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A91832	Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately make publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a Lover of the Truth.	Raleigh, Carew, 1605-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing R149; Thomason E490_2; ESTC R206058	10,006	24

posterity deserving Princes in their own persons overthrown and cast out of their inheritance and according to humane reason very unlikely to repossesse it And for his own haereditary Kingdome who were a people famous in war and high in reputation they are become the most despicable conquered people upon the face of the whole earth They who within this twenty yeares looked upon themselves as conquerors of this nation they who in the last two Kings Raignes had all the power riches offices mariages wealth and greatnesse within their command in both Kingdomes are now ruined at home both in Kirke and State The former unto which by faire or foul play they endeavoured to model all the Reformed Churches of the West hath now no where a being And the latter subjugated to a forreign power All their great and Ancient Families of which they so much boasted even plucked up by the roots and those few remaining so poor as they can not shew their faces This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes but according to humane judgment much of this may be attributed to the greatnesse power and prodigality of that nation in their accesse to England whereby they became insolent and proud apted thereby for any undertaking and perchance for some falshoods and treacheries even to their own native Princes to King James his dying in distast with the Parliament to his often deserting the Protestant cause both at home and abroad And to his leaving the Crown poor and in debt whereby his Successor was often put to his shifts and forced to open the purs-strings of his Subjects whereby he shut their hearts towards him and encouraged them to demand such things as nothing but extreme poverty and necessity could enforce a Prince to grant But enough of this I shal only novv take notice of such aspersions as this Author is pleased to bestow on particular persons of honour and worth as if he meant throughout his whole book to make it his businesse to raile at good men and defend the bad And first we light upon Cobham and Raleighs Treason where in the character of Raleigh he allows him a grand enemy to the Spaniard and opposer of the peace yet immediately after believes him a conspirer with the Spaniard but tells us not in what particular he should have served him Fol. 284. he tells us that the seventh of Novemb. 1603 was the day of Raleighs arraignment and the Jury called to the Bar being a Middlesex Jury against whose persons he did not except T is true he did not for he knew not any one of their faces and being confident of his own innocence onely wished they might have honesty and understanding both which they wanted But there was appointed for him another Jury the foreman of which was Sir Michal Stanhope the next Sir Edward Darcy the next Sir William Killegrew all men of honour and near servants to the late Queen Elizabeth But these being found not for their turn they were all changed over night and those others put in their places The arraignment is in Print therefore I shall not trouble my self with the particulars of it I shall only demand why Cobham was not brought face to face to accuse Raleigh being under the same roof with him in so much that King James himself taking notice of it said that if Cobham could have said any thing against Raleigh they would have brought him from Constantinople to have accused him And I would fain know what it was that ever Cobham accused Raleigh of for yet I never could Likewise whether ever any man was condemned by a single witnesse and he not present neither And it is certain that letter of Cobhams under his own hand written the night before his tryal wherein upon his salvation he clears Raleigh from all manner of Treasons against the King or State is yet extant and was produced at a Committee of Parliament by Mr. Carew Raleigh But you may perceive the spleen of this Author to Raleigh in that he saith he tired the Court and Jury with impertinencies when as all other men present at his arraignment thought never man spake better for himself nay divers which came thither his enemies went away with pity and commiseration of his injuries and misfortunes and even Cook the Attorney himself being retired into a garden to take some ayre when his man brought him word that the Jury had condemned Raleigh of Treason answered surely thou art mistaken for I my self accused him but of misprision of Treason and this relation upon the word of a Christian I have received from Sir Edward Cook's own mouth And since we are now fallen upon this businesse we will take it all together and see what he saith concerning Raleighs last voyage and death though it happened 14 years after Fol. 459 and Anno. 1617 he tells us that Sir Walter Raleigh wearied with long imprisonment and having there spent his time well in the History of the World made his petition more passable to the K. whose love to learning granted him now at last his liberty and not long after gave him leave to wander after a design to the Western world where be had been in several Climats before Whereas it is well known King James forbad Sir Walter Raleighs book for some passages in it which offended the Spaniard and for being two plain with the faults of Princes in his Preface Sir William St. Johns and Sir Edward Villiers the 〈◊〉 of Buckinghams half-Brother procured Sir Walter Raleighs liberty and had 1500 livre. for their labour and for 700 li more offered him his full pardon and liberty not to go his Voyage if he pleased both which he refused and the rather because he was told by the Lord Chancellor Verulam who was no fool nor no ill Lawyer That his commission from the King under the great seal of England wherein the King made him General of his forces by Land and Sea and gave him Marshal law over his people was as good a pardon for all former offences as the law of England could afford him And for the aspersions which he lays upon his Voyage as that it was a trick only to get his liberty and that he knew of no Mine If so Raleigh was a mad man to hazard his life in such a long Sea journey and to expend above 10000 livre. of his own estate as t is well known upon oath he did vvhen he might have avoyded that trouble and stayd at home for the disbursing 700 livre. But it is most certain that Raleigh did really and truly believe in the mine and so did Kemish too upon good and just grounds having had a true trial of the ore and not with false and Chymical tricks as this trifling lyar would intimate But for the particulars of these passages and the true cause of the fayling of that Voyage I shall refer you to Sir Walter Raleighs own Apology now in print and to be had

OBSERVATIONS UPON Some particular PERSONS and PASSAGES in a Book lately made publick INTITULED A COMPLEAT HISTORY of the LIVES and REIGNES OF MARY Queen of SCOTLAND AND OF HER SON JAMES The Sixth of Scotland and the First of England France and Ireland Written by a Lover of the Truth Mat. 7. 5. First cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye Ecclus. 4. 25 26. In no wise speak against the truth but be abashed of the errour of thine ignorance Be not ashamed to confess thy sins and force not the course of a river LONDON Printed for GA BEDELL and THO. COLLINS at the middle-Temple Gate Fleet-Street 1656. THere is one Mr. Sanderson who hath lately written a booke which he calls a Compleat History of Mary Queen of Scotland and James her son the sixth of Scotland and first of England In which he hath compiled not a History but a Libel against all the good men and good actions of those times and with most servile flattery praised and exalted the bad both men and matters His whole book is a rapsody of notes and scattered papers from other men collected without either order or method being exceedingly defective both in time place and nominations and written in so unseemly and disjoynted a stile that you may easily perceive he hath taken up other mens words without understanding their matter and unlesse it be where he rails on persons of honour which he doth plainly and often though sometimes very falsly his language is dark harsh and unintelligible But that you may the better know what ware you are like to have out of this mans shop I shall give you his character and trace him from his parent His father was a Gentleman though poor but that I take to be no sin though this man doth and how he can clear himself from that offence I know not he was of kin to Sir Walter Raleigh and in the time of his prosperitie and greatnesse was his servant and intrusted with receiving great sums of money for him out of his Office of Wines and other his places by which he became in arrears to Sr. Walter Raleigh in divers great sums which after his troubles being a prisoner in the Tower Sr. Walter sent unto Sanderson for But he was so far from paying them presuming that Raleigh was there friendlesse that he pretended Sr. Walter Raleigh should owe him 2000 li. Whereupon Sir Walter in great anger commenced a suit against Sanderson which was managed by his servant and solicitor John Shelbury And Sanderson being overthrown and found in arrears to Sir Walter Raleigh in very great sums was cast into prison and there dyed a poor contemptible beggar And hence originally sprang all the spleen and malice of this man to Sir Walter Raleigh For this man himself he lived for ought I could ever hear at first very obscurely and as I conjecture by some passages in his book studied Hiraldry for he often brings in many impertinent digressions to shew his skill that way But afterwards he tells us he was servant to the Lord Ross in his Spanish Embassie a fit servant no doubt for such a Master For what that Lord was I shall not need to mention it being so notoriously known to most men yet living After this he tells us he was at the siege of Breda under the Earl of Oxford to whom in his book he was pleased to give the title of a deboyst Lord with many other unhandsome Epithites But I cannot learn that this man had ever any relation to the Court more then at large until he became Secretary to the Earl of Holland when he was Chancellor of Cambridg where he behaved himself so corruptly that he was with great disgrace and scorn turned out of his place for taking Bribes of divers Scholars to make them Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity when the King came to an entertainment at Cambridg So that for a long time after these men were by every boy called Sandersons Doctors A pretty while after this he married the late Queens Landresse and so might perchance creep again into her chamber below stairs but for any other imployment in Court after his Secretary-ship I could never hear he had any And now you may guesse what liquor you are like to draw out of a vessel thus seasoned I shall proceed to examine some particulars in his book wherein I shall absolutely decline saying any thing concerning the Queen of Scots or that part of the Story both the errors and excellencies of that Lady and the inevitable causes of her deplorable destinie being sufficiently known to all Only I shall observe that in some passages of Queen Elizabeths Raigne he gives a harsher censure upon Essex and his offences then any writer heretofore As likewise in fol. 128. he seemes to intimate out of some discourse between Davison the Secretary and Queen Elizabeth That she would have had the Queen of Scots poysoned by Paulet and Drury her keepers which they refused But is it likely Kings should want fit ministers for such mischiefs when common men can hire them daily I think not and if they refused others might easily have bin had But this is a scandal raised upon that excellent Princesse which I never heard or read of before There is no Innocence so clear which this mans pen will not slubber For what need she have gon so fouly to work to take away her life whom the whole Parliament of Eng. petitioned her to execute which this Author confeseth fol. 117. and I hope it is no secret that her death proceeded even frō the Scots themselves yea even from those whom K. James sent to solicit for her Witness that speech of the Master of Gray tua non mordet As for her Son King James truly I believe none will deny him to be a Learned Prince and of great experience which the troubles and vexations he had endured in his youth by his own undutiful and head-strong Scots subjects had well taught him But it cannot be denyed that he failed even in that which he most boasted of his King craft for he never treated with any Prince or State in Christendome that he was not over-reached he spent more in frivilous Embassies then would have raised an army to have setled his Children in their inheritance and being wooed and courted to have been head of all the Protestant Princes in Christendome which would have impowred him to give the Law to all this part of the world he refused and inclined to their enemies whereby as much as in him lay he ruined the one and advanced the other And whereas his accession to this Kingdome hath been thought by some the greatest happinesse that ever befel the Nations it hath proved by what secret predetermination of the allseeing God no man knoweth the greatest misfortune to both For after a miserable and wasting civil war we see his