8 8 I ■ < I ls< UV^' bI QiJ H wj Ik Wl i* l *" K,lr E? £ ■ ^■i ■i* k hJrz ir ii mh i A *X^F /w4. T y X / RESTITUTA. &estttttta; OR, TITLES, EXTRACTS, AND CHARACTERS OP (Bit) Mooke IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, REVIVED. BY Sir EGERTON BRYDGES, Bart. K.# M.P. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1814. 1124 . • *' ' PREFACE v TO THE TWO FIRST VOLUMES. ^ .After all that has been said in the various prefaces <\ j! to the numerous volumes of Censura Literaria, and The British Bibliographer, it would almost seem imperti- nent to dwell upon the nature and objects of the pre- ^ sent work. The First Number appeared on March 1, 1814; V) and every succeeding month has produced a similar portion; till at length two volumes have been com- pleted. If there are those who think that too much ^ time and labour have been expended in recovering P that which was not worth the search, or the toil of J transcript, the future Archaiologist will know better ^s how to value such painful endeavours to furnish ma- terials for his use. The progress of language is the progress of the human mind in cultivation and refine- b VI ment, and in that astonishing increase of vigour and brilliance, of which in a course of ages it is capable. Such works, it is true, may be suited to the taste of a very limited class of readers. Rich collectors do not care for extracts, because they have the originals ; and, like misers^ they d.o not like to impart even a fragment of their treasures. Many others also, who have not the originals, feel or affect an indifference to a copy, or an extract, as beneath their notice, because it is in modern types! Most wise and enlightened judgments! What a genuine love must they have for literature ! How anxious must they be to improve their knowlege, and enlarge their taste ! In consequence however of the growing curiosity fou our oldliterature,thefollowing works, before inaccessible, have been within these few years reprinted, and form a valuable library. The impressions have been in every instance very limited ; and many of them are therefore already again out of the reach of purchase. 1 . Paradise of Dainty Devises. 2. England's Helicon. 3. * Gorgeous Gallery of gallant Devises. 4. *Handful of Pleasant Delites. 5. *Phcenix Nest. 6. *England's Parnassus. 7 t . Higgins's Mirror for Magistrates. * In Helieonia. Vll 8. Tusser's Five Hundred Points. 9. * Greene's Philomela. 10. * Arcadia. 11. *G. Harvey's Four Letters. 12. *Southweh"s Triumph over Death. 13. *Breton's Characters, &c. 14. G. Wither's Shepherd's Hunting. 15. ...... Fidelia. 16 Hymns and Songs. 17. Stanley's Poems. 18 Anacreon. 19- W. Hammond's Poems, 1655. 61 copies. 20. Barksdale's Nympha Libethris, 40 copies. 21. f Greene's Groatsworth of Wit. 22. fBreton's Longing. 23. f Melancholike Humours. 24. fRaleigh's Poems. 25. fDavison's Rhapsody. 26. fDuchess of Newcastle's Poems. 2/. Juliana Berners's Hawking and Hunting. 28. Puttenham's Art of Poetry. 29. Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 30. Tracts of Poetical Criticism, by Mr. Haslewood, in the press. 31. James I's Essays of a Prentice, in Poetry. 32. Mirror for Magistrates, entire, by Mr. Haslewood, in the press. To these add the following, before given to the Public. 33. Capel's Prolusions, 176O. 34. Percy's Ballads. 35. Lord Hailes's Bannatyne Poems. * In Archaica. t From the private press at Lee Prior v. 36. Pinkerton's Scotch Poems. S/. Ellis's Specimens. 38. Ritson's Collections. 3g. Scott's Scotch Minstrelsy. 40. Chalmers's Lyndsay. 41. Sibbald's Scotch Poetry. When this work was commenced, i.t was said by some, who are more willing to discourage than to animate, to find fault than to commend, that the subject which it undertook was already exhausted. Let them look at the eleven hundred thickly printed pages, which these two volumes contain ! Are they filled with extracts of common books? Is the matter trifling, or incurious? Will it not rather render the attentive reader familiar with the phraseology of our old literature ; more es- pecially its poetry ? And will not this familiarity give him a double relish for Spenser, and Shakespeare, and Milton ? Here are ample specimens of Dunbar, Archbishop Parker, Drant, Marlow, Chapman, Daniell, R. Hol- land, John Davies of Hereford, Gervase Markham, Phaer, Golding, Barth. Yonge, C. Fitzgeffrey, K. James, H.Peacham, Lady Mary Wrothe,Barth.Chappel, R. Niccols, Sir Geo. Buc, Tho. Hey wood, Geo. Wither, Sir Francis Hubart, N. Breton, C. Lever, Josh. Syl- vester, R. Brathwaite, Sir Hugh Plat, R. Cocks, Bishop Hall, R. Bancroft, F. Quarles, J. Quarles, Lord Her IX bert, Lord Westing eland, R. Chamberlayne H. Crompton, John Hall, Tho. Philipot, Jasper Maine, Payne Fisher, E. Benlowes, R. Wild, Tho. Jordan, and Sir W. Killigrew. Of these forty-four authors, the extracts are all drawn from very rare tracts. If it be required that the Editor should enter into nice disquisitions on the merits and character of each of these authors, a task will have been imposed on him, which requires more leisure, and probably more talents, than he possesses. Among the names just enumerated, perhaps not above seven deserve the praise of true poetical genius : these are Dunbar, Marlow, Chapman, Daniell, Breton, Bishop Hall, and Wither. In an age of greater refinement, in a later period of literature, when the art of composition is better un- derstood, it is more easy for an author, who aspires to the fame of a poet, to catch something of that selection of circumstances, and animation of manner, which, when they are exhibited in genuine force, bespeak the real favourite of the Muse. But when most of these writers exercised the pen, it was far otherwise : they had not learned the essential difference in the character of poetry and prose : they supposed it to consist rather in the form than in the substance ; in the rhythm than in the matter. They are therefore too generally flat, dull, and tedious : but they are often profuse in thought X and language; their remarks are often just, and full of" instruction ; and their learning is multifarious, though somewhat pedantic. With these faults, they yet abound in matter which is interesting to the inquirer into ancient manners ; to him, who loves to revive the notice of forgotten names ; to the searcher into traits of the character of those whom the grave has long covered with oblivion. So strong is the vivifying power of poetry, that even its least inspired professors reflect to us clearer pictures of the manners of past ages, than the most able authors in other departments. But such is the brilliance of primary genius, that even the darkest ages will not repress the appearances of its true character. What vivid pictures does Chau> cer give us ! What a selection of circumstances ! What animation of manner, and language! How does he bring out the prominent traits in the characters which he so happily draws in his Canterbury Tales; while we see the whole merry group on their journey, as if we were accompanying them along the Kentish road ! Then turn to Sackville, after the lapse of two cen- turies, and see with what a master's hand he dashes out the striking allegorical figures, which his sublime fancy dictates, in forms of astonishing brilliance and vigour ! Of many of these images, the force of the conception, XI and the energetic power of the language, remain to this day utterly unequalled ! I speak of the celebrated Induction to the Legend of Henry Duke of Bucking- ham. Here the fire of Genius taught what toiling Art could yet never attempt. It lifted itself at once above flat narrative and creeping details. Led on by the splendor and rapidity of its own light, it seized only leading circumstances, and left its followers to puzzle themselves and their hearers with long and intricate descriptions, and prolix stories of uninteresting minu- tiae, in which every successive touch of the pen served only to render the picture more dim and faint ! Yet who will call upon the Editor to confine him- self, in such a work as this, to the notice of authors of pure and unqualified genius? The list, so limited, would be very brief; and perhaps the names entitled to admission would not exceed forty. But want of time gives warning to close this pre- face. Tuesday evening, March 38, 1815. THE DIGESTED TABLE OF CONTENTS OP THE TWO FIRST VOLUMES. POETRY. Dunbar's Thrissil and Rose ii. $07 Archbishop Parker's Psalms, 4to. n. d i . 419 Drant's Praesul et Sylva, 8vo. 1^78 i. 19 Rolland's Sevin Seages, 1578 i. 1*7 Phaer's Virgil, by Twyne, 4to. 1584 ii. 516 Hunnis's Hyue full of Honey, 4to. 1578 ii. io£ ■ Seven Sobs, umo. 158 $ ii, 107 A. Golding's Ovid's Metamorphosis, 4to. 1587 ii. 306 K. James's Poetical Exercises, 4to. 1591 i. 2$ G. Chapman's Hymn to Light, 4to. 1594 ii. 52 ■ Banquet of Sense, 4to. 1595.. ii. 53 *— — ' Eugenia, 4to. 1614 ii. 57 H. Holland's History of Christ, 8vo. 1594 ii. 153 Chappell's Garden of Prudence, 8vo 1595 .... * ii. 503 Fitzgeffrey's Sir Francis Drake, 1^96 ii. 468 Markham's Devoreux , ii. 467 ■ Poem of Poems, 1596 ii. 469 Poems of a Norfolk Gentleman, 1597 i. 367 B. Yong's Diana of George of Montemayor, Fol. 1598 i. 489 Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus, 4to. 1598 i. 17$ Love-Letter by H. W. umo. n. d i. 234 R. W. against the inconstancy of E. T. umo. by R. Johnes, n. d. .i. 233 Marston's Scourge of Villainy, &c. 8vo. 1600 i. 462 Lever's Q. Elizabeth's Tears, 4to. n. d ii. 57 Herbert's Loss of Elizabeth, 1604 i. 23 1 Buc's Aa^vi; llo\v• 23S, 3 66 I. Davies's Epigrams, 161 1 "• " H. Peacham's Heroical Devises, 4m. 1612 ii. 148 Flamma sine fumo. n. d »• 235 Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 1613 »• 497 Sonnets by Michael Drayton ii. 104, 1 1 1 Jos. Sylvester's Sonnets ii. 412 Chapman's Homer, Fol. 1614 ii. 81 Drummond's Death of Maeliades, 4to. 16 14 ii. 55 The Husband, a Poem, 8vo. 1614 ii. 256 Sir John Harington's Epigrams, 4to. 1615- ii. 255 That which seems best is worst, 1 2mo. 1617 i. 41 G. Raleigh's Christ on the Crosse, 8 vo. 1617 i. 174 W. Quin'sLord D'Aubigni, 4to. 16 19 i. 520 Lady M. Wroth's Urania, FoU 1621 ii. 260 Herbert's Life of Edw. II. 8vo. 1628 , i. 92 .1, m ■ I629 i. 92 — — 1721 i. 93 Cocks's Hebdomada Sacra, 8vo. 1630 ii. 505 Wither's Motto, 1621 i. 113 Juvenilia, 8vo. 1633 i. 282 . - Satires, 8vo. 1633 i. 331 Epigrams, 8vo. 1633 i. 338 ■1. 1 , . 1 ■ Prince Henry's Obsequies, 8vo. 1633 i. 384 . Epithalamia i. 425 Emblems i. 44S Anderson's Court Convert ii. 48 1 Mus. Ox. Choristeria, 410. 1638 i. 144 Rt. Chamberlaine's Nocturnal Lucubrations, umo. 1638 ii. 275 Bancroft's Epigrams, 4to. 1639 ii. 490 Philipot's Poems, 8vo. 1646 i. 232 Quarles's Shepherd's Oracles, 4to. 1 646 i. 46 Elegies on Horace Lord Vcre, 8vo. 1648 i. 35^ Lord Westmoreland's Otia Sacra, 4to. 1648 ii. 96 t. Quarles's Regale Lectum, 8vo. 1649 i. 49 CONTENTS. in P. Fisher's Marston Moor, 4to. 1650 j. , g, I.H'sEmblems ;; jgg —— — Sparkles of Divine Love i,_ IQ2 Epigrams to poets of K. James and K. Charles ii. 2 * Benlowe's Theophila, Fol. 1652. . . . i, ,(,, Jasper Maine's Sheaf of Epigrams, 8vo. 1652 i, 22 c Crompton's Pierides, 8vo. 1658 , j. 2 y Z Cokayne's Elegy on Drayton jj, 37 — — Remedy of Love ii. 138—140 ■ His Encomiastic Verses ii. 38 Wild's Iter Boreale, 410. 1660 , i. 2 6 2 T. Jordan's Pictures of Passions, n. d ii. 171 — Piety and Poesy, n. d ii. 178 > ' Claraphil and Clorinda, n. d , ii. 183 Roswall and Lillian, 1663 j. 440 Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Poems, 8 vo. 1 665 ii. 4:53 Sir W. Killigrew's Midnight Thoughts, 8vo. 1694 ii. 130 MISCELLANEOUS. The Dyeing Creature, by W. de Worde, 4U) i. 363 Kalendre of the Newe Legend of Euglande, 4to. 15 16 i. 376 N. Udall's Apothegmes, 8vo. 1542 ii. 59 Phaer's Reg. of Health, 1 :mo. 1553 i. 22 y Certain Godly Letters, 4to. 564 i. 22 8 Puritan Pamphlets, 1572 i. 19 1 Institution of a Gentleman, 8vo. 1568 i. 536 Abp. Whitgift's Answer, 8vo. 1572 i. 1C9 Parker's Antiq. Ecc. Brit. Fol. 1572 i. 5 Ane Admonition to the true Lordis, i2mo. n. d ii. 439 Cooper's Thesaurus, Fol. 1573 i. 261 Works of Tindal, Frith, and Barnes, Fol. 1573 i. 301 Fenton's Histoi ie of Guicciardin, Fol. 1579 i. 541 Bp. of St. David's Sermon, 4to. 1577 i. 543 Settle's Report of Frobisher's Voyage, 8vo. 1577 ii. 202 Lichfield's Discovery of the East Indies, 4to. 1582 i. 133 Stubbs's Anatomie of Abuses, 1 5 83, 8 vo i. 5 20 Part 2d, 1583 i. 5 30 R. Greene's Mirror of Modestie, 8vo. 1584 i. 39 Camden's Britannia, 8vo. 1586 i. 18 iv CONTENTS. Gab. Harvey's Pierce's Supererogation, 410. 1593 i. 317 Dethick's Gardner's Labyrinth, 410. 1.594 < i. 129 ■ ■ — 4to. 1608 i. ih' Lodge's Divel conjured, 4to. 1596. i. 308 Nash's Have with you to Saffron Walden, 4to. 1596 ii. 347 Lichfield's Trimming of Tom Nash, 4to. 1597 it. 367 Hamilton's Treatise on Religion, umo. 1600 ii- 251 Page's Sermon at Funeral of Sir Rd. Leveson, 8vo. 1605 ii. 226 Tracts relating to Virginia, 410. 1610 i. 270 D.T's. Essays Moral and Theological, i6mo. 1609 ii. 137 Plat's Delightes for Ladies, i2mo. 161 1 ii. 28Z Sir R. Williams's Actions of the Low Countries, 4to. 161 8 i. 130 Dekker, his Dream, 4to. 1620 ii. 249 Owen's Running Register, 410. 1 626 i. 141 A.Warwick's Spare Minutes, izmo. 1636 ii. 298 Lithgow's Siege of Breda. 4to. 1637 i. 134 Peacham's Valley of Varietie, nmo, 1638 ii. 295 Braithwayte's Spiritual Spicerie, izmo. 1638 ii. 286 Loyal Sacrifice, nmo. 1648 -. ii- 428 Harflete's Banquet of Conceits, 8vo. 1653 ii. 258 S. Clark's Mirror, Fol. 1671 i. 204 Mirror of Eccl. Hist. Fol. 1675 i. 205 ■ ■ — General Martyrology, Fol. 1677 i. 207 1 Lives of Sundry Persons, Fol. 1683 i. 221 Cotgrave's Dictionary, by Howell, Fol. 1673 i. 302 F. Quarles's Enchiridion, nmo. 16S1 i. 455 — 494 BIOGRAPHIANA. Bp. Lewis Bailey »• 246 Dr. J. Bargrave »»• 2 3 s Dr. Ral. Bathurst .., »• 151 Dr. J. Beaumont i- i fi 4 Bp. W. Beaw i- 53 Dr. Tho. Burnet »• 61 Dr. A. Campion I. 161 Sir Geo. Carew "-243 Bp. Guy Carleton • »• 5' T. Cartwright '• 4 6 > Dr. J. Cawley >• 1 5 7 Dean Comber 1 57 CONTENTS. v Dr. J. Conant i. x g- Sir J Cook i. x e& Hen. Cornish j, 6 Dr. Z. Cradock i. 63 Eliz. Cromwell i. 54 Dr. Jos. Crowther i. 5 , v Sir James Dyer i. 466 Dr. B.Eaton i. 161 Dr. L. W. Finch i. 152 Dr. Fotherby ii. 244, Bp. Fowler i. 54 Bp. R. Frampton i. 58 Dr. S. Fuller i. 162 Bp. Gauden . . i. 51 Dr. J. Goodman i. 59 Dr. H. Gower i. 1 54 Gray, the poet i. 468 Bp. R. Grove i. 53 Bp. Gunning i. 60 Win, Harrison ii. 242 Dr. F. Hawkins « i. 54 Dean Hayley i. 55 Bp.C. Hickman i. 155 Dr. H.Hody i. 156 Dr. W. Hopkins i. 162 Dr. R I lowland ii. 243 Dr. John Jegon ii. 241 Chas. Jones ii. 24.J Bp. Ken i. 151 Dr. B. Kennett i. 153 Bp. Kidder i. 1^2 Dr. G. Kymer i. 168 Bp. Rt. Lamb i. 469 John Le Neve i. 46^ Geo. Lillye i. 166 Dr. P. Lillye i. 466 Bp. Wm. Lloyd i. 57 Dr. M. Lot t i- 469 Dr. T. Lynacre i. 159 Dr. T. Marshall i- s.z JJp. P. Mew »• 1 60 vi CONTENTS. S'u W. Mildmay i. 463 Dr. John Mill i. 50 Dr. J. Morell > i. 464 Dr. Th. Neville 1-467 Rt. Parsons i. 469 Bp. S. Patrick i. 56 Bp. Pearson i. 53 Mr. John Reading i. 56 Dr. Ch. Roderick i. 1 50 Canon Rosewell i. 61 Francis Rous • . . . ii. 240 Dr. G. Royse i. 58 Tho. Rymer i. 61 Dr. J. Saumarez i. x 65 Dr. John Sherman i. 63 Abp. Sheldon i. 52 Dr. W. Sherlock.. i. 155 J. Skelton i- 157 Dr. R. South i. 153 Sir Tho. Smith ii. 244 Stanley family i. 167 Bp. Stillingfleet i. 1 64 Sir P. Sydenham i. 47 1 Bp. F. Turner i. 149 Dean Tho. Turner i. 64 Archd. Waple i. 6z W. Watson and W. Clarke i. 465 Bp. Tho. White i. 60 R. Winter and S. Lyttelton ii. 241 Cardinal Wolsey i. 157 HEARNIANA. Airay i. 90 Mr. Anderson i. So Mr. Anstis i. 54 g Arnold's Chronicle i. 70, 71,91 Bale's Old castle i. 89 Barnes i. 85 Juliana Berners i. 72, 75, 76 CONTENTS. vii J. Bellenden * '. i. 82 Blackman's Hen. VI i. 80 An. Borde i. 82 Brute of England 1 i. 91 Carausius i. 7$ Carr i. 85 Caxton's Chronicle i. 72 Colchester Antiquities i. 5 5 2 Conduit at Oxford ii. 79 County History ii. 78 G. Coryat's Poem i. 67 Coryat's Crudities ...» i. 66 Sir Sim. D'ewes i. 86 Dufresne.. i. 551 Duckett i. 169 H. Dyson i. 7 S Mr. Eyston i. 83 Dr. L. Finch i. 80 Bp. Fleming B. 79 John Fox ii- 7> Patrick Gordon i. 7i Granger's Coins X. 7 3 Mr. Graves i. 88 Gualteri Tabulae i. 78 W. Hemingford i. j 7 r Dr. G. Kymer i. 79 J. Lewis i. 67 — 69 T. Madox i. 67 Martyrum Catalogus i. 87 Bishop Meniate ii. 80 A. Neville i. 84 J.Newton i. 87 Bishop Nicholson i. 88 John Norden i. 550 Lord Orrery i. 76 Palmer on Painting i. 69 Printing at Greenwich i. 69 Early Printing i. 87 Proctor i. 90 Mr. Prous i. 80 W. Prynne i. 68 viii CONTENTS. Kastell's Chronicle 77* i. 71—90 Ray's Words i. 169 Rich. II..... i. 88 Abp. Sancroft i. 171 Saxon Language ..i. 81 Saxton's Maps i. 71 John Selden i. 73 Skeltonical Salutation i. 72—83 J. Sleidan i. 82 Slezer i. 78 John Sturt i. 91 Lord Surrey i. 67—68 Tradesman's Tokens ii. 77 Trokelow i. 1 69 Tyrrell, the historian i. 75. 84. 169. 171 John Tzetzes ii. 7.> Humphry Wanley ii. 76, 77 Roger Wendover i. 548 Wilkinson's Berks i. 88 B. Willis i. 169 St. Winifred i. 549, 550 Wood ,..,..,., , i. 85 INTRODUCTION. I have lived to see a great variety of useful books, in the numerous classes of English li- terature, of dates between the period at which Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne and the close of the seventeenth century, which had hitherto been neglected and considered as of little more value than 'waste paper, — I have lived to see these books emerge within the last ten years into notice, to rise daily in price, and to have their contents examined and duly appreciated ! I consider the revival of this taste a real benefit to literature, a praise-worthy recovery of intellectual stores, which productions of a more novel attraction had pushed into oblivion, and a return to a standard not only of more solid information but often of a more chaste as well as more classical style. It is to be lamented that Mr. Dibdin has not had time to compile his promised "English B 11 De Bure" It would have been a most instruc- tive, as well as interesting work. Meanwhile I am reluctant totally to withhold the continued application of that helping hand, which for nine years # I have given to these subjects. We know how soon small particles of information, where there is no immediate motive or store- house to preserve them, are lost; and we know also by what sure, though imperceptible, progress these small particles accumulate into large and useful volumes. Thus an hour in a day, given to this occupation, which might otherwise be idle, leaves at the end of the year a substantia, and profitable mark of its passage. I will not anticipate objections, nor defend myself before I am censured. Let those who delight to find fault, have their own way ; let them blame the ardour of my bibliographical love, and the imprudence of thus involving my- s elf in new and unprofitable labours, when it may be said, that I have already more on my hands than I can grasp. Let it pass! I amuse myself at least; and when I am gone, shall have left some trace of my existence behind me. If I can command the time, (to which amidst all my other avocations I look,) I will * In the Censura Literaria, ten vols. 8vo. and British Bib. liographer, four vols. 8vo. Ill endeavour to mix in the matter of my future pages something which will either entertain or instruct the general reader, as well as inform him whose pursuit is merely bibliography. Mere rarity shall seldom procure a place for an ar- ticle, without the aid of something intrinsically curious in the subject, nor will I preclude my- self from any excursions into literature, which the spur of the occasion may prompt. To speak indeed with confidence of the fu- ture is neither wise, nor delicate; but if I shall be so fortunate as to accomplish my wishes and my hopes, I trust that long experience in these pursuits, and the array of materials which I see ready to my hands, will enable me, by an happy selection of subjects, extracts, and remarks, to rescue the Bibliographer from the charge of dulness. My principal aim shall be to revive those forgotten works which the most enlightened minds will admit to be among the due appa- ratus of a curious library ; and I will endeavour to collect opinions on the characters of those works from the best authorities. One thing which would be thought too ob- vious to require repetition, did not experience prove that it cannot be too often repeated, I must here observe :~that to fill up the extended purposes of literature, there is opportunity and IV even demand for the toils of minds of every va- rious talent, and of cultivation combined in every various way. That the same mind should unite every opposite excellence is the expec- tation of absolute folly ! The expansive intel- lect which has wings to mount with the flights of fancy, and the heart which is tremblingly alive to moral pathos, will not suffer the being whom they inhabit to be too long detained by the technical minutiae of Bibliography. Let not therefore the mere collector of cu- riosities be too fastidious in his judgment of the present publication. It is not for him alone that it is designed, but for the general purposes of extended information and solid literature. He, who is so ill-informed or so rash as to represent a subject already exhausted, which another half century would not exhaust, de- serves no reply. S. E. B. Feb. 4, 1 8 14. RESTITUTA. 1 De M Antiquitate M Britannica Ecclesia M et Privi- legiis Ecclesitz M Cantuariensis, cum U Archiepiscopis U ejusdem 70. Anno Domini 1572. «►••>••►•■>••> •►••►••>-^ <••<■•<••<••<"<••<•.«•. Absentem qui rodit amicum, Qui non defendit, alio culpante, solutos Qui captat risus hominum, famamque dicacis, Fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit, hie niger est, hunc tu, Romane caveto. -*-*■■*■ + +■+■* JFolto.* This is on a richly illuminated title on vellum, with the initials of the artist, J. B. F. 2 The life off <► the 70 Archbishopp <► off Canterbury, presentlye set- ■$ tinge Englished, and to be added <► to the 69 lately sett forth •$• in Latin. * It was afterwards printed abroad, at the beginning of the 17th Cen- tu.y, and a new, and splendid edition by the Rev. Samuel Drake, S.T.P. Rector of Treeston, in Yorkshire. London, printed by Bowyer, 1 729, Fol. This number off seuen- M ty is so compleat a number as it M is great pitie ther shold be one more: but M that as Augustin was the first, so WL Mathew might be M the last. Imprinted MDLXXIIII. T+-+-**-**** Small SDctatoo. Sig. JF. Hi. Both these volumes are of uncommon rarity, and also of singular interest. The Archbishop himself mentions (as hereafter will be seen) having circulated only four copies of his own work. Mr. Dibdin has justly remarked that no name de- serves to stand more conspicuous amongst the lovers of books, than that of Archbishop Parker. He kept printers, engravers, and illuminators in his own Palace at Lambeth, and by these means printed only a few copies (perhaps not more than four or five) for private distribution, of his very learned and valuable work De Antiquitate Ecclesia Anglicana. When a feeble spirit, when ill success, or over- whelming oppression, drives men into retirement, they may soothe the solitude which they cannot avoid with the cheering occupation of literature. But he, who, while he has luxury, splendor, distinction amid the enlivening concourse of society, at his command, still prefeis the pure recesses of solitary study, and who busies his mind with the past and the future while the present offers seduction for all his senses, proves himself to be an intellectual being of the highest class, on whose grave flowers never fading ought to be scattered, and whose memory should be embalmed in language of no common eloquence ! The cares too, of Archiepiscopal command, cannot, even in these days, be light. What were they in the days of Parker, when the vengeance of the Papist on the one hand, (lately dislodged from his power,) and the encouraged zeal of the Puritan on the other, in- volved every step in danger, and every expression in distrust or misrepresentation ? John Strype has collected with admirable industry, the memorials of this great man, as well as of the other protestant Archbishops who immediately succeeded him. The massive volumes of this industrious bio- grapher are again rising into their j ust estimation. We cannot peruse the thick-printed pages of this author, without deriving multitudinous information of a period fertile in events, and beset with the most intricate dif- ficulties. The stakes of Smithfleld had scarcely ceased to blaze, and the blood of martyrs had but recently flowed from the scaffold ! Pure Spirit of him, who, amid these times of turbu- lence and danger, could leave the pomp of office, and protection of power, to cultivate the Holy Muses, I bow to thy name with awe and reverence, and record thy written labours with fond admiration! Often as I view the dilapidated abode* of thy rural retirement, I imagine the walls to be sanctified by thy former pre- sence, and often as I cross the deserted fields of its domain, now harassed by the plough, and trod only by the uneducated husbandman, I behold again the forms * The ancient palace of Beakesbourne, to which the grounds of the Editor's residence in the country adjoin. It has long been let to farm on beneficial leases. 8 of the associates of learning, whom thou once cherish- ed st there, and people again the surrounding woods and mansions with more cultivated and refined inha- bitants! The Archbishop in a letter to the Lord Treasurer accompanying a MS. of Genasius Titburiensis, a copy cf LambarcTs Perambulation of Kent, and his own An- tiquitates Britannica, apologizes, that " he had bound his book costly, and laid in colours the arms of the church of Canterbury, impaled with his own paternal coat," saying " His Lordship might indeed note many vanities in his doings, but he thought it not against his profession to express his own times, and give some testimony of his fellow-brothers, of such of his coat, as were in place of her Majesty's reign, and when himself was thus placed. And though his Lordship might rightly blame an ambitious fancy in him, for setting out their church's arms in colours, yet he told him he might, if he pleased, relinquish the leaf, and cast it into the fire. And he had joined it but loose in the leaf for that purpose, if he so thought it meet. And as he might, if it so liked him (without great grief to him the Archbishop) cast the whole book the same way. This book he said he had not given to four men in the whole realm : and peradventure, added he, it shall never come to sight abroad, though some men smelling of the printing of it, were very desirous cravers of the same. He was content to refer it wholly to his judgment to stand or fall. For the pre- sent he purposed to keep it by him, while he lived, to add or mend, as occasion should serve him, or utterly to suppress it, and bren it. And thus, as he told his Lordship, he made him privy to his follies. 9 And for that he had within his house, in wages, Drawers of Pictures, and Cutters, (that is Engravers,) Painters, Limners, Wkitkrs, and Bookbinders, he was bolder to take his occasion thus Equitare in arundine longa, so spending his wasteful time within his own walls, till Almighty God should call him out of this tabernacle." " Of these rare Books," says Strype, " the Right Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of Ely, in his exquisite Library, has one, which in his great humanity, and readiness to forward all good learning, he hath lent to me. There is another in the public Library of the University of Cambridge. A third is in the Library of St. John's College there. And a fourth in the possession of the Reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Baker, B.D. Fellow of the said College. But the choicest of all, was lately possessed by the late most Reverend Archbishop Sancroft which was Joselyn's (his Chaplain's) own Book, (as I have been told) and corrected and enlarged in many places by his own pen. Which after came into the hands of Mr. Wharton, his Chaplain ; and had he lived, would have been published with his additions, together with the British Antiquities." * Strype gives at p. 417, a minute account of the contents, ornaments, and other particulars of one of these copies, which exactly answers to the very curious copy now in the British Museum. It is sufficient to refer to this account; for though Strype's work is gradually rising into the demand which its merits deserve, it is yet too easy of access to justify so long a transcript, in addition to those which I have already given. " But notwithstanding all the Archbishop's good deeds, and good deserts, he must go through evil report as well as good report, the lot of the servants of Christ. There was a little * Strype's Life of Parker, 1711. fol. C 10 Latin Book belonging to the College aforesaid (Corpus Christi) and compiled for their use, called Historiola, being a M S. de- claring briefly the History of the Foundation, and successive Masters of that College. This book was writ by the Arch- bishop's own direction about the year 1 56g, and still is preserved with great esteem in the College. The original by the favour of Dr. Spenser, some time Master, was shewn, and lent to me to peruse. It had here and there the Archbishop's own cor- rections. And when in the course of the History, the writer came to speak of Dr. Parker, in his turn Master, he treated more at large of him, both of the preferments that happened to him, and of the good works he did. But some of the Arch- bishop's enemies, that is certain of the Puritan Faction (and tis probable Aldrich the Master was privy to it) getting the copy of the Book, procured the translation of it into English, and this year (1574) printed it beyond seas (as it seems by the Letter) with foolish, scurrilous, and malicious notes in the mar- gin ; and entituled it with equal spite, The Life of the LXX'b Arcshbishop of Canterbury presently sittinge, Englished: And to be added to the sixty-nine lately set forth in Latin. And then adding this rude jest, (shewing his good will to the Arch- bishop and all that high and venerable order in the See of Can- terbury) viz. This Numbre of Seventy is so compleat a Number, as it is great pity there should be one more, but that as St. Au- gustin was the first, so Matthew should be the last." Strype then goes on to give instances of the Writer's contumelious and uncharitable marginal annotations, and reflections. The Writer, as Strype observes, gives the account of himself, " that his lot was low, and that the Archbishop knew him not." " If he were a layman," says Strype, " as he gives himself out to be, I am apt to think it might be John Stubbs of Lin- coln's Inn, whose right hand not many years after was chopped 11 off for bold and seditious writing. Who, as he had a bitt* scoffing style, so he was a man of some parts and learning ; and (being allied to Thomas Cartwright, a man exceedingly disaf- fected to the Archbishop and the Hierarchy) having married Stubbs's sister, was very probably encouraged and assisted by him. But enough of this book, and the unworthy reflections in it, upon our innocent, but deserving Archbishop."* The margin of the translated text of the Arch- bishop's Life is thus loaded with abusive comments; and to the end of it is subjoined An address "to the Christian Reader," containing three sheets of bitter criticism on the Archbishop's History. A specimen of this severe libel may not be unacceptable. " That he might sig- nifye, that men off his estate seldome founde such counselers, as would bol- dlye, and freely tell them off there duetye, it happened by wise advise off the he- rauld, that suche armes were allotted hym (as the use for noble personages) which both might expresse the ancient ar- mes of the stocke from whence he issued, and might admonishe hym also off his honor and office in the church, in that that starres were added to his armes. Whereunto Gualter Haddon Doctor of lawe, a man off singular learninge and authoritye (whom our most noble Queene Elizabeth appointed to be one off the Masters off the requestes, and Mathew hymselfe hadd made hym chi- efe Judge off his prerogative court) very finely alluded in these verses. * Strype's Life cf Parker, p. 487. 489. 12 The keyes of auncient parentes tokens are, From Soveraigne Prince doth come the tripell starr. So Vertue, learninge, power, conspire best, And sowe the pleasant seeds of quiet rest. But yet the ioes of life to end do hast, And man, but dust before, to dust shall wast. * His father was an ho- nest poore man, a scou- rer or ca- lender off worsteddes of Norwi- ch so kno- wne and taken. t O deepe divinitie, th Archbisho- pe hath thr ee keies he cause Chr- ist sated pa- sce, pasce. Nay, rather because he locketh up the King- dome of hea- ven soefast by holdinge out of mini- Whereupon, as he acknowledge th the keyes to pertayne unto hym by the la- we off nature, and inheritaunce, as left hym off his forefathers, from whome he descended, yett he thinketh them espe- ciallye to agree with hym, by reason off his spirituall function, which is wiselie to open and shutt the kingdome off hca- uen to the Christian conarecation, in the which meaninge, the Keies wea- re delivered unto Peter and unto all that execute that spirituall office in church of preachinge the gospell. But whereas we see the keye thrise in his armes, that hath respecte to Pe- ters couuenaunt made with Christ un- der that worde (feede) f thrise repea- ted. Lastly, the starres represent that off Danyell : the learned shall shine as the brightnes off the firmament, and they which instructe manie in the waye oft righteousness as starres for euer and euer. As therefore the starres bringe him in- to the remembraunce off his spirituall au- thorise and office, so also by the starr he learneth to remember what is required of 13 him, that by the purenes off his lighte he should shine to other, and by the he- avenly doctrine off the worde, should bringe againe into the lighte the congre- gation off Christ, which nowe a greate while hath miserably lyen hidden, and overwhelmed in grosse darknes by the tradition of men. And that he might not altogether forgett himselfe (as theye are wont to doe which are sett upp alofte in the hyest roomes of the world) he was wonte to rubbe his mind with the memorye off that sentence, that all fame, aestimation, honour, all magistrat- shippes, be they off never so ample au- thoritye, all titles and names howe glo- rious soeuer theye seeme in the eyes off men for a tyme, yett at the last, as the whole world itselfe, and all brittle and transitorye thinges theye shall peri- she, and decaye." sters that might pre- ach e the worde and keapinge in qfidell and ignoraunt that can doe nothinge, that hardlie doth anie man en- ter thearin. He was verie care full, and not without some charges, to seeke out the monumentes off foremer tymes, to knowe the religion of thancient fa- theres, and those especiallye which we- re off the Englishe churche. Therfore in seekinge upp the cronicles off the Brittones and Inglishe Saxons, which aye hidden every wheare contemned and buried in forgetfullnes, and tho- rogh the ignorance off the Languages not wel understanded, his owen especi- ally, and his mens dilegence wanted not. 14 And to the ende, that these antiquiti- es might last longe and be carefullye kept, he caused them, being broughte into one place, to be well bound and try- mly couered. And yet not so contented, he indeuored to sett out in printe, certain off those auncient monumentes, whea- roff he knew very fewe examples to be extante, and which he thoughte woul- de be most profitable for the postery- tye, to instructe them, in the faythe and religion off the elders. Heere vpon, he caused the perpetu- all histories off the Inglishe affaires, by Mathaeus Parisiensis once a monke off Sainte Albanes, and Mathaeus Florilegus, a monke off Sainte Pe- ters in Westminster, written in latin, to be printed after he had diligentlie conferred them with thexamples, w- hich he coulde gett in anye place, to the ende, that as sincerelye as might be, as thauthors first left them, he mi- ghte deliuer them into mens handes." The malignant commentator speaks of the Arch- bishop's celebrated work on the Antiquity of the English Church as " Certain Rapsodies and shreds of old foreworn stories almost forgotten till lately awaked and newly sewed together in one book, as though it were some worthy monument and rich hoard wherein had been honourably buried great heaps of 15 the knowledge and acts of the first Christian infancy of the church of England : and yet, having rolled away that glorious grave-stone off that counterfeit title, and seeking further into it, appeareth a very painted sepulchre, gorgeously decked with that outward only name, and within full of broken shank- bones and reliques of dead carcases j yea, nothing but a very charnell-house of brainless unlearned skulls of such men as were wicked in their life, and not worthy any memory, being dead ; whose rotten bones, yet if they had been closed in lead, and well spiced and seared, and handsomely laid up together, peradventure they might have been kept from savoring yet a while : but they are so hurled together without embalming or other preservation, that the matter being of itself most un- clean, is yet, by the manner of handling, if it be possible, made more unclean and filthy. The title, as it is said, De Antiquitate, &c. Only a few things are said for preface, touching the first preaching of Christ in this our island : but the whole body of the book is bombasted with the swelling pomps of the Archprelates of Canterbury j wherein, as there is no such clerkly handling as is to be wondered at (for there is such confused shuffling together as if his method had been take it among you), so there is no such chaste dealing as were to be wished. For many bastard tales of the adulterous synagogue of Rome are inter- mingled ; so that the greatest care of the workman seemed to be, perhaps, a little for that first part of the treatise, De Anti- quitate Ecclesice Britannicce, and much more for the second part, De privilegiis Ecclesice Cantuariensis ; but most of all for this third part, De Archiepiscopis ejusdem Septuaginta et ccetera. For after two or three and twenty leaves spent superficially in that matter (of the antiquity, I mean, of the English church), and two or three tables (whereof one very foolish at the least), there beginneth, as it were, a new stately work, continued in two hundred and odd leaves (and yet Apex is not added) of 16 the lives first of the primitive fathers of that church, the foundation whereof is luckily laid in that apostate, not apostle, Augustine (for he made this church apostatate as they call it), finding religion here more sincere and Christian than he left it, having brought in nothing but uniformity in singing, sitting, and such other seemly orders of Rome ; and then descending in a row to all his successors in that .See, or rather arm of the main see of Rome, even to him that presently sits and takes his ease therein. Wherein whosoever will but consume a little time shall find that to set forth the antiquity of the sincere knowledge of Jesus Christ and the first preaching thereof in this land, though it be the first in title, yet is it least and last m treaty set rather for a commendation to the book, than that it was in any recommendation to the author ; yea, used only for a pretence and colour to insinuate into the magnifying of that magnifical Seigniory and Archiepiscopal territory of Canter- bury, and by all means possible to vaunt the pre-eminence and supereminence of that Princely Archpastor and Pastoral Arch- prince the first father, and Peter (as I may say), of which succession he maketh that superstitious monk, and wicked man, Romish Austen. Who, as he obtruded himself universal Archbishop to all England, and won it not by the word and spirit, but by the sword and blood (for he was the fire- brand of a fray, wherein one and twenty hundred monk9, good men, as good men were in those days, and, in comparison of him indeed, holy saints ; besides, other men of war were all innocently slain and murdered only because they refused to submit their necks to his Archiepiscopal yoke, which they saw him so ambitiously seek ; so he the same Austen having thus gotten by conquest this universal Vice-Papacy over England, because his proceedings should be like his entry, with like apostolic humility and meekness he justled for a place where to fasten his chair, and by plain wrong (as wrong may be said between wrong-doers), wrang from the Archbishop of London (for there had been before the Archiepiscopal See, as also saith 17 that book), all Archiepiscopal jurisdiction, pall and cros%, cum pertinenciis, and contrary even to the Pope, his holy father's commandment, translated the same to Canterbury, where it was set and settled to have and to hold to him and his suc- cessors there for ever under pain of the great excommunication, and many a black curse thundered by diverse Popes, after which, are there recited for the greater terror to scare them that should at any time attempt against that holy sacred See." * The Archbishop was great-grandson of Nicholas Parker, Notary Public of the Diocese of Norwich, Principal Registrar, and Keeper of the Records of the Court of Canterbur}'. His mother was Alice Monins, of a respectable family of that name in Norfolk and Suffolk, descended from a younger branch of those in Kent. She died in 1553, aged above eighty. His father, though only a calender of stuffs, bore for arms, by inheritance, — Gules three Keys erected. The Archbishop had two sons, John and Matthew.f Sir John, eldest son, was knighted 1603. He married Joan, daughter of Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, and had three sons, and two daughters: — Matthew, born 1576, — Richard, born 1577, — a third, born at Bekes- bourne; — Margaret, born 1568; Jane, born 1571. Margaret married Thomas Digges of Barham Esq. who died 1590, (son of Christopher Digges, who died 1576.) By her he had a posthumous son Thomas Digges, born July 2, 1590; and she remarried in 1596 Thomas Palmer, Gent, son to Sir Henry Palmer of Howletts in Bekesbourne, a man of note for sea affairs * See this libel mentioned in IVood's Ath. I. 688. f Matthew, 2d son, died before his father. S. P. 18 in Queen Elizabeth's days, and one of her Admirals, as appears by his monument in Bekesbourne chancel. Matthew Parker, Esq. eldest son of Sir John Par- ker, lived till 1645, aged seventy-five. He married Margaret daughter and coheir of Jenkin. He lived latterly, at Sittingbourne, and was Captain of the Bul- wark of Dover Castle. His sole surviving daughter and heir, Frances, married John Collins, Esq. who was buried at Sittingbourne 1665, leaving a son, still living in Surry, about 1711. Richard, second son of Sir John Parker, seems to have been in orders, and is supposed to have been a spendthrift; and there was a tradition in Benet College, that one of the Archbishop's posterity was maintained by the College, and afterwards buried at their charge.* 3 Camden's Britannia, 15S6, 8vo. The learned Thomas Baker in a letter to Bishop Kennelt, 1726, says: "Sometime ago his Grace my Lord Archbishop, inquired after an old edition of Camden's Britannia, printed 1580, 8vo. 1 could then only give his Grace an account of it as viewed ; I have since met with a very fair copy, probably a present from the Author; and if your Lordship either thinks it worth the mentioning, or his Grace worth the ac- cepting, I will send it up to your Lordship. It is a good voucher for F. Courayer against somewhat said by F. Le Quieu concerning the Antiq. Brit, as not known or quoted so early." MSS. Letters. Brit. Mus. * There was in truth written either by the Archbishop, or his chaplain, A Life of the 10tb Archbishop, which has been since added to Drake's Edition, and which seems a somewhat enlarged copy of that here noticed in Art. 2. which had been composed for an account of the Masters of his College of Eenet. 19 4 Thoma Drantce & Angli Aduordingamii WL Prasul. 3£ Ejusdem Sylva. Approbatur ad normam prascripti regit. No date or Printer's name. A thin Quarto. It seems to have been soon after his death, 1578. This collection of Latin Poems begins with a 1. A Panegyric on Queen Elizabeth. 2. Ad eandem Jobiados inscriptio. 3. Ad eandem Resmiam cum Cantabrisfiam veniret carmen pro Academia protentum et delatum. 3. De Edmundo Grindallo vitse sanctimonia et literarum fama ArchiprEesuleceleberrinio, deque eodem in Cantuar. Archiepiscopatum suffecto et inaugurate 4. Ad D. Rob. Dudleium Com. Leieestr. herum et patron em snum. 5. Ad Matthasum Parkerum Cantuar. Archm. il- lustriss. ne in obitu Matthcei filii senectutem suam nimirum maceret et excruciet. 6. De Gregorio Nazeanzeno, cum ejus Epigram- inata in Britannum sonum vertebat. 7. AdDominum Richardum Coortesium episcopum Cicestr. clarissimum, diuturnas amicitias nullatenusaut eg'rius dirimendas esse. He represents the Bishop as his favourer in Cam- bridge, that he helped to bring him a Preacher at St. Paul's, was afterwards his Patron, &c. S. In tumulum conjugis Annce. AnnaThomoe tumulo jacet hoc uxorcula Drantaa n 2 20 Quae quia bella fuit, placuitque marlta marito, Marmore sic tex.it dulci devictus amore. He was divinity preacher at Paul's by the patronage of Bishop Grindall of London. Tunc ego cum Mariae tractabam pulpita primo, Grindallus patronus erat, Paulique legebam Ad templum. Orabam meditata loquens tres tractus in boras, Innumeris coram populis patriaeque dynastis. The city not agreeing with his health, he retired into the country, and after two years returned to town, and was again a London preacher. Corpore mox aeger secessi protenus urbe, Longius et vitam traherem : ne laberer herba Tn vhidi. Post binas urbem remeabam rursus aristas, Nominis et rerum spoliis nudatus in ignis Pauperior sed non pejor, tunc pulpita rursus Molior. ' He seems to have taken a degree, and performed public exercise in Cambridge in 1565. 9. Quaestio prima in comitiis literariis Cantabrigise disputata anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto. " Corpus Christi non est ubique." He had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, and had carried it on to the 5th Book, when the Bishop recalled him to the better studies of divinity. 10. " De Made Homeri a se inchoata, et nisi ad lilrum quin- tum producta. " Non ego plus Delta vertam, cantandus Jesus Est mihi sic jubat ipse magister Grindallus meus. 21 Exoriare aliquis nostris ex opibus Author csetera qui Anglica reddet Homeri. He had likewise attempted to turn Horace into English. 11. " De Seipso. Caelo musa beat, Juvenis sua messis in herba est Mens mea. He gives an abstract of his own life. " Scire meos casus quisquam si forte requiris, Urbe procul fueram cretus, genitore colono, Increvi et studiis puer hinc sistebar honoris, Grammaticas coluique tribus, et grammata trivi j Dein Cantebrigise non pauca volumina volvi, Et Latio scripsi calamo, scripsique Britanno. Advolo dehinc Aulam, sed sum revocatus et ore Vix vernans Pauli conscendi pulpita tectis. Junior emicui lector, lateque sonabar Vocibus," &c * He wrote his Prasul in 1575, when the Queen came to the parliament, and when he lived near St. James's church. His Prasul is dedicated to Archbishop Grindall. It congratulates the Archbishop on his late recovery. He writes his Prasul on the pattern of a perfect Prelate ; commends his moderation and wisdom, and even his zeal for the true interest of the church and religion against the Puritan spirit of confusion; calls him in conclusion, " Archiepiscopus omnibus suis numeris instructissimus et completissimus." He was installed Archdeacon of Lewes, Mar. 4, 1569, in the place of Edmund West. * His Ode to Lord Buckhurst the poet, shall be given hereafter, with other specimens. 22 In 1569 he was also presented to the prebend of Chamberlayne-wood in St. Paul's. This he resigned in 1570. He has a copy of commendatory verses before Lod. Lloyd's Pilgrimage of Princes.* He published also " Thoma Drantae Shakloki Epigrammatis in mortem Cuth- berti Scoti Apomaxis. Lond. Tho. Drant, 1565, 4to. The following MS. Verses are before Drant's Prasul, et Syha, in the copy in the British Museum. " Lady, and life of this thine English land, Chois rare and deer in parsone, gifts, and price : Goodly my ledge, once did I with min hand, Job min thee giue in low and loyal wise, Oft in my leaues thy lauds I haue enrolde : Oft in the church thy lawes I haue uphold. Sence that thine ears I neuer colde attaine, Pressed with paiz of thos that wrek my witt ; Lend me thin eis : (high Dame) do not disdain, Se what I say, some sence afforde him yit, Whoes sences all, and sowl, and euery spritt, Fain of thy fame thy praisments would inditt. Yeares yead away, and facies faire deflowr, Ceasar, and such had never shind so long Their breths, and bruts had ended in one howr, Ne had they flowne by voyces fitt and strong, Thou arte the wight shoulde haue an endles praise, Whear is the mowth can b^ow an endles blase." f * Kennett's MSS compared with the volume itself in Brit. Mus. t For Drant see Chalmers's Biogr. Diet. Vol. XII. and Warton's Ujsfc. E.P. 111. 23 ■+*•■*■***•+ His •<>• Males- <$► ties Poeti- <$■ call Exer- -$■ ekes at va- cant <>■ houres. ■$• At Edinburgh ■$■ Printed by ■$■ Robert Walde-grave, ■$■ Printer to the King's -<> Maiestie. Cum Privilegio Rcgali. Within a border. On the right column, Amor Pacis Alumnus: on the left, Pax Infesta Malts. SDuarto ©i?. IP. COMMENDATORY SONNET. TO THE KING OF SCOTLAND. Where others hooded with blind love do fly, Low on the ground with buzzard Cupid's wings, A heavenly love, from love of love thee brings, And makes thy Muse to mount above the sky. Young Muses be not wont to fly too high ; Age, taught by Time, such sober ditties sings, But thy youth flies from love of youthful things, And so the wings of Time doth overfly. Thus thou disdainst all worldly wings as slow, Because thy Muse with Angels wings doth leave 24 Time's wings behind, and Cupid's wings below, But take thou heed, lest Fame's wings thee deceive. With all thy speed from Fame thou canst not flee, But more thou flees, the more it follows thee. Henrie Constable.* "In Serenissimum Invictissimumque Scotiae Begem Jacobum Sextum.'' Eight Greek Lines signed AAPIAN02 O AAMMAN. Then " Idem Latine" signed " Hadr. Damman a Bisterveit Gandavensis Flandev.' Then " Aliud Ejusdem." Then the following : TO THE KING'S MAJESTY OF SCOTLAND. If Alexander sighed when he came Unto the tomb where fierce Achilles lay: If he had cause that blessed age to blame, Since Homer lacks his merits to display : If he with tears his sorrows did bewray, To see his father Philip conquer all, And that more worlds behind there did not stay, Which for reward of his deserts might fall, Then may I moan, our times, our judgment small, Unworthy records of your sacred skill : Then must our poets on new Muses call To grant them gifts to emulate your skill. I, like the fly, that burneth in the flame, Should shew my blindness to attempt the same. Henrie LoK.f * For Henry Constable, see Theatr. Poet. Angl. (1800) and Park'* Supplement to the Harleian Miscellany. + For Henry Lok, see Censura Lkeraria, and Wood's Ath. by Bliss. 2 c This volume consists of a Translation of The Fu- ries, selected from Du Bartas: and The Lepanto, an original poem. The Preface to the former, which my friend Mr. Gillies commends as interesting and unassuming (in his forthcoming reprint of this Monarch's Essays of a Prentice in Poetry,) is here copied. "THE AUTHOUR TO THE READER. Receave heere, beloued Reader, a short Poeteque discourse, which I haue selected and translated, from amongst the rest of the works of Du Bautas : as a viue mirror of this last and most decreepid age. Heere shah thou see clearlie, as in a glasse, the miseries of this wauering world : to wit, the cursed nature of mankinde, and the heavie plagues of God. And speciallie heere may thou learn not to flatter thyselfe, in cloak- ing thy odious vices with the delectable colour of vertue : an errour, allace, ouer common in this hypocriticall age, not onlie in particular men of all decrees : but euen generallie in rankes, estates, and offices. But that this Treatise may seem the les obscure unto thee, I haue insert before the same, the Author's Praeface and Exord of the whole worke, that thereby thou may rightlie conceave the comming in of this portion thereof. And in case thou find as well in this work, as in my Lepaxto following, many incorrect errours, both in the dytement and orthography, I must pray thee to accept this my reasonable excuse which is this. Thou considers, I doubt not, that upon the one part, I com- posed these things in my verie young and tender yeares : where- in nature, (except shee were a monster) can admit no perfec- tion. And nowe on the other parte, being of riper yeares, my burden is so great and continuall, without anie intermission, that when my ingyne and age could, my affaires and fasherie will not permit mee, to remark the wrong orthography committed by the copyars of my unlegible and ragged hand, far les to 26 amend my proper errours : Yea scarcelie but at stollen moments haue I the leasure to blenk upon any paper, and yet not that with free and unuexed spirit. Alwaies rough and unpolished as they are, I offer them unto thee : which beeing well ac- cepted, will moue mee to hast the presenting unto thee, of my Apocalyps, and also such nomber of the Psalmes as I haue perfited : and incourage mee to the ending out of the rest. And thus, (beloued Reader) recommending these my labours to thy freindlie acceptation, I bid thee hartilie Farewell." Immediately after this is a Sonnet by W. Fowler, which I shall not transcribe, as it will be given in Mr. Gillies's Preface. ..►..,..>..>..>..>..>..»..hN <..<■•<..<••<••<••<■•<• <■• THE TRANSLATOR'S INVOCATION. ** O thou that mightilie does toone My warbling holie Harpe, And does sublime my Poemes als That I thereon do carpe, And marying so my heauenly verse Vnto the harpes accords, Inspires my sacred Muse to sing Vnto the Lord of Lords. O now inflame my furious Spreit, That furiously I may These Furies (mankind's plagues allace), With furious pen display : That I bis fame doe not betray, Who Azure Skie doth decke With blazing lights, and on the earth His Trophees doth erect : The loue of Heauen, the honour of earth, The wonder of our age, Who whill that furious bloodie Mars Doth in his countrey rage, 27 (Alluring Orpheus) with his songs He sweetlie doth inchaunt The Muses nyne to leaue their leeds That they before did haunt ; And take them to hisvulgare toung, Their Ethnique heades withal He crownes with holie twists and faire Of Li ban Cedres tall. Then O thou guider of my Spreit, And leader of my pen, Graunt, that as he his subject faire Doth (liberall) to me len, That so he len his loftie stile, His golden draughts, his grace, Wherewith in variant coulors he Adornes the paper's face, That I may viuelie paint him forth : Peace Pan, peace, pratling Muse, Heare Phcebus in a borrowed tongue His owne discourses vse." The Furies consists of 1508 lines, and is then closed with the following; " Thus louing Reader, as thou sees, Now haue I made an end, Vnto this worke which man did write, But by the Lord is pen'd : Wherein as I haue preast to make The authour knowne to all, That into Brittaine He remaine, Where he before was thrall ; Within the onelie bounds of France, So doubt I not thou will Excuse my blotting of his face, And blame my lacke of skill, C 2 28 Which letteth me to imitate His hard and loftie verse, His arrowes headed blunt by me, As earst could no waies pearce. But since both profite may heerein, And pleasure reaped be, Though metamorphos'd all I grant, And quite transform'd by me : Yet ought thou justlie loue and like My painefull trauels bent, It is sufficient vnto me, Thou know my good intent." FINIS. Now comes a new Title: The Lepan- # to of James <§> the Sixt, King of<§> Scot- land. # At Edinburgh # Printed by <§> Robert Kaldegrave, <@> Printer to the King's <§> Maiestie. Within a wood-cut border of two spirited Figures; on the right, Veritas; on the left Castitas. The Author s Freface to the Reader. " It falles out often, that the effects of mens actions comes cleane contrarie to the intent of the authour. The same finde I by experience (beloued Reader), in my poeme of Lepanto : for although till now it haue not bene imprinted, yet being set out to the publick view of many, by a great sort of stoln copies purchast (in truth) , without my knowledge or consent, it hath, for lack of a Preface, bene in some things misconstrued by sundry, which I of verie purpose thinking to haue omitted, for that the writing therof might haue tended in my opinion to some reproach of the skilfull learnednes of the Reader, as if 29 his braines could not haue conceaued so ur.curious a worke, without some maner of Commentarie, and so haue made the worke more displeasant vnto him : it hath, by the contrary falen out, that the lack therof hath made it the more dis- pleasant to some, through their mistaking a part of the mean- ing thereof. And, for that I knowe, the special thing mis- liked in it is, that I should seeme, far contrary to my degree and Religion, a Mercenary Poet, to penne a worke, ex professo, in praise of a forraine' Papist bastard : I will, by setting downe the nature and order of the Poeme, vesolue the ignorant of their error, and mak the other sort inexcusable of their captiousnes. The nature then of this Poeme is an argument, a mi?iorc ad majus, largely in treated by a Poetike comparison, beeing to the writing hereof mooued, by the stirring vppe ot the league and cruell persecution of the Protestants in all countries, at the very first raging wherof, I compiled this Poeme, as the exhortation to the persecuted in the hinmost eight lines thereof doth plainlie testifie, being both begun and ended in the same Summer, wherein the league was published in France. The order of the Cantique is this : first, a Poetique Praeface, declaring the mater I treat of : wherein I name not Don-Joan, neither literally, nor any waies by description, which I behooued to haue doone, if I had penned the whole Poeme in his praise, as Virgil, Anna virumuue cano, and Homer, Die mihi musa virum, of whose imitation I had not bene ashamed, if so my purpose had bene framed. Next followes my inuocation to the true God only, and not to all the He and She Saints, for whose vaine honors Don-Joan fought in all his wars. Next after my inuocation follows the poetique History of my comparison, wherein following furth the ground of a true History, (as Virgil or Homer did), like a painter shadowing with umbers a portrait els drawn in grosse, for giuing it greter viuenes, so I eike or paire to the circumstaunces of the actions, as the rules of the poeticke art will permit : which Historicke comparison continues till the 30 song of the Angel-; : in the which I compare and applie the former comparison to our present estate, taking occasion there- upon to speake somewhat of our religion. Lastlie, the Epi- logue of the whole, in the last eight lines, declares fully my intention in the whole, and explaines so fullye my comparison and Argument, from the more to the lesse, as I cannot with- out shamefull repetition speake anie more therof. And, in a word, whatsoeuer praise I haue giuen to Don-Joan in this Poeme ; it is neither in accompting him as first or second cause of that victorie, but onely as of a particular man, when hee falles in my way, to speake the truth of him. For, as it becomes not the honour of my estate, like an hireling, to pen the praise of any man : So it becomes farr lesse the highnes of my rancke and calling to spare for the feare or fauor of whom- soeuer liuing, to speake or write the trueth of anie. And thus crauing pardon (beloued Reader), for this longsome Apologie (beeing driuen thereto, not by nature, but by necessitie), I bid you hartely fare-well." This Poem begins thus : " 1 sing a wondrous worke of God, I sing his mercies grear, I sing his justice heere-withall Powr'd from his holy seat. To wit, a cruell Martiall warre ; A bloodie battell bolde, Long doubtsome fight, with slaughter huge, And wounded manifold. Which fought was in Lepantoes gulfe, Betwixt the baptiz'd race, And circumsised Turband Turkes Eencountring in that place. O onely God, I pray thee thrise Thrise one in persons three, 31 Alike Eternall, like of might, Although distinct yee be, I pray thee Father, through thy Sonne, Thy word immortall still, The great Archangell of records. And worker of thy will, To make thy holie Spreit my Muse, And eik my pen inflame, Aboue my skill to write this worke, To magnifie thy name. Into the turning still of times, I erre, no time can be, Whoe was, and is, and times to come, Confounded are all three. I meane before great God in Heauen, (For Sunne and Moone deuides The times in Earth by houres and dayes, And seesons still that slides ) Yet Man, whom Man must understand, Must speake into this cace, As man, our flesh will not permit, Wee heauenlie things imbrace. Then, as I els began to say, One day it did fall out As glorious God in glistering throne With Angells round about Did sit, and Christ at his right hand, That craftie Satan came, Deceauer, Lyar, hating man, And God's most sacred name, This olde abuser stood into The presence of the Lord ; Then in this manner Christ accus'de The sower of discord. I know thou from that city comes, 32 Constantinople great, Where thou hast by thy malice made The faithles Turkes to freat ; Thou hast inflamde their maddest mindes With raging fire of wraith, Against them all that doe professe My name with feruent fayth. How long, O Father, shall they thus Quite vnder foote be tred, By faithles folkcs, who executes What in this snake is bred ? Then Satan answerd, Fayth, quoth he, Their faith is too too small, They striue methinke on either part, Who farthest backe can fall. Hast thou not giuen them in my hands Euen boath the sides I say, That I, as best doth seeme to me, May use them euery way ? Then Jehovah, whose nod doth make The heauens and mountains quake, Whose smallest wrath the centres makes Of all the earth to shake ; Whose worde did make the world of nought, And whose approoving syne Did stablish all even as wee see, By force of voice deuine ; This God began from thundering throte Graue wordes of waight to bring ; All christians serues my Sonne though not Aright in everie thing. No more shall now these Christians be With Infidels opprest ; So of my holie hallowed name The force is great and blest. 33 Desist, O tempter. Gabriel come, O thou Archangel true, Whome I haue oft in message sent To Realmes and Townes anew. Go quicklie hence to Venice Towne, And put into their minds To take reuenge of wrongs the Turks Haue done in sundrie kinds. No whistling winde with such a speed From hilles can hide ore heugh, As he whose thought doth furnish speed, His thought was speed aneugh." " The Angell then ariu'd into This artificiall Towne, And chang'd in iikenes of a man, He walkes both vp and downe ; While time he met some man of spreit, And then began to say, What doe we all ? me thinke we sleepe : Are we not day by day By cruell Turks aud infidells Most spitefullie opprest ? Go too, go too, once make a proofe ; No more let vs desist. To bold attempts God giues successe, If once assay we list." The whole poem consists of 915 lines, besides two choruses at the end ; the first, Chorus Venetus, of 60 lines; and the other, Chorus Angelorum, of 92 lines. At the end is a Sonnet which Mr. Gillies has transcribed into his Preface already mentioned. F 34 Now follows a Third Title-Paa:e: *cr La Lepafithe de Jaques VI. Roy d'Escosse, faicte fran- coise par le Sieur Du Bartas. Imprime a Edinburg, par Robert Walde-grave, Imprimeur du Roy. Anno Dom. 1591. Auec Privilege de sa Majestd. After a prose Address to the Reader, is the fol- lowing PREFACE DU TRADVCTEVR A L'AUTHEUR. JAQUES, si tu marchois d'un pied mortel 9a bas, Hardy ientreprendroy de talloner tes pas : J'estendroy tous mes nerfs et ma course sacree Loing, loing lairroit a dos les aisles de Boree. Mais, puis qu Aigle nouueau tu te guindes es deux, Colle bas, ie te suy settlement de mes yeux : Mais plustost du desir : ou, si ie me remue, Ombre ie vole en terre et toy dedans la nue. He ! fusse ie vrayment, o Phoenix Escossois, Ou l'ombre de ton corps, ou l'Echo de ta voix. Si ie n'auoy l'azur, Tor, et l'argent encore Dont ton plumage astre brillantement s'honnore, Au moins i'auroy ta forme : et si mon rude vers N'exprimoit la douceur de tant d'accords diuers, II retiendroit quelque air de tes voix plus qu' humaines, Mais, Pies taisez vous pour ouyr les Camaenes. In commendation of this Poem let me cite the opinion of Dr. Gabriel Harvey, expressed in his rare pamphlet entitled Pierce's Supererogation, 1593, 4to. in answer to Tom Nash. And while I do this, I cannot refrain from beginning with the preceding passages, 35 which relate to the Arcadia of my favourite Sir Philip Sydney. " What should I speak of the two brave Knights Mu- sidorus, and Pyrocles, combined in one excellent Knight, Sir Philip Sydney; at the remembrance of whose worthy and sweet virtues my heart melteth ? will you needs have a written Palace of Pleasure, or rather a printed Court of Honour? Read the Countess of Pe/nlroke's Arcadia, a gallant Legendary full of pleasurable accidents, and profitable discourses ; for three things especially very notable ; for amOurous courting, (he was young in years ; ) for sage counselling, (he was ripe in judgement}) and for valourous fighting, (his sovereign profession was armes-) and delightful pastime by way of Pastoral exercises, may pass for the fourth. He that will love, will learn to love of him that will teach him to live; and furnish him with many pithy and effectual instructions, delectably interlaced byway of proper descriptions of excellent personages, and common narrations of other notable occurrences ; in the vein of Sallust, Livy, Cor- nelius Tacitus, Justin, Eutropius, Philip de Confines, Guicciar- dine, and the most sententious Historians that have powdered their style with the salt of discretion, and seasoned their judg- ment with the leaven of experience. There want not some subtle stratagems of importance, and some politic secrets of privity : and he that would skilfully and bravely manage his weapon with a cunning fury, may find lively precepts in the gallant examples of his valiantest duellists, esspecially of Palladius and Daiphantus ; Zetmane, and Amlus, and Amphialus ; Pyrocles and Anaxius ; Musidorus and Amphialus ; whose lusty combats may seem heroical monomachies. And that the valour of such redoubted men may appear the more conspicuous and admirable, by comparison and interview of their contraries, smile at the ridiculous encounters of Damaetas and Doras j of Damaetas and Clinius : and ever when you think upon Damaetas, remember the confuting champion, more surquidrous than Anaxius, and more F 2 36 absurd than Damaetas : and if I should always hereafter call him Damaetas, I should fit him with a name, as naturally proper to him as his own. Gallant Gentlemen, you that honour virtue, and would enkindle a noble courage in your minds to every excellent pur- pose ; if Homer be not at hand, (whom I haue often termed the Prince of Poets, and the poet of Princes), you may read his furious Iliads and cunning Odysseys in the brave adventures of Pyrocles and of Musidorus : when Pyrocles playeth the doughty fighter, like Hector, or Achilles ; Musidorus the valiant captain, like Pandorus, or Diomedes ; both the famous eirant knights, like iEneas, or Ulysses. Lord, what would himself have proved in fine, that was the gentleman of Courtesy, the esquire of Industry, and the knight of Valour at those years r Live ever, sweet Book, the silver image of his gentle wit, and the golden pillar of his noble courage ; and ever notify unto the world that thy writer was the Secretary of Eloquence, the breath of the Muses j the honey-bee of the daintiest flowers of Wit and Art ; the pith of moral and intellectual virtues ; the arm of Bellona in the field j the tongue of Suada in the chamber ; the spirit of Practice in esse ; and the paragon of Excellency in print. And now, while I consider what a trumpet of honour Homer hath been to stir up many worthy princes, I cannot forget a worthy Prince, that is, Homer to himself, a golden spur to nobility, a sceptre to virtue, a verdure to the spring, a Sun to the day; and hath not only translated the two divine Poems of Salustius Du Bartas, his Heavenly Urany, and his Hellish Furies ; but hath read a most valorous martial lecture unto himself in his own victorious Lepanto, a short, but heroical work, in metre, but royal metre, fit for David's harp. Lepanto, first the glory of Christendom against the Turk, and now the garland of a Sovereign Crown. When young kings have such a care of their flourishing prime, and like Cato, are ready to render an account of their 37 vacant hours, as if April were their July, and May their August 5 how should gentlemen of years employ the golden talent of their industry and travel ? with what fervency, what Vigour, with what zeal, with what incessant and indefatigable endeavour ? Fie upon fooleries ! there be honourable works to do, and notable works to read ! The afore-named Bartas, (whom elsewhere I have named the Treasurer of Humanity, and the Jeweller of Divinity,) for the highness of his subject, and the majesty of his verse, nothing inferior unto Dante, (whom some Italians prefer before Virgil or Homer,) a right inspired and enravished poet full of chosen, grave, profound, venerable, and stately matter, even in the next degree to the sacred and reverend state of heavenly divinity itself. In a manner the only poet whom Urany hath vouchsafed to laureate with her own heaven]}- hand ; and worthy to be alledged of divines and counsellors, as Homer is quoted of philosophers and orators. Many of his solemn verses are oracles ; and one Bartas, that is one French Solomon, more weighty in stern and mighty counsel then the Seven Sages of Greece. Never more beauty in vulgar languages ; but his stile addeth favour and grace to beauty ; and in a goodly body represented a puissant soul. How few verses carry such a personage of state ? or how few arguments such a spirit of majesty ? Or where is the divine instinct that can sufficiently commend such a volume of ce- lestial inspiration ? What judgement hath the noble youth, the harvest of the spring, the sap of Apollo's tree, the diadem of the Muses, that leaveth the enticingest flowers of delight to reap the maturest fruits of wisdom ? Happy plants, that speedily shew forth their generous nature ; and a sovereign good possesseth those worthy minds that suffer not their affections to be inveigled or intangled with an unworthy thought ! Great exercises become great personages : as the Magnet approveth his nobility in com- manding iron, and taming the sea : baser or meaner pastimes 38 belong unto meaner persons ; as jet discovereth his gentry in drawing chaff, hairs, and such (rifles. A meet quality for jet, or pretty feat for amber, to juggle chaff, fescues, or the like weighty burdens ! but excellent minds are employed like the noble Magnes, and ever conversant either in effecting, or in perusing, or in penning, excellent works."* When King James had published his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance, and Sir Henry Savile translated it into Latin, the Latin copy was by the Popish party immediately sent to Rome, and by the Pope con- demned as impious and heretical. From Rome it was sent to Suarez, who by the Pope's command was to confute and answer it. He undertook, and finished the answer, sent it to Rome, where it was highly ap- proved, printed, and published with many solemn ap- probations. Kennett's MSS. B. M. " Utinam non plane sit inutilis Ecclesiae Dei Serenissimi Regis labor. Si quis putat magnae Britannia? Regem in eju s generis scriptis aliena industria opus habere, fallitur. Ipse harum controversiarum peritissimus est, et in sacris Uteris versatissimus. Casaub. Epist. 684. Nescio Pege, publicatus liber ille aureus, Gallice, Italice, Teutonice, Latine quern rex inter ysi^Xia. esse voluit, Henrico principi, cui in privatos usus eura dicarat. Andr. ad Card. Bell. Apolog. Resp.f p. 124. * Gabriel Harvey's Pierce's Suptrerogation, p. 5], 54. f Kennett's MSS. (1054, p. z&.) B. M. 39 6 The Mirrour of Modestie wherein appeareth as in a per- fect Glasse, how the Lord delivereth the innocent from all imminent perils, and plagueth the blood-thirstye hypocrites with deserued punishments. Shewing that the graie heades of dooting adulterers shall not go with peace into the grave, neither shall the righteous be for- saken in the daie of trouble. By R. G. Maister of Artes. Imprinted at London by Roger Warde, dwell- inge at the signe of the Talbot neare unto Holburne Conduit, 1584. * This early work of Robert Greene, is a small Octavo, and extends only to Sig. C. 6. It has an Address to the gentle Reader's health, and a Dedication " To the Right Honourable and Vertuous Ladie the La- die Margaret Countesse of Darbie" to whom Robert Greene " wisheth health and increase of honour and Vertue." " I think," says he, " no fitter present for your Ladyship's personage, than this Mirrour of Chastitie, because you are ver- tuous. The renowne of whose vertuous qualities is such, and so great, that your very foes, if you have any, shall be forced, maugre their face, to speake well, whatsoever their spiteful mindes do tliinke. The fame therefore, right Honourable, of * Bound up in the same volume, in the British Museum, is A Mirrhor mete for all Mothers, Mat/ones, and Maidens, intituled The Mirrhor of Modestie, no lesse profitable and pleasant, then necessarie to he read and practised. Imprinted at London for Edward White at the little northe-dore oj Paules at the signe of the Gun. No date — small Octavo. It is dedicated by E. VV. to the Lady Anne, wife to the Right Wor- shipful Sir Thomas Lodge, Knt. 40 this your vertuous life, and the reporte of your Ladiship's sur- passinge Courtesie encouraged me to present this pamphlet to your honour's protection." This was Lady Margaret, wife of Henry Stanley Earl of Derby, and daughter of Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland by Lady Eleanor Brandon. The story is that of Susannah and the Elders. TITUS OATES. " Since I am entered upon curiosities," says the learned Antiquary, Thomas Baker, in a letter to Bishop Kennett, " I shall add one other concerning a man very famous, born in your Diocese, whereunto I was led by a Note at the Continu- ation of Calamy, p. 586. This Mr. Oates was the father of Dr. Titus Oates, &c. " Titus Oates, Rutland, de Oakham, filius Samuel Oates Clerici. Annos natus 18 ; Literis institutus in Com. Sussex; ad- missus in Coll. Caii Jan. 2Q, \G6j , (Registr. Coll. Can.) Idem admissus in Coll. Joh. Subsizator, Tutore Magr. Watson, Feb. 2, 1668. (Registr. Coll. Joh. J "Sam. Oates, Coll. Sidn. A.M. l63(). Sept. 2, 1645. Whereas the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Croydon in the County of Surry is, and standeth sequestered from Sam. Ber- nard, D.D. to the use of Sam. Oates, A.M. who is sithence deceased. — Ordered &c. Books of the Committee for Plundered Ministers, ad An. 1645. 41 " That Titus Oates was once an Anabaptist appears from an Anabaptist Confession of Faith, &c. (printed, penes me. T. B.), every article or Chapter signed by Titus Oates, which I keep by me as a rarity." Baker's Letters, ap. Kennett's MSS. 8 THAT WHICH SEEMS BEST IS WORST. Exprest in a paraphrastical Transcript of Juvenal's tenth Satyre. Together with the tragicall narration. (, f Virginia's death interserted. By W. B. Nee verbum verbo ciuabit reddere fidus Interpres. The pith is Juvenal's, but not the rime. All that is good is his, the rest is mine. Imprinted by Felix Kingston, for Nathaniel Newberry, and are to be sold at his shop under St. Peters in Cornhill, and in Pope's Head Alley, 16*17- \2mo. Whether the difficulty of the undertaking, or the nature of the subject be the cause, the fact is worthy of remark, that no general translation of Juvenal was made till the latter end of the reign of Charles the First ; and, perhaps, the small volume before us, if it he not too paraphrastic for that title, may be accepted as the first effort to present the stately indignation of the most powerful Roman Satirist in an English dress. When the industry with which George Steevens com- piled the catalogue of ei Ancient Translations from Classick Authors," prefixed to his edition of Shakspeare, is considered ; and it is remembered that no translation of* the whole or part of the Satires, of Juvenal is found o 42 therein, the Tract before us may at least claim the merit of scarcity, which, in these times is, it must be owned, no slender praise. The merit of the Transla- tion, for such we may consider it, is easily appreciated. To determine who is the W. B., the translator, is much more difficult. Though there is always much uncer- tainty in ascribing compositions to any writer upon the naked authority of the initial letters of his name, part of the reserve, necessary in such a case, is removed by the internal evidence of the work, which evinces a hand accustomed to composition, and is such as would have put the credit of few Translators of the period into the danger of disgrace. There are two minor poets of the reign of James the First, William Basse, and William Bark- stead, who may, in the absence of other evidence, seem to divide the claim between them. Basse has a tribute of praise to " poette Shak- speare," which stands at the head of the commen- datory poems on the great bard ; and it appears, from Warton's Life of Bathurst, that Basse had a volume of poems ready for the press, which we may conjecture the confusion of the times prevented ap- pearing. Let it be remembered, too, that the cele- brated song beginning " From forth my dark and dismal cell," originally set to music and published by Henry Lawes, was the work of William Basse. This fact, with a further tribute to his talents, is thus recorded in Isaac Walton's scientific and fascinating volume. Peter requests his friend Corydon to sing a song for him ; to which he re- plies, " I will sing a song if any body will sing another ; 43 else, to be plain with you, I will sing none : I am none of those that sing for meat" (of which, by the way, the number has never been small), " but I will sing for company." Then, says Piscator, " I'll promise you I'll sing a song that was lately made at my request," probus hie amor est dignusque notari, " by Mr. William Basse, one that hath made the choice songs of The Hunter in his Career, and of Tom o Bedlam, and many others of note." After Corydon has finished one of Sir John Chalkhill's ditties, Peter chants a piscatory eclogue, wherein the art of Angling is moralized with a fervour which would have enchanted the heart of Mrs. Flowerdew herself. As far as versifying is concerned, we have here evidence enough, perhaps, of the ability of Basse to furnish the rhymes; but the proof of the learning re- quisite for the purpose is not so apparent. The qualification of his competitor in this respect cannot be disputed. To say nothing concerning merely English verses, Barkstead, as early as lf>07, had para- phrased, much after the manner of the volume before us, the interesting tale of Myrrha, the mother of Adonis, from the 10th Book of the Metamorphoses, not without an eye to Apollonius. Till, therefore, a more feasible claimant shall appear, I shall ascribe the present speci- men of a translation of Juvenal to William Barkstead; and in the interim, extract a few passages as examples of his talents both as a scholar and a poet. The Translator thus commences the poem with no violent regard to quantities ; In all the lands, from Gades unto the East, To Ganges, few there are who know what's best g 2 44 Or worst, though error's mist were quite removed ; For what with reason is there feared or loved ? What in conceit hath ere so well begun, Which hath not in the end been wish'd undone r The following, from the " Temporibus diris igitur, &.c," is better poetry, though somewhat more dilated. Thus, in those cruel times when Nero bad The soldiers rifle all the goods men had, They get them presently to Longine's house, To Seneca's rich gardens, where they rouse, And spoile, and beare away whate'er they can, And then beset the house of Lateran : These doe they rob, while as the poor man sleepes ; Seldom the soldier in the cottage peepes. Bear but a little of thy silver plate At night about thee, when thou travel'st late ; The sword, the speare, the shaddow of a reede Shaken in moonlight, fills thee full of dreade ; Whereas the empty traveller goes by, And sings before a thiefe full merily. The last couplet but one, though somewhat too diffuse, is a very poetical representation of the Motes ad lunam trepidabis arundinis ambram of the original. Another excerpt, from the Formam optat modico pueris,ik,c., will suffice to shew the vein of poetry which the author exhibits, and how far he is master of his original. Next, now the tender mother on her knees, When she but Venus' temple only sees, Softly she prayes for beauty for her sonne, But for her daughter she will ne'er have done. They both, forsooth, must beare away the prize, And be admired and wooed by each man's eyes : 45 Why should they not ? Did not faire Venus joy To see Dan Cupid, and to busse the boy ? Did not Latona smile, and laugh to see How beautiful Diana seem'd to bee ? Yet though this beauty make the mother glad, So faire a face as once Lucretia had She feares to wish ; she was too faire, alas ! Her mine and her death her beautie was. Her beauty 'twas which Tarquin did admire, Her beauty 'twas that set his heart on fire ; Her beauty 'twas which brought him to her bed, Where for her beauty she was ravished ; Which when she knew, she so abhorred the deed, With her own hands she made her own heart bleed ! Where Juvenal slightly glances at the fate of Vir- ginia, Barkstead quits his original, and " interserts," as he expresses it, the tragical narration of her death, with all the minuteness, but wanting much of the painful interest with which the transaction is related in the third book of Livy. This is no reproach to his talents, for it would be difficult to exceed the dramatic effect with which Livy has described it ; and our old dramatist Webster, though not deficient in vigour, in his tragedy of Appius falls short of the nervous ani- mation of the Roman historian. Barkstead takes up Juvenal again, at . . . Filius autem Corporis egregii miseros trepidosque parentes Semper habet, and concludes his paraphrase, as he modestly calls it, with the following verses. 46 But let me shew what thou thyself maist give, One way there is, no more, in peace to live : Wherein thou maist live most contentedly, And that is — if thou shalt live virtuously. Fortune, avaunt ! Were men but onely wise, Thou hadst not power on them to tyrannize ; And yet a Goddesse of thee we must make, And give thee leave in Heaven a place to take ; Thou art a Goddesse, and in Heaven we place thee j But, were men wise, they out of Heaven would chase thee. O. G. 9 The Shepheard's Oracles delivered in certain Eglognes, By Fra. Quarles. London, Printed by and for John Marriot and Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at their shop in St. Dunstan's Church-Yard, Fleet Street, under the Dyall. 164G. Quarto, pp. 143. This is a posthumous work of the well known Author of the Emblems. It consists of eleven Eclogues, all founded on the sad political disputes of that gloomy period. A short specimen will be enough. ECLOGUE VIII. ANARCHUS AND CANONICUS. " Anarch. Graze on, my sheep, and let your souls defy The food of common shepherds ; come not nigh The Babylonish pastures of this nation ; They are all heathenish ; all ahomination : Their Pastors are profane ; and they have trod The steps of Belial, not the ways of God. You are a chosen, a peculiar crew, That blessed handful, that selected few, 47 That shall have entrance ; set apart and gifted For holy exercises, cleans'd, and sifted, Like flour from bran, and separated from the coats Of the unsanctified, like sheep from goats. But who comes here ? My lambs, why graze ye thus? Why stand ye frighted ? Tis Canonicus ! Cation. Good-morrow, Swain ! God keep thee from the sorrow Of a sad day! What, speechless! Swain, good- morrow ! What, Shepherd ! Not a word to entertain The wishes of a friend? Good morrow, Swain ! Not yet ? what mean these silent common-places Of strange aspects ? what mean these antic faces ? I fear his costive words, too great for vent, Stick in his throat, how like a Jack-a-Lent He stands, for boys to spend their shrovetide throws, Or, like a puppet, made to frighten crows ! Anarch. Thou art a limb of Satan ; and thy throat A sink of poison ; thy Canonical coat Is nothing but a livery of the Beast ; Thy language is profane ; and I detest Thy papal greetings, and that heathenish fashion Of this your Antichristian salutation. In brief, God keep me from the greater sorrow Of thee ; and from the curse of thy good morrow ! In the last Eclogue is introduced the following- pointed Song, in ridicule of the Puritans. Anarchus. Know then, my Brethren, Heaven is clear, And all the clouds are gone ; -» 4iS The Righteous now shall flourish, and Good days are coming on ; Come then, my Brethren, and be glad, And eke rejoice with me j Lawn sleeves and Rochets shall go down, And hey ! then up go we ! We'll break the windows which the Whore Of Babylon hath painted, And when the Popish Saints are down, Then Barow shall be sainted j There's neither Cross nor Crucifix Shall stand for men to see ; Rome's trash and trumperies shall go down, And hey ! then up go we ! Whate'er the Popish hands have built, Our hammers shall undo ; We'll break their pipes, and burn their copes, And put down churches too ; We'll exercise within the groves, And teach beneath a tree ; We'll make a pulpit of a Cart, And hey ! then up go we ! We'll down with all the Varsities, Where Learning is profest, Because they practise and maintain The language of the Beast : We'll drive the Doctors out of doors, And Arts whate'er they be : We'll cry both Arts and Learning down, And hey ! then up go we ! 49 We'll down with Deans and Prebends too j But I rejoice to tell ye, How then we will eat pie our fill, And capon by the belly. We'll burn the Fathers' witty tomes, And make the schoolmen flee j We'll down with all that smells of wit, And hey ! then up go we ! If once that Anti-Christian crew Be crush'd and overthrown, We'll teach the Nobles how to crouch, And keep the Gentry down. Good manners have an ill report, And turn to pride we see ; We'll therefore cry good manners down, And, hey ! then up go we ! The name of Lord shall be abhorr'd, For every man's a brother ; No reason why in church or state One man should rule another . But when the change of Government Shall set our fingers free, We'll make the wanton Sisters stoop, And, hey ! then up go we ! Our coblers shall translate their souls From caves obscure and shady : We'll make Tom T — as good as my Lord, And Joan as good as my Lady. We'll crush and fling the marriage ring Into the Roman See ; We'll ask no bonds ; but e'en clap hands, And, hey ! then up go we ! H 60 10 3Stograpf)tana, I. Dr. John Mill, Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Died in 1707. |E was a poor child, Tabarder, and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. — Installed in the 4th Prebend of Canterbury, July 27, 1704. — Died of an apoplexy, June 23, 1707, jetat 63. '* He was a ready extempore Preacher, be- came very early Chaplain to King Charles II. by the interest of a Pupil's father; was discovered by Bp. Fell, to have a good warm impetuous inclination to studies and labours; and was therefore by the Bishop advised to undertake the laborious task of giving a new Edition of the Greek Testa?ne?it, with various lec- tions ; and to encourage him the Bishop promised to undertake for the charge of the impression. But upon the Bishop's death, the author was forced to take it upon himself; and by the expense of it brought himself into great difficulties, and could never have subsisted without a wife's portion. "He succeeded Dr. Crossthwaite in the principality of St. Ed- mund Hall, and had thereby the advantage of shining the brighter in it: but was so much taken up with the one thing, his Testa- ment, that he had not leisure to attend to the discipline of the House, which rose and fell according to his different Vice-prin- cipals. " I think he talked and wrote the best Latin of any man in the University, and was the most airy and facetious in conversation — in all respects a bright man. " He drank very much coffee, and his apoplexy seemed owing to it. r. i " He would often complain of Dr.Beveridge for a narrow man in leaving the Prebendal house in Canterbury in a very bad con- dition, and refusing to allow one farthing towards the repairs of it." Kennelt's MSS. apud Lan. Br. Mus. 2. John Gauden, Bishop of Worcester. Died September 1Q, 1 662. This Bishop is famous for the dispute about the real author of the Eiy.uv BamXtxn, of which the merits have been claimed for him. " After a long and much inquiry and consideration, I think the truth on both sides was thus : King Charles, amidst his so- litudes and sufferings, did undoubtedly pen most of those Medita- tions upon the particular occasions to which they were adapted; and as written by the king's own hand they were entrusted to an Essex minister, of Rayne, Mr. Edward Simonds, to convey to the press. He being interrupted by the troubles of the time, and his death, committed them to his neighbour Dr. Gauden, who being a man of a luxuriant fancy, could not let them pass through his hands without amendments and additions. He got some few chapters to be added by another hand ; he himself threw in the Ejaculations and Devotions, or most of them, and fitting out a title, printed them in Holland, &c. It turned out to good ac- count in raising greater pity and veneration for the Royal Martyr. At his son's return Dr. Gauden valued himself, not as the sole author of the book, but as the conveyancer of it, and great im- prover and Editor of the work. And as a challenge of reward for that service did in his manner demand the See of Winchester, and pretended to a promise of it ; and when, upon the preference of Bishop Morley, he was forced to accept of Worcester, the repulse, as he thought it, stuck so close to him, that it is thought his death soon after was owing to his regret upon it." Ibid. 3. Guy Carleton, Bishop of Chichester. DiedJuly6,l685. Born of an ancient and genteel family in Cumberland. " A gentleman of Sussex told me" (says Kennett), " that he had no good character but that of a good Horseman, and a good H 2 52 Huntsman. He kept a good pack of dogs, and would often Tide a hunting on the Downs. One of his chief Sportsmen was a Chichester Butcher. Once when the dogs were at a loss, the Bishop overtakes the Butcher, and asks him which way the hare was gone. " Gone," says the Butcher, " why by G — , my Lord, he is gone to the Devil j" " Well, well ; follow after ; ride on, Tom, ride on," &c. " I have heard Mr. John Cradock, brother to Dr. Zachary Cradock, Residentiary of Chichester, say, thattheBishop's daughter was a great disputant for all the ceremonies of the church, and would often disturb the table with her zeal upon that subject." Ibid. 4. Dr. Thomas Marshall, Dean of Gloucester, and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Died April 19, 1685. " Whilst Mr. John Kettlewell remained atColeshill, died the pious and learned Dr. Marshall, the industrious Editor of the Saxon and Gothic Gospels, and Reviver of Septentrional learning in the University of Oxford, Rector of Lincoln College, who left Mr. Kettlewell his executor, and in his last will gave him 201. for his " faithfulness (as the words of the Will are), in exe- cuting this my last Will, whereof I make no doubt. " Item, I give my executor all my Socinian books, which I desire may be for his own use, and not to come into the hands of others that may be corrupted by them. I leave to him also all papers and note books written by myself." Ibid. Life of Mr. John Kettle- yell, 8m. p. 125. 5. Archbishop Sheldon, died November 9, l6?7- «« I have heard that Archbishop Sheldon did not only wish for the gout, but proffered 1000/. to any person who would help him to it ; looking upon it as the only remedy for the distemper in the head, which he feared might in time prove an apoplexy, as in fine it did, and killed him." Ibid, from Dr. Pope's. Life of Bishop Ward, p. 180. 53 6. Dr. John Pearson, Bislwpof Chester. Died July, lfisfj. He was consecrated to that See February 9, 1672. " He had" (Keonett says), " before his death his under- standing very much impaired, and his senses in a manner gone. I well remember that Mr. Henry Dodwell, his great friend and fellow labourer, once told me at his house within my parish of Shottesbrooke, that in his way to or from Ireland he called to wait on the Bishop at his palace in Chester, and got into the Library, and asked to see the Bishop. After much importunity the Bishop was led in by an old woman his nurse, and taking no notice of Mr. Dodwell, he looked round upon the books, held out his hands, and cried out, " O sad, whose books are all these?" At which, said Mr. Dodwell, I was so surprized, and so ashamed, that I went away without hearing any other word from him." Rid. 7. Dr. Robert Grove, Bishop of Chichester, died in Sep- tember 1696, tetat. 62. " He waited as a Chaplain on King William, with Dr. Scot, in attendance upon the Bishop of London in the General Congress at the Hague in Winter 169O; returned in the Spring 1691 ; was nominated to the See of Chichester April 23, 1691. "He left his wife and children unprovided for; the widow sup- ported by charity, and the sons unfortunate, though they met with good friends for their father's sake." Ibid. 8. Dr. William Beaw, Bishop of Landaff . Died February 10, 1705. He was promoted to the See of Landaff 1679- " 1 have heard Archbishop Tenison complain" (says Kennett), *' that this old Bishop some very few years before he died, was very desirous to be translated to another Welsh See, and wrote to him on that subject, valuing his services, &c. ; to which the Archbishop replied, that at his years he should think but of pn* translation — to a seat above." Ibid. 54 Q. Elizabeth, Relict of Oliver Cromwell. " Mem. on July 14, J710, Coming from Maxey I went into the church of Narborough, County of Northampton, a Rectory in the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough, and saw there a very elegant south chancel or place of sepulchre, raised by the family of Claypole, son-in-law to Oliver Cromwell, who had a fair seat in this parish, now the possession of the Lord Fitzwilliam of Milton: wherein was interred the body of the widow of Oliver Cromwell, without any monument or inscription. I found only this entry made in the Register Book of the said Parish. " Anno 1665. Elizabeth the relict of Oliver Crom- well sometime Protector of England, was buried November thCj 19th." Ibid. 10. Dr. Francis Hawkins, Dean of Chichester. Diedin \6§9- He was installed Dean May 12, 1688, and was succeeded by William Hayley, S. T. P. who was installed June 5, 1699. " Dr. Hawkins, who was Chaplain to the Tower, had merited of the Government by a zealous service among the state prisoners. He had been particularly acceptable in his dealings with Fitzharris before his execution, and obtaining a confession, &c. for which an arch fellow came up to the Doctor one day in the street* of London, and leaning his face towards him, cried, ** Quceso, X)omine, accipe confexsio7iem meam ; " but the Doctor happily turned the jest, and answered » " Yes, Sir, I'll take your con* fession when you come to be hanged." Ibid. 11. Dr. Edward Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester. Died Au- gust, 26, 1714. " As I remember, when his Lordship once preached for me in my church of St. Botolph's Aldgate, he told me he was born in that parish, I think in Houndsditch." " He was nominated to the See of Gloucester April 23, lfi9U ** Mr. Thomas Firmin often printed ten thousand copies of the 55 Scripture Catechism, which some think was written by Dr. Worthington : but I have cause to believe, that the author was Dr. Fowler, now Bishop of Gloucester, who, in compiling it, followed the method of Dr. Worthington," &c. Life of Thomas Firmin, 8vo. p. 57. "This worthy man had a very superstitious fancy in catching at the stories of Apparitions and Witches; for which reason the Earl of Shaftsbury, living in the same parish of Chelsea, in his Letter to a Lord concerning Enthusiasm meant him in this reflection : ■•« Were it needful, I could put your Lordship in mind of an eminent, learned, and truly Christian Prelate, you once knew, tvho could have given you a full account of his belief in Fairies," Sec. See the Remarks on that Letter, 1708, 8vo. " He died at Chelsea, and was buried at Hendon, in Mid- dlesex. Ibid. 12. Dr. William Hayhy, Dean of Chichester. Died October 30, 1715. " William Hayley, or Healey, of All Souls College, proceeded A.M. June 23, 1680. He was afterwards Chaplain to Sir Wil- liam Trumbull ; Embassador to Constantinople ; and author of A Sermon preached before the Right Honorable Earl of Berkeley, Governor of the Company of Merchants trading to the Levant Seas, at St. Peter's Church in Broad-street, London, January 30, 1686, on Prov. viii 18. London, 1687, 4/o. " He was presented to the church of St. Giles's in the Field.-; on the death of John Scott, 1695. Installed Dean of Chichester, 1699, on the death of Dr. Francis Hawkins. " He died October 30, 1715, at his house in Great Russell Street, and was buried in the chancel of his parish church of St. Giles. Succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Thomas Sherlock, and in his Rectory by Dr. Baker. ** He married a daughter of Sir Thomas Mears, by whom he left one daughter, and made his brother, Mr. Hayley,* whom he had got in his room to be King's Chaplain, his sole Executor, • Ancestor, I presume! to a living Poet. 56 who was sued for rebuilding the Deanery House at Chichesfer, and condemned to pay 1000/. «* He was a man of sharp and severe wit, and yet had the art of expressing it in a very soft and jocose manner." Ibid. 13. Mr. John Reading, Prebendary of Canterbury, died October 26, 1667. " The account given by Wood ( Ath. II. 287) of this person, was chiefly procured for him by me (W. K.) while I was early acquainted with him by means of my tutor Mr. Allam. I had it by letter from my father Mr. Basil Kennett, who coming to live upon his small estate at Folkestone in Kent about 1664, was for some few years Curate to Mr. Reading at Cheriton near adjoining ; and kept afterwards a long correspondence with his eldest son Mr. John Reading, who lived at Dover, and had some employment in the Post Ofhce and Packet Boats there. The MSS. said then to be in my father's possession are now in mine." Ibid. 14 Dr. Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely. Died May 31, 1707. " Qa. Whether he was the son of Mr. Richard Patrick, Vicar of Welton, in the diocese of Peterborough ? *« He was consecrated Bishop of Chichester October 13, 1689 ; and translated to Ely in June, 1691. Mr. Wharton, in his MS. Notes, thus writes of Dr. Patrick. *' He was a person of great learning and reputation for goodness and wisdom before he was made Bishop ; but after that he lost his reputation through imprudent management, openly favouring the Dissenters, and employing none but such : whereupon he lost the love of the gentry ; and therefore desired a Translation. He attempted to unite the Rectory of Petworth perpetually to his Bishopric, and brought an Act for that purpose into the House of Lords 169O ; which passed there, but was rejected by the House of Commons. Confirmed Bishop of Ely July 2, 1691 - 57 Between his nomination and confirmation he cut down the woods belonging to the See of Chichester to the value of 500/. although the season of cutting wood was then past. " He had a brother, John Patrick, Preacher at the Charter House, who was collated to the first Prebend in the church of Peterborough, June 30, 1685. " He had one only son bred up for what they call a Gentleman, and on a sudden inclined or persuaded to take orders to get church preferment. He lived to enjoy a good estate and fine new house purchased and built by his father, which, after the son's death, was forced to be sold for debts and portions." Ibid. 15. Dr. Thomas Comber, Dean of Durham. " Came in upon the deprivation of Dr. Dennis Granville, Dean of Durham, 169 1, upon the interest of the Duke of Leeds, who was said to receive a gratuity from him." Ibid, l6. Dr. William Lloyd, deprived Bishop of Norwich. Died January J, 1709. " Elected Bishop of Llandaff, 1675; translated to Peterborough, I.679 ; and to Norwich, 1685. " See many things of him in the Life of Mr. John Kctlle- well. The character given of him by his Metropolitan is above any other that can be given. And the trust which he reposed in him is certainly so great, as nothing possibly could be greater. Whether one or other were in the right, either he in giving, or this in accepting, is not the question. How, likewise, he dis- charged the high trust committed to him, and with what prudence and privacy he transacted matters relating to it, so as not to give thereby any umbrage to the government, or as little as possible, will be proper for an Ecclesiastical history of those times to ex- plain distinctly. He outlived all the Bishops except Dr. Kenn, who had made a cession of his title. Dying upon New Year's day at Hammersmith, 1709, according to the English account," r. 8 17. Dr. Robert Frampton, deprived Bishop of Gloucester. Died May 25, 1709. " Elected Bishop of Gloucester, 1681. " lie was Chaplain to the Earl of Elgin, and preached the Funeral Sermon on Christian Countess Dowager of Devonshire, 1673. See Life of the said Cou?itess, 1685, 8vo. p. 93. " See some notices of him in the Life of Mr. John Kettlewell, 8vo. p. 404, of whose works the Bishop was a great admirer. " He was one who was for preserving peace with all as much as possible, and for possessing his soul with patience till God's own time, without any human views whatever, &c. " He lived after his deprivation about 17 years ; and as he had lived privately and inoffensively all that time, without giving any umbrage to the Government, that so in patience and long-suffering "he might approve himself to God and man, he was" privately al.-o, according to his Will, interred at Standish in Gloucestershire." Ibid. J 8. Dr. George Royse, Dean of Bristol, and Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. Died in April, l/OS. " The ingenious and learned Dr. Royse, wno was afterwards Provost of Oriel College, was cotemporary at St. Edmund Iftll with Mr. John Kettlewell, and of the same table with him. And being both persons of a quick and ready talent for managing an argument, they took pleasure in exercising each other upon arduous questions ; by which mutual contest both their minds were not a little improved, though the excellency of these two did not lie in the same way. " As I remember" (says Kennett), " at the approach of the Revolution he preached a bold Sermon against Popery in St. Mary's, Oxford, where the Lord Berkeley being one of his Au- ditors took him into notice and favour, and soon after recom- mended him to Dr. Tillotson, who took him for his Chaplain at Lambeth, and gave him the good Rectory of Newington, Com. Oxford, and procured for him the Deanery of Bristol. In his latter years he sunk much into drinking, and kept an ill woman. 59 ^ho even came over to Windsor and waited with him when he attended at chapel to Queen Anne, as I heard there from several people to my great surprize and grief." Ibid. !£>• Dr John Goodman, Archdeacon of Middlesex. Died 1690. " He was Chaplain to Arthur, Earl of Essex, and owned him to be J'elo de se in the Tower, upon a sort of principle which he had too often declared both in Ireland on the occasion of an Alderman of Dublin's cutting his throat, and in England on occasion of looking on a picture of that Earl of Northumberland, who, in Queen Elizabeth's time, shot himself in the Tower, saying, " the family teas more beholden to that noble Earl than to any one of their ancestors." Ibid. .20. Dr. Joseph Crowther, Chanter of St. Paul's. Died De- cember 10, l6$9. " He was nominated to read the Greek lecture at Oxford, 1648 ; but the Oxford visitors would not permit him to enjoy it. He fled to France, but returning with the King, enjoyed the Greek Lecture at Oxford. " I remember him," says Kennett, " esteemed at Oxford a very severe disputant, and very tenacious of the rules of logic. He would often moderate in the public disputations within his own Hall ; but so fierce and passionate, that if the Opponent made a false syllogism, or the Respondent a wrong answer, he bade the next that sat by him kick their shins; and it became a proverb, Kick-shins Crowther. He was extremely hated at Tredington for his stiff contending with the people. They obliged him to keep a Boar : he got a black one to spite them ; the. black pigs were called Croivthers. He married James, Duke of York, to the daughter of the Earl of Clarendon." Ibid. 1 Q X 9 60 21. Dr. Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough. So elected 1685. *' The mother of Dr. Thomas White, a widow and grave matron, lived long in the family of William Brockman, Esq. of Beachborough in Kent, and was nearly related to that family, and had a jointure of estate in or near Romney Marsh holding of the court of Aldington. " He was an eminent Preacher in London, Chaplain to the Princess Anne, Vicar of Newark, Archdeacon of Nottingham ; a man famous for strength of body and greatness of courage. He fairly beat a trooper of the king's Life-guard at Dartford in Kent, and made him bring the Parson's horse into the stall from which he had moved him ; for which King Charles II. jocosely charged him with high treason." Ibid. 22. Dr. Peter Gunning, Bishop of Ely. Died July 6, 1684. Bishop Burnet in his Vindication, 8vo. 16q6, p. Q3, says, " I passed over what he had said of my stealing many hints from Bishop Gunning, and then printing them : it is no great matter whether it be true or false; but, as it happens, it is absurdly false. Bishop Gunning had much learning and true piety ; but his ideas were so confused, and so over subtle, that I could never learn any thing in all the time that ever I conversed with him, and so I did not wait often on him." Ibid. 23 Henry Cornish, Esq. executed for High Treason, l6S9. " The Commons in a conference with the Lords about the Bill for reversing the two judgments given against Titus Oates, gave reasons of disagreement to their Lordships' amendments, wherein they say, July 22, 1689, that the trial of Oates was at such a time when neither counsel nor witnesses durst appear for the said Titus Oates ; when perjury was countenanced by tampering with and suborning witnesses to swear falsely, by judges not daring to take notice how witnesses in latter trials had contradicted what they swore in former trials ; but suffered Mr. Cornish in particular »o 61 be attainted upon such contrary evidence, though the said contrary evidence had been twice printed before by authority." Ibid.-— Lords' Journ. l68Q. 24. John RosewcU, Canon of Windsor and Master of Eton School. Died October 30, lfj84. *.' I have been well informed that Master Rosewell havin« chastised a boy with too much severity who died upon it, was so affected with the misfortune, that he threw up the school, grew melancholy, and even mad, fancying the king's messengers were coming to apprehend him for treason ; for which reason he would not be persuaded to stir out of doors," &c. Ibid, 25. Dr. Thomas' Burnet, Master of the Charter-House. Died in 1J15. " Mr. Thomas Smelt, an excellent Grammarian, was Master of the Free School atNorth-Allerton, in Yorkshire, under whom were bred Dr. Hickes, Mr. Kettlewell, &c. The learned Dr. Thomas Burnet, Master of the Charter House, was also bred under him, for whom he had a particular kindness when he was his scholar, and for many years after he left the school, used to propose him as a great example to us, who came after him." Ibid. — Life of Mr. John Kettlewell, 8vo. 26. Mr. Thomas Rymer, Antiquary and Historiographer. Died December 14, 1713. " The very learned and ingenious Mr. Thomas Rymer, well known for his great critical skill in human learning, especially in poetry and history, was the scholar of Mr. Thomas Smelt, Master of the Free School of North-Allerton, and his great favourite, and in the same class with myself," (i. e. George Hickes) — Life of Kettlewell. " He died December 14, and was buried December 17, 1713, in the Church of St. Clement, Danes, Middlesex. Ibid. 62 27 . EdwardWajAe, Archdeacon oj Taunton. Died June 8, 1712. " Edward Waple, B. D. installed Prebendary of Winchester April 2Q, l6g0, on the death of Dr. Bradshaw. He was also in- stalled Prebendary of Kilverton Prima, viz. the golden Prebend of the Church of Wells, in May, 10'80; installed Archdeacon of Taunton April 22, lC82 ; and on the death of Dr. Bell July 20', l6'83, he was made Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, London, where he continued till his death on June 8, 1712, from whence being brought from London he was on the 11th of the same month interred in a neat brick grave in the outer chapel of St. John's College in Oxford, over which against the west wall is erected a fair marble tablet by his executor, Mr. Robert Waple, with a pe- culiarly modest and humble inscription on it, composed by him- self, as appears by his last will in the Prerogative Court of Canter- bury, in which are mentioned several Benefactions; which deserve not to be passed over in obscurity ; viz. a Legacy of 700/. to this College, the place of his Education, and Patrons of his Living, besides a gift of 500/. in his lifetime. He also gave to the beauti- fying of St. Sepulchre's church 200/. And an excellent and most judicious as well as numerous Collection of Books to the Library belonging to Sion College for the use of the Clergy of London: " Hie jacetEDWARDus W t aple Hujus Collegii quondam Socius, Christi minister indignissimus, Suo merito Peccatorum maximus, Dei gratia Paenitentium minimus. Inveniat misericordiam in illo die! Stet Lector Paenitentialis hac Tabella! Obiit octavo die mensis Junii AnnoDom. MDCCXIT. Annoque aetatis suae sexagesimo primo." " This inscription was composed by himself, and put upon a fair marble Tablet, erected against the wall in the outer chapel of St. John's College, Oxford." Ibid, 63 28. Dr. John Sharman, Archdeacon of Sarum, died on (he 2?th March, 1671. He was appointed Archdeacon of Salisbury, 1670. He was D.D. of Cambridge, and died after a short enjoyment of his dignity March 27, 1671. He was master of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was buried in the chapel. Dr. W. Pope, in his Life of Bishop Ward, writes thus, p. 23. " The greatest light concerning Cambridge transactions be- fore related, I received by a few short indigested notes which Dr. Sharman had collected in order to write the Bishop's Life. This Dr. John Sharman was the Bishop of Salisbury's chaplain, and Archdeacon of North Wilts; a very learned person, and would (had he outlived the Bishop), been the fittest man in the world to have undertaken the task which T, for want of others, am engaged in. But he was untimely cut off by the small pox at theBishop of Salisbury's lodgings in Charter-house yard, March 24, A.D. 1()71, many years before the Bishop, whose life he had de- signed lo have written. "Bishop Ward had invited Dr. Isaac Barrow to live with him, not as a Chaplain, but rather as a friend and companion; yet he did frequently do the duty if the domestic chaplain was absent. Whilst he was there the Archdeaconry of North Wilts became void by the death of Dr. Childrey, if 1 mistake not. This the Bishop proffered to Dr. Barrow ; but he modestly and absolutely refused it." Ibid. 29. Dr. Zachary Cradock, Provost of Eton. Died in October, 1695, Mtat. G'2. "HeleftMr. John Cradock, grocer, without Aldgate, London, his younger Brother, sole Executor. Their elder Brother was an eminent Nonconformist writer. "Dr. Cradock was esteemed the best Preacher of his age, always without notes : and yet he so little affected the popularity of it, that he would often put on his spectacles and spread a book upon the cushion that had nothing written in it. "Archbishop Sharp, while he was himself a very popular 64 Preacher, used to say, that whenever he heard Dr. Cradock preach, he was ashamed to go up into the same pulpit. " He would talk over any subject admirably well : but if de- sired to write down his thoughts upon it, he had not the patience to draw up a discourse in writing. He was averse to the pub- lishing any Sermon : the King commanded one, and he used to call it "My Works r Ibid. 30. Dr. Thomas Turner, Dean of Canterbury. Died Octo* her 8, 1672. " Son of Thomas Turner of Heckfield, in Hampshire, Alder- man and Mayor of Reading in Berkshire; born in St. Giles's, Reading; admitted of St. John's College, HJ10; Dean of Canter- bury, 1643. He died October 8, 1672, in the evening, setat. 81, leaving behind several sons, which he had by his wife, Margaret daughter of Sir Francis Windebank, knight, of whom Francis, Bishop of Ely, was one. *' I have often heard it reported from one of his sons, Dr. Thomas Turner, President of C. C. C. Oxon. that his father, upon mention of the Windebanks would often say, he had been the laughing-stock and leaning-stock of that family , meaning he had been despised and ill-used upon his first marriage, as if he had disparaged the great name and family of Windebank, and yet afterwards they had been glad to hang upon him, and were sup- ported by him. '* The same Dr. Thomas Turner was used to say of his father, that he had frequently this saying, Grammar, Logic, and Love will be ahvays revenged upon their enemies, meaning, they that despised the servile rules of Grammar and Logic would often betray the want of them ; and they who laughed at others for being in love, were often caught, in the same snare." Ibid. >»»»»<3><-t-<-c <<«-i 65 11 ilearatana* Extracts from MS, Letters of Thomas Rearne, to James West Esq. on Subjects of English BibliogfYiphy. g^y^Fg HE Bodleian Letters published in the course ' of last Autumn, have been generally found both interesting and instructive: and among the chief of those, the corres- pondence of the learned Antiquary Thomas Hearne. I have met with a MS. volume of Letters of the same inquisitive and laborious Author in the British Museum, from which I feel gratified in communi- cating the following Extracts, which I doubt not that my readers will peruse with the same avidity as I haveperused them. It will hence appear that many of the books, which are now sought so eagerly, and at such high prices, were even then the objects of pursuit; and the Bibliographer need not be told, that the Library of James West,* of which some part of the Early His- tory is here developed, is yet recorded, as one of the few of which the richness in the curiosities of English o literature has scarcely been exceeded. There is not room in this place, (perhaps it would be superfluous in any part of this work,) to draw the * James West was afterwards Secretary to the Treasury. His daugh- ter and coheir married the late Lord Archer, and died his widow a few years ago. A surviving daughter is still living single in London. K 66 character of Hearne. It is indeed sufficiently known already by the publications of Huddesford and War- ton, of Dibdin and Bliss, and others. But if I had leisure, I confess I would endeavour to discriminate it still more minutely. 1 Letter of Thomas Rearne, to James West, Esq. THOS. CORYAT's CRUDITIES. SIR, " I am surprised to hear of your sudden journey to London, and am the more concern'd to understand that 'tis oo" casion'd by the dangerous illness of so very near and dear a re- lation. I have not yet seen Mr. Lang, to thank him for his very kind present of Cory at' s Crudities, which is a most rare book. But I thank you heartily for your share in conveying it to me. As there are abundance of very weak idle things in that book, so there are withal very many observations, that are very good and useful, as was long since noted by Purchas and some others. The Author kept a Diary in which he entered what- ever notes he thought memorable for many years ; but what became of it after his death is uncertain, tho* 'tis probable that his mother Gertrude (who lived divers years after his death, and died in an extreme old age) destroyed it to prevent farther de- scants upon him. One would wish to have seen that Diary, in which without doubt were many remarks of English affairs ; particularly before he travell'd beyond sea, which was not till he was turned of thirty. I am, &c. Tho. Hearne. Edm. Hall, Oxford, Sept. 9, 1726. 67 2 Extract of another Letter, Feb. 6, 1726. GEORGE CORYAT's POEM. " I have been told Mr. George Coryat's Poem of England is printed, although neither his son Thomas, nor Mr. Wood had seen it. If it be, your curiosity will find it out. There is something in it relating to both Universities, which I should be glad to see. If this Poem be not already printed, 'tis probable it might be worth publishing by somebody, the author being styled by Dr. Caius, Poeta Oxoniensis et cum primis elegans." 3 Extract. Feb. 19* 1726. JOHN LEWIS — THOMAS MADOX. " I never saw Mr. Lewis's Antiquities of the Isle of Thanet. But I have had a character of it. I knew Mr. Madox. His learning lay in affairs of the Exchequer, and he had a pretty good share of the Common Law. But he was little versed in Classics and Philology. I was many years ago acquainted with him in Oxford when he studied for some short time at the Bodleian Library. I know not whether he had any University education." 4 Extract. March 7, 1726. LORD SURREY'S POEMS. " In a Note of the bottom of p. 7 of the 2d. vol. of Leland's Itinerary, I have mentioned a corrected copy of the Earl of Surrey's Poems among Mr. Selden's books. Which note Mr. Sergeant of the Tower observing, he desired me many years since to get these Corrections copied for him - } and he 68 sent down his copy of those Poems for that end. Accordingly, instead of employing any one else, I copied them myself, and returned his book. I do not doubt but it came safe to his hands, tho' he never made me the least acknowledgement either by letter or word of mouth. If this book, in which I entered the corrections, be in his Auction, it would be worth while to se- cure it." * 5 Extract. Match 30, 1727. THE S/VME. "I am glad Surrey's Poems with the MS S. cor- rections that I entered as I remember with my own hand from Mr. Selden's copy, were purchased by so worthy a Gentleman as you mention. I know not whether Mr. Sergeant had any hand in the Edition of these Poems, that came out in 1717* This later Edition is mentioned in p. 36, of Mr. Sergeant's Ca- talogue." 6 Extract. Feb. 7, 1727. WM. TKYNNE. " Win. Pryn is a writer of the lowest class. I should not have made the least inquiry after him, had not you given me the hint. But I cannot meet with the two volumes you speak of. Were there no other, 'tis a sufficient argument that Learning sinks, (and with it Religion), when they propose to reprint any thing done by so very mean an author. *« We are going on at the press with the Black Book of the Exchequer, with all convenient expedition. It is a remarkable piece of Antiquity, and will settle many things about our nobility &c. that even Sir William Dugdale himself was mistaken in. * Mr. West's Note. "James Joy Esq. lought the above Copy of Surrey's Poems." 69 And there are withall many particulars not known in Wor- cester s Annals, that are to go with it." 7 Extract. April 3, I72Q. EARLY PRINTING AT GREENWICH. " There •was Printing at Greenwich temp. Hen. VIII.— Old Mr. Beckford (father of the late Mr. Beck- ford), of Wolvercote near Oxford (a paper-maker), had a Book printed there ; but what it was, or what became of it, I know not. It will be worth your while to take notice if you should meet with any books printed at Greenwich." 8 Extract. April 28, 1729. palmer's book on printing. " I know not what Mr. Palmer may have from Mr. Mattaire (who I hear is his assistant), and from the papers of honest John Bagford ; but being a mere mechanic himself, I cannot expect any curious, short, critical remarks of his own. " The Book you have, printed at Greenwich, is a curiosity, as you have the happiness and good fortune to meet with many curiosities, for which and for your virtues you are much respected by," &c. 9. Extract. July 4, 172p. QU. JOHN LEWIS ? " The person you mention (that hath printed part of my book), is a man of a very vile character, as I have heard long since, and is very pragmatical in Kent, where he is abominated. I do not wonder at the abuse you speak of (for I have not seen the Book), since I have often heard he is a silly Fellow. •o (A man of common sense would have been contented to have stolen without otherwise abusing the person he robbed.) He is an enemy to Antiquity, and is for altering originals. His catechism, I am assured, was stole, and his book, in which he pretends to History and Antiquity, I find are in no esteem.* " I am sorry the Gentleman you mention should be the Publisher of lying Bales Book about Sir John Oldcaslle. But his name being not to it, I will suspend my judgment." 10 Extract. July 15, 1729- Arnold's chronicle. " I have got a copy of The Customs of London myself, which begins as yours does ; and so indeed all the copies I have heard of, begin, not excepting even that which Bale made use of, who ascribes it to one Arnold a citizen of London, as the compiler; in which I believe he is right enough, since Bale lived at the time it first came out, (though he must be young then), and could hardly in that case be mis- taken. Mr. Richard Smith also, (and he, you know, was very inquisitive and curious in affairs of this kind), ascribed it to Arnold, whom Bale and others call Richard Arnold. The things in the book that are different from " The Customs of London" are the Alia, which Bale makes Arnold to have written j but then Dr. Pits (who otherwise follows Bale) tells us, he knows not whether or no Arnold wrote any thing else besides the Repositorium (that is, Bale's word also), or Re- pertory. I have been inclined to think that the author of the Old Ballad in it, called The Nut-brown Maid, was Thomas Elmham. But this being only surmise, I did not ascribe it to him in my Edition of his History of Hen. V. * This must allude to the learned John Lewis of Margate, and to his Edition of Roper's Life oj More. 71 11 Extract. Sept. 22, 1729. THE SAME. " Certainly the 2d Edition of Arnolde exceeds the first in this, that the History at the beginning (which is much the better part of the Book), comes much lower than it does in the first. I have been told that there was lately ad- yertized a 3d Edition. Pray let me know if there be any such thing." 12 Extract. March 24, 1729. saxton's maps. — rastell's chronicle. " I am glad you have get so good a set of Saxton's Maps. I cannot at present recollect any thing about T. Sekford. I have Saxton myself, a copy good enough for my use. I often consult this first collection of our maps, and I find it of great service, as I have more than once hinted in my Notes to The Black Book. I must observe one thing to you, and that is, that I have heard some knowing men say, that the copies of Saxton's maps that are not coloured are preferable to such as are co- loured." '* I am likewise no less pleased that you have got a fine copy of RasteU's Chronicle. I never saw a complete one." 13 Extract Jpril 0.4, 1730. PATRICK GORDON. " The latter end of last month (as I have been informed), died at Fownehope, 4 miles from Hereford, Mr. Patrick Gordon, one of the worthiest and most learned men belonging to the Church of Hereford. He always inquired very kindly after me. He was formerly master of the Free School at Bray near Maidenhead in Berks. He was the very 72 first master I had for the Latin tongue ; and I learned my Accedence of him about the beginning of l6Q3." 14 Extract. May 7, 1730. caxton's chronicle. " Wynken de Worde's Fructus Temporum is only another Edition of Caxton's Chronicle, stiled likewise Fructus Temporum, by Bale and others." 15 Extract. Aug. 31, 1/30. SKELTONICAL SALUTATION. " There are so many things under the title or stile of Pyers Plowman, that I know not what to say of that you mention. Simon Fish, a zealous forward man, was like enough to be the author. " See whether Mr. Murray or yourself have an old, scarce, little thing called A Skeltonical Salutation in English and Latin. It begins " O King of Spaine, Is it not a paine To thy heart and braine," &c. " The Latin is printed in the White Letter, the English in the Black. The first leaf is wanting, being A. 1. (which perhaps contained a Title and the Author's name), otherwise my copy is perfect." 16 Extract. June 24, 1731. JULIANA BERNERS. " I am glad you saw John Murray's Juliana Barnes. I suppose it hath no date. A copy printed at St. Albans (if it can be found), is worth any money. The two or three leaves of Pynson's Edition, I have among Mr. New's transcripts, prove of service to me." 73 ^F the Hearniana, which I have printed in the preceding pages,* give half the entertainment to my leaders, that they have afforded to me, they will not have failed in their purpose. The opinions, on old books, of such a man as Hearne, are invaluable to the Bibliographer. The sanction of time, added to his industry and opportunities, casts on them an interest, which no living, or /ate/y-deceased, writer on the subject can convey. * Having been called upon for Notes to these Articles, which on the former sheet I forbore to give, lest ray comments should appear obtrusive, I seize this place to add them, before the opportunity is lost. I. Coryat's Crudities have continued to be an object of competition among Collectors. They were reprinted a few years ago ; but this reprint is itself become scarce. Hearne's character of them is just and com- prehensive. An account of George, the father, may be found in the published Volume of Wood's Ath. by Bliss. 3. Lewis's Thanet is an admirable piece of topography, full of a learned and rational account of the antiquities of that part of Kent, and tracing the agricultural superiority of that favoured island to the skill of the Monks in the early centuries. 4. Dr. Nott is reprinting a splendid edition of Lord Surrey's Poems, which will be enriched in its notes by the union of research, talents, and scholarship. A learned friend has also in the press a small impression of Lord Surrey's Translation of Virgil, for the purpose (as is supposed) of gra- tifying some Select Literati. 6. One cannot but smile to read this character of Prynne, given by Hearne ! 7. For an account of Early Printing, consult Herbert's Ames, and Dibdin's new Edition of that work. 9. John Letvis again. Hearne's want of temper and furious preju- dices in the account he gives of Lewis, are not very creditable to him. Lewis was a man of unquestioned abilities and learning ; and of his cha-s L 74 It will probably, indeed, be observed, that these Extracts raise an higher idea of Hearne as a writer, than is produced by his premeditated works. In his Prefaces to those works, the strange jumble of irrele- vant matter, which he inserts, has drawn on him the stigma of a tasteless plodder, with a voracious and in- discriminate appetite for whatever is old ; with a style as formal, hard, and inelegant, as his matter is crude. In these Extracts his language is neat, concise, and not inelegant; his knowledge various and well digested; and his judgment in general correct and sound. Such perhaps have been the effects of ease and carelessness on the one hand; and on the other, of an over-anxiety to do well, which gave an harsh formality to the ex- pression, and a false constraint, or false ambition, to the thoughts. I suspect that the only truly happy language, is that which rises in the mind together with the idea ; and which thus snatches a propriety and " a grace, beyond the reach of Art." By this consenta- neous act there is a coalescence of thought and dic- tion, too exquisite to be reached by labour. racter, I can vouch from the conversations of one whom I knew intimately in my childhood, and who had been his Curate, that I never heard any thing breathed but praise and respect. I presume Hearne's opposite polities contributed to this bitter opinion ! 10. For the Nut-Brown Maid, as printed in Arnold's Chronicle, see Cpisura Literaria. 1 2. Rastell's Chronicle is among the late reprints by the Booksellers. 14. For the Fructus Temporum and Caxton's Chronicle, see the Britisk Bibliographer. <^<^^ 92 XZlm The dep 7 orable life n*-d death of Edward the Second King of England. Togeifia with the Dozau fall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gayeston and Spencer, Storied in an excel i cut Poem. London. Fritted for ftoger Michell, 1628. Small SDctabo, pp. 150.* A Spurious Edition. 10 O. The Historic of Edward the Second, surnamed Carnar- van, one of our English Flings. Together with the Fatall Downfall of his two unfortunate Favorites, Gaveston and Spencer. Now published by the Au- thor thereof according to the true Oiiginall Copie, and purged from those foule Errors and Corruptions, wherewith that spurious and surreptitious Peece, which lately came forth under the same Trjtle, zcas too much defiled and deformed. With the addition of some other observations both of use and ornament. By F [rands'] H [irficrl] Knight. London. * There is also a MS. which agrees with this spurious Edition in the choice and numbering of its stanzas, except that it has an additional stanza numbered 480 (which in the genuine Edition is 540) and except that it supplies stanzas 344, 345, 346, which are wanting in this spurious printed Copy> so that this MS. could not have been seen by the person who fur- nished the Copy for the Press. This MS. has at the end " Some Verses upon the death of a Pigeon slain ly a Fou-ler on a ploughed field in an April Evening, 1615." The Poem is subscribed Infortunio. 93 Printed by B. A. and T. F. for L. Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop at the upper end of Chancery Lane. 1629. SDctatoo, pp. 168. 14. 77ie Life of Edzcard If. with the Fates of Garestonr f and the Spencers. A Poem in three Cantos. To Khich, for the belter understanding of the whole is pre- fixed an account of that Prince's Reign from Dr. Echard and others. Done from a Manuscript. Hen Piefn.t, Hen Prisca Fides. London. Printed for Tho. Harbin, at the Bible and Anchor, in the New Exchange in the Strand. V7%\. £Dctato. There is a stronsr ooinion amoncr those who are not infected with the Bibliomania, that no books, or at least no works claiming the praise of genius, have sunk into oblivion, but such as have deserved to be for- gotten. I am fully conscious of the power of that un- due, or adventitious, warmth of admiration, which a pas- sion for antiquity is apt to generate in a certain class of literati: it cannot be denied that it too often misleads the judgment, and encourages a false and whimsical taste. But I am sure that the most cold and correct criticism is unjust to its own canons by the refusal to admit that there are numerous productions of former ages, which must have faded from recollection in con* 94 sequence of oilier causes than deficiency of sterling desert. Tt" it be true that great intrinsic beauty or sub- limity cannot obtain, even for a day, the public favour to many productions which are candidates for fame, may it not equally happen, that the same capricious insensibility may throw back into the shades several of those which have obtained it? Dr. Johnson seemed to think, that by the popular feeling the real preten- sions of an author ought at last to be tried. After thirty vears of almost unremitted attention to the pro- • » J. gress and fate of most of the publications in our do- mestic Belles-Letters, I do most sincerely and coolly question this opinion ! If applause and success de- pended upon unequivocal title to them, it must be permanent; but, since it is often otherwise, may not the same erroneous fashion, which sometimes takes up wrongly, often refuse or neglect unjustly ? Collins, in his life-time, could find no readers for his Odes, those most felicitous efforts of an inspired imagination! It will be replied, that the extraordinary merits of these poems found their way; and that the world did them justice at last! But was this blaze of fame the legiti- mate and certain consequence of their beauties? I suspect far otherwise! I doubt, if the notice of the Public, which was at length attracted to them, j'ears after death had closed the unhappy eyes of poor Collins, was not effectuated by the accidental union of the offices of editor of these' exquisite productions and of a writer in the Monthly Review, in Dr. Lang- horne, who, in the character of an anonymous critic, had the opportunity to stimulate the national feeling to what he had thus laudably revived! Had not this lucky coincidence taken place, it might perhaps have 95 been the ill-received task of some modern Bibliomaniac, to plead in vain for the neglected charms of this ex- traordinary Bard ! Some of my readers may smile at this extravagant case! For my part, I seriously deny its improbability! We might have heard of the abstract, far-fetched, and unnatural cast of the poet's imagery; of the fatigue of his constant allegory; of his frigid want of human feelings, of " that which comes home to men's business and bosoms;" of the whimsical prettiness of his perpetual personification; of the cumbersome and affected splendor of his diction ; of his unnatural fancies and goblin taste! We should then have been asked, if these are the merits which our factitious curiosity would impose on the public notice, if we would thus attempt to mislead the sounder appetites of the people, who might safely be left to their own undirected choice? u In short," it might have been added, " Collins has been tried once by hi* cotemporaries, when he had the advantage of all his friends about him, and was found wanting! for mercy's sake, leave him now to his repose! The people have judged! Disturb not the sentence of the only true tribunal !" But if we were to admit that in reference to the very prime qualities by which, a \>ork of genius ought to be judged at the time of its production, the public voice is almost always right — stiil it may be safely- contended, that after a lapse of centuries, there is a secondary kind of attraction and use which time has given to a great variety of books not rich in the highest and simplest qualities of excellence. For the purposes of philology, for the illustration of mental and moral habits, such books become treasures of 96 substantial and great value. There is, besides, a ge- nerous amusement in restoring from oblivion those who have deserved well of their companions in life. With all the caution I can use against a rash and indiscriminate fondness for what is old, and against a weak and vain desire for the discovery of worth which others have left unheeded, I cannot refrain from pro- nouncing at least a measured eulogium on the powers displayed by Sir Francis Hubert,* in the poem now before me. The fashion of these historical poems was first introduced into this nation by Lord Buck- hurst, William Baldwin, and others, in the Collection of Legends, entitled The Mirror for Magistrates, in the reign of Q. Mary, and Q. Elizabeth her successor. The very subject and form of these productions has a fatal tendency to encourage the dulness of an un- poetical mind, and to try by unequivocal calls upon his intellectual vigour that moral, or pathetic, or sub- lime energy which marks the true poetical endowment. The pre-eminence of this tone in Lord Buckhurst, above all his coadjutors, is so palpable, that the most stupid reader can scarcely fail to be touched by it. It would be absurd to lift Sir Francis Hubert, with the advantage of all the increased polish and riches of the language and mental furniture of a later period, into the tank of such a writer! But for copiousness of sentiment, and facility and harmony of diction, it seems to me that Sir Francis is so far worthy of praise, that I feel some wonder and indignation at the utter neglect which has fallen on him.f * Or Hobart. + Unless, indeed, the reprint of 1721 be considered a mark of notite and fame ! 97 The genuine Edition is thus dedicated. cc To his very loving Brother Mr. Richard Hubert, the Author of this historical/, Poeme F. H. Knight, wishcth all health and happinesse. " Worthy Sir, " I know that noble natures desire more to doe good, then to heare of the good they doe ; and therefore without all far- ther complement you shall giue me leaue onely to say thus much : that (if God and Nature had not) yet your many kind and constant fauours to mee, and all mine haue made mee truely your owne : which (as I gladly acknowledge) so I would haue the World take notice, that I am both sensible of them, and thankfull for them: And now (Sir) being already deepe in your debt, I must still runne farther upon your score, by com- mitting to your care and custodie this innocent child, not of my body, but of my braine. It is surely of full age, for it was conceived and borne in Queen Elizabeth's time, but grew to more maturitie in King James's ; and therefore, as wee use to say, it should be now able to shift for itselfe : But I, that gaue it life, finding the weaknesse thereof, was fully resolved to keepe it still at home under mine owne wing, and not to let it ..see the Sunne, when loe, after twenty yeares concealement, when I thought the unfortunate Babe (like to its father) even dead to the World, I saw the false and uncomely figure of my poore childe, taken by a most unskilfull hande offered to the publicke sight and censure of every judicious eye : and though that could not, yet truely I did blush for it, to see it, so nakedly, so unworthily so mangled, and so maymed thrust into the world, that J scarce knew it, and was asham'd to owne it : And therefore, good Brother, to vindicate both it and myselfe from those grosse and senselesse errours, wherewith that false Bastard was too foulie deformed, I haue now sent it abroad to seeke its fortunes, in its own true shape, and habite ■ desiring your selfe and every understanding Keader (for I know it is o 9$ not for the use of euery ordinarie eye,) to looke upon that former peece with scorne and contempt, and once again to take a resurvay of it, as now it appeares in its owne true feature and posture. It may bee you shall find somewhat in it, both to informe the understanding and to rectifie the affections, and if in any of the passages thereof it shall seem eyther too light, and remisse, or too bold and free, eyther too open and tart, or too sparing and reserued ; that you must impute eyther to the. matter, that I handle, or the parties, that I personate, which must of necessitie be drawne according to the true life, both in colours and proportion, or else the Worke will be of very little use, and of less grace and ornament, eyther to myselfe or others : And so humbly desiring the Almighty to blesse you both in soule, body, and estate; I rest, not your Servant ac- cording to the new and fine, but false phrase of the time, but in honest old English, your loving Brother, and true friend for euer : Fran. Hubert." The Poem in this genuine edition consists of 664 seven-lined stanzas, besides a Conclusion, entitled The Authors Noli Peccare, consisting of 7 six-lined stanzas, and a terminating couplet; together 469*2 lines. The Author's Preface. ** Rebellious thoughts, why do you tumult so ? And strive to break from forth my troubled breast ? Is't not enough, that I myself do know The moving causes of my own unrest ? Is't not enough to know myself distrest ? O no : surcharged hearts must needs complain ; Some ease it is, though small, to tell our pain. 99 Yet, wayward thoughts, retire unto your home, Unto my heart, your proper home retire ; There rest, in your unrest, till Death doth come, And Death will come, call'd by conceal'd desire . For coals rak'd up glow more than open fire, And deepest streams do run with smoothest speed, And silent griefs are the true griefs indeed. But if my heart be so inur'd to groaning, Or if my tongue must be the voice of sorrow, Or that my pen be still injoin'd to moaning, Because my night of care hath never morrow, Yet of my grief thus much at least I'll borrow, That for a time I may surcease mine own, And tune my Muse to tell another's moan. Another's moan to tell my Muse is tun'd, (If any tune can be in jarring grief) And I a king for subject have assum'd, An English king, who, whilst he liv'd. was chief In Honour's height, yet died without relief; So true is that which Solon once did say, No man is happy till his dying day." F. H. The Poem thus opens. It is thy sad disaster which I sing, Carnarvan Edward, second of that name ! Thy minions' pride, thy state's ill managing, Thy peers' revolt, the sequel of the same : Thy life, thy death I sing, thy sin, thy shame ; And how thou wast deprived of thy crown, In highest fortunes cast by Fortune down ; Did I say Fortune ? Nay, by Folly rather, By unrespect unto the rules of state : 100 For let a Prince assure himself to gather, As he hath planted, either love or hate ; Contempt or duty ! not the works of Fate, Much less of Fortune, but of due respect To causes, which must needs produce effects. As if a Prince do draw his platform right, And then with courage builds upon the same, His end proves happy : but by oversight He that is weak, wholly subverts the frame Of his own building, and doth idly blame Fortune, the servant to deserving merit, But the commander of the abject spirit I In which discourse, if I shall hap to touch These faults, which in our time are frequent grown, Let not the gall'd offender winch, or grudge, For I intend a private wrong to none ; Only I would have those same errors known, By which the State did then to ruin run, That, warn'd by theirs, our age like sins might shun. Nor do I mean to bound myself so much, As only for to tie me to those times : The causes, courses, consequences I'll touch Of later ages, and of their designs : And if Detraction's breath doth blast my lines, Be it for me, I have for my defence The privy coat of harmless innocence. And thou, great King,* that now dost wield our State, Building on that, which former times did square, O let it not be thought to derogate From thy perfections, admirably rare, If I some errors of these times declare : " Since never State was so precisely good, "But faults have 'scap'd, which could not be withstood." * Jacobus I. 101 For men are not, like God, compleat, divine, " Whom neither passions, nor errors blind j " Who is not limited with any time, '* Nor tied to means, nor into place confin'd ; " But free in all, no countercheck doth find " To contradict the least part of his will, '* But worketh all in all, and nothing ill. " Wheras our human actions all are mix'd ; " Men live in motion, so do their designs j " Nothing is simply good, or firmly fix'd : " All have defects : Nature itself declines. " Darkness oft clouds the clearest sun that shines ; " Our purest streams are not without their mud ; '* And we mistake what oft we take for good !" Besides, Kings needs must see with others' eyes, From whence mistakings cannot choose but spring \ And when the offence from error doth arise, Why should men cast the errors on the King ? And not on those that misinform the thing ? " It is the gall most banes the kingly throne, " That of his faults the least part is his own !" For he himself is blameless oft, God knows, Except it be, because he doth (not) know The noted scandals that arise from those On whom he doth his favours most bestow ; Which they abusing, discontents may grow Against the Prince, tho" not deserving them, " So apt we are e'en goodness to condemn." Nor must we with a blacking coal strait brand A Prince, a State, because of some defect ! Who can be free from sully, if so scann'd ? But that same Prince or State deserve! respect, Whose actions do in general affect 102 And aim at good ! For in particulars " None can be so compleat but often errs." And much they are deceiv'd that think to find A State without some blemish, or a stain. Conceit may cast ideas in the mind, And forge strange forms in the inventive brain : But States consist of men, and men will retain Our nature's badge, which unto all doth cleave, That is, to be deceiv'd, and to deceive. It is the sole prerogative of Heaven Not to be tainted with the smallest error ; But that immunity was never given To Earth. ' Wise Solomon, be thou the Mirror, Where all may see their frailties e'en with terror! Thou, moving in perfection's highest sphere, Fell from thy orb ! Who hath not cause to fear? The warlike trumpet, sounding to the fight, Commands the hearing more than doth the reed : Each eye is fixed on the eagle's flight, When little wrens deserve not any heed : The greatest men shall have the greatest need. Mark who so list, and they shall find it tried, "That all men's ears to Princes' tonsmes are tied." o v Then let the world attend King Edward's words, (The second Edward's) matter fit for moan, Whoses miles gave life, whose frowns did wound like swords, Whilst he did sit upon the kingly throne, Nor minded now nor moan'd by any one. " So Time, we see, cuts down with fatal blow, As well proud oaks, as humble shrubs below." Imagine with yourselves, you see him come From forth the deep dark caverns of the earth, 103 Starved and pin'd, nothing but skin and bone, In Princely plenty suffering want and dearth, As naked as an infant at his birth. " So pinching need doth pluck what Pride did plant, And wasteful riot is repaid with want." And thus, poor Prince, begins his tragic plaint, "Am I the same that was first Edward's son? &c. &c. &c. ///////^////// Such a subject thrown into such a form would pro- bably incumber and weigh down to the ground even wings adapted to move vigorously thro' the air. An ordinary mind would scarcely travel with it beyond that creeping motion which never for a moment quits the earth, and goes humming on with all the prolixity of the most unanimated prose. But Hubert occasion- ally rises inio bursts of feeling and prospects of pleas- ing imagery, which shew a genius gifted with the vivid wand of the Poet. It need not indeed be observed, that the best func- tions of the Poet and the Historian are widelv different; perhaps I may add, even opposite ! One best displays his powers, when he is delineating something more beautiful than reality, that he may endeavour to gratify those longings after an higher order of existence, which affect every great mind. The other's task is to relate things as they have been, in the very order in which they have occurred : yet even here a selection of cir- cumstances, a skill of combination, a vivacity of re- mark, and animation of language, lifts the man of talent a long distance above the tedious and lifeless narrator. 104 The following are some of the stanzas which con- tain Gaveston's seductive invitation to Edward, to give himself up to his pleasures. 68. " What maid, what man, what man of any mind, That is not touch'd and mov'd with music's sound ? Whose deep impressions work in brutish kind, As Dolphins ! else Arion had been drown' d. The salvage beasts that would not Orpheus wound, The senseless stones, whom Phoebus' harp did move. Do witness all, how all do music love ! 69. The bubbling murmur of a sliding spring, That seems to run with sweet, yet sullen mind, By which the winged quires in consort sing With fair-fac'd Eunuchs, (the defects of kind) Whose notes are answer' d by a soft still wind ; Some dear-lov'd dame, bearing her part with kisses, Who would not think that place a heaven of blisses. 72. In heat of Summer, when the burning sun Doth crust the earth, are there not shady bowers } Are there not rivers that do mildly run ? And now and then some cooling dewy showers To keep the beauty of the blooming flowers ? Wherewith our mother Earth, so fairly drest, Seems to invite her sons to Pleasure's feast. 73. I will not speak of every day's delight, They are so various, full of rarities ; But are there not sweet pleasures for the night ? 105 Masques, revels, banquets, mirthful comedies, Night-suns, kind Nature's dearest prodigies, Which work in men with powerful influence, As having their first life, best motion thence. 74. glorious Pieces, the best gifts of Heaven, Fairer than those fair lights that make Earth fail', Why were you unto wretched mortals given, But to be cordials 'gainst heart-rating care, By' imparting unto us your beauties rare ? You are the stars which, when the sun is set, Both heat and light and life in us beget. 75. Hath then the mover of this glorious round So wisely fitted every thing to pleasure ? And seems he not his order to confound, That to delight doth limit sparing measure, And makes himself unworthy of such treasure ? Is't ever like he would have made things thus, But that they should be fully us'd by us ? 76. And that I may not run about the field, But keep myself in compass of the ring, 1 will omit the rich and fruitful yield Of Pleasure, pointing only at the spring, The taste whereof such perfect joy doth bring, As I do think no other heaven there is : Heaven pardon me, if I do think amiss ! 77. That is, sweet Ned, the Paradise of Love, The joy of life, and life of our conceit, The heavenly fire, infused from above, On which the Muses and the Graces wait; The body's health, heart's hope, and nature's bait, P 106 The quintescence of pure essential sweet, The point, where all the lines of pleasure meet. 78. Sweet Love, that hast sweet Beauty for thine object j Kind Love, that knits in one two several hearts j Great Love, to whom the greatest king is subject; Pure Love, that sublimates our earthly 'parts, And makes them airy by ingenious arts ! O let my Ned, my Prince, my Jove possess The joys I would, but cannot well express." r fV W VV VV w "V I do not find this author named in the printed ac- count of the Hobart family in Collins's Peerage. Yet elsewhere it is said that he was brother of Sir Henry, perhaps the same who was Chief Justice of the Com- mon Pleas, and who died 1625 leaving several sons, of whom Sir Miles, the second, was ancestor of the present Earl of Buckinghamshire.* 13. Regale Ledum Miser ia: or a Kingly Bed of Miserie, in which is contained a Dreame : with an Elegie upon the Martyrdome of Charles, late King of England, of blessed Memory: and another upon the Right Honour- able the Lord Capel. With a curse against the ene- mies of Peace; and the Authours Farewell to En- gland. Whereunto is added E?igland"s Sonnets. By John Quarles. The Second Edition, Printed in the Yeare, 1649- Small Octavo. * See Coll. Peer. iv. 304. (new edit.) 107 John Quarles was son of Francis the Poet, was of Exeter College, Oxford, 1642, and bore, at 18 years of age, arms for bis Majesty in the garrison at Oxford, and had afterwards a Captain's commission ; but when the royal cause declined, retired to London in a mean condition, where he maintained himself by writing. lie died of the plague 1665. The Elegy on King Charles is printed only on one side of the leaf; on the other side is a sort of funeral curtain. Some of the lines of this Elegy are not contemptible; as for instance — •" O had you seen his feet Mounted the stage of blood, and run to meet The fury of his foes ; and how his breath Proclaim'd a correspondency with death ; O then thy diving heart must needs have found The depth of sorrow, I receiv'd, a wound That Time could not recure ! O such a sight Had been sufficient to have made a night Within this little world, hadst thou but seen What soul-defending patience stood between Passion and him ; with what a pleasing grace, (As if that Death had blush'd within his face) He look'd upon his people, which surrounded His mourning scaffold ; whilst his thoughts abounded With heavenly rapture, his angelic voice Taught Joy to weep, and Sorrow to rejoice : Tears blinded many, that they could not see So bloody, so abhorr'd a tragedy. He look'd as if he rather came to view His subjects, than to bid them all adieu : Fear had no habitation in his breast, And what he spoke was readily express'd : 108 Heaven's sacred orator divinely tipp'd His tongue with golden languages, and dipp'd His soul in Love's sweet fountain, so that all That lov'd, admir'd and griev'd to see him fall : Whilst he, submitting Prince, devoutly pray'd That Heaven would pardon those that had betray 'd His body to the grave ; as from his soul He had forgiven them all, and did condole Their sad conditions : — having spent his breath, He yielded, like a lamb, unto his death." 14. JOHN KNOX THE REFORMER.* " It is the first Edition of Knox's History, in 8vo. out of which my quotations are taken. It is a very scarce book ; but more of them are extant among our Fanatics than all Great Britain besides. Tho' Archbishop Spotswood proves, unde- niably, that the Church History ascribed to him is none of his, yet is it evident it was written by an heroical Presbyterian j and, if good traditional authority deceive me not, one who was his familiar servant, and who perhaps had a double portion of his master's spirit, compiled it out of his materials after he was dead." Spir. of Pop. out of Fanat. Pref.f " Scotia quoque soluta est decimis. Extat impressa Jo- hannis Knoxi querela, exhibita Ministrorum nomine In Com. Edinburgi A. D. 1565, Dec. 25. Cum folium ejus octavum lego, miseret me illorum." Andrews de Decimis. 14g.% * See Dr. M'Crie's Life of Knox, lately published, f Kewiett's MSS. % Ibid. 109 15. An Anszcere to a •$■ cert en Libel intituled <► An Admo- nition to the 4- Parliament ^ By John Whit gift e <► D. of Divinitie <► 1 Cor. 8. 2. «$• If any man thinlce that he knozceth any thing <► he knozceth Jiothing yet as he <► ought to knozce. $• 1 Cor. 11. 16. If any man be contentious zee have no •$■ such custome neyther the <$► Churches of God. <*► Gala. 5. 26. <► Let us not be desirous ofvayne glorie pro- •$■ -voicing one another, envying -$■ one another <*► Imprinted at London <*• by Henrie Bynneman ■$■ for Humfrey Toy ■<► Anno 1572 <► Ato.pp 246. with 20 pages of addition. And lastly A brief e Anszcere to certain Pamphlets spred abroade of late, pp. 1 . A brief e Viewe of the seconde Admonition, pp 6. Articles out of the former Admonition, untruly said to be falsified, pp. 6. Colophon. Imprinted at London by Henry Bynne- man, for Humfrey Toy, duelling in P aides Church- yard at the signe of the Helmet. Anno 1572. As a proof of Whitgift's style and temper, I will copy the Address. " To the Christian Reader, " I am not ignorant to what dangers, especially of uncha- ritable and slanderous tongues, I have made myself subject by taking upon me this work. Notwithstanding my reckoning is made, and I have armed myself against the worst, being taught so to do by the opprobrious speeches of diverse, who as busy bodies intermeddling in other mens matters more than it be- Cometh them, do thereof judge most unchristianly, and report 110 most untruly ; believing as partial judges whatsoever is reported, howsoever falsely and unjustly. But as I with all my heart for my part forgive them, and wish unto them more Christian hearts, indifferent ears, and charitable mouths : so do I exhort thee, Christian Reader, to abstain from all such rancour and other partial and sinister affections in reading of this my book : and think of me, as of one that, to speak the truth, to testify his conscience, to maintain the peace and quietness of the Church, to withstand erroneous opinions, or contentious doc- trines, will neither spare his labour, nor his fame : and yet not so stiffly addicted to his own opinion, but that he can be con- tented to submit himself to better authority and reasons than he himself hath. And I beseech thee, receive this admonition at my hand : try before thou trust : believe not lightly every report : as thou hast two ears, so use them both : condemn no man before he be heard : abstain from speaking evil of any when he is not present to make thee answer ; for that is a great injury : respect not the person, but the cause ; and let not every pretended zeal carry thee headlong thou k no west not whither : and suspend thy judgment of this book, until thou hast advisedly and indifferently read the same." Sir George Paule, in his Life of Whitgift, gives the following account of this book. " Not long after (at which time her highness had sum- moned a Parliament) some of the principal note among these Disciplinarians thought that the fittest time either to effect their desires by some abetters in that high assembly, or at least to disperse their opinions into all the parts of the kingdom. To which end they then published a seditious treatise, entituled An Admonition to the Parliament; being indeed the very summary both of their opinions touching church matters, and in of their shameless slanders against the governors thereof. And albeit Doctor Whitgift considered that this libel was unworthy any serious confutation, yet in regard of the great applause it found among the green heads of the University (who were greedy of novelties) and to stop the current of so dangerous positions, he spared not his pains in writing a learned answer ; therein laying open the weakness of that cause, and the strength of their malice, who so hotly pursued the same ; which being published upon the year 1572, won him no less reputation with the learned sort, than the former had with the young and weaker brains : yea even those who had formerly thought the admonition unanswerable, found the rashness of their censures by the soundness of that refutation. Whereupon Master Cart- wright, notwithstanding his former refusal to enter into the list with Dr. Whitgift (as is aforesaid) seeing both the walls and foundation of his new-founded Church-government already shaken and tottering, endeavoured to underprop the same with a reply. The weakness whereof Dr. Whitgift displayed in his defence of the Answer to the Admonition against the Reply. " But Master Cartwright (glorying belike to have the last word) published a second Reply fraught with no other stuff than had been before refuted : Yet Dr. Whitgift addressing himself to answer it, was by the advice of some (whose judge- ment he much esteemed) dissuaded from troubling himself, in refuting that which he had already overthrown. Amongst others who dissuaded him, the learned Dr. Whi taker was one ; against whose judgment the adversary can no way justly ex- cept. " I have read over (saith he) a great part of the book which Master Cartwright hath lately set forth. Let me not live if ever I saw any thing more loose, and almost more childish. As for words, indeed, he hath store of them, both trim and fresh enough j but as for matter he hath none at all. Besides this, he hath not only peevish assertions touching the Prince's authority in matters sacred and ecclesiastical, but he 112 also flatly revolteth from us to the Camp of the Papists,* from whom he would seem to fly with deadly hatred. And not in this cause only he is unsufferable, but in other points also he borroweth his weapons and arguments from the Papists. And in a word, as Hierome sometimes said of Ambrose, he is in his words but a trifler, and for his matter but a dreamer, and altogether unworthy to be refuted by any man of learning." " Master Cartwright, after these controversies, thus begun and continued by himself, as you see, lived sometimes beyond the seas, now in one place, and then in another, without attain- ing any eminent or certain place in the Commonwealth, save only the Mastership of an Hospital in Warwick." + lb; Extract from a Letter of Mr. Thomas Baker to Bishop Kentiett, " I am now to thank your Lordship for your good wishes, and the tender concern you express for me. But really, my Lord, I have done with the world, and the best thing you can wish me is, that I may not survive my parts, or live to be loaded with the infirmities of old age, an instance of which I have very near me, that affects me much, and makes me afraid of living too long. As I am, I bless God, I think my» self very happy ; and whenever it is otherwise with me, I hope God will take me to his mercy. Whatever my condition is, I hope I shall always retain a due sense of your Lordship's favours. " T. B. Apr. 23, 1723." * To the Camp of the Papist*.] See Bancroft's Survey of the pre- tended Holy Discipline, Chap. 23, p. 258 — 68, and Sermons by Dr. Thos. Malguy,p. 6$.—fNote by Wordsworth.) + The Life of Whitgift, by Sir George Paule, in IFordsicsrlh's Ecclt- fiastical Biography, Vol. IV, p. ^29. 113 ■ 4> WITHER'S MOTTO. ^■^■^•> *<^^ -*•■*■ ■+■+■*■■++ +■■*•+ Nee habeo, nee careo, nee euro, London : printed for John Harriot, 1621. I scarcely know whether, in the whole range of bibliography, there is a more interesting tract than this little volume of Wither. It consists of the purest confessions and most vivid delineations of real character and real emotions. The works of Wither are perhaps not so rare as to warrant a very particular description ; and the memoir which forms the first article of the first number of The Bibliographer renders any attempt at a general account of his life and writings quite out of the question at present. I shall indulge myself however in a few re- marks suggested by this volume, which has been long one of my favorite companions. The title page is a well engraved copperplate, of which a long versified description is annexed. It re- presents the author sitting on a rock. Beneath him is a fair domain of houses, gardens, meadows and woods, and other goodly possessions, to which he points with his right hand, in which, at the same time, he holds a ribband with the words " nee habeo." At his feet is a globe of the earth, with the words " nee euro." The author, meanwhile, is looking up to heaven, from which descends a stream of glory ; and from his lips proceed the words " nee careo." o 114 The poem, as may be inferred from the title, relates entirely to the author's own character and feelings. It is one of those tl touching moral discussions which come home to men's business and bosoms."* The effu- sion of real feeling never can be contemptible. Even the reveries of the maniac, the dreams of the moping ideot, if it were possible to trace them, would afford interesting speculations to the moralist and metaphy- sician. It is by the unthinking and cold-hearted only, by the " conceited plodding coxcomb," that such de- lineations are condemned : and by his contemporaries, George Wither was invariably traduced, persecuted, and calumniated. But although living in perpetual imprisonment and perpetual woe, the light of genius was unquenchable. Clouded indeed it might be for an hour, or a day, or even for a longer interval ; but its utter extinction was a consummation which the combined force of all his foes never could effect. The light of genius, the " ray from heaven," shone on him in the midst of all the horrors of external darkness, desolation, and solitary confinement. Are these the characteristics of a soul which has merited oblivion ? — After the lapse of centuries they shall continue to awaken, as at this moment they are awakening, the hearts and imaginations of kindred bards ! Of the causes which led to the miseries of Wither, I doubt not that many may be referred to the same unfortunate tendency in ordinary minds, to traduce and oppress the children of genius and sensibility, which has been the enemy of the poetical character in all ages. The character of George Wither, amidst all his * Ccnsura Literaria. 115 misfortunes, seems to have been marked by a chival- rous dignity and fortitude. But this could not prevent his experiencing the most acute mental sufferings. Nothing, I believe, is so rare as that liberality and expansion of mind which enables its possessor to par- don the weakness and aberrations by which genius and feeling are too often accompanied. The wrangling and selfish politician ; the puffed-up church dignitary, and narrow-minded and stony-hearted special pleader; the voluptuous, the frivolous, and overweening bearer of garters and coronets ; the pitiful plodders over end- less tables of pounds and shillings and pence; — such are the characters of whom the majority of the human race is composed : and by these, and such as these, will the frailties and errors of the man of genius and sensibility be forgiven ? Oh no ! It is only when the Jast struggles of the sufferer are long since past — when the grass waves over his tomb, and malice no longer triumphs over the " foe that is low," # that his strains may be praised by congenial spirits, and praised with- out danger of being overwhelmed by the opposing tor- rent of malignant detraction. Whatever is not expressed with mathematical con- cinnity, precision, and quickness ; whatever bears not directly upon the attainment and prolongation of sen- sual pleasures and contemporary applause, (than which last nothing can be more despicable^) or on the accu- mulation of riches, is by certain persons deemed con- temptible and mischievous. When ideas rise above the ordinary routine of business — when the mind forgets to accommodate itself l o Scott. Preface to Carey's. Poems in Edin. Ann. Register, 1809. 116 to the petty details of office, and to the mere empty ceremonies of " that which before us lies in daily life" — when the voice falters from the pressure of ideas which are too lofty for utterance, instead of. lowering itself to some commonplace mathematical truism which has been repeated times without number — when such traces of a diviner nature are manifested, the spite and malignity of such persons arise to crush and over- power them. Hence we have to lament that George Wither spent his days in a prison — that the divine Spenser lived in misery and depression — that Otway was starved to death— that Burns expired, shrieking amid the horrors of desolate poverty — and perhaps that numberless lofty spirits have died " unwept, unho- noured," overwhelmed by misfortune, before opportuni- ty was afforded them of becoming known to the world, <► WITHER' S MOTTO. Nee haleo, nee careo, nee euro. Nor have I, nor want I, nor care I. Hah! will they storme? why let them; who needs care •■ Or who dares frown on what the Muses dare, Who when they list, can for a tempest call, Which thunder louder than their fury shall? And it men causelessly their power contemne, Will more than mortall vensreance rlinsf on them ? With thine owne trembling spirit, thou didst view These free-borne lines ; that doubtst what may ensue : For if thou feltst the temper of my soule, And knewst my heart, thou wouldst not feare controul, Doe not I know, my honest thoughts are cleare From any private spleene, or malice here ? Doe not 1 know that none will frowne at this, But such as have apparent guiltinessej 117 Or such as must to shame and mine runne, As some once ayming at my fall have done? And can I feare those idle scar-crows then? Those bugg-beare perils, those mere shades of men t At whose displeasure they for terror sweat, Whose heart upon the world's vaine love is set? No ; when this Motto first I mine did make, To me I tooke it, not for fashion's sake; But that it might expresse me as I am, And keepe me mindefull to be still the same. Which I resolve to be; for could the eye Of other men within my breast espie My resolution, and the cause thereof, They durst not at this boldnesse make a skofFe. Shall I be fearefull of my selfe to speake ; For doubt some other may exceptions take ? If this age hold; ere long we shall go neer§ Of ev'iy word of our to stand in feare. And (five to one) if any should confesse Those sinnes in publike, which his soule oppressej Some guilty fellow (moov'd thereat) would take it Unto himselfe; and so, a libell make it. Nay ; we shall hardly be allowd to pray Against a crying sinne ; lest great men may Suspect, that by a figure we intend To point out them: and how they doe offend. As I have hope to prosper; e're I'le fall To such a bondage, I'le adventure all: And make the whole world mad, to heare how I Will fearlesse write and raile at villainy. But oh ! beware (gray-hayrd Discretion sayes) The dogg fights well that out of danger playes. For now, these guilty times so captious be That such, as love in speaking to be free; May for their freedome, to their cost be shent, How harmlesse e're they be, in their intent : 118 And such as of their future peace have care, Unto the times a little servile are. Pish j tell not me of times, or danger thus: To doe a villainy is dangerous ; But in an honest action, my heart knowes No more of feare, then dead men do of blowes. And to be slave to times, is worse to me Then to be that, which most men feare to be. I tell thee Critike; whatsoever thou, Or any man, of me shall censure now : They, who for ought here written doe accuse, Or with a minde malicious taxe my Muse; Shall not by day awake, nor sleepe by night, With more contentment, in their glorie's height, Then I will doe, though they should lay me where I must, in darkenes, bolts of iron weare; For, I am not so ignorant, but that I partly know what things I may relate; And what an honest man should still conceale, I know as well, as what he may reveale. If they be poore and base, that feare my straine, These poore base fellowes are afraid in vaine. I scorne to spurne a dogge, or strike a flye, Or with such groomes to soile my poesie, If great they were, and fallen; let them know, I doe abhorr to touch a wounded foe. If on the top of honour, yet they be, Tis poore weake honour, if ought done by me May blot, or shake the same : yea, whatsoere Their titles cost, or they would faine appeare, They are ignoble, and beneath me farre, If with these Measures they distempered are. For, if they had true greatness?, they would knowe, The spight of all the world were farre below The seate of noblest honour; and that he, In whom true worth, and real! vertues be. 119 §o well is arm'd, as that he feares no wrong From any tyrant's hand, or villaine's tongue. Much lesse be startled at those Numbers would, Where Vertue's praised, and proud Vice controul'd. Is any man the worse if I expresse My Wants, my Riches, or my Carelesnesse ? Or can my honest thoughts, or my content, Be turn'd to any man's disparagement, If he be honest? Nay, those men will finde A pleasure in this picture of my minde, Who honour Vertue, and instead of blame, Will (as they have done) love me for the same. You are deceiv'd, if the Bohemian State You thinke I touch ; or the Palatinate : Or that, this ought of Eighty-eight containes ; The Pouder-plot, or any tiling of Spaine's: That their ambassador neede question me, Or bring me justly for it on my knee. The state of those occurrences I know Too well, my raptures that way to bestow. Nor neede you doubt, but any friend you have, May play the foole, and if he list the knave, For ought here written : For it is not such As you suppose; nor what you feare so much. If I had been dispos'd to satyrize, Would I have tam'd my Numbers in this wise? No. I have Furies that lye ty'de in chaines, Bold (English-mastive-like) adventrous straines: Who fearelesse dare, on any Moaster flye, That weares a body of mortality. And I had let them loose, if I had list, To play againe, the sharpe-fang'd Satyrist. That therefore, you no more mis-title this, I say, it is my Motto ; and it is. I'le have it so : For, if it please not me, It shall not be a Satyr, though it be. 120 What is't to you (or any man) if I, This little Poem terme as foolishly, As some men do their children? Is it not Mine owne Minerva, of my braines begot ? For ought I know, I never did intrude, To name your Whelps ; and if you be so rude, To meddle with my Kitling (though in sport) Tis odds, but shee'l go neere to scratch you for't. Play with your Monkey then, and let it lye : Or (if you be not angry) take it pray, And read it over. . So; the Critick's gone, Who at these Numbers carpt ; and we alone : Proceede we to the matter. Nee Habeo, nee Careo, nee Curo t Some having seene, where I this motto writ Beneath my Picture, askt, what meaned it. And many, in my absence, doe assay, What by these words they best conjecture may : Some have supposed, that it doth expresse, An unadvised, desperate carelesnesse. Some others doe imagine, that I meant In little, to set foorth a great content. Some, on each member of the sentence dwell, And (first) will, what I have not, seeme to tell : What things I want not, they will next declare : And then they gesse, for what I doe not care. But that they might not from my meaning err, I'le now become mine own interpreter. Some things I have, which here I will not show j Sx>me things I want, which you shall never know : And sometime I (perchance) doe carefull grow - t But we, with that, will nothing have to doe. If good occasion be thereof to speake; Another time, we may the pleasure take. 121 That, which to treat of, I now purpose (therefor,) Is what I neither have, nor want, nor care for. Nee Habeo. And first ; that no man else may censure me, For vaunting what belongeth not to me : Heare what I have not; for, Tie not deny To make confession of my poverty. I have not of my selfe, the powre, or grace, To be, or not to bej one minute- space, I have not strength another word to write ; Or tell you what I purpose to indite : Or thinke out halfe a thought, before my death, But by the leave of him that gave me breath. I have no native goodnes in my soul ; But I was over all, corrupt and fold : And till another cleans' d me, I had nought That was not stain' d within me: not a thought. I have no propper merrit; neither will, Or to resolve, or act, but what is ill. I have no meanes of safety, or content, In ought which mine owne wisdome can invent. Nor have I reason to be desperate tho : Because for this, a remedy I know. I have no portion in the world like this, That I may breathe that ayre, which common is': Nor have I seene within this spacious round, What I have worth my joy or sorrow found. Except it hath for these that follow binn ; The love of my Redeemer, and my sinn. I none of those great priviledges have, Which make the minions of the time, so brave. I have no sumpteous pallaces, or bowers That overtop mv neighbours, with their tow is. I have no large demeanes or princely rents, Like those heroes; nor their discontents. K 122 I have no glories from mine auncesters ; For want of reall worth to bragg of theirs : Nor have I baseness in my pedigree; For it is noble, though obscure it be. I have no gold those honours to obtaine, Which men might heretofore by Vertue gaine, Nor have I witt, if wealth were given me ; To thinke, bought place or title, honour'd me. I (yet) have no beliefe that they are wise, Who for base ends, can basely temporise: Or that it will at length be ill for me, That I liv'd poore, to keepe my spirit free. I have no causes in our pleading courts. Nor start I at our Chancery reports. No fearefull bill hath yet affrighted me, No motion, order, judgement, or decree. Nor have I forced beene to tedious journeys, Betwixt my counsellors and my attorneys. I have no neede of those long-gowned warders, Who play at Westminster unarm' d at Barriers: For gamster for those Common-pleas am I, Whose sport is marred by the Chancery. I have no juggling hand, no double tongue; Nor any minde to take, or doe a wrong. I have no shifts or cunning sleights, on which I feed my selfe, with hope of being rich. Nor have I one of these, to make me poore; Hounds, humors, running horses, haukes^or whore. I have no pleasure in acquaintance, where The rules of state, and ceremony, are Observ'd so seriously, that I must daunce, And act o're all the complements of France, And Spaine, and Italy, before I can Be taken, for a well-bred Englishman: And every time we meet, be forc't agen_> To put in action that most idle sceane, 123 Mong these, much precious time (unto my cost) And much true-hearty meaning have I lost. Which having found, I doe resolve therefore, To lose my time, and friendship, so no more. I have no complements, but what may show, That I doe manners, and good breeding know, for much I hate, the forced, apish tricks, Of those our home- disdaining politicks : Who to the forraine guises are affected, That English honesty is quite rejected : And in the stead thereof, they furnisht home With shaddowes of humanity doe come. Oh ! how judicious in their owne esteeme, And how compleatly travelled they seeme, If in the place of reall kindnesses, (Which Nature could have taught them to expresse) They can with gestures, lookes, and language sweet, Fawne. like a curtez3n, on all they meete : And vie, in humble and kind speaches, when, They doe most proudly, and most falsely meane. On this, too many falsely set their face, Of courtship and of wisedome : but 'tis base. For, servile (unto me) it doth appeare, When we descend, to soothe and flatter, where We want affection : yea, I hate it more, Than to be borne a slave ; or to be poore. I have no pleasure, or delight in ought, That by dissembling must to passe be brought. If I dislike, I'le sooner tell them so, Then hide my face beneath a friendly show. For he, who to be just, hath an intent, Needs nor dissemble, nor a lye invent. I rather wish to faile with honestie, Then to prevaile in ought by treacherie. And with this minde, I'le fafer sleepe, then all Our Machavillian polititians shall. I have no minde to flatter ; though T might Be made some lord's companion ; or a knight. Nor shall my verso for me on begging goe, Though 1 might starve, unlesse it did doe so. I have no Muses that will serve the turne, At everv triumph ; and rcVvce or rnov.rne, Upon a minute'? warning for their hire, If*- ith old Sherry they uiemselves inspire. I am not of a temper, like to those That can provide an lxmre's sad talke in prose, For any funerall • and then goe dine, And choke my griefe, with sugar-plums and wine. 'I cannot at the Claret sit and laugh, And then, halfe tipsie, write an Epitaph ; Qr howle an Epicoedium for each groome, That is by fraud, or nigardize, become A welthy alderman : Nor, for each gull, That hath acquir'd tlie stile of worshipful!, I cannot for reward adorne the hearse Of some old rotten Miser with my verse : Nor like the Poetasters of the time, Goe howle a dolefull Elegie in ryme, For every lord or ladyship that dyes : And then perplex their heires, to patronize That muddy Pcesie. Oh ! how I scorne, Those raptures, which are free, and nobly borne, Should ridler-like, for entertainment scrape At strangers' windowes j and goe play the ape, In counterfeiting passion, when ther's none : Or in good earnest, foolishly bemoane (In hope of cursed bounty) their just death ; Who, (living) merrit not, a minute's breath To keepe their fame alive, unles to blow Some trumpet, which their black disgrace may show, I cannot (for my life) my pen compell, Upon the praise of any man to dwell : 125 Unlesse I know, (or thinke at least) his worth, To be the same which I have blazed forth. Had I some honest suit ; the gaine of which, Would make me noble, eminent, and rich ; And that to compasse it, no meanes there were, Unlesse I basely flatter' d some great peere j Would with that suite, my ruine I might get : If on those termes I would endeavour it! I have not bin to their condition borne, Who are enclyned to respect, and scorne, As men in their estates doe rise or fall : Or rich, or poore, I vertue love in all. And where I find it not, I doe dispise To fawn on them ; how high sp^e're they rise. For, where proud gxeatnesse without worth I sees Old Mordecay had not a stiffer knee. I cannot give a plaudit (I protest) When written & By Sir Roger Williams, Knight. <& London, Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Matthew Lozvnes. 1618. SUuarto, pp. 133. Dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon by Sir Peter Manwoode, (son of Chief Baron Manvvoode) from St. Stephens near Canterbury, 1 Jan. l6l7, who says: " This part of History, having lain a long time by me, I have thought good to publish to the world ; and that especially for these reasons. First, to incite other men of Arms to imi- tate in like sort their great Master Julius Caesar, who wrote exact Commentaries, (adorned of late with observations of a worthy man of our nation ) of such military actions as happened under his command. Secondly, to prevent lest such worthy pains should either perish, or hereafter be set forth by others as their own : a thing too much practised by some not of meanest note. Lastly, to make this a means of drawing the residue into light, which haply sleepeth in the custody of some other man." Sir Roger Williams was a native of Monmouth- shire; was educated at Oxford, and died in London 1595. Wood says of this book, " The author being unlearned, and only tutored by expe- rience, hath penned the said History with very exquisite judg- ment, he being an actor in die said actions or wars." 131 It has an Address to the Reader by Sir John Hay- warde, in which he says : " Touching the History itself, it is faithful and free ; wherein are found sieges, assaults, surprises, ambushes, skirmishes, battles, lively described : great variety both of persons, and of actions ; much mutability of fortune, many changes in aifairs : admirable advices, unexpected events, ponderous judgments ; a phrase in a soldier's stile, sinewy, and sweet ; full both of perspicuity and grace : in a word, I esteem it a complete History, if it were complete, I mean, if it extended to all the actions, wherein the author did serve. But whether the residue was never written, or whether it be perished, or whether it resteth in any other hand, I remain doubtful. This piece being shewed to me by a person, of whose virtues I had rather speak nothing than not enough, I did much esteem ; for that it compriseth some actions of the time, wherein I have lived : of which time I endeavour to leave a large memorial to posterity. But coming to me in a ragged hand, much maimed both in sense and in phrases, I have restored it so near as I could, both to the stile and meaning of the Author." Sir Roger also wrote A brief Discourse of JVar, with his opinion concerning some part of military Dis- cipline, Lond. Io90, 4to. in which he defends the mili- tary art of his country against that of former days. He is highly commended by Dr. Gabriel Harvey, in his Pierce's Supererogation, 4to. 1593, and the reader may see honourable mention of him in Churchyard's Wars in the Netherlands, (Lond. 1602). See also an Epi- gram on him in the first book of Sir John Stradling's Epigrams.* * See Wood's Ath. by Blis«, I. 644, ]32 Walter Scott has reprinted this Tract on the Actions in the Low Countries, in the new Edition of the Somen Tracts. 24. Biographers of Gen. Monke. John Price, D. D. Rector of Petworth, &c. died May, 1691. Tho. Gumble, D.D. 1661, of Cains College, A. M. 1650, Vicar of Wicombe, Bucks, formerly Bur-, gess for that Borough, and a zealous Commonwealth's man. "Both these Doctors have left an account of The Life and Actions of General Monke. Dr. Price's is a very pretty book. Dr. Gumble's has much of the cold stream. Your Lordship has no doubt seen both." T. Baker to Bp. Kennett. Dr. Gumble was son of John Gumble, of the parish of St. Stephen's, Norwich, and educated at the public school there; admitted a poor scholar 1642, aged 16; presented to the Church of East Lavant, in Sussex, 1663. Ibid. j»^— — ■— — — .^— — — — » — ~- — — ^^ 1 — —^ ^» 25. Dr. Calamy's Book. " Dr. Calamy's Book being a continuation, not a new Edition, I sent for it myself, and so have stayed the longer, not receiving it till Saturday last. It is such 3 wilderness, and con- tains so many obscure persons (at least to me) that I shall not have patience to turn it over. I shall send some few obser- vations on the University and County of Cambridge, where I am best acquainted, which yet will rather shew the author not to. be very accurate than much mistaken." 133 " But tho' the account of ejected Ministers be imperfect, I could send your Lordship a pretty long list of our ejected Clergy, either not mentioned by Dr. Walker, or not upon such sure vouchers, being taken from the original Books of the Committee for plundered Ministers, which Dr. Walker had not seen, and seems not inclined to proceed any further for want of health, which I am sorry for. As indeed I am not in- clined to proceed any further with Dr. Calamy, your Lordship will accept this short and imperfect account, rather as an act of obedience than of use." T. Baker to Bp. Kennett. 1/27. 26. The first Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Port- ingales, in their daungerous Nauigations in the time of King Don John, the Second of that Name. Which Historie conteineth much xarietie of Matter, very profitable for all Nauigators, arid not vnpleasaunt to the Readers. Set foorth in the Portingale Lan- guage, by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda. And now translated into English by N. L. Gentleman. Im- printed at London by Thomas East, 1582, 4to. Sign. Tt. iij. This Translation is dedicated to Sir Francis Drake, Kt. and signed " Your Worships al waves to Command, Nicholas Lichefield, Gentleman." It is a very rare volume. The Translator says to Sir Francis, " if it may please you to peruse and ac- cept this in good part, I shall be greatly emboldened to proceed and publish also the second and third Book, which I am assured will neither be unpleasant nor unprofitable to die reader." 134 «4«.v*>*>"> •>«>»>'^V ■<*•<••<•*<•• <..<••<»<» 27. ^ r>«e and experimentall Discourse, upon the beginning, proceeding, and Victorious Event of the last Siege of Breda. With the antiquity and annexing of it to the House of Nassaw, and the many alterations it hath suffered by Armes and Armies, within these threescore Years. Together with the prudent plots, projects, and policies of War: The Assailants' and Defendants' matchlesse manhood, in managing Martiall affaires: The misery and manner of Souldiers living, their pinching want, andfatall accidents : Strange Weapons and Instruments used by both parties in severall con- flicts. Lastly, their concluded Articles, with the circum- stances and ordering of the Siege and Victory. Being pleasant to peruse, and profitable to observe. Written by him who was an eye-witnesse of the Siege, William Lithgow. London Printed by J. Okes for J. Rothwell, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard, at the signe of the Sunne. 1 637. Siuarto, pp. 55. In the Prologue to the Reader, the author says: " Thou mayst admire to see my flying quill come unto such a low flight, as the Belgian Provinces : which formerly slighted (in the late and large Discourse of my long and fasti- 135 dious Travels*) this Western Worlde : but made a step from Paris to Rome : Nay, scarce of Rome itself would my pen peruse any paines, till my face sighted Greece, and Eastern Europe. Whence there my feet footing pedestrially many Regions in Asia, and thence consequently voyaging in Africa, by two severall turnes and returnes : It is a wonder, I say, to behold my remote labours fall now upon Breda in Brabant, our neighbour soile, divided from us only, as it were, by a channel of the Sea. And yet reason fortifieth my intention, since now inability of body restraineth me from any further launching abroad, and my preteriat daies of long worne time, be- ing stricken in age, retroverteth the ancient proverbe backwards upon myself: to wit, that young men have wide eies abroad, and old men narrow eies at home: which now I begin recipro- cally to countercambiat, being of both sayings participant." To his singular friend and renowned Traveller Mr. Lithgow. " Cannot this isle thy wandering mind contain, When age hath crown'd thy foreign toils and sight, But now that Belgia must thy steps sustain, To pry where Mars involves his aweful might : Thy former Travels lend the world great light, And after- times thy memory shall praise : But now Breda claims in thy pains a right, To rouse her worth, her strength, her change, her strays ,- Thou bring'st remotest toils to home-bred ways, And turns thy tune to sing a tragic song ! It's done, and well each work thy merits raise, Patron of Pilgrims, Poet, Penman, long ! * " His Booke of niueteene years travailes, performed by three several Voyages." 136 A soldier's phrase thy curious stile affords, To fit the subject with their deeds and words. Soar then, brave Spark, on flying wings of Fame, That in this task revives thy living name ! Alexander Grahame.'* To his peculiar associate, and pilgrhnagious Brother, William IAihgow. ble. But rather, I would say, this sonne of Conopas made the whole army to admire his monstrous smalnesse ; who for this Bellonean practice our Champion said, he may justly, as Ge- nerall, lead an army of Pigmees to the Catopian fields, where Molon, Commander of the contrary Campe, will runne at tilt against him with the launce of a rush as long as a straw : and so leaving this memorable monument of a living statue, I re- turne to my purpose." At p. 49 the traveller digresses to good news from the Eastern parts of Germany, where General Leslie commanded the vanguard at a Victory over the Impe- rialists, Aug 9, 1606. Here was slain Col. Robt. ^Cunningham, a son of the house of Boniton upon Clyde. General Ruthwen is also commemorated ; and Col. Hepburne, with Col. Hepburne the younger, his cousin, " Son and apparent heir of that ancient house of Wachton." " But now to return to the Leslies, of whom there are so many valorous Colonells and Captaines, besides the aforesaid Generall, that I may justly averre it, that mere are not so many" of one surname within Europe, and in this age have acquisted more credit, honour, and indubitable reputation, than that heroick and Bellonean name hath done. Whereof Gustavus' Ghost may testifie not onely of them, but also of divers other worthy and noble Commanders, as these honourable Colonells, Mackay, now Lord of Raye ; two of the surnames of Lind- sey, Earles of Crawfurd, the noble Forbes, two of Hamilton, three of Cuningham j the rest of the Colonels were Minroe, Lumsdale, Stewart, Keith, Baillie, Gunne, and that once high- ly respected commander under the Marquesse of Hannay, Sii James Ramsey, lately deceased ; with sundry other like Colo- nells, and many Captaines of noble memory ; and so from them W9 generally of the whole Scots, their followers, that they have been the nerves and sinews of his army ; yea, and the sword of his right hand : for as the Myrmidons were the bulwarks of Alexander's fortunes, so were they the pike and buckler of all Adolphus' most glorious atchievements, as well in Prussia, Ger- many, as on the borders of Russia, or elsewhere, whose proper and peculiar acts, or most of them, I could seriously divulge, but time, it traitours me : neither may this present volumne permit me to engrosse any prolixious subject, (howsoever ne- cessary) unlesse I had a proposed drift to perfect punctually in a larger relation than this, their generous and generall proceed- ings, their heroick exploits, and fastidious following of their adventurous labours in martiall discipline ; and so I hasten to Finis. " But what shall I say ? Scotland, now a dayes, hath no Historian, bravest Wits turn dull, Poets sing dumbe, Penmen grow deafe, and best spirits slumber. And why } Because there is no Mecaenas, as little regard, farre lesse reward of in- grateful patrones ; the praises of past worthies lie interred in the dust, and future times robbed of the necessary knowledge of things past and present, and thus in the darknesse of ingratitude, the living men murder the memory of the dead. Nay, and worse, Penmen now may not labour in their paines, because of clownish carpers, critics, calumniators, and distracted censurers, -that tare the life of Vertue in pieces with their spightful tongues ; for it is a more facile thing for a miscreant to judge than to suffer judgement himselfe : And especially some raw-mouth' d younglings, (nay rather fondlings) who being nearly Laureate, after short foure halfe yeares time spent in the Colledge, they come forth from this small commencement, (wanting wit, judgement, and understanding) like to bulls broken out from dungeons, to beate the faces of the world : Wise men are ig- norant to them, the Laiety but lubbards, old men but fooles ; and they will have men of honour to honour them with the first good-morrow, the top of the table, the right hand, and th* 140 enterey of the doore. And why ? Because they are over-* master' d with Art, not masters of it ; having their shallow braines loaden with the empty apprehension of bottomlesse syllogismes, rotten ragges of Heathenish Philosophy, and clouted phrases of Paganisme authors, who but they ? and if they raylei upon divine authority, vulgars say, they are brave schollers, hopefull youths, and well set ; away, runne here and there, goe beyond sea, to teach and concionate ! Some of which pre-* sumptuous crew I found here in the Leaguer before Breda, (I meane of mine owne countreymen, and none other) whose beardlesse mouths have greater neede of more learning, know- ledge, and instruction, than to dare to doe the thing they can- not doe ; whose names I reserve to discover in my verbal and ordinary discourses." 28. WILLIAM LAMBARD. A Collection of the ancient Saxon Laws, delivered to Lambard by Lawrence Nowel, which he published under the title of A^a.ovoa.a, dedicated to Sir Wm. Cordell, from Lincoln's Inn, 1638, was revised from the MS. of Lambard in the hands of Selden, and published by Mr. Abraham Whelock, 1644, with the addition of several Saxon Canons from Sir Hen. Spelman, and the Latin Laws of Edw, Conf. and K. Will, from the Eadmerus of Selden, and the Laws of Hen. I. with a preface to these latter by Sir Roger Twisden. Mr. Whelock gives this character of Mr. Lam- bard's translation of the Saxon : — " Dominum Lam- bardum et legum nostrarum et elegantiarum omnium callentissimum virum, miror quidem et veneror : sed annon hie plurimis in locis paraphrastente magis quam interpretem prxbuit, tute lector,, judicabis." Kcnnetfs MSS. 141 v>">">">-*>*->«»*">»><^<»<"<"<"4"4"4--«- <„ 29- The Running Register : recording a True Relation of the state of the English Colledges, Seminaries, and Cloysters in all forraigne parts. Together with a briefe and compendious discourse of the Lives, Prac- tices, Coozenage, Impostures and Deceits of all our English Monk~, Friers, Jesuits, and Seminar ie Priests in general. By Lewis Owen. Qua? nascentia sunt mala, ea crescentia peiora. Slob. Serm. 44. London, Printed for Robert Milhourne, and are to he sold at the great South doore of Pauls, 1626. <--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-<>~> SDuarto pp. 118. «~o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-» The Book is dedicated to " Sir Julius Cassar, Knight, Master of the Rowles," where he introduces some account of himself and his book as follows. " Right Honokable, " Hauing in my many yeeres trauell in forraine Countries seene with mine eyes, and by conference with others, learned the state of the Colledges, Seminaries and Cloisters, which our English Fugitiues haue in all those forraine parts, together with some part of their practices, impostures, coozenage, and deceits, their whole drifts being to alienate the hearts of his Maiesties Subiects from their Allegeance, and to possesse them with the filthy dregs of JSpanish infection, and Popish Superstition: and withall to impouerish this Kingdome, by transporting ouer into those parts, of infinit summes of money 3 and diuers other 142 hainous capitall crimes, and intollerable offences and abuses, too too long heere to be recited, I thought it my bounden dutie both to my King, Church, and Countrey, to publish the same to the view of the world, being not altogether ignoran 3s a subiect not well pleasing the humours of the English Romane-Catholikes, especially their Clergie-men: but as for the truth of those things which I haue touched, I giue them free scope and liberty to impugne and contradict it if they can," &c. After the Dedication, follows " The Epistle to the Reader;" and immediately after, " A Catalogue of the English Colledges, Seminaries, Cloisters, and other Religious Houses, in all forraine parts." The following extracts from the book itself are chiefly on account of their intrinsic curiosity. The work also abounds with anecdotes of those English Roman Catholics, who had fled for refuge to those religious institutions, which the Author is at so much pains to ridicule and condemn. " Of the English Colledge at Saint Omer" {p. 14.) " In the English Colledge at Saint Omer, the Jesuites haue a printing Presse, to print such Popish Bookes and Seditious, (yea blasphemous) Pamphlets as are written by any English Jesuite. I may very well call some of them blasphemous Pamphlets j and among all the rest, that little Pamphlet, intituled Prurit-Anus^ which was written and twice printed in that Colledge : but the Copies for the most part taken, and at two seuerall times burned at Pauls- Crosse after Sermon time, about fourteene yeeres agoe. The Authors who were Wilson and the rest of the Jesuites there (because it was stuffed with such horrible blasphemies) were ashamed to subscribe their owne names thereunto, but borrowed a fained name of one Horatio Dolobella a Neapolitan, I dare boldly say, that if either Julian the Apostate, or Lucirrn 143 the Atheist, should haue undertaken the like worke, the one could not haue deuised to write more blasphemously ; or the other to scoffe, and flout at God*s Word more prophanely, than the Author (or to say the truth, the Authors) of that most blasphemous and scandalous Pamphlet, or Libell. " Their Presse is worth unto them more than foure hun- dred pounds yearely. For they themselves are the Authors, Correctors, Composers, and Pressemen; in so much that it doth cost them nothing but Paper and Inke; and these bookes they doe sell at an unreasonable rate : for they are not ashamed to sell a booke that containes not a quire of Paper, for hue or sixe shillings ; and to that purpose they haue their Factors, and Brokers in London, and all parts of England, to disperse and sell these Bookes and Pamphlets, and to transport the money unto them to Saint Omer." He relates also a story of a Kentish-man, whom " The English Jesuites tooke away with them, and brought him to a house, which they haue, not farre from their Col- ledge; where they locked him fast in a Chamber seuen dayes,, allowing him but very small commons, for his sixe-pence a day c they gaue him Cafiisius Catechisme* in English, and other Popish bookes to reade ; together with a paire of Beads, and a yong Priest came unto him once, or twice euery day to instruct him." " Of the English Nunnes at Lisbon" (p. 109.) " If any man be desirous to know further of their estate and course of life, let him reade a little Pamphlet entituled, * An Edition of Canisius's Catechism in the Scottish Dialect, was in the Library of the Duke of Iloxburghe, (No. 505) of which the following is the title. " Canisius's Catechisme, translated by Adam King of Edinburgh, %vith Kallendar, and ane schort vaye scharing how vve maye verdily prapaire us to confession leffofr the receaving of the ha/ie sacrament. Paris. 1^38." Small a". 144 The Anatorhie of the English Nunnes of Lislon ;* and there he shall see them liuely purtrayed out by one that was lately -one of their owne fraternitie." D. C. 30. Musarum Oxonicmium Charisteria pro Serenissima Regina Maria, recens e nixus laboriosi disc ri mine rt- cepta. Oxonia, Typis Leonard Lichfield Academics, Typogra- phic 1638, in Quarto. The Copies of Verses in this Collection consist of Greek, Latin, French, and English ; the following is a list of Authors' names, according to their order in the Book. LATIN, GREEK, AND FRENCH. A. Frewen Vicccan. Oxon. et Pnesidens Coll. Magd. Jacobus Herbertus, Philippi Com. Peml. et Montgom.fi/ius natu tertius, e Coll. Jesu. Ja Levingston, Baronettus Coll. Merton. Rob. Pink, Cast. Coll. Nov. Thomas Lawrence, Magister Coll. Bal. Guil. Strode, S. T. Prof. Orator PuUicus ex erde Christi. ToGepros 6 Msyocc ex. rS May J. fgoyri;. Gr. J. Crowder, Joan. Ed. Diggle, Soc. Coll. Magd. ». The Anattmy of the English Nvnnery at Lisbone, 4to. Lond. Printed 1622 and 30. 145 Ger. Langbaine, C. Reg. S. Ob. 165/. S. Evans, LL. Bac. N. C. Guil. Cartwright, Art. Mag. ex jEde Ch. Ob. 1642. J. Maplet, Art. Mag. ex jEde Ch. Ob. 16/0. R. Mill, A. M. Coll. Mag. Ed. Marow, LL. Bac. Nov. Coll. Soc. NaSavaryA Iepou.6voc%ps Klvvwviqs Ex fpovrig rs BaA. Ch. Ed. Silvester, e Coll. Bal. Gr. A noted scholar. Hen. Killigrew, Mag. Art. ex Mde Ch. father of Anne K. P. Allibond, Coll. Line. Soc. J. Beeslby, Art. Mag. Nov. Coll. Soc. M. Berkeley, M.A. ex JEde Ch. G. Gisby, Joan. B. D. 1646. H. May, A. B. N. C. Soc. G. Wilde, Joan. Bp. of Londonderry. Ob. 1665. R. Waring, A. M. ex Mde Ch. Ob. J 60S. Ant. Hedges, A. M. e Coll. Nov. J. Hyde, M. A. Coll. Magd. Fr. Atkins, M. A. CM. Wad. R. Barrel, A. M. Coll. Magd. Soc. G. Ashwell, A. M. et Soc. C. Wad. Ob. 1693. G. Grove, A. M. Coll. Wad. G. Borlase, ex Mde Ch. N. Langford, Jurist e Coll. Nov. J. Sackvil, Eq. de Bain. Jil. nat. max. ex Mde Chr. T. Sackvil, Eq. de Bain. jil. nut. min. ex Mde Chr. F. Hervey, Eq. de Bain. Jil. nat. max. ex Mde Ch. T. Daunt, Arm. jil. nat. max. Col. Line. J. Daunt, Arm. jil. nat. sec. e Col. Line. J. Fell, Mdis Chr. Alum. Bp. of Oxford. Ob. 1 686. T. Litleton, Coll. Jesu Socio- Commens. R. Bride-oake, A. M. e Coll. Nov. Bp. of Chichester. Ob. 1678. J. Dighton, Soc. Coll. Univers. Jo.C^stWWon, A.M. Nov. Coll. Dean of Rochester. Ob.l6SS. v 146 R. West, A. B. ex sEde Chr. Conyers D'Arcy, fl. nat. major. Conyers D'Arcy armig. Coll. Univers. Guil. Draper, ex JEde Chr. Jo. Curie, Nov. Coll. Civilist. M. Lewellin, ex Mde Chr. Poet. Ob. 1681. G. Wallwyn, e Coll. Joan, A. B. of East-Coker, Co. S&m. . Ed. Gray, M. A. ex yEde Ch. F. Palmer, ex jEd. Ch. Miles Criche, A. B. ex. Md. Ch. G. J. Arm. Fill. Coll. Mag. Com. Ben. Master, ex JSde Ch. Sam. Jackson, Md. Ch. Alum. M. D. Ob. 1674. Charles Vane, Maistre es Arts du Coll. de Magd. Fr. Edouard Vane, Bach, es Arts du Coll. de Magd. Fr. Ed. Corbet, Soc. Merton. et Proc. Sen. Acad. Ob. 1657. Joh. Nicholson, Coll. Mag. Proc. Jun. A. Frewen, Vicccan. Oxon. Abp. of York. Ob. 1664. ENGLISH. Anonymous. To the Queene. Jo. Herbert, fourth Son to Philip Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery, of Jesus Coll. JohnWindebank, Bac. Art. and Fellow of New Coll. M. D. R. Mill, A. M. Col. Mag. Jasper Mayne, M. A. of Ch. Ch. a poet of note. W. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. poet. Ro. Barrell, Coll. Magd. Edmund Vaughan, Fellow of C. C. C. Ob. 1669. J. S. C.C.C. Sch. Horatius Moore, Armig. fil. univ. Col. Bat. J. Wither, Art. B.C.B. J. T. Bal. Coll. 147 Ja. Jackson. Jos. Howe, M.A. Prin. Coll. Soc. of Grendon, Buch. Rich. Lovelace, Mag. Art. A. Glouc. fil. Guil. Lovelace Eq. Aur. Nat. max. a celebrated poet. A. Nevil, Coll. Univers. Franc. Atkins, M. of Arts of Wad. Colledge. H. C. Coll. Mag. Ed. Gray, M.A. of Ch. Ch. H.Ramsay of Ch. Ch. H. Benet, Ch. Ch. after, Earl of Arlington. E. Yorke. Humphrey Hull, M.A. of Ch. Ch. Charles May, Art. Bac. Joan. W. Towers of Ch. Ch. Ob. 1666. Rich. Paynter, Joan. Ri. West. Bac. Art. Ch. Ch. Ri. Grenvile, ex Aul. Glo. R. Bride-oake, M. Art. N. C. John Harris, N. C. Schol. Warden of JVinton. Ob. l6"58. John Lowen of Ch. Ch. Ob. l&ff, Ralph Hare, Mag. Coll. Com. R. Cary, C. C. C. T. Dale, M. A. Univ. Coll. On the last leaf we have the following Copy of Verses by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University of Oxford. 148 The Printer's Close. Most gracious Queene, Great Joyes and Griefs are dumbe, Poets may vent Their sighs in different Language, I'm content (Who never lov'd to speak more than my owne) In English not to write my mind, but groane. Your Priests their vowes have on this Altar pay'd ; I doe but echoe out what they have said : They offer up some teares mingled with smiles, So in the gaudie Bow sweet light beguiles The sadnesse of the Cloud : here you may find Something to grieve, something to please your mind : As in a little orchard you may view Here Bayes and Roses, Cypresse there and Yew. I, like a mourner, doe not weare, but write My Rib arid- favours thus in black and white. My Presse hath teem'd, yet may the same sad Fate. That wrought your grief, make me unfortunate, Unlesse you please to cast a gracious eye On that which, by your lookes, must live or dye. LEONARD LICHFIELD. D. C. 31. Bishop Burnet's History, " Bishop Atterbury said on the appearance of Bishop Burnefs History: " D — him, he has told a great deal of truth; but where the Devil did he learn it?" Coles MSS. xxiii. p. 107. 14:9 32, Btograpiuana* 31. Dr. Francis Turner, deprived Bishop of Ely. Died November 2, l/OO. "^^tX^i^y^^ifflM- E was son of Dr. Thomas Turner, brought c W^^-1^M^W^^^^b U P at Winchester School, and thence »£)(*) translated to New College, Oxford; col- IS^f lated to a Prebend of St Paul's, 1 60*9 ; tjjpfap made Master of St. John's College, C 8$^I2) ip©©*) ^^^^r Cambridge, J67O; Dean of Windsor, Cv^^^p^^^'O/^' 1683- Bishop of Rochester the same Stf^fwiGs^^ft? year; translated to Ely 1084. Deprived Feb. 1, 1690. " He was of all those who were deprived, the most vigorous and active, by attempting the Restoration of the late King James; wherein being unsuccessful, he did but expose himself with his Brethren, to the resentment of a Government always jealous of them, as there was reason for it. He had indeed very particular obligations to that King, had preached also his Coronation Ser- mon, had a strict sense of honour, as well as conscience, and was inflexible in his principles both as to Church and State, which he thought to be very much departed from by the Complyers. There was a very close friendship contracted between him and Bishop Kenn, from the time of their having been school fellows together in Winchester school; but was never able to draw up his friend to the same height with himself in this matter. He was as zealous as any one of the seven Bishops, when King James sat upon the throne, in setting himself against the two contrary Religious Fac- tions then uuited at Court; and in opposing the King's intentions 150 about his Declaration of Indulgence, and addressing him not to pursue that which he thought might prove prejudicial to Church or State. But he is said to have very heartily afterward repented to have gone so far herein as he did; and to have acknowledged that their going to the Tower, when they might easily have pre- vented the samej by entering into mutual recognizances for each other, as the King would have had them, was a wrong step taken, and an unnecessary punctilio of honour in Christian Bishops. Howsoever it was, he reflected upon all what had passed; and was so sincere as to condemn himself in whatsoever he conceived that he had not acted as became his Order and Station. He was buried at Therfield in Herts." Kennctt—from Life of Kettlewdl. " I remember when he was Bishop of Rochester, he came to St. Mary's, when a very bright Sermon was preached by his bro- ther of Trinity College. The Earl of Thomond sat next to the Bishop, and seeming mightily pleased with the Sermon, he asked him the name of the Preacher; the Bishop told him, it was one Mr. Turner. "Turner," says my Lord Thomond, "he can't if akin to Dr. Turner Bishop of Rochester: he is the worst Preacher in England, and this is one of the lest'" seeming not to know the Bishop, when certainly he knew him very well. I was then at St. Mary's." Kcnnctt. 32 Dr. Charles Roderick, Provost of King's College, and Dean of Ely. Died March 25, 1 7 1 2 . JEt. 62. " He was elected Provost l6SQ, (being then Head Master of Eton School) on the death of Dr. John Coppleston, Provost of King's; was installed Prebendary of Ely, Aug. 27, 1(X)1; and Dean of Ely, Oct. 8, 1708. " Though he had been so long Master in a great School and College, he was of that diffident modesty, that 'tis said he never preached in his life, but when there was a legal necessity upon him. His Mastership of the School was owing to his qualifications for it, his Provostship to the affections of his Scholars, and both liis Prebend and Deanery, to his having been the good-natured 151 Master of the sons of Nobles, and especially of the Duke of Marl- borough's only son." Ibid. He was a native of Bunbury in Cheshire. 33. Dr. Thomas Ken, deprived Bishop of Bath and Wei Is; Died March 10, 1710. " Upon the accession of Q. Anne to the Crown, a proposal was made by the interest of the Lord Weymouth, that Bishop Kidder should be translated to the See of Carlisle, to make way for restoring Dr. Ken to the See of Bath and Wells. Bishop Kidder is said to have sent up his consent by the Archbishop of York 5 but when all things were ready, Dr. Ken declined it upon new exception to the oath of Abjuration." Ibid. Dr. Ken was youngest son of Thomas Ken of Furnivals Inn, descended from the ancient Kens of Kenn Place, educated at Win- chester, and thence elected to New College, Oxford. 34. Dr. Ralph Bathurst, Dean of Wells. Died June 14, 1704. "He was Brother to Sir Benjamin Bathurst,* so eminent in the Service of the Court. " While Vice-Chancellor, he had an excellent way of attend- ing the public Exercises in the Schools, and inviting to dinner those young men, who had come off well in declaiming or dis- puting: which raised a noble spirit of emulation, and made him esteemed the Patron of young Scholars. " He kept a hospitable Table, even when he himself was not able to eat; and to please the company, he had an art of seeming to eat, by mincing a hard egg, &c. And yet was pleased with his want of stomach, and could be pleasant upon it: as meeting one of the Senior Fellows in the Grove, very warm with walking, and seeming to wonder at it, the Fellow told him he had been walking that morning all round the New Park, &c. to get him a stomach to his dinner. "Poh!" said the President, " 1 hare had no sto- * Ancestor to Earl Bathurst. 152 mach these seven years, and I would not walk cross the way to get one!" Ibid. 35. Dr. Richard Kidder, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Died Nov. 26, 1703. He was nominated to this Bishoprick 14 June, 16.Q1. He was killed in his Bed at Wells, by the fall of a stack of chimnies blown down in the great storm of wind Nov. 26, or 27, 1703. His wife was also killed at the same time. " I have heard that Mrs. Kidder was found killed in the bed: but the Bishop was a little distance on the floor. While he was Vicar of Stanground near Peterborough, (before the Bartholomew Act,) they had a fine Boy eaten up by a sow." Ibid. 36. Dr. Leopold William Finch, Warden of All-Souls, Oxford, died in Dec. 1702. " He was a younger son of Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea, born while his father was Embassador abroad ; had the Emperor and Prince of Orange for his Godfathers, and thence the double name of Leopold William. I went to school with him at W'ye in Kent, which was near to his father's seat of Eastwell. "Upon the opening of the Revolution, he was the most for- ward to meet his Godfather the Prince of Orange, in his way to London, to invite him to pass through Oxford, to make an offer of presenting the University Plate, &c. " He was installed Prebendary of Canterbury \6sg. " He was arbitraiy in expelling Mr. Jonas, Prouost, from a Chaplainship in that College, who by unwearied application to the Visitor, Archbishop Tillotson, got at last to be restored t« his place." Ibid. * See Heamiana, p. 8o. 153 I shall continue the Biographiana in this place, because it appears to me desirable to have them inserted in large masses, without too frequent inter- ruption. 37. Dr. Robt. South. Died July 8, 1716, at. S2. " He had a great deal of ill-nature, with a good deal of good humour and good manners in him. He labour'd very much to compose his sermons, and in the pulpit work'd up his body when he came to a piece of wit, or any notable saying. He made a demur upon submitting to the Revolution, and thought himself deceived by Dr. Sherlock, which was the true foundation of the bitter difference in writing about the Trinity. He kept up such a character of a Churchman, that upon the death of Bishop Sprat, Q. Ann offered him the Deanery of Westminster ; but he refused it, being got into a love of his own way, wherein he kept a hand- maid, and left her the greatest part of his estate, which got her an able husband." Kennett. 38. Dr. Basil Kennett, President of Corpus Christi Col- lege, Oxford, died 1714. " He was the L'd son of the Rev. Mr. Basil Kennett, Vicar of" Postling, and Rector of Dimchurch in Kent, born at Postling in 3674, educated by his elder brother, partly in the school atBisilcr, and partly in the private family of Sir William Glynne at Amers- den in Oxfordshire. Admitted Commoner of St. Edmund's Hall, in Oxford, under the tuition of his brother, then Vice-Principal, who allowed him 40/. per ann. when he had not above 80/. coming in. He was thence elected scholar of Corpus Christi, as a native of Kent. After he had been sometime Fellow and Tu- tor, and a considerable writer, he went the first English Chap- lain to the Factory at Leghorn 5 and after great difficulties and X 154 dangers of the Inquisition, hcwa9 the happy instrtiment of found- ing and establishing that Protestant interest, and national honour, in a course of succession, (we hope) for ever. He there contract- ed an ill-habit of body, either by too abstemious and studious a life, or, as much suspected, by a slow poison, administered to ex- pel Heresy from such abode in Italy. However desirous to re- turn, he would not leave the place till he 9aw his successor in it, the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Taubman. He then took a tour to Flo- rence, Rome, Naples, and back by way of France, collecting in his travels a good treasure of books, sculptures, and other curio- sities ; which when he had defrayed the charge of importation was all his substance. He retired to his Fellowship, and was soon •made Chaplain to Dr. Wake, Bishop of Lincoln, who gave him civil entertainment atBuckden, and a small Prebend of Lincoln. He had before his travels accepted from his brother the Vicarage of Comb cum Harnham, near Salisbury, where he very much improved the Vicarage House, made a generous allowance to a Curate -in his absence, and resigned it as soon as he had liberty to do it." Bp. Kennelt. In the Chapel of Corpus Chris ti College, H. S. E. Basilius Kennett, S. T. P. Hujus Coll. Praeses MDCCXIV, iEtat. 41. 39> Dr. Humphrey Cower, Master of St. Johns College, Cambridge, died March 27, 1711. "Humphrey Gower, D.D. Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, -succeeded, 1668, Dr. Ralph Widdringtrm in the Margaret Professorship at Cambridge. Chose into the preferment in a year of trial, being then noted for his firmness, integrity, and prudent conduct in the government of his College, as he has since been for his extraordinary abilities in the chair." IbiiL 155 40. Dr. Charles Hickman, Bishop of Londonderry, died 1713. " Charles Hickman, Bishop of Londonderry, by the interest of Lord Rochester, with whom he went over Chaplain, having lost his wife in Ireland, (sister to Mrs. Hutton of Ayno) retired into England for an indolent life, and died at Fulham in Middle- sex Nov. 28, 1713, buried in Westminster Abbey." Ibid. 41. Dr. William Sherlock, Dean of St Paul's, died 17®7- ML 67. " He died at Hampstead, June 19, and was buried at St. Paul's. '* He left a widow, by whose importunity he had done many things ; two sons of which he had seen the eldest, Thomas Sher- lock, succeed him both in the Mastership of the Temple, and in the rich rectory of Therfield, Co. Hertf. : the younger, William, was bred at the Temple, and died there on Saturday, Feb. 28, 1 7 18-1 9 ; and two daughters, not beloved by their mother, one of which is married to Dr. Tho. Gooche, Master of Caius College, Cambridge. Dr. Sherlock had been suspended for refusing to take the new oath. Upon further inquiry, he satisfied his scruples, and for his own vindication therein published his " Case of the Allegiance due to Sovereign Poivcrs stated and resolved with a more particu- lar respect to the oath lately enjoined." This was followed by 12 Answers. " The design of Dr. Sherlock's book was plainly to lay down such principles as would clear the allegiance due to William and Mary, even supposing them to have no legal right. This Mr. Kettlewell could by no means agree with, and therefore wrote upon another principle — the duty of allegiance settled upon its true grounds. " On the promotion of Dr. John Tillotson Dean of St. Paul's to the Sec of Canterbury, I69I, by his recommendation to gain the man, and to soften the party, William Sherlock, S. T P. wia elected Dean." Ibia 156' 42. Sir John Cook, Dean of the Arches, died March 51, 1710. " He was of St. John's College in Oxford, took arms at the Revolution, and served in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne ; returned to the Civil Law, and was an advocate in Doctors' Commons. 1 have heard Archbishop Tenison say, that upon a vacancy of the office of the King's Advocate General, he told his Majesty that the two persons recommended to his favour were Dr. Lane and Dr. Cook. " Well," said the King, " which is the best man ?" The Archbishop answered — ** They are both good Advocates ; but there is this difference, the first fought against you, the latter fought for you at the battle of the Boyne." " Oh," savs the King, " I will have my own Fellow-soldier." " Sir John Cook, Kt. Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Advocate Gen. Clerk of the Pipe, a Commissioner for the Union, and one of the Commissioners for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, died at his house in Great Knight-Rider- Strcet, London, March 31, 1710, set. 42; buried at Whitechapel near his lady, who died Oct. (i, 170Q. *« His lady was a daughter of Mr. Bateman of Whitechapel, wheelwright to the Tower. She died at the same house near Doctors' Commons, Oct. 6, 1700, and was buried in Whitechapel church, on the 11th of the same month, with a Funeral Sermon by Dr. John Clarke, Rector of St. James's Westminster." Hid 43. Dr. Humphrey Hody, Archdeacon of Oxford, died Jan. 20, 1706. " He was Greek Professor at Oxford, and buried in the chapel of Wadham College. " He v.- as a minister's son in Somersetshire; taken chaplain by Archbishop Tillotson, for writing against the pretensions of Mr. Dodwell, who laboured to make a schism upon the Revolu- tion, lie had first a church in London, and then the Rectory of Monks Risborough, Co. Buck," Hid. 157 44. Dr. John Cawley, Archdeacon of Lincoln, died Aug. 13, 1709- Installed Archdeacon of Lincoln March 2, 16G6. " He had a son whom he made official of the Archdeaconry of Lincoln ; and a daughter married to the famous Sir Godfrey Knel- ler, Painter." Ibid. 45. John Skelton the Poet, died June 21, 1529- 1498, 14 Apr. Johes Skelton Poeta laureatus Lond. dioc. ad tit. Mon. de Graciis juxta turrim Lond. ordinatur Diaconus per Tho. Lond. Epum, et Presbyter die 9 Junii prox. sequente. Reg. Savage Epi Lond. '* John Skelton the Poet was Tutor or Preceptor to Prince Henry, afterwards Hen. VIII. " OdeErasmi Rot. De Laudilus Britannia; Regisquc Henrici Septimi, &c, Carmine hexametro dicata illustrissimo puero Duci Henrico Erasmus Rot. P. S. *' Domi hales Skeltonum unum Britanniarum lilerarum lu- ** men, qui tua studia possit non solum accendere sed et'iam con- " suvimarcy " Johes Skeltonus Poeta laureatus Theologiae Professor, Paro- chus de Dysse in Nord. ccmitatu, &c. animam egitSl die Jan. 1529." Bale de Script. Brit. " 1512, 3 Nov. Johes Skelton ad vie. de Dultyng per pro- mot. Hugonis Ynge ad sedem Episcopalem, ad pres. Rici Abbis Glaston, et Conv." Reg. Castell B. W* 46. Cardinal Wolsey. " A character of the insolent lehaviour of Cardinal Wolsey, as given by Tho. Allen, Priest and Chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury, in a Letter to his Lordship, about April, 1517." From Collect. Johnston, MS. * Mr. H. Eilis did me the favour to point out to me these curious notices, which however have been already noticed in the new Edit, of WwSi Alh. I5S " Pleseth your Lordshyp to understande, upon Monday was sennight last past I delivered your Letter with the examination to my Lord Cardynal at Guildford, whence he commanded me to wait on him to the Court. I followed him and there gave attend- ance, and could have no answer. Upon Friday last he came from thence to Hampton Court, where he ly'eth. Upon Mondaye last- as he walked in the parke at Hampton Court, I hesought his Grace if I might knowe, if he wolde command me anye servyce. He was not content with me that I spoke to hym. So that who shall he a suitour to him may have no other busynesse but give attendance upon his plesure. He that shall so doe, it is needful should be a wyser man than I am. I savve no remedye, but came without answere, except I wolde have done as my Lord Dacre's servaunt doth, who came with letters for the kynges servyce fyve moneths since, and yet hath no answere. And another servaunt of the Deputy of Calais likewyse, who came before the other to Walsyngham. I heard when he aunswered them, " If ye be not contente to tarry my leysure, departe when ye wille." This is truthe. I had rather your Lordshyp commanded me to Rome, then deliver him letters, and bringe answers to the same. When he walketh in the parke, he will suffer no servaunt to come nyghe him, but commands them awaye, as farre as one might shoot an arrow." Kennett. (See in Kennett' s next vol. (1034) various notices regarding Wolsey from Rymer, and other documents.) In Hall's Chronicle and elsewhere is " An account of the intrigues of Cardinal Wolsey, in privately entertaining a secret messenger from France, one John Jokiu, and keeping him close in the house of Dr. Larke, a prebendary of St. Stephens, and every day privily speaking with him ; and so he secretly remained till the 24th day of February, when he came into London, but was kept still privy, which after grew to great trouble." This (adds Kennett) was laying the foundation of a dishonour- able peace with France, after the French King was reduced to the last extremities by the loss of the battle of Pavia, &c Seethe pension of the Queen Mother of France to the Cardinal for this service in liymer XIV. p. 101. Many steps (continues the Bishop) in this affair^ like thoss 159 of the latest peace with France, after acourse of glorious victories, &c. If Wolsey had a better reward than the late Ministry, he was in the eye of the world the better politician." Hid. 47. Dr. Thomas Lynacre, died Oct. 20, 1524. " Born, as it is said, at Canterbury, but descended from the Lynacres of Lynacre Hall in Chesterfield, Co. Derb. collated to the church of Mersham in Kent, 1509, ana< of Hawkherst 1511. " See an account of this person as one of the most eminent physicians, by Dr. Goodall in his Epistle before his Historical Account of the Proceedings of the College of Physicians, 4to. " This eminent physician, like Dr. Radcliffe, had never read the Scriptures till near the lime of his death, as is elegantly told hy Sir John Cheke, in his Treatise De Pronunciationc Grceca- Linguae. " Llnacer mini perinde placere debet, atque in eo, quod cum provecta admodum inclinataque state esset, homo studiis morbis- que fractus, et morti vicinus, cum sacerdos esset jam turn Novum Testamentum primo in manus cepisse, et ex eo aliquot Matthtei capita perlegisse fertur. Et cum quintum sextum septimumque percurrisset, abjecto iterum quantum potuit libro,jurasse, mit hoc nonfuisse evangelium, aut nos non esse Christianos.'" *' In transcribing this I remember what Dr. Mede has told to several of his friends, that he fell much into the favour of Dr. Radcliffe a few years before his death, and visited him often at Cashalton, where he observed upon occasion that there was no Bible to be found in the house. Dr. Mede had a mind to supply that defect without taking notice of it, and therefore one day car- ried down with him a very beautiful Bible, that he had lately bought, which had lain in the closet of K. William for his Ma- jesty's own use, and left it as a curiosity that he had picked up by the Way. When Dr. Mede made the last visit to him, he found that Dr. Radcliffe had read in it as far as about the middle of the Book of Exodus, from whence it might be inferred that he had Never before read the Scriptures, as I doubt must be inferred of Dr. Linacre, from the account given by Sir John Cheek. Ibid. 160 48. Dr. Peter Mew, Bishop of Winchester. Died Nov. 1706. " This Bishop's death is said to have been foretold by a youth of Winchester school, who also foretold his own. " The Editor of The Antiquities of Winchester,* in his ac- count of the Bishops, writes thus of Bishop Mew : " Peter Mews, LL.D. was born at Purse-candle in Dorset- shire, March 25, l6l8, educated in Merchant Taylors' School, London, thence elected Scholar, and afterwards Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford ; after which he was an officer in the army of K. Charles I. during the Rebellion, till the murder of that Prince in 1648. Thence he went to France, and lived in exile, in K. Charles the Second's service, till the Restoration, and then re- turned to his College, by whose favour he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire, afterwards of St. Mary's in Read- ing, Canon of Windsor, and Prebendary of St. David's, Arch- deacon of Berkshire, and President of his College, Aug. 5, 1G67. He was nominated Vice Chancellor of Oxford, Sept. 1669; was sometime Dean of Rochester, and on Feb. 2. 1672-3, during the time of his Vice Chancellorship, made Bishop of Bath and Wells, upon which he resigned his Presidentship, in Oct. 1663. In this diocese he was much beloved by all the loyal Gentlemen, much esteemed for his generous hospitality, and very much la- mented when he was removed, tho' to their loss, yet to his own benefit, hither Nov. 22, 1684. In June following he did signal service against the rebellious Duke of Monmouth, then in arm3 in the West. To conclude, after having sat here 22 years, he died at Farnham Castle in Surry, Nov. gth, in the 89th year of his age, and was buried in his own Cathedral. " Mr. Walker, in his Sufferings of the Clergy, p. 11 9, finds him ejected from a Scholarship of St. John's College in Oxford, or a Fellowship, he knows not which. " He was once, as I have heard, in danger of being hanged by the Rebels. He was sometime Prebendary of Durham, and one of the Governors of the Charter-house, Canon of Windsor, as likewise of St. David's, Archdeacon of Berks, Aug. 30, 1665, * Gale. 161 Dean of Rochester, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He gave 100 /. to St. Paul's Cathedral." Ibid. 49- Dr. Byrom Eaton, Archdeacon of Leicester. Died in 1704. " Installed Archdeacon of Leicester, March 8, 1683, — D.D. 1660, of Brasen-Nose Coll. " He had the Rectory of Newenham, near Oxford ; the ad- vovvson or next presentation whereof being purchased by Mr. Adams of Magd. Coll. the old Dr. did not love to see him, and said often to him, " Come, young man, your psalm is, Expectans expectaho ; but mine is, Dixi custodian." " He made his Hall desolate, and then left it to dwell in a private house within the parish of St. Peter's East, Oxford, with the reputation of being rich and covetous. He had for several years neither visited his Archdeaconry, nor kept any residence in his parish, nor preached one sermon in the University, nor done any good, nor married any one of his three daughters." Ibid. 50. Dr. Abraham Campion, Dean of Lincoln. Died Nov. 21, 1701. " Abraham Campion, Fellow of Trinity College in Oxford ; Proctor of the University in 1673 ; elected and admitted Professor of Moral Philosophy, 21 Nov. 1673 ; called to be chaplain to Archbishop Sheldon, by him collated to the Rectory of Monks Risborough, Co. Bucks, and to the golden prebend of Leyton Bo- sard in the Church of Lincoln. He had been tutor to John Lord Somers, and was therefore by the sole interest of his pupil prefer- red to the Deanery of Lincoln, void by the death of Dr. Sam. Fuller, elected thereto April 17, 1700. He married the widow of Dr. Edin. Calamy, Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. — Ibid. 162 51. Dr. William Hopkins, Prebendary of Worcester t g learned Antiquary. Died May 18, 1700. " Admitted to the first prebendal stall at Worcester, Mar. 22, 1675-6 — buried in that Cathedral. " The Editor of the Antiquities of Worcester, 8vo. p. 50, 51» says, " His singular merits require a more particular enumeration, which I briefly extract from the account published of him in a Preface before Seventeen Sermons, preached by Dr. Hopkins, and published by his very learned and intimate friend George Hickes, D. D. 1708, 8°. who tells us that he was born and bap- tized at Evesham in Worcestershire, 28 Aug. 1647, that at 13 years of age he was admitted a Commoner of Trinity College in Oxford, under the tuition of Dr. Nicholas Stratford, late Bishop of Chester, and that before he proceeded M. A. he retired to St. Mary's Hall, where he was first taken notice of by Bp. Fell, by whom he was recommended as Chaplain to Mr. Henry Coventry, then appointed Embassador to Sweden, for which he set out 2 Sept. 1671, where he made himself no mean proficient in the Septentrional languages. Soon after his return he was promoted in this Church, which, had he lived, he had done ample justice to in accounting for her antiquities ; but being snatched away, he left a rough sketch and some few papers, many of which have been communicated to the Editor of this work. On 23 June, 1678, he was presented to the Curacy of Mortlake in Surry, by the Chapter of Worcester. He was elected Master of St. Oswald's Hospital in Worcester, 16 May, 1697." Ibid. 52. Dr. Sam. Fuller, Dean of Lincoln. Died March 4, 1699. " Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller, Clerk, and Dorcas, his wife, was born at Stebbing in Essex, and there baptized on the 16 July 1635, as in the Register Book. " His father, John Fuller, (son of Thomas Fuller, Vicar of Stebbing) was born 4 Aug. and bapt 22 Aug. l6()2. 163 " His said grandfather, Thomas Fuller, made his entry with his own hand in the said parish Register. ** A. D. 1600, nono die Septem. excessit ex hac vita Johannes Durden istius parochial Vicarius, a cujus temporis puncto successit Thomas Fuller in urtilus Magister, prcedicator, natus in ista villa ab honestis parentibus, educatus in Academia Cantahr. Coll. ZX Petri, presenlatus per lib. disposit. Bartholemei Brock generosi 1600, eel. 38. regn. Eliz. 43." " Thomas Fuller was admitted to the Vicarage of Hatfield Peverell in Essex, 15g<3 ; and of Little Baddow, 1596. " John Fuller was admitted to the Vicarage of Stebbing 1633, on the death of his father. " Mr. Dean Fuller had an elder brother, Dr. Thomas Fuller, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. They were both ordained before the restoration by their uncle, Dr. Thomas Fuller, Arch- bishop of Cassels in Ireland. ** His said brother, Dr. Thomas Fuller, had been first Scholar of Catherine Hall, and thence elected Fellow of Christ's College. He was Chaplain to Gen. Lockhart, while Governor of Dunkirk. He was after the King's restoration presented to the Rectory of Newenby, Co. Line, which he held with the Church of Wil- lingale in Essex, where he died and was buried 22 March, 1701. He had been inducted to the said Rectory of Willingale 16 Dec. 167O, at the presentation of Robt. Cole, Gent. " Their father, Mr. John Fuller, died Minister of the church in Ironmonger-lane, London, and was there buried. " They had a younger brother, Francis, a Dissenting Teacher, tho' episcopally ordained* by his uncle the Archbishop. See his Funeral Sermon, by Jer. White. He left a son, Francis Fuller, of St. John's in Cambridge, who studied physic, author of Medi- cina Gymnaslica, who was left heir to his uncle, Dr. Sam. Fuller, Dean of Lincoln. " Dr. Samuel Fuller was taken Chaplain to Dr. William Ful- ler, Bishop of Lincoln, for name sake. " The Dean's Epitaph was composed by Mr. Read, Minor * " This brother Francis had been Minister of Marston St. Lawrence, with the chapels annexed in the diocese of I'etciborough." 164 and Master of the Free School, to whom the Dean had heen a special and familiar friend. " The Dean's distemper was in his leg upon an ill habit of body, imputed to the Lincoln ale. He was a plentiful feeder, and at sometimes a liberal drinker, tho' in small glasses. " His preferment to the Deanery was owing to the interest of the Lay Lords, who loved him for his hospitality and wit. K. William refused him for some time, but was prevailed on by the importunity of the Lords. He expected to have been Master of St. John's in Cambridge, and seemed to please himself with a prospect of that station. He desired also to have been Rector of St. Clement's Dane, and thought his interest in the Exeter family to have been great enough, because he knew how to accommodate his humour to the genius of that house. So that his picture was hung up in the drinking-room, and M. Verrio upon the stairr head drew his face for the Bacchus riding on a barrel." Ibid. $3. Dr. Joseph Beaumont, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Died 23 Nov. 1699, at. 84. " He was appointed Master of Peter House, Cambridge,* by the Bp. of Ely, 21 Apr. Iti63, made King's Professor of Divinity, 1672. " He was in great esteem for his learning, and particularly for his knowledge of the Latin tongue. Whether he hath extant be- sides his poem entitled Psyche I know not." j54. Dr. Edward Stilling fleet, Bishop of Worcester. Died March 27, 1699, 8, 2gy. 168 progress into these parts, he was entertained by the Earl at his house at Lathom, and after a view of the whole house, he was conducted by his lordship to the top of the leads for a prospect of the country. The Earl's fool was in the company, who observing the King to draw near to the edge of the leads, not guarded with bannisters, he stepped up to the Earl, and pointing down to the precipice, said, Tom, remember Will. The King understood the meaning, and made all haste down stairs, and out of the house ; and the fool long after seemed mightily concerned that his Lord had not the courage to take that opportunity of revenging him- self for the death of his brother." Kenneifs MSS. 1033, f. 47. Dr. Gilbert Kymer. In (he Hearniana, p. 79> under the article of this learned Physician, in which it is remarked by the laborious Antiquary, that this writer is not no- ticed by A. Wood, I ought in the note, (in which I have added that he is also unnoticed by Mr. Bliss, the new Editor of Wood's work,) to have rather corrected Hearne's criticism, by recalling to the Reader's mind, that the period which the Athena embraces, commences with the year 1500, and that Kymer died in 1463. This apology is due from me, and most readily do I make it ■; for I am sure that I should be one of the last who would willinsrlv detract from a work which I consider to be admirably edited ; and to be a great accession to modern literature, by the revival of a Book, from which a large portion of all we know in English biography and bibliography is derived. April 25, 18J4. 169 Heawtana* Extract. April Q, 1735. " If it be not too much trouble, I desire you to let me know, whether there be more than two editions of Ray's Book of Local Words ? I remember only two ; but perhaps there may be a third. Mr. Thoresby wrote a letter to him, April 27, 1703, in which he sent him an additional list of local words. This additional list is large ; but what use Mr. Ray made of it I know not. You will find it in p. 321 of Phi- losophical Letters betiveen the late /earned Mr. Ray and several of his ingenious Correspondents. Published by W. Derham, Land. 171 8> 8vo. It is a curious and pretty subject, and many re- marks of very good account might be made that way by tra- vellers. Diverse of Mr. Thoresby's peculiar Northern words are commonly used in the South also ; which is what I think Mr. Thoresby was" not appriz'd of, tho' Mr. Ray could not be ignorant thereof, who lived so much in the Southern parts, as did also his friend and acquaintance Mr. Brokesby, who was an excellent scholar, and well-versed in Botany, and delighted much in searching into the nature of our old language." Letter. Dec. 15, 1730. TR0KEL0WE — LE-NEVE. E. WILLIS — TYRRELL— GEORGE DUCKETT. " Your note aboftt my mistake in my Preface to Trokelowe, is very just, and I thank you for it. I wa? appriz- ed of it long before you told me of it 5 but rot till after the Book was dispersed ; and the discovery was even then too made, not by myself, but by a friend . I shall take a proper z 170 opportunity of correcting this mistake, or slip of the pen, not- withstanding it be not material with respect to what I alledged it for, whether Potipherce or Pharaonis be read. " I have, (as you desire) entered Smart Lethieullier, Esq. F. R. S and Robert New of the Middle Temple, Gent, as sub- scribers to Thomas Key, and I will take eare to send their books to you. " I do not doubt but, if they give ua a genuine Catalogue, (and 'tis such as I always wish for, let the studies of learned men be otherwise never so mean) there will appear a great number of things of very great curiosity in Mr. Le Neves Col- lection. And I am much obliged to you for the design of send- ing me the Catalogue they are now printing. He was a friendly communicative man. I am very sorry he was a man of no re- ligion. " I know no more about Mr. Willis 's Coins than what I told you. It seems when he gave them, he sent for Mr. Pointer to tell him what they were, and to discover the use of them in History. " I have not yet got Mr. Tyrrell's History of England. If you have it by you, be so kind as to let me know what account he hath (in his authors) of Walter Hcmyngford : I believe it must be in his 3d volume. C( The little Svo. Book, printed a few years since, containing a Catalogue of our Religious Houses, was written, as I am in- formed, by one George Duckett, Esq. Pray, can you give me any account of him ? I have heard he was of one of the Inns of Court. There is a malicious Preface before the Book ; and an Appendix at the end equally malicious ; and both silly enough : but a friend of mine, since dead, who was writing an account at large (and he was a very capable man) of our English Bene- dictine Abbies, and it may be, of our other Abbies, (and Reli- gious Houses too) told me he liked the Catalogue so well, that he had thought of transcribing it into his Book, leaving out the Preface and Appendix.'* 171 Extract. Jan. 2. 1730. WALTER HEMYNGFOHD. " As for Hemingford, I have had the use of the very MS. in Trinity College Library, that Mr. Tyrrell refers to, and find that he is under a mistake in insinuating;;, that it con- tains all Edw. II 's reign, when it contains only the five first years. And whereas he signifies that Hemingford and Knighton transcribed from the Chronicon Abendunense, it appears to me rather, (as it did to Abp. Parker and Dr. Caius) that the author of that Chronicle transcribed from Hemingford j and I much question whether Knighton used either ; I am sure it does not appear to me that he ever saw Hemingford ; otherwise he would not have omitted so much of the Articles of a Contract of Marriage between Prince Edward, afterwards Edw. II. and the King of France's daughter, telling us, that he knew not where to find the rest. About which Articles I wrote to you lately ; and in answer to my letter you told me very kindly how the Cotton MS. of Hemingford ends." Extract. Aug. 25, 1731. DR. THO. BARLOW. " Dr. Thomas Barlow was a man of great reading j but I never much admired either his judgment or his principles. You having his MS. can best tell what his scheme for printing was: He was versed in the Canon Law, and in scholastic di- vinity, but had little affection for classic learning." Extract. Sept. 14, 1731. Ai3P. SANCR0FT. TYRRELL. " I am glad you got many of Alp. Sancroft's Mis- cellanies, who was truly a very great man in all respects 3 and 172 his piety, and the sanctity of his life, as well as his learning and integrity, were every way so compleat, that some, (tho' very wrong) have reckoned him to be the author of The whole Duty of Man, and of the other pieces, published as that author's. " I know not whether you have any acquaintance with Col. Tyrrell of Shotover. His father, James Tyrrell, Esq. finished another volume of his History, but 'twas never yet printed, and perhaps never will. It may be there is in it some account of his authors ; and I would gladly know whether there be any thing concerning John Whethamstede* and his writings. Mr. Tyrrell had perused the Register of Whethamstede at the He- rald's office, and 'tis likely he might have consulted other pieces of this learned Historian, more especially for materials for the History of K. Hen. VI. and Edw. IV. in reference to whom Whethamstede has indeed preserved many things of great no- tice, not to be found elsewhere. Mr. Tyrrell was a very indus- trious man, and had opportunities of inspecting a great variety of books, MSS. and printed ; and no doubt but among his pa- pers there must be things of very good note ; at least so far as relates to a Notitia of Books that concern, or any way touch the English History." iC A true and summarie Report of the Declaration of some part of the Earl of Northumberland's Treasons, delivered publicly in the Court at the Star-Chamber, by the Lord Chancellor and others of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, learned by her Ma* jesly's most special commandment, together with the Examinations and Depositions of *undt^/ Persons touching the manner of his most wicked and violent murder, committed upon himself icilh his ozone har.de * Hearne afterwards printed this History tospther with that of Thomas ClttrHurne. 173 in the Tower of London, the XXth day of June t 1585. In JEdibus, C. Barker, 4fo." His treasons are confessed by the Catholic Priests in their Important Considerations, 4to. p. 45. " The Earl of Northumberland shot himself in his Bed within the Tower of London with a dagg or pistol, charged with three bullets, on Sunday night, the 20th of June., 1585; whereupon on Wednesday following, June 23 d, there assem- bled in the Court of Star Chamber, Sir Thomas Bromley, Kt. Lord Chancellor of England, William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England, George Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Mar- shal of England, Henry Earl of Derby, Robert Earl of Leicester, Charles Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain, Henry Lord Hunsdon Lord Governor of Berwick, Sir Francis Knolles, Kt. Treasurer, Sir James Croft, Kt. Comptroller of Her Ma- jesty's Household, Sir Christopher Hatton, Kt. Vice-Chamber- lain, the Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Bench, the Master of the Rolls, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exche- quer, and others. The audience was very great of Knights, Esquires, and men of other quality. The Lord Chancellor began briefly and summarily to declare, That whereas Henry, late Earl of Northumberland," &:c. " I have heard a tradition from some of the family, that the dagg or pistol was sent him enclosed in a cold pie, carried to his table without suspicion. V I have heard Dr. Mapletoft, who travelled with the last Earl of Northumberland, say, that it helped much to confirm him in his belief of the Earl of Essex murdering himself in the Tower, because he had seen him pointing at the picture of this Henry Earl of Northumberland, and telling the then Heir of the family : ' You owe more to that have man than to any one of your ancestors ; he had the courage to save your estate for you.' " Kennett. 174 * { Christ on his Crosse : or the Holy Lambe\Js~\ Funsr- all. By George Raleigh, Esquire. Mors Christi Vita mihi utinam nostros vidiiti flentis ocellos ! At London printed by George Purslow, for Edward Blachn. . . and are to be sold at his shop at the great south doore of S. Pauls. 1624." Small 8vo. This Poem is written in six-line stanzas, and in- scribed " to the virtuous and worthy Gentlewoman, Mrs. Anne Monson, daughter to that truly noble Knight, Sir William Monson, of Kenersley in Surrey/' In this the author further implores the divine grace in favour of those " never enough commended sisters of his patroness, Mrs. Vere Monson and Mrs. Katherine Monson ; and he refers his Poem to such favouring acceptance, because it properly claimed " the patron- age of a woman, being a creature by nature more inclined to Dittie than man." Qu. What relation, or whether any, George Ra- leigh was to the celebrated Sir Walter i His Poem is, in respect to style and versification, much on a par with other contemporary religious poems, and the fol- lowing is perhaps as favourable a specimen of its merits as might be selected. It is taken from a page very near the close. No sorrow long continueth, as we see, The winter cannot waste out all the yeerc. 175 As time requires, we sad or merry be j 111 fare sometimes ensweet'neth better cheere. When clouds are past, we may discerne the sky. And night once past, the sunne approacheth nigh. The glasse is runne, by which wee tooke our taske - t Our tender Muse hath labor'd as she could j Her sable vaile she mus.t of force unmaske, And leave in silence what is left untold ; Begging good readers, in the end of all, To make good use of this her funeral. Thus have I now cast anchor on the shore, Where news of comfort to good hearts I bring. After hard labour with an ebon oare Washt in the current of a sable spring, Where shallows hindred, there I made to rise A flood of tears, distilling from mine eyes. What I have brought, lies here in open view., Nor is It strange nor common unto all : What a young merchant giveth unto you, Must be received, be it ne're so small : You know, great riches are not gain'djn haste : A little fire makes a exeat flame at last. <; The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democrilus, Printed at London by Ann Hatfield for John Norton. 1598." 4to. On the back of the above title are these Skeltonicai lines i — Prophecies, predictions, Stories and fictions, 176 Allegories, rimes, And serious pastimes For all manner men, Without regarde when, Or where they abide, On this or that side, Or under the mid line Of the Holland sheetes fine, Or in the Tropics faire Of sunshine and cleare air, Or under the pole Of chimney and sea cole : Reade they that list, understand they that can, Verbum satis est to a wise man. The Riddles are 60 in number, and most of them' in verse. Then follow the solutions in prose. Few of them will bear transcribing. Subjoined is a short and least offensive specimen : — Many a man doth speake of mee, But no man ever shall me see ; For all in one do full agree. That no where must my dwelling be. Solution — The wind or vacuity. Quere whether this was not the " Book of Riddles" inquired after by Slender, in the " Merry Wives of Windsor," act i. sc. i. Simple replies, " Book of Rid- dles ! why, did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon All-Hallowmas last, a fortnight afore Michaelmas V Mr. Reed speaks of it as a popular book, but does not seem to have seen it. IT 177 The Sevin Seages. Translated out of Prois into Scottish Mectir, bi/ John Rolland, in Dalkeith. B. L. The various translations and editions of the well- known romance of " Prince Erastus, or the Seven Sages," are almost innumerable. With respect to its first origin, I confess myself unable to afford any new information, having mislaid several sheets of notes and remarks which [ had collected a long time ago for this purpose, and which I do not feel inclined to search for anew; for, though enthusiastically fond of old ro- mances, I confess that I never could attach much im- portance to voluminous dissertations on their origins, nor am able to perceive how the great object of all black letter studies, that of exciting and delighting the imagination, can be forwarded by such dry investiga- tions. Add to this, that their inevitable uncertainty, from the want of sufficient data on which to form an opinion, must ever be dissatisfactory and disheartening. I certainly am disposed to attach more importance to the opinions of Warton on such subjects than to those of any other author. He has been censured for inac- curacy ; but how much are his defects in this respect counterbalanced by his exquisite genius, which as- suredly forms a better guide, on every pursuitconnected with poetry, than the most laborious accuracy, when attended with dulness and insensibility. The charac- ter of Warton, indeed, stands little in need of such praise as mine to support it. But the Christian reli- gion is not debased by the homage of the houseless mendicant; nor can a great author be degraded by praise, if it is sincere, from the humblest admirer. A 2 A great poel resembles the beams of the luminary, from which, by the ancients, he was said immediately to derive his inspiration.* The\ r shine equally on the wealthiest potentate, and the lowliest of his vassals. To those (if any such there are) who do not recol- lect the ground-work of " The Seven Sages," the fol- lowing short abstract, by Mr. Dacier, of a MS. in the French National Library, may not be unacceptable. " Cyrus has seven wives, but no children. At length, after putting up prayers to Heaven, he has a son, who is placed in the hands of a tutor ; but the young prince, after a period of three years, deriving no benefit from his instructions, is com- mitted to the charge of the philosopher Syntipas, who engages to complete his education, and return him to his parents at the end of six months and as many days. He is conducted to a house, on the walls of which his master had caused the planets, the history of the world, &c. to be painted for his instruction, and here becomes, within the stipulated time, so accomplished as to surpass his tutor's expectations. Syntipas, before he de- cides on reconducting the prince to his father, consults the stars * The mythology of the ancients is rendered unpfeasing to the minds of many, by associations derived from the constraint and wasting toil of their early years, from the stupidity and tedious dominion of dull and tyrannical pedagogues. But it has many beauties. The idea of the Sun being the god of poetry is highly admirable. It reminds one of the Minstrel in " The Lady of the Lake." " To minstrel meditation given, His reverend brow was raised to heaven, As from the rising sun to claim A sparkle of inspiring flame : His hand, reclin'd upon the wire, Seem'd watching the awakening fire. 179 concerning his destiny, and finds that his life will be in great jeopardy unless he can preserve, during seven days, a strict si- lence ; which the prince undertakes to do. Syntipas resolves to conceal himself in the mean time, in order to avoid the natural resentment of the king on finding his son mute. Cyrus is, in fact, greatly enraged j and, being persuaded by his cour- tiers that Syntipas has given his son some medicine which has deprived him of speech, searches in vain for the philosopher. At length one of the king's wives undertakes to discover the cause of the prince's silence, and, in a private interview with him, attempts to seduce him to her embraces, offering to place him on the throne by putting his father to death, on condition of his taking her to his bed. The prince, struck with horror at this atrocious proposal, and unable to preserve silence, replies, " Know, wicked woman, that I am for the present prohibited from answering you ; but, at the end of seven days — " and then becomes mute as before. The disappointed woman in revenge accuses him of having attempted her chastity, and lie is condemned to die. The king, however, has seven philoso- phers, who, suspecting the falsehood of the charge, engage to employ a day each in endeavouring to dissuade the king from executing the sentence. This leads, of course, to the stories, each philosopher relating two, and the princess replying with as many. The seventh day at last arrives, and the prince, break- ing silence, relates the cause of it, and exposes the wickedness of his accuser. Cyrus now propounds as a question to the philosophers, Whether, if he had put his son to death, the prince, or the lady, or himself, would have been guilty of a crime ! He is not satisfied with their opinion, and the question is at last resolved by the prince himself, in an apologue, to which he adds two other whimsical stories, of which, says M. Dacier, it is difficult to comprehend the moral. The lady in then ordered into court ; and having confessed her guilt, the king inquires of the philosophers what punishment she de- 180 serves. Very cruel tortures are proposed. She relates a story to prove that it is better to survive, even in a mutilated state, than to die. The prince then suggests, as a punishment better suited to the offence, that she should have her head shaved, and be publicly led through the city on an ass ; and this sentence is immediately carried into execution. Cyrus, enchanted with his son's wisdom, demands of Syntipas how it happened that he had acquired so much knowledge in so short a time. He ascribes it to the influence of the star under which he was born, and tells a story to shew that all education is useless, where a malignant planet has presided at the child's nativity. This is the last stoiy ; and is followed by many moral questions put by the king to his son, who resolves them." From Mr. Ellis's excellent work I shall quote also the following paragraph : — '* Soon after the invention of printing, the Latin " Historia Septem Sapientum" appeared in Germany, and there were were many editions of it without date, place, or printer's name. The earliest, perhaps, which occurs with a date, was printed at Cologne by John Hoeloff, in 1400, quarto, with cuts. Transla- tions of it soon appeared in the German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, and English languages. This is our " Seven Wise Musters," so truly delectable, till lately, to every school-boy, the first edition of which was printed by W. Copland, without date, but between 1548 and 1567- It was also translated into Scot- tish metre by John Rolland, in Dalkeith, c at the request of his Ant Cait (Aunt Kate) in Tanstelloun Castle, during the siege of Leith, 1560,' and printed at Edinburgh in 1578, 1502, and 1631, octavo." The volume now before me is that referred to by Mr. Ellis ; but unluckily, in this copy, the prologue, in which the author commemorates his "Aunt Kate/' 181 is wanting. I should otherwise have transcribed that part of the work, in preference to any other. Of Rol- land, the translator, little is known. He was the au- thor of " A Treatise callit the Court of Venus, dividit into four Buikis," ('printed 1575, 4to.) which 1 have never been able to discover. It is not in the Advo- cates' or College Libraries of Edinburgh. But who can tell what treasures may be in existence in libraries less known and resorted to? 1 have been informed, but I know not whether on good authority, that a few very rare volumes exist in the libraries of the Medical Col- lege and of the High School. In the library of a gen- tleman of rank and fortune in the north of Scotland,* is an unique translation of the romance of Alexander into Scotish verse, probably resembling in some degree this work of Rolland, but probably also more curious and important. Perhaps a tendency to regret is apt to arise in the mind at rendering common those very rare volumes, which it has hitherto been considered an honour to possess, or even to have had an opportunity of behold- ing. If this remark seems harsh or illiberal, let me be forgiven ; for if it is unfounded, I know not otherwise how to account for the dislike to reprints which is often expressed by the proprietors of rare libraries. It is obvious, however, that when a book is unique, or when it has become so rare as to be almost wholly unattain- able, publication alone can prevent its absolute loss and extinction. And of what use is bibliography, but as it tends to the improvement of the human mind? The value of a Caxton may be depreciated by a fac * The Honourable W. Maule of Panmure. 182 simile reprint, (though this indeed is confidently de- nied by judges who are best entitled to pronounce on the subject — " fac-simile reprints/' they assert, " can no more depreciate a black-letter volume, than an en- graving or model depreciates the original painting or busto ;") but the feelings which it excites, the creations to which it gives birth, never can be depreciated. The Morte Arthur, the favourite volume of Milton, and Warton, and Walter Scott, may be republished, and put within the reach of every one ; but the diiina par- ticula aura of the poet will ever be as rare and as ad- mirable as before. But how much are the living poets of the present age assisted and gratified by having at their command at all times, and in every situation, the volumes from which they so well know how to cull immortal flowers ! A few years ago, an eminent bibliographer was obliged to make a pilgrimage to a distant land, and betake himself to a strange library, for the sake of reading almost the only copy known to exist of " Frier Rush," which may now be had for a guinea, and permitted to become the sport of his children ! I now can summon with a word Lord Berners's " Froissart" to my desk, ('that very work oyer which the hero of the beautiful tale of " Longford," in Censura Literaria, " hung day after day, completely absorbed, and forgetful of all around him,") of which, only two years ago, I could with difficulty procure a mutilated copy for forty-five guineas ! But to return to Rolland's romance. Of himself it is needless to observe further, than that I have no means of adding any thing to the account of him given 183 in Sibbald's " Chronicle of Scottish Poetry," vol. lit. p. 287 ; and know not that I can do better than extract, as a specimen of his style, the following story. THE SEVEN SAGES. The Tale of Pantillas, the first Doctour. Into a realme there dwelt a valiant knight, Of noble fame, of great riches and might, That had one son, my lord, now as yee have : To three nurses to foster him hee gave : The first nourse for to give him suck and feed, The next him wash, and keep him clean at need : The third to bring him into sleep and rest, The noble knight for his child thought it best. The knight also hee had a gay grewhound, That none more swift did run upon the ground ; Also he had a falcon fair of flight, Right swift of wing when hee lyked to light. These two the knight loved above measure, Because oftimes they did him great pleasure, This grewhound was so swift, and of such speed, When hee was loosd his prey hee caus'de ay bleed, And this same prey brought to his lord anone, This was one cause he loved him alone : Also when that this knight went to battell, If that his chance that time would not prevaile, Into his mouth his horse taile would not take, About his lugs oftimes hee would it shake, Then youl'and cry, as hee would run quite wood, So by that signe the knight well understood, If at that time hee would further or no, And so oftimes let him to battell go : 184 His haulk also was so fierce in her flight, So swift in wing, and als so wonder wight, That hee was never cast off to essay, But without fault shee brooked ay her prey. These were causes his hound and haulk hee loved, Because to mirth they rais'de him oft and moved : Also this knight kust all his whole intent In horse running, justing, and tornament : So on a day hee caused to proclame At his castle for setting foorth his name, Who would come there to tourney or justing, Breaking of spears, and als of horse running, At the set day to bee matcht should not faile, This was the ciy, and so to short my tale. The knight himself first entered in the field To the tornay with harnesse, horse, and shield. Then after him past his fair ladie gent, With her ladies to see tlie tornament. Then after that past all the nourishes three, The tornament for to behold and see, Locking the door, leaving the child alone, Trusting ishie nor entrie should be none. While the torney and justing should bee done, Then in all haste they should return right soone ; Believing well the bairne not to wake, None being there but the hound and the hauk : And the young child that in the cradle lay, Except these three, the rest were past away. Then no man knew lay lurking in the haw A great serpent, before no man did knaw, When shee percev'd the house so desolate, And none therein that durst with her debate, Out of her hole soone shee put foorth her head, At this infant having a cruell fead, 185 Who lay sleeping in the cradle alone, Him to destroy at short so is shee gone : The falcon this beholding where shee sate Upon her perk, to do she wist not what, But with her wings shee rufled and rang her bels, Almost shee had all shaken them in shels : So with the noyse and bier which made the hake, The good hound rose, and off his sleep did wake : And when he saw that the serpent did creep Towards the Cradle where the child did sleep, With a fell faird on the serpent hee ran, And so at short these two to fight began, So cruelly, that it was great marvell, Which of the two at that time should prevaile : One to devoure, the other to defend, These two at length together did contend : So long at length these two together fight, Almost the hound all quite had lost his might : So cruelly he was wounded in blood, That all about where that the cradle stood Was blood berun, that marvell was to see , Betwixt these two so bold bargane to bee. The greyhound then perceiving his owne blood, Into his heart waxt so cruell and wood, With a fell faird upon the serpent ran, So them betwixt a new bargane began, With such malice, melancholy, and ire, While one was dead, that none of them would tire, Nor leave the field, while it chanc't at the last, Betwixt them two the cradle ov'r they cast : With bottom up, and on the torres it stood, Where it was all about berun with blood : So it became, and fell by God his grace, That the four torres saved the child his face, 2 B 186 And sleeped still with visage toward the ground, These two fighting, the serpent and the hound, While at the last the hound into certaine This fell serpent he hath overcome and slaine, And sav'd this child from perrill in that tide ; When all was done, down by the cradle side, Licking his wounds lay downe this noble hound, For fighting sore, and so in sleep fell sound. Beside this child which in the cradle lay None in the house but only the same tway : The babe sleeping, and knew no kind of ill, The hound wearie, and foughten foorth his fill ; The serpent slaine, as I said you before, The babie safe, and the hound wounded sore. And so anone after this tornament, Each man and woman to their ludging went. To tell that day who wan the enterprise, That errand now to my matter not lyes : Therefore as now that thing I will let bee, And let us speak of the nourishes three, Who first came home, and entered in the haw, So soon as they the blood and cradle saw, Wringing their hands, and ryving down their hair, Crying, Alas, wo on us evermaire, Our only child, our babe, and foster bairn Is quite devour' d with a dog, and forefaira, Alas for wo, alas what shall we do ? Wee know no place for succour to run to. If our master perchance us apprehend, There is no way from his hand us defend, But always shall on us come sudden dead, Wee know no way where we may find remead. Since so is come, let us in haste all three To save our life but stay, away to flee . 187 Even so they did, but left the house alone, But more counsell, all three away are gone, And had no wit nor wisdome in their head, To see whether the bairn was quick or dead. Nor left the cradle, and to perceive the cace, But ran away all three, crying Alace ! And as that they were passing foorth the street, Their own mistresse they chanced for to meet With her ladies coming from the tournay : Shee perceiving her nurses in the way, Right sore mourning, and ryving down her haire, All wo begun, repleat of sturt and care, Soon she inquirde at them, How stands the cace t They answer' d her a thousand times, Alace, What shall we say ? for words to multiplee, There is no bute, all men the case may see ; A devil, madame, into a dog's skin, Hath slain your son alone your hall within : In the which dog my lord had most delite, But now he hath of your son made you quite, In token yet where that the cradle stood, The dog sleepes still now bathed in his blood. Hee was the dog that my lord loved best, Hee was no dog, but with a devil possest : Therefore, ladie, for us is no remead, But either flee, or else to bide the dead. Therefore, madame, of us yee have mercie, This is the cause that causeth us to flee. This shee hearing, anone fell to the ground, Without more space into a deadly sound, And at last ladies caused her awake, Held up her head, while shee began to talk, And said, Alace, my dear son, art thou slain ? Shall thou never play on my knee again ? 188 Shall I never with my pape see thee play ? Alas, how soon art thou so went away : Shall I never thee laughing on mee see ? Alas, how is this dolour chaunced mee ? Wherein I had mine only most pleasour, Except my lord, both by tide, time, and boure, Is now but doubt with a dog clean devour' d, And never again to the life bee restor'd. What shall I say ? This is a carefull cace, Mine only son is dead and gone, alace : So shee mourning in great dolour and wo, The people about that seeing her right so, Mourned right sore, and of her had pittie, In such dolour that ladie for to see. In the mean time the knight from his tornay Retired home, and so saw by the way His own ladie lamenting in dolour, Requir'de the cause of all her displeasour. She saith, My lord, alace and evermare,- I can not speak, for great dolour and care Is hapned us, a wonder cruell cace, Your son is slain for evermore, alace, With your grewhound whom that so well ye lov'd, Now all that love on your son hee hath prov'd, Hee hath him slain in cradle where hee lay : Your nourishes all three are fled away : And yet the place where that the cradle stood, Your hound lyeth sleeping in your son's blood : This your grewhound without any help mo, Your only childe all quite hath tane you fro. Wherefore my self unto the houre I die Shall never eat while I revenged bee Upon your hound, which hath my one son slain, Not in your bed shall never come again, 189 "While hee bee dead, that caus'de my one son die, But wo, alas, this is no mends to mee: Howbeit it bee a sythment to my heart, Yet my great wo it slockins in some part. Therefore, my lord, if yee think it bee done, Without delay cause slay your grewhound soon. The knight hearing her sorrowfull tythance, How to his son had fallen such mischance, Homeward in haste but bode hee made him bown, And in the closse when he was lighted down, The grewhound heard horsemen into the cloice, Amongst the rest he heard his master's voice, And up hee rose in the blood where hee lay, To his master the hie gate came his way, Faint and forefought, came fawning to his feet, As hee was wont his master for to meet : Into great ire, what is there more to say ? With his sharp sword he clove his head in tway, And that only for one word of his wife, Got his reward that saved his son's life. Then past the knight but bode into the haw, Perceiv'd the blood, and als the cradle saw : Hee lifted up the cradle as it stood, Found the childe whole, and also much spilt blood, Perceiving then of the serpent the head, The skin and tail that had foughten to dead ; And found his son withoutten want or wound : Alas, he said, for my good gay grewhound, That I have slain withoutten any cause, But only for the void vain words and sawes Of a woman, that hath talked in vain, Wherthrow I have but cause my grewhound slain, Which I perceive hath saved my son's life From the serpent, through his debate and strife. 190 Wo to the houre that now I drew a sword, Wo to the ear that heard my wive's word : Wo to the hand that sudden stroke that gave To my best hound, that my son's life did save, Which I lov'd best without any compaire, Except my wife, my only son and heire, Which at this time hee saved from the dead, And for reward now he hath lost his head, But doubt I would have given a thousand pound Of good money, ere I had slain my hound. But since so is, I see is no remead, My son is safe, and my good hound is dead, That fought for him, and only sav'd his life, And I him slew through one word of my wife : But this time foorth here I solemn a vow, That ilk man shall give credence to and trow, Here I forsake all torn ay and justing, Here I forsake all balking and hunting : Here I forsake running with shield and speir, Here I forsake all fates of men of weir In Christendome, but yet no manlinesse, Here I forsake all armour and harnesse : For I will passe now to the Holy Land, And fight with Jews while I may strike or stand : Contrare God's foes, and thereto end my life. This vowed this knight for one word of his wife, That unto her gave such hastie credence, Without a cause or yet experience : Therefore, my lord, your good grace I require, Give not so soon credence to the desire Of your empresse, though shee bee diligent, Against your son great leasings to invent : For yee may well by this same tale perceave, What the knight got that so soon credence gave 191 Unto his wife, and unto her words vain, That sav'd his son that same hound hath he slain. Therefore, good sir, and please your noble grace, 1 would you gave no credence in this case Unto your queen, to put your son to dead, For ye will rew when there is no remead, As did this knight, his noble hound that slew, Remead bypast then hee began to rew. My lord, hee said, have yee betane this tale ? The emperour said, that have I done but fail : For that good tale that yee have told to mee, As for this day my son he shall not die. The doctour said, If that yee do such thing, Yee do wisely, and like a noble king : Thanking your grace that only for my sake, Your son's dead only yee have done to slake ; And so took leave at the good emperour, To his marrowes past home with all pleasure. II. P. G. March 14, 1814. Ill HlVliftllTM PURITAN PAMPHLETS, With a preliminary Account of the Puritan Faction. Having met with a set of curious Puritan pamphlets, collected together and bound into one volume, not long after the period of their publication, I am anxious to register their whimsical titles. But it may be pro- per to introduce them "by a short preliminary account of the Puritan Faction in those davs. Isaac Walton, in his celebrated Life of Richard Hooker, speaking of the temper of the times from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign, says, that " those 192 very people that had enjoyed the desires of their hearts in a Reformation from the church of Rome, became at last so like the grave, as never to be satisfied, but were still thirsting for more and more; neglecting to pay that obedience, and perform those vows which they made in their days of adversities and fear : so that in short time there appeared three several interests, each of them fearless and restless in the prosecution of their designs. They may for distinction be called the Active Romanists, the Restless Non-conformists, (of which there were many sorts) and the Passive, peaceable Protestant. The counsels of the First were considered and resolved on in Rome : the Second both in Scotland, in Geneva, «nd in divers selected, secret, dangerous conventicles, both there, and within the bosom of our own nation : the Third pleaded their cause by established laws, both ecclesiastical and civil ; and "if they were active, it was to prevent the other two from destroying what was by those known laws happily established to them and their posterity." + " To this end* there were many that wandered up and down, and were active in sowing discontents and sedition by venomous and secret murmurings, and a dispersion of scurrilous pamphlets and libels against the church and state, but especially against the Bi- shops ; by which means, together with venomous and indiscreet sermons, the common people became so fa- natic, as to believe the Bishops to be Antichrist ; and at last some of them were given over to so bloody a zeal, and such other desperate delusions, as to find out * Viz. of the Second Party. Editor. 193 a text in the Revelation of St. John, that Antichrist was to be overcome by the sword.* Sir George Paule, in his Life of Archbishop Whit- gift, first published in 1612, says, "In the year 1588 came out those hateful libels of Martin Mar-Pre- date : and much about the same time, The Epitome—^ The Demonstration of Discipline — The Supplication— * Diotrephes — The Minerals — Have you any Work for a Cooper'? — Martin Junior, alias Theses Martiniance — Martin Senior — More Work for a Cooper, and other such like bastardly pamphlets, which might well be nulliusfilii, because no man durst father their births. All which were printed with a kind of wandering press, which was first set up at Moulsey, next Kingston upon Thames, and from thence conveyed to Fausley in Northamptonshire, and from thence to Norton, after- wards to Coventry, from thence to Welstone in War- * See this, and a great deal more on this subject, m Walton's Life of Hooker, in vol. iv. of Ecclesiastical Biography, by Wordswmh, 1810; where the learned Editor adds this note : ** In addition to what is here written by Walton, the reader will find his time amply repaid by a perusal of Hookeb's Preface to his Ecclesiastical Polity, especially the first four sections, which present one of the most in- structive and interesting pieces of moral historical painting that was ever drawn by the pencil of a master : a subject of contemplation unhappily but too necessary for these times. See also the Preface to Cosins's Conspi- racy for pretended Information. ' «• Much information concerning the principles and practices of the Puritans, derived chiefly from their own books, and examinations instituted by authority, may be found in the two works of Bancroft, afterwards Arch- bishop of Canterbury, entitled A Survey of the pretended holy Disciplme^ Mo. 1 593, and Dangerous Positions and Proceedings under pntence of Re~ formation, and for the Pre.ilyteriat Discipline. 1593, 4to." Wordsworth, iv. QIC, 20 194 wickshire, from which place the letters were sent to another press in or near Manchester, where, by the means of Henry, that good Earl of Derby, the press was discovered in printing of More Work for a Cooper, which shameless libels were fraughted only with odious and scurrilous calumniations against the established government, and such reverend prelates as deserved honour with uprighter judgments. " Some of the printers, whilst they were busied about the last libel, were apprehended, who, with the entertainers and receivers of the press, were proceeded against in the Star-Chamber, and there censured ; but upon their submission, at the humble suit of the Arch- bishop, were both delivered out of prison, and eased of their fines. The authors and penmen of some of these libels were John Penry and John Udall; the chief disperser of them was Humphrey Newman, a cooler, a choice broker for such sowterly wares, and in regard of such hempenly trade, a fit person to che- rish up Martin's birds ; who, as Pliny writeth, do feed so greedily upon hemp-seed, that they be oftentimes choaked therewith. Such was the unfortunate end of some of his Martin-birds, as appeareth upon record in the King's Bench, against John Penry, Clerk, Ter- mino Pasch, 1593, and at an assize in Surry against John Udall, whose pardon the Archbishop after- wards obtained." " And when, I pray you, were these classical as- semblies, and these seditious stirs and hurly-burlies of Martinists, and that reforming sect put in practice ? In the year 1588, at that time when the invincible 195 Spanish Navy was upon our coasts, and should have invaded us."* <► >. " I pass over," says Sir George, " many other like schisms in other parts of the realm, which this good Archbishop suppressed, and the controversies, in both universities, which by his wisdom were appeased;"— ""as also his procuring, at her Majesty's hands, both pardon and dismissal for Master Cartwright, and the rest out of their troubles."f * Wordsworth has appended this apposite Note ; apposite certainly to the present, as to past times. " The Puritans alledging the greatness of their numbers, and pleading for privileges and indulgences as the price of their uniting to repel the Foreign enemy, Bancroft demands of them, — Why, wanting your desires, would you have taken no part, if the Spaniard had come ? Or purposed you to have made a more ready passage for him, by rebelling at home, before he should have come ? Or would you have joined with him, if he had come? Or meant you thereby, thro' terror, to have enforced her Majesty to your purposes, lest you should have taken some of these courses ? Choose which of them you list, the best is sedi- tious." Dangerous Positions, b. iv. ch. 3. Wordsworth, iv. 359. •J- Cartwright, who returned to Warwick, where he preached many years, died rich, it is said, by the benevolence and bounty of his followers. He expressed regret at having fomented these schisms. Edwin Sandys, when Bishop of London, thus expresses himself in a letter to Lord Trea- surer Burghley : — " There is a conventicle, or rather a conspiracy breeding in London. Certain men of ready callings are as it were in commission together to procure hands for Mr. Cartwright's book, and promise to stand in defence thereof until death. The city will never be quiet until these authors of sedition, who are now esteemed as Gods, as Field, Wilcox, Cartwright, and others be far removed from the city. The people resort unto them, as in Popery they were wont to run on pilgrimage. If these idols, who are honoured for saints, and greatly enriched with gifts, were removed from hence, their honour would full intothe dust, and they would betaken for blocks, as they are." Strype's Life of Jf'hitgift, p. ly, Re- tords. Wordsworth, iv. 306. 196 *' After these stirs, thus suppressed, they began to tamper with the Earl of Essex, who was grown into a great height of favour with the Queen ; and by reason that sundry of his kindred and allies were inclined that \vay, they so far prevailed with him, that he did privily, and far as he durst, for fear of the Queen's displeasure, give way and countenance unto them. But upon bet- ter consideration, finding by the heady courses of some of them the danger that thereby was like to grow to her Majesty and the state, and the resolution had of all hands to cut them off", by the law aforesaid, he grew very calm, and was careful how to carry hiuiself uprightly betwixt both, And yet the Archbishop had still a vigilant eye over him, that he could not, though he would, do any great hurt.* " For to say the truth, by this due execution of the laws in the beginning, and the provident courses of the Archbishop, with the assistance and painful endeavours of doctor Bancroft and Doctor Cosins, and the pub- lishing of their learned and unanswerable books, the state of the Clergy was in good quiet, especially so long as Sir Christopher Hatton, the Lord Chancellor^ did live." * Of this nobleman (says Wordsworth) the following anecdote is told. '* When the Bishops that felt the smart of it had cried out against that lash- ing pamphlet, called Martin-Mar-Prelate, and there was a prohibition pub- lished, that] no man should presume to carry it about him, upon pain of punishment ; and the Queen herself did speak as much when the Earl was present : " Why then, said the Earl, what will become of me ?" And pulling the book out of his pocket, he did shew it unto the Queen. 1 have heard grave men, and of great judgment say, that he was the less inclined to Dr. Whitgift, a reverend divine, and his tutor also, because he was 4 Bishop." Codrington's Life «f Rabat Earl of Essex, in Hail. il/w.-— Wordsworth, iv. 367# 197 " The Lord Chancellor's death (1591) much trou- bled and perplexed the Archbishop, fearing that new troubles would befall him and the Church." " After the death of Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir John Puckering was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, of whom, because he lived not long, I shall not have occasion to say much : but for ought I ever heard, he shewed himself a friend to the Church, unto the Archbishop and his proceedings, and acknowledged him to have been, among his other good friends, a furtherer of his advancement. " Sir Thomas Egerton, Master of the Rolls, succeeded him, May 5, 15y6. Her Majesty and the State had long experience of his integrity and wisdom, as may appear by the great places which he worthily held, being first her Highness's Solicitor, and then Attorney General. In which time, besides his many great and weighty services, he was very careful and industrious in labouring earnestly to suppress the afore- said libellers; a lover of learning, and most constant favourer of the Clergy, and Church Government esta- blished, as also a faithful loving friend to the Arch- bishop in all his affairs."* TWELVE PURITAN PAMPHLETS. I. (< Whether it be moria.ll sinneto transgresse ciuill lawesy which be the commandementes of ciuill JSIagistrates. * Wordsworth, iv. 370. Since this sheet was set up at the press, Mr. D'Israeli's Quarrels of Authors have appeared, in which there is an entertaining, critical, and comprehensive account of this Controversy. 198 " The judgement of Philip Melancton in his Epi- tome of morall philosophic. 11 The resolution of D. Hen. Bullinger, and D. Bod. Gualter, of D. Martin Bucer, and D. Pe- ter Martyr, concerning thapparel of Ministers, and other indifferent thinges." (V) Small 8°. pp. 100. black letter. Colophon. " Imprinted at London in Powles Churche-yardc, by Richard Jugge, Printer to the Queenes Maicstie. Cum privilegio Regies Maiestatis" 2. iC An Admonition to the Parliament." This is in small black letter, written, according to a MS. note, by Mr. Field, Minister of Aldermary, London, assisted by Mr. Wilcox, and revised by se- veral of the brethren, 1572. Two letters are annexed, one by Rodolph Gualter, Minister of the Church of God at Tigurin, to Dr. J. Parkhurst, 1566,— the other to E. G. Bishop of L. by Theodore Beza, Minister of the Church at Geneva, v. Cal. Jul. 1566 : at the close of which are the fol- lowing lines : ..»..>..>..>..>..>..>^.4..<..<. «..<„ <..<..<.. " The lives of the Fathers are many of them before their works ; the rest are collected out of a Book so called. 207 Another portrait of the Author—"' John Dunstall, sculp." lt A General Marty rologie, containing a collection of all all the gnatest Persecutions which hate befallen the Church of Christ, from the Creadon to our present Times ; wherein is given an exact Account of the Pro- testant Sufferings in Queen Maries Reign : whereunlo is added the Lives of thirty -two English Divines, fa- mous in their generations for Learning and Piety. " You have also lively represented the divers manners of those cruel, horrid, and inhuman sufferings, that the people of God have undergone in all ages and nations ; and the effigies of some of the eminent Divines in Cop- per-plates. The Lives of Wickliff, Huss, Flierom of Prague, Frith, Bilney, Tindal, Rogers, Saunders, Hooper, Tailor, Bradford, Ridley, Latimer, Philpot, and Cranmer, are collected out of the Book of Martyrs. The Lives of the Germ:i.ie, French, Switzer, &c. Divines, are collected, some of them out of Melchior Adami Vita Theolog. Some out of Bouardi Bibliothec. Some out of Athena Batavee Jo, Meursii. Some out of Ver- h( idea's Pr&stant. TheoL Effi^. Some of the English out of Dr. Holland's Heroologia Anglicana. Gilpin 's Life is written by Dr. Carleton. Juel's Life is before his Apolngie. WkHaker's Life is written by Dr. Humphrede. Fox, hi.-; Life, is written by his Son. IVUIet's Life is before his Synopsis Pap. Coivper's Life is written by himself. Pareus, his Life is written by his Son, Phil. Pareu;. Bolton's Life is written by Mr. Bagshaw. IJ'hetelie's Life is written by Mr. Scudder. Some things I have added to diverse of these lives which I met with in ether good Autors." 208 " The third Edition , corrected and enlarged, by Sa- muel Clark, late Pastor at St. Bennet Fink, London. " V" t' / f Gentiles ") et Idololatria eorum, non a repugnantibus, \ Papistce j sed a moricntibus Christianis. August. Epist. 42. " Quo malts prcesentibus durius deprimor eo de futuris gaudiis certius prcesumo. Gregor. •' In nothing be terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of Perdition ; but to you of Salvation, and that of God. Phil. i. 28. " London, printed for William Birch, at the Pea- cock, at the lower end of Cheapside, 1677." Fol. Portrait as last mentioned. A satisfactory account of this laborious and useful Compiler may be found in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary ', where it is justly remarked, that these vo- lumes contain much curious matter, collected from sources now dispersed, inaccessible, or lost. At the Restoration this pious man lost his preferment for Non-conformity. The first volume of the Mirror is divided into three parts. The first part has 702 pages, besides two sheets of a Table. The second part, which begins the geo- graphical description, has two title-pages, one of them engraved by Gaywood, representing the four quarters of the globe. This has 293 pages. The third part has also this title-page — " A true and faithful account of the four cliiefest Plantations of the English America. To wit, Of Virginia, New- England, Bermudas, Bar- 209 bados. With the temperature of the Air : the nature of the Soil : the Rivers , Mountains, Beasts , Fowls, Birds, Fishes, Trees, Plants, Fruits, fyc. As also of the na- tives of Virginia and New-England, their Religion, Cus- toms, Fishing, Huntings, S?c. Collected by Sam. Clark," &c, It is dedicated to his " Friends and Neighbours, that met in Bennet Fink." The Epistle to the Reader says — " This Book, which I now present unto thee, is the fruit of my spare hours, it having been my recreation for these many years, to read the best Histories which I could meet with : and for the help of my memory I have collected the eminentest and most remarkable examples which did occur, and reduced them under several heads, distinguished into several Chapters : which I have found very useful, profitable, and pleasing unto me j and presuming that they may be so to others also, I have now this fourth time published them to the world, that so they, which neither have money to buy, nor leisure to read many volumes, may find, in this little Epitome, the choicest and chiefest things that are contained in them. I have also some- times set down more pleasant stories, which may have their use, and prevent tediousness to the reader, though in such great variety of history I suppose there is no great danger ot" nauseous- ness. But besides what I have collected out of the authors themselves, I have met with many examples in several Treatises and sermons, which have been lately published ; but what I have borrowed from them I hope I shall repay with interest, by this ensuing Collection. I have also inserted some memorable examples from my own observation, and from the observation of other godly ministers, who have friendly imparted them to me, which were never before in print," 8rc. " From my sluily in Hammersmith, thi$ twentieth of May, 1671." 2 E 210 Then follow two copies of Commendatory Verses, both signed J. C. Then the Table of Chapters ; of which the first is — " Examples of Abstinence, Tempe- rance, and Sobriety in Meats, Drinks, Apparel, Riches, and Household Furniture." These Examples are 39, contained in five pages. The Second Volume of The Mirror begins with an Epistle to the Reader, thus — " When I first set pen to paper, on this subject, I intended only an Addition to the Examples in my former Mirrors, or Looking-Glass : but before I had done, I found them so many as would swell into a just volume of themselves : and therefore I have methodised them into a Second Part. And as the First Part hath found such acceptance as to procure a fourfold im- pression ; so (I presume) this will not prove less grateful. For whereas the former Examples were for the most part collected out of Heathen or Profane Authors, these mostly are gathered out of Christian and Ecclesiastical "Writers : and many are added, which were never before in print 5 and others I could have added, but that I have been very cautious to publish no- thing but what I had very good proofs of. " The Examples contained in this Volume are principally of two sorts. First, of God's severe and signal judgments upon sturdy Stigmaticks, and notorious Debauchers," &c. "A second sort of these Examples hold forth unto us the amiableness of Piety and Virtue ; how acceptable it is unto God ; and what reward it often meets with even in this world," 8cc. " From my study in Hammersmith." 211 Then follow Commendatory Verses " To the Reverend Author, upon the second Volume of Examples." " Sir, the brave treatment your first volume gave, Whets our desires a second course to have. And here much rare Variety is set Before our eyes, which none but you could get. Let the loose strains of a Romantic Pen Pamper, and feed a vainer sort of men : Here the good Reader need not fear a whit To drown his conscience, and to lose his wit. Pleasure and profit both are here combin'd ; And a rich treasure he that seeks may find. Here's that may sweetly glide into his breast, And give to all his faculties a feast. And most ingeniously you do contrive To bury th' Student in your book alive. Such pleasing baits are every where design' d, To charm the Reader, and to catch the mind. What a brave study to search, and behold, How wisely Providence does rule the world. Though he move slowly, yet with iron hands He vindicates his patience, when the sands Of a just time are run. How he doth spy The wicked out, that give his word the lie. He that from thorns to gather grapes would know, Let him from these foul patterns fairer grow. Fur bad example, and rough providence, To keep out Vice are a most gallant fence. And the base hedge-hog, wrapt in his own hide, That turns his bristles fall the world beside ; £12 May find that he which hugs himself too much, Shuns a large dwelling, and prefers a hutch. Come, Sirs, of harmless pleasure here's a spring, A hive of sweetness without the least sting. W. D. " To this is added an Epigram, signed " W. Duncomb." This Volume runs to 775 pages. The Marrozo of Ecclesiastical History is dedicated to Philip Lord Wharton, and to the Lad} r Anne Whar- ton, his pious and virtuous consort. " From my study in Hammer smith, Aug. 2, 1G75." Then comes an address " To the Christian Reader,'* signed lt Edmund Calamy" who observing that " it cannot but be a work very profitable to the Church of Christ, for any man to write a history of the Lives of the eminently learned and godly Ministers of former times, as a fair copy for posterity to write after, and a pattern for them to imitate," adds, " this reverend, religious, and karned Author hath undertaken this work in this ensuing treatise, and effected it so well, as that I thought it not sufficient to give a naked lmprimaior unto it without this additional commen- dation both of the Author and of his work." This is followed by another similar " Address" signed " Simeon Ash, John Wall, London, Dec. 7, 164 ." " If," say they, 7. Minister at Mansfield-Woodhouse, Notts. 10 Dr. John Preston, died 162S. Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge. 11. Arthur Hildersham, died 1631. Lecturer at Ashby, Co. Leic. 12. Dr. Thomas Taylor, died 163?. 13. Hugh Clark, died 1634, born at Burton on Trent, 1563. Minister of Woolstone in Warwick- shire. 14. John Carter, died 1634, born at Wickham, near Canterbury, 1543. Minister of Belsted in Suffolk. 15. Dr. Richard Sibs, died 1635. Preacher at Gray's Inn. 16. Dr. Laurence Chaderton, died 1640. Master of Emanuel College. 17. John Ball, died 1640. Minister of Whitmore in Staffordshire. 18. Dr. Barnaby Potter, died 1642. Bishop of Carlisle. 19- Richard Sedgewick, died 1643. Minister at Wappiog. 20. J ulines Herring, died 1644. Minister at Wren- bury in Cheshire. 21. John Dod, died 1645. Minister at Fauslej', Northamptonshire. 22. Robert Balsom, died ]647. Minister of Ber- wick. 23. Herbert Palmer, born at Wingham in Kent, 1601, died 1647. Master of Queen's College, Cam- bridge. 24. Samuel Crook, died 1649. Minister of Wring- ton, Somersetshire. 220 25. John Cotton, born at Derby, 1584, died 1652. Minister at Boston, in America. 26. Dr. Thomas Hill, died 1653. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. 27. Dr. William Googe, died 1653. 28. Thomas Gataker, died 1654. 29. Jeremy Whitaker, died 1654. Minister of Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey. 30. Dr. James Usher, Primate of Ireland, died 1635. 31. Richard Capel, died 1656. Minister of Pitch- combe. 32. Dr. Robt. Harris, died 1658. Master of Tri- nity College, Cambridge. The second Part contains the Lives of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden, and of divers Christians, eminent for prudence and piety, viz. — 1. Mrs. Jane Ratcliffe, died 1638. 2. Ignatius Jordaine, died 1640. 3. Margaret Ducke, died 1646. 4. Margaret Corbet, died 1656. 5. Elizabeth Wilkinson, died 1654. 6. Gasper Coligni, Admiral of Fiance, died 1572. 7. loane, Queen of Navarre, died 1572. •••'./y > y''/'-A/'-/wvs^ 221 The Lives of Sundry eminent Persons in this latter a^e. In two Parts. I. Of Divines. II. Of Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes. By Samuel Clark, some- time Pastor of Bennet Fink, London. Printed and reviewed by himself just before his death. To which is added his own Life, and the Lives of the Countess of Suffolk, Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, Mr. Richard Blackerby, and Mr. Samuel Faircluugh, drawn up by other hands. Heb. xvii. 1. Wherefore, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin vjhich does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race which is set before us. London, printed for Thoinas Simmonds, at the Prince's Arms, in Ludgate-Street. 1683. fol. Part I. extends to p. 214. Part II. begins with page 89, and runs to page 216. So that a perfect copy has the appearance of being defective, if the mere pa- ging be regarded. This is noticed in the directions to the binder. This volume is accompanied by a good print of the Author, drawn and engraved by R. White. " Natus Oct. 10, 1599, Detiatus Dec. 25, 1682." The work commences with the Preface, with the Life of the Author, which, being a curious piece of autobiography, may be perhaps reprinted entire here- after. Then comes an Fpistle to the Reader, by Richard Baxter, dated Jan. 16, l68f, from which some ex- tracts will be proper, if I find room to appreciate the character of this laborious Compiler's works. £22 Part I. contains the Lives of, 1. Hugh Broughton, ob. 1612. 2. Robert Boyd of Trochreg, a Scotch Divine, ob. 1627, set. 49. 3. Dr. Twiss, Prolocutor of the Assembly of Divines, ob. 1644. 4. Mr. Thomas Wilson, Minister of Maidstone, ob. 1631. 5. Dr. Sam. Bolton, ob. 1654. 6. Rev. Richard Vines, Minister of Lawrence Jury, ob. 165.5. 7. Richard Blackerby, Minister of Thurlovv, in Suffolk, ob. 1648, set. 74. 8. Ralph Robinson, Minister of St. Mary Woolnoth, in Lombard Street, ob. 1655, set. 41. 9- John Janeway, of King's College, Cambridge, ob. 1657, set. 24. 10. John Machin, of Seabridge, in Staffordshire, ob. 1664, set. 40. 11. Dr. Samuel Winter, ob. 1666, set. 60. 12. Mr. Thomas Tregross, of Penryn, in Cornwall, ob. 1670. 13. Mr. Richard Mather, of Boston, in America, ob. 1669, set. 74. 14. Mr. Joseph Allein, of Taunton, ob. 1669, set. 36. 15. Dr. Edmund Staun- ton of Bovingden in Hertfordshire, ob. 1671, aet. 71. 16. Mr. Samuel Fairclough, ob 1677, set. 84. 17. Mr. Thomas Wadsworth, ob. 1676, aet. 46. 18. Mr. Owen Stockton, ob. 1680, aet. 50. 19. Mr. Thomas Gouge, ob. 1 681. aet. 75. Scotch Divines — Hugh Kennedy, John Scrimger, Robert Blair, Andrew Steward, John Welch, Robert Bruce, Mr. Davidson, Patrick Simpson. Then follow Providences Strange and Extraordi- nary, in six pages. The Second Part contains the Lives of, 1. Sir Philip Sidney, ob. 1586. 2. Sir Charles Coot of Ireland, ob. 1642. aet. 65, being slain in battle near Trim. 3. John Lamot, Alderman of London, born at Colchester, 1577, 223 son of Francis Lamot, son of Baldwin Lamot of Ypres> in Flanders, who fled from the persecution of Duke D'Alva, and settled at Colchester, where he set up a manufacture of Says and Bays. John was brought up a merchant. He married Mrs. Ann Tivelin of Can- terbury. By her he left two surviving daughters and coheirs : Hester married first to John Manning, Esq. a merchant of London, and afterwards to Sir Thomas Honeywood, of Marks Hall, in Essex, Kt. Elizabeth, the other coheir, married Maurice Abbot, son to Sir Maurice Abbot, Lord Mayor of London, who was brother to George, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Robert, Bishop of Salisbury. Mr. Lamot died July 13, 1635, st. 79. 4. Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston of Ketton, in Suffolk, Kt. died l6o3, get. 6G. 5. Mr. John Row, son of Lawrence Row, born at Shobrook, in De- vonshire, 1588, died 1660, a?t. 72. 6. Sir Matthew Hale,* died 1676, zet. 67. 7. Mrs. Mary Gunter, died * Clark cites the following sweet paraphrase, by Sir Matthew, of some lines in Seneca's Thyestes. — " Let him, that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly Grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes ! As for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ! Give me some mean obscure recess ; a sphere Out of the road of business, or the fear Of falling lower, where I sweetly may Myself, and dear retirement still enjoy. Let not my life or name be known unto The Grandees of the Time, tost to and fro By censures or applause ! But let my age Slide gently by, not overthwart the stage Of public actions, unheard, unseen, And unconcerned, as if I ne'er had been 1 224 1633. 8. Lady Alice Lucy, widow of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecot, in Warwickshire, died 1648. (See her funeral Sermon, preached by Mr. Thomas Dugard* Aug. 17, 1648.) 9- Mary Lady Vere, widow of Ho- race Lord Vere, daughter of Tracy of Toddington, died 1671, aet. 90. 10. Mrs, Katherine Clark, daugh- ter of the Rev. Valentine Overton, Rector of Bedworth, near Warwick, born Feb. 25, 1602 ; married, 1625, Rev. Sam. Clarke, Minister of Shotwick, four miles beyond West-Chester, died June 81, 1675, set. 72. She was the wife of the Biographer. Here is an Elegy on her by her grandson, J. Clark, set. 18. 11. Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick, seventh daughter of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, died 1678. 12. Mrs. Margaret Baxter, wife of Mr. Richard Baxter, died June 14, 16S1. She was daughter of Francis Charleton, of Shropshire, Esq. 13. Lady Mary Ar- myne, of the noble family of Talbot, died 1675, aged more than 80. 14. Lady Elizabeth Langham, daugh- ter of the Earl of Huntingdon, second wife to Sir James Langham, died March, 28, 1664, without issue. 15. Susanna, Countess of Suffolk, second daughter of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, born 1627, died May 10, 1649, 83 1. 22.* And thus while I shall pass my silent days, In shady privacy, free from the noise And bustles of the mad world, then shall I A good old innocent Plebeian die. Death is a mere surprise, a very snare To him that makes it his life's greatest care To be a public pageant, known to all, But unacquainted to himself doth fall. * This was originally published in 4to. under the following title : « A Collection of the Lives of ten Eminent Divines, famous in their W5 A Sheaf of Miscellany Epigrams, written in Latin by J[oh)i] D[enne.^\ Translated by J[asper] Main, D.D. 1652. pp. 16. 12m°. This Sheaf by Jasper Maine is subjoined to Dr. generations for Learning, Prudence, Piety, and Painfulness in the Work of the Ministry. Whereunto is added the Live of Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden, who first reformed Religion in that Kingdoms, and of some other eminent Christians, &c. London, printed for William Miller, at the guilded Acorn, near the little North-door in St. Paul's Church- Yard, 1662." 4to. pp. 535, besides Table. The Epistle to the Reader is dated From my Study in Ihredneedle-Street, Oct. 10, 1661. In this he says — '* I am not ignorant how some of late have endeavoured to bespatter, and to bring an odium upon the names of some of our former Worthies, (whose Lives I have formerly published) as though they were Fa?iatics, sinalaptists, (because they would have their children baptised by Pop ; sh Priests) enemies to the state, traitors, &c. But the memory or them shall be blessed, when the names of these their traducers shall not," &c. These Divines are, 1. John Carter, ob. 1634. 2. Sam. Crook, ob. 1649. 3. John Cotton, ob. 1652. 4. Dr. Thos. Hill, ob. 1653. 5. Dr. Wm Gouge, ob. 1653. 6. Tho. Gataker, ob. 1654. 7. Jeremy Whitaker, ob. I6i4. a. Dr. James Usher, Primate of Ireland, ob. 1655. y. Richard Capel, ob. 1656. 10. Dr. Robert Harris, ob. 1658. In I he Second Fart. Gustavus Ericson, King of Sweden, ob. 1502.. Mrs. Jane Ratcliffe, ob. iG38 Mr. Ignatius Jurdaine, ob 1640. Mrs. Margaret Duck, ob. 1646. Mrs. Maigaret Corbet, ob. 1656. Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson, ob. 1654. On this last Lady are two poetical Epitaphs by Dr. Edw. Reynolds and Dr. John Wallis. 2 G £26 Donne's Paradoxes, &c. # This is here mentioned as the only poetical publication of Dr. Maine, (except two plays) who yet has had the honour of being enu- merated among English Poets. Jasper Mayne was born at Hatherlegh, in Devon- shire, in 1604, educated at Oxford, and died Canon of Christchurch, and Archdeacon of Chichester, in 3 672. His commendatory Verses are to be found before many publications. These trifles Hardly afford a specimen worth se- lecting. The following form No. 50, and No. 52. I die well paid, while my expiring breath Smiles o'er the tombs of foes made kin by death. Another. Let Heaven my soul, the foe my life, the grave My corpse, my fame let my sav'd country have. * •* Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes, Characters, written by Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul's, to which is added a Book of Epigrams, written in Latin by the same author, translated into English by J. Maine, D.D. as also Igna- tius his Conclave, a Satyr, translated out of the original Copy, written in Latin by the same author; found lately among his own papers, &c. London, printed for H. Mosely, 1652. lamo." This is dedicated to Francis Lord Newport, Baron of High-Arcale. 5227 The Regi- •$• merit of life, where- 4- unto is added ft treatise of the pestilence, with <► the boohe of chil- •$> dren, newly cor- & rected and <► enlar- <► ged <► by Thomas <► Phairc. Colophon : Imprinted & at London 4- by John Kingston and Hen- <► ry Sutton, dwelling in <► Pan Us Church- #■ Yarde <► Anno Domini & 1553. Very small Svo, This was Dr. Thomas Phayer, the celebrated •Poet, who translated Virgil, and was a contributor to the Mirror for Magistrates. His Preface commences thus : * f Although (as I doubt not) euery good man wyl enterprete this worke to none other ende, but to be for the comfort of ■iheim that are diseased, and wyll esteme no lesse of me by whom they profyte, than thei wyll be glad to receyue the be- nefites, Yet forasmuche as it is impossible to auoyde the teethe of malicious enuy, I thought it not unnecessary to preuent the furies of some, whyche are euer gnawyng and bytyng upon theim •that further any godly sciences. To those J protest, that in all my studies I never intended nor yet doo entende to satisfye the myndes of any suche pike fautes (whiche wyl doo nothyng but detract and iudge other, snuffyng at al that offendeth the noses of their momishe affections, ho we soeuer laudable it be other- waies : ) But my purpose is here to doo theyin good that have moste nede, that is to saye, children : and. to sl>ewe the reme- dies that god hath created for ihe use of man, to distribute in englyshe to them that are unlearned, parte of the treasure that is in other languages, to provoke them that are of better learn- 228 yng, to utter their knowledge in suche lyke attemptes : fynahy to declare that to the use of many, whych oughte not to be secrete for lucre ofafewe: and to communicate the fruite of my labours to them that wyl gentilly and thankfully receyue them."* Certain most god- <•> ly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of <•> such true saintes and holy ma> tyrs of <•> God, as in the late hloodye persecution here <•> within this reahne, gave their lj/Ves <£ for (he defence of Chris 'rs holy <•> gospel : written in the fytne O of their afflic- tion and O crucll iinprys-on- <3> mint. <•> Though they suffer paync among men, yet is their liopcfull of immortalilie. Sap. 3. Imprinted at London by John Day, O dwelling ouer Mdersgate, lie- <3> neath Saint Marlines, 1564. Cum gratia et priuilegio Regice Maiestalis. 4to. pp. GS9> besides Table. At the back of the title, a spirited wood-cut of se- veral Martyrs at the stake. The writers of these Letters are 1. Abp. Cranmer ; 2. Ridley, Bp. of London ; 3. Hooper, Bp. of Glou- cester ; 4. Dr. Taylor, Parson of Hadley ; b. Laurence Saunders; 6. John Bradford; 7- Thomas Whyttle; 8. Robert Samuel ; 9- John Hullyer ; 10. Robert Glo- * Ste Wind's Alh. Ox. ly Bliss, I. 310, where this edition is not men- tioned: but where the dates assigned are 1540, ] 546, and 1500, in which last year Pnaei died. 229 yer j 11, Robert Smith ; 12. Bartelet Grene ; 13. John Careles ; 14, George Marsh; 15. John Rough; 16. Cutherte Symson ; 17- William Coker ; IS. Nicholas Shetterden ; 19 Lady Jane Grey ; 20. Steven Cotton; 21. Richard Roth; 22. Prisoners in Canterbury Castle. At the end is a Letter of Bishop Ridley, omitted in the Table. At p. 662 is A letter written by Lady Jane Grey, (at the end of & Nero Testament in Greek) to her sister the Lady Ka- therine, immediately before she suffered. " I have here sent you, good sister Katherine, a Book, which although it be not outwardly trimmed with gold, yet inwardly it is more worth than precious stones. It is the Book, dear sister, of the Law of the Lord : it is his Testament and last Will which he bequeathed unto us wretches ; which shall lead you unto the path of eternal joy ; and if you with a good mind do read it, it shall bring you to an immortal and everlasting life. It will teach you to live, and learn you to die. " It shall win you more than you should have gained by the possession of your woeful father's lands. For, as if God had prospered him, you should have inherited his lands ; so if you apply diligendy this Book, seeking to direct your life after it, you shall be an inheritor of such riches, as neither the covetous shall withdraw from you ; neither the thief shall steal ; nor the moths shall corrupt. " Desire, with David, good Sister, to understand the Law of the Lord your God. Live still to die, if you by death may purchase eternal life. And trust not, that the tenderness of your age shall lengthen your life : for as soon, if God call, goeth the young as the old. And labour always to learn to die. " Defy the world, deny the devil, and despite the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. Be penitent for your 230 sins, and yet despair not ; he strong in faith, and yet presume not : and desire, with St. Paul, to be dissolved, and to be with ■Christ, wiih whom even in death there is life. Be like the good servant, and even at midnight be waking, lest when Death cometh, and stealeth upon you like a thief in the night, you be with the evil servant found sleeping ; and lest, for lack of oil, you be found like the five foolish women, and like him that had not on the wedding garment, and so be cast out from the marriage. " Rejoice in Christ, as I praise God I do. Follow the steps of your master Christ, and take up your cross : lay your sins on his back, and always embrace him. " And as touching my death, rejoice as I do, good Sister, that I shall be delivered from this corruption, and put on incor- ruption. For I am assured, that I shall, for losing of a mortal life, win an immortal hie. The which I pray God grant you ! Send you of his grace to live in his fear, and to die in the true Christian faith ; from the which, in God's name, I exhort you that you never swerve, neither for hope of life, nor for fear of death. For if you will deny his truth to lengthen your life, God will deny you, and yet shorten your days. And if you will cleave unto him, he will prolong your days, to your com- fort and his glory ; to the which glory God bring me now, and you hereafter, when it pleaseth him to call you. " Fare you well, good Sister, and put your only trust ia God, who only must help you." ^^•^.^^-^^.^ u THE LOSSE OF ELIZABETH. " By Wm. Harbert. 1604. " Faire Virgin, Empresse, royall princely maid, Sprung from the damask rose, the rose's bud ; Tis true as truth itselfe which men have said, The end is best, though all the meanes be good. She was the last and best of Henrie's blood. Henry did well in all, excell in this, In getting of this maid, our greatest blisse. Astronomers did dreame, and fondly saide, That twelve designed signes did rule a spheere ; Virgo did guide the earth, oh heavenly Maide, But now sky-teachers wise men never feare, To say she is in heaven, for sure she's there. Oh, she is gone, with her our pleasures fled, They liv'd in her, they died when she was dead. Bright gem of honor, Albion's glorious starre, The Cynosure of England's hemisphere ;* Princess of peace, Cytherian queen of warre, Rides through the clouds on her celestial beare, Conquering death's ebon dart and sharpest speare. Fathers of peace put on triumphant weedes, A gratious King, a gratious Queen succeedes." Printed in " A Prophesie of Cadwallader" &c. f * " The Cynosure of vnlgat eyes." Milton. Q 32 Poems <$- by 4- Thomas Philipot <*► Master of Arts •$► (Sometimes) of Clare Hall in Cambridge ■$■ London <>• Printed by R. A. for John Wilcox <*► and are to he ■$■ sold at the Crown in Pauls Churchyard ■$■ MDCXLFL* Svo. pp. 55, besides Table. Dedicated to Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland. Address to the Reader, signed T. P. To the Author, w Encomiasticon," signed " Phi- lomasus, T. C." 48 Poems. P. 19. On the death of Mr. George Sandys, be- ginning, ** When that Arabian bird, the Phoenix dies, "Who on her pile of spices bedrid lies." P. 35. On the death of Mr. Francis Quarles, be- ginning, " Amongst that solemn train of friends, which sing Thy dirge, great soul, and to thy name do bring," &c. P. 17- On the death of Sir Simon Harcourt, slain at the taking in of Carigs-Main Castle in Ireland, be- ginning, " May that pure flame, which heated Harcourt's breast. Break from the gloomy confines of diat chest." This author was the same who published the " Vil- larc Cantianum," one of our earliest County Histories. * Corrected in MS. to " Feb. 3, 1645." 233 " It. W. against the wilfull Incomtancie of his tie are foe E. T. which example may justly be a sufficient warnyng for all yong men to beware the fained fi.de- lytie of unconstant may dens." 12mo. Four leaves. Running title — " The true harted R. W. to the un* constant E. T." of 31 stanzas. *.' All youthfull wights at lyberty, Whom Love did never thrall, I wish that my decay may be A warnyng to you all. That have a soare bred in my brest, Although it be not strange, Yet wyll it bryng mee to the grave, Without some sodaine change. For I by sute have served one Two yeares and somewhat more, And now I can no longer serve, My hart it is so sore. Which hart I let to userie, Through greedie fond desire, \ Not doubting to receive home twain, When I would them requyre. But if that everie userer Had such good hap as I, There would not be so many men Would use this userie. The pryce that I have paid for love, Not many men do give ; But I my bargayne shall repent As louge as I do lyve. 2 H 234 The following stanza has the nearest pretensions to poetic figure. I thurst my hande among the thornes, In hope the rose to finde ; I prickt my hand and eke my hart, Yet left the rose behynde." Colophon. Finis. R. Witc. Imprinted at London bu Richard Johnes." % u The copy of a letter lately written in meeter by a yonge Gen'ilwoman to her vnconstant Lover : with an admonition to al yong Gentilwomen, and to all other Mayds in general to beware of mennes flattery. By Is. W. Newly joy ned to a Love letter sent by a Ba- cheler (a most faithfull Lover) to an unconstant and faithless Mayden. Impr. at London by Rd. Jhones, dwelling in the upper end of Fleet-lane, at the signe of the Spred Egle." 12°. CONTENTS. The Printer to the Reader ; 5 short stanzas on back of the title. I. W. to her unconstant lover, 35 st. Finis, Is. W. The admonition by the Auctor, 32 st. Finis, Is. W. Then follows a second title, thus — 16 A love letter, or an earnest perswasion of a lover; Sent of late to a yonge Mayden to whom he was betrothed; who afterward being overcome with flattery, she seem- ed utterly to swerve from her former promise, without occasion, and so to forsake him. By W. G." £35 Twenty-seven stanzas in the same measure as the former, of which the last is here given, with the colo- phon. " Farewell, a dleu ten thousand times, To God I thee commend : Beseeching him his heavenly grace Unto thee styll to send. Thy friend in wealth, thy friend in woe, Thy friend while lyfe shall flyth me froe 3 And whilst that you enjoy your breath, Leave not your friend unto the death : For greater praise cannot be wonne, Then to observe true love begonne. FINIS. W. G. Imprinted at London by Rd. J hones." f " Flamma sini Fumo, or Poems without Fictions, by RowL Watkins, Ded, to the hon. Col. Sir Herbert Prise, Knt." The following are its contents : — Page. 4. Upon the mournful death of our late Sovereign Ld. Cha. the First. 5. Upon the return of our most illustrious K. Cha. II. from Flanders to England. 7. Upon the right honble the Lord Gen. George Monk, D. of Albemarle. 11. Upon the right honble James D. of Ormond, and E. of Brecknock. 236 J5. Upon the right honble Henry Ld. Herbert, eldest son to Edvv. Marquis of Worcesh r. 19 Upon the right honble Lady Mary Beauchamp of Edington, in the Co. of Wilts. 21. Upon the right honble Lady Ed inn Williams of Gwenrivet. 20. Upon the honble Gentlewoman Mrs. Jane Lane, who was a most happy instrument to convey our Sovereign Ld. K. Cha. out of the hands of rebels from England to Scotland. 23. Upon the fair, charitable, and piously devoted Gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Jeffreys. 24. Upon the right honble John Scudamore, Vise. Sligo, &c. 51. Upon the honble. Sir Herbert Prise, Bart. Master of \he Household to Cha. the Second. $8. Upon the right worshipful Sir Henry Lingen, Knt. of Stoke in Herefordshire. 40. To his much honoured friend, Mr. John Williams, Vicar of Dwynnoch and Luel. 41. To the most incomparable Lady Goditba Prise, Lady to Sir Herbert Prise. 45. To the profound and learned Gentleman, Mr. Vin- cent Wing, [the astrologer.] 48. Upon the right worshipful Sir Francis Floyd, Knt. [59 ib.] 49. Upon IS ature's darling, the young ingenious Gent. Mr. James Jones. — Upon the death of the right worshipful Sir Walter Pye of the Mynde. 52. Upon the worshipful and most hospitable Gent. Andrew Barton, Esq. 237 55. Upon the honble Col. Sir Randolph Egerton, Knt. — Upon the fair and virtuous Gentlewoman, Mrs. Eliz. Gwyn of the Hay. 5£. To the most courteous and fair Gentlewoman the pattern of modesty, 8cc. Mrs. Eliz. Williams of the same. 57. Upon the death of the right worshipful Sir An- thony Man-el, killed at the battle of Newbury. 64. Upon the most beautiful, hospitable, and ingenious Gentlewoman, Mrs. Blanch Morgan. C8. To the most affable, charitable, and ingenious Gent. Roger Vaughan of Moccas, E q. 69. Upon the right worshipful Sir John Awbry of Lantrethit, Knt 70. To the right worshipful Sir Richard Basset of Bewper, Knt. — r Upon his much honoured friend, Major Henry Stedman. 7J. To the worshipful Edw. Bowel, Esq. of the Maes Mawr. — Upon the right worshipful Nicholas Arnold of Lantony, Esq. 73. Upon his most dear and pious uncle, Mr. James Barry, Barson of Tidstone. 83. Upon the most hospitable and courteous Gent. the worshipful Tho. Lewis, Esq. of Langorn. 87. Upon the worshipful and most hopeful Gent. Tho. Brise of Whisteton, Esq. — Upon the nobly minded and most pious Gentle- woman, Mrs. Mary Williams. 91. Upon the most learned Gent. Dr. Aurelius Wil- liams, Dr. of Bhysick. 238 93. Upon the sad departure of the right rev. William Nicholson from Carmarthen to Gloucester. 94. Upon the much honoured John Delahay, Esq.— Milborne Williams, Esq. son to Sir H. W. 97. Upon the worshipful and much deserving Gent. John Jeffreys of Aberenwrich, Esq. 114. Mrs. Mary Carne. 115. Upon his beloved daughter, Susanna W. aet. 36. J 16. Upon Bishop Nicholson's Analysis of David's Psalms, and his Exposition of the Creed. After page 126 comes " A Looting Glass, for the Sick, and the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases, Sfc. in verse." f To " the Order and Solemnilie of the Creation of the high and mightie Prince Henrie, (eldest sonne to our sacred Soveraigne) Prince of ff ales, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester, SfC as it was celebrated in the Parlia- ment House on Munday, the fourth of Junne last past, Sfc. 1610, 4/o." is annexed w Tethys Festival: or the Queenes IVake. Cele- brated at Whitehall the fifth day of June, 1610. Devised by Samuel Daniel, one of the Groomes of her Maiesties most lion, priuie Chamber." »>»»»Q<«««« This is in Garrick's collection of Plays, H. vol. IX. 4to. in Mus. Brit, and proves to be a Masque or Pa- geant, " the artificial part," or machinery of which 239 was contrived by Inigo Jones. " Tethys, (Mater nympharum et fluviovum) Queene of the Ocean and wife of Neptunus, attended with thirteen nymphs of severall rivers, is represented by the Q. Ann, and the Ladies of her Court thus personified the several rivers. — ■ 1. The Lady Elizabeth's Grace — the nymph of Thames. 2. The Lady Arbella— the Trent. 3. Css. of Arundell — Arun — that runs by Arundel! Castle. 4. Css. of Darbie — Darrvent — runs through Darbie. 5. Css. of Essex — Lee — the river that bounds Essex.- 6. Css. of Dorset — Ayr — runs near Skipton. 7. Css. of Mongomerie — Severn — rises in Mongo- meryshire. 8. Vicss. Haddington — R other — a river in Sussex. 9. Lady Eliz Gray — Medzcay — a river in Kent. 10. Lady Eliz. Guilford — Dulosse^ 11. Lady Kath. Petre — Ohcy I rivers in Mon- 12. Lady Winter — Wye C mouthshire. 13. Lady Winsor — Uske J The Duke of York presented Zephirus, in a short robe of green satin, embroidered with golden flowers, &c. Eight little ladies were the JSiaiades. The in- termixture of verse is not much, but it is neatly per- formed. % 240 " The <•> Hieruchie O of the blessed® Angels, & their Names, Orders, <•> and Offices. ® The fall of Luci- fer ® zoilh his Angels. & Written by Tho. Heywood. " Vita scelesta vale ccelica vita veni. u London, printed by Adam Islip, 1635/' In a title-page engraved by T. Cecil it is dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria. In the Proem lo the Reader the Author says — " I have proposed unto you, Good Angels and Bad; the excellencie of the one, still continuing in their created purity ; the refractoiy rebellion of the other, damning themselves to all eternity." The Poem consists of nine Books, with curious prose annotations to each Book. " The Argument of (he first Booke. Uriel. A Jove Principium, the Creator, Of all that live sole animator, Atheisme and Saddudsme disputed, Their tenents argued and refuted. A Dei tie approv'd by all God's creatures in generall. Into the world how false Gods came, And first begun t'usurpe that name. A Quere made the world throughout, To finde this God, of whom some doubt. The Argument of the seconde Booke. Jophiel. A God bee'ng found deny'd by none, It followes there can be but one : 241 By the Philosophers confest, And such as were of Poets best. Him not the Oracle denies, Nor those the ancient World held wise j Sage, Sybill, Mage, Gymnosophist, All in this Vnitie persist. Next, That this Pow'r so far extended Can by no sence be comprehended - y ■ Neither his Essence, most Diuine, Be sounded by weak Reason's line : And last, what names most properly Belong to this Great Deity. The Argument of the third Booke. Zaphkiel. Of th' Uniuerse the Regions three, And how their parts disposed bee : How gouerned, and in what order, In which no one exceeds it's border. That Moses' arke in ail respects Upon this world's rare Frame reflects. Both how and when by pow'r Diuine The Sun and Moone began to shine. The day of our blest Sauiour's passion, Compar'd with that of the Creation. How euery Star shines in its Spheare, What place they in the Zodlacke beare. And of the twelue Signs a narration, Their influence, aspect, and station. To prone no former worlds haue bin, And this must perish we Hue in. The vainnesse lastly doth appear Of Plato's Great and Vertent Yeare. 2 I 242 The Argument of the fourth Boohe Zadchiel. What Ternions and Classes bee In the Caelestial Hierarchee. In what degrees they are instated, How 'mongst themselues concatinated. Angels and Daemons made apparent By Ethnicks and the Scriptures warrant. Of Visions, and strange Dreames that proue Spirits each where at all times moue ; Against their infidelitie That will allow none such to bee. Discourse of Fauor, Loue, and Hate, Of Poetry, of Death's estate. Th' Essence of Spirits ; how far they know, Their pow'r in heaven and earth below. The Argument of the fifth Boohe. Haniel. The consonance and sympathie Betwixt the Angels Hi-erarchie. The Planets and Caelestiall Spheares, And what similitude appeares 'Twixt one and other of the three Religions that most frequent bee, Jew, Christian, and Mahumetist : Upon what grounds they most insist. Ridiculous Tenents stood upon In Mahomet's blinde Alcaron j Where he discourseth the creation Of Heav'n and Angels. A relation, What strange notorius Heresies, - By th' Priscillians and Manichees . Were held. The truth made most apparant By Text and holy Scriptures warrant. 243 The Argument of the iiSi Booke. Raphael The heart of Man bee'ng so adverse To Goodnesse, and so apt to pierce Things most retrusc ; a course exprest On what it chiefely ought to rest. A scrutinie made, where and when The Spirits were created. Then, Of Lucifer, the chiefe and prime Of Angels in the first of time : His Splenddr, Pride, and how he fell In battell by Prince Michael. Their Fight, their Armes, the triumph great Made in the heav'ns for his defeat. The number that reuolted ; and How long they in their grace did stand. Some other doubts may plain appeare Which to this argument cohere. The Argument of the seventh Booke. Camael. Of God's great works a serious view, For which all praise to him is due. The sev'rall Classes that are held Amongst the Angels that rebel'd. Of Lucifer the principall, And his strange Figure since his Fall. Of such as most in pow'r excell, And of their gouernment in hell ; Their Order, Offices, and Names, With what prioritie each claimes. The list of those that fell from blisse, The knowledge that in Daemons is, And how far stretcht. Next, of their wrath Tow'rds Mankinde, and what bounds it hath. Discov'ry of those ginnes and snares They lay t' entrap men unawares. 244 Of compacts common in all ages, And of the Astrologomages. The Argument of the eighth Booke. Michael. Of Sathan's Wiles and Feats prestigious, Appearing wondrous and prodigious j Confirm'd by histories far sought. Of Nouels by bad Daemons wrought j And first of such is made expression, That still with Mankinde seek congression, (To whose fall they themselves apply Call'd Succubae and Incubi.) To finde those further we desire, Of Water, Earth, the Aire, and Fire ; And what their workings be, to know As well aboue as here below. How Authors 'mongst themselves agree What Genij and Spectars bee, Faunes, Sylvans, and Alastores, Satyrs, and others like to these. With stories mixt, that grace may win From such as wee, not verst therein. The Argument of the ninth Booke. Gabrieh Of Spirits call'd Lucifugi (From flying light) I next apply My neere-tyr'd pen : of which be store In Mines where workmen dig for oare. Of Robin Good-fellow, and of Fairies, With many other strange vagaries Done by Hob-goblins. I next write Of a Noone-Diuell, and a Buttry-Sp'rite. Of graue Philosophers who treat Of the soule's essence and her seat. 245 The strange and horrid deaths related Of learn'd Magitiors, animated By Sathan, the knowne truth t' abjure, And study arts black and impure. Of curious Science last, the vanitie, Grounded on nothing but incertaintie. And that no knowledge can abide the test Like that in sacred Scripture is exprest." Extract from Book IV. regarding English Potts. '* Our modern Poets to that passe are driven, Those names are curtai'd which they first had given ; And as we wish"d to have their memories drown' d, We scarcely can afford them half their sound. Hob. Greene. Greene who had in both Academies ta^en Degree of Master yet could never gaine To be call'd more than Rob'n : who had he Profest ought saue the Muse, serv'd and been free After a seuen yeares Prenticeship ; might haue (With credit too) gone Robert to his graue. Chris.Marlo. Mario renown'd for his rare art and wit Could ne'er attain beyond the name of Kit, Although his Hero and Leander did Thomas Kid. Merit addition rather. Famous Kid Thomas Was call'd but Tom. Tom Watson, though he Walson. wrote Able to make Apollo's selfe to dote Upon his Muse -, for all that he could striue, Yet never could to his full name arriue. Thomas Tom Nash (in his time of no small esteeme) Nash. Could not a second syllable redeeme. U6 Francis Excellent Bewmont, in the foremost rank Bewmont. Of the rar'st Wits, was never more than Frank. William Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Shakespeare. Commanded Mirth or Passion, was but Will. Beniamin And famous Jonson, though his learned pen Jonson. Be dipt in Castaly, is still but Ben. John Flet- Fletcher and Webster, of that learned packe, cher, John None of the mean'st, yet neither was but Jacke. Webster, (sfc Decker s but Tom ; nor May nor Middleton. And hee's now but Jacke Foord, that once were John. Nor speak I this that any here exprest Should think themselves lesse worthy than the rest, Whose names have their full syllable and sound ; Or that Frank, Kit, or Jacke are the least wound Unto their fame and merit. I, for my part, (Think others what they please) accept that heart Which courts my love in most familiar phrase, And that it takes not from my pains or praise. If any one to me so bluntly com, I hold he loues me best that calls me Tom. Hear but the learned Buchanan* complaine, In a most passionate elegiacke straine ; And what emphaticall phrases he doth use To waile the wants that wait upon the Muse. The pouertie (saith he) adde vnto these, Which still attends on the Aonides, As if that Paeniaf were their Queen and guide, And vow'd amongst them euer to reside. * ** In his Elegy, intitled — Quam miscra sit conditio docmtium litems humaniorts, &c." f " Psenia is Paupertas ; or of poverty. Read Aris- tophanes in his Lenady, called Platus." 247 Whether thou dost of Turkish battels sing, Or tune thy low Muse to a softer string : Or whether thou the gentle Socke dost weare, Tickling with pleasure the spectator's eare : Whether thou in the lofty buskin rage : When the long tragicke robe doth brush the stage., Thou, Pouertie along with thee shalt bring. Whether thou Poems write, or Poems sing. Seuen cities warr'd for Homer being dead : Who liuing, had no roofe to shrowd his head. Poore Tityrus deplores his father's fields 3 Rome to the hungry Statins scarce bread yeelds. Naso, who many in that kinde surpast, Beyond the Hyperborean Pole was cast : Nor could shew cause for being thither chac'd, But, that he lov'd the Sisters ; they him grac'd : Nor hath the Poet's Patron's selfe* been free From the strict lawes of dire necessitie ; But forc'd through want, amidst the fields and groue* To keepe and feed the iEmonian herds and droues. Wherefore Calliope (who sung so well) Did hue so long a maid, can any tell ? She had not been a virgin to this houre, But that (to marry her) she wanted dower; Meane time we spend our fruitlesse hours in vaine, And Age of Want and hunger doth complaine. It grieues vs now although too late, at last Our youth in idle studies to haue past ; And what a folly 'tis, we now have found To cast our seed in an vnfaithfull ground : That in our youth we haue layd vp no store. Which might maintaine vs when our heads be hore ; * « Apollo, who kept Admetus his cattel. 248 And that our shaken vessel, torne and thin, Can finde no easie port to harbour in. Then barren Muses, seeke some other friend. For I henceforth a thriuing course intend. None with fresh violets my ashes grace, Or strew sweet fragrant roses in the place.* If any loues me, and intends to giue, I wish to taste his bounty whilest I Hue. What care I, when the Fates my thread have spun, Though briers and thornes my graue shall ouerrun. Thou Tragicke Buskin, and thou Comicke Socke, Prime Muses of the Novenary stocke ; At length awake from your long bedded sloath, And giue me but one answer from you both : Whence growes this innovation ? How comes it Some dare to measure mouthes for euery bit The Muse shall taste ? And those, approv'd tongues call, Which have pleas'd court and city, indeed all, An untun'd kennell : when the populous throng Of auditors haue thought the Muses sung When they but spake ? How comes it (ere he know it) A Puny shall assume the name of Poet ; And in a Tympa'nous and Thrasonicke stile, (Words at which th' ignorant laugh, but the learn'd smile, Because adulterate) and vndenizen'd, he Should taske such artists as haue tooke degree, Before he was a Fresh-man r and because No good practitioner in the Stage Lawes, He miss'd th' applause he aim'd at j hee'l deulse Another course, his fame t' immortalise : * ** Epigram, ejusdem, inscript. ad amicos. Nemo msos cineres violis fragralibus ornet, &e," 249 Imploring diuers pens, (failing in's owne) To support that which others have crv'd downe. It was not so of old : Virgil the best Of Epicke Poets, neuer did contest 'Gainst Homer. Ovid was so far from hate That he did rather striue to imitate Than maligne others : for of him we reade That he did honour all who did precede ; To loue those that came after, present, all, Indeed the Muses' friends in generall. I spare to speake of those that liue ; I'embrace Their loues, and make Vmpires in this case, Who would, to curbe such insolence (I know) Bid such yong boys to stay in Jericho Vntill their beards were growne, their wits more staid ; And not to censure others, till they'aue made Works to exceed theirs ; to abide the test Of rough censorious Browes ; Better's the best : To attract the eares and eyes of Princes. When They haue done this, (as some they enuy) then They may be admitted Free-men, and so strive By industry, how in that way to thrive. These at the Bench aime, but mistaken far, For they must first be brought vnto the Bar. Perhaps too, there's some other matter in't, These so ambitious are to be in print ; And fearing their own Weaknesse, therefore raile, Hoping to get their bookes the better sale. But 'tis a foolish pride to awake those Muses (Which otherwise had slept) at their abuses. 2 K 'J5.0 STORIES OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS' FROM HEY WOOD'S HIERARCHIE. A strange Ilislorjf. " I have read of a noble Centurion in the lower part of Germanie, of great opinion and estimation with the people, for his approued goodnesse and knowne honestie ; who reported this Discourse following : That walking one euening through a thicket or groue not farre distant from die place in which he liued, with onely one man and a boy in his company to attend him 5 hee saw approaching towards him a faire and goodly company of Knights and Gentlemen ; all seeming persons of great eminence, for they were mounted on great and braue horses, and well accommodated at all points ; all 1 which, without any salutation, in great silence past by him : In the lag of which- troup he flxt his eye with some astonishment on one, who to his present imagination had serued him and bin his Cook ; who was dead and: buried some few dayes before this apparition. This fellow was as well mounted as the rest, and led an empty or spare horse by the bridle. The Centurion being a man of an undaunted spirit, went up close to him, and demanded what he was ; and whether hee were the same Cooke who had lately serued him, and whom hee had scene coffined and layd in the earth? Who answered him againe, That without any doubt or scruple, he was the selfe same man. His master then asked him what Gentlemen, or rather noblemen (as appeared by their habit) were those that rid before? Whether he himself was then trauelling ? and to what purpose he led' that empty horse in his hand ? To all which he replied in order : That all those horse- men were men of note and qualitte (naming to him diuers whom he knew were deceased) and that they were now vpon,. a voiage to the Holy-land, whether he himselfe was likewise *51 'bound, and that spare horse was provided of purpose to do him seruice, if it so pleased him and that hee had any desire to see Hierusalem. The Centurion made answer, That with great willingnesse hee could -fin.de in his heart to see the City, and visit the holy Sepulchre, whither (had means and leasure serued to his purpose) hee had long since intended a pilgrimage. — The other told him, Now was the time, his horse ready, no necessaries wanting ; or if he intended that voyage, he could not go m better company. At which words, the bold Centu- rion leapt into the empty saddle, and was presently hurried away from the sight of his seruants in a moment ; and the next euening, at the same houre, and in the same place, he was found by his seruants and friends, who were diere seeking and inquiring after him. To whom he related his journey, and what he had seene in the Holy City ; describing punctually euery monument and place of remarke . which agreed with the relations of such Trauellers and Pilgrims as had been there and brought certificate and assured testimonie from thence. He shewed vnto them likewise, an handkerchiefe which that Cooke his seruant (or rather Diuell in his likenesse) had given him stained with bloud ; but told him, if at any time it weie foule or durtie, he should cast it into the fire, for that was the onely way to make it cleane. He shewed them likewise a knife and sheath which he bestowed upon him, which he said was the gift of a grateful remembrance ; but gaue him a great charge thereof, for (said he) the mettal is poysoned, and euery blow giuen therewith is present and immediate death." Vincenlius, " In the Councell of Basill certaine learned men taking their journey through a forrest, one of these Spirits in the shape ©f a Nightingall vttered such melodious tones and accents, that they were all amased, and stayed their steps to sit downe and 252 heare it. At length one of them, apprehending that it was not. possible that such rarietie of musicke could be in a bird, the like of which hee had neuer heard, demanded of it, in the name of God, what or who it was. The Bird presently an- swered, I am the soule of one that is damned, and am enioyned to sing tbus till the last day of the great Judgment. Which said, with a terrible shriek which amased them all, she flew away and soon vanished. The euent was, that all that heard those Syrenicall notes, presently fel into grieuous sicknesses, and soone after died." A strange History of Hotherus King of Suclia and Dacia. " This following historic you may reede in Olaus Magnus. Hotherus, King of Suetia and Dacia, being hunting, and by reason of a thicke dampish fog wandred or strayed from his company, hee hapned vpon a syluan den or caue; which en- tping, he espied three faire and beautiful Virgins, who without blaming his intrusion, coiled him by his name and bad him welcome ; doing him that obeysance and obseruance which his state required. At which he wondring, courteously demanded of them what they were. To whom one replied, That they were Virgins, into whose power all the Auspices and euents of war were giuen, and they had abilitie to dispose of them at their pleasure ; and that they were present in all conflicts and battels, (though vnseen) to conferre vpon their friends honor and victorie, and to punish their enemies with dis- c-race a na " ouerthrow. Exhorting him withall, that as he tendered their fauours, hee should by no means trouble Bal- derus with war, who by his genealogie might claim allyance with the Gods. Which words were no sooner deliuered but the den and they disappeared together, and he was left alone in the open air without any couering. Blame him not to be 2.53 much amased at this so unexpected and sudden a prodigie ; notwithstanding after some recollection, he winding his horn, his seruants came about him, by whom he was conducted to the Court, not reuealing this vision to any. Some few years after, being vexed and prosecuted with sharps and vnsuccessful war, he was forced to wander thorow forrests, groues, and thickets, and seeke out by-way es, and make vntrodden paths, the better to secure himselfe. At length he light vpon another remote and desolate vault, where sate three Virgins, who not- withstanding vpon better aduisement he presumed to be {he same who at their last departure scattered a garment, which he took vp, and found by experience, that all the time he wore it his body was invulnerable. They demand of him the cause of his comming thither ? He presently complains vnto them of his infortunate euents in warre ; adding wilhall, That all things had hapned vnto him aduerse to their promise. To whom they answered, That he accused them vnjustly ; for though hee sel- dome returned an absolute Victor, yet in all his enterprises he did as much dammage, and made a great slaughter on his ene- mies, as he had receiued strage or execution from them : and bad him not to dispaire, for if he could by any exploit or stra- tagem preuent the enemie of any one dish of meat which was prouided for his dyet and table, hee should without question in his next expedition gaine an assured and most remarkable vic- torie. Satisfied with this their liberall promise, he took his leaue, recollected his dispersed Troupes, and took the field. The night before the battel, being vigilant to suruey his Enemies Tents, and see what watch they kept, he espied three Bamosels carying vp three dishes of meat into one of the Tents : whom following apace (for he might easily trace them by their steps in the dew) and hauing a Citharon about him, on which he played most curiously, he receiued meat for his musick, and returning, the same way he came, the next day he gaue them a strong battel, in which the enemies were slaine almost to one man." 254 A strange Water in Finland, ' In Finland (which is vnder the dominion of the King of Sweden) there is a Castle which is called the New Rock, moted about with a riuer of an vnsounded depth, the water blacke, and the fish therein very distasteful! to the palate. In this are Speetars often seene, which foreshew either the death of the Gouernor, or some prime Officer belonging to the place : and most commonly it appeareth in the shape of an Harper, sweetly singing, and dallying and playing vnder the water." Noon Diuels. *' There are those that are called Spectra meridiana, or Noon Diuels. In the Easterne parts of Russia, about haruest time,, a Spirit was seene to walk at mid-day like a sad mourning Widow, and whosoeuer she met, if they did not instantly fall on their knees to adore her, they could not part from her without a leg or an arme broken, or some other as great a mischief. Wherein may be obserued, That these Spirits, of what condition soeuer, aboue all things aime at diuine worship, which is onely due vnto the Creator. Not that they are ignorant that it be- longs solely to him 5 but that in their inexpressible malice, knowing ihemselues to be Rebels, and quite excluded from Grace, they would likewise draw man to accompany them in eternall perdition. Therefore all the Saints of God, since Christ established his Church here amongst the Gentiles, haue endea- voured to draw the nation from Idolatry. It is read of Saint James, That when many Diuels were sent vnto him by one Hermogenes, to assault him, hee returned them bound and disarmed. That Saint Bartholmew destroid the Idol of Aste- roth, who was worshipped in India ; and shewed moreouer, that their great Alexikakon was a meere figment and impos- ture. So die Apostles Simon and Jude strooke dumbe those 255 Spirits that spake in the oracle to Varada, chiefe Generall ouer Xerxes his armie : and after restoring to them their libertie of speech, they caused that their deceit and vanitie did easily ap- peare. For V r erada demanding of them, What the euent of the war would proue ? they answered him, That it would be long, and dangerous, and not onely vnprofitable, but full of dammage and great losse to both parties. On the contrary, the Apostles, deriding the vanitie of the I doll, informed him, That the Indian- Embassadors were vpon the way, humbly to desire peace of him vpon any conditions whatsoever. Which finding to be true., Varada commanded those lying and deceitfull images to be Immediately cast into the fire and burned ; and had then slaine an hundred and twenty of those idolatrous priests, had not the Apostles earnestly interceded for them. I could here cite many examples to the like purpose, but let these suffice for the pre- sent." Of the Spirits of the Water. " Of the Watry Spirits some briefe stones. The man- ner how the Duke of Venice yearly marrieth the ocean, with a ring, and the originall thereof, though it haue nothing in it belonging vnto magicke, yet will it not much misbe- come this place ; therefore I begin first with that. The Duke in the feast of Christ's Ascension, commeth to a place named Bucentaur, without the two Apostle-gates, situate at the entrance of the Gulfe, and casteth a rich ring into the sea j which is no argument of superstition or inchantment, but onely a symbole or emblem of domination and rule, which by this earnest the Senat of Venice makes a contract with the ocean. The ground and first beginning of this ceremonie came from Pope Alex the third, whom Otho the sonne of Fredericke iEnobarbus so persecuted, that he was forced to fly, and to shelter himselfe in Venice, in the Monasterie of Saint Charitie, Q56 where he liued for a time secretly and vnknowne. But, after notice being giuen to the Venetians what and who he was, they brought him thence with great honour and obseruance. He also found both their land and sea Forces ready for the seruice of him and the Church ; insomuch that in a great Nauall conflict Otho was by the Venetians taken prisoner, and presented as a vassal to the Pope. For which the Pope tooke a ring from his finger, and gave it to Sebastianus Zianus, General for the Fleet, speaking thus, By vertue of my authority, whilst thou keepest this ring, thou shalt be Lord and Husband of the ocean ; and annually thou and thy posterity on this day, in which thou hast obtained so glorious a victorie for the Church, shalt espouse the sea, that all men may know that the dominion of the sea is granted vnto thee, because thou hast so prosperously vndertooke the study, care, and defence of the Sea Apostolique. And this be a presage of thy benediction and thy happy successe in the future for ever. Thus Villamontinus sets it downe, Lib. i. Peregrinat, cap. 34. And Sabel. Dec. 1. lib. 7- out of whom the former Author extracted it." The desperate Aduenture of two Knights of Bohemia. " Niderius* telleth this story : In the borders of the king- dome of Bohemia lieth a valley, in which diuers knights to- gether was heard clattering of armour, and clamors of men, as if two armies had met in pitcht battel. Two knights that in- habited neere unto this prodigious place, agreed to arme them- selues, and discouer the secrets of this inuisible army. The night was appointed, and accomodated at all assayes, they rode to the place, where they might descry two battels ready ordered for present skirmish ; they could easily distinguish the colours and prauant liueries of euerie company : but drawing neere, * " Nidtr, lib. vllim. Formic,.' 257 the one (whose courage began to relent) told the other, that he had seene sufficient for his part, and thought it good not to daily with such prodigies, wherefore further than he was he would not go. The other called him Coward, and prickt on towards the armies ; from one of which an horseman came forth, fought with him, and cut off his head. At which sight the other fled, and told the news the next morning; A great confluence of people, searching for the body, found it in one place, the head in another, but neither could discern the foot- ing of horse or man, onely the print of birds' feet, and those in myrie places, &c." A strange History of a Melancholy Man. " By the Spirits called Lares, or Household Gods, many men haue been driuen into strange melancholies. Amongst others I will cite you one least common : A young man had a strong imagination that he was dead, and did not onely ab- staine from meat and drinke, but importuned his parents that he might be carried vnto his graue before his flesh was quite putrified. By the counsell of physitians he was wrapped in a winding sheet and laide vpon a beere, and so carried toward the church vpon men's shoulders. But by the way two or three pleasant fellowes, suborned to that purpose, meeting the herse, demanded aloud of them that followed, Whose body it was there coffined and carried to buriall ? They said it was such a young mans, and told them his name. Surely (replied one of them) the world is very well rid of him, for he was a man of a very bad and vitious life ; and his friends may reioyce, he had rather ended his days thus, than at the gallowes. Which the yong man hearing, and vexed to be so injured, rowsed himself vp vpon the beere, and told them, That they were wicked men to do him that wrong, which he neuer deserued : and told them, That if he were aliue, as hee was not, hee woujd teach « L 2'58 Chcm lo speak better of the dead. But they proceeding to de- praue him, and giue him much more disgraceful and contemp- tible language, he not able to endure it, leapt from the herse, and fell about their eares with such rage and fury that" he ceased not buffeting with them till quite wearied ; and by his violent agitation the humours of his body altered, he awakened as out of a trance, and being brought home and comforted with' wholesome dyet, he within few days recouered both his pristine health, strength, and understanding. Alasiores. " The Alastores are called by Origen, (Contra Celsum) Axazel, by Zoroaster, Carnifices, (or Butchers) and Alastares. No mischiefe is hid or concealed from them ; and these are neuer seem- but they portend some strange disaster. As in the time of the Emperour Justinian, such Spirits were seene openly in humane shape to intrude into the society of men : after which a most fearefull pestilence followed, and whosoeuer was touched by any of them most assuredly died. By which con- tagious pest, the great city Constantinople was almost vnpeo- pled : and as Paulus Diacon* witnesseth, the people saw an AngeJl in the dead of the night go along with them, compassing the city, and walking from street to street, and from dore to dore, and so many knocks as the Spectar (by the Angels com- mand) gaue at the doore of any house, so many persons of that family were vndoubtedly found dead in the next morning." An Alaster like an old Woman. " Cardanus reporteth, That there is an antient family in Parma, named Torrelli ; to whom an old seat or castle belongs, * " Pet, Diac, lib. 9. rerum Romanarum, et Egob. in Chronic. * 259 which for the space of ap. hundred yeres together was haunted with one of these Alastores, who so oft as any of the houshokl were to depart the world, would shew itselfe in a chimney of the great hall. A noble and illustrious lady of the same family reported, That a yong virgin lying dangerously sicke in the same house, the Spectar according to custome appeared : and when euery one expected hourely the death of the virgin, shee pre- sently beyond all hope recouered, and a seruant who was at that time sound and in health, fell sicke upon the sudden and •died." The Indian Magi. *' Gasper Spitellus writeth, that some Indians haue much familiaritie with these Spirits. For when they want rain, one .of their magic priests with a shrill voice makes an acclamation, That all the people shall assemble to such a mountain, hauing •first obserued a fast, which is, to abstaine from the eating of salt, pepper, or any thing that is boiled. That done, he lowdly calls vpon the stars, and with deuout orisons entreats of them, that they would afford them seasonable showres. Then they turn their eyes towards the loxver grounds, vpon their fields and houses, taking in their hands a bowle full of charmed li- queur, which they receiue from the hands of a young man of their most noble families ; which they haue no sooner drunke, but they lie entranced without sence or motion. After being come to themselues, they commix honey, water, and maiz together, and with them sprinkle the aire. Tl*e next day they chuse out one of the most eminent men of their nation, both for nobilitie and age, and lay him in a bed, with a soft tire vnder it, and when he begins to sweat, they wipe off the moisture, and put jn a bason, which they mingle with the bloud of a goose, and sprinkling it again into the aire, as if they meant it should touch the clouds, they then solicit the starres againe, That by the virtue of the old man's sweat, the bloud 260 of the goose, and the water before mixed, they may haue sea- sonable and temperat showres. Which if they haue, according to their desires, they glue great thanks to the starres and planets, and the priest from the people is rewarded with rich gifts and presents." A strange Tale of Spectars. " Cardanus, speaking of fiery Spectars, amongst many others relateth this story : A friend of mine (saith he) of approued faith and honesty, trauelling one night late, from Mediola to Gallerata, when the sky was full of clouds and the weather inclining to raine ; being within some foure miles of his journie's end, he saw a light, and heard the voice (as he thought) of certain cow-herds upon his left hand, and presently (a hedge only being interposed) he saw a fiery chariot couered with flames, and out of it he might heare a voice crying aloud, Cave, cave ; Beware, beware. Being much terrified with this strange pro- digie, he put spurres to his horse, and whether he galloped or rid softly, the chariot was still before him. He then betook him to his orisons and supplications vnto God. At length after the space of a full houre, hee came to a temple dedicate to the memorie of Saint Lawrence, standing iust without the gate, and there the chariot of fire, herdsmen and all, sunk into the earth, and was seen no more. Cardanus hauing disputed some- thing of the nature of this fire, addeth, That the Gallaterans suffered the same yeare not only a great plague, but diuers other afflictions and disasters." A prodigious Noise in the Aire, ■ " Hieronimus Mengius writeth, that a certaine Magition in a field adjacent to the tower or citadell of Bonnonia, shewed two famous generals, Johannes Bentivolus and Robertus San- severinus, a spectacle in the aire, in which was heard such a Q6\ noise of drummes, clangor of trumpets, clamor of men, neigh- ing of horses, and clashing of arms, that the spectators were afraid lest the heauen and the earth would haue met at the instant : but in a,ll the inuironing grounds, saue onely in that place, the aire was vntroubled." " Diodorus Siculus reporteth also, That in the Syrtes of Lybia, the Spirits of the aire are oftentimes visible, in the shape of diuers birds and beasts, some mouing, some without motion, some running, some flying, others in strange postures. But, which is most miraculous, sometimes they will come behinde men as they are trauelling, leap vp and sit vpon their shoulders ; who may feele them to be much colder than either snow or ice. u Thesaurus Linguae Romanes et Britannicce tarn accu- rate congestus, ut nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latine complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglice toties aucta Eliotce Biblio- theca : opera et industria Thomas Cooperi Magdale- nensis. " Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi possint excerpere, et quam rationem seculus author sit in voca- bulorum inter pretalione et dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur. u Accessit Dictionarium Historicum et Poeticum propria vocabula Virorum, Mulierum, Sect arum, Po- pulorum, XJrbium Montium, et cceterorum locorum com- plectens, et in his jucundissimas et omnium cogniiione dignissimas historias." Then comes a cut of Lord Leicester's crest, The Bear and ragged Staff, encircled by the Garter. £6'2 In Thesaurum Thomas Cooperi Magdalenensis hexastichon Richardi Stephani. " Vilescat rutila dives Pactohis arena, Hermus, et aurij'eri nolilis unda Tagi. Vilescant Crcesi gemmce, Midrsque talenla t Major apud Britones cruta gazapalet. Hoc Wainflete tuos ge7is Anglica dclet alnmno. Qui vigili nobis tanta lahore dedit. f< Impressum Londini, 1573." Fol. A Latjn dedication to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester. Latin advertisement to the studious Reader on the manner and order of the work. Instructions in English to those who have not the advice of a master. Commendatory Latin Verses by Alexander Nowell, Thomas Wyke of Lincoln, Thomas Valensof Lincoln's Inn, followed by three copies of Verses by Richard Stephens. A very thick Folio. ** Iter Boreale. Attempting som thing upon the Suc- cessful and Matchless March of the Lord General George Monch, from Scotland, to London, the last Winter , Sfc. " Veni, Vidi, Vict." " By a Rural Pen. London, printed on St. George's Day, being the 23d } ,of Aprils 1660." 4to. 263 Extracts. I. The day is broke ! Melpomene, be gone ; Hag of my foncy, let me now alone : Night-mare my soul no more j go take thy flight, Where traytors ghosts keep an eternal night j Flee to mount Caucasus, and bear thy part With the black fowl that tears Prometheus' heart For his bold sacriledge : go fetch the groans Of defunct tyrants ; with them croke thy tones ; Go see Alecto with her flaming whip, How she firks Nol, and makes old Bradshaw skip -: Go make thyself away. Thou shalt no more Choak up my standish with the blood and gore Of English tragedies : I now will chuse The merriest of the Nine to be my Muse. And (come what will) I'll scribble once again \ The brutish sword hath cut the nobler vein Of racy poetry. Our small-drink-times Must be contented, and take up with rhymes. They're sorry toys from a poor Levite's pack, Whose living and assessments drink no sack. The subject will excuse the verse (I trow) The ven' son's fat, although the crust be dow. II. I he who whileom sate and sung in cage My King's and Countrie's mines, by the rage Of a rebellious rout : who weeping saw Three goodly kingdoms (drunk with fury) draw And sheath their swords (like three enraged brothel In one anothers sides, ripping their mother's Belly, and tearing out her bleeding heart ; Then jealous that their Father fain would part Their bloody fray, and let them fight no more, Fell foul on him, and slew him at his dore. 264 1 that have only dar'd to whisper verses, And drop a tear (by stealth) on loyal herses, I that enraged at the Times and Rump, Had gnaw'd my goose-quill to the very stump, And flung that in the fire, no more to write But to sit down poor Britain's Heraclyte; Now sing the tryumphs of the Men of War, The glorious rayes of the bright Northern Star, Created for the nonce by heaven, to bring The Wisemen of three nations to their King : Monck ! the great Monck ! That syllable out-shines Plantagenet's bright name, or Constantine's. 'Twas at his rising that our day begun, Be he the Morning Star to Charles our Sun : He took rebellion rampant, by the throat, And made the canting Quaker change his note 5 His hand it was that wrote (we saw no more) Exit Tyrannus over Lambert's dore : Like to some subtile lightning, so his words Dissolved in their scabbards Rebels swords : He with success the soveraign skill hath found, To dress the weapon, and so heal the wound. George and his boyes (as spirits do, they say) Only by walking scare our foes away. III. Old Hohfernes was no sooner laid, Before the Idol's funeral pomp was paid, (Nor shall a penny ere be paid for mee j Let fools that trusted, his true mourners be.) Richard the fourth, just peeping out of squire, No fault so much as, Th' old one was his sire j For men believ'd, — though all went in his name, He'd be but tennant, till the landlord came ; c 265 When on a sudden (all amaz'd) we found The seven years Babel tumbled to the ground 5 And he, poor heart, (thanks to his cunning kin) Was soon in Querpo honest Dick agen. Exit Protector. — What comes next ? I trow, Let the State-Huntsmen beat again, — So-ho Cries Lambert, Master of the Hounds, — Here sits That lusty Puss, The Good Old Cause, — whose wits Shew'd Oliver such sport ; That, that (cries Fane) Let's put her up, and run her once again : She'l lead our Doggs and Followers up and down, Whilst we match Families, and take the Crown. Enter th' old Members ; 'twas the moneth of May These Maggots in the Rump began to play. Wallingford Anglers (though they stunk) yet thought, They would make baits, by which fish might be caught And so it prov'd ; they soon by taxes made More money than the Holland fishing trade. IV. Now broke in ^Egypt's plagues (all in a day) And one more worse than theirs ; — we must not pray To be deliver'd : — their scabb'd folks were free To scratch where it did itch ; — so might not we. That meteor Cromwell, though he scar'd, gave light j But we were now cover'd with horrid night ■ Our magistracy was (like Moses' rod) Turn'd to a serpent by the angry God. Poor citizens, when trading would not do, Made brick without straw, and were basted too : Struck with the botch of taxes and excise ; Servants (our very dust) were turn'd to lice ; It was but turning souldiers, and they need Not work at all, but on their masters feed. 2 M 266 Strange Catterpillars ate our pleasant things ; And Froggs croakt in the chambers of our kings. Black bloody veins did in the Rump prevail, Like the Philistins emrods in the tayle. Lightning, hail, fire, and thunder iEgypt had, And England guns, shot, powder, (that's as bad.) And that Sea-Monster Luivson (if withstood) Threatned to turn our rivers into blood. And (plague of all these plagues) all these plagues fell Not on an ./Egypt, but our Israel. Sick (as her heart can hold) the nation lies, Filling each corner with her hideous cries ; Sometimes rage (like a burning fever) heats, Anon despair brings cold and clammy sweats j She cannot sleep, or if she doth she dreams Of rapes, thefts, burnings, blood, and direful theams ; Tosses from side to side, then by and by Her feet are laid there where the head did lie ; None can come to her but bold Empiricks, Who never meant to cure her, but try tricks : Those very doctors who should give her ease, (God help the patient) was her worst disease. Th' Italian mountebank Fane tells her sure, Jesuite's powder will effect the cure : If grief but makes her swell, Martin and Nevil Conclude it is a spice of the King's Evil. Bleed her again, another cries j — And Scot Saith he could cure her, if 'twas— you know what : But giddy Han ington a whimsey found, To make her head (like to his brains) run round. Her old and wise Physitians, who before Had well nigh cur'd her, came again to th' dore, But were kept out, — which made her cry the more, 267 Help, help, (dear children) Oh ! some pity take On her who. bore you ! Help for mercy sake ! Oh heart ! oh head ! oh back ! oh bones ! I feel They've poyson'd me with giving too much steel : Oh give me that for which I long and cry ! Something that's sovereign, or else I die. VI. Kind Cheshire heard ; — and like some son that stood Upon the bank, straight jump'd into the flood, Flings out his arms, and strikes some strokes to swim; Booth ventur'd first, and Middleton with him, Stout Mackworth, Egerton, and thousands more, Threw themselves in, and left the safer shore j Massy (that famous diver) and bold Brown Forsook his wharfe, resolving all to drown, Or save a sinking kingdom : But, oh sad ! Fearing to lose her prey, the sea grew mad, Rais'd all her billowes, and resolv'd her waves Should quickly be the bold adventurers' graves. Out marches Lambert, like an eastern wind, And with him all the mighty waters joyn'd. The loyal swimmers bore up heads and breasts, Scorning to think of life or interests ; They ply'd their arms and thighs, but all in vain j The furious main beat them to shore again ; At which the floating island (looking back, Spying her loyal lovers gone to wrack) Shriekt lowder then before, — and thus she crys, " Can you, ye angry heavens, and frowning skies., " Thus countenance rebellious mutineers, " Who if they durst, would be about your ears? " That I should sink, with justice may accord, " Who let my Pilot be thrown over-board ; 268 " Yet 'twas not I (ye righteous heavens do know) " The souldiers in me needs would have it so : " And those who conjur'd up these storms themselves, " And first engag'd me 'mongst these rocks and shelves, ' ' Guilty of all my woes, erect this weather, " Fearing to come to land, and chusing rather " To sink me with themselves. — O ! Cease to frown, " In tears (just heavens !) behold ! my self I drown : ** Let not these proud waves do't : prevent my fears, ** And let them fall together by the eares,." VII. Heaven heard, and struck th' insulting army mad ; Drunk with their Cheshire tryumphs, straight they had New lights appear'd j and new resolves they take, A single person once again to make. Who shall be he ? Oh ! Lambert, without rub, The fittest Divel to be Belzebub. He, the fierce fiend, cast out o' the house before, Return'd, and threw the house now out of dore : A legion then he rais'd of armed sprights, Elves, goblins, fairies, quakers, and new lights, To be his under-Divels ; with this rest His soul and body (Church and State) possest : Who though they fill'd all countries, towns and rooms, Yet (like that fiend that did frequent the tombs) Churches, and sacred grounds they haunted most, No chappel was at ease from some such ghost. The priests ordain'd to exorcise those elves, Were voted Divels, and cast out themselves : Bible, or Alchoran, all's one to them, Religion serves but for a stratagem . The holy charms these adders did not heed. Churches themselves did sanctuary need, 269 VIII. The Churche's patrimony and rich store, Alas ! was swallowed many years before : Bishops and Deans we fed upon before, They were the ribs and surloyns of the whore : Not let her legs (the Priests) go to the pot, (They have the pope's eye in them) spare them not : We have fat benefices yet to eat, (Bell, and our Dragon- Army must have meat;) Let us devour her limb-meal, great and small, Tythe calves, geese, pigs, the pettitoes and all : A vicaridge in sippets, though it be But small, will serve a squeamish sectary. Though Universities we cann't endure, There's no false Latine in their lands (be sure.) Give Oxford to our horse, and let the foot Take Cambridge for their booty, and fall to't. Christ-Church I'll have, (cries Fane ;) Dislrow swops At Trinity ; King's is for Berry's chops ; Kelsey, takes Corpus Christi ; All-Souls, Packer; Carve Creed, St. John's; New Colledge, leave to Hacker-, Fleetwood cries, Weeping Maudlin shall be mine, Her tears I'll drink insteed of Muscadine : The smaller halls and houses scarce are big Enough to make one dish for Hesilrig ; We must be sure to stop his mouth, though wide, Else all our fat will be i' the fire (they cry'd :) And when we have done these, we'll not be quiet, Lordships, and landlords rents shall be our diet. Thus talk'd this jolly crew, but still mine host, Lambert, resolves that he will rule the rost."* * The Author of this poem was Dr. Rt. Wild, Rector of Aynoe, in Northamptonshire. He died 16"9. The Extracts here given contain about half the poem, which was reprinted with other poems, 1068 and 1670, Svo. Wood' 's Allu ii. F. 21. 270 ELEVEN TRACTS RELATING TO VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 1. " True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia, with a confutation of such scandalous Reports as have tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterpriser. Published by the advice and direc- tion of the Colony of Virginia. London, printed for William Barret, and are to be sold at the black Beare, in PauVs Churchy arde, 1610," Ato. pp. 68. 2. " The New Life of Virginia : Declaring the former successe and present estate of that plantation, being the second part of Nova Britannia. Published by the authoritie of his Maieslies Counsell of Virginia. London, printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, dwelling at the signe of the Swan, in PauVs Churchyarde, 1612," Mo. Sig. G iv. Dedicated to Sir Thomas Smith of London, Governor of the Muscovia and East India Com- panies. 3. " Virginia impartially examined, and left to public view, to be considered by all judicious and honest men, Sfc. By William Bullock, Gent. London^ printed and sold by John Hammond, over against St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, 1649," Mo. pp. 66. Dedicated to the Earl of Arundell, and to Lord Baltimore, with an address to his much esteemed friends, Mr. Samuel Vassell, capt. Rd. Cranley, capt. N. Davis, capt. Benjamin Cranley, capt. Will. Ryder, capt. Peter Andrews, and the rest 271 of the Gentlemen Adventurers to the English Plantations beyond sea9. 4. " Virginia: being a full and true Relation of the present state of the Plantation , fyc. London, printed for Richard Wodenoth, at the Star under Peter's Church in Cornhill, 1649, v 4/o. pp. 19. 5. M Virgo Triumphans : or Virginia in general, but the South Par t thereof in particular, S?c. Humbly pre- sented to the Parliament, fyc. By Edward Williams^ Gent. .London, printed by Tho. Harper for John Stephenson, at the Sun on Ludgate Hill. 1650," 4 to. pp. 47. 6. « 2d. Edition, same year, with the addition of the Discovery of Silkworms, by E. W. Gent, making an addition of five pages." 7. " Virginia's Discovery of the Silk Worms, SfC Lon- don, by the same for the same." Dedication signed — " Ed. Williams." l6o0, 4to. pp. 78. At the end is a wood-cut, and a description of the Saw-Mill. 8. " Virginia and Maryland, or the Lord Baltimore's printed case uncased and answered, fyc. London, to be sold at the Crown, in Pope's Head Alley, 1655," ito. pp. 52. 9. a Public Good without Private Interests, or a com- pendious remonstrance of the sad state and condition of Virginia, Sfc. London, printed for Henry Marsh, 1657," 4to. pp. 27. 272 This appears by the Declaration to have been written by Lionel Gatford, B. D. Annexed is the Charter of Maryland, consisting of 23 pages. 10. >»>>» >»><«<■«<<<««• The miscellany, before alluded to, was entitled Crompton's " Fardle of Fancies, stewed in four ounces of oyl of Epigrams," a small volume, published in 1657, and existing perhaps in a single copy, formerly in the collection of Major Pearson. 2 o 282 According to the information of Winstanley, who lived not long behind, Crompton went over to Ireland, after the publication of his poems, and continued there for sometime; but whether his death took place in that kingdom, the biographer was not certain. GEORGE WITHERS JUVENILIA. 1. " Abuses stript and whipt, or Satiricall Essayes. By George Wither. Divided into two Books. Re- viewed and enlarged. IToAAaxi roi %i jxwfoj av>j£> xowaxajoijov nits. " Despise not this, what ere I seem in show ; A fool to purpose speakes sometimes you know. ** London: printed by Richard Badger, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Black Bear, in Paul's Church Yard, 1633." 12°. 2.