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
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
St. Nicholas Olaves Mr. Chibbald of St. Nicholas-Cole-abby Mr. Haines of Olaves Hart-street Mr. Tuke of Olaves Iewry Mr. Marbury of St. Peter Pauls-Wharse Mr. Adam of St. Bennets Pauls-Wharse known by his Sermons on St. Peter Mr. Eccop of St. Pancras Soper-lane Mr. Vochier of St. Peters Cheapside Dr. Littleton Sir Edward Littletons Brother of the Temple Mr. Pigot of St. Sepulchres Mr. Rogers of St. Botolph Bishops-gate and Finchley who dyed since his Majesties Restauration Mr. Heath of Newington Dr. Stampe of Stepney dead in exile beyond Sea Dr. Wimberly of St. Margaret Westminster all Sequestred most of them Plundred and many of them forced to fly Mr. Ephraim Vdall of St. Austines Parish Sequestred and his Bed-rid Wife turned out of doors and left in the streets by those very people for whom his Father Ephraim Vdall was condemned to be hanged in Queen Elizabeths time Musculus in Germany was the first that taught the plain but effectual method of Doctrine and Use in a Sermon Ephraim Vdall the Father added reasons to that method and Ephraim Vdall the Son first used the way of Soliloquie and Question and Answer he was a great Catechist and a great Preacher of Restitution A bold man that told the Faction in a publick Sermon at Mercers-Chappel You much desire Truth and Peace leave your lying and you may have truth lay down your undutiful Arms and you may have peace and more in another Sermon he preached at St. Pauls in the height of the Rebellion against taking up Arms on any pretence against Kings called Noli me tangere He once a year preached one Sermon to teach his people to benefit by his former Sermons as they say there is one Law wanting yet and that is a Law to put all the other good Laws in Execution Dr. Philip King younger Son to Bishop Io. King of London and Brother to Bishop H. King of Chichester whom good nature made a most facetious Companion a quaint Orator and Poet and an excellent Christian being not of those mens Religion who as the Poet told his Mistress had so much Divinity that they had no Humanity take Christianity for a Meek Charitable Peaceable and a good natured Religion sequestred from his Rectory at Botolph Billings-gate his Prebend of St. Pauls and Arch-Deaconry of Lewis and forced to fly to save his Life and when he had nothing to lose but his life he dyed 1666. Mr. Hansley preferred Chaplain to Bishop Iuxon upon a Rehearsal Sermon he Preached at St. Pauls Archdeacon of Colchester Minister of St. Christophers London and Albury in Surrey forced away through the harmless picture of good nature even because he was not spirited for the Cause as they told him He died 1666. in the Hundreds of Essex where only he could safely because there he died daily To whom I may joyn his very image honest Mr. Humes of St. Dyonis-Backchurch who was turned out as one said because they suspected his learning would not comply with their ignorant courses nor his meekness and moderation with their disobedience whose great Preface-word to his Sermons was Hear with meekness and humility the Word of God c. Well beloved for his holy Ventriloquy I mean his speaking from the heart to the heart and respected for that he dwelled not in Generalities in his Sermons but drew his discourses into particular Cases of Conscience wherein he determined the just points of their liberty what they might lawfully do to keep them from Negative Superstition and of their restraint what they might not lawfully do to keep them from boundless licentiousness Pertinent in his Quotations of Scripture in his Preaching because the Hearers might profitably retain all he Quoted and he seriously peruse them Reasons were the Pillars of his Sermons and his apt but grave Similies and Illustrations the Windows that gave the best light Mr. Sam. Stone of St. Clement East-cheap and St. Mary Abchurch Prebend of St. Pauls Sequestred Plundered and because he had a shrewd faculty in discovering to the people the fallacies the holy cheat was carried on with witness his excellent Sermon on Prov. 14. 8. The folly of fools is deceit imprisoned at Plimouth whence his letters sent to encourage his friends were those of St. Pauls very powerful though his bodily presence was weak He died 1665. Mr. Iohn Squire Vicar of St. Leonard Shoreditch for asserting Prayers more necessary than Sermons in the Sickness time for writing himself Priest which was no more as he would pleasantly observe than the contraction of the word Presbyter for spending so much time as he did much in Preaching a Rationale upon the Common Prayer saying truly that those prayers are not liked because not understood and vindicating the Government Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church for Preaching zealously against the Scots Invasion and declaring as vehemently against the English Rebellion Preaching truly and bidding them remember it when he was dead and gone that they themselves would repent it Sequestred Imprisoned 1. In Gresham Colledge with divers eminent Citizens of London 2. In New-gate 3. In the Kings-bench his Wife and Children in the mean time turned out of those doors at which he had relieved so many thousands and Plundered In his Imprisonment injoying the greatest freedom his soul as he would say being himself which could as little be confined to one place as his body could be diffused to many to confirm and comfort his Fellow-prisoners and upon all fair opportunities to undeceive his Fellow-citizens Mr. Ward of St. Leonard Foster-lane was of the same bold temper guilty of the same fault with Mr. Squire viz. calling a Spade a Spade and the Scots Traitors in his Clerum at Sion Colledge and liable to the same punishment for after a Recantation injoyned him he was Sequestred Plundered and forced to fly to Oxford where it is said he died for want He was never Plaintiff in any Suit with his Parishioners but to be Rights Defendant When his dues were detained from him he grieved more for his Parishioners had conscience than his own dammage being willing rather to suffer ten times in his Profit than once in his Title where not only his Person but his Posterity was wronged and when he must needs appeal from his Neighbors to his Superiors he proceeded fairly and speedily to a tryal that he might not vex and weary others but right himself during necessary Suits neither breaking off nor slacking Offices of courtesie to his Neighbors Dr. William Fuller a general Scholar well skilled in his own and former times a good Linguist those Languages which parted at Babel in a confusion met in his soul in a method a deep Divine and Master of all those Rules which the experience of 1600. years had gathered together for the reducing of Divinity into a method whereby a man might readily upon any occasion meet with full satisfaction in any point he desired a methodical pathetick and sententious Preacher Not like Scaliger in his
sequestred by the Parliament he brought 600 Horse and Foot to his Majesty with whom he did more service than any Gentleman in York-shire being always in action till he was overpowered by Sir H. Ch. at Gisâ—orough where he was taken prisoner till exchanged for Col. Sanderson with an undaunted Industry upon all occasions pursuing his Majesties interest both when he was taken with Iohn Berkely in the West and with divers other Gentlemen in the North being a Prisoner in Hull off and on during the whole Usurpation till being trepanned by some words of the Officers of that Garrison against the Usurper together with some Inclination towards his Majesty after some cautious pauses to sound the villains made use there of some old Commissions he had under his Majesties hand for which being brought before a packed Court of his enemies he was condemned to be murthered Iune 8. 1658. notwithstanding that he there discovered the juggle and plot of the Officers and the Impossibility of the thing it self as he was notwithstanding the Intercession of his Nephew the Lord Viscount Faâ—lcon-bridge the Sultan being as he said Inexorable to perswade people forsooth of the horror of the Fact not to be pardoned in a relation laying down after devout and serious prayers together with a short speech declaring upon his death the odiousness of the Trepan and his sorrow that it was not for some more effectual service to his Majesty with courage and resolution saying he was ready to submit his Neck to the Executioners stroke In the Company of Dr. Iohn Hewet a Norfolke man by extraction and Birth and a Cambridge man by Education carrying the Gentility of his Family in the gentileness of his behaviour He stayed not long in Cambridge to be a Scholar before he came to London where in those dayes young men learned to be preachers whom so sweet his voyce and so comely his presence and behaviour that as many came to hear him read prayers then as afterwards flocked to hear him preach So devout grave and distinct his pronunciation that it is probable the prayers of the Church had never been turned out of it if Moses had been so preached that is edifyingly read the seriousness of the office suiting with the weight of the prayers in our Synagogues and those maintain the true worth of Common-Prayer in their arguments did not undervalue them in their Administration His civility and good carriage preferred him to a relation to the Earle of Lindsey as Chaplain and to his virtuous Sister as husband with whom he went through the blackest adversity guilding it with that serenity of temper which others want in their brightest prosperity which together with the smoothness the pleasure of his converse and diligence of his discourses the sweetness of his gesture each part the lifted-up hands the Heaven-ward fixed eyes his sweetly grave and sober countenance and the erect posture preaching eloquently their respective Sermons and the whole one great Rhetorick Schemâ— begat him great applause as that did great envy in so much that when he was convented for the supposed entertainment of my Lord of Ormond his journey to Bruges and the feigned Plot of burning London to make him odious in that place where he was so popular the Usurper did not so much examine as revile him discovering his own spleen rather than the good Doctors design telling him among other approbrious Imputations that he was in the City as a Torch set in the midst of a sheaf of Corne and when he was sentenced by the bloud-hounds for denying their authority and illegal and arbitrary way of proceeding alledging against them the known Law of the Land in the best authorities and presidents no intercession of the Tyrants own dearest Daughter Cleâ—poole who immediately upon it fell mad and before her death told him such bloody things as hastened his both dying not long after the Doctor after whose death the prosperous villany never saw good day could prevail for his life no nor of those very Ministers who were suspected out of aemulation to irritate him to thirst after his innocent blood and therefore for shame beseeched him to save it But Iune 8th aforesaid having made his peace with God and by his charitable Letters to all persons he might of infirmity at anytime have offended as much as in him lay endeavoured to be at peace with all men he came with an holy resolution to the Scaffold at Tower-hill in the company of Dr. Wild Dr. Warmestry and Dr. Berwick of each of whom more hereafter as he said To bear witness to the truth as he did to the Religion Laws and Liberties of England denying upon his death the matters laid to his charge and there with Christan magnanimity sealed it by being beheaded with his bloud As did Colonel Ashton a Prisoner for debt who being allowed a little liberty upon design fell into some emissaries company who as he said upon his death spoke those dangerous words which they testified against him and for that was Hang'd Drawn and Quartered Iuly 2. 1658. in Tower-street as did Mr. Iohn Betley a young man of excellent parts in Cheap-side who after he was thought dead pulled off his Cap and looked upon the people and Mr. Edward Stacy who suffered two days after the last Martyr under the Usurpation Under which suffered Col. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the Parish of Ewford in the County of Wilts Esq a Pious Honest Meek and very grave Gentleman of serious Thoughts and few Words that was all fear and reverence in the Church that heaven he called it where God was more than he making Conscience of giving God to use his own Word his Day and Due and all integrity without an integrity made up of Iustice of which he would say he could not offer an injury to any but thereby he taught that person to injure him adding that our honesty was our security and Charity of which he would often with contentment repeat that Verse of his dear Herbert Ioyn hands with God to make a Man to live Who undertaking with the whole Nation for that noble Engagement was national for his Majesties Restauration the just Priviledges of Parliament the Rights and Liberties of the People and the established Religion rose with Sir Ioseph Wagstaffe in the West upon confidence of the generality of the design the discontents of the lately dissolved Parliament though betrayed by Manning Colonel Mannings Son who was slain at Aâ—esford-fight who was formerly Secretary to the Earl of Pembroke and then Clerke to one of his Majesties Secretaries betrayed all his Majesties correspondencies till Colonel Tukes broke into his Chamber and caught him in the very fact for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country appearing on Munday Mâ—rch 9. at Salisbury in the Assize time whence having seized the Lawyers horses and the Judges Rolls and Nicholas Commissions they marched to Chard in Sommerset-shire where Colonel
of the Poet and Orator as Charles the 5 th assisted at his Funeral His travels were so many Victories over the times and the Vices of those places he lived in no insight into the Arts and Intrigues of ill being able to biass his soul from its noblest design of vertue whereof he learned from bad Customs the excellent practice and of truth which he taught all the Languages he was Master of as an exquisite Latinist as Englishman a facete Italian an exact Spaniard a fluent French man and a skilful Portugez to speak a strange Current this that passing through several soils yet received no taints from the several passages nor ever travelled from his own nature Having had the honor to serve his Majesty in his younger years with such fidelity and dutiful affection to his Person which found his gracious acceptance together with some incouragement from his own mouth to hope a new and a more fixed relation to him in the future and having in times unhappy indeed to the State but glorious to many good men to whose abilities and integrity calms had been no tryals run all the hazzards of his suffering Master and his afflicted Cause in the quality of his Secretary in Holland France Scotland and what was more at Worcester where he was wounded and taken Prisoner such services without worldly hope to allure could have only pure Conscience for their principle and it was the bare Right of his Master joyned with a love to the owner and a belief of Providence made him digest all the misfortunes of an unhappy allegiance having I say thus deserved of his Majesty in his afflictions he knowing his abilities were as great as his merits advanced him at his Restauration to be one of the Masters of Request The great Ambassador of honor to Wooe his Queen for Marriage in the Court of Portugall 1661. 1662. 1663. where he behaved himself with a great Address and of business to work his Allies to a firmer Peace by Treaty of Commerce in the Court of Spain 1664. 1665. where he managed things with great Integrity being so far above private advantages that he nobly threw away that Wealth which others grasp at to preserve Kingdoms tying himself with the same truth to the business of his Prince that he had done to his Fortune at Madrid He died Iuly 1666. leaving behind him the Character 1. Of as able a man as one grown studiously gray in Travel Universities and Courts which infused into him whatsoever of excellent such eminent Schools by long observation could teach so apt a Scholar 2. Of a plain-heartedness dwelling in a breast and temper large and open made indeed to hide his Masters secrets but not dissemble his own inclinations 3. Of a great industry and patience whereof the whole course of his life is an Argument particularly his two Journeys from Madrid to Lisbon and back again to accommodate some jealousies over so long a Tract of ground in so short a time 4. Of great exactness in all his Addresses Observations and Correspondencies 5. Of a sweet nature a familiar and obliging humility and a knowing and serious Religion Sir William Boswell I know not whether a more exact Scholar Fellow of Iesus Colledge Camb. and Proctor of the University 1624. or an accomplished Statesman Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton Leiger Ambassador in Holland and afterwards Leiger Ambassador there himself The World is beholding to him for giving famous Mr. I. Mede Money at Sturbridge Fair to buy some Books which he saw him look melancholly upon and of which upon discourse with him he said if he could not have bought them he was resolved to withdraw to a Countrey retirement then offered where he had been buryed alive and the rich Notions and Observations in the Critical Learning and Chronology of the Scripture wherein he was the happiest man living buried with him He managed a Negotiation between Scholars as appears by his Letters to Mr. Mede and others to improve Learning as well as be-between States to improve Trade he understood Trade well and Books better by this being able to better mens nature and the other only their Interest having as strict an eye upon Frankford Mart as Amsterdams Religion had as much of his care as either Learning or Traffick as appears in the Discoveries he made by Andreas ab Habernfield of the plots against it and the pains he took in the business of the Marriage of the Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary with other Treaties for the promotion of it To his Negotiation we owe all the Arms Ammunition and Officers we had from Holland and all the Civilities we found there where I am told he died 1646 7. in the 54 th year of his age Rather than omit I will here misplace Dr. Mark Frank who will be known to Posterity by this Monument near the entrance of the North-door of St. Pauls Hoc marmore tumulatur Doctrina Pietas Charitas Quippe Monumentum Illius Marci Franke S. Th. D. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi a sacris Sancti Albani Archidiaconi hujus Ecclesiae The saurarii Prebendarii Aulae Pembrochiae Cantabrigiensis Praefecti Cujus Virtutem Humilitatem eloquentiam In singulis sagacitatâ—â— Dictis metiri non Liceâ—t dicat Posteriâ—as Obiit Aetatis anno Ll. Salutis MDCLXIV Which Character becomes well Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean Bois his Brother-in-law and himself Dean of Canterbury a Gentleman of an unwearied study great travels intimate acquaintance with Padre Paulo of Venice who told him that the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England were the most â—rimitive of any in the world and of great esteem with the Parliament 1622. 1623. 1624. 1626. 1627. 1628. who took the Sacrament constantly at his hands at St. Margarets Westminster where he was many 〈◊〉 the faithful Minister and advice from his mouth often at â—â—â—â—cation whereof he was several times an eminent and activeâ—â—â—ber that had suffered for his Zeal in a Sermon before the Parliament 1623. upon that Text I will wash 〈…〉 and compass thine Altar against Popery evil Counsellors and Corruption and now suffered for being a Patron of both his House being ransacked his Family frighted and abused the will of Dr. Boyes and some Gold they found in his Wives now 80â— years of age Chamber threatned to be embezzeled his Wife led up and down the House in her Morning Gown at midnightâ— his son carried Prisoner to Dover Castle and as Witches draw the Picture of the man they would enchant so they drew a scandalous Character of this Gentleman which indeed was so unlike his modesty and civility that he need not fear the charms and at last the Dean himself seized at Gravesend and sent Prisoner to the Fleet with sorrow for which usages from one the Commander in this business whom he had saved from the Gaâ—lows at Maidstone some years before he died heart broken and it is well if his Enemies did so with repentance To him I may adde 2.
before peoples eyes to move or exasperate them the dead and pardoned are forgotten My Lord had vast Affections for the Protestant Interest as appeared by his Proposals in Councel his wishes rather than his hopes and what he would rather then what he could do yet he suspected the Swedes and Scots Assistants as rather an Army of Mercenaries than the Auxiliaries of Friends Two things he said undid us 1. That our Divines had been so careless in opening the ground of Religion that Novelties had got such advantages over ancient Truths as to charge primitive Practices for Innovations 2. That our Lawyers were so byassed in their explications of the ground of the Law that old Laws such as those of Knighthood whereby the Subjects holding of the King as all do originally were either to be Knighted or fined for it and that for Ship-money shall be cried down for new Exactions My Lord applauded his Majesties generous Goodness in stopping the Combate between the Witnesses about Hamiltons Design to entertain all the Scots abroad to serve him against his Prince at home but he feared his easiness afterwards in trusting him He like H. 7. being at once what few men are most suspicious most knowing and most stout whereas usually the suspicious man is one that knows little and fears much Much did he resent the Differences between Protestants and Protestants and more with Bishop Bancroft encouraged he the Dissentions between the Seculars and Jesuits as he did in Civil Matters between some Scots and English advising that the Press might be open to them to discover the nakedness of their Parties and shut to our Disputants the Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the Arminians and Anti-Arminians lest we betray our own Opinions it was his Maxime For Schools positive and practical Divinity onely for Presses and Pulpits A Maxime of as great concernment to the Church as his Contributions for Pauls which to say no more were worthy the Earl of Strafford and Bishop Laud's friend From being a Member of the Councel in the South he was advanced Lord President of the North and thence a while after Lord Deputy of Ireland In the North begun that Animosity between him and Vane about Raby that was not allayed but with his bloud Here he would have strengthned the Law by Prerogative always making good the Prerogative by Law some there complained to him of the Kings Government and he told them They complained of the Laws adding That the little Finger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings Clemency would be heavier than the Kings Loyns He endeavoured to indear his Majesties Government to his best Subjects and render it dreadful to the worst Parts and Merits imployed against the Government by mistake he informed and encouraged to better Imployment but Parts and Merits poysoned by Pride and Ambition he suppressed and sleighted saying He loved not a man of large Parts and a narrow and selfish Spirit He had Worth that was sure to raise Envy and a Prudence to allay it moderating the power he had himself and maintaining that of other Magistrates who might be his Skreen Who as he ingrossed not Business to exercise his Power so he intangled it not to raise a suspicion of his Cunning carrying things on in a plain and open rather than a private and close way not that he feared the effects of Envy on himself calling Envy a Shadow that reflâ—cted 〈…〉 prejudice it and as shadows did more 〈…〉 falls upon than to those stately things it 〈…〉 judging it his Monitor rather than his Danger Son 〈…〉 in the wary Conduct of his Affairs rather thâ—n 〈…〉 avoided them in the smooth course of his 〈◊〉 which wâ—nt above the hazard but not the interruptions of Envy The first Institution of the Presidents Place in the North was to suppress Rebellions and my Lords first caâ—e in â—â—at Place was 〈◊〉 prevent them How carefully did he look out 〈…〉 wise Clergy-men that might instruct and guide how 〈◊〉 did he choose knowing and noble Gentlemen that might govern and 〈◊〉 that rude Corner of the Kingdom equally obnoxious to the 〈◊〉 â—â—ations of the old Superstition that erept thither 〈…〉 the Seas and of the late Innovations that stole in 〈◊〉 from beyond the Tweed both dangerous to the People and 〈…〉 Government Instruction he would say must 〈◊〉 wa◠〈◊〉 Government and Government back Instruction by the 〈…〉 the hearts of men and by the second it â—yes their 〈…〉 the King trusted in his own Person the Eaâ—l 〈…〉 Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the North at onceâ— to 〈◊〉 and secure himself rendring hâ—s Authority plâ—â—â—sible by administring Government to the People by those 〈◊〉 that had most Interest in them and could best awe because they alwayes obliged them admitting many to his assistance and 〈◊〉 to â—is trust His Observations upon the Humors of the â—â—â—â—hern People prompted him to advise his Majesty to a Progress 〈◊〉 â—cotland Anno 1633. to encourage the Loyal Part of that 〈◊〉 on this side the Tweed by his Presence to settle the disloyal 〈…〉 other side by his Laws he having Intelligence from Scoâ—â—â—â—â— tâ—ey are the words of a great Lord then trusted with the Crown of that Kingdom that if the King should long deferr his Coronation the Scots might perhaps incline to make choice of another King This â—rogress by taking in the most popular and great Noble-men of the North to attend His Majesty he managed with a noble Conduct advancing all along the Kings Majesties Interest and Honor of such mighty consequence it is how a Prince appears to his people When he had composed the Affairs of Scotland some defects appearing by dayly Tumults and Commotions in the Government of Ireland this accomplished Person in the Affairs of Rule discovering dayly greater and greater Abilities equal to a Minister of State after he had brought my Lord of Holland to a Submission at the Council-Table and in some measure reduced the Factions that broke out dayly at Court where to use his dear Friend Archbishop Land's words Private Ends appeared every day more and more â—o the prejudice of the publike Service was intreated to the Supream Care under His Majesty of that Kingdom a Trust he managed so well That 1. he discharged Fourscore thousand Pounds the King owed and raised Twenty thousand men and as many thousand Pounds that the King wanted in the year 1634. 2. Reduced the Popish and Protestant Parties to so even a temper that upon some Disorders that year he was able to summon such a Parliament as was able to allay and fix the several Factions to a due temperament guiding the zeal of each Party by such Rules of Moderation as were ever observed most effectual to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms 3. Prevailed with the Church of Ireland to admit of the 39 Articles of the Church of England that as he would say They that agreed for the main in the truth of