who upon the relation of his condition said Take I pray my counsel I have taken notice of your walking more than twenty miles a day in one furlong upwards and downwards and what is spent in needless going and returning if laid out in progressive motion would bring you into your own Country I will suit you if so pleased with a light habit and furnish you with competent money for a Foot-man A counsel and kindness that was taken accordingly He died 1649. leaving several Manuscripts to several friends to publish but as Aristotle saith against Plato's community of Wives and the educating of Children at a charge what is every mans work is no mans work Sir Simon Baskervile and Dr. Vivian two Natives and Physicians I think of Exeter City in Devon-shire and Studients of Exeter Colledge in Oxford that never took Fee of an Orthodox Minister under a Dean nor of any suffering Cavalier under a Gentleman of an 100 l. a year but with Physick to their bodies as Dr. Hardy saith of the worthy honest and able Dr. Alexander Burnet of Lime-street London a good Neighbor a cordial Friend a careful Physician and a bounteous Parishioner who died 1665. and deserveth to be remembred generally gave relief to their necessities Anthony Lord Gray the eighth Earl of Kent was a conformable Minister of the Church of England at Burback in Leicesterâ—shire 1939. when he was called as Earl of Kent to be a Peer of the Parliament of England at Westminster The Emperor Sigismund Knighting a Doctor of Law saw him slight the Company of Doctors and associate with Knights when smiling at him he said I can make many Knights at my pleasure when indeed I cannot make one Doctor This Earl excused his attendance on the Parliament by his Indisposition not liking their proceedings and continued in the Church-service approving its Doctrine and Discipline for which he was looked on with an evil eye and by God with a gracious one for making like a Diamond set in gold his greatness a support to goodness his Honors not changing his Manners and the mortified Man being no more affected with the addition of Titles than a Corps with a gay Coffin Of which temper was Mr. Simon Lynch born at Groves in Staple-Parish in Kent bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge and made by Bishop Ailmer his Kinsman Minister of North Weale a small Living then worth 40 l. a year in the foresaid County with this Incouragement Play Cousin with this a while till a better comes who profering him Brent-wood-weal three times better afterwards had this answer That he preferred the Weal of his Parishioners souls before any Weal whatsoever Living there 64. years where he kept a good House and brought up 40. Children and dying 1656. Mr. Ioseph Diggons bred in Clare-hall Cambridge in the Reverend Dr. Paskes time for whose sake he gave that Hall 130 l. per annum as he did for the King and Churches sake for which he had suffered as much as a wary man could 700 l. to distressed Royalists Sir Oliver Cromwell who having made the greatest entertainment to King Iames that was ever made Prince by a Subject at his house at Hinchinbrooke Huntingtonshire having been the most honest dealer in the world no man that bought Land of him being put to three pence charge to make good his Title Was to his cost a Loyal Subject beholding the Usurpation of his Nephew God-son and Names Sake with scorn and contempt He died 1654. Sir Francis Nethersole born at Nethersole in Kent bred at Trinity Colledge Cambridge Orator of the University Ambassador to the Princes of the Union Secretary to the Queen of Bohemia eminent in his actions and sufferings for the Royal Family and disposing what great misfortunes left him to erect a School at Polesworth in Warwick-shire for the Education of such as might serve their Soveraign as faithfully as he did his Mr. Chettam born at Cromsal in Lancashire a diligent reader of Orthodox mens works and hearer of their Sermons the effect whereof was his exemplary loyalty and charity giving 7000 l. for the Education of forty poor children at Manchester from six to fourteen years of age with Diet Lodging Apparel and Instruction 1000 l. to buy a Library 100 l. towards the building of a case for it and 200 l. to buy honest and sober books for the Churches and Chappels round about Manchester leaving Dr. Iohnson lately Sub-Almoner and an Orthodox man one of his Feoffes and very Loyal Citizens his Executors Mr. Alexander Strange Bachelor of Divinity born in London bred in Cambridge Minister of the Church of England at Layston and Prebend of St. Pauls who built a Chappel and contributed towards a Free-School in Bunting-field a Mark-town belonging to the said Layston giving for his Motto when he had laid the foundation before he was well furnished to finish it Beg hard or beggard He went to enjoy the peace he loved to make by being the no less prosperous than painful in compounding all differences among his neighbours Decemb. 8. Anno Domini 1650. Aetatis 80. Mr. Michael Vivan a loyal and therefore persecuted Minister in Northumberland at the hundred and tenth year of his age when much broken with changes and alterations between those that would not leave their old Mumpsimus and those that were for their new Sumpsimus had of a suddain his Hair come again as white and flaxen as a childs a new Set of Teeth his Eye-sight and strength recovered beyond what it was fifty years before us an eye-witness hath attested Septemb. 28. 1657. who saw him then read Divine Service without his Spectacles and heard him preach an excellent Sermon without Notes And being asked by the said Gentleman how he preached so well with so few books as he had and lived so chearfully with so few acquaintance answered Of Friends and Books good and few are best Mr. Grigson a Citizen of Bristol who notwithstanding that he paid 300 l. for his Allegiance bestowed as much more on charitable uses saying He liked only that Religion that relieved men when poor not that which made them so in those times when it is a puestion which was sadder That they had so many Poor or that they had made so many Rich. Mr. R. Dugard Bachelor of Divinity a native of Craston-Fliford in Worcestershire a Kings-Scholar under Mr. Bright whom he always mentioned as gratefully as Mr. Calvin did his Master Corderius at Worcester Fellow of Sidney-colledge in Cambridge An excellent Grecian and a general Scholar the greatest Tutor of his time breeding young Gentlemen with a gentle strict hand neither cockering them with indulgence nor discouraging them with severity in the mean between Superstition and Faction zealously did he promote the Kings Cause to satisfie his conscience yet warily so as to secure himself to be a good Benefactor to his Colledge giving it 120 l. and the Library 10 l. and a good help to the distressed Cavaliers
goodcome off serving his Majesty at Sea as he had done at Land and commanding the Ships fallen from the Parliament when there were no more to be commanded for the King to watch and supply the Coasts of Ireland and infest those of England He was in his way to the West-Indies divided from his Illustrious Brother Prince Rupert one of the most expert Sea-men as the most general Artist in Europe and from all the living by an Hurricano 1649. â—ad that our Calamities swallowed not only the Royal Branches growing in England but those in Germany too who escaping the Austrian malice perish by the Brittish but true grief for a Valiant man requireth not Womanish tears aâ—d great grief scorns it no tears being able to wash off the guilt of Royal bloud the shame of that Age shed in both parts of the world that beyond the Line and that on this side of it Peace had made him as excellent as his Brother the Prince Elector who for general but especially mechanick Learning and business is the happiest man in the world Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties younger Brother born 1640. died 1660. A Prince of as great hopes as studious great Parts and as great expectation as solid Vertue and promising great actions could make him that having known nothing but Imprisonment for the first years of his life at 8t Iames's Pensehurt and the Isle of Wight and Banishment in the later grew by his affliction so knowing that at eight years of Age he could tell his Majesty when he sending for him the day before he died he bid him not take the Crown before his Brothers Charles and Iames he would be first torn by wild Horses before he would do it so capable that Ascham who was deputed his Tutor by the Earl of Northumberland protesting that he could discourse nothing to him but what he could after once hearing with more advantage discourse to him again so serious that when Abbot Montague designed his Education in the Catholick way he could say at ten years of Age Hâ— would obey his Mother but he must his Soveraign So resolute that in the battel before Dunkirk 1657. Don Iohn protested he fought like an Englishman and so accomplished that at his return there was not an Artist whom he did not obligingly and satisfactorily converse with in his own way Fata ostendunt non dant Henricos Mr. Endymion Porter mentioned near these two Princes because dear to two Kings 1. To King Iames for his Wit 2. To King Charles I. for his general Learning which with his brave style sweet temper happy travels great experience modern languages and good address recommended him to the Duke of Buckingham who after the journey into Spain begun at first by the Prince the Duke my Lord Cottington and Mr. Endymion Porter introduced him to his Majesty who loved him for his own Ingenuity and for his being a Patron to all that were Ingenious our Endymion had the happiness to be loved by our Sun and Moon the King and Queen but not because he slept He pleased his Majesty not more in time of Peace than he served him in time of War by his Intelligence and Declarations at home and his Negotiations abroad both in France and Holland the reason sure why he was always excepted out of their Indemnities his friends paying for him 1500 l. composition and he dying with his Majesty abroad as his Son did for his Father at home being killed 1644. Loyal bloud like Harvies went round the Portâ—rs from the highest to the meanest 26 of the Name having eminently suffered for his Majesty Sir Nicholas Slanning The Cornish men in the Reign of King Arthur led the Van where is the Conduct of an Army and in King Canutus his time brought up the Rear which is the strength of an Army Sir Nicholas a Cornish Gentleman of an Ancient Family that deserveth the same Character that is bestowed by Mr. Carew upon another Employing themselves to a kind and uninterrupted entertainment of such as visited upon their invitations or their own occasion their frankness confirming their welcome by whatsoever means Provision the best fuel of Hospitality can in the best manner supply Of a Learned and a Martial Education able both to attend the Crusible and the Gun a very knowing Philosopher and a good Souldier led on his Country-men in his resolute Speeches at Westminster being a Gentleman of a stern spirit and brought up the Rear in his Command at Pendennis and other back Harbors of Cornwall over against France for supplies and in the Levant Spanish both Indian and Irish Road where most Merchants touch and whither many are driven being a man of an impregnable Integrity and unwearyed watchfulness and a severe Discipline lost by the Parliament when in Sermones tanquam vetita miscuissent specimen Arcâ—ae amicitiae facere and having with Sir Bevile Greenvile at Landsdown done wonders in advancing from hedge to hedge in the Head of his men in the mouth of Canons and Musquets so that his men thought him Immortal Iuly 5. 1643. lost to his Majesty in a brave assault upon Bristol Iuly 26. following when they saw him mortal In the Catalogue of Compounders I find this Note Sir Nicholas Slanning of Pendennis-Castle Cornwall 1197 l. 13 s. II d. and Col. Henry Lunsford Col. Buck and Col. Trevanian fell there the same time with whom it is fit to mention Sir Charles Trevanian of Caryhey Cornwall Sir Iohn Trelawny and his Son Col. Tho. Tregonnel Col. Ionathan Trelawney Col. Lewis Tremain I think of Nettlecomb Somerset who paid 1560 l. composition Col. George Trevillion Col. Ames Pollard Io. Pegonwell of Anderson Dorset Esq 1735 l. Col. Iames Chudleigh slain at Dartmouth in Devon Col. Bowls slain at Alvon Edmund Tremain Esq Colloecomb Devon 380 l. Men remarkable for their Conduct in keeping their Counsels in disguising their actions and fore-seeing the Designs and Courses of the Enemy being very well acquainted with the passes of the Country and strangely dexterous in gaining Intelligence scouring the Enemy before Bristol as well as the Gray-Sope of that place doth Cloaths men whose Persons generally are like their Houses narrow and little Entrances into spacious and stately Upper-Rooms Sir Richard Prideaux of Tregard compounded for 564 l. at Goldsmiths-hall and others whom I would more largely insist on but that I am 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Herald of another nature and having not taken Letters of Mart to seize on others Callings for their Invading mine do Loyally leave these Ancient Gentlemen to the justice of the King of Arms. Col. Richard Fielding Lord Fielding suffering something in Reputation about Reading which being Deputy-Governor he yielded as was thought too easily but recovering it at Newberry Nazeby and all other Engagements where he stirred not an inch keeping his ground too obstinately a generous shame adding to his Valour and choosing rather to lose his life by his Enemies than that it should be
ruined themselves as well as his Majesty and made way for that settlement which they had overthrown wherein this Noble Person had as large a share of his Majesties favours in England and Ireland when restored as he had of his afflictions when banishâ—ed as had his elder Brother Sir Charles Berkley Lord Fitz-harding not short of him in Integrity and Loyalty though not so much engaged in Action They say that though busling times are best for the Writer yet quiet times are best for the Liver so though stirring men afford more matter of discourse to Authors yet calm spirits and peaceable men yield most matter of peace and satisfaction to themselves the deep waters are still too lighter passions have a loud voice but the greatest are usually silent and actions of a lesser dimension have a great mention while noble and great actions exceeding Historians expressions exercise their modesty The inward Wheels that set the Engine on work are less observed though of more consequence than those parts that move most visible He that made Interests kept Correspondence engaged Parties sent and procured Supplies disposed of Commissions managed the Designs for the Restauration of his Majesty though the most secret yet was the most effectual Instrument of the great mercy vouchsafed to this Nation Such as this honourable person was who when more than 50000 English-men were corrupted by the arts and success of the Faction and their own covetousness weakness and ambition to a partnership in their guilt in the middest of the cruelties and victories of the Conspiracy that amazed most part of Mankind taught the unskillful the method of Confederacy and Design and in spight of the vigilant because fearful Parricides opened opportunities both of Correspondence with his Majesty and with all true-hearted English-men who communicated Counsels gave mutual Incouragements raised Supplies and kindled Flames that might have devoured the Juncto had it not pleased God that he and Sir Henry Slingsby should be taken and so forced to exchange his Services for Sufferings from Prison to Sequestration from Sequestration to Prison from thence to Decimation For as in the Primitive times when any Calamity happened the Heathens cried Christiani ad Leones so when the least toy took the Christians frighted out of their sences in the head they cried Secure the Cavaliers Secure the Cavaliers and that so long until as the sufferings of the Martyrs converted the world so the generously born afflictions of Loyalty reduced the kingdom it became necessary for them to secure the whole Nation who as one man as acted by one common Genius like the spirits of the world wrought its way into that settlement by a general consent which could not be attained to by any particular combination in which settlement this excellent Person not only enjoyed a freedom from his pressures but a reward for them being made upon the King's Return Comptroller of the Houshold one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Treasurer of the Houshold Governor of in Ireland and of great trust about his Highness the Duke of York in which capacities he looks not to what he might do but what he should measuring his actions by justice and expedience If any person would know more of him let him make his Address to him and he shall find him Courteous let him Petition him and he shall find him extraordinarily Charitable let him go to his Table and he shall find him Hospitable let him Converse with him and he shall find him Exact and Punctual In a word a perfect Country Gentleman at Court one whose very nature is in pay and service to his Majesty gaining him by his Civilities more Hearts than either Laws or Armies can gain Subjects Every time my Lord Fitz-harding smiles the King of England gains one The Roman Lady when asked where her Jewels were brought out her Children and answered These are my Treasures This honourable Person if demanded where are his Services besides those in his own person formerly in times of war and now in times of peace particularly his good husbandry for his Majesty his faithfulness his place and the obligingness of his behaviour he can shew his Sons and say These are my Services of whom besides Sir Maurice Berkley Vice-President of the foresaid Province in Ireland two lately lost their lives with as much honor as they injoyed them viz. FIRST THE EARL OF FALMOUTH AS Treason taints the bloud so Loyalty ennobleth it the one deriving honour as effectually as the other doth guilt This personage inherited his Fathers Services as well as his Spirit being an early confessor of Allegiance and taught to suffer with Majesty as soon as to live he had the advantage of most other Gentlemen that he begun and spent some years of discretion in the experience of troubles and exercise of patience wherein all virtues moral and political are commonly better planted to a thriving as Trees set in Winter than in the warmth and serenity of times or amidst those delights which usually attend Princes Courts in the midst of peace and plenty which are prone either to root up all plants of true virtue and honor or to be contented only with some leaves and withering formalities of them without any real fruits such as tend to the publick good for which Gentlemen should always remember they are born and by providence designed Besides the intimacy of converse between his Sacred Majesty the most condescending Prince in the world and him in their tender years for which King Edward 6. loved Fitz-patriche so well as to have some thoughts of marrying him to his Sister and advancing him to the kingdom besides the sympathy of their spirits visible in the exact symmetry of their persons which indeared Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk so much to Hen. 8. that he was the only person that lived and dyed in the full Favour of that Prince Of whom it is observed That they who were highest in his Favour had their Heads nearest danger There were these remarkable things that recommended this young Gentleman to his Majesties Favour 1. His Happiness of Address much advantaged by the Eminency of his Person the Smoothness of his Voice the Sweetness of his Temper and the Neatness of his Fancy True is that observation of a great States-man if a man mark it well it is in praise and commendation of men as it is in gettings and gains For the Proverb is true That light gains makes heavy purses for light gains come thick whereas great come now and then So it is true that small matters win great commendation because they are continually in use and in note whereas the occasion of any great virtue cometh but on Festivals therefore it doth much adde to a mans Reputation and is as Queen Isabella said like perpetual Letters Commendatory to have good forms And therefore besides several other Messages of Consequence he had the Management of a Complement of very great consequence to the French King for
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
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
diligence and industry did wonders in that School imposed upon him on the Epistles and Gospels at School were the ground of that Divine fancy so famous in Pembroke-hall where he was Scholar and Peter-house where he was Fellow in Cambridge where he was esteemed the other Herbert of our Church for making Poetry as Divine in its object as in its Original and setting wit disparaged in talking out most of its gallant Genius on Fables Women Drollery or Flattery upon a matter and subject as noble as its nature making his Verses not in his Study at St. Peters-house but in his Devotions wherein he spent many a night at St. Maries Church warbling his Hymns for St. Ambroses his Saints under Tertullians Roof of Angels having no other Helicon than the Iordan of his eyes nor Parnassus than the Sion where dwelled his thoughts that made the Muses Graces and taught Poems to do what they did of old propagate Religion and not so much Charm as Inspire the Soul Hebrew Greek Latine Spanish French Italian were as familiar to him as English Philosophy came as plausible from him as his Speeches or Sermons those thronged Sermons on each Sunday and Holiday that ravished more like Poems than both the Poet and Saint two of the most sacred names in heaven and earth scattering not so much Sentences and Extasies his soul breahing in each word was the soul of the Assembly as its original is of the World Poetry Musick Drawing Limning Graving exercises of his curious Invention and sudden Fancy were the subservient recreations of his vacant hours not the grand business of his soul his diet was temperate to a Lesson exactness whence his memory was so clear that he had ready at his service the choicest treasures of Greek and Latine Poets those Gibeonites to draw water to the Tabernacle The Divine Poet that had set a Language made up of the Quintessence of Fancy and Reason for the Angels as the Schoolmen state their way of discourse to converse in seeing Atheism prevailing in England embraced Popery in Italy chusing rather to live in the Communion of that corrupt Church in the practise of fundamental truths confessed to be then mixed with some errors than to stay here where was hardly the face of any Church after the overthrow of those to make way for all errors being resolved to any Religion than that which taught a holy Rebellion and Perjury a pious Sacriledge a godly Parracide and made the very horrors of nature the glory of Christianity And died of a Feaver the holy order of his soul over-heating his body Canon of Loretto whence he was carried to heaven as that Church was brought thither by Angels singing Dr. Iohn Sherman Scholar at Charter-house London and Fellow of Trinity-colledge Cambridge whom to use his own words Reading makes a full Scholar as appeared by his discourse called The Greek brought into the Temple Conference a ready Scholar evidenced in his successful contracts in these times with both papists and Sectaries and meditation a deep Scholar as is legible in his excellent discourse so much commended by the Reverend Dr. Pierce of Inâ—allibility so conscientious a man that because he had a small estate of his own derived to him by providence he would not return to his old Preferment his Fellow-ship and so modest that he looked not after any new being infinitely more happy in his rational and sublime self-satisfaction whereby he neglected the lower advantages of his Majesties Restauration than others have been in their thoughts since that made it their business to enjoy them Dr. Abraham Cowley bred at Westminster under the Reverend Dr. Busby whose name will be deeply woven into the history of this age most of the eminent Prelates and States-men owning their Abilities to his admirable Education and their Loyalty to his choice Principles preferred to Trinity-colledge Cambridge and when ejected admitted in France Secretary in effect to her Majesty the Queen Mother in being so formerly to the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Albans since the Restauration designed Master of the Savoy and Charter-house and the first failing and the second not falling rewarded with a rich Lease of her Majesties I think at Chersey in Surrey A Poet as all are born not made a Jewel brought forth with it fire and light about it writing at eleven well at School for the entertainment of Noblemen and at sixteen excellently in the University for the entertainment of a Prince aiming according to his Motto Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo victorque virum voliture per ora at nothing ordinary he performed upon all occasions extraordinary arriving at the greatest heighth of English and Latine Poetry that is a happy fertility of Invention a great Wisdom of Disposition a curious Judgement in observance of Decencies and quick Luster and Vigor of Elocution a becoming Modesty Variety and Majesty of Number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bold and unusual figures all every where like a Mans Soul Grave Calm Sober and Chaste as his Life not gay all over but skilled when to be witty and when to be wise in a word his Poems the great exactness in Greek and Latine Authors his Comment being as Learned as his Poems Ingenious the one opening what the other coucheth Sublimated not Translated by him richer in his grasping coherent and great thoughts than in their own a stupendious skill in most Languages and Sciences particularly in the two great Mistrisses professions Divinity and Physick and their brave attendants Philosophy Mathematicks and History besides Musick Limning c. his recreations and that in the pleasant privacy of a Colledge not on the Banks of Cham amidst the great Collection of the most learned Books and Men where his thoughts run as clear and undisturbed as the stream and peaceable as the times but among cares and fears melancholy and grief sufferings and removes times fit to write of and its pity his three Books of the Civil Wars reaching as far as the first Battel of Newbury are lost and that he laid down his Pen when his friends did their Armes that he marched out of the Cause as they did out of their Garrisons dismantling the Works and Fortifications of Wit and Reason in his power to keep when they did the Forts and Castles not so in theirs but not in In te inluens they are Tullies words applied by Mr. C. to himself Brute Doleo cujus in adolescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna Reipublicae Since Poesie as he observeth there that is to communicate pleasure unto others must have a soul full of bright and delightful Ideas sad times and a sad spirit being as unsuitable to a good fancy as to use his comparison for I make him all along who best could express himself the grave to Dr. Donnes Sun-dial nothing but Love the Poets necessary affection
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their
2 Coll. Warren the right Gospel Centurion that feared God as much as he undervalued man 3 Coll. Fleming 4 Coll. Brin 5 Major Tempest and several other brave Gentlemen Cromwel thinking to cut off all Ireland in cutting off that Town which was the Epitome of it Sir Arthur like Montross had one excellent faculty that in extremity he had some operative Phrases wherewith he could bespeak his Souldiesr to do wonders Pallas so much honoured by him which some Pen equal to his Sword may more fully relate and her Military relation doing him right in her learned Capacity Sir Edward Herbert Atturney-General to his Majesty much troubled about the Impeachment he drew up against the five Members more about the opinion and advice he gave concerning the Parliament having asserted the peoples Liberty with resolution 1626. 27. 28. and his Majesties Rights with integrity 1639. 1640. 1641. his Majesty preferred him for his abilities in the first but the people would never forgive his faithfulness in the second having assisted at most Treaties and Councils at Oxford in the War he retired beyond Sea after dying with honor there though he could not live with Indemnity at home having this Character That he thought he served his Prince best when he gave things the right colour not varnishing them over with a false Gloss which did more harm when discovered than good when pretended Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury whose compleat History you may see in the States-men and Favourites of England Coll. Charles Herbert Coll. Edward Herbert Richard Lord Herbert the Lord Edwards son and Coll. Richard Herbert the first the greatest Artist and Linguist of a Noble man in our Age and a very stout man His History of H. 8. which he writ in as blustering a time as it was lived in is full and authentick in its Collections judicious in the Observations strong coherent and exact in the Connexion His Ambassie into France was well managed for being referred to Luynes the Favourite of France for Audience in behalf of the Reformed Luynes setting two Protestant Gentlemen behind a traverse near the place where they were to conferr to hear what little expectations they ought to entertain of the King of Englands Mediation asked roughly what our King had to do to meddle with the state of France Sir Edward Herbert it s not you to whom my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain that my Masi◠〈◊〉 more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Neveâ—theless reserving his passion till the issue of the discourse said he if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you farther whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well the Ambassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the peace and prosperity of France and that upon the settlement of that Kingdom he hoped the Palatinate might be the better assisted Luynes returned We will have none of your advices the Ambassador replied He took that for an answer being sorry the King his Masters affections were not suitably resented adding that since it was so he knew well what to do And being answered that the French feared him not returns smilingly If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made no other answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes thereupon rising from his chair discomposed said By God If you were not the Monsieur Ambassadour I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward rising also from his chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Britains Ambassador so he was a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence adding when the Marshal of Geran after a more civil audience of the King told him that he was not safe there since he had so highly affronted Luynes That he held himself to be secure enough where ever he had his Sword by him The Gentlemen behind the Curtains afterwards when he was called home to accommodate Le mal intendu between the two Crowns attesting that though the Constable gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his instructions and honor very discreetly and worthily His Son Richard Lord Herbert dead since deeply engaged with Sir George Booth and many others in most of the designs for his Majesties Restauration all of them the wariest and the most resolute of any that followed his Majesty from the Scots Wars 1639. to the Settlement 1660. Sir Iohn Pennington born nigh Alesbury in Buckinghamsh bred a Sea-man by his great diligence and patience attaining to a Captains Command and by his noble and generous temper to the honour of Admiral of the Guard belonging to the Narrow Seas where gaining vastly by Convoys he lived like a Prince in the magnificence of his Table and Interest in the Sea-men who shared in his gains and he in their hearts making them all true to him as he was to the King and Church being very faithful to the interest of the first till he deluded by the Faction disabled him from serving him and very conscientious in observing the Orders of the second in all his Ships as long as he had any being none of those Sea-men whose piety being a fit of the wind are calm in a storm and storm in a calm Yet very serviceable was he in transporting Commanders Arms Ammunition and other necessaries for his Majesties service keeping Passages open in most Ports of England besides that he secured Scilly Guernsey and Iersâ—y bravely did he 1626 refuse upon my Lord of Buckinghams Order to deliver his Majesties Ships to the French without a considerable security for their value and use and as bravely refused all Overtures from the Parliament he died at Bristol Sept. 1646. having been never cruel as some to Slaves knowing that the Sea might drown the men but not the murder To him I may adde Sir Iohn Lawson a poor mans Son at Hull bred at Sea by his Industry and Dexterity coming to be a Captain in which capacity after some profitable Voyages with Merchants he gained much honor in boarding fix Admiral ships in the War with the Dutch 1651. 1652. 1653. more in contributing to his Majesties Restauration by putting a stop with eight ships upon the mouth of the Thames till the stop put upon the Parliament was removed 1659. most of all in the admirable attempt upon Algiers 1661. 1662. which he forced to make the most honorable Peace they ever made with Christians and afterwards which was more most punctually to observe it and in his gallant Conduct and Resolution in the first Sea-fight between the English and the Dutch 1665. where by a shot in the leg he
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