Hic jacet R.S. qui assidue oravit pro pace Ecclesiae Dr. Io. Nicholas a Wiltshire man I suppose in the late times Prebend of Salisbury where he excellently Preached Bishop Davenants Funeral Sermon and since Prebend of Westminster and Dean of Saint Pauls to whose piety and moderation the Church is as much beholding as the State to his Brother Sir Edward Nicholas who attended both his Majesty and his Father as a faithful Counsellor and Secretary in their best times and worst A man in no Art or Science shewed its self formally such his modesty but all were eminently such his ability He dying 1662. refufed thousands of pounds for a Lease he might then have disposed of saying he would not so wrong his successor his successor Dr. Barwick dying 1664. did the like whose History is legible in this his Epitaph Amori Aeternitati Quisquis es viator oculum animum hac adverte Lege Luge Iacent sub hoc marmore Tenues exuviae non tenuis animae Johannis Barwick SS T. D. Quem suum Natalibus gloriatur Wappenslacke Ager Westmoriensis Studiis Academia Cantabrigiensis Admissum socium in Sti. Johannis Collegium Indeque quod magis honori est Pulsum a Rebellibus Qui ne perduellium rabiem nec Haemopsin quamvis aeque cruentam certius tandem percussuram quicquam moratus Pro Rege Ecclesia summa Ardua molitus Diro Carcere perquam Inhumana passus Inconcussa semper virtute Renatum denuo vidit Diadema Infulam Etiam sua non parum obstetricante manu Qui deinde functus Decanatu Dunelmensi Paucis mensibus Paulino Vero Triennio Parum diu utroque sed fideliter Tandem post caelibatum cum primis caste cum primis sancte cultum Labe Pulmonum Curis publicis eonfectus heic requiescit in Domino Atque inter sacras Aedis Paulinae ruinas reponit suâ—s Viriusque Resurrectionis securus Anno Aetatis LIII Salutis M. DC LXII Caetera scire si velis disâ—ede Disce ex Illustri primaevae pietatis exemplo Quid sit esse veri nominis Christianum He was very active and prudent in coporating with those Loyal persons that attempted his Majesties Restauration and in assisting the Bishop of London in the Churches Reformation 1662. being fetched up to London for his quick and sweet way of managing Church-affairs wherein he was so well instructed by his Patron Bishop Morton in his many years attendance upon him and therefore no wonder that his Majesty valued him so much as to be willing to redeem his life they are his own words with the exchange of one that had endeavoured to deprive him of his own and sustain it otherwise likely to perish in prison when his enemies had robbed him even of bread for his own mouth Dr. Nicholas Monke Brother to his Grace the Duke of Albemarle born of an ancient Family in Potheridge Devonshire and bred under an excellent Tutor in Wadham-colledge in Oxford being a Private but well-beloved Minister in his own Country as his Brother was a private but much observed Souldier in the Low-countries he came to serve God in the capacity of a Bishop in the Church as his Grace did to serve the King in the highest capacity that ever Subject did in the State From Sir Hugh Pollard Sir Thomas Stukley and others he being always loyally affected himself he took a journey 1659. from Devonshire to Scotland conferring with Sir Iohn Greenvile now Earl of Bath in his way at London and engaging Sir Thomas Clerges who conveighed him safe on Ship-board so fully instructed how to manage his negotiation with caution that with Dr. Samuel Barrow Sir R. Knight Dr. Iohn Price and Dr. Gumbles assistance he was able to perswade his Brother to march into England upon Sir George Booths Declaration and when that failed to send to Sir Thomas Clerges to tell him That if the Parliament would assert their own authority against the Army he would come into England in their defence as he did under that colour to their ruin his Reverend Brother in the mean time transacting an exact correspondence between him and all the West of England particularly recommending to him Sir William Maurice as a faithful and prudent Counsellor For which services he was made Provost of Eaton and Bishop of Hereford where he died 1661. Dr. William Paul born a Citizen of London in East-cheap bred Fellow of All-souls in Oxford an accute Scholar I have heard Dr. Barlow say that he answered the Act when proceeding Doctor the most satisfactorily of any person he heard and he heard many in his time and his Sermon a little before the wars upon that Text Then Paul stood upon Mars-hill and said I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious at an Episcopal Visitation of Oxfordshire was extraordinary Minister of Brightwell in Oxfordshire for thirty years Prebend of Chichester Dean of Lichfeld and Bishop of Oxford 1663. dying there 1665. A shrewd man in business whether of Trade Husbandry Buying and Improving of Land Disposing of Money carrying a great command over the factious about him by his money which he could lend to advantages to the most considerable men of that party in those sad times when others of his Order submitted to them exceedingly well versed in the Laws of the Church and the Land and admirably well seen in the Intrigues and Interest of State Dr. Matthew Wren born near Cheap-side in London descended from a worshipful and ancient Family of his Name in Northumberland brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge where the accuteness of his Philosophy Act before King Iames when he distinguished upon his Majesty that his Dogs might perform more than others by the Prerogative pleased his Majesty and with other learned performances known to the Bishop recommended him to be Chaplain to Bishop Andrews his Education under him furnished him with such experiences in the affairs of the Church and State that he was advanced Chaplain to Prince Henry and his painful but exact Preaching in that Court brought him to Prince Charles his service his prudent conduct of the religious part of their Journey into Spain made his way to King Iames his own service as afterwards to King Charles where in his he had 1. Two Parsonages to exercise his charity upon the poor his munificence upon the Churches Houses and House-keeping and his excellent arts of Government upon the people 2. One Prebendary to enter him into Church affairs 3. The Master-ship of Peter-house a Scene fit for his parts learning and discipline 4. The Deanery of Windsor 5. The Bishoprick of Hereford 1634. 6. The Bishoprick of Norwick 1635. 7. The Bishoprick of Ely 1638. 8. And the Deanery of the Chappel in which capacity he married the Prince of Aurange In all which places if he Preached he gave great instances of pregnant Intellectuals set off with notable Learning and accute Oratory If he visited
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention
his House Goods Library Estate and Livings seized on to the great scandal of all the Reformed Divines among whom he was deservedly famous and died confessing his Faith and asserting the Doctrine Discipline and Worship of our Church to Dr. Leo Chaplain to the Dutch Ambassador 29. Col. Edwall Chisenhall a Lancashire Gentleman who as I am informed at Latham-house when the Enemy bragged of their provision sallied out and stole their Dinner and decoying them upon pretence that the house was open killed 500 of them upon the place for which he paid 800 l. 30. Col. Iordan Bovile that often deceived the Enemy as the Gibeonites did the Israelites with passes of false-dated Antiquity who could have thought that Clouted shooes could have covered so much subâ—ilty who often in his own single person took Lievery and Seisin of a breach which his followers were to possesse as frugal as noble as thrift is the fewel of magnificence Sir Giles and Sir Iames Strangways Dorsetshire Gentlemen of an ancient Family great Estates and a good Repute deserving very much of their Country in the Parliaments at Westminster and Oxford of their King in the Field and of the publick good to which their frequent motions in the House and quick actions in the Field always tended in both furnished with that Oratory that used to settle Kingdoms who made speaking an Art which was a talk built in their youth men for which a School-masters name was a name of great Veneration in that Family Father its self being but second to it For Deeds of age are in their Causes then And we are taught but Boys we are so made men Gentlemen of a general Learning but particularly seen in the Affairs of their own Country for which they deserved honors but despised them stout men that flattered none but boast themselves more true just and faithful than any thing but their own memories Memories that forgot nothing but their Injuries which they were so forward to cancel in an act of Oblivion though they were generally excepted out of their Enemies The eldest of the two one of the Feoffees in trust appointed by Mr. Nich. Wadham 1612. who as Absalom being childless erected that uniform and regular Colledge in Oxford called by his name to perpetuate his memory to oversee the finishing of his noble Foundation which he did faithfully being himself a good benefactor to it as he was to all ingenious designs and persons especially in these late times wherein he was as liberal as the Arts he was master of died 54 years after full of years and honour about Christmass 1666. their Loyalty having cost that Family at least 35000 l. To whom I may add Sir Will. Walcot taken with him at Sherburn Castle Aug. 15. 1645. when the Earl of Bristols brother in Law Sir Lewis Dives a Gentleman so famous for his services in Bedfordshire and the Associated Counties in the English War and after a cleanly escape through an House of Office at Whiteball in the Irish and for his great sufferings all along with his Majesty beyond Sea to the loss of 164000 l. after a brave resistance delivered it up to the Enemy not before his Majesty had delivered up almost the whole Kingdom 2 Sir Iohn and Sir Thomas Hele Gentlemen of great Estates and Repute whose withdrawing from the Parliament with Walter Hele of Whimston Devon brought his Majesties Cause great credit for the justness of it rich contributions for the supply of it and abundance of men who trusted much to the prudence and conduct of the foresaid Gentlemen to maintain it 3. Sir Io. Harper of Swakeston Com. Derb. who besides 110 l. setled from him paid 4000 l. composition for being one of the first that resisted the Rebellion in those parts and one of the last that stood out against it for which they would have buried his Grave as the Israelites did Moses as well as himself the people were so fond of him 4. Anthony Hungerford of Black Barton Oxon. Esq and Col. Io. Hungerford who paid for their Loyalty 3989l 5. Sir Willoughby Hickman of Gainsborough and Sir Charles Hussey of Holten-Holy Linc. who paid 2474l between them 6. Henry Hudson of London Esq 3700l Sir Edward and Sir Iohn Hales contributing freely to the first War and hazzarding far in the second bringing the whole Country of Kent to declare as one man for his Majesty 1648. and maintaining them at their own charge in the fields for some days while they did declare so The Authors of the two famous petitions of Kent 1642. 1647 8. Sir Edward while continuing in Parliament going a middle way between the extreams of Popery and Libertinism severe both against the Catholick and the Scots All which services cost them 64000 l. 2. Sir George Bunkley of whom before famous for his relief of Basing 3. Sir Henry Carew another hopeful son of the Earl of Monmouth who had the Command of Kingsworth and which was more of himself being an excellent Scholar and a sober man not to be expressed but in his own Poetry and his own picturing 4. Sir Thomas Tilsley a Brigadeer Governour I think of Lichfield under King Charles I. 1645. and Major General of the English under King Charles II. 1651. by whom appointed to assist the Earl of Derby in raising the Lancashire and Cheshire Forces he approved himself a faithful and an able man till he was slain at Wigan Aug. 25. 1651. with Sir F. Gamul many years his fellow Souldier and now his fellow Sufferer men of good hands and hearts of exact lives as well as great parts each way proportionable in nothing redundant or defective abhorring as they called them ill-favoured and unclean sins The Grave hath every where a good stomach but where these were buried a Boulimia or greedy worm devouring their Honourable bodies as Aceldama did tread Corpses in 48 hours their bodies being taken away as greedily as the Treasure in Iosephus was out of Davids Grave though by the way it was strange there should be treasure in Davids Tomb who said Ps. 49. 17. Man shall carry nothing away with him Col. Thomas and Col. H. Warren the most valiant men that lived because the most prepared to die Twins of Valour and Piety loving in their lives and in their deaths not divided The Sun warms not near himself but at distance where he meets opposition the warm spirits of these Gentlemen discovered not it self in the peace they had at home but in the dangers they met abroad The praying Souldiers that wrestled with God before they strive with the Enemy and besieged Heaven to take it by violence before they assaulted a Town Members of the thundering Legion Men in whom afflictions looked lovely they enjoying themselves in the great difficulties they struggled with as the Bird flutters about its Cage a while and finding no passage out sits and sings Sir John Wake 180 l. Sir Hugh Windkelford Somers 692 l. Ed. Windham
Affairs they considering the streight he was reduced into resolved that they would redress Grievances before they would yield any Subsidies To that purpose they make bold to question his greatest and dearest Favourites and States-men and first the Duke of Buckingham against whom they set the Earl of Bristol and when he could make nothing of it the House of Commons its self with thirteen Articles attaqued that great Person who had no fault as it seems by his Replies but his great Place and his Princes Favour that Party designing thereby to make it dangerous for any person to give the King faithful Counsel or to assist him in keeping up the Government unless in compliance with them as they made it more than evident when they offered the Duke with their Interest upon some Conditions to bring him off Here is the first blow at the greatest stay of Government the Kings Majesty's Council The next thing they do notwithstanding the great danger of the Kingdom is to declare That they must clear the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject that forsooth they are the Demagogâ—es own words they might know whether they could call any thing their own before they should give the King any thing And when Nature Policy and Religion taught the World that his Majesty who had the Care of the Kingdom must not let it perish for the humour of some people that would allow nothing towards the maintenaâ—ce either of themselves or it choosing as one Turner said openly in the House Rather to fall into the hands of Enemies abroad than to submit to the Government as then established at home And some Divines preached what is great reason That his Majesty being Intrusted by God with a Power to defend his Kingdom must have a power too by all means to raise Men and Money in spight of any malicious Factions wherewith he may defend it For this Dr. Mainwaring and Dr. Sibthorpe both as I take it his Majesties Chaplains are questioned not by the Church to whose Cognizance Errours in Doctrines most properly belong but by the Lay-Elders of the House of Commons Yea and if the Farmers of the Custom-house advance any money upon the Kings ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage they shall be questioned for that and for Levying any Imposts upon any Commodities whatsoever That 's the second Blow at his Majesties Prerogative and Revenue wherein I may include the noise they made against Coat and Conduct-money and Free-quarter Having weakned the Civil Power by these Courses they thought it easie to overthrow the Ecclesiastical for the Faction grown bold and considerable by the remisness of a great Prelate and the discontent of others question all Proceedings in Ecclesiastical Courts open a door to several vexatious Suits against several Officers of that Court besides that they questioned Mr. Mountague Mr. Cozens and threatned Bishop Laud Bishop Neile and others that were resolved to stand by the Supream Power of the King in Ecclesiastical Affairs against which they levelled their third Blow And when all this would not do they examine the whole Government for divers years together the disbursment of the Revenue the administrations of War and Peace They rake into Prince Henry and King Iames his death and this with such a deal of stir and tumult that some of them lock the Parliament Doors others make such a noise as rings all over Westminster others force the Speaker Sir Iohn Finch and hold him whether he would or no in the Chair when he would have left the House when it was become rather a Billingsgate Conventicle than an House of Parliament When the turbulent House of Commons was dissolved and the Faction having got a new Maxime That they might say and do what they pleased within the Walls of that House as publick persons whereof they were to give no account as private men lost the benefit of it by that Dissolution the King resolving that they should not make the Parliament a Conspiracy they fall to Libelling Printing popular Insinuations Evasions and Elusions of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws that tended to the securing of the Government secret and open Oppositions to all the ways the King took to raise money though never so legally the just King always consulting his Judges about the Legality of all Taxes before he ordered his Officers to gather them For the first Question in that Kings Reign was Is it just And the next Is it convenient And those men that have imposed Millions on others since grudged to pay then twenty shillings for it was but twenty shillings Ship-money that Mr. Hampden went to Law with the King for and my Lord Say but for four pounds And that five pounds was the occasion of all the stir afterwards made about the Ship-money which cost the Nation fifty seven Millions Sterling since The untoward Reading in the Innes of Court upon Points most dangerous to Government possessing the People with strange Fears and Jealousies about Religion German Horse a French and Arbitrary Government and what not Every publick Action of the King or his Ministers being mis-interpreted Combinations were held between the factious English and discontented Scots whose begging-time being over at Court they bethink of coming to Plunder the Country The Faction gives out that the King had deserted the Protestants of the Palatinate and France when the truth is they had deserted him The Bishops in their Visitations were every where opposed and the Troublesom taught how to elude all Church-Obligations by Common Law In a word notwithstanding that the Kingdom injoyed for the first fifteen years of the excellent King Charles I. his Reign Trade flourished and Gold and Silver in his time was almost as plentiful as in Solomons Learning and all Arts were improved to the heighth and Scholars Encouragements were as great as their Improvements Religion grew up to its primitive Beauty and Purity Law and Justice secured all persons in their just Acquisitions The People had liberty to do any thing by evil the Rich durst not wrong the Poor neither need the Poor envy or fear the Rich. The Treasure of Spain was coined in our Mint and exchanged for our Commodities forreign Nations either feared our Arms or sought our Friendship We claimed and enjoyed the Dominion of the Sea Wars Plagues and Famines were strangers to our Coasts and we were even against our will the happiest People under Heaven except onely for this that we were not sensible either of our Happiness or of the use of it understanding it seems no more improvement of the great blessing of Peace and good Government than wantonness and unthankfulness Notwithstanding fifteen years of the most blessed effects of Justice Wisdom Piety and Peaceableness of an excellent Prince of whom the World was not worthy By the practices of Cardinal Richlieu and others who envied and feared our happiness by the Indigence and Schism of the Scots by the comprehensive Combination in England that had taken in with the
scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
him though he either upon his friends intimation or his own observation of the danger he was in among those who are prone to insult most when they have objects and opportunities most capable of their rudeness and petulancy escaped in a disguise wearing a Vizard lawfully to save himself as others did then to destroy him and the kingdom that night or next morning betimes in a Skuller the Sea being less tempestuous than the Law to Holland where he safely heard himself charged with High-treason in four particulars 1. For not Reading as the Faction would have him the Libell Sir Iohn Clue drew up against the Lord Treasurer Weston in the Parliament 4. Caroli 2. For threatning the Judges in the matter of Ship-money 3. For his judgment in the Forrest business when he was Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas 4. For drawing the Declaration after the Dissolution of the last Parliament And staid so long until he saw 1. The whole Plot he indeavoured to obviate in the buds of it ripened to as horrid a Rebellion as ever the Sun saw 2. The Charges against Buckingham Weston Strafford himself c. ending in a Charge against the King himself whose Head he would always affirm was aimed at through their sides 3. The great grievance of an 120000l in the legal way of Ship-money redressed and eased by being commuted for a burden of 60. millions paid in the Usurped ways of Assessements Contribution Loans Venturing Publick Faith Weekly Meals the Pay of the three Armies Sequestrations Decimations those Bells and Dragons of the Wealth and plenty of England 4. The great fear that the King would make a great part of the kingdom Forrests turned into greater that the Conspirators would have the whole kingdom into a Wilderness 5. And the Declaration he drew about the evil Complexion of the last Parliament made good with advantage by the unheard of and horrid outrages of this In a word he lived to see the Seditious act far worse things against the King and kingdom than his very fear and foresight suspected of them though he gave shreud hints and guesses And to see God do more for the King and kingdom than his hope could expect for he saw the horrid Murder of Charles I. and the happy Restauration of Charles II. enduring eight years Banishment several months Confinement and Compositions amounting to 7000l THE Life and Death OF Sr FRANCIS VVINDEBANK WHEN neither sincerity in Religion which he observed severely in private and practised exemplarily in publick nor good affections to the Liberties of the Subject in whose behalf he would ever and anon take occasion to Address himself to his Majesty to this purpose Your poor Subjects in all humbleness assure your Majesty that their greatest confidence is and ever must be in your grace and goodness without which they well know nothing that they can frame or desire will be of safety or value to them Therefore are all humble Suiters to your Majesty that your Royal heart will graciously accept and believe the truth of theirs which they humbly pretend as full of truth and confidence in your Royal Word and Promise as ever People reposed in any of their best Kings Far from their intentions it is any way to incroach upon your Soveraignty or Prerogative nor have they the least thought of stretching or enlarging the former Laws in any sort by any new interpretations or additions The bounds of their desires extend no further than to some necessary explanation of that which is truly comprehended within the just sence and meaning of those Laws with some moderate provision for execution and performance as in times past upon like occasion hath been used They humbly assure Your Majesty they will neither loose time nor seek any thing of your Majesty but that they hope may be fit for dutyful and Loyal Subjects to ask and for a Gracious and Iust King to grant When neither the Services he performed in publick not the Intercessions he made in private in behalf of the People of England could save so well-affected religious able active publick-spirited charitable and munificent a Person as Sir Iohn Finch Baron Finch of Foreditch It s no wonder Sir Francis Windebank was loath to hazzard his life in a scuffle with an undisciplined Rabble which he freely offered to be examined by any free and impartial Courts of Justice where the multitude should receive Laws and not give them and reason should set bounds to passion truth to pretences Lawes duly executed to disorders and charity to fears and jealousies when the sacredness of some great Personages and the honour of others when the best Protestants and the best Subjects were equally obnoxious to the undistinguished Tumults which cried out against Popery and Ill-counsel but struck at all men in power and favour Sir Francis rather ashamed than afraid to see the lives and honours of the most eminent persons in the Nation exposed to those rude Assemblies where not reason was used as to men to perswade but force and terror as to beasts to drive and compel to whatsoever tumultuary Patrons shall project left the kingdom as unsafe where Factions were more powerful than Laws and persons chose rather to hear than to see the miseries and reproaches of their Country waiting for an Ebbe to follow that dreadful and swelling Tide upon this Maxime That the first indignation of a mutinous multitude is most fierce and a small delay breaks their consent and innocence would have a more candid censure if at all at distance Leave he did his place and preferment like those that scatter their Treasure and Jewels in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers troubled for nothing more than that the King was the while left naked of the faithful ministry of his dearest Servants and exposed to the infusions and informations of those who were either complices or mercenaries to the Faction to whom they discovered his most Private Counsels Those aspersions laid upon him by those that spoke rather what they wished than what they believed or knew he would say should like clouds vanish while his reputation like the Sun a little muffled at present recovered by degrees its former and usual luster Time his common saying sets all well again And time at last did make it evident to the world that though he and others might be subject to some miscarriages yet such as were far more repairable by second and better thoughts than those enorminous extravagancies wherewith some men have now even wildred and almost quite lost both Church and State The event of things at last demonstrating that had the King followed the worst counsels that could have been offered him Church and State could not have been brought into that condition they were presently in upon the pretended Reformation Among the many ill consequences whereof this was not the least remarkable viz. that those very slanderers reputation and credit I mean that little
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
more in blessing than in bulk his richest Legacies were his Precepts and his Example and his best Monument the hearts of his people that will be his joy and crown of rejoycing in the day of the Lord Jesus Post quater millenos exaratos Et decies millenos publice Habitos conciones manu Temporibus mortem obiit ore Evangelizans I. S. Optimis resurget ipse melioribus resurgit memoria pessimis THE Life and Death OF Sir JOHN SUCKLING THE last Bishop we mentioned was the last that died with the honor of Voting in Parliament that was not speechless before he departed This Gentleman was the last Courtier that died at Court Dying as he was born a Courtier heir to Sir Iohn Suckling the Comptrollers estate but not his temper being as aiery as the other was solid this grave Family like heavy bodies evaporating into more aieral parts towards its dissolution There was an extraordinary Circumstance in his birth that raised an unusual expectation of his life being born as his Mother reckoned the beginning of the eleventh month Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hypocrates allows that the child born in the seventh month if well looked too may live Laurentius Professor of Montpellier in an admirable Treatise of Anatomy asserteth that a child of nine or ten months which he calleth Terminus Inter medius seldom miscarrieth And Avicen as he is quoted by Laurentius averreth that a child born in the eleventh month which he expresseth Terminus ultimus quando nihil additur ad perfectionem partis sed ad perfectionem roboris is vigorous and Athletique As Sir Iohn Suckling who did as Tiberius vultu Principem generosum praeferre had a sprightly mind that was an argument of a more sprightly soul which took in improvement faster than Tutors could suggest speaking Latine as early as Drusius his Son did Hebrew that is at five years of age and composing both in Latine and English for Princes as soon as Grotius did that is at nine years being so soon a man that like Adam we would think he was born so The Arts were as closely united in him as they are in themselves being competently seen in all of them and yet eminent in many being able to look in the whole circle without a giddiness He had tongues enough to renew that good understanding among men that was lost at Babel desiring not only to live in the world but to understand it and as great reason which we call Logick to comprehend and discourse his notions as he had charms which we call Rhetorick to insinuate them and what was more it was a question whether he was more skilled in the Philosophy of the two Globes or in the History and Chronology of all times he shooting through any subject from one end of the world to the other with the same activity that spirits do who do not discourse but see His soul almost as large as that which some call under the first being the soul of the world He died under thirty and was as old as the world being able to treat of all those things from books which in twelve years time that all the wisdom of the world could insist on from experience in 5000 years suffering himself to be no stranger to Cosmography or the account of the world in general for his own satisfaction as a Gentleman to Choroghaphy or the particularnature of each Province of the world for the service of his Country as an Englishman to Topography or an inspection into the circumstances of each place to qualifie him for noble employments and commands as a Souldier And all these sweetned with the softness of Poetry that Musick and Charm of the world in words and with Musick that Poetry in sound Fancy being his predominant faculty as the sanguine complexion was his controlling temperament was as restless and ubiquitary in him as it is defined in its self creating and tempering the Images and Ideas of things with the same ease that the things themselves were first made with To lift too high is no fault in a young Nagg and to fancy too high was the greatest defect of this young Gentleman Nimbleness is the perfection of fancy and levity the bane of it when it whisks up and down to so many objects that it throughly understands or conceives none unless hard and knotty studies such as Philosophy and Mathematicks that fix and settle the soul. Sir Iohn Suckling that was Knighted 1630. was Comptroller of the Kings-house and told this Gentleman That he had no more to do but to comptrol and govern himself be being born before him The heighth of his parts he acknowledged the effect of the discretion of his Tutor of whom he would seldom speak without this Note That it was one thing to be discreet and another thing to be learned the management and use of a mans notions being hardly consistent with a heap and croud of them as a midling state makes a good Husband who humored his disposition as much as some Boys are forced to humor their Masters and made as many Rules of his temper as he found in his Grammar being at once so ingenuous and so plyable that a frown was severe correction to him and shame whipped him more smartly than the Rod. He as solemnly honored his Masters of all ingenuity as Dr. Whitacre did his Tutor West when being Regius Professor at his Tutors Commencing Doctor publickly gave him thanks before the University for giving him correction when his young Scholar But had most regard to his Father for he best bowls at the mark of perfection who besides the aim of his own eye is directed by his Father who is to give him the ground according to whose advice he travelled his own Country well first and then in my Lord Burleighs method who seldom licensed a man to travel abroad until he could give him a good account of the remarkables at home went over beyond Sea to see how mankind managed those principles in their practise that they had drawn up in their writings and observe how they lived and conversed as well as how they thought making an honorable collection of the virtues of each Nation without any tincture of theirs unless it were a little too much of the French Air which was indeed the fault of his complexion rather than his person Though to correct it he travelled from the softer dalliances of that Nation to the Wars and hardships to knit as well as inlarge his soul and gain an Empire over his frailer self with the same severity and discipline that Gustavus was like to gain one over Europe With whom he run the hazard of three battels five sieges and as many skirmishes wherein he saw much design and contrivance so much conduct and manage such activity and industry in six months as was not to be seen elsewhere in so many ages there being a concurrence of the excellencies as well as of the men of all
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
of matter then to learn words yea letters drop by drop but nothing was unconquerable to his pains who had a golden Wit in an iron Body The Warr being over and God having ended the Controversie for that time for reasons best known to his infinite wisdom in a way that cut off the most eminent Divines and Scholars of the Church of England from that Calling to which they were set apart This publick spirited Gentleman for the glory of God the clearing of the holy Scriptures in those dayes of Enthusiasm the imploying and supporting of persecuted Scholars in a way honourable to the Church and themselves then under reproach drew a draught of the Work comprehending the Hebrew Chaldee and Greek Originals with the Samaritan Pentateuch the Samaritan the Greek Septuagint the Chaldee the Syriack the Arabick the AEthiopick the Persian and Vulgar Latine Translations the Latine Translations of the Oriental Texts and Versions out of the best Copies and Manuscripts with many additions to the Spanish and French Bibles and a new method giving the Text and all the Translations in one view with several learned Discourses various Lections about which our Doctor hath a learned Tract against the suggestions of Dr. Owen Annotations Indexes all suitable to so great a Work This draught was by Sr. George Ratcliff that Promoter of all honourable Designs shewed the King abroad who encouraging it with a countenance worthy a Prince set the Doctor with the Bishop of London Dr. Iuxons leave and license and all the other Bishops then living consents upon the compleating of it as he did beginning 1653 and finishing it 1657 with a Grammar preparatory to it agreeable to his Motto Labore Constantia For which and his other services as his late Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary he was upon his present Majesties Return to whom he dedicated the Book preferred to the Bishoprick of Chester a Diocess he had but newly reduced by his discreet practises rational conferences great reputation and unwearied pains to some measure of regularity when it pleased God he died 1661. When their work is done God sends his servants to bed He lyeth buried in St. Pauls Cathedral with this Monument Manet heic novissimam Resurrectionis Angeli Tubam BRIANVS WALTON Cestrensis Episcopus Epitaphium aliud ne quaeras Viator Cui luculentum est vel ipsum nomen Epitaphium Quod si explicatius velis Famam consule non tumulum Interim Hic ille est si nescire fas sit Eximius Doctor Qui sub nupera Tyrannide labanti Ecclesiae Suppetias cum Primis tulit Clero a Rebelli Prophanaque Plebe conculcato Improperium Abstulit Religioni apud nos Reformati Professae Gloriam attulit Dum Fremente licet Gehenna Biblia Polyglotta summo prae caeteris studio excoluit Et Excudi procuravit Inde Utrinque Testamentum promeruit Monumentum Et maximis Impensis posuit Quare Longo titulorum Syrmate superbire non indiget Qui nomen jam scriptum habet In Libro Vitae Decessit Vigiliis St. Andreae Nov. 29. AEtatis LXII Consecrationis 1. Salutis CDICOLXI And that this Doctor may not as the Ottoman Princes to support his own Reputation suppress that of his younger Brothers the eminent men contributing to this great work by their advice assistance or intercessions besides those excellent Personages now living as the most Reverend Fathers in God Gilbert Shelden Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Sterne Lord Archbishop of York Dr. Merick Casaubon who procured them a Targum Hierosolymitanum Dr. Pococke who lent an AEthiopick Psalter and was very helpful in the Arabick Version The great Scholar and Linguist Mr. Thornedyke Sir Tho. Cotton who afforded them many M SS and Rarities Dr. Tho. Greaves Alexander Hughes Prebend of Wâ—lls very helpful about the LXX and the Vulgar Latine Dr. Bruine Rieves then Dean of Chichester and Sequestred now Dean of Windsor Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Sir Tho. Wâ—ndy old Mr. Dudley Lostus of Dublin as famous for his Learning as Illustrious by his ancient Extraction sending over an AEthiopick New Testament to the Right Honorable the Earls of Bedford Rutland Strafford and Westmoreland Sir Anthony Chester Sir Norton Knatchbull Dr. Barlow of Queeâ—ns Colledge in Oxford Sir William Farmer of East Measton in Northampton-shire notwithstanding his heavy Composition 1400 l. 840 l. Sir Francis Burdet Mr. Iohn Ashburnham the Honorable Lords Petre and Caepâ—â— since Earl of Fssex and the great Patrons of Learning Baptist Lord Viscount Cambden and the good Lord Maynard heir to all his Fathers Vertues especially to his respects to learning Vertue Mr. Thomas Smith Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge and Library-keeper Mr. Samuel Clerke of Merton Colledge in Oxford Esquire Bedle and Architypographus of that University Mr. Thomas Hyde Library-keeper there Mr. Richard Drake of Pembroke-hall and to conclude with one that is all as over-looking and Correcting all Dr. Edmund Castle of whom the Bishop saith truly In quo Eruditio summa magna animi modestia convenere who is now about a work next in use and renown to that wherein in reference to the Samaritane the Syriack the Arabick and AEthiopick Version he had a chief hand in I mean a Polyglot Dictionary a man since his worth if his humility did permit it might say of its self as Arias Montanus doth De me ac de meo labore et Industria quantulacunque ea â—st nihil profiteor hoc tamen unum recenseo me seilicet continuo Immortales Deo gratias agere quod 10. Idi omatum cognitionem mihi pro sua clementia et henignitate Impertitus sit I should be ashamed it should be said of us as it was said of some in Arias his time that we envied and disregarded his worth so far ut ad causam dicendam citatus vix venia Impetrata protantorum laborum praemio secossum in Boetica sua in quo se bona consciâ—ntia fretus sacrorum Librorum Lectione ac Lucubratione solaretur acceperit Thuan. hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. I say besides those excellent Personages now living and others already dead and mentioned as Dean Fuller Dr. Hammond Bishop Brownrig Mr. Patrick Young one well-deserving of Critical and Historical Learning his late Majesties Library keeper Sir Iohn Hele who did and suffered much for his Majesty in Dorcetshire and Wiltshire being forced to turn his Lands to Money to compound with the Parliament as they called it having given all his money to the King as did Walter Hele Esq Devon who'paid 4â—â— l. The Earl of â—indsey Dr. Samuel Baker Besides all these there were assistants to this Work these Royalists 1. Mr. Abraham Wheelocke born in White-Church Parish in Shropshire bred Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge where he was Keeper of the publick Library Minister of t. Sepulchres and Professor of the Arabick Tongue erected by Sir Thomas Adams born at Wem in the same County the Father of the City of London who though he suffered
taken notice of in the Long Parliament and he was one of them who at York Oxford and Vxbridge for he was at that Treaty made it evident that that Parliament its self by its Factions was become a grievance he himself keeping a middle way between the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberty so widening his Majesties interest to the utmost latitude and extent For all which and for neglecting the Parliaments Summons to return he and his Son Charles paid in way of Composition 2725 l. 00 s. 00 d. Since for his past Loyalty and present serviceableness made Privy-Counsellor to his Majesty King Charles II. and Chancellor to the Dutchy of Lancaster in which places he died 16â—4 5. As the Persians look not upon their children until they are ten years old so he wished men not to trust too much to their present settlement till it had attained seven years To this ancient Family relate Mr. Henry Seymor who added Art to his Honor in which respect a learned man calleth him not only his Amicus but his Necessarius and paid for his Loyalty 150 l. as Sir Edward Seymor of Berry Pomery did in Devon 1200 l. Richard Seymor of Hâ—nsord Dorset 0030. 06 8. Io. Seymor of Stockingham Devon Esquire 0105 l. 00 00 The Marquiss of Hertford was the first Commander in Chief for his Majesty in the West and the Earl of Cumberland in the North Commanding first Prince Charles his compleat Regiment of the choice Gentry of York-shire for a Guard to his Father and being excepted out of the Westminster-mens Pardon in the Commission they granted their General he was General of the Northern Associations whole Army bringing to his Majesty 24000 l. and 2000. men for the defence of the Country where he cleared York-shire Durham Cumberland c. settling thirty Garrisons for his Majesty forcing and perswading several persons of quality as Sir Edward Loftus and his Richmond-shire Forces Sir Henry Anderson with those of Cleaveland to return managing the war with that civiliâ—y as if he had been only to have kept the peace of the Country Of all which his Ancestors had the government for an hundred and fifty years in their own right as they had of Westmerland in the right of the Viponts their relations A Family that with nature subsisted and grew by the same things whereby it was first raised virtue that created supporting it till it pleased God it became lately extinct in a person made up of true Honor Valor and Mercy the best mettle bends best this Noble Person died about the 1646. having taught the world That the art of making war hath not a positive form and that it ought to be diversified according to the state of occurrences They that will commit nothing to fortune nor undertake any enterprize whose event appeareth not infallible escape many dangers by their wary conduct but fail of as many successes by their unactive fearfulness It s useless to be too wise and spend that time in a grave gaze on business that might serve for the speedy dispatch of it The great Estate of this Noble Earldom reverted unto Anne the sole Daughter of George Clifford the third brave Earl that King Iames when he met him first said was rather King than Earl of Cumberland the relict of R. Earl of Dorset and since of Phillip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery by whom the had two Daughters the one married to the Earl of Thanet who promoted the Kentish and other Insurrections so far that besides frequent Imprisonments and Decimations it cost him at one clap for Compounding 9000 l. and the other to Iames Earl of Northampton Sir Marmaduke Langdale being none of those English-men who being made Gentlemen before they are men seldom become wisemen was bred so as that he might be able to carry his head on his own shoulders and knowing that Gentility sent to Market will hardly buy a Bushel of Wheat added to his honorable descent most Scholar-like accomplishments and good husbandry by the same token that he bought that estate of Sir William Constable an unhappy man that forgot the honor of his ancient Family before the war for 26000 l. which Sir William afterwards begged of his Comerades during the Usurpation for nothing Sir Marmaduke was esteemed a serious and wise man and therefore he was able to do his Country great service when he stood for the Liberty of the Subject as he did all along in the first years of King Charles I. and the King as great when he saw it necessary to support his Government as he did 1642. when he brought in the whole County of York being Sheriff that year to Petition his Majesty to accept of their assistance and all the Clergy of the North to vindicate his Majesties Cause by their Subscriptions as the Laity had done by their Contributions His first exploit was with the honorable Sir Francis Worsley of â—â—â—leton in York-shire Colonel of his Majesties Army till taken Prisoner as he was settling the Array who was so good a pay-master and so civil a man in the Army that he might leave that saying in York-shire which his Country-man Sir Thomas de Rockby left in Ireland behind him That he would eat in wooden dishes but would pay for his meat gold and silver Paying for his Loyalty by way of Composition 5000 l. Francis Nevill of Chivel in York-shire Esq who as Palevezine the Italian had in one night his hair turned from black to gray so in a short time from a very active to a very grave person using much that saying of my Lord Burleighs Stay a little and we shall have done the sooner and paying for his Allegiance at Goldsmiths-hall 1000l Richard Nevil of Bellingbere in Berk-shire did 887 l. Thomas Nevil of London Draper 84 l. Nevil of York Esq and Sir Gervase his Son of Awbern in the County of Lincoln 1737 l. Thomas Nevil of Wakefield York 151 l. the Lady Frances Nevil 329 l. William Nevil of Cresse-temple in Essex Esq 211 l. to force York and to give direction to besiege effectually Sir Iohn Hotham where they had driven him in Hull where eminent was his great care and vigilancy His next was settling the Contributions and Quarters of the Country in the easiest method saying That he durst anger the Parliament but he durst not displease his Country-men after this he furnished his Majesty with 3000. Northern-horse at three several times preserving indeed all the horse that were left after the fatal sight at Marston-Moor having before routed 1500. Scotch horse before the City of York and rolling with them till they were a considerable Brigade by that time they came to Hereford Relieving the adjacent Garrisons as he marched along but the most famous action in all these wars was his marching with 2000. horse from Oxford through all the Enemies Quarters and Army to Relieve â—omfret 1644. ordering his march so prudently that under the Enemies Colours he was
himself about Sir H. death where the Visier being bribed as it is the fashion there to betray him to the Faction of Merchants which the honorable Sir Sackevill Crow a Gentleman able and willing to do his Majesty as much service as any man in England in his lowest condition though he hath and doth inâ—initely suffer for it in his highest had to do with keeping up his Majesties Reputation at Constantinople in spight of them as long as it pleased God to preserve his life in England who sent him in the Sâ—irna-Fleet with other honest persons that there sided with him to England where after some moneths Imprisonment in the Tower he was by an High-Court of Justice which refused him the Liberty of pleading in Italian the language he was most ready and expressive in sentenced and accordingly March 4. 1650. out of malice to his Brother and Master as if they had a design against the peoples Trades beheaded near the Exchange where being attended by Dr. Hide Bishop Vsher had been with him before he owned the King and Church of England Allegiance he said being incorporated in his Religion he protested he was sent to the Levant to serve and protect all and injure none as a Messenger to take care of the English Interest there untill his Majesty had settled an Ambassador he blessed God for giving him the advantage of paying that Debt due by nature upon the account of grace and this way bringing him to himself he cleared his Brother and all other persons from any design against the English Merchants and offered all the satisfaction in the world to any person that desired it the Axe doing that at one blow which his many Diseases would have done within a few weeks for he was not able either to rise or fall himself though he was able to dye Dr. Levens This Learned Gentleman descended of an ancient Family in Oxford-shire near Bolley within a mile of the University His Education was truly generous his Profession the Civil Law wherein he was graduated a Doctor and in which he was excellently known before these Wars He continued most part of the War at Oxford and his own adjacent dwelling till such time as the surrender of the said City into the hands of the Parliament where he had the same terms and was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation which being forced to accept and lay down his Arms he again re-assumed his wonted studies But after the Murther of the late King this Gentleman very considerable in his numerous acquaintance prudence and integrity considering the confusion impendent ruine of Church and State became engaged for the Son our present Soveraign as before for his Royal Father several Consultations and private Meetings were held by him and others in order to his service to which purpose he also received Commission from the King then in France for several Officers of these Forces designed to be raised and other instructions as the Affairs proceeded But the sagacious industry of the Parliaments spyes lighting upon some glimpses of this business which they followed so close that they discovered Dr. Levens to be the chief Agitator and Manager of the plot in whose breast the Cabal was principally lodged An Order thereupon was made by the Council of State and a Warrant signed by Bradshaw the President to seize and bring him before them and to search his Chamber and break up his Trunks for Papers he then being at London the place most expedient for the design which accordingly was done a file or two of Musqueteers guarding and securing the House where the said Papers were among which there were blank Commissions signed by the King to the purport aforesaid were found with him and carryed to the Council who thereupon ordered him to be proceeded against as a Spie and referred him to a Councel of War Accordingly he was soon afterwards tryed by a Court-Martial where he not excused himself but acknowledged their Allegations against him and the Justice of his Cause of which he told them he was no way ashamed but if it must be so he would willingly lay down his life in the owning of it He told them moreover he was indispensably bound by the Laws of God and this Kingdom to do what he did and so referred himself to them They very earnestly pressed him to reveal the other parties engaged with him and gave him fallacious hopes of life if he would freely declare them but those offers prevailed not with him being resolved to suffer and take all upon himself rather than to ruine others whom they could not fasten upon without his discovery So the Court proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be hanged over against the Exchange in Cornhill in Exchange time which after some little preparation was executed he being brought in a Coach from the Mews with the Executioner Vizarded with him and a Troop of Horse to guard him to the said place where the Sheriffs received him into their charge After he alighted and some words passed between them concerning the said discovery he told them they should not expect it and desired them to forbear any further trouble to that purpose and so â—ascending up the Ladder where he prayed very fervently for the King and the Church and commending his soul into the hands of his Redeemer and so concluded his last breath on the eighteenth of Iuly 1650. Col. Eusebius Andrews an honest and Religious man bred in my Lord Capels Family whose Secretary he was and a good Lawyer of Grays-Inn engaging in his Majesties cause from 1642. to tâ—e surrender of Worcester 1645. when taking neither Covenant Protestation negative Oath nor engagement in London he followed his Profession till one Io. Bernard formerly a Major under him because of his good parts and sober demeanor admitted to his familiarity brought one Captain Helmes and Mr. Bâ—nson formerly belonging to Sir Iohn Gell who was hanged on this occasion Oct. 7. 1650. to save his Arrears repenting that ever he had served the Parliament and praying heartily for the King to his acquaintance who insinuated the discontents of Sir Io. Gell and other Reformadoes the designs of the Levellers and Agitators and Letters from Mr. Rushworth to be sent by Mr. Brown Bushel a Sea-Captain very active in bringing the Fleet to the Princes command taken as he was waiting an opportunity to serve the King at London and tossed from Custody to Custody till he went to the Tower where it went so hard with him for necessaries that his Wife was forced to go with his daily provision from Covent-Garden to the Tower every day and thence being condemned for delivering up Scarborough to his Majesty to the Scaffold at Tower-hill under which being deluded with a promise of pardon that very day he was for fear of the Sea-men that loved him beheaded suddainly April 29. 1651. beyond Sea Sir Io. Gells Interest in the Country and his regret that
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
sacrifices for Ascham and Dorislaus escaped with his life in eleven years durance out of which he got 1656. not by creeping out of the Window by cowardly compliance but going forth at the Door fairly set open for him by Divine Providence hazarding his life for that which was the life of his life his Conscience He died at his house at Cowbridge his age having some years before given him a quietus est from publick imployments Dec. 6. 1663. INgratiis Pollentiae Invidiae Doli Frui miseriis ad voluptatem pati Carcerem in Asylum consecrare pectoris Instar reatu non prophanati aut metu Eatenus se vincere ac fati vices Vt forte fortunatus Invita foret Hoc est proselitare mala Damna 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sicci Beare vincla martyrii gradu Athleta tantus Jenkins qui de verbulis Myrmidonas ut formiculis tonans parit Sementa Cadmi literas belle exprimant Armata sulcis cressit ex Atris cohors Haec dextra turmas parturit penna fluit Ros plumea unde plumiceps oriâ—ur genus Ab ere non solidati at aerumna viri Hujusce nomen fit vice Auctoraminis Tu concoquebas famem diros cibos Qui devorantem sicut Ichneumon vorant Inedia cujus militum fovit fidem Vitalioris pabulo constantiae Vel ipsa macies ut saga famelica gregi Cadaveroso spiritum Infudit novum Mens gravior Auro puriorque stat tibi Quamvis in aevo Forreae rubiginis Vbi schismatum aemulatio ac pro formula Mera tenentur aut recusantur preces Qua Christianum sapere virtutes docet Eruncinare Gratiae ut zizania Successa titulo ne superbirent boni Bellum in duellum contrahis Ovantum licet Rebellionem criminans Rebellium Troglodytae ut execrantur ortivum Iubar Veniam repudias cum coinquinat favor Nec malis animum quam Catenari pedes Fastidioque nobilis justo doces Quod cedere est passiva Perduellio Fastu Pylagorae dum venenati tument Massaculoque regium Sceptrum Imputant Potentiae quanquam urbicae subsellia Turgentiore in solia tollunt Ambitu Is perspicaci tibi Cometalis nitor Conspicuus ipso fit minus fastigio Putrisque Trunci concolor radiis micat Quem nox in ignem vertit in lignum dies Fucatus horum lumine obruitur decor Cum patuit cum Latuit effulsit tuus Iustitia Caeca deviet seductilis Tua nisi Libram studia nutantem regant Pseudophoros pessundaturam qui struunt Ecclesiam puram sacrilegii strophis Et Araneosis Antinomiarum plagis Quas virulentis nent in Aucupium fibris Volaticos Irretiunt Araneos Aptis opifices Retium suspendere Balucia tu lege jureque logico Percontumacia Corda Rhetoricae moves Ac veritate fretus Incompta fugas Fallaciam quam vel fugere victoria est Cessere grandes dispari numero duces Rationibus superantur Innumeri tuis Causam ecce captus Imperatricem Capit Victus domat quicunque bis victor Cluvit The best Professors of the Canon and Civil Law the Law of Nations suffered with his Majesty as well as those of the Common-Law of England As 1. Dr. Arthur Duck a Person of most smooth language and rough speech i.e. of a Masculine style disadvantaged by an harsh utterance born at Heavy-tree in Devonshire of rich and gentile Parents bred in All-Souls Oxon the Gentlemans Colledge preferred Chancellor of Wells and London and designed Master of the Rolls the Lawyers advancement Marryed to a pious and wealthy Consort the devout mans Fortune whose life was what all our lives should be gratitude 1. To God in the strictness of his life and the good government of his Family reading two Chapters of the Bible every day to himself and three to his Houshold 2. To his Ministry Mr. Gataker and others of whom he deserved though a Lawyer the Epithite Athens gave some Physicians viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that would take nothing of them but give money to them with other incouragements which he called Fees to them at the Throne of Grace 3. To Gods poor especially at Wells where he was much missed to whom he gave he said what he got of the rich 4. To the Founder of the Colledge Archbishop Chichley where he had his Education in drawing up his life in Latine as elegant as his foundation 5. To his Majesty giving to him 6000 l. and paying for him in way of composition 2000 l. besides the many troubles he indured for him among others many years absence from his dear and sick Wife and the several services he performed to him the last whereof was his appearance a Civil Lawyer to assist his Majesty at the Treaty at the Isle of Wight whence returning home sad a sunk heart cannot be buoyed up again he dyed at Cheswicke Middles on the Lords-day and in effect in the Church 1648. when no true English-man could say he lived leaving two Daughters since marryed to two Gentlemen of his Name and Kindred Sir Thomas Reeves born at Little-langton in Dorset-shire and bred in New-Colledge in Oxford Dr. Ducks Colleague at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight Judge Advocate and Dr. Zouch his Colleague in the Admiralty so well skilled in Common-Law as well as Civil and in Divinity as both that he could have practised at Westminster as well as Doctors-Commons and at the Pulpit of St. Pauls as well as the Consistory being capable of the Ministry-maintenance for which he pleaded with much Law and Learning more Reason and Equity in his Vicars plea. A plea saith my Author oftner made than heard oftner heard than pityed and oftner pityed than redressed so unequal is the contest between a poor Vicars plea and wealthy Impropriators purse His general Learning and polite Latine no hair hanging at the neb of his Pen appears in his most critical Books of Sea-fights his Valour though Ancient in our late Wars gave good evidence of its self in several Land-battels Dr. Duck in the tryal of combat between the Lord Rey and Ramsey 1631. before the Earl Marshal spoke in the Kings behalf as if he would as he did afterwards suffer for him and Dr. Reeves in my Lord Reys behalf as if he had not been his Advocate onley but his Second He dyed where he was born 1652. Sir Iohn Lamb a man of his name so calm in publick that none could anger him though as if his temper changed with his place so angry sometimes in private that none could please him an error that was like to ruine saved him exposing indeed his Person to a Parliament but as the like accident preferred Sir Walter Raleigh discovering his parts so that Bishop Williams brought him off from his troubles and on to his Preferment First getting him Knighted and then advanced to the Deanery of the Arches Sir Iohn being opposed by the Bishop about an Officials place in Leicester which he carryed against him fell fowl with him about Puritans whom
the Bishop indulged and Sir Iohn prosecuted though both at last suffered by them Sir Iohn hardly seven times in these Wars escaping for his life at his House in Northampton-shire whence coming to hide himself in London he dyed in the Bell-Inn in St. Martins lane London sundry losses by plunder having paid after for composition 628 l. Sir Henry Martin born in London bred in New-Colledge Oxford the smallness of whose Estate was the improvement of his Parts being left but 40 l. a year which made him a Student where as he would say 80 l. would have made him a Gentleman pleading in his Chamber by Bishop Andrews advice who directed him to the study of the Civil Law the important Causes transmitted to him weekly from Lambeth he attained to a great faculty in amplifying and aggravating extenuating any thing at the Court wherefore he became an eminent Advocate in the High-Commission no Cause coming amiss to him who was not now to make new Armor but to buckle on the old not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Client and was made Judge of the Prerogative for Probate of Wills and of the Admiralty in Causes concerning Forreign Trade whence King Iames would say pleasantly of him That he was a mighty Monarch in his Jurisdiction over Land and Sea the living and the dead in the number of which last he was for fear and grief 1642. Dr. Thomas Eden born at Ballington-Hall in Essex Fellow and Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge where he always concurred with the old Protestants in his Votes in censuring extravagant Sermons c. and joyned issue with them in his suffering only he that was so excellent an Advocate for others pleaded so well for himself that he was permitted to dye in Cambridge where he bestowed 1000 l. since nothing was left him to live on elsewhere his Places of Chancellor of Ely Commissary of Sudbury and Westminster Professor of Law in Gresham-Colledge being Sequestred as he did 1646. leaving Sir Iames Bunce a great Agent and sufferer for his Majesty being twelve years banished his Executor on this score being an utter stranger to him Sir Iames asking the Doctors advice about a â—lause in a Will wherein he was Executor and being told by him that it was capable of a double sense replyed Tell me what you think in your Conscience is the very minde of the Testator which I am resolved whatever it cost me to make good Dr. Cowel observed of Dr. Eden that had a happy name which commends to a Favourite that might be easily pronounced Dr. Morrison and Dr. Goad both of Kings great Civilians and great sufferers the first a great friend of Bishop Williams the second of Bishop Laud at first the Faction was not perfect in the art of persecution being more loose and favourable in their language of Subscriptions but afterwards grew so punctual and particular therein that the persons to whom they were tendered must either strangle their Consciences with the acceptance or lose their Estates for the refusal thereof Sir Richard Lane a Gentleman not lost in the retiredness of a good judgment but being able to expose his merit as well as gain it by a quick fancy sending before a good Opinion of himself to make way for his Person with this Caution That he took care he should not sink with two great an expectation Whence in an Assembly wherein they used to Epithet every man with reference to their most obvious defects or vertues he was called Tho. Wary and with good reason he keeping his converse as among Superiors within the compass modesty and reverence so among equals within the Rules of a sweet and honest respect it being he said both to command our own Spirits and endear our friends a great art not to be too familiar or presume too much on the goodness of other natures upon that of a mans own besides that he thought it injustice to give our familiars the froth of our Parts reserving the more solid part for strangers though he exposed not his good humors but upon an equal Theatre a mans esteem rising not from shewing himself but from keeping himself regular and equal as well in mean and common as in great and extraordinary actions pretending to nothing he had not left being discovered albeit when once men have a good opinion they seldom take pains to disabuse themselves he might be suspected in what he had and being sure of Correspondents knowing that a single interest or abilities would sink under Court-affairs He was preferred the Princes Sollicitor and Attorney in the best times and his Father Keeper of the Seal in the worst not parting from his Majesty till he did with his own soul dying with a good Conscience abroad with more comfort than if he had dyed with a good Estate at home having discharged his place under a distressed Soveraign with much courage as well as skill leaving this opinion behind that Projectors of new Engines were not to be too much encouraged in a populous Country since by easing many of their labor they out more of their livelihood and so though beneficial to private persons are pernicious to the publick to which what imployeth most is most advantageous Sir Iohn Bennet as much persecuted by the Parliament as by the High-Commission THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM JUXON Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury BOrn at Chichester in Sussex and bred in St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow and President his deep and smooth parts as appears by his Speeches and Poetry on publick Occasions particularly on King Iames his death exceeding his years and yet his modesty and other vertues so exceeding as to hide his Parts had not he been discovered for Preferment by the Perfume of his worth as the Roman Gentleman was by the sweet Odour of his Cloaths for punishment Bishop Laud had taken great notice of his Parts and Temper when he was Fellow with him but greater of his Integrity and policy when a stickler in the Suit about President-ship of the Colledge against him When observing him a shrewd Adversary he thought he might be a good Friend being though Doctor of Law yet a great Master of Divinity all hearing him Preach with great pleasure and profit so much he had of Paul and Apollos of learned plainness and an useful elaborateness when he preached saith one that heard him Of Mortification Repentance and other Christian Practicks he did it with such a stroke of unaffected Floquence of potent Demonstration and irresistible Conviction that jew Agrippaes Festaes or Felixes that heard but must needs for the time and fit be almost perswaded to be penitent and mortified Christians Dr. Laud finding him shining in each place he was as the Divine Lights in their Orbs without noise his Birth so Gentile that it was no disgrace to his Parts though not so Illustrious but that his Parts might be an Ornament to him his Vertues so modest that they
to the whole Nation for Integrity and Loyalty may be so to all persons of his quality in every passage of his life 1. To young Gentlemen younger Sons to considerable Families bound Apprentises in London in this careful obliging service to Mr. Coleby a Silk-man in Cheap-side who dying left him his Shop worth 6000 l. 2. To those happy men that having gained estates in their younger days to serve themselves should accomplish themselves against their riper years to serve their Country in his travels upon his enusing on the foresaid estate into France and Italy where he improved himself and by observing the Trades of the respective Marts as he passed laid the foundation of his future Traffick 3. To single Persons in his discreet Marriage into a Family Mr. Sandfords at that time commanding at once most of the money and by that most of the Nobility Gentry and great Trades-men of England 4. To Persons in Trust in the faithful discharge of a joynt power he the Earls of Dorset and Essex were invested with by a charitable person of an 100000 l. deep towards the buying of Impropriations to be Legally and bona fide laid to the Church 5. To Magistrates going through all Offices in the places he lived in a Benefactor in each place particularly to his Company the Cloath-workers whereof he was Warden to the Hospital of St. Bartholomews whereof he was Waâ—den and to the City whereof he was Alderman Sheriff and Lord Mayor promoting the Loanes the King had occasion for advancing the Commission of Array when the Kingdoms condition required it entertaining his Majesty 4000 l. deep at his own charge when he knew how much his Majesties reputation would gain in the Country by the appearance of a good correspondence between him and the City Appeasing the tumults when 63. years of age one night with 30. or 40. Lights and a few Attendants whereof his Son-in-law Sir Iohn Pettus was one rushing suddainly out of the house upon thousands with the City Sword drawn who immediately retired to their houses and gave over their design In countenancing his Majesties legal Proclamations and neglecting the Conspiracies traiterous Ordinances â—ffering the King as Sir Iohn Pettus assumed me who went many times a day in those times from Sir Richard to his Majesty and from his Majesty back again to Sir Richard to stand upon the Priviledges of the City with his Majesty against the Faction as they stood upon the Priviledges of Parliament against him refusing to appear out of the Liberties of the City before the Parliament till he was commanded to do so by the Kingâ— whom he would obey with his ruin when besides a long attendance at his own charge the City not contributing a farthing towards it not to this day in the House of Peers who sent for him every day in a whole month with his Counsel on purpose to undo him he was deprived of Maâ—oralty Honor and all capacity of bearing any Office in the Kingdom kept seven years Prisoner in the Tower refusing to pay the 5000 l. imposed upon him for his Liberty urging that by the Law of the Land he should not suffer twice for the same fault Plundered Sequestâ—ed and Troubled by several seizures of Estates and Debts not ended till 57. after it had gone through 13. Committeesâ— to him and his heirs the Right Honorable the Lord Richardson and the Right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Pettus his Lady to the loss of 40000 l. He died Oct. 6. in the year of our Lord 1647. and of his age 69. being buried at Olaves-Iury London with the Lyturgy in the very reign of the Directory His Loyal Relations so ordering it that the Coaches should stop all passages into the Church and that three Orthodox Ministers should attend at the Grave one ready upon the least disturbance to go on where the other had been interrupted that he might have the benefit of that decent Order when dead which he maintained when alive Famous Walwin added a Dagger to the City Armes for stabbing one Rebel What deserved renowned Gurney that if backed by Authority had stabbed Rebellion itâ—self Sir Nicholas Crisp a Citizen and a Citizens Son having a great Estate by his Birth and Marriage raised it by his Parts whereby besides his interest at the Custom-house he projected such a Trade to Guinia and other parts before the Wars as would have been worth to him 50000 l. a year and to Holland France Spain â—â—aly Norway Turky and Muscovy in the Wars as was worth to the King though wandring up down his Kingdom and forced away from his great Mart 100000 l. yearly Sir Nicholas keeping most Ports open for his Majesties occasions Ships ready for his service and a Correspondence between him and London Bristow c. and all other parts very useful for his Affairs neither was he less active in the Field as Colonel having trained up himself in the City Militia for the service of the Kingdom in leading armed men then at Court as Counsellor to raise and arm them commanding a Regiment of Horse he himself had raised and paid The Polypus puts not on more shapes to deceive the Fisher than Sir Nicholas did to escape those that laid snares for him one while you should meet him with thousands in Gold another while in his way to Oxford riding in a pair of Panniars like a Butter-woman going to Market at other times he was a Porter carrying on his Majesties Interest especially in the design of Mr. Challoner and Thomkins in London he was a Fisher-man in one place and a Merchant in another The King would say of him that he was a man of a clear head that by continual Agitation of thoughts went on smoothly in his business sticking not at any difficulties all the succors the King had from his Queen and others beyond Sea especially from Holland came through his hands and most of the relief he had at home was managed by his conveyance neither was he less valiant than prudent his heart being as good as his head For after he had bravely Convoyed the Train of Artillery from Oxford to Bristol and was Sept. 1643. quartered at Rouslidge near Gloucester a Person of Quality in the Country but of no Command in the Army Sir Iames Envyon not only incommoded his quarters in which particular he was very civil to him but because he would not draw up his Regiment to satisfie a friend of his about some Horses that were stollen there offering to take all other care to finde them that way for many reasons being by him proved inconvenient sent him a challenge adding that if he met him not he would Pistol him against the wall Sir Nicholas met to offer him all Christian satisfaction in the world which not being accepted many passes Sir Iames made at him he in his own defence much against his will and to his grief to his dying day happened to run him through yet making his peace
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty
me And to call a destruction upon my self and young Children where the intentions of my heart have been innocent at least of this great offence may be believed will find no easie content to flesh and bloud But with much sadnesse I am come to a resolution of that which I think best becomes me to look upon that which is most principal in its self which doubtless is the prosperity of your Sacred Person and the Commonwealth infinitely beyond any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the honor and justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might be pleased to have spared that Declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships So now to set your Conscience at liberty I do most humbly beseech you for the preventing of such mischief as may happen by your refusal to Pass the Bill by this means remove I cannot say praised be God this Accursed but I confesse this Unfortunate thing out of the way towards that blessed Agreement which God I trust will establish for ever between you and your Subjects Sir my Consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the world can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done And as by God's grace I forgive all the world with all chearfulnesse imaginable in the just acknowledgement of your exceeding Favours And onely Beg that in your goodnesse you would be pleased to cast your Gracious regard upon my poor Son and his Sisters lesse or more and no otherwise than their unfortunate Father shall appear more or lesse guilty of his death God long preserve your Majesty Tower May 4. 1640. Your Majesties most humble and faithful subject and servant STRAFFORD And then with much reluctancy the King being overcome rather than perswaded Passed by Proxies In hane formam The Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford extorted by a prevailing Faction by force from the Parliament 16 and 17. CAR. 1. Repealed by a Free and full-Full-Parliament 13 and 14. CAR. 11. WHereas the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parlament Assembled have in the names of themselves and all the Commons of England Impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford of High-treason for indeavouring to subvert the Ancient and Fundamental Laws and Government of his Majesties Realms of England and Ireland And to Introduce a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government against Law into those Kingdoms and for exercising a Tyrannous and Exorbitant Power over and against the Laws of the said Kingdoms over the Liberties Estates and Lives of his Majesties Subjects and likewise for having by his own Authority commanded the Laying and Assessing of Souldiers upon his Majesties Subjects in Ireland against their Consent to Compel them to obey his unlawful Commands and Orders made upon Paper-Petitions in Causes between Party and Party which accordingly was executed upon divers of his Majesties Subjects in a warlike manner within the said Realm of Ireland and in so doing did Levy War against the Kings Majesty and his Leige People in that Kingdom And also for that he after the unhappy Dissolution of the last Parliament did slander the House of Commons to his Majesty and did Counsel and Advise his Majesty That he was loose and absolved from Rules of Government and that he had an Army in Ireland c. For which he deserves to undergo pains and forfeiture of High-Treason And the said Earl hath been an Incendiary between Scotland and England All which Offences have been sufficiently proved against the said Earl upon his Impeachment Be it therefore Enacted c. that the said Earl of Strafford for the heinous Crimes and Offences aforesaid Stand and be Adjudged and Attainted of High-treason And shall suffer such Pain of Death and Incurr the forfeitures of his Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance in the said Kingdomes of England and Ireland which the said Earl or any other to his use or in trust for him have or had the day of the first Sitting of this present Parliament or at any time since Provided that nothing be Declared Treason hereafter but what might have been Declared for had this Act never been Passing Saving to all Persons and Bodies Corporate excepting the Earl and all Rights Titles Interests they did injoy the first day of this Parliament Any thing herein Contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That the Passing of this present Act determine not this Session of Parliament c. A Bill 1. So false in the matter of it grounded on the Evidence of Papists sworn enemies to the English Name and State that wanted only the death of this great Instrument of Government to commit those mischiefs they accused him of the Faction Carressing those very Rebels to assist them in shedding my Lord of Strafford's bloud that afterwards imbrued their hands in the bloud of so many innocent Protestants in Ireland 2. So shameful in the manner of it that as the Devil upbraids unhappy souls with those very crimes they tempted and betrayed them to so those very men made use of it to pollute the King's honour that had even forced him to it though the heaviest Censure was himself Who never left bewailing his Compliance or Connivance with this Murder till the issue of his bloud dried up those of his tears A Bill which might well accompany the other Bill about the Parliaments Sitting during pleasure this passing away the King's Honour and the other his Prerogative Neither was the Bill sooner Passed than his Execution was Ordered The King's intercession in a Letter sent by his own Son the Prince for so much intermixture of mercy with the publick Justice as to permit the Earl either to live out his sad life in a close Imprisonment or at least that his soul that found so much Injustice on earth might have a Week to prepare it's self for the mercy of Heaven Rather quickening the bloudy mens Counsels who thought not themselves safe as long as he was so and whose fears and jealousies created or entertained stories every minute of his escape or rescue than mitigating them And therefore the second day after a great man must be surprized secured as soon as accused tried as soon as secured condemned as soon as tried and executed as soon as condemned the very day Sir Henry Vane the Younger that contributed so much to this Murder was Executed afterwards After six months Imprisonment and twenty one whole days Trial wherein he answered the whole House of Commons for six or seven hours each day to the infinite satisfaction of all impartial Persons He was brought with a strong and solemn Guard to the Scaffold on Tower-hill In his passage thither he had a sight of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury whose prayers and blessings he with low obeysance begged and the pious Prelate bestowed them
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