A MONVMENT OF MORTALITIE VPON THE DEATH AND FVNERALS OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Late Duke of Richmond and Lenox Earle of New-castle and Darnley c. Lord of Torbolton and Methuen Baron of Settrington c. Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER Lord high Admirall and great Chamberlaine of SCOTLAND Lord high Steward to the Kings most Excellent Majesties most Honorable House-hold Gentleman of his Bed-chamber and one of his Majesties most Honorable Priniâ— Councell for ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Captaine of an hundreth Scots-men at Armes of the French Kings Ordinances By IAMES CLELAND Doctor in Diuinitie and Domestick Chaplaine to his GRACE LONDON Printed by William Stans by for Ralph Rounthwaite 1624. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE ESME Duke of Lenox Earle of March and Darnley Lord of AVBIGNY Torbolton Methuen Baron of Settrington c. Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER Honourable LORD LOe here A Monument of mans Mortalitie erected in haste to represent the Death and Funerals of my good Lord your Noble Brother whose heroicke LIFE requires more leasure to build A MAVSOLE to his Immortall Memorie Meane time J offer vnto your Grace these mournefull Spoiles and funerall Trophees as most proper and due vnto you his Successour and Jnheritour in assurance you will accept them fauourably and with your gracious aspect giue them a speaking-power as the Sunnes reflection did on the Image of Memnon The Ghostly visage of his Effigie I know cannot affright your Grace who is ready and prepared at all howers for Death nor I hope will the representation of it renew your griefe as Iosephs particoloured Coate caused sorow to his father Iacob and Caesars shirt to Calpurnia But that you will looke and behold in it as a Mirror to see your Fate as your Fortune and so esteeme me for euer one of Aprill 20. 1624. Your Graces Most humbly Deuoted in all dutifull obseruance IAMES CLELAND IN IVSTA FVNEBRIA OPTIMI PRINCIPIS LODOVICI Ducis Richmondiae Lenoxiae c. EPITAPHIVM Dum Populum Proceresque suos IACOBVS in vnum Cogit Europam terror vbique tenet Spes populi Procerumque decus LENOXIVS Heros Non expectato funere raptus obit Prô Superi non haec mors est sed Publica clades Quam Rex Proceres plebs populusque lugent Egregiè factum Funus Moestissma Coniux Produxit Ciniri gloria magna fuit MONVMENTVM MORTALE In Obitum Optimi Ducis RICHMONDIAE LENOXIAE c. B. M. P. VIde Mortalis quisquis es hoc te MonumentuÌ„ rogat se vt aspicias Speculum Putes aut Scholam Viden ' formam mutatam gloriam marcidam euanidam Pompam Triumphus est Mortis fati Trophaeum fragilitatis documentum Disco omnia praecipits cursu fluere lubrico orbe versari raptari auolare vanescere Fui non sum aut quicquid Sum Puluis cinis terrae pondus Parcae spolium dum melior pars mei in caeluâ—â— ascendit vnde descendit vbi quiesco Quis Fuèrim sâ—lubido audire est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breus capies Interim ne mirere quisquis es hoc tanto tamque inopinato euentu neue curiâ—su◠〈◊〉 hic causas inuestiga non vis non casus non ordo eternus fatorum Me de medio sed vnus Ille Omnium rerum Moderator sustulit vt post tot exantlaâ—os labores in perpetuum cum eo vinam ac conquiescam Hac moncre volui nunc abi sed heus tu Deum Verere Regem reuerere hoc tantum Vale. A Funerall Discourse VPON THE DEPLORABLE DEATH OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox c. ALthough Ioseph of Iohn 19. 38. Aramathea and Nicodemus begged of Pilate the body of IESVS and on the day of preparation wrapt it in a fine cleane linnen cloath embalmed it with odoriferous spices buried it and so gaue him the last dutie of Iewish Ceremonies the first of Christian Funerals yet Mary Magdalene and the other Mary could not bee satisfied with all that was done by Ioseph and Nicodemus for their Lord and Master Christ vnlesse in the next day after the Preparation their poore balme had gone likewise for him After which imitation of these two Maries I cannot content my selfe with what hath beene done by others hitherto for my late Lord and Master the Duke of Richmond and Lenox though most sufficiently except I bring some Sindon of my owne now and buy some Balme to bestow vpon his Grace Yesterday you heard how the Lord Keeper most accuratly and affectionatly expressed my Lord Duke his Heroick life to day with permission I will represent vnto you and others afarre off his Deplorable Death and Christian Funerall Behold them then both in this Monument as better to be considered by the Eye then by the Eare by the Grauers pencill then by the Writers pen by silence then by discourse In this Monument which may giue feare to the Faithfull amazement to the Prophane and sorrow to all men For on the sixteenth day of Februarie last in the Kings Palace of White-Hall whiles the Kings Majestie the Prince the Peeres and the Noblemen of the Land were readie to ride in state vnto the High Parliament of England Behold an ancient Statute from the highest Court of Parliament in Heauen put in Execution vpon this honorable person my Lord Duke of Richmond and Lenox This Execution was serued vpon him whiles the people expected a pomp and whiles I for my part was preparing another Iacob Triumphant or King Iames Second Triumphs in Executing his Statutes and penal Lawes against all Popish Policies and Practises within his Majesties Dominions But oh the sodaine change and strange passage of the peoples expectation and my design from a glorious Pompe on Horse-backe to a mournfull Hearse followed afoot from a Triumph to a Tombe from the Trophees of ioy to the Spoiles of sorrow in a moment all my thoughts turned to a Monument This is euer the miserable condition of man to mixe sowre with sweet or else to ioyne them so inseparably together as a concaue superficies with a conuexe In that morning all the Court and Citie of London were full of mirth but about noone all in mourning then in pleasure and delight soone after in sorrow and sadnesse Thus the clearest dayes haue their stormes the euening is not answerable to the calmnesse of the morning nor to the cleernesse of the noone-day but the Sunne eclipses the Cloudes ouercast and the Day is changed into Night or darknesse The Statute that was Executed so peremptorily vpon this honourable Person was first enacted in the vpper House of Parliament in Heauen generally against all men All men Heb. 9. 27. must once die and then receiued and resolued vpon of all in the lower House of Parliament on Earth Here Gods Word Reason and Experience the three States of our Earthly Parliament haue ratified and confirmed it vna voce without appeale God said expressely In that day
is the acceptable time 2. Cor. 6. 2. as Saint Paul speaketh now is the day of saluation This World is for thy Repentance the other for thy recompence Hic locus luctae ille coronae Hoc cunaeorum tempus est illud coronarum as Saint Chrysostome saith This is the Chrys in Heb. c. 2. Hom 4 time and place of combatting that of crowning this of working that of rewarding this for thy patience that for thy comfort Happie and thrice happie are they which are thus religiously exercised and Christianly affected HAPPY then by the judgement of Charitie is My Gracious Lord Duke as the iudgement of certaintie the Lord of all alone knoweth his who in a comfortable Christian manner was thus resolued and in the time of his short sicknesse vnto his Death piously deuoted As King Ezekiah beeing summoned by sicknesse and the Prophets short Sermon to prepare for his Death turned presently to the wall prayed and wept so did this Prince feeling his frailtie immediately turned to the wall prayed and wept for his former sinnes But alas Herein differed that King from this Prince that God added vnto the dayes of Ezekiah fifteene yeeres but he shortned the dayes of Prince Lodouick in that same houre Then hee Dyed in his Bed without any further delay and slept in the Lord with his Fathers O Kings Princes and Great men who all your life long run after the dreames and sleepe of the World whose thoughts are wholy anchored vpon the Earth and your hopes haue no further extent then the Earth in picture of this Death behold that the vanitie of your greatnesse and ambition things so vaine and fraile as when they seeme to glister and twinkle like Diamonds they vanish from our sight and breake themselues in pieces like glasse Your spirits being touched with this Death as with an Adamant should without ceasing turne towards the firme and fixed Pole of that truth That whatsoeuer is vnder Heauen is nothing but vanitie and that the World passeth away with his pride and pompe And O yee Gentlemen and Commons come see this picture of Death knowing of wise King Salomon It is better to goe to the house of Eccles 7. 2. mourning then to go to the house of feasting For that is the end of all men and the liuing will lay it to his heart Lay it to your heart then if you be liuing and not stupid senslesse and dead in your minde Gaze not onely vpon it with your eyes as little children doe vpon their painted Booke not learning their Lesson nor to your cares onely to heare of Death nor to your tongues onely to talke of it but lay it to your hearts ruminate remember and meditate vpon Death day and night For if yee looke vpon Death onely with your eyes heare of it enquire after it and take hold of it onely with your hand and the heart be farre from it then it cannot auayle or profit you The eye without the heart is a deceiuing eye the care without the heart is vnprofitable the tongue without the heart is a flattering tongue the hand without the heart is a false hand and God will confound all the rest of the bodie without the heart Sonne giue me thy heart Consider the great God who is the iudge of life and death hath disposed of the life of this Prince by so sudden a Death to the end Great Britaine should know that this must be the end of all men and as a man Dieth in the fauour of God so without changing or recalling hee remayneth Death being to the wicked the Deuils Seriant to arrest them and carry them without baile vnto a Prison of vtter darknesse which to the godly is the Lords Gentleman Vsher to conduct them to a Palace of euerlasting happinesse yea Death being to the one as Satans Cart to carry them presently to execution in Hell which to the other is as Elias 2. Kings 2. 12. his fierie Chariot to mount them vp to Heauen Againe as Death is certaine so the forme is vncertaine wee see round figures fall otherwise then Cylinders or Triangles life ends not all after one manner the fruits of one tree fall not all at one instant some are gathered before they bee ripe others fall of themselues some are snatcht away some pulled gently and the violence of the winde and haile beateth them downe indifferently My Lord Duke as hee liued so hee Died meekely patiently like a Lambe and so soone as hee felt his paine of the head increase and more then heretofore he turned his eyes towards heauen and carried his thoughts whether his extreme griefe did conduct him Affliction makes men forget the World when they must thinke of Heauen and it is the liuerie of the seruants of God Hee prayed vnto God in his Bed beleeuing assuredly hee who is in all places where hee is called on God in the Crib God on the Crosse God in the Graue and God euery where Who heares Ieremie in the mire Daniel in the Den who makes a Palace of a Stable of a Caluary a Paradice makes of this Bed an Arke of propitition and sent his Angels thither to assist this soule and bring it vnto him Hee receiues this generous gracious gentle courteous and meeke Soule which neuer refused his grace to any one that sought it That great and vnspeakable mercy of God fortifie vs in this beleefe and the same truth which recommends mercy vnto men for that God is all mercy and will rather cease to bee God then to bee mercifull who promiseth mercy to those which shall be mercifull God it's true might haue suffered this Prince to haue Died otherwise then suddenly but his mercy had not beene so apparent in in any other kinde of Death this being the sweetest and easiest Death seeing it takes feare and apprehension from Death which is omnium terribilissimum most troublesome Hee calls these terrible and sudden Death to the absolute power of his bountie whereas man hath scarce the time to contribute a thought or a sigh And this Prince himselfe would not end his life otherwise then suddenly thinking it vnworthie of a great courage to languish betwixt a desire of life and the feare of Death and to quit for the interest of his abode sometimes the vse of a member halfe Eyes sight and all his hearing and to submit himselfe to the discretion of paine and old age It is true a sudden Death is terrible and fearefull to those that are taken vnawares but is not so to those which attend it alwaies constantly and who did watch sleepe walke and eate often with those cogitations made Christian like discourses said so often that it was not sufficient to know the graces of God but they must acknowledge them might well bee taken but he could not be surprized by Death His desire you see was not like vnto ours for wee would haue wisht to haue seene him send vp his soule quietly to
the place of his beginning after a long continuance of yeeres and that the gracious Duchesse his Lady had taken her last leaue of him that he had giuen Legacies and tokens to his friends and fauourites finally appointed recompences for his old and faithfull seruants but God thinke vs not worthie of those fauours and kindnesse of our Lord and Master Wherefore should wee rather lament for our selues then for him and let vs say of him as Rome did of Titus Hee is gone for his owne good and for our afflictions Death which hath raised him to immortall felicities doth plunge vs into a gulfe of miseries Wee lament iustly for our selues who see our hopes Dead and our miseries liuing Death hath strooke but one and hath slaine many The felicitie which hee enioyes doth not ease the affliction which doth torment vs the contents which he finds in heauen takes not from vs the feeling of those griefes which his absence hath left vs vpon the earth If Death after this blowe should haue broken his bowe despairing euer to make the like shot that would not cure the wound which his arrow hath made But if there be anything in this world able to mollifie our griefe it is that diuers nations and many people haue sorrowed for that which wee lament The afflicted receiue some ease when as euery man beares a share of their affliction Alas when the Doctour of Physike and the Groome of his Bed-chamber drew the Courtaine and found him cold Dead without breath or motion hauing one hand lifted towards heauen and the other as is written of Iulius Caesar when he was murthered in the Senate collecta manibus toga honestè cadere studuit Sueton. in vita Câ—â—s spread his gowne ouer himselfe so this Comely Lord desiring to Die decently in his Bed as he carried himselfe in all his actions of his life hee pulled vp the vpper sheet close about his necke and so quietly gaue vp the Ghost not so much as giuing one groane Then alas all their rubbing with hot clothes was in vaine and to no purpose when Death seizes one all the Aurum potabile in the world cannot auaile nor will the Bezar stones helpe against the heart-beatings nor the confection of Alchermes against the dissentories nor the feet of Elan against the crampes and contractions of the sinewes No more then Aristotles arguments Platoes interrogations Gorgias his sophismes Demosthenes eloquence Tullies oratorie S. Thomas his fundaments Scotus his subtilties Durandus his sentences nor Hectors courage Achilles his valour Samsons strength Croesus his riches Caesars fortune can preuaile against Death What pen or pencill can represent vnto you the iust outcries of my Ladie Duchesse all the house ouer outcries I confesse so iustly and deseruingly that they may approue rather their continuance then condemne their extremitie How she casts herselfe vpon the ground teared her faire haire from her head beating her breast blubbering or disfiguring her face and renting her clothes from her backe I am not able to expresse nor yet could learned Haelicarnasseus who painted out the transported Ladies of Rome for their husbands Death paint out this our Ladies griefe and sorrow Or how should I or any other figure vnto you how the Kings Maiestie was amazed at the first dolefull newes My Lord Duke is Dead and euer since hath missed him Surely Timanthes himselfe that inimitable painter of Mourning if he were aliue and would vndertake this picture of the Kings griefe he should faile in his art and skill otherwise then with a vaile before Agamemnons face Royaltie nor Philosophie cannot free nor priuiledge him from the first motions and sudden passions of the minde Nor yet can I tell you how the Prince his Highnesse and the whole Court tooke these sorrowfull newes of my Lord his Death otherwise then by silence and by all mens teares Discourses are to no end neither to augment the griefe of the losse nor to aduance the greatnesse of the glorie of this Prince LODOVICK for the one is infinite and the other is seene in his Apogea But teares shew that hee which was lamented of euery man was necessarie for all Teares are better vnderstood then words it is more easie to weepe for this Prince then to speake of his Princely vertues Frame hath sorrowed for this Duke and Prince like vnto a Mother who being a Widdow and Old hath lost her owne sonne and as a Campe or an Armie of men hath lost their Captaine and Commander For he was borne in France where his wofull Mother yet liueth and bred there vntill the ninth yeere of his age and now Died their Captaine of an hundred men at Armes in Scotland of the French Kings Ordinances Then was he in his ninth yeere brought into Scotland which now lament and grieue for his Death as it was delighted for twenty yeers together with his life there As also hee is vniuersally lamented of euery one here in England where he liued these twentie last yeeres of his life in all honor and loue and now is Dead and Buried with great griefe and sorrow Ireland likewise sorrow for his Death and hang vp their Harpes from the touching or trembling of their strings to any pleasant sound So that his Funerall needed not any hired teares nor borrowed weepers called in Latine Praeficae and in Hebrew Mekonenoth as it is written in the ninth chapter of Ieremie Euery one did affoord them with abundance those which had not their eyes full of teares had their hearts voide of pitie and commiseration Teares which constancy and grauitie held in that they might not appeare were no lesse bitter then those which common griefe did cast forth to be seene If any one had strength to resist teares it was wanting to fight with sorrow To tell now what the lamentation of London was it is impossible and incredible the people sighed and lamented one to another so nor can I tell you how the poore people of the Countrie euen such as neuer saw him were sorrie for his Death because they heard of his goodnesse Nor yet needed he those Lawes of other nations appointed to weepe at the Death of their Princes and Great men As the Egyptians in Diodorus Historie wept threescore and Diodor. lib. 2c 2. twelue dayes for the Death of their King and we did now for our Prince LODOVICK before his Funerall and will many more hereafter So did the Sparthians or Lacedemonians mourne for their Kings Death some certaine dayes as Herodotus writes Such was the cruell policie Herodot lib. 6. Ioseph Antiq. lib. 17. c. 8. of great Herodes to cause the chiefe Councellours of the Kingdome to bee murthered at his Death that there might some teares bee shed then liking belike that which Medea said in the Tragedie Mors optima est perire Seneca de Med. lachrymosum suis it is to bee wished to bee wept for euery man wept and lamented willingly his Death and their teares which
flowed in so great abundance haue no other spring then the incredible bountie goodnes gentlenesse Neuer people sorrowed for them that were haughtie or difficult who haue alwaies pride in their fore-head choler in their eyes seruitude is not lesse intolerable vnto them then Death People flee from those Princes which neuer goe out of their chambers or Palaces but like Lions out of their Dennes or Cages to feare some or to hurt others Wee should neuer grieue for a seuere cruel and inhumane Prince our teares should but be fained forced but for so good and milde a Prince so louing to his seruants and followers so much beloued of all and so respected of strangers the sorrow can neither be expressed nor limited Let vs vs aboue all others Collegues and Fellow-seruants of one Lord and Master weepe weepe and lament still for the Death of our Lord and if any man aske or obiect vnto vs why lament wee for which wee cannot remedie answere with wise Solon in Laertius wee lament because our teares auaile vs not It auailes not to tell vs that wee lament him not as Dead but as absent to represent vnto vs that wee haue not lost him but that we expect him wee finde occasions daily which make vs remember our losse and the assurance of his returne cannot moderate the great griefe of his Departure For my part I cannot but grieue and lament so long as I liue in remembring his loue fauour and liberalitie towards mee himselfe and how by his meanes to the Kings Maiestie and to my Lord of Canterburie his Grace hee hath freed me from the necessitie of the world Euen now my heart panteth my strength faileth Psal 38. 10. mee as for the light of mine eyes it alsois gone from me and cannot but weepe and lament nor can I proceed any further for the present nor bid you fare-well Alas THE POMPOVS FVNERALS OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox c. BVt I would not haue you to 1. Thess 4. 13. be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleepe that yee sorrow not euen as others which haue no hope Wee should hope and knowe that wee shall not for euer sleepe in the graue but wee shall liue with Christ Many Dan. 12. 2. that sleepe in the Dust shall awake and rise againe some to euerlasting life some to shame and perpetuall contempt Maruell not at this said our Sauiour Christ himselfe for the houre shall come Iohn 5. 28. in which all that are in the graues shall heare his voice and they shall come forth that haue done good vnto the resurrection of life but they that haue done euill vnto the resurrection of condemnation Of which wee may learne there is as great a difference betweene the Burying of Christians and that of Infidels as there is a distance betweene the death of the Iust and that of the Wicked betweene the decease of those that are predestinated and the excesse of the reprobates These die euen whiles they are aliue the others liue euen when they are dead those depart hence with despaire the others passe with hope these die bodily to die immortally the others die temporally to liue eternally these suffer to augment their paines the others rest to rise in glory Hence also wee may obserue the difference of the name which the Christians haue giuen â—piphan haeres 30. Abducunt miserum adolescentem post occasum Solis in propinquas tumbas sepulchra autem sic appellantur speluncae videlicet in petris effosae aâ— constructae Gen. 25. 9. Mark 5. 2 14. Luke 7. 12. Ioh. 19. 41. to their Burying place from all others As the Iewes and Romanes being more ciuill then the rest of the world did not Burne their Bodies but Embalmed them and Buried them without the walls of Townes and Cities in places which they called Tumbeaâ— Sepulchra Speluncas according to the nature of place Dennes Tombes Sepulchres and such and since hauing receiued the gift of faith and hope of immortalitie they name them Coemiteria Church-yards This name of Cemiterie comes from the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is interpreted in our language a Dortor or Sleeping-place grounded out of Christs owne words in S. Iohn where speaking of Lazarus he sayth Our friend Iohn 11. 11. Lazarus sleepeth but I goe that I may awake him out of sleepe though hee addeth immediatly vers 13. Lazarus is dead And in Saint Matthew speaking of the daughter of Iairus Prince of the Matth. 9. 24. Synagogue the maide is not dead but sleepeth S. Paul also to the Corinthians vseth the same 1. Cor. 11. 30. terme and many sleepe All this to shew vnto you that this Prince LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox is not Dead but Asleepe and that we should not awake or disturbe him with our immoderate cryes cares and weeping but that Nature hauing shewed her dutie in teares Reason now should declare her pietie in performing our dutifull Exequies of his Buriall For this dutie hath euer beene commended and commanded in all ages of all nations as well of Greekes Romans and Barbarians as of the ancient Iewes and Christians and that with all Pompe and Ceremonie therefore not to bee neglected of vs at this occasion To proue this wee will beginne at the Heathen who shew themselues superstitious in Burying their Dead with great Ceremonies As amongst them euen those who were esteemed the most barbarous vnciuill and inhumane people the Panebiens were very respectful in Burying their Dead honourably placing them Stob. serm de Sepult 122. Alex. ab Alex. l. 3. c. 2. Herodin Melpom Val. Max. l. 5. c. 4. in the Temples of their Gods So were the Scythians as appeared by their resolued answere to Darius King of the Persians that they would not stand out much against him for their Cities Townes Lands and Possessions but if euer he should inuade the Sepulchres and Monuments of their Fathers then he should know what the Scythians could doe Other Nations of them which seemed more ciuill in their carriage were more curious in there Ceremonies of Buriall as especially the Egyptians aboue all others in their embalming and with sweet Spices in preseruing the Dead Diodor. Sicul. lib 2. c. 1. Coe ' Rhodig lib. 17. c. 20. bodies from corruption as also in building rich and sumptuous Tombes which they esteeme of more then their best and honourablest Houses and Palaces in mocking the Greekes and other Nations for building Houses with great charges and expenses wherein they cannot dwell but a short time and yet they regarded not the Tombes and Monuments of Buriall wherein they are to rest along time For this cause were Diod. Sic. l. 2. c. 5. their Embalmers in great reuerence and in no lesse regard then their Sacrificators dwelling with them in the Temples of their Gods And we reade in Herodotus it was not lawfull for Herod lib. 2. Plutarch tract
soone after them euerie man giuing thankes vnto God for the euent of their victories according to this saying of Isaiah The Iust are entred into peace they rest in their Beds each one walking in his vprightnesse Hence also is to bee obserued that these Isa 57. 2. Pompes Rites Ceremonies and honourable Funerals in Burying the Dead are called Iusta in Latine hauing nothing more frequent among the ancient Authors to signifie their actions then those Phrases of speech Iusta facere Iusta soluere Iusta peragere holding these duties for a principall part of Iustice Destributiue For although the Dead feele nothing in themselues whatsoeuer honour or dishonour right or iniurie is done vnto them yet the Dead as Pindarus Pind Olymp. Odae 8. antistr vlt. writes haue a right which is due vnto them by their Parents and Friends euen in their Funerals and Buriall True one of the punishments whereby God threatens the wicked is that they shall bee depriued of Buriall and to Ioachim the King of Ier. 22. 19. Israel it was fore-told that he should be buried as an Asse euen drawne and cast forth without the gates of Israel and to Iesabell that shee should bee Buried in the bellies of dogges And Iosephus Ioseph Antiquit. Iudaic. l. 16. c. 11 in the Antiquities records that the House of Herodes went to wracke and decay so soone as he violated Dauids sumptuous Tombe or Sepulchre Acts 3. which continued twelue huÌ„dred yeers in honour after it was built Both the Ciuill and Canon Lawes haue enacted Penall Lawes against Vlpian l. 1. D. de Sepulchro violato Can infames 6. q. 1. the transgressors in violating the Monuments and Burying places of the Dead which the Ciuilian compare to the crime of Sacriledge and condemnes them by the Law of Iulia de vi publica to be marked of infamie or to bee put to death or to bee sent into perpetuall banishment or condemned to the Mint or Galleyes And the Roman Oratour in his second Tullius lib. 2. de Legibus Booke de Legibus cites the Constitutions of Solon to this purpose which appointed the offenders in this case to be tyed vnto a pillar of that Tombe or Monument which they had broken bruised or spoiled any wayes and there to remaine vnto death In that same Booke hee telleth Idem ibidem vs that honourable Buriall is the last and chiefest dutie woe can giue one to another Intereà socios inhumataque corpora terra Virg. Aâ—n 11. Mandemus qui solus honos Acheronte sub imo est Therefore let vs consider more particularly how piously and pompously this Princes Funerals Senec. de tranquil anim c. 11. were performed and these euen by the Gracious Princesse FRANCES Duchesse Dowager of Richmond and Lenox his Ladie and Wife who after CONCLAMATVM EST like a Niobe all melted in teares Her Grace would not forget the last Dutie to her most louing Husband went to his Bed side b Euseb lib. 7. cap. 17. Epiphan S. Cyprian de Sepultura Iesu Christi Virg. Aen. 4. in fine ibi Seruius etiam Donatus Cic. in Verrem Quint. Decl. 7. Stat. papin Epic. Val. Max. lib. 7. cap. 9. de M. Popilio in fine Closed his eyes shut c Plutarch consol ad vxoâ— Tibullus lib. 1. Eleg. 1. Propert. lib. 3. Eleg. 5. vp his mouth d Auson pâ—rent carm 3. Suet. in August kissed him and I may say in some sense e Act. 9. Tert. in Apolog. Euseb Trig. Turâ—â—ensis de Pelagia washed him as the Religious Charitable Lady Tabitha was washed I meane she Bathed him againe with her teares caused him to bee f Tertul. in Apol c. 13. prâ—dâ—ntius in Hymn Bowelled Embalmed and then g Ioh. 19. Euseb l. 7 c. 17. Hieron epist 49. Plutarch probl â—6 Alex. lib. 3. c. 7. Wrapped vp in the best and finest white linnen cloth shee had and all these piously Christian-like according to the custome of the Primitiue Church and now to our Moderne vse of Princes and Great Men. On the next night at ten of the clocke necessitie not permitting to deferre his Burying hee was carried by his owne Seruants and accompanied with a great number of Knights and Gentlemen vnto the Abbey Church of Westminster and there in King Henry the Seuenths Chappell commonly called the Earle of Richmonds Chappell Honourably buried by the Reuerend Bishop of Lincolne Lord keeper c. who read himselfe the Buriall of the Dead Yet Her GRACE like the Goddesse Libitina without offence amongst the Romans appointed presently Designators three Commissioners The L. Gorge S. Th. Sauage S. Rob. Naper Plutarch Rom. probl 13. Liuius lib. 40. 41. Budeus ad L. quicunque Horat. 3. carm Cocl Rodig l. 9. cap. 18. Val. Max. l. 5. c. 2. de L. Sylla Plut. vbi sup Budaeus Annotationibus in Pandect men of honor and worthie great of respect who diligently prepared for the Funeral pomps in the space of two months In the meane time they caused sixe Roomes of Richmond House to bee hung with Blackes and the * L. Herodot l. 2. Pierius hierogl l. 40. Liuius lib. 5. Patercul lib 11. Hom. Iliad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coelius l. 17. c. 19 Isa 57. 2. Florus lib. 4. 8. Plin. l. 35. c. 3. Tacit. lib. 3. de funere Germanici in sine de Iunia Seruius in Aen. 5. Ps 39. 5. Ps 73. 20. Effigie of My Lord his Grace to be made and set vp in the best chamber of the House apparelled with his Parliament Robes lying in a blacke Veluet Bed valanced and fringed adorned with Scutchions of his Armes which they permitted all the people at all time that came to see An Effigie it is true worthie to bee seene of all to teach all still this life of ours is but an Image and Asleepe in our Bed an Image and that neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greekes call those that are painted vpon Tables or Boords reall or permanent but onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an apparent or vanishing Image such is that appeares in a Mirror For as King Dauid knew well and said Kings and Princes are nothing but an Image asleepe their pompe honour and glorie is but vanitie Surely euery man in his best estate is altogether vanitie Selah or veruntamen in Imagine pertransit homo And againe As a dreame when one awaketh O Lord when thou raisest vs vp thou shalt make their image despised And the Stoick Philosopher Seneca Homo imbecillitatis exemplum temporis spolium fortunae lusus Imago inconstantiae Where you may see that pride and pompe of the world especially of Kings and Princes is but like a Dreame Dauid that was a King and knew this by experience would teach all Monarchs Emperours Kings and Princes that they are but Images or Effigies and as the Apostle saith the Figure of the World vanisheth 1. Cor. 7. 31. Monday the nineteenth day
THE SONNE OF NATHAN WHO WAS PRINCIPALL OFFICER AND THE KINGS FRIEND He expressed abundantly his Learning and Loue towards My Lord Duke in declaring his Christian Life and Heroick Deeds which make me now speake onely of his Death and Funerals After whose Sermon all My Lord's Armes Armor Standers Banners Shield and Ensignes were offered by Noblemen or by the Knights that carried them vnto My Lord Duke of Lenox now is who was his onely Brother Here now wee may mitigate or temper the bitternesse of our affliction with the sweetnesse of some comfort Open your eyes Brethren of acknowledgement you shall see the great mercy of God's Prouidence and his speciall fauour and care towards vs How God is mercifull in all his justices and if of one hand hee beats vs downe of the other hee lifts vs vp he chuses the time to afflict vs when hee hath prepared to comfort vs when apparantly hee depriues vs of all hope yet casts hee vs not into despaire The Persians at the Death of their King smoothered or put out all the sacred flames and fire in their Houses but let vs who are Christians kindle quickly our coales of affection towards God in taking away one Lord and Master to giue vs another without delay Though God hath giuen vs check yet not Mate he hath suffered vs to swimme in our teares and hearts griefe yet hee will not haue vs to drowne in them God hath taken vnto himselfe the Duke of Richmond and Lenox but loe he hath giuen vs a Duke of Lenox changed in nothing but in name as being Duke by birth by succession by merite and by all mens Wish if he were to be elected For no doubt we shall find no change no alteration but a Phoenix renewed of anothers ashes or a Pollux that riseth after his Brother Castor to his Seruants Tenants and Retainers Euen hee will proue himselfe a trustie Steward in Gods House of Church and Common-wealth vnto whom it will be said as vnto his most faithfull Brother Matth. 25. 23. It is well done good Steward and trusty Thou hast beene faithfull in a little I will make thee ruler ouer much enter into thy Masters ioy What remaines then for vs to doe more seeing our Lord and Master is Dead and now wee haue another aliue Shall wee imitate the Romanes in these his Obsequies in powring forth Bloud and Milke vpon his Tombe Shall wee throw into the fire our best Iewels and most precious things and shall wee sacrifice vnto him a Captiue or shall wee bring some Fencers to fence and kill vpon his Graue No such Offerings and Heathen Sacrifices are to be performed of vs nor doth the puritie and simplicitie of our Christian Religion permit any such superstitious Ceremonies But wee will Offer and Sacrifice our selues through the violence of our griefe as so many Sacrifices and Victimes to his Noble Nature wee will offer and shed out our teares our sighs and sobs which are the bloud gushing out of the wounds of our heart Those are the Funerall Honours which wee will offer to his Memorie and remember and euer speake of his fauours loue and liberalitie towards vs. Let these bee his Statues Pillars Pyramides Colosses Obelisques and Triumphant Arches which will bee more durable then all the Maruels and Monuments of Asia of Lidia of Caria of Memphis of Egypt of Babylon of Semiramis of Croesus or of all the Marble Masonrie and workes of Architecture wee can erect to his Name and Fame For this is the Tombe and Monument which Prince LODOVICK purchased and prepared for himselfe whiles he was aliue and in this wee shall imitate Artemesia who swallowed the ashes of her husband Mausoleus to keepe him so much the better in her memorie Finally as his Officers brake their Staues ouer the Effigie after all the Offerings were ended and the Heralds thrice proclaimed THE DVKE OF RICHMOND AND LENOX IS DEAD with his glorious Titles of Elogie sounded by the Trumpetters so let vs ouer sound out his praises of Heroicall Vertues Thus as of old they cast into the aire a thousand times Io of ioy when any Roman Captaine Trimphed or went into the Capitoll to receiue a Laurell Crowne in signe and token of his Victories before the Image of Iupiter So now seeing our Prince LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox c. is ascended vp into Heauen before God on a Chariot of Triumph there to receiue not a Laurell Crowne which may fade and faile but a Crowne of Immortall Glorie wee should all aloud cry-out with an open mouth Teque dum procedis Io Triumphe Horat. Non semel dicemus Io Triumphe As he no doubt is singing praises with Angels and Arch-angels vnto the Lord of Lords and King of Kings HALELVIAH HALELVIAH Amen IN POMPAM FERALEM FAELICIS PRINCIPIS LODOVICI Ducis Richmondiae Lenoxiae c. CENOTAPHIVM SISTE hic etiam Viator vide Vides Purpuram Coronam Claritudinis Pegma Libitinae Trophaea Ne mortuum hic quaeras non querare Cenotaphium est Honoris vacuum Mortalitatis Gloriae plenum Memoriae sacrarium Pietatis pignus Amoris Monumentum Hunc Lectum floridum Fulora aurea Culcitram variegatam Tapetia conchiliata Laquearia nitentia Lilia ornata Insignia Virtutis haec manuum decora acroteria Pompae feralis quae in Vita vt in Scena minuti homines mirantur Caelites rident Ego nihili pendo prae choragio quo perfruor tu ne impensè opere nimio mirere Viator Oculos in sublime attolle coelumque tuere quò me bigae albae duxerunt PIETAS BENIGNITAS ista homines illa Deum conciliauit vtraque stellatam arcem aperuit vbi regnabo dum Rex aetheris moderabitur Interim Deum precare pro te-ipso in rem tuam abi Vale. FINIS Gentle Reader seeing things out of season are euer out of frame and being hastned in this I pray thee to amend what is amisse in letters words or sense