Soveraign an Argument that Religion Justice or the love of Liberty which are alwayes uniform but unworthy Interests that vary with hopes and fears had the strongest influence upon them Nay they must overcome the Parliament it by whose pretended Authority they had hitherto the City of London at whose charge they had hitherto fought and the first Leaders of the Army by whose Reputation it was first raised and by whose skill and activity it so long prospered The Kings prudence and their own jealousies combinations in crimes conclude in jealousies each party thinking the advantage of the other too great having committed and injealousied them They must Conquer Scotland and their dear Brethren and take the King off from the Presbyterians by their arts and insinuations inveighing him into the pit they had laid for him in the Isle of Wight for his escape from Hampton-Court by the withdrawing of the Centinels from their usual posts appeared to be their design they must oppose the highest reason in the world offered by the King there intent upon the settlement of the Nation for a Personal Treaty agreeable to the sense of the whole kingdom 1. By Preliminary Articles which they knew the King could not yield to and upon his refusal four Votes of No Addresses to him which they could never have compassed had they not sent half the Members away to the Country upon pretence of expediting the Contributions and tired the other half with late Sitting from ten in the morning till twelve at night and withal the Menaces of the Officers that came with Remonstrances to the House and the terror of the Army two Regiments whereof under colour of guarding but indeed for awing the Parliament were quartered at Whitehall They must endure the clamors of an undone people deluded with pretences of avoiding Tyranny into Slavery 1. For an excellent Religion broken into Schismes and Heresies 2. For Prayers and Fasts made to serve impious designs and promote prosperous crimes 3. For Liberty become an empty name the common ways of confinement being too little to secure those that would not break the Law men lingring in strange imprisonment knowing neither their crimes nor their accusers because they had not guilt enough for condemnation thousands forced to be Exiles in strange lands or Slaves at home 4. For Propriety hedged no longer by Law but become a prey to the fraud and violence of the Conspirators 5. For great Virtues become as dangerous as formerly great crimes were 6. For Converse become a snare spies in each company watching mens words and searching into their thoughts 7. For the Parliament become a Conspiracy divided in its self and enslaved to its vassals who made Laws according to their interests and executed them according to their lusts The whole Nation now better understanding their good and wise Prince the publick interest and themselves panted for a return to the obedience of the most incomparable Government and most inestimable Prince in the world Insomuch so admirable were the returns of Divine Justice at that time that the very same Convention that first stirred up this way of tumultuary Petitions against the King were now forced to complain That the honor and safety of Parliaments for so they called the poor remainder of that Assembly was indangered by Petitions They must rescinde the City Petitions and their own Votes that the Kings Concessions were a safe ground for the Parliament to settle the Peace of the kingdom on The King having granted so much as the people might see he was not as he was reported obstinate against his own happiness and the Nations peace and so gratified not his Enemies and yet so discreetly that he deserted not his Friends his wisdom tempering prudently their harsh Propositions and his Reason urging effectually his own They must cast off all obedience to their own Superiors as well as to the King and imprison the Parliament as well as the King Violate their Protestation and renounce their Solemn League and Covenant disown the Lords House and leave not above sixty of almost five hundred Members in the House of Commons In fine they must go against their own Prayers Sermons Engagements and Consciences against the very foundations of Government in the world and the sentiments of Mankind about it against the known Laws of the Land and against truths as clear as the Sun in these unheard-of Propositions I. That the People under God are the Original of all just Power II. That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the People have the Supream Authority of this Nation III. That whatsoever is Enacted and Declared for Law by the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law IV. That all the people of this Nation are concluded thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and Peers be not had thereunto V. That to raise Arms against the peoples Representative is Treason VI. That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and on that account is guilty of the Bloud-shed throughout the Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud Bold and ridiculous men That think with one breath to alter the notion of Good and Evil and to make their Usurpations just because they had the face to declare them so Qui amici veritatis esse possent sine labore ut peccent Laborant Greg. de curâ past They who might have been honest with so much ease what pains do they take to be wicked For these and many more restraints they must break through before they came at the Kings Life Towards the taking away of which they pack a Court of Iustice as they called them though it had nothing to do with Justice but that it deserved to be the object of it of such people as the Ring-leader of them O. C. called at the Table of an Independent Lord A Company of Rascals whom he knew to be so and would so serve Invested with a power to Cite Hear Iudge and punish Charles Stuart King of England Reader I know not with what temper thou readest these lines I tremble when I writ them One or two Brewers two or three Coblers many of them Mechanicks all poor Bankrupts one turned out of the House for a Rape another for writing a Blasphemous Book against the Trinity and another a known Adulterer Men so low that no lesser crime could raise them and so obnoxious there was no other way for them to hope for impunity men fitter to stand at a Bar than to sit on the Bench. These though a search was made for a number of men that could not blush at nor fear any guilt yet many of them abhorred the villany and left them others stayed with a design to disturb it went to act the murther not as other Regicides Ravillaic c. used to do privately or as they themselves used to Preach it in a
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
managing his command over them the better by making himself equal with them When the English at the Spanish Fleet 's approach in 88 drew their Ships out of Plymouth Haven Cambden attributes their success to the Lord Admiral Howard's towing a Cable in his own person the least joynt of whose exemplary hand drew more than twenty men besides 4. By observing as well as commanding them and orderly preferring them as well as observing them neither disheartning nor exasperating true Valour 5. By sharing with his Souldiers in their wants as well as in their other hardships indigency is an honour when it 's the chief Commanders condition Two words to his Souldiers did a brave Prince good service once in a streight I am your fellow-commoner and your fellow-labourer 6. By understanding well the defects and failings of the Garison as well as its accommodation It 's a very remarkable passage that when my Lord Fairfax made three approaches upon three great though not commonly observed disadvantages of the Garison he charmed the Council of War to an opinion of a noble surrender with this Story A man with an Ulcer on his face passed over a Bridge where the passengers were to pay a certain piece of money for every malady of body found about them and was required to pay the accustomed Tribute for the Ulcer in his face But he refusing to pay it the Officer pull's off his hat intending to keep it for a pawn his hat being taken off another malady appears in his bald head Now Sir said the Officer I must have a double Tribute of you Nay saith the Traveller that ye shall not and begins to struggle with the Officer who being too strong for him gave him a foil by means whereof there was a Rupture perceived under his coat The more we strive with these people the more we discover our infirmities This Trust he managed so well that the Queens Majesty interposed earnestly for his preferment in these very expressions in a Letter dated March 13. 1644. Farewel my Dear Heart Behold the mark which you desire to have to know when I desire any thing in earnest* I pray begin to remember what I spake to you concerning Jache Berkley for Master of the Wards And the King in his confinement was very earnest for his company making use of him in all his transactions with the Parliament and Army especially in that fatal escape from Hampton-Court where the Army observing how the King was caressed from all parts of the Kingdom buzzed up and down a jealousie among the Kings followers that he should be assaslinated that he might flie out of the place where he was most secure being near his friends the City and Parliament then well inclined towards him to a place where he was most in danger being far off the Faction having fore-cast that the King in the perplexity of his affairs would cast himself when in danger of his life upon Col. Hammond for his relation to Dr. Hammond his Majesties beloved Chaplain for that very purpose not long before made Governour of the Isle of Wight as he did in the company of Sir Iohn Berkley Col. Io. Ashburnam and Col. Will. Legg who smelt the Plot by the slightness of the Guards that dark and tempestuous Night and a whispering that there was of the King 's going to the Isle of Wight in the Army a Fort-night before and therefore Sir Iohn was for going to Iersey especially when he considered that most of the Advices given the King to escape proceeded from Whaley and those of the Army especially the Letter of Intelligence which he would take upon his Oath was feigned mentioned by Sir W. S. p. 1018. if any where the Advise being to have staid there and cast no fears jealousies or new disputes which the Army aimed at among an already distracted people But as God would have it that his Majesty should not escape those greatest tryals and most glorious acts of patience he had designed him for Hammond to whom they went with the hazard of their lives could be wrought to nothing but some formal civilities and yet they being so far gone into the Net must be trusted to though with the King 's extraordinary Regret Sir Iohn Berkley offering then a desperate attempt for the King's escape at last cast though the King refused it saying That he would always humble himself to Gods good pleasure Nay which was more Sir Iohn would have been taken to let the King escape Therefore the Parliament so strictly enquired after him although his own friends censured him so interpreting this action by the success not considering the numerous difficulties in forming any resolution nor the fallacious representation of affairs to him by those that contrived this whole Plot to take the Parliament off from the King by his disturst of them and confidence in the Army but only looked on his improsperous services according to the fate of unhappy Counsels which is To have that Condemned which is put in Execution and that Practised as best which was never Tried 1. The King was no sooner in the Isle of Wight than the Faction let loose their fury upon the Gentlemen that attended him commanding Hammond to send them up to London to be proceeded against which he refused pretending First The just offence thereby given the King in removing his only Friends and Familiars then his honour engaged as he said for their Indemnity The King himself likewise Interposing that if those Gentlemen were taken away and punished as evil doers for counselling him not not to go out of the kingdom but rather to come to the place where he now is for the ends aforesaid and for their indeavours accordingly to attend him thither he cannot but expect to be dealt with accordingly his case being the same Sir Iohn escaping the danger of this fatal piece of service addressed himself to more in the way of Intelligence and Correspondence between the King and the West between the West and the North and between all these Parts and France where the Queen kept up the King her husband's Reputation and promoted his Interest until being forced from the King he and Colonel Walter Slingsby were secured Anno 1648. at Colonel Trevanions house in Cornewall and underwent all the sad effects of the Tyrannies acted here for twelve years together without any other comfort than some opportunities of serving his Sacred Majesty with better Intention than Success using means and leaving events to God being resolved to win the Roman Consul's Elogy who was commended for not despairing of the Commonwealth his spirit being above his own Fortune and his Enemies too who indeed had put an end to the War yet could not find the way to Peace their souls being unequal to their victory and not able to temper their success but turning those arts and arms wherewith they had prevailed against their Soveraign so true is that of Seneca Scelera dissident against one another until they
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
Case of Pistols before her which might have served to suppress it 5. For doing nothing with the Kings Ships when at Sea the Scots saying that the son of such a Mother could do them no harm and not protesting the Kings gracious Declaration the justice and clemency whereof would have allayed the Tumults when at Land but letting the Covenanteers protest against it before it was published insomuch that the Bishops of Ross and Brechen Sir Iohn Hay and the Earl of Sterling came to England to warn the King of him 6. For refusing to contribute towards the Scottish Wars for withdrawing privately to raise jealousies in Scotland for interceding for London and hindring Montross so as to make the King believe that the Scots would not invade England till he himself writes that they were on the Borders yet by a Providence which one calls Digit us Dei beheaded at Westminster 1649. after great overtures of money and discoveries to save his life by that Party for the King whom he was thought to serve against the King who said when he heard he led the Scots Army for which he suffered Nay if he leads them there is no good to be done for me having displaced and imprisoned him at Oxford because he said he should not have an opportunity to re-couzen him Duke William died honourably of his wounds in his Majesties Service at Worcester 1651. The eminent Divines of Aberdeen for strong reasons and invincible patience in opposing the Covent particularly Dr. Baron and Dr. Forbs eminent Philosophers and Divines will never be forgotten in Scotland while there is either a Church or an University left there Nil quod Foâ—besio Christi dum pascit Ovile Nil quod Baronio comparet orbis habet Eloquio sunt ambo pares in discrimen in uno est Quo lubet hic mentes pellicit ille rapit A. Johnston To whom I may add the learned Dr. Iohn Maxwel sometimes Bishop of Ross and since Archbishop I think of St. Andrews THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM PENNIMAN SIR William Penniman a Gentleman of good fortunes in Yorkshire where part of the Allum Mine rented by Sir Paul Pindar belonged to him before the Wars and one of the first that engaged with the King in the Wars whose Epitaph at Christ Church is his just Chronicle M. S. H. S. E. Gulielmus Penniman Baronettus Equestri dignitate parique animo decorus obsequio fide adversus optimum eundemque afflictissimum Principem Carolum Regem spectabilis qui serinissimum Regem cum caetera Inermis classe Armamentariis arcibus omnibus belli praesidiis orbatus nudo majestatis titulo armatus staret duabus cohortibus Equitum una Peditum altera a se conscriptis primus instruxit quibus ipse praefuit tribunus ac brevi Vrbis Oxon. praefectura donatus est in qua it a se gessit ut nec discessor Ashlaeus nec successor Astonus magna bello nomina luminibus ipsius obstruerat Demum Febre Epidemica correptus in medio aetatis honorumque decursu premature extinctus triste sui desiderium apud omnes reliquit quibus morum suavitate ac comitate fuerat merito charissimus Obiit Aug. 22. A. D. 1643. tumulo potitus in eadem domo in qua ingenii cultum capessaverat Iacob Lord Ashley born of a well know Family in Norfolk bred under Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere a Captain in the Low-Countries and preferred for his good Conduct-Colonel whence after thirty years service returning to his Native Country he had the Command of New-Castle in the Scottish Wars 1639. 1640. and after of Oxford in the English out of which by reason of the experience his Majesty had of his good wary carriage in keeping the Northern Army in order when they wanted money and engaging them to serve the King if he had thought fit to have made use of their assistance when he wanted strength 1641. to keep the City in order and the Parliament free he was drawn into the Field and particularly to assist in forming the siege of Glocester wherein the Low-Country Wars being in effect nothing but sieges he had a great judgment and where he was shot in the arm as afterwaads to draw the line of Communication between his Majesties Forces round about the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel his own Post being at Hawl where he commanded the Haven of Foy. Having likewise the disposal of the most difficult part of the second Newberry Fight after which he setled the Affairs of Worcester-shire and Glocester-shire so well by continual surprizes of the Enemy that he commanded Contribution to the Gates of Glocester after that much against his will was he commanded to form the fatal battel of Nazeby and which was worse to quit the advantageous piece of ground and model he had first designed to the loss of that battel after which by diligent Correspondence with Ireland and Wales he got a considerable Army which for want of the Horse promised him from Oxford a streight wherein he could not avoid fighting he lost at Stow in the Old March 21. 1645 6. where when he was taken he said That the Game was up and after a tedious Imprisonment dyed I think in that Foreign Country where he had so Honorably lived 165. His Son Sir Bernard Ashley an eminent and stout Commander in his Majesties Army after admirable service done in fix Fights and eight Sieges dyed of wounds received in a brave sally out of Bristol Sept. 4. 1645. Sir Arthur Aston a Lancashire Gentleman where the Papists are most zealous by Antiparistasis because of the extream zeal of the Protestants there as good of his Hands as a Souldier as Sir Walter Aston the known Ambassador in Spain and Germany was of his Head many Souldiers did he by his great services in Foreign Wars bring to his Majesty from abroad more by his excellent Discipline did he make at home where he commanded the Dragoons in Edgehill doing exquisite execution and giving my Lord Stuart and other young Gentlemen direction how to do so Thence being made Governor of Reading he beat Essex thrice from the Town till having a dangerous wound he was forced to devolve his Command upon Col. Fielding returning himself to Oxford where he was Governor till it appeared that the severity of his Discipline would do more service in ordering a loose Army in the Field than in awing a regular Garrison in a Town whence his Fortune being answerable neither to his skill nor to his courage he went over with the flower of the English Veterans to Ireland he was made Governour of Drogheda about which Town he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army but that being over-powered he lost his life first being hewed in pieces and not till then the Town being deserted by Coll. Walls Regiment after the Colonels death which betrayed both the Garrison and themselves with him fell 1 Sir Edmund Varney
their name g Observe all the practices and commotions they talk of as of late raised for the King were but the endeavours of those very men that first employed the Army against the King to rescue the King and themselves from the power of that Army and whereas these wretches say the Parliament Order the Kings Tryal it was the Parliament that encouraged all those tumults and commotions 47 48. to deliver the King from that Tryal a By Dendy the Kings own Serjeant at Arms Son b Not being permitted to breakfast being reviled all the way by P. and â—thers that rid by him the King being put upon a loan 〈◊〉 Iade a He was born so b He was a free Monarch c What his design and theirs were the world hath lately seen d He dâ—ed because he would not allow an Arbitrary Power and they killed him by an Arbitrary Power e He levied war to defend a King and they to murder one f Have dare they take away his life for levying war in his own defence against the Seditious part of the Parliament and 〈◊〉 Army of Rebels when these the Parliaments sworn servants lay violent handâ— on the whole Parliament to take away his life He would have punished two or three rebellious Parliament-men they turn out the whole House he fought the traiterous Army they senâ— against him these Members of that Army turn out those they fought under he must be a Traytor against the Parliament and yet within a fortnight before they set on his assassinatioâ— they break trouble and abuse that Parliament as if it were Treason to be against the Parliament when they were against the King but no Treason to be against them when now they were for him a With the danger of her life b Pointing at Col. Cobbet that brought him from the Isle of Wight where he said be Treated with many honorable Lords Gentlemen and is this the end of the Treaty c Both parts of the impudent Assertion equally â—rue 1. That he was now Iudged by the People and that he was at first chosen by them a On Sunday whâ—n its against all Canons to faâ—t none ever doing so but these and the Scots Prestiâ—â—s who would needs Proclaim a Fast that day because the King designed to Feast the Embassador of Denmark b As they had Voted it Ordering c That ordered that none should make any disturbance on pain of death d C. Downs that thought it fit the King should be heaâ—d by the Lords and Commons a Wherein â—e was earnest not for his own concerns but for those of the kingdom b Though he offered much â—o say for the peace of the kingdom which if the meanest man had offered he should have been heard c This was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Commons of England in Parliament appointed them a Court whereas they neither did iâ— nor â—â—uld do it a All dâ—claring for a Peâ—sonal Tâ—â—aty a Secluding 140. Members b Imprisoning the Chief Citizens â—iding triumphâ—nâ—y through the streets of London and seizing the Tower c. c On shipboard in Summer timeâ— others sold slaves d Suffering nasty Confinements and ignominous Tortures The method leading to the Kings death a C. Downs disturbed the their proceedings declaring that what the King offered should be heard b Declaring that it was contrary to the known Laws and Customs of England that the King should be brought to Tryal a I. B. Dr. P. Character of him b Dr. D formerly History Professor of Cambridge set there by F. Brookes where reading in the stift lines of Tacitus he discovered so much of a popular spirit that he was complaiâ—ed of about his dâ—scourses of 〈◊〉 three sorts of government a Set on by the Instructors of their villaâ—ny Hereabouts he was stopped being not permitted to speak any more of Reasons a Telling them that it was not a slight thing that they were about a A motion so reasonable that Colonel Downs could not but presse them to hearken to it so far that they had adjourned not to consider what the King had offered but to check Col. D. into a compliance b They utterly refused his Queen that liberty a After the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man replied that it was not 〈◊〉 but the Churches choice for the dâ—y Whereat his majesty was much comforted b Meaning Col. Thomiâ—son a Strafford b Pointing to Dr. Juxon c Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote d Meaning if he did blunt the edge a Pointing to Dr. Juxon b It is thought to give it to the Prince a They had provided I 〈◊〉 Gâ—appâ—es to pull him down b They sold Chips of the Block and Sands discoâ—â—red with his bloud c Others Proclaimed his Son in the face of his Fathers murtherers a Impâ—isoâ—ing the Bishop of London and searching Pocketâ—s and Cloaths b See M. Iconoclastes a Though they were seign to carry it aâ— fit had been discovered by chance by walking on the hollow part of it b The place exactly answering the designation of his 〈◊〉 in last Will and Testament and lying under an Herse that lay there all Q Elizabeths reign besides that no Subject had newer been buried in that Qâ—ire 1 〈…〉 a at London House 2 The 〈◊〉 it raised him All these passages are transcribed out of his Graces own Diurnal His good works doue a With new Priviledge as large as those in Cambridg since 11. the eighth hâ—s time b Wherein be did intend to hang as great and as tuneable a Ring of Bells as any are in the world a Only the irregular marrying of W. E D. E. M Dec. 26. 1605. St. Stephens day b Printed at Oxford 1666 His sufferings Dr. P. life K. Charles § The crimes laid to his Charge and reasons of his sufferings a And Homil p. 64 65. and Teâ—tul de Oâ—ig errot c. 2. 17. Statuse 3 lid 6. 10. b As ancient at Constancines time sec Polyd Virg. de Invent. ceruâ—â— l. 6. 2. Durand Ration c. a And the Preces privatae in Queen Elizâ—b time b And it was pretly thâ—â— swere 〈◊〉 was offended much the new Crucifix whereas he 〈◊〉 no notice of the old crucifix that wathere many years before See Antiq. Bâ—ic p. 33. 102. c One swore against him that a man bowed to the Virgin Maries Pictures over St. Maries door in Oxon. a Exod. 40 9 10 11. 1 Kings 8. 1 Chron 5 6 â—â— Chron 34. 8 Ezra 6 15 16 17. b Euseb. Eccles. Hist. 10. 3 de vita Coudant â— 4. 40. vid. Câ—â—â—it de Coâ—sect Eccles. Inst. ti cod l. ◠〈◊〉 5. de Sacro saâ—ctâ—â— Ecclesus c Doctor Bound Bradâ—um and Thâ— ashâ— then 〈◊〉 Iewish opâ—â—â—â—s d Iâ—stiâ— l. 2. c. 8. §. 34. e V d. Arâ—â—ii problemata de Encaeniis Grat de Conserev dist 1. f For which trey searched the 〈◊〉 book b Some his
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
Articles of Perth were but Encouragements to put up bolder finding that Force could obtain that which Modesty and Submission had never compassed and imputing all kindness to the Kings Weakness rather than Goodness His apprehensions in that affairs were as they were taken at Councel-Table-Debates about that business to this purpose In general after the Delivery of a Paper consisting of twenty seven Heads at Councel Board Dec. 5. 1639. against the Kings Indulgence to them he voted that they were to be Reduced by force being a people as his Majesty observed of them lost by favors and won by punishments in an Offensive War that would he would pawn his head on it put a period to all the Troubles in five moneths whereas a Defensive War will linger many years In particular Advising the setting up of the Commission of Array and Amassing a gallant Army for Honor and Service consisting of 24000 Foot 12000 Horse and 2000 Volunteers Lords and Gentlemen that brought the Scots to a Submission and Pacification such as it was which the Scots falsifying and breaking obtruding false Articles and observing none of the true ones he considering that they who had broken the Peace out of a desire of War would never leave the War out of a desire of Peace but would have if not rendred unable as well as unwilling as constant fits of Rebellion as they had of lusts or want advised the calling of a Parliament the most Authentick way of managing the Government Freeely saying in Councel That he knew a Parliament if but rightly tempered was so able to settle these Distractions that if he were sure to be the first man that should be ruined by it he would advice the Calling of it Altered the Model of the Army discharging the Hunting Lords as they were then called and recommending the Right Honorable and Well-beloved Earl of Northumberland General himself undertaking the place of Lieutenant General not doubting to chase the Rebels to use his own words in two moneths had not the Lord Conway whether out of design or weakness not yet decided disheartned the Army by the unsuccessfulness and indiscretion of his first Encounter and the English Lords prevented the Victory by a Petition for Peace and a Parliament to the King whose tenderness of his Subjects blood and prudence not to sully his glory with an unequal Combate would not permit him to fight when the gains of a Victory could not ballance the hazard of attempting it His Advices against the Faction were prudent and the Remedies seasonable 1. The exploding of their Doctrine when urged by some men whose compliance with the factious way was called Moderation in their own and the discovering of their practices in the Examen Conjurationis Scoticae Or The ungirding of the Scots Armor the Authour his servant and the thing his design to let the world see what it afterwards felt 2. Bringing all the Scots in Ireland to declare against the dangerous Covenant of Scotland 3. Making the loyal and ready Assistance of the Parliament of Ireland in 39. a president for that of England in 40. 4. And returning as seasonably to lay open their pretences and obviate their reaches in Treaties as he had done their Plot in Parliaments willing enough to hear of a present Peace but more willing to provide a future Security saying He could pardon but not trust a Scot. He managed his Army as Lieutenant General as if he had been ready to fight them and yet he ordered his Advices as if he were willing to close with them As they judged it their best way to ask with their Sword in their hands so thought he it the most expedient method to answer them so Since though God never intrusted Subjects with the Sword to obtain their priviledges yet he did Kings with it to awe to duty He knew what he did when he commanded the Governors of Barwick and Carlile to watch the Invaders on the Borders at the same time that he looked to them in Councels where he was resolved they should not obtain that by a Pacification that they could not hope for by a Battel perswading His Majesty to examine the Conspiracy to the bottom before he composed it lest the skinned Sore might rankle To which purpose he would deal with the Tumult not joyntly and all together where they were bold and reserved but singly and one by one for in that capacity Rebels are fearful and open though it was not then possibly so advised a saying yet it hath appeared since to be a very faithful and useful one that he hasting into England out of Ireland as they did out of Scotland should say upon the Delivery of his Sword If ever I return to this Honorable Sword I shall not leave of the Scots Faction neither Root nor Branch As Sylla said of Caesar there are many Marius'es in that Boy so he would say of this Conspiracy when low there are many Villanies in this Plot. He could endure as little the petulancy of the Scots as they could his prudence and Government When they having leavied Men and Mony seized the Kings Magazines and strong Holds raised Forts begirt his Castles affronted his Proclamations summoned Assemblies proclaimed Fasts deprived and excommunicated Bishops abolished Episcopacy issued out Warrants to choose Parliament Commissioners appealed from the King to the people trampled on Acts of Parliament discharged Counsellors and Judges of their Allegiance confirmed all this by a League and Covenant swearing to do what otherwise they would not have done that their consciences might oblige them to do that because they had sworn which because not lawful to be done was not lawful to be sworn He leavied Men and Money disarmed the Irish and Scots secured his Garrisons and Ports had an Army ready to serve His Majesty and five Subsidies to maintain it and confirmed all with an Oath imposed to abjure that Covenant He returns in 39. after five moneths absence having done as much as had been done in five score years before towards the reducing of the Natives of Ireland to the civility trade and plenty of England and disposing their Revenue so as to repay England the charge it had been at with Ireland when Walsingham wished it one great Bogge Neither was he less careful of the Churches Doctrine than Discipline forbidding the Primate's obtruding the Calvinists School points for Articles of Faith and in stead of the Polemick Articles of the Church of Ireland to recieve the positive plain and orthodox Articles of the Church of England neither admitting high Questions nor countenancing the men that promoted them aiming at a Religion that should make men serious rather than curious honest rather than subtile and men lived high but did not talk so equally disliking the Trent Faith consisting of Canons Councels Fathers c. that would become a Library rather than a Catechism and the Scots Confessions consisting of such School Niceties as would fill a mans large
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
to find Men and Victualls out of their Counties for the time in the Writ mentioned Fourthly That the sum Assessed was a Duty and ought to be Assessed and may be Levied ought to stand until it were reversed in Parliament and until then none ought to dispute against it And when the Parliament afterwards declared themselves Hil. Term Anno 16. C. R. in B. R. he was of opinion in Chambers his Case against Sir Edward Brumfield late Lord Mayor of London that the Court ought no longer to dispute of it And yet in Iuly 1641. there was a Charge brought against him for his Extra-judicial opinion for Levying of Ship-money to which he made such a Rejoynder as though for malice they could not acquit yet for shame they did not condemn him especially since there were but few injured as they pretended by that his opinion and the whole kingdom the better for his exact Justice which was so effectual that had he lived a few years longer there would have been not a Robber from one end of the kingdom to the other but such as took the High-way by authority Large were the Harangues made against him and his brethren But as Bees are sometimes drowned in their Honey so were their Logick in their Rhetorick the body of their proofs brings as poor and lean as the garnish of their words gaudy the stuff as mean as the dressing rich After the affront of an Arrest the trouble and disgrace of an Imprisonment and the charge of a Fine or at least a Gratuity they thought it enough to have terrified and so proceeded no farther to ruin this good man that was the honour and would have been if ill treated the disgrace of his Nation Eccius is much censured by Divines because he said in his Chrysopas that he intreated of Reprobation as a fit subject In quo Iuveniles Calores exerceret Young Lawyers were much blamed by our ancient Judge for chusing the deep and intricate points of Prerogative and Liberty to be the matter of their young and undigested Discourses who while they engage against the old Laws and Maximes of Government notwithstanding all their bustle and ratlings yet are discerned by impartial and judicious men like that Goth in Procopius who though he fought fiercely had the mortal Arrows sticking in his Helmet whereof he soon after fell He died as a Bishop of Oxford is said to do at a time when he had rather give an account of his Judges-place at the Tribunal of God than exercise it on a Bench awed by men Since he could not keep on the Robes of his Office with comfort he put off those of his Mortality with peace being ashamed to live as he would say when it was not safe to speak either law or reason and reckoning it seasonable to dye when all things perished by him and he had nothing left him to do honestly but to dye It 's Pity none undertook thy Worth to tell Thy Skill to know thy Valour to do well And what could Men do less when thou art gone Whose Tenents as they Manners were thine own In not the same times both the same not mixt With the Ages Torrent but still clear and six't As gentle Oyl upon the Stream doth glide Not mingling with them though it smooth the Tide Nor didst thou this affectedly as they Whom humor leads to know out of the way Thy Aim was publick in it they Lamp and Night Searched untrod Paths only to set us right Thou didst consult the Ancients and their Writ To guard the Truth not exercise thy Wit Taking but what they say not as some do To find out what they may be wrested to Nor Hope nor Faction bought thy Mind to side Conscience deposed all Parts and was sole guide We have not time to Rate thee thy Fate 's such We know we 've Lost our Sons will say how much THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOHN GREGORY IT is not the least argument that we are Immortal that we naturally desire to be so and that there is in every man implanted with his soul a generous ambition of Conveighing his being to a fair Eternity eithey by a successive Posterity as Noah or by a lasting Monument as Absalom or by an universal Fame as Cato or by Heroick undertakings as this Gentleman the Astonishment of his own Age and the Wonder of the next for a capacious Nature and a vast Industry An Industry that finding little advantage in his Parentage whose character amounts to no more than that they were mean and honest less in the place of his Birth Agmondsham in Buckinghamshire ennobled only with his single worth least of all in the time of it Novemb. 10. 1607. when learning was at its fatal heighth and the ordinary methods of it but a meaness when great souls must trace untrodden paths for Eminence and a Name In this Age he was very happy in Doctor Crooke the Rector of Agmondsham's Neighbourhood who respecting his Parents Piety and Poverty and observing his Hopefulness admitted him to his Family among those noble and excellent Personages then under his Care upon two whereof Sir William Drake and Sir Robert Crooke he waited to Christ-Church in Oxford where he was more happy in the excellent Doctor Morley since successively Dean of that place Lord Bishop of Worcester and Winchester his exact directions and impressive incouragements that quickly advanced his Studies above a Tutor's care and most of all in the Learned Exercises the Ingenious Converse the Exquisite Parts which in that renowned Colledge awaked his large Faculties to sixteen hours Study every day for many years together until his indefatigable way attained a learned elegance in English Latine and Greek an exact skill in Hebrew Syriack Chaldee Arabick Aethiopick c. an useful command of Saxon French Italian Spanish and Dutch a deep insight to Philosophy a curious faculty in Astronomy Geometry and Arithmetick a familiar acquaintance with the Jewish Rabbines the Ancient Fathers the Modern Criticks and Commentators a general History and Chronology and indeed an Universal Learning His smart Sermons whereof that of the Resurrection is a Specimen speak his Rhetorick his Translation of Io. Antiochenus his Melala Chronography his Latine his Notes upon the same Author his Greek his Akiâ—la or Discourse of Eastward Adoration his Church History his excellent Comment upon Doctor Ridleyes excellent book the first testimony of his pregnancy when but twenty six his Civil Historical Ritual Ecclesiastical and Oriental Learning his Observation on Pâ—olomy and Euclid with his King Henries Scheme and Discourse against Cardan of our Saviours Nativity his Ancient and Modern Astrology his Epochae his Globe his Seventy his Episcopus puerorum his Assyrian Monarchy his Chronology his Optick History Geography and Policy and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with his other unusual observations on the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and hard places of Scripture wherein he mentioneth
Person most by his Care and Discipline two things he had a special care of Pay and Law his word was Pay them well and hang them well All he had himself was bestowed on the quarrel he judging it madness to keep an Estate with the hazard of that Cause which if miscarrying all miscarried with it if succeeding all was wrapped up in it In all meetings about the King's Affairs where he met with scruples he pressed the doing and not the disputing of the King's Commands because otherwise Kings before they leavie an Army of Souldiers they must leavie an Army of Casuists and Confessors to satisfie each scrupulous Souldier in the perplexed and complicated grounds of War and that to little purpose too the men of scruples being generally the most cowardly withal This Gentleman having an excellent rule viz. That the Commands of Majesty if not immediately without any tedious inferences contrary to the Law of God and Nature were not to be disputed A Rule that quickly satisfied all honest men and as quickly silenced those that were otherwise inclined He behaved himself in the West 1. Keeping the Countrey from Free-quarter 2. Stopping the Inroads of the Parliaments Forces thither 3. Keeping open their Trade 4. Keeping a good correspondence among their Gentry that Septemb. 4. 1643. when Exeter was delivered up to Prince Maurice he was made Governour of it keeping it and the Countrey round about it in a very remarkable degree of quietness and subjection and easily advancing for three years 50000 l. a year for the King's Service until it pleased God in wrath to the King's enemies to ruine the King's Cause and leave them who had been happy if reduced to a subjection under him to be undone among themselves and Fairfax having defeated almost all the King's Army in the field Ian. 25. 1645. made his way as far as Porthrane a Fort within three miles of Exeter whence Iun. 17. he summoneth Sir Iohn Berkley with Conditions to himself his Officers Citizens and Souldiers who having maintained the Garrison so long and so well that it was looked on as the safest place for the Queen to lye in with the most Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria now Dutchess of Orleans as the Honourablest place for that Princess to continue in during the War as she did with the Honourable the Lady Dalkeith And as the greatest refuge for distressed Cavaliers in England returns this generous Answer viz. That his Trust was delivered to him from His Majesty which he would discharge to his power That they have no reason to distrust a blessing from God in delivering that Garison who is able to deliver them and may be so pleased without a miracle the Prince having so considerable a Force at so near a distance to them That if all actions of their lives were as innocent as their hands of the blood that hath or shall be spilt in defence of their Righteous Cause they shall in all events rest in perfect peace of mind and will not despair At which brave Reply the General being rather pleased than provoked makes not an angry but a civil and ingenious though ineffectual Retortion and having raised two Bridges over the River Ex blocked up the City on all sides and drawn up within Musket-shot of it leaves the Siege to Sir Hardress Waller going in person against the Prince to the West till the third of April when being distressed beyond all relief they agreed that Commissioners should treat as they did ten days a long time to the impatient Souldiers who complained that they had to do with long-tongued Lawyers concluding upon the most honourable Tearms Fairfax and Cromwel upon some particular policy of their own never offered any other That the Princess Henrietta should depart any whither in England or Wales until His Majesty should give order for her disposal 2. Neither the Cathedral nor Churches to be defaced 3. That the Garison should march out according to the most honourable custome of War and to have free-quarter all the way and not be compelled to march above ten miles a day and with their Arms to the places agreed on The composition of persons of quality should not exceed two years purchase That all persons comprised within these Articles should quietly and peacerbly enjoy all their Goods debts and moveables during the space of four moneths next ensuing and be free from all covenants oaths and protestations and have liberty within the said four moneths in case they shall not make their compositions with the Parliament and shall be resolved to go beyond Sea for which they shall have passes to dispose their said Goods debts and moveables allowed by these Articles c. Articles and a Surrendry so honourable that they were the Rule and Copie of all the following good Articles which the Army made but their masters kept not perhaps their design in granting so good Conditions in all places surrendred to them was to raise themselves a reputation able to give Law to the Parliament that should lose its self in breaking of them I must not forget three things remarkable concerning this Siege 1. A strange providence of God For when this place was so closely besieged that onely the South-side thereof towards the Sea was open unto it incredible number of Laches were found in that open quarter for multitude saith an eye and a mouth-witness like the Quails in the Wilderness though blessed be God unlike them both in cause and effect as not desired with man's destruction nor sent with God's anger as appeared by their safe digestion into wholsome nourishment they were as fat as plentiful so that being sold for two-pence a dozen and under the poor who could have no cheaper as the rich no better meat used to make pottage of them boyling them down therein Several Natural causes were assigned hereof 1. That these Fowl frighted with much shooting on the Land retreated to the Sea-side for their refuge 2. That it is familiar with them in cold Winters such as that was to shelter themselves in the most Southern coasts 3. That some sort of seed was lately sown in those parts which invited them thither for their own repasts however saith our Author the cause of causes was Divine providence thereby providing a feast for many poor people who otherwise had been pinched for provision 2. The faithfulness of the place eminent now for a pair-Royal of extraordinary services to the Crown When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Hen. 7. time The Western Rebels under Edw. 6. Parliament Forces in King Charles the First 's Reign Their Spirit and Conduct being admirable in the two first and their Allegiance unstained in the last 3. The peculiar Gift of the Governour 1. In Watchfulness both in looking to his own charge and in taking advantages of his enemies 2. In an obliging address going as far sometimes with fair language and good words as others did with money 3. In encouraging the Souldiers labours with his own
I do so again Neither was he thus exceedingly religious as a man only but as a King Neither was Religion only his private Devotion but his publick Government wherein he aimed at 1. The peace of the Church wherein those parts and abilities that he saw lost in malice and dissentions might be very useful to the promoting of Religion and Godliness And 2. the honour maintenance and splendour of the Church For the first of which he consulted sufficiently in his favours to Arch-bishop Laud Bishop Neile Bishop Iuxon For the second by his endeavour to recover the Patrimony of the Church in England Ireland and Scotland where his religious intentions gave occasion to their rebellion who rather than they would part with their private sacrileges resolved on the publick ruine And for the third by his great charge in the repair of St. Pauls and other places To say nothing of his godly resolution to buy all Lands and Tythes alienated from the Church with his own Estate by such degrees as his other expences would give him leave the greatest testimonies of a design to make Religion as universal of his Empire next those from his own mouth First Before God The Kings Protestation at Christ-Church when he was to receive the Sacrament at the Bishop of Armaghs hands MY Lord I espy here many resolved Protestants who may declare to the World the resolution I now do make I have to the utmost of my power prepared my Soul to become a worthy receiver and so may I receive comfort by the blessed Sacrament as I do intend the establishment of the true Protestant Religion as it stood in its beauty in the happy daies of Queen Elizabeth without any connivance of Poperie I bless God that in the midst of these publick distractions I have still liberty to communicate and may this Sacrament be my damnation if my heart do not joyn with my lips in this protestation Secondly Before the VVorld The Kings Declaration to the Reformed Churches CHARLES By the special providence of Almighty God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To all those who profess the true Reformed Protestant Religion of what Nation condition and degree soever they be to whom this present Declaration shall come Greeting Whereas We are given to understand that many false rumours and scandalous Letters are spread up and down amongst the Reformed Churches in foreign parts by the politick or rather the pernicious industry of some ill affected persons that We have an inclination to recede from that Orthodox Religion which We were born baptized and bred in and which We have firmly professed and practised through the whole course of Our Life to this moment And that We intend to give way to the introduction and publick exercise of Popery again in Our Dominions Which conjecture or rather most detestable calumny being grounded upon no imaginable foundation hath raised these horrid Tumults and more than Barbarous Wars throughout these flourishing Islands under a pretext of a kind of Reformation which would not prove only incongruous but incompatible with the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this our Kingdom We desire that the whole Christian World should take notice and rest assured that we never entertained in our imagination the least thought to attempt such a thing or to depart a jot from that Holy Religion which when we received the Crown and Scepter of this Kingdome we took a most Solemn Sacramentall Oath to Profess and Protect Nor doth our most constant Practice and daily visible Presence in the Exercise of this sole Religion with so many asseverations in the head of our Armies and in the publick attestation of our Lords with the circumspection used in the education of our Royall Offspring besides divers other undeniable arguments only demonstrate this but also that happy Alliance of Marriage we Contracted between our eldest Daughter and the Illustrious Prince of Aurange most clearly confirmes the realty of Our intentions herein by which Nuptial engagement it appears further that Our endeavours are not only to make a bare profession thereof in Our own Dominions but to enlarge and coroborate it abroad as much as lyeth in Our power This most holy Religion with the Hierarchy and Liturgy thereof We solemnly protest that by the help of Almighty God We will endeavour to Our utmost power and last period of Our life to keep entire and immoveable and will be careful according to Our duty to Heaven and the tenour of the aforesaid most saCRed Oath at Our Coronation that all Our Ecclesiasticks in their several Stations and Incumbencies shall preach and practice the same Thirdly Before the Kingdom The Kings Declaration and Protestation before the whole Kingdom I Do promise in the presence of Almighty God and as I hope for his blessing and protection that I will to the utmost of my power defend and maintain the true Reformed and Protestant Religion established in the Church of England and by the grace of God in the same will live and dye I desire to govern by the known Laws of the Land and that the liberty and propriety of the Subject may be by them preserved with the same care as mine own just Rights And if it please God by his blessing upon this Army raised for my necessary defence to preserve me from this Rebellion I do solemnly and faithfully promise in the sight of God to maintain the just privilege and freedome of Parliament and to govern by the known Laws of the Land to my utmost power and particularly to observe inviolably the Laws consented unto by me this Parliament In the mean while if this time of War and the great necessity and straits I am now driven unto beget any violation of these I hope it shall be imputed by God and man to the Authors of this War and not to me who have so earnestly laboured for the peace of this Kingdom When I willingly fail in these particulars I will expect no aid or relief from any man or protection from Heaven But in this resolution I hope for the chearful assistance of all good men and am confident of Gods blessing Sept. 19. The Result of all which Holy Designs was these his own brave words viz. Though I am sensible enough of the danger that attends my Care of the Church yet I am resolved to defend it or make it my Tombestone A Prince of so much resolution and conduct that as he feared not a private man lodging Hamilton in his own Chamber all that time he was accused by Rey of Treason and saying to those that admired his confidence That Hamilton should know he as little feared his power as he distrusted his Loyalty and that he durst not notwithstanding the advantages of Night and solitariness attempt his life because he was resolved to sell it so dear It was his goodness that he desired not war and his fortune that he prospered not in it but his
his Victories He using this success to no other end than as earnestly to intreat them himself and all the Noblemen and Gentlemen in his Army as earnestly to accept of peace as if he had been conquered he should have begged it Willing he was to settle peace at home and yet scorned to accept of unhandsom terms from abroad All the world saw his Majesties inclination to a peace and the Rebels implacable resolution to go on with the war The Conspirators had need of their Brethren the Scots and the Scots upon the refusal of his Majesties Propositions were ashamed of them whence when they were not likely to be assisted from abroad they beg but upon hard conditions a peace at home Conditions that his Majesty would not yield to in his lowest condition though he would have done any thing but sin to obtain peace at the highest A peace that they must have yielded to had not they new-modelled their design and their army by a self-denying Ordinance cashiering all Officers that retained any degree of sobriety and a new model taking in all Sectaries to enlarge and make desperate their party Sad is the news the Rebels hear from all parts of England but very good that which his Majesty heard from Scotland where his friends increased as much as theirs decreased here such moderate men as Essex the Earl of Manchester and Denbigh laying down their Commissions when they saw such taking Commission as had laid down all thoughts of peace They were first entertained because a war could not be begun without the countenance of sober men but afterwards they were laid aside by the politick self-denial Ordinance because the war would be no longer continued by such In a word to such success had the conduct and magnanimity of his Majesty arrived that 1645. he writes to the Queen That he might without being too sanguine affirm that since the Rebellion his affairs were never in so hopeful a way Not to mention his great personal valour at Naseby a valour and conduct that deserved success though at last it wanted it the King having other virtues that were to be rendred glorious by sufferings as this had been by actions and therefore he was Betrayed not Overcome Sold and not Conquered And yet as his great Spirit at his best fortune endeavoured an honourable Peace so at his worse he would not admit of a dishonourable one for measuring his Propositions not by the event of affairs but by his own Conscience he stands to the same terms when Defeated as he did when Conqueror never betraying his Peoples Liberties to those Usurpers in hope of a Peace in the defence of which he thought fit to undertake a war I know not which is most magnanimous that he should with so much hazard venture his Person so resolutely and manage his cause against their Politicians and Divines so bravely or that he should with so much honour correspond with the Parliament in his own single Person answering the arguments of the one and the proud messages of the other and gaining that Conquest by his Pen that he could not by his Sword He is contented to discharge all his Garrisons and Armies and that excellent Association in the VVest formed by the Prince with the assistance of Sir Edward Hide c. being upon a design of overcoming his Enemies as he did Henderson c. and all that had the happiness to know him by his own Person and being likely to do more by a Peace than either others or indeed he himself could do by a war cutting those more than Gordian knots with the sharpness of his own single reason that could not be by the edge of all Englands Sword when the Scots after many debates with the English had not the courage to stand to their Promise Oath and Honour in keeping the Kings Person he owned a magnanimity whereby he kept Free even when delivered his own Conscience they could not be true to duty when tempted with 800000 â— nor he unworthy to his trust though tempted with three Kingdoms And now that King that with his bare presence had raised an Army in the beginning of the war that gave a Cheque to Rebellion four years now by his own Conduct when he had not one as they phrased it Evill Counsellor about him and gallant Sufferings he raised the City and all the Kingdom to reduce the Rebels to reason there being in his lowest condition 54000 Men and most of them such as had Engaged against him up in his defence in Scotland Wales Ireland and England and things were brought to that pass by his excellent managery that the very Army that overcamâ— him did not think themselves safe but under his Protection and therefore they ventured their Masters displeasure to gain the Kings Person each Party thinking its self more or less considerable as they wanted or injoyed him The Parliament as they call it Voting his Concessions Satisfactory on the one hand and the Army declaring their Propositions to the King unreasonable They that durst fight his Armies yet so farr Reverenced his Person that they did that to him in his lowest condition that is usually done to Princes in their highest and that is Flatter him the one saying that he had done enough and the other that he had done too much What a brave sight it was to see him able to manage his greatest misfortunes with Honour and his Enemies their greatest Victories with Confusions the Army against the Houses the Commons against the Lords yea one part against another the City for and against both the Common Souldiers by a new way of Agitation whereby they could spread and manage any treason sedition intelligence plot and design throughout the Army in a moment by two or three of the most active or desperate in a Company or Regiment And he all the while above all these enjoying the calm that sits in the Upper Region neither yielding to his Enemies nor his misfortues insomuch that when they were so barbarous as to let him want Linnen he said They had done so for two months but he would not afford them the pleasure of knowing that he wanted Yea and when some of them were too sawcy with him in private he could though their Prisoner civillize them with his look and Cane In a word the Kings fortitude appeared as eminent as his other vertures though ecclypsed as the Divine power is to some mens apprehensions by his mercy in that he could say to the last that he should never think himself weakned while he enjoyed the use of his reason and while God supplied with inward resolutions what he denied him in outward strength by which resolution he meant not a morosity to deny what is fit to be granted but a spirit not to grant what Religion and Justice denied I shall never think my self they are his own Royal expressions less than my self while I am able thus to preserve the integrity of my
Conscience A Prince thus excellent in himself and choice in his Council made up of persons eminent for their services for or against him for parts and abilities he equally valued in his enemies and in his friends and when he saw hopefull and accomplish'd persons lavishing their worth upon a faction and a private interest if they were not of desperate principles he would encourage them to lay it out upon the government and the publick good A Prince that never suffered a subject to goe sad from him never denied his people but what they have seen since that they could not saefly enjoy That Prince who besides the great examples he gave them and the great intercessions and services he did for them begun his Reign with the highest Act of Grace that he could or any King did in the World I mean the granting of the Petition of Right wherein he secured his Peoples estates from Taxes that are not given in Parliament and their Lives Liberties and Estates from all Proceedings not agreeable to Law A King that permitted his chief favourite and Counsellor the D. of Buckingham whose greatest fault was his Majesties favour to satisfie the Kingdom both in Parliament and Star-chamber in the way of a publick Process And gave up Mainwaring and Sibthorpe both as I take it his Chaplains to answer for themselves in Parliament saying He that will preach more than he can prove Let him suffer Yea and was contented to hold some part of his Revenue as Tunnage Poundage c. which was derived to him from his Ancestors by Inheritance by gift from the Parliament A Prince that pardoned and preferred all his Enemies that though accountable to none but God gave yet a just account of himself and treasures to the People saving them in two years from ordinary expences 347264 l. 15s 6d and gaining them by making London the bank for Spanish Dutch and Danish treasures 445981 l. 2s 3d. that dashed most of the Projects that were proposed to him for raising money and punished the Projectors that designed no worse things in Religion than Uniformity Peace Decency Order the rights and maintenance of the Church and the honour of Churchmen and in the State no more than the necessary defence of the Kingdom from dangers abroad and disorders at home which he maintained several years at his own charge that by destroying several of the Dutch Herring Busses and forcing the rest with all Dutch Merchants to trade only by permission in the Narrow Seas opened a brave trade to the English Nation A King that took so much pains to oblige his Loving Subjects going twice in person as far as Scotland though against the inclination of most of his Counsellours who looked upon the Scotch Faction as a sort of people that under the pretence of a specious way of plain speaking and dealing concealed the greatest animosities and reaches and twice with an Army rather to pacifie than overthrow the Rebels treating with them as a Father of his Country when in all probability he might have ruined them if he had proceeded against them 1639. and 1640. as a King and not in imitation of the Divine Majesty wrapped up the dreadful power he carried then with him in gracious condescentions of mercy A King that of 346. Libellers seditious Writers discovered Conspirators against his Crown Dignity and Authority in Church and State put none to death and punished but five throughout his whole Reign A King in whose Reign there were such good Canons made that Judge Crooke a Dissenter about Ship-money blessed God when he read them that he lived to see such Canons made for the Church A King that publickly declared That he was rosolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of his subjects One of the two Propositions he made the Parliament 1640. being to desire them to propose their grievances wherein he promised them to concurr so heartily and clearly with them that all the VVorld might see That his intentions ever have been and are to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And to shew his good inclination to Religion married his eldest Daughter to an ordinary Protestant Prince And to the welfare of the Kingdom he tyed himself to a Triennial Parliament allowing this Parliament to sit as long as they thought fit and for a time to order the Militia entreating them to set down what they thought necessary for him to grant or them to enjoy vacating for their sake the Courts of Star-Chamber and High-Commissions the VVards the Forrests the Court on the Marches of Wales and the North Monopolies Ship-money his haereditary right to Tunnage and Poundage the Bishops Votes in Parliament and doing so much for peace that one asking Mr. Hampden a leading Card amongst them VVhat they would have him do more was answered That renouncing all his Authority he should cast himself wholly on the Parliament Yea as if this had not been enough A King that suffered all his Ministers of State to clear their innocency before publick Judicatures in the face of the World and though accountable only to him for their actions yet ready to appeal to their very accusers themselves for their Integrity And yet not so willing to remit his friends to Justice as his Enemies to favour if either they had hearkned to the re-iterated Proclamations of Pardon sent to them during the War or acquiesced in the Amnesty offered to and accepted by them after it an Amnesty that they might have securely trusted to when he bestowed upon them not only their lives but likewise for some years all the power over the Militia of the Kingdom to make good that pardon by which they held their lives neither had they only the Sword in their hands to defend but all places of trust authority and Judicature to secure and inrich themselves the King allowing them for so long a time not only to enjoy all their own places but to dispose of all others adding this favour too that they who grudged him a power to raise money to supply his occasions should have what power they pleased to raise money to satisfie their own demands and when he had confirmed the pardon of the Kingdom in general he offered the renovation of all Charters and Corporation Privileges in particular denying nothing that their ambition or covetousness could desire or his Conscience grant being willing to be no King himself that his people might be happy Subjects and to accept of a titular Kingdom on condition they had a peaceable one In Religion its self wherein he denyed most because he had less poweâ— to grant those points being not his own Prerogatives but those of the King of Kings he grants his Adversaries Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their followers on condition he might have the same liberty to himself and his followers desiring no more than to enjoy that freedom as a Soveraign that they claimed as Subjects Any thing he yielded they should
take from his Clergy but what God gave them Concluding That he desired them to be subject to him no further than that he and they might be subject to God That a King that was and did so as he was and did should be first suspected and then opposed should be rendred ridiculous abroad and odious at home should easier perswade his foreign enemies to a Peace than his own subjects to contribute to a War and that of their own advising and perswading That such a King should first suffer in his prime Favourites and Ministers of State and then in his own Person That such a King should be forced to sell his Crown Lands to defend and serve them who would by no means yield any thing to maintain him yea questioned Sr. Iohn Wolstenhome Mr. Dawes and Mr. Caermarthen Farmers of the Custome-house for levying his ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage unless he acknowledged that as their favour which to maintain Convoy and Trade he enjoyed as an haereditary Right That under such a King any should say as Cooke and Turner did That the People had better perish by a foreign War than by a domestique Oppresssion and it should be a capital offence to enjoy his favour That one sort of subjects should invade and other abbet and libel him That his ancient Kingdom of Scotland should throw themselves upon the French King and the Kingdom of England upon French Counsels and Designs That so good a Master should be betrayed by his Servants have his Pocket pick'd his Letters discovered as Hamilton did Montross's and the E. of H. did the design against the five Members That malapert Burgesses should bawl out Remonstrances and Citizens affronts against so great and so excellent a Majesty It was introllerable to frame Conventicles Associations and Conspiracies against his proceedings in Church and State but horrid to do so against his Person That when they had stood out many years against allowing him any Taxes without their consent they shall seize his Crown and Dignity without his that those whom he had raised from the people should adhere to the people against him and when they had corresponded with armies that are but tumults mustered in the North they should incourage tumults which are but indisciplined armies in the South that the one might drive him out of his Kingdom for fear and the other out of the Royal City for shame that the Scots should sight and he not dare to call them Rebels and his faithful Counsellors should assist him and he not dare to own them as friends That such a King should be abused to Parliaments by his servants and to his people by Parliaments should be first intreated out of his Magazines Castles and whole Militia and then fought against with them should be forced out of one Town and shut out of another should see his Queen threatned with Articles at one time and though she would not believe that being loath to think the English should do her any ill offices to whom she had done none but good afterwards impeached without any regard to Sex Virtues Birth Allies and Majesty circumstances that would have guarded her from the Barbarous for no other fault but for owning that obedience to her Lord and Husband which they had renounced to their Soveraign That such a Prince should see his whole Court Voted and dealt with as Traitors his Estate Sequestred for Delinquency his Clergy and Church which he was by oath obliged to defend and maintain in its due rights ruined for keeping the Fifth Commandement and Rom. 13. his Churches turned to Stables his Loyal Subjects Murthered Plundered Banished and he not able to help them his Laws and Edicts over-ruled by I know not what Orders and Ordinances his Seals and great Offices of State counterfeited all the costly ornaments of Religion ruined and defaced Learning that was his honor and his care trampled on by its and his old enemies the Ignorant These are things that the world could never believe till it felt them and will not believe when the impressions of them are worn off This wise and good King the same in all fortunes was he that must pardon his enemies but must except his friends out of pardon he that when all his Subjects had sworn Oaths of Allegiance to him must swear an oath devised by his Subjects called Covenant against himself He without whom no oath could he imposed upon the Subjects hath an oath imposed upon him by his Subjects and in that oath must swear that government in the Church Anti-christian which was the only Christian government for 1500 years And when Divines dispute that and other points probably the poor King and his people must swear them peremptorily He that saw an army raised for the King that is himself and Parliament against himself and the instruments of death levelled against his person in his name And heard the very people promise to make him a glorious King who murthered him He that a people complained to of grievances that would not indure the remedies that complained that he made and continued a war when they would not endure a peace and when they had voted his Concessions sufficient grounds to proceed on to the settlement of the kingdom and yet ruined it He that they declared against for raising a Guard at York Nottingham to secure himself c. when they raised at Army at London to Take Imprison and Murther him That must be author of all the bloud shed in the three Nations after all his Concessions Messages Declarations Treaties and Overtures a sea and mercy to 20000 Rebels to stanch it And when all the bloud that was spilt before his death was to rob him of his life and government as appears by the five times more bloud that was spilt after his death to make good that robbery and murther He that saw a war begun to remove his evil Council and ended in the taking off his Head and that was said to begin a war when his first was dated the very day his enemies army was mustered the Faction having ordered an army to take him before he thought of one to save himself This is that Prince that saw a people in the Name of God lay hands on his anointed Preachers of the Gospel of peace trumpet it for war Religion made an argument against obedience and the Holy Spirit urged against peace and love and the Text He that resisteth the King the Ordinance of God resisteth to his own damnation understood thus He that resisteth not shall be Sequestred and that Curse ye Meroz that came not to help the Lord against the Mighty thus Curse ye all English-men that help not the Rebellious against Gods Anointed And Fear God Honor the King into fear the Lord and kill the King and that where the word of a King there is power understood thus The King shall not have a Negative Voice A King that saw himself Engaged
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
offer to both adding that we should think long before we resolve of great matters and an hasty Judgment may bring on that trouble and perpetual inconvenience to the kingdom that the Child unborn may repent of adjuring them as they would answer it at the dreadful day of Judgment to hear what he had to say The Club of Assassinates proceed to this horrid Sentence Whereas the Commons of England in Parliament have appointed them an High Court of Iustice for the Trying of Chales Stuart King of England before whom he had been three times Convented and at first time a Charge of High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors was read in the behalf of the kingdom of England c. Here the Clerk Read the Charge Which Charge being Read unto him as aforesaid He the said Charles Stuart was required to give his Answer but he refused so to do and so exprest the several passages at his Tryal in refusing to Answer For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick Enemy shall be put to death by the Severing his Head from his Body To which horrid Sentence the whole Pack stood up by agreement among themselves before made and though they agreed in nothing else either before or since unanimously Voted the bloudy words words of so loud a guilt that they drowned all the earnest Proposals of Reason and Religion offered by a Prince that was a great master of both reason being a more dreadful Sentence against than that they pronounced against him and then used the sameforce to hurry the King away that they had imployed to bring him thither answering his Allegations with that violence wherewith they composed and made good their own The King always great was now greater in the eye of the world for the great Reason he offered the honorable Conduct 〈◊〉 managed and the freedom of Speech he used much beyond other times the captivity of his Person contributing much to the liberty of his Discourse All the great throng that pittied but could not help afflicted Majesty with whom they saw themselves drawn to the slaughter groaned upon the Sentence but with the peril of their lives It being as fatal then for any persons to own respect or kindness to Majesty as it was for the King to carry it and as dangerous for others to be good Subjects as for him to be a good King They that were to force him out of his Life forced others out of their Loyalty endeavouring fondly to depose him from his Subjects hearts as they had done from his Throne Several persons having since deposed that to set off their ridiculous Scene they had those who were appointed to force poor creatures to cry Iustice Iustice who as the excellent Prince observed would have done as much for money for their own Commanders a word one of them in Command then said since he cried because if it had been heard the Traytors had been at the Bar and the Judges of the Land at the Bench and deterr others from saying God save the King Notwithstanding which force this last voice was the most hearty and the other most forced Observable it is that to make his Majesty parallel with his great Pattern whom he represented equally in his Sufferings and in his Goodness and Power a wretch that was within a little while executed by his own Partner Spit in his Face whereat his Majesty not moved only wiped the Spittle and said My Saviour suffered much more for me The Excellent Prince while the Traytors before him were as much slaves to their base Malice Envy Fear Ambition and Cruelty as the poor People were to them exercising as ample a Dominion over himself now as he had heretofore over three kingdoms looking not as if he were before the Miscreants but they before him and he to give as he did and not receive a Doom I cannot forget how an Ancient Father saith That some creatures would not suffer God to be a God unless he please them These are the Creatures that would not endure Gods Vice-gerent should be so unless he served them Thus having formerly forgotten the Oaths of God that were upon them laid aside the Allegiance which they owed gone against the sense of the Law of the Clergy the Nobility the Gentry and most of the sober people of the Nation Besides above half of both Houses before they could fight the King But infinite were the obstructions they were to break through so carefully hath God guarded Kings before they could murther Him they must suppress the unanimous desires of the whole Nation expressed in the looks wishes and prayers of all men and the declared sense of several Countries in their respective Petitions which many thousands delivered in London with the hazard of their Lives and maintained in North-wales under Sir Iohn Owen in South-wales under Laughorne and Poyer in the Navy under the Prince in Kent Essex and Surrey under several of the Nobility and Gentry of those and the adjacent Counties they must steal the King that won ground from his Adversaries by his carriage as much as they had done upon him by their Arts and power reducing to an entire obedience to his Government all that conversed with his Excellent Person from those men that were now as ready to engage for him as ever they did against him as they did at Holdenby when it was said so considerable is a suffering King his very miseries being more powerful than his Armies by the Faction that now they had the King in their power they had the Parliament in their Pockets they must renounce those promises they made upon their Souls and as they and their Posterity should prosper that pittying the barbarous usage of His Majesty they were resolved never to part with their Arms till they had made his way to the Throne and rendred the condition of his party the more tolerable Promises that to enâ—nare the charitable Prince that suspected not that falshood in others that he found not in himself they gilded with the like specious but entrapping kindnesses as the permission of what they knew was as dear as his Life to the pious King the Ministry of his Chaplains Commerce by Letters with his Queen the Visits of his Party the service of his Courtiers some whom they also admitted to their Council of War to mould Propositions which they will urge in his behalf and alter them to the Kings gust and at his advice the intermingling with their Remonstrances such good words as these That the Queen and the Royal Family must be restored to all their Rights or else no hope of a solid Peace They must sacrifice Eleven of the most Worthy Members in the House of Commons and seven Noble Lords to the lusts and cavils of mercenary Soldiers that would not hearken formerly to the delivering of half so many to answer the Articles of their
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
nec dum omnibus manifesto optimis Consiliis fortis in Curia Senator restiterit sed insinuante se latius veneno crescente ferocia domum ad sâ—os reversus fortior miles in agro suo Somersetensi vicinis partibus omni ope manu iniquissimam causam oppugnaverit in Arce praesertim Sherborniana sub Auspiciis Marchionis Hertfordiae egregiam operam navaverit Mox ulterius progressus pollenti in Devonia factionis Tyrannide munitissima civitate in faedus illecta jam undique bonis subditis perniciem minante ipse pene in Regione Hospes Contracto e Cornubio milite primoribus statim impetum eorum repressit jacentesque afflictas nostras partes mirifica virtute recreavit Et licet summis necessitatibus Conflictanti exigua pars Negotii hostes erant tantum abfuit ut vel illis vel istis succumberet ut contra Copias auctiores bellico apparatu instructissimas saepius signis Collatis in acie dimicans semper superior excesserit Testis Launcestionia Salt ash Bradock aliaque obscura olim nomina loca nunc victoriis illius perduellium cladibus nobilitata vix etiam ab his respiraverat cum novus belli furor lassas jam fere continuis praeliis laxatas vires Numerossimo excercitu adortus uberiorem triumphandi dedit materiam Cum ille in campis Stratoniae in difficillimis licet angustiis redactus inops militaris instrumenti Consumpto jam pulvere tormentario armatos inermis vallo munito inter sola causa virtute animatus ita retudit concidit castris exuit ut totam belli molem cum ipsis Authoribus profligavit Quicquid fugae illius residuum erat inter urbis unius maenia eaque arcta obsidione astricta Concluso Qua quidem pugna memorabili praeter quod miserum popellum jugo intollerabili levaverat sedes suas expulsis Ecclesias Pastoribus pacem omnibus firma mentum pacis obsequium restituerit Et jam sequenti armorum nostrorum felicitate quae partes Regni occidentales maturius ad officium verum Dominum redierunt viam apperuisse momentum ingens extitisse libentissime profitemur In hac opera laudabili cum praefatus Radulphus perstitert adhuc invicto animo industria indefessa nullo arduo quantum vis labore periculo excusatus cumque mille argumentis testatum fecerit Honorem salutemque nostram sibi omni fortuna capite potiorem nos virum fortissimum optimeque affectum animum benigno stu dio prosequi amplius demereri volentes hunc praeconio merito ornandum propriori ad nos gradu extollendum censuimus Sciatis igitur nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia vero motu praefatum Radulphum Hopton ad statum gradum stylum Dignitatem Titulum Honorem Baronis Hapton de Statton in Comitatu nostro Cornubiae c. In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fecimus Patententes Teste meipso apud Oxon quarto die Septembris Anno Regni nostri Decimo nono Jones HIs two great Actions the one at Liscard the other at Stratton cannot be better described than by an Eye-witness whose words are these as he saith out of a Manuscript corrected with Sir Ralphs own hand communicated to him by his Secretary Mr. Tredus At Liscard a little before the Fight began the Kings party took it into seasonable consideration that seeing by the Commission the Lord Mohun brought from Oxford four Persons viz. the said Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Iohn Berkley and Colonel Ashburham were equally impowered in the managing of all Military matters and seeing such equality might prove inconvenient which hitherto had been prevented with the extraordinary moderation of all parties in ordering a Battel it was fittest to fix the Power in one Chief and general consent setled it in Sir Ralph Hopton He first gave order that publick prayers should be read in the Head of every Squadron and it was done accordingly and the Enemy observing it did style it saying of Mass as some of their Prisoners did afterwards confess Then he caused the Foot to be drawn in the best order they could and placed a Forlorn of Musqueteers in the little Inclosures wringing them with the few Horse and Dragoons he had This done two small Minion Drakes speedily and secretly fetched from the Lord Mohun's House were planted on a little Burrough within random-shot of the Enemy yet so that they were covered out of their sight with small parties of Horse about them These concealed Minions were twice discharged with such success that the Enemy quickly quitted their ground and all their Army being put into a Rout the Kings Forces had the Execution of them which they performed very sparingly taking 1250. Prisoners all their Canon and Ammunition and most of their Colours and Arms and after publick thanks taking their repose at Liscard Stratton Fight succeeds on Thursday the 16. of May 1643. THe Kings Army wants Ammunition and hath a steep-hill to gain with all disadvantage and danger The Horse and Dragoons being not five hundred and the Foot two thousand four hundred THe Parliament Army well furnished and Barricado'd upon the top of the hill their Foot 3400 and their Horse not many indeed having dispatched 1200 to surprize the Sheriff and Commissioners at Bodmin ON the Kings side order was given to force the passage to the top of the hill by four several Avenues the ascent was deep and difficult resolutely did his Majesties Forces get up and obstinately did the Enemy keep them down The fight continued doubtful with many countenances of various events from four in the morning till three in the afternoon amongst which most remarkable the smart charge made by M. G. Chudleigh with a stand of Pikes on Sir Bevile Greenvil who fell nobly himself and had lost his Squadron had not Sir Iohn now Lord Berkley who led up the Musqueteers on each side of Sir Bevil seasonably relieved it so resolutely re-inforcing the Charge that Major General Chudleigh was taken Prisoner Betwixt three and four of the Clock the Commanders of the Kings Forces who embraced those four several ways of ascent met to their mutual joy almost on the top of the hill which the routed Enemy confusedly forsook In this service though they were Assailants they lost very few men and no considerable Officer killing of the Enemy about three hundred and taking seventeen hundred Prisoners all their Canon being thirteen pieces of Brass Ordnance and Ammunition seventy Barrels of Powder with a Magazine of Bisket and other Provision proportionable For this Victory publick Prayer and Thanksgiving was made on the hill then the Army was disposed of to improve their success to the best advantage Nothing had sunk his great spirit but the fate of Kingdoms with whose ruine only he was contented to fall and disbanded his Souldiers upon honorable terms Five things made my Lord
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
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
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
Zerâ—bbabel who repaired the Temple and restored its beauty but he was the Ioshuah the High-priest who under him ministred this blessing to the Congregations of the Lord. But his care was not determined in the exterior part only and accessaries of Religion he was careful he was prosperous in the interior to reduce that Divine and Excellent Service of our Church to publick and constant Exercise to Unity and Devotion and to cause the Articles of the Church of England to be accepted as the rule of publick Confessions and Perswasions here that they might be populus unius labii of one Heart and of one Lip building up our hopes of heaven upon a most holy Faith and taking away that Shibboleth which made this Church lisp too undecently or rather in some little degree to speak the Speech of Ashdod and not the Language of Canaan and the excellent and wise pains he took in this particular no man can demonstrate or reproach but he that is not willing to confess that the Church of England is the best Reformed Church in the World God by the prosperity of his labours and a blessed effect gave testimony not only of the piety and wisdom of his purposes but that he loves to bless a wise instrument when it is vigorously exerted in a wise and religious labour He overcame the difficulty in defiance of all such pretences as were made even from Religion it self to obstruct the better procedure of real and material Religion These were great things and matter of great envy and like the Fiery Eruptions of Vesuvius might with the very Ashes of Consumption have buried another man At first indeed as his blessed Master most Holy Jesus had so he also had his annum acceptabilem At first the product was nothing but great admiration at his stupendious parts and wonder at his mighty diligence and observation of his unusual zeal in so good and great things But this quickly passed into the natural Daughters of Envy Suspition and Detraction the spirit of Obloquy and Slander His zeal for recovering of the Church Revenues was called Oppression and Rapine Covetousness and Injustice his care of reducing Religion to wise and justifiable Principles was called Popery and Arminianism and I know not what names which signifie what the Authors are pleased to mean and the People to construe and to hate The intermedial prosperity of his person and fortune which he had as an earnest of a greater reward to so well meant labours was supposed to be the production of illiberal arts and ways of getting and the necessary refreshment of his wearied spirits which did not always supply all his needs and were sometimes less than the permissions even of prudent charity they called Intemperance Dederunt enim malum Motelli Naevioâ— poetae their own surmises were the three Bills of Accusation and the splendor of his great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or doing of good works was the great probation of all their calumnies But if Envy be the Accuser what can be the Defences of Innocence Saucior invidiae morsu quaerenda medola est Dic quibus in terris sentiet aeger opem Our B.S. knowing the unsatisfiable angers of Men if their Money or Estates were medled with refused to divide an Inheritance amongst Brethren It was not to be imagined that this great person invested as all his Brethren were with the infirmities of Mortality and yet imployed in dividing and recovering and apportioning of Lands should be able to bear all that reproach which jealousie and suspicion and malicious envy could invent against him But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said Sophocles And so did he the affrightments brought to his great fame andreputation made him to walk more warily and do justly and walk prudently and conduct his affairs by the measures of the Laws as far as he understood and indeed that was a very great way But there was aperta Iustitia clausa Manut Justice was open but his Hand was shut and though every Slanderer could tell a Story yet none could prove that ever he received a Bribe to blind his Eyes to the value of a Pair of Gloves It was his own expression when he gave Glory to God who had preserved him Innocent But because every mans Cause is right in his own Eyes it was hard for him so to acquit himself that in the Intrigues of Law and Difficult Cases some of his enemies should not seem when they were heard alone to speak reason against But see the greatness of Faith and Prudence and how greatly God stood with him when the numerous Armies of vexed people Turba gravis paci placidaeque inimica quieti heaped up Catalogues of Accusations when the Parliament of Ireland imitating the violent Procedures of the then disordered English when this glorious Patron was taken from his Head and he was disrobed of his great defences when the Petitions were invited and Accusations furnished and Calumny was rewarded and managed with Art and Power when there was above two hundred Petitions put in against him and himself denied leave to answer by Word of Mouth when he was long Imprisoned and Treated so that a guilty man would have broken into affrightment and pittiful and low considerations yet then he standing almost alone like Callimachus at Marathon invested with Enemies and covered with Arrows defended himself beyond all the powers of Guiltiness even with the defences of Truth and the bravery of Innocence and answered the Petitions in Writing sometimes twenty in a day with so much Clearness Evidence of Truth Reallity of Fact and Testimony of Law that his very Enemies were ashamed and convinced they found that they had done like Aesops Viper they licked the File till their Tongues bled but himself was wholly invulnerable They were therefore forced to leave their Muster-rolls and decline their Particulars and fall to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to accuse him for going about to subvert the Fundamental Laws the way by which great Strafford and Canterbury fell which was a device when all reasons failed to oppress the Enemy by the bold Affirmation of a Conclusion they could not prove they did like those Gladiatores whom the Romans called Reâ—iaries when they could not Stab their Enemies with their Daggers they threw Nets over him and covered him with a general mischief But the Martyr King Charles the First of most Glorious and Eternal Memory seeing so great a Champion likely to be oppressed with numbers and despair sent what rescue he could his Royal Letter for his Bayl which was hardly granted to him and when it was it was upon such hard terms that his very delivery was a persecution So necessary it was for them who intended to do mischief to the publick to take away the strongest Pillars of the House This thing I remark to acquit this great man from the tongue of slander which had so boldly spoken that it was certain some thing would stick yet was impotent and unarmed that it
remember another His industry was great in the mornings attending his Philosophy and in the afternoons Collecting Materials for such subjects as he would receive satisfaction in his body strong his natural and artificial memory exact his fancy slow though yet he made several sallies into Poetry and Oratory both to relieve his severer thoughts and smooth and knit his broken and rough stile made so by the vast matter it was to comprehend being taught by Ben Iohnson as he would brag to rellish Horace but judgment sure his nature communicative A good Herald as appears by his Titles of Honor a great Antiquary as he shewed by his Marmora Arundeliana on Drayton's Eâ—dmerus his many ancient Coins and more modern rich in his Study and in his Coffers a skillful Lawyer discovered by his Observat on Fleta tenures Fortesne modus tenendi Parliamentum and his Arguments being the readiest man in the kingdom in Records well seen in all learning as is evident in his History of Tyths comprehending all Jewish Heathen and Christian learning on that subject his Mare Clausum against Grotius his Mare Liberum containing all the Laws Customs and Usages of the World in that point his Vxor Hebraica de Synedriis Lex naturae secundum consuetudines Hebraick being Monuments of his insight in the Jewish learning his books de Diis Syris being an instance how well he understood how the Heathen Fables was the corruption of Sripture-truth and how the Gentile Learning might be made subservient to Christian Religion his Book of Tyths Printed 1616. gave offence for the Preface of it disparaging the Credit of our Clergy in point of learning and for the Matter prejudicing their interest in point of profit though answered by Sir Iames Temple for the legal and historical part Mr. Nettles of Queens Colledge Cambridge a great Talmudist for the Judaical part by Mr. Mountague and Dr. Tilsley Archdeacon of Rochester for the Greek and Latine learning with the Ecclesiastical History the fiercest storm saith one that fell on Parsonage Barns since the Reformation but he omitted that 28. Ianu. 1618. before four Bishops and four Doctors of Law and a Publick Notary he tendred his submission and acknowledgment for his presumption in that Book under his Hand in these very words My good Lords I Most humbly acknowledge my error which I have committed in publishing the History of Tithes and especially in that I have at all by shewing any Interpretation of holy Scriptures by medling with Counsels Fathers or Canons or by whatsoever occurres in it offered any just occasion of Argument against any right of maintenance of Iure Divino of the Ministers of the Gospel beseeching your Lordships to receive this ingenuous and humble acknowledgment together with the unfeigned protestation of my grief for that through it I have so incurred both his Majesties and your Lordships displeasure conceived against me in behalf of the Church of England Iohn Selden Which his submission and acknowledgment being received and made an Act of Court was entred into the publick Registrie thereof by this Title following viz. Officium dominorum contra Joh. Seldenum de inter Templo Lond. Armiger I am loath to think that the Play Ignoramus Acted at Cambridge 1614. to make some sport with Lawyers was the occasion of this History published 1616. to be even with Divines but apt to think that the latitude of his minde tracing all parts of Learning did casually light on the Rode of this Subject handling it as he did all others with great freedom according to the Motto written in all his books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The foresaid Submission was accompanied with an humble Letter afterwards with his own hand to Bishop Laud wherein many expressions of his contrition much condemning himself for Writing a book of that nature and for Prefacing such a book with insolent reflections of that kinde And this Letter seconded with an Apology in Latine to all the world to clear himself from the least suspition of disobedience to Government or disassection to the Church and that Apology backed with a Dedicatory Epistle to Archbishop Laud expressing great reverence to his Function and an honorable respect to his Person for his great design for the advancement of Universal Learning and the truly Catholick Religion whereupon the recommended him for Burgess to the University of Oxford in the Long Parliament which and an intimate acquaintance with the honorable Io. Vanghan Esq of Troescod to whom he Dedicated some of his Books and Bishop Vsher who Preached at his Funeral he reckoned the greatest honors of his life He was outed that Parliament to use his own words by those men that deposed his Majesty Dr. Mathew Grissith born in London bred in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford Lecturer at St. Dunstans in the West under Dr. Donnes inspection whose favourite he was Minister of Maudelins Fish-street London by his donation For telling the Citizens that they sent in their Bodkins Thimbles c. to furnish out the Cause as the Children of Israel did their Ear-rings and Jewels only these had a Calf for theirs whereas they were likely to have a Bull for theirs and for a Sermon at St. Pauls about the peace of Ierusalem Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned in Newgate and forced to fly to Oxford whence he returned continuing Prayers and other Ordinances in London according to the Established Laws of the Church of England during the Usurpation enduring seven violent Assaults five Imprisonments the last of which was at Newgate 1659. for a Sermon Called fear God and honor the King Preached at Mercers-Chappel pardon one big with his Loyalty if he Longed for his Majesties Restauration before the Design of it was ripe he died Minister of the forsaid Maudlin Parish Lecturer of the Temple London and Rector of Bladon in Oxford-shire where he departed Octob. 14. Anno Aetatis 68. Domini 65. having broken a Vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point Study to be quiet and follow your own business and ventured his Life at Bazing-house where his Daughter manly lost hers To whom I will subjoyn his neighbor Mr. Chostlen of Fryday-street Assaulted in his house Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned first in one of the London Compters and afterwards in Colchester-Goal And gentile Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons who as Bishop Vsher would say he Preached Perkins so long till he was able to imitate him Preached Seneca and St. Bernard so much till they attained a sententiousness as happy as theirs and art of Preaching that is of Collecting Composing and Delivering their discourses by having those things whereof they themselves had onely some imperfect confused Notion fully and clearly represented to their view from the discoveries that other men have made after much study and experience Dr. Tho. Howel born at Nanga-March near Brecknock in Brecknock-shire bred Scholar and Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Oxford smooth and meek in his Conversation and his Sermons by both gliding
there before they were aware of him and so couragiously that he came back disputing nine Passes and after twelve Skirmishes maâ—gre all the opposition made against him routing first and last in that famous Expedition 9000. men A little before Naseby fight my Lord declared for breaking into the Associated Counties and so through them to the North to chase away the Scots when that battel was resolved on where he said when he was desired to Lead the Left Wing of Horse in that sight that by reason of the Leicester Plunder the averseness of his men from fighting save in their own Country and the tired condition of the whole Army would ruin his Majesty as it did he being never able to make head for him but once afterwards 1648. when with Sir Phillip Musgrave having surprized Carlisle and Berwick he joyned 3000. brave English to Hamilton's Scots beating Lambert back to Appleby and taking several strong holds by the way as he had done the kingdom had his advise been hearkened to in marching directly to York and so to London whereas they wandered in Cumberland and Westmerland as Colonel Stuart when afterwards upon the Stool of Repentance for that Expedition being asked gravely by the Ministers whether by his Malignancy he went not out of the way answered that he went wrong to Westmerland when he should have gone to York that Scots Army being beaten as soon as seen there being no more effectual resistance made by the 16000. horse and foot under Hamilton of whom the King said when he heard that he was Commander in Chief that he expected no good from that Army than was made by Sir Marmaduke with the 2000. English that he had raised and commanded Sir Marmaduke Langdale was taken Prisoner and by caressing his Guards made an ingenious and bold escape to his Majesty beyond Sea where he carried that seriousness in his countenance he was a very lean and much mortified man the enemy here called him Ghost and deservedly they were so haunted by him that gravity in his converse that integrity and generosity in his dealing that strictness in his devotion that experience moderation and wariness in his Counsel that weight in his discourse as much endeared to strangers his Royal Masters Cause and his own person in all the Countries he travelled as he did many and all the Armies he engaged in as he did in most then afoot in Europe till he was restored with his Majesty 1660. when appearing in Parliament as Baron Langdale of Holmes till his Majesty by the Act of Indemnity and disbanding the Army was fully setled he returned to his considerable Estate in York-shire satisfied for 160000. l. loss in his Majesties service with the conscience of having suffered it in a good cause and acquitted himself bravely and played the man if thou do ill the joy fades and not the pains if well the pain doth fade the joy remains His Discipline was strict and exact It was present death to wrong the meanest person in the least thing where he had any Command saying that he must make the people believe that his Army was raised to protect them and therefore it was not fit in an Army of his wherein every Souldier was a Gentleman He died 1661. Deterrimi saeculi optimi heroes G. Dux Somersetensis H. Comes Cumberlandiae Marmaduke Baro Langdale Pulverem Sparge Lector abi â—egi vult modesta virtus non legi cujus hoc dogma ama nesciri Sir Thomas Glemham having most of the noble blood of England in his Veins had most of the virtues that belonged to such blood in his Soul having had experience of the German Wars then the great Nursery of our English Gentlemen he was the fitter for service in our wars being an admirable Commander of Horse and a discreet and watchful Governor of a Garrison forcing York he was made Governor of it and Commander in chief of his Majesties Forces upon the borders whence he writ to Argyle as smart a discourse as was written during the wars about the Scots Invading England against their Allegiance the late Pacification and the many obligations of his Majesty upon them upon the invitations of a few inconsiderable men that carried on designs of Innovation contrary to the known Laws Government Liberties and Priviledges of the Kingdome disabusing those parts and people as to the â—alse rumors and aspersions spread by the Scots among them Against whom and all the Northern Forces whom he made to shrink like Northern Cloath He kept the City of York 18 weeks till after he had gallantly withstood 22 Storms Counter-mines 4 slain 4 or 5000 of the enemies he was forced after the fatal Battel all Marston-moor which he would not have had fought to surrender up the City upon very honorable conditions for themselves and good for the City and Country whose Trade Freedom Estates and Government were secured in the Articles as their Persons were at the surrender Iuly 16. 1644. As he did the Garrison of Carlisle after 9 moneths seige in which time he kept it to astonishment against Pestilence Famine and all the power of Scotland upon the same terms to the Scots and the head Garrisons of Oxford upon the Kings order the noblest terms that ever Garrison was delivered on to Sir Tho. F. his Army over which his Majesty placed him because of his moderation sobriety popularity good temper reputation and his skill in fortification many additions to the works of that Garrison being made by him whereof one was of most dangerous consequence to the enemy viz. the breaking of the ground before the Trenches into pits full of stakes that nei-Horse nor Foot could attempt the Works nor a close seige especially in the Winter-floods be laid to them After an Arrest in London contrary to the Oxford Articles and sometimes Imprisonment in the Fleet thereupon he passed to Holland and there falling sick Sir M.L. and he for some reasons little frequenting the Court died some twelve years agoe by the same token that a Horse-farrier that belonged to him formerly in the North being commended to him for a great Doctor in Holland the honest man when he saw him desired to be excused calling for a more expert Physitian and telling him privately entreating his privacy that the doses he used to administer to the Northern Horse did agree infinitely well with Dutch bodies His Brother the Reverend Dr. Glemham is now Dean of Bristol and Bishop Elect of St. Asaph Tho. Glemham Cuj castra Carleolente Eboracense Monumentum sunt Oxonium Epitaphium Sir Henry Slingsby the Head of an ancient and numerous family of which Sir Arthur Slingsby Col. Tho Slingsby Col. Slingsby in York-shire whre he was High-Sheriff 9 Iacobi and always a good Justicer a noble Landlord a serious man much conversant with Holy men and our best Divines a generous Master a Gentleman of a large Estate spent most of it in the Kings service and the rest
melius Gladiate Nomarcha Iust â— oculo tueris Iusta tuere manuâ— Arma stylo socias haeres utriusque minervae Iuridicum bellum bellica Iura facis Nata sit Astraeo Diva Astraea Gigante Hermarium fas est hanc habuisse Ducem Quis dubitare potest sub Duplo Alcide Trophaea Qui calamo cicures Qui Domat ense seras His Brother Dr. Litleton Master of the Temple a man indued with Prudence the Mistress of Graces without which they are useless to others and Humility the preserver of them without which they perish to a mans self who used to say that Ambition being the great principle that acts more or less in all men that Government was more or less happy that did more or less intend the imploying of Able-men to keep them from running out suitably to their ambition who being Sequestred of all paid yet out of his nothing for his Loyalty 100 l. as Sir Edward Litleton by Fisher Litleton and Francis Nevill Esq 1347 l. and Sir Thomas Litleton of Stake St. Mildbourgh Sal. with 180 l. per annum setled 307 l. besides a severe Imprisonment when he was taken at the surprize of Bewdley Sir Robert Heath of Cutsmore as I take it in Rutland a man of so great integrity giving for his Motto in his Rings when made Serjeant Term Mic. 7. Septimo Car. I. Lex regis vis regis that when it appeared to him that the people encroached too much upon their Soveraign he prosecuted them severely witness Sir Io. Eliot c. and others for their extravagancies in the Parliament 1628. as Sollicitor and Attorney General to King Iames and King Charles the I. when he doubted his Majesty was advised to press too much upon the subject he rather than go against his Conscience quitted his place of chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sept. 14. 10 Caroli pleading at the Bar in that Court where he had sate on the Bench until again the rare example of one playing an after-game of favour His Majesty made him one of the Justices of the Kings Bench 9 Dec. 16 Car. I. where he behaved himself with so much plain honesty that 1. A Lady commencing an unlikely Suit against her Husbands opinion and living in the Shire-Town invited Judge Heath to a great entertainment the very day her Cause was to be tryed after which immediately going to the Hall he gave sentence according to evidence and right against her whereupon she saying to her Husband that she would never invite Judge again was answered by him Never invite honest Iudge again 2. And Iohn Lilburne being tryed before him for his Rebellion when he had been taken at Brentford at Oxford made frequent use of his words at another tryal before them he had fought at London viz. God â—orbid Mr. Lilburne but you should have all the benefit the Law the Birth right of the Free-born Subjects of England can afford you Yet against both that Law and the Priviledges of an English subject which he so honestly maintained at home was he exempted out of pardon and forced to dye abroad Quo jure Criminoso Philopatris exularet Credendus ergo non est quia neminem Fefellit justitia ne putetur quae punit ipsa justum non ostracismus iste lex sed ruina legum Sir Robert Holborne a Gentleman of those good inclinations which flowing with good bloud rendred him in his first Addresses acceptable to the world wherein having before him the good example of his Learned Ancestors he attained to that exactness in Law as with the amiable accomplishments of his nature made it very easie for him to do well which is a mans main business to gain upon mens affections becoming with little labour and without thinking excellent by good precept and continual care correct his defects so as to gain a general esteem and a good opinion being sensible of Mr. Herberts Rule Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In love or honour take account 〈◊〉 Shine like the Sun in every Cornâ—r See Whether thy Stock or Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And to instruct them it will not quit the cost Being of the Long-Parliament he was unwilling to joyn with them in their Debates for War and retired to Oxford in the Treaty there at Vxbridge and the Isle of Wight to consult and offer those things that make for Peace for which he paid 300 l. when living at Covent-Garden being not admitted as were not any of the King followers to study at any the Inns of Courts upon their return home after the Wars Serjeant W. Glanvile born at Tavistoche in Devon shire a County happy that it beeds so many Lawyers but more happy that it hath little need of them having the fewest Suits and most Counsellors of any County in England a Gentleman that had so much deliberation and weight in every thing he spoke that he was heard with much respect in all the Parliaments whereof he was either Member or Speaker â—â—cering prudently and watchfully in all their weighty Consultations and Debates Collecting judiciously and readily the sense of that numerous Assembly propounding the same seasonably and in apt Questions for their final Resolutions and presenting their Conclusions and Declarations with Truth and Life Light and Lustre and full advantage upon all occasions as a man of an excellent Judgment Temper Spirit and Elocution till the last and long one when those men for whose Liberties of Voting he had argued formerly allowed him not the Liberty of his Vote when he urged that Law against them which he had when they were more moderate in their courses urged for them wherefore he retired with above half the sober Members of Parliament to Oxford where having discharged his Conscience he returned to London to suffer for 〈◊〉 He that suffered patiently Imprisonment on Ship-board for speaking his minde freely in some State-points against a boundless Prerogative 1626. suffered as quietly six several hard Imprisonments one of which was two years in the Tower for declaring himself as honestly in some Law-points against a Treasonable popularity till the good man true to his honest principles of Loyalty was against the will of the Lower-House who yet laid no charge against him Bailed by the Upper-House shining the brighter for being so long ecclipsed insomuch that when the ignorant Faction did not think him worthy to be a Common-Lawyer the Learned University of Oxford whereof he was a worthy Member chose him her Burgess in one of the Usurping times of the Pseudo-Parliament it was his honour that he was then chosen to represent an Vniversity in Parliament and it was his integrity that he was noâ— then admitted He suffered in the Cause of all English-men and pleaded the Cause of many of them particularly my Lord Cravens though banished and Sir Iohn Stawell though a Prisoner till the whole Nation became as free as his Soul He
Convocations as in that 1640. when he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welch Bible set out sixty years ago by Bishop Morgan but in several places misprinted which I would some again consider of And in the Convocation 1662. when he concurred effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity and making the alterations in the Common-prayer then set out the form for Baptizing those of riper years being I think of his composing Dr. Robert Wright the youngest Fellow as ever was admitted of Trinity-colledge and the first Warden that ever was of Wadham-colledge in Oxford the richest Bishop that ever was of Bristol whither he was preferred 1622. and the strictest that had been of Coventry and Lichfield where he sat 1632. and died 1643. his Castle being kept for his Majesty by Dr. Bird a well known Civilian and half his estate devoted to his service by himself whose advise to his Clergy was that they should not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 embody and enervate their souls by idleness and sloath Be it remembred that he was one of the twelve Bishops that suffered for protesting against the Laws that Passed in Parliament during the tumults and one of the two that for his painfulness and integrity for his moderation and wariness had the most favourable imprisonment for that protestation being Committed only to the Black-rod while the rest went to the Tower His virtues having indeed the vices of the times for his enemies but not the men Dr. George Cooke a meek and grave man Brother to Secretary Cooke in temper as well as bloud born at Trusley in Derbyshire bred in Pembroke-hall Cambridge Beneficed at Bigrave in Hertfordshire where three houses yielded him almost 300 l. a year advanced to the Bishoprick of Bristol 1632. and to that of Hereford 1636. wherein he died 1650. much beloved by those that were under him and yet much persecuted about the protest in Parliament 1641. and other matters by those that where above him insomuch that he who was thrist it self had wanted had not his Relations helped out his merit and he been as Honorable as Pious and Learned He dropped Sentences as easily as others spoke sence happy in expressing as well as conceiving though as Plotin he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly taken up with his minde a serene and quiet man above the storm the result of that unsettledness of lower minds Dr. Iohn Towers born in Northfolk bred in Cambridge Fellow of Queens Colledge Chaplain to Will. Earl of Northampton and by his Donation Rector of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire and upon his recommendation Chaplain to King Charles the I. successively Dean and Bishop of Peterborough he indeavoured to put the humors of the times out of countenance by acting of them in his younger days and by punishing them in his elder but both failing dying about 1650. under great torments in his body and great afflictions from the times he suffered chearfully what he could not amend effectually thereby shewing that he could suffer as handsomely as he could act When rich only in Children whereof one Mr. Towers of Christ-church was an Ingenious man and an excellent Scholar as appears by his book against Atheism and Patience Godfrey Goodman a man of his name born of a Worshipful Family of the Goodmans near Ruthen in Denbigh-shire to which place he was yearly when I was at School there even in his lowest condition a good Benefactor though his Unkle Gabriel Goodman for forty years Dean of Westminster was a better under whom he was bred at Westminster and by whom preferred Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge as he was afterwards by Bishop Andrews Bishop Vaughan and Bishop Williams made successively Prebendary of Windsor Dean of Rochester and Bishop of Gloucester 1624. maintaining several Heterodox Opinions in his Sermons at Court for which he was checked 1626. dissenting from the Canons 1640. for which after three admonitions pronounced by Bishop Laud in half an hour to subscribe he was to his great honor imprisoned and of all the Bishops since the Reformation was the only man whom the miscarriages of the Protestants Scandalled into Popery a harmless man pitiful to the poor Hospitable to his Neighbors and compassionate to dissenters Dying at Westminster in the year of our Lord 1654. and of his Age eighty giving this Posie in his Funeral Rings Requiem defunctis having leave in those as it is said of Bishop Leoline that he asked leave of Edward the 1. to make his he gave directions in one Draught how Impropriations might be recovered to the Church to make it much the richer and no man a jot the poorer He was a great incourager of Sir Henry Middletons design of bringing the New River-water through so many difficulties to London as Davids Worthies did the Water of Bethlem to his Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without which saith one we should have burnt with the thirst and been buryed with the filth of our own bodies Dr. Iohn Warner born in St. Clements Danes Westminster bred in Magdalen Colledge Oxford to which he is a great Benefactor preferred Prebend of the Church of Canterbury to which he gave a Font most Curious and most Costly the first gift by a private hand to that Church in latter times and Rector of St. Dyonis Back Church London on which he bestowed a yearly Pension advanced Lord Bishop of Rochester in which he built an Alms-house with 20 l. a year a piece to forty poor Ministers Widdows himself having practised a single life A great assertor of Episcopacy while he had a voice in Parliament and when he had lost his voice as he was deputed by the Bishops soliciting their Cause with his Purse and Head and when all failed suffering for it being Sequestred of all his Spiritual Estate and compounding for his Temporal which being very great by his Father a Citizen of Londons thrift and greater by his own who would say for his frugal and close way that he eat the craggy Necks of Mutton that he might leave the poor the Shoulder enabled him to relieve his Brethren the Clergy and their Wives when others of his Order were glad to be relieved A man to his last of accurate Parts a good Speech a chearful and undaunted Spirit He dyed Octob. Anno. Dom. 1666. Aetat 81. Episcopatus 29. being as one calls Whitehall A good hypocriâ—e promising less than he performed and more hearty within than Courtly without Dr. Iohn Ganden a Ministers Son in Essex bred first at Colledge Cambridge and afterwards Tutor to the Strangwayes in Wadham Colledge in Oxford by the comeliness of his Person the vastness of his Parts strangely improved by his astronishing industry bestowing most of the seasonable hours of day and night on study and the unseasonable ones on Mechanisms to keep his soul always intent as appears by making the exquisite Common-place Cabinet with other Rarities of his own left behind him the majesty and copiousness of his
very vigilantly and in the second in disposing of the Provisions in Colchester so carefully and unweariedly attending it every hour in the day for a long time together with his Imprisonment Escape and Exile excusing the Age Infirmities and Retirements of the first Sir Thomas Burton Sir George Villiers Sir Henry Skipwith of Cows who entertained the King nobly Sir Richard Halford Sir Io. Hale Sir Erasmus De la fountain Sir Will. Iones Sir R. Roberts Sir Iohn Shepington George Ashley Esq Tho. Hortop Esq need no other History than the first Commission of Array in their own Country Leicester-shire wherein they were inserted The Catalogue of Compounders wherein they are punished between them 20000 l. the Paper of Loan wherein they contributed towards his Majesties service 25642 l. the several Imprisonments they suffered and Sequestrations they endured The Right Honorable Henry Earl of Bath a Person it is questionable whether of more Honor or Learning being a great Scholar himself often times on occasion speaking for the Bishops once publickly professing it one of the greatest Honors that ever happened to his Family that one thereof Thomas Bouchier by name was once dignified with the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury always asserting the Kings Interest attending him in his Counsel in York and his General in his Affairs in the West till being taken Prisoner 1642. when he was rendred uncapable of serving his King and Kingdom he grew weary of the world paying for his Loyalty 900 l. rich in a contentment that chearfully injoyed its own Estate and troubled its self not with the thoughts of others limiting all desires but those of doing good whereby he might either relieve the needy or incourage the Ingenious A gallant man not in his quarrels with others but in his Victories over himself greater in that he was above affronts than that he retaliated them a happy soul that conversed with its self understood the value of time made use of that Authority great men are happy in to discountenance Vice and the Reputation which is the talent of Noblemen to encourage Vertue The Right Honorable Francis and Mildmay Fane Earls of Westmerland the first that assisted that Majesty which honored them 1624. and the first that suffered for it For the Earl of Westmerland I finde was not in the Parliament at Oxford because in Prison at London having lost his own freedom in defence of the Kingdoms a great Wit and a Patron of it as appears by his Noble Letters to Cleaveland and Cleavelands Heroick reply to him As was the Right Honorable Henry Cary Earl of Munmouth bred up under his Father Sir Robert Cary Earl of Munmouth 1625. Tutor to the Prince for being the first that brought King Iames tydings of the Kingdom with King Charles I. at home and sent by him to travel with this Instruction Be always doing something abroad whence he returned so well skilled in the modern Languages that being a general Scholar he was able to pass away the sad times in Noble studies the fruit whereof are excellent Translations of Spanish French and Italian Authors such as Malvezzi Bentivoglio c. He dyed 1661. and with him the Earldom of the Lord Cary his Eldest Son dying in the Bed of Honor at Marston-Moor Iuly 2. 1644. The first of these Honorable drank no Wine till he was thirty years of Age saying it preyed upon the natural heat and that vinum est Lac sonum bis puerorum the other enjoyed health best in unhealthy places whence he observed that the best Airs for a man are those that are contrary to his temper the moist to the dry and consanguine and the dry to the moist and phlegmatick and the best Diets to those that correct the Air and the best method a care of not going from one extream into another using often that saying Till May be out Leave not off a Clout Next these Scholars comes Henry Earl of Dover created 1627. that was Colonel of a Regiment of Scholars in Oxford as he was I think Captain of the Guard of the Pensioners after the Earl of Norwich at London a Noble Person not to be moved from his Allegiance by those Arguments used to his Son the Lord Viscount Rochford as some-say but as the Kings Declaration of the 12 Aug. 1642. Intimateth to himself by Mr. Pym viz. That if he looked for any Preferment he must comply with them in their ways and not hope to have it in serving the King Being made up of that blunt and plain integrity towards his Prince and firmness to his Friends for which his Ancestor the Lord Hundson was so famous that Queen Elizabeth saith she would trust her Person with the craft of Leicester the prudence of Cecill the reach of Bacon the diligence and publick spirit of Walsingham and the honesty of Hudson he dyed after one Greatrates that pretended to heal Diseases by washing and rubbing the affected places had been tampering with his Head for his deafness at Windsor March 1665. The Earl of Chesterfield created 1628. who never sate in the Long-Parliament after he urged that some course should for shame be taken to suppress the Tumults and was answered God forbid that we should dishearten our friends choosing rather to be a Prisoner to them than a Member of them and that his Person should be restrained rather than his Conscience ensnared The Lady Stanhop since Countess of Chesterfield Governess to the Princess Orange doing that service with my Lord Kirkoven Sir William Boswell c. in getting Money Arms Ammunition and old Souldiers in Holland which my Lord would have done in England And what the Ancestor could not do towards the re-establishing of King Charles I. the Successor did towards the restoring of King Charles the II. both in great hazzard and both great expence their Loyalty having cost that Honorable Family 15000 l. est aliquid prodire tenus Essayes in such Cases are remarkable green leaves in the midst of Winter are as much as Flowers in the Spring especially being seasonable when the whole Kingdom asked a Parliaments leave to have a King as Widdows ask their Fathers leave to Marry Mountjoy Blunt Earl of Newport created 4. Car. I. having made as great a Collection by travel of Observations on the State of Europe as he had done by study of Notes in all kind of Learning was called to the great Counsel of Lords at York and attended in all the Counsel at Oxford where considering that time would undeceive the Kingdom and give the King that Conquest over hearts that he failed of over Armies his Counsel was always dilatory and cautious against all hazzards in battels when bare time to consider would recover the Kingdom and break that Faction which the present hurry united He would not easily believe a man that rashly swore there being little truth to be found in him so vainly throws away the great Seal of Truth he would indure none but him that could
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
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
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
and Hopes d â—â—â—eupon he in disdain threw the Cap down and trampled it under fâ—eâ— An Omen said some what an enemy be would he to the Arch-bishops O der which had never since it needed such a better friend though he suspended the Arch-bishop e When the Chaplains received direction from the King not to dispute without great necessity but if they did George should hold the Coâ—clusien and Charles c. f Mr. Vines saying That he was the best Divine in England III His Carriage while Prince g To whom he was very dear h The Q of Bohemia whose Brideman he was i Who might 〈◊〉 plaâ— uites â—b◠〈◊〉 bâ—â—cts of the peoples disconâ—â—nt k As his own Grandmother the Q of 〈…〉 to England l This K. James was not sinsible of â—ill Arâ—hec Clapped his Cap on his head for â—â—â—ting the Prince goe to Spain and saying That if he returned he would take off â—he Cap from â—he King of England 's head and set 〈◊〉 â—n the K. of Spain's Which â—ad the King melanchâ—lly 〈◊〉 heard hâ— Pâ—â—nce was at Sea IV His Carriage when King 1 His Marriage his Chastiâ—y and Gods blessing him with Children m Given the D. of Chevereux n Trinity Sunday 16â—5 o No Subject fought him for injuring â—hem he having by his power and example â—â—â—ured them in all their Relations 2 His first Parliament p Muâ—ining against their Commander the Lord Wimbleton q With a Plaguâ—bred by theâ— Discontent As discontented mâ—n are most subject to that Distemper 3 His Coronation and Frugality 4 His second Parliament V The Benefits of his Government 1 â—â—s dismission of the Insolent French r Besides Land Merigaged for 120000 l. to the Câ—â—â— and 30000 l. borrowed of the East-India Company s In that tryal of â—umbâ—â— which he judâ—â—d unlawful wherein one Rey would have proved that one Ramsey would have hâ—d him serve D. Hamilton to attain the Kingdom of Scotland whose right to it they blazoned abroad t Which his Enemies knew so well that it was bâ—â— effecâ—ing him Propo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repugnant to his Conscience and thâ—y need not fear a Peace VI The blessing of God 〈◊〉 him and his fortunâ— u Many Arts revived VII His Mercy and Love to his People Humiâ—ity and Patience w Oliver they say could not endure to hear a man speak sence Plato was like to eye because he â—â—med wiser than the Sicilian Tyrant x Being deluded as he said to unworthy thoughts of him but nâ—w convineed to a great reverence of him y There are methodical and siâ—â—wy extracts of his drawâ—â— out of Bishop Laud Mr. Hooker and Bish Andrews therein he draw together all the arguments giving light and strength to them even while he â—â—tomised them z Witness his â—â—um vednass at Prayer when â—he sad News of the Duke of Buckinghams death was brought to him bidding the Chaplain go on when he stopped at the disturbance a Meaning the Bishop of Armagh 〈…〉 IX His Valouâ— Resolution and Conduct b The Senate of Rome thank'd a Consul though he was beaten that he did not despair of the Commonwealth c This was at Edgehill Oct. 13. 1641. a In France a Who had an honest design to undo the whole Conspiracy X What great things the King granted and did for the Nation during the 23 years that he reigned f For which the last Parliament would have given him 600000 l. g At the Isle of Wight XII His Sufferings h As appears by a Letter under Londons handâ— to desire Protection of the French King i And a Lady that formerly had followers for beauâ—y and â—ow for intelligence k â—s Fulke and Ven did a He called them Rebls in the first Speech Oct 3 1640. 〈◊〉 was forced to explain himself afterwards b As he was to that first 1640. by Sir H V. who exâ— asperated them by demanding twice more Subsidies than he had order to d◠〈◊〉 so occasioned their Dissolution And to the Parliament of Scotland by H. and Tra. who under the pretence of being Mediators and Commissioners put the worse constructions they could upon his actions to the Parliament and upon theirs to him a Who after the King death finding their Masters jugglers would have done in much for them as they had done for the King until the Officers would have laid them aside which they could not do till several of them were executed a Where â—nâ— lay with a Sword and Pistal without ready is murder the King if became out while others perswaded him to escape out through that window within b A Vote once before Passed but surreptitiously and repealed by the whole House a And yet neither Lords nor Iudges four hundred fifty of eight hundred Commons confess nor a man in England except twenty Rebels owned it b Villains that overthrowed all the Laws of this Nationâ— to try the King for doing it When he died rather than he would do it c They complain of his Arbitrary Power when there was nothing more Arbitrary than for them First To Vote themselves but twenty in number to be the whole kingdom Secondly To Vote a Conventicle where there were neither Lords nor King nor ten lawfully chosen Commons for a Parliament Thirdly To Vote the Kings defensive war which he made with the assistance of his People a Treason against his People Fourthly To Vote him guilty of that bloud that they shed Fifthly To Vote him a Traytor when there is no Treason but against him And what was more than all the rest to Vote themselves after a Nation had been an hereditary Monarchy for a thousand years the Supream Power of it in an hour d When they began the war against him who with his people was forced to defend himself or be accessary to that overthrow of all Religion and Government which though not believed he saw they aimed at then and all the world saw they designed now e Not till the Traytors had set a force upon the whole Nation those very persons against whom he began the war abhorring the thoughts of calling him in question for it and thinking it a great favour if they could be secured from being called in question for it themselves Observe the impudence of the men these slaves and instruments that durst not fight against the King but in the names of the Lords and Commons yet dare murther him in their own and that for levying war against those Lords and Commons to whom before they could meddle with the King they offered violence themselves f The Parliament as they called it had received such Concessions in order to a peace that this murder could never have been attempted upon the King till these wretches had attempted another violence upon them The Parliament they say delayed this Iudgment when God knows they always abhorred it and these men first turned out of the House for refusing to consent to this murder and then they commit the murder in
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—
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
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