law but necessity and they would abide here upon no fairer terms then Will. There was no fear of God amongst them nor no terms to be treated upon but such as money bought for help by Arms was not possible Had it not been for Siricius the second Arch-Bishop of Canterbury they had been so long uncompounded with that the whole Nations ruine had undoubtedly been perfected He good man knew that Apollo's golden beard must be given to Mars and therefore adviseth composition with them which is made ten thousand pounds paid and they no more to trouble us But at the instance of their interest they grew faedifragous fell like lightning within a short time upon us amused the people and purchased a second contribution of sixteen thousand pound Qui timidè negat rogare docet Which paid they rest not Hell and the Grave ever cry Give give and having got coyn they proceed to gain the Countrey They thought we had Mines of Money who were so cheaply courted to part with it without any capitulation being like so many Doso's who answer I will give to every demand They come in afresh are offered money refuse it besiege and take Canterbury put to death the Arch-Bishop Elphegus and soon after under the conduct of Swain so havock and waste all that they seem rather to be divels then men so many Melamons turned from men into Lions Which gives me occasion to cry out with the Poet against such rude Souldiers and undisciplin'd strangers Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Those that the Camp do follow must Live less to Virtue then to Lust. For Truth and Piety in them A Toy is thought no Diadem Thus rested the Nation hurried and chafed all the time of the Danish concussion till Knute setled it who with much prudence and in testimony of his sorrow for those abuses commited by his Predecessors and Countreymen repaired decaied Churches and Abbeys built many Religious houses and Churches His Wife gave most noble and priceful Jewels to the Church at Winchester and he built many Churches and honoured Churchmen extreamly using their counsels in matters of high importance as Athelmare Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others He made also good Laws and did many things very worthy and well might say with the Philosopher to any that should upbraid him for a rude and loathsome Dane My Country is a shame to me thou art a shame to thy Country Power like all things alated seldome rests long in any continued Line 'T is in perpetual motion wandring from one Master to another and concentring in none but God from whom it first Emanated for all power is from him Just Quà efficiens Unjust quà non impediens and his Justice is as eminent in bearing with mens Usurpations as his Mercy in assisting their Rights the Danish insolency was gained by the good fortune of their Ancestors and their manly resolution broke through all disanimations which seemed to publish any impossibilitie of success their power setled in Knute the best of that breed and the greatest Monarch of that line and Nation for he ruled our England Denmarke Norway Scotland and part of Sweden expired in Knute the second called ordinarily Hardeknute who was a true Dane in lewdness and tyranny and under whom all manner of oppression was uncontrollably acted so just is the judgement of God that Malè parta malè dilabuntur Ex malè quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres Now the vogue of the Nation was for the Saxon line the great men and people chuse Edward one of the sonnes of Ethelbert who before was faine to flye into Normandy to his Couzen Duke William with whom he was when chosen to the Crown This Edward was a noble Prince and religious called Edward the Confessor his Lawes are notable he was a Clerkly man and they say Compiler of our common Lawes or rather restorer of them After this mans departure out of life the Kingdom was in disturbance by Earle Goodwin and his Sonnes Edward the sonne of Ironside prepared to obtain it Harold got most power and only gave battaile to Duke VVilliam the Norman who had the promise of K. Edward to be his heir if he dyed issuess as much from Harold to assist him Upon this occasion the Duke hearing King Edward was dead without child and that no Declaration was by him made touching his succession sent Embassadors to Harold now in possession on of the Crown to mind him of his promise in his extremity Harold returns answer in the negative Crownes are not easily come by nor ought to be courted away upon cheap terms he is no man at all that will not venture his mole-hill to gain the mountain of Kingly power 'T was notably said potentiam qui consecutus fuerit nemo tam facile deponit quam damnat Aeneas Sylvius They are both resolved one to hold what he hath the other to gaine what he expected to have their forces meet joyn battaile and Duke VVilliam proves Victor Now comes Change crowded in a new upon the Nation like waves in a disturbed Sea New Lords new Lawes feared I and for a while it proved so but the wisdome of Duke VVilliam gave continuance and peace to his power and conquest though he altered the favours and fortunes of particular persons yet he continued the old customes at least for the most part and gave them assurance that the furie of blood warmed once over there would be a cessation of all rigour and an aime at a just settlement which was promoted by nothing more then by conserving the rights of the Church and the reverence due to Church-men And therefore our Stories doe mention the Bishops and Clergy in high veneration in all reigns nay in the troublesome and impious reign of King Iohn who for that they reproved his profuse dissolute and cruell carriage to his Subjects hated them with a more then Vatinian hatred yet did many eminent Clergy-men keep places of favor greatness I will that the truth of this be not thought an obtrusion on the credulities of people specifie some few of those many religious men both Prelates and others which have been eminent Favourites and Officers in the severall reigns of Princes from the Conquest that men may see to love and consult with the Church-man has been held both the pietie and policie of former times In the time of the Conquerour I find Stigand Arch-Bishop of Canterburie a favourite In William Rufus his time Lanfrank of the the same See In the time of Henry the first Roger Bishop of Salisburie Protector of the Land in the Kings absence in Normandy In King Stephen's reign Thurstan Arch-Bishop of Yorke and Cardinall Robert Pulleyn great both with the King and Mawd Fitz-Empresse In Richard the first 's reign Ioseph Exon Arch-Bishop of Bourdeaux Richard Canon Comes ejus individuus saith Pitsaeus to the holy Land Hugh Bishop of Durham chief Justice
of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God for that he hath given you the former Rain moderately So our English reads it but he reads it after the Hebrew dedit vobis Doctorem Iustitiae he hath given you the Doctor of Righteousness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It seems that the Ancients ever delighted in shady places and seated themselves upon places of plenty and security woods and places of retirement are very contributive to Piety and Study popular frequentations divert the minds of youth from what they should intend therefore the holy Patriarch chuseth his aboad and schoole in Quercâ—…to Nemore and so did the Druyds Our Ancient masters of Learning in this Nation who herefore have their names from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Oak because they judg'd nothing more sacred then an Oak After Abraham I find Iob numbred amongst the Learned Teachers who lived about the latter end of the Patriarch Iacob as Cor. a Lapide saies and in Learning was profound and for acquaintance with God singular as appears by Gods Speech Ezek. 14. 16. Though these three men Noah Daniel and JOB were in it c. God expressing that though three of his high favourites were in Ierusalem yet he would not be intreated by them to spare it After Iob Moyses is mentioned a Man after Gods own heart to whom God appeared Face to Face whom Eupolemus in Eusebius saies to be the first Instructor of the Iewish Nation in Letters this Man was so mighty in honour amongst the Iews for his converse with God and the miraculous power that he expressed in their Conduct out of Egypt and Wander in the Wilderness that God concealed the place of his Death least the People should commit Idolatry to his Sepulchre Thus all were Doctors who first seminated Learning in the world by special instinct and direction of God who would not have his Church and people letterlesse and unarted but according to their receptivity and capacity conformable to their head Christ Iesus who being the Wisedome and Word of the Father is Lord and Doctor of all Arts and Sciences as St. Gregory truly noteth Afterwards when the Jewish Polity came to be fixed and they were in a succession of Government then they Erected publique Schools of learning and appointed Cities which to those ends they priviledged In the 15. Chapter of Ioshua we read of Debir the City of Letters or the Oracle or Loquutory whence the secrets of God were learned and given for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies here after Moses did Oâ—…hniel teach as Mosius from the Talmudists instructs us Adricomius also tels us of Cariatsepher which was the Debir before spoken of as appears 15 Chap. Ioshua 15. an Academy and University of Palestina and that in it arts were taught and that it was abundantly furnished with Schools and Masters to teach them To conclude this head It appears out of the holy story that there was a grand Colledge at Ierusalem in which the Masters of the Law resided and those that were inspired as by name Hulda the Prophetesse for so we read 2 Kings c. 22. v. 14. from which as the fountain all the other Schools grew the institution of which as judicious Calvin observes was that there should ever be a succession of learning and learned men in the Church of God that no age of the Church should be without Doctors learned and pious every way accomplish'd to the Ministry And therefore saith he when God extraordinarily called any to promulgate his illimited and absolute power whom he would send out as Prophets then did he qualifie them accordingly and gave them an humble ingenuity to put all their authority and enablement upon a miracle thus did Amos whom God called from a herdsman to be Prophet c. 7 v. 14. openly professe he was no Prophet nor the son of a Prophet that is not a Prophet ordinarily instructed from his youth in the Schools to be an Interpreter of the Scripture but one extra propositum by Divine call and speciall inspiration which had he not made appear he might saith Calvin have been exofficed for not having a call Thus and by these worthies prenominated hath Learning been handed downe from heaven to the Iews from them to the Celts Gauls or Britans for they are upon the point all one in Antiquity Our Samothes one of Iaphets posterity being about the age of the world 1910. a Teacher of learning and Erector of Schools as I shal hereafter shew God willing about which time also the Phoenicians Egyptians grew learned and had Tandos Memphaeos their Academies to which afterwards many ages as to that of Ierusalem the Greek Philosophers and Poets Orpheus Musaeus Melampodus Pythagorus Plato Socrates repaired and from whence imbibed those grounds upon which the Learning of this day and all times since is and hath been founded By this the Antiquity of Learning and the Nobility of its parentage is evinced It now follows that I should shew its qualities congenerous and proportionate to its birth Saint Iames hath fully defined it when he saith The wisedome that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle easie to be intreated T is a Cornucopia the generall Alms-giver It hath reduced natures tyranny into order and bounds by this Terpander played the Lacedemonians out of a sedition into a calmnesse by this the Town-Clark in the Acts cooled the people out of their uproar by this Pysistratus gain'd power over the Athenians the most jealous people of their liberties that the world had by this Cardinall Bessarion perswaded the Christians in the East to arme themselves against the Turke composed the differences between the Easterne and Westerne Churches quieted that disturbance which threatned the City of Bononia's utter ruine excited the Germane Princes against the Turks By this did Hubert Gualter our Countryman worke on the Nobles and People of this land after the death of Rich. the First to settle the Crowne contrary to their purposes upon King Iohn gaining him not only authority but favour in the exulcerated minds of the people By this in fine eloquently uttered have all great designes either of conquest or compact been effected and without this neither Hegesias his discourse of the miseries of life or Plato his immortality of the soul and the Elisium to be enjoyed after life would have been so operative upon men who gave their lives as it were in tribute to their eloquence and incomparable discoveries Look and read over the Journals of Antiquity view the Diaries of time and you shall find learned men usefull in their places and ages noble advantages to their Countries their Chieftains to defend them their Oracles to advise them their Orators to plead for them their Physicians to cure them nay their Musicians to recreate them though popular charity hath often been so cold and affections so inconstant that want and misery have usually
the study of the Gaules Nor let any think that the learning we have had so long from Iaphet and his posteritie was only opticall such as of the Stars and their influences the world and its circuit or only naturall the skill of beasts and plants and how to use and improve them but it was also more politique and speculative we had much improvement of reason by excellent Lawes and rules of life by understanding the uses and customes of Nations skil'd we were in languages for besides the Samothei Sarronides and Druyds we had many notable Greeks who came over with Brute and here stayed teaching in publique schools and Leland affirms that before Oxford was built there was erected neer it two schools for instruction of youth in Latine and Greek which were called Graecolada and Latinolada After Bladud the young Prince earnest to promote learning both in himself and others repaired to Athens there stayed and studied and brought back with him many famous Philosophers whom after he came to the crown he placed in a School at Stamford The like schools did King Caradoe long after erect at VVinchester of which holy Tathajus was President But most famous were the schools of Chester Carleon and Bangor in all which were men excellently learned in all Arts both sacred and secular but especially in those of Chester in which as I learn out of Godfrey of Monmouth in the time of Prince Arthur which was about the yeare of Christ 530 there was above 200. nay after Bale 2500. Philosophers who were excellently arted and taught all comers By all which it appears that not only learning and arts have been in other remote parts of the world as amongst the Iews Phoenicians Chaldaeans Aegyptians Persians Greeks Romans but that even from us they had much of their litterature and the rudiments of knowledg and what of humanity and glorie we have attained to we ought gratefully to attribute to those foundations which were laid by those times and since further by the good hand of God raised to greater conspicuity since Christianitie came amongst us We have hitherto seen what fruit the Tree of ingenious nature hath brought to the Harvest of the Muses now we will summon in Christianitie to bring in her presentment And here to the honour of God and our own humiliation we must testifie that we of this Nation before Christianitie was amongst us were under as grosse a barbarity and rigour of Ethnique Tyranny as the most savage Indian nay as the worst of people we worshipped Devils and not God Dis Saturn Iupiter Mars Minerva Apollo Diana and Hercules to whom we dedicated the Porches of our Temples and Gates of our Cities nay Mela Diodorus Strabo Pliny Coesar averre that we sacrificed men inhumanely tortured strangers who came to us by stuffing them up in Images made of Hay into which we put wild Beasts with them and set them all on fire that we went naked painted our bodies fed on raw flesh at least on Herbs and Trees had Women in common knew neither how to sowe or how to skill Trades but only to lead a life of rapacity but it pleased God to bring us out of this Aegypt into Canaan by the conduct and instrumentality of our Christian King and Countryman Lucius Who to the honor of God our nation and his own eternal fame was the first Christian King of this land is called by the Britains Lever Maure the Prince of great renown or the first fruit of Christianitie as being the first that imbraced the faith of Christ and caused his people so to doe he came to this Empire about the year of Christ 1791 and being observed to have a singular sweetness and debonnairnesse of nature grew propitious to Elvanus Avalonius and Melvinus Belgius both British Doctors who so effectually wrought on him that they in a short time converted him to the faith of Christ God preparing him by a good temper and facility of constitution to hearken to their indeavours and God also instructing them to a seasonable promotion of his providence to so sacred an issue the good King had now laied his hand to the Plough and resolved not to look back his eye was forward how he might make his people participants with him in the blessing of baptisme he hears that the Churches succession was then in Rome And to Pope Eleutherius he sends a most humble and earnest Petition and Epistle That by the Apostolique authority he and all his people may be admitted to the Church and her holy things and be partakers of her Sacraments and Rites The Pope or Bishop of Rome understanding this kept Jubiles answered his desire incontinently and with his two spiritual Fathers who carried his request and their own praise returned as joynt in Commission Phagan and Dervian two of the Roman Clergy from whom by the Pope so authorized he and his People received the sacrament of Baptism and embraced the Faith of Christ which was about the year after Christ 180. which Kingdom of ours thus converted was according to Sabellicus and others of no less authority the first that universally embraced Christ in all the world So that the first Christian King Lucius and the first Christian Emperor Constantine that the world had were Britains born bred amongst us and this we ought with all holy triumph and glory to God to mention as a high Priviledge as run the words of Pitsaeus our Learned Country-man No sooner did God call this noble King to his Worship but he gave him a heart to honour God by adorning Religion with what was necessary to its prosperity and encrease He therefore builded many Churches for entertainment of people to partake of holy Mysteries them separated from common to religious uses He constituted Episcopal Sees erected Religious Houses and endowed them with liberal maintenance and that they might with more security be inhabited gave them large Priviledges and by this and other his right worthy acts was preserved the true Religion and British fame till about the year 400 which was near two hundred twenty one years after his first coming Afterwards about the year 400 I find the name English mentioned for then the Angles came Pagans into this Land About the year 616. I read them baptized by the command and example of Ethelbert the fift King of Kent and the first Christian King English a man he was of no ordinary endowment having with high place all virtues and noble sciences matched Venerable Bede tells us that at the instance of Augustin the Monk this King made Canterbury a Bishops See and him Bishop and Primate there builded several Churches commanded the People to frequent them and the Priests to pray preach and sing in them Endowed many Religious houses about the years 598 and 605. the Charters to which and the Priviledges by them passed are evident in stories He also builded the
of the Oxe that treadeth out the corn the labourer is worthy of his hire And were there no other Argument for Tythes as Maintenance yet the Right of them would be Evinceable out of the Rule of meer Analogie and Proportion which the Apostle hints when he saies If we have sowen unto you spiritual things is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things 1 Cor. 9. 11. where the Apostle by an Elegant ratiocination convinces the Corinthians that their contribution to their Teachers and the Apostles is far beneath their deserts that still they are the Ministers Debtors Why we sow the seed of immortality and life amongst you we enfranchise you of heaven and make you citizens of the heavenly Ierusalem you pay us but in corruptible things as Silver and Gold with what is like your selves mortal and impermanent and does not the disparitie between the Work and the Wages argue you stil debtors to us In all Professions and courses of life there is a return of Labour and a gain ordinarily proportionate to the toil the Merchant when he ventures a long voyage expects a large profit and he has it and well deserves it a servants wages the price of his toil is his due and 't were injurie to detain it from him a Souldiers pay is his due and 't were dishonestie to keep him if we could without it the Physician and Lawyer have Fees for their counsels and pleadings and all Artists prizes for their Works and Wares and 't is fit they should be contented for them and must the Church-man be the onely Capuchin or Mendicant Must he onely live upon Alms and Charitie I confess it was wont to be his advantage to have nothing yet possess all things there was a time when Christians brought all they had and laid it at the Apostles feet had all things in common contributed to the necessities of the Saints had bowels of affection and were not only ready to open their purses to their Teachers but even if need were to lose their right eyes for them Gal. 4. 15. Then then there needed no Imperatorial Edicts and Synodick Constitutions for Church Maintenance which is the reason why Agobard Bishop of Lyons saith That before his time there was nothing in the Holy Fathers or in Synods publickly constituted about ordaining of Churches and endowing them with maintenance there being so great a fervor of devotion and holy love to the Church in peoples mindes that such compulsions were prevented by peoples Free-wills But when corruptions of manners had ravished away the Worlds Virginity and turned men from fervently devout into a churlish penurious Tepiditie so that their Mammon was more dear then their religion then was it necessary for the Church to pray ayd of powerd Patrons whose awe should redeem the Church from the thraldom of a Dependent maintenance and at this door perhaps came in the Concessions and fixed Dues of the Church which since have been in use and therefore in kinde as well as in proportion been counted due I have nothing to say for the incomes of the Papacie for the Revenues they politickly have gained to maintain their pomp and greatness let Baal plead for himself what exceeds the Line of Tythes as maintenance I am to account Eccentrique and not to plead for because 't is the honey that Ionathan must not taste Procul hinc procul ite prophani Tythes in the Christian world have been payd many hundreds of years Aventine a good Author tels us that Charlemain by his Decree recalled Tythes imployed to secular uses setling them where he thought they ought to be upon the Church And Charles the great left his Dominions and the people of them free from all Tribute and payments save onely such as were payable to the Church in the right of Tythes I forbear more Authorities because the clowd of them in forraign stories is so great that to mention them were to swell my Apologie into almost an infinitie of pages For their payment in this Nation for many hundred of years there is ample testimony in our Lawes and Records for above nine hundred years and therefore they being Ultra memoriam hominis are presumed to have a good Commencement and may prescribe had they no Law but that of use and custom But there needs no plea of time and custome where there is Legal and Civil right to them by both Civil and Canonique Sanctions for besides that of Arch-Bishop Egbert who appointed That every Priest should teach those under his charge that they ought to offer the Tenth of all their Substance to the Church and that the Priests ought to receive Tythes of the people Iornalensis tells us Offa King of Mercia gave and established the Tenth of all things to the Church the like is done in the general Councel at Winchester in Ann. 855. Amongst the Lawes of King Alured I finde this Tythes the First-born and Fatlings give to God So in the Laws of Edward and Gunthrun the Dane Ethelstan Edmund Edgar Knute Canons of Elfric confirmed by the Lawes of William the Conquerour and ever since continued as an undoubted right of the Church which every good man is bound to defend by sober and warrantable means and not otherwise for Magna Charta which was but a Declarative Law says That the Church of England may be free and have all her Rights that is saith the Learned Lord Cook that all the Ecclesiastical persons shall enjoy all their lawful jurisdictions and other their Rights wholly without any diminution or substraction whatsoever This Law called Magna Charta was anciently so sacred that it was to be publickly proclaimed not only in Churches but also at the Crosses and most notorious places in Market Towns and those cursed that violated it as Parisiensis relates to us Notwithstanding which there are many amongst us that openly protest against Tythes qua maintenance as burthensom Popish and to be changed as a great grievance But I pray Why burthensom more then rent to a Land-Lord The one when time serves will be grievous as well as the other were Land-Lords out of power as well as Church-men there would be as loud an out-cry against them as against the Clergie the country-mans gain is his Religion he can willingly to save Tythes consent to the Ministers writ of ease so his seed be seasonably in the ground and his crop brought home uninjured he has his whole years wishes he is as wel satisfied to take his ease on Sundayes as to go to Church and his profit he findes as good from land 5. miles from a Church as from what is nearer he accounts every penie losse out of purse that 's paid for a few prayers and to hear a man talk an hour or two and so forth to use the language of some of them as if we were not commanded to honour God with our substance and as if to
born while both such Clerks and such Councellors are Conjurati fratres sworn to make a Prey of their Clyents and not to as is their Duty defend both them and theirs from injury and oppressions The encroachment of which Vermin for they are no other ought not to Depraeciat worthy practisers who love Art for Arts sake and gain upon worthy accounts For as all Callings have their blemishes so must not this be expected free unlesse the Professors of it could produce a Writ of priviledge against vice and a Charter for virtue and Immunity from what ever is opposite thereto which I think they will not affirm they can since they are men and so subject to like infirmities with others Without learning then neither Physicians or Lawyers of note will continue or thrive those two useful Professions will down nay what 's more strange the Souldiers Trade will decay and lose its Reputation for there is no Military man of place compleat but he who is in some measure though to no high degree learned for war can never be well managed without learning that teaches to chuse fit methods of fighting and discipline fit places on which fit times in which to fight yea it states and assertains to men the justnesse of quarrels upon which to or not to engage History is a Noble Tutor to the Souldier it tels him that wind weather hills woods plains passages have befriended great atchievements if well closed with and that rash motions have lost noble Enterprizes and their Engagers As no man is wise at all times so not in all things God who onely made all knows all and so much nearer do we approach him as we well improve the Souls he hath given us by intellectual converses A meer daring letterlesse Commander can in a rational way promise himself no more successe in his Enterprise then a Mastiff can in his contest with a Lion all he must leave to the issue which a wise man looks at through Mediums proper and peculiar as to Riches by lawful industry to Knowledge by Books to Health by abstinence and to heaven by virtue and obedience He that thinks a Veni vidi vici will do had best consider whether the Ants industry may not defeat the Eagles power and a few well disciplined threaten more then multitudes in disorder and good conduct succeed better then numerous companies at random The wise man says Ecclesiast 9. 18. Wisedom is better then weapons of war and verse 16. better then strength And the son of Syrach Wisedom 6. tells us That wisedom is better then strength and a man of understanding is more worth then one strong The Poets hinted this when they bring in Agamemnon making the Conquest of Troy easie if he had but ten Counsellors like Nestor Policy effecting often what Force cannot as is set forth in that feat of Vulcan's which Homer mentions where Venus being courted by Mars and Vulcan jealous of his Mistrisse willing to know the utmost of their Congresses and yet daring not to apprehend them in midst of their pleasures lest Mars by his power and puissance should crush and ruine him took up the resolution to fill the bed on which they lustfully entertained each other with snares and private chains and catches where in the Amorous pair embracing each other were caught doing that by Art which he durst not aperto Marte attempt It is a vanity for men to hope to manage war well without learning or Conduct from learned men as grosse an one as for a blind man to boast of discerning the least imaginable Attom without Organ or Medium proper thereto I know there are many conclusive that books Effeminate the mind and by a kind of softnesse so Incandorate it that no good look is reserved for manly Acts though they conduce to self-preservation which is most an end with the Ruine of others But this is rather a Calumny then a just Charge on Learning and therefore ought not to have fairer respect with men then the Viper had with S. Paul which he shook off unharmed The Muses will receive no detriment from this broad-side of Malice because 't is managed with more Gall then Truth Experience tells us that the greatest Actors and Actions that ever have been on this stage of earth performed have been by learned men Moses his Conduct of Israel out of Egypt in despight of Pharaoh was a grand action of spirit and manliness done by him not quà doctus but qui doctus not as he was learned but by him who was learned as S. Peter in his Sermon says In all the learning of the Egyptians And Aristotle tels us That Alexander the worlds Conquerour was so bookish according to his Tutoring that he would never have Homer out of his hand or from under his pillow nay when he was so far gone into Asia that he found no Books he caused the works of Philistus to be sent for into Greece and with them sent for other Histories Iulius Caesar a great Conquerour and as great a Scholer and writer witnesse his Commentaries in which as one saith In eis nihil à proposito alienum nihil non ordine ac loco nihil non magnopere necessarium admiscet No lesse was Brutus and Lucullus Marcus Censorius Cato is by Quintilian said to be an Orator an Historian a Lawyer a Husbandman skilful in all things who notwithstanding his Militarie employments and those Domestick contests that so fully begirt him was learnd in that rude age which had been buried in Barbarity the Greek learning to them lost reviving in him what was their quondam Ornament and teaching them that nothing was to industry unattainable the like Quintilian sayes of Cornelius Celsus and no less do Historians write of Iulian the Apostate Hannibal the great Carthaginian and sundry others Our own stories are not barren of presidents in point Albinus Governor of this Land in the time of Severus is noted to be a most valiant man and Noble Commander and Dion tells us he excelled Severus both in birth and learning King Edward the Third was a Learned man fit to Peace and War Richard Duke of Glocester base Son to Henry the First is termed by Historians Belli pacisque artibus florentissimus the learned Glanvil though a dextrous Writer and Lawyer was Commander in chief of Henry the Third his Forces to the Holy Land and with noble success managed his charge Harding the brave Historian was so brave a Souldier Et Martem semper ita coluit ut Minervam nunquam neglexerit Perpetuà Musis semper comitatus Armis Arts and Arms at once conjoyning Both in one himself combining The like instances are of Tiptoft Earle of Worcester Henry the Eighth Sir Iohn Bourchier Sir Philip Sydney Sir Walter Raleigh with sundry others who by the knowledge of stories and search after learning have been stimulated to do the utmost feats of Honour