mercy of the Usurpers dying a while after of the Small Pox 1655 6. En Nobil Georgii Bar. Chandois cineres paenitentiales qui lachrimis mixti Invitam abluere culpam quae eadem erat Herois paena magnanimo munifico pio maximo viro erat unus error erat veneri una Labes Abi Generosa Iuventus quae tumida ferves vena nec tanti emas paenitere nec in facinus praeceps ruas bis lugendum cum patras cum Luis THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT DORMER Earl of Caernarvon RObert Dormer Grand-Child to Robert Dormer Esq Created Baronet by King Iames Iune 10. 1615. and Baron Dormer of Wing in Buckingham-shire the thirtieth of the same Month in the same year was by King Charles in the fourth year of his Reign made Viscount Ascot and Earl of Caernarvon a Person of whom King Charles the First might say as Lewis the 13 th said of his Favorite Luynes that considering the debonairness of his temper when disposed to be merry he was a very fit man to be trusted with the Kings Majesties Game as he was being by a Grant to him and his Heirs Chief Avenor and with respect to the vastness of his parts when disposed to be serious he was very capable of the most concerning trust which he had by Pattent as Lord Lieutenant His nature was not so much wild as great and his spirit rather extraordinary than extravagant to be admired rather than blamed as what age and experience fixed every day more and more into a comprehensive wisdom a deep understanding a strong resolution and a noble activity His Recreations were rather expensive than bruitish not unmanning his person as Drunkenness c. which he hated perfectly he being prone of those that gave occasion to the scandalous and odiously comparitive Proverb As drunk as a Lord as drunk as a Beggar but if moderately used becoming his Dignity as Gaming c. which he affected inordinately though he left this caution to Posterity That he that makes playing his business makes his business a play and that Gaming swallow Estates as the Gulf did Curtius and his Horse A man knoweth where he begins that pleasure but is utterly ignorant where he shall end besides that there is no pleasure worthy an excellent spirit in high Gaming which can have no satisfaction in it besides either sordid Coveting of what is anothers or a foolish Prodigality of what is their own making that breach in their own inheritance sometimes in one week which they and their Heirs cannot repair in many years The temperature of his minde as to moral habits was rather disposed to good than evil he was a Courtier and a young Man a Profession and an Age prone to such desires as when they tend to the shedding of no Mans bloud to the ruin of no family humanity sometimes connives at though she never approves of so that we may say of this Great man as one doth of a greater That those things we wish in him are fewer than the things we praise Being a Servant not only to his Majesties Prosperity but to his Person waiting on him not out of Interest but out of Love and Conscience no sooner appeared the Conspiracy in Buckingham-shire but he discountenanced it upon all occasions with his interest and when it brake out in the North he Marched to oppose it with two thousand men whom when he could in Parliament neither save the Life of his Majesties most faithful Servant not preserve the Honor of his Majesties Person being resolved rather to perish with the known Laws of the Land than to countenance them that designed the overthrow of them he led to wait on his Majesty to York where having with the rest of the Nobility attested the integrity of his Majesties proceedings and vowed his defence under his Hand and Seal he Rendezvouzed Marching to settle the Commission of Array in Oxford-shire and Buckingham-shire with so much activity that we finde him with the Earls of Cumberland New-castle and Rivers excepted by the Party at Westwinster out of the first Indemnity 1642. they offered for their actions in behalf of his Majesty as the Earl of Bristol the Lords Viscount Newarke and Faulkland Sir Edward Hyde Sir Edward Nicholas Master Endymion Porter were for their Counsels and Writing And having disciplined his Regiment we finde him the Reserve generally to the Kings Horse in all Engagements as first to Prince Rupert in Edge-hill where his error was too much heat in pursuing an advantage against the Enemies Horse in the mean time deserting and leaving naked his own Foot and afterwards to the Lord Willmot at Roundway-down where by Charging near and Drawing up his men to advantage not above six in a File that they might all engage he turned the fortune of the day as he had done at Newbury receiving Sir Philip Stapleton with this Regiment of Horse and Essex his Life-guard with a brisk Charge and pursuing them to their Foot had not a private hand put an end to his life and actions when breathing out his last he asked Whether the King was in safety Dying with the same care of his Majesty that he lived So he lost his life fighting for him who gave him his honor at the first battel of Newbury Being sore wounded he was desired by a Lord to know of him what suit he would have to his Majesty in his behalf the said Lord promising to discharge his trust in presenting his request and assuring him that his Majesty would be willing to gratifie him to the utmost of his power To whom the Earl replied I will not dye with a Suit in my mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery he had Charles now Earl of Caernarvon From his noble extract he received not more honor than he gave it for the blood that was conveighed to him through so many illustrious veins he derived to his Children more maturated for renown and by a constant practice of goodness more habituated to virtue His youth was prepared for action by study without which even the most eminent parts of Noblemen seem rough and unpleasant in dispight of the splendor of their fortune But his riper years endured not those retirements and therefore brake out into manlike exercises at home and travail abroad None more Noble yet none more modest none more Valiant yet none more patient A Physician at his Father-in-laws Table gave him a Lye which put the Company to admire on the one hand the mans impudence and on the other my Lords mildness until he said I 'll take the Lye from him but I 'll never take Physick of him He may speak what doth not become him I 'll not do what is unworthy of me A virtue this not usual in Noblemen to whom the limits of equity seem a restraint and therefore are more restless in injuries In the
things that as he was honoured with King Charles the first his Writ to be Baron in Parliament a favour his Ancestor Robert de Piere-point had in Edward the thirds time but did not enjoy being summoned a Baron in Parliament and dying before he Sate therein by the Title of Baron Piere-point and Viscount Newarke and afterwards 4. Caroli primi Earl of Kingston for his moderate opinions between the extreams then prevailing in Parliaments which he was able to accommodate as to State Affairs as an experienced man and as to Church Affairs as a Christian and a great Scholar Whence he would commend a general learning to young Noblemen upon this ground because the great variety of Debates that came before them wherein the unlearned Gentry either rashly offer dangerous proposals to impose on others oâ— sloathfully rest in a tame yea and nay being easily imposed on by others The effect whereof we found both in his and his hopeful Son the now Illustrious Marquess of Dorchesters learned and rational Defences of the Spiritual Function and Temporal Honors and Imployments of Bishops 1641 2. which though they could not convert any of the obstinate Anti-episcopal men not a speech to satisfie their reason but a grant to gratifie their interest must effect that yet confirmed they the wavering Episcopal party When it came to passe in the Civil Wars of England as it had done in those of Rome that the Seditious Brutus and Cassius were followed by the lower sort of the people Ex subditis Romanorum saith Dion while Caesars Army consisted Ex Romanis nobilibus sortibus This honorable Person and his Eldest Son attended his Majesty the Father with the Sword and the Son with the Pen more fatal to the Faction that the Sword and therefore the first men excepted out of Pardon were such excellent Pen-men as the Lords Viscount Newark and Faulkland Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and Mr. Endintion Porter the quickness of whose honorable Declarations and Replies amazed the Conspiracy as the smartnesse of them betrayed and defeated it their writings being like truth naturally clear and the Rebels like error forced and obscure He brought to his Majesty 4000 men of whose number 2000 were able and willing to serve him with their Persons and the râ—st with their Armes and Money to the value of 24000 l. and having the care of the Country with his near Relation the Duke of New-castle he vigorously opposed the legitimate Commission of Array to the by-blow of the Militia till he was surprized at Gainsborough by the Lord Willoughby of Parrham and being looked upon as a person of great concernment to the Kings affaires the Country calling him usually the good Earl of Kingston sent towards Hull in a Pinnace which Sir Charles Cavendish who knew well the value of that noble person as well as the enemy pursued demanding the Earl and when refused shooting at the Pinnace with a Drake that unfortunately killed him and his servant placed a mark to his friends shot who when they took the Vessel put all the Company to the Sword a just though not a valuable sacrifice to so noble a Ghost which King Charles the I. would have ransomed at as high a rate as his Ancestor Robert Peire-point was redeemed in Edward the III. time who cost that King when taken at Lewis 700 mark the Ransom as money went in those days of a Prince rather than a Subject Robertus Baro Peire-point Comes Kinstoniae quem amici servando occiderunt ab ubinon mors Si caecus amor ipso infestius odio sâ—miae more affectu necat amplexibus strangubat THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS MORTON Bishop of Duresm HE was of the same original and stock with that Eminent Prelate and wise States-man Iohn Morton Loâ—d Chancellor and Arch-bishop of Canterbury by whose contrivance and management the Houses of York and Lancaster were united as appeareth by his Coat-Armor and Pedigree He was born in the ancient and famous City of York March 20. 1564. his Parents were of good repute Mr. Richard Morton a well known Mercer and Mrs. Elizabeth Leedale by whom the Valvasours and Langdales acknowledge themselves to be of his Kindred by whose care he was brought up in Piety and Learning first at York under Mr. Pullen and afterwards at Hallifax under Mr. Maud of whom he always spake with great reverence as a grave Man and a good Scholar and from thence 1582. went to the University of Cambridge at the eighteenth year of his age and there was admitted into St. Iohns Colledge under Dr. Whitacre wherein were so many eminent Scholars at that time as he was wont to say It seemed to be a whole University of its self His Tutor was Mr. Anthony Higgon afterwards Dean of Rippon who lest him to the care of Mr. Hen. Nelson Rector of Hougham in Lincolnshire who lived to see his Pupil pass through all the other Dignities he had in the Church till he came to be Bishop of Duresm and a good many years after Being chosen Scholar of Constables Foundation 1584. In the year 1590. he took his Degree of Master of Arts having performed all his Exercises with great approbation and applause Afterwards he continued his Studies in the Colledge at his Fathers charge for above two years March 17. 1592. he was admitted Fellow meerly for his worth against eight Competitors for the place which he was wont to recount with greater contentment to himself than his advancement to any Dignity he ever enjoyed in the Church About the same time he was chosen Logick Lecturer for the University which place he discharged with much art and diligence as appears by his Lectures found among his Papers fairly written In the same year he was admitted to the Order of Deacon and the next after of Priesthood Having received his Commission from God and the Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of charity but not too forward to take upon him the particular care of souls And accordingly we finde him for the space of five years after this continuing in the Colledge prosecuting his own private Study and reading to such Scholars as were committed to his Care and Tuition Anno 1598. He took his Degree of Bachelor of Divinity and about the same year being Presented Instituted and Inducted to the Rectory of Long-Marston four miles distant from his native City of York he betook himself wholly to the cure of Souls there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence and yet he did not intermit his higher studies the general good of the Church while he attended it To that end he had always kept some person to be his Assistant whom he knew to be pious and learned And this assistance was more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choice of by the
storm where he was killed the first instopping every breach that was made Francis Newport of â—yton upon Severn Sal. compounded for â—284 l. Sir Richard Newport deservedly created Baron Neport of High-Arcall besides many thousand pounds he sent the King paid composition with 170 l. per annum settled 3287 l. Mr. Lewis Blunt a Volunteer was killed near Manchester and Mr. Christopher Blunt at Edgulton house a William Pawlet of Paulstones Southampt paid 544 l. for his allegiance Francis Pawlet and Amos Pawlet Somers 800 l. b Sir William Savil was an eminent and a sober Commander on the Kings side Will. Savil of Wakefield Yorksh. Esq paid 946 l. as he said for the 13 Chapter of the Romans a Henry Leigh of High-Leigh Chester Esq 710 l. Composition George Leigh of Wotton Gloc. 264 l. Coll. Tho. Leigh and Sir Ferdinando Leigh were never surâ—rised for want of Foresight nor worsted for want of Resolution Gervase Lee of Norwel Notingh Esq paid 560 l. for charges Tho. Leigh of Adlington Chester 3000 l. Edw. Leigh of Bugeley ibid. 700 l. Thomas Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh faithful to his Majesty in dangerous times paid for his consciencious adherence to his Soveraign 4895l Peter Leigh jun. of Neithertalby Chesh. Esq 778l Will. Leigh Pitminster Somers 120l Sir Richard Lee of Langley Sal. Ber. 8782l Sir Thomas Leigh of Humpstal Ridward Staff 1376 l. Gentlemen these easily distinguished by their actions though agreeing in name Great men when Sirnames are necessary to distinguish obscure persons are Sirnames to themselves a Coll. Hugh Windham a mâ—â—k Lyon was slâ—n in Docetshire a Particularly in 〈◊〉 deâ—eat of Waller at Teux bury a To whom â—e was Gen. â—â—man of his Bed-Chamber a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles II. who would not have yielded Pendennis but at the Command of King Charles I. b He that beat Cromwel once in the West Sir James Smith Devon paid for being a Coll. in the Kings Army 188 l. Sir Will. Smith Sir Walter Smith of great Bedwin Wilts with 40l per annum settled paid 685l Composition Thomas of Nibley Ches 40l Edward Smith of Haughton Northam 142l Will. Smith of Stamford Kent 108l Will. Smith of Presly Som. 140l R. Smith Heath Denb 90l F. Smith of Buton Sal. and Cawood Ebor. 194l Edward Smith Dr. of Physick 45l Tho. Smith Steyning Sussex 40l Nich. Smith Theddlethorpe Lincoln 115l Jo. Smith Oxon. 220l Sir Tho. Smith Chester 10l per annum settled and 215l Jo. Smith of Small Corbes Gloc. 600l Jo. Smith Blackthorne Oxon. 107l Rob. Smith Akley Bucks and Will Smith 564l Jo. Smith of Great Milton Oxon. 107l Jo. Smith Swanton Ebor. 38l Rich. Smith of Torrington Devon Merchant 176l Parris Smith of Comb. Somerset 86l Joseph Smith Selby Linc. Clerk 600l Edw. Smith Wakefield York 60l Captain Dudley Smith killed at Roundway-down a Thâ—â— Windsor 1100l b 〈…〉 c Creatâ—d 166l d Sir William Huddleston of Millain Castle Northum was Sir Edward W. onely Parallel who raised a Regiment at his own Charge and had seven Sons that rid in it for which besides 30000 l. other losses he paid 2248 l. Composition and Sir Henry Lingen of Sutton Her who raised two Regiments and did eminent service in awing Glocester and securing Heresord and Worcestershire with his Bragade of Horse that they said never slept and â—azzarded himself often for his Majesties Restauration for which he paid 6342l as Jo. Lord Scudamore Viscouâ—t Sleyo in Ireland sâ—me years Leger Ambassador in France who all these times kept his secret Loyalty to his Soveraign Hospitality in his Family and Charity to the distressed Clergy for which with his son 2690l Not forgetting Sir B. Seudamore a gallant expert Commander Governor of Hereford and Dr. Scudamore who was slain't â—ere nor the R. H. Will. Lord Sturton whose Loyalty cost him 1100l a And the excellent judgment he would give of all the rational discourses iâ— Religion extant b Particularly in the laâ—e sickness a F. F. Epist. Dedic Clem. Throg de Haseley VVor. Arm. The Right Honorable Baptist Noel Lord Viscount Cambden 150 l. land per annum and 9000 l. besides 50000 l. other losses a Sir William St. Leager came over with him with his Regiment afterwards Commanding at second Newberry battel the Cornishmen and the Duke of Yorks Regiment Sir Anthony St. Leiger of Ulcomb Kent where it has been a Kinghtly Family 300 years Sir Tho. St. Leiger being Brother-in-law to Edward the 4th was killed commanding Prince Ruperts Life-guard at Newberry second battel Oct. 27. 1644. His son I suppose Sir A. St. Leiger paying 400 l. composition This Ancient Families decays hath been the occasion the issue generall of decayed Estates are projects of many noble Inventions in England preferring to be Masters of a Molebill than dependant on the highest Prince in Christendom a There were in the Kings Army 3 Collonels more of the name viz. Sir Charles Dallison Sir Robert Dallison and Sir William Dallison who spent 130000l therein men of great command in their Country bringing the strength thereof to the reasonable assistance of his Majesty a Edw. Heath of Cotsmore Rutland Esq paid 700 l. composition Jo. Hammond of Elling Norf. 1000 l. R. Heath of Eyerton Chesh. 300 l. b Where fell Coll. Scot. c At which place and time sell the Right Worshipful Sir â— Hurton a Jo. Fortescue Cookill Worc. Esq paid 234l for his Loyalty Jo. Fortescue of Bridlest Esq Devon 202l Sir Faithfull Fortescue came over to his Majesty at Edgehill with his Troop b Major Laurence Clifton and Captain John Clifton slain at Shelford House Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton Not. 7625. c There was Coll. Matth. and Ralph Eure in the Kings Army Sir Sampson Eure Garley Park Hert. paid 110l composition d L. C. Philip Howard Nephew to the second and Cousin Germain to the first slain near Chester e Col. Thomas Morgan of Weston was slain at the first Newberry battel f And his Brother the Honorable Edward Talbot Esq slain together with Mr. Ch. Townley at Marston-moor Volunteers and Mr. Charles Sherburne Col. James Talbor was a Person deserving well of his Majesty Sherrington Talbot of Salwarpe Worâ— his Estate suffered 2011l deep g To these Iadde Sir Henry Constable Lord Viscount of Dunbar who died in the service at Scarborough h Who hath three Crowns added to his Arms with this Motto Subditus fidelis Regis Regni salus i There was Collonel Jo. and Collonel Thomas Butler Men much valued and much lamented as Persons of great Interest in the Associated Counties and Collonel Croker a Who lost by the War 733579 l. and his son the most hopeful Charles Lord Viscount Mansfield who had an eminent Command under him died in these times He was General of the Ordnance b I find Sir Charles Cavendish of Wellingon Line 2048l deep in the Goldsmiths-Hall Book and Francis Cavendish of Debridge Derby 480l The Lord Henry Cavendish was a
MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames â—ollinâ— in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
conceived it was not more then the hainousness of their Offences deserved yet had they Petitioned and submitted the next day it would wholly have been remitted 15. That he perswaded his Majesty to an offensive War against the Scots declaring that the Demands made by the Scots this Parliament was a sufficient Cause of a War besides that on the 10th of Octob. 1640. he said That the Nation of Scots were Rebells and Traytors adding that if it pleased his Master to send him back again as he was going to England he would leave the Scottish Nation neither Root nor Branch excepting those that took the aforesaid Oath The Earles Reply That he called all the Scottish Nation Traytors and Rebells no one Proof is produced and though he is hasty in speech yet was he never so defective of his reason as to speak so like a mad Man for he knew well his Majesty was a Native of that Kingdom and was confident many of that Nation were of as Heriock Spirits and as Faithful and Loyal Subjects as any the King had As to the other words of his rooting out the Scots Root and Branch he conceives a short Reply may serve they being proved by a single Testimony onely which can make no sufficient faith in case of life Again the witnesse was very much mistaken if not worse for he deposeth that these words were spoken the tenth day of October in Ireland whereas he was able to evidence he was at that time in England and had been so neer a month before 18. That when the Parliament 13 April 1640. entred upon the Grievances in Church and State the Earl to whom with the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the King referred the business of that Parliament advised his Majesty to press the Commons to supply his Majesties occasions against the Scots before they Redressed any Grievances And when they were in debate about the Supplies perswaded his Majesty to dissolve them by telling him they had denyed to supply him Adding after the dissolution of that Parliament that the King having tried the Affections of his people he was loosed and absolved from all Rules of Government and was to do every thing that Power would admit and that since his Majesty had tried all ways and was refused he should be Acquitted both by God and Man and that he had an Army in Ireland which he might imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience The Earles Reply That he was not the Principal Cause of Dissolving the last Parliament for before he came to the Council-table it was Voted by the Lords to Demand twelve Subsidies and that Henry Vane was Ordered to Demand no lesse But he coming in the interim he perswades the Lords to Vote it again Declaring to his Majesty then present and them the danger of the Breach of Parliament Whereupon it was Voted that if the Parliament would not grant twelve Subsidies Sir Henry Vane would descend to eight and rather than fail to six But Sir Henry not observing his Instructions demanded twelve only without abatement or going lower That the height of this Demand urged the Parliament to deny and their denial moved his Majesty to Dissolve the Parliament so that the chief occasion of the Breach thereof `was as he conceived Sir Henry Vane He confesseth that at the Council-table he Advised the King to an Offensive War against the Scots but it was not untill all fair means to prevent a War had been first attempted Again others were as much for a Defensive War and it might be as free to Vote one as the other Lastly Votes at a Council-board are but bare Opinions and Opinions if pertinaciously maintained may make an Heretick but cannot a Traytor And to Sir Henry Vanes Deposition he said it was onely a single testimony and contradicted by four Lords of the Iunto-tables depositions viz. The Earle of Northumberland the Marquess of Hamilton the Bishop of London and the Lord Cottington who all affirmed that there was no question made of this Kingdome which was then in obedience but of Scotland that was in Rebellion And Sir Henry Vane being twice Examined upon Oath could not remember whether he said this or that Kingdome and the Notes after offered for more proof were but the same thing and added nothing to the Evidence to make it a double Testimony or to make a Privy-councellors Opinion in a Debate at Council High-treason 19. That after the Dissolution of the Parliament April 5. 1640. The said Earl Advised the King to go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money and other Illegal Payments suing in Star-chamber and Imprisoning several that neglected either to gather or pay those Levies Particularly the Londoners who for not Collecting the Ship-money so vigorously as they should have done and refusing to give in the names of such Citizens as were able to Lend Moneyâ— upon the Loan of an 100000l demanded of them were threatned by him at the Council-table That they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom and that no good would be done with them till an Example were made of them till they were laid by the Heeles and some of the Aldermen Hanged up The Earles Reply That there was a present necessity for Money that all the Council-board had Voted with yea before him That there was then a Sentence in Star-chamber upon the Opinion of all the Iudges for the Legality of the Tax of Ship-money and he thought he might advice the King to take what the Iudges had declared was by Law his own He consessed that upon the Refusal of so just a Service the better to quicken the Citizenâ— to the Payment of Ship-money he said They deserved to be Fined Which words perhaps might be circumspectly delivered but conceives cannot be a motive to Treason especially when no ill consequence followed upon them And it would render Men in a sad condition if for every hasty Word or Opinion given in Council they should be Sentenced as Traytors But that he said It were well for the Kings Service if some of the Aldermen were hanged up he utterly denieth Nor is it proved by any but Alderman Garway who is at best but a single Testimony and therefore no sufficient Evidence in Case of Life 20. That he had Advised the King to seise upon the Bullion in the Mint and when the Merchants whose Bullion was seized on to the value of 50000l waited upon him at his house to represent to him the consequence of discrediting the Mint and hindering the Importance of Bullion Answered them that it was the course of other Princes in those exigencies to which the undutifulness of London kinder to the Rebells than to his Majesty had reduced the King And that he had directed the Imfusing of money with Brasse Alleadging to the Officers of the Mint when they represented to him the Inconvenience of that Project that the French King had an Army of horse to Levy his Taxes and search mens Estates and telling my Lord Cottington that
stood by that that was a point worth his consideration The Earles Reply That he expected some proof to evidence the two first particulars but he hears of none For the following words he confessed probably they might escape the Door of his Lips nor did he think it much amiss considering the present posture to call that Faction Rebels As for the last words objected against him in that Article he said that being in conference with some of the Londoners there came to his hands at that present a Letter from the Earl of Lichester then in Paris wherein were the Gazettes enclosed relating that the Cardinal had given order to â—evy Money by Souldiers This he onely told the Lord Cottington standing by but he made not the least Application thereof to the English affairs 21. That being Lieutenant-General of the Northern Forces against the Scots 1639. he Imposed 6d per diem on the Inhabitants of York-shire for the maintenance of Trained Bands by his own Authority threatning them that refused with imprisonment and other penalties little below those inflicted for High-Treason The Earles Reply That his Majâ—sty coming to York it was thought necessary in regard the Enemy was upon the Borders to keep the Trained-bands on foot for the defence of the Country and therefore the King directed him to Write to the Free-holders in York-shire to declare what they would do for their own defence that they freely offered a months pay nor did any man grudge against it Again it was twice propounded to the great Council of Peâ—rs at York that the King approved it as a just and necessary act and none of the Council contradicted it which he conceived seemed a tacit allowance of it That though his Majesty had not given him special Order therein nor the Gentry had desired it yet he conceived he had power enough to Impose that Tax by Vertue of his Commission But he never said that the Refusers should he guilty of little less than High-â—reason which being proved by Sir William Ingram he was but a single Testimony and one who had formerly mistaken himself in what he had deposed 22. That he being Lieutenant-General against the Scots suffered New-Castle to be Lost to them with design to incense the English against the Scots And that he ordered my Lord Conway to Fight them upon disadvantage the said Lord having satisfied him that his Forces were not equal to the Scots out of a malicious desire to Engage the two Kingdomes in a National and Bloudy War The Earles Reply That he admired how in the third Article he being charged as an Incendiary against the Scots is now in this Article made their Confederate by Betraying New-Castle into their hands But to answer more particularly he said That there were at New-Castle the 24. of August ten or twelve thousand Foot and two thousand Horse under the Command of the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Ashley and that Sir Jacob had writ to him concerning the Town of New-castle that it was Fortified which also was under his particular Care and for the passage over the River of Tine His Majesty sent special direction to the Lord Conway to secure it and therefore that Lord is more as he conceives responsible for that miscarriage than himself These replies were so satisfactory in themselves and so nobly managed by him that they exceeded the expectation of the Earles Friends and defeated that of his Enemies Insomuch that finding both the number and the weight of their former Articles ineffectual their multitude being not as they designed able to hide their weakness they would needs force him the next day notwithstanding a â—it of the Stone that made it as much as his life was worth to stir abroad which though testified by the Leiutenant of the Tower they measuring the Earles great spirit that scorned to owe his brave Life to ignoble Acts by their own mean one believed not and when convinced aiming at his ruin rather than tryal regarded not to answer others I mean those obscure Notes that Sir Henry Vane whose covetousness having as great a mind to a part of the Earles Estate as others ambition had to the snips of his Power betrayed his trust and honour to satisfie his malice took under his Hat at Council-board May 5. 1040. the day the last Parliament was Dissolved treacherously laid up in his Closet maliciously and by his own Son Harry who must be pretended forsooth as false to the Father as ever the Father had been to his Master and when sent to one Closet finding a little Key there to have ransacked another where these Notes lay conveyed to Master Pym slyly by Master Pym and the Commons who would needs have a conference with the Lords that very afternoon urged so vehemently that the Lords who thought it reasonable that the Earles Evidence might be heard as well as his Adversaries were bassled to a compliance with the Commons in this Vote that the Earl should appear April 13th as he did And when these Notes were Read viz. No danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. C. H. How can we undertake an Offensive War if we have no money L. L. Ir. Borrow of the City an hundred thousand pounds go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money your Majesty having tried the affections of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rules of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty hath tryed all ways and being refused shall be Acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may Imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on foot and if any of them stir we will make them smart Answered thus calmly and clearly his nature being not overcome nor his temper altered by the arts of his Adversaries That being a Privy Counsellor he conceived he might have the freedom to Vote with others his opinion being as the exigent required It would be hard measure for Opinions Resulting from such Debates to be prosecuted under the notion of Treason And for the main Hint suggested from these words The King had an Army in Ireland which he might Imploy here to reduce this Kingdom he Answereth That it is proved by the single Testimony of one man Secretary Vanâ— not being of validity in Law to create faith in a Case of Debt much less in Life and Death That the Secretaries Deposition was very dubious For upon two Examinations he could not Remember any such words And the third time his Testimony was various but that I should speak such words and the like And words may be very like in Sound and differ in Sense as in the words of my charge here for there and that for this puts an end to the Controversie There were present at this Debate but eight Privy Counsellors in all two are not to be produced
other places being more than the Inhabitants by Whaley with a 1000. Foot and four Troops of Horse who lay before it ten weeks ere Sir William would hearken to any terms as nobly angry with the Fortune of his Cause as disdainfully vext with the disparagement of the siege the Castle able to defie their intire Army having defeated a far by countermining under-ground and throwing Stones and Granadoes above ground yielded not till the whole Kingdom submitted against which it had been folly to loose themselves in an unequal and vain contest to Providence rather than Conquest going off May 8. upon these honorable terms All Officers with Horses Swords Goods Money and Passes with a safe Conduct whether they pleased without any Arrest or Molestation by virtue whereof Sir William had his liberty to settle his Affairs and I know not whether he be or another Sir William Compton of Frith in Kent compounded for 0660 00 00 as he did yet hazzarded all again to serve his Majesty in the Kentish Expedition where in my Lord Gorings absence he Commanded as Major General in which capacity notwithstanding the difficulties he was to wade through he made a comfortablâ— provision for the Army in Greenwich-Park amidst the infinite distractions And when a fatal infatuation and a pannick fear guided them into the Parliaments hands he approving himself more compleat in Gallantry Wisdom Virtue and Honor than years discovered the snare kept them together so as to make honorable terms for them to go upon The laying down of their Arms where they pleased under which pretence he drew them through the Enemy taking many of them Prisoners within a mile of London to the general astonishment of that whole City an action of great consequence as was the satisfaction he gave the Country all along in Essex he marched concerning the Principles whereupon they engaged and the infinite pains and care he took to keep the Garrison in its highest distress in some competent order in Colchester by great Instructions and a greater example where being taken a Prisosoner of War he suffered all the indignities that insulting meanness could offer there being no pretended Plot but there was occasion to take him Prisoner whom O. C. called the sober young man and the godly Cavalier especially in Penruddocks business 1655. and Sir Henry Slingshies 1658. He with the Earl of Oxford the Lord Bellasiâ— Sir Iohn Russel called then the Sealed knot managing all the eight attempts made for his Majesties Restauration from 1652. to 1659. when others having the charge of raising other Countries in pursuance of Sir George Booths design Sir William Compton Sir Thomas Leventhorp and Mr. Fanshaw undertook Hertford-shire and that project failing he doth with incredible industry and prudence observe and improve the struglings of a giddy people now reeling into Liberty by degrees withdrawing the force that awed them and assisting in the gradual changes of the Government suiting with particular persons gust in order to that great change that satisfied all taking care when the Royal interest was in view in a publick Declaration which he with other Noble Reverend and excellent Persons subscribed lest any offence might be taken at the whole party of Cavaleers to the prejudice of the expected settlement from the indiscretions or transports of any single persons promising without any regard to particular Factions or Interests to submit quietly and chearfully to the present power as it was vested in the Council of State in expectation of the future Parliament which producing that blessed effect the three Nations unanimonsly wished for this Noble Person had as great a share in the Comforts as he had formerly in the cares and sufferings being intrusted with the Important place of Master of the Ordnance till he died 1663. at Drury-lane a suddain death to all persons but himself Hem viator Arma foris consilium doâ—i Cui maximum monimentum est suum nomen Gulielmus Comptonus Eq. Auratus Comitis Northamptoniae Filius Frater Avunâ—ulus Carolo I. ab Armis Iuvenis Carolo Secundo a consiliis vix Senex 1663. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES COMPTON TWin to Sir William in actions as well as Birth one History serveth both as well as did once one Picture Of whom one may say as one did of his Country Warwick-shire that it was the Heart but not the Core of England having nothing Course in his life having had the same Education with his Brother saving that he excelled in two great Accomplishments for Pleasure and Business Musick and Mathematicks without the first of which he would affirm that a man was no Company and without the second of no use He took to the same War being as eminent for Sobriety Discipline Moderation Conduct Vigilance and Activity in the field where he Commanded as Colonel as his Brother was in the Garrison where he Commanded as Governor There are two wonders in his life 1. His surprize of Breston-Castle with six men and himself by pretending to bring in Provision according to a Letter he intercepted as he did many reckoning his intelligence the main piece of his service and having always abroad his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his many Eyes and Ears as men of business must which injoyned it the next Towns 2. His having two Pistois clapped in his very face and yet neither fire but the owners which were so sure of his life loosing by his side both their own He was as much for Pasturage and Inclosures in his Country as his Brother was against them answering those that complained Sheep turned Cannibals in Warwick-shire eating up Men Houses and Towns their Pastures make such depopulation That though they make Houses the fewer in that Country they made them the more in the Kingdom Towns being more peopled by Cloathing and Wool than the Country is depopulated by pasturage Indeed to use the words of a modern Author in this Case Corn doth visibly employ the poor in the place where it groweth by Plowing Sowing Mowing inning threshing but Wool invisibly maintaineth people at many miles distance by Carding Spinning Weaving Dressing and Dying so that Abel need not kill Cain the Shepheard undo the Husbandman but both subsist comfortably together What service he did his Majesty and his Father during the Rebellion we may guess by the trust reposed in him since the Restauration his Prudence and Courage having been as effectual against the late Usurpation as the Ash of his Country a stand of which in Pikes in his Country mens hands under his Conduct was impregnable is against viperous Creatures of which it is said that a Serpent incircled with fire and the boughs thereof will in this Dilemma put it self rather on the hazzard of fire than adventure on the fence of Ashen-boughs but it is unhappy that he was like that Ash too of which it is written that being cut down green it burneth clear and bright as if the sap thereof had a
Charms especially since in both it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical times and washings Whereupon the Gentleman surprized and disavowing that learning referred him to their Divines the most eminent whereof was Costerus who having invited him to the Colledge at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church out of which no Salvation till he satisfied him he came not thither with any doubt of his own Profession but for the same of his Learning and a particular account of the aforesaid Miracles in order to which a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles with many other incident particulars which Mr. Hall modestly yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn who sate at the end of the Table as sorry a Gentleman of his Country for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Dominatio Vestra should depart without further satisfaction offered him another Conference next morning which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it he excused as bootlesse both sides being so throughly settled Thence not without a great deliverance from Free-booters a suspicious Convoy and Night they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw where finishing a second part of Meditations to the first he had published just upon his travels in his return up the Mosa reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist to our denial of Transubstantiation and answering some furious Invectives against our Church with an intimation of the Lawsâ— disabling him to return upon theirs He incensed a Sorbonist Prior so far that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw and in his way to Brussels describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well that he was charged as a Spy until he told them he was only an attendant of Sir Edmund Bacon Grand-child to the famous Lord Chacellor of that name in England travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador whom he waited on not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him along the fair River Schield by Vlushing where the curiosity of visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh parted him from his Company whom the Tide would not stay for and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous passage But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained a year and a half after his useful extravagancies he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury to perswade his Patron to reason who complemented him out of so ungainful a change and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ as he said to buy Books wished him to wait upon him as he did when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princes Court where his meditations were veryacceptable and on the Tuesday following by the Princes order that he gave him his hand and commanded him his service and when his Patron who knowing he would be taken up wished him now at home gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies with welcome and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham wherein and the Princes service he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner offering him honorable Preferment for constant residence at Court and his Lord no less advantagious for his stay at Waltham where his little Catechism did much good his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more and his select prayer without which he never performed any exercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day most of all During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham four eminent Services he went through 1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries swallowed up by a wilful Recusant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever where being collated Prebend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters he discovered counterfeited Seals Rasures Interpolations and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church until revicted by Common-Law the Adversary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40 l. per annum A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them upon the renewal of the Suit his Colleague in whose name it ran being dead the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter the very day before the tryal fell mad His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated Sir Walter offered first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease Secondly to make each Prebends place 30 l. per annum which Composition being furthered by Spalato and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some abatement in consideration of the Orphans condition and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one Mr. Lee who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people 2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France whence returning with much ado after a hard journey by Land in Company with his dear Du Moulin and an harder by Sea he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester was so sure of in the Doctors absence that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house 3. His Majesties service in Scotland which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people whereupon he was after a gracious acknowledgement of his service called to a mild account his Royal Master not more freely professing what informations had been given against him than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs and required him to declare his judgment in the five points in answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland that the King understood was privately sent to him which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there and approbation from his Majesty beyond his hopes 4. The reason why those five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there sent
contributing very much by possessing my Lord Roberts house taking Lesterman Castle and stopping most of the Passes which he understood very well to the famous streight wherein the Earl of Essex was caught in in Cornwall and a while after very active in besieging Col. Weldens Brigade and the Town of Taunton both at one time As he was up-the fatal defeat at Naseby in getting together 4 or 5 thousand Reformades in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwall where he pursued his Majesties quarrel as long as he had either a Garrison or a Regiment after the Treaty at Tresilian-bridge made between my Lord Hopton and Sir ◠F. for disbanding the Western Forces waiting on his Majesty that now is to Scilly Holland France c. where he was very instrumental in laying the model of the second or the Presbyterian War understanding by a long converse with the Faction their interest and humor of most of them by Sea and Land and that failing he followed his Majesties fortune abroad while he lived being accomplished as well with ingenious Arts that rendred him company for a Prince in time of peace as with those more severe that made him serviceable to him in War his youth and Sir Beviles being bred up in Exeter Colledge to all gentile habits of Learning Vertue and Complaisance yet in the midst of more soft pleasures as well as harder services his solid minde admits nothing scandalous either to his Religion or Cause both which a vertuous suffering pityed by mankind advancing as well as heroick attempts commended by them the first in the eyes of all men deserving that success which the last wanted to which circumspect converse he added frequent conferences to his Masters in the good opinion of those near him and an uninterrupted correspondence in the indefatigable way of Cyphers to keep them upright in their duty that were at distance salving all the strange Phaenomena of the Rebels success and his Majesties misfortunes in intire discourses which he kept of all transactions from first to last besides that he gained his Country much honor by his services to the Crowns of France and Spain evincing that the King of great Britain in his very Banishment had such Attendants his Court even then was the Scene of the most Heroick vertue in Europe as could serve any Prince and would one day restore their own the very sight of whom and some discourse with Sir R. Greenvile c. put many upon prophecying what we have lived to see particularly The Arch-bishop of Avignon sent a Scheme drawn up by one Oneal a great Mathematician demonstrating that his Majesty should return 1660. to London with as great triumph in peace as his blessed Father was 1641. driven out of it by tumults Neither did Sir Richard come over alone to the Kings service for the attractive of his example brought along another eminent Parliament-man that had been very active in the West by name Sir George Chudleigh who 1643. declared That Petitions of Right are commendable and Remonstrances may be lawful but Arms though defensive are ever doubtful my Lot saith he fell to be cast upon the Parliaments side by a strong opinion of the goodness of their Cause which to my judgment then appeared to be so Religion and the Subjects Liberty seemed to me to be in danger but the destruction of the Kingdom cannot be the way to save it nor can the loss of Christian Subjects nor the Subjects loss of their Estates by Plunder and Assessement consist with Piety nor yet with propriety As for Religion his Majesty whom God long preserve hath given us unquestionable security I have cast my self at my Soveraigns feet and implored his gracious pardon I will contend no more in words or deed And this my resolution with the indisputable grounds thereof I thought good to declare to my Friends and Country-men that they may understand my sitting he means at Oxford to proceed from no compulsion He and his Son men of great Reputation in the West redeeming their former miscarriage by very eminent services in Counsel and in Arms and by this time we see the reason why the men at VVestminster who understood nothing but English Proclaimed Sir Richard Greenvile Traytor in three Languages and they which hated Images hanged him in Effigie excepting him out of their pardon even for that very reason for which God took him to his even because he repented Euge virtus suis firmior erroribus uti confracta solidior a sunt ut plurimum ossa nisi errassent Heroes paenitentes fecerant minus To these I may adde Chammo Greenvile of Pughill Cornwall who is 657 l. deep in their Books at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and Thomas Chudley of Aishton Devonshire 430 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES LUCAS HAD not his Ancestor Sir Giles Lucas appeared in the Roll of the Essex Gentry made 12 Hen. 6. 1433. nor his Kinsman Thomas Lucas Esq been Secretary and Counsellor to Iasper Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke 1385. had there not been a succession of Knights and Squires Sheriffs and Justices of that County for eleven Kings Reigns had he not been Brother to the most Illustrious Princess Margaret Dutchess of New-Castle a Lady admired in this Age and to be understood in the next which will be convinced by her that there is no Sex in the minde and that the delicate Piece of the Creation we call Woman having a Male-soul as well as we was not only made for dalliance And to the Right Honorable the Lord Lucas the great instance of a learned wise and sober Nobility who intending with Horse and Arms to wait on his Majesty in the North Aug. 22. 1642. was discovered surprized plundered to a great value carryed to London and imprisoned there till he gave 40000 l. Bail to appear upon summons and not to depart London without leave One of the first that suffered for his Loyalty in his Country and one of the forwardest when he arrived at Oxford where he was made Baron Lucas of Shenfield Ian. 3. 1644. 20 Car. I. in asserting it by sober Counsel and by a well-guided Arms in others Sir Charles Lucas had worth enough to raise a Family himself being the first that entred the breach at Breda the last Siege when Cornet of Horse to Sir Io. Coniers in the Low-Countries where the sweet generosity of his nature to all men his soul being universalized especially those of his own noble disposition there one might have seen running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he would ever have emptied his soul into theirs The greatness of his spirit whose soul came into the world as the Chaldee Oracle phraseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cloathed with a great deal of minde more impregnated than others with rich notions which by way of Theory he comprehended exactly from books and by way of practice from experience and observation together with his prudent reach unwearied patience close
be no exceptions From Nottingham-shire he passed with some Troops to countenance the Commission of Array in other Counties and particularly in Oxford-shire to secure the University from the Rebels and the Scholars and their Plates for his Majesty when assaulted by the Forces of Northampton and betrayed by the Town of Brackley so that he lost his Carriages and Cabinet he writes to Mr. Clark of Craughton in whose Custody they were to restore them Which if you do saith he I shall represent it to his Majesty as sty as an acceptable service if not assure your self I shall finde a time with advantage to re-pay my self out of your Estate and consider that as Rebellion is a weed of an hasty growth so it will decay as suddenly and that there will be a time for the Kings Loyal Subjects to repair their losses sustained by Rebells and Traytors Upon the sending of which Letter to the Parliament and their proclaiming him and his Adherents Traytors for their Allegiance to their Soveraign he marched to Worcester a very commodiously situated place taking it in and Garrisoning it decoying thither the Lord Say Colonel Nath. Fines and Sandys into a trap by a mistake of Prince Rupert for the Earl of Essex and gaining the first Victory and Reputation to his Majesties Side and Party which was judged never able either to form an Army or to aim at Victory How valiantly and warily he led on the Kings Horse at the first Newbery Fight when Col. Middleton protested there was no dealing with Biron who would give no advantage is well known and how prudently and industriously he pursued his Majesties Interest about Wales where he was Field Marshall General may be guessed by the Command given him of that Important Place both for passage into Ireland and Westchester and power over the Circuit of four Counties for Contribution where his Honorable and Obliging Deportment his judicious Works his frequent Sallies his great Word Cconsider so much you know as you consider his magnanimous performance in most Storms in Person his great Art of keeping both Town and Garrison contented with Cats Dogs yea and those failing with but one meal in three dayes while there was any hope of Relief refusing nine summons and not answering the tenth till his messenger returned with assurance that there was no hope of relief when he yielded upon the most honorable terms for himself and the whole Garrison that were given in England except those he afterwards gained at Caernarvon having indured a long and gallant Siege the benefit whereof he injoyed with a notable escape or two to rally the decayed and scattered spirits of the Kingdom into further attempts for his Majesty travelling invisibly and with incredible speed from place to place for a year together not sleeping four nights together in a place for a year till the fatal drowsiness hanging over the Kingdom put him upon taking his rest too and withdrawing to France to follow his ingenious Studies which the War had interrupted in the course but not in the effect of them his admirable discourse to his Mother discovering him as compleat a Scholar him as compleat a Scholar as he was an accomplished Gentleman dying oppressed with the sad thoughts of the consequence of the horrid Murther of his sacred Master about 1650. whose Monument is supported by four excellent Brothers I. Sir Philip Biron a Gentleman of a wide and capacious soul to grasp much and of an enlarged heart to communicate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Servant of love a great Master of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of love as if with Socrates he that knew every thing knew nothing but how to love After many signal services in York-shire in each whereof there was always observed something of a judicious stratagem in a general Storm by the whole Parliament Army upon Tork he was killed in the Head of his Regiment which never went out but he would tell them That never brave man came to any thing that resolved not either to Conquer or perish July 19. 1644. II. The Right Honorable Sir Richard now Lord Biron of Rochdale succeeding his noble Brother in that honor King Charles I. Octob. 24. 1643. invested him with to be Chronicled for his Government in and many surprizes of the enemy about Newark III. Sir Nicholas Biron as excellent a Commander of Foot as Sir Iohn was of Horse one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Life-guard of the world by his Piety and by his Prudence a person whom his late Majesty in all Engagements would have always near him IV. Sir Robert Biron all Colonels in his Majesties Army this last excellent Person higher in his relation to God by his second Birth contingit sanguine Coelum than to his Noble Family by his first All these Heroes deserving that Epitaph the great Family De Haro have always upon their Graves viz. Regum subditi amici THE Life and Death OF Dr. IOHN BRAMHALL Lord Archâ—bishop of Armagh c. HE was bred in Cambridge in Sydney Colledge under Mr. Hulet a grave and a worthy man and he shewed himself not only a fruitful Plant by his great progress in his Studies but made him another return of gratitude taking care to provide him a good Imployment in Ireland where he then began to be greatly interested It was spoken as an honor to Augustus Caesar that he gave his Tutor an honorable Funeral and Marcus Antonius erected a Statue unto his and Gratian the Emperor made his Master Ausonius to be Consul And our worthy Primate knowing the obligation which they pass upon us who do Obstetricari gravidae animae help the parturient Soul to bring forth fruit according to its seminal powers was careful not only to reward the industry of such persons so useful to the Church in the cultivating infantes plamarum young Plants whose joynts are to be stretched and made streight but to demonstrate that his Scholar knew how to value his Learning when he knew so well how to reward the Teacher Having passed the course of his studies in the University and done his Exercise with that Applause which is usually the reward of pregnant Wits and hard he was removed into York-shire where first in the City of York he was an assiduous Preacher but by the disposition of the Divine Providence he happened to be engaged at North-Alerton in Disputation with three pragmatical Romish Priests of the Jesuits Order whom he so much worsted in the Conference and so shamefully disadvantaged by the evidence of the Truth represented wisely and learnedly that the famous Primate of York Arch-bishop Matthews a learned and an excellent Prelate and most worthy Preacher hearing of that Triumph sent for him and made him his Chaplain in whose service he continued until the death of the Primate but in that time had given so much Testimony of his great Dexterity in the Conduct of Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs that he grew dear
burn the City â—earing that he should not dye in his Majesties favour for dying under a suspition of such a thing so unworthy of him and disowned their authority preparing himself for that death he had so often looked in the face both in England and in France for he Commanded in both kingdoms with a becoming frame and temper ennobled with honorable and devout circumstances by the assistance of a faithful Minister that honored his Family and in the company of many Reverend and Noble Friends with the Offices of the Church of England every day from his first imprisonment to his death Iuly 10. 1654. all with as much reverence zeal thankfulness holy sorrows and joys as his great soul could hold When with a religious confidence took his leave chearfully and particularly of all his honorable and good friends he passed through the Guards on whom he bestowed money twice bare-headed out of an humble respect to the people that pittied him on each side till he rather leaped up than ascended the Scaffold upon Tower-hill smiling with a pretty glance of his Eye which was a natural loveliness in him on the Executioner and his Instrument and saying Welcome honest Friend that will do the deed I 'le warrant it And being refused by the Sheriffs Edward Sleigh and Thomas Allen to speak to the people Let us saith he to the Reverend Minister with him speak to God as they did for half an hour afterwards professing he died a faithful Subject to King Charles II. for whom he said he would lay down if he had them a thousand lives and a Son of the Church of England for both whose Restauration he prayed and desiring the people to remember a poor Soveraign abroad who he said deserved to be remembred bowed himself to the stroke of death with Christian meekness and courage extraordinarily mixed together the same time and place but not with the same weak spirit that Don Pantaleon sa dyed wih who for fighting with Mr. Gerard on the New-Exchange where one Mr. Greenaway no ways concerned in the quarrel was killed was brought to dye with him though on a different occasion on Tower hill Upon which day Mr. Peter Vowel a Bedford-shire man School-Master of Isâ—ington being betrayed by a blind Minister he relieved at his house and disowning the pretended High-Court of Justice whom as Ierome of Prague did his adversaries he cited to appear before the great Tribunal was murthered at Charing-Cross a pitiful Minister of theirs sent under pretence of comforting to trepan him passing as severe a sentence on his Soul as they had done on his body dying as they would tell him and he confessed confidently instructing the Souldiery in the dangerous principles they went on in and professing his adherence to the King and the Church desiring that none should be disheartned at his death being assured that sanguinis Martyrum which he said they shed as the Heathens did in their bloudy sacrifices should be semen Ecclesiae commending his soul to Gods mercy and his numerous family to his providence saying He was sure the King should be restored and that his poor family should be better provided for than it could be by him he and Mr. Gerard leaving these principles behind them 1. That men might be excellent if they looked to their thoughts before they became desires and happy if they had but a right Opinion of things and understood That all the good and evil of mans life though it may have its occasions without hath truly and really its causes prevented or lessened or turned into good by a vertuous disposition 2. And that they looked into Opinions before they turned into Passions Major Henshaw escaped by flying and Mr. Somerset Fox by Argument that Massacre as did Mr. Manley a Merchant The noble Gentleman Sir Humphrey Bennet a Brigadire in his Majesties Army Mr. Woodcock Mr. Carrent Mr. Friar Mr. Io. Sumner and Mr. Oliver Allen Mr. Hatgil Baron Mr. Stapely Mr. Mansel Mr. Iackson and Mordant 1658. Mr. Sidney Fotherby and Mr. Tudor a Chirurgeon In which yet Col. Benlow fell Oct. 1651. having been observed active in the engagement at Worcester being shot to death at Shrewsbury a Person very observant in his carriage of that Rule in Mr. Herbert Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In Love or Honour take account of all Shine like the Sun in every corner see Whether thy stock of Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And in his habit of this Affect in things about thee cleanliness That all may gladly board thee as a flow'r Slovens take up their stock of noysomness Before hand and Anticipate their last hour Let thy minds sweetness have his operation Vpon thy Body Cloaths and Habitation And Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh I think of Corkes-would in Cumberland Knight having paid 700 l. for the service of King Charles I. laid down his life for King Charles II. which he ventured magnanimously in the Field at Wiggan in Lancashire with the Earl of Derby with whom he being taken prisoner there lost it resoluteâ—ly by beheading after a Court-Martial at Chestâ—r where he denounced judgment on the Murtherers that passed sentence upon him setting the foulness of their fact with as much power on their Consciences as they did his Loyalty upon his Person and praying as heartily for the Kings person then in danger as for his own soul doing all he could honorably to save his life that he might not be felo de se and nothing dishonorably that he might not be a Traitor to Allegiance comforting himself with that saying of Pope Nicholas Martyrum solennia non funebria tanquam morientium sed utpote in vera vita nascentium natalitia vocantur and be it here remarqued that Sir Henry Fetherston and Col. Iohn Fetherston put as fair for Martyrdom as Sir Timothy which on all occasions to serve his Majesty they declined not by their own Cowardise but escaped by the Divine Providence winning and wearing the name of Confessors One whose Son lay very sick being told by a Physician that his Son was a dead man said I had rather a Physician should call him so an hundred times than a Judge on the Bench once whose pronouncing him for a dead man makes him one Sir Henry Hide Brother as I take it to the Lord High Chancellor bred a Turky Merchant and after the gaining of a considerable Estate and Experience made their Consul at Morea where his integrity and prudence gained him such respect in those parts that his Majesty having some occasion of correspondence at the Port sent him to use his own word Internuncio thither without any design against either the Merchants whom he had a charge to be tender of or Sir Thomas Bendish who had been a Prisoner in the Tower and paid a 1000 l. for his Loyalty to his Majesty by whose Commission he was there Ambassador and who hath published an Apology to clear
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
attended all those even the meanest that went to it for their Conscience When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came no doubt he had his choice whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland or an equal dignity in England that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service and the sad state of that Church and so he underwent that rudeness there to the danger of his life from those under him that he had here from those above him notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons to feed the peoples souls and not their humors a wholesom Discipline that struck at their pertinacy not their persons and even course of Holiness and Devotion made up of Fasting and Prayer whereby he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach by the pattern of his Life as well as the rules of his Doctrine a generous and magnificent hospitality entertaining all his Diocess civilly that so unworthily not knowing him till they had lost him entertained him a diffusive charity demonstrating that he sought them not theirs to poor Widows young Catechists hopeful Scholars needy Gentlemen and others his Pensioners at Derry Dublin and Faughen in Ireland Glascow in Scotland London Oxford and Cambridge in England by which and other parts of his Pastoral cares his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sacrament the following day at St Brides in the same City he felt it by a Paroxism seizing his heart whereof he died the Friday after having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully as one assured of Life having lived as one assured of Death saying Thy will be done in earth in terra mea with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body being a pure Virgin espoused only to Christ and besides that he laid out 5000 l. per annum since he was Bishop in charitable uses and 200 l. per annum in Buildings he bequeathed his whole Estate save some of his best Folio Books given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library and an 100l towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity but such his huge ingenuity as well as his goodness he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity yea and something of his Office too in a Benediction and Prayer Dr. Warmestry a Scholar of Westminster Student of Christ-church and at last Dean of Worcester for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time as the sitting of the Convocation after the Parliament and the making of new Canons when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones And in the second offering expedients to remove what had been so according to the Levitical Law covering the pit which they had opened yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude while there was any hope of them in things that her judged circumstantial and prudential was not affraid to be undone by them when they grew desperate for those things that he understood were essential He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loyalists the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs and the Penitentiarygeneral for visiting the sick very zealous in converting Infidels very industrious in reclaiming the loose very careful in comforting the sad satisfying the doubtful and establishing the wavering very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death and very cautious against giving any offence He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow Preaching Mr. Humphrey Sydenham born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire bred Fâ—llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford so eloquent a Preacher as it seems by his The Athenian Babler and other admirable Sermons since published that he was commonly called The Silver-tongued Sydenham but withal so honest a man that he was in danger of being turned out in these times as not fit its the phrase of the times to Preach the Gospel As if wit could be better imployed any way than to please men to heaven and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing as well as Temples Altars Sacrifices from Satans service who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods who gave it to save souls He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels and Charity too so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations Dr. Michael Hudson a Gentleman of great parts and greater courage hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons attempting many of them and taking some being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England of any person in his Majesties Army The reason why he conducted him so safely having made many journeys before between Newcastle and Oxford about the terms of his security there through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House and after an escape thence a year in the Tower whence being permitted to take Physick in London he got out after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower with a Basket of Apples on his Head in a disguise to the King at Hampton-Court and from thence to Lincolnshires where he raised a party for his Majesty having engaged the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design 1648. In the head of which after quarter given he was killed barbarously Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire being thrown down when his Head was cloven asunder into a Mote and when he caught hold of a Spout to save himself as he was falling a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers as others now he was fallen into the Water Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes and begging to dye at Land knocked him on the Head cutting off his Tongue and Teeth and carrying them about the Country the Trophies of their shame but his immortal honor who besides his life lost 2000 l. in a personal estate and 900 l. a year leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons himself being not vouchsafed a grave till an Enemy of more wit and charity than his fellows said Since he is dead let him be buried THE Life and Death OF Sir RICHARD GURNEY Sometime Lord Mayor of London SIR Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet born April 17. 1577. at Croydon in Surrey was by his Majesty King Charles I. honored with this Title that he might be a pattern
with him while he lived and offering himself upon a tryal by a noble Counsel of War by whom after an affixer set and a Proclamation for any person to come in and prosecute him none appearing he was quitted Oct. the second 1643. His pious Relations at London something misled I think by some modern Preachers more taken with the seriousness of their preaching and praying than the irregularity of their proceedings befriended him with the Parliament during the Usurpation as he did them with his Majesty after the Restauration having been thousands out of purse to his Majesties Father before the Wars in Custom-house he had a considerable interest in the farming of it since having a peculiar faculty of advancing Trade and consequently Tallage till he dyed 1666. his body being buryed in Mildred Breadstreet with his Ancestors and his heart at a Chappel in Hammersmith built at his Charge He was well known by his large heart in inventing some new kind of Benefaction there as he was by his large head in finding out new Inventions having done many good works in and about the City while he lived and left considerable Legacies there when he dyed Deserving a Marble Monument for his new way of making Brick and an Epitaph as clear as he could speak for the obscure way safe to himself and friends though dark to his foes he had to write expressing himself in these sad times as O. P. whose abilities were not to be gathered from his words any more than his meaning save that the more intangled they were they were the more judicious his Interest obliging him to a Reserve for he durst neither clearly own his thoughts nor totally disclaim them but opening them with such advantages that he was neither mistaken by his friends nor understood by his enemies We must not separate Sir Nicholas Crisp from the Worshipful Sir Iohn Iacob his partner both in the Farming of the Custom-house and his sufferings about them a man ever forward to assist his Majesty saying What! shall I keep my Estate and see the King want where withall to protect it if it please God to bless the King though I give him all I have I can be no looser if not though I keep all I can be no saver and to relieve the Clergy valuing more their Prayers and Gods blessing than his own Estate employing under him only those honest Cavaliers that suffered with him On whose Grave and Sir Abraham Dawes whose misfortues for his Integrity and Loyalty are recompensed in the blessing of his Posterity both his Children and Grand-children flourishing in an Honorable and Worshipful Estate in Surrey indued with excellent Parts good and obliging Tempers a great Reputation and considerable Estates whereby they are as able to serve their present Soveraign as their Ancestor was the Father who when discouraged to advance his share of the 100000 l. with Sir N. C. Sir I. I. Sir I. W. the King had need of with threatnings that he should re-imburse it or as much to the Parliament answered no more But that is the worse that can happen God be thanked I love my Allegiance so well that I cannot only pay it but pay for it And the Worshipful Sir Iohn Wolsten-holm still by the blessing of God upon his chearful spirit which is the result of a good nature and a good Conscience surviving all his sufferings and doing his Majesty and the Kingdom eminent service in the great Trust committed to him though almost eighty years of Age with incredible activity and dispatch eminent for his exemplary Hospitality and Charity his great care to keep a good understanding in the City and his readiness to encourage any publick good work tenderly asking for Sion Colledge and other ruined places as my good friend Mr. Whitle Secretary of the Custom-house who is never wanting to speak a good word for a good work hath often told me to which he hath been formerly a good Benefactor I may say of him as Mr. Crashaw doth of Mr. Aston THe modest front of this small floor Believe me Reader can say more Than many a braver Marble can Here lies a truly honest man One whose Conscience was a thing That troubled neither Church nor King One of those few that in this Town Honour'd all Preachers heard their own Sermons he heard yet not so many As left no time to practice any He heard them Reverendly and then His practice preach'd them o're agen His Parlor-Sermons rather were Those to the Eye than to the Ear. His prayers took their price and strength Not from the loudness nor the length He lov'd his Father yet his Zeal Tore not off his Mothers Veil To th' Church he did allow her Dress True Beauty to true Holiness Peace which he lov'd in Life did lend Her hand to bring him to his End Sir Martin Noel Farmer of part of the Customs born at Stafford in Stafford-shire and dying in Bishops-gate London was very like Sir Nicholas Crisp in the activity of a designing spirit being in all forty several Inventions for Trade and the Charity of a publick one having built and indowed a fair Hospital in the Town of his Nativity one of the first in that kind in that Country and he drew the first Letter with a flourish being bred a Scrivener while he lived besides what he left when he dyed 1665. and was buryed by his own order at old Iury Church with only the Office in the Common-prayer said at his Funeral and the Book put into his Grave Sir Edmund Wright Lord Mayor 1640. Memorable for his Justice to one Clergy-man in his Office Mr. Chestlen of Sr. Matthews Fryday-street molested by a combination in the Parish to pay him no Tythe to weary him out and bring Burton now brought home in a bold affront to publick justice in who appealing to him according to the Statute 37 Hen. 8. found him so resolvedly honest that when Pennigton threatned him to stave him off from doing justice he replyed What shall I be afraid to do justice and ordered him his Tithes pursuing his order so far as to commit them to the Goal without Bail or main-prize that refused to submit to that order till two of the then House of Commons took the Prisoners out of Newgate by force whither they were sent by Law and his Charity to all Clergy-men deprived of their places out of it Sir Abraham Reynardson Lord Mayor 1648. and Imprisoned in the Tower two moneths for not consenting to his Majesties murther and the alteration of the Government which proved the end of that War which Sir Richard Gurney so seasonably would have prevented in the beginning of it and not discharged till he had paid 2000 l. fine and as far as lay in his enemies who had destroyed the foundation of honor lost his honor in a way that increased it In reference to whom be it remembred that his Lady would not suffer the messenger that brought the Proclamation for
2 Coll. Warren the right Gospel Centurion that feared God as much as he undervalued man 3 Coll. Fleming 4 Coll. Brin 5 Major Tempest and several other brave Gentlemen Cromwel thinking to cut off all Ireland in cutting off that Town which was the Epitome of it Sir Arthur like Montross had one excellent faculty that in extremity he had some operative Phrases wherewith he could bespeak his Souldiesr to do wonders Pallas so much honoured by him which some Pen equal to his Sword may more fully relate and her Military relation doing him right in her learned Capacity Sir Edward Herbert Atturney-General to his Majesty much troubled about the Impeachment he drew up against the five Members more about the opinion and advice he gave concerning the Parliament having asserted the peoples Liberty with resolution 1626. 27. 28. and his Majesties Rights with integrity 1639. 1640. 1641. his Majesty preferred him for his abilities in the first but the people would never forgive his faithfulness in the second having assisted at most Treaties and Councils at Oxford in the War he retired beyond Sea after dying with honor there though he could not live with Indemnity at home having this Character That he thought he served his Prince best when he gave things the right colour not varnishing them over with a false Gloss which did more harm when discovered than good when pretended Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury whose compleat History you may see in the States-men and Favourites of England Coll. Charles Herbert Coll. Edward Herbert Richard Lord Herbert the Lord Edwards son and Coll. Richard Herbert the first the greatest Artist and Linguist of a Noble man in our Age and a very stout man His History of H. 8. which he writ in as blustering a time as it was lived in is full and authentick in its Collections judicious in the Observations strong coherent and exact in the Connexion His Ambassie into France was well managed for being referred to Luynes the Favourite of France for Audience in behalf of the Reformed Luynes setting two Protestant Gentlemen behind a traverse near the place where they were to conferr to hear what little expectations they ought to entertain of the King of Englands Mediation asked roughly what our King had to do to meddle with the state of France Sir Edward Herbert it s not you to whom my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain that my Masi◠〈◊〉 more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Neveâ—theless reserving his passion till the issue of the discourse said he if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you farther whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well the Ambassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the peace and prosperity of France and that upon the settlement of that Kingdom he hoped the Palatinate might be the better assisted Luynes returned We will have none of your advices the Ambassador replied He took that for an answer being sorry the King his Masters affections were not suitably resented adding that since it was so he knew well what to do And being answered that the French feared him not returns smilingly If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made no other answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes thereupon rising from his chair discomposed said By God If you were not the Monsieur Ambassadour I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward rising also from his chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Britains Ambassador so he was a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence adding when the Marshal of Geran after a more civil audience of the King told him that he was not safe there since he had so highly affronted Luynes That he held himself to be secure enough where ever he had his Sword by him The Gentlemen behind the Curtains afterwards when he was called home to accommodate Le mal intendu between the two Crowns attesting that though the Constable gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his instructions and honor very discreetly and worthily His Son Richard Lord Herbert dead since deeply engaged with Sir George Booth and many others in most of the designs for his Majesties Restauration all of them the wariest and the most resolute of any that followed his Majesty from the Scots Wars 1639. to the Settlement 1660. Sir Iohn Pennington born nigh Alesbury in Buckinghamsh bred a Sea-man by his great diligence and patience attaining to a Captains Command and by his noble and generous temper to the honour of Admiral of the Guard belonging to the Narrow Seas where gaining vastly by Convoys he lived like a Prince in the magnificence of his Table and Interest in the Sea-men who shared in his gains and he in their hearts making them all true to him as he was to the King and Church being very faithful to the interest of the first till he deluded by the Faction disabled him from serving him and very conscientious in observing the Orders of the second in all his Ships as long as he had any being none of those Sea-men whose piety being a fit of the wind are calm in a storm and storm in a calm Yet very serviceable was he in transporting Commanders Arms Ammunition and other necessaries for his Majesties service keeping Passages open in most Ports of England besides that he secured Scilly Guernsey and Iersâ—y bravely did he 1626 refuse upon my Lord of Buckinghams Order to deliver his Majesties Ships to the French without a considerable security for their value and use and as bravely refused all Overtures from the Parliament he died at Bristol Sept. 1646. having been never cruel as some to Slaves knowing that the Sea might drown the men but not the murder To him I may adde Sir Iohn Lawson a poor mans Son at Hull bred at Sea by his Industry and Dexterity coming to be a Captain in which capacity after some profitable Voyages with Merchants he gained much honor in boarding fix Admiral ships in the War with the Dutch 1651. 1652. 1653. more in contributing to his Majesties Restauration by putting a stop with eight ships upon the mouth of the Thames till the stop put upon the Parliament was removed 1659. most of all in the admirable attempt upon Algiers 1661. 1662. which he forced to make the most honorable Peace they ever made with Christians and afterwards which was more most punctually to observe it and in his gallant Conduct and Resolution in the first Sea-fight between the English and the Dutch 1665. where by a shot in the leg he
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention
said he deserved to lose it from his Friends A kin to that Noble Family of the Villiers that had no fault but too good Natures carrying a Soul as fair as his Body and a carriage Honorable as his Extract being not carryed by the heat of the bloud he had to any thing that might be a stain to that he came from Posterity shall know him with Sir Iohn Smith the last Knight Banneret of England who relieved him being too far engaged at Edgehill as he had before rescued the Standard who being Nobly born Brother to the Lord Carrington strived to hide his Native honor suae fortunae Faber with acquired dignity desiring to be known rather to have died of his Wounds for his Soveraign at Alesford in Hampshire 1644. than that he was born of Noble Parentage in York-shire 1646. It may be said of this numerous Family after the defeat of the King as it was of the English after the Invasion of the Conqueror Some fought as the Kentish who capitulated for their Liberty some fled as those in the North of Scotland some hid themselves as many in the middle of England and Isle of Fly some as those of Norfolk traversed their Titles by Law bold Norfolk men that would go to Law with the Conqueror most betook themselves to patience which taught many a Noble hand to work foot to travel tongue to intreat even thanking them for theiâ— courtesie who were pleased to restore them a shiver of that whole Loaf which they violently took from them Which was the Case of the Honorable Family of the Caries whereof Col. Theodore Cary was the wiliest Col. Edward Cary the most experience Sir Henry Cary the steadiest and Sir Horatio Cary the wariest Commander in the Kings Army The first best read in History the second in Mathematicks and Tacticks the third Experimented Philosophy the fourth in the Chronicles of our Land Indeed the best study for a Gentleman is History and for an English Gentleman is the British History Ernestus Cary Shelford Camb. paid 229 l. at Goldsmiths-hall Iohn Cary of Milâ—on-Clevedon Som. 200 l. Iohn Cary of Marybone Park Middlesex Esq 1200 l. Charles Cary Gotsbrook North. Esq 183 l. The Right Honorable Iohn and Henry Mordant Earls of Peterborough the first of which having been a Papist was converted by a Disputation between Bishop Vsher and a Papist at his house where the Papist confessed himself silenced by the just hand of God upon him for presuming without leave from his Superiors to Dispute with so Learned a Person as Dr. Vsher the other wounded at Newberry and other places where he was a Volunteer for his late Majesty as he was often Imprisoned for his Loyal attempts 1647. 1655. 1657. 1658. 1659. in behalf of our present Soveraign the great Agent and Instrument for whose Restauration was Io. Lord Viscount Mordant of Aviland who was tryed for his life at Westminster and brought the first Letters from his Majesty to the City of London their Loyalty cost that Family 35000 l. whereof 5106 l. 15 s. composition Sir Edward Walgrave an Ancient Northern or Norfolk Gentleman never more than a Knight yet little less than a Prince in his own Country above 70 when he first buckled on his Armour for the English Wars a Brigadine in his Majesties Army one of the first and last in action and a Commander in the Isle of Ree Commanding the Post at Saltash at the Impounding of Essex where his men scattering were thrice rallied by himself though twice unhorsed and the whole Parliament Army stopped till his Majesty approached he lost two sons and 50000 l. in the Wars A Gentleman who deserved his neighbours Character of Strong Bow having brachia projestissima and Tullies commendation nihil egit levi brachio especially falling heavy upon all sacrilegious invaders of Churches who being angry with the King revenged themselves on God destructive Natures delighting to do mischief to others though they did no good to themselves 2. Sir â—ervase Scroop was not so near Sir Edward in his dwelling as in his character who being an aged man engaged with his Majesty at â—dgehill where he received 26 wounds and was left on the ground dead till his son Sir Adrian having some hint of the place where he fell lighted on the body with no higher design than to bring it off honourably and bury it decently still warm whose warmth within few minutes was improved into motion that motion within few hours into sense that sense within a day into speech that speech within certain weeks into a perfect recovery living above 10 years after with a pale look and a Scarff-tied arm a Monument of a Sons affection to a Father as of both to the Father of their Country for whose sake his purse bled there is a vein for silver as well as bloud as well as his body the War standing him and his Soh in 64000 l. whereof 120 l. per annum in Land and 3582 l. in money for Composition for which the Family there was Coll. Io. Scroopâ— is highly esteemed by his Majesty who is happy in that quod in principi rarum ac prope insolitum est ut se putet obligatum aut si putet amet Plin. Ep. ad Trajan 3. William Salisbury of Bochymbid Denb Governour of Denbigh Castle was such another plain and stout Cavalier in his True blew Stockings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who yielded not his Castle till all was lost nor then his loyalty keeping up the Festivals Ministry and prayers of the Church by his example and charity printing Orthodox Books in Welch and buying them in English at his own charge relieving the poor Cavaliers and encouraging the rich zealously but wisely and warily his loyalty cost him and his son Charles Salisbury 781l by way of composition and 100 l. per annum in a way of charity An old Gentleman of a great spirit that would would deal faithfully with any man and spoke so plainly to his Majesty for two hours in private that the good King said nevâ—r did Prince hear so much truth at once He was sure to have his Carolon Christmass day as St. Bernard his bymn See Mr. R. Vaughans Dedic of Bishop Usher and Bishop Prideaux his works to him translated at his charge R. Vaughan whose house Caergay was burned for his loyalty to the ground a great Critick in the Welch Language and Antiquities as was Mr. Rob. Vaughan of Hengour to whom his Country is much engaged for translating the Practice of Piety and other good Books into Welch 4. Sir Thomas Salisbury of Lleweney by Denbigh a Gentleman every way especially in Loyalty and Arms recovering the honour of that ancient and noble Family by his early and effectual adhering to K. Charles I. which was tainted by his Predecessors practices against Q. Elizabeth he hazzarding as much for the established Religion against the Novelties of his time as his Ancestor did for what he thought
one Treasurer of the Northern Army and the other a Collonel both after the defeat at Marston-moor accompanying my Lord of New-Castle beyond Sea whence the first returned with new hopes to serve his Majesty and was slain at Sherburn in Yorkshire 1645. having time enough to rise on his knees and crie Lord have mercy upon me bless and prosper his Majesty A short Prayer at death serveth him whose life was nothing but one continued Prayer and the other died at Paris not much concerned that he was set by and not set by hung up like the Axe when it hath hewed all the hard timber on the Wall unregarded and none of those that desired to embroyl the Nation in a new War and like a knavish Chirurgeon out of design to blister the sound flesh into a sore to gain by the curing of it 24. Coll. Sir â— Applâ—yard Dilling Cumb. the first that entered Leicester and was therefore Governour of it Good always at at bold Onsets but better at prudent Retreats And to conclude all 25. The Lord Bard a Ministers son of our Church that valiantly fought for it coming from the University of Cambridge to the Army advancing by the particular notice his Highness Prince Rupert took of his large Spirit penned within a narrow Fortune from a Commoner by his great Services to a Baron leading on the Left hand â—ertia with Sir G. Lisle at Naseby and bringing off the whole Brigade otherwise likely to be cut off at Alesford he with the two London Prentices Sir T. and W. Bridges are not the only English instances of men of private Occupations arriving at great skill in Martial performances Sir Io. Hâ—wkwood a General in Florence was a Taylor turning his needle to a Sword and his thimble to a Shield he appeared not in our Wars as spirits who are seen once and then finally vanish being often put upon Honorable but Difficult service to keep places with few men against a fierce and numerous Enemy to whom once he set open the gate of Cambden house his charge as if deserted but entertained them so that they spilt not so much Claret Wine in the house as they left bloud before it He would often commend Sir Clement Pastons method of bounty Building a fair House for Hospitality where his serving-men spent their Younger dayes in waiting upon him and an Hospital hard by where they might bestow their Elder years in Recollecting themselves and say that he descended from that man in Norfolk he must be a Norfolk man that went to Law with W. and overthrew the Conqueror All these brave Gentlemen both for Camp and Court for Entertainment and Service in a March for Valor and in a Mask for Ingenuity Gentlemen who were most of them buryed in honour and his Majesties Cause for a while buryed with them whose Ashes should not be thus huddled together deserving a more distinct Commemoration especially those that have been as devout as valiant and as prudent as devout their Wit being as sharp as their Swords and piercing as far into business as those did into bodies Sir Francis Gerard Sir Cecil Trafford and Coll. Francis Trafford Lancash Gent. men worthy Recusants arming themselves in defence of those Laws by which they suffered valuing their allegiance above their opinion and supporting a Government that was imposed upon them rather than betraying it to them that would impose upon the Nation With whom I might reckon Sir Peter Brown and his son of Kidlington Oxfordsh who was slain in the service being mortally wounded at Naseby and dying at Northampton Sir Troilus Turbervile Captain-Lieutenant of his Majesties Life-guard slain in the late Kings march from Newark to Oxford whose bounty to his Souldiers puts me in mind of my Lord Audleys to his Esquires who bestowed the Pension of 500 Marks upon them which the Black Prince bestowed upon him for his service at the battel of Poictiers and when questioned for it by the Prince said These have done me long and faithful service without whose assistance I being a single man could have done little besides the fair Estate left me by my Ancestors enableth me freely to serve your Highness Sir Nicholas Fortescue a Knight of Malta slain in Lancashire whose worth is the more to be regarded by others the less he took notice of it himself a Person of so dextrous an address that when he came into notice he came into favor when he entred the Court he had the Chamber yea the Closet of a Prince a Gentleman that did much in his person and as he would say Let Reputation do tho rest he and Sir Edmund Fortescue were always observed so wary as to have all their Enemies before them and leave none behind them Sir Henry Fortescue being the most Valiant Commander in H. 5th time Sir Ad. Fortescue the strictest Governor he was Porter of Callis in H. 7th time Sir Hen. Fortescue and Sir Io. Fortescue the most learned Lawyers in Henry 6th time Sir Io. Fortescue the wisest Counsellor in Queen Eliz. time whose studies he was Overseer of and these Gentlemen very eminent Souldiers in King Charles I. Reign always prevailing in their parts with parties as much beneath their Enemies in number as above them in resolution and temperance by whom if there were any violence offered the appearance of these Commanders checked they carrying civility in their presence against all rudeness as the Abbot of Battel did a Pardon in his having power to save any Malefactor he saw going to be executed in all executions Col. Cuthbert Coniers of Leighton in Durham slain at Mulpasse in Cheshire Aug. 1644. and Col. Cuthbert Clifton slain near Manchester who could not endure that Rebellion that took Sanctuary in Religion which wanted a refuge its self the horns of the Altar pushing it from him sober men that could not endure to see the English coming to fight now under King Charles as they did 600 years ago under King Herold drunk and not able either to stand to an Enemy so overcome with drink nor fly from him both with Col. Richard Manning slain at Alseford in Hampshire Col. Will. Eure Brother to the late Lord Eure slain at Marston-Moor and his son L. C. Tho. Eure slain at Newberry Col. Tho. Howard son of Sir Francis Howard who gained the battel at Adderton-moor as Eye-witnesses testifie with the loss of his life Iune 30. 1643. one of them that taught the world to plant Lawrels on the brow of the Conquered Col. Thomas Howard son to the Lord William Howard slain at Piâ—rebridge in the County of York the Honorable Sir Francis and Sir Robert Howard of whose Names there were seven Peers with his Majesty Col. Thomas Col. Anthony and Col. Iames Morgan Sir Edward Morgan of Pencoed Mon. whose Loyalty stood him in 1007 l. Sir Iohn Cansfield who interposed himself between his Majesty King Charles and the Prince and the Fury of the Enemy bringing off both
a Scythian Bishop found but 15 Christians in his Diocess and left but 15 Heathens there b He hath out a Pentaglot Dictionary of Modern Languages and a Portugez Grammar c The peculiar excellency of his Dodcna's Grove two Parts Translated into French with applause d See â—is lâ—tters to Sir Dudley Carleton in Mr. Hâ—les Remains e Being able to repeat 500 strange words after twice hearing of them and to make use of any mans Exercise or Sermon verbatim if he once but either sâ—w or heard it a As in Bâ—shâ—p Câ—â—â—zens 〈◊〉 Case and several others b The Earl of Câ—â—lisle and G. Lord Berkley especiâ—lly See his Dedicatiâ—ons in his Church History The old Eâ—â—l of Bristol and Bishop offered him a noble compeâ—ency to live with them â—he old Earl being much pâ—â—asâ—d with his company when he was Chaplâ—in to the P. Henat Exeter c See his Sermâ—ns and Meditations the handsome dress of which doth 〈◊〉 their useful matters to the Readers not only head but heart d See their Letters one to another a 〈◊〉 â—â—tidotum Lincolniensâ— b In his Ecclâ—sia vindicata a Mrâ— Puller Mr Sandersen Mr. Lestrange Mr. Hickâ—nan whom he strâ—nâ—gly discovered in the the very â—hrases he had borrowed from him and others to feather his Book a Vpon Arch-bishop Bancrofts motion 1611 b Formerly Fellow of Nâ—w Colâ—â—in Oxf. a His gâ—and Sacriledge of the Church of Rome about the Cup his Parallels his case of Spectaeles and â—is Vertumnus Romanus a See his disputation in his Dipper Dipped a Called the Reasons of the Vniversity of Oxf. which all the Parliament Divines refused to answer a See â—is Seâ—mons full of caâ—es about our Discipâ—â—nâ— and Ceremoâ—is b Seâ— his Lectures there â—e Juramenâ— to 〈…〉 c Seâ—â—is Xl. Sermons â—d Auâ—â—n d See the casâ—s of Love c. lately set out and supposed to be his a And he was of a Commiter in the Jerusalem-chamber March 2â— 1640 〈◊〉 view the lyturgâ— the Dâ—ctâ—â—â—e and Disâ—â—â—line of the Church sâ—â— whose first 〈◊〉 formers and their moderation â—e had a very great veneration and therefore he was very uâ—will 〈…〉 a See his excellent Preface to Bishop Ushers Book of Power and Obedience George Sanderson of Gunthâ—ope Lincoln Compounded for 140l b He succeeded Bishop Jo. Thorneburgh born in Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford acceptable to Queen Elizabeth who preferred him Dean of York and Bishop of Limbrick for his comely presence and to King James who made him Bishop of Bristol and Worcester for his Chymical Extraction and merry heâ—â—t which contributed much to his long life lying in an old Castle in Ireland the flâ—or over head broke down upon him and yet did him and his no â—arm c His style was manly for the strength of it maidenly for the modesty and Elegant for the phrase a Shocting and Bowles a See a Book called Bishop Prideaun his Last Legacy * with Doctor Wickham a 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 That 〈◊〉 â—â—gin to 〈◊〉 it with 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 â—nd it 〈◊〉 satisfaction a With his Patron Dr. Smith â—ackon we Mâ—â— Humphrey Sydenham born at Dalverton in Somersetshire Fellow of Wadham deserving witness his Athenian Babler the namâ— of Silver-tongued Denham b A deserving modest man that suffered much in the late times a Several Gentlemens Wives of his acquaintance a His body being worn out by study and sufferings Rob. Lautence of Bâ—gburgh Somerset compounded for 5D6l James Laurence Her 120 l. Giles Laur. Wore 370. Rob. Laur. Isle Perâ—eâ—le Esq 4500 l. Jo. Laurence Cheswick 200 l. b Hâ—monds poor mans Tyching a Whose 〈◊〉 sâ—â—â— Vâ—lentine Saunders of 〈◊〉 Ruâ—â—â—d Esq 〈◊〉 ser 12 〈◊〉 as hâ—â— Sâ—n 〈◊〉 Sir Orlando Bridgâ—â—â—n Lord Kâ—epâ—r 〈◊〉 for 4 oâ— Val. Saunders 〈◊〉 b Herbert c Juris intergentes qâ—aestiâ—â—um de eâ—dâ—m explicaâ—â—o de legati delinquenâ—is Judice Elementa â—uâ—is prudenciae c. a Reckoning himself so much more or less proficient in the Law of Nations as he more or less rellished Dr. Zouches works who was one of the Iudges at the Tryal of Panâ—aleouha the Portugal Ambassadors Brother upon which occasion that book was written b Of an eminent Family his Cozen Jo. Soames of Burnham in Norfolk compounding for 1430 l. c Mr. Heywood and Mr. Chase who both compounded deeply for their loyalty and suffered extreamly the first having served his Highness the Duke of York from a Child a 〈◊〉 Henryâ— was moved to marry by all â—he Nâ—â—â—â—y because of the convenâ—ences of her years together with her excellent at beauty and purenâ—â—s of 〈…〉 they are be wards of 〈◊〉 Act of Pâ—â—â—ia 〈◊〉 b Of whom shâ—ded in Child beâ— in Henry 8. full favour c 21. Counties a Among other writings of antiquity this Noble Fâ—â—â—â—y keeps a gâ—eâ—t Huntershâ—rn tiâ—ped with silver in â—oken of their dâ—scent from the Sâ—â—mies Lords of Woksale and Guardians of the wâ—ll gamed Forest of Savernake well 〈◊〉 so its 〈…〉 maâ—y haâ—nd 〈◊〉 years ago b Note Sir F. Anderson of New-castle upon Tiâ—e was a Col. in his Majesties Armyâ— and paid for it 1â—00 l. as Sir Henry Anderson of Pentdey Hert. 1730l Stephen Anderson of Mâ—â—by Line 372â— l. Jo. Anderson London 0â—00l Rob. Anderson of Châ—ehester Esq 0407 l. a To whose charity weâ—â— that stately built and richâ—y endewed Hâ—â—â—ital â—al at Appâ—â— by 〈◊〉 Westmâ—â—â—â—â—d Henry the last Earl of Humberlands Daughter married the Right Honorable the Earl of Coâ—â—â—e a Routing Col. Râ—ssâ—er at Moulton Monbâ—ay and the besiedgers though twice in number to his tiâ—â—d forces b Mem. Thâ—â— Sir Edward Musgrave of Layton Camb. paid 1974 l. composition a He was the first man thaâ— taughs Souldiers to â—a Cats Dogs c b With the assistanceâ—â—f his Countrâ—y-man Dr. Rawâ—nson 〈◊〉 excellent Maâ—hemaâ—â—â—â—â— iâ— Queens Col. Oxford c He was once upon making Mâ— Thruscross and other godly men Trustees for the Education of his Children in case it should please Gâ—d he failed in the Waâ—es d In an attempt made â—o vise at Hâ—â—â—â—m mooâ— 16â—5 â—o second Mr. Penruddock Where â—e and Sir Richard Maleverer were taken â—e it remembred that the noble Gentleman Sir Charles Sling-by was kissed at Marston-Moor Lieutenant Col Sliâ—gsby at Newbery a Who afterwards maâ—â—yâ—d Sir Abraham Shipman an active Gentlemen for his Majesty during the wares especially at â—olâ—â—â—ter for which â—e suffered sevâ—â—â—ly and was cast away in a place in the Indies he went to possâ—sse for his â—ajesty a As he did at the Court offering that if either Iudges singly oâ— the learned Counsel at 〈◊〉 would give it under their hands that the High Court of Iustice was a Lawful Iudicaâ—ory he would have pleaded b Note that Edward Ashton of Al denâ—am Sâ—â—sex Esq pâ—â—â— 2000 l. composition Thomas Ashton of â—â—â—kâ—th Lane 192l and T. A. of Westbanke Lane 116l c Where how would â—e seal his eyes and send them to his heart a Wâ—â—h 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—â— and 〈◊〉 that Lâ—â—◠〈…〉 Seâ— b 〈…〉
brought by Sir R. Dalling 〈…〉 Greek Suâ—â—â— there into the Chartet-house 〈◊〉 was Majâ—â— and 〈◊〉 b Mr Herbert Brother to 〈◊〉 Loâ—u 〈◊〉 of Châ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 University of 〈…〉 of the Church of England whose 〈◊〉 be was 〈…〉 are with 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—ms the Timple c A. C. d He was turned out for not taking the Covenant e In his book called White-salt or some sober Corrections for a mad world a The Guaâ—dian wâ—it by hâ—m 1640 at thâ—se years b See his Poâ—em of Plâ—nts Herbs and his Dovideus c Diou Hâ—liearnass de Alâ—aeo Vide A. C. presâ—t ad suâ— carmina a Sâ—â— his Misâ—â—â—ss on incomparable 〈◊〉 b In his Plague of Athens when Dr. Cowley presâ—wed his Boâ—k to the Vniversity of Oxon for which the Vaive 〈◊〉 presented him with a Degree 1656. Mr. Sprat writ an inimiâ—able Poem in Latine on his Poems to be â—â—en annexed to them in Wadham-colledge Library c Clerkâ— of the Green-cloath and Pâ—rveyor of the Navy to QEliz and Brother to Sir Robert â—uarles St. Basil apud D. Mossom a Not making himself what he foreâ— warned others not to do his preparation for death his 〈◊〉 bed task b So his book about Sigulor Dandiolo converted by him and the Revâ—rend Dr. Gunning Champion general of that Cause at that â—â—ne c See his Aâ—anâ—â—l called The Box of Spikenard a In most Legacies for châ—râ—â—able uses he was in hiâ—â—â—me the thâ—â— pâ—â—son geneâ—ally concerned b Iâ— his Magnificent recâ—ptâ—â—â— upon his return from Scotland besides that he assisted his Majesty in levying â—uâ—nage and Poundage and Ship-money supp effect unlawful Assemblâ—es and Petitions quâ—shâ—ng â—ll 〈◊〉 was motions at Common counsel a His Kinsâ—os the accomplished M. Crisp of C. C. C. Oxon. and Morall Philosophy Lâ—ctuâ—er preaching at his Funeral 〈◊〉 Grand 〈◊〉 the R. â—â—â—hipfal Sir 〈◊〉 crisp enâ—â—â—â— his Estate a With Sir John Shaw this gâ—eat safferâ—â— and noble Personage the most publick spiriâ—ed Sir Rob. Viner in the Custom-house John Soams of Orpinham Norfolk 1430l a Stephen Soams of Throwlon Suffolk Esq 800l b Sir Henry Gibbs and Thomas his Son paid for composition 517l c See his Funeral Sermon at the end of M. Faringdons Sermons that preached it He was born at Charley in Shrop-shire his Father was Mr. William Whitmore who was a great Benefactor of the Habâ—rdâ—shers Company London Sir George Binion â— Gentleman that hath done and suffered much must not be forgotten whose hoâ— sal Hâ—gh-gate was pulled dowâ—â—o the ground a Being the second in the Commission brought to London by the Lady Aubigney â— find in the Catalogue of Compounders this Note Sir George Stroud of Squeriers Kent 2814l H. Strode of Ditsham Devon 184 l. Jâ—an Stroud and George her Son of Stoke under Hampden Somerset Gent. 365 l Jo. Stroud of Parneham Dorset Esq 470l And I find Mr. Stroud an eminent Voluntier 〈◊〉 in in the first battel of Newberâ—â— a Sir Paul Pindar rented the Mine-Royal of Allum for 15000l paying 800â— men a day by Sea and Land constant Salaries b Dr Paul my Lord of Ely a Alderman Abel an active projecto with Mr. Kilvert 〈◊〉 his Majesty and a great sufferer with him b Living in Olaves Jury London where which is much in London his Posterity lived to a third Generation Be it here recorded that Sir Tho Bowyeâ— of Leathorne Suss. paid 2033 l. besides many Immunities a 〈…〉 b Tâ— which 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 b December 156â— a Peter-house a The Lord Ogleâ—y was one 〈◊〉 much who with several of his Family suffered a tedious imprisonment afterâ—â—wards b And that he had hindred them last Summer but could not do it any longer a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 a Particuâ—larly Dundee the nest of the Rebâ—llien b 〈…〉 c â—here was 〈◊〉 the Lâ—â—d Gorden a He came to Scotland the less time with an excellent Portraict of hâ—â—iate Majesly â—headed with â—hese words Judge and revengâ— my cause O Lord and an excellent Declaration which was hanged about his neck b Together with Church Lands and Tithes c And being buried at Westminster a Worth yearly 30000l b There was a trial of combat between Rea and Ramsey 16â—â— thâ— one offâ—ring with his lâ—fe to prove that the other had discovered â—o him Hamiltons Dâ—sign to make himself King of Scotland c Author of Philos. Theol. Ancillans and De formali objecto sidei d Fâ—ther and Son whose Instrâ—ct Theol. and Irenium â—ubulus are â—â—â—ent Besides him James Penniman Esq of Orness in Yorkshire paid for his Loyalty 2000l Composition and Sir James Penniman jun. 530. an eminent Commander at Oxford and elsewhere in the Kings Army a Being of opinion that his Majesty should march either into the North or into the associated Countries whiâ—â—er Faiâ—sax following after he knew would give him several advantages which he had a shrewd way to take b He was â—red up in the Wars of Germany from his youth Besides Sir Arthur there were in the Kings Army the Lord Aston who aazzarded himself much about the relâ—â— of Cheâ—ster Sir Thâ— Aâ—â—on and Câ—llâ—â—el Ralph Astâ—n 〈…〉 rants of that Câ—â—ntry Lâ—ncâ—shire the piercing air whereof makeâ— the Inhabitants bâ—dies as able as their mâ—nâ—s willing for any laborious employment To whom I may joyn Edward Ashâ—on of Aldenham Salop Esq whosâ— Loyalty cost him besides many troublâ—s plunderings and other unknown charges 2000 l. Composition a Evident in his Boâ—k De Venture in Latine and French c. the former kept in the Pâ—pes Vatilan b Whither he was imployed by the E. of Pembrokes recommendation his Mother Mris Suf. Newport went to live at Camb. en purposâ— to breed up her children well Mr. G. Herbert was his Brother Mr Francis Herbert oâ— Dolgion paid 500 l. for his Loyalty Sir Hen. Herbert of Ribsford Worc. 1330 l. Sir R. Herbert of Langley Bucksâ— 500l Jo. Herbert of Great Hoel Brecon 397. Ed. Herbert of Bray Berks 266 l. a 〈…〉 a Kekerman of Danzick a great Port Town de re nautica all owneth the English the best the Dutch the next Sea-men of the 4 first Circumnavegators aâ—out the world 2 were English 1. Magâ—llane a Spaniard 2. Drake 3. Cavendish 4. Noort an Hollander Conducted by the English Capt. Mollis his Pilot. a Ashbey of De la zouch called the Maiâ—â—n Garrison never touched the E. of Leicester Sir Richard Hastings a Col in the Kings Army deserves to be inserted into this Catalogue b Among whom is Sir Wolstan Dixby of Normaron Derby 1835 l. composition His composition cost Mildmay Earl of Westmerland 1000 l. a Sir Hen. Cary of Cockingham Devon paid besides noble Contributions to the King and losses by the Parliament 1985 l composition he commanded Kingssworth when Sir The. F. assaulted it b I think the fiâ—st Earl of M. and the Earl of Dover were Brothers a Col. Philip Stanhop was a considerable peâ—sâ—n in the Army Governor of Shelford house taken by
Ceremonies were the known Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse than lousie for they are Sibbe to the Sarke of Hercules that made him tear his own bowels asunder Doctor Samson Dean of Christ-Church being propter Puritanismum Exauctoratus Whittingam and Goodman backing their Schism with Treason in a Book they writ in defence of Wyat nay some of them growing so bold as being convented before Doctor Grindall then Bishop of London to answer this Question of his Have not we a godly Prince speak is she evil Thus White What a Question is that the fruit doth shew Thomas Rowlands No but the Servants of God are persecuted under her R. Hawkins Why the Psalmist answereth this Question How can they have understanding that work wickedness spoiling my people and that extol vanity Nay from single Affronts to Government they proceed to Conventicles in Fields Woods and Friends Houses and not onely so but Thomas Cartwright the Bell-weather of Non-Conformity presents the Parliament 1572. with a Book called Admonition a Title not well resented in Parliament since Admonition is but the lowest degree of Ecclesiastical Censure and a Preparative if neglected to Suspension and Excommunication wherein were several Grievances represented with this onely Redress prescribed viz. The admission of that Platform which the Presbyterians there exhibited And since one modest Admonition would not do another more severe followeth and a Reply to Doctor Whitgift's Answer to the Admonition with a world of Libels and Pamphlets which they called The new way to work following that Reply they judging it a good way to turn serious Books into Satyrical Pamphlets Finde they did so many Friends and Patrons within the Parliament and without that they erected a Presbytery in Wandsworth sleighted such sober men even of their own Scruples as Master Fox and Doctor Humphred set up Exercises called Prophesyings irregularly and dangerously carrying on Meetings of ill consequence at Cock field in Sufâ—olk at Cambridge and London draw up a Platform of Discipline at London petition the Privy-Council and engage several of them in the Quarrel particularly Leicester Burleigh Traverse his Patron and Walsingham as appears by their Letters to Archbishop Whitgift procure a Conference at Lambeth with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York before the Lords of the Council set up an Assembly of Ministers to sit Jigg by Joul with the Convocation in London engaged so many Lords and Commons under the pretence of the Liberty of the Subject the Grievances of Pluralities and Non-residences Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions to shake the Established Government as forced Archbishop Whitgift to repair with an humble Petition to the Queen to stand by her own Authority as Supream in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil in these her Majesties Realms and Dominions The Lord Burleigh himself was so importuned by them against our Liturgie that he desired them to draw up a better as they had done but that they could not agree Nay some persons private Interests making use of and closing with these Publick Disturbances the Commons come up with a sixteen-fold Petition against the Church to the Lords and many of the Lords were so high that nothing would satisfie my Lord Grey less than the turning out of all the Bishops by Premunire then as they had been in King Henry the Eighth's time and that the Queen should not confer with the Bishops but in the presence of the Temporal Lords A bold Proposal as an honourable Lord then observed that the Lords should appoint her Majesty whom she should confer withal And no wonder now that such Pamphlets as The Epitome The Demonstration of Discipline The Supplication Diotrephes The Minerals Have you any work for the Cooper Martin Marprelate Senior and Iunior Have you any more work for Coopers flew abroad so much that the Synod at Coventry acted so boldly as they did in their Thirteen Canons as a man may call them And that they began to write to one another in this Style We look for Bickering ere long and then a Battel which cannot long endure A boldness excusable when both the Kings of Scots and Denmark interposed in their behalf yea and some of them as Hacket and Arthington set up Designes to murder the Queen and the Privy-Council Traverse himself though otherwise reserved and wary breaking out in his Temple-Lectures to open opposition against Mr. Hooker the Master of it and the great Champion of the Church of England And because they began to be ashamed to make such a stir about Rites Ceremonies c. they added some Sabbatarian Speculations and bold Controversies of Gods Decrees to put weight into the Quarrel and brave that the World might take them not for light Scruplers about indifferent things but the strong Astertors of the Power of Godliness viz. in the keeping of the Sabbath c. the design of Dr. Bounds Book of the Sabbath To this heighth the Impugners of Government and Discipline arrived at in Queen Elizabeth's time in whose Reign these Champions withstood them viz. 1. The Queen true to her Motto Semper eadem would not either by their Greatness Number or Importunity that maintained the Faction be moved to the least diminution of her Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical yea and in her latter days when she observed how the Church and State was overborn by them she grew very severe towards them as Vdal Penry and Cartwright felt they at the Assizes and this in the Star-Chamber till he saved himself by an humble submission 2. The Privy-Council always in Church-Affairs however some Members of it had a kindness for the Faction went along with the Arch-bishop 3. The Arch-bishops Parker and Whitgift notwithstanding the many and great Difficulties they met with kept up the Authority of the Canons and required subscription 4. Fulke Hooker and Rogers kept up the Authority of the Church in Writing Although the Queen was often by them in danger of her life the Arch-bishops made weary of their Lives and Government Mr. Hooker was heart-broken with Calumnies and Oppositions all the Bishops and Ministers of the Church rendred as odious and ridiculous as the Wit and Malice of men could make them The stout Bishop of Exeter went with honourable Scars from the Factions malicious Tongues and Pens to his Grave Arch-bishop Whitgift not onely felt the Fury of this Sect when Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge at what time Carwright was also a Member of that House kept a Fast there in his absence and perswaded all the Scholars but two or three to throw off their Surplices as they did till the good Master returned home Nor did he onely complain of the continual opposition that he met with when Regius Professor from Mr. Cartwright at the same time Margaret Professor in the same University nor of the Indefatigable pains he took to answer Cartwrights Admonitions to the Parliament and to
before peoples eyes to move or exasperate them the dead and pardoned are forgotten My Lord had vast Affections for the Protestant Interest as appeared by his Proposals in Councel his wishes rather than his hopes and what he would rather then what he could do yet he suspected the Swedes and Scots Assistants as rather an Army of Mercenaries than the Auxiliaries of Friends Two things he said undid us 1. That our Divines had been so careless in opening the ground of Religion that Novelties had got such advantages over ancient Truths as to charge primitive Practices for Innovations 2. That our Lawyers were so byassed in their explications of the ground of the Law that old Laws such as those of Knighthood whereby the Subjects holding of the King as all do originally were either to be Knighted or fined for it and that for Ship-money shall be cried down for new Exactions My Lord applauded his Majesties generous Goodness in stopping the Combate between the Witnesses about Hamiltons Design to entertain all the Scots abroad to serve him against his Prince at home but he feared his easiness afterwards in trusting him He like H. 7. being at once what few men are most suspicious most knowing and most stout whereas usually the suspicious man is one that knows little and fears much Much did he resent the Differences between Protestants and Protestants and more with Bishop Bancroft encouraged he the Dissentions between the Seculars and Jesuits as he did in Civil Matters between some Scots and English advising that the Press might be open to them to discover the nakedness of their Parties and shut to our Disputants the Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the Arminians and Anti-Arminians lest we betray our own Opinions it was his Maxime For Schools positive and practical Divinity onely for Presses and Pulpits A Maxime of as great concernment to the Church as his Contributions for Pauls which to say no more were worthy the Earl of Strafford and Bishop Laud's friend From being a Member of the Councel in the South he was advanced Lord President of the North and thence a while after Lord Deputy of Ireland In the North begun that Animosity between him and Vane about Raby that was not allayed but with his bloud Here he would have strengthned the Law by Prerogative always making good the Prerogative by Law some there complained to him of the Kings Government and he told them They complained of the Laws adding That the little Finger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings Clemency would be heavier than the Kings Loyns He endeavoured to indear his Majesties Government to his best Subjects and render it dreadful to the worst Parts and Merits imployed against the Government by mistake he informed and encouraged to better Imployment but Parts and Merits poysoned by Pride and Ambition he suppressed and sleighted saying He loved not a man of large Parts and a narrow and selfish Spirit He had Worth that was sure to raise Envy and a Prudence to allay it moderating the power he had himself and maintaining that of other Magistrates who might be his Skreen Who as he ingrossed not Business to exercise his Power so he intangled it not to raise a suspicion of his Cunning carrying things on in a plain and open rather than a private and close way not that he feared the effects of Envy on himself calling Envy a Shadow that reflâ—cted 〈…〉 prejudice it and as shadows did more 〈…〉 falls upon than to those stately things it 〈…〉 judging it his Monitor rather than his Danger Son 〈…〉 in the wary Conduct of his Affairs rather thâ—n 〈…〉 avoided them in the smooth course of his 〈◊〉 which wâ—nt above the hazard but not the interruptions of Envy The first Institution of the Presidents Place in the North was to suppress Rebellions and my Lords first caâ—e in â—â—at Place was 〈◊〉 prevent them How carefully did he look out 〈…〉 wise Clergy-men that might instruct and guide how 〈◊〉 did he choose knowing and noble Gentlemen that might govern and 〈◊〉 that rude Corner of the Kingdom equally obnoxious to the 〈◊〉 â—â—ations of the old Superstition that erept thither 〈…〉 the Seas and of the late Innovations that stole in 〈◊〉 from beyond the Tweed both dangerous to the People and 〈…〉 Government Instruction he would say must 〈◊〉 wa◠〈◊〉 Government and Government back Instruction by the 〈…〉 the hearts of men and by the second it â—yes their 〈…〉 the King trusted in his own Person the Eaâ—l 〈…〉 Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the North at onceâ— to 〈◊〉 and secure himself rendring hâ—s Authority plâ—â—â—sible by administring Government to the People by those 〈◊〉 that had most Interest in them and could best awe because they alwayes obliged them admitting many to his assistance and 〈◊〉 to â—is trust His Observations upon the Humors of the â—â—â—â—hern People prompted him to advise his Majesty to a Progress 〈◊〉 â—cotland Anno 1633. to encourage the Loyal Part of that 〈◊〉 on this side the Tweed by his Presence to settle the disloyal 〈…〉 other side by his Laws he having Intelligence from Scoâ—â—â—â—â— tâ—ey are the words of a great Lord then trusted with the Crown of that Kingdom that if the King should long deferr his Coronation the Scots might perhaps incline to make choice of another King This â—rogress by taking in the most popular and great Noble-men of the North to attend His Majesty he managed with a noble Conduct advancing all along the Kings Majesties Interest and Honor of such mighty consequence it is how a Prince appears to his people When he had composed the Affairs of Scotland some defects appearing by dayly Tumults and Commotions in the Government of Ireland this accomplished Person in the Affairs of Rule discovering dayly greater and greater Abilities equal to a Minister of State after he had brought my Lord of Holland to a Submission at the Council-Table and in some measure reduced the Factions that broke out dayly at Court where to use his dear Friend Archbishop Land's words Private Ends appeared every day more and more â—o the prejudice of the publike Service was intreated to the Supream Care under His Majesty of that Kingdom a Trust he managed so well That 1. he discharged Fourscore thousand Pounds the King owed and raised Twenty thousand men and as many thousand Pounds that the King wanted in the year 1634. 2. Reduced the Popish and Protestant Parties to so even a temper that upon some Disorders that year he was able to summon such a Parliament as was able to allay and fix the several Factions to a due temperament guiding the zeal of each Party by such Rules of Moderation as were ever observed most effectual to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms 3. Prevailed with the Church of Ireland to admit of the 39 Articles of the Church of England that as he would say They that agreed for the main in the truth of
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
years before he was imployed thither That as he hath been just and faithful to his Master the King by increasing his Revenue so hath he also much bettered the Trade and Shipping of that Kingdome 11. That he prohibited the exportation of some Native Commodities as Pipe-staves c. and then required great summes of money for license to export them to the Inhansing of the prices of those Commodities half in half The Earles Reply That Pipe-staves were prohibited in King James his time and not exported but by License paying six shillings eight pence a thousand and that he had not raised so much thereby to himself as his Predecessors had done for such Licenses 12. That the said Earl to regulate the Trade of Tobacco prohibited the Importing of it without License In the mean time taking up and buying it at his own rate to his own use and forbidding others to sell any Tobacco by whole-sale but what was made up in Rolls and sealed at both ends by himself Besides other Monopolies of Starch Iron Pots which they said brought the Earl in 100000l sterl besides that though he inhanced the Customes in general yet he drew down the Imposts on Tobacco from 6d to 3d. in the pound The Earles Reply That before his time the King had but ten or twenty pounds per annum for that Custome which now yeilded twenty thousand pounds For the Proclamation it was not set out by his meanes principally or for his private benefit but by consent of the whole Council The prices of Tobacco not exceeding two shillings in the pound And this he conceives cannot be made Treason were all the Articles granted but onely a Monopoly for which he was to be Fined 13. That Flax being the Native Commodity of Ireland and he having much of it growing on his own ground or at his command ordered by Proclamation that none should be vented upon pain of forfeiting it but what was wrought into Yarn and Thread a way not used in Ireland whereby he had the sole sale of that Commodity The Earles Reply That he did endeavour to advance the Manufacture of Linnen rather then of Woollen because the last would be the greater detriment to England That the Primate of Ireland the Arch-Bishop of Dublin Chancellour Loftus and the Lord Mount-Norris all of the Council and Subscribers of the Proclamation were as liable to the Charge as himself That the reducing of that Nation by Orders of the Council-Board to the English Customes from their more savage usages as drawing Horses by their Tails c. had been of former practise That the Project was of so ill avail to him as he was the worse for the Manufacture thirty thousand pounds at least by the Loom he had set up at his own Charge 12. That the said Earl did in a War-like manner by Soldiers execute his severest Orders and Warrants in Ireland dispossessing se veral persons by force of Arms in a time of peace of their houses and estates raising taxes and quartering Souldiers upon those that disobeyed his Orders so leavying War against his Majesties Liege people in that Realm Testified Serjeant Savil. The Earles Reply That nothing hath been more ordinary in Ireland than for the Governours to put all manner of Sentences in execution by the help of Soldiers that Grandison Faulkland Chichester and other Deputies frequently did it Sir Arthur Teningham to this point deposed that in Faulklands time he knew twenty Souldiers assessed upon one man for reâ—using to pay sixteen shillings That his instruction for executing his Commission was the same with those formerly given to the Lord Faulkland and that in both there is express warrant for it That no Testimony produced against him doth evidently prove he gave any Warrant to that effâ—ct and that Serjeant Savil shewed only a Copy of a Warrant not the Original it self which he conceived could not make Faith in Case of life and death in that High Court especially it being not averred upon Oath to agree with the Original which should be upon Record That he conceived he was for an Irish Custom to be Tryed by the Peers of that Kingdome 13. That he obtained an Order of his Majesty That none should complain of any Oppression or Injustice in Ireland before the King or Council in England unless first the party made his address to him using to all his Actions his Majesties Authority and Name yet to prevent any from coming over to Appeal to his Majesty or to complain he by Proclamation bearing date Septemb. 17. 1636. Commanded all Nobility Undertakers and others that held Offices in the said Kingdom of Ireland to make their residence there not departing thence without License seconding that Proclamation with Fines Imprisonments c. upon such as disobeyed it as on one Parry c. Testified by the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roch Marcattee and Parry The Earles Reply That the Deputy Faulkland had set out the same Proclamation That the same Restraint was contained in the Statute of 25. Henry 6. upon which the Proclamation was founded That he had the Kings express Warrant for the Proclamation That he had also power to do it by the Commission granted him and that the Lords of the Councel and their Iustices not only yielded but pressed him unto it That it was done upon just cause for had the Ports been open divers would have taken liberty to go to Spain Doway Rheimes or St. Omers which might have proved of mischievous Consequence to the State That the Earl of Desmond stood at the time of his restraint Charged with Treason before the Councel of Ireland for practising against the Life of one Valentine Coke That the Lord Roch was then a Prisoner for Debt in the Castle of Dublin and therefore incapable of License That Parry was not fined for not coming without License but for several contempts against the Council-Board in Ireland and that in his Sentence he had but only a casting Voice as the Lord Keeper in the Star-Chamber 14. That having done such things as aforesaid in his Majesties Name he framed by his own Authority an unusual Oath whereby among other things people were to Swear That they would not protest against any of his Majesties Royal Commands but submit themselves in all Obedience thereunto An Oath which he Imposed on several Scots in Ireland designing it indeed against the Scottish Covenant on pain of great Fines as H. Steward 5000 l. c. Exile and Imprisonment c. The Earles Reply That the Oath was not violently enjoyned by him upon the Irish Scots but framed in Compliance with their own express Petition which Petition is owned in the Proclamation as the main Impulsive to it That the same Oath not long after was prescribed by the Councel of England That he had a Letter under his Majesties own hand ordering it to be prescribed as a Touch-Stone of their Fidelity As to the greatness of the Fine imposed upon Steward and others he
with tears having a little Weeping bitterly before the King when the Bill of Attainder Passed before by Sir Dudley Carleton been informed what the Parliament demanded of the King and what the King had granted the Parliament Information that amazed him indeed at first but at last made him infinitely willing to leave this sad world and there managed the last Scene of his life with the same gallantry that he had done all the rest looking death in the face with the same presence of spirit that he had done his enemies Being accompanied besides his own Relations and Servants by the Primate of Armagh who however mis-represented in this matter was much afflicted all along for this incomparable person's hard measure who among other his vertues owned so singular a love to this Reverend and Learned Person that taking his leave of Ireland the last time he was there he begged his blessing on his Knees and the last minute he was in the world desired him to accompany him with his Prayers Addressing his last Speech to him Thus My Lord Primate of Ireland IT is my very great comfort I have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known these many years and I do thank God and your Lordship for it that you are here I should be very glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but I doubt I shall not the noise is so great My Lords I am come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay that last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Jesus Christ to righteousness and life eternal Here he was a little interrupted My Lords I am come hither to submit to that judgment which hath Passed against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I thank God I do freely forgive all the world a forgiveness that is not spoken from the teeth outwards as they say but from the very heart I speak in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not a displeasing thought arising in me towards any man living I thank God I can say it and truely too my Conscience bearing me witness that in all my employment since I had the honour to serve his Majesty I never had any thing in the purpose of my heart but what tended to the joynt and individual prosperity of King and People although it hath been my ill fortune to be misconstrued I am not the first that hath suffered in this kind It is the common portion of us all while we are in this life to err we are very subject to be mis-judged one of another There is one thing I desire to free my self of and I am very confident speaking it now with so much chearfulness that I shall obtain your Christian charity in the belief of it I was so far from being against Parliaments that I did always think the Parliaments of England were the most happy Constitutions that any Kingdom or Nation lived under and the best means under God to make the King and People happy For my Death here I acquit all the world and beseech the God of heaven heartily to forgive them that contrived it though in the intentions and purposes of my heart I am not guilty of what I dye for And my Lord Primate it is a great comfort to me that his Majesty conceives me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as is the utmost Execution of this Sentence I do infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and I beseech God to return it into his own bosome that he may find mercy when he stands in most need of it I wish this Kingdom all the prosperity and happiness in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do most humbly recommend this to every one who hears me and desire they would lay their hands upon their hearts and consider seriously whether the beginning of the Happiness and Reformation of a Kingdom should be written in Letters of Bloud Consider this when you are at your houses and let me never be so unhappy as that the last of my bloud should rise up in judgment against any one of you But I fear you are in a wrong way My Lords I have but one word more and with that I shall end I profess that I dye a true and obedient Son to the Church of England wherein I was born and in which I was bred Peace and prosperity be ever to it It hath been objected if it were an objection worth the answering that I have been inclined to Popery but I say truly from my heart that from the time I was one and twenty years of age to this present going now upon forty nine I never had in my heart to doubt of this Religion of the Church of England nor ever had any man the boldness to suggest any such thing to me to the best of my remembrance And so being reconciled by the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour into whose bosome I hope I shall shortly be gathered to those eternal happinesses which shall never have an end I desire heartily the forgiveness of every man for any rash or unadvised words or any thing done amiss And so my Lords and Gentlemen farewel farewel all the things of this world I desire that you would be silent and joyn with me in prayer and I trust in God we shall all meet and live eternally in heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happiness where every tear shall be wiped away from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God bless this Kingdom and Jesus have mercy upon my soul. AN EPITAPH ON THE Earl of Strafford HEre lies wise and valiant Dust Huddled up 'twixt Fit and Iust Strafford who was hurried hence 'Twixt Treason and Convenience He spent his time here in a mist A Papist yet a Calvinist His Prince's nearest Ioy and Grief He had yet wanted all Relief The Prop and Ruin of the State The peoples violent Love and Hate One in extreames lov'd and abhorr'd Riddles lye here and in a word Here lies Bloud and let it lye Speechless still and never cry Exuâ—ge cinis tuumque â—â—us qui potis es scribe Epitaphium Nequit Wentworthi non esse facundus vel cinis Effare Marmor quem caepisti Comprehendere Macte Exprimere Candidius meretur urna quam quod rubris Notatum est litteris Elogium Atlas Regiminis Monarchichi hie jacet â—assus Secunda Orbis Britannici Intelligentia Rex Politiae Prorex Hiberniae Straffordii virtutum Comes Mens Iovis Mercurii ingenium lingua Apollinis Cui Anglia Hiberniam debuit seipsum Hibernia Sydus Aquilonicum quo sub rubicunda vespera accidente Nox simul dies visa est dextroque oculo flevit Laevoque laetata est Anglia Theatrum Honoris itemque
but his Elegancies and most flouried Periods and studying not only to observe and know those Elegancies but to manage them being much affected with that Orator that prescribed upon a young Students request to know what rendred Men Eloquent Pronunciatio Pronunciatio Pronunciatio Actio Actio Actio Two Studies took up most of his time History for the best Examples of Actions Speeches for the best Patterns of Discourse To propose to our selves saith Cicero the most excellent example in our discourse and life is a good way to improvement seeing that if we imitate the best we shall not be the meanest Sir Henry Martin had besides his own Collection weekly transmitted to him from some Proctors at Lambeth the brief heads of the most important Causes which were Tried in the High-Commission which with some familiar friends in that Faculty he privately Pleaded Acting in his Chamber what was done in the Court he making it his work and exceeding the rest in Amplifying and Aggravating any Fault to move anger and indignation against the Guilt thereof or else in extenuating or excusing it to procure pity obtain pardon or prevail at least for a lesser punishment Whence no Cause came amiss to him in the High-Commission for saith my Author he was not to make now Armor but to put it on and buckle it not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Clients Sir Iohn Finch besides his own Observations had most of the eminent Speeches Discourses and Pleadings of the time which he would perform with friends in his own person so that upon all the great occasions he had afterwards to speak his business was not so much to Compose as to Recollect accommodating rather than new-making his Harangues Thus accomplished for publick Affairs with a Generous Spirit an Active Head a Charming Tongue a Grave and Awing Aspect an Obliging Converse a Serious Temper a Competent Skill in such soft and severe Arts as either Furnish and Adorn the Gentry a Happy Conduct publick thoughts with the Politure of the University and the Inns of Court He was after some years practise and converse so much in Vogue in the Inns of Court for his happy way of Managing Business that he was with the King 's Particular Choice preferred the Queens Atturney and so much in Repute in the Country that he was chosen Parliament-man in that great Parliament 1625 1226 1627. called The Parliaments of Kings And so much in esteem in that Parliament 1627. as by the Unanimous Vote of it to be chosen Speaker as his Cozen Sir Heneage Finch the Recorder was 1621. And when Speaker his Integrity and Ability so Approved in that he was pitched upon as the great Mediator in most Cases between the King and his People ever careful in his Messages of that which King Iames bid Doctor Donne be careful of in his Sermons never to Exasperate the King against his People by too Rigid a Representation of their Carriage nor stirr up the People against the King by too captious an Account of his Commands Having what King Iames commended in my Lord Bacon A peculiar way of handling Matters after a mild and gentle manner Until the Faction grew so Impudent as being Lay-men to question Divines and state questions in Divinity without either the assistance or assent of Convocation as in Doctor Mountague's Case and Doctor Manwaring's 2. To Limit his Majesty in his Ancient Right to Tonnage and Pondage so far as to deny it him unless he would accept of it as their good will and only as Tenant at Will from Year to Year by an Annual grant from them 3. To draw up Seditious Remonstrances of grievances that they only published to exasperate the People never intending by redressing of them to ease them when according to their Promise to Assist him in the War they Engaged the King in they should have presented him with their Subsidies and Supplies 4. To offer violence to their own Body forcing the Sollicitor to keep the Chair one time the Speaker another 5. To create and spread fears and jealousies by feigned Letters and Discoveries 6. To speak Treason in the very Houses of Parliament 7. To examine the Secretary of States Letter and the King 's to search the Signet Office c. 8. To threaten his Friends and ruin his Favourites 9. To Debate whether they should trust the King on his Word and upon Sir Cook 's Motion to carry it in the Negative 10. To Condition with the King about Supplies being resolved not to Relieve his Necessities unless he gratified their Humor 11. To question the Farmers of the King's Custome-house and most of the Officers of the Revenue This Party having designed that the King should neither Injoy his own Revenue nor have any Relief from them 12. To offer such Remonstrances in the House as neither the Speaker nor Clerks would Read I say until the Conspiracy grew so bold as to offer such affronts to Majesty and Government as not only diminished but endangered them for then indeed he discoursed roundly That not to Supply the King now Involved in a Forraign War was the greatest Grievance A poor King as Sir Robert Cotton used to say being the most dangerous thing in the world This importing a Ruin Denial of Subsidies is increasing of Necessities other Miscarriages only an Inconvenience That to raise Jealousies and Fears about Religion and Government answered not the end of their Convention which were called to Consult with the King about the great Affairs of the Kingdom and not to remonstrate Remonstrances instead of remedying Grievances do but aggravate them distracting the People whom they pretend to relieve being Invectives against Government rather than any Reformation of it That Mutual Confidence was the happiest because the most natural for trust first made Kings accommodation between Prince and People That it was inhumane to grant a Gracious King Subsidies at no lower Rate than the Price of his best Servants bloud That the modesty of the Subject should comply with the goodness of the King striving to oblige as the surest way to be obliged And when Speeches would not do this Excellent Person finding the times as his Gracious Master intimated in the first words of his Speech at the opening of this Parliament for actions and not for words and the Seditious made all the civilities and kindnesses shewed them to draw them off their old dangerous Practises Arguments and Incouragements to attempt new ones When they inveighed against my Lord Treasurer Weston as they had done formerly against the Duke of Buckingham It appearing evidently that not the persons of men but the King 's Trust of them was the object of their envy and his Favour though never so virtuous marked them out for ruin And the Invective raised them to such a degree of heat that fearing they should be Dissolved ere they had time to Vent their Passions they began a violence upon their own Body an Example that lasted longer than
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
touched my eyes have never been blinded with any Reward I never byassed for friendship nor diverted for hatred for all that know me know I was not of a vindicative nature I do not know for what particulars or by what means you are drawn into an ill opinion of me since I had the honour to sit in that place you sit in Master Speaker in which I served you with all fidelity and candor Many witnesses there are of the good Offices I did you and resumed expressions of Thankfulness from this House for it for the last day I had share in it no man expressed more symbols of sorrow than I did After three days Adjournment the King desired me it might be Adjourned for a few days more whether was it then in his Majesty much less in me to Dissolve the House But the King sent for me to Whitehall and gave me a Message to the House and commanded me when I had delivered the Message forthwith to come to him and if a question was offered to be put he charged me upon my Allegiance I should put none I do not speak this as a thing I do now merit by but it is known to divers men and to some Gentlemen of this House All that I say is but to beseech you to consider what you would have done in this strait betwixt the King my Master and this Honourable House The Shipping business lieth heavy upon me I am far from justifying that my opinion if it be contrary to the Judgment of this House I submit I never knew of it at the first or ever advised any other I was made Chief Justice four days before the Writ went out for the Port I was sworn sixteen days after and the Writs Issued forth without my privity The King Commanded the then Chief Justice the now Chief Baron and my self to look on the Presidents and to certifie him our Opinions what we thought of it That if the whole Kingdom were in danger it was reasonable and fit to lay the Charge for the Defence of it upon the whole Kingdom and not upon the Port only And Commanded the then Chief Justice my self and the now Chief Baron to return him our Opinions Our Opinions were and we thought it agreeable to Law and Reason That if the whole were in danger the whole should contribute This was about Iune In Michaelmas following the King but by no Advice of mine Commanded me to go to all the Judges for their Opinions upon the Case and to Charge them upon their Allegiance to deliver their Opinions but this not as a binding opinion to themselves but that upon better consideration or reason they might alter but only for his Majesties satisfaction and that he must keep it to his own private use as I conceive the Judges are bound by their Oaths to do I protest I never used any promise or threats to any but did only leave it to the Law and so did his Majesty desire That no speech that way might move us to deliver any thing contrary to our Consciences There was no Judge that Subscribed needed sollicitations to it there were that Refused Hutton and Crook Crook made no doubt of this thing but of the introduction I am of opinion that when the whole Kingdom is in danger whereof the King is Iudge the danger is to born by the whole Kingdom When the King would have sent to Hutton for his Opinion the then Lord Keeper desired to let him alone and to leave him to himself That was all the ill office he did in that business February 26. upon command from his Majesty by the then Secretary of State the Judges did assemble in Sergeants-Inn where then that opinion was delivered and afterwards was inrolled in the Star-chamber and other Courts at which time I used the best arguments as I could where at that time Crook and Hutton differed in Opinion not of the thing but whether the King was sole Judge Fifteen months from the first they all Subscribed and it was Registred in the Star-chamber and other Courts The reason why Crook and Hutton Subscribed was because they were over-ruled by the greater number This was all I did till I came to my Argument in the Exchequer where I argued the Case I need not tell you what my Arguments were they are publick about the Town I delivered my self then as free as any that the King ought to Govern by the positive Laws of the kingdom and not alter but by consent of the Parliament and that if he made use of it as a Revenue or otherwise that this judgement could not hold him but never declared that money should be raised I heard you had some hard opinion of me about this secret business it was far from my business and occasions but in Mr. 〈…〉 absence I went to the Justice-seat when I came there I did both King and Commonwealth good service which I did with extream danger to my self and fortunes left it a thing as advantageous to the Commonwealth as any thing else I never went about to overthrow the Charter of the Forrest but held it a sacred thing and ought to be maintained both for the King and People Two Judges then were that held the King by the Common-law might make a Forrest where he would when I came to be Judge I declared my Opinion to the contrary that the King was restrained and had no power to make a Forrest but in his own Demesn lands I know that there is something laid upon me touching the Declaration that came out the last Parliament it is the King's affair and I am bound without his Licence not to disclose it but I hope I shall obtain leave of his Majesty and then I shall make it appear that in this thing I have not deserved your disfavours and will give good satisfaction in any thing I know that you are wise and that you will not strain things to the uttermost sence to hurt me God did not call David a man after his own heart because he had no failings but because his heart was right with God I conclude all this That if I must not live to serve you I desire I may dye in your good opinion and favour A Speech so franck and clear that it might have removed all suspition so pathetick that it might have melted cruelty into compassion so humbly and submissively managed that they could not but pity him who were resolved to destroy him weeping at the pronouncing of it and when it was over Hyena and Crocodile-like shedding tears and bloud in an instant that day Voting the Author a Traitor and without any regard to the honour of his place and trust the reverence of his years the strictness of his profession and life the many services he did that party of whom he was reckoned one and the many favours he received from them the extent of his charity and the exemplariness of his devotion employ their common Messengers to take
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
Subjects out of their Loyalty and against that artifice it was observable what advantage His Majesty had on his side for whereas the combination was forced to flie to the shifts of some pretended fears and wild fundamentals of State with the impertinent as well as dangerous allegation of self-defence since they who should have been Subjects were manifestly the first assaulters of the King and the Laws first by unsuppressed tumults and then by listed Forces His Loyal Subjects had the Word of God the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths requiring obedience to the Kings just Command but to none other under heaven without or against him in the point of raising armes And those that would not be juggled out of their duty they indeavoured to disgrace out of a capacity of an effectual performance of it by a bold and notorious falsehood viz. That there was not one godly man with the King and as God would have it most of the eminent men in this County for his Majesty were in as much repute with the people before the war for their piety by the same token that notwithstanding the partiality and the popular heats wherewith the elections to that Parliament 1640. were carried in many places most of them were Members of that Parliament as they were after in disgrace with the Rabble for their Loyalty For to avoid a scandal upon the Kings government and the individious consequences of maintaining too stiffly even a just Liberty upon the Lords day We find Orders drawn up and sent in a Petition to the Kings Majesty by Iohn Harrington Esq. Custos Rotulorum to be delivered by the Earl of Pembroke Lord Lieutenant of that County To the first of which we find subscribed George Sydenam Knight Henry Berkley Knight And to the second Iohn Lord Pawlet Iohn Stawell Ralph Hopton Francis Doddington As severe though not so fantastical in that point as the very Precisians themselves for these are their words May it please your Majesty to grant us some particular Declaration against unlawful Assemblies of Church-Ales Clearks-Ales and Bid-Ales and other intollerable disorders to the great contempt of Authority and to uphold civil feasting between neighbour and neighbour in their houses and the orderly and seasonable use of manly exercises and activities which we shall be most ready to maintain an even moderation between prophanness and nicety between a licentiousness to do any thing and a liberty to do nothing at all In which temper after unsufferable Imprisonments rude Robberies called after the Germane Mode Plunder from planum facere to level or plane all to nothing or pluming unheard of Sequestrations and at last with much ado a Composition or paying as we do sometimes Highway-men for his own estate which besides the vast charge he was at to have the favour of that Oppression amounted to 1275 l. 00 00 For this is Recorded Sir Henry Berkley of Tarlington in Sommersetshire 1275 l. 00 00 He died Anno Christi 165 ... Aetatis 7 ... Tyrannidis 4. Being buried not without hope of his own and his causes resurrection Hic Decios Agnosce tuos magnae aemula Romae Aut Prior hac aut te his Scotia major adhuc Unus Turma fuit Barclaius copia solus Una cum natis Agminis Instar erat Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY TO all these I could adde Sir William Berkley whose Man was Governor of Virginia in the late times when Princes were forced to go a Foot and Servants Ride on Horse-back and he himself in these when there have been made such orders for the improvement of the Plantation as are inferior only to the rules given him for the first erection of it which yet were none of the strictest for otherwise as Infants must be swathed not laced so young Plantations will never grow if streightned with as hard Laws as setled Common-wealths though they proved the most effectual those people giving no reason for that bitter rather than false jest spoken of one of our late Western Plantations consisting most of dissolute people Christian Savages among the Pagan Negroes That it was very like unto England as being spit out of the very Mouth of it This Gentleman aiming at two things that may do much good and that is 1. Justice in Dealings witness the brave Edicts made at a Convention there 1662. That their dealings among the Negroes there may be as naked as their going 2. A Sober Religion that may bless the Christians there and convert the Heathens in one of whom it is more to overcome Paganism than to master an 100 Pagans witness the very reasonable Proposals made both for the supporting and propagating of Religion in that Country for the maintenance of their Ministers and the discipline of their Church to the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London and since Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury who encouraged the prudential part of their design in a way of great incouragement to the present generation and of great blessing to posterity Sir EDWARD BERKLEY ANd from him it were pity to part his inseparable companion in Loyalty and Sufferings Sir Edward Berkley that living confutation of Machiavell who thought religion spoiled a generous person as bad as a Shower of Rain doth his Plume of Feathers on a rainy day being at once most pious and most gallant of as much humble devotion as generous and daring valour as meek towards God as he was brave towards an enemy very well known for the hardness of his body and more honored for the generosity of his mind First he learned to follow others and afterwards to command himself being so much the more happy in his providence forward as had he gone farther in his experience backward being as knowing himself as he was happy in commanding others that were so Extreamly careful of his first enterprizes knowing that a Commanders reputation once raised will keep its self up like a round body some force is required to set it up though when it is up it will move its self Three things he abhorred in his followers 1. Scoffing at Religion a sin unusual never a civil Nation in the world being guilty of it 2. Useless for either the scoffer believes what he scoffs at and so he puts a great affront upon his conscience or he doth not and then it s in vain to cry down that Religion with raillery that is supported so much by demonstration And 3. Debauchery being of Gustavus Adolphus that true Souldier as well as great Kings temper Who when he first entred Germany and perceived how many women followed his Camp some being Wives for which they wanted nothing but Marriage others Laundresses though defiling more than they washed At a Passage over a River ordered the Bridge to be taken down that these feminine impediments might not follow as soon as his Souldiers were over Whereupon they made such pannick shreeks as seized the Souldiers hearts on the other side the River who
would one Stratagem twice being it is Hannibal's character inverted excellent at using keeping and improving Advantages as the foregoing Gentleman was at gaining them And never coming on the Stage to act any Part but what he was so much Master of as to come off with applause as one that understood as well his own defects as abilities Upon all occasions of the Kings Armies withdrawing from those parts he kept all places in such subjection to his Majesty that at their return they found all things so well that they wondred to see themselves there when elsewhere a constant awe and love keeping those coasts loyal But it was so As clocks once set in motion do yet go The hand being absent or as when the quill Ceaseth to strike the string yet trembleth still So grave and reserved a man might have escaped but that the serious combination measuring other people by themselves looked on those men as most dangerous that were most sober His Estate indeed being so great that it was malignant too and as once a merry servant of his said and by the way his Service was such Preferment and a Relation to him so much more than Wages from others that he had as many ingenious Gentlemen to wait upon him for his divertisement as others of his quality had meaner people for their service If they could finde nothing else against him surely they would sequester him for Original sin At which and his other vexations being but a prisoner at large all the while he was resolved not to be at leisure to seem sorrowful that he might be the more serviceable for though as the Tortoise keeps in his shell all the winter so he retired in the sharpness of the late times yet he had all occurrences waiting upon him when he seemed not to take any notice of them One asked a grave Matron how her Maids came by so good Husbands when they seldome went abroad O said she good Husbands come home to them That Text of Solomon Fear God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change cost him they said three thousand four hundred sixty odd pounds blessing God for the benefits he hoped the Kings good Subjects should receive from their bitter usage which might prove wholsome Physick God sanctifying the malice of enemies the Serpents poyson may be used as an Antidote to do the office of a friend And supplying loyalty as freely as he had paid for it usually concluding his honest Discourses among friends with these two sayings Nothing undoeth us but security and We may well spare our superfluities to serve the Kings necessities To conclude a man this so happy in his Invention that in all his Loyal and Worthy Designs he was never at a loss but so projected all his courses that a second began commonly where the first failed and he would fetch strength from that which succeeded not A great observer of common occurrences the result of which enabled him to Advise and a religious one of extraordinary especially wonderfull emergencies for he thought that the ordinary course of things declared the glory of God The artificial mixture of them was an instance of the art of God and Men managing the subtile engine of the Universe The alteration of them as in a miracle did discover the will of God but the disturbance of nature as in Prodigies proclaimed approaching judgements which made him serious though not ensnared to those two credulous and superstitious Principles Fear and Ignorance which usually manage and deprave mens conclusions and affections Sir GEORGE BERKLEY IT is reported that in the last battel against the Turks for the defence of Christendom there was such a slaughter of the French Gentry engaged in that war upon the French Kings motion to them one day in his Palace that it was fitter they should appear in Arms against the enemies of Christendom than in their Silks and Feathers among their Ladies that there was hardly throughout all France a Family of quality that was not in Mourning It s certain that in the late and we hope the last controversie between the Government and the Faction there fell such a share of the publick calamities upon this Name involved therein by their own Consciences that permitted them not to sit down and injoy their own Estates at home while the State and Church were in so much danger abroad that I find but one person of any eminency and that is Alderman Berkley of London of the name that suffered not sooner or later on the Kings side For not to mention Francis Berkley of London Gentleman who no doubt might answer as the mannerly Gentleman did King Iames when he asked him what Kin he was to such a Lord of his Name Said Please your Majesty my elder Brother is his Cousien Germane And might be owned as once a Howard was by an honorable person of the name under whom he was impressed his Father interceding for his release the Lord asked for his name and when he replied that his name was Howard Said That his Cousien Howards Son should not be a Foot-souldier adding we are not all born to be rich though we are born to be great This Gentleman for his great happiness in conveighing Intelligence from London to Oxford travelling under the notions of a Pedlar and Chirurgeon for forming Combination here for his Majesty under the colour of Trade for securing and relieving his Majesties friends for being one of them that with Master Iohn Fountain and others at London who when they were demanded what they would be pleased to lend for the carrying on of the war Answered That it was against the Petition of Right to answer Yea or Nay whereupon Master Fountain was by the House committed to the Gate-house declaring forsooth against his judgment lest it should draw on others to the like honest error for indeavouring to publish every where the Kings Papers and Declarations to disabuse his Majesties good Subjects He was sixteen times Imprisoned thrice Plundered twice Banished and glad to Compound for the poor remainder of his Estate five hundred sixty two pounds four shillings and two pence Nor Thomas Berkley of Worcester Gentleman one of those happy men that are only to be found in England living in the temperate Zone between Greatness and Want France and Italy being in this case like a False Dye which hath no points between Sink and Ace Nobility and Peasantry who deserved so well of his Majesty in his Person in his Relation and in his Estate that he was forced besides several irregular sums extorted from him to lay down for his Loyalty in the Corban of the conspiracy Goldsmiths-hall four hundred twenty six pounds fifteen shillings and six pence A sum that deserves a mention for we are resolved none shall be denied admittance to the Temple of Honor who hath been at so great a charge to go through the Temple of Virtue Nor Edmund Berkley of Hereford shire the man
Imprisoned and Impeached for the peoples sake in spight of the peoples teeth both those that were at first against him being undeceived and those that were always for him indeed the whole Nations of England and Scotland venturing their lives to rescue the King when he was imprisoned in their name accused for shedding their bloud when they were killed by their fellow Subjects because they desired to save his A King that saw a Parliament accuse him of Breach of Priviledges when he came but to demand five men suspected for holding Intelligence with a Forraign Nation and yet the same Parliament suffer tamely its own Army to pull out by the ears more than half of the best Members that remained there for promoting the peace of their and Vote it the Priviledge of the Subjects to make tumults from all parts of the kingdom about Westminster to fright King and Bishops from the Parliament and a Breach of their Priviledge for the same people in throngs there from as many parts of the kingdom to Petition the return of the one and the other He from whom they extorted so much liberty in pretence for the Subject had neither liberty for himself being confined to hard Prisons and harder Limitations and Propositions nor for the Subjects who had they injoyed their own freedom had never endured his captivity He that could not deny the kingdom a Free-Parliament consisting of above an hundred Lords Spiritual and Temporal and five hundred Commons lived to see that very Parliament Exclude all its Lords and Reduce the five hundred Commons to thirty who in the name of the people when there was not one in five thousand of them but would have ventured his life against it threaten his life whom they had sworn when they entred that House to defend prepare to judge him who called them there to consult with them talk as if they would put a period to his days who gave them their being little dreaming that while they aimed at his Royal Neck they cut off their own for what is a Parliament called to advise with the King if there be no King to advise with He must be tried in whose name all others are tried by that Law himself hath made by those people that had sworn protested and covenanted with hands lift up to the most high God in publick and pawned their souls and all that they had privately to restore him whose only fault was that he went from that Parliament that murdered him when he returned to them Riddles Cromwell Whaley Ireton c. and the Army weep and grieve but the Hiena weeps when it intends to devour at the hard conditions the Houses put upon him and the Houses are displeased with the Armies hard usage of him and yet both ruin him the one bringing him to the Block and holding him there by the Hair of the Head and the other cutting off his Head The Scots durst not trust the Cavaliers with him nor the Houses the Scots nor the Army a King at lowest advanceth that party where he is though a prisoner the Houses nor the Juncto all the Army nor N. the Juncto being never safe till he put his finger into the Royal Neck to see after execution whether the head were really severed from the body All the quarrel was that the Cavaliers kept the King from the Parliament and the meaning of it it seems was That they kept him from the Block A Prince they destroyed that they durst not despise all the Grandees in the Army not daring to own the least murtherous thoughts towards him publickly when they set Agitators i. e. two active Souldiers out of every Regiment in the Army now modelled into such desparate Sects and Villanies to consult about the horrid Fact in private and to draw a bloudy Paper as the Agreement of the people which was but a conspiracy of Traitors Cromwell assuring the King as he had a soul that he should be restored And his Son Ireton at the same time Drawing up a Remonstrance that he should dye The Army treat him like a Prince and that they might deceive his devout soul the more securely allow him the service of his Chaplains and the Liberty of his Conscience the greatest injoyments left him in this world with a design the more successfully to use him like a Traitor Ah brave Prince that none durst have abused had they owned what they design whom the Houses had saved had they not been Cajoled by the Army and the Army had it not been Cajoled by the Houses The King granted too much saith Sir H. V. to him at the Isle of Wight and too little saith the same man to the Houses and the King must dye when whatsoever they asked they meant his life If the Tears Prayers Petitions Treasures or Bloud of the Nation if the intercession of forraign Princes if the importunity of all the good Relations that these Regicides had whereof one pressed hard on O. C. himself though without effect whence ever after he disowned his Relation and Name if the endeavours of Loyal souls to do that justice upon the Traitors that durst judge their King as one Burghill on Bradshaw as soon as he heard he was to be President who if not betrayed by his friend Cook had died the Villains robes in his own bloud before he could have done it in the Kings If the great Overtures of the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and the Marquiss of Hertford to ransom their Soveraign all ways imaginable even with their own bloud Offering that as they his Servants did all that was done under him so he as King being capable of doing no wrong they might suffer all for him If the horror that seized all Princes of the world Turkish and Heathenish as well as Christian upon the news of it with the hatred and scandal thence arising to the English Nation if the dissent of the Lords and all other persons of any quality that went along with them till now and had never suffered this to have happened the King but that by the just hand of God as bad had happened them that very Army that they imployed to turn his Majesty out of his just Power pulled them out of their usurped one If the Declarations of their own Judges if the strong Prayers and Sermons that could raise Armies against his Majesty indeavouring to advance the like for him if the Rational Pathetick and Powerful Remonstrances from all parts of the kingdom if the pressing of their own Oaths the scandal of Religion the ruin of the Nation if any Laws or Presidents had been of force to have prevented this Crimen post homines natos inauditum it had been only a Theory in some male-content Jesuits melancholy Chamber of Meditation and not the subject of this Book But stay Reader and take that Treason in the retail of it that thou art amazed at in the gross See a King having treated at the
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
High Chamberlain of England 1631. Upon the Trial of a Combate between Donald Rey and David Ramsey he was constituted Lord High-Constable of England for the day 1635. He is Commander in Chief of forty sail assisted by the Vice Admiral the Earl of Essex to secure the Kingdoms Interest Trade and Honor in the narrow Seas against all Pyrates and Pretenders that either Invaded our Rights by the Pen or might incroach upon them with the Sword And in the years 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641. when he had looked through the whole Plot of the Conspirators on the one hand and comprehended the gracious Overtures and design of his Majesty on the other when the Expedients he offered were neglected the warnings he gave of the consequence of such proceedings slighted the earnest Arguments he urged publickly and privately were not regarded and all the Interest and Obligation he had in the Conspirators forgotten withdrew after his Majesty that he might not seem to countenance those courses by his presence which he could not hinder being not able to stop the Current of the â—umults he was resolved not to seem to approve it but followed his Royal Master to York to injoy the freedom of his Conscience where we finde him among other Noble Persons attesting under their hands his Majesties averseness to War as long as there was any hope of Peace and when neither He nor any of his Loyal Subjects when neither Law nor Religion neither Church nor State could be secured from the highest violations and prophanations men could offer or Christians endure without a War and the King not having his Sword in vain but drawing it for a terror to evil doers and an encouragement to them that did well He and his Son the Lord Willoughby of Eresby afterwards Earl of Lindsey first joyned with the rest of the Nobility in a Protestation of their resolution according to their Duty and Allegiance to stand by his Majesty in the maintenance of the Established Laws and Religion with their Lives and Fortunes and accordingly raised the Countreys of Lincoln Nottingham c. as his retainers in love and observance to whom the holding up of his hand was the displaying of a Banner as other Honorable and Loyal Persons did other parts of England untill his Majesty with an incredible diligence and prudence up and down the Kingdom discovered to the deluded people his own worth deserving not only their reverence but also their Lives and Fortunes incouraging the good with his discourses exciting the fearful by his example concealing the Imperâ—ections of his Friends but always praysing their virtues and prevailing upon all not too guilty or too much debauched so far as to raise an Army that amazed his Enemies who had represented him such a Prodigy of Folly and Vice that they could not imagine any person of Prudence or Conscience would appear in his service expecting every day when deserted by all as a Monster he should in Chains deliver himself up to the Commands of the Parliament and surprized even his Friends who despaired that ever he should be able to defend their Estates Lives or Liberties by a War who to make his people happy if they had not despised their own mercies had by passing Acts against his own Power to Impress Souldiers his right in Tonnage and Poundage the Stannary Courts Clerk of the Market the Presidial Court in the North and Marches of Wales deprived himself of means to manage viz. of a Revenue without which no Discipline in an Army as without Discipline no Victory by it and who esteemed it an equal misery to expose his people to a War and himself to ruine Yet an Army by the large Contributions and extraordinary endeavors of this Noble Lord and other Honorable persons to be be mentioned in due time which being under several who could abide no Equal as none of them could endure a Superior having no Chief or indeed being all Chiefs the Swarm wanted a Master 〈◊〉 a Supream Commander who should awe them all into obedience It was observed by Livy that in the great Battel the Criâ—â—cal day of the worlds Empire betwixt Hannibal and Scipio that the Shouts of Hannibals Army was weak the voices disagreeing as consisting of divers I angâ—ages and the shouting of the Romans far more terrible as being all as one voice When they who agreed in few other particulars conspired in this that the Earl of Lindsey pitched upon as Lord General of the Army by his Majesty was an expedient worthy the choice and prudence of a Prince to command and train a fresh Army to credit and satisfie a suspecting people when they saw the Kings Cause managed by persons of such Integrity Popularity and Honor as they could trust their own with In which Command his first service was the drawing up of Articles for Discipline to be observed by the Army wherein he took care 1. Of Piety as the true ground of Prowess 2. Of Chastiâ—y remembring how Zisca intangled his enem is by commanding so many thousand Women to cast their Keâ—cheifs and Partlets on the ground wherein the other Army were caught by the Spurs and ensâ—ared Little hopes that they will play the Men who are overcome by Women 3. Civility that he might win the Country in order to the reducing of the Faction it being sad to raise more enemies by boisterousness in their Marches and Quarters than they engaged by their Valour in the Field so increasing daily the manyâ— headed Hydra 4. Sobriety without which he said the Engagement would prove a Revel and not a War and besides the scandal render the best Army unfit either for Council or Action and uncapable of meeting with a sober enemies active designs much less of carrying on any of their own so loosing the great advantages of war as G. Adolphus called them Surprizes Next the Discipline of the Army he took care of their numbers a great Army being not easily manageable and the Commands of the General cool and loose some virtue in passing so long a journey through so many and next that of their suitableness and agreeableness one with another and after that of their order that they might help one another as an Army rather than hinder one another as a Croud and then their Provision and Pay that they might not range for Necessaries when they should fight for Victory Thirty thousand men as brave Gonzaga said thus disciplined and thus accommodated are the best Army as being as good as a Feast and far better than a Surfeit In the Head of this Army a foot with a Pike in his Hand having trained up his Souldiers by Skirmishes before he brought them to Battle he appeared at Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. too prodigal of his Person which was not only to fill one Place but to inspire and guide the whole Army But that it is a Maxime of the Duke of Roan That never great person performed great undertaking but by making war in
person nor failed but by doing it by his Lieutenants Here rather oppressed with number than conquered by prowess opposing his single Regiment to a whole Brigade and his Person to a whole Company after eighteen wounds passages enough to let out any soul out of a body above sixty but that great one of the Earl of Lindsey he was forced to yield himself first to the numerous Enemies about him and next day being hardly used to the Enemy Death his Side winning the day and loosing the Sun that made it Vpon Edgehill the Noble Lindsey did Whilst Victory lay bleeding by his side At Edgehill that was true of him and his Country-men the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire that was observed of Cataline and his followers That they covered the same place with their Corps when dead where they stood in the Fight whilst living This was the Noble Lord that pursued twelve French Vessels in his own single one to their Haven heated at once with anger and shame He of whom it is said that when the Duke of Buckingham returning from the Isle of â—hee was told by his Majesty That the neglect of his Releif must lodge on his friend and confident Holland He acknowledged That indeed he had very affectionately intrusted him in ordinary affairs but never had him in such an esteem as to second him in armes that place being more proper for my Lord of Lindsey whose judgement of that expedition was that it was Friendship in Earnest and War in Iest. He who when all men were amazed at the Dukes fall was assigned his successor And certainly saith one there present he was a man of no likely Presence but of considerable experience by his former Expeditions and one that to the last of his life made good his Faith with gallantry and courage notwithstanding his ill success the times fate rather than his Heros O Stratiarcha tuo qui funere vitam Expiraturi renovas nefunere regni Vt cum sanguinco sol declinavere axe Clarior ego fulâ—or succedit olympo Inter mavortis densut a tonitrua quanti Cordis erat majore ferens quam mente ferini Par Decio sacrum occumbens generale Cadendi Certus at occasu recidivi certior ortus Confirmans Actis Pompeii Dicta Britannis Nunc opus est ut stem non est opus ipse superstem Solus erat clypeus virtus Haec Aegide major Enecuit totas etiam sine Gorgone turmas Busta Polymniadis nostri sed Palma Coronat Dumque jacet victus victrici morte triumphat Sic ubi succumbunt arces saevitur in omnes Subjectos ubicuuque lares spargantque ruinam Exemplo tamen usque viget Dux ante secundi Iam belli Genius devoto in milite pugnax Quippe animant manes sociorum Corda viroque Mens uno vixit vivit nunc umbra viri itim THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable MOUNTAGUE Earl of LINDSEY Son and and Heir of ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY LOve is as strong as Death both when it descends as it was in the Duke of Chastillions Case who ventured his own life through twenty thousand men to rescue his Son and this noble Lord who observing his great Father like to be lost in a Croud rather than an Army took with him not so many as he desired but so many as he could finde about him either to rescue the noble Lord or to perish with him made an attempt worthy his Relation and Cause through three thousand men wherein when he could not save his dear Father he was taken with him and after his death so valued by his Majesty that he sent a Trumpet immediately to exchange him for the Lord Saint-Iohns Earl of Bullingbrook and so esteemed on by the enemy that they would not part with him for all their Prisoners taken by his Majesty so true was that observation of his Majesty That he â—ought Gold to Dirt. His education happy as he used to observe himself in six things 1. The example of a wise and good Father 2. The Learning and Experience of discreet and knowing Tutors whom he mentioned with no less honor than Aristotle was remembred by Alexander who equalled him that gave him Education with his Father that gave him Being or his Master by Augustus who gave him so honorable an Interment or his Tutor by M. Antonius who erected him a Statue or Ausonius by Gratian who made him Consul 3. Travel and Observation which fixed those notions in his minde that lay so loose in others 4. Hardship and Patience to which he was used in a way of choice when he travelled abroad that he might use it in a way of necessity if there were occasion at home 5. Good and useful Company generally above seldom beneath himself knowing that gold in the same Pocket with silver loseth both of its colour and weight 6. An Inquisitive Nature not contented with the superficial and narrow notions others acquiesced in from Tradition and Authors but with a large soul enquiring after such an account of things as was derived immediately and genuinely from the nature of the things themselves Happy in observing that rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember to distrust and wishing heartily for a systeme of principles gathered by observation and experience upon the systeme of nature The result of these and other advantages was a competent skill in Arts especially Phylosophy Mathematicks Physick and the two parts belonging to it Chirurgery and Botanism or a great skill and insight in Herbs and Flowers and Arms this accomplishing him for publick Service and the other being the satisfaction and ornament of his private Life the one being gained by experience in the Low-Country Wars where he learned in the time of our peace what rendred him serviceable in the time of our war the other by severe study weighing observations and good discourse His converse gave the world a singular pattern of harmless and inoffensive mirth of a nobleness not made up of fine Cloaths and Courtship a sweetness and familiarity that at once gained love and preserved respect a grandeur and nobility safe in its own worth not needing to maintain it self by a jealous and morose distance the confirmed goodness of his youth not only guarding his minde from the temptation to vice but securing his same too from the very suspition of it So out-stripping in wisdom temperance and fortitude not only what others did but even what they wrote being as good in reality as in pretence to which he added this unusual glory that since there was but a small partition between the Kings of Iuda's beds and the Altar through which they said David had a secret passage arguing the nearness there should be between Religion and Honor and that the Crosse was an ornament to the Crown and much more to the Coronet he satisfied not himself with the bare exercise of Virtue but he sublimated it and made it Grace As he understood himself well so he did his Estate being taught to
manage it before he injoyed it being none of those soft Noblemen who if they were as one was by his Father to tell all the money they spent would as he did retrench their expences that they might save themselves a labour Good Husbandry as Bishop Andrews said was good Divinity and as this Nobleman practised it good Nobility Improving his Estate to double the value of that on the other side the Hedge of it saying Those were not times for Noblemen to impoverish themselves that they might inrich their Tenants Foreseeing greater occasions for his Estate than the superfluity of Hospitality or the vanity of many Followers viz. the supplying of his Prince the relieving of worthy fellow Subjects and an honorable provision for the several very hopeful branches of his numerous Family He raised his Rents as plenty of money in the kingdom raised Commodities knowing that the humor of letting Rents stand still as our Forefathers left them was but the ready way to be cast behinde in the Estate we have whilst all things we buy go on in price his Rents quickned but did not gall his Tenants his Inclosures without depopulation which he detested were injurious to none the poor having considerable allotments for their common-age the free and Lease-holders a proportionable share in the Inclosures beneficial to many The Monarch of one Acre which he may mould to his own convenience being likely to make more profit of it than if he had a share in forty and consequently useful for the Common-wealth And as much prudence we observe in his Education of his Relation as we did in the managing of his Estate all of them like the Ottoman Emperors being bred to employments that may save if not improve their Estates and honor It is a sad story which one tells viz. That when he was beyond Sea and in a part of France adjoyning to Artoise he was invited often to the House of a noble Personage who was both a great Souldier and an excellent Scholar and one day above the rest as we sate in an open and goodly Gallery at Dinner a young English Gentleman who desirous to travel had been in Italy and many other places happened to come to this house and not so well furnished with return home as was fitting desired entertainment into his service My Lord who could speak as little English as my Countrey-man French bad him welcome and demanded by me of him what he could do For I keep none said he but such as are commended for some good quality or other and I give them good allowance some an hundred some sixty some fifty Crowns by the year and calling some about him very Gentlemen like as well in their behavior as Apparel This said he rides and breaks my great Horses this is an excellent Lutinist this a good Painter and Surveyor of Land this a passing Linguist and Scholar who instructeth my Sons c. Sir quoth the young man I am a Gentleman born and can only attend you in your Chamber or wait upon your Lordship abroad See quoth Mounsieur de Lignitor so was his name how your Gentry of England are bred that when they are or want means in a strange Countrey they are brought up neither to any quality to prefer them nor have they so much as the Latine Tongue to help themselves withall That worth he bred up his relations to be loved and countenanced in all men being a great Patron of useful Learning and Ingenuity that was either likely to be serviceable to the State or Church or honorable to the Persons that owned it He was of opinion that as some Physicians when they are posed with a mongrel Disease drive it on set purpose into a Feaver that so knowing the kinde of the Malady they may the better apply the Cure so it would not be amiss to let the unreasonable discontents of men whom nothing would satisfie all concessions to the tumultuary being like drink in a great heat and likely to inflame the thirst it should quench break into open Rebellion hoping it more feizable to quench the fire when it blazeth out than when it smoked and smoothered Accordingly when his sober advices would not be hearkened to in Parliament he with other young Noblemen as Commissioners of Array raised an Army in the Northern Countries that might back them in the Field but being taken as aforesaid Oct. 23. 1642. at Edge-hill he was detained Prisoner till Aug. 11. 1643. when he returned to his Majesty to Oxford where he was extraordinarily welcome the rather because he had made so good use of his Imprisonment like the Primitive Prisoners converting his Goalers that several Lords and Gentlemen immediately followed him being convinced by him that as long as they staid in London they were in Chains as well as he At Oxford his Majesty liked his Proposals as weighty and provident both in the Parliament there whereof he was a Member and the Councel whereof he was a great part all men approved his Expedients in order to an Accommodation having a great insight into the temper of those at London and to the particular ways at all times most likely to work with them And none can be ignorant of his dexterity in the several Commands he undertook at Newbury and Naseby especially in both which places he discovered a great reach in observing advantages and a greater in decoying the Enemy into them being the steerage that day to Sir Iacob Ashleyes Courage and Resolution with whom he Commanded the Right-hand Reserve His prudence was as intent in reconciling the differences at Oxford in order the forming of an united strength against the Enemy as Providence is in accommodating the disagreements of the Elements into a body that makes up the world But when it pleased God that the King and his Friends should see that the best Cause was to be rendred glorious by great Defeats and Misfortunes rather than by great Victories and when the Kings Friends were divided in their Counsels as well as in their Forces wanting that Peace and Agreement which is the only Comfort and Relief of the oppressed and which makes them considerable even when despoiled of Arms by imputing as it useth to be in unhappy Councels the Criminous part of their Misfortunes to one another When the Kings Overtures of Peace that argued him equal to himself under all the messages of ruines from each corner of the Nation like the fall of the dissolved world though applauded by the people that desired only Peace and Liberty were neglected by the Faction who aimed at Conquest and Usurpation and his Majesty was forced in a disguise an ominous Cloud before the setting of the Royal Sun to engage his very Enemies by extraordinary Trust and Confidence in them His Lordship with the Duke of Richmond c. yielded up himself to the Army which after a considerable Imprisonment admitted him in the years 46 47 and 48 to Negotiate Overtures of Peace on
each side by his great Moderation Prudence and Interest and when these proved unsuccesseful with those who as it is said of a French Rebel had drawn their Swords against their King and so thrown away their Scabbards being capable of no accommodation because not secure from the guilt of their former Crimes but by committing greater to cut off those they had acted against being guided by this Maxime We must kill those from whom in justice we can expect nothing but Execution to Composition paying near 7000 l. at first besides what was afâ—ter penalty upon penalty was the common false Heraldry of those upstart oppressors squeezed from him by Decimations c. and the constant restraint as it were of his Person all the years from 46 to 60 being but a great Paroule of fourteen years in which time how magnanimous was he in unwearied Overtures of Concessions Requests Arguments Conjurations Threatnings particular and infinite Applications and a ransome too for his dear Masters Life yea offering even himself as being one of the prime Ministers of the Kings commands as an hostage for him and if the Conspirators must needs be fed with bloud to suffer in his stead for whatever he had done amiss and when they chose rather to take away his Majesties life than beg their own and the most impetuous passion of Ambition having swallowed the hopes of Empire carryed them head-long to remove his Majesty that they might Inthrone themselves How piously did he and his many pious relations that made his place a Cloyster rescent the Parricide and the consequents of it giving up themselves to the extrraordinary Devotions in the despised and afflicted way of the Church of England communicating where ever they were only with the Members of that Church to the honor whereof and of baffled piety and virtue its self I cannot conceal though I offend unpardonably against her modesty when I mention a Sister of his that composeth her soul more carefully by Gods word than others do their faces by their Glasses Spends that time in praying keeping inviolably all the Primitive hours of Devotion that is thrown away too commonly in dressing gaming and complementing and bestow her thoughtful and serious Life between the strictest fasting but one sparing Meal in thirty six hours and not so much upon extraordinary occasions the most Liberal Alms both to the sick and to the needy bountiful both in her Skill and in her Charity Indefatigable reading serious discourses and constant prayers How prudently did he supply his Majesty and his Friends and by a discreet Correspondence when he could not reclaim yet he moderated the extravagancies of the times which had over-turn'd all things past the remedy of a Restauration if the extream violence of some men had not been seasonally allayed and corrected by the sober Applications and Interests of others Heartily did he wish well to the least design and attempt for Loyalty and Liberty but wisely did he observe that unsuccessful practices against any Government settle it the Bramble of usurpation as well as the Oak being more fixed and rooted by being shaken All Governments making use of real dangers and when they want them of seigned ones to improve their Revenues and increase their Guards But it is not to be forgotten that when he could not prevail for the Life of his Soveraign he with other Honorable Persons procured Orders and made provisions for and gave attendance on his Funeral reserving himself by his wary proceedings in his Masters cause for the fittest opportunity of his service being not all the time of the Usurpation actually restrained from his pursuit of the Royal Cause but once 1655. by Mannings Treason being sure as he would say That if none betrayed him on the other side of the water none should on this when with the Lords Maynard Lucas Peter Sir Ieffrey Palmer Sir Richard Wingfield c. he was committed to the Tower upon suspicion and as it proved but the bare suspicion of what they called High-Treason In which course he persisted untill it pleased God by divers Revolutions to open a way for the Lord General to settle the Nation in a way most suitable to his own prudent and wary Rules with whom he entred into a very strict and intire Friendship continuing through the correspondency of their discreet and generous tempers to his death the General advising with him about his Majesties Reception and other Affairs of very great consequence and being admitted at the same time with him one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council Lord Lieutenant of Lincoln-shire c. Commander of a Regiment in the Army till it was disbanded one among many other Noblemen of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer for the Tryal of the late Kings Murtherers one of the most Honorable Order of the Garter 16 April 1661. appearing at his Majesties Coronation one of the first subjects in England in capacity of Lord High Chamberlain of England and upon all other occasions in Court Parliament and Country carrying himself as a wise man an ancient Nobleman as a good Patriot and a Loyal Subject till he dyed 1665. at Kensington leaving this Character behinde him that as the Red Rose though outwardly not so fragrant yet is inwardly more Cordial than the Damask so the most excellent Persons virtues are more inwardly solid between God and their own souls than outwardly vaunting in the sight of men he being as plain in his soul as he was in his garb which he resolved should be proud of him rather than he of it Hic jacet Montacutius Comes Lindseiae c. Magnus Angliae Camerarius A Sanctioribus consilii Carolo Primo puriter Secundo Regii ordinis Periscellidis Socius titulis magnus virtutibus major comunis amor olim communius jam damnum nisi post se reliquisset maxima duo nempe haeredem exemplum 1666. THE Lives and Deaths Of four Sufferers of The Honorable House of RICHMOND I. Of the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord D'AUBIGNEY XErxes viewing his vast Army from an high place all at a sight is said to weep at the thought that within an hundred years all those would be mowed down with death What man having in one view the great number of brave Persons that lost their Lives in this War can refrain the mingling of his tears with their bloud Certainly young State-reformers like young Physicians should with the first Fee for their practice purchase a new Church-yard What Erasmus said of his Country-men the Germans that I may see of our party the Cavaliers Nobiles habent pro hominibus that they had Noblemen as thick as the other party had men Insomuch that had the War lasted a little longer the Ladies of England must have been in the same condition with the Gentlewomen in Champaigne in France who some 350. years since were forced to marry Yeomen or Farmers because all the Nobility in that Counâ— yet were slain in the Wars in the
Empire it â—lourisheth in a too universally dilated Learning being not faithful to the settlements either of Policy or Religion it being no less ready to discover blemishers in the one than incongruities in the other Sophisters saith my smart Author like the Country of the Switz being as able upon the least advantage proposed to engage on the wrong side as on the right As to go no further this excellent Personage being among the Demagogues that had been for twelve years silenced and were now to play the prize in Parliament and shew their little twit-twat but tedious faculties of speaking makes the bitterest Invectives against the Governors and Government of the Church that ever was penned in English which though designed by him its thought to allay the fury of the Faction by some compliance with it carryed things beyond the moderation and decency of that Assembly which he made too hot for himself retiring in cooler thoughts as many more that like Brutus could not lay the storms he had raised to Oxford where his Pen was more honorably employed in detecting the fundamental of Rome their Infallibility and countermining the main props of Westminster their Hypocrisie this as Secretary the other as Student in both laying open the little pretensions whereby the poor people were insnared in their Civil and Religious liberties Much was the gall always in his Ink and very sharp his Pen but even flowing and full his style such as became him whose Learning was not an unsettled Mass of reading that whirled up and down in his head but fixed observations that tempered with solid prudence and experience were the steady Maxims of his soul fitted for all times and occasions he having sate as some Noble mens Sons use to do formerly in the House of Lords behind the Chair of State from his very Childhood and owning a large heart capable of making that universal inspection into things that much becomes a Gentleman being a Master of every thing he discoursed of Insomuch that his general knowledge husbanded by his wit and set off by his Meine and Carriage attracted many to come as far as to see him as he professed he would go to see Mr. Daâ—llee which rendred him no less necessary then admirable at Court until his Curiosity engaging him at Newbury he was strangely slain there dying as he lived till then between his Friends and his Enemies to the Kings great grief who valued him because he understood his Parts and Services in the Treaty at Oxford where he was eminent for two things the continuing of Propositions and the concealing of Inclinations though no man so passionate for his design as never enduring that hope that holds resolution so long in suspence but ever allaying it with that fear that most commonly adviseth the best by supposing the worst His usual saying was I pitty unlearned Gentlemen in a rainy day He was Father to Henry Lord Faulkland whose quick and extraordinary parts and notable spirit performed much and promised more having a great Command in the Countrey where he was Lord Lieutenant a general respect in the House where he was Member a great esteem at Court with his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of York where he was both Wit and Wisdom When there was the first opportunity offered to honest men to act he laid hold of it and got in spight of all opposition to a thing called a Parliament By the same token that when some urged he had not sowed his wilde Oats he is said to reply If I have not I may sow them in the House where there are Geese enough to pick them up And when Sir I. N. should tell him he was a little too wilde for so grave a service he is reported to reply Alas I am wilde and my Father was so before me and I am no Bastard as c. In which contention he out-did the most active Demagogues at their own weapon speaking when Major Huntington and his followers were for the Long-Parliament Sir I. N. L. S. were for the Secluded Members my Lord carryed all the County for an absolute Free Parliament which he lived to see and act in so successfully that he was Voted generally higher in Trust and Services had he not been cut off in the prime of his years as much missed when dead as beloved when living A great instance of what a strict Education for no man was harder bred a general Converse and a Noble Temper can arrive unto and what an Orator can do in a Democracy where the affections of many is to be wrought upon rather then the judgements of few to be convinced A Golden tongue falling under a subtile head under such a constitution hath great influence upon the whole Nation Vi sparsos heroum cineres tumulosque dividuos aeternitati vindicet Monumentum hoc aere perennius memoriae posteris sacrum Condidit L. M. Q. G. Walters tres ultimos Faulklandiae comites extremos jam an helantis naturae conatus lege attende mirare primum prudentiae Civilis normam secundum rectae rationis mensuram tertium ingenii exemplar Ideum Hactenus homines natura genuit nunc Heroas Provectiori mundo Ingenium Crevit Triumviratus animi vi magna Praegrandi spiritu eruditione omni faria Intra fidem supra opinionem ubi viataro et spera ad summa collimani ut mediocria assequaris tot nempe habes in Heroibus nostris documenta quot gesta THE Life and Death Of the most Illustrious JAMES Duke of RICHMOND A Noble person little understood and therefore not easily described modestly reserving himself from men when he sincerely approved himself unto God Great in his Ancestors honor greater in his own virtue and greatest of all in that like the Star he wore the higher he was the less he desired to seem affecting rather the worth than the pomp of nobleness Therefore his courtesie was his nature not his craft and his affableness not a base servile popularity or ambitious insinuation but the native gentleness of his disposition and his true valor of himself He was not a stranger to any thing worth knowing but best acquainted with himself and in himself rather with his weaknesses for Caution than his abilities for Action Hence he is not so forward in the Traverses of War as in Treaties of Peace where his honor enobled his Cause and his moderation advanced it He and my Lord of Southampton managing the several overtures of Peace at London Oxford and Vxbridge with such honourable freedom and prudence that they were not more deservedly regarded by their friends than importunally courted by their enemies who seeing they were such could not be patient till they were theirs though in vain their Honors being impregnable as well against the Factions kindness as against their power At Conferences his conjectures were as solid as others judgments his strict observation of what was past furnishing him for
gloriam fortitudinem quae pati tantum potuit THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable SPENCER Earl of NORTHAMPTON SPencer Compton Earl of Northampton Son to William the first Earl of the Family Created 1618. 16. Iac. by Sir Francis Beaumont the Duke of Buckinghams Uncles Daughter had as many remarkables as he said in his life as there were years to his death He was born at Compton in Warwickshire the very same day and hour that the Powder Traytors were defeated at Dun-church in that County an Omen that that life like Caesars who was born at the defeat of a Tumult should be hazarded for the suppressing of Rebellion that was begun with the suppression of Treason The first step he went by himself was to reach the Kings Picture and the first word he ever spoke was the King an argument he used upon his retirement 1641. to those of the party that had so much as to understand worth and making advantage of his solitude for a tempâ—ation pressed him to a neâ—trality why besides the impossibility of being a Neuter he was resolved to stand by the Soveraignty and Government of his Native Country while he could either speak or stand his parts were so great and his appetite to knowledge so large that it was as much as four several Tutors at Home at Cambridge and in France and Italy each taking his respective hour for the Art and Science he professed to keep pace with his great proficiency the vigor of his soul advantaged by the strong constitution of his body as that was by the temperance of his dyer I am informed that in all his life time he took but one Antidote and never purged but once and then the Physick found no obnoxious humor to work upon so healthful was his temper The symbolizing of their sober and grave temperr rendred him as great a Favorite to Prince Charles as his Cousin the Duke of Buckingham was of King Iames being his Companion at home and an Attendant on him abroad particularly in Spain where I am told he waited upon him in the quality of Master of his Robes and Wardrobe and had the honor to deliver all the Presents made by the Prince there amounting to 64000 l. As he held the Kings Train at the Coronation 1525. as Master of the Robes to his Majesty with the Earl of Denbigh who was Master of the Wardrobe Two things he would have nothing to do with 1. Church-lands because his direct Ancestor being not only Chief Gentleman of King Henry the Eighths Bed-chamber but the third man in his favor had not a Shooe-latchet of Abbey-land as there was none in all his ancient paternal estate though saith my Author nothing debarred him save his own abstineâ—ce 2. Inclosures since Captain Powch a poor fellow with a powch wherein he said there was that which would secure his followers though there was nothing in it but a piece of mouldy Cheese with so many thousand people did so much mischief because of Inclosures in Warwick-shire Northampton-shire and Leicester-shire He could not endure jesting with Religion there being no people of what Religion soever but had serious and great thoughts of their Numen nor an oath on any except Judicial and Solemn occasions often repeating that of Prince Henry That he knew no game or Value to be won or lost that was worth an Oath Having been so many years a witness of the Kings Majesties gracious disposition for solong a time had experience of the benefit of his Majesties Government the comfort of the Religion established upon the Faction breaking out of their shell upon the warmth of the present peace and plenty and peeping out of their privacy wherein like the Hedge-hogg they rounded themselves in their prikcles without motion took aim at the government seeing the contracts of the Nobility and tumults of the commonalty walking formerly so ugly they are in themselves with the borrowed face of Religion but now in the heat of their success casting off that cloak break out daily into outrages as much against Policy as Piety as simple as scandalous the licentious having given reins to their loosness are not able to stop themselves he not only dissented from their proceedings in all publick counsels but prepared to second that dissent with Arms wherewith he was the best furnished when there was occasion to make use of them of any Nobleman in England having settled his estate and advanced several thousands towards the publick service making the noblest appearance 1639. against the Scots and the most effectual provision 1642. against the English waiting upon his Majesty to York to advise in the Ardua Regni attest the clearness of his Majesties procedures and vow his assistance as appears by his hand to several publick Declarations from that place from whence summoning as many good Souldiers and honest Gentlemen as were of his acquaintance the one to raise the Country and the other to lead and command by the untained reputation of his name the moderation and sobriety of his principles the exemplary regularity of his person and family the justice and generosity of his dealing with his neighbors and dependants the hospitality and almes of his house the sweetness of his spirit amazed such a Body in Warwick-shire as having seized on the Ordnance at Banbury and marching resolutely against the Lord Brooks checked his Career awed the Country to Allegiance consining that Lord to two or three Garrisons he had suddainly made for his retreat and this notwithstanding a Letter from the Parliament May 30. 1642. to him and such other Lords as they thought most serviceable to his Majesty naming him in the first place and after his generous answer Iune 8. a Charge and Impeachment against him of very great Crimes and Misdemeanors proceeding so vigorously that he in twelve Skirmishes put a great stop to Essex his grand Rendezâ—â—vous at Northampton insomuch as that Essex should say The going away of these sober Lords from us is a great blow not only in regard of thâ—ir interest and reputation but of their vigilance and activity Upon which score hoping to gain them by their worst way of cruelty their kindness they forbear to proclaim my Lord Traytor to render him desperate though in vain as he observed since they had charged him with Misdemeanors that made him irreconcileable Therefore he proceeds securing most of the Armes Ammunition and Garrisons in Warwick-shire Stafford shire and Northampton-shire and settling the Association so as to be able to surnish his Majesty with two thousand of the best disciplined men in all the Kings Army to Keinton-fight and to Besiege Lichâ—ield having made the Country from Garrison to Garrison one Line of Communication when receiving intelligence of â—râ—râ—ton and Gells coming to the Relief of the Place with near four thousand horse and foot he drew out a eleven hundred horse and dragoonsâ— so dextrously that he surprized and routed their house at Hopton heath
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from Gâ—â—â— Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings proâ—eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
meetings of the Vails and Woulds very commodiously to defend and command the Country especially my Lords three darlings as he called them the Woods the Cloathing and the Iron-work of that Country with near a 1000. men and 5000 l. in Plate he waits upon his Majesty at Shrewsbury and thence the Lord Say being too hard for him at home surprizing his house and making an intollerable havock an essay to that plundering wherewith my Lord made them odious in those parts all along to Edgehill Branford and Oxford where his Majesty observed that his Counsels were well-grounded and happy and his performances quick and well-designed His Castle in the mean time too narrow a Sphere for his own activity under the Command of Captain Bridges and some sixty Souldiers being besieged by Massie with 300 Musqueteers and three Companies of Dragoons and two Sakers after a long Siege several Assaults and Batteries when they were almost smoothered by the smoke of Hay and Barns burned about the house yielded Ian. 1642. a loss revenged by my Lord at Newbury Sept. 20. 16â—â— when with the Earls of Caernarvon and Northampton the true Heir of his Fathers valor Commanding his Majesties Horse there the King said Let Chandois alone his Errors are safe From which Battel he went to Glocester to secure several Garrisons which he kept round about Sudeley to hinder the Correspondence between Glocester and Warwick and consequently between it and London gathering a Cloud about Glocester that only eye-sore to his Majesties Affairs in those parts and disposing of himself at Chettenham the Lord Herbert and Sir Iohn Winter in the Forrest the Irish Forces on this side Berkley and the Oxford at Painswick and Stroud so effectually that he recovreed Sudeley and distressed Glocester till he was called with other Lords Ian. 22. 1643. to the Parliamentary Convention at Oxford made up of such honorable Members as could not with safety and honor sit where they were called by Writ as the King to advise with whom they were called could not at Westminster where he subscribed a Letter of Accommodation to the Earl of Essex Ian. 27. to the Privy-Council and the Conservations of the Peace of the Kingdom of Scotland in pursuance of the Act of Pacification against the Scots Invasion Ian. 29. and to the men at Westminster Feb. 6. 1643. all full of all the reason condescention and all lawful compliance in the world for the Peace of the Kingdom as were the several Messages for Treaty of Peace a free and full Parliament sent during that Session of Parliament which concluded April 15. 1644. with an humble Petition to his Majesty to continue his Care and Resolutions for the maintenance of the true Religion the established Laws frequent Parliaments and Synods strict Discipline in the Army with as much regard as can be to the ease of the Subjects in whose behalf they prayed that the present exigencies of War and Necessity might not be drawn into example For these publick Services he made a shift to deserve besides frequent Imprisonments a Sequestration from his Countreys service and being turned to herd with the Commons this heavy Composition George Lord Chandois 3975 10 00 and what escaped Sequestration he bestowed in generous relief of Reverend and excellent Persons who wanted not their own Estates as long as he had any of his many Cavaliers he entertained all according to their respective qualities he did indeavor to serve and promote among others the accomplished Mr. H. Compton dear to him for his relations sake and dearer for his vertues vertues that sweetned sad times and made the owners of them happier in injoying themselves than the world This excellent Person admitted to his own affections he indeavored to recommend to a Ladies of his acquaintance who vouchsafed him whose Fortune and Person was below few Matches in the Kingdom that respect for my Lords sake while his Lady lived that to his great trouble she would needs force upon himself when she dyed which Mr. Compton was so transported with though my Lord protested against her kindness to him and directed Mr. Compton to prevent it by pressing his Marriage with her telling him one morning as they were abed together that he should finde she was a Woman and fickle above the meekness of his nature and of Religion that in the precepts and examples of it hath taught mankind to suffer the greatest evils before they do the least and supposed its Professors so meek humble patient and charitable that it hath nothing against shedding of bloud more than the Injunctions of nature and Moses he being looked upon as an Apostate who renounceth Christ that quits his patience to give way to wrath to take up a course begun by wicked and branded Cain the first Dueller who as the Syriack Chaldee and LXX read that Text said to his Brother Let us go into the field and continued against all the Civil and Sacred Laws that obtained among all sober people only by the Goths and Vandals who not enduring the ingenious way of ending Controversies by Reason and Law brought in the barbarous kinde of decisions by handling hot Iron walking bare-foot on burning Coals scalding Water and the brutish Combat or Duel and first affront my Lord and since he was like Love not easily provoked afterwards challenge him who in point of honor as young Gallants cant must answer him and shew that he understood not the value of his honorable life only satisfie two or three Hectors that forsooth he feared not death setting up his own Honor against the humor of Orlando Furioso Christs express precept and example of meekness and patience as if it were not an higher honor to pass by and pity trivial offences than only to quarrel with them since by the last we are even with our adversary and by the first above him Loath was my Lord at first and loath both when they had slept at Brentford where Mr. C. had an ominous Dream a fair warning to awaken his reason that like Christ was asleep in this storm of his passion from him who sometimes speaks by dreams sometimes by Visions in the night to sacrifice their lives to their own and a Ladies follies till edged on by some of their unhappy company who swore What Childrens play nay but you shall fight They did very honorably indeed fore-go their Lives the one to the Sword of his Friend and the other to the mercy of the Law Mr. Compton who was told by him that he needed not to have used a Sword to search into his breast which when if he should open he would say he said that he had killed a Friend though he never loved the man as Friend that he feared as an Enemy but was not heard by him who thought it was his art to wooe lying at his mercy as he did which troubled him most of all that he must beg his life of those that had forfeited theirs at the cruel
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
understood he the interest of all his places and resolutely he maintained them What saith he shall the Liberties of Westminster he infringed when the chief Favorite is Steward and the Lord Keeper Dâ—an and I the Contemptible man that must be trampled on When he was in trouble what passion what insinuation what condescension hath he at command when Petitioned to how quickly he looked through men and business how exactly would he judge and how resolutely conclude without an immediate intimation from his Majesty or the Duke Many eyes were upon him and as many eyes were kept by him upon others being very watchful on all occasions to accommodate all emergencies and meet with all humors always keeping men in dependance on the Duke according to this intimation of his Cabal 287. Let him hold it but by your Lordships favor not his own power A good way had he been constant to it the neglect whereof undid him for designing the promotion of Dr. Price to the Bishoprick of Armagh he moved it to the Duke who told him it was disposed of to Dr. Vsher. Whereupon he went his own way to advance that man and overthrew himself for then his Lord let him feel what he had threatned my Lord Bacon when he advanced him That if he did not owe his Preferment always to his favor he should owe his fall to his frown The peremptoriness of his judgment rendred him odious his compliance with Bristol suspected and his Sermon at King Iames's Funeral his tryal rather than his Preferment obnoxious His spirit was great to act and too great to suffer It was prudence to execute his Decrees against all opposition while in power it was not so to bear up his miscarriages against all Authority while in disgrace A sanguine Complexion with its Resolutions do well in pursuit of success Flegm and its patience do better in a Retreat from micarriages This he wanted when it may be thinking fear was the passion of King Charles's Government as well as King Iames he seconded his easie fall with loud and open discontents and those discontents with a chargeable defence of his Servants that were to justifie them and all â—â—th that unsafe popularity invidious pomp and close irregularity that laid him open to too many active persons that watched him Whether his standing out against Authority to the perplexing of the Government in the Star Chamber in those troublesome times his entertainment and favor for the Discontented and Non-Conformists his motions for Reformation and Alteration in twelve things his hasty and unlucky Protestation in behalf of the Bishops and following actions in England and Wales where it s all mens wonders to hear of his Mâ—ruit su◠〈…〉 had those private grounds and reasons that if the Bishop could have spoken with the King but half an hour he said would have satisfied him the King of Kings only knoweth to whom he hath given I hope a better account than any Historian of his time hath given for him But I understand better his private inclinations than his publick actions the motions of his nature than those of his power the Conduct of the one being not more reserved and suspicious than the effects of the other manifest and noble for not to mention his Libraries erected and furnished at St. Iohns and Westminster his Chappel in Lincoln Colledge the Repairs of his Collegiate Church his Pensions to Scholars more numerous than all the Bishops and Noble-men besides his Rent Charges on all the Benefices in his gift as Lord Keeper or Bishop of Lincoln to maintain hopeful youth according to a Statute in that Case provided Take this remarkable instance of his Munificence that when Du Moulin came over he calleth his Chaplain now the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and telleth him he doubted the good man was low wishing him to repair to him with some Money and his respects with assurance that he would wait upon him himself at his first leisure The excellent Doctor rejoyceth that he could carry him no less than twenty pounds The Noble Bishop replyed he named not the summe to sound his Chaplains minde adding that twenty pounds was neither fit for him to give nor for the Reverend Forreigner to receive Carry said he an hundred pounds He is Libelled by common fame for unchaste though those that understood the privacies and casualties of his Infancy report him but one degree removed from a Misogonist Though to palliate his infirmities he was most compleat in Courtly addresses The conversableness of this Bishop with Women consisted chiefly if not only in his Treatments of great Ladies and Persons of honor wherein he did personate the compleatness of Courtesie to that Sex otherwise a Woman was seldom seen in his house which therefore had alwayes more Magnificence than Neatness sometimes defective in the Punctilio's and Niceties of Daintiness lying lower than Masculine Cognizance and as level for a Womans eye to espy as easie for her hand to amend He suffereth for conniving at Puritans out of hatred to Bishop Loud and for favoring Papists out of love to them yet whatever he offered King Iames when the Match went on in Spain as a Counsellor or whatever he did himself as a Statesman such kindness he had for our Liturgy that he translated and Printed it at his own Cost into Spanish and used it in the Visitation of Melvin when sick to his own peril in the Tower and such resolution for Episcopacy that his late Majesty of blessed Memory said once to him My Lord I commend you that you are no whit daunted with all Disasters but are zealous in defending your Order Please it your Majesty replyed the Archbishop I am a true Welshman and they are observed never to run away till their Generall first forsakes them no fear of any flinching while your Majesty doth countenance our Cause His Extraction was Gentile and Antient as appeared from his Ancestors estate which was more than he could purchase without borrowing when at once Lord Keeper Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster His minde great and resolute insomuch that he controuled all other advices to his last to his loss in Wales and daunted Sir Iohn Cook as you may see in his Character to his honor in England His Wariness hath these Arguments 1. That he would not send the Seal to the King but under Lock and Key 2. That being to depute one to attend his place at the Coronation of King Charles the First he would not name his Adversary Bishop Laud to gratifie him nor yet any other to displease the King but took a middle way and presented his Majesty a List of the Prebendaries to avoid any exception referring the Election to his Majesty himself 3. That he proposed a partial Reformation of our Church to the Parliament to prevent an utter extirpation by it 4. That he exposed others to the censure of the Parliament 1625.
not then as he did what they do now as well as their duty in pressing whereof he confessed he broke off once in a full Assembly of the Clergy from what he had premeditated not without as signal a blessing from God as singular applause from his Auditory for what he had spoke so honestly out of the abundance of his heart When his Dignities in the Church refused that privacy his modesty was ambitious of 1639. he with eleven of his Contemporaries of the same House whom it had been an unkinde and a morose 〈◊〉 of singularity not to have accompanyed proceeded â—â—â—â—or with that satisfaction in the management of the Exercises belonging to that Degree to his hearers as could not be expected from one buryed in a Country-living His Dignity in the Church challenged a place in the Convocation 1640. his Vertue and Learning obtained a name in the Assembly 1644. his Regularity and Loyalty being not so mâ—ch envyed as his Piety and Parts were reverenced by tâ—at paâ—ty that having threatned and perswaded him in vain by their Câ—â—ntry Committees permitted him his regular Ministry till Iuly 1643. when the malice of a designed successor making use of an unâ—uccessful attempt made in his Majesties behalf about â—unbridge upon the Doctors Doctrine and Example forced him to a retirement to his old Tutor Dr. Buckner where he and his Fellow Pupil Dr. Oliver stayed three weeks during which time he dreamed That being abroad with Company on a Sun-shining-day an horrid tempest surprized them on a sudden and divided them to the lesser number whereof a small voice whispered Be still and ye shall receive no harm the Doctor falls to his Prayers and then the tempest ceased and the known Cathedral Anthem began Come Lord Iesus come away A dream which the event made a Prophecy and an Argument that that soul which shall dwell in another world when we dye converseth there when we sleep and then upon an alarm that there was an 100 l. set upon Dr. Hammonds head they resolved for Winchester where Dr. Oliver had an interest until that Doctor was met with the News that he was by a Colledge choice to succeed Dr. Frewen now Bishop of Litchfiâ—ld in the President ship of Magdalâ—n-Colledge whereupon some seruples Dr. Hammond made of the publickness of Oxford and its distance from his beloved charge to which after addresses made to some friends in power he had little hope of returning being satisfied they betake themselves to a Preferment rather than a Refuge and encompasing â—â—antshire with some difficulty come to Oxford Here enjoying that peace that was no where else to be had in an indefatigable course of study a Learned and useful converse with young men direct to them and with the Elder to satisfie himself to meet with the Prophaneness and formality of the age he composed his Practical Catechism as he did his Tracts of Scandal of Conscience of Will-worship of resisting the Lawful Magistrate and of the Change of Church-Government to meet with its erroâ—s all as seasonably contrived as well performed to check the gallantry of the prophane world and discover the demureness of the more pretending yet all like to be suppressed by the Doctors modesty had not his intimate friend Dr. Potter of Queens to whom they were communicated extorted a publication but with the concâ—alment of his name which was at first guessed and at last Printed in London and Cambridge Neither was his Pen more intent at Oxford than his zeal and prudence at London where he attended the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Southampton as Chaplain in Order to the Treaty at Vxbridge upon undeceiving the deluded to which he added 〈◊〉 reason at Vxbridge where being surprized as attending tâ—ere rather as a Chaplain than a Champion he answered 〈◊〉 â—to suggestions or Arguments read out of a Paper with that readiness as equally testified his ability and the evidence of that hesitation which hath been reported to his disparagement the naked truth of which business he sets down thus I never heard that Argument urged by Mr. Vines or any other in my life and for my pretended answer I am both sure that I never callâ—d God and his holy Angels to witnâ—ss any thing in my life nor ever swore any voluntary Oath that I know of and that I was not at that meeting conscious to my self of wanting ability to express my thoughts or prssd with any considerable difficulty or forced by any consideraâ—ion to 〈◊〉 the answer of any thing objected I went to Mr. Marshall in my owâ— and my Brothers name to demand three things 1. Whether any Argument proposed by them remained unanswered to which we might yâ—â—â—â— further answer 2. Whether they intended to make any repoâ—t of 〈◊〉 by past disputations offering if they would to joyn with them in it anâ— to perfect a conference by mutual consent afâ—er the manner of that between Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Hart both which being rejected the third was to promise each other that nothing should be afterwards 〈◊〉 by either without the consent or knowledge of the other party and that last he promised for himself and Brethren and so we parted But the fate of the Nation requires that neither his strong reason could be heard nor his Majesties just Arms prevail yet the resolved man engageth the growing mischiefs in his Tracts of Superstâ—â—â—on Idolatry Sins of weakness and wilfulness Death-bed repentance 〈◊〉 View of the Directory â—raternal Corrâ—ption The Power of the Kâ—yâ— His Answer to Mr. Cheynels Exceptions against the Practical â—atechism and when the Romanists were fishing in our troubled waters his Vindication of the Lord Faulkland Those lucid interval he was permitted attending his Majesty and when forbidden that sad but desired service managinâ— the Affairs of the University and Colledge in the first whereof he was Orator as in the second Sub-Dean since the disputation at Vxbridge with that assiduous and diligent inspection of the most minute Persons or Affairs under his care and that for three years together he was seldom seen a bed before twelve at night and as seldom after five in the morning The Colledge was as it were his Family where he relieved the needy encouraged the hopeful reduced the debauched and prepared all for the expected persecution by his familiar converse and his weekly office of Fasting and Humiliation But the War giving way to a greater mischief viz. a Visitation the Doctor is involved in the general Calamity and with the most Reverend Father in God the now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury confined at Oxford whence all other honest men were by beat of Drum banished though such is the reverence the worst men pay the exemplary vertue of the best they that scrupled no Usurpation refused a while their Preferment and they who boggled not at any Oppression were tender of their Confinement Colonel Bvelin himself with whom they were intended Prisoners professing he must entertain
him as one of the four Brittish Divines to Dort where his weak body agreeing not with the unquietness of those Garrisoned Towns after some pathetick Speeches and motions for accommodation after the expedient called Sintentia 4. Theol. Brit. for reconciliation and the Elegant Latine Sermon the night before he preached which he was wonderfully refreshed and enlivened beyond what he had been a moneth before for Peace he retired first to my Lord Ambassador Carletons at the Hague and with his Majesties leave Dr. Goad being substituted in his place to England taking his farewell of the Synod in these words Non facile vero mecum in gratiam redierit Cadaverosa haec moles quam aegre usque circum gesto quae mihi hujus conventus celebritatem toties inviderit jamque prorsus invitissimum a vobis Importune avocat divellit neque enim ullus est sub coalo locus aeque coalis aemulus in quo tentorium mihi figi malverim cujusque adeo gestiet mihi animus meminisse Beatos vero vos quibus hoc frui datur non dignus eram ego ut fidelissimi Romani querimoniam imitari liceat qui Christi ecclesiae suae nomine sanctam hanc provinciam diutius sustinerem illud vero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nempe audito quod res erat non alia me quam adversissima hic usum valetudine serenissimus rex meus misertus miselli famuli sui revocat me domum quippe quod cineres meos aut sandapylam nihil vobis prodesse norit succentariavitque mihi virum e suis selectissimum quantum Theologum De me profecto mero jam silicernio quicquid fiat viderit ille Deus meus cujus ego totes sum vobis quidem ita faeliciter prospectum est ut sit cur infirmitati meae haud Parum gratulemini cum hujusâ—odi instructissimo succedaneo caetum hunc vestrum beaverit Neque tamen committam 〈◊〉 Deus mihi vitam vires indulserit ut Corpore simul animo abesse videar Interea sane huic Synodo ubicunque terrarum sim vobis constliis conatibusque meis quibuscunque res vâ—stras me pro virili sedulo ac serio promoturum sancte voveo Interim vobis omnibus ac singulis Honoratissimi Domini Legati Reverendissime praeses gravissimi assessores scribae doctissimi symmystae Colendissimi tibique venerandissima Synodus universa aegro animo ac corpore aeternum valedico Rogovos omnes obnixius ut precibus vestris imbecillem reducem facere comitari prosequi velitis Though yet surviving all his Colleagues and living to see them and the whole Synod charged with a pre-ingagement by Oath to Vote down the Remonstrants and living likewise to vindicate them with the States and Princes that deputed them who had deserved well of him the President and Assistants waiting upon him by publick Vote the Deputies of the States by Daniel Hensâ—us with acknowledgement of his service in a Golden Medal containing the Pourtraict of the Synod These were his publick employments neither were his private less eminent 1. His Theses at Cambridge when Batchelor and Doctor of Divinity as seasonably chosen as prudently asâ—erted against the Adversaries of our Doctrine and of our Discipline 2. His Meditations and Sermons plausible at the Princes Court that failed and at the Earl of Carlisles that stood by him 3. His Letters and Resolutions that setled so many eminent Persons and obliged more solid and witty 4. His accorded truths upon the Dutch quarrel which we composed there raised here after Mr. Mountagues Books which expressed Overall rather than Arminius and the sidings in Press Pulpits and Parliaments thereupon out of Bishop Overall and our Divines at Dorts propositions shewing that these parties mistaked rather than mis-believed so reasonable that being presented to his Majesty Charles I. by Dr. Young the worthy Dean of Winchester with a Petition to confine the Debates thereof in their University and silence them in the Church Mr. Mountague offered to subscribe them on the one hand and most Anti-monstrants English Scottish and French on the other 5. His prudent assertion That when as the Papists urge us where our Church was before Luther and we produce witnesses of itâ— in every age with some disadvantage since our Church is not another from theirs but the same more Reformedâ— the Church of Rome is an ancient and true Church only it hath new Errors an assertion which with his former expedient exposed him so far to the zeal of narrow-sighted men that an Apologetical advertisement a rational reconciler backed by Bishop Mortor Bishop Davenant Dr. Prideaux and Dr. Primroses unquestionable testimony and his own moderation in silencing all the Writers of both sides as there were indeed to lay hold of any Controversie in order to the publick disturbance were little enough to allay the jealousie of his Lukewarmness and abatement of former zeal when alas he was only grown older and so wiser especially since it was but a little before that he was made Bishop of Exeter having refused Glocester where Providence setled him 1. By the delay of the Duke of Buckinghams Letter which coming two hours sooner had defeated him 2. By the unthought of Addition of the R. of St. Breock to a poor Bishoprick 3. By a prudent resolution put into his heart notwithstanding the spies laid upon him the jealousie entertained of him The expostulating Letters and wary Cautions sent to him his contests with Lords his three purgations of himself from some envious suggestions upon his knees before his Majesty in so much that he declared that be would be a Bishop no longer while so liable to mis informations to follow those courses which might most conduce to the peace and happiness of his new and divided charge winning the misguded encouraging the painful and corresponding so fairly withall his numerous Clergy who submitted to all anciently received Orders but two that fled from censure 6. His successful Letter to the House of Commons about their delay of supply and misapprehensions 7. His happy unanimity within his charge till the last year he was there when some factious Neighbor unkindly undermined him in the choice of Convocation-men for the Convocation 1639. only desiring to recommend grave persons to their Election leaving them to their freedom of choice and they polling to his face for persons he heard not of though he carryed it and at his return home was nobly welcomed by hundreds of the Diocesse which that year by his Majesties special favor he exchanged for that of Norwich which his prudent management of the former of Exceter wherein he miscarried only in some inadverted expressions which yet he submitted to the Churches censure and in an over-credulous Charity whereby yet he designed the Kingdoms peace First his motion to the Archbishop for a General Counsel of his Majesties three Kingdoms to shame the Scottish insolence and the English pretences against Episcopacy
of Ianuary was five times auspicious to Charles Duke of Anjou the 24. of February four times happy to Charles the Fifth as the twelfth of May was to Charles the Eighth and to say no more the third of September hath been observable to England 1650. at Dunbar 1651. at Worcester 1658. at Whitehall and 1666. at London He had a Tutor crooked with age that streightened the manners of his youth arming him against those Customs that are not knocked but serued into the soul inuring him to good discourse and company habituating him to temperance and good order whence he had the advantage of others not only in health but in time and business and diverting him with safe cheap but manly and generous Recreations The result of which Education was a knowing and a staid nature that made him a Lamb when pleased a Lion when angry daring in the highest tumults 1640. and 1641. to give the best Counsel and to oppose the worst advising those that complained that his Majesty was gone away to lure him home by their loving behaviour and not do as those troublesome women who by their hideous out-cries drive their wandring Husbands further off And when the House of Lords became the House of Commons by vile compliances with tumults when the Lords to climb up to the peoples favour trampled on one another the rabble bringing tales and they belief he though secure in his person yet not safe in his relation and allegiance at Westminster follows his Soveraigns fortunes as his Predecessors had done his Ancestors it was the first Lord Spencer of Wormeleighton that in Parliament to another Lord who told him as they were discoursing of their Ancestors service to the Crown That at that time his Fore-fathers were keeping sheep returned That if they then kept sheep yours were then plotting of Treason He pit ied not but reproved them that bemoaned his Majesties distance and whereas they expected to be commâ—nded for their patience under so great a punishment he condemned them for deserving it often urging that of Seneca Epist. 80. Nihil rex male parentibus majus minaripotest quam ut abeat de regno The last words he spoke in the Parliament House at Westminster were these We had been satisfied long ere this if we did not ask things that deny themselves and some men had not shuffled Demands into our Propositions on purpose that we may have no satisfaction He brought 15000 l. and 1200 men to his Majesties relief and the Earl of Northampton his Countey mans assistance adding to his Estate and Friends his Counsel and personal service wherein in dispute about a rising ground in the first Newbery fight not far from his Majesty he fell First a good Patriot upon all other occasions as one of them at Wâ—stminster observed promoting the Trade Manufactures and Priviledges of this Countrey and now standing by his Majesty as he evidently saw him stand for his Kingdom saying by a foresight and Prospect he had of things suitable to the eminence of his place that one seven years Truth is the Daughter of Time would shew that the King was the true Common-wealths-man Secondly a true Nobleman that was vertuous because it became him as well as because it was injoyned him being above vice as well as without it looking upon it as his shame and dishonor as well as sin and offence Thirdly a good Neighbor the Country about him when he had occasion to make use of it being his friends that loved rather than slaves that feared him Fourthly a discreet Landlord finding wayes to improve his Land rather than rack his Tenants Fifthly a noble House-keeper to whom that ingenuity that he was Master of himself was welcome in others Sixthly an honest Patron seldom furnishing a Church with an Incumbent till he had consulted the Colledge he had been of and the Bishop he lived under Seventhly an exemplary Master of a Family observing exactly the excellent Rules he so strictly injoyned consecrating his house to a Temple where he ordered his followers to wrestle with God in Prayer while he wrestled with the Enemy in fight whence those holy thoughts that went as harbingers of his soul to heaven whereof he had a glimpse before he died through the chinks of a wounded body when those noble persons Sept. 20. 1643. closed his eyes that through weeping had hardly any left themselves leaving behind him a noble Lord of whom Dr. Pierce that had the tuition of him gave this Character That his choice endowments of nature having been happily seasoned and crowned with grace gave him at once such a willingness and aptness to be taught as reconciled his greatest pains with ease and pleasure and made the Education of his dear Lord not so much his imployment as his Recreation and Reward And a noble Lady not to be mentioned without the highest honor in this Catalogue of Sufferers to so many of whom her House was a Sanctuary her Interest a Protection her Estate a Maintenance and the Livings in her gift a Preferment among whom the foresaid excellent person acknowledged to her all the visible contentment of his suffering years a good portion and a good people which he injoyed by her favor and kept by her interest and power Bene est ab unde est nunc sat est etiam perduellionibus totus in uno cadit exercitus Hero Compendia fati Sunderlandius Caernarvon Falklandius quos nec tota plebs redimat gloriae triumviros ipso casu triumphantes quod sic moriendo mori nesciant dum sit hominibus virtus aut virtuti historia quae sit temporum testis hominum THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT PIERE-POINT Earl of Kingston HIS Ancestors came in with the Conqueror to settle the Monarchy of this kingdom and he went out of the world maintaining it with his Interest which was so great that the Faction pretended his Concurrence with them a passage which puts me in minde of the great power of his Predecessors one of whom in Edward the first Kings time hath this Memorandum of Record Memorandum THat Henry de Piere-point on Munday the day after the Octaves of St. Michael came into the Chancery at Lincoln and said publickly that he had lost his Seal and protested that if any Instrument were found Sealed with that Seal after that time the same should be of no value or effect Indeed it was his great Services when Sheriff 13. Iacobi and greater when Justice of Peace and King Iames in a Speech in Star-Chamber valueth a Justice of Peace as much as one of his Privy-Councel as it is as much to see Laws and Order kept as to make them and to keep the peace in each part of the kingdom as to advice about the peace of the whole composing differences by his skill in Law suppressing disorders by his great reputation and promoting the good of his Country by his large prudence and deep insight into
Earl of Huntington then Lord President of the North to be his Chaplain for his dexterity and acuteness in disputing with the Romish Recusants for it was Queen Elizabeths express command to that Lord to convince them by arguments rather than suppress them by force and this She expressed as his Lorship was wont to say in the words of the Prophet Nolo mortem peccatoris But the Earl dying presently after he returned to his privacy at Marston where he continued not long before the Lord Sheffield who succeeded as Lord President commanded him to hold a publick Conference before his Lordship and the Council at the Mannor-house in York with two Romish Recusants then Prisoners in the Castle which he performed with great satisfaction to the Auditory among whom were many of the chief Gentry and Clergy of Yorkshire Anno 1602. Began the great Plague at York at which time he carried himself with much Heroical Charity For the Poor being removed to the Pest-house he made it his frequent use to visit them with food both for their Bodies and Souls His chief Errand was to comfort them pray for them and with them and to make his coming more acceptable he carried with him a Sack of Proviston usually for them that wanted it And because he would not have any body to run any hazard thereby but himself he seldom suffered any of his Servants to come near him but sadled and unsadled his own Horse and had a private door made on purpose into his House and Chamber In the year following he with Dr. Cracanthorp attended the Queens Embassador the Lord Ewre into Germany and Denmark being desirous to improve himself by seeing forraign Kingdoms Churches and Universities In this Voyage he improved his time so well partly in furnishing his Library with Books at Frankfort and elsewhere but chiefly in his conversation with Learned men and his forraign Observations that he always highly valued that opportunity At his return he was sollicited by Roger Earl of Rutland to be his Domestical Chaplain which proffer he was more willing to accept for the privacy he hoped to enjoy in a place where he was not known for making use of the Treasure of Books he had got in his Travels and rather because he was brought so much nearer London than before whither he must have many occasions to go for the putting forth of such Books as he had a design to write For it was not long after that he printed his first part of Apologia Catholica About which time the Arch-bishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisite Preacher conferr'd upon him a Prebend in that Metropolitical Church Anno. 1606. He took the Degree of Doctor in Divinity with the great approbation of both Professors in Divinity Dr. Iohn Overall that profound Scholar and Dr. Thomas Playford that acute Disputant and acurate Preacher who were both of them very competent Judges of mens abilities And about the same time he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to King Iames and by him made Dean of Glocester and assumed by the Lord President of Wales for one of his Majesties Council for the Marches In his first journey to Gloucester he went by Oxford at the Act-time where he was incorporated and admitted to the same Degree that he had in Cambridge where also he was much taken with the exercises of Mr. Daniel Featly then a proceeder and carryed great Friendship to him ever after At which time he fell into acquaintance with that famous Dr. Iohn King then Dean of Christ-Church afterwards Bishop of London which afterwards grew so intimate that the Bishop made choice of him to perform the last offices to him both at his Death and Burial Anno. 1609. He succeeded Dr. George Abbot in the Deanery of Winchester Then Bishop Bilson conferred on him the Rectory of Alesford in the next year a Parliament being held he preached the Sermon to the Convocation upon Matth. 5. 13. Vos estis sat terra with general applause and should have been Prolocutor but in modesty declined it and preferring a Friend of his to it In his abode at London he took his Lodging at Dean Overals who gave him the opportunity of a very early acquaintance with the Learned Isaac Casaubon then newly come out of France and entertained by the Dean The love thus begun was never intermitted in their lives nor obliterated by death as appeareth by Casaubons Monument in Westminster-Abby set up at the Charge of Morton About the same time he had acquaintance with several eminenâ— foraign Scholars and Divines as namely Scultetus Chaplain to the Elector Palatine Diodati Du Moulin whose worth is very well known by their Learned works in Print While he continued in Winchester a certain great Person passionately told the King that Dr. Morton had spoiled one of the best Deaneries in England It concerned the Dean to vindicate his goâ—â— name from that foul and unjust aspersion And therefore acquainted his Brethren of the Chapter with it they were very forward to give a Testimonial under their Hands and Seals That he had been one of the best Deans that ever had been at Winchester in their times and some of them were very ancient Anno. 1616. Iuly 7. He was Consecrated Bishop of Châ—ster while necessaries were prepared for his journey thither he retired himself to Clay Hall in Essex upon the earnest invitation of his Noble Friend Sir Christopher Hatton and there fell sick of a dangerous Fever but being happily recovered presently put himself upon his journey towards his great Work and was met on the borders of his Diocesse and brought into the City of Chester by such a great number of Knights and other the best Gentlemen of the Country besides the Clergy as may give a lasting testimony to their honor as well as his in shewing such a Religious respect to their Bishop When he was setled in his Bishoprick and Rectory of Stopford which he had to keep Hospitality in that Hospitable County he found all the inconveniencies which he fore-saw and some also which he could not fore-see at so great a distance for beside the great number of Romish Recusants which hath alwayes been observed in this Diocesse he found another sort of Recusants better known by the name of Non-Conformists who though they were not so many in number as the other yet had so much perverseness and obstinacy with them as made them equal or rather superior in relation to the trouble he had with them To reduce these Recusants to their obedience to the Church God blessed him with great success to the great content of his Majesty Anno 1618. March 6. At the motion of that great Pattern of Episcopal perfection Dr. Andrews then Bishop of Eli who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer Neighbor as he said of the same Province
rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will choose rather to neglect their duty safely and creditably than to get a broken pate in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that which will break their hearts too Although he was so resolvedly honest and upon such clear Principles conscientious that he tired the persecutions of his enemies and out-lived the neglect of his friends finding the satisfaction flowing from his duty out-ballancing the sufferings for it 1. When Chaplain much troubled by Arch-bishop Abbot Sir H. Lynde and Mr. P. 1. For Licensing a Book called An Historical Narration of the Iudgment of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs Confessors in Queen Maries dayes concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death Novemb. 27. 1630. 2. For maintaining universal Grace and Redemption in a Passion Sermon at St. Pauls Cross about the same time 2. When Master of Queens Colledge as much persecuted by the Faction for six or seven years from Cambridge to Elyâ— house thence to Ship-board and thence to the Fleet with the same disgrace and torment I mentioned before in Dr. Beals life for being active in sending the University-Plate to the King and in undeceiving people about the proceedings of the pretended Parliament i. e. in sending to the King that which should have been plundred by his enemies and preaching as much for him as others did against him his sufferings were both the smarter and the longer because he would not own the Usurpation so much as to Petition it for favor being unwilling to own any power they had to Imprison him by any address to them to Release him And when in a throng of other Prisoners he had his Liberty he chose to be an exile beyond Sea at Paris rather than submit to the tumult at home at London or Cambridge If he was too severe against the Presbyteries of the Reformed Churches which they set up out of necessity it was out of just indignation against the Presbytery of England which set up it self out of Schism And when he thought it unlawful for a Gentleman of the Church of England to marry a French Presbyterian it was because he was transported by the oppression and out-rage of the English But being many years beyond Sea he neither joyned with the Calvinists nor kept any Communion with the Papists but confined himself to a Congregation of old English and Primitive Protestants where by his regular Life and good Doctrine he reduced some Recusants to and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion so defeating the jealousies of his foes and exceeding the expectation of his friends Returning with his Majesty 1660. he was restored to his own Preferments and after Dr. Loves death the natural Wit and Orator Master of Bennet Colledge Margaret Professor after Dr. Holdsworth in which place he was sure to affront any man that put up Questions against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of Engl. in the worst of times and Dean of Ely made Dean of Ely in which dignity he dyed 1662 3 having this Memorial That he had bred up his Colledge so well in the Principles of Religion and Loyalty that no one there from the highest to the lowest submitted to the Usurpers for there was a through Reformation neither Master Fellow not Scholar being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a Wreck and forfeited in this Land-tempest for lack of a living thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof a severity contrary to the eternal moral of the Jewish Law provided against the Depopulation of Birds-nests that the old and young ones should be destroyed together The Doctors Predecessors Dr. Humphrey Tyndal Master of Queens and Dean of Ely was as is reported offered by a Protestant party in Bohemia to be chosen King in Queen Elizabeths Reign and he refused it alleadging That he had rather be a Subject under Queen Elizabeth than a forraign Prince And the Doctor himself was offered as I have heard honorable accommodations by some in the Church of Rome but he accepted them not because he said He had rather be a poor Son of the afflicted but Primitive Church of England than a Rich Member of the flourishing but corrupt Church of Rome Edvardus Martin S. Th. Dr. Cato sequioris saculi qui nihil ad famam omnia ad conscientiam fecit Rigide pius vir et severe Iustus sibi theatrum omnia ad normam exigens non amplius ambivit quam ut sibi placeret et Deo THE Life and Death OF THE LORD WILLMOT Earl of Rochester THe Lord Wilmot born on All-Souls day in Ireland and bred Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford received a Barony from his Ancestors and conveyed an Earldom to his Posterity of whom a great man said That he was so Great a Scholar that he could give the best advice and so good a Souldier that he could follow it the best of any man in England none more valiant to return a private affront with the hazard of his own Personâ— he gave a box on the ear to one of the most eminent men in this Nation none more patient in taking a disgrace the revenge of which might hazard the publick safety He suffered his Horse to be taken by the bridle and himself to be led out of Command by a Messenger from his Majesty in the Hoad of 700. Horse over whom he was Lieutenant-General in view of the Enemy to the great dissatisfaction of the Army which was ready to Mutiny for the Lord Willmot at that very time when they should fight the Earl of Essex He was Captain of Horse many years in the Low Countries with great respect for his generous Courage and good Discipline and coming thence over was made Commissary General of Horse in the Expedition into Scotland In Holland began that animosity between him and Goring which continued in England His sobriety indeared him to every Army he came to and therefore rendred him suspected and envied in most actions he performed An excellent Commander of Horse and of himself being therefore mistrusted because he would not swear as if Dam-me had been the Oath of Allegiance 1640. Aug. 28. When the Lord Conway let the Scots over â—weed Mr. Willmot was the first man that made head against them standing with a few prime Gentleman when the rest of the Army fled and threw down their Arms to the Enemies Horse and Cannon so effectual that though being over-powered he could not defeat them yet he stunned them so that instead of advancing with an Army next day they submit with a Petition exactly as Mr. Willmot guessed whose opinion was That one resolute action against the Scots should min them who are lost by favors and 〈◊〉 by severities He acted like a Statesman when Commissary in the Expedition against the Scots telling my Lord Conway That he saw his Majesty would be overcome by the English at home if he
overcame not the Scots abroad and he spoke like a Souldier in the Parliament 1641. where whispering with the Lord Peirey and Colonel Ashburnham as they sate together upon the Vote of 300000 l. to be paid the Scots with 25000 l. advance out of the money designed the English Army he stepped up and told Mr. Speaker That if such Papers of the Scots could procure moneys he doubted not but the Officers of the English should soon do the like A wise and brave Speech that when the Army were informed by him how the Parliament slighted them they were ready to Rally them selves against the Parliament as soon that Rallied the multitude against the King he and some others putting themselves into a secret and sworn Juncto to declare with the Army against the rude at fronts offered his Majesty to the subversion of Government notwithstanding all the gracious Concessions made by his Majesty for the support of it but without success Because as his Lordship used to say Treachâ—ry got easily into the Bosome of that Prince that had nothing but Honesty in his heart And because some were admitted into their Counsels against Mr. Wilmots advice who never engaged in a secret design to which there were above four together privy that knew one anothâ—r He obstructed the Faction much in the House of Commons and more when called to the House of Lords stopping their Careere with those Propositions for Accommodation which he offered at Westminster 1641. and to shew he was the same man guided not by Interest but Conscience renewed at Oxford 1644. and making â—se of the sad News of the Irish Rebellion in which affairs having considerable concerns in that kingdome he was always of the Committee to prevent the English with as much dexterity as others did to promote it But when being Posted for a Straffordian he had no longer any power to moderate the Councils of the Faction in the City after he had seen so many injuries and indignities offered his Royal Person so many affronts and scorns put upon the Kingly Office so many scandalous seditious and traiterous Pamphlets against the Government together with the Combinations and Conspiracies which the implacable malice and insatiable ambition of some persons had contrived he went to suppress the Rebellion in the Field being Voted a Traytor by those he indeavoured should not be so At Edge-hill he advised that there should be a good Reserve of Horse to secure the Battel and that the other Horse should by no advantage be drawn out of it There being nothing he said more dangerous than too eager a pursuit before a battle was over He ordered the Horse at Newbery being Lieutenant-General under Prince Rupert in so convenient and spacious a place Downs have been pitched upon as the most commodious Scene of a Horse Engagement advising them by no means to be drawn into any uneven and streight places with so strict an eye upon all advantages and opportunities and in such Ranks that one Troop might be in Subsidiis assistant to another and no part stand naked or fall in the singleness of its own strength but that one may second another from first to last being aware of Livies charge upon Cajus Sempronius Pugnavit incaute inconsulteque non subsidiis firmata acic non equite apte locato the like he did at Cropredy-Bridge bringing off the Kings Rear there with three Charges through with so much execution as routed Sir William Wallers Horse and Foot took all his Ordnances and Gunners among whom one Weems a sworn Servant to his Majesty with the very Leather-guns his Majesty had paid for saying when brought before the King Good Faith his heart was always with his Majesty he being hurt and twice taken Prisoner and twice rescued by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and Sir Robert Howard And of the same nature was his Relief of Banbury when he surrounded the Besiegers in a Net of six miles compass full of snares and stratagems flanked on all hands by his well-ordered Horse His being punctual in his Promise careful in his Pay and Provision for his Souldiers tender of their Lives disposing of them in the easiest way for service and the safest from danger his condescension to satisfie every particular Person the reputation of his Integrity and Skill the moderation of his Principles rendred him as popular in the Army and Country as he was suspected at Oxford whence upon the breaking up of the Parliament there he went over to the Queen in France doing what he could by a generous carriage there to credit that Cause he was not suffered to sight for Often reflecting when he heard of the discontents afterwards in the Kings Army on that of Caesar in the first of his Commentaries Sâ—scire quibuscunque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit aut male re gesta fortunam defuiste aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiae esse convictum It s a remarkable passage that in her Majesties Letter to the Lord Digby Paris April 7. 1645. You think it strange that Willmot is so well entertained here which is done according to the orders which I have under the Kings hand and yours its true his good carriage here hath merited his good entertainment Indeed his negotiations in France Holland where he was formerly very well known by the Name of Willmot the English Gentleman were not less serviceable than his battels in England for by virtue of them and his correspondence with the Lord Willoughby there was a considerable Fleet of the Revolted Ships and his own to entertain the Prince of Wales 1648. as their Commander in Chief attended by my Lord the Lord Hopton c. And when for want of pay and other miscarriages that endeavour by Sea and Land to restore his Majesty failed he set on foot and by healing Propositions brought on the Scots Treaty so far as the admission of the King to the Government of that his ancient Kingdom whither after some services done in Ireland where he had great concerns and a considerable interest he went with his Majesty accommodating the several differences that arose among a people serupulous and capricious enough of themselves and distracted by the sad face of things at that time yet no way better to be ruled in such times than by an indulgence to them of an experiment and trial of the folly and vanity of their own ways and modelling and forming their Rough-hewn Armies and Designs And despairing of any good in that Country upon those mens principles he advised the Attempt 1651. into England to draw off the Force then lying within that Nation coming some months before in person under the name of Williams to pre-dispose his friend in 〈◊〉 kingâ—â—m and Oxfordshire where he had married the Lady â—â—igh of Ditchlâ—y and doing eminent service though in no Command by instructing them to secure the Passes to keep a 〈◊〉 Discâ—pline and offering to March towards London besides the great example of
his personal valor in six several desperate Engagementâ— especially in the latter end of the Worcester Fight to gain his 〈◊〉 time to retreat with whom he went by the conduct of a Scout he had made use of formerly to Boscobell where parting 〈◊〉 without 〈◊〉 unusual to so valiant a person my Lord 〈◊〉 to go towards London to meet his Majesty according to appointmentâ— at the Green-dragon at the â—intry in Thames-street but finding the ways strictly guarded retired to Mr. Whitegreaves Mr. Huâ—â—â—â—â— and Col. Lanes where after several consultations had for his Majeâ—ties safe transportation my Lord bethought himself of one Mr. Elden formerly Captain in the Kings Army and now a Merchant in lynn that had befriended the Lord â—erkley in the like care with whom he had contrived the Voyage but that the Ship-master they agreed with tailed them and then supporting and directing his Majesty in all emergencies with an invincible courage his Lord hâ—pâ—â— him up and down through inâ—inite windings and turniâ—gs till happening upon a Vessel in brighthelmâ—sted in Sussex the Master whereof was charmed by his Lordship under pretence of selling his Coals at the isle of wight to carry them that way and then my Lord pretending that his mind altered after a well acted quarrel with the honest Master of the Vessel to the Coast of France where he stayed not long with his Majesty but being Created Earl of Rochester undertook a successful 〈◊〉 to the Imperial Diet at the Ratisbone where he procured a considerable sum of money for the present and a very fair promise of the Emperors and the Princes assistance for the future and in his return settled a correspondency for the like purpose in England whither he ventured several times in person particularly 1655. at Hâ—ssamMoor near York where the appearance of Cavaleers at the day appointed not answering expectation my Lord and Sir Nicholas Armorer escaped from the midst of three thousand men that had as it were inclosed them to Ailesbury and from the very hands of the Usurpers Instruments thence into Flanders where he served the King of Spain very happily that he might be able to serve his Master till he died not long before his Majesties Restitution like Moses having after several years traversing a Wilderness only a Prospect of Caanan and the land of rest and settlement P. M. Baronis Willmot Caroli Secundi fidus Achates Vt imi servus Philanax Philo Cawlos Comes Regis Pariter Regni Adeo officii tenax ut ab Afflcta Sed justa regis causa eum dimoveant Nec amicorum injuriae nec inimicorum Prosperum scelus ultimi saeculi Aristides THE Life and Death OF Sir BEVILE GREENVILE Father of the Right Honorable the Earl of Bathe THere are two ancient Families in this Gentlemans name the Beviles that have flourished six hundred years in Cornwall at Gwarnack in his Christian Name and the Greenviles that have continued in great honor at Bediford in Devonshire above five hundred years in his Surname And there were the two eminent Virtues of those Families in his nature his names being to him not only significations of Honor but intimations of Virtue according to that admonition given by Alexander to one of his Followers Either quit your good name or leave your bad manners meekness wariness good nature and ingenuity the character of the one valor and prowess the known honor of the other His Ancestor Sir R. Greenvile assisted King William Rufus 1113. against the Welch Rebells successfully dedicating the Spoils of the war to the honor of Almighty God in maintaining a Religious House Sir Bevile Greenvile attended King Charles the First against the English 1641. consecrating his services to the Glory of God and the settlement of the Church usually saying That he counted it the greatest honor of his Family that one of it meaning Will. de Greenvile above three hundred years before under Edw. the First was Archbishop of York and in the Councel of Vienna next the Archbishop of Triers being for his publick spirit and activity especially in improving the Trade maintaining the Priviledges and keeping up the Discipline of his Country called to advise with his Majesty in Parliament about the great affairs of the kingdom he would not continue there without him But when he saw that he was more likely to be suppressed by his Majesties adversaries than his Majesty was to be supported by his friendship at Westminster he withdrew with many more Devonshire and Cornish Gentlemen that deserved Queen Elizabeths Character of these Countrymen That they were all born Courtiers with a becoming confidence to give their Country by rational Declarations the same satisfaction about the state of affairs that they had already in their own breast forcing not the Country till they had convinced and perswaded it asserting Authority the ligament of civil society against violence the publick interest against private designs liberty against licentiousness and oppression and this upon such moderate principles to widen rather than narrow their interest and in so civil terms as won those generous people that were not to be forced like compleat Orators making happy applications to the several humors and Genius of all persons with Alcibiades shifting disposition as they altered place yea so prudentially did they manage their expressions that the men at Westminster should not despair of their compliance with them until they were in a capacity to appear against them when they had secured the Port-towns the Fishing-trade for Herring and Pilchards the Mines the Markets for the Manufactures of that Country Kersies Bonelace c. and setled as good a correspondence between Devonshire and Cornwall by Sir Bevile Greenviles advice as was before by Sir Theo. Greenvile's device who built Baddiford-bridge as Sir Bevile secured it They appear in a great body near Pendennis whereof Sir Nicholas Slaning another excellent Patriot of Cornwall was Governor and Launston the County-town of Cornwall which Sir Bevile Greenvile possessed himself of The Body he trained to war he disciplined to piety piety not like the Cornish Diamond counterfeit and strictness least as Pilchards in this Country being persecuted by their fellow-fish the Tunny and Hake fall into the Fisher-mens Nets so the Country-people abused by the incivilities of their friends the Cavaleers might be taken in the Snares of their enemies the Faction As the Ambergreese found sometimes in this Country hath a more fragrant scent compounded with other things than when singly its self so this noble Gentleman gained a greater repute when joyning counsels and endeavors with others than when he acted alone The neighbor Counties were on fire these Counties look to themselves Sir Bevile wished that his Army were all of them as good as his Cause but it is not to be expected that all should be Fish that are caught in a Drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a
capacity as this war was some of the Devils Black Guard may be listed among Gods Souldiers yet there were fewer oaths among them than in any Army then in England They say the Cornish-tongue affordeth but two natural oaths or but three at the most The sobriety of this Army which Sir Bevile would say were greater if less some being rather a burden than strength to it made them valiant its the foul Gun and the guilty Conscience that recoils as when Sir William Waller intended to break the Western Association at Landsdown was beaten out of his Lines and Hedges by Sir Bevill and not only so but forced likewise out of an high hill fortified on all sides the passage up very narrow and dangerous between a Wood lined with Musqueteers on the one hand and Hedges on the other gained after four desperate Repulses by Horse Foot and Canon by Sir Bevill and maintained with a Stand of his own Pikes with a gallantry and honor admired by his very enemies until he was unfortunately â—lain in the Head of his Men with the excellent Serjeant Major Lower at his feet and honorable Mr. Leake the Earl of Scarsedales Son with his enemies Colours about his armes to whom this mention is due Mr. Barker Lieutenant Col. Wall Mr. Bostard Captain Iames and Cholwell being found dead not far from him both sides bewailing him and the whole University of Oxford honoring his memory with a Book of Verses whereof these I pitched upon for his Epitaph NOt to be wrought by Malice Gain or Pride To a Compliance with the Triving Side Not to take Armes for Love of change or spight But only to maintain afflicted Right Not to dye Vainly in pursuit of Fame Perversly seeking after Voice and Name Is to resolve Fight Dye as Martyrs do And thus did he Souldier and Martyr too He might like some reserved Men of State Who look not to the Cause but to its Fate Have stood aloof Engaged on neither side Prepared at last to strike in with the Tide But well-weighed Reason told him that when Law Either's Renounced or Misapplied by th' awe Of false-nam'd Patriots that when the Right Of King and Subject is suppress'd by Might When all Religion either is refused As meer pretence or meerly as that used When thus the fury of Ambition swells Who is not active modestly Rebels VVhence in a just Esteem to Church and Crown He offered all and nothing thought his own This thrust him into Action whole and free Knowing no Interest but Loyalty Not loving Arms as Arms or Strife for Strife Nor Wasteful nor yet Sparing of his Life A great Exacter of himself and then By fair commands no less of other men Courage and Iudgment had their equal part Counsel was added to a generous heart Affairs were justly timed nor did he catch At an affected fame of quick dispatch Things were Prepar'd Debated and then done Not rashly Broke or vainly Overspun False Periods no where by design were made As are by those that make the VVar their Trade The Building still was suited to the Ground VVhence every Action issued full and round We know who blind their men with specious Lies With Revelation and with Prophecies Who promise two things to obtain a third And are themselves by the like Motives stir'd By no such Engine he his Soldiers drawes He knew no Arts but Courage and the Cause With these he brought them on as well-train'd Men And with those two he brought them off again When now th' Incensed Legions proudly came Down like a Torrent without Bank or Dam When understood Success urged on their Force That Thunder must come down to stop their Course or Greenvile must step in then Greenvile stood And with himself opposed check'd the Floud Conquest or Death was all his thoughts so Fire Either O'rcomes or doth it self Expire His Courage work't like flames cast Heat about Here there on this on that side none gave out Not any Pike in that renowned Stand But took new force from his inspiring Hand Souldier encourag'd Souldier Man urg'd Man And he urg'd all so much example can Hurt upon Hurt Wound upon Wound did call He was the Butt the Mark the Aim of all His Soul this while retir'd from Cell to Cell At last flew up from all and then he fell But the devoted Stand enraged more From that his Fate plied hotter than before And proud to fall with him sworn not to yeild Each sought an honored Grave so gain'd the Field Thus he being fallen his action Fought anew And the Dead Conquered whiles the Living slew This was not Natures Courage nor that thing We Valor call which Time and Reason bring But Diviner Fury fierce and high Valor transported into Extasie Which Angels looking on us from above Vse to convey into the Souls they love Doctor Lluelin ANd with this constant Principle possess 't He did alone expose his single Breast Against an Armies force and bleeding lay The Great Restorer of th' declining day Thus slain thy Vasiant Ancestor did Lie VVhen his one Barque a Navy durst defie When now encompass'd round he Victor stood And bath'd his Pinnace in his Conquering blood Till all his purple Current dried and spent He fell and left the Waves his Monument Where shall next famous Greenviles Ashes stand Thy Grandsire fills the Sea and thou the Land And there is a third Greenvile the Right Honorable Iohn Earl of Bathe Sir Beviles Son and Heir who having gone on so honorably all the War the Chronicle whereof swells with his name pursuing those great Actions his Father had begun in King Charles I. time that my Lord Dighy and that King writing to the Queen about making him of the Princes Bed-Chamber declare him then the most deserving young Gentleman in England and waited upon King Charles I. so faithfully that as he had been witness of his Majesties gracious intentions and thoughts towards his distracted Kingdoms abroad in his banishment so he was the first Messenger between his Majesty and his Kingdoms in order to his miraculous return home who should be the instrument of the Sons Restauration but Sir Bevile Greenviles Son who had so nobly dyed in defence of the Father And if there be any knowledge above among the blessed of what is done here below among us its King Charles the Martyrs satisfaction that his Son is restored to his Throne and it adds to Sir Bevill Greenviles bliss that his heir is the first messenger in the Kingdom met in Parliament of the Gracious Letters that accomplished that Restauration And here will be the most proper place to mention Sir Richard Greenvile Sir Beviles Brother who staid with the Parliament till two Treaties and the great condescention of his Majesty brought him over first to correspondence and when an opportunity offered its self of performing his Majesty a considerable service by carrying over with him the Government of a very advantageous Port-Town to actual service
watchfulness setled integrity circumspect activity advantageous temperance and good conversation gained the repute of the best Commander of Horse in the world in which capacity he had the Command of a Colonel in the Shew as he called it against Scotland and of General of Horse in the real War against the English and that in the North assisting the Earls of Cumberland and Newcastle to form an Army where the best Horse were to be raised from whence after some notable defeats of the Lord Fairfax which some said were remembred at Colchester he carryed 2000. Horse to assist his Majesty with whom we finde him eminent both for his direction and execution about the hill near Newbery and Eâ—born-Heath which he maintained with one Regiment well disposed and lined with Musqueteers and a Drake with small shot against the gross of Eâ—â—ex his Armyâ— the Leading-man of which he Pistolled himself in the Head of hiâ— Troop giving close fire himself and commanding others to do the like After this first battel of Newbery and his recovery froâ— his seven wounds received there being at Cawood Castle when it was assaulted with extraordinary skill and valor he forced his way through the enemies quarters to such places as he thought convenient with such confidence and magnanimity that his very name became a terror in the North raising by the very Alarm three Sieges and reducing two strong Garrisons At Marston-Moor being commanded to lead the Kings Left Wing against the Parliaments Right consisting of Fairfax his Troops and Scots he routed them for two miles together with a violent Charge and afterwards saved most of those that were saved in that fatal battel making it his business to pick up a Regiment of Veteranes saying He must make much of a Souldier for he was long in the making and not one in twenty lived to it At Newark he gave as great a proof of his good Discipline as he did of his personal Valor strict though not severe in his Commands being none of those that reckoned it the very spirit of Policy and Prudence where men refuse to come up to Orders and Law to make Orders and Law come down to them and for their so doing have this infallible Recompence that they are not at all the more loved but much the less feared and which is a sure consequence of it accordingly respected Disobedience if complied with is infinitely incroaching and having gained one degree of Liberty upon indulgence will demand another upon claim Free in his rewards to persons of desert and quality very zealous on all occasions against the Rebellion being usually known to deliver himself in these words That he preferred the style of Loyalty before any Dignity earth could confer upon him In his Charge serious and vigilant remiss in nothing that might expedite or improve his dispatch in Affairs of Government as compassionate as couragious never killing the man he durst spare and very ready at all times to afford what himself could not receive Free-quarter to which I need adde only his brave and successeful Attempt in the famous march from Berkley Castle with part of his Regiment between Slym-bridge and Bevâ—rston Castle upon Col. Massies Garrisons with his incomparable Gallantry at Tidbury his brave answer at Berkley Castle at the refusal of two summons viz. That he would eat Horse-flesh â—irst and Mans-flesh when that was done before he would yield But having trod many uncouth parts for his Majesties restitution and breaking his Parol with the General upon good advicâ— had before to satisfie his Conscience in that point he formed an hopeful Association among the Gentlemen of his own Country the beginning whereof was indeed so distracted that he advised them to retire quietly to their own homes until they had a fairer opportunity who intreated him to command them promising to live and die with him one and all as he did securing them on all hands by a party of choice Horse from the Incursions of the Enemy and disposing them in Quarters most for their advantage and safety all along till taking the Earl of Warwicks House and Arms in his way they came from Burnt-wood to Colchester which shutting the gates against him he reduced with his very appearance and when the next day begirt he entertained the Enemies whole Army with such Conduct and Resolution in the hedges and Suburbs round the Town that had they all fallied out as he advised them they had as some Prisouers acknowledged bidden fair for the overthrow of that whole Army But the enemy falling next day to form a Leaguer he considering there was no marching out of the Country about being Champion ground wherein for want of Horse they would be instantly cut off Victualled and furnished the Town in spight of the Army from the Stores and Countrey adjoyning and made its ruines above belief defensible to give time to other Countreys while the Army was there to Associate expecting the Northern relief and likewise to weather the Army its self by hard duty unseasonable weather and continual sallies sending out some excellent Persons to countenance the Levy of more Forces in other Countries and keep intelligence from whom several small parties came in through the Leaguer and ordering all the Town Arms into the Magazine and listing the Towns-men into Companies Iuly 7. Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle made a grand Sally that cleared one side of the Leaguer Streets Hills Hedges and all to the loss of near a thousand six hundred killed several stealing into the Town and many running home Iuly 12. Sir Charles took care for a convenient distribution of the Provision left among the Towns-people and Souldiers and of Declarations to be sent into Kent and Essex and to the Army promising from his Majesty Arrears and Indemnity to such as laid down their Armes or would joyn with them towards the Peace and Settlement of the Kingdom Iuly 29. Sir Charles advised that the Horse should break out through the Leaguer towards the North but in vain the false Towns-men that should make their way as Pioneers deserting them August 17. He and the Lord Capell in a Letter to the General desired twenty days respite to inform themselves about their intended Relief and that being denied the Relief failing the great Northern Army beaten their Ammunition spent to a Barrel and a half of Powder and their Provision to two Horses and one Dog the whole Kingdom stupid and Sir Charles his admirable overture after a general protestation that they would not accept of dishonorable terms nor desert one another of a general Sally to perish nobly or honorably Relieve themselves being when all things were ready to a minute for the executing of it defeated yielded and by the Generals order retired to the Kings-head till Sir Charles was sent for with Sir George Lisle Colonel Farre and Sir Bernard Gascoin to a Councel of War by which he was Condemned to dye immediately Sir Charles asking
affrighted by it It being very observable that a learned Doctor of Physick present at the Opening and Embalming of this Lord and the Duke Hamilton delivered at a publick Lecture That the Lord Capel 's was the least heart and the Duke the greatest that ever he saw agreeable to the observation in Philosophy that the spirits contracted within the least compass are the cause of the greatest courage Three things are considerable in this incomparable person 1. His un-interrupted Loyalty keeping pace with his life for his last breath was spent in proclaiming King Charles the Second in the very face of his enemies as known to him to be Virtuous Noble Gentle Just and a great Prince A perfect Englishman in his Inclination 2. His great merit and modesty whereof King Charles the First writes thus to his Excellent Queen There is one that doth not yet pretend that deserves as well as any I mean Capel Therefore I desire Thy assistance to finde out something for him before he ask 3. The blessing of God upon his Noble but Suffering Family who was a Husband to his excellent Widow and a Father to his hopeful Children whom not so much their Birth Beauty and Portion though they were eminent for these as their Virtues Married to the best Blood and Estates in the Land even when they and the Cause they suffered for were at the lowest It s the happiness of good men though themselves misâ—rable that their Seed shall be Mighty and their Generation Blessed A Religious man that used to say as his Tutor Dr. Pashe under whom he was bred at Clare-hall in Cambridge That when he had kept the Sabbath well he found the greater blessing upon all he did afterwards that was as good in all his private Relations as in his several publick Capacities especially in that of a husband of which state he saith That it doubled his joyes divided his grief and created new and unthought of contentments A sober Gentleman that loved not to hear a man talk a greater variety of things than he could rationally discourse and used only those Recreationâ— of which he could give a Philosophical account how they refâ—eâ—hed his minde or recovered his body so good natured that he would have all his Servants and Dependants his Friends none stricter in the Discipline of his Family none more obliging in the sweetness of his converse Who would say he observed that the disobedience of men to us was no other than the punishment of our disobedience to God The meekest man living that had the arâ— as well as the grace by yielding to pacifie wrath Of an happy mean and temperament between the too thin and open and the too close hating a troublesome nature as bad as an Infection A diserect person that would not suffer the infelicity of one of his Affairs to distemper him so as to loose all consideration to guide him in the rest that had always a friend to advise and an example to imitate retaining the decency of his own natural evenness saying That he was a wise-man that was able to make wise-men his instruments A good Father that expected so much blessing in the Education of his Children as he made prayers for them Possinâ—â—â—â—oâ— Lachrimarum Liberi perire A good Christian that set apart half an hour every day of his retirement to think of Eternity a good temper that would fairly guide and not directly contradict any manâ— little regarding applause knowing as he would say notably that the vulgar are easily tired with constant vertue and as easily taken with a started novelty and living not to various opinion or favor but conscience and wisdom one that hated the flatterer who would say struck him before and the lyâ—r that hit him behind both in sâ—nsibly both dangerously A Nobleman that resolved to be happy by two things 1. A moderate using of the present and 2. An indifferent expectation of what is to come and thought him a great Crafts-master that could shadow the opposition that businesses have one with another that esteemed that only his that he had Liberally or Charitably given that observed it was not expenceâ— but a carelesseness how and what we spend that ruineth an Estate that desired to gain respect not by little observances but by a constant fair carriage that entertained reports always with Quaeries and a temperate Belief that would say that every action of his that was unhappy precipitated and rash that made his afflictions tolerable by making his desires moderate that used to say that he scarce knew a man capable of a true friend That writes of the most exalted fortune that it hath little contentment without some popular good will and therefore he advised the greatest man to be careful how he gave a publick disgrace to the meanest person He would say that there are so many circumstances in the way to an Estate or Greatness that a peremptory man that went alone seldom attained either that no man is so unhappy as that he must lye to live and that there was a civil art to be free in courtesie loving in Society and heedful in observation This excellent Personage declaring openly in the House of Lords That the Kings Majesty had granted so much for the security and peace of the Kingdom that they who asked more intended the disturbance of it following his Majesty to York and with other Lords attesting the integrity of his Majesties Proceedings there in order to Peace and promising to assist him with his Life and Fortune against all other pretended Authority in case it came to a War notwithstanding a summons from Westminster to which he and others made a civil return and an impeachment of High-Treason for going from Westminster to York at the Kings Command whereof he took no notice settling his Estate in Sir Edward Capell and other Trustees who I finde compounded for 4706 l. 07s II d. Advanced his Majesty between eight and nine hundred Horse and 12000 l. in Money and Plate and if he had had the happyness of being imployed in his own Country the fatal error of that time as he was far off in the borders of Wales we had heard more of him however we finde him subscribing the Declarations of the Parliament at Oxford 1643. and the Messages for Peace from the Army in the field attending his present Majesty to cornwall where he was hurt in two or three several Engagements once venturing himself very far to save the Foot managing the Correspondence between him and the Members at Westminster in order to an accommodation with great Caution against their subtile design who would divide the Princes Interest and his Fathers following him to Scilly Iersey and the Fleet then falling to him whence he betakes himself home to form the design 1647 1648. that was then brewing in the three Kingdoms for the safety and liberty of the Kings Majesty offering among others this consideration to a very eminent
Person viz. That this great truth that the imprisoning killing or deposing of any Supream Governor who is Gods Minister in a Nation is against the Will and Word of God should be offered by the Clergy of England to be proved by Scripture and if not regarded to be sealed with their bloud and with the Joynt-attestation of all Protestant Churches and Universities as the great principle of Christian Doctrine about the Peace and Government of Kingdoms and Nations And as he saith in his Letter Feb. 11. 1647. thinking of little else in this world than what he should do for the preservation of his Sacred Majesty than whose sufferings there was nothing greater he said except his vertues as a Christian a Subject an Englishman a Nobleman and an obliged Servant he caused a Rumor to be spread of his design which put the General upon calling him in from his Parole and upon his frank appearance he was dimissed till the Parliament should send for him so being free from his engagement which was as sacred to him as his Allegiance he went to Colchester with all the Horse he had and there incouraged the Souldiers by his own example going with an Halberd on his shoulder to the watch and guard in his turn paying six pence or twelve pence a shot for all the Enemies Bullets the Souldiers could pick up Charging the first day of the siege aâ— Head-gate where the Enemy was most pressing with a Pike till the gate could be shut which at last was but pinned with his Cane and after the Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle when Whaley and Ewres were sent to tell him and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that they should have quarter as Prisoners answering them himself That since the condition of those two Gentlemen and theirs in reference to that service were alike they wished they had all run one hazard and they had thanked the General more for saving the Lives of the two Knights whom they had already executed than for the grant of their own From Colchester my Lord was sent to the remotest Prison they could imagine from his own Countrey and thence fetched up to the Tower where after a handsome escape over the water to Lambeth wherein he was betrayed by the wretched Water-man that carryed him over who discovered him by his munificence the Gold he gave him he spent not his time in thoughts for his own Life but for that of his Majesties conjuring a Lord then sitting to second their Vote against the Ordinance for Tryal of his Majesty with a resolute Declaration to all Kings Princes States Potentates and Nobility to be signed by all the Lords Judges Lawyers Divines Gentry and people of England and this he pressed with most pathetick Arguments whereof one was very remarkable viz. That he understood by his dear-bought experience of those men of the Enthusiasm that let them but meet a well-grounded and justificable Zeal Courage and Resolution greater than their misguided fury to stemme the Torrent of it they would recollect and as he said observing some hesitation in their proceedings who found it easier to Conquer a people than to govern them against their Interest by a small part of themselves it being easier to overthrow another Government than to settle their own in an excellent Letter from the Tower Ian. 9. 1648. full of a Noble and Heroick Spirit which he concludes with this expression That it grieved him that he could do nothing else but rub his fingers upon Paper an imployment that fitted not his Genius Give saith he but the people an honorable example they will follow you and vindicate both you and themselves from being as such a silly Generation that they should suffer themselves to be cozened out of their good known and established Laws and in the place of them be imposed upon by Imaginations and Dreams to which he added another Letter Ian. 15. to a very great man in the Army every line whereof runs with this vigor against their proceedings YOur Party is small and giddy the thing its self is monstrous the Lords and Commons under whom you fought are against you all Princes and Protestants will abhor you Scotland will be dis-united from England Ireland will be lost Trade will be stopped by all Kings and States with people of so dangerous principles all Nations will be ready to invade us many of the Judges to sit upon the King will leave you the Empire of the Sea will be lost the Nation will be infamous to Posterity the Protestant yea Christian Religion will receive a deadly blow to be revenged by all people that profess it no man is sure of his life or any thing he hath the most prudent Form of Rules the world hath known will be overthrown a vast number of people are concerned in those Rules no example will be-friend you all Potentates will be against you and the Prince to be murthered so excellent and knowing in the Art of Government so loved reverenced and desired that of all the Princes that that ever ruled the people that were so happy in the first sixteen years of his Reign were they to chuse would pitch upon him and which is more the only person in whom his enemies may finde security being otherwise like to be torn to pieces by their Fellow-subjects upon the least change the express word of the great God in whose hands you are is against you Prov. 8. 15. 1 Sam 24 5 6. Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. c. the Laws of the Land your own Judges yea your own Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and Pretences all along fly in your faces the Prince the two Dukes and the numerous Royal issue should deter you the Precipice of endless Wars and Desolations you are at the brink of should affright you Words big with his heart which you may see at large at the end of his incomparable Book of Meditations as appears by this close I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it than you will allow your self for all your other Merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most Affectionate Friend How readily he would have dyed for him we may see in his chearfulness to dye with him for being brought before an High Court of Justice as it was called within a moneth after having offered brave Arguments from the Law of the Land the Government of the Nation the nullity of their Court the benefit of his Peerage and the Law that governed the world meaning the Sword by which he was promised quarter for life he heard the Villains ridiculous Sentence with a nobler spirit than they pronounced it telling them That they needed not have used those formalities to murther him And March the ninth the day appointed for the Assassination having conjured his Lady in two Letters That
that as soon as he heard any subject he was able to speak to it taking not above two hours time to recollect himself for his Sermons He was very communicative of what he knew himself and very dextrous in drawing out what others knew patient of much impertinent beating the Bush to catch the Hare at last He was a serious Christian though a witty man Lamprey is delicious meat if you take the string out of the back of it and Fansie a pleasant thing if we correct it be not prophane against God inhumane against the dead making Mummie of dead mens flesh unmerciful against mens natural defect uncivil against a mans own reputation or unseasonable to a mans condition So intent upon the publick good that he minded neither his own Estate Habit or Carriage regarding so little the World that I wonder he being outed from the Savoy and his Prebend of Salisbury for a Book he writ against which Mr. Saltmarsh engaged and not regarded when waiting on my Lord Berkly to his Majesty upon his Restauration at the Hague and preaching before his Majesty at Whitchall he should die with grief in May the year of our Lord 1661. and of his age 53. having been Minister of Broad-windsor in Dorsetshire at Waltham in Essex at â—ranâ—ord in Middlesex Lecturer at Savoy St. Brides St. Andrews Holborn and St. Clements Eastcheap Chaplain to the Lord Hopton and to both their Majesties Charles the I. and II. He preserved the memory of many a worthy person it is pity that we should not preserve his who would say that the Art of Memory going farther than Common-places spoiled the nature of it and that every man may be excellent if he see betimes what he is sit for as he did who began with small Histories and finding his Genius much inclined that way resolved upon greater promising his Ecclesiastical History 14 years before it came out the Errours whereof Dr. Heylin corrected smartly and he either confessed or excused ingeniously pleasing his Reader with those faults he so wittily Apologizeth for And because Dr. Heylin and he agreed so lovingly in their mutual charity one towards another at last after they had differed in Opinion at first Let Dr. Heylin dwell by him a Gentleman born in Oxfordshire or Berk-shire happy in his good Education under Mr. Hughs School master of Burford to whom he dedicated a Book in gratitude 1656. and under Mr. Frewen in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Demy and Fellow being delighted from his Childhood in History he studied Historically taking in all sorts of Learning in the way of History and Chronology the first specimen was his Geography in 40. Printed 1621. Dedicated to Prince Charles and improved upon a Fellows shouldering him as he went along King street in the beginning of the Troubles and saying Geography is better than Divinity i. e as he understood he had better success in writing Geography than Divinity to a large and exact Folio the best now extant Having made his way to the Court and travelled into Franceâ— of which Travels he hath given us an account in his Survey of 〈…〉 he was admitted to the Earl of Denbigh's attendance when he was sent by his Majesty into Guernsey and Iersâ—y 1628. where he made such observations to present Bishop Laud to whom he then 〈◊〉 himself as might let him see he was not altogether uncapable of managing such publick business as he might afterwards think fit to entrust him withal which succeeded so well that in a short time after the Bishop recommended him to his Majesty for Chaplain in Ordinary and by degrees imployed him in such affairs of moment and weight as rendred his service not unuseful to the Church or State his Lordship aiming at primitive Purity enjoyning him to draw up the History of the Controversie then in beingâ— as having vindicated the History of St. George the Patron of the Royal Order of the Garter 1630. and thereby obliged most of the Nobility of that Time he did in his History of the Sabbath of Episcopacy of Altars of Lyturgies of the Quinquarticular Controversie the Reformation Tithes Calvinisin and its inconsistency with Monarchy and his Historical Exposition upon the Creed clearing up the truth by the Histories Laws Counsels Fathers and other Writers of the Church and discovering the Occasion Original and Progress of every Errour An Imployment that raised him many Adversaries as 1. Dr. Prideaux who when Mr. Heylin stated these two Questions in the Schools 1627. An Ecclesia unquam suerit Invisibilis An Ecclesia possit errare In the Negative and made good the first not by the visibility of the Church as Dr. Prideaux in his Lectures had done in the Berengarians Waldenses Wiclivists Hussites among whom the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy failed but in Asia Aethiopia Greece Italy yea Rome it self where Bellarmine himself mantained many Fundamental Points very well against Ancient and Modern Hereticks concluding thus utinam quod ipse de Calvino ste semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis cryed him down for Papicola Bellarminianus Pontificius and when 1633. he stated these Questions An Ecclesia habeat Authoritatem 1. In determinandis side Controversis 2. Interpretandi Scripturas 3. Discernâ—â—â—â— Kitus Caeremonias in the Affirmative according to the â—oth Article of the Church of England in the truest Edition of them which Mr. Heylin when the false one published in the Harmony of Concessions at Geneva 1612. was urged sent for into the Schools the like expressions for which Dr. Prideaux had three checks from the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Heylin clearing himself so well in the point of popery by his Sermon on Iohn 4. Our Fathers worshipped on this Mountain and by his Sermon on the Parable of Tares that some of the Court who before had been otherwise perswaded of him Did not stick to say that he had done more towards the subversion of Popery in those Sermons than Dr. P. had done in all the Sermons he had preached in his life 2. Dr. Hackewell in several bitter passages against his book of St. George and his Antidotum Lincolniense published in the beginning of the Long Parliament not only to confute but destroy him 3. Dr. Benard upon some expressions that sell from him about the Article of the Church of Ireland and Bishop Vshers advice about the Earl of Stafford 4. Bishop Williams against whom he writ his Autidotum Lincolniâ—â—se who when he was Preaching strook the Pulpit at Westminster with his staff and called to him to proceed to another point And 5. the Parliament to whom he gave very great satisfaction in all those points objected against him untill the Tumults growing high he was forced to fly to Oxford where his Majesty commanded his constant attendance when his course was over for a service of very great Importance whence going to Winchester Windsor and at last setling at Lacies Court near Abingdon and Oxford he continued
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
himself about Sir H. death where the Visier being bribed as it is the fashion there to betray him to the Faction of Merchants which the honorable Sir Sackevill Crow a Gentleman able and willing to do his Majesty as much service as any man in England in his lowest condition though he hath and doth inâ—initely suffer for it in his highest had to do with keeping up his Majesties Reputation at Constantinople in spight of them as long as it pleased God to preserve his life in England who sent him in the Sâ—irna-Fleet with other honest persons that there sided with him to England where after some moneths Imprisonment in the Tower he was by an High-Court of Justice which refused him the Liberty of pleading in Italian the language he was most ready and expressive in sentenced and accordingly March 4. 1650. out of malice to his Brother and Master as if they had a design against the peoples Trades beheaded near the Exchange where being attended by Dr. Hide Bishop Vsher had been with him before he owned the King and Church of England Allegiance he said being incorporated in his Religion he protested he was sent to the Levant to serve and protect all and injure none as a Messenger to take care of the English Interest there untill his Majesty had settled an Ambassador he blessed God for giving him the advantage of paying that Debt due by nature upon the account of grace and this way bringing him to himself he cleared his Brother and all other persons from any design against the English Merchants and offered all the satisfaction in the world to any person that desired it the Axe doing that at one blow which his many Diseases would have done within a few weeks for he was not able either to rise or fall himself though he was able to dye Dr. Levens This Learned Gentleman descended of an ancient Family in Oxford-shire near Bolley within a mile of the University His Education was truly generous his Profession the Civil Law wherein he was graduated a Doctor and in which he was excellently known before these Wars He continued most part of the War at Oxford and his own adjacent dwelling till such time as the surrender of the said City into the hands of the Parliament where he had the same terms and was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation which being forced to accept and lay down his Arms he again re-assumed his wonted studies But after the Murther of the late King this Gentleman very considerable in his numerous acquaintance prudence and integrity considering the confusion impendent ruine of Church and State became engaged for the Son our present Soveraign as before for his Royal Father several Consultations and private Meetings were held by him and others in order to his service to which purpose he also received Commission from the King then in France for several Officers of these Forces designed to be raised and other instructions as the Affairs proceeded But the sagacious industry of the Parliaments spyes lighting upon some glimpses of this business which they followed so close that they discovered Dr. Levens to be the chief Agitator and Manager of the plot in whose breast the Cabal was principally lodged An Order thereupon was made by the Council of State and a Warrant signed by Bradshaw the President to seize and bring him before them and to search his Chamber and break up his Trunks for Papers he then being at London the place most expedient for the design which accordingly was done a file or two of Musqueteers guarding and securing the House where the said Papers were among which there were blank Commissions signed by the King to the purport aforesaid were found with him and carryed to the Council who thereupon ordered him to be proceeded against as a Spie and referred him to a Councel of War Accordingly he was soon afterwards tryed by a Court-Martial where he not excused himself but acknowledged their Allegations against him and the Justice of his Cause of which he told them he was no way ashamed but if it must be so he would willingly lay down his life in the owning of it He told them moreover he was indispensably bound by the Laws of God and this Kingdom to do what he did and so referred himself to them They very earnestly pressed him to reveal the other parties engaged with him and gave him fallacious hopes of life if he would freely declare them but those offers prevailed not with him being resolved to suffer and take all upon himself rather than to ruine others whom they could not fasten upon without his discovery So the Court proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be hanged over against the Exchange in Cornhill in Exchange time which after some little preparation was executed he being brought in a Coach from the Mews with the Executioner Vizarded with him and a Troop of Horse to guard him to the said place where the Sheriffs received him into their charge After he alighted and some words passed between them concerning the said discovery he told them they should not expect it and desired them to forbear any further trouble to that purpose and so â—ascending up the Ladder where he prayed very fervently for the King and the Church and commending his soul into the hands of his Redeemer and so concluded his last breath on the eighteenth of Iuly 1650. Col. Eusebius Andrews an honest and Religious man bred in my Lord Capels Family whose Secretary he was and a good Lawyer of Grays-Inn engaging in his Majesties cause from 1642. to tâ—e surrender of Worcester 1645. when taking neither Covenant Protestation negative Oath nor engagement in London he followed his Profession till one Io. Bernard formerly a Major under him because of his good parts and sober demeanor admitted to his familiarity brought one Captain Helmes and Mr. Bâ—nson formerly belonging to Sir Iohn Gell who was hanged on this occasion Oct. 7. 1650. to save his Arrears repenting that ever he had served the Parliament and praying heartily for the King to his acquaintance who insinuated the discontents of Sir Io. Gell and other Reformadoes the designs of the Levellers and Agitators and Letters from Mr. Rushworth to be sent by Mr. Brown Bushel a Sea-Captain very active in bringing the Fleet to the Princes command taken as he was waiting an opportunity to serve the King at London and tossed from Custody to Custody till he went to the Tower where it went so hard with him for necessaries that his Wife was forced to go with his daily provision from Covent-Garden to the Tower every day and thence being condemned for delivering up Scarborough to his Majesty to the Scaffold at Tower-hill under which being deluded with a promise of pardon that very day he was for fear of the Sea-men that loved him beheaded suddainly April 29. 1651. beyond Sea Sir Io. Gells Interest in the Country and his regret that
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
the First that firm Protestant who could not be moved from his Religion though he was in the heart of Spain and France was in his bosom either by power or love said of him when going under his Roof at Naseby fight that he found not so much faith as he did in him though a Papist bred at Saint Omers and travelled for many years in Spain and Italy no not in Israel For it was he whose frugality whereof his plain Freeze cloaths at Court were a great example enabled him and his Loyalty which he said whatever other Romanists practised was incorporated into his Religion often relating with pleasure that Gospel for the day when the Imperialists beat the Bohemians was Reddite Caesari quae sunt Casaris Deo qui sunt Dei urged him when his Majesties Protestant Subjects made him afraid and ashamed to stay in London to send men with ready money when the King wanted it and the Country-people would do no more without it to bear the charges of his Majesties and his Followers carriages and other accommodations to York besides that he was seen to give Sir Iohn Biron 5000 l. Sterling to raise the first horse that were raised for the King in England and his own Officers 40000 l. Sterling to raise two Armies 1642. and 1643. for his Majesty in Wales over and above 40000 l. Sterling in gold at three several times sent his Majesty in person and the unwearied pains the close imprisonments the many iminent dangers of his life and most of these hardships endured when he was eighty years of age and the great services he performed in South-wales where the greatness of his fortune and family improved by the sweetness and munificence of his person raised him an interest that kept those parts both a sanctuary to his Majesties person when he was in streights and the great relief of his Cause both with men and money when he was in want till that victorious Army that had reduced the whole kingdom besieged him who hearing of his Son the Lord Glamorgans landing with considerable Irish forces writes to them That if they would make him undelaid reparations for his Rents they had taken he would be their quiet Neighbor adding that he knew no reason he had to render his House the only House he had he being an infirm man and his goods to Sir Thomas Fairfax they being not the Kings to dispose of and that they might do well to consider his condition now eighty four years of age At last upon very honorable Articles three months time without being questioned for any action in relation to the war being allowed them to make their composition surrendring the very last Garrison in England or Wales that held out for his Majesty for whom the Marquiss lost his great estate being Plundered and Sequestred and in his old age Banished his Country being excepted out of all the Indemnities of his enemies and as I am told left out of the care of his friends among whom he died poor in Prison whither he was fetched in a cold Winter 1648. supported only by his chearful nature whereof his smart Apothegms and Testimonies as when his Majesty had pardoned some Gentlemen upon their good words that had prejudiced his service in South-Wales the Marquiss told him That was the way to gain the Kingdom of Heaven but not his Kingdom on Earth and used to reprove him out of some old Poet as Gower Chawcer c. often repeating that passage of Gower to him A King can kill a King can Save A King can make a Lord a Knave And of a Knave a Lord also And when he saw a ghastly old woman he would say How happy were it for a man going to Bed to his Grave to be first Wedded to this Woman When he was in Bala in Merionith-shire and the people were afraid to come at him for fear he was a Round-head Oh said he this misunderstanding undoeth the world And when the Major came and excused the Town to him Do you see now said he if the King and Parliament understood one another as you and I do they would agree as you and I do What when forbid Claret for the Gout said he shall I quit my old friend for my new enemy When a Mâ—â—quet-bullet at the siege of Ragland glancing on a Marble-pillar in the withdrawing Room where my Lord used to entertain his friends with pleasant discourses after meals hit his head and fell flat on the ground he said That he was flattered to have a good head-piece in his younger days but he thought he had one in his old age which was Musquet-proof Excusing a vain-glorious man as he would put a charitable construction upon most mens actions he said That vain-glory was like Chaff that kept a mans spirit warm as that did the Corn Adding if you set a man on his Horse let him have his Horse When a conceited Servant told him once that he should not have done so and so I would answered he give gold for a Servant that is but nothing for one that seems to be wiser than his Master Two men very like another the one a Papist the other a Protestant one of them set the other to take the Oath of Supremacy for him whereupon said the Marquiss If the Devil should mistake you one for the other as the Iustices did he would marr the coâ—â—â—it When it was told him he should be buried at Windsor Then said he I shall take a better Castle when dead than ever I lost when alive He desired Sir Thomas Fairfax to comprehend his two Pigeons within the Articles who wondering at his chearfulness was told That he suffered chearfully because he did before reckon upon it His goverment of his family was remarkable Dr. Bayley protesting that in three years he saw not a man drunk he heard not an oath sworn and though it was half Protestant half Papist he observed not a crosse word given the whole house being as the Master not only chearful but sober and indeed to keep them so he would wind up the merriest reparties with a grave and serious conclusion no Servants better disciplined or incouraged than his With him it is fit to mention 1. His Son the Earl of Glamorgan since Marquiss of Worcester who was as active in raising Irish forces for his Majesty having made the pacification there wherein it was thought he went beyond his Commission as his Father was in raising the Welch nay indeed Commanded the Welch to Glocester and other plaees with success in the years 1642 1643. as he would have done the Irish had he not been obstructed 1644. as he writes to the Lord Hopton c. to the Relief of Chester for which services he was Misunderstood by his friends Sequestred and Banished by his enemies continuing with his Majesty in that condition till his Restauration A great Mechanick eminent both at home and abroad for the Engines and Water-works
he was Author of the benefit of one of which upon the Thames is settled upon him by Act of Parliament 14 Car. 2. He Died 1666 7. The Lord Charles Herbert and the Lord Iohn Somerset the old Marquiss his Sons The glory of whose actions redounds to the Father according to that of Agricola Nec unquam in suam famam gestis exultavit ad aut horem ducem minister fortunam reserebat Tacit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion l. 4â— 3. Sir Philip Iones of Treeowen Monmouth-shire who after eminent contributions to his Majesties service under the favour of the Ragland Articles wherein being in that Garrison he was comprised with his Son William paid for his Loyalty 1050 l. as Iohn Iones of Nam-cross Cardig Esq did 389 l. Gilbert Iones Chancellor of Bristol 43 l. Cad Iones Exon. Esq 483 l. Tho. Iones of Osswell Devon Clerk 80 l. Edmund Iones of Landson-Mannor 70 l. Io. Iones of Halkin Flint 156 l. 4. Commissary Guillims and Dr. Bayley a Gentleman of great Alliance a good Temporal Estate and considerable Spiritual Preferments who being undone for his Loyaly by the Faction who for divers years imprisoned him in New-gate where he writ the book called The Wall-flower and by the way he was indeared to my Lord of Warwick for being an excellent Florist and Chymist and disregarded for setting out the Conference between the Marquiss of Worcester and his Majesty by the Kings party became of a solid Protestant such a scandal did the late war give the soundest men of our profession a zealous Papist seeing our Church afflicted he thought her forsaken dying at 〈…〉 heart-broken with the report of the Guns shot off a◠〈◊〉 a man to whose name we owe much for Bishop â—â—yly'sâ—ake â—ake the Author of that Book that hath done so much good in England and Wales I mean The Practice of Piety 5. Edward Vaughan of Old-castle Monmouth-shire Io. Vaughan of LLanely Caerm who paid for composition 540 l. Sir George â—aâ—ghan Penbrey Caâ—rm a Colonel in the Kings Army 2609 l. Sir Henry Vaughan of Wit-well York 659 l. 6. Sir William Vaughan a person of excellent conduct and service in South-wales and Cheshire both for the Sallies he made out of Shrawarding-castle whence he was called the Devil of Shrawarding Commanding Shropshire Cheshire and the borders of North-wales for his Majesty and the defeat he gave one day at Rowtâ—n heath September 24. 1645. three miles off Chester to Pointz who being re-inforced next day and Sir Williams Command being bestowed elsewhere totally overthrew his Majesties forces Sir William hardly escaping to Ragland and thence to Ireland where having formed a considerable Army and incamped them under my Lord of Ormond before Dublin all Ireland besides being reduced by the neglect of the Ingeneer who had the charge of the Guards he was surprized and fighting desperately to gain the whole Army time to Rally was killed August 22. 1649. when as Commissary General of the Horse he had not long before drawn up most part of his Troops with a considerable body of Foot to cast up a Work at Baggot Rath which would have shut up Dublin so effectually aâ— with a few days to force it to a surrender had not some persons envied him that enterprize because as the Romans said of Christ refusing a share in the Pantheon of Rome he would have no partner of his honor A man owing his Success to his Reputation and his Reputation to his Vigilance Industry Civility Justice and Sobriety 7. Io. Williams of Parke Breton 50l Roger Williams 〈◊〉 206 l. Willam Williams Mothry 102 l. Thomas VVhâ—tely of Aston Flâ—nt 125 l. Sir Io. VVeld senior VVilly Sal. 1121 l. 18s 4d Maurice Williams of Swarbe Line 460 l. Sir Trevor Williams a Colonel of eminent service in the Kings Army Io. LLoyd Crinvin Carâ— 140 l. Sir 〈◊〉 LLoyd Cacrm 1033 l. Hugh LLoyd Guâ—rdvâ—â—y Râ—â— 76 l. Sir R. Lee of Lingley Sal. with 169 l. 9â— 0d settled paid 371â— l. 〈◊〉 LLoyd LLanvardo Sal. Esq 300 l. R. LLoyd of LLoyd 〈◊〉 Sal. Esq 480 l. Walter LLoyd LLanvair Cardig Esq 1003 l. Anne Lady Somerset 2000 l. Tho. Stradling of St. Brides Glam 777 l. The Right Honorable the Marquiss of Winchester who in his house at Basing commonly called Basing-house in 〈◊〉 the greatest of any Subjects house in England yea larger than most Eagles have not the biggest Nests of all Birds of the King Pallaces Hugh Peters in the relation of the taking of it he made to the House of Common saying an Emperor might have lived in it made good the Motto written in every Window of it viz. Aimez Loyali Love Loyalty In a two years siege from August 1643. to October 1645. he held out against all the Parliament forces the good Marquiss being heard to to say That if the King had no more ground in England but Basing-house he would adventure as he did and so maintain it to the utmost as he did not yielding till it was taken by storm with the richest plunder in money plate jewels houshold stuffe amounting to 200000 l. Sterling among which a Bed worth 14â—â— l. with the assistance 1. Of Sir Robert Pâ—ake who had been an Artillery-man forty two years commanded thither from Oxford 1643. with but 100. men with whom before October 1645. by vigilant and dexterous Sallies he did execution upon thousands with two brave Majors Cuâ—â—and and Lingley of whom see more in the Journals of this Siege Printed Oxford by L. L. 1645. He died a good Benefactor to the City of London particularly to St. Sepulchres where he was buried with great military pomp Iuly 1667. 2. Inigo Iones the great Architect brought up by William Earl of Pembroke at whose charge he travelled much abroad and studied at home in King Iames and King Charles I. time for Representations Masks and more solid Buildings his skill both in the Theory and History of Architecture in the most excellent discourse writ by him upon King Iames his motion called Stone-henge Restored appears singular wherein he modestly propoundeth and more substantially proveth that Posing Quarry to be a Roman Work or Temple dedicated to Caelus or Coelum son to Aether and Dies the Senior of the Heathen gods 3. Dr. Thomas Iohnson born in York-shire not far from Hâ—ll bred an Apothecary in London where he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England making Additions to the Edition of Gerard A man of such modesty that knowing so muchâ— he owned the knowledge of nothing The University of Oxford bestowed on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor in Physick and his Loyalty engaged him on the Kings side in our civil wars When in Basing-house a dangerous piece of service was to be done this Doctor who publickly pretended not to valor understood and performed it yet afterwards he lost his life at a Salley in the same siege 1644. generally lamented even of those that murdered him Dr.
dying 1660. a great enemy of Tobacco because of Sir Water Rawleighs testimony of it that he saw the Spanish Negroes throwing the running of their sores and boils in the leaves as they lay in a swet say Yâ— Pauperos Lutheranos good enough for the Dogs the Lutherans Sir Iohn Banks born at Keswicke and bred at Grays-Inn attaining to great experience by solliciting Suits for others and a great Estate by managing those of his own laughing at many at last that smiled at him at first leaving many behind him in Learning that he found before him in time He was one whom the Chollor of S S S worn by Judges and other Magistrates became very well if it had its name from Sanctus Simon Simplicius no man being more seriously pious none more singly honest When Sir Henry Savile came to Sir Edward Cooke then at Bowls in Arch-bishop Abbots behalf and told him he had a Case to propose to him Sir Edward answered if it be a Case in Common-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I cannot presently satisfie you but if it be a point of Statute-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I should undertake to satisfie you without consulting my Books Sir Iohn Banks though ready without his Books on the Bench yet alwayes resolved Cases out of them in his Chamber answerable to his saying to Dr. Sibbs A good Textuary is a good Lawyer as well as a good Divine A Gentleman he was of singular modesty of the Ancient freedom plain heartedness and integrity of minde very grave and severe in his deportment yet very affable in such sort that as Tacitus saith of Agrippa Illi quod est Rarissimum 〈◊〉 facilitâ—s authoritatem nec sâ—veritas amorem diminuit his knowledge in the Law and inward reason of it was very profound his experience in Affairs of State universal and well laid patient he was in hearing sparing but pertinent in speaking very glad always to have things represented truly and clearly and when it was otherwise able to discern through all pretences the real merit of a Cause Being a Religious and moderate man he became of good repute with the people and being an able man he was taken notice of by the King who Knighting him in August 10. Car. I. when Reader of Grays-Inn and the Princes Sollicitor made him in Mr. Noys place Attorney General and in Hil. Term 16 Car. I. Chief Justice in Sir Edward Litletons place in which place he continued at London till his presence being made an Argument for Illegal proceedings he went himself and drew several others he had interest in to Oxford His prudent and valiant Lady with her numerous and noble Off-spring retiring to her House Corfe-Castle in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset-shire and when besieged there by Sir Will. Earl and Sir Tho. Trenchard who wanted this Castle only to make the Sea-Coast their own keeping it against three surprizes a Proclamation Interdicting her the common Markets the clamor of the common people thereabouts the intercepting of 200. weight of Powder strict Watches set about it a while with forty men yeâ— but five at first and then by the benefit of a Treaty wherein shâ— yeilded up the four small pieces to the Enemy on condition she might have her house and so making her adversaries more remiss gained an opportunity to re-inforce the Castle with Commanders Ammunition Provision and Souldiers who notwithstanding the endeavours to corrupt them with Bribes and the Plunder of the Castle notwithstanding the enemies taking the Town and Church the Oath to give no Quarter the Engines they made the Supplies of war sent in every day by the Earl of Warwick their encouraging the Souldiers first with mony twenty pound a man and afterwards with Drink and Opium to Scale the Walls in a desperate Assault kept it six weeks till August 4. 1643. when the Besiegers ran away leaving their Horse Armes Ammunition behind them the vallant Lady her self with her Daughters and Maidservants maintaining one Post in the Castle Captain Laurence Sir Edwards Son and Captain Bond keeping another Sir Iohn died December 28. 1644. and in the 55. year of his age having one Monument in Christ-Church P. M. S. Hoc loco in spem futuri saeculi depositum jacet Io. Bankes qui Reginalis Coll. in hac Acad. Alumnus eques Auratus ornatissimus Attornat Gener. de Com. Banco Cap. Justitiarius a Secretioribus Conciliis Regi Carolo Peritiam Integritaâ—em sidem Egregie praestitit ex aede Christi in Aedes Christi transiliit unicam hinc Monumento suo sub mortem vovens Periodum Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo sit gloria And another 30 l. per annum with other emoluments to be bestowed in pious uses and chiefly to set up a Manufacture of course Cottons in the Town of Kiswick which hath good and is in hopes of better success besides that it cost his Lady and her nine Children for their Fathers Loyalty 1400 l. and her Son-in-law that married her eldest Daughter the excellent Lady Burlace Sir Io. Burlace of Maidmenham Bucks who suffered several imprisonments and decimations from the Kings enemies and was very civil upon all occasions to his friends 3500 l. Sir Bankes Son and Heir to Sir Io. 1974 l. Sir Thomas Gardner born as I am informed near Oxford bred in the Inner-Temple London A Gentleman that won much upon all men by a natural grace that was upon his person and actions and upon his Clients by his Integrity Condescention and Watchfulness Other Lawyers are for the increase of their own number he spent a great deal of his time to consider how to reduce them especially the Atturneys and Solicitors the supernumeraries whereof he would say make no other use of Laws but to finde tricks to evade them or making them right Cobwebs to insnare the people and the Law too being more for promoting good Orders to execute old Laws than for preferring â—ills to make new ones The Faction had no other quarrel with him than the Clowns had with Sir Iohn Cavendish in Wat Tyler and King Richarâ— the Seconds time because he was learned and honest for being made Recorder of London Term. Hil. 11 mo Car. I. they charged him 1. For directing the Lord in setting up the Kings Standard and impressing men against the Scots 2. For promoting Ship-money the Loan and Tonnage and Poundage 3. For prosecuting seditious Libellers Petitioners and Rioters And 4. For procuring his Majesty that noble entertainment 1641. upon his return from Scotland from the City to amuse the Parliament 5. For drawing and carrying on some more sober Petitions than were usual in those times whereupon he retired to York and thence to Oxford where he Sate in the Parliament assisted in the Treaties offering always three things 1. A Committee to state the differences 2. A particular consideration of those things wherein the people are to be relieved and the King
supported 3. A mutual Security against all future fears and jealousies For which services to his Country he was forced to quit it It is not fit we should forget Sir Thomas Gardner that was slain in Buckinghamshire 1643. and Captain Gardner that fell at Thame Cum res rediit ad trianos when three engaged in the Army Sir Robert Foster of the Temple made Serjeant and succeeding Sir R. Vernon as Pusney Judge of the Commons bench 15. Car. I. Term. Hil. as the King signified by Sir Io. Finch for the good opinion he conceived of him and the good report he heard concerning him discharging his place notwithstanding the disadvantage of succeeding so popular a man as Sir George Vernon was and the difficulty of pleasing at that time both Court and Country with great commendation those persons agreeing in a Sympathy for him that had an Antipathy each to other as he did after twenty years trouble the place of Chief Justice of the Kings bench 12. Car. II. in the place of Sir Thomas Millet a great sufferer I think that Sir Thomas Millot of Exon who with his Son paid at Goldsmiths-hall 871 and an excellent Justicer who by years and other infirmities was disabled from exercising that place though surviving two of his successors when it was time to preferr neither a Dunce nor a Drone but able and active men such as he was who could Fence as well at Law in his elder years as at Sword and Buckler in his younger The Land upon its wonderful settlement under his Majesty and the never to be forgotten disbanding of a twenty years standing Army swarming with people that had been Souldiers too proud to beg and too lazy to labour and having never gotten or quite forgotten all other Calling but that of Eating Drinking and Sleeping and it being hard for Peace to feed all the idle months bred in War Sir Roberts severity broke their knots presuming much on their Felonies otherwise not to be united with the Sword of Justice possessing his Majesty against the frequent granting of Pardons as prejudicial to Justice rendring Judges obnoxious to the contempt of insolent Malefactors so by the deserved death of some hundreds preserving the lives of and lively-hoods of more thousands He died 1663 4. Pearls are called Vnions because they are found one by one hardly two together not so here where Sir Robert Hyde Serjeant at Law since Ter. Trin. 16. Car. I. of the Middle-Temple and an able Pleader his Arguments shrewd in the several reports of his time succeeded him as well in his quality as office being as severe for executing the Laws witness his several checks given Justices the great observators of Law and Peace to whom he would urge that of King Iames in his Speech in the Star-chamber That he did respect a good Iustice of the Peace as he did those next his person as much as a Privy Counsellor as his predecessor was for executing Malefactors and as strict in bringing up ancient Habits and Customes both of the Inns of Courts and the Courts of Justice as in keeping up the ancient Justice and Integrity following Sir Nicholas Hyde I think his Fathers steps according to the observation that Lawyers seldome dye without a Will or an Heir who died 1631. as Sir Robert died 1665. Judge Foster and he dying suddainly if any do so that dye preparedly As did about the same time Serjeant Hodskins a very witty as well as a very judicious man an excellent Pleader as Thuanus his Father was Vt bonus a Calumniatoriobus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab Ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur As Judge Walter used to say when Baron Denham his associate in the Western Circuit would tell him My Lord you are not merry enough merry enough for a Iudge So Serjeant Hodskins when observed very pleasant for one of his years would reply As chearful as an honest man Henry Hodskins and Iohn Hodskins of Dors. paid for their Loyalty 571l The Serjeant changed his temper with his capacity most free as a private friend and most grave and reserved as a publick person David Ienkins upward of 58. years a Student in Grays-Inn near London of so much skill when a private and young man that my Lord Bicon would make use of his Collections in several Cases digesting them himself and of so much repute in his latter years that Atturney Noy Herbert and Bâ—nks would send the several Cases they were to Prosecute for his Majesty to be perused by him before they were to be produced in Court All the preferment he arrived at was to be Judge of South-Wales a place he never sought after nor paid for the Patent being sent him without his knowledge and confirmed to him without his charge in which capacity if Prerogative of his dear Master or the Power of his beloved Church came in his way stretching themselves beyond the Law he would retrench them though suffering several checks for the one and Excommunication for the other Notwithstanding that he heart of Oak hazarded his life for the just extent of both for being taken prisoner at the surprize of Hereford and for his notable Vindication of the Kings Party and Cause by those very Laws to the undeceiving of thousands that were pretended against them as the violators of the Law particularly for aiding the King 25. Edw. 3. ch 2. Hen. 7. for the Commission of Array 5. Hen. 4. for Archbishops Bishops c. Magna Charta c. for the Common-prayer Statutes Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for the Militia 7. Edw. 1. against counterfeiting the Seal and the usurping of the Kings Forts Ports 25. Edw. 3. for the Kings Supremacy 1. King Iames 5. Queen Eliz. Cook 7. p. rep fol. 11. for the Kings dissent to Bills 2. Hen. 5. against tumults in Parliament 7. Edw. 2. against adhering to any State in the Realm but the Kings Majesty 3. Iames 23. Eliz. for imprisonment and dispossession only by Law Magna Charta c. 29. and the Petition of Right 3. Car. and for increasing the fewd between the Parliament and the Army and instilling successfully into the latter principles of Allegiance by shewing them that all the Parliamentary Ordinances for Indemnity and Arrears were but blinds for the present amounting not to Laws which they could trust to for the future without his Majesties concurrence whose Restauration he convinced them was their unavoidable interest as well as their indispensable duty carried first to the Chancery secondly to the Kings-bench and at last to the Bar of their House the authority of all which places he denied and though he and the Honorable Lewis Dives who hath done his Majesty admirable service in Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Dorsetshire and made a cleanly conveyance away from White-hall with Mr. Holben though through the Common-shore upon pretence of Easing themselves to the Thames and so beyond Sea where he continued with his Majesty during his banishment were designed
Aristotle handleth the affections in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry and Devotion then keeping up his thoughts and parts the melancholy resulting from thence that made him in the midst of the brave discourses in his House and Company the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble Learned or Witty in the Nation silent some hours together drew in all that he heard into great notions and as if it had been a Meditation all the while expressed them in greater In a word he became the best Poet by being the best natured man in England sufficiently honored not so much by the great appearance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham c. and so happily immitated by the excellent Mr. Sprat the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society that that doth to Philosophy and the world the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley in a way of Club at Oxford that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London Fran. Quarles Esq Son to Iames Quarles Esq born at Stewards nigh Rumford in Essex bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn London preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia Secretary to Bishop Vsher and Chronologer to the City of London having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and as much in his Peace and Name for writing the Loyal Converâ— and going to his Majesty to Oxford by the Faction in England he practised the Iob he had described and the best Embleme though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes of Devotion and Patience himself dying Septemb. 8. Anno Domini 1644. Aetatis 52. the Husband of one Wife and Father of eighteen Children buried at St. Fosters and living his pious books that by the fancy take the heart having taught Poetry to be witty without profaneness wantonness or being satyrical that is without the Poets abusing God himself or his neighbor To joyn together Poetry and Musick Mr. Will. Laws a Vicar Chorals Son born and bred at Salisbury but accomplished at the Marquiss of Hertfords who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian till he equalled yea exceeded him Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England besides his fancies of the 3 4 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary given on purpose to secure him but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office he was particularly lamented by his Majesty who called him the Father of Musick having no Brother in that Faculty but him that was his Brother in nature Mr. Henry Laws since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr Fettering Sounds in Noble Halls Parlors and Chambers when it was shut out of Churches where for many years to use Mr. Hookers words it was greatly available by a native puissance and efficacy to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled to quicken the spirits low and allay them when eager soveraign against melancholy and despair forceable to draw forth tears of devotion able both to move and moderate affections The Bards thereby communicating Religion Learning and Civility to this whole-Nation When it was asked what made a good Musician one answered A good Voice another Skill but a third more truly Incouragâ—ment Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suffering Prelates it will be no offence to enter him among the discouraged Artists he being as ingenious as he was graâ—e and a great Patron of those parts in others that he was happy in himself for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University and preferring good proficients out of it by the same token that some in these times turned him out of his Livings that he had raised into theirs A good Benefactor to Chester I think the place of his Birth as well as his Preferment and to Brasen-nose-colledge oxâ—n the place of his Education but a better under God to England in his Son the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause and a great honor to it his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the Common-pleas endearing as well as opening the Law to the people as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience as well as his own an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men are as successful as the Children of Men of other Professions against the Romanists suggestion who against Nature Scripture and Primitive Practise forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own jurisdiction and be â—patter them without though they might observe that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals Dr. George Wild a native of Devonshire Scholar and Fellow of St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth a great wit in the University and a great wisdom in the Church which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Sermons in Country and City in publick and private particularly in his well-known 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Oratory in Fleet-street fitted for the Preaching of the Word the Administring of the Sacrament with a constant solemn and fervent use of the publick Liturgy encouraged by his chearful spirit and converse adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity communicating with great care to others relief that were Sequestred Imprisoned and almost Famished what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most yet suffered less than any bold innocence is its own guard only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement and some weeks Silence when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist by Maldonate miraculum nonfecit magnum fuit so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom Concionem non habuit magna fuit He preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of patience and piety a good Sermon because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty because he feared not Herod he
to the whole Nation for Integrity and Loyalty may be so to all persons of his quality in every passage of his life 1. To young Gentlemen younger Sons to considerable Families bound Apprentises in London in this careful obliging service to Mr. Coleby a Silk-man in Cheap-side who dying left him his Shop worth 6000 l. 2. To those happy men that having gained estates in their younger days to serve themselves should accomplish themselves against their riper years to serve their Country in his travels upon his enusing on the foresaid estate into France and Italy where he improved himself and by observing the Trades of the respective Marts as he passed laid the foundation of his future Traffick 3. To single Persons in his discreet Marriage into a Family Mr. Sandfords at that time commanding at once most of the money and by that most of the Nobility Gentry and great Trades-men of England 4. To Persons in Trust in the faithful discharge of a joynt power he the Earls of Dorset and Essex were invested with by a charitable person of an 100000 l. deep towards the buying of Impropriations to be Legally and bona fide laid to the Church 5. To Magistrates going through all Offices in the places he lived in a Benefactor in each place particularly to his Company the Cloath-workers whereof he was Warden to the Hospital of St. Bartholomews whereof he was Waâ—den and to the City whereof he was Alderman Sheriff and Lord Mayor promoting the Loanes the King had occasion for advancing the Commission of Array when the Kingdoms condition required it entertaining his Majesty 4000 l. deep at his own charge when he knew how much his Majesties reputation would gain in the Country by the appearance of a good correspondence between him and the City Appeasing the tumults when 63. years of age one night with 30. or 40. Lights and a few Attendants whereof his Son-in-law Sir Iohn Pettus was one rushing suddainly out of the house upon thousands with the City Sword drawn who immediately retired to their houses and gave over their design In countenancing his Majesties legal Proclamations and neglecting the Conspiracies traiterous Ordinances â—ffering the King as Sir Iohn Pettus assumed me who went many times a day in those times from Sir Richard to his Majesty and from his Majesty back again to Sir Richard to stand upon the Priviledges of the City with his Majesty against the Faction as they stood upon the Priviledges of Parliament against him refusing to appear out of the Liberties of the City before the Parliament till he was commanded to do so by the Kingâ— whom he would obey with his ruin when besides a long attendance at his own charge the City not contributing a farthing towards it not to this day in the House of Peers who sent for him every day in a whole month with his Counsel on purpose to undo him he was deprived of Maâ—oralty Honor and all capacity of bearing any Office in the Kingdom kept seven years Prisoner in the Tower refusing to pay the 5000 l. imposed upon him for his Liberty urging that by the Law of the Land he should not suffer twice for the same fault Plundered Sequestâ—ed and Troubled by several seizures of Estates and Debts not ended till 57. after it had gone through 13. Committeesâ— to him and his heirs the Right Honorable the Lord Richardson and the Right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Pettus his Lady to the loss of 40000 l. He died Oct. 6. in the year of our Lord 1647. and of his age 69. being buried at Olaves-Iury London with the Lyturgy in the very reign of the Directory His Loyal Relations so ordering it that the Coaches should stop all passages into the Church and that three Orthodox Ministers should attend at the Grave one ready upon the least disturbance to go on where the other had been interrupted that he might have the benefit of that decent Order when dead which he maintained when alive Famous Walwin added a Dagger to the City Armes for stabbing one Rebel What deserved renowned Gurney that if backed by Authority had stabbed Rebellion itâ—self Sir Nicholas Crisp a Citizen and a Citizens Son having a great Estate by his Birth and Marriage raised it by his Parts whereby besides his interest at the Custom-house he projected such a Trade to Guinia and other parts before the Wars as would have been worth to him 50000 l. a year and to Holland France Spain â—â—aly Norway Turky and Muscovy in the Wars as was worth to the King though wandring up down his Kingdom and forced away from his great Mart 100000 l. yearly Sir Nicholas keeping most Ports open for his Majesties occasions Ships ready for his service and a Correspondence between him and London Bristow c. and all other parts very useful for his Affairs neither was he less active in the Field as Colonel having trained up himself in the City Militia for the service of the Kingdom in leading armed men then at Court as Counsellor to raise and arm them commanding a Regiment of Horse he himself had raised and paid The Polypus puts not on more shapes to deceive the Fisher than Sir Nicholas did to escape those that laid snares for him one while you should meet him with thousands in Gold another while in his way to Oxford riding in a pair of Panniars like a Butter-woman going to Market at other times he was a Porter carrying on his Majesties Interest especially in the design of Mr. Challoner and Thomkins in London he was a Fisher-man in one place and a Merchant in another The King would say of him that he was a man of a clear head that by continual Agitation of thoughts went on smoothly in his business sticking not at any difficulties all the succors the King had from his Queen and others beyond Sea especially from Holland came through his hands and most of the relief he had at home was managed by his conveyance neither was he less valiant than prudent his heart being as good as his head For after he had bravely Convoyed the Train of Artillery from Oxford to Bristol and was Sept. 1643. quartered at Rouslidge near Gloucester a Person of Quality in the Country but of no Command in the Army Sir Iames Envyon not only incommoded his quarters in which particular he was very civil to him but because he would not draw up his Regiment to satisfie a friend of his about some Horses that were stollen there offering to take all other care to finde them that way for many reasons being by him proved inconvenient sent him a challenge adding that if he met him not he would Pistol him against the wall Sir Nicholas met to offer him all Christian satisfaction in the world which not being accepted many passes Sir Iames made at him he in his own defence much against his will and to his grief to his dying day happened to run him through yet making his peace
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
lost his life having spared the lives of the worst of men who he knew had God for their Father though they had not the Church for their Mother Sir Christopher Mynnes an honest Shoemakers Son in London by his bold Adventures gaining a brave Estate beyond the Line and by his Heroick actions in all our Sea-fights shewing that he deserved it on this side a plain man and a good Spokes-man Qualities for which the King and Prince Rupert loved him made of an indefatigable Industry and a vast skill and abilities for which they much trusted him yet very familiar among his Souldiers whom he saw well used for Diet Pay and their share in Prizes getting more in buying again the Souldiers share than others did in cheating them of them the more absolute power he as all Sea-Commanders had the more careful he was how he used them he was shot in the mouth yet holding it in his hands continued in his Command all over in bloud as long as the Enemy continued the fight against whom he was so forward that if his advice had been taken in the Bergen Expedition the Dutch had come to London to beg that Peace which they would so hardly yield to at Breda Sir Rich. Stainer a man deserving well of his Majesty about Portugall and Tangier as good a Seaman as most in England as the Sea-men in England are as good as any in Europe either for Fighting or Trading for tame Merchants ships or wild ships Men of War having contributed as much as any for improving the Sea for what it was made neither only for Fish to play in nor only for the Sun to drink of but for Commerce in Traffick Learning and Religion all mankind being one Family Acts 17. that the world may know its self before it be dissolved A pious man at Land in safety as devout at Sea in danger not like those Sea-men whose hearts are like the Rocks they sail by so often in death that they think not of it seeing Gods wonders in the deep he were the greatest wonder of all that were not made more serious and pious by them Iames Ley Earl of Marleborough who not content to be penned in the narrow Island where he was born launched out to the wide world where he might live The Lord Treasurer Ley his Ancestor gained an Estate by his Court-Interest beyond Sea and he gained skill by improving that Estate wherewith he served his late Majesty very seasonably with two or three Ships supplying him with Arms Ammunition and whatever else he wanted from beyond Sea opening the Western Ports and maintaining the passage between England and Ireland and his present Majesty very effectually in advancing his Majesties Interest in Plantations abroad and hazzarding his own life for him at home loosing it in the first Sea-fight with the Dutch Iune 1665. aboard the old Iames whence a little before he died reflecting on the former course of his life he writ to this effect to Sir Hugh Pollard who deserveth a mention not only because he was his friend as Eusebius is known by the name of his friend Paâ—philus whence he is called Eusebius Pamphilus but because being a Gentleman of a good Family and interest in Devonshire descended from Sir Lewis Pollard of Nimet in that County and one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench in King Henry the eights time who had four Sons Knighted before his face Governor of Dartmouth a Port of great Importance well Garrisoned for his late Majesty and Comptroller of the Hushold for his present Majesty very active and venturing for his Majesty in the worst times and very hospitable and noble with his Majesty in the best Observing that rule in keeping up the English honor of a great Table occasionally entertaining rather than solemnly inviting his ghests lest he should over do his own Fortune for fear of under-doing the Inviteds expectation to whom his Feast might be his ordinary fare Which puts me in mind of a King of France who used to lose himself in a Park Lodge where his sauce hunger made the plainest fare a Feast and the Park-keepers taking heart to invite him came with all his Court to whom all his meat was but a morsel Well said the Park-keeper I will invite no more Kings The Letter which Iames Earl of Marlborough writ to Sir Hugh Pollard who dyed 1667. was to this effect 1665. I Am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that what I write proceeds not from any phancying terror of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death than mine example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own Age and Experience will save that labor but there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being the great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding those inexitricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail reasons do perplex us withall God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy words in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same your I hope happy issue Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we die as the beast that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only great and holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays Your true friend Marleborough Old James near the Coast of Holland April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my Request Henry Earl of Huntington one of the first that appeared for his Majesty in Leicester-shire as his Son the honorable Lord Loughborough continued there with the last the constant service of the second during the first War in commanding the Garrisons of his Country
goodcome off serving his Majesty at Sea as he had done at Land and commanding the Ships fallen from the Parliament when there were no more to be commanded for the King to watch and supply the Coasts of Ireland and infest those of England He was in his way to the West-Indies divided from his Illustrious Brother Prince Rupert one of the most expert Sea-men as the most general Artist in Europe and from all the living by an Hurricano 1649. â—ad that our Calamities swallowed not only the Royal Branches growing in England but those in Germany too who escaping the Austrian malice perish by the Brittish but true grief for a Valiant man requireth not Womanish tears aâ—d great grief scorns it no tears being able to wash off the guilt of Royal bloud the shame of that Age shed in both parts of the world that beyond the Line and that on this side of it Peace had made him as excellent as his Brother the Prince Elector who for general but especially mechanick Learning and business is the happiest man in the world Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties younger Brother born 1640. died 1660. A Prince of as great hopes as studious great Parts and as great expectation as solid Vertue and promising great actions could make him that having known nothing but Imprisonment for the first years of his life at 8t Iames's Pensehurt and the Isle of Wight and Banishment in the later grew by his affliction so knowing that at eight years of Age he could tell his Majesty when he sending for him the day before he died he bid him not take the Crown before his Brothers Charles and Iames he would be first torn by wild Horses before he would do it so capable that Ascham who was deputed his Tutor by the Earl of Northumberland protesting that he could discourse nothing to him but what he could after once hearing with more advantage discourse to him again so serious that when Abbot Montague designed his Education in the Catholick way he could say at ten years of Age Hâ— would obey his Mother but he must his Soveraign So resolute that in the battel before Dunkirk 1657. Don Iohn protested he fought like an Englishman and so accomplished that at his return there was not an Artist whom he did not obligingly and satisfactorily converse with in his own way Fata ostendunt non dant Henricos Mr. Endymion Porter mentioned near these two Princes because dear to two Kings 1. To King Iames for his Wit 2. To King Charles I. for his general Learning which with his brave style sweet temper happy travels great experience modern languages and good address recommended him to the Duke of Buckingham who after the journey into Spain begun at first by the Prince the Duke my Lord Cottington and Mr. Endymion Porter introduced him to his Majesty who loved him for his own Ingenuity and for his being a Patron to all that were Ingenious our Endymion had the happiness to be loved by our Sun and Moon the King and Queen but not because he slept He pleased his Majesty not more in time of Peace than he served him in time of War by his Intelligence and Declarations at home and his Negotiations abroad both in France and Holland the reason sure why he was always excepted out of their Indemnities his friends paying for him 1500 l. composition and he dying with his Majesty abroad as his Son did for his Father at home being killed 1644. Loyal bloud like Harvies went round the Portâ—rs from the highest to the meanest 26 of the Name having eminently suffered for his Majesty Sir Nicholas Slanning The Cornish men in the Reign of King Arthur led the Van where is the Conduct of an Army and in King Canutus his time brought up the Rear which is the strength of an Army Sir Nicholas a Cornish Gentleman of an Ancient Family that deserveth the same Character that is bestowed by Mr. Carew upon another Employing themselves to a kind and uninterrupted entertainment of such as visited upon their invitations or their own occasion their frankness confirming their welcome by whatsoever means Provision the best fuel of Hospitality can in the best manner supply Of a Learned and a Martial Education able both to attend the Crusible and the Gun a very knowing Philosopher and a good Souldier led on his Country-men in his resolute Speeches at Westminster being a Gentleman of a stern spirit and brought up the Rear in his Command at Pendennis and other back Harbors of Cornwall over against France for supplies and in the Levant Spanish both Indian and Irish Road where most Merchants touch and whither many are driven being a man of an impregnable Integrity and unwearyed watchfulness and a severe Discipline lost by the Parliament when in Sermones tanquam vetita miscuissent specimen Arcâ—ae amicitiae facere and having with Sir Bevile Greenvile at Landsdown done wonders in advancing from hedge to hedge in the Head of his men in the mouth of Canons and Musquets so that his men thought him Immortal Iuly 5. 1643. lost to his Majesty in a brave assault upon Bristol Iuly 26. following when they saw him mortal In the Catalogue of Compounders I find this Note Sir Nicholas Slanning of Pendennis-Castle Cornwall 1197 l. 13 s. II d. and Col. Henry Lunsford Col. Buck and Col. Trevanian fell there the same time with whom it is fit to mention Sir Charles Trevanian of Caryhey Cornwall Sir Iohn Trelawny and his Son Col. Tho. Tregonnel Col. Ionathan Trelawney Col. Lewis Tremain I think of Nettlecomb Somerset who paid 1560 l. composition Col. George Trevillion Col. Ames Pollard Io. Pegonwell of Anderson Dorset Esq 1735 l. Col. Iames Chudleigh slain at Dartmouth in Devon Col. Bowls slain at Alvon Edmund Tremain Esq Colloecomb Devon 380 l. Men remarkable for their Conduct in keeping their Counsels in disguising their actions and fore-seeing the Designs and Courses of the Enemy being very well acquainted with the passes of the Country and strangely dexterous in gaining Intelligence scouring the Enemy before Bristol as well as the Gray-Sope of that place doth Cloaths men whose Persons generally are like their Houses narrow and little Entrances into spacious and stately Upper-Rooms Sir Richard Prideaux of Tregard compounded for 564 l. at Goldsmiths-hall and others whom I would more largely insist on but that I am 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Herald of another nature and having not taken Letters of Mart to seize on others Callings for their Invading mine do Loyally leave these Ancient Gentlemen to the justice of the King of Arms. Col. Richard Fielding Lord Fielding suffering something in Reputation about Reading which being Deputy-Governor he yielded as was thought too easily but recovering it at Newberry Nazeby and all other Engagements where he stirred not an inch keeping his ground too obstinately a generous shame adding to his Valour and choosing rather to lose his life by his Enemies than that it should be
the old Religion against what he supposed the new in his Under him the Welch at Brentford made good the Greek Proverb with right Brittish valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that flieth will fight again those who being little better than naked cannot be blamed for using swift heels at Edgehill must having resolution to arm their minds as soon as they had armour to cover their bodies be commended for using as stout arms as any in this fight which cost the Family though Sir Thomas died not long after 2000 l. 5. Sir Evan Lloyd of Yale a sober Gentleman and one of the first that waited on his Majesty at Wrexam for which he suffered deeply several times till his Majesties Restauration by whom he was made Governour of Chester a City of which it is said that it was more honour to keep a Gate in it than to command a whole City elsewhere seeing East Gate therein was committed formerly to the Earl of Oxford Bride Gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water Gate to the Earl of Derby and North Gate to the Major He died as soon as he was invested in his Government 1663 4. Godfrey Lloyd Charles Lloyd and Tho. Lloyd were Collonels in the Kings Army and Coll. Rob. Ellis a vigilant sober active and valiant Commander 240 l. Sir Francis Lloyd Caerm 1033 l. Walt. Lloyd Lleweny Carding Esq 1033 l. 6. Col. Anthony Thelwall a branch of the Worshipful Family of the Thelwalls of Plasyward near Ruthin in Denbighshire known for his brave Actions at Cropredy where his Majesty trusted him with a thousand of the choicest men he had to maintain as he did bravely the two advantagious Villages Burley and Nelthorp and at the second Newberry fight where he did wonders with the reserve of Sir G. Lisles Tertia and had done more had he not been slain for not accepting of Quarter Not long after Daniel Thelwall of Grays-Inn Esq paid 540 l. composition Io. Thelwall of Pace-Coch Denb Esq 117 l. The Right Honorable Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy-Counsellor to both Kings Charles I. and II. bred in the strictest School and Coll. Eaton by Windsor and Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to a great insight into general and various Learning and in the Low-Countries and France to a great happiness in Experiences and Observations in the Affairs of War Trade and Government the result of which and his retired studies by reason of the troubles of the Age and the infirmities of his body much troubled with the Stone with a sharp fit whereof he died 1667. was as King Charles the First who conversed with him much in his Closet called it and King Charles the Second who came often with the Counsel to his House and Bed side found it Safe and clear Counsel a sober and moderate Spirit the reason together with the general opinion of his great integrity and unblemished reputation he was so much reverenced and courted by the Parliament as they called it and so often imployed in seven Publick Messages and three solemn Treaties between the King and Parliament a serious temper and deep thoughts understanding Religion well he was reckoned the best Lay-Divine by his Polemical and Practical Discourses after the Kings death in England and practising it better Prayers Sermons and Sacraments being performed in no Family more solemnly than in his house private preparations before the monethly Communion used no where more seriously than that of all that belonged to his noble retinue in his Closet his stipends to the poor Clergy and Gentry in the late times were constant and great near upon besides what he sent beyond Sea 1000 l. a year his charity to the Poor of each place where he had either his residence or estate Weekly Monethly Quarterly and Yearly above 500 l. a year among those few Ministers reduced into distress by the late fire he bestowed besides particular largesses and a resolution to take them if unprovided to any Preferments that should fall in his Gift an 100 Pieces in Gold giving always his Livings to the choicest men recommended to him by the Fathers of the Church whose judgements he much relied upon in those Cases in the Kingdom he reckoned it certainly a more blessed thing to give than receive when besides his great Hospitality during his life and his manifold and large Benefactions at his death he gave away so much for publick good and as I am told received not one farthing all the while either as Lord Treasurer or Privy Counsellor for his own private advantage He was one of the Honorable Lords who offered his life to save his Majesty pleading that he had been the Instrument of his Government and hazzarded it to bury him His Composition was 3466l in Money and 250 l. a year in Land taken from him and his losses in the War 54000 l. Sir Walter VVrotsley not VVriothsley of VVrotsley Stafford 1332 l. 10 â— with 15 l. per annum Land taken from him Sir Frederick Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold Comptroller and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty whose old Servant he had been and his Fathers and Uncles before him at his Restauration and made Baron Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk at his Majesties Coronation The Temple of Honor being of right open to him in time of Peace who had so often hazzarded himself in the Temple of Vertue in the time of War particularly at Copredy-bridge where the Lord Willmot twice Prisoner was rescued once by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and the next time by Sir R. Howard Sir F. being as the last Pope said of this a Man of so chearful a spirit that no sorrow came near his heart and of so resolved a mind that no fear came into his thoughts so perfect a Master of Courtly and becoming Raillery that he could do more with one word in Jest than others could do with whole Harangues in Earnest a well-spoken man competently seen in modern Languages of a comely and goodly Personage died suddainly of an Apoplectical fit Ian. 7. 1661. Pope Innocent being in discourse about the best kind of death declared himself for suddain death suddain not as unexpected that we are to pray against but suddain as unfelt that he wished for To him I may adde Sir Will. Throgmorton Knight Marshall to his Majesty who died 166â— A Gentleman of an Ancient Family to whom a great spirit was as Hereditary as a great Estate who did much service to his Majesty in England and was able to do more to him and his Friends in Holland where he was formerly a Souldier and then an Inhabitant worth is ever at home and carryâ—th its welcome with it wherever it goeth who had lost his life sooner with a Bullet got into his body had not he done as they say Mr. Farnaby the Grammarian did who coming over from the Dutch Camp poor and wounded at Billingsgate met with a poor Butterwoman of whom he bought as
in the world one in most great Actions from 1624. to 1645. to accomplish himself for the service of his own Country where he was Governor of Litchfield Staffordshire keeping with Col. Lanâ— Sir Richard Bagot Dr. Bird and my Lord Loughborough that Country in good order by suppressing the Moor-Lander though as envy always must be expected if it will not be surprised by worth most men supposing their Bayes to wither if others flourish some found fault with his Actions because they did them not themselves which he indured being used to hardship having not eaten his bread nor fasted neither in one place He was slain at Nazeby Harvy Bagot of Parkhall Warwick Esq paid 600l Composition 12. Col. Henry Tillier one of those eminent Commanders brought over by Prince Rupert from the Palatinate zealous for Religion and therefore might be called as well as Robert Fitzwalter Marshall of Gods Army and holy Church worth will not long want a Master his judgement was much relied on in the Relief of Newark in the ordering of Marston-moor fight where with Major General Porter he was taken Prisoner in the siege of Bristol at the Delivery whereof he Vavasor and Mynne drew up the Articles as he did those of Oxford taking as many of the Garrison as would be Listed into pay under him for the French service as the Spanish Ambassador did for the Spanish 13. Col. Robert and Col. Sir Edward Broughton the last of whom did his Majesty Knight service in Cheshire and Newark 1645. 1646. at Worcester 1651. being one of the few Loyal Subjects that appeared there in Cheshire 1659. with the Lord Booth for which he was long Imprisoned in the Gatehouse whereof he was afterwards Keeper woing the Widow whose Prisoner he was and in the Seaâ—fight 1665. between us and the Dutch with his Highness the Duke of York where he valiantly lost his life scorning to fall though in effect killed and in his stubborn way blundring out Commands when he could not speak them 14. Col. Sir Arthur Blainey and Col. Iohn Blainey bred in Ireland and after he had lost his arm in Anglesea a with success shewed it depended not on Valour 1648. killed there The first the plainer man and greater Souldier the second the faster man and deeper Politician whom his own Country cry up for such a man that it will be a question hereafter whether ever there was such a man When invited thither by the Right Honorable Lord Buckley an eminent Gentleman for his Majesty in Northwales basely murdered by one Chedle of the other side 15. Sir Fulke Hunkes an old Souldier from Ireland whose Valor was attended with such meekness that upon all occasions the biass of his inclination did still hang 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he took as much pains to bring over his old acquaintance on the other side by perswasions and Letters as to conquer them by force And indeed so weighty his overtures that qui deliberarun desâ—iverunt they that came to themselves and considered came over to him and revolted 16. Sir R. Leveson of Frentham Staff who with 360 l. per annum setled paid 6000 l. composition a great instance of Commines his rule that they who have the art to please the people have power to raise them He prevented all jealousies of his Majesties proceedings much more complaints doing what the people about desired before they desired it being very tender in bestowing Commands and Trusts since no man is served with a greater prejudice than he that employs suspected Instruments Coll. Tho. Leveson a Gentleman fearless of death always and yet always prepared for it that never begged or bought Command winning all he wore Governour of Dudley which he held till May 13. 1646. 17. Sir Tho. Dallison a Lancashire Gentleman of great service in Prince Ruperts Brigade whose Loyalty cost him his life at Nazeby and 12000 l. in his Estate being one of those noble persons whose too much courage as Buchanan saith in all defeats of the Scots was the reason they were conquered and their pursuing their Enemies too far the cause of their being beaten by them 18. Sir Richard Crane bred in the Palatinate serving the Prince Elector with whose son Prince Rupert he came over 1642. to serve his own Soveraign a Gentleman very careful against all ill opinions of his courage or prudence knowing that if the Enemy over-awed or over-reached him they for ever after had his measure Slain at a sally out of Bristol 1645. Be it here remembred that the Worshipful Iohn Crane Esq of Lorton Bucks paid 1080 l. composition 19. Coll. Anthony Eyre Coll. Rowland Eyre and Sir Gervase Eyre Robert Eyre of West Cabfield Wilts Esq hazzarded their lives and spent above 40000 l. in his Majesties Service commended not only by their side which may be partial but by their Enemies who cannot be suspected so for commanding their looks words and actions yea their very dress garb and accent as well as the pretenders by a rule and watching shrewdly in all Skirmishes the advantage of Ground Wind and Sun each singly considerable but little less than an Army when all put together 20. Coll. Cockram an Agent well versed in the humors and intriguies of the Danish Polish Swedish and other Northern Courts whence he procured considerable supplies both for England and Scotland reducing the former Leagues of those Crowns to more exact particulars with reference to the present state of his Majesties affairs 21. Coll. Edward Hammond Coll. Francis and Iohn Heath all astive in Colchester 22. Coll. Sandys slain at Alford Hampshire besides there were in the service of the name Coll. H. Sandys of St. Michaels Bedw Worcest 1400 l. Sir Martin Sandys Coll. Robert Sandys Coll. Sam. Sandys of Vmbersâ—â— Worcest Esq 1445 l. and Sir Tho. Sandys the first of whom would usually rise out of his bed dress him open the doors walk round about the field fight now striking now defending himself and return to bed not wakened the second for parentage person grace gesture valour and many other excellent parts among which skill in Musick he was the most acceptable person in all places he came of his time except his Enemies Quarters where his person was very terrible his actions more There is a Bird which hath looks like a man which killing a man comes to the Water to drink pineth away by degrees and never after enjoyeth it self An unhappy duel was a covering to one of these Gentlemens eves all his days ever after his Conscience loathing what he had surfeited on refused all challenges with more honour than others accepted them The fourth of these Gentlemen altered the Scene of the War from Defending to Offending and from Speeches to Syllogisms of Fire and Sword gaining much goods and doing more good in shewing that the King was not deserted 23. Sir Francis and Sir William Carnaby both Gentlemen of good quality of Thornum in Northumb. 10000 l. the worse for the War The
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army
4. Sir William Courtney who is transmitted to Posterity as partner in great Actions with Sir Francis Dorrington now in France as I take it with her Majesty and Col. Webbe an old German Souldier dear to Prince Rupâ—rt and the best Horse man a Horse-Commander of his time in England Totos Infusa per artus Major in Exiguo regnabat Corpore virtus Eminent for flanking the Enemy about Banbury so dexterously as well as valiantly that with a 1000 Horse he dispersed 5000 of the Enemy though shot in the hand and both the thighs Col. Mâ—rmaduke Holthy the watchful Governor of Monmouth who by his vigilance lost it for upon a contrived Intelligence of the Parliament Forces retiring in some disorder towards Glocester he Commands Kirle with a 100 Horse to pursue them as it was agreed who closed with them and returning got the Town opened to them whence he hardly escaped over the dry graft But regaining it being the Key of South-wales by Sir William Blaxtons resolute On-set with his Horse Brigade next week with as great a Conduct as Kirle lost it with Treachery Col. Richard a Kentish Gentleman of good personal valour under the good old Earl of Cleaveland both at Newberry in the Newberry fights where he exceeded his Command at Sherburn where he exceeded expectation upon the surrender of which place he was taken prisoner and at Colchester where he exceeded belief Sir Thomas Hooper a Wiltshire Gentleman at first a Shoe-maker in England at last a Souldier in the Low-Countries where he attained so much skill as upon his Invitation over by Coll. Goring to have the Command of a Regiment of Dragoons with which Regiment he performed so much service that he was Knighted and which honour he wore so well that to say no more he deserved it often with execution laying that sword over his Enemies shoulders which his Majesty laid over his Sir Will. Manwaring and Sir Henry Fletcher slain both at Westchester Coll. Francis and Col. Io. Stuart in quibus erat insignis piet as in deum mira charit as in proximos singulares observantia in majorâ—s mitis affabilitas in inferiores dulcis humanitas in omnes multiplex doctrina redundans facundia incredibilis Religionis Orthodoxae zelus men in whom Valour was not all their Arts born to adorn as well as defend their Country Sir Iohn Girlington and Mr. William Girlington slain near Melton-Mowbray Leicest and his Widow as I take it of Southam Cave York fined 1400 l. a person that had much learning in his Books more in his Brest where Nations were ranked as orderly as the men in his Regiment and as quietly as the species of his various prospects for he was well seen in Opticks in his eye One too too good for War and deserved to be as far from danger as free from fear Sir Richard Cholmley slain at Lime in Dorsetshire Sir Anthony Maunsel slain at Newberry Sir Tho. Gardiner and his brother slain about Oxford The first with Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby York who suffered 5000 l. deep Henry Cholmley and Richard his son who paid 347 l. Tho. Cholmley of Vale Royal Cheshire who compounded for 450 l. and the Lord Cholmley who paid 7742 l. who might be called as his Ancestor was for 50 years together The Father of his Country who no sooner moved in their respective Countries in his Majesties behalf but it was incredible with what cheerfulness their motion meeting with loyal and well affected inclinations was entertained with all meetings applauding their propositions about this Loyal as the Council of Clermont in France did Pope Vrbane II. Speech about the Holy War with a God willeth it looking upon all the pretensions of God and Spirit on the other side but like the Christians in the foresaid War carrying a Goose with them in their Voyage to Ierusalem pretending it to be the Holy Ghost their thoughts beginning where others ended and having a privy project beyond the publick design The second with Mr. Henry Maunsel of Llandewy Glamorgan Esq and five more Gentlemen of that worshipful name was ready to mortgage their own Estates to secure the Kings selling Land for Gold to purchase propriety with Steel and Iron and were 30000 l. the worse for the War The third extracted of that Nation I mean the French which wanteth a proper word to express stand were over-active when engaged though like a heavy Bell that is long a raising but being got up made a loud sound considering enough before they engaged Gentlemen that deserve a fame in as many Languages as they understood and an honor from as many Persons and Nations as they imitated in their Manners Wisdom Learning and Piety who lived up to the excellency of each part of the World they travelled as if they had been born in it Gentlemen that were Masters of an Universal Speech to express their Universal Learning and to furnish men born not to one Nation but to all having a vast knowledge but that they had vaster minds Sir Nicholas Kemish of Kevenmably in Caermarthen slain at Chepstow in Monmouthshire whose Ancestors bloud was as noble in his vein as in their own who had the Sail of Valour poised with the Ballast of Judgment With a fanned Army as he called it he cunningly surprized Chepstow by a slight with the hazzard of his life keeping it against all force refusing any Treaty with the loss of it the resolute and noble being killed in cold bloud O. C. saying that if he had had a fortnights time longer he had overthrown all the price of their bloud and treasure Col. Hugh and Coll. William Wynn and Sir Lodowick Wyer a Dutch man slain at Banbury where their bad Breakfast discouraged not their Friends from their dinner in the Wars a good Conscience goeth on through difficulties which the bad one needs no Enemy but it self having always a storm in the Heart what ever weather it is in the Face being not like those who see not their own good for too intent looking on it But of these Gentlemen before The Marquess De Vienvill a French Lord slain at the first Newberry fight as Baron Done kinsman to the Prince of Orange fallen at Nottingham the Nobility of all Nations assisting in so just and so general a cause 10. Sir Francis and Sir Richard Dacres the one dying at Marston-Moor and the other at York together with Sir Thomas Dacres whose Ancient and Martial Spirits were not quenched in that age of Peace that gave little countenance and less encouragement to men of Service and Action and those parts though the Frontiers which in Kingdomes are to be looked after as carefully as doors in Houses were so ill furnished that they had nothing left them in the beginning of the Wars but the Primitive Arms of Prayers and Tears and had been easily conquered had not the experienced Souldiers breathed Deer are not caught so soon made their Country as strong
by Art as it was by Nature till Art and Valour was rather stifled than overcome by multitude When these Gentlemen in vain encouraging their Countrymen much with their words more with their actions fell rather than as their Companions they would guard their brave heads with their nimble heels The Right Honourable Henry Lord Piercy son of the Right Honourable Henry and brother of the Mirrour of English Nobility for a well-governed Greatness his house being a Colledge for Discipline and a Court for Grandieur the most noble and potent Algernoon Piercy Earl of Northumberland Baron Piercy Lacy Poynings Fitz-pain and Brian Knight of the Garter and of the Bath whose Ancestor H. Baron Piercy of Alnewick was at the Coronation of Richard 2. 1377. created Earl of Northumberland a person of a stern spirit and a great capacity the first inclining him to Arms which he handled with honour abroad the other to Studies which he followed with success at home being at once a very stout and a very wise man useful in the Field and in Council having a great command of the Northern Army 1639 1640. and a good stroke in the English Parliament being able with his care of especially in point of pay and interest in the first to awe the second as he did 1641. to give the Army good words and make his Majesty great promises as long as that Army had a being in England and he a Command in it When he could no longer serve his Majesty in Parliament where he must expose his person to the rudeness and his opinion to the suggestions of the multitude he countenanced his affairs in the North where the name could at any time raise an Army and interest to support it where he grew as formidable as he had been rendred in the South contemptible My Lord with great hazzard attended his Majesty in all dangers being thrice dangerously wounded and with great resolutions in all Council at York for preparing for War at Oxford for accommodations of Peace being made Iune 28. 1643. a Peer of the Realm Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the only person intrusted with the conduct of her Majesty from the North to her dear Consort at Oxford and of four deputed to assist her in Councils in France As the Beaver bites off his stones for which he is hunted to save himself so he quitted his Estate to save his Person being excepted from Indemnity though he hazzarded his Majesties displeasure to procure them in order to a peace theirs He died suffering with Majesty beyond Sea having this character That he would not take an affront from the greatest person nor give any to the meanest With whom Sir Iohn Morley the loyal Major of New-Castle Sir Iohn Mallory of Studley York who paid 2219 l. Sir Nich. Cole of New-Castle who paid 564 l. Bryan Cook of Doncast York with 18 l. per annum setled 1832 l. Sir William Wentworth slain at Marston-Moor and Sir George Wentworth of Welly who paid 3188 l. Thomas Wentworth of Bretton York 350 l. The Honourable Sir Francis Fanc of Ashton York 1315 l. Sir Richard Gleddal killed at Marston-Moor Sir Will. Savile Governour of Sheffield where he found Iron Works very serviceable to his Majesty dying in the Service at York Sir Brian Stapleton slain at Rowton-Heath near Chester Sir Tho. Strickland of Thornton Biggs York who paid 943 l. Sir Robert Stapleton an Ingenious person that translated Iuvenals Satyr Plinies Panegyrick and other excellent Authors not only into his own Language but into his own person being a just wit and not only a strong Oxford Metaphor a forced and affected simile a short sentence an unclean ribaldry a jugling Anagram Acrostick or Rime jests saith one for Dutch men and English boys not a fluent tale or a flashy jest but a brisk thought and an equal apprehension of each thing he saw or heard Col. Samuel Tuke as well known by his adventures of 18 years in the German Wars of 5 years in the English Engagement of 12 weeks in the Colchester and Kentish action of 12 years in banishment where he was the first that broke into the Traitor Mannings Closet and caught in the very act of correspondence with the Rebels of some years tuition of young Noblemen being as accomplished a Gentleman himself as Study and Travel could make him The Lord Ethyn Sir Tho. Danby Sir Charles Sir Robert and Sir Tho. Dallison Sir William Dalton the 6 last of whom lost 36000 l. by the War Sir Rich. Goodhill wounded in Wales and died at Worcester Sir George Baker who kept Newcastle against the Scots as they writ themselves to the Parliament with a Noble opposition yielding them not an inch of ground but what they gained with infinite loss and speaking as bigg to use the Scotch mens words at last as at first and letting them bloud to cure them of their Pleurisie of Pride on the wrong side keeping the Besiegers so long until their Victuals grew short and they admired rather than assaulted him yea when they offered the place the Enemy refused it suspecting some deceit in the tender as bad men measure other mens minds by the crooked rule of their own between death and death the Foe without and hardships within being no way dismayed with some mens stealing away the loss of Cowards being gain to an Army they generally resolved rather to lose their lives by whole-sale on the point of the sword than to retail them out by Famine which is the worst of Tyrants and murdereth men in State while they die in not dying and armed with despair valour swells being crushed between two extreams dispute each inch of the Town which was ransacked by the angry men whose passion like heavy bodies down steep hills once in motion move themselves and know no ground but the bottom and keeping the Castle till the Scots after long fasting not measuring their stomachs by the Standard of Physick and dieting themselves till nature by degrees could digest their meat by surfeiting digged many of their Graves with their teeth The Right Honourable Tho. Lord Fanshaw of Ware Park Hertf. Clerk of the Crown to his Majesty who besides that he lent 2000 l. towards the Scots expedition and suffered 30000 l. by the English War paid for his Loyalty 1310 l. as Sir Simon Fanshaw did 600 l. and Tho. Fanshaw of fenkins com Essex Esq with 80 l. per annum setled 500 l. but especially the Honorable Sir Richard Fanshaw my Lords Brother bred in Cambridge whereof he died Burgess and at Court where he died a Minister A Gentleman of great and choice Learning and of a great Wit appearing in Lusiad and oâ— ther Poems as well Originals as Translations to set off that knowledge yet using both as they conduced to the higher Ends of great business and honorable Imployments the one as the weight the other as the Edge of his actions in whom the Statesman saw the burial
London 1644 1645 1646. and to rise in Arms for him about Kingston where being defeated taken at St. Neots after a tedious imprisonment notwithstanding his sickness and infirmities tried for his life and beheaded in the Pallace-yard Westmin recommending with his last words to the deluded People the Kings Government and the established Religion The Right Honorable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham who with Sir Io. Hotham the Earl of Stamford Sir Hugh and Sir H. Cholmley Sir Christopher Wray Sir Edward Ayscough c. all Converts afterwards in being as active in setling the Militia of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in obedience to the Parliament as other persons of quality were in prosecuting the Commission of Array in obedience to his Majesty was warned by a Letter under his Majesties hand dated at York Iune 4. 1642. to desist from Assembling the people in those parts upon any pretence whatsoever upon his allegiance and answered with much modesty and humility that though he could not presently desist without falsifying the trust reposed in him by the Parliaments particular Directions according to an Ordinance voted by the Lord Keeper Littleton and the Lord Chief Justice Banks whose judgments swayed his younger one as he said to this action so unsuitable to his Majesties liking yet nothing should pass by his Commands but what should tend to his Majesties honour and safety Agreeably to which ingenious Declaration when he saw into the bottom of the factious designs he was so active for his Majesties honour and safety in the House of Lords and the City of London 1645 1646 1647. that with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Hunsden and Maynard all a while deluded by the Iuncto and because they presumed to be undeceived at last punished by them being impeached of high Treason for levying War against the King by endeavouring to make the City and Kingdom for him chose rather to hazzard himself 1648 1649 for a conquered and a captive Soveraign assisting and attending his Son in Holland and the Fleet as long as there was any likelihood of serving him than to have a share any longer in a conquering and prosperous Rebellion though it cost him several imprisonments and molestations besides 5000 l. composition Prosecuting his Loyalty by providing Arms for his Majesties Friends 1655 1657 1658 1659. at his own charge till the Restauration when having a large Estate and great experience in he was made Governour of the Caribee Islands 1660. where going during the late War upon a design of recovering St Christophers newly seized by the French he was cast away with most of his Fleet by an Hurricane 1666. being succeeded in his Government and Honor by his brother the Right Honorable G. Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666. A blessed Cause this to use the words of that ornament of his ancient and worshipful Family in Suffolk and Norfolk Mr. Hammond L'Estrange who enobled his sufferings as well as the cause he suffered for by his Writings especially his Alliance of Liturgies a Book full of that Various Reading not common in men of his quality and his History of King Charles I. a piece compiled with that ingenuity prudence and moderation as was not vulgar in the Writers of his Time that won its conquering Enemies all but one that sacrificed his Reason and Conscience to his ambition who yet in the midst of his greatness had not one minutes rest from those Fears his Conscience and common foresight that Right and Truth which are greater notwithstanding all his Arts and Methods of settling himself should prevail And there being nothing left now for the Kings Cause to conquer but those principles of Religion and those Ministers that supported the Faction those stood not out against its Evidence and Arguments for 1. Mr. Alexander Henderson a Moderator of that is in effect Archbishop in all the Assemblies in Scotland one in all the Treaties of England one of the ablest Presbyterians in both Kingdoms being overcome with his Majesties Arguments at Newcastle where he was Ordered to converse with and convert his Majestie when as all his Confinements his Pen gained those Victories which were denied his Sword went home heart-broken with Conscience of the injuries he had done to the King he found every way so excellent To whom I may joyn 2. Iohn Rutherford a Layman who was so far won by his Majesty then their Prisoner as to hazzard his life seven times for his rescue for which after a great reputation he gained in the King of France his service and great integrity and ability in serving his own Master he was 1660. made Governour of Dunkirk and 1662. Governour of Tangier and Earl of Tiveot both which Garrisons he fortified impregnably being a man of a great reach in Trade Encamping and Fortification and of an unwearied Industry and Diligence laying the design of the Mole in the last of those places which when finished will be a Piece of the greatest concernment in Christendom He was cut off 1664 5. in a Sally out as he was a very forward and daring man upon the perfidious Moors whom he had reduced to the most honourable peace that ever was enjoyed at Tangier to recover a Wood that was a great shelter to the Enemy and would have been of vast advantage unto us They that begin Wars know not how to end them without horrid scandals to Religion and an unparallel'd violence offered to all the Laws and Rights in the World On which consideration many returned to sober principles of Allegiance and indeed all rational men acquiesce in the present establishment according to their respective consciences actively or passively in gratitude to his Majesty and the Government for their former Indemnity that since his Majesty as a Father looked on all his Subjects as sons yet caressed his Prodigals those Subjects that came to themselves and acknowledged their errour with extraordinary kindness and tenderness out-doing all his promises and engagements Let the World see that his promises made and performed were not the effects of necessity but the fruits of a gracious and Princely mind like his Grandfather H. IV. of France not only pardoned the former Errours of those that were seduced against him and his Father but preferred and trusted them too They may make good his late Majesty of blessed memory his Royal word and engagement for them Medit. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will be more loyal and faithful to his Majesty than those Subjects who being sensible of their own errours and his injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Mr. Cauton and Mr. Nalton was banished and Mr. Christopher Love born in Wales and bred under Dr. Rogers in New-Inn◠Hall Oxon. Minister first of St. Ann Aldersgate and afterwards of St. Lawrence Jury was beheaded for owning the Kings Interest by those with whom he opposed it so far as
if there were no Babes in the Church which could not digâ—st meat nor pick bones a Doctor Young his old friâ—nd Prâ—â—ching his Consecration Sermon on this Text The waters 〈◊〉 risen O Lord the waters are risen which inundeâ—ions of popular fury when Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge he by his prudence set banks to a while and by the proâ—erity of his parts and 〈…〉 ough a Troubled with the Stone Hyropick inclinations and other distempers incident to 〈◊〉 bodies a Iuly 1 1574. b Newly come fâ—om Cambridge to be Lecturer of that place c Who was born at the same time with him a Founded by Master Blundel b Master Grandidge c Daughter to Master George Wâ—nniffe of Brettenham a Or Shernâ—â— heav ill 〈◊〉 Shâ—â—phili b As Fridays Washing in such a Ialâ—ll c Of the Carmelites b At Richmond c Delivered without book with the same exactness they were Penned d Ten pound more being allowed Doctor Hall for his pains e Then Dean of Windsor and so Patron of the Church f Which was Printed since in his remains p 306. g Of Predestination and Reprobation of the Latitude of Christs death of the power of mans free-will bâ—fore and after his conversion and of the Eâ—lects perseverance in grace See his Letter at large in the Author of the Church History protesting against the aspersion a See his Remains a By his own power and his interest abroad apparent in his Letters to â— isâ— in the behalf of worthy persons b See Parliament proccedings three 〈◊〉 years of K C. I. by Tâ—â— Fuller c Who repented solemnly for being made a Bishop d Especially iâ— the point of Anti-christ the Sabbataâ— riâ—nism the jus positionum mediatum Whether â—piscapocy an order or degree with other observations the result of great prudentâ— a Vpon the Earl of â—ssex his motion b By Wild and Cotbet a The excellent Doctor Brown of Norwich b Vidâ— Câ—lumb Noâ— c Which he called his other soul. Thucideâ— Eâ—napius Lipsius Halycarnasseus Caussinuâ— St. â—erom Heinsius a Especially in his admirable Royal Slave his Play and his Prophesiâ— made 1636. to entertain the King and Queen at Christ-Church in Oxâ—n when Doctor Dupps said Cartwright finds 〈◊〉 and we Money 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 See Dr. Baâ—hurst of Tim. Col. Oxâ—ns Verses 〈◊〉 him Dr. Mâ—in upon him Mr. S. verne upon him Dr. Towers upon him Sir Edward 〈◊〉 his Poems Sir John Pettus upon his Poetry Dr. Fâ—ll now Dean of Christ Church Oxonâ— upon him a 〈…〉 Cleavelands 〈◊〉 of the 〈…〉 English as 〈…〉 published by 〈…〉 bain b There was 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Oxford always â—â—â—ther as 〈◊〉 Sâ—gge 〈◊〉 Cartwâ—â—â—â— Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 head Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈…〉 a In whose behalf he 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉 which made him 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 b 1644. when the University of Oxford 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 of Bishop Usher to 〈…〉 a He bestowed his Books upon the Library of Christ-Church b And his friend Mr. Bogan Author of Homer Hebraison c Dum Insanos â—mitatur vallus vibius quod assimulabat cum vivum redegit Coel. Chod l. 11. c. 13 Cic. epist l. 2. c. 9. d Who hath written an exact account of the Creeds of the Catholick Church a Out of whose Papers it is thought many learned discourses hâ—ve been compiled excellent for Latine Greâ—ian and Eastern learning a Another Mr. Powel of Christ Church a 〈◊〉 Orator who presented his present Maâ—esty and thâ— Duke of York at the Coâ—vocation 1643. b Of Merton who when undergraduate was Master of all that learning that is crowded in Archaelogia Attica whereof he was Aâ—ther a And the very same day was seven time somineâ—s to the 〈◊〉 Caracâ—lia a The best Sheep in 〈◊〉 are in Warwickshire and the best there are in Worâ—l ighâ—on the Seat of this Lord. a At Bringâ—on in Northhamptonshire a When they were â—etled in Hurst â—errepoint in Sussex a For be it was that managed Henry the sevenths escape and marriage with Elizabeth daughter to Edward thâ— fourth b R. Motton of Dorsetshire descended from one of the Executors of the aforersaid Cardinal exquiring this Bishop out upon the Princing of his first Book and claiming kindred with him though he was so modest as not to look upon his Pedigree when once presented though fairly rewarding the man that brought it c Where Guy Faux 〈◊〉 his School-fellow d Into Dr. Keâ—sons Foundation a Generally his own Pupils as Mr. Jo. Pierce Prebendary of Leichfield and Mr. Level of Durham b Master Young a Priest and Mr. Stillington a Layman g Particularly Father Mulhufinus who gave him a book of his own with this Inscription Prodomino Mortono Nich. Serarius Rector of the Colledge at Menâ—z whâ— mentioneth him civilly in a book he writ against Joseph Scaliger Becanus the two last desiring his prayers at parting ex animo though their Church thought him an heretick though Becanus galled by Arguments slighted his Devotions h As he did with Dr. Reynolds of Christ-Church Colledge and Dr. Airey of Queens i Where he gâ—ew intimately acâ—uainted with Doctor Lake then Master of St. Crosses Dr. Hanmer Warden of Winchester and Sibrandus Lubbertus Professor at Franeker in West-Friezland who dedicated to him his 〈◊〉 against the 99. Eâ—rors of Vorstius k The Inscription written by Dr. Tho. Goad Rector of Hadley in Suffolk l Diodati was 〈◊〉 at Geneva and Du Moulin Preacher at Chareâ—town by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of those that bindred and those that to serve their Friends promoted him to use his own words from a Pleasant Dale to a Bleak hole m So really did â—e nolle Episcopariâ— That though elâ—â—ed 1615. he was not Consecrated till 1616. at Lambeth very solemnly by reason of the Marquess of Huntleyes Absolution performed there at the same time before three Archbishops twelve Bishops English and Scots thirty Noblemen eighty Gentlemen of great Quality Prince Radzivills Son and another Nobleman of Poland receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the same time n Vsâ—ng a fatherly mildness together with strength of argument as appears by the Conference he had with the Non-conformists since Published and called The Defence of three Innocent Ceremonies o As appears by the gracious testimony given him in his Majesties Declaratioon 1618. in these words There is now no little amendment in those Counties meaning Cheshire and Lancashire which is no small content to us The Declaration I mean is that about Sports on the Lords-day which he made some opposition to a while and when he was over-ruled he drew upon K. James his â—rdâ—r and with Bishop Andrews his advice the six limitation to the Liberty granted in that Declaration which was the best way to bring the people of that Countrey to Conformity p Particularly with Spalato his friend whom he diswaded by Writing and Conference from his return to Rome telling him the entertainment he found there Leich tibi in animo convertere Papam Spal an
a 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—clâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—â—â—y at Blandâ—ord a He declared at his death that C C. told him as he 〈◊〉 on the Road to Exeter that he was â—â—â—ry Sir Jo. Wagstaffe was not taken being he was a brave Gentleman and might if taken have hâ—d the benefit of the Aâ—â—â—cles yea and that several of C. C Troop were dismissed because they â—â—verâ—ed 〈◊〉 Articles which the Captain protâ—sted against though he had with many importunities and protestations put them upon them b When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Henry 7. time by the Western Rebels in Edw. 6. time and by the Parliament forces in King Charles 1. reign and now relieving these 80. distressed Gentlemen not only with necessaries but superâ—â—â—ities c Here note Sir Jervase Lucas the noble and active Governor of Belvoir who answered Poinz his Summoâ—s thus viz That he was not set by the King there to yield to Rebels and that he would not give an Inch of ground which he could maintain with his Sword a Sir Gilbert Gerard 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 near 〈…〉 b Dâ—â—â—ing his â—reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 think â—â—â—â—â—y of him a Cap. Simkins formerly Governour of Beaumoris shot to death for carrying a Letter from the King to Sir Thomas Middleton and being as true as his Steel not to be frighted or flattered to discover any b Laurence Hide Dâ—bâ—ney South 9â— l. composition 〈◊〉 Hide Kenning Berks Esq 538 l. c Much valued by Arâ—hbâ—shop Laud for his deâ—â— eâ—â—y activity and intâ—gâ—ity and Sequestred d Berbaâ—ously and foolish â—ascribing that request of his vanity and affectation of strange tongues e Several times calling him the most pious and just Prince in the World Hum Hide Kingston Berks Esq â—aid for his Loyalty 610l Lewis Levens of Heslington York paid for composition 316l and Lewtian Lewins of Ruthall York 130l f Here note 〈…〉 Line 〈◊〉 paid 〈◊〉 Loyâ—â—y and Jo. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 â—llcx Gent. 30â— g 〈…〉 with the Lord Beaumont Si. Thomas Beaumont 〈◊〉 Beaumont of York and 〈◊〉 Beaumont paid 5000l composiâ—ion h Having been of the Kings Army till Liverpool was 〈…〉 quiet â—â— the Country be â—â—d by Col. Forbes Col. Overten and Litutenant Col Fairâ—ax perswasion in the Parliament 〈…〉 that Crâ—â—â— did the King this service i Thoâ—pe and Paleston the Iudges being able to say nothing to him but silence him k H. Morris Weston Salop Mr. Morris of Penny bâ—nâ— Denbigh N Morris Emptail York Edw. Morris Devon paid 1200l l R. Blackborn Major paid 242l composition a Which he managed the better by living at Beconâ— field privately at an equal distance between Oxford and London b Who dyed in prison c Who paid â—â—r his life 2000 l. a Who 〈◊〉 great 〈…〉 b Prince Rupâ—â—â— with 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—e and 2000. Foot upon Dâ—râ—â—â— Downs expecting the 〈◊〉 the Ringing of 〈◊〉 having order not to offer violence to any only to 〈◊〉 them that had taken an Oath among themselves to maintain the Kings Crown and Dignity Note that the gates of the City were sâ—ut against the Kings Letters for these men so that they câ—me not till they were dead a Who was at a vast charge to entertain the Reformaâ—es from all parts a Note that it â—as the poâ—â—nt 〈◊〉 of the â—â—anish Ambassador that 〈◊〉 his life wherupon he said I was pulling off my Doubleâ— now I wiâ—â—â—ook â—n on my Brâ—eâ—â— b He 〈◊〉 800l composition Henry Goring Sullington Sussex 40l H. Goring Burton Sussex 250l Bishop John Owen of St. Asaph a He writ several Learned Discourse how the Loyal Clergy should behave themselvâ—s in the exigencies of thâ—se times he and Mr. Maurice of â— Lanbeder Denâ— Another undâ—unted sufferer maâ—â—yed two daughters of Doctor Williams Warden of Ruâ—then one of whom Mâ—s. Maurice suâ—feâ—d â—y the barbarousness of the Round-heads beyond expression as you may see in Mr. Weavers Poems b He having a considerable Command in all his Expeditions a â—hoâ—e Husband Jo. Lord Lovelace paid for his Loyalty as good as 6951 l. besides decâ—nations and constant troubles and his Brother Col. Francis Lovelace b Where the Scotch 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and â—sapnâ— they would no come to the â—â—â—l of Repenâ—auce c Taking 100 Pipes a day first used to it in Iâ—agâ—res Sir George Weâ—worth of Welly York paid for his Loyalty 3185 l and Sir George the Earl of Sâ—â—offords Brother his life at Marsâ—on-moor Tho Wentworth of Breton York 340 l. a See Mâ— Herles Ded. to him of his Medit. For murdering killing and destroying they are their own words R â—ertivala Linnen-Webster a His Son hath nobly contributed to Dr. Barrow the excellent Bishop of Man towards the settlement of that business Note that Ferdinando Stanley of Proughton Lanc. paid for his duty 150l Will. Stanley of Woodhall Lanc. 46l Jo Stanley of Dul-yarâ—â— Cumb. 40l a The first in Brigades reaching from Wales to Oxford clearing Monmouth and Glocester of the little Parliament Garrisons b The stream of the people being at my Lords devotion keeping out all forces whatsoever but his Majesties my Lord very watch fully and diligently looking to all those parts to recruit and secure them upon all occasions with â—â—râ—s and other necessaries as upon the betraying of Monmouth the danger of Chepstow and Lindsey Garrisons a Where being lodged in a gâ—â—en Tâ—â—â—râ—hed house he said â—e â—aid â—n a Bâ—gâ— uâ—der a Meadow b It is sâ—â—d of his A câ—â—â—or the Earl of Worcester that he kept himself up in the â—â—â—â—able times â— 8. E 6. Q. M. Q. E by being a Wâ—llâ—w and not an Oake c. a Translated by Mr. Rowland Vaughan of Caergâ—y Morion A great sufferer for his maiesly his house being burned 1645. by Col. Jo. Jones he did much good in these times by cransâ—â—ting Orthodox Books such as Bishop Usherâ—s Catechism Dr. Prideâ—ux his Legacies c An excellent Welch Poet and Antiquary a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 b His Loyalty cost 〈◊〉 400 l. 〈◊〉 a As did Major Cusaw a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 Malloâ— be was 〈◊〉 to the Tower c Owing he said his accomplishments to hardships d He had been long bred a Souldier in the Spanish Army a That is Commuâ—es his fault was 〈◊〉 excellâ—â—cy Viz. that he câ—uld with a grace relaâ—e Magnaâ—â—m â—â—um mâ—uâ—â— the little circumstances of great 〈◊〉 a Most of the Câ—â—â—s in â—â—gl are cist wâ—â—n a â—â—â—e of their house where â—â—y were â—â—â—n Sir T. Lunsford was Commissioner with Sir Jâ—cob Ashleâ— to get the â—â—â—h into a body aâ—â—er Naseby where he â—ed beeâ— sâ—abbed but for Sir Jo. â—â—â—â—us b Where he dyed 1644. and was buryed c Which Mr. siliot after 3. hours Conference with him imâ—private got from according to an Oath he had taken when admitted Lord-keeper to deliver up the Seâ—l when ever the King senâ— for it The saction had taken it from him before but that he had always in appearance Voted according to the sense of the best affected in the House a After thâ—y had in vâ—in samâ—â—neâ—
reply to Cartwrights Answers till his Antagonist laid down the Cudgels For these were inconsiderable troubles given him when we reflect on the great Oppositions and dangerous Motions in Parliament that forced him twice on his knees to the Queen intreating the continuance of her Grace and Favour towards him and the Church the first time and with grief of heart they are his own words craving her Majesties protection the second And add to them the several Contrasts he had with the Lords by whom in Councel upon their sending to him the Complaints of the Norfolk-Ministers against Bishop Preake of Norwich and of the Kentish-Ministers against himself he was forced to write that it was Irregular for Ministers to address themselves to the Council-Table in Affairs of the Church wherein he alone was Intrusted by God and her Majesty and to tell them that it was not for the Queen to sit in her Throne if such men might so boldly offer themselves to reason and dispute as in their Bill they vaunt against the state established in matter of Religion nor for himself to keep his place if every Curate within his Diocess or Province may be permitted so to use him it being impossible as he saith for him to perform the Duty which her Majesty looked for at his hands if he might not without Interruption proceed in that which her Highness had especially committed unto him And that the disorderly flocking and gadding from place to place was dangerous concluding that the sending for him to appear before the Council-Table as a Party and to call his doings in question which from her Majesty were immediately committed unto him and wherein he supposed he had no other Judge but her self and this upon the suggestion of unlearned despicable and troublesome men the meanest and fewest of the places where they lived was a thing unexpected from them from whom as their Pastor he expected all aid and assistance in his Office for the quietness of the Church and State the Credit of the established Religion and the maintenance of the Laws made for the same Neither was this all alas what a sad Complaint doth this Reverend Person make against one Beal Clerk of the Council who reviled and threatned him to his face if he proceeded to put the Ecclesiastical Laws in execution as he had done telling him boldly loudly and bitterly That he would overthrow the Church and that his hands should be shortly stopped His words are That were it not for his Conscience and well-grounded perswasion in the things he did the peace of the Church her Majesty and some Noble Lords constancy to him in the Service he should hardly be able to endure so great a Burden Nay writing to my Lord Hatton the good Arch-bishop saith That my Lord Hatton's kindness did not a little comfort him having received saith he not long since unkinde speeches where I least looked for them onely for doing my duty in the most necessary Business which I have in hand disobedient wilful persons I will term them no worse are animated Laws contemned her Majesties Will and Pleasure little regarded and the Executors thereof in word and deed abused Howbeit these Overthwarts grieve me yet I thank God so the good Prelate goeth on I am contented to sustain all these Displeasures and fully resolved not to depend upon Man but upon God and her Majesty If you saith he to my Lord Burleigh take the part of unlearned young ambitious Disturbers of Order against the established State of Religion and forsake me especially in so good a Cause I shall think my coming to this place to be for my punishment and my very hard hap that when I think to deserve best and in a manner to consume my self to satisfie that which God her Majesty the Church requireth of me I should be evil rewarded and having risen early and sate up late to give all men satisfaction have my Labour lost and called wilful Papist Knave and charged that I require men to subscribe onely to maintain my own Book and so sacrifice the publick to my own private Reputation These were the sufferings of Whitgift Dr. Fulke for writing against the Brownists professeth that he had not an hours rest for twelve years together And how bold Traverse was set up in the Temple against modest Hooker How the loud Lectures of the first of these were cried up against the solid Sermons of the other What siding and bandying there was in the House What confuting in the Afternoon of what was proved in the Morning What Addresses to the Lords of the Council And how meek Mr. Hooker weary of the Contrast was forced to retire is obvious to all that do but dip into the History of Queen Elizabeth's time not to mention either Dr. Baroe or Mr. Barrets Sufferings in Cambridge with Dr. Howson and Mr. Land 's at Oxford for Anti-Calvimsm which was onely another little occasion found to quarrel with Authority and to draw in more persons to their Party many learned men who favoured not the Faction in point of Calvinistical Discipline yet were very Indulgent and serviceable to them in respect to their Calvinistical Doctrine Well during Queen Elizabeth's Reign the Quarrel being confined within the Church and Schools few acted or suffered thereby besides Church-men and Scholars the Laity of the Nobility and Commons seldom engaging either way further than by private tampering encouraging interceding motioning c. and none of them suffering any further than that if they stood to the great and generous Principles of Government and Religion they were censured as Papists profane Enemies of the Power of Godliness c. or so But upon the Entrance of King Iames whom the Factious thought a Presbyterian from his Cradle as frighted to their way in his Mothers belly the Laity and Clergy began to side more openly Dr. Nevil Dean of Canterbury was not so soon with that King from Arch-bishop Whitgift and the rest of the Clergy as Mr. Lewis Pickering a Northamptonshire Gentleman waited upon him from the Presbyterians upon whose return judging by the Kings temper that they who had most Voices and Friends were likely to carry it at least for Liberty and Toleration a great Multitude was thought by them a strong Argument with that Prince they set up the mille-manus Petition called so for the thousand hands they pretended were to it Mr. Cartwright in the mean time Caressing his Majesty with all the Presbyterian Courtships in the world in an Epistle Dedicatory to his Latine Commentary on Ecclesiastes with the Importunity whereof together with the Mediation of some Lords especially the Scotch for now Presbytery had got a whole Nation I mean Scotland of their side there was a Conference held at Hampton-Court before the King and the Lords of the Council between eight Bishops eight Deans and two other Divines on the one side Dr. Reynolds Dr. Sparkes Mr. Knewstubs and Mr. Chadderton on the other The issue whereof notwithstanding
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his