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
Soveraign an Argument that Religion Justice or the love of Liberty which are alwayes uniform but unworthy Interests that vary with hopes and fears had the strongest influence upon them Nay they must overcome the Parliament it by whose pretended Authority they had hitherto the City of London at whose charge they had hitherto fought and the first Leaders of the Army by whose Reputation it was first raised and by whose skill and activity it so long prospered The Kings prudence and their own jealousies combinations in crimes conclude in jealousies each party thinking the advantage of the other too great having committed and injealousied them They must Conquer Scotland and their dear Brethren and take the King off from the Presbyterians by their arts and insinuations inveighing him into the pit they had laid for him in the Isle of Wight for his escape from Hampton-Court by the withdrawing of the Centinels from their usual posts appeared to be their design they must oppose the highest reason in the world offered by the King there intent upon the settlement of the Nation for a Personal Treaty agreeable to the sense of the whole kingdom 1. By Preliminary Articles which they knew the King could not yield to and upon his refusal four Votes of No Addresses to him which they could never have compassed had they not sent half the Members away to the Country upon pretence of expediting the Contributions and tired the other half with late Sitting from ten in the morning till twelve at night and withal the Menaces of the Officers that came with Remonstrances to the House and the terror of the Army two Regiments whereof under colour of guarding but indeed for awing the Parliament were quartered at Whitehall They must endure the clamors of an undone people deluded with pretences of avoiding Tyranny into Slavery 1. For an excellent Religion broken into Schismes and Heresies 2. For Prayers and Fasts made to serve impious designs and promote prosperous crimes 3. For Liberty become an empty name the common ways of confinement being too little to secure those that would not break the Law men lingring in strange imprisonment knowing neither their crimes nor their accusers because they had not guilt enough for condemnation thousands forced to be Exiles in strange lands or Slaves at home 4. For Propriety hedged no longer by Law but become a prey to the fraud and violence of the Conspirators 5. For great Virtues become as dangerous as formerly great crimes were 6. For Converse become a snare spies in each company watching mens words and searching into their thoughts 7. For the Parliament become a Conspiracy divided in its self and enslaved to its vassals who made Laws according to their interests and executed them according to their lusts The whole Nation now better understanding their good and wise Prince the publick interest and themselves panted for a return to the obedience of the most incomparable Government and most inestimable Prince in the world Insomuch so admirable were the returns of Divine Justice at that time that the very same Convention that first stirred up this way of tumultuary Petitions against the King were now forced to complain That the honor and safety of Parliaments for so they called the poor remainder of that Assembly was indangered by Petitions They must rescinde the City Petitions and their own Votes that the Kings Concessions were a safe ground for the Parliament to settle the Peace of the kingdom on The King having granted so much as the people might see he was not as he was reported obstinate against his own happiness and the Nations peace and so gratified not his Enemies and yet so discreetly that he deserted not his Friends his wisdom tempering prudently their harsh Propositions and his Reason urging effectually his own They must cast off all obedience to their own Superiors as well as to the King and imprison the Parliament as well as the King Violate their Protestation and renounce their Solemn League and Covenant disown the Lords House and leave not above sixty of almost five hundred Members in the House of Commons In fine they must go against their own Prayers Sermons Engagements and Consciences against the very foundations of Government in the world and the sentiments of Mankind about it against the known Laws of the Land and against truths as clear as the Sun in these unheard-of Propositions I. That the People under God are the Original of all just Power II. That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the People have the Supream Authority of this Nation III. That whatsoever is Enacted and Declared for Law by the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law IV. That all the people of this Nation are concluded thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and Peers be not had thereunto V. That to raise Arms against the peoples Representative is Treason VI. That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and on that account is guilty of the Bloud-shed throughout the Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud Bold and ridiculous men That think with one breath to alter the notion of Good and Evil and to make their Usurpations just because they had the face to declare them so Qui amici veritatis esse possent sine labore ut peccent Laborant Greg. de curâ past They who might have been honest with so much ease what pains do they take to be wicked For these and many more restraints they must break through before they came at the Kings Life Towards the taking away of which they pack a Court of Iustice as they called them though it had nothing to do with Justice but that it deserved to be the object of it of such people as the Ring-leader of them O. C. called at the Table of an Independent Lord A Company of Rascals whom he knew to be so and would so serve Invested with a power to Cite Hear Iudge and punish Charles Stuart King of England Reader I know not with what temper thou readest these lines I tremble when I writ them One or two Brewers two or three Coblers many of them Mechanicks all poor Bankrupts one turned out of the House for a Rape another for writing a Blasphemous Book against the Trinity and another a known Adulterer Men so low that no lesser crime could raise them and so obnoxious there was no other way for them to hope for impunity men fitter to stand at a Bar than to sit on the Bench. These though a search was made for a number of men that could not blush at nor fear any guilt yet many of them abhorred the villany and left them others stayed with a design to disturb it went to act the murther not as other Regicides Ravillaic c. used to do privately or as they themselves used to Preach it in a
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his
as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
Table-book and Common-place rather than his heart Iulius Caesar said other mens wives should not be loose but his should not be suspected And this great Lord advised the Primate of Ireland that as no Clergy man should be in reality guilty of compliance with a Schism so should not he in appearance Adding when the Primate urged the dangers on all sides as Caesar once said You are too old to fear and I too sickly A true saying since upon the opening of his Body it was found that he could not have lived according to the course of Nature six moneths longer than he did by the malice of his Enemies his own Diseases having determined his life about the same period that the Nations distemper did and his Adversaries having prevailed nothing but that that death which he just paying as a debt to Nature should be in the instant hallowed to a Sacrifice for Allegiance and he that was dying must be martyred and just when he put off his Coronet Put on a Crown Philip the I. of Spain said he could not compass his design as long as Lerma lived nor the Scots theirs as long as Strafford acts and with his own single worth bears up against the Plot of three Kingdoms like Sceva in the breach with his single resolution duelling the whole Conspiracy That now being resolved into two Committees the one of Scots the other of English first impeach him Decemb. 17. of High Treason in the House of Lords though so Innocent and so well satisfied in his own present integrity that when he might have kept with an Army that loved him well at York to give Law to those conspitors he came to receive Law from them and when he might have been secure in his Government and in the Head of an Army in Ireland he came to give an account of that Government and Army in England laying down his own Sword to be subject to others and teaching how well he could Govern by shewing how well he could obey yea when he might have retired and charged his Adversaries as Bristow did Buckingham with that conspiracy for the overthrow of Government wherewith they charged him He being able to prove how P. H. H. K. S. H. S. that thirst most for his blood had correspondence with and gave counsel to the Kings Enemies in Scotland and Ireland and England when they could prove no more for the alteration of the Law against him than that he gave advice to the King according to his place to support them yet he tamely yeilded his whole life to be scanned by those that could not be safe but when he was dead and having mannaged the great trust reposed in him by the Laws of Antient Parliaments was not afraid to submit himself to the censure of this Rather than hide his head in some Forreign Nation that offered him Sanctuary saying That England had but one good head and that was to be Cut off meaning His he would loose in his own scorning for services done his own King to beg protection of another The brave man judging that he deserved death that minute he feared it and that he was fit to be Condemned that day he refused to be Tryed appeared in Parliament and Counsel with that resolution that afterwards he appeared at the Bar with till the Scots thinking their guilt could not be pardoned till his Innocence was Impeached and that their vast Accounts amounting to 514128l 9s could not pass till he was laid up to give up his as he was in Decemb. 1640 and the Scots going with the English first Impeached and afwards Ian. 30. compleated their Charge against him which drawn up in two hundred sheets of paper was brought to the Peers by Pym and how Sir Henry V. short Notes multiplied were read Feb. 24. to the Peers before the King and Feb. 25. to the Commons consisting of 28. Articles to which having Counsel allowed him in matter of Law after three dayes debate about it and they allowed to plead but in matters they were restrained to by the House he answered in Westminster-Hall before the King Queen the Prince and Courtiers in an apartment by themselves and the whole Parliament an Audience equal to the greatness of the Earls Person and the Earl of Lindsey being Lord High Constable for the day the Earl of Arundel Lord High Steward on the 22. of March as to matter of Fact in general and the Court adjourning to the next day then in particular to 13 Articles put to him of a suddain as first that he had withdrawn 24000l out of Exchequer of Ireland for his own use Secondly That the Irish Garrisons had in the years 1635 1636. c. been maintained with English Treasure Thirdly That he had preferred infamous and Popish persons such as the Bishop of Waterford c. in the Irish Church To which notwithstanding the surprize of a Vote wherein the Parliament of Ireland charged him of High Treason a Copy whereof was delivered sealed to the Lords at that very instant with purpose to discompose him An emergency that transported him indeed to say in passion That there was a Conspiracy against him which when the Faction aggravated as if he charged with High Treason by both Houses of Parliaments should charge both Parliaments with a Conspiracy though he execused it as meant of particular and private persons â—raving pardon for the inconsiderateness of the expression He answered with an undaunted Presence of spirit with firm Reason and powerful Eloquence to this purpose that the Money he had taken for himself was no other than what Money he had paid for the King before Secondly That he had eased the Kingdom of those Garrisons wherewith it had been burthened during his Predecessors time Thirdly That the Bishop of Waterford had deceived him and satisfied the Law and the next day after Marchâ— 24. to these Articles all the forementioned 28. Articles being 〈◊〉 urged he replyed thus The First Article insisted on That 31. Aâ—â—â—â—sâ—â—33 â—â—33 he being Lord President of the North and Justice of Peace publickly at the York Aâ—â—â—zes declared that some Justices were all for Law but they should find that the Kings little singer should be heavier than the loines of the Law testified by Sir David Fowls c. The Earles Reply That Sir David Fowls was his profest Enemy that his words were clearly inverted that his expression was That the little â—inger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings gracious Clemency was heavier then the Kings loins That these were his words he verified First by the occasion of them they being spoken to some whom the Kings favour had then enlarged from imprisonment at York as a motive to their thank fulness to his Majesty Secondly By Sir William Pennyman a Member of the House who was then present and heard the words which Sir William declaring to be true the House of Commons required Iustice of the Lords against him because he had Voted the Articles as
and council such Irish as could not endure the strictness and civility of his government In fine such whose frauds and force were met with by his prudence and prowess He whom three Kingdomes agreed against in their Faction indeed so excellent a Personage was not to be ruined but by the pretended hatred of the whole Empire He whom the Mercenary Lawyers and Orators represented so monstrously appeared so innocent that some of his very Enemies said in much anger you may be sure that their Charge of Misdemeanors proved no other than a Libel of Slanders and the disingaged and honest part of the Nation with as much pleasure to find so great faults reflected on the unhappiness of great Ministers whose parts and trust must be their crimes whose happy councils are envied and unsuccesseful though prudent ones severely accused When they err every one condemneth them and their wise advices few praise For those that are benefited envy and such as are disappointed hate those that gave them The Faction thus baffled by his Abilities and Innocence and run down by Master Lane the Princes Atturneys Argument for with much ado they allowed him Master Lane Recorder Gardiner Master Loe and Master Lightfoot for Council though in point of Law in such matters as they would allow them to plead in viz. That these words in the Statute of 25. Edw. 3. Because particular Treasons could not be then defined therefore what the Parliament shall declare to be Treason in time to come should be punished as Treason being the words of a declarative and penal Statute ought to be understood literally and that this Salvo was Repealed 6. Hen. 4. when it was Enacted that nothing shall be esteemed Treason but what is literally contained in the Statute 25. Edw. 3. drew up the Bill of Attainder a Law after the Fact with a shameful Caution that the unparallel'd thing should not be drawn into a Precedent so securing themselves who really designed that alteration of Government they falsly charged him with from the return of the same Injustice on themselves which they Acted on him A Bill that they Passed in two days so eager were they of bloud and so fearful of delays and sober consideration notwithstanding the generous dissent of a fifth part of the Commons men of honest hopes who disdained to administer to the lusts of the Faction in the bloud of so much innocent Gallantry though with the hazard of their lives being Posted and Marked out to the fury of the Rabble And by the Midwifery of a Tumult of 5 or 6000. people instigated and directed by unquiet Members of the House of Commons that were seen amongst them to the great dishonour of their persons and places forced upon as many of the Peers as would or durst Sit and that was scarce a third part in whose thin house after the King had so frankly declared three things May. 1. in the Earles behalf before both House viz. 1. That he was never advised to bring the Irish Army into England 2. That no man ever durst create in him the least jealousie of his English Subjects Loyalty 3. That no man ever dared to move him to alter the least much less all the Laws of England It scarcely Passed after so many hideous Riots raised by the Pulpit Demagogues Sunday May 2. by seven Voices And when brought to his Majesty who had earnestly intreated them by all the Franke Concessions he had made to them that Parliament not to press him in so tender a point and though the Tumults without and the Sollicitations within several Courtiers looking on the Earl as the Herd doth on an hurt Deer hoping his blood would be the lustration of the Court ran high the Gracious King being loath to leave so faithful and brave a man a Sacrifice to popular rage there stuck until 1. The Judges upon whose judgment the Bishops when sent for advised his Majesty to rely in matter of Law they being sworn to declare the Law equally between the King and his People pronounced him guilty of Treason in the general though they confessed he was not so in any particulars the point his Majesty pressed much upon them 2. The Parliament City and Country importuned him his very followers tyring him with that Maxime the weaknesse whereofâ— many of them lived to see and suffer Some talk of a Paper-promise the King gave him wherein was write upon Better one man perish though unjustly than the people be displeased or destroyed And the Parliament wearying him with that clamor rather than reason that their Vote though against his Judgement should satisfie his Conscience 3. The Earl offered himself a Victime like Hurtius for the Kingdomes Peace and the Kings Safety in this Letter to his Majesty The Earl of Strafford's Letter to the King May it please your Majesty IT hath been my greatest grief in all these troubles to be taken as a person who should indeavour to represent and set things amisse between your Majesty and your People and to give council tending to the disquiet of the three Kingdomes Most true it is that mine own private condition considered it had been a great madnesse since through your gracious favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kind to mend my fortune or please my mind more than by resting where your bounteous hand had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken for unto your Majesty is well known my poor and humble advises concluded still in this that your Majesty and your people could never be happy till there were a Right Understanding betwixt you and them no other means to effect and settle this happinesse but by the counsel and assent of the Parliament or to prevent the growing evils upon this State but by intirely putting your self in your last resort upon the Loyalty and good Affection of your English Subjects Yet such is my misfortune this truth findeth little credit the contrary seemeth generally believed and my self reputed as something of separation between you and your people under a heavier censure than which I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the minds of men are more incensed against me notwithstanding your Majesty hath declared that in your Princely Opinion I am not guilty of Treason nor are you satisfied in your Conscience to Passe the Bill This bringeth me into a very great streight there is before me the ruin of my Children and Family hitherto untouched in all the branches of it with any foul Crimes Here is before me the many Ills which may befal your Sacred Person and the whole Kingdom should your self and the Parliament part lesse satisfied one with another than is necessary for the preservation of King and People Here are before me the things most valued most feared by mortal man Life or Death To say Sir that there hath been no strife in me were to make me lesse than God knoweth I am and mine infirmities give
touched my eyes have never been blinded with any Reward I never byassed for friendship nor diverted for hatred for all that know me know I was not of a vindicative nature I do not know for what particulars or by what means you are drawn into an ill opinion of me since I had the honour to sit in that place you sit in Master Speaker in which I served you with all fidelity and candor Many witnesses there are of the good Offices I did you and resumed expressions of Thankfulness from this House for it for the last day I had share in it no man expressed more symbols of sorrow than I did After three days Adjournment the King desired me it might be Adjourned for a few days more whether was it then in his Majesty much less in me to Dissolve the House But the King sent for me to Whitehall and gave me a Message to the House and commanded me when I had delivered the Message forthwith to come to him and if a question was offered to be put he charged me upon my Allegiance I should put none I do not speak this as a thing I do now merit by but it is known to divers men and to some Gentlemen of this House All that I say is but to beseech you to consider what you would have done in this strait betwixt the King my Master and this Honourable House The Shipping business lieth heavy upon me I am far from justifying that my opinion if it be contrary to the Judgment of this House I submit I never knew of it at the first or ever advised any other I was made Chief Justice four days before the Writ went out for the Port I was sworn sixteen days after and the Writs Issued forth without my privity The King Commanded the then Chief Justice the now Chief Baron and my self to look on the Presidents and to certifie him our Opinions what we thought of it That if the whole Kingdom were in danger it was reasonable and fit to lay the Charge for the Defence of it upon the whole Kingdom and not upon the Port only And Commanded the then Chief Justice my self and the now Chief Baron to return him our Opinions Our Opinions were and we thought it agreeable to Law and Reason That if the whole were in danger the whole should contribute This was about Iune In Michaelmas following the King but by no Advice of mine Commanded me to go to all the Judges for their Opinions upon the Case and to Charge them upon their Allegiance to deliver their Opinions but this not as a binding opinion to themselves but that upon better consideration or reason they might alter but only for his Majesties satisfaction and that he must keep it to his own private use as I conceive the Judges are bound by their Oaths to do I protest I never used any promise or threats to any but did only leave it to the Law and so did his Majesty desire That no speech that way might move us to deliver any thing contrary to our Consciences There was no Judge that Subscribed needed sollicitations to it there were that Refused Hutton and Crook Crook made no doubt of this thing but of the introduction I am of opinion that when the whole Kingdom is in danger whereof the King is Iudge the danger is to born by the whole Kingdom When the King would have sent to Hutton for his Opinion the then Lord Keeper desired to let him alone and to leave him to himself That was all the ill office he did in that business February 26. upon command from his Majesty by the then Secretary of State the Judges did assemble in Sergeants-Inn where then that opinion was delivered and afterwards was inrolled in the Star-chamber and other Courts at which time I used the best arguments as I could where at that time Crook and Hutton differed in Opinion not of the thing but whether the King was sole Judge Fifteen months from the first they all Subscribed and it was Registred in the Star-chamber and other Courts The reason why Crook and Hutton Subscribed was because they were over-ruled by the greater number This was all I did till I came to my Argument in the Exchequer where I argued the Case I need not tell you what my Arguments were they are publick about the Town I delivered my self then as free as any that the King ought to Govern by the positive Laws of the kingdom and not alter but by consent of the Parliament and that if he made use of it as a Revenue or otherwise that this judgement could not hold him but never declared that money should be raised I heard you had some hard opinion of me about this secret business it was far from my business and occasions but in Mr. 〈…〉 absence I went to the Justice-seat when I came there I did both King and Commonwealth good service which I did with extream danger to my self and fortunes left it a thing as advantageous to the Commonwealth as any thing else I never went about to overthrow the Charter of the Forrest but held it a sacred thing and ought to be maintained both for the King and People Two Judges then were that held the King by the Common-law might make a Forrest where he would when I came to be Judge I declared my Opinion to the contrary that the King was restrained and had no power to make a Forrest but in his own Demesn lands I know that there is something laid upon me touching the Declaration that came out the last Parliament it is the King's affair and I am bound without his Licence not to disclose it but I hope I shall obtain leave of his Majesty and then I shall make it appear that in this thing I have not deserved your disfavours and will give good satisfaction in any thing I know that you are wise and that you will not strain things to the uttermost sence to hurt me God did not call David a man after his own heart because he had no failings but because his heart was right with God I conclude all this That if I must not live to serve you I desire I may dye in your good opinion and favour A Speech so franck and clear that it might have removed all suspition so pathetick that it might have melted cruelty into compassion so humbly and submissively managed that they could not but pity him who were resolved to destroy him weeping at the pronouncing of it and when it was over Hyena and Crocodile-like shedding tears and bloud in an instant that day Voting the Author a Traitor and without any regard to the honour of his place and trust the reverence of his years the strictness of his profession and life the many services he did that party of whom he was reckoned one and the many favours he received from them the extent of his charity and the exemplariness of his devotion employ their common Messengers to take
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
would bear the charge of his Suit with his Adversary which being over-heard by the Noble-man he sent presently to the Brewer resolving he would no longer go to Law with him who upon such easie and cheap terms could manage his part of the Suit And when some ill-minded people thought to disturb the peace of his soul by the confluence that attended his Neighbour's Ministry and the solitude of his he would at once please himself and displease them with this Repartee That to one Customer you will see in a substantial Whole-saleman's Ware-house you will meet with twenty in a pedling Retailer of Small-wares Shop A man would wonder how so good a nature could have an enemy but that as Culpitius Severus noteth of Ithacius that he so hated Priscillian that the very Habit which good men used if it were such as Priscillian had used made him hate them also so it was observed in those times that any thing that was Episcopal was so odious that some men whose Callings were much indeared by the excellent endowments of their persons had yet their persons much disrespected by the common prejudices against their Callings Ah shall I be so happy as to be taken away from the evil to come They are his dying words as Augustine before the taking of Hippopareus before the Siege of Heidelbergh and the good Christians before the Siege of Ierusalem Shall I go as old Gryneus said ubi Lutherus cum Zwinglio optime jam convenit If they knew what it was to dye they would not live so When Bees Swarm a little dust thrown in the Air setleth them and when People are out of order a little thought of their mortality would compose them And since they are mortal their hatred would not be immortal O set bounds to our zeal by discretion to tumults by law to errours by truth to passion by reason and to divisions by charity And so this good man went up to that place that is made up of his Temper Mirth and peace For all we know of what is done above By blessed Souls is that they Sing and Love THE Life and Death OF Sir ROBERT BERKLEY THE two great Boundaries that stood in the way of the late Sedition were Religion and Law which guide and regulate the main Springs that move and govern the affections of reclaimed nature Conscience and Fear by the first of which we are obliged as we live in the communion of those that hope for another world And by the second as we live in society with those that keep in order this Ministers and Lawyers are the Oracles we depend upon for Counsel and Instruction in both those Grand Concerns so far as that we think it our duty to submit to the reason of the one and to believe the doctrine of the other without scruple or argument unless in matters most notoriously repugnant to the Elements of Policy and Religion These two professions the Conspiracy endeavoured to make sure of either by cajoling or persecuting drawing the one half of them to sin with them oh what a case the Nation was in when Juglers and Impostors took up its Benches and Pulpits and marking out the other half for persecution by them miserable kingdom where the Law is Treason and Gospel a Misdemeanor One of those that could better endure the Injuries than the Ways of the Faction was Sir Robert Berkley a person whose worth was set in his Pedigree as a rich diamond in a fair Ring his extraction not so much honouring his parts as his parts did illustrate his extraction When a Pippin is planted on a Pippin-stock there groweth a delicious fruit upon it called a Renate When eminent abilities meet with an eminent person the product of that happy concurrence is noble and generous The Heveninghams of Suffolk reckon twenty five Knights of their Family the Tilneys of Norfolk are not a little famous for sixteen Knights successively in that House and the Nauntons have made a great noise in history seven hundred pounds a year they have injoyed ever since or even before the Conquest And this person took a great pleasure in reflecting on the eight Lords forty two Knights besides a great number of Gentlemen that amongst them possess nine thousand pounds a year for five hundred years together When he came to Study the Law he knew that though to have an Estate be a sure First yet to have Learning is a sure Second skill being no burthen to the greatest men that being often in his mouth in effect which I find in another Judges Book in express terms Haec studia adolescentiam alunt senectutem oblectunt secundas res ornant adversis persugium praebent delectant domi non impediunt foris pernoctant nobiscum Peregrinantur Rusticantur He observed it a great happiness that he fixed on a profession that was as Aristotle saith among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suited to his genius and inclination The reason of his considerable proficiency in his Profession being judged the greatest Master of Maximes in his time and therefore his only fault was that being made Serjeant 3. Caroli with great Solemnity and at the same Term sworn the King's Majesties Serjeant at Law he argued against the factious Members of the Parliament 4. Caroli Sir Iohn Aliot c. so shrewdly that Sir G. C. said of him Prerogative and Law will not be over-run while Serjeant Berkley lives A testimony of him suitable to the inscription on his ring when made Serjeant Lege Deus Rex Two things he abhorred 1. The impudence of those men that by misconstruction of Laws misapplying of Presidents torturing or embezzeling of Records turn the point of the Law upon its self Wounding the Eagle with a feather from his own wing and overthrowing the power of Princes by their authority 2. The uncharitableness of others void of the ingenuity either of Scholars or indeed of men who charged him and others with opinions which they heartily disclaimed meerly because they think such an opinion flowed from his Principles an uncharitableness that hath widened the breach irreconcilably among both Lawyers and Divines in this Nation This was the reason why when the other Judges were Charged with Misdeamenors when the Parliament was upon the business of Ship-money this Judge was Accused of Treason and why when his fellows got off with a check and a small Fine he suffered three years Imprisonment and afterwards was released upon no lower terms than a Fine of two thousand pounds an incapacity of any Dignity or Office in the Common◠wealth and to be a Prisoner at large during pleasure After having been eleven years a good Justice in the Kings bench he died heart-broken with grief Anno 1649. Aetatis 63. Hard indeed were this Gentleman's Arguments against the times but soft his words often relating and its seems always reflecting on Mnemon's discipline who hearing a mercenary Souldier with many bold and impure reports exclaiming against Alexander lent
Conscience A Prince thus excellent in himself and choice in his Council made up of persons eminent for their services for or against him for parts and abilities he equally valued in his enemies and in his friends and when he saw hopefull and accomplish'd persons lavishing their worth upon a faction and a private interest if they were not of desperate principles he would encourage them to lay it out upon the government and the publick good A Prince that never suffered a subject to goe sad from him never denied his people but what they have seen since that they could not saefly enjoy That Prince who besides the great examples he gave them and the great intercessions and services he did for them begun his Reign with the highest Act of Grace that he could or any King did in the World I mean the granting of the Petition of Right wherein he secured his Peoples estates from Taxes that are not given in Parliament and their Lives Liberties and Estates from all Proceedings not agreeable to Law A King that permitted his chief favourite and Counsellor the D. of Buckingham whose greatest fault was his Majesties favour to satisfie the Kingdom both in Parliament and Star-chamber in the way of a publick Process And gave up Mainwaring and Sibthorpe both as I take it his Chaplains to answer for themselves in Parliament saying He that will preach more than he can prove Let him suffer Yea and was contented to hold some part of his Revenue as Tunnage Poundage c. which was derived to him from his Ancestors by Inheritance by gift from the Parliament A Prince that pardoned and preferred all his Enemies that though accountable to none but God gave yet a just account of himself and treasures to the People saving them in two years from ordinary expences 347264 l. 15s 6d and gaining them by making London the bank for Spanish Dutch and Danish treasures 445981 l. 2s 3d. that dashed most of the Projects that were proposed to him for raising money and punished the Projectors that designed no worse things in Religion than Uniformity Peace Decency Order the rights and maintenance of the Church and the honour of Churchmen and in the State no more than the necessary defence of the Kingdom from dangers abroad and disorders at home which he maintained several years at his own charge that by destroying several of the Dutch Herring Busses and forcing the rest with all Dutch Merchants to trade only by permission in the Narrow Seas opened a brave trade to the English Nation A King that took so much pains to oblige his Loving Subjects going twice in person as far as Scotland though against the inclination of most of his Counsellours who looked upon the Scotch Faction as a sort of people that under the pretence of a specious way of plain speaking and dealing concealed the greatest animosities and reaches and twice with an Army rather to pacifie than overthrow the Rebels treating with them as a Father of his Country when in all probability he might have ruined them if he had proceeded against them 1639. and 1640. as a King and not in imitation of the Divine Majesty wrapped up the dreadful power he carried then with him in gracious condescentions of mercy A King that of 346. Libellers seditious Writers discovered Conspirators against his Crown Dignity and Authority in Church and State put none to death and punished but five throughout his whole Reign A King in whose Reign there were such good Canons made that Judge Crooke a Dissenter about Ship-money blessed God when he read them that he lived to see such Canons made for the Church A King that publickly declared That he was rosolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of his subjects One of the two Propositions he made the Parliament 1640. being to desire them to propose their grievances wherein he promised them to concurr so heartily and clearly with them that all the VVorld might see That his intentions ever have been and are to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And to shew his good inclination to Religion married his eldest Daughter to an ordinary Protestant Prince And to the welfare of the Kingdom he tyed himself to a Triennial Parliament allowing this Parliament to sit as long as they thought fit and for a time to order the Militia entreating them to set down what they thought necessary for him to grant or them to enjoy vacating for their sake the Courts of Star-Chamber and High-Commissions the VVards the Forrests the Court on the Marches of Wales and the North Monopolies Ship-money his haereditary right to Tunnage and Poundage the Bishops Votes in Parliament and doing so much for peace that one asking Mr. Hampden a leading Card amongst them VVhat they would have him do more was answered That renouncing all his Authority he should cast himself wholly on the Parliament Yea as if this had not been enough A King that suffered all his Ministers of State to clear their innocency before publick Judicatures in the face of the World and though accountable only to him for their actions yet ready to appeal to their very accusers themselves for their Integrity And yet not so willing to remit his friends to Justice as his Enemies to favour if either they had hearkned to the re-iterated Proclamations of Pardon sent to them during the War or acquiesced in the Amnesty offered to and accepted by them after it an Amnesty that they might have securely trusted to when he bestowed upon them not only their lives but likewise for some years all the power over the Militia of the Kingdom to make good that pardon by which they held their lives neither had they only the Sword in their hands to defend but all places of trust authority and Judicature to secure and inrich themselves the King allowing them for so long a time not only to enjoy all their own places but to dispose of all others adding this favour too that they who grudged him a power to raise money to supply his occasions should have what power they pleased to raise money to satisfie their own demands and when he had confirmed the pardon of the Kingdom in general he offered the renovation of all Charters and Corporation Privileges in particular denying nothing that their ambition or covetousness could desire or his Conscience grant being willing to be no King himself that his people might be happy Subjects and to accept of a titular Kingdom on condition they had a peaceable one In Religion its self wherein he denyed most because he had less poweâ— to grant those points being not his own Prerogatives but those of the King of Kings he grants his Adversaries Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their followers on condition he might have the same liberty to himself and his followers desiring no more than to enjoy that freedom as a Soveraign that they claimed as Subjects Any thing he yielded they should
corner but as solemnly as ever they took their Solemn League and Covenant against it Spots not of Christianity only but of Nature Born to obey the Soveraign they judged erecting a Court of Justice against that Sacred Head whence flowed all the Jurisdiction in the Land These people that were fitter to keep Shops in Westminster-hall than sit in the Courts there Many of whom that now hoped for the Kings Land must otherwise have been contented with the Kings High-way the true scum of England the basest and then the highest part of it Trades-men still making a trade of war and bloud base people therefore the more cruel The most Savage Beasts are those that come out of Dens The good Kings calamity being enhansed by the vileness of the instruments The steam of a Dung-hill clouding the Sun and vermin the expression is proper to beggars tearing the Lion as Rats formerly ate the Thracians These resolved rather to take away the Kings life than beg their own for life is one of those benefits we have to receive and men are usually ashamed to confess they deserved death And when their own Judges had declared against them and the Peers abhorred them to help a wretched cause and keep up the spirits and concurrence of their party they salve those two affronts with two wretched artifices 1. They bring from Hertford-shire a Woman some say a Witch who said That God by a Revelation to her did approve of the Armies proceedings which message from heaven was well accepted of with thanks As being very seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit 2. A model of Democratical Principles discountenanced by Faction it self as soon as it had served their turn and against all the publick abhorrencies and detestations by all persons of honor and conscience proceeded first to blacken the King as one of them said they must and then to judge him contrary to those numerous and fearful obligations of their many Oaths to the publick and private Faith which was expressed in their Protestations and many Declarations to the Laws the commands of Scripture to the dishonor of Religion and the endangering of the publick good of the kingdom For levying that war against the disobedient to which they had necessitated him for appearing in arms in divers places proclaiming the war and executing it by killing divers of the good people Impeaching him for a Tyrant a Traytor a Murderer and an implacable Common Enemy Whom they fought for to bring home to his Throne they lead when they have him to a Tribunal where they had nothing against him but what generous Conquerors never reproached the conquered for deeming it its own punishment the unhappy issues of a war which leaves the conquered the only criminal while the names of justice and goodness are the spoils of the Conqueror and a pretence of Tyranny in that government whose only defect if it had any was Lenity and Mercy towards those whose lives Justice would not formerly have pardoned and they despaired lest mercy should not now These Conspirators forming themselves into the Pagantry of a Court with a President of an equal infamy with his new employment A Monster of Impudence and a most fierce prosecutor of evil purposes one of little knowledge in the Law but of so virulent a Tongue that he knew no measure of modesty in speaking and was therefore more often Bribed to be silent than Feed to maintain a Clients Cause His vices had made him penurious and those with his penury had seasoned him for any execrable undertaking And a Solicitor that having in vain by various arts and crimes sought for a subsistence durst not shew himself for fear of a Prison till vexed with a tedious poverty he entertained the horrid overtures of this vile ministry which at the first mention he did profess to abhorr As also an Advocate that being a German Bandito by the mercy and favour of the King escaped here a severer in charge in his own Country than he could invent against his Majesty With an impudent and mimical Buffoon Minister ignominious from his youth for then suffering the contumely of discipline being publickly whipped at Cambridge he was ever after an enemy to Government preaching the villany from Psal. 149. 8. and calling them Saint Judges with a profession that upon a strict scrutiny there were in the Army five thousand Saints no less holy than those that now are in Heaven conversing with God And begging in the name of the People of England as the Conspirators talked too when as the Lady Fairfax said like a Branch of the House of the Veres declared in Court a loud it was a Lye not the tenth part of the people were guilty of such a crime that they would not let Benhadad go They with such Officers as had not a name before they were of this black list invite all people to testifie against the King their calumnies and having with much ado published their Sitting they appear with all the shapes of vile terror and the Kings Majesty with a generous mind scorning the Pageant tribunal and pittying the people now sad with expectations of their own fates when Majesty was no security appeared demanding the Authority and Law they brought him there by contrary to the Publick Faith and they answering The Parliaments discovered the notoriousness of that assertion as false and the vanity of it if true Four days together keeping up his courage and speech from doing any thing unworthy of himself notwithstanding the reiterated reproach of several appearances before the most infamous among men And the hired indignities of the basest of the people saying no more when some Souldiers were forced by Axtel to cry Iustice Iustice Execution Execution than Poor souls for a piece of money they would do as much to their own Commanders And others hired to Spit and what was more odious to blow Tobacco in his Face than wiping it off with My Saviour suffered far more for my sake All the people with the hazard of their lives doing their reverence to him with God save the King God he merciful unto him Only he left this Speech upon Record against the infamous Usurpation containing the substance of the discourse that passed between him and his Traytors His Majesties Reasons against the pretended Iurisdiction of the High Court of Iustice which he intended to have delivered in writing on Munday Ian. 22. 1648 but was not permitted HAving already made my Protestations not only against the illegality of this pretended Court but also that no earthly Power can justly call me who am your King in question as a delinquent I would not any more open my mouth upon this occasion more than to referr my self to what I have spoken were I alone in this case concerned But the duty I owe to God in the preservation of the true Liberty of my People will not suffer me at this time to be silent For how can any free-born
private Education hardly raiseth Youths to that vigor freedom and generosity of spirit that a more publick doth where the Conversation goeth as far as the Instruction and the example of School-fellows beyond the Precepts of Schools-masters the one shewing what they ought to do the other what they may He professed he owed his Elocution and Pronunciation to one of his Fellow-Pupils gallant delivery of the Speeches of Ajâ—x and Vlysses in Ovid for Poetry and Cicero's Oration against Anthony for Prose His Memory to another artificial way of commanding Homers Iliads by heart the success of his Study to the common place and method of a third his invention to the growing fancy of a fourth that lay before him as the Ring-streaked Rods did before Iacobs Sheep or the Aethiopian before the Teeming-woman Richard Norshall saith Bale de Scriptor Brit. c. 7. n. 6. left behinde a Sett of Sermons for every day he was a Bishop and R. Manwaring had a sett of Exercises for every day he was a Scholar doing nothing himself and hearing nothing from others of remark but what he writ down being as Dr. Harris said of Dr. Preston a needless Ingrosser of other mens Notions for he said he had a good Memory if he did not trust it and when he lost a notion the careless man he said made the thief An habit of exactness in his smaller performances rendred him exact in those more considerable he being careful of two things the setling of his voice and his minde The modern Jews have among others a form of Prayer wherein they bless God as well as for their vents of Ejection as mouths for their admission of nourishment Mr. Manwaring though very studious to acquire Learing was more curious to express it knowing that small abilities well set off out-go greater that want that advantage The composing of four witty Verses recommended him to that Eminent School whereof he was Scholar the pronouncing of an ingenious and vigorous Oration gained him that noble Lord who thought it an honor sit to be remembred in an eminent part of the Parsonage-House he gave him to be his atron His Critical skill in Greek and rational Head preferred him Fellow of the Colledge and his discreet carriage and observing head Chaplain to his Lord in all which capacities his performances were not gaudy but proper becoming and always equal usually especially in Divinity managing his Exercises with a pleasing kinde of Magisterium Theologicum to use the old phrase of Matthew Paris Being so full that it was not with him as it was with some men the Platonick year of whose dicourses being not above three days long in which term all the same matter returns again He might be called Good-luck as his Name-sake R. Twiford was because however unhappy in himself yet he brought good success to others as two Worshipful Families can testifie whithersoever he went which made several Places and Persons ambitious at the same time of his presence and service good employments suing for him as earnestly as others had done for good employments though Locusts are generally devourers of all food yet some Locusts as those of St. Iohn are wholsom though course food themselves most troubles are losses yet this Gentlemans very losses were gains in that as he said they made him better acquainted with himself and better known to others Three things he was much resolved on the Redemption of Captives the Converting of Recusants and the undeceiving of the seduced Sectaries and three Dyaries he kept one for the Transactions of his own Life another for the publick Affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the most remarkable passages of Providence that hapned in the world Many rich persons he effectually exhorted to good Works much Alms he industriously Collected his charitable Collections he carefully preserved and discrâ—etly disposed of not only for the relief of want but as he said of the Primitive Oblations to incourage virtue keeping a Discipline as he would say all charitable people should over the Poor who especially if beggars by reason of their wandring life are under none as moâ—â— is no predicament but may be reduced to any He profited much by his Books more by his Company which at the same time improved his parts and credited them good acquaintance at once instruct and by their various Interests set off one another Two of whom died the very same day and near as could be guessed certainly their Stars were as intimate as they and there was the like correspondence in their Genitures that was in their Affections the same hour The first Canon of our Church injoyning every Minister to Preach four times a year at least for the asserting of the Kings Authority and Supremacy Dr. Manwaring observing the diminution of both Sermons the one at Court before a Royal Auditory the other at his own Parish at St. Giles in the Fields before a noble one In both which places he was looked upon as an Eminent Preacher as became the Kings subject and Chaplain maintained at that time when the Kings necessity put him upon the Loan and his Authority commanded it much against the grain of the people as they were at that time humored That the Kings Royal Command in Imposing of Loans and Taxes though without common consent in Parliament doth oblige the subjects Conscience upon pain of Eternal damnation and that the Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies A Position for which he was Charged 1627. by Mr. Rous in Parliament aggravated by Mr. Pym into five Branches 1. His indeavor to infuse into His Majesties Conscience a perswasion of a Power not limited with Laws which he said King Iames in a Parliament Speech 1619. called Tyranny accompanyed with Perjury 2. His indeavor to perswade the Consciences of the subjects that they are bound to obey Illegal Commands yea he damns them for not obeying them 3. He robs the subject of the property of their Goods 4. He brands them that will not loose this property with most scandalous and odious Titles to make them hateful both to Prince and People 5. He indeavoureth to blow up Parliaments and Parlimentary Power which five were drawn up into one great one to use Mr. Pyms words Serpens qui serpentem devorat fit Draco viz. A mischievous Plot to alter and subvert the Frame and Government of the State and Common-wealth and Iune the thirteen 1628. censured thus 1. To be imprisoned during the pleasure of the House 2. To be fined a thousand pounds 3. To make his submission at the Bar in this House the House of Lords and the House of Commons at the Bar there in verbis conceptis by a Committee of this House 4. To be suspended from his Ministerial Function three years and in the mean time a sufficient Preaching man to be provided out of the Profits of his Living and this to be left to be performed by the Ecclesiastical Court 5.
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from Gâ—â—â— Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings proâ—eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
with himself he was translated to the See of Coventry and Litchfield void by the Translation of his old friend Bishop Overal to Norwich And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocesse was larger because the common sort of people were better principled by the care and vigilance of his Predecessor But yet he abated nothing of his former pains and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with them that were not wilfully obstinate in his Diocesse besides Visitations and exact Confirmations Among the works of Charity performed by this Bishop while he was at that See memorable is the Education he bestowed upon one George Canner who like another Didimus of Alexandria or Fisher of Westminster was born blindâ— This youth he brought up first at School and afterwards sent him to Cambridge where he maintained him and his Uncle to look to him at St. Iohns Colledge After he had the Degree of Bachelor of Arts he sent for him to his own Family and instructed him in the whole body of Divinity and then admitted him into Sacred Orders placed him in a Cure in Stafford-shire which Cure the blind man discharged diligently and laudably being a very good Preacher and being able also to perform the whole office of the Church as it is appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer only by the strength of his admirable Memory Anno 1632. He was translated to the See of Duresm void by the death of Bishop Howson a place of great Trust and Honor as well as of greater Emolument For besides the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Affairs as before he had now the care and management of all the Temporal Affairs within the County Palatine of Duresm by virtue of the Palatinate annexed for many hundred years to the Episcopal See in so much that it passed a Maxim there Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And in the same he carryed himself with so much Iustice and Equity for ten years together before these late Troubles put a disturbance in the exercise of his Government that no complaint was made against him to the Parliament except onely the case of Mr. Smart which yet had no relation to the County Palaâ—ine neither could the Charge be made good against him who was but one of the High-Commission How great his fatherly care was for the Spiritual care of the Bishoprick will appear by his pious endeavors in setling Augmentations upon the smaller Benefices he had given a good example long before while he was Bishop of Lichfield in abating a good part of his Fine to increase the portion of the Vicar of Pichley in Northampton-shire as you may see in Mr. Stephens his Preface to Sir Henry Spelmans Book and now in a Work of so much importance he applyed himself for Counsel to three of the most Learned in the Laws Lord Keeper Coventry Mr. Noy Sir Henry Martin who all concurred that the Bishops Authority over Churches appropriate was neither taken away nor any way infringed but that he may now appoint a competent Augmentation having thus fully informed hâ—mself of his just power in a matter of so high Concernment for the advancement of Christian Religion and the good of Souls he resolved to put it in practice as far as God should enable him and trust God with the event He began at home with the Parish of Bishop-Aukland Here he augmented the stipend of the Mother-Church from 16 l. per annum to fourscore and the Chappels belonging from six pounds per annum to thirty intending to extend the like Episcopal care in some proportion over all the rest of his Diocesse but so Pious Heroical a Work became Abortive by the Scotch Invasion c. We are now come to the precipice of this Reverend Bishops outward splendor though neither his glory nor happiness incurred the least diminution by his future sufferings For he was never more happy in his own thoughts nor more glorious in the eyes of all good men then in being exercised in those troubles whereof the continual series of publick Affairs afforded him a perpetual opportunity from this time till his death In one of the Tumults after the beginning of the Long-Parliament this Reverend Bishop was in hazard of his life by the multitude that were beckened thither by the Contrivers of our late Miseries whereof some cryed Pull him out of his Coach others nay he is a good man others but for all that he is a Bishop And he hath often said he believed he should not have escaped alive if a Leading-man among the Rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself Upon this and the like Violations of the Liberty and Freedom essential to all the Members of Parliament when the twelve â—ishops whereof this was one Remonstrated the just Fears they were in and protested their dissent from all Laws which should be enacted till they might attend the service of the House with Freedom and Safety as any one Peer unjustly detained â—rom Sitting may they were all Charged with High-Treason by the House of Commons and Committed to Prison with the Bishop of Coventry and Leichfield at the Usher of the Black-rods house when the other ten went to the Tower Our Bishop being after four months discharged from this his first Imprisonment returned to his Lodgings in Duresm-house and there attended his Devotions and Studies till such time as his adversaries thought fit to give him another occasion to exercise his patience under a second Captivity upon occasion of Baptizing a Child of the Earl of Rutlands according to the Orders of the Church and in custody he remained six months before he could obtain his inlargement After this he staid in Duresm-house till he was thrown out chence by the Souldiers that came to Garrison it a little before that horrid Fact was committed upon the Person of our late Gracious King and after that being importuned by his honourable friend the Earl and Countess of Rutland he became part of their care and family at Exceter-house for some short time but being loath to live at the charge of others while he was able to subsist of himself and thinking the air of the Country might better suit with his declining years he betook himself to sojourn first with Captain Saunders in Hartfordshire and after with Mr. Thomas Rotheram in Bedfordshire till by the great civility and earnest importunity of that noble young Baronet Sir Henry Yelverton he went with him to his house at East-Manduit in Northamptonshire where he found all the tender respect and care from the whole family which a Father could expect from his Children till after a few months he rendred up his happy soul into the hands of his heavenly Father When the House of Commons had Voted for the Dissolving of Bishopricks some prevailed for a Vote of Yearly Allowance to present Bishops during their lives Our Bishop had 800 l. a
supported 3. A mutual Security against all future fears and jealousies For which services to his Country he was forced to quit it It is not fit we should forget Sir Thomas Gardner that was slain in Buckinghamshire 1643. and Captain Gardner that fell at Thame Cum res rediit ad trianos when three engaged in the Army Sir Robert Foster of the Temple made Serjeant and succeeding Sir R. Vernon as Pusney Judge of the Commons bench 15. Car. I. Term. Hil. as the King signified by Sir Io. Finch for the good opinion he conceived of him and the good report he heard concerning him discharging his place notwithstanding the disadvantage of succeeding so popular a man as Sir George Vernon was and the difficulty of pleasing at that time both Court and Country with great commendation those persons agreeing in a Sympathy for him that had an Antipathy each to other as he did after twenty years trouble the place of Chief Justice of the Kings bench 12. Car. II. in the place of Sir Thomas Millet a great sufferer I think that Sir Thomas Millot of Exon who with his Son paid at Goldsmiths-hall 871 and an excellent Justicer who by years and other infirmities was disabled from exercising that place though surviving two of his successors when it was time to preferr neither a Dunce nor a Drone but able and active men such as he was who could Fence as well at Law in his elder years as at Sword and Buckler in his younger The Land upon its wonderful settlement under his Majesty and the never to be forgotten disbanding of a twenty years standing Army swarming with people that had been Souldiers too proud to beg and too lazy to labour and having never gotten or quite forgotten all other Calling but that of Eating Drinking and Sleeping and it being hard for Peace to feed all the idle months bred in War Sir Roberts severity broke their knots presuming much on their Felonies otherwise not to be united with the Sword of Justice possessing his Majesty against the frequent granting of Pardons as prejudicial to Justice rendring Judges obnoxious to the contempt of insolent Malefactors so by the deserved death of some hundreds preserving the lives of and lively-hoods of more thousands He died 1663 4. Pearls are called Vnions because they are found one by one hardly two together not so here where Sir Robert Hyde Serjeant at Law since Ter. Trin. 16. Car. I. of the Middle-Temple and an able Pleader his Arguments shrewd in the several reports of his time succeeded him as well in his quality as office being as severe for executing the Laws witness his several checks given Justices the great observators of Law and Peace to whom he would urge that of King Iames in his Speech in the Star-chamber That he did respect a good Iustice of the Peace as he did those next his person as much as a Privy Counsellor as his predecessor was for executing Malefactors and as strict in bringing up ancient Habits and Customes both of the Inns of Courts and the Courts of Justice as in keeping up the ancient Justice and Integrity following Sir Nicholas Hyde I think his Fathers steps according to the observation that Lawyers seldome dye without a Will or an Heir who died 1631. as Sir Robert died 1665. Judge Foster and he dying suddainly if any do so that dye preparedly As did about the same time Serjeant Hodskins a very witty as well as a very judicious man an excellent Pleader as Thuanus his Father was Vt bonus a Calumniatoriobus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab Ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur As Judge Walter used to say when Baron Denham his associate in the Western Circuit would tell him My Lord you are not merry enough merry enough for a Iudge So Serjeant Hodskins when observed very pleasant for one of his years would reply As chearful as an honest man Henry Hodskins and Iohn Hodskins of Dors. paid for their Loyalty 571l The Serjeant changed his temper with his capacity most free as a private friend and most grave and reserved as a publick person David Ienkins upward of 58. years a Student in Grays-Inn near London of so much skill when a private and young man that my Lord Bicon would make use of his Collections in several Cases digesting them himself and of so much repute in his latter years that Atturney Noy Herbert and Bâ—nks would send the several Cases they were to Prosecute for his Majesty to be perused by him before they were to be produced in Court All the preferment he arrived at was to be Judge of South-Wales a place he never sought after nor paid for the Patent being sent him without his knowledge and confirmed to him without his charge in which capacity if Prerogative of his dear Master or the Power of his beloved Church came in his way stretching themselves beyond the Law he would retrench them though suffering several checks for the one and Excommunication for the other Notwithstanding that he heart of Oak hazarded his life for the just extent of both for being taken prisoner at the surprize of Hereford and for his notable Vindication of the Kings Party and Cause by those very Laws to the undeceiving of thousands that were pretended against them as the violators of the Law particularly for aiding the King 25. Edw. 3. ch 2. Hen. 7. for the Commission of Array 5. Hen. 4. for Archbishops Bishops c. Magna Charta c. for the Common-prayer Statutes Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for the Militia 7. Edw. 1. against counterfeiting the Seal and the usurping of the Kings Forts Ports 25. Edw. 3. for the Kings Supremacy 1. King Iames 5. Queen Eliz. Cook 7. p. rep fol. 11. for the Kings dissent to Bills 2. Hen. 5. against tumults in Parliament 7. Edw. 2. against adhering to any State in the Realm but the Kings Majesty 3. Iames 23. Eliz. for imprisonment and dispossession only by Law Magna Charta c. 29. and the Petition of Right 3. Car. and for increasing the fewd between the Parliament and the Army and instilling successfully into the latter principles of Allegiance by shewing them that all the Parliamentary Ordinances for Indemnity and Arrears were but blinds for the present amounting not to Laws which they could trust to for the future without his Majesties concurrence whose Restauration he convinced them was their unavoidable interest as well as their indispensable duty carried first to the Chancery secondly to the Kings-bench and at last to the Bar of their House the authority of all which places he denied and though he and the Honorable Lewis Dives who hath done his Majesty admirable service in Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Dorsetshire and made a cleanly conveyance away from White-hall with Mr. Holben though through the Common-shore upon pretence of Easing themselves to the Thames and so beyond Sea where he continued with his Majesty during his banishment were designed
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
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
they had done great things for their Sovereign they might suffer greater THE LIFE ACTIONS AND DEATH OF Sir THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of STRAFFORD Protoâ— Martyr for Religion and Allegiance SIR Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford owed his Birth to the best govern'd City London his Breeding to the best modelled School York and a most exact Colledge St. Iohns in Cambr. his Accomplishments to the best Tutors Travel and Experience and his Prudence to the best School a Parliament whither he came in the most active and knowing times with a strong Brain and a large Heart His Activity was eminent in his Country and his Interest strong in King Charles's Parliament where he observed much and pertinently spake little but home contrived effectuallyâ— but closely carried his Designs successfully but reservedly He apprehended the publick Temper as clearly and managed it to his purposes as orderly as any man He spoke least but last of all with the advantage of a clear view of others Reasons and the addition of his own He and his leading Confidents moulded that in a private Conference which was to be managed in a publick Assembly He made himself so considerable a Patriot that he was bought over to be a Courtier so great his Abilities that he awed a Monarchy when disobliged and supported it when engaged the Balance turning thither where this Lord stood The North was reduced by his Prudence and Ireland by his Interest He did more there in two years then was done in two hundred before 1. Extinguishing the very Relicks of the War 2. Setting up a standing Army 3. Modelling the Revenue 4. Removing the very Root and Occasions of new Troubles 5. Planting and Building 6. Setling Ecclesiastical and Civil Courts 7. Recovering the hearts of the People by able Pastors and Bishops by prudent and sober Magistrates by Justice and Protection by Obligations and Rewards 8. Recovering the Churches Patrimony and Discipline 9. Imploying most able and faithful Ministers and Instruments 10. Taking an exact view of all former Presidents Rules and Proceedings 11. An exact correspondence with his Majesty and the Favourites of England None was more conversant in the Factions Intrigues and Designs than he when a Common-wealths-man none abler to meet with them than he when a States-man he understood their Methods kenned their Wiles observed their Designs looked into their Combinations comprehended their Interest And as King Charles understood best of any Monarch under Heaven what he could do in point of Conscience So his Strafford apprehended best of any Counsellour under the Sun what he could do in point of Power He and my Lord of Canterbury having the most particular account of the State of Great Britain and Ireland of any persons living Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished yet Doctrine and Discourse had much allayed the severity of this Earls Nature and Custom more None more austere to see to none more obliging to speak with He observed pauses in his discourse to attend the motion and draw out the humour of other men at once commanding his own thoughts watching others His passion was rather the vigour than the disorder of his wel-weighed Soul which could dispense its anger with as much prudence as it managed any Act of State He gave his Majesty safe counsel in the prosperity of his Affairs and resolute advice in Extremity as a true Servant of his Interest rather than of his Power So eminent was he and my Lord of Canterbury that Rebellion despaired of success as long as the first lived and Schism of licentiousness as long as the second stood Take my Lord of Strafford as accused and you will find his Integrity and Ability that he managed his whole Government either by the Law or the Interest of his Country Take him as dying and you will see his Parts and Piety his Resolution for himself his Self-resignation for the Kingdoms good his Devotion for the Church whose Patrimony he forbad his Son upon his Blessing Take him as dead you will find him glorious and renowned in these three Characters The first of the best King I looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman whose great Abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed to imploy him in the greatest Affairs of State for those were prone to create in him great confidence of undertakings and this was like enough to betray him to great Errors and many Enemies whereof he could not but contract great store while moving in so high a Sphere and so vigorous a lustre he must nedds as the Sun raise many envious Exhalations which condensed by a popular Odium were capable to cast a Cloud upon the brightest Merit and Integrity Though I cannot in my judgment approve all he did driven it may be by the necessities of Times and the Temper of that People more than led by his own disposition to any heighth 〈◊〉 â—igour of Action c. The second of the best Historian He was a person of a generous Spirit fitted for the noblest Exercises and the most difficult parts of Empire his Counsels were bold yet just and he had a vigour proper for the execution of them Of an eloquence next that of his Masters Masculine and excellent He was no less affectionate to the Church than to the State and not contented while living to defend the Government and Patrimony of it he commended it also to his Son when he was about to die and charged his abhorrency of Sacriledge His Enemies called the majesty of his Mind in his Lieutenancie pride and the undaunted execution of his Office on the Contumacious the Insolency of his Fortune He was censured for that fatal errour of following the King to London and to the Parliament after the Pacification at York And 't was thought that if he had gone over to his Charge in Ireland he might have secured both himself and that Kingdom for his Majesties Service But some attribute this Counsel to a necessity of Fate whose first stroke is at the Brain of those whom it designs to ruine and brought him to feel the effects of popular Rage which himself in former Parliaments had used against Government and to find experience of his own devices upon the Duke of Buckingham Providence teacheth us to abhor over-sine Counsels by mischiefs they often bring upon their Authors The third of Common Fame A Gentleman he was of rare Choice and singular Endowments I mean of such as modelled fashioned accomplished him for State-concernments of a searching and penetrating Judgment nimble apprehension ready and fluent in all results of Council most happy in the vein of Speech which was alwayes round perspicuous and express much to the advantage of his sense and so full stocked with Reason that he might be rather said to demonstrate than to argue As these Abilities raised him to State-Administration so his addressing his applying those Abilities so faithfully in promotion of the Royal Interest soon rendred him
before peoples eyes to move or exasperate them the dead and pardoned are forgotten My Lord had vast Affections for the Protestant Interest as appeared by his Proposals in Councel his wishes rather than his hopes and what he would rather then what he could do yet he suspected the Swedes and Scots Assistants as rather an Army of Mercenaries than the Auxiliaries of Friends Two things he said undid us 1. That our Divines had been so careless in opening the ground of Religion that Novelties had got such advantages over ancient Truths as to charge primitive Practices for Innovations 2. That our Lawyers were so byassed in their explications of the ground of the Law that old Laws such as those of Knighthood whereby the Subjects holding of the King as all do originally were either to be Knighted or fined for it and that for Ship-money shall be cried down for new Exactions My Lord applauded his Majesties generous Goodness in stopping the Combate between the Witnesses about Hamiltons Design to entertain all the Scots abroad to serve him against his Prince at home but he feared his easiness afterwards in trusting him He like H. 7. being at once what few men are most suspicious most knowing and most stout whereas usually the suspicious man is one that knows little and fears much Much did he resent the Differences between Protestants and Protestants and more with Bishop Bancroft encouraged he the Dissentions between the Seculars and Jesuits as he did in Civil Matters between some Scots and English advising that the Press might be open to them to discover the nakedness of their Parties and shut to our Disputants the Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the Arminians and Anti-Arminians lest we betray our own Opinions it was his Maxime For Schools positive and practical Divinity onely for Presses and Pulpits A Maxime of as great concernment to the Church as his Contributions for Pauls which to say no more were worthy the Earl of Strafford and Bishop Laud's friend From being a Member of the Councel in the South he was advanced Lord President of the North and thence a while after Lord Deputy of Ireland In the North begun that Animosity between him and Vane about Raby that was not allayed but with his bloud Here he would have strengthned the Law by Prerogative always making good the Prerogative by Law some there complained to him of the Kings Government and he told them They complained of the Laws adding That the little Finger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings Clemency would be heavier than the Kings Loyns He endeavoured to indear his Majesties Government to his best Subjects and render it dreadful to the worst Parts and Merits imployed against the Government by mistake he informed and encouraged to better Imployment but Parts and Merits poysoned by Pride and Ambition he suppressed and sleighted saying He loved not a man of large Parts and a narrow and selfish Spirit He had Worth that was sure to raise Envy and a Prudence to allay it moderating the power he had himself and maintaining that of other Magistrates who might be his Skreen Who as he ingrossed not Business to exercise his Power so he intangled it not to raise a suspicion of his Cunning carrying things on in a plain and open rather than a private and close way not that he feared the effects of Envy on himself calling Envy a Shadow that reflâ—cted 〈…〉 prejudice it and as shadows did more 〈…〉 falls upon than to those stately things it 〈…〉 judging it his Monitor rather than his Danger Son 〈…〉 in the wary Conduct of his Affairs rather thâ—n 〈…〉 avoided them in the smooth course of his 〈◊〉 which wâ—nt above the hazard but not the interruptions of Envy The first Institution of the Presidents Place in the North was to suppress Rebellions and my Lords first caâ—e in â—â—at Place was 〈◊〉 prevent them How carefully did he look out 〈…〉 wise Clergy-men that might instruct and guide how 〈◊〉 did he choose knowing and noble Gentlemen that might govern and 〈◊〉 that rude Corner of the Kingdom equally obnoxious to the 〈◊〉 â—â—ations of the old Superstition that erept thither 〈…〉 the Seas and of the late Innovations that stole in 〈◊〉 from beyond the Tweed both dangerous to the People and 〈…〉 Government Instruction he would say must 〈◊〉 wa◠〈◊〉 Government and Government back Instruction by the 〈…〉 the hearts of men and by the second it â—yes their 〈…〉 the King trusted in his own Person the Eaâ—l 〈…〉 Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the North at onceâ— to 〈◊〉 and secure himself rendring hâ—s Authority plâ—â—â—sible by administring Government to the People by those 〈◊〉 that had most Interest in them and could best awe because they alwayes obliged them admitting many to his assistance and 〈◊〉 to â—is trust His Observations upon the Humors of the â—â—â—â—hern People prompted him to advise his Majesty to a Progress 〈◊〉 â—cotland Anno 1633. to encourage the Loyal Part of that 〈◊〉 on this side the Tweed by his Presence to settle the disloyal 〈…〉 other side by his Laws he having Intelligence from Scoâ—â—â—â—â— tâ—ey are the words of a great Lord then trusted with the Crown of that Kingdom that if the King should long deferr his Coronation the Scots might perhaps incline to make choice of another King This â—rogress by taking in the most popular and great Noble-men of the North to attend His Majesty he managed with a noble Conduct advancing all along the Kings Majesties Interest and Honor of such mighty consequence it is how a Prince appears to his people When he had composed the Affairs of Scotland some defects appearing by dayly Tumults and Commotions in the Government of Ireland this accomplished Person in the Affairs of Rule discovering dayly greater and greater Abilities equal to a Minister of State after he had brought my Lord of Holland to a Submission at the Council-Table and in some measure reduced the Factions that broke out dayly at Court where to use his dear Friend Archbishop Land's words Private Ends appeared every day more and more â—o the prejudice of the publike Service was intreated to the Supream Care under His Majesty of that Kingdom a Trust he managed so well That 1. he discharged Fourscore thousand Pounds the King owed and raised Twenty thousand men and as many thousand Pounds that the King wanted in the year 1634. 2. Reduced the Popish and Protestant Parties to so even a temper that upon some Disorders that year he was able to summon such a Parliament as was able to allay and fix the several Factions to a due temperament guiding the zeal of each Party by such Rules of Moderation as were ever observed most effectual to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms 3. Prevailed with the Church of Ireland to admit of the 39 Articles of the Church of England that as he would say They that agreed for the main in the truth of
Articles of Perth were but Encouragements to put up bolder finding that Force could obtain that which Modesty and Submission had never compassed and imputing all kindness to the Kings Weakness rather than Goodness His apprehensions in that affairs were as they were taken at Councel-Table-Debates about that business to this purpose In general after the Delivery of a Paper consisting of twenty seven Heads at Councel Board Dec. 5. 1639. against the Kings Indulgence to them he voted that they were to be Reduced by force being a people as his Majesty observed of them lost by favors and won by punishments in an Offensive War that would he would pawn his head on it put a period to all the Troubles in five moneths whereas a Defensive War will linger many years In particular Advising the setting up of the Commission of Array and Amassing a gallant Army for Honor and Service consisting of 24000 Foot 12000 Horse and 2000 Volunteers Lords and Gentlemen that brought the Scots to a Submission and Pacification such as it was which the Scots falsifying and breaking obtruding false Articles and observing none of the true ones he considering that they who had broken the Peace out of a desire of War would never leave the War out of a desire of Peace but would have if not rendred unable as well as unwilling as constant fits of Rebellion as they had of lusts or want advised the calling of a Parliament the most Authentick way of managing the Government Freeely saying in Councel That he knew a Parliament if but rightly tempered was so able to settle these Distractions that if he were sure to be the first man that should be ruined by it he would advice the Calling of it Altered the Model of the Army discharging the Hunting Lords as they were then called and recommending the Right Honorable and Well-beloved Earl of Northumberland General himself undertaking the place of Lieutenant General not doubting to chase the Rebels to use his own words in two moneths had not the Lord Conway whether out of design or weakness not yet decided disheartned the Army by the unsuccessfulness and indiscretion of his first Encounter and the English Lords prevented the Victory by a Petition for Peace and a Parliament to the King whose tenderness of his Subjects blood and prudence not to sully his glory with an unequal Combate would not permit him to fight when the gains of a Victory could not ballance the hazard of attempting it His Advices against the Faction were prudent and the Remedies seasonable 1. The exploding of their Doctrine when urged by some men whose compliance with the factious way was called Moderation in their own and the discovering of their practices in the Examen Conjurationis Scoticae Or The ungirding of the Scots Armor the Authour his servant and the thing his design to let the world see what it afterwards felt 2. Bringing all the Scots in Ireland to declare against the dangerous Covenant of Scotland 3. Making the loyal and ready Assistance of the Parliament of Ireland in 39. a president for that of England in 40. 4. And returning as seasonably to lay open their pretences and obviate their reaches in Treaties as he had done their Plot in Parliaments willing enough to hear of a present Peace but more willing to provide a future Security saying He could pardon but not trust a Scot. He managed his Army as Lieutenant General as if he had been ready to fight them and yet he ordered his Advices as if he were willing to close with them As they judged it their best way to ask with their Sword in their hands so thought he it the most expedient method to answer them so Since though God never intrusted Subjects with the Sword to obtain their priviledges yet he did Kings with it to awe to duty He knew what he did when he commanded the Governors of Barwick and Carlile to watch the Invaders on the Borders at the same time that he looked to them in Councels where he was resolved they should not obtain that by a Pacification that they could not hope for by a Battel perswading His Majesty to examine the Conspiracy to the bottom before he composed it lest the skinned Sore might rankle To which purpose he would deal with the Tumult not joyntly and all together where they were bold and reserved but singly and one by one for in that capacity Rebels are fearful and open though it was not then possibly so advised a saying yet it hath appeared since to be a very faithful and useful one that he hasting into England out of Ireland as they did out of Scotland should say upon the Delivery of his Sword If ever I return to this Honorable Sword I shall not leave of the Scots Faction neither Root nor Branch As Sylla said of Caesar there are many Marius'es in that Boy so he would say of this Conspiracy when low there are many Villanies in this Plot. He could endure as little the petulancy of the Scots as they could his prudence and Government When they having leavied Men and Mony seized the Kings Magazines and strong Holds raised Forts begirt his Castles affronted his Proclamations summoned Assemblies proclaimed Fasts deprived and excommunicated Bishops abolished Episcopacy issued out Warrants to choose Parliament Commissioners appealed from the King to the people trampled on Acts of Parliament discharged Counsellors and Judges of their Allegiance confirmed all this by a League and Covenant swearing to do what otherwise they would not have done that their consciences might oblige them to do that because they had sworn which because not lawful to be done was not lawful to be sworn He leavied Men and Money disarmed the Irish and Scots secured his Garrisons and Ports had an Army ready to serve His Majesty and five Subsidies to maintain it and confirmed all with an Oath imposed to abjure that Covenant He returns in 39. after five moneths absence having done as much as had been done in five score years before towards the reducing of the Natives of Ireland to the civility trade and plenty of England and disposing their Revenue so as to repay England the charge it had been at with Ireland when Walsingham wished it one great Bogge Neither was he less careful of the Churches Doctrine than Discipline forbidding the Primate's obtruding the Calvinists School points for Articles of Faith and in stead of the Polemick Articles of the Church of Ireland to recieve the positive plain and orthodox Articles of the Church of England neither admitting high Questions nor countenancing the men that promoted them aiming at a Religion that should make men serious rather than curious honest rather than subtile and men lived high but did not talk so equally disliking the Trent Faith consisting of Canons Councels Fathers c. that would become a Library rather than a Catechism and the Scots Confessions consisting of such School Niceties as would fill a mans large
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
conceived it was not more then the hainousness of their Offences deserved yet had they Petitioned and submitted the next day it would wholly have been remitted 15. That he perswaded his Majesty to an offensive War against the Scots declaring that the Demands made by the Scots this Parliament was a sufficient Cause of a War besides that on the 10th of Octob. 1640. he said That the Nation of Scots were Rebells and Traytors adding that if it pleased his Master to send him back again as he was going to England he would leave the Scottish Nation neither Root nor Branch excepting those that took the aforesaid Oath The Earles Reply That he called all the Scottish Nation Traytors and Rebells no one Proof is produced and though he is hasty in speech yet was he never so defective of his reason as to speak so like a mad Man for he knew well his Majesty was a Native of that Kingdom and was confident many of that Nation were of as Heriock Spirits and as Faithful and Loyal Subjects as any the King had As to the other words of his rooting out the Scots Root and Branch he conceives a short Reply may serve they being proved by a single Testimony onely which can make no sufficient faith in case of life Again the witnesse was very much mistaken if not worse for he deposeth that these words were spoken the tenth day of October in Ireland whereas he was able to evidence he was at that time in England and had been so neer a month before 18. That when the Parliament 13 April 1640. entred upon the Grievances in Church and State the Earl to whom with the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the King referred the business of that Parliament advised his Majesty to press the Commons to supply his Majesties occasions against the Scots before they Redressed any Grievances And when they were in debate about the Supplies perswaded his Majesty to dissolve them by telling him they had denyed to supply him Adding after the dissolution of that Parliament that the King having tried the Affections of his people he was loosed and absolved from all Rules of Government and was to do every thing that Power would admit and that since his Majesty had tried all ways and was refused he should be Acquitted both by God and Man and that he had an Army in Ireland which he might imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience The Earles Reply That he was not the Principal Cause of Dissolving the last Parliament for before he came to the Council-table it was Voted by the Lords to Demand twelve Subsidies and that Henry Vane was Ordered to Demand no lesse But he coming in the interim he perswades the Lords to Vote it again Declaring to his Majesty then present and them the danger of the Breach of Parliament Whereupon it was Voted that if the Parliament would not grant twelve Subsidies Sir Henry Vane would descend to eight and rather than fail to six But Sir Henry not observing his Instructions demanded twelve only without abatement or going lower That the height of this Demand urged the Parliament to deny and their denial moved his Majesty to Dissolve the Parliament so that the chief occasion of the Breach thereof `was as he conceived Sir Henry Vane He confesseth that at the Council-table he Advised the King to an Offensive War against the Scots but it was not untill all fair means to prevent a War had been first attempted Again others were as much for a Defensive War and it might be as free to Vote one as the other Lastly Votes at a Council-board are but bare Opinions and Opinions if pertinaciously maintained may make an Heretick but cannot a Traytor And to Sir Henry Vanes Deposition he said it was onely a single testimony and contradicted by four Lords of the Iunto-tables depositions viz. The Earle of Northumberland the Marquess of Hamilton the Bishop of London and the Lord Cottington who all affirmed that there was no question made of this Kingdome which was then in obedience but of Scotland that was in Rebellion And Sir Henry Vane being twice Examined upon Oath could not remember whether he said this or that Kingdome and the Notes after offered for more proof were but the same thing and added nothing to the Evidence to make it a double Testimony or to make a Privy-councellors Opinion in a Debate at Council High-treason 19. That after the Dissolution of the Parliament April 5. 1640. The said Earl Advised the King to go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money and other Illegal Payments suing in Star-chamber and Imprisoning several that neglected either to gather or pay those Levies Particularly the Londoners who for not Collecting the Ship-money so vigorously as they should have done and refusing to give in the names of such Citizens as were able to Lend Moneyâ— upon the Loan of an 100000l demanded of them were threatned by him at the Council-table That they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom and that no good would be done with them till an Example were made of them till they were laid by the Heeles and some of the Aldermen Hanged up The Earles Reply That there was a present necessity for Money that all the Council-board had Voted with yea before him That there was then a Sentence in Star-chamber upon the Opinion of all the Iudges for the Legality of the Tax of Ship-money and he thought he might advice the King to take what the Iudges had declared was by Law his own He consessed that upon the Refusal of so just a Service the better to quicken the Citizenâ— to the Payment of Ship-money he said They deserved to be Fined Which words perhaps might be circumspectly delivered but conceives cannot be a motive to Treason especially when no ill consequence followed upon them And it would render Men in a sad condition if for every hasty Word or Opinion given in Council they should be Sentenced as Traytors But that he said It were well for the Kings Service if some of the Aldermen were hanged up he utterly denieth Nor is it proved by any but Alderman Garway who is at best but a single Testimony and therefore no sufficient Evidence in Case of Life 20. That he had Advised the King to seise upon the Bullion in the Mint and when the Merchants whose Bullion was seized on to the value of 50000l waited upon him at his house to represent to him the consequence of discrediting the Mint and hindering the Importance of Bullion Answered them that it was the course of other Princes in those exigencies to which the undutifulness of London kinder to the Rebells than to his Majesty had reduced the King And that he had directed the Imfusing of money with Brasse Alleadging to the Officers of the Mint when they represented to him the Inconvenience of that Project that the French King had an Army of horse to Levy his Taxes and search mens Estates and telling my Lord Cottington that
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-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
with tears having a little Weeping bitterly before the King when the Bill of Attainder Passed before by Sir Dudley Carleton been informed what the Parliament demanded of the King and what the King had granted the Parliament Information that amazed him indeed at first but at last made him infinitely willing to leave this sad world and there managed the last Scene of his life with the same gallantry that he had done all the rest looking death in the face with the same presence of spirit that he had done his enemies Being accompanied besides his own Relations and Servants by the Primate of Armagh who however mis-represented in this matter was much afflicted all along for this incomparable person's hard measure who among other his vertues owned so singular a love to this Reverend and Learned Person that taking his leave of Ireland the last time he was there he begged his blessing on his Knees and the last minute he was in the world desired him to accompany him with his Prayers Addressing his last Speech to him Thus My Lord Primate of Ireland IT is my very great comfort I have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known these many years and I do thank God and your Lordship for it that you are here I should be very glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but I doubt I shall not the noise is so great My Lords I am come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay that last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Jesus Christ to righteousness and life eternal Here he was a little interrupted My Lords I am come hither to submit to that judgment which hath Passed against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I thank God I do freely forgive all the world a forgiveness that is not spoken from the teeth outwards as they say but from the very heart I speak in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not a displeasing thought arising in me towards any man living I thank God I can say it and truely too my Conscience bearing me witness that in all my employment since I had the honour to serve his Majesty I never had any thing in the purpose of my heart but what tended to the joynt and individual prosperity of King and People although it hath been my ill fortune to be misconstrued I am not the first that hath suffered in this kind It is the common portion of us all while we are in this life to err we are very subject to be mis-judged one of another There is one thing I desire to free my self of and I am very confident speaking it now with so much chearfulness that I shall obtain your Christian charity in the belief of it I was so far from being against Parliaments that I did always think the Parliaments of England were the most happy Constitutions that any Kingdom or Nation lived under and the best means under God to make the King and People happy For my Death here I acquit all the world and beseech the God of heaven heartily to forgive them that contrived it though in the intentions and purposes of my heart I am not guilty of what I dye for And my Lord Primate it is a great comfort to me that his Majesty conceives me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as is the utmost Execution of this Sentence I do infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and I beseech God to return it into his own bosome that he may find mercy when he stands in most need of it I wish this Kingdom all the prosperity and happiness in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do most humbly recommend this to every one who hears me and desire they would lay their hands upon their hearts and consider seriously whether the beginning of the Happiness and Reformation of a Kingdom should be written in Letters of Bloud Consider this when you are at your houses and let me never be so unhappy as that the last of my bloud should rise up in judgment against any one of you But I fear you are in a wrong way My Lords I have but one word more and with that I shall end I profess that I dye a true and obedient Son to the Church of England wherein I was born and in which I was bred Peace and prosperity be ever to it It hath been objected if it were an objection worth the answering that I have been inclined to Popery but I say truly from my heart that from the time I was one and twenty years of age to this present going now upon forty nine I never had in my heart to doubt of this Religion of the Church of England nor ever had any man the boldness to suggest any such thing to me to the best of my remembrance And so being reconciled by the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour into whose bosome I hope I shall shortly be gathered to those eternal happinesses which shall never have an end I desire heartily the forgiveness of every man for any rash or unadvised words or any thing done amiss And so my Lords and Gentlemen farewel farewel all the things of this world I desire that you would be silent and joyn with me in prayer and I trust in God we shall all meet and live eternally in heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happiness where every tear shall be wiped away from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God bless this Kingdom and Jesus have mercy upon my soul. AN EPITAPH ON THE Earl of Strafford HEre lies wise and valiant Dust Huddled up 'twixt Fit and Iust Strafford who was hurried hence 'Twixt Treason and Convenience He spent his time here in a mist A Papist yet a Calvinist His Prince's nearest Ioy and Grief He had yet wanted all Relief The Prop and Ruin of the State The peoples violent Love and Hate One in extreames lov'd and abhorr'd Riddles lye here and in a word Here lies Bloud and let it lye Speechless still and never cry Exuâ—ge cinis tuumque â—â—us qui potis es scribe Epitaphium Nequit Wentworthi non esse facundus vel cinis Effare Marmor quem caepisti Comprehendere Macte Exprimere Candidius meretur urna quam quod rubris Notatum est litteris Elogium Atlas Regiminis Monarchichi hie jacet â—assus Secunda Orbis Britannici Intelligentia Rex Politiae Prorex Hiberniae Straffordii virtutum Comes Mens Iovis Mercurii ingenium lingua Apollinis Cui Anglia Hiberniam debuit seipsum Hibernia Sydus Aquilonicum quo sub rubicunda vespera accidente Nox simul dies visa est dextroque oculo flevit Laevoque laetata est Anglia Theatrum Honoris itemque
but his Elegancies and most flouried Periods and studying not only to observe and know those Elegancies but to manage them being much affected with that Orator that prescribed upon a young Students request to know what rendred Men Eloquent Pronunciatio Pronunciatio Pronunciatio Actio Actio Actio Two Studies took up most of his time History for the best Examples of Actions Speeches for the best Patterns of Discourse To propose to our selves saith Cicero the most excellent example in our discourse and life is a good way to improvement seeing that if we imitate the best we shall not be the meanest Sir Henry Martin had besides his own Collection weekly transmitted to him from some Proctors at Lambeth the brief heads of the most important Causes which were Tried in the High-Commission which with some familiar friends in that Faculty he privately Pleaded Acting in his Chamber what was done in the Court he making it his work and exceeding the rest in Amplifying and Aggravating any Fault to move anger and indignation against the Guilt thereof or else in extenuating or excusing it to procure pity obtain pardon or prevail at least for a lesser punishment Whence no Cause came amiss to him in the High-Commission for saith my Author he was not to make now Armor but to put it on and buckle it not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Clients Sir Iohn Finch besides his own Observations had most of the eminent Speeches Discourses and Pleadings of the time which he would perform with friends in his own person so that upon all the great occasions he had afterwards to speak his business was not so much to Compose as to Recollect accommodating rather than new-making his Harangues Thus accomplished for publick Affairs with a Generous Spirit an Active Head a Charming Tongue a Grave and Awing Aspect an Obliging Converse a Serious Temper a Competent Skill in such soft and severe Arts as either Furnish and Adorn the Gentry a Happy Conduct publick thoughts with the Politure of the University and the Inns of Court He was after some years practise and converse so much in Vogue in the Inns of Court for his happy way of Managing Business that he was with the King 's Particular Choice preferred the Queens Atturney and so much in Repute in the Country that he was chosen Parliament-man in that great Parliament 1625 1226 1627. called The Parliaments of Kings And so much in esteem in that Parliament 1627. as by the Unanimous Vote of it to be chosen Speaker as his Cozen Sir Heneage Finch the Recorder was 1621. And when Speaker his Integrity and Ability so Approved in that he was pitched upon as the great Mediator in most Cases between the King and his People ever careful in his Messages of that which King Iames bid Doctor Donne be careful of in his Sermons never to Exasperate the King against his People by too Rigid a Representation of their Carriage nor stirr up the People against the King by too captious an Account of his Commands Having what King Iames commended in my Lord Bacon A peculiar way of handling Matters after a mild and gentle manner Until the Faction grew so Impudent as being Lay-men to question Divines and state questions in Divinity without either the assistance or assent of Convocation as in Doctor Mountague's Case and Doctor Manwaring's 2. To Limit his Majesty in his Ancient Right to Tonnage and Pondage so far as to deny it him unless he would accept of it as their good will and only as Tenant at Will from Year to Year by an Annual grant from them 3. To draw up Seditious Remonstrances of grievances that they only published to exasperate the People never intending by redressing of them to ease them when according to their Promise to Assist him in the War they Engaged the King in they should have presented him with their Subsidies and Supplies 4. To offer violence to their own Body forcing the Sollicitor to keep the Chair one time the Speaker another 5. To create and spread fears and jealousies by feigned Letters and Discoveries 6. To speak Treason in the very Houses of Parliament 7. To examine the Secretary of States Letter and the King 's to search the Signet Office c. 8. To threaten his Friends and ruin his Favourites 9. To Debate whether they should trust the King on his Word and upon Sir Cook 's Motion to carry it in the Negative 10. To Condition with the King about Supplies being resolved not to Relieve his Necessities unless he gratified their Humor 11. To question the Farmers of the King's Custome-house and most of the Officers of the Revenue This Party having designed that the King should neither Injoy his own Revenue nor have any Relief from them 12. To offer such Remonstrances in the House as neither the Speaker nor Clerks would Read I say until the Conspiracy grew so bold as to offer such affronts to Majesty and Government as not only diminished but endangered them for then indeed he discoursed roundly That not to Supply the King now Involved in a Forraign War was the greatest Grievance A poor King as Sir Robert Cotton used to say being the most dangerous thing in the world This importing a Ruin Denial of Subsidies is increasing of Necessities other Miscarriages only an Inconvenience That to raise Jealousies and Fears about Religion and Government answered not the end of their Convention which were called to Consult with the King about the great Affairs of the Kingdom and not to remonstrate Remonstrances instead of remedying Grievances do but aggravate them distracting the People whom they pretend to relieve being Invectives against Government rather than any Reformation of it That Mutual Confidence was the happiest because the most natural for trust first made Kings accommodation between Prince and People That it was inhumane to grant a Gracious King Subsidies at no lower Rate than the Price of his best Servants bloud That the modesty of the Subject should comply with the goodness of the King striving to oblige as the surest way to be obliged And when Speeches would not do this Excellent Person finding the times as his Gracious Master intimated in the first words of his Speech at the opening of this Parliament for actions and not for words and the Seditious made all the civilities and kindnesses shewed them to draw them off their old dangerous Practises Arguments and Incouragements to attempt new ones When they inveighed against my Lord Treasurer Weston as they had done formerly against the Duke of Buckingham It appearing evidently that not the persons of men but the King 's Trust of them was the object of their envy and his Favour though never so virtuous marked them out for ruin And the Invective raised them to such a degree of heat that fearing they should be Dissolved ere they had time to Vent their Passions they began a violence upon their own Body an Example that lasted longer than
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
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
Bruerton by Will bequeathed to Sidney Colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident it was so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel VVard informed me it was invalid in the rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramston who married the Serjeant's Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a farthing and the legal settling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times The delivering his judgement on the King's side in the case of Ship-money cost him much trouble and brought him much honour as who understood the consequence of that Maxime Salus populi suprema lex and that Ship-money was thought legal by the best Lawyers Voted down Arbitrarily by the worst Parliament they hearing no Council for it though the King heard all men willingly against it Yea that Parliament thought themselves not secure from it unless the King renounced his right to it by a new Act of his own Men have a touch-stone to try gold and gold is the touch-stone to try men Sir Noy's gratuity shewed that this Judges inclination was as much above corruption as his fortune and that he would not as well he needed not be base Equally intent was he upon the Interest of State and Maxims of Law as which mutually supported each other He would never have a witness interrupted or helped but have the patience to hear a naked though a tedious truth the best Gold lieth in the most Ore and the clearest truth in the most simple discourse When he put on his Robes he put off respects his private affections being swallowed up in the publick service This was the Judge whom Popularity could never flatter to any thing unsafe nor Favour oblige to any thing unjust Therefore he died in peace 1645 when all others were engaged in a War and shall have the reward of his integrity of the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the World Having lived as well as read Iustinian 's Maxim to the Praetor of Laconia All things which appertain to the well-government of a State are ordered by the Constitution of Kings that give life and vigour to the Law Whereupon who so would walk wisely shall never fail if he propose them both for the rule of his actions For a King is the living Law of his Countrey Nothing troubled him so much as shall I call it the shame or the fear of the consequence of the unhappy Contest between His Excellent Majesty and his meaner Subjects in the foresaid case of Ship-money No enemy being contemptible enough to be despised since the most despicable command greater strength wisdom and interest than their own to the designs of malice or mischief A great man managed a quarrel with Archee the King's Fool but by endeavouring to explode him the Court rendred him at last so considerable by calling the enemies of that person who were not a few to his rescue as the fellow was not onely able to continue the dispute for divers years but received such encouragement from standers by the instrument of whose malice he was as he oft broke out into such reproaches as neither the Dignity of that excellent person's Calling nor the greatness of his Parts could in reason or manners admit But that the wise man discerned that all the Fool did was but a symptome of the strong and inveterate distemper raised long since in the hearts of his Countreymen against the great man's Person and Function This Reverend Judge who when Reader of the Temple carried away the title of the best Lawyer of his time in England and when made Serjeant with fifteen more of whom the Lord Keeper Williams said That he reckoned it one of the Honours of his time that he had passed Writs for the advancement of so many excellent persons Anno 29. Iac. Termino Michaelii had the character of The fairest pleader in England Westminster-Hall was much envied by the Faction upon the same ground that Scaevola was quarrelled with by Fimbria even because totum telum in se recipere he did not give malice a free scope and advantage against him who when the Writ for Ship-money grounded upon unquestionable Presidents and Records for levying Naval Aids by the King 's sole Authority were put in execution and Hambden and Say went to Law with the King the one for four pound two shillings the other for three pound five shilling The inconsiderable summes they were assessed at to the Aid aforesaid went no further than upon this Case put by the King Charles Rex WHen the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all his Subjects in the kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuals and Ammunition and for such time as he shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such danger and peril and by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness and whether in such cases is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided To declare his opinion thus MAy it please your most Excellent Majesty we have according to your Majesties Command severally and every man by himself and all of us together taken into our serious consideration the Case and Questions Signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Letter And we are of opinion That when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under your Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this your kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such peril and danger and that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided Iohn Bramston Richard Hutton George Vernon Iohn Finch Willam Iones Robert Barkley Humphrey Davenport George Crook Francis Crauly Iohn Denham Thomas Trever Richard Weston And afterwards in the Lord Says Case Ter. Hil. Anno 14. Car. Regis in Banco regis with Iones and Berkley to declare That the foresaid Writ being allowed legal the judgment of the Judges upon it consisting of four branches First That the Writ was legal by the King's Prerogative or at leastwise by his Regal power Secondly That the Sheriff by himself without any Jury may make the Assessement Thirdly That the Inland Counties ought to do it at their own Charge and
Exercised and Improved him an Obliging Carriage that gave Access to the meanest Scholar and had it of the greatest a Distinct Understanding that could as well Touch and Apprehend the least matters as Compass and Comprehend the greatest a Down-right Plain and Honest Temper and what crowned all a Serious and Holy Frame of Spirit discovering its self in his Life and his Writing where you will meet with such expressions as these When I am indeed able for these things speaking of Preaching I doubt not to have him with my mouth because I mean to leave my self out I have thus much left to wish and I hope I do it well to his Book meaning the Scripture that it might be read as far as this is possible in a full and fixed Translation and upon that a clear and disingaged Commentary The way to do this will not be to do the work a great and undertake the whole or any considerable part of the Book by one man if he could live one Age. He that goeth upon this with any interest about him let him do otherwise never so admirably he doth indeed but Translate an Angel of Light into the Devil I would not Render or Interpret one parcel of Scripture to an end of my own though it were to please my whole Nation by it to gain the World One asked him whether the Alcoran had any thing in it that could work upon a Rational Belief He answered That that which is every where called Religion hath more of Interest and the strong impressions of Education than perhaps we consider of There is no Scholar that would not know where lies the Remains of this great man Christ-Church hath his Body the Church of England his Heart whose Religion he designed to clear up in life and sealed with his death a death that was so much more a Martyrdom in his Bed than others were upon the Scaffold as it is a more exquisite misery to dye daily with grief than once by an Executioner His honest Epitaph is this NE premus Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jacent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui Te quovis vincet Idiomate At ne molestus sis Ausculta Causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et Avitâ Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatû Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut cupesseret Vade Nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Printed Works are RIdleyes View of the Law with his Notes Posthuma Or a Collection of Notes and Observations translated into Latine by Master Stokes and inserted into the Critica Sacra M. SS Among the many early fruits of his younger studies which his modesty kept by him to ripen A Translation of an Ancient Peice of Chronography by Melala which gave great light to the State of Primitive Christianity is one And Akibla a Book proving East-adoration before Popery because ever since the Floud THE Life and Death OF JOHN BARNSTON Doctor of Divinity THE greatest parts was not protection enough you observe in the last Instance against the Barbarism of that Age nor yet the best nature any security as you may perceive by this against the inhumanity of it For there was one Iohn Barnston D. D. born of an ancient Family in Cheshire his birth deserved civility bred Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford his education pleaded for favour Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton and Residentiary of Salisbury his preferments should have gained him respect a peaceable and good Disposition whereof take this eminent instance He sat Judge in the Consistory when a Church-warden out of whose house a Chalice was stolen was Sued by the Parish to make it good to them because not taken out of the Church-chest where it ought to be reposited but out of his private house The Church-warden Pleaded That he took it home only to Scoure it which proving in-effectual he retained it till next morning to Boil out the in-laid Rust thereof Well said the Doctor I am sorry that the Cup of Union and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord between you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but that either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some charity come to pass accordingly He Founded an Hebrew Lecture in Brazen-Nose Colledge a piece of charity this that should have covered a multitude of offences Hospitality they say hath slept since 1572. in the Grave of Edward Earl of Derby this Gentlemans Father's Master and was a little awaked by this Gentleman his Sons Chaplain and Friend from the year 1620. to the year 1640. carrying with him that genius of Cheshire Hospitality and free to his own Family which is Generosity to Strangers which is Courtesie and to the Poor which is Charity A Native of Northampton-shire observeth that all the Rivers of that County are bred in it besides those Ouse and Charwell it lendeth unto other Shires So this good House-keeper had provisions arising from his own grounds both to serve himself and to supply others who if poor were in his house as in their own The peculiar grace of his charity was that with the good man in Plutarch he would sometimes steal Largesses under the Pillows of Ingenious Men who otherwise might refuse them relieving so at once as well the modesty as the poverty of his Clients not expecting but preventing their request God forbid the Heavens should never Rain till the Earth first openeth her Mouth seeing some grounds will sooner burn than chap. It was the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon's observation in his excellent Speech Octob. 13. 1660. before the King's Majesty and both Houses of Parliament That good Nature was a virtue so peculiar unto us and so appropriated by Almighty God to this Nation that it can be translated into no other Language and hardly practised by any other People This good nature was the praedominant temper of this good man appearing in the chearfulness of his spirit the openness and freedom of his converse and his right English inclination so that the spirit of fears and jealousies that spiritus Calvinianus spiritus Melancholicus that prevailed in the beginning of these times like the louring of the Sky before a Storm was as inconsistent with his temper and spirit as it was contrary to other sober persons opinion and interest His first disturbance was by some Croaking Lectures the Product of the extraordinary heat of that time out of the mud of Mankind who vied with him in long and thin discourses in reference to whom he would apply a Story he took much pleasure in When a Noble-man of this Nation had a controversie in Law with a Brewer who had a Garden and a Dwelling-house bordering upon his The Brewer gave it in charge to his Servant to put in so many Hogsheads of Water more into all his Brewings than he was wont to do telling him that such a supply
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
Subjects out of their Loyalty and against that artifice it was observable what advantage His Majesty had on his side for whereas the combination was forced to flie to the shifts of some pretended fears and wild fundamentals of State with the impertinent as well as dangerous allegation of self-defence since they who should have been Subjects were manifestly the first assaulters of the King and the Laws first by unsuppressed tumults and then by listed Forces His Loyal Subjects had the Word of God the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths requiring obedience to the Kings just Command but to none other under heaven without or against him in the point of raising armes And those that would not be juggled out of their duty they indeavoured to disgrace out of a capacity of an effectual performance of it by a bold and notorious falsehood viz. That there was not one godly man with the King and as God would have it most of the eminent men in this County for his Majesty were in as much repute with the people before the war for their piety by the same token that notwithstanding the partiality and the popular heats wherewith the elections to that Parliament 1640. were carried in many places most of them were Members of that Parliament as they were after in disgrace with the Rabble for their Loyalty For to avoid a scandal upon the Kings government and the individious consequences of maintaining too stiffly even a just Liberty upon the Lords day We find Orders drawn up and sent in a Petition to the Kings Majesty by Iohn Harrington Esq. Custos Rotulorum to be delivered by the Earl of Pembroke Lord Lieutenant of that County To the first of which we find subscribed George Sydenam Knight Henry Berkley Knight And to the second Iohn Lord Pawlet Iohn Stawell Ralph Hopton Francis Doddington As severe though not so fantastical in that point as the very Precisians themselves for these are their words May it please your Majesty to grant us some particular Declaration against unlawful Assemblies of Church-Ales Clearks-Ales and Bid-Ales and other intollerable disorders to the great contempt of Authority and to uphold civil feasting between neighbour and neighbour in their houses and the orderly and seasonable use of manly exercises and activities which we shall be most ready to maintain an even moderation between prophanness and nicety between a licentiousness to do any thing and a liberty to do nothing at all In which temper after unsufferable Imprisonments rude Robberies called after the Germane Mode Plunder from planum facere to level or plane all to nothing or pluming unheard of Sequestrations and at last with much ado a Composition or paying as we do sometimes Highway-men for his own estate which besides the vast charge he was at to have the favour of that Oppression amounted to 1275 l. 00 00 For this is Recorded Sir Henry Berkley of Tarlington in Sommersetshire 1275 l. 00 00 He died Anno Christi 165 ... Aetatis 7 ... Tyrannidis 4. Being buried not without hope of his own and his causes resurrection Hic Decios Agnosce tuos magnae aemula Romae Aut Prior hac aut te his Scotia major adhuc Unus Turma fuit Barclaius copia solus Una cum natis Agminis Instar erat Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY TO all these I could adde Sir William Berkley whose Man was Governor of Virginia in the late times when Princes were forced to go a Foot and Servants Ride on Horse-back and he himself in these when there have been made such orders for the improvement of the Plantation as are inferior only to the rules given him for the first erection of it which yet were none of the strictest for otherwise as Infants must be swathed not laced so young Plantations will never grow if streightned with as hard Laws as setled Common-wealths though they proved the most effectual those people giving no reason for that bitter rather than false jest spoken of one of our late Western Plantations consisting most of dissolute people Christian Savages among the Pagan Negroes That it was very like unto England as being spit out of the very Mouth of it This Gentleman aiming at two things that may do much good and that is 1. Justice in Dealings witness the brave Edicts made at a Convention there 1662. That their dealings among the Negroes there may be as naked as their going 2. A Sober Religion that may bless the Christians there and convert the Heathens in one of whom it is more to overcome Paganism than to master an 100 Pagans witness the very reasonable Proposals made both for the supporting and propagating of Religion in that Country for the maintenance of their Ministers and the discipline of their Church to the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London and since Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury who encouraged the prudential part of their design in a way of great incouragement to the present generation and of great blessing to posterity Sir EDWARD BERKLEY ANd from him it were pity to part his inseparable companion in Loyalty and Sufferings Sir Edward Berkley that living confutation of Machiavell who thought religion spoiled a generous person as bad as a Shower of Rain doth his Plume of Feathers on a rainy day being at once most pious and most gallant of as much humble devotion as generous and daring valour as meek towards God as he was brave towards an enemy very well known for the hardness of his body and more honored for the generosity of his mind First he learned to follow others and afterwards to command himself being so much the more happy in his providence forward as had he gone farther in his experience backward being as knowing himself as he was happy in commanding others that were so Extreamly careful of his first enterprizes knowing that a Commanders reputation once raised will keep its self up like a round body some force is required to set it up though when it is up it will move its self Three things he abhorred in his followers 1. Scoffing at Religion a sin unusual never a civil Nation in the world being guilty of it 2. Useless for either the scoffer believes what he scoffs at and so he puts a great affront upon his conscience or he doth not and then it s in vain to cry down that Religion with raillery that is supported so much by demonstration And 3. Debauchery being of Gustavus Adolphus that true Souldier as well as great Kings temper Who when he first entred Germany and perceived how many women followed his Camp some being Wives for which they wanted nothing but Marriage others Laundresses though defiling more than they washed At a Passage over a River ordered the Bridge to be taken down that these feminine impediments might not follow as soon as his Souldiers were over Whereupon they made such pannick shreeks as seized the Souldiers hearts on the other side the River who
Oration used not one R Now the letter R is called the dogged and snarling letter This person could not indure a base and unworthy expression of the worst-deserving of all the adversaries because though it became them well to hear ill yet it did not become the other side to speak so it being below a good cause to be defended by evil speaking which might anger but not convince and discover the ill spirit of the party that managed the cause instead of keeping up the merit of the cause that was managed He was sad all his time but grew melancholy in the latter end of it conscience speaking than loudest when men are able to speak least and all sores paining most near night when he was not of Edward the II. mind who looked upon all those as enemies to his Person who reproved his Vices but of Henry V. who favoured those most when in years and a King that dealt most freely with him when young and a Prince A melancholy that was rather serious than sad rather consideration than a grief and his preparation for death rather than his disease leading to it wherein his losses were his greatest satisfaction and his sufferings his most considerable comfort Being infinitely pleased with two things King Charles the Martyrs rational and heroick management of his Cause and Sufferings and the Peoples being more in love with him and his cause since it miscarried than when it prevailedâ— an argument he thought that it was reason and not power something that convinced the conscience and not something that mens estates or persons that was both the ornament and the strength of the Kings side the reason he chearfully paid three thousand five hundred and forty pounds for his Allegiance as he had chearfully kept to it the only two instances of his life that pleased him If any body demand how he could suffer so much as he did at last and do as much as he did at first and how he could lay out so much to pious uses whom it had cost so dear to be a good subject The Spanish Proverb must satisfie him That which cometh from above let no man question Though indeed he was so innocent in that age that he could not be rich and of the same temper and equal fortune with Judge Cateline that Judge in Queen Elizabeths time that had a fancy full of prejudice against any man that writ his name with an alias and took exception against one on this very account saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias And the party asked him as Cambden tells the story in his Remains What exception his Lordship could take against Iesus Christ alias Iesus of Nazareth A kinsman of whom having a cause in the Kings-bench where he had been Lord Cheif Justice was told by the then Lord Chief Justice That his kinsman was his predecessor in that Court and a great Lawyer And answered by the Gentleman thus My Lord he was a very honest man for he left a small estate There is one more of this name Sir George Berkley too who as it was his policy that in all discourses and debates he desired to speak last because he might have the advantage to sum up all the preceding discouses discover their failures and leave the impression of his own upon the Auditory So it shall be his place to be the last in this short mention in reference to whom remembring the old saying Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine Being not able to say much I will not say little of him this Gentlemans virtue forbidding a short and lame account of him as severely as Iohannes Passeravicius Morositis in Thuanus a good conceited Poet and strangely conceited man allowed not under the great curse that his Herse should be burdened with bad funeral verses Sir George Berkley of Benton in the County of Sommerset 450 l. 00 00 With 60 l. per annum setled Only it will not be amiss to insert an honorable Person in this place who though he appeared not with his Majesty so openly at first yet acted cordially and suffered patiently for him to the last I mean the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord BERKLEY Baron of Berkley Mowgray and Seagrave ONe of those honest persons that though ashamed of the Kings usage in London were sorry for the necessity of his removal out of it which left the City liable to the impostures and practices and his friends there obnoxious to the fallacies and violences of a Faction that had all along abused and now awed the Kings leige people that could not before by reason of their pretences discern what was right nor now by reason of their power own it This noble person did not think it adviseable to go from Westminster because his estate lay near the City yet he served the King there because his inclination especially when he was disabused was for Oxford He was of his Majesties opinion at the first Sitting of the Long Parliament that to comply with the Parliament in some reasonable and moderate demands was the way to prevent them from running into any immoderate and unreasonable The stream that is yielded to run smoothly if it be stopped it fometh and rageth but his honest nature being deceived in the confidence he had in others whom he measured by himself that is the advantage the cunning man hath over the honest pitied their unreasonableness rather than repented of his own charity and hope and ever after went along with them in accommodations for peace but by no means concurred in any preparations for war insomuch that when he despaired of reason from the Houses he was contented to deal with the particular Members of them being willing to hearken to Master Waller and some others Proposal about letting in the King to the City by an Army to be raised there according to the Commissions brought to Town by the Lady Aubigney when he could not open his way by the arguments used by him and others in the Convention Being a plain and honest man the factious papers and discourses took not with him they were so forced dark canting and wrested The Kings Declaration being embraced and as far as he durst published and communicated by him because clear rational and honest He might possibly sit so long at Westminster as to be suspected and blamed for adhering to the Rebellion but he was really with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Middlesex the Lords Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard impeached at Westminster of High-treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom It may be thought a fault that he vouchsafed the Juncto his company when they debated any overtures of peace but it was his commendation that he retired when the Earl of Essex was Voted General the King the Bishops and Delinquents lands seized on the New Seal made the War prosecuted c. And appeared only to ballance
the affections of the Irish Subjects from the subjection of England Sixthly That they had agreed together to draw away the Subjects of Scotland from the King Seventhly That to preserve himself and the said Earl he had laboured to subvert the Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament in Ireland An Impeachment they drew that they might confine him but prosecuted not lest they should shame themselves but permitting him to go whither he would they waited the event of things and when that fell out much beyond their expectation they adventured to condemn him unheard In all their Treaties with his Majesty inserting Sir George Ratcliffe that Mr. Hampden said was one of the most dangerous men that adhered to the King for one that they would have utterly excluded Pardon The main instance whereby they intended to render him odious was doubtless his severity to the Children and Relations of those that came under the lash as disaffected to the Government but since Proles est pars parentis and one part of the body suffereth for the offences of the other the hand steals the feet are stocked the tongue forswears the ears are cut off it is thought conâ—istent with Divine Justice and necessary for humane prudence to correct the Children with the Parents that those people that are so hardy as to adventure their own Concerns for the disturbance of the Publick may yet be fearful of troublesome practises with regard to the Interest of their Innocent Children those Pledges Common-wealths have that men will be quiet When he had privately detected the Conspiracious laid open the Plots and taken off many Instruments of the Faction he died Anno 165. ... Leaving these remarques behinde him 1. That with Tamerlain he never bestowed place on a man that was over-ambitious for it 2. That he feared more the committing than the discovery of an Irregularity That he gave away to Charitable Uses a tenth of what he got that he loved a Grave rather than a gawdy Religion often using Tully's saying of the Roman Lady in reference some practices of the Roman Church that she danced better than became a modest Woman Being dead in the lower part of his body of a Palsie as we are informed his Soul retired to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Upper-room of his Clay Cottage as much employed in Contemplation the latter end of his Life as he had been in action in the beginning Ne Ingentes Augustissimi viri ruinae etiam Perirent Memoriae G. Ratcliffe Equitis Aurati D. D. C. Q. L. M. E. M. Monumentum saltem chartaceum ne desideret vir ultra Marmora perrenandus THE Life and Death OF DOCTOR POTTER Lord Bishop of Carlisle IN a time when this Kingdom flourished with Magnificent Edifices the Trade of the Nation had brought the Wealth of the Indies to our doors Learning and all good Sciences were so cherished that they grew to Admiration and many Arts of the Ancients buried and forgotten by time were revived again no Subjects happier though none less sensible of their Happiness Security increasing the Husband mans stock and Justice preserved his Life the poor might Reverence but needed not fear the Great and the Great though he might despise yet could not injure his more obscure Neighbor and all things were so administred that they seemed to conspire to the Publick good except that they made our Happiness too much the cause of our Civil Commotions and brought our Felicity to that height that by the necessity of humane Affairs that hath placed all things in motion it must necessarily decline At this happy time thus happily expressed by Dr. Perrinchiefe and Dr. Bates it was that I will not say the City of London for the better part of it abhorred it but to phrase the Men the Lord Digby's way I know not what 15000 Londoners all that could be got to subscribe complained in a Petition that Trade was obstructed Grievances increased Patents and Monopolies multiplied meerly because of the Bishops who were looked upon as the Great Grievance of the Kingdom in somuch that this Doctor who was born in a Puritane place at Westmester within the Barony of Kendal in Westmerland in Puritane times when that party guided Affairs 1578. Bred under a Puritane School-Master one Mr. Maxwell at School in the place where he was born and under a Puritane Tutor in Queens Colledge in Oxford and looked upon as so great a Puritane in King Iames his time that they would say in jest that the noise of an Organ would blow him out the Church and therefore he was called tho Puritanical Bishop though his love to Musick no doubt was as great as his Skill and his Skill so good that he could bear a part in it yet because he was a Bishop he was slighted when he came to London as Iuke warm and forsaken as Popish that had been so followed formerly as the most godly and powerful Preacher He had been a great Tutor at Queens where he had learned to train others by the Discipline he had undergone himself insomuch that when Bishop 33 Eminent Divines Lawyers Physicians and Statesmen formerly his Pupils waited on him together for his blessing He managed prudently as he was chosen into it unexpectedly and unanimously when an hundred miles off the Government and Provostship of that Colledge Vbi se ferebat Patrem-familia providum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec Collegio gravis fuit aut onerosus He resigned it self-denyingly judging that his Northern charge had more need of him as an able and skilful Minister than Queens Colledge as a Provost The meek and humble man looked not for Preferment yea avoided it with an hearty nolo Episcopari And his gracious Master King Charles unexpectedly when he was buried in his Living and resolvedly when there was a considerable Competition and not an inconsiderable opposition saying He would consider his old Servant and the good man whom he liked the better for being a man of few words but a sweet Preacher called at Court The Ponetential Preacher for being peaceable in his practice though singular in his Opinion and being not humorsome though precise having the severe strictness though not the sower leaven of the Pharisees His gracious Master not so much honoring him as he did the Function and that age in the freedom of his Noble and unsought for choice The man being so exemplary in his carriage that several Recusants that could not go with him to Church yet conversed much with him Because said they they would go with him to Heaven So good a Master of his Family that his House was a Church where Family-duties constant Prayers Catechizing reading Scriptures Expounding godly Conference speaking to one another in Psalms and Spiritual Hymns were performed so regularly and so constantly that hundreds left their distant Habitations to be near him though all accommodations about him were so much the dearer as his Neighborhood was the more precious It was as great a happiness
of the Right of calling Assemblies on Numbers 10. 12. nor chosen by the Clergy and because there was a legal Convocation in being that superseded this Illegal Assembly wherein it was in vain for few Oxthodox men to appear being overvoted by their numerous Antagonists But since he could not serve the King and Church with his parts he did with his Interest chearfully sending the Colledge Plate to the King and zealously when the Committee of the Eastern Association was setled there protesting against any Contribution to the Parliament as against true Religion and a good Conscience for which he was Imprisoned Plundered and tormented and as high winds bring some men to sleep so these storms brought this good Doctor to rest whose dying words as if the cause of his Martyrdom had been Ingraven on his heart breathed up with his Divine Soul Now God bless the King though the worst word that came out of his mouth was to Cromwell That when they destroyed the Church Windows you might be better Imployed A Pupil of his compares him and Dr. Collings Professor to Peter and Iohn running to our Saviors Grave in which race Iohn came first as the youngest and swiftest and Peter entred into the Grave Dr. Collings had much the speed of him in quickness of parts the other pierceth the deeper into under-ground and deep points of Divinity neither was the Influence either of Loyalty or Sufferings confined to his own Person but was effectual upon all his Relations for we finde Richard Ward of London Gentleman Compounding for 0234 l. 00 00 And Henry Ward for 0105 l. 00 00 Besides Mr. Seth Ward the Ornament not only of his Family but of his Countrey expelled Sidney Colledge for his Loyalty tossed up and down for his Allegiance till his incomparable temper and carriage recommended him to the Family of my Lord Weinman at Thame-Parke in Oxfordshire his great skill in Mathematicks opened his way in those sad times to the Astronomy Professorship in Oxford they thought there would be no danger in his abstracted and unconcerned discourses of the Mathematicks his extraordinary worth commanded Respect and Incouragement from Worthy men of all perswasions excepting O. C. who told him when he stood for the Principality of Iesus Colledge in Oxford That he heard he was a deserving Person but withall a Malignant his great Ability especially for Discourse and Business commended him to the Deanery first and afterwards to the Bishoprick of Exeter no Imployment a Clergy-man ever was capable of being above his capacity who writes to the eternal honor of this Doctor his Unkle in the Preface to his Lectures set out with Bishop Brownrigg's his Overseers consent and Dr. Ward Mr. Hodges Mr. Mathewes and Mr. Gibsons pains thus Ille me puerum quandeconnem a Schola privata ubi me tune aegre habui ad Academiam vocavit ille me valetudinarium recreare solitus est omni modo refocillore ille mihi animum ad studia ad motis lenitur Calcáribus praemiisque ante oculos positis accendere solebat ille mihi Librorum usum suppeditavit ille me in Collegii Societatem quam primum Licebat cooplavit ille mihi Magister unicus erat Patronus Spes Ratio studiorum With whole words we will finish this poor account of him whose worth might be guessed by the method of his Study the exactness of his Diary the excellency of his Lectures Novit haec omnia Collegium Sidneianum cui plus quam 30 annorum spatio summa cum prudentiae Integritatis sanctitatis Laude praefuit novit atque admirata est Academia Cantabrigientis ubi Cathedram Professoram D. Margarete tot annos summo cum honore tenuit errorum malleus atque hâ—resum norunt Exteri testantur haec opera quae nunc Edimus ista certe ut non nescires tui meique interesse existam abam caetera norunt Et Tagu Ganges forsan Antipodes Here after these Noble and Loval Ushers comes in the King himself not the exact time he was beheaded on but yet the very minute he suffered for though Charles was Martyred 1648. the King was killed 1644. For it is not the last blow that fells the Oak besides that the lifting up of some hands in the Covenant now inforced was to strike at his life according to the most refined sense of that solemn snare declared by Sir Henry Vane who best understood it having been in Scotland at the contrivance of it at his death Iune 14. when he was most likely to speak sincerely what he understood His Person was in danger when they aimed at his Prerogative The Conclusion is to a discerning person wrapped up in the premises for I reckon his life was in danger when their was nothing left him but his life to lose The Life Reign and Death of the Glorious Martyr CHARLES I. of Blessed Memory I May Praeface this sad Solemnity as the Romans did their more joyful ones that were to be seen but once in an hundred years Come and see what none that is alive ever saw none that is alive is ever like to see again See a King and all Government falling at one stroke A Prince once wished that his People had but one Neck that he might cut them off at one blow here the People saw all Princes with one Neck which they cut at one attempt a stroke levelled not at one King but Monarchy not at one Royal Person but Government See England that boasted of the first Christian King Lucius the first Christian Emperour Constantine the first Protestant Prince Edw. 6. glorieth now in the first Martyr'd King Charles I. A Martyr to Religion and Government The Primitive Institutes of the first of which and the generally owned Principles of the second of which other Princes have maintained with their Subjects blood he with his own Others by Laws and Power kept up both these while they were able he with his Life when he was not able supporting that very Authority it self that supports other Princes throwing himself the great Sacrifice into the breach made upon Power to stop popular fury and choosing rather not to be himself in the World than to yield that that World by his consent should be Lawless or Prophane A Martyr who stood to the Peoples Liberty though with his own Captivity that held up their Rights with the loss of his own had a care of their Posterity with the ruine of his own Family that maintained the Law that secures their lives with his own that could suffer others to distress him but not to oppress his People that could yield to dye but not to betray his Subjects either as Christians or as Englishmen See the last Effort of Virtue Reason Discipline Order bearing up against that of Villany Disorder Licenciousness and things not to be named among men See a King that had deserved a Crown in all mens judgement had he not worn one that other Nations wished theirs
before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am
his Victories He using this success to no other end than as earnestly to intreat them himself and all the Noblemen and Gentlemen in his Army as earnestly to accept of peace as if he had been conquered he should have begged it Willing he was to settle peace at home and yet scorned to accept of unhandsom terms from abroad All the world saw his Majesties inclination to a peace and the Rebels implacable resolution to go on with the war The Conspirators had need of their Brethren the Scots and the Scots upon the refusal of his Majesties Propositions were ashamed of them whence when they were not likely to be assisted from abroad they beg but upon hard conditions a peace at home Conditions that his Majesty would not yield to in his lowest condition though he would have done any thing but sin to obtain peace at the highest A peace that they must have yielded to had not they new-modelled their design and their army by a self-denying Ordinance cashiering all Officers that retained any degree of sobriety and a new model taking in all Sectaries to enlarge and make desperate their party Sad is the news the Rebels hear from all parts of England but very good that which his Majesty heard from Scotland where his friends increased as much as theirs decreased here such moderate men as Essex the Earl of Manchester and Denbigh laying down their Commissions when they saw such taking Commission as had laid down all thoughts of peace They were first entertained because a war could not be begun without the countenance of sober men but afterwards they were laid aside by the politick self-denial Ordinance because the war would be no longer continued by such In a word to such success had the conduct and magnanimity of his Majesty arrived that 1645. he writes to the Queen That he might without being too sanguine affirm that since the Rebellion his affairs were never in so hopeful a way Not to mention his great personal valour at Naseby a valour and conduct that deserved success though at last it wanted it the King having other virtues that were to be rendred glorious by sufferings as this had been by actions and therefore he was Betrayed not Overcome Sold and not Conquered And yet as his great Spirit at his best fortune endeavoured an honourable Peace so at his worse he would not admit of a dishonourable one for measuring his Propositions not by the event of affairs but by his own Conscience he stands to the same terms when Defeated as he did when Conqueror never betraying his Peoples Liberties to those Usurpers in hope of a Peace in the defence of which he thought fit to undertake a war I know not which is most magnanimous that he should with so much hazard venture his Person so resolutely and manage his cause against their Politicians and Divines so bravely or that he should with so much honour correspond with the Parliament in his own single Person answering the arguments of the one and the proud messages of the other and gaining that Conquest by his Pen that he could not by his Sword He is contented to discharge all his Garrisons and Armies and that excellent Association in the VVest formed by the Prince with the assistance of Sir Edward Hide c. being upon a design of overcoming his Enemies as he did Henderson c. and all that had the happiness to know him by his own Person and being likely to do more by a Peace than either others or indeed he himself could do by a war cutting those more than Gordian knots with the sharpness of his own single reason that could not be by the edge of all Englands Sword when the Scots after many debates with the English had not the courage to stand to their Promise Oath and Honour in keeping the Kings Person he owned a magnanimity whereby he kept Free even when delivered his own Conscience they could not be true to duty when tempted with 800000 â— nor he unworthy to his trust though tempted with three Kingdoms And now that King that with his bare presence had raised an Army in the beginning of the war that gave a Cheque to Rebellion four years now by his own Conduct when he had not one as they phrased it Evill Counsellor about him and gallant Sufferings he raised the City and all the Kingdom to reduce the Rebels to reason there being in his lowest condition 54000 Men and most of them such as had Engaged against him up in his defence in Scotland Wales Ireland and England and things were brought to that pass by his excellent managery that the very Army that overcamâ— him did not think themselves safe but under his Protection and therefore they ventured their Masters displeasure to gain the Kings Person each Party thinking its self more or less considerable as they wanted or injoyed him The Parliament as they call it Voting his Concessions Satisfactory on the one hand and the Army declaring their Propositions to the King unreasonable They that durst fight his Armies yet so farr Reverenced his Person that they did that to him in his lowest condition that is usually done to Princes in their highest and that is Flatter him the one saying that he had done enough and the other that he had done too much What a brave sight it was to see him able to manage his greatest misfortunes with Honour and his Enemies their greatest Victories with Confusions the Army against the Houses the Commons against the Lords yea one part against another the City for and against both the Common Souldiers by a new way of Agitation whereby they could spread and manage any treason sedition intelligence plot and design throughout the Army in a moment by two or three of the most active or desperate in a Company or Regiment And he all the while above all these enjoying the calm that sits in the Upper Region neither yielding to his Enemies nor his misfortues insomuch that when they were so barbarous as to let him want Linnen he said They had done so for two months but he would not afford them the pleasure of knowing that he wanted Yea and when some of them were too sawcy with him in private he could though their Prisoner civillize them with his look and Cane In a word the Kings fortitude appeared as eminent as his other vertures though ecclypsed as the Divine power is to some mens apprehensions by his mercy in that he could say to the last that he should never think himself weakned while he enjoyed the use of his reason and while God supplied with inward resolutions what he denied him in outward strength by which resolution he meant not a morosity to deny what is fit to be granted but a spirit not to grant what Religion and Justice denied I shall never think my self they are his own Royal expressions less than my self while I am able thus to preserve the integrity of my
take from his Clergy but what God gave them Concluding That he desired them to be subject to him no further than that he and they might be subject to God That a King that was and did so as he was and did should be first suspected and then opposed should be rendred ridiculous abroad and odious at home should easier perswade his foreign enemies to a Peace than his own subjects to contribute to a War and that of their own advising and perswading That such a King should first suffer in his prime Favourites and Ministers of State and then in his own Person That such a King should be forced to sell his Crown Lands to defend and serve them who would by no means yield any thing to maintain him yea questioned Sr. Iohn Wolstenhome Mr. Dawes and Mr. Caermarthen Farmers of the Custome-house for levying his ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage unless he acknowledged that as their favour which to maintain Convoy and Trade he enjoyed as an haereditary Right That under such a King any should say as Cooke and Turner did That the People had better perish by a foreign War than by a domestique Oppresssion and it should be a capital offence to enjoy his favour That one sort of subjects should invade and other abbet and libel him That his ancient Kingdom of Scotland should throw themselves upon the French King and the Kingdom of England upon French Counsels and Designs That so good a Master should be betrayed by his Servants have his Pocket pick'd his Letters discovered as Hamilton did Montross's and the E. of H. did the design against the five Members That malapert Burgesses should bawl out Remonstrances and Citizens affronts against so great and so excellent a Majesty It was introllerable to frame Conventicles Associations and Conspiracies against his proceedings in Church and State but horrid to do so against his Person That when they had stood out many years against allowing him any Taxes without their consent they shall seize his Crown and Dignity without his that those whom he had raised from the people should adhere to the people against him and when they had corresponded with armies that are but tumults mustered in the North they should incourage tumults which are but indisciplined armies in the South that the one might drive him out of his Kingdom for fear and the other out of the Royal City for shame that the Scots should sight and he not dare to call them Rebels and his faithful Counsellors should assist him and he not dare to own them as friends That such a King should be abused to Parliaments by his servants and to his people by Parliaments should be first intreated out of his Magazines Castles and whole Militia and then fought against with them should be forced out of one Town and shut out of another should see his Queen threatned with Articles at one time and though she would not believe that being loath to think the English should do her any ill offices to whom she had done none but good afterwards impeached without any regard to Sex Virtues Birth Allies and Majesty circumstances that would have guarded her from the Barbarous for no other fault but for owning that obedience to her Lord and Husband which they had renounced to their Soveraign That such a Prince should see his whole Court Voted and dealt with as Traitors his Estate Sequestred for Delinquency his Clergy and Church which he was by oath obliged to defend and maintain in its due rights ruined for keeping the Fifth Commandement and Rom. 13. his Churches turned to Stables his Loyal Subjects Murthered Plundered Banished and he not able to help them his Laws and Edicts over-ruled by I know not what Orders and Ordinances his Seals and great Offices of State counterfeited all the costly ornaments of Religion ruined and defaced Learning that was his honor and his care trampled on by its and his old enemies the Ignorant These are things that the world could never believe till it felt them and will not believe when the impressions of them are worn off This wise and good King the same in all fortunes was he that must pardon his enemies but must except his friends out of pardon he that when all his Subjects had sworn Oaths of Allegiance to him must swear an oath devised by his Subjects called Covenant against himself He without whom no oath could he imposed upon the Subjects hath an oath imposed upon him by his Subjects and in that oath must swear that government in the Church Anti-christian which was the only Christian government for 1500 years And when Divines dispute that and other points probably the poor King and his people must swear them peremptorily He that saw an army raised for the King that is himself and Parliament against himself and the instruments of death levelled against his person in his name And heard the very people promise to make him a glorious King who murthered him He that a people complained to of grievances that would not indure the remedies that complained that he made and continued a war when they would not endure a peace and when they had voted his Concessions sufficient grounds to proceed on to the settlement of the kingdom and yet ruined it He that they declared against for raising a Guard at York Nottingham to secure himself c. when they raised at Army at London to Take Imprison and Murther him That must be author of all the bloud shed in the three Nations after all his Concessions Messages Declarations Treaties and Overtures a sea and mercy to 20000 Rebels to stanch it And when all the bloud that was spilt before his death was to rob him of his life and government as appears by the five times more bloud that was spilt after his death to make good that robbery and murther He that saw a war begun to remove his evil Council and ended in the taking off his Head and that was said to begin a war when his first was dated the very day his enemies army was mustered the Faction having ordered an army to take him before he thought of one to save himself This is that Prince that saw a people in the Name of God lay hands on his anointed Preachers of the Gospel of peace trumpet it for war Religion made an argument against obedience and the Holy Spirit urged against peace and love and the Text He that resisteth the King the Ordinance of God resisteth to his own damnation understood thus He that resisteth not shall be Sequestred and that Curse ye Meroz that came not to help the Lord against the Mighty thus Curse ye all English-men that help not the Rebellious against Gods Anointed And Fear God Honor the King into fear the Lord and kill the King and that where the word of a King there is power understood thus The King shall not have a Negative Voice A King that saw himself Engaged
Imprisoned and Impeached for the peoples sake in spight of the peoples teeth both those that were at first against him being undeceived and those that were always for him indeed the whole Nations of England and Scotland venturing their lives to rescue the King when he was imprisoned in their name accused for shedding their bloud when they were killed by their fellow Subjects because they desired to save his A King that saw a Parliament accuse him of Breach of Priviledges when he came but to demand five men suspected for holding Intelligence with a Forraign Nation and yet the same Parliament suffer tamely its own Army to pull out by the ears more than half of the best Members that remained there for promoting the peace of their and Vote it the Priviledge of the Subjects to make tumults from all parts of the kingdom about Westminster to fright King and Bishops from the Parliament and a Breach of their Priviledge for the same people in throngs there from as many parts of the kingdom to Petition the return of the one and the other He from whom they extorted so much liberty in pretence for the Subject had neither liberty for himself being confined to hard Prisons and harder Limitations and Propositions nor for the Subjects who had they injoyed their own freedom had never endured his captivity He that could not deny the kingdom a Free-Parliament consisting of above an hundred Lords Spiritual and Temporal and five hundred Commons lived to see that very Parliament Exclude all its Lords and Reduce the five hundred Commons to thirty who in the name of the people when there was not one in five thousand of them but would have ventured his life against it threaten his life whom they had sworn when they entred that House to defend prepare to judge him who called them there to consult with them talk as if they would put a period to his days who gave them their being little dreaming that while they aimed at his Royal Neck they cut off their own for what is a Parliament called to advise with the King if there be no King to advise with He must be tried in whose name all others are tried by that Law himself hath made by those people that had sworn protested and covenanted with hands lift up to the most high God in publick and pawned their souls and all that they had privately to restore him whose only fault was that he went from that Parliament that murdered him when he returned to them Riddles Cromwell Whaley Ireton c. and the Army weep and grieve but the Hiena weeps when it intends to devour at the hard conditions the Houses put upon him and the Houses are displeased with the Armies hard usage of him and yet both ruin him the one bringing him to the Block and holding him there by the Hair of the Head and the other cutting off his Head The Scots durst not trust the Cavaliers with him nor the Houses the Scots nor the Army a King at lowest advanceth that party where he is though a prisoner the Houses nor the Juncto all the Army nor N. the Juncto being never safe till he put his finger into the Royal Neck to see after execution whether the head were really severed from the body All the quarrel was that the Cavaliers kept the King from the Parliament and the meaning of it it seems was That they kept him from the Block A Prince they destroyed that they durst not despise all the Grandees in the Army not daring to own the least murtherous thoughts towards him publickly when they set Agitators i. e. two active Souldiers out of every Regiment in the Army now modelled into such desparate Sects and Villanies to consult about the horrid Fact in private and to draw a bloudy Paper as the Agreement of the people which was but a conspiracy of Traitors Cromwell assuring the King as he had a soul that he should be restored And his Son Ireton at the same time Drawing up a Remonstrance that he should dye The Army treat him like a Prince and that they might deceive his devout soul the more securely allow him the service of his Chaplains and the Liberty of his Conscience the greatest injoyments left him in this world with a design the more successfully to use him like a Traitor Ah brave Prince that none durst have abused had they owned what they design whom the Houses had saved had they not been Cajoled by the Army and the Army had it not been Cajoled by the Houses The King granted too much saith Sir H. V. to him at the Isle of Wight and too little saith the same man to the Houses and the King must dye when whatsoever they asked they meant his life If the Tears Prayers Petitions Treasures or Bloud of the Nation if the intercession of forraign Princes if the importunity of all the good Relations that these Regicides had whereof one pressed hard on O. C. himself though without effect whence ever after he disowned his Relation and Name if the endeavours of Loyal souls to do that justice upon the Traitors that durst judge their King as one Burghill on Bradshaw as soon as he heard he was to be President who if not betrayed by his friend Cook had died the Villains robes in his own bloud before he could have done it in the Kings If the great Overtures of the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and the Marquiss of Hertford to ransom their Soveraign all ways imaginable even with their own bloud Offering that as they his Servants did all that was done under him so he as King being capable of doing no wrong they might suffer all for him If the horror that seized all Princes of the world Turkish and Heathenish as well as Christian upon the news of it with the hatred and scandal thence arising to the English Nation if the dissent of the Lords and all other persons of any quality that went along with them till now and had never suffered this to have happened the King but that by the just hand of God as bad had happened them that very Army that they imployed to turn his Majesty out of his just Power pulled them out of their usurped one If the Declarations of their own Judges if the strong Prayers and Sermons that could raise Armies against his Majesty indeavouring to advance the like for him if the Rational Pathetick and Powerful Remonstrances from all parts of the kingdom if the pressing of their own Oaths the scandal of Religion the ruin of the Nation if any Laws or Presidents had been of force to have prevented this Crimen post homines natos inauditum it had been only a Theory in some male-content Jesuits melancholy Chamber of Meditation and not the subject of this Book But stay Reader and take that Treason in the retail of it that thou art amazed at in the gross See a King having treated at the
last mentioned at Newbury aforesaid and upon or about the eight of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and five at the Town of Leicester and also upon the fourteenth day of the same month in the same year at Naseby-field in the County of Northampton At which several times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at several other times within the years afore-mentioned And in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and six He the said Charles Stuart hath caused and procured many thousands of the Free-people of the Nation to be slain and by Divisions Parties and Insurrections within this Land by Invasions from Forraign Parts endeavoured and procured by him and by many other evil ways and means He the said Charles Stuart hath not only maintained and carried on the said war both by Land and Sea during the years before-mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said war against the Parliament and good People of this Nation in this present year one thousand six hundred forty and eight in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Counties and Places in England and Wales and also by Sea And particularly He the said Charles Stuart hath for that purpose given Commission to his Son the Prince and others whereby besides multitudes of other persons many such as were by the Parliament intrusted and imployed for the safety of the Nation being by Him or his Agents corrupted to the betraying of their Trust and revolting from the Parliament have had Entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing War and Hostility against the said Parliament and People as aforesaid By which cruel and unnatural wars by Him the said Charles Stuart Levyed Continued and Renewed as aforesaid much innocent bloud of the Free-people of this Nation hath been spilt Families undone the Publick Treasury wasted and exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoiled some of them even to desolation And for further prosecution of evil Designs He the said Charles Stuart doth still continue his Commissions to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forrainers and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further invasions upon this Land are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charles Stuart All which wicked Designs Wars and evil Practises of Him the said Charles Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the Personal Interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to Himself and his Family against the Publick Interest common Right Liberty Justice and Peace of the People of this Nation by and for whom he was intrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that He the said Charles Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Unnatural Cruel and Bloudy Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murders Rapines Burnings Spoils Desolations Dammage and Mischiefs to this Nation acted and committed in the said wars or occasioned thereby And the said Iohn Cook by protestation saving on the behalf of the People of England the liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge against the said Charles Stuart and also of replying to the Answers which the said Charles Stuart shall make to the Premises or any of them or any other Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on behalf of the said People of England Impeach the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick and Implacable Enemy to the Commonwealth of England And pray that the said Charles Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the Premises That such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgment may be hereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice A Charge ridiculous in the matter of it laying that war to the Kings charge for which they should have been hanged themselves accusing him for breaking the Priviledges of Parliaments when they had the other day dissolved the very Being of them and pretending the common good when two or three years discovered the whole Plot was nothing but private Interest these very Miscreants being turned to grass by one of their own self-deniers for a self-seeking Combination Contemptible in the framers of it the one a Runnagate Dutch-man Dorislaus who being preferred by the King History Professor at Cambridge read Treason in his first Lecture against his Patron and now commits it The other a poor and desperate Sollicitor Cook said to have two Wives to live with and twenty ways though none either honest or successful to live by And worse in the witnesses of it the scum of Mankind two or three raked out of Prisons and Goals not a man of reputation or worth two pence in the three kingdoms notwithstanding a Proclamation to invite all persons to witness against the King appearing to promote so horrid a fact and these hired men of Belial with the hope of a morsel of bread The King was always of an even temper but never more than in this case retaining a Majesty becoming himself in his misery and looking as if he were as he ought to be indeed the Judge and they as they were indeed the Malefactors Smiling as he might well as far as the publick calamities gave him leave at the horrid names Murderer Traytor c. of the worst Subjects given to the best King Upon the Picture of his Majesties sitting in his Chair before the High Court of Iustice. NOt so Majestick in thy Chair of State On that but Men here God and Angels wait Expecting whether hopes of Life or fear Of Death can move Thee from Thy Kingly Sphere Constant and Fixt whom no black storm can soyl Thy Colours Head and Soul are all in Oyl And the Lady Fairfax saying aloud in the face of the Pretended Court That where as they took upon them to Iudge his Majesty in the Name of the People of England that it was a Lye the tenth she might have said the thousandth part of the People being so far from allowing that horrid villany that they would dye willingly to prevent it The Charge being Read his most Excellent Majesty looking upon it as below him to interrupt the impudent Libel and vie Tongue with the Billings-gate Court with a Calmness Prudence and Resolution peculiar to his Royal breast asked the Assassinates By what authority they brought a King their most Rightful soveraign against the Publick Faith so lately given him at a Treaty between him and his two Houses By what lawful Authority said he again more Emphatially For I am not ignorant continued he that there are on foot every where very many unlawful Powers as of Thieves and Robbers on the High-way Adding That whatsoever
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
offer to both adding that we should think long before we resolve of great matters and an hasty Judgment may bring on that trouble and perpetual inconvenience to the kingdom that the Child unborn may repent of adjuring them as they would answer it at the dreadful day of Judgment to hear what he had to say The Club of Assassinates proceed to this horrid Sentence Whereas the Commons of England in Parliament have appointed them an High Court of Iustice for the Trying of Chales Stuart King of England before whom he had been three times Convented and at first time a Charge of High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors was read in the behalf of the kingdom of England c. Here the Clerk Read the Charge Which Charge being Read unto him as aforesaid He the said Charles Stuart was required to give his Answer but he refused so to do and so exprest the several passages at his Tryal in refusing to Answer For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick Enemy shall be put to death by the Severing his Head from his Body To which horrid Sentence the whole Pack stood up by agreement among themselves before made and though they agreed in nothing else either before or since unanimously Voted the bloudy words words of so loud a guilt that they drowned all the earnest Proposals of Reason and Religion offered by a Prince that was a great master of both reason being a more dreadful Sentence against than that they pronounced against him and then used the sameforce to hurry the King away that they had imployed to bring him thither answering his Allegations with that violence wherewith they composed and made good their own The King always great was now greater in the eye of the world for the great Reason he offered the honorable Conduct 〈◊〉 managed and the freedom of Speech he used much beyond other times the captivity of his Person contributing much to the liberty of his Discourse All the great throng that pittied but could not help afflicted Majesty with whom they saw themselves drawn to the slaughter groaned upon the Sentence but with the peril of their lives It being as fatal then for any persons to own respect or kindness to Majesty as it was for the King to carry it and as dangerous for others to be good Subjects as for him to be a good King They that were to force him out of his Life forced others out of their Loyalty endeavouring fondly to depose him from his Subjects hearts as they had done from his Throne Several persons having since deposed that to set off their ridiculous Scene they had those who were appointed to force poor creatures to cry Iustice Iustice who as the excellent Prince observed would have done as much for money for their own Commanders a word one of them in Command then said since he cried because if it had been heard the Traytors had been at the Bar and the Judges of the Land at the Bench and deterr others from saying God save the King Notwithstanding which force this last voice was the most hearty and the other most forced Observable it is that to make his Majesty parallel with his great Pattern whom he represented equally in his Sufferings and in his Goodness and Power a wretch that was within a little while executed by his own Partner Spit in his Face whereat his Majesty not moved only wiped the Spittle and said My Saviour suffered much more for me The Excellent Prince while the Traytors before him were as much slaves to their base Malice Envy Fear Ambition and Cruelty as the poor People were to them exercising as ample a Dominion over himself now as he had heretofore over three kingdoms looking not as if he were before the Miscreants but they before him and he to give as he did and not receive a Doom I cannot forget how an Ancient Father saith That some creatures would not suffer God to be a God unless he please them These are the Creatures that would not endure Gods Vice-gerent should be so unless he served them Thus having formerly forgotten the Oaths of God that were upon them laid aside the Allegiance which they owed gone against the sense of the Law of the Clergy the Nobility the Gentry and most of the sober people of the Nation Besides above half of both Houses before they could fight the King But infinite were the obstructions they were to break through so carefully hath God guarded Kings before they could murther Him they must suppress the unanimous desires of the whole Nation expressed in the looks wishes and prayers of all men and the declared sense of several Countries in their respective Petitions which many thousands delivered in London with the hazard of their Lives and maintained in North-wales under Sir Iohn Owen in South-wales under Laughorne and Poyer in the Navy under the Prince in Kent Essex and Surrey under several of the Nobility and Gentry of those and the adjacent Counties they must steal the King that won ground from his Adversaries by his carriage as much as they had done upon him by their Arts and power reducing to an entire obedience to his Government all that conversed with his Excellent Person from those men that were now as ready to engage for him as ever they did against him as they did at Holdenby when it was said so considerable is a suffering King his very miseries being more powerful than his Armies by the Faction that now they had the King in their power they had the Parliament in their Pockets they must renounce those promises they made upon their Souls and as they and their Posterity should prosper that pittying the barbarous usage of His Majesty they were resolved never to part with their Arms till they had made his way to the Throne and rendred the condition of his party the more tolerable Promises that to enâ—nare the charitable Prince that suspected not that falshood in others that he found not in himself they gilded with the like specious but entrapping kindnesses as the permission of what they knew was as dear as his Life to the pious King the Ministry of his Chaplains Commerce by Letters with his Queen the Visits of his Party the service of his Courtiers some whom they also admitted to their Council of War to mould Propositions which they will urge in his behalf and alter them to the Kings gust and at his advice the intermingling with their Remonstrances such good words as these That the Queen and the Royal Family must be restored to all their Rights or else no hope of a solid Peace They must sacrifice Eleven of the most Worthy Members in the House of Commons and seven Noble Lords to the lusts and cavils of mercenary Soldiers that would not hearken formerly to the delivering of half so many to answer the Articles of their
being for the Laws and Liberties of this Land and for maintaining the true Protestant Religion He bid me read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy and Bishop Lauds Book against Fisher which would ground me against Popery He told me he had forgiven all his Enemies and hoped God would forgive them also and commanded us and all the rest of my Brothers and Sisters to forgive them He bid me tell my Mother that his thoughts never strayed from her and that his love should be the same to the last Withal he commanded me and my Brother to be obedient to her and bid me send his Blessing to the rest of my Brothers and Sisters with commendation to all his Friends So after he had given me his Blessing I took my leave Further he commanded us all to forgive those People but never to trust them for they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power and he feared also to their own Souls and desired me not to grieve for him for he should dye a Martyr and that he doubted not but the Lord would settle his Throne upon his Son and that we should be all happier then we could have expected to have been if he had lived with many other things which at present I cannot remember Elizabeth Till at last all indeavours for preventing so great a guilt failing even Col. Downes one of their own Members attempting a Mutiny in the Army and the Lord Fairfax being resolved with his own Regiment to hinder the Murther until the Conspirators in vain urging That the Lord had rejected him took him aside to seek the Lord while their instruments hasten the Execution by private order and then they call that a return of their prayers On the Fatal day Ian. 30. having desired five Preachers sent to pray with him by the Juncto to pray for him if they pleased telling them that he was resolved that they who had so often and so causelessly prayed against him should not in his agony pray with him and preparing himself with his own Devotion in the offices of the Church he was strengthened in his own sufferings by the sufferings of his Savior whose Body and Bloud he received that morning and the History of whose Passion fell to be the Chapter of the day of His who had he been before Christ had a condition and an innocence that had made him a Type of him So that he came chearfully from St. James's to White-hall often calling on his slow Guards that kept not pace with him who always walked fast to move faster with these words I now go before you to strive for an heavenly Crown with less sollicitude than I formerly have led my Souldiers for an earthly Diadem with extraordinary alacrity ascending the staires leading to the Long-gallery and so to the Cabinet-chamber whence his supplications being ended he went through the Banqueting-house to the adjoyning Scaffold every way dressed to terror with the same spirit he used to ascend his Throne shewing no fear of death but a sollicitude for those that were to live after He thought it to as little purpose to Harange the Army as to complement a Mastive or a Tyger and others were kept at such distance that they might see but not hear and therefore expressed himself thus to those that stood near him His Majesties Speech upon the Scaffold I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here Indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it my duty to God and to my Country to clear my self as an honest man as a good King and a good Christian. I shall first begin with my Innocency In troth I think it is not very needful for me to insist long upon this for all the world knows that I did not begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God witness to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend to incroach on their Priviledges they began upon me It is the Militia they began upon they confest the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any man will look to the dates of Commissions of theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy Troubles not I So that as the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I do believe that illinstruments between them and me has been the chief cause of this blood-shed So that by way or speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should bâ— so ill a Christian as not to say Gods Judgements are just upon me many times he does pay Justice by unjust Sentence that is ordinary I will only say this that an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me this I have said to shew you that I am an innocent Man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in this particular I pray God with St. Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not only so but that they may take the right way to the Peace of the Kingdom for my charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but to endeavour to the last gasp the Peace of the Kingdom So Sir I do wish with all my soul and I do hope there are some here will carry it farther that they may endeavour the Peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and will put you in the way First you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just cause either for matter of wrong or just title and then if you go beyond it the first quarrel that you have to it is it that makes it unjust in the end that was just at first
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other Neighbor Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse than a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body And at every cleft profanneness and irreligion is entring in While as Prosper speaks men that introduce profaneness are cloaked over with the Name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the substance and dwell too much in Opinion And that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruine is now fallen into danger by her own 4. The last particular for I am not willing to be too long is my self I was born and baptized in the bosom of the Church of England Established by Law in that Profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to die What clamors and slanders I have endured for laboring to keep an Uniformity in the external service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High-Treason in Parliament a Crime which my soul ever abhorred This Treason was Charged to consist of two parts an endeavor to subvert the Laws of the Land And a like endeavor to overthrow the true Protestant Religion Established by Law Besides my answers to the several Charges I protested mine innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners protestations at the Bar must not be taken I must therefore come now to it upon my death being instantly to give God an account for the truth of it I do therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death that I never endeavored the subversion either of Law or Religion and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine for my innocency in this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an Enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I dislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many ways and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima And that being the highest Court over which no other hath Jurisdiction when 't is misinformed or misgoverned the subject is left without all Remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me And humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man And so I heartily desire you to joyn in prayer with me His Graces Prayer upon the Scaffold O Eternal God and Merciful Father look down upon me in Mercy in the Riches and Fulness of thy Mercies Look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my Sins to the Cross of Christ but not till thou hast bathed me in the Blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the Wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I most humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instance full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to die for thine honor the Kings happiness and this Chuches preservation And my zeal to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I come now to suffer I say in this particular of Treason But otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present Judgment upon me And when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own eyes Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more than miserable Kingdom O Lord I beseech thee give grace of Repentance to all blood-thirsty people But if they will not repent O Lord confound their designs defeat and frustrate all their designs and endeavors which are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his Posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the Honor and Conservation of Parliaments in their just Power the Preservation of this poor Church in her Truth Peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Laws and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with religious dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their days So Amen Lord Jesu Amen And receive my soul into thy bosom Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Lord Arch-bishop's Prayer as he Kneeled by the Block LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Vmbra Mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon Nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke through the jaws of death So Lord receive my soul and have mercy upon me and bless this kingdom with plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Many there was to see so able an Head struck off at one blow as it was upon these words of his spoken aloud Lord receive my Soul And more crouded to see so good a man buried at his own Church of Barking in London by the Common-prayer which was Voted down at the same time that he was Voted to dye in hope both of that resurrection which he hath had already with the Cause he dyed for being removed in Iuly 1663. from Barking in London to Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford with his friend and successor in that Colledge the Deanery of the Chappel Bishoprick of London and Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury raised by him where he was Interred with these Monuments The first by Dr. M. Lluelin then Student of Christ-church An Elegy on the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Attached the 18. of December 1640. Beheaded the 10. of January 1644. Most Reverend Martyr THou since thy thick Afflictions first begun Mak'st Dioclesian's days all Calm and Sun And when thy Tragick Annals are compil'd Old Persecution shall be Pitty stil'd The Stake and Faggot shall be Temperate Names And Mercy wear the Character of Flames Men Knew not then Thrift in the Martyrs Breath Nor weav'd their Lives into a four years Death Few ancient Tyrants do our Stories Taxe That slew first by delays then by the Axe But these Tiberius like alone
To be disabled for ever after from Preaching at Court 6. To be for ever disabled of having any Ecclesiastical Dignity in the Church of England 7. To be uncapable of any secular Office or Preferment 8. That his books are worthy to be burned and his Majesty to be moved that it may be so in London and both the Universities According to the third Branch of this Censure he was brought to the Bar Iune twenty three and injoyned this Submission on his knees I do here in all sorrow of heart and true repentance acknowledge those many errors and indiscretions which I have committed in preaching and publishing the two Sermons of mine which I called Religion and Allegiance and my greatâ— fault in falling upon this Theam again and handling the same rashly scandalously and unadvised in my own Parish-Church in St. Giles in the Fields the fourth of May last past I humbly acknowledge these three Sermons to have been full of dangerous Passages Inferences and scandalous Aspersions in most part of the same And I do humbly acknowledge the just proceedings of this honorable House against me and the just Sentence and Judgement passed upon me for my great offence And I do from the bottom of my heart crave pardon of God the King this Honorable House and the Common-weal in general and those worthy Persons adjudged to be reflected upon by me in particular for those great offences and errors And according to the first he was imprisoned in the Tower untill that Parliament was dissolved and then in recompence of his Sufferings and Services he was preferred 1. To the Rich Parsonage of Stâ—mon-Rivers in Essex then void by Bishop Mountague his Fellow-sufferers Preferment Iuly 16. with a Dispensation to hold it with the Vicarage of St. Giles 2. To the Deanery of Worcester May. 1633. And 3. To the Bishoprick of St. Davids Dec. 1635. with a pardon drawn Ian. 1628. according to His Majesties Pardon of Grace to his Subjects at his Coronation with some particulars for the pardoning of all errors committed either in speaking writing or printing whereby he might be hereafter questioned How afterwards he was apprehended 1640. suddenly confined severely fined heavily plundered violently and persecuted from place to place continually that for the two last years of his Life not a week passed over his head without either a Message or an Injury he desired God not to remember against his Adversaries and adjured all his Friends to forget Onely the faults alledged against him must not be forgot for besides the aforesaid Sermons first warranted by a Bishop for the Press as containing only the same points delivered with offence from the Pulpit which Serjeant Heal delivered with applause in a Parliament who said That he marvelled the House stood so much either at the granting of a Subsidy or time of payment when all we have is her Majesties and she may lawfully at her pleasure take it from us and that she had as much right to all our Lands and Goods as to any Revenue of the Crown and that he had Presidents to prove it and to be suffered for once and the old demurrer is Deus non punit in id idem he was charged I. with Popish Innovations by which you are to understand his care to reduce the Cathedrals he belonged to to order and decency As for instance it is reckoned as his fault that he gave the Archbishop of Canterbury Sept. 24. 1635. this account concerning his Services in the Church of Worcester 1. An Altar-stone of Marble erected and set upon four Coâ—umes 2. The Wall behinde the Altar covered with Azure Coloured stuffe with a White silk lace down each seam 3. The Altar it self adorned with a Pall an upper and lower front 4. A perfect Inventory taken of all Ornaments Vestments and Implements of the Church as well sacra as focalia divers Vestments and other Ornaments of the Church as Copes Carpets Fronts c. being turned into Players Caps Coats and imployed to that use by the direction of Mr. Nathaniel Thomkins burnt and the Silver extracted put into the treasury of the Church 5. The Kings Scholars being forty usually coming tumultuously into the Chore ordered to come in Bimatim and to do reverence towards the Altar II. He was accused for conversing with Papists whereof many in his Parish loved his Company which was no more than his prudent civility to gain them by his worth and addresses to him who were reported to have gained him to them when all that knew him understood well that like the Lapwing he fluttered furthest from his nest having at once the closest and therefore the smoothest way of conveying his Design and Project III. He was looked upon as sociable and jovial whereby you must understand a good nature ready to communicate its self in instruction to the ignorant in free discourses to the wise in civil mirth and a becoming chearfulness among his friends usually saying at his Table that there were three things requisite to one good Meal to pray heartily to eat heartily and in a sober way to laugh heartily In an orderly Hospitality among his rich Neighbours and Charity among his poor ones especially the modest whose craving he expected not but prevented some grounds will rather burn than chap though otherwise he was as severe in reducing disorderly Beggars as he was pittiful in relieving impotent and unfortunate Expectants usually saying That King Edward the sixth was as Charitable in granting Bridewell for the punishment of Sturdy Rogues as in bestowing St. Thomas Hospital for the relief of the poor and helpless Liking the Picture of Charity drawn with Honey in the one hand to feed Bees and a Whip in the other to drive away Drones In a frakness and freedom among his Tenants whose thriving he consulted as much as his own esteeming three particulars the honor of a Church 1. Punctual Discipline 2. An Exemplary Clergy And 3. Improving Tenants King William Rufus not so tender in other sacred points as he was conscientious in this had two Monks come to him to buy an Abbots place who outvied each other in the sums they offered while a third Monk stands by and saith nothing to whom the King said what wilt thou give for the place Not a Penny answered he for it is against my Conscience Then quoth the King thou of the three best deservest the Place and thou shalt have it Three Tenants at one time standing in competition about a considerable Lordship to be Let by the Doctor one offering a great Fine and a small Rent the second proposing a small Fine and a great Rent and the third no Fine and a good reasonable Rent with the improvement of the Vicarage and the Church Nay said the Doctor this is my Tenant that comes not to ensnare me with great overtures for my self but to treat with me upon fair proposals for the Church expecting nothing from him but his prayers to God for the
Church a respectful carriage towards Church-men his punctal dealing with the Cathedral his good usage to the subordinate Tenants and good House-keeping that as he had got his Lease easily he would keep house on the Church-patrimony exemplarily what he said of Simoniecal Parsons is true of over-charged Tenants They can scarce afford to feed their sheep fat who rent their Pasture too dear These were his faults which were other mens virtue the slander of good and evil varying with the humors of men and the temper of times which turned about him as the Spheres about the Center or as the alterations of his Body about his Soul himself all the while immoveable reckoning that answer of the King when he was moved to interpose in his behalf with the Parliament so much honor to him that he wished it Inscribed on his Tomb. He that will Preach other than he can prove let him suffer I give them no thanks to give me my due I cannot but take notice of what was strange when he spoke and found a great truth by them that lived to see it viz. That whosoever lived to see an happy end of that War which they saw so unhappily begun should observe that no man of what perswasion soever but would be heartily sorry for it and heartily repent of it for they should find so many interests coming in to disappoint them in the end they aimed at in the war that they would wish they had never commenced it One Burgoes Pupilla Oculi was a Book he much recommended to young men to propose to themselves a pattern and Bishop Felton was his pattern was his advice to young Preachers to aim at some particular thing in the reading of any Book was his rule to young Students to be always doing something was his counsel to his young Hearers to Analyse Authors was his direction to young University Men to Pen Sermons and Pray them was his lesson to his young Curates on whom he called often for an account of their Studies dismissing them with this Caution of the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reverence thy self Do nothing unworthy your Calling You cannot be too humble as Men neither can you be too grave and reserved as Ministers Tanti eritis aliis quanti vobis met ipsis But he had his virtues too much to be exactly charactered being of the Captains mind who when another had made a large Recital of his own Atchivements asked him and what have you done Answered Others can tell you that not enduring to give any account of himself any more than the Conqueror at the Olympick Games endured the Laurel due to him until another put it on his Head which we shall hear do in these words Hic Iacet Firtus repulsae nescia sordidae Intaminatis quae fulsit honoribus Nec sumit out ponit secures Arbitrio Popularis aurae Duris ut Ilex tonsus Bipennibus Per damna per Caedes ab ipsis Duxit opes animumque Injuriis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anno Christi 164 ... Episcopatus 9. Aetatis 63. THE Life and Death OF Dr. ROBERT SIBTHORP IT were pitty to sever them in their Character that were so like in their Carriage both making themselves known to the world by the Shibboleth of the Authority of the Church and the Prerogative of the King the first was a rational man and dived to the bottom of his subject the other a smooth man that got in the bottom of his Hearers hearts whose discourse went off plausibly in the ayr of his good delivery though they passed not so well in the steady and fixed way of the Press The Preaching of the Sermon called Apostolick Obedience got him much repute at Court and as much envy for this passage in it viz. That the Prince hath power to direct his Counsel and make Laws and Subjects if they cannot exhibite active obedience in case the thing commanded should be against the Law of God or of nature or were impossible yet nevertheless they ought to yield a passive obedience and in all other cases they are bound to active obedience the time the loan was pressed by the King and so much disgusted by the people in the Country It was liked so well by those that heard it that they would have it Printed and so ill by Arch-bishop Abbot when he read it that he would not License it But it seems that Sermon that was not approved of by the Arch-bishop was not so much as questioned by the Parliament which found so much the more fault in the man as they found the less fault in the Sermon which vexed them grievously since they could not but be angry at it and could not punish it it being smart against their late courses yet cautious within their standing Laws But being an active man and if he had any fault it was too much heat he doth not only assert the doctrine of the Kings Prerogative and the Subjects but he suppresseth the impugners of it complaining with Dr. Lamb even of the Bishop of Lincoln against the Loan to the Council-board and pursuing that complaint in Star-chamber But the best jest is that those very people that found fault with this Sermon made it a Branch of their Articles against Arch-bishop Laud that he blotted several passages about Sabbath-breaking Evil Counsellors Popery which they say the Doctor had cunningly interwoven into his discourse to sweeeen the harsh point of the Prerogative out of that Sermon when indeed that Sermon came out with so much care on all sides that the King commanded four Bishops to view and judge it and every passage in it All the preferment that he had was his Vicarage of Brackley and a poor Prebends of Peterburgh though so deserving of the Church in that Diocess that Dr. Iohn Towers Bishop of Peterburgh in a Letter to my Lord of Canterbury wished him as heartily in the Deanery as he did himself in the Pallace It may be some that were in the Historians Character sola socordia innocentes that had flegm enough to make them as they phrase it discreet and moderate judged him one of those unhappy men that had a certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heat or activity of spirit that is say they wonderful apt without a due corrective of wisdom and knowledge to break forth into intemperate carriage and disturb the peace and censured him as Tacitus doth some stirring Commonwealths-men Quod per abrupta inclarescerent sed in nullum Reipusum talking that zeal like Quick-silver must be allayed with wisdom and calling honest men in Livies phrase Spiritus magni magis quam utiles But let us hear in this case a most learned and a most ingenious person It s not for superiors to frown upon and brow-beat those who are hearty and exact in the management of their Ministry and with a grave and insignificant Nod to call a well-regulated and resolved zeal want of prudence and moderation such discouraging of men in
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
of all to his undertakings in the Low Countries where his entertainments were free and noble his carriage towards Officers and Souldiers obliging especially those of his own Country his Engagements in every Action and Council remarkable his Designs on the Enemy restless and his Assaults forward being with the first generally at a Breach or Pass thrice Unhorsed but never daunted before Newport His courage growing from his dangers seldom using a Bed abroad and having little use of it as sleeping but four hours a night usually at home hardening thereby his body and knitting his soul. The first Expedition wherein he appeared was in the Company of the Earls of Essex and Nottingham to Cales where his great spirit was so impatient of delay that when it was Voted they should set upon the Town and Ships he and the Earl of Essex threw up their Caps and were so forward that he was Knighted in the Market-place where he said An old Woman with a Stone knocked down the Esquire and the General commanded him to rise a Knight His next adventure was with Sir Thomas Vere to Brill where he bestowed his time in observing the exact way of modern and regular Fortification His third Expedition was with Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury then Ambassador to make observation upon the Renowned French King H. 4. and his Court the safest and most useful travelling is in an Ambassadors Company and the best places to travel in is Holland to see all the world and France to see any part of it Whence he stepped to see the siege of Amiens so honorably managed by Sir Iohn Baskervile and Sir Arthur Savage His fourth sally was after a Voyage with the Earl of Cumberland to take the Spanish Câ—rickes at Porto Rico with the Northern Ambassadors the Lord Zouch and Dr. Perkins to view the strength Interest and Alliance of the Danes Swedes Muscovians c. and upon his return a short journey after the Earl of Essex to see the obstructions to and the benefits of the Conquest of Ireland And the last Voyage under Queen Elizabeth was with his Country-men Sir Richard Leveson and Sir William Mounson to take the great Caricke worth 1000000 Crowns in the very â—ight of the Spanish â—leet and under their Castle to the great loss of the Spaniard but the infinite advantage of the English who were looked upon now as a people to be feared not to be invaded thus diverting the power of Spain that ever and anon threatned us to defend its self Upon King Iames his arrival he took a private journey to view the Interests Rarities Politicks Magnificences and the Designs of Italy to prepare himself with the more advantage to wait on the Earl of Nottingham in the splendid Ambassie to the slow and reserved Court of Spain whence after a view of the famous siege of Ostâ—ndâ— he returned to be one of the Knights of the Bath at the Installation of Charles Duke of York afterwards King of England And so during the peaceable Reign of King Iames the accomplished Lord setled in Lincoln-shire attended as was occasion 1. The Parliament with very useful suggestions in the three points he spake most to viz. Plantations Trade the Draining of the Fensâ— with other Improvements of our Country and Commodities 2. The Court upon Solemn times with a grave and exemplary aspect and presence 3. The Courts of Justice reckoning the meanest service of Justice not too low for his Lordship which was high enough for a King in his Country with tried Arts of Government severe proceedings against Idleness and dissoluteness several ways to employ and enrich his Neighbors and wholsom orders for the execution of Laws And 4. appearing at home sometime at half-light sometimes like himself as Affairs required improving his Estate as formerly by saving expences and gaining experience in travel So now by Rich Matches equally advancing his Revenue and Honor. 2. By thrifty management 3. Noble Traffick he having learned at Florence and Venice that Merchandise is consistent with Nobility and that the Stamel dy is no stain to the Scarlet Robe and a due improvement of his Estate with due incouragement to his Tenants whose thriving was his security as well as honor and tender regard of his Neighbors disdaining as much to offer an injury to those beneath him as he did to receive one from those above him Such his tenderness of the poor that thronged about his doors as if his house had been then what it was formerly an Hospital the Neighbor Gentry complaining of him merrily as Queen Elizabeth did of F. Russel the second Earl of Bedford That he made all the beggars Such the exactness of his pay and word to all he dealt with On mine Honor was the best assurance from him in the world Such the good Government and civility of his Family a Colledge rather than a Palace where the Neighborhood were bred rather than hired and taught to command themselves by serving him So great his care against Inclosures Whereas no grass groweth where the Grand Seigniors horse sets his foot so nothing but grass grows where some rather great than good men set their evil but powerful eyes His House-keeping so noble having his fish especially Pikes of which he would say it being the Water-Tyrant that destroyed more fish than it was worth that it was the costliest dish at his Table a dish of more State than Profit his Fowl his Beef Mutton Venison and Corn of his own So happy his way of ending Controversies among his Neighbors and consequently so many ways did he serve support and sweeten the Government that he was created Earl of Lindsey 1626. and after the ill success of the Lord Wimbledon and the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham as a man reserved for hazzards and extremities he when all men stood amazed expecting upon what great Person the Dukes Command at Sea should be conferred was pitched upon as Commander in Chief of the Fleet making up in Gallantry Courage and Experience what he wanted in Presence his contracted worth was the more vigorous little Load-stones do in proportion draw a greater quantity of Steel than those that be far greater because their Poles are nearer together and their virtue more united towards which place Sept. 8. 1628. from Portsmouth arriving at the Bar of the Haven with reasonable speed of Wind and Weather which though fortified by Cardinal Richlieu's monstrous Boomes Chains and Barracado's exceeding all Narration and History he bravely attempted passing the Out-works and Bulwarks to the very mouth of the Haven untill a cross-winde returned them foul one upon another from which great dangers and greater service he brought off the Fleet with a retreat as honorable as Conquest that the effect of Conduct and Prudence and this of Fortune 1630. He was admitted of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council and in right of his Ancient Family Lord
in Chief of the West where in half an year he got 40. Garrisons well maintained 12000. men well disciplined 1000 l. a month Contribution regularly setled above 400 old Officers Souldiers and Engineers out of the Palatinate the Low Countries and Ireland usefully employed A Press to Print Orders Declarations Messages and other Books to instruct and undeceive the people Prudently managed the Pen upon all occasions being wonderfully quick in clearing this great truth That his Majesty and his Fellowers had no other intention in this war that they were necessitated to than the defence of the Protestant Religion the Laws the Liberty and property of the Subject together with the Priviledge of Parliament And by these ways prospered so well but especially 1. By the choice of his Deputies and Officers as curiously observing other mens worth as he carelesly undervalued his own being choice in his instruments because he was so in his designs well knowing that great actions must be left to the management of great souls 2. By his Discipline of the Army without which Commanders lead thronged Multitudes and not Armies and listed Routs rather than Regiments keeping his Souldiers men that they might not be conquered by their debaucheries first and then by their enemies by moral instructions enduring no Achan to trouble his Camp as well as making them Souldiers that they might not be to learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militari dicere non putaram by military direction 3. By his Pay to his followers pinching himself to gratifie them knowing well what gelt could do and what it was to keep back from men the price of their bloud making them hazard their lives by Fight to earn their pay and by Famine before they got it His three words were Pay well Command well and Hang well 4. By his care to keep open the Trade of the Countries under his Command by Sea and Land 5. By his solemn familiarity neither the Mother of Contempt nor the Daughter of Art and design his language with Caesar to his Country-men was not Milites but Comilitones and with the Husbandman it was not Go ye but Gawee seldom putting them upon any service the most difficult part whereof he undertook not himself in so much that the Country stood as well out of love to his Person as conscience towards his Cause 6. By sharing with them in their wants observing their deserts and rewarding them he never made scales of his Souldiers when they were dead in taking Cities nor Bridges of them when living in bestowing preferments knowing that deserving persons are more deeply wounded by their Commanders neglect than by their Enemies the one may reach to kill the body the other deadneth the spirit 7. By preserving his Souldiers being loath to loose them in a day which he could not breed in a year and understanding the perience and resolution of a veterane Army he had the happy way of securing and entrenching himself for which â—ustavus Adolphus is so famous so as in spight of his enemies to fight for no mans pleasure but his own not cozened by any appearances nor forced by any violence to fight till he thought fitting himself counting it good manners in war to take all advantages and give none especially when the small beginnings of his affairs confined his care more how to save himself handsomelyâ— than set on the enemy giving his enemies occasion to complain that he would not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a man because he would not receivâ— into his â—oâ—y his whole dart A prudent reservation is as useful as a â—esolute onset it being a greater skill to ward off blows than to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresight to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in incountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as the Lord Bacon observes who drew his life with a Pencil as majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent 8. By understanding his Enemies way and the Countreys scituation as to take many advantages by his incredible diligence all his army doing service once every sixth day and prevent all disadvantages by his equally incredible watchfulness 9. By his Piety keeping strict communion with God all the while he was engaged in a war with men He was reckoned a Puritan before the wars for his strict life and a Papist in the wars for exemplary devotion entertaining sober and serious Non-conformists in his House while he fought against the Rebellioâ—s and Factious in the Field And we find him subscribing a Petition to his Majesty 1630. with other Gentlemen of Sommerset shire to prevent unlawful and scandalous Revellings on the Lords day As we observe him publishing Orders for the strict observation of the Lords day the incouragement of good Ministers and People throughout his quarters being very severe in these two Cases 1. Rapines committed among the people And 2. Prophaneness against God saying That the scandal of his Souldiers should neither draw the wrath of God upon his undertaking nor enrage the Country against his Cause By these courses I say he prospered so being so well placed to use Paterculus his words of Sejanus in eo cum judicio Principis certahant studia populi that the enemies Historian May writes this undoubted because an adversaries testimony of him Of all commanders there that sided with the King against the Parliament Sir Ralph Hopton by his unwearied industry and great reputation among the people had raised himself to the most considerable heighth until the Earl of Stamford coming to the West raised Sir Ralph from the Siege of Plymouth with some disadvantage which yet the old Souldier made up again by a Parthian stratagem of a feigned flight entrapping most of the Earls men and to overthrowing the Parliament Forces in so much that the Earl of Stamford desired a truce for twenty days which Sir Ralph condescended to with a design during the truce to bring off Sir Iohn Chadley as he did so happily that the Earl was forced to betake himself to Exeter the whole West consisting of so many rich and flourishing Shires being wholly at his Majesties devotion And when Sir William Waller with the posse of twenty one Counties came upon him he managed Skirmishes and Retreats with so much dexterity that his very Flights conquered for drawing Sir William to the Devizes to Besiege it and making as if he would Treat about the yielding of that place he contrived that he should be surprized with an unexpected Party of Horse on the one side while he drew out upon him on the other with such success that he defeated scattered and ruined him beyond relief the Earl of
Essex being told when he would have advanced with his sickly Army to recover him that he was past it he himself running for security first to Bristol and thence riding with a few Gentlemen for recruit to London leaving the few Garrisons that party had in those parts to Sir Ralphs mercy who took five of them by Assaults and seven upon Surrendry with three thousand Prisoners five thousand Armes six Ships with sixty four Peices of Ordnance in a fortnights time He was excellent at contriving at the Scaling of Walls as his Souldiers were in executing and yet more excellent in taking hearts being so civil even to the most obstinate that they chose rather to be conquered by him than protected by others ever detesting their bloudiness that came valiant to strong Holds and departing cruel thence knowing no difference either of Age or Sex in their anger though they did in their Lust only it is not be forgotten here how this expert Commander loosing the advantage of Lands-down for want of Ammunition taught his Souldiers to beat and boil Bed-cords to make Match of them From the Devizes Sir Ralph marched into Hampshire and Sussex facing Petworth entring Midhurst and at last sitting down before Arundel Castle in the extreamest part of Suffex which he carryed beating Col. Norton into Chichester and wheeling off in spight of the Enemy that provoked him to fight with disadvantage among lined Hedges and Thickets where he saw many brave men lost to no purpose at Cheriton-down in appearance to Winchester but really to Basing and so to Oxford whence Anno 1645. we finde him after the considerable Recruits he had left the King advancing Westwards and besieging Taunton where when we have observed that his Magazine being blown up he was grievously hurt in the face carrying an honorable scar to his grave our Pen shall leave him giving way to his own Secretary who hath communicated to the world this following account of him 1645. His Majesty the present comfort of the Kingdom being worsted and the Prince the future hope of it appeared taking progress into the West to understand the Countrey before he should govern it and to let the Country understand him the pawn of their future felicity whom it should obey the Lord Hoptons presence raised as many brave men in Cornwall to wait on the Son their Duke as his wise civil and obliging conduct had done on the Father their King under whom designing to relieve Exeter in a body of 10000 Horse and Foot when they were met by my Lord Fairfax at Torrington with 20000. where my Lord despairing of breaking through them drew out four or five Closes off the Enemy lining the hedges and flanking his Foot with Horse who disputed every hedge first with the Dragoons and then with the Reserves and at last with the whole body of the other Army pouring upon them Regiment upon Regiment and when they had lost the hedges maintained the Barricadoes at the end of the Town with push of Pike and the Butt end of their Muskets for three hours and when over-powred there my Lord brought up the Rear and made good the retreat though his Horse was shot under him so that the Foot had time to pass over the adjoyning River and the Horse to guard them my Lord making use of every Avenue in the Town or near to stop the Enemies Career whom if his advice had been followed he had surrounded and overcome with their own Victory And withdrawing to Cornwall he Rendezvouzed again and made 5000. able Horse a body under the Command of so wise as well as Valiant a Commander as the Lord Hopton appeared to be in the late Service might if there had been any hope of the Kings Affairs and since there was not commanded their own terms when the Prince withdrew from them to Scilly at Truero among others this Article offered my Lord himself is remarkable considering it proceeds from an Enemy Lastly for your self besides what is implyed to you in common with others you may be assured of such mediation to the Parliament on your behalf both from my self and others as for one whom for personal worth and many virtues but especially for your care of and moderation towards the Country we honor and esteem above any other of your party whose error supposing you more swayed with Principles of Honor and Conscience we most pity and whose happiness so far as is consistent with the publick welfare we should delight in more than in your least suffering My Lord after much dispute in hope either of assistance from abroad or of an accommodation between the King and Parliament as it was called at home upon the advance of near upon 40000. men towards him disbanded being allowed forty Horse and Arms and twelve men for himself for a while and not long after pardoned for Life but condemned in his Estate A favor like that I read of the Duke De Alva vouchsafed the City of Harlem when he promised them their lives and yet sterved many of them to death saying That though he had promised to give them their lives he had not promised to give them meat Gentle was this Excellent Persons Extraction in the West of England and man-like his Education in the Low-Countries that School of War where Sir William Waller and he learned as is said of Iugurtha and Manus in one Camp what they practised in two The one being no less eminent for his Service under his late Majesty of blessed memory than the other was for his against him The one was the best Souldier the King had the other the most experienced that the pretended Parliament boasted of None fitter to ballance Sir Ralph Hoptons success none likelier to understand his stratagems none abler to undermine his designs than his Fellow-souldier Sir William who understood his method as well as he was acquainted with his Person Both were equally active both equally vigilant But what better Character of this Hero than that which his Master gave him in his Patten for Baron which is his History as well as his honor CArolus Dei gratia Angliae c. Cum nominis nostri posteritatis interest ad clara exempla propaganda utilissime Compertum palam fieri omnibus proemia apud nos virtuti sita nec perire fidelium subditorum officia sed memori benevolo pectore fixissime insidere His praesertim temporibus cum plurimum quibus antehac nimium indulsimus temerata aut superta fides pretium aliorum Constantiae addidit Cumque nobis certo constat Radulphum Hopton Militem de Balneo splendidis antiquis Natalibus tum in caetura sua vita integritatis moris eximium tum in hac novissima tempestate fatalique Regni Rebelli motu rari animi fideique exemplum edidisse Regiae dignitatis in eaque publicae Contra utriusque adversarios assertorem vindicem acerrimum Quippe qui non solum nascenti huic furori
nec dum omnibus manifesto optimis Consiliis fortis in Curia Senator restiterit sed insinuante se latius veneno crescente ferocia domum ad sâ—os reversus fortior miles in agro suo Somersetensi vicinis partibus omni ope manu iniquissimam causam oppugnaverit in Arce praesertim Sherborniana sub Auspiciis Marchionis Hertfordiae egregiam operam navaverit Mox ulterius progressus pollenti in Devonia factionis Tyrannide munitissima civitate in faedus illecta jam undique bonis subditis perniciem minante ipse pene in Regione Hospes Contracto e Cornubio milite primoribus statim impetum eorum repressit jacentesque afflictas nostras partes mirifica virtute recreavit Et licet summis necessitatibus Conflictanti exigua pars Negotii hostes erant tantum abfuit ut vel illis vel istis succumberet ut contra Copias auctiores bellico apparatu instructissimas saepius signis Collatis in acie dimicans semper superior excesserit Testis Launcestionia Salt ash Bradock aliaque obscura olim nomina loca nunc victoriis illius perduellium cladibus nobilitata vix etiam ab his respiraverat cum novus belli furor lassas jam fere continuis praeliis laxatas vires Numerossimo excercitu adortus uberiorem triumphandi dedit materiam Cum ille in campis Stratoniae in difficillimis licet angustiis redactus inops militaris instrumenti Consumpto jam pulvere tormentario armatos inermis vallo munito inter sola causa virtute animatus ita retudit concidit castris exuit ut totam belli molem cum ipsis Authoribus profligavit Quicquid fugae illius residuum erat inter urbis unius maenia eaque arcta obsidione astricta Concluso Qua quidem pugna memorabili praeter quod miserum popellum jugo intollerabili levaverat sedes suas expulsis Ecclesias Pastoribus pacem omnibus firma mentum pacis obsequium restituerit Et jam sequenti armorum nostrorum felicitate quae partes Regni occidentales maturius ad officium verum Dominum redierunt viam apperuisse momentum ingens extitisse libentissime profitemur In hac opera laudabili cum praefatus Radulphus perstitert adhuc invicto animo industria indefessa nullo arduo quantum vis labore periculo excusatus cumque mille argumentis testatum fecerit Honorem salutemque nostram sibi omni fortuna capite potiorem nos virum fortissimum optimeque affectum animum benigno stu dio prosequi amplius demereri volentes hunc praeconio merito ornandum propriori ad nos gradu extollendum censuimus Sciatis igitur nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia vero motu praefatum Radulphum Hopton ad statum gradum stylum Dignitatem Titulum Honorem Baronis Hapton de Statton in Comitatu nostro Cornubiae c. In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fecimus Patententes Teste meipso apud Oxon quarto die Septembris Anno Regni nostri Decimo nono Jones HIs two great Actions the one at Liscard the other at Stratton cannot be better described than by an Eye-witness whose words are these as he saith out of a Manuscript corrected with Sir Ralphs own hand communicated to him by his Secretary Mr. Tredus At Liscard a little before the Fight began the Kings party took it into seasonable consideration that seeing by the Commission the Lord Mohun brought from Oxford four Persons viz. the said Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Iohn Berkley and Colonel Ashburham were equally impowered in the managing of all Military matters and seeing such equality might prove inconvenient which hitherto had been prevented with the extraordinary moderation of all parties in ordering a Battel it was fittest to fix the Power in one Chief and general consent setled it in Sir Ralph Hopton He first gave order that publick prayers should be read in the Head of every Squadron and it was done accordingly and the Enemy observing it did style it saying of Mass as some of their Prisoners did afterwards confess Then he caused the Foot to be drawn in the best order they could and placed a Forlorn of Musqueteers in the little Inclosures wringing them with the few Horse and Dragoons he had This done two small Minion Drakes speedily and secretly fetched from the Lord Mohun's House were planted on a little Burrough within random-shot of the Enemy yet so that they were covered out of their sight with small parties of Horse about them These concealed Minions were twice discharged with such success that the Enemy quickly quitted their ground and all their Army being put into a Rout the Kings Forces had the Execution of them which they performed very sparingly taking 1250. Prisoners all their Canon and Ammunition and most of their Colours and Arms and after publick thanks taking their repose at Liscard Stratton Fight succeeds on Thursday the 16. of May 1643. THe Kings Army wants Ammunition and hath a steep-hill to gain with all disadvantage and danger The Horse and Dragoons being not five hundred and the Foot two thousand four hundred THe Parliament Army well furnished and Barricado'd upon the top of the hill their Foot 3400 and their Horse not many indeed having dispatched 1200 to surprize the Sheriff and Commissioners at Bodmin ON the Kings side order was given to force the passage to the top of the hill by four several Avenues the ascent was deep and difficult resolutely did his Majesties Forces get up and obstinately did the Enemy keep them down The fight continued doubtful with many countenances of various events from four in the morning till three in the afternoon amongst which most remarkable the smart charge made by M. G. Chudleigh with a stand of Pikes on Sir Bevile Greenvil who fell nobly himself and had lost his Squadron had not Sir Iohn now Lord Berkley who led up the Musqueteers on each side of Sir Bevil seasonably relieved it so resolutely re-inforcing the Charge that Major General Chudleigh was taken Prisoner Betwixt three and four of the Clock the Commanders of the Kings Forces who embraced those four several ways of ascent met to their mutual joy almost on the top of the hill which the routed Enemy confusedly forsook In this service though they were Assailants they lost very few men and no considerable Officer killing of the Enemy about three hundred and taking seventeen hundred Prisoners all their Canon being thirteen pieces of Brass Ordnance and Ammunition seventy Barrels of Powder with a Magazine of Bisket and other Provision proportionable For this Victory publick Prayer and Thanksgiving was made on the hill then the Army was disposed of to improve their success to the best advantage Nothing had sunk his great spirit but the fate of Kingdoms with whose ruine only he was contented to fall and disbanded his Souldiers upon honorable terms Five things made my Lord
understood he the interest of all his places and resolutely he maintained them What saith he shall the Liberties of Westminster he infringed when the chief Favorite is Steward and the Lord Keeper Dâ—an and I the Contemptible man that must be trampled on When he was in trouble what passion what insinuation what condescension hath he at command when Petitioned to how quickly he looked through men and business how exactly would he judge and how resolutely conclude without an immediate intimation from his Majesty or the Duke Many eyes were upon him and as many eyes were kept by him upon others being very watchful on all occasions to accommodate all emergencies and meet with all humors always keeping men in dependance on the Duke according to this intimation of his Cabal 287. Let him hold it but by your Lordships favor not his own power A good way had he been constant to it the neglect whereof undid him for designing the promotion of Dr. Price to the Bishoprick of Armagh he moved it to the Duke who told him it was disposed of to Dr. Vsher. Whereupon he went his own way to advance that man and overthrew himself for then his Lord let him feel what he had threatned my Lord Bacon when he advanced him That if he did not owe his Preferment always to his favor he should owe his fall to his frown The peremptoriness of his judgment rendred him odious his compliance with Bristol suspected and his Sermon at King Iames's Funeral his tryal rather than his Preferment obnoxious His spirit was great to act and too great to suffer It was prudence to execute his Decrees against all opposition while in power it was not so to bear up his miscarriages against all Authority while in disgrace A sanguine Complexion with its Resolutions do well in pursuit of success Flegm and its patience do better in a Retreat from micarriages This he wanted when it may be thinking fear was the passion of King Charles's Government as well as King Iames he seconded his easie fall with loud and open discontents and those discontents with a chargeable defence of his Servants that were to justifie them and all â—â—th that unsafe popularity invidious pomp and close irregularity that laid him open to too many active persons that watched him Whether his standing out against Authority to the perplexing of the Government in the Star Chamber in those troublesome times his entertainment and favor for the Discontented and Non-Conformists his motions for Reformation and Alteration in twelve things his hasty and unlucky Protestation in behalf of the Bishops and following actions in England and Wales where it s all mens wonders to hear of his Mâ—ruit su◠〈…〉 had those private grounds and reasons that if the Bishop could have spoken with the King but half an hour he said would have satisfied him the King of Kings only knoweth to whom he hath given I hope a better account than any Historian of his time hath given for him But I understand better his private inclinations than his publick actions the motions of his nature than those of his power the Conduct of the one being not more reserved and suspicious than the effects of the other manifest and noble for not to mention his Libraries erected and furnished at St. Iohns and Westminster his Chappel in Lincoln Colledge the Repairs of his Collegiate Church his Pensions to Scholars more numerous than all the Bishops and Noble-men besides his Rent Charges on all the Benefices in his gift as Lord Keeper or Bishop of Lincoln to maintain hopeful youth according to a Statute in that Case provided Take this remarkable instance of his Munificence that when Du Moulin came over he calleth his Chaplain now the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and telleth him he doubted the good man was low wishing him to repair to him with some Money and his respects with assurance that he would wait upon him himself at his first leisure The excellent Doctor rejoyceth that he could carry him no less than twenty pounds The Noble Bishop replyed he named not the summe to sound his Chaplains minde adding that twenty pounds was neither fit for him to give nor for the Reverend Forreigner to receive Carry said he an hundred pounds He is Libelled by common fame for unchaste though those that understood the privacies and casualties of his Infancy report him but one degree removed from a Misogonist Though to palliate his infirmities he was most compleat in Courtly addresses The conversableness of this Bishop with Women consisted chiefly if not only in his Treatments of great Ladies and Persons of honor wherein he did personate the compleatness of Courtesie to that Sex otherwise a Woman was seldom seen in his house which therefore had alwayes more Magnificence than Neatness sometimes defective in the Punctilio's and Niceties of Daintiness lying lower than Masculine Cognizance and as level for a Womans eye to espy as easie for her hand to amend He suffereth for conniving at Puritans out of hatred to Bishop Loud and for favoring Papists out of love to them yet whatever he offered King Iames when the Match went on in Spain as a Counsellor or whatever he did himself as a Statesman such kindness he had for our Liturgy that he translated and Printed it at his own Cost into Spanish and used it in the Visitation of Melvin when sick to his own peril in the Tower and such resolution for Episcopacy that his late Majesty of blessed Memory said once to him My Lord I commend you that you are no whit daunted with all Disasters but are zealous in defending your Order Please it your Majesty replyed the Archbishop I am a true Welshman and they are observed never to run away till their Generall first forsakes them no fear of any flinching while your Majesty doth countenance our Cause His Extraction was Gentile and Antient as appeared from his Ancestors estate which was more than he could purchase without borrowing when at once Lord Keeper Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster His minde great and resolute insomuch that he controuled all other advices to his last to his loss in Wales and daunted Sir Iohn Cook as you may see in his Character to his honor in England His Wariness hath these Arguments 1. That he would not send the Seal to the King but under Lock and Key 2. That being to depute one to attend his place at the Coronation of King Charles the First he would not name his Adversary Bishop Laud to gratifie him nor yet any other to displease the King but took a middle way and presented his Majesty a List of the Prebendaries to avoid any exception referring the Election to his Majesty himself 3. That he proposed a partial Reformation of our Church to the Parliament to prevent an utter extirpation by it 4. That he exposed others to the censure of the Parliament 1625.
honorable Society of both the Temples to bless them as with his constant residence so with his fatherly instructions and prayers To signifie the reality of their Love and value to his Lordship they not only allowed an annual honorary recompence to express their thanks but they provided handsome Lodgings and furnished them with all things necessary convenient and comely for a Person of his Worth Such as could hear him preach rejoyced at his gracious words such as for the Crowd could not come nigh enough to hear him had pleasure to stay and behold him conceiving they saw a Sermon in his looks and were bettered by the Venerable Aspect of so worthy a Person God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains indispositions and distempers sometimes with fits of the Stone but under all these God supported him with his grace as always humble devout and pious so for the most part sociable serene and chearful till he had lived to his sixty seventh year He had frequent infirmities a little before his death He would often say That it was a very cheap time to die there being so little temptation to desire life and so many to welcome death since he had lived to see no King in the State no Bishop in the Church no Peer in Parliament worthy of that name He only hoped and prayed God that he would favor him so far as with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to let him die without pain and indeed he did For after his Spirits were in ten dayes decayed and wasted he slumbred much yet had vigilant Intervals at which time he gave himself to prayer and meditation and holy discourses And being full of the Grace and peace of God and confirmed in it by the Absolution of the Church he rendred his precious soul to God that gave it Decemb 7. 1659. His body for Stature and Figure was somewhat taller and bigger than ordinary yet very comely No man ever became the Preachers Pulpit or the Doctors Chair or the Episcopal Seat better than he did carrying before him such an unaffected State and Grandeur such benign gravity and a kinde of smiling severity that one might see much in him to be reverenced but much more to be loved yet what was Venerable in him was very amiable and what was amiable was Venerable His remains lie in the Temple-Church with this following Inscription buryed at the Charge of both Temples to his great honor and their greater I know saith one of his death all accidents are minuted and momented by Divine providence and yet I hope I may say without sin his was an untimely death not to himself prepared thereunto but as to his longer life which the prayers of pious people requested the need of the Church required the date of nature could have permitted but the pleasure of God to which all must submit denyed otherwise he would have been most instrumental to the composure of Church differences the deserved opinion of whose goodness had peaceable possession in the hearts of the Presbyterian party I observed at his Funeral that the prime persons of all perswasions were present whose judgements going several wayes met all in a general grief for his decease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. M. S. Augustius Solito Virtutum exemplar Si tibi tuisque imitandum velis Mox Moriture Lector Subtus positas nepigeat contemplari EXUVIAS RADULPHI BRUNRICI S. T. D. IPS WICI peramaeni Icenorum oppidi Parentibus honestis Tantoque Filio beatis orti Infantulum terrestri orbum caelestis tenerius fovit Pater Piaque literatura pene ad miraculum imbutum Per omnes Academiarum gradus eductum Ad Aulae Catharinae praefecturam Ad Saepius repetitam Procan Cantab. dignitatâ—m Ad Exoniensis Episcopatus Honorem Caroli Regis favore evexit Quem afflictissimum fidelitate inconcussa coluit Vir undique egregius Doctior an melior Dubites Fâ—mâ— per omnem aetatem immaculata into splendida magnifica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 olim per biennium at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec conjugii spretor nec caelibatui impar Severu ubique castitatis exactor Tam vultus quam vitae majestate venerandus Quod enim vultu promisit optimum vita praestâ—t Tacita Sermonum urbana morum sanctitate Non jucundus minus quam utilis Supercilii non ficti non clati non efferi Humillima granditate cuncta gerens Credas nec conscio tantas cumulasse dotes Naturam prodigam benignamque gratiam Adeo omne tulit punctum idque levissima invidia In Concionibus sacris frequens dominator In disputationibus Scholasticis semper Triumphator Barnabas idem Boanerges Tam pugno quam palma nobilis Suavi terrore venerando amore ubique pollens Beat a uberrimi ingenii facundâ—a Honorum omnium votis et expectationi nunquam non satisfecit Quadratus undique Deo Ecclesiae sibi Constans A mobili et rotunda aevi figura penitus abhorrens Scenter sâ—pienter et semper bonus Reformatae olim in Anglia Religionis priscae Doctrinae Liturgiae Regiminis Ecclesiae integrae contra veteratores et Novatores omnes aequanimus ac acerrimus vindex Sero nimis pro temporum morbis et remediis Episcopali sublimitate meritissime auctum Bellorum et Schismatum late stagrantiuâ— incendia Optimum Antistitem una eum Coepiscopis omnibus viris ut plurimum in noxiis et eximiis Tota Ecclesia Rege Repub. mox deturbarunt Deturbatum facultatibus pene omnibus Spoliarunt Iacturâ—m ingenti ut decuit animo tulit de Sacrilegis non Spoliis Sollicitus Queis non minus carere 〈◊〉 recteuti didicerat Tandem ipsa obscuritate illustrior factus Generosae Templariorum Societatis amore allectus Concionatoris Honorarii munus ibidem suscepit Nec diu proh dolor sustinuit Quum enim Testamentum condiderat Quale primaevi solebant Episcopi Gratiarum in Deum Benignitatis in amicos Charitatis in omnes copia refertum Anno AEtatis Sexagesimo septimo Iniqui inquieti ingrati seculi mores Iamque merito recrudescentis belli minas Laetus fefellit Et ad meliorem Dominum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christiana plenus Optata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beatus Libens migravit Decemb. 7. 1659. Haec vero â—enerandi Praesumlis ramenta aurea Amplissimique viri parva compendia L. M. C. I. G. S. T. D. Magnalia ejus quae nec marmor breve Nec Tabula prolixa nec mens mortalis Capiet Beatae Aeternitati Silentio consecran da 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ite nunc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vestros recensere greges Multis Sectarum maculis variegata pecora Si quos inter vestros Gigantum fraterculos Vilis plebeculae vilia mancipia Pares â—imelesve invenistis Heroas Primaevis nuperisque nostris Episcopis Vsserium volo Mortonium Potterum Davenantium Hallum Prideauxium Westfieldium Winneffum Brunricum Alios meliori seculo Fato Dignos Extra irae invidiaeque vestrae
and when that was not judged expedient his second for the Archbishop of Armagh Bishops of Kilmore Down and Conner in Ireland the Bishops of Durham Salisbury and his own in England with three more of Scotland and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point and when that was not convenient considering the variety of mens apprehensions his chearful undertaking of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland most ignoble Recantation referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage and perused each head when finished and compleated with the irrefragable propositions deserved But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any remedy this good man was one of thâ—se Charged in the House of Lords and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping who one night vowed their ruin from the House under the Earl of Manchesters protection having in vain moved both Houses for assistance One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House during that violence in pursuance of their own right and the trust reposed in them by his Majesty and that being not as was intended proposed either to his Majesties Secretary to himself or the Lord Keeper to be weighed but hastily read in the House apprehensive enough of misconstruction He being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers with 11 of his Brethren Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Voted to the Tower after a Charge of High-treason for owning his Parliamentary right received upon his Knees where Preaching in his course with his Brethren and Meditating he heard chearfully of the Bonfires Ringing in the City upon their Imprisonment he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets and other methods he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them he Pleaded resolutely several times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them being admitted to Bail by the Lords he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons and being Released upon 50000 l. Bond retired to Norwich his and his Brethrens Votes being Nulled in Parliament where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths he laying down mony for his Goods and for his Books his Arrearages being stopped his Pallace rifled in Norwich his Temporal Estate in Norfolk Suffolk Essex was Confiscated the 400 l. per annum Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops competency was stopped the Synodals were kept back Ordination was restrained The very Mayor of Norwich and his Brethren summoning the grave Bishop before them an unheard of peremptorinesse for ordaining in his Chappel contrary to the Covenant And when they allowed him but a fifth part Assessements were demanded for all extremities none could bear but he who exercised moderation and patience as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church but was silent in those unjust ones on himself who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort by his Treatises of Consolation for its Peace by the Peace-maker Pax Terris and Modest offer for its Instruction by his frequent Sermons as often as he was allowed for its Poor by a Weekly Contribution to distressed Widows to his death and a good sum in the Place where he was born and the City where he died after it for its Professors by holy admonitions counsels and resolutions for its Enemies by dealing with some of them so effectually that they repented and one among the rest a great Commissioner and Justice of Peace I mean Esquire Lucas who though a man of a great Estate received Orders at his hands and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man by being a faithful Minister of it to this day and when he could not prevail with men especially about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign he wrestled with God according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion to all other Members of our Church in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death the approaches to which was as his whole life solemn staid composed and active both in Presse and Pulpit his intellectuals and sensuals the effect of his temperance being fresh to the last till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength and his Physicians Arts and he aser his fatherly reception of many persons of honor learning and piety who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions one whereof a Noble Votary he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary Vide hominem mox pulverem futurum After many holy prayers exhortations and discourses he rouzed up his dying spirits to a heavenly Confession of his Faith wherein his Speech failed him and with some Struglings of Nature with the Agonies of Death he quietly gradually and even insensibly gave up the Ghost Having Preached to two Synods reconciled â—ix Controversies for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides Served two Princes and as many Kings Sate in three Parliaments kept the Pulpit for fifty three years managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks written forty six Excellent Treaties seen his and the Churches enemies made as odious at last as they were popular at first directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it 1656. And of his Age eighty two years leaving behind him three Monuments of himself 1. His excellent Children in some of whom we yet see and enjoy him 2. His incomparable Writings of which it was said by one that called him The English Seneca That he was not unhappy at Controsies more happy at Comments very good in Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich so meek that he was never transported but at three things 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich And 3. The Kings unparalled Murder So religious that every thing he saw did or suffered exercised his habitual devotion so innocent that Musick Mathematick and Fishing were all his Recreations so temperate that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet Orator Historian Linguist Antiquary Phisolopher School Divine Casuist and what not no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works in a most eminent manner I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons Heirs to his worth and to his modesty intimate him with Pericles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Pythagoras Ejus singula
his regular thoughts sober nature made accurate by art not gadding confusedly to divers objects but proceeding rationally from one to another By a methodical study of choice and useful learning overcame the Intelligible World as soon as Alexander did the Real that is at thirty the product whereof besides University performances crowned with University applause That he did best there where all do well Performances wherein words had the life and air of things where humors appeared as lively in his expression as they did abroad in others actions yea common things grew proper in his Charms rather than Speeches wherein his thoughts were so ordered so expressed as if he did not discourse but see words and things falling into their order so naturally and easily as nothing fell amiss as if the Scholar as well as the Wiseman were all things That life that Venus of all things which we conceive or shew proportioned Decency was not found scattered in him here or there but like the soul wholly every where exercises wherein he spake not only phancy to please but reason to convince vexing and filing the roughest subject by the Chimistry and heat of a great spirit into comelinesse not pouring in the Ore or Grosse but in fair Coin and choice distillations dispensing his learning well skilled when to spare and when to entertain He gave the right blush and colour unto things low without creeping high without losse of wings smooth yet not weak and by a through care big without swelling without Painting fair I say besides Academical exercises the onely issue of this noble Gentlemans great parts and unwearied Studies was a subtle and solid Treatise in the beginning of our Civil Wars of the difference between King and Parliament so full that they who have since handled that Controversie have written plura non plus yea aliter rather than alia of that subject A choice Feaver called a New Disease in Oxford Garrison seizing on him and other persons of pure spirits and nobly tempered bodies 1643 4. prevented him in those great services he was qualified for in his generation which indeed deserved him not being likely to have turned him out of the University by a Malignant Visitation if he had not been called out of the world by a Malignant disease Of him and of the foresaid 1. Mr Masters of New Colledge 2. Mr. Sugge the excellent Philosopher of Wadham Colledgâ— that lived to be Expelled the University by those that had no regard either to the greatest learning or the sweetest natures and dying just when restored again to it 3. Mr. Robert Waring of Christ-Church well known by his Poetry in Latine and English better by his Oratory a Specimen whereof you have in as an ingenious a little Piece as this age hath seen I mean Effigies Amoris made up of learning and phansie what charms and what convinceth and best of all for his â—idelitâ— chusing rather to retire to Shropshire and bury his vast parts in the Solitudes of a Country Life than so much as see the force offered the University which he had heard was offered the whole Kingdom going away 1647. when Proctor with the Keys of the University rather than he would deliver them to Usurpers 4. Dr. Barten Holiday known well by his Plays the marriage of the Arts c. His Lectures on Moral Philosophy his well languaged Sermons his admirable Translation of Persâ—â—â— a new thing to use his own words Persius Vnderstood adding in his elegant way To have committed no fault in my Translation had been to Translate my self and put off Man Dying Arch-deacon of Oxford 1662 3. Forced to practise Physick in the sad times wherein be corresponded with Dr. Creed of St. Iohns whose life is in his Epitaph at Christ-Church in Oxford Hic subtus jacent tantillaeviri magni reliquiae Gulielmi Creed qui Coll. D. Iohannis Batista Alumnus olim socius Academiae Dein Procurator S. S. Theol. Doctor non ambitu sed suo merito Professor Regius hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus Archdiaconus Wiltoniae Ecclesiae Sarum Residentiarius honores non quaesitos sed oblatos ultro modeste tulit prudenter gessit vivus Academiae Ecclesiae ornamentum mortuus utriusque triste desiderium Fatis cessit Anno Aetatis XLVII XIV Cal. Aug. A. D. 1663. Doctor Morris who lives in this Character on his Tomb at Christ-Church aforesaid Exuvia Instructissimi viri Io. Morris S. Th. Doctoris serenissimo Regi Carolo a Sacris Ecclesiae hujus Cathedralis Prebendarii Linguae S. S. in hac Academia Regii Professoris Qui ne funere ipsius ipsa conderetur Lingua Hebraica in illam Candidatos annuis Instigavit Impensis Bibliothecam ipsius aedis Curavit Illam etiam omnium animarum Heb. Suppellectile in perpetuum augere Caesarea Ejus precibus excitata munificentia praelecturam Hebraeam hâc praebendâ ornavit Demum Post fidele servitium Deo Ecclesiae Regi Academiae Huic aedi peractum regnum cum Christo est Auspicatus Die Regis Caroli Inaugurali nempe Martii 25. A. D. 1648. Aetatis suae 53. 6. Mr. Burton the Author of the Anatomy of Melancholy a Book as full of all variety of learning as himself wherein Gentlemen that have lost time and are put upon an aftergame of learning pick many choice things to furnish them for discourse or writing Who as he lived a conceited life un-regarded and un-regarding the world a meer Scholar who meeting with the Earl of Dorset asked his Name and when he heard it was Dorset called him Mr. Dorset discourseth for an hour together so he hath at Christ-Church where he was Student forty years this conceited Epitaph Paucis notus Paucioribus ignotus Hic Jacet Democritus Junior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit melancholia 7. Dr. Wats of Lincoln Colledge a good Linguist and Philosopher that translated several of my Lord Bacons Books with as much vigor as the honorable Author writ them one so intent on his Soul that he minded not he had a Body 8. Modest Mr. Sparks of Corpus Christi well skilled in the Tongues and Fathers better known Abroad than at Home an hour of whose discouse in his Chamber was more useful than a days study in the choicest Library who died 1656. 9. Mr. Childmead a choice Mathematician a good Linguist and a quaint Orator his parts kept unknit by more ingenious exercises 10. Mr. Mede and Mr. Powell of Christ-Church killed in his Majesties Service being of the Regiment of Scholars who put the Buff upon their Gowns under the Earl of Dover the last of whom would say That he could never read or hear a dull discourse but it disordered him saying as Tully in the case of deriding ridiculous Hircus Dum illum lego pene factus sum ille 11. Mr. Taylor of Magdalen Colledge when turned out in the late times was Chaplain to the Lord Weinman of Thame Parke after Dr. Ward now Lord
things that as he was honoured with King Charles the first his Writ to be Baron in Parliament a favour his Ancestor Robert de Piere-point had in Edward the thirds time but did not enjoy being summoned a Baron in Parliament and dying before he Sate therein by the Title of Baron Piere-point and Viscount Newarke and afterwards 4. Caroli primi Earl of Kingston for his moderate opinions between the extreams then prevailing in Parliaments which he was able to accommodate as to State Affairs as an experienced man and as to Church Affairs as a Christian and a great Scholar Whence he would commend a general learning to young Noblemen upon this ground because the great variety of Debates that came before them wherein the unlearned Gentry either rashly offer dangerous proposals to impose on others oâ— sloathfully rest in a tame yea and nay being easily imposed on by others The effect whereof we found both in his and his hopeful Son the now Illustrious Marquess of Dorchesters learned and rational Defences of the Spiritual Function and Temporal Honors and Imployments of Bishops 1641 2. which though they could not convert any of the obstinate Anti-episcopal men not a speech to satisfie their reason but a grant to gratifie their interest must effect that yet confirmed they the wavering Episcopal party When it came to passe in the Civil Wars of England as it had done in those of Rome that the Seditious Brutus and Cassius were followed by the lower sort of the people Ex subditis Romanorum saith Dion while Caesars Army consisted Ex Romanis nobilibus sortibus This honorable Person and his Eldest Son attended his Majesty the Father with the Sword and the Son with the Pen more fatal to the Faction that the Sword and therefore the first men excepted out of Pardon were such excellent Pen-men as the Lords Viscount Newark and Faulkland Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and Mr. Endintion Porter the quickness of whose honorable Declarations and Replies amazed the Conspiracy as the smartnesse of them betrayed and defeated it their writings being like truth naturally clear and the Rebels like error forced and obscure He brought to his Majesty 4000 men of whose number 2000 were able and willing to serve him with their Persons and the râ—st with their Armes and Money to the value of 24000 l. and having the care of the Country with his near Relation the Duke of New-castle he vigorously opposed the legitimate Commission of Array to the by-blow of the Militia till he was surprized at Gainsborough by the Lord Willoughby of Parrham and being looked upon as a person of great concernment to the Kings affaires the Country calling him usually the good Earl of Kingston sent towards Hull in a Pinnace which Sir Charles Cavendish who knew well the value of that noble person as well as the enemy pursued demanding the Earl and when refused shooting at the Pinnace with a Drake that unfortunately killed him and his servant placed a mark to his friends shot who when they took the Vessel put all the Company to the Sword a just though not a valuable sacrifice to so noble a Ghost which King Charles the I. would have ransomed at as high a rate as his Ancestor Robert Peire-point was redeemed in Edward the III. time who cost that King when taken at Lewis 700 mark the Ransom as money went in those days of a Prince rather than a Subject Robertus Baro Peire-point Comes Kinstoniae quem amici servando occiderunt ab ubinon mors Si caecus amor ipso infestius odio sâ—miae more affectu necat amplexibus strangubat THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS MORTON Bishop of Duresm HE was of the same original and stock with that Eminent Prelate and wise States-man Iohn Morton Loâ—d Chancellor and Arch-bishop of Canterbury by whose contrivance and management the Houses of York and Lancaster were united as appeareth by his Coat-Armor and Pedigree He was born in the ancient and famous City of York March 20. 1564. his Parents were of good repute Mr. Richard Morton a well known Mercer and Mrs. Elizabeth Leedale by whom the Valvasours and Langdales acknowledge themselves to be of his Kindred by whose care he was brought up in Piety and Learning first at York under Mr. Pullen and afterwards at Hallifax under Mr. Maud of whom he always spake with great reverence as a grave Man and a good Scholar and from thence 1582. went to the University of Cambridge at the eighteenth year of his age and there was admitted into St. Iohns Colledge under Dr. Whitacre wherein were so many eminent Scholars at that time as he was wont to say It seemed to be a whole University of its self His Tutor was Mr. Anthony Higgon afterwards Dean of Rippon who lest him to the care of Mr. Hen. Nelson Rector of Hougham in Lincolnshire who lived to see his Pupil pass through all the other Dignities he had in the Church till he came to be Bishop of Duresm and a good many years after Being chosen Scholar of Constables Foundation 1584. In the year 1590. he took his Degree of Master of Arts having performed all his Exercises with great approbation and applause Afterwards he continued his Studies in the Colledge at his Fathers charge for above two years March 17. 1592. he was admitted Fellow meerly for his worth against eight Competitors for the place which he was wont to recount with greater contentment to himself than his advancement to any Dignity he ever enjoyed in the Church About the same time he was chosen Logick Lecturer for the University which place he discharged with much art and diligence as appears by his Lectures found among his Papers fairly written In the same year he was admitted to the Order of Deacon and the next after of Priesthood Having received his Commission from God and the Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of charity but not too forward to take upon him the particular care of souls And accordingly we finde him for the space of five years after this continuing in the Colledge prosecuting his own private Study and reading to such Scholars as were committed to his Care and Tuition Anno 1598. He took his Degree of Bachelor of Divinity and about the same year being Presented Instituted and Inducted to the Rectory of Long-Marston four miles distant from his native City of York he betook himself wholly to the cure of Souls there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence and yet he did not intermit his higher studies the general good of the Church while he attended it To that end he had always kept some person to be his Assistant whom he knew to be pious and learned And this assistance was more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choice of by the
rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will choose rather to neglect their duty safely and creditably than to get a broken pate in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that which will break their hearts too Although he was so resolvedly honest and upon such clear Principles conscientious that he tired the persecutions of his enemies and out-lived the neglect of his friends finding the satisfaction flowing from his duty out-ballancing the sufferings for it 1. When Chaplain much troubled by Arch-bishop Abbot Sir H. Lynde and Mr. P. 1. For Licensing a Book called An Historical Narration of the Iudgment of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs Confessors in Queen Maries dayes concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death Novemb. 27. 1630. 2. For maintaining universal Grace and Redemption in a Passion Sermon at St. Pauls Cross about the same time 2. When Master of Queens Colledge as much persecuted by the Faction for six or seven years from Cambridge to Elyâ— house thence to Ship-board and thence to the Fleet with the same disgrace and torment I mentioned before in Dr. Beals life for being active in sending the University-Plate to the King and in undeceiving people about the proceedings of the pretended Parliament i. e. in sending to the King that which should have been plundred by his enemies and preaching as much for him as others did against him his sufferings were both the smarter and the longer because he would not own the Usurpation so much as to Petition it for favor being unwilling to own any power they had to Imprison him by any address to them to Release him And when in a throng of other Prisoners he had his Liberty he chose to be an exile beyond Sea at Paris rather than submit to the tumult at home at London or Cambridge If he was too severe against the Presbyteries of the Reformed Churches which they set up out of necessity it was out of just indignation against the Presbytery of England which set up it self out of Schism And when he thought it unlawful for a Gentleman of the Church of England to marry a French Presbyterian it was because he was transported by the oppression and out-rage of the English But being many years beyond Sea he neither joyned with the Calvinists nor kept any Communion with the Papists but confined himself to a Congregation of old English and Primitive Protestants where by his regular Life and good Doctrine he reduced some Recusants to and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion so defeating the jealousies of his foes and exceeding the expectation of his friends Returning with his Majesty 1660. he was restored to his own Preferments and after Dr. Loves death the natural Wit and Orator Master of Bennet Colledge Margaret Professor after Dr. Holdsworth in which place he was sure to affront any man that put up Questions against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of Engl. in the worst of times and Dean of Ely made Dean of Ely in which dignity he dyed 1662 3 having this Memorial That he had bred up his Colledge so well in the Principles of Religion and Loyalty that no one there from the highest to the lowest submitted to the Usurpers for there was a through Reformation neither Master Fellow not Scholar being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a Wreck and forfeited in this Land-tempest for lack of a living thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof a severity contrary to the eternal moral of the Jewish Law provided against the Depopulation of Birds-nests that the old and young ones should be destroyed together The Doctors Predecessors Dr. Humphrey Tyndal Master of Queens and Dean of Ely was as is reported offered by a Protestant party in Bohemia to be chosen King in Queen Elizabeths Reign and he refused it alleadging That he had rather be a Subject under Queen Elizabeth than a forraign Prince And the Doctor himself was offered as I have heard honorable accommodations by some in the Church of Rome but he accepted them not because he said He had rather be a poor Son of the afflicted but Primitive Church of England than a Rich Member of the flourishing but corrupt Church of Rome Edvardus Martin S. Th. Dr. Cato sequioris saculi qui nihil ad famam omnia ad conscientiam fecit Rigide pius vir et severe Iustus sibi theatrum omnia ad normam exigens non amplius ambivit quam ut sibi placeret et Deo THE Life and Death OF THE LORD WILLMOT Earl of Rochester THe Lord Wilmot born on All-Souls day in Ireland and bred Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford received a Barony from his Ancestors and conveyed an Earldom to his Posterity of whom a great man said That he was so Great a Scholar that he could give the best advice and so good a Souldier that he could follow it the best of any man in England none more valiant to return a private affront with the hazard of his own Personâ— he gave a box on the ear to one of the most eminent men in this Nation none more patient in taking a disgrace the revenge of which might hazard the publick safety He suffered his Horse to be taken by the bridle and himself to be led out of Command by a Messenger from his Majesty in the Hoad of 700. Horse over whom he was Lieutenant-General in view of the Enemy to the great dissatisfaction of the Army which was ready to Mutiny for the Lord Willmot at that very time when they should fight the Earl of Essex He was Captain of Horse many years in the Low Countries with great respect for his generous Courage and good Discipline and coming thence over was made Commissary General of Horse in the Expedition into Scotland In Holland began that animosity between him and Goring which continued in England His sobriety indeared him to every Army he came to and therefore rendred him suspected and envied in most actions he performed An excellent Commander of Horse and of himself being therefore mistrusted because he would not swear as if Dam-me had been the Oath of Allegiance 1640. Aug. 28. When the Lord Conway let the Scots over â—weed Mr. Willmot was the first man that made head against them standing with a few prime Gentleman when the rest of the Army fled and threw down their Arms to the Enemies Horse and Cannon so effectual that though being over-powered he could not defeat them yet he stunned them so that instead of advancing with an Army next day they submit with a Petition exactly as Mr. Willmot guessed whose opinion was That one resolute action against the Scots should min them who are lost by favors and 〈◊〉 by severities He acted like a Statesman when Commissary in the Expedition against the Scots telling my Lord Conway That he saw his Majesty would be overcome by the English at home if he
capacity as this war was some of the Devils Black Guard may be listed among Gods Souldiers yet there were fewer oaths among them than in any Army then in England They say the Cornish-tongue affordeth but two natural oaths or but three at the most The sobriety of this Army which Sir Bevile would say were greater if less some being rather a burden than strength to it made them valiant its the foul Gun and the guilty Conscience that recoils as when Sir William Waller intended to break the Western Association at Landsdown was beaten out of his Lines and Hedges by Sir Bevill and not only so but forced likewise out of an high hill fortified on all sides the passage up very narrow and dangerous between a Wood lined with Musqueteers on the one hand and Hedges on the other gained after four desperate Repulses by Horse Foot and Canon by Sir Bevill and maintained with a Stand of his own Pikes with a gallantry and honor admired by his very enemies until he was unfortunately â—lain in the Head of his Men with the excellent Serjeant Major Lower at his feet and honorable Mr. Leake the Earl of Scarsedales Son with his enemies Colours about his armes to whom this mention is due Mr. Barker Lieutenant Col. Wall Mr. Bostard Captain Iames and Cholwell being found dead not far from him both sides bewailing him and the whole University of Oxford honoring his memory with a Book of Verses whereof these I pitched upon for his Epitaph NOt to be wrought by Malice Gain or Pride To a Compliance with the Triving Side Not to take Armes for Love of change or spight But only to maintain afflicted Right Not to dye Vainly in pursuit of Fame Perversly seeking after Voice and Name Is to resolve Fight Dye as Martyrs do And thus did he Souldier and Martyr too He might like some reserved Men of State Who look not to the Cause but to its Fate Have stood aloof Engaged on neither side Prepared at last to strike in with the Tide But well-weighed Reason told him that when Law Either's Renounced or Misapplied by th' awe Of false-nam'd Patriots that when the Right Of King and Subject is suppress'd by Might When all Religion either is refused As meer pretence or meerly as that used When thus the fury of Ambition swells Who is not active modestly Rebels VVhence in a just Esteem to Church and Crown He offered all and nothing thought his own This thrust him into Action whole and free Knowing no Interest but Loyalty Not loving Arms as Arms or Strife for Strife Nor Wasteful nor yet Sparing of his Life A great Exacter of himself and then By fair commands no less of other men Courage and Iudgment had their equal part Counsel was added to a generous heart Affairs were justly timed nor did he catch At an affected fame of quick dispatch Things were Prepar'd Debated and then done Not rashly Broke or vainly Overspun False Periods no where by design were made As are by those that make the VVar their Trade The Building still was suited to the Ground VVhence every Action issued full and round We know who blind their men with specious Lies With Revelation and with Prophecies Who promise two things to obtain a third And are themselves by the like Motives stir'd By no such Engine he his Soldiers drawes He knew no Arts but Courage and the Cause With these he brought them on as well-train'd Men And with those two he brought them off again When now th' Incensed Legions proudly came Down like a Torrent without Bank or Dam When understood Success urged on their Force That Thunder must come down to stop their Course or Greenvile must step in then Greenvile stood And with himself opposed check'd the Floud Conquest or Death was all his thoughts so Fire Either O'rcomes or doth it self Expire His Courage work't like flames cast Heat about Here there on this on that side none gave out Not any Pike in that renowned Stand But took new force from his inspiring Hand Souldier encourag'd Souldier Man urg'd Man And he urg'd all so much example can Hurt upon Hurt Wound upon Wound did call He was the Butt the Mark the Aim of all His Soul this while retir'd from Cell to Cell At last flew up from all and then he fell But the devoted Stand enraged more From that his Fate plied hotter than before And proud to fall with him sworn not to yeild Each sought an honored Grave so gain'd the Field Thus he being fallen his action Fought anew And the Dead Conquered whiles the Living slew This was not Natures Courage nor that thing We Valor call which Time and Reason bring But Diviner Fury fierce and high Valor transported into Extasie Which Angels looking on us from above Vse to convey into the Souls they love Doctor Lluelin ANd with this constant Principle possess 't He did alone expose his single Breast Against an Armies force and bleeding lay The Great Restorer of th' declining day Thus slain thy Vasiant Ancestor did Lie VVhen his one Barque a Navy durst defie When now encompass'd round he Victor stood And bath'd his Pinnace in his Conquering blood Till all his purple Current dried and spent He fell and left the Waves his Monument Where shall next famous Greenviles Ashes stand Thy Grandsire fills the Sea and thou the Land And there is a third Greenvile the Right Honorable Iohn Earl of Bathe Sir Beviles Son and Heir who having gone on so honorably all the War the Chronicle whereof swells with his name pursuing those great Actions his Father had begun in King Charles I. time that my Lord Dighy and that King writing to the Queen about making him of the Princes Bed-Chamber declare him then the most deserving young Gentleman in England and waited upon King Charles I. so faithfully that as he had been witness of his Majesties gracious intentions and thoughts towards his distracted Kingdoms abroad in his banishment so he was the first Messenger between his Majesty and his Kingdoms in order to his miraculous return home who should be the instrument of the Sons Restauration but Sir Bevile Greenviles Son who had so nobly dyed in defence of the Father And if there be any knowledge above among the blessed of what is done here below among us its King Charles the Martyrs satisfaction that his Son is restored to his Throne and it adds to Sir Bevill Greenviles bliss that his heir is the first messenger in the Kingdom met in Parliament of the Gracious Letters that accomplished that Restauration And here will be the most proper place to mention Sir Richard Greenvile Sir Beviles Brother who staid with the Parliament till two Treaties and the great condescention of his Majesty brought him over first to correspondence and when an opportunity offered its self of performing his Majesty a considerable service by carrying over with him the Government of a very advantageous Port-Town to actual service
watchfulness setled integrity circumspect activity advantageous temperance and good conversation gained the repute of the best Commander of Horse in the world in which capacity he had the Command of a Colonel in the Shew as he called it against Scotland and of General of Horse in the real War against the English and that in the North assisting the Earls of Cumberland and Newcastle to form an Army where the best Horse were to be raised from whence after some notable defeats of the Lord Fairfax which some said were remembred at Colchester he carryed 2000. Horse to assist his Majesty with whom we finde him eminent both for his direction and execution about the hill near Newbery and Eâ—born-Heath which he maintained with one Regiment well disposed and lined with Musqueteers and a Drake with small shot against the gross of Eâ—â—ex his Armyâ— the Leading-man of which he Pistolled himself in the Head of hiâ— Troop giving close fire himself and commanding others to do the like After this first battel of Newbery and his recovery froâ— his seven wounds received there being at Cawood Castle when it was assaulted with extraordinary skill and valor he forced his way through the enemies quarters to such places as he thought convenient with such confidence and magnanimity that his very name became a terror in the North raising by the very Alarm three Sieges and reducing two strong Garrisons At Marston-Moor being commanded to lead the Kings Left Wing against the Parliaments Right consisting of Fairfax his Troops and Scots he routed them for two miles together with a violent Charge and afterwards saved most of those that were saved in that fatal battel making it his business to pick up a Regiment of Veteranes saying He must make much of a Souldier for he was long in the making and not one in twenty lived to it At Newark he gave as great a proof of his good Discipline as he did of his personal Valor strict though not severe in his Commands being none of those that reckoned it the very spirit of Policy and Prudence where men refuse to come up to Orders and Law to make Orders and Law come down to them and for their so doing have this infallible Recompence that they are not at all the more loved but much the less feared and which is a sure consequence of it accordingly respected Disobedience if complied with is infinitely incroaching and having gained one degree of Liberty upon indulgence will demand another upon claim Free in his rewards to persons of desert and quality very zealous on all occasions against the Rebellion being usually known to deliver himself in these words That he preferred the style of Loyalty before any Dignity earth could confer upon him In his Charge serious and vigilant remiss in nothing that might expedite or improve his dispatch in Affairs of Government as compassionate as couragious never killing the man he durst spare and very ready at all times to afford what himself could not receive Free-quarter to which I need adde only his brave and successeful Attempt in the famous march from Berkley Castle with part of his Regiment between Slym-bridge and Bevâ—rston Castle upon Col. Massies Garrisons with his incomparable Gallantry at Tidbury his brave answer at Berkley Castle at the refusal of two summons viz. That he would eat Horse-flesh â—irst and Mans-flesh when that was done before he would yield But having trod many uncouth parts for his Majesties restitution and breaking his Parol with the General upon good advicâ— had before to satisfie his Conscience in that point he formed an hopeful Association among the Gentlemen of his own Country the beginning whereof was indeed so distracted that he advised them to retire quietly to their own homes until they had a fairer opportunity who intreated him to command them promising to live and die with him one and all as he did securing them on all hands by a party of choice Horse from the Incursions of the Enemy and disposing them in Quarters most for their advantage and safety all along till taking the Earl of Warwicks House and Arms in his way they came from Burnt-wood to Colchester which shutting the gates against him he reduced with his very appearance and when the next day begirt he entertained the Enemies whole Army with such Conduct and Resolution in the hedges and Suburbs round the Town that had they all fallied out as he advised them they had as some Prisouers acknowledged bidden fair for the overthrow of that whole Army But the enemy falling next day to form a Leaguer he considering there was no marching out of the Country about being Champion ground wherein for want of Horse they would be instantly cut off Victualled and furnished the Town in spight of the Army from the Stores and Countrey adjoyning and made its ruines above belief defensible to give time to other Countreys while the Army was there to Associate expecting the Northern relief and likewise to weather the Army its self by hard duty unseasonable weather and continual sallies sending out some excellent Persons to countenance the Levy of more Forces in other Countries and keep intelligence from whom several small parties came in through the Leaguer and ordering all the Town Arms into the Magazine and listing the Towns-men into Companies Iuly 7. Sir Charles and Sir George Lisle made a grand Sally that cleared one side of the Leaguer Streets Hills Hedges and all to the loss of near a thousand six hundred killed several stealing into the Town and many running home Iuly 12. Sir Charles took care for a convenient distribution of the Provision left among the Towns-people and Souldiers and of Declarations to be sent into Kent and Essex and to the Army promising from his Majesty Arrears and Indemnity to such as laid down their Armes or would joyn with them towards the Peace and Settlement of the Kingdom Iuly 29. Sir Charles advised that the Horse should break out through the Leaguer towards the North but in vain the false Towns-men that should make their way as Pioneers deserting them August 17. He and the Lord Capell in a Letter to the General desired twenty days respite to inform themselves about their intended Relief and that being denied the Relief failing the great Northern Army beaten their Ammunition spent to a Barrel and a half of Powder and their Provision to two Horses and one Dog the whole Kingdom stupid and Sir Charles his admirable overture after a general protestation that they would not accept of dishonorable terms nor desert one another of a general Sally to perish nobly or honorably Relieve themselves being when all things were ready to a minute for the executing of it defeated yielded and by the Generals order retired to the Kings-head till Sir Charles was sent for with Sir George Lisle Colonel Farre and Sir Bernard Gascoin to a Councel of War by which he was Condemned to dye immediately Sir Charles asking
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
be no exceptions From Nottingham-shire he passed with some Troops to countenance the Commission of Array in other Counties and particularly in Oxford-shire to secure the University from the Rebels and the Scholars and their Plates for his Majesty when assaulted by the Forces of Northampton and betrayed by the Town of Brackley so that he lost his Carriages and Cabinet he writes to Mr. Clark of Craughton in whose Custody they were to restore them Which if you do saith he I shall represent it to his Majesty as sty as an acceptable service if not assure your self I shall finde a time with advantage to re-pay my self out of your Estate and consider that as Rebellion is a weed of an hasty growth so it will decay as suddenly and that there will be a time for the Kings Loyal Subjects to repair their losses sustained by Rebells and Traytors Upon the sending of which Letter to the Parliament and their proclaiming him and his Adherents Traytors for their Allegiance to their Soveraign he marched to Worcester a very commodiously situated place taking it in and Garrisoning it decoying thither the Lord Say Colonel Nath. Fines and Sandys into a trap by a mistake of Prince Rupert for the Earl of Essex and gaining the first Victory and Reputation to his Majesties Side and Party which was judged never able either to form an Army or to aim at Victory How valiantly and warily he led on the Kings Horse at the first Newbery Fight when Col. Middleton protested there was no dealing with Biron who would give no advantage is well known and how prudently and industriously he pursued his Majesties Interest about Wales where he was Field Marshall General may be guessed by the Command given him of that Important Place both for passage into Ireland and Westchester and power over the Circuit of four Counties for Contribution where his Honorable and Obliging Deportment his judicious Works his frequent Sallies his great Word Cconsider so much you know as you consider his magnanimous performance in most Storms in Person his great Art of keeping both Town and Garrison contented with Cats Dogs yea and those failing with but one meal in three dayes while there was any hope of Relief refusing nine summons and not answering the tenth till his messenger returned with assurance that there was no hope of relief when he yielded upon the most honorable terms for himself and the whole Garrison that were given in England except those he afterwards gained at Caernarvon having indured a long and gallant Siege the benefit whereof he injoyed with a notable escape or two to rally the decayed and scattered spirits of the Kingdom into further attempts for his Majesty travelling invisibly and with incredible speed from place to place for a year together not sleeping four nights together in a place for a year till the fatal drowsiness hanging over the Kingdom put him upon taking his rest too and withdrawing to France to follow his ingenious Studies which the War had interrupted in the course but not in the effect of them his admirable discourse to his Mother discovering him as compleat a Scholar him as compleat a Scholar as he was an accomplished Gentleman dying oppressed with the sad thoughts of the consequence of the horrid Murther of his sacred Master about 1650. whose Monument is supported by four excellent Brothers I. Sir Philip Biron a Gentleman of a wide and capacious soul to grasp much and of an enlarged heart to communicate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Servant of love a great Master of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of love as if with Socrates he that knew every thing knew nothing but how to love After many signal services in York-shire in each whereof there was always observed something of a judicious stratagem in a general Storm by the whole Parliament Army upon Tork he was killed in the Head of his Regiment which never went out but he would tell them That never brave man came to any thing that resolved not either to Conquer or perish July 19. 1644. II. The Right Honorable Sir Richard now Lord Biron of Rochdale succeeding his noble Brother in that honor King Charles I. Octob. 24. 1643. invested him with to be Chronicled for his Government in and many surprizes of the enemy about Newark III. Sir Nicholas Biron as excellent a Commander of Foot as Sir Iohn was of Horse one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Life-guard of the world by his Piety and by his Prudence a person whom his late Majesty in all Engagements would have always near him IV. Sir Robert Biron all Colonels in his Majesties Army this last excellent Person higher in his relation to God by his second Birth contingit sanguine Coelum than to his Noble Family by his first All these Heroes deserving that Epitaph the great Family De Haro have always upon their Graves viz. Regum subditi amici THE Life and Death OF Dr. IOHN BRAMHALL Lord Archâ—bishop of Armagh c. HE was bred in Cambridge in Sydney Colledge under Mr. Hulet a grave and a worthy man and he shewed himself not only a fruitful Plant by his great progress in his Studies but made him another return of gratitude taking care to provide him a good Imployment in Ireland where he then began to be greatly interested It was spoken as an honor to Augustus Caesar that he gave his Tutor an honorable Funeral and Marcus Antonius erected a Statue unto his and Gratian the Emperor made his Master Ausonius to be Consul And our worthy Primate knowing the obligation which they pass upon us who do Obstetricari gravidae animae help the parturient Soul to bring forth fruit according to its seminal powers was careful not only to reward the industry of such persons so useful to the Church in the cultivating infantes plamarum young Plants whose joynts are to be stretched and made streight but to demonstrate that his Scholar knew how to value his Learning when he knew so well how to reward the Teacher Having passed the course of his studies in the University and done his Exercise with that Applause which is usually the reward of pregnant Wits and hard he was removed into York-shire where first in the City of York he was an assiduous Preacher but by the disposition of the Divine Providence he happened to be engaged at North-Alerton in Disputation with three pragmatical Romish Priests of the Jesuits Order whom he so much worsted in the Conference and so shamefully disadvantaged by the evidence of the Truth represented wisely and learnedly that the famous Primate of York Arch-bishop Matthews a learned and an excellent Prelate and most worthy Preacher hearing of that Triumph sent for him and made him his Chaplain in whose service he continued until the death of the Primate but in that time had given so much Testimony of his great Dexterity in the Conduct of Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs that he grew dear
SAMUEL MARSH Dean of York DOctor Marsh born Feb. 6. 1586. at Finchamsted in Herts and bred Fellow of All-Souls took to his book and became a Scholar against the will of his friends and a Divine against his own upon the same occasion that others become Physicians for being serupulous and inquisitive he spent so much time in settling his own soul that before he was aware he was immersed in that noble Science and Art of saving others Art I say for it was his Motto He that winneth souls is wise and he did profess to a friend as Bishop Williams once did that though he had gone through several honorable employments yet he would take more comfort in begetting one soul to God in travailing in birth till Christ were formed in an immortal spirit than in gaining all the honors in the world to himself he was one of those Reverend Divines the late King desired to converse with in his solitude and to advise with in his Treaties and one of them the Parliament feared most making the Kingdom his Church when he had none and instilling every where wholesome notions and rectified apprehensions into mens minds as likewise implanting the truth after godliness in their hearts teaching men not to be linked to this or that body of men in a design but with all good Christians in Communion many were his afflictions but according to that Text he said he kept up the heart of his Hearers with Preaching upon it God delivered him out of them all He could have lived as a Physician a Lawyer as well as a Divine he did as Nazianzen said of Philagrius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 play the Philosopher in his sufferings calling his tribulations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 learned afflictions full of great instructions which taught he said much real Christianity and made his soul of a more strong able and athletick habit and temper speaking in his distresses that he hoped he had learned all that for which God sent it and that he thought God kept us so long in that dispensation under those pressures and sufferings that Patience might have its perfect work and that the world might see what the true Protestant Religion was able to do what might power and virtue there was in it to bear up souls under the greatest misfortunes This would he say is the time to let men see we can live up at the same rate as we have formerly discoursed Four things he had a special care of in the late times 1. The Confirmation of well-affected People and the grounding of their Children from house to house where he was the more welcome by the sweetness and chearfulness of his converse 2. The furnishing of private Schools and Families with those excellent Scholars and honest Men to whom Zenodotus his Proverb was very applicable in those times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either he is dead or he teacheth School Expressing himself about that Care of his as Sir Walter Mildmay did about Emanuel Colledge whereof he was Founder That he set Acorns which others might live to see Oaks 3. The restraining of the Kings friends from rash and exorbitant expressions or actions That the Tyranny to use his own words might wear its self out upon their patience which might seed its self upon their peevishness 4. To widen his Majesties Interest by matching his friends to some of his not implacable and more generous foes who should espouse their Cause as well as their Relations intermarriages as he observed by the care God took in that case among his own people being able to turn the humor of any Nation In fine having saved the Plate and Books of Sion-Colledge in London when he was President having bestowed his own upon the Church to which he owed it hating to enrich private Families into Pride with the publick emoluments of the Church given to Piety and having led an exact and an exquisite life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a conversation so studied that it was in all things consonant with its self in most unaffected gravity wonderful simplicity and a stern Countenance proportionable to the vigor and strength of his Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a look that was not one key below his intent eager and sprightly minde wholly careful of the things he hoped for and regardless of the things he saw He died in a good old age 1662 3. Dr. Samuel Marsh Iocus Protervae Ludicrumque fortunae sed major ipsa Pallidoque Livore utriusque victor hoc jacet Busto nequid Aevi saeculique vis possit diesque long a deleat viri nomen devinxit ipsum Marsh sibi tempus Doctor Marsh his name puts me in minde of Dr. Thomas Paske whom he used to call his Glass so faithful a friend he was in discovering to him his defects and so good an example in proposing to him a pattern of perfection Against his will Master of Clare-hall Vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1621 2. when the contest was between Dr. Micklethwait and Dr. Preston about the Lecture at Trinity Church in that University without his knowledge made Archdeacon of London Minister of Much-haddam in Hertfordshire and St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey A Gentleman that did nothing so chearfully as suffer for his late Majesty and his Son eighteen years Modestly refuse first and then unhappily miss a Bishoprick under his Majesty that now is and dye The right square man and honest Cube that throw him where you would fell upon his base denying himself he injoyed the world none being able to deal more severely with him that he did with himself no condition afflicting him because no condition surprized him according to his usual saying That distresses were like Cockatrices if they see you first they kill you if you see them first you kill them Si tantum sperare dolorem preferre soror potero Disappointments kill some but as the Consumption did Dr. Butler who died of it as he said because he never feared it No wonder he was not ambitious of gain and preferment who was so civil in the in joyment of it that he would say He would not go to Law with his Parishioners for any part of his Tyths because if he lost their love as he must do if he were contentious he lost all probability of doing them that good for which he had all his Tyths Protesting that he had rather gain his Neighbours by spending all his Tyths in Hospitality than lose one by laying it all in his Purse Wherefore I hope he will see as many of his People happy about him in heaven as he saw of his Scholars and Pupils eminent here on earth three Bishops four Privy-Counsellors two Judges three Doctors of Physick one day appointing to Reverence that Person to whose Rules and Examples they owed their Merit as they did to their Merit their Greatness being much beholding to his Method Rules and Choice Books more to his Watchful Observation and most of all to his
first Fellows of Sidney Colledge who grew a good Divine by Family-exercises at Mr. Ailoffes house in Essex and an excellent Scholar by private Lectures begun his Ministry at a small Vicarage under an old man near Cambridge continued it in Sir Will. Cooks Family in London and at Lincolns-Inn for ten years and at Rotherith in Surrey whither he was recommended by Sir Henry Hobart and Sir R. Crew to prevent an Abby-lubber and where as in Lincolns-Inn he reformed Sabbath-Abuses and Preached freely a Catachetical Lecture every Friday throughout the body of Divinity for forty two years One whose memory was the best Library extant whose family was an Academy for Englishmen and Foreigners with whom he compared Studies every night to his and their great advantage correspondence with Salmasius and others universal as his study whose charity was secret meekness open self-denial in waving Prince Henries service and the Earl of Manchesters offer of the Mastership of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge signal having travelled to the Low-Countries 1620. having been four times Married Visitor of three publick Schools seen ten of his assistants eminent Ministers in the Church gone through the body of Divinity in his Family nine times having written twenty two Books in Latine and sixteen in English of his and revised above an hundred Books of others bewailing the Schism which in the Assembly he indeavoured to moderate He died Iuly 27. 1954. in the eightieth year of his age â— say Dr. Featleys value of good men was a fifth particular that endeared him to many good people Yet this good man after a Disputation in Southwark Octob. 17. 1642. wherein he overthrew the Anabaptists taking a good method Catechising them first to discover their ignorance in the Grounds of Religion before they disputed to shew their Opinions in the Controversies of it and adding to his arguments against them what was indeed the shrewdest argument an History of them and several Speeches in the Assembly in which he was though not of it against the Covenant and other extravagancies of those times was Sequestred Plundered and upon a Letter he sent to Bishop Vsher in Oxford Subscribed â— â— i. e. Fidelity as they interpreted giving an account of his shrewd argument against the Covenant imprisoned as a Spie and upon his declaring before the Committee that he could not be of another minde continued in Peter-house notwithstanding his great assistance to the Assembly in the Comment on St. Pauls Epistle undertaken by him in bonds where they were most written upon an humble Letter written to him from the whole Assembly till a little before he died he was removed to Chelsey-Colledge whereof he was the third and last Provost making no other reflection upon his sufferings than the answer he gave Mr. White the Chair-man when he told him he must suffer Nec mihi ignominiosum est puti quid passus est Christus Nec tibi gloriosum est facere quod fecit Judas Siste gradum viator Paucis te volo Hic situs est Daniel Featleus Impugnator Papismi Propugnator reformationis Instigator Assiduae pietatis Tam studio quam exâ—rcitio Theologus Insignis Disputator Strenuus Concionator Egregius Pusillus Atlas vegetior a certaminibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Facete candidus candide facetus D. D. Featleus qui Natus Charltoniae educatus Oxonii Aetatis suae 65. 17 Obiit Chelsei Sepultus fuit Lambethae Aprilis Anno salutis 21 1645. To make up this Catalogue compleat I will conclude with 1. Dr. Cattesford Rector of Hadley and Monks-Ely in Suffolk Sequestred for a strict observation of the Canons for intreating the people to repair to their Ministers for Ghostly Comfort and Advise for refusing to read the Parliaments Declarations or approve of their Proceedings 2. Dr. Roberts Fellow of Trinity Colledge and Rector of Hambledon in the County of Bucks a grave and modest man a general Scholar and an accurate Preacher Sequestred for declaring it unlawful upon any pretence to raise Armes against the King a Doctrine which he made good by the Testimonies of all the Fathers and Modern Divines and was told that if they were alive now they would be of another minde 3. Dr. N. Andrews Rector of Guilford and Vicar of Godliman in Surrey Sequestred for saying that long Sermons went beyond St. Peters Sword cutting off both Ears and that the surfeit of the Word is most dangerous and that Prayer was as good as Preaching and for lifting up the Bread and Wine at the consecration of it with reverence together with his dislike of reprobation and refusing to publish their Orders about destroying the Ornaments of the Church 4. Dr. Io. Mountford Rector of Austie in the County of Hertford Sequestred for saying that God was present by the presence of his Grace in the places of his Worship and therefore he reverenced God when he came into such a place usually ordering that part of the 43. Psalm Then shall I to the Altar go of God c. to be sung as he went to second Service for tying Lecturers to Catechise within his Iurisdiction for religiously adorning his Church and Chancel 5. Dr. Iames Mountford Rector of Tewing in the County of Hertford Sequestred for bringing his people to order and discipline as Kneeling at Communions and for teaching That if the King were an Idolater we should not as the Apostles did not take Armes against him together with refusing to contribute to the Parliament Cause and discouraging them that did 6. Dr. Iefferies Fellow of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge Chaplain to Archbishop Abbot Vicar of Feversham and Ticehurst in Kent a methodical Scholar and a melting Preacher Sequestred for Preaching that the Episcopal Government was Apostolical that Bishops Priests and Deacons under the Gospel answered to High-priests Priests and Levites under the Law as the Presbyterians did Corah Dathan and Abiram for not admitting the House of Commons Lecturer into his Church and not observing their Fasts a mirror of patience under tortures of the Gout racking his whole body He died at Mr. Challenor Chutes house who said he would plead for Bishops as long as he had a tongue 1658. 7. Dr. Io. Gorsuck of Walherne in Hertford-shire Sequestred for sending a good horse to serve his Majesty and a bad one to serve the Parliament 8. Mr. Ed. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex for pressing his Parishioners to receive the Communion orderly at the Rails 9. Dr. Edward Marten Minister of Houghton-Conquest in Bedford-shire and of Dunnington in Cambridge-shire Sequestred for blessing God for the examples of the Saints departed and Preaching much upon holy Reverence and Obedience as likewise for lending and giving his Majesty money besides those turned out in both Universities for refusing the Covenant and disowning the Parliaments Authority to Visit the Universities whereof his Majesty was by their Statutes Visitor as his Predecessors were Founders in Oxford Dr. Samuel Fell Student Prebendary and Dean of Christ-Church
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the long-Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
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 Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
the First that firm Protestant who could not be moved from his Religion though he was in the heart of Spain and France was in his bosom either by power or love said of him when going under his Roof at Naseby fight that he found not so much faith as he did in him though a Papist bred at Saint Omers and travelled for many years in Spain and Italy no not in Israel For it was he whose frugality whereof his plain Freeze cloaths at Court were a great example enabled him and his Loyalty which he said whatever other Romanists practised was incorporated into his Religion often relating with pleasure that Gospel for the day when the Imperialists beat the Bohemians was Reddite Caesari quae sunt Casaris Deo qui sunt Dei urged him when his Majesties Protestant Subjects made him afraid and ashamed to stay in London to send men with ready money when the King wanted it and the Country-people would do no more without it to bear the charges of his Majesties and his Followers carriages and other accommodations to York besides that he was seen to give Sir Iohn Biron 5000 l. Sterling to raise the first horse that were raised for the King in England and his own Officers 40000 l. Sterling to raise two Armies 1642. and 1643. for his Majesty in Wales over and above 40000 l. Sterling in gold at three several times sent his Majesty in person and the unwearied pains the close imprisonments the many iminent dangers of his life and most of these hardships endured when he was eighty years of age and the great services he performed in South-wales where the greatness of his fortune and family improved by the sweetness and munificence of his person raised him an interest that kept those parts both a sanctuary to his Majesties person when he was in streights and the great relief of his Cause both with men and money when he was in want till that victorious Army that had reduced the whole kingdom besieged him who hearing of his Son the Lord Glamorgans landing with considerable Irish forces writes to them That if they would make him undelaid reparations for his Rents they had taken he would be their quiet Neighbor adding that he knew no reason he had to render his House the only House he had he being an infirm man and his goods to Sir Thomas Fairfax they being not the Kings to dispose of and that they might do well to consider his condition now eighty four years of age At last upon very honorable Articles three months time without being questioned for any action in relation to the war being allowed them to make their composition surrendring the very last Garrison in England or Wales that held out for his Majesty for whom the Marquiss lost his great estate being Plundered and Sequestred and in his old age Banished his Country being excepted out of all the Indemnities of his enemies and as I am told left out of the care of his friends among whom he died poor in Prison whither he was fetched in a cold Winter 1648. supported only by his chearful nature whereof his smart Apothegms and Testimonies as when his Majesty had pardoned some Gentlemen upon their good words that had prejudiced his service in South-Wales the Marquiss told him That was the way to gain the Kingdom of Heaven but not his Kingdom on Earth and used to reprove him out of some old Poet as Gower Chawcer c. often repeating that passage of Gower to him A King can kill a King can Save A King can make a Lord a Knave And of a Knave a Lord also And when he saw a ghastly old woman he would say How happy were it for a man going to Bed to his Grave to be first Wedded to this Woman When he was in Bala in Merionith-shire and the people were afraid to come at him for fear he was a Round-head Oh said he this misunderstanding undoeth the world And when the Major came and excused the Town to him Do you see now said he if the King and Parliament understood one another as you and I do they would agree as you and I do What when forbid Claret for the Gout said he shall I quit my old friend for my new enemy When a Mâ—â—quet-bullet at the siege of Ragland glancing on a Marble-pillar in the withdrawing Room where my Lord used to entertain his friends with pleasant discourses after meals hit his head and fell flat on the ground he said That he was flattered to have a good head-piece in his younger days but he thought he had one in his old age which was Musquet-proof Excusing a vain-glorious man as he would put a charitable construction upon most mens actions he said That vain-glory was like Chaff that kept a mans spirit warm as that did the Corn Adding if you set a man on his Horse let him have his Horse When a conceited Servant told him once that he should not have done so and so I would answered he give gold for a Servant that is but nothing for one that seems to be wiser than his Master Two men very like another the one a Papist the other a Protestant one of them set the other to take the Oath of Supremacy for him whereupon said the Marquiss If the Devil should mistake you one for the other as the Iustices did he would marr the coâ—â—â—it When it was told him he should be buried at Windsor Then said he I shall take a better Castle when dead than ever I lost when alive He desired Sir Thomas Fairfax to comprehend his two Pigeons within the Articles who wondering at his chearfulness was told That he suffered chearfully because he did before reckon upon it His goverment of his family was remarkable Dr. Bayley protesting that in three years he saw not a man drunk he heard not an oath sworn and though it was half Protestant half Papist he observed not a crosse word given the whole house being as the Master not only chearful but sober and indeed to keep them so he would wind up the merriest reparties with a grave and serious conclusion no Servants better disciplined or incouraged than his With him it is fit to mention 1. His Son the Earl of Glamorgan since Marquiss of Worcester who was as active in raising Irish forces for his Majesty having made the pacification there wherein it was thought he went beyond his Commission as his Father was in raising the Welch nay indeed Commanded the Welch to Glocester and other plaees with success in the years 1642 1643. as he would have done the Irish had he not been obstructed 1644. as he writes to the Lord Hopton c. to the Relief of Chester for which services he was Misunderstood by his friends Sequestred and Banished by his enemies continuing with his Majesty in that condition till his Restauration A great Mechanick eminent both at home and abroad for the Engines and Water-works
Thomas Fuller bestoweth this Epitaph upon him Hic Johnsone jacet sed si mors cederet herbis Arte fuguata tua cederet illa tuis Col. Henry Gage in whose wreath of Laurel his twice relieving this house in two still foggy nights not knowing his way but as he fought it through four times the number of the wearied men he had with him deserves to be twisted and whose history is drawn up on his Monument which after two Funerals will not suffer him to dye being likely to continue his worth after our ruins as long as Seth intended his stones should Letters after both the destructions of the world in Christ Church Oxford thus P. M. S. Hic situs est Militum chiliarcha Henricus Gage equitis aurati Filius hares Johannis Gage de Haling in agro surriensâ— Armigeri Pronepos Johannis Gage honeratissimi ordinis peris celidis equitis in Belgio meruit supra annos XX. in omnipraeliâ— obsidione Berghae ad Zomam Bredae ac praecipue S. audomori ex Belgio ad M. Brit. regem missus attulit armorum VI. M. Cujus imperio Bostalii aeâ—es expugnavit Mox Basingianis prasidiariis commeatu interclusis strenue rejam desperata suppetias tulit castrum Bamburiense cum Northamptoniae comite liberavit hinc equestri dignitate ornatus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit jamque gubernator Oxon. creatus cum ad Culhami Pontem inhostes jam tertio milites audacter duceret plumbea traject us glande occubuit Die XI Janua 1644. aetat suae 47. funus solemni luctu prosequnti Principes Proceres Milites Academici Cives â—mnes Iam tristissimi ex dessiderio viri ingenio linguarum peritia gloria militari pietate fide amore in principem patriam eminentissimi THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord DIGBY Earl of Bristol THis Noble man was the younger Son of an Ancient Family of the Digbies long flourishing at Coleshull in Warwick-shire who to pass by his Infancy all children are alike in their Long-coats in his Youth as his Son did gave pregnant hopes of that eminency which his Mature Age did produce and coming to Court with an Annuity of fifty pounds a year besides a good Address and choice Abilities both for Ceremonies and business He kenned the Ambassadors craft as well as any man living in his time employed by King Iames in several services to forraign Princes recited in his Patent as the main motives of the Honors conferred upon him among which the Spanish Match managed by him from 1616. to 1623. was his master-piece wherein if his Lordship dealt in generalities and did not press particulars we may guess the reason of it from that expression of his I will take care to have my Instructions perfect and will pursue them punctually If he held affairs in suspence that it might not come to a war on our side it may be he did so with more regard to his Master King Iames his Inclination than his own Apprehension If he said that howsoever the business went he would make his fortune thereby it rather argued the freedom of his spirit that he said so his sufficiency that he could do so than his unfaithfulness that he did do so This is certain that he chose rather to come home and suffer the utmost displeasure of the King of England than stay abroad and injoy the highest favour of the King of Spain He did indeed interceed for Indulgence to Papists but it was because otherwise he could do no good beyond sea for the Protestants The worst saith a learned Protestant that conversed with him much at Exeter during the siege of it and was invited to live with him beyond Sea after it he saying that as long as he had a Loaf the Doctor should have half of it I wish such who causlessly suspect him of Popish Inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong arguments for the Protestant Religion as I heard from him who many years after the contract with the Duke of Buckingham which the Duke fearing his preventing policy as he did the Dukes after-power became a drawn battel under the Kings displeasure and as the Court-cloud makes the Countries shine in the peoples favour yet bestowed his parts and interest in the beginning of the long-Long-Parliament upon the vindication of the Church as appears by his excellent Speeches for Episcopacy and the peace of the kingdom as he shewed in his admirable discourse 1641. of an Accommodation The reason which together with a suspicion that he was the Author of most of his Majesties Counsels and Declarations inrolled him always among the excepted persons in the number of whom he died banished in France about 1650. having met with that respect in Forreign that he missed in his Native Country 1. For whatever was at the bottom of his actions there was resolution and nobleness at top being carried from Village to Village after the King of Spain without the regard due to his person or place he expressed himself so generously that the Spanish Courtiers trembled and the King Declared That he would not interrupt his pleasures with business at Lerma for any Ambassador in the world but the English nor for any English Ambassador but Don Juan 2. When impure Scioppius upon his Libel against King Iames and Sir Humphrey Bennets complaint to the Arch-Duke against him fled into Madrid my Lord observing that it was impossible to have justice againstâ— him from the Catholick King because of the Jesuites puts his Cousien G. Digby upon cutting him which he did over his Nose and Mouth wherewith he offended so that he carried the mark of his blasphemy to his Grave 3. Where he was an extraordinary Ambassador in Germany upon his return by Hâ—ydelâ—ergh observing that Count Mansfield Army upon whom depended the fortune of the Palsgrave was like to disband for want of money he pawned all his Plate and Jewels to buoy up that Sinking Cause for that time There were besides him of this Family these famous men 1. Sir Iohn Digby a Sommerset-shire Gentleman of good education beyond Seas and of a great temperance and conduct at home careful of removing the jealousies got among the people being of the Earl of Bristol's minde in that that it is easier to compose differences arising from reasons yea from wrongs than from jealousies and that the nicest point in all Treaties is security Commanding a Tertia of the Kings Army which he raised in Sommerset-shire with great vigilance activity and charge spending 25000 l. from the time he waited on his Majesty at Nottingham 1642. having put the Commission of Array in execution in Sommersetshire to the time he 1645. received his deaths wound in a gallant action at Langfort in the foresaid County whereof he died 2. His Brother for parts as well as bloud Sir Kenelme Digby both bred abroad and both out of gratefulness faithful to King Charles who restored them upon his Queens Intercession
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
dying 1660. a great enemy of Tobacco because of Sir Water Rawleighs testimony of it that he saw the Spanish Negroes throwing the running of their sores and boils in the leaves as they lay in a swet say Yâ— Pauperos Lutheranos good enough for the Dogs the Lutherans Sir Iohn Banks born at Keswicke and bred at Grays-Inn attaining to great experience by solliciting Suits for others and a great Estate by managing those of his own laughing at many at last that smiled at him at first leaving many behind him in Learning that he found before him in time He was one whom the Chollor of S S S worn by Judges and other Magistrates became very well if it had its name from Sanctus Simon Simplicius no man being more seriously pious none more singly honest When Sir Henry Savile came to Sir Edward Cooke then at Bowls in Arch-bishop Abbots behalf and told him he had a Case to propose to him Sir Edward answered if it be a Case in Common-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I cannot presently satisfie you but if it be a point of Statute-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I should undertake to satisfie you without consulting my Books Sir Iohn Banks though ready without his Books on the Bench yet alwayes resolved Cases out of them in his Chamber answerable to his saying to Dr. Sibbs A good Textuary is a good Lawyer as well as a good Divine A Gentleman he was of singular modesty of the Ancient freedom plain heartedness and integrity of minde very grave and severe in his deportment yet very affable in such sort that as Tacitus saith of Agrippa Illi quod est Rarissimum 〈◊〉 facilitâ—s authoritatem nec sâ—veritas amorem diminuit his knowledge in the Law and inward reason of it was very profound his experience in Affairs of State universal and well laid patient he was in hearing sparing but pertinent in speaking very glad always to have things represented truly and clearly and when it was otherwise able to discern through all pretences the real merit of a Cause Being a Religious and moderate man he became of good repute with the people and being an able man he was taken notice of by the King who Knighting him in August 10. Car. I. when Reader of Grays-Inn and the Princes Sollicitor made him in Mr. Noys place Attorney General and in Hil. Term 16 Car. I. Chief Justice in Sir Edward Litletons place in which place he continued at London till his presence being made an Argument for Illegal proceedings he went himself and drew several others he had interest in to Oxford His prudent and valiant Lady with her numerous and noble Off-spring retiring to her House Corfe-Castle in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset-shire and when besieged there by Sir Will. Earl and Sir Tho. Trenchard who wanted this Castle only to make the Sea-Coast their own keeping it against three surprizes a Proclamation Interdicting her the common Markets the clamor of the common people thereabouts the intercepting of 200. weight of Powder strict Watches set about it a while with forty men yeâ— but five at first and then by the benefit of a Treaty wherein shâ— yeilded up the four small pieces to the Enemy on condition she might have her house and so making her adversaries more remiss gained an opportunity to re-inforce the Castle with Commanders Ammunition Provision and Souldiers who notwithstanding the endeavours to corrupt them with Bribes and the Plunder of the Castle notwithstanding the enemies taking the Town and Church the Oath to give no Quarter the Engines they made the Supplies of war sent in every day by the Earl of Warwick their encouraging the Souldiers first with mony twenty pound a man and afterwards with Drink and Opium to Scale the Walls in a desperate Assault kept it six weeks till August 4. 1643. when the Besiegers ran away leaving their Horse Armes Ammunition behind them the vallant Lady her self with her Daughters and Maidservants maintaining one Post in the Castle Captain Laurence Sir Edwards Son and Captain Bond keeping another Sir Iohn died December 28. 1644. and in the 55. year of his age having one Monument in Christ-Church P. M. S. Hoc loco in spem futuri saeculi depositum jacet Io. Bankes qui Reginalis Coll. in hac Acad. Alumnus eques Auratus ornatissimus Attornat Gener. de Com. Banco Cap. Justitiarius a Secretioribus Conciliis Regi Carolo Peritiam Integritaâ—em sidem Egregie praestitit ex aede Christi in Aedes Christi transiliit unicam hinc Monumento suo sub mortem vovens Periodum Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo sit gloria And another 30 l. per annum with other emoluments to be bestowed in pious uses and chiefly to set up a Manufacture of course Cottons in the Town of Kiswick which hath good and is in hopes of better success besides that it cost his Lady and her nine Children for their Fathers Loyalty 1400 l. and her Son-in-law that married her eldest Daughter the excellent Lady Burlace Sir Io. Burlace of Maidmenham Bucks who suffered several imprisonments and decimations from the Kings enemies and was very civil upon all occasions to his friends 3500 l. Sir Bankes Son and Heir to Sir Io. 1974 l. Sir Thomas Gardner born as I am informed near Oxford bred in the Inner-Temple London A Gentleman that won much upon all men by a natural grace that was upon his person and actions and upon his Clients by his Integrity Condescention and Watchfulness Other Lawyers are for the increase of their own number he spent a great deal of his time to consider how to reduce them especially the Atturneys and Solicitors the supernumeraries whereof he would say make no other use of Laws but to finde tricks to evade them or making them right Cobwebs to insnare the people and the Law too being more for promoting good Orders to execute old Laws than for preferring â—ills to make new ones The Faction had no other quarrel with him than the Clowns had with Sir Iohn Cavendish in Wat Tyler and King Richarâ— the Seconds time because he was learned and honest for being made Recorder of London Term. Hil. 11 mo Car. I. they charged him 1. For directing the Lord in setting up the Kings Standard and impressing men against the Scots 2. For promoting Ship-money the Loan and Tonnage and Poundage 3. For prosecuting seditious Libellers Petitioners and Rioters And 4. For procuring his Majesty that noble entertainment 1641. upon his return from Scotland from the City to amuse the Parliament 5. For drawing and carrying on some more sober Petitions than were usual in those times whereupon he retired to York and thence to Oxford where he Sate in the Parliament assisted in the Treaties offering always three things 1. A Committee to state the differences 2. A particular consideration of those things wherein the people are to be relieved and the King
Elocution the seriousness and greatness of his Spirit admitted him with advantage upon an Act-Sunday to the Pulpit at St. Maries upon a solemn Festival to preach before his Majesty and upon a Fast before the Parliament being after his travels and relation to Sir Will. Russel to whose nearest Relations affecting his great accomplishments recommended him and after one Marriage that intervened providence made way for him and the Earl of Warwick he was setled first at Brightwell in Berk-shire 1641. secondly at Bocking in Essex 1644. thirdly at the Temple London 1659. and at the Bishoprick of Exetâ—r 1660. succeeding in both those places Bishop Brownrigge whose Life he writ and exemplified and at last Bishop of Worcester 1662. where he dyed 1663. having commanding qualities which carryed all the Country where he was to his Opinion about the Covenant 1644. and all the Kingdom to his sentiments about the King and Church the first of whom he vindicated in a pathetick Remonstrance delivered the General the second he asserted vigorously in its Doctrine and Discipline in his Hieraspistes 1653. pleaded for seriously in its Ministers in his Declaration to O. P. about the Edict Ian. 1. 1655. that turned out Orthodox Ministers out of all capacities of subsistence sollicited for effectually in its Tyths and other Priviledges 1649. 1650. c. in other Treatises mourned for pathetically in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Sighs and Groans of the Church 1659. Preached for boldly before the City Feb. 1659. in his Slight Healers in the Temple Dec. the same in Bishop Brownriggs Funeral Sermon before the Parliament April 30. in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cleared unanswerably in his satisfactions given Sir L. Bromfield and other scrupulous but moderate Persons and adorned exemplary by his excellent advices to and conversation among his Clergy his generous and obliging behaviour towards the Gentry and gallant and healing Discourses in Parliament many young Noble-men as Mr. Richard Heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick c. had their Education in his Family more Scholars and Clergy-men owe their parts to his direction several Citizens were inriched by his Correspondence who was as great a Merchant as a Scholar as great a Courtier and States-man as either and indeed the great Restauration was not a little furthered by his universal acquaintance and ubiquitary activity not be paralleled but by his Brother Mr. Gauden his Majesties Purveyor for the Navy an employment to be managed by no one man with such an universal satisfaction as it is now but by himself and 1668. they say Sheriff of London In fine he was born for great things having such a Copia verborum and those so full pregnant and significant joyned with such an active fancy as rarely accompanyeth so sound a Judgment and so deep an Understanding Such a publick Spirit and ready Parts that besides the many motions he made for the promoting of Commenius his way of advancing general Learning Duraeus his indeavour of procuring universal Peace the Royal Societies Noble attempts for compleating Philosophy Bishop Walsons and Dr. Castles Heroick Essayes for propagating the Eastern Learning every man that came to him went the better from him Such great prudence in the managery of Affairs like the providence that governs the world that he could quickly see into the depth and soon turn round all the sides of business so as to be full and clear in his Resolutions and Debates dexterous in his advice upon all straits his Learning being so concocted into an active wisdom that he was fit for any Imployment understanding things so well at first sight that he seldom had a second thought generally standing to the resolution and determination of his first Adde to this the integrity of heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dipped into Justice the stateliness of his Speech the ingenuity aptness freedom and gravity of his fansie the luxuriancy of his ready invention tempered with such solid and serious mixtures such grave Retreats and Closes that it seemed no other than beauty well dressed or goodness appearing in a fair and chearfull Summers day becoming him as smiling doth a good Man and a good Conscience or flouring a laughter as we say doth a generous pleasant and spiritful liquor the apt facetiousness of his native and fluent Wit making way in converse for his more serious and weighty Conception as did his Catholick love tender of all even as appears by his discourse of the Oaths imposed upon them of the poor Quakers themselves but fond of worthy and good men that he picked up all over the Nation in his respect to whom you might 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Historiola haec monstrat quem fama monstrat magis sed ipsa necdum fama quem monstrat satis ille totam solus Implevit tubam tot ora solus Domuit famam quoque fecit modestam Ingens Academiarum certamen quot quin ipse Academiae In quo musae omnes gratiae nullibi magis sorores sub preside religione in tenacissimum sodalitium Coaluere Peralta rerum pondera cum vaga mens indomito Cucurrit animo et natur amexhausit totam mille faeta Artibus mille Scientiis se in eruditionem varians omnigenam et toti cognata encyclopaediae Coelo satur nativo in suam evolavit originem relicto sub tantillo marmore quanto hospite Eo nimirum majore Monumento quo minore tumulo morte pariter etvita modestus Dr. Henry Ferne Fellow and Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Lord Bishop of Chester well known in the late times by his clear resolutions of the Cases in difference between the King and Parliament between our Church and Rome on the one hand and Geneva on the other in all which there were such weight of Arguments such clearness of Expression and such piety and seriousness of Spirit that two Adversaries confessed that that Cause never looked so clearly and devoutly in any writings as in Dr. Ferns and as well known by his Sermons at Oxford then pressing Humiliations holy Vows and Resolutions and at Cambridge and London pressing the keeping of those Vows He dyed within few Moneths after he was made Bishop 1661. being buryed at Westminister without any other Monument than his Name of whom I may say Adeo se occuluit ut vitam ejus pulchram dixeris R. C. et Pudicam dissimulationem I mo vero et mortem Ecce enim in ipso funere dissimulari se passus est Dr. Iohn Earls on whom Merton Colledge where he was bred and buryed bestowed this History in this Epitaph Amice sâ— quis hic sepultus est roges ille qui nec meruit unquam nec quod majus est habuit inimicum qui potuit in Aula vivere et mundum spernere Concionator educatus Inter principes et ipse facile princeps inter Concionatores evangelista Inde festus Episcopus Pientissimus
with him while he lived and offering himself upon a tryal by a noble Counsel of War by whom after an affixer set and a Proclamation for any person to come in and prosecute him none appearing he was quitted Oct. the second 1643. His pious Relations at London something misled I think by some modern Preachers more taken with the seriousness of their preaching and praying than the irregularity of their proceedings befriended him with the Parliament during the Usurpation as he did them with his Majesty after the Restauration having been thousands out of purse to his Majesties Father before the Wars in Custom-house he had a considerable interest in the farming of it since having a peculiar faculty of advancing Trade and consequently Tallage till he dyed 1666. his body being buryed in Mildred Breadstreet with his Ancestors and his heart at a Chappel in Hammersmith built at his Charge He was well known by his large heart in inventing some new kind of Benefaction there as he was by his large head in finding out new Inventions having done many good works in and about the City while he lived and left considerable Legacies there when he dyed Deserving a Marble Monument for his new way of making Brick and an Epitaph as clear as he could speak for the obscure way safe to himself and friends though dark to his foes he had to write expressing himself in these sad times as O. P. whose abilities were not to be gathered from his words any more than his meaning save that the more intangled they were they were the more judicious his Interest obliging him to a Reserve for he durst neither clearly own his thoughts nor totally disclaim them but opening them with such advantages that he was neither mistaken by his friends nor understood by his enemies We must not separate Sir Nicholas Crisp from the Worshipful Sir Iohn Iacob his partner both in the Farming of the Custom-house and his sufferings about them a man ever forward to assist his Majesty saying What! shall I keep my Estate and see the King want where withall to protect it if it please God to bless the King though I give him all I have I can be no looser if not though I keep all I can be no saver and to relieve the Clergy valuing more their Prayers and Gods blessing than his own Estate employing under him only those honest Cavaliers that suffered with him On whose Grave and Sir Abraham Dawes whose misfortues for his Integrity and Loyalty are recompensed in the blessing of his Posterity both his Children and Grand-children flourishing in an Honorable and Worshipful Estate in Surrey indued with excellent Parts good and obliging Tempers a great Reputation and considerable Estates whereby they are as able to serve their present Soveraign as their Ancestor was the Father who when discouraged to advance his share of the 100000 l. with Sir N. C. Sir I. I. Sir I. W. the King had need of with threatnings that he should re-imburse it or as much to the Parliament answered no more But that is the worse that can happen God be thanked I love my Allegiance so well that I cannot only pay it but pay for it And the Worshipful Sir Iohn Wolsten-holm still by the blessing of God upon his chearful spirit which is the result of a good nature and a good Conscience surviving all his sufferings and doing his Majesty and the Kingdom eminent service in the great Trust committed to him though almost eighty years of Age with incredible activity and dispatch eminent for his exemplary Hospitality and Charity his great care to keep a good understanding in the City and his readiness to encourage any publick good work tenderly asking for Sion Colledge and other ruined places as my good friend Mr. Whitle Secretary of the Custom-house who is never wanting to speak a good word for a good work hath often told me to which he hath been formerly a good Benefactor I may say of him as Mr. Crashaw doth of Mr. Aston THe modest front of this small floor Believe me Reader can say more Than many a braver Marble can Here lies a truly honest man One whose Conscience was a thing That troubled neither Church nor King One of those few that in this Town Honour'd all Preachers heard their own Sermons he heard yet not so many As left no time to practice any He heard them Reverendly and then His practice preach'd them o're agen His Parlor-Sermons rather were Those to the Eye than to the Ear. His prayers took their price and strength Not from the loudness nor the length He lov'd his Father yet his Zeal Tore not off his Mothers Veil To th' Church he did allow her Dress True Beauty to true Holiness Peace which he lov'd in Life did lend Her hand to bring him to his End Sir Martin Noel Farmer of part of the Customs born at Stafford in Stafford-shire and dying in Bishops-gate London was very like Sir Nicholas Crisp in the activity of a designing spirit being in all forty several Inventions for Trade and the Charity of a publick one having built and indowed a fair Hospital in the Town of his Nativity one of the first in that kind in that Country and he drew the first Letter with a flourish being bred a Scrivener while he lived besides what he left when he dyed 1665. and was buryed by his own order at old Iury Church with only the Office in the Common-prayer said at his Funeral and the Book put into his Grave Sir Edmund Wright Lord Mayor 1640. Memorable for his Justice to one Clergy-man in his Office Mr. Chestlen of Sr. Matthews Fryday-street molested by a combination in the Parish to pay him no Tythe to weary him out and bring Burton now brought home in a bold affront to publick justice in who appealing to him according to the Statute 37 Hen. 8. found him so resolvedly honest that when Pennigton threatned him to stave him off from doing justice he replyed What shall I be afraid to do justice and ordered him his Tithes pursuing his order so far as to commit them to the Goal without Bail or main-prize that refused to submit to that order till two of the then House of Commons took the Prisoners out of Newgate by force whither they were sent by Law and his Charity to all Clergy-men deprived of their places out of it Sir Abraham Reynardson Lord Mayor 1648. and Imprisoned in the Tower two moneths for not consenting to his Majesties murther and the alteration of the Government which proved the end of that War which Sir Richard Gurney so seasonably would have prevented in the beginning of it and not discharged till he had paid 2000 l. fine and as far as lay in his enemies who had destroyed the foundation of honor lost his honor in a way that increased it In reference to whom be it remembred that his Lady would not suffer the messenger that brought the Proclamation for
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
Case of Pistols before her which might have served to suppress it 5. For doing nothing with the Kings Ships when at Sea the Scots saying that the son of such a Mother could do them no harm and not protesting the Kings gracious Declaration the justice and clemency whereof would have allayed the Tumults when at Land but letting the Covenanteers protest against it before it was published insomuch that the Bishops of Ross and Brechen Sir Iohn Hay and the Earl of Sterling came to England to warn the King of him 6. For refusing to contribute towards the Scottish Wars for withdrawing privately to raise jealousies in Scotland for interceding for London and hindring Montross so as to make the King believe that the Scots would not invade England till he himself writes that they were on the Borders yet by a Providence which one calls Digit us Dei beheaded at Westminster 1649. after great overtures of money and discoveries to save his life by that Party for the King whom he was thought to serve against the King who said when he heard he led the Scots Army for which he suffered Nay if he leads them there is no good to be done for me having displaced and imprisoned him at Oxford because he said he should not have an opportunity to re-couzen him Duke William died honourably of his wounds in his Majesties Service at Worcester 1651. The eminent Divines of Aberdeen for strong reasons and invincible patience in opposing the Covent particularly Dr. Baron and Dr. Forbs eminent Philosophers and Divines will never be forgotten in Scotland while there is either a Church or an University left there Nil quod Foâ—besio Christi dum pascit Ovile Nil quod Baronio comparet orbis habet Eloquio sunt ambo pares in discrimen in uno est Quo lubet hic mentes pellicit ille rapit A. Johnston To whom I may add the learned Dr. Iohn Maxwel sometimes Bishop of Ross and since Archbishop I think of St. Andrews THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM PENNIMAN SIR William Penniman a Gentleman of good fortunes in Yorkshire where part of the Allum Mine rented by Sir Paul Pindar belonged to him before the Wars and one of the first that engaged with the King in the Wars whose Epitaph at Christ Church is his just Chronicle M. S. H. S. E. Gulielmus Penniman Baronettus Equestri dignitate parique animo decorus obsequio fide adversus optimum eundemque afflictissimum Principem Carolum Regem spectabilis qui serinissimum Regem cum caetera Inermis classe Armamentariis arcibus omnibus belli praesidiis orbatus nudo majestatis titulo armatus staret duabus cohortibus Equitum una Peditum altera a se conscriptis primus instruxit quibus ipse praefuit tribunus ac brevi Vrbis Oxon. praefectura donatus est in qua it a se gessit ut nec discessor Ashlaeus nec successor Astonus magna bello nomina luminibus ipsius obstruerat Demum Febre Epidemica correptus in medio aetatis honorumque decursu premature extinctus triste sui desiderium apud omnes reliquit quibus morum suavitate ac comitate fuerat merito charissimus Obiit Aug. 22. A. D. 1643. tumulo potitus in eadem domo in qua ingenii cultum capessaverat Iacob Lord Ashley born of a well know Family in Norfolk bred under Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere a Captain in the Low-Countries and preferred for his good Conduct-Colonel whence after thirty years service returning to his Native Country he had the Command of New-Castle in the Scottish Wars 1639. 1640. and after of Oxford in the English out of which by reason of the experience his Majesty had of his good wary carriage in keeping the Northern Army in order when they wanted money and engaging them to serve the King if he had thought fit to have made use of their assistance when he wanted strength 1641. to keep the City in order and the Parliament free he was drawn into the Field and particularly to assist in forming the siege of Glocester wherein the Low-Country Wars being in effect nothing but sieges he had a great judgment and where he was shot in the arm as afterwaads to draw the line of Communication between his Majesties Forces round about the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel his own Post being at Hawl where he commanded the Haven of Foy. Having likewise the disposal of the most difficult part of the second Newberry Fight after which he setled the Affairs of Worcester-shire and Glocester-shire so well by continual surprizes of the Enemy that he commanded Contribution to the Gates of Glocester after that much against his will was he commanded to form the fatal battel of Nazeby and which was worse to quit the advantageous piece of ground and model he had first designed to the loss of that battel after which by diligent Correspondence with Ireland and Wales he got a considerable Army which for want of the Horse promised him from Oxford a streight wherein he could not avoid fighting he lost at Stow in the Old March 21. 1645 6. where when he was taken he said That the Game was up and after a tedious Imprisonment dyed I think in that Foreign Country where he had so Honorably lived 165. His Son Sir Bernard Ashley an eminent and stout Commander in his Majesties Army after admirable service done in fix Fights and eight Sieges dyed of wounds received in a brave sally out of Bristol Sept. 4. 1645. Sir Arthur Aston a Lancashire Gentleman where the Papists are most zealous by Antiparistasis because of the extream zeal of the Protestants there as good of his Hands as a Souldier as Sir Walter Aston the known Ambassador in Spain and Germany was of his Head many Souldiers did he by his great services in Foreign Wars bring to his Majesty from abroad more by his excellent Discipline did he make at home where he commanded the Dragoons in Edgehill doing exquisite execution and giving my Lord Stuart and other young Gentlemen direction how to do so Thence being made Governor of Reading he beat Essex thrice from the Town till having a dangerous wound he was forced to devolve his Command upon Col. Fielding returning himself to Oxford where he was Governor till it appeared that the severity of his Discipline would do more service in ordering a loose Army in the Field than in awing a regular Garrison in a Town whence his Fortune being answerable neither to his skill nor to his courage he went over with the flower of the English Veterans to Ireland he was made Governour of Drogheda about which Town he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army but that being over-powered he lost his life first being hewed in pieces and not till then the Town being deserted by Coll. Walls Regiment after the Colonels death which betrayed both the Garrison and themselves with him fell 1 Sir Edmund Varney
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
the old Religion against what he supposed the new in his Under him the Welch at Brentford made good the Greek Proverb with right Brittish valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that flieth will fight again those who being little better than naked cannot be blamed for using swift heels at Edgehill must having resolution to arm their minds as soon as they had armour to cover their bodies be commended for using as stout arms as any in this fight which cost the Family though Sir Thomas died not long after 2000 l. 5. Sir Evan Lloyd of Yale a sober Gentleman and one of the first that waited on his Majesty at Wrexam for which he suffered deeply several times till his Majesties Restauration by whom he was made Governour of Chester a City of which it is said that it was more honour to keep a Gate in it than to command a whole City elsewhere seeing East Gate therein was committed formerly to the Earl of Oxford Bride Gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water Gate to the Earl of Derby and North Gate to the Major He died as soon as he was invested in his Government 1663 4. Godfrey Lloyd Charles Lloyd and Tho. Lloyd were Collonels in the Kings Army and Coll. Rob. Ellis a vigilant sober active and valiant Commander 240 l. Sir Francis Lloyd Caerm 1033 l. Walt. Lloyd Lleweny Carding Esq 1033 l. 6. Col. Anthony Thelwall a branch of the Worshipful Family of the Thelwalls of Plasyward near Ruthin in Denbighshire known for his brave Actions at Cropredy where his Majesty trusted him with a thousand of the choicest men he had to maintain as he did bravely the two advantagious Villages Burley and Nelthorp and at the second Newberry fight where he did wonders with the reserve of Sir G. Lisles Tertia and had done more had he not been slain for not accepting of Quarter Not long after Daniel Thelwall of Grays-Inn Esq paid 540 l. composition Io. Thelwall of Pace-Coch Denb Esq 117 l. The Right Honorable Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy-Counsellor to both Kings Charles I. and II. bred in the strictest School and Coll. Eaton by Windsor and Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to a great insight into general and various Learning and in the Low-Countries and France to a great happiness in Experiences and Observations in the Affairs of War Trade and Government the result of which and his retired studies by reason of the troubles of the Age and the infirmities of his body much troubled with the Stone with a sharp fit whereof he died 1667. was as King Charles the First who conversed with him much in his Closet called it and King Charles the Second who came often with the Counsel to his House and Bed side found it Safe and clear Counsel a sober and moderate Spirit the reason together with the general opinion of his great integrity and unblemished reputation he was so much reverenced and courted by the Parliament as they called it and so often imployed in seven Publick Messages and three solemn Treaties between the King and Parliament a serious temper and deep thoughts understanding Religion well he was reckoned the best Lay-Divine by his Polemical and Practical Discourses after the Kings death in England and practising it better Prayers Sermons and Sacraments being performed in no Family more solemnly than in his house private preparations before the monethly Communion used no where more seriously than that of all that belonged to his noble retinue in his Closet his stipends to the poor Clergy and Gentry in the late times were constant and great near upon besides what he sent beyond Sea 1000 l. a year his charity to the Poor of each place where he had either his residence or estate Weekly Monethly Quarterly and Yearly above 500 l. a year among those few Ministers reduced into distress by the late fire he bestowed besides particular largesses and a resolution to take them if unprovided to any Preferments that should fall in his Gift an 100 Pieces in Gold giving always his Livings to the choicest men recommended to him by the Fathers of the Church whose judgements he much relied upon in those Cases in the Kingdom he reckoned it certainly a more blessed thing to give than receive when besides his great Hospitality during his life and his manifold and large Benefactions at his death he gave away so much for publick good and as I am told received not one farthing all the while either as Lord Treasurer or Privy Counsellor for his own private advantage He was one of the Honorable Lords who offered his life to save his Majesty pleading that he had been the Instrument of his Government and hazzarded it to bury him His Composition was 3466l in Money and 250 l. a year in Land taken from him and his losses in the War 54000 l. Sir Walter VVrotsley not VVriothsley of VVrotsley Stafford 1332 l. 10 â— with 15 l. per annum Land taken from him Sir Frederick Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold Comptroller and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty whose old Servant he had been and his Fathers and Uncles before him at his Restauration and made Baron Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk at his Majesties Coronation The Temple of Honor being of right open to him in time of Peace who had so often hazzarded himself in the Temple of Vertue in the time of War particularly at Copredy-bridge where the Lord Willmot twice Prisoner was rescued once by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and the next time by Sir R. Howard Sir F. being as the last Pope said of this a Man of so chearful a spirit that no sorrow came near his heart and of so resolved a mind that no fear came into his thoughts so perfect a Master of Courtly and becoming Raillery that he could do more with one word in Jest than others could do with whole Harangues in Earnest a well-spoken man competently seen in modern Languages of a comely and goodly Personage died suddainly of an Apoplectical fit Ian. 7. 1661. Pope Innocent being in discourse about the best kind of death declared himself for suddain death suddain not as unexpected that we are to pray against but suddain as unfelt that he wished for To him I may adde Sir Will. Throgmorton Knight Marshall to his Majesty who died 166â— A Gentleman of an Ancient Family to whom a great spirit was as Hereditary as a great Estate who did much service to his Majesty in England and was able to do more to him and his Friends in Holland where he was formerly a Souldier and then an Inhabitant worth is ever at home and carryâ—th its welcome with it wherever it goeth who had lost his life sooner with a Bullet got into his body had not he done as they say Mr. Farnaby the Grammarian did who coming over from the Dutch Camp poor and wounded at Billingsgate met with a poor Butterwoman of whom he bought as
with two dangerous wounds in his own body as King Charles I. attested under his own hand The Right Honorable William and Francis Earls of Shrewsbery the one attending his former Majesty in all his Wars with great Charge and Prudence and hardly used by the Parliament who broke th Articles with him and the other following his Majesty that now is in all his streights from Worcester Fight where he ventured to wait upon him with a gallant Company of Gentlemen to his Restauration which he attempted often with the hazzard of his life and saw at last to the great comfort of it according to their Renowed Ancestors the Talbots Motto on their words more manlike than Elegant and like a Nobleman rather than a Pedant Sum Talboti pro defendendo Rege contra Inimicos neither of them when sent to raise Forces for his Majesty whose party deserved not the name of an Army untill the Earl of Shrewsbury came in no more than Henry 7 th did till Sir Gilbert Talbot came to him answering him as their Ancestors did Henry 8th when he sent to him to fortifie Callice who said he could neither fortifie nor sistifie without money The Right Honorable Iohn lately and George Nevill now Lord Abergavenny the first Baron of Abergavenny created so by King Harold 2. a Family so potent then that whereas others boast that they came over with the Conqueror it may speak a bigger word viz. That the Conqueror came in with and by it Noblemen whose plain and honest Natures is as good a sign of their Antiquity as the plainness and simplicity of their Coats and Arms Sequestred and troubled much beyond the Note in the Catalogue of Compounders comes to Iohn Lord of Abergavenny 531 l. I say these and many more Catholicks that were faithful to King Charles I. in his distresses from 1642. to 1648. And Col. Carlese Sir Iames Hamilton and others who were to King Charles II. 1651. in his extremity and Escape make it probable that Marianaes Institutions Suarez his Apology and his Potestas Regia Bell. de Pont. Rom. l. Creswell Philopatus de offic Principum may be Books whose dangerous notion as those of Buchanan and others among us may be published and discoursed among those who abhor them and though they honour the Authors venture their lives to oppose their Tenets Sir Richard Lawdy slain at Cover in Glocestershire and those two old Souldiers that planted a Seminary in the North Sir Ingram Hopton and Sir George Bowles who fell at Winsby near Horn Castle October 1643. William Butler and Sir William Clark two Kentishmen of great Quality slain at Cropredy-bridge Iune 29. 1644. those two Northern men that swallowed the War in earnest Sir Thomas Metham and Sir William Lambton who died at Marston-moor the two hardy Courtiers Sir Thomaas Dallison and Sir Richard Cave Sir Iohn Beaumont of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester who died in the service that good Souldier Col. Croker near Oxon. who paid 909 l. need no more than a mention here Sir Charles Cavendish son to Sir C. Cavendish Grandfather to Sir W. C. and Privy-Counsellor and Treasurer of the Chamber to H. 8. Edw. 6. Queen Mary younger Brother to the most potent William Duke of Newcastle inclined from his youth to Learning particularly the Mathematicks as his Brother was to Chivalry those studies agreeing better with his vigorous soul than other exercises did with his weak body when the liberty of a Camp in the North endangered the very being of Christianity there the Souldiers retaining little of their Religion but their Allegiance as if their service to the King did excuse their care of their duty to God Sir Charles his excellent discourses set off with a most sweet nature and a most strict example prevailed as successfully over the Army as they did a great while over their Enemies keeping though not improving their charge though indeed it was much improved in that it was not impaired all the while he had the charge of it partly by the Valor of his Person and partly by the advantage of his Country making so stout a resistance that they whose successes made them flie in other parts of the Kingdom could a great while but creep in the North a Country that shewed it self as Valiant in what it did as patient in what it suffered their Hands Arms being as good as Backs and Shoulders He was the person intrusted by the Northern parts to welcome her Majesty 1643. with a brave Body of Horse to guard her and the Person intrusted by her with 20 Troops of Horse 2000 Foot and 500 Arms more to protect them Great his care of Ammunition as Master of the Ordnance and greater of Money as Treasurer of the Northern parts till the defeat at Marston-moor when a brave Troop of Gentlemen desired him and his Brother to Lead them up to perish Honorably rather than out-live the consequence of that day after which he went over with his Brother to Holland and France whence returning 1651. upon my Lord Chancellor and others perswasions to compound for his Estate which he protested he had rather loose than have it by composition from the Enemy After the settlement of that and some little Remainder of the Dukes he died if he can die that lives in so Honorable a Monument as the Works of his dearest Sister the Heroick Princess the Dutchess of Newcastles With this Inscription The most generous and charitable man having never Courting yet winning all men the pass to their heart he made through their brain who first admired and then loved him A Character most agreeable to his Honourable Cousin Charles Cavendish Esq Brother to the Right Honorable William Earl of Devonshire whose eminent services and sufferings deserve this Motto Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit a person of no vulgar parts himself and a Patron of those who are above the ordinary Learning Qui arte militari it a inclaruit ut vividae ejus virtuti nihil fuerit impervium it being as impossible for him not to be as not to be active being a Commissioner in the Northern Array secured Lincoln and Gainsborough whence being Governour of that place he issued out to the relief of the surprised Earl of Kingston he was over-powered and his horse carrying him off over the Trent but sticking in the Mud he died magnanimously refusing quarter and throwing the bloud that ran from his wounds in their faces that shed it with a spirit as great as his bloud his goodness was as eminent as his valour and he as much beloved by his Friends as feared by his Enemies Sir Walter Pye of Mind in Herefordshire equally a friend to the Mitre and to the Crown and therefore as zealous in maintaining the last in the Field against Usurpation as he was in Parliament in purging the other of Symony a great lover of Ministers and consecrated men Conceiving it more credit and safety to go
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl
554 l. Sir Robert Windham 748 l. Tho. Willis 516 l. Will. Winter of Clapton Somers Esq 349 l. Sir H. Wood of Hackney Midd. 273 l. Robert Willis Morrock Somers 328 l. Jo. Whittington Ivethorn Somers Esq 283 l. Sir John Winford of Ashley Worcest 703 l. Col. Jo. Washburn Wickenford Worcest 797 l. one that paid the Rebels more than once in other mettal Sir Marmaduke Wivel whose Ancestor is the last mentioned in Lastle Abbey roll 1660. continuing in so good state that one of them in Hen. VI. time deposed that he could spend 20 l. a year old rent all charges defrayed of Constable Barron York 1343. Sir Tho. Whitmore of Appley Salop. 5000 l. Sir Patricius Curwen Knight and Baronet of Worlington in the County of Cumber a pious and a peaceful man forced as his Majesty was to the War where he had the Command of a Collonel of Foot in that County as he had the trust of being Knight of the Shire in all Parliaments when he first appeared from 1623. to 1664 when he died a Gentleman in whom Art and Nature conspired to make him Master of a great Wit and a vigorous discourse out-doing most in action and himself in suffering being as able to perswade himself to patience as he was to move his neighbours to allegiance dressing his misfortunes so gracefully that they were envied and he like to be sequestered of them too and as he was in prosperity that due reward of his merit an example of the least part of mankind that is the happy so in his adversity was he a pattern to the greatest that is the unhappy his clear and heroick mind finding an exercise and thereby a glory in the darkest state as Stars and Diamonds do a lustre oppressed not helped by day in the darkest night Fortune at last yielding to his vertue and flattering him as his Slave whom it could not overcome as his Foe he had once the Posse Comitatus 12. Car. I. as a Sheriff and always as a Patriot for which honourable title he paid to the Parliament 2000 l. and spent with the King 23000 l. 1 Sir Francis Carew of Beddington Surrey that as nature had epitomized most perfections belonging to a man in him so would he extract all sense into short sentences called Sencca's little-much who paid for one smart word 1000 l. Sir Jo. Covert of Slaâ—ham Sussex 3000 l. Hen. Clerk of Covenr 300 l. Adam Cley-pool of West-Pooling Linc. 600 l. George Cotton Cumbermoor Chesh. 666 l. Tho. Chester Amisbury Gloc. Esq 1000 l. Sir Will. Clerk 1100 l. Jo. Caring of Harling Suss. Esq 3030 l. Berg. Cutler Ipswich Suss. 750 l. Tho. Carew of Studley Devon Esq 750 l. Giles Corter of Turk-Dean Gloc. Esq 768 l. Tho. Chafine Chettle Dorset Esq 900 l. Edw. Copley Earley York Esq 1246 l. Sir H. Clerk Essex and Gervase Cutler York 1100 l. 2 Col. Tho. Cary of Norwich Esq whose years were measured not by his Almanack but his suffering called the Round Heads Circle having given away 3000 l. to the King had but 200 l. left for the Parliament 3. Sir Alexander Culpepper that could have charmed any thing to a better usage but a Jew and a Puritan both which People carry their spirit in a round Circle paid them first 500 l. Composition and afterwards Witches if they have any of your money will have all 500 l. more 4. Iohn Courtney of Molland Devon Esq for saying that men now a days draw up platforms of Religion as men do Cycles Epicycles and other Phaenomena in the Heavens according to their fancies to salve their hypotheses paid 750 l. in Gold and was gladly rid of it in a time when Churches Crosses and all other things suffered for being Gilt. 5. Col. Sidney Godolphin descended of the most ancient Family both of Love and Wit murdered by those men that professed to destroy Wit and Learning and at that time when men were not allowed to wear Hair much less Bays A Gentleman that will live as long as Virgil whom he hath translated and as long as the best Times best Wit whom he hath commended as elegantly as he was commended by them Besides whom there were Col. Sir William and Col. William Godolphin of Trevervenith and Spragger Cornwal who spent their bloud and Estates for his Majesty being sorry that they had 1500 l. left to be taken by his Enemies Treasures of Arms and Arts men equally fit for Colledge and Camp in whom the Scholars â— earning did guide and direct and the Souldiers Valour fight and act the first without fear the second without rashness their several accomplishments meeting like so many conspiring perfumes to one delicate temper 6. Col. William Walton one that could do any thing ex tempore but durst not pray so having Wit and nothing else at will and knew no reason why he should not be rich but because he was born a Poet. He was slain in that Battel which he would not have out-lived I mean Nazeby wherein three Kingdoms lay bleeding by him as well as Col. Cuthbert Ratcliff and Col. Ralph Pudsey who would gladly have lived to do more service for his Majesty but refused not to serve him in dying scorning as well the censures as the commendations of that ignorant age 7. Col. Posthumus Kerton a Somersetshire Gentleman of a spreading name slain at Marston-Moor in the middest of the White Coats my Lord of New-castles Lambs called so because cloathed by him in white Cloath which he had not time to colour until they being cut off every man gave it a noble tincture with their own bloud which he commanded a croâ—d of dead men makes a noble Crown about a Commander than one of Lawrel being so pleased Saints above know sure what we do delow in our fight with life to see the same brave heat in his followers that was in him that Death smiled on his lipâ— and he looked as if he were above waâ—bling the hymns he used below pittying our dull and earthly joyes where grief and misery dwells with pleasure a man of great daring and good success a knowing and honest man seasonably taken away from the place of Ignorance and Hypocrisie to Heaven the only place then free from both to live there among the blessed whose souls are cloathed with white and follow the Lamb. Sir Jo. King of Woodsam York Bâ—r. 500l R. Kibe Sussex Chich 992l Will. Knowls of Grayes Oxon. Esq a brave Gentleman of parts and a 〈◊〉 worthy his Ancestors who died 1664. 1100l Jo. Kirk Westm. Esq 985l G. Kinsley Cant. Esq 760l Sir H. Knolls Grooplace South 1250l Edward Kerton Castle Carv Som. Esq 1464l Edward Kinaston of Oatley and Roger â—inasion of Hordly Salop. Esq 4697l between them Sir Lewis Kire 264l William Kent Boscomb Wilts Esq 572l Sir William Kinsmel of 740l Robert Kemp Cheston Her 480l Sir Gorrel Kemp of Slindon Suff. 2931l 8. The Lords Kilmurry the Elder and the Younger the first having spent
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
to say at Uxbridge There was no peace to be made with the King the difference between him and the Parliament being as wide as that between Heaven and Hell He suffered 1650. when the Presbyterians were in open War for the King against the Sectaries that were for the Parliament FINIS An Advertisement THere are two other Books of this Authors in the Press and will be shortly published The one entituled CHVRCH WORTHIES Or the Lives of the Right Reverend Arch-bishops the Reverend Bishops Doctors and eminent Divines since the Reformation The other entituled STATE WORTHIES Being Observations on the States-men and Favorites of England since the Reformation their Prudence and Policies Successes and Miscarriages Advancements and Falls during the Reigns of King Henry VIII King Edward VI. Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King Iames and King Charles I. Both to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet A. E. 6. 4. 1550. A. Ed. 6. 7. 1553. Q. M. 2. 3. 1557 8. Q. El. 1. 1560 1. 1567. 1582 1583 a Being born his Mother coming casually to London in Chanceâ— Lane in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West and Christned there April 22. 1593. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Meditat. 2. Dr. R. P. Life of King Charles l. H. Lin Kiâ—g Charles â— a Injuriae sprelae exolescunt b Having a design upon Spain as Spain had upon them c In which Tryal he was one of the Iudges a 〈…〉 The Earl is made L. L. of Ireland 1633 His Câ—unsels â—o the King â—bouâ— the Scotish and English tumults Lysunachâ—â— Nâ—canoâ—s uâ—â—ying of the Knot a By the Londoners b Barbarino's meanes Protector of the English * See the Letter between them in our Chronicles See the shoâ— Notes of the Lord Lieutenant Lord Archbishop Coâ—ting c. in Hist. King Charls l. pag. 310. Sanders The Earls â—ank Advice about a Parliament * And therefore the Scots accuse him for prefâ—rring Bp. Bramhal Bp. Chappel For which his Commission was dated the 21 Mâ—â—â—â—h 163â— Sir Harry Vâ—nâ—'s Notes against the Earl of Strafford that ruined him The Earls full and notable Answer to those Notesâ— The Earles gallant come off See Dr. P. life K. Ch. I. p. 23. What shifts they were forced to make to get his head The Bishops that were sent for were Dr. Usher A. B. of Armagh Dr. Juxon Bishop of London Dr. Morton Bishop of Durham Dr. Poller Bishop of Carlisle Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln who told the King that he need not scruple shewing mercy Some cunning persons suggest be sent to the King scorning to owe his life after so much service to a bare promise The Earl of Straffords remarkable Letter to the King The notorious Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford How true you may see in the â—yal a The Seditious Party there b Not a tenth part all sober men being afraid and ashamed of it Where there is none of this proved yea what they insisted upon was proved but by one Witness Sir Hâ— V. and him 〈◊〉 by 4 honourable Lords that were present with Sir H. V. when the words he deposed should be spoken c None of the things Alledged against him being Treasons in particular the whole could not amount to Treason d If that had been there had been no need of this Bill a As that Captain â—llingsley should come with an 10â— men and â— the â—retence of a Guard to the Tower to Rescut the Earl That the 〈◊〉 B other should wâ—â—â—elow the â—ower to that purpose That Balsores Son should have 20000l with he Ear'â—s Daughâ—er c b The very Lâ—aies took Notes The Earl of Strafford's Speech on the Scaffold * The Right Honorable the then Earl now the Duke of Newcastle Declaration Aug. 10. Their Ancient Sirname is Herbert a As one Dr. Tunter and one Clement Cook did a Wherewithall Westminster rung The Lord Finche Speech in his own defence In his Speeches 4. Car. 1. Created 〈◊〉 April 7. 1640 Ilis crimâ—s His good qualities â—or the Secretaries place ☞ * D. H. ☜ His Petition to the Parliament C. C. Oxon. Peterburgh Admin Card. de Rich. P. 283. F. O. p. 12. a Aeâ—ernitas nodosa pusterâ—ta b Araâ—â—c Câ—t Bodl. â— 24 25. c 2 Sam. 18. 18. d Plutarch § His Birth § His Education § His Works * M. S. in Arch. Baror Bibl. Bod l. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e His Account of the 70 Translation f His discourse of the â—lonument at Salisbury of a little Boy habited in Episcopal Robes § His Preferment His Desigr and the disposal of his Study Epist. Dedit to the Bishop of Salisbury § His Patrons and Acquaintance a In his Review of his M. SS § His Death His Prophecy § His Character a Bacon Aug Scient p. 2. 1. His sayings of Preaching 2. Of the Interpretation of Scripture Of the Alcoran § His Burial He died at Kidlington and was buried at Christ-Church ☞ A comparison between the despised pains of worthy men and the admired nothing of the unworthy ☞ E. W. ☞ * It was Demosthenes his case about the letter P. Mr. Mede could not for his life pronounce Carolus Rex Britannicae saying that he made up that in hearty prayers that he wanteâ— in plain prenunciation § Latine Professor in Paris Queting for it 1 Pet 1. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he câ—nceived to signifie affliction that trieth saith saying that the word especially should be rendred exploratorum rather thâ—â— exploraâ—â— History of Parliament p. 79. * Verborum minutiae rerum frangunt pendera A. Gel. * Called Registrum Cancellariae Vide Epist. Coci Commeatar in Littlen on Ploydens Comment 5. 8. 6 a Institutes Exposition of Magna Charta and other Ancient Statutes Pleas of the Crown Iurisdiction of Courts Books of Entry and Reports Books of which it might be said â—s it was said of Plutarch in another respect that if all Law were lost it might be found in him * And when others pressed for the place the King said Peremptâ—rily that Potteâ— should have it this was 1628 * Whereof the 16th is in Print a Who is supposed created as if he had been so a Whispering nothing in some â—â—dies ear a The Earls are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they carry on their heads a Corcâ—â—t the Emblem of Nobility in the fashion of a Tombe the Emblem of Mortality Mr. Savage a person that was with him in his sickness * Which said Sir Dudley Carleton in his Speâ—ch to the States they saw only being not much made of there a For our Diâ—ines managed thâ—ir business privately among themselves before they debaâ—d it at the Synod b So they were accounted anciently b At St. Johns and in his own Colledge till he dyed I His Extraction Birth a Whose Daughter Maâ—gareâ— married J. 4 of Scotland b Aethaling 's Daughter married Malcolme Conmor K. of Scots c Dr. P. in his life II His Education
and Hopes d â—â—â—eupon he in disdain threw the Cap down and trampled it under fâ—eâ— An Omen said some what an enemy be would he to the Arch-bishops O der which had never since it needed such a better friend though he suspended the Arch-bishop e When the Chaplains received direction from the King not to dispute without great necessity but if they did George should hold the Coâ—clusien and Charles c. f Mr. Vines saying That he was the best Divine in England III His Carriage while Prince g To whom he was very dear h The Q of Bohemia whose Brideman he was i Who might 〈◊〉 plaâ— uites â—b◠〈◊〉 bâ—â—cts of the peoples disconâ—â—nt k As his own Grandmother the Q of 〈…〉 to England l This K. James was not sinsible of â—ill Arâ—hec Clapped his Cap on his head for â—â—â—ting the Prince goe to Spain and saying That if he returned he would take off â—he Cap from â—he King of England 's head and set 〈◊〉 â—n the K. of Spain's Which â—ad the King melanchâ—lly 〈◊〉 heard hâ— Pâ—â—nce was at Sea IV His Carriage when King 1 His Marriage his Chastiâ—y and Gods blessing him with Children m Given the D. of Chevereux n Trinity Sunday 16â—5 o No Subject fought him for injuring â—hem he having by his power and example â—â—â—ured them in all their Relations 2 His first Parliament p Muâ—ining against their Commander the Lord Wimbleton q With a Plaguâ—bred by theâ— Discontent As discontented mâ—n are most subject to that Distemper 3 His Coronation and Frugality 4 His second Parliament V The Benefits of his Government 1 â—â—s dismission of the Insolent French r Besides Land Merigaged for 120000 l. to the Câ—â—â— and 30000 l. borrowed of the East-India Company s In that tryal of â—umbâ—â— which he judâ—â—d unlawful wherein one Rey would have proved that one Ramsey would have hâ—d him serve D. Hamilton to attain the Kingdom of Scotland whose right to it they blazoned abroad t Which his Enemies knew so well that it was bâ—â— effecâ—ing him Propo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repugnant to his Conscience and thâ—y need not fear a Peace VI The blessing of God 〈◊〉 him and his fortunâ— u Many Arts revived VII His Mercy and Love to his People Humiâ—ity and Patience w Oliver they say could not endure to hear a man speak sence Plato was like to eye because he â—â—med wiser than the Sicilian Tyrant x Being deluded as he said to unworthy thoughts of him but nâ—w convineed to a great reverence of him y There are methodical and siâ—â—wy extracts of his drawâ—â— out of Bishop Laud Mr. Hooker and Bish Andrews therein he draw together all the arguments giving light and strength to them even while he â—â—tomised them z Witness his â—â—um vednass at Prayer when â—he sad News of the Duke of Buckinghams death was brought to him bidding the Chaplain go on when he stopped at the disturbance a Meaning the Bishop of Armagh 〈…〉 IX His Valouâ— Resolution and Conduct b The Senate of Rome thank'd a Consul though he was beaten that he did not despair of the Commonwealth c This was at Edgehill Oct. 13. 1641. a In France a Who had an honest design to undo the whole Conspiracy X What great things the King granted and did for the Nation during the 23 years that he reigned f For which the last Parliament would have given him 600000 l. g At the Isle of Wight XII His Sufferings h As appears by a Letter under Londons handâ— to desire Protection of the French King i And a Lady that formerly had followers for beauâ—y and â—ow for intelligence k â—s Fulke and Ven did a He called them Rebls in the first Speech Oct 3 1640. 〈◊〉 was forced to explain himself afterwards b As he was to that first 1640. by Sir H V. who exâ— asperated them by demanding twice more Subsidies than he had order to d◠〈◊〉 so occasioned their Dissolution And to the Parliament of Scotland by H. and Tra. who under the pretence of being Mediators and Commissioners put the worse constructions they could upon his actions to the Parliament and upon theirs to him a Who after the King death finding their Masters jugglers would have done in much for them as they had done for the King until the Officers would have laid them aside which they could not do till several of them were executed a Where â—nâ— lay with a Sword and Pistal without ready is murder the King if became out while others perswaded him to escape out through that window within b A Vote once before Passed but surreptitiously and repealed by the whole House a And yet neither Lords nor Iudges four hundred fifty of eight hundred Commons confess nor a man in England except twenty Rebels owned it b Villains that overthrowed all the Laws of this Nationâ— to try the King for doing it When he died rather than he would do it c They complain of his Arbitrary Power when there was nothing more Arbitrary than for them First To Vote themselves but twenty in number to be the whole kingdom Secondly To Vote a Conventicle where there were neither Lords nor King nor ten lawfully chosen Commons for a Parliament Thirdly To Vote the Kings defensive war which he made with the assistance of his People a Treason against his People Fourthly To Vote him guilty of that bloud that they shed Fifthly To Vote him a Traytor when there is no Treason but against him And what was more than all the rest to Vote themselves after a Nation had been an hereditary Monarchy for a thousand years the Supream Power of it in an hour d When they began the war against him who with his people was forced to defend himself or be accessary to that overthrow of all Religion and Government which though not believed he saw they aimed at then and all the world saw they designed now e Not till the Traytors had set a force upon the whole Nation those very persons against whom he began the war abhorring the thoughts of calling him in question for it and thinking it a great favour if they could be secured from being called in question for it themselves Observe the impudence of the men these slaves and instruments that durst not fight against the King but in the names of the Lords and Commons yet dare murther him in their own and that for levying war against those Lords and Commons to whom before they could meddle with the King they offered violence themselves f The Parliament as they called it had received such Concessions in order to a peace that this murder could never have been attempted upon the King till these wretches had attempted another violence upon them The Parliament they say delayed this Iudgment when God knows they always abhorred it and these men first turned out of the House for refusing to consent to this murder and then they commit the murder in
their name g Observe all the practices and commotions they talk of as of late raised for the King were but the endeavours of those very men that first employed the Army against the King to rescue the King and themselves from the power of that Army and whereas these wretches say the Parliament Order the Kings Tryal it was the Parliament that encouraged all those tumults and commotions 47 48. to deliver the King from that Tryal a By Dendy the Kings own Serjeant at Arms Son b Not being permitted to breakfast being reviled all the way by P. and â—thers that rid by him the King being put upon a loan 〈◊〉 Iade a He was born so b He was a free Monarch c What his design and theirs were the world hath lately seen d He dâ—ed because he would not allow an Arbitrary Power and they killed him by an Arbitrary Power e He levied war to defend a King and they to murder one f Have dare they take away his life for levying war in his own defence against the Seditious part of the Parliament and 〈◊〉 Army of Rebels when these the Parliaments sworn servants lay violent handâ— on the whole Parliament to take away his life He would have punished two or three rebellious Parliament-men they turn out the whole House he fought the traiterous Army they senâ— against him these Members of that Army turn out those they fought under he must be a Traytor against the Parliament and yet within a fortnight before they set on his assassinatioâ— they break trouble and abuse that Parliament as if it were Treason to be against the Parliament when they were against the King but no Treason to be against them when now they were for him a With the danger of her life b Pointing at Col. Cobbet that brought him from the Isle of Wight where he said be Treated with many honorable Lords Gentlemen and is this the end of the Treaty c Both parts of the impudent Assertion equally â—rue 1. That he was now Iudged by the People and that he was at first chosen by them a On Sunday whâ—n its against all Canons to faâ—t none ever doing so but these and the Scots Prestiâ—â—s who would needs Proclaim a Fast that day because the King designed to Feast the Embassador of Denmark b As they had Voted it Ordering c That ordered that none should make any disturbance on pain of death d C. Downs that thought it fit the King should be heaâ—d by the Lords and Commons a Wherein â—e was earnest not for his own concerns but for those of the kingdom b Though he offered much â—o say for the peace of the kingdom which if the meanest man had offered he should have been heard c This was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Commons of England in Parliament appointed them a Court whereas they neither did iâ— nor â—â—uld do it a All dâ—claring for a Peâ—sonal Tâ—â—aty a Secluding 140. Members b Imprisoning the Chief Citizens â—iding triumphâ—nâ—y through the streets of London and seizing the Tower c. c On shipboard in Summer timeâ— others sold slaves d Suffering nasty Confinements and ignominous Tortures The method leading to the Kings death a C. Downs disturbed the their proceedings declaring that what the King offered should be heard b Declaring that it was contrary to the known Laws and Customs of England that the King should be brought to Tryal a I. B. Dr. P. Character of him b Dr. D formerly History Professor of Cambridge set there by F. Brookes where reading in the stift lines of Tacitus he discovered so much of a popular spirit that he was complaiâ—ed of about his dâ—scourses of 〈◊〉 three sorts of government a Set on by the Instructors of their villaâ—ny Hereabouts he was stopped being not permitted to speak any more of Reasons a Telling them that it was not a slight thing that they were about a A motion so reasonable that Colonel Downs could not but presse them to hearken to it so far that they had adjourned not to consider what the King had offered but to check Col. D. into a compliance b They utterly refused his Queen that liberty a After the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man replied that it was not 〈◊〉 but the Churches choice for the dâ—y Whereat his majesty was much comforted b Meaning Col. Thomiâ—son a Strafford b Pointing to Dr. Juxon c Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote d Meaning if he did blunt the edge a Pointing to Dr. Juxon b It is thought to give it to the Prince a They had provided I 〈◊〉 Gâ—appâ—es to pull him down b They sold Chips of the Block and Sands discoâ—â—red with his bloud c Others Proclaimed his Son in the face of his Fathers murtherers a Impâ—isoâ—ing the Bishop of London and searching Pocketâ—s and Cloaths b See M. Iconoclastes a Though they were seign to carry it aâ— fit had been discovered by chance by walking on the hollow part of it b The place exactly answering the designation of his 〈◊〉 in last Will and Testament and lying under an Herse that lay there all Q Elizabeths reign besides that no Subject had newer been buried in that Qâ—ire 1 〈…〉 a at London House 2 The 〈◊〉 it raised him All these passages are transcribed out of his Graces own Diurnal His good works doue a With new Priviledge as large as those in Cambridg since 11. the eighth hâ—s time b Wherein be did intend to hang as great and as tuneable a Ring of Bells as any are in the world a Only the irregular marrying of W. E D. E. M Dec. 26. 1605. St. Stephens day b Printed at Oxford 1666 His sufferings Dr. P. life K. Charles § The crimes laid to his Charge and reasons of his sufferings a And Homil p. 64 65. and Teâ—tul de Oâ—ig errot c. 2. 17. Statuse 3 lid 6. 10. b As ancient at Constancines time sec Polyd Virg. de Invent. ceruâ—â— l. 6. 2. Durand Ration c. a And the Preces privatae in Queen Elizâ—b time b And it was pretly thâ—â— swere 〈◊〉 was offended much the new Crucifix whereas he 〈◊〉 no notice of the old crucifix that wathere many years before See Antiq. Bâ—ic p. 33. 102. c One swore against him that a man bowed to the Virgin Maries Pictures over St. Maries door in Oxon. a Exod. 40 9 10 11. 1 Kings 8. 1 Chron 5 6 â—â— Chron 34. 8 Ezra 6 15 16 17. b Euseb. Eccles. Hist. 10. 3 de vita Coudant â— 4. 40. vid. Câ—â—â—it de Coâ—sect Eccles. Inst. ti cod l. ◠〈◊〉 5. de Sacro saâ—ctâ—â— Ecclesus c Doctor Bound Bradâ—um and Thâ— ashâ— then 〈◊〉 Iewish opâ—â—â—â—s d Iâ—stiâ— l. 2. c. 8. §. 34. e V d. Arâ—â—ii problemata de Encaeniis Grat de Conserev dist 1. f For which trey searched the 〈◊〉 book b Some his
a 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—clâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—â—â—y at Blandâ—ord a He declared at his death that C C. told him as he 〈◊〉 on the Road to Exeter that he was â—â—â—ry Sir Jo. Wagstaffe was not taken being he was a brave Gentleman and might if taken have hâ—d the benefit of the Aâ—â—â—cles yea and that several of C. C Troop were dismissed because they â—â—verâ—ed 〈◊〉 Articles which the Captain protâ—sted against though he had with many importunities and protestations put them upon them b When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Henry 7. time by the Western Rebels in Edw. 6. time and by the Parliament forces in King Charles 1. reign and now relieving these 80. distressed Gentlemen not only with necessaries but superâ—â—â—ities c Here note Sir Jervase Lucas the noble and active Governor of Belvoir who answered Poinz his Summoâ—s thus viz That he was not set by the King there to yield to Rebels and that he would not give an Inch of ground which he could maintain with his Sword a Sir Gilbert Gerard 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 near 〈…〉 b Dâ—â—â—ing his â—reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 think â—â—â—â—â—y of him a Cap. Simkins formerly Governour of Beaumoris shot to death for carrying a Letter from the King to Sir Thomas Middleton and being as true as his Steel not to be frighted or flattered to discover any b Laurence Hide Dâ—bâ—ney South 9â— l. composition 〈◊〉 Hide Kenning Berks Esq 538 l. c Much valued by Arâ—hbâ—shop Laud for his deâ—â— eâ—â—y activity and intâ—gâ—ity and Sequestred d Berbaâ—ously and foolish â—ascribing that request of his vanity and affectation of strange tongues e Several times calling him the most pious and just Prince in the World Hum Hide Kingston Berks Esq â—aid for his Loyalty 610l Lewis Levens of Heslington York paid for composition 316l and Lewtian Lewins of Ruthall York 130l f Here note 〈…〉 Line 〈◊〉 paid 〈◊〉 Loyâ—â—y and Jo. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 â—llcx Gent. 30â— g 〈…〉 with the Lord Beaumont Si. Thomas Beaumont 〈◊〉 Beaumont of York and 〈◊〉 Beaumont paid 5000l composiâ—ion h Having been of the Kings Army till Liverpool was 〈…〉 quiet â—â— the Country be â—â—d by Col. Forbes Col. Overten and Litutenant Col Fairâ—ax perswasion in the Parliament 〈…〉 that Crâ—â—â— did the King this service i Thoâ—pe and Paleston the Iudges being able to say nothing to him but silence him k H. Morris Weston Salop Mr. Morris of Penny bâ—nâ— Denbigh N Morris Emptail York Edw. Morris Devon paid 1200l l R. Blackborn Major paid 242l composition a Which he managed the better by living at Beconâ— field privately at an equal distance between Oxford and London b Who dyed in prison c Who paid â—â—r his life 2000 l. a Who 〈◊〉 great 〈…〉 b Prince Rupâ—â—â— with 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—e and 2000. Foot upon Dâ—râ—â—â— Downs expecting the 〈◊〉 the Ringing of 〈◊〉 having order not to offer violence to any only to 〈◊〉 them that had taken an Oath among themselves to maintain the Kings Crown and Dignity Note that the gates of the City were sâ—ut against the Kings Letters for these men so that they câ—me not till they were dead a Who was at a vast charge to entertain the Reformaâ—es from all parts a Note that it â—as the poâ—â—nt 〈◊〉 of the â—â—anish Ambassador that 〈◊〉 his life wherupon he said I was pulling off my Doubleâ— now I wiâ—â—â—ook â—n on my Brâ—eâ—â— b He 〈◊〉 800l composition Henry Goring Sullington Sussex 40l H. Goring Burton Sussex 250l Bishop John Owen of St. Asaph a He writ several Learned Discourse how the Loyal Clergy should behave themselvâ—s in the exigencies of thâ—se times he and Mr. Maurice of â— Lanbeder Denâ— Another undâ—unted sufferer maâ—â—yed two daughters of Doctor Williams Warden of Ruâ—then one of whom Mâ—s. Maurice suâ—feâ—d â—y the barbarousness of the Round-heads beyond expression as you may see in Mr. Weavers Poems b He having a considerable Command in all his Expeditions a â—hoâ—e Husband Jo. Lord Lovelace paid for his Loyalty as good as 6951 l. besides decâ—nations and constant troubles and his Brother Col. Francis Lovelace b Where the Scotch 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and â—sapnâ— they would no come to the â—â—â—l of Repenâ—auce c Taking 100 Pipes a day first used to it in Iâ—agâ—res Sir George Weâ—worth of Welly York paid for his Loyalty 3185 l and Sir George the Earl of Sâ—â—offords Brother his life at Marsâ—on-moor Tho Wentworth of Breton York 340 l. a See Mâ— Herles Ded. to him of his Medit. For murdering killing and destroying they are their own words R â—ertivala Linnen-Webster a His Son hath nobly contributed to Dr. Barrow the excellent Bishop of Man towards the settlement of that business Note that Ferdinando Stanley of Proughton Lanc. paid for his duty 150l Will. Stanley of Woodhall Lanc. 46l Jo Stanley of Dul-yarâ—â— Cumb. 40l a The first in Brigades reaching from Wales to Oxford clearing Monmouth and Glocester of the little Parliament Garrisons b The stream of the people being at my Lords devotion keeping out all forces whatsoever but his Majesties my Lord very watch fully and diligently looking to all those parts to recruit and secure them upon all occasions with â—â—râ—s and other necessaries as upon the betraying of Monmouth the danger of Chepstow and Lindsey Garrisons a Where being lodged in a gâ—â—en Tâ—â—â—râ—hed house he said â—e â—aid â—n a Bâ—gâ— uâ—der a Meadow b It is sâ—â—d of his A câ—â—â—or the Earl of Worcester that he kept himself up in the â—â—â—â—able times â— 8. E 6. Q. M. Q. E by being a Wâ—llâ—w and not an Oake c. a Translated by Mr. Rowland Vaughan of Caergâ—y Morion A great sufferer for his maiesly his house being burned 1645. by Col. Jo. Jones he did much good in these times by cransâ—â—ting Orthodox Books such as Bishop Usherâ—s Catechism Dr. Prideâ—ux his Legacies c An excellent Welch Poet and Antiquary a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 b His Loyalty cost 〈◊〉 400 l. 〈◊〉 a As did Major Cusaw a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 Malloâ— be was 〈◊〉 to the Tower c Owing he said his accomplishments to hardships d He had been long bred a Souldier in the Spanish Army a That is Commuâ—es his fault was 〈◊〉 excellâ—â—cy Viz. that he câ—uld with a grace relaâ—e Magnaâ—â—m â—â—um mâ—uâ—â— the little circumstances of great 〈◊〉 a Most of the Câ—â—â—s in â—â—gl are cist wâ—â—n a â—â—â—e of their house where â—â—y were â—â—â—n Sir T. Lunsford was Commissioner with Sir Jâ—cob Ashleâ— to get the â—â—â—h into a body aâ—â—er Naseby where he â—ed beeâ— sâ—abbed but for Sir Jo. â—â—â—â—us b Where he dyed 1644. and was buryed c Which Mr. siliot after 3. hours Conference with him imâ—private got from according to an Oath he had taken when admitted Lord-keeper to deliver up the Seâ—l when ever the King senâ— for it The saction had taken it from him before but that he had always in appearance Voted according to the sense of the best affected in the House a After thâ—y had in vâ—in samâ—â—neâ—
brought by Sir R. Dalling 〈…〉 Greek Suâ—â—â— there into the Chartet-house 〈◊〉 was Majâ—â— and 〈◊〉 b Mr Herbert Brother to 〈◊〉 Loâ—u 〈◊〉 of Châ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 University of 〈…〉 of the Church of England whose 〈◊〉 be was 〈…〉 are with 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—ms the Timple c A. C. d He was turned out for not taking the Covenant e In his book called White-salt or some sober Corrections for a mad world a The Guaâ—dian wâ—it by hâ—m 1640 at thâ—se years b See his Poâ—em of Plâ—nts Herbs and his Dovideus c Diou Hâ—liearnass de Alâ—aeo Vide A. C. presâ—t ad suâ— carmina a Sâ—â— his Misâ—â—â—ss on incomparable 〈◊〉 b In his Plague of Athens when Dr. Cowley presâ—wed his Boâ—k to the Vniversity of Oxon for which the Vaive 〈◊〉 presented him with a Degree 1656. Mr. Sprat writ an inimiâ—able Poem in Latine on his Poems to be â—â—en annexed to them in Wadham-colledge Library c Clerkâ— of the Green-cloath and Pâ—rveyor of the Navy to QEliz and Brother to Sir Robert â—uarles St. Basil apud D. Mossom a Not making himself what he foreâ— warned others not to do his preparation for death his 〈◊〉 bed task b So his book about Sigulor Dandiolo converted by him and the Revâ—rend Dr. Gunning Champion general of that Cause at that â—â—ne c See his Aâ—anâ—â—l called The Box of Spikenard a In most Legacies for châ—râ—â—able uses he was in hiâ—â—â—me the thâ—â— pâ—â—son geneâ—ally concerned b Iâ— his Magnificent recâ—ptâ—â—â— upon his return from Scotland besides that he assisted his Majesty in levying â—uâ—nage and Poundage and Ship-money supp effect unlawful Assemblâ—es and Petitions quâ—shâ—ng â—ll 〈◊〉 was motions at Common counsel a His Kinsâ—os the accomplished M. Crisp of C. C. C. Oxon. and Morall Philosophy Lâ—ctuâ—er preaching at his Funeral 〈◊〉 Grand 〈◊〉 the R. â—â—â—hipfal Sir 〈◊〉 crisp enâ—â—â—â— his Estate a With Sir John Shaw this gâ—eat safferâ—â— and noble Personage the most publick spiriâ—ed Sir Rob. Viner in the Custom-house John Soams of Orpinham Norfolk 1430l a Stephen Soams of Throwlon Suffolk Esq 800l b Sir Henry Gibbs and Thomas his Son paid for composition 517l c See his Funeral Sermon at the end of M. Faringdons Sermons that preached it He was born at Charley in Shrop-shire his Father was Mr. William Whitmore who was a great Benefactor of the Habâ—rdâ—shers Company London Sir George Binion â— Gentleman that hath done and suffered much must not be forgotten whose hoâ— sal Hâ—gh-gate was pulled dowâ—â—o the ground a Being the second in the Commission brought to London by the Lady Aubigney â— find in the Catalogue of Compounders this Note Sir George Stroud of Squeriers Kent 2814l H. Strode of Ditsham Devon 184 l. Jâ—an Stroud and George her Son of Stoke under Hampden Somerset Gent. 365 l Jo. Stroud of Parneham Dorset Esq 470l And I find Mr. Stroud an eminent Voluntier 〈◊〉 in in the first battel of Newberâ—â— a Sir Paul Pindar rented the Mine-Royal of Allum for 15000l paying 800â— men a day by Sea and Land constant Salaries b Dr Paul my Lord of Ely a Alderman Abel an active projecto with Mr. Kilvert 〈◊〉 his Majesty and a great sufferer with him b Living in Olaves Jury London where which is much in London his Posterity lived to a third Generation Be it here recorded that Sir Tho Bowyeâ— of Leathorne Suss. paid 2033 l. besides many Immunities a 〈…〉 b Tâ— which 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 b December 156â— a Peter-house a The Lord Ogleâ—y was one 〈◊〉 much who with several of his Family suffered a tedious imprisonment afterâ—â—wards b And that he had hindred them last Summer but could not do it any longer a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 a Particuâ—larly Dundee the nest of the Rebâ—llien b 〈…〉 c â—here was 〈◊〉 the Lâ—â—d Gorden a He came to Scotland the less time with an excellent Portraict of hâ—â—iate Majesly â—headed with â—hese words Judge and revengâ— my cause O Lord and an excellent Declaration which was hanged about his neck b Together with Church Lands and Tithes c And being buried at Westminster a Worth yearly 30000l b There was a trial of combat between Rea and Ramsey 16â—â— thâ— one offâ—ring with his lâ—fe to prove that the other had discovered â—o him Hamiltons Dâ—sign to make himself King of Scotland c Author of Philos. Theol. Ancillans and De formali objecto sidei d Fâ—ther and Son whose Instrâ—ct Theol. and Irenium â—ubulus are â—â—â—ent Besides him James Penniman Esq of Orness in Yorkshire paid for his Loyalty 2000l Composition and Sir James Penniman jun. 530. an eminent Commander at Oxford and elsewhere in the Kings Army a Being of opinion that his Majesty should march either into the North or into the associated Countries whiâ—â—er Faiâ—sax following after he knew would give him several advantages which he had a shrewd way to take b He was â—red up in the Wars of Germany from his youth Besides Sir Arthur there were in the Kings Army the Lord Aston who aazzarded himself much about the relâ—â— of Cheâ—ster Sir Thâ— Aâ—â—on and Câ—llâ—â—el Ralph Astâ—n 〈…〉 rants of that Câ—â—ntry Lâ—ncâ—shire the piercing air whereof makeâ— the Inhabitants bâ—dies as able as their mâ—nâ—s willing for any laborious employment To whom I may joyn Edward Ashâ—on of Aldenham Salop Esq whosâ— Loyalty cost him besides many troublâ—s plunderings and other unknown charges 2000 l. Composition a Evident in his Boâ—k De Venture in Latine and French c. the former kept in the Pâ—pes Vatilan b Whither he was imployed by the E. of Pembrokes recommendation his Mother Mris Suf. Newport went to live at Camb. en purposâ— to breed up her children well Mr. G. Herbert was his Brother Mr Francis Herbert oâ— Dolgion paid 500 l. for his Loyalty Sir Hen. Herbert of Ribsford Worc. 1330 l. Sir R. Herbert of Langley Bucksâ— 500l Jo. Herbert of Great Hoel Brecon 397. Ed. Herbert of Bray Berks 266 l. a 〈…〉 a Kekerman of Danzick a great Port Town de re nautica all owneth the English the best the Dutch the next Sea-men of the 4 first Circumnavegators aâ—out the world 2 were English 1. Magâ—llane a Spaniard 2. Drake 3. Cavendish 4. Noort an Hollander Conducted by the English Capt. Mollis his Pilot. a Ashbey of De la zouch called the Maiâ—â—n Garrison never touched the E. of Leicester Sir Richard Hastings a Col in the Kings Army deserves to be inserted into this Catalogue b Among whom is Sir Wolstan Dixby of Normaron Derby 1835 l. composition His composition cost Mildmay Earl of Westmerland 1000 l. a Sir Hen. Cary of Cockingham Devon paid besides noble Contributions to the King and losses by the Parliament 1985 l composition he commanded Kingssworth when Sir The. F. assaulted it b I think the fiâ—st Earl of M. and the Earl of Dover were Brothers a Col. Philip Stanhop was a considerable peâ—sâ—n in the Army Governor of Shelford house taken by
of Ianuary was five times auspicious to Charles Duke of Anjou the 24. of February four times happy to Charles the Fifth as the twelfth of May was to Charles the Eighth and to say no more the third of September hath been observable to England 1650. at Dunbar 1651. at Worcester 1658. at Whitehall and 1666. at London He had a Tutor crooked with age that streightened the manners of his youth arming him against those Customs that are not knocked but serued into the soul inuring him to good discourse and company habituating him to temperance and good order whence he had the advantage of others not only in health but in time and business and diverting him with safe cheap but manly and generous Recreations The result of which Education was a knowing and a staid nature that made him a Lamb when pleased a Lion when angry daring in the highest tumults 1640. and 1641. to give the best Counsel and to oppose the worst advising those that complained that his Majesty was gone away to lure him home by their loving behaviour and not do as those troublesome women who by their hideous out-cries drive their wandring Husbands further off And when the House of Lords became the House of Commons by vile compliances with tumults when the Lords to climb up to the peoples favour trampled on one another the rabble bringing tales and they belief he though secure in his person yet not safe in his relation and allegiance at Westminster follows his Soveraigns fortunes as his Predecessors had done his Ancestors it was the first Lord Spencer of Wormeleighton that in Parliament to another Lord who told him as they were discoursing of their Ancestors service to the Crown That at that time his Fore-fathers were keeping sheep returned That if they then kept sheep yours were then plotting of Treason He pit ied not but reproved them that bemoaned his Majesties distance and whereas they expected to be commâ—nded for their patience under so great a punishment he condemned them for deserving it often urging that of Seneca Epist. 80. Nihil rex male parentibus majus minaripotest quam ut abeat de regno The last words he spoke in the Parliament House at Westminster were these We had been satisfied long ere this if we did not ask things that deny themselves and some men had not shuffled Demands into our Propositions on purpose that we may have no satisfaction He brought 15000 l. and 1200 men to his Majesties relief and the Earl of Northampton his Countey mans assistance adding to his Estate and Friends his Counsel and personal service wherein in dispute about a rising ground in the first Newbery fight not far from his Majesty he fell First a good Patriot upon all other occasions as one of them at Wâ—stminster observed promoting the Trade Manufactures and Priviledges of this Countrey and now standing by his Majesty as he evidently saw him stand for his Kingdom saying by a foresight and Prospect he had of things suitable to the eminence of his place that one seven years Truth is the Daughter of Time would shew that the King was the true Common-wealths-man Secondly a true Nobleman that was vertuous because it became him as well as because it was injoyned him being above vice as well as without it looking upon it as his shame and dishonor as well as sin and offence Thirdly a good Neighbor the Country about him when he had occasion to make use of it being his friends that loved rather than slaves that feared him Fourthly a discreet Landlord finding wayes to improve his Land rather than rack his Tenants Fifthly a noble House-keeper to whom that ingenuity that he was Master of himself was welcome in others Sixthly an honest Patron seldom furnishing a Church with an Incumbent till he had consulted the Colledge he had been of and the Bishop he lived under Seventhly an exemplary Master of a Family observing exactly the excellent Rules he so strictly injoyned consecrating his house to a Temple where he ordered his followers to wrestle with God in Prayer while he wrestled with the Enemy in fight whence those holy thoughts that went as harbingers of his soul to heaven whereof he had a glimpse before he died through the chinks of a wounded body when those noble persons Sept. 20. 1643. closed his eyes that through weeping had hardly any left themselves leaving behind him a noble Lord of whom Dr. Pierce that had the tuition of him gave this Character That his choice endowments of nature having been happily seasoned and crowned with grace gave him at once such a willingness and aptness to be taught as reconciled his greatest pains with ease and pleasure and made the Education of his dear Lord not so much his imployment as his Recreation and Reward And a noble Lady not to be mentioned without the highest honor in this Catalogue of Sufferers to so many of whom her House was a Sanctuary her Interest a Protection her Estate a Maintenance and the Livings in her gift a Preferment among whom the foresaid excellent person acknowledged to her all the visible contentment of his suffering years a good portion and a good people which he injoyed by her favor and kept by her interest and power Bene est ab unde est nunc sat est etiam perduellionibus totus in uno cadit exercitus Hero Compendia fati Sunderlandius Caernarvon Falklandius quos nec tota plebs redimat gloriae triumviros ipso casu triumphantes quod sic moriendo mori nesciant dum sit hominibus virtus aut virtuti historia quae sit temporum testis hominum THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT PIERE-POINT Earl of Kingston HIS Ancestors came in with the Conqueror to settle the Monarchy of this kingdom and he went out of the world maintaining it with his Interest which was so great that the Faction pretended his Concurrence with them a passage which puts me in minde of the great power of his Predecessors one of whom in Edward the first Kings time hath this Memorandum of Record Memorandum THat Henry de Piere-point on Munday the day after the Octaves of St. Michael came into the Chancery at Lincoln and said publickly that he had lost his Seal and protested that if any Instrument were found Sealed with that Seal after that time the same should be of no value or effect Indeed it was his great Services when Sheriff 13. Iacobi and greater when Justice of Peace and King Iames in a Speech in Star-Chamber valueth a Justice of Peace as much as one of his Privy-Councel as it is as much to see Laws and Order kept as to make them and to keep the peace in each part of the kingdom as to advice about the peace of the whole composing differences by his skill in Law suppressing disorders by his great reputation and promoting the good of his Country by his large prudence and deep insight into
there before they were aware of him and so couragiously that he came back disputing nine Passes and after twelve Skirmishes maâ—gre all the opposition made against him routing first and last in that famous Expedition 9000. men A little before Naseby fight my Lord declared for breaking into the Associated Counties and so through them to the North to chase away the Scots when that battel was resolved on where he said when he was desired to Lead the Left Wing of Horse in that sight that by reason of the Leicester Plunder the averseness of his men from fighting save in their own Country and the tired condition of the whole Army would ruin his Majesty as it did he being never able to make head for him but once afterwards 1648. when with Sir Phillip Musgrave having surprized Carlisle and Berwick he joyned 3000. brave English to Hamilton's Scots beating Lambert back to Appleby and taking several strong holds by the way as he had done the kingdom had his advise been hearkened to in marching directly to York and so to London whereas they wandered in Cumberland and Westmerland as Colonel Stuart when afterwards upon the Stool of Repentance for that Expedition being asked gravely by the Ministers whether by his Malignancy he went not out of the way answered that he went wrong to Westmerland when he should have gone to York that Scots Army being beaten as soon as seen there being no more effectual resistance made by the 16000. horse and foot under Hamilton of whom the King said when he heard that he was Commander in Chief that he expected no good from that Army than was made by Sir Marmaduke with the 2000. English that he had raised and commanded Sir Marmaduke Langdale was taken Prisoner and by caressing his Guards made an ingenious and bold escape to his Majesty beyond Sea where he carried that seriousness in his countenance he was a very lean and much mortified man the enemy here called him Ghost and deservedly they were so haunted by him that gravity in his converse that integrity and generosity in his dealing that strictness in his devotion that experience moderation and wariness in his Counsel that weight in his discourse as much endeared to strangers his Royal Masters Cause and his own person in all the Countries he travelled as he did many and all the Armies he engaged in as he did in most then afoot in Europe till he was restored with his Majesty 1660. when appearing in Parliament as Baron Langdale of Holmes till his Majesty by the Act of Indemnity and disbanding the Army was fully setled he returned to his considerable Estate in York-shire satisfied for 160000. l. loss in his Majesties service with the conscience of having suffered it in a good cause and acquitted himself bravely and played the man if thou do ill the joy fades and not the pains if well the pain doth fade the joy remains His Discipline was strict and exact It was present death to wrong the meanest person in the least thing where he had any Command saying that he must make the people believe that his Army was raised to protect them and therefore it was not fit in an Army of his wherein every Souldier was a Gentleman He died 1661. Deterrimi saeculi optimi heroes G. Dux Somersetensis H. Comes Cumberlandiae Marmaduke Baro Langdale Pulverem Sparge Lector abi â—egi vult modesta virtus non legi cujus hoc dogma ama nesciri Sir Thomas Glemham having most of the noble blood of England in his Veins had most of the virtues that belonged to such blood in his Soul having had experience of the German Wars then the great Nursery of our English Gentlemen he was the fitter for service in our wars being an admirable Commander of Horse and a discreet and watchful Governor of a Garrison forcing York he was made Governor of it and Commander in chief of his Majesties Forces upon the borders whence he writ to Argyle as smart a discourse as was written during the wars about the Scots Invading England against their Allegiance the late Pacification and the many obligations of his Majesty upon them upon the invitations of a few inconsiderable men that carried on designs of Innovation contrary to the known Laws Government Liberties and Priviledges of the Kingdome disabusing those parts and people as to the â—alse rumors and aspersions spread by the Scots among them Against whom and all the Northern Forces whom he made to shrink like Northern Cloath He kept the City of York 18 weeks till after he had gallantly withstood 22 Storms Counter-mines 4 slain 4 or 5000 of the enemies he was forced after the fatal Battel all Marston-moor which he would not have had fought to surrender up the City upon very honorable conditions for themselves and good for the City and Country whose Trade Freedom Estates and Government were secured in the Articles as their Persons were at the surrender Iuly 16. 1644. As he did the Garrison of Carlisle after 9 moneths seige in which time he kept it to astonishment against Pestilence Famine and all the power of Scotland upon the same terms to the Scots and the head Garrisons of Oxford upon the Kings order the noblest terms that ever Garrison was delivered on to Sir Tho. F. his Army over which his Majesty placed him because of his moderation sobriety popularity good temper reputation and his skill in fortification many additions to the works of that Garrison being made by him whereof one was of most dangerous consequence to the enemy viz. the breaking of the ground before the Trenches into pits full of stakes that nei-Horse nor Foot could attempt the Works nor a close seige especially in the Winter-floods be laid to them After an Arrest in London contrary to the Oxford Articles and sometimes Imprisonment in the Fleet thereupon he passed to Holland and there falling sick Sir M.L. and he for some reasons little frequenting the Court died some twelve years agoe by the same token that a Horse-farrier that belonged to him formerly in the North being commended to him for a great Doctor in Holland the honest man when he saw him desired to be excused calling for a more expert Physitian and telling him privately entreating his privacy that the doses he used to administer to the Northern Horse did agree infinitely well with Dutch bodies His Brother the Reverend Dr. Glemham is now Dean of Bristol and Bishop Elect of St. Asaph Tho. Glemham Cuj castra Carleolente Eboracense Monumentum sunt Oxonium Epitaphium Sir Henry Slingsby the Head of an ancient and numerous family of which Sir Arthur Slingsby Col. Tho Slingsby Col. Slingsby in York-shire whre he was High-Sheriff 9 Iacobi and always a good Justicer a noble Landlord a serious man much conversant with Holy men and our best Divines a generous Master a Gentleman of a large Estate spent most of it in the Kings service and the rest
sequestred by the Parliament he brought 600 Horse and Foot to his Majesty with whom he did more service than any Gentleman in York-shire being always in action till he was overpowered by Sir H. Ch. at Gisâ—orough where he was taken prisoner till exchanged for Col. Sanderson with an undaunted Industry upon all occasions pursuing his Majesties interest both when he was taken with Iohn Berkely in the West and with divers other Gentlemen in the North being a Prisoner in Hull off and on during the whole Usurpation till being trepanned by some words of the Officers of that Garrison against the Usurper together with some Inclination towards his Majesty after some cautious pauses to sound the villains made use there of some old Commissions he had under his Majesties hand for which being brought before a packed Court of his enemies he was condemned to be murthered Iune 8. 1658. notwithstanding that he there discovered the juggle and plot of the Officers and the Impossibility of the thing it self as he was notwithstanding the Intercession of his Nephew the Lord Viscount Faâ—lcon-bridge the Sultan being as he said Inexorable to perswade people forsooth of the horror of the Fact not to be pardoned in a relation laying down after devout and serious prayers together with a short speech declaring upon his death the odiousness of the Trepan and his sorrow that it was not for some more effectual service to his Majesty with courage and resolution saying he was ready to submit his Neck to the Executioners stroke In the Company of Dr. Iohn Hewet a Norfolke man by extraction and Birth and a Cambridge man by Education carrying the Gentility of his Family in the gentileness of his behaviour He stayed not long in Cambridge to be a Scholar before he came to London where in those dayes young men learned to be preachers whom so sweet his voyce and so comely his presence and behaviour that as many came to hear him read prayers then as afterwards flocked to hear him preach So devout grave and distinct his pronunciation that it is probable the prayers of the Church had never been turned out of it if Moses had been so preached that is edifyingly read the seriousness of the office suiting with the weight of the prayers in our Synagogues and those maintain the true worth of Common-Prayer in their arguments did not undervalue them in their Administration His civility and good carriage preferred him to a relation to the Earle of Lindsey as Chaplain and to his virtuous Sister as husband with whom he went through the blackest adversity guilding it with that serenity of temper which others want in their brightest prosperity which together with the smoothness the pleasure of his converse and diligence of his discourses the sweetness of his gesture each part the lifted-up hands the Heaven-ward fixed eyes his sweetly grave and sober countenance and the erect posture preaching eloquently their respective Sermons and the whole one great Rhetorick Schemâ— begat him great applause as that did great envy in so much that when he was convented for the supposed entertainment of my Lord of Ormond his journey to Bruges and the feigned Plot of burning London to make him odious in that place where he was so popular the Usurper did not so much examine as revile him discovering his own spleen rather than the good Doctors design telling him among other approbrious Imputations that he was in the City as a Torch set in the midst of a sheaf of Corne and when he was sentenced by the bloud-hounds for denying their authority and illegal and arbitrary way of proceeding alledging against them the known Law of the Land in the best authorities and presidents no intercession of the Tyrants own dearest Daughter Cleâ—poole who immediately upon it fell mad and before her death told him such bloody things as hastened his both dying not long after the Doctor after whose death the prosperous villany never saw good day could prevail for his life no nor of those very Ministers who were suspected out of aemulation to irritate him to thirst after his innocent blood and therefore for shame beseeched him to save it But Iune 8th aforesaid having made his peace with God and by his charitable Letters to all persons he might of infirmity at anytime have offended as much as in him lay endeavoured to be at peace with all men he came with an holy resolution to the Scaffold at Tower-hill in the company of Dr. Wild Dr. Warmestry and Dr. Berwick of each of whom more hereafter as he said To bear witness to the truth as he did to the Religion Laws and Liberties of England denying upon his death the matters laid to his charge and there with Christan magnanimity sealed it by being beheaded with his bloud As did Colonel Ashton a Prisoner for debt who being allowed a little liberty upon design fell into some emissaries company who as he said upon his death spoke those dangerous words which they testified against him and for that was Hang'd Drawn and Quartered Iuly 2. 1658. in Tower-street as did Mr. Iohn Betley a young man of excellent parts in Cheap-side who after he was thought dead pulled off his Cap and looked upon the people and Mr. Edward Stacy who suffered two days after the last Martyr under the Usurpation Under which suffered Col. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the Parish of Ewford in the County of Wilts Esq a Pious Honest Meek and very grave Gentleman of serious Thoughts and few Words that was all fear and reverence in the Church that heaven he called it where God was more than he making Conscience of giving God to use his own Word his Day and Due and all integrity without an integrity made up of Iustice of which he would say he could not offer an injury to any but thereby he taught that person to injure him adding that our honesty was our security and Charity of which he would often with contentment repeat that Verse of his dear Herbert Ioyn hands with God to make a Man to live Who undertaking with the whole Nation for that noble Engagement was national for his Majesties Restauration the just Priviledges of Parliament the Rights and Liberties of the People and the established Religion rose with Sir Ioseph Wagstaffe in the West upon confidence of the generality of the design the discontents of the lately dissolved Parliament though betrayed by Manning Colonel Mannings Son who was slain at Aâ—esford-fight who was formerly Secretary to the Earl of Pembroke and then Clerke to one of his Majesties Secretaries betrayed all his Majesties correspondencies till Colonel Tukes broke into his Chamber and caught him in the very fact for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country appearing on Munday Mâ—rch 9. at Salisbury in the Assize time whence having seized the Lawyers horses and the Judges Rolls and Nicholas Commissions they marched to Chard in Sommerset-shire where Colonel
London 1644 1645 1646. and to rise in Arms for him about Kingston where being defeated taken at St. Neots after a tedious imprisonment notwithstanding his sickness and infirmities tried for his life and beheaded in the Pallace-yard Westmin recommending with his last words to the deluded People the Kings Government and the established Religion The Right Honorable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham who with Sir Io. Hotham the Earl of Stamford Sir Hugh and Sir H. Cholmley Sir Christopher Wray Sir Edward Ayscough c. all Converts afterwards in being as active in setling the Militia of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in obedience to the Parliament as other persons of quality were in prosecuting the Commission of Array in obedience to his Majesty was warned by a Letter under his Majesties hand dated at York Iune 4. 1642. to desist from Assembling the people in those parts upon any pretence whatsoever upon his allegiance and answered with much modesty and humility that though he could not presently desist without falsifying the trust reposed in him by the Parliaments particular Directions according to an Ordinance voted by the Lord Keeper Littleton and the Lord Chief Justice Banks whose judgments swayed his younger one as he said to this action so unsuitable to his Majesties liking yet nothing should pass by his Commands but what should tend to his Majesties honour and safety Agreeably to which ingenious Declaration when he saw into the bottom of the factious designs he was so active for his Majesties honour and safety in the House of Lords and the City of London 1645 1646 1647. that with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Hunsden and Maynard all a while deluded by the Iuncto and because they presumed to be undeceived at last punished by them being impeached of high Treason for levying War against the King by endeavouring to make the City and Kingdom for him chose rather to hazzard himself 1648 1649 for a conquered and a captive Soveraign assisting and attending his Son in Holland and the Fleet as long as there was any likelihood of serving him than to have a share any longer in a conquering and prosperous Rebellion though it cost him several imprisonments and molestations besides 5000 l. composition Prosecuting his Loyalty by providing Arms for his Majesties Friends 1655 1657 1658 1659. at his own charge till the Restauration when having a large Estate and great experience in he was made Governour of the Caribee Islands 1660. where going during the late War upon a design of recovering St Christophers newly seized by the French he was cast away with most of his Fleet by an Hurricane 1666. being succeeded in his Government and Honor by his brother the Right Honorable G. Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666. A blessed Cause this to use the words of that ornament of his ancient and worshipful Family in Suffolk and Norfolk Mr. Hammond L'Estrange who enobled his sufferings as well as the cause he suffered for by his Writings especially his Alliance of Liturgies a Book full of that Various Reading not common in men of his quality and his History of King Charles I. a piece compiled with that ingenuity prudence and moderation as was not vulgar in the Writers of his Time that won its conquering Enemies all but one that sacrificed his Reason and Conscience to his ambition who yet in the midst of his greatness had not one minutes rest from those Fears his Conscience and common foresight that Right and Truth which are greater notwithstanding all his Arts and Methods of settling himself should prevail And there being nothing left now for the Kings Cause to conquer but those principles of Religion and those Ministers that supported the Faction those stood not out against its Evidence and Arguments for 1. Mr. Alexander Henderson a Moderator of that is in effect Archbishop in all the Assemblies in Scotland one in all the Treaties of England one of the ablest Presbyterians in both Kingdoms being overcome with his Majesties Arguments at Newcastle where he was Ordered to converse with and convert his Majestie when as all his Confinements his Pen gained those Victories which were denied his Sword went home heart-broken with Conscience of the injuries he had done to the King he found every way so excellent To whom I may joyn 2. Iohn Rutherford a Layman who was so far won by his Majesty then their Prisoner as to hazzard his life seven times for his rescue for which after a great reputation he gained in the King of France his service and great integrity and ability in serving his own Master he was 1660. made Governour of Dunkirk and 1662. Governour of Tangier and Earl of Tiveot both which Garrisons he fortified impregnably being a man of a great reach in Trade Encamping and Fortification and of an unwearied Industry and Diligence laying the design of the Mole in the last of those places which when finished will be a Piece of the greatest concernment in Christendom He was cut off 1664 5. in a Sally out as he was a very forward and daring man upon the perfidious Moors whom he had reduced to the most honourable peace that ever was enjoyed at Tangier to recover a Wood that was a great shelter to the Enemy and would have been of vast advantage unto us They that begin Wars know not how to end them without horrid scandals to Religion and an unparallel'd violence offered to all the Laws and Rights in the World On which consideration many returned to sober principles of Allegiance and indeed all rational men acquiesce in the present establishment according to their respective consciences actively or passively in gratitude to his Majesty and the Government for their former Indemnity that since his Majesty as a Father looked on all his Subjects as sons yet caressed his Prodigals those Subjects that came to themselves and acknowledged their errour with extraordinary kindness and tenderness out-doing all his promises and engagements Let the World see that his promises made and performed were not the effects of necessity but the fruits of a gracious and Princely mind like his Grandfather H. IV. of France not only pardoned the former Errours of those that were seduced against him and his Father but preferred and trusted them too They may make good his late Majesty of blessed memory his Royal word and engagement for them Medit. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will be more loyal and faithful to his Majesty than those Subjects who being sensible of their own errours and his injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Mr. Cauton and Mr. Nalton was banished and Mr. Christopher Love born in Wales and bred under Dr. Rogers in New-Inn◠Hall Oxon. Minister first of St. Ann Aldersgate and afterwards of St. Lawrence Jury was beheaded for owning the Kings Interest by those with whom he opposed it so far as