before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am
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
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King 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 Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
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 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
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their
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
much as he was able to pay for melted it down and scoured his body with it when he kept School first in a Cellar in Aldersgate-street In the Wars there were for personal Valour very eminent Sir Baynam and Sir Clement Throgmorton who whilest others boast of their French bloud may with their English Family vie Gentry with any of the Norman Extraction 1 For Antiquity four Monasyllables being by common pronunciation crowded into their Name The Rock More Town 2 For numerosity being branched into so many Countries 3 For Ingenuity Character'd by Cambden to be fruitful of sine Wits and to them Sir Simon Archer of Tanworth in Warwickshire and his Son there of his studiousness as well as Estate a great Antiquary careful in collecting and courteous in communicating singular Rarities which were carelesly scattered up and down these Wars and prudently brought up by him and the Honorable Persons fore-going who were not as the Toads who suck up the precious stone in their head envying the use of it sparing no cost for their love to Antiquity and being put to many thousand pounds charge for their hatred of Novelty as was The Honorable Iohn Son to Nich. Tuston created Earl of Thanet an exemplary Person in the strictness of his Life and the good Government of his Family who for encouraging the Kentish mens Loyalty though he left them upon their unconstancy paid for his own 9000 l. and Tho. Lord Viscount Falconbridge 5012 l. for his Col. Mynne Governor of Hereford there were in the Army besides Col. Robert and Col. Nicholas Mynne one or both Knights Harbingers and signing the Articles at the Rendition of Bristol an experienced Commander first in Ireland and afterwards coming over with a Brigade 1653. over whom he was General in England distressing Glocestâ—r from Berkly and thereabout with continual Skirmishes Massie saying He had plaid till these came over A restless man in pursuit of some project every day to hearten and employ his own Souldiers and weary the Enemy as he was going to joyn the Forces of Hereford and Worcestershire at Castlelane with a design on Glocester and others not keeping touch with him he was cut off with the best Regiment made so by continual exercise within three miles of Glocester in disadvantagious Inclosures the consequence whereof was the defeating of the Kings Power in Southwales being much missed by his Friends and honored by his Foes who gave him a stately Burial 1644. in Testimony of his Worth and Valor being the fairest and shrew dest Enemy in Christendom whose Monument shall be supported by First Col. H. Washington who blocked up Glocester on Tewxbury side a Gentleman though disobliged by being put upon designs without Money to pursue them never suffered his Heat and Feaver to turn to a Frenzy unworthily attempting what he could not handsomely atchieve though vext that his swelling and prosperous sails should be silled rather with airy promises than real supplies and Eversham scoured the hedges near Stopwash a Border-Town of Cheshire to make way for Prince Rupert to enter into that Important Garrison kept Worcester till his Majesty under his hand Iune 10. 1646. commanded him to yield it against all Assaults and Summons and did Wonders by Patience and Resolution at Colchester as he did at the first taking of Bristol the first breach whereof entred was called by his name made terrible thereafter by his brave Regiment of Dragoons whose fierce and active Gallantry bestowed a Proverb on every resolute Exploit Away with it quoth Washington Secondly The Honorable Col. Oneal the onely Protestant of his Family it s a question whether gaining more honor by his hard service about Glocester and in both the Newberries with King Charles the I. or by his assiduous Negotiations and Messages posting from place to place in Holland where he was warned to the Countess of Chesterâ—ield in France where he was welcome to the best Cavaliers and Germany for King Charles the II. especially in the various Occasions Opportunities and Revolutions 1659. at Fontarabia Scotland Flanders England c. that made way for his Majesties Restauration who let him to Farm the Post-Office He died 1664. It s more to be called an Oneal than an Emperor in Ireland 3. By Collonel Will. Pretty who when Backehouse sent him word he woulk Breakfast with him returned that then he would Dine at Glocester a Gentleman that loved his last thoughts as Mothers the youngest Child best declaring siercely Sept. 2. 1645. That Bristol was Tenable by force and needed not the courteste or charm of words meaning Treaties with Fairfax to maintain it onely the Souldiery were to be refreshed and the Bayes of Victory are not to be plucked up till by fair opportunities they are grown ready 4. Collonel Pert who received his Deaths wound 1645. in Cornwall not to be gained by Power or Policy from the ground he stood in the Riddle of the Army never appearing what he was nor being what he appeared giving his Enemies always too little hope to trust and too little to distrust him Such must be as dark as midnight who must perform actions as bright as Noon-day 5. Col. Taylor there was one Mr. Taylor Resident for his Majesty with the Emperor in honorable esteem who made the Glocestershire Forces pay as he said Cost and Dammage for the death of Col. Mynne at last killed himself 1645 at Bristol when unus homo pereundo restituit rem where he died in the bed of honor about which we can only draw the Curtain Richard Taylor ofâ—rnely â—rnely Sussex paid 500 l. composition Jo. Talbot of Thornton York 800 l. Sir Jo. Talbot Lanc. 600 l. Tho. Taylor Ocle Pichard Her 265 l. Rich. Taylor Clapham Bedf. Esq 450 l. 6. Col. Rich. Poore that little man and great Souldier slain in Wales 7. As was Col. Will. Wynne of Berthu at Wem the Bulwark of Northwales which as Souldiers cry was all and one his because of his large alliance obliging spirit exemplary sobriety great conduct and fidelity to which the Enemy never entred while he lived no more than the English could while Owen Glendower Commanded such a strong Line of Communication he had formed in all the Marches and so watchful and active was he in maintaining that Line The Worshipful Wynnes of Gwyddir were great sufferers for his Majesty 8. Col. Dalby that excellent Engineer killed at Wingfield Mannor Derbyshire 9. Col. Io. Marrow slain near Sandiway in Cheshire 10. Sir Matthew Carew whose Misfortunes were his advantage It is an ill wind that bloweth no body good his Company being delightful when his service though prudent and valiant was unsuccessful and he fit to stand before Princes and not before mean men a man of spirit for his non Faelix carrying a badge of Valor no blemish but Beauty Mars hath his spots as well as Venus in his face Sir Francis Carew Beddington Surrey paid 1000l Composition 11. Col. Bagot who had travelled most places
storm where he was killed the first instopping every breach that was made Francis Newport of â—yton upon Severn Sal. compounded for â—284 l. Sir Richard Newport deservedly created Baron Neport of High-Arcall besides many thousand pounds he sent the King paid composition with 170 l. per annum settled 3287 l. Mr. Lewis Blunt a Volunteer was killed near Manchester and Mr. Christopher Blunt at Edgulton house a William Pawlet of Paulstones Southampt paid 544 l. for his allegiance Francis Pawlet and Amos Pawlet Somers 800 l. b Sir William Savil was an eminent and a sober Commander on the Kings side Will. Savil of Wakefield Yorksh. Esq paid 946 l. as he said for the 13 Chapter of the Romans a Henry Leigh of High-Leigh Chester Esq 710 l. Composition George Leigh of Wotton Gloc. 264 l. Coll. Tho. Leigh and Sir Ferdinando Leigh were never surâ—rised for want of Foresight nor worsted for want of Resolution Gervase Lee of Norwel Notingh Esq paid 560 l. for charges Tho. Leigh of Adlington Chester 3000 l. Edw. Leigh of Bugeley ibid. 700 l. Thomas Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh faithful to his Majesty in dangerous times paid for his consciencious adherence to his Soveraign 4895l Peter Leigh jun. of Neithertalby Chesh. Esq 778l Will. Leigh Pitminster Somers 120l Sir Richard Lee of Langley Sal. Ber. 8782l Sir Thomas Leigh of Humpstal Ridward Staff 1376 l. Gentlemen these easily distinguished by their actions though agreeing in name Great men when Sirnames are necessary to distinguish obscure persons are Sirnames to themselves a Coll. Hugh Windham a mâ—â—k Lyon was slâ—n in Docetshire a Particularly in 〈◊〉 deâ—eat of Waller at Teux bury a To whom â—e was Gen. â—â—man of his Bed-Chamber a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles II. who would not have yielded Pendennis but at the Command of King Charles I. b He that beat Cromwel once in the West Sir James Smith Devon paid for being a Coll. in the Kings Army 188 l. Sir Will. Smith Sir Walter Smith of great Bedwin Wilts with 40l per annum settled paid 685l Composition Thomas of Nibley Ches 40l Edward Smith of Haughton Northam 142l Will. Smith of Stamford Kent 108l Will. Smith of Presly Som. 140l R. Smith Heath Denb 90l F. Smith of Buton Sal. and Cawood Ebor. 194l Edward Smith Dr. of Physick 45l Tho. Smith Steyning Sussex 40l Nich. Smith Theddlethorpe Lincoln 115l Jo. Smith Oxon. 220l Sir Tho. Smith Chester 10l per annum settled and 215l Jo. Smith of Small Corbes Gloc. 600l Jo. Smith Blackthorne Oxon. 107l Rob. Smith Akley Bucks and Will Smith 564l Jo. Smith of Great Milton Oxon. 107l Jo. Smith Swanton Ebor. 38l Rich. Smith of Torrington Devon Merchant 176l Parris Smith of Comb. Somerset 86l Joseph Smith Selby Linc. Clerk 600l Edw. Smith Wakefield York 60l Captain Dudley Smith killed at Roundway-down a Thâ—â— Windsor 1100l b 〈…〉 c Creatâ—d 166l d Sir William Huddleston of Millain Castle Northum was Sir Edward W. onely Parallel who raised a Regiment at his own Charge and had seven Sons that rid in it for which besides 30000 l. other losses he paid 2248 l. Composition and Sir Henry Lingen of Sutton Her who raised two Regiments and did eminent service in awing Glocester and securing Heresord and Worcestershire with his Bragade of Horse that they said never slept and â—azzarded himself often for his Majesties Restauration for which he paid 6342l as Jo. Lord Scudamore Viscouâ—t Sleyo in Ireland sâ—me years Leger Ambassador in France who all these times kept his secret Loyalty to his Soveraign Hospitality in his Family and Charity to the distressed Clergy for which with his son 2690l Not forgetting Sir B. Seudamore a gallant expert Commander Governor of Hereford and Dr. Scudamore who was slain't â—ere nor the R. H. Will. Lord Sturton whose Loyalty cost him 1100l a And the excellent judgment he would give of all the rational discourses iâ— Religion extant b Particularly in the laâ—e sickness a F. F. Epist. Dedic Clem. Throg de Haseley VVor. Arm. The Right Honorable Baptist Noel Lord Viscount Cambden 150 l. land per annum and 9000 l. besides 50000 l. other losses a Sir William St. Leager came over with him with his Regiment afterwards Commanding at second Newberry battel the Cornishmen and the Duke of Yorks Regiment Sir Anthony St. Leiger of Ulcomb Kent where it has been a Kinghtly Family 300 years Sir Tho. St. Leiger being Brother-in-law to Edward the 4th was killed commanding Prince Ruperts Life-guard at Newberry second battel Oct. 27. 1644. His son I suppose Sir A. St. Leiger paying 400 l. composition This Ancient Families decays hath been the occasion the issue generall of decayed Estates are projects of many noble Inventions in England preferring to be Masters of a Molebill than dependant on the highest Prince in Christendom a There were in the Kings Army 3 Collonels more of the name viz. Sir Charles Dallison Sir Robert Dallison and Sir William Dallison who spent 130000l therein men of great command in their Country bringing the strength thereof to the reasonable assistance of his Majesty a Edw. Heath of Cotsmore Rutland Esq paid 700 l. composition Jo. Hammond of Elling Norf. 1000 l. R. Heath of Eyerton Chesh. 300 l. b Where fell Coll. Scot. c At which place and time sell the Right Worshipful Sir â— Hurton a Jo. Fortescue Cookill Worc. Esq paid 234l for his Loyalty Jo. Fortescue of Bridlest Esq Devon 202l Sir Faithfull Fortescue came over to his Majesty at Edgehill with his Troop b Major Laurence Clifton and Captain John Clifton slain at Shelford House Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton Not. 7625. c There was Coll. Matth. and Ralph Eure in the Kings Army Sir Sampson Eure Garley Park Hert. paid 110l composition d L. C. Philip Howard Nephew to the second and Cousin Germain to the first slain near Chester e Col. Thomas Morgan of Weston was slain at the first Newberry battel f And his Brother the Honorable Edward Talbot Esq slain together with Mr. Ch. Townley at Marston-moor Volunteers and Mr. Charles Sherburne Col. James Talbor was a Person deserving well of his Majesty Sherrington Talbot of Salwarpe Worâ— his Estate suffered 2011l deep g To these Iadde Sir Henry Constable Lord Viscount of Dunbar who died in the service at Scarborough h Who hath three Crowns added to his Arms with this Motto Subditus fidelis Regis Regni salus i There was Collonel Jo. and Collonel Thomas Butler Men much valued and much lamented as Persons of great Interest in the Associated Counties and Collonel Croker a Who lost by the War 733579 l. and his son the most hopeful Charles Lord Viscount Mansfield who had an eminent Command under him died in these times He was General of the Ordnance b I find Sir Charles Cavendish of Wellingon Line 2048l deep in the Goldsmiths-Hall Book and Francis Cavendish of Debridge Derby 480l The Lord Henry Cavendish was a
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
and bodily pain that the Soul may have time to call its self to a just account of all things past by means whereof repentance is perfected patience is exercised the Joys of Heaven are leisurely represented the pleasures of sin and the vanities of the world are with sound judgement censured Charity hath time to look out fit objects and Prudence to dispose of a mans Estate besides that the nearer we draw to God the more we are oftentimes enlightned with the shining beams of his glorious Presence as being then even almost in sight a leisurable departure may in that case bring forth for the good of them that are present that which will cause them for ever after from the bottom of their hearts to pray Oh let us die the death of the Righteous and let our last end be like theirs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. that is We must all the days of our appointed time wait until our change shall come according to Tertullians Character of the Christians in his time who saith they were expeditum morti genus It was a good resolution of the holy man that was resolved to repent a day before he died and because he was uncertain when he should die repented every day It is reported of Archias by Plutarch that having by fraudulent and unjust courses at length compassed the Government of Thebes he with his Complices kept a riotous Feast when in the midst of his Intemperance a Messenger cometh to him with a Letter from a Friend importuning him speedily to peruse it and he slighting the Admonition and putting it under his Pillow said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serious things to morrow when as the thing which the Letter concerned was effected that night viz. he died in the midst of his cups It was the policy of Iulius Caesar never to acquaint his Army before-hand with the time of their march ut paratum exercitum momenti omnibus quo vellet educeret We suppose this Gentleman who hath given occasion for this meditation is the Arthur Trevor of the Inner-Temple Esq that Compounded for 05461. 09s 08d They are golden words of a precious man Mentis aureae verba Bracteato I have often prayed that on my side might joyn true Piety with the sense of their Loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the effects of one might not blast the endeavor of the other Sir RICHARD WESTON TO Baron Trevor we might add Baron Weston who was inseparable from him in opinion and would have been so in suffering but that he was called to give an account of himself to God when others were so haled to give an account of themselves to men When we read that Sir Richard Weston died in Trinity Term the fourteenth year of King Charls the First 's Reign 1638 9. with the Character in a grave Reporter of a very Learned Judicious Couragious and Patient man in all his Proceedings and afterward read in the Chronicle of Articles and Impeachment against Sir Iohn Brampston Sir Humphrey Davenport Sir Thomas Trevor Sir Francis Crawley and Sir Richard Weston in Easter Term 17 Carol. I. 1641. We are put in minde of one Archbishop six Bishops and eight Doctors going solemnly to Cambridge to excommunicate the bones of an Heretick that dyed some years before malice would not end where life doth but extend its self to the grave and reach to the other world There were three famous Men of this Name whereof one read as much as the other two remembred practised Sir Francis Weston who preceded him in qualification as well as in place and he had a good Rule viz. That private men should take care to do no wrong themselves but publick men that others under them should do none We have done with our Judges save one we mean Sir Francis Crawley who is reserved for his proper place where we hope the Reader shall finde an exact account of him from his reverend Son Dr. Crawley the learned meek charitable bountiful and religious Rector of Agmondsham in Buckingham-shire who quitted his Fellowship at Trinity for his Allegiance as his Father quitted his Office onely be it remembred that what these Confessors for Law lost by refusing to continue under an usurped Power on the Bench they gained by private Practise in their Chambers the people willingly trusting their Estates in those Worthy Persons hands with whom the King had instrusted the Law being confident of their faithfulness to them who had approved themselves so faithful to their Soveraign And that they would not wrest the Law who suffered so much rather than betray it It is observed that when Sir Iohn Cary Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Richard the Seconds time lost his estate for being that unfortunate Kings Champion at Law his Son Sir Robert Cary had it intirely restored to him for being King Henry the Fifths Champion at Armes For a Knight Errant of Arragon coming into England challenging any to Tilt with him was undertaken by this Sir Robert and overcome for which Sir Robert had that Estate from Henry the Fifth which his Father was adjudged to have forfeited to Henry the Fourth And its observable that whatever any of these Judges lost to the Parliament their Sons and Relations repaired again with the King the Sword making amends for the damages of the Gown the Young Set of Loyalists fighting against that phrenzy which the Elder in vain pleaded against But we had almost forgot Sir Humphrey Davenport that man of memory who to his dying day had the old Year-books and Reports ad ungues but remembred no new ones as Beza when above fourscore could perfectly say by heart any Greek Chapter in St. Pauls Epistles or any thing which he had learned long before but forgot whatsoever was newly told him His memory like an Inn retaining Old Guests but affording no room to entertain New It is pity that he that kept the exact date of every eminent Lawyer in his own time should want an exact account of his own He was Born in Cheshire where are 1. The Most 2. The most Ancient 3. The most Loyal 4. The most Hospitable Gentry in England Iuly 7. 1584. the same day that his Father and Mother died both together within a quarter of one another When my Father and my Mother forsake me for want of natural affection to pity me for want of wisdom not knowing what to do with me for want of power not able to help me or by death being forced to leave me The gracious God that when a Father forgets his bowels cannot forget his love which is his own nature The All-wise God that when we are at a loss ordereth all things by the eternal Counsel of his Will The Almighty God that when we are weak doth whatsoever he pleaseth in Heaven and Earth The Immortal God that Inhabiteth Eternity that when Friends are gone will never leave us never forsake us This Lord will take
Bed was born at London Iuly 7. 1572. bred when his Father was under a Cloud at Westminster near London and Trinity Colledge in Cambridge when he had so much moderation as to appear constantly at our Prayers and Sermons and so much insight into the Protestant Principles as to judge that the distance between the Catholick and Reformed Churches grew not from their Controversies but their Interests not from the Opinions themselves which might be compounded but from the passions of those that managed them which could not be reconciled Neither was he satisfied only to read what men thought but he travelled to see what they did either in Courts as at France and Rome or in Camps as in the Low Countries or in Universities as in St. Omers c. from whence he returned a very accomplished Gentleman fit 1. For a Kings Privy Council to which honor King Iames admitted him 1607. 2. For a Companion of the most honorable Order in the world such he was created by King Iames with Prince Charles and the Earl of Sommerset 1611. that King saying He was a very fit man for the first of those Honors because he could not flatter and for the second because he could not but obey 3. For the Judge of the Court of Honor being a great Master of it 4. For an Ambassador to the Emperor about the Restauration of the Palatinate as he was by King Charles the first 1636. where having proposed reason to the Emperor and disposed most of the Princes to hearken to that reason so far that the Lower Palatinate was granted when Bavaria who got the upper Palatinate into his possession answered at last like a Souldier what he had concealed all the time of the fruitless Treaty That what he had with so much hazzard of his Person and expence of Treasure won by the Sword in defence of the Empire against the Empire he would now maintain with the same Power in the possession The stout Earl to express his disdain of the insignificant answer returned home notwithstanding the interpositions of the Polish and Spanish Ambassadors sent after him to moderate his anger and promise better effects after some weeks patience without so much as taking his leave procuring the like flur for the Imperial Agent that came over hither to excuse their past carriage and to offer new conditions upon strong presumption of Marriage which he had driven very far between the Electors Sister Elizabeth and the King of Poland 5. For a Judge in several extraordinary Courts of Justice an employment befitting the dignity of his Person and the firmness impartiality and resolution of his Spirit 6. For General of the gallant Army that went against Scotland a place suitable to his skill experience and conduct 7. For a Commissioner to examine the Spanish Navy under D'Oquendo 1639. and the design of it upon our Coast which he did discreetly and narrowly discovering more than we could suspect And 8. For a Companion to the Queen Mother of France when she departed from England in which capacity he was to his dying day very serviceable to her and to his Majesty contributing towards his service abroad for Armes Ammunition Intelligence and a good Correspondence near upon 20000 l. and towards his relief at home above 14000 l. Insomuch that the honorable Henry Howard hath paid for debts since his death near upon an 100000 l. He subscribed with the rest of the Nobility 12000 l. and sent more over privately 8000. several ways which had cost him his whole estate or at least a very severe Composition had he not discreetly setled it in Sir Richard Onslow and other Trustees who had done as signal Services for that which they called a Parliament as he had done for his Majesty A Noble man this made up rather of that honesty that desires rather to be than to seem good than of that hypocrisie that desires rather to be than to seem good one that made his business more to deserve opinion than have it as more concerned what thoughts he himself than what others had of him He understood the Religion he professed and professed the Religion he understood he never thought himself so good as he should be unless he strived to be better than he was equal in all conditions under the worst patient because he deserved it and despaired not as long as he could pray under the best sober and thankful because he feared it and presumed not as long as he might offend Supporting himself and friends with this consideration that if things are not so good as he would they should have been yet they were not so bad as he knew they might have been what if I am not so happy as I desire its well I am not so wretched as I deserve They say Favourites are Court-dyals whereon all look when Majesty shines on them and none when it is night with them Our Nobleman was most conspicious in his Eclipses and like the Images of Brutus and Cassius Quod abesset co magius persulgebat Though always in favour because entertained for use not affection not only relying so much on his Masters favour as his Master did on his abilities Goodness consecrated his greatness and his greatness honored his goodness he managed his estate so as to support his honor and employed his honor so as both to support and credit his estate good husbandry may stand with great hâ—nor as well as breadth with heighth he saved his estate by ways thrifty and noble with no loss to his honor travelling to gain experience abroad and save expences at home He might with Francis Russel second Earl of Bedford of that Surname as Queen â—lizabeth merrily complained of him make many Beggars by his Liberality he made none by his Oppression or Injustice being as punctual as his Ancestor Thomas Duke of Norfolk who when he was carried to be buried in the Abbey of Thetford Anno 1524. had made so even with the world that no person could demand a groat of him for debt or restitution of any injury done by him As he was a compleat Gentleman himself so he took a particular care his Posterity should not be defective often with pleasure telling the Ran-counter between a Nobleman of Henry the eighths time and Mr. Pace one of his Secretaries The Nobleman expressing himself in contempt of Learning that it was enough for Noblemens Sons to Wind their Horn and carry their Hawk fair and to leave Study and Learning to the Children of mean Men. Mr. Pace replied That then you and other Noblemen must be content that your Children may Wind their Horns and keep their Hawks while the Children of mean Mâ—n do manage maâ—ter of State But we will make bold with the rest of his Character as we find it in a Book called Observations upon the Statesâ—men and Favourites of England p. 725. only correcting the misnomer there of Philip in stead of Thomas Earl of Arundel and adding that he married
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
Hopton so eminently serviceable 1. His great in-sight into the Designs and prudent fore-sight of the events of present Counsel which when most doubted and wavered gave him that great resolution that undertook great difficulties and bore up against greater 2. His experience of War in general and his acquaintance with that seat of it committed to him in particular 3. His renown all over the Kingdom for Piety and Moderation and within his own association for Hospitality Civility and Charity 4. His Name among the Enemies as considerable for his Generousness and Justice as for his Valor and Conduct 5. His Estate that set him above Mercinariness and his care for Money that set his Souldiers above need the occasion of mutinying among themselves or of incivillities towards others This Noble Lord dyed a Bruges September 1652. without any issue besides those of his Soul his great thoughts and greater actions his Barony of Stratton being coferred on the Lord Iohn Berkley younger Son of Sir Maurice Berkley of Bruerton in Somerset-shire so highly concerned with him in the Martial Affairs of the West being one of them that reduced and commanded it he might well share with him the honor and as Queen Eliz. was pleased that none but a King should succeed in her Throne when dying she said My Throne is the Throne of Kings so this Lords Ghost would be infinitely satisfied to see that none but an excellent Souldier should inherit his honor for his honor was the honor of Chivalry Vivat Radulphus Hopton Terris quas domâ—it fama coelo cui vixit anima natalem geminum ipsa mors pariat Quicquid vires potuere quicquid honesti Doli Favente et statore Jove et Fugitivo Pedibus restituentibus rem manibus Fractam Fecit Vir magnus maximis excidens ausibus Cui saepissime in desperata sola salute salus monstrum martis superat fuga strata potestas est unita minor major ut una manus duplam meruit lauream ut pote cujus caput galeam habuit et intus et extra De membris acies de mente triumphat acumen Hac coiere greges hac coiere duces Hostes dextra domat cerebro victoria victa est Praefuit hinc magno Julius inde sibi THE Life and Death OF Sir EDMUND VERNEY SIR Edmund Verney whose Ancestor Iohn Verney stands as eminent in the Catalogue of Gentry made for Buckinghamshire in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. as he doth in the Catalogue of Martyrs from 1637. to 1666. was born April 7. 1596. at London bred most part of his time at Court with an education answerable to his birth 1. Under such a discipline as moulded his tender soul to that frame that was not only advantageous towards the succeeding part of his education but towards the irregularity of his whole life 2. Under that tuition which successively instilled ingenious and good rudiments into his tender breast in the order that was proper to his tender years Age at once maturating his parts enlarging his capacity and advancing his Lectures until several years Education had accomplished his minde with that stock of active useful and manly knowledge which furnished him with those vertues that are a perfection to noble natures and a rest and tranquility to great minds 1. Bridling and checking the irregular sallies of the inferior faculties and the impetuous passions incident to younger years 2. Fashioning his behaviour to that humanity that was due to mankind and that modesty and gravity which was due to himself 3. Regulating his discourse to that temper that became the product of judgment and right reason and raised him to thoughts of imployment worthy and ingenuous abhorring to busie himself vitiously or impertinently In a word when Education had made him a compleat man he bethought himself that he was born to labour as the sparks are made to fly upwards being indued with that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iamblichus calls it that ever moving and restless principle his soul and trusted with those abilities that suggested to him that he was not so far neglected by either God or Nature as to be placed in the world without imployment After sometime spent with my Lord Goring to see the Low-Country Wars and some sallies out with my Lord Herbert Sir Henry Wotton to see the Courts of France and Italy 1618. he goeth with my Lord of Bristol into Spain whence he returned so well accomplished as to be recommended to the service of the Prince where he as zealously opposed the plots and stratagems of the Papists in Spain as his Tutors Hackwell and Winniffe did in England insomuch that he struck an English sorbon Doctor called Maillard a Box on the Ear for visiting one of the Princes Servants sick of a mortal Feavor whereof he died and labouring to pervert him though with so much hazard that he had much ado to keep out of the Inquisition One reason of the Princes hastening out of Spain at whose departure I finde he presented Don Maria de Lande with a cross of ten thick Table-diamonds bought of his Servant Sir Edmund Verney His Master the Prince disposing of Offices about him agreeably to mens inclinations when King made this stout man Knight-Marshal in which capacity he was severely honest in time of peace and undauntedly valiant in time of war saying when by his place he held the Royal Standard at Nottingham That by the grace of God his word always they that would wrest that Standard from his hand must first wrest his soul from his body And accordingly at the battel of Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. when as Julius Caesar commanded his Standard to be thrown among his enemies that the Souldiers might be provoked in honor to fetch it so he adventured with his Majesties colours among the enemy that the Souldiers might be engaged to follow him and was offered his life by a throng of his enemies upon condition he would deliver the Standard he answered That his life was his own and he could dispose of it but the Standard was his and their Soveraigns and he would not deliver it while he lived and he hoped it would be rescued as it was when he was dead selling it and his life at the rate of sixteen Gentlemen which fell that day by his hand One of the strictness and piety of a Puritan of the charity of a Papist of the civility of an English-man whose family the King his Master would say was the model he would propose to the Gentlemen whose carriage was such that he was called the only Courtier that was not complained of At the same time that he ventured his life for his Soveraign at home he sent his Son Sir Ralph Verney to accomplish himself for his service abroad Reliquiae Edmundi Verney vere militis Banneretti qui Deum timendo nisâ—t timere didicit nihil non Ausus nisi quod omnes audent peccare O In
and Margaret Professor of Divinity a strict observer of Discipline and a great pattern of Charity having eluded the first commission of the Visitors by a prudent demurr and delay and with excellent Reasons penned by Dr. Saunderson against the Covenant and by Dr. Langbain against the Visitation honourably neglected the second turned out so violently that his sick Wife was carried out in a Chair to make way to a Presbyterian successor as his was a little while after Digitus Dei to make way for an Independent one Dying heart-broken not for his own sufferings but his Majesties he left a Son heir of his zeal the Reverend Dr. Io. Fell now Dean of Christ Church who kept up the Devotions and Orders of the Church of England in his Brother-in-law Dr. Willis the accurate Natural Philosopher and Physician at Oxford Lodgings and House supported the Members of it by a great part of his Estate and kept up the honor of it by his example Dr. Robert Sanderson of the Noble Family of the Sandersons in York-shire and Lincolnshire bred under a methodical Master at Lincoln School and an exact Tutor at Lincoln Colledge who improved his pregnant Wit his large Understanding his faithful Memory his solid Judgment made more so by method and a deep Apprehension his hopeful Seriousness his silent Sedentary and astonishing Industry to that exactness which stuck to him to his dying day and he would observe that exactness or strictness in laying the grounds of Learning had their respective influences upon the superstructure In his younger days he learned an Art of Memory for being enjoyed when young to learn what he understood not he was compelled to make use of similitudes and to remember those things he knew not by thinking upon something like them he knew Being Serious in his Design Prudent in his Study Industrious in his Way Clear in his Apprehension Searching in his Disquisitions Serene Orderly and Methodical in his thoughts Sober and Civil in his Carriage his Tuition having added to his great parts that Humility Meekness Modesty Obedience and Civility as advantaged by his good Disposition rendred him to his last Submissive to Superiors Obliging to his Equals Tender to his Inferiors Affable and Charitable good Discipline in youth begets an habit of Obedience in riper years his thoughtful Soul strugling with the Intricacies Perplexities Darkness and Confusion of Nature and intent upon a genuine Apprehension of things rather than a toilsome Collection of words save so much Grammar as enabled him to speak his minde properly so much Rhetorick as to express it Perswasively and so much Logick as might order guide and direct his thoughts Methodically in apprehending things Distinctly in judging of them Exactly in finding out the truth that lieth in them Successfully in discovering the errors deceits and fallacies imposed upon us about them Evidently and urging the truths found out Convincingly His way was 1. To write the Rules his Tutor suggested or his Books afforded for he writ most he read or heard as he said To stay his active and young soul upon things till he had distinctly conceived them 2. To debate the Rules he writ with his friends whereof he always kept a Club. 3. To practise them upon some question or other till they became as his native reason as his own soul whereby he attained afterwards in all cases a great happiness to comprehend things deeply and fully State Controversies exactly to lay them before others clearly solidly compendiously and impartially to find out the merit of a cause the right state of a question exactly reasoning convincingly and demonstratively alledging closely and pertinently with observations choice and prudent deductions clear and genuine expressions apt suitable weighty and accurate and the whole discourse even and steady made up of abstract notions of reason experience and religion being sure to state the words in a question or case What is controverted as there will be very little when words and things are well understood must be clearly laid down would he say as it is understood on all hands and convincingly proved by a proper reason from the nature of the thing or uncontrouled authority pressed and cleared from all evasions cavils and Subter-fuges which cavils must be proposed faithfully and honestly and answered breifly fully ingeniously candidly and modestly Insomuch that as he composed a new Logick an excellent way of reasoning so he was many years the publick Reason of the Church as her best Casuist and of the University as her accurate Kings Professor of Divinity He sorted every word he read to its proper head â— having a vast Index materiarum where to put his reading and meditations drawn by himself by him he made it his business to know rather distinctly and exactly than much though he that digesteth a few things throughly and methodically so much doth one part of learning well understood depend upon and illustrate all knoweth every thing His Fellowship he reckoned a great advantage by good converse to improve his first years of prudence and discretion and his Pupils among whom the Lord Hopton was one a great help by giving him opportunity to observe the several weaknesses of reason and the respective remedies Eleven hours was his usual allotment for study though there was hardly a minute of his time but was full of his affairs either of necessity civility or study It cost him so much sad thoughts to go through any subject in his unnering and accurate way that as he writes in his Preface to the book of the Obligation of Conscience that he could do nothing untill he needs must his mind running up and down till penned up and confined by necessity of which he used to say as Pythagoras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having attained a grave and comely carriage a plain and solemn garb becoming a man that alwayes meditated some good and great design an even calm and deliberate serious and well-ordered habit of words and action an innocently faâ—â—tious converse tempered and allayed with gravity good counsels and an excellent example a temperance and moderation made up of Epictetus his two words Sustine Abstine none in judgement more for Liberty in those things that were lawful and none in practice more Cautious in those things that were not expedient Having his youthful heat abaded and fined into a mature prudence and an exact Learning and his soul knit into compleatness and resolution resigning his Fellowship in a way agreeable to the will of the Founder and the present good of the Colledge and the University as well as the future benefit of the Church in compliance with the expectation of the University and the Church together with his own inclination who would always say That imployment was improvement he was for many years Minister of Booth by Pagnel in Lincoln-shire Where 1. his care was to settle and maintain friendship and love among people of the same Inclination Profession Study and
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Crâ—â—ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Maâ—quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restiâ—uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6â— 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nisâ— beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard Gâ—rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10â—l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
burn the City â—earing that he should not dye in his Majesties favour for dying under a suspition of such a thing so unworthy of him and disowned their authority preparing himself for that death he had so often looked in the face both in England and in France for he Commanded in both kingdoms with a becoming frame and temper ennobled with honorable and devout circumstances by the assistance of a faithful Minister that honored his Family and in the company of many Reverend and Noble Friends with the Offices of the Church of England every day from his first imprisonment to his death Iuly 10. 1654. all with as much reverence zeal thankfulness holy sorrows and joys as his great soul could hold When with a religious confidence took his leave chearfully and particularly of all his honorable and good friends he passed through the Guards on whom he bestowed money twice bare-headed out of an humble respect to the people that pittied him on each side till he rather leaped up than ascended the Scaffold upon Tower-hill smiling with a pretty glance of his Eye which was a natural loveliness in him on the Executioner and his Instrument and saying Welcome honest Friend that will do the deed I 'le warrant it And being refused by the Sheriffs Edward Sleigh and Thomas Allen to speak to the people Let us saith he to the Reverend Minister with him speak to God as they did for half an hour afterwards professing he died a faithful Subject to King Charles II. for whom he said he would lay down if he had them a thousand lives and a Son of the Church of England for both whose Restauration he prayed and desiring the people to remember a poor Soveraign abroad who he said deserved to be remembred bowed himself to the stroke of death with Christian meekness and courage extraordinarily mixed together the same time and place but not with the same weak spirit that Don Pantaleon sa dyed wih who for fighting with Mr. Gerard on the New-Exchange where one Mr. Greenaway no ways concerned in the quarrel was killed was brought to dye with him though on a different occasion on Tower hill Upon which day Mr. Peter Vowel a Bedford-shire man School-Master of Isâ—ington being betrayed by a blind Minister he relieved at his house and disowning the pretended High-Court of Justice whom as Ierome of Prague did his adversaries he cited to appear before the great Tribunal was murthered at Charing-Cross a pitiful Minister of theirs sent under pretence of comforting to trepan him passing as severe a sentence on his Soul as they had done on his body dying as they would tell him and he confessed confidently instructing the Souldiery in the dangerous principles they went on in and professing his adherence to the King and the Church desiring that none should be disheartned at his death being assured that sanguinis Martyrum which he said they shed as the Heathens did in their bloudy sacrifices should be semen Ecclesiae commending his soul to Gods mercy and his numerous family to his providence saying He was sure the King should be restored and that his poor family should be better provided for than it could be by him he and Mr. Gerard leaving these principles behind them 1. That men might be excellent if they looked to their thoughts before they became desires and happy if they had but a right Opinion of things and understood That all the good and evil of mans life though it may have its occasions without hath truly and really its causes prevented or lessened or turned into good by a vertuous disposition 2. And that they looked into Opinions before they turned into Passions Major Henshaw escaped by flying and Mr. Somerset Fox by Argument that Massacre as did Mr. Manley a Merchant The noble Gentleman Sir Humphrey Bennet a Brigadire in his Majesties Army Mr. Woodcock Mr. Carrent Mr. Friar Mr. Io. Sumner and Mr. Oliver Allen Mr. Hatgil Baron Mr. Stapely Mr. Mansel Mr. Iackson and Mordant 1658. Mr. Sidney Fotherby and Mr. Tudor a Chirurgeon In which yet Col. Benlow fell Oct. 1651. having been observed active in the engagement at Worcester being shot to death at Shrewsbury a Person very observant in his carriage of that Rule in Mr. Herbert Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In Love or Honour take account of all Shine like the Sun in every corner see Whether thy stock of Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And in his habit of this Affect in things about thee cleanliness That all may gladly board thee as a flow'r Slovens take up their stock of noysomness Before hand and Anticipate their last hour Let thy minds sweetness have his operation Vpon thy Body Cloaths and Habitation And Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh I think of Corkes-would in Cumberland Knight having paid 700 l. for the service of King Charles I. laid down his life for King Charles II. which he ventured magnanimously in the Field at Wiggan in Lancashire with the Earl of Derby with whom he being taken prisoner there lost it resoluteâ—ly by beheading after a Court-Martial at Chestâ—r where he denounced judgment on the Murtherers that passed sentence upon him setting the foulness of their fact with as much power on their Consciences as they did his Loyalty upon his Person and praying as heartily for the Kings person then in danger as for his own soul doing all he could honorably to save his life that he might not be felo de se and nothing dishonorably that he might not be a Traitor to Allegiance comforting himself with that saying of Pope Nicholas Martyrum solennia non funebria tanquam morientium sed utpote in vera vita nascentium natalitia vocantur and be it here remarqued that Sir Henry Fetherston and Col. Iohn Fetherston put as fair for Martyrdom as Sir Timothy which on all occasions to serve his Majesty they declined not by their own Cowardise but escaped by the Divine Providence winning and wearing the name of Confessors One whose Son lay very sick being told by a Physician that his Son was a dead man said I had rather a Physician should call him so an hundred times than a Judge on the Bench once whose pronouncing him for a dead man makes him one Sir Henry Hide Brother as I take it to the Lord High Chancellor bred a Turky Merchant and after the gaining of a considerable Estate and Experience made their Consul at Morea where his integrity and prudence gained him such respect in those parts that his Majesty having some occasion of correspondence at the Port sent him to use his own word Internuncio thither without any design against either the Merchants whom he had a charge to be tender of or Sir Thomas Bendish who had been a Prisoner in the Tower and paid a 1000 l. for his Loyalty to his Majesty by whose Commission he was there Ambassador and who hath published an Apology to clear
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
4. Sir William Courtney who is transmitted to Posterity as partner in great Actions with Sir Francis Dorrington now in France as I take it with her Majesty and Col. Webbe an old German Souldier dear to Prince Rupâ—rt and the best Horse man a Horse-Commander of his time in England Totos Infusa per artus Major in Exiguo regnabat Corpore virtus Eminent for flanking the Enemy about Banbury so dexterously as well as valiantly that with a 1000 Horse he dispersed 5000 of the Enemy though shot in the hand and both the thighs Col. Mâ—rmaduke Holthy the watchful Governor of Monmouth who by his vigilance lost it for upon a contrived Intelligence of the Parliament Forces retiring in some disorder towards Glocester he Commands Kirle with a 100 Horse to pursue them as it was agreed who closed with them and returning got the Town opened to them whence he hardly escaped over the dry graft But regaining it being the Key of South-wales by Sir William Blaxtons resolute On-set with his Horse Brigade next week with as great a Conduct as Kirle lost it with Treachery Col. Richard a Kentish Gentleman of good personal valour under the good old Earl of Cleaveland both at Newberry in the Newberry fights where he exceeded his Command at Sherburn where he exceeded expectation upon the surrender of which place he was taken prisoner and at Colchester where he exceeded belief Sir Thomas Hooper a Wiltshire Gentleman at first a Shoe-maker in England at last a Souldier in the Low-Countries where he attained so much skill as upon his Invitation over by Coll. Goring to have the Command of a Regiment of Dragoons with which Regiment he performed so much service that he was Knighted and which honour he wore so well that to say no more he deserved it often with execution laying that sword over his Enemies shoulders which his Majesty laid over his Sir Will. Manwaring and Sir Henry Fletcher slain both at Westchester Coll. Francis and Col. Io. Stuart in quibus erat insignis piet as in deum mira charit as in proximos singulares observantia in majorâ—s mitis affabilitas in inferiores dulcis humanitas in omnes multiplex doctrina redundans facundia incredibilis Religionis Orthodoxae zelus men in whom Valour was not all their Arts born to adorn as well as defend their Country Sir Iohn Girlington and Mr. William Girlington slain near Melton-Mowbray Leicest and his Widow as I take it of Southam Cave York fined 1400 l. a person that had much learning in his Books more in his Brest where Nations were ranked as orderly as the men in his Regiment and as quietly as the species of his various prospects for he was well seen in Opticks in his eye One too too good for War and deserved to be as far from danger as free from fear Sir Richard Cholmley slain at Lime in Dorsetshire Sir Anthony Maunsel slain at Newberry Sir Tho. Gardiner and his brother slain about Oxford The first with Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby York who suffered 5000 l. deep Henry Cholmley and Richard his son who paid 347 l. Tho. Cholmley of Vale Royal Cheshire who compounded for 450 l. and the Lord Cholmley who paid 7742 l. who might be called as his Ancestor was for 50 years together The Father of his Country who no sooner moved in their respective Countries in his Majesties behalf but it was incredible with what cheerfulness their motion meeting with loyal and well affected inclinations was entertained with all meetings applauding their propositions about this Loyal as the Council of Clermont in France did Pope Vrbane II. Speech about the Holy War with a God willeth it looking upon all the pretensions of God and Spirit on the other side but like the Christians in the foresaid War carrying a Goose with them in their Voyage to Ierusalem pretending it to be the Holy Ghost their thoughts beginning where others ended and having a privy project beyond the publick design The second with Mr. Henry Maunsel of Llandewy Glamorgan Esq and five more Gentlemen of that worshipful name was ready to mortgage their own Estates to secure the Kings selling Land for Gold to purchase propriety with Steel and Iron and were 30000 l. the worse for the War The third extracted of that Nation I mean the French which wanteth a proper word to express stand were over-active when engaged though like a heavy Bell that is long a raising but being got up made a loud sound considering enough before they engaged Gentlemen that deserve a fame in as many Languages as they understood and an honor from as many Persons and Nations as they imitated in their Manners Wisdom Learning and Piety who lived up to the excellency of each part of the World they travelled as if they had been born in it Gentlemen that were Masters of an Universal Speech to express their Universal Learning and to furnish men born not to one Nation but to all having a vast knowledge but that they had vaster minds Sir Nicholas Kemish of Kevenmably in Caermarthen slain at Chepstow in Monmouthshire whose Ancestors bloud was as noble in his vein as in their own who had the Sail of Valour poised with the Ballast of Judgment With a fanned Army as he called it he cunningly surprized Chepstow by a slight with the hazzard of his life keeping it against all force refusing any Treaty with the loss of it the resolute and noble being killed in cold bloud O. C. saying that if he had had a fortnights time longer he had overthrown all the price of their bloud and treasure Col. Hugh and Coll. William Wynn and Sir Lodowick Wyer a Dutch man slain at Banbury where their bad Breakfast discouraged not their Friends from their dinner in the Wars a good Conscience goeth on through difficulties which the bad one needs no Enemy but it self having always a storm in the Heart what ever weather it is in the Face being not like those who see not their own good for too intent looking on it But of these Gentlemen before The Marquess De Vienvill a French Lord slain at the first Newberry fight as Baron Done kinsman to the Prince of Orange fallen at Nottingham the Nobility of all Nations assisting in so just and so general a cause 10. Sir Francis and Sir Richard Dacres the one dying at Marston-Moor and the other at York together with Sir Thomas Dacres whose Ancient and Martial Spirits were not quenched in that age of Peace that gave little countenance and less encouragement to men of Service and Action and those parts though the Frontiers which in Kingdomes are to be looked after as carefully as doors in Houses were so ill furnished that they had nothing left them in the beginning of the Wars but the Primitive Arms of Prayers and Tears and had been easily conquered had not the experienced Souldiers breathed Deer are not caught so soon made their Country as strong