaken thâ—se sleepy Lions to our own destructions by taking up a few musty Records that have lain so many Ages by the Walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be nobly pleased to add this to those other misfortunes befallen me for my Sins not for my Treasons that a President should be derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular cause be looked upon as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Commonwealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Commonwealth yet in this particular I indeed speak for it and the inconveniencies and mischiefs that will heavily fall upon us For as it is in the first of King Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put My Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of State that men of wisdome honour and virtue may not with chearfulness and safety be imployed for the publick If you weigh and measure them by Grains and Scruples the publick affairs of the Kingdom will be laid waste and no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to loose MY Lords I have now troubled you longer than I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in Heaven left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my Indiscretion should forfeit for my Child it even woundeth me to the very soul. You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it pass And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the affâ—iction of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquillity of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous Iudgement shall be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus A defence every way so compleat That he whom English Scots and Irish combined against in their Testimonies such English as cavied his virtues and power such Scots as feared his wisdom
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
touched my eyes have never been blinded with any Reward I never byassed for friendship nor diverted for hatred for all that know me know I was not of a vindicative nature I do not know for what particulars or by what means you are drawn into an ill opinion of me since I had the honour to sit in that place you sit in Master Speaker in which I served you with all fidelity and candor Many witnesses there are of the good Offices I did you and resumed expressions of Thankfulness from this House for it for the last day I had share in it no man expressed more symbols of sorrow than I did After three days Adjournment the King desired me it might be Adjourned for a few days more whether was it then in his Majesty much less in me to Dissolve the House But the King sent for me to Whitehall and gave me a Message to the House and commanded me when I had delivered the Message forthwith to come to him and if a question was offered to be put he charged me upon my Allegiance I should put none I do not speak this as a thing I do now merit by but it is known to divers men and to some Gentlemen of this House All that I say is but to beseech you to consider what you would have done in this strait betwixt the King my Master and this Honourable House The Shipping business lieth heavy upon me I am far from justifying that my opinion if it be contrary to the Judgment of this House I submit I never knew of it at the first or ever advised any other I was made Chief Justice four days before the Writ went out for the Port I was sworn sixteen days after and the Writs Issued forth without my privity The King Commanded the then Chief Justice the now Chief Baron and my self to look on the Presidents and to certifie him our Opinions what we thought of it That if the whole Kingdom were in danger it was reasonable and fit to lay the Charge for the Defence of it upon the whole Kingdom and not upon the Port only And Commanded the then Chief Justice my self and the now Chief Baron to return him our Opinions Our Opinions were and we thought it agreeable to Law and Reason That if the whole were in danger the whole should contribute This was about Iune In Michaelmas following the King but by no Advice of mine Commanded me to go to all the Judges for their Opinions upon the Case and to Charge them upon their Allegiance to deliver their Opinions but this not as a binding opinion to themselves but that upon better consideration or reason they might alter but only for his Majesties satisfaction and that he must keep it to his own private use as I conceive the Judges are bound by their Oaths to do I protest I never used any promise or threats to any but did only leave it to the Law and so did his Majesty desire That no speech that way might move us to deliver any thing contrary to our Consciences There was no Judge that Subscribed needed sollicitations to it there were that Refused Hutton and Crook Crook made no doubt of this thing but of the introduction I am of opinion that when the whole Kingdom is in danger whereof the King is Iudge the danger is to born by the whole Kingdom When the King would have sent to Hutton for his Opinion the then Lord Keeper desired to let him alone and to leave him to himself That was all the ill office he did in that business February 26. upon command from his Majesty by the then Secretary of State the Judges did assemble in Sergeants-Inn where then that opinion was delivered and afterwards was inrolled in the Star-chamber and other Courts at which time I used the best arguments as I could where at that time Crook and Hutton differed in Opinion not of the thing but whether the King was sole Judge Fifteen months from the first they all Subscribed and it was Registred in the Star-chamber and other Courts The reason why Crook and Hutton Subscribed was because they were over-ruled by the greater number This was all I did till I came to my Argument in the Exchequer where I argued the Case I need not tell you what my Arguments were they are publick about the Town I delivered my self then as free as any that the King ought to Govern by the positive Laws of the kingdom and not alter but by consent of the Parliament and that if he made use of it as a Revenue or otherwise that this judgement could not hold him but never declared that money should be raised I heard you had some hard opinion of me about this secret business it was far from my business and occasions but in Mr. 〈…〉 absence I went to the Justice-seat when I came there I did both King and Commonwealth good service which I did with extream danger to my self and fortunes left it a thing as advantageous to the Commonwealth as any thing else I never went about to overthrow the Charter of the Forrest but held it a sacred thing and ought to be maintained both for the King and People Two Judges then were that held the King by the Common-law might make a Forrest where he would when I came to be Judge I declared my Opinion to the contrary that the King was restrained and had no power to make a Forrest but in his own Demesn lands I know that there is something laid upon me touching the Declaration that came out the last Parliament it is the King's affair and I am bound without his Licence not to disclose it but I hope I shall obtain leave of his Majesty and then I shall make it appear that in this thing I have not deserved your disfavours and will give good satisfaction in any thing I know that you are wise and that you will not strain things to the uttermost sence to hurt me God did not call David a man after his own heart because he had no failings but because his heart was right with God I conclude all this That if I must not live to serve you I desire I may dye in your good opinion and favour A Speech so franck and clear that it might have removed all suspition so pathetick that it might have melted cruelty into compassion so humbly and submissively managed that they could not but pity him who were resolved to destroy him weeping at the pronouncing of it and when it was over Hyena and Crocodile-like shedding tears and bloud in an instant that day Voting the Author a Traitor and without any regard to the honour of his place and trust the reverence of his years the strictness of his profession and life the many services he did that party of whom he was reckoned one and the many favours he received from them the extent of his charity and the exemplariness of his devotion employ their common Messengers to take
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
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
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
Person viz. That this great truth that the imprisoning killing or deposing of any Supream Governor who is Gods Minister in a Nation is against the Will and Word of God should be offered by the Clergy of England to be proved by Scripture and if not regarded to be sealed with their bloud and with the Joynt-attestation of all Protestant Churches and Universities as the great principle of Christian Doctrine about the Peace and Government of Kingdoms and Nations And as he saith in his Letter Feb. 11. 1647. thinking of little else in this world than what he should do for the preservation of his Sacred Majesty than whose sufferings there was nothing greater he said except his vertues as a Christian a Subject an Englishman a Nobleman and an obliged Servant he caused a Rumor to be spread of his design which put the General upon calling him in from his Parole and upon his frank appearance he was dimissed till the Parliament should send for him so being free from his engagement which was as sacred to him as his Allegiance he went to Colchester with all the Horse he had and there incouraged the Souldiers by his own example going with an Halberd on his shoulder to the watch and guard in his turn paying six pence or twelve pence a shot for all the Enemies Bullets the Souldiers could pick up Charging the first day of the siege aâ— Head-gate where the Enemy was most pressing with a Pike till the gate could be shut which at last was but pinned with his Cane and after the Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle when Whaley and Ewres were sent to tell him and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that they should have quarter as Prisoners answering them himself That since the condition of those two Gentlemen and theirs in reference to that service were alike they wished they had all run one hazard and they had thanked the General more for saving the Lives of the two Knights whom they had already executed than for the grant of their own From Colchester my Lord was sent to the remotest Prison they could imagine from his own Countrey and thence fetched up to the Tower where after a handsome escape over the water to Lambeth wherein he was betrayed by the wretched Water-man that carryed him over who discovered him by his munificence the Gold he gave him he spent not his time in thoughts for his own Life but for that of his Majesties conjuring a Lord then sitting to second their Vote against the Ordinance for Tryal of his Majesty with a resolute Declaration to all Kings Princes States Potentates and Nobility to be signed by all the Lords Judges Lawyers Divines Gentry and people of England and this he pressed with most pathetick Arguments whereof one was very remarkable viz. That he understood by his dear-bought experience of those men of the Enthusiasm that let them but meet a well-grounded and justificable Zeal Courage and Resolution greater than their misguided fury to stemme the Torrent of it they would recollect and as he said observing some hesitation in their proceedings who found it easier to Conquer a people than to govern them against their Interest by a small part of themselves it being easier to overthrow another Government than to settle their own in an excellent Letter from the Tower Ian. 9. 1648. full of a Noble and Heroick Spirit which he concludes with this expression That it grieved him that he could do nothing else but rub his fingers upon Paper an imployment that fitted not his Genius Give saith he but the people an honorable example they will follow you and vindicate both you and themselves from being as such a silly Generation that they should suffer themselves to be cozened out of their good known and established Laws and in the place of them be imposed upon by Imaginations and Dreams to which he added another Letter Ian. 15. to a very great man in the Army every line whereof runs with this vigor against their proceedings YOur Party is small and giddy the thing its self is monstrous the Lords and Commons under whom you fought are against you all Princes and Protestants will abhor you Scotland will be dis-united from England Ireland will be lost Trade will be stopped by all Kings and States with people of so dangerous principles all Nations will be ready to invade us many of the Judges to sit upon the King will leave you the Empire of the Sea will be lost the Nation will be infamous to Posterity the Protestant yea Christian Religion will receive a deadly blow to be revenged by all people that profess it no man is sure of his life or any thing he hath the most prudent Form of Rules the world hath known will be overthrown a vast number of people are concerned in those Rules no example will be-friend you all Potentates will be against you and the Prince to be murthered so excellent and knowing in the Art of Government so loved reverenced and desired that of all the Princes that that ever ruled the people that were so happy in the first sixteen years of his Reign were they to chuse would pitch upon him and which is more the only person in whom his enemies may finde security being otherwise like to be torn to pieces by their Fellow-subjects upon the least change the express word of the great God in whose hands you are is against you Prov. 8. 15. 1 Sam 24 5 6. Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. c. the Laws of the Land your own Judges yea your own Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and Pretences all along fly in your faces the Prince the two Dukes and the numerous Royal issue should deter you the Precipice of endless Wars and Desolations you are at the brink of should affright you Words big with his heart which you may see at large at the end of his incomparable Book of Meditations as appears by this close I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it than you will allow your self for all your other Merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most Affectionate Friend How readily he would have dyed for him we may see in his chearfulness to dye with him for being brought before an High Court of Justice as it was called within a moneth after having offered brave Arguments from the Law of the Land the Government of the Nation the nullity of their Court the benefit of his Peerage and the Law that governed the world meaning the Sword by which he was promised quarter for life he heard the Villains ridiculous Sentence with a nobler spirit than they pronounced it telling them That they needed not have used those formalities to murther him And March the ninth the day appointed for the Assassination having conjured his Lady in two Letters That
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
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
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his
as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
Gods Holy Word might keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace It being a sad thing in his opinion that three Christian and Protestant Kingdomes under one Christian and Protestant King should have three several Confessions of Faith 4. Abolished several idle and barbarous Customs putting the Natives upon ingenious ways of Improving that rich Land by Flax Hemp c. infinitely to the Advantage of the King and Kingdom 5. Recovering near upon 40000 l. per year to the Church which by ungodly Alienations was made saith a Bishop of their own as low as Poverty it self bringing over with him as great Affections for the Church and all Publike Interests as he had Abilities to serve them 6. Put Ireland Anno 1639. in three moneths by a Parliament he got together in that short time into such a posture for Men and Money as was a Pattern to the following Parliament of England which resented that Service so much that the House of Commons gave him the Thankes of the Kingdome in their own House and waited upon him two of their most eminent Members supporting him to his place in the House of Lords In fine he wrought that wilde and loose people to such a degree of Peace Plenty and Security as it had never been since it was annexed to this Crown and made it pay for the Charges of its own Government which before was deducted out of the English Treasury Their Peace and Lawes now opening accesses to Plenty and Trade he remitted indeed nothing of that Authority Strictness Discipline or Grandieur that might advance the Interest or Honor of his Master yet he admitted so much moderation into his Counsels and Proceedings as that Despair added to former Discontents and the Fears of utter Extirpation to their wonted Pressures should not provoke to an open Rebellion a people prone enough to break out to all exorbitant Violence both by some principles of their Religion and the natural desires of Liberty both to exempt themselves from their present restraints and prevent after-rigors And when the Tumults of Scotland and the Discontents of England called for the same Counsel here that he had with success applyed to the distempers of Ireland how clearly did he see thorow the Mutinies and Pretences of the Multitude into the long-contrived Conspiracies and Designs of several orders of more dangerous men whose Covetousness and Ambition would digest as he fore-saw the rash Tumults into a more sober and solemn Rebellion How happily did he divine that the Affronts offered the Kings Authority on the score of Superstition Tyranny Idolatry Male-administration Liberty words as little understood by the Vulgar as the Design that lay under them were no other than Essays made by certain sacrilegious and needy men to confirm the Rapines upon Church and State they had made in Scotland and to open a door to the same practises in England to try how the King who had already ordered a Revocation of all such Vsurpations in Scotland and had a great minde to do the like in England would bear their rude and insolent Attempts whether he would consult his Power or his Goodness assert his Majesty or yield to their importunity How nimbly did he meet with the Faction by a Protestation he gained from all the Scots in England and Ireland against the Covenant of their Brethren in Scotland at the same time in several Books he caused to be printed discovering that the Scottish Faction that so much abhorred Popery proceeded in this Sedition upon the worst of Popish principles and practises And that this Godly League which was so much applauded by the people was a Combination of men acting over those Trayterous Bloody and Jesuitical Maximes of Mariana Suarez Sa Bellarmine which all good people abhorred Adding that those very persons that instructed the poor populary to quarrel with their Sovereign about Liberty should as it followed afterwards lay a more unsupportable slavery upon them than their most impious slanders could form in the imagination of the Credulous that they might fear from the King The power God had invested him with he intreated the King to own and the ways the Laws of God and the Land allowed him to maintain that power to make use of employing all the able men that pretended to skill either in Law or Government to see if Prerogative had any way yet left to save an unwilling People for knowing how prevailing the Seditious were always to disturb the Counsels of the Parliament he feared that from their proceedings the common Enemies would be encouraged as formerly to higher Insolencies and the envious Demagogues would contemn their own safety to ruine the Kings Honor therefore giving vigorous Orders for raising the Ship-money and a great Example towards Advancing a Benevolence subscribing himself 20000 l. and procuring the Subscription of 500000 l. from the Church the Court the City and Countrey besides some thousands by Compositions with Papists especially in Stafford-shire Lancashire York-shire c. and by Forfeitures observed by him in London Derry and other places held by Patent from His Majesty When he saw a Faction by the diligence of the Kings enemies and the Security and Treason of his pretended Friends who made it their business to perswade His Majesty that there was no danger so long until there was no safety formed into Councels and drawn up into Armies when he saw one Kingdom acting in open Rebellion and another countenancing and inclining to it when he discovered a Correspondence between the Conclave of Rome and the Cardinal of France between the King of France and the Rebels of Scotland between the Leaders of the Scottish Sedition and the Agents of the English Faction one Pickering Laurence Hampden Fines c. being observed then to pass to and fro between the English and the Scottish Brethren and saw Letters signed with the Names though as some of them alledged since without the consent of the Five Members c. when the Government in Church and State was altered the Kings Ships Magazines Revenue Forts and faithful Servants were seized on the Orders of State and Worship of God were affronted by a barbarous multitude that with sticks stools and such other instruments of Fury as were present disturbed all religious and civil Conventions and the Kings Agents Hamilton Traquair and Roxborough pleased no doubt with the Commotions they at first raised and by new though secret seed of Discontents improved increased the Tumults by a faint Opposition which they might have allayed by vigorous punishments all the Declarations that were drawn in the Kings Name being contrived so as to overthrow his Affairs In a word when he saw that the Traytors were got into the Kings Bed-chamber Cabinets Pockets and Bosom and by false representation of things had got time to consolidate their Conspiracy and that the Kings Concessions to their bold Petition about the Liturgy the High-Commission the Book of Canons and the â—ive
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
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
him though he either upon his friends intimation or his own observation of the danger he was in among those who are prone to insult most when they have objects and opportunities most capable of their rudeness and petulancy escaped in a disguise wearing a Vizard lawfully to save himself as others did then to destroy him and the kingdom that night or next morning betimes in a Skuller the Sea being less tempestuous than the Law to Holland where he safely heard himself charged with High-treason in four particulars 1. For not Reading as the Faction would have him the Libell Sir Iohn Clue drew up against the Lord Treasurer Weston in the Parliament 4. Caroli 2. For threatning the Judges in the matter of Ship-money 3. For his judgment in the Forrest business when he was Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas 4. For drawing the Declaration after the Dissolution of the last Parliament And staid so long until he saw 1. The whole Plot he indeavoured to obviate in the buds of it ripened to as horrid a Rebellion as ever the Sun saw 2. The Charges against Buckingham Weston Strafford himself c. ending in a Charge against the King himself whose Head he would always affirm was aimed at through their sides 3. The great grievance of an 120000l in the legal way of Ship-money redressed and eased by being commuted for a burden of 60. millions paid in the Usurped ways of Assessements Contribution Loans Venturing Publick Faith Weekly Meals the Pay of the three Armies Sequestrations Decimations those Bells and Dragons of the Wealth and plenty of England 4. The great fear that the King would make a great part of the kingdom Forrests turned into greater that the Conspirators would have the whole kingdom into a Wilderness 5. And the Declaration he drew about the evil Complexion of the last Parliament made good with advantage by the unheard of and horrid outrages of this In a word he lived to see the Seditious act far worse things against the King and kingdom than his very fear and foresight suspected of them though he gave shreud hints and guesses And to see God do more for the King and kingdom than his hope could expect for he saw the horrid Murder of Charles I. and the happy Restauration of Charles II. enduring eight years Banishment several months Confinement and Compositions amounting to 7000l THE Life and Death OF Sr FRANCIS VVINDEBANK WHEN neither sincerity in Religion which he observed severely in private and practised exemplarily in publick nor good affections to the Liberties of the Subject in whose behalf he would ever and anon take occasion to Address himself to his Majesty to this purpose Your poor Subjects in all humbleness assure your Majesty that their greatest confidence is and ever must be in your grace and goodness without which they well know nothing that they can frame or desire will be of safety or value to them Therefore are all humble Suiters to your Majesty that your Royal heart will graciously accept and believe the truth of theirs which they humbly pretend as full of truth and confidence in your Royal Word and Promise as ever People reposed in any of their best Kings Far from their intentions it is any way to incroach upon your Soveraignty or Prerogative nor have they the least thought of stretching or enlarging the former Laws in any sort by any new interpretations or additions The bounds of their desires extend no further than to some necessary explanation of that which is truly comprehended within the just sence and meaning of those Laws with some moderate provision for execution and performance as in times past upon like occasion hath been used They humbly assure Your Majesty they will neither loose time nor seek any thing of your Majesty but that they hope may be fit for dutyful and Loyal Subjects to ask and for a Gracious and Iust King to grant When neither the Services he performed in publick not the Intercessions he made in private in behalf of the People of England could save so well-affected religious able active publick-spirited charitable and munificent a Person as Sir Iohn Finch Baron Finch of Foreditch It s no wonder Sir Francis Windebank was loath to hazzard his life in a scuffle with an undisciplined Rabble which he freely offered to be examined by any free and impartial Courts of Justice where the multitude should receive Laws and not give them and reason should set bounds to passion truth to pretences Lawes duly executed to disorders and charity to fears and jealousies when the sacredness of some great Personages and the honour of others when the best Protestants and the best Subjects were equally obnoxious to the undistinguished Tumults which cried out against Popery and Ill-counsel but struck at all men in power and favour Sir Francis rather ashamed than afraid to see the lives and honours of the most eminent persons in the Nation exposed to those rude Assemblies where not reason was used as to men to perswade but force and terror as to beasts to drive and compel to whatsoever tumultuary Patrons shall project left the kingdom as unsafe where Factions were more powerful than Laws and persons chose rather to hear than to see the miseries and reproaches of their Country waiting for an Ebbe to follow that dreadful and swelling Tide upon this Maxime That the first indignation of a mutinous multitude is most fierce and a small delay breaks their consent and innocence would have a more candid censure if at all at distance Leave he did his place and preferment like those that scatter their Treasure and Jewels in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers troubled for nothing more than that the King was the while left naked of the faithful ministry of his dearest Servants and exposed to the infusions and informations of those who were either complices or mercenaries to the Faction to whom they discovered his most Private Counsels Those aspersions laid upon him by those that spoke rather what they wished than what they believed or knew he would say should like clouds vanish while his reputation like the Sun a little muffled at present recovered by degrees its former and usual luster Time his common saying sets all well again And time at last did make it evident to the world that though he and others might be subject to some miscarriages yet such as were far more repairable by second and better thoughts than those enorminous extravagancies wherewith some men have now even wildred and almost quite lost both Church and State The event of things at last demonstrating that had the King followed the worst counsels that could have been offered him Church and State could not have been brought into that condition they were presently in upon the pretended Reformation Among the many ill consequences whereof this was not the least remarkable viz. that those very slanderers reputation and credit I mean that little
Speaking about going to Law his opinion was that it was better to buy Love than Law for one might have a great deal of Love for a little whereas he could have but a little Law for a great deal He would frequently say that was not well which ended everlastingly ill and that a man was never undone till he was in hell This was a Speech which he often used that if it were lawful to envy any he would envy those that turned to God in youth whereby they escape much sin and sorrow and were like unto Iacob that stole the blessing betimes He died praying heartily for the King and declaiming as heartily against the Rebellion that would make such a breach in this State and be such a scandal to this Church as the Child unborn should rue and bewail Anno Christi 1645. Aetat suae 96. Hic Jacet faceta virtus pietasque pacisica Quae totam duobus verbis absolvit vitam Nempe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sustine abstine THE Life and Death OF BARON TREVOR WE remember when Oratory and Faction had attained here the same heighth that a Learned Man observeth they had attained at Rome together for Speeches and Sedition are inseparable companions It was reckoned a quaint strain upon Mr. Prynne Bastwick and Burtons sufferings to say That it seemed to many Gentlemen a spectacle no less strange than sad to see three of several professions the noblest in the kingdom Divinity Law and Physick exposed at one time to such ignominious punishment forsooth And truly we are at present under a great doubt whether it was a more sad or a more pleasant sight to see so many eminent men of all these and other ingenious professions act so chearfully and suffer so patiently for that Government which those before-mentioned endeavoured first to disgrace and at last to overthrow First debauching men from their love and reverence to Superiors by exposing them to scorn and contempt and next from their duty to them by opposing and fighting them There went immediately before a very Reverend Divine that in the midst of many discouragements zealously discried the resistance of the Supream and Lawful power as against Conscience And now he is followed by a worthy Lawyer that eagerly opposed any thing that tended to it as against Law Sir Thomas Trevor was born Iuly the 6. 1586. a day memorable in that Family for the birth of six successives principal branches of it born upon it with this remarkable occurrence That whereas most other Children are born to this sad world crying he was observed to smile almost as soon as born an argument of the chearful temper he was of until he died His Temper lead him to the active ways of a Souldier or a Courtier but his judgment carried him to the more studious employment of a Lawyer wherein he promised great proficiency from that towardliness at School that never deserved correction and success in the University that never failed of applause in both such strong parts that his Master would say of him This Boy hath not the patience to stay at the words in Authors he is so inquisitive after the thing And his Tutor That he had a strange Natural Logick Saint Rumbald I write what I read not what I believe as soon as he came out of his Mothers womb falling into the Churches bosome cried three times the first minute of his life I am a Christian made a confession of his Faith desired to be Baptized chose his God-fathers his Name and his Font. This the fable the moral shall be the early seriousness of this person seriousness and devotion being of Vives his opinion that a pious Youth resisting its own temptations and allaying its own heat makes a comfortable and a serviceable Age neither sad with a mans own remembrances of younger follies nor useless by the disgrace of others observing of them Many men are lost in their more reduced years by reason of the scandal of their younger ones Though the light when grown pours fuller streams it s yet more precious in its virgin beams and though the third and fourth may do the cure the eldest tear of the Balsome is most pure One of Seneca's few men you have here Qui consilio se suaque disponunt caeteri eorum more qui fluminibus innatant non eunt sed feruntur And the rather was he pious because he would say often that sentence of Cicero Pietas justitia quaedam est adversus deos pietate sublata fides etiam societas humani generis una excellentissima virtus justitia imo omnis probitas tollitur And because he observed that the difficulties of this study was not to be overcome without the quietness of heart and composedness and calmness of mind that all men aim at and good men only injoy Happy was the mixture of heat and moisture in his head the later serving his memory and judgment and the former his apprehension and fancy that at once pierced into the depth and look round all the little circumstance of Cases to which his wary distrust patient consideration and slow conclusion and determination contributed much being used to say That we could not have too little faith as to any thing proposed to us in this world nor too much for the things offered us in reference to another World Comparing the failures of his memory to the fluxes of his body both arguing the weakness of the retentive faculty there being seldom a discourse wherein with Curio the Orator in Tully he either added not some head he had not thought on or omitted a point he had he finding true that passage of Seneca Res est ex omnibus partibus maxime delicata memoria in quam primum senectus incurrit frigido jam incalescente exarescente cerebro His smooth contexture of Discourse and flowing speech his command of himself and temper seldom either disordering himself or disturbing his Argument with perturbation of mind although disturbance would heat him sometimes to an improvement of his Eloquence insomuch that as it was reported of Severus Cassius that would do best ex tempore his Antagonists were afraid to anger him who had most wit in his anger as much as Aristotle observeth others designed to provoke their Adversaries that they might interrupt them So weighty though not bold his Assertions so choice though not nice his Speech for the niceness of words breaks the weight of Arguments so plain his dealing so becoming and grave his Carriage and Address and so intire his Reputation that besides several reposed in him by several Noblemen he was made Solicitor to King Charles the I. when King by the wise King Iames upon the Earl of Pembroke and Bishop Williams recommendation and in the first year of the said King made Serjeant and preferred Kings Serjeant Sir Iohn Walter then and he giving Rings with this Inscription Regi Legi servire Libertas and the same year one of the
a good Cobler wherein he would strangely meet with all difficulties imaginable so that it was truly said of him That had he been Privy Counsellour to any other Prince he had been an Oracle carrying with H. 4. all his best Counsel on one Horse A King that was received out of Spain with infinite triumphs when our hopes and Prince and out of his wardship with more when our enjoyment and King March 25. 1625. none of the weaknesses of Youth attended with power and plenty having enervated his solid virtue and so the Kingdom promised its self what it enjoyed as long as he enjoyed himself all the benefits of a happy government His Marriage the first act of state in his Reign except his Fathers Funeral whereat he was a Close-mourner hallowing the ascent to his Throne with a pious act of grief unusual for Kings but such as he who preferred Piety before Grandeur was prudent and happy with the most excellent Lady who shared in the comforts only of his good fortune and in all of his bad Reverencing him not his greatness Henrietta Maria youngest Daughter to H. 4. of France whom he had seen by chance in his way to Spain and who hearing of his adventure thither was pleased to say That he might have had a Wife nearer home to whom he was married at Nostredame in Paris by Proxy and at Canterbury by himself never straying from her as he told his Daughter Elizabeth in his thoughts being chast in his discourse hating all obscenity that might offend the Ears much more in converse allowing no vanity that might blot the honour of any of his Subjects and by whom God blessed him and us with 9 Children viz. 1. Charles Iames born May 13. 1628. 2. Charles II. May 29. 1630. 3. Iames Duke of York 4 September 13. 1633. 4. Henry Duke of Glocester Iuly 8. 1639. 5. Mary Princess of Aurange November 4. 1631. 6. Elizabeth Ian 28. 1635. 7. Anne March 17. 1637. 8. Katherine 9. Henrietta Dutchesâ— of Anjou Iune 16. 1644. His first Parliament notwithstanding it was made up of soft Noble and troublesome Commons both made perverse and wanton by long peace and plenty and desire of change of factious demagogues whose humour men of boundless and ambitious hopes made use of he moderated with a clear account given of the whole administration of Government and a benign answer made to all their Petitions to a concession of a few subsidies towards the VVar with Spain which they set him upon and which notwithstanding the disasters of his Navy by storms going out too late and for want of pay coming home too soon undisciplin'd and wasted and the Plagues raging in London ended in an honourable Peace His Coronation frugal he reserving his Treasure for more necessary occasions than Pomp not out of his own inclination for his repair of Pauls his Navy and other instances demonstrate him magnificent but out of his fatherly regard to the condition he found his Kingdomes Treasures in drained by the Scots and not chearfully supplyed by the English without harsh conditions so unwilling were we when we knew not what to do with our Money to secure the whole of our Estates by allowing him a part and yet improved by him so farr as to serve the majesty of the Crown for 15. Years to support a VVar with two of the greatest Potentates in Europe to supply the King of Sweden and bear the charge of the first Scotch Expedition without any considerable contribution from the people They that made him first Necessitous in order to the making of him Odious decried him for covetous because he rewarded not men according to their boundless expectation but according to their exact merit being liberal not vain and loving to do good to the whole Kingdom rather than to particular persons as Steward of a publick treasure rather than a Lord of his own making his Virtue serve the necessities of the Realm which others Vices would not His second Parliament notwistanding the contracts between Buckingham and Bristol the bitterness of the Remonstrators of the Lower House against him and his Instruments of State yet he sweetened so farr he granting their Petition of Right they bestowing on him five Subsidies that their modesty and his goodness strived which should exceed each other A King Of so much honour that when his French Subjects abused his Queen he durst bravely yet liberally dismiss them though he might look for a War to follow which he valued not when by his Caresses he had melted and obliged the Queen to a contentment choosing a foreign war rather than houshold broyles 2. Of so much sence for Religion as to lay out when his estate was low and his debts high 400000l. upon the relief of the French Protestants in embassies of Peace and designs of VVar though both unsuccessfull the unhappiness of his Ministers not any fault of his 3. Of so much prudent goodness as to restore Delinquents such as A. B. Abbot Lord Say to favour to prefer Wentworth and Savile to advance Dr. Potter and other moderate men a course that if it did not oblige but encourage the faction finding such rewards for being troublesome it was because they had but one grievance really however they pretended many and that was Government it self 4. Of so peaceable and good a nature as to choose rather to settle peace at home and abroad by prudence rather than to finish war by violence this the way of bruits more fashionable in the eye of the world the other the way of men more satisfactory to his own breast 5. Of so much Justice that the greatest witnesse the Earl of Castlehaven was not secure if he offended the Laws of God or Man and of so much clemency that the worst witness Hammilton and the Lord Balmarino was safe if he did but offend him he thinking a Kingdom was so troublesome that no man would sin either to enjoy or keep it He subjected his L. Keeper C. and a L. Treasurer to Tryal for Bribery yet would he hardly admit that his enemies should be brought to tryal for Treasons he designed men no harm and he believed all good of them Men in his time feared Laws not Men. He would say Let me stand or fall by my own Counsel I will choose any misery rather than Sin His Acts were alwayes vouched by his Judges and Divines lawful before he would allow them expedient Nay the VVorld saw by his condescentions that he desired not a power to do harm but that as he proved once to a Lord of the Faction he thought that if he had no power to do ill sometimes he might not have power when he needed to do good and Subjects fears of mischief may destroy their hopes of benefit His Prerogative and his Peoples Liberty which made such a noise in the VVorld agreed well in his breast the last being as
Conscience A Prince thus excellent in himself and choice in his Council made up of persons eminent for their services for or against him for parts and abilities he equally valued in his enemies and in his friends and when he saw hopefull and accomplish'd persons lavishing their worth upon a faction and a private interest if they were not of desperate principles he would encourage them to lay it out upon the government and the publick good A Prince that never suffered a subject to goe sad from him never denied his people but what they have seen since that they could not saefly enjoy That Prince who besides the great examples he gave them and the great intercessions and services he did for them begun his Reign with the highest Act of Grace that he could or any King did in the World I mean the granting of the Petition of Right wherein he secured his Peoples estates from Taxes that are not given in Parliament and their Lives Liberties and Estates from all Proceedings not agreeable to Law A King that permitted his chief favourite and Counsellor the D. of Buckingham whose greatest fault was his Majesties favour to satisfie the Kingdom both in Parliament and Star-chamber in the way of a publick Process And gave up Mainwaring and Sibthorpe both as I take it his Chaplains to answer for themselves in Parliament saying He that will preach more than he can prove Let him suffer Yea and was contented to hold some part of his Revenue as Tunnage Poundage c. which was derived to him from his Ancestors by Inheritance by gift from the Parliament A Prince that pardoned and preferred all his Enemies that though accountable to none but God gave yet a just account of himself and treasures to the People saving them in two years from ordinary expences 347264 l. 15s 6d and gaining them by making London the bank for Spanish Dutch and Danish treasures 445981 l. 2s 3d. that dashed most of the Projects that were proposed to him for raising money and punished the Projectors that designed no worse things in Religion than Uniformity Peace Decency Order the rights and maintenance of the Church and the honour of Churchmen and in the State no more than the necessary defence of the Kingdom from dangers abroad and disorders at home which he maintained several years at his own charge that by destroying several of the Dutch Herring Busses and forcing the rest with all Dutch Merchants to trade only by permission in the Narrow Seas opened a brave trade to the English Nation A King that took so much pains to oblige his Loving Subjects going twice in person as far as Scotland though against the inclination of most of his Counsellours who looked upon the Scotch Faction as a sort of people that under the pretence of a specious way of plain speaking and dealing concealed the greatest animosities and reaches and twice with an Army rather to pacifie than overthrow the Rebels treating with them as a Father of his Country when in all probability he might have ruined them if he had proceeded against them 1639. and 1640. as a King and not in imitation of the Divine Majesty wrapped up the dreadful power he carried then with him in gracious condescentions of mercy A King that of 346. Libellers seditious Writers discovered Conspirators against his Crown Dignity and Authority in Church and State put none to death and punished but five throughout his whole Reign A King in whose Reign there were such good Canons made that Judge Crooke a Dissenter about Ship-money blessed God when he read them that he lived to see such Canons made for the Church A King that publickly declared That he was rosolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of his subjects One of the two Propositions he made the Parliament 1640. being to desire them to propose their grievances wherein he promised them to concurr so heartily and clearly with them that all the VVorld might see That his intentions ever have been and are to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And to shew his good inclination to Religion married his eldest Daughter to an ordinary Protestant Prince And to the welfare of the Kingdom he tyed himself to a Triennial Parliament allowing this Parliament to sit as long as they thought fit and for a time to order the Militia entreating them to set down what they thought necessary for him to grant or them to enjoy vacating for their sake the Courts of Star-Chamber and High-Commissions the VVards the Forrests the Court on the Marches of Wales and the North Monopolies Ship-money his haereditary right to Tunnage and Poundage the Bishops Votes in Parliament and doing so much for peace that one asking Mr. Hampden a leading Card amongst them VVhat they would have him do more was answered That renouncing all his Authority he should cast himself wholly on the Parliament Yea as if this had not been enough A King that suffered all his Ministers of State to clear their innocency before publick Judicatures in the face of the World and though accountable only to him for their actions yet ready to appeal to their very accusers themselves for their Integrity And yet not so willing to remit his friends to Justice as his Enemies to favour if either they had hearkned to the re-iterated Proclamations of Pardon sent to them during the War or acquiesced in the Amnesty offered to and accepted by them after it an Amnesty that they might have securely trusted to when he bestowed upon them not only their lives but likewise for some years all the power over the Militia of the Kingdom to make good that pardon by which they held their lives neither had they only the Sword in their hands to defend but all places of trust authority and Judicature to secure and inrich themselves the King allowing them for so long a time not only to enjoy all their own places but to dispose of all others adding this favour too that they who grudged him a power to raise money to supply his occasions should have what power they pleased to raise money to satisfie their own demands and when he had confirmed the pardon of the Kingdom in general he offered the renovation of all Charters and Corporation Privileges in particular denying nothing that their ambition or covetousness could desire or his Conscience grant being willing to be no King himself that his people might be happy Subjects and to accept of a titular Kingdom on condition they had a peaceable one In Religion its self wherein he denyed most because he had less poweâ— to grant those points being not his own Prerogatives but those of the King of Kings he grants his Adversaries Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their followers on condition he might have the same liberty to himself and his followers desiring no more than to enjoy that freedom as a Soveraign that they claimed as Subjects Any thing he yielded they should
take from his Clergy but what God gave them Concluding That he desired them to be subject to him no further than that he and they might be subject to God That a King that was and did so as he was and did should be first suspected and then opposed should be rendred ridiculous abroad and odious at home should easier perswade his foreign enemies to a Peace than his own subjects to contribute to a War and that of their own advising and perswading That such a King should first suffer in his prime Favourites and Ministers of State and then in his own Person That such a King should be forced to sell his Crown Lands to defend and serve them who would by no means yield any thing to maintain him yea questioned Sr. Iohn Wolstenhome Mr. Dawes and Mr. Caermarthen Farmers of the Custome-house for levying his ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage unless he acknowledged that as their favour which to maintain Convoy and Trade he enjoyed as an haereditary Right That under such a King any should say as Cooke and Turner did That the People had better perish by a foreign War than by a domestique Oppresssion and it should be a capital offence to enjoy his favour That one sort of subjects should invade and other abbet and libel him That his ancient Kingdom of Scotland should throw themselves upon the French King and the Kingdom of England upon French Counsels and Designs That so good a Master should be betrayed by his Servants have his Pocket pick'd his Letters discovered as Hamilton did Montross's and the E. of H. did the design against the five Members That malapert Burgesses should bawl out Remonstrances and Citizens affronts against so great and so excellent a Majesty It was introllerable to frame Conventicles Associations and Conspiracies against his proceedings in Church and State but horrid to do so against his Person That when they had stood out many years against allowing him any Taxes without their consent they shall seize his Crown and Dignity without his that those whom he had raised from the people should adhere to the people against him and when they had corresponded with armies that are but tumults mustered in the North they should incourage tumults which are but indisciplined armies in the South that the one might drive him out of his Kingdom for fear and the other out of the Royal City for shame that the Scots should sight and he not dare to call them Rebels and his faithful Counsellors should assist him and he not dare to own them as friends That such a King should be abused to Parliaments by his servants and to his people by Parliaments should be first intreated out of his Magazines Castles and whole Militia and then fought against with them should be forced out of one Town and shut out of another should see his Queen threatned with Articles at one time and though she would not believe that being loath to think the English should do her any ill offices to whom she had done none but good afterwards impeached without any regard to Sex Virtues Birth Allies and Majesty circumstances that would have guarded her from the Barbarous for no other fault but for owning that obedience to her Lord and Husband which they had renounced to their Soveraign That such a Prince should see his whole Court Voted and dealt with as Traitors his Estate Sequestred for Delinquency his Clergy and Church which he was by oath obliged to defend and maintain in its due rights ruined for keeping the Fifth Commandement and Rom. 13. his Churches turned to Stables his Loyal Subjects Murthered Plundered Banished and he not able to help them his Laws and Edicts over-ruled by I know not what Orders and Ordinances his Seals and great Offices of State counterfeited all the costly ornaments of Religion ruined and defaced Learning that was his honor and his care trampled on by its and his old enemies the Ignorant These are things that the world could never believe till it felt them and will not believe when the impressions of them are worn off This wise and good King the same in all fortunes was he that must pardon his enemies but must except his friends out of pardon he that when all his Subjects had sworn Oaths of Allegiance to him must swear an oath devised by his Subjects called Covenant against himself He without whom no oath could he imposed upon the Subjects hath an oath imposed upon him by his Subjects and in that oath must swear that government in the Church Anti-christian which was the only Christian government for 1500 years And when Divines dispute that and other points probably the poor King and his people must swear them peremptorily He that saw an army raised for the King that is himself and Parliament against himself and the instruments of death levelled against his person in his name And heard the very people promise to make him a glorious King who murthered him He that a people complained to of grievances that would not indure the remedies that complained that he made and continued a war when they would not endure a peace and when they had voted his Concessions sufficient grounds to proceed on to the settlement of the kingdom and yet ruined it He that they declared against for raising a Guard at York Nottingham to secure himself c. when they raised at Army at London to Take Imprison and Murther him That must be author of all the bloud shed in the three Nations after all his Concessions Messages Declarations Treaties and Overtures a sea and mercy to 20000 Rebels to stanch it And when all the bloud that was spilt before his death was to rob him of his life and government as appears by the five times more bloud that was spilt after his death to make good that robbery and murther He that saw a war begun to remove his evil Council and ended in the taking off his Head and that was said to begin a war when his first was dated the very day his enemies army was mustered the Faction having ordered an army to take him before he thought of one to save himself This is that Prince that saw a people in the Name of God lay hands on his anointed Preachers of the Gospel of peace trumpet it for war Religion made an argument against obedience and the Holy Spirit urged against peace and love and the Text He that resisteth the King the Ordinance of God resisteth to his own damnation understood thus He that resisteth not shall be Sequestred and that Curse ye Meroz that came not to help the Lord against the Mighty thus Curse ye all English-men that help not the Rebellious against Gods Anointed And Fear God Honor the King into fear the Lord and kill the King and that where the word of a King there is power understood thus The King shall not have a Negative Voice A King that saw himself Engaged
last mentioned at Newbury aforesaid and upon or about the eight of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and five at the Town of Leicester and also upon the fourteenth day of the same month in the same year at Naseby-field in the County of Northampton At which several times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at several other times within the years afore-mentioned And in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and six He the said Charles Stuart hath caused and procured many thousands of the Free-people of the Nation to be slain and by Divisions Parties and Insurrections within this Land by Invasions from Forraign Parts endeavoured and procured by him and by many other evil ways and means He the said Charles Stuart hath not only maintained and carried on the said war both by Land and Sea during the years before-mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said war against the Parliament and good People of this Nation in this present year one thousand six hundred forty and eight in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Counties and Places in England and Wales and also by Sea And particularly He the said Charles Stuart hath for that purpose given Commission to his Son the Prince and others whereby besides multitudes of other persons many such as were by the Parliament intrusted and imployed for the safety of the Nation being by Him or his Agents corrupted to the betraying of their Trust and revolting from the Parliament have had Entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing War and Hostility against the said Parliament and People as aforesaid By which cruel and unnatural wars by Him the said Charles Stuart Levyed Continued and Renewed as aforesaid much innocent bloud of the Free-people of this Nation hath been spilt Families undone the Publick Treasury wasted and exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoiled some of them even to desolation And for further prosecution of evil Designs He the said Charles Stuart doth still continue his Commissions to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forrainers and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further invasions upon this Land are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charles Stuart All which wicked Designs Wars and evil Practises of Him the said Charles Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the Personal Interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to Himself and his Family against the Publick Interest common Right Liberty Justice and Peace of the People of this Nation by and for whom he was intrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that He the said Charles Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Unnatural Cruel and Bloudy Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murders Rapines Burnings Spoils Desolations Dammage and Mischiefs to this Nation acted and committed in the said wars or occasioned thereby And the said Iohn Cook by protestation saving on the behalf of the People of England the liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge against the said Charles Stuart and also of replying to the Answers which the said Charles Stuart shall make to the Premises or any of them or any other Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on behalf of the said People of England Impeach the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick and Implacable Enemy to the Commonwealth of England And pray that the said Charles Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the Premises That such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgment may be hereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice A Charge ridiculous in the matter of it laying that war to the Kings charge for which they should have been hanged themselves accusing him for breaking the Priviledges of Parliaments when they had the other day dissolved the very Being of them and pretending the common good when two or three years discovered the whole Plot was nothing but private Interest these very Miscreants being turned to grass by one of their own self-deniers for a self-seeking Combination Contemptible in the framers of it the one a Runnagate Dutch-man Dorislaus who being preferred by the King History Professor at Cambridge read Treason in his first Lecture against his Patron and now commits it The other a poor and desperate Sollicitor Cook said to have two Wives to live with and twenty ways though none either honest or successful to live by And worse in the witnesses of it the scum of Mankind two or three raked out of Prisons and Goals not a man of reputation or worth two pence in the three kingdoms notwithstanding a Proclamation to invite all persons to witness against the King appearing to promote so horrid a fact and these hired men of Belial with the hope of a morsel of bread The King was always of an even temper but never more than in this case retaining a Majesty becoming himself in his misery and looking as if he were as he ought to be indeed the Judge and they as they were indeed the Malefactors Smiling as he might well as far as the publick calamities gave him leave at the horrid names Murderer Traytor c. of the worst Subjects given to the best King Upon the Picture of his Majesties sitting in his Chair before the High Court of Iustice. NOt so Majestick in thy Chair of State On that but Men here God and Angels wait Expecting whether hopes of Life or fear Of Death can move Thee from Thy Kingly Sphere Constant and Fixt whom no black storm can soyl Thy Colours Head and Soul are all in Oyl And the Lady Fairfax saying aloud in the face of the Pretended Court That where as they took upon them to Iudge his Majesty in the Name of the People of England that it was a Lye the tenth she might have said the thousandth part of the People being so far from allowing that horrid villany that they would dye willingly to prevent it The Charge being Read his most Excellent Majesty looking upon it as below him to interrupt the impudent Libel and vie Tongue with the Billings-gate Court with a Calmness Prudence and Resolution peculiar to his Royal breast asked the Assassinates By what authority they brought a King their most Rightful soveraign against the Publick Faith so lately given him at a Treaty between him and his two Houses By what lawful Authority said he again more Emphatially For I am not ignorant continued he that there are on foot every where very many unlawful Powers as of Thieves and Robbers on the High-way Adding That whatsoever
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
honorable Society of both the Temples to bless them as with his constant residence so with his fatherly instructions and prayers To signifie the reality of their Love and value to his Lordship they not only allowed an annual honorary recompence to express their thanks but they provided handsome Lodgings and furnished them with all things necessary convenient and comely for a Person of his Worth Such as could hear him preach rejoyced at his gracious words such as for the Crowd could not come nigh enough to hear him had pleasure to stay and behold him conceiving they saw a Sermon in his looks and were bettered by the Venerable Aspect of so worthy a Person God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains indispositions and distempers sometimes with fits of the Stone but under all these God supported him with his grace as always humble devout and pious so for the most part sociable serene and chearful till he had lived to his sixty seventh year He had frequent infirmities a little before his death He would often say That it was a very cheap time to die there being so little temptation to desire life and so many to welcome death since he had lived to see no King in the State no Bishop in the Church no Peer in Parliament worthy of that name He only hoped and prayed God that he would favor him so far as with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to let him die without pain and indeed he did For after his Spirits were in ten dayes decayed and wasted he slumbred much yet had vigilant Intervals at which time he gave himself to prayer and meditation and holy discourses And being full of the Grace and peace of God and confirmed in it by the Absolution of the Church he rendred his precious soul to God that gave it Decemb 7. 1659. His body for Stature and Figure was somewhat taller and bigger than ordinary yet very comely No man ever became the Preachers Pulpit or the Doctors Chair or the Episcopal Seat better than he did carrying before him such an unaffected State and Grandeur such benign gravity and a kinde of smiling severity that one might see much in him to be reverenced but much more to be loved yet what was Venerable in him was very amiable and what was amiable was Venerable His remains lie in the Temple-Church with this following Inscription buryed at the Charge of both Temples to his great honor and their greater I know saith one of his death all accidents are minuted and momented by Divine providence and yet I hope I may say without sin his was an untimely death not to himself prepared thereunto but as to his longer life which the prayers of pious people requested the need of the Church required the date of nature could have permitted but the pleasure of God to which all must submit denyed otherwise he would have been most instrumental to the composure of Church differences the deserved opinion of whose goodness had peaceable possession in the hearts of the Presbyterian party I observed at his Funeral that the prime persons of all perswasions were present whose judgements going several wayes met all in a general grief for his decease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. M. S. Augustius Solito Virtutum exemplar Si tibi tuisque imitandum velis Mox Moriture Lector Subtus positas nepigeat contemplari EXUVIAS RADULPHI BRUNRICI S. T. D. IPS WICI peramaeni Icenorum oppidi Parentibus honestis Tantoque Filio beatis orti Infantulum terrestri orbum caelestis tenerius fovit Pater Piaque literatura pene ad miraculum imbutum Per omnes Academiarum gradus eductum Ad Aulae Catharinae praefecturam Ad Saepius repetitam Procan Cantab. dignitatâ—m Ad Exoniensis Episcopatus Honorem Caroli Regis favore evexit Quem afflictissimum fidelitate inconcussa coluit Vir undique egregius Doctior an melior Dubites Fâ—mâ— per omnem aetatem immaculata into splendida magnifica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 olim per biennium at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec conjugii spretor nec caelibatui impar Severu ubique castitatis exactor Tam vultus quam vitae majestate venerandus Quod enim vultu promisit optimum vita praestâ—t Tacita Sermonum urbana morum sanctitate Non jucundus minus quam utilis Supercilii non ficti non clati non efferi Humillima granditate cuncta gerens Credas nec conscio tantas cumulasse dotes Naturam prodigam benignamque gratiam Adeo omne tulit punctum idque levissima invidia In Concionibus sacris frequens dominator In disputationibus Scholasticis semper Triumphator Barnabas idem Boanerges Tam pugno quam palma nobilis Suavi terrore venerando amore ubique pollens Beat a uberrimi ingenii facundâ—a Honorum omnium votis et expectationi nunquam non satisfecit Quadratus undique Deo Ecclesiae sibi Constans A mobili et rotunda aevi figura penitus abhorrens Scenter sâ—pienter et semper bonus Reformatae olim in Anglia Religionis priscae Doctrinae Liturgiae Regiminis Ecclesiae integrae contra veteratores et Novatores omnes aequanimus ac acerrimus vindex Sero nimis pro temporum morbis et remediis Episcopali sublimitate meritissime auctum Bellorum et Schismatum late stagrantiuâ— incendia Optimum Antistitem una eum Coepiscopis omnibus viris ut plurimum in noxiis et eximiis Tota Ecclesia Rege Repub. mox deturbarunt Deturbatum facultatibus pene omnibus Spoliarunt Iacturâ—m ingenti ut decuit animo tulit de Sacrilegis non Spoliis Sollicitus Queis non minus carere 〈◊〉 recteuti didicerat Tandem ipsa obscuritate illustrior factus Generosae Templariorum Societatis amore allectus Concionatoris Honorarii munus ibidem suscepit Nec diu proh dolor sustinuit Quum enim Testamentum condiderat Quale primaevi solebant Episcopi Gratiarum in Deum Benignitatis in amicos Charitatis in omnes copia refertum Anno AEtatis Sexagesimo septimo Iniqui inquieti ingrati seculi mores Iamque merito recrudescentis belli minas Laetus fefellit Et ad meliorem Dominum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christiana plenus Optata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beatus Libens migravit Decemb. 7. 1659. Haec vero â—enerandi Praesumlis ramenta aurea Amplissimique viri parva compendia L. M. C. I. G. S. T. D. Magnalia ejus quae nec marmor breve Nec Tabula prolixa nec mens mortalis Capiet Beatae Aeternitati Silentio consecran da 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ite nunc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vestros recensere greges Multis Sectarum maculis variegata pecora Si quos inter vestros Gigantum fraterculos Vilis plebeculae vilia mancipia Pares â—imelesve invenistis Heroas Primaevis nuperisque nostris Episcopis Vsserium volo Mortonium Potterum Davenantium Hallum Prideauxium Westfieldium Winneffum Brunricum Alios meliori seculo Fato Dignos Extra irae invidiaeque vestrae
himself about Sir H. death where the Visier being bribed as it is the fashion there to betray him to the Faction of Merchants which the honorable Sir Sackevill Crow a Gentleman able and willing to do his Majesty as much service as any man in England in his lowest condition though he hath and doth inâ—initely suffer for it in his highest had to do with keeping up his Majesties Reputation at Constantinople in spight of them as long as it pleased God to preserve his life in England who sent him in the Sâ—irna-Fleet with other honest persons that there sided with him to England where after some moneths Imprisonment in the Tower he was by an High-Court of Justice which refused him the Liberty of pleading in Italian the language he was most ready and expressive in sentenced and accordingly March 4. 1650. out of malice to his Brother and Master as if they had a design against the peoples Trades beheaded near the Exchange where being attended by Dr. Hide Bishop Vsher had been with him before he owned the King and Church of England Allegiance he said being incorporated in his Religion he protested he was sent to the Levant to serve and protect all and injure none as a Messenger to take care of the English Interest there untill his Majesty had settled an Ambassador he blessed God for giving him the advantage of paying that Debt due by nature upon the account of grace and this way bringing him to himself he cleared his Brother and all other persons from any design against the English Merchants and offered all the satisfaction in the world to any person that desired it the Axe doing that at one blow which his many Diseases would have done within a few weeks for he was not able either to rise or fall himself though he was able to dye Dr. Levens This Learned Gentleman descended of an ancient Family in Oxford-shire near Bolley within a mile of the University His Education was truly generous his Profession the Civil Law wherein he was graduated a Doctor and in which he was excellently known before these Wars He continued most part of the War at Oxford and his own adjacent dwelling till such time as the surrender of the said City into the hands of the Parliament where he had the same terms and was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation which being forced to accept and lay down his Arms he again re-assumed his wonted studies But after the Murther of the late King this Gentleman very considerable in his numerous acquaintance prudence and integrity considering the confusion impendent ruine of Church and State became engaged for the Son our present Soveraign as before for his Royal Father several Consultations and private Meetings were held by him and others in order to his service to which purpose he also received Commission from the King then in France for several Officers of these Forces designed to be raised and other instructions as the Affairs proceeded But the sagacious industry of the Parliaments spyes lighting upon some glimpses of this business which they followed so close that they discovered Dr. Levens to be the chief Agitator and Manager of the plot in whose breast the Cabal was principally lodged An Order thereupon was made by the Council of State and a Warrant signed by Bradshaw the President to seize and bring him before them and to search his Chamber and break up his Trunks for Papers he then being at London the place most expedient for the design which accordingly was done a file or two of Musqueteers guarding and securing the House where the said Papers were among which there were blank Commissions signed by the King to the purport aforesaid were found with him and carryed to the Council who thereupon ordered him to be proceeded against as a Spie and referred him to a Councel of War Accordingly he was soon afterwards tryed by a Court-Martial where he not excused himself but acknowledged their Allegations against him and the Justice of his Cause of which he told them he was no way ashamed but if it must be so he would willingly lay down his life in the owning of it He told them moreover he was indispensably bound by the Laws of God and this Kingdom to do what he did and so referred himself to them They very earnestly pressed him to reveal the other parties engaged with him and gave him fallacious hopes of life if he would freely declare them but those offers prevailed not with him being resolved to suffer and take all upon himself rather than to ruine others whom they could not fasten upon without his discovery So the Court proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be hanged over against the Exchange in Cornhill in Exchange time which after some little preparation was executed he being brought in a Coach from the Mews with the Executioner Vizarded with him and a Troop of Horse to guard him to the said place where the Sheriffs received him into their charge After he alighted and some words passed between them concerning the said discovery he told them they should not expect it and desired them to forbear any further trouble to that purpose and so â—ascending up the Ladder where he prayed very fervently for the King and the Church and commending his soul into the hands of his Redeemer and so concluded his last breath on the eighteenth of Iuly 1650. Col. Eusebius Andrews an honest and Religious man bred in my Lord Capels Family whose Secretary he was and a good Lawyer of Grays-Inn engaging in his Majesties cause from 1642. to tâ—e surrender of Worcester 1645. when taking neither Covenant Protestation negative Oath nor engagement in London he followed his Profession till one Io. Bernard formerly a Major under him because of his good parts and sober demeanor admitted to his familiarity brought one Captain Helmes and Mr. Bâ—nson formerly belonging to Sir Iohn Gell who was hanged on this occasion Oct. 7. 1650. to save his Arrears repenting that ever he had served the Parliament and praying heartily for the King to his acquaintance who insinuated the discontents of Sir Io. Gell and other Reformadoes the designs of the Levellers and Agitators and Letters from Mr. Rushworth to be sent by Mr. Brown Bushel a Sea-Captain very active in bringing the Fleet to the Princes command taken as he was waiting an opportunity to serve the King at London and tossed from Custody to Custody till he went to the Tower where it went so hard with him for necessaries that his Wife was forced to go with his daily provision from Covent-Garden to the Tower every day and thence being condemned for delivering up Scarborough to his Majesty to the Scaffold at Tower-hill under which being deluded with a promise of pardon that very day he was for fear of the Sea-men that loved him beheaded suddainly April 29. 1651. beyond Sea Sir Io. Gells Interest in the Country and his regret that
supported 3. A mutual Security against all future fears and jealousies For which services to his Country he was forced to quit it It is not fit we should forget Sir Thomas Gardner that was slain in Buckinghamshire 1643. and Captain Gardner that fell at Thame Cum res rediit ad trianos when three engaged in the Army Sir Robert Foster of the Temple made Serjeant and succeeding Sir R. Vernon as Pusney Judge of the Commons bench 15. Car. I. Term. Hil. as the King signified by Sir Io. Finch for the good opinion he conceived of him and the good report he heard concerning him discharging his place notwithstanding the disadvantage of succeeding so popular a man as Sir George Vernon was and the difficulty of pleasing at that time both Court and Country with great commendation those persons agreeing in a Sympathy for him that had an Antipathy each to other as he did after twenty years trouble the place of Chief Justice of the Kings bench 12. Car. II. in the place of Sir Thomas Millet a great sufferer I think that Sir Thomas Millot of Exon who with his Son paid at Goldsmiths-hall 871 and an excellent Justicer who by years and other infirmities was disabled from exercising that place though surviving two of his successors when it was time to preferr neither a Dunce nor a Drone but able and active men such as he was who could Fence as well at Law in his elder years as at Sword and Buckler in his younger The Land upon its wonderful settlement under his Majesty and the never to be forgotten disbanding of a twenty years standing Army swarming with people that had been Souldiers too proud to beg and too lazy to labour and having never gotten or quite forgotten all other Calling but that of Eating Drinking and Sleeping and it being hard for Peace to feed all the idle months bred in War Sir Roberts severity broke their knots presuming much on their Felonies otherwise not to be united with the Sword of Justice possessing his Majesty against the frequent granting of Pardons as prejudicial to Justice rendring Judges obnoxious to the contempt of insolent Malefactors so by the deserved death of some hundreds preserving the lives of and lively-hoods of more thousands He died 1663 4. Pearls are called Vnions because they are found one by one hardly two together not so here where Sir Robert Hyde Serjeant at Law since Ter. Trin. 16. Car. I. of the Middle-Temple and an able Pleader his Arguments shrewd in the several reports of his time succeeded him as well in his quality as office being as severe for executing the Laws witness his several checks given Justices the great observators of Law and Peace to whom he would urge that of King Iames in his Speech in the Star-chamber That he did respect a good Iustice of the Peace as he did those next his person as much as a Privy Counsellor as his predecessor was for executing Malefactors and as strict in bringing up ancient Habits and Customes both of the Inns of Courts and the Courts of Justice as in keeping up the ancient Justice and Integrity following Sir Nicholas Hyde I think his Fathers steps according to the observation that Lawyers seldome dye without a Will or an Heir who died 1631. as Sir Robert died 1665. Judge Foster and he dying suddainly if any do so that dye preparedly As did about the same time Serjeant Hodskins a very witty as well as a very judicious man an excellent Pleader as Thuanus his Father was Vt bonus a Calumniatoriobus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab Ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur As Judge Walter used to say when Baron Denham his associate in the Western Circuit would tell him My Lord you are not merry enough merry enough for a Iudge So Serjeant Hodskins when observed very pleasant for one of his years would reply As chearful as an honest man Henry Hodskins and Iohn Hodskins of Dors. paid for their Loyalty 571l The Serjeant changed his temper with his capacity most free as a private friend and most grave and reserved as a publick person David Ienkins upward of 58. years a Student in Grays-Inn near London of so much skill when a private and young man that my Lord Bicon would make use of his Collections in several Cases digesting them himself and of so much repute in his latter years that Atturney Noy Herbert and Bâ—nks would send the several Cases they were to Prosecute for his Majesty to be perused by him before they were to be produced in Court All the preferment he arrived at was to be Judge of South-Wales a place he never sought after nor paid for the Patent being sent him without his knowledge and confirmed to him without his charge in which capacity if Prerogative of his dear Master or the Power of his beloved Church came in his way stretching themselves beyond the Law he would retrench them though suffering several checks for the one and Excommunication for the other Notwithstanding that he heart of Oak hazarded his life for the just extent of both for being taken prisoner at the surprize of Hereford and for his notable Vindication of the Kings Party and Cause by those very Laws to the undeceiving of thousands that were pretended against them as the violators of the Law particularly for aiding the King 25. Edw. 3. ch 2. Hen. 7. for the Commission of Array 5. Hen. 4. for Archbishops Bishops c. Magna Charta c. for the Common-prayer Statutes Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for the Militia 7. Edw. 1. against counterfeiting the Seal and the usurping of the Kings Forts Ports 25. Edw. 3. for the Kings Supremacy 1. King Iames 5. Queen Eliz. Cook 7. p. rep fol. 11. for the Kings dissent to Bills 2. Hen. 5. against tumults in Parliament 7. Edw. 2. against adhering to any State in the Realm but the Kings Majesty 3. Iames 23. Eliz. for imprisonment and dispossession only by Law Magna Charta c. 29. and the Petition of Right 3. Car. and for increasing the fewd between the Parliament and the Army and instilling successfully into the latter principles of Allegiance by shewing them that all the Parliamentary Ordinances for Indemnity and Arrears were but blinds for the present amounting not to Laws which they could trust to for the future without his Majesties concurrence whose Restauration he convinced them was their unavoidable interest as well as their indispensable duty carried first to the Chancery secondly to the Kings-bench and at last to the Bar of their House the authority of all which places he denied and though he and the Honorable Lewis Dives who hath done his Majesty admirable service in Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Dorsetshire and made a cleanly conveyance away from White-hall with Mr. Holben though through the Common-shore upon pretence of Easing themselves to the Thames and so beyond Sea where he continued with his Majesty during his banishment were designed
Hic jacet R.S. qui assidue oravit pro pace Ecclesiae Dr. Io. Nicholas a Wiltshire man I suppose in the late times Prebend of Salisbury where he excellently Preached Bishop Davenants Funeral Sermon and since Prebend of Westminster and Dean of Saint Pauls to whose piety and moderation the Church is as much beholding as the State to his Brother Sir Edward Nicholas who attended both his Majesty and his Father as a faithful Counsellor and Secretary in their best times and worst A man in no Art or Science shewed its self formally such his modesty but all were eminently such his ability He dying 1662. refufed thousands of pounds for a Lease he might then have disposed of saying he would not so wrong his successor his successor Dr. Barwick dying 1664. did the like whose History is legible in this his Epitaph Amori Aeternitati Quisquis es viator oculum animum hac adverte Lege Luge Iacent sub hoc marmore Tenues exuviae non tenuis animae Johannis Barwick SS T. D. Quem suum Natalibus gloriatur Wappenslacke Ager Westmoriensis Studiis Academia Cantabrigiensis Admissum socium in Sti. Johannis Collegium Indeque quod magis honori est Pulsum a Rebellibus Qui ne perduellium rabiem nec Haemopsin quamvis aeque cruentam certius tandem percussuram quicquam moratus Pro Rege Ecclesia summa Ardua molitus Diro Carcere perquam Inhumana passus Inconcussa semper virtute Renatum denuo vidit Diadema Infulam Etiam sua non parum obstetricante manu Qui deinde functus Decanatu Dunelmensi Paucis mensibus Paulino Vero Triennio Parum diu utroque sed fideliter Tandem post caelibatum cum primis caste cum primis sancte cultum Labe Pulmonum Curis publicis eonfectus heic requiescit in Domino Atque inter sacras Aedis Paulinae ruinas reponit suâ—s Viriusque Resurrectionis securus Anno Aetatis LIII Salutis M. DC LXII Caetera scire si velis disâ—ede Disce ex Illustri primaevae pietatis exemplo Quid sit esse veri nominis Christianum He was very active and prudent in coporating with those Loyal persons that attempted his Majesties Restauration and in assisting the Bishop of London in the Churches Reformation 1662. being fetched up to London for his quick and sweet way of managing Church-affairs wherein he was so well instructed by his Patron Bishop Morton in his many years attendance upon him and therefore no wonder that his Majesty valued him so much as to be willing to redeem his life they are his own words with the exchange of one that had endeavoured to deprive him of his own and sustain it otherwise likely to perish in prison when his enemies had robbed him even of bread for his own mouth Dr. Nicholas Monke Brother to his Grace the Duke of Albemarle born of an ancient Family in Potheridge Devonshire and bred under an excellent Tutor in Wadham-colledge in Oxford being a Private but well-beloved Minister in his own Country as his Brother was a private but much observed Souldier in the Low-countries he came to serve God in the capacity of a Bishop in the Church as his Grace did to serve the King in the highest capacity that ever Subject did in the State From Sir Hugh Pollard Sir Thomas Stukley and others he being always loyally affected himself he took a journey 1659. from Devonshire to Scotland conferring with Sir Iohn Greenvile now Earl of Bath in his way at London and engaging Sir Thomas Clerges who conveighed him safe on Ship-board so fully instructed how to manage his negotiation with caution that with Dr. Samuel Barrow Sir R. Knight Dr. Iohn Price and Dr. Gumbles assistance he was able to perswade his Brother to march into England upon Sir George Booths Declaration and when that failed to send to Sir Thomas Clerges to tell him That if the Parliament would assert their own authority against the Army he would come into England in their defence as he did under that colour to their ruin his Reverend Brother in the mean time transacting an exact correspondence between him and all the West of England particularly recommending to him Sir William Maurice as a faithful and prudent Counsellor For which services he was made Provost of Eaton and Bishop of Hereford where he died 1661. Dr. William Paul born a Citizen of London in East-cheap bred Fellow of All-souls in Oxford an accute Scholar I have heard Dr. Barlow say that he answered the Act when proceeding Doctor the most satisfactorily of any person he heard and he heard many in his time and his Sermon a little before the wars upon that Text Then Paul stood upon Mars-hill and said I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious at an Episcopal Visitation of Oxfordshire was extraordinary Minister of Brightwell in Oxfordshire for thirty years Prebend of Chichester Dean of Lichfeld and Bishop of Oxford 1663. dying there 1665. A shrewd man in business whether of Trade Husbandry Buying and Improving of Land Disposing of Money carrying a great command over the factious about him by his money which he could lend to advantages to the most considerable men of that party in those sad times when others of his Order submitted to them exceedingly well versed in the Laws of the Church and the Land and admirably well seen in the Intrigues and Interest of State Dr. Matthew Wren born near Cheap-side in London descended from a worshipful and ancient Family of his Name in Northumberland brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge where the accuteness of his Philosophy Act before King Iames when he distinguished upon his Majesty that his Dogs might perform more than others by the Prerogative pleased his Majesty and with other learned performances known to the Bishop recommended him to be Chaplain to Bishop Andrews his Education under him furnished him with such experiences in the affairs of the Church and State that he was advanced Chaplain to Prince Henry and his painful but exact Preaching in that Court brought him to Prince Charles his service his prudent conduct of the religious part of their Journey into Spain made his way to King Iames his own service as afterwards to King Charles where in his he had 1. Two Parsonages to exercise his charity upon the poor his munificence upon the Churches Houses and House-keeping and his excellent arts of Government upon the people 2. One Prebendary to enter him into Church affairs 3. The Master-ship of Peter-house a Scene fit for his parts learning and discipline 4. The Deanery of Windsor 5. The Bishoprick of Hereford 1634. 6. The Bishoprick of Norwick 1635. 7. The Bishoprick of Ely 1638. 8. And the Deanery of the Chappel in which capacity he married the Prince of Aurange In all which places if he Preached he gave great instances of pregnant Intellectuals set off with notable Learning and accute Oratory If he visited
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
2 Coll. Warren the right Gospel Centurion that feared God as much as he undervalued man 3 Coll. Fleming 4 Coll. Brin 5 Major Tempest and several other brave Gentlemen Cromwel thinking to cut off all Ireland in cutting off that Town which was the Epitome of it Sir Arthur like Montross had one excellent faculty that in extremity he had some operative Phrases wherewith he could bespeak his Souldiesr to do wonders Pallas so much honoured by him which some Pen equal to his Sword may more fully relate and her Military relation doing him right in her learned Capacity Sir Edward Herbert Atturney-General to his Majesty much troubled about the Impeachment he drew up against the five Members more about the opinion and advice he gave concerning the Parliament having asserted the peoples Liberty with resolution 1626. 27. 28. and his Majesties Rights with integrity 1639. 1640. 1641. his Majesty preferred him for his abilities in the first but the people would never forgive his faithfulness in the second having assisted at most Treaties and Councils at Oxford in the War he retired beyond Sea after dying with honor there though he could not live with Indemnity at home having this Character That he thought he served his Prince best when he gave things the right colour not varnishing them over with a false Gloss which did more harm when discovered than good when pretended Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury whose compleat History you may see in the States-men and Favourites of England Coll. Charles Herbert Coll. Edward Herbert Richard Lord Herbert the Lord Edwards son and Coll. Richard Herbert the first the greatest Artist and Linguist of a Noble man in our Age and a very stout man His History of H. 8. which he writ in as blustering a time as it was lived in is full and authentick in its Collections judicious in the Observations strong coherent and exact in the Connexion His Ambassie into France was well managed for being referred to Luynes the Favourite of France for Audience in behalf of the Reformed Luynes setting two Protestant Gentlemen behind a traverse near the place where they were to conferr to hear what little expectations they ought to entertain of the King of Englands Mediation asked roughly what our King had to do to meddle with the state of France Sir Edward Herbert it s not you to whom 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 Masi◠〈◊〉 more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Neveâ—theless reserving his passion till the issue of the discourse said he if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you farther whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well the Ambassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the peace and prosperity of France and that upon the settlement of that Kingdom he hoped the Palatinate might be the better assisted Luynes returned We will have none of your advices the Ambassador replied He took that for an answer being sorry the King his Masters affections were not suitably resented adding that since it was so he knew well what to do And being answered that the French feared him not returns smilingly If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made no other answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes thereupon rising from his chair discomposed said By God If you were not the Monsieur Ambassadour I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward rising also from his chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Britains Ambassador so he was a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence adding when the Marshal of Geran after a more civil audience of the King told him that he was not safe there since he had so highly affronted Luynes That he held himself to be secure enough where ever he had his Sword by him The Gentlemen behind the Curtains afterwards when he was called home to accommodate Le mal intendu between the two Crowns attesting that though the Constable gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his instructions and honor very discreetly and worthily His Son Richard Lord Herbert dead since deeply engaged with Sir George Booth and many others in most of the designs for his Majesties Restauration all of them the wariest and the most resolute of any that followed his Majesty from the Scots Wars 1639. to the Settlement 1660. Sir Iohn Pennington born nigh Alesbury in Buckinghamsh bred a Sea-man by his great diligence and patience attaining to a Captains Command and by his noble and generous temper to the honour of Admiral of the Guard belonging to the Narrow Seas where gaining vastly by Convoys he lived like a Prince in the magnificence of his Table and Interest in the Sea-men who shared in his gains and he in their hearts making them all true to him as he was to the King and Church being very faithful to the interest of the first till he deluded by the Faction disabled him from serving him and very conscientious in observing the Orders of the second in all his Ships as long as he had any being none of those Sea-men whose piety being a fit of the wind are calm in a storm and storm in a calm Yet very serviceable was he in transporting Commanders Arms Ammunition and other necessaries for his Majesties service keeping Passages open in most Ports of England besides that he secured Scilly Guernsey and Iersâ—y bravely did he 1626 refuse upon my Lord of Buckinghams Order to deliver his Majesties Ships to the French without a considerable security for their value and use and as bravely refused all Overtures from the Parliament he died at Bristol Sept. 1646. having been never cruel as some to Slaves knowing that the Sea might drown the men but not the murder To him I may adde Sir Iohn Lawson a poor mans Son at Hull bred at Sea by his Industry and Dexterity coming to be a Captain in which capacity after some profitable Voyages with Merchants he gained much honor in boarding fix Admiral ships in the War with the Dutch 1651. 1652. 1653. more in contributing to his Majesties Restauration by putting a stop with eight ships upon the mouth of the Thames till the stop put upon the Parliament was removed 1659. most of all in the admirable attempt upon Algiers 1661. 1662. which he forced to make the most honorable Peace they ever made with Christians and afterwards which was more most punctually to observe it and in his gallant Conduct and Resolution in the first Sea-fight between the English and the Dutch 1665. where by a shot in the leg he
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
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
and all his Estate in Ireland both men of miraculous deliverances the one at Sea when forced to serve the Levant or the Indian Merchants where he was twice shipwracked living for four days without any sustenance and at last relieved only by that money which was stollen from him and the Company by one that was to die with them a strange itch to stealing when one takes that which neither they that lost nor he that took it could keep for ought they knew two hours to an end The other saved at the taking of Drogedah when all others were put to the sword because the Souldiers breaking into his Chamber found him at Prayers both persons of great fidelity intrusted with the Legacies and Charities of more private Benefactors than any two men in England and both called to manage publick Largesses the one being Sub-almoner to King Charles II. and the other Almoner to an Office though imposed upon him possibly with design he managed certainly with integrity The first died Archdeacon of Huntington 1666. and is buried at Westminster having great apprehensions of the sad state of things amongst us by the same token-that the last time I saw him he was very inquisitive what particular History there was besides Mr. Fox and the troubles of Frank ford of the Confessors Exile and Sufferings in Queen Maries dayes ' and the other died Rector of Whitchurch in Shropshire where he is buried fearing and suspecting the settlement of Ireland because he chose rather to take a Parsonage here than to return to his Dignities thither They were both Inns of Court-preachers the one Master of the Temple where he was as in all places he came to indefatigable in the extraordinary pains he took in Expounding Praying and Preaching the other Preacher of Grays-Inn 19. Dr. Ieremy Taylor born in Cambridge Town and bred in Cajus Colledge in that University his Parts being above his Birth and Fortunes for his Father was a Barber supplied his Chamber-fellow Mr. Risdens turn in the Pauls Lecture three or four times with such applause above his years that Archbishop Laud that great Judge and Patron of able men observing the tartness of his discourses the quickness of his Parts the modesty and sweetness of his temper and the becomingness of his personage and carriage preferred him Fellow of All Souls Oxford where he might have Time Books and company to compleat himself in those several parts of Learning whereinto he had made so fair an entrance An admirable Specimen of his progress wherein he gave in his full Sermon against the Papists November 5. 1638. preached to the University at St. Maries Oxford and Dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury and being a compleat Artist especially an accurate Logician whereby he reduced all his Learning to such a method that he was the readiest in it of any man in his time notwithstanding the loss of his Church-preferments and which was more to him his time by his necessary attendance on his Majesties Army to which he was Chaplain he writ most accurate Defences of our Episcopacy Liturgy Ministry and Church which were never answered and some of the other side confessed could not be answered so exquisitely quick and exact were his Reasonings so fluent his Language and so prodigiously ready and various his Learning as being a very strict and pious man he writ several taking books of Devotion as Holy Living and Dying his Life of Christ his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Course of Sermons throughout the year the Doctrine and practice of Repentance his Golden Grove or a Manual of daily Prayers the Worthy Communicant A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer fitted to the needs of all Christians the Nature Offices and Measures of Friendship and his Cases of Conscience by which doing the Church in the time of her sufferings great services the latter adorning and assisting the forme◠and his indeavor to make men holy and serious preparing to his pains to make or keep them good Subjects and Church-men His great Wit and vast Learning being to be excused for some unwary Sentiments about Original sin and Liberty of Conscience the first in his Book of Repentance and the second in his Liberty of Prophecying which he writ to weaken Presbytery by pleading for Liberty to all other Sects as well as to undermine it as it had undermined Episcopacy he having published them with submission and explained them with moderation and Ingenuity erring possibly as a man but not persisting in his error as an obstinate man The reason why he was suffered under the Right Honorable the Earl of Carbery to officiate and keep School as he did very dexterously so long in South-wales to preach and keep a Congregation so long in London and to have a settlement in Ireland in those times where he had done so much good that his Majesty preferred him Bishop of Down and Connor there 1660. In which place what advices and comforts did he treasure up for all sorts of people and direct his Clergy to what Liberal Collections did he make what Directions to teach inferior Ministers to say and do well by reading good and approved Books especially Casuists and being skiled in the Rubricks Canons Articles and Homilies of the Church did he give what care of constant Prayers and Communions what strict Injunctions on his Clergy to visit their Parishioners and to deal faithfully with them especially in their sicknesses about their final state what exact Rules about the observation of the Lords day the Church Fasts and Festivals Catechisms Confirmation Confession of sin Declaration of the state of their Souls and conversation with their Ministers about Spiritual things what helps and Rules about the practice methods and benefits of Meditations what caution against popular compliances and making the peoples humors the measure of Doctrines which should be the measure of their humors indiscreet clashings between Prayers Sermons and other Ordinances unbecoming the discourses of God or light expression in the things of God emulation about Audiences of which he would say that he that envied his followed Brother is but a Dwarf that endeavoureth to pull down a higher man but is a Dwarf still advising those who could not have the fame of a good Preacher to take care that they had the Rewards of good men it being very hard to miss both what severity against disputing Articles of Faith or reviving old Heresies and their Arguments or novel and not allowed Interpretations of Scripture what diligence he wished popular errors and evil principles should be suppressed and the four last things should be inculcated what discretion he required in the use of Prmititive known and accustomed words in Religious Discourses in teaching all men the duties of their Calling in avoiding the heights of Gods Mysteries and inculcating the lowliness of Christs life in reproving the faults of men that Laws cannot or do not take cognizance of especially slandering and backbiting those poysons of Charity