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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53490	Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing O515; ESTC R23008	34,729	132

already wholy at his devotion attempt some novelty a dismall whisper the contrary Faction did hourely inspire her withall And to give it a deeper tincture of probability S r Robert Cecill gained leave of the Queene to advertise Essex first of her being past hope and after of her Death stopping in the meane time all ships else but what came loaden with this fatall intelligence And to secure her person no lesse then his owne in case he took the wiser counsell of his friends to land in Wales with all the power he could raise the English militia were put in a posture of defence of which no use was made for the Earles composition having alwaies participated more of truth and loyalty to his Soveraigne with zeale to the Protestant Religion then prudence or Reason of State He not only contrary to the will of his friends but beyond the highest hopes of his Enemies came over attended with some few Gentlemen and in this naked condition finding the report false he cast himselfe habited as a travellor at the feet of his Mistris whom after he never met unlesse since in heaven being presently confind yet to no stricter prison then his Chamber and under no other guard but the obedience he owed to his Soveraignes Commands who though daily importuned could not be brought to signe a warrant for any severer Commitment till after his passage through the City In which he did not only exceed the extent of his owne ordinary rashnesse But the highest and most extraordinary plots of his Enemies And thus was the Earle snatched out of the armes of his Mistris and torne from the hearts of the people that were his Servants by the subtilty of his Enemies and in the sight of both brought to an untimely death It appearing no lesse wonder that Prince and Subject did meet in their affections Then that they should both be so quiet spectators of his ruin But as God shewed in his death the weaknesse of the arme of flesh so not long after he declared as plainly the power of his Iustice in a strict account he took from those that were the principall agents in it For after the blow given The Queene presaging by a multitude of teares shed for him the great drouth was likely to appeare in the eyes of her Subjects when the hand that signed the warrant for it should be cut off fell into a deepe Melancholly whereof she died not long after And for the Fame that immediatlly followed her if multitudes were not fouly mistaken she was more beholding to her successors miscarriages in the generall opinion then any popular esteeme attending her to the grave her death being reported to proceed from an occasion that would have beene thought ridiculous in an ordinary Lady much more in a person of her magnitude But such as take Princes for other then Men shew they never saw them in true light who like the Gods of the Heathen cannot in their actions or speeches during Life be discerned from ordinary Mortalls but by the worship given them being so remote from owning any reall Divinity As with the Crowne they put on greater frailties then they do devest For during the criticall minute of the Queenes strongest affection which was upon Essex his returne from Cales he had importuned her for some signall token which might assure him that in his absence to which his owne Genius no lesse then the respect he bare to the promotion of her honour and obedience to her commands did daily prompt him his Enemies of whom he had many about the Chaire of State should not through their Malice or Subtilty distresse him or render him lesse or worse deserving in her esteeme upon this in a great deale of familiatity she presented a Ring to him which after she had by oathes indued with a power of freeing him from any danger or distresse his future miscarriage her Anger or Enemies malice could cast him into she gave it him with a promise that at the first sight of it all this and more if possible should be granted After his commitment to the Tower he sent this Iewell to Her Majesty by the then Countesse of Notingham whom S r Robert Cecill kept from delivering it This made the Queene think her selfe scorned a Treason against her Honour And therefore not unlikely to be voted by the pride of so great a Lady more Capitall then That pretended against her Person which power doth rarely suffer to scape unpunished besides he had been tempted through passion to say or his enemies to devise That she now doted and owned a mind no lesse crooked then her body A high blasphemy against such a divine Beauty as Flatterers the Idolizers of Princes had enshrined here in And from these his misfortunes led on by the weaknesse Iealousy and Age had bred in her his Maligners took advantage so as his Head was off before discretion love or pity had leasure to dictate The Ring might be miscarried and the former relation false But the Lady of Notingham coming to her death bed and finding by the daily sorrow the Queene expressed for the losse of Essex her selfe a principall agent in his destruction could not be at rest till she had discovered all and humbly implored mercy from God and forgiveness from her earthly Soveraigne who did not only refuse to give it but having shook her as she lay in her bed sent her accompanied with most fearefull curses to a higher Tribunall Not long after the Queenes weaknesse did appeare mostall hastened by the wishes of many that could not in reason expect pardon for a fault they found she had so severely punished in her selfe as to take comfort in nothing after But upon all occasions of signing Pardons would upbraid the movers for them with the hasty anticipation of that brave mans end not to be expiated in relation to the Nations losse by any future indeavour much lesse so unseasonable an uncharitablenesse to a dying Lady 24. After Essex was thus laid by the totall management of State-affaires fell to S r Robert Cecill in right of wisdome who free from competition became bold enough to informe the Queene that too many yeares had beene already lapsed and the peoples quiet hazarded by her delay in not fixing upon one certaine Successour Nothing remaining wanting but her concession to free the Nation from a Civill warre in declaring the King of Scots her lawfull Heire who besides an immediate right had the greatest power at hand to quell the hopes of all contrary pretenders at that time more then a few having long beene imboldened either through her Majesties Indulgence or Prudence an Artifice dangerous for her people and not unpossibly now destructive to her selfe the love of whome was by good Government for forty years so deeply rooted in her Subjects as it could be buried in nothing but her grave Nor did he alone beat her eates with these sounds no lesse terrible to her age at that day