the ruin both of Horse and Foot as be did take Marleburgh b Especially about the Câ—â—euant wherewith they were three or four times entangled a Note that one of his Sons is a sober meek godly and exemplary minister of the Churâ—h of England whiâ—h puts me in minde of Esquire Buchenhall who used to say what shâ—ll I say to Marâ—in Luther havâ—ng eleven Sons if I make not one of them a Mâ—â—ister a Silver at Combmartin and Tin â—or the meeting of which with Sea-Cralâ—o save Wood and kâ—ep the Teiâ— from westing in the blest Sir Bevile made several experiments By Mr. Will. caâ—twrâ—ght a Sir Richard Greenvile who went with 600 l. he had of the Parliament toward a design to Oxford Sir George Chudleigh and his Deelaration and why be deserted the Parliament with young Mr. Chudleigh whose return broke the Earl of Strafford a Wose Loyalty cost him at Goldsmiths-Hall 3634 l. as Sir Rob. Lucas of Lexton Essex did 0637. Tim. Lucas of â—enthon in Lincoln Esq 0750 I. Sir Charles Lucas 0508 I. Joâ— Lucas of Devon 0325 I. b 〈…〉 apâ—ean in the Hâ—ad of the Army c Where he was taken Prisoner a Sir Chaâ—les givâ—ng out of his tâ—nderness to his Country special order to drive nones Cattel but known enemies a Toward whom as his Town -toâ—n people Sir Charlesâ—as â—as very tender and mercyful b That brought the sad news c That he might not go out of the world with all his sins about him a Esteemed the best in Europe b Whereupon thâ—y reported in London that they saw a white Witch run up and down in his Majesties Army c What a Christian note did be leave in Mr. Dolmans house near Nâ—nâ—ery that the pâ—â—r 〈◊〉 helpâ—ess men should be cared fâ—r a In the exposition whereof said be Divines otheâ—wise disâ—greâ—ing among themselves â—greâ— as to our obedience to the Supream Magistraâ—e in obedience to whom I did what against the Law of England and the world I a man an Englisheman a Peer of the Realm must â—ye foâ— b Which puts me in minde of one Master Whaley of Northampton a great zâ—â—lot in the Cause who when some in Essex his Army began to â—â—agger would needs send them to Mr. Dod just as he was a dying to be resolved who telling them that he was not able to speak to them and bid them look to what he had written upon the Fifth Commandement where he had made it clear fâ—om the Word of God that it was damnable to raise Arne upâ—n any prewhatsoever against a Prince in which opinion he said he would dye c In answer to his Prayer of Faith in his Letter to his wife the day he died God be unto thee better than an Husband and to my Children better than a Father I am sure â—e is able to be so I am confident he is graciously pleased to be so a Hâ— used to sâ—y iâ— he had been asked how many days in 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c He would haâ—e 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 ioyned and cannot see one another e And by prevâ—â—ting inconvenienâ—â—s with often thinking of the persons way and actions we love f One of his sayings is that a gentle acceptance of coâ—râ—esies is as material to maintain friendly Neighborhood as bountiful presentâ— a Such as all the â—amâ—ly were observed to be Siâ— Arthuâ— Capel 〈◊〉 so plain â— man that a Lâ—dsman coâ—ing to his 〈…〉 been to hâ—ld hâ—â— hâ—â—se untill he had waâ—â—ed upon Sir Arthur Capelâ— as he dâ—d till the Servants came out and discovered to him his error a At Torington where he saved the lâ—ves of above a 〈◊〉 men by a gallant retâ—eat which â—st â—im sâ—â—câ—ainounâ—s a And his giving the King warning to look to the Magazines of each County he finding not 〈◊〉 barrels of Powder in his own so dangerously complying sâ—me were with that enemy at the Scots Invastâ— on a As he did at Roundway down b There is this rolâ— of this noble Name in Goldsmiths-hall 1. RichBiron Eqs Sâ—â—elli Nâ—rini Esq 128l Gilbere Biron Newsted Nâ—t Esq 186l Edward Biron Esq 1 164 l. besides that all these noble Brother Estate were wholly siquestred Tract 25. in Sl. Matth. a 1662. a Witnessh Moral Phâ—â—â— phy Lecturâ—â—â— his Oratioa upon Prince Henry's Funeral made in Magdalene-Colledge a 〈…〉 of St. Dantians in the West a Drawing an exact Chronology filled with most of the ancient and modern histories of the world with his own hand exactly as he did his Sermons most of which were written twice over b Magniâ—â—minis ombra a great Title to a little pâ—â—fit c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a As aboue Conscience Fasting Truth Peace c. See Dr. H. King now the excellent Bishop of Chichesters incomparable Sermon at St. Pauls Nov. 25. 1621. a Preferred thitherly Dr. Arlmer Arch deacon of London to whom he was nearly allied a When the people were never so impatient one Sermon of his would 〈◊〉 them b His Son-in-law was Tutor to my Lord. Mr Uâ—al of whom before had his Church the most thronged of any men in London Preaching thrice a week besidâ—s a Monthly Preparation Sermon visiting his people from house to house being assable and peaâ—eable until he published The Coal from the Altar against Sacriledge and communion comeliness for â—ailing the communion Table when he was spent with Labours was sint for to be imprisoned and his beel-rid Wise laid in the â—pâ—n sheets that had not been out of her â—â—din 4 years before a An Abstract whereof is Printed by Mr. Garthwait and the Manuscript is in Mr. Spence of Sion Colledge his keeping a Getting Subscriptions under Noble Persons hands for copies to be delivered and making Sir William Humble Treasurer b Towards the upper end of the Quire in the South Isle a Tho foun◠〈…〉 with a 〈◊〉 of 40 l. per annum b Preface to the Poly glotte Bible c Preface in S. Bib. Quad. Reg. Edit d Vid. Domint Edward Castle Oâ—ationem Inanguralem Edit 1667 ded Alderman Adams e 1644. Sir H. Spelman seâ—led upon him 32. l. per annum to explain the Saxon toâ—gue publick in the University f Adding the Life of the Author and Preface of his own a Growing popular and looked upon on the common counsel of the nation upon his pleading with Mr. Noy for a Habeas Corpus of such Gentlemen â—were imprisoned for the refusal of the Loan a Where 〈…〉 Jure Di viâ—o the of Prâ—â—â—by â—y with 14. qutâ—its 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 of That Assembl See the Charge given him by Grot. Anny V. T. and de jure belli pacis Pier-vitâ— Gâ—ssend Dielker Disp. Acad. Tom To p. 248. Dr. Duck de usu Authoritate Iur. Civil Rom. l. 2. c. 8. Capel Dial. de nom Jeh salm le usur alib Bocharâ— Geog. Sacr. a 〈…〉 credited by their their Bâ—ad Tule and Habit and skilled in nothing but Hreviaics Postils and the Polyanthen a He being made
the affections of the Irish Subjects from the subjection of England Sixthly That they had agreed together to draw away the Subjects of Scotland from the King Seventhly That to preserve himself and the said Earl he had laboured to subvert the Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament in Ireland An Impeachment they drew that they might confine him but prosecuted not lest they should shame themselves but permitting him to go whither he would they waited the event of things and when that fell out much beyond their expectation they adventured to condemn him unheard In all their Treaties with his Majesty inserting Sir George Ratcliffe that Mr. Hampden said was one of the most dangerous men that adhered to the King for one that they would have utterly excluded Pardon The main instance whereby they intended to render him odious was doubtless his severity to the Children and Relations of those that came under the lash as disaffected to the Government but since Proles est pars parentis and one part of the body suffereth for the offences of the other the hand steals the feet are stocked the tongue forswears the ears are cut off it is thought conâ—istent with Divine Justice and necessary for humane prudence to correct the Children with the Parents that those people that are so hardy as to adventure their own Concerns for the disturbance of the Publick may yet be fearful of troublesome practises with regard to the Interest of their Innocent Children those Pledges Common-wealths have that men will be quiet When he had privately detected the Conspiracious laid open the Plots and taken off many Instruments of the Faction he died Anno 165. ... Leaving these remarques behinde him 1. That with Tamerlain he never bestowed place on a man that was over-ambitious for it 2. That he feared more the committing than the discovery of an Irregularity That he gave away to Charitable Uses a tenth of what he got that he loved a Grave rather than a gawdy Religion often using Tully's saying of the Roman Lady in reference some practices of the Roman Church that she danced better than became a modest Woman Being dead in the lower part of his body of a Palsie as we are informed his Soul retired to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Upper-room of his Clay Cottage as much employed in Contemplation the latter end of his Life as he had been in action in the beginning Ne Ingentes Augustissimi viri ruinae etiam Perirent Memoriae G. Ratcliffe Equitis Aurati D. D. C. Q. L. M. E. M. Monumentum saltem chartaceum ne desideret vir ultra Marmora perrenandus THE Life and Death OF DOCTOR POTTER Lord Bishop of Carlisle IN a time when this Kingdom flourished with Magnificent Edifices the Trade of the Nation had brought the Wealth of the Indies to our doors Learning and all good Sciences were so cherished that they grew to Admiration and many Arts of the Ancients buried and forgotten by time were revived again no Subjects happier though none less sensible of their Happiness Security increasing the Husband mans stock and Justice preserved his Life the poor might Reverence but needed not fear the Great and the Great though he might despise yet could not injure his more obscure Neighbor and all things were so administred that they seemed to conspire to the Publick good except that they made our Happiness too much the cause of our Civil Commotions and brought our Felicity to that height that by the necessity of humane Affairs that hath placed all things in motion it must necessarily decline At this happy time thus happily expressed by Dr. Perrinchiefe and Dr. Bates it was that I will not say the City of London for the better part of it abhorred it but to phrase the Men the Lord Digby's way I know not what 15000 Londoners all that could be got to subscribe complained in a Petition that Trade was obstructed Grievances increased Patents and Monopolies multiplied meerly because of the Bishops who were looked upon as the Great Grievance of the Kingdom in somuch that this Doctor who was born in a Puritane place at Westmester within the Barony of Kendal in Westmerland in Puritane times when that party guided Affairs 1578. Bred under a Puritane School-Master one Mr. Maxwell at School in the place where he was born and under a Puritane Tutor in Queens Colledge in Oxford and looked upon as so great a Puritane in King Iames his time that they would say in jest that the noise of an Organ would blow him out the Church and therefore he was called tho Puritanical Bishop though his love to Musick no doubt was as great as his Skill and his Skill so good that he could bear a part in it yet because he was a Bishop he was slighted when he came to London as Iuke warm and forsaken as Popish that had been so followed formerly as the most godly and powerful Preacher He had been a great Tutor at Queens where he had learned to train others by the Discipline he had undergone himself insomuch that when Bishop 33 Eminent Divines Lawyers Physicians and Statesmen formerly his Pupils waited on him together for his blessing He managed prudently as he was chosen into it unexpectedly and unanimously when an hundred miles off the Government and Provostship of that Colledge Vbi se ferebat Patrem-familia providum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec Collegio gravis fuit aut onerosus He resigned it self-denyingly judging that his Northern charge had more need of him as an able and skilful Minister than Queens Colledge as a Provost The meek and humble man looked not for Preferment yea avoided it with an hearty nolo Episcopari And his gracious Master King Charles unexpectedly when he was buried in his Living and resolvedly when there was a considerable Competition and not an inconsiderable opposition saying He would consider his old Servant and the good man whom he liked the better for being a man of few words but a sweet Preacher called at Court The Ponetential Preacher for being peaceable in his practice though singular in his Opinion and being not humorsome though precise having the severe strictness though not the sower leaven of the Pharisees His gracious Master not so much honoring him as he did the Function and that age in the freedom of his Noble and unsought for choice The man being so exemplary in his carriage that several Recusants that could not go with him to Church yet conversed much with him Because said they they would go with him to Heaven So good a Master of his Family that his House was a Church where Family-duties constant Prayers Catechizing reading Scriptures Expounding godly Conference speaking to one another in Psalms and Spiritual Hymns were performed so regularly and so constantly that hundreds left their distant Habitations to be near him though all accommodations about him were so much the dearer as his Neighborhood was the more precious It was as great a happiness
of the Poet and Orator as Charles the 5 th assisted at his Funeral His travels were so many Victories over the times and the Vices of those places he lived in no insight into the Arts and Intrigues of ill being able to biass his soul from its noblest design of vertue whereof he learned from bad Customs the excellent practice and of truth which he taught all the Languages he was Master of as an exquisite Latinist as Englishman a facete Italian an exact Spaniard a fluent French man and a skilful Portugez to speak a strange Current this that passing through several soils yet received no taints from the several passages nor ever travelled from his own nature Having had the honor to serve his Majesty in his younger years with such fidelity and dutiful affection to his Person which found his gracious acceptance together with some incouragement from his own mouth to hope a new and a more fixed relation to him in the future and having in times unhappy indeed to the State but glorious to many good men to whose abilities and integrity calms had been no tryals run all the hazzards of his suffering Master and his afflicted Cause in the quality of his Secretary in Holland France Scotland and what was more at Worcester where he was wounded and taken Prisoner such services without worldly hope to allure could have only pure Conscience for their principle and it was the bare Right of his Master joyned with a love to the owner and a belief of Providence made him digest all the misfortunes of an unhappy allegiance having I say thus deserved of his Majesty in his afflictions he knowing his abilities were as great as his merits advanced him at his Restauration to be one of the Masters of Request The great Ambassador of honor to Wooe his Queen for Marriage in the Court of Portugall 1661. 1662. 1663. where he behaved himself with a great Address and of business to work his Allies to a firmer Peace by Treaty of Commerce in the Court of Spain 1664. 1665. where he managed things with great Integrity being so far above private advantages that he nobly threw away that Wealth which others grasp at to preserve Kingdoms tying himself with the same truth to the business of his Prince that he had done to his Fortune at Madrid He died Iuly 1666. leaving behind him the Character 1. Of as able a man as one grown studiously gray in Travel Universities and Courts which infused into him whatsoever of excellent such eminent Schools by long observation could teach so apt a Scholar 2. Of a plain-heartedness dwelling in a breast and temper large and open made indeed to hide his Masters secrets but not dissemble his own inclinations 3. Of a great industry and patience whereof the whole course of his life is an Argument particularly his two Journeys from Madrid to Lisbon and back again to accommodate some jealousies over so long a Tract of ground in so short a time 4. Of great exactness in all his Addresses Observations and Correspondencies 5. Of a sweet nature a familiar and obliging humility and a knowing and serious Religion Sir William Boswell I know not whether a more exact Scholar Fellow of Iesus Colledge Camb. and Proctor of the University 1624. or an accomplished Statesman Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton Leiger Ambassador in Holland and afterwards Leiger Ambassador there himself The World is beholding to him for giving famous Mr. I. Mede Money at Sturbridge Fair to buy some Books which he saw him look melancholly upon and of which upon discourse with him he said if he could not have bought them he was resolved to withdraw to a Countrey retirement then offered where he had been buryed alive and the rich Notions and Observations in the Critical Learning and Chronology of the Scripture wherein he was the happiest man living buried with him He managed a Negotiation between Scholars as appears by his Letters to Mr. Mede and others to improve Learning as well as be-between States to improve Trade he understood Trade well and Books better by this being able to better mens nature and the other only their Interest having as strict an eye upon Frankford Mart as Amsterdams Religion had as much of his care as either Learning or Traffick as appears in the Discoveries he made by Andreas ab Habernfield of the plots against it and the pains he took in the business of the Marriage of the Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary with other Treaties for the promotion of it To his Negotiation we owe all the Arms Ammunition and Officers we had from Holland and all the Civilities we found there where I am told he died 1646 7. in the 54 th year of his age Rather than omit I will here misplace Dr. Mark Frank who will be known to Posterity by this Monument near the entrance of the North-door of St. Pauls Hoc marmore tumulatur Doctrina Pietas Charitas Quippe Monumentum Illius Marci Franke S. Th. D. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi a sacris Sancti Albani Archidiaconi hujus Ecclesiae The saurarii Prebendarii Aulae Pembrochiae Cantabrigiensis Praefecti Cujus Virtutem Humilitatem eloquentiam In singulis sagacitatâ—â— Dictis metiri non Liceâ—t dicat Posteriâ—as Obiit Aetatis anno Ll. Salutis MDCLXIV Which Character becomes well Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean Bois his Brother-in-law and himself Dean of Canterbury a Gentleman of an unwearied study great travels intimate acquaintance with Padre Paulo of Venice who told him that the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England were the most â—rimitive of any in the world and of great esteem with the Parliament 1622. 1623. 1624. 1626. 1627. 1628. who took the Sacrament constantly at his hands at St. Margarets Westminster where he was many 〈◊〉 the faithful Minister and advice from his mouth often at â—â—â—â—cation whereof he was several times an eminent and activeâ—â—â—ber that had suffered for his Zeal in a Sermon before the Parliament 1623. upon that Text I will wash 〈…〉 and compass thine Altar against Popery evil Counsellors and Corruption and now suffered for being a Patron of both his House being ransacked his Family frighted and abused the will of Dr. Boyes and some Gold they found in his Wives now 80â— years of age Chamber threatned to be embezzeled his Wife led up and down the House in her Morning Gown at midnightâ— his son carried Prisoner to Dover Castle and as Witches draw the Picture of the man they would enchant so they drew a scandalous Character of this Gentleman which indeed was so unlike his modesty and civility that he need not fear the charms and at last the Dean himself seized at Gravesend and sent Prisoner to the Fleet with sorrow for which usages from one the Commander in this business whom he had saved from the Gaâ—lows at Maidstone some years before he died heart broken and it is well if his Enemies did so with repentance To him I may adde 2.
conferences with God by prayer and meditations were never omitted upon any occasion whatsoever When he went the yearly Progress to view the Colledge Lands and came into the Tenants houses it was his constant custome before any other business discourse or care of himself were he never so wet or weary to call for a retire Room to pour out his soul unto God who led him safely in his journey And this he did not out of any specious pretence of holiness to devour a Widows House with more facility Rack their Rents or Change their Fines for excepting the constant Revenue to the Founder to whom he was a strict accountant no man ever did more for them or less for himself For thirty years together he used this following Anthem and Confession of the holy and undivided Trinity Salva nos libera nos vivifica nos Obeat a Trinit as Save us deliver us quicken us Oblessed Trinity Let us praise God the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit let us praise and super-exalt his name for ever Almighty and everlasting God which hast given us thy Servants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the Holy Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Vnity We beseech thee that through the stedfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity which livest and raignest c. This he did perform not only as a sacred Injunction of the Founder upon him and all the Society but he received a great delight in the performance of it No man ever wrote more highly of the Attributes of God than he and yet he professes that he always took more comfort in admiring than in disputing and in praying to and acknowledging the Majesty and Glory of the blessed â—rinity than by too curiously prying into the Mystery He composed a book of Private Devotions which some judicious men having perused the same much extolled and admired as being replenished with holy truths and divine meditations which if it be not already annexed to this book I hope the Reader will shortly enjoy in a portable Volumn by it self Thus have many Scholars and Polemical men in their elder times betaken themselves to Catechizing and Devotion as Pareus Bishop Andrews Bishop Vsher and Bellarmin himself seems to prefer this Book De ascensione mentis ad Deum Of the ascension of the soul to God before any other parts of his works Books saith he are not to be estimated Ex multitudine folliorum sed ex fructibus By the multitudes of the leaves but the fruit My other books I read only upon necessity but this I have willingly read over three or four times and resolve to read it more often whether it be saith he that the love towards it be greater than the merit because like another Benjamin it was the Son of mine old age He seemed to be very Prophetical of the ensuing times of Trouble as may evidently appear by his Sermons before the King and Appendix about the signs of the times or divine fore-warnings therewith Printed some years before touching the great tempest of wind which fell upon the Eve of the fifth of November 1636. He was much astonished at it and what apprehension he had of it appears by his words This mighty wind was more then a sign of the time the very time it self was a sign and portends thus much that though we of this kingdom were in firm league with all Nations yet it is still in God's power we may fear in his purpose to plague this kingdom by this or like tempests more grievcously then he hath done at any time by Famine Sword or Pestilence to bury many living souls as well of superiour as inferior rank in the ruine of their stately Houses or meaner Cottages c. Which was observed by many but signally by the Preface to Master Herberts Remains I shall not prevent the Reader or detain him so long from the original of that book as to repeat Elogies which are there conferred upon him I cannot forbear one passage in that Preface wherein he made this profession I speak it in the presence of God I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our Writers in this rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation he hath given me in the Christian religion against the Atheist Iew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome As he was always a reconciler of differences in the private government so he seriously lamented the publick breaches of the kingdom for the divisions of Reuben he had great thoughts of heart At the first entrance of the Scots into England he had much compassion for his Country-men although that were but the beginning of their sorrows He well knew that war was commonly attended with ruin and calamity especially to Church and Churches and therefore that prayer was necessary and becoming of them Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris c Give peace in our time O Lord because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God One drop of Christian blood though never so cheaply spilt by others like water upon the ground was a deep corrosive to his tender heart Like Rachel weeping for her children he could not be comforted his body grew weak the chearful hue of his countenance was empaled and discoloured and he walked like a dying mourner in the streets But God took him from the evil to come it was a sufficient degree of punishment to him to see it it had been more than a thousand deaths unto him to have beheld it with his eyes When his death was now approaching being in the Chamber with many others I over-heard him with a soft voice repeating to himself these and the like ejaculations I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope my soul waiâ—eth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning As for me I will behold thy face in right cousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness And he ended with this Cygnean caution Psal. 116. 5 6 7. Cracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee And having thus spoken soon after he surrendred up his spirit to him that gave it If you shall enquire what this charitable man left in Legacy at his Death I must needs answer That giving all in his life time as he owed nothing but love so he left nothing when he dyed The poor was his heir and he was the administrator of his own goods or to use his own expression in one of his last Dedications he had little else to leave his Executors but his Papeâ— only which the Bishop of Armagh being at his Funeral
no Modern Authors and none of note escaped him but with design to enlarge clear up or correct their Annotations twice Printed in English and now Translated to Latine to be a noble part of that grand Collection called Critica Sacra the depth of his Rabbinical and Talmudical reading the breadth of his Eastern and Western Antiquities his perusal of all Councils his command of all Scholiasts his comprehension of all Architecture Magick Chimistry Modes Coins Measures Weights Customes Proverbs c. and whatever else can properly come under a great Schollar's cognizance that aimed not at the empty and floating notions of Surface-learning but at Omne Scibile A compleat Scheme Frame and Idea within himself proportionable in all things to the order and method of being without him drawing his Intellectual Circle of Arts and Sciences in no narrower compass than that real one of things in the Universe Insomuch that I cannot believe as one suggesteth he lived to the twenty fourth year of his age before he could buy Books and but to the thirty ninth of it to read them unless I admit what is more strange but affirmed by another That his Candle was not out one night for eleven of those years This industry this Proficiency escaped not the observation of the Reverend Doctor Duppa then Dean of Christ-Church since successively Lord Bishop of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester as great a Patron of ingenuity in others as Master of it in himself who admitted him first to his favour next to his service wherein he was first Chaplain of Christ-Church and next to that Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum no Preferment compatible with his Age being above his Deserts For which Preferment in gratitude to his Master and the Church he dedicated Ridleyes View of the Civil Law to him and his life in clearing up the Scripture difficulties in that method he had begun to it For when his Lord called upon him to Preach and exercise his Ministerial Function He said The Harvest is confessedly great but then the Labourers are not few and if while so many are thus excellently imployed about the rest of the Building some one or other do as well as he can towards the making good of the Ground-work I think he may be let alone at least The hopes of the Superstruction dependeth upon the assurance of the Foundation I shall give them leave to be Pillars this I am sure is the Corner-stone and I need not not tell you how rejected I mean not of all but of the Common Builders And in this course of Study he intended to spend the rest of his life Neither did the vigilant Doctor Duppa alone take notice of this deserving Person For 1. The blessed Arch-bishop Laud now intent upon the Recovery of Primitive Christianity the Restauration of Ancient Learning and the Settlement of a Flourishing Church employed and encouraged this great Master of the two first and as great ornament of the third 2. The publick spirited Bishop Linsey designing his excellent Edition of Theodoret repaired to this great Transcript of that and all other Fathers 3. Great Selden 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confessed this Gentleman a confutation of his opprobrious Preface against the Clergy in his Book of Tythes sending no less than eighty seven doubts in several sorts of learning to be resolved by him 4. The learned Bishop Mountague meditating a Church History equal to if not above that of Baronius consulted this great Antiquary the familiarity between them when Master Gregory was but thirty years old you have in his own words about the occasion of his Tract called Episcopus puerorum in die Innocentium Having Consulted with the most likely men I knew where about I then was to what Moment of Antiquity this speaking of the Monument afore mentioned in the Margin at Salisbury could refer The Answer was They could not tell so the late learned Bishop Mountague who also earnestly appointed me to make further enquiry after the thing not doubting but that there would be something in the matter at least of curious if not substantial observation 5. There was a Club of great wits at Oxford that met twice a week to consult this Oracle than whom none communicated his Notions more readily none expressed himself more satisfactorily wherefore the most learned Jews and Christians Protestants and Papists kept correspondence with him and an Armenian Priest lodged with him some time at the Colledge by the same Token that he saith himself He had occasion to shew this Priest the Chappel and perceiving him to cast his Eye upon the Organ he asked whether there were any such sight to be seen in their Churches he answered No such matter neither did he know till it was told him what to call them yet this man had lived fourteen years under two Patriarchs Constantinople and Alexandria And in the Greek Liturgy we read of Musick enough And to close this Album Amicorum he travelled through twelve Languages without any guide except Mr. Dod the Decalogist whose Society and Directions for the Hebrew Tongue he enjoyed one Vacation near Banbury for which Courtesie he gratefull◠remembred him as a man of great Piety Learning Gravity and Modesty of which Graces also this Personage was as great a possessor as admirer But this heighth of worth and honour must by the method of sublunary things be attended with its fall This great height of our Church is now in its meridian and it must Set. One dismal cloud overwhelming Religion Learning and his great Spirit the Repository of both for immoderate study an hereditary Gout of twenty years continuance which his poor Parents were rich enough to bequeath him and heart-sorrow brings him to his Grave Marck 13. 1646. with Ichabod in his mouth Ah the glory is departed yet not as one without hope for he concludes a Dedication to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury and his life with these words The great Genius of this place must now burn a while like those subterraneous Olibian Lamps under the Earth we shall behold it but not now we shall behold it but not nigh Which those about him heard not uttered then with more grief than we after him see now fulfilled with joy By this time your expectation is raised concerning the great particulars that made up this Eminent Person In a word a Memory Strong and Active containing not a confused Heap but a rational Coherence of Notions an Imagination Quick and Regular a Judgment Deep and Searching an Apprehension Ready and Natural such a readiness to take flame and blaze from the least occasion presented or the least Sparks of anothers knowledge delivered as is very discernable to those that intently observe the little occasions he takes from one observation to make another a Patience Invincible that never rested in its unconfined enquiries of any difficulty but at the bottome of it a Good Nature Composed and Settled a Communicativeness that
forbear to mingle their tears with his bloud All the learning then in the world expressed its own griefs and instructed those of others in most excellent Poems and impartial Histories that vindicated his honor and devulged the base arts of his enemies when their power was so dreadful that they threatned the ruin of all ingenuity as they had murthered the Patron of it While the few Assassinates that crept up and down afraid of every man they met pointed at as Monsters in nature finished not their reason when they had ended his Martyrdom One O. C. to feed his eyes with cruelty and satisfie his solicitous ambition curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in a Coffin to White-hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the Body or no. Others of them delivered his body to be Embalmed with a wicked but vain design to corrupt his Name among infamous Empericks and Chirurgions of their own who were as ready to Butcher and Assassinate his Name as their Masters were to offer violence to his Person with intimations to enquire which were as much as commands to report whether they could not find in it symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of frigidity and natural impotency but unsuccessfully for an honest and able Physician intruding among them at the Dissection by his presence and authority awed the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their opprobrious Masters declaring the Royal body tempered almost ad pondus capable of a longer life than is commonly granted to other men But since their search into his Body for calumnies were vain they run up to Gods Decrees and there found that he was rejected of God and because his Raign was unhappy they concluded that his person was reprobated And when they had indeavoured to race him out of Gods Book of Life and consequently out of the hearts of his People the vain men pull down his Statue both at the West End of Saint Pauls and at the Exchange in the last of which places they plaistered an Inscription which men looked on then as false and Providence hath rendred since ridiculous Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Fond Rebels that thought to use the weighty words of the reverend Dr. Pirrinchief to destroy the memory of that Prince whose true and lasting glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for successors to shew the power of their malice but in a Solid Vertue which flourisheth by age and whose fame gathereth strength by multitude of years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a violent envy and the ruins of time But he had a Monument beyond Marble his Papers with the Bishop of London and others and his Incomparable Book of Meditations and Sollioquies Those Repositories of piety and wisdom which first they suppressed envying the benefit of mankind and when the more they hindered the publication of the Royal Peices the more they were sought after They would have robbed his Majesty of the honor of being the Author of them knowing they should be odious to all posterity for murthering the Prince that composed a Book of so Incredible Prudence Ardent Piety and Majestick and Truly Royal Stile Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elogancies of Davids Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same spirit The ridiculous President in his Examination of Mr. Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a Man for such would that Monster have this excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book But these attempts were as contemptible as themselves were odious the faith of the world in this point being secured 1. By the unimitably exact Stile not to be expressed any more than Ioves thunder but by the Royal Author 2. By those Letters of his which they published of the same periods with these Meditations they suppressed 3. By Colonel Hammonds testimony who heard the King Read them and saw him Correct them 4. By the Arch-bishop of Armaghs evidence who had received commands from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction who had taken them in his Cabinet at Naseby Besides Mr. Roystons command sent him from the King to provide a Press for some Papers he should send to him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King re-called that and sent that other which is now before the Book This was the vile employment of villains while all that was virtuous in the Nation honored the memory of that good Prince who like the being he represented the more he was understood the more he was admired and loved leaving great examples behind him that will be wondered at eastier than imitated Particularly the Duke of Richmond the Marquiss of Hertford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey and the Lord Bishop of London obtained an order to Bury his Corps which four of his Servants Herbert Mildmay Preston and Ioyner with others in a Mourning Equipage had carried to Windsor provided that the expenses exceeded not 500 l. which they did in St. George his Chappel in a Vault discovered them by an honest old Knight they disdaining the ordinary grave the Governor had provided in the body of the Church with Henry the Eighth and Iane Scymour his Wife whose Coffins those were supposed to be that were found there the Officers of the Garrison carrying the Herse and the four Lords bearing up the Corners of the Velvet-pall and my Lord of London following Feb. 9. about three in the afternoon silently and sorrowfully and without any other solemnity than sighs and tears the Governor refusing the use of the Common Prayer though included in their order Because he thought the Parliament as he called them would not allow the use of that by Order which they had abolished by Ordinance Whereunto the Lords answered but with no success That there was a difference between destroying their own Act and dispensing with it and that no power so binds its own hands as to disable its self in some cases Committing the great King to the earth with the Velvet Pall over the Coffin to which was fastned an Inscription in Lead of these words KING CHARLES 1648. Besides which he hath in the hearts of men such Inscriptions as these are 1. The excellent Romans Character given him by Dr. Perrinchief Homo virtuti simillimus per omnia Ingenio diis quam hominibus proprior qui nunquam recte fecit ut recte facere videretur sed quia aliter facere non poterat cuique id solum visum est habere rationem quod haberet Iustitiam omnibus humanis vitiis Immunis semper in potestate sua
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
Essex being told when he would have advanced with his sickly Army to recover him that he was past it he himself running for security first to Bristol and thence riding with a few Gentlemen for recruit to London leaving the few Garrisons that party had in those parts to Sir Ralphs mercy who took five of them by Assaults and seven upon Surrendry with three thousand Prisoners five thousand Armes six Ships with sixty four Peices of Ordnance in a fortnights time He was excellent at contriving at the Scaling of Walls as his Souldiers were in executing and yet more excellent in taking hearts being so civil even to the most obstinate that they chose rather to be conquered by him than protected by others ever detesting their bloudiness that came valiant to strong Holds and departing cruel thence knowing no difference either of Age or Sex in their anger though they did in their Lust only it is not be forgotten here how this expert Commander loosing the advantage of Lands-down for want of Ammunition taught his Souldiers to beat and boil Bed-cords to make Match of them From the Devizes Sir Ralph marched into Hampshire and Sussex facing Petworth entring Midhurst and at last sitting down before Arundel Castle in the extreamest part of Suffex which he carryed beating Col. Norton into Chichester and wheeling off in spight of the Enemy that provoked him to fight with disadvantage among lined Hedges and Thickets where he saw many brave men lost to no purpose at Cheriton-down in appearance to Winchester but really to Basing and so to Oxford whence Anno 1645. we finde him after the considerable Recruits he had left the King advancing Westwards and besieging Taunton where when we have observed that his Magazine being blown up he was grievously hurt in the face carrying an honorable scar to his grave our Pen shall leave him giving way to his own Secretary who hath communicated to the world this following account of him 1645. His Majesty the present comfort of the Kingdom being worsted and the Prince the future hope of it appeared taking progress into the West to understand the Countrey before he should govern it and to let the Country understand him the pawn of their future felicity whom it should obey the Lord Hoptons presence raised as many brave men in Cornwall to wait on the Son their Duke as his wise civil and obliging conduct had done on the Father their King under whom designing to relieve Exeter in a body of 10000 Horse and Foot when they were met by my Lord Fairfax at Torrington with 20000. where my Lord despairing of breaking through them drew out four or five Closes off the Enemy lining the hedges and flanking his Foot with Horse who disputed every hedge first with the Dragoons and then with the Reserves and at last with the whole body of the other Army pouring upon them Regiment upon Regiment and when they had lost the hedges maintained the Barricadoes at the end of the Town with push of Pike and the Butt end of their Muskets for three hours and when over-powred there my Lord brought up the Rear and made good the retreat though his Horse was shot under him so that the Foot had time to pass over the adjoyning River and the Horse to guard them my Lord making use of every Avenue in the Town or near to stop the Enemies Career whom if his advice had been followed he had surrounded and overcome with their own Victory And withdrawing to Cornwall he Rendezvouzed again and made 5000. able Horse a body under the Command of so wise as well as Valiant a Commander as the Lord Hopton appeared to be in the late Service might if there had been any hope of the Kings Affairs and since there was not commanded their own terms when the Prince withdrew from them to Scilly at Truero among others this Article offered my Lord himself is remarkable considering it proceeds from an Enemy Lastly for your self besides what is implyed to you in common with others you may be assured of such mediation to the Parliament on your behalf both from my self and others as for one whom for personal worth and many virtues but especially for your care of and moderation towards the Country we honor and esteem above any other of your party whose error supposing you more swayed with Principles of Honor and Conscience we most pity and whose happiness so far as is consistent with the publick welfare we should delight in more than in your least suffering My Lord after much dispute in hope either of assistance from abroad or of an accommodation between the King and Parliament as it was called at home upon the advance of near upon 40000. men towards him disbanded being allowed forty Horse and Arms and twelve men for himself for a while and not long after pardoned for Life but condemned in his Estate A favor like that I read of the Duke De Alva vouchsafed the City of Harlem when he promised them their lives and yet sterved many of them to death saying That though he had promised to give them their lives he had not promised to give them meat Gentle was this Excellent Persons Extraction in the West of England and man-like his Education in the Low-Countries that School of War where Sir William Waller and he learned as is said of Iugurtha and Manus in one Camp what they practised in two The one being no less eminent for his Service under his late Majesty of blessed memory than the other was for his against him The one was the best Souldier the King had the other the most experienced that the pretended Parliament boasted of None fitter to ballance Sir Ralph Hoptons success none likelier to understand his stratagems none abler to undermine his designs than his Fellow-souldier Sir William who understood his method as well as he was acquainted with his Person Both were equally active both equally vigilant But what better Character of this Hero than that which his Master gave him in his Patten for Baron which is his History as well as his honor CArolus Dei gratia Angliae c. Cum nominis nostri posteritatis interest ad clara exempla propaganda utilissime Compertum palam fieri omnibus proemia apud nos virtuti sita nec perire fidelium subditorum officia sed memori benevolo pectore fixissime insidere His praesertim temporibus cum plurimum quibus antehac nimium indulsimus temerata aut superta fides pretium aliorum Constantiae addidit Cumque nobis certo constat Radulphum Hopton Militem de Balneo splendidis antiquis Natalibus tum in caetura sua vita integritatis moris eximium tum in hac novissima tempestate fatalique Regni Rebelli motu rari animi fideique exemplum edidisse Regiae dignitatis in eaque publicae Contra utriusque adversarios assertorem vindicem acerrimum Quippe qui non solum nascenti huic furori
Margaret Professor but the bare Title without the Profits and Emoluments of the Place to which the unanimous consent of the University Voted him in the face of his enemies in his absence and in his affliction Neither lasted these Injoyments long for not being able to forbear the Men so sacred to him was his Majesties Cause and Person when they had the Impudence to Vote no more Addresses to the King for a smart Sermon against them he is put as well as his Master into safe Custody by the Juncto who Declared That either he must be forbid the Pulpit or they must forbear their Seats he being able they said to overthrow in an hour what they had been carrying on several years But he continued performing Divine Service and Preaching as long as he had liberty thought-full of mens souls and his charge of them regardless of his own person and the calamities of that He was more afraid of St. Pauls Wo is me if I Preach not the Gospel than of St. Pauls Chain or of St. Peters Bonds The Life he lost he found and the more he despised Liberty the more he injoyed it Abroad he comes the King writes for him and his other Chaplains to come to him to Holdenby and is refused but at Hampton-Court the reasonable request was granted there he that would not accept of the Bishoprick of Bristol because he might with the more advantage being no Bishop desend Episcopacy accepted of the Deanery of Worcester a bare Title without profit to shew he waved not that Bishoprick for its little Revenue saying as some said of him that he would not take a Bristol-stone when he took a dignity with none At Hampton-Court he made bold to ask his Majesty Whether he thought himself safe with those men meaning Cromwell c. and was answered by his Majesty Yeas if they have any souls The Monsters of Men having with Hands on their Breasts and Eyes lift up to Heaven pawned their Souls and their Posterity upon his Restauration As he had attended his Majesty at Hampton-Court to comfort him so with several other Divines he waited on him at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight to assist and serve him in offering expedients for moderation till all moderate men were hurried to Prisons and the most innocent Majesty to the Block whose Murther affected him so much that he was never well after either in body or mind O what Fasts what Watchings what Tears that unheard of Villany cost the good man till a Black Jaundice prevailed over his whole body and thence an humor that could neither be dispelled nor mitigated settled into a Swelling about his Throat which with a slow Ague arising from the Inflammation of the foresaid Tumor let out his sick soul that could say The hand of God was light upon him and that he had never tasted a sweeter Cup. Ianuary 1648 9. He saw his Royal Master dying a Martyr and August 1649. saw him dying a Confessor weeping for Charles the First and expecting Charles the Second lamenting the present and hoping for the ancient state of things in Church and State Insomuch that when some comforted him That he should be taken away from the evil to come No no answered he somewhat more vehemently than ordinary I fore-see I fore-see from the good things to come He departed praying for those things we now injoy wishing well to all men and desired of most Being a man of a neat personage convenient stature a comely aspect grave manners a fluent wit a short anger an even and constant zeal an unblameable life a noble and a charitable heart exact performances that trembled at the Supra-lapsarians Opinions defined Presbytery a vast Schism in the Church bequeathed his Estate to pious uses and his Books to the Colledge by the hands of his three honorable Executors Sir Rober Abdy Sir Thomas Rich and Bishop Brownrig who ordered his Funeral with great solemnity Dr. Iefferies of Pembroke Preaching at it on Psal. 102. 11. and erected him this Monument with great respect P. M. S. Richardus Holdsworth S. Th. Doctor verbi divini praeco omnium attestatione eximius S. Scripturae in Collegio Greshamensi Per multos annos Interpres celeberrimus Collegii Emanuelis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Praefectus Integerrimus Ejusdem Academiae per tres annos continuos Procancellarius exoptatissimus Ad Cathedram Theologicam Per D. N. Margaretam Richmondiae Comitissam institutam per mortem summi Theologi Doctoris Wardi Nuper destitutam unanimi Theologorum suffragio Evocatus Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis Ecclesiae Wigorniensis Decanus mentissimus Sanctae doctrinae in Ecclesia Anglicana stabilitae Cordatus assertor Divitiarum pius contemptor Eleemosynarum quotidianus Largitor Toto vilae institutâ— sanctus severus ex morbo tandem quem assiduis studendi concionandi Laboribus contraxit Aeger decubuit in hac Ecclesia Quam per 27 annos Religiosissime administravis Mortalitatis exuvâ—aâ— In spe beatae resurrectionis Pie deposuit Mâ—nsis sextilis die 22. Anno Domini M. DC XLIX Aetatis suae LVIII Mementote praepositorum vestrorum qui vobis locuti sunt verbum Dei quorum imitamini fidem contemplantes quis fuerit exitus ipsorum Heb. 13. 7. THE Life and Death OF Dr. EDWARD MARTIN Dean of Ely DOctor Edw. Martin who had six Ancestors in a direct line learned before him six Libraries bequeathed to him though inclined to any thing more than learning Yet as he would say was he Hatched a Scholar as Chickens are at Gran-Cairo by the very heat of the Family he was related to his parts as his nature inclining to Solidity rather than Politeness he was for the exact Sciences Logick and Mathematicks in his Study as he was for strict Rules in his Conversation His exact obedience to publick establishments in his own person raised him to a power and trust to see them obeyed by others being incomparably well skilled in the Canon Civil and Common Law especially as far as concerned the Church in general and in the Statutes of the University of Cambridge in particular to be bred under a good Governor is the best step to be one he was therefore first admitted 1627 8. Chaplain to Bishop Laud and thence preferred Master of Queens Colledge and Rector of Government is an Art above the attainment of every ordinary Genius and requires a wider a larger and a more comprehensive soul than God hath put into every body he would never endure men to mince and mangle that in their practice which they swallowed whole in their Subscriptions owning a well-regulated and resolved zeal in himself and incouraging it in others for to use an excellent Persons expression in a Sermon whereof our Doctor was a Copy not to support men in the ways of an active Conformity to the Churches rules he knew would crack the sinews of Government by weakning the hands and damping the spirits of the obedient And if only scorn and
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
admire the disordered glories of such magnificent Structures which were venerable in their very dust He ever was used to overcome all difficulties only mortality was too hard for him but still his Vertues and his Spirit was immortal he took great care and still had new and noble designs and propsed to himself admirable things He governed his Province with great justice and sincerity Vnus amplo consulens pastor gregi Somnos tuetur omnium solus Vigil And had this Remark in all his Government that as he was a great hater of Sacriledge so he professed himself a publick enemy to non-residence and would declare wisely and religiously against it allowing it no case but of necessity or the greater good of the Church There are great things spoken of his Predecessor St. Patrick that he founded 700. Churches and Religious Convents that he ordained 5000. Priests and with his own hands Consecrated 350. Bishops How true this story is I know not but we are all witnesses that the late Primate did by an extraordinary contingency of Providence in one day Consecrate two Arch-bishops and ten Bishops and benefit to almost all the Churches in Ireland and was greatly instrumental to the Re-endowments of the whole Clergy and in the greatest abilities and incomparable industry was inferior to none of his most glorious Antecessors Since the Canonization of Saints came into the Church we finde no Irish Bishop Canonized except St. Laurence of Dublin and St. Milachias of Down indeed Richard of Armagh's Canonization was propounded but not effected but the Character which was given of that Learned Primate by Trithemius does exactly fit this our late Father Vir in Divinis Scripturis eruditus sccularis philosophiae jurisque Canonici non ignarus Clarus ingenio Sermone Scholasticus in declamandis Sermonibus ad populum excellentis industriae He was learned in the Scriptures skilled in secular Philosophy and not unknowing in the Civil and Canon Laws he was of an excellent Spirit a Scholar in his discourses an early and industrious Preacher to the people And as if there were a more particular sympathy between their souls our Primate had so great a Veneration to his Memory that he purposed if he had lived to have restored his Monument in Dundalke which Time or Impiety or Unthankfulness had either omitted or destroyed So great a lover he was of all true inherent worth that he loved it in the very memory of the dead and to have such great examples to intuition and imitation of Posterity At his coming to the Primacy he knew he should at first espy little besides the Ruines of Discipline a Harvest of Thorns and Heresies prevailing in the hearts of the people the Churches possessed by Wolves and Intruders mens hearts greatly estranged from true Religion and therefore he set himself to weed the Field of the Church he treated the Adversaries sometimes sweetly sometimes he confuted them learnedly sometimes he rebuked them sharply He visited his Charges diligently and in his own person not by Proxies and instrumental Deputations Quaerens non nostra sed nos quae sunt Iesu Christi He designed nothing that we knew of but the Redintegration of Religion the Honor of God the King the restoring of collapsed Discipline and the Renovation of Faith and the service of God in the Churches And still he was indefatigable and even as the last Scene of his life intended to take a Regal Visitation Quid enim vultis me otiosum a Domino comprehendi said one he was not willing that God should take him unimployed But good man he felt his Tabernacle ready to fall in pieces and could go no further for God would have no more work done by that hand he therefore espying this put his House in order and had lately visited his Diocesse and done what he then could to put his Charge in order for he had a good while since received the sentence of death within himself and knew he was shortly to render an account of his Stewardship he therefore upon a brisk Alarm of death which God sent him the last Ianuary made his Will in which besides the prudence and presence of Spirit manifested in making a just and wise settlement of his Estate and Provisions for his Descendants at midnight and in the trouble of his sickness and circumstances of addressing death still kept a special sentiment and made confession of Gods admirable mercies and gave thanks that God had permitted him to live to see the blessed Restauration of his Majesty and the Church of England confessed his faith to be the same as ever gave praises to God that he was born and bred up in this Religion and pray'd God and hoped he should die in the Communion of this Church which he declared to be the most pure and Apostolical Church in the world He prayed to God to pardon his frailties and infirmities relied upon the mercies of God and the Merits of Jesus Christ and with a singular sweetness resigned up his soul into the hands of his Redeemer But God who is the great Choragas and Master of the Scenes of Life and Death was not pleased then to draw the Curtains there was an Epilogue to his life yet to be acted and spoken He returned to actions and life and went on in methods of the same procedures as before was desirous still to establish the Affairs of the Church complained of some disorders which he purposed to redress girt himself to the work but though his spirit was willing yet his flesh was weak and as the Apostles in the Vespers of Christs Passion so he in the Eve of his own dissolution was heavy not to sleep but heavy unto death and looked for the last warnning which seized on him in the middest of his business and though it was sudden yet it could not be unexpected or unprovided by surprize and therefore could be no more than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Augustus used to wish unto himself a civil and well-natured death without the amazement of troublesome circumstances or the great cracks of a falling house or the convulsions of impatience Seneca tells us that Bassus Anfidius was wont to say Sperare se nullum lorem esse in illo extremo anhelita si tamen esset habere aliquantums in ipsa brevitate solatii He hoped that the pain of the vast dissolution were little or none or if they were it was full of comfort that they could be short It happened so to this Excellent Man his passive fortune had been abundantly tryed before and therefore there was the less need of it now his active Graces had been abundantly demonstrated by the great and good things he did and therefore his last Scene was not so laborious but God called him away something after the manner of Moses which the Iews express by Osculum Oris Dei The Kiss of Gods Month that is as death indeed fore-signified but gentle and serene and without temptation To sum
him to reâ—â—â— wâ—â—in 14. days with the Sea◠〈◊〉 of High Tâ—â—â—eson Sir Ed. Litleton is desceâ—ded of Sir Tho. Litleton Author of the book of Tenures commented on by Sir Edw. Cooke and of so much repute that the Iudgâ—s in K. Jâ—â—â—s'sâ—â—me â—â—me declarâ—â— that his Case was not to â—e qaâ—stioned b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Ogmiâ— Eloquii preside Thebâ—no â—onstâ—orum Domitore a Both of the Long-Pareiament acting vigorously among the Members as Oxford b He was of Clare-Hall Cambâ—â— I think a good Benefactor to it c Sir 〈◊〉 Heath Ruâ—l paid for composâ—â—ion 700l Rich. Heath Weston Chest. 138 l. and R. H. of Eyerton Cheshire Esq 237 l. J. H. of Braâ—steel Kent Esq 52l and then were two Col. of his name in the King Army Col. Francis and Jo. Heath a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 a His Tract about planâ—ing Tobacco in England a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c He purchased â—ands there and Lawyers generâ—lly 〈◊〉 Lands near the place of their birth built their Nâ—sts near the place where they were Hatched a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 a Who paid 500l composition Heâ—â— â—â—d Berlâ— 610l Sir Thomas Hâ—de and 300l a Giving Chamber counâ—â—l about convâ—iances and writing good books as Lex terrae conâ—uâ—ed onely by sevenarguments Authoritate viarre fraude metu terrore tyrannide b H. B. Om. Anâ— as he published many other Loyal Elogies under the covert name of H. G. a The Daughter of Mr. H. Southworth Merchâ—nt and Customer of Lond. reâ—yâ—ing afâ—eâ— he had got a greet E. state at wellâ— where Bishop Lake who never mâ—râ—yed any besides in râ—yed her to Dr Ducke b See his Funeral Sermon Mrs. Marg. Duck. c Bâ—â— it remembred 〈◊〉 when there was a 〈◊〉 after the confirmatioâ—â— Bâ—shâ—p Monntagues Eâ—ctâ—oâ— to 〈◊〉 Bâ—shâ—pâ—ick of oâ— Chicâ—ester to dine at a Tâ—vern here fased it because dâ—â—ing in 1 Ta veâ—â— gave the occasion to the â—alde of the Nags head Consecration Tho Reeves of Reading Eâ—que paid 〈…〉 a To maintain â—ax Candles in the Chappel in Trinity-hall on Annual Commemoration with a Latine Speech a Which no Clergy-man held since Bishop Gray who was Lord Treasurer 9. Edw. 4. a He was Lord 〈…〉 to King Charles 1. b Bishop â—ush Harpsâ—ield Hist. Eccles. Aug. 15. â—aeculâ— c. 24. c Whose Men Miracles were written on purpoâ—e to please the Duk into Learning a 〈…〉 b Eâ—â—s de Aug. He was buried aâ— Westminster-Abheâ— April 24. 1662. a He had another Brother a great sufferer câ—â—ncellor of Bangor and Saint Asaph Sir Henry Griffith of Agnisâ—â—rton York Bar with 1781. per annum settled 4461l Mr. Ed. Griffith of Henslan Denb 170l Peâ— Griffiâ—h of Carnvy â—lint Esq 113l Sir Ed. Griffith Ding by North. 1700l b Eccleâ—â—ull-castle 〈◊〉 â—â—affordsâ—â—â—e â—â—e â—â—de an excellent Apology for himself in Parliament a Foâ—nding a School and an Alms-house there a An accurate Logician Philosopher and School-Divine as appears by his Letter to Dr. â—aâ—â—or about his Unum Necessaâ—ium b Much lamented by the whole Kingdome more own by his Diocesse most of all by the Chuch and his Majesty who was much concerned for him a 〈…〉 b Whereof he was a Member R. C. in L. A. Ep. W. a And one of the Commissioners as Bishop Gauden and Bishop Earls was for reviewing the Liturgy and satisfying the dissenting Brethren b The very Parliament naming him as worthy to be one of the Assembly 1643. though he thought not it worthy of him c How well he understood the world in his younger days appears be his smart Characters how little be valued it was seen in the careless indifference of his bâ—ly contempâ—ative life a 〈◊〉 pâ—â—la oâ— the Vniversity chaplain to the 〈◊〉 and â—â—inister of a Living of his donation in Wâ—lâ—shire which he quitted with iâ—s Lord when he attended be â—â—ded not as urged with 〈◊〉 Arâ—â—uns by hâ—m his Master a Only Mr. Faringdon saith he spake of his Sermon Diâ—i Custodiaâ—â— with complacency a He proceeded 1631. a As Sir William â—ackehouse son Mr. Stokes Dr. Will. LLoyd Mr. Arth Haughton who had much ado to prevail with his modesty to publish his Trigonometria b In the Mathematical way a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 L' Hâ—lic de Blmville beâ— the Pâ—â—icc of Wales He 〈◊〉 Baâ—â—â— shment An 〈◊〉 Dom. 1â—42 Novem 14. Ann Ae aâ— 58. leâ— râ—â—ng 〈◊〉 â— st Charles Stuâ—t 〈◊〉 of Oriel Colledge Oxon â—â—bind him a sweet-natured and a very 〈◊〉 Gentlemen c And buried I think in Salisbury a He was in the Tower sâ—veral years sed with bread and water which diâ—t by Gods providence having saved his life when his veâ—â— broke hedâ— onlâ— little or nothing but water all his life time after and eat nothing but once in 24. or 30. hours b He was Prebendary of Durham before and â—â—â—plain and Executor to Bishop Morten c Hâ— gave liberally towards the repair of Saint Pauls a 〈…〉 and the good I expect from you will bring so great a benefit to your Country and to yourself that I cannot think that you will decline my Interest I leave the way and manner of declaring it intirely to your own Judgement and will comply with the advice you will give me The other to Sir John about him in these words I am confident that George Monke can have no malice in his heart against me noâ— hath he done any thing against me which I cannot easily pardon and it is in his power to do me so great service that I cannot easily reward but I will do all I can and perform what he shall promise his Army whereof he shall still keep the Command upon the word of a King July 21. 1659. b I think that 〈…〉 who was taken up 30. years after his Fuâ—eral as 〈◊〉 as the first 〈◊〉 he was 〈◊〉 was his Faâ—hel a where 〈◊〉 Broâ—her D. Wâ—en him Father is the 〈◊〉 genieus and learned Dr. W. â—n Ajironony-prosessor in Oxford b Two Ser mons aâ— Cambridge made him mâ—st â—â—ment the one an â—ssize Sermon upon a disign to Drayn the Fens 〈◊〉 Amos 5. 24 the other 〈◊〉 veturn out of Spain on Psal. 42. 7. C Twenty 〈…〉 of St. Johns Peter-Iâ—ose and Pembrokeâ—hall beirghiâ— Relâ—tions in mourning a Whereof he sent out the first part viz his Mosaique History first the acceptance of which among the learned encouraged him to finish it b And the doctrine of Regeneration in Joh 3. 6 which because he saidâ— that any great sin did extinguish grace and that St. Paul Rom. 7. Spâ—â—t in the person of anunregener 〈◊〉 man K. James was displeased a The Mythological part is most excellent b Wherein among â—thers he dâ—famed this opinion c He got the skill in Grammar in the Low-Countries where he was a Souldier a Where he was a Prisâ—ner as he was in the Fleet c. a Being turned out of his Fellowship a Whose â—ay of versitying on 〈◊〉 subâ—ects was