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A48794	State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I.	Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.	1670 (1670)	Wing L2646; ESTC R21786	462,324	909

Artificial and careless freedome that opened others 2. A natural gravity that shut him up and was more capable of observing their Vertues and escaping their Vices Peter Earl of Savoy came to do his homage to Otho the fourth in a double attire on the one side Cloth of Gold on the other shining Armour the Emperour asked him what meant that Lindsey-Woolsey he answered Sir the attire on the right side is to hono●r your Majesty that on the left is to serve you Sir William Peter returns with those Gayeties of carriages on the one hand that might adorn a Court and with those abilities on the other that might support it His first employment was the Charts the Lattin Letters and the Forreign N●gotiation the next was Principal Secretary In which Office Wriothesly was rough and stubborn Paget easie Cecil close Mason plain Smith noble Peter was smooth reserved resolved and yet obliging Both the Laws he was Doctor of and both the Laws he made use of the Civil Law to direct Forreign Negotiations and the other to give light to Domestick Occasions In the Kings absence in France 1554. Craumer and Thorleby are to assist the Queen in matters of Religion the Earl of Hertford in Affairs of War the Lord Parr of Horton and Doctor Peter in the Civil Government whose Maxime it was It is the interest of the Kings of England to be the Arbiters of Christendome Thus much he was to the Queen by Henry the eighth's Deputation and no less to King Edward by his Will A man would wonder how this man made a shift to serve four Princes of such distant Interests as King Henry King Edward Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth untill he recollects the French King who enquired of a wise man how he might govern himself 〈◊〉 his Kingdome the wise man took a fair large sheet of Paper and instead of an infinite number of Precepts which others use to offer upon that subject he onely writ this word Modus A Mean In King Henry's time he observed his Humour in King Edward's he kept to the Law in Queen Mary's he intended wholly S●ate-affairs and in Queen Elizabeth's he was religious his years minding him of death and his death of his faith He moved with the first Movers in most transactions to his apparent danger yet he had motions of his own for his real security Able he was at home and very dexterous abroad particularly at Bulloin The Philosophers exercising their Gifts before an Ambassador he asked one that was silent what he should say of him Report to your King saith he that you found one among the Graecians that know how to hold his tongue Ah said Mounsieur Chatillon we had gained the last 200000 Crowns without Hostages had it not been for the man that said nothing meaning Secretary Peter Neither was he better at keeping his own counsel than at discovering other mens● as appeared by the intelligence he had that the Emperour had ●ent ships to transport the Lady Mary into Germany in case the King would not allow her the practice of her Religion though three men knew not that Designe in the German Court whereupon he fetched her two Leez and thence under the notion of preparing for Sea-matters he sent over five thousand pounds to relieve the Protestants Active he was about the Will in compliance with his duty to King Edward but as nimble in his intelligence suitable to his Allegiance to Queen Mary whom he assisted in two Particulars 〈◊〉 In making the Ma●ch 2. In searching the bottom of Wiat's Insurrection therefore 1. When the Church-lands went against her conscience Sir William Peter must be sent for 2. When the Pope sent another Legate to turn out Pool he must be sent for who advised her to forbid him this Land as she very resolutely did As serviceable was he to Queen Elizabeth till his Age not being able to go through the difficulties and his Conscience being impatient of the severities of those ●●●ie and harsh times he retired to Essex where his Estate was great and his Charity greater both which he bequeathed his Son Iohn who was by King Iames made Baron of Writtle in that County Observations on the Life of Cardinal Pool HIs Extraction was so high that it awakened King Henry the Eighth's Jealousies and his Spirit so low that it allayed it When he reflected on his Royal Relation he was enjealousied to hard thoughts of restraint and security when he observed his modest Hopefulness he was obliged to those more mild of Education and Care as more honourable than the other and as safe Religion and Study would enfeeble that spirit to quiet contemplation which more manlike exercises might ennoble for Business and Action It was but mewing him up in a study with hopes of a Mitre and there would be no danger of his ambition to the Crown The Privacies of the School and Colledge made him a stranger to the transactions of Court and he was two follow his Book that he might not understand himself His preferments were competent to content him and yet but mean to expose him Three things concurred to his escape from King Henry's Toyl 1. His Relation's ambition that could not endure he should be wrapped in Black that was born to be clothed in Purple 2. His own Inclination to adde Experience to his Learning 3. The Kings Policy to maintain him abroad who could not safely keep at home No sooner arriveth he at Paris than the Pope caresseth him as a person ●it to promote his Interest The House of York supports him as one that kept up their Claim and the general Discontent crieth him up as one that was now the hope of England and might be its Relief That he might not come short of their Expectation or his own Right his large capacity takes in the Learning of most Unive●sities observeth the way of most Nations and keeps correspendence with all eminent men The first of these improved his Learning the second his Experience the third his Converse The Marquess of Exeter the Lord Mountacute Sir Nicholas Carew Sir Edward Nevil Sir Geoffery Poole would have made him a King but to gain him a Crown they loft their own Heads and Pope Iulius made him a Kings Fellow but he was never Head of this Church since he put the Red Hat on this Cardinal The King had him declared for a Traytor in England and he him excommunicated for an Hereti●k at Rome His Friends are cut off by the King at home and the Kings Enemies che●ished by ●im abroa● But Princes are mortal though their hatred not so For before the Kings deat● he would needs be reconciled to Pool and as some thought by him to Rome wherefore he sends to him now in great esteem in Italy desiring his opinion of his late Actions clearly and in few words Glad was Pool of this occasion to dispa●ch to him his Book de Vnione Ec●lesiarum inveighing against his Supremacy and concluding with an advice

Character of Cardinal Wolsey in his Life of Henry the Eighth pag. 314. ANd thus concluded that great Cardinal A man in whom ability of parts and Industry were equally eminent though for being employed wholly in ambitious ways they became dangerous Instruments of power in active and mutable times By these arts yet he found means to govern not onely the chief affairs of this Kingdom but of Europe there ●eing no Potenta●e which in his turn did not seek to him and as this procured him divers Pensions so when he acquainted the King therewith his manner was so cunningly to disoblige that Prince who did fee him last as he made way thereby oftentimes to receive as much on the other side But not of secular Princes alone but even of the Pope and Clergy of Rome he was no little courted of which therefore he made especial use while he dr●w them to second him on most occasions His birth being otherwise so obscure and mean● as no man had ever stood to single for which reason also his chief indeavour was not to displease any great person which ●et could not sec●re him For as all things passed through his hands so they who failed in their suits generally h●ted him All whi●● though it did but exasperate his ill nature yet this good resultance followed that it made him take the more care to be Iust whereof also he obtained the reputation in his publick hearing of Causes For as he loved no body so his Reason carried him And thus he was an useful Minister of his King in all points where there was no ques●ion of deserting ●he Roman Church of which at what price s●ever I finde he was a zealous Servant as hoping thereby to aspire to the Papacy whereof as the fac●ious times then were he seemed more capable than any had he not so immoderately affec●ed it Whereby also it was not hard to judge of his Inclination that Prince who was ablest to help him to this Dignity being ever preferred by him which therefore was the ordinary Baite by which the Emperour and the French King one after the other did catch him And upon these terms● he doubted not to convey vast treasures out of this Kingdome especially unto Rome where he had not a few ●ardinals at his devotion by whose help though he could not attain that Supreme Dignity he so passionately desired yet he prevailed himself so much of their favour as he got a kinde of absolute power in Spiritual Matters at Home Wherewith again he so served the Kings turn as it made him think the less of using his own Authority One error seemed common to both which was That such a multiplicity of Offices and Places were invested in him For as it drew much envy upon the Cardinal in particular so it derogated no little from the Regal Authority● while one man alone seemed to exhaust all Since it becometh Princes to do like good Husbandmen when they sow their Grounds which is to scat●er and not to throw all in one place He was no great Dissembler for so qualified a Person as ordering his businesses for the most part so cautiously as he got more by keeping his word than by breaking it As for his Learning which was far from exact it consisted chiefly in the subtilties of the Thomists wherewith the King and himself did more often weary than satisfie each other His stile in Missives was rather copious than eloquent yet ever tending to the point Briefly if it be true as Polydore observes that no man ever did rise with fewer virtues it is true that few that ever fell from so high a place had lesser crimes objected against him Though yet Polydore for being at his first coming into England committed to Prison by him as we have said may be suspected as a partial Author So that in all probability he might have subsisted longer if either his pride and immense wealth had not made him obnoxious and suspected to the King or that other than Women had opposed him Who as they are vigilant and close Enemies so for the most part they carry their businesses in that manner as they leave fewer advantages against themselves than men do In conclusion As I cannot assent to those who thought him happy for enjoying the untimely compassion of the people a little before his end so I cannot but account it a principal Felicity that during his favour with the King all things succeeded better than afterwards though yet it may be doubted whether the Impressions he gave did not occasion divers Irregularities which were observed to follow He died Nov. 29. 1529. Observations on the Life of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk SIr William Brandon dying in King Henry th● seventh's service as his Standard-bearer in Bosworth-field no wonder if his son lived in his favour it being as prudent to continue his Loyal spirit in his son as it was just to reward it He was as intimate with Henry the Eighth in his pleasures when a child as in his councels when a man There was a sympathy between their active spirits which improved the familiarity of their tender years to a fi●m friendship in their age men of quick and large striding minds loving to walk together not to say the looser the lives the faster the friends At a Tilting in Paris to which many young Noblemen were licensed to go Brandon overcame others every day and one day himself against a Gyant Almain where the Lords looked not on him with more envious than the Ladies with gracious eyes who saith my Author darted more glances in love than the other did spears in anger against him He is the compleat Courtier in whom Beauty and Valour Mars and Venus are joyned in one happy constitution which awes and allures Beholders Being employed to bring over Queen Mary King Lewis the twelfth's Relict to her Brother he won her to himself whether his affections were so ambitious as to climb up to her or hers so humble as to condescend to him may be ●he subject of a more amorous discourse and considering with himself that matters of this nature are never sure till finished that so Royal an opportunity happened but seldome and that leave ●or such an enterprize was easier gained when it 's done than when doing he humbly requested his Majesty to give way to that Match which was indeed already concluded who afte● some State discontent was quickly pleased the Duke being no less esteemed by him for many years than he was beloved by the people His Genius was more Martial than Mercurial and we hear of him oftner in the French Wars than in the English Councils And in both his plain overtures went farther than others fair harangues because these only hovered in mens fancies those came home to mens business and bosoms He wondered at the m●n that pleased themselves in the liberty of giddy fancies and dreaded the ties of a ●ixed belief for the publick good not his own advantage

to Henry to reconcile himself to the Catholick Church and the Pope as Heads thereof Our King having perused this and knowing it could not lie hid in Italy though Pool had promised not to publish it sends for him by Post to come into England to explain some Passages ther●of but Pool knowing tha● it was declared Treason there to deny the Kings Supremacie r●fused desiring the King nevertheless in Letters to him and Tonstal to take hold of the present time and redintegrate himself with the Pope whereby he might secure his Authority and advance it with the honour of being the cause of a Reformation of the Church in Doctrine and Manners King Edward is King of England and the Cardinal like to be Pope of Rome keeping pace with the Royal Family He Head of the Church Catholick They of that in England but King Edward's weakness of Body sus●ered him not long to enjoy his Throne and the Cardinals Narrowness and easiness of spirit suffered him not at all to sit in his chair For upon Paul the Third's death the Cardinals being divided about the Election the Imperial part which was the greatest gave their voice for Cardinal Pool which being told him he disabled himself and wished them to chuse one that might be most for the glory of God and good of the Church Upon this stop some that were now friends to Pool and perhaps looked for the place themselves if he were put of● layed many things ●o his c●a●ge ●mong other things That he was not without susp●tion of Lutheranism nor without ble●ish of Incontinence ●ut he cl●a●ed himself so handsomely that he was now more impo●●●●●d to take the place then before and therefore one night they say the Cardinal came to him being in bed and sent word they came to adore him a circumstance of the new Popes Honour but he being waked but of his sleep and acquainted with it made answer That this wa● not a work of darkeness and therefore requir●d them to forbear until next day and then do as God should put in their minds But the Italian Cardinals attributing this put-off to a kind of stupidity and sloth in Pool looked no more after him but the next day those Cardinal Montanus Pope who was afterwards named Iulius the Third I have heard of many that would have been Popes but could not I write this man one that could have been one but would not But though he would not be Pope of Rome yet when Mary was Q●een he was one of England ● where he was Legate and if it had not been for the Emperour had been King For as soon as she was in the Throne of England he was sent for out of Italy into the Chair of Canterbury but Charles the Emperour by the Popes power secretly retarded his return fearing it might ob●truct the propounded marriage between his Son and the Queen Indeed the Queen bare the Cardinal and unfeigned affection for six reasons 1. For his grave and becoming presence that endeared him no less to those that saw him than his parts and prudence did to those that conversed with him The Diamond is then orient when set in Gold 2. For his disposition as calm as her Majesties● and as ●eek a● his Profession 3. For his Age being about ten years older the proportion allowed by the Philosopher between Husband and Wife 4. For Alliance she being daughter to Henry the Eighth and he Grandchild to Edward the Fourth 5. For his Education with her under his Mother 6. For his Religion for which he was an Exile as she was a Prisoner and both Confessors But now when the marriage with Prince Philip was consummated Pool at last got leave for England and to wipe away all suspition of Lutheranism wherewi●h he was formerly taxed he became a cruel that he might be believed a cordial Papist For meeting in Brabant wi●h Emanuel Tremelius requesting ●ome favour from him he not onely denied him relief but returned him rayling terms though formerly he was not onely his very familiar Friend but his God-father too when of a Iew he turned Christian. Arrived in England as the Historian goeth on he was first ordained Priest being but Deacon before and then consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury the Queen being present at Bow where rich in costly R●bes and sitting on a guilded Throne his Pall was presented to him Adorned he presently mounts the Pulpit and makes a dry Sermon of the use and honour of the Pall without either Langu●ge or matter all admiring the jejuness of his Discourse as if putting off his Parts when putting on his Pall. He made the breach formerly between England and Rome by exasperating both sides he now reconciles it obliging many by his carriage awing as many by his presence dazling all by his pomp and splendour Now he confirmeth the In●titution of Clergy-m●n into their Benefices he legitimateth the C●ildren of forbidden marriages he ratifieth the Processes and Sentences in matters Ecclesiastical and his Dispensations were confirmed by Act of Parliament Two things he was intent upon 1. The Church-P●iviledges whereof one he procured was That the Clergy should not shew their Horses with the Layty but under Captains of their own chusing 2. The Spanish Interest and therefore P●●l the fourth who was as intent upon the French and looked upon the Legate as the principal Promoter of the last War in France sends Cardinal Peito to ease him of his Legantine Power in England But the Queen so ordered the matter that by her Prerogative she prohibited Peito entrance into England and got the foresaid Power established and confirmed on Cardinal Pool as she did likewise 1000 l. a year for his better support out of the Bishoprick of Winchester The more he lived in England the more he was Italianized conversing with their Merchants and practising their thrift his Pomp being ●aith my Author rather g●udy than costly and his attendance more ceremonious than expensive Fea●full he was of a Bank here if Queen Mary died careful of one beyond Sea if he lived therefo●e as he sends all his Estate to Italy by his Will when he died so he did most of it by Bills of Exchange while he l●v●d the first was j●dged his ●olicy q the heart whereof is prevention the second his Gratitude bestowing his Superfluities on them who had relieved his Necessities Of all his Estate Aloisius Priol took but the Breviary he had alwayes in his Pocket so devou● he was and the Diary he had alwayes in his Closer so exact he was to observe what was done by others and recollect what had escaped himself● Die he did not of Italian Physick wilfully taken by himself as Mr Fox suggests nor of English Poison given him by the Protestants as Osorius affirms but of a Quartain Ague then Epidemical in England and malignant above the ordinary nature of that Disease This man was a Catholick in his Interest and Charity and a Protestant in his Conscience We cannot was