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A09898	The life of Alfred, or, Alvred: the first institutor of subordinate government in this kingdome, and refounder of the Vniversity of Oxford Together with a parallell of our soveraigne lord, K. Charles untill this yeare, 1634. By Robert Povvell of Wels, one of the Society of New-Inne.	Powell, Robert, fl. 1636-1652.; Alfred, King of England, 849-899.	1634 (1634)	STC 20161; ESTC S115025	29,645	188

expression of any tongue or penne A Parallell of our gratious Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES with King ALFRED AS Alfred was so is he the yonger sonne of a Royall King and though not anointed King in his younger yeares yet then by eternall providence designed to his kingdomes His education and studious desire of learning his matchlesse piety even in his tender age inferiour to none his frequent accesse to our great provincial Councels his sedulous observations there and in the greatest Courts of Iustice did promise of him what now he is after the death of his most deare brother of famous memory when the burthen of our so great expectation as his hopefull succession lay wholly on him though before he seemed not so agill and valid as his brother yet his care of our welfare which breathed by the breath of him did raise up such vigor and spirit in him that his ability and dexterity in body and his admirable skil and facility in equestriall and other corporall exercises did grow up and increase together He journied not to Rome to Spaine he did whence to say no more his thrice happy return entertained with such wonderfull acclamations and ineffable expressions of joy and gladnesse as this kingdome never knew the like before did quicken and reviue the life and spirit of many sad distressed soules Not long after when by our Salomon his resignation in fulnesse of time of both life and Crowne Sol occubuit by his gracious succession nox nulla sequuta est for as a great Primate observed by Gods grace and his royall fathers prudent education he was confirmata aptata columna a Pillar every way fitted to the State he beares fitted to the difficulties of the times fitted to the State and fitted to the Church before his Crown was scarce setled on his Royall head and ere he was anointed by the hand of the Priest he was not without his cares Coronam cura se quitur the epidemicall sins of our Nation drew from heaven one of the greatest instruments of Gods vengeance the noisome pestilence which miserably infested not onely our great Ierusalem but many other famous Cities and almost all the skirts and corners of our kingdome shortly after seconded with its second the dread and horror of the sword in the times of both which first in the time of contagion turne backe your eyes upon his strict and carefull edict of a generall fast and humiliation by a prescribed forme of prayer throughout all his Kingdome himselfe like another Phinees stood up and prayed and the plague ceased and in a wonderfull manner that Gods great mercies farre surpassed the extent of our hopes his royall thankfulnesse expressed in an uniformity of common prayer in like manner publikely edicted followed nay as if both in one divine conception issued forth with this great deliverance Hee was not as Alfred forced into the field in the very infancy of his raigne nor into any such angustious and distressed recessions yet for perlustration of his Armies and the well ordering his military affaires he forced himselfe not in a progresse of ease but by an expeditious toilesome journey to the remotest and most navigable harbour of his Westerne Region exposing himselfe thereby unto no meane dangers By the space of those few yeares wherein his preparations of defensive warre were against two of the most potent and mightiest Christian Princes of Europe he put not his confidence in his Princes nor in his men of warre either by Sea or Land nor in the childe of man he put not his trust in his bow neither was it his sword that shold help him nor did hee trust in his Chariots nor his Horse nor in his great Navies of Ships nor in any Engines of war nor his warlike provision of all which his copious supply and store exceeded former times but in God his strength and his Redeemer After the sudden and miraculous deliverance frō the Pestilence looke upon no lesse and in as little distance of time his forme of prayer prescribed in the yeare 1626 necessary to bee used in those dangerous times for the safety and preservation of his Majesty and his Realme the like not long after with a generall fast for the preservation of his Majestie his Realmes and all reformed Churches God heard him the Lord of Hostes was with us the God of Iacob was our refuge he made warres to cease hee broke the bow and knapped the speare in sunder He blessed our Alf. and those two great neighbour Princes with a gratious issue of truce and peace at unity they are and their Kingdomes in publike negotiations commerce and affaires of State and God grant they long may be and might they stand with divine providence in the union of our Church aswell as our Common wealth By this you see that upon all occasions God is his refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble the best armour of a Christian Prince is prayer and humiliation the strength and sinnewes whereof doe consist in the uniformity of religion and conformity of the ministry upon both these the peace and quiet of the Church the Spouse of Christ doe principally depend Our royall Soveraigne had no sooner by the incense of his prayers drawne from heaven a remission of that great contagion upon this land but instantly hee betakes himselfe to a regall course for establishing the peace of his Church and therein agrees with Alfred who in his sanction of the league betweene him and Guthrun did decree ut ecclesiae pax tranquillitas pie inviolateque serventur And for avoiding all offences and innovations in religion our now Alf. with the advice of his reverend Bishops did by his edict declare and publish his utter dislike of all those who did or should adventure to stirre or move any new opinions contrary and differing from the sound and orthodoxall grounds of the true religion here professed and established and did thereby charge all his subjects especially Church-men that they should not by writing preaching printing conferences or otherwise raise any doubts or publish or maintaine any new inventions or opinions concerning religion other than such as are warranted by the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England And that all excuse of ignorance might be taken away his illustrious goodnesse for avoiding diversities of opinions and for the stablishing of consent touching true religion hath caused and commanded the Articles agreed upon by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces in the Convocation holden at London Anno 1562 to be reprinted with his royall declaration prefixed thereunto for ratification thereof what zeale and care hee hath had to suppresse and recall any bookes or writings though published by some of great learning that might breed the least doubt and disquiet in points of religion is well knowne For the conformity of the Ministry I find an old Law ratified by King Alf. de

directions for protecting his people from exactions and oppressions in any his Courts of justice either Ecclesiasticall or temporall and his royall intention concerning his Commission then lately granted to enquire of new Offices erected and new fees exacted in his Courts His Majesty hath not onely intended but acted a course of reformation and it was high time the common appellation of such crimes is extortion or expilation is one of those Cardinall sins that crie aloud to God for vengeance vox oppressorum this sin of extortion is no other than robbery but more odious because that is apparant and in possibility to be avoided And this is done colore officij under the mask or visage of a legall verity and pretext of a due demand and the poore subject must either yeeld to such exaction or redeeme it in some cases with a more expensive waiting The second his Majesties watchfull eye of providence by his orders publik edict for preventing the dearth of corne and victuall and his just and speedy proceedings in his high Court of Star-chamber against Fore-stallers and Ingrossers the common Catterpillers of our Kingdome termed by our ancient laws depressores pauperum totius communitatis patriae publici inimici who if a seasonable and timely occurrence of Iustice had not suppressed them would like the Aegyptian Locusts have covered the face of the whole earth and have bred a dearth without a scarcity His impartialitie in Iustice where he meets with the scarlet sins of Murther or with the crimes of open rebellion unnaturall abominations or such like no interpellations of favour or greatnesse dare implore any hope of pardon from him His regall inflexibility in the case of a mutinous which alwaies implies a malicious homicide by the only Champion of his highnesse Noble and faithfull Convoy in his Spanish voyage would admit of no mediation for redeeming of prolonging of life In another case I cite but two of a dishonourable and ignominious capitall crime he spared not one of the greatest and Antientest Cedars of his Nobility Let a word suffice He doth not in the distribution of Iustice in capitall or criminall causes accept the persons of men And yet He is not without his multitude of mercie Mercie and Truth preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercie where the crime is any way dispensable with hope to reclaime the offendor for a future good to publike or private services and without any injurious example to his government Est piger ad paenas No Prince more prone to a mercifull relaxation of legall rigor here you might recount numbers of condemned Malefactors delivered out of severall Prisons not to their demerited execution but for some Martiall and other serviceable expeditions but let such offendors beware of relapse which is most dangerous as well in civill as naturall diseases They never then scape with impunitie I must not sever Mercie and Truth In verbo veritas To use our English adage His royall word is a Law His promises and performances are twynnes conceived together though produced in birth one after the other Hee is constans verbi custos either in forraigne entercourses or domesticke pollicitations his immobility in the one is sufficiently attested to other Princes and States and in the other to his owne servants and subjects His Eleemosynarie largesse either at home or abroade is not behind Alfreds though not to Rome Ierusalem nor India yet neerer and more needfull for the releefe of the Palatinate the distressed Clergie of the reformed Churches For whose supply and succour His highnesse by his owne example drew a general benevolence from his subjects Adde unto this his great and chargable disbursments and diminution of his treasure in the expensive emissions and addresses of honourable embassages to pacifie the fury of almost al the Christian Continent was it not most expedient what danger might not we justly dread Cum proximus ardet ucalegon when neighbour Nations are all in combustion and religion the pretext The magnificent decoration of his structures and edifices in all symmetricall proportions with his prescript forme of building strictly enjoyned doe farre surpasse all former times they are such and so pattern'd by the most glorious Architectures of all Europe that a man would thinke Italiam in Ilium Italy translated into England Though his Majesty did not divide the Kingdome into centuries and decuries nor was the first Author of that subordinate kinde of government in this famous Monarchie yet his restlesse vigilancie hath ever beene to preserve and propagate the true and ancient uses of that division For which purpose his highnesse in his commission directed to the then Lord Arch-Bishop and others of his honorable Counsell amongst many gratious directions is pleased to descend to the Stewards of Leets and to charge them what they shall give in charge in their turnes and halfe-yearely viewes of Franckpledge touching Forestallers Regrators and other the most obvious and enormous offences of the Countrey It is said of Alfred that ad crastina bella victor pavebat victus parabat If unjust peace is to be preferred before just warre we having the happy fruition of a just and honourable peace with all the Christian world and having no need in the times of conquest to dread adverse approaches or of defeatures to prepare for fresh onsets may glory in his Majesties assiduous and vigilant supervising of his military munition and provision both by Sea and Land remonstrated by his frequent visiting his greatest Storehouse of his Ordnance and other martiall supply as also his goodly number of Ships in severall harbours Amidst the coacervations of his many and multifarious cares He hath like Alfred his statuta reficiendi tempora his convenient times of royall recreations and no lesse skil promptnesse in the use and exercise of them What insensate subject can envie so gratious a Soveraigne that liberty which his clemency indulgeth to the least of us Must Princes onely be like heathen Idols must they have eyes and not see the objects of lawfull oblectations eares and not heare the sweet harmony of vocall and instrumentall musick Of such murmuring miscreants I will onely say Dij regno tales nostro divertite pestes Time in somethings doth difference the parallell Alfred lived in the infancie of the English Church when the fier at the Altar was but newly kindled and his zeale was by sending to forraigne parts for learned men and by other meanes to raise up the fabricke of Religion Wee live in the height in the Meridian of the Church her Glory And because altitudo semper declinationi proxima his now Majesties principall aime is for the worke of preservation to keepe the fire upon our Altar burning which is magnum opus It was high time for his goodnesse to put to his owne helping hand or else by the fanatical schismes and aversions of non-conformists Religion

and her houses would both have melted together and Parlors and Groves beene exalted and preferred before the beautifull Temples and sacraries of the God of Israel I have now presented to your favourable view a paire of Peerelesse Princes who for their religion piety devotion institution and renovation of good lawes government justice mercy truth meeknesse temperance patience abstinence conjugall castimony and all other vertues may be presidents of imitation to all Princes and people And what a reverend Arch-Bishop in his Preface upon the life of Alfred commendeth unto the Reader for him I must say for both Ista quidem historia non mediocrem menti tuae voluptatem infundet neque minorem adferet cum voluptate utilitatem si in praeclarissimarum rerum contemplatione defixus te ad eorum imitationem quasi imaginem totum effinxeris and to proceed for both as he doth for him Etenim cum vide as regem summo splendore tanta quantum illa praerarò vidit aetas dignitate regentem c. Quo te Lector animo esse oportebit c. In brief where there are such glorious Soveraignes would it not well become their people to be gracious subjects As I began I shall close up my Parallell and not unfitly with the time CaroLVs ALVreDo Charo ALVreDVs In CaroLo re VIVIsCIt You have seene the twenty eight yeares raigne of the one beyond that you can heare no more and but nine yeares of the other of him wee shall with incessant prayers to heaven expect much more numbers of dayes numbers of deeds a numerous issue by a most ennobled illustrious Queen equall in bloud and equall in good that as one of Alfreds many of their royall Off-spring may with their princely education honour both our Vniversities and let all true hearted subjects humbly and thankefully consider GODS ineffable mercie towards us in his Majesties happie birth his vertuous education the Almighties provident designing and fitting him to our our state and government his royall match his sweet Olive-branches and their and our hope of many more his peaceable raigne with his exemplary goodnesse and vertue which we all see and know and have just cause humbly and heartily to supplicate and implore the omnipotent Author of this so great happinesse for the long life of his Highnesse and his most deere consort And that whilst the Sun and Moone doe indure there never may one bee wanting of their thrice Royall Line to sway the Scepter of great Brittaine Amen FINIS Perlegi hunc Librum cui Titulus The life of Alfred in quo nihil reperio quò minùs cum utilitate publicâ imprimatur THO. WEEKES R. P. D. Episc. Lond. Cap. Domest Gen. 9 21 Holinsh. Asser. Twine Apol. p. 194. Chytrae● ●ewis Hellinshead Hollinsh Speed Cambden F 〈…〉 Speed Cambden Lamb. Archaie● fo 49. Lamb. fo 52. Asser. ● Godw. ca● ●o 17 Asser. Asser. Twine Apo. Mr. Lytes Geneal Asser. Twine Apol. Twine Apol. fo 168. Twine Apo. Cambden Brit. Asser. Godwin Twine fo 196. Asser. Lamb. fo 54. ca. 6. Idem fo ●● ca. 54 Lamb. so 28 29 D. Ridley his view fo 193. Episcu Lond. Conc. 16●0 ●●niel 〈◊〉 Asser. ● Godwin fo 164. ●lem fo 269. Asser. Speed Asser. Godwin fo 163. Lam. explic rerum c. Lamb. fo 19 Lam. explic rerum verbo Asser. Asser. Twine Apol. 20● Holinsh. Twine Apo. 202 Epise Menev. modo Archiae Conc. 1625. An 1025 An. 1625 An. 1626 Peace of the Church Lamb. A●hai● fo 5● Vniformity Pro●l 14. Iunij 1620. Articles of religion reprinted Edict 17 Ia. 4. Rs. Conformity Lamb fo 1. ca. 1. Gods-day Lamb fo 54 ca. Liberty of ●●●r●a●●on Gods time Fasting Lamb. fo 55. 27. Iam. 7. Rs. Gods name 〈…〉 erius M●n Canon Gods places Saint Paules Mart. 26 1620. 2 Time Other Churches Edict 〈…〉 Rs. Their gratitude B. Andrewes misc Piety Workes of justice Ecclesiasticall Secular justice Asser. Directions to the Iudges Oxford Cambridge Twy●●i Apo. pro Oxo 886. Exacted fees 12 Octo. 1627. Procla 28. Sep. 8 Rs. cum Articulis Impartialitie Injustice Mercie Truth Almes-deeds Embassage Buildings Care of subord 5 Ianu. 1630. 〈…〉 direct Warlike preparation Recreations Arch-Bishop Parker in preaes Asseri 1634.