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 nor chosen by the Clergy and because there was a legal Convocation in being that superseded this Illegal Assembly wherein it was in vain for few Oxthodox men to appear being overvoted by their numerous Antagonists But since he could not serve the King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
his Devotion in behalf of the Nation now under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure But on the fourth of April a sharp Fit of the Stone seized him which put him who at other times would say I am not dying yet into such apprehensions of his danger that he told the mournful Spectators of his agonies That he should leave them in Gods hands who would so provide that they should not finde his removal any loss adding That they should turn their prayers for his recovery into intercessions for his happy change I pray said he very passionately let some of your fervor be employed that way Being pressed to make it his own request to God that he might be continued to serve the Church he allowed this a part of his devotion viz. That if his life might be useful to any one soul he besought Almighty God to continue him and by his grace to ennable him to employ that life he so vouchsafed industriously and successfully Adding for the Church that sincere performance of Christian duties so much decayed to the equal supplanting and scandal of that holy Calling that those who professed that Faith might live according to the rules of it and to the form of Godliness superadd the power of it restraining the ex tempore irregularities of his friends ejaculations with that grave saying Let us call on God in the voice of his Church But now through the long suppression of Urine the bloud being grown Thin and Serous and withal Eager and Tumultuous through the mixture of Heterogeneous parts this excellent person fell to a violent bleeding whereat the standers by being amazed he said chearfully It was a mercy and that to bleed to death was one of the most desireable passages out of this world and found no ease but that the pain of the Humors stoppage relieved the Stone the Lethargy that and the Flux of Bloud the Lethargy which variety of tortures exercised not only his patience but his thankfulness too crying out in his greatest extreamities Blessed be God blessed be God He made his Will with chearfulness the oversight whereof he intrusted with his intimate and approved friend Dr. Henâ—hman now Lord Bishop of London and received the Sacrament April 20. and 22. then Good-friday and Easter-day being very much concerned that he could not be with the Congregation and saying very passionately Alas must I be Excommunicated So far was he from their opinion who in their most healthful days make this not their Penance but their election and choice April 25. he bled with greater violence than before beyond all remedy by applications or revulsives until the torrent ceased the fountain being exhausted and the good Doctor became so weak so cold and so dispirited that he had strength enough only to persevere in his Devotions which he did to the last moment of his life a few minutes before his death breathing out those words which best became his Christian life Lord make haste The same day that commenced the Nations happiness the Convention of a Free-Parliament concluded his life just when it was like to be most comfortable to himself and serviceable to the Church As if this great Champion of Religion and pattern of all virtue were reserved for exigence and hazzard for persecution and suffering for he resigned his pure and active soul to him that gave it April 25. 1660. HIS CHARACTER A Soul that dwelt nobly in a strong and comely Body whose Proportions were just and graceful his Face was serene and majestick his Eye quick and sprightful his Complexion clear and florid and the whole Man abating the redness of his Hair which yet elsewhere might be an advancing to him a beauty delicate but vigorous and patient of the severest toil and hardship never approaching the fire never subject to any infirmities save Feavers wherein yet his temperance relieved him until immoderate study altered his constitution Nobly was his soul seated and noble it was and just to the promise of his outward shape 1. His Sight was admirably quick and distinct His Ear was accurate and he naturally able to perform his part to a Harpsicon or Theorbo in the relieved intervals of his day labours and night studies 3. His Elocution was free and graceful prepared at once to charm and command his audience when impaired at his Country charge reduced by his late sacred Majesty with equal skill and candor to its natural modulation 4. His Invention was rich and flowing outgoing his dexterous Amanuensis and overflowing his Periods an hours meditation at night until he observed that prejudicial to his sleep and then in the morning suffced for two Sermons a Sunday 8. or 9. hours dispatched most of his small Tracts as that touching Episcopacy drawn immediately upon my Lord of Salisbury late of Winchesters motion in a friends Chamber who professeth that sitting by all the while he remembreth not that he took off Pen from Paper till he had done five sheets having amidst his other diversions been frequently his own days workâ— His Memory was more faithful to things than to words it being harder with him to get one Sermon by heart than to Pen twenty 6. His speech was so happy that being defective only in its redundance his late Sacred Majesty the greatest Judge and Master of English Rhetorick in this later Age ennobled him and it with this Character That he was the most Natural Orator he ever heard 7. His judgment was strong in his Writings piercing in business equally able to unravel the designs of others and model his own though as the excellent Author of his life observeth the finding out the similitudes of different things wherein the fancy is conversant is usually a bar to the discerning the disparities of similar appearances which is the business of discretion and that store of notions which is laid up in Memory assists rather confusion than choice upon which ground the greatest Clerks are frequently not the wisest men yet the incomparable Doctor owned at once the highest phansie and the deepest judgment Great his natural abilities greater his acquired through the whole Circle of the Arts accurate and Eloquent he was in the Tongues exact in Ancient and Modern Writers well versed in Philosophy better in Philology Learned in School-Divinity a Master in Church Antiquity made up of Fathers Councels Ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks Eminent indeed his Intellectuals more eminent his Moralls for 1. His temper though sanguine which he observed a Providence was chaste to an Antipathy against the very appearances of wantonness twice his Houshold cares inclined him to a Marriage yet he forbore the first time out of respect to the Lady for whom a better Fortune had a kindness and the second time upon St Paul and St. Ieromes advice for the present exigence ever since espousing what he preserved inviolate unto his death the more eminent perfection of spotless Virgin chastity 2. His appetite was
remember another His industry was great in the mornings attending his Philosophy and in the afternoons Collecting Materials for such subjects as he would receive satisfaction in his body strong his natural and artificial memory exact his fancy slow though yet he made several sallies into Poetry and Oratory both to relieve his severer thoughts and smooth and knit his broken and rough stile made so by the vast matter it was to comprehend being taught by Ben Iohnson as he would brag to rellish Horace but judgment sure his nature communicative A good Herald as appears by his Titles of Honor a great Antiquary as he shewed by his Marmora Arundeliana on Drayton's Eâ—dmerus his many ancient Coins and more modern rich in his Study and in his Coffers a skillful Lawyer discovered by his Observat on Fleta tenures Fortesne modus tenendi Parliamentum and his Arguments being the readiest man in the kingdom in Records well seen in all learning as is evident in his History of Tyths comprehending all Jewish Heathen and Christian learning on that subject his Mare Clausum against Grotius his Mare Liberum containing all the Laws Customs and Usages of the World in that point his Vxor Hebraica de Synedriis Lex naturae secundum consuetudines Hebraick being Monuments of his insight in the Jewish learning his books de Diis Syris being an instance how well he understood how the Heathen Fables was the corruption of Sripture-truth and how the Gentile Learning might be made subservient to Christian Religion his Book of Tyths Printed 1616. gave offence for the Preface of it disparaging the Credit of our Clergy in point of learning and for the Matter prejudicing their interest in point of profit though answered by Sir Iames Temple for the legal and historical part Mr. Nettles of Queens Colledge Cambridge a great Talmudist for the Judaical part by Mr. Mountague and Dr. Tilsley Archdeacon of Rochester for the Greek and Latine learning with the Ecclesiastical History the fiercest storm saith one that fell on Parsonage Barns since the Reformation but he omitted that 28. Ianu. 1618. before four Bishops and four Doctors of Law and a Publick Notary he tendred his submission and acknowledgment for his presumption in that Book under his Hand in these very words My good Lords I Most humbly acknowledge my error which I have committed in publishing the History of Tithes and especially in that I have at all by shewing any Interpretation of holy Scriptures by medling with Counsels Fathers or Canons or by whatsoever occurres in it offered any just occasion of Argument against any right of maintenance of Iure Divino of the Ministers of the Gospel beseeching your Lordships to receive this ingenuous and humble acknowledgment together with the unfeigned protestation of my grief for that through it I have so incurred both his Majesties and your Lordships displeasure conceived against me in behalf of the Church of England Iohn Selden Which his submission and acknowledgment being received and made an Act of Court was entred into the publick Registrie thereof by this Title following viz. Officium dominorum contra Joh. Seldenum de inter Templo Lond. Armiger I am loath to think that the Play Ignoramus Acted at Cambridge 1614. to make some sport with Lawyers was the occasion of this History published 1616. to be even with Divines but apt to think that the latitude of his minde tracing all parts of Learning did casually light on the Rode of this Subject handling it as he did all others with great freedom according to the Motto written in all his books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The foresaid Submission was accompanied with an humble Letter afterwards with his own hand to Bishop Laud wherein many expressions of his contrition much condemning himself for Writing a book of that nature and for Prefacing such a book with insolent reflections of that kinde And this Letter seconded with an Apology in Latine to all the world to clear himself from the least suspition of disobedience to Government or disassection to the Church and that Apology backed with a Dedicatory Epistle to Archbishop Laud expressing great reverence to his Function and an honorable respect to his Person for his great design for the advancement of Universal Learning and the truly Catholick Religion whereupon the recommended him for Burgess to the University of Oxford in the Long Parliament which and an intimate acquaintance with the honorable Io. Vanghan Esq of Troescod to whom he Dedicated some of his Books and Bishop Vsher who Preached at his Funeral he reckoned the greatest honors of his life He was outed that Parliament to use his own words by those men that deposed his Majesty Dr. Mathew Grissith born in London bred in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford Lecturer at St. Dunstans in the West under Dr. Donnes inspection whose favourite he was Minister of Maudelins Fish-street London by his donation For telling the Citizens that they sent in their Bodkins Thimbles c. to furnish out the Cause as the Children of Israel did their Ear-rings and Jewels only these had a Calf for theirs whereas they were likely to have a Bull for theirs and for a Sermon at St. Pauls about the peace of Ierusalem Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned in Newgate and forced to fly to Oxford whence he returned continuing Prayers and other Ordinances in London according to the Established Laws of the Church of England during the Usurpation enduring seven violent Assaults five Imprisonments the last of which was at Newgate 1659. for a Sermon Called fear God and honor the King Preached at Mercers-Chappel pardon one big with his Loyalty if he Longed for his Majesties Restauration before the Design of it was ripe he died Minister of the forsaid Maudlin Parish Lecturer of the Temple London and Rector of Bladon in Oxford-shire where he departed Octob. 14. Anno Aetatis 68. Domini 65. having broken a Vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point Study to be quiet and follow your own business and ventured his Life at Bazing-house where his Daughter manly lost hers To whom I will subjoyn his neighbor Mr. Chostlen of Fryday-street Assaulted in his house Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned first in one of the London Compters and afterwards in Colchester-Goal And gentile Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons who as Bishop Vsher would say he Preached Perkins so long till he was able to imitate him Preached Seneca and St. Bernard so much till they attained a sententiousness as happy as theirs and art of Preaching that is of Collecting Composing and Delivering their discourses by having those things whereof they themselves had onely some imperfect confused Notion fully and clearly represented to their view from the discoveries that other men have made after much study and experience Dr. Tho. Howel born at Nanga-March near Brecknock in Brecknock-shire bred Scholar and Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Oxford smooth and meek in his Conversation and his Sermons by both gliding
Ille qui una cum sacratissimo rege cujus et Iuvenilium studiorum et animae deo Charae Curam a beatissimo patre demandatam Gessit nobile ac religiosum exilium est Passus Ille qui Hookeri Ingentis Politeiam ecclesiasticam Ille qui Caroli Martyris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen quo post Apocalypsin divinius nullum legavit orbi sic latine reddita ut uterque unius fidei defensor patriam adhuc retine at Majestatem Nec dum tibi suboleat Lector nomen ejus ut unguenta pretiosa Johannes Earl Eboracensis sereniss Car. II. Oratoris Clericus Aliquando Westmonasteriensis Decanus Ecclesiae deinde Wigorniensis Angelus tandem Salisburiensis et nunc triumphantis Obiit Oxonii Nov. Septimo A.D. 1665. Aet 65. Voluitque in hoc ubi olim floruerat Collegio ex Aede Christi huc in socium ascitus ver Magnum ut Restorescat expectare Dr. William Bedle bred in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge preferred with Sir Henry Wotton as Chaplain of his Embassie to Venice at the same time that Mr. Iames Wadsworth his intire friend bred in the same Colledge and Beneâ—iced in the same Diocesse with him was sent with another Ambassador into Spain Mr. Bedle as Sir Henry Wootton testified upon Bishop Vshers recommendation of him from a private Minister in Suffolk for many years to the Provostship of Dublin Colledge to King Charles the I. behaved himself so well that Padre Paulo took him into his own bosom with whom he did command the inwardest thought of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divivinity both Scholastical and positive than from any he had conversed with in his days Mr. Wadsworth though the most zealous Protestant of the two miscarryed so far that he turned Papist Mr. Hall afterwards Bishop Hall accosted him with a loving Letter but Mr. Bedle upon Mr. Wadsworths opening to him the Motives of his Conversion which he would not to Mr. Hall with solid Arguments to be seen in their mutual Letters extant which are Controversies of love and Meekness as well as Religion much was the expectation it seems by a Letter of Mr. Hall to him his Parts and Conferences had raised and great the satisfaction he gave when Bishop of Kilmore to that expectation by his Christian temper his great repute for Learning and Zeal his strict Life observing exactly the Ember-weeks the Canonical hours the Feasts and Fast-days of the Church besides his private Devotion his Patience and Charity so exemplary that the very Romanists whereof not a few in his Diocesse did ever look upon him with respect and Reverence testifying it by concealing and safe protecting his Person in the Horrid Rebellion in Ireland when they could not secure his excellent Books and Writings among whom the Bible in Irish Translated by him with many years Labour Conference and Study He dyed 1642 3. Mr. Iohn Hales born as I take it in Kent bred Fellow of Merton Colledge Oxford where he was Greek Professor preferred first Chaplain to Sir Dudley Carleton when he was at the Hague about the business of the Synod at Dort whereof being sent thither to that purpose he writ a daily and exact account compleated as appears in his Remains by Dr. Balcanquell and where upon Episcopius his well-pressing of 3 Iohn 16. he would say There I bid John Calvin good night and then Fellow of Eaton and Prebendary of Windsor in the first of which places he was Treasurer which is strange such his Integrity and Charity to his loss in point of Estate and Fellow such his prudence in avoiding the Oaths of the times without any snare to his Conscience A Person of so large a capacity so sharp quick piercing and subtile a Wit of so serene and profound a judgement beyond the ordinary reach built upon unordinary notions raised out of strange observations and comprehensive thoughts within himself and so astonishing an industry that he became the most absolute Master of Polite Various and Universal Learning besides a deep insight into Religion in the search after which he was Curious and of the knowledge of it studious as in the practise of it The best way to understand Christian Religion is to observe it we learn by doing those things we learn to do sincere being as strictly just in his dealings so extraordinarily kind sweet affable communicative humble and meek in his converse so inimitably as well as unusually charitable giving away all he had but his choice Books and forced to sell them at last That he was as good a man as he was a great Scholar and to use the Reverend Dr. Pearsons words of him It was near as easie a task for any one to become so knowing as so obliging He had so long and with such advantage and impartiality judged of all Books Things and Men that he was the Oracle consulted by all the Learned men in the Nation Dr. Hammond Mr. Chillingworth c. in Cases that concerned either whereupon he used to say of Learned mens Letters That they set up tops and he must whip them for them It s pity he was so averse notwithstanding so general an importunity from communicating his great thoughts by writing partly from an humor he had as his intimate friend Mr. Faringdon observes to draw the Model of things in his head and never write till he needs must and partly from his growing and unlimited thoughts but chiefly from the exactness he required in others taking a great liberty it s seems by Dr. P. of judging not of others but for himself and exacted of himself being seldom pleased with his own performances that there are no Monuments of his Learning save the great Scholars made by his directions and assistance extant but Sir H. Savile Chrysostom which he corrected with great pains in his younger days and illustrated with admirable Notes for which he is often honorably mentioned by Mr. Andrew Downs Greet Professor of Cambridge and a Collection of some choice Sermons and Letters made by Master Garthwait Dr. William Chappel a native of Lexington in Nottinghamshire Fellow of Christ-colledge in Cambridge upon Bishop Vshers importunity Provost of Trinity-colledge in Dublin and the Lord Deputies observation of him Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse a man of a very strict method being an incomparable Logician and of a very strict life being an excellent man famous for his many and eminent Pupils more for the eminent Preachers made so by his admirable method for the Theory and Praxis upon 2 Tim. 3. 16. for the practise of Preaching so good a disputant as to be able to maintain any thing but so honest a man that he was willing to maintain only as he would call them sober truths Harassed between the Rebellion in Ireland and England where it was imputed to Bishop Laud as a crime that he preferred Bishop Chappel and to him that he was preferred by him being thought a Puritan before
MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames â—ollinâ— in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
I do so again Neither was he thus exceedingly religious as a man only but as a King Neither was Religion only his private Devotion but his publick Government wherein he aimed at 1. The peace of the Church wherein those parts and abilities that he saw lost in malice and dissentions might be very useful to the promoting of Religion and Godliness And 2. the honour maintenance and splendour of the Church For the first of which he consulted sufficiently in his favours to Arch-bishop Laud Bishop Neile Bishop Iuxon For the second by his endeavour to recover the Patrimony of the Church in England Ireland and Scotland where his religious intentions gave occasion to their rebellion who rather than they would part with their private sacrileges resolved on the publick ruine And for the third by his great charge in the repair of St. Pauls and other places To say nothing of his godly resolution to buy all Lands and Tythes alienated from the Church with his own Estate by such degrees as his other expences would give him leave the greatest testimonies of a design to make Religion as universal of his Empire next those from his own mouth First Before God The Kings Protestation at Christ-Church when he was to receive the Sacrament at the Bishop of Armaghs hands MY Lord I espy here many resolved Protestants who may declare to the World the resolution I now do make I have to the utmost of my power prepared my Soul to become a worthy receiver and so may I receive comfort by the blessed Sacrament as I do intend the establishment of the true Protestant Religion as it stood in its beauty in the happy daies of Queen Elizabeth without any connivance of Poperie I bless God that in the midst of these publick distractions I have still liberty to communicate and may this Sacrament be my damnation if my heart do not joyn with my lips in this protestation Secondly Before the VVorld The Kings Declaration to the Reformed Churches CHARLES By the special providence of Almighty God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To all those who profess the true Reformed Protestant Religion of what Nation condition and degree soever they be to whom this present Declaration shall come Greeting Whereas We are given to understand that many false rumours and scandalous Letters are spread up and down amongst the Reformed Churches in foreign parts by the politick or rather the pernicious industry of some ill affected persons that We have an inclination to recede from that Orthodox Religion which We were born baptized and bred in and which We have firmly professed and practised through the whole course of Our Life to this moment And that We intend to give way to the introduction and publick exercise of Popery again in Our Dominions Which conjecture or rather most detestable calumny being grounded upon no imaginable foundation hath raised these horrid Tumults and more than Barbarous Wars throughout these flourishing Islands under a pretext of a kind of Reformation which would not prove only incongruous but incompatible with the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this our Kingdom We desire that the whole Christian World should take notice and rest assured that we never entertained in our imagination the least thought to attempt such a thing or to depart a jot from that Holy Religion which when we received the Crown and Scepter of this Kingdome we took a most Solemn Sacramentall Oath to Profess and Protect Nor doth our most constant Practice and daily visible Presence in the Exercise of this sole Religion with so many asseverations in the head of our Armies and in the publick attestation of our Lords with the circumspection used in the education of our Royall Offspring besides divers other undeniable arguments only demonstrate this but also that happy Alliance of Marriage we Contracted between our eldest Daughter and the Illustrious Prince of Aurange most clearly confirmes the realty of Our intentions herein by which Nuptial engagement it appears further that Our endeavours are not only to make a bare profession thereof in Our own Dominions but to enlarge and coroborate it abroad as much as lyeth in Our power This most holy Religion with the Hierarchy and Liturgy thereof We solemnly protest that by the help of Almighty God We will endeavour to Our utmost power and last period of Our life to keep entire and immoveable and will be careful according to Our duty to Heaven and the tenour of the aforesaid most saCRed Oath at Our Coronation that all Our Ecclesiasticks in their several Stations and Incumbencies shall preach and practice the same Thirdly Before the Kingdom The Kings Declaration and Protestation before the whole Kingdom I Do promise in the presence of Almighty God and as I hope for his blessing and protection that I will to the utmost of my power defend and maintain the true Reformed and Protestant Religion established in the Church of England and by the grace of God in the same will live and dye I desire to govern by the known Laws of the Land and that the liberty and propriety of the Subject may be by them preserved with the same care as mine own just Rights And if it please God by his blessing upon this Army raised for my necessary defence to preserve me from this Rebellion I do solemnly and faithfully promise in the sight of God to maintain the just privilege and freedome of Parliament and to govern by the known Laws of the Land to my utmost power and particularly to observe inviolably the Laws consented unto by me this Parliament In the mean while if this time of War and the great necessity and straits I am now driven unto beget any violation of these I hope it shall be imputed by God and man to the Authors of this War and not to me who have so earnestly laboured for the peace of this Kingdom When I willingly fail in these particulars I will expect no aid or relief from any man or protection from Heaven But in this resolution I hope for the chearful assistance of all good men and am confident of Gods blessing Sept. 19. The Result of all which Holy Designs was these his own brave words viz. Though I am sensible enough of the danger that attends my Care of the Church yet I am resolved to defend it or make it my Tombestone A Prince of so much resolution and conduct that as he feared not a private man lodging Hamilton in his own Chamber all that time he was accused by Rey of Treason and saying to those that admired his confidence That Hamilton should know he as little feared his power as he distrusted his Loyalty and that he durst not notwithstanding the advantages of Night and solitariness attempt his life because he was resolved to sell it so dear It was his goodness that he desired not war and his fortune that he prospered not in it but his
Person viz. That this great truth that the imprisoning killing or deposing of any Supream Governor who is Gods Minister in a Nation is against the Will and Word of God should be offered by the Clergy of England to be proved by Scripture and if not regarded to be sealed with their bloud and with the Joynt-attestation of all Protestant Churches and Universities as the great principle of Christian Doctrine about the Peace and Government of Kingdoms and Nations And as he saith in his Letter Feb. 11. 1647. thinking of little else in this world than what he should do for the preservation of his Sacred Majesty than whose sufferings there was nothing greater he said except his vertues as a Christian a Subject an Englishman a Nobleman and an obliged Servant he caused a Rumor to be spread of his design which put the General upon calling him in from his Parole and upon his frank appearance he was dimissed till the Parliament should send for him so being free from his engagement which was as sacred to him as his Allegiance he went to Colchester with all the Horse he had and there incouraged the Souldiers by his own example going with an Halberd on his shoulder to the watch and guard in his turn paying six pence or twelve pence a shot for all the Enemies Bullets the Souldiers could pick up Charging the first day of the siege aâ— Head-gate where the Enemy was most pressing with a Pike till the gate could be shut which at last was but pinned with his Cane and after the Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle when Whaley and Ewres were sent to tell him and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that they should have quarter as Prisoners answering them himself That since the condition of those two Gentlemen and theirs in reference to that service were alike they wished they had all run one hazard and they had thanked the General more for saving the Lives of the two Knights whom they had already executed than for the grant of their own From Colchester my Lord was sent to the remotest Prison they could imagine from his own Countrey and thence fetched up to the Tower where after a handsome escape over the water to Lambeth wherein he was betrayed by the wretched Water-man that carryed him over who discovered him by his munificence the Gold he gave him he spent not his time in thoughts for his own Life but for that of his Majesties conjuring a Lord then sitting to second their Vote against the Ordinance for Tryal of his Majesty with a resolute Declaration to all Kings Princes States Potentates and Nobility to be signed by all the Lords Judges Lawyers Divines Gentry and people of England and this he pressed with most pathetick Arguments whereof one was very remarkable viz. That he understood by his dear-bought experience of those men of the Enthusiasm that let them but meet a well-grounded and justificable Zeal Courage and Resolution greater than their misguided fury to stemme the Torrent of it they would recollect and as he said observing some hesitation in their proceedings who found it easier to Conquer a people than to govern them against their Interest by a small part of themselves it being easier to overthrow another Government than to settle their own in an excellent Letter from the Tower Ian. 9. 1648. full of a Noble and Heroick Spirit which he concludes with this expression That it grieved him that he could do nothing else but rub his fingers upon Paper an imployment that fitted not his Genius Give saith he but the people an honorable example they will follow you and vindicate both you and themselves from being as such a silly Generation that they should suffer themselves to be cozened out of their good known and established Laws and in the place of them be imposed upon by Imaginations and Dreams to which he added another Letter Ian. 15. to a very great man in the Army every line whereof runs with this vigor against their proceedings YOur Party is small and giddy the thing its self is monstrous the Lords and Commons under whom you fought are against you all Princes and Protestants will abhor you Scotland will be dis-united from England Ireland will be lost Trade will be stopped by all Kings and States with people of so dangerous principles all Nations will be ready to invade us many of the Judges to sit upon the King will leave you the Empire of the Sea will be lost the Nation will be infamous to Posterity the Protestant yea Christian Religion will receive a deadly blow to be revenged by all people that profess it no man is sure of his life or any thing he hath the most prudent Form of Rules the world hath known will be overthrown a vast number of people are concerned in those Rules no example will be-friend you all Potentates will be against you and the Prince to be murthered so excellent and knowing in the Art of Government so loved reverenced and desired that of all the Princes that that ever ruled the people that were so happy in the first sixteen years of his Reign were they to chuse would pitch upon him and which is more the only person in whom his enemies may finde security being otherwise like to be torn to pieces by their Fellow-subjects upon the least change the express word of the great God in whose hands you are is against you Prov. 8. 15. 1 Sam 24 5 6. Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. c. the Laws of the Land your own Judges yea your own Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and Pretences all along fly in your faces the Prince the two Dukes and the numerous Royal issue should deter you the Precipice of endless Wars and Desolations you are at the brink of should affright you Words big with his heart which you may see at large at the end of his incomparable Book of Meditations as appears by this close I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it than you will allow your self for all your other Merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most Affectionate Friend How readily he would have dyed for him we may see in his chearfulness to dye with him for being brought before an High Court of Justice as it was called within a moneth after having offered brave Arguments from the Law of the Land the Government of the Nation the nullity of their Court the benefit of his Peerage and the Law that governed the world meaning the Sword by which he was promised quarter for life he heard the Villains ridiculous Sentence with a nobler spirit than they pronounced it telling them That they needed not have used those formalities to murther him And March the ninth the day appointed for the Assassination having conjured his Lady in two Letters That
could not kill that great same which his greater worthiness had procured him It was said of Hippâ—sus the Pythagorean that being asked how and what he had done he answered Nondum nihil neque enim mihi adhuc invidetur I have done nothing yet for no man envies me He that doth great things cannot avoid the tongues and teeth of envy But if Calumnies must pass for Evidences the bravest Hero's must always be the most reproached persons in the world Nascitur Aetolicus pravam ingeniosus ad omne Qui facere assuerat patriae non degeneratis Candida de nigris de candentibus atra Every thing can have an ill name and an ill sense put upon it but God who takes care of Reputations as he doth of lives by the order of his providence confutes the slander ut memoria justorum sit in benedictionibus that the Memory of the Righteous might be embalmed with honor And so it hapned to this great man for by a publick warranty by the concurrent consent of both Houses of Parliament the libellous Petitions against him the false Records and publick Monuments of injurious shame were cancell'd and he was restored in integrum to that fame where his great labors and just procedures had first Estated him which though it was but justice yet it was also such honor that it is greater than the virulence of tongues his worthiness and their envy had arm'd against him But yet the great Scene of troubles was but newly open'd I shall not refuse to speak yet more of his troubles as remembring that St. Paul when he discourses of the glory of the Saints departed he tells more of their Sufferings than of their Prosperities as being that Laboratory and Crysable in which God makes his Servants Vessels of honor to his glory The storm quickly grew high transitum a linguis ad gladios and that was indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iniquity had put on Arms when it is armata nequitia then a man is hard put to it The Rebellion breaking out the Bishop went to his Charge at Derry and because he was within the defence of the Walls the execrable Traytor Sir Phelim O Neal laid a snare to bring him to a dishonorable death for he wrote a Letter to the Bishop pretended intelligence between them desired that according to their former agreement such a Gate might be delivered to him The Messenger was not advis'd to be Cautious not at all instructed in the Art of Secrecy for it was intended that he should be search'd intercepted and hanged for ought they car'd but the Arrow was shot against the Bishop that he might be accused for base conspiracy and dye with shame and sad dishonor But here God manifested his mighty care of his Servants he was pleased to send into the heart of the Messenger such affrightment that he directly ran away with the Letter and never came near the Town to deliver it This story was published by Sir Phelim himself who added that if he could have thus ensnared the Bishop he had good assurance the Town should have been his own Sed bonitas Dei praevalitura est super omnem vâ—alitionem hominis The goodness of God is greater than all the malice of men and nothing so could prove how dear that Sacred Life was to God as his rescue from the dangers Stantia non poterant tecta probare Deos To have kept him in a warm house had been nothing unless the Roof had fallen upon his Head that rescue was a remark of Divine Favour and Providence But it seems Sir Phelim's Treason against this worthy man had a correspondent in Town and it broke out speedily for what they could not effect by a malicious stratagem they did in part by open force they turned the Bishop out of Town and upon trifling and unjust pretences search'd his Carriages and took what they pleased till they were ashamed to take more They did worse than Divorce him from his Church for in all the Roman Divorces they said Tuas tibi res habeto Take your Goods and be gone but Plunder was Religion then However though the usage was sad yet it was recompenced to him by taking Sanctuary in Oxford where he was graciously received by that most incomparable and divine Prince but having served the King in York-shire by his Pen and by his Counsels and by his Interests returned back to Ireland where under the excellent Conduct of his Grace the now Lord Lieutenant he ran the risque and fortune of oppressed vertue But God having still resolved to afflict us the good man was forced into the fortune of the Patriarchs to leave his Country and his Charges and seek for safety and bread in a strange Land for so the Prophets were used to do wandring up and down in Sheeps Cloathing but poor as they were the world was not worthy of them and this worthy Man despising the shame took up his Crosse and followed his Master Exilium causa ipsa jubet sibi dulce videri Et de siderium dulce levat patriae He was not ashamed to suffer where the Cause was honorable and glorious but so God provided for the needs of his banished and sent a man who could minister comfort to the afflicted and courage to the persecuted and resolutions to the tempted and strength to that Religion for which they all suffered And here indeed this great Man was Triumphant this was one of the last and best Scenes of his life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Last Days are the best Witnesses of Man But so it was that he stood in publick and brave defence for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England First by his sufferings and great example for verbis tantum Philosophari non est Doctoris sed Histrionis To talk well and not to do bravely is for a Comaedian not a Divine But this great man did both he suffered his own Calamity with great Courage and by his Wise Discourses strengthened the hearts of others For there wanted not diligent Tempters in the Church of Rome who taking advantage of the afflictions of his Sacred Majesty in which state men commonly suspect every thing and like men in Sickness are willing to change from Side to Side hoping for ease and finding none flew at the Royal Game and hoped to draw away the King from that Religion which his most Royal Father the best Man and wisest Prince in the World had Seal'd with the best Bloud in Christendom and which Himself Suck'd in with his Education and had Confirmed by Choice and Reason and Confessed Publickly and Bravely and hath since Restored Prosperously Millitiere was the man witty and bold enough to attempt a zealous and a foolish Undertaking and addressed himself with Ignoble indeed but Witty Arts to perswade the King to leave what was dearer to him than his Eyes It is true it was a Wave dashed against the Rock and an Arrow shot against the
his preferment and a Papist afterwards though he was the same godly and orthodox man always he died 1649. dividing his estate equally between his relations to whom he was obliged in nature and distressed Ministers for whom he had compassion as a fellowâ— sufferer of whom I may say as it was of Dr. Reynolds that it must be a good heart that kept so good a head employed rather in rescuing old truths than in broaching new errors Dr. Iohn Richardson extracted of an ancient and worshipful Family in Cheshire brought up in Dublin and made Bishop of Ardah in Ireland peculiar for a very grave countenance and his being extraordinary textuary by the same token that they who would not let him Preach on the Scripture in the late times desired his help to Comment upon it for his is the painful Comment in the larger Annotations upon Ezekiel Many the gifts in these times bestowed upon him and much in Almes his deep poverty abounding to the riches of liberaliy as our Saviour relieved others though living upon others relief himself when living and considerable his Legacies especially to Dublin-colledge when dead which happened in the year of our Lord 1653. and of his age 74. being observed never to have desired any preferment but to have been sought for to many it being his rule to discharge his present place well knowing that God and good men use this method viz. to make those who have been faithful in a little Rulers over much as he was to the great benefit of the places he came where being as good and dexterous a Lawyer as Clerk he compounded Differences discharged Annuities and Pensions set up Presidents of Frugality built Houses that he long Inhabited not Dido being feigned in love with Aeneis when dead many years to salve the Anticronism it is said it was with his Picture truly I never saw this Reverend Prelates Picture but I was in love with him for his Portracture sake in Paper as I am with God for his Image sake in him Mr. William Lyford Bachelor of Divinity born and bred in Piesmer in Berk-shire preferred first Fellow of Magdalen-colledge to which he restored in way of Legacy what he had taken for the resignation of his Fellowship to his great grief many years in a way of bribe and thence by the favour of the Earl of Bristol who had a great value for him Minister of Sherburne where he divided 1. His people to two parts 1. The weak which he Catechised and Principled in the Doctrines of the Church for many years before the wars whereof he drew a Scheme since 2. The strong whom he confirmed by his exact Sermons his modesty visible in his comely countenance and the meekness and prudence of his spirit in his courteous behaviour 2. His time into nine hours a day for Study three for visits and conferences three for prayers and devotion two for his affairs and the rest for his refreshment 3. His estate into one third part for the present necessity of his family another third part for future provision and the third for pious uses and his Parish into twenty eight parts to be visited in twenty eight days every month leaving knowledge where he found ignorance justice where he found oppression peace where he found contention and order where he found irregularity planting true Religion apart from all fond Opinions the reason why though I have heard at a solemn Assembly 1658. at Oxford him charactered for a man of an upright life great gravity and severity by the same token that it was wondred there that so holy a man so much acquainted with God as he was should doat so much these are their own words on such sapless things as a King Bishops Common-prayer and Ceremonies and he to win them over used much their more innocent Phrases Expressions and Method yet he suffered much from the Faction in his Name and Ministry dying 1653. Mr. William Oughtred a native Scholar and Fellow of Eaton bred in Kings-colledge Cambridge and his Mathematical Studies wherein by Study and Travel he so excelled that the choicest Mathematicians of our age own much of their skill to him whose house was full of young Gentlemen that came from all parts to be instructed by him leading him to a retired and abstracted life preferred onely by Thomas Earl of Arundel to Albury in Surrey where having a strong perswasion upon principles of Art much confirmed by the Scheme of his Majesties return in 1660. sent his Majesty some years before by the Bishop of Avignon that he should see the King restored he saw it to his incredible joy and had his Dimittis a month after Iune 30 1660. and the 86. year of his age Much requested to have lived in Italy France Holland when he was little observed in England as facetious in Greek and Latine as solid in Arithmetique Astronomy and the sphere of all Meatures Musick c. exact in his stile as in his judgment handling his Cube and other Instruments at eighty as steadily as others did at thirty owning his he said to temperance and Archery principling his people with plain and solid truths as he did the world with great and useful Arts advancing new Inventions in all things but Religion Which in its old order and decency he maintained secure in his privacy prudence meekness simplicity resolution patience and contentment Dr. Richard Stuart a Gentleman of a great extraction and good education born at Pate-shull in Northamptonshire near Nâ—â—vesby to Navelshy in the midst of England where was born Martâ—â— de Pate-shull who being a Divine was the best Lawyer of his time and Chief Justice of the Common-pleas As he being a Lawyer bred Fellow of All-souls and almost being a little person of great faculties all soul himself in Oxford was one of the best Divines of his time made successively Dean of Chichester Provost of Eaton Dean of Saint Pauls and Westminster Prolocutor to the Convocation 1640. at Westminster Clerk of the Closet to the Kings Charles I. and II. a great Champion of the Protestant Religion at Paris where he Preached the excellent Sermon of Hezekia's Reformation in vindication of ours and a discreet propagator of it having with that publick spirited man Sir Georg-Ratcliffe gone very far in making an accommodation between the Iansenists and the Reformed a sit man for such a noble design considering the moderation of his principles his breast being a Chancery for Religion the Sweetness of his Temper the Acuteness and Depth of his Reason the Charm of his Rhetorick and Fancy he having been formerly upon all occasions as great a Poet and Orator as he was then a Divine and the full Smartness of his Stile Vir to give him the Elogy of his Country-man Holcot in divinis Scripturis cruditissimus saecularium rerum hand ignarius Ingenio praestans clarus eloquio declamator quoque concionum egregius He ordered this Inscription on his Grave
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
Puritan Factions all the discontented ambitious turbulent innovating covetous desperate and most easily-deluded sort of people by the wilde courses of such as had offended beyond all security save in a troublesom time by a general Odium cast upon all Acts of Government and a perverse Spirit of discontent fears and jealousies raised throughout the three Kingdoms and vehemently possessing all sorts of people by the necessities of the King and some forreign troubles by the treachery of some that had the management of the Affairs of Scotland That which was at first but an Opinion after that a Book-controversie and never durst look beyond a Motion a Petition a Supplication a Conference a Disputation and some private murmurings at best became now a War The cause whereof on the one side was an old Schism maintained mens private Interests promoted Rebellion that sin like Witchcraft the overthrow of all Laws and Government the ruine of Learning Religion and Order the piecing up of broken Estates by Rapine and Plunder an ambition to attain to those Honours and Preferments in troublesom times that they despaired of in those more quiet as derived on persons of more worth and deserving A canting pretence for Liberty of Conscience and of the Subject that proved at last nothing but Licentiousness the Umbrage of the publick good when it appeared at last but the project of private persons who no sooner overthrew the Government but they quarrelled one with another till at last instead of one good Government we had so many that we had none at all and instead of an excellent King all the Bloud Treasures and Pretences ended in a sordid base bloudy tyrannical and upstart Usurper raised out of the meanest of the people A Revenge of some particular and personal Wrongs with the ruine of the Publick the setting up of Sects Schisms and Heresies upon the subversion of the established Doctrine and Discipline a perpetual disgrace and dishonour to Christianity and the English Nation occasioning such Burdens and Mischiefs as the Child unborn may rue Burdens and Mischiefs conveyed from them to late Posterity the desolation of the Country the ruine of gallant Churches Castles and Cities the undoing of some thousands of Families the bloud of 80000 killed on both sides and upon all occasions An unnatural division and animosity begun even among Relations that is like to last from Generation to Generation abominable Canting taking of the Name of God in vain hypocrisie perjury against the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy the Protestation yea the Covenant which they took themselves and all the Obligations they owed to God or Man the mocking of God by Fasts Prayers and seeking of his face to wicked and vile purposes the making of him the Author of the Abominations he abhors the making of Religion onely a Cloak to Villanies and all the Ordinances of it especially Sermons and Sacraments the Ministeries of horrid undertakings filling Pulpits with such Non-sence and Lyes as all Ears that heard tingled Such encouragement to loose Fancies and vile Opinions to enlarge and increase their Party as left not unshaken any Foundation in the whole compass of Christian Religion a Sacriledge unheard-of that was to swallow up all Bishops and Dean and Chapters Lands all Tithes and Ministers Maintenance all Universities and publick Schools all Hospitals Colledges and charitable Foundations a Rapine that carried away all the Crown-Revenue and sent a great Royal Family a begging devoured the Estates of above 12000 Noblemen Gentlemen and persons of eminent Quality and indeed left no man so much propriety as to say This is mine there being no other Law or Judicature than that Arbitrary one of the Sword carrying on of the publick good till the Nation was beggered a crying up of the power of Parliaments till the House of Lords was laid by and the House of Commons consisting of almost five hundred Gentlemen reduced to fifty or sixty Mechanicks and poor fellows who are turned out by their own Army as a pack of Knaves and Fools a pretence to make the King glorious till he was murdered and fighting for him against evil Counsellours till they cut off his head the best Counsellour he had The rendring of a Nation once the Envy and Terrour of the World now its Scorn and Contempt and Englishmen once the Glory of Europe now its Shame for doing that which Turks and Pagans and the Barbarous abhorred crying out You fight and judge your King Not to say any thing of the general horrour and consternation that seized all the Christian World upon that horrid Conspiracy The letting loose of all the Jesuitical Principles that had troubled the World but were never before owned by things that would be called Protestants 1. As that Subjects may resist force with force in their own defence 2. That the Law of Nature in case of necessity teacheth men to take up Arms against their Sovereign 3. That a wicked King may be deposed 4. That a Tyrant may be killed by any hand as a wilde Beast and an Enemy of Mankind 5. That they do not break their Oaths of Allegiance that fight against the Kings person if they pretend his power 6. That the King is accountable to the People as made by them in whom resides the Supream Majesty 7. That Success is a signe of Gods blessing and presence with any people in any undertaking 8. That if the King keep not his Oath at the Coronation with the people they are not to keep their Oaths of Allegiance towards him 9. That Arms may be taken by Subjects to promote true Religion 10. That Liberty is to be allowed to all men under any Government to profess what Religion soever they please 11. That nothing is to be established in publick that goeth against any mans Opinion Humour or Conscience in private 12. That if any Court Judicature Form of Worship or Law be abused then it must be presently laid down and not used 13. That any thing that hath been used by the Papists or that is but pretended to be Popish as what that displeased hath not been so must be abrogated A Principle that the Jesuits observing our blinde zeal against Popery have suggested to overthrow all Religion under pretence of avoiding Popery 14. That there must be no Kingdom but that of Christs and that until he comes in person the Saints must reign 15. That Dominion is founded upon Grace and that the wicked have no right to any thing that they enjoy 16. That the Law of the Land was not made for the Righteous but for Sinners so they abused a place of Scripture that sounds that way 17. That all the Prophecies and Revolutions forespoken of concern England and that they may make any stir to fulfil these Prophecies all that they did being as they said nothing but Gods pouring out his Vials on the Beast c. the whole Scripture being understood not according to the inward sense but according to the outward sound and
conferences with God by prayer and meditations were never omitted upon any occasion whatsoever When he went the yearly Progress to view the Colledge Lands and came into the Tenants houses it was his constant custome before any other business discourse or care of himself were he never so wet or weary to call for a retire Room to pour out his soul unto God who led him safely in his journey And this he did not out of any specious pretence of holiness to devour a Widows House with more facility Rack their Rents or Change their Fines for excepting the constant Revenue to the Founder to whom he was a strict accountant no man ever did more for them or less for himself For thirty years together he used this following Anthem and Confession of the holy and undivided Trinity Salva nos libera nos vivifica nos Obeat a Trinit as Save us deliver us quicken us Oblessed Trinity Let us praise God the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit let us praise and super-exalt his name for ever Almighty and everlasting God which hast given us thy Servants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the Holy Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Vnity We beseech thee that through the stedfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity which livest and raignest c. This he did perform not only as a sacred Injunction of the Founder upon him and all the Society but he received a great delight in the performance of it No man ever wrote more highly of the Attributes of God than he and yet he professes that he always took more comfort in admiring than in disputing and in praying to and acknowledging the Majesty and Glory of the blessed â—rinity than by too curiously prying into the Mystery He composed a book of Private Devotions which some judicious men having perused the same much extolled and admired as being replenished with holy truths and divine meditations which if it be not already annexed to this book I hope the Reader will shortly enjoy in a portable Volumn by it self Thus have many Scholars and Polemical men in their elder times betaken themselves to Catechizing and Devotion as Pareus Bishop Andrews Bishop Vsher and Bellarmin himself seems to prefer this Book De ascensione mentis ad Deum Of the ascension of the soul to God before any other parts of his works Books saith he are not to be estimated Ex multitudine folliorum sed ex fructibus By the multitudes of the leaves but the fruit My other books I read only upon necessity but this I have willingly read over three or four times and resolve to read it more often whether it be saith he that the love towards it be greater than the merit because like another Benjamin it was the Son of mine old age He seemed to be very Prophetical of the ensuing times of Trouble as may evidently appear by his Sermons before the King and Appendix about the signs of the times or divine fore-warnings therewith Printed some years before touching the great tempest of wind which fell upon the Eve of the fifth of November 1636. He was much astonished at it and what apprehension he had of it appears by his words This mighty wind was more then a sign of the time the very time it self was a sign and portends thus much that though we of this kingdom were in firm league with all Nations yet it is still in God's power we may fear in his purpose to plague this kingdom by this or like tempests more grievcously then he hath done at any time by Famine Sword or Pestilence to bury many living souls as well of superiour as inferior rank in the ruine of their stately Houses or meaner Cottages c. Which was observed by many but signally by the Preface to Master Herberts Remains I shall not prevent the Reader or detain him so long from the original of that book as to repeat Elogies which are there conferred upon him I cannot forbear one passage in that Preface wherein he made this profession I speak it in the presence of God I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our Writers in this rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation he hath given me in the Christian religion against the Atheist Iew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome As he was always a reconciler of differences in the private government so he seriously lamented the publick breaches of the kingdom for the divisions of Reuben he had great thoughts of heart At the first entrance of the Scots into England he had much compassion for his Country-men although that were but the beginning of their sorrows He well knew that war was commonly attended with ruin and calamity especially to Church and Churches and therefore that prayer was necessary and becoming of them Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris c Give peace in our time O Lord because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God One drop of Christian blood though never so cheaply spilt by others like water upon the ground was a deep corrosive to his tender heart Like Rachel weeping for her children he could not be comforted his body grew weak the chearful hue of his countenance was empaled and discoloured and he walked like a dying mourner in the streets But God took him from the evil to come it was a sufficient degree of punishment to him to see it it had been more than a thousand deaths unto him to have beheld it with his eyes When his death was now approaching being in the Chamber with many others I over-heard him with a soft voice repeating to himself these and the like ejaculations I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope my soul waiâ—eth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning As for me I will behold thy face in right cousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness And he ended with this Cygnean caution Psal. 116. 5 6 7. Cracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee And having thus spoken soon after he surrendred up his spirit to him that gave it If you shall enquire what this charitable man left in Legacy at his Death I must needs answer That giving all in his life time as he owed nothing but love so he left nothing when he dyed The poor was his heir and he was the administrator of his own goods or to use his own expression in one of his last Dedications he had little else to leave his Executors but his Papeâ— only which the Bishop of Armagh being at his Funeral
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
Nations Insomuch that though my Lord Goring would not admit Sir Iohn Suckling into the Secret Councils they held in the North because he was too free and open-hearted yet the King gave him a Command there because he was valiant and experienced He raised a Troop of Horse so richly accoutred that it stood him in 12000 l. bestowing the Horses Armes and Cloaths upon each person that was Listed under him which puts me in mind of the Duke of Burgundy's rich preparations against Swisse of which Expedition it was said The Enemy were not worth the Spurrs they wore And of his late Majesties report upon the bravery of his Northern Army That the Scots would sight stoutly if it were but for the English mens fine cloaths And of another passage at Oxford where the King in some discourse of the Earl of Holland and other Commanders in the first Expedition against the Scots was pleased to express himself to this purpose That the Army was not in earnest which made him chuse such Commanders in Chief But indeed it became him better to sit among a Club of Wits or a Company of Scholars than to appear in an Army for though he was active he was soft and sweet withal insomuch that Selden went away with the character of Deep and Learned Hillingworth was reckoned Rational and Solid Digby Reaching and Vigorous Sands and Townsend Smooth and Delicate Vaughan and Porter Pious and Extatical Ben. Iohnson Commanding and Full Carew Elaborate and Accurate Davenant High and Stately Toby Mathewes Reserved and Politick Walter Mountague Cohaerent and Strong Faulkland Grave Flowing and Steddy Hales Judicious and Severe but Sir Iohn Suckling had the strange happiness that another Great Man is eminent for to make whatsoever he did become him His Poems being Clean Sprightly and Natural his Discourses Full and Convincing his Plays Well-humored and Taking his Letters Fragrant and Sparkling only his Thoughts were not so loose as his Expression witness his excellent Discourse to my L. of Dorset about Religion that by the freedom of it He might as he writes to my Lord put the Lady into a cold sweat and make him be thought an Atheist yet he hath put wiser heads into a better temper and procured him the reputation of one that understood the Religion that he Professed among all persons except those that were rid by that fear of Socinianism so that they suspected every man that offered to give an account of his Religion by reason to have none at all nor his Life so Vain as his Thoughts though we must allow to his sanguine composition and young years dying at 28. some thing that the thoughts and discipline of time experience and severer years might have corrected and reduced Amo in juvene quod amputem But his immature death by a Feavor after a miscarriage in his Majesties service which he laid to heart may be a warning to young men of his quality and condition whose youth is vigorous pleasures fresh joynts nimble bodies healthful enjoyments great to look on his ghastly face his hollow eyes his mouldring body his noisom dust and to entertain but this one thought that what he was they are and what he is they shall be that they stand on his Grave as the Romans did on their Friends with these words Go we shall follow thee every one in his own order Rejoyce O young man in the days of thy youth but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment A Gallant would do well with the Noble Ioseph of Arimathea in their Gardens and among their pleasures He died Anno 164 ... leaving behind him these thoughts of those times to his dear friend Mr. Iermin since the Right Honorable Earl of St. Albans 1. That it is fit the King should do something extraordinary at this present is not only the opinion of the wise but their expectation 2. Majesty in an Eclips is like the Sun most looked upon 3. To lye still in times of danger is a calmness of mind not a magnanimity when to think well is only to dream well 4. The King should do before the People desire 5. The Kings friends have so much to do to consult their own safety that they cannot advise his the most able being most obnoxious and the rest give the King council by his desires and set the Sun or interest that cannot err by passions which may 6. The Kings interest is union with his People 7. The People are not to be satisfied by little Acts but by Royal Resolutions 9. There 's no dividing of a Faction by particular obligations when it is general for you no sooner take off one but they set up another to guide them 10. Commineus observes That it is fit Princes should make Acts of Grace peculiarly their own because they that have the art to please the people have commonly the power to raise them 11. The King must not only remove grievances by doing what is desired but even jealousies by doing something that is not expected for when a King doth more than his people look for he gives them reason to believe that he is not sorry for doing what they desired otherwise a jealous people may not think it safe enough only to limit the Kings power unless they overthrow it 12. The Queen would do well to joyn with the King not only to remove fears especially since she is generally believed to have a great interest in the Kings affection but to arrive beyond a private esteem and value to an universal honor and love 13. The conservation of the general should guide and command the particulars especially since the preferment of one suspected person is such a dash to all obliging acts 14. Q. Whether the Kings way to preserve his obnoxious friends is not to be right with his distempered people 15. Q. Whether the way to preserve power be not to part with it the people of England like wantons not knowing what to do with it have pulled with some Princes as Henry the Third King Iohn Edward the Second for that power which they have thrown into the hands of others as Q. Elizabeth 16. Q. Whether it be not dangerous to be insensible of what is without or too resolved from what is within And these Advises to his friends about him at that time when he best understood himself 1. Do not ill for Company or good only for Company 2. Shun jests in Holy things and words in jest which you must give an account of in earnest 3. Detract from none but your self and when you cannot speak well of a man say nothing 4. Measure life not by the hopes and injoyments of this world but by the preparation it makes for another looking forward what you shall be rather than backward what you have been 5. Be readier to give than to take applause and neither to give nor to take exceptions 6. It s as much more to forgive one injury than
doth God ordinarily work by them for his own glory I am sure the event or success can never state the justice of any cause nor place of mens Consciences nor the eternal fate of their Souls Those with me had I think clearly and undoubtedly for their justification the Word of God and the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths all requiring obedience to my just commands but to none other under Heaven without me or against me in the point of raising Arms. Those on the other side are forced to fly to the shifts of their pretended fear and wild Fundamentalls of State as they call them which actually overthrow the present Fabrick both of Church and State being such imaginary Reasons for self-defence as are most impertinent for those men to allege who being my Subjects were manifestly the first assaulter of me and the Laws first by unsuppressed Tumults after by listed Forces The same Allegations they use will fit any Faction that hath but power and confidence enough to second with the sword all their demands against the present Laws and Governours which can never be such as some side or other will not find fault with so as to urge what they call a Reformation of them to a Rebellion against them some parasitick Preachers have dared to call those Martyrs who dyed fighting against me the Laws their Oaths and the Religion established But sober Christians know That glorious Title can with truth be applyed only to those who sincerely preferred Gods truth and their duty in all these particulars before their lives and all that was dear to them in this World who having no advantagious designes by any innovation were religiously sensible of those tyes to God the Church and my self which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose were lost in so just a cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified as a means to save their souls Their wounds and temporal ruine serving as a gracious opportunity for their eternal health and happiness while the evident approach of death through Gods grace effectually disposing their hearts to such humility faith and repentance which together with the rectitude of their present engagements would fully prepare them for a better life than that which their enemies brutish and disloyal fierceness could deprive them of or without repentance hope to enjoy They have often indeed had the better against my side in the field but never I believe at the barr of Gods tribunal or their own Consciences where they are more afraid to encounter those many pregnant Reasons both from Law Allegiance and all true Christian grounds which conflict with and accuse them in their own thoughts than they oft were in a desperate bravery to fight against those forces which sometimes God gave me Whose condition conquered and dying I make no question but is infinitely more to be chosen by a sober man that duly values his duty his soul and eternity beyond the enjoyments of this present life than the most triumphant glory wherein their and mine enemies supervive who can hardly avoid to be daily tormented by that horrid guilt wherewith their suspicious or now convicted Consciences do pursue them especially since they and all the World have seen how false and un-intended those pretensions were which they first set forth as the only plausible though not justifiable grounds of raising a War and continuing it thus long against me and the Laws established in whose safety and preservation all honest men think the welfare of their Country doth consist For and with all which it is farr more honourable and comfortable to suffer than to prosper in their ruine and subversion I have often prayed that all on my side might joyn true piety with the sence of their loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the defects of one might blast the endeavours of the other Yet cannot think that any shews or truth of piety on the other side were sufficient to dispence with or expiate the defects of their Duty and Loyalty to me which have so pregnant convictions on mens Consciences that even prophaner men are moved by the sense of them to venture their lives for me I never had any Victory which was without my sorrow because it was on mine own subjects who like Absalom dyed many of them in their sins And yet I never suffered any Defeat which made the despair of Gods mercy and defence I never desired such Victories as might serve to conquer but only restore the Laws and Liberties of my People which I saw were extremely oppressed together with my Rights by those men who were impatient of any just restraint When Providence gave me or denyed me Victory my desire was neither to boast of my power nor to charge God foolishly who I believed at last would make all things to work together for my good I wished no greater advantages by the War than to bring my Enemies to moderation and my friends to peace I was afraid of the temptation of an absolute Conquest and prayed for victory over others then over my self when the first was denyed the second was granted me which God saw best for me The different events were but the method of Divine Iustice by contrary Winds to winow us that by punishing our sins he might purge them from us and by deserting peace he might prepare us more to prize and better to use so great a blessing My often Messages for peace shewed That I delighted not in War as my former concessions sufficiently testified how willing I would have prevented is and my total unpreparedness for it how little I intended it The Conscience of my Innocency forbad me to fear a War but the Love of my Kingdoms commanded me if possible to avoid it I am guilty of this War of nothing but this That I gave such advantages to some men by confirming their power which knew not to use with that modesty and gratitude which became their Loyalty and my confidence Had I yielded less I had been opposed less had I denyed more I had been more obeyed 'T is now too late to review the occasions of War I wish only a happy conclusion of so unhappy beginnings the inevitable fate of our sins was no doubt such as would no longer suffer the Divine Iustice to be quiet we having conquered his patience are condemned by mutual conquerings to destroy one another for the most prosperous successes on either side impair the welfare of the whole Those Victories are still miserable that leave our sins unsubdued flushing our pride and animating to continue injuries Peace it self is not desirable till Repentance have prepared us for it When we fight more against our selves and less against God we shall cease fighting against one another I pray God these may all meet
Crimes you see answered when named made up into a Charge that was its own Reply and therefore barely set down by me without any reflection save their own nature and self-confutation What is ridiculous need only be shewed But hear the good man himself that had so often interceded for others to God pleading for himself before men I. To his Charge in General My Lords MY being in this place in this condition recalls to my memory that which I long since read in Seneca Tormentum est etiamsi absolutus quis fuerit causam dixisse 6. de Benef. c. 28. 'T is not a grief only no 't is no less than a torment for an ingenuous man to plead Capitally or Criminally though it should so fall out that he be absolved The great truth of this I finde at present in my self and so much the more because I am a Christian and not that only but in Holy-orders and not so only but by Gods grace and goodness preferred to the greatest place this Church affords and yet brought Causam dicere to plead for my self at this Bar. And whatsoever the world think of me and they have been taught to think much more ill of me then I humbly thank Christ for it I was ever acquainted with yet My Lords this I finde Tormentum est 't is no less than a torment to me to appear in this place Nay my Lords give me leave to speak plain truth No sentence that can justly pass upon me and other I will never fear from your Lordships can go so near me as Causam dicere to plead for my self upon this occasion and in this place For as for the Sentence be it what it shall I thank God for it I am for it at Saint Pauls ward Acts 25. 11. If I have committed any thing worthy of death I refuse not do dye For I thank God I have so lived as that I am neither afraid to dye nor ashamed to live But seeing the Malignity which hath been raised against me by some men I have carried my very life in my hands these divers years past But yet my Lords if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me though I may not in this Case and from this Bar appeal unto Caesar yet to your Lordships Iustice and Integrity I both may and do not doubting but that God of his goodness will preserve my innocency And as Iob in the midst of his affliction said to his mistaken Friends so shall I to my Accusâ—râ— God forbid I should justifie you till I dye I will not remove my Integrity from me I will hold it fast and not let it go my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live Job 22. 5. My Lords the Charge against me is brought up in ten Articles but the main heads are two An endeavor to subveâ—t the Laws of the Land and the Religion established Six Articles the fift first and the last concern the Laws and the other four Religion For the Laws first I think I may safely say I have been to my understanding as strict an observer of them all the days of my life so far as they concern me as any man hath and since I came into place I have followed them and been as much gâ—ided by them as any man that sat where I had the honor to sit And of this I am sorry I have lost the testimony of the Lord Keeper Coventry and other persons of Honor since dead And the Council which attended at the Council-board can witness some of them here present that in all references to the Board or debates arising at the Board I was for that part of the cause where I found Law to be and if the Council desired to have the cause left to the Law well I might move in some cases Charity or Conscience to them but I left them to the Law if thither they would go And how such a carriage as this through the whole course of my life in private and publick can stand with an intention to overthrow the Laws I cannot yet see Nay more I have ever been of opinion That Laws binde the Conscience and have accordingly made Conscience of observing them and this doctrine I have constantly preached as occasion hath been offered me and how is it possible I should seek to overthrow those Laws which I held my self bound in Conscience to keep and observe As for Religion I was born and bred up in and under the Church of England as it stands established by Law I have by Gods blessingâ— grown up in it to the years which are now upon me and to the place of Preferment which I now bear I have ever since I have understood ought in my profession kept one constant tenor in this my profession without variation or shifting from one opinion to another for any worldly ends And if my conscience would have suffered me to do so I could easily have slid through all the difficulties which I have prest upon me in this kinde But of all diseases I have held a Palsey in Religion most dangerous well knowing and remembring that disease often ends in a dead Palsie Ever since I came in place I have laboured nothing more than that the external publick worship of God so much slighted in divers parts of this Kingdom might be preserved and that with as much decency and uniformity as might be for I evidently saw that the publick neglect of Gods service in the outward face of it and the nasty lying of many places dedicated to that Service had almost cast a damp upon the true and inward worship of God which while we live in the body needs exterial helps and all little enough to keep it in any vigor And thus I did to the uttermost of my knowledge according both to Law and Canon and with the consent and liking of the people nor did any Command issue out from me against the one or without the other Further my Lords give me leave I beseech you to acquaint you with this also that I have as little acquaintance with Recusants as I believe any man of my place of England hath or ever had sithence the Reformation and for my kindred no one of them was ever a Recusant but Sir William Web Grandchild to my Unkle Sir William Web sometimes Lord Mayor of London and since which some of his Children I reduced back again to the Church of England On this one thing more I humbly desire may be thought on That I am fallen into a great deal of obloquie in matter of Râ—ligion and that so far as appears by the Articles against me that I have indeavoured to advance and bring in Popery Perhaps my Lords I am not ignorant what party of men have raised these scandals upon me nor for what end nor perhaps by whom set on but howsoever I would fain have a good reason given me if my conscience stood that way and that with my
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
his Grave A carceribus ad metam the consciousness of their guilt in burying him above ground in his Imprisonment could no ways be satisfied but by Imprisoning him under ground by his Burial When they wanted nothing to compleat their guilt but this death concerning which his Majesty in his Letter to the Queen expresseth himself thus Nothing can be more evident than that Straffords Innocent Blood hath been one of the great causes of Gods just Judgment upon this Nation by a Civil War both sides hitherto being almost equally punished as being in a manner equally guilty but now this last crying bloud being totally theirs I believe it s no presumption hereafter to hope that his hand of Justice must be heavier upon them and lighter upon us looking now upon our Cause having passed by our faults they preached and talked that nothing interrupted their success but his death imputing all their disasters to his impunity as the Heathens did all theirs to those like him The first good Christians Then upon any publick misfortune it was Christiani ad Leones and at this time upon any misadventure Execute the Arch-bishop Neither was he offered only to the revenge of the English but likewise of the Scots too whose Covenant was to be Celebrated with this Sacrifice and Union cemented with this bloud Since neither the Law nor Reason neither Religion nor Nature neither the Kings power nor the Subjects innocence could preserve his life the excellent man prepared himself with the comforts of all for death having before setled his Estate in a charitable and pious way he had the better leisure to settle his soul had not the cruelty of some people that thought his very solitude too great an injoyment for him shewed themselves as much enemies to private as publick Devotions disturbed his retirements with contumelies upbraiding those very Devotions that then interceded for them who would have laughed at Christ if he had used his own prayer Now if ever the Lion and the Lamb dwelt together the highest Courage and the sweetest Meekness together inhabiting one Breast The great Pastor of the Church going to die with the innocence and silence of a Lamb in the midst of contumelies speaking not again himself though his bloud doth and did His last nights repose was the Emblem of his last rest his slâ—ep the true image of his death serene and calm Having stripped him of all the Honors of an Archbishop they would have denyed him the priviledge of a Malefactor to have his own woâ—thy Confessor Dr. Sterne since Archbishop of York about him taking it so ill that he would not admit of Marshall that was fitter to be the Executioner than a Chaplain that because he would not die according to the humor of the Presbyterians he should not die in the honorable way of an Archbishop 1. Sheriff Chambers of London bringing over night the Warrant for his Execution and acquainting him therewith he betook himself to his own and desired also the prayers of others and particularly of Doctor Holdsworth his Fellow Prisoner there for a year and a half though all that time there had not been the least converse between them The next morning being brought out of the Tower to the Scaffold he ascended it with an extraordinarily chearful and ruddy countenance he that had been so long a Martyr no doubt thinking it release of misery to be made a Martyr as if he had mounted rather to have beheld a triumph than to be made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated and exchange his Miter for the Crown of Martyrdom The clearness of his Conscience being legible in the chearfulness of his dying looks as the ferenity of the weather is understood by the glory and ruddiness of the setting Sun there desiring to have room to die and declaring that he was more willing to go out of the world than any man to send him he first took care to stop the chinks near the block and remove the people he spied under it expressing himself that it was no part of his desire that his bloud should fall upon the heads of the people in which desire it pleased God he was so far gratified that there remaining a small hole from a knot in the midst of a board the fore-finger of his right hand at his death happened to stop that also and then at once pardoning and over-coming his Enemies many of whom coming thither to insult went away to weep for him who had this peculiar happiness with his Master that he gained that reverence by his Adversity that neither he nor any gained in Prosperity he turned his Scaffold to a Pulpit and Preached his own Funeral in these express words delivered by him to the excellent Dr. Sterne to be communicated to his Fellow-Chaplains His Graces Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Ian. 10. 1644. To his Chaplain Dr. Sterne now Lord Archbishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 2. Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Iesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how have I looked unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I finde the Cross a death of Shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are upon the brink of the very brink of it An Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his people But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sower herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sower herbs as well as the Lamb. And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hand that gathered them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these for men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above St. Iohn 19. 11. I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of Red Wine might pass from me St. Luke 22. 42. But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall
most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Savior for it my â—â—â—â—lution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I forsake the Temple and the â—â—â—uth of God to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Da◠〈◊〉 in Bethel And as for this people they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blinde lead the blinde and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch St. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by Thought Word and Deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as weâ—e as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges For if they proceed upon proof by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of this Sentence lie heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his followers Before these St. Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd Woman And St. Cyprian Archbishop of Carâ—hage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many Examples Great and Good and they teach me patience For I hope my cause in Heaven will look of another dy than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great Men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against St. Paul Acts 25. 8. For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i.e. Religion And like that of St. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i.e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say do I then compare my self with the integrity of St. Paul and St. Stephen No far be it from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is Memorable that St. Paul who helped on this accusation against St. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamor that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself Iohn 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani And the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come and see how just the Judgment of God was They crucified Chriâ—t for fear lest the Romans should câ—meâ— And his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamor of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by Honor and Dishonor by good Report and evil Report as a deceived and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And First This I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign he hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as found a Protestant according to the Religion by Law Established as any man in his Kingdom And that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamor for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger any innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from parish to parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In St. Stephens Case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Act. 6. 12. And Herod went the same way When he had killed St. Iames yet he would not venture upon St. Peter till he found how the other pleased the people Acts 12. 3. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud Isa. 1. 15. For there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes inquisition for bloud And when that inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psal. 9. 12. That God Remembers but that 's not all he remembers and forgets not the Complaint of the poor i.e. whose bloud is shed by oppression ver 9. Take heed of this 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 12. but then especially when he is making inquisition for bloud And with my prayers to avert it I do humbly desire this City to remember the Prophecy that is expressed Ier. 26. 15. 3.
all proceedings against all offenders or go through with them his Prosecutions as in Leightons Case were close his Observation of all circumstances as in Loncolns Wary his Declaration of the Cases clear and convincing as in Pryns Bastwick and Burtons his Sentence milde and compassionate as in Wallers his Resolution and Justice ever making way to his mercy and his mercy crowning his Justice Often did he conferr with the ablest and most Orthodox Clergy with the most experienced and most observing and reserved Courtiers with the profoundest Lawyers with the skillfullest and discreetest Mechanicks out of all whose opinions the result was his most exact Judgement in any Case that came before him at Court or at Lambeth The roughness of his nature sent most men discontented from him but so that he would often of himself find ways and means to sweeten such as had any worth again when they looked for it Many were offended at his prudent zeal against the Jewish Sabbatism in his government who were very well satisfied with the strictness of his observation of the Lords-day in his person But let one great man express another Bishop Gauden Arch-bishop Laud whose thoughts lye so much the more levelled to his brave Sentiments as his dignity did to his high place As to his secret design of working up his Church by little and little to a Romish conformity and captivity I do not believe saith he he had any such purpose or approved thought because beside his declared judgment and conscience I find no secular policy or interest which he could thereby gain either private or publick but rather lose much of the greatness and freedom which he and other Bishops with the whole Church had without which temptation no man in charity may be suspected to act contrary to so clear convictions so deliberate and declared determination of his conscience and judgment in Religion as the Arch-bishop expresses in his very excellent Book I am indeed prone to think that possibly he wished there could have been any fair close or accommodation between all Christian Churches the same which many grave and learned men have much desired And it may be his Lordship thought himself no unfit instrument to make way to so great and good a work considering the eminencies of parts power and favour which he had Happily he judged as many learned and moderate men have that in some things between Papist and Protestant differences are made wider and kept more open raw and sore then need be by the private Pens and Passions of some Men and the Interests of some little Parties whose partial Polities really neglect the Publick and true Interest of the Catholick Church and Christian Religion which consists much in Peace as well as in Purity in Charity as in Verity He found that where Papists were Silenced and Convinced in the more grand and pregnant Disputes that they are Novel Partial and Unconform to Catholick Churches in ancient times then he found they recovered spirits and contested afresh against the unreasonable Transports Violences and Immoderations of some professing to be Protestants who to avoid Idolatry and Superstition run to Sacriledge and Rudeness in Religion denying many things that are Just Honest Safe True and Reasonable meerly out of an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 excessive Antipathy to Papists Possibly the Arch-bishop and some other Bishops of his mind did rightly judge that the giving an Enemy fair play by Just Safe and Honourable Concessions was not to yeild the conquest to him but the most ready way to convince him of his wickedness when no honest yieldings could help him any more than they did endanger the true cause or courage of his Antagonist For my part I think the Arch-bishop of Canterbury was neither â—â—â—vinist nor Lutheran nor Papist as to any side or party but allâ— as far as he saw they agreed with the Reformed Church of 〈◊〉 either in Fundamentals or innocent and decent Superâ—â—â—uctures Yet I believe he was so far a Protestant and of the â—eâ—ormed Religion as he saw the Church of England did Protest 〈◊〉 the Errors Corruptions Usurpations and Superstitions of 〈◊〉 Church of Rome or against the novel Opinions and Practices of any Party whatsoever And certainly he did with as much honor as justice so far own the Authentick Authority Liberty and Majesty of the Church of England in its reforming and setling of its Religion that he did not think fit any private new Masters whatsoever should obtrude any Foreign or Domestick Dictates to her or force her to take her Copy of Religion from so petty a place as Geneva was or Frank fort or Amsterdam or Wittenbergh or â—denborough no nor from Augsburgh or Arnheim nor any foreign City or Town any more than from Trent or Rome none of which had any Dictatorian Authority over this great and famous Nation or Church of England further than they offered sober Counsels or suggested good Reasons or cleared true Religion by Scripture and confirmed it by good Antiquity as the best Interpreter and Decider of obscure Places and dubious Cases Which high value its probable as to his Mother the Church of England and Constitution was so potent in the Archbishop of Canterbury that as he thought it not fit to subject her to the insolency of the Church of Rome so nor to the impertinencies of any other Church or Doctor of far less repute in the Christian world no doubt his Lordship thought it not handsom in Mr. Calvin to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so censorious of the Church of England to brand its Devotion or Liturgy with his tolerabiles ineptiae who knew not the temper of the Nation requiring then not what was absolutely best but most conveniently good and such not only the Liturgy was but those things which he calls Tolerable Toyes I having occasion to speak with him he upon a time was pleased to grant me access and some freedom of speech with him and withal asked me the opinion of the people of him I told him they reported his Lordship endeavoured to betray the Church of England to the Roman Correspondency and Communion he at length very calmly and gravely thus Replyed protesting with a serious attestation of his integrity before Gods Omniscience that however he might mistake in the mean Method yet he never had other design than the Glory of God the Service of his Majesty the good Order Peace and Decency of the Church of England that he was so far from complying with Papists in order to confirm them in their errors that he rather chose such Methods to advance the honor of the Reformed Religion in England as he believed might soon silence the Cavils of fiercer Papists induce the more moderate Recusants to come in to us as having less visible occasion given them by needless Distances and Disputes to separate from us which he thought arose much from that popular variety Inconstancy Easiness Irreverence and
High Chamberlain of England 1631. Upon the Trial of a Combate between Donald Rey and David Ramsey he was constituted Lord High-Constable of England for the day 1635. He is Commander in Chief of forty sail assisted by the Vice Admiral the Earl of Essex to secure the Kingdoms Interest Trade and Honor in the narrow Seas against all Pyrates and Pretenders that either Invaded our Rights by the Pen or might incroach upon them with the Sword And in the years 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641. when he had looked through the whole Plot of the Conspirators on the one hand and comprehended the gracious Overtures and design of his Majesty on the other when the Expedients he offered were neglected the warnings he gave of the consequence of such proceedings slighted the earnest Arguments he urged publickly and privately were not regarded and all the Interest and Obligation he had in the Conspirators forgotten withdrew after his Majesty that he might not seem to countenance those courses by his presence which he could not hinder being not able to stop the Current of the â—umults he was resolved not to seem to approve it but followed his Royal Master to York to injoy the freedom of his Conscience where we finde him among other Noble Persons attesting under their hands his Majesties averseness to War as long as there was any hope of Peace and when neither He nor any of his Loyal Subjects when neither Law nor Religion neither Church nor State could be secured from the highest violations and prophanations men could offer or Christians endure without a War and the King not having his Sword in vain but drawing it for a terror to evil doers and an encouragement to them that did well He and his Son the Lord Willoughby of Eresby afterwards Earl of Lindsey first joyned with the rest of the Nobility in a Protestation of their resolution according to their Duty and Allegiance to stand by his Majesty in the maintenance of the Established Laws and Religion with their Lives and Fortunes and accordingly raised the Countreys of Lincoln Nottingham c. as his retainers in love and observance to whom the holding up of his hand was the displaying of a Banner as other Honorable and Loyal Persons did other parts of England untill his Majesty with an incredible diligence and prudence up and down the Kingdom discovered to the deluded people his own worth deserving not only their reverence but also their Lives and Fortunes incouraging the good with his discourses exciting the fearful by his example concealing the Imperâ—ections of his Friends but always praysing their virtues and prevailing upon all not too guilty or too much debauched so far as to raise an Army that amazed his Enemies who had represented him such a Prodigy of Folly and Vice that they could not imagine any person of Prudence or Conscience would appear in his service expecting every day when deserted by all as a Monster he should in Chains deliver himself up to the Commands of the Parliament and surprized even his Friends who despaired that ever he should be able to defend their Estates Lives or Liberties by a War who to make his people happy if they had not despised their own mercies had by passing Acts against his own Power to Impress Souldiers his right in Tonnage and Poundage the Stannary Courts Clerk of the Market the Presidial Court in the North and Marches of Wales deprived himself of means to manage viz. of a Revenue without which no Discipline in an Army as without Discipline no Victory by it and who esteemed it an equal misery to expose his people to a War and himself to ruine Yet an Army by the large Contributions and extraordinary endeavors of this Noble Lord and other Honorable persons to be be mentioned in due time which being under several who could abide no Equal as none of them could endure a Superior having no Chief or indeed being all Chiefs the Swarm wanted a Master 〈◊〉 a Supream Commander who should awe them all into obedience It was observed by Livy that in the great Battel the Criâ—â—cal day of the worlds Empire betwixt Hannibal and Scipio that the Shouts of Hannibals Army was weak the voices disagreeing as consisting of divers I angâ—ages and the shouting of the Romans far more terrible as being all as one voice When they who agreed in few other particulars conspired in this that the Earl of Lindsey pitched upon as Lord General of the Army by his Majesty was an expedient worthy the choice and prudence of a Prince to command and train a fresh Army to credit and satisfie a suspecting people when they saw the Kings Cause managed by persons of such Integrity Popularity and Honor as they could trust their own with In which Command his first service was the drawing up of Articles for Discipline to be observed by the Army wherein he took care 1. Of Piety as the true ground of Prowess 2. Of Chastiâ—y remembring how Zisca intangled his enem is by commanding so many thousand Women to cast their Keâ—cheifs and Partlets on the ground wherein the other Army were caught by the Spurs and ensâ—ared Little hopes that they will play the Men who are overcome by Women 3. Civility that he might win the Country in order to the reducing of the Faction it being sad to raise more enemies by boisterousness in their Marches and Quarters than they engaged by their Valour in the Field so increasing daily the manyâ— headed Hydra 4. Sobriety without which he said the Engagement would prove a Revel and not a War and besides the scandal render the best Army unfit either for Council or Action and uncapable of meeting with a sober enemies active designs much less of carrying on any of their own so loosing the great advantages of war as G. Adolphus called them Surprizes Next the Discipline of the Army he took care of their numbers a great Army being not easily manageable and the Commands of the General cool and loose some virtue in passing so long a journey through so many and next that of their suitableness and agreeableness one with another and after that of their order that they might help one another as an Army rather than hinder one another as a Croud and then their Provision and Pay that they might not range for Necessaries when they should fight for Victory Thirty thousand men as brave Gonzaga said thus disciplined and thus accommodated are the best Army as being as good as a Feast and far better than a Surfeit In the Head of this Army a foot with a Pike in his Hand having trained up his Souldiers by Skirmishes before he brought them to Battle he appeared at Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. too prodigal of his Person which was not only to fill one Place but to inspire and guide the whole Army But that it is a Maxime of the Duke of Roan That never great person performed great undertaking but by making war in
fire-feeding unctuousness therein This Gentleman having measured his thoughts of Good and Evil by the respects of a transitory life but with relation to an eternal state to which his life was in his esteem only a state of tryal dyed by an unhappy accident a fall off his Horse at Northampton a truly wise-man that had not respect to a few things the least of any man needing that death-bed Repentance he used so much to plead for of the opposite opinion to which he would say That it was a Tenent that would make heaven very empty and yet never the more room there for the maintainers of so uncharitable opinion leaving this observation of the late Usurpation that the ruine of it was the old but not so well-weighed custom of Tyrants to cut off all those steps by which they ascended to their height left leaving those stairs standing others also might climb up the same way M. S. Caroli Comptonii Eq. Aur. cui commune cum Sculteto symbolum vicisse voluptatem volupt as maxima THE Life and Death OF Sir SPENCER COMPTON A Fourth Brother of this Noble Family of whom the excellent Dr. Pierce in his Sermon upon his Parallel Mr. Peito delivered this Character at Chesterton That he was a Person so singularly qualified by Grace Nature and Education that however his extraction was highly Noble yet he thought he might confidently say it was the lowest thing in him An happy Person that from a due estimate of himself and this world arrived at just thoughts of his work in the world and finding his duty ingraven in his Being lived as a man ought to do who being a middle person between those purely intellectual Beings that could not injoy this world and the purely sensual that could not understand it was pitched upon as the fittest creature to inhabit this world soberly injoying the comforts of it and seriously and devoutly reflecting on the Author of it A Person that had just sentiments of the dignity of humane Nature in himself and an universal Charity for it in others one that measured not the wisdom he studyed by the subtilty and curiosity of Speculation by fineness of thoughts depth of design but a Noble design to keep up the Dignity of Mankind by a discreet piety towards the first Being by a sober and due government of his own actions and a publick justice and kindness towards all men confining all thoughts of glory within the compass of vertue and being good and thinking nothing more dishonorable than sin and being bad pitying those ruines of mankind that had nothing about them but laughter and the shape of men and thought themselves then to act most like men when they approach nearest beasts and so hitting upon right Principles lived a great deal of life in a little time When I consider how ingeniously upon the great principles of Reason and Religion he would baffle those unhappy men who having betrayed their weakness in giving themselves over to leud courses throw away that little wit in defending them how successfully would he reprove them who as he said laughed themselves into eternal misery to this purpose Ah! Sirs it is easier to laugh at goodness than to practise it it were worth the while to mock at sin if so we could annihilate it and make it as well nothing in it self as to us If the nature of things would so far vary with our humors that goodness would be less excellent by being despised or sin less dangerous by being thought so urging them to name the man in all the Histories of the world to whom the very suspicion of evil was not a dishonor though the real guilt of it were now a glory A discourse so much the more effectual from him because he prevented the common cavil made against dehortation from sin That it was only a thing some men live by declaining against and others cannot live without the practise being as much by his virtue above the latter imputation as he was by his fortune above the first What a vast progress he made through all solid and gentle Learning that was either for ornament or use and what a great proficiency in the experimental part of Religion I cannot but annex to his life those words that being made perfect in a short time Right honest was to him a nobler title than Right Honorable and therefore he adhered to his Soveraign the closer for that which others deserted him viz. his afflicted virtue following the misfortunes of that Court the pleasures whereof he would have avoided and been afraid of chusing it surely then as the great Scene of Virtue for though his extraction was noble his fortune fair his abilities great by nature and greater by art and industry yet was his modesty and meekness so far beyond all these that the only vice we knew him guilty of that he made it his business rather to hide than to exercise his virtue And those two virtues his modesty and his meekness made him so swift to hear so low to speak as appeared when he was pleased to express himself speaking much in few words equally free from impertinency and superfluity A sober honest and good man three of the most illustrious Titles of Honor in the world â—that led so well composed a life as he did must needs have an easie death as he had the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the happy calmness of death the Emperor Augustus was used to wish for for though sick of a Feavor yet the union between his soul and body was not violently broken but leisurely untied they parting like two friends not by a rude falling out but a loving farewell A farewel to all the contentments of the world not easily parallelled for calling to him such excellent and reverend persons then at Bruges when he died 1659. as Dr. Morley and Dr. Earles he raised himself upon his Pillow and held out his armes as if he were to embrace one saying O my Iesus and intimating the comforts that then flowed in from the holy Jesus into his soul after which holy extasie composing himself to a calm and serious discourse like Iacob scattering blessing when gathered he said to the then standers by O be good O be virtuous c. An argument of the sincerity of his own goodness that he was so zealous to have it communicated to others it being natural as well to the living Christian as to other living things to beget his like Departing as much desired when he was gone as admired by those that knew him whilest living a loyal Subject a generous Man a good Christian a loving Master and entire Friend an excellent Neighbor and a very extraordinary Example one of those to whose virtues and prayers winning upon men and prevailing with God we owe our Restauration Spencer Comptonius Eq. Aur. modesta nempe virtus quae Elogi nec voluit viva nec caret mortua quid enim pluribus de eo bene Scribamus de
them as friends yet deprived and imprisoned they were so that the good Doctor could attend his Sacred Majesty now calling for him no otherwise than by the excellent Sermons he earnestly demanded and the Doctor dutifully sent and gaining no more favour till the Kings death but with the mediation of his Brother-in-law Sir Iohn Temple than to be his own prisoner at the honorable Sir Philip Warwicks house at Clapham in Bedford-shire whence on the approach of that unparallelled villany he drew up most pathetique Addresses to the Army that perpetrated it and an unanswerable Reply to Ascham and Goodwyn those two only monsters of mankind that durst defend it Which when now past though it transported him as far as either affection or duty could carry him yet sunk him not in an useless amazement for redoubling his fasting his tears and solemn prayer he resumed his wonted studies And Reflecting on the Atheism that Horrid Fact and other Black Circumstances threatned he published his equally seasonable and applauded Reasonableness of Christian Religion Considering that there was not a more dangerous step to irreligion than for those who durst not but own it yet to deprave it to a most scandalous Theory and a most horrid Systeme he cleared its wrested Original in two Latine Quarto Volumes with Reference to the Jewish and Heathen Customs the Primitive usages among Christians and Heretiques the Importance of the Hellenistical Dialect by which means in a manner he happened to take in all the difficulties of the New Testament a Collation of several Greek Copies and a New Translation drawn up many years ago for his own use which on second thoughts to serve all capacities he cast into the present frame and method of the Annotations on the New Testament The careful and publick spirited man adverting that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religion though never so cleared could not inwardly oblige without a power confessed did outwardly awe Upon the Archbishop of Armaghs request 1. To clear some Exceptions Blondel had made against his Edition of Ignatius from some Eastern Counsels 2. And according to his promise of a fuller account to publish that in Latine which he had writ to him in English as well for his own honor whom Salmasius had unworthily called Nebulo as the honor of Episcopacy now as L. Capellus intimated in his Thesis of Church-government at Sedan deserted by all men he drew up those nervous and unanswerable Dissertations Thus cleared and vindicated he our Religion in bonds that was first published there notwithstanding 1. The loss of his dear Mother whose last blessing he was forbid to attend her For 2. The defeat of his Majesty at Worcester from whose own hand he received then a most gracious letter for the satisfaction of his Loyal Subjects concerning his adherence to the established Religion of the Church of England wherein his Royal Father lived a Saint and died a Martyr And 3. The calamity that fell on the honorable Sir Iohn Packingtons Family thereupon at Westwooâ—â—â— whither he was now removed Bearing up himself with the providence of his Maâ—esties miraculous Deliverance in expectation of his no less miraculous Restauration To use his own words That God who had thus powerfully rescued him out of Aegypt would not suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his possage be through the Red Sea he would at last bring him unto Canaan that he should come out of tribulation as gold out of the fire purified but not consumed But others having not that happy prospect of nor those pious and â—iducial reflections on those occurrences and therefore some in that dark juncture falling on the one side to the Pompous way of the Catholicks others on the other side to that more Novel of the Schismaticks the prudent watchman equally provided for both For the first in his Treatise of Heresie and Schism his discourses against the Catholick Gentleman and his Armor-bearer S.W. and his Tract of Fundamentals Forthe second in his six Queries his Replies to Mr. Cawdry Mr. Ieanes and the noble provincial Assembly at London on the Presbyterian account and to Mr. Owen and Mr. Tombes on the Independants and Anabaptists adding that pathetick Paraenesis upon the Interdict Ian. 1. 1655. writ first in his Tears and then with his Ink he looking on this sad dispensation as a reproaching to use his own words his and his brethrens former unprofitableness By casting them out as straw to the Dunghall A dispensation that had even broken his great heart had he not admitted of an expedient that secured all real duties in the Family where he was Neither was he more troubled for the Silence imposed on the Orthodox Ministry at present than amazed at the failure threatned them for the future both in the superior order of Episcopacy which he provided against by a correspondence with his Majesty abroad and in the inferior of Priesthood which he designed to supply a seminary of pious learned and â—ellâ— pâ—â—ncipled Pensioners be kept on foot till his death in a way more suitable to his Heroick minde than his low fortune in which business it was observable how his choice fixed on piety it being his prinple That exemplary virtue must restore the Church But the Nation being too narrow a circle for his diffusive goodness his care extended to the banished abroad as well as his vigilance to the afflicted at home and several sums of money did he send over notwithstanding that the Vsurpers discovered it and convented him whose commanding worth awed them to that reverence of him that when others were amazed at the surprized he made it only an opportunity of saying something home to the fierce Monster concerning his soul and discourse the appropriate ways remaining to alleviate at least if not expiate for them coming off with a new experiment of his old observation That they who least considered hazzard in the doing of their duties fared still best Amidst which sad diversion his labours yet grew up in an un-interrupted course His Review of the Annotations his Exposition of the Book of Psalms his Pacifick Discourse of Gods Grace and Decrees to Bishop Sanderson upon some Letters that passed between that reverend and learned Prelate and Dr. Pierce his Latine Tract of Confirmation in answer to Mr. Daillee together with his Enterprize upon the Old Testament begun at the Provâ—rbs and pursued to a third part of that Book until at the opening of the year 1660. when all things tended visibly to the great Restauration and the good Dr. was invited to London to assist in the great work of the composure of breaches in the Church against which undertaking and the ensuing publick employments he was to expect He 1 Examined his inclinations temptations and defects with the assistance of his friends 2. He contrived such publick good works as he might lay himself out in the Diocess of Worcester designed his charge And 3. Fell to
good but restrained to the plainest Dyet and the most sparing one Meal in twenty four hours was his constant allowance and but one for thirty six for two dayes in every week and for three days in Lent and Ember-week his voluntary Fasts were his sensualities and his enjoyned meals after some Diseases his penance luxury even in the relation would turn his stomach which was so disciplined by his reason that nothing was pleasant to him not his beloved Apples that was not wholsome too it being his wonder how rational Creatures they are his own words should eat for any thing but health since he that did eat or drink that which might cause a fit of the Stone or Gout though a year after therein unmanned himself and acted as a beast neither was he less observant of others prescription that his own for when confined to a Diet he would Carve and make that which is others Civility his refuge 3. His Sleep was as moderate as his Diet and if prescribed him above five hours his trouble rather than his rest it being his protestation that when he was abridged his Night studies he lost not only his greatest pleasure but highest advantage in reference to business whereas to be enjoyned early rising in case of costiveness or so he judged a meer rescue and deliverance So temperate a man must needs be industrious and really so professed an Enemy he was to idleness that he recommended no Maxim with that concern as this Be furnished alwayes with somewhat to do the best expedient both for Innocence and Pleasure this being his constant sentiment of that matter that no Burthen is more heavy or temptation more dangerous thâ—n to have time lie on ones hands the idle mans brain being not only as he said thâ— Devils shop but his Kingdom too a Model of and an Appendage unto hell a place given up to torment and mischief His very Walks which yet were prescribed him had their constant tasks the very time of his dressing and undressing with his Servants assistance dispatched Volumes his saying was he could not endure to talk with himself He that shall consider his laborious way immersed in almost infinite quotations his obligation to read so many Authors Ancient and Modern His exact refusal of his own and other mens Works or Business his Agency for Persons of Quality to provide them School-masters and Chaplains his Correspondencies abroad and at home whereof some cost him ten others twenty thirty forty nay sixty sheets of Paper at a time his constant sickness which at last forbad him reading for two hours after Mâ—â—l on pain of a fit of the Gout unquestionably to revenge the failure will not wonder at what is written of him not only that nothing kept him from his study but what confined him to his bed nor that neither sometimes nor that he was so averse to dilatary undertaking that as he would never spend that time in gazing on business that would serve to do it so his thoughts never lying fallow he no sooner finished one business but he consulted about another but that he gained time for business by the time he spent in Prayer whilst a more than ordinary assistance attending his Devotions his Closet proved his Library and he studyed most upon his knees His prayer I say the constant return whereof the last ten years of his life exceeded Davids seven times a day For 1. As soon as he was ready he was at his prayer with his Servant in his Chamber and afterwards 2. More privately in his Closet 3. Between ten and eleven at his peculiar Office of National Intercession 4. A while after at the morning Office to be always performed by himself 5. In the Evening at his hour of private prayer enlarged on Sundays even with the loss of his Supper if any occasion had diverted him at the usual time notwithstanding his Physicians prescriptions which in other Cases he was careful to obey 6. About five at his solemn Intercession and the Evening Service seven at Bed-time and all the while he was awake at his private prayers the 〈◊〉 Psalm being designed his midnight entertainment in all these 1. His attention was fixed and steady 2. His fervor sometimes passionate to a transport 3. His tears so observable that it was the wonder of one of his Domesticks since a Proselyte to the Directory that the Learned Dr. Hammond could finde motive for his tears at the Cofession that begins the Liturgy and it may be our Comfort that there wants not life and heat in the publick Offices of the Church when they are not wanting in the hearts that use them 4. His Charity was as extentive as his Saviors love even to mankind ennarrowed with no more private respects than those of nature and necessity the oppressed the sick his Enemies taking up a great part of his Liturgy three especial persons that had most unworthily disobliged him whose names he would never discover being no otherwise revenged by him than with a peculiar daily prayer in their behalf prayers so effectual that he had under their hands a recognition of their undue procedure the growing mischiefs of the Nation enlarging his Intercessions which had peculiar resentments of the thirtieth of Ianuary His Charity was comprehensive but his Friendship choice Friendship the most sacred thing in his apprehension next Religion and the most happy next Heaven without which he would say men led a pitiful insipid Hâ—rb-Iohn-like life he being so passionate a lover of this vertue that it was his grand design to propagate and improve it among all he judged capable of being acquainted to mutual advantage adding that three persons he knew whom their studies and troubles had leagued together were the happiest men in the Nation and that he himself had no such way of enjoying any thing as by reflexion from the person whom he loved that his friends neglect of themselves was an unkindness to him That he had a thousand times rather that his friend should have that which was conducible to health than to have it himself assuming that if this were believed it were impossible any one should attempt to express kindness by robbing him of his greatest pleasure to see others do well There are two eminent fruits of Friendship 1. The ease of the Heart 2. The clearing of the minde Two ways doth this excellent vertue conduce to the last 1. By giving us opportunity with security to open and reflect upon our own thoughts before our Confident 2. By his faithful admonitin and advice which the Doctor would have extended by others and him self evenâ—t indecencies and suspitions saying usually that it was a poor design of friendship to keep the person he admitted to his breast from being scandalous as if the Physician should endeavor only to secure his Patient from the Plague Advertisements to which his friends were obliged though of mistaken features were the greatest kindness and Complements such as that
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
contributing very much by possessing my Lord Roberts house taking Lesterman Castle and stopping most of the Passes which he understood very well to the famous streight wherein the Earl of Essex was caught in in Cornwall and a while after very active in besieging Col. Weldens Brigade and the Town of Taunton both at one time As he was up-the fatal defeat at Naseby in getting together 4 or 5 thousand Reformades in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwall where he pursued his Majesties quarrel as long as he had either a Garrison or a Regiment after the Treaty at Tresilian-bridge made between my Lord Hopton and Sir ◠F. for disbanding the Western Forces waiting on his Majesty that now is to Scilly Holland France c. where he was very instrumental in laying the model of the second or the Presbyterian War understanding by a long converse with the Faction their interest and humor of most of them by Sea and Land and that failing he followed his Majesties fortune abroad while he lived being accomplished as well with ingenious Arts that rendred him company for a Prince in time of peace as with those more severe that made him serviceable to him in War his youth and Sir Beviles being bred up in Exeter Colledge to all gentile habits of Learning Vertue and Complaisance yet in the midst of more soft pleasures as well as harder services his solid minde admits nothing scandalous either to his Religion or Cause both which a vertuous suffering pityed by mankind advancing as well as heroick attempts commended by them the first in the eyes of all men deserving that success which the last wanted to which circumspect converse he added frequent conferences to his Masters in the good opinion of those near him and an uninterrupted correspondence in the indefatigable way of Cyphers to keep them upright in their duty that were at distance salving all the strange Phaenomena of the Rebels success and his Majesties misfortunes in intire discourses which he kept of all transactions from first to last besides that he gained his Country much honor by his services to the Crowns of France and Spain evincing that the King of great Britain in his very Banishment had such Attendants his Court even then was the Scene of the most Heroick vertue in Europe as could serve any Prince and would one day restore their own the very sight of whom and some discourse with Sir R. Greenvile c. put many upon prophecying what we have lived to see particularly The Arch-bishop of Avignon sent a Scheme drawn up by one Oneal a great Mathematician demonstrating that his Majesty should return 1660. to London with as great triumph in peace as his blessed Father was 1641. driven out of it by tumults Neither did Sir Richard come over alone to the Kings service for the attractive of his example brought along another eminent Parliament-man that had been very active in the West by name Sir George Chudleigh who 1643. declared That Petitions of Right are commendable and Remonstrances may be lawful but Arms though defensive are ever doubtful my Lot saith he fell to be cast upon the Parliaments side by a strong opinion of the goodness of their Cause which to my judgment then appeared to be so Religion and the Subjects Liberty seemed to me to be in danger but the destruction of the Kingdom cannot be the way to save it nor can the loss of Christian Subjects nor the Subjects loss of their Estates by Plunder and Assessement consist with Piety nor yet with propriety As for Religion his Majesty whom God long preserve hath given us unquestionable security I have cast my self at my Soveraigns feet and implored his gracious pardon I will contend no more in words or deed And this my resolution with the indisputable grounds thereof I thought good to declare to my Friends and Country-men that they may understand my sitting he means at Oxford to proceed from no compulsion He and his Son men of great Reputation in the West redeeming their former miscarriage by very eminent services in Counsel and in Arms and by this time we see the reason why the men at VVestminster who understood nothing but English Proclaimed Sir Richard Greenvile Traytor in three Languages and they which hated Images hanged him in Effigie excepting him out of their pardon even for that very reason for which God took him to his even because he repented Euge virtus suis firmior erroribus uti confracta solidior a sunt ut plurimum ossa nisi errassent Heroes paenitentes fecerant minus To these I may adde Chammo Greenvile of Pughill Cornwall who is 657 l. deep in their Books at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and Thomas Chudley of Aishton Devonshire 430 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES LUCAS HAD not his Ancestor Sir Giles Lucas appeared in the Roll of the Essex Gentry made 12 Hen. 6. 1433. nor his Kinsman Thomas Lucas Esq been Secretary and Counsellor to Iasper Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke 1385. had there not been a succession of Knights and Squires Sheriffs and Justices of that County for eleven Kings Reigns had he not been Brother to the most Illustrious Princess Margaret Dutchess of New-Castle a Lady admired in this Age and to be understood in the next which will be convinced by her that there is no Sex in the minde and that the delicate Piece of the Creation we call Woman having a Male-soul as well as we was not only made for dalliance And to the Right Honorable the Lord Lucas the great instance of a learned wise and sober Nobility who intending with Horse and Arms to wait on his Majesty in the North Aug. 22. 1642. was discovered surprized plundered to a great value carryed to London and imprisoned there till he gave 40000 l. Bail to appear upon summons and not to depart London without leave One of the first that suffered for his Loyalty in his Country and one of the forwardest when he arrived at Oxford where he was made Baron Lucas of Shenfield Ian. 3. 1644. 20 Car. I. in asserting it by sober Counsel and by a well-guided Arms in others Sir Charles Lucas had worth enough to raise a Family himself being the first that entred the breach at Breda the last Siege when Cornet of Horse to Sir Io. Coniers in the Low-Countries where the sweet generosity of his nature to all men his soul being universalized especially those of his own noble disposition there one might have seen running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he would ever have emptied his soul into theirs The greatness of his spirit whose soul came into the world as the Chaldee Oracle phraseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cloathed with a great deal of minde more impregnated than others with rich notions which by way of Theory he comprehended exactly from books and by way of practice from experience and observation together with his prudent reach unwearied patience close
admire the disordered glories of such magnificent Structures which were venerable in their very dust He ever was used to overcome all difficulties only mortality was too hard for him but still his Vertues and his Spirit was immortal he took great care and still had new and noble designs and propsed to himself admirable things He governed his Province with great justice and sincerity Vnus amplo consulens pastor gregi Somnos tuetur omnium solus Vigil And had this Remark in all his Government that as he was a great hater of Sacriledge so he professed himself a publick enemy to non-residence and would declare wisely and religiously against it allowing it no case but of necessity or the greater good of the Church There are great things spoken of his Predecessor St. Patrick that he founded 700. Churches and Religious Convents that he ordained 5000. Priests and with his own hands Consecrated 350. Bishops How true this story is I know not but we are all witnesses that the late Primate did by an extraordinary contingency of Providence in one day Consecrate two Arch-bishops and ten Bishops and benefit to almost all the Churches in Ireland and was greatly instrumental to the Re-endowments of the whole Clergy and in the greatest abilities and incomparable industry was inferior to none of his most glorious Antecessors Since the Canonization of Saints came into the Church we finde no Irish Bishop Canonized except St. Laurence of Dublin and St. Milachias of Down indeed Richard of Armagh's Canonization was propounded but not effected but the Character which was given of that Learned Primate by Trithemius does exactly fit this our late Father Vir in Divinis Scripturis eruditus sccularis philosophiae jurisque Canonici non ignarus Clarus ingenio Sermone Scholasticus in declamandis Sermonibus ad populum excellentis industriae He was learned in the Scriptures skilled in secular Philosophy and not unknowing in the Civil and Canon Laws he was of an excellent Spirit a Scholar in his discourses an early and industrious Preacher to the people And as if there were a more particular sympathy between their souls our Primate had so great a Veneration to his Memory that he purposed if he had lived to have restored his Monument in Dundalke which Time or Impiety or Unthankfulness had either omitted or destroyed So great a lover he was of all true inherent worth that he loved it in the very memory of the dead and to have such great examples to intuition and imitation of Posterity At his coming to the Primacy he knew he should at first espy little besides the Ruines of Discipline a Harvest of Thorns and Heresies prevailing in the hearts of the people the Churches possessed by Wolves and Intruders mens hearts greatly estranged from true Religion and therefore he set himself to weed the Field of the Church he treated the Adversaries sometimes sweetly sometimes he confuted them learnedly sometimes he rebuked them sharply He visited his Charges diligently and in his own person not by Proxies and instrumental Deputations Quaerens non nostra sed nos quae sunt Iesu Christi He designed nothing that we knew of but the Redintegration of Religion the Honor of God the King the restoring of collapsed Discipline and the Renovation of Faith and the service of God in the Churches And still he was indefatigable and even as the last Scene of his life intended to take a Regal Visitation Quid enim vultis me otiosum a Domino comprehendi said one he was not willing that God should take him unimployed But good man he felt his Tabernacle ready to fall in pieces and could go no further for God would have no more work done by that hand he therefore espying this put his House in order and had lately visited his Diocesse and done what he then could to put his Charge in order for he had a good while since received the sentence of death within himself and knew he was shortly to render an account of his Stewardship he therefore upon a brisk Alarm of death which God sent him the last Ianuary made his Will in which besides the prudence and presence of Spirit manifested in making a just and wise settlement of his Estate and Provisions for his Descendants at midnight and in the trouble of his sickness and circumstances of addressing death still kept a special sentiment and made confession of Gods admirable mercies and gave thanks that God had permitted him to live to see the blessed Restauration of his Majesty and the Church of England confessed his faith to be the same as ever gave praises to God that he was born and bred up in this Religion and pray'd God and hoped he should die in the Communion of this Church which he declared to be the most pure and Apostolical Church in the world He prayed to God to pardon his frailties and infirmities relied upon the mercies of God and the Merits of Jesus Christ and with a singular sweetness resigned up his soul into the hands of his Redeemer But God who is the great Choragas and Master of the Scenes of Life and Death was not pleased then to draw the Curtains there was an Epilogue to his life yet to be acted and spoken He returned to actions and life and went on in methods of the same procedures as before was desirous still to establish the Affairs of the Church complained of some disorders which he purposed to redress girt himself to the work but though his spirit was willing yet his flesh was weak and as the Apostles in the Vespers of Christs Passion so he in the Eve of his own dissolution was heavy not to sleep but heavy unto death and looked for the last warnning which seized on him in the middest of his business and though it was sudden yet it could not be unexpected or unprovided by surprize and therefore could be no more than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Augustus used to wish unto himself a civil and well-natured death without the amazement of troublesome circumstances or the great cracks of a falling house or the convulsions of impatience Seneca tells us that Bassus Anfidius was wont to say Sperare se nullum lorem esse in illo extremo anhelita si tamen esset habere aliquantums in ipsa brevitate solatii He hoped that the pain of the vast dissolution were little or none or if they were it was full of comfort that they could be short It happened so to this Excellent Man his passive fortune had been abundantly tryed before and therefore there was the less need of it now his active Graces had been abundantly demonstrated by the great and good things he did and therefore his last Scene was not so laborious but God called him away something after the manner of Moses which the Iews express by Osculum Oris Dei The Kiss of Gods Month that is as death indeed fore-signified but gentle and serene and without temptation To sum
St. Nicholas Olaves Mr. Chibbald of St. Nicholas-Cole-abby Mr. Haines of Olaves Hart-street Mr. Tuke of Olaves Iewry Mr. Marbury of St. Peter Pauls-Wharse Mr. Adam of St. Bennets Pauls-Wharse known by his Sermons on St. Peter Mr. Eccop of St. Pancras Soper-lane Mr. Vochier of St. Peters Cheapside Dr. Littleton Sir Edward Littletons Brother of the Temple Mr. Pigot of St. Sepulchres Mr. Rogers of St. Botolph Bishops-gate and Finchley who dyed since his Majesties Restauration Mr. Heath of Newington Dr. Stampe of Stepney dead in exile beyond Sea Dr. Wimberly of St. Margaret Westminster all Sequestred most of them Plundred and many of them forced to fly Mr. Ephraim Vdall of St. Austines Parish Sequestred and his Bed-rid Wife turned out of doors and left in the streets by those very people for whom his Father Ephraim Vdall was condemned to be hanged in Queen Elizabeths time Musculus in Germany was the first that taught the plain but effectual method of Doctrine and Use in a Sermon Ephraim Vdall the Father added reasons to that method and Ephraim Vdall the Son first used the way of Soliloquie and Question and Answer he was a great Catechist and a great Preacher of Restitution A bold man that told the Faction in a publick Sermon at Mercers-Chappel You much desire Truth and Peace leave your lying and you may have truth lay down your undutiful Arms and you may have peace and more in another Sermon he preached at St. Pauls in the height of the Rebellion against taking up Arms on any pretence against Kings called Noli me tangere He once a year preached one Sermon to teach his people to benefit by his former Sermons as they say there is one Law wanting yet and that is a Law to put all the other good Laws in Execution Dr. Philip King younger Son to Bishop Io. King of London and Brother to Bishop H. King of Chichester whom good nature made a most facetious Companion a quaint Orator and Poet and an excellent Christian being not of those mens Religion who as the Poet told his Mistress had so much Divinity that they had no Humanity take Christianity for a Meek Charitable Peaceable and a good natured Religion sequestred from his Rectory at Botolph Billings-gate his Prebend of St. Pauls and Arch-Deaconry of Lewis and forced to fly to save his Life and when he had nothing to lose but his life he dyed 1666. Mr. Hansley preferred Chaplain to Bishop Iuxon upon a Rehearsal Sermon he Preached at St. Pauls Archdeacon of Colchester Minister of St. Christophers London and Albury in Surrey forced away through the harmless picture of good nature even because he was not spirited for the Cause as they told him He died 1666. in the Hundreds of Essex where only he could safely because there he died daily To whom I may joyn his very image honest Mr. Humes of St. Dyonis-Backchurch who was turned out as one said because they suspected his learning would not comply with their ignorant courses nor his meekness and moderation with their disobedience whose great Preface-word to his Sermons was Hear with meekness and humility the Word of God c. Well beloved for his holy Ventriloquy I mean his speaking from the heart to the heart and respected for that he dwelled not in Generalities in his Sermons but drew his discourses into particular Cases of Conscience wherein he determined the just points of their liberty what they might lawfully do to keep them from Negative Superstition and of their restraint what they might not lawfully do to keep them from boundless licentiousness Pertinent in his Quotations of Scripture in his Preaching because the Hearers might profitably retain all he Quoted and he seriously peruse them Reasons were the Pillars of his Sermons and his apt but grave Similies and Illustrations the Windows that gave the best light Mr. Sam. Stone of St. Clement East-cheap and St. Mary Abchurch Prebend of St. Pauls Sequestred Plundered and because he had a shrewd faculty in discovering to the people the fallacies the holy cheat was carried on with witness his excellent Sermon on Prov. 14. 8. The folly of fools is deceit imprisoned at Plimouth whence his letters sent to encourage his friends were those of St. Pauls very powerful though his bodily presence was weak He died 1665. Mr. Iohn Squire Vicar of St. Leonard Shoreditch for asserting Prayers more necessary than Sermons in the Sickness time for writing himself Priest which was no more as he would pleasantly observe than the contraction of the word Presbyter for spending so much time as he did much in Preaching a Rationale upon the Common Prayer saying truly that those prayers are not liked because not understood and vindicating the Government Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church for Preaching zealously against the Scots Invasion and declaring as vehemently against the English Rebellion Preaching truly and bidding them remember it when he was dead and gone that they themselves would repent it Sequestred Imprisoned 1. In Gresham Colledge with divers eminent Citizens of London 2. In New-gate 3. In the Kings-bench his Wife and Children in the mean time turned out of those doors at which he had relieved so many thousands and Plundered In his Imprisonment injoying the greatest freedom his soul as he would say being himself which could as little be confined to one place as his body could be diffused to many to confirm and comfort his Fellow-prisoners and upon all fair opportunities to undeceive his Fellow-citizens Mr. Ward of St. Leonard Foster-lane was of the same bold temper guilty of the same fault with Mr. Squire viz. calling a Spade a Spade and the Scots Traitors in his Clerum at Sion Colledge and liable to the same punishment for after a Recantation injoyned him he was Sequestred Plundered and forced to fly to Oxford where it is said he died for want He was never Plaintiff in any Suit with his Parishioners but to be Rights Defendant When his dues were detained from him he grieved more for his Parishioners had conscience than his own dammage being willing rather to suffer ten times in his Profit than once in his Title where not only his Person but his Posterity was wronged and when he must needs appeal from his Neighbors to his Superiors he proceeded fairly and speedily to a tryal that he might not vex and weary others but right himself during necessary Suits neither breaking off nor slacking Offices of courtesie to his Neighbors Dr. William Fuller a general Scholar well skilled in his own and former times a good Linguist those Languages which parted at Babel in a confusion met in his soul in a method a deep Divine and Master of all those Rules which the experience of 1600. years had gathered together for the reducing of Divinity into a method whereby a man might readily upon any occasion meet with full satisfaction in any point he desired a methodical pathetick and sententious Preacher Not like Scaliger in his
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-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
April 13. 1578. at Tottenham-high-crosse in Middlesex where his Father was the faithful Minister who having bred himself to a competent skill in Latine sent him to Westminster under Mr. Cambden to learn Greek at fourteen as he did him to Trinity-colledge in Cambridge to accomplish himself with the Arts and Sciences at eighteen whereof being Master at twenty five as Bachelor of Divinity at thirty two when after vast instances of his proficiency in Critical and Historical Learning whereof his Catholique History as good of the great world as his Master Cambden is of Great Brittain Printed 1652. at Oxford a vast heap of Commentaries and Glosses upon the most known Authors lying in his Study and several Treaties as his Notae Selectiores in Horatium Praelectiones in Persii satyras Dii Gentium Sanctae linguae soboles Anglicanae linguae vocabularium Etymologicum Tractatus de justificatione A Treatise concerning Divine Providence in regard of evil or sin The knowledge of Christ in two Treaties dedicated to the Countess of Maidston Positive Divinity in three parts containing an Exposition of the Creed the Lords Prayer and the Decalogue worn out in the hands of private friends gave a very good account he was preferred for four years Chaplain to Sir Moyle Finch and upon his death whose Funeral Sermon he Preached with great applause returning to the University for three years Preacher in a private Parish at Cambridge and then Commencing Doctor at fourty advanced Rector of Eastling in the Diocess of Canterbury by the Viscountess Maidston Sir M. Finches Relict and Prebend of Coringam where being a man of an erect and tall though not very strong body a chearful soul a strong memory and quick senses to his last he continued with infinite satisfaction to all his Neighbors being complaiâ—ant as well as studious but the ignorant thirty years dying suddainly if his death who had lived so well 73. years might be thought suddain for he went to bed over night not to awake till the great morning sleeping his last even without a Metaphor 1652. having written over his Chronicon Catholicum Egregium Absolutissimum opus summa Industria omnigena eruditione magno Iudicio et multorum annorum vigilis perductum saith Dr. Edward Reynolds then Vice-Chancellor in his License prefixed to it with his own hand though very ancient in as neat a Character almost as the Printer published it Ipsos Saturni tumularunt viscera natos et Genitus rursus pars Genitoris erat Scilicet in proprios saevit gula temporis artus dumque necat serpens omnia primus obit Sed iu defunctis tribuisti saecula saeclis Qui vel praeteritos scis revocare dies Vmbras atque orcum redimcns e faâ—cibus orci nam sine te Manes bis poâ—uere â—â—ri Natales ante orte tuos posi â—â—nerâ— vâ—â—â—x Huic monstras aevo pristâ— of 〈◊〉 novo Tempore nata prius nunc gignit Aleâ—â—â—â—a tempus vitam alii mundo debet aeâ—â—â—stâ—tibi H. Birchhed Coll. Om. An. Soc. Saecula qui vasta reparasti lapsa ruina Aequum est ipse feras mansuram in saecula famam Rob. Creswell Col. Trin. Cant. St. Austines Retractations was the noblest of his Works and his Declaration about the Sermon before King Iames at Royston 1616 17. after the two Professors of Cambridge gave in their judgement against his Exposition of Rom. 7. for which Armenius had been lately blamed was the most ingenious of his Dr. Wilford Fellow and Master of Bennet Colledge in Cambridge Vice-Chancellor of that University Archdeacon of Bedford and Dean of Ely well seen in the Statutes of the University the Canons of the Church and the Laws of the Land a good Scholar and a strict Governor able to instruct men to do well to restrain them from doing ill He dyed Iuly 1667. having strugled much with bad manners and sad times wherein in promoting his Majestieâ—â—â—rvice he was discreet close and active he did as the gladiators â—â—ed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honeste decumbere neither suffered Religion only with his Majesty but all ingenuity too For Thomas Farnaby that excellent Gramarian Rhetorician and Critick as appears by his own systems and his Notes upon most Classick Latine Authors so often Printed here and oftner beyond Sea his life being taken up in making those excellent Collections he had been forty years instilling those principles of Loyalty and Religion into young Gentlemen for which with those Gentlemen he suffered it was a good sight to see Sir Thomas Moore when Chancellor condescend to ask blessing humbly on his knees in the middle of Westminster-Hall of his Father then Puisne Judge and it was a sad sight to see so many Bishops and Doctors at Ely-House thank plain Mr. Farnaby for teaching them those Maxims Loyalty in the School Affliction by his Patience which he had taught them in the Grammar-School by his Lectures The War spent him many of those thousands he had got in Peace he throwing as the Mariners his Goods over-board to secure himself and his Conscience keeping a calm within in the middle of a storm without The Parliament not forcing from him so much but he sent in more to the King His discovering the false Glosses and Comments put upon words and things in those times was as good service as the light and clearness he gave to the words and things of the old-times and when he could not correct the times to duty he retired though with trouble to his old way of breeding up young Gentlemen that should hereafter alter them planting a Nursery in the advantageous way of Boarding and Schooling which he always managed together and he would say it was not worth the while to undertake them asunder for the next Age that would make amends for this being Master of a grave Prudence to calm the unswayed humorsom Children and a good Spirit and fancy to raise the depressed Genius of others fixing and reducing each temper as Socrates did Alcibiades to an usefulness One that understood Greek and Latine Authors so as to understand himself Dr. Iohn Pottinger the Famous Master of Winchester who hath bred so many excellent men of late Fellow of New Colledge as Dr. Ailmer Dr. Sharwicke Dr. Ailworth Mr. Turner Mr. Ken c. able by their great Parts to master that Faction that with force mastered him The very discipline and method of his excellent School was able to instill learning like a Watch once well set that goeth always even without him to the dullest capacity and his fancy parts and incouraging temper put life into that Learning instilling not the Learning only but the Life of Authors especially Homer into his Scholars who came generally to the University in my time with more vigorous parts than others went out fit although otherwise he was a man as once Tully spake qui opprimi potius onere officii maluit quam illud deponere yet what pains he took to
traâ—elâ—ing with him in â—â—ayers as well as birth See her exemplary life Printed by honest Mr. Royston a He was Knight of the Garter b He was vâ—ry well skâ—lled in all the points of the Religion of the Church of England c Though yet he was once excepted from Pardon to try whether he might be fâ—ghted out of his Allegiance upon his first going after his Majesty to York and bearing witness of his integrity for peace and subscribed a Petition that he would live and dye by him if he was fâ—rced to a wâ—r d Allowing 〈◊〉 a year for that purpose besides that he inâ—â—â—ed Mr. Thrâ—scrâ—sse c. to accept of an honorable laâ—ary to take the freedom of his hâ—use and the advantage of his Protection a He with the Earls of Lindsey and Southamptyn offering themselves to dye for his Majesty having been the instruments of his commands and it being a Maxime that the King can do no wrong he doing all things by his Ministers a VII Tarnov â—xrecitat Bilâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—2â— Ed heador Vâ—â— 4â—2 â—â—â—ascenâ—de 〈◊〉 Fide 〈…〉 vid. Casaâ—b 〈◊〉 Sueâ—â—â— Aug. 31. a Pangyâ—in Consâ—ant a Senec. de benef l. 3. c. 36. b At Sommerset house c Joseph Antiq. l. 4. c. 4. Philo Jud. de mon. arch l. 2. Domino Dr. Flâ—etword Coll. Reg. Cant. Qui Pâ—aep I tinery studiorum duce C. W. b In Moun. â—â—â—â—hshire a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b He carried the Queen of Bohemia he hiâ—â—â—â—umâ— afterâ—â—â— saâ—l bâ—ttel 〈◊〉 Prâ—gaâ— 40 mâ—lâ—s a Credanâ— haud gratâ—iâ—am in â—anâ—a majestate comitatem Leo. a Riâ—tous â—iplings quarrels murders uncleaness disorderly asesembly a Iove â—atore Vid Liv Flor â— 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fugâ— Pâ—aeses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schol Aâ—ollâ—n Aâ—gon l. 2. v 1151. c. 4. v. 699. a An action 〈◊〉 to one so nâ—arly 〈◊〉 to Sâ—â— R. Vâ—â—â—â—â— â—â—o when Sheriff of Warwickshire pursued 〈◊〉 Powder Tâ—aytoâ—s â—ut of Warwickshire into Worcestershire b Ultimus Aâ—gliae Bannereâ—tus â— a Whâ—â—â— Mother â—â—d married his Vnâ—le Sir 〈◊〉 Compton a As it was called a Gul. Câ— miti Northamptoniae qui toâ—e Bâ—lli civilis tempore patesâ—ae haeres erat viâ—utis vindâ—â— caâ—iâ—â— a Especiallâ— in mâ—king and dâ—stâ—â—â—uâ—â—ng Provisions a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer a Exhâ—â—tiâ—g some to sicquent prayers â—thers to temperance others to seriousness a Vel presentâ—â— dâ—sideramuâ— b Being Leiutenant of the Tower when a Warrant was brought to Execute Queen Eliz. he shewed it Queen Mary who â—rofessed that she knew nothing of it and so saved hâ—r a Here 's the sundry Oaks in the Woodâ— which the Spaniard in Queen Eliz time dâ— contrive by secret practises to have cut down and embezled and therefore they say he was the first that proposed the setting up of Iron mills thereabout b Vid. Hotcomm Spelm in verbo Ordeal c This is remarkalâ— in this story that Mr. Gâ—seâ—led his Estate upon the aforesaid Lady and that she the next day after his death made it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his relations a In the fourth Article of Essex his commission b Septemb. 20. 1643. a Wing in Buckingham-shire a Sir Edward Cook hath somewhere a saying that Divines meddle with Law but they commit great Errors b 〈…〉 c With whom he was very familiar calling him to an account about his fludy every night and conserâ—ing with him about Affairs and Histoâ—ies a He left 1000l per annum to his Heir who is a Knight and Beronet dying March 25. 1 4 when it was a question whether his Râ—â—t belonged to his â—â—â—â—cuto or his Heir b Sir Jâ—hn Cook was sent to command him into the Country out of his Deanery of Westminster He asked 〈◊〉 John how dâ—â—st he command a man out of his Free-hold which wrought upon the old Gentleman so far that he never rested until he had his pardon sâ—aled for it c At the Meeting in Jerusalem-chamber March 1641. with 20. moderate Conformists and Non-conformists appointed upon his motion to consider of the reformation of discipline and government worship and doctrine with the innovaâ—ious lately crept into all of them a Seâ— his Sermâ—ns on King James his buncial of Appâ—â—el of â—â—â—â—ag b Aâ— he plainly told the Duke of B. at Oxford a Dr. Gâ—yn b Ebocacâ—â— 1641. §. His Birth a Where it is thought Caesar first passed his Army over the Thames b By his Mothers side c Whose Physician his Father was Sâ—ct His Education d A good Grecian who had a hand in the publication of Sir H. Savileâ— Magnificent Saint Chrysostome Sect Hâ—â— Course of study e As may be seen in his Library Sect His Preserment Sect. His Carriage in all his places 1. at a Minister 1 Sermons 2 Prayers 3 The Sacrament a The 〈◊〉 use 〈◊〉 of you may sie in his Sermon of the Pâ—o â—hans Tyâ—bings 4 Catech â—sing 5 His Hospitality to 〈◊〉 râ—â—h his 〈…〉 to the Pâ—or his â—isâ—s to all and his 〈◊〉 with them 2 As Arch-Deacon 3 Dr. of vinity Sect His 〈…〉 of the 〈◊〉 a Vid. Ciâ— de Divin Pâ—ucerum Wier de prest dâ—mo num 〈◊〉 Zomâ—n de â—piritibus c. Câ—saâ—b 〈◊〉 c 5. Bâ—ld Câ—f Câ—nse de Div. Goâ—dw de somâ—is Filliâ—cum quaest Moral â—ract 24. c. 5 n. 123. 12â— Hippocraâ—em de inâ—omnâ—is Galen de praescagio ex insomniis Sandeâ—sonum in Gen. 20. 6. Sect. What he did during the Wat. D. 〈…〉 Sect. How he was 〈…〉 at the end of the 〈◊〉 a Mr. C. of M. C 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 and to that 〈…〉 Sect. How be disâ—ose of himself after the Kings death 1. To write his tâ—â—ct of Christian Religion 2 The occasion and method of composing the Annotationâ— on the New Testament 3 The occasion and method of his dissertations Sect. His remove to Worcester-shire and his reflectâ—â—â— on what pâ—ssed â—here 1651. 〈…〉 of the times Sâ—ct◠〈…〉 in the Ministry Sect. 〈…〉 to thse that we 〈◊〉 nished abroâ—d which was â—â—â—covered 〈◊〉 Cromwell who 〈…〉 of it Sect. 〈◊〉 action 〈…〉 to his Death 1. The fâ—ame of his Body 2 The â—acultiâ—s of his Soul Sect. His Iâ—tellectual and acquired abilities Sect. His Moralls a 1 Cor. 7. 26. b Epist ad Ageâ—â—uchiam Sect. His disposal of his time His Devotion Sect. His Friendship Sect. His Charity Sect. His alms of Lending Sect. His generosity Sect. His estate and the managing of it Provost of Q. C. Oxon. and Dean of Worcester Sect. His 〈…〉 Sect. His humility and condescenâ—ion 1. In reference to himself 2 In reference to others Instances of his Condescension Sect His â—alâ—e of souls Sect. His instructions to his Conveâ—ts His Advises Sect. His Patience Sect. The Principles whereupon he composed and setled his minde ☞ What Rules be recommended at his death Sect. His 〈◊〉 Monuments 1 His resolution a Being not cast away like the first 〈◊〉 of a Vessel hardly 〈◊〉 if once neglâ—cted b Aâ—