The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other Neighbor Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse than a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body And at every cleft profanneness and irreligion is entring in While as Prosper speaks men that introduce profaneness are cloaked over with the Name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the substance and dwell too much in Opinion And that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruine is now fallen into danger by her own 4. The last particular for I am not willing to be too long is my self I was born and baptized in the bosom of the Church of England Established by Law in that Profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to die What clamors and slanders I have endured for laboring to keep an Uniformity in the external service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High-Treason in Parliament a Crime which my soul ever abhorred This Treason was Charged to consist of two parts an endeavor to subvert the Laws of the Land And a like endeavor to overthrow the true Protestant Religion Established by Law Besides my answers to the several Charges I protested mine innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners protestations at the Bar must not be taken I must therefore come now to it upon my death being instantly to give God an account for the truth of it I do therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death that I never endeavored the subversion either of Law or Religion and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine for my innocency in this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an Enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I dislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many ways and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima And that being the highest Court over which no other hath Jurisdiction when 't is misinformed or misgoverned the subject is left without all Remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me And humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man And so I heartily desire you to joyn in prayer with me His Graces Prayer upon the Scaffold O Eternal God and Merciful Father look down upon me in Mercy in the Riches and Fulness of thy Mercies Look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my Sins to the Cross of Christ but not till thou hast bathed me in the Blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the Wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I most humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instance full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to die for thine honor the Kings happiness and this Chuches preservation And my zeal to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I come now to suffer I say in this particular of Treason But otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present Judgment upon me And when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own eyes Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more than miserable Kingdom O Lord I beseech thee give grace of Repentance to all blood-thirsty people But if they will not repent O Lord confound their designs defeat and frustrate all their designs and endeavors which are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his Posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the Honor and Conservation of Parliaments in their just Power the Preservation of this poor Church in her Truth Peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Laws and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with religious dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their days So Amen Lord Jesu Amen And receive my soul into thy bosom Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Lord Arch-bishop's Prayer as he Kneeled by the Block LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Vmbra Mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon Nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke through the jaws of death So Lord receive my soul and have mercy upon me and bless this kingdom with plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Many there was to see so able an Head struck off at one blow as it was upon these words of his spoken aloud Lord receive my Soul And more crouded to see so good a man buried at his own Church of Barking in London by the Common-prayer which was Voted down at the same time that he was Voted to dye in hope both of that resurrection which he hath had already with the Cause he dyed for being removed in Iuly 1663. from Barking in London to Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford with his friend and successor in that Colledge the Deanery of the Chappel Bishoprick of London and Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury raised by him where he was Interred with these Monuments The first by Dr. M. Lluelin then Student of Christ-church An Elegy on the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Attached the 18. of December 1640. Beheaded the 10. of January 1644. Most Reverend Martyr THou since thy thick Afflictions first begun Mak'st Dioclesian's days all Calm and Sun And when thy Tragick Annals are compil'd Old Persecution shall be Pitty stil'd The Stake and Faggot shall be Temperate Names And Mercy wear the Character of Flames Men Knew not then Thrift in the Martyrs Breath Nor weav'd their Lives into a four years Death Few ancient Tyrants do our Stories Taxe That slew first by delays then by the Axe But these Tiberius like alone
Exercised and Improved him an Obliging Carriage that gave Access to the meanest Scholar and had it of the greatest a Distinct Understanding that could as well Touch and Apprehend the least matters as Compass and Comprehend the greatest a Down-right Plain and Honest Temper and what crowned all a Serious and Holy Frame of Spirit discovering its self in his Life and his Writing where you will meet with such expressions as these When I am indeed able for these things speaking of Preaching I doubt not to have him with my mouth because I mean to leave my self out I have thus much left to wish and I hope I do it well to his Book meaning the Scripture that it might be read as far as this is possible in a full and fixed Translation and upon that a clear and disingaged Commentary The way to do this will not be to do the work a great and undertake the whole or any considerable part of the Book by one man if he could live one Age. He that goeth upon this with any interest about him let him do otherwise never so admirably he doth indeed but Translate an Angel of Light into the Devil I would not Render or Interpret one parcel of Scripture to an end of my own though it were to please my whole Nation by it to gain the World One asked him whether the Alcoran had any thing in it that could work upon a Rational Belief He answered That that which is every where called Religion hath more of Interest and the strong impressions of Education than perhaps we consider of There is no Scholar that would not know where lies the Remains of this great man Christ-Church hath his Body the Church of England his Heart whose Religion he designed to clear up in life and sealed with his death a death that was so much more a Martyrdom in his Bed than others were upon the Scaffold as it is a more exquisite misery to dye daily with grief than once by an Executioner His honest Epitaph is this NE premus Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jacent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui Te quovis vincet Idiomate At ne molestus sis Ausculta Causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et Avitâ Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatû Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut cupesseret Vade Nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Printed Works are RIdleyes View of the Law with his Notes Posthuma Or a Collection of Notes and Observations translated into Latine by Master Stokes and inserted into the Critica Sacra M. SS Among the many early fruits of his younger studies which his modesty kept by him to ripen A Translation of an Ancient Peice of Chronography by Melala which gave great light to the State of Primitive Christianity is one And Akibla a Book proving East-adoration before Popery because ever since the Floud THE Life and Death OF JOHN BARNSTON Doctor of Divinity THE greatest parts was not protection enough you observe in the last Instance against the Barbarism of that Age nor yet the best nature any security as you may perceive by this against the inhumanity of it For there was one Iohn Barnston D. D. born of an ancient Family in Cheshire his birth deserved civility bred Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford his education pleaded for favour Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton and Residentiary of Salisbury his preferments should have gained him respect a peaceable and good Disposition whereof take this eminent instance He sat Judge in the Consistory when a Church-warden out of whose house a Chalice was stolen was Sued by the Parish to make it good to them because not taken out of the Church-chest where it ought to be reposited but out of his private house The Church-warden Pleaded That he took it home only to Scoure it which proving in-effectual he retained it till next morning to Boil out the in-laid Rust thereof Well said the Doctor I am sorry that the Cup of Union and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord between you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but that either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some charity come to pass accordingly He Founded an Hebrew Lecture in Brazen-Nose Colledge a piece of charity this that should have covered a multitude of offences Hospitality they say hath slept since 1572. in the Grave of Edward Earl of Derby this Gentlemans Father's Master and was a little awaked by this Gentleman his Sons Chaplain and Friend from the year 1620. to the year 1640. carrying with him that genius of Cheshire Hospitality and free to his own Family which is Generosity to Strangers which is Courtesie and to the Poor which is Charity A Native of Northampton-shire observeth that all the Rivers of that County are bred in it besides those Ouse and Charwell it lendeth unto other Shires So this good House-keeper had provisions arising from his own grounds both to serve himself and to supply others who if poor were in his house as in their own The peculiar grace of his charity was that with the good man in Plutarch he would sometimes steal Largesses under the Pillows of Ingenious Men who otherwise might refuse them relieving so at once as well the modesty as the poverty of his Clients not expecting but preventing their request God forbid the Heavens should never Rain till the Earth first openeth her Mouth seeing some grounds will sooner burn than chap. It was the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon's observation in his excellent Speech Octob. 13. 1660. before the King's Majesty and both Houses of Parliament That good Nature was a virtue so peculiar unto us and so appropriated by Almighty God to this Nation that it can be translated into no other Language and hardly practised by any other People This good nature was the praedominant temper of this good man appearing in the chearfulness of his spirit the openness and freedom of his converse and his right English inclination so that the spirit of fears and jealousies that spiritus Calvinianus spiritus Melancholicus that prevailed in the beginning of these times like the louring of the Sky before a Storm was as inconsistent with his temper and spirit as it was contrary to other sober persons opinion and interest His first disturbance was by some Croaking Lectures the Product of the extraordinary heat of that time out of the mud of Mankind who vied with him in long and thin discourses in reference to whom he would apply a Story he took much pleasure in When a Noble-man of this Nation had a controversie in Law with a Brewer who had a Garden and a Dwelling-house bordering upon his The Brewer gave it in charge to his Servant to put in so many Hogsheads of Water more into all his Brewings than he was wont to do telling him that such a supply
Perpetuus magnifice benignus dominus Optimus omnium servus Ille Illeâ— Quem Principes optimi pariter perspicacissimi valde adamarunt Intâ—mum habuerunt Nec ullus unquam odio habuit Honoribus negotiis auctus haud Invidendis Fato succubuit heroico Comite Duce Eboracensi victoria Iunii 2. Anno Aetatis Christi 1665. suae 29. Let this little description of this great Man serve like a Flat Grave-stone or Plain Pavement for the present till a Richer Pen erect him a Statelier Monument Sir EDWARD BERKLEY VVE read Gen. 30. 11. the Leah said A Troop cometh and she called the name of the Child Gad. When I have spied out but a Berkley in the Catalogue either of Loyal Commanders or Compounders I find a great throng following for besides another Sir Henry Berkley as we suppose of whom we have this Note Sir Henry Berkley per William Cradock 0300 00 00 Sir Edward Berkley that honest Gentleman that was neither Sued nor did Sue in his life so willing he was to live in private peace and thence it is easily guessed how unwilling he was to engage in publick quarrels until he saw there was no hope of any tollerable Peace but from the success of a just War A Farmer rented a Grange generally reported to be haunted by Fairies and paid a shrewd Rent for the same at each half years end Now a Gentleman asked him how he durst be so hardy as to live in the house and whether no spirits troubled him Truth said the Farmer there be two Saints in Heaven vex me worse than all the Devils in Hell namely the Virgin Mary and Michael the Arch-angel on which days he paid his Rent This was none of Sir Edwards Tenants who were so kindly treated that he would not receive his Rents until he had seen what his Tenants had got and when he took them he would chuse rather to take them in work which his Tenants could do or in commodities which they had to sell then in monies which he knewthey could not spare and he did not want Now those poor people that he used so tenderly himself he was loath should be oppressed by others and that the estates they had got under him should be a Prey to those who aimed at a Tyranny over the Nation from which he knew no way to secure them but to stand by his Prince in whose just authority was lodged the estates and liberties of all his Subjects and there was not a more effectual way to secure poor people in their enjoyments than to support that Soveraignty that had the care of all their interests and would not permit others to wrong them as he could keep them from usurping upon him He did not fight indeed it could not be expected from his years of which he would say That though he could not lift up a hand against the Rebels in the Field yet he would lift up both for his Majesty in his Closet He would assault Heaven and besiege the Throne of Grace but he Contributed he handled not Steel but he laid out Silver and Gold and what was more gave Intelligence It was Scipio Affricanus his great honor he condescended to serve under his younger Brother it was this Gentlemans remarkable character that what he could not do himself he assisted his meaner Relations to do as long as he lived and bequeathed to them his Loyalty and Estate when he died 165 ... 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After a Composition for 0784 l. 00 00 Leaving behind him the character of a good husband being as he would say never reconciled to his Wife because never at distance with her a good Father intending the education more than the pleasing of his Children by the same token that he was very careful what School-masters settled near him the Jews not more mischievously poisoning Springs in England formerly as they were charged than School-masters mis-principling Youth the Well-head of a Nations hope as they were complained of A good Church-man abhorring the laziness of those that as Cicero said never see the Sun either rising or setting and the Indevotion of those that come neither at the beginning of Prayer nor have the patience to stay till the end himself professing that the most concerning part of Divine Service is the Concession and Absolution that commenceth it and the Blessing that concludes it A good friend choice in his acquaintance firm to his friendship clear and plain in his dealing free in his erogations studious in contriving ways to do good A liberal man that devised liberal things In fine A good man whom Nero hated Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY PHilip de Commines telleth us of a Noble Family in Flandert that generally they lost their lives in the Service of their Prince And we find in our own Chronicles that Edmund Duke of Somerset lost his life in the first battel of Saint Albans Duke Henry following him taken in the battel of Hexan and so beheaded a second Duke Edmund and the Lord Iohn of Somerset going the same way in the battel of Teuxbury all of them fighing in the behalf of King Henry and the House of Lancaster but then they heaped not Funeral upon Funeral in so short a time as this honorable Family did in which respect as those of the House of Somerset exceeded the House of Flanders so the House of the Berkleys exceeded the House of Somerset the Earl of Falmouth the elder Brother Keeper of his Majesties Privy Purse and Captain of his Highness Regiment of Gaurds fell the first year of our war with the Dutch Sir William Berkley the younger Brother Governor of Portsmouth and Vice Admiral of the White in the last years Expedition in the second one sad messenger following another with disconsolate â—idings that as waves following waves had swallowed up that good Family parallel to that which the Historian calleth the Mourning Family in Italy did not the same consideration buoy up them that supported the other that these hopeful Personages died in that service for which they were born Patriae geniti toti nati mundo the honor of their Soveraign and the good of their Country Nature that made one industry was to make all these Brothers Heirs One of the younger Brothers gives as the Heralds observe a Martlet for the difference of his Armes a Bird observed to build either in Castles Steeples or Ships shewing saith our Author that the Bearer thereof being to cut out his own fortune must seek by War Learning or Merchandise to advance his estate This Gentleman being Bound to a Merchant trade hath raised many families and restored more and Apprentiship doth neither extinguish native Gentility nor disinable to acquisitive is presumed to have behaved himself as a good Servant because that was the way to be a happy Master for we learn to command by obeying and to know what we should exact from others by what we have performed our selves besides a great Fortune like great Buildings
still-born have hastned to their Tomb God that Rewards him now forbad his store Should all lie hid and he but give i th' ore Many are stamp't and shap't and do still shine Approv'd at Mint a Firm and perfect Coyne Witness that Mart of Books that yonder stands Bestow'd by him though by anothers Hands Those Attick Manuscripts so rare a Piece They tell the Turk he hath not conquer'd Greece Next these a second beauteous heap is thrown Of Eastern Authors which were all his own Who in so various Languages appear Babel could scarce be their Interpreter To these we may that fair-built Colledge bring Which proves that Learnings no such Rustick thing Whose Structure well contriv'd doth not relate To Antick Fineness but strong lasting state Beauty well mixt with Strength that it Complies Most with the Gazer's use much with his Eyes On Marble Columns thus the Arts have stood As wise Seth's Pillar 's sav'd 'em in the Flood But did he leave here Walls and onely own A Glorious Heap and make us Rich in Stone Then had our Chanc'lor seem'd to fail and here Much honor due to the Artificer But this our prudent Patron long fore-saw When he refin'd Rude Statutes into Law Our Arts and Manners to his Building falls And he Erects the Men as well as Walls Thus Solons Laws his Athens did Renown And turn'd that throng of Buildings to a Town Yet neither Law nor Statute can be known So strict as to himself he made his own Which in his Actions Inventory lies Which Hell or Prinne can never scandalize Where every Act his Rigid Eye surveys And Night is Bar and Iudge to all his dayes Where all his secret thoughts he doth comprize And ev'ry Dream is summon'd t' an Assize Where he Arraigns each Circumstance of care Which never parts dismis'd without a Prayer See! how he sifts and searches every part And ransacks all the Glosets of his heart He puts the hours upon the Rack and Wheel And all his minutes must confess or feel If they reveal one Act which forth did come When humane frailty crept into the Loome If one thred stain or sully break or faint So that the man does interrupt the Saint He hunts it to its death nor quits his fears Till 't be imbalm'd in Prayers or drown'd in Tears The Sun in all his journey ne're did see One more devote or one more strict then He. Since his Religion then 's unmixt and Fine And Works do warrant Faith as Ore the Mine What can his Crime be now Now you must lay The Kingdom Laws subverted in his way See! No such Crime doth o're his Conscience grow Without which Witness ne're can make it so A clear Transparent White bedecks his minde Where nought but innocence can shelter finde Witness that Breath which did your stain and blot Wipe freely out though Heaven I fear will not VVitness that calm and quiet in his Brest Prologue and Preface to his place of Rest VVhen with the VVorld he could undaunted part And see in Death nor Meagre looks nor dart When to the fatal Block his gray Age goes VVith the same ease as when he took Repose He like old Enoch to his Bliss is gone 'T is not his Death but his Translation The second by Mr. Iohn Cleveland On the Right Reverend Father in God Wil. Laud Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I Need no Muse to give my Passion vent He brews his Tears that studies to Lament Verse chymically weeps that pious rain Distilled with Art is but the sweat o' th' brain VVho ever sob'd in Numbers Can a groan Be quaver'd out by soft Division 'T is true for Common formal Elegies Not Bushels VVells can match a Poets Eyes In wanton VVater-works hee 'l tune his Tears From a Gâ—neva Jig up to the Spheres But when he mourns at distance weeps aloof Now that the Conduit-head is his own Roof Now that the fate is Publick we may call It Britains Vespers Englands Funeral VVho hath a Pencil to express the Saint But he hath Eyes too washing off the Paint There is no Learning but what Tears surround Like to Seth's Pillars in the Deluge drown'd There is no Church Religion is grown From much of late that She 's increas'd to none Like an Hydropick body full of Rheumes First swells into a body then consumes The Law is dead or cast into a Trance And by a Law-dough-bak't an Ordinance The Lyturgy whose doom was Voted next Dy'd as a Comment upon him the Text. There 's nothing lives Life is since he is gone But a Nocturnal Lucubration Thus have you seen Deaths Inventory read In the Summe Total Canterbury's dead A sight would make a Pagan to Baptize Himself a Convert in his bleeding Eyes VVould thaw the Rabble that fierce Beast of ours That which Hyena-like weeps and devours Tears that flow brackish from their Souls within Not to repent but pickle up their Sin Mean time no squalid grief his look defiles He guilds his sadder fate with Noble smiles Thus the Worlds eye with reconciled streams Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams How could success such Villanies applaud The State in Sâ—rafford fell the Church in Laud The Twins of publick rage adjudg'd to die For Treasons they should Act by Prophecy The Facts were done before the Laws were made The Trump turn'd up after the Game was play'd Be dull great Spirits and forbear to climbe For Worth is Sin and Eminence a Crime No Church-man can be innocent and high 'T is height makes Grantham Steeple stand awry The III. By Mr. H. Birched Sometimes Fellow of All-Souls Reverendissimo in Christo Patri D. Guliel Laud Dom. Archiep. Cantuariensi Parentalia Dithyrambus Heb. Sheteph Oda Nempe erratica vel missa ECclesiae pene heic triumphantis Archangelum ah vere nimis Jam militantis Archimartyrem quâ nam Sat Celebrabimus Apotheosi Qui sidelitate non fide Romanus Christi sponsam Schismaticis deformatam defloratam haereticis Primaevae restituebas virginitati clariori Pulchritudinis Pompae Tu pietatem doctrinali pabulo fovebas nec non decoro vestiebas Disciplinae Lautus amictu Torpeat ne Nuda Sanctitas Aut famelica Languescat Perfecta Religio nec umbra nec cadaver est Testor ut Aedem sacratam Literataque testor maenia te nunquam Ambiisse titulum novae fundationis aut ecclesiae Attamen Novatae simulatione honesta beneficentiam condidisti magnificus simul modestus hac etiam templi renovatione Antiquitatis aemulus Nec matri natus erat gratior ecclesiae quam Nutrici alumnus academiae suffulciit eam dextera vestra firmis Aedificiorum Justinis Legum Columnis mage mansuris Accepit Pumiceum Sed Marmoreum Reliquit heu Lycaeum At Athenae vel relictae linqui non videntur donec ades muneribus perennis Cujus Laudibus Beneficia sua Materiam suppeditarunt verba Amalthaea folia vel Amalthaea Diphthera Salomonis Pancarpia
SAMUEL MARSH Dean of York DOctor Marsh born Feb. 6. 1586. at Finchamsted in Herts and bred Fellow of All-Souls took to his book and became a Scholar against the will of his friends and a Divine against his own upon the same occasion that others become Physicians for being serupulous and inquisitive he spent so much time in settling his own soul that before he was aware he was immersed in that noble Science and Art of saving others Art I say for it was his Motto He that winneth souls is wise and he did profess to a friend as Bishop Williams once did that though he had gone through several honorable employments yet he would take more comfort in begetting one soul to God in travailing in birth till Christ were formed in an immortal spirit than in gaining all the honors in the world to himself he was one of those Reverend Divines the late King desired to converse with in his solitude and to advise with in his Treaties and one of them the Parliament feared most making the Kingdom his Church when he had none and instilling every where wholesome notions and rectified apprehensions into mens minds as likewise implanting the truth after godliness in their hearts teaching men not to be linked to this or that body of men in a design but with all good Christians in Communion many were his afflictions but according to that Text he said he kept up the heart of his Hearers with Preaching upon it God delivered him out of them all He could have lived as a Physician a Lawyer as well as a Divine he did as Nazianzen said of Philagrius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 play the Philosopher in his sufferings calling his tribulations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 learned afflictions full of great instructions which taught he said much real Christianity and made his soul of a more strong able and athletick habit and temper speaking in his distresses that he hoped he had learned all that for which God sent it and that he thought God kept us so long in that dispensation under those pressures and sufferings that Patience might have its perfect work and that the world might see what the true Protestant Religion was able to do what might power and virtue there was in it to bear up souls under the greatest misfortunes This would he say is the time to let men see we can live up at the same rate as we have formerly discoursed Four things he had a special care of in the late times 1. The Confirmation of well-affected People and the grounding of their Children from house to house where he was the more welcome by the sweetness and chearfulness of his converse 2. The furnishing of private Schools and Families with those excellent Scholars and honest Men to whom Zenodotus his Proverb was very applicable in those times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either he is dead or he teacheth School Expressing himself about that Care of his as Sir Walter Mildmay did about Emanuel Colledge whereof he was Founder That he set Acorns which others might live to see Oaks 3. The restraining of the Kings friends from rash and exorbitant expressions or actions That the Tyranny to use his own words might wear its self out upon their patience which might seed its self upon their peevishness 4. To widen his Majesties Interest by matching his friends to some of his not implacable and more generous foes who should espouse their Cause as well as their Relations intermarriages as he observed by the care God took in that case among his own people being able to turn the humor of any Nation In fine having saved the Plate and Books of Sion-Colledge in London when he was President having bestowed his own upon the Church to which he owed it hating to enrich private Families into Pride with the publick emoluments of the Church given to Piety and having led an exact and an exquisite life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a conversation so studied that it was in all things consonant with its self in most unaffected gravity wonderful simplicity and a stern Countenance proportionable to the vigor and strength of his Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a look that was not one key below his intent eager and sprightly minde wholly careful of the things he hoped for and regardless of the things he saw He died in a good old age 1662 3. Dr. Samuel Marsh Iocus Protervae Ludicrumque fortunae sed major ipsa Pallidoque Livore utriusque victor hoc jacet Busto nequid Aevi saeculique vis possit diesque long a deleat viri nomen devinxit ipsum Marsh sibi tempus Doctor Marsh his name puts me in minde of Dr. Thomas Paske whom he used to call his Glass so faithful a friend he was in discovering to him his defects and so good an example in proposing to him a pattern of perfection Against his will Master of Clare-hall Vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1621 2. when the contest was between Dr. Micklethwait and Dr. Preston about the Lecture at Trinity Church in that University without his knowledge made Archdeacon of London Minister of Much-haddam in Hertfordshire and St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey A Gentleman that did nothing so chearfully as suffer for his late Majesty and his Son eighteen years Modestly refuse first and then unhappily miss a Bishoprick under his Majesty that now is and dye The right square man and honest Cube that throw him where you would fell upon his base denying himself he injoyed the world none being able to deal more severely with him that he did with himself no condition afflicting him because no condition surprized him according to his usual saying That distresses were like Cockatrices if they see you first they kill you if you see them first you kill them Si tantum sperare dolorem preferre soror potero Disappointments kill some but as the Consumption did Dr. Butler who died of it as he said because he never feared it No wonder he was not ambitious of gain and preferment who was so civil in the in joyment of it that he would say He would not go to Law with his Parishioners for any part of his Tyths because if he lost their love as he must do if he were contentious he lost all probability of doing them that good for which he had all his Tyths Protesting that he had rather gain his Neighbours by spending all his Tyths in Hospitality than lose one by laying it all in his Purse Wherefore I hope he will see as many of his People happy about him in heaven as he saw of his Scholars and Pupils eminent here on earth three Bishops four Privy-Counsellors two Judges three Doctors of Physick one day appointing to Reverence that Person to whose Rules and Examples they owed their Merit as they did to their Merit their Greatness being much beholding to his Method Rules and Choice Books more to his Watchful Observation and most of all to his
hid themselves from others and so humble that they were not known to himself A temper as little moved with others injuries as with his own merits fit to Rule others that commanded its self Recreations Innocent and manly traversing Hills and Dales for Health and for Instruction studying God at home and Nature abroad fitting himself by generous Exercises for generous Employments to which he knew a body comely quick and vegel with Exercise was more suitable than a minde dulled with studies Though when he came to his Throne over affections the Pulpit or his Chair of State over reason his Colledge it appeared that his severe pleasures that refreshed his body loosned but melted not his minde I say sagacious Dr. Laud finding him every way rather than designing him his successor brought him out of his privacy as Pearls and rich mettals are out of obscurity to adorn his Majesties Court his modesty gaining him that respect which others seek by their ambition To have one near the King he could trust in his old age made him Dean of Worcester and Clerk of the Closet first after that Bishop elect of Hereford and then after himself Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer In the first of which places being to have Saint Pauls combate with Beasts he used Saint Pauls art became all things to all and as those that were of old exposed to Beasts overcame by yielding being most mild and most vigilant a Lamb and a Shepheard The delight of the English Nation whose Reverence was the only thing all Factions agreed in all allowing that honor to the sweetness of his manners that some denied the sacredness of his Function being by love what another is in pretence an universal Bishop the greatest because the last Bishop that was ruined that insolence that stuck not at the other Bishops out of modesty till 1649. not medling with him The other charge of Treasurer whereby all lay upon him both what the good Worship and the bad Religion and Money which was now safe under the Keys of the Church so the Romans Treasury was in their Temple and the Venetians have the one Guardian of their City and Money St. Mark he in the middest of large Expences and low Revenues managed with such integrity handling temporal wealth with the same holy temper he did the most spiritual Mysteries that the Coffers he found empty he in four years left filling and with such prudent mildness being admirably master of his Pen and Passions grace having ordered what nature could not omit the tetrarch humor of Choler That Petitioners for money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his civilly languaged denials and though a Bishop was then odious and a Lord always suspected yet he in both capacities was never questioned though if he had he had come out of his trial like his gold having this happiness in an age of the bravest men to see more innocent than the best and happier than the greatest and if it was a comfort to them to suffer for their too great and to the Commonalty unknown and therefore suspected virtues it was more to him to be loved for that integrity which could be unkâ—own to few and hateful to none He was above others in most of his actions he was above himself in two 1. His honest advice to save my Lord of Straffords life who having appeared before a Parliament was set at last before him who though he heard Noblemen yea Clergy-men too pressing his death for the safety of the people the highest law they said the King the Church the Commonwealth asserting his life by law and right which is above all these And that brave Maxime like another Athanasius of Justice against the world Fiat justitia ruat coelum terra Ecclesia Respublica 2. His holy attendance on his late Majesty who gave him the title on his death of That honest man whereof before in his Majesties Life and Death Recollecting there all his virtues to see what the excellent King with a recollection of all graces was to suffer with a clear countenance at least before his Majesty chusing to disturb nature rather than the King looking on what his Majesty with a chearful countenance endured Thus the Sun at our Saviors Passion whereof this a Copy that was Ecclipsed to others shined clear to Christ. It was much to see the King dye with so undaunted a spirit it was more to see the Bishop behold him with so unmoved a countenance but so it became him whom his Majesty had chosen his Second in that great Duel committing to him the care of his soul both departing in himself and surviving in his Son and with it his memory and what was more his Oblivion with which and the other holy suggestions of that Royal soul he came down from the Scaffold as Moses did out of the Mount with Pardon Peace and New Law to a sinful people after the breaking of the old After God had preserved him through the many years miseâ—ies of the usurpation and the inexpressible torment of â—his disease the Stone which he endured as chearfully as he did his pleasures having patience to bear those pains which others had not patience to hear of to deliver that message to the Son which he received from the Father he Crowned King Charles II. April 25. 1661. at Westminster and went Iune 1663. to see King Charles I. Crowned in heaven having seen the Church Militant here settled 1662. he was made a Member of the Triumphant 1663. full not only of honor and days but of his own wishes too leaving near 10000 l. to augment the St. Iohns Revenue at Oxford Colledge Repair St. Pauls and Cantâ—rbury Cathedrals and finish the building of the New-hall at Lambeth which he had begun besides directions throughout the Province to repair Churches and Church-aedisices improve Vicarages and establish peace Iuly 9. he was buried in St. Iohns with as great solemnity as the University could afford Dr. South making an excellent Oration upon the occasion in the Divinity Schools and Dr. Levens of St. Iohns the like in the Colledge Crete being not more proud of the Grave and Cradle of Iove nor the King of Spain of the Suns rising and setting in his Dominions than that House may be that Dr. Iuxon and Dr. Laud was bred there As he had gone on in the same course acted on the same principles enjoyed the same honors so he lieth in the same Grave with his friend and patron Archbishop Laud. Dr. Walter Curle born in Strafford near Hatfield my Lord Cecil's house to whom his Father was serviceable in detecting several Plots referring to the Queen of Scots as his Agent and in settling the estate he had from the Queen of England as his Steward And by whom he was made Auditor of the Court of Wards to Queen Elizabeth and King Iames and his Son preferred in Christ-Colledge and Peter-house in Cambridge His Lord gave him a
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