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A51174	A true and exact account of the wars with Spain, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth (of famous memory) being the particulars of what happened between the English and Spanish fleets, from the years 1585 to 1602, shewing the expeditions, attempts, fights, designs, escapes, successes, errors, &c. on both sides : with the names of Her Majesty's ships and commanders in every fleet : being a patern and warning to future ages : never printed before / written by Sir William Monson ...	Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2466; ESTC R2957	60,871	57

Kingdom is well governed where the King is ruled by the Laws not the Laws by the King Be not presumptuous in your Command yet seek to be obeyed as you desire to obey for as you are above others others are above you Give your mind to accommodate Controversies among your Neighbours and you shall gain their Love which will more avail you than the hate of the Lawyers can hurt you Punish Idleness and other vices as well for that they are such as for examples sake Gain love by doing Justice and hate doing wrong though it were to your immediate profit If you marry after my death chuse a Wife as near as you can suitable to your Calling Years and Condition for such Marriages are made in Heaven though celebrated on Earth If your Estate were great your choice might be the freer but where the preferment of your Sisters must depend upon your Wives Portion let not your Fancy overrule your Necessity It is an old Saying He that marrieth for love hath evil days and good nights Consider if you marry for Affection how long you will be raising Portions for your Sisters and the misery you shall live in all the days of your life for the greatest Fortune that a man can expect is in his Marriage A wise man is known by his actions but where Passion and Affection sway that man is deprived of sence and understanding It is not the Poverty or Meanness of her that 's married that makes her the better Wife for commonly such Women grow elevated and are no more mindful of what they have been than a Mariner is of his escape from a danger at Sea when it is past You must set your Wife a good example by your own carriage for a wise and discreet Husband usually makes an obedient and dutiful Wife Beware of Jealousie for it causeth great vexation of mind and scorn and laughter from your Enemies Many times it is occasioned by the behaviour of the Husband towards other Women in that case do like the Physician take away the cause of the infirmity if not you are worthy to feel the smart of it Jealousie is grounded upon conceit and imagination proceeds from a weak idle and distempered Brain and the unworthy carriage of him that is jealous many times maketh a Woman do what otherwise she would not If God be pleased to give you Children love them with that discretion that they discern it not lest they too much presume upon it Encourage them in things that are good and correct them if they offend The love of God to Man cannot be better expressed than by that of a Father to his Children Comforts of Crosses they prove to their Parents and herein Education is a great help to Nature Let your Children make you to disrelish and abandon all other delights and pleasures of the world in respect of the comfort and joy you receive by them Make account then that Somer is past and the melancholy Winter approacheth for a careful and provident Father cannot take delight in the world and provide for his Children For a conclusion I will recommend two principal Virtues to you the one is Secrecy the other Patience Secrecy is necessarily required in all especially publick persons for many times they are trusted with things the revealing whereof may cost them their lives and hinder the designs of their Masters It is a folly to trust any man with a secret that can give no assistance in the business he is trusted with Councellors of State and Generals of Armies of all other ought to be most secret for their designs being once discovered their Enterprizes fail Silence was so much esteemed among the Persians that she was adored for a Goddess The Romans kept their Expeditions so secret as that alone was a principal cause of their Victories But of all others trust not Women with a Secret for the weakness of their Sex makes them unsecret Be patient after the example of Job and you shall become a true Servant of God Patience deserveth to be painted with a Sword in her hand for she conquers and subdues all difficulties If you will take advantage of your Enemy make him cholerick and by patience you shall overcome him Marcus Aurelius being both Emperour and Philosopher confessed he attained not the Empire by Philosophy but by Patience What man in the world was ever so patient as our Saviour himself by following whose example his Ministers have converted more by their words then all the persecuting Emperours could deferr by rigour or cruelty of Laws The impatient man contests with God himself who giveth and taketh away at his good will and pleasure Let me good Son be your Patern of Patience for you can witness with me that the Disgraces I have unjustly suffered my Estate being through my misfortunes ruined my Health by imprisonments decayed and my Services undervalued and unrecompensed have not bred the least distaste or discontent in me or altered my resolution from my infancy that is I was never so base as to insinuate into any mans favour who was favoured by the times I was never so ambitious as to seek or crave Imployment or to undertake any that was not put upon me My great and onely comfort is that I served my Princes both faithfully and fortunately but seeing my Services have been no better accepted I can as well content my self in being a Spectator as if I were an Actor in the world Before I treat of the Sea I will shew what Laws Richard the First established in his Expedition by Sea which in some points are observed to this day 1. That whosoever should kill a man should be tied to him killed and thrown into the Sea with him 2. If any be killed on Land the party to be buried alive with him killed 3. Whosoever shall strike another and not draw bloud shall be duck'd three times at the Yards Arm. 4. Whosoever revileth or curseth another so often as he revileth shall pay an ounce of Silver 5. Whosoever draweth his Knife or draweth Bloud shall lose his Hand 6. Whosoever doth steal shall have his Head shorn and boiled Pitch poured upon it and Feathers strewed upon the same whereby he may be known and at the first Landing place he shall be towed on shore A Yearly Account of the English and Spanish Fleets which were set forth from the Year 1585 when the Wars with Spain first began untill the Year 1602 when King James made his happy Entrance into this Kingdom shewing the Designs Escapes and Errors on both English and Spanish sides with the Names of the Queens Ships and Commanders in every Expedition A Voyage of Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies Anno Dom. 1585. Ships The Elizabeth Bonaventure The Ayde Commanders Sir Francis Drake Capt. Forbister Capt. Carlee Lieutenant General by Land UPon the knowledge of the Imbargo made by the King of Spain in Anno 1585 of the English Ships Men and Goods found in his

shall temper this Expence but when I die remember what I say seek Advancement rather by your carriage the curiousness the reputation you gain by that will be lasting when this will appear but like a Flower sading Frame your Course of Life to the Country and not to the Court and yet make not your self such a stranger to great persons as in Assemblies they should ask others who you are I confess the greatest and suddenest rising is by the Court yet the Court is like a hopeful and forward Spring that is taken with a sharp and cold Frost which nips and blasts a whole Orchard except 2 or 3 Trees for after that proportion commonly Courtiers are preferr'd And he that will thrive at Court must make his dependency upon some great person in whose Ship he must imbarque all his hopes aud how unfortunate such great persons are oftentimes themselves and how unthankful to their Followers we want not Precedents He that settles his Service upon one of them shall fall into the disfavour of another for a Court is like an Army ever in War striving by stratagems to circumvent and kick up one anothers heels You are not ignorant of the aptness of this Comparison by what you know of me whose case will serve you for a Prospective-glass wherein to behold your danger afar off the better to prevent it Yet reverence Lords because they are Noble and one more than another as he is more notable in virtue Be choice of your Company for as a man makes election of them he is censured Man lives by Reputation and that failing he becomes a Monster Let your Company consist of your own rank rather better than worse for hold it for a Maxim The better Gentleman the more gentle in his behaviour Beware they be not accused of Crimes for so it may touch you in Credit and if you lose your Reputation in the bud of your Youth you shall scarce recover it in the whole course of your Life Let them be civil in carriage for commonly such men are sensible above all let them be learned for Learning is a Fountain from whence springs another Life let them be temperate in Diet and Expence so shall you learn to live in health and increase in wealth Beware they be not cholerick in disposition or arrogant in Opinion for so you shall become a Slave to their Humours and base by suffering A cholerick man of all others is the worst Companion for he cannot temper his rage but on any slight occasion of a Friend becomes an Enemy Value true Friendship next to Marriage which nothing but Death can dissolve for the sickleness of Friendship is oftentimes the ruine of ones Fortune Beware of Gaming for it causes great vexation of Mind If you lose it begets in you that humour that out of hope of regaining your losses you will endanger the loss of all Do not presume too much of your skill in Play or making wagers as if you were excellent above others or have Fortune at command for she is like a Whore variable and inconstant and when she disfavours you it is with more loss at once than she recompenceth at twice Love your Brother and Sisters for their own sakes as you are bound by Nature but especially for mine whose they are Remember you are all indifferent to me but that God chose you from the rest to be a strength and stay to them think you cannot honour your Father more being dead than in shewing affection to them he dearly loved and nothing will more approve you to be mine than love and kindness amongst your selves You owe somewhat more to me than that I am your Father in that I seek your Advancement above theirs of which Obligation I will acquit you conditionally you perform what you ought to them For because Man cannot himself live ever he desires to live in his Posterity and if I had an hundred Sons my greatest hope must depend upon you as you are my eldest and seeing my care is of you above the rest do not make my Memory so unhappy as to give the World an occasion to say I left an unnatural Son The onely request I make is be kind and loving to them who I know by their disposition will give you no cause of offence A discourtesie from you will be as sharp to them as a Razor from another Be courteous and friendly to all for men are esteemed according to ther carriage There is an old Proverb The courtesie of the mouth is of great value and costs little A proud man is envied of his Equals hated by his Inferious and scorned by his Superiours so that betwixt Envy Hate and Scorn he is friendless Many times a man is condemned to death out of presumption especially when it concurrs with an opinion of his former ill carriage how much therefore doth it concern a man in the times of his Prosperity to lay up a stock of Love and Reputation There cannot be a greater Honour than to gain a mans Enemy by a courtesie it far exceeds the kindness that is done to another and doubly obligeth him that receiveth it Love is a thing desired by a King from his Subjects by a General from his Souldiers and by a Master from his Servants he that hath it is rich by it it maintains peace in time of peace and is a safe Bulwork in time of war Do not buy this Love with the ruine of your Estate as many do with prodigal Expences and then are requited with pity and derision Let your Expence be agreeable to the wearing of your Cloaths better or worse according to Company or the journying your Horse the less way you go to day you may travel the further to morrow but if you go every day a long and wearisom Journey your Horse will fail and you be enforc'd to go on foot And so will it be in your Expences if you do not moderate them according to Days and Companies your Horse and you may travel faintly together If you are prodigal in any thing let it be in Hospitality as most agreeable to the will of God you shall feed the hungry relieve the poor and get the love of the rich What you spend among your Neighbours is not lost but procures their loves and helps when you have need and thereby you shall find Friendship in the Country as available as Favour at Court If you are called to any place of Magistracy do justice with pity revenge not your self of your Enemy under colour of Authority for that shews baseness and will procure you hatred In Money matters favour your Country if it be not against the present profit of the King for many times his Name is used for the gain of other men Study the Laws not to make a mercenary practice of them but onely for your own use the good of your Neighbours and the Government of your Country Hold the Laws in reverence next to the King for that