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A81080	Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind. Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7352; ESTC R171627	176,132	257

he found he had received as many as were intended to be offered he bound them up in one bundle and protesting That he had not so much as looked into any one of them he burnt them all in the sight of the Fathers giving them moreover a serious exhortation to Peace and a cordial agreement among themselves Chetwinds Hist Coll. p. 42. LXXVI It is reported of Julius Caesar to his great commendation that after the defeat of Pompey the Great he had in his custody a Castle wherein he found divers Letters written by most of the Nobles of Rome under their own hands which gave sufficient evidence to condemn them but he burnt them all that no Monument might remain of a future Grudge and that no man might be driven to extremities or to break the Peace through any apprehensions that he lived suspected or should therefore be hated Rogers Pen. Citizen p. 70. LXXVII James King of Arragon was a great Enemy to Contentions and Contentious Lawyers insomuch as having heard many complaints against Semenus Rada a great Lawyer who by his Quirks and Wiles had been injurious as well as troublesome to many he banished him his Kingdom as a man that was not to be endured to live in a place to the Peace of which he was so great an Enemy Clarks Mirrour p. 343. At Fez in Africa they have neither Lawyers nor Advocates but if there be any Controversy amongst them both Parties Plaintiff and Defendant come before the chief Judge and all at once without any further appeals or pitiful delays the cause is heard and ended Burtons Melancholy Servius Sulpitius was an Heathen Lawyer but an excellent Person it is said of him that he respected Equity and Peace in all that he did and alwaies sought rather to compose differences than to multiply Suits in Law Clarks Examples p. 344. LXXVIII It is noted of Phocion a most excellent Captain of the Athenians that although for his military ability and success he was chosen forty and five times General of their Armies by universal approbation yet he himself did ever persuade them to Peace Flutarchs Lives I read of the Sister of Edward the Third King of England saith Mr. Trenchfield who was Married to David King of Scots that she was familiarly called Jane make peace both for her earnest and successful endeavours therein Trenchfield Hist Inproved p. 67. Sertorius the more he prospered and prevailed in his Wars in Spain the more importunate he was with Metellus and Pompey the Roman Generals that came against him that laying down arms they would give him leave to live in peace and to return into Italy again professing he preferred a private life there before the Government of many Cities Plutarch Vit. Sert. LXXIX The lovers of Justice and impartial Administrators thereof have been likewise famous in all Ages and the Persons hereafter mentioned were great lovers and observers of this excellent virtue which is of so much advantage to mankind Herkenbald a Man mighty noble and famous had no respect of Persons in Judgment but condemned and punished with as great severity the rich and his own Kindred as the poor and those whom he knew least in the world being once very sick and keeping his Bed he heard a great bustle in a Chamber next to that wherein he lay and withal a Woman crying and shrieking out he inquired of his Servants what the matter was but they all concealed the Truth from him at last one of his Pages being severely threatned by him and told that he would cause his Eyes to be pulled out of his head if he did not tell him plainly what all that stir was told him in few words My Lord said he your Nephew hath ravished a Maid and that was the noise you heard The Fact being examined and plainly proved Herkenbald condemned his dear Nephew to be hanged till he should be dead but the Officer who had the charge to execute the Sentence seeming as if he had been very willing and forward to do it went presently and gave the young man notice of all that had passed wishing him to keep out of the way awhile and some few hours after he comes again to his sick Lord and affirms contrary to truth that he had put his sentence in Execution and that the young man was dead about five days after the young Gentleman thinking his Unkle had forgotten all came and peeped in at his Chamber door the Unkle having espied him calls him by his name and with fair words inticeth him to his Beds head till he was within his reach and then suddenly catching him by the locks with the left hand and pulling him forcibly to him with his right hand he gave him such a ready blow into the Throat with a Knife that he died instantly so great was the love that this Nobleman bore to Justice Camerarius Meditat. p 468. LXXX Sir John Markham was Knighted by King Edward the Fourth and by him made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench at which time one Sir Thomas Cook late Lord Mayor of London and Knight of the Bath a man of a great Estate was agreed upon to be accused of High Treason and a Commission issued out to try him in Guildhall The King himself by private instructions to the Judge appeared so far in the cause that Cook though he was never so innocent must be found guilty and if the Law were too short the Judge must stretch it to the Kings purpose The fault they laid to his charge was for lending Monies to Queen Margaret Wife to King Henry the sixth the proof was the confession of one Hawkins who was rack'd in the Tower Sir Thomas Cook pleaded that Hawkins came indeed to request him to lend a Thousand Marks upon good security but that understanding who it was for he had sent him away with a refusal The Judge declared that this proof reached not to a charge of High-Treason and that Misprision of Treason was the highest it could amount to and intimated to the Jury to be tender in matter of life and discharging good consciences upon which they found it accordingly only Misprision for which the Judge was turned out of his Place and lived privately the rest of his days and gloried in this That though the King could make him no Judge yet he could not make him no upright Judge Fullers H. State p. 263. LXXXI Charles the bold Duke of Burgundy and Earl of Flanders had a Nobleman in special favour with him to whom he had committed the Government of a Town in Zealand where living in a great deal of ease he fell in love with a Woman of a beautiful body and a mind and manners no whit inferior he passed and repassed by her door and soon after grew bolder entred into discourse with her discovers his passion and beseeches a compassionate resentment of it he makes large promises and uses all the ways by which he hoped to gain her but all in

sometimes create sudden shifts he espying the Ladder against the wall presently apprehends what had been whispered of Fryer Johns love to the Knights Lady and lifting him on his Shoulders by the help of the same Ladder he carries him into the Porch of the Knights Hall and there sets him afterward secretly conveying himself back into the Monastery the same way he came not in the least suspected by any while this was doing the Knight being perplexed and troubled in Conscience could by no means sleep but calls up his Man and bids him go listen about the walls of the Monastery forth he goes out of his Masters Chamber and having passed the length of the Hall designing to go through the yard he finds Fryer John sitting upright in the Porch and starting at the sight he runs back affrighted and almost distracted and speechless tells the news to his Master who being no less astonished could not believe it to be so but rather his mans Fantasy till he himself went down and became an Eye-witness of this strange object At which being extreamly concerned he ressects on himself that murder is one of the crying sins and such a one as cannot be concealed yet recollecting his Spirits he resolves to try a desperate adventure and put the discovery upon chance he remembers he had an old Stallion then in his Stable one of those he had used in Service in the French Wars and likewise a rusty Armour in his Armory these he commands instantly to be brought with a Case of rusty Pistols and a Lance the Horse is sadled and Caparison'd the Armour is put upon the Fryer and he fast bound in his Seat with strong new Cords the Lance is tied to his wrist and the lower end put into the rest his Head-piece is clasped on and his Beaver is put up being thus accoutred like a Knight compleatly armed Cap-a-pe they designed to turn him out of the Gates both he and his Horse without any Page or Esquire to try a new Adventure whilst these things were thus fitting Fryer Richard in the Monastery was no less perplexed in his mind than the Knight about the Murther and much dreading the strictness of the Law summons all his wits about him to prevent the worst and at length concludes with himself that it is his best and safest way to fly for his life he likewise remembers that there was in the Fryery a Mare imployed to carry Corn to and from the Mill which was about half a mile from the Monastery and being somewhat fat and doubting his own footmanship he thinks it better to trust to four legs then two and therefore calls up the Baker that had the charge of the Beast and tells him he understands that there was Meal that morning to be fetcht from the Mill which was grinded by that time therefore if he would let him have the Mare he would save him that labour and bring it back before morning the Fellow being willing to save so much pains caused the back Gate to be opened the Fryer gets up and rides out of the Monastery Gate just at that instant when the Knight and his Man had turned out the Fryer on Horseback to seek his fortune the Horse presently scents the Mare and after her he gallops Fryer Richard looking back was amazed to see an armed Knight follow him much more when by the light of the Moon and the Beaver flying up he perceived that it was Fryer John who was thus armed and thereupon away flies he through the Streets and after him or rather after the Mare speeds the Horse a great noise there was in the City insomuch that many being awakened out of their morning sleep looked out at their Windows at length it was Fryer Richards ill fate to ride into a certain turn-again Lane which had no passage through there Fryer John overtakes him the Stone-Horse covers the Mare which causes a terrible noise among the rusty Armour Fryer Richards guilty conscience accuses him and he cries out aloud Guilty of the Murder at the noise of Murder the People being amazed ran out of their Beds into the Street they apprehend Miracles and he confesses Wonders but withal he freely tells them of the horrid and inhumane Act he had committed in murdering one of his own Convent the former Grudge that was between them is generally known and the apparent Justice of Heaven the rather believed Fryer John is dismounted and sent to his Grave Fryer Richard is committed to Prison he is Arraigned and in pursuance of his own Confession is condemned But before his Execution the Knight knowing his own guilt and concern in the business he posts instantly to the King makes his voluntary Confession and hath his life and estate for his former good Services granted to him Fryer Richard is released and this notable Accident still remains upon Record Hist Women II. In the reign of Queen Mary Sr. Walter Smith of Shirford in Warwickshire being grown an aged man at the death of his wife considered of a Marriage for Richard his Son and heir then at mans Estate and to that end made his mind known to Mr. Thomas Chetwin of Ingestre in Staffordshire who entertaining the motion in the behalf of Dorothy his Daughter was contented to give five hundred pound with her But no sooner had the old knight seen the young Lady but he became a suiter for himself offering five hundred pound for her besides as good a joynture as she should have by his Son if the Match had gone forward this so wrought upon Chetwin that he effectually persuaded his Daughter and the Marriage ensued accordingly it was not long ere her affections wandring she gave entertainment to a young Gentleman of about Twenty two called Robinson of Drayton Basset and being impatient of all that might hinder her full enjoyment of him she contrived how to be rid of her husband having therefore corrupted her waiting Gentlewoman and a Groom of the stable she resolved by their help and the assistance of Robinson to strangle him in his bed and though Robinson came not the designed night she no whit staggered in her Resolution for watching her husband till he was fallen asleep she called in her complices and casting a long Towel about his neck caused the Groom to lye upon him to keep him from strugling whilst her self and the maid straining the Towel stopped his breath having thus dispatched the work they carried him into another room where a close stool was placed upon which they set him an hour after the maid and Groom were got silently away and to conceal the business this Lascivious bloody woman made an outcry in the house wringing her hands plucking her hair and weeping extreamly pretending that missing him sometime out of bed she went to see what the matter was and found him in that posture by these feigned shews of sorrow she prevented all suspition of his violent death and not long after went to London

feasts and entertainments in which he always took high contentment and satisfaction passing a most Lascivious life in his Seraglio and consuming an immense treasure on his women whereby he was seized with an apoplexy which was attributed to his excessive use of them to whom he was so immoderately addicted that he consumed his days and nights in the womens apartments wherein Amber was the Common perfume which burned perpetually and the Common sawce to most of his Dainties not perhaps because it so much pleased his Palate as that it was a provocative incitement to his Lusts and notwithstanding the great number of women within the Seraglio which were all at the Devotion of the Sultan yet Ibrahim not being contented therewith passing one day to Scutari had by chance cast his Eye upon an Object which much pleased him what it was becomes me not to relate but being returned to his Seraglio he sent orders to the Vizier to seek out the biggest and best proportiond woman which was to be found in all Constantinople and the parts thereabout hereupon Emissarys were dispatched into all quarters of the City at length he found a huge tall Armenian woman well proportioned according to her height and a giantess for her stature who being found she was presently washed and perfume● in the bath and as richly clothed and adorned as the shortness of the time would permit there was no great difficulty to persuade her to become Turk having so high preferment in her prospect so that being introduced to the grand Seigniors presence he became immediately inamoured and was so pleased with her society that he preferred her before all the women of his Court an evidence whereof he gave in that he could not deny her any request she could make and particularly about that time the Government of Damascus being void this woman begged it for her self placing another in the Office who was accountable to her for all the profits and benefits thereof by these particulars of favour the Queen Mother becoming jealous one day inviting her to dinner caused her to be strangled and persuaded Ibrahim that she died suddenly of a violent sickness at which he poor man was greatly afflicted And though during his reign the seige of Candia began and a bloody war continued against the Venetians yet Sultan Ibrahim like a stout Souldier of Venus continued his Debaucherys to the height and at length fell in Love with the widdow of his Brother Sultan Morat but she resolving upon widdowhood he assaulted her by force but his Mother coming in at the outcry hindred his design and gave opportunity to the Sultana to escape out of the hands of this Satyr after this he had a great Passion for the Daughter of the Mufti or chief Priest among the Turks offering her Father to marry her prefer her in honour equal to any other of his Sultana's but the old man knowing the wandring humour of Ibrabim refused him and instructed his Daughter to do the same which so inraged him that resolving to have his will of her he caused her to be seized going from the ●ath and carrying her into the Seraglio he possessed and enjoyed her for some days but with such tears reluctancy and sullenness a● took off from the edg● and appetite of his enjoyment so that he returned her back with scorn contempt to her Father who at first dissembled the injury but resolving on Reverge he first complains to Mahomet Pasha a great Man in the Council afterward to the Q. Mother who hated her Son extreamly because he had lately committed her to Prison for reproving him hereupon they concluded to confine Ibrahim to his old Prison not that he should be absolutely laid aside and deposed but only corrected a while and being put in remembrance of his past condition might be taught wisdom and instructed for the future what ●…oderation Justice Sultans are obliged to exercise in the administration of Government they then got the two Lord Chief Justices into the Conspiracy and Aug. 7. 1648. was the day appointed for the Insurrection of the Janizaries who being all in a readiness on that day went in a tumultuary manner to call the Musti and other Officers and Ministers of the Law to go with them to the Grand Seignior and then they demanded of the Mufti Whether that according to their Law Sultan Ibrahim as a Fool and a Tyrant and unfit for Government ought not to be deposed to which the Mufti answering Y●s he sent to ci●e Sultan Ibrahim to appear the day following in the Divan or Council to administer Justice to his Soldiers and Subjects who expected it from him but Ibrahim laughed at the Summons which the Mufti made him which being seconded by a Fetsa which is a point of Law resolved by the Mufti who is the Month or Oracle thereof that is That the Grand Seignior being called to account is obliged to appear before the Justice the Sultan in high disdain tore the Paper threatning the head of the Mufti but it was now too late he having already sufficiently fortified himself with the power and strength of his rebellious Companions this Fetfa was immediately seconded by another of a higher Nature which declared That whosoever obeyed not the Law of God was not a Mussulman or true Believer and though that Person were the Emperor himself yet being become by his filthy Actions a Kasir or Irsidel he was ipso facto fallen from his Throne and no further capable of Authority and Government this Fetfa being seen by Ibrahim he tore it in pieces commanding the Grand Vizier instantly to put the Mufti to death as guilty of Treason against his Prince but he having now lost his Authority his Commands were no longer regarded nor any Reverence had of his Person for the Janizaries being again assembled about five a clock in the afternoon came with their usual Tumult to the Gates of the Seraglio and now Sultan Ibrahim losing all Courage fled into the Arms of his Mother begging her assistance and protection she being a bold and subtle Woman imployed all her Rhetorick and Eloquence to persuade the Soldiers not to offer violence to the Person of their Lord and Master promising that he should relinquish the Government and retire himself with a Guard to his old Lodgings Ibrahim comforted a little that he should save his life shrunk himself willingly into his old shell wherein he had so long conserved his life In the mean time the Conspirators taking forth his eldest Son Sultan Mahomet set him on the Throne of his Father and planting the Sargouch or Imperial Feathers on his Head saluted him for Emperor with loud Acclamations Ibrahim continued his Imprisonment for some days with great patience but at length growing desperate and furious he often beat his head against the Wall until at length on August 17. 1648. he was strangled with a Bow string by 4 Mittes or dumb Executioners in this manner Sultan Ibrahim