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Memorials of worthy persons (lights and ornaments of the Church of England.), the fourth decad. / by Cl. Barksdale.; Memorials of worthy persons. Decade 4
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Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
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accept of his good will and such poor fare as he had Master Lieutenant quoth Sir Thomas I believe you are my frind I thank you for your good will and I assure you I dâ— not mislike my cheer but whensoever I do then thrusâ— me out of your doors 20. In the â—ower he had begun a Divine Treatise of the Passion of Christ and when he came to these words of the Gospel And the laid hands on him and held him they â—ook from him all his Books Ink and Paper so that he could go on no further Afterwards he applyed himself holly to Meditation keeping his Chamber windows fast shut and very dark the occasion whereof the Lieutenant asking It is time said he when all the wares are gone to shut up shop 21. After he had received the sentence of death he said to the Judges My Lords as wâ— read that Paul consented to the death of Stephen and yet be they now both Saints in Heaven and shall continue there friends for ever so I verily trust and shall therefore right heartily pray that though your Lâ—â—dships have been now Judges on earth to my condemnation we may yet hereafter all meet together in Heaven merrily to our everlasting salvation And so I pray God preserve my Soveraign Lord the King and send him faithful Councellors * See the rest if you please in this English Writer or in Stapleton's Latin book Detribus Thomis Sr. Henry Wotton Kt. VII Sr HENRY WOTTON Out of his Life written by Mr Iz Walton D. Roberto Jones Rect. de Leckhampton 1. SIR Henry Wotton was born An. 1568. in Bocton-Hall in the Paâ—ish of Boctoâ— Malherb in the fruitful Country of Kent both House and Church seated within a fair Park of the Wottons on the brow of such a hill as gives the advantage of a large prospect and of equal pleasure to all beholâ—ers But they are not remâ—rkâ—ble for any thing so much as for that the memorable Familie of the Wottons hâ—ve so long inhâ—bited the one and now lie buâ—ied in the other as appears by their mâ—ny Monuments in that Church the Wottons being a Family thâ—t bâ—th broughâ— foâ—th divers Persons eminent for Wisdom and Valour whose Heroick Acts and Noble Employments both in England and in Forein parts have adorned themselves and this Nation 2. Thomas Wotton the Father of our Henrie was a Gent. excellently educated and studious in all the liberal Arts who although he had many invitations from Queen Elizabeth to change his Countrâ—e recreations and retirement for a Court life offering him a Knighthood she was then with him at his Bocton-hall and to be but as an earnest of some more honorable and more profitable imployment under her yet he humbly refuseth both being a man of great modestie of a most plain and single heart of an antient freedom and integritie of mind A commendation which Sir Henrie took occasion often to remember with great gladness and thankfully to boast himself the Son of such a Father from whom indeed he derived that noble Ingenuitie that was alwaies practised by himself and which he ever commended and cherished in others 3. Of this Family was Nicholas Wotton Doctor of Law and sometime Dean of Canterburie a man whom God did not only blesse with a long life but with great abilitiès of mind and an inclination to employ them in the service of his Country as is restified by his several imployments having been sent nine times Embassador unto forein Princes a Privy Councellor to â— Henrie 8 Edward 6. Q. Marie and Q. Elizabeth who imployed him three several times for setling of peace between England Scotland and France who also offered him the Archbishoprick of Cant. but he refused it and dyed not rich though he had lived in the time of dissolution of Abbies He dyed saith learned Camden full of commendation for Wisdom and Pietie 4. The Father of Sir Henrie after the death of his first wife resolved if he should marry again to avoid three sorts of persons namely those that had children or had law suits or were of his kinred And yet following his own Law-suits he met in Westminster-hall with one Mrs Morton widow daughter to Sir William Finch of Kent who was also ingaged in several suits in Law and observing her Comportment at the time of hearing one of her Causes before the Judges he could not but at the same time both compassionate her condition and so affect her person that although there was in her a concurrence of all those accidents against which he had resolved yet he sollicited her for a wife and obtained her By her he had our Henrie his youngest son 5. His Mother was Tutoresse to him during his childhood for hich care and pains he paid her every day with such visible signs of future perfection in learning as turned her imployment into a pleasing trouble After his Father took him into his particular care and disposed of him to a Tutor in his own house and when time and diligent instruction had fitted him which was very early he was sent to Winchâ—ster School a place of stâ—ict Disâ—ipline and Order that so he might in his youth be moâ—ded into a method of living by rule And that he might be confirmed in this Regularitie he was at a fit age removed from that School to New Coll in Oxford 6. There he continued till about the 18th year of his age and was then transplanted into Queens Coll. where within that year he wrote a Play for their private use the Tragedie of Tancredo so ell that the gravest of that Society declared he had in a slight exercise given an early and a solid teâ—imony of future abilities About the 19th year of his age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time read in Latin three Lectures De oculo wherein having described the form motion curious composure of the eye c. in the conclusion he took a fair occasion to beautifie his discourse with a commendation of the blessing and benefit of seeing so exactly and Rhetorically as among other admirers caused that learned Italian Albericus Gentilis then professor of the Civil Law in Oxford to call him Henrice mi ocelle which dear expression of his was used by many other persons of note during his stay in the Vniversitie 7. After his Optick Lecture he was taken into such a bosom friendship with Gentilis that if it had been possible he would have breathed all his excellent knowledge both of the Mathematicks and Law into the breast of his dear Henrie for so he used to call him and though he was not able to do that yet there was in Sir Harrie such a propensity and connaturalnesse to the Italian language and those studies whereof Gentilis was a great Master that this friendship between them did dayly increase and proved dayly advantageous to Sir Henrie for the improvement of him in several Sciences Among his other friends in Oxford I must not omit the
the Universal Language 14. For eight years after Sir Henrie Wotton's going into Italie he stood fair and highly valued but at last became much clouded by this accident Being merry with his friends at Augusta men of the best note for learning and ingenuousness the Virtuosi of that Nation he was requested by Christopher â—lecamore to write some Sentence in his Albo a book of white paper which for that purpose many of the German Gentry usually carry about them and consenting to the motion took an occasion from some accidental discourse of the present company to write a pleasant definition of an Embassador in these very words Legatus est Vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipub. causa which Sir Henrie could have been content should have been thus Englished An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Countrie But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn was not so expresse in Latin as would admit in the hands of an enemy especially so fair a construction as Sir Henrie thought in English This coming to the knowledge of K. James by the malicious pen of Caspar Scioppius much offended his Majestie and this caused Sir Henrie Wotton to write two Apologies one in Latin to Velserus and another to K. James which were so ingenuous so clear and so choicely eloquent that his Majestie who was a pure Judge of it could not so bear to declare publiâ—kly That Sir H. Woâ—ton had commuted sufficiently for a greater offence And now as broken bones well set become stronger so Sir Henrie Wotton did not only recover but was much more confirmed in his Majesties favour 15. And his Interest still increased with the Duke Leonardo Donato after whose death as though it had been an entaild love it was still found living in the succeding Dukes during all the time of his employment to that State which was almost 20 years All which time he studyed the Dispositions of those Dukes the Consultors of State wel knowing that he who negotiates a continual business and neglects the studie of dispositions usually fails in his proposed ends But this Sir H. Wotton did not For by a fine sorting of fit Presents curious and not costly entertainments alwaies sweetned by various and pleasant discourse by his choice application of stories and his so elegant delivery of all these even in their Italian Language he first got and still preserved such interest in the State of Venice that it was observed such was either his merit or his modestie they never denyed him any request 16. When he had attended the Emperour and German Princes eight months to in cline them to equitable conditions for the Restoâ—ation of the Queen of Bohemia and her Descendants to their Patrimonial Inheritance of the Palatinate and had brought the businesse to a probability of successe but after a victory gotten by the Imperial Army saw the face of peace altered at his departure from the Emperour he was so bold as humbly to advise him to use his Victorie soberly and still put on thoughts of peace Which advice though it seemed to be spoke with some passion yet was taken in good part by the Emperour who was ever much pleased with his cariage all the time that he resided in his Court and said That though the King his Master was lookt on as an Abetter of his enemie the Palsgrave yet he took him to be a Person of much honour and merit and did therefore desire him to accept of that Jewel as a testimonie of his good opinion of him which was a Jewel of Diamonds of more value than a thousand pounds This was received with all circumstances and terms of honour by Sir H. Wotton but the next morning at his departing from Vienna at his taking leave of the Countess of Saâ—vina an Italian Lady in whose house the â—mperour had appointed him to be lodged and honourably entertained He acknowledged her merits and besought her to accept of that Jewel as a testimonie of his gratitude presenting her with the same that was given him by the Emperour Which being suddenly discovered by the Emperour was by him taken for a high affront and Sir H. Wotton told so To which in the nobleness of his mind he repli'd That though he received it with thankfulness yet he found in himself an indisposition to be the better for any gift that came from an Enemie to his Royal Mistresse for so the Queen of Bohemia was pleas'd he should call her 17. Many other of his Services to his Prince and this Nation might be insisted on as his procuration of Privileges and courtesies with the German Princes and the Republick of Venice for the English Merchants his releasing and relieving many hundred captivated English soldiers and sending them back in a comfortable condition to thank God for their lives and libertie in their own Nation but I must hast to bring Sir H. Wotton in an instant from Venice to London whither he returned that year in which K. James dyed 18. The King had for the reward of his forrein service promised him the reversion of an Office which was fit to be turned into present money and also granted him the Reversion of the Master of the Rolls place if he outlived charitable Sir Julius Caesar who then possessed it and then grown so old that he was said to be kept alive beyond natures course by the prayers of those many poor which he dayly relieved Mean while his condition requir'd present support For in the beginning of these imployments he sold to his elder brother the Lord Wotton the Rent-charge left by his good Father and which is worse was now at his return indebted to several persons whom he was not able to satisfie but by the Kings payment of his Arrears He had brought into England many servants of whom some were German and Italian Artists This was part of his condition who had many times hardly sufficient to supply the occasions of the day For it may by no means be said of his providence as himself said of Sir Philip Sidney's wit That it was the very measure of congruitie he being alwaies so careless of mony as though our Saviours words Care not for to morrow were to be literally understood 19. But it pleased God that in this juncture of time the Provostship of his Majesties College of Eaton became void by the death of Murray for which there were as the place deserv'd many earnest and powerful Suitors to the King Sir Henrie who had for many years rolled the restlesse stone of a State employment and knowing experimentally that the great blessing of sweet content was not to be found in multitudes of men or businesse and that a College was the fittest place to nourish holy thoughts and to afford rest both to his body and mind which his Age being now almost threescore years seemed to require did therefore use his own and the