in her self the least spark of Ambition was made the most unhappy Instrument of another Mans. The proud and aspiring Duke of Northumberland trears with the Duke of Suffolk about a Marriage between the Lord Guilford Dudly his fourth Son and the Lady Jane The Marriage is concluded and by Northumberland's policy the Crown is transferred from K. Edward to his Cosin the Lady Jane his two Sisters the Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth being passed by Memorable is the Speech she made to the two Dukes when they owned her for Queen to this effect That the Laws of the Kingdom and natural Right standing for the Kings Sisters she would beware of burthening her weak Conscience with a yoke which did belong to them That she understood the Infamy of those who had permitted the violation of Right to gain a Scepter That it were to mock God and deride Justice to scruple at the stealing of a shilling and not at the usurpation of a Crown Besides said she I am not so yong nor so little read in the guiles of fortune to suffer my self to be taken by them If she enrich any it is but to make them the subject of her spoil If she raise others it is but to pleasure her self with their Ruins What she adored but yesterday is to day her pastime And if I now permit her to adorn and Crown Me I must to morrow suffer her to crush and tear me in pieces c. But the Ambition of the two Dukes was too strong and violent to be kept down by any such prudent Considerations So that being wearied at last with their Importunities and overcome by the intreaties of her husband whom she dearly loved She submitted unto that necessity which she could not vanquish yielding her head with more unwillingnesse to the ravishing Glories of a Crown then afterward she did to the stroke of the Ax. 6. The Acclamations at the proclaiming of Queen Mary were heard by the Lady Jane now no longer Queen with such Tranquillity of mind and composednesse of countenance as if she had not been concerned in the Alteration She had before received the offer of a Crown with as even a Temper as if it had been nothing but a Garland of flowers and now she layes aside the thought thereof with as much contentedness as she could have thrown away that Garland when the sent was gone The time of her Glory was so short but a nine Daies wonder that it seemed nothing but a Dream out of which she was not sorry to be awakened The Towr had been to her a prison rather than a Court and interrupted the Delights of her former life by so many Terrours that no Day passed without some new Alarm to disturb her Quiet She doth now know the worst that fortune can do unto her and having alwaies feared that there stood a Scaffold secretly behind the Throne She was as readily prepared to act her part upon the one as upon the other 7. Her Death is resolved upon but first She must be practiced with to change her Religion To which end Fecknam is employed a Man whose great parts promised him an easie victory over a poor Lady of a broken and dejected Spirit But it proved the contrary For so well had She studyed the Concernments of her own Religion and managed the Conference with him with such a readinesse of wit such Constancie of Resolution and a Judgement so well grounded in all helps of Learning that she was able to make Answer to the strongest Arguments as well to her great Honour as his Admiration So that not able to prevail with her in the change of Religion he made offer of his service to prepare her for death Which though she thankfully accepted of as finding it to proceed from a good affection yet soon he found that she was also aforehand with him in those preparations which are fit and necessary for a Dying Christian 8. Friday 9. Febr. was first designed for the day of the Execution but the Desire of gaining her to the Church of Rome procured her the short respite of three dayes more On Sunday night being the Eve unto the day of her Translation she wrote a Letter in the Greek tongue at the end of a Testament which she bequeathed as a Legacy to her Sister the Lady Katharine which being such a lively Picture of the excellent Lady some lines thereof are worthy to be presented here I have sent you a Book dear Sister which although it be not outwardly trimmed with Gold yet inwardly it is more worth then pretious stones If you with a good mind read it and with an earnest desire to follow it it shall bring you to an immortal and everlasting life it shall teach you to live and learn you to dy it shall win you more then you should have gained by your wofull Fathers Lands You shall be an Inheritor of such Riches as neither the Covetous shall withdraw from you neither Thief shall steal neither yet the Moths corrupt Desire with David good Sister to understand the Law of the Lord God Live still to dy that you by death may purchase eternal life Defie the world Deny the Devil Despise the Flesh and delight your self only in the Lord. Be penitent for your sins and yet despair not Be strong in Faith and yet presume not And desire with Saint Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ with whom even in death there is life And as touching my death rejoyce as I do Good Sister that I shall be deliver'd of this Corruption and put on Incorruption For I am assured that I shall for losing a mortal life win an immortal one The which I pray God to grant you and send you of his Grace to live in his fear and to dy in the true Christian Faith from the which in Gods name I exhort you that you never swerve neither for hope of life nor for fear of death 9. The fatal Morning being come the Lord Guilford earnestly desired the officers that he might take his Farewell of her Which though they willingly permitted yet upon notice of it she advised the contrary assuring him That such a Meeting would rather add to his Afflictions and her presence rather weaken then strengthen him That he ought to take courage from his Reason and derive constancy from his own heart That he should do well to remit this Interview to the other World that there indeed Friendships were happy and unions indissoluble and that theirs would be eternal if their souls carried nothing with them of Terrestrial which might hinder them from rejoycing All she could do was to give him a Farewell out of a window as he passed toward the place of his dissolution which he suffer'd on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill with much Christian meeknesse 10. The Lady was led to a Scaffold within the Tower by Sir Henry Gage the Constable who desired her to bestow some small gift upon him as a Memorial of
MEMORIALS OF WORTHY PERSONS The Third Decad. By C L. BARKSDALE Quos Corpore non valemus recordatione teneamus Hieron OXFORD Printed by A. L. Liechfield Printers to the Vniversity for the Editor 1662. Nobilissimo Adolescenti D. EDVARDO HYDE Ex Aede Ch. Illustrissimi Viri EDVARDI Comitis de CLARENDON Regni ANGLIAE Acad. OXONIENSIS CANCELLARII Honoratissimi Filio non degeneri C. B. Ejusdem Cancellarii benignitate Rector de Naunton in Agro Gloc. Libellum suum Animi non immemoris indicem Humillime D. D. Magni propago Seminis Collegii Henriciani Matris ac almae decus A Matre posse sumere exemplum Tibi Nisi esset instar omnium Clarus Pater Haec nostra non erunt inutilia tamen Sunt ista fortiora quae plures docent To the Ingenuous Readers GENTLEMEN THe Persons here presented are worthy certainly of an honourable Remembrance the particulars collected are such as to me seemed most remarkable More you may find if you desire in the Authours to whom I refer you For I would be taken only for a faithful Collector The benefit to be received hence which I do principally aim at is that you may worthily esteem of our Church adorned with such excellent examples and that by your imitation of these your selves may deserve to be hereafter added to the Catalogue Your affectionate Servant C. B. Oxon. Apr. 23. Die Coron R. Car. 2. 1662. The Persons 1. K. Edward 6. 2. La. Jane Grey 3. Sir John Cheek 4. Arch B. Whitgift 5. Mr. Rich. Hooker 6. Bishop Andrews 7. Bishop Brounrig 8. Mr. Tho. Gataker 9. Dr. H. Hammond 10. Bishop Smith Ad Librum Vade Liber pede felici Lectoribus esto Delicium tantis auree Nominibus MEMORIALS I. K. EDWARD VI. Out of Dr Heylyns History of the Reformation c. 1. EDward the only surviving Son of K. Henry VIII was born at the Royal Palace of Hampton Court Oct. 12. 1537. of Q. Jane Seymour the next wife to K. Henry after Anne Bollen Some Ladies who had seen the Pictures of both Queens at Whitehal Gallery have entertained no small dispute to which of the two they were to give preeminence in point of beauty each of them having such a plentiful measure of perfections as to entitle either of them to a superiority If Q. Anne seemed to have the more lively countenance Q. Jane was thought to carry it in the exact symmetry which shewed it self in all her features Love which seemed to threaten in the eyes of Q. Jane did only seem to sport it self in the eyes of Q. Anne There was more Majesty in the garb of Q. Jane Seymour and more lovelynesse in that of Q. Anne Bollen yet so that the Majesty of the one did excel in lovelinesse and that the lovelinesse of the other did excel in Majesty In a word Q. Jane had in her all the Graces of Q. Anne but governed with an evener and more constant temper 2. It hath been commonly reported and no less generally believed that the child being come unto the birth and there wanting natural strength to be delivered his Mothers belly was ripped open to give him a passage into the world But there are extant two several letters to evince the contrary Though questionlesse she had a very hard labour which brought her first into a very high distemper and after into a very great loosnesse which accelerated the approach of death to the General lamentation Novemb. 12. Her Epitaph Phoenix Jana jacet nato Phoenice Dolendum est Secula Phoenices nulla tulisse duas 3. The Prince having attained unto the age of six years was taken out of the hands of his women and committed to the Tuition of Mr John Cheek whom he afterwards Knighted and advanced him to the Provost-ship of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and Dr Richard Cox whom afterwards he preferred to the Deanry of Westminster and made chief Almoner These two being in Authority employed themselves to his advantage in their several kinds Dr Cox for knowledge of Divinity Philosophy and Gravity of Manners Mr Cheek for Eloquence in the Greek and Latin Tongues Besides which two he had some others to instruct him in the modern languages and thrived so well amongst them all that in short time he perfectly spake the French tongue and was able to expresse himself significantly enough in the Italian Greek and Spanish And as for the Latin how early a Proficient he was therein with reference to the times wherein he lived is yet to be seen in some Latin Epistles of his written to the King and others before he was eight years old 4. For a Companion at his book or rather for a proxy to bear the punishment of such errors as either through negligence or inadvertency were committed by him he had one Barnaby Fitzpatrick He had a very easie substitution of it And if it sometimes happened as it seldom did that the servant suffered punishment for his Masters errors it is not easie to affirm whether Fitzpatrick smarted more for the fault of the Prince or the Prince conceived more grief for the smart of Fitz-patrick Certain it is that the Prince entertaind such a real estimation of him that when he came unto the Crown he acquainted him by letters with the sufferings of the Duke of Sommerset instructed and maintained him for his travels in France endowed him with fair lands in Ireland his native Country and finally made him Baron of upper Ossory which honorable Title he enjoyed till the time of his death in the later end of Q. Elizabeths raign at which time he dyed a zealous and Religious Protestant 5. One thing I must not pretermit to shew the extraordinary piety of this hopeful Prince in the daies of his childhood when being about to take down somewhat which seemed to be above his reach one of his servants proferd him a bossed plated Bible to stand upon and heighten him Which when he perceived to be a Bible with holy Indignation he refused to do but took it and kist it and laid it in its place sharply reprehending him that made the offer A strong assurance of that dear esteem and veneration in which he held that Sacred book in his riper years 6. Having attained the Age of nine there were great preparations made for his solemn Investiture in the principality of Wales But scarce were the provisions ready but the Kings sickness brought a stop and His death shortly after put an end to those preparations the expectation of a Principality being thereby changed to the possession of a Crown 7. It cannot be denyed but that King Henry left the Church in many respects in a better condition then he found it not only in order to the Reformation of Religion which none but such a masculin Prince durst have undertaken but also in the policy and endowments of it The Monasteries and Religious Houses might possibly be lookt upon no otherwise then as so many excrescences upon the body
him to this place of Government in the Church For with Basilius Magnus Non ex majoribus sed ex propria virtute nobilitatem duxit He ennobled himself with his own worth and virtue 13. Two singular ornaments crowned him which seldom meet in one man Learning and Humility On a time and many such I could tell you a poor Minister sending in to speak with him abruptly he brake off a most serious discourse saying But the Minister must not stay lest we should seem to take state upon us Therein imitating the great Athanasius being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz. 14. When in his sickness one hoped for his recovery he gave the answer that St. Ambrose gave to the Nobles of Milain that desired him to pray for life Non ita inter vos vixi ut pudeat me vivere nec timeo mori quoniam dominum bonum habemus 15. Not many hours before his departure for non obiit sed abiit I found him as me seemed victorious upon some conflict Quis sanctorum sine certamine coronatur I drew near his bed he reached for my hand and greezed it saying I know whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day This occasioned something about relyance on God by Faith Yea said he I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living And again The mercies of the Lord are from generation to generation on them that fear him Mercy brought in thoughts of Christ Oh saith he in the words of that holy Martyr none but Christ none but Christ Being told how pretiously the Lord esteemeth the death of such He replyed Right dear right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Some prayers made for him upon his desire at conclusion he said Amen I thank God Amen enough Amen I thank God 16. When he was leaving this life he looked on his daughter and on the rest of his children in the chamber present and said Christ bless you all And like that old Patriarch he moved himself upon the bed and cried Christ Jesus help and so Christ took him and conclamatum est His soul is now at rest his Name is among the Worthies of our Church His Motto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ob. A. S. 1624. aet supra 70. FINIS A Letter To fill up this void leaf or rather to promote conformity which is partly the designe of these Memorials I take leave to translate hither out of the Oxford-book very worthy to be Reprinted A Letter of the Vice-Chancellour and others the Heads of the Vniversity of Cambridge to the Vice-Chancellour and others of the Vniuersity of Oxford Octob. 7. 1603. E Latino WHen newly and indeed very late there came unto us a report of the Petition for Reformation forsooth of the Church of England offered to his Majestie as is pretended by a thousand Ministers though we found in it nothing new and what hath been answered heretofore a thousand times Yet because they boast of their number that these Millenaries may know if Saul hath his thousand David in this cause will never want his ten thousand we were desirous notwithstanding the work was altogether unworthy of it to provide an answer Whilst we were meditating thereof there is brought unto our hands that most Elegant answer of the Vniuersity of Oxford being a most rational and brief confutation of all that had by those men so laboriously been framed and feigned upon sight whereof nothing seemed to remain for us whom in this best of causes the zeal and industry of our Brethren easily able to refute such Adversaries had prevented but this to add unto the weight of their Arguments because those men glory most in their multitudes the number of our Suffrages This we did formerly as it were divining both foresee and provide for For when after the death of our Excellent Queen Elizabeth alwaies the same and most constant a singular and incomparable example in a woman in this best of causes those men did not so much deplore the loss of a most Religious Princess and the case of Religion it self if not dying with her yet at least in very great hazard as meditate and every day attempt Innovations against the new Kings approach Our Vniversity very opportunely judged her aid to be needful and a decree to be made in a full and solemn Convocation That whosoever shall in the Vniversity of Cambridge publickly oppose in word or writing or any other way the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or any part thereof by Law established He shall be excluded from taking any degree and be suspended ipso facto from the degree he hath taken Which decree even by Unanimous consent of the whole House voted and recorded publickly Jun. 9. 1603. we do now desire to publish to the whole World that all may be assured what is the judgment not of some Opiniasters in their corners and Conventicles but of allmost all the Cantabrigians in open senate concerning that Discipline which we have not forced on us but freely received and entertained Whose consent so fraternally and sweetly concurring with the Oxford-answer with Scripture Fathers and Councils with the decrees of our Princes our Laws and Parliaments Away with those thousand Ministers let them go and answer at thousand Books of ours already written and set forth for their satisfaction before they do so impudently obtrude their Crambe so often boiled upon so wise a King and so excellently learned Or if they would have Suffrages rather to be numbred then weighed let the poor Fellows forsaken of the Universities and Muses bethink themselves of how little account what nothings they are Thus we take our leave of our most dear Brethren in Christ and as we and our Vniversity being united to you both by similitude of studies and manners are most firmly Yours So we intreat you alwaies to continue your love to Us. Camb. Oct. 7. 1603.