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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

he had very fine Attractions and being a good piece of a Schollar yet were they accompanied with the retractiveness of bashfulness and a natural Modesty which as the Tone of his House and the Ebbe of his Fortune then stood might have hindred his Progression had they not been re-inforced by the infusion of Soveraign Favour and the Queen 's Gracious Invitation And that it may appear how low he was and how much that Heretick Necessity will work in the dejection of good spirits I can deliver it with assurance that his exhibition was very scant until his Brother died which was shortly after his admission to the Court and then was was it no more than 1000 Marks per Annum wherewith he lived plentifully in a fine way and garb and without any great Sustentation during all her Times And as there was in his nature a kind of backwardness which did not befriend him nor suit with the motion of the Court so there was in him an inclinations to Armes and a humour of Travelling which had not some wise Men about him laboured to remove and the Queen her self laid in her commands he would out of his natural propension have marred his own market For as he was grown by reading whereunto he was much addicted to the Theory of a Souldier so was he strongly invited by his Genius to the acquaintance of the Practick of the War which were the causes of his excursions for he had a Company in the Low-Countries from whence he came over with a Noble acceptance of the Queen but somewhat restless in honourable thoughts he exposed himself again and again and would press the Queen with the pretences of visiting his Company so often that at length he had a flat denial and yet he stole over with Sir John Norris into the Action of Britain which was then a hot and active War whom he would always call his Father honouring him above all men and ever bewailing his end so contrary he was in his esteem and valuation of this great Commander to that of his Friend my Lord of Essex Till at last the Queen began to take his Decessions for Contempts and confined his residence to the Court and her own Presence And upon my Lord of Essex's fall so confident she was in her own Princely judgment and opinion she had conceived of his worth and conduct that she would have this Noble Gentleman and none other to finish and bring the Irish War to a propitious end For it was a prophetical Speech of her own That it would be his fortune and his honour to cut the thred of that fatal Rebellion and to bring her in peace to the Grave Where she was not deceived for he atchieved it but with much pains and carefulness and not without the fears and many jealousies of the Court and Times wherewith the Queen's age and the malignity of her setting times were replete And so I come to his dear Friend in Court Master Secretary Cecil whom in his long absence from Court he adored as his Saint and courted for his onely Maecenas both before and after his departure from Court and during all the time of his Command in Ireland well knowing that it lay in his power and by a word of his mouth to make or marr him Cecil SIR Robert Cecil since Earl of Salisbury was the Son of the Lord Burleigh and the Inheritor of his Wisdom and by degrees Successor of his Places and Favours though not of his Lands for he had Sir Thomas Cecil his Elder Brother since Created Earl of Exeter He was first Secretary of State then Master of the Wards and in the last of her Raign came to be Lord Treasurer all which were the steps of his Father's greatness and of the Honour he left to his House For his person he was not much beholding to Nature though somewhat for his Face which was the best part of his outside but for his inside it may be said and without soloecisme that he was his Father's own Son and a pregnant proficient in all Discipline of State He was a Courtier from his Cradle which might have made him betimes yet at the Age of Twenty and upwards he was much short of his after-proof but exposed and by change of Climate he soon made shew what he was and would be He lived in those times wherein the Queen had most need and use of Men of Weight and amongst able ones this was a Chief as having his sufficiency from his Instructions that Begat him the Tutorship of the Times and Court which were then the Academies of Art and Cunning for such was the Queen's condition from the Tenth or Twelfth of her Raign that she had the happiness to stand up whereof there is a former intimation though invironed with more Enemies and assaulted with more dangerous Practises than any Prince of her Times and of many Ages before Neither must we in this her Preservation attribute too much to Humane Policies for that God in his Omnipotent Providence had not onely ordained those Secondary Meanes as Instruments of the Work but by an Evident Manifestation that the same Work which she acted was a Well-pleasing Service of his own out of a peculiar care had decreed the Protection of the Work-Mistriss and thereunto added his abundant blessing upon all and whatsoever she undertook which is an observation of satisfaction to my self that she was in the right though to others now breathing under the same form and frame of her Government it may not seem an Animadversion of any worth but I leave them to the peril of their own folly And so again to this great Master of State and the Staff of the Queen's declining Age who though his little crooked Person could not promise any great supportation yet it carried thereon a Head and a Head-piece of a vast content and therein it seems Nature was so diligent to compleat one and the best part about him as that to the perfection of his Memory and Intellectuals she took care also of his Sences and to put him in Linceos Oculos or to pleasure him the more borrowed of Argus so to give unto him a prospective sight and for the rest of his sensitive vertues his Predecessor Walsingham had left him a Receit to smell out what was done in the Conclave and his good old Father was so well seen in the Mathermaticks as that he could tell you through all Spain every part every Ship with the Burthens whither bound with preparation what impediments for diversion of Enterprises Counsels and Resolutions And that we may see as in a little Map how docible this little man was I will present a taste of his Abilities My Lord of Devonshire upon the certainty the Spaniard would invade Ireland with a strong Army had written very earnestly to the Queen and the Council for such Supplies to be sent over that might enable him to march up to the Spaniard if he did Land and follow

the Common-wealth during the reign of Henry the seventh who being of a Noble extract was Executed the first year of Henry the eighth but not thereby so Extinct but that he left a plentiful Estate and such a Son who as the vulgar speaks it could live without the Seat for out of the ashes of his Father's Infamy he rose to be a Duke and as High as subjection could Permit or Soveraignty endure and though he could not find out any Appellation to assume the Crown in his own Person yet he projected and very nearly Effected it for his Son Gilbert by Inter-marriage with the Lady Jane Gray and so by that way to bring it about into his loyns Observations which though they lie behind us and seem impertinent to the Text yet are they not much Extravagant for they must lead and shew us how the After-passages were brought about with the Dependances and on the hinges of a collateral workmanship and truly it may amaze a well-setled judgment to look back into those times and to consider how this Duke could attain to such a pitch of Greatness his Father dying in Ignominy and at the Gallows his Estate confiscate and that for Peeling and Polling by the Clamour and Crucifige of the People but when we better think upon it we find that he was given up but as a Sacrifice to please the People not for any offence committed against the Person of the King so that upon the matter he was a Martyr of the Prerogative and the King in honour could do no less than give back to his Son the Privileges of his blood with the acquirings of his Father's profession for he was a Lawyer and of the King's Counsel at Law before he came to be ex interioribus consiliis where besides the licking of his own fingers he got the King a mass of Riches and that not with the hazard but the loss of his fame and life for the King's Father's sake Certain it is that his Son was left rich in Purse and Brain which are good foundations and full to ambition and it may be supposed he was on all occasions well heard of the King as a Person of mark and compassion in his eye but I find not that he did put up for Advancement during Henry the Eighth's time although a vast Aspirer and Provident storer It seems he thought the King's reign was given to the falling sickness but espying his time fitting and the Soveraignty in the hands of a Pupil Prince he thought he might as well then put-up for it as the best for having then possession of blood and a purse with a head-piece of a vast extent he soon got Honour and no sooner there but he began to side it with the best even with the Protector and in conclusion got his and his Brother's heads still aspiring till he Expired in the loss of his own so that Posterity may by Reading the Father and Grandfather make judgment of the Son for we shall find that this Robert whose original we have now traced the better to present him was inheritor of the Genius and Craft of his Father and Ambrose of the estate of whom hereafter we shall make some short mention We take him now as he was admitted into the Court and the Queen's favour where he was not to seek to play his part well and dexterously But his play was chiefly at the fore game not that he was a learner at the latter but he loved not the after-wit for they report and I think not untruly that he was seldom behind-hand with his Gamesters and that they always went away with the loss He was a very Goodly Person and singular well-Featured and all his youth well Favoured and of a Sweet aspect but High-foreheaded which as I should take it was of no Discommendation but towards his latter end which with old Men was but a middle-age he grew High-coloured and Red-faced So that the Queen in this had much of Her Father for excepting some of Her Kindred and some few that had handsom wits in crooked bodies she always took Personage in the way of her election for the people hath it to this day in Proverb King Harry loved a Man Being thus in her grace she called to mind the sufferings of his Ancestors both in her Fathers and Sisters Reigns and restored his and his brothers blood creating Ambrose the elder Earl of Warwick and himself Earl of Leicester c. And he was ex primitiis or of her first choice for he Rested not there but long enjoyed her favour and therewith much what he listed till Time and Emulation the companions of great ones had resolved on his Period and to cover him at his setting in a cloud at Cornbury not by so violent a death and by the fatal Sentence of Judicature as that of his Fathers and Grandfathers was but as it is suggested by that Porson which he had prepared for others wherein they report him a rare Artist I am not bound to give cred●t to all vulgar Relations or to the Libels of the Times which are commonly forced and falsified suitable to the Moods and Humours of Men in Passion and discontent But that which leads me to think him no good Man is amongst others of known truth that of my Lord of Essex death in Ireland and the Marriage of his Lady yet living which I forbear to press in regard that he is long since dead and others living whom it may concern To take him in the observations of his Letters and Writings which should best set him off for such as fell into my hands I never yet saw a style or phrase more seeming Religious and fuller of the streams of Devotion and were they not sincere I doubt much of his well-being and I may fear he was too well seen in the Aphorisms and Principles of Nicholas the Florentine and in the Reaches of Caesar Borgia Hitherto I have touched him in his Courtship I conclude him in his Lance. He was sent Governour by the Queen to the United States of Holland where we read not of his wonders for they say that he had more of Mercury than of Mars and that his device might have been without prejudice to the Great Caesar Veni vidi redii Sussex HIs Corrival before mentioned was Thomas Radcliffe Earl of Sussex who in his Constellation was his Direct Opposite for he was indeed one of the Queen's Martialists and did very good service in Ireland at her first Accession till she Recalled him to the Court where she made him Lord Chamberlain but he Played not his Game with that Cunning and Dexterity as Leicester did who was much the more Facete Courtier though Sussex was thought much the Honester Man and far the Better Souldier but he lay too open on his Guard He was a goodly Gentleman and of a brave Noble nature True Constant to his Friends and Servants He was also of a very Noble and Ancient Lineage