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[Of V lnitte to come to his I-Ioufe, was fent into the of a fccond Brother, who (as it were) tdiviningthe greatneffe, and V C1-ty toecquire wealth, ad ¢difz‘c.m:lmn mztzqzmn a‘rmzm,l unto whoi fievetnents (for he was Lord Major ofitmmz) fell in as iti both the blond and itihei-itan'ce.o£'* the eldeli Brother, fiir want of ifihe Male, by which accumulation the houle within afew defcents niounted,inl'Culmrn bana- ria, andwas fuddenly elated into the bet’: Families of Exalmd, and ire. laizd, as Hnwr, oi 0,-:w2uzz«1',.3 acfpvile. and divers others.Having'thustoucht, and now leaving Her Grip, I come to Her Perfon 5 and as» She came to the Crown by the deceafe of Her, Brother and Silier; under’ Edmzrc! She was His, and one of the darlings of Fortune, for be-{ides the confideration of Blond, there was between thefe two Princes, . a concu rrency, H, and fympatlly in their N atures,21nd affecftions, toge.. ther with the Ce1eiiialibiofim.d' tconformityin Religion) which mqtie themone,andifriends,forthe-King ever called Her His fweeteflend deerefl: Sifler, and was (‘career His own man, She being abfient, which was not ii) between. Him and theI.ady Mary, Vnder His Sifter, She found Her conditiotnmuch altered’: Foritlwas refolved, and Her de... flin had decreed to fet Her an Apprentice in the School ofAfi‘lit€tiJn, an to draw Her thr,oL1gh~-tile Ordeallfire of ti-yell‘, Cl‘ie~'b€3tC€rt0 or mould and faihiontl-Ier, to rule; and Soverai and Fortune c.a1ling_to minde, that the time o Her f‘.'1‘V'i.tl1d€,W3.s cx- pired, gave up Her Indentut-es, and therew,ith delivered up into Her cnfiodyt a Scepter, as areward for Her patience, which was about the twenty fixth yeer ofHer Age 5 :1 time in which as for externais) Silfi-\V1S_”fi1ili)l0Wn, i'olrwas,3tl;§/fgimtfierjii % M l H c ' % ~ _W;11]d Teafoned' with adveriity, andin the exerciiii of..Her Veitue} i nty; which H niIl1ed,: wt’ ‘w.‘5“‘ -_ ‘ i ‘i ,. ieems. Fortune meant no mo: c, then to fhew Her 1 peece of Her va... t riety, and ch:1ngeab1ene{Te’ofHer Nature, H and fo to conduafler to, ‘Her defiined Felicity. She was of”perf'ona“ge ta1l,] of hair and com.- plexion fair,,and therewith‘weI1.t‘favour¢d;,,_but nofed,7of vlymbs, and feature neat, and which added toWl'1ejluiii‘e_ o£’tho&..:cxperiourl l oGraces,of Stately, H A and Majefiiclc compoittnenfifparticipatirrg in this I more oF'I-Ier Father then Mother, who was 0 an infr;’1'1t>ur allay,‘ ylaufable, or as the Frenchhatliit, more debonarc, and affable, VE.‘1'—- tnes which might well fuite Wits: Majefiy, 3~!.1<,iIWi]iCh qlefcending, as A I~InLr;r"”E5”“l2i to -i 0 . ‘V t ~ ~ r ties) lie was wontto lily of theiil ll‘thly:e'6f'*tl1l with,for they were indeed ofthc C!_l_}CC ns neer l§ll‘1Cll'CLl5l’l‘()l"2) whence, and in more 1n1l:anccs«I conoludt that flue was abfolute and isovcraign »M1llt1sof Her Graces; and tlmt all clinic, to whom, {he dimibyumd ’ Her favours, werb nevcr mote then ‘fexiants at wm, and flood on no I better ground then fhtt Princtrly ,»1«:ar.m», and the-it own good l>c:~1m.— viour5 and this alfo I pref.-tit zts :1 known ol;>i"erv:rtion, that {he was though very capable tifcouticell) alafoltite enouggrli in her own rc... iolutions, which was ever rrpptucnt even to her lull; in that her aver-4 fation to grant .T.7'_l_?.’2€ tht: lenlt drop of her mercy, though carncflly ‘lurid lretlueiitlygadvifedtg lytmlwttni ht only by tho whole Counfell of state, with very many prcllinti; l'C‘3l..,Hf)S5 and as the ilzttc of 1-Icr King- xtlom then flood (Imay fpezik it with nfiiiraitce) nece{Iit:1tedArgu;. mc:'nts. if we look into Her inc:litn:1tion, its/it is tliipoftd tither to magnificence, or fiugality, we {lull tindein tl‘1t:1'11n1ar:jr notztlale con- Jidcrations, A4 for all Her clil"p‘enl;I*ttious were in poylled, as though dill cretion and Iuiticc lgadzboth agreedrto iland at the Blratii and fee l -t Weighed 7 y weighed out in due proportion, the maturity of Her years, and ‘ad ernent meeting in a concurrency, and at inch an age as feldome in eth to tactile. To confide: them apar-t,We havenot many prefi; dents of Her liberalit , or of any large clona-tives to p__articular men; my Lord of.Eflrx Boo of Pnrlgsr only excepted, which was a Prinoely ‘1t‘t:,andlorne few more of a leffer fize tomy Lord of1.tritc(ier, Harriet, and others. Her reward confified chiefly in grants of Leafes, of Of. f-"ices, places of Iudicature, but for ready money, and in any great film mes, {he wasvery fparing,whioh we partly conceive was a vertuc rather drawn out hy neceflity, then her nature, for the had many lay- ings out, and to her lafl period. 'n_d I am of opinion with Sir mzltrr Rawlrigi», that thofe many brave men of our times, and of the Mill-WI. A tailed little more of her bounty, then in her grace, and good word with their due entertainment, for {he ever paid the Souleliers well, which was the honour of her times, and more then her great adver- fary of .r pain could perform, fo that vvlren we come to the confide.- ration of her frugality, the obfervation will be.little more,._then that her bounty and it were to woven t0'§_51;t2t:l‘1t"r_, that the one was fnited by an honourable Way of fperudittg, the other limited by a neceflita- ted Way of ii>31‘itlF. The 111111 adtieta We may Confumption of ter times,‘ for it accompanied her to her end, and it was of {o proft1l7e, and Vail an expence. that it drew neet a. dilletn... perature of State, and ofpaflion in her fell”; For toward her lafl,fl1e grew fomewhat hard to pleafe, her Arms being accufcomed to pro- rperity, and the Irith pexfecution, not anfwering her expeétatiomand ‘wanted fuccefle for a good while,it was an nnthrif7ty, and inaufpitious -war-re which did much ditmrbe, and miflead her judgement; and the more for that it was a prefident, W~hic.h was taken out of her own Pattern; for as the (Queen by way of diverfion) had at the coming taothe Crown, fitpported t e revolted States of Holland, fo did the King of win turn the trick on her felt” towards her going out, be cherifhing the Irifh rebellion, thrcfitatc of the Kin dotn, and the Crown Revenues werethenably to embrace, and en ureg if we loolcinto the eitabfifhrnent of thole times, with the lit} of the Irilh Army, confidering the defeatments of Blacltwater, withall precedent ex ences, as it flood ‘from my Lord of mfrx,yt1.nder-taking to the firrrcn er of Kingglale under the Generall Momtiay; and fornewhat after, we {hall fincle the ho:-fe and foot Troops, were for three orfour yeers together much about zoooo. call a n"rall;1t.iy,. and 21 ~ where it falls into confiderat1on,whatx E Which befides, The Navall charge which was 21ClCpC‘I.'1(;l3l'l'.l-"0i’” the ‘ fame Warre; in that the Qrteen was thCt1f01"ct.‘d to her: in continu-. all pay, a ltrong Fleet at Sea, to attend the Spanilh Coal s,and Potts, hoth to ftllamrn the Spaniard, and to i11tZt:‘I‘P3.‘€itZ Irish l301'Ct':f;'~; defigned for the non arl‘ifla11ee,« To that the eharge ‘.’\{ arre alone,” .di,& C0 . (3) ’W'at alone, did icofirthe (ll1cC_n.3iooooo]7t$‘dmIfiM1 at laefr, which was not the Moytie of her other disburfments, an expence which (With... "out the publique aid ) the State, and the ljoyall. receipts, could not have much longer endured , vvhich. outer h r own frequent Letters andcomplaints to the Deputy A/1e.w2tuJ_}',l'01‘. cal ieering part ofthat Lift as foon as he~could.,may be colleétedfot‘ the Qt_xeen was then driven into a itrait. . We are natnrally prone to applaud the times behinde us,and to vi- lifie the prefent; for the current of her fame carries -it to this day,how Royally and viétorioufly the lived and dyed , without the grievance and grudgeof the people,yet that truth may appear withdut retraétion from the Honour of fogreat a Princeffe. It is manifel-I the left more gdebts“unpayed,taken upon the credit of her Privy Se-aIs,then her Pro... genitors did, or could have taken up thatway in a hundred yeers be.- fore Itch; which was an enforced piece of State , to’ lay the butcher: on that horfe,‘ that was heft able-to bear it, at the dead lift, when nei-— ther her receipts could yeeld her relief at the pinch, n or the urgency of her affairs endure the delayes of a Parliamentary Miillance : And For fuch aids it is like-wife apparent , That {he received more, and with the love of the people, then any two of her Predeceifors ,, that took molt; which was a Fortune flrained out of the Subj eét, through the plaufability of her Comportment, and, as I would lay without: offence, the prodigall diltribution of her Graces to all forts of Sub... jecft : For I believe, no Prince living, ‘that: was {'0 tender of Honour, and fo exactly Hood for the prefervation of Soveraignty , that was fa great a Courtier ofher people,yea,of the Commons, and that ftoppt and defcended:lower‘in'.prefentingmr 1 l i as {he pal’: in herProgrefl"es and Peram ulatrons,An in the ejacula- on of her praycrson her people : An true1y,'1‘hongI1 much may bergiu“ ven in praife of her n1agnanin1ity,and therwith comply with her Par... liaments,anal for all that come off at Iait with honour and profit; yet rnuli vve afcribe form: part of the commendation to the vvifdomeroi the times,and the choice ofParliament..men 5 for I finde not that they were at any time given to any violent or pertinations _difpute, eleétim ons being made ofgrave and difcreet perfons,not taého us and ambia tious oftaxnefuch as came not to the I-Ioufe with a malevolent fpirit ofcontention,but with a preparation to con fult on the publike good , rather to comply then conteft with her Ma j efiy 3 xleither do VI find: that the I-Ioufe was atany time Weakned and pelleted with the admiil ii on of too many young ‘he.-ads,as it hath been of later times,which re. members me of Recorder Mtzrtiru speech, about the tenth of our-slate Soveraignlord King iamer,vVhen- there were accounts taken!of,pforty Gentlemengnot above tvventy,and fame not exceeding fixteengvvhich , moved hind to fay, That it was the ancient. cufiome for old men in o in ma c — Phy ('9) n,1ak¢ Laws for youxa ones, but that than he faw, t:l1e%caFc%a1temd, andkrhat there were c mildren elcfted unto the ghrehat A (3%o1,1nhce11"of the Kingdom, M wluichcamc to’ invade and invert narurc, ‘qnci to ihaét Laws to govern £h§i.'rhFahtl1c:rsA : Sure we are, The: h héf‘ bv flvjvork, of *'tII1<‘:\.§/Vl‘1i'C~_‘h "tl2rcrc.i,s., n9ta1v1¢cx1m =1-of ‘out, <>~‘“?'”W”#Th #W‘d¢f~ 30 ifiéérh Of hrhc ’duftom‘e~‘1onfcgvvhoo fervi _.,h1s time,‘-' rcfentcd hcr;v”vithhah zpcr, fl1c,v_vi!nghQy_y {he was aubufi: in the un cffenting of hcr:¢i1% onicls, agjdfthergvvitulmlljImnqhly dcfircdm Hcr'Mfifefiy to concca;lhim,h for I,‘ H W‘ ‘ \ .fi'Iw-I‘-‘J ithidqbhccfn tvvsi ?;r thrht’ ;if'5h§r great ~Cdnricc!}<3r‘s,* ‘vvl¢0fWW;:;jhi 3: Ah - h “f_¢".~'=a'.:'.'»‘. c‘v"‘.' h '.. .;*','h.;‘;‘: h ;%.._~ ‘;‘.(,ih%;%EhWh:g ; A - 3 V * ‘ii prepare. and fmooth-_a vvay for the raft thatfo ovvs.)'._it is requifite . V (I 0) A ' gufiomer Smith had bribed with 200.‘ a man, lo to Ioofe the Qtaen 2000-, gmuzunu vs, which hetng ‘made known to the Lords, they gave fltrieltt order, _that i;.'.1mI.trd vi lhonld not have accelfe to the back fiai;»;_ V ti11.at.1a£E‘.:hcrMajeily iintllingiiirt-cz'aFt, and milling Uzrrllzrdu, fhe fcntfor him back, and encouraggeti brim to itand to his information, which the poor man did fo i'13.fldhO{Tl€1y, that within the fpacc of gen yeers“, he rought J with to double his rent, ottoileave the cultomcs to new Farmers, [0 that we may take this alih’ into obfervation, that there were of the (greens Councell that were not in the Catalogue of. Saints.. i i -I Now as we have taken a view of Some particular notions of her titties, her nature, and necellities, it is not without the text, to give afhort touch on the helps and advantages of her rzign; which were ‘without parallell, for {he had. neither husband; brother, filter, nor children to provide for, who as they are dependitnts of the Crown, {'0 do they necefiiarily draw maintenance from thence, and do ofte n- times exhanli and draw deep, efpecially when there is an ample Fm. ternity of the blond Royall, and ot the Princes of the Blond, as it was in the time of E~X~:u.z,--:1 the third, and Henry the fourth; for then when the Crown c.annot,the publike on ht to give them honourable iallovvance, for they are the honour and.% heritance of the King:.lofvn, did ever of old provide ayds Forqthe z“«'iI7ll- ge.2_imm, and the eldeliz daughter; fo that the multiplicity of Courts, and the great charge which necefiiuily follow a King, and Qgeen, a Prince; and the Royall; ilihe, i~vvasi~:t~—thingi'i"“vvhicbwwasnotim rem/1! mtum, during the {pace offorty yeets, and which by time was vvorri out of memory, and vvithout the confideration of the prefent times. Infomuch, that the aydes given to the late and ti ht noble Prince liar), and to his«Sil~t’erthe. Lady Izmgzbtth, were at rfi generally re.- eeivcd for impofitions of . a new a Coynage. Yea the late im ofitione forxnighthood (though an ancientl-.avv) fell alfo into the 1m ntati.'.'§ on of ataxof novelty, for thatitlay long covered in the em ers of‘ Lammflcr, and forgotten, or» connived at.by the fucceeding Princes, So that the llrangeneffe‘ of r the obfervation, end the difference of thofe latter rai-mes is, that divili on», between -the Houfes of York, an the Qgeen toolouprbeyond the power of the Lavv, vv ich fell not into the murmur: of. the people; and her fucccffors nothing but by - vvarrant ofthe Lamgvvhichi neverthelelle was conceived (through - difufe) to be injurious to the liberty of t':he~Kingdom.“ Now before I come to any» filrthermention of her Favonritts (for hitherto I have delivered, but fotne obvious atfages, thereby to that M opes of the Kingdom , and“ the publike vvhich injoyes them, hath a1ike~ intereliiinvthemp with. the Father that begotthem; and our Comm on_Lavv, vvhif-ch is the . and t1}2Cll€‘!“.t¢ Itqlllxtda (1 1) that I truth on the uliqrcs of the nth: talgn, I"tmeent”laebcdy of I.-Icrsificrs Gounccllol SI:l!C,'*1Vl’2i(l1‘fl1c maintdintirc ;'II¢‘ltl1¢r!t-l moving, not difcontcnting any, altlzwglt {he knew tlumavtrle to llcr Rtliglon ( and in ‘her Sitter: time }‘trV'cIlc towards ht!-Pttfofl? and private to ht: Ircublts and itrprifinncent; A ptudcnct: whit I wasin-compatible with latr Slflets natute, for-the both dilfipatcd and pttft cuttd the major pattof her ‘brothers’ Ccunccll} But this-will l:c‘of certainty, tl1atl'.cw ctlmpllablc focv er, and obfiqutousfltc found rlt-Lem, yet for a gcod fpact: fl-.¢"m:dc little ufv.-.0‘ I175‘ C°"“‘3‘?13a'm0'fCth€n in tl.-c ordinary ccurlc cf the board .: for flu: htld adom-:ant Tablci-n ‘bet own Ptinccly bxcfl, }(t flu: kept them tcgetltr, and t.bcir_placcs witlmut any fut’d,cn cl stage; To IlzEt‘WC may by of tlzcm, Tbattltcy \'\c‘l‘¢ of the Court , not of the Ccuntc-ll, for wltilcfi {he amazed them with a kind: of pttmiflivc d'tfyutation , cnnccming the points ccntrcvt-rttd by both Cl uxtltts, flue dud ft-t down her own rcfctvatic-us, without their privity, and made all her pmgtcfsions gradations; But: To that the rcncntsuf her fccrccy with inttntof her-tgflablifllmtntgwcrc ‘pitch!’ befnrc it was ltttcwn where: ll\(' Gout: would fit down-, ‘Ncithlgr do 1 findc that nnycf her fill:-ts Cctunccll rf flatt:wtrcc.ithct repug- nanttohct religion, cttppoltd her doing: (ingltfitld, Mallet of the imxfc excepted) who withdicwhimfclf from the bt and, and fltortly afgcr fun out bet I3t.minions,. fo plyableandobcdicot they wet; to change with the times, and tl cit Printts, Ind of tlmisltltt-It will fallin here: rclaticn hath of recreation, and ofi lmcwn trut-la. -Pwmlrtmatquctfc of Wixclztftz‘, and Loud ’TItalutcr, having fctvcdtlcn foul‘ Pxinccsinls ‘wattle rs and clza-ngtatlc ftafon, tlzztl my well fay, time, not any age lvatlt yctldul the lllsc pttfitlenv. 'Il;n man It.-irg nottd to grew lfgh inhtrfavour (at-lfitplntc, his, lmw ‘hot {food up fort itty ytcn-mgctlicr amidfi thcclazzngct, Ind " 1:15; ms of fo nany Clttmtcllors 8nd.gtcatlPttfcnagcs, why quotlztlte Mutqttflc .. (mm farm ex falicc, 7.62! (at qumu, I was mule of the was vqttflloncd ‘by til intimate ftiénld of . plyablc with w, not of tlw.c‘llul51—orn‘Oalt, andtruclytltc old manlmh “ taught tlcm all_.. tfpccially Wz'I1imEatlvol Puxbrclge, for l1'l'lCLy\lWOW¢l’I alwzaycs cf tlvc Kirgs Y tllflfrl, and (Wt!-2('Nft1l(?l‘lS ftt>ftf’.fcrs ‘Of tlii; =5!‘ islaitl, '1 hat bcirg “lwi 1 yturgcr Brotlicrs (yctr,f"N'c:blc Hcufcs) Iltty lprmt Mhat ‘waflclt tlttm , and come on man to that Court‘ : Vwltctc upon tl1oh:m.-'flcclt of their Wits, thy began to ttaflltk for tltcmfclvcs, and ptolpucdlfo well. tl'attbty~gat, fpcntflmdlcftmorc tlftn my St-tb)c&s ttc m the Norma Con quell, to their man tlmtt where- {mm it itatlt bun prcttily xqol)t<_l, that flcyliwd in atitt:ofldillo- lution. l l l _T0"tOncl|1clCtl1(n, of any of thcfgmrtaign, it in fa~id,tlaattl-1:13: I Wm . a C’ 7*) A %,tw-41-ivcd amid cd,r;hIcfl§',inhm: favour. The Imcru on hisfonnu m_ m;mriah e,‘ wit 1 thc LH y K-?thtr'ine Gray, waslikc utter y% rohavc lofl: _h?.i:nf;.:1, , but atx1minfla,nt of Lhc'cqnfumnx$a:ion, apprclxmding thcim zfafcry, (and :d“a_pg¢r of an inccrmarria Ac with the blond Royal}, in fall W ,i:.tV“hc" Quwgs fceg, whercmhc bath‘ ac nowledgcd his ’prc:fumptiun wiih gears, and projcsficd the Jcaufc, and the divorce: mgechcr, andfo quick he was athis: work, foric flood him upczn, that upon repudiation of the _L':dy,% he c%lapt,up%a marring; for his fonnc :11; Lord Htrbcrt with Mary ; 'Sidm.'_y Dat1gIm_:r:oSi; I-1L’i2r_y.%.€‘_yc{i1t_y, than Lord Dépury of Ireland, the % " blow falling on 13*? E21I‘oF E1c1~:‘f7ordg virfmwc) (:9 his Cofl‘) took L_x‘p t:,hi*: divox}ccd."];.ady,of whomfchc7L“‘m'd’ Bc.wcb.'zmp was born’, and.Wifl5am ‘ Eafl of Hei‘r:£o(di's,dc fctndcil. I come now [0 prefent thafc of hcmwh 'E1e€tion, w . ich {1‘1c,C$i£hCradm_ittCdtO her {ccrc-ts of State, or tookin. ‘ to héfgracc and favouxf, Vef whom in their order, I crave: leave to give H 11_?z1_x:}c>; ;>o,11._c%r'L1§:y‘ :5 caugious ,d_cIcripripn, with ;!fi10'rt Cl1ar:;&cr,_ qr, drmgijc T‘j'p‘f tlmfpcrfgxj Athcngmfplvesg, Forwithout ofF:ncero%o’th;:7r§, I would lie I ."i:r°u_c"tcI> niy In-_: F,’ :I“acir’%nic:1*;oxi cs and tximits difling;u7fi1ing them of the ,’ "Militia, fmm the Ta czfig, _, and :h_cI'c Vfhc‘ had .35 n1any, a.ndt110fc as able ‘_1\1ini£,{c:r§, hsfany l;1c.r Pgogcixitors. “ ’ ‘ '_ % ,M ‘w A M: is ,; '.,:,.w..v M 4.45.; .1 .~ ‘V %. V. ‘_,-2 rm: “IL: .4‘: i : : .11“ 3 .27 ;I§F. ~Y“&121e1P¢;ou!=. ref ,doubr. “ t1m.mr;I«}dl<$f4Lvz4efl0t.wa* <20; 9% sh: .fi.r.ft 11gp;;_‘{LxJ;cM1‘u1adg Mjafiqr Qf_.t;h<:,;éI=orf5:, In; was the yo,q1ngc&So_1unp, 4 % ;l'}cq Lighng, _of the; 131119;: of I\7ai'I,l2z¢;mbcrla:zd. bchcadéd }z'im Mm}, and 1.; in :5; yygmllgay. _VV'7.3:Ch our 1-Iififtorics couple with Em}!/Fm; J t ‘ 1'. . . ». and or {o much infamcd for (IE: Caqgrlglxljfirggf t}1e,L13&:x1‘11own~ wcglgly, _% ‘,gh.'1{j,1}g'ghg rglfnof Al;l;n:;yvIn:§“'f‘¢fV§.‘T)th; ,w o. No, was 1. A acfiuysd 519? rfi'>'ra-=r.A of W’? 1h'=‘*=‘:;"r"a bu='1b=fl1¢t¢bY (0 sazcina, ;‘1:1§(h3:‘I*1.;}[§f}IaVqltgwz-gull Cfia fie,” ztpd uch a Snnnc;,vyl1<:,as thc vplggr H c 5]? %.cp!9 o_;lA %‘xygzyyz;_I1outt «:.1r’5;'gir:%; forgutofitbé f\f1'_1§sof hisFa- H ' qr”§ir;‘ ,’ttfiiy,.,l')C1:0fC tp bf: 1 ADuk;, andas Iygh, as f'ub}¢_&1on%couId peg- » :;;m% we $oxcrr-Jmx 1: duws: =v‘s!‘3‘“3"8hJ°?= Gould "9*5m§¢°vr4a'g 3 i'Pn'=11asi99F9 affum /E .9 Crew! W},’*.'% °WP Pcrrofié A‘ Y“? hm‘ l?¥03¢«‘3§. A d ygry mm ,1‘); ,;fi*¢_-fgpgd gfifor hm; S(‘)])‘lnC.'( GxA1ll:c'rt,_ by xmcfmap-;‘a ¢ Wm!-I. ' Lady lam; Grey, and fu_by t;h.}t way to_ brmg nr abottc anuglus oyncs. O ge:;Ava:;.-mg, which t,I;o1_xgwt1% they M’? bclnnndc us, and {Earn Jmpcrtincmt go thy:%'1‘cxr, yctnrc they not n1_m'I1 pm: ravag,ant, For they muff land: and IJr»s=vs,r;r;a‘!novv%:!;e;.x_ri:er% P3{T’%?5WF$i¢b~F$}1‘%hF a??m2t%.w‘ir%1.=I*¢:‘siw»2nr1ai2~ A ccM¥'£MNh<= hxngcrs?5.4t9011%t¢*9‘1W>**F¥’““7?‘1?;'PF » "s‘:¢rv!'¥a 1FA.W amazvmacll. cclcé iudaamunrp ¥P:1‘v"?Y5V.l’3"‘ W “W ¥‘5"‘.¢;*> -W“? co:1fidci"l1‘o§/V‘ t; iié uke couid arrwin rt) Web .1 pftcb of grcat:':cf%Ta§:;,A 3115; F‘?’9h"’f._dYi”§*iWi5“°mi“X:: aqdsu.qI2c:Ga119é~#..h*§ °;fi=%*r= confi6=ar9»3faj ., . :1‘ 3 1- 13 i am: for healing and polling, by the clamor, and crx-xcifige éficlhciii people , u: when we hetccv think upon it, w; findc. that lw_wa3 given up , but as a S-acr1Eccm plcafiz the pcoplc , not for any Voficncc crammictcdllagninfi thc pcxfon or the King, fothatupcm the: marrcrhc was 2 Mimyr of ‘the Prcr 'g1ti'vc , and the liivg in ham:-L1.r cpv.,1lid<.iz_2 no-i ltffi: -_. tl1¢nigiv;i'h:'icllTcc'»f his niwn , foithzit 9.i3r’_fie;t,ity»._‘i. fimy b)/ifctlfllllghlllt.“iF€!l2l1€l‘\ and tl)C'Gr3ndf&th¢r, nialgc jurligcnicnct 01'-135;: fbnné “;‘li:i»1'w‘c: {hall find'g‘chat chi: ’Rabcrtg,( whofc.Qrig,inall we l'l3Y‘é:l',lOV(\' traced the " hctrer»i to prcfenthim” ) was ixihcriror of cha g¢~# l O rpusi , am‘! ci-‘al'”:;c-if l1i«sl3.1rl1or; mid Amlvrofc ,p£ pliccllagek, of _whori1" l‘1c*rcaf'tcr"wc (hall'm‘al.‘IZ’7’l‘, thatrmight deferve,or tend to a breach in Holiility, which t -cy Pnpifls to this day rnain~t:1in , was i the rovoeationand caufe of the after warres, but omittina what ‘ mig ‘It be faid to this pO1nt , thofe Nethetland wars were the ueens Seminaries, and the Nurferies of very many brave Souldicrs, and fo were likewife the Cxvtll warres of Pram‘! (whither fhe fent five feve- tall Armies) the Fencefchools that inured the youth and Gallantry‘ of the Kingdom, and it was a M11/tifi wherein they were daily in ac.- quaintance, with the difcipline of the b‘p.zni..rdS: Who were then run. i need the CLu_eens inveterate enemies. V ind this have I taken into obfervation, her Die: 4 Eia.'cibr;ii , thofe eers of hers which were tnoteferene and quiet then thofe that E011. owcdfivhichtthough they were not leffe propitious,as beingtouched more with the point of honour and viétory, yet were they troubled, yandi (r8)"l ‘ l A with point of honour and vi&oI’Y . Y6! were they troubled, 3:11d'u¢V‘er“ lC10u.de_c-1 over, both with domefiiquc, and forraign machi- 1m1,8.H:0ns5—’—and 11:15 already quoted, they were fuch as awakened he, fpirits, and made her calt about how to defend, rather by offending, and;by' theyvay of dlvcrtilng to prevent all Invafions, then to cxpea th em. 4 -Whlfiih was 3: piece of policy of the times : and with ;~t11;31 have noted the caufes or prizzcipzia of the Wztrres following, and:_1ike_ wife pointed to the »fecd—.plotsfrom“whencc fhetook up thofe br ave m¢~n:xax1da plants of honour, which aéled on theivheatrclofimlm, and on ‘Whom {he clifperfedythe rayes of her grace, which were «perfonsvin their kindesof rare vex-rues, and filth as might (out of height of mg, a tit) PI‘_€f€nd interelt to-her favour,iofWl1icl1 rank, the number will :3. quflllalf not exceed that of ‘the Gown- men,» in recountof whom I ptocfifrd with Sir Philip 1.1) ydmy. n i y 1 5 i S1,1*‘PZ7zlzpSzc{ney. . a “Ewztss fonnc to Sir Hez2sy',_s"y(12t€Y> Lord Deputy of Irdirzcl , and w. "Prefident-o;f VVaIcs,ape1‘f0yn of great parts , and in no mean race with the Queen : his 1110tl'1¢I‘£WaS filter to my Lord of Leicefler, gimp whcngewe111aytconj¢&urc,l eh-owvthe Father flood up in the place of honour ,-‘_allld61I1plQY*l,iI1¢1'lt, fo that his dcfcentwas appa- lrantly noble on bothfides :For his cdncation',~itwas fuch astravell, and the llniverfity could afford , or his T lllZOl‘SlI1l‘Ul-‘C; for after an incredible roficiencyin all the fpecies of Learning, he left the Ann.- dcmiclallli e for that of thecourt, whitherhe came by his Vncles invitation , famed aforic-zhancl by “a“nohle"”refadrt aoffitlaissaooomplilhu months, which together with the {late of his perfon , framed bya natut-all faropenfionnto Arms , hcloon attracfiedtthe good opinion of all men ,- and was forhighlyprized in the good opinion of the Qiéelll, that fhethought the Court: deficienttwitlrout him : And whereas ( through the «fame of his deferts ) ihowas in the eleftion for the Kingdomc of Polar {he refufed to-further his advancement, not out of emulation , but out ofefearlto llofe A the jewell of her i times : H e married the daughter and folel1oirof'Sir Fmnctls If/»’al,Gnghnm, then Secretary of State , a Lady deflinated to the Bed of honour, who (after his deplorable deathat zam ‘mi in the Netlwrlands, where i he was Governour of I/lrzflaing, at the time of his Vncles being there) was married to my Lord of tz~:fi2>x,s and iince his death, to my Lord of Saint Al/70?)! all pycrfons of the ifvvord,and othervvife ofgreat lionour and vcrtue. ‘ i They haveanrery quaint andfaélious figmentof him , That Mm and Mernuyfell atvariancac }'Vl10ll‘Cil’fC1‘Va'nt he fliouldlae : Andetbcxzo i,ssaz1tE;n:ig:-;1‘z::.7li{i that faitli, That Ant and Nature had {pent their ex-~ i ‘ ‘ cellencies t tn) «aggllcnciesnini his? fthflaiqflsngimtl feivinfg tI>oets. Certain it is, » Plc~was»a noble. and .matahlelTe.:»t3!n'nt~leIi1m»,i i ttaindvtic maybe juflly t fdidtwizhhutwhypetaholyes-—of fi&ia,n;;, sas,ih,m1&0f4a€ltb=V¢i'~ ' fcenflfi, thanlté fcemdd-1no«be\'bom1»tO. th‘*at*,;onel4)¥ ilphichrhottwmntxehoenti ‘Vttfmiilés lg» »as~.PImdrcb$ hath 5!! 3 it but to fpciakémote “oft were so :n;c«ha:nn:tc.., A A A t tSit:FmincirWalflng/am.’ - V I , ,‘Ir‘Frdncz3'I!’aljZagbam, ( as we have ('a_;i_d 3 hit! the ’l.Iori{‘>i"\1tL“'l‘oiil5$‘t:l»»Sii' A -‘Philip sidzzcys Father in -Law, he w'asaGentlcman (at firilfi ) Nofja gonad Hloulie, but of a l‘t:t[CI‘ education, andlfrom the Llnive: G éy trétv'el— led for the tell of his Learning :}:I’c was doubtleffc the heft Lingniitol; the times, but knew belt how to ufdhis. ow n ,tohg\le whereby _h‘cta,mc to be employed in the chiefefl atfiirs of State»: He was lent Ainba” (I3l‘~ dour into Frame , and flayed there a Liege: long, in the heat‘ of the Ci. villVVaI'rcs, and at thefame time that Monfieut was here a Suitor to the Qneen; and , if I be not miflaken , he played the very fame part there, as fine: Gmxdamort did here-:_At his 'retum,he was taken principal! l Secretary, and was one of the great Engines of State, and of the times, high in the Qgmens favour, and at watchful! fetvant over the fafety or , his Mllfirign V , ~ \ l V v M l A ~ t t- They note him to have had certain curiofitics, and fccret wayes of 'm- rdligencc above the tell , butl mufi con€c:flL- I am to feel: wherefore he fufiercd P477)’ to play {'0 long onthc l1<5ok,hefotc: he hoyfed him up 5 and’ I have been 3 little curious in th¢featch“'1*tl1eneoF,l*tlioag~h‘I ‘haw I10! I0 ('10 with the Armalmpmi. t l l A ‘ l l l t t For to knowis fometimes a burthcn ; and I rem ember that it was Ovid: crimm amt error, That he faw too muehu But I hope theft: ‘arc Coll.-itte~ rails of no danger: but that Parry intending to kill the,(@c.-en, made the want at his acceflie by betraying of others, and impcachin of thoPric{iI 7 of his own eorrefpondcncy, and thereby had uccefle and conference with the (Queen , and alfo Qftentimes familiar and private conference with VValjz‘»2gham,wil1 not be theQt_1aerc of the myfiet'y;for thelfiecretary tnight‘ have had end of difcovery on :1 inrthcr maturity of the Treaftm . but that after the Queen knew Parrycs intent, why {he fhould then admit hing VI to private difcoutfc, afld*VValfinghtm1 to fuflct it, conflderingthc continu- on of i all afinylings, and permit him to go where, and whether he lillcd, fi and only on the fccutity of a dark fenttnell fct over him , was a piece of reach andhaux-d,bcyond my apprchenfion. V‘ C 1, i I mull! w ‘. ((20) ' l V A . ‘I mutt igain pr¢sfcfl'c; Thhthavin *r¢ad«t_1mu1y of”-his Latter: (far theyhatc commonly {cut to my Lot of Leztt/79’: ‘and Burlezgb out of L Frmel, containing many fjna‘paITag¢s and {carers , yet if Imight tthavcl been bcholding to In: Cy hers (whereof thcy are full) they would have toldprctty tales of t e times : burl mull; now claret u ‘ a nd rank him amonglhhc Tagati,‘ yet chief of thofc that laid the fotin: " «A dation of t the ?D.,nttb and Frerzhcla \_fVarr‘cs , whichlwas another piece of 1113 fizaentffc, and of the timcs,wxth one obfcrvatxon more, That he was one of the great allaycs of tl1¢ A uficnan cmb1'ac¢mcnts_; for both him- 1&1? :l11IdAL$'tdfl57‘d|:l'lat prc¢cdccl'him, mightwcllhétvc been lcwnpatred to - the fiend in the Gofpul 5 that Fowcdhis cafes in the pighl:_',. {'0 dld they their Feeds of divifion in the dark, and it is a likely rcpdtt that they father on him, at his return, that the Queen {aid unto him with fomc fcnfibility oftl1c,Sp‘anl_fh defigncs en France, Madaml bcfccch you be Content not to cm, the ‘Spaniard hath a great appgtitcgand ‘an cxccllcnt digc[tion,but I have fittcd him with a bone fiat thzs tvlfcntytyccrs , that )’°llrMaj¢fl:y t ihztll havctm eaufa to dciubt hi:'m,pro.v.id:cd thatif the fire chzmtctb {lack h which I have kindled, you will be rulc_d by me , and now and then call in fo me, Englifl1 éfcwcllg, which will revive the flame. % H/illoug/aéy. , ‘ v m. A ' l I Y I,nxdr«;»ZI!azzghby was one of thdlzccns firfl {word-men; he was ofthe anhcntcxtracfi of tllC‘E¢‘17'tH€'5', but more ennoblcd by his'mo- thcr, who was Lbtutchcllc of .5 1.97;?!/(. V ' , ‘ He was I. 1,-lat Maflcr of the Alt Military, and was {cut General! in-- to Frzmagan ibommandcd. the ftcénd of fitVéhl'Altmlics , l that the Qxccn fem thither Zn ayd of the Frmcb: I have hcardit fpokcn that had he not flightcd tl1C“COlJIl‘,l.)Ut applycd himfclfto tl1cQl}_tc11 he might have cu. ljoyed a plcntifitll» portion of lnct gra¢c,:an¢l it was his fayin 1 (mt! It did him no gcmd) T hat he was none of the Rejprzlia, iutimatingt at hcbould ‘ not creep on the gtcmnd, and that the Chart ms not in lus Eltmcntforl ' indeed as he was at great {mu ldxerfo was he ofa (unable :nngnanunzty,:.md could not he 00k the obftquioufiu-(h:, and afllduity of thc Court , and as he then was _fi)mewl1at./dclttnding fmln youth happily he had an rmimnm xeverrmdi, andto make la hat‘: rctrczx In t Sir I‘! Siri».9\QJc/901;:/:i73;rc0n.i A Iclomero another of the Tbgazi-, Sir Nitbolas am, ‘an arch piece 6?} r Wit and “Wilt dome -, he was a Gentleman, and a man of Law, and of 7 great knowledge thcrein,whercby,together with his other parts of learn- ingand dexterity, he was promoted to be Keeper of the great Seal: and being of kin (9 the Trcafurer Burleigh, had allo _the.rhelp of his hand to bring him into the _¢ ucens favour, for he was abundantly f.t&ious,whi'ch‘ took much with the3Qr;cen; when it was {uitcd with the {‘eafonV,i has he was well able to iudge of. his times: he had a very quaint laying, antlhe ufed it often to good purtofe, HT hat he lcjiréd the jefi well, but not the loll}: of his friend :« he would fay‘ , that though he knew Vntzflgzrfigue fiat ortm2.efabe7' was a true and good I>rinciplt:, yet the mall: in number were theft.» that marred themfelves , but I will never fergive tlut man tliatilofethlhimfelf to be rid of his jet}. ‘ l l i A i i He was father to: that refined wit, which ..__\{incc' hath aéled a difaflerous» ii par t on the puhlique ftage,,and of latefate irrhis fathers room,as‘Lotcl Chancellor zit thofe that lived inhis age, and from whence I llavetalren thisfllittle Model of hirn,givcs him a lively Characftergand they decipher ’ him for smother Salim, and the Synon of thofe tinics, fucha one as mdi- gm was in dillolving of Riddles 3 douhtlcllc hewasas able an inl’tru~ mentgand it was his corr1rnendItinn,th:tt his hc.1d— was the Mawl "(for it was a gmat Que ) ‘ Etnd tliercinlherkcptthc Wc_dgethat.elntrcdlthc knotty pieces that came to the Table. And now I muli again Fall back to ftnoothtmd plain a way to the tell that is behimde, but not fiom i I the purpofe. x'1~ht.-re were when»: thefe times tw(5'*kiva=lls in the Q31cenr:favour, old ‘ Sir Fmrz_r:1.r Knmlls; Controulcr of the Houft, and Sir Henry Nomli. whom A {he called up at a I~"urliament,eto lit with the Peers in the higher H on Fe, as Lord Nafitlt of Retort? whcrhad nratriedthe daughter and H cit of the old 1_m~dt—z'illzams of Tam, at ohle pcrfon, and to whom in the Qreene adverlity, {he had been committed to fafc culiody , and from him had-’ received more then ordinary obfcrvaners. ‘Now fuch was the good; lnefli-; nf th<:‘(@c:cn! nature , that {he neither forgot the gdod turns re-- d ceivetl from the Lord Hi/liar21r,neith'cr"_was fht: ttnmindefull of this Lox-d‘Nm'rz75, Vwhofe father, in l'iC'rFaIl1CiFS time, tandem rim bufingxfc of ht:\t%mu-thcr, died in I Noble; cattle , yandin tllejuliifircation of hatin- \ , t . nbcency. A4 % ‘ e t V y (21). Loral *orrr}3- MY Lora} Nam’: haalby this Lady an mnfxlc ‘flue. Whlfih the Q-_Icc.n ’ -. -ultiglaly rcfpeéted gfot lielhad fixt foils, and all Martian lbtav tr: mch; the fit-ll was William his eldcllg,-andrfatlier to the late Earl of l.4BW’@-lli'1r€»l5 Sir I obit, Vuulgartly called Generall Narria 3 Sir Edward , SitTb°’”4«‘5 5"? H010’: and Maxzrrzilian, men of anhaugluy courage, and of great expcri4 ' enC¢ in the condufilz of Mill: ary affairs {and to fpealtin the Charmer 9&7 , . their mcti t , they were finch pctfons of fuclxronown and worth; as fut-V 310;)’. Euro times mull: out of duty owe them the debt of anlhonoutable Inc» a I(nowl.r.. KM SI: Fmzcis Ixfitawlt was lbmewlm: of the (beans affinity 5 find 534 lnkewifc no incompetent yll$qc,for be had allo William hls eldcft , and linee Eatl of Bcmlmry, Sir Thomas, Sir K05‘£’7'l, and Sir Frcmm, if I be not at little milhken in their nimes and Marflmalling: and there was ‘-“(.0 Elm Lady I-fttice, a Sifter of theft, who was firll: Colzntefle of Ejfix, and aftcl‘ o€ Lcircfier, and the fa were all?» brave men in their times and pl aces 5 but they were ofthc Court and C:rpet,11otlt:d by the gcnluseof the Camp- Bctwcen thefc two Families , tluare wa's C as it Falleth out amongfb gteat Ones, and Competitors for favour) no great: corrcfpondency {and there lwerc, fomc feeds, either of emulation or diflrull call between them. " Whlch,{l1ad they notbccn disyoyncd in the reffdcncc of their perfons (as it was‘the‘fortum:l of -their employment: the onclfide atcendinygdthc M w l l . 1‘, jl, ‘ " ,;. Court, the other the Prtvilllon, Surely they would luve broken outinto fome kinda of I-Ioflility, or at lc-all they would have wrelllecl one in the other , like T recs , in-. citcled wyithjnty , fortlwcre was a time when (both? tltcfe Fraternities lJ\¢lyI1g‘mCE‘:ll2 Court ) there pulled a elmllcnge between them‘ at cert- min cxcrcifesnhc (year; and the old men being Spcfiawrs) whiehf ended in at Hat quartell amonglt tbcmu all) and I am p:ri”w1dccl~ ( though [ought not to judge) that there were Tome ruliques of this ‘cud, that were long after,the caufcs: of‘ the one Familxes (almofl: -utter) extirpation, and of me others improfpctfity : for it was a knowgl truth, that folon as my Lord of Lcit*efier1'i\'red, who ywasthe main, Pillar of the oncfi e, as havxng married the sine: , ‘none of the other fidc took any deep rooting in the Court : though othcr- T wife they made their Waycs, to honour by their {words : and that which is of more not: C confidcrin my Lord of Leiccflm ufc of men 0f.Arms,l bung lhottly after Tent ovemoux to the rcvoltccl States, ‘, and v . “ (22) t H andltno Souldietthimfelfi) is, that he temadetnomhote aceiom-pt of lolm Norm, :1 Souldier then defervedlyf famemfed, ~-and trained fiom aI>age, it t“tnd€j.‘1'theidiiigi-plinetidf the great Captain of t Glmrillentioine, the Adtniijallgyyflaliillioh, and of command: in the French, and Dutch Wax-restalimoit» twenty yefers. It is of 'fu1‘t'l'1€1‘“0bfe1."vati'0n,gthat‘my ’”Lotd of ~1ty/ft»: (after Lcicgfitrs deceafe) mtihotigh intitiated to Arms, and °“thonouredvhy the Generall, M in the Barmgal1expedit1on_; Whetherout of infiigation (a sit hath been thought) or out of ”ambition liandjea- Ioufie, to be ecclipfed, and overfhaddowcd by” tit-Cfa‘tnC'3ndfp1€11d'0I't "of this seat Commander, loved him not in finterity. itlvloireovter, -CCX't8ln1t,i5,“ he notonly crufht, it and (upon all ioecafieins) itqueld the ygrowthyof this brave man, and his famous Btetehren, but therewith drew on his own fatall end, by undeptzking the '11-ilh Aétiongi in :a time when he left the Court; em ty of friends, and-full fraught with his profeft enemies‘: but I forgear to extend my {elf in any fur.- tl‘lCr1‘§1£llI1i0I1§Up'Qn this Subjeé}, as having left gfometnottesms of truth, in thefe two noble*Families, which Iwould '§pI'€_fe'n”'t,i tandiithere with ttoueht iomewltat, which I would not, if the equity of the Narration would have admitted an intermifiion. ‘ - i e to S11‘ fa/on ‘Parrot. . S11‘ Ialm Pm*at,was_a goodlyflentleman , and of the {word ,and as 116 was of a very ancient defcent, as an heir = to many abftraéts i ofigcntry» éfpecially from G1¢y:"de-Bryrtn of Lewbem, fo was he of 3 val’: efiatc; iimdcamyehotlto the C-ourtifor Want, andto thefe ad- o units, he had the endowments of coma e, and height of f itit, had” itlighted on the allay of tem cr,and di crctiomthe defeéi; W etc,- Of. With 3 fl3fiV¢ fi'<‘3i'i'ie iiiiplirarioni : But if we go a little furtliei-, and eompare his Picfitiii-e, his qualities‘, ge1‘ture,and voyce, with that of the Kings ,3 which memory retains yet aniongfi us, tliey will lead l°c1'0ug1ythatlie was 3. fubreptious , childeofi the blood Royal . it - Certain it is, that helimved notlong inthe Tower, and that af't<*:r% hlisjdeceafe jS"ir “IWajw.r.si 7%: WI" his forine (then of no mean eftee-in with the (lbeen) havinlg“ before married my Lord ofrkf/]E.tiSifler , “iihct: élffiountclfe of _NnrrI2(t»i&r;‘L1#2.r1 , had reliitution of all his Lands, afteriliis deceafe alfo (which iinmediately Follovved) tliecmlvvh refiinied full man}. And furely, though not altogethervto rec ‘fupiourl tell i and faith upon tradition , and upon old !“t.'Z‘pOl‘II.‘n2 as that Sir r;mm;«;. l -- lczgh takes into his obfervation) words of difdain, - 2 3; refumed his efiate , and took advantage of‘ the f'oi'mer attain'der.e And to" fay the truth, ThePriei’ts forged letter was at his araign- merit, thought but as a fiélion of envy, and was foon after exploded by the Prieils own confeffion; But that which mofl exafperated the Qreexi, and gave advantage to his enemies, wasgas Sir Waiter Raw- or the (green by C iharp 9{1’1Cl'r€p1‘€l1€nfiV€ Letters, had nettled him; and fhortly after fending others ofa‘pprobat1on, commending his fcrvrce, andintr-4 ~ 1' mating an invaiion om Sjmirz, whichhe no fooner perufed, but he laid publiquely in the greatCh:1rnber at jbrzblin : 1.0 now {he is ready to pilfe her {elf f0r'.f€ar.0l the b‘pvz7zi:zrd 5 I amagain one-of her white Boys. a c n words which are ifubjeét-toa various conItru&io.n and tended to fomedifreputation of his Soveraigrnand fuch as may fervehfor in- itruétion to perfons in place of‘ honour, andrcornmand to beware of the violences of nature; but efpecially of the exorbitances of the tongue. And fol conclude him with this double obfervation, The one of the innoceniicy of’ his intentions, . exempt andvclearfrom the guilt of Treafon) and difloyalty; The or ‘ er of -the greatneife-of his ' heart 5 For at his araignmennlit: was fo little dejected, by whaeinight be alleaged and proved againil him, that he rather grew troubled vvith choller, and in a kinde of exafpiration defpifed his Inry, though of the order of Knighthood, andof the fpeciall Gentry, claiming the priviledge oftryall, by the Peers, and Baronage of the Realm, fo prevalent was that of his native genius, andthe haughtineffe at his fpirit, which accompanied him to his 131}, and till (any diminu- ~. tion of courage) it brake in peeces, the cords of his magnanimity, for he dyed luddcnly in the Tower, and when it yvas thought the Qxeen did intend his inlargement, with tlieilrefiituti.on of his polfefl. fions, Whkh yvvereithen very great, and comparable to moi’: of the Nobility. Harlan. ‘ "IR'Cl:;jflopIr’7'HatIan came into the Court, asihis oppofite, Sire mbzvt Perm vvas wont to fay, by the Galliard, for he came thither as a private Gentleman of the Innes of Court in: Mask, and for his aétivity, and perfon, which was tall, and proportionable, taken into her favour; rhewas firll made Vice-Chambcrlain, and fhortly afterward advanced tothe place of Lord Chancellor 5 a Gentleman, that befides the graces of his erfion, and dancing, had alfo the ad- cflamcnts often firong and fillbtill capacity , one that could foon learn ‘the difcipline and garb, both of the” times and Court; the A. truth lS,,l1€, had a large proportion of gifts, and endowments, but too ’_ A ~ ‘D ' l’ much ‘an (In. C 35 J r much ofthe fealbn of env , and he was ameervegetable of the Court, thatlprung up at nig t, and funk again at his noon. L,01‘C2l Eflfling/mm. r Y Lord of Ejffiriglramt though a Coiirtier betimes,yet I finde not, ”“ that the Sunihine of her favour, broke out upon him, until! ihe took him intorthe Ship, and madehim hi h Admirallof England, X for hisiextraét it may fufiice, that he was the onne of :1 Howard, and of a Duke of Norfbllg. l l l ‘ i r And for his perfon, as goodly a Gentleman, as the times had any," if nature had notbeen more intentive to compleat his perfon, then Fortune to make him rich, for the times confidered which were then naive, and along time after lucrative, hedyed not wealthy, yet the honelier man, though it feems the Q_ueen5 purpoferwas to tender the oc7c-afion of his advancement, and tomake him capable of more i honour, whicrhat=h»is return from cardiwg accounts, {he conferred it upon him, creating him Earl of Nuzriarglram, to the great difcontent of his Colleague; my Lord of Efrkx, who then grew cxceflive in the. Appetite of her favour, and in trutl1_WaS fo exorbitant in the limi.. ration of the Soveraign afpeét, that It much alienated the (%_qeens grace from him, and drew others together with the Admiral , to a cornbination, and to confpire his mine : and though I have heard it from that party (I mean of the Aclmiralls faétion) that it lay not in '° his pro er power to hurt m Lord of E[[£ra',yet he had inore followers, andfucl as were well skil ed in fetting of the Gynne, but I leave this, twtlaofe afar,-another age. l J i It is out of doubt, that the nrgerodi and tr brave man, and a faitlrfull fervent to his Miltris, and {inch :1 one as the rQgeen out of her own Princely judgement, knew to be 2. fit inftrument for that fervice, for {he was no ill proficient in the read; ing of men, as wel as Books, and his fundry expeditions, as that aforementioned, and 88. doth both exprelfe his worth, and manifeft I the Qgeens trait, and the opinion {he had of his fidelity, and com. dn&. Moreover, the Hawardwere of the eqgtrjeens alliance, and confana gninity by her Mother, Whiflll fwayed yer aFFe6ti'on; and bent it- s toward this great houfie, and it wasa part of her natural! propenfion, to grace, and fupport ancient» nobility, where it did notfintrencl1', A r the’fault~of the “left, beingin the feverefi intetpwtatlon, buta tref-l neitherinvade her intcreit, for on fuehrtrefpaifes {he was" nick and tender, andwould notfpare anyrwhatfoever, as we may 0 ferve in the cafe of the Duke, and my Lords of Heg~rfird,y whom, {he much flvoured, and cmnrtenlanced, till they attempted the ‘Forbidden fruit, paffe 27) pane of incroachment, but in the firfi, it was taken for aryot againit the Crown, and her own Sovcraignt power, and as I have ever thought, the caufe of her averfion againfl the rail: of the houfe, and the Dtxkesgttteat Fa.ther»inlLaw File Allen, Earl of MWJEU, a~19€1‘f0I1 of theh'fir1trta,nk in her affeétions before thefe, and fome 0thCt1‘jfC8.l0u~ fies made a {eparation between them 5 this noble Lord, and the Iiotd . Thomas Homrd, fince Earl of 5:47.314 , fianding alone in her AgI:a.Ct€,f,tl1¢ tell in umbrage. Si.1‘§‘0/m Tat/qngton. I IR: 101972 Ptlclginglfoi} wasa Gentleman of no meantfamily, and of ' form and feature, no way defpifable, for hewas a brave Gentle?- mam, and at very fine Courtier, and for the time whiclt-hevftayod there, (whxch was not lafting) vexy high in her grace, but he came 111, and Wenffzut, and thorough difaffiduity drew the Curtain be.. tween himfelf land the lightlof her dgrace , andtthen death over. Whelmed the remnant, and utterly eprived him of recovexy "and they fay of him, that had he brought leffe to the Court -then did, he might have catriedawgay mbreethen he brought, for the hadnftime unit, but an illhushzmd Qf-«opportunity, . L01.‘d> .I:[mzfa/on. é Ytlord of Hmzfclan was—of the Qtcens neereft Kindred, and ~ l on the decea& of 'S‘u[{cxt_, both. he, and his fonne took the ace of Lord Cluamberlaitt, he wasafafi manta his Prince, and fitmein his friends and lfervams,“ :a‘1td»thaugH“"Llhe lgcakttbi lanai therein wouldbe bO1“l.1«O'Ut, yet wasrhe notthe more readfh ,Lb‘ut »-lefl"c.h:1rmfull, and fatre fromthet radtife oflmy Lord of .Leicq{i¢r.: » £'u'c»h~aone»_(a.s- upon meda inftruélions, for he xvasythdownwrig t, and,,IA have heard thofe that both knew him well, zmdehadinteteftdtn’ hitn, » rmactrily pf.him. thlatthis Latine, andhis difilmulatdon were both :llke,~;lahdgthzyt‘fl1li$ cufioumtof Iweating, andvotbfcenit \t'n;[peyaking, tmade Himtreem 7: w.otfe.Clln'il3:ia.nl then the Was, final, then hef-houldt.‘*be,t as hcliyedtih astuffliqg .titmc_,t ’fohe1rov.cd«t {word and bucklcr men, andfucl1.as our 2 Fathers were wont i:to.eal1;men~ of their hands; rof"which"fo1't"‘hc had many tbtayel.Gtentle»men.that»fol- lowedhimt; yet not taken for {popular and:dat1gctousy»perfon,tand this is one that flood atno-ngéft the .Tag.«.~1i» emf“-anthonefi llout.h.eart,.anc;I y 1011 would have fought .for;his Prince , and llisflquntryw; tfdrhe’hadthechaxageof1.the Qgecnsgsperfan, vboth int-the Court, and in the Camp at Tilbuwgy.‘ " ~ t ‘ A t t f A a better Knight of the Carpet,‘ A l D 2 U A V _y Rawlcligb. _ eel {Rama/ezg/9; 1 R r¢’a.'tt'r Rrnals igb was one that it ieems) Fortune had pickt out of purpofe, l of whom to make an example, or to urge as her‘ Tc1]ni5_ Ball, thereby tdihew what {he could do, for me toll him at of‘ nothing, and to and fro to gteatnefl“e,. and from thence down to ittle more, then to that wherein the found him (a bare Gentleman) not that he was lelle, for he was well defcended; and of good alliance, but poorin his beginnin s; and For my Lord of 0.1mm‘: jeft of him, {the I21Cl(_, ;«1nd,anupllart we all know, it favours more of emulati.. on, and his humour, then of truth, and itisacertain note ‘of the times; that the Queenin her choice, never took into her favour :1 meet new man; 01“ it Mcrchanick, as Cominc: obfe'rve$ of item the eleventh of France, Who diclfervc himlielf with perfons of thnkrtown "Patents; {itch as was Oliver the Barber, whom he created Eml of 7)rmr.y:s, and made him c.-1: fivcretzis cortfilizlr, and alone in his favour, fami- liaritr 5 his approaches to the Univcrfity, and Innes of Court we;-_c the grounds of his improvement, but they were rather excurfions, t-hen fieges, or fettings down, for he flayed not long in :1 place, and being the youngefl: brother, and the lroufe diminilhtd in Patrrixnony, he forefaw his own delliny, that he was firfl to male (through want and difability, to fuhfillothcrwayes) before he could come to a re... _po1"e,, and as the {lone doth by longl ing, gather molfc : He firfl: ekpofed himfelfto the Land ferviceo mtmd, (3 MiIi:ia)wl1ichtl1en {lid notwygila him i~fq,nd4 and rayment, (forit was over very poor) -not had he patience to flay’thcre,»(tl‘rntrghlll'l‘flrnrtl3r ldfitt l1€'*'C3i'l‘lt': thither again) under the command of my Lord Grey, but with his own Colours flying in the field, having in the interim call in new %chanee,¥ bothin thc’Low.=Countries,' and in a voyage to Sea _; and if ?—ev¢rmanfclrew‘vertue out of necemzy; itlwas l1.¢*;~i tltercwith was he the gmattrcxample of 'indu{lry, and though he miglit then have ‘that of the,Mcrchant to'lnimfelf_". Per mare, pcritcrr.-tar, mrrlt mmarar ed "halos, He might alfo have faid,‘ and ‘truly With the Phylofophcr 3 v0mni.-2 mm mew}: re om : For it was a long time before he could brag of ,more then he carried at his hat‘. It; and when he got on the winning tide, it was his commendation, that he tool: pains for it, and unddn; went many various adventures for his after petfedhon, find before he ‘ came into the ublikenote ofithc world: Andit maynppear how A ~ i. He had in the putward man , 3 good prefcnce, in at hindfome and he came up L rptrl mint) Per mrior cajlos ptr tat dcfl:*rimina_rmzM, not pulled u by chztnco, or -by any gentle 2dm1tt2zncc_of*Fortunc, “I will briefly, efctibe hisrtnativc-. parts, andlthofeof his-own acquiring, which were the hopes of his rifing. l l A Well \ 0 .‘ . I ,, e ' wellconipaéted pcrfon, a iirong naturallwit. andahcttcr jucige. ment, with abold, and plaufible tongue, Wl1CrCbyi1€CO1lld-fer out his parts to the bell zidvantage, and to thefe he had the ad junéts of fome generall learrning, which by diligenctrhe enforced to a great augmentation, and perteetion; f01.I‘i:)6‘W;l.S;1l1 iindefatigablepReader, .\;_vhether by ‘Sea or Land, and none or. the lea1’t.obfervers both of‘ men, and the times 3 and I am confident, that among the fecond caufes of his growth, that variance between him, and thy Lord Gr(y,.. in his defcent into I/Mzizzpi. ‘was a. principall, for it drew them both over to the Counce1lIjable,, there to plead theirecanfe, where (what adv:mtag.e_ he had in the caufc; I know not) butrhehard miuchrthe hep.- ter, in the telling of his tale .3. and,fo_mu-ch, that the Queen and the lords, took no flight mark of the man, and, his parts i; for from thence he came tobe known, and to have accefie to the (Q1cen,_,anclp the LO1'dS5MiZ1l‘lCi. thenwe are not to doubt how fuch at mzmrxvould ,comply,, and learn the ‘vvayp of,.proggefiion5 Zl.l}(’ip\‘7Ji_1CIi161'pOrpfl0 my that athis returnrhe came in L. of Lt‘im:flc"r had thencaii in .3; good word for him to the Qgeen, W“ '1' would have done no harm, I do not determine : B11t‘trL1eritis,"}i-Ie had rotten the Qgeens car at :1 trice,,zmd ihe began to be taken with hisie ocution, and loved to hear his rezzfons, to her deniathdsg And the truth is, lhe tookliiih for a kinde of Oracle, which nettled them all 5 yea,thofe that he relyed on, ‘began to take this his fuddain Favour- foran All:u‘um, and to be iimfihle of their own fupplzmtation, and A to projeét his,” which made him fhortly after fing, Fart/me mv fa‘, @“€- ~ so ti1:lt_finCiiITlg.hlS favour declining, and falling into ,a receffe, he un- dertook anew pcrigrination“ to leave that T'£rra iirfrimtntz of the Qotirt, forthnt of the VVarres, by dCC1iIling‘~i;lWlWl:l‘ll‘Ci.i~, end by abfencc to ‘€xP‘e1¥«‘hi3".‘. and the paflioh ‘oif”ll’lhils energies, which in ‘com, was , w aflrange device of recovery, but that he mew, ,there_ was fomeiill ‘oiiicc done him, that he durlt not ‘attempt to mimic any other wayes, _ then by going afide, thereby to ‘teach envy a new way of for%etFu1—.. ncffe, and not fo much as to think of him 5 howfocvier, he ad it as Rammes,do,",by oiog backward), fiwayesin minde never to Farrier himfelf, and his device itooici fo Well, , with the renter firength, an fo continued to her aii, ‘ great in her grace, and Captain of the Guard ; Wwherclp rnuft leave him, but with this obfervation, That though he_gained much at the Court, yet he took.it not out of the Exchequer, or mecrly out of the Qieens purfe, but by his Wit, and the help of the Prerogative, for the imgeen was never rofufe in the delivering out of her treafure, but ayed m2iny,., anti) mofi of her fervants part in money, iandthe re ,*'w_ith grace, which asthc cafe flood, was taken for good payment, leaving I thefmrcér of recompence due to their‘ merit,‘ to her great Succcflbr; . who r£vcdrhe:na all with advan==f%’=- .‘,M,~ugfa., H 3 AT r ‘; v i» or G,wml_, ' (36) I R Fzzrik Grwill, ifince Iiord Break, had no mean place intherfaa vour, neither did he hold it for any ihort teatm,for~if I be not dee- ceived, he hadthe longeftleafe, and the fmootheft time without rub of any of her Favorites; he came to the Court in his youth and prime. for that is the time or never, he was abrave Gentleman , and honourably defcendedtfi-om v¥'i/Ivvghbyi Lord Brook, and Admitall to Ht-my they-. neither illiterate, forhe was ‘I as he ‘would often to- feffe a friend to Sir Philip éydncjr, and thereare of his now extant‘ ome fragments of his Poem, and of thofe times, which dointereft him in the Mufes ;~ and which {hews the queens eleétion had ever a nobleconduét, and it motions more "Of-Vertut andiijudgement, then of fanifie; Ivfinde, thathe neither fol3“gl1tf0r_, or obtained nnygreat place or“ referment in Court, during allthe time of his attendance 5 neither £1 he need it, For he came thither, backt: with a plentifull Fortuxie; which as himfelf was wont to fay, was the better helditoge; bya fingle life, wherein he lived and dyed a conflant Courtier of n the Ladies. £Q7Exa a i Y Lord of E//Ex(as Sir Henry Wotttm a Gentleman of rear parts, i he and partly_of'his times, and retinue obfetves) ha his mtrot. uitionlby my Lord of Lcicefler, 'who'h:1d married his mother, a rye of Afiinity 2 which befiders a more tr1fgefi‘l?‘”ohllgattidn might*haveilh‘~ vited his care to advance him, his fortune being then (and through his Fathers infelicityygrown low 5 But that the ifonne of a Lord» Fzrrm-of Cfb.n'Ie_y, ‘Vifcount Hzmfard, and Earl of I5/[ex i(Wl10‘W2tS of itl1enanc{ient*Nobility) and formerly in the Qglcensr good «Gracie; “could noteliaveearoom in her favour, without the affiftance of‘-9uicr~fteav beyond the rule of her nature, which as I have welfewhere takenint-n iobfervatiion, was ever inclinable tofavourtlle Nobility: Sureit»is3 That he no foonera pearedin Court, but he took with the Qiwn and Clourtiei-s; an I beleeve they all could not ehoofe, but look thoroq h'the‘Sac1°ifice of the ‘Father, on his living fonne, whore Ima er ytherememhrance of’ former pflfages, was af'reIh,p(ilikc the leecling of men «murdcred) reprefented to theConrt, and offé. redaup as a Subjeft of companion to all-the Kin dom. ’ There wasin thisyonng Lord ytogetlher with ialmofl rgnod y perfln, a ‘ltindeof e urbanity,_ or innate “ourtefie, which both wonne‘the:;Qgeen,yand too much toolcupon the peop1e,to‘gaze upon thenew adopted‘fo=nne a turf her favour : and as Igo along, it were not amiffe totzkc obfervévfibix v ' 931) in r 4 ubfervetiontwor notable quotations : "the ifirftzwajs aviollont indull. . gency of the 'Qtcen, (which incident totoldiage, wh~ereiten»cou V terswrith :2 pleafing andfutable object) towardsthis Lord, all whit? V‘ argued in nompetfpetuity :1’ the lecond was a fallll.t'lI1‘tl1€30bjC&'0F her grace 5, my Lord himfelf,who drew: in too faPc,,like a childe fuck- ing onan over ubrerous Nurfe, and 'l1€LCl there been a moredeecnt decorum obfervedin both, or either of ‘tho-ie, without doubt, the unity of their afi‘e€tions, had been more permanent, and not fo in and out as they were, like aninllrument ill tuned, and lapfing toidifcord; The greater errour of the two (though unwillingly) I am con.- Iflrained to impofe‘ on.rm.y Lord of E[/fix, or rather on his youth, and none of the leafl of his blame , on thofe that flood Sentinels about him, who might have advifed him better, but that like men in-‘ toxicatcd with hopes, they likewife had fuck: in with the molt, and of their Lords receipt, and fo like lcetfizrs would have allot none, a rule quite contrary to nature, and the molt indulgent parents, who though they may cxpreife more affection to one in the abundance of bcqtrefls : yet cannot forget fome Legacies, jult diilrihutives, and dividents to others, of their begetting 5 and how hatefull partia1l.ityjy M proves, every dayes experience tells, us, out of which common con... fideration nnfght have framed to their hands a rnaxime of more drf- cretion for the conduct and management of their now graced Lord r and Mailer. But to omit that of infiifilonr, and todo -1‘igl'ltt0».t'rL1§*.l1, my Lord ‘ of E/flex (even of thofe that truly loved and honoured him, was a noted for too bolclan ingrolfer, both of fame and f’;tvour;an'd of this‘ gwithout oflence to the wing, or treading on the feared urne ofthe cad) ‘I {hall pr efent a truth, and :1 paffage yet in memory. ' My Lord,Mwnt)oy, (who Wasmnothcr all newly come to Court, and then but 311‘ Charles alum » for my Lord «her favour) being , William his Elder Brother, was thlenliving) hadthe goo f'orl:u«ne one“ day to runne very well a Tilt, and the (green therewith was fo3 well pleafedl, that {he fem: him in token of her favour, a Queen at Che/[Ta ' _ of 1d richly ennam/eled, which his fcrvants had next day fail- mfin his Armt, with a Crymfon ribband, which my Lord of ‘E/M ash: paired through the Privy Chamber efpymg, with his cloak ‘Call under his At-me, the better “to commend it to ithevigw, enqulfcd whatit was,and for what canfe there fixed, Sir Fault Grew‘/I told him. thatit was the Queens favour, which the day before, and after the A Tilting the had lent him, whereat my LOI‘f'l 505-” in 3 loth inthe increafment of ettate and honounwhich the Q‘uecn_ tonftrted on him, together with the opportunity to,1‘cmakc‘l1lmf¢1% ‘ TV . l 3 4 n t and thereby to {hcw that this was a childe, that ihould have a {hare inher race, and a tafic of her bounty, They much commend his clocution, but more the excellency of his pen,for he was a Scholler, and a perfon of a quick difpatch (Faculties, that yet runne in the bloud) and they fay of him, that his Secretaries did little For him, ,, by the way of inditement, wherein they could felclome leafe him, he was fo facete and choice in his phrafe,.and Iiylc : an for his dill patches, and the content he gave to Suitors, he had a decorum fel- dome fince put in praéiifeg for he had of his attendants that took into rowl, the names of all Suitors, withthe date of their fii-Pt add relies, and thefe in their order had hearing, fo that a frelh man, could not leap over his head, that was of a more ancient edition, except in the urgent afliaii-es of State. I finde not that he was any wayes infnared in the faétions of the Court, which were all his times firong, and in every mans note the Howard: and the c sci.-'!i of the one part, my Lordof Eflcx, on the_other part, for he held the ‘Staff of the Treafury falt in his hand, which once in the yeer made them all beholding to him, and the truth is (as he was a wife man, and a flout) he had no reafon to be a partalcer: for he flood fure in blond, and in grace, and was wholly incentive to the (greens fervice, and fuc-h were his abilities, that {he received afliduous proofes of his fufficiency, and it hath been thought, that {he might have more cunning inftruinents, but none of 1 more {trong judgement and con- fideiice in his wayes , which are fymptomes of magnanimity. and fideli.ty,whereunto methinks this Motto hath fome kincle ofrefercnce, autmmqum t£'11t€Sflutp!2'ficC. As though he would have charaéteredina A word the Genius of his Houfe, orfleyareli fomewhat of an higher inclination, then lay within his compa, e, ‘That he ‘Was 1 Courtier, is apparent,‘ for he flood alwayes in her eye and favour. LOl‘d ountjoji. Y L01‘Cl'Mom1!ioy was ofthc ancient Nobility, but utterly tier. ceitved in the filpport thereof‘, Patrimony, through his Grand; fathers excelle in the aétion of Bulk», his Fathers vanity in the fearch of the Philefophers Jione, and his Brothers untimely prodigalities, all which feemed by a joynt confpiracy to mine the houfe, and alto... gather to annihilate it : ashe caine frqmax/Ts-J, he took the inner. Temple in his way to Court. whitherno fooner came, but( without askin hehad a pretty ftrange kindc of admiflion, whichl have heardg rem a difcreet man,of' his own, and much more of the fecrets afthofe times : he was then much about twenty a eers of age, of a Brown-hair, a fweet face, a molt neat Compo ure, and tallin his gerfon, , the Ogcen was then at Wbite~.Iaafl, andat dinner,‘ whither he " ' i 3 “C3I1'l¢ ‘ .0 T35) i came to fee the which of the Court, the Queen had foon found him: out, and with a kinde of an alihéied frown, asked the Lady Carver what he was,{he anfwered {he knew him not,infomu'ch as an inquiry was made from one to another, who he might be, till at length, it " was told the Q\ueen, he was Brother to the Lord u/itihzzn M0.'mt.iqy, this inquiiition with the eye of Majelly fixed upon him, ( as {he was wont to do, and to dant men lhe knew not) flirted the blond ofthis young Gentleman, infomuch as his colour came and went, which the @1661] obferving, called him unt'o her, and gave him her hand to lriife, incoui‘aging him with gratious words, and new looks, and fo ' diverting her ipeech to the Lords, and Ladies, She faid, that {he no fooner obierved him, but that {he knew there was in him fome noble Blond, with fome other expreflions of pitty towards his Houfe, and- then again demanding his name, She faid, fail you not to come to the Court,and I will be think my lelfhow to do you good; and thiswas his inlet, and the beginnings of his grace, where it fals into confidera- tion,that though he wanted not wit and courage, for he had very fine attraé‘tions, and being a good peece of a Scholler, yet were they ac. cornpanied with the retraéiives of balhf’ulnefs,and a naturall modefty which( as the toan of his houfe,8c the ebb: of his fortune then flood) might have hindred his progreflion, had they not been reinforced, i by the infufion of Soveraign favour, and the Qieensfratious in.- vitation. And that it may a . pear how low he was, an how much that heretiqueineceffity, will‘ work in the dejeétion of good, fpirits, I can deliver it with affurance, that his exhibition was very fcant untill his Brother dyed, which was lhortly after his adiniflfion to the Court, and then was it no more then: tl1q,gl:andMarks rtremmml, whercwith he lived plentifully in a‘”Hne way and garb, and without any great fuftentation, during all her times , and as there was in his nature a kincle of backwardneffe, which did not befriend him, 1401' {nice with the motion of the Court, fo there was in him an.inclin:l- tion to Armes, with 2. humour of travelling, and gadding abroad, which had not Tome wife men about him laboured to remove, and the Qxeen her felf laid in her commands, he would (out of this na- turall propenfion have marred his own market, for i as he was grown by reading wherunto he was much addiéted) tothetheory of a Souldier, fo was he ftrongly invited by his genius, to the acquaim stance of the rafiique of the Warre, which were the caufes of his excurfions, or he had a Company in the Low—Countries, from whence he came over with 21 Noble acceptance of the Q‘u,een, but fo mewhat reflle{l'e,in honourable thoughts he expofed liimlhlf again, and again, and would reife the green withthe pretences of vifie. ing his Company fo 0 ten, that at ength he had a flat deniall, and yet he Role over with Sir1olmNoml.v, into the aéiion at Britair,(wliic.h id E a _, ,. was "M, " ._,M I . 35 A A was then "Ha hot and ztétive Wztrre) whom he would alwayes ¢:_all his Father, honouring liinrabove all then; and cycr bewayling his end , fo contrary he was inhis eficem, and valuation of this greetlconm. m:tndc-r to that of his friend, my Lord of E./Sm’, tillat laittlie (green __ i.)CAg3.1‘l to take his deceflions for contempts,and confined his relidenoe to the Court, and her own prefence, and upon my Lord of 1£[[&x fall go confident {he was in her own Princely judgement, and opinion i e had ‘conceived of his worth and condufi) that {he would have thisnoble Gentleman, and none other, to finiih, and bring tl1e.m',(la ‘W titre to a propitious end : for it was 21 propheticallfpeech of her ovvn, that it would be his fortune, and his honour to cut the thred of that fittall rebellion, and to bring her in peace to the grave, Vvhcre ihe vvas not deceived, for he atchieved it, put with much pains, and carefiilnelfe, and not vvithout the fears, and many jealoufics of the Court, aiirultimes, vvhcrevvith the Qwenslage, and the «1"fl2.ilg1')'i’t?fFes, Councellsy iandre- folutions, and that we may ice (as in a little Ma?) how docible this little man was 3 I will prefent a tafie of his ahi ities. My Lord of tzpcvnvzflyire, (upon the certainty the 5‘pani.1rd would invade 5 rel.~z;-zd with a Ptrong Army? had written very earneiily to the Queen and the Coun cell, for itch fupyplies to be timely fcnt OVBI‘, that might €h3b1¢ him to match up to the~..s*«ram'_mI, if he did land, and follow on his profecution againft the Rebels. Sir Robert Cecil], (ibefides the gene:-all V difpntch of the Councell, as he often did) wrote this inprivate, for thefe two began then to love dearly. "Lord, out of the abrtndame of néyi fififiiflfl, y and ~ the me I have of _ynerzvtll~dor’rrgs I ilnprwmtrpm you out of doubt , (for offiar, Ikmnvyau 6'4777‘70..tfi(3'tl3.tlJC’?’117I';./if fl-aefibletlacnlinct/at may if honour) t/MI the Spamardlwz/1 M E 3 A » N fiat at) A not come nntoyon tlnbyeeo, for 1 battle itfrom my own, w/out preparations are in all /11: ports, oncl wbat be eon do, fivr be confident, be beezret/J up 4 repnmczon by flaming to embrace more eben be can gripe, but tbe next yeer be n/fiered be will " o;4_/l‘ over nntoyon forneforlorne /Jopes, w/nob bow obey may be reinforced beyond /2:3 prefent ability, etna’/nkfizfl inten- tion, I cannot, 1.1‘/syet melee any certain ndgement; but I beleerue one of my entellzgenee, t/mt" yen nmy expel? tbeir lzzncling in Mun flex‘, and rib: morocco o’e'_/l'me'l yon , in five- -ra/lplcces, no or Kings~S:ul, Bccr—l1avcn,’ Baltimore, wbereyon may befnre {coming flow Sea) tbleywi/lfor~ tffie nndlearn tbe flreng tin of tbe Rebels, before tbey elem: take tbefielel,/oomfioeqoer (45 I know yon 11.22"/l22oc)lq/ff:-y; neeyonr care, neit/oer your el.fence,c, e and zv/Jzztflzerver lye: witbin no power to cloyon, and tbepnbleke [erw'ce, ray; tbereof of/izre . y’ And to this I would addc much more,but it may (as it is) fuflicc to prefent much, as his abilities in the pen, that he was his crafts M2.- flcr in forraign intcllxgmcc, and for donut:-fliquc affairs, as he was one of thofe that fare at the fie-rn to the 1:11} of the Queen, fo was he none ofthc lcait in skxll, ‘and in the true ufc of the Comp:1f{'c. and’ {'0 I {hall oncly vindicate the fcandall of his death, and conclude him, for 11¢ departed at Saint Mm-gmzr; xi(SE?M§i5'leI2éi§‘rJe:;t{l};'Wiwtit I1 is return h from the Bath, as _my Lord Vifcoum: C}mnbor7ze, my Lord cl:/lard his r Sonne, and Sonnc 11:: Law, my {elf} and many more can wxtnclfc, but that the day before he fwoundcdin the way, was taken outof thc ‘ I.ittct',and laid into his Co2ch,vv:zs :1 truth, out of which that faIfi:- ‘hood , concerning the manner of his death, had its dcx'i'v:1ti0n,. Ihoggh nothing to tlxcwpurpofc, or to tho prcjudxcc of 1115 Worth. Vere. M S I R Frrmczie Vere was of the ztncicnt, and the molt noble cxtraft of the Earls of Oxford, and it may be :1 ucflion, whcthcx the new of his houfc, or the honour of his arc aievementsmni ht mofi com.. mend him, but that we have an authentiquc rule to decade the doubt, Mzm gonzo: we produce, fir qua: non fceimne ipfi Vine ea noflm men, For though he were an honourablc flip of that ancient Trcc of no... ity biliry (whichwas no difadvantzzgc to his vcrtuc)yct he brought mom glory r ,y m_ (39) M y . r . ', glory tovthe name of Vere then he took of Blond,» from the Family;, He vvas among’: the Qiecns fvvord—men, inferiour to none, but ~ fuperiour to many, of whom it maybe faid, to fpeak much of him, were the Way to leave out fomethmg thatmight adde to h1S praife, and to forget more that could adde to his honour. I findenot, that H he came much to the Court, for he lived almofi perpetually in the] Camp, but when he did, no man had more of the Qxeene favour,;;,,lfj;i',ifit _ and none leffe envyed, for he feldorne troubled it With the jealoufifiiiiii and allarums of Iupplantation, his vvay was another fort of un, mining, they report that the (green (as {he loved Martiall ritenwaztl would Court this Gentleman, as loon as he appeared in her, fence, and furely he was a Souldier of great worth. and commandeiéiii thirty yeers in the fervice of the States, and twenty yeers, over. the Z*:i2_(;1lfl9I-.I1Cl1]:!£‘l':, as the Queens Generall , and he that had feen the battail of Nc>:~pnrz might there hell have taken him, and his noble Brother, my Lord of Tzlbztrj to the life. i LI/0rccfl‘er, Y Lord of bflorccflcr, I have here put lait, but not Ieafl in the Qgecns favour, he was of the ancient and noble Blond of the ' Bewflwds, and of her G-randfathers line, by the Mother, which :11; ueen could never forget, efpecially where there was aconeurrency of old Blond with fidelity, a mixture which ever forted with the Qreens nature, and though there might appear fomething in this Houfe, which might avert her grace, (though not to {peak of my Lord hi mfelfihut with due reverence and honour) I mean contrariety‘ or fufp' ion in religion . yet the Queen ever refpcéted this Houfe, and ‘i it w oble Lord, Whmn“"‘fl'1e. S-ri"t‘l'i'Iade Mailer ofthe Horfe, ted of her Councell of State 5 in his «youth (part whereof he fpent before he came to refitle at Court) he was a very 4 fine Gentleman, and the bell Horfeman and Tilter of the times, which were then the manlike and noble recreations of the Court, andifnch as took up the applaufe of men, as we11as”the raife and” commendation of Ladies, and when yeers had abated the e exercifes of honour, he rew then to be a faithfull and rofound Councellor, and as I have p aced him lafi, To Was the thela t liver of all the Ser- vants of her favour, and had the honourto feehis renowned Millris, and all of them laid in the places of their rel}, and for himfelf, after a life of a very noble and remarkable reputation, hedyed rich, and i in a peaceable old age, a fate, (that I make the lat}, and noncof the flighteft obfervations) which befell not many of the rc1’t,,for, they expired like unto lights blown out, with the fnuff flxinking, not, cotnmendably extinguiihed, and with offence to, the Pcanders by,‘ ” ~ 4 a An V‘ Mia ¢m’isr:1;’é;v‘& Iia.@1i’v;c1'¢dup t_l1is%nny. 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