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A40792	The history of the most unfortunate prince King Edward II with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston & Spencer, containing several rare passages of those times, not found in other historians / found among the papers of, and (supposed to be) writ by Henry Viscount Faulkland ...	Falkland, Henry Cary, Viscount, d. 1633.; Fannant, Edward.	1680 (1680)	Wing F314; ESTC R8909	44,640	88

and neglects the advantage if he fall is justly unworthy pity or compassion Have you exposed your self to all the bitter Tryals of Fortune suffering so meanly so many Miseries and having overcome them according to your desire are you willing to return to your own condition and former sorrow If it be so Mortimer is wretched in sacrificing his Devotion and Heart to such a Female weakness In cases of extremity a tenderness of Conscience begets a certain danger nor is it disproportionable so to continue a Crown that by blood was gotten and surprised had Edward known I should have liv'd to see his Ruin my Head had paid my ransom The impressions of Fear make his subject less in sence than apparition think not me of so poor a Brain but I as well know how to work as move it such Actions are not to be done but such a way as may prevent proof if not suspicion But why do I seek thus to charm your Ears if you be willing he shall live let him let the inclining People set him free to call you to an account for his oppression let him parallel his Spencer's death in your Affliction perhaps he 'l spare you for your Brother's sake who he knows so dearly loves you and did so bravely witness it in your Affliction perhaps he 'l suffer you still to guide the Crown and your fair Son to wear it If you be pleas'd you may abide the Trial. Mortimer's resolv'd since you neglect his Judgment you will as soon forget his Service which he will in time prevent before it be debarred With this he flings away as if he meant to give his words a real Execution The amazed Queen pursues and overtakes him Stay gentle Mortimer quoth she forgive my Error I am a Woman fitter to take advice than give it Think not I prize thy Love so little as to lose thee If Edward must dye I will not seek to divert it only I thus much beg I may not be partaker or privy to the time means or manner Madam leave that to me who will alone both undertake the Act and Danger all I require from you is but to seal a Warrant to change his former Keepers Sir Morris Barkley had been tamper'd withall and was so far from consent that he plainly declared he did abhor the Action This Answer suddenly dischargeth him and commits his Masters Guard to Sir Thomas Gourney and his former Partner Mattrevers They having received both their Warrant and Prisoner convey him to Cork-Castle the place in all the World he most hated Some say he was foretold by certain Magic Spels that this place was to him both fatal and ominous But whatsoe're the cause was he was at his first arrival deeply sad and passionate His Keepers to repel this humour and make him less suspicious feed him with pleasant Discourse and better Entertainment while his misgiving Spirit was heavy sad and melancholy The Night before his Death he supp'd heartily and went to Bed betimes scarcely were his heavy Eyes lock'd up in silent slumber when his forsworn traiterous Murderers enter his Chamber and finding him asleep inhumanly and barbarously stifled him before he could avoid or resist it The writers differ mainly in the manner of his Death but all conclude him murder'd yet so that the way on search and view could not be known or discover'd A small passage of time gave the most part of all these Actors of his Death an end fit for their deserts and this so bloody an Action Their several Relations and Confessions occasion so many various Reports and different kinds of Writing the truth whereof is not much material since all agree he came to an unnatural and untimely Death Thus fell that unhappy King Edward the Second who was Son and Father to two of the most glorious Kings that ever held the Monarchy of the English Nation Main Reasons are given probable enough to instance the necessity of his fall which questionless were the secondary means to work it But his Doom was registred by that inscrutable Providence of Heaven who with the self-same Sentence punish'd both him and Richard the Second his great Grandchild who were guilty of the same Offences The Example of these two so unfortunate Kings may be justly a leading precedent to all Posterity Certainly we have had other Kings as faulty and vicious that have o're-liv'd their Errors and died not by a violent hand but by the ordinary and easie course of Nature The condition and quality of these was not in themselves more perilous and exorbitant than hurtful and dangerous to the Estate Peace and Tranquillity of the whole Kingdom If by height of Youth height of Fortune or a corrupt natural Inclination the Royal Afflictions loosely fly at random yet if it extend no farther than the satisfaction of the proper Appetite it may obscure the Glory but not supplant the strength and welfare of a Monarchy But when it is in it self not only vicious and ill affected but doth patrocine and maintain it in others not blushing in such a justification it is a forerunning and presaging evidence that betokens a fatal and unpitied Ruin It is too much in a King that hath so great a Charge delivered to his care and custody to be dissolute or wantonly given but when it falls into a second Error which makes more Kings than one in the self-same Kingdom he opens the way to his own destruction The Subjects hearts as they are obliged so are they continued by the Majesty and Goodness of a King if either of these prove prostitute it unties the Links of Duty and Allegiance and hunts after Change and Innovation It is of so singular and great a consequence that Kings ought to be well advised and sparingly to accumulate their Honours and Favours wherein both the Time Person and Occasion ought to be both worthy and weighty for the Eye of the Subject waits curiously on his Actions which finding them degenerating from his own Greatness and inclinable to their Oppression vary their Integrity to a murmuring discontent which is the Harbinger to a revolt and mischief Nor is it proper if the Soveraign's Affections must dote that the Object of their weakness should sway the Government of the Kingdom Such an Intermixtion begets confusion and Error and is attended by a perpetual envy and hatred Is it possible but there must be perpetual Error and Injustice where all things are carried more by Favour and Affection than Law and Reason Or can the lesser Fountains be clear when that main Spring that feeds them is tainted and polluted Alas common and familiar Experience tells that the Actions and principal Use of a Favourite is to make good by his strength and favour those Designs that are in themselves unjust perverse and insupportable A good Cause in the Integrity of Time needs no protection but its own Innocence but where the sacred Rules of Justice are inverted the sincerity of the Law abused the conscience of the Judge corrupted or enforced and all things made Mercenary or carried by indirect Favour what expectation can there be but that Kingdom which is the Theater of so infamous a practice should fall speedily into a fearful and desperate Convulsion Though the Histories of these times are plentifully stor'd and few Common-wealths are free from the Examples of this nature yet I shall not need any other instance than the story of this unfortunate Prince whose time presents a perfect Mirror wherein ensuing Kings may see how full of danger and hazard it is for one Man's love to sell the Affections and Peace of the whole Kingdom Had Edward 〈◊〉 own particular been far worse than he was he ●ight have still subsisted but when for his inglorious Minions Gaveston and Spencer who successively engross him he fell to those injurious and dissolute Actions that made all Men and the Kingdom pray to their insolent and imperious Humours he quickly found both Heaven and Earth resolved to work his Ruin Not only his own but theirs and those of their ignoble Agents were made his proper Errors which took so wholly from him the Love and Hearts of his Subjects that he found neither Arms nor Tongue to defend him A more remarkable Misery I think no time of ours produceth that brings this King to destruction without so much as any one Kinsman Friend or Subject that declared himself in his Quarrel But he found the Climacteric year of his Reign before he did expect it And made that unhappy Castle which he ever hated the witness of his cruel Murder where I must leave him 'till he find a more honourable place 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OF ENGLAND EDWARD the Second born at Carnarvan was immediately after the death of Edward the First his Father crowned King of England If we may credit the Historians of those times this Prince was of an Aspect fair and lovely carrying in his outward appearance many promising predictions of a singular expectation But the judgment not the eye must have preheminence in the censure of Human passages the visible Calender is not the true character of inward perfection evidently proved in the Life Reign and untimely Death of this unfortunate Monarch His Story Eclipseth this glorious Morning making the noontide of his Soveraignty full of Tyrannical oppressions and the Evening more memorable by his Death and Ruine Time the discoverer of truth makes evident his imposture and shews him to the World in Conversation light in Will violent in Condition wayward and in Passion irreconcileable Edward his Father a King no less Wise than Fortunate by his discreet Providence and the Glory of his Arms had laid him the sure Foundation of a happy Monarchy He makes it his last care so to inable and instruct him that he might be powerful enough to keep it so From this Consideration he leads him to the Scotish Wars and brings him home an exact and able Scholar in the Art Military He shews him the benefit of Time and Occasion and makes him understand the right use and advantage He instructs him with the precious Rules of Discipline that he might truly know how to obey before he came to command a Kingdom Lastly he opens the closet of his Heart and presents him with the politic Mysteries of State and teacheth him how to use them by his own Example letting him know that all these helps are little enough to support the weight of a Crown if there were not a correspondent worth in him that wears it These Principles make the way open but the prudent Father had a remaining task of a much harder temper He beheld many sad remonstrations of a deprave and vicious Inclination these must be purified or his other cautions were useless and to little purpose A corruption in Nature that by practice hath won it self the habit of being ill requires a more than ordinary care to give it reformation Tenderness of Fatherly Love abuseth his belief and makes him ascribe the imperfections of the Son to the heat of Youth want of Experience and the wickedness of those that had betray'd his unripe Knowledge and easie Nature with so base impressions He imagins Age and the sad burthen of a Kingdom would in the sence of Honour work him to thoughts more innocent and noble yet he neglects not the best means to prepare and assure it He extends the height of Entreaty and useth the befitting severity of his paternal Power making his Son know he must be fit for a Scepter before he enjoy it He takes from him those tainted humours of his Leprosie and enjoyns him by all the ties of Duty and Obedience no more to admit the Society of so base and unworthy Companions Gaveston the Ganimede of his affections a Man as base in birth as conditions he sentenceth to perpetual Exile The melancholy Apparitions of this loth to depart gives the aged Father an assurance that this Syren had to dear a Room in the wanton Cabinet of his Son's heart He strives to enlighten his mind and to make him quit the memory of that dotage which he foresaw in time would be his destruction But death overtakes him before he could give it perfection the time is come that he must by the Law of Nature resign both his Life and Kingdom He summons his Son and bequeaths him this dying Legacy commanding him as he will in another day answer his disobedience never to repeal his sentence To his Kindred and Peers that with sad Tears and watry Eyes were the companions of his Death-bed he shortly discourseth the base conditions of this Parasite and lets them understand both their own and the Kingdom 's danger if they withstood not his return if it were occasioned They knew his injunctions were just and promise to observe them he is not satisfied till they bind it with an Oath and vow religiously to perform it This sends him out of the World with more confidence than in the true knowledge of his Son 's wilful disposition he had cause to ground on The Father's Funeral Rights performed Edward in the pride of his years undertakes the Crown and guidance of this glorious Kingdom He glories in the advantage knowing himself to be an absolute King and at liberty yet thinks it not enough till the belief of the Kingdom did equally assure it He esteems no Act more proper to confirm it than running in a direct strain of opposition against his Predecessor's will and pleasure The strong motives of his violent affection suggests reasons that the Majesty of a King may not be confined from his dearest pleasure When he was a Son and a Subject he had witnessed his obedience being now a King and a Soveraign he expects a correspondence of the same nature Where there was so ready an inclination in the Will Reason found strength enough to warrant it which made him make Gaveston's return the first Act of his Soveraignty No protestation of his Lords nor persuasion of his Council can work a diversion or win so much as a befitting respect The Barons that were unable to withstand are contented to obey attending the issue of this so dangerous a resolution Where the News was so pleasing the Journey is as sudden Gaveston loseth not a minute till he felt the embraces of his Royal Lord and Master Edward having thus regained his beloved Damon is so transported with his presence that he forgets the will and ordinary respect due to the greatest Lords and Pillers of his Kingdom and hence proceeds their first discontent and murmur Many ways are invented to dissolve this enchantment but none more fit and worthy then to engage him in the sacred knot of Wedlock The Interest of a Wife was believed the only remedy to engross or divert those ●●●ted 〈◊〉 ●●fe●t●●ns which they beheld so loosely and unworthily prostituted Isabel the Daughter of the French King the goodliest and 〈…〉 L●dy of her time is moved and the tender o● 〈…〉 plausibly accepted This sends Edward scarce a King of nine Months standing into France and brings him back seas'd of a Jewel which not being rightly valued occasioned his ensuing Ruin The excellency of so sweet and vertuous a companion could not so surprie her Bridegroom but Gaveston still kept possession of the fairest room in his affections He makes it more notorious by creating him Earl of Cornewal and the Gift of the goodly Castle and Lordship of Wallingford Gaveston applies himself wholly to the humour of the King and makes each word that falls from his mouth an Oracle their affections go hand in hand and the apparent injustice of the one never found contradiction in

The true Portraiture of King Edward the Second King of England Lord of Ireland Duke of Aquitaine etc He Raigned 19. yeares Seven Months Buried at Glocester F. sculpset THE HISTORY Of the most unfortunate Prince King EDWARD II. WITH Choice Political Observations on Him and his unhappy Favourites GAVESTON SPENCER CONTAINING Several RARE PASSAGES of those Times Not found in other Historians Found among the Papers of and supposed to be Writ by the Right Honourable HENRY Viscount FAULKLAND Sometime Lord Deputy of Ireland LONDON Printed by A. G. and J. P. and are sold by John Playford at his Shop near the Temple-Church 1680. THE PREFACE HENRY CARY Viscount Faulkland among whose Papers the following History was found was born at Aldnam in Hertford-shire his extraordinary Parts being a most accomplish'd Gentleman and a complete Courtier got him such an Esteem with King James who for his great Learning and Sagacity is stiled The English Solomon that he thought him a Person fitly qualified to be Lord Deputy of Ireland the Government of which place required at that time a Man of more than ordinary Abilities which Trust he very well discharged Being recalled into England he lived honourably here 'till by an unfortunate accident he broke his Leg in Theobald's Park of which soon after he died He was a Person of great Gallantry the Ornament and Support of his Countrey which he served with no less Faithfulness and Prudence abroad than Honour and Justice at home being an excellent Statesman During his stay at the University of Oxford his Chamber was the Rendevouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time from whose Conversation he became Eminent in all those Qualifications The Subject of the following History supposed to be written by the above-mentioned Nobleman is the unhappy Lives and untimely Deaths of that Unfortunate English King Edward the Second and his two Favourites Gaveston and Spencer for his immoderate love to whom says Dr. Heylin he was hated by the Nobles and contemned by the Commons This King saith Sir Richard Baker was a comely Person and of great strength but much given to drink which render'd him unapt to keep any thing secret His greatest fault was he loved but one for if his Love had been divided it could not have been so violent and though Love moderated be the best of Affections yet the Extremity of it is the worst of Passions Two Virtues were eminent in him above all his Predecessors Continence and Abstinence so continent that he left no base Issue behind him so abstinent that he took no base Courses for raising Money Our Author closes his History without declaring the Particulars of the Murder of this Prince wherefore I shall give you an account thereof as I find it set down by the aforesaid Sir Richard Baker Many ways were attempted to take away his Life First they vexed him in his Diet allowing him nothing that he could well endure to eat but this succeeded not Then they lodged him in a Chamber over Carrion and dead Carcases enough to have poisoned him and indeed he told a Workman at his Window he never endured so great a misery in all his Life but neither did this succeed Then they attempted it by Poysons but whether by the strength of his Constitution or by the Divine Providence neither did this succeed At last the pestilent Achitophel the Bishop of Hereford devised a Letter to his Keepers Sir Thomas Gourney and Sir John Mattrevers blaming them for giving him too much liberty and for not doing the Service which was expected from them and in the end of his Letter wrote this Line Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est craftily contriving it in this doubtful sence that both the Keepers might find sufficient warrant and himself excuse The Keepers guessing at his meaning took it in the worst sence and accordingly put it in Execution They took him in his Bed and casting heavy Bolsters upon him and pressing him down stifled him and not content with that they heated an Iron red hot and through a Pipe thrust it up into his Fundament that no marks of Violence might be seen but though none were seen yet some were heard for when the Fact was in doing he was heard to roar and cry all the Castle over This was the lamentable End of King Edward of Carnarvan Son of King Edward the First What became of the Actors and Abettors of this deep Tragedy Sir Winston Churchill tells us in these words with which I shall conclude Poor Prince how unkindly was he treated upon no other account but that of his own over-great kindness Other Princes are blamed for not being ruled by their Counsellors he for being so Who whilst he lived they would have him thought to be a Sot but being dead they could have found in their hearts to have made him a Saint How far he wrong'd his people doth not appear there being very few or no Taxations laid upon them all his time but how rude and unjust they were towards him is but too manifest But their violence was severely paid by Divine Vengeance not only upon the whole Kingdom when every Vein in the Body Politic was afterwards opened to the endangering the letting out of the Life-blood of the Monarchy in the Age following but upon every particular Person consenting to or concern'd in his Death For as the Throne of his Son that was thus set in Blood though without his own guilt continued to be imbru'd all his Reign which lasted above fifty Years with frequent Executions Battels or Slaughters the Sword of Justice or his own being hardly ever sheath'd all his time So 't is said that the Queen her self dyed mad upon the apprehension of her own in Mortimer's disgrace who was executed at Tiburn and hung there two days to be a spectacle of Scorn The King's Brother Edmond had this punishment of his Disloyalty to be condemn'd to lose his Head for his Loyalty it being suggested and happy it had been for him if it had been prov'd that he endeavoured the Restoration of his Brother his Death being imbitter'd by the mockery of Fortune whilst by keeping him upon the Scaffold five hours together before any body could be found that would Execute him he was deluded with a vain hope of being saved The Fiend Tarlton Bishop of Hereford who invented the cursed Oracle that justified the Murderers dyed with the very same Torture as if the hot Iron that sear'd his Conscience had been thrust into his Bowels Of the two Murderers one was taken and butcher'd at Sea the other dyed in Exile perhaps more miserable And for the Noblility in general that were Actors in the Tragedy they had this Curse upon them that most of their Race were cut off by those Civil Discords of their divided Families to which this strange Violation gave the first beginning not long after The LIFE of EDVVARD II. KING