Aristotle handleth the affections in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry and Devotion then keeping up his thoughts and parts the melancholy resulting from thence that made him in the midst of the brave discourses in his House and Company the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble Learned or Witty in the Nation silent some hours together drew in all that he heard into great notions and as if it had been a Meditation all the while expressed them in greater In a word he became the best Poet by being the best natured man in England sufficiently honored not so much by the great appearance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham c. and so happily immitated by the excellent Mr. Sprat the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society that that doth to Philosophy and the world the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley in a way of Club at Oxford that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London Fran. Quarles Esq Son to Iames Quarles Esq born at Stewards nigh Rumford in Essex bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn London preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia Secretary to Bishop Vsher and Chronologer to the City of London having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and as much in his Peace and Name for writing the Loyal Converâ— and going to his Majesty to Oxford by the Faction in England he practised the Iob he had described and the best Embleme though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes of Devotion and Patience himself dying Septemb. 8. Anno Domini 1644. Aetatis 52. the Husband of one Wife and Father of eighteen Children buried at St. Fosters and living his pious books that by the fancy take the heart having taught Poetry to be witty without profaneness wantonness or being satyrical that is without the Poets abusing God himself or his neighbor To joyn together Poetry and Musick Mr. Will. Laws a Vicar Chorals Son born and bred at Salisbury but accomplished at the Marquiss of Hertfords who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian till he equalled yea exceeded him Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England besides his fancies of the 3 4 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary given on purpose to secure him but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office he was particularly lamented by his Majesty who called him the Father of Musick having no Brother in that Faculty but him that was his Brother in nature Mr. Henry Laws since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr Fettering Sounds in Noble Halls Parlors and Chambers when it was shut out of Churches where for many years to use Mr. Hookers words it was greatly available by a native puissance and efficacy to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled to quicken the spirits low and allay them when eager soveraign against melancholy and despair forceable to draw forth tears of devotion able both to move and moderate affections The Bards thereby communicating Religion Learning and Civility to this whole-Nation When it was asked what made a good Musician one answered A good Voice another Skill but a third more truly Incouragâ—ment Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suffering Prelates it will be no offence to enter him among the discouraged Artists he being as ingenious as he was graâ—e and a great Patron of those parts in others that he was happy in himself for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University and preferring good proficients out of it by the same token that some in these times turned him out of his Livings that he had raised into theirs A good Benefactor to Chester I think the place of his Birth as well as his Preferment and to Brasen-nose-colledge oxâ—n the place of his Education but a better under God to England in his Son the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause and a great honor to it his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the Common-pleas endearing as well as opening the Law to the people as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience as well as his own an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men are as successful as the Children of Men of other Professions against the Romanists suggestion who against Nature Scripture and Primitive Practise forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own jurisdiction and be â—patter them without though they might observe that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals Dr. George Wild a native of Devonshire Scholar and Fellow of St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth a great wit in the University and a great wisdom in the Church which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Sermons in Country and City in publick and private particularly in his well-known 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Oratory in Fleet-street fitted for the Preaching of the Word the Administring of the Sacrament with a constant solemn and fervent use of the publick Liturgy encouraged by his chearful spirit and converse adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity communicating with great care to others relief that were Sequestred Imprisoned and almost Famished what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most yet suffered less than any bold innocence is its own guard only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement and some weeks Silence when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist by Maldonate miraculum nonfecit magnum fuit so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom Concionem non habuit magna fuit He preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of patience and piety a good Sermon because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty because he feared not Herod he
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
and when that was not judged expedient his second for the Archbishop of Armagh Bishops of Kilmore Down and Conner in Ireland the Bishops of Durham Salisbury and his own in England with three more of Scotland and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point and when that was not convenient considering the variety of mens apprehensions his chearful undertaking of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland most ignoble Recantation referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage and perused each head when finished and compleated with the irrefragable propositions deserved But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any remedy this good man was one of thâ—se Charged in the House of Lords and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping who one night vowed their ruin from the House under the Earl of Manchesters protection having in vain moved both Houses for assistance One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House during that violence in pursuance of their own right and the trust reposed in them by his Majesty and that being not as was intended proposed either to his Majesties Secretary to himself or the Lord Keeper to be weighed but hastily read in the House apprehensive enough of misconstruction He being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers with 11 of his Brethren Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Voted to the Tower after a Charge of High-treason for owning his Parliamentary right received upon his Knees where Preaching in his course with his Brethren and Meditating he heard chearfully of the Bonfires Ringing in the City upon their Imprisonment he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets and other methods he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them he Pleaded resolutely several times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them being admitted to Bail by the Lords he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons and being Released upon 50000 l. Bond retired to Norwich his and his Brethrens Votes being Nulled in Parliament where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths he laying down mony for his Goods and for his Books his Arrearages being stopped his Pallace rifled in Norwich his Temporal Estate in Norfolk Suffolk Essex was Confiscated the 400 l. per annum Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops competency was stopped the Synodals were kept back Ordination was restrained The very Mayor of Norwich and his Brethren summoning the grave Bishop before them an unheard of peremptorinesse for ordaining in his Chappel contrary to the Covenant And when they allowed him but a fifth part Assessements were demanded for all extremities none could bear but he who exercised moderation and patience as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church but was silent in those unjust ones on himself who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort by his Treatises of Consolation for its Peace by the Peace-maker Pax Terris and Modest offer for its Instruction by his frequent Sermons as often as he was allowed for its Poor by a Weekly Contribution to distressed Widows to his death and a good sum in the Place where he was born and the City where he died after it for its Professors by holy admonitions counsels and resolutions for its Enemies by dealing with some of them so effectually that they repented and one among the rest a great Commissioner and Justice of Peace I mean Esquire Lucas who though a man of a great Estate received Orders at his hands and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man by being a faithful Minister of it to this day and when he could not prevail with men especially about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign he wrestled with God according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion to all other Members of our Church in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death the approaches to which was as his whole life solemn staid composed and active both in Presse and Pulpit his intellectuals and sensuals the effect of his temperance being fresh to the last till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength and his Physicians Arts and he aser his fatherly reception of many persons of honor learning and piety who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions one whereof a Noble Votary he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary Vide hominem mox pulverem futurum After many holy prayers exhortations and discourses he rouzed up his dying spirits to a heavenly Confession of his Faith wherein his Speech failed him and with some Struglings of Nature with the Agonies of Death he quietly gradually and even insensibly gave up the Ghost Having Preached to two Synods reconciled â—ix Controversies for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides Served two Princes and as many Kings Sate in three Parliaments kept the Pulpit for fifty three years managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks written forty six Excellent Treaties seen his and the Churches enemies made as odious at last as they were popular at first directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it 1656. And of his Age eighty two years leaving behind him three Monuments of himself 1. His excellent Children in some of whom we yet see and enjoy him 2. His incomparable Writings of which it was said by one that called him The English Seneca That he was not unhappy at Controsies more happy at Comments very good in Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich so meek that he was never transported but at three things 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich And 3. The Kings unparalled Murder So religious that every thing he saw did or suffered exercised his habitual devotion so innocent that Musick Mathematick and Fishing were all his Recreations so temperate that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet Orator Historian Linguist Antiquary Phisolopher School Divine Casuist and what not no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works in a most eminent manner I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons Heirs to his worth and to his modesty intimate him with Pericles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Pythagoras Ejus singula
Case of Pistols before her which might have served to suppress it 5. For doing nothing with the Kings Ships when at Sea the Scots saying that the son of such a Mother could do them no harm and not protesting the Kings gracious Declaration the justice and clemency whereof would have allayed the Tumults when at Land but letting the Covenanteers protest against it before it was published insomuch that the Bishops of Ross and Brechen Sir Iohn Hay and the Earl of Sterling came to England to warn the King of him 6. For refusing to contribute towards the Scottish Wars for withdrawing privately to raise jealousies in Scotland for interceding for London and hindring Montross so as to make the King believe that the Scots would not invade England till he himself writes that they were on the Borders yet by a Providence which one calls Digit us Dei beheaded at Westminster 1649. after great overtures of money and discoveries to save his life by that Party for the King whom he was thought to serve against the King who said when he heard he led the Scots Army for which he suffered Nay if he leads them there is no good to be done for me having displaced and imprisoned him at Oxford because he said he should not have an opportunity to re-couzen him Duke William died honourably of his wounds in his Majesties Service at Worcester 1651. The eminent Divines of Aberdeen for strong reasons and invincible patience in opposing the Covent particularly Dr. Baron and Dr. Forbs eminent Philosophers and Divines will never be forgotten in Scotland while there is either a Church or an University left there Nil quod Foâ—besio Christi dum pascit Ovile Nil quod Baronio comparet orbis habet Eloquio sunt ambo pares in discrimen in uno est Quo lubet hic mentes pellicit ille rapit A. Johnston To whom I may add the learned Dr. Iohn Maxwel sometimes Bishop of Ross and since Archbishop I think of St. Andrews THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM PENNIMAN SIR William Penniman a Gentleman of good fortunes in Yorkshire where part of the Allum Mine rented by Sir Paul Pindar belonged to him before the Wars and one of the first that engaged with the King in the Wars whose Epitaph at Christ Church is his just Chronicle M. S. H. S. E. Gulielmus Penniman Baronettus Equestri dignitate parique animo decorus obsequio fide adversus optimum eundemque afflictissimum Principem Carolum Regem spectabilis qui serinissimum Regem cum caetera Inermis classe Armamentariis arcibus omnibus belli praesidiis orbatus nudo majestatis titulo armatus staret duabus cohortibus Equitum una Peditum altera a se conscriptis primus instruxit quibus ipse praefuit tribunus ac brevi Vrbis Oxon. praefectura donatus est in qua it a se gessit ut nec discessor Ashlaeus nec successor Astonus magna bello nomina luminibus ipsius obstruerat Demum Febre Epidemica correptus in medio aetatis honorumque decursu premature extinctus triste sui desiderium apud omnes reliquit quibus morum suavitate ac comitate fuerat merito charissimus Obiit Aug. 22. A. D. 1643. tumulo potitus in eadem domo in qua ingenii cultum capessaverat Iacob Lord Ashley born of a well know Family in Norfolk bred under Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere a Captain in the Low-Countries and preferred for his good Conduct-Colonel whence after thirty years service returning to his Native Country he had the Command of New-Castle in the Scottish Wars 1639. 1640. and after of Oxford in the English out of which by reason of the experience his Majesty had of his good wary carriage in keeping the Northern Army in order when they wanted money and engaging them to serve the King if he had thought fit to have made use of their assistance when he wanted strength 1641. to keep the City in order and the Parliament free he was drawn into the Field and particularly to assist in forming the siege of Glocester wherein the Low-Country Wars being in effect nothing but sieges he had a great judgment and where he was shot in the arm as afterwaads to draw the line of Communication between his Majesties Forces round about the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel his own Post being at Hawl where he commanded the Haven of Foy. Having likewise the disposal of the most difficult part of the second Newberry Fight after which he setled the Affairs of Worcester-shire and Glocester-shire so well by continual surprizes of the Enemy that he commanded Contribution to the Gates of Glocester after that much against his will was he commanded to form the fatal battel of Nazeby and which was worse to quit the advantageous piece of ground and model he had first designed to the loss of that battel after which by diligent Correspondence with Ireland and Wales he got a considerable Army which for want of the Horse promised him from Oxford a streight wherein he could not avoid fighting he lost at Stow in the Old March 21. 1645 6. where when he was taken he said That the Game was up and after a tedious Imprisonment dyed I think in that Foreign Country where he had so Honorably lived 165. His Son Sir Bernard Ashley an eminent and stout Commander in his Majesties Army after admirable service done in fix Fights and eight Sieges dyed of wounds received in a brave sally out of Bristol Sept. 4. 1645. Sir Arthur Aston a Lancashire Gentleman where the Papists are most zealous by Antiparistasis because of the extream zeal of the Protestants there as good of his Hands as a Souldier as Sir Walter Aston the known Ambassador in Spain and Germany was of his Head many Souldiers did he by his great services in Foreign Wars bring to his Majesty from abroad more by his excellent Discipline did he make at home where he commanded the Dragoons in Edgehill doing exquisite execution and giving my Lord Stuart and other young Gentlemen direction how to do so Thence being made Governor of Reading he beat Essex thrice from the Town till having a dangerous wound he was forced to devolve his Command upon Col. Fielding returning himself to Oxford where he was Governor till it appeared that the severity of his Discipline would do more service in ordering a loose Army in the Field than in awing a regular Garrison in a Town whence his Fortune being answerable neither to his skill nor to his courage he went over with the flower of the English Veterans to Ireland he was made Governour of Drogheda about which Town he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army but that being over-powered he lost his life first being hewed in pieces and not till then the Town being deserted by Coll. Walls Regiment after the Colonels death which betrayed both the Garrison and themselves with him fell 1 Sir Edmund Varney
would likewise in this Nation over-rule all Power Authority Order and Laws that keep them within compass from without when those unruly Lusts Pride Ambition Animosity Discontent Popularity Revenge c. would over-run all those Banks that were raised against them have been 1. The Dubiousness of the Royal Title the ground of thirty six Rebellions one hundred forty six Battle since the Conquest In all which though the Rebels were usually the most the Loyallists were always the best and when the many followed sometimes a prosperous Villany the most noble and excellent stood to or fell with an afflicted right and bore down all umbrages with this real truth That the Crown took off all defects and that any man may pretend arguments to begin a War when but few can make arguments when it is begun to make an end of it 2. The Liberty of the Subject forsooth the old Quarrel for which the Throng and Rabble would venture much when wiser men maintained that there was no greater oppression in the world than a Liberty for men to do what they pleased and that Government is the great security of freedome 3. Religion for whose sake so many resisted Authority when one of the Maximes of this Religion is that none should resist upon pain of damnation and albeit the Factious in all Ages have been many that have taught men for Religions sake to disobey Authority yet the sober in those Ages have been as many that taught them that for Religion-sake they should obey them that have the rule over them But when towards the last that is the worst Ages of the world wickedness grows wiser upon the experiences and observations of former times and twists all these pretensions into one there have been excellent persons that with their lives and fortunes asserted Government and have been Confessors and Martyrs to this great truth That it is upon no pretence lawâ—â—l to resist the Supream Authority of a Nation a truth that keeps up the world without which it had been long ere this a desolation Upon the Reformation in Henry the eighth's time it fell out in England as Luther observes it did in most other reformed Churches that the Papists finding that their way was so odious that it was to no purpose for it to appear here with open face to settle it self therefore did they under several covert pretexts and cunning scruples endeavour to unsettle all other ways and when it could not establish it self to hinder all other Professions from being established that at least they might watch some opportunities whereof there are many offered in distracted times For no sooner was our Church setled on the Primitive principles of Religion and Government than some of those that fled into the free States and the places of popular reformation in Germany returning when most preferments were gone and living upon the Liberality of well-disposed People set up some popular scruples against the established Government and among the rest Iohn Hooper having been long in Switzerland upon his election to be Bishop of Gloucester scrupled several Ornaments and Rights of our Church the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland having a design to oblige all Parties in order to a project he had set up to convey the Crown to his own family to preserve the Reformation though he died a Papist writes to Arch-Bishop Cranmer to dispence with the publick Laws to satisfie a private mans humor and when his Letter would not do makes the young King write another and now Cranmer and Ridley stand up for these great Principles of Government Let private Spirits yeild to publick establishments there is no end of yeilding to scruples one scruple indulged begetting another so long till there be no more Law than pleaseth the humoursome be well advised in making Laws and resolute in keeping them Notwithstanding that the learned and wise Ridley suffered almost as much for his asserting the Government of our Church at that rate from the Puritans as he did afterwards for asserting the Doctrine of it from the Papists he was Martyr to the Protestant Church and a Confessor to the Church of England Hooper not being reconciled to him until the Sun of their lives was going down and their heart-burning upon this occasion was not quenched till the Fire was kindled that burned both their bodies The Lord Admiral Seymour was a back-Friend to Common-Prayer and old Latimer takes him and others up for it I have heard say when that the good Queen that is gone had ordained in her house daily Prayers both before noon and afternoon the Admiral getteth him out of the way like a mole digging in the earth he shall be Lots wife to me as long as I live He was I heard say a covetous man a covetous man indeed I would there were no more in England He was I heard say a seditious man a contemner of Common-Prayer I would there were no more in England Well! he is gone I would he had left none behind him Yea when the death of King Edward the sixth put an end to these differences among Protestants but putting an end to the publick profession of the Protestant Religion it self in this Nation the forementioned scruples accompanied some hot-Spirited men to their exiles under Queen Mary When Master Calvins Authority who forsooth observed some Tolerabiles Ineptiâ in our establishment and Master Knox Master Whittingam Goodman and Foxes zeal cried down the whole Platform of our English Reformation the judgement and gravity of Master Horn afterwards Bishop of Winchester the learning of Bishop Poynet and Iuel the piety and prudence of Doctor Sands and Doctor Coxe the moderation and calmness of Master afterwards Archbishop Grindall and Chambers the Reputation of Sir Iohn Cheeke Sir Anthony Cooke Francis afterwards Sir Francis Knolles bore it up until it pleased God that with Queen Elizabeth it was again established and restored by the Law of the Realm In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign all persons were so intent upon obviating the Publick Dangers that they had no leasure to minde particular Animosities though as the Danow and the Savus in Hungary run with party-colour'd Waters in the same Channel so the several sorts of Protestants upon that alteration with several Opinions maintained the same Religion until the year 1563. when the Canons and Articles of the Church being confirmed the Governours of the Church began as it was their duty to press Conformity and they whom it concerned to oppose that Establishment refused subscription Father Foxe as Queen Elizabeth used to call him pulling out his Greek Testament and saying He would subscribe to that and that he had nothing in the Church save a Prebend of Salisbury and if they would take that away much good may it do them Laurence Humphred determining something de Adiaphoris non juxtà cum Ecclesia Anglicanâ They are Camdens own words Nay Anthony Gibby of Lincolnshire declaring in Print That the
a Favourite of the first Admission So that never King had a more Intelligent and withal a firmer Servant than he was to his Majesty But these qualities which rendred him so amiable to his Majesty represented him formidable to the Scots so that some who were not well perswaded of the justness of his Sentence thought he suffered not so much for what he had done already as for what he was like to have done had he lived to the dis-service of that Nation and that he was not sacrificed so much to the Scots revenge as to their fear And certainly his fall was as the first so the most fatal Wound the Kings Interest ever received his three Kingdoms hardly affording another Strafford that is one man his peer in Parts and Fidelity to his Majesty He had a singular passion for the Government and Patrimony of the Church both which he was studious to preserve safe and sound either opining them to be of sacred Extraction or at least prudent constitution relating to holy performances And had he wanted these positive Graces yet in so great a Person it may be commendable that he was eminent for privative and negative Excellencies being not taxable with any vice those petty pleasures being beneath the satisfaction of a Soul so large as his In short saith the ingenious Gentleman He was a man who might have passed under a better notion had he lived in better times This last Period is a Question since this great States-man and his good Masters Goodness was so over-shadowed with their Greatness and their Vertues so lost in their Power as the Sun the aptest parallel of their Lustre and Beneficence is hid in his own lightâ— that they owe their great but glorious Fame to their misfortunes and their Renown to their ruine that levelled their worth otherwise as much out of their reach as their place to vulgar apprehensions Eclipsed Lustre like a veiled Beauty is most looked on when most covered The setting Sun is more glorious than its self in its Meridian because more low and the lowest Planet seems biggest to a common eye So faithful he was and the Archbishop that in the Iuncto consisting of them two and Duke Hamilton they voted a Parliament though they knew themselves the first Sufferers by it and so confident of his Integrity that when he had Treason enough discovered at the late Transactions in York touching the Scots Conspiracy to charge his Enemies with he waved the advantage and secure in his own Innocency fell an Instance of that Maxim That there is no Danger small but what is thought so This was his great Principle Vsurped Royalty was never laid down by perswasion from Royal Clemency for in armis jus omne regni Bishop Land was the man by whose advice he had his Power and Preferment and he was the man according to whose direction he managed it Being no sooner admitted Member of the House of Peers than friend to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and at the same time of the Kings intimate Council and the Bishops intimate Acquaintance his first Act in Council was to advise his Majesty to take Tonnage and Poundage if it might be had as the Gift of the People if not as one of the Duties belonging to his Prerogative a Prerogative without which Kingdoms are not safe for if Kings have not an absolute power when there is need to impose on their Subjects they may not have power when there is occasion to defend them they that weaken their Soveraigns power weaken their own security and when a Prince is reduced to that pass that he cannot help and serve himself he will quickly come to that pass that he shall not be able to protect his people His next was to advise the King to stand by the Farmers of the Custom-house when questioned viz. Sir Iohn Wolstenholm Mr. Daws and Mr. Caermarthin Good Servants are neither to be encouraged in Wrong nor to be forsaken in the Right That Prince must shew himself resolute and stout whose Affairs cannot be managed by cowardly Servants Many counselled the questioning of the refractory Members in the House of Commons that kept the Speaker in his Chair in spight of his teeth locked up the Doors against all Messages from the King detained the Serjeant at Arms by force declared their fellow-Subjects Traytors c. But my Lord of Strafford was for neglecting them the Action if questioned might be made out to the people to be a defence of their Liberty whereas if sleighted it is but a Hubbub and they that were at first condemned by all for their disorder would be if convented at last pitied for their Sufferings The great Richlieu construed an old Maxime of Tacitus thus Criminals never grow considerable till thought so and so raised from despicable Delinquents to a formidable Party Innovation the whole Councel suspected always as bringing with it more Inconveniencies by the Change than Advantage by the Reformation and he condemned upon this observation That where Reformation once drew on a Change the desire of change an hundred times but pretended Reformation Although he had no minde to meddle with the persons of the Seditious in the last Parliament yet he took special notice of the Doctrines of one of them viz. Eliot that said He was not bound to give an account as a private person before the Councel of what he said or did as a publick person in Parliament As if as the wise man would observe with much impatience That August Assembly that advised about Laws to punish Disorders should be the onely Sanctuary for them And a Parliament were no other than the Saturnalia of Rome where Slaves for some days in the year might say and do what they pleased of their Masters It was easie for him to foresee the readiness of the Emperour to yield to a peace when pressed so hard by the Swede but to come one Morning to the Councel when they were most busie and perplexed about the War with France and assure them that France would begg a Peace as they did by the Mediation of Venice was a foresight none owned but one that as it is said of Mazarine Was of all the Councels of Europe Adding That that was a time for England though low to be Courted as it was from Spain Venice Holland Denmark c. and not to be provoked None more diligent to finde out ways to supply the Kings occasions yet none more severe than this Lord against Books of Projects such as Dudley's and others Books designed rather to raise the Jealousies of the People than the Revenue of the King None severer against Libels and others the sad Prognosticks of the sad times approaching yet none more against the vexing imprisoning and mutilating those Offenders than he judging it safer to cut off or pardon than distress any man that is to take away either his power or will to Revenge The vexed and distressed man is continually
Gods Holy Word might keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace It being a sad thing in his opinion that three Christian and Protestant Kingdomes under one Christian and Protestant King should have three several Confessions of Faith 4. Abolished several idle and barbarous Customs putting the Natives upon ingenious ways of Improving that rich Land by Flax Hemp c. infinitely to the Advantage of the King and Kingdom 5. Recovering near upon 40000 l. per year to the Church which by ungodly Alienations was made saith a Bishop of their own as low as Poverty it self bringing over with him as great Affections for the Church and all Publike Interests as he had Abilities to serve them 6. Put Ireland Anno 1639. in three moneths by a Parliament he got together in that short time into such a posture for Men and Money as was a Pattern to the following Parliament of England which resented that Service so much that the House of Commons gave him the Thankes of the Kingdome in their own House and waited upon him two of their most eminent Members supporting him to his place in the House of Lords In fine he wrought that wilde and loose people to such a degree of Peace Plenty and Security as it had never been since it was annexed to this Crown and made it pay for the Charges of its own Government which before was deducted out of the English Treasury Their Peace and Lawes now opening accesses to Plenty and Trade he remitted indeed nothing of that Authority Strictness Discipline or Grandieur that might advance the Interest or Honor of his Master yet he admitted so much moderation into his Counsels and Proceedings as that Despair added to former Discontents and the Fears of utter Extirpation to their wonted Pressures should not provoke to an open Rebellion a people prone enough to break out to all exorbitant Violence both by some principles of their Religion and the natural desires of Liberty both to exempt themselves from their present restraints and prevent after-rigors And when the Tumults of Scotland and the Discontents of England called for the same Counsel here that he had with success applyed to the distempers of Ireland how clearly did he see thorow the Mutinies and Pretences of the Multitude into the long-contrived Conspiracies and Designs of several orders of more dangerous men whose Covetousness and Ambition would digest as he fore-saw the rash Tumults into a more sober and solemn Rebellion How happily did he divine that the Affronts offered the Kings Authority on the score of Superstition Tyranny Idolatry Male-administration Liberty words as little understood by the Vulgar as the Design that lay under them were no other than Essays made by certain sacrilegious and needy men to confirm the Rapines upon Church and State they had made in Scotland and to open a door to the same practises in England to try how the King who had already ordered a Revocation of all such Vsurpations in Scotland and had a great minde to do the like in England would bear their rude and insolent Attempts whether he would consult his Power or his Goodness assert his Majesty or yield to their importunity How nimbly did he meet with the Faction by a Protestation he gained from all the Scots in England and Ireland against the Covenant of their Brethren in Scotland at the same time in several Books he caused to be printed discovering that the Scottish Faction that so much abhorred Popery proceeded in this Sedition upon the worst of Popish principles and practises And that this Godly League which was so much applauded by the people was a Combination of men acting over those Trayterous Bloody and Jesuitical Maximes of Mariana Suarez Sa Bellarmine which all good people abhorred Adding that those very persons that instructed the poor populary to quarrel with their Sovereign about Liberty should as it followed afterwards lay a more unsupportable slavery upon them than their most impious slanders could form in the imagination of the Credulous that they might fear from the King The power God had invested him with he intreated the King to own and the ways the Laws of God and the Land allowed him to maintain that power to make use of employing all the able men that pretended to skill either in Law or Government to see if Prerogative had any way yet left to save an unwilling People for knowing how prevailing the Seditious were always to disturb the Counsels of the Parliament he feared that from their proceedings the common Enemies would be encouraged as formerly to higher Insolencies and the envious Demagogues would contemn their own safety to ruine the Kings Honor therefore giving vigorous Orders for raising the Ship-money and a great Example towards Advancing a Benevolence subscribing himself 20000 l. and procuring the Subscription of 500000 l. from the Church the Court the City and Countrey besides some thousands by Compositions with Papists especially in Stafford-shire Lancashire York-shire c. and by Forfeitures observed by him in London Derry and other places held by Patent from His Majesty When he saw a Faction by the diligence of the Kings enemies and the Security and Treason of his pretended Friends who made it their business to perswade His Majesty that there was no danger so long until there was no safety formed into Councels and drawn up into Armies when he saw one Kingdom acting in open Rebellion and another countenancing and inclining to it when he discovered a Correspondence between the Conclave of Rome and the Cardinal of France between the King of France and the Rebels of Scotland between the Leaders of the Scottish Sedition and the Agents of the English Faction one Pickering Laurence Hampden Fines c. being observed then to pass to and fro between the English and the Scottish Brethren and saw Letters signed with the Names though as some of them alledged since without the consent of the Five Members c. when the Government in Church and State was altered the Kings Ships Magazines Revenue Forts and faithful Servants were seized on the Orders of State and Worship of God were affronted by a barbarous multitude that with sticks stools and such other instruments of Fury as were present disturbed all religious and civil Conventions and the Kings Agents Hamilton Traquair and Roxborough pleased no doubt with the Commotions they at first raised and by new though secret seed of Discontents improved increased the Tumults by a faint Opposition which they might have allayed by vigorous punishments all the Declarations that were drawn in the Kings Name being contrived so as to overthrow his Affairs In a word when he saw that the Traytors were got into the Kings Bed-chamber Cabinets Pockets and Bosom and by false representation of things had got time to consolidate their Conspiracy and that the Kings Concessions to their bold Petition about the Liturgy the High-Commission the Book of Canons and the â—ive
years before he was imployed thither That as he hath been just and faithful to his Master the King by increasing his Revenue so hath he also much bettered the Trade and Shipping of that Kingdome 11. That he prohibited the exportation of some Native Commodities as Pipe-staves c. and then required great summes of money for license to export them to the Inhansing of the prices of those Commodities half in half The Earles Reply That Pipe-staves were prohibited in King James his time and not exported but by License paying six shillings eight pence a thousand and that he had not raised so much thereby to himself as his Predecessors had done for such Licenses 12. That the said Earl to regulate the Trade of Tobacco prohibited the Importing of it without License In the mean time taking up and buying it at his own rate to his own use and forbidding others to sell any Tobacco by whole-sale but what was made up in Rolls and sealed at both ends by himself Besides other Monopolies of Starch Iron Pots which they said brought the Earl in 100000l sterl besides that though he inhanced the Customes in general yet he drew down the Imposts on Tobacco from 6d to 3d. in the pound The Earles Reply That before his time the King had but ten or twenty pounds per annum for that Custome which now yeilded twenty thousand pounds For the Proclamation it was not set out by his meanes principally or for his private benefit but by consent of the whole Council The prices of Tobacco not exceeding two shillings in the pound And this he conceives cannot be made Treason were all the Articles granted but onely a Monopoly for which he was to be Fined 13. That Flax being the Native Commodity of Ireland and he having much of it growing on his own ground or at his command ordered by Proclamation that none should be vented upon pain of forfeiting it but what was wrought into Yarn and Thread a way not used in Ireland whereby he had the sole sale of that Commodity The Earles Reply That he did endeavour to advance the Manufacture of Linnen rather then of Woollen because the last would be the greater detriment to England That the Primate of Ireland the Arch-Bishop of Dublin Chancellour Loftus and the Lord Mount-Norris all of the Council and Subscribers of the Proclamation were as liable to the Charge as himself That the reducing of that Nation by Orders of the Council-Board to the English Customes from their more savage usages as drawing Horses by their Tails c. had been of former practise That the Project was of so ill avail to him as he was the worse for the Manufacture thirty thousand pounds at least by the Loom he had set up at his own Charge 12. That the said Earl did in a War-like manner by Soldiers execute his severest Orders and Warrants in Ireland dispossessing se veral persons by force of Arms in a time of peace of their houses and estates raising taxes and quartering Souldiers upon those that disobeyed his Orders so leavying War against his Majesties Liege people in that Realm Testified Serjeant Savil. The Earles Reply That nothing hath been more ordinary in Ireland than for the Governours to put all manner of Sentences in execution by the help of Soldiers that Grandison Faulkland Chichester and other Deputies frequently did it Sir Arthur Teningham to this point deposed that in Faulklands time he knew twenty Souldiers assessed upon one man for reâ—using to pay sixteen shillings That his instruction for executing his Commission was the same with those formerly given to the Lord Faulkland and that in both there is express warrant for it That no Testimony produced against him doth evidently prove he gave any Warrant to that effâ—ct and that Serjeant Savil shewed only a Copy of a Warrant not the Original it self which he conceived could not make Faith in Case of life and death in that High Court especially it being not averred upon Oath to agree with the Original which should be upon Record That he conceived he was for an Irish Custom to be Tryed by the Peers of that Kingdome 13. That he obtained an Order of his Majesty That none should complain of any Oppression or Injustice in Ireland before the King or Council in England unless first the party made his address to him using to all his Actions his Majesties Authority and Name yet to prevent any from coming over to Appeal to his Majesty or to complain he by Proclamation bearing date Septemb. 17. 1636. Commanded all Nobility Undertakers and others that held Offices in the said Kingdom of Ireland to make their residence there not departing thence without License seconding that Proclamation with Fines Imprisonments c. upon such as disobeyed it as on one Parry c. Testified by the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roch Marcattee and Parry The Earles Reply That the Deputy Faulkland had set out the same Proclamation That the same Restraint was contained in the Statute of 25. Henry 6. upon which the Proclamation was founded That he had the Kings express Warrant for the Proclamation That he had also power to do it by the Commission granted him and that the Lords of the Councel and their Iustices not only yielded but pressed him unto it That it was done upon just cause for had the Ports been open divers would have taken liberty to go to Spain Doway Rheimes or St. Omers which might have proved of mischievous Consequence to the State That the Earl of Desmond stood at the time of his restraint Charged with Treason before the Councel of Ireland for practising against the Life of one Valentine Coke That the Lord Roch was then a Prisoner for Debt in the Castle of Dublin and therefore incapable of License That Parry was not fined for not coming without License but for several contempts against the Council-Board in Ireland and that in his Sentence he had but only a casting Voice as the Lord Keeper in the Star-Chamber 14. That having done such things as aforesaid in his Majesties Name he framed by his own Authority an unusual Oath whereby among other things people were to Swear That they would not protest against any of his Majesties Royal Commands but submit themselves in all Obedience thereunto An Oath which he Imposed on several Scots in Ireland designing it indeed against the Scottish Covenant on pain of great Fines as H. Steward 5000 l. c. Exile and Imprisonment c. The Earles Reply That the Oath was not violently enjoyned by him upon the Irish Scots but framed in Compliance with their own express Petition which Petition is owned in the Proclamation as the main Impulsive to it That the same Oath not long after was prescribed by the Councel of England That he had a Letter under his Majesties own hand ordering it to be prescribed as a Touch-Stone of their Fidelity As to the greatness of the Fine imposed upon Steward and others he
the Arch-bishop and Windebanke Sir Henry Vane affirmeth the words I deny them then there remain four for further Evidence viz. The Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who have all declared upon their honour that they never heard me speak those words nay nor the like Lastly suppose though I granted it not that I spake those words yet cannot the word this rationally imply England because the Debate was concerning Scotland as is yielded on all hands because England was not out of the way of obedience as the Earl of Clare observed well and because there was never the least intention of Landing the Irish Army in England as the foresaid Lords of the Privy Council are able to attest Concluding his defence with a sinewy summary and a close recapitulation of what he had said and a gallant Speech to this purpose My Lords THere yet remains another Treason that I should be guilty of The endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land That they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason Accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Vnder favour my Lords I do not conceive that there is either Statute-law or Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws to be High-treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear off declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for Life and Honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesuâ— Where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundreds of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burnt out to consume me and my Children extreame hard in my opinion that punishment should proceed promulgation of Laws punishment by a Law subsequent to the acts done Take it into your consideration For certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conform our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a Crime that doth proceed the Law What man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords It is hard in another respect that there should be no Token set upon this Offence by which we should know it no Admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man pass down the Thames in a Boat and it be Split upon an Anchor and no Buoy be set as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that owes the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were markâ— out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime where is the token this is High-treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can avail nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisdome and let us rest upon Divine Revelation if you will condemn me before you forewarn the danger Oh my Lords May your Lordships be pleased to give regard unto the presage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such contractive interpretations and these are where Laws are not clear or known If there must be trials of Wits I do humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be somewhat else than the lives and honours of Peers My Lords We find that the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the Books of Curious Arts and burned them And so likewise as I conceive it will be wisdome and providence in your Lordships for your posterity and the whole Kingdomes to cast from you into the fire those bloudy and most misterious Volumes of constructive and arbitrary Treasons and to betake your selves to the plain letters of the Law and Statute that telleth us where the crime is and by telling what is and what is not shews us how to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to be more wise and learned in the killing arts than our forefathers were It is now full two hundred and forty years since ever any man was touched for this alledged crime to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that our fathers have left us and not awaken thâ—se sleepy Lions to our own destructions by taking up a few musty Records that have lain so many Ages by the Walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be nobly pleased to add this to those other misfortunes befallen me for my Sins not for my Treasons that a President should be derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular cause be looked upon as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Commonwealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Commonwealth yet in this particular I indeed speak for it and the inconveniencies and mischiefs that will heavily fall upon us For as it is in the first of King Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put My Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of State that men of wisdome honour and virtue may not with chearfulness and safety be imployed for the publick If you weigh and measure them by Grains and Scruples the publick affairs of the Kingdom will be laid waste and no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to loose MY Lords I have now troubled you longer than I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in Heaven left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my Indiscretion should forfeit for my Child it even woundeth me to the very soul. You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it pass And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the affâ—iction of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquillity of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous Iudgement shall be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus A defence every way so compleat That he whom English Scots and Irish combined against in their Testimonies such English as cavied his virtues and power such Scots as feared his wisdom
scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
Bruerton by Will bequeathed to Sidney Colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident it was so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel VVard informed me it was invalid in the rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramston who married the Serjeant's Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a farthing and the legal settling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times The delivering his judgement on the King's side in the case of Ship-money cost him much trouble and brought him much honour as who understood the consequence of that Maxime Salus populi suprema lex and that Ship-money was thought legal by the best Lawyers Voted down Arbitrarily by the worst Parliament they hearing no Council for it though the King heard all men willingly against it Yea that Parliament thought themselves not secure from it unless the King renounced his right to it by a new Act of his own Men have a touch-stone to try gold and gold is the touch-stone to try men Sir Noy's gratuity shewed that this Judges inclination was as much above corruption as his fortune and that he would not as well he needed not be base Equally intent was he upon the Interest of State and Maxims of Law as which mutually supported each other He would never have a witness interrupted or helped but have the patience to hear a naked though a tedious truth the best Gold lieth in the most Ore and the clearest truth in the most simple discourse When he put on his Robes he put off respects his private affections being swallowed up in the publick service This was the Judge whom Popularity could never flatter to any thing unsafe nor Favour oblige to any thing unjust Therefore he died in peace 1645 when all others were engaged in a War and shall have the reward of his integrity of the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the World Having lived as well as read Iustinian 's Maxim to the Praetor of Laconia All things which appertain to the well-government of a State are ordered by the Constitution of Kings that give life and vigour to the Law Whereupon who so would walk wisely shall never fail if he propose them both for the rule of his actions For a King is the living Law of his Countrey Nothing troubled him so much as shall I call it the shame or the fear of the consequence of the unhappy Contest between His Excellent Majesty and his meaner Subjects in the foresaid case of Ship-money No enemy being contemptible enough to be despised since the most despicable command greater strength wisdom and interest than their own to the designs of malice or mischief A great man managed a quarrel with Archee the King's Fool but by endeavouring to explode him the Court rendred him at last so considerable by calling the enemies of that person who were not a few to his rescue as the fellow was not onely able to continue the dispute for divers years but received such encouragement from standers by the instrument of whose malice he was as he oft broke out into such reproaches as neither the Dignity of that excellent person's Calling nor the greatness of his Parts could in reason or manners admit But that the wise man discerned that all the Fool did was but a symptome of the strong and inveterate distemper raised long since in the hearts of his Countreymen against the great man's Person and Function This Reverend Judge who when Reader of the Temple carried away the title of the best Lawyer of his time in England and when made Serjeant with fifteen more of whom the Lord Keeper Williams said That he reckoned it one of the Honours of his time that he had passed Writs for the advancement of so many excellent persons Anno 29. Iac. Termino Michaelii had the character of The fairest pleader in England Westminster-Hall was much envied by the Faction upon the same ground that Scaevola was quarrelled with by Fimbria even because totum telum in se recipere he did not give malice a free scope and advantage against him who when the Writ for Ship-money grounded upon unquestionable Presidents and Records for levying Naval Aids by the King 's sole Authority were put in execution and Hambden and Say went to Law with the King the one for four pound two shillings the other for three pound five shilling The inconsiderable summes they were assessed at to the Aid aforesaid went no further than upon this Case put by the King Charles Rex WHen the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all his Subjects in the kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuals and Ammunition and for such time as he shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such danger and peril and by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness and whether in such cases is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided To declare his opinion thus MAy it please your most Excellent Majesty we have according to your Majesties Command severally and every man by himself and all of us together taken into our serious consideration the Case and Questions Signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Letter And we are of opinion That when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under your Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this your kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such peril and danger and that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided Iohn Bramston Richard Hutton George Vernon Iohn Finch Willam Iones Robert Barkley Humphrey Davenport George Crook Francis Crauly Iohn Denham Thomas Trever Richard Weston And afterwards in the Lord Says Case Ter. Hil. Anno 14. Car. Regis in Banco regis with Iones and Berkley to declare That the foresaid Writ being allowed legal the judgment of the Judges upon it consisting of four branches First That the Writ was legal by the King's Prerogative or at leastwise by his Regal power Secondly That the Sheriff by himself without any Jury may make the Assessement Thirdly That the Inland Counties ought to do it at their own Charge and
ruined themselves as well as his Majesty and made way for that settlement which they had overthrown wherein this Noble Person had as large a share of his Majesties favours in England and Ireland when restored as he had of his afflictions when banishâ—ed as had his elder Brother Sir Charles Berkley Lord Fitz-harding not short of him in Integrity and Loyalty though not so much engaged in Action They say that though busling times are best for the Writer yet quiet times are best for the Liver so though stirring men afford more matter of discourse to Authors yet calm spirits and peaceable men yield most matter of peace and satisfaction to themselves the deep waters are still too lighter passions have a loud voice but the greatest are usually silent and actions of a lesser dimension have a great mention while noble and great actions exceeding Historians expressions exercise their modesty The inward Wheels that set the Engine on work are less observed though of more consequence than those parts that move most visible He that made Interests kept Correspondence engaged Parties sent and procured Supplies disposed of Commissions managed the Designs for the Restauration of his Majesty though the most secret yet was the most effectual Instrument of the great mercy vouchsafed to this Nation Such as this honourable person was who when more than 50000 English-men were corrupted by the arts and success of the Faction and their own covetousness weakness and ambition to a partnership in their guilt in the middest of the cruelties and victories of the Conspiracy that amazed most part of Mankind taught the unskillful the method of Confederacy and Design and in spight of the vigilant because fearful Parricides opened opportunities both of Correspondence with his Majesty and with all true-hearted English-men who communicated Counsels gave mutual Incouragements raised Supplies and kindled Flames that might have devoured the Juncto had it not pleased God that he and Sir Henry Slingsby should be taken and so forced to exchange his Services for Sufferings from Prison to Sequestration from Sequestration to Prison from thence to Decimation For as in the Primitive times when any Calamity happened the Heathens cried Christiani ad Leones so when the least toy took the Christians frighted out of their sences in the head they cried Secure the Cavaliers Secure the Cavaliers and that so long until as the sufferings of the Martyrs converted the world so the generously born afflictions of Loyalty reduced the kingdom it became necessary for them to secure the whole Nation who as one man as acted by one common Genius like the spirits of the world wrought its way into that settlement by a general consent which could not be attained to by any particular combination in which settlement this excellent Person not only enjoyed a freedom from his pressures but a reward for them being made upon the King's Return Comptroller of the Houshold one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Treasurer of the Houshold Governor of in Ireland and of great trust about his Highness the Duke of York in which capacities he looks not to what he might do but what he should measuring his actions by justice and expedience If any person would know more of him let him make his Address to him and he shall find him Courteous let him Petition him and he shall find him extraordinarily Charitable let him go to his Table and he shall find him Hospitable let him Converse with him and he shall find him Exact and Punctual In a word a perfect Country Gentleman at Court one whose very nature is in pay and service to his Majesty gaining him by his Civilities more Hearts than either Laws or Armies can gain Subjects Every time my Lord Fitz-harding smiles the King of England gains one The Roman Lady when asked where her Jewels were brought out her Children and answered These are my Treasures This honourable Person if demanded where are his Services besides those in his own person formerly in times of war and now in times of peace particularly his good husbandry for his Majesty his faithfulness his place and the obligingness of his behaviour he can shew his Sons and say These are my Services of whom besides Sir Maurice Berkley Vice-President of the foresaid Province in Ireland two lately lost their lives with as much honor as they injoyed them viz. FIRST THE EARL OF FALMOUTH AS Treason taints the bloud so Loyalty ennobleth it the one deriving honour as effectually as the other doth guilt This personage inherited his Fathers Services as well as his Spirit being an early confessor of Allegiance and taught to suffer with Majesty as soon as to live he had the advantage of most other Gentlemen that he begun and spent some years of discretion in the experience of troubles and exercise of patience wherein all virtues moral and political are commonly better planted to a thriving as Trees set in Winter than in the warmth and serenity of times or amidst those delights which usually attend Princes Courts in the midst of peace and plenty which are prone either to root up all plants of true virtue and honor or to be contented only with some leaves and withering formalities of them without any real fruits such as tend to the publick good for which Gentlemen should always remember they are born and by providence designed Besides the intimacy of converse between his Sacred Majesty the most condescending Prince in the world and him in their tender years for which King Edward 6. loved Fitz-patriche so well as to have some thoughts of marrying him to his Sister and advancing him to the kingdom besides the sympathy of their spirits visible in the exact symmetry of their persons which indeared Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk so much to Hen. 8. that he was the only person that lived and dyed in the full Favour of that Prince Of whom it is observed That they who were highest in his Favour had their Heads nearest danger There were these remarkable things that recommended this young Gentleman to his Majesties Favour 1. His Happiness of Address much advantaged by the Eminency of his Person the Smoothness of his Voice the Sweetness of his Temper and the Neatness of his Fancy True is that observation of a great States-man if a man mark it well it is in praise and commendation of men as it is in gettings and gains For the Proverb is true That light gains makes heavy purses for light gains come thick whereas great come now and then So it is true that small matters win great commendation because they are continually in use and in note whereas the occasion of any great virtue cometh but on Festivals therefore it doth much adde to a mans Reputation and is as Queen Isabella said like perpetual Letters Commendatory to have good forms And therefore besides several other Messages of Consequence he had the Management of a Complement of very great consequence to the French King for
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
hath this Character in all the Britannia's which escaped the Index Expurgatorius that for what reasons the Inquisitors knew best blotted these words out Verae Nobilitalis Ornamentis vir longe Honoratissimus and Iohn Lord Harrington Executor to the Lady Francis Sidney Daughter of Sir Henry Aunt of Sir Philip Sidney Relict of Thomas Ratcliffe the third Earl of Sussex and Foundress of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge the third Master of that House 1609. and by his Patron and Predecessor Bishop Mountague Arch-Deacon of Taunton where so moderate and milde his Government that there was not in the first eight years of his Government a Negative voice in any affair of the House he taking care to beget a general understanding about any matter in debate in private before they sate upon it in publick tuning each string before they set to a Consort his Discipline so becoming and exemplary that Sir Francis Clerk of East-Soton in Bedfordshire coming privately to Cambridge to see unseen took notice of Dr. Wards daily Presence in the Hall with the Scholars Conformity in Caps and diligent performance of Exercises to so good purpose the careful observation of old Statutes is the best Loadstone to attract new Benefactors that he augmented all the Scholarships in the Foundation Erected a new fair and firm Range of Building and Founded four new Fellowships discovering by the way such skill in Architecture and Arithmetick that staying at home he did provide to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing of the aforesaid Building 5. Such his Reputation for deep skill in Divinity that he with the Reverend Dr. Davenant of Queens Dr. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Hall Dean of Worcester was sent from the Church of England by King Iames to the Synod at Dort to assist the Dutch Churches in the five Controversies of Predestination and Reprobation of the extent of Christs death of the power of mans free will both before and after his Conversion and of the Elects perseverance and to that purpose with Dr. Davenant sent for by that Learned and deep-sighted Prince to Royston October 8. 1618. where His Majesty vouchsafed his familiar Discourse with them for two hours together commanding them to sit down by him till he dismised them with this solemn Prayer which the good man would recollect with pleasure That God would bless their endeavours At that Synod besides the common Applause he had with his Brethren testified by the 10 l. a day allowed them there the entertainments given them at the Hague Amsterdam Rotterdam Vtrecht and Leiden by the 200 l. the Meddals and the Commendatory Letter sent with them at parting thence had they this peculiar Character that he was slow but sure recompensing in the exactness of his notion what he wanted in the quickness of it being but once contradicted and that at the first opening of that middle way he and his good Friend Davenant opened to them which surprized some in the Synod at first but reconciled the Synod to them and to its self at last the moderate that cut the hair in a Controversie like those that part a Fray meet with blows on both sides at first but embraced by those very arms that were lift upon them at last Bishop Carleton came home with this Commendation in the States publick Letter to King Iames. Dominus G. Landavensis Episcopus imago expressa virtutis Effigies Dr. Ward returned with these Testimonies from the most Eminent Scholars in those Parts Modestia ipsa quae plus celavit eruditionis quam alii habent Literarum Abyssus taciturnus profundus qui quot verba tot expressit e sulco pectoris or acula c. and among the rest in iis eam eruditionem pietatem pacis studium eumque zelum deprehendimus ut cum ipsius beneficii causa Majestatituae multum debeamus they are the States expressions to the King in their foresaid Letter of thanks Magna pars ipsius beneficii nobis videatur quod ipsi ad nos missi sunâ— with which testimonial Letters they came over and presented themselves to King Iames who seeing them out at a window when first entring the Court Here comes said he my good Mourners alluding to their black habit and the late death of Queen Anne When he was to perform any exercise as the part assigned him in the English Colledge which was generally to oppose because of his acuteness and variety of reading or to give his weekly account to the King as they all did by turns the expectation was great especially in one respect as King Iames would say that he would set down no idle or impertinent word 6. So good a man that he was Tutor as well as Master to the whole Colledge yea kept almost as big a Colledge by his goodness as he governed by his place more depending upon him there and abroad as a Benefactor than did as a Governor Being a great recommender as well as incourager of Worth he used to say that he knew nothing that Church and State suffered more by than the want of a due knowledg of those Worthy men that were peculiarly enabled and designed to serve both And as another Argument of his goodness he went alwayes along with the moderate in the censures of Preachers in the University practices in the Courts that were under his Jurisdiction And in Opinions in the Convocation whereof he was a Member much pleased with a modest soft way that might win the persons and smoother their errors being much pleased with his Friend Mr. Dods saying that men should use soft words and hard Arguments And this so much known to others though so little observed by him this meek and slow speeched Moses his face shining to all men but himself that it procured six or 7000 l. Improvement in his time to the Colledge besides the Building of that Chappel which he Dedicated by his own burial being the first that was buried there His Virgin body injoying a Virgin grave like that of the Lord wherein never man lay Sleeping there where the Franciscans had a dormitory The best Disputant having his Grave where the best Philosophers and School-Divines had their Beds and the modest man resting where that modest order slept who called themselves Minorites from Iacobs words Gen. 32. 10. Sum minor omnibus beneficiis suis. Yea his Adversaries themselves admiring him so far that he was named one of the Committee for Religion in the Ierusalem Chamber 1642. whither he came with hope that moderation and mutual compliance might finde expedients to prevent if not the shaking yet the overturning of Church and State so the wary Merchants throws somethings over-board to save the Ship which escapes not by struggling with the storm but by yielding to it And inserted one of their Assembly whither he came not being not called by the King one of the flowers of whose Crown it is to call Assemblies as appears by Bishop Andrews his Learned Sermon
I do so again Neither was he thus exceedingly religious as a man only but as a King Neither was Religion only his private Devotion but his publick Government wherein he aimed at 1. The peace of the Church wherein those parts and abilities that he saw lost in malice and dissentions might be very useful to the promoting of Religion and Godliness And 2. the honour maintenance and splendour of the Church For the first of which he consulted sufficiently in his favours to Arch-bishop Laud Bishop Neile Bishop Iuxon For the second by his endeavour to recover the Patrimony of the Church in England Ireland and Scotland where his religious intentions gave occasion to their rebellion who rather than they would part with their private sacrileges resolved on the publick ruine And for the third by his great charge in the repair of St. Pauls and other places To say nothing of his godly resolution to buy all Lands and Tythes alienated from the Church with his own Estate by such degrees as his other expences would give him leave the greatest testimonies of a design to make Religion as universal of his Empire next those from his own mouth First Before God The Kings Protestation at Christ-Church when he was to receive the Sacrament at the Bishop of Armaghs hands MY Lord I espy here many resolved Protestants who may declare to the World the resolution I now do make I have to the utmost of my power prepared my Soul to become a worthy receiver and so may I receive comfort by the blessed Sacrament as I do intend the establishment of the true Protestant Religion as it stood in its beauty in the happy daies of Queen Elizabeth without any connivance of Poperie I bless God that in the midst of these publick distractions I have still liberty to communicate and may this Sacrament be my damnation if my heart do not joyn with my lips in this protestation Secondly Before the VVorld The Kings Declaration to the Reformed Churches CHARLES By the special providence of Almighty God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To all those who profess the true Reformed Protestant Religion of what Nation condition and degree soever they be to whom this present Declaration shall come Greeting Whereas We are given to understand that many false rumours and scandalous Letters are spread up and down amongst the Reformed Churches in foreign parts by the politick or rather the pernicious industry of some ill affected persons that We have an inclination to recede from that Orthodox Religion which We were born baptized and bred in and which We have firmly professed and practised through the whole course of Our Life to this moment And that We intend to give way to the introduction and publick exercise of Popery again in Our Dominions Which conjecture or rather most detestable calumny being grounded upon no imaginable foundation hath raised these horrid Tumults and more than Barbarous Wars throughout these flourishing Islands under a pretext of a kind of Reformation which would not prove only incongruous but incompatible with the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this our Kingdom We desire that the whole Christian World should take notice and rest assured that we never entertained in our imagination the least thought to attempt such a thing or to depart a jot from that Holy Religion which when we received the Crown and Scepter of this Kingdome we took a most Solemn Sacramentall Oath to Profess and Protect Nor doth our most constant Practice and daily visible Presence in the Exercise of this sole Religion with so many asseverations in the head of our Armies and in the publick attestation of our Lords with the circumspection used in the education of our Royall Offspring besides divers other undeniable arguments only demonstrate this but also that happy Alliance of Marriage we Contracted between our eldest Daughter and the Illustrious Prince of Aurange most clearly confirmes the realty of Our intentions herein by which Nuptial engagement it appears further that Our endeavours are not only to make a bare profession thereof in Our own Dominions but to enlarge and coroborate it abroad as much as lyeth in Our power This most holy Religion with the Hierarchy and Liturgy thereof We solemnly protest that by the help of Almighty God We will endeavour to Our utmost power and last period of Our life to keep entire and immoveable and will be careful according to Our duty to Heaven and the tenour of the aforesaid most saCRed Oath at Our Coronation that all Our Ecclesiasticks in their several Stations and Incumbencies shall preach and practice the same Thirdly Before the Kingdom The Kings Declaration and Protestation before the whole Kingdom I Do promise in the presence of Almighty God and as I hope for his blessing and protection that I will to the utmost of my power defend and maintain the true Reformed and Protestant Religion established in the Church of England and by the grace of God in the same will live and dye I desire to govern by the known Laws of the Land and that the liberty and propriety of the Subject may be by them preserved with the same care as mine own just Rights And if it please God by his blessing upon this Army raised for my necessary defence to preserve me from this Rebellion I do solemnly and faithfully promise in the sight of God to maintain the just privilege and freedome of Parliament and to govern by the known Laws of the Land to my utmost power and particularly to observe inviolably the Laws consented unto by me this Parliament In the mean while if this time of War and the great necessity and straits I am now driven unto beget any violation of these I hope it shall be imputed by God and man to the Authors of this War and not to me who have so earnestly laboured for the peace of this Kingdom When I willingly fail in these particulars I will expect no aid or relief from any man or protection from Heaven But in this resolution I hope for the chearful assistance of all good men and am confident of Gods blessing Sept. 19. The Result of all which Holy Designs was these his own brave words viz. Though I am sensible enough of the danger that attends my Care of the Church yet I am resolved to defend it or make it my Tombestone A Prince of so much resolution and conduct that as he feared not a private man lodging Hamilton in his own Chamber all that time he was accused by Rey of Treason and saying to those that admired his confidence That Hamilton should know he as little feared his power as he distrusted his Loyalty and that he durst not notwithstanding the advantages of Night and solitariness attempt his life because he was resolved to sell it so dear It was his goodness that he desired not war and his fortune that he prospered not in it but his
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
Prebend of Westminster and Parsonages of Creek and â—â—â—sâ—ck in Commendam with it whereunto he was chosen Octob. 10. and Consecrated Novemb. 18. by the Lords Bishops of London Worâ—â—ster Chichâ—ster Fly Landaffe and Oxford the Arch-bishop Abbot being though irregular for casual Homicide King Charles finding how he managed these Preferments King Iames had bestowed upon him advanced him Iune 20. 1626. to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells in the room of Bishop Lake then deceased and Octob. 2. the same year Dean of the Chappel in the place of Bishop Andrews then departed and Iune 17. 1628. Bishop of London and Aug. 6. 1633. Arch-bishop of Canterbury instead of Arch-bishop Abbot then newly dead the highest honor a Subject can be raised to in England or a Minister in the Protestant Church and as if these honors were not equal to his merit at the same time that he was Installed Arch-bishop of Canterbury he was twice offered once Aug. 7. 1633. and the second time Aug. 17. following to be Cardinal he both returning the Messenger whom de discovered to his Majesty this Answer like himself That there was somewhat within him that would not suffer that till Rome was other than it is 2. It must needs be imagined that these preferments raised him as much envy as advantage and indeed though he was singular in other felicities he was wrapped in the common unhappiness in this case For Christmas 1610. Arch bishop Abbot set the good Lord Chancellor Ellsmen to suggest to King Iames his being Popishly affected Octob. 3. 1623. he went to the Lord Keeper Williams who he found had done him many ill offices who Octob. 3. 1623. he saith in his Diary quarelled him gratis in the Duke of Buckingham their Joynt-patrons Withdrawing-chamber April 3. 1624. He went to Arch-bishop Abbot about a course he had taken to ease the Church in times of paying the Subsidies to be given that Parliament which the Lord Keeper Williams and the Bishop of Durham approved so well that they confessed it was the best office that was done for the Church for seven years before His Grace was very angry Asked what he had to do to make any Suit for the Church telling him that never any Bishop attempted the like at any time nor would any but himself have done it that he had given such a wound in speaking to any Lord of the Laity about it as he could never make whole again that if the Lord Duke did fully understand what he had done he would never indure him to come near him again Whereunto he calmly replied That he thought he had done very good offices for the Church and so did his betters think If his Grace thought otherwise he was sorry he had offended him hoping that he having done what he did out of a good mind for the support of many poor Vicars abroad in the Countrey who must needs sink under three Subsidies a year his Error if it were one was pardonable Ian. 25. 1624. He was forced to declare the whole affair about the Earl of D's Marriage which happened twenty years before when he was a young man and that Lords Chaplain to the Duke of B. ill willers notwithstanding his growing merit and services whispering and suggesting up and down that supposed old miscarriage Nay again April 9. 1625. he writes thus in his Diary The Duke of Buckingham most Venerable to me by all Titles certified me that some body I know not out of what envy had blemished my Name with King Charles his most Excellent Majesty taking occasion from the error I fell into I know not by what fate heretofore in the Case of Charles Earl of Devon-shire Decemb. 26 1605. April 11. the Duke of Buckingham met him and informed him what Secretary C. had suggested against him to the Lord High-Treasurer of England and he to the Duke Ian. 17. 1627. He shewed the King reasons why the Papers of the deceased Bishop of Winchester concerning Bishops that they are Iure Divino should be Printed and was opposed then by several Grandees who were of the humor the Historian expresseth thus That they liked not their own happiness if others had the honor of contriving it receiving no counsels but what they themselves first gave In Octob. 1627. The Dean of Canterbury and Sir Dudley Digges told Dr. W. that if things went not well in the Isle of Rhee there must be a Parliament and some must be Sacrificed and B. L. as like as any which gave him great trouble Till the King desired him Not to trouble himself with any reports before he saw him forsake his other friends Iune 1. 1628. The House of Commons put him into their black Lists of Innovators and Incendiaries by the same Token that one in that House stood up and said Now we have named these persons let us think of some Causes And Sir E. C. answered Have we not named my Lord of Buckingham without shewing a Cause and may we not be as bold with them Wherefore he enters the Dissolution of that Convention in his Manual March 10. thus The Parliament which was broken up this 10th of March laboured my Ruin March 29. 1629. Sunday two Papers were found in the Dean of Pauls his Yard before his House one of which to this effect concerning him Laud look to thy self be assured thy life is sought as thou art the fountain of all wickedness Repent Repent thee of thy monstrous sins before thou be taken out of the world c. And assure thy self neither God nor the World can endure such a vile Counsellor to live or such a whisperer c. Ian. 26. was thus noted by his Lordship This day discovered to me that which I was sorry to find in L. T. Weston and F. C. Cottington sed transeat Feb. 28. Master Chancellor of London Dr. Duck brought me word how miserably I was slandered by some Separatists I pray God give me patience and forgive them Roiter the Felon that broke Prison his Charge of Treason against him Novemb. 13. 1633. the Lady Davies Prophecy of him that he should dye before Novemb. 5. 1634. Green the Printers swaggering with his drawn Sword in St. Iames's Court that he would have Justice of the King against him or that he would take another Course with him himself The falsehood and practises of L. T. whereof he advertised his Majesty Some 37. Libels against him up and down the Streets of London we had thought worthy remembring had not he thought it fit they should not be forgotten But for which of his good deeds The enjoyment of great and and many Preferments might indeed raise him malice but his design by all those Preferments to do great and many good works might have recovered him love for surely none needed to have envied that mans Preferment that considereth what he did or what he intended 1. What he did 1. 1607. No sooner was he Invested in any of his Livings than he Invested
twelve poor people in a constant allowance out of hose Livings besides his constant repairing of the Houses and furnishing of the Churches wheresoever he came 2. When he was chosen with much opposition both there and at Court Anno 1618. he set up a great Organ in St. Iohns Chappel being to be tracked every where by his great Benefactions Allowing the fifth part of all his Incomes to charitable and pious uses He built a Chappel and repaired the Cathedral at St. Davids Upon occasion both of the abrupt beginning and ending of publick Prayers on the fifth of November he settled a better order in the Kings Chappel as Dean of that Chappel prevailing with that Gracious King that he would be present at the Liturgy as well as the Sermon and that at whatsoever time of Prayers he came the Priest who Ministred should proceed to the end of Prayers which was not done before from the beginning of King Iames his reign to that day 1629 1630. He furnished the Library of Oxford with 1300 Hebrew Arabick Persian Manuscripts and choise Antiquities the University with their excellent Statutes and a large new Charter and St. Iohns Colledge in it with useful and curious buildings a Colledge that as well as Christ-Church might be called Canterbury Colledge From the year 1630. to the year 1640. he recovered hundreds of Impropriations in Ireland procuring of King Charles to give all Impropriations yet remaining in the Crown within the Realm of Ireland to that poor Church 1630. He set upon the repair of St. Pauls the only Cathedral in Christendom of that name allowing besides a great sum to begin it five hundred pounds a year while he was Bishop of London and no doubt after he was Arch-bishop of Canterbury till it was finished 1633. He retrenched the extraordinary Fees at Court for Church-preferments sometimes to prevent the Extortion of inferior Officers doing poor Ministers business himself rather than they should be at the charge of having it done by others 1634. He began the settlement of the Statutes of all the Cathedrals of the new foundation whose Statutes are imperfect and not confirmed and finished those of Canterbury 1635. He procured and bought settled Commendams whereof several sine Cura on the small Bishopricks of Bristol Peterbourgh St. Asaph Chester and Oxford 1636. He set up a Greek Press in London buying both Matrices and Press for Printing of the Library M. SS and others he intended to make a rare Collection of The same year he erected an Arabick Lecture in Oxford first settled there for his life and afterwards for ever as he did an Hospital at Reading with 200 l. per annum Revenue established in a new way 1637. A Book in Vellam of the Records in the Tower that concern the Clergy at his own charge Transcribed and left in his Study at Lambeth for posterity A new Charter for the Town of Reading and a new Charter and Statutes for the Colledge and University of Dublin 2. What he Intended 1. He had cast a Model for the increase of the Stipends of poor Vicars 2. He intended to see the Tithes of London setled between the Clergy and the City 3. He thought to have setled some hundreds a year upon the Fabrick of St. Pauls towards the repair till that be finished and to keep it in good state afterwards communicating likewise to a friend to rebuild the great Tower some yards higher than before 4. He purposed to have opened the great Square at Ouford between Saint Maries the Schools Brasen-Nose and All-Souls 5. He resolved to set on foot the buying in of Impropriations hoping to be able to buy in two or three in a year Not to mention his Entertainments of the King and Queen to the honor and advantage of the University of Oxon when he was Chancellor there his bestowing all his favors upon no other condition than something to be done by his Clients in acknowledgement of them for the Church So he obliged Bishop Bancroft to build the Bishoprick a House another to bestow the Patronage of upon St. Iohns A third to raise the Stipends of three Vicarages in his gift c. His preferring of Church-men to the greatest Places of Trust to honor Religion too much despised in the later times For see his design in the advancement of that good man Bishop Iuxon as it is expressed in his Diary and an exact Diary is a window to his heart that maketh it March 6. William Iuxon Lord Bishop of London made Lord High-Treasurer of England no Church-man had it since Henry the Sevenths time I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honor and the King and the State service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more His daily Hospitality and weekly Almes and other the great effects of a very great spirit that had not so great a prize in its hand as he had a large heart to dispose thereof for the general good looking upon himself as the Steward rather than the Master of his great Revenues might have excused his height from envy as well as that of the heavens that are not maliced because high but reverenced because benign none grudging them either the Place they hold or the Vapors they draw up because all are blessed with the Influences they shed and the Showers they send And the rather because he was as great himself as his performances and his preferments were not only means to do good works but the just reward of great parts parts every way becoming the greatest Clergy-man and States-man and indeed few or none envied his preferments that were not afraid of his abilities he being reckoned one of the greatest Scholars of our Nation His judgment being as acute witness the exactest Piece ever writ on that subject his Controversie with Fisher as his Eye was piercing his Memory as firmly retaining his Observations as his Apprehension took them Discerningly and his Industry collected them Vnweariedly He was not advanced because he would keep a good House repair his Barns c. any Dunce may do this but because he seemed born to the honor he was raised to owing his degree not only to Favour but to Nature too he being exact in all the recommending excellencies of humane accomplishments thought deserving more honor beyond Sea than those he was envied for here In all those Arts and Sciences he honored with some thoughts about he was not so much skillful as commanding not only knowing but a Master and having gone through the difficulties of Ingenuity with as much success as a Scholar as he did the difficulties of Government as a Statesman in both a Primate in both excelling The forementioned Piece composed with such an authentick and unerring accuracy as if there had been a Chair of Infallibility at Lambeth as well as at Rome and he had been indeed what his Predecessors have been called
to pay 500 l. for punishing a known Adultery in which case he said Suppose it was more than the Law strictly allowed what may be done for Honor and Religions sake Why D. C. 24. there should be a resolution among the Lords to sequester him from the Kings Counsel and deprive him of his Arch-Bishoprick not onely as he saith before he had put any answer in for himself but likewise before his adversaries put in any Charge against him Why Fryday Feb. 26. after full ten weeks Imprisonment in Mr. Maxwells house he should be ordered to the Tower why he should be followed and railed at by the people and rabble in multitudes in his way thither as he went in Mr. Maxwells Coach to the very Tower-gates and indeed it was thought he was sent that way on purpose to be torn in pieces by the rabble Why Octob. 23. 1642. his Jurisdiction should be requestred to his inferior Officers and his Spirituals and Temporals suspended he having not so much as power to bestow a Living Why Nov. 8. 42. his house should be seized for a Garison and Prison his Rents sequestred as was pretended to keep the Kings Children Why October 24. he should be so closely confined as to be debarred the liberty of the Tower nor to speak with any Prisoner or other person but in the presence of his Warder all his Servants being removed from him but two and they not to speak with one another nor with any other but before the Warder nor to stir out without the Lieutenants leave Why Nov. 24. his Chappel was broken open at Lambeth and the Furniture of it spoiled his Horâ—es at the same time being seized by order from the Committee and all his provision in the house spent upon the prisoners Why March 24. 1642 3. there should be a plot to send him and Bishop Wren to new-New-England within fourteen days and April 25. a motion made to that purpose in the Lower House Why May 1. his Chappel windows should be defaced all his Goods and Books seized upon and he confined to his Chamber not to stir out without his Keeper and a rumor that he should be removed to a Prison-lodging Why Feb. 26. 1640. so many bitter Speeches should be made of him as of a spiritual wickedness in high places and 14 general Articles exhibited against him with a promise to make them good by Articles more particular besides the Impeachment of the Scots Commissioners and the further inforcing of the former Articles by the English Oct. 23. 1643. in ten Articles more to all which he was ordered the same day to put in his Answer in writing against the sixth and upon second thoughts Nov. 13. with much ado allowing Mr. Herne Mr. Chute Mr. Hales and Mr. Gerard of Grayes-Inn to be of Counsel for him and Mr. Dell Cob and Smith his Servants for Sollicitors On which 13 of Nov. 1â—43 he was brought to the Bar and made his answer whereupon the Committee for his Tryal met closely at Star-Chamber to prepare evidences against him and his Tryal appointed Ian. 8. 1643. first and afterwards Ian. 16. when about three a Clock in the afternoon after three years Imprisonment and no hearing he appearing had no more done but their Articles read and his answers thereunto rejected as he had not Ian. 22. 1643. nor Feb. 22. 1643. March 4. 9. and 12. All which bitter days they carryed him up and down from the Tower to Westm. either to kill him with grief cold and vexation or to give the rabble opportunity to do him a mischief as they did March 13 16 18. 1643. and March 28. 1644. April 16. and May 4. 20 27. and Iune 6. 11 17 20. 27. Iuly 20 24 29. seventeen days besides twelve days attending more wherein there was nothing done and Sept. 2. 11. Octob. 11. Nov. 2. 11 13. Decemb. 4. spent in Speeches and delays they designing rather the tyring than destroying of him All this while not allowing him to answer his whole Charge at once but one Article one day and another Article another and not declaring though earnestly petitioned by him so to do what Articles were Treason what Misdemeanors but sheltering themselves under the old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That all the Articles taken together not each or any particular Article by it self made up the Treason Why after so many mouths tryal in which notwithstanding their tedious proceedings to break his spirit he had acquitted himself with such a confidence as became the constancy and innocency of a Christian Bishop and Confessor but yet must fall to please the Scots and those merciless men who imputed Gods anger in the difficulties of their success against their Prince to the continuance of this Prelates life He should be voted guilty of High-Treason by the little remainder of the House of Commons at Westminster Nov. 10. 1643. and condemned by seven Lords in the upper House all they not concurring neither Decemb. 17. 1644. to be hanged drawn and quartered The first example of murdering men by Votes and of killing by an Order of Parliament neither House if full and legally sitting having power over the life of the meanest subject without the King since the Creation And why when the Lords upon his Petition to the distaste of some Commons changing the manner of that vile execution to that more generous of being beheaded the motion for exposing him to the contempt and malice of the people of New-England being waved as too great an honor because it would make his End as his Life was much like that of the Primitive Bishops who for their piety were banished to barbarous Coasts or condemned to the Mines or else it would be like the Athenian Ostracism and confess him too great and good to live amongst us he must be brought to the Scaffold Ian. 10. after he had endured some affronts in his Anti-chamber in the Tower by some Sons of Schism and Sedition who unseasonably that morning he was preparing himself to appear before the great Bishop of our souls would have him give some satisfaction to the godly for so they called themselves for his Persecutions which he called Discipline To whom he answered That he was now shortly to give an account of all his actions at an higher and more equal Tribunal and desired he might not be disturbed in his preparations for it Others asked him to ruffle his soul into a passion now he was fairly folding it up to deliver it into the hands of his Redeemer what were the most comfortable words a man should dye with in his mouth And he mildly answered Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo adding meekly when asked how a man at that time might express his assurance That such assurance was to be found within grounded on the word of God concerning Christs dying for us and that no words were able to express it rightly Why these Indignities to so good a man in his life time and more in
scandalous Papers of him when dead which I hope the authors have lived to repent of Indignities the bare narrative whereof is a Satyre against our age and Nation and therefore I attempt not the just expression of it my very apprehension over laying my words and indeed this black action receives no colours You shall hear his Faults 1. Adorning the Chappels and Churches that he had to do with with Pictures for decency and instruction the use Calvin himself as he alledged him Inst. 1. 11. § 12. allowed them for in these words Neque tamen ea superstitione teneor ut nullus prosus imagines serendas censeam c. Though they charged him with many ornaments of Chappels that he found there done by others and urged that he took them out of the Mass-book when he never knew they were there 2. Removing and Railing the Communion-table Altar-wise North and South against the Wall and furnishing his Lambeths Chappel according to Queen Elizabeths Injunction the pattern of the Kings Chappel and the practice of the Lutheran Churches 3. The setting up of a Side-table called Credentia according to the way in Bishop Andrews his Chappel bowing toward the Communion-table according to the ancient practices in Queen Elizabeths and King Iames his reign and using Copes according to the twenty fourth Canon of the Church 1603. 4. The ancient custom of Standing at Gloria Patri Bowing at the Name of Jesus according to the eighteenth Canon of our Church and twelfth Injunction of Queen Elizabeth Organs and Consecration of Churches Communion-Tables according to Bishop Andrews form 5. Receiving a Bible with a Crucifix Embroidred on the cover of it from a Lady 6. A Book of Popish pictures two Missals Pontificals and Breviaries which he made use of as a Scholar 7. His Admirable Book of Devotion digested according to the ancient way of Canonical Hours after holy Davids example Psal. 119. 164. and the practise of the Primitive times and his humble Prostration in them mentioned 8. Three Pictures in his Gallery one sent him the other two there since Arch-bishop Whitgifts time of Saint Augustine Saint Ambrose c. allowed by the Harmony of Protestant Confession in the lawful use of them and written against severely by himself in the unlawful use of them 9. His Reverent Posture at White-hall Chappel which all the Lords used and the Knights of the Garter were bound to use Bishop Wren's adorning the Altar with a Crucifix which was nothing to him more than some peoples bowing that way which they urged against him 10. His Compiling the Form of the Kings Coronation when it was done by a Committee according to an old form of Consecration belonging to Arch-bishop Abbot there being no passage new in it but this old Protestant one used in Popish times which fixed more spiritual power in the King than the Pope would willingly allow jealous that any should finger Saint Peters Keys save himself And is this Let him obtain favour for thy people like Aaron in the Tabernacle Elisha in the waters Zecharias in the Temple give him Peters Key of Discipline and Pauls Doctrine which my Lord inserted not of himself but in concurrence with the rest 11. All the comely Repairs of any Church or Chappel especially in the Universities any bodies bowing to a Picture in his time as if he could answer all the miscarriages and indiscretions of men throughout the kingdom during his government The Oxford Scholars reverence to the Communion-table Dr. Lambs questioning Mr. Corbet and Mr. Cheynel the Oxford Copes and Latine prayers nay all that was done either in Oxford or Cambridge from 1628. to 1640. 12. All the Copes Altars Candlesticks Utensils Furnitures and Gestures though according to Canon used in any Cathedral in England 13. The Railing of Communion-tables the receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and saying Second Service there according to the Canons and Injunctions the using of Painted Glass Bishop Wren Bishop Mountagues and Bishop Peirces his Visitation Articles about Parish Churches wherein he had nothing to do 14. Punishing Mr. Smart of Durham who was censured by the High-Commission at York where he was none 2. Mr. Chancy who suffered by the High-Commission when he was but one 3. Mr. Bromley prosecuted by Sir Nath. Brent without him 4. Mr. Sherfield who suffered by the whole Court of Starre-Chamber in his absence 5. The purging of Dr. Featleys Sermons done by his Chaplain unknown to him 6. Mr. Workman by his own Diocesan and the High-Commission not by him 7. Mr. P. B. and B. proceeded with in a legal way in Starre-chamber he not being there 8. Birket and the Church-wardens of Becking ston the one proceeded against in the High-Commission and the other by Bishop Peirce without his privity 9. Ferdinando Adams was Pursevanted by Bishop Wren for shutting his Church against his Visitors and not by my L. of C. 15. Pictures found in Sir F. Windebanke and Dr. Ducks Bibles nothing to him 16. His Consecrating of Churches and Chappels according to the Word of God and the examples of the best times using Bishop Andrews his form for Consecration 17. His taking money for it by which you must understand fifteen pounds fees which he returned to the Churchwardens to distribute among the poor 18. A draught of his Popish Furniture and form of his own Chappel as they urged which proved not his but Bishop Andrews form and furniture which he had caused to be transcribed 19. The Book of Sports which was published first in King Iames his Reign before he had any power in the Church and afterward in King Charles his Reign before he had the chief power in the Church he being very strict in his practise on that day and the less strict of any Bishop in pressing the publication of that Declaration which allowed liberty to be otherwise suspending none in his whole Province for that fault alone and setting out such moderate Visitation-Articles as by the Joynt-petition of the most sober and moderate part of the Clergy to him were desired to be the Standard to all other Visitation-Articles Besides that if he had set out and pressed that Declaration it was only a Declaration of Christian liberty against Jewish bondages and observances according to Mr. Calvins opinion and the practise of the Reformed Churches even in Genova its self where they use sober Recreations upon that day and not any incouragement to Unchristian Licentiousness contrary to Christian practises for it allowed only Lawful Recreations and those only after Evening Prayer and that only to them that came to Prayers with a very severe Caution against Prophaneness and Debauchery It declared the first only Impune in the way of a Civil Edict determining nothing but condemned the latter as vnlawful in the way of an Ecclesiastical Decree allowing nothing It undeceived the people that they might not be ensnared from their Liberty to Judaical opinions
Crimes you see answered when named made up into a Charge that was its own Reply and therefore barely set down by me without any reflection save their own nature and self-confutation What is ridiculous need only be shewed But hear the good man himself that had so often interceded for others to God pleading for himself before men I. To his Charge in General My Lords MY being in this place in this condition recalls to my memory that which I long since read in Seneca Tormentum est etiamsi absolutus quis fuerit causam dixisse 6. de Benef. c. 28. 'T is not a grief only no 't is no less than a torment for an ingenuous man to plead Capitally or Criminally though it should so fall out that he be absolved The great truth of this I finde at present in my self and so much the more because I am a Christian and not that only but in Holy-orders and not so only but by Gods grace and goodness preferred to the greatest place this Church affords and yet brought Causam dicere to plead for my self at this Bar. And whatsoever the world think of me and they have been taught to think much more ill of me then I humbly thank Christ for it I was ever acquainted with yet My Lords this I finde Tormentum est 't is no less than a torment to me to appear in this place Nay my Lords give me leave to speak plain truth No sentence that can justly pass upon me and other I will never fear from your Lordships can go so near me as Causam dicere to plead for my self upon this occasion and in this place For as for the Sentence be it what it shall I thank God for it I am for it at Saint Pauls ward Acts 25. 11. If I have committed any thing worthy of death I refuse not do dye For I thank God I have so lived as that I am neither afraid to dye nor ashamed to live But seeing the Malignity which hath been raised against me by some men I have carried my very life in my hands these divers years past But yet my Lords if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me though I may not in this Case and from this Bar appeal unto Caesar yet to your Lordships Iustice and Integrity I both may and do not doubting but that God of his goodness will preserve my innocency And as Iob in the midst of his affliction said to his mistaken Friends so shall I to my Accusâ—râ— God forbid I should justifie you till I dye I will not remove my Integrity from me I will hold it fast and not let it go my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live Job 22. 5. My Lords the Charge against me is brought up in ten Articles but the main heads are two An endeavor to subveâ—t the Laws of the Land and the Religion established Six Articles the fift first and the last concern the Laws and the other four Religion For the Laws first I think I may safely say I have been to my understanding as strict an observer of them all the days of my life so far as they concern me as any man hath and since I came into place I have followed them and been as much gâ—ided by them as any man that sat where I had the honor to sit And of this I am sorry I have lost the testimony of the Lord Keeper Coventry and other persons of Honor since dead And the Council which attended at the Council-board can witness some of them here present that in all references to the Board or debates arising at the Board I was for that part of the cause where I found Law to be and if the Council desired to have the cause left to the Law well I might move in some cases Charity or Conscience to them but I left them to the Law if thither they would go And how such a carriage as this through the whole course of my life in private and publick can stand with an intention to overthrow the Laws I cannot yet see Nay more I have ever been of opinion That Laws binde the Conscience and have accordingly made Conscience of observing them and this doctrine I have constantly preached as occasion hath been offered me and how is it possible I should seek to overthrow those Laws which I held my self bound in Conscience to keep and observe As for Religion I was born and bred up in and under the Church of England as it stands established by Law I have by Gods blessingâ— grown up in it to the years which are now upon me and to the place of Preferment which I now bear I have ever since I have understood ought in my profession kept one constant tenor in this my profession without variation or shifting from one opinion to another for any worldly ends And if my conscience would have suffered me to do so I could easily have slid through all the difficulties which I have prest upon me in this kinde But of all diseases I have held a Palsey in Religion most dangerous well knowing and remembring that disease often ends in a dead Palsie Ever since I came in place I have laboured nothing more than that the external publick worship of God so much slighted in divers parts of this Kingdom might be preserved and that with as much decency and uniformity as might be for I evidently saw that the publick neglect of Gods service in the outward face of it and the nasty lying of many places dedicated to that Service had almost cast a damp upon the true and inward worship of God which while we live in the body needs exterial helps and all little enough to keep it in any vigor And thus I did to the uttermost of my knowledge according both to Law and Canon and with the consent and liking of the people nor did any Command issue out from me against the one or without the other Further my Lords give me leave I beseech you to acquaint you with this also that I have as little acquaintance with Recusants as I believe any man of my place of England hath or ever had sithence the Reformation and for my kindred no one of them was ever a Recusant but Sir William Web Grandchild to my Unkle Sir William Web sometimes Lord Mayor of London and since which some of his Children I reduced back again to the Church of England On this one thing more I humbly desire may be thought on That I am fallen into a great deal of obloquie in matter of Râ—ligion and that so far as appears by the Articles against me that I have indeavoured to advance and bring in Popery Perhaps my Lords I am not ignorant what party of men have raised these scandals upon me nor for what end nor perhaps by whom set on but howsoever I would fain have a good reason given me if my conscience stood that way and that with my
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
vilescunt collata voluminibus Pantoglossis Quae undiquaque colligi studuit ambitus tuuâ— Queis emptis careas unus emptor Neve quid oxonio neges negabas soli tibi ipsi tua Thesaurus at cimeliorum Inventus poterat magis latere Nisi Addidisses huic Babeli Interpretem hominis gestiens Lapsum secundum restituisse novus Linguarum soter uti Christus mentium More ore ut unitas sit uniformitasque nobis Haec autem Apertis manibus munificentia Induxit manicas ac pedicas tulit Huic Isodaemoni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sua capiti capitalis erat doctrina Proh crimina Inaudita Nam Christianos ut Tyranni Pristinos Pellibus Indutos pecorinis Praedas lethiferis exposuere feris Sic formas monstrosas factis ejus Induxerunt hostes Quo saevius discerperetur Plebis ab Hydrâ Qui laetus summos ubi sursum ascendit honores Et Gentilitiae instar Alaudae Alacritate non minore decidit deorsum Et cum delatorum Vipereos Gyros ut Paulus serpentem excusserat illaesus Post lustrum moriendi Quum perpessus erat vitae mortrique senium Index severus sibi Condonator Judicibus severior Nolens deserere crucem sive Coronam ut salvus esset cum periculo salutis certiore ubi sesqui Martyrium Pro nobis vixisset Gratitudine aemulâ Ipso Immolatur pro Deo vel Sacrificio victima A CHARACTER OF ARCH-BISHOP LAUD THE Pregnancy of his Child-hood promised the Wisdom of his Riper Years and obliged his Friends beyond their Abilities to his Support and Strangers beyond Expectation to his Encouragement Some Persons offering him great sums of money for his maintenance in his younger years upon the bare security of his arts which paid them well in his more reduced age None more observant of Favour none more mindful of Kindnesses and none more grateful for Civilities He was so wise as seldom to forget an Injury in the consequence of it and so Noble as ever to remember Love in the return of it His honest Parents conveighed him an excellent temper and that temper a brave spirit which had the advantage of his birth a place at an equal distance from the University where he was to be a Scholar and the Court where he was to be a Man In the first of these his Indefatigable Industry his Methodical Study his Quick Apprehension his Faithful Memory his Solid Judgment his Active Fancy his Grave and Quick Countenance his Sharp and Piercing Eyeâ— raised by Discreet and Wary Steps to all the Preferments and commended him to all Imployments of the University When Proctor whereof he was admitted for his prudence May 4. 1603. to the Earl of Devonshire's Service September 3. 1603. which hazarded and when Divinity Reader 1602. observed by the Lords of Rochâ—stâ—r and Lincoln for his judgment which advanced him as his design was above the level of Modern Sciolists So were his Studies not prepossessed with the partial Systems of Geneva but freely conversant with the impartial Volumes of the Church Catholick He had an infallible apprehension of the Doctrine and Discipline and a deep insight into the interest of Christianity This Capacious Soul conversed with the most knowing of all Judgments to find the bottom of all Errors and with the most judicious of his own to discern the grounds of all truth He had his Eye to the University to reduce it when Head of Saint Iohns on the lower functions of the Church in his Pastoral charges to reform them and upon the higher when Dean of Glouâ—estâ—r Prebend of Wâ—sâ—minster and Bishop of St. David to settle them He was a man of that search and judgment that he found out the principles of Government that were true to the Church of that faithfulness and resolution that amidst all discouragements he was true to themâ— The Church-government he found by many private-spirited-men accommodated to their ease and interest he adjusted to truth and settlement consulting not humors which are uncertain as Interest but truth which is certain as Eternity Arch-bishop Abbots yield and they will be pleased at last was a great miscarriage Arch-bishop Lauds Resolve for there is no end of yielding was great policy His great reach in Government suitable to that Kings apprehensions commended him to King Iames his vast ability and integrity to King Charles and the Duke of Buckingham to the first whereof he was Privy-Councellor to the other a bosom friend before both whom he laid the best representation and Ideas of the English Government as to things and persons in several abstracts of any man under heaven I have heard a States-man say That none knew Ioints Turnings Flexures Interests of all Parties in Church or State that were either to be encouraged or suppressed with the seasons and opportunities to do it so well as Doctor Laud. Discerning was his Fore-sight compleat his Intelligence exact his Correspondence quick his Dispatches seasonable and effectual his Sermons and Discourses inquisitive and observing his Converse His Instruments were able and knowing men that were faithful to the Church as he was in Manwaring and Mountague's Case to them Knowing well as he wrote to my Lord of Buckingham that discouragement would deter men of parts whom incouragement might make serviceable He knew no man better how to temper a Parliament having a Catalogue of all the Nobility and Gentry with their interest and inclination in his eye He understood none more exactly what was to be discoursed and proposed to them having a clear apprehension of the several junctures and tendencies of affairs He entertained no thought but what was publick in his breast no man but was nobly spirited in his familiarity Ever watchful he was of all opportunities to advance the Churches honour 1. In her Sons as Bishop Iuxon c. 2. Her Discipline as in his several Visitations Articles in Star-Chamber and High-Commission matters 3. In her Indowments as the buying of Impropriations in Ireland 4. In her Priviledge as the Canon of England 5. In her Ornaments as the repairing of St. Pauls and most other Churches in his Province 6. In her Universities as the Statutes of Oxford the Priviledges of Cambridge and his vast gifts of Oriental Books and Buildings and his vaster design for both and as watchful against all the designs to undermine it The Feoffees for Impropriations he laid aside the Sabbatizing and Predestinarian Controversies he silenced the Licentious Press he reduced Dignities and Preferments he worthily filled up Bribes at Court he retrenched no Interest no Alliance could ever advance an unworthy Person while he lived Breed up your Children well and I will provide for them was his saying to all his Relations Many a man would be disobliged by his sternness at first view for whom if deserving he would afterwards contrive kindnesses by after and unexpected favours No place of experience did he ever miss none of employment did he ever decline He would never see Authority bafled but ever wave
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
not their rule but their guide so far only can Conscience justifie our actions as it is its self justified by his word He was to the last he said contented to live and yet desirous to dye his little saying he called it was let it be your first care to be good to your selves and your next to make others so Let it trouble you more to do a fault than to hear of it being more sorry that it is true than that it is known never think to be free from censures or faulty while thy Neighbors and thy self are but men He was the man that received no Opinion upon Credit and vented none upon Discontent embracing Doctrines that might save rather than fancies that might raise him Speaking what he thought not what others though good men yet but men said who he said should be his Copies no longer than they agreed with the Original The man that entertained whatever God sent thankfully and did whatever God commanded chearfully that spared no mans sins for the persons sake nor reflected on no mans person for his sins sake That feared more to do ill than to suffer it the Author of this rule fear to do any thing against that God whom thou lovest and thou wilt not love to do any thing against that God whom thou fearest He did not easily entertain Friendship with a man without considerable Acquaintance nor easily part with a Friend he had entertained without a very great fault he would say that he must have no friend that would have a friend with no fault Every man though his Adversary was his Neighbor that needed him How much pleased was he to hear another commended how much more if he had occasion to commend him himself the first he would do without repining and the second without detracting He forgave many that he said he must reprove because shewing them their fault was instructing them in their duty never loving a man the less for an injury though trusting him less being throughly satisfied when the party was throughly sorry It was he said common to him with God to suffer injuries to exercise his patience therefore it should be proper to him as it was to God to forgive them to exercise his Charity In fine a good man he was without noise a provident man without perplexity merry without lightness grave without morosity bountiful without waste These and many other his good virtues recommended him first to Hornsey near London and his faithfulness and success there opened his way to St. Bartholomews the Great in London as his prudence and gravity did to the Arch-Deaconry of S. Albans in Hertford-shire and his worthy mannagement of these inferior Places and Offices purchased to him the good degree of a Bishoprick and that at Bristol which was offered him Anno 1616. to maintain him and then refused by him because he said he wanted not subsistence and again 1641. that he might maintain it and then accepted because Episcopacy wanted such a devout and well-reputed man to support it For when his Majesty was resolved to chuse his new Bishops 1641. out of the most sound for judgement and unblameable for conversation the Learned Dr. Prideaux Kings Professor of Divinity at Oxford for the good repute his painful and learned Lectures procured him at home and abroad was made Bishop of Worcester Dr. Winniffe Dean of St. Pauls for his Gravity Learning and Moderation Bishop of Lincoln Dr. Brownrigge Master of Catherine Hall for quick and solid parts in Disputing and Preaching Bishop of Exeter Dr. King Arch-Deacon of Colchester for his general accomplishments as an obliging Gentleman a great Scholar a devout Christian an incomparable Preacher a Generous Liberal and Hospitable Clergy-man the pious and popular Son of a pious and popular Father Doctor Iohn King Bishop of London Dr. Iohn Westfield for many years the painful and profitable Preacher of Great St. Bartholomews London Bishop of Bristol Surely to use the words of the Historians Si urbi defensa â—uisset his dextris if Divine Providence had appointed that Episcopacy should have stood at that time more probable persons could not have been picked out of England envy and malice might feed upon their own flesh their teeth finding nothing in the foresaid elects to fasten upon But Episcopacy was so far from faring the better for them that they fared the worse for it Insomuch that many who loved them much in their Gowns did not at all like them in their Rockets Nothing was thought too much for him by the Earl of Holland and other Persons of Quality before the troubles and nothing too little since To disturb his Devotion they removed and burnt the Rails he had set about the Lords-Table to interrupt his quiet they made him sue for his right who had for many years not known what it was to ask it they who were glad formerly to converse with him in their Houses would not have Communion with him at Church and he whose tears and natural perswasive faculty for Bishop King said he was born an Orator was reckoned powerful and heart searching preaching was neglected as the formal man of the dead Letter He preached the first Latine Sermon at the Erection of Sion Colledge upon this Text Benedic Sioni Domine and the last English Sermon at a Visitation upon this Text For Sions sake I will not hold my peace he used often the story of Mr. Dods being strangely moved at midnight without any reason in the world to visit a Neighbor to whom when he said he was come but knew not why the Neighbor answered You know not why you came but God doth that sent you for I was but just now under a temptation to make away my self and he applied it thus that he would never go to visit any out of Complement but Conscience looking up to God that he might bless his presence in the Family whether he went to rebuke the temptations any of the people thereof might lie under As he made not that wearisom which should be welcome by the tediousness of his Sermons never standing above his Glass which he said was Mr. Robert Boltons way nor keeping a Glass unless upon an extraordinary occasion above a quarter of an hour so he made not that common which should be precious by the courseness or cursoriness of them he never offered God or his people what cost him nothing being unless surprized to an extempore performance for which he desires to be rather excused than commended of Demosthenes his minde who never spoke what he had not studied being wont to say That he shewed how he honored and reverenced the people of Athens because he was careful what he spake to them desiring to admire rather than imitate them who made preaching their nature and could discourse Sermons It cost him as much pains to set his own Sermon on his heart that he might speak to the hearts of the people as it did to get them into his head he
of all to his undertakings in the Low Countries where his entertainments were free and noble his carriage towards Officers and Souldiers obliging especially those of his own Country his Engagements in every Action and Council remarkable his Designs on the Enemy restless and his Assaults forward being with the first generally at a Breach or Pass thrice Unhorsed but never daunted before Newport His courage growing from his dangers seldom using a Bed abroad and having little use of it as sleeping but four hours a night usually at home hardening thereby his body and knitting his soul. The first Expedition wherein he appeared was in the Company of the Earls of Essex and Nottingham to Cales where his great spirit was so impatient of delay that when it was Voted they should set upon the Town and Ships he and the Earl of Essex threw up their Caps and were so forward that he was Knighted in the Market-place where he said An old Woman with a Stone knocked down the Esquire and the General commanded him to rise a Knight His next adventure was with Sir Thomas Vere to Brill where he bestowed his time in observing the exact way of modern and regular Fortification His third Expedition was with Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury then Ambassador to make observation upon the Renowned French King H. 4. and his Court the safest and most useful travelling is in an Ambassadors Company and the best places to travel in is Holland to see all the world and France to see any part of it Whence he stepped to see the siege of Amiens so honorably managed by Sir Iohn Baskervile and Sir Arthur Savage His fourth sally was after a Voyage with the Earl of Cumberland to take the Spanish Câ—rickes at Porto Rico with the Northern Ambassadors the Lord Zouch and Dr. Perkins to view the strength Interest and Alliance of the Danes Swedes Muscovians c. and upon his return a short journey after the Earl of Essex to see the obstructions to and the benefits of the Conquest of Ireland And the last Voyage under Queen Elizabeth was with his Country-men Sir Richard Leveson and Sir William Mounson to take the great Caricke worth 1000000 Crowns in the very â—ight of the Spanish â—leet and under their Castle to the great loss of the Spaniard but the infinite advantage of the English who were looked upon now as a people to be feared not to be invaded thus diverting the power of Spain that ever and anon threatned us to defend its self Upon King Iames his arrival he took a private journey to view the Interests Rarities Politicks Magnificences and the Designs of Italy to prepare himself with the more advantage to wait on the Earl of Nottingham in the splendid Ambassie to the slow and reserved Court of Spain whence after a view of the famous siege of Ostâ—ndâ— he returned to be one of the Knights of the Bath at the Installation of Charles Duke of York afterwards King of England And so during the peaceable Reign of King Iames the accomplished Lord setled in Lincoln-shire attended as was occasion 1. The Parliament with very useful suggestions in the three points he spake most to viz. Plantations Trade the Draining of the Fensâ— with other Improvements of our Country and Commodities 2. The Court upon Solemn times with a grave and exemplary aspect and presence 3. The Courts of Justice reckoning the meanest service of Justice not too low for his Lordship which was high enough for a King in his Country with tried Arts of Government severe proceedings against Idleness and dissoluteness several ways to employ and enrich his Neighbors and wholsom orders for the execution of Laws And 4. appearing at home sometime at half-light sometimes like himself as Affairs required improving his Estate as formerly by saving expences and gaining experience in travel So now by Rich Matches equally advancing his Revenue and Honor. 2. By thrifty management 3. Noble Traffick he having learned at Florence and Venice that Merchandise is consistent with Nobility and that the Stamel dy is no stain to the Scarlet Robe and a due improvement of his Estate with due incouragement to his Tenants whose thriving was his security as well as honor and tender regard of his Neighbors disdaining as much to offer an injury to those beneath him as he did to receive one from those above him Such his tenderness of the poor that thronged about his doors as if his house had been then what it was formerly an Hospital the Neighbor Gentry complaining of him merrily as Queen Elizabeth did of F. Russel the second Earl of Bedford That he made all the beggars Such the exactness of his pay and word to all he dealt with On mine Honor was the best assurance from him in the world Such the good Government and civility of his Family a Colledge rather than a Palace where the Neighborhood were bred rather than hired and taught to command themselves by serving him So great his care against Inclosures Whereas no grass groweth where the Grand Seigniors horse sets his foot so nothing but grass grows where some rather great than good men set their evil but powerful eyes His House-keeping so noble having his fish especially Pikes of which he would say it being the Water-Tyrant that destroyed more fish than it was worth that it was the costliest dish at his Table a dish of more State than Profit his Fowl his Beef Mutton Venison and Corn of his own So happy his way of ending Controversies among his Neighbors and consequently so many ways did he serve support and sweeten the Government that he was created Earl of Lindsey 1626. and after the ill success of the Lord Wimbledon and the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham as a man reserved for hazzards and extremities he when all men stood amazed expecting upon what great Person the Dukes Command at Sea should be conferred was pitched upon as Commander in Chief of the Fleet making up in Gallantry Courage and Experience what he wanted in Presence his contracted worth was the more vigorous little Load-stones do in proportion draw a greater quantity of Steel than those that be far greater because their Poles are nearer together and their virtue more united towards which place Sept. 8. 1628. from Portsmouth arriving at the Bar of the Haven with reasonable speed of Wind and Weather which though fortified by Cardinal Richlieu's monstrous Boomes Chains and Barracado's exceeding all Narration and History he bravely attempted passing the Out-works and Bulwarks to the very mouth of the Haven untill a cross-winde returned them foul one upon another from which great dangers and greater service he brought off the Fleet with a retreat as honorable as Conquest that the effect of Conduct and Prudence and this of Fortune 1630. He was admitted of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council and in right of his Ancient Family Lord
High Chamberlain of England 1631. Upon the Trial of a Combate between Donald Rey and David Ramsey he was constituted Lord High-Constable of England for the day 1635. He is Commander in Chief of forty sail assisted by the Vice Admiral the Earl of Essex to secure the Kingdoms Interest Trade and Honor in the narrow Seas against all Pyrates and Pretenders that either Invaded our Rights by the Pen or might incroach upon them with the Sword And in the years 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641. when he had looked through the whole Plot of the Conspirators on the one hand and comprehended the gracious Overtures and design of his Majesty on the other when the Expedients he offered were neglected the warnings he gave of the consequence of such proceedings slighted the earnest Arguments he urged publickly and privately were not regarded and all the Interest and Obligation he had in the Conspirators forgotten withdrew after his Majesty that he might not seem to countenance those courses by his presence which he could not hinder being not able to stop the Current of the â—umults he was resolved not to seem to approve it but followed his Royal Master to York to injoy the freedom of his Conscience where we finde him among other Noble Persons attesting under their hands his Majesties averseness to War as long as there was any hope of Peace and when neither He nor any of his Loyal Subjects when neither Law nor Religion neither Church nor State could be secured from the highest violations and prophanations men could offer or Christians endure without a War and the King not having his Sword in vain but drawing it for a terror to evil doers and an encouragement to them that did well He and his Son the Lord Willoughby of Eresby afterwards Earl of Lindsey first joyned with the rest of the Nobility in a Protestation of their resolution according to their Duty and Allegiance to stand by his Majesty in the maintenance of the Established Laws and Religion with their Lives and Fortunes and accordingly raised the Countreys of Lincoln Nottingham c. as his retainers in love and observance to whom the holding up of his hand was the displaying of a Banner as other Honorable and Loyal Persons did other parts of England untill his Majesty with an incredible diligence and prudence up and down the Kingdom discovered to the deluded people his own worth deserving not only their reverence but also their Lives and Fortunes incouraging the good with his discourses exciting the fearful by his example concealing the Imperâ—ections of his Friends but always praysing their virtues and prevailing upon all not too guilty or too much debauched so far as to raise an Army that amazed his Enemies who had represented him such a Prodigy of Folly and Vice that they could not imagine any person of Prudence or Conscience would appear in his service expecting every day when deserted by all as a Monster he should in Chains deliver himself up to the Commands of the Parliament and surprized even his Friends who despaired that ever he should be able to defend their Estates Lives or Liberties by a War who to make his people happy if they had not despised their own mercies had by passing Acts against his own Power to Impress Souldiers his right in Tonnage and Poundage the Stannary Courts Clerk of the Market the Presidial Court in the North and Marches of Wales deprived himself of means to manage viz. of a Revenue without which no Discipline in an Army as without Discipline no Victory by it and who esteemed it an equal misery to expose his people to a War and himself to ruine Yet an Army by the large Contributions and extraordinary endeavors of this Noble Lord and other Honorable persons to be be mentioned in due time which being under several who could abide no Equal as none of them could endure a Superior having no Chief or indeed being all Chiefs the Swarm wanted a Master 〈◊〉 a Supream Commander who should awe them all into obedience It was observed by Livy that in the great Battel the Criâ—â—cal day of the worlds Empire betwixt Hannibal and Scipio that the Shouts of Hannibals Army was weak the voices disagreeing as consisting of divers I angâ—ages and the shouting of the Romans far more terrible as being all as one voice When they who agreed in few other particulars conspired in this that the Earl of Lindsey pitched upon as Lord General of the Army by his Majesty was an expedient worthy the choice and prudence of a Prince to command and train a fresh Army to credit and satisfie a suspecting people when they saw the Kings Cause managed by persons of such Integrity Popularity and Honor as they could trust their own with In which Command his first service was the drawing up of Articles for Discipline to be observed by the Army wherein he took care 1. Of Piety as the true ground of Prowess 2. Of Chastiâ—y remembring how Zisca intangled his enem is by commanding so many thousand Women to cast their Keâ—cheifs and Partlets on the ground wherein the other Army were caught by the Spurs and ensâ—ared Little hopes that they will play the Men who are overcome by Women 3. Civility that he might win the Country in order to the reducing of the Faction it being sad to raise more enemies by boisterousness in their Marches and Quarters than they engaged by their Valour in the Field so increasing daily the manyâ— headed Hydra 4. Sobriety without which he said the Engagement would prove a Revel and not a War and besides the scandal render the best Army unfit either for Council or Action and uncapable of meeting with a sober enemies active designs much less of carrying on any of their own so loosing the great advantages of war as G. Adolphus called them Surprizes Next the Discipline of the Army he took care of their numbers a great Army being not easily manageable and the Commands of the General cool and loose some virtue in passing so long a journey through so many and next that of their suitableness and agreeableness one with another and after that of their order that they might help one another as an Army rather than hinder one another as a Croud and then their Provision and Pay that they might not range for Necessaries when they should fight for Victory Thirty thousand men as brave Gonzaga said thus disciplined and thus accommodated are the best Army as being as good as a Feast and far better than a Surfeit In the Head of this Army a foot with a Pike in his Hand having trained up his Souldiers by Skirmishes before he brought them to Battle he appeared at Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. too prodigal of his Person which was not only to fill one Place but to inspire and guide the whole Army But that it is a Maxime of the Duke of Roan That never great person performed great undertaking but by making war in
each side by his great Moderation Prudence and Interest and when these proved unsuccesseful with those who as it is said of a French Rebel had drawn their Swords against their King and so thrown away their Scabbards being capable of no accommodation because not secure from the guilt of their former Crimes but by committing greater to cut off those they had acted against being guided by this Maxime We must kill those from whom in justice we can expect nothing but Execution to Composition paying near 7000 l. at first besides what was afâ—ter penalty upon penalty was the common false Heraldry of those upstart oppressors squeezed from him by Decimations c. and the constant restraint as it were of his Person all the years from 46 to 60 being but a great Paroule of fourteen years in which time how magnanimous was he in unwearied Overtures of Concessions Requests Arguments Conjurations Threatnings particular and infinite Applications and a ransome too for his dear Masters Life yea offering even himself as being one of the prime Ministers of the Kings commands as an hostage for him and if the Conspirators must needs be fed with bloud to suffer in his stead for whatever he had done amiss and when they chose rather to take away his Majesties life than beg their own and the most impetuous passion of Ambition having swallowed the hopes of Empire carryed them head-long to remove his Majesty that they might Inthrone themselves How piously did he and his many pious relations that made his place a Cloyster rescent the Parricide and the consequents of it giving up themselves to the extrraordinary Devotions in the despised and afflicted way of the Church of England communicating where ever they were only with the Members of that Church to the honor whereof and of baffled piety and virtue its self I cannot conceal though I offend unpardonably against her modesty when I mention a Sister of his that composeth her soul more carefully by Gods word than others do their faces by their Glasses Spends that time in praying keeping inviolably all the Primitive hours of Devotion that is thrown away too commonly in dressing gaming and complementing and bestow her thoughtful and serious Life between the strictest fasting but one sparing Meal in thirty six hours and not so much upon extraordinary occasions the most Liberal Alms both to the sick and to the needy bountiful both in her Skill and in her Charity Indefatigable reading serious discourses and constant prayers How prudently did he supply his Majesty and his Friends and by a discreet Correspondence when he could not reclaim yet he moderated the extravagancies of the times which had over-turn'd all things past the remedy of a Restauration if the extream violence of some men had not been seasonally allayed and corrected by the sober Applications and Interests of others Heartily did he wish well to the least design and attempt for Loyalty and Liberty but wisely did he observe that unsuccessful practices against any Government settle it the Bramble of usurpation as well as the Oak being more fixed and rooted by being shaken All Governments making use of real dangers and when they want them of seigned ones to improve their Revenues and increase their Guards But it is not to be forgotten that when he could not prevail for the Life of his Soveraign he with other Honorable Persons procured Orders and made provisions for and gave attendance on his Funeral reserving himself by his wary proceedings in his Masters cause for the fittest opportunity of his service being not all the time of the Usurpation actually restrained from his pursuit of the Royal Cause but once 1655. by Mannings Treason being sure as he would say That if none betrayed him on the other side of the water none should on this when with the Lords Maynard Lucas Peter Sir Ieffrey Palmer Sir Richard Wingfield c. he was committed to the Tower upon suspicion and as it proved but the bare suspicion of what they called High-Treason In which course he persisted untill it pleased God by divers Revolutions to open a way for the Lord General to settle the Nation in a way most suitable to his own prudent and wary Rules with whom he entred into a very strict and intire Friendship continuing through the correspondency of their discreet and generous tempers to his death the General advising with him about his Majesties Reception and other Affairs of very great consequence and being admitted at the same time with him one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council Lord Lieutenant of Lincoln-shire c. Commander of a Regiment in the Army till it was disbanded one among many other Noblemen of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer for the Tryal of the late Kings Murtherers one of the most Honorable Order of the Garter 16 April 1661. appearing at his Majesties Coronation one of the first subjects in England in capacity of Lord High Chamberlain of England and upon all other occasions in Court Parliament and Country carrying himself as a wise man an ancient Nobleman as a good Patriot and a Loyal Subject till he dyed 1665. at Kensington leaving this Character behinde him that as the Red Rose though outwardly not so fragrant yet is inwardly more Cordial than the Damask so the most excellent Persons virtues are more inwardly solid between God and their own souls than outwardly vaunting in the sight of men he being as plain in his soul as he was in his garb which he resolved should be proud of him rather than he of it Hic jacet Montacutius Comes Lindseiae c. Magnus Angliae Camerarius A Sanctioribus consilii Carolo Primo puriter Secundo Regii ordinis Periscellidis Socius titulis magnus virtutibus major comunis amor olim communius jam damnum nisi post se reliquisset maxima duo nempe haeredem exemplum 1666. THE Lives and Deaths Of four Sufferers of The Honorable House of RICHMOND I. Of the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord D'AUBIGNEY XErxes viewing his vast Army from an high place all at a sight is said to weep at the thought that within an hundred years all those would be mowed down with death What man having in one view the great number of brave Persons that lost their Lives in this War can refrain the mingling of his tears with their bloud Certainly young State-reformers like young Physicians should with the first Fee for their practice purchase a new Church-yard What Erasmus said of his Country-men the Germans that I may see of our party the Cavaliers Nobiles habent pro hominibus that they had Noblemen as thick as the other party had men Insomuch that had the War lasted a little longer the Ladies of England must have been in the same condition with the Gentlewomen in Champaigne in France who some 350. years since were forced to marry Yeomen or Farmers because all the Nobility in that Counâ— yet were slain in the Wars in the
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
an happy guess of what was to come yet his opinion was neither variably unconstant nor obstinately immoveable but framed to present occasions wherein his method was to begin a second advice from the failure of the first though he hated doubtful suspense when he might be resolute This one great defect was his good nature that he could never distrust till it was dangerous to suspect and he gave his Enemy so much advantage that he durst but own him for his Friend One thing he repented of that he advised his Majesty to trust Duke Hamilton his adversary with the affairs of Scotland in compliance with the general opinion rather than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times wrongs him and gives advantage to the subtile while he rather pities their faithlessness than repents of his credulity so great advantage have they that look only what they may do over them that consider what they should do and they that observe only what is expedient over them that judge only what is lawful Therefore when those that thought themselves wise left their sinking Soveraign he stuck to his Person while he lived to his Body when dead and to his Cause as long as he lived himself Attending the first resolutely burying the second honorably and managing the third discreetly undertaking without rashness and performing without fear never seeking dangers never avoiding them Although when his friends were conquered by the Rebels he was conquered by himself returning to that privacy where he was guessed at not known where he saw the world unseen where he made yielding conquest where cheerful and unconcerned in expectation he provided for the worst and hoped for the best in the constant exercise of that Religion which he and his maintained more effectually with their examples than with their Sword doing as much good in encouraging the Orthodox by his presence as in relieving them by his bounty In a word I may say of him as Macarius doth of Iustine there was no vice but he thought below him and no virtue which he esteemed not his duty or his ornament Neither was his prudence narrower than his virtue nor his virtue streighter than his fortune His main service was his inspection into the Intrigues and Reserves of the Parliamentiers at Vxbridge and his Cajoling of the Independants and Scots at London where the issue of his observation was That the King should as far as his conscience could allow comply with the unreasonable desires of an unlimited ambition to make it sensible of the evils that would flow from its own counsels being confident as events have assured us that the people would see the inconvenience of their own wishes and that they would return that power which they sought for but could not manage to its proper place before it became their ruin For unbounded liberty overthroweth its self But alas it was too late to grant them any thing who by having so much were only encouraged more eagerly to desire what they knew the King in honor could not give for when a Prince is once rendred odious or contemptible his indulgencies do him no less hurt than injuries As his Services were great so were his Recreations useful Hunting that manly exercise being both his pleasure and his accomplishment his accomplishment I say since it is in the list of Machiavel's Rules to his Prince as not only the wholesomest and cheapest diversion both in relation to himself and his people but the best Tutor to Horseman-ship Stratagems and Situations by which he may afterwards place an Army whatever Sir Sidney's apprehension was who used to say Next Hunting he liked Hawking worst His other Brothers died in the Field vindicating his Majesties Cause and he pined away in his house mourning for his Majesties Person whom he would have died for and when that could not be died with his innocent temper having rendred him the Kings Bosom Friend as his conscience made him his Good Subject Hic Jacobum Richmondiae ducem ne conditum putes eorundem quibus vixit perpetuum Incolam Cordium Caeca quem non extulit ad honorem sors sed aequitas fides doctrina pietas modesta prudentia neu morte raptum crede agit vitam secundam Caelites Inter animus fama Implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara Dicata sempiternae memoriae Aenigma saeculi omnia Intelligens a nullo Intellectus E vivis migravet non e vita marcido in corpore diu sepultus Intra penates Lugendo consenuit Diu exspiravit vivum Cadaver sero mâ—ritur jam mortuo similis Cogitando vitam absolvit ut contemplando aeternitatem Inter beatorum libros Indefesso studio versatus ut beatoruâ—â— societatis dignior pars esset 165 5 THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord AUBIGNEY Lord Almoner to Her Highness Mary The Queen Mother of England TIme was when the despised Priesthood was so honorable that the same great word signified and the same eminent Persons among the Iews the Aâ—gyptians the Graecians and Romans executed together the two excellent Functions of Priest and Prince Rex Anius Rex Idem hominum Phaebique sacâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—rg Aâ—ncid l. 3 And most of the Roman Emperors were as proud of the sacred Title of Arch-flamens as they were of the Câ—â—racter of Semper Aâ—gusti As to come nearer our selves there were at one time in England three Kings Sons six Dukes eight Earls and fourteen Lords Sons in Holy Orders Time was when Abbies and Monasteries were an easie out-let for the Nobility and Gentry of this Land to dispose of their younger Children that Son who had not mettal enough to manage a sword might have meekness enough to wear a Cowle Clap a vail on the head of a younger daughter especially if she were superannuated not overhandsome melancholy c. and instantly she was provided for in a Nunnery without cost or care of her Parents One eminent instance whereof we have in Ralph Nevil first Earl of Westmerland of that Family whom we behold as the happiest Subject of England since the Conquest if either we account the number of Children or measure the heighth of honor they attained to for of nine Children he had by Margaret his first Wife Abbess of Barking and a second viz. Elizabeth was a Nun And of a eleven by his Wife Ioan one Iane was a Nun all the other seventeen being Lords and Ladies at that time of the highest quality in the Kingdom And no wonder saith our Author if our Earls preferred their Daughters to be Nuns seeing no King of England since the Conquest had four Daughters living to womans estate but he disposed one of them to be a Votary by the
in Chief of the West where in half an year he got 40. Garrisons well maintained 12000. men well disciplined 1000 l. a month Contribution regularly setled above 400 old Officers Souldiers and Engineers out of the Palatinate the Low Countries and Ireland usefully employed A Press to Print Orders Declarations Messages and other Books to instruct and undeceive the people Prudently managed the Pen upon all occasions being wonderfully quick in clearing this great truth That his Majesty and his Fellowers had no other intention in this war that they were necessitated to than the defence of the Protestant Religion the Laws the Liberty and property of the Subject together with the Priviledge of Parliament And by these ways prospered so well but especially 1. By the choice of his Deputies and Officers as curiously observing other mens worth as he carelesly undervalued his own being choice in his instruments because he was so in his designs well knowing that great actions must be left to the management of great souls 2. By his Discipline of the Army without which Commanders lead thronged Multitudes and not Armies and listed Routs rather than Regiments keeping his Souldiers men that they might not be conquered by their debaucheries first and then by their enemies by moral instructions enduring no Achan to trouble his Camp as well as making them Souldiers that they might not be to learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militari dicere non putaram by military direction 3. By his Pay to his followers pinching himself to gratifie them knowing well what gelt could do and what it was to keep back from men the price of their bloud making them hazard their lives by Fight to earn their pay and by Famine before they got it His three words were Pay well Command well and Hang well 4. By his care to keep open the Trade of the Countries under his Command by Sea and Land 5. By his solemn familiarity neither the Mother of Contempt nor the Daughter of Art and design his language with Caesar to his Country-men was not Milites but Comilitones and with the Husbandman it was not Go ye but Gawee seldom putting them upon any service the most difficult part whereof he undertook not himself in so much that the Country stood as well out of love to his Person as conscience towards his Cause 6. By sharing with them in their wants observing their deserts and rewarding them he never made scales of his Souldiers when they were dead in taking Cities nor Bridges of them when living in bestowing preferments knowing that deserving persons are more deeply wounded by their Commanders neglect than by their Enemies the one may reach to kill the body the other deadneth the spirit 7. By preserving his Souldiers being loath to loose them in a day which he could not breed in a year and understanding the perience and resolution of a veterane Army he had the happy way of securing and entrenching himself for which â—ustavus Adolphus is so famous so as in spight of his enemies to fight for no mans pleasure but his own not cozened by any appearances nor forced by any violence to fight till he thought fitting himself counting it good manners in war to take all advantages and give none especially when the small beginnings of his affairs confined his care more how to save himself handsomelyâ— than set on the enemy giving his enemies occasion to complain that he would not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a man because he would not receivâ— into his â—oâ—y his whole dart A prudent reservation is as useful as a â—esolute onset it being a greater skill to ward off blows than to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresight to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in incountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as the Lord Bacon observes who drew his life with a Pencil as majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent 8. By understanding his Enemies way and the Countreys scituation as to take many advantages by his incredible diligence all his army doing service once every sixth day and prevent all disadvantages by his equally incredible watchfulness 9. By his Piety keeping strict communion with God all the while he was engaged in a war with men He was reckoned a Puritan before the wars for his strict life and a Papist in the wars for exemplary devotion entertaining sober and serious Non-conformists in his House while he fought against the Rebellioâ—s and Factious in the Field And we find him subscribing a Petition to his Majesty 1630. with other Gentlemen of Sommerset shire to prevent unlawful and scandalous Revellings on the Lords day As we observe him publishing Orders for the strict observation of the Lords day the incouragement of good Ministers and People throughout his quarters being very severe in these two Cases 1. Rapines committed among the people And 2. Prophaneness against God saying That the scandal of his Souldiers should neither draw the wrath of God upon his undertaking nor enrage the Country against his Cause By these courses I say he prospered so being so well placed to use Paterculus his words of Sejanus in eo cum judicio Principis certahant studia populi that the enemies Historian May writes this undoubted because an adversaries testimony of him Of all commanders there that sided with the King against the Parliament Sir Ralph Hopton by his unwearied industry and great reputation among the people had raised himself to the most considerable heighth until the Earl of Stamford coming to the West raised Sir Ralph from the Siege of Plymouth with some disadvantage which yet the old Souldier made up again by a Parthian stratagem of a feigned flight entrapping most of the Earls men and to overthrowing the Parliament Forces in so much that the Earl of Stamford desired a truce for twenty days which Sir Ralph condescended to with a design during the truce to bring off Sir Iohn Chadley as he did so happily that the Earl was forced to betake himself to Exeter the whole West consisting of so many rich and flourishing Shires being wholly at his Majesties devotion And when Sir William Waller with the posse of twenty one Counties came upon him he managed Skirmishes and Retreats with so much dexterity that his very Flights conquered for drawing Sir William to the Devizes to Besiege it and making as if he would Treat about the yielding of that place he contrived that he should be surprized with an unexpected Party of Horse on the one side while he drew out upon him on the other with such success that he defeated scattered and ruined him beyond relief the Earl of
understood he the interest of all his places and resolutely he maintained them What saith he shall the Liberties of Westminster he infringed when the chief Favorite is Steward and the Lord Keeper Dâ—an and I the Contemptible man that must be trampled on When he was in trouble what passion what insinuation what condescension hath he at command when Petitioned to how quickly he looked through men and business how exactly would he judge and how resolutely conclude without an immediate intimation from his Majesty or the Duke Many eyes were upon him and as many eyes were kept by him upon others being very watchful on all occasions to accommodate all emergencies and meet with all humors always keeping men in dependance on the Duke according to this intimation of his Cabal 287. Let him hold it but by your Lordships favor not his own power A good way had he been constant to it the neglect whereof undid him for designing the promotion of Dr. Price to the Bishoprick of Armagh he moved it to the Duke who told him it was disposed of to Dr. Vsher. Whereupon he went his own way to advance that man and overthrew himself for then his Lord let him feel what he had threatned my Lord Bacon when he advanced him That if he did not owe his Preferment always to his favor he should owe his fall to his frown The peremptoriness of his judgment rendred him odious his compliance with Bristol suspected and his Sermon at King Iames's Funeral his tryal rather than his Preferment obnoxious His spirit was great to act and too great to suffer It was prudence to execute his Decrees against all opposition while in power it was not so to bear up his miscarriages against all Authority while in disgrace A sanguine Complexion with its Resolutions do well in pursuit of success Flegm and its patience do better in a Retreat from micarriages This he wanted when it may be thinking fear was the passion of King Charles's Government as well as King Iames he seconded his easie fall with loud and open discontents and those discontents with a chargeable defence of his Servants that were to justifie them and all â—â—th that unsafe popularity invidious pomp and close irregularity that laid him open to too many active persons that watched him Whether his standing out against Authority to the perplexing of the Government in the Star Chamber in those troublesome times his entertainment and favor for the Discontented and Non-Conformists his motions for Reformation and Alteration in twelve things his hasty and unlucky Protestation in behalf of the Bishops and following actions in England and Wales where it s all mens wonders to hear of his Mâ—ruit su◠〈…〉 had those private grounds and reasons that if the Bishop could have spoken with the King but half an hour he said would have satisfied him the King of Kings only knoweth to whom he hath given I hope a better account than any Historian of his time hath given for him But I understand better his private inclinations than his publick actions the motions of his nature than those of his power the Conduct of the one being not more reserved and suspicious than the effects of the other manifest and noble for not to mention his Libraries erected and furnished at St. Iohns and Westminster his Chappel in Lincoln Colledge the Repairs of his Collegiate Church his Pensions to Scholars more numerous than all the Bishops and Noble-men besides his Rent Charges on all the Benefices in his gift as Lord Keeper or Bishop of Lincoln to maintain hopeful youth according to a Statute in that Case provided Take this remarkable instance of his Munificence that when Du Moulin came over he calleth his Chaplain now the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and telleth him he doubted the good man was low wishing him to repair to him with some Money and his respects with assurance that he would wait upon him himself at his first leisure The excellent Doctor rejoyceth that he could carry him no less than twenty pounds The Noble Bishop replyed he named not the summe to sound his Chaplains minde adding that twenty pounds was neither fit for him to give nor for the Reverend Forreigner to receive Carry said he an hundred pounds He is Libelled by common fame for unchaste though those that understood the privacies and casualties of his Infancy report him but one degree removed from a Misogonist Though to palliate his infirmities he was most compleat in Courtly addresses The conversableness of this Bishop with Women consisted chiefly if not only in his Treatments of great Ladies and Persons of honor wherein he did personate the compleatness of Courtesie to that Sex otherwise a Woman was seldom seen in his house which therefore had alwayes more Magnificence than Neatness sometimes defective in the Punctilio's and Niceties of Daintiness lying lower than Masculine Cognizance and as level for a Womans eye to espy as easie for her hand to amend He suffereth for conniving at Puritans out of hatred to Bishop Loud and for favoring Papists out of love to them yet whatever he offered King Iames when the Match went on in Spain as a Counsellor or whatever he did himself as a Statesman such kindness he had for our Liturgy that he translated and Printed it at his own Cost into Spanish and used it in the Visitation of Melvin when sick to his own peril in the Tower and such resolution for Episcopacy that his late Majesty of blessed Memory said once to him My Lord I commend you that you are no whit daunted with all Disasters but are zealous in defending your Order Please it your Majesty replyed the Archbishop I am a true Welshman and they are observed never to run away till their Generall first forsakes them no fear of any flinching while your Majesty doth countenance our Cause His Extraction was Gentile and Antient as appeared from his Ancestors estate which was more than he could purchase without borrowing when at once Lord Keeper Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster His minde great and resolute insomuch that he controuled all other advices to his last to his loss in Wales and daunted Sir Iohn Cook as you may see in his Character to his honor in England His Wariness hath these Arguments 1. That he would not send the Seal to the King but under Lock and Key 2. That being to depute one to attend his place at the Coronation of King Charles the First he would not name his Adversary Bishop Laud to gratifie him nor yet any other to displease the King but took a middle way and presented his Majesty a List of the Prebendaries to avoid any exception referring the Election to his Majesty himself 3. That he proposed a partial Reformation of our Church to the Parliament to prevent an utter extirpation by it 4. That he exposed others to the censure of the Parliament 1625.
his friends Prayer and Fasting his certain Refuge in this as well as other Exigents A tremulous and doubtful propensity of minde to both and neither side being in such disgrace with him that he would call it the deliberation of Buridans Asse His fifth rule was to keep up a vigorous and lively Devotion so much his basiness that when an irremediable drowziness seized upon him at Prayers after a violent haemorrhage though he returned to every Response amidst his importunate infirmity he very sadly resented it saying Alas this is all the return I shall make to this meerly to sleep at Prayers His last Maxim was that suffering was a blessing and a priviledge whence these Divine Aphorisms in reference to the publick then in a dismal state for its sin and the consequences of it That prosperous iniquity would not be a deliverance but the most formidable judgment That the Nation during its pressures was under the Discipline of God given up to Satan by a kinde of Ecclesiastical censure and should the Almighty dismiss us from his hands and put us into our own giving us up to our selves with a why should you be smitten any more this were of all inflictions the most dreadful And these his Maxims with respect to the sad consequences of the Cheshire-defeat in answer to the desponding sorrows of a friend Sept. 2. Sir yet there is not wanting some gleam of light if we shall yet by Gods grace be qualified to make use of it It is the Supream priviledge of Christianity to convert the saddest evils into the most medicinal advantages the valley of Achor unto the door of hope the blackest tempest into the most perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All kinde of prosperity even that which we most think we can justifie the pursuance of the flourishing of a Church and Monarchy is treacherous and dangerous and might very probably tend to our great ills and nothing is so intirely safe and wholsom as to be continued under Gods Discipline therefore let us adore bless and resign our selves to Gods wisest choice And these his resentments of that blessed alteration he as passionately feared as wished suspecting his own hopes and weeping over his fruitions his Majesty will be now brought to that uneasie if not unsupportable task of Ruling and Reforming a licentious people to that most irksome sufferance of being worryed with the importunities of covetous and ambitious men the restless care of meeting the designs of mutinous and discontented spirits resolving his most wished return only a blessing to his people not so to himself but on the score of having opportunities through glorious self-denyals to do good I have considered what other men would be better for this change and I know not any as for the Church persecution was generally the happiest means of propagating that and she then grew fastest when pruned most then of the best complexion and most healthy when fainting through loss of bloud as to the Laity in all their several stations they had so much perverted the healthful dispensations of judgment that it was most improbable they should make any tolerable use of mercy and lastly in reference to himself he resolved affliction most conducible I must confess said he near the approaching change I never saw that time in all my life wherein I could so chearfully say my Nunc Dimittis as now Indeed I do dread prosperity I do really dread it for the little good I am now able to do I can do it with deliberation and advice But if it pleased God I should live and be called to any higher Office in the Church I must then do many things in a hurry and shall not have time to consult with others and I sufficiently apprehend the danger of relying on my own judgment And his only triumph upon the defeat of Lambert and that last effect of gasping treason was that of his Charity saying with tears in his eyes Poor souls I beseâ—â—h God forgive them His Charity I say which was the habit of his soul which Vertue he said commanded because he loved it and Vice enjoyed because it wanted them yet must all these Vertues dye and that last line that is drawn over all Perfections must be the Period of his Character Dr. Hammond departed this world April 25. 1660. commending that calm and tranquillity to his Attendants he had exercised being in his highest Agonies pleased with every thing that was done and brought him exhorting the young growing hopes of the family whose first innocence and bashful shame of doing ill he above all things laboured to have preserved to be just to the advantage of their Education and maintain inviolate their Baptismal Vow Enlarging to all about him the great advantages of mutual friendly admonition and bequeathing the excellent Lady upon her request of his direction for her whole life that most comprehensive Duty Vniform Obedience Yet is it pity this excellent Person should be Mortal who thought and designed nothing that was less than Immortal nor shall he dye having four Monuments as lasting as time and the world which at their own dissolution must resign him to a fair eternity This Apothegm commended to Postâ—rity as Dr. Hammonds resolution That the very condition of obeying the Lot of not being to chuse for ones self the being determined in all proposals by Humane or Divine Command and where those left at large by the guidance of Gods Providence or the assistance of a friend was the happiest state in the world 2. A fair Monument of White Marble erected at Hampton where by a Multitude of Gentry and Clergy the last of whom carryed him to his Grave he was buryed according to his desire without Pomp with the Rites of the Church of England in the Burying-place of the generous Family wherein he lived by the Generous Piety of the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey Lord Bishop of London bearing this Inscription Henricus Hammondus Ad cujus nomen assurgit Quicquid est gentis literatae dignum nomen Quod Auro non Atrame nto Nec in Marmore perituro sed Adamante potius exaretur Musagetes Celeberrimus vir plane summus Theologus omnium consummatissimus Eruditae pietatis Decus simul exemplar Sacri Codicis Interpres facile omnium oculatissimus Errorum Malleus Post homines natos faelicissimus veritatis Hyperaspistes supra quam Diei potest nervosus In cujus scriptis elucescunt Ingenii gravitas Acumen Iudicii sublimitas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sententiarum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dâ—cendi met hodus utilissima Nusquam dormitans diligentia Hammondus inquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in ipsa mortis vicinia positus Immortalitati quasi contiguus exuvias Mortis venerandas Praeter quas nihil Mortale habuit sub obscuro hoc marmore Latere voluit VII Cal. Majas An. Aetat LV. M. D. C. L. X. This is all the Marble could contain but not all either the Excellent Dr.
Hammonds Worth deserved or the Reverend Dr. Peirces affection could Indite upon whose affectionate Pen the Elogy grew thus Sed latere qui voluit ipsas latebras illustrat Et Pagum alias obscurum Invitus cogit inclarescere Nullibi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illi potest deesse Qui msi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nihil aut dixit aut fecit unquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Animi dotibus ita annos anteverterat ut in ipsa linguae infantia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eaque aetate Magister artium Qua vix alii Tyrones esset Tam sagaci fuit industria ut horas etiam subsicivas utilius perderet Quam Plerique Mortalium serias suas collocarunt Nemo rectius de se meruit Nemo sensit demissius Nihil eo aut exceltius erat aut humilius Scriptis suis factisque Sibi uni non placuit Qui tam calamo quam vita â—umano generi complacucrat Ita Labores pro Dei sponsa ipsoque Deo exant-lavit ut Coelum ipsum ipsius humeris incubuisse videretur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnem super gressus Romanenses vicit Profligavit Genevates De utrisque merito triumpharunt Et Veritas Hammondus utrisque merito triumphaturis ab Hammondo victis veritate Qualis ille inter amicos censendus erit Qui demâ—reri sibi adversos vel hostes potuit Omnes haereses incendiarias Atramento suo deleri maluit Quam ipsorum aut sanguine extingui Aut dispendio Animae expiari Coeli Indigena Eo divitias praemittebat ut ubi cor jam erat ibi etiam thesaurus Quod prolixe bene-volus prodiga manu erogavit aeternitatem in faenore lucraturus Quicquid habuit voluit habere etiam invalidae valetudinis Ita habuit in deliciis non magis facere quam sufferre Totam Dei voluntatem ut frui etiam videretur vel morbi taedio Summam animi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 testatam fecit Hilaris frons exporrecta Nusquam alius in filiis hominum Gratior ex pulchro veniebat corpore virtus omne jam tulerat punctum omnium plausus Cum Mors quasi suum adjciens Calculum Funesta lithiase Coeli avidum Maturum Coelo Abi viator Pauca sufficiat delibasse Reliqua serae posteritati narranda restant Quibus pro merito enarrandis una aetas non sufflcit The Third are his Books more lasting than Marble viz. ANnotations on the New Testament Fol. Annotations on the Psalms Fol. A Volume of Sermons Fol. Practical Catechism Octavo A Vindication of some Passages therein from the Censures of the London Ministers Quarto Tracts 1. Of Conscience 2. Of Scandal 3. Of Will-Worship 4. Of Superstition 5. Idolatry 6. Sins of Weakness and Willfulness 7. Of a late or Death-bed Repentance Of Fraternal Admonition or Correction Quarto Of the Power of the Keys of Binding and Loosing Quarto A View of the New Directory and Vindication of the Ancient Lyturgy of the Church of England Quarto Considerations concerning the danger of Changing Church-government Quarto Of Resisting the Lawful Magistrate under the colour of Religion Quarto A View of some Exceptions made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Faeulkland's discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome Quarto A Copy of some Papers passed at Oxford between the Author and Master Cheynell An Address to the Lord Fairfax with a Vindication thereof A Vindication of the Dissertations concerning Episcopacy from the London Ministers Exceptions in their Ius Divinum Ministeri Evangelii Six Queries resolved 1. Of the way of Resolving Controversies 2. Of Marrying the Wives Sister 3. Of Poligamy and Divorce 4. Of Infant Baptism 5. Of Imposition of Hands for Ordination 6. Of the Observation of Christmass and other Festivals of the Church Twelves Of Fundamentals in a Nation referring to Practice Octavo Of Schism against the Romanists Twelves A Reply to the Catholique Gentleman about the Book of Schism Quarto A second Defence of that Book Quarto Controversies about Ignatius his Epistles Quarto Defences of the learned Hugo Grotius An Account of Mr. Cawdreys Triplix Diatuba of Superstition Will-worship and Christmass Festivals The Baptizing of Infants Revived and Defended against Master Tombes Dissertationes quatuor de Episcopatu contra Blondellum c. Paraenesis Or a seasonable Exhortatory to all true Sons of the Church of England wherein is inserted a discourse of Heresies in defence of our Church against the Romanists Twelves Discourses against Mr. Ieanes about the Ardency of Christs Prayer and other then agitated Controversies A Latine Tract of Confirmation wherein Mounsieur Daillee is concerned A single Sheet shewing to what shifts the Papists are driven Two Prayers for the Nation when under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure His fourth and last as durable as the rest is his Life I know not whether better lived by himself or writ by the Reverend Doctor Fell from whose exact Syllables it were a vanity impardonable in me while I have before me Dr. Hamond that compleat Idea of what is fit to vary further than my enjoyed brevity enforced me because no Pen can more elegantly express that Person than his who so severely practiseth his virtues To the Church of Englands honour and advantage be it spoken in this last age when ancient virtue had lost its reputation and was outshined by the success and gallantry of new vices it recovered its own amiableness in Dr. Hamonds person and Dr. Fells Character A character that is his nature not his fancy and writ well because lived so THE Life and Death OF Dr. RALPH BROWNRIG Lord Bishop of Exceter BIshop Brownrig was a person of that soundnesse of Iudgement of that conspicuity for an unspotted Life of that unsuspected Integrity that his life was Virtutum norma as Ierome of Nepolian ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non habuisset So eminent in every good and perfect gift as if he had but oâ—e only There was never any thing said by him which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone He was born at Ipswich a Town of good note in Suffolk in the year of our Lord 1592. His Parents of Merchantly condition of worthy reputation and of very Christian conversation When he was not many weeks old God took away â—his earthly Father that himself might have the more tender care of the Orphan by the prudence of his pious Mother his youth and first years of reason were carefully improved for his breeding in all good learning He was sent in his fourteenth year to Pembroke-hall in Cambridge There his modesty pregnancy and piety soon invited preferment He was first made Scholar of the House and after Fellow a little sooner than either his years or standing in rigor of Statute permitted but the Colledge was impatient not to make sure of him by grafting him firmly into that Society which had been famous for many excellent men but none more than Brownrig When Bachelor and
things that as he was honoured with King Charles the first his Writ to be Baron in Parliament a favour his Ancestor Robert de Piere-point had in Edward the thirds time but did not enjoy being summoned a Baron in Parliament and dying before he Sate therein by the Title of Baron Piere-point and Viscount Newarke and afterwards 4. Caroli primi Earl of Kingston for his moderate opinions between the extreams then prevailing in Parliaments which he was able to accommodate as to State Affairs as an experienced man and as to Church Affairs as a Christian and a great Scholar Whence he would commend a general learning to young Noblemen upon this ground because the great variety of Debates that came before them wherein the unlearned Gentry either rashly offer dangerous proposals to impose on others oâ— sloathfully rest in a tame yea and nay being easily imposed on by others The effect whereof we found both in his and his hopeful Son the now Illustrious Marquess of Dorchesters learned and rational Defences of the Spiritual Function and Temporal Honors and Imployments of Bishops 1641 2. which though they could not convert any of the obstinate Anti-episcopal men not a speech to satisfie their reason but a grant to gratifie their interest must effect that yet confirmed they the wavering Episcopal party When it came to passe in the Civil Wars of England as it had done in those of Rome that the Seditious Brutus and Cassius were followed by the lower sort of the people Ex subditis Romanorum saith Dion while Caesars Army consisted Ex Romanis nobilibus sortibus This honorable Person and his Eldest Son attended his Majesty the Father with the Sword and the Son with the Pen more fatal to the Faction that the Sword and therefore the first men excepted out of Pardon were such excellent Pen-men as the Lords Viscount Newark and Faulkland Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and Mr. Endintion Porter the quickness of whose honorable Declarations and Replies amazed the Conspiracy as the smartnesse of them betrayed and defeated it their writings being like truth naturally clear and the Rebels like error forced and obscure He brought to his Majesty 4000 men of whose number 2000 were able and willing to serve him with their Persons and the râ—st with their Armes and Money to the value of 24000 l. and having the care of the Country with his near Relation the Duke of New-castle he vigorously opposed the legitimate Commission of Array to the by-blow of the Militia till he was surprized at Gainsborough by the Lord Willoughby of Parrham and being looked upon as a person of great concernment to the Kings affaires the Country calling him usually the good Earl of Kingston sent towards Hull in a Pinnace which Sir Charles Cavendish who knew well the value of that noble person as well as the enemy pursued demanding the Earl and when refused shooting at the Pinnace with a Drake that unfortunately killed him and his servant placed a mark to his friends shot who when they took the Vessel put all the Company to the Sword a just though not a valuable sacrifice to so noble a Ghost which King Charles the I. would have ransomed at as high a rate as his Ancestor Robert Peire-point was redeemed in Edward the III. time who cost that King when taken at Lewis 700 mark the Ransom as money went in those days of a Prince rather than a Subject Robertus Baro Peire-point Comes Kinstoniae quem amici servando occiderunt ab ubinon mors Si caecus amor ipso infestius odio sâ—miae more affectu necat amplexibus strangubat THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS MORTON Bishop of Duresm HE was of the same original and stock with that Eminent Prelate and wise States-man Iohn Morton Loâ—d Chancellor and Arch-bishop of Canterbury by whose contrivance and management the Houses of York and Lancaster were united as appeareth by his Coat-Armor and Pedigree He was born in the ancient and famous City of York March 20. 1564. his Parents were of good repute Mr. Richard Morton a well known Mercer and Mrs. Elizabeth Leedale by whom the Valvasours and Langdales acknowledge themselves to be of his Kindred by whose care he was brought up in Piety and Learning first at York under Mr. Pullen and afterwards at Hallifax under Mr. Maud of whom he always spake with great reverence as a grave Man and a good Scholar and from thence 1582. went to the University of Cambridge at the eighteenth year of his age and there was admitted into St. Iohns Colledge under Dr. Whitacre wherein were so many eminent Scholars at that time as he was wont to say It seemed to be a whole University of its self His Tutor was Mr. Anthony Higgon afterwards Dean of Rippon who lest him to the care of Mr. Hen. Nelson Rector of Hougham in Lincolnshire who lived to see his Pupil pass through all the other Dignities he had in the Church till he came to be Bishop of Duresm and a good many years after Being chosen Scholar of Constables Foundation 1584. In the year 1590. he took his Degree of Master of Arts having performed all his Exercises with great approbation and applause Afterwards he continued his Studies in the Colledge at his Fathers charge for above two years March 17. 1592. he was admitted Fellow meerly for his worth against eight Competitors for the place which he was wont to recount with greater contentment to himself than his advancement to any Dignity he ever enjoyed in the Church About the same time he was chosen Logick Lecturer for the University which place he discharged with much art and diligence as appears by his Lectures found among his Papers fairly written In the same year he was admitted to the Order of Deacon and the next after of Priesthood Having received his Commission from God and the Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of charity but not too forward to take upon him the particular care of souls And accordingly we finde him for the space of five years after this continuing in the Colledge prosecuting his own private Study and reading to such Scholars as were committed to his Care and Tuition Anno 1598. He took his Degree of Bachelor of Divinity and about the same year being Presented Instituted and Inducted to the Rectory of Long-Marston four miles distant from his native City of York he betook himself wholly to the cure of Souls there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence and yet he did not intermit his higher studies the general good of the Church while he attended it To that end he had always kept some person to be his Assistant whom he knew to be pious and learned And this assistance was more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choice of by the
overcame not the Scots abroad and he spoke like a Souldier in the Parliament 1641. where whispering with the Lord Peirey and Colonel Ashburnham as they sate together upon the Vote of 300000 l. to be paid the Scots with 25000 l. advance out of the money designed the English Army he stepped up and told Mr. Speaker That if such Papers of the Scots could procure moneys he doubted not but the Officers of the English should soon do the like A wise and brave Speech that when the Army were informed by him how the Parliament slighted them they were ready to Rally them selves against the Parliament as soon that Rallied the multitude against the King he and some others putting themselves into a secret and sworn Juncto to declare with the Army against the rude at fronts offered his Majesty to the subversion of Government notwithstanding all the gracious Concessions made by his Majesty for the support of it but without success Because as his Lordship used to say Treachâ—ry got easily into the Bosome of that Prince that had nothing but Honesty in his heart And because some were admitted into their Counsels against Mr. Wilmots advice who never engaged in a secret design to which there were above four together privy that knew one anothâ—r He obstructed the Faction much in the House of Commons and more when called to the House of Lords stopping their Careere with those Propositions for Accommodation which he offered at Westminster 1641. and to shew he was the same man guided not by Interest but Conscience renewed at Oxford 1644. and making â—se of the sad News of the Irish Rebellion in which affairs having considerable concerns in that kingdome he was always of the Committee to prevent the English with as much dexterity as others did to promote it But when being Posted for a Straffordian he had no longer any power to moderate the Councils of the Faction in the City after he had seen so many injuries and indignities offered his Royal Person so many affronts and scorns put upon the Kingly Office so many scandalous seditious and traiterous Pamphlets against the Government together with the Combinations and Conspiracies which the implacable malice and insatiable ambition of some persons had contrived he went to suppress the Rebellion in the Field being Voted a Traytor by those he indeavoured should not be so At Edge-hill he advised that there should be a good Reserve of Horse to secure the Battel and that the other Horse should by no advantage be drawn out of it There being nothing he said more dangerous than too eager a pursuit before a battle was over He ordered the Horse at Newbery being Lieutenant-General under Prince Rupert in so convenient and spacious a place Downs have been pitched upon as the most commodious Scene of a Horse Engagement advising them by no means to be drawn into any uneven and streight places with so strict an eye upon all advantages and opportunities and in such Ranks that one Troop might be in Subsidiis assistant to another and no part stand naked or fall in the singleness of its own strength but that one may second another from first to last being aware of Livies charge upon Cajus Sempronius Pugnavit incaute inconsulteque non subsidiis firmata acic non equite apte locato the like he did at Cropredy-Bridge bringing off the Kings Rear there with three Charges through with so much execution as routed Sir William Wallers Horse and Foot took all his Ordnances and Gunners among whom one Weems a sworn Servant to his Majesty with the very Leather-guns his Majesty had paid for saying when brought before the King Good Faith his heart was always with his Majesty he being hurt and twice taken Prisoner and twice rescued by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and Sir Robert Howard And of the same nature was his Relief of Banbury when he surrounded the Besiegers in a Net of six miles compass full of snares and stratagems flanked on all hands by his well-ordered Horse His being punctual in his Promise careful in his Pay and Provision for his Souldiers tender of their Lives disposing of them in the easiest way for service and the safest from danger his condescension to satisfie every particular Person the reputation of his Integrity and Skill the moderation of his Principles rendred him as popular in the Army and Country as he was suspected at Oxford whence upon the breaking up of the Parliament there he went over to the Queen in France doing what he could by a generous carriage there to credit that Cause he was not suffered to sight for Often reflecting when he heard of the discontents afterwards in the Kings Army on that of Caesar in the first of his Commentaries Sâ—scire quibuscunque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit aut male re gesta fortunam defuiste aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiae esse convictum It s a remarkable passage that in her Majesties Letter to the Lord Digby Paris April 7. 1645. You think it strange that Willmot is so well entertained here which is done according to the orders which I have under the Kings hand and yours its true his good carriage here hath merited his good entertainment Indeed his negotiations in France Holland where he was formerly very well known by the Name of Willmot the English Gentleman were not less serviceable than his battels in England for by virtue of them and his correspondence with the Lord Willoughby there was a considerable Fleet of the Revolted Ships and his own to entertain the Prince of Wales 1648. as their Commander in Chief attended by my Lord the Lord Hopton c. And when for want of pay and other miscarriages that endeavour by Sea and Land to restore his Majesty failed he set on foot and by healing Propositions brought on the Scots Treaty so far as the admission of the King to the Government of that his ancient Kingdom whither after some services done in Ireland where he had great concerns and a considerable interest he went with his Majesty accommodating the several differences that arose among a people serupulous and capricious enough of themselves and distracted by the sad face of things at that time yet no way better to be ruled in such times than by an indulgence to them of an experiment and trial of the folly and vanity of their own ways and modelling and forming their Rough-hewn Armies and Designs And despairing of any good in that Country upon those mens principles he advised the Attempt 1651. into England to draw off the Force then lying within that Nation coming some months before in person under the name of Williams to pre-dispose his friend in 〈◊〉 kingâ—â—m and Oxfordshire where he had married the Lady â—â—igh of Ditchlâ—y and doing eminent service though in no Command by instructing them to secure the Passes to keep a 〈◊〉 Discâ—pline and offering to March towards London besides the great example of
his personal valor in six several desperate Engagementâ— especially in the latter end of the Worcester Fight to gain his 〈◊〉 time to retreat with whom he went by the conduct of a Scout he had made use of formerly to Boscobell where parting 〈◊〉 without 〈◊〉 unusual to so valiant a person my Lord 〈◊〉 to go towards London to meet his Majesty according to appointmentâ— at the Green-dragon at the â—intry in Thames-street but finding the ways strictly guarded retired to Mr. Whitegreaves Mr. Huâ—â—â—â—â— and Col. Lanes where after several consultations had for his Majeâ—ties safe transportation my Lord bethought himself of one Mr. Elden formerly Captain in the Kings Army and now a Merchant in lynn that had befriended the Lord â—erkley in the like care with whom he had contrived the Voyage but that the Ship-master they agreed with tailed them and then supporting and directing his Majesty in all emergencies with an invincible courage his Lord hâ—pâ—â— him up and down through inâ—inite windings and turniâ—gs till happening upon a Vessel in brighthelmâ—sted in Sussex the Master whereof was charmed by his Lordship under pretence of selling his Coals at the isle of wight to carry them that way and then my Lord pretending that his mind altered after a well acted quarrel with the honest Master of the Vessel to the Coast of France where he stayed not long with his Majesty but being Created Earl of Rochester undertook a successful 〈◊〉 to the Imperial Diet at the Ratisbone where he procured a considerable sum of money for the present and a very fair promise of the Emperors and the Princes assistance for the future and in his return settled a correspondency for the like purpose in England whither he ventured several times in person particularly 1655. at Hâ—ssamMoor near York where the appearance of Cavaleers at the day appointed not answering expectation my Lord and Sir Nicholas Armorer escaped from the midst of three thousand men that had as it were inclosed them to Ailesbury and from the very hands of the Usurpers Instruments thence into Flanders where he served the King of Spain very happily that he might be able to serve his Master till he died not long before his Majesties Restitution like Moses having after several years traversing a Wilderness only a Prospect of Caanan and the land of rest and settlement P. M. Baronis Willmot Caroli Secundi fidus Achates Vt imi servus Philanax Philo Cawlos Comes Regis Pariter Regni Adeo officii tenax ut ab Afflcta Sed justa regis causa eum dimoveant Nec amicorum injuriae nec inimicorum Prosperum scelus ultimi saeculi Aristides THE Life and Death OF Sir BEVILE GREENVILE Father of the Right Honorable the Earl of Bathe THere are two ancient Families in this Gentlemans name the Beviles that have flourished six hundred years in Cornwall at Gwarnack in his Christian Name and the Greenviles that have continued in great honor at Bediford in Devonshire above five hundred years in his Surname And there were the two eminent Virtues of those Families in his nature his names being to him not only significations of Honor but intimations of Virtue according to that admonition given by Alexander to one of his Followers Either quit your good name or leave your bad manners meekness wariness good nature and ingenuity the character of the one valor and prowess the known honor of the other His Ancestor Sir R. Greenvile assisted King William Rufus 1113. against the Welch Rebells successfully dedicating the Spoils of the war to the honor of Almighty God in maintaining a Religious House Sir Bevile Greenvile attended King Charles the First against the English 1641. consecrating his services to the Glory of God and the settlement of the Church usually saying That he counted it the greatest honor of his Family that one of it meaning Will. de Greenvile above three hundred years before under Edw. the First was Archbishop of York and in the Councel of Vienna next the Archbishop of Triers being for his publick spirit and activity especially in improving the Trade maintaining the Priviledges and keeping up the Discipline of his Country called to advise with his Majesty in Parliament about the great affairs of the kingdom he would not continue there without him But when he saw that he was more likely to be suppressed by his Majesties adversaries than his Majesty was to be supported by his friendship at Westminster he withdrew with many more Devonshire and Cornish Gentlemen that deserved Queen Elizabeths Character of these Countrymen That they were all born Courtiers with a becoming confidence to give their Country by rational Declarations the same satisfaction about the state of affairs that they had already in their own breast forcing not the Country till they had convinced and perswaded it asserting Authority the ligament of civil society against violence the publick interest against private designs liberty against licentiousness and oppression and this upon such moderate principles to widen rather than narrow their interest and in so civil terms as won those generous people that were not to be forced like compleat Orators making happy applications to the several humors and Genius of all persons with Alcibiades shifting disposition as they altered place yea so prudentially did they manage their expressions that the men at Westminster should not despair of their compliance with them until they were in a capacity to appear against them when they had secured the Port-towns the Fishing-trade for Herring and Pilchards the Mines the Markets for the Manufactures of that Country Kersies Bonelace c. and setled as good a correspondence between Devonshire and Cornwall by Sir Bevile Greenviles advice as was before by Sir Theo. Greenvile's device who built Baddiford-bridge as Sir Bevile secured it They appear in a great body near Pendennis whereof Sir Nicholas Slaning another excellent Patriot of Cornwall was Governor and Launston the County-town of Cornwall which Sir Bevile Greenvile possessed himself of The Body he trained to war he disciplined to piety piety not like the Cornish Diamond counterfeit and strictness least as Pilchards in this Country being persecuted by their fellow-fish the Tunny and Hake fall into the Fisher-mens Nets so the Country-people abused by the incivilities of their friends the Cavaleers might be taken in the Snares of their enemies the Faction As the Ambergreese found sometimes in this Country hath a more fragrant scent compounded with other things than when singly its self so this noble Gentleman gained a greater repute when joyning counsels and endeavors with others than when he acted alone The neighbor Counties were on fire these Counties look to themselves Sir Bevile wished that his Army were all of them as good as his Cause but it is not to be expected that all should be Fish that are caught in a Drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turned it also and made it fall upon the Shooters head for he made so Ingenious so Learned and so Acute Reply to that Book he so discovered the Errors of the Roman Church retorted the Arguments stated the Questions demonstrated the Truth and shamed their Procedures that nothing could be a greater Argument of the Bishops Learning great Parts deep Judgment quickness of Apprehension and sincerity in the Catholick and Apostolick Faith or of the Follies and prevarications of the Church of Rome He wrote no Apologies for himself though it were much to be wished that as Iunius wrote his own Life or Moses his own Story so we might have understood from himself how great things God had done for him and by him but all that he permitted to God and was silent in his own defences Gloriosus enim est injuriam tacendo fugere quam respondendo superare ut when the Honor and Conscience of his King and the Interest of True Religion was at Stake the Fire burned within him and at last he spake with his Tongue he cryed out like the Son of Craesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed and meddle not with the King his Person is too sacred and Religion too dear to him to be assaulted by vulgar hâ—â—ds In short he acquitted himself in this affair with so much Truth and Piety Learning and Judgment that in these Papers his memory will last unto very late succeeding Generations But this Reverend Prelate found a Nobler Adversary and a Braver Scene for his Contention he found that the Roman Priests being wearied and baffled by the wise Discourses and pungent Arguments of the English Divines had studiously declined to Dispute any more the particular Questions against us but fell at last upon a General Charge imputing to the Church of England the great Crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskillful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw that we had left them and because they considered not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge But now it was that dignum nactus Argumentum having an Argument fit to imploy his great abilities Consecrat hic praeful calamum calamique labores Ante aras Domino laeta trophaea suo The Bishop now dedicates his labours to the service of God and and of his Church undertook the Question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schisms and themselves made the first separation in the great point of the Popes Supremacy which was the Palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they imposed their own devices upon all Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrine of the Apostles that the Church of England returned to her Primitive Purity that She joyned with Christ and his Apostles that She agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church He stated the Questions so Wisely and conducted them so Prudently and handled them so Learnedly that I may truly say they were never more materially confuted by any man since the Questions so unhappily have disturbed Christendom Verum hoc eos male ussit And they finding themselves smitten under the fifth Rib set up an old Champion of their own a Goliah to fight against the Armies of Israel The old bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replied to this excellent Book but was so answered by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many impregnable Authorities and Probations and added so many moments and weights to his discourse the pleasure of the Reading of the Book would be greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Flumina tum lactis tum flumina nectaris ibant Flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mellâ— For so Sampsons Riddle was again expounded Out of the Strong came Meat and out of the Eater came Sweetness His Arguments were strong and the Eloquence was sweet and delectable and though there start up another Combatant against him yet he had only the honor to fall by the hands of Hector Still haeret lateri lethalis arundo the Headed Arrow went in so far that it could not be drawen out but the Barbed Steel stuck behind And when ever men will desire to be satisfied in those great Questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be his Oracle I will not insist upon his excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and Acumen he wrote against the Manichean Doctrine of Fatal Necessity which a late witty Man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the Cerusse and the Meretricious Paintings rarely well asserted the Aeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumphed over his Adversary Plenus victoriarum trophaeorum betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon the Sacred Offices and usually and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation Imposed Hands upon the most Illustrious the Dukes of York and Slocester and the Princess Royal and Ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit Ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leave of this great Man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them he had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellent belief yet he reproved them and gave them Caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errors of the Socinians He thus having served God and the King abroad God was pleased to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old we sung the song of David In convertendo captivitatem 〈◊〉 when King David and all his servants returned to Ierusalem This great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink and as an honorary Reward of his great services and abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church in which we are to look upon him as the King and the Kings great 〈◊〉 gerent did as a person concerning whose abilities the world had too great Testimony ever to make a doubt It is true he wâ—â— in the declension of his age and health but his very ruiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 goodly and they who saw the broken heaps of Pompey's Theâ—â—â— and the crushed Obelisks and the old face of beauteous Philaenium could not but
himself about Sir H. death where the Visier being bribed as it is the fashion there to betray him to the Faction of Merchants which the honorable Sir Sackevill Crow a Gentleman able and willing to do his Majesty as much service as any man in England in his lowest condition though he hath and doth inâ—initely suffer for it in his highest had to do with keeping up his Majesties Reputation at Constantinople in spight of them as long as it pleased God to preserve his life in England who sent him in the Sâ—irna-Fleet with other honest persons that there sided with him to England where after some moneths Imprisonment in the Tower he was by an High-Court of Justice which refused him the Liberty of pleading in Italian the language he was most ready and expressive in sentenced and accordingly March 4. 1650. out of malice to his Brother and Master as if they had a design against the peoples Trades beheaded near the Exchange where being attended by Dr. Hide Bishop Vsher had been with him before he owned the King and Church of England Allegiance he said being incorporated in his Religion he protested he was sent to the Levant to serve and protect all and injure none as a Messenger to take care of the English Interest there untill his Majesty had settled an Ambassador he blessed God for giving him the advantage of paying that Debt due by nature upon the account of grace and this way bringing him to himself he cleared his Brother and all other persons from any design against the English Merchants and offered all the satisfaction in the world to any person that desired it the Axe doing that at one blow which his many Diseases would have done within a few weeks for he was not able either to rise or fall himself though he was able to dye Dr. Levens This Learned Gentleman descended of an ancient Family in Oxford-shire near Bolley within a mile of the University His Education was truly generous his Profession the Civil Law wherein he was graduated a Doctor and in which he was excellently known before these Wars He continued most part of the War at Oxford and his own adjacent dwelling till such time as the surrender of the said City into the hands of the Parliament where he had the same terms and was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation which being forced to accept and lay down his Arms he again re-assumed his wonted studies But after the Murther of the late King this Gentleman very considerable in his numerous acquaintance prudence and integrity considering the confusion impendent ruine of Church and State became engaged for the Son our present Soveraign as before for his Royal Father several Consultations and private Meetings were held by him and others in order to his service to which purpose he also received Commission from the King then in France for several Officers of these Forces designed to be raised and other instructions as the Affairs proceeded But the sagacious industry of the Parliaments spyes lighting upon some glimpses of this business which they followed so close that they discovered Dr. Levens to be the chief Agitator and Manager of the plot in whose breast the Cabal was principally lodged An Order thereupon was made by the Council of State and a Warrant signed by Bradshaw the President to seize and bring him before them and to search his Chamber and break up his Trunks for Papers he then being at London the place most expedient for the design which accordingly was done a file or two of Musqueteers guarding and securing the House where the said Papers were among which there were blank Commissions signed by the King to the purport aforesaid were found with him and carryed to the Council who thereupon ordered him to be proceeded against as a Spie and referred him to a Councel of War Accordingly he was soon afterwards tryed by a Court-Martial where he not excused himself but acknowledged their Allegations against him and the Justice of his Cause of which he told them he was no way ashamed but if it must be so he would willingly lay down his life in the owning of it He told them moreover he was indispensably bound by the Laws of God and this Kingdom to do what he did and so referred himself to them They very earnestly pressed him to reveal the other parties engaged with him and gave him fallacious hopes of life if he would freely declare them but those offers prevailed not with him being resolved to suffer and take all upon himself rather than to ruine others whom they could not fasten upon without his discovery So the Court proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be hanged over against the Exchange in Cornhill in Exchange time which after some little preparation was executed he being brought in a Coach from the Mews with the Executioner Vizarded with him and a Troop of Horse to guard him to the said place where the Sheriffs received him into their charge After he alighted and some words passed between them concerning the said discovery he told them they should not expect it and desired them to forbear any further trouble to that purpose and so â—ascending up the Ladder where he prayed very fervently for the King and the Church and commending his soul into the hands of his Redeemer and so concluded his last breath on the eighteenth of Iuly 1650. Col. Eusebius Andrews an honest and Religious man bred in my Lord Capels Family whose Secretary he was and a good Lawyer of Grays-Inn engaging in his Majesties cause from 1642. to tâ—e surrender of Worcester 1645. when taking neither Covenant Protestation negative Oath nor engagement in London he followed his Profession till one Io. Bernard formerly a Major under him because of his good parts and sober demeanor admitted to his familiarity brought one Captain Helmes and Mr. Bâ—nson formerly belonging to Sir Iohn Gell who was hanged on this occasion Oct. 7. 1650. to save his Arrears repenting that ever he had served the Parliament and praying heartily for the King to his acquaintance who insinuated the discontents of Sir Io. Gell and other Reformadoes the designs of the Levellers and Agitators and Letters from Mr. Rushworth to be sent by Mr. Brown Bushel a Sea-Captain very active in bringing the Fleet to the Princes command taken as he was waiting an opportunity to serve the King at London and tossed from Custody to Custody till he went to the Tower where it went so hard with him for necessaries that his Wife was forced to go with his daily provision from Covent-Garden to the Tower every day and thence being condemned for delivering up Scarborough to his Majesty to the Scaffold at Tower-hill under which being deluded with a promise of pardon that very day he was for fear of the Sea-men that loved him beheaded suddainly April 29. 1651. beyond Sea Sir Io. Gells Interest in the Country and his regret that
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
he was Author of the benefit of one of which upon the Thames is settled upon him by Act of Parliament 14 Car. 2. He Died 1666 7. The Lord Charles Herbert and the Lord Iohn Somerset the old Marquiss his Sons The glory of whose actions redounds to the Father according to that of Agricola Nec unquam in suam famam gestis exultavit ad aut horem ducem minister fortunam reserebat Tacit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion l. 4â— 3. Sir Philip Iones of Treeowen Monmouth-shire who after eminent contributions to his Majesties service under the favour of the Ragland Articles wherein being in that Garrison he was comprised with his Son William paid for his Loyalty 1050 l. as Iohn Iones of Nam-cross Cardig Esq did 389 l. Gilbert Iones Chancellor of Bristol 43 l. Cad Iones Exon. Esq 483 l. Tho. Iones of Osswell Devon Clerk 80 l. Edmund Iones of Landson-Mannor 70 l. Io. Iones of Halkin Flint 156 l. 4. Commissary Guillims and Dr. Bayley a Gentleman of great Alliance a good Temporal Estate and considerable Spiritual Preferments who being undone for his Loyaly by the Faction who for divers years imprisoned him in New-gate where he writ the book called The Wall-flower and by the way he was indeared to my Lord of Warwick for being an excellent Florist and Chymist and disregarded for setting out the Conference between the Marquiss of Worcester and his Majesty by the Kings party became of a solid Protestant such a scandal did the late war give the soundest men of our profession a zealous Papist seeing our Church afflicted he thought her forsaken dying at 〈…〉 heart-broken with the report of the Guns shot off a◠〈◊〉 a man to whose name we owe much for Bishop â—â—yly'sâ—ake â—ake the Author of that Book that hath done so much good in England and Wales I mean The Practice of Piety 5. Edward Vaughan of Old-castle Monmouth-shire Io. Vaughan of LLanely Caerm who paid for composition 540 l. Sir George â—aâ—ghan Penbrey Caâ—rm a Colonel in the Kings Army 2609 l. Sir Henry Vaughan of Wit-well York 659 l. 6. Sir William Vaughan a person of excellent conduct and service in South-wales and Cheshire both for the Sallies he made out of Shrawarding-castle whence he was called the Devil of Shrawarding Commanding Shropshire Cheshire and the borders of North-wales for his Majesty and the defeat he gave one day at Rowtâ—n heath September 24. 1645. three miles off Chester to Pointz who being re-inforced next day and Sir Williams Command being bestowed elsewhere totally overthrew his Majesties forces Sir William hardly escaping to Ragland and thence to Ireland where having formed a considerable Army and incamped them under my Lord of Ormond before Dublin all Ireland besides being reduced by the neglect of the Ingeneer who had the charge of the Guards he was surprized and fighting desperately to gain the whole Army time to Rally was killed August 22. 1649. when as Commissary General of the Horse he had not long before drawn up most part of his Troops with a considerable body of Foot to cast up a Work at Baggot Rath which would have shut up Dublin so effectually aâ— with a few days to force it to a surrender had not some persons envied him that enterprize because as the Romans said of Christ refusing a share in the Pantheon of Rome he would have no partner of his honor A man owing his Success to his Reputation and his Reputation to his Vigilance Industry Civility Justice and Sobriety 7. Io. Williams of Parke Breton 50l Roger Williams 〈◊〉 206 l. Willam Williams Mothry 102 l. Thomas VVhâ—tely of Aston Flâ—nt 125 l. Sir Io. VVeld senior VVilly Sal. 1121 l. 18s 4d Maurice Williams of Swarbe Line 460 l. Sir Trevor Williams a Colonel of eminent service in the Kings Army Io. LLoyd Crinvin Carâ— 140 l. Sir 〈◊〉 LLoyd Cacrm 1033 l. Hugh LLoyd Guâ—rdvâ—â—y Râ—â— 76 l. Sir R. Lee of Lingley Sal. with 169 l. 9â— 0d settled paid 371â— l. 〈◊〉 LLoyd LLanvardo Sal. Esq 300 l. R. LLoyd of LLoyd 〈◊〉 Sal. Esq 480 l. Walter LLoyd LLanvair Cardig Esq 1003 l. Anne Lady Somerset 2000 l. Tho. Stradling of St. Brides Glam 777 l. The Right Honorable the Marquiss of Winchester who in his house at Basing commonly called Basing-house in 〈◊〉 the greatest of any Subjects house in England yea larger than most Eagles have not the biggest Nests of all Birds of the King Pallaces Hugh Peters in the relation of the taking of it he made to the House of Common saying an Emperor might have lived in it made good the Motto written in every Window of it viz. Aimez Loyali Love Loyalty In a two years siege from August 1643. to October 1645. he held out against all the Parliament forces the good Marquiss being heard to to say That if the King had no more ground in England but Basing-house he would adventure as he did and so maintain it to the utmost as he did not yielding till it was taken by storm with the richest plunder in money plate jewels houshold stuffe amounting to 200000 l. Sterling among which a Bed worth 14â—â— l. with the assistance 1. Of Sir Robert Pâ—ake who had been an Artillery-man forty two years commanded thither from Oxford 1643. with but 100. men with whom before October 1645. by vigilant and dexterous Sallies he did execution upon thousands with two brave Majors Cuâ—â—and and Lingley of whom see more in the Journals of this Siege Printed Oxford by L. L. 1645. He died a good Benefactor to the City of London particularly to St. Sepulchres where he was buried with great military pomp Iuly 1667. 2. Inigo Iones the great Architect brought up by William Earl of Pembroke at whose charge he travelled much abroad and studied at home in King Iames and King Charles I. time for Representations Masks and more solid Buildings his skill both in the Theory and History of Architecture in the most excellent discourse writ by him upon King Iames his motion called Stone-henge Restored appears singular wherein he modestly propoundeth and more substantially proveth that Posing Quarry to be a Roman Work or Temple dedicated to Caelus or Coelum son to Aether and Dies the Senior of the Heathen gods 3. Dr. Thomas Iohnson born in York-shire not far from Hâ—ll bred an Apothecary in London where he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England making Additions to the Edition of Gerard A man of such modesty that knowing so muchâ— he owned the knowledge of nothing The University of Oxford bestowed on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor in Physick and his Loyalty engaged him on the Kings side in our civil wars When in Basing-house a dangerous piece of service was to be done this Doctor who publickly pretended not to valor understood and performed it yet afterwards he lost his life at a Salley in the same siege 1644. generally lamented even of those that murdered him Dr.
hid themselves from others and so humble that they were not known to himself A temper as little moved with others injuries as with his own merits fit to Rule others that commanded its self Recreations Innocent and manly traversing Hills and Dales for Health and for Instruction studying God at home and Nature abroad fitting himself by generous Exercises for generous Employments to which he knew a body comely quick and vegel with Exercise was more suitable than a minde dulled with studies Though when he came to his Throne over affections the Pulpit or his Chair of State over reason his Colledge it appeared that his severe pleasures that refreshed his body loosned but melted not his minde I say sagacious Dr. Laud finding him every way rather than designing him his successor brought him out of his privacy as Pearls and rich mettals are out of obscurity to adorn his Majesties Court his modesty gaining him that respect which others seek by their ambition To have one near the King he could trust in his old age made him Dean of Worcester and Clerk of the Closet first after that Bishop elect of Hereford and then after himself Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer In the first of which places being to have Saint Pauls combate with Beasts he used Saint Pauls art became all things to all and as those that were of old exposed to Beasts overcame by yielding being most mild and most vigilant a Lamb and a Shepheard The delight of the English Nation whose Reverence was the only thing all Factions agreed in all allowing that honor to the sweetness of his manners that some denied the sacredness of his Function being by love what another is in pretence an universal Bishop the greatest because the last Bishop that was ruined that insolence that stuck not at the other Bishops out of modesty till 1649. not medling with him The other charge of Treasurer whereby all lay upon him both what the good Worship and the bad Religion and Money which was now safe under the Keys of the Church so the Romans Treasury was in their Temple and the Venetians have the one Guardian of their City and Money St. Mark he in the middest of large Expences and low Revenues managed with such integrity handling temporal wealth with the same holy temper he did the most spiritual Mysteries that the Coffers he found empty he in four years left filling and with such prudent mildness being admirably master of his Pen and Passions grace having ordered what nature could not omit the tetrarch humor of Choler That Petitioners for money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his civilly languaged denials and though a Bishop was then odious and a Lord always suspected yet he in both capacities was never questioned though if he had he had come out of his trial like his gold having this happiness in an age of the bravest men to see more innocent than the best and happier than the greatest and if it was a comfort to them to suffer for their too great and to the Commonalty unknown and therefore suspected virtues it was more to him to be loved for that integrity which could be unkâ—own to few and hateful to none He was above others in most of his actions he was above himself in two 1. His honest advice to save my Lord of Straffords life who having appeared before a Parliament was set at last before him who though he heard Noblemen yea Clergy-men too pressing his death for the safety of the people the highest law they said the King the Church the Commonwealth asserting his life by law and right which is above all these And that brave Maxime like another Athanasius of Justice against the world Fiat justitia ruat coelum terra Ecclesia Respublica 2. His holy attendance on his late Majesty who gave him the title on his death of That honest man whereof before in his Majesties Life and Death Recollecting there all his virtues to see what the excellent King with a recollection of all graces was to suffer with a clear countenance at least before his Majesty chusing to disturb nature rather than the King looking on what his Majesty with a chearful countenance endured Thus the Sun at our Saviors Passion whereof this a Copy that was Ecclipsed to others shined clear to Christ. It was much to see the King dye with so undaunted a spirit it was more to see the Bishop behold him with so unmoved a countenance but so it became him whom his Majesty had chosen his Second in that great Duel committing to him the care of his soul both departing in himself and surviving in his Son and with it his memory and what was more his Oblivion with which and the other holy suggestions of that Royal soul he came down from the Scaffold as Moses did out of the Mount with Pardon Peace and New Law to a sinful people after the breaking of the old After God had preserved him through the many years miseâ—ies of the usurpation and the inexpressible torment of â—his disease the Stone which he endured as chearfully as he did his pleasures having patience to bear those pains which others had not patience to hear of to deliver that message to the Son which he received from the Father he Crowned King Charles II. April 25. 1661. at Westminster and went Iune 1663. to see King Charles I. Crowned in heaven having seen the Church Militant here settled 1662. he was made a Member of the Triumphant 1663. full not only of honor and days but of his own wishes too leaving near 10000 l. to augment the St. Iohns Revenue at Oxford Colledge Repair St. Pauls and Cantâ—rbury Cathedrals and finish the building of the New-hall at Lambeth which he had begun besides directions throughout the Province to repair Churches and Church-aedisices improve Vicarages and establish peace Iuly 9. he was buried in St. Iohns with as great solemnity as the University could afford Dr. South making an excellent Oration upon the occasion in the Divinity Schools and Dr. Levens of St. Iohns the like in the Colledge Crete being not more proud of the Grave and Cradle of Iove nor the King of Spain of the Suns rising and setting in his Dominions than that House may be that Dr. Iuxon and Dr. Laud was bred there As he had gone on in the same course acted on the same principles enjoyed the same honors so he lieth in the same Grave with his friend and patron Archbishop Laud. Dr. Walter Curle born in Strafford near Hatfield my Lord Cecil's house to whom his Father was serviceable in detecting several Plots referring to the Queen of Scots as his Agent and in settling the estate he had from the Queen of England as his Steward And by whom he was made Auditor of the Court of Wards to Queen Elizabeth and King Iames and his Son preferred in Christ-Colledge and Peter-house in Cambridge His Lord gave him a
his preferment and a Papist afterwards though he was the same godly and orthodox man always he died 1649. dividing his estate equally between his relations to whom he was obliged in nature and distressed Ministers for whom he had compassion as a fellowâ— sufferer of whom I may say as it was of Dr. Reynolds that it must be a good heart that kept so good a head employed rather in rescuing old truths than in broaching new errors Dr. Iohn Richardson extracted of an ancient and worshipful Family in Cheshire brought up in Dublin and made Bishop of Ardah in Ireland peculiar for a very grave countenance and his being extraordinary textuary by the same token that they who would not let him Preach on the Scripture in the late times desired his help to Comment upon it for his is the painful Comment in the larger Annotations upon Ezekiel Many the gifts in these times bestowed upon him and much in Almes his deep poverty abounding to the riches of liberaliy as our Saviour relieved others though living upon others relief himself when living and considerable his Legacies especially to Dublin-colledge when dead which happened in the year of our Lord 1653. and of his age 74. being observed never to have desired any preferment but to have been sought for to many it being his rule to discharge his present place well knowing that God and good men use this method viz. to make those who have been faithful in a little Rulers over much as he was to the great benefit of the places he came where being as good and dexterous a Lawyer as Clerk he compounded Differences discharged Annuities and Pensions set up Presidents of Frugality built Houses that he long Inhabited not Dido being feigned in love with Aeneis when dead many years to salve the Anticronism it is said it was with his Picture truly I never saw this Reverend Prelates Picture but I was in love with him for his Portracture sake in Paper as I am with God for his Image sake in him Mr. William Lyford Bachelor of Divinity born and bred in Piesmer in Berk-shire preferred first Fellow of Magdalen-colledge to which he restored in way of Legacy what he had taken for the resignation of his Fellowship to his great grief many years in a way of bribe and thence by the favour of the Earl of Bristol who had a great value for him Minister of Sherburne where he divided 1. His people to two parts 1. The weak which he Catechised and Principled in the Doctrines of the Church for many years before the wars whereof he drew a Scheme since 2. The strong whom he confirmed by his exact Sermons his modesty visible in his comely countenance and the meekness and prudence of his spirit in his courteous behaviour 2. His time into nine hours a day for Study three for visits and conferences three for prayers and devotion two for his affairs and the rest for his refreshment 3. His estate into one third part for the present necessity of his family another third part for future provision and the third for pious uses and his Parish into twenty eight parts to be visited in twenty eight days every month leaving knowledge where he found ignorance justice where he found oppression peace where he found contention and order where he found irregularity planting true Religion apart from all fond Opinions the reason why though I have heard at a solemn Assembly 1658. at Oxford him charactered for a man of an upright life great gravity and severity by the same token that it was wondred there that so holy a man so much acquainted with God as he was should doat so much these are their own words on such sapless things as a King Bishops Common-prayer and Ceremonies and he to win them over used much their more innocent Phrases Expressions and Method yet he suffered much from the Faction in his Name and Ministry dying 1653. Mr. William Oughtred a native Scholar and Fellow of Eaton bred in Kings-colledge Cambridge and his Mathematical Studies wherein by Study and Travel he so excelled that the choicest Mathematicians of our age own much of their skill to him whose house was full of young Gentlemen that came from all parts to be instructed by him leading him to a retired and abstracted life preferred onely by Thomas Earl of Arundel to Albury in Surrey where having a strong perswasion upon principles of Art much confirmed by the Scheme of his Majesties return in 1660. sent his Majesty some years before by the Bishop of Avignon that he should see the King restored he saw it to his incredible joy and had his Dimittis a month after Iune 30 1660. and the 86. year of his age Much requested to have lived in Italy France Holland when he was little observed in England as facetious in Greek and Latine as solid in Arithmetique Astronomy and the sphere of all Meatures Musick c. exact in his stile as in his judgment handling his Cube and other Instruments at eighty as steadily as others did at thirty owning his he said to temperance and Archery principling his people with plain and solid truths as he did the world with great and useful Arts advancing new Inventions in all things but Religion Which in its old order and decency he maintained secure in his privacy prudence meekness simplicity resolution patience and contentment Dr. Richard Stuart a Gentleman of a great extraction and good education born at Pate-shull in Northamptonshire near Nâ—â—vesby to Navelshy in the midst of England where was born Martâ—â— de Pate-shull who being a Divine was the best Lawyer of his time and Chief Justice of the Common-pleas As he being a Lawyer bred Fellow of All-souls and almost being a little person of great faculties all soul himself in Oxford was one of the best Divines of his time made successively Dean of Chichester Provost of Eaton Dean of Saint Pauls and Westminster Prolocutor to the Convocation 1640. at Westminster Clerk of the Closet to the Kings Charles I. and II. a great Champion of the Protestant Religion at Paris where he Preached the excellent Sermon of Hezekia's Reformation in vindication of ours and a discreet propagator of it having with that publick spirited man Sir Georg-Ratcliffe gone very far in making an accommodation between the Iansenists and the Reformed a sit man for such a noble design considering the moderation of his principles his breast being a Chancery for Religion the Sweetness of his Temper the Acuteness and Depth of his Reason the Charm of his Rhetorick and Fancy he having been formerly upon all occasions as great a Poet and Orator as he was then a Divine and the full Smartness of his Stile Vir to give him the Elogy of his Country-man Holcot in divinis Scripturis cruditissimus saecularium rerum hand ignarius Ingenio praestans clarus eloquio declamator quoque concionum egregius He ordered this Inscription on his Grave
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
2 Coll. Warren the right Gospel Centurion that feared God as much as he undervalued man 3 Coll. Fleming 4 Coll. Brin 5 Major Tempest and several other brave Gentlemen Cromwel thinking to cut off all Ireland in cutting off that Town which was the Epitome of it Sir Arthur like Montross had one excellent faculty that in extremity he had some operative Phrases wherewith he could bespeak his Souldiesr to do wonders Pallas so much honoured by him which some Pen equal to his Sword may more fully relate and her Military relation doing him right in her learned Capacity Sir Edward Herbert Atturney-General to his Majesty much troubled about the Impeachment he drew up against the five Members more about the opinion and advice he gave concerning the Parliament having asserted the peoples Liberty with resolution 1626. 27. 28. and his Majesties Rights with integrity 1639. 1640. 1641. his Majesty preferred him for his abilities in the first but the people would never forgive his faithfulness in the second having assisted at most Treaties and Councils at Oxford in the War he retired beyond Sea after dying with honor there though he could not live with Indemnity at home having this Character That he thought he served his Prince best when he gave things the right colour not varnishing them over with a false Gloss which did more harm when discovered than good when pretended Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury whose compleat History you may see in the States-men and Favourites of England Coll. Charles Herbert Coll. Edward Herbert Richard Lord Herbert the Lord Edwards son and Coll. Richard Herbert the first the greatest Artist and Linguist of a Noble man in our Age and a very stout man His History of H. 8. which he writ in as blustering a time as it was lived in is full and authentick in its Collections judicious in the Observations strong coherent and exact in the Connexion His Ambassie into France was well managed for being referred to Luynes the Favourite of France for Audience in behalf of the Reformed Luynes setting two Protestant Gentlemen behind a traverse near the place where they were to conferr to hear what little expectations they ought to entertain of the King of Englands Mediation asked roughly what our King had to do to meddle with the state of France Sir Edward Herbert it s not you to whom my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain that my Masi◠〈◊〉 more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Neveâ—theless reserving his passion till the issue of the discourse said he if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you farther whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well the Ambassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the peace and prosperity of France and that upon the settlement of that Kingdom he hoped the Palatinate might be the better assisted Luynes returned We will have none of your advices the Ambassador replied He took that for an answer being sorry the King his Masters affections were not suitably resented adding that since it was so he knew well what to do And being answered that the French feared him not returns smilingly If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made no other answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes thereupon rising from his chair discomposed said By God If you were not the Monsieur Ambassadour I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward rising also from his chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Britains Ambassador so he was a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence adding when the Marshal of Geran after a more civil audience of the King told him that he was not safe there since he had so highly affronted Luynes That he held himself to be secure enough where ever he had his Sword by him The Gentlemen behind the Curtains afterwards when he was called home to accommodate Le mal intendu between the two Crowns attesting that though the Constable gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his instructions and honor very discreetly and worthily His Son Richard Lord Herbert dead since deeply engaged with Sir George Booth and many others in most of the designs for his Majesties Restauration all of them the wariest and the most resolute of any that followed his Majesty from the Scots Wars 1639. to the Settlement 1660. Sir Iohn Pennington born nigh Alesbury in Buckinghamsh bred a Sea-man by his great diligence and patience attaining to a Captains Command and by his noble and generous temper to the honour of Admiral of the Guard belonging to the Narrow Seas where gaining vastly by Convoys he lived like a Prince in the magnificence of his Table and Interest in the Sea-men who shared in his gains and he in their hearts making them all true to him as he was to the King and Church being very faithful to the interest of the first till he deluded by the Faction disabled him from serving him and very conscientious in observing the Orders of the second in all his Ships as long as he had any being none of those Sea-men whose piety being a fit of the wind are calm in a storm and storm in a calm Yet very serviceable was he in transporting Commanders Arms Ammunition and other necessaries for his Majesties service keeping Passages open in most Ports of England besides that he secured Scilly Guernsey and Iersâ—y bravely did he 1626 refuse upon my Lord of Buckinghams Order to deliver his Majesties Ships to the French without a considerable security for their value and use and as bravely refused all Overtures from the Parliament he died at Bristol Sept. 1646. having been never cruel as some to Slaves knowing that the Sea might drown the men but not the murder To him I may adde Sir Iohn Lawson a poor mans Son at Hull bred at Sea by his Industry and Dexterity coming to be a Captain in which capacity after some profitable Voyages with Merchants he gained much honor in boarding fix Admiral ships in the War with the Dutch 1651. 1652. 1653. more in contributing to his Majesties Restauration by putting a stop with eight ships upon the mouth of the Thames till the stop put upon the Parliament was removed 1659. most of all in the admirable attempt upon Algiers 1661. 1662. which he forced to make the most honorable Peace they ever made with Christians and afterwards which was more most punctually to observe it and in his gallant Conduct and Resolution in the first Sea-fight between the English and the Dutch 1665. where by a shot in the leg he
said he deserved to lose it from his Friends A kin to that Noble Family of the Villiers that had no fault but too good Natures carrying a Soul as fair as his Body and a carriage Honorable as his Extract being not carryed by the heat of the bloud he had to any thing that might be a stain to that he came from Posterity shall know him with Sir Iohn Smith the last Knight Banneret of England who relieved him being too far engaged at Edgehill as he had before rescued the Standard who being Nobly born Brother to the Lord Carrington strived to hide his Native honor suae fortunae Faber with acquired dignity desiring to be known rather to have died of his Wounds for his Soveraign at Alesford in Hampshire 1644. than that he was born of Noble Parentage in York-shire 1646. It may be said of this numerous Family after the defeat of the King as it was of the English after the Invasion of the Conqueror Some fought as the Kentish who capitulated for their Liberty some fled as those in the North of Scotland some hid themselves as many in the middle of England and Isle of Fly some as those of Norfolk traversed their Titles by Law bold Norfolk men that would go to Law with the Conqueror most betook themselves to patience which taught many a Noble hand to work foot to travel tongue to intreat even thanking them for theiâ— courtesie who were pleased to restore them a shiver of that whole Loaf which they violently took from them Which was the Case of the Honorable Family of the Caries whereof Col. Theodore Cary was the wiliest Col. Edward Cary the most experience Sir Henry Cary the steadiest and Sir Horatio Cary the wariest Commander in the Kings Army The first best read in History the second in Mathematicks and Tacticks the third Experimented Philosophy the fourth in the Chronicles of our Land Indeed the best study for a Gentleman is History and for an English Gentleman is the British History Ernestus Cary Shelford Camb. paid 229 l. at Goldsmiths-hall Iohn Cary of Milâ—on-Clevedon Som. 200 l. Iohn Cary of Marybone Park Middlesex Esq 1200 l. Charles Cary Gotsbrook North. Esq 183 l. The Right Honorable Iohn and Henry Mordant Earls of Peterborough the first of which having been a Papist was converted by a Disputation between Bishop Vsher and a Papist at his house where the Papist confessed himself silenced by the just hand of God upon him for presuming without leave from his Superiors to Dispute with so Learned a Person as Dr. Vsher the other wounded at Newberry and other places where he was a Volunteer for his late Majesty as he was often Imprisoned for his Loyal attempts 1647. 1655. 1657. 1658. 1659. in behalf of our present Soveraign the great Agent and Instrument for whose Restauration was Io. Lord Viscount Mordant of Aviland who was tryed for his life at Westminster and brought the first Letters from his Majesty to the City of London their Loyalty cost that Family 35000 l. whereof 5106 l. 15 s. composition Sir Edward Walgrave an Ancient Northern or Norfolk Gentleman never more than a Knight yet little less than a Prince in his own Country above 70 when he first buckled on his Armour for the English Wars a Brigadine in his Majesties Army one of the first and last in action and a Commander in the Isle of Ree Commanding the Post at Saltash at the Impounding of Essex where his men scattering were thrice rallied by himself though twice unhorsed and the whole Parliament Army stopped till his Majesty approached he lost two sons and 50000 l. in the Wars A Gentleman who deserved his neighbours Character of Strong Bow having brachia projestissima and Tullies commendation nihil egit levi brachio especially falling heavy upon all sacrilegious invaders of Churches who being angry with the King revenged themselves on God destructive Natures delighting to do mischief to others though they did no good to themselves 2. Sir â—ervase Scroop was not so near Sir Edward in his dwelling as in his character who being an aged man engaged with his Majesty at â—dgehill where he received 26 wounds and was left on the ground dead till his son Sir Adrian having some hint of the place where he fell lighted on the body with no higher design than to bring it off honourably and bury it decently still warm whose warmth within few minutes was improved into motion that motion within few hours into sense that sense within a day into speech that speech within certain weeks into a perfect recovery living above 10 years after with a pale look and a Scarff-tied arm a Monument of a Sons affection to a Father as of both to the Father of their Country for whose sake his purse bled there is a vein for silver as well as bloud as well as his body the War standing him and his Soh in 64000 l. whereof 120 l. per annum in Land and 3582 l. in money for Composition for which the Family there was Coll. Io. Scroopâ— is highly esteemed by his Majesty who is happy in that quod in principi rarum ac prope insolitum est ut se putet obligatum aut si putet amet Plin. Ep. ad Trajan 3. William Salisbury of Bochymbid Denb Governour of Denbigh Castle was such another plain and stout Cavalier in his True blew Stockings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who yielded not his Castle till all was lost nor then his loyalty keeping up the Festivals Ministry and prayers of the Church by his example and charity printing Orthodox Books in Welch and buying them in English at his own charge relieving the poor Cavaliers and encouraging the rich zealously but wisely and warily his loyalty cost him and his son Charles Salisbury 781l by way of composition and 100 l. per annum in a way of charity An old Gentleman of a great spirit that would would deal faithfully with any man and spoke so plainly to his Majesty for two hours in private that the good King said nevâ—r did Prince hear so much truth at once He was sure to have his Carolon Christmass day as St. Bernard his bymn See Mr. R. Vaughans Dedic of Bishop Usher and Bishop Prideaux his works to him translated at his charge R. Vaughan whose house Caergay was burned for his loyalty to the ground a great Critick in the Welch Language and Antiquities as was Mr. Rob. Vaughan of Hengour to whom his Country is much engaged for translating the Practice of Piety and other good Books into Welch 4. Sir Thomas Salisbury of Lleweney by Denbigh a Gentleman every way especially in Loyalty and Arms recovering the honour of that ancient and noble Family by his early and effectual adhering to K. Charles I. which was tainted by his Predecessors practices against Q. Elizabeth he hazzarding as much for the established Religion against the Novelties of his time as his Ancestor did for what he thought
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
to say at Uxbridge There was no peace to be made with the King the difference between him and the Parliament being as wide as that between Heaven and Hell He suffered 1650. when the Presbyterians were in open War for the King against the Sectaries that were for the Parliament FINIS An Advertisement THere are two other Books of this Authors in the Press and will be shortly published The one entituled CHVRCH WORTHIES Or the Lives of the Right Reverend Arch-bishops the Reverend Bishops Doctors and eminent Divines since the Reformation The other entituled STATE WORTHIES Being Observations on the States-men and Favorites of England since the Reformation their Prudence and Policies Successes and Miscarriages Advancements and Falls during the Reigns of King Henry VIII King Edward VI. Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King Iames and King Charles I. Both to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet A. E. 6. 4. 1550. A. Ed. 6. 7. 1553. Q. M. 2. 3. 1557 8. Q. El. 1. 1560 1. 1567. 1582 1583 a Being born his Mother coming casually to London in Chanceâ— Lane in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West and Christned there April 22. 1593. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Meditat. 2. Dr. R. P. Life of King Charles l. H. Lin Kiâ—g Charles â— a Injuriae sprelae exolescunt b Having a design upon Spain as Spain had upon them c In which Tryal he was one of the Iudges a 〈…〉 The Earl is made L. L. of Ireland 1633 His Câ—unsels â—o the King â—bouâ— the Scotish and English tumults Lysunachâ—â— Nâ—canoâ—s uâ—â—ying of the Knot a By the Londoners b Barbarino's meanes Protector of the English * See the Letter between them in our Chronicles See the shoâ— Notes of the Lord Lieutenant Lord Archbishop Coâ—ting c. in Hist. King Charls l. pag. 310. Sanders The Earls â—ank Advice about a Parliament * And therefore the Scots accuse him for prefâ—rring Bp. Bramhal Bp. Chappel For which his Commission was dated the 21 Mâ—â—â—â—h 163â— Sir Harry Vâ—nâ—'s Notes against the Earl of Strafford that ruined him The Earls full and notable Answer to those Notesâ— The Earles gallant come off See Dr. P. life K. Ch. I. p. 23. What shifts they were forced to make to get his head The Bishops that were sent for were Dr. Usher A. B. of Armagh Dr. Juxon Bishop of London Dr. Morton Bishop of Durham Dr. Poller Bishop of Carlisle Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln who told the King that he need not scruple shewing mercy Some cunning persons suggest be sent to the King scorning to owe his life after so much service to a bare promise The Earl of Straffords remarkable Letter to the King The notorious Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford How true you may see in the â—yal a The Seditious Party there b Not a tenth part all sober men being afraid and ashamed of it Where there is none of this proved yea what they insisted upon was proved but by one Witness Sir Hâ— V. and him 〈◊〉 by 4 honourable Lords that were present with Sir H. V. when the words he deposed should be spoken c None of the things Alledged against him being Treasons in particular the whole could not amount to Treason d If that had been there had been no need of this Bill a As that Captain â—llingsley should come with an 10â— men and â— the â—retence of a Guard to the Tower to Rescut the Earl That the 〈◊〉 B other should wâ—â—â—elow the â—ower to that purpose That Balsores Son should have 20000l with he Ear'â—s Daughâ—er c b The very Lâ—aies took Notes The Earl of Strafford's Speech on the Scaffold * The Right Honorable the then Earl now the Duke of Newcastle Declaration Aug. 10. Their Ancient Sirname is Herbert a As one Dr. Tunter and one Clement Cook did a Wherewithall Westminster rung The Lord Finche Speech in his own defence In his Speeches 4. Car. 1. Created 〈◊〉 April 7. 1640 Ilis crimâ—s His good qualities â—or the Secretaries place ☞ * D. H. ☜ His Petition to the Parliament C. C. Oxon. Peterburgh Admin Card. de Rich. P. 283. F. O. p. 12. a Aeâ—ernitas nodosa pusterâ—ta b Araâ—â—c Câ—t Bodl. â— 24 25. c 2 Sam. 18. 18. d Plutarch § His Birth § His Education § His Works * M. S. in Arch. Baror Bibl. Bod l. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e His Account of the 70 Translation f His discourse of the â—lonument at Salisbury of a little Boy habited in Episcopal Robes § His Preferment His Desigr and the disposal of his Study Epist. Dedit to the Bishop of Salisbury § His Patrons and Acquaintance a In his Review of his M. SS § His Death His Prophecy § His Character a Bacon Aug Scient p. 2. 1. His sayings of Preaching 2. Of the Interpretation of Scripture Of the Alcoran § His Burial He died at Kidlington and was buried at Christ-Church ☞ A comparison between the despised pains of worthy men and the admired nothing of the unworthy ☞ E. W. ☞ * It was Demosthenes his case about the letter P. Mr. Mede could not for his life pronounce Carolus Rex Britannicae saying that he made up that in hearty prayers that he wanteâ— in plain prenunciation § Latine Professor in Paris Queting for it 1 Pet 1. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he câ—nceived to signifie affliction that trieth saith saying that the word especially should be rendred exploratorum rather thâ—â— exploraâ—â— History of Parliament p. 79. * Verborum minutiae rerum frangunt pendera A. Gel. * Called Registrum Cancellariae Vide Epist. Coci Commeatar in Littlen on Ploydens Comment 5. 8. 6 a Institutes Exposition of Magna Charta and other Ancient Statutes Pleas of the Crown Iurisdiction of Courts Books of Entry and Reports Books of which it might be said â—s it was said of Plutarch in another respect that if all Law were lost it might be found in him * And when others pressed for the place the King said Peremptâ—rily that Potteâ— should have it this was 1628 * Whereof the 16th is in Print a Who is supposed created as if he had been so a Whispering nothing in some â—â—dies ear a The Earls are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they carry on their heads a Corcâ—â—t the Emblem of Nobility in the fashion of a Tombe the Emblem of Mortality Mr. Savage a person that was with him in his sickness * Which said Sir Dudley Carleton in his Speâ—ch to the States they saw only being not much made of there a For our Diâ—ines managed thâ—ir business privately among themselves before they debaâ—d it at the Synod b So they were accounted anciently b At St. Johns and in his own Colledge till he dyed I His Extraction Birth a Whose Daughter Maâ—gareâ— married J. 4 of Scotland b Aethaling 's Daughter married Malcolme Conmor K. of Scots c Dr. P. in his life II His Education
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty