much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
Crimes you see answered when named made up into a Charge that was its own Reply and therefore barely set down by me without any reflection save their own nature and self-confutation What is ridiculous need only be shewed But hear the good man himself that had so often interceded for others to God pleading for himself before men I. To his Charge in General My Lords MY being in this place in this condition recalls to my memory that which I long since read in Seneca Tormentum est etiamsi absolutus quis fuerit causam dixisse 6. de Benef. c. 28. 'T is not a grief only no 't is no less than a torment for an ingenuous man to plead Capitally or Criminally though it should so fall out that he be absolved The great truth of this I finde at present in my self and so much the more because I am a Christian and not that only but in Holy-orders and not so only but by Gods grace and goodness preferred to the greatest place this Church affords and yet brought Causam dicere to plead for my self at this Bar. And whatsoever the world think of me and they have been taught to think much more ill of me then I humbly thank Christ for it I was ever acquainted with yet My Lords this I finde Tormentum est 't is no less than a torment to me to appear in this place Nay my Lords give me leave to speak plain truth No sentence that can justly pass upon me and other I will never fear from your Lordships can go so near me as Causam dicere to plead for my self upon this occasion and in this place For as for the Sentence be it what it shall I thank God for it I am for it at Saint Pauls ward Acts 25. 11. If I have committed any thing worthy of death I refuse not do dye For I thank God I have so lived as that I am neither afraid to dye nor ashamed to live But seeing the Malignity which hath been raised against me by some men I have carried my very life in my hands these divers years past But yet my Lords if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me though I may not in this Case and from this Bar appeal unto Caesar yet to your Lordships Iustice and Integrity I both may and do not doubting but that God of his goodness will preserve my innocency And as Iob in the midst of his affliction said to his mistaken Friends so shall I to my Accusâ—râ— God forbid I should justifie you till I dye I will not remove my Integrity from me I will hold it fast and not let it go my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live Job 22. 5. My Lords the Charge against me is brought up in ten Articles but the main heads are two An endeavor to subveâ—t the Laws of the Land and the Religion established Six Articles the fift first and the last concern the Laws and the other four Religion For the Laws first I think I may safely say I have been to my understanding as strict an observer of them all the days of my life so far as they concern me as any man hath and since I came into place I have followed them and been as much gâ—ided by them as any man that sat where I had the honor to sit And of this I am sorry I have lost the testimony of the Lord Keeper Coventry and other persons of Honor since dead And the Council which attended at the Council-board can witness some of them here present that in all references to the Board or debates arising at the Board I was for that part of the cause where I found Law to be and if the Council desired to have the cause left to the Law well I might move in some cases Charity or Conscience to them but I left them to the Law if thither they would go And how such a carriage as this through the whole course of my life in private and publick can stand with an intention to overthrow the Laws I cannot yet see Nay more I have ever been of opinion That Laws binde the Conscience and have accordingly made Conscience of observing them and this doctrine I have constantly preached as occasion hath been offered me and how is it possible I should seek to overthrow those Laws which I held my self bound in Conscience to keep and observe As for Religion I was born and bred up in and under the Church of England as it stands established by Law I have by Gods blessingâ— grown up in it to the years which are now upon me and to the place of Preferment which I now bear I have ever since I have understood ought in my profession kept one constant tenor in this my profession without variation or shifting from one opinion to another for any worldly ends And if my conscience would have suffered me to do so I could easily have slid through all the difficulties which I have prest upon me in this kinde But of all diseases I have held a Palsey in Religion most dangerous well knowing and remembring that disease often ends in a dead Palsie Ever since I came in place I have laboured nothing more than that the external publick worship of God so much slighted in divers parts of this Kingdom might be preserved and that with as much decency and uniformity as might be for I evidently saw that the publick neglect of Gods service in the outward face of it and the nasty lying of many places dedicated to that Service had almost cast a damp upon the true and inward worship of God which while we live in the body needs exterial helps and all little enough to keep it in any vigor And thus I did to the uttermost of my knowledge according both to Law and Canon and with the consent and liking of the people nor did any Command issue out from me against the one or without the other Further my Lords give me leave I beseech you to acquaint you with this also that I have as little acquaintance with Recusants as I believe any man of my place of England hath or ever had sithence the Reformation and for my kindred no one of them was ever a Recusant but Sir William Web Grandchild to my Unkle Sir William Web sometimes Lord Mayor of London and since which some of his Children I reduced back again to the Church of England On this one thing more I humbly desire may be thought on That I am fallen into a great deal of obloquie in matter of Râ—ligion and that so far as appears by the Articles against me that I have indeavoured to advance and bring in Popery Perhaps my Lords I am not ignorant what party of men have raised these scandals upon me nor for what end nor perhaps by whom set on but howsoever I would fain have a good reason given me if my conscience stood that way and that with my
still-born have hastned to their Tomb God that Rewards him now forbad his store Should all lie hid and he but give i th' ore Many are stamp't and shap't and do still shine Approv'd at Mint a Firm and perfect Coyne Witness that Mart of Books that yonder stands Bestow'd by him though by anothers Hands Those Attick Manuscripts so rare a Piece They tell the Turk he hath not conquer'd Greece Next these a second beauteous heap is thrown Of Eastern Authors which were all his own Who in so various Languages appear Babel could scarce be their Interpreter To these we may that fair-built Colledge bring Which proves that Learnings no such Rustick thing Whose Structure well contriv'd doth not relate To Antick Fineness but strong lasting state Beauty well mixt with Strength that it Complies Most with the Gazer's use much with his Eyes On Marble Columns thus the Arts have stood As wise Seth's Pillar 's sav'd 'em in the Flood But did he leave here Walls and onely own A Glorious Heap and make us Rich in Stone Then had our Chanc'lor seem'd to fail and here Much honor due to the Artificer But this our prudent Patron long fore-saw When he refin'd Rude Statutes into Law Our Arts and Manners to his Building falls And he Erects the Men as well as Walls Thus Solons Laws his Athens did Renown And turn'd that throng of Buildings to a Town Yet neither Law nor Statute can be known So strict as to himself he made his own Which in his Actions Inventory lies Which Hell or Prinne can never scandalize Where every Act his Rigid Eye surveys And Night is Bar and Iudge to all his dayes Where all his secret thoughts he doth comprize And ev'ry Dream is summon'd t' an Assize Where he Arraigns each Circumstance of care Which never parts dismis'd without a Prayer See! how he sifts and searches every part And ransacks all the Glosets of his heart He puts the hours upon the Rack and Wheel And all his minutes must confess or feel If they reveal one Act which forth did come When humane frailty crept into the Loome If one thred stain or sully break or faint So that the man does interrupt the Saint He hunts it to its death nor quits his fears Till 't be imbalm'd in Prayers or drown'd in Tears The Sun in all his journey ne're did see One more devote or one more strict then He. Since his Religion then 's unmixt and Fine And Works do warrant Faith as Ore the Mine What can his Crime be now Now you must lay The Kingdom Laws subverted in his way See! No such Crime doth o're his Conscience grow Without which Witness ne're can make it so A clear Transparent White bedecks his minde Where nought but innocence can shelter finde Witness that Breath which did your stain and blot Wipe freely out though Heaven I fear will not VVitness that calm and quiet in his Brest Prologue and Preface to his place of Rest VVhen with the VVorld he could undaunted part And see in Death nor Meagre looks nor dart When to the fatal Block his gray Age goes VVith the same ease as when he took Repose He like old Enoch to his Bliss is gone 'T is not his Death but his Translation The second by Mr. Iohn Cleveland On the Right Reverend Father in God Wil. Laud Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I Need no Muse to give my Passion vent He brews his Tears that studies to Lament Verse chymically weeps that pious rain Distilled with Art is but the sweat o' th' brain VVho ever sob'd in Numbers Can a groan Be quaver'd out by soft Division 'T is true for Common formal Elegies Not Bushels VVells can match a Poets Eyes In wanton VVater-works hee 'l tune his Tears From a Gâ—neva Jig up to the Spheres But when he mourns at distance weeps aloof Now that the Conduit-head is his own Roof Now that the fate is Publick we may call It Britains Vespers Englands Funeral VVho hath a Pencil to express the Saint But he hath Eyes too washing off the Paint There is no Learning but what Tears surround Like to Seth's Pillars in the Deluge drown'd There is no Church Religion is grown From much of late that She 's increas'd to none Like an Hydropick body full of Rheumes First swells into a body then consumes The Law is dead or cast into a Trance And by a Law-dough-bak't an Ordinance The Lyturgy whose doom was Voted next Dy'd as a Comment upon him the Text. There 's nothing lives Life is since he is gone But a Nocturnal Lucubration Thus have you seen Deaths Inventory read In the Summe Total Canterbury's dead A sight would make a Pagan to Baptize Himself a Convert in his bleeding Eyes VVould thaw the Rabble that fierce Beast of ours That which Hyena-like weeps and devours Tears that flow brackish from their Souls within Not to repent but pickle up their Sin Mean time no squalid grief his look defiles He guilds his sadder fate with Noble smiles Thus the Worlds eye with reconciled streams Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams How could success such Villanies applaud The State in Sâ—rafford fell the Church in Laud The Twins of publick rage adjudg'd to die For Treasons they should Act by Prophecy The Facts were done before the Laws were made The Trump turn'd up after the Game was play'd Be dull great Spirits and forbear to climbe For Worth is Sin and Eminence a Crime No Church-man can be innocent and high 'T is height makes Grantham Steeple stand awry The III. By Mr. H. Birched Sometimes Fellow of All-Souls Reverendissimo in Christo Patri D. Guliel Laud Dom. Archiep. Cantuariensi Parentalia Dithyrambus Heb. Sheteph Oda Nempe erratica vel missa ECclesiae pene heic triumphantis Archangelum ah vere nimis Jam militantis Archimartyrem quâ nam Sat Celebrabimus Apotheosi Qui sidelitate non fide Romanus Christi sponsam Schismaticis deformatam defloratam haereticis Primaevae restituebas virginitati clariori Pulchritudinis Pompae Tu pietatem doctrinali pabulo fovebas nec non decoro vestiebas Disciplinae Lautus amictu Torpeat ne Nuda Sanctitas Aut famelica Languescat Perfecta Religio nec umbra nec cadaver est Testor ut Aedem sacratam Literataque testor maenia te nunquam Ambiisse titulum novae fundationis aut ecclesiae Attamen Novatae simulatione honesta beneficentiam condidisti magnificus simul modestus hac etiam templi renovatione Antiquitatis aemulus Nec matri natus erat gratior ecclesiae quam Nutrici alumnus academiae suffulciit eam dextera vestra firmis Aedificiorum Justinis Legum Columnis mage mansuris Accepit Pumiceum Sed Marmoreum Reliquit heu Lycaeum At Athenae vel relictae linqui non videntur donec ades muneribus perennis Cujus Laudibus Beneficia sua Materiam suppeditarunt verba Amalthaea folia vel Amalthaea Diphthera Salomonis Pancarpia
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
attended all those even the meanest that went to it for their Conscience When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came no doubt he had his choice whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland or an equal dignity in England that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service and the sad state of that Church and so he underwent that rudeness there to the danger of his life from those under him that he had here from those above him notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons to feed the peoples souls and not their humors a wholesom Discipline that struck at their pertinacy not their persons and even course of Holiness and Devotion made up of Fasting and Prayer whereby he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach by the pattern of his Life as well as the rules of his Doctrine a generous and magnificent hospitality entertaining all his Diocess civilly that so unworthily not knowing him till they had lost him entertained him a diffusive charity demonstrating that he sought them not theirs to poor Widows young Catechists hopeful Scholars needy Gentlemen and others his Pensioners at Derry Dublin and Faughen in Ireland Glascow in Scotland London Oxford and Cambridge in England by which and other parts of his Pastoral cares his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sacrament the following day at St Brides in the same City he felt it by a Paroxism seizing his heart whereof he died the Friday after having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully as one assured of Life having lived as one assured of Death saying Thy will be done in earth in terra mea with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body being a pure Virgin espoused only to Christ and besides that he laid out 5000 l. per annum since he was Bishop in charitable uses and 200 l. per annum in Buildings he bequeathed his whole Estate save some of his best Folio Books given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library and an 100l towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity but such his huge ingenuity as well as his goodness he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity yea and something of his Office too in a Benediction and Prayer Dr. Warmestry a Scholar of Westminster Student of Christ-church and at last Dean of Worcester for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time as the sitting of the Convocation after the Parliament and the making of new Canons when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones And in the second offering expedients to remove what had been so according to the Levitical Law covering the pit which they had opened yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude while there was any hope of them in things that her judged circumstantial and prudential was not affraid to be undone by them when they grew desperate for those things that he understood were essential He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loyalists the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs and the Penitentiarygeneral for visiting the sick very zealous in converting Infidels very industrious in reclaiming the loose very careful in comforting the sad satisfying the doubtful and establishing the wavering very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death and very cautious against giving any offence He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow Preaching Mr. Humphrey Sydenham born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire bred Fâ—llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford so eloquent a Preacher as it seems by his The Athenian Babler and other admirable Sermons since published that he was commonly called The Silver-tongued Sydenham but withal so honest a man that he was in danger of being turned out in these times as not fit its the phrase of the times to Preach the Gospel As if wit could be better imployed any way than to please men to heaven and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing as well as Temples Altars Sacrifices from Satans service who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods who gave it to save souls He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels and Charity too so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations Dr. Michael Hudson a Gentleman of great parts and greater courage hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons attempting many of them and taking some being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England of any person in his Majesties Army The reason why he conducted him so safely having made many journeys before between Newcastle and Oxford about the terms of his security there through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House and after an escape thence a year in the Tower whence being permitted to take Physick in London he got out after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower with a Basket of Apples on his Head in a disguise to the King at Hampton-Court and from thence to Lincolnshires where he raised a party for his Majesty having engaged the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design 1648. In the head of which after quarter given he was killed barbarously Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire being thrown down when his Head was cloven asunder into a Mote and when he caught hold of a Spout to save himself as he was falling a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers as others now he was fallen into the Water Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes and begging to dye at Land knocked him on the Head cutting off his Tongue and Teeth and carrying them about the Country the Trophies of their shame but his immortal honor who besides his life lost 2000 l. in a personal estate and 900 l. a year leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons himself being not vouchsafed a grave till an Enemy of more wit and charity than his fellows said Since he is dead let him be buried THE Life and Death OF Sir RICHARD GURNEY Sometime Lord Mayor of London SIR Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet born April 17. 1577. at Croydon in Surrey was by his Majesty King Charles I. honored with this Title that he might be a pattern
554 l. Sir Robert Windham 748 l. Tho. Willis 516 l. Will. Winter of Clapton Somers Esq 349 l. Sir H. Wood of Hackney Midd. 273 l. Robert Willis Morrock Somers 328 l. Jo. Whittington Ivethorn Somers Esq 283 l. Sir John Winford of Ashley Worcest 703 l. Col. Jo. Washburn Wickenford Worcest 797 l. one that paid the Rebels more than once in other mettal Sir Marmaduke Wivel whose Ancestor is the last mentioned in Lastle Abbey roll 1660. continuing in so good state that one of them in Hen. VI. time deposed that he could spend 20 l. a year old rent all charges defrayed of Constable Barron York 1343. Sir Tho. Whitmore of Appley Salop. 5000 l. Sir Patricius Curwen Knight and Baronet of Worlington in the County of Cumber a pious and a peaceful man forced as his Majesty was to the War where he had the Command of a Collonel of Foot in that County as he had the trust of being Knight of the Shire in all Parliaments when he first appeared from 1623. to 1664 when he died a Gentleman in whom Art and Nature conspired to make him Master of a great Wit and a vigorous discourse out-doing most in action and himself in suffering being as able to perswade himself to patience as he was to move his neighbours to allegiance dressing his misfortunes so gracefully that they were envied and he like to be sequestered of them too and as he was in prosperity that due reward of his merit an example of the least part of mankind that is the happy so in his adversity was he a pattern to the greatest that is the unhappy his clear and heroick mind finding an exercise and thereby a glory in the darkest state as Stars and Diamonds do a lustre oppressed not helped by day in the darkest night Fortune at last yielding to his vertue and flattering him as his Slave whom it could not overcome as his Foe he had once the Posse Comitatus 12. Car. I. as a Sheriff and always as a Patriot for which honourable title he paid to the Parliament 2000 l. and spent with the King 23000 l. 1 Sir Francis Carew of Beddington Surrey that as nature had epitomized most perfections belonging to a man in him so would he extract all sense into short sentences called Sencca's little-much who paid for one smart word 1000 l. Sir Jo. Covert of Slaâ—ham Sussex 3000 l. Hen. Clerk of Covenr 300 l. Adam Cley-pool of West-Pooling Linc. 600 l. George Cotton Cumbermoor Chesh. 666 l. Tho. Chester Amisbury Gloc. Esq 1000 l. Sir Will. Clerk 1100 l. Jo. Caring of Harling Suss. Esq 3030 l. Berg. Cutler Ipswich Suss. 750 l. Tho. Carew of Studley Devon Esq 750 l. Giles Corter of Turk-Dean Gloc. Esq 768 l. Tho. Chafine Chettle Dorset Esq 900 l. Edw. Copley Earley York Esq 1246 l. Sir H. Clerk Essex and Gervase Cutler York 1100 l. 2 Col. Tho. Cary of Norwich Esq whose years were measured not by his Almanack but his suffering called the Round Heads Circle having given away 3000 l. to the King had but 200 l. left for the Parliament 3. Sir Alexander Culpepper that could have charmed any thing to a better usage but a Jew and a Puritan both which People carry their spirit in a round Circle paid them first 500 l. Composition and afterwards Witches if they have any of your money will have all 500 l. more 4. Iohn Courtney of Molland Devon Esq for saying that men now a days draw up platforms of Religion as men do Cycles Epicycles and other Phaenomena in the Heavens according to their fancies to salve their hypotheses paid 750 l. in Gold and was gladly rid of it in a time when Churches Crosses and all other things suffered for being Gilt. 5. Col. Sidney Godolphin descended of the most ancient Family both of Love and Wit murdered by those men that professed to destroy Wit and Learning and at that time when men were not allowed to wear Hair much less Bays A Gentleman that will live as long as Virgil whom he hath translated and as long as the best Times best Wit whom he hath commended as elegantly as he was commended by them Besides whom there were Col. Sir William and Col. William Godolphin of Trevervenith and Spragger Cornwal who spent their bloud and Estates for his Majesty being sorry that they had 1500 l. left to be taken by his Enemies Treasures of Arms and Arts men equally fit for Colledge and Camp in whom the Scholars â— earning did guide and direct and the Souldiers Valour fight and act the first without fear the second without rashness their several accomplishments meeting like so many conspiring perfumes to one delicate temper 6. Col. William Walton one that could do any thing ex tempore but durst not pray so having Wit and nothing else at will and knew no reason why he should not be rich but because he was born a Poet. He was slain in that Battel which he would not have out-lived I mean Nazeby wherein three Kingdoms lay bleeding by him as well as Col. Cuthbert Ratcliff and Col. Ralph Pudsey who would gladly have lived to do more service for his Majesty but refused not to serve him in dying scorning as well the censures as the commendations of that ignorant age 7. Col. Posthumus Kerton a Somersetshire Gentleman of a spreading name slain at Marston-Moor in the middest of the White Coats my Lord of New-castles Lambs called so because cloathed by him in white Cloath which he had not time to colour until they being cut off every man gave it a noble tincture with their own bloud which he commanded a croâ—d of dead men makes a noble Crown about a Commander than one of Lawrel being so pleased Saints above know sure what we do delow in our fight with life to see the same brave heat in his followers that was in him that Death smiled on his lipâ— and he looked as if he were above waâ—bling the hymns he used below pittying our dull and earthly joyes where grief and misery dwells with pleasure a man of great daring and good success a knowing and honest man seasonably taken away from the place of Ignorance and Hypocrisie to Heaven the only place then free from both to live there among the blessed whose souls are cloathed with white and follow the Lamb. Sir Jo. King of Woodsam York Bâ—r. 500l R. Kibe Sussex Chich 992l Will. Knowls of Grayes Oxon. Esq a brave Gentleman of parts and a 〈◊〉 worthy his Ancestors who died 1664. 1100l Jo. Kirk Westm. Esq 985l G. Kinsley Cant. Esq 760l Sir H. Knolls Grooplace South 1250l Edward Kerton Castle Carv Som. Esq 1464l Edward Kinaston of Oatley and Roger â—inasion of Hordly Salop. Esq 4697l between them Sir Lewis Kire 264l William Kent Boscomb Wilts Esq 572l Sir William Kinsmel of 740l Robert Kemp Cheston Her 480l Sir Gorrel Kemp of Slindon Suff. 2931l 8. The Lords Kilmurry the Elder and the Younger the first having spent
there before they were aware of him and so couragiously that he came back disputing nine Passes and after twelve Skirmishes maâ—gre all the opposition made against him routing first and last in that famous Expedition 9000. men A little before Naseby fight my Lord declared for breaking into the Associated Counties and so through them to the North to chase away the Scots when that battel was resolved on where he said when he was desired to Lead the Left Wing of Horse in that sight that by reason of the Leicester Plunder the averseness of his men from fighting save in their own Country and the tired condition of the whole Army would ruin his Majesty as it did he being never able to make head for him but once afterwards 1648. when with Sir Phillip Musgrave having surprized Carlisle and Berwick he joyned 3000. brave English to Hamilton's Scots beating Lambert back to Appleby and taking several strong holds by the way as he had done the kingdom had his advise been hearkened to in marching directly to York and so to London whereas they wandered in Cumberland and Westmerland as Colonel Stuart when afterwards upon the Stool of Repentance for that Expedition being asked gravely by the Ministers whether by his Malignancy he went not out of the way answered that he went wrong to Westmerland when he should have gone to York that Scots Army being beaten as soon as seen there being no more effectual resistance made by the 16000. horse and foot under Hamilton of whom the King said when he heard that he was Commander in Chief that he expected no good from that Army than was made by Sir Marmaduke with the 2000. English that he had raised and commanded Sir Marmaduke Langdale was taken Prisoner and by caressing his Guards made an ingenious and bold escape to his Majesty beyond Sea where he carried that seriousness in his countenance he was a very lean and much mortified man the enemy here called him Ghost and deservedly they were so haunted by him that gravity in his converse that integrity and generosity in his dealing that strictness in his devotion that experience moderation and wariness in his Counsel that weight in his discourse as much endeared to strangers his Royal Masters Cause and his own person in all the Countries he travelled as he did many and all the Armies he engaged in as he did in most then afoot in Europe till he was restored with his Majesty 1660. when appearing in Parliament as Baron Langdale of Holmes till his Majesty by the Act of Indemnity and disbanding the Army was fully setled he returned to his considerable Estate in York-shire satisfied for 160000. l. loss in his Majesties service with the conscience of having suffered it in a good cause and acquitted himself bravely and played the man if thou do ill the joy fades and not the pains if well the pain doth fade the joy remains His Discipline was strict and exact It was present death to wrong the meanest person in the least thing where he had any Command saying that he must make the people believe that his Army was raised to protect them and therefore it was not fit in an Army of his wherein every Souldier was a Gentleman He died 1661. Deterrimi saeculi optimi heroes G. Dux Somersetensis H. Comes Cumberlandiae Marmaduke Baro Langdale Pulverem Sparge Lector abi â—egi vult modesta virtus non legi cujus hoc dogma ama nesciri Sir Thomas Glemham having most of the noble blood of England in his Veins had most of the virtues that belonged to such blood in his Soul having had experience of the German Wars then the great Nursery of our English Gentlemen he was the fitter for service in our wars being an admirable Commander of Horse and a discreet and watchful Governor of a Garrison forcing York he was made Governor of it and Commander in chief of his Majesties Forces upon the borders whence he writ to Argyle as smart a discourse as was written during the wars about the Scots Invading England against their Allegiance the late Pacification and the many obligations of his Majesty upon them upon the invitations of a few inconsiderable men that carried on designs of Innovation contrary to the known Laws Government Liberties and Priviledges of the Kingdome disabusing those parts and people as to the â—alse rumors and aspersions spread by the Scots among them Against whom and all the Northern Forces whom he made to shrink like Northern Cloath He kept the City of York 18 weeks till after he had gallantly withstood 22 Storms Counter-mines 4 slain 4 or 5000 of the enemies he was forced after the fatal Battel all Marston-moor which he would not have had fought to surrender up the City upon very honorable conditions for themselves and good for the City and Country whose Trade Freedom Estates and Government were secured in the Articles as their Persons were at the surrender Iuly 16. 1644. As he did the Garrison of Carlisle after 9 moneths seige in which time he kept it to astonishment against Pestilence Famine and all the power of Scotland upon the same terms to the Scots and the head Garrisons of Oxford upon the Kings order the noblest terms that ever Garrison was delivered on to Sir Tho. F. his Army over which his Majesty placed him because of his moderation sobriety popularity good temper reputation and his skill in fortification many additions to the works of that Garrison being made by him whereof one was of most dangerous consequence to the enemy viz. the breaking of the ground before the Trenches into pits full of stakes that nei-Horse nor Foot could attempt the Works nor a close seige especially in the Winter-floods be laid to them After an Arrest in London contrary to the Oxford Articles and sometimes Imprisonment in the Fleet thereupon he passed to Holland and there falling sick Sir M.L. and he for some reasons little frequenting the Court died some twelve years agoe by the same token that a Horse-farrier that belonged to him formerly in the North being commended to him for a great Doctor in Holland the honest man when he saw him desired to be excused calling for a more expert Physitian and telling him privately entreating his privacy that the doses he used to administer to the Northern Horse did agree infinitely well with Dutch bodies His Brother the Reverend Dr. Glemham is now Dean of Bristol and Bishop Elect of St. Asaph Tho. Glemham Cuj castra Carleolente Eboracense Monumentum sunt Oxonium Epitaphium Sir Henry Slingsby the Head of an ancient and numerous family of which Sir Arthur Slingsby Col. Tho Slingsby Col. Slingsby in York-shire whre he was High-Sheriff 9 Iacobi and always a good Justicer a noble Landlord a serious man much conversant with Holy men and our best Divines a generous Master a Gentleman of a large Estate spent most of it in the Kings service and the rest
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty
to the whole Nation for Integrity and Loyalty may be so to all persons of his quality in every passage of his life 1. To young Gentlemen younger Sons to considerable Families bound Apprentises in London in this careful obliging service to Mr. Coleby a Silk-man in Cheap-side who dying left him his Shop worth 6000 l. 2. To those happy men that having gained estates in their younger days to serve themselves should accomplish themselves against their riper years to serve their Country in his travels upon his enusing on the foresaid estate into France and Italy where he improved himself and by observing the Trades of the respective Marts as he passed laid the foundation of his future Traffick 3. To single Persons in his discreet Marriage into a Family Mr. Sandfords at that time commanding at once most of the money and by that most of the Nobility Gentry and great Trades-men of England 4. To Persons in Trust in the faithful discharge of a joynt power he the Earls of Dorset and Essex were invested with by a charitable person of an 100000 l. deep towards the buying of Impropriations to be Legally and bona fide laid to the Church 5. To Magistrates going through all Offices in the places he lived in a Benefactor in each place particularly to his Company the Cloath-workers whereof he was Warden to the Hospital of St. Bartholomews whereof he was Waâ—den and to the City whereof he was Alderman Sheriff and Lord Mayor promoting the Loanes the King had occasion for advancing the Commission of Array when the Kingdoms condition required it entertaining his Majesty 4000 l. deep at his own charge when he knew how much his Majesties reputation would gain in the Country by the appearance of a good correspondence between him and the City Appeasing the tumults when 63. years of age one night with 30. or 40. Lights and a few Attendants whereof his Son-in-law Sir Iohn Pettus was one rushing suddainly out of the house upon thousands with the City Sword drawn who immediately retired to their houses and gave over their design In countenancing his Majesties legal Proclamations and neglecting the Conspiracies traiterous Ordinances â—ffering the King as Sir Iohn Pettus assumed me who went many times a day in those times from Sir Richard to his Majesty and from his Majesty back again to Sir Richard to stand upon the Priviledges of the City with his Majesty against the Faction as they stood upon the Priviledges of Parliament against him refusing to appear out of the Liberties of the City before the Parliament till he was commanded to do so by the Kingâ— whom he would obey with his ruin when besides a long attendance at his own charge the City not contributing a farthing towards it not to this day in the House of Peers who sent for him every day in a whole month with his Counsel on purpose to undo him he was deprived of Maâ—oralty Honor and all capacity of bearing any Office in the Kingdom kept seven years Prisoner in the Tower refusing to pay the 5000 l. imposed upon him for his Liberty urging that by the Law of the Land he should not suffer twice for the same fault Plundered Sequestâ—ed and Troubled by several seizures of Estates and Debts not ended till 57. after it had gone through 13. Committeesâ— to him and his heirs the Right Honorable the Lord Richardson and the Right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Pettus his Lady to the loss of 40000 l. He died Oct. 6. in the year of our Lord 1647. and of his age 69. being buried at Olaves-Iury London with the Lyturgy in the very reign of the Directory His Loyal Relations so ordering it that the Coaches should stop all passages into the Church and that three Orthodox Ministers should attend at the Grave one ready upon the least disturbance to go on where the other had been interrupted that he might have the benefit of that decent Order when dead which he maintained when alive Famous Walwin added a Dagger to the City Armes for stabbing one Rebel What deserved renowned Gurney that if backed by Authority had stabbed Rebellion itâ—self Sir Nicholas Crisp a Citizen and a Citizens Son having a great Estate by his Birth and Marriage raised it by his Parts whereby besides his interest at the Custom-house he projected such a Trade to Guinia and other parts before the Wars as would have been worth to him 50000 l. a year and to Holland France Spain â—â—aly Norway Turky and Muscovy in the Wars as was worth to the King though wandring up down his Kingdom and forced away from his great Mart 100000 l. yearly Sir Nicholas keeping most Ports open for his Majesties occasions Ships ready for his service and a Correspondence between him and London Bristow c. and all other parts very useful for his Affairs neither was he less active in the Field as Colonel having trained up himself in the City Militia for the service of the Kingdom in leading armed men then at Court as Counsellor to raise and arm them commanding a Regiment of Horse he himself had raised and paid The Polypus puts not on more shapes to deceive the Fisher than Sir Nicholas did to escape those that laid snares for him one while you should meet him with thousands in Gold another while in his way to Oxford riding in a pair of Panniars like a Butter-woman going to Market at other times he was a Porter carrying on his Majesties Interest especially in the design of Mr. Challoner and Thomkins in London he was a Fisher-man in one place and a Merchant in another The King would say of him that he was a man of a clear head that by continual Agitation of thoughts went on smoothly in his business sticking not at any difficulties all the succors the King had from his Queen and others beyond Sea especially from Holland came through his hands and most of the relief he had at home was managed by his conveyance neither was he less valiant than prudent his heart being as good as his head For after he had bravely Convoyed the Train of Artillery from Oxford to Bristol and was Sept. 1643. quartered at Rouslidge near Gloucester a Person of Quality in the Country but of no Command in the Army Sir Iames Envyon not only incommoded his quarters in which particular he was very civil to him but because he would not draw up his Regiment to satisfie a friend of his about some Horses that were stollen there offering to take all other care to finde them that way for many reasons being by him proved inconvenient sent him a challenge adding that if he met him not he would Pistol him against the wall Sir Nicholas met to offer him all Christian satisfaction in the world which not being accepted many passes Sir Iames made at him he in his own defence much against his will and to his grief to his dying day happened to run him through yet making his peace