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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
a28556	The Character of Queen Elizabeth, or, A full and clear account of her policies, and the methods of her government both in church and state her virtue and defects, together with the characters of her principal ministers of state, and the greatest part of the affairs and events that happened in her times / collected and faithfully represented by Edmund Bohun, Esquire.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Johnston, Robert, 1567?-1639. Historia rerum britannicarum.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3448; ESTC R4143	162,628	414

there were those in Ireland who had conferred with the Rebels and had sent into England the Rebels Defamations against him and others of her Governors By which passage the Deputy slily taxed Sir John Norris as one that had done nothing worthy of his former Military Reputation but thought to work upon the good nature of the Ulster Clowns by his Courtship and Flattery which tended rather to the making them more insolent This carriage of the General 's was the occasion of fierce Contests and Quarrels between him and the Deputy and the effect of it was that not only the Heads of the Clans in Ulster but those also in Connanght and Leinster took Arms and revolted from the Crown of England The Deputy seeing things by their Divisions brought to so desperate an estate resolved to get rid of the Government and by his Letters humbly besought the Queen a good General might be sent in his place In this doubtful time Sir John Norris as earnestly desired to be Deputy and that his Brother who was fitter for the Labours of the War might be made President of Munster But he obtained neither of his Requests The Council of England was divided for some time between the Lord Burroughs and the Earl of Essex but the latter joining with the former it was carried for him and he had both the Supreme Civil and Military Power put into his hands The 15th of May 1597. Thomas Lord Burroughs arrived at Dublin with a Commission to be Lord Deputy of Ireland With the Supreme Authority he presently commanded Norris to his Presidency of Munster which with the disappointment of the Deputy's Place broke his heart Johnstonius saith The reason of this was because Norris was a person of more Experience in the War and of greater Fame than Burroughs So that when he came to Dublin Norris was no way pleased with the change for that he dreaded the fiery Temper of that Lord with whom he had formerly had some quarrels which he would now have willingly sacrificed to the Welfare of his Countrey But the Deputy was of an Implacable Temper and commanded him into Munster upon the peril of his life not permitting Norris to see him This Great and Stout Man could not bear the Affront but he that had run through so many Perils in the Field in the Netherlands France and Portugal he that had despised the Rages of the Duke d' Alva in Holland and put a stop to the Victories of the Duke of Parma fell under this and expired in the Arms of his Brother Thus he became a wonderful Instance of humane frailty as well as of Martial Courage being rather pitied than approved because his Management in Ireland was much inferior to what he had done elsewhere and short of what was expected from him The Lord Lieutenant died in November following yet in that short time he beat the Irish in Ulster and recovered the Fort of Blackwater and Garison'd it with English Sir Thomas Norris was nominated for his Successor but he was melancholy and would not accept it his Brother the General being just then dead also Thereupon the Archbishop of Dublin and Sir Robert Gardiner Lord Chief Justice were sworn the 15th of November when the Council concluded their Account of the State of the Kingdom That it was an universal Irish Rebellion to shake off all English Government In August this year Tyrone had the good fortune to rout Marshal Bagnal his mortal Enemy in a Wood half a mile beyond Armagh where the Marshal 13 Captains and 1500 English Soldiers were slain The Irish by this Defeat got Arms Victual Ammunition and Reputation and the Fort of Blackwater so that the English were reduced from an Offensive to a Defensive War This nettled the Queen and she sent to Ormond who was Lieutenant-General to clear the Army of all the Irish and she sent 2000 Foot and 100 Horse to recruit the Army Tyrone sent after this 4000 Kerns into Munster and the President not being able to resist them by reason his Forces were small that whole Province rebelled also in October 1598. and began to Kill Rob and Ravage the English without Measure or Mercy Thus the Rebellion grew to that height that it became terrible to the Queen Tyrone in the mean time sent submissive Letters to the Earl of Ormond and promised the Spaniards that he would accept no Conditions from the English magnifying his Victories beyond all reason and truth So that now the Courtiers in England began to consider as Mr. Cambden observes That by long use it was grown to a destructive custom in Ireland That Rebels and Traytors might with the Money they had gotten from the spoiled English by Pillage and Villany procure for themselves Protection and Pardon The Queen was well inclined to have sent the Lord Montjoy into Ireland but the Earl of Essex pretended to it and he was chosen Others say the Council put him upon it that he might put an end to the Troubles of Ireland which had been encreased by the Contentions between the Commanders that were employed before and also by the deaths of Sir John Norris and that of the Lord Deputy as well as by the Defeat of Marshal Bagnal That the Lords cried up the Valour of the Earl of Essex to the skies and affirmed that there was not in England any General who could undertake the Reduction of so far-spread a Rebellion with that Prudence Diligence and Courage they might expect from him Thus he was sent thither by the perfidious Commendations of his Enemies against the opinion of his real and true Friends that they that put him upon it might when he was there find an opportunity to ruin him The Earl on the other side was anxious and unresolved what to do for as he feared the Fate of his Father who perished in that Kingdom so he could not tell how to oppose his own Destiny and accepted of an Employment which no other durst pretend to purely to comply with the good opinion of the whole Privy Council which loaded him with Praises on this occasion tho in his heart he misdoubted the Event The Queen also sent him away thither with great Testimonies of her Affection to him commending him excessively for preferring her Service before his own Safety but then this was the last good day that unfortunate Earl ever saw He landed there the 15th of April 1599. with 13000 Horse and 16000 Foot which were made up 20000. there being more than that number in Arms against the Queen But with all these Forces he did nothing worthy of his former Reputation or of his Army And that Winter he went out of Ireland in a Discontent without the Queen's Leave and returned unexpectedly to the Court which proved his Ruin Tyrone grew insolent hereupon and profess'd publickly he would recover the Liberty of Religion and his Countrey Charles Lord Montjoy was thereupon sent Lord Deputy who landed the

Defamer of others to be drawn into Troubles by the means of one Somervil a mad Papist his Father-in-Law and one Hall a Popish Priest and being found guilty of Treason he his Wife Somervil and the Priest were all sentenced to die Somervil hanged himself in Prison Adern was executed and Hall the Author and Procurer of all this Mischief was preserved by the Intercession of Leicester This was by all men looked upon a Spectacle of great Compassion He laid Snares for many of the Nobility ruining the Reputation of some of them endangering the Lives of others and some Noble Families he utterly extinguished He impiously and sacrilegiously invaded the Revenues of the Church and brought some of the Bishops into Danger and Dis-favour He incensed the Queen against the Lord Archbishop Grindal a Prelate of great Integrity and Honesty by his Calumnies and Slanders This Grave and Religious Prelate was as Mr. Cambden saith first made Bishop of London then Archbishop of York and afterwards of Canterbury and for many years enjoyed the Favour of the Queen till by the crafty Insinuations of Leicester she was set against him upon a pretence and slanderous Report That he was a Favourer of the Conventicles of the turbulent Puritan Preachers and of their Preachments but in truth because he would not patiently dissemble the Disorders of one Julio an Italian Physician and a Favourite of Leicester's who had Married another man's Wife for which the good Prelate stoutly prosecuted him though Leicester appeared for the Criminal The best of Princes after all the Care and prudent Foresight that Mortality is capable of are yet sometimes deceived in the choice of their Servants Leicester having married the Countess Dowager of Essex who was a Widow when his first Lady died and having no Children of his own was easily perswaded by his Wife to recommend Robert Devereux the young Earl of Essex her Son to the Queen as one fit to serve her Majesty and by this he opened the way to that great man and brought him with good advantage into the Court and into Business Nor would this Nobleman afterwards refuse to acknowledge That all the Authority and Favour he had acquired with the Queen was owing in a great measure to the Assistance his Step-Father had at first given him When he had some time served as a Volunteer first under his own Father in Ireland and after in other places he was made General of the Horse and Field-Marshal under the Earl of Leicester when in the year 1585 he went General of the English Forces in the Low Countries In this Expedition this Noble Gentleman behaved himself with that Courage Bravery Moderation and Prudence that he won the Love and Esteem of the whole Army and by that Reputation he became very Popular which afterwards was the occasion of his Ruin The truth was he for Honesty Valour Liberality and Sincerity was equal to the best of the Nobility of his time but in Prudence and Discretion he was inferior to many He for a long time enjoyed the Favour of the Queen which his goodness prompted him freely to employ to the doing good and to the relief of the indigent and oppressed so that all his Greatness seemed only to be lodged in him as Water in a Cistern for the good of others He was not observed to be addicted to any Vice but that of Missing and Luxury but as to all his other Appetites he had them in a tolerable subjection to his Reason In the year 1587 he was made Master of the Horse In 1590 he was sent into France with an English Army to assist Henry the IVth In 1596 he was made Earl Marshal of England and after that Master of the Ordnance the same year In the year 1597 he was Admiral of the second Squadron of that Fleet which was sent against Cadiz In 1599 he was made Lord Deputy of Irel●…nd with more ample power than had been given to any of his Predecessors and a good Army This Expedition was the occasion of the Ruin of this Great Man his Army being wasted without any considerable Advantage Cambden attributes this to the Discontent of the Earl of Essex Because Sir Robert Cecil was made Master of the Wards which so netled him who desired to engross all h●…s Mistress's Favours that he left Ireland without leave and returned to England where he perished in his Discontent and Folly in the year 1600. The Queen was in her own Temper a Person of an extraordinary Piety and Goodness and without any exception yet her Virtue was scarce able to secure her from being made infamous and unhappy by the Wickedness of the Earl of Leicester she in the beginning of her Reign relying too much upon his Counsel and as it were committing her self and her Kingdoms to his Industry and Care to the neglect of the rest of the Nobility who hated this Minister Whilst the rest of the Peers withdrew from Danger or stood as it were at a gaze in a stupid amazement or servilely and patiently complied with him But Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to the Queen and President of the North agoodly Gentleman of a Brave and Noble Nature constant to his Friends and Servants and the best Soldier the Queen then had would not so tamely yield to Leicester there being in his Nature as well as Morals a perfect Antipathy to the other so that the Court for a long time stood divided between them and they kept Spies upon each other's actions The Queen did what she could to reconcile them but it was utterly impossible they were equal in Power and Estate but so differing from each other in their Designs and Interests and so unwilling on both sides to yield that nothing but Death could determine this mortal Feud between them This Noble Martial Earl died in the year 1583. He would often remonstrate That Leicester's Covetousness and his other Vices were intolerable that he had more Authority with the Queen than all the rest of the Nobility that he disposed of all the Rewards of Virtue and Industry and all the rest were forced to truckle under and serve him that his Pride Laziness Luxury and dissolute Manners were not to be born and there was hardly a good man in the Nation who was not in his heart convinced of the truth of all this and did not wish to see this ill man humbled The truth is Sussex was the honester man and the better Soldier Leicester the more accomplished Courtier and the deeper Politician not for the general Good but his own partitular Profit Sir William Cecil was a Person of great Learning singular Judgment and admirable Moderation and Prudence unto which is justly attributed very much of the Prosperity which England for so many years enjoyed under this most auspieious Government He was made Secretary of State the 5th of Ed●… the 6th 1551. His opposition to the Exclusion of

still shew her what she had been The Courtiers who knew her humour if she were to pass through any of the Ladies Chambers that waited on her presently conveyed away all the Looking-glasses and sometimes for haste broke them To please and flatter her they would also frequently admire her Beauty and pretend in her greatest Age and Deformity she was still handsome and lovely She was strangely pleased to hear the Beauty of her Face the Sweetness of her Voice and the Majesty and Decence of her Countenance still admired by others And this gave occasion to many unworthy strokes of Flattery and examples of Adulation Thus the Orators of those times would too often in their Speeches vainly commemorate and celebrate the wonderful and pleasing Beauty and Shape of their Queen and say The Majesty of her Countenance was not at all subject to the Injuries of Time when their eyes told them and all that saw her the contrary from thence they went on sometimes to tell her She had a Soul was worthy to Rule over the whole World and enjoyed those Favours of Fortune and Gifts of Nature and Art which fitted her for the Empire of the Universe Nor were her stately Palaces and Buildings her noble Furniture her fine Statues or excellent Pictures her great Treasures Virtues or Felicity forgotten on these occasions The Flatteries of Learned men towards her were very base and shameful and such as would hardly become the Stage or Theatre for they would often apply to her that Expression of Virgil's as spoken of her O Dea certe Surely this is a Goddess And that Sentence too which Tacitus marked as the utmost pitch of a wild and boundless Assentation Solam D. Elizabethae mentena tantae molis capacem That none but the Divine Soul of Queen Elizabeth was able to sustain that Weight By which extravagant Flatteries they would have had men think that the Name of their Queen had something of Divinity in it and that they revered her as a Goddess which fell from Heaven These base and pernicious Flatteries so far transported the minds of Caligula Domitian and Heliogabilus that they fell into a kind of Madness and forgetting the frailty of their humane state they assumed the Stile and Honours of gods and despised all Religions and the Providence of God The Queen especially in the beginning of her Reign endeavoured to raise in the minds of her Subjects an high opinion of her self and to that end she shewed her self on all occasions very Civil and Obliging to the Many in her Attire Retinue and Carriage She always openly profess'd that she would make it her business to employ her Estate and Fortunes in the most prudent Administration of her Royal Power and Authority Whatever she did or said was by her designed to draw upon her self the Applause and Good Wills of her Subjects and by this her Moderation and Prudence she won the Hearts and obtained the Prailes of all men Afterwards with the Prosperity of her Affairs Flattery that old haunter of the Courts of Fortunate Monarchs under the Vizor and Mask of Diligence Loyalty and Duty gained her ear and her heart and she was pleased to see her Parasitical Courtiers when they had looked intently on her of sudden cast their eyes upon the ground and craftilyseem to shake as if their Modesty was not able to bear the Greatness of her Majesty and the splendor of her Heavenly Eyes And if in their common Intercourses with her or their Publick Addresses to her they happened to fall into Flattery she never corrected them for it nor forbid these indecent and unseasonable Flatteries She would not suffer any of her Subjects tho Parliament-men to speak to her by way of Address or Business but upon their Knees and with great submission The crafty men of that Age who lay in Ambush made great use of this Infirmity of the Queen's and observed not only her Words but her Looks and Nods and flattered her in every thing Sir Thomas Henage a Knight was one of these cunning Blades who by the basest crouching Insinuations scrued himself into her good opinion and most intimate Familiarity and by this means in her Court raised himself to a great Power and Estate And besides him there were many others who were not ignorant of this useful Art tho they were inferior to him in Place Fortune and Fame Tho many of her more sincere and hearty Friends advised her Not to be imposed on by the specious Pretences of obsequious Diligence and Respect yet she was not only better pleased with Flattery than Truth but hated all that Liberty in her Subjects that was above this practice A Learned man taking notice in one of his Sermons before her That she that had been as meek as a Lamb was become an untameable Heifer he was reprehended by her so soon as he came out of the Pulpit as an over-confident man that dishonoured his Sovereign as in truth that was the worst Time and Place he could have chosen to Reprove her in David's a man of great Piety and Learning discoursing once very prudently of the many Infirmities of Old Age so provoked the Indignation of the Queen that she would never after endure to hear him Tho she was an utter Enemy to all Freedom of Speech yet she very well knew how to distinguish between a Crafty Preacher who made it his business to accomodate himself to the Opinions and Wills of his Hearers and a constant severe and grave man Accordingly she ever preferr'd a Moderate and Temperate Way of Preaching for fear her People should have been excited by such Turbulent men to excessive Insolence and the minds of wiser men should also have been offended In this affair she made good use of the provident Prudence of the Bishops who deprived the over-fiery spirits of the Liberty of Preaching and put a stop to their excessive Boldness And this was the principal Reason why none were suffercd to Preach in her times but such as were Licensed to do so Yet at the same time she was a Person of great Piety and endowed with the most ardent Love of Religion but then she did not think it was fit to suffer her Kingdoms to be embroiled by Seditious spirits under the Mask and Pretence of avoiding Persecution and promoting the Service of God And she was happy in this that in her times those Parties that have since spread themselves over this whole Kingdom were small and inconsiderable and so she was under no necessity of complying with them for her own safety but could treat them as she thought fit and perhaps if her two next immediate Successors had pursued the same Methods she did there had been no Civil War in England but whilst they sought to gratifie the Princes of the Roman-Catholick Religion abroad by their Lenity to the Papists at home the Protestant Dissenters grew up here and if they were connived at