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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53490	Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing O515; ESTC R23008	34,729	132

already wholy at his devotion attempt some novelty a dismall whisper the contrary Faction did hourely inspire her withall And to give it a deeper tincture of probability S r Robert Cecill gained leave of the Queene to advertise Essex first of her being past hope and after of her Death stopping in the meane time all ships else but what came loaden with this fatall intelligence And to secure her person no lesse then his owne in case he took the wiser counsell of his friends to land in Wales with all the power he could raise the English militia were put in a posture of defence of which no use was made for the Earles composition having alwaies participated more of truth and loyalty to his Soveraigne with zeale to the Protestant Religion then prudence or Reason of State He not only contrary to the will of his friends but beyond the highest hopes of his Enemies came over attended with some few Gentlemen and in this naked condition finding the report false he cast himselfe habited as a travellor at the feet of his Mistris whom after he never met unlesse since in heaven being presently confind yet to no stricter prison then his Chamber and under no other guard but the obedience he owed to his Soveraignes Commands who though daily importuned could not be brought to signe a warrant for any severer Commitment till after his passage through the City In which he did not only exceed the extent of his owne ordinary rashnesse But the highest and most extraordinary plots of his Enemies And thus was the Earle snatched out of the armes of his Mistris and torne from the hearts of the people that were his Servants by the subtilty of his Enemies and in the sight of both brought to an untimely death It appearing no lesse wonder that Prince and Subject did meet in their affections Then that they should both be so quiet spectators of his ruin But as God shewed in his death the weaknesse of the arme of flesh so not long after he declared as plainly the power of his Iustice in a strict account he took from those that were the principall agents in it For after the blow given The Queene presaging by a multitude of teares shed for him the great drouth was likely to appeare in the eyes of her Subjects when the hand that signed the warrant for it should be cut off fell into a deepe Melancholly whereof she died not long after And for the Fame that immediatlly followed her if multitudes were not fouly mistaken she was more beholding to her successors miscarriages in the generall opinion then any popular esteeme attending her to the grave her death being reported to proceed from an occasion that would have beene thought ridiculous in an ordinary Lady much more in a person of her magnitude But such as take Princes for other then Men shew they never saw them in true light who like the Gods of the Heathen cannot in their actions or speeches during Life be discerned from ordinary Mortalls but by the worship given them being so remote from owning any reall Divinity As with the Crowne they put on greater frailties then they do devest For during the criticall minute of the Queenes strongest affection which was upon Essex his returne from Cales he had importuned her for some signall token which might assure him that in his absence to which his owne Genius no lesse then the respect he bare to the promotion of her honour and obedience to her commands did daily prompt him his Enemies of whom he had many about the Chaire of State should not through their Malice or Subtilty distresse him or render him lesse or worse deserving in her esteeme upon this in a great deale of familiatity she presented a Ring to him which after she had by oathes indued with a power of freeing him from any danger or distresse his future miscarriage her Anger or Enemies malice could cast him into she gave it him with a promise that at the first sight of it all this and more if possible should be granted After his commitment to the Tower he sent this Iewell to Her Majesty by the then Countesse of Notingham whom S r Robert Cecill kept from delivering it This made the Queene think her selfe scorned a Treason against her Honour And therefore not unlikely to be voted by the pride of so great a Lady more Capitall then That pretended against her Person which power doth rarely suffer to scape unpunished besides he had been tempted through passion to say or his enemies to devise That she now doted and owned a mind no lesse crooked then her body A high blasphemy against such a divine Beauty as Flatterers the Idolizers of Princes had enshrined here in And from these his misfortunes led on by the weaknesse Iealousy and Age had bred in her his Maligners took advantage so as his Head was off before discretion love or pity had leasure to dictate The Ring might be miscarried and the former relation false But the Lady of Notingham coming to her death bed and finding by the daily sorrow the Queene expressed for the losse of Essex her selfe a principall agent in his destruction could not be at rest till she had discovered all and humbly implored mercy from God and forgiveness from her earthly Soveraigne who did not only refuse to give it but having shook her as she lay in her bed sent her accompanied with most fearefull curses to a higher Tribunall Not long after the Queenes weaknesse did appeare mostall hastened by the wishes of many that could not in reason expect pardon for a fault they found she had so severely punished in her selfe as to take comfort in nothing after But upon all occasions of signing Pardons would upbraid the movers for them with the hasty anticipation of that brave mans end not to be expiated in relation to the Nations losse by any future indeavour much lesse so unseasonable an uncharitablenesse to a dying Lady 24. After Essex was thus laid by the totall management of State-affaires fell to S r Robert Cecill in right of wisdome who free from competition became bold enough to informe the Queene that too many yeares had beene already lapsed and the peoples quiet hazarded by her delay in not fixing upon one certaine Successour Nothing remaining wanting but her concession to free the Nation from a Civill warre in declaring the King of Scots her lawfull Heire who besides an immediate right had the greatest power at hand to quell the hopes of all contrary pretenders at that time more then a few having long beene imboldened either through her Majesties Indulgence or Prudence an Artifice dangerous for her people and not unpossibly now destructive to her selfe the love of whome was by good Government for forty years so deeply rooted in her Subjects as it could be buried in nothing but her grave Nor did he alone beat her eates with these sounds no lesse terrible to her age at that day

that the smallest chip of that incomparable Instrument of honour Peace and Safety to this now unhappy Nation would have been then valued by the people of England above the loftiest branch in the Calydonian Grove Who as she was the choycest Artist in King-craft that ever handled the Scepter in this Northern Climate So she went beyond all her Ancestors in adapting to her Service the most proper tooles in whose fittest applications she was seldome mistaken The only cause can be given why she so rarely changed her Secret Counsell Especially those she made privy to any of her last results which did not weakly contribute to her safety Such resembling Keyes that once lost or misplaced no future security remaines but in changing the lock And though this hath already fallen under my consideration yet I am forced to resume it againe in the vindication of the choyce of some Officers about the middle of her Raigne accused since for Weaknesse which if not a Mistake made by envy or for want of an exact understanding of the parties use some being placed after the Counsell grew numerous only to tell tales and ballance votes she disliked in publique without the least understanding of what was thought necessary to succeed in private a multitude of hands adding dignity to inland affaires it being ordinary with the generality to esteeme wisdome according to measure rather then weight And amongst these few can be found out of her Kindred or such Friends as her Fathers Honour or her owne C. atitude for kindnesse shewed during the life of her Sister kept her from excluding them the lists though the stronger heads of others were wholy imployd when her occasions called her to grapple with any difficulties Nor was there more then the honour and profit of Lord high Admirall intrusted with the Earle of Notingham but executed by a Commission selected out of the ablest seamen that age did afford he being imployd for his fidelity knowne to be impregnable in relation to Corruption Neither was there a goodlier man for person in Europe as my eyes did witnesse though they met not with him before he was turned towards the point of 80 no youth being more celebrated for gallantry and good fortune then his I confesse that in his age he married a young Lady allied to King Iames which set his wisdome many degrees back in the repute of the world But to discharge this cavill from any farther dispute No Prince then extant took an exacter estimate of her Subjects Abilities to serve her or made a deeper inspection into their Aptitude Nature and Humours to which with a rare dexterity she fitted her favours and their Imployments as may be instanced in Francis Vere a man nobly descended Walter Rawly exactly qualified with many others set a part in her Iudgment for military services whose Titles she never raised above Knighthood Saying when importuned to make Generall Vere a Baron that in his proper Sphere and in her estimation he was above it already Therefore all could be expected from such an addition would be the intombing of the spirit of a brave Souldier in the corps of a lesse sightly Courtier And by tempting him from his charge hazard that repute upon a Carpet his valour had dearly purchased him in the Field Nor could she indure to see her Subjects weare the titles of a forraigne Prince the cause she committed S r Matthew Arrondell of Warder in the West for accepting from the German Caesar the Dignity of a Count And denied S r Philhip Sidny the Crowne of Poland 18. The example of made sty her Souldiers exprest in the Nether-lands rarely found amongst Auxiliaries with her refusall to own or impose the name of her Vassals upon the Dutch gained her a huge confidence amongst her Neighbours that her complexion was pure from the contagion of any more destructive Ambition than the preservation of her honour and those Nations her birth no lesse than desert had presented her with which made them unapter to offend her none but Catholicks and they for the most part Priests wishing her remoove as not knowing where to finde a Prince lesse offensive and more debonaire the cause many Treasons concluded in the losse of their heads that projected them or sought to put them in execution Yet in this her temperament of desire in relation to augmentation of Empire her prudence so minded her of the nations future safety as That friends under persecution doe not seldome face about upon the approach of Security and power wherefore she made sure of Flushing and Brill which in regard of situation were so full a Content of their whole strength As the application of it could not upon their miscarriage in relation to the Catholicke King or their own future Ingratitude obliterate the advantage England might make of that revolt Though the mony lent cover'd it in Reason and Iustice from much of the envy it might have contracted had she imployed force or fraud in their purchase Nor did the receiving from the hands of the French Hugonots Haver de Grace upon a like exigency signify more Ambition than the reduction of Calis which might have undoubtedly succeeded had she not according to her usuall custom starved the designe for want of mony and men a fault the more excusable because it relates to the tender care and respect had of her Subjects Lives and Estates And here by the way it is worth noting That the Holanders could not so easily have attayned Freedom but through the help of the Ministers of Spaine who by eradicating the antient Nobility and Gentry reduced them into a Parity and so by consequence made them capable of unity the nource of all Combinations 19. Amongst all her Minions none according to report bad fairer for the Queens Brid-bed than Lecester who finding by the continuall high beating of her heart that she would never allow of so great an abatement of Soveraignty as a Match with a forraine Prince could not but in honour have the sayles of his expectation somewhat sweld therewith He would in her gayeties which ' till the death of Essex were very frequent aske her If she did not think she had some Subjects of her own able though it must be confessed none worthy to make an Heire for the Kingdom of England Since her Father was known to doe it yet a Man so uncapable of any eclipse of honour by the highest Princesse Neither did his often repeated condescentions in making Subjects his after-wives breed him that danger that he sustained by the first glorious Match according to expectation that he made with the Sister of Charles the Emperor which all the Prudence he owned could not unravel without strayning the cordes of Government if not Conscience by that desperate leape he made out of the Church of Rome and separating himselfe from the union of other Princes Nor did Philip the second prove more happy to your Sister for the present nor to the future