Oration used not one R Now the letter R is called the dogged and snarling letter This person could not indure a base and unworthy expression of the worst-deserving of all the adversaries because though it became them well to hear ill yet it did not become the other side to speak so it being below a good cause to be defended by evil speaking which might anger but not convince and discover the ill spirit of the party that managed the cause instead of keeping up the merit of the cause that was managed He was sad all his time but grew melancholy in the latter end of it conscience speaking than loudest when men are able to speak least and all sores paining most near night when he was not of Edward the II. mind who looked upon all those as enemies to his Person who reproved his Vices but of Henry V. who favoured those most when in years and a King that dealt most freely with him when young and a Prince A melancholy that was rather serious than sad rather consideration than a grief and his preparation for death rather than his disease leading to it wherein his losses were his greatest satisfaction and his sufferings his most considerable comfort Being infinitely pleased with two things King Charles the Martyrs rational and heroick management of his Cause and Sufferings and the Peoples being more in love with him and his cause since it miscarried than when it prevailedâ— an argument he thought that it was reason and not power something that convinced the conscience and not something that mens estates or persons that was both the ornament and the strength of the Kings side the reason he chearfully paid three thousand five hundred and forty pounds for his Allegiance as he had chearfully kept to it the only two instances of his life that pleased him If any body demand how he could suffer so much as he did at last and do as much as he did at first and how he could lay out so much to pious uses whom it had cost so dear to be a good subject The Spanish Proverb must satisfie him That which cometh from above let no man question Though indeed he was so innocent in that age that he could not be rich and of the same temper and equal fortune with Judge Cateline that Judge in Queen Elizabeths time that had a fancy full of prejudice against any man that writ his name with an alias and took exception against one on this very account saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias And the party asked him as Cambden tells the story in his Remains What exception his Lordship could take against Iesus Christ alias Iesus of Nazareth A kinsman of whom having a cause in the Kings-bench where he had been Lord Cheif Justice was told by the then Lord Chief Justice That his kinsman was his predecessor in that Court and a great Lawyer And answered by the Gentleman thus My Lord he was a very honest man for he left a small estate There is one more of this name Sir George Berkley too who as it was his policy that in all discourses and debates he desired to speak last because he might have the advantage to sum up all the preceding discouses discover their failures and leave the impression of his own upon the Auditory So it shall be his place to be the last in this short mention in reference to whom remembring the old saying Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine Being not able to say much I will not say little of him this Gentlemans virtue forbidding a short and lame account of him as severely as Iohannes Passeravicius Morositis in Thuanus a good conceited Poet and strangely conceited man allowed not under the great curse that his Herse should be burdened with bad funeral verses Sir George Berkley of Benton in the County of Sommerset 450 l. 00 00 With 60 l. per annum setled Only it will not be amiss to insert an honorable Person in this place who though he appeared not with his Majesty so openly at first yet acted cordially and suffered patiently for him to the last I mean the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord BERKLEY Baron of Berkley Mowgray and Seagrave ONe of those honest persons that though ashamed of the Kings usage in London were sorry for the necessity of his removal out of it which left the City liable to the impostures and practices and his friends there obnoxious to the fallacies and violences of a Faction that had all along abused and now awed the Kings leige people that could not before by reason of their pretences discern what was right nor now by reason of their power own it This noble person did not think it adviseable to go from Westminster because his estate lay near the City yet he served the King there because his inclination especially when he was disabused was for Oxford He was of his Majesties opinion at the first Sitting of the Long Parliament that to comply with the Parliament in some reasonable and moderate demands was the way to prevent them from running into any immoderate and unreasonable The stream that is yielded to run smoothly if it be stopped it fometh and rageth but his honest nature being deceived in the confidence he had in others whom he measured by himself that is the advantage the cunning man hath over the honest pitied their unreasonableness rather than repented of his own charity and hope and ever after went along with them in accommodations for peace but by no means concurred in any preparations for war insomuch that when he despaired of reason from the Houses he was contented to deal with the particular Members of them being willing to hearken to Master Waller and some others Proposal about letting in the King to the City by an Army to be raised there according to the Commissions brought to Town by the Lady Aubigney when he could not open his way by the arguments used by him and others in the Convention Being a plain and honest man the factious papers and discourses took not with him they were so forced dark canting and wrested The Kings Declaration being embraced and as far as he durst published and communicated by him because clear rational and honest He might possibly sit so long at Westminster as to be suspected and blamed for adhering to the Rebellion but he was really with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Middlesex the Lords Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard impeached at Westminster of High-treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom It may be thought a fault that he vouchsafed the Juncto his company when they debated any overtures of peace but it was his commendation that he retired when the Earl of Essex was Voted General the King the Bishops and Delinquents lands seized on the New Seal made the War prosecuted c. And appeared only to ballance
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
to perform Us such service as he much desireth to have according to his duty done his further Attendance might be by Us in Our Grace dispensed with To the end all Our loving Subjects who have and shall faithfully serve Us as We declare this Our Servant hath done may know That as We shall never expect much less require or exact from them performances beyond what their healths and years shall enable them so We shall not dismiss them without an Approbation of their Service when We find they shall have deserved it much less expose them in their old Age to neglect As Our Princely Testimony therefore that the said Sir George Crooks being dispensed withal proceeds from Us at the humble Request of the said Sir George Crook which We have cause and do take well that he is rather willing to acknowledge his Infirmity by his great Age occasioned than that by concealing of the same any want of Justice should be to Our People and not out of any Our least displeasure conceived against him Do hereby Declare Our Royal Pleasure That We are graciously pleased and do hereby dispence with the said Sir Crook's further Attendance in the said Courts or in any Our Circuits And as a Token of Our Acceptation of his former good and acceptable Service by the said Sir George Crook done to Our deceased Father and Our Self do yet continue him one of Our Judges of Our said Bench And hereby Declare Our further Will and Pleasure to be That during his the said Sir Crook's life there shall be continued and paid by Us to him the like Fee and Fees as was to him or is or shall be by Us paid to any other of Our Judges of Our said Bench at Westminster and all Fees and Duties saving the Allowance by Us to Our Judges for their Circuits onely After which Honourable Discharge from his Service at Court God gave him a Quietus est from this Life at Waterstock in Oxfordshire Anno Christi 1641. Aetatis 82. Caroli I. 17. When he lived to see the New Canons made 1640. so much aggravated by others yet so much admired by him that upon the sight of them he blessed God that he lived to see so much good by a Convocation There passeth a pleasant Tradition in Cornwal how there standeth a man of great strength and stature with a Black in his hand at Polston Bridge the first Entrance into Cornwal as you pass towards Launceston where the Assizes are holden ready to knock down all the Lawyers that should offer to plant themselves in that County This man was brought to Westminster-Hall door Anno 1641. no honest or able Lawyer daring to appear there upon pain of forfeiting either his Conscience in complying with the Tumult or his Estate Liberty yea and Life too in dissenting from it Otherwise our Judge deserved to be Comes Imperii primi Ordinis according to the Constitution of Theodosius the Emperor allowing that honor to Lawyers Cum ad viginti annos observatione Iugi ac sedulo docendi labore pervenerint Having been twenty years a Judge that would hear patiently help Witnesses laboring in their Delivery condescendingly check forward Speakers gravely dealt impartially his private Inclinations being swallowed up in the common Concern as Rivers loose their names in the Ocean Cut off Delays and impertinent Controversies discreetly was zealous of kindness because fearful of Bribes Great obligations upon persons in Place like wandering Preachers Sermons end in begging merciful in his Judgement A Butcher may not be of the Jury much less should he be a Judge Being outed his Place with as much honor as others are advanced glorying in that though the Parliament could make him no Judge they could not make him no upright Judge He lived privately the rest of his days having besides the estate got by his Practice no mean estate by his Birth and by his Marriage having little reflection on his own condition he was so taken up with the sad condition of the whole Kingdom Vitae est avidus quisquis non vult mundo secum pereunte mori And thus we leave our Judge to receive a just reward of his Integrity from the Judge of Judges as well as from the King of kings at the great Assize of the world Plinic reports it as worthy a Chronicle that Chrispinus Hâ—llarus with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitol seventy four of his children and childrens children attending on him this Reverend Person sacrificed to Allegiance himself attended with many well resolved Relations round about him For it is fit posterity should hear of Col. Mark Trevor since deservedly ennobled in Ireland for Valour that feared no dangers Activity that went through all hardships Integrity that was proof against all corruptions Iohn Trevor a Person that suffered not his parts to be depressed by his fortune but to make his minde the more proportionable he made it his business to be as able in Prudence and Knowledge as he was in Estate for which he suffered twice severely that Party being of the Miller of Matlocks minde of whom we read this pretty Story Molendarius de Matlocki tollavit bis eo quod ipse audivit Rectorem de eadem villa dicere in Dominica Ram. Palm Tolle tolle That is the Miller of Matlock took Toll twice because he heard the Rector of the Parish read on Palm-Sunday Tolle tolle that is Crucifie crucifie him There was ARTHVR TREVOR Esq A Lawyer of the Temple that died lately and suddenly a Passage others may censure we must pity since sudden and rash Judgement is always sinful but sudden and unexpected death is not always penal Nothing so certain as that we shall die nothing so uncertain as how we shall die Therefore Life should be in our apprehension what it was in the Philosophers definition a Constant Meditation of Death Epiminondas came to a careless Soldier that was asleep when he should watch and run him through saying Sleeping I found thee sleeping I leave thee And God sometime surprizeth a loose man that lives carelesly with a Careless I found thee and careless I leave thee for ever A man that lives as if he had onely a body desires to die so too and therefore wisheth to depart without delay that he may go without pain being of Caesars minde who was not afraid of death but of dying But the man that makes so much use of his soul that he knoweth he hath one desires rather to be taken than snatched out of the world ut sentiat se mori and to use the words of Judicious Mr. Hooker in defence of that necessary Prayer in our Liturgy which no devout man would leave out From sudden death against which we have not prepared our selves and which alloweth us no respite for preparation good Lord deliver us for vertuous considerations is prevailed upon by wisdom to desire as slow and deliberate death against the stream of sensual in clination content to endure the longer grief
being for the Laws and Liberties of this Land and for maintaining the true Protestant Religion He bid me read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy and Bishop Lauds Book against Fisher which would ground me against Popery He told me he had forgiven all his Enemies and hoped God would forgive them also and commanded us and all the rest of my Brothers and Sisters to forgive them He bid me tell my Mother that his thoughts never strayed from her and that his love should be the same to the last Withal he commanded me and my Brother to be obedient to her and bid me send his Blessing to the rest of my Brothers and Sisters with commendation to all his Friends So after he had given me his Blessing I took my leave Further he commanded us all to forgive those People but never to trust them for they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power and he feared also to their own Souls and desired me not to grieve for him for he should dye a Martyr and that he doubted not but the Lord would settle his Throne upon his Son and that we should be all happier then we could have expected to have been if he had lived with many other things which at present I cannot remember Elizabeth Till at last all indeavours for preventing so great a guilt failing even Col. Downes one of their own Members attempting a Mutiny in the Army and the Lord Fairfax being resolved with his own Regiment to hinder the Murther until the Conspirators in vain urging That the Lord had rejected him took him aside to seek the Lord while their instruments hasten the Execution by private order and then they call that a return of their prayers On the Fatal day Ian. 30. having desired five Preachers sent to pray with him by the Juncto to pray for him if they pleased telling them that he was resolved that they who had so often and so causelessly prayed against him should not in his agony pray with him and preparing himself with his own Devotion in the offices of the Church he was strengthened in his own sufferings by the sufferings of his Savior whose Body and Bloud he received that morning and the History of whose Passion fell to be the Chapter of the day of His who had he been before Christ had a condition and an innocence that had made him a Type of him So that he came chearfully from St. James's to White-hall often calling on his slow Guards that kept not pace with him who always walked fast to move faster with these words I now go before you to strive for an heavenly Crown with less sollicitude than I formerly have led my Souldiers for an earthly Diadem with extraordinary alacrity ascending the staires leading to the Long-gallery and so to the Cabinet-chamber whence his supplications being ended he went through the Banqueting-house to the adjoyning Scaffold every way dressed to terror with the same spirit he used to ascend his Throne shewing no fear of death but a sollicitude for those that were to live after He thought it to as little purpose to Harange the Army as to complement a Mastive or a Tyger and others were kept at such distance that they might see but not hear and therefore expressed himself thus to those that stood near him His Majesties Speech upon the Scaffold I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here Indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it my duty to God and to my Country to clear my self as an honest man as a good King and a good Christian. I shall first begin with my Innocency In troth I think it is not very needful for me to insist long upon this for all the world knows that I did not begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God witness to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend to incroach on their Priviledges they began upon me It is the Militia they began upon they confest the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any man will look to the dates of Commissions of theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy Troubles not I So that as the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I do believe that illinstruments between them and me has been the chief cause of this blood-shed So that by way or speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should bâ— so ill a Christian as not to say Gods Judgements are just upon me many times he does pay Justice by unjust Sentence that is ordinary I will only say this that an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me this I have said to shew you that I am an innocent Man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in this particular I pray God with St. Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not only so but that they may take the right way to the Peace of the Kingdom for my charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but to endeavour to the last gasp the Peace of the Kingdom So Sir I do wish with all my soul and I do hope there are some here will carry it farther that they may endeavour the Peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and will put you in the way First you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just cause either for matter of wrong or just title and then if you go beyond it the first quarrel that you have to it is it that makes it unjust in the end that was just at first
his Grave A carceribus ad metam the consciousness of their guilt in burying him above ground in his Imprisonment could no ways be satisfied but by Imprisoning him under ground by his Burial When they wanted nothing to compleat their guilt but this death concerning which his Majesty in his Letter to the Queen expresseth himself thus Nothing can be more evident than that Straffords Innocent Blood hath been one of the great causes of Gods just Judgment upon this Nation by a Civil War both sides hitherto being almost equally punished as being in a manner equally guilty but now this last crying bloud being totally theirs I believe it s no presumption hereafter to hope that his hand of Justice must be heavier upon them and lighter upon us looking now upon our Cause having passed by our faults they preached and talked that nothing interrupted their success but his death imputing all their disasters to his impunity as the Heathens did all theirs to those like him The first good Christians Then upon any publick misfortune it was Christiani ad Leones and at this time upon any misadventure Execute the Arch-bishop Neither was he offered only to the revenge of the English but likewise of the Scots too whose Covenant was to be Celebrated with this Sacrifice and Union cemented with this bloud Since neither the Law nor Reason neither Religion nor Nature neither the Kings power nor the Subjects innocence could preserve his life the excellent man prepared himself with the comforts of all for death having before setled his Estate in a charitable and pious way he had the better leisure to settle his soul had not the cruelty of some people that thought his very solitude too great an injoyment for him shewed themselves as much enemies to private as publick Devotions disturbed his retirements with contumelies upbraiding those very Devotions that then interceded for them who would have laughed at Christ if he had used his own prayer Now if ever the Lion and the Lamb dwelt together the highest Courage and the sweetest Meekness together inhabiting one Breast The great Pastor of the Church going to die with the innocence and silence of a Lamb in the midst of contumelies speaking not again himself though his bloud doth and did His last nights repose was the Emblem of his last rest his slâ—ep the true image of his death serene and calm Having stripped him of all the Honors of an Archbishop they would have denyed him the priviledge of a Malefactor to have his own woâ—thy Confessor Dr. Sterne since Archbishop of York about him taking it so ill that he would not admit of Marshall that was fitter to be the Executioner than a Chaplain that because he would not die according to the humor of the Presbyterians he should not die in the honorable way of an Archbishop 1. Sheriff Chambers of London bringing over night the Warrant for his Execution and acquainting him therewith he betook himself to his own and desired also the prayers of others and particularly of Doctor Holdsworth his Fellow Prisoner there for a year and a half though all that time there had not been the least converse between them The next morning being brought out of the Tower to the Scaffold he ascended it with an extraordinarily chearful and ruddy countenance he that had been so long a Martyr no doubt thinking it release of misery to be made a Martyr as if he had mounted rather to have beheld a triumph than to be made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated and exchange his Miter for the Crown of Martyrdom The clearness of his Conscience being legible in the chearfulness of his dying looks as the ferenity of the weather is understood by the glory and ruddiness of the setting Sun there desiring to have room to die and declaring that he was more willing to go out of the world than any man to send him he first took care to stop the chinks near the block and remove the people he spied under it expressing himself that it was no part of his desire that his bloud should fall upon the heads of the people in which desire it pleased God he was so far gratified that there remaining a small hole from a knot in the midst of a board the fore-finger of his right hand at his death happened to stop that also and then at once pardoning and over-coming his Enemies many of whom coming thither to insult went away to weep for him who had this peculiar happiness with his Master that he gained that reverence by his Adversity that neither he nor any gained in Prosperity he turned his Scaffold to a Pulpit and Preached his own Funeral in these express words delivered by him to the excellent Dr. Sterne to be communicated to his Fellow-Chaplains His Graces Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Ian. 10. 1644. To his Chaplain Dr. Sterne now Lord Archbishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 2. Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Iesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how have I looked unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I finde the Cross a death of Shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are upon the brink of the very brink of it An Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his people But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sower herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sower herbs as well as the Lamb. And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hand that gathered them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these for men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above St. Iohn 19. 11. I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of Red Wine might pass from me St. Luke 22. 42. But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall
most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Savior for it my â—â—â—â—lution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I forsake the Temple and the â—â—â—uth of God to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Da◠〈◊〉 in Bethel And as for this people they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blinde lead the blinde and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch St. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by Thought Word and Deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as weâ—e as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges For if they proceed upon proof by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of this Sentence lie heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his followers Before these St. Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd Woman And St. Cyprian Archbishop of Carâ—hage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many Examples Great and Good and they teach me patience For I hope my cause in Heaven will look of another dy than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great Men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against St. Paul Acts 25. 8. For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i.e. Religion And like that of St. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i.e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say do I then compare my self with the integrity of St. Paul and St. Stephen No far be it from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is Memorable that St. Paul who helped on this accusation against St. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamor that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself Iohn 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani And the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come and see how just the Judgment of God was They crucified Chriâ—t for fear lest the Romans should câ—meâ— And his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamor of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by Honor and Dishonor by good Report and evil Report as a deceived and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And First This I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign he hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as found a Protestant according to the Religion by Law Established as any man in his Kingdom And that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamor for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger any innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from parish to parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In St. Stephens Case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Act. 6. 12. And Herod went the same way When he had killed St. Iames yet he would not venture upon St. Peter till he found how the other pleased the people Acts 12. 3. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud Isa. 1. 15. For there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes inquisition for bloud And when that inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psal. 9. 12. That God Remembers but that 's not all he remembers and forgets not the Complaint of the poor i.e. whose bloud is shed by oppression ver 9. Take heed of this 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 12. but then especially when he is making inquisition for bloud And with my prayers to avert it I do humbly desire this City to remember the Prophecy that is expressed Ier. 26. 15. 3.
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
Aristotle handleth the affections in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry and Devotion then keeping up his thoughts and parts the melancholy resulting from thence that made him in the midst of the brave discourses in his House and Company the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble Learned or Witty in the Nation silent some hours together drew in all that he heard into great notions and as if it had been a Meditation all the while expressed them in greater In a word he became the best Poet by being the best natured man in England sufficiently honored not so much by the great appearance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham c. and so happily immitated by the excellent Mr. Sprat the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society that that doth to Philosophy and the world the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley in a way of Club at Oxford that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London Fran. Quarles Esq Son to Iames Quarles Esq born at Stewards nigh Rumford in Essex bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn London preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia Secretary to Bishop Vsher and Chronologer to the City of London having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and as much in his Peace and Name for writing the Loyal Converâ— and going to his Majesty to Oxford by the Faction in England he practised the Iob he had described and the best Embleme though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes of Devotion and Patience himself dying Septemb. 8. Anno Domini 1644. Aetatis 52. the Husband of one Wife and Father of eighteen Children buried at St. Fosters and living his pious books that by the fancy take the heart having taught Poetry to be witty without profaneness wantonness or being satyrical that is without the Poets abusing God himself or his neighbor To joyn together Poetry and Musick Mr. Will. Laws a Vicar Chorals Son born and bred at Salisbury but accomplished at the Marquiss of Hertfords who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian till he equalled yea exceeded him Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England besides his fancies of the 3 4 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary given on purpose to secure him but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office he was particularly lamented by his Majesty who called him the Father of Musick having no Brother in that Faculty but him that was his Brother in nature Mr. Henry Laws since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr Fettering Sounds in Noble Halls Parlors and Chambers when it was shut out of Churches where for many years to use Mr. Hookers words it was greatly available by a native puissance and efficacy to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled to quicken the spirits low and allay them when eager soveraign against melancholy and despair forceable to draw forth tears of devotion able both to move and moderate affections The Bards thereby communicating Religion Learning and Civility to this whole-Nation When it was asked what made a good Musician one answered A good Voice another Skill but a third more truly Incouragâ—ment Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suffering Prelates it will be no offence to enter him among the discouraged Artists he being as ingenious as he was graâ—e and a great Patron of those parts in others that he was happy in himself for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University and preferring good proficients out of it by the same token that some in these times turned him out of his Livings that he had raised into theirs A good Benefactor to Chester I think the place of his Birth as well as his Preferment and to Brasen-nose-colledge oxâ—n the place of his Education but a better under God to England in his Son the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause and a great honor to it his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the Common-pleas endearing as well as opening the Law to the people as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience as well as his own an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men are as successful as the Children of Men of other Professions against the Romanists suggestion who against Nature Scripture and Primitive Practise forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own jurisdiction and be â—patter them without though they might observe that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals Dr. George Wild a native of Devonshire Scholar and Fellow of St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth a great wit in the University and a great wisdom in the Church which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Sermons in Country and City in publick and private particularly in his well-known 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Oratory in Fleet-street fitted for the Preaching of the Word the Administring of the Sacrament with a constant solemn and fervent use of the publick Liturgy encouraged by his chearful spirit and converse adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity communicating with great care to others relief that were Sequestred Imprisoned and almost Famished what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most yet suffered less than any bold innocence is its own guard only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement and some weeks Silence when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist by Maldonate miraculum nonfecit magnum fuit so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom Concionem non habuit magna fuit He preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of patience and piety a good Sermon because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty because he feared not Herod he
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
well his care as the first Of a strange counsel that a Lord was reported to give him he said That none durst be so Impudent as to give it him For if they had said he I should have set such a mark upon them as that all Posterity should have known my Intentions by it which was ever to govern by Law and not otherwise He was as faithful of his word to others the reason why he would not grant the Faction all they desired as he was advised because he would make good to them what he granted as it was his Interest others should not be false to him His great word being Leave me to my Conscience and Honour and let what will befall me Trouble not your selves said he when advised to escape from Carisbrooke I have the Parliaments honour pawned for my security I will not dishonour my self by my escape Tell me not were his heroique words to a faithful Counsellour advising him to Expedients to save his Life what I may do to save my Life but what I may do with a safe Conscience God forbid that the safety or being of the Church should depend upon my Life or any mortal mans And I thank God I have a Son that I have reason to believe will love the Church as well as I do And being told his death was resolved on he answered like himself I have done what I can to save my life without losing of my soul I can do I will do no more Gods will be done A King so blessed while left to his own Justice and Government not only in his Family with a Son born May 29. 1630. when a new Star at Noon congratulated his birth the earnest of a more numerous Issue those Props of Empire surer than Armies or Navies but in his Realm with such peace plenty and power ar enabled him to check the greatness of Austria and the insolent Proposals of the King of Sweden To reduce Ireland to such a condition of peace and security as that it paid the charges of its own Government formerly deducted out of the English Exchequer To meditate the repair of St Pauls towards which he got together 146000l. To restore such Scottish Lands and Tythes as had been stollen from the Crown and Church during K. Iames his minority to the Crown with augmentation to the Clergy and ease to the People held in vassalage by their new Landlords reserving those Landlords those Lands to be held of the Crown at a moderate tent and in spight of these and other disaffected persons to ratifie such Laws for Church and State as King Iames had established To furnish out such a Navy as brought the Hollanders notwithstanding Grotius his Mare Librum against which Selden writ Mare Clausum to Caress the King and Queen with presents of Ambergreece and to crave a precarious use of our Seas c. and the Spaniard to coin all his Bullion in our Mint His own people could not wish for more happinesse than they enjoyed unless it were the addition of grace to understand their happinesse grown to such a height as by the necessity of nature which put all things in motion must decline Security increasing the trade arts glory and plenty of the Nation and Justice preserving them the meaner sort might Reverence but need not fear the greatest and the greatest might despise but durst not injure the meanest All Pickaroons and Pirats were forced to their nests and sneaking harbours More Privileges were granted the People than they had since the Conquests as that they should part neither with their money nor lives nor services nor houses without their own consent in Parliament that they should enjoy all the Rights and Liberties they ever had since they were a People that they should have a Parliament every three years that they should fear neither High Commission Star Chamber nor the disposal of their Children and Estates in the Court of Wards and more seeming gratitude a while returned to him than to any Prince before him all his future sufferings being only to set off his orient virtues and to let the wanton people know what a sad thing it is to lose the best of Kings and be given over to the pride and violence of the basest of men to punish our sins with his patience who had an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a constant course of prosperity in himself after a War and overthrow to be judged by all men to deserve that prosperity he wanted yea and to have from God a constant assurance that his prosperity should be the more prosperous for his misfortunes he asking Bishop Iuxon Whether the Blessed above knew any thing of what was done here upon Earth and upon his reply with the Ancients that it was probable they might answering That then his sufferings would be sufficiently recompenced with the knowledge he should have of his Sons prosperity One Night a Wax Mortar such as the King had alwayes by him in his Bed-chamber was as he thought quite extinguished in the Night yet in the Morning burned very clearly to his Majesty and the Right Honourable the Earl of Southampton's wonder that lay in the same Chamber as Gentleman of the Bed-chamber that Night knowing it was really out and that none could come in to light it a presage he afterward applyed thus That though God might suffer his light to be extinguished for a time yet he would at last lighten it again Hear him himself thus discoursing on the various events in his affairs and his prospect of what was to come Upon the various Events of the VVar Victories and Defeats THe various successes of this unhappy War have at least afforded the variety of good meditations Sometimes God was pleased to try me with Victory by worsting my Enemies that I might know how with moderation and thanks to own him and his power who is the only true Lord of hosts able when he pleases to repress the confidence of those who fought against me with so great advantages for power and number From small beginnings on my part he let me see that I was not wholly forsaken by my Peoples love or his protection Other times God was pleased to exercise my Patience and teach me not to trust in the arme of flesh but the living God My sins sometimes prevailed against the Iustice of my cause and those that were with me wanted not matter and occasion for his just chastisement both of them and me Nor were my Enemies less punished by that prosperity which hardned them to continue that injustice by open hostility which was begun by riotous and un-Parliamentary Tumults There is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft-times over-ballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every gallant Man in the Worlds esteem a fit instrument to assert in the way of War a righteous cause The more men are prone to arrogate to their own skill valour and strength the lesse
doth God ordinarily work by them for his own glory I am sure the event or success can never state the justice of any cause nor place of mens Consciences nor the eternal fate of their Souls Those with me had I think clearly and undoubtedly for their justification the Word of God and the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths all requiring obedience to my just commands but to none other under Heaven without me or against me in the point of raising Arms. Those on the other side are forced to fly to the shifts of their pretended fear and wild Fundamentalls of State as they call them which actually overthrow the present Fabrick both of Church and State being such imaginary Reasons for self-defence as are most impertinent for those men to allege who being my Subjects were manifestly the first assaulter of me and the Laws first by unsuppressed Tumults after by listed Forces The same Allegations they use will fit any Faction that hath but power and confidence enough to second with the sword all their demands against the present Laws and Governours which can never be such as some side or other will not find fault with so as to urge what they call a Reformation of them to a Rebellion against them some parasitick Preachers have dared to call those Martyrs who dyed fighting against me the Laws their Oaths and the Religion established But sober Christians know That glorious Title can with truth be applyed only to those who sincerely preferred Gods truth and their duty in all these particulars before their lives and all that was dear to them in this World who having no advantagious designes by any innovation were religiously sensible of those tyes to God the Church and my self which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose were lost in so just a cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified as a means to save their souls Their wounds and temporal ruine serving as a gracious opportunity for their eternal health and happiness while the evident approach of death through Gods grace effectually disposing their hearts to such humility faith and repentance which together with the rectitude of their present engagements would fully prepare them for a better life than that which their enemies brutish and disloyal fierceness could deprive them of or without repentance hope to enjoy They have often indeed had the better against my side in the field but never I believe at the barr of Gods tribunal or their own Consciences where they are more afraid to encounter those many pregnant Reasons both from Law Allegiance and all true Christian grounds which conflict with and accuse them in their own thoughts than they oft were in a desperate bravery to fight against those forces which sometimes God gave me Whose condition conquered and dying I make no question but is infinitely more to be chosen by a sober man that duly values his duty his soul and eternity beyond the enjoyments of this present life than the most triumphant glory wherein their and mine enemies supervive who can hardly avoid to be daily tormented by that horrid guilt wherewith their suspicious or now convicted Consciences do pursue them especially since they and all the World have seen how false and un-intended those pretensions were which they first set forth as the only plausible though not justifiable grounds of raising a War and continuing it thus long against me and the Laws established in whose safety and preservation all honest men think the welfare of their Country doth consist For and with all which it is farr more honourable and comfortable to suffer than to prosper in their ruine and subversion I have often prayed that all on my side might joyn true piety with the sence of their loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the defects of one might blast the endeavours of the other Yet cannot think that any shews or truth of piety on the other side were sufficient to dispence with or expiate the defects of their Duty and Loyalty to me which have so pregnant convictions on mens Consciences that even prophaner men are moved by the sense of them to venture their lives for me I never had any Victory which was without my sorrow because it was on mine own subjects who like Absalom dyed many of them in their sins And yet I never suffered any Defeat which made the despair of Gods mercy and defence I never desired such Victories as might serve to conquer but only restore the Laws and Liberties of my People which I saw were extremely oppressed together with my Rights by those men who were impatient of any just restraint When Providence gave me or denyed me Victory my desire was neither to boast of my power nor to charge God foolishly who I believed at last would make all things to work together for my good I wished no greater advantages by the War than to bring my Enemies to moderation and my friends to peace I was afraid of the temptation of an absolute Conquest and prayed for victory over others then over my self when the first was denyed the second was granted me which God saw best for me The different events were but the method of Divine Iustice by contrary Winds to winow us that by punishing our sins he might purge them from us and by deserting peace he might prepare us more to prize and better to use so great a blessing My often Messages for peace shewed That I delighted not in War as my former concessions sufficiently testified how willing I would have prevented is and my total unpreparedness for it how little I intended it The Conscience of my Innocency forbad me to fear a War but the Love of my Kingdoms commanded me if possible to avoid it I am guilty of this War of nothing but this That I gave such advantages to some men by confirming their power which knew not to use with that modesty and gratitude which became their Loyalty and my confidence Had I yielded less I had been opposed less had I denyed more I had been more obeyed 'T is now too late to review the occasions of War I wish only a happy conclusion of so unhappy beginnings the inevitable fate of our sins was no doubt such as would no longer suffer the Divine Iustice to be quiet we having conquered his patience are condemned by mutual conquerings to destroy one another for the most prosperous successes on either side impair the welfare of the whole Those Victories are still miserable that leave our sins unsubdued flushing our pride and animating to continue injuries Peace it self is not desirable till Repentance have prepared us for it When we fight more against our selves and less against God we shall cease fighting against one another I pray God these may all meet
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention