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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52673	Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorits written by Sir Robert Naunton ...	Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635.	1641 (1641)	Wing N250; ESTC R12246	37,238	44

to come to the Court and I will be think my self how to do you good and this was his inlet and the beginnings of his grace where it fals into confideration that though he wanted not wit and courage for he had very fine atractions and being a good peece of a Scholler yet were they accompanied with the retractives of bashfulness and a naturall modesty which as the toan of his house the ebbe of his fortune then stood might have hindred his progression had they not been reinforced by the infusion of Soveraign favour and the Queens gratious invitation And that it may appear how low he was and how much that heretique necessity will work in the dejection of good spirits I can deliver it with assurance that his exhibition was very scant untill his Brother dyed which was shortly after his admission to the Court and then was it no more then a thousand Marks ●er 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 kinde of backwardnesse which did not befriend him nor suite with the motion of the Court so there was in him an inc●ination to Armes with a humour of travelling and gadding abroad 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 naturall propension have marred his own market for as he was grown by reading whereunto he was much adicted to the theory of a Souldier so was he strongly invicted by his genius to the acquaintance of the practique of the Warre 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 restlesse in honourable thoughts he exposed himself again and again and would presse the Queen with the pretences of visiting his Company so often that at length he had a flat deniall and yet he stole over with Sir Iohn Norris into the action of Britain which was then a hot and active Warre whom he would alwayes call his Father honouring him above all men and ever bewayling 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 fall so confident she was in her own Princely judgement and opinion she had conceived of his worth and conduct that she vvould have this noble Gentleman and none other to finish and bring the Irish Warre to a propitious end for it vvas a propheticall speech of her ovvn that it vvould be his fortune and his honour to cut the thred of that fatall rebellion and to bring her in peace to the grave vvhere she vvas not deceived for he atchieved it but vvith much pains and carefulnesse and not vvithout the fears and many jealousies of the Court and times vvherevvith the Queens age and the malignity of her setting times vvere repleat and so I come to his dear friend in Court Master Secretary Cecill vvhom in his long absence from Court he adored as his Saint and Courted for his onely Mecenas both before and after his departure from Court and during all the times of his command in Ireland vvell knovving that it lay in his povver and by a vvord of his mouth to make or marre him Cecill SIR Robert Cecill since Earl of Salisbury vvas the sonne of the Lord Burleigh and in the inheritor of his vvisedome and by degrees Successor of his places and favours though not of his Lands for he had Sir Thomas Cecill his elder brother since created Earl of Exete● he vvas first Secretary of State then Master of the Wards and in the last of her raign came to be Lord Treasurer all vvhich vvere the steps of his Fathers greatnesse and of the honour he left to his House For his person he vvas not much beholding to nature though somevvhat for his face vvhich vvas the best part of his outside but for his inside it may be said and vvithout soloecisme that he vvas his Fathers ovvn sonne and a pregnant proficient in all discipline of State He vvas a Courtier from his Cradle vvhich might have made him betimes yet at the age of tvventy and upvvards he vvas much short of his after proof but exposed and by change of climate he soon made shovv vvhat he vvas and vvould be he lived in those times vvherein the Queen had most need and use of men of vvaight and amongst able ones this vvas 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 Queens condition from the tenth or twelfth of her raigne that she had the happinesse to stand up whereof there is a former intimation though invironed with more enemies and assaulted with more dangerous practises then any Prince of her times and of many ages before neither must we in this her preservation attribute to much to humane pollices for that God in his omnipotent providence had not onely ordained those secundary means as instruments of the work but by an evident manifestation that the same worke which she acted was a well pleasing service of his owne out of a peculiar care had decreed the protection of the work-Mistris 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 perill of their own folly And so again to this great Master of State and the staffe of the Queens declinning age who though his little crooked person could not promise any great supportation yet it carryed thereon a head and a headpeece 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 intellectualls she took care also of his sences and to put him in 〈◊〉 oculos or to pleasure him the more borrowed of Argns so to give unto him a prospective sight and for the rest of his sensitive vertues his predecessor Walsingham had left him a receipt to smell out what was done in the conclave and his good old Father was so well seen in the Mathematickes as that he could tell you throughout all Spain every part every Ship with their burthens whither bound with preparation what impediments for diversion of enterprises Councells 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

of the Common-wealth during the raign of Henry the seventh who being a noble extract was executed the first yeer of Henry the eighth but not thereby so extinct but that he left a plentifull estate and such a Sonne who as the vulgar speaks it could live without the teat for out of the Ashes of his Fathers infamy he rose to be a Duke and as high as subjection could permit or Soveraignty endure and though he could not finde out any appellation to assume the Crown in his own person yet he projected and very neerly effected it for his Sonne Gu●lbert by intermarriage with the Lady 〈◊〉 Grey and so by that way to bring it about into his loynes Observations which though they lye behinde 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 collaterall workmanship and truely it may amaze a well settled judgement to look back into those times and to consider how this Duke could attain to such a pitch of greatnesse his Father dying in ignominy and at the Gallows his estate confiscate and that for peeling and polling by the clamor and cruci●●ge of the people but when we better think upon it we finde 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 lesse then give back to his Son the priviledge of his bloud with the acquirings of his Fathers profession for he was a Lawyer and of the Kings Councell at Law before he came to be ex 〈…〉 where besides the lickings of his own fingers he got the King a Masse of riches and that not with the hazard but the losse of his fame and life for the Kings Fathers sake Certain it is that his sonne 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 marke and compassion in his eye but I finde not that he did put up for advancement during Henry the eights time although a vast aspirer and provident storier It seemes he thought the Kings raign was much given to the falling sicknesse but espying his time fitting and the Soveraignty in the hands of a pupill Prince he thought he might as well then put up for it as the best for having then possession of bloud and a purse with a head-peece 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 Brothers heads still aspyring till he expired in the losse of his own so that posterity may by reading the Father and the Grandfather make judgement of the sonne for we shall finde that this Robert whose originall 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 Queens favour where he was not to seek to play his part well and dexteriously But his play was chiefly at the forgame not that he was a learner at the latter but he loved not the after wit for they report and I think not untruely that he was seldome behinde hand with his Gamesters and that they alwayes went away with the losse He was a very godly 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 handsome wits in crooked bodies she alwayes 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 minde the sufferings of his Ancestors both in her Fathers and sisters raignes and restored his and his brothers bloud creating Ambr●s the elder Earl of Warwick and himself Earl of Leicester c. And he was ex rimiti●s 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 Cornebury not by so violent a death and by the fatall sentence of judicature as that of his Fathers and Grandfathers was but as it is suggested by that poyson which he had prepared for others wherein they report him a rare Artist I am not bound to give credit to all vulgar relations or to the libells 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 presse 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 strains 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 Aphorismes and principles of Nicholas the Florentine and in the reaches of Caesar Borgia and hitherto I have onely 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 reade not of his wonders for they say that he had more of Mercury then Mars and that his device might have been without prejudice to the great Caesar Veni vidi redii Sussex HIs Corrivall before mentioned was Thomas Radcliff Earl of Sussex who in his constellation was his direct opposite for he was indeed one of the Queens Martialists and did very good service in Ireland at her first accession till she recalled him to the Court where she made him Lord Chamberlaine but he played not his game with that cunning and dexterity as Leiceste did who was much the more faceate Courtier though Sussex was thought much the honester man and farre the better souldier but he lay too open on his guard He was a goodly Gentleman and of a brave Noble nature true and constant to his friends and servants he was also of