THE
LIFE
OF
JOHN
WILLIAMS
,
Ld
KEEPER
of
the
GREAT
SEAL
,
Bp.
of
LINCOLN
,
and
ABp
.
of
YORK
.
In
the
Reigns
of
King
JAMES
,
and
King
CHARLES
the
First
.
WHEREIN
Are
related
several
Remarkable
Occurences
of
those
Times
both
in
Church
and
State
.
With
an
APPENDIX
,
Giving
a
just
ACCOUNT
of
his
Benefactions
to
St.
John's
College
in
Cambridge
.
By
AMBR.
PHILIPS
,
Fellow
of
the
same
College
.
CAMBRIDGE
,
Printed
at
the
University
Press
,
for
A.
Bosvile
,
at
the
Sign
of
the
Dial
over
against
St.
Dunstan's
Church
in
Fleet-street
.
1700.
THE
PREFACE
.
TO
save
my
READER
the
needless
trouble
of
Criticism
,
I
here
advertise
him
once
for
all
,
that
he
shall
be
mistaken
if
he
takes
me
for
an
Author
in
this
Book
:
I
am
at
best
but
a
Collector
,
and
a
Transcriber
;
and
therefore
I
will
not
be
answerable
for
any
Matter
of
Fact
related
in
the
following
Papers
,
since
I
have
refer'd
him
all
along
to
the
Authors
themselves
,
which
I
have
quoted
sometimes
for
my
Dates
of
Time
,
sometimes
for
a
farther
Illustration
of
some
Passages
,
which
for
Brevity's
sake
I
have
but
just
touch'd
at
,
sometimes
for
parallel
Places
,
to
confirm
what
Bishop
Hacket
has
affirm'd
,
and
sometimes
for
what
contradicts
his
Account
of
Things
,
that
so
the
Reader
may
hear
both
sides
,
and
then
determine
as
he
pleases
.
And
I
would
not
have
it
thought
that
I
have
soil'd
the
Margin
of
my
Book
(
Slovenliness
being
accounted
by
some
as
the
Badge
of
Learning
)
to
shew
my
Reading
;
for
I
did
it
merely
because
we
live
in
an
Age
that
will
take
nothing
upon
Trust
,
and
wherein
nothing
less
than
Seeing
is
Believing
.
And
since
it
is
the
common
Cheat
of
Writers
to
declare
themselves
unprejudic'd
,
on
purpose
to
betray
their
Readers
into
security
,
I
had
no
other
way
left
me
to
shew
my
Integrity
.
For
I
doubt
not
,
if
any
will
be
at
the
same
trouble
that
I
have
been
at
,
of
comparing
the
several
Historians
,
Letters
and
Pamphlets
of
those
Times
together
,
but
that
their
Judgment
of
Bishop
Williams
will
in
the
main
agree
with
the
Account
I
have
given
of
him
.
And
they
will
find
Reason
enough
to
believe
,
that
neither
he
nor
Bishop
Laud
are
the
Monsters
,
that
Partiality
and
Prejudice
,
and
sometimes
Ignorance
have
made
them
:
and
that
whatever
Blemishes
are
interwoven
with
their
Glorious
Actions
(
as
spots
in
the
Sun
)
they
have
sufficient
Beauties
to
compensate
for
them
,
and
to
give
them
both
the
lasting
Repute
of
Great
and
Good
Men.
Both
whose
Worth
I
take
to
be
so
Self-sufficient
,
that
there
is
no
need
of
pulling
down
one
to
set
up
the
other
.
And
I
am
apt
to
believe
(
adding
this
Hint
to
what
I
have
said
upon
this
Point
in
the
Book
it self
)
that
if
the
truth
were
known
,
Buckingham
might
be
accountable
in
a
great
measure
for
the
Differences
betwixt
Laud
and
Williams
;
who
in
all
probability
when
he
was
disgusted
with
the
Lord
Keeper
,
might
engage
Laud
against
him
for
the
speedier
and
more
effectual
Accomplishment
of
his
own
Revenge
in
the
Ruin
of
Williams
.
Bishop
Hacket
is
the
great
Store-House
whence
I
have
taken
my
Materials
for
the
following
LIFE
;
and
because
there
may
be
a
great
many
who
may
not
have
Leisure
upon
their
Hands
to
read
him
,
I
have
inserted
all
the
Secret
History
that
is
remarkable
in
him
into
my
Work
,
or
at
least
I
have
given
short
Hints
of
it
ev'ry
where
,
and
directed
those
that
have
a
mind
for
any
further
Information
to
the
respective
places
in
him
,
where
they
may
find
it
.
His
Lordship
's
commendable
Gratitude
to
his
Great
Patron
Williams
,
has
made
him
so
very
studious
of
Embellishments
for
his
Life
,
that
I
can
liken
the
Lord
Keeper
,
as
represented
by
him
,
to
nothing
so
properly
as
to
the
Statue
of
some
Ancient
Hero
,
so
beset
with
Trophies
and
Ornaments
,
that
the
Comliness
and
just
Proportion
of
the
Image
underneath
is
scarce
discernable
at
first
sight
.
And
Bishop
Hacket
in
his
Book
has
set
out
the
Lord
Keeper
,
just
for
all
the
World
,
as
he
was
when
Living
,
that
is
,
surrounded
with
a
multitude
of
Learning
,
and
all
the
costly
variety
of
Science
.
My
First
Part
,
and
a
great
deal
of
my
Second
,
has
nothing
in
it
that
is
(
properly
speaking
)
Historical
,
but
falls
rather
wholly
under
the
Notion
of
Biography
.
For
which
reason
,
having
but
little
Matter
to
work
upon
,
I
was
forc'd
to
make
the
best
shift
I
could
to
keep
my
Reader
a-doing
with
occasional
Reflections
of
such
sort
as
the
Actions
themselves
did
seem
to
suggest
.
And
I
desire
my
Reader
would
pardon
me
,
if
I
have
presented
him
with
a
Miscellany
of
Style
,
and
now
and
then
to
humour
my self
,
have
been
guilty
of
some
little
Sallies
and
Excursions
,
to
divert
the
Fatigue
of
Collection
.
NOTE
,
THE
Figures
in
the
Margin
of
the
Book
included
in
Parentheses
thus
(
5
,
)
refer
to
the
Pages
in
the
First
Part
of
Bishop
Hacket's
Book
;
and
those
in
Crotchets
thus
[
5
,
]
to
the
Pages
in
the
Second
Part.
ERRATA
.
PAge
69
Line
21.
read
arbitratu
.
Page
74
Line
11
,
read
bear
.
Pag
,
182
Line
19
,
read
resigne
.
From
his
Birth
,
till
such
Time
as
he
was
settled
in
Chancellor
Egerton's
Family
.
PART
I.
IN
this
LIFE
,
which
I
have
undertaken
,
But
,
to
begin
:
Edmond
Williams
Esq
Wm
Williams
Esq
of
Wm
Griffith
Kt
,
of
Penrhyn
.
Now
this
Edmond
took
to
Wife
Mary
the
Daughter
of
Owen
Wyn
Esq
and
by
her
had
Five
Sons
and
Two
Daughters
.
Of
the
Male
Children
,
John
(
whose
Life
we
are
writing
)
was
the
Youngest
,
born
about
or
upon
the
25th
of
March
1582
,
at
Aber-Conway
,
a
Sea-Town
in
Caernarvanshire
.
Williams
of
Coghwillanne
(
his
Three
Saxons
Heads
(
Tree
Pen
Saix
in
Welsh
)
constantly
without
any
the
least
alteration
from
Ednevet
Vychan
,
Lord
Steward
of
Wales
,
in
the
25th
Year
of
Hen.
III.
His
Descent
,
his
Parentage
,
and
all
the
Trappings
of
Birth
I
am
the
more
particular
in
,
not
as
tho'
he
stood
in
need
of
such
foreign
Embellishments
to
recommend
him
;
but
because
Sir
A.
W.
and
some
others
,
pitifully
,
as
well
His
Grand-mother
,
the
Lady
Griffith
,
John
Williams
,
the
Captain
of
all
the
School
.
The
Dr.
glad
to
find
him
come
on
so
Saint
John's
College
,
under
the
Tuition
of
One
Mr.
Owen
Gwin
,
a
Welsh
Gentleman
,
and
Fellow
of
that
House
,
1598.
And
by
the
College
Register
,
I
find
that
in
the
same
Year
he
was
admitted
into
the
Number
of
the
Scholars
of
the
House
on
the
5th
of
November
.
At
Cambridge
his
Countrymen
receiv'd
There
are
few
of
our
Welsh
Youth
His
Natural
Parts
were
far
above
This
was
the
large
Fund
he
had
to
History
of
Great
Britain
;
for
he
says
,
That
he
was
assured
,
that
the
Bishop
was
born
an
Eunuch
;
so
that
Dr.
Hacket's
Story
before-mention'd
deserves
more
credit
,
who
as
being
Domestick
Chaplain
to
Bishop
Williams
,
might
have
a
truer
Information
:
Besides
I
find
an
Account
of
it
,
agreeable
to
this
,
in
a
Pamphlet
call'd
The
Observator
Observ'd
,
wrote
by
H.
Lestrange
,
in
vindication
of
his
History
of
Charles
the
First
.
But
take
it
either
way
,
and
it
is
sufficient
to
clear
him
and
the
Countess
of
Buckingham
from
the
aspersions
of
some
Historians
,
and
to
manifest
the
malice
of
Sir
A.
W.
the
But
his
Sobriety
,
Temperance
and
One
Instance
I
have
to
produce
,
Edward
Lively
(
Hebrew
Professor
,
and
a
Worthy
Man
)
was
by
hard
hap
reduc'd
to
Circumstances
so
very
narrow
,
that
to
support
himself
and
his
Family
,
he
was
put
to
the
sad
shift
of
selling
a
part
of
his
Library
.
When
Young
Williams
heard
of
this
,
he
scrap'd
hard
to
get
him
three
pounds
together
,
and
when
he
had
compass'd
it
,
he
went
to
Mr.
Lively
,
and
made
him
a
courteous
Offer
of
it
.
His
necessities
pleaded
so
hard
,
that
he
accepted
of
it
;
and
as
the
only
return
of
Gratitude
he
could
make
,
he
was
not
ashamed
to
tell
it
abroad
,
to
bring
his
pretty
Benefactor
into
Repute
:
and
much
was
it
talk'd
of
to
his
credit
,
that
so
little
a
Hand
should
open
it self
,
when
large
ones
were
shut
;
when
yet
if
rightly
considered
,
it
is
but
natural
:
for
the
longer
we
live
,
the
stiffer
are
our
Joynts
,
our
Muscles
stronger
,
our
Sinews
harder
,
and
we
ev'ry
way
fitter
for
Griping
.
But
to
reflect
upon
our
Story
;
it
would
be
a
nice
point
to
determine
,
whether
of
the
two
parties
was
the
most
oblig'd
;
so
free
and
unexpected
was
the
Bounty
of
the
One
,
so
condescending
and
so
grateful
were
the
acknowledgments
of
the
other
.
But
if
we
compute
our
Obligations
from
the
Pleasure
and
Satisfaction
we
receive
from
others
,
I
doubt
not
but
Williams
was
the
party
indebted
.
That
so
candid
a
Temper
should
Church
of
England
:
and
others
took
a
distaste
to
him
,
because
he
was
wont
to
frequent
the
Reverend
Mr.
Perkins's
Congregation
:
What
Reason
they
had
for
it
,
I
know
not
,
the
Character
of
Mr.
Perkins
being
At
the
close
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
St.
John's
.
Reign
,
our
Student
commenc'd
Batchelour
of
Arts
,
and
within
a
few
Days
after
on
the
14th
of
April
1603.
he
was
elected
into
a
Foundation
Fellowship
,
for
the
Diocese
of
Bangor
,
as
appears
from
the
College
Register
.
Yet
for
all
his
Merits
,
he
obtain'd
not
In
the
Year
1605.
He
went
out
Our
Student
continues
still
hot
in
School-Men
,
Church
History
,
and
the
Fathers
all
together
.
But
how
is
it
possible
to
methodize
such
a
variety
of
Studies
?
Why
,
every
Man
has
,
or
ought
to
have
such
a
Method
,
as
best
suits
his
Capacity
;
and
it
seems
he
had
his
.
My
Manner
was
(
says
he
)
to
allot
one
Month
to
each
of
these
Employments
;
and
Variety
was
almost
as
much
refreshing
as
cessation
from
Labour
.
This
Method
I
was
constant
to
for
13
Years
,
until
I
was
called
off
by
my
Secular
Employments
;
and
when
I
was
discharg'd
from
them
,
I
sell
again
to
run
round
in
my
former
Circle
.
Over
and
above
,
he
was
an
Exact
Philosopher
,
especially
in
Metaphysicks
,
the
Advantage
and
Use
of
which
he
defended
publickly
in
the
Schools
when
he
was
Proctor
for
the
University
.
His
Application
Ignorance
is
not
so
distasteful
as
I
have
given
you
a
short
Scheme
of
Wales
;
Cardigan
,
to
the
best
of
Bishop
Hacket's
Remembrance
.
Another
time
the
Master
and
Fellows
,
Thus
far
have
we
brought
our
Happy
and
wise
too
is
the
Man
,
that
St.
Edmund's-Bury
,
in
the
confines
of
Norfolk
;
Fakenham
perhaps
,
or
very
near
to
it
.
A
poor
Bus'ness
tho'
it
was
,
that
would
hardly
defray
the
cost
of
his
Journeys
,
yet
it
took
not
off
his
Edge
,
for
it
answered
the
great
Ends
for
which
he
entred
upon
it
;
to
teach
the
Simple
,
to
attain
to
a
readiness
in
Preaching
,
and
to
be
acquainted
with
Compassion
(
as
he
us'd
to
say
)
towards
the
hard
Condition
which
his
poor
Brethren
did
undergo
,
that
had
scarce
enough
to
feed
and
keep
them
warm
,
for
all
their
Labour
.
It
seems
he
had
a
Liking
for
the
People
;
for
in
his
highest
Honour
,
I
heard
him
(
says
Bishop
Hacket
)
treating
with
Sir
Lionel
Talmach
,
to
imploy
an
hundred
pound
for
him
,
to
buy
Land
for
the
Relief
of
the
Poor
of
that
Village
for
ever
.
In
a
poor
Countrey
Vicaridge
he
sounding
Brass
,
or
a
tinkling
Cymbal
.
But
at
St.
Mary's
in
Cambridge
,
where
he
had
a
Learned
Auditory
,
our
Preacher
shew'd
his
great
Skill
Anno
1610
,
in
a
Discourse
upon
Luc.
16
,
22.
And
The
Fame
of
our
accomplish'd
Send
for
him
,
and
let
me
have
him
.
This
was
at
Midsummer
,
in
the
Year
1611.
But
when
he
came
to
London
to
wait
upon
his
Lordship
,
after
great
and
humble
Acknowledgments
of
the
Honour
done
him
,
he
intreated
,
that
he
might
have
his
Lordship's
Consent
,
to
continue
one
whole
Year
,
or
the
greatest
part
of
it
,
at
Cambridge
;
because
he
was
at
Michaelmas
following
to
be
Proctor
for
the
University
,
a
Place
of
great
Trust
and
Credit
,
and
some
Profit
.
At
this
the
Chancellor
asks
him
,
if
his
place
might
not
be
supply'd
by
a
Deputy
?
My
Lord
(
replys
the
Chaplain
)
And
he
must
be
a
hardy
fellow
,
that
dares
,
since
every
Man
at
long
Run
,
is
like
to
answer
for
himself
.
Who
could
refuse
so
fair
a
Plea
?
So
he
returns
to
Cambridge
,
where
I
must
shew
him
in
his
Honour
of
Proctorship
,
before
I
proceed
any
farther
with
him
.
His
Reply
to
the
Chancellor
shews
Next
to
a
conscientious
discharge
Julius
Pacius
,
Goclenius
,
The
next
Passage
is
of
another
stamp
,
That
he
was
not
worthy
the
Honour
they
design'd
him
;
as
who
should
say
in
plain
English
,
I
scorn
your
Proffer
.
Upon
this
,
the
Heads
Proctor
Williams
(
who
tho'
he
was
but
the
Junior
Proctor
,
yet
was
imploy'd
)
to
present
himself
with
their
Letters
before
the
King
,
now
in
the
Height
of
his
Displeasure
.
So
he
came
to
the
Court
at
Greenwich
,
and
falling
upon
his
Knees
before
his
Majesty
,
the
King
,
with
no
pleas'd
Countenance
,
demanded
what
his
Bus'ness
was
.
Sir
(
says
he
)
My self
and
They
who
sent
me
,
crave
Justice
of
your
Majesty
,
in
behalf
of
your
University
of
Cambridge
,
which
suffers
under
your
Displeasure
,
in
that
sort
as
I
believe
never
any
of
your
Subjects
did
before
;
that
Nineteen
Parts
of
a
Great
Incorporation
should
be
condemn'd
for
the
Frowardness
(
and
that
unpreventable
by
all
the
Power
we
had
)
of
the
Twentieth
part
,
and
they
the
meanest
of
us
all
.
We
beseech
you
,
Gracious
Sovereign
,
to
name
a
Chancellor
to
preside
over
us
,
or
suffer
us
to
come
to
your
Majesty
upon
all
Occasions
,
as
unto
our
Chancellor
;
not
made
so
by
the
Suffrage
of
poor
Scholars
(
you
are
far
above
that
)
but
in
the
Sublime
Title
of
your
Kingly
Office
,
by
which
you
are
oblig'd
to
protect
all
your
People
that
are
unprotected
.
The
Speech
That
they
should
forthwith
call
a
Congregation
,
and
resume
an
Election
for
a
new
Chancellor
,
and
that
his
Majesty
would
constrain
him
to
hold
it
,
whoever
it
were
,
that
the
Congregation
agreed
upon
.
Still
the
Heads
continued
in
a
Doubt
what
to
do
,
because
the
King
was
not
more
particular
:
And
here
it
far'd
with
Mr.
Williams
as
it
usually
does
with
all
that
are
imploy'd
upon
any
Bus'ness
;
for
they
blam'd
him
for
not
sounding
the
matter
to
the
Bottom
.
But
he
,
whose
That
whomsoever
we
choose
,
the
King
will
constrain
him
to
hold
it
.
This
Intricacy
so
happily
unfolded
,
the
Lord
Privy-Seal
was
chosen
.
And
the
King
confess'd
they
had
nick'd
his
secret
Meaning
:
yet
not
They
,
but
Mr.
Proctor
;
which
deservedly
gain'd
him
a
deal
of
Credit
.
There
is
one
thing
more
which
happen'd
John's
College
dying
,
Dr.
Morton
(
then
Dean
of
Windsor
,
and
afterward
Bishop
of
Durham
)
and
Mr.
Gwin
(
one
of
the
Senior
Fellows
)
put
in
for
the
Mastership
.
Now
Dr.
Morton
was
a
Man
incomparable
every
way
,
and
not
only
beyond
Mr.
Gwin
,
but
almost
all
of
his
Time
,
for
Piety
and
Learning
.
But
for
all
this
,
his
Interest
amongst
the
Fellows
(
who
all
when
they
are
Masters
of
Arts
by
Statute
have
a
Vote
in
the
Election
of
a
Master
)
was
but
small
in
comparison
to
Mr.
Gwin's
;
and
so
much
the
less
considerably
,
because
Mr.
Williams
appear'd
against
him
.
And
as
he
was
courting
his
Friends
for
Mr.
Gwin
,
amongst
others
,
he
made
suit
to
one
Mr.
Senhouse
(
afterward
Bishop
of
Carlisle
)
who
gave
him
this
civil
Denial
:
Sir
,
if
you
desire
my
Voice
to
confer
the
Mastership
upon
your self
,
I
will
not
deny
you
.
I
know
you
,
tho'
a
young
Man
,
right
worthy
of
it
;
but
your
Tutor
shall
never
have
my
Suffrage
,
while
I
can
say
No.
But
yet
Mr.
Williams
Now
the
Commencement
drew
on
.
A
Splendid
Commencement
at
Cambr.
And
the
Senior
Proctor
either
never
having
any
polite
Learning
,
or
having
outgrown
what
he
had
;
the
Junior
was
pitch'd
upon
to
be
the
Father
of
the
Act
,
as
we
call
it
.
This
Commencement
(
says
Bishop
Hacket
)
was
as
gay
and
full
of
Pomp
,
by
the
great
Concourse
of
Nobles
and
Gentlemen
,
as
ever
I
saw
;
most
part
of
which
the
Acquaintance
and
Fame
of
the
Proctor
drew
thither
.
All
these
he
had
the
Honour
(
as
is
usual
for
the
Proctor
)
So
now
the
Year
,
and
the
Bus'ness
Theological
Questions
.
Peccata
semel
remissa
nunquam
redeunt
:
2.
Qui
sacros
Ordines
susceperunt
,
famulari
possunt
Magnatibus
ut
fructus
Ecclesiasticos
percipiant
.
In
responding
to
which
(
in
a
manner
extempore
)
he
shew'd
at
once
the
Soundness
of
his
Judgment
,
and
the
vast
Compass
of
his
Learning
.
But
in
the
Opponent's
Place
,
upon
the
Day
appointed
,
on
Mar.
13.
1612.
he
acquitted
himself
manfully
,
to
the
great
Satisfaction
of
the
Noble
Assembly
,
and
the
very
great
Honour
of
the
University
.
This
done
,
he
retired
to
his
Home
;
for
so
The
End
of
the
First
Part.
From
the
Time
he
settled
in
Chancellor
Egerton's
Family
,
till
the
End
of
King
James's
Reign
.
PART
II.
THE
former
Part
has
shew'd
you
Lord
's
Doing
)
and
how
he
behav'd
himself
in
them
after
.
And
that
we
may
not
confound
Characters
,
I
shall
first
give
you
an
Account
of
him
as
a
Statesman
,
and
as
concerned
in
Civil
Affairs
during
his
Prosperity
,
omitting
for
the
present
all
that
might
belong
to
him
as
a
Clergy
Man
.
Now
or
never
was
his
time
to
look
Bills
upon
sight
are
never
drawn
(
at
least
to
any
purpose
)
but
upon
the
ablest
Men.
But
what
recommended
him
more
than
all
this
was
,
that
he
understood
the
References
and
Petitions
,
that
were
sent
to
his
Lord
from
Oxford
,
better
then
all
his
Servants
,
being
newly
come
from
Cambridge
:
And
his
Opinion
was
so
constantly
taken
in
all
those
Complaints
,
that
Dr.
King
(
the
Bishop
of
London
)
would
sometimes
pleasantly
call
him
the
Chancellor
of
Oxford
.
To
this
,
he
wars
stor'd
with
Friends
in
the
Courts
of
the
King
and
Prince
,
from
whom
he
gather'd
Intelligence
worth
his
Master's
hearing
;
no
blind
Rumours
,
but
Clouds
,
that
at
first
rising
were
scarce
so
big
as
an
Hand
,
yet
portending
mighty
Tempests
as
they
fell
.
Lastly
,
to
make
him
every
way
acceptable
to
his
Lord
,
he
had
pick'd
up
some
Gleanings
(
in
his
own
modest
words
)
in
the
Knowledge
of
the
Common-Laws
of
the
Realm
.
In
this
the
Chancellor
And
now
he
was
so
far
in
his
Lord's
Favour
,
that
he
was
able
by
his
Interest
to
procure
several
Livings
that
fell
into
the
Chancellor's
Presentation
,
for
such
as
he
knew
to
be
able
and
deserving
Scholars
;
so
early
did
he
patronize
Merit
.
And
he
gave
farther
Evidences
yet
of
his
publick
Spirit
,
when
swarms
of
Scholars
came
about
him
,
such
as
were
harass'd
with
tedious
and
chargeable
Law-Suits
.
If
their
Cause
were
good
,
or
if
it
had
a
Flaw
in
it
,
he
would
point
it
out
;
would
shew
them
where
lay
the
Strength
,
and
where
the
Weakness
;
would
commend
them
to
faithful
Attorneys
and
able
Counsel
,
work
the
Officers
to
an
Abatement
of
Fees
,
and
supply
them
with
Money
that
wanted
it
.
Especially
if
the
Cause
concern'd
the
Title
of
their
Living
,
or
the
payment
of
their
Tithes
,
he
would
sweat
and
bestir
himself
for
his
poor
Brethren
to
the
utmost
of
his
Vigour
.
So
that
under
his
Lord
and
Master
,
he
was
a
zealous
and
successful
Abettor
of
the
Rights
of
the
Clergy
in
general
.
To
study
the
Interest
of
others
so
earnestly
as
wholly
to
neglect
our
own
,
may
rather
be
call'd
Simplicity
than
Grafton
Under-wood
,
in
the
same
County
.
He
was
a
Prebendary
of
the
Church
of
Lincoln
,
and
Residentiary
,
with
the
Chantorship
of
the
same
;
he
had
a
St.
David's
:
and
to
these
,
the
Chancellor
gave
him
a
Sine-Cure
in
Wales
,
equal
in
profits
to
any
of
his
other
Preferments
.
By
this
time
I
expect
my
Reader
should
cry
out
,
Bless
me
!
what
a
Glut
of
Preferment
is
here
for
one
Man
!
So
jealous
are
we
of
our
own
Interest
.
But
when
Plenty
falls
into
the
possession
of
a
free
Heart
,
't
is
a
great
Mistake
to
think
we
are
injur'd
,
and
that
too
much
flows
to
One.
Do
we
grudge
the
Sea
all
those
almost
infinite
Waters
,
that
are
perpetually
emptying
themselves
into
it
?
And
the
reason
is
,
because
we
know
they
lye
safe
there
,
as
in
a
common
Store-house
,
ready
to
supply
all
places
that
may
want
.
And
what
Riches
fall
into
a
publick
Hand
,
are
not
his
alone
,
but
Every-body's
;
and
all
that
is
proper
to
him
is
the
great
Satisfaction
only
of
Distribution
.
In
the
Year
1616.
in
October
,
the
On
the
Fifteenth
of
March
,
his
Good
Old
Age
,
and
full
of
Vertuous
Fame
.
His
Chaplain
mourn'd
for
him
long
after
,
and
attended
his
Body
to
Cheshire
,
where
he
buried
him
in
a
Chappel
with
his
Ancestors
.
A
little
before
the
Day
of
his
Death
,
the
Chancellor
call'd
Mr.
Williams
,
and
told
him
,
That
if
he
wanted
Money
,
he
would
leave
him
such
a
Legacy
in
his
Will
,
as
should
furnish
him
to
begin
the
World
like
a
Gentleman
.
Sir
(
says
the
Chaplain
)
I
kiss
your
Hands
;
you
have
fill'd
my
Cup
full
;
I
am
far
from
want
,
unless
it
be
of
your
Lordship's
Directions
how
to
live
in
the
World
,
if
I
survive
you
.
Well
(
says
the
Chancellor
)
I
know
you
are
an
expert
Workman
;
take
these
Tools
to
work
with
,
they
are
the
best
I
have
.
So
he
gave
him
some
Books
and
Papers
written
all
with
his
own
Hand
.
Dr.
Hacket
says
,
he
saw
the
Notes
;
and
Da.
Lloyd
,
in
his
Life
of
the
ABp
)
which
he
presented
after
to
the
King
.
for
the
well
Ordering
the
High
Court
of
Parliament
,
the
Court
of
Chancery
,
the
Star-Chamber
,
and
the
Council-Board
.
So
that
he
had
a
good
Stock
to
set
up
with
;
insomuch
that
Dr.
Hacket
does
not
doubt
but
that
the
Marrow
of
Mr.
Williams
his
Politicks
,
was
drawn
from
the
Lord
Egerton's
Papers
.
The
Lord
Chancellor
Egerton
,
when
236.
Wilson
Hist.
Gr.
Brit.
p.
97.
he
grew
weak
,
had
desir'd
Leave
of
his
Majesty
,
to
retire
,
and
to
have
time
to
see
how
Accounts
stood
between
Fr.
Bacon
made
L.
Keeper
.
God
and
himself
.
Which
being
granted
him
,
the
Great
Seal
of
England
was
next
deliver'd
to
Sir
Francis
Bacon
,
on
the
Seventh
of
March
(
according
to
Stow
)
An.
1616.
He
hearing
that
Mr.
Williams
,
after
the
Death
of
his
Master
,
was
preparing
to
go
to
his
Cure
at
Walgrave
,
he
made
him
a
very
civil
Offer
to
continue
with
him
in
that
Place
,
wherein
he
had
serv'd
the
Lord
Egerton
before
.
He
declin'd
it
tho'
,
but
in
such
At
this
time
by
the
Interest
of
his
James
Montagu
(
after
Bishop
of
Winton
)
he
was
made
Chaplain
in
Ordinary
to
his
Majesty
,
attending
Yearly
at
Court
in
February
.
And
he
had
his
Majesty's
Orders
to
wait
upon
him
in
his
Great
Northern
Progress
,
which
was
to
begin
in
April
following
:
And
the
King
told
him
pleasantly
,
That
he
might
expect
the
Labourers
Penny
as
soon
as
they
that
had
serv'd
him
longer
.
But
the
Bishop
of
Winchester
obtain'd
of
his
Majesty
,
that
Mr.
Williams
might
stay
behind
,
to
take
his
Doctor
's
Degree
,
and
to
give
fit
entertainment
to
Marcus
Antonius
de
Dominis
Archbishop
of
Spalato
,
who
was
newly
come
over
into
England
,
and
did
design
to
be
at
Cambridge
Commencement
,
in
the
next
July
.
Here
again
we
may
see
how
Fortune
seem'd
to
Compliment
Mr.
Williams
with
an
Opportunity
of
shewing
himself
:
And
he
never
was
to
appear
any
way
publickly
at
Cambridge
,
but
still
he
brought
something
about
luckily
to
add
to
the
Splendour
of
his
Performance
.
So
at
this
Commencement
in
Supremus
Magistratus
non
est
excommunicabilis
.
2.
Subductio
Calicis
est
mutilatio
Sacramenti
&
Sacerdotii
.
You
will
,
I
make
no
doubt
,
prevent
me
here
,
and
guess
that
his
Treat
(
as
is
the
Custom
of
the
University
upon
such
occasions
)
was
very
costly
and
sumptuous
:
but
one
And
now
Dr.
Williams
having
acquitted
In
the
Year
1619.
he
preach'd
before
Thus
we
have
pass'd
over
the
Beginning
or
Dawning
(
as
we
may
call
it
)
of
his
good
Fortune
;
and
he
is
(
you
see
)
in
a
very
likely
way
of
Doing
well
,
as
we
say
when
a
Man
thrives
in
the
World
;
as
tho'
Prosperity
and
Probity
were
one
and
the
same
.
Tho'
It
fell
out
one
time
,
that
the
Dr.
Buckingham
?
Sir
(
says
the
Dr.
)
I
have
had
no
Bus'ness
to
resort
to
his
Lordship
:
But
(
replies
the
King
)
wheresoever
he
is
,
you
must
presently
go
to
him
on
my
Message
.
Which
he
did
accordingly
;
and
the
Marquess
receiving
him
courteously
,
invited
him
with
all
Affability
to
come
freely
to
him
upon
his
own
Addresses
.
He
gathering
from
the
Hint
But
why
must
the
Dr.
be
prompted
by
the
King
to
seek
his
own
Interest
?
Were
not
his
Eyes
open
at
that
time
But
to
proceed
:
It
happen'd
well
Katherine
Manners
,
Daughter
and
only
Child
surviving
to
Francis
Earl
of
Rutland
.
Wilson
gives
us
this
By
an
old
Prebend
of
Windsor
.
The
following
Letter
(
since
one
of
the
Copies
is
not
easie
to
be
had
)
sent
to
the
Marquess
with
the
Book
,
will
be
sufficient
to
inform
the
Curious
of
his
Method
and
Design
in
that
little
Piece
.
My
most
Noble
Lord
,
MY
most
humble
Duty
and
all
Your
Honour
's
true
Creature
and
Beadsman
,
JOHN
WILLIAMS
.
From
your
College
at
Westminster
the
28.
of
Novemb.
1620.
By
the
Date
of
this
Letter
,
you
may
My
most
Noble
Lord
,
I
Am
an
humble
Suitor
;
first
,
to
be
Your
Honour
's
poor
Beadsman
already
ever
bound
,
J.
W.
His
Removal
into
this
Deanery
was
The
Parliament
held
in
the
Year
An.
1620.
of
Money
and
other
Reasons
of
State
pressing
,
he
resolves
to
try
them
once
more
;
and
so
on
the
30th
of
Jan.
1620.
he
with
the
Lords
and
Commons
met
in
the
High
Court
of
Parliament
.
Their
Demeanour
to
his
Majesty
was
Gyles
Mompesson
,
Sir
Francis
Michel
,
and
Sir
Edward
Villers
(
Half-Brother
to
the
Marquess
)
who
,
tho'
innocent
in
himself
,
was
yet
unwittingly
trick'd
by
some
crafty
Merchants
,
into
a
piece
of
Knavery
.
They
that
were
accus'd
,
That
it
was
high
time
for
him
to
look
about
him
;
considering
that
the
King
had
(
as
was
noted
)
at
the
Opening
of
the
Session
given
Incouragement
to
the
Parliament
to
redress
Grievances
,
and
had
said
openly
before
all
the
Members
,
Spare
none
,
where
you
find
just
Cause
to
punish
.
And
if
the
Two
Houses
should
sit
a
whole
Year
,
the
greatest
Advantage
that
could
be
hop'd
for
from
them
,
would
be
but
Two
or
Three
Subsidies
at
the
most
;
and
that
it
were
better
for
the
King
to
gather
such
a
Sum
or
greater
by
his
Prerogative
,
tho'
it
be
a
little
out
of
the
way
,
than
to
wait
for
the
Exhibition
of
a
little
Money
,
which
will
cost
dishonour
in
the
End
,
and
the
ruin
of
his
most
Loyal
and
Faithful
Subjects
.
These
Jealousies
disturb
the
King
,
That
there
was
no
reason
to
quarrel
with
the
Parliament
for
tracing
Delinquents
;
that
they
deserv'd
Praise
for
their
Justice
,
as
well
as
for
their
Civil
Behaviour
towards
the
King
.
But
your
Lordship
(
continues
he
)
is
jealous
,
that
if
the
Parliament
holds
long
in
Favour
,
you
may
be
brought
into
Question
.
Follow
this
Parliament
in
their
Undertakings
,
and
you
may
prevent
all
:
Swim
with
the
Tide
,
and
there
's
no
Annals
,
p.
52.
Sir
G.
Mompesson
and
Sir
Fr.
Michel
,
let
them
be
made
Victims
to
the
publick
Wrath.
Nay
,
my
Sentence
is
,
destroy
all
Monopolies
,
and
Patents
of
griping
Projections
.
I
have
search'd
the
Signet-Office
,
and
have
collected
almost
Forty
,
which
I
have
hung
in
one
Bracelet
,
and
are
fit
for
Revocation
.
Damn
all
these
in
one
Proclamation
,
and
your
Lordship
will
partake
of
the
Applause
together
with
his
Majesty
.
This
will
convince
the
People
that
you
do
not
approve
of
what
you
acted
under
a
Misrepresentation
of
things
,
when
you
were
but
new-blossom'd
in
Court
,
and
could
not
discover
the
Deformiy
that
lay
hid
.
And
God
forbid
,
the
King
should
be
incited
to
Collections
of
Aid
,
without
the
Concurrence
of
his
Parliament
.
An
Englishman's
Tribute
comes
not
from
the
King's
Exaction
,
but
by
the
People's
free
Oblation
out
of
the
Mouth
of
their
Representatives
.
These
were
the
Dean's
Instructions
;
This
Parliament
,
wearied
with
long
The
Courtiers
,
you
may
be
sure
,
a
Lionel
Cranfield
,
then
Master
of
the
Court
of
Wards
.
But
the
King
,
before
he
would
dispose
of
it
,
had
set
Buckingham
to
enquire
what
the
profits
of
it
might
amount
to
in
Justice
,
and
whether
certain
perquisites
were
natural
to
it
,
which
some
had
a
great
mind
to
cut
off
.
Sir
Lionel
intreats
the
Lord
Marquess
to
be
quick
,
and
to
advise
concerning
the
Matter
with
the
Dean
of
Westminster
,
a
sound
and
a
ready
Man
,
who
was
not
wont
to
clap
the
Shackles
of
Delay
upon
a
Bus'ness
.
So
,
he
being
spoke
to
,
to
draw
up
in
Writing
what
he
thought
of
the
Matter
,
he
return'd
a
My
most
Noble
Lord
ALtho'
the
more
I
examine
my self
,
Master
of
the
Wards
,
is
willing
to
accept
it
(
and
if
it
be
so
,
I
hope
your
Lordship
will
incline
that
way
)
I
do
crave
Leave
to
acquaint
your
Honour
,
by
way
of
prevention
,
with
secret
Underminings
,
which
will
utterly
overthrow
all
that
Office
,
and
make
it
beggarly
and
contemptible
.
The
lawful
Revenue
of
that
Office
stands
thus
,
or
not
much
above
,
at
any
time
.
In
Fines
certain
1300
l.
per
An.
or
thereabout
.
In
Fines
Casual
1250
l.
or
thereabout
.
In
greater
Writs
140.
l.
For
Impost
of
Wine
100
l.
In
all
2790.
And
these
are
all
the
true
Means
of
that
Great
Office
.
Away
runs
the
Lord
Marquess
with
You
name
divers
to
me
to
be
my
Chancellor
.
The
Marquess
pleas'd
and
surpriz'd
at
once
,
replies
ex
tempore
,
Sir
,
I
am
a
Suitor
for
none
,
but
for
him
that
is
so
capable
in
your
great
Judgment
.
Be
you
satisfied
then
(
says
the
King
)
I
think
I
shall
seek
no
farther
.
At
this
Buckingham
impotent
to
contain
his
Joy
,
sends
a
blind
Message
to
the
Dean
imediately
,
That
the
King
had
a
Preferment
in
the
Deck
for
him
.
He
,
ignorant
of
what
had
pass'd
,
mistook
the
Message
,
guessing
it
might
relate
to
the
Bishoprick
of
London
,
now
void
by
the
Death
A.
W.
concerning
the
causes
of
his
Rising
;
which
I
shall
not
trouble
my self
to
transcribe
here
,
but
rather
choose
to
refer
my
Reader
to
the
Pamphlet
it self
,
if
he
thinks
it
worth
his
while
.
But
I
go
on
.
On
the
10th
of
July
1621.
he
was
sworn
Keeper
of
the
Most
Dread
and
Mighty
Sovereign
,
IF
I
should
think
my self
any
way
Achaia
,
Meminisse
oportet
Officii
Titulum
;
I
will
never
forget
my
Office
and
Title
:
I
am
design'd
to
be
a
Probationer
in
this
Place
,
and
as
a
Probationer
by
GOD's
Grace
I
will
demean
my self
;
I
will
take
up
together
with
this
Seal
that
Industry
,
Integrity
and
Modesty
,
Non
ut
me
Consulem
,
sed
ut
Consulatus
candidatum
putem
.
That
is
,
I
will
not
esteem
my self
a
Keeper
,
but
a
Suitor
only
for
the
Great
Seal
.
And
if
I
feel
the
burden
too
heavy
,
(
which
I
mightily
fear
and
suspect
)
I
will
choose
rather
Desinere
quàm
Deficere
,
to
slip
it
off
willingly
to
some
stronger
Shoulder
,
than
to
be
crush'd
in
pieces
with
the
poise
of
the
same
.
And
I
humbly
beseech
your
Majesty
also
to
remember
,
I
am
no
more
than
a
meer
Probationer
.
If
I
prove
raw
at
first
,
I
must
have
time
to
learn
.
The
best
of
them
all
have
craved
no
less
,
and
I
will
desire
no
more
.
For
if
after
the
full
weighing
of
my
Strength
,
I
shall
find
my self
unable
for
this
Service
,
I
will
say
unto
your
Majesty
,
as
Jacob
said
unto
Pharaoh
,
Pastor
ovium
est
servus
tuus
;
whatsoever
you
are
pleas'd
,
Sir
,
to
make
me
,
I
am
but
a
Keeper
of
Sheep
;
in
that
Calling
your
Majesty
found
me
,
and
to
that
Calling
I
shall
be
ready
to
appropriate
my self
again
.
In
the
mean
time
,
I
beseech
your
Majesty
to
protect
this
Court
of
Justice
,
wherein
you
have
plac'd
me
,
that
the
Strength
and
Power
of
that
Body
be
nothing
impaired
through
the
Weakness
of
the
Head
.
Nemo
Adolescentiam
contemnat
.
Let
not
my
Fellows
of
another
Profession
cry
out
with
him
in
the
Psalm
,
There
,
there
,
so
would
we
have
it
;
neither
let
them
say
,
We
have
devoured
him
.
And
so
I
end
with
my
Prayer
unto
GOD
,
That
your
Majesty
may
live
long
,
and
my self
no
longer
,
than
I
may
be
serviceable
to
your
Majesty
.
His
Majesty
heard
him
very
graciously
,
Did
they
not
know
that
the
Father
of
the
late
Chancellor
receiv'd
the
Seal
from
a
Bishop
,
as
well
as
it
came
from
the
Son
to
a
Bishop
again
?
Were
they
ignorant
how
former
Ages
held
it
more
consonant
to
Reason
,
to
trust
the
Conscience
of
the
Clergy
with
the
Case
of
Lay-men
,
they
being
best
able
to
judge
of
a
Case
of
Conscience
;
and
anciently
the
Civil
Laws
were
adjudged
by
the
Ministers
of
the
Church
;
and
the
Chancery
and
other
Courts
of
Equity
,
then
in
the
Charge
of
a
Divine
Minister
.
And
had
K.
James
But
to
wrangle
no
longer
with
the
Harry
Finch
,
a
most
profound
Lawyer
,
in
his
Lodgings
,
from
May
to
October
following
,
to
advise
with
him
upon
all
occasions
.
By
this
means
too
,
he
had
time
to
seek
out
for
honest
and
able
Servants
to
fill
the
Chief
Places
of
Trust
under
him
.
Add
to
this
,
that
in
the
Interim
several
Things
were
discours'd
of
,
to
his
Honour
:
for
when
the
first
Heat
of
a
Rumor
is
over
,
then
People
are
apt
upon
second
Thoughts
,
to
reason
the
Matter
candidly
and
fairly
;
whereas
in
the
beginning
the
impetuous
bent
and
current
of
the
Stream
is
apt
to
appear
even
the
weightest
Judgments
along
with
it
.
Now
it
began
to
break
out
,
that
this
Preferment
was
not
of
his
own
seeking
,
neither
could
it
then
or
thereafter
be
made
out
,
that
he
had
bought
his
Greatness
.
Next
to
this
,
he
shelter'd
himself
under
his
Modesty
;
which
,
because
it
is
soft
and
yielding
,
breaks
the
force
of
Envy
,
the
most
of
any
thing
;
and
therefore
his
Master
of
the
Rolls
,
of
exact
Knowledge
,
to
sit
with
him
;
and
lastly
,
the
constant
Assistance
of
two
Judges
.
What
could
shew
greater
Modesty
and
Caution
,
the
two
main
Supporters
of
Men
in
high
Places
?
But
all
these
Proposals
were
rejected
,
and
made
ineffectual
,
't
is
likely
underhand
by
some
curious
Persons
,
who
might
have
a
mind
to
try
,
if
the
new
Lord
Keeper
could
walk
alone
without
falling
,
in
so
slip'ry
a
Place
.
'T
is
I
have
been
so
taken
up
with
the
That
the
Instability
of
Humane
Affairs
,
should
make
every
Man
look
for
a
Dissolution
of
his
Fortunes
,
as
that
of
his
Body
.
Upon
The
Keeper
now
being
high
in
his
Bishop
of
St.
David's
by
Williams's
Interest
.
and
Dr.
Donne
to
succeed
Carew
in
the
Deanery
of
St.
Paul's
;
at
this
time
too
St.
David's
Bishoprick
was
void
,
and
the
principal
among
those
that
put
for
it
was
Dr.
Laud
,
a
Man
of
great
Learning
.
But
,
it
seems
,
both
the
King
and
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
were
much
bent
against
him
,
judging
him
to
be
a
Man
of
too
bold
and
hot
a
Spirit
for
those
Times
.
So
that
there
had
been
but
small
hopes
for
him
,
had
not
Buckingham
set
the
Keeper
on
to
move
in
his
behalf
;
who
by
his
great
Importunity
with
Then
take
him
to
you
,
but
on
my
Soul
you
will
repent
it
:
And
't
was
ominous
,
it
seems
.
After
this
,
the
Lord
Keeper
retain'd
Laud
in
his
Prebend
of
Westminster
,
and
about
a
Year
after
gave
him
a
Living
of
about
120
l.
per
An.
in
the
Diocess
of
St.
David's
,
to
help
his
Revenue
;
which
being
brought
to
him
at
Durham-House
,
beyond
his
Expectation
,
by
Mr.
William
Winn
,
his
Expression
was
,
Mr.
Winn
,
my
Life
will
be
too
short
to
requite
your
Lord's
Goodness
.
But
how
two
Men
so
Great
and
so
good
should
break
out
after
into
open
Enmity
is
a
Mystery
to
me
at
present
.
If
I
can
hit
upon
any
probable
account
,
by
that
time
I
come
to
speak
of
their
Differences
,
the
Reader
shall
have
it
:
Else
I
shall
not
,
I
think
,
put
my
Invention
upon
the
stretch
,
out
of
Prejudice
to
either
Party
:
I
being
wholly
unconcern'd
as
to
either
of
them
,
any
farther
than
that
I
am
willing
,
as
far
as
shall
lie
in
my
Power
,
to
rescue
the
Memories
of
great
and
worthy
Men
from
such
Calumnies
,
as
it
is
but
too
often
their
hard
Fortune
to
be
sullied
withall
:
so
ungrateful
and
sacrilegious
are
we
to
the
Dead
,
to
curry
Favour
with
the
Living
;
who
,
when
their
Turn
comes
(
as
who
knows
how
nigh
his
own
may
be
)
to
quit
the
World
,
are
like
to
fare
no
better
;
if
there
be
any
thing
to
be
gain'd
by
throwing
Infamy
,
Reproaches
,
and
such
heavy
Lumber
upon
their
Graves
,
instead
of
raising
Monuments
for
them
.
I
would
beg
my
Reader
's
Pardon
for
this
Digression
,
but
that
would
but
inlarge
it
.
I
proceed
now
to
shew
the
Lord
Upon
the
First
Day
of
the
Term
,
To
desire
,
that
those
Reasons
Statute
Laws
.
Secondly
,
never
to
encourage
any
Motion
made
at
the
Bar
,
which
did
not
tend
apparently
to
further
and
hasten
the
Hearing
of
the
Cause
.
Thirdly
,
that
without
special
Motives
,
he
would
not
overthrow
the
Decrees
of
his
Predecessors
.
Fourthly
,
to
be
as
To
make
good
Resolutions
is
doubtless
the
Mark
of
an
ingenuous
Temper
,
Chief-Justice
Hobart
,
to
certify
the
King
,
that
Williams
,
by
reason
of
his
Inabilities
and
Ignorance
,
was
not
fit
for
the
Keeper's
Place
;
and
upon
that
,
he
would
engage
to
throw
him
out
,
and
that
he
should
succeed
him
.
My
Lord
(
replies
Hobart
)
somwhat
might
have
been
said
at
the
first
,
but
he
should
do
the
Lord
Keeper
great
wrong
that
should
say
so
now
.
The
next
is
Mr.
G.
Evelin
,
one
of
the
six
Clerks
,
and
in
his
Time
the
best
Head-piece
of
the
Office
,
who
took
pleasure
in
saying
(
as
many
yet
know
)
that
the
Lord
Keeper
Williams
had
the
most
tow'ring
,
sublime
Wit
,
that
he
ever
heard
speak
;
and
that
his
Decrees
in
all
Causes
were
just
:
that
the
Lord
Coventry
did
seldom
alter
any
thing
he
had
settled
before
him
,
but
upon
new
Presumptions
,
and
that
he
spake
of
him
always
in
Court
very
honourably
.
By
that
time
too
that
he
had
In
this
Place
I
have
now
serv'd
his
Majesty
one
whole
Year
,
diligently
and
honestly
;
but
to
my
Heart's
grief
,
by
reason
of
my
Ráwness
and
Inexperience
,
very
unprofitably
.
Yet
if
his
Majesty
will
examine
the
Registers
,
there
will
be
found
more
Causes
finally
ended
this
Year
;
than
in
all
the
seven
Years
preceding
:
How
well
ended
,
I
confess
ingenuously
,
I
know
not
.
His
Majesty
and
your
Lordship
(
who
,
no
doubt
,
have
receiv'd
some
Complaints
,
tho'
in
your
Love
you
conceal
them
from
me
)
are
in
that
the
most
competent
Judges
.
His
Before
I
leave
this
Court
to
follow
him
to
the
Star-Chamber
,
I
shall
desire
my
Reader
to
laugh
a
little
with
me
,
at
a
diverting
Passage
which
happen'd
about
his
first
Entrance
upon
Chancery
.
And
here
I
shall
borrow
Bishop
Hacket's
own
Phrase
,
for
the
better
Expressing
of
the
Story
.
It
happen'd
once
,
that
one
at
the
Bar
(
thinking
the
Lord
Keeper
as
a
Novice
,
might
be
ignorant
of
the
Terms
of
the
Common-Law
)
trouled
out
a
Motion
,
cramm'd
like
a
Granado
with
obsolete
Words
,
thinking
with
these
misty
That
he
that
tempts
a
Wise
Man
in
jest
,
shall
make
himself
a
Fool
in
earnest
.
And
now
to
view
him
in
the
Star-Chamber
.
since
I
am
no
Bishop
in
your
Opinion
,
I
will
be
no
Bishop
to
you
.
I
concur
with
my
Lords
(
the
like
I
never
did
before
)
in
your
Corporal
Punishment
.
In
Pecuniary
Fines
too
,
his
Hand
was
so
light
,
that
the
Lord
Treasurer
Cranfield
complain'd
against
him
to
the
King
,
for
less'ning
his
Majesty's
Fees
.
And
he
was
as
generous
too
in
remitting
his
own
;
for
when
Sir
Francis
Inglefield
blurted
out
before
Witnesses
,
That
he
could
prove
this
Holy
Bishop-Judge
had
been
brib'd
by
some
that
far'd
well
in
ther
Causes
;
the
Bishop
to
George
Minors
,
that
attended
him
then
,
told
his
Lordship
,
who
was
the
greatest
Benefactor
.
And
has
he
not
a
Suit
depending
now
in
Chancery
?
saith
the
Keeper
;
the
very
same
,
reply'd
the
other
.
And
the
same
(
returns
the
Keeper
)
shall
not
fare
the
worse
for
Building
of
Churches
.
When
Mr.
Minors
had
told
his
Neigbour
this
,
the
next
Morning
he
sent
a
Taste
of
the
Fruits
of
his
Orchard
,
and
the
Poultry
in
his
Yard
,
to
Nonsuch-House
:
Nay
carry
them
back
George
(
says
the
Keeper
)
and
tell
your
Friend
,
he
shall
not
fare
the
better
for
sending
of
Presents
.
But
you
'll
say
,
this
is
but
a
trifle
;
and
he
that
forfeits
his
Honour
at
so
cheap
a
rate
,
must
be
both
Fool
and
Knave
.
And
it
is
impossible
a
Man
should
live
at
the
rate
he
did
,
and
expend
such
vast
Sums
,
but
he
must
have
some
By-way
to
enrich
himself
.
To
this
I
answer
,
Ay
,
but
(
says
A.
W.
)
Williams
exceeded
and
so
was
calculated
to
be
worth
to
him
and
his
Servants
3000
l.
per
An.
a
new
way
,
never
found
out
before
.
And
I
humbly
crave
your
Majesty's
Opinion
,
whether
I
may
go
on
this
way
;
for
what
reason
have
I
to
over-toil
my self
,
in
easing
the
Purse
of
the
Subjects
,
if
it
be
objected
as
a
Crime
against
me
,
and
be
not
a
Service
acceptable
to
your
Majesty
and
the
Realms
?
So
the
King
approv'd
of
his
proceedings
.
It
is
not
sufficient
to
render
an
Officer
unblameable
,
that
he
be
proof
against
Bribery
.
He
must
likewise
have
Courage
enough
not
to
dread
the
Malice
and
Ill-will
of
any
,
so
long
as
he
does
his
Duty
;
and
so
much
rigid
Honesty
as
to
stand
out
in
a
just
Cause
,
against
the
Interest
even
of
his
dearest
Friends
,
and
greatest
Benefactors
:
for
there
is
one
to
whom
we
are
all
infinitely
oblig'd
more
than
to
all
the
World
beside
,
and
that
is
GOD
;
whose
Cause
therefore
can
never
be
forsaken
,
without
the
blackest
Ingratitude
.
This
,
I
confess
,
is
the
greatest
trial
of
Virtue
;
it
being
,
doubtless
,
a
harder
Injunction
to
Humanity
,
to
forsake
our
Friends
for
GOD's
sake
,
than
to
love
our
Enemies
.
How
secure
the
Lord
Keeper
was
from
the
Wo
,
so
justly
denounc'd
against
them
that
fear
Men
more
than
GOD
,
the
Reader
may
see
from
several
Instances
,
extant
in
Bishop
Hacket
:
And
I
shall
make
it
evident
That
he
was
a
stout
Man
,
that
durst
do
more
than
himself
:
For
the
Duke
,
it
seems
,
was
so
great
with
the
Prince
,
that
the
King
himself
was
forc'd
in
Policy
to
hide
his
Resentments
from
him
.
And
his
Majesty
he
that
will
not
wrest
Justice
for
Buckingham's
sake
,
whom
he
loves
,
will
never
be
corrupted
with
Money
,
which
he
never
lov'd
.
And
because
the
Keeper
had
liv'd
fairly
for
the
space
of
three
Years
upon
the
bare
Revenues
of
his
Office
,
and
was
not
the
richer
by
the
sale
of
one
Cursitor's
place
in
all
that
Time
;
his
Majesty
gave
him
a
Bountiful
New-Years
Gift
,
thinking
it
but
reasonable
to
encourage
him
by
his
Liberality
,
that
never
sought
after
Wealth
,
by
the
sordid
means
of
Extortion
or
Bribery
.
I
have
given
you
a
full
View
of
the
Collect
.
p.
39.
An.
1621.
in
its
second
Session
Nov.
20.
at
which
time
by
command
from
the
King
,
he
spake
to
both
Houses
:
of
which
Speech
thus
my
Lord
Buckingham
speaks
in
a
Letter
to
him
,
dated
November
24.
I
know
not
how
the
Upper-House
of
Parliament
approve
of
your
Lordship's
Speech
,
but
I
am
sure
he
that
called
them
together
,
and
,
as
I
think
,
can
best
judge
of
it
,
is
so
taken
with
it
,
that
he
saith
,
It
is
the
best
that
ever
he
heard
in
Parliament
,
and
the
nearest
to
his
Majesty's
Meaning
;
which
,
beside
the
Contentment
it
hath
given
his
Majesty
,
hath
much
comforted
me
in
the
Choice
of
your
Lordship
;
who
in
all
things
do
so
well
answer
his
Expectation
.
Two
remarkable
occurences
happen'd
That
if
he
were
commanded
,
he
would
and
so
all
was
husht
,
And
this
very
Passage
,
were
there
no
more
of
the
Lord
Keeper
remaining
,
is
sufficient
to
shew
him
to
be
as
Great
a
Man
,
as
ever
spoke
in
Parliament
.
At
this
time
again
the
House
of
40
,
41
,
&c.
Cabal
.
p.
288.
means
agree
;
for
they
displeas'd
him
very
much
with
their
Petitions
and
Remonstrances
,
insomuch
that
his
Majesty
in
a
Letter
rebuk'd
them
severely
:
The
harshness
of
which
Answer
,
the
Keeper
advis'd
might
be
mitigated
and
softned
;
for
he
could
never
bear
,
that
there
should
be
a
Misunderstanding
between
the
King
and
his
People
,
if
it
were
possible
to
prevent
it
.
Nevertheless
,
the
Ferment
by
degrees
work'd
it self
to
such
a
height
,
that
the
King
departed
from
them
in
his
Wrath
,
and
Upon
Michaelmas
Eve
,
Viscount
1621.
Stow
Chr.
Mandevile
,
Lord
Treasurer
of
England
,
surrender'd
his
Office
up
to
the
King
,
Draws
up
some
pitiful
Failings
,
interwoven
with
Fiction
and
Ignorance
,
against
him
;
from
which
the
Keeper
found
it
a
much
easier
Task
to
clear
himself
,
than
his
Adversary
did
at
first
to
invent
them
.
But
in
another
Letter
,
His
Majesty's
Justice
,
Then
he
concludes
;
Whom
I
will
either
challenge
before
his
Majesty
to
make
good
his
Suggestions
,
or
else
(
which
I
hold
the
greater
Valour
,
and
which
I
wanted
,
I
confess
,
before
this
Check
of
your
Lordship's
)
go
on
in
my
Course
,
and
scorn
all
these
unworthy
Scandals
,
as
your
Lordship
shall
direct
me
.
But
for
all
this
in
a
Month's
space
,
they
wrangled
themselves
into
very
good
Friends
again
;
and
the
Keeper
was
Godfather
to
the
Treasurer's
next
Child
.
In
the
Year
1623.
in
Febr.
The
Parliament
according
to
Stow.
chosen
,
who
on
that
Day
made
their
Appearance
before
the
Lord
Keeper
,
sitting
in
the
High
Court
of
Chancery
;
from
whence
he
saluted
them
with
a
Learned
and
Eloquent
Oration
,
according
to
the
Relish
of
those
Times
,
that
lov'd
to
have
their
Speeches
embroider'd
with
Greek
and
Latin
:
As
tho'
the
Confusion
of
Tongues
at
Babel
had
been
absolutely
necessary
to
compleat
the
Art
of
Oratory
:
But
yet
a
Great
Man
must
condescend
to
the
Follies
of
the
Times
he
lives
in
;
and
perhaps
it
were
no
impertinent
Caution
,
to
speak
generally
with
the
Vulgar
,
tho'
we
may
think
with
the
Wise.
But
,
to
go
on
with
the
Parliament
:
When
they
were
met
,
and
the
King
had
He
knew
not
how
to
thank
him
enough
for
it
.
I
should
be
too
particular
should
I
Sir
(
says
the
Keeper
)
I
have
So
with
these
Reasons
the
King
was
Roman
Catholicks
:
And
then
,
upon
that
,
to
issue
forth
two
General
Commands
under
the
Great-Seal
;
the
First
,
to
all
the
Judges
and
Justices
of
the
Peace
;
and
the
Second
,
to
all
Bishops
,
Chancellors
and
Commissaries
,
not
to
execute
any
Statute
made
against
them
.
The
General
Pardon
(
says
the
Keeper
)
we
have
pass'd
in
as
full
and
ample
a
Manner
as
they
could
desire
or
pen
it
.
The
other
General
and
Vast
Prohibition
I
prevail'd
with
the
rest
of
the
Lords
to
stop
,
for
these
Reasons
.
First
,
because
the
Publishing
of
this
General
Indulgence
at
one
push
,
might
beget
a
general
Discontent
,
if
not
a
Mutiny
,
but
the
Instilling
thereof
into
the
People's
Knowledge
by
little
and
little
,
would
not
shock
them
so
much
.
Secondly
,
because
to
forbid
the
Judges
and
Justices
of
Peace
against
their
Oaths
,
who
are
sworn
to
execute
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
is
a
thing
unpresidented
in
this
Kingdom
,
and
would
be
a
harsh
and
a
bitter
Pill
to
digest
,
without
some
Preparative
.
Thirdly
,
his
Majesty
useth
to
speak
to
his
Bishops
,
Judges
and
Justices
of
the
Peace
,
by
his
Chancellor
or
Keeper
,
and
by
the
Great-Seal
;
and
I
can
signifie
his
Majesty's
Pleasure
to
them
with
less
Noise
and
Danger
,
especially
by
declaring
unto
them
the
necessity
of
these
Proceedings
at
this
Juncture
of
Time
.
All
these
Instances
laid
together
,
sufficiently
manifest
his
Opinion
,
That
where
a
King
and
People
disagree
,
they
are
like
a
House
divided
against
it self
;
for
it
is
impossible
,
in
such
a
posture
,
that
either
of
them
should
stand
long
.
Now
we
have
pass'd
through
the
Chancery
,
Star-Chamber
,
and
Parliaments
,
let
us
at
last
retire
with
him
to
the
Council-Board
:
A
Retirement
indeed
,
such
as
becomes
a
Wiseman
,
and
a
Philosopher
;
not
Retirement
from
Bus'ness
,
but
from
the
Eyes
of
the
Vulgar
.
This
,
tho'
I
mention
it
last
of
all
,
was
yet
the
Office
that
he
was
first
honour'd
with
in
the
State
,
being
made
Privy
Counsellor
,
before
he
was
made
L.
Keeper
.
And
here
(
as
Bishop
Hacket
very
well
Thus
you
see
how
well
he
was
qualified
To
ripen
great
Matters
by
Deliberation
.
I
come
now
to
give
you
a
particular
Whether
he
thought
this
Knight-Errant
Pilgrimage
would
be
lucky
to
win
the
Spanish
Lady
,
and
to
convey
her
shortly
into
England
?
Sir
,
(
says
Williams
)
If
my
Lord
Marquess
will
give
Honour
to
Conde
Duke
Olivares
,
and
remember
he
is
the
Favourite
of
Spain
,
or
if
Olivares
will
shew
honourable
Civility
to
my
Lord
Marquess
,
remembring
he
is
a
Favourite
of
England
,
the
Wooing
may
be
prosperous
.
But
if
my
Lord
Marquess
should
forget
where
he
is
,
and
not
stoop
to
Olivares
;
or
if
Olivares
,
forgetting
what
Guest
he
hath
receiv'd
with
the
Prince
,
bear
himself
haughtily
,
and
like
a
Castilian
Grandee
to
my
Lord
Marquess
;
the
Provocation
may
be
dangerous
to
cross
your
Majesty's
good
Intentions
.
And
I
pray
GOD
that
either
one
,
or
both
of
them
do
not
run
into
that
Error
.
This
shews
that
he
understood
the
Court
of
Spain
at
that
time
,
as
well
as
if
he
had
been
a
Minister
there
.
And
the
He
would
never
part
with
him
.
So
the
Keeper
bethought
16
,
17
,
&c.
to
the
Duke
and
Prince
.
Now
Williams
was
glad
that
he
had
an
Opportunity
given
him
of
Serving
his
great
Benefactor
,
and
expressing
his
Gratitude
,
which
glow'd
within
his
Breast
.
He
sent
Letters
to
Count
Gondamar
,
to
make
Buckingham
the
A
little
after
this
,
when
he
had
been
Sir
,
says
the
Lord
Keeper
,
will
you
be
pleas'd
to
listen
to
me
,
taking
in
the
Prince's
Consent
,
of
which
I
make
no
doubt
,
and
I
will
shew
,
how
you
shall
furnish
the
Second
and
Third
Brothers
,
with
Preferments
sufficient
to
maintain
them
,
that
shall
cost
you
nothing
.
(
Breed
them
up
for
Scholars
in
Academical
Discipline
;
keep
them
strictly
to
their
Books
,
with
such
Tutors
as
will
teach
them
not
to
abuse
themselves
with
vain
Hopes
upon
the
Greatness
of
their
Birth
.
If
they
fall
to
their
Studies
,
design
them
for
the
Bishopricks
of
Durham
and
Winchester
,
when
they
become
void
.
If
that
happen
in
their
Nonage
(
which
is
probable
)
appoint
Commendatories
to
discharge
the
Duty
for
them
for
a
laudable
Allowance
,
but
gathering
the
Fruits
for
the
Support
of
your
Grand-Children
,
till
they
come
to
Virility
to
be
consecrated
.
George
Duke
of
Anhault
,
having
Ministerial
Gifts
,
was
Ordain'd
into
that
Holy
Calling
at
Madgeburgh
,
and
yet
put
to
no
Shifts
;
as
Melancthon
is
my
Author
,
and
many
more
.
The
Priestly
Office
was
esteem'd
from
the
beginning
fittest
for
the
best
Gentlemen
,
for
the
First-born
,
among
them
that
serv'd
the
True
GOD.
And
the
Romans
,
who
serv'd
them
that
were
no
Gods
,
When
he
had
ended
,
As
I
live
(
says
the
King
)
I
will
follow
this
Direction
;
I
thank
you
heartily
for
it
;
and
I
account
,
that
it
will
save
me
more
than
the
worth
of
a
Subsidy
.
But
the
Counsel
as
good
as
it
was
,
it
seems
,
was
never
put
into
execution
;
which
was
no
fault
of
the
Lord
Keeper's
.
I
proceed
now
to
a
very
Remarkable
That
he
was
the
greatest
Wretch
living
,
to
be
forsaken
of
those
that
were
dearest
to
him
:
which
Expressions
drew
Tears
on
both
sides
;
but
the
King
drove
away
for
Windsor
,
and
left
the
disconsolate
Duke
behind
.
Now
the
Lord
Keeper
was
a
Man
that
spar'd
no
cost
for
the
best
Intelligence
he
could
purchase
of
Court-Occurrences
;
and
he
would
often
say
,
That
without
a
deal
of
Money
,
it
was
impossible
to
be
a
Statesman
.
And
of
this
Accident
,
his
Scout
had
brought
the
best
Account
he
could
from
what
he
saw
,
for
he
heard
little
.
So
away
he
goes
to
the
Duke
,
then
all
in
Sorrow
at
Wallingford-House
;
and
with
much
ado
,
gains
admittance
to
him
After
solemn
Protestations
of
the
great
Concern
he
had
for
him
,
and
his
earnest
Desires
to
serve
him
,
he
begs
of
his
Grace
,
that
he
would
make
haste
for
Windsor
,
and
shew
himself
to
his
Majesty
,
before
Supper
was
over
;
to
carry
himself
withall
the
winning
Address
imaginable
,
and
to
keep
Night
and
Day
close
to
his
Person
.
For
the
Danger
was
,
lest
any
one
should
get
the
King's
Ear
,
and
perswade
him
to
dissolve
the
Parliament
,
and
upon
the
Dissolution
of
it
,
get
his
Grace
thrown
into
the
Tower
,
and
then
GOD
knows
what
might
follow
.
Lose
no
time
,
I
beseech
your
Grace
(
says
he
)
and
lock
up
this
Advice
in
your
Breast
.
The
Duke
,
returning
him
hearty
Thanks
,
posts
away
to
Windsor
,
and
comes
there
unexpected
.
To
be
sure
he
acquainted
the
Prince
with
the
Occasion
of
his
coming
:
So
that
his
Highness
And
(
says
he
)
you
that
have
gone
thus
far
,
may
receive
greater
Thanks
of
us
both
,
if
you
will
spread
open
this
black
Contrivance
,
which
hath
lost
him
the
good
Opinion
ofmy
Father
,
and
I
my self
am
in
little
better
Condition
.
Sir
(
says
the
Keeper
)
let
my
Soul
suffer
for
Falshood
,
if
I
know
any
more
,
than
that
some
in
the
Spanish
Ambassador's
House
have
been
preparing
Mischief
,
and
have
infus'd
it
abour
four
Days
since
into
his
Majesty
.
But
the
Curtain
of
Privacy
is
drawn
before
the
Picture
,
that
I
cannot
guess
at
the
Colours
.
Well
,
my
Lord
(
says
the
Prince
)
if
that
be
the
Picturedrawer's
Shop
,
no
Counsellor
in
this
Kingdom
is
better
acquainted
than
your self
with
the
Works
and
the
Workmen
.
I
might
have
been
(
says
the
Keeper
)
and
I
am
pang'd
like
a
Woman
in
Travail
,
till
I
know
what
Mis-shapen
Creature
they
are
drawing
.
But
your
Highness
and
my
Lord
Duke
,
have
made
it
a
Crime
to
send
unto
that
House
,
and
they
are
afraid
to
do
it
who
are
commanded
from
his
Majesty
.
It
is
a
Month
since
I
have
forbidden
the
Servants
of
that
House
to
come
at
me
.
But
,
says
the
Prince
,
I
will
make
that
Passage
open
to
you
again
without
Offence
,
and
enterprize
any
way
to
bring
us
out
of
this
Wood
,
wherein
we
are
lost
.
Only
before
we
part
,
keep
not
from
me
,
how
you
came
to
know
or
imagine
,
that
the
Spanish
Agents
have
charg'd
Buckingham
to
my
Father
with
high
Misdemeanors
,
or
perhaps
Disloyalty
.
I
would
hear
you
to
that
Point
,
that
I
may
compare
it
with
other
Parcels
of
my
Intelligence
.
Sir
(
says
the
Keeper
)
I
will
go
on
directly
with
you
.
Another
perhaps
would
blush
,
when
I
tell
you
with
what
Heifer
I
plow
;
but
knowing
mine
Innocency
,
the
worst
that
can
happen
,
is
to
expose
my self
to
be
laugh'd
at
.
Your
Highness
has
often
seen
the
Ambassador's
Secretary
,
Don
Francisco
Carondelet
:
I
have
discover'd
him
to
be
a
Wanton
,
and
a
Servant
to
some
of
our
English
Beauties
,
but
above
all
to
one
of
that
Paramour
Carondelet
brings
to
her
.
All
I
instructed
the
Duke
in
,
came
out
of
her
Chamber
.
And
she
hath
well
earn'd
a
piece
of
Plate
or
two
from
me
,
and
shall
not
be
unrecompenc'd
for
this
Service
,
about
which
your
Highness
doth
use
me
,
if
the
Drab
can
help
me
in
it
.
Truly
,
Sir
,
this
is
my
Dark
Lanthorn
,
and
I
am
not
asham'd
to
enquire
of
a
Dalilah
to
resolve
a
Riddle
;
for
in
my
Studies
of
Divinity
,
I
have
glean'd
up
this
Maxim
,
Licet
uti
alieno
Peccato
;
tho'
the
Devil
make
her
a
Sinner
,
I
may
make
good
use
of
her
Sin
.
Yea
,
(
says
the
Prince
merrily
)
do
you
deal
in
such
Ware
?
In
good
faith
,
Sir
(
says
the
Keeper
)
I
never
saw
her
Face
.
And
so
this
Conference
ended
.
Since
the
Keeper
had
gone
thus
far
That
nothing
but
a
Matter
as
dear
unto
him
as
his
Life
,
should
have
forc'd
him
to
break
Rule
,
to
offend
his
Lordship
with
his
presence
.
And
then
in
a
very
passionate
manner
he
begs
that
he
would
obtain
his
Friend's
Enlargement
for
him
,
who
was
newly
taken
up
.
And
would
you
have
me
(
says
the
Keeper
)
run
such
a
Hazard
,
to
set
a
Priest
at
Liberty
,
a
Dead
Man
by
our
Statutes
,
when
the
Eye
of
the
Parliament
is
so
vigilant
upon
the
Breach
of
Justice
,
especially
in
this
kind
,
to
the
sadding
of
our
Godly
Men
,
who
detest
them
that
creep
here
out
of
Seminaries
,
above
all
Malefactors
,
because
they
come
with
an
Intent
to
pervert
them
,
who
have
liv'd
in
the
Bosom
of
our
Church
.
My
Lord
(
says
Francisco
)
let
not
the
Dread
of
this
Parliament
trouble
you
;
for
I
can
tell
you
,
if
you
have
not
heard
it
,
that
it
is
upon
Expiration
.
By
this
means
the
Keeper
was
got
into
the
Out-Works
of
the
Project
,
and
play'd
so
artificially
with
the
Secretary
,
that
he
soon
took
the
Main
Fortress
.
He
kept
him
with
him
till
Two
in
the
Morning
;
by
which
time
he
had
pick'd
out
of
him
the
Heads
of
all
the
Articles
in
the
Paper
convey'd
before
into
the
King's
Hand
.
And
after
this
,
to
gratify
him
,
he
calls
for
the
Pursivant
(
who
was
at
hand
)
and
orders
him
immediately
to
free
the
Priest
,
but
upon
this
Condition
,
that
he
should
cross
the
Seas
that
Day
,
or
the
next
,
that
so
he
might
secure
himself
from
danger
in
what
he
had
done
:
And
then
the
Lord
Keeper
and
Don
Francisco
parted
with
much
shew
of
Love
on
both
sides
,
each
having
compass'd
his
Designs
.
By
this
time
(
I
make
account
)
my
Reader
cannot
but
smile
,
to
see
how
dextrously
the
whole
Bus'ness
was
manag'd
;
and
how
prettily
and
innocently
too
a
Person
of
neat
Wit
may
carry
on
his
own
Interest
,
when
you
would
think
he
was
earnest
about
another
Man's
Bus'ness
;
so
consistent
are
two
contrary
Motions
at
the
same
time
in
Policy
,
as
well
as
in
the
Workings
of
Nature
.
But
to
make
an
End
of
our
Story
:
He
had
the
Viper
and
her
Brood
in
a
Box.
Upon
this
the
Prince
was
for
posting
away
for
Windsor
:
Nay
,
Sir
(
says
the
Keeper
)
let
your
Highness
be
pleas'd
to
take
my
Petition
along
with
you
:
Where
is
it
?
says
the
Prince
.
In
my
Mouth
,
replies
he
:
for
I
humbly
beg
,
that
you
will
conceal
me
in
all
that
I
have
done
in
this
Matter
;
and
as
you
tender
my
Life
,
to
keep
the
Knowledge
of
this
from
your
Father
.
I
have
committed
two
great
Crimes
in
a
Sworn
Counsellor
;
First
,
to
search
into
the
King's
Counsels
,
which
he
would
should
not
be
opened
;
Secondly
,
when
I
have
found
them
out
,
to
discover
them
,
tho'
to
your
Highness
.
So
the
Prince
parting
with
him
,
gave
him
assurance
of
Secresy
;
and
coming
to
Windsor
,
he
shews
Buckingham
the
Papers
.
After
'T
is
well
,
very
well
;
and
an
enlivening
Spirit
danc'd
in
his
Eyes
.
Then
he
embrac'd
his
Son
and
Buckingham
,
protesting
,
he
was
very
sorry
,
that
a
parcel
of
Traytors
should
ever
make
him
jealous
of
them
;
but
now
that
all
was
right
again
.
And
that
you
may
know
(
says
his
Majesty
)
how
little
you
shall
pay
me
for
Reconciliation
,
I
ask
no
more
,
but
to
tell
me
who
is
your
Engineer
,
that
struck
these
Sparks
out
of
the
Flint
,
and
lighted
the
Candle
,
to
find
the
Groat
that
was
lost
.
The
Prince
was
silent
,
and
the
Duke
vow'd
he
knew
not
the
Author
.
Well
(
says
the
King
)
I
have
a
good
Nostril
,
and
will
answer
mine
own
Question
;
My
Keeper
had
the
main
Finger
in
it
;
I
dare
swear
it
was
he
that
bolted
the
Flower
,
and
made
it
up
into
this
Paist
.
Sir
(
says
the
Prince
)
I
was
precluded
by
my
Promise
not
to
reveal
him
,
but
I
never
promis'd
to
tell
a
lye
for
him
:
Your
Majesty
hath
hit
the
Man
.
And
GOD
do
him
good
for
it
(
says
the
King
)
I
need
not
tell
you
both
what
you
ow
him
for
his
Service
;
and
he
hath
done
himself
this
Right
with
me
,
that
I
discern
his
Sufficiency
more
and
more
So
by
this
Discovery
the
Keeper
did
not
only
do
a
signal
Service
to
the
Prince
and
Duke
,
but
likewise
to
his
Majesty
;
who
't
is
ten
to
one
had
quarrelled
out-right
with
his
Parliament
,
had
he
not
been
thus
convinc'd
of
his
groundless
Fears
.
You
may
gather
from
these
and
some
other
Passages
,
in
this
Part
of
the
Life
,
how
prudent
and
how
serviceable
a
Counsellor
he
was
to
his
Majesty
,
and
to
his
great
Patron
and
first
Raiser
,
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
.
And
now
I
am
upon
this
Part
of
his
Character
,
I
will
give
you
an
Instance
or
two
more
of
his
Services
to
the
Duke
:
by
which
put
altogether
,
you
may
see
how
little
he
deserv'd
the
usage
he
afterwards
receiv'd
from
his
Hands
.
In
the
Year
1622.
the
Jesuits
had
Papist
.
Cypr.
Ang.
p.
100.
made
(
what
they
very
much
coveted
)
a
Proselyte
of
the
Countess
of
Buckingham
;
and
upon
this
the
People
were
jealous
that
there
was
danger
of
the
Duke's
being
influenc'd
by
his
Mother
,
It
is
time
The
dispute
against
Fisher
the
Jesuit
.
Duke
follows
the
Advice
;
the
Conferences
are
set
on
foot
,
and
his
Majesty
was
Superintendent
at
them
.
Fisher
the
Jesuit
being
the
Lady's
Champion
;
he
was
oppos'd
strongly
by
Dr.
White
,
then
Dean
of
Carlisle
,
but
especially
by
Dr.
Laud
(
as
may
be
seen
by
the
Controversy
publish'd
after
)
Bishop
of
St.
David's
;
and
the
That
he
never
wrote
any
thing
with
Intention
to
let
the
World
see
it
,
unless
necessity
constrain'd
him
.
But
for
all
the
great
Abilities
and
Learning
What
I
am
going
to
mention
next
,
if
remembred
by
my
Reader
when
he
comes
to
the
next
Part
,
will
give
some
small
Insight
into
the
Reasons
of
his
declining
in
the
Duke's
Favour
:
For
tho'
it
was
on
the
Keeper's
side
a
sincere
piece
of
Friendship
,
yet
't
is
a
Question
whether
the
Duke
took
it
as
such
.
Buckingham
,
you
know
very
well
,
had
a
Grudge
against
Spain
;
to
fatisfy
which
he
must
needs
make
War
upon
it
.
All
that
he
wanted
was
Money
,
May
it
please
your
Grace
,
I
Hear
a
Whispering
,
rather
than
a
Report
,
out
of
Westminster-Hall
,
that
some
great
Alteration
is
presently
to
be
made
of
the
small
Remainder
of
his
Majesty's
or
rather
the
Crown-Land
.
Altho'
I
know
not
certainly
,
being
unimploy'd
and
unprofitable
,
whether
I
ought
to
take
notice
hereof
at
all
,
or
what
to
advise
;
yet
presuming
upon
that
Favour
I
have
ever
found
,
and
of
late
,
as
much
as
ever
with
your
Grace
,
I
have
sent
you
this
Ticket
to
read
and
burn
.
If
there
be
any
Resolution
taken
for
the
general
Alteration
of
the
Crown-Lands
,
yet
this
is
not
a
convenient
time
to
go
about
it
.
First
,
Because
there
is
not
yet
a
Lord
Treasurer
,
that
it
may
be
Christned
to
be
his
Act.
Secondly
,
Because
it
hath
not
been
debated
at
the
Council-Table
;
for
want
of
whose
Advice
,
it
will
be
appropriated
to
be
your
Grace's
Act.
Thirdly
,
It
cannot
be
ripe
for
Execution
,
till
the
next
Session
of
Parliament
is
dissolved
;
for
otherwise
it
will
undoubtedly
serve
as
an
Excuse
for
not
granting
Subsidies
.
But
setting
those
considerations
of
Delay
aside
,
I
humbly
desire
your
Grace
,
that
no
Universal
Alteration
may
be
made
of
the
Tenure
of
the
Crown-Lands
.
And
First
,
Because
the
Money
got
thereby
will
be
much
,
and
will
instantly
be
gone
.
Secondly
,
The
Infamy
in
Chronicles
will
be
eternal
upon
our
most
Gracious
Master
.
Thirdly
,
The
Prince
cannot
cordially
assent
thereunto
;
or
if
he
do
,
it
is
impossible
(
his
Wisdom
considered
)
but
that
hereafter
he
should
repent
him
,
and
much
abhor
the
Authors
and
Actors
of
this
Counsel
.
Lastly
,
If
the
Prince
should
be
of
the
same
Mind
with
his
Father
,
yet
their
Successors
will
have
good
pretences
to
prosecute
everlastingly
the
Names
and
Posterities
of
all
such
Advisers
.
Nor
did
the
Freedom
of
the
Keeper's
The
peaceful
Reign
of
King
James
New
Style
)
was
Christmas
Day
with
them
.
So
the
Keeper
sent
to
invite
them
to
Sup
Episcopal
Collation
;
for
the
Ambassadors
with
all
their
Attendance
were
brought
in
at
the
North-Gate
of
the
Abby
,
which
was
stuck
with
Torches
every
where
within
and
without
.
At
the
Door
of
the
Quire
,
the
Keeper
desir'd
their
Lordships
to
go
in
,
and
seat
themselves
for
a
while
,
assuring
them
that
nothing
should
be
done
that
might
be
in
the
least
offensive
to
them
.
So
the
Ambassadors
with
their
Train
fill'd
the
Stalls
,
where
they
continued
about
half
an
Hour
,
while
Choiristers
in
their
richest
Habits
,
sung
three
Anthems
;
during
which
time
they
all
stood
uncover'd
,
excepting
Monsieur
Villoclare
.
While
a
Verse
was
playing
,
the
Keeper
That
their
Lordships
at
their
Leisure
might
read
in
that
Book
,
in
what
Form
of
Holiness
our
Prince
worship'd
GOD
;
wherein
he
durst
say
,
nothing
savour'd
of
any
Corruption
of
Doctrine
,
much
less
of
Heresy
,
which
he
hoped
would
be
so
reported
to
the
Lady
Princess
Henrietta
.
After
this
,
when
they
went
out
,
they
took
all
their
Books
along
with
them
,
except
Villoclare
,
and
his
was
brought
after
him
,
as
if
he
had
forgot
it
.
There
was
at
this
Time
present
a
And
tho'
I
deplore
your
Schism
(
says
he
)
from
the
Catholick
Church
,
yet
I
should
bare
false
Witness
,
if
I
did
not
confess
,
that
your
Decency
,
which
I
observ'd
at
that
holy
Duty
,
was
very
allowable
in
the
Consecrator
and
Receivers
.
So
,
after
some
further
Conferences
As
the
Court
of
Spain
,
during
the
The
King
now
perceiving
some
Indisposition
put
him
in
Mind
both
of
his
Mortality
and
Immortality
.
And
having
the
Prince's
Consent
,
he
went
into
his
That
he
knew
he
should
neither
displease
him
,
nor
discourage
him
,
if
he
brought
Isaiah's
Message
to
Hezekiah
,
to
set
his
House
in
order
;
for
he
thought
his
Days
to
come
would
be
but
few
in
this
World
.
I
am
satisfied
(
replies
the
King
)
and
I
pray
you
assist
me
to
make
me
ready
to
go
away
hence
to
CHRIST
,
whose
Mercies
I
call
for
,
and
I
hope
to
find
them
.
From
this
time
the
Keeper
watch'd
with
his
Majesty
continually
,
and
never
so
much
as
put
off
his
Cloaths
,
to
go
to
Bed
,
till
after
his
Royal
Master's
Death
;
which
was
visible
enough
in
his
Looks
,
on
Sunday
Night
,
when
he
return'd
to
Westminster
.
His
whole
Bus'ness
was
Night
From
thence
his
Body
was
brought
to
Somerset-House
,
and
carried
thence
in
great
State
,
on
Saturday
the
7th
of
May
to
St.
Peter's
Church
in
Westminster
,
where
it
was
solemnly
interr'd
:
And
the
Funeral
Sermon
29.
30.
&
part
of
31.
preach'd
by
the
Lord
Keeper
Williams
,
and
printed
not
long
after
,
by
the
Name
of
Great-Britain's
Solomon
.
Thus
I
have
at
last
brought
the
L.
Keeper
Williams
through
great
Honours
,
and
much
Fatigue
and
Bus'ness
to
the
Period
at
once
of
King
James's
Reign
,
and
his
own
Prosperity
.
And
(
if
the
Living
Man
may
with
any
reason
complain
)
well
had
it
been
for
him
too
,
had
he
never
liv'd
to
see
those
Days
,
which
the
following
Scene
will
represent
to
my
Reader
.
The
End
of
the
Second
Part.
An
Account
of
his
Fall
,
and
his
Troubles
.
PART
III.
IF
so
be
that
outward
Things
and
to
Cambridge
,
quite
to
the
End
of
King
James's
Reign
,
Fortune
seem'd
to
Court
him
all
along
,
and
to
gratify
him
in
every
Thing
;
whereas
now
(
tir'd
,
one
would
think
,
with
her
over-fondness
of
him
before
)
she
treats
him
with
all
the
hard
Usage
,
as
if
she
had
mark'd
him
out
,
to
give
all
Men
in
him
a
notorious
proof
of
her
great
Inconstancy
.
But
before
we
give
an
Account
of
his
Troubles
,
it
will
be
but
convenient
to
look
back
a
little
into
the
former
Reign
,
and
try
if
we
can
search
into
the
Springs
of
Buckingham's
Hatred
to
him
,
which
was
the
first
We
have
had
occasion
before
to
hint
how
fickle
Buckingham
was
,
and
how
apt
to
fall
out
with
his
greatest
Favourites
:
John
Michel
,
Aug.
8.
1622.
GOD
is
my
Witness
,
I
have
never
denied
either
Justice
or
Favour
(
which
was
to
be
justified
)
to
this
Man
,
or
any
other
,
that
had
the
least
Relation
to
your
good
and
most
Noble
Mother
;
and
I
hope
your
Lordship
is
perswaded
thereof
.
And
the
Countess
,
That
the
Lord
Keeper
had
sufficient
Reason
sometimes
not
to
comply
with
her
Son
:
and
that
she
never
knew
him
disagree
,
but
that
his
Counsels
were
wise
,
and
well
grounded
;
ever
tending
to
the
Marquess's
Honour
,
Safety
and
Prosperity
.
But
then
,
that
he
often
offended
her
Son
with
Reprehensions
,
that
were
too
bold
and
vehement
.
And
,
indeed
,
it
was
his
Humour
to
be
very
angry
with
his
best
Friends
,
when
they
would
not
be
perswaded
to
their
own
Good
.
So
Williams
.
Cypr.
Ang.
p.
113.
be
gain'd
upon
.
As
the
Lord-Keeper
declin'd
in
the
good
Opinion
of
the
Duke
,
so
Bishop
Laud
,
he
grew
more
and
more
every
day
in
Favour
;
insomuch
that
when
Buckingham
went
over
into
Spain
with
the
Prince
,
he
left
the
Bishop
to
be
his
Agent
at
Court
.
These
Octob
3.
1623.
Accidents
,
together
with
Mis-understandings
,
and
Mis-representations
on
both
sides
from
Tale-bearers
and
Busie-bodies
,
seem
to
have
given
the
first
occasion
to
those
Jealousies
and
Heats
,
that
afterwards
arose
betwixt
these
Two
great
and
unfortunate
Prelates
.
And
since
we
are
at
best
left
but
to
our
Guesses
in
this
matter
(
it
being
so
diversly
represented
,
as
Passion
or
Interest
sways
)
it
were
but
Modesty
as
well
as
Justice
(
due
to
such
sacred
Memories
)
in
us
,
at
this
distance
of
time
,
to
search
no
farther
,
but
to
be
charitable
in
our
surmises
,
so
long
as
we
are
certain
,
from
the
main
History
of
both
their
Actions
,
that
they
were
Men
good
and
serviceable
in
their
Generation
.
And
to
what
purpose
should
we
keep
their
Names
at
Enmity
here
upon
Earth
,
who
we
may
be
sure
,
are
long
since
join'd
in
mutual
Peace
and
Love
in
Heaven
;
where
seeing
one
anothers
Thoughts
by
Intuition
(
which
prevents
all
Mistakes
)
they
conclude
that
nothing
but
this
Gross
Veil
of
Flesh
could
have
so
disguis'd
their
Sentiments
,
as
to
make
them
seem
at
Variance
,
when
at
the
same
time
they
drove
both
with
all
their
Might
to
the
same
great
End
,
Namely
the
Glory
of
God
and
the
Establish'd
Happiness
of
our
Church
and
Nation
.
But
to
proceed
in
our
Discovery
of
the
Duke's
Resentments
towards
the
Keeper
.
When
his
Grace
was
Williams
(
147.
150
)
Cabal
.
p.
97.
in
Spain
,
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
but
the
Lord-Keeper's
Letters
of
Instruction
,
tho'
Well
Design'd
,
were
not
so
well
taken
:
and
his
often
Desiring
and
Advising
him
to
be
Reconcil'd
to
the
Earl
of
Bristol
,
(
one
that
he
ever
hated
)
and
to
proceed
according
to
his
Counsels
,
as
being
a
Most
able
States-Man
,
but
above
all
others
Experienc'd
in
the
Court
of
Spain
;
this
went
much
against
the
Grain
with
the
Duke
,
and
the
Keeper
might
as
well
have
told
him
,
that
Bristol
was
a
Wiser
Man
than
his
Grace
.
At
this
very
time
too
it
was
told
the
Whensoever
I
disagree
with
him
,
he
will
prove
himself
to
be
in
the
Right
;
and
tho'
I
could
never
Detect
him
hitherto
to
be
Dishonest
,
I
am
afraid
of
his
Wit
.
At
which
suffer
me
no
longer
to
be
,
than
I
shall
be
True
,
Plain
,
Faithful
and
Affectionately
Respectful
of
your
Lordship
.
And
in
a
Letter
Dated
Feb.
I
never
harbour'd
in
this
Breast
one
Thought
of
Opposition
to
hurt
your
Grace
,
from
the
first
Hour
I
saw
your
Face
:
But
how
Honest
and
True
soever
the
Keeper
might
be
,
yet
the
Duke
was
highly
Jealous
of
him
;
and
this
the
Keeper
knew
very
well
,
who
was
assur'd
that
my
Lord
England
,
Williams
lost
yet
more
of
the
Duke's
Favour
,
by
declaring
his
Opinion
in
some
Consultations
quite
contrary
to
his
Grace
.
And
he
Vow'd
at
the
same
time
,
as
he
should
have
God
to
be
his
Protector
,
that
he
would
suffer
all
the
Obloquy
of
the
World
,
before
he
would
be
drawn
to
the
least
Ingratitude
against
his
Lordship
;
but
when
the
King
ask'd
his
Judgment
he
must
be
True
and
Faithful
.
For
which
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
p.
125.
Turn
to
any
one
he
would
be
sure
to
make
his
Words
good
,
if
he
could
.
But
the
King
was
so
Conscious
of
the
Lord
Keeper's
Worth
and
great
Abilities
,
that
during
his
Reign
the
Duke's
Displeasure
could
avail
nothing
to
his
Ruin
,
tho'
he
had
several
times
attempted
it
;
And
his
Majesty's
There
remains
unmention'd
yet
a
little
accident
or
two
,
that
perhaps
might
sharpen
the
Duke's
Resentments
something
more
.
It
was
I
believe
Charles
there
's
the
Man
that
makes
us
keep
a
merry
Christmas
.
His
Highness
looking
as
if
he
understood
not
his
Father
;
Why.
't
is
he
(
says
the
King
)
that
Labour'd
more
Dextrously
than
all
my
Servants
beside
to
bring
you
safe
hither
,
to
keep
Christmas
with
me
,
and
I
hope
you
are
sensible
of
it
.
And
after
this
,
in
Christmas
Time
his
Majesty
of
his
own
accord
,
without
any
Solicitation
caus'd
an
Act
of
Council
to
be
Entred
,
That
the
Arch-Bishoprick
of
York
should
be
Confer'd
upon
him
at
the
next
Vacancy
.
For
which
the
Lord
Keeper
most
humbly
thank'd
his
Majesty
,
That
he
was
Pleas'd
to
think
of
him
,
when
his
Majesty
knew
best
,
that
he
thought
not
of
himself
.
This
to
be
sure
was
not
taken
well
by
the
Duke
,
who
thinking
that
Williams
began
now
to
rise
without
his
help
,
was
resolv'd
,
if
possible
,
to
pull
him
down
:
which
we
may
reasonably
conclude
,
from
what
this
Great
Favourite
told
Sir
Fr.
Bacon
,
when
he
advanc'd
him
:
That
Life
of
Ar.
Williams
.
if
he
did
not
ow
his
Preferment
always
to
his
Favour
,
he
should
ow
his
Fall
to
his
Frown
.
These
are
the
Principal
Reasons
,
Coll.
p.
167.
(
a
thing
very
rare
)
that
the
great
Favour
he
had
with
the
former
King
,
should
now
be
doubled
upon
him
by
his
Successor
.
Having
thus
clear'd
my
way
before
me
,
I
go
on
to
what
concerns
the
Lord
Keeper
in
this
new
Reign
.
Our
Constitution
allowing
of
no
James
,
Charles
the
St.
James's
.
And
the
Day
following
he
sent
for
the
L.
Keeper
,
to
him
;
who
found
his
Majesty
It
was
high
time
to
have
Subsidies
granted
,
for
maintaining
of
a
War
with
the
King
of
Spain
,
and
the
Fleet
must
go
forth
for
that
purpose
in
the
Summer
.
His
Lordship
durst
not
venture
to
contradict
any
further
,
because
he
knew
not
how
it
might
be
taken
:
But
his
Approbation
of
the
King's
Proposal
was
utter'd
after
so
cold
a
Manner
,
that
his
Majesty
turned
away
,
and
gave
him
leave
to
be
gone
.
Nor
did
the
King
consult
the
Keeper
But
he
did
not
imagine
,
that
his
But
as
yet
he
kept
his
Place
.
And
The
which
I
durst
not
(
says
he
)
for
fear
of
infringing
my
Duty
to
your
Majesty
,
and
drawing
some
Danger
upon
my self
,
pass
under
the
Great-Seal
,
before
I
had
made
to
your
most
Excellent
Majesty
my
most
humble
Representation
of
the
Thing
.
So
the
Reasons
he
gave
Now
the
Parliament
meets
at
Westminster
,
Coll.
p.
171.
June
18.
The
Parl.
meets
.
and
the
King
makes
a
Speech
to
them
,
About
the
War
for
the
Recovery
of
the
Palatinate
,
wherein
the
last
Parliament
had
ingag'd
his
Father
;
and
for
the
Carrying
on
of
which
he
wanted
their
Assistance
.
After
The
Plague
at
this
time
raging
in
And
the
Pestilence
had
overspread
the
whole
Land
,
so
that
no
Man
that
travell'd
knew
where
to
lodge
in
safety
;
for
which
reason
the
Lords
and
Gentlemen
would
not
take
it
kindly
to
be
forc'd
abroad
in
such
a
mortal
Time
;
and.
't
is
likely
when
they
come
together
,
that
they
will
Vote
out
of
Discontent
and
Displeasure
.
That
his
Majesty
was
ill
advis'd
to
give
Offences
,
tho'
small
ones
,
in
the
beginning
of
his
Reign
.
In
the
next
place
,
it
is
to
be
considered
,
that
the
Parliament
hath
given
two
Subsidies
at
Westminster
;
and
tho'
they
remove
to
Oxford
,
yet
it
is
the
same
Session
:
and
if
they
alledge
that
it
is
not
usual
for
the
House
to
give
twice
in
a
Session
,
(
tho'
I
wish
heartily
they
would
)
yet
how
shall
we
perswade
them
,
out
of
their
Custom
,
if
they
insist
upon
it
?
And
it
is
not
prudent
in
the
King
to
run
a
probable
hazard
of
a
Denial
.
To
all
this
the
Duke
replied
,
That
publick
Necessity
might
sway
more
than
one
Hereupon
the
Keeper
requested
,
that
he
might
speak
a
few
Words
with
the
King
in
private
;
which
being
granted
,
he
told
his
Majesty
,
That
the
Lord
Duke
had
Enemies
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
who
had
contriv'd
Complaints
,
and
made
them
ready
to
be
prefer'd
,
and
would
spend
the
time
at
Oxford
about
them
.
And
what
Folly
it
were
to
continue
a
Session
,
that
had
no
other
Aim
,
but
to
bring
the
Duke
upon
the
Stage
?
But
if
your
Majesty
think
,
that
this
is
like
a
Hectick
,
quickly
known
,
but
hardly
cur'd
;
my
humble
Motion
is
,
that
this
Malady
,
or
Malice
(
call
it
which
you
will
)
may
sleep
till
after
Christmas
.
For
I
hope
to
give
such
Account
by
that
time
,
by
undertaking
with
the
chief
Sticklers
,
that
they
shall
supersede
from
their
Bitterness
against
your
great
Servant
;
and
that
Passage
to
your
weighty
Counsels
shall
be
made
smooth
and
peaceable
.
And
why
do
you
conceal
this
from
Buckingham
?
Says
the
King
.
Good
Lord
Sir
(
says
the
Keeper
)
fain
I
would
begin
at
that
End
,
but
he
will
not
hear
me
with
Moderation
.
This
But
the
Duke
carried
his
Point
,
and
adjourn'd
at
Oxford
.
the
Parliament
met
at
Oxford
,
on
the
first
of
August
.
On
the
very
first
Morning
there
was
a
Complaint
made
by
a
Western
Knight
,
that
he
had
seen
a
Pardon
for
six
Priests
,
dated
July
the
12th
:
whereas
on
the
11th
,
the
L.
Keeper
had
promis'd
in
the
King's
Name
before
them
all
,
that
the
Laws
should
be
put
in
Execution
against
them
.
And
for
him
,
that
was
a
Bishop
,
to
set
the
Seal
to
such
a
Warrant
;
against
his
own
profess'd
Religion
,
was
thought
a
burning
shame
.
This
Thing
indeed
was
at
first
design'd
to
insnare
the
Keeper
,
but
it
caught
another
.
For
the
Warrant
was
brought
My
To
this
all
the
Duke
replied
I
will
look
whom
I
trust
to
,
and
so
flung
out
of
the
Chamber
with
Threats
in
his
Countenance
.
Immediately
upon
this
,
the
Commons
of
this
Parliament
were
censur'd
at
Woodstock
,
for
Spiteful
and
Seditious
:
and
therefore
not
fit
to
continue
,
but
to
be
dissolv'd
.
The
Keeper
hearing
this
,
did
all
he
could
with
Arguments
,
Tears
and
Supplications
,
to
put
a
stop
to
such
Proceedings
;
desiring
his
Majesty
to
remember
,
That
in
his
hearing
,
his
Blessed
Father
had
charg'd
him
to
call
Parliaments
often
,
and
continue
them
,
tho'
they
might
sometimes
offend
him
.
But
chiefly
,
Sir
(
says
he
)
let
it
never
be
said
,
that
you
have
not
kept
good
Correspondence
with
your
first
Parliament
.
And
the
Keeper
had
almost
all
the
Lords
of
the
Council
of
the
same
Opinion
with
him
in
this
Point
;
but
Buckingham
was
against
it
,
and
so
Coll.
p.
191.
the
King
to
preserve
his
Favourite
,
dissolv'd
the
Parliament
on
the
12th
of
August
.
The
Duke
was
jealous
that
the
L.
36.
H.
Lestrange
Reign
of
K.
Cha.
p.
20.
21.
Writing
,
to
the
great
Detriment
of
his
Good
Name
;
did
not
the
contrary
evidently
appear
from
a
Paper
,
which
he
gave
his
Majesty
on
the
14th
of
August
,
an
Abstract
of
which
I
shall
give
you
here
.
Reasons
to
satisfy
your
most
Excellent
FIRST
,
Negatively
,
That
I
did
nothing
disserviceably
to
your
Majesty
,
or
the
Duke
.
Secondly
,
I
did
cross
the
Popular
way
,
more
than
any
of
the
Council
;
which
I
durst
not
have
done
,
if
I
had
intended
to
run
along
with
them
.
Affirmatively
,
I
offer'd
my
poor
Service
to
your
Majesty
,
to
execute
any
Directions
should
be
given
me
in
private
,
and
waited
several
times
at
several
places
upon
your
Majesty
for
that
purpose
;
but
my
Answer
still
was
,
You
had
Nothing
to
say
to
me
.
I
did
the
like
to
my
Lord
Duke
at
Oxford
,
desiring
his
Lordship
to
send
me
his
Commands
by
any
trusty
Friend
,
and
I
would
serve
him
to
the
utmost
of
my
Power
:
his
Grace
said
,
He
would
send
,
but
he
never
did
.
So
that
if
I
had
any
Power
in
either
House
,
what
use
could
I
make
of
it
,
without
Directions
?
For
it
was
not
safe
for
me
to
stickle
,
without
Countenance
from
your
Excellent
Majesty
;
Because
I
know
very
well
,
I
have
a
great
many
Enemies
in
the
House
,
and
those
chiefly
of
the
Duke's
creating
.
But
nevertheless
(
I
told
the
These
Reasons
satisfied
his
Majesty
,
That
he
was
Resolv'd
to
Stand
upon
his
own
Legs
:
If
that
be
your
Resolution
(
said
the
Duke
)
Look
you
Stand
fast
.
But
since
my
Author
quotes
no
Authority
for
this
,
and
since
all
the
Keeper's
Behaviour
otherwise
,
and
his
Letters
to
the
Duke
are
full
of
the
Humblest
Submission
that
can
be
exprest
,
and
shew
not
the
least
Resentments
,
I
leave
my
Reader
to
give
what
Credit
he
thinks
fit
to
this
Narration
.
But
within
a
Fortnight
after
,
about
the
End
of
August
,
Buckingham
at
Holdbery
in
New-Forest
cast
Williams
quite
out
of
his
Majesty's
Favour
;
and
at
Plimouth
in
the
Midst
of
September
got
an
Irrevocable
sentence
to
deprive
him
of
his
Office
.
If
the
Queen
could
have
befriended
him
,
he
had
stood
still
,
for
he
was
in
Favour
with
her
Majesty
,
by
reason
His
Enemies
not
able
to
charge
him
with
any
Thing
.
Non
perpetuus
olim
fuit
honor
Cancellarii
,
sed
Triennalis
,
vel
quadriennalis
.
Spelman
.
Gloss.
See
p.
74.
they
could
think
of
was
,
not
to
pretend
to
any
Accusations
,
but
to
let
his
Majesty
barely
recall
the
Great
Seal
from
his
Custody
;
because
it
was
given
to
him
at
first
upon
a
Triennial
Trust
,
and
no
longer
;
which
was
no
unusual
Thing
.
And
he
had
himself
made
such
a
Request
(
if
you
remember
)
to
King
James
,
when
he
first
entred
upon
his
Office
,
that
no
Lord
Keeper
might
be
continu'd
above
3
Years
.
So
that
his
Enemies
could
lay
no
Accusations
to
his
Charge
,
and
all
his
Crime
was
their
Hatred
and
Malice
.
And
this
Account
of
the
Matter
is
confirm'd
even
by
that
great
Dealer
in
Scandal
,
whom
I
Ruin
was
determin'd
not
upon
any
known
Crime
,
but
upon
Circumstances
and
Examinations
to
pick
out
Faults
committed
in
his
whole
Life
time
.
Which
,
considering
the
Person
it
comes
from
,
is
more
to
the
Lord
Keeper's
commendation
,
than
if
an
unprejudic'd
Pen
had
declar'd
him
wholly
Innocent
;
as
indeed
he
was
in
his
Behaviour
both
to
his
Majesty
and
to
the
Duke
,
which
was
the
only
Crime
pretended
against
him
.
On
the
15th
of
October
,
The
Lord
came
to
the
Lord
Keeper's
Lodgings
in
Salisbury
with
this
Message
:
That
his
Majesty
understanding
that
his
Father
had
taken
a
Resolution
,
that
the
Keeper
of
the
Great
Seal
of
England
should
continue
but
from
Three
Years
to
Three
Years
,
and
approving
very
well
thereof
,
and
being
resolv'd
to
observe
the
Order
during
his
own
Reign
,
he
expects
that
you
should
Surrender
up
the
Seal
by
Allhallowtide
next
,
alledging
no
other
Cause
thereof
.
And
that
having
so
done
,
you
should
retire
your self
to
your
Bishoprick
of
Lincoln
.
To
which
the
Keeper
answer'd
;
I
conceive
it
not
to
be
a
restraint
,
but
only
to
signify
,
that
his
Majesty
intends
not
to
employ
you
at
the
Table
,
but
leaves
you
free
to
go
to
your
Bishoprick
.
My
Lord
(
says
the
Keeper
)
I
desire
your
favourable
Intercession
for
an
Explanation
of
that
Point
.
And
I
beseech
your
Lordship
to
move
his
Majesty
,
that
I
may
attend
upon
him
,
to
present
unto
his
Majesty
Two
humble
Petitions
,
the
one
concerning
my
Reputation
,
and
the
other
my
Maintenance
;
which
I
am
the
more
confident
his
Majesty
will
admit
of
,
because
I
vow
before
God
,
I
am
not
Guilty
of
the
least
Offence
against
his
Majesty
,
and
am
ready
to
make
it
good
upon
my
Life
.
And
I
make
the
like
Protestation
for
any
Unworthiness
done
against
the
Duke
;
whose
Hand
peradventure
may
be
in
this
Business
.
At
parting
my
Lord
Conway
spake
about
the
time
of
Resignation
;
and
I
said
it
was
all
one
to
me
,
sooner
or
later
.
Then
I
ask'd
his
Lordship
if
I
was
restrain'd
from
the
Board
before
the
delivering
of
the
Seal
?
his
Lorship
answer'd
,
He
knew
of
no
such
Intent
.
And
so
we
parted
.
The
next
day
after
,
waiting
on
I
have
acquainted
his
Majesty
how
Obedient
you
were
to
his
Commands
,
and
how
willing
to
resign
the
Seal
without
any
farther
Dispute
;
and
I
have
presented
all
your
Requests
to
his
Majesty
;
who
answer'd
to
every
particular
as
follows
;
concerning
your
Retiring
he
meant
no
Restraint
of
Place
;
but
for
some
Questions
that
might
be
renew'd
,
and
for
some
Considerations
known
to
himself
,
he
intended
not
to
use
your
service
at
the
Council-Table
for
a
while
.
And
for
your
Estate
;
you
had
no
Wife
and
Children
:
And
he
intended
not
to
Debar
you
from
any
of
your
Church
Preferments
,
until
he
should
provide
you
better
,
And
he
was
content
to
admit
you
to
speak
with
him
when
you
pleas'd
,
provided
you
endeavour'd
not
to
unsetle
his
former
Resolutions
.
Upon
the
18th
of
October
,
I
desir'd
Tho.
Cary
sent
me
Word
,
His
Majesty
would
speak
with
me
the
next
Morning
.
But
after
Sermon
,
the
King
told
my
Lord
Conway
,
that
I
had
sent
to
him
;
and
he
was
in
a
long
and
serious
Discourse
with
him
.
Then
my
Lord
Conway
(
the
King
being
gone
to
dinner
)
follow'd
me
into
the
Cloister
,
and
told
me
,
That
he
conceiv'd
his
Majesty
was
afraid
,
that
I
would
press
him
to
give
his
Reasons
,
why
he
took
the
Seal
from
me
,
and
caus'd
me
to
abstain
from
the
Board
.
But
I
answered
,
I
should
falsify
my
Word
to
his
Lordship
,
if
I
should
speak
unto
his
Majesty
upon
any
other
Points
,
than
those
of
my
Reputation
,
and
my
Means
.
After
this
,
the
Keeper
gave
the
Lord
Conway
a
Letter
(
having
first
shew'd
it
to
him
)
to
present
unto
his
Majesty
,
if
he
thought
fit
;
wherein
was
a
full
Declaration
of
his
Innocency
,
both
with
respect
to
his
Majesty
and
the
Duke
,
which
he
concludes
thus
;
If
all
these
Informations
against
a
poor
Bishop
,
that
so
serv'd
your
Father
in
his
Life
,
and
at
his
Death
,
be
grounded
only
upon
Suspicion
,
Malice
,
or
Misapprehension
,
and
be
cried
down
(
as
they
needs
must
be
)
by
all
the
Members
of
the
one
and
the
other
House
;
pity
me
,
Dread
Sovereign
;
and
let
me
retire
with
the
comfortable
Assurance
of
your
Majesty's
Favour
,
that
I
may
spend
my
Days
quietly
in
the
Service
of
my
GOD
;
in
serving
whom
,
as
I
resolve
to
do
,
I
shall
never
fail
to
serve
your
Majesty
;
whom
GOD
Almighty
prosper
with
all
Success
in
this
World
,
and
with
all
Happiness
and
Eternal
Glory
in
that
to
come
.
After
his
Majesty
had
read
the
Letter
,
First
,
he
ask'd
his
Majesty's
Grace
It
is
my
Intention
.
3
ly
I
beseech
your
Majesty
to
remember
your
Father's
Promise
,
made
before
all
the
Lords
,
that
whensoever
he
took
away
the
Seal
,
he
would
place
me
in
as
good
a
Bishoprick
or
Arch-Bishoprick
as
he
could
:
A
Promise
not
only
seconded
,
but
drawn
from
your
Father
first
by
your
Majesty
.
There
is
no
such
Place
yet
void
(
says
the
King
)
when
any
falls
,
then
it
will
be
time
to
make
this
Request
to
me
.
4
ly
I
desire
that
I
may
not
be
commanded
away
from
the
Council-Table
,
but
that
my
Absence
may
be
left
wholly
to
my
own
Discretion
.
I
ever
intended
it
so
,
and
never
said
a
word
to
the
contrary
;
says
the
King
)
but
then
,
I
expect
you
would
not
offend
by
a
voluntary
Intrusion
.
5
ly
I
beseech
your
Majesty
to
declare
unto
the
Lords
,
that
I
have
willingly
and
readily
yielded
to
your
Majesty's
Pleasure
,
and
that
I
part
in
your
Favour
and
good
Opinion
,
and
am
still
your
Servant
.
I
will
(
replies
his
Majesty
)
but
I
look
that
no
Petitions
be
made
for
you
by
any
Man
at
that
time
,
but
only
for
my
Favour
in
General
.
6
ly
I
humbly
beg
,
that
your
Majesty
,
when
you
think
fit
,
would
make
my
Attonement
with
my
Lord
Duke
,
either
upon
,
or
without
Examination
of
those
Informations
,
which
his
Grace
hath
receiv'd
against
me
.
It
becomes
not
me
,
a
King
,
to
take
up
the
Quarrels
between
my
Subjects
:
and
the
Duke
has
never
before
me
exprest
any
such
Enmity
against
you
.
So
he
thank'd
his
Majesty
for
the
last
part
of
his
Answer
,
which
reviv'd
him
not
a
little
.
7
ly
Whereas
by
your
Father's
Direction
,
I
bought
a
Pension
of
2000
Marks
per
Annum
,
for
3000
l.
I
desire
your
Majesty
would
be
pleas'd
either
to
buy
it
of
me
for
the
same
sum
again
,
and
extinguish
it
;
or
assign
it
to
be
paid
me
out
of
the
Tenths
and
Subsidies
of
the
Bishoprick
,
as
before
I
had
Appointment
to
receive
it
out
of
the
Hamper
.
The
King
said
,
Assignments
are
naught
;
but
I
will
take
order
with
my
Treasurer
,
either
to
pay
it
,
or
buy
it
,
as
shall
be
found
most
convenient
.
8
ly
I
desire
your
Majesty
would
bestow
the
next
vacant
Prebend
in
Westminster
,
upon
my
Library-keeper
,
as
your
Father
had
promis'd
me
,
or
let
me
resume
my
Books
.
It
is
very
reasonable
,
replies
the
King
.
9
ly
I
petition
your
Majesty
that
you
would
be
pleas'd
to
ratify
a
Grant
made
by
your
Father
of
four
Advousons
to
St.
John's
College
in
Cambridge
;
two
whereof
I
bought
with
my
Money
,
and
two
his
Majesty
gave
me
for
the
use
of
that
Society
.
Says
the
King
,
I
will
ratify
the
Grant
,
and
give
way
to
amend
any
Errors
in
the
Form
,
or
in
the
Passing
.
10
ly
,
I
beg
Leave
to
retire
to
a
little
Lodge
,
lent
me
by
my
Lord
Sandys
,
where
my
Lord
Conway
may
receive
the
Seal
,
when
your
Majesty
commands
it
.
Which
was
granted
.
Lastly
,
I
beseech
I
will
do
you
that
Justice
(
says
the
King
)
and
shall
little
value
Reports
.
So
with
a
pleasing
Countenance
he
gave
him
his
Hand
to
kiss
,
and
dismiss'd
him
graciously
.
And
the
Keeper
thought
he
had
obtain'd
St.
John's
College
.
After
he
left
Salisbury
(
which
Upon
the
25th
of
October
,
Sir
John
Cypr.
Ang.
p.
139.
Sanderson's
Reign
of
King
Ch.
p.
24.
the
King
to
the
Lord
Keeper
,
(
who
was
now
at
Foxly
,
near
Windsor
)
to
receive
the
Great-Seal
;
which
accordingly
he
deliver'd
,
but
with
no
signs
of
Unwillingness
,
as
one
intimates
.
For
the
Keeper
was
glad
to
hear
that
so
worthy
a
Person
as
Sir
Thomas
Coventry
,
his
Majesty's
Attorney
General
,
was
to
succeed
him
:
And
instantly
,
giving
up
the
Seal
,
he
put
it
in
the
presence
of
Sir
John
Sucklin
,
into
a
rich
Cabinet
,
inclosing
the
Key
into
a
Letter
And
now
the
Bishop
being
discharg'd
The
Duke
of
Buckingham
continu'd
that
of
all
he
had
given
him
,
he
would
leave
him
nothing
.
And
the
better
to
furnish
King's
Bench
,
the
Star-Chamber
,
or
the
High-Court
of
Parliament
.
And
this
was
manag'd
with
that
secresie
for
some
time
,
that
his
Lordship
with
all
his
vigilance
was
not
aware
of
it
.
And
the
whole
result
of
their
Inquiry
was
,
that
their
Malice
shew'd
his
Innocency
still
the
more
.
And
when
they
could
charge
him
with
nothing
else
,
at
last
they
urg'd
,
that
he
Entertain'd
such
at
his
Table
as
bore
a
Grudge
to
the
Duke
;
who
perhaps
upon
Old
Acquaintance
might
make
him
some
Visits
,
but
never
upon
any
Factious
Design
,
that
could
be
prov'd
.
Besides
all
Now
the
Occasion
of
the
Duke's
That
he
would
make
his
Majesty
the
greatest
Monarch
in
Europe
.
And
the
Bishop
too
would
say
that
he
did
not
like
the
Duke's
Preparations
against
Cadis
,
which
he
thought
would
in
the
End
turn
to
his
Dishonour
:
to
disswade
him
from
which
,
he
would
often
say
,
That
a
King
must
make
himself
sure
in
the
Love
of
his
own
People
at
home
,
before
he
bids
War
abroad
to
such
a
Rich
and
mighty
Nation
.
Such
an
Insight
had
this
great
Man
into
all
Affairs
,
that
his
Counsels
were
ever
for
the
best
;
and
so
faithful
and
free
was
he
,
that
he
could
not
endure
to
disguise
his
Sentiments
.
And
wise
Men
have
that
in
Common
very
often
with
Fools
,
that
they
must
be
shewing
themselves
,
tho'
it
be
for
the
most
part
to
their
own
Prejudice
.
But
the
Bishop
could
never
be
that
he
could
not
have
Two
Wives
,
for
their
Infanta
was
surely
his
.
To
which
the
King
replied
,
there
are
some
English
as
well
as
Spaniards
,
that
are
of
that
Opinion
.
Which
when
it
was
told
the
Bishop
,
he
said
with
a
low
Voice
,
I
know
of
none
such
;
but
if
he
means
Me
,
it
will
be
the
worse
for
me
while
I
live
.
The
Time
for
the
King's
Coronation
being
now
just
at
hand
,
the
Bishop
of
Lincoln
comes
to
London
and
writes
thus
to
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
;
Being
come
hither
,
according
to
favour
at
all
.
But
his
Petition
(
it
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
p.
121.
seems
)
stood
him
but
in
small
stead
,
if
in
any
at
all
.
For
,
although
the
Deans
of
Westminster
have
had
for
above
these
Three
hundred
Years
last
past
a
particular
Place
at
that
great
Solemnity
,
and
although
Bishop
Andrews
(
who
was
Dean
)
did
attend
at
the
Coronation
of
King
James
as
a
special
Officer
;
yet
when
the
appointed
Day
was
come
,
the
Bishop
2.
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
p.
123.
I
believe
he
is
mistaken
there
about
Williams
,
to
be
sure
he
was
not
Lord
Keeper
at
this
time
.
And
perhaps
was
not
so
much
in
Favour
as
to
read
the
King
's
general
Pardon
.
Laud's
Diar
.
An.
1625.
Jan.
16.
&
Jan.
17.
of
Lincoln
had
orders
to
absent
himself
,
and
to
depute
one
of
the
Prebendaries
in
his
Place
.
Now
he
was
resolv'd
not
to
name
Bishop
Laud
,
because
he
took
him
for
his
Rival
and
his
Adversary
;
and
to
Substitute
one
of
a
degree
inferior
to
a
Bishop
,
he
thought
would
be
taken
ill
by
the
Court.
Therefore
to
avoid
being
laugh'd
at
on
the
one
hand
,
or
censur'd
on
the
other
,
he
very
prudently
sends
his
Majesty
a
List
of
all
the
Prebendaries
and
their
several
Dignities
,
and
leaves
it
to
him
to
choose
whom
he
pleases
;
and
immediately
he
pitch'd
upon
Laud
,
who
accordingly
attended
in
the
Room
of
Williams
;
who
insisted
not
upon
his
Right
,
but
yielded
to
the
Sequestration
,
as
he
call'd
it
in
his
Letter
to
the
King
.
Immediately
after
the
Coronation
Feb.
6.
was
over
,
a
second
Parliament
met
.
And
the
Duke
,
fearing
the
Bishop
of
Lincoln
,
makes
Interest
with
the
King
to
have
him
kept
out
of
the
House
.
his
Majesty's
pleasure
to
spare
him
.
But
I
have
not
yet
receiv'd
my
Writ
of
Summons
unto
the
Parliament
(
denied
to
no
Prisoners
,
or
condemned
Peers
in
the
Reign
of
your
Blessed
Father
)
that
I
might
accordingly
make
my
Proxy
;
the
which
I
cannot
do
,
the
Writ
being
not
receiv'd
.
So
at
last
he
obtain'd
a
Writ
,
and
I
beg
for
GOD's
sake
,
that
your
Majesty
would
be
pleas'd
to
mitigate
the
causeless
Displeasure
of
my
Lord
Duke
against
me
.
Secondly
,
I
beseech
your
Majesty
for
CHRIST
JESUS
his
sake
,
not
to
believe
News
,
or
Accusations
against
me
,
while
I
stand
thus
enjoyn'd
from
your
Royal
Presence
,
before
you
shall
have
heard
my
Answer
to
the
Particulars
.
Lastly
,
I
supplicate
,
That
in
my
Absence
this
Parliament
,
no
use
may
be
made
of
your
Sacred
Name
to
wound
the
Reputation
of
a
poor
Bishop
,
who
besides
his
Religion
and
Duty
to
that
Divine
Character
you
now
bear
,
hath
ever
affectionately
honour'd
your
very
Person
,
above
all
the
Objects
in
this
World
,
as
he
desires
the
Salvation
of
the
World
to
come
.
But
I
crave
no
Protection
against
any
other
Accuser
or
Accusation
whatsoever
.
There
are
in
his
Letters
several
other
Protestations
of
this
Nature
,
which
are
too
many
to
be
inserted
into
this
Life
;
but
the
few
I
have
transcrib'd
here
,
and
elsewhere
,
I
thought
necessary
to
clear
him
from
the
Aspersions
of
several
Authors
that
agree
in
charging
him
with
unfair
Dealings
in
the
preceding
Parliament
to
the
King
and
Duke
.
And
in
another
Yet
for
all
this
,
the
Bishop
was
His
best
way
will
be
,
not
to
come
near
it
;
for
it
will
be
impossible
for
him
to
close
with
this
Parliament
,
who
(
contrary
to
my
Advice
)
offended
the
former
,
and
broke
it
up
.
Let
him
remove
himself
by
some
great
Embassage
,
till
the
first
Session
be
ended
;
into
Germany
,
if
he
will
,
as
far
as
Vienna
,
if
he
dare
trust
the
King
of
Spain's
greatest
Friend
and
nearest
Ally
.
But
this
Advice
did
not
please
those
of
the
Duke's
Interest
;
for
rather
than
send
him
so
far
from
the
King
,
they
would
venture
him
at
Home
,
thinking
their
Party
strong
enough
to
secure
him
.
Nor
could
the
Bishop
bring
them
off
from
their
Assurance
:
But
all
that
he
foretold
came
to
pass
,
which
inraged
the
Duke
so
much
the
more
.
The
Parliament
grew
violent
against
him
,
and
Cypr.
Ang.
p.
151.
The
King
dissolves
the
Parl.
An.
1626.
The
Third
Parl.
call'd
.
wounded
him
through
the
Duke's
sides
,
and
not
being
able
to
divert
them
from
what
they
were
set
upon
,
he
dissolved
the
Parliament
on
the
15th
of
June
.
After
this
,
his
Majesty
designing
I
must
crave
some
time
to
resolve
by
the
best
Counsels
GOD
shall
give
me
,
whether
I
shall
obey
your
Lordship's
Letter
(
though
mentioning
his
Majesty's
Pleasure
)
before
my
own
Right
,
which
by
the
Law
of
GOD
and
Man
I
may
in
all
Humility
maintain
.
And
so
resolutely
did
he
persist
,
that
when
But
his
Enemies
were
resolved
to
At
this
time
,
the
People
desiring
to
H.
Lestr
.
K.
Ch.
p.
76
,
77
,
&c.
be
assured
that
their
just
Liberties
should
no
ways
be
infringed
;
Sir
Ed.
Coke
advises
that
a
Petition
of
Right
be
presented
to
his
Majesty
:
which
accordingly
That
as
they
desired
to
preserve
their
own
Liberties
,
so
they
had
regard
to
leave
entire
that
Power
wherewith
his
Majesty
was
intrusted
for
the
Protection
of
his
People
.
Which
the
Commons
would
not
admit
of
,
but
ordered
it
to
be
cancelled
;
and
had
some
Suspicions
,
as
if
the
Bishop
had
been
sprinkled
with
some
Court
Holy-water
.
Whereas
all
he
designed
by
it
was
,
only
to
keep
up
the
Dignity
of
Majesty
.
And
when
the
King
House
of
That
the
Puritans
were
many
,
and
strong
sticklers
;
and
if
his
Majesty
would
give
but
private
Orders
to
his
Ministers
to
connive
a
little
at
their
Party
,
shew
them
some
Indulgence
,
it
might
perhaps
mollify
them
a
little
,
and
make
them
more
pliant
:
Tho'
he
did
not
promise
that
they
would
be
trusty
long
to
any
Government
.
And
the
King
answered
,
he
had
thought
upon
this
before
,
and
that
he
would
do
so
.
About
two
Months
after
this
,
the
Bishop
at
his
Court
at
Leicester
,
acted
according
to
this
Counsel
resolv'd
upon
by
his
Majesty
;
and
withall
told
Sir
J.
Lamb
,
and
Dr.
Sibthorp
his
Reason
for
it
;
That
it
was
not
only
his
own
,
but
the
Royal
Pleasure
.
Now
Lamb
that
he
trespast
Coll.
p.
421.
against
Loyalty
with
his
Tongue
,
is
a
very
great
Mistake
in
certain
Historians
.
This
Information
,
together
with
some
others
,
being
transmitted
to
the
Council-Table
,
was
ordered
for
the
present
to
be
seal'd
up
,
and
committed
to
the
Custody
of
Mr.
Trumbal
,
one
of
the
Clerks
of
the
Council
.
Nevertheless
;
the
Bishop
made
shift
to
procure
a
Copy
of
them
.
And
so
the
Business
rested
for
some
Years
.
But
to
return
to
the
King
's
receiving
John
Felton
.
And
indeed
the
Duke
promised
at
a
private
Meeting
,
two
Months
before
he
dy'd
,
to
restore
the
Bishop
into
Favour
,
My
Lord
,
It
is
true
Nobleness
that
makes
you
remember
so
distressed
a
Creature
as
I
am
,
and
to
continue
a
true
Friend
in
harder
Fortunes
.
You
give
me
many
Reasons
of
Comfort
,
for
which
I
kindly
thank
you
,
for
I
have
need
of
them
all
.
And
he
continued
to
shew
Respect
,
and
to
do
what
Service
he
could
to
his
desolate
Relations
,
which
the
Countess
of
Denbigh
his
Sister
did
often
confess
to
Bishop
Hacket
,
and
speak
of
to
Williams's
great
Commendation
and
Honour
.
This
Parliament
(
which
we
have
Ch.
An.
1628.
The
Parliament
is
dissolv'd
.
been
speaking
of
)
continued
till
the
26th
of
June
,
and
then
was
prorogued
to
the
20th
of
October
;
and
then
upon
the
20th
of
January
began
again
,
and
so
continued
unto
the
beginning
of
March
following
,
when
upon
the
4th
The
Bishop
of
Lincoln
(
who
had
That
the
Parliament
might
meet
again
for
all
this
,
and
that
there
might
be
a
conference
between
them
and
the
Lords
,
to
debate
upon
Differences
.
And
that
he
hoped
their
House
would
check
,
if
not
censure
those
Commons
,
that
were
so
very
rude
;
and
that
they
would
,
being
ashamed
for
what
they
had
done
,
make
Amends
by
their
Submission
.
But
if
they
were
impenitently
obstinate
,
he
did
not
desire
to
intercede
for
them
.
What
the
Event
of
this
Counsel
might
have
been
,
GOD
alone
knows
;
but
the
King
would
Elizabeth's
Parliaments
were
most
tractable
,
which
sate
but
a
short
time
,
ended
before
they
were
acquainted
with
one
anothers
Interests
,
and
had
not
learned
to
combine
.
It
happened
ill
for
our
Bishop
Coll.
p.
637.
after
Buckingham's
Death
grew
more
and
more
in
Favour
with
the
King
,
and
was
about
this
time
made
Bishop
of
London
.
And
as
the
first
Differences
between
these
two
great
Prelates
began
by
Mis-understanding
on
both
sides
,
so
did
they
continue
in
their
Mistakes
(
Time
rather
increasing
them
)
to
the
very
last
,
and
never
had
the
happiness
to
frame
right
their
Notions
of
one
another
.
For
B.
Laud
ever
look'd
upon
B.
Williams
as
a
Man
that
gave
Encouragement
to
the
Puritans
,
and
that
hung
loose
as
to
our
Church
Discipline
;
and
on
the
other
hand
,
B.
Williams
took
B.
Laud
to
be
a
great
Favourer
of
the
Papists
.
Which
we
may
reasonably
conclude
from
what
a
Person
of
Honour
tells
us
in
his
There
is
Ch.
of
B.
Laud.
no
end
of
Yielding
.
Williams
was
a
Man
too
that
lov'd
the
Beauty
and
Decency
of
our
Church
,
as
much
as
any
Man
,
but
then
his
Temper
was
more
complying
;
and
his
Policy
was
,
to
let
Necessity
govern
in
Matters
of
less
weight
,
and
to
bend
his
private
Inclinations
in
such
things
,
to
the
Prevalency
of
the
Times
.
Laud
was
for
Compulsion
and
the
Authority
of
the
Magistrate
against
the
Puritans
:
And
Williams
thought
Insinuations
and
Compliances
would
work
the
best
Effects
upon
them
,
and
that
the
surest
way
would
be
to
catch
them
by
craft
.
In
short
,
Laud
was
a
Man
fit
for
Primitive
Times
,
but
Williams
to
comply
with
the
Weakness
of
his
own
;
The
One
being
fit
to
govern
Saints
,
the
Other
to
deal
with
Men
,
the
difficulter
Task
by
far
.
Thus
they
being
Men
,
both
very
active
in
their
way
,
and
their
Notions
of
things
quite
different
,
it
is
natural
they
should
be
at
Variance
.
And
Laud
Diary
,
Anno
1626.
Jan.
17.
in
one
main
Point
was
grosly
mistaken
about
Williams
,
who
did
always
assert
Now
was
Prince
Charles
born
;
and
1630.
May
29.
to
the
great
Solemnity
of
his
Christning
on
the
27th
of
June
,
all
the
Lords
Spiritual
and
Temporal
about
London
That
he
must
expect
worse
than
this
,
because
he
was
such
a
Champion
for
the
Petition
of
Right
;
and
that
there
was
no
room
at
the
Table
for
those
that
lik'd
it
.
And
had
not
Williams
been
absolutely
Commission
for
regulating
of
Fees
(
set
on
foot
this
Year
)
which
sifted
him
narrowly
,
but
could
prove
nothing
against
him
.
And
now
the
Bishop
declining
still
What
Health
can
come
from
such
a
Remedy
?
Am
I
like
to
be
beholden
to
them
for
a
settled
Tranquility
,
that
practice
upon
the
Ruin
of
my
Estate
.
and
the
Thrall
of
my
Honour
?
If
I
forfeit
one
Preferment
for
Fear
,
will
it
not
encourage
them
to
tear
me
Piece-meal
hereafter
?
It
is
not
my
case
alone
,
but
every
Man's
:
and
if
the
Law
cannot
maintain
my
Right
,
it
can
maintain
no
Man's
.
So
in
spight
of
all
their
Contrivances
to
out
him
,
he
kept
the
Deanery
till
the
King
receiv'd
it
from
him
at
Oxford
,
in
the
Year
1644.
But
they
Good
Friday
being
his
usual
Course
)
for
Four
Years
;
and
for
Three
Years
together
,
when
he
came
to
the
Chapters
,
or
to
the
Election
of
Scholars
,
he
could
not
rest
above
a
Day
or
two
in
College
,
but
Secretary
Coke
either
by
his
Letters
,
or
by
Word
of
Mouth
commanded
him
from
the
King
,
to
return
to
his
Bishoprick
.
So
that
one
time
the
Life
of
Williams
.
Bishop
very
resolutely
ask'd
him
,
how
he
durst
command
a
Man
out
of
his
Freehold
?
Which
wrought
upon
the
Old
Gentleman
so
far
,
that
he
never
rested
until
he
had
his
Pardon
Seal'd
for
it
.
After
this
the
Arch-Bishop
was
order'd
by
the
King
to
press
him
to
Residency
upon
his
Bishoprick
by
the
Statute
,
since
nothing
else
would
remove
him
;
and
this
contrivance
lost
it's
Effect
too
.
For
I
confine
my self
to
those
particular
seasons
,
to
which
the
local
Statutes
of
the
College
and
my
express
Oath
do
enjoyn
me
;
That
is
to
say
,
the
two
Chapters
and
the
great
Festivals
.
All
which
space
of
Time
doth
not
(
being
taken
in
the
disjunct
spaces
)
make
a
Bishop
a
Nonresident
by
any
Law
I
know
of
,
nor
consequently
infringe
And
here
his
Vexations
about
the
Life
of
Heylyn
.
p.
160
,
&c.
an
Author
that
has
but
small
affection
for
his
Lordship
(
upon
his
Kinsman's
Account
)
the
Things
alledg'd
against
him
were
notorious
.
So
I
refer
my
Reader
to
him
,
and
to
Bishop
Hacket
,
and
after
comparing
of
them
both
together
,
let
him
judge
for
himself
:
But
whether
the
Bishop
were
at
this
time
culpable
or
not
,
yet
he
kept
his
Deanery
still
.
And
to
be
sure
his
Actions
were
not
like
to
have
an
over-favourable
Interpretation
from
Dr.
Heylyn
,
who
was
one
of
his
chief
Accusers
,
and
his
profest
Enemy
,
not
only
upon
Bishop
Laud's
Account
,
but
likewise
upon
the
Account
of
a
As
yet
you
see
the
Bishop
of
Lincoln
has
not
had
the
least
glimpse
of
that
good
Fortune
in
this
Reign
,
which
he
enjoy'd
all
along
,
without
having
it
so
much
as
once
over-cast
in
the
former
.
And
now
by
this
time
it
was
sufficiently
known
to
all
People
,
how
much
he
was
out
of
Favour
;
so
that
it
was
look'd
upon
as
a
piece
of
Merit
,
to
assist
in
his
Ruin
.
And
An.
1636.
to
what
Sir
Robert
Osborn
,
High
Sheriff
of
Huntingtonshire
,
acted
against
the
Bishop
in
the
levying
of
the
Ship-Money
.
Williams
for
his
part
was
very
cautious
to
carry
himself
without
offence
in
this
Matter
;
but
Sir
Robert
,
laying
a
very
unequal
levy
upon
the
Hundred
,
wherein
Bugden
was
,
the
Bishop
wrote
courteously
to
him
to
rectify
it
,
and
he
and
his
Neighbours
would
be
ready
to
see
it
collected
.
Upon
this
,
Sir
Robert
,
catching
at
the
Opportunity
,
posts
up
to
Court
,
and
makes
a
heavy
Complaint
against
the
Bishop
,
that
he
not
only
refus'd
the
Payment
of
Ship-Money
himself
,
but
likewise
animated
the
Hundred
to
do
so
too
.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
when
the
Bishop
afterwards
clear'd
himself
before
the
Lords
of
the
Council
,
and
they
were
satisfy'd
,
that
he
had
behav'd
himself
with
Duty
and
Prudence
,
Sir
Robert
was
not
reprehended
,
nor
had
the
Bishop
any
Satisfaction
given
him
,
nor
was
the
Levy
regulated
.
After
this
,
was
reviv'd
the
long
and
to
p.
450.
may
have
recourse
to
those
Authors
that
have
made
it
their
Business
to
be
particular
in
this
Point
.
And
after
he
has
compar'd
Hacket
and
Rushworth
(
the
former
in
all
probability
having
the
clearest
Knowledge
of
the
most
minute
Circumstances
)
I
doubt
not
but
he
will
conclude
that
Bishop
Williams
had
very
hard
Measure
dealt
him
.
However
,
when
the
Business
The
Bishop
fin'd
and
imprison'd
.
came
to
a
final
determination
,
the
Bishop
was
Fin'd
10000
l.
to
the
King
,
and
to
suffer
Imprisonment
during
his
Majesty's
Pleasure
,
and
withall
to
be
suspended
by
the
High-Commission-Court
from
all
his
.
Dignities
,
Offices
and
Functions
.
And
now
a
Man
of
moderate
a
wounded
spirit
who
can
bear
?
And
this
it
was
that
made
his
Enemies
still
more
bitter
against
him
,
to
see
him
smile
through
all
his
Misfortunes
;
that
had
a
stranger
seen
his
Lordship
in
the
Tower
,
he
would
never
have
taken
him
for
a
Prisoner
,
but
rather
for
the
Lord
and
Master
of
the
Place
.
For
here
he
liv'd
with
his
wonted
Chearfulness
and
Hospitality
,
and
wanted
only
a
larger
Allowance
to
give
his
Guests
a
heartier
welcome
;
for
now
he
was
confin'd
to
bare
500
l.
a
Year
,
a
great
part
of
which
was
consum'd
in
the
very
Fees
of
the
Tower
.
He
But
say
some
,
Williams
may
thank
That
it
were
a
tempting
of
God
,
to
part
with
all
he
had
willingly
,
and
leave
himself
no
Assurance
of
a
Livelihood
:
That
his
Debts
,
if
he
came
out
of
the
Tower
,
would
cast
him
into
another
Prison
,
no
better
Provision
being
made
for
them
,
than
he
saw
appearance
of
:
That
he
would
never
hazard
himself
into
a
condition
to
beg
his
Bread
.
And
so
from
this
time
,
he
was
resolv'd
to
exercise
his
Patience
,
and
wait
a
better
Day
.
After
this
he
heard
that
the
Arch-Bishop
I
am
right
sorry
for
the
King
,
who
is
like
to
be
forsaken
by
his
Subjects
at
home
,
but
far
more
by
all
Kings
and
Princes
abroad
,
who
do
not
love
him
.
But
for
the
Arch-Bishop
,
he
had
best
not
meddle
with
me
;
for
all
the
Friends
he
can
make
,
will
be
too
few
to
save
him
.
And
so
it
unhappily
prov'd
in
a
short
time
.
But
do
you
not
hope
Sir
(
says
Hacket
)
that
such
Concussions
as
you
fear
will
come
to
pass
,
will
give
you
your
Peace
and
Liberty
?
Possibly
(
says
the
Bishop
)
they
will
.
And
he
had
drawn
up
his
Case
and
that
his
Majesty
would
take
all
Distasts
from
the
Parliament
,
Summon'd
against
April
,
with
patience
,
and
suffer
it
to
sit
without
an
unkind
Dissolution
.
On
the
3d
of
November
the
Parliament
Parliament
House
;
which
was
oppos'd
by
the
Lord
Keeper
Finch
(
Successor
to
the
Lord
Coventry
)
and
Arch-Bishop
Laud.
But
Ch.
p.
206.
the
Upper
House
Petition'd
his
Majesty
for
him
,
and
on
the
16th
of
Novemb.
sent
to
the
Lieutenant
of
the
Black
Rod
,
who
conducted
him
to
the
Parliament
,
where
he
sate
amongst
the
Bishops
.
But
he
had
not
been
many
Hours
in
the
House
,
before
he
was
amaz'd
to
see
such
warm
Doings
,
and
such
strong
and
thwarting
Interests
on
foot
.
The
We
have
Conjur'd
up
a
spirit
,
I
would
we
could
lay
him
again
.
For
which
Adherence
of
his
to
the
closing
again
when
he
saw
the
Axe
laid
to
the
Root
of
Episcopacy
,
some
have
snarl'd
at
him
.
His
Majesty
was
soon
acquainted
with
his
Loyalty
,
and
that
he
did
not
refrain
to
fall
sharply
upon
those
Lords
,
to
whom
he
ow'd
his
Releasement
,
for
not
speaking
dutifully
of
his
Majesty
,
and
of
his
Actions
with
Reverence
.
Which
when
the
King
heard
,
he
sent
for
him
and
had
conference
with
him
alone
till
after
Midnight
.
And
to
make
him
some
Amends
for
what
was
past
,
he
commanded
all
Orders
Fil'd
up
against
him
to
be
cancel'd
and
eraz'd
,
that
no
memorial
of
them
might
remain
.
But
for
the
Bishop
to
That
if
they
had
no
worse
Foes
than
him
,
they
might
fear
no
harm
,
and
that
he
saluted
them
with
the
Charity
of
a
Bishop
.
And
when
Kilvert
came
to
him
to
crave
Pardon
and
Indemnity
for
all
the
Wrongs
he
had
done
;
I
assure
you
Pardon
(
says
the
Bishop
)
for
what
you
have
done
before
;
but
this
is
a
new
fault
,
that
you
take
me
to
be
of
so
base
a
spirit
,
as
to
defile
my self
with
treading
upon
so
mean
a
Creature
.
Live
still
by
Petty-fogging
and
Impeaching
,
and
think
that
I
have
forgotten
you
.
Thus
have
I
given
you
a
full
Account
of
the
Fall
of
this
great
States-Man
,
and
have
brought
him
through
all
his
Troubles
and
his
long
Confinement
at
last
to
his
Liberty
again
,
tho'
not
to
that
Splendor
wherein
we
have
seen
him
in
the
former
Reign
.
Now
he
is
absolutely
Sequestred
from
all
his
Offices
in
the
State
,
being
at
present
not
so
much
as
of
the
Council
.
So
that
in
the
remaining
Scene
of
his
Life
,
his
utmost
Endeavours
must
be
to
maintain
the
Character
of
a
Prelate
.
And
what
Troubles
shall
hence
forward
befall
him
cannot
properly
be
call'd
his
,
but
the
Nation
's
;
in
which
indeed
he
bore
a
great
share
,
as
an
eminent
Member
of
that
Church
whose
Miseries
now
began
to
close
her
in
on
every
side
.
So
that
what
there
remains
of
his
Life
I
shall
refer
to
my
Fourth
and
last
Part.
The
End
of
the
Third
Part.
An
Account
of
such
Actions
as
more
immediatly
relate
to
him
as
a
Clergy-Man
and
a
Bishop
.
PART
IV.
HAving
related
his
Actions
as
a
States-Man
,
I
proceed
now
to
give
an
Account
of
him
as
a
Divine
.
A
Character
not
so
full
of
Pomp
,
perhaps
,
nor
so
dazling
to
the
Eyes
of
the
People
;
but
yet
,
if
we
seriously
consider
it
,
more
glorious
,
and
of
an
higher
nature
than
the
other
.
And
I
call
him
now
from
the
service
of
an
Earthly
Prince
,
to
attend
upon
the
King
of
Kings
,
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
the
Almighty
Creatour
and
Governour
of
the
World
.
Some
Passages
relating
to
him
this
After
he
had
taken
his
Doctor
's
settles
at
Walgrave
.
Degree
in
the
Year
1617.
when
the
bustle
of
the
Commencement
was
over
,
he
retir'd
to
his
Cure
.
Where
that
the
way
to
get
Credit
from
the
Nonconformists
was
to
out-Preach
them
.
And
so
well
was
he
lik'd
for
What
was
most
remarkable
of
him
John
Panton
,
Servant
at
the
same
time
with
him
to
the
Lord
Chancellor
Egerton
:
and
immediately
Solomon's
,
the
Liberal
soul
shall
be
made
fat
.
But
he
continued
still
(
tho'
Dean
)
Thus
the
Dr.
continued
at
Walgrave
doing
Good
,
and
very
much
esteem'd
for
above
Two
years
;
when
He
quits
the
Deanery
of
Salisbury
for
that
of
Westminster
.
See
p.
57.
the
Deanery
of
Westminster
being
at
that
time
void
,
he
requested
of
his
New
Patron
the
Marquess
of
Buckingham
,
that
he
might
exchange
the
Deanery
of
Salisbury
for
that
of
Westminster
;
which
was
granted
to
him
.
Which
piece
of
Preferment
he
valued
so
much
the
more
,
because
it
was
near
the
Court
,
and
so
the
fitter
for
his
purpose
,
who
probably
had
still
an
Eye
to
some
farther
Advancement
.
His
Predecessors
here
were
[
92
,
93.
]
Elumination
was
Abbot
Islip
.
To
give
him
the
better
opportunity
to
shew
his
virtue
this
way
,
he
found
the
Church
in
a
very
great
Decay
.
So
he
began
to
repair
it
at
the
South-East
part
,
which
look'd
so
much
the
more
ruinous
because
it
join'd
to
Henry
the
7th's
Chappel
,
a
later
Building
.
In
the
next
place
he
proceeded
to
the
North-West
part
,
which
looks
to
the
great
Sanctuary
.
This
was
very
far
gone
,
and
the
great
Buttresses
were
almost
crumbled
to
Dust
through
the
injury
of
the
Weather
;
which
he
rebuilt
with
durable
Materials
,
and
adorn'd
them
with
elegant
Statues
;
among
which
there
was
one
to
the
memory
of
Islip
,
and
another
for
his
good
Master
King
James
,
as
He
had
not
been
Dean
long
before
he
was
made
Lord
Keeper
,
being
sworn
into
that
Office
on
the
10th
of
July
,
1621.
having
entred
upon
his
Deanery
on
the
12th
of
the
same
Month
in
the
foregoing
Year
.
And
immediately
after
the
Great
Seal
was
deliver'd
to
him
he
was
made
Bishop
of
Lincoln
,
at
which
time
,
so
great
was
his
Favour
with
the
King
,
that
he
obtain'd
Three
Bishopricks
more
for
those
he
recommended
to
his
Majesty
.
And
at
this
The
Lord
Keeper
by
reason
of
his
absent
in
Body
,
yet
was
he
present
in
Mind
;
and
took
all
the
possible
Care
he
could
to
have
a
faithful
account
,
from
such
able
and
diligent
Persons
as
he
intrusted
,
of
all
Occurrences
in
every
Parish
:
over
and
above
,
he
had
the
Name
of
every
Parson
and
Vicar
,
could
tell
what
they
were
all
of
them
,
as
to
their
Learning
,
as
well
as
their
manner
of
Life
and
Conversation
.
He
did
(
in
short
)
as
much
as
a
Bishop
could
do
,
while
for
the
space
of
almost
Five
Years
his
service
to
his
King
and
his
Countrey
would
not
permit
him
to
be
resident
.
And
they
knew
not
that
they
miss'd
him
,
till
he
came
to
live
amongst
them
,
and
made
a
large
Amends
for
his
Absence
when
he
settled
at
Bugden
.
But
let
his
Bus'ness
be
never
so
great
,
he
was
mindful
of
his
Office
as
a
Bishop
,
and
never
neglected
Ordinations
;
every
Lent
too
he
preach'd
before
the
King
at
his
Chappel
,
and
constantly
upon
the
great
Festivals
of
our
Church
,
at
Westminster-Abbey
:
on
which
Days
he
chanted
the
Prayers
,
and
administred
the
Sacraments
.
And
,
it
seems
,
there
was
but
too
great
need
of
such
Patterns
,
as
the
Bishop
was
,
for
preaching
in
those
Times
:
for
the
King's
Indulgence
The
present
posture
likewise
of
the
Annals
,
p.
69.
King's
Affairs
(
in
the
Year
1621.
)
made
him
think
it
convenient
,
that
there
should
be
Favour
shewn
to
the
Popish
Recusants
,
and
to
release
the
poorer
sort
out
of
Prison
;
which
made
the
People
very
uneasy
.
And
our
Bishop
(
then
Lord
Keeper
)
being
imploy'd
to
copy
out
the
King's
Letters
in
this
Affair
to
the
Judges
,
and
to
set
the
Broad-Seal
to
his
Majesty's
Writs
;
he
Reporters
saw
the
Oar
under
Water
,
and
thought
it
was
crooked
.
Nevertheless
Annals
,
p.
69.
since
Offence
was
taken
at
this
Indulgence
to
the
Papists
,
the
Lord
Keeper
(
to
vindicate
his
Majesty
as
well
as
himself
)
in
a
Letter
to
the
But
let
this
one
passage
suffice
,
to
shew
how
averse
the
Keeper
was
to
the
Romish
Church
,
and
how
very
jealous
he
was
of
their
endeavouring
to
establish
their
Church-Government
amongst
us
:
When
Buckingham
was
with
the
Prince
at
Madrid
,
he
sends
him
a
Letter
,
dated
August
30.
1623.
wherein
he
writes
thus
:
Dr.
Bishop
Add
to
this
,
that
some
of
the
Romish
had
not
the
long
Treaty
set
in
a
Cloud
.
But
the
Original
Draught
of
them
is
now
to
be
seen
in
B.
Hacket
.
And
I
am
apt
to
believe
,
had
his
Book
been
but
publish'd
,
or
the
several
Original
Papers
in
it
,
before
the
Historians
of
those
Times
wrote
;
that
Bishop
Williams
had
escap'd
aboundance
of
groundless
Slanders
,
excepting
we
can
suppose
some
of
them
obstinately
bent
to
write
for
a
Party
,
point-blank
against
their
Knowledge
.
And
thus
I
have
(
I
hope
)
rescu'd
him
from
the
Imputation
of
Popery
;
a
Slander
,
which
it
has
been
the
hard
Fate
of
our
greatest
and
worthiest
Prelates
to
suffer
under
,
occasion'd
all
along
by
the
Superstition
of
the
Vulgar
.
But
I
shall
clear
him
farther
yet
in
this
Point
,
when
I
shall
tell
my
Reader
,
That
he
was
by
a
far
Greater
Party
judg'd
to
be
Puritannically
given
;
for
I
think
137.
138.
our
Bishop
is
the
only
Person
of
his
Order
,
that
I
remember
aspersed
with
two
such
contradicting
Characters
.
And
I
shall
therefore
labour
the
more
earnestly
to
clear
him
in
this
point
,
because
First
of
all
then
,
let
me
make
an
Second
Part
,
that
the
King
had
order'd
him
(
when
he
was
then
but
Dean
of
Westminster
)
to
write
a
small
Treatise
for
the
use
of
the
Lady
Catherine
Manners
,
who
being
Married
to
Buckingham
,
was
newly
converted
from
the
Romish
Church
to
ours
.
In
the
Letter
,
which
he
sent
to
the
Marquess
with
some
of
the
Copies
,
he
tells
him
,
that
he
translated
the
Prayers
from
ancient
Writers
,
that
her
Ladyship
might
see
,
we
have
not
coin'd
a
new
Worship
,
or
service
of
God
.
Now
't
is
a
very
fair
Conjecture
,
that
,
had
he
been
Fanatically
given
,
he
had
been
apt
to
betray
himself
at
so
fair
an
opportunity
,
and
't
is
odds
but
the
motions
of
the
Spirit
(
as
they
blaspheme
)
had
led
him
from
the
reasonable
sacrifice
of
the
Ancients
to
some
Enthusiastical
transports
of
his
own
.
I
leave
my
Reader
to
improve
this
Argument
,
from
the
Hint
I
have
given
him
,
while
I
seek
for
somewhat
else
in
the
Bishops
defence
.
I
pass
by
his
Benefactions
to
St.
John's
College
in
Cambridge
,
(
no
favourer
or
nursery
,
I
am
sure
,
of
Puritans
)
till
I
shall
have
time
to
give
a
more
particular
Account
of
those
matters
.
How
great
an
admirer
he
was
of
I
may
add
here
as
a
great
argument
I
cannot
tell
where
to
insert
the
Two
following
passages
more
properly
than
here
,
and
that
because
they
seem
to
have
some
small
relation
to
what
we
have
just
now
concluded
upon
.
The
Braziers
among
the
poor
distrest
Protestants
in
Bohemia
petition'd
King
James
,
for
leave
to
come
over
into
England
with
their
Wives
and
Children
;
upon
which
condition
they
would
bring
along
with
them
their
Substance
,
to
the
value
of
Two
hundred
thousand
pounds
,
and
submit
themselves
absolutely
with
all
they
had
to
his
Majesty's
Customs
and
Taxes
.
But
then
they
desir'd
that
they
might
live
in
a
Body
,
and
have
a
free
Enjoyment
of
their
own
Religion
apart
from
us
.
His
Majesty
,
thinking
it
might
turn
to
his
Advantage
,
was
complying
;
but
our
Bishop
(
who
was
then
Lord
Keeper
)
disswaded
him
,
arguing
from
the
Example
of
the
Dutch
and
French
,
who
were
settled
amongst
us
.
Who
indeed
brought
advantage
by
their
Manufacture
to
the
Nation
;
but
then
the
Discipline
,
which
by
virtue
of
their
Patent
they
transplanted
too
,
did
far
more
damage
to
our
Church
,
than
they
by
their
Industry
could
profit
the
State
.
The
next
thing
I
would
mention
High
Comission
Court
,
in
which
after
he
was
Dean
of
Westminster
he
always
had
a
Vote
amongst
others
;
but
so
little
King
in
his
Anger
,
given
to
oppression
,
he
had
a
Statute
would
enable
him
to
act
But
above
there
is
nothing
of
Brotherhood
nor
of
Humanity
in
this
,
when
we
have
cast
a
Priest
out
of
doors
and
left
him
no
shelter
to
cover
his
Head
;
that
we
make
no
provision
for
him
out
of
his
own
for
Term
of
Life
,
to
keep
him
from
the
Extremities
of
Starving
or
begging
,
those
deform'd
Miseries
.
And
this
is
all
that
I
find
remarkable
of
him
as
a
Church-Man
till
such
time
as
the
Great
Seal
was
taken
from
him
.
So
that
now
we
enter
upon
a
fresh
During
the
Time
he
liv'd
here
,
the
Observ.
on
Lestr
.
Hist.
of
K.
Cha.
p.
1
36
,
&c.
Part
amongst
them
.
And
the
Altar
here
was
as
in
all
Cathedral
Churches
,
adorn'd
with
all
things
proper
,
as
rich
Plate
,
and
other
costly
Utensils
.
And
this
(
notwithstanding
a
worthy
Person
has
put
a
different
Interpretation
on
his
Actions
)
seems
a
convincing
Argument
,
if
you
compare
the
Bishop
all
along
with
himself
,
that
he
was
in
his
Heart
a
great
Admirer
of
Decency
in
Divine
Worship
in
the
highest
Degree
;
however
he
might
think
fit
in
some
Parish
Churches
to
comply
with
the
Weakness
of
the
People
,
rather
than
give
Offence
to
them
.
And
I
know
not
what
will
become
of
Charity
and
good
Nature
,
if
a
Man
must
be
counted
of
a
Party
with
all
those
he
carries
himself
civilly
and
obliging
to
.
I
am
sure
if
Jews
and
Infidels
,
deserve
gentle
usage
from
Us
,
those
that
have
a
far
neerer
Relation
to
Us
,
do
much
more
deserve
it
.
But
I
go
on
:
The
Bishop's
passion
for
Musick
was
so
well
known
,
that
the
greatest
Masters
resorted
to
him
from
London
,
especially
in
the
Summer-Time
;
to
whom
he
was
very
liberal
in
his
Gratifications
;
to
one
in
particular
,
a
Gentleman
of
the
King's
Chappel
,
he
gave
a
Lease
worth
five
hundred
pounds
.
The
Concourse
that
came
to
the
That
he
liv'd
at
Bugden
the
most
Episcopal
of
any
of
his
Predecessors
.
All
the
great
Persons
and
Nobility
that
had
occasion
to
travel
that
way
,
would
call
upon
his
Lordship
,
from
whom
they
and
their
Retinue
were
sure
of
a
hearty
Welcome
,
and
the
best
Entertainment
.
All
the
Neighb'ring
Clergy
too
,
nay
and
the
very
Yeomanry
of
Fashion
,
were
free
to
come
to
his
Table
;
and
indeed
he
seldom
sate
down
without
some
of
the
Clergy
.
I
need
not
mention
his
Charity
to
the
Poor
;
for
if
he
was
so
careful
of
them
when
he
was
Rector
at
Walgrave
,
to
be
sure
he
did
not
take
less
care
of
them
now
he
was
Bishop
,
and
more
he
could
not
well
take
.
Of
all
things
he
did
not
love
to
live
sparingly
,
and
seclude
himself
from
good
Conversation
:
And
it
was
his
Saying
,
That
he
would
spend
his
own
while
he
had
it
;
for
he
thought
his
Adversaries
would
not
permit
him
long
to
enjoy
it
.
And
while
some
Had
the
Bishop
not
liv'd
in
the
English
Bible
,
by
one
of
the
Choiristers
,
and
at
Supper
another
in
Latin
by
one
of
his
Gentlemen
,
for
there
was
none
of
them
but
had
at
least
so
much
Learning
.
And
this
leads
me
naturally
to
speak
That
he
knew
not
what
he
had
done
,
to
live
the
worse
for
their
sakes
,
that
did
not
love
him
.
And
we
may
believe
,
that
if
he
thought
there
was
any
ill
,
or
any
real
occasion
for
Offence
in
what
he
did
,
that
he
would
have
abridg'd
himself
in
his
Diversions
;
for
he
was
nicely
Pembroke
,
Salisbury
and
Leicester
,
with
many
other
Young
Gentlemen
about
an
Age
,
whereof
some
were
his
Relations
,
and
his
Countrey-men
.
These
had
Tutors
,
of
whom
the
Bishop
took
an
Account
,
how
their
Pupils
improv'd
in
Virtue
and
Learning
.
And
to
those
that
were
in
a
manner
fit
for
the
Universities
,
before
he
sent
them
from
him
,
he
read
himself
a
brief
System
of
Logick
;
which
Lectures
even
his
own
Servants
frequented
,
that
were
capable
of
such
Instructions
.
But
his
principal
Care
was
,
that
they
should
be
throughly
grounded
in
the
Principles
of
Religion
;
for
which
reason
he
committed
not
a
Trust
of
so
great
Importance
wholly
to
his
Chaplain
,
but
every
Lent
examin'd
them
every
one
from
the
Person
of
the
highest
Quality
to
the
meanest
Servant
,
in
the
Fundamental
Questions
of
the
Catechism
.
The
Magnificence
of
his
Hospitality
[
*
](A54703-e37890-b)
*
Wilson's
Hist.
of
Gr.
Brit.
p.
197.
And
there
is
a
remarkable
Instance
in
History
of
his
Bounty
,
which
I
will
insert
here
.
When
Monsieur
de
Molin
(
a
Famous
Minister
)
fled
over
into
England
in
the
Time
of
the
Persecution
in
France
;
the
Bishop
hearing
of
him
,
order'd
his
Chaplain
Dr.
Hacket
to
make
him
a
Visit
from
him
.
And
guessing
that
he
might
very
probably
be
in
want
,
he
bids
him
carry
him
some
Money
,
not
naming
any
sum
.
Upon
which
Hacket
said
,
that
he
could
not
give
him
less
than
Twenty
Pound
.
I
did
demurre
upon
the
Sum
(
says
the
Bishop
)
to
try
you
:
is
Twenty
Pound
a
fit
Gift
for
me
to
give
a
Man
of
his
Parts
and
Deserts
?
Take
an
Hundred
,
and
present
it
from
me
,
and
tell
him
he
shall
not
want
,
and
I
will
come
shortly
and
visit
him
my self
.
Which
afterwards
he
did
,
and
was
as
good
as
his
Word
in
supplying
his
Wants
while
he
was
in
England
.
Oxon.
Vol.
1.
p.
400.
I
may
mention
here
how
great
a
Patron
he
was
to
his
Countrey-man
John
Owen
the
Epigrammatist
,
whom
he
maintain'd
for
several
years
;
and
when
he
died
,
he
buried
him
Octavo
.
Numb
.
3.
David
Lloyd's
Life
of
Williams
.
Printed
with
Cleaveland's
Poems
.
of
the
Fraternity
has
compos'd
an
Epigram
.
There
was
hardly
an
ingenious
Person
in
England
,
but
what
he
encourag'd
;
and
that
very
wretch
that
wrote
so
infamous
a
Libel
on
this
Bishop
,
had
often
experienc'd
his
Liberality
;
so
that
here
I
must
clear
Mr.
Cleaveland
from
the
scandal
of
it
;
for
,
not
to
mention
that
some
Authors
do
acquit
him
,
I
am
over
and
above
inform'd
from
a
Worthy
Person
now
living
,
who
has
discours'd
with
some
of
Mr.
Cleaveland's
Friends
,
that
he
ever
disown'd
the
Satyr
in
his
Poems
against
the
Arch-Bishop
of
York
.
We
have
had
occasion
before
to
Having
spoken
of
his
Hospitality
,
his
Charity
and
his
Magnificence
,
we
will
now
consider
him
more
immediately
in
his
Episcopal
Functions
.
And
to
mention
first
the
Example
that
it
was
not
his
Custom
.
But
so
scrupulous
was
he
as
to
their
Competency
in
the
Knowledge
of
Divine
Matters
,
that
when
one
that
was
a
Minister
,
a
Mr.
of
Arts
and
a
Wit
too
,
was
presented
to
a
considerable
Living
,
when
he
perceiv'd
the
small
stock
he
had
of
Learning
,
he
would
not
give
him
Institution
,
till
he
had
set
him
for
three
Months
to
read
a
System
of
Divinity
.
In
those
that
he
himself
prefer'd
neither
Friends
nor
Favour
nor
any
other
consideration
biass'd
him
.
But
commonly
he
was
a
Patron
to
such
as
never
sought
him
;
such
whose
humility
obscur'd
their
Worth
.
In
the
Beginning
of
King
Charles's
Whitgift
,
Bancroft
,
Harsnet
,
Andrews
,
Barlow
,
Overal
,
and
such
like
,
who
pleas'd
all
sides
indifferently
.
Hence
it
is
To
bring
him
now
into
his
Courts
;
I
shall
not
dwell
here
upon
his
An.
1629.
in
this
Diocess
;
in
the
first
of
which
he
discover'd
an
Imposture
,
that
pretended
to
Inspiration
at
St.
Ives
in
Huntington-shire
;
and
in
the
second
it
is
worth
the
Readers
while
(
that
has
so
much
leisure
for
his
diversion
)
to
see
how
he
was
entertain'd
at
a
Religious
Family
of
the
Farrars
at
Litle-Giding
in
the
same
County
,
and
how
kindly
he
encourag'd
them
to
persist
in
the
Service
of
God
.
Nor
shall
I
mention
here
the
circumstances
of
his
triennial
Visitations
over
the
whole
Diocess
,
and
the
Charges
deliver'd
by
him
at
such
Times
;
one
of
which
given
at
Bedford
,
in
the
end
of
the
Year
1634
you
may
read
at
large
in
Bishop
Hacket
,
together
with
what
things
I
mention'd
before
.
But
this
let
me
add
before
And
since
I
have
mention'd
his
Athen.
Ox.
p.
5.
Baleus
de
Script
.
Brit.
Cent.
4.
nu.
18.
thing
he
entred
upon
was
to
publish
the
Works
of
his
Predecessor
Robert
Grosthead
,
who
wrote
several
Books
against
the
Ambition
and
Covetousness
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
These
being
in
Manuscript
,
and
scatter'd
up
and
down
,
the
Bishop
search'd
all
the
Libraries
Foreign
and
Domestick
where
he
had
any
correspondence
,
and
digested
what
he
could
get
of
them
,
and
wrote
Arguments
upon
divers
Parts
of
them
.
But
whilst
he
expected
more
daily
of
the
same
Author
,
his
Troubles
in
the
Star-Chamber
coming
on
,
they
put
a
stop
to
both
these
great
Undertakings
of
his
.
Of
which
Troubles
we
have
spoken
before
,
and
how
at
last
he
was
releas'd
from
the
Tower
,
and
how
generously
he
forgave
his
Enemies
.
So
that
now
we
fall
in
again
in
the
order
of
Time
with
the
Conclusion
of
the
former
Part
,
where
we
left
him
in
the
Year
1640.
It
was
not
now
a
time
for
an
Honest
House
of
Commons
(
knowing
as
well
as
he
what
Mettle
the
Scots
were
made
of
)
out-bid
him
quite
,
and
voted
such
a
Sum
of
Money
by
way
of
Brotherly
Assistance
,
as
the
King
was
not
able
to
come
up
to
,
much
less
to
surpass
.
Therefore
when
this
fail'd
,
the
Bishop
attacks
them
after
another
Manner
.
He
desires
that
they
would
not
quarrel
with
the
Church
of
England
,
but
remember
what
Vows
their
Kirk
had
Church
Government
.
As
That
they
aim'd
more
at
a
regulated
Crown
,
than
at
a
regulated
Mitre
,
he
would
bear
no
longer
with
them
.
But
in
the
Committee
Troub
.
p.
174.
Cypr.
Ang.
p.
472.
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist
,
B.
XI
.
p.
174.
of
Lay
and
Clergymen
for
the
Church
Affairs
,
where
the
Bishop
of
Lincoln
had
the
Chair
,
he
behav'd
himself
so
much
to
the
Content
of
the
Nonconformists
,
that
they
admir'd
his
Conduct
and
his
Curtesy
.
While
the
Affairs
of
the
Nation
were
in
this
Disorder
,
and
the
Bishop
Case
of
Blood
.
To
which
he
determin'd
,
that
Bishops
in
England
might
and
ought
to
vote
But
it
is
objected
against
the
Bishop
That
he
was
well
prepar'd
for
his
End
,
and
would
not
his
Gracious
Majesty
should
disquiet
Himself
to
save
a
ruin'd
Vessel
that
must
sink
.
So
there
appearing
no
Hopes
at
all
of
saving
him
,
the
House
of
Lords
send
Four
Bishops
,
Usher
,
Morton
,
Williams
and
Potter
,
to
advise
his
Majesty
in
this
Difficulty
,
and
to
deliberate
whether
in
Conscience
he
might
yield
to
the
obstinate
Clamours
of
the
People
.
And
they
state
the
Question
thus
to
Since
his
Majesty
refers
his
own
Judgment
to
his
Judges
,
and
they
are
to
answer
it
,
if
an
Innocent
Person
suffers
;
why
may
he
not
satisfy
his
Conscience
in
the
present
Matter
,
that
since
competent
Judges
in
the
Law
had
awarded
,
That
they
found
the
Earl
guilty
of
Treason
,
to
suffer
that
Judgment
to
stand
,
tho'
in
his
own
Mind
he
was
satisfied
that
the
Lord
Strafford
was
not
criminous
?
The
Four
Bishops
gave
their
Opinions
in
the
Affirmative
,
laying
the
Blame
wholly
on
the
Judges
;
and
the
Noble
Earl
was
so
far
from
taking
it
ill
,
that
the
Lord
Primate
assisted
him
in
all
his
Preparations
for
a
Better
Life
,
and
was
with
him
on
the
Scaffold
to
the
very
last
Moment
of
his
Life
.
This
is
the
plain
Matter
of
Fact
,
so
far
as
I
can
see
,
without
Surmises
on
the
one
side
or
the
other
.
But
a
certain
Perpetual
Parliament
.
And
but
two
Days
before
,
he
ask'd
the
King
,
If
his
wise
Father
would
have
suffer'd
such
a
Thing
as
an
Indefinite
Parliament
to
be
demanded
,
much
less
have
granted
it
?
And
,
Whether
it
would
be
possible
for
his
truest
Subjects
to
do
him
Service
any
more
?
But
yet
for
all
May
,
1641.
this
,
with
the
same
Drop
of
Ink
he
sign'd
the
Bill
for
this
Parliament
,
and
for
Strafford's
Execution
;
as
if
it
were
impossible
his
Royal
Prerogative
should
stand
,
when
Wentworth
the
great
Prop
of
it
was
fallen
.
Now
the
King
prepares
for
a
Journey
The
Bishop
advises
the
K.
not
to
go
to
Scotland
.
into
Scotland
to
appease
the
Seditious
there
.
But
the
Bp.
of
Lincoln
intreated
his
Majesty
to
put
off
his
Journey
thither
for
the
present
;
and
to
consider
,
That
the
Scotch
would
reveal
all
he
did
or
said
amongst
them
to
their
Partners
at
Westminster
,
with
whom
they
held
a
mutual
Correspondence
:
That
they
had
been
tumultuous
now
for
two
Years
,
and
that
to
pacify
them
on
a
sudden
was
a
thing
impossible
in
all
probability
.
They
have
been
rebellious
so
lately
,
that
it
is
too
soon
to
offer
them
Courtesy
;
and
they
knowing
in
what
Condition
your
Majesty
is
,
will
take
it
not
for
Kindness
,
but
for
Fear
.
Keep
near
to
the
Parliament
,
all
the
Work
is
within
those
Walls
;
do
what
you
can
to
win
them
Man
by
Man
.
And
Sir
(
continues
he
)
I
wish
what
I
shall
tell
you
were
not
true
;
Some
of
the
Commons
are
preparing
a
Declaration
to
make
the
Actions
of
your
Government
odious
:
Stir
not
till
you
have
mitigated
the
Grand
Contrivers
with
some
Preferments
.
But
is
this
credible
?
says
the
King
.
Judge
you
of
that
,
Sir
,
(
replies
the
Bishop
)
when
a
Servant
of
Pym's
(
in
whose
Master
's
House
all
this
is
moulded
)
came
to
me
,
to
know
of
me
in
what
Terms
I
was
contented
to
have
my
own
Case
in
Star-Chamber
exhibited
among
other
Irregularities
.
And
I
had
much
ado
to
keep
my
Name
,
and
what
concerns
me
,
out
of
these
Quotations
:
but
I
obtain'd
that
of
the
Fellow
,
and
a
Promise
to
know
all
they
have
in
Contrivance
,
with
some
Money
that
I
gave
him
.
But
the
King
never
regarded
the
Bishop's
Advice
:
and
indeed
his
Majesty
could
not
endure
to
be
near
Westminster
,
if
he
could
help
it
;
for
one
of
the
Bed-Chamber
has
been
heard
say
,
That
nothing
made
him
remove
so
far
from
his
Court
and
Council
,
as
the
tediousness
of
Intelligence
brought
to
him
every
Minute
,
with
variety
of
Glosses
and
Opinions
upon
it
.
While
the
King
was
in
the
North
,
That
no
Power
could
protect
them
against
the
Statutes
still
in
force
,
that
fell
into
Disorders
and
Deviations
against
them
.
So
earnestly
did
the
Bishop
urge
the
People
to
a
Conformity
with
the
Church
by
Law
Establish'd
.
And
to
clear
himself
,
at
a
Conference
between
the
Two
Houses
in
the
Painted-Chamber
,
he
justify'd
his
Visitation
and
his
Endeavours
,
to
silence
unlicenc'd
Preachers
,
who
were
as
bold
,
as
if
they
were
subject
to
no
Government
at
all
.
And
now
on
the
26th
of
Nov.
the
King
A
Remonstrance
of
the
State
of
the
Kingdom
,
wherein
all
the
Trips
and
false
Steps
(
in
their
Judgment
)
committed
by
his
Majesty
since
he
came
to
the
Crown
,
and
before
,
to
that
very
Time
,
were
represented
with
most
undutiful
and
malicious
Aggravations
.
Besides
this
,
at
his
coming
His
Grace
prov'd
all
along
in
this
Parliament
.
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
226.
Parliament
a
stout
and
an
able
Champion
for
the
Bishops
not
with
standing
the
great
Affronts
and
strong
Oppositions
they
met
with
.
And
so
remarkable
was
his
zeal
for
them
,
that
when
his
Majesty
once
saw
him
so
very
earnest
to
defend
Episcopacy
then
oppos'd
by
the
Parliament
,
My
Lord
(
says
the
King
)
I
commend
you
,
that
you
are
no
whit
daunted
with
all
Disasters
,
but
are
zealous
in
defending
your
Order
.
Please
it
your
Majesty
(
replies
the
Arch-Bishop
)
I
am
a
true
Welshman
,
and
they
are
observ'd
never
to
run
away
,
till
their
General
do
first
for
sake
them
.
No
fear
of
my
flinching
whilest
your
Majesty
doth
countenance
our
Cause
.
And
in
Five
Members
impeach'd
for
Treason
.
After
they
had
Let
us
pluck
down
the
Organs
,
and
deface
the
Monuments
.
When
the
Arch-Bishop
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
p.
185
,
186.
of
York
(
who
was
Dean
of
Westminster
)
heard
of
this
,
he
made
fast
the
Doors
of
the
Abby
against
them
;
and
when
they
would
have
forc'd
them
open
,
they
were
beaten
off
with
stones
from
the
top
of
the
Leads
;
the
Arch-Bishop
in
the
mean
time
maintaining
the
Abby
with
a
few
more
,
for
fear
the
Rabble
should
seize
upon
the
Regalia
,
which
were
in
that
Place
under
his
Custody
.
But
within
an
hour
,
after
the
Multitude
had
been
sufficiently
pelted
with
stones
from
above
,
a
few
of
the
Arch-Bishop's
Men
open'd
a
door
and
rushing
with
their
drawn
Swords
,
dispers'd
them
all
.
But
from
this
Time
the
Bishops
durst
not
come
near
the
Parliament
House
either
by
Land
or
Water
,
the
Passages
were
so
beset
against
them
,
and
they
so
vehemently
threaten'd
by
the
People
.
Upon
this
the
Arch-Bishop
with
Decemb.
27.
Eleven
more
of
his
Brethren
meet
the
next
day
in
his
Lodgings
.
There
he
draws
up
a
Petition
and
Protestation
,
first
to
crave
Protection
,
and
upon
want
thereof
a
positive
Declaration
,
that
whatsoever
was
done
at
the
Lords
House
during
their
forc'd
and
involuntary
Absence
was
invalid
,
and
of
none
Effect
.
The
other
Bishops
relying
upon
York's
great
Knowledge
in
the
Laws
,
did
at
his
Request
set
their
Hands
to
it
.
And
the
Lord
Life
of
Williams
.
Keeper
when
he
saw
it
,
did
profess
,
That
it
was
the
strongest
and
the
fullest
of
Law
of
any
that
ever
he
saw
in
his
Life
:
For
the
Bishop
had
modell'd
it
exactly
by
one
of
the
same
nature
that
he
had
found
in
the
Records
of
the
Tower
,
which
he
studied
there
,
to
the
no
small
Prejudice
of
his
Eyes
.
On
the
30th
of
December
the
Petition
Tower
.
Nalson's
Collect.
Vol.
2.
p.
794
,
&c.
was
read
in
the
House
,
and
the
Bishops
thereupon
accus'd
by
the
Commons
of
High-Treason
,
For
endeavouring
to
subvert
the
Fundamental-Laws
of
this
Realm
,
and
the
Being
of
Parliament
,
by
preferring
this
Petition
and
Protestation
.
And
upon
this
Accusation
,
they
were
committed
to
the
Tower
,
where
they
must
remain
for
18
Weeks
.
Now
the
Arch-bishop
of
maketh
Men
to
be
of
one
Mind
.
Never
sure
were
any
Pack
of
the
While
the
Bishops
were
thus
secur'd
Peers
,
Which
of
your
Lordships
can
say
he
shall
continue
a
Member
of
this
House
,
when
at
one
Blow
Six
and
Twenty
are
cut
off
?
There
was
nothing
now
wanting
John
Culpepper
(
who
attended
there
for
that
Dispatch
)
that
the
Lords
and
Commons
would
press
his
Majesty
no
more
so
much
against
the
Grain
,
if
this
one
Bill
were
but
sign'd
;
upon
which
hopes
the
King
comply'd
.
And
York
told
me
(
says
Hacket
)
in
the
Tower
,
That
the
King
had
sacrific'd
the
Clergy
to
this
Parliament
,
by
Artifices
contriv'd
at
Dover
,
a
Day
before
the
News
was
brought
to
London
.
[
*
](A54703-e41270-b)
*
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist
,
B.
XI
.
p.
195.
And
this
Relation
seems
to
agree
(
bating
the
Circumstance
of
the
Place
)
with
one
Author
more
,
who
says
the
Bill
was
sign'd
at
Canterbury
;
as
likewise
Now
the
King
was
in
York
,
and
the
The
King
had
at
Hull
a
Magazine
John
Hotham
,
who
by
Orders
from
the
House
of
Commons
had
newly
taken
Charge
of
that
Place
.
Upon
this
the
King
proclaiming
him
a
Traitor
,
was
forc'd
to
retire
,
and
bear
the
Indignity
,
for
the
Parliament
would
give
him
no
Redress
.
But
the
Hothams
the
Father
and
Son
,
made
a
Sally
out
of
the
Town
after
,
with
a
Design
to
take
Cawood-Castle
,
Roger
Nighting-gale
,
a
Gentleman
of
the
King's
Chappel
.
Thus
was
he
forc'd
to
leave
his
So
now
the
Arch-bishop
was
come
Conway-Castle
was
the
place
,
that
the
From
Oxford
,
Aug.
1.
1643.
CHARLES
R.
MOst
Reverend
Father
in
God
,
&c.
Orlando
Bridgman
,
not
only
of
the
good
Encouragement
and
Assistance
you
have
given
him
in
our
Service
,
but
also
of
your
own
Personal
and
Earnest
Endeavours
to
promote
it
.
And
tho'
we
have
had
long
Experience
of
your
Fidelity
,
Readiness
and
Zeal
in
what
concerns
us
;
yet
it
cannot
but
be
most
acceptable
unto
us
,
that
you
still
give
unto
us
fresh
occasions
to
remember
it
.
And
we
pray
you
to
continue
to
give
all
possible
Assistance
to
our
said
Servant
.
And
whereas
you
are
now
resident
at
our
Town
of
Aberconway
,
where
there
is
a
Castle
,
heretofore
belonging
to
our
Crown
,
and
now
to
the
Lord
Conway
,
which
with
some
charge
is
easily
made
defensible
:
but
the
Lord
Conway
being
imprison'd
by
some
of
our
rebellious
Subjects
,
and
not
able
to
furnish
it
,
as
is
requisite
for
our
Service
,
and
the
Defence
of
those
parts
:
You
having
begun
at
your
own
charge
to
put
the
same
into
repair
,
We
do
heartily
desire
you
to
go
on
in
that
Work
,
assuring
you
that
whatsoever
Moneys
you
shall
lay
out
upon
the
Fortification
of
the
said
Castle
,
shall
be
repay'd
unto
you
,
before
the
Custody
thereof
shall
be
put
into
any
other
hand
than
your
own
,
or
such
as
you
shall
recommend
.
Upon
the
backside
of
this
gracious
Letter
,
this
the
Arch-bishop
has
written
with
his
own
hand
:
I
Jo.
Arch-bishop
of
York
,
have
assign'd
my
Nephew
Mr.
Wil.
Hooks
Esq
Alderman
of
Conway
,
to
have
the
Custody
of
this
Castle
,
mention'd
in
his
Majesty's
Letter
under
his
Signet
,
until
I
shall
be
repay'd
the
Moneys
,
and
Money-worth
disburs'd
by
me
in
the
repair
thereof
,
by
virtue
of
this
Warrant
.
And
in
case
of
Mortality
,
I
do
assign
my
Nephew
Gryffith
Williams
to
the
same
effect
.
Jan.
2.
1643.
Some
time
after
this
,
his
Majesty
time
.
His
Grace
therefore
made
the
most
use
he
could
of
his
Time
,
in
giving
Counsel
to
the
best
of
his
Knowledge
and
Experience
to
his
Majesty
.
One
Prophetical
Discovery
which
he
made
to
his
Majesty
at
this
Time
,
is
worth
the
remarking
:
For
,
he
said
,
That
Cromwel
,
taken
into
(
says
he
)
at
Bugden
,
but
never
knew
his
Religion
.
He
was
a
Common
Spokesman
for
Sectaries
,
and
maintain'd
their
Part
with
stubborness
.
He
never
discours'd
as
if
he
were
pleas'd
with
your
Majesty
,
and
your
great
Officers
;
and
indeed
he
loves
none
,
that
are
more
than
his
Equals
.
Your
Majesty
did
him
but
Justice
in
repulsing
a
Petition
put
up
by
him
against
Sir
Thomas
Steward
,
of
the
Isle
of
Ely
;
but
he
takes
them
all
for
his
Enemies
,
that
would
not
let
him
undo
his
best
Friend
:
and
above
all
that
live
,
I
think
he
is
the
most
mindful
of
an
Injury
.
He
talks
openly
that
it
is
fit
some
should
act
more
vigorously
against
your
Forces
,
and
bring
your
Person
into
the
Power
of
the
Parliament
.
He
cannot
give
a
good
Word
of
his
General
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
because
he
says
the
Earl
is
but
half
an
Enemy
to
your
Majesty
,
and
hath
done
you
more
Favour
than
Harm
.
His
Fortunes
are
broken
,
that
it
is
impossible
for
him
to
subsist
,
much
less
to
be
what
he
aspires
to
,
but
by
your
Majesty's
Bounty
,
or
by
the
Ruin
of
us
all
,
and
a
common
Confusion
.
In
short
,
every
Beast
hath
some
evil
Properties
;
but
Cromwel
hath
the
Properties
of
all
evil
Beasts
.
My
humble
Motion
is
,
that
either
you
would
win
him
to
you
by
Promises
of
fair
Treatment
,
or
catch
him
by
some
Stratagem
,
and
cut
him
short
.
All
which
the
King
receiv'd
with
a
smile
,
and
said
nothing
.
After
the
King
had
advis'd
with
his
had
left
no
better
than
they
found
them
.
The
Arch-bishop
excusing
himself
,
desir'd
to
hear
others
first
whose
Experience
in
those
weighty
Concerns
might
be
beyond
his
.
But
this
being
not
granted
,
and
he
being
farther
prest
upon
,
spoke
thus
to
the
King
:
My
Opinion
,
Sir
,
will
be
strange
,
and
,
I
fear
,
unwelcome
:
If
it
please
not
,
yet
do
not
impute
it
to
Falshood
or
Fear
,
but
to
Error
and
Mistaking
.
Your
Militia
is
couragious
,
but
small
,
not
like
to
encrease
,
and
then
not
to
hold
out
.
Your
Enemies
multiply
,
and
by
this
time
your
Army
hath
taught
them
to
fight
:
They
are
in
Treaty
with
the
Scots
,
to
make
a
Recruit
;
and
the
Princes
and
States
beyond
Seas
,
to
their
shame
,
give
them
countenance
.
Their
Treasurers
at
Westminster
boast
,
that
it
costs
them
large
Moneys
every
Month
to
keep
Correspondence
with
their
Intelligencers
and
Spies
about
you
.
Your
Souldiers
in
their
March
and
Quarters
are
very
unruly
,
and
lose
the
Peoples
Affections
every
where
,
by
the
Oppressions
they
sustain
.
Out
of
these
Premises
I
infer
,
and
I
engage
my
Life
to
your
Majesty's
Justice
,
and
my
Soul
to
GOD's
Tribunal
,
that
I
know
no
better
course
than
to
struggle
no
further
,
since
so
it
is
the
Will
of
GOD
,
and
to
refer
all
to
the
pleasure
and
discretion
of
that
unkind
and
insolent
Parliament
at
Westminster
,
but
with
the
preservation
of
your
Majesty's
Crown
and
Person
,
to
which
they
have
all
taken
an
Oath
to
offer
no
hurt
or
violence
,
and
have
renewed
it
in
many
Protestations
:
As
likewise
with
Indemnity
of
your
Adherents
;
for
we
save
a
Ship
with
the
loss
of
the
Goods
,
not
of
the
Passengers
.
If
any
thing
will
soften
them
,
it
will
be
this
most
pacifick
and
gracious
Condescension
.
The
Heathen
speak
rudely
,
that
Constancy
in
Suffering
will
tire
out
the
Cruelty
of
the
Gods
;
but
certainly
such
Sufferance
and
Self-denial
as
resigns
up
your
Majesty's
Cause
and
Trust
quite
unto
them
,
will
make
the
worst
of
them
asham'd
of
their
Pertinacy
,
and
melt
the
best
into
a
shower
of
Repentance
:
But
if
your
Majesty
disdains
to
go
so
low
and
will
not
put
the
good
of
the
Church
and
Kingdom
upon
their
Faith
,
to
which
Misery
,
I
fear
,
our
Sins
have
brought
us
,
I
am
ready
to
run
on
in
the
common
Hazard
with
your
Majesty
,
and
to
live
and
die
in
your
Service
.
Some
there
were
that
concurr'd
with
his
Grace
in
this
Advice
,
but
the
King
and
the
Generality
dissented
,
and
his
Thanks
for
his
free
Speaking
were
but
small
.
So
his
Majesty
being
As
many
in
this
Countrey
as
had
The
Castle
taken
from
the
ABp
.
John
Owen
(
a
Colonel
for
the
King
)
coming
this
way
after
a
Defeat
,
he
obtain'd
of
Prince
Rupert
to
be
substituted
under
his
Hand
,
Commander
of
the
Castle
;
and
so
surprising
it
by
Force
,
he
entred
it
;
notwithstanding
that
the
Castle
was
before
given
to
the
Bishop
under
the
King
's
own
Signet
,
to
possess
it
quietly
,
till
his
cost
lay'd
out
upon
it
should
be
refunded
to
him
,
which
as
yet
had
been
never
offer'd
:
and
notwithstanding
the
Prince
himself
had
back'd
his
Majesty's
Pleasure
therein
,
and
had
by
his
Letters
commanded
all
Officers
by
Sea
and
Land
to
assist
him
in
it
.
Upon
this
the
Arch-bishop
sends
to
his
Majesty
at
Oxford
this
Remonstrance
by
the
Hand
of
Captain
James
Martin
.
1
UPon
the
Ninth
of
May
1645.
J.
Owen
Governour
of
Conway
,
about
Seven
of
the
Clock
in
the
Evening
,
before
the
Night-Guard
was
sent
unto
the
Castle
,
the
possession
whereof
was
placed
by
the
King
in
the
ABp
.
of
York
,
and
his
Assigns
,
upon
great
and
valuable
considerations
by
his
gracious
Letters
,
and
under
his
Majesty's
Hand
and
Signet
,
bearing
date
at
Oxford
August
1.
1643.
did
with
Bars
of
Iron
and
Armed
Men
,
break
the
Locks
and
Doors
,
and
enter
into
the
said
Castle
,
and
seize
upon
the
Place
,
the
Victuals
,
Powder
,
Arms
,
and
Ammunition
,
laid
in
by
the
said
ABp
.
at
his
own
charge
,
without
the
least
contribution
from
the
King
or
the
Countrey
,
for
the
Defence
of
the
Place
,
and
the
Service
of
the
King
and
the
said
Countrey
.
2.
That
being
demanded
by
the
said
Arch-bishop
to
suffer
two
of
the
said
Arch-bishop's
Men
to
be
there
with
his
rabble
of
Grooms
and
beggerly
People
,
to
see
the
Goods
of
the
Countrey
preserv'd
from
filching
,
and
the
Victuals
and
Ammunition
from
wasting
and
purloyning
,
Sir
John
in
a
furious
manner
utterly
refus'd
it
,
tho'
all
the
Company
cry'd
upon
him
to
do
so
for
his
own
discharge
,
yet
he
would
not
listen
to
any
reason
,
but
promised
the
next
day
,
to
suffer
all
things
to
be
inventoried
,
and
the
Lord
Arch-bishop
to
take
away
what
he
would
,
Sir
John
acknowledging
all
the
Goods
and
Ammunition
to
be
his
.
3.
The
next
day
he
receded
again
from
all
this
,
would
not
permit
at
the
entreaty
of
the
Bishop
of
St.
Asaph
,
his
own
Cousin-German
,
any
of
the
Archbishop's
Men
to
go
and
look
to
the
Goods
,
nor
suffer
his
Servants
to
fetch
forth
for
his
Grace's
use
(
who
hath
linger'd
long
under
a
great
Sickness
and
Weakness
)
either
a
little
Wine
,
to
make
him
some
Cawdles
,
or
so
much
as
a
little
of
his
own
stale
Beer
to
make
him
Possets
,
which
all
the
Countrey
conceive
to
be
very
barbarous
.
4.
The
said
Sir
John
continueth
rambling
from
place
to
place
,
and
detaineth
still
all
the
goods
of
the
Countrey
,
laid
up
in
this
Castle
,
as
conceived
to
be
owned
by
the
Arch-bishop
,
who
was
like
to
be
responsal
for
them
;
and
had
duly
returned
them
in
other
Years
:
and
threatens
to
seize
upon
the
Plate
,
and
all
things
else
of
Value
to
his
own
use
.
Than
which
no
Rebel
or
Enemy
could
deal
more
outragiously
.
5
The
Arch-bishop
desires
his
Majesty
would
repossess
him
of
the
Right
of
this
Castle
,
according
to
his
Majesty's
Grant
made
upon
valuable
consideration
.
And
that
if
his
Majesty's
pleasure
be
that
Sir
Jo.
Owen
(
or
any
other
Man
of
more
Moderation
and
less
precipitancy
)
should
be
there
,
he
come
under
the
Arch-bishop
his
Assignment
,
as
Right
requires
,
and
as
Colonel
Ellis
and
Mr.
Chichely
were
content
to
do
,
and
did
.
To
the
which
the
Arch-bishop
(
as
Colonel
Ellis
and
Sir
Will
.
Legg
can
witness
)
was
ever
willing
to
give
way
.
6.
That
howsoever
,
the
ABp
.
may
have
all
his
Goods
and
Chattels
,
all
his
Cannon
,
Ammunition
,
Arms
,
and
Powder
,
Provision
in
Beef
,
Beer
,
Wine
,
Cheese
,
Butter
Oatmeal
and
Corn
presently
restored
to
him
.
And
what
is
wasted
and
made
away
,
may
be
answer'd
to
him
by
Sir
John
:
As
also
that
all
the
Inhabitants
of
this
and
the
Neighbour
Countries
,
may
have
their
Goods
presently
out
of
the
Castle
,
before
they
be
pilfered
and
imbezled
.
7.
Or
otherwise
,
that
his
Majesty
,
and
Prince
Rupert
his
Lieutenant
,
will
graciously
permit
and
suffer
,
with
their
gracious
Favour
,
the
said
Arch-bishop
and
Inhabitants
of
the
Countrey
,
to
repair
with
their
Complaints
to
the
Assembly
at
Oxford
,
and
the
Committee
there
,
against
these
,
and
many
other
Outrages
and
Concussions
of
the
said
Sir
Jo.
Owen
,
under
colour
of
being
Governour
and
Sheriff
of
this
Town
,
not
warranted
by
any
of
his
Commissions
.
This
proved
of
none
effect
,
and
That
it
should
be
consider'd
at
more
Leisure
.
When
he
return'd
thus
into
Wales
,
and
brought
not
the
least
Satisfaction
,
nor
a
Complimental
Excuse
to
pacify
the
Archbishop
he
said
nothing
,
lest
he
should
have
said
too
much
:
but
his
great
Spirit
was
chaf'd
with
this
great
Indignity
.
After
this
,
fifteen
Months
expir'd
,
he
was
more
haughty
than
covetous
,
they
clos'd
by
Insinuations
with
him
,
relating
how
Sir
John
Owen
had
surpriz'd
the
Castle
,
detain'd
their
Goods
,
and
insulted
over
them
who
had
born
Arms
in
the
same
Cause
;
therefore
they
offer'd
to
joyn
with
him
to
put
him
into
the
Castle
,
upon
Condition
that
every
Proprietary
might
obtain
what
he
could
prove
by
the
Archbishop's
Inventory
to
belong
to
him
;
and
all
that
was
over
and
above
,
he
should
be
welcome
to
it
himself
.
And
thus
the
Archbishop
with
his
Art
and
fair
Language
,
got
Mitton's
Consent
;
and
immediately
thereupon
without
the
least
delay
the
Souldiers
,
assisted
by
the
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*
Hacket
confesses
it
became
not
the
ABp
.
to
bear
Arms
,
but
acquits
him
in
all
the
other
Circumstances
of
this
Action
.
Archbishop
and
his
Kindred
,
with
other
Welsh
,
forc'd
open
the
Gates
,
and
entred
the
Castle
,
which
Col.
Mitton
possest
himself
of
,
and
kept
his
Word
in
letting
the
Owners
take
those
Goods
to
which
they
could
prove
their
Title
.
And
this
is
a
brief
Narration
of
the
Matter
of
Fact
,
transcrib'd
,
almost
Word
for
Word
,
out
of
B.
Hacket
;
so
that
if
any
thing
prove
amiss
,
it
is
no
fault
of
mine
,
for
I
knew
not
where
to
seek
for
better
Information
.
If
the
Reader
thinks
the
Arch-bishop
stands
in
need
of
a
Defence
(
especially
from
the
black
Constructions
of
some
Historians
)
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
p.
227.
was
the
wonder
of
all
Men
in
those
Times
.
And
a
certain
Author
affirms
,
that
a
Kinsman
of
his
Grace's
told
him
,
That
if
he
might
have
the
convenience
to
speak
with
his
Majesty
but
one
half
Hour
,
he
doubted
not
but
to
give
him
full
Satisfaction
for
his
Behaviour
.
We
are
told
too
by
another
Hand
,
That
the
dreadful
Stories
of
his
declaring
for
the
Parliament
,
was
nothing
else
,
but
his
garrisoning
of
his
own
House
,
and
discountenancing
some
We
have
dwelt
something
long
upon
the
Business
of
Conway-Castle
,
but
it
could
not
be
well
dispatch'd
in
less
time
.
Now
let
us
look
a
little
again
Oxford
.
Baker's
Chron.
all
along
for
his
Majesty
.
Who
now
seeing
Oxford
was
in
danger
of
a
Siege
from
Fairfax's
Victorious
Army
,
began
to
bethink
himself
of
his
own
Safety
,
and
was
perswaded
by
Mounsieur
Mountrevile
,
privily
to
leave
the
Town
;
which
accordingly
he
did
,
accompanied
What!
be
advis'd
by
a
Stranger
,
and
trust
the
Scots
!
then
all
is
lost
.
The
Treachery
of
the
Scots
to
his
Majesty
,
and
all
the
unparallel'd
Troubles
that
henceforward
attended
the
King
,
till
that
very
Hour
in
which
he
was
enroll'd
amongst
the
Blessed
Martyrs
,
suffering
from
the
Hands
of
his
own
Subjects
,
all
this
the
Reader
is
too
seek
for
elsewhere
,
since
it
is
foreign
to
my
Purpose
.
So
I
return
to
the
ABp
.
who
was
he
was
as
like
Virtue
it self
,
as
could
be
pattern'd
in
Flesh
and
Blood
.
So
deep
a
Sense
had
his
Grace
of
the
Loss
of
his
most
Sacred
Majesty
,
and
of
the
Guilt
of
his
Innocent
Blood
that
lay
upon
the
Nation
,
that
from
this
Time
,
he
rose
out
of
his
Bed
constantly
at
Midnight
,
and
without
any
thing
on
but
his
Shirt
and
Wastcoat
,
kneel'd
upon
his
bare
Knees
,
and
pray'd
earnestly
for
a
Quarter
of
an
Hour
,
before
he
went
to
his
Rest
again
.
And
the
reason
why
he
observ'd
the
Midnight-Season
was
,
because
the
Scriptures
speak
of
our
Saviour's
Coming
in
the
Night
;
the
principal
Matter
of
his
Prayers
being
this
,
Come
,
Lord
.
JESUS
;
come
quickly
,
and
put
an
end
to
these
Days
of
Sin
and
Misery
.
From
this
time
his
Spirit
(
which
no
Misfortunes
before
could
touch
)
was
perfectly
broke
,
and
he
never
look'd
up
again
.
All
his
wonted
chearfulness
,
and
his
pleasant
Humour
was
quite
overcast
.
No
Man
formerly
more
averse
than
he
to
Privacy
,
yet
now
he
thinks
no
Retirement
too
close
and
obscure
.
He
shuns
Company
all
he
can
;
his
Discourse
sparing
,
or
if
he
inquires
after
any
News
,
't
is
after
those
that
try'd
the
King
,
especially
Cromwel
and
Bradshaw
,
expecting
every
Hour
some
signal
Judgment
upon
them
.
Thus
disconsolate
I
am
ready
for
the
Lord
.
His
Death
was
occasion'd
by
a
suddain
I
am
already
prepar'd
,
and
will
be
better
prepar'd
.
So
he
sent
for
the
Minister
that
was
nearest
,
and
had
the
Visitation
of
the
Sick
read
twice
over
to
him
,
the
greatest
part
whereof
(
especially
the
Psalms
)
he
repeated
distinctly
himself
,
and
receiv'd
Absolution
.
When
the
Pangs
of
Death
were
upon
him
,
many
other
Prayers
were
read
,
and
short
Sentences
of
Devotion
repeated
aloud
in
his
Ears
;
and
these
Words
being
said
often
,
The
Lord
be
merciful
to
thee
,
the
Lord
receive
thy
Soul
,
at
that
Instant
,
first
he
clos'd
his
Eyes
with
one
Hand
,
and
then
lifting
up
the
other
,
his
Lips
mov'd
,
and
recommending
his
Spirit
to
his
Redeemer
,
he
expired
.
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*
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*
[
228.
]
He
died
aged
68
Years
1650.
the
Day
of
his
Birth
and
of
his
Death
being
the
same
;
which
happening
on
the
25
of
March
,
it
occasioned
some
dispute
,
whether
his
Half-year's
Rents
(
due
after
Sun-rise
)
should
go
with
his
Goods
and
Chattels
to
his
Executor
,
or
fall
to
his
Heir
.
But
such
was
the
providence
of
the
Parties
concern'd
therein
,
that
before
it
came
to
a
Suit
,
they
seasonably
compounded
it
among
Athen.
Ox.
vol.
2.
p.
684
,
685.
themselves
.
From
Glodded
(
where
he
died
)
in
the
Parish
of
Eglwysrose
his
Body
was
carried
to
Penrhyn
,
and
there
buried
in
[
*
](A54703-e43950-b)
*
In
Welsh
it
signifies
the
Church
of
St.
Gay
.
He
left
his
Heir
1000
l.
per
An.
Da.
Lloyd
.
Life
of
Williams
.
Llandegay
Church
,
in
a
little
Vault
,
at
the
upper
end
of
the
Chancel
.
Some
Years
after
this
,
his
Nephew
and
Heir
Sir
Griffith
Williams
,
erected
on
the
North-Wall
of
the
said
Chancel
a
very
fair
Monument
,
with
the
Effigies
of
the
ABp
.
kneeling
,
in
white
Marble
,
and
a
large
Inscription
under
it
,
made
by
Dr.
John
Hacket
,
his
sometimes
Chaplain
.
I
am
thinking
whether
after
this
Life
of
Williams
;
&
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist
;
B.
XI
.
p.
228.
of
his
Constitution
,
so
strict
his
Education
,
so
unwearied
his
Industry
,
and
so
vast
his
Capacity
,
that
't
is
a
hard
matter
to
determine
to
which
of
all
these
he
was
most
indebted
,
for
all
his
more
than
ordinary
Qualifications
.
His
Learning
was
copious
,
his
Judgment
stay'd
,
his
Apprehension
clear
and
searching
,
his
Expression
lively
and
effectual
,
his
Elocution
flowing
and
Majestick
.
His
Person
was
proper
,
his
Countenance
comely
,
his
Complexion
fair
and
lovely
;
his
Gait
so
stately
,
that
most
People
mistook
it
for
Pride
,
but
his
Conversation
free
and
familiar
to
a
Fault
;
Judge
of
the
greatness
of
his
That
he
knew
not
how
to
take
from
any
but
a
King
.
He
was
subject
to
sudden
Passions
,
That
every
Man
had
it
sooner
or
later
.
When
he
was
to
appear
in
Publick
,
he
took
great
care
about
his
Preparation
;
And
the
greater
the
Performance
he
was
to
undertake
,
the
more
Liberty
and
Recreation
he
took
,
saying
,
That
we
could
add
nothing
to
what
had
been
done
before
,
but
Method
and
Perspicuity
.
Which
Judgment
of
so
great
a
Man
I
desire
may
plead
for
me
,
in
attempting
this
Performance
,
after
a
Reverend
and
Learned
Prelate
.
And
now
having
brought
so
considerable
a
Person
(
by
Honour
and
Dishonour
,
by
good
Report
and
evil
Report
)
at
Ch.
Hist.
228.
§.
31.
last
to
the
Period
of
a
busy
,
active
and
troublesom
Life
;
I
shall
moralize
upon
the
whole
,
with
what
his
Lordship
himself
once
said
to
a
grave
Divine
,
coming
to
him
for
Institution
to
a
Living
:
I
have
(
said
he
)
pass'd
through
many
Places
of
Honour
and
Trust
,
both
in
Church
and
State
,
more
than
any
of
my
Order
in
England
these
seventy
Years
before
.
But
were
I
but
assured
,
that
by
my
Preaching
I
had
converted
but
one
Soul
unto
GOD
,
I
should
take
therein
more
Spiritual
Joy
and
Comfort
,
than
in
all
the
Honours
and
Offices
which
have
been
bestow'd
upon
me●
The
END
.
AN
APPENDIX
To
the
LIFE
of
ABp
.
WILLIAMS
.
Wherein
is
a
true
Account
of
his
Benefactions
to
St.
John's
College
in
Cambridge
;
with
a
brief
Vindication
of
that
College
from
the
Aspersions
that
have
been
unjustly
thrown
upon
it
with
reference
to
this
Most
Reverend
Prelate
.
I
Hope
my
particular
Relation
and
Obligations
to
this
Worthy
Society
,
and
the
heinousness
of
the
Charge
laid
against
it
(
and
yet
credited
by
a
great
many
)
will
excuse
me
for
troubling
the
World
with
these
few
following
Pages
,
which
I
have
Collected
from
some
Papers
,
drawn
from
the
College
Writings
,
by
a
late
Member
of
the
Society
,
on
purpose
Dr.
Morton
.
to
rectifie
the
World
in
a
mistake
,
which
might
prove
of
ill
Consequence
to
the
Credit
of
Colleges
in
general
,
but
of
ours
in
particular
.
A
certain
Author
,
who
seems
industrious
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist.
B.
XI
.
p.
227.
§.
26.
to
defame
us
(
upon
what
provocation
we
know
not
)
makes
bold
to
tell
the
World
(
bringing
no
Authority
at
all
for
so
black
and
malicious
an
Aspersion
)
that
Arch-Bishop
Williams
at
St.
John's
College
in
Cambridge
Founded
two
Fellowships
,
Built
a
fair
Library
,
and
furnish'd
it
with
Books
,
intending
more
,
had
his
Bounty
then
met
with
proportionable
Entertainment
;
and
then
he
concludes
with
this
cutting
remark
,
But
Benefactors
may
give
Money
,
but
not
grateful
Minds
to
such
as
receive
it
.
The
application
of
which
to
our
Society
I
shall
demonstrate
to
be
wholly
impertinent
and
false
to
all
candid
Persons
,
who
shall
read
the
following
true
State
and
Account
of
that
our
noble
Benefactor
's
Liberality
.
And
first
,
to
do
him
more
Right
than
this
our
great
Accuser
has
done
,
we
do
most
gratefully
acknowledge
,
that
besides
his
two
mention'd
Fellowships
,
he
Founded
four
Scolarships
,
and
gave
us
the
perpetual
Advouson
The
Rectories
of
Freshwater
and
Souldren
and
the
Donatives
of
St.
Florence
and
Aberdarron
.
of
four
Ecclesiastical
Benefices
,
Two
with
Cure
and
Two
without
Cure
;
besides
a
very
fair
large
gilt
Bowl
with
a
Cover
,
for
publick
use
at
Festivals
.
From
this
Acknowledgment
I
proceed
to
a
short
Vindication
of
the
College
,
begining
with
that
,
whereby
his
Lordship
gave
us
the
first
and
that
a
very
pregnant
Instance
of
his
Munificence
,
which
is
his
building
of
a
very
fair
Library
.
The
Old
Library
of
the
College
being
not
capacious
enough
for
it's
intended
use
,
and
a
second
Court
being
added
to
the
College
for
the
most
part
at
the
vast
Charge
of
that
magnificent
Lady
,
the
Lady
Mary
,
Consort
of
the
Right
Honourable
Gilbert
Earl
of
Shrewsbury
;
they
were
now
casting
about
,
by
what
means
they
might
procure
a
New
Library
.
And
there
was
no
one
on
whom
they
could
with
better
Hopes
cast
their
Eyes
,
or
with
more
consident
Expectations
make
their
Addresses
to
,
to
begin
and
carry
on
so
great
and
noble
a
design
,
than
Dr.
John
Williams
,
at
that
time
Dean
of
Westminster
,
Bishop
of
Lincoln
,
and
Lord
Keeper
of
the
Great
Seal
:
one
who
had
a
particular
knowledge
of
most
and
a
friendly
familiarity
with
some
of
the
Fellows
,
and
a
special
kindness
for
this
Place
of
his
Education
,
wherein
he
lay'd
the
first
Grounds
of
all
his
future
Advancements
.
Being
besides
of
a
Liberal
and
Generous
Spirit
,
and
by
his
great
Office
and
Promotions
in
a
full
Capacity
alone
to
undertake
,
advance
and
compleat
such
(
or
a
more
expensive
)
Publick
and
beneficial
Work
;
the
Society
encourag'd
with
all
these
favourable
and
inviting
Circumstances
,
they
make
Application
to
him
,
and
their
humble
suit
finds
a
very
kind
Entertainment
.
In
pursuance
whereof
a
Model
is
drawn
,
presented
,
approv'd
,
and
Materials
providing
for
the
Fabrick
.
And
in
this
lucky
juncture
of
Things
,
that
noble
Gentleman
Sr.
Ralph
Hare
of
Stow-Bardolf
in
the
County
of
Norfolk
,
Knight
of
the
Bath
,
having
some
time
before
read
Sr.
Henry
Spelman
.
De
non
temerandis
Ecclesiis
,
and
thereupon
resolving
to
restore
to
some
pious
use
his
Impropriate
Rectory
of
Cherry-Marham
by
settling
it
upon
this
College
,
did
forthwith
very
seasonably
bestow
Three
years
Rent
of
the
said
Impropriation
(
which
lay
sequester'd
by
him
for
some
good
design
)
amounting
to
192
l.
to
begin
the
Foundation
of
the
New
Library
.
The
most
bountiful
Prelate
prevented
by
this
unexpected
Gift
from
laying
the
first
Stones
,
yet
follows
the
Work
begun
with
continu'd
and
large
supplies
,
at
several
times
,
in
the
years
1623
and
1624.
to
the
value
of
2011
l.
13
s.
4
d.
And
the
rest
of
the
Charge
for
the
entire
finishing
of
the
whole
Work
fell
upon
the
College
it self
,
which
was
(
besides
the
daily
allowance
of
Bread
and
Beer
to
the
Workmen
)
in
ready
Money
787
l.
6
s.
61/2.
The
whole
cost
of
the
Building
amounting
to
no
less
then
2991
l.
10
s.
101/2.
Now
we
have
been
so
far
from
disobliging
this
so
profuse
a
Benefactor
,
with
respect
to
his
first
Essay
of
bounty
towards
us
,
that
we
have
not
envy'd
him
the
Glory
of
the
whole
,
in
commonly
reputing
him
the
sole
Founder
of
this
goodly
Building
,
in
as
much
as
he
was
so
deeply
concern'd
in
bearing
well
near
Two
third
parts
of
the
Charge
:
But
seeing
we
are
forc'd
to
this
in
our
own
Vindication
,
we
could
no
longer
suppress
the
truth
(
tho'
it
somewhat
derogate
from
his
Lordship's
suppos'd
Munificence
,
as
the
only
Erecter
of
the
Library
)
lest
we
should
be
found
too
injurious
to
the
Honour
and
Memory
of
that
generous
Knight
,
who
so
freely
contributed
to
the
first
Foundation
,
and
false
to
the
Society
it self
,
which
underwent
the
great
Charge
of
near
a
Thousand
pounds
to
perfect
the
Work
.
As
to
any
Books
,
with
which
this
great
Founder
is
represented
by
our
calumniating
Historian
to
have
immediately
furnish'd
the
New-erected
Library
,
we
declare
that
we
find
no
Memorial
,
but
on
the
contrary
have
Grounds
highly
reasonable
to
believe
,
that
he
did
then
confer
none
.
One
Reason
for
all
may
be
,
that
our
Predecessors
(
who
provided
a
fair
Vellam
Book
to
perpetuate
the
Memories
of
all
the
worthy
Benefactors
to
the
Library
,
that
either
have
been
,
or
are
to
be
)
took
care
to
have
his
Lordship's
Picture
at
length
and
Arms
drawn
therein
,
and
that
his
special
Benefaction
should
be
most
advantageously
transmitted
to
Posterity
,
have
done
it
in
these
Words
.
Reverendus
in
Christo
Pater
Johannes
Episc.
Lincoln
.
&c.
hanc
splendidam
Bibliothecam
praeter
duos
Socios
&
quatuor
Scholares
,
fundavit
.
At
non
contenta
hisce
magnificis
aedibus
tam
effusa
honoratissimi
Praesulis
Benignitas
,
propriae
Bibliothecae
Libros
(
uti
patet
ex
Syngraphâ
)
nobis
dicavit
.
Which
words
as
they
plainly
shew
only
a
design
and
voluntary
obligation
on
his
Lordship's
Part
for
the
future
to
give
his
own
Library
,
so
they
do
by
implication
strongly
infer
,
that
he
had
not
then
actually
extended
his
Bounty
that
way
.
And
let
the
World
now
judge
,
whether
the
then
Society
did
hereby
give
any
the
least
suspition
of
ingratitude
,
in
that
their
lasting
Memorial
of
his
Bounty
,
which
might
justly
hinder
his
intended
future
Munificence
;
when
they
thus
openly
and
freely
recognize
him
as
well
the
Founder
of
the
Library
it self
(
notwithstanding
the
other
foremention'd
Disbursments
for
the
Fabrick
)
as
of
two
Fellows
and
four
Scholars
:
and
what
pretence
or
reason
our
Historical
Caviller
had
for
publishing
such
an
Assertion
,
that
the
unthankfulness
of
the
College
,
and
their
unsuitable
Reception
and
Return
of
their
great
Benefactor
's
Liberality
had
put
a
final
stop
to
all
other
his
Lordship
's
design'd
Favours
.
His
Lordship
indeed
did
soon
after
this
,
upon
second
Thoughts
,
(
but
chiefly
upon
the
humble
suggestion
of
the
College
,
that
a
present
Supply
of
Books
would
be
more
acceptable
)
take
in
his
former
Instrument
,
whereby
he
gave
his
own
whole
Library
after
his
death
to
the
College
,
and
in
compliance
with
their
Request
oblig'd
himself
by
Indenture
,
to
the
Annual
Payment
of
One
Hundred
pounds
for
Ten
years
together
then
next
to
come
,
for
the
more
speedy
furnishing
of
the
Library
with
Books
;
and
for
further
security
thereof
did
anew
make
over
his
own
Library
,
and
sent
a
true
Catalogue
of
his
Books
to
be
kept
among
the
Records
of
the
College
.
Which
Annuity
of
one
Hundred
pounds
for
Ten
years
,
or
any
part
thereof
being
never
paid
,
(
by
what
neglect
or
mischance
is
not
known
)
his
Lordship
foreseeing
the
Troubles
coming
upon
him
,
wherein
he
was
for
several
years
after
sorely
involv'd
,
did
order
his
said
Library
(
then
in
the
Custody
of
one
Kilvert
and
by
him
much
imbezled
)
to
be
deliver'd
up
into
the
Possession
of
the
College
,
for
the
satisfaction
of
that
Thousand
Pound
,
for
which
his
own
Bounty
had
made
him
a
Debter
.
And
accordingly
impair'd
as
it
was
it
came
into
the
College-hands
,
and
so
continu'd
till
the
year
1640.
when
his
Lordship
was
set
at
Liberty
from
the
Tower
,
and
in
some
measure
restor'd
to
his
Majesty's
Grace
and
Favour
,
and
advanc'd
to
the
Arch-Bishoprick
of
York
.
Upon
which
his
happy
Restitution
and
high
Promotion
,
his
Library
,
as
receiv'd
,
was
at
his
Instance
return'd
back
,
and
lent
unto
him
again
(
no
ungrateful
disobligation
we
hope
)
and
by
him
remov'd
to
his
Study
in
the
Deanery
of
Westminster
.
And
upon
his
Lordship's
removal
first
to
York
,
and
then
his
retirement
into
Wales
,
they
were
seiz'd
upon
by
the
Parliament
,
and
committed
to
the
Custody
of
some
Gentlemen
for
seven
years
.
After
which
time
,
at
the
Arch-Bishop's
Suit
the
Keys
of
his
Study
were
deliver'd
to
one
Mr.
Gouland
,
as
Trustee
for
the
Bishop
during
his
Life
,
and
some
of
the
Books
in
the
mean
time
sent
down
by
his
Lordship's
order
to
him
in
Wales
.
Upon
his
Lordship's
Death
the
remainder
of
the
Library
fell
into
his
Administrator's
hands
,
from
whom
the
College
at
last
receiv'd
them
,
and
gave
both
him
and
Mr.
Gouland
and
other
Persons
concern'd
legal
Discharges
as
well
for
the
Annuity
aforesaid
(
for
which
being
unpay'd
they
accepted
the
mangled
Library
as
a
full
Compensation
)
as
for
the
Books
themselves
.
The
truth
of
which
do's
fully
appear
from
the
several
Releases
given
by
the
College
An.
1650.
under
their
common
Seal
to
the
interessed
Persons
;
which
to
insert
here
would
be
too
tedious
.
The
Books
being
thus
come
into
the
Possession
of
the
College
,
it
was
next
to
be
advis'd
,
how
they
might
be
most
advantageously
bestow'd
according
to
the
Noble
and
Right
Reverend
Donor's
Mind
,
and
for
the
benefit
of
the
Society
.
It
was
therefore
at
length
concluded
by
and
with
the
approbation
of
Griffith
Williams
Esquire
,
his
Lordship's
Heir
and
Administrator
,
that
such
Books
as
were
entire
and
not
before
in
the
Library
should
be
reserv'd
and
there
dispos'd
;
and
the
rest
either
Imperfect
or
Duplicates
to
be
sold
,
and
with
the
Monies
thereby
rais'd
(
after
charges
deducted
)
a
Purchase
of
Lands
should
be
made
,
the
Rents
whereof
should
be
determin'd
partly
to
the
Annual
Increase
of
the
Library-Keeper's
stipend
(
as
he
himself
had
design'd
)
and
partly
for
buying
of
Books
,
to
be
for
ever
reputed
as
of
his
Lordship's
Gift
,
that
so
he
might
continue
a
perpetual
Benefactor
to
that
Library
,
whereof
he
truly
was
the
chief
Founder
.
The
account
of
all
which
both
Sale
and
Purchase
(
the
Particulars
being
yet
to
be
seen
)
as
left
us
upon
Record
under
our
Auditor's
own
Hand
,
makes
it
appear
,
thàt
the
College
did
expend
125
l.
4
s.
7
d.
more
about
the
Books
and
the
Purchase
than
they
had
then
receiv'd
for
them
.
Which
Sum
they
did
first
reimburse
themselves
with
(
as
in
all
Reason
and
Equity
they
ought
)
out
of
the
yearly
Rents
of
the
purchass'd
Lands
,
and
after
that
did
yearly
pay
the
full
Rents
of
those
Lands
in
the
following
manner
.
|
To
the
Library-Keeper
for
the
Augmentation
of
his
stipend
.
|
l.
s.
d.
06.
13.
04.
|
l.
s.
d.
20.00.00
|
|
For
Books
for
the
Library
,
as
his
Lordship
's
perpetual
Gift
.
|
l.
s.
d.
13.
06.
08.
|
I
doubt
not
now
but
that
this
Account
,
as
it
is
true
,
so
also
will
be
satisfactory
to
all
unprejudic'd
Persons
,
and
justify
both
it self
and
our
Predecessors
,
as
well
as
the
living
Members
,
that
neither
the
past
nor
present
Society
have
in
this
Instance
in
the
least
wrong'd
our
great
Patron
's
Donation
,
or
done
any
thing
unworthy
of
those
vast
obligations
he
hath
lay'd
upon
this
College
.
And
if
perchance
in
the
Judgment
of
any
one
who
is
Impartial
,
they
have
been
mistaken
in
their
Measures
,
and
have
not
set
out
our
Benefactor
to
the
fairest
advantage
;
yet
the
Concurrence
of
his
Heir
and
Administrator
with
them
(
the
properest
and
most
likely
Assertor
and
Promoter
of
his
Honour
)
will
vindicate
that
their
Error
from
any
malicious
and
ungrateful
design
of
derogating
from
his
Bounty
and
deserv'd
Glory
.
I
have
been
something
particular
in
the
Account
of
the
Library
,
because
it
was
but
short
,
and
because
it
has
been
and
is
much
talk'd
of
still
to
the
great
discredit
of
the
College
.
I
should
in
the
next
place
go
on
to
give
an
Account
of
his
other
Benefactions
to
us
,
and
that
neither
our
Predecessors
nor
we
have
ever
abus'd
any
of
them
;
as
likewise
with
what
Respect
and
Gratitude
the
Society
behav'd
themselves
to
him
while
he
was
alive
,
and
how
they
always
look'd
upon
his
Requests
unto
them
as
so
many
Commands
.
But
to
give
the
particulars
of
all
this
(
as
might
be
done
from
the
College
Writings
)
would
make
this
Appendix
Voluminous
,
and
would
be
but
to
trouble
the
Publick
perhaps
too
much
with
a
private
injury
.
And
I
shall
only
add
one
of
all
his
Lordship's
Letters
to
the
College
to
shew
how
far
he
was
from
charging
it
with
ingratitude
to
him
.
My
Reverend
and
Worthy
Friend
,
I
Do
recommend
to
you
the
Bearer
hereof
John
Williams
,
a
Scholar
from
my
poor
Foundation
at
Westminster
,
to
succeed
in
that
vacant
Scholarship
void
in
your
College
sithence
the
last
Commencement
.
So
that
what
I
subscrib'd
to
a
Petition
of
one
Robinson
,
a
Pensioner
of
that
Society
,
is
hereby
become
void
;
I
not
knowing
at
that
time
of
any
of
that
Foundation
which
would
accept
thereof
.
I
do
acknowledge
I
am
much
bound
to
you
and
the
Seniors
,
for
many
Favours
done
to
my
poor
Scholars
from
time
to
time
;
and
shall
hardly
be
able
to
make
any
Requital
for
the
one
part
,
much
less
am
I
in
case
to
be
a
Petitioner
for
those
to
come
.
But
if
you
shall
be
pleas'd
,
with
those
of
the
Seniority
that
have
any
Remembrance
of
me
,
for
his
own
Worth
(
which
,
as
I
conceive
by
some
Exercises
of
his
,
is
more
than
ordinary
)
and
at
the
Intreaty
of
a
Beadsman
of
your
College
(
who
lieth
buried
here
in
an
heap
of
Stones
)
to
chuse
one
Thomas
Tylden
now
Student
in
your
House
,
and
an
Oxfordshire
Man
(
of
which
County
you
were
wont
to
have
but
very
few
)
into
a
Foundresse's
Place
,
whereof
(
if
I
remember
your
Statutes
)
he
is
very
capable
,
you
shall
thereby
do
a
worthy
Act
,
which
includes
much
of
the
Recompence
in
it self
,
and
oblige
me
(
if
GOD
ever
bring
me
from
this
`
Place
)
to
study
upon
all
Occasions
to
requite
it
.
You
may
have
many
Bishops
that
can
better
gratify
your
Courtesies
at
this
Time
,
but
not
one
that
loves
your
Society
more
affectionately
,
and
prays
for
it
more
devoutly
than
I
recommend
me
heartily
to
your self
and
all
the
Seniors
.
To
my
Reverend
and
worthy
Friend
Mr.
Dr.
Beale
Master
of
St.
John's
College
in
Cambridge
.
Your
Loving
Friend
and
Servant
,
JO.
LINCOLN
.
Tower
,
this
23.
Sept.
1640.
Now
,
where
I
wonder
,
in
all
this
Letter
is
there
the
least
Appearance
of
any
disgust
taken
by
his
Lordship
at
the
College
,
so
as
to
make
him
repent
either
of
his
former
Kindnesses
to
it
,
or
to
put
a
stop
to
any
future
;
when
it
grieves
him
that
he
is
not
in
a
Capacity
of
doing
more
than
he
had
done
?
And
that
he
continued
to
have
the
same
benevolent
Mind
towards
this
his
Mother-College
to
his
dying
Day
,
we
have
very
good
Grounds
to
believe
.
For
Mr.
Thomas
Wharton
sometime
of
Gray's-Inn
,
diverting
himself
one
Christmas
(
since
the
Bishop's
Death
)
in
this
Place
of
his
Education
,
upon
occasion
of
Discourse
concerning
his
Lordship's
Foundation
,
did
upon
his
Credit
declare
to
several
Members
of
this
Society
,
That
for
some
time
before
this
Renowned
Prelate's
Death
,
Wharton
was
at
that
time
Secretary
to
the
Archbishop
.
he
often
heard
his
Lordship
mention
the
Kindness
of
the
College
to
his
Foundation
,
and
how
unhappily
his
Designs
of
making
them
Reparations
for
the
Detriment
they
had
sustained
thereby
were
frustrated
.
For
they
accepted
of
his
Foundation
of
Fellows
and
Scholars
(
merely
out
of
Gratitude
to
him
)
at
less
than
half
the
Revenue
,
which
was
sufficient
to
maintain
it
,
for
which
reason
after
the
sustaining
of
much
Loss
,
they
were
at
last
forc'd
to
sink
the
Fellowships
in
their
own
Defence
,
and
in
compliance
with
a
Statute
of
the
College
.
But
(
continues
Mr.
Wharton's
Account
)
that
he
was
finally
resolv'd
to
be
as
good
as
his
Word
,
and
leave
them
a
large
and
lasting
Testimony
of
his
additional
Bounty
:
that
in
Prosecution
of
this
generous
Resolution
he
had
pitch'd
upon
an
Estate
of
Three
Hundred
Pounds
per
An.
to
be
settled
upon
the
College
for
ever
to
this
End
and
Purpose
;
That
the
Writings
of
settlement
were
actually
drawn
,
and
read
over
to
,
and
approv'd
of
by
him
.
But
it
being
somewhat
late
at
Night
,
and
his
Lordship
much
indispos'd
,
he
defer'd
the
signing
and
sealing
of
them
,
till
the
next
Morning
,
before
which
time
it
pleas'd
GOD
to
take
him
out
of
the
World
.
By
which
we
and
our
Successors
were
not
only
depriv'd
of
a
Noble
Benefactor
,
but
of
a
perpetual
Advocate
;
this
his
last
Design
(
had
it
but
by
a
short
continuance
of
his
Life
taken
effect
)
being
sufficient
to
stop
the
Mouths
of
all
our
Accusers
,
and
to
vindicate
the
Innocence
of
the
Society
from
those
ill
surmizes
that
it
has
for
some
Years
very
unjustly
labour'd
under
.
The
End
of
the
Appendix
.
The
Inscription
upon
the
Archbishop's
Tomb-Stone
,
compos'd
by
Bishop
Hacket
.
HOspes
lege
,
relege
.
Quod
in
hoc
Sacello
,
paucis
noto
,
haud
expectares
,
Hic
situs
est
Johannes
Wilhelmus
,
omnium
Praesulum
celeberrimus
:
A
paternis
natalibus
è
familia
Wilhelmorum
de
Coghwhillin
ortus
,
A
maternis
è
Griffithis
de
Pentrin
.
Cujus
summum
ingenium
,
&
in
omni
genere
literarum
praestantia
Meruit
,
ut
Regis
Jacobigratiâ
ad
Decanatum
Sarum
Post
Westmonasterii
eveheretur
.
Ut
simul
,
atque
uno
munere
,
tanto
Regi
esset
à
consiliis
secretis
&
deliciis
,
Magni
Sigilli
Custos
,
&
Sedis
Lincolniensis
Episcopus
:
Quem
Carolus
primus
infula
Episcop.
Eboracen
.
decoraret
.
Omnes
scientias
valdè
edoctus
:
novem
linguarum
thesaurus
:
Theologiae
purae
&
illibatae
medulla
:
prudentiae
politicae
cortina
:
Sacrae
,
canonicae
,
civilis
,
municipalis
sapientiae
apex
,
&
ornamentum
.
Dulciloquii
cymbalum
,
memoriae
tenacissimae
,
plusquàm
humanae
:
Historiarum
omnis
generis
myrothecium
.
Magnorum
operum
,
usque
ad
sumtum
viginti
mille
librarum
,
structor
.
Munificentiae
,
liberalitatis
,
hospitalis
lautitiae
,
Misericordiae
erga
pauperes
insigne
exemplum
.
Postquàm
inter
tempor
a
luctuosissima
Satur
esset
omnium
,
quae
videret
,
&
audiret
;
Nec
Regi
aut
Patriae
,
per
rabiem
perduellium
,
ampliùs
servire
potuit
;
Anno
aetatis
68ᵒ.
expleto
,
Martii
25o
.
qui
fuit
ei
natalis
,
Summâ
fide
in
Christum
,
inconcussâ
erga
R●gem
fidelitate
,
Animam
,
anginâ
extinctus
,
piissimè
Deo
reddidit
.
Nec
refert
quod
tantillum
monumentum
,
in
occulto
angulo
positum
,
Tanti
viri
memoriam
servat
.
Cujus
virtutes
omnium
aetatum
tempora
celebrabunt
.
Abi
viator
,
sat
tuis
oculis
debes
.