diligence and industry did wonders in that School imposed upon him on the Epistles and Gospels at School were the ground of that Divine fancy so famous in Pembroke-hall where he was Scholar and Peter-house where he was Fellow in Cambridge where he was esteemed the other Herbert of our Church for making Poetry as Divine in its object as in its Original and setting wit disparaged in talking out most of its gallant Genius on Fables Women Drollery or Flattery upon a matter and subject as noble as its nature making his Verses not in his Study at St. Peters-house but in his Devotions wherein he spent many a night at St. Maries Church warbling his Hymns for St. Ambroses his Saints under Tertullians Roof of Angels having no other Helicon than the Iordan of his eyes nor Parnassus than the Sion where dwelled his thoughts that made the Muses Graces and taught Poems to do what they did of old propagate Religion and not so much Charm as Inspire the Soul Hebrew Greek Latine Spanish French Italian were as familiar to him as English Philosophy came as plausible from him as his Speeches or Sermons those thronged Sermons on each Sunday and Holiday that ravished more like Poems than both the Poet and Saint two of the most sacred names in heaven and earth scattering not so much Sentences and Extasies his soul breahing in each word was the soul of the Assembly as its original is of the World Poetry Musick Drawing Limning Graving exercises of his curious Invention and sudden Fancy were the subservient recreations of his vacant hours not the grand business of his soul his diet was temperate to a Lesson exactness whence his memory was so clear that he had ready at his service the choicest treasures of Greek and Latine Poets those Gibeonites to draw water to the Tabernacle The Divine Poet that had set a Language made up of the Quintessence of Fancy and Reason for the Angels as the Schoolmen state their way of discourse to converse in seeing Atheism prevailing in England embraced Popery in Italy chusing rather to live in the Communion of that corrupt Church in the practise of fundamental truths confessed to be then mixed with some errors than to stay here where was hardly the face of any Church after the overthrow of those to make way for all errors being resolved to any Religion than that which taught a holy Rebellion and Perjury a pious Sacriledge a godly Parracide and made the very horrors of nature the glory of Christianity And died of a Feaver the holy order of his soul over-heating his body Canon of Loretto whence he was carried to heaven as that Church was brought thither by Angels singing Dr. Iohn Sherman Scholar at Charter-house London and Fellow of Trinity-colledge Cambridge whom to use his own words Reading makes a full Scholar as appeared by his discourse called The Greek brought into the Temple Conference a ready Scholar evidenced in his successful contracts in these times with both papists and Sectaries and meditation a deep Scholar as is legible in his excellent discourse so much commended by the Reverend Dr. Pierce of Inâ—allibility so conscientious a man that because he had a small estate of his own derived to him by providence he would not return to his old Preferment his Fellow-ship and so modest that he looked not after any new being infinitely more happy in his rational and sublime self-satisfaction whereby he neglected the lower advantages of his Majesties Restauration than others have been in their thoughts since that made it their business to enjoy them Dr. Abraham Cowley bred at Westminster under the Reverend Dr. Busby whose name will be deeply woven into the history of this age most of the eminent Prelates and States-men owning their Abilities to his admirable Education and their Loyalty to his choice Principles preferred to Trinity-colledge Cambridge and when ejected admitted in France Secretary in effect to her Majesty the Queen Mother in being so formerly to the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Albans since the Restauration designed Master of the Savoy and Charter-house and the first failing and the second not falling rewarded with a rich Lease of her Majesties I think at Chersey in Surrey A Poet as all are born not made a Jewel brought forth with it fire and light about it writing at eleven well at School for the entertainment of Noblemen and at sixteen excellently in the University for the entertainment of a Prince aiming according to his Motto Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo victorque virum voliture per ora at nothing ordinary he performed upon all occasions extraordinary arriving at the greatest heighth of English and Latine Poetry that is a happy fertility of Invention a great Wisdom of Disposition a curious Judgement in observance of Decencies and quick Luster and Vigor of Elocution a becoming Modesty Variety and Majesty of Number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bold and unusual figures all every where like a Mans Soul Grave Calm Sober and Chaste as his Life not gay all over but skilled when to be witty and when to be wise in a word his Poems the great exactness in Greek and Latine Authors his Comment being as Learned as his Poems Ingenious the one opening what the other coucheth Sublimated not Translated by him richer in his grasping coherent and great thoughts than in their own a stupendious skill in most Languages and Sciences particularly in the two great Mistrisses professions Divinity and Physick and their brave attendants Philosophy Mathematicks and History besides Musick Limning c. his recreations and that in the pleasant privacy of a Colledge not on the Banks of Cham amidst the great Collection of the most learned Books and Men where his thoughts run as clear and undisturbed as the stream and peaceable as the times but among cares and fears melancholy and grief sufferings and removes times fit to write of and its pity his three Books of the Civil Wars reaching as far as the first Battel of Newbury are lost and that he laid down his Pen when his friends did their Armes that he marched out of the Cause as they did out of their Garrisons dismantling the Works and Fortifications of Wit and Reason in his power to keep when they did the Forts and Castles not so in theirs but not in In te inluens they are Tullies words applied by Mr. C. to himself Brute Doleo cujus in adolescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna Reipublicae Since Poesie as he observeth there that is to communicate pleasure unto others must have a soul full of bright and delightful Ideas sad times and a sad spirit being as unsuitable to a good fancy as to use his comparison for I make him all along who best could express himself the grave to Dr. Donnes Sun-dial nothing but Love the Poets necessary affection
two Voyages of King Lewis to Palestine and thereupon ever since by Custom and Priviledge the Gentlewomen of Champaign and Brye ennoble their Husbands and give them honor in marrying them how mean so ever before George Lord Aubigney younger Brother to the Duke of Richmond born 1615. in London bred for the most part in France owing his Education to that Country whence he had that he was bred for his Honor the Lordship of Aubigny a Town and Seigniory adorned with many priviledges an ample territory and a beautiful Castle in the Province of Berry in France bestowed by Charles the sixth on Robert the second Son of Alan Stuart Earl of Lenox in Scotland for his many signal Services against the English and was till of late and it s hoped will be the honorary title and possession of the second branch of that Noble and Illustrious Family hence called by the name of Lords of Aubigny A Person whose life was nought else but serious preparations for death his younger apprehensions when living being of the mature with the oldest mens thoughts when dying well knowing that his extraction and conditions â—â—ould be as little excuse from strict expectations of his latter end â—s they could be none from the summons to it the Series of his liâ—â— carried with it such an awe of God and sence of true Piety and â—eligion as clearly evinced he had strong and habituated Meditations of that Levelling Day wherein the highest stands on the same ground with the meanest Religion was not then thought a stain 〈◊〉 honor and the minding of heaven the business only of those who had nothing to do on earth A person that had so much the character of Titus The delight of mankind that he was born to conquer by love and could he but have been heard to speak he need not Pretty was the return he made when disswaded from Embarking himself in the best cause in the world I would have all those that refuse serving in this War served as they that were backward â—o engage in the Holy War to each of whom was sent a Spindle and Diâ—taffe the upbrading ensigns of their softness and effeminacy the delicaâ—y of our mould and make speaking of Noblemen the quickness of our spirits the sprightliness of our faculties the exact proportion of our parts the happiness of our address the accomplishments of our persons the soundness of our constitutions and it may be whatever Aristotle thought the difference of our souls the happiness of our opportunities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mithridates called Occasion the Mother of all affaires And in fine our being born happy and as the Panegyâ—ist of Constantine Enrolled in the list of Felicity as soon as of Nature engageth us to do so much more than others as we are more than others The hardest temptation he ever found against virtue was a kind of blush and shame in the owning of it with much regret reflecting on mens glorying in their shame and being ashamed of their glory But I thank God he would say I can undergo the bloudless martyrdom of a Blush and the greatest help to it resolution business taking up all the parts of time and the workings of a restless minde temperance and sobriety seriousness and patience consideration and circumspection according to the Duke of Bavares Motto and Medal prudence with a Ballance in her hand Know Choose Execute quickly and which included all a mean or moderation My Lord being very much pleased with the story of the French King who one day inquiring of an experienced man how to govern himself and his kingdom had a large sheet of Paper presented to him with this one word instead of the many precepts he looked for Modus a Mean His good example had pressed many to the service of virtue when it flourished when the war broke out he was told by a prevailing Member that the Scots must be kept in Arms to awe the English as long as the Sons of Zeruiah were too hard for the well-affected engaged as many to the service of it when afflicted for with three hundred Gentlemen worth near 300000 l. he came to assist his Majesty marching along with him till he came to Edge-hill where come in to the succor of the Lord General it s a question whether was more remarkable his conduct or courage his followers being so advantageously placed that every particular man performed eminent service to borrow a few words belonging to the courage of the English in the battel of Newport 1600. to express the valor of these Gentlemen in the battel of Keinton Et fere nemo in illis Cohortibus vel ordine vel animo ante vulgus â—uit quem non dies iste sicuti virtute sic teste virtutis vulnere Insignivit Himself persisting in the Fight though most of his party were dead round about him till his bloud more Royal now that it was shed for one good King than that it was extracted from many great ones issuing out at twelve wounds left him weak indeed but not spiritless his soul loath to withdraw not only when the party it commanded but also when the body it lived in deserted it In which condition he was carried to Abingdon and thence when dead not long after to Christ-Church in Oxford where he was buried with as many sighs as blasted hopefulness and expectation is attended with there being not a sadder sight next the publick Calamities than to see a great virtue accomplished by industry and observation by a suddain and surprizing stroke made useless to others but in the example and to himself as to any employment in this world besides the sitting of him for a better Leaving behind him First An honorable Lady that espousing his Quarrel as well as his Cause like Dame Margaret Dimocke wife to Sir Iohn Dimocke who in King Richards time came to the Court and claimed the place to be the Kings Champion by virtue of the Tenure of her Mannor of Scrinelby in Lincoln-shire to Challenge and Defie all such as opposed the Kings Right to the Crown appearing with a spirit equal to her Relations and above her Sex if there be any Sex in souls in her heroick expressions upon her dear Lords death in a Letter to Archbishop Laud dated Ian. 2. I Confess I cannot as yet be so much my self as to overcome my passion though I know my Lord died in a just and honorable action and that I hope his soul finds which consideration is the only satisfaction of Your Graces humble Servant Kath. Aubigney Secondly In her Noble Attempts First in venturing to settle a correspondency between London and Oxford and then carrying the Kings Commission of Array in her own person to several Lords and Gentlemen of both Houses and Citizens made before-hand to seize into their Custody the Kings Children some of the pretended Members the wrong Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia the City Out-works and Forts the
Tower of London and all the Magazines letting in the Kings Forces and this to be begun by Tumults to be raised about unreasonable Taxes imposed without authority with many other noble enterprizes so like her illustrious husband that her character is as deeply inlaid in his as Phidias his Picture was in that of Minerva Hic jacet pudor venustâ—s invictus animus quicquid uspiam est aut dotum aut virtutum unico Inclusum Aubigney in quo vix aliud humanum erat nist quod natus sit mortuus licet vel sic mori est esse Immortalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nobili quo vixit sanguinis Purpura nobiliori quem fudit Alii diutius vitam tenuerunt nemo tam fortiter Reliquit THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord STUART Acts 22. 22. Heb. 11. 38. The wicked Iews said of St. Paul Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live St. Paul said of the godly Iews Of whom the world was not worthy AN Ingenious Person in a Dedicatory Epistle to the Illustrious Esme Stuart Duke of Richmond the most hopeful Son and Heir of Iames Duke of Richmond of whom more hereafter descants on these words thus Here I perceive heaven and hell mercy and malice Gods spirit and Mans spight resolved on the question that it is not fit that good men should live long on earth the same conclusion being bottomed upon different premises Wicked men think this world too good God knoweth it too bad for his people to live in Henceforward I shall not wonder that good men dye so soon but that they live so long since wicked men desire their Room here upon Earth and God their Company in Heaven and that this young Nobleman so soon exchanged his Coronet for a Crown A Nobleman of happy and assiduous Studies not in Plays and Romances the follies of good Wits but in the disquisition of solid and masculine knowledge as if he as well as Philostratus had been born a Man and his soul known no Childhood never did vice in youth finde a more confirmed goodness so impregnable was he against the temptations that gain easie access to those of his rank and quality that they could neither insinuate into him by their allurements nor force him by their importunities securing both his minde from the infection of vice and his same from the suspition A Nobleman being to think of himself as Caesar did of his Wiâ—e that others may live so as not to be condemned but he so as not to be suspected his virtue was not his stupidity or heaviness but his choice when he could have been as handsomly and takingly vicious as he was virtuous the severe exercises of his virtues being mingled with such charms from his parts and ingenuity that his very seriousness was as alluring as others divertisements and pleasures A quick and peircing Apprehension a faithful and retenâ—tive Memory a sprightful and active Fancy and a Judgement over-ruling them all neither prejudicated by vulgar opinions nor easily cozened by varnished and plausible error that deserved to live the ornament of better times and to dye engaging against those vices that were the shame of these There are a sort of Apes in India thus caught by the Natives They dress a little Boy in his sight and undress him again leaving all the Childs Apparel behind them in the place and then depart a competent distance The Ape presently attireth himself in the same garments till the Childs Cloaths become his Chains putting off his Feet by putting on his shoes The mimical Doâ—terels of Lincolnshire are thus taken As the Fowler stretcheth forth his armes and leggs going towards the Bird the Bird extendeth his leggs and wings apprâ—aching the Fowler till surprized in the Net The sweet carriage and exemplary virtue which he exercised really towards some of the Faction brought them to comply with him so far at least in pretence a while that at last they were his Converts in truth His valor conquering many his goodness more souls yielding to his virtues while bodies only lay prostrate beâ—fore his Sword Of all his virtues his patience was the most reâ—markable whereby he hardened his body to the same temperament that travel had done his soul he knew no bed for several times but that earth he sleeps on now and Pulvinar was a true Latine word for his Pillow â—afraid of softness even in his Furniâ—ture not willing to go to any Bed but that people had in those times when the Proverb rise which expresseth lying a Bed by these words Lying in Straw And this patience born up by a principle as noble as it self I mean a Religion made up of these two great parts Love and Immitation of God This noble person being of that brave Opinion That of so many divers Religions and manâ—ners of serving God which are or may be in the world they seem to be the most noble and to have the greatest appearance of truth which draw the soul into its self and cause it by pure contemplation to admire love adore dwell with imitate and enjoy the infinite Majesty of God the first cause of all things and the Essence of Essences acknowledge it in general without the nicety of particulars to be goodness perfection inâ—â—uiteness wholly incomparable This is to approach the Religion of Angels and the Humanity of Christ that shadow agreeing with the Divinity as equal-made Dyals with the Sun For his winged and soaring reason as high as theirs that pretend nothing above it acquiesced rather in the humble obedience of faith than in the critical researches of curiosity And his sprightly wit bestowed it self not in jesting upon but in adorning and obeying Religion being none of them that commence wit by blasphemy and cannot be ingenious but by being impious Indeed there was as manly a a beauty in his carrage as in his Face and a grace in each of his actions as of his Limbs charming all places he came to rather than conquering them having as generous a confluence of Noble Endowments in his Minde as he had of Noble Bloud in his Veins Worth this like a rich vein of Ore that forfeits the land it is in to his Majesty that rendred him too good to be injoyed by us For when it was necessary for him otherwise born for the sweetness and calm of peace to offer violence to and deny his nature to perform his duty in assisting that Majesty to which he was allyed as well as obliged in the defence of that Law and Liberty which his Ancestors had established as much his Inheritance as his Honor after several actions by which he shall ever live the pattern of a religious sober active watchful and resolved Souldier he came to that wherein he died the pattern of an excellent man for following my Lord Hopton as ambitious to observe his conduct as he was to attain his other great virtues at Brandonheath or
Exercised and Improved him an Obliging Carriage that gave Access to the meanest Scholar and had it of the greatest a Distinct Understanding that could as well Touch and Apprehend the least matters as Compass and Comprehend the greatest a Down-right Plain and Honest Temper and what crowned all a Serious and Holy Frame of Spirit discovering its self in his Life and his Writing where you will meet with such expressions as these When I am indeed able for these things speaking of Preaching I doubt not to have him with my mouth because I mean to leave my self out I have thus much left to wish and I hope I do it well to his Book meaning the Scripture that it might be read as far as this is possible in a full and fixed Translation and upon that a clear and disingaged Commentary The way to do this will not be to do the work a great and undertake the whole or any considerable part of the Book by one man if he could live one Age. He that goeth upon this with any interest about him let him do otherwise never so admirably he doth indeed but Translate an Angel of Light into the Devil I would not Render or Interpret one parcel of Scripture to an end of my own though it were to please my whole Nation by it to gain the World One asked him whether the Alcoran had any thing in it that could work upon a Rational Belief He answered That that which is every where called Religion hath more of Interest and the strong impressions of Education than perhaps we consider of There is no Scholar that would not know where lies the Remains of this great man Christ-Church hath his Body the Church of England his Heart whose Religion he designed to clear up in life and sealed with his death a death that was so much more a Martyrdom in his Bed than others were upon the Scaffold as it is a more exquisite misery to dye daily with grief than once by an Executioner His honest Epitaph is this NE premus Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jacent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui Te quovis vincet Idiomate At ne molestus sis Ausculta Causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et Avitâ Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatû Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut cupesseret Vade Nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Printed Works are RIdleyes View of the Law with his Notes Posthuma Or a Collection of Notes and Observations translated into Latine by Master Stokes and inserted into the Critica Sacra M. SS Among the many early fruits of his younger studies which his modesty kept by him to ripen A Translation of an Ancient Peice of Chronography by Melala which gave great light to the State of Primitive Christianity is one And Akibla a Book proving East-adoration before Popery because ever since the Floud THE Life and Death OF JOHN BARNSTON Doctor of Divinity THE greatest parts was not protection enough you observe in the last Instance against the Barbarism of that Age nor yet the best nature any security as you may perceive by this against the inhumanity of it For there was one Iohn Barnston D. D. born of an ancient Family in Cheshire his birth deserved civility bred Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford his education pleaded for favour Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton and Residentiary of Salisbury his preferments should have gained him respect a peaceable and good Disposition whereof take this eminent instance He sat Judge in the Consistory when a Church-warden out of whose house a Chalice was stolen was Sued by the Parish to make it good to them because not taken out of the Church-chest where it ought to be reposited but out of his private house The Church-warden Pleaded That he took it home only to Scoure it which proving in-effectual he retained it till next morning to Boil out the in-laid Rust thereof Well said the Doctor I am sorry that the Cup of Union and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord between you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but that either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some charity come to pass accordingly He Founded an Hebrew Lecture in Brazen-Nose Colledge a piece of charity this that should have covered a multitude of offences Hospitality they say hath slept since 1572. in the Grave of Edward Earl of Derby this Gentlemans Father's Master and was a little awaked by this Gentleman his Sons Chaplain and Friend from the year 1620. to the year 1640. carrying with him that genius of Cheshire Hospitality and free to his own Family which is Generosity to Strangers which is Courtesie and to the Poor which is Charity A Native of Northampton-shire observeth that all the Rivers of that County are bred in it besides those Ouse and Charwell it lendeth unto other Shires So this good House-keeper had provisions arising from his own grounds both to serve himself and to supply others who if poor were in his house as in their own The peculiar grace of his charity was that with the good man in Plutarch he would sometimes steal Largesses under the Pillows of Ingenious Men who otherwise might refuse them relieving so at once as well the modesty as the poverty of his Clients not expecting but preventing their request God forbid the Heavens should never Rain till the Earth first openeth her Mouth seeing some grounds will sooner burn than chap. It was the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon's observation in his excellent Speech Octob. 13. 1660. before the King's Majesty and both Houses of Parliament That good Nature was a virtue so peculiar unto us and so appropriated by Almighty God to this Nation that it can be translated into no other Language and hardly practised by any other People This good nature was the praedominant temper of this good man appearing in the chearfulness of his spirit the openness and freedom of his converse and his right English inclination so that the spirit of fears and jealousies that spiritus Calvinianus spiritus Melancholicus that prevailed in the beginning of these times like the louring of the Sky before a Storm was as inconsistent with his temper and spirit as it was contrary to other sober persons opinion and interest His first disturbance was by some Croaking Lectures the Product of the extraordinary heat of that time out of the mud of Mankind who vied with him in long and thin discourses in reference to whom he would apply a Story he took much pleasure in When a Noble-man of this Nation had a controversie in Law with a Brewer who had a Garden and a Dwelling-house bordering upon his The Brewer gave it in charge to his Servant to put in so many Hogsheads of Water more into all his Brewings than he was wont to do telling him that such a supply
The Quotation of Fathers Philosophers School-men Historians was choice and sparing only when there might be such an Emphasis in the place as might touch and work upon the conscience by reasons which he urged not in respect of the matter to be proved for that stood firm enough upon Gods testimony but of the Auditors weakness whose faith was to be established some concluding others only illustrating all grounded on the Scripture and applied distinctly to the respective members of the Doctrine V. How artificially would he intimate his Observations in his Expositions How orderly would he dispose of them according to the respective Members of his Divisions How pithily would he dispatch his less principal Points which he shewed his people he observed but could not handle discoursing his more Principal ones in the order he raised them and dispatching one before he medled with the other How solidly pithily and prudently he deduced his Proposition waving all vain tedious or controverted subjects in clear Scripture-expression How sweetly would he paraphrase and insinuate them to the Auditors How seasonably would he insist upon the Points most agreeable to the present time and place Being thus furnished this excellent Person first bestowed his pains weekly among the good People of Ely then upon his great success there he was recommended by Mr. Chadderton who kept an Office as it were for the supply of Patrons Schools and other places with hopeful young men to Mr. Cope afterwards Sir Anthony at Hanwell in Oxfordshire and after twenty years continuance there where upon his seven first Sermons he was with the joint consent of Bishop Patron and People legally established preaching constantly every Lords day in the morning catechizing in the afternoon keeping hospitality Sundays and Wednesdays giving himself much to fasting and prayer and upon his Father-in-law Greenham's advice to him when he went to complain of the opposition he met with viz. Son Son when affliction lieth heavie sin lieth light a saying Mr. Dod made use of to his dying day professing that it did him a great deal of good bearing afflictions patiently being wont to say that sanctified afflictions are great promotions He removed to Fenny-Compton in Warwick-shire and thence upon some discontent between him and Bishop Neal to Cannons-Ashbie in Northampton-shire where he obliged most of the Gentry of that greatest County of Gentlemen in England and thence he was invited by Mr. Richard Knightley to Tansley in the same County where his Hospitality and Charity grew so with his Estate that there was not a poor body left in his Neighbourhood he having set them all in a way to live A Father who shall pass nameless is censured by some for his over-curiosity in his conceit rather than Comment Matth. 5. 2. And he opened his mouth and taught them for Christ saith he taught them often when he opened not his mouth by his example miracles c. Here I am sure according to Mr. Dod when his mouth was shut prohibited preaching instructed almost as much as before by his holy demeanour and pious discourse A good Chimist who could extract Gold out of other mens lead and how loose soever the promises of other mens discourse piety was always his natural and unforced conclusion inferred thereupon He had much imployment in comforting such as were wounded in their spirits being sent for not onely nigh at home but also into remote Countries There was a Gentlewoman who had a great worldly Estate and a loving Husband but she was so sadly assaulted with tentations that she often attempted to make away her self Mr. Dod was sent for to come to her and the Lord so blessed his Counsels Exhortations and Prayers that she did not onely recover out of her anguish of spirit but she was afterwards taken notice of for her singular piety and the Lord so ordered that this affliction was not onely the means of her conversion but also of her Husbands so that both of them were a great mercy in the Countrey where they lived promoting Religion according to their power and entertaining and cherishing godly people She lived divers years quieted in her heart and being rich in good works and when she lay on her death-bed Mr. Dod was sent for to her again who spake of Heaven and to fit her for that Glory She told him that she felt the comforts of God and that she could as hardly at that time forbear singing as formerly in child-bearing she could forbear crying and shortly after she died There was a Gentleman related to a Noble Family so perplexed in his mind that he hath been known in hard frosts to go bare-footed that the pain of his feet might divert his thoughts Master Dod was sent for to him who was his spiritual Physician to heal him He always expected troubles and prepared himself for them and put this difference between the affliction for which we are provided and others that the one are but blows on the harness but the other are blows on the flesh Upon a time when an affliction was upon him which went to his very heart and in the expectation whereof he wept yet when he saw that it was the will of God that it should be so he said to one whom he loved I will go and bless God for I believe this shall be for my good He gave himself much to fasting and prayer and when he fasted his custome was to abstain from the dinner of the day before to the supper of the day after his diseases being mostly Feavers in one of which when his Physician Dr. Oxenbridge said to him Well now I have hope of your recovery he answered You think to comfort me by this but you make my heart sad it is as you should tell one who had been sore weather-beaten on the Sea and conceiving that he was arrived at the Haven where his soul longed to be that he must come back again to be tossed with new winds and waves In his greater health and prosperity he would speak how he desired to be dissolved Upon a time a Gentleman blamed him for it saying He liked not servants who would have their wages before they had done their work But he seemed to be constant in this desire alledging these reasons among others That God had given him a setled assurance of Heaven and a sight of the excellency of Heaven and that the Earth was but a prison and Heaven the Palace and there was perfect holiness and happiness He took all occasions to do good when he was in company by godly speeches seasoning those which came to him that unless it were their own fault they might be the better for him Being invited to a great Feast where there were sundry Gentlemen and some of them began to swear he stopt them by discoursing of the greatness of that sin and that he might not burthen their memories he quoted three Chapters every one was the first as the first of Zachary the first
and bodily pain that the Soul may have time to call its self to a just account of all things past by means whereof repentance is perfected patience is exercised the Joys of Heaven are leisurely represented the pleasures of sin and the vanities of the world are with sound judgement censured Charity hath time to look out fit objects and Prudence to dispose of a mans Estate besides that the nearer we draw to God the more we are oftentimes enlightned with the shining beams of his glorious Presence as being then even almost in sight a leisurable departure may in that case bring forth for the good of them that are present that which will cause them for ever after from the bottom of their hearts to pray Oh let us die the death of the Righteous and let our last end be like theirs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. that is We must all the days of our appointed time wait until our change shall come according to Tertullians Character of the Christians in his time who saith they were expeditum morti genus It was a good resolution of the holy man that was resolved to repent a day before he died and because he was uncertain when he should die repented every day It is reported of Archias by Plutarch that having by fraudulent and unjust courses at length compassed the Government of Thebes he with his Complices kept a riotous Feast when in the midst of his Intemperance a Messenger cometh to him with a Letter from a Friend importuning him speedily to peruse it and he slighting the Admonition and putting it under his Pillow said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serious things to morrow when as the thing which the Letter concerned was effected that night viz. he died in the midst of his cups It was the policy of Iulius Caesar never to acquaint his Army before-hand with the time of their march ut paratum exercitum momenti omnibus quo vellet educeret We suppose this Gentleman who hath given occasion for this meditation is the Arthur Trevor of the Inner-Temple Esq that Compounded for 05461. 09s 08d They are golden words of a precious man Mentis aureae verba Bracteato I have often prayed that on my side might joyn true Piety with the sense of their Loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the effects of one might not blast the endeavor of the other Sir RICHARD WESTON TO Baron Trevor we might add Baron Weston who was inseparable from him in opinion and would have been so in suffering but that he was called to give an account of himself to God when others were so haled to give an account of themselves to men When we read that Sir Richard Weston died in Trinity Term the fourteenth year of King Charls the First 's Reign 1638 9. with the Character in a grave Reporter of a very Learned Judicious Couragious and Patient man in all his Proceedings and afterward read in the Chronicle of Articles and Impeachment against Sir Iohn Brampston Sir Humphrey Davenport Sir Thomas Trevor Sir Francis Crawley and Sir Richard Weston in Easter Term 17 Carol. I. 1641. We are put in minde of one Archbishop six Bishops and eight Doctors going solemnly to Cambridge to excommunicate the bones of an Heretick that dyed some years before malice would not end where life doth but extend its self to the grave and reach to the other world There were three famous Men of this Name whereof one read as much as the other two remembred practised Sir Francis Weston who preceded him in qualification as well as in place and he had a good Rule viz. That private men should take care to do no wrong themselves but publick men that others under them should do none We have done with our Judges save one we mean Sir Francis Crawley who is reserved for his proper place where we hope the Reader shall finde an exact account of him from his reverend Son Dr. Crawley the learned meek charitable bountiful and religious Rector of Agmondsham in Buckingham-shire who quitted his Fellowship at Trinity for his Allegiance as his Father quitted his Office onely be it remembred that what these Confessors for Law lost by refusing to continue under an usurped Power on the Bench they gained by private Practise in their Chambers the people willingly trusting their Estates in those Worthy Persons hands with whom the King had instrusted the Law being confident of their faithfulness to them who had approved themselves so faithful to their Soveraign And that they would not wrest the Law who suffered so much rather than betray it It is observed that when Sir Iohn Cary Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Richard the Seconds time lost his estate for being that unfortunate Kings Champion at Law his Son Sir Robert Cary had it intirely restored to him for being King Henry the Fifths Champion at Armes For a Knight Errant of Arragon coming into England challenging any to Tilt with him was undertaken by this Sir Robert and overcome for which Sir Robert had that Estate from Henry the Fifth which his Father was adjudged to have forfeited to Henry the Fourth And its observable that whatever any of these Judges lost to the Parliament their Sons and Relations repaired again with the King the Sword making amends for the damages of the Gown the Young Set of Loyalists fighting against that phrenzy which the Elder in vain pleaded against But we had almost forgot Sir Humphrey Davenport that man of memory who to his dying day had the old Year-books and Reports ad ungues but remembred no new ones as Beza when above fourscore could perfectly say by heart any Greek Chapter in St. Pauls Epistles or any thing which he had learned long before but forgot whatsoever was newly told him His memory like an Inn retaining Old Guests but affording no room to entertain New It is pity that he that kept the exact date of every eminent Lawyer in his own time should want an exact account of his own He was Born in Cheshire where are 1. The Most 2. The most Ancient 3. The most Loyal 4. The most Hospitable Gentry in England Iuly 7. 1584. the same day that his Father and Mother died both together within a quarter of one another When my Father and my Mother forsake me for want of natural affection to pity me for want of wisdom not knowing what to do with me for want of power not able to help me or by death being forced to leave me The gracious God that when a Father forgets his bowels cannot forget his love which is his own nature The All-wise God that when we are at a loss ordereth all things by the eternal Counsel of his Will The Almighty God that when we are weak doth whatsoever he pleaseth in Heaven and Earth The Immortal God that Inhabiteth Eternity that when Friends are gone will never leave us never forsake us This Lord will take
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander that he was the greater Robber himself but a petty one And so Sir I think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir to put you in one way believe it you will never do right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the People their due I am as much for them as any of you you must give God his due by rightly regulating his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order To set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not then turning to a Gentleman that touched the Axe said Hurt not the Axe that may hurt me For the King the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whatsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government those Laws by which their Life and Goods may be most their own It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean contrary things and therefore until they do that I mean that you do put the People in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sir it was for this that I am now come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People Introth Sirs I shall not hold you much longer for I will only say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you may take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own salvations Dr. Iuxon Will your Majesty though it may be very well known your Majesties affections to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say somewhat for the worlds satisfaction King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the word and I declare before you all that I dye a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witness it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs Excuse me for this same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col. Hacker he said Take care they do not put me to pain and Sir this if it please you Then a Gentleman coming near the Axe The King said Take heed of the Axe pray take heed of the Axe Then speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to Dr. Juxon for his Night-cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Do's my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then the King turning to Dr. Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr. Juxon There is but one Stage more this Stage is troublesome and turbulent it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven And there you shall find a great deal of cordial Joy and Comfort King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the world Dr. Iuxon You are Exchanged from a Temporal to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange The King then said to the Executioner Is my Hair well Then the King took off his Cloak and George and giving his George to Dr. Juxon said Remember Then the King put off his Doublet and being in his Wastcoat put his Cloak on again and looking on the Block said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put my hands out this way stretching them out then ... After that having said two or three words as he stood to himself with Hands and Eyes lifted up immediately stooping down laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King said thinking he had been going to strike Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and please your Majesty Then the King making some pious and private Ejaculations before the Block as before a Desk of Prayer he submitted without that violence they intended for him if he refused his Sacred Head to one stroke of an Executioner that was disguised then as the Actors were all along which Severed it from his Body In the consequence of which stroke great villanies as well as great absurdities have long sequels the Government of the world the Laws and Liberties of three Kingdoms and the Being of the Church was nearly concerned So fell Charles the First and so expired with him the Liberty and Glory of three Nations being made in that very place an instance of Humane Frailty where he used to shew the Greatness and Glory of Majesty All the Nation was composed to mourning and horror no King ever leaving the world with greater sorrows women miscarrying at the very intimation of his death as if The Glory was departed Men and women falling into Convulsions Swounds and Melancholy that followed them to their graves Some unwilling to live to see the issues of his death fell down dead suddenly after him Others glad of the least Drop of Bloud or Lock of Hair that the covetousness of the Faction as barbarous as their Treason made sale of kept them as Relicks finding the same virtue in them as with Gods blessing they found formerly in his person All Pulpits rung Lamentations and the great variety of opinions in other matters were reconciled in this That it was as horrid a fact as ever the Sun saw since it withdrew at the sufferings of our Saviour and the King as compleat a man as mortality refined by industry was capable to be Children amazed and wept refusing comfort at this even some of his Judges could not
SAMUEL MARSH Dean of York DOctor Marsh born Feb. 6. 1586. at Finchamsted in Herts and bred Fellow of All-Souls took to his book and became a Scholar against the will of his friends and a Divine against his own upon the same occasion that others become Physicians for being serupulous and inquisitive he spent so much time in settling his own soul that before he was aware he was immersed in that noble Science and Art of saving others Art I say for it was his Motto He that winneth souls is wise and he did profess to a friend as Bishop Williams once did that though he had gone through several honorable employments yet he would take more comfort in begetting one soul to God in travailing in birth till Christ were formed in an immortal spirit than in gaining all the honors in the world to himself he was one of those Reverend Divines the late King desired to converse with in his solitude and to advise with in his Treaties and one of them the Parliament feared most making the Kingdom his Church when he had none and instilling every where wholesome notions and rectified apprehensions into mens minds as likewise implanting the truth after godliness in their hearts teaching men not to be linked to this or that body of men in a design but with all good Christians in Communion many were his afflictions but according to that Text he said he kept up the heart of his Hearers with Preaching upon it God delivered him out of them all He could have lived as a Physician a Lawyer as well as a Divine he did as Nazianzen said of Philagrius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 play the Philosopher in his sufferings calling his tribulations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 learned afflictions full of great instructions which taught he said much real Christianity and made his soul of a more strong able and athletick habit and temper speaking in his distresses that he hoped he had learned all that for which God sent it and that he thought God kept us so long in that dispensation under those pressures and sufferings that Patience might have its perfect work and that the world might see what the true Protestant Religion was able to do what might power and virtue there was in it to bear up souls under the greatest misfortunes This would he say is the time to let men see we can live up at the same rate as we have formerly discoursed Four things he had a special care of in the late times 1. The Confirmation of well-affected People and the grounding of their Children from house to house where he was the more welcome by the sweetness and chearfulness of his converse 2. The furnishing of private Schools and Families with those excellent Scholars and honest Men to whom Zenodotus his Proverb was very applicable in those times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either he is dead or he teacheth School Expressing himself about that Care of his as Sir Walter Mildmay did about Emanuel Colledge whereof he was Founder That he set Acorns which others might live to see Oaks 3. The restraining of the Kings friends from rash and exorbitant expressions or actions That the Tyranny to use his own words might wear its self out upon their patience which might seed its self upon their peevishness 4. To widen his Majesties Interest by matching his friends to some of his not implacable and more generous foes who should espouse their Cause as well as their Relations intermarriages as he observed by the care God took in that case among his own people being able to turn the humor of any Nation In fine having saved the Plate and Books of Sion-Colledge in London when he was President having bestowed his own upon the Church to which he owed it hating to enrich private Families into Pride with the publick emoluments of the Church given to Piety and having led an exact and an exquisite life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a conversation so studied that it was in all things consonant with its self in most unaffected gravity wonderful simplicity and a stern Countenance proportionable to the vigor and strength of his Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a look that was not one key below his intent eager and sprightly minde wholly careful of the things he hoped for and regardless of the things he saw He died in a good old age 1662 3. Dr. Samuel Marsh Iocus Protervae Ludicrumque fortunae sed major ipsa Pallidoque Livore utriusque victor hoc jacet Busto nequid Aevi saeculique vis possit diesque long a deleat viri nomen devinxit ipsum Marsh sibi tempus Doctor Marsh his name puts me in minde of Dr. Thomas Paske whom he used to call his Glass so faithful a friend he was in discovering to him his defects and so good an example in proposing to him a pattern of perfection Against his will Master of Clare-hall Vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1621 2. when the contest was between Dr. Micklethwait and Dr. Preston about the Lecture at Trinity Church in that University without his knowledge made Archdeacon of London Minister of Much-haddam in Hertfordshire and St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey A Gentleman that did nothing so chearfully as suffer for his late Majesty and his Son eighteen years Modestly refuse first and then unhappily miss a Bishoprick under his Majesty that now is and dye The right square man and honest Cube that throw him where you would fell upon his base denying himself he injoyed the world none being able to deal more severely with him that he did with himself no condition afflicting him because no condition surprized him according to his usual saying That distresses were like Cockatrices if they see you first they kill you if you see them first you kill them Si tantum sperare dolorem preferre soror potero Disappointments kill some but as the Consumption did Dr. Butler who died of it as he said because he never feared it No wonder he was not ambitious of gain and preferment who was so civil in the in joyment of it that he would say He would not go to Law with his Parishioners for any part of his Tyths because if he lost their love as he must do if he were contentious he lost all probability of doing them that good for which he had all his Tyths Protesting that he had rather gain his Neighbours by spending all his Tyths in Hospitality than lose one by laying it all in his Purse Wherefore I hope he will see as many of his People happy about him in heaven as he saw of his Scholars and Pupils eminent here on earth three Bishops four Privy-Counsellors two Judges three Doctors of Physick one day appointing to Reverence that Person to whose Rules and Examples they owed their Merit as they did to their Merit their Greatness being much beholding to his Method Rules and Choice Books more to his Watchful Observation and most of all to his
the First that firm Protestant who could not be moved from his Religion though he was in the heart of Spain and France was in his bosom either by power or love said of him when going under his Roof at Naseby fight that he found not so much faith as he did in him though a Papist bred at Saint Omers and travelled for many years in Spain and Italy no not in Israel For it was he whose frugality whereof his plain Freeze cloaths at Court were a great example enabled him and his Loyalty which he said whatever other Romanists practised was incorporated into his Religion often relating with pleasure that Gospel for the day when the Imperialists beat the Bohemians was Reddite Caesari quae sunt Casaris Deo qui sunt Dei urged him when his Majesties Protestant Subjects made him afraid and ashamed to stay in London to send men with ready money when the King wanted it and the Country-people would do no more without it to bear the charges of his Majesties and his Followers carriages and other accommodations to York besides that he was seen to give Sir Iohn Biron 5000 l. Sterling to raise the first horse that were raised for the King in England and his own Officers 40000 l. Sterling to raise two Armies 1642. and 1643. for his Majesty in Wales over and above 40000 l. Sterling in gold at three several times sent his Majesty in person and the unwearied pains the close imprisonments the many iminent dangers of his life and most of these hardships endured when he was eighty years of age and the great services he performed in South-wales where the greatness of his fortune and family improved by the sweetness and munificence of his person raised him an interest that kept those parts both a sanctuary to his Majesties person when he was in streights and the great relief of his Cause both with men and money when he was in want till that victorious Army that had reduced the whole kingdom besieged him who hearing of his Son the Lord Glamorgans landing with considerable Irish forces writes to them That if they would make him undelaid reparations for his Rents they had taken he would be their quiet Neighbor adding that he knew no reason he had to render his House the only House he had he being an infirm man and his goods to Sir Thomas Fairfax they being not the Kings to dispose of and that they might do well to consider his condition now eighty four years of age At last upon very honorable Articles three months time without being questioned for any action in relation to the war being allowed them to make their composition surrendring the very last Garrison in England or Wales that held out for his Majesty for whom the Marquiss lost his great estate being Plundered and Sequestred and in his old age Banished his Country being excepted out of all the Indemnities of his enemies and as I am told left out of the care of his friends among whom he died poor in Prison whither he was fetched in a cold Winter 1648. supported only by his chearful nature whereof his smart Apothegms and Testimonies as when his Majesty had pardoned some Gentlemen upon their good words that had prejudiced his service in South-Wales the Marquiss told him That was the way to gain the Kingdom of Heaven but not his Kingdom on Earth and used to reprove him out of some old Poet as Gower Chawcer c. often repeating that passage of Gower to him A King can kill a King can Save A King can make a Lord a Knave And of a Knave a Lord also And when he saw a ghastly old woman he would say How happy were it for a man going to Bed to his Grave to be first Wedded to this Woman When he was in Bala in Merionith-shire and the people were afraid to come at him for fear he was a Round-head Oh said he this misunderstanding undoeth the world And when the Major came and excused the Town to him Do you see now said he if the King and Parliament understood one another as you and I do they would agree as you and I do What when forbid Claret for the Gout said he shall I quit my old friend for my new enemy When a Mâ—â—quet-bullet at the siege of Ragland glancing on a Marble-pillar in the withdrawing Room where my Lord used to entertain his friends with pleasant discourses after meals hit his head and fell flat on the ground he said That he was flattered to have a good head-piece in his younger days but he thought he had one in his old age which was Musquet-proof Excusing a vain-glorious man as he would put a charitable construction upon most mens actions he said That vain-glory was like Chaff that kept a mans spirit warm as that did the Corn Adding if you set a man on his Horse let him have his Horse When a conceited Servant told him once that he should not have done so and so I would answered he give gold for a Servant that is but nothing for one that seems to be wiser than his Master Two men very like another the one a Papist the other a Protestant one of them set the other to take the Oath of Supremacy for him whereupon said the Marquiss If the Devil should mistake you one for the other as the Iustices did he would marr the coâ—â—â—it When it was told him he should be buried at Windsor Then said he I shall take a better Castle when dead than ever I lost when alive He desired Sir Thomas Fairfax to comprehend his two Pigeons within the Articles who wondering at his chearfulness was told That he suffered chearfully because he did before reckon upon it His goverment of his family was remarkable Dr. Bayley protesting that in three years he saw not a man drunk he heard not an oath sworn and though it was half Protestant half Papist he observed not a crosse word given the whole house being as the Master not only chearful but sober and indeed to keep them so he would wind up the merriest reparties with a grave and serious conclusion no Servants better disciplined or incouraged than his With him it is fit to mention 1. His Son the Earl of Glamorgan since Marquiss of Worcester who was as active in raising Irish forces for his Majesty having made the pacification there wherein it was thought he went beyond his Commission as his Father was in raising the Welch nay indeed Commanded the Welch to Glocester and other plaees with success in the years 1642 1643. as he would have done the Irish had he not been obstructed 1644. as he writes to the Lord Hopton c. to the Relief of Chester for which services he was Misunderstood by his friends Sequestred and Banished by his enemies continuing with his Majesty in that condition till his Restauration A great Mechanick eminent both at home and abroad for the Engines and Water-works