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A06935	Honour in his perfection or, A treatise in commendations of the vertues and renowned vertuous vndertakings of the illustrious and heroycall princes Henry Earle of Oxenford. Henry Earle of Southampton, Robert Earle of Essex, and the euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord, Robert Bartue, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby: with a briefe cronology of theirs, and their auncestours actions. And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now, or will imitate them hereafter, especially those three noble instances, the Lord Wriouthesley, the Lord Delaware, and the Lord Montioy.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 17361; ESTC S112100	25,787	50

HONOVR IN HIS PERFECTION OR A TREATISE IN COMMENDATIONS OF THE Vertues and Renowned Vertuous vndertakings of the Illustrious and Heroyicall Princes HENRY Earle of Oxenford HENRY Earle of Southampton ROBERT Earle of Essex AND The euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord ROBERT BARTVE Lord Willoughby of Eresby With a Briefe Cronology of Theirs and their Auncestours Actions And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now or will imitate them hereafter especially those three Noble Instances the Lord Wriouthesley the Lord Delaware and the Lord Montioy At nunc horrentia Martis Arma virumque Cano LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Beniamin Fisher and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Row at the Signe of the Talbot 1624. TO THE HONOVR AND Eternall Memorie of the Foure Illustrious Great Heroyicall and Noble Houses The House of OXFORD The House of SOVTHAMPTON The House of ESSEX And the House of WILLOVGHBY and to alll the liuing Braunches Males and Females which truly deriue themselues from any of those long honoured and Princely Families IF I should labor right Honourably honourable and you glorious Branches of these goodly Cedars which I would preserue to Eternitie to giue a generall contentment to all which shall vouchsafe to looke vpon this litle Treatise my worke would be infinite and the ende like a shadow euer farthest off when I did couet to be most neere it for it is a maxime That he which did well offended some yet an Apostle Hee that did worst pleased many and yet was but a Beast and He that did best of all could not please all and yet was God So various are the mindes of men and so curious the dyet of those which feede on varietie Besides Slaunder who hath much Tongue and litle Fore-head who is not pleased but in licking of Vlcers Is euer so Impudent that it dare mis-interpret Nick-name and abuse any vertuous meaning therefore to these children of Spleene and Passion who are mouthd like Anius-Satire can blow both hot cold at one instant I direct none of my Labours But to You You that are the Issues of true Honour You in whom they all liue of whom I haue written You whom Goodnesse will not gine leaue to doe or thinke any thing euill to You in all humblenesse I direct this Seruant of your Families Vertues doe not imagine it is a Chronickle of all their Noble Actions farre be it from my weaknesse to aime at a Worke of such merit let it suffice it is but an Essay or Imperfit offer of those excellencies which no doubt will hereafter draw a Penne of Immortalitie to to crowne them Nor was this done so much to extoll and renowne them as to quicken and set on fire the noble hearts of many others which now like some of the Statues or the Monuments in West-Minster lye sleeping on their Elbowes Thus if the Worke bee taken it hath got a true Coniecture if otherwise that men bee couetous and will seeke for more then my Knowledge is able to pay Let them not blame mee if I giue there expectations leaue to perish and only submit my selfe and my Labour to Your noble Censure beseeching Your Charitie to protect it whilst my selfe will euer liue A deuoted and true admirer of your honourd Vertues G. M. THE FOVRE REGIMENTS The Ear. of Southampton Col. Sr. Iohn Burlacy Lieu. col Sr. Iarret Ashley Ser. Maior Lord Wryothesley Lord Montioy Sr. Thomas Littleton Captaine Henry Barkley Captaine Crumwel Captaine Hubbert Captaine Iames Iucks Captaine Goring Captaine Conieres The Earle of Oxford Col. Sr. Iames Leuyston Lieu. col Captaine Seton Ser. Maior Lord Delaware Sir Dudly North. Sir William Heydon Sir William Brunckard Sir Iohn Weintworth Sir Henry Crofts Sir Edward Hawley Captain Henry Weintworth Captaine William Ramsey The Earle of Essex Col. Sr. Charles Rich. Liu. col Captain Swanton Ser. Mai. Sr. Walter Deuoreux Sr. Robert Knolles Sr. Iohn Ouzley Sr. Sigismond Zinzan Captaine Throgmorton Captaine Terringham Captaine Weynman Captaine Higham Captaine Daues The Lord Willoughby Col. Sr. Edw. Conwey Lieu col Cap. Tho. Conwey Ser. Mai. Sr. Peregrine Bartue Sr. Iohn Ratcliffe Captaine Conwey Captaine Hunks Captaine Clapton Captaine Terwitt Captaine Ashburnham Captaine Vane Captaine Goodrycke HONOVR IN HIS PERFECTION THE greatest and most glorious worke that euer the supreame and diuine Maiestie brought to passe was the Creation of the World The most excellentest thing that he therein created was Man And the most necessariest function which he ordained for the propagation both of the one and others Glory was a Souldier Then a Souldier nothing more needfull nothing more absolute more perfit It began with the World for when Adam offended a fierie Sword in the hand of an heauenly Souldier draue him out of Paradise A Souldier is the right arme of Iustice and carries the Sword Wisedome is the left and beares the Ballance without a Souldier no estate no Commonwealth can flourish Who shall vnmaske false pretences but the Souldier who shall confound the secret subtill Traitor but the Souldier who shall tread downe the publike daring Rebell but the Souldier and indeed who shall or can doe right to all men but the Souldier If then the Souldier be thus good thus ancient thus iust and thus needfull how many Glories ought to crowne and attend him why all whatsoeuer that can be accounted Glorious as the conquest ouer Daunger ouer Labour and ouer Passion the defence of true Religion true Titles and true vndertakings He shall haue all the Glories of the Earth as praise from the Greatest reuerence from the wisest and wonder from all he shal haue the Glories of Garments as Crowns Garlands Plumes and Scarfes the glorie of Place as the Chaire for Counsell and the Chariot for triumph the glory of Buriall as Tombes Temples Hearses Epitaphs nay after all the glory of Eternitie that is famous Cronicles to keepe his Name and Reputation to eternall memorie and Heauen for his soule where he shall liue with God for euer But some here wil aske me why shal a Souldier haue all these glories only because he is needfull because he is ancient because he is iust yes for them an infinite number of other Vertues for in the Souldier lies the protection of Ladies the defence of Orphanes the reliefe of Widowes the support of weaknesse the strength of goodnesse the vtter destruction of all that can be named vitious it is his Actions which must make vp the myrror wherein true Honour is to be seene his words that must pull Truth from darkenesse and his Thoughts which being euer busie in Heauen must keepe the Earth in forme and true order It is his Vallour that must make all dangers assaileable his Wisdome that must make a separation betwixt good and euill his Temperaunce that must quench the flames of Princes angers and his Iustice that must distribute to all the portion of equitie Is the Souldier thus excellent

they came galloping in vnto him and made the wonder in their distracted amazements some twelue times greater then Hercules twelue labours all ioyning in one that it was an act many degrees beyond possibilitie and that he was infinitely beholden to diuine aid for hee had done more then man could promise to himselfe or was likely for man euer to performe hereafter and some of the greater sort who had a stronger tie of his familiaritie began in the way of admiration to reprehend his too much ouer-daring saying O my Lord why would you ingage your person thus dangerously you haue done an act aboue courage and escapt your death beyond hope but the Earle seeing their distraction replyed my Lords what troubles you or what myrackle haue I done of which I haue no feeling is it the killing of this English Pyg why euery boy in my Nation would haue performed it they may be Bug-beares to the French to vs they are but seruants I tel you had an heard of Lyons beene in his place I would haue done as much and said vnto them with the Poet Dominum cognoscite vestrum I tell you man was created Master of all liuing Creatures at this the French were mute and only said amongst themselues that his valour and his Fortune had shakt hands and agreed to raise his name aboue comparison and so they returned to Paris with the slaine Beast where the wonder did neither decrease nor die but to this day liues in many of their old Annals Descend but to the noble Father of this princely Oxford now liuing and you shall finde that although the blessed armes of Peace in the blessed daies of the euer blessed Elizabeth did so foulde and imbrace our Kingdome about that euery valiant arme for want of imployment lay as it were manakled and fettered from the vse of weapon yet this Nobleman breakes off his Gyues and both in Italie France and other Nations did more Honour to this Kingdome then all that haue trauelled since he tooke his iourney to heauen It were infinite to speake of his infinite expence the infinite number of his attendants or the infinite house he kept to feede all people were his president now to be followed by all of his ranke the Pope might hang himselfe for an English Papist discontentment would not feede our enemies Armies nor would there be either a Gentleman or Scholler to make a Masse-Priest or a Iesuite that he was vpright and honest in all his dealings the few debts he left behinde him to clog his suruiuours were safe pledges and that hee was holy and Religious the Chapels and Churches he did frequent and from whence no occasion could draw him the almes he gaue which at this day would not only feede the poore but the great mans family also and the bountie which Religion and Learning daily tooke from him are Trumpets so loude that all eares know them so that I conclude and say of him as the euer memorable Queene Elizabeth said of Sir Charles Blount Lord Montioy and after Earle of Deuonshire that he was Honestus Pietas Magnanimus What shall I speake of the two famous wonders of our Land the euer memorable Sir Francis Vere deceased and Sir Horace Vere now liuing his noble brother to speake of one action were to draw thousands into my remembrance or to name one place were to lay the Map of almost all Europe before me and therefore I will referre you to the Chronicles of Spaine and Portugale where as long as there stands a Cales or abides an Iland of the Azores you shall see a Vere in a Souldiers Triumph Looke in many of the viewes of France and there you shall finde Vere armed see the Stories of the dissentions in Germanie and there you shall finde Vere strugling with Honour nay looke in all that hath beene written in the Neatherlands within the compasse of the longest memory now liuing and belieue it in euery page in euery action Vere cannot be omitted only in that Storie there is one pretty secret or mysterie which I cannot let passe vntouched because it brings many difficulties or doubts into the minde of an ignorant Reader and that is the mistaking of names for the Authour of that Worke bindes himselfe too strictly to the Scripture phrase which is to make one name to containe another as the name Adam to containe the name Eua also and the word man to containe the word woman also and so the Authour speaking of many notable and famous exploits fortunately performed deliuers you peraduenture but the name of Nassau or the Dutch and such like whereas in truth and true meaning the name of Vere should euer be included within them the sence so read the Story is perfect I speak not this to derogate any thing from the excellencies of that most excellent Prince to whose Vertues I could willingly fall down become a bond-flaue for the whole World must allow him a Souldier vnparaleld and a Prince of infinite merit but only to shew that the least spark of Vertue which is cannot chuse but repine when it finds a great Vertue iniur'd by a pen whose blaunching might make the whole World forgetfull Lastly thou shalt not neede to reade but with thy finger point at the life of the now Earle of Oxford of whom but to speake reasonable truthes such is the poison of Enuy euery good word would be accounted flattery and to speake any thing contrary to goodnesse Truth her selfe would swear it were meere Falshood Therefore I will forbeare his Chronicle and only say thus that his Cradle did point him out a Souldier for he brought that spirit with him into the World and that spirit he hath still nourisht for diuide his Age into three parts and I thinke two of them haue beene bestowed on Forraine Nations neither hath he let slip any occasion how great or low soeuer which might put him into action hee hath hung about the neck of his noble Kinsman like a rich Iewell and the one hath so adorned the other the one with Counsell the other with obedience the one shewing what to doe the other doing what was fit to be done that if there be a hope whereon mortalitie may build there is none more strong then that wee haue of this Nobleman Goe on then great Prince in this braue careire of Honour and fixe for thine obiect the designes of thy famous Auncestour and as he restored the lost House of Lancaster so I Prophesie if thou beest not the head yet thou wilt bee the right arme to the body which shall bring backe againe to the royall owner the now wasted Palatinate Now for a Conclusion to this Noble House Know thou whatsoeuer thou art which shalt reade this discourse that albe I nominate here but foure Earles and the first in the daies of Henry the sixt yet there haue beene of the name of Vere eighteene Earles of Oxford of which the first

Aubery Vere was created Earle of Oxford and High Chamberlaine of England to him and his heires males for euer in the daies of Henry the first who was sonne to William the Conquerour which is Honour almost as early as could be for before the Conquest there is no certaintie any of Honour hereditarie in this Land and thus they haue successiuely followed till this day Next O Britaine reade vnto thy softer Nobilitie the Storie of the Noble House of Southampton That shall bring new fier to their blouds and make of the little sparkes of Honour great flames of excellency shew them the life of Thomas Wriothesley Earle of Southampton who was both an excellent Souldier and an admirable Scholler who not only serued the great King his Master Henry the eight in his warres but in his Counsell Chamber not only in the field but on the Bench within his Courts of ciuill Iustice This man for his excellent parts was made Lord Chauncelour of England where he gouerned with that integritie of heart and true mixture of Conuience and Iustice that he wonne the hearts both of the King and people After this noble Prince succeeded his sonne Henry Earle of Southampton a man of no lesse vertue prowesse and wisedome euer beloued and fauoured of his Prince highly reuerenced and fauoured of all that were in his owne ranke and brauely attended and serued by the best Gentlemen of those Countries wherin he liued his muster role neuer consisted of foure Lackeys and a Coachman but of a whole troupe of at least an hundred well mounted Gentlemen and Yeomen he was not knowne in the Streetes by guarded Liuories but by Gold Chaines not by painted Butterflies euer running as if som monster pursued them but by tall goodly fellowes that kept a constant pace both to guard his person and to admit any man to their Lord which had serious businesse This Prince could not steale or drop into an ignoble place neither might doe any thing vnworthy of his great calling for hee euer had a world of testimonies about him When it pleased the diuine goodnesse to take to his mercy this great Earle hee left behinde to succeede him Henry Earle of Southampton his Sonne now liuing being then a childe But here mee thinkes Cinthius aurem vellet something puls me by the elbow bids me forbeare for flatterie is a deadly sinne and will damme Reputation But shall I that euer loued and admired this Earle that liued many yeares where I daily saw this Earle that knew him before the warres In the warres and since the warres shall I that haue seene him indure the worst mallice or vengeance that the Sea Tempests or Thunder could vtter that haue seene him vndergoe all the extremities of warre that haue seene him serue in person on the enemy and against the enemy shall I that haue seene him receiue the reward of a Souldier before the face of the Enemie for the best act of a Souldier done vpon the Enemie Shall I be scarrd with shadowes No Truth is my Mistresse and though I can write nothing which can equall the least sparke of fire within him yet for her sake will I speake some thing which may inflame those that are heauy and dul and of mine owne temper This Earle as I said before came to his Fathers dignitie in his childhood spending that and his other yonger times in the studie of good Letters to which the Vniuersitie of Cambridge is a witnesse and after confirmed that Studie with trauell and forraigne obseruation As soone as he came to write full and perfit Man he betooke himselfe vnto the warres was made Commander of the Garland one of Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie her best ships and was Vice-Admirall of the first Squadron In his first putting out to Sea hee saw all the Terrours and Euils which the Sea had power to shew to mortaiitie insomuch that the Generall and the whole Fleete except some few shippes of which this Earles was one were driuen backe into Plimouth but this Earle in spight of stormes held out his course made the coast of Spaine and after vpon an Aduiso returned The Fleete new reenforst made fourth to Sea againe with better prosperitie came to the Ilands of the Azores and there first tooke the Iland of Fiall sackt and burnt the great Towne tooke the high Fort which was held impregnable and made the rest of the Ilands as Pike Saint Georges and Gratiosa obedient to the Generals seruice Then the Fleete returning from Fiall it pleased the Generall to diuide it and he went himselfe on the one side of Gratiosa and the Earle of Southampton with some three more of the Queenes Ships and a few small Marchants Ships sailed on the other when early in a morning by spring of day This braue Southampton light vpon the King of Spaines Indian Fleete laden with Treasure being about foure or fiue and thirty Saile and most of them great warlike Gallioons they had all the aduantage that sea winde number of ships or strength of men could giue them yet like a fearefull heard they fled from the fury of our Earle who notwithstanding gaue them chase with all his Canuase one he tooke and sunke her diuers hee dispierst which were taken after and the rest he draue into the Iland of Tercera which was thē vnassaileable After this he ioyned with the Generall againe and came to the Iland of Saint Michaels where they tooke and spoiled the Towne of Villa Franca and at Porte Algado made a Charrackt runne on ground and split her selfe after being ready to depart the enemie taking aduantage of our rising and finding that most of our men were gone aboard but only the General the Earle of Southamptō Sr. Francis Vere som few others left on Shoare they came with their vtmost power vpon them but were receiued with so hot an incounter that many of the Spaniards were put to the sword and the rest inforced to runne away and in this skirmish no man had aduantage of safetie for the number was on our part so few that euery man had his hands imployment and here the Earle of Southampton ere he could dry the sweat from his browes or put his sword vp in the scaberd receiued from the Noble Generall Robert Earle of Essex the order of Knighthood After this he returned for England and came fortunately home but fel he here a sleep with any inchantment either of Peace or Pleasure O no but here he did as it were but new begin the progresse of his more noble actions for now the wilde and sturdy Irish rebels fatned with some Conquests and made strong with forraigne aide to get more Conquest began to rage like wilde Boares and to root vp euery fruitfull place in that Kingdome so that without a sodaine chastisement it was likely the euill would grow past all cuer To this worke