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A19935	A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the parishe church of Caermerthyn, by the Reuerende Father in God, Richard by the permission of God, Bishoppe of Saint Dauys, at the buriall of the Right Honourable VValter Earle of Essex and Ewe ...	Davies, Richard, 1501-1581.; Waterhouse, Edward, Sir, 1535-1591.	1577 (1577)	STC 6364; ESTC S109385	23,626	69

❧ A FVNERALL SERMON PREACHED THE XXVI DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD M. D. LXXVI IN THE PARISHE CHVRCH OF CAERMERTHYN BY THE REVERENDE FATHER in God Richard by the permission of God Bishoppe of Saint Dauys at the buriall OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE VVALTER EARLE OF ESSEX AND EWE EARLE MARSHALL OF IRELANDE VISCOVNT HEREforde Bourgcher Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourgcher Louein of the most Noble order of the Garter Knight ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Denham dwelling in Pater noster Row at the signe of the Starre Anno Domi. 1577. HONI SOYT QVY MAL Y PENSE ❧ To the right Honourable my very good L. Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount of Hereforde and Bourgchier Lorde ferrers of Chartley Bourgchier and Louayne hir Maiesties Warde c. MY Lord your absence lately from the Funeralles of my L. your Father was lamented by such in VVales as would gladly haue beheld the liuely Image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeete for so tedious and so vnseasonable traueyle had not by necessitie disappoynted their hope then shoulde the lamentable speache of the graue and reuerent Father the Byshop of S. Dauies expressed wyth abundaunce of dolour and teares haue left in you a deepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so Honorable a parent But it may be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit Since the importunacie of such as loue and honour you and who couet to haue your Fathers vertues discende with his inheritaunce hath obtayned the publishing of that learned Sermon wherein your L. may at good leysure view in the iust report of his lyfe and death the paterne and forme of true Nobilitie The Heroicall discription that the Byshop maketh of Nobilitie comparing it to a mountayne from which foure famous ryuers must issue the Mountaine true Religion the riuers Prudence Iustice Fortitude and Temperaunce is a rule to you ▪ first to follow your Father in truth of Religion then to be as he was wyse iust valiaunt and temperate The naturall and vnforced courtesie and affability that was in your Father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace doth promise to the worlde a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your Grandfather who dyed in his young yeares dyd make shewe of much more Honour then was in the Noble Viscount his Father And this our Earle by famous actions dyd altogither eclips the vertuous hope cōceyued of your Grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good partes in you and that you haue more aduauntage of education both by the place where you liue and by the Honour and wisedome of your patrones then your Grandfather or father had we cannot but hope of a further degree of excellencie in you to ouershine the goodnesse both of your Father and Grandfather Some people there be that can hardly discerne betwene honour and profit that doe ouer much thinke of the disaduantage offered you by the Earle your Father in diminishing some part of his patrimonie in his forrayne Seruices and will wish you perhaps with a contrarie course to deserue more of your heire and woorse of the worlde But as I wishe in you a liberall frugalitie vnder this rule and protestation that nothing can be profitable that is not honest so to deserue well as your Father dyd of your Soueraigne and countrey in matters appertayning to hir Maiesties obedience rather throw the helue after the hatchet and leaue your ruynes to be repayred by your Prince then any thing to degenerate from Honorable liberalitie And as in attempting great things it is good to be circumspect and wyth iudgement wysely to foresee the ende before you beginne so hauing entered into any Honourable attempt that may be iustly grounded vpon reason follow the same with such inuincible cōstancie in all extremities as your Father dyd for so shall you iustly deserue lyke testimonie as hir Maiestie gaue to him in hir gracious letters namelye that he was a rare Iewell of hir Realme and an ornament of hir Nobilitie True Religion and wisedome vpon whome Iustice dependeth doe proceede from God by grace and therefore by inuocation prayer and studie to be obtayned but the other vertues as Fortitude temperaunce courtesie affabilitie liberalitie and constancie be peculiar to your house discending by nature and graffed as it were in your principles so that to degenerate into the lothsome contraries of these and in steade of habite of vertue to disguyse your selfe with vice shall be harder to you and more impossible for the contrarietie of your nature then to attayne in good things to the perfection of excellencie And to the end that you may know what you are by birth and bloud and that you shoulde not by ignoraunce or lacke of knowledge of your selfe doe any thing vnworthy the Noble houses from whence you are discended a welwiller of yours hath ioyned to this Sermon amongs other Epitaphes contayning your Fathers due prayses his stately discent in well digested Latine verses not to puffe you vp with any swelling vaniteis but to giue you a reason how you beare your Armour and Badges of Honour and to remember you what errour you enter into if you should blemish the vertues of your Noble Auncestours or to doe any thing as I sayde vnworthy your birth and calling Lastly my L. haue alwayes before your eyes the feare of God and the Counsell of the Earle your Father at his death namely that you shoulde euer be mindefull of the moment of tyme assigned both to your Father and Grandfather the eldest hauing attayned but to sixe and thirtie yeares to the ende that vpon consideratiō of the short course of lyfe that you in nature are to looke for you might so imploy your tender yeares in vertuous studies and exercises as you might in the prime of your youth become a man well accomplished to serue hir Maiestie and your Countrey aswell in warre as peace wherevnto he commaunded you to bende all your indeuours and with those conditions heaped his blessings vpon you I pray therefore that God will increase those condicionall blessinges and the causes of them in you to the ende that hir Maiestie may thinke of you hereafter as of a true seruaunt and humble subiect one of the pillers of hir estate hir Maiesties kinsman by many alliances and the sonne of a most Noble Father Your L. at commaundement E. W. EPitaphium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri Comitis Essexiae Euiae Comitis Mareschalli regni Hiberniae Vicecomitis Hereford Bourgcher Domini Ferrers de Chartley Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis Garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Sept. 1576. Aetatis suae 36. Sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouembris SI quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem Profiteatur

effectuall that it reached to all kinde of matters that a perfect Noble man shal haue to deale withall in this worlde Fortitude is an other fountayne from whence Nobilitie springeth of Cicero in tusculanis quaestionibus thus defined Est affectio animi qua grauia patiendo legibus obtemperatur It is an affection of the mynde whereby to satisfy the lawes a man is content to suffer hardnesse he meaneth mans lawes and not Gods law It seemeth therfore that it may be thus more euidently and fully defined Fortitude is an affection of the minde whereby a man is made hardie and couragious to suffer difficulties and daungers auoyding on the one side rashnesse and expelling on the other syde feare to performe that which Gods lawe and honestie prescribeth and commaundeth Although by thys definition we finde that the effect of fortitude resteth much in banishing of feare of bodily hurtes yet doth it agree very well with the feare of god Ietro therefore counselling Moses to choose men to gouerne vnder hym sayeth Prospice viros fortes timentis Deum Seeke out men endued with fortitude fearing god c. Wherby we perceyue that Fortitude and the feare of God varie not but are linked togither Deepe was the floude of Nobilitie that this valiaunt Earle had fetched out of this fountayne For in this togyther with the Well of Prudence he founde that excellent knowledge of Cheualrie the cunning to leade an armie to guyde and to rule souldiours that experience of stratagemes and warrelyke pollicies that notable magnanimitie inuincible courage whereby he endured ouercame so many dangers and perils for the which he is renowned in England and Ireland shal neuer be forgotten He was by nature the sonne of Mars and by practising feates of warre and exercise aforehande he had made himself in maner a perfect Warriour afore that euer he came to the warres And was for prowesse magnanimitie and high courage to be cōpared to the old Romayne Captaines that be so much in stories commended This Fortitude is no lesse necessarie for Nobilitie in time of peace then in tyme of warre For it belongeth vnto them to minister iustice betwixt partie and partie without respect of parsons which can not be performed without the assistaunce of this vertue I haue good cause to thincke of this Noble Earle that there was no subiect in Englande that coulde feare or corrupt him from executing of iustice He was to the prowde and arrogant a lyon and to the meeke and humble a lambe neither is there any contrarietie in this for true Nobilitie discerneth a due and conuenient time and place to vse both the one and the other Iustice is the thirde Well of Nobilitie It is a constant a perpetuall will to giue euery man his owne This is a diuine vertue precious and commendable in all men and especially in the Nobilitie who by reason of authoritie may doe iniurie without remedie for the same We see by experience that great is the number of them that would oppresse if they had authority We see also the iniuries that are done dayly by them that haue colour of authoritie be it neuer so simple But examine the life of this Earle who wil I beleeue there is no man liuing that can iustly complayne of anye oppression or wrong done by him I once in my tyme hearde him not a little offended with one of hys men that was complayned vpon saying that his seruaunt coulde doe him no greater dishonour then by pretence of his authoritie to do any poore man wrong Iobe in the tyme of his authoritie wealth was commended to be a iust and a righteous man And in the explication of part of that iustice Iob hath these words Fui oculus caeco vice pedum claudo c. I was the eyes to the blinde and I was the feete to the lame I was a Father to the poore and when I knew not the cause I sought it out diligently I brake the chawes of the vnrighteous man plucked the pray out of his teeth Here we find that whosoeuer will do iustice must not only doe no wrong but must also with all his might succour and comfort the helplesse and oppressed In this part of iustice there was neuer Noble man more forwarde then this good Earle He was the comfortable refuge of all such as were in aduersitie or oppressed by power Of Tytus Vespatianus Emperour of Rome we reade that he aunswered one of hys friendes admonishing him to holde hys handes and not to make his liberality and gentilnesse common to all men saying that it becommeth not a prince to let any man part from him with a heauie heart This worthy Earle was of lyke minde for he was so full of humanitie and compassiō that he woulde be loth to let any distressed part from him without some comfort and ease In so much that in him if euer in any man this Adage Homo homini Deus A man God to man was as truely performed as in Tyrantes the contrary Adage that is Homo homini lupus A man a Woolfe to man We read in Chronicles of Emperours Kings and Noble men which for their bountifulnesse gentilnesse affabilitie goodnesse deserued some Honourable addition to their names as amongst the Emperours Antoninus pius Antony the vertuous amongest the Brittish Kinges Elidorus pius Elyder the godly and amongest Noble men In the tyme of king Richarde the seconde Sir Thomas Montacute the good Earle of Salesburie and in the tyme of king Henry the sixt Sir Thomas Beuchampe the good Earle of VVarwike This Noble Earle for the very like qualities hath truely deserued to be called the good Earle the vertuous Earle and the valiaunt Earle of Essex Temperaunce is the fountayne of Nobilitie It is a vertue wherby a man obserueth a moderacion and a reasonable meane in the vse of all thinges pertayning to bodie and minde It is the mother of all other vertues without which the reast are blemished and disgraced In the Dutche Chronicles that tell of the lyues of Emperours the first qualitie that is noted is Temperate or not temperate as an argument of the reast of hys lyfe and dooings For he is thought vnworthy to rule others that can not rule himselfe This Noble Earle had a speciall grace and an excellent gift of God in obseruation of this vertue whither you respect dyet or the suppression of all vicious affections I haue diuers times noted in him when vnderstanding was brought vnto him of some thrasonicall contumelious wordes spoken by some glorious inferiour aduersarie agaynst him he woulde neuer be stirred to any perturbation of minde thereby but with graue wisedome and magnanimitie contemne it and smile deriding the vanity waywardnes of that cankered stomacke that vomited such soure rotten infection for he dyd effectually consider that it became no better a noble heart to take in receyue wranglings brawlings chasings anger then