MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames â—ollinâ— in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
well his care as the first Of a strange counsel that a Lord was reported to give him he said That none durst be so Impudent as to give it him For if they had said he I should have set such a mark upon them as that all Posterity should have known my Intentions by it which was ever to govern by Law and not otherwise He was as faithful of his word to others the reason why he would not grant the Faction all they desired as he was advised because he would make good to them what he granted as it was his Interest others should not be false to him His great word being Leave me to my Conscience and Honour and let what will befall me Trouble not your selves said he when advised to escape from Carisbrooke I have the Parliaments honour pawned for my security I will not dishonour my self by my escape Tell me not were his heroique words to a faithful Counsellour advising him to Expedients to save his Life what I may do to save my Life but what I may do with a safe Conscience God forbid that the safety or being of the Church should depend upon my Life or any mortal mans And I thank God I have a Son that I have reason to believe will love the Church as well as I do And being told his death was resolved on he answered like himself I have done what I can to save my life without losing of my soul I can do I will do no more Gods will be done A King so blessed while left to his own Justice and Government not only in his Family with a Son born May 29. 1630. when a new Star at Noon congratulated his birth the earnest of a more numerous Issue those Props of Empire surer than Armies or Navies but in his Realm with such peace plenty and power ar enabled him to check the greatness of Austria and the insolent Proposals of the King of Sweden To reduce Ireland to such a condition of peace and security as that it paid the charges of its own Government formerly deducted out of the English Exchequer To meditate the repair of St Pauls towards which he got together 146000l. To restore such Scottish Lands and Tythes as had been stollen from the Crown and Church during K. Iames his minority to the Crown with augmentation to the Clergy and ease to the People held in vassalage by their new Landlords reserving those Landlords those Lands to be held of the Crown at a moderate tent and in spight of these and other disaffected persons to ratifie such Laws for Church and State as King Iames had established To furnish out such a Navy as brought the Hollanders notwithstanding Grotius his Mare Librum against which Selden writ Mare Clausum to Caress the King and Queen with presents of Ambergreece and to crave a precarious use of our Seas c. and the Spaniard to coin all his Bullion in our Mint His own people could not wish for more happinesse than they enjoyed unless it were the addition of grace to understand their happinesse grown to such a height as by the necessity of nature which put all things in motion must decline Security increasing the trade arts glory and plenty of the Nation and Justice preserving them the meaner sort might Reverence but need not fear the greatest and the greatest might despise but durst not injure the meanest All Pickaroons and Pirats were forced to their nests and sneaking harbours More Privileges were granted the People than they had since the Conquests as that they should part neither with their money nor lives nor services nor houses without their own consent in Parliament that they should enjoy all the Rights and Liberties they ever had since they were a People that they should have a Parliament every three years that they should fear neither High Commission Star Chamber nor the disposal of their Children and Estates in the Court of Wards and more seeming gratitude a while returned to him than to any Prince before him all his future sufferings being only to set off his orient virtues and to let the wanton people know what a sad thing it is to lose the best of Kings and be given over to the pride and violence of the basest of men to punish our sins with his patience who had an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a constant course of prosperity in himself after a War and overthrow to be judged by all men to deserve that prosperity he wanted yea and to have from God a constant assurance that his prosperity should be the more prosperous for his misfortunes he asking Bishop Iuxon Whether the Blessed above knew any thing of what was done here upon Earth and upon his reply with the Ancients that it was probable they might answering That then his sufferings would be sufficiently recompenced with the knowledge he should have of his Sons prosperity One Night a Wax Mortar such as the King had alwayes by him in his Bed-chamber was as he thought quite extinguished in the Night yet in the Morning burned very clearly to his Majesty and the Right Honourable the Earl of Southampton's wonder that lay in the same Chamber as Gentleman of the Bed-chamber that Night knowing it was really out and that none could come in to light it a presage he afterward applyed thus That though God might suffer his light to be extinguished for a time yet he would at last lighten it again Hear him himself thus discoursing on the various events in his affairs and his prospect of what was to come Upon the various Events of the VVar Victories and Defeats THe various successes of this unhappy War have at least afforded the variety of good meditations Sometimes God was pleased to try me with Victory by worsting my Enemies that I might know how with moderation and thanks to own him and his power who is the only true Lord of hosts able when he pleases to repress the confidence of those who fought against me with so great advantages for power and number From small beginnings on my part he let me see that I was not wholly forsaken by my Peoples love or his protection Other times God was pleased to exercise my Patience and teach me not to trust in the arme of flesh but the living God My sins sometimes prevailed against the Iustice of my cause and those that were with me wanted not matter and occasion for his just chastisement both of them and me Nor were my Enemies less punished by that prosperity which hardned them to continue that injustice by open hostility which was begun by riotous and un-Parliamentary Tumults There is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft-times over-ballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every gallant Man in the Worlds esteem a fit instrument to assert in the way of War a righteous cause The more men are prone to arrogate to their own skill valour and strength the lesse
Soveraign an Argument that Religion Justice or the love of Liberty which are alwayes uniform but unworthy Interests that vary with hopes and fears had the strongest influence upon them Nay they must overcome the Parliament it by whose pretended Authority they had hitherto the City of London at whose charge they had hitherto fought and the first Leaders of the Army by whose Reputation it was first raised and by whose skill and activity it so long prospered The Kings prudence and their own jealousies combinations in crimes conclude in jealousies each party thinking the advantage of the other too great having committed and injealousied them They must Conquer Scotland and their dear Brethren and take the King off from the Presbyterians by their arts and insinuations inveighing him into the pit they had laid for him in the Isle of Wight for his escape from Hampton-Court by the withdrawing of the Centinels from their usual posts appeared to be their design they must oppose the highest reason in the world offered by the King there intent upon the settlement of the Nation for a Personal Treaty agreeable to the sense of the whole kingdom 1. By Preliminary Articles which they knew the King could not yield to and upon his refusal four Votes of No Addresses to him which they could never have compassed had they not sent half the Members away to the Country upon pretence of expediting the Contributions and tired the other half with late Sitting from ten in the morning till twelve at night and withal the Menaces of the Officers that came with Remonstrances to the House and the terror of the Army two Regiments whereof under colour of guarding but indeed for awing the Parliament were quartered at Whitehall They must endure the clamors of an undone people deluded with pretences of avoiding Tyranny into Slavery 1. For an excellent Religion broken into Schismes and Heresies 2. For Prayers and Fasts made to serve impious designs and promote prosperous crimes 3. For Liberty become an empty name the common ways of confinement being too little to secure those that would not break the Law men lingring in strange imprisonment knowing neither their crimes nor their accusers because they had not guilt enough for condemnation thousands forced to be Exiles in strange lands or Slaves at home 4. For Propriety hedged no longer by Law but become a prey to the fraud and violence of the Conspirators 5. For great Virtues become as dangerous as formerly great crimes were 6. For Converse become a snare spies in each company watching mens words and searching into their thoughts 7. For the Parliament become a Conspiracy divided in its self and enslaved to its vassals who made Laws according to their interests and executed them according to their lusts The whole Nation now better understanding their good and wise Prince the publick interest and themselves panted for a return to the obedience of the most incomparable Government and most inestimable Prince in the world Insomuch so admirable were the returns of Divine Justice at that time that the very same Convention that first stirred up this way of tumultuary Petitions against the King were now forced to complain That the honor and safety of Parliaments for so they called the poor remainder of that Assembly was indangered by Petitions They must rescinde the City Petitions and their own Votes that the Kings Concessions were a safe ground for the Parliament to settle the Peace of the kingdom on The King having granted so much as the people might see he was not as he was reported obstinate against his own happiness and the Nations peace and so gratified not his Enemies and yet so discreetly that he deserted not his Friends his wisdom tempering prudently their harsh Propositions and his Reason urging effectually his own They must cast off all obedience to their own Superiors as well as to the King and imprison the Parliament as well as the King Violate their Protestation and renounce their Solemn League and Covenant disown the Lords House and leave not above sixty of almost five hundred Members in the House of Commons In fine they must go against their own Prayers Sermons Engagements and Consciences against the very foundations of Government in the world and the sentiments of Mankind about it against the known Laws of the Land and against truths as clear as the Sun in these unheard-of Propositions I. That the People under God are the Original of all just Power II. That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the People have the Supream Authority of this Nation III. That whatsoever is Enacted and Declared for Law by the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law IV. That all the people of this Nation are concluded thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and Peers be not had thereunto V. That to raise Arms against the peoples Representative is Treason VI. That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and on that account is guilty of the Bloud-shed throughout the Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud Bold and ridiculous men That think with one breath to alter the notion of Good and Evil and to make their Usurpations just because they had the face to declare them so Qui amici veritatis esse possent sine labore ut peccent Laborant Greg. de curâ past They who might have been honest with so much ease what pains do they take to be wicked For these and many more restraints they must break through before they came at the Kings Life Towards the taking away of which they pack a Court of Iustice as they called them though it had nothing to do with Justice but that it deserved to be the object of it of such people as the Ring-leader of them O. C. called at the Table of an Independent Lord A Company of Rascals whom he knew to be so and would so serve Invested with a power to Cite Hear Iudge and punish Charles Stuart King of England Reader I know not with what temper thou readest these lines I tremble when I writ them One or two Brewers two or three Coblers many of them Mechanicks all poor Bankrupts one turned out of the House for a Rape another for writing a Blasphemous Book against the Trinity and another a known Adulterer Men so low that no lesser crime could raise them and so obnoxious there was no other way for them to hope for impunity men fitter to stand at a Bar than to sit on the Bench. These though a search was made for a number of men that could not blush at nor fear any guilt yet many of them abhorred the villany and left them others stayed with a design to disturb it went to act the murther not as other Regicides Ravillaic c. used to do privately or as they themselves used to Preach it in a
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
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
doth God ordinarily work by them for his own glory I am sure the event or success can never state the justice of any cause nor place of mens Consciences nor the eternal fate of their Souls Those with me had I think clearly and undoubtedly for their justification the Word of God and the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths all requiring obedience to my just commands but to none other under Heaven without me or against me in the point of raising Arms. Those on the other side are forced to fly to the shifts of their pretended fear and wild Fundamentalls of State as they call them which actually overthrow the present Fabrick both of Church and State being such imaginary Reasons for self-defence as are most impertinent for those men to allege who being my Subjects were manifestly the first assaulter of me and the Laws first by unsuppressed Tumults after by listed Forces The same Allegations they use will fit any Faction that hath but power and confidence enough to second with the sword all their demands against the present Laws and Governours which can never be such as some side or other will not find fault with so as to urge what they call a Reformation of them to a Rebellion against them some parasitick Preachers have dared to call those Martyrs who dyed fighting against me the Laws their Oaths and the Religion established But sober Christians know That glorious Title can with truth be applyed only to those who sincerely preferred Gods truth and their duty in all these particulars before their lives and all that was dear to them in this World who having no advantagious designes by any innovation were religiously sensible of those tyes to God the Church and my self which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose were lost in so just a cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified as a means to save their souls Their wounds and temporal ruine serving as a gracious opportunity for their eternal health and happiness while the evident approach of death through Gods grace effectually disposing their hearts to such humility faith and repentance which together with the rectitude of their present engagements would fully prepare them for a better life than that which their enemies brutish and disloyal fierceness could deprive them of or without repentance hope to enjoy They have often indeed had the better against my side in the field but never I believe at the barr of Gods tribunal or their own Consciences where they are more afraid to encounter those many pregnant Reasons both from Law Allegiance and all true Christian grounds which conflict with and accuse them in their own thoughts than they oft were in a desperate bravery to fight against those forces which sometimes God gave me Whose condition conquered and dying I make no question but is infinitely more to be chosen by a sober man that duly values his duty his soul and eternity beyond the enjoyments of this present life than the most triumphant glory wherein their and mine enemies supervive who can hardly avoid to be daily tormented by that horrid guilt wherewith their suspicious or now convicted Consciences do pursue them especially since they and all the World have seen how false and un-intended those pretensions were which they first set forth as the only plausible though not justifiable grounds of raising a War and continuing it thus long against me and the Laws established in whose safety and preservation all honest men think the welfare of their Country doth consist For and with all which it is farr more honourable and comfortable to suffer than to prosper in their ruine and subversion I have often prayed that all on my side might joyn true piety with the sence of their loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the defects of one might blast the endeavours of the other Yet cannot think that any shews or truth of piety on the other side were sufficient to dispence with or expiate the defects of their Duty and Loyalty to me which have so pregnant convictions on mens Consciences that even prophaner men are moved by the sense of them to venture their lives for me I never had any Victory which was without my sorrow because it was on mine own subjects who like Absalom dyed many of them in their sins And yet I never suffered any Defeat which made the despair of Gods mercy and defence I never desired such Victories as might serve to conquer but only restore the Laws and Liberties of my People which I saw were extremely oppressed together with my Rights by those men who were impatient of any just restraint When Providence gave me or denyed me Victory my desire was neither to boast of my power nor to charge God foolishly who I believed at last would make all things to work together for my good I wished no greater advantages by the War than to bring my Enemies to moderation and my friends to peace I was afraid of the temptation of an absolute Conquest and prayed for victory over others then over my self when the first was denyed the second was granted me which God saw best for me The different events were but the method of Divine Iustice by contrary Winds to winow us that by punishing our sins he might purge them from us and by deserting peace he might prepare us more to prize and better to use so great a blessing My often Messages for peace shewed That I delighted not in War as my former concessions sufficiently testified how willing I would have prevented is and my total unpreparedness for it how little I intended it The Conscience of my Innocency forbad me to fear a War but the Love of my Kingdoms commanded me if possible to avoid it I am guilty of this War of nothing but this That I gave such advantages to some men by confirming their power which knew not to use with that modesty and gratitude which became their Loyalty and my confidence Had I yielded less I had been opposed less had I denyed more I had been more obeyed 'T is now too late to review the occasions of War I wish only a happy conclusion of so unhappy beginnings the inevitable fate of our sins was no doubt such as would no longer suffer the Divine Iustice to be quiet we having conquered his patience are condemned by mutual conquerings to destroy one another for the most prosperous successes on either side impair the welfare of the whole Those Victories are still miserable that leave our sins unsubdued flushing our pride and animating to continue injuries Peace it self is not desirable till Repentance have prepared us for it When we fight more against our selves and less against God we shall cease fighting against one another I pray God these may all meet
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
do cry 'T is to be reconcil'd to let thee dye Observe we then a while into what Maze Compass and Circle they contrive delayes What Turns and wilde Perplexities they chuse Ere they can Forge their Slander and Accuse The Sun hath now brought his warm Chariot back And Rode his Progress round the Zodiack When yet no Crime appears when none can tell Where thy guilt sleeps nor when 't will break the Shell Why is his Shame deferr'd what 's in 't that brings Your Justice back spoils Vengeance of her Wings Hath Mercy seiz'd you will you Rage no more Are Winds grown tame have Seas forgot to roare No a Wilde Fierceness hath your Mindes possest Which Time and Sins must cherish and digest You durst not now let his clear Blood be spilt You were not yet grown up to such a Guilt You try if Age if Seventy Years can Kill Then y'have your ends and you are Harmless still But when this fail'd you do your Paths enlarge But would not yet whole Innocence discharge You 'l not be Devil all you fain would prove Good at fair distance within some remove Virtue hath sweets which are good Mens duegain Which Vice would not deserve yet would retain This was the Cause why once it was your Care That Storms and Tempests in your Sins might share You did engage the Waves and strongly stood To make the Water guilty of his Blood Boats are dispatchâ— in haste and 't is his Doom Not to his Charge but to his Shipwrack come Fond men your cruel Project cannot do Tempests and Storms must learn to Kill from you When this came short He must walk Pilgrimage No Coach nor Mule that may sustain his Age Must trace the City now a Desert rude And combate Savage Beasts the Multitude But when Guardian Innocence can fling Awe round about and save him by that Ring When the just Cause can fright the Beasts away And make the Tyger tremble at her Prey When neither Waves dare seize him nor the Rout The Storm with Reason nor the Storm without Lost in these Streights when Plots have vanquisht bin And Sin perplext hath no relief but Sin Agent and Instruments now on you fall You must be Judges People Waves and all Yet 'cause the Rout have it perform'd by you And long to see done what they dare not do You put the Crime to use it swels your heap Your Sins your Wealth nor are you guilty cheap You Husband all There 's no appearance lost Nor comes he once to th' Bar but at their cost A constant Rate well Taxt and Levied right And a just Value set upon each Sight At last they finde the days by their own Purse Less known from him than what they do disburse But when it now strikes high for him t' appear And Chapmen see the Bargain is grown dear They Muster Hands and their hot Suits enlarge Not to pursue the Man but save the Charge Then lest you loose their Custome a just fear Selling your Sins and others Blood too dear You grant their Suits the Manner and the Time And he must die for what no Law calls Crime Th' afflicted Martyrs when their pains began Their Trajan had or Dioclesian Their Tortures wear some Colours and proceed Though from no guilt yet 'cause they disagreed What League what Friendship there They could not joyn And fix the Ark and Dagon in one Shrine Faith combats Faith And how agree can they That still go on but still a several way Zeal Martyrs Zeal and Heat 'gainst Heat conspires As Theban Brothers fight though in their Fires Yet as two diff'rent Stars unite their Beams And Rivers mingle Waves and mix their Streams And though they challenge each a several Name Conspire because their moisture is the same So parties Knit though they be divers Known The Men are many but the Christian one Trajan no Trajan was to his own Heard And Tygers are not by the Tygers fear'd What strange excess then what 's that menstruous power When Flames do Flames and Streams do Streams devour Where the same Faith 'gainst the same Faith doth Knock And Sheep are Wolves to Sheep of the same Flock Where Protestant the Protestant defies Where both Assent yet one for Dissent dies Let these that doubt this through his Actions wade When some must needs convince all may perswade Was he Apostate who your Champion stood Bath'd in his Ink before as now in Blood He that unwind ' the Sable Jesuit That feels the Serpents teeth and is not bit Unites the Snake findes each mysterious Knot And turns the Poison into Antidote Doth Nicety with Nicety undoe And makes the Labyrinth the Labyrinth's Clew That sleight by sleight subdues and clearly proves Truth hath her Serpents too as well as Doves Now you that blast his Innocence survey And view the Triumph of this glorious day Could you if that might be if you should come To Seal God's Cause with your own Martyrdome Could all the blood whose Tydes move in their veins Which then perhaps were Blood but now in stains Yield it that force and strength which it hath took Should we except his Blood from this his Book Your Flame or Axe would less evince to Men Your Block and Stake would prop less than his Pen. Is he Apostate whom the Baits of Rome Cannot seduce though all her glories come Whom all her specious Honors cannot hold Who hates the Snare although the Hook be Gold Who prostituted Titles can despise And from despised Titles greater rise Whom Names cannot Amuse but seats withall The Protestant above the Cardinal Who sure to his own Soul doth scorn to finde A Crimson Cap the purchase of his minde Who is not great may blame his Fates offence Who would not be is great in 's Conscience Next these his sweat and care how to advance The Church but to her just Inheritance How to gain back her own yet none beguile And make her Wealth her purchase nor her spoil Then shape God's Worship to a joynt Consent 'Till when the Seamless Coat must still be Rent Then to repair the shrines as Breaches sprung Which we should hear could we lend Paul's a Tongue Speak speak Great Monument while thou yet art such And Rear him 'bove their scandals and their touch Had he surviv'd thou might'st in Time delare Vaste things may Comely be and Greatest Fair. And though thy Limbs spread high and Bulk exceed thou d'st prov'd that Gyants are no monstrous Breed Then 'bove extent thy lustre would prevail And 'gainst dimension Feature turn the scale â—ut now like Pyrrah's half adopted Birth Where th' issue part was Woman part was Earth When female some and some to Stone was bent And the one hâ—lf was t' others Monument Thou must imperfect lie and learn to Groan Now for his Ruine straight-way for thine own But this and Thousand such Abortives are By Bloody Rebels Ravish't from his Care But yet though some miscarryed in the Womb And Deed 's
bettered by him as that he should be bettered by others observing little but what he would imitate and doing nothing but what might be imitated In the Morning he thought what he had to do for which he might ask Gods blessing and at Night what he had done for which he must needs ask pardon being ready always to part with and give account for his life not being afraid to look upon his score but fearful to increase it To despair because a man is sinful is to be worse because he hath been bad To be discontented he reckoned a folly because it makes that which was a punishment only before a sin now and by finding fault with God to make another fault in our selves He neither made another mans fault his own by aggravating it nor doubled his own by excusing it These virtues of his Person the great reputation of his Parts and Skill the eminency of his Practise and his known Integrity preferred him to a relation to many Noble Persons and at last to the Service of the Crown for having been some years Barrister of Grayes Inne and called with fifteen more to be Serjeant Term. Mich. Anno 21. Iacobi Regis being Puisne to them all insomuch that it was remarkable at that time that he read in Grayes Inne after he had received his Writ to be Serjeant which was done by the advice of the Lord Chancellor and the Judges he was made the Queens Serjeant the next Term I. Car. and upon the death of Sir Francis Harvey one of the Justices of the Commons Bench. Wherein with what impartiality he administred Justice to the people and with what faithfulnesse he gave advice to the King especially in the matter of Ship-money may be guessed by his sufferings from the Faction and his love from the whole Kingdom Which since we could not be so happy as to have an account of this excellent Father from his excellent Son who is as well his Character as his Child his History as well as his Issue we must be contented to take from a friend of his who would have Posterity know him to whom they are so much obliged In honorem Iuris Anglici justitiaeque Catholicae hoc magnum utriusque ornamentum praesentibus posteris colendum Proposuit Johannes Extone qui seris nepotibus hand alio Innotescere gestit nomine quam quod fuerit Francisci Crawley amicus comes ut erat ille virtutum Ille qui in paenitentiam se natum putavit diu vixisse noluit nisi ut bene vivererit simul moreretur nec perfunctorie nec morose aut superbe pius non quid faceret Curavit sed quo animo ne vel ipso pecearet officio Et cautus et castus Spectabile probitatis exemplar non ut spectetur Nil mali minimum aestimavit nil boni nimium Haud quo Ib atur at quo eundum properavit â—d rationem potius quam exempla se exigens saltem voto perfectus Nec vitia rebellium pati potuit nec rebelles ejus virtutes Infaelix saeculum pronunciavit quod doctissime nequam erat Contemplativum potius quam Practicum THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOSIAS SHUTE HIS very name is as a Silver Trumpet to his Reputation sounding out a Quicquid doctiorum est assurgite huic tam colendo nomini With whom it was as with Iob appearing Chap. 29. The young men hid themselves and the aged rose and stood up when the Ear heard him then it blessed him and when the Eye saw him it gave witness to him His name I say is an Aromatick Oyntment diffusing a more rich Perfume then the choicest of our broken Boxes 2. He descended of a Learned Race the Son of an eminent Divine in York-shire and one of five famous Brother-Preachers A man of that latitude of Learning that length of Apprehension that depth of Judgment and height of Speculation so compleat in all Dimensions that I may justly renew that admiration of Naz. concerning Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where was there such a mixture of rare Parts and Graces What kind of Learning was he unacquainted with what kind was he not Excellent in as if he had studied that alone 3. And though he were a man of but a single heart yet was he one of divers Tongues able to read the Scriptures without the spectacles of Translators he both drank and derived those Holy Waters out of their sweeter Fountains the Originals And even Bellarmine acknowledges the Original is in several cases to be used Luther and Melancthon valued their Skill in the Originals above Kingdoms faith Amam in Paraen L. H. Our grave Author like a wise Merchant was well skill'd in the Tongue of the place he traded to being Master of those three Grand Mother-Languages inscribed on the Cross of Christ besides some others of their Progeny 4. Filius Ecclesiae in patribus versatissimus This Son of the Church of England was most familiar with the Ancient Fathers both of the East and West Of the Greek Chrysostom lay in his bosom even till he did Patrizare become like unto him in his flowing strife and golden Eloquence Among the Latine St. Augustine that Maul of Hereticks was in chief esteem with him 5. He was an exact Historian for Ecclesiastical History especially those Records of the Church the ignorance whereof is the Mother of many of our growing Errors and Indevotions nor was he less acquainted with the Schools though more delighted with the waters of Siloah than of Meriba even a Master of the Master of the Sentences and a Secretioribus unto the Councils even of their Cabinet 6. And because the flock is not only to be fed but cured sometimes he was a singular Casuist and Chyrurgeon that knew well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to set in joynt again and to binde up the broken heart A Soul-Chyrurgeon right for all those properties of heart and hand eye no less sweet and soft in exhortations consolations He was indeed another Apollos an Eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures and as another Basil he did thunder in his Doctrine and lighten in his Life his light shined before men not only that of knowledge but that of example also in his Piety and Charity in his Gravity and sweet Affability He guilded not over Luke-warmness with the Varnish of Discretion nor allowed he violence in unconcerning and indifferent Affairs under the pretence of zeal He was at last dignified with the Arch-Deaconry of Colchester and having been above three and thirty years Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard-street London an indefatigable most faithful and most beloved Preacher of the Gospel there lamenting the distractions fallen upon the Church he departed hence to rest with God Iune 22. 1643. He was born in Gislewick in York-shire and bred in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards became Minister of St. Mary Woolnoth in London and was Reader I do say and will
fire-feeding unctuousness therein This Gentleman having measured his thoughts of Good and Evil by the respects of a transitory life but with relation to an eternal state to which his life was in his esteem only a state of tryal dyed by an unhappy accident a fall off his Horse at Northampton a truly wise-man that had not respect to a few things the least of any man needing that death-bed Repentance he used so much to plead for of the opposite opinion to which he would say That it was a Tenent that would make heaven very empty and yet never the more room there for the maintainers of so uncharitable opinion leaving this observation of the late Usurpation that the ruine of it was the old but not so well-weighed custom of Tyrants to cut off all those steps by which they ascended to their height left leaving those stairs standing others also might climb up the same way M. S. Caroli Comptonii Eq. Aur. cui commune cum Sculteto symbolum vicisse voluptatem volupt as maxima THE Life and Death OF Sir SPENCER COMPTON A Fourth Brother of this Noble Family of whom the excellent Dr. Pierce in his Sermon upon his Parallel Mr. Peito delivered this Character at Chesterton That he was a Person so singularly qualified by Grace Nature and Education that however his extraction was highly Noble yet he thought he might confidently say it was the lowest thing in him An happy Person that from a due estimate of himself and this world arrived at just thoughts of his work in the world and finding his duty ingraven in his Being lived as a man ought to do who being a middle person between those purely intellectual Beings that could not injoy this world and the purely sensual that could not understand it was pitched upon as the fittest creature to inhabit this world soberly injoying the comforts of it and seriously and devoutly reflecting on the Author of it A Person that had just sentiments of the dignity of humane Nature in himself and an universal Charity for it in others one that measured not the wisdom he studyed by the subtilty and curiosity of Speculation by fineness of thoughts depth of design but a Noble design to keep up the Dignity of Mankind by a discreet piety towards the first Being by a sober and due government of his own actions and a publick justice and kindness towards all men confining all thoughts of glory within the compass of vertue and being good and thinking nothing more dishonorable than sin and being bad pitying those ruines of mankind that had nothing about them but laughter and the shape of men and thought themselves then to act most like men when they approach nearest beasts and so hitting upon right Principles lived a great deal of life in a little time When I consider how ingeniously upon the great principles of Reason and Religion he would baffle those unhappy men who having betrayed their weakness in giving themselves over to leud courses throw away that little wit in defending them how successfully would he reprove them who as he said laughed themselves into eternal misery to this purpose Ah! Sirs it is easier to laugh at goodness than to practise it it were worth the while to mock at sin if so we could annihilate it and make it as well nothing in it self as to us If the nature of things would so far vary with our humors that goodness would be less excellent by being despised or sin less dangerous by being thought so urging them to name the man in all the Histories of the world to whom the very suspicion of evil was not a dishonor though the real guilt of it were now a glory A discourse so much the more effectual from him because he prevented the common cavil made against dehortation from sin That it was only a thing some men live by declaining against and others cannot live without the practise being as much by his virtue above the latter imputation as he was by his fortune above the first What a vast progress he made through all solid and gentle Learning that was either for ornament or use and what a great proficiency in the experimental part of Religion I cannot but annex to his life those words that being made perfect in a short time Right honest was to him a nobler title than Right Honorable and therefore he adhered to his Soveraign the closer for that which others deserted him viz. his afflicted virtue following the misfortunes of that Court the pleasures whereof he would have avoided and been afraid of chusing it surely then as the great Scene of Virtue for though his extraction was noble his fortune fair his abilities great by nature and greater by art and industry yet was his modesty and meekness so far beyond all these that the only vice we knew him guilty of that he made it his business rather to hide than to exercise his virtue And those two virtues his modesty and his meekness made him so swift to hear so low to speak as appeared when he was pleased to express himself speaking much in few words equally free from impertinency and superfluity A sober honest and good man three of the most illustrious Titles of Honor in the world â—that led so well composed a life as he did must needs have an easie death as he had the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the happy calmness of death the Emperor Augustus was used to wish for for though sick of a Feavor yet the union between his soul and body was not violently broken but leisurely untied they parting like two friends not by a rude falling out but a loving farewell A farewel to all the contentments of the world not easily parallelled for calling to him such excellent and reverend persons then at Bruges when he died 1659. as Dr. Morley and Dr. Earles he raised himself upon his Pillow and held out his armes as if he were to embrace one saying O my Iesus and intimating the comforts that then flowed in from the holy Jesus into his soul after which holy extasie composing himself to a calm and serious discourse like Iacob scattering blessing when gathered he said to the then standers by O be good O be virtuous c. An argument of the sincerity of his own goodness that he was so zealous to have it communicated to others it being natural as well to the living Christian as to other living things to beget his like Departing as much desired when he was gone as admired by those that knew him whilest living a loyal Subject a generous Man a good Christian a loving Master and entire Friend an excellent Neighbor and a very extraordinary Example one of those to whose virtues and prayers winning upon men and prevailing with God we owe our Restauration Spencer Comptonius Eq. Aur. modesta nempe virtus quae Elogi nec voluit viva nec caret mortua quid enim pluribus de eo bene Scribamus de
and when that was not judged expedient his second for the Archbishop of Armagh Bishops of Kilmore Down and Conner in Ireland the Bishops of Durham Salisbury and his own in England with three more of Scotland and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point and when that was not convenient considering the variety of mens apprehensions his chearful undertaking of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland most ignoble Recantation referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage and perused each head when finished and compleated with the irrefragable propositions deserved But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any remedy this good man was one of thâ—se Charged in the House of Lords and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping who one night vowed their ruin from the House under the Earl of Manchesters protection having in vain moved both Houses for assistance One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House during that violence in pursuance of their own right and the trust reposed in them by his Majesty and that being not as was intended proposed either to his Majesties Secretary to himself or the Lord Keeper to be weighed but hastily read in the House apprehensive enough of misconstruction He being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers with 11 of his Brethren Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Voted to the Tower after a Charge of High-treason for owning his Parliamentary right received upon his Knees where Preaching in his course with his Brethren and Meditating he heard chearfully of the Bonfires Ringing in the City upon their Imprisonment he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets and other methods he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them he Pleaded resolutely several times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them being admitted to Bail by the Lords he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons and being Released upon 50000 l. Bond retired to Norwich his and his Brethrens Votes being Nulled in Parliament where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths he laying down mony for his Goods and for his Books his Arrearages being stopped his Pallace rifled in Norwich his Temporal Estate in Norfolk Suffolk Essex was Confiscated the 400 l. per annum Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops competency was stopped the Synodals were kept back Ordination was restrained The very Mayor of Norwich and his Brethren summoning the grave Bishop before them an unheard of peremptorinesse for ordaining in his Chappel contrary to the Covenant And when they allowed him but a fifth part Assessements were demanded for all extremities none could bear but he who exercised moderation and patience as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church but was silent in those unjust ones on himself who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort by his Treatises of Consolation for its Peace by the Peace-maker Pax Terris and Modest offer for its Instruction by his frequent Sermons as often as he was allowed for its Poor by a Weekly Contribution to distressed Widows to his death and a good sum in the Place where he was born and the City where he died after it for its Professors by holy admonitions counsels and resolutions for its Enemies by dealing with some of them so effectually that they repented and one among the rest a great Commissioner and Justice of Peace I mean Esquire Lucas who though a man of a great Estate received Orders at his hands and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man by being a faithful Minister of it to this day and when he could not prevail with men especially about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign he wrestled with God according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion to all other Members of our Church in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death the approaches to which was as his whole life solemn staid composed and active both in Presse and Pulpit his intellectuals and sensuals the effect of his temperance being fresh to the last till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength and his Physicians Arts and he aser his fatherly reception of many persons of honor learning and piety who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions one whereof a Noble Votary he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary Vide hominem mox pulverem futurum After many holy prayers exhortations and discourses he rouzed up his dying spirits to a heavenly Confession of his Faith wherein his Speech failed him and with some Struglings of Nature with the Agonies of Death he quietly gradually and even insensibly gave up the Ghost Having Preached to two Synods reconciled â—ix Controversies for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides Served two Princes and as many Kings Sate in three Parliaments kept the Pulpit for fifty three years managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks written forty six Excellent Treaties seen his and the Churches enemies made as odious at last as they were popular at first directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it 1656. And of his Age eighty two years leaving behind him three Monuments of himself 1. His excellent Children in some of whom we yet see and enjoy him 2. His incomparable Writings of which it was said by one that called him The English Seneca That he was not unhappy at Controsies more happy at Comments very good in Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich so meek that he was never transported but at three things 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich And 3. The Kings unparalled Murder So religious that every thing he saw did or suffered exercised his habitual devotion so innocent that Musick Mathematick and Fishing were all his Recreations so temperate that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet Orator Historian Linguist Antiquary Phisolopher School Divine Casuist and what not no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works in a most eminent manner I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons Heirs to his worth and to his modesty intimate him with Pericles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Pythagoras Ejus singula
Dr. Cox a grave Divine sent by Sir 〈◊〉 with Overtures of Peace after his Victory at Sirâ—â—â—on to the defeated at Exeter almost killed there by a Potion given him to make him Vomit up a Paper of Intelligence which they pretended he had swallowed down Imprisoned in a sinking Ship for some weeks and at my Lord Peters House for more Moneths 3. Mr. Symmonds of whom before for preaching against slandering the foot steps of Gods annointed and undeceiving the Country with such good principles as are to be seen in his excellent book called a Loyal Subjects belief supplanted by a Weaver imposed upon him as Lecturer Sequestred of his Living for the supply of an able and godly man as if he had not been such suffering in his Wife and Children and aged Father 4. Dr. Michelson of Chelmesford used in the like manner so that escaping narrowly being buried alive himself once for burying the dead according to the Common-Prayer he was forced being plundred of all he had to fly for his life and leave his Wife and Children to the mercy of cruel men 5. Sir William Boteler of Barrhams place in Teston Kent for joyning with the Neighbor Gentry in their honest and famous Petition for Peace to the House of Commons April 1642. after his return from Celebrating St. George his Feast with his Majesty being then his Gentleman Pensioner Imprisoned closely in the Fleet seven weeks when his House was ransacked his Servants tormented and his Maids ravished and he himself removed to the Gatehouse for six moneths whence he narrowly escaped to Oxford with his life 6. The like usage had Sir Henry Audley of Beer-Church and Mr. Honifold of Colchester And 7. The Right Honorable Eliz. the Countess of Rivers at her Houses in St. Osyth and Long Melford where she lost 100000 l. hardly escaping with her life to London 8. Sir Richard Minsâ—ul for attending on his Master the King to whom he was Clerk of the Hanaper at York plundered at his house of Bourton in Buckinghamshire Aug. 18. 1642. to the value of 20000 l. in Goods Bonds and Cattel 9. The Right Honorable the Lord Arundel of Warder against the Articles which his Heroick Lady procured before she would surrender his Castle of Warder suffered 25000 l. loss besides the grievous affliction by Imprisonment and otherwise of the whole Family especially the Children 10. The Honorable Mr. Noel my Lord Cambdens Brother of Rutlandshire plundered and Imprisoned against the express conditions upon which he delivered his house to the loss of 2000 l. 11. The most Illustrious Prince the Duke of Vendosme plundred at Vxbridge no Nation or Quality escaping the barbarousness of those times when the Villages of England were grown as dangerous as the Woods of Ardenna to the value of 9000 l. 12. Reverend Mr. Swift of Goodwich Heref. plundred for sending Arms to Monmouth and preaching at Ross upon that Text Râ—â—der to Caesar the things that are Caesars 300 l. deep a true Exposition of Essex his Motto Cave adsum 13. Mr. Iones the grave and Learned Vicar of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire sterved to death in Prison at Northampton at 70. years of Age. 14. Will. Chaldwell Esq and Justice of Peace of Thorgonby in Lincolnshire for providing his Majesty four Horses and being skilful in the Survey of those parts and Souldiers must act as wide as Bowlers bowl when they know not the Ground Plundred and Imprisoned in Lincoln Goal among Thieves and Felons in which hole and the Dungeon though an aged and infirm man 〈…〉 hazzard of his life 15. As barbarously was Mr. Losse Minister used Iuly 2. 1643. at Wedon Pinkney in Northamptonshire And 16. Mr. Tho. Iones Rector of Off well Devon at Liskard 17. Mr. Wright the Hospitable Minister of Wemslow in Cheshire 18. Mr. Anthony Tyringham of Tyringham in Buckinghamshire 19. Mr. Wiborow of Pebmarch Essex who as the River Iordan made many turnings and windings desirous to defer what he could not avoid before he fell into the dead Sea 20. Mr. Dalton of Dalham in Sussex Prodigal of his Estate but careful of his Reputation not so concerned for his losses as for the Instruments as Abimelech who being angry with his killer because a Woman would needs be killed again by his Armor-bearer 21. Sir George Bunkley an Ingenious Gentleman and a good Commander sometime Deputy-Governor of Oxon. died in Prison with hard usage at Lambeth 22. Dr. Oldish of N.C. Oxon. murdered on his way and journey between Adderbury and Oxford as was 23. The Honorable Mr. Edward Sackvile the Earl of Dorsets son a Person of great hopes that having overcome those rosie nets the flattering vanities of youth and greatness strewed in his way distinguished himself not by Birth his Mothers labor not his from the common throng but worth a Jewel come into the world with its own light and glory and studies which cutting the untrod Alpes of Knowledge with the Vinegar only of an eager and smart spirit to all that he was born to know most barbarously between Oxford and Abington aiming not at the Conquest of any Faction but all Errors as Aristotle went over the world while Alexander did so but over a part of it 24. Sir R. Canterell narrowly escaping himself from London had his Servants put to more than Amboyna Cruelties in Chancery-lane to discover his Person and Estate being used as Step-mothers do their Children who whip them till they cry and then whip them for crying 25. Mr. Hinson a Sussex Minister in humanely tormented 26. Mr. Fowler barbarously used at Minching-Hampton Gloc. for saying with reference to the Factions extraordinary pretensions that God withdrew Miracles where he afforded means and that they might as well expect to be Fellow Commoners with the Angels for Manna as Fellow-ministers with the Apostles for Gifts otherwise as innocent as his Surplice was white in his Children whose not speaking spake for them and Wife whose Sexes weakness is an impregnable strength against a Valiant man 27. Charitable and Hospitable Mr. Rowland Berkleys house at Castle-morton Gloc. five times plundred plundred upon plunder is false Heraldry to the value of 15000 l. every time plundring so much that they thought they had left nothing and leaveing so much as if they had plundred nothing till as they boasted upon their return they had made the Gentleman a Beggar and left him not worth a Groat 28. Dr. Featly of whom before had his Barns burned Chancel defaced and his Rails torn at Actâ—on Nov. 1642. some of his Congregation killed and all frighted out of the Church at Lambeth Feb. 19. 1642. threatning to cut the Doctor for keeping to his Porridge for so they called the Common-Prayer as small as herbs to the pot who escaping them then with their 7 Articles like the whip with 7 cords in Henry 8. time was committed Prisoner with Sir George Sonds Sir Io. Butler and Mr. Nevile to Peterhouse Sept. 30. 1643. and