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The court and character of King James whereunto is now added The court of King Charles : continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times : with some observations upon him instead of a character / collected and perfected by Sir A.W.
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Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649?
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1651
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Northampton though a great Clerke yet not a wise man but the grossest Flatterer of the World and as Salisbury by his Wit so this by his Flattery raised himselfe yet one great motive to the raising all of that Name of Howards was the Duke of Norfolke suffering for the Queene of Scots the Kings Mother yet did Suffolke so farre get the start of Northampton that Northampton never after loved him but from the teeth outwards only had so much discretion as not to fall to actuall enmity to the over-throw of both and the weakning that faction Suffolk also using him with all submissive respect not for any love but hope of gaining his great estate and sharing it amongst his Children but Northamptons distaste was such by his losse of the Treasurers place which he had with such assurance promised to himselfe in his thoughts that except what he gave to Master Henry Howard the rest he gave to the Earl of Arundell who by his observance but more especially by giving Northampton all his Estate if he never returned from travell had wrought himselfe so far into his affections that he doted on him And now the principall managers of the English affaires were Salisbury Suffolke Northampton Buckhurst Egerton Lord Keeper Worcester and the Old Admirall For the Scots Sir George Hewme now Earle of Dunbar Secretary Elfeston after Earle of Balmerino and as wise a man as was in England or Scotland the Lord of Kinlosse a very honest but weak man You are now to observe that Salisbury had shaken off all that were great with him and of his Faction in Queene Elizabeths dayes as Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir George Carew the Lord Grey the Lord Cobham the three first very able men as the world had the last but one degree from a foole yet served their turnes better then a wiser man by his greatnesse with the Queen for they would put him on any thing and make him tell any Lye with as great confidence as a truth Three of these were utterly ruined as you shall heare in the following Discourse the fourth being a very wise man contented himselfe with a meane place that was worthy of a much greater and although very active formerly called to minde this saying Foelix quem faciunt c. and medled with no State businesse his wisdome fore-telling his Fate if he had done otherwise for he did see one better head-peece then his owne sit tottering at that time and fell off afterwards which made him think it was good sleeping in a whole skin The King no sooner came to London but notice was taken of a rising Favourite the first Meteor of that nature appearing in our climate as the King cast his eye upon him for affection so did all the Courtiers to adore him his name was Mr. James Hay a Gentleman that lived long in France and some say of the Scottish Guard to that King this Gentleman comming over to meet the King and share with him in his new Conquest according to the Scots phrase it should seeme had some former acquaintance with the then Leiger Embassadour in Scotland for the French King who comming with his Majesty into England presented this Gentleman as a well accomplished Gentleman to the King in such an high commendation as engendered a liking that produced a favourite in thankfull acknowledgement whereof he did him many faire offices for the present and comming afterwards an extraordinary Embassadour to our King made him the most sumptuous Feast at Essex house that ever was seene before never equalled since in which was such plenty and Fish of that immensity brought out of Muscovia that Dishes were made to containe them no Dishes in all England before could neare hold them and after that a costly Voydee and after that a Maske of choyse Noble-men and Gentlemen and after that a most costly and magnificent Banquet the King Lords and all the prime Gentlemen then about London being invited thither Truly he was a most compleat and well accomplished Gentleman modest and Court-like and of so faire a demeanour as made him be generally beloved and for his wisdome I shall give you but one character for all Hee was ever great with all the Favourites of his time and although the King did often change yet he was semper idem with the King and Favourites and got by both for although Favourites had that exorbitant power over the King to make him grace and disgrace whom they pleased yet he was out of their power and the only exception to that generall rule and for his gettings it was more then almost all the Favourites of his time which appeared in those vast expences of all sorts and had not the bounty of his minde exceeded his gettings he might have left the greatest estate that ever our age or climate had heard of he was indeed made for a Courtier who wholly studied his Master and understood him better then any other He was imployed in very many of the most weighty Affaires and sent with the most stately Embassies of our times which he performed with that wisdome and magnificence that he seemed an honour to his King and Country For his carriage in State-affaires he was termed by some Princes the Kings Juggler He married the Daughter and Heire of the Lord Denny after the Earl of Northumberlands daughter and was hated of none that ever I heard of but the Earle of Northampton who had no patience to see him being himselfe of so venemous and cankred a disposition that indeed he hated all men of noble parts nor loved any but Flatterers like himselfe yet it was a great question whether he hated the Earl of Carlisle or Sir Robert Mansell most by whom he hath been heard to say Body of God I will be content to be damned perpetually in Hell to be revenged of that proud Welshman and did so hate him that he kept an Inquisition on him seven yeares to prove that he had cousened the King of fourteen thousand pounds which at the seven yeares end at an hearing before the King the Lords the Queen and all the Ladies being present with all the gallantry of the Court ended in one paire of silke Stockins given by one for a New-yeares Gift to Master Wels Sir Robert Mansells Servant at which the King stood up and sware very deeply Doe you beleeve I will take a paire of silke Stockins for my fourteen thousand pounds give me that give me that is this all the fruit of seven yeares Commission at which words Sir Robert Mansell kneeled downe and said I will now Sir take all the faults they can charge my servant with upon my selfe at which the King was very angry that so noble a Gentleman who had so wel acquitted himselfe and Honour should intrust it in the keeping of a Servant at the end of all the Earle of Salisbury kneeled down and said Sir if you will suffer malice so farre to prevaile as to have your
cryed Justice Sir I am abused by your servant and wrongfully accused at which the poore King become by that time speechlesse mournfully fixed his eies on him as who would have said not wrongfully It were worth the knowledge what his confession was or what other expressions he made of himselfe or any other but that was only known to the dead Arch-Bishop Abbot and the Bishop Williams then also Lord Keeper and it was thought Williams had blabbed something which incensed the Kings anger and Buckinghams hatred so much against him that the losse of his place could not be expiatory sufficient but his utter ruine must be determined and that not upon any knowne crime but upon circumstances and examinations to pick out faults committed in his whole life time but his greatest crime for the present no question was lapsus linguae but quod defertur non aufertur for although he escaped by the calme of that Parliament yet is he more ruined by this Parliament and his owne folly and truly we may observe the just Judgement of God on him for flying from the Parliament his protector to give wicked counsell to the King his former prosecutor And now have I brought this great Kings Reigne to an end in a volant discourse and shall give you his Character in briefe and so leave him in peace after his life who was stiled the King of peace in his life THE CHARACTER OF KING JAMES THis Kings Character is much easier to take then hi Picture for he could never be brought to sit for the taking of that which is the reason of so few good peeces of him but his Character was obvious to every eye He was of a middle stature more corpulent through his cloathes then in his body yet fat enough his cloathes ever being made large and easie the Doublets quilted for steletto proofe his Breeches in great pleits and full stuffed Hee was naturally of a timorous disposition which was the reason of his quilted Doublets His eyes large ever rowling after any stranger came in his presence insomuch as many for shame have left the roome as being out of countenance His Beard was very thin His Tongue too large for his mouth which ever made him speak full in the mouth and made him drink very uncomely as if eating his drink which came out into the cup of each side of his mouth His skin was as soft as Taffeta Sarsnet which felt so because hee never washt his hands onely rubb'd his fingers ends slightly with the wet end of a Napkin His Legs were very weake having had as was thought some foul play in his youth or rather before he was born that he was not able to stand at seven years of age that weaknesse made him ever leaning on other mens shoulders his walke was ever circular his fingers ever in that walke sidling about his Codpiece He was very temperate in his exercises and in his dyet and not intemperate in his drinking however in his old age and Buckinghams joviall Suppers when he had any turne to doe with him made him sometimes overtaken which he would the very next day remember and repent with teares it is true he dranke very often which was rather out of a custom then any delight and his drinks were of that kind for strength as Frontiniack Canary High Country wine Tent Wine and Scottish Ale that had he not had a very strong brain might have daily been overtaken although he seldom drank at any one time above four spoonfulls many times not above one or two He was very constant in all things his Favourites excepted in which he loved change yet never cast down any he once raised from the height of greatnesse though from their wonted nearnesse and privacy unlesse by their own default by opposing his change as in Somersets case yet had he not been in that foul poysoning busines and so cast down himself I do verily beleeve not him neither for al his other Favorites he left great in Honour great in Fortune and did much love Mountgomery and trusted him more at the very last gaspe then at the first minute of his Favoriteship In his Dyet Apparrell and Journeys he was very constant in his Apparrell so constant as by his good wil he would never change his cloathes untill worn out to very ragges His Fashion never Insomuch as one bringing to him a Hat of a Spanish Block he cast it from him swearing he neither loved them nor their fashions Another time bringing him Roses on his Shooes he asked if they would make him a ruffefooted-Dove one yard of six penny Ribbond served that turn His Dyet and Journies was so constant that the best observing Courtier of our time was wont to say were he asleep seven yeares and then awakened he would tell where the King every day had been and every dish he had had at his Table Hee was not very uxorious though he had a very brave Queen that never crossed his designes nor intermedled with State affaires but ever complyed with him even against the nature of any but of a milde spirit in the change of Favourites for he was ever best when furthest from his Queene and that was thought to be the first grounds of his often removes which afterwards proved habituall He was unfortunate in the marriage of his Daughter and so was all Christendome besides but sure the Daughter was more unfortunate in a Father then he in a Daughter He naturally loved not the sight of a Souldier nor of any valiant man and it was an observation that Sir Robert Mansell was the only valiant man he ever loved and him he loved so intirely that for all Buckinghams greatnesse with the King and his hatred of Sir Robert Mansell yet could not that alienate the Kings affections from him insomuch as when by the instigation of Cottington then Embassadour in Spaine by Buckinghams procurement the Spanish Embassadour came with a great complaint against Sir Robert Mansell then at Argiers to suppresse the Pirats That he did support them having never a friend there though many that durst speake in his defence the King himselfe defended him in these words My Lord Embassadour I cannot beleeve this for I made choyce my selfe of him out of these reasons I know him to be valiant honest and Nobly descended as most in my Kingdome and will never beleeve a man thus qualified will doe so base an act He naturally loved honest men that were not over active yet never loved any man heartily untill he had bound him unto him by giving him some suite which he thought bound the others love to him again but that argued a poore disposition in him to beleeve that any thing but a Noble minde seasoned with vertue could make any firme love or union for mercinary mindes are carried away with a greater prize but Noble mindes alienated with nothing but publick disgraces He was very witty and had as many ready witty jests as any