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A83691	The fore-runner of revenge being two petitions, the one to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the other to the most Honourables [sic] Houses of Parliament : wherein is expressed divers actions of the late Earle of Buckingham, especially concerning the death of King James and the Marquesse Hamelton, supposed by poyson : also may be observed the inconveniences befalling a state where the noble disposition of the prince is mis-led by a favourite / by George Eglisham ...	Eglisham, George, fl. 1612-1642.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing E256; ESTC R206483	16,502	17

and Burgesses of the Parliament of ENGLAND The humble Petition of George Eglisham Doctor of Physicke and one of the Physitians to K. James of happy memory for his Majesties person above the space of ten yeares WHereas the chiefe humane care of Kings and Courts of Parliament is the preservation and protection of the subjects lives liberties and estates from private and publicke injuries to the end that all things may be carried in the equall ballance of Justice without which no monarchy no Common-wealth no society no family yea no mans life or estate can consist albeit never so little It cannot be thought unjust to demand of Kings and Parliaments the censure of wrongs the consideration whereof was so great in our Monarch of happy memory King JAMES that he hath often publickly protested even in the presence of his apparant heire that if his owne sonne should commit murther or any such execrable act of injury he would not spare him but would have him dye for it and would have him more severely punished then any other For he very well observed no greater injustice no injury more intollerable can be done by man to man then murther In all other wrongs fortune hath recourse the losse of honour or goods may be repaired satisfaction may be made reconciliation may be procured so long as the party injured is alive But when the party murthered is bereft of his life what can restore it what satisfaction can be given him where shall the murtherer meet with him to be reconciled to him unlesse he be sent out of this world to follow the spirit which by his wickednesse he hath separated from his body Therefore of all injuries of all the acts of injustice of all things most to be looked into murther is the greatest And of all murthers the poysoning under trust and profession of friendship is the most hey nous which if you suffer to goe unpunished let no man thinke himselfe so secure to live amongst you as amongst the wildest and most furious beasts in the world for by vigilancy and industry means may be had to resist of evict the most violent beast that ever nature bred but from false and treacherous hearts from poysoning murthers what wit of wisedome can defend This concerneth your Lordships every one in particular as well as my selfe They of whose poysoning your Petitioner complaineth viz. King JAMES the Marquesse of HAMELTON and others whose names after shall bee expressed have been the most eminent in the Kingdome and sate on these Benches whereon your Honours doe now sit The party whom your Petitioner accuseth is the Duke of Buckingham woo is so powerfull that unlesse the whole body of a Parliament lay hold on him no justice can be had of him For what place is there of Justice what office of the Crowne what degree of honour in the Kingdome which he hath not sold And sold in such craft that he can shake the buyer out of them and intrude others at his pleasure All the Judges of the Kingdome all the Officers of State are his bound vassals or allies are afraid to become his out-casts as it is notorious to all his Majesties true and loving subjects yea so farre hath his ambitious practice gone that what the King would have done could not be done if hee opposed it whereof many instances may be given whensoever they shall be required Neither are they unknown to this Honourable assembly howsoever the means he useth be whether lawfull or unlawfull whether humane or diabolique so he tortureth the Kingdome that hee procureth the calling breaking or continuing of the Parliament at his pleasure placing and displacing the Officers of Justice of the Councell of the Kings Court of the Courts of Justice to his violent pleasure and as his ambitious villany moveth him What hope then can your Petitioner have that his complaint should be heard or being heard should take effect To obtaine justice he may despaire to provoke the Duke to send forth a poysoner or murthere to dispatch him and send him after his dead friends already murthered he may be sure this to be the event Let the event be what it will come whatsoever can come the losse of his owne life your Petitioner valueth not having suffered the losse of the lives of such eminent friends esteeming his life cannot be better bestowed then upon discovery of so heynous murthers yea the justnesse of the cause the dearnesse and neernesse of his friends murthered shall prevaile so farre with him that he shall unfold unto your Honours and unto the whole world against the accused and name him the author of so great murthers George Villers Duke of Buckingham which against any private man are sufficient for his apprehension and torture And to make his complaint not very tedious he will only for the present declare unto your Honours the two eminent murthers committed by Buckingham to wit of the Kings Majesty and of the Lord Marquesse Hamelton which for all the subtility of his poysoning Art could not be so cunningly conveyed as the murtherer thought but that God hath discovered manifestly the authour And to observe the order of the time of their death because the Lord Marquesse Hamelton died first his death shall be first related even from the root of his first quarrell with Buckingham albeit many other jarres have proceeded from time to time betwixt them Concerning the poysoning of the Lord Marquesse HAMELTON BVCKINGHAM once raised from the bottome of Fortunes wheele to the top by what desert by what right or wrong no matter it is by his carriage the proverb is verified Nothing more proud then basest blood when it doth rise aloft He suffered his ambition to carry himselfe so farre as to aspire to match his blood with the Blood-Royall both of England and Scotland And well knowing that the Marquesse of Hamelton was acknowledged by King Iames to be the prime man in his Dominions who next to his owne line in his proper season might claime an hereditary Title to his Crowne of Scotland by the Daughter of King Iames the second and to the Crown of England by Ioane of Sommerset wife to King Iames the first declared by an Act of Parliament Heretrix of Englond to be in her due ranke never suffered the King to be at rest but urged him alwayes to send some of his Privie Councell to solicite the Marquesse to match his eldest sonne with Buckinghams Neece making great promises of conditions which the meane family of the Bride could not performe without the Kings liberality to wit fifty thousand pound Sterling valuing five hundred thousand Florens with the Earldome of Orkney under the title of Duke whatsoever the Marquesse would accept even to the first Duke of Britaine The glorious Title of a Duke the Marquesse refused twice upon speciall reasons reserved to himselfe The matter of money was no motive to cause the Marquesse to match his sonne so unequall to his degree seeing

The Fore-Runner OF REVENGE Being two Petitions THE ONE To the KINGS most Excellent Majesty THE OTHER To the most Honourable Houses of Parliament Wherein is expressed divers actions of the late Earle of Buckingham especially concerning the death of King Iames and the Marquesse Hamelton supposed by poyson Also may be observed the inconveniences befalling a State where the Noble disposition of the Prince is mis-led by a Favourite By George Eglisham Doctor of Physick and one of the Pysicians to King Iames of happy memory for his Majesties person above ten yeers space Printed at London in the yeer 1642. To the most Potent Monarch CHARLES King of great Britaine The humble Petition of George Eglisham Doctor of Physick lately one of King IAMES his Physicians for his Majesties person above the space of ten yeeres SIR NO better motive there is for a safe government then the safe meditation of death equalling Kings with Beggars and the exact justice of God requiring of them that the good suffring inmisery this life should receive joy in the other and the wicked flourishing securely in this might be punished in the other That which pleaseth lasteth but a moment which tormenteth is everlasting Many things we see unrewarded or unpunished in this inferiour World which in the universall weight of Gods justice must be counterpoised elswhere But wilfull and secret murther hath seldom been observed to undiscovered or unpunished even in this life such a particular and notable revenge perpetually followeth it to the end that they who are either Atheists or Matchiavelists may not trust too much to their wits in doing so horrible injustice Would to God your Majesty would well consider what I have often said to my Master King Iames the greatest policy is honesty and howsoever any man seeme to himself wise in compassing his desires by tricks yet in the end he will prove a foole for falshood ever deceiveth her own master at length as the Devill author of all falshood always doth leaving his adherents desolate when they have the greatest need of his help No falshood without injustice no injustice without falshood albeit it were in the person of a King There is no Judge in the World more tied to do justice then a King whose coronation tyeth him unto it by solemne oath which if he violate he is false and perjured It is justice that maketh Kings justice that mayntains Kings and injustice that brings Kings and Kingdomes to destruction to fall into misery to die like Asses in ditches or a more beastly death eternall infamy after death as all Histories from time to time do cleerly manifest What need hath mankind of Kings but for justice Men are not born for them but they for men what greater what more royall occasion in the World could be offered to your Ma. to shew your impartiall disposition in matters of justice at the first entry of your Reign then this which I offer in my just complaint against Buckingham by whom your Majesty suffereth your self so far to be led that your best subjects are in doubt whether he is your King or you his If your Majesty know and consider how he hath tyrannized over his Lord and Master King Iames the worldly Creatour of his fortunes how insolent how ingrate an Oppressor what a murtherer and traytor he hath proved himself towards him how treacherous to his upholding friends the Marquess of Hamelton and others your Majesty may think giving way to the Laws demanded against him to yield a most glorious field for your Majesty to walk in and display the banner of your Royall vertues Your Majesty may perhaps demand what interest I have therein what have I to doe therewith that I should stir all others being quiet Sir the quietnesse or stirring of others expecteth only a beginning from mee whom they know so much obliged to stirre as none can be more both in respect of knowledge of passages and in regard of humane obligation and of my independancy from the accused or any other that his power or credit can reach unto many know not what I know therein others are little or nothing beholding to the dead others albeit they know it as well as I and are obliged as deep as I yet dare not complain so safely as I being out of their reach who are inseparable from him by his inchantments and all to obscure my selfe untill the power of just revenge upon him be obtained from God What I know sufficient against him I have set downe in my petition against him to the Parliament to which if your Majesty dismisse him sequestred from your Majesty chiefly in an accusation of treason you shall doe what is just and deliver your self and your Kingdome from the captivity in which hee holdeth them and your Majesty oppressed How easily I may eclipse my selfe from his power to do mee harme unlesse hee hath legions of infernall spirits at his command to pursue mee your Majesty may well know I being ultra mare to these Dominions where he ruleth and rageth How far I am obliged to complain more then others I will in few words expresse that neither your Majesty nor any man may think otherwise but that I have most just reason not to be silent in a wrong so intolerable the interest of bloud which I have to any of them of whose death I complaine either by the House of Balgony Lunday or Silverton-Hill albeit it is easie to be made manifest and sufficient to move me yet it is not the sole motive of my breach of silence but the interest of received courtesie and the heap of infallible tokens of true affection is more then suffient to stir me thereto unlesse I would prove the most ingrate in the World and senselesse of the greatest injuries that can be done unto my self for who killed King James and Marquesse Hamelton in that part of the injury which is done unto me therein hee hath done as much as robbed me of my life and all my fortunes and friends With such constant and loving impressions of me as are neither to be recovered not duly valued for his Majesty from the third yeer of my age did practise honorable tokens of singular favour towards me daily augmented them in word in writ in deed accompanied them with gifts patents offices recommendations both in private and publike at home and abroad graced so far that I could scarce aske any thing but I could have obtained it How much honour he hath done unto me there needs no witnesse unto your Majesty who is sufficient for many no lesse is my Lord Marquesse Hameltons friendship established by mutuall obligation of most acceptable offices continued by our ancesto● these three generations ingraven in the tender minds and yeers of the Marquesse and me in the presence of our Sovereigne King Iames. For when the Marquesse his Father who with the right hand on his head and the left on mine did offer us young in yeers so

joyned to kisse his Majesties hand recommending me to his Majesties favour said I take God to witnesse that this young mans father was the best friend that ever I had or shall have in this World Whereupon the young Lord resolved to put trust in mee and I fully to addict my self to him to deserve of him as much commendations as my father did of his father This Royall celebration of our friends rooted it self so deep in my minde that to my self I purposed this remembrance giving it to my young Lord and to my famillar friends and set it upon the books of my study Semper Hameltonium c. Always the King and Hamelton Within thy breast conserve What ever be thy actions Let Princes two deserve Neither was it in vain for both our loves increased with our age the Marquesse promising to engage his life and whole estate for me if need were and so share his fortunes with me and not onely promising but also performing when ever there was occasion yea for my sake offering to hazard his life in combat whose mind in wishing me well whose tongue in honouring of me and whose hands and means in defending me both absent and present unto the last period of his life hath ever assisted me I should be more tedious then were fit if I should rehearse every particular favour so manifestly knowne to the whole Court and to the friends of us both who then can justly blame me demanding justice as well for the slaughter of the Marquesse of Hamelton as of my most gracious Sovereigne King Iames seeing I know whom to accuse My profession of Physick nor my education to letters cannot serve to hinder me from undertaking the hardest enterprize that ever any Roman undertook so far as the Law of conscience will give way Why should I stay at the decay Of Hameltons the hope Why shall I see thy foe so free Vnto this joy give scope Rather I pray a dolefull day Set me in cruell fate Then thy death strange without revenge Or him in safe estate This soule to heavens hand to the dead I vow No fraudfull minde nor trembling hand I have If pen it shun the sword revenge shall follow Soule Pen and Sword what thing but just doe crave What affection I bore to the living the same shall accompany the dead for when whose truth and sincerity was well knowne unto me told me that it was better that the chiefest of my friends the Marquesse of Hamelton to be quiet at home in Scotland then eminent in Court of England to whom by the opinion of the wiser sort his being at Court will cost him no lesse then his life sith that I stretching forth mine arme apprehending some plots laid against him answered if no man dare to revenge his death I vow to God this hand of mine shall revenge it scarcely any other cause to be found then the bond of our close friendship why in the scrowle of Noble mens names who were to be killed I should be set down next to the Marquesse of Hamelton and under these words viz. the Marquesse and Doctor Eglisham to embalme him to wit to the end that no discoverer or revenger should be left this roll of names I know not by what destiny was found neere to Westminster about the time of the Duke of Richmond his death and brought to the Lord Marquesse by his cozen the daughter of the Lord Oldbarre one of the privy Councell of Scotland did cause no terror in mee untill I did see the Marquesse poysoned and remembred that the rest therein noted were dead and my selfe next pointed at only surviving why stay I any more the cause requireth no more the pen but the sword I doe not write so boldly because I am amongst the Dukes enemies but I have retired my selfe to his enemies because I was resolved to write and doe earnestly against him as may very well appeare for since the Marquesse of Hameltons death the most noble Marquesse de Fiatta Embassadour for the most Christian King of France and also Buckingham his mother sent on every side to seeke me inviting me to them but I did forsake them knowing certainly the falshood of Buckingham would suffer the Embassador rather to receive an affront then to be unsatisfied of his blood-thirsty desire of my blood to silence me with death for according to the proverb The dead cannot bite if he could have found me for my Lord Duke of Lenox who was often crossed by Buckingham with his brother and the Earle of Southampton now dead was one of the roll found of those that were to be murthered well assured me that where Buckingham once misliked no apologie no submission no reconciliation could keepe him from doing mischiefe Neither doe I write this in this fashion so freely for any entertainment here present which I have not nor for any future which I have no ground to looke for seeing Buckingham hath so much mislead your Majesty that he hath caused not only here but also in all Nations all Britaine Natives to be disgraced and mistrusted your Majesties most royall word which should be inviolable your hand and seal which should be uninfringeable to be most shamefully violated and your selfe to be most ingrate for your kind usage in Spaine which Buckingham maketh to be requited with injuries in a most base manner under protestation of friendship a bloody war being kindled on both sides whereby he hath buried with King Iames the glorious name of Peace-making King who had done much more justly and advisedly if hee had procured peace unto Christendome whereby small hope I have of obtaining justice on my most just complaint unto which my deare affection unto my deare friends murthered and extream detestation of Buckingham his violent proceedings hath brought me Your Ma may finde most just causes to accuse him in my Petition to the Parliament which shall serve for a touchstone to your Majestie and a whetstone to me and many other Scotsmen and which if it be neglected will make your Majesty to incurre a censure amongst all vertuous men in the world that your Majesty will be loath to heare of and I am astonished to expresse at this time A Serpent lurketh in the grasse No other way there is to be found to save your honour but to give way to Justice against that traytor Buckingham by whom manifest danger approacheth to your Majesty no otherwise then death approached to King Iames. If your Majesty will therefore take any course therein the examination upon oath of all those that were about the King and the Marquesse of Hamelton in their sicknesse or at their deaths or after their deaths before indifferent Judges no dependants on Buckingham will serve for sufficient proofe of Buckingham his guiltinesse In the meane time untill I see what will be the issue of my complaint without any more speech I rest Your Majesties daily Suppliant George Eglisham To the most Honourable the Nobilitie Knights