Perswasions of the Irish Priests closely and hourly made and applied to the Earl of Tyrconnel then Lord Deputy or at least Governour of Ireland he also hoping by his not submitting to gain great Honour and Preferment if not the whole Country for his own proper use and benefit but therein he â—ight easily perceive his errour for Iewis that aspiâ—ing Monarch had design'd it long before to be annexed to his Flower de luces but the poor Irish Harp would have caused but doleful Musick to the Hibernians yet a melodious tune to the wooden shoo'd French which would presently have bin dancing in that Country however the reasons before mentioned mâ—de Tyrconnel so obstinate that with what Forces and that little Courage he was possessed of to defend and preserve Ireland for his two Mâ—sters what the event was some few years will tell you however this light you shall have at present that things proved quite contrary after several Conflicts and Battels to his expectation But let us return into England and there behold how many potent Enemies the King had secured in several Prisons for the security of Their Majesties Persons and the Kingdoms Welfare Peace and Happiness viz. George Jefferies Baron of Wem and Lord High Chancellor of England the Earl of Peterborough the Earl of Salisbury the Lord Castlemain the Lord Preston the Earl of Feversham the Lord Chief Justice Wright Baron Jenner Sir Edward Hale formerly Governour of Dover and after Lieutenant of the Tower of London and let Miles Prance the Silver-Smith a timely Discoverer have the honour to be taken at Gravesend with a false Pass and there committed to Prison by the Secretary of War when he intended to pass the Seas There were many more persons of high and low rank taken into custody but by reason their Deliverances or Trials hereafter will make them more publick I shall at present omit them all except Dr. Obadiah Walker the Proselyte-maker at Oxford who was sent to the Tower of London but not amongst the Records to make search for the place of Purgatory but foretell his own fortune either by calculating his Nativity by the often Singing of his Ave Maria or numbring his Beads at their appointed Seasons whether by day or night but let Obadiah rest being accounted but one of the small There were also in this Juncture of time many persons secured in several Counties of England alwayâ— having an eye and great care of the Red Letter-men and of those hoâ— headed-persons that took places of Trust and Commissions from the late King James never regarding the Penal Laws and Test the Priests likewise were apprehended as soon as discovered yet not many for knowing their sins to be of a dark colour they would not abide the reckoning but went off with the next Oars Also about this time the King was vigilant over his Army that served under the late King James not suffering any of them at present to come for London especially in any great Parties but sent them into several Parts and Counties of England by degrees modelling of them a new first breaking the old Regiments both of Foot and Horse c. and then formed them into new Bodies so as to take away all suspicion of their disloyalty to their King which perhaps was unjustly cast upon them however by this honest Stratagem of War all the known Papists and those that appeared disaffected to the King and Government were quite cashiered and then the King was so well satisfied with the remaining part that they were sent to Whitehall and took their Guard-days in the same manner as they had formerly part of that Army which came out of Holland being of the Guards there were either all or in part removed from that Station By this time the Reader may be pondering with himself that there is an absolute necessity for great Sums of Money not only for defraying the charge of the Fleet that brought the King and his Army over into England but likewise the vast expence and charges which our English Fleet and Army had brought upon the Nation and these two Fleets and two Armies united and all to be paid by one Master would in a short space of time rise and multiply to an incredible account The Parliament taking this and other matters of the like nature being of great concern into their consideration after mature deliberation Voted several Sums for that purpose to be raised viz. by additional Excise of Ale Beer some small Branch of the said Revenue being ready to drop down was by a new Aâ—t reunited also a Land-Tax at 12 d. per Pound was Enacted by Parliament the Customs and several other Duties belonging to the Crown were by the said Authority confirmed and settled upon the King and Queen The Affairs of the Kingdom now being in a hopeful way of Settlement as so small a time had bin allowed for so great a change and new modelling both of Persons and Offices the King and Parliament in all matters very well concurring the King was pleased amongst other of his favours and elemency to declare he would stand by and defend the Protestant Religion the Church of England as by Law established to his utmost power against all opposers whatsoever and withal care should be taken for the Non Con's and differing Opinions the Kings gracious pleasure being thus published made all his Subjects to be filled with joy admiration and liberality to that degree that the Citizens of London of their own accord proffered to lend the King what Money His Majesty pleased and almost in an instant great and vast Sums of Money were brought into Guildhall and that Citizen thought himself the most happy which was the first leader and brought the biggest Bags for which at present they were very willing to accept of the Kings word for their several securities The King by this time being the latter end of March having got into possession some money but that which equalized or rather exceeded it the affections of his People would have bin very happy together by his peaceable Reign over his Subjects here in England had not the Rebels in Scotland and Ireland by the fair promises of Rewards and Preferments of the late King James and Lewis the 14th of France biâ— instigated and hurried into Arms and bloody Wars against this King William so that both Scotland and Ireland wanted his assistance and being willing and ready the King resolved to reduce them both to his obedience but this Year being drawn to its period and my figure to be out of date because I will not leap into another but conclude my Eighty Eight a Year full of Wonders and Changes yet in hopes it will be the introducer of England's Glory and do verily believe that future Generations will call it happy because it restored Our Lives Religion Laws and Liberty and I desire it may make us all truly thankful to him who was the beginner and finisher of so great and
he procured Indulgences to such as should go in Pilgrimage to St. Winifreds Well in his Diocess Robert Brassy born at Bunbury i. e. Boniface-bury in Cheshire bred D. D. in King's Colledge in Cambridge whereof he was Provost being learned and stout he publickly protested against the Visitors in Q. Mary's Reign as to his own College thereby taking off the edg of these persecuting Commissioners When many Doctors of Cambridge were resolved to sell their Right in Sturbridg-Fair for a trifle to the Towns-men he dashed their designs which manly opposition prevented the Vice-Chancellor's holding the Stirrup to the Mayor He died Ann. Dom. 1558. and lies buried on the South-side of the Chapel Thomas Stuckley was a younger Brother of an ancient and worshipful Family near Illfracomb in Devon one of good parts and great ambition having spent his Patrimony and undertaking the Plantation of Florida he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth That he preferred rather to be Soveraign of a Mole-hill than the highest Subject to the greatest King in Christendom and that he was assured he should be a Prince before his Death I hope said the Queen I shall hear from you when you are stated in your Principality I will write unto you quoth Stuckley In what Language said the Queen He returned In the Stile of Princes To our dear Sister His fair project being blasted for lack of Money he went into Ireland where missing the preferment he expected he went over with treacherous intent into Italy There he wrought himself with ineredible dexterity into the very bosom of Pope Pius 5. vaunting that with 3000 Soldiers he could beat all the English out of Ireland The Pope loading him with the Titles of Baron of Ross Visc Murrough Earl of Wexford Marq. of Lemster furnished him with 800 Soldiers paid by the King of Spain for the Irish Expedition But Stuckley chose rather to accompany Sebastian King of Portugal with 2 Moorish Kings into Africa where behaving himself valiantly with his 800 Men in the Battel of Alcaser he was slain An. 1578. In vain he had given good counsel to these furious Kings to refresh their faint Soldiers before the Fight for rushing on after their first Landing they buried themselves together in the same ruin A fatal Fight wherein one day was slain Three Kings that were and one that would be fain Agnes Prest lived at Northcot in Cornwall and was indicted before W. Stanford Judge of the Assize an 2. 3. P. and Mary her own Husband and Children being her greatest persecutors from whom she fled because they would force her to Mass but being presented to the Bishop of Exeter she was condemned for denying the Sacrâ—ment of the Altar after which she refused money from all well affected people saying she was going to that City where money had no mastery she was burnt without the Walls of Exeter in Sothonhay Nov. 558. ag 54. Tho. Leaver B. D. in Cambridge fled in the Marian days and became Pastor of the English Exiles at Arrow in Switz He wrote a book entitled The right Path way to Christ He dyed after his return into England 1558. Hen. Stafford Baron of Stafford was Son to Ed. Duke of Buckingham beheaded under Hen. 8. the Barony descended unforfeited to this Henry placed here not as a trans but a cis reformation man for translating the book of Dr. Fox Bishop of Hereford favourer of Luther into English of the differences of power Ecclesiastical and Secular He dyed 1558. some months before the beginning of Queen Elizabeth Peter Petow of an ancient Family flourishing for a long time at Chesterton was a Franciscan afterwards Cardinal being created by Pope Paul III. who also made him Legat a latere and Bishop of Salisbury Queen Mary in favour to Cardinal Poole prohibited this Legat's entrance into her Court He died in France 1558. Thomas Savage born at Macklesfield in Cheshire his Father a Knight bred in Cambridge a Doctor of Law Hence he was preferred Bishop of Rochester and at last Arch-bishop of York A greater Courtier than Clerk dextrous in managing secular Affairs a mighty Hunts-man He was the first who was privately installed by his Vicar He maintained a numerous Family and built much at Sâ—roby and Cawood in Yorks He died 1508. his Body being buried at York his Heart at Macklesfield in a Chapel of his own Erection Godfrey Gouldsbrough born in Cambridge bred in Trinity-College and afterwards Fellow thereof at last was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester 1598. one of the second sett of Protestant Bishops after those in the Marian days and before those who come within our Memory He gave 100 Marks to Trinity College and died some Months after Sir Will. Drury descended of a worshipful Family long flourishing at Hantstead in Suffolk answered his name Drury in Sax. Pearle in the preciousness of his disposition clear and hard valiant and innocent His Youth he spent in the French Wars his middle in Scotland and his old Age in Ireland He was Knight-Marshal of Berwick at which time the French had possessed themselves of the Castle of Edenburgh in the minority of King James Queen Elizabeth imployed this Sir William with 1500 Men to besiege the Castle Which service he worthily performed in reducing it in few days to the right owner thereof He was appointed Lord President of Munster where he executed impartial Justice in spite of the Owners thereof Entring Kerry with a competent train of 140 Men with which he forced his return through 700 Men belonging to the Earl of Desmond who claimed Kerry as a Palatinate peculiarly to himself In the last Year of his Life he was made Lord-Deputy of Ireland dying at Waterford 1598. Tho. Cavendish Esq of Trimley Suffolk intending Foreign Discoveries on his own cost victualled and furnished three Ships the least of Fleets viz. The Desire Admiral 120 Tuns the Content Vice-Admiral 40 and the Hugh-Gallant Reer-Admiral 40 Tuns all three man'd with 123 Men and setting to Sea from Plimouth July 21. 1586. entred the mouth of the Magellan-Straits 7 January following where they suffered much hunger Mr. Cavendish named a Town there Port-Famine The Spaniards intending to fortifie the Straits and engross the passage were smitten with such a Mortality that scarce 5 of 500 did survive On Feb. 28. they entred the South-Sea and frequently landed as they saw occasion Many were their conflicts with the Natives more with the Spaniards coming off gainers in most and savers in all Encounters that in Quinterno excepted April 1. 1587. where they lost 12 men of account the cause that they afterwards sunk the Reer-Admiral for want of men to manage her Of the many Prizes he took the St. Anne was the most considerable being the Spanish Admiral of the South-Sea of 700 Tun and 190 Men there were 122000 Pezos each worth 8 Shill of Gold with other rich Lading as Silks and Musk. Mr. Cavendish landed the Spaniards and left them plentiful Provisions surrounding the East-Indies and
after Queen Mary Novemb. 17. 1558. at Lambeth Sir John Cavendish Knight born at Cavendish in Suffolk where his name continued untill the Reign of King Henry 8. was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench anno 46 Edw. 3. he died a violent death an 5 Rich. 2. on this occasion J. Raw Priest contemporary with J. Straw and Wat. Tyler advanced Robert Westbroom a Clown to be King of the Commons in this County having 50000 Followers these for eight days together in savage sport caused the Heads of Great Persons to be cut off and set on Poles to kiss and whisper in one anothers ears Chief Justice Cavendish chanced to be then in the Country to whom they bare a double Pique for his honesty and learning besides they had heard that John Cavendish his Kinsman had killed their Idol Wat. Tyler in Smithfield whereupon they drag'd the Reverend Judge with Sir John of Cambridge Prior of Bury to the Market-place and there beheaded them whose innocent bloud remained not long unrevenged by Spencer the warlike Bishop of Norwich by whom this Rascal Rabble of Rebels was rooted and ruined Leonard Maw was born at Rendlesham in Suffolk antiently the Residence of the Kings of E. Angles where King Redwald kept at the same time a Communion-Table and Altars for Idols was Master of Peter-House then of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and in five years disengaged that Foundation from a great Debt He was Chaplain to King Charles whilst he was Prince and waited on him in Spain by whom he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells a good Scholar grave Preacher mild man and gentile in his deportment He died in 1638. and left some of his Estate to Mr. Simon Maw of Epworth in Lincolnshire Sir Fulk Grevil Kt. Son to Sir Fulk Senior of Beckam-Court Warw. was bred in Cambridge He came to Court backt with a fair Estate in the Reign of Queen Eliz. He was a good Scholar and a great friend to learned Men. Bishop Overall ow'd his Preferment chiefly to him and Mr. Camden tasted largely of his liberality His Studies were most in Poetry and History as his Works do witness King James created him Baron Brook of Beauchamp Court as descended from the sole Daughter and Heir of Edward Willoughby the late Lord Brook He was murdered 1608. by a discontented Servant who conceived himself not soon or well enough rewarded first wounded his Master mortally and afterwards dispatched himself He lieth buried in Warwick Church under a fair Monument whereon he is stiled Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellor to King James and Friend to Sir Phillip Sidney dying unmarried his Barony descended on his Kinsman Robert Grevil Lord Brook Father to the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brook Thomas Morton was Son to a famous Mercer reputed the first in York and allied to Cardinal Morton Archbishop of Canterbury He was bred in York-School with that Arch-Traitor Guy Faux and afterwards in St. Johns College in Cambridge and for his merit was chosen Fellow thereof before eight Competitors commencing D. D. He made his Position on his second Question contrary to the expectation of Dr. Playford replying upon him with some Passion commovisti mihi stomachum to whom Morton replied Gratulor tibi Reverende Professor de bono tuo stomacho coenabis mecum hac nocte He was successively preferred Dean of Gloucester Winchester Bishop of Chester Coventry and Lichfield and Durham The Foundation which he laid of foreign Correspondency with eminent Persons of different Perswasions when he attended as Chaplain to the Lord Evers sent by King James Embassador to the King of Denmark c. he built upon to the day of his Death In the late Long Parliament the displeasure of the House of Gommons fell heavy upon him partly for subscribing the Bishops Protestation for their Votes in Parliament partly for refusing to resign the Seal of his Bishoprick and baptizing a Daughter of John Earl of Rutland with the Sign of the Cross two faults which compounded together in the judgment of wise and honest men amounted to an high innocence yet the Parliament allowed him 800 l. a year a proportion above his brethren for his Maintenance but the Trumpet of their Charity gave an uncertain sound not assigning by whom or whence this sum should be paid Indeed the Severe Votes of Parliament ever took full effect according to his observation who did Anagram it Voted Outed But their merciful Votes found not so free performance However this good Bishop got 1000 l. out of Goldsmiths-Hall which afforded him support in his old Age. He wrote against Faction in defence of three innocent Ceremonies and against Superstition in his Treatise called the Grand Impostor Many of the Nobility deservedly honoured him but none more than John Earl of Rutland to whose Kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland he had formerly been Chaplain Sir George Savil civilly paid him his purchased annuity of 200 l. He died at Easton Manduit in Northamptonshire the House of Sir Henry Yelverton aged near 98. George Paling born at Wrenbury in Cheshire was bred a Merchant in London Free of the Company of Girdlers We may call his Benefactions The golden Girdle of Charity for with our Saviour He went about doing good To Wrenbury he gave 200 l. to purchase Lands for the relief of the Poor For building of an Alms-House in and about London 900 l. To St. Johns College in Cambridge 300 l. To the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark 50 l. To the Preachers at St. Pauls Cross 200 pounds Toward a Chime in Bow-Church 100 pounds To six Prisons in and about London 60 pounds To Brasen-Nose College in Oxford two Scholarships to each yearly 4 pounds To the College of St John Baptist in Oxford two Scholarships of the same value To Christs-Church-Hospital 300 l. To the Church and Poor of Wrenbury to buy them Gowns 70 pounds He died 1608. James Pilkington D. D. of an Ancient Family before the Conquest when the chief of them then sought for disguised himself a Thresher has for his Motto Now thus now thus in Allusion to the Head of his Flail or to himself embracing the safest condition for the present He was bred in Cambridge and fled an 1. of Mariae into Germany where he wrote a Comment on Ecclesiastes and the Epistles of St. Peter after his return he was made Bishop of Durham 1558 and nine years after the Northern Rebels came to Durham and tore the English Liturgy the Bishop had fared no better if they had found him when the Rebellion was suppress'd the Bishop commenced a Suit against Queen Eliz. for the Lands and Goods of the Rebels attainted in the Bishoprick as due to him but the Parliament interposing on special consideration pro hoc tempore adjudg'd them to the Queen and after eight years of the Rebellion he died in peace John Easday of most honourable Extraction bred in Cambridge was Dean of Canterbury He was the first Clergy-man who carried Tidings of
Inner-Temple 1618. being first Attorney-General to K. James He was afterwards made Lord-Keeper of the Great-Seal and 1. of Charles I. by whom he was created An. 4 Regis Baron Coventry of Alesborough in this County He enjoyed the dignity of Lord-Keeper fifteen Years if it was not more proper to say that Dignity enjoyed him The Patent whereby he was created Baron makes mention of his most worthy Services to K. James and K. Charles he died before the Civil Wars never Lord-Keeper made fewer Orders which were afterwards reversed his being firmly grounded on the consent of Parties In this year 1618 were executed at Tyburn 19 Pirats and one Garnet a Jesuit And the destruction of the Spanish Army sent against the Venetians Martin's Fort relieved by the Marquess Schomberge Ebsham-Waters now Epsom found out in a dry Season the Water first observed in a Horse or Neats footing run through some Veins of Allume and are abstersive and sanative being outwardly and inwardly taken Sir Jo. Doderidg bred in Oxford a general Scholar was second Justice of the King's Bench his Soul consisted of two Essentials Ability and Integrity holding the Scale of Justice with a steady hand He is famous for the expression That as old and infirm as he was he would go to Tyburn on Foot to see such a Man hang'd that should proffer Mony for a place of Judicature it being necessary that those who buy such Offices by whole-sale should sell Justice by re-tale to make themselves savers He was commonly called the sleeping Judge because he would sit on the Bench with his Eyes shut a posture of attention He died leaving no Issue An. 1628. and was interred in our Lady's Chapel in Exetâ—r Tobias Mathew D. D. bred in Oxford became Bishop of Durham and at last of York when placed there he merrily said He wanted nothing but Grace he died An. 1628. Tho. Taylor born at York and bred in Christ's College in Cambridge entered into the Ministry at 27 years of Age continuing in the same at Reading and London 35 years a pious and charitable man and a painful Preacher A little before his death he avowed That we served such a Master who covereth many imperfections and giveth much Wages for a little work He died about 1628. Note also in this year 1628. Dr. Lamb was murdered in the City of London for which the said City was fined 6000 l. Nath. Shute born at Gigleswick Yorksh and bred in Christ's College in Cambridge was an excellent Schollar and solid Preacher at St. Mildred-Poultrey in London though nothing of his is extant in Print save a Sermon called Corona Charitatis He was an uncomfortable Preacher in one sense in that he left no hope of imitation for such as should succeed him He died An. 1638. Note There were four other Brothers to this Nath. viz. Josiah Minister of St. Mary Woollnoth London Robert in Linn Thomas in Chester and Timothy in Exeter all famous for Learning and laborious Preachers Sir Rich. Hutton born at Perith Cumberland of a worshipful Family and bred in Jesus College in Cambr. diverted from Divinity by the importunity chiefly of George Earl of Cumberland became Barrister in Grays-Inn and 't was observed he seldom or never took Fees of Clergy-men afterwards being Recorder of York he was Knighted and made Judge of the Common-Pleas and continued though his opinion was against Ship-Money the King using to call him the honest Judge he died and was buried at St. Dunstan's in the West An. 1638. Joseph Mede born near Bishop-Stratford Eslex wrote de Sanctitate relativa he was a learned Man good Preacher and charitable to the Poor From that place of Scripture Judges 3. 30. And the Land had rest eight Years he observed that that was the longest time of Peace that the Church of God enjoyed And seeing the same lease of Halcyon days was expired in England since 1. Elizabeth he did grievously suspect some strange concussion in Church and State which came to pass accordingly He was a Millenary and was as much dishonoured by some furious Followers as even Aristotle was by ignorant Pretenders to his Philosophy He died An. 1638. leaving near 3000 l. to Christs College in Cambridge where he was bred Edm. Doubleday Esq a man of great Stature Valor Gravity and Activity attended Sir Tho. Knevet Novemb. 4. 1605. when he searched the Cellar beneath the Parliament-House where they found Guy Faux with his dark Lanthorn in the dead of the Night providing for the death of many next Morning He was newly come out of the Devils Closet the inner Room where the Powder lay Faux beginning to bustle Mr. Doubleday ordered him at his pleasure up with his Heels and theâ—â— with the Traitor lay the Treason 〈◊〉 along the Floor by God's good 〈◊〉 detected and defeated Faux vow 〈◊〉 that had he been taken in the innâ—â— Room he had blown up himself and all the Company therein Mr. Doubleday died An. 1618. John Moile born in or near South-Molton Devon bred in France where he became perfect in the Language spent his youth in Military imployments and in his reduced Age was made an Examiner in the Court of Tho. Lord Burgley and President of the North Afterwards being Governour to the Lord Ross he went to Rome with him where that Lord was courted and Mr Moile imprisoned in the Inquisition the Priests in vain hacking at the root of his constancy he continued 30 years in Prison and died 1638. at 81. Salkod a branch of a worshipful Family bred beyond the Seas either Jesuit or secular Priest coming over into England to angle for Proselytes his line broke and he was cast in Prison whence being brought to King James by his Arguments with a Benefice bestowed on him in Somersetshire he became a Protestant he was not a little proud that the King was pleased to stile him the learned Salkod See his true Character in the Book he writ of Angels He died An. 1638. Benj. Johnson whose Mother married a Brick-layer for her second Husband was bred in Westminster-School then in St. John's College in Cambridge being also honorary Member of Christ's Church in Oxford where he continued but few Weeks for want of further Maintenance being fain to return to the trade of his Father-in-Law he helped at the new Structure of Lincoln-Inn when having a Trowel in his hand he had a Book in his pocket some Gentlemen afterwards manumised him freely to follow his own ingenious Inclinations his Wit was elaborate wrought out by his own Industry he would sit silent in learned Company and â—uck in besides Wine their several Humors into his observation he was paramount in the dramatique part of Poetry and taught the Stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians his Comedies were above the Vulgar which are only tickled with down-right obscenity and took not so well at the first stroke as at the rebound when beheld the second time yea they will endure reading and that
the Kings Tryal Jan. 20. he was brought before the High Court of Justice falsely so called 22. day the second time 23. the third time was brought before the said Court the 27. day sentenced to Death by that bold Traitor John Bradshaw the 30. day barbarously murdred at his own Palace door betwixt 1. and 2. a Clock So fell this Pious and Learned Prince who will never be too much lamented nor forgotten This sad Subject would make a Volume but that is not my intention there are several Tracts already written That alone of Dr. Nalson's of the Kings Judges under Phelp's own hand is sufficient and note when the King was murdered Sir Tho. Fairfax was General and Oliver Cromwel was Leiutenant General of the Army The latter over ruling overawing over fooling the former or else Dr. Hammond's Letter would have turned that violent Torrent which with him took no effect but was altogether slighted or unregarded but would have converted any unbjassed person from doing or suffering to be done such a bloody and unjust Act by so many impious Regicides Then the above named false and confused Society adjourned Hilary Term. Febr. 6. the Kings Office voted unnecessary and burdensome the 7. the King's body removed to Windsor and there interred under a small Marble Stone and so remains to this day without any show of Magnificence or Regal Monument where I hope his now dust will rest quietly But before I close up this fatal year let me produce one little wonder Note that in the Hundred of Râ—ckford Essex an Army of Mice shaved off all the Grass at the bare roots which withered to Dung was infectious to Cattle the March following numberless flocks of Owls from all parts flew thither and destroyed them and 68 years before this year happened the like accident in the Hundred of Dengy in Essex Jo. Richardson Born in Cheshire of a most worshipful and ancient Family bred in the University of Dublin where he was graduated Doctor in Divinity and was afterwards made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland In the late Rebellion he came over into England a grave man and good Divine verifying the Rule Bonus Texturius Bonus Theologus for he carried a Concordance in his memory The larger Annotations especially on Ezekiel an elaborate work challenge him in a great measure for the Author Our Bishop who had been relieved had his bounty to bestow on others and by his will bequeathed a considerable Legacy to the College of Dublin He dyed an 1658. aged 74. Jo. Cleaveland Born at Hinkley Loic where his Father was Vicar was Fellow in St. John's College in Camb. and Advocate General in the Garrison of Newark a general Artist pure Latinist exquisite Orator and eminent Poet. His lofty fancy may seem to stride from the top of one Mountain to the top of another so making to it self a constant champain and Level of continued elevations He dyed an 1658. and was buried at College Hill Church Mr. Parson in his funeral Sermon forbore his praises seeing such who knew him not would sufpect them far above whilst such as were acquainted with him did know them much beneath his true desert In this year 58 Dunkirk was taken by the English but not long after by the English or by a few of the better sort of the English sold to the French King and surrendred into his hands and 't was such a Bargain for France as England has had reason and I am afraid ever will to lament and be much afflicted for the loss of it and a hard-task it will prove to reduce it to the Crown of England In this year also being in July Sir H. Slingsby and the Reverend and Pious Dr. Huit was beheaded under the Tyranny of Oliver Cromwel However he set up a High-Court of Justice called so then Dr. Huit was a very great and good Divine and though Oliver's Daughter very much besought her Father upon her knees for his life all was but in vain however it was believed that the Monster of mankind Oliver never enjoyed himself long after for he was much troubled with Gravel and a little after that was much tormented with the Stone in the Bladder and though Dr. Bowls set him on his head and his heels upwards to remove the stone and gave him some ease at present yet he being return'd to his natural posture and the Dr. into the Country with his Coach and Six which Oliver had bestowed on him for his fees and attendance the Stone pressed down again with that violence and force and caused that horrible pain and that pain a Feaver and the Feaver brought that which took the insolent Usurper from his Protectorship which happened Sept. 3. 1658. Now let me desire you to accept of the Company of his Son Richard for a Protector Though he staid but six Months at the Helm the Sea the Commonwealth of Engl. grew very boisterous and sick till Richard was spewed up and outed of his Protectorship And he wanting his Fathers Courage and Judgment was outed accordingly 't was said he had some kindness for King Ch. II. and was willing to shew it at that time and help to restore him but too many eyes were upon him and his own want of experience made all ineffectuall at that juncture of affairs and the Government was put into other hands as shall appear afterwards This short-ruling Protector did very little in his half years Reign only got together things necessary for his Fathers Pompous Funeral which was upon Novomber 23. 1658. This funeral cost so much that all the Tradesmen and others concerned in it were either forced to run away or hide themselves in some Alsatia ever after Anno 1668. In this year there were two Easter days the one being in April and the other on March 23. 1668. and the precedent year had no Easter A thing to be noted because 't is to be found very rarely either by looking forward or the days past This year also by instigation of the Parliament to the King an Order was made to send the Earl of Clarendon out of England He travelled to Montpelier in France where he stayed some years and then hearing the joyful news of his return with excess of joy gave up the ghost his body was brought into England and interred in H. 7. Chapel close by the Steps He was the first Lord Chancellor under Ch. II. James Duke of York was married to his Daughter Ann at the Kings return into England from whom are descended Mary Our Gracious Queen and Ann Princess of Denmark The first stone of the first pillar of the Royal Exchange was laid by K. Ch. II. in this year 1668. Anno 1678. In this year the Popish Plot was discovered and 18 persons were executed for the same the chief of them was Viscount Stafford beheaded at Towerhill Edw. Coleman Esq then Secretary to the Dutchess of York his House searcheâ— and Papers seized October the 1. day Wherein was
conception and that God by the earnest intercession of the blessed Lady had heard their Prayers and granted their desires in sending them a Son and indeed they knew it was a Son before the 10th day of June above-mentioned now this tradition was handed about to the great and indeed all places in England by Letters and otherways And yet for all this specious and gilded information if you would certainly know the truth of this great birth and state you will be forced to take their tradition and bâ—lieve it as they believe it be it true or not true yet as I said before every one is left to his own choice For if this blind huddled business should have been acted more in the light and in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and other persons of quality of the Princess's Religion it would have given full-satisfaction to all the now unsettled doubtful wavering and ever-disbelieving Persons of England and settled a firm belief upon future Generations The King soon after great râ—joâ—cings and illuminations for tâ—iâ— nâ—w Deodatus perceiving at a distance a great storm arising in the East applies himself to raise several nâ—w Forcâ—s of Horse Dragoons and Foot and sends to the Earl of Tyrconnel then Governour of Ireland for 4000 or more of the Irish Foot which was sent accordingly into England very likely and able and war-like Men and coming up to London was very well approved of by all the King's Officers but the Inhabitants had a prejudice against them for the Irish had got an ill name and was not well spoken of though to do them Justice in part of London and in the City of Westminster they carried themselves very civilly in their respective Quarters Now it was observed by the Politicians of War that these Irish sent out of Ireland from the adjacent parts of Londonderry did so much comfort and encourage that City as to make it hold out so long and to that extremity and if that 4000 so detached had remained in Ireland that City in all probability and reason had been either taken or surrendred to the late King James who in this Summer 88 had formed a Campaigne on Hounsloe-heath Horse and Foot to the number of betwixt 16 or 18000. where we must leave them at present in their Tents with their several pieces of Canon and take notice how the King was equipping his Ships at Sea to make a formidable Fleet and made choice of the Lord Dartmouth as a chief Officer to muster up his Seamen for most of them had a great kindness for that Lord who made it his business and gathered up many Seamen and after a little time manned out several Ships to Sea but in this time the poor Seamen being as it were spirited on board and knew not what cause they were to fight for they begun by degrees to consider and at last take the boldness upon them to ask their Captains upon what design they were upon and who they must encounter withal The Captains gave them such dark and aenigmatical answers as gave them no satisfaction Upon which some of the Ships whole Crew came upon the Decks and as one man told their several Officers That they would not fight for the Papists but always stand for and maintain the Prâ—testant Religion Which unhappy news for King James was carried to him by the Lord Dartmouth The King was much discomposed with the hearing thereof but made no great outward appearance about it at present The King 's next design was to take off the Penal Laws and Test and for that purpose a Parliament was to be called to sit at Westminster and many crafty Courtiers being Papists or so inclined was with suitable instructions sent down into the several Countys and Burroughs of England and Wales to prepare such Members as would throw over-board the Test and Penal Laws at one sitting but this took as little effect as the former for the King hearing by his Agitators in the Country how that they could not make a party there prevalent enough to throw down the two Bulwarks it so was ordered that the designed Parliament never me together Then the King's Council where Father Peters was always of the Quorum put the King himself to examine those of his menial Servants and those that held Offices under His Majesty as the Great Seal Privy Seal Secretaries of State Mr. Attorney and Mr. Sollicitor-General the Gentlemen of the Green Cloth and all the Officers in White-Hall the Commissioners of the Customs and Fire-hearths these and many others were all to give an account of their opinions of the Penal Laws and Test and then being Closeted by the King they gave in their private verdict in that place if they would not condescend to take away the two aforesaid Bars their Offices and Preferments was ipso facto taken from them By this â—ly practice many Lords and Gentlemen and many other inferior Officers wâ—â— cashiered and many of the red â—â—â—ter men substituted in their places but in all this the King gained but little ground for the number obliged and the disobliged were still equal Yet they would not let the King rest here but they persuade him to closet all his Judges of Westminster which accordingly he did and found some of them according to his wish the rest stoutly opposed and was presently displaced and some mean Lawyers and mean Persons but Papists or popishly affected mounted up into their seats at the several Courts in Westminster Hall By this project the King lost the hearts of his Subjects for these new Judges were so mean in birth some in breeding some in learning and all of them ignorant of the Law so that by their illiterate practice the Law was quite buried For Sir John Maynard that old Serjeant of the Law told King William That if His Majesty had not come as he had out-lived many good Lawyers so he should have out-lived the Law it self And the reason was plain for these new erected Judges did all agree in this maxime That any penal or statute Law whatsoever and though made and confirmed by the three Estates yet the King by vertue of his Prerogative Royal had power to dispence with it and what is that dispensation but by the arbitrary will and pleasure of the Prince all Laws are abrogated and all penalties thereof remitted And the King taking these Judges opinion in this matter for good Law upon this false bottom the King offered to admit and many Zealots accepted places both Military and Civil without taking the Oaths and Test and every one under that circumstance is liable to pay 500 l. And hereby all Corporations was new transformed Papists made Mayors and Aldermen Governours of the Forts and Castleâ— Captains at Sea Colonels and other Officers of Land-Forces Obadiah Walker set up some few weak Proselytes at Oxford in despite of Authority and indeed the Tempest did arise higher for Magdalen College refusing to
with due commendation so long as either Ingenuity or Learning are fashionable in our Nation He died An. 1638 and was buried in the Abby Church of Westminster under a small Stone with this Inscription O rare Ben. Johnson Sir Robert Car Son to Thomas Laird of Fumhurst in the South of Scotland who being active for Mary Queen of Scots was thereupon forced to fly to York was born in this City 'T is reported that his first making at Court was by breaking his Leg at Tilting in London whereby he came first into the cognizance of K. James who reflected on him whose Father had been a kind of Confessor for the cause of the Queen his Mother besides the young Gentleman had a handsom Person and a conveniency of desert Honours were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Somerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. He was a good natur'd Man doing himself more hurt than any Man else but yet much harm to others viz. Sir Tho. Overbury lost the favour of this Earl by dissuading him from keeping Company with a Lady Wife of another Person of Honour to whom afterwards he was married her first Husband still living Earl of Essex and had a Child by her a Daughter who was afterwards married to a Person of Honour but Sir Tho. Overbury under a pretence for refusing to be sent Ambassador to Russia was sent to the Tower and his strict restraint encouraged his Enemies to practise his death which was by Poison effected for which divers were executed the Earl had the sentence of death which by K. James contrary to his word was never executed but gave him a lease of so many years as a pardon for his Life though he was banished the Court lived privately even from the sight of his Wife and in much sorrow and grief died An. 1638. In this year 1638. Lewis XIV King of France was born or rather per ignotam illicitam viam by that politick and governing Cardinal sent into the World to be a Plague to all Christendom a spoiler and robber of his own Country a troubler of the Gallican-Clergy a great opposer of his Infallible Holiness a severe and cruel Tormenter of the Hugonots first eating and plundering their Goods by his Booted Apostles his Dragoons and then unmercifully abusing their Bodies by Wounds Irons Whippings Prisons Famine and Death it self but without burial which by us is never denied to any Roman-Catholick He governs all his Vassals and Slaves that should be his Subjects by his will rigour and injustice and when they have got any thing for their own Family the King's Officers take it for their Master and there is no remedy for this general contagion But yet let me inform you of one piece of good nature that is rooted fast to him tho' he resists the Pope he loves the Turk and much condemns the Emperor for fighting against him and the French K. has many times lately assured his Brother the Turkish Emperor That he will divert all his Enemies that is all Christian Princes from invading his Countrey by his own powerful Armies And pray do not think much of these his strange and extravagant expressions for he hopes as there is but one King of Heaven so there will be but one on Earth and that must be a French one There was also in this year 1638. a many little Devils called the Covenanters in Scotland gathered into a riotous Body and chused David Leisley for their General and sollicited France for aid and though it took little effect yet you may learn that the Scotch were always great lovers of the English Their Covenant consisting of 666 words the mark of the Beast was set on Foot and every one willing or not swallowed it down by the help of labouring Preachers the Covenanters All this was but a preparative for their coming into England which they did the next year and according to their Covenant to settle the King in his Throne in Peace and Honour and make him a Glorious King which contrary to their Covenant by Perjury falsehood and selling his Person was accomplished in an 1648. next to be observed being a year full of wonder and horrour but before we give an account of that take notice there was four persons concerned in a Tumult in Moor-fields pretending to reform by pulling down Baudy Houses on the Easter Holidays who was sentenced and executed as Traytors May 9. 1638. I wish the Mobile in these our days were well informed of this late action Now also in this year take in John Lilburn the Quaker who was whipped at a Carts Tayle in Febr. 1638. Anno 1648. At Preston in Anderness Duke Hamilton Aug. 7th entred England with an Army Most beheld him as one rather cunning than wise yet rather wise than valiant however he had Officers what did â—ken the geat of fighting as wool as ony of oor Age. He would accept of no English assistance Their Van and their Rear were many miles asunder and they met the resistance of Major General Lambert before they expected it He at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a blow as stunned it though it reeled on some miles more Southward into Staffordshire Where at Vlcester the Duke was taken Prisoner and utterly defeated and afterwards made a Prisoner in the Tower and then condemned and executed with the Lord Capel which is the next to be taken notice of Arthur Capel Esq of Hadham Hartf was by Ch. I. Created Baron 1641. after the surrender of Oxford he retired to his House from whence he went to Colchester His Loyalty to his Master was proof against all Batteries and Sollicitations of his Enemies He was sent Prisoner to the Tower by the Parliament which was butindeed but a part of the Dom. Com. He escaped from the Tower in Feb. but was retaken and sent back and the next day an Act made for his Tryal and being condemned was beheaded 1648. undaunted on the Scaffold Hence one alluding to his Arms a Lyon Rampant in a Field Gules betwixt three Crosses made these following Lines Thus Lyon like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood He wrote a book of Meditation wherein judicious Piety is discovered he was Grandfather to this present Earl of Essex The Earl of Holland was executed at the same time with this Noble Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton March 9th an 1648. And now give me leave to bring in a Murder without any former precedent and I hope none will be so wicked and horrid as to think of the like fact for the future Char. the I. our Lawful and good King was taken from his own House at Holdenby in Northamptonshire and carried to Childersley by Cornet Joice then to Roysten Hatfield Windsor Hampton-Court this was done in May and June Then the King escaped to the Isle of Wight but stay'd not long before he was brought back and Jan. 4. an Ordinance was engrossed and read for