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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04571	A remembrance of the honors due to the life and death of Robert Earle of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer of England, &c.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1612 (1612)	STC 14691; ESTC S119333	11,809	32

A Remembrance of the Honors due to the Life and Death of ROBERT Earle of Salisbury Lord Treasurer of England c. Imprinted at London for Iohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop neere Christ Church doore 1612. ❧ To the honoured belouers of the well deseruing worth of the late deceased Robert Earle of Salisbury Vicount Cranborne Baron of Essindon principall Secretary to his Maiestie Maister of the Court of wardes and Liueries Chancelor of the Vniuersity of Cambridge Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of his Highnesse most honorable priuy Councell IN the height of admiration which my thoughts conceiued of the deserued worth of this late deceased nobleman I imagined many deseruedly boūd to offer to his name signes of loue and duty in a high measure which I now find contrary Schollers I see in these euill dayes giue no luster to Nobillity but neclegently suffer their renownes to consume with their bodies the pens of long lasting poesie writes not in times fore-head vertues records to posterity but carelesly giues way to enuy that canker-worme to greatnesse to eate out all remembrance of mortallitie some I know will controulingly censure and giue sentence of this my ouer-bold presumption a taske more befitting a most excellent Artist but the reason of this my bold aduenture is because I see the Muses lippes lockt vp and all loath to enter into the discription of his honorable liues pilgrimage be as it bee will I stand patiently armed against the biting scoffes of selfe-conceited wits with this reasonable excuse I confesse ignorance and with all giue them thus to vnderstand I neuer tasted one drop of Parnassus fountaine but yet care added to industrious trauells is able to performe matters of importance your high worth may Iudge of my meaning my loue to the deceased begot this boldnesse therefore for his sake whom you honored in life time daine to affoord one cheerefull countenance to my humble affection for I stand like poore blind Irus before the worlds lottery casting in my lots either of good or euill fortune where if I chance to light but vpon any reasonable prize of good liking I haue my desire but if all happen blankes I depart ouer-loaden with burthens of discontent to my rustick cell and their pining lye consum'd away in penance for this my presumption so in duty I kisse my hand and humbly take my leaue Richard Jhonson To the world IF in the depth of my intyre affection long borne to the honored house of the Cecils I take vpon me plainely to set downe according to my simple vnderstanding the honorable augmented dignities of the late deceased Earle of Salisbury and therin offend some peremtory censurers I lay the fault vpon my presuming loue and make it my priuiledge of excuse The temporizing world I know full of enuy ingratitude vnkindnesse hath nursed vp fame-killing falshood the greatest enemy to naked truth not valewing true worth clamerously to wrong this desertfull statist by detracting from his honor times applauding graces a cankering deisease after death subiect to greatnesse but let blacke mouthed enuy be of a more fauorable carriage for inocent truth before the worlds broad eye stands combatant and will asuredly defend his honorable deseruings from his greatest disparrages Fame I see stands ready prest to giue the world notice of his worlds late aduancements first he had a time a happy time I may say when desert in his prime of youth won him a multitude of honorable friends to continew to his age for beeing euen but in the bloome of a vertuous inclination he so tyed his Princes affection to his succeeding preferments that hee obtayned by instruction of his father the Lord William Burleigh the perfect rules of a well gouerned Statist Now heare to make a short florish how by degrees hee climbed to the top of all these his high dignified titles and places of honour he thus fortunatly proceeded first vnto the age of sixteene yeares he was onely tutord vnder his father and in his fathers house without any other education at which time of his age by his virtuous mothers will and free guift of thirty pounds yearely giuen to a colledge in Cambridge he was sent in person to carry it and be the presentor of the same him-selfe where at that young age he commenced according to the order of schooles and was made maister of Art after this in short time by the fauour of Queene Elizabeth hee was in the presence of the state royall created Knight at Theobalds and immediatly to his greater aduancements in the yeare of our Lord. 1588. hee was sent ouer into France to accompany our then English Ambassador Henry the great Earle of Darby a grace fitting so noble a spirit as he was like to be Englands buisinesse there ended hee returned and in short time after merited by his wel deseruing indeuours many court honours as vnder Secretary to Queene Elizabeth then principal Secretary of Estate then one of the Queenes Maiesties most honorable priuy Councell these dignified places in the eye of his honored father were put vnto his charge which hee so wisely caried that hee obtained euen the common grace of the multitude in which authorities he bore himselfe in the worlds equall balance till the death of his father and then it pleased his gratious Mistresse Queene Elizabeth to bestow vpon him the office of the Maister of Wards and liueries which hee inioyed with the rest till the death of his said Soueraigne but our now royall King comming to this his Imperiall kingdome and looking into the worth of this man weakned not any of these his aduancements but added more strength to the same by creating him first a Barron next a Vicecount then an Earle then Knight of the honorable order of the Garter one of the Councell of Estate and lastly Lord High treasurer of England the greatnesse of which places planted His renowne in the feelds of succeeding times I must not ouerpasse his Chancellorship of the Vniuersity of Cambridge that nurse of witdecking schollors whose learned pens might let the world know all his fame worthy actions but time I see proues vngratefull and would haue his memory buryed in forgetfulnesse Awake sluggish muses awake In his life might thousands of noble obiects befound wherein your noble spirits might towre high It is a task onely fitting rare pens and not for me the worst of many thousands to giue him that immortallity which the basenesse of this worthlesse time will hardly afford honour him kind schollers with some sonnets that liuing honored you and cause him to liue in dispight of repining fate This is the richest Epithite my loue can bestow vpon him he was borne honorable experience made him wise educatiō learned and these were his honors yet his cares were great to maintaine them He alwaies tooke nerest into his fauours such as were best aquainted with wisdoms secrets I am loath to be long in my