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

in which charge he bore himselfe so nobly and with such Brauerie of spirit that whilst Arnam or the Sconces Duesburie Zutfen Deuentrie Blankenburie and a world of other places taken from the enemie stand the renowne of this Noble man can neither perish nor be forgotten He is no sooner entranchised from this seruice but the poore King of Portugale Don Antonio held violently out of his right by the King of Spaine after the death of Sebastian comes into England fals at the feet of the great Queene Elizabeth shewes his Iniury and pleads to her mercy for Succour Shee who was altogether a plentifull Fountaine of pittie after cautious and assurances giuen of the reuolt of the Portugals if an Army should be brought to relieue him presently vouchafes him aide and sends away a Royall Army vnder the conduct of the second Hannibal of the World Sir Iohn Norris Knight and that much Sea-loued Gentleman Sir Frauncis Drake In this expedition Essex desires to bee imployed but his Soueraigne who held him either too pretious or the action too low or else had imployments for him of greater and higher nature refuseth to admit him which hee perceiuing and being all then on fire and such a fire as no imployment of Peace was able to quench secretly and vnknowne to any creature but his dearest obseruer Sir Roger Williams hee stole from the Court and the Ships beeing ready to dis-imboage put himselfe aboard and so went the whole voyage what there hee did the very Gates of Lysbone can testifie and the Suburbs at this day are ficke of his ruines and had the Citizens beene halfe as faithfull as he was Valiant Don Antonio and his seede had in probabilitie worne the Crowne till this houre The Groine will speake of him for she felt him nay generally all Portugale did admire him and to the whole Kingdome and people of Spaine his name was dreadfull Some few yeares after this expedition ended it pleased God by the hand of a paricide Villane a Popish Fryar one that the Deuill and the Iesuites had beene long in breeding to suffer the life of Henry the third of France to be taken away whose next Successour was Henry the fourth sirnamed the Great of the House of Burbone and then King of Nauarre but vp starts the Deuils ministers by the name of Leaguers or the League and they with-stood that inuincible Prince so powerfully though treacherously that the distressed King is compelled to complaine to the great Mistresse of comfort the renowned Elizabeth Shee presently vouchsafes him aide and vnder the conduct of this most excellent Earle Robert Earle of Essex whom she made her Generall she sent into France number for number the goodliest the richest and the most glorious Army that euer the Sunne shined on O! yet me thinkes I see the enter-view or first meeting betweene the King and this Earle where the Flowers of England and the Flowers of France mixing together gold so reflected vpon gold that the Ayre and the Earth seemed all to be one flame and the Sunne blushing shrunke to see his glory ecclipsed The Earle had not beene many daies in France but he reduced to the Kings obedience all the Country of Normandie the Citie of Roan only excepted against which the Earle laid a strong siege brought it to that low ebbe of safetie that hee offered to giue it the King when he pleased for he had made breaches so large and passages so easie that there was no difficultie in the conquest but the King said He desired to winne France not to conquer France so that the worke by sufferance grew longer yet in the ende hee made it become prostrate to the Kings obedience What shall I say to the actions of this great Earle but only thus that Fortune in these daies was so far from displeasing him that shee seemed to labour for nothing so much as for his exaltation After he had finished his great worke in France and was returned home with the admiration and applause of both Kingdomes and had receiued from his great Mistresse a condigne reward for the Queene made him the Master of the Ordnance After some few yeares spent in Peace occasion being offered by the iniuries of the King of Spaine then liuing who like a Lyon lay euer sleeping with his eyes open to catch all aduantages which might any waies molest vs The Queene with a Royall Armie vnder the conduct of this thrice Noble Earle sent him into the very heart and bowels of Spaine I mean to the most feeling members and fruitfullest parts of all that Kingdome here in this Iourney he tooke the Towne of Cales sacked it and burnt it and brought away not onely all the wealth of the place but of all the Country round about it After his departure thence hee came into Portugale and there tooke the Towne of Pharo and sackt it had his Commission giuen his great heart libertie I thinke his Lordship found easinesse enough to haue sackt also both Siuil and Lisbone but laden with these spoiles he returned home and brought into England an infinite masse of wealth The next yeare following this expedition hee by the Queenes appointment raised vp an other Army and went with it to the Ilands of the Azores belonging to the King of Spaine being nine in number to wit Saint Michaels Saint Maries Tercera Gratiosa Fiall Pike Saint Georges Flores and Coru● and most of these well fortified strongly guarded and of great consequence for they are the very Store-houses or garners which giue reliefe to all the King of Spaines shipping in their returne from the West Indies All these Ilands this Noble Earle tooke some hee sackt some he ransomed the entier wealth he brought home into England for which braue exploit and many others the Queene created him Earle Marshall of England After he had reposed himselfe a little at home for I cannot call it rest the Irish Rebels vnder the Generall conduct of the Earle of Tiron but especially in Vlster vnder the conduct of the bastard sonne of Desmount Oni-mac Sori and others in Munster vnder the conduct of Filo-macesufe and Redmeale his broin Lemster and vnder the conduct of Captaine Terrol in both East-meathe and West-meathe had set all Ireland on fire by their treacherous and base combustions To suppresse this the Noble Essex is called for and made Lieutenant of Ireland a Royall Armie is raised and with it hee came into that much ruined Kingdome where betwixt May day and Michaelmas he brought Munster into obedience draue all the Rebels out of Lenster made East-meathe and Westmeathe as peaceable as any part of England setled in quietnesse the greatest part of Conagh euen from Athlone to the foot of the vnfortunate Curlewes and brought the Earle of Tiron himselfe to a fearefull Capitulation But then other Planets rising and this Noble Earles fortunes beeing to be gouerned by new constellations he is compelled to

the Earle of Southampton buckles on his Armour and after the Generall was chosen which was Robert Earle of Essex he is the first tenders his seruice he is instantly made Lieutenant Generall of the Horse prepares for the expedition and with all possible speed came into Ireland there he was a principall instrument in calming all the turmoiles and ceasing the seditions in Munster reducing that fruitfull and well peopled Prouince to their auncient and true obedience and making those which fauour and grace could not reclaime by force of Armes to lye humbly prostrate before him witnesse Mongarret Donna-spaniah the Souggan Oni-mac-Rori and a world of others which being the wickednest of men came and threw themselues at the feete of the Generall and only cryed out for the Queenes and his mercy Thus he also reduced the Country of 〈◊〉 and diuers other places and then returned But is here an end of his progresse in the warres questionlesse the whole world would haue so imagined for his deare and dread Soueraigne the euer memorable Elizabeth dying the next that succeeds is the incomparable King Iames he enters not with an Oliue Branch in his hand but with an whole Forrest of Oliues round about him for he brought not Peace to this Kingdome alone but almost to all the Christian Kingdomes in Europe he closed vp both ours and our neighbours Ianus Temple and writing Beati pacifici found both the worke and the Reward in his admirable proceedings here our great Earle stops but retires not hee keepes his first ground and the King like the Sunne which suruaies althings found hat he was fit for either the one or the other seruice Peace and Warre were to him but a couple of hand-maids and he knew how to employ either according to their Vertue hence he makes him a Priuie Counsellour of the State and in that seruice he spent the marrow and strength of his age Now at last when Mischiefe and Policie went about by delicate and inchanting poisons not only to stifle our Peace but to murther and confound all our louing neighbours which guard vs and that Charitie her selfe complained how our almes were much to penurious he who is one of the first which rises vp to this labour of amendment but our Southampton he whom although the priuiledge of white haires the testimonie of his former actions and the necessitie of his imployments in the present state might haue pleaded many vnrefellable excuses yet he is the sonne of Honour and with her he will liue and die in all occasions hence he embarks himself into this present action Go on then braue Earle and as thou art by yeares experience and the greatnesse of thy former places and commandments in the warres the eldest sonne of Honour in this Army so giue vnto these thy Companions examples of thy goodnesse shew them the true paths of Honour and be thou the Eies and Conduct to leade to the restitution of the lost Palatinate for therein consists my Prophesie After this O Britaine reade to thy growing spirits the euer memorable Storie of the Noble House of Essex euery small tittle of that glory is able to make a very earthy soule glorious how much more then a soule of any reasonable good composition thou needest not reade it in any lowd key for the whole World is but a Theater of their Renowne the Tongues of all people make but vp the Trumpet which speakes them and it is Eternitie it selfe which shall keepe them to euerlasting memorie Speake then first of the Noble Walter Earle of Essex I do not meane that in this Treatise thou shouldst speake of all his Noble actions for great Volumes are to little to containe them But like an Index or Table vnto greatnesse point out where those glories may be better discerned Let it suffice me to say hee was a man compounded of the foure Vertues as of foure Elements Honour Valour Bountie and Humilitie for the first he had it from his Birth and made an augmentation of it in his life for from Vicount he became an Earle the second could neuer be seperated from his Bloud and he exprest it in his profession for he was a Souldier the third was the foundation of his disposition for he could not indure to see merit weeping and the fourth was the Issue of al the others goodnesses for he could neuer indure to imagine his owne shadow a haires breadth greater then those that did walke hand in hand with him This Earle was by Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie made Lord Marshall of Ireland It was he that brought the great O-neale into subiectiō made the first euil Desmund put on the yoake of true obedience and reduced that barbarous Nation to their first rules of noble ciuility which when he had performed to the admiration of all men he then returned to Dublin and there dyed and was buried at Caermarden in Wales where hee was borne and there his memorie will liue for euer After him succeeded in his dignitie his deare sonne Robert surnamed the Great Earle of Essex a man of whom it behoueth euery man to be carefull how to write because his excellent parts were so great and the enuy which attends such excellency is so boundlesse that grow the Rush neuer so smoothe yet there will be a knot and let the speech be neuer so modest yet there will be too much or too little spoken Therefore I will only flye to my Mistresse Truth and vnder her protection giue a glaunce at some part of his Story This Earle was by his father left young vnto the World and therefore by his mother trained vp to the knowledge both of Armes and Letters and that with such a carefull yet Noble seueritie that the Vniuersity wherein he liued will and must confesse that not the porest Pentioner or House-scholler whatsoeuer kept his acts or disputations more duly freely and out of his owne knowledge and readings then this Earle did nor had the Vniuersitie at that time any wit more pretious then other being of his time to which he was not an oponent so excellent ripe was his Vnderstanding so delicate his deliuery of those things which hee vnderstood As soone as he left the Vniuersitie he was call'd for to the Court where his Soueraigne the wisest of all Soueraignes threw vpon him all possible Fauours and although for his youth and beauty he might like Pirocles haue made Basilius doat on his sweetnesse yet such was his caryage that he was able to haue giuen Ornament to any Counsell Chamber In this first flourishing time of his youth Spaine tyranizing too hardly vpon our best Neighbours the Neatherlands the euer memorable and renouned Queene Elizabeth takes them to her protection and with a Royall Army vnder the conduct of Robert Earle of Leicester preuents those Tempests which else might fall vpon them In this Armie Robert Earle of Essex is made Lieutenant Generall of the Horse