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THE 
 
 LIFE 
 
 OF 
 
 Henry Prince of Wales, 
 
 Eldeft Son of King James L 
 
 Compiled chiefly from his own Papers, and 
 other Manufcripts, never before publifhed. 
 
 By THOMAS BIRCH, D. P, 
 
 Secretary of the Royal Society. 
 
 ^od enim prajiabiliu! eji, aut pukhrlus Munus Deorumy 
 ^uam cajiusy gt fan£iusy et Di'is fimillimus Princeps ? 
 
 Plin. Panegyr, 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for A. Millar in the Strands 
 MDCCLX. 
 
£i>nL. 
 
 T O HIS 
 
 ROYAL HIGHNESS 
 
 GEORGE 
 
 Prince of Wales. 
 
 SI R, 
 
 TH E fubjed of this work, whicli 
 attempts to give as complete an 
 account, as is poflible at the 
 diftance of a century and an half, of 
 one of the greateft of your Royal High- 
 nefs's predeceffors in the title, which 
 you bear fo much to the joy of the 
 
 A 2 whole 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 whole nation, would, if treated of in 
 any manner correfpondent to its dig- 
 nity, give your Royal Highnels the 
 chief right to this addrefs, both from 
 the fame elevation of rank, and the 
 fame amiablenefs of charadler. But 
 confcious of my own defers in the 
 compofition, I cannot, without diffi- 
 dence, approach your Royal Highnefs 
 on this occafion ; a diffidence abated 
 only by your known candour and ge^ 
 neral benevolence, and by the hopes, 
 that the variety and importance of the 
 fads now firft offered to the public, 
 r^nd the fidelity of the narration, will 
 be confidered as the befl: recommenda- 
 tion, as they are the moft effential 
 qualities, of an hiftorical performance. 
 In thefe refpeds I flatter myfelf, that 
 jpy refearches have enabled me to do 
 juflice in fome degree to the memory 
 
 ;■ ■ ■■ ■ -jjf 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 of;£'iftml:e, whd hai Idrig Keti^the 
 objed of a general admiration, by a 
 detail of particulars not known to, or 
 defcdively related by, former hifto- 
 rians. And it will be the higheft fa- 
 tisfadlion tp me to have exhibited even 
 an imperfedl pidlure of fo many, and. 
 fiich eminent virtues united in the 
 Royal Youth ; vigour and activity of 
 mind applied to the acquifition of the 
 mofl: princely accomplifhments ; mo- 
 defty and moderation in the fecond 
 ftation of power and grandeur; a 
 laudable ambition of qualifying him- 
 felf in all the knowledge requifite 
 for the adminiftration of government^ 
 without the leaft impatience for the 
 exercife of it, till he fhould be called 
 to it in the courfe of nature ; regu- 
 larity of manners amidfl: the tempta- 
 tions of vouth and a luxurious court • 
 A3 a love 
 
D E D I C A,T ION. 
 
 a love of truth and fincerity, un-* 
 biafled by flattery, and never violated 
 by himfelf in the flighteft, or (what 
 is much more) the greateft inftances ; 
 generofity enabled by oeconomy ta 
 encourage and promote all ufeful and 
 public defigns ; and, above all, an. 
 habit of lincere and unaifedled piety, 
 in which the revival of his example 
 by your Royal Highnefs ought to have 
 the proper effedl of reftoring credit in 
 thefe unthinking and licentious times 
 to the profefTion and pradice of reli- 
 gion, the foundation of public as well 
 as private happinefs. 
 
 The excrcife of thefe virtues w^as, 
 unhappily . for the lafl: age, confined 
 to^ the fmall circle of eighteen years 5 
 when alas ! the nation, which looked 
 forward with pleafure to that period, 
 
 ^ whea 
 
•3V 
 
 D te D I C A T 1 i<r. 
 
 when he fhould afceiid the throne, 
 ■'^Taw their hopes blafted by the hand 
 of death : a circumftance, which 
 ' naturally recalls the memory of your 
 Royal Highnefs's illuftrious father, alike 
 cfteemed for the fame public and pri- 
 vate virtues, added to the moft eXenl-^ 
 ' plary tendernefs of conjugal and pa- 
 ternal affedion ; and ftill more re- 
 gretted from our longer experience of 
 them. 
 
 But I am reftrained from indulging 
 the melancholy train of refledlions, 
 which fuch a fubjed: muft unavoidably 
 occafion, by the confideration of the 
 day, on which I am writing this ad- 
 drefs, diftinguifhedby your Royal High- 
 nefs's birth ', a day, which adminifters 
 confolation arifing, as it were, from 
 the very fource of our forrows ; and 
 A 4 banifhes 
 
DEDICATION. _ 
 
 baniflies all the fears derived frdnl th? 
 untimely lofs of one ineftimable link 
 in the lineage of your Royal Houfe. Ja^ 
 
 That your Royal Highnefs, whicfc* 
 hath already furpafled the age of Princ^i 
 Henry, may inherit the years, as well '^ 
 as glories, of your Royal Grandfather,'"" 
 is the public wifh, as it is the fervent 
 ^er of; -^!V 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your Royal Highness's iAt 
 
 Moft Humble, Moft Obedient, ' 
 
 ,\^:^Ti^ And Moft Devoted Servant^ ^'^^ 
 
 . V ■ • * •■ \ 
 
 London,. Jone 4, v 
 
 n^nT?: THOMAS BIRCH. 
 
a, RE FACE. 
 
 ^7^ HE chara&er of the illu fir tons 
 ■^ Prince^ who is the fubjeSi of thefe 
 memoirs ; the vafi expeEiations con- 
 ceived of hi7n in his own time^ equal to 
 thofe forfned of Marcellus and Ge?yna- 
 nicus by the Roman people ; and the 
 univerfal admiration of him tra?tfmitted 
 to the prefent age by the concurre?it 
 tefliinony of all the writers of the laft : 
 thefe confederations left 7ne in no doubt ^ 
 that a work^ which could in any com- 
 petent degree do juflice to his me?nory^ 
 would be a prefent highly acceptable t& 
 the public. 
 
 Upon this view I undertook //, 
 tempted by the perufal of 7io inconfi- 
 derable colleSiion of original letters^ 
 written by him^ or addrejfed to him^ 
 among the Harleian manufcripts in the 
 Britifh Mufeum ; which letters once 
 belo?iged to Sir Ada7?i Newton Bart, 
 the prince s l^utory a?id afterwards Se- 
 '} A.xy cretary^ 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 cretary^ a?jd defcc?ided to his v?ily fon 
 Sir Henry Newt07i Pucker i?2gj andmez^e 
 at lajl purchafed by Robert Earl of 
 Oxford, LordTrcafnrerj of Mr. George 
 Paid of J'efus College in Cmnbridge^ 
 and the learned Mr. Thomas Baker of 
 St. Johns College in the fame Univer^ 
 fity. But with the ad.vaiitage c-ve?i of 
 this colleSIion^ I foo7i foimd it impojftble 
 to give fo conneEled a detail of his 
 Highnefs's life^ as the form of a jufl 
 hijiory^ or the dignity cf the fiibjeSI:^ 
 would require. For though letters are the 
 inof folid foundation of hiflory ; yet if 
 there be waiiting a co?nplete feries of 
 them^ fome chafms mufi be left^ which 
 can only be fupplied by other authentic 
 7nemorials. It was 7ny cafe not to be 
 fufficiently provided in either refpeB- 
 Many of tlje Prince s papers., and pro- 
 bably thofe the niofl curious^ were co?72r 
 mitted to the fames^ 171 pu?fuance of 
 his dirsEiioji given jufl before his death \ 
 a7id the accotints of hifn^ which have 
 
 been 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 been publijhed^ want extent and par- 
 ticularity, "That piece ^ which prof effes 
 to be an account of the Life and 
 Death of Prince Henry, though writ- 
 ten by Sir Charles Cornwallisy whofe 
 fituation in his Courts as Treaftirer 
 ef his Houfooldy . might have enabled him 
 fully to infonn hir?ifelf and poflerity 
 concer?ting his Royal Majler^ is a mere 
 pamphlet y extremely fuperficial and un^ 
 JatisfaEiory on ahnofi every head\ what 
 relates to the Prince s life amountiitg 
 to but a few pages ^ and the remainder 
 containing only the circumfla?ices of his 
 lafl f chiefs and chara&er ; which lafi 
 indeed^ i7^ that and another difcourfe by 
 the fame hand^ is drawn with force and 
 precifion. It were to be wiffjed^ that this 
 iafk had been executed by Sir Adam New- 
 ton^ who was befl qualified for it^ both by 
 his talents as a writer-^ a7td his intimate 
 knowledge of the fuhjeEl, But as he neg- 
 leEied to di [charge this debt of grati- 
 tude^ I have endeavoured to make the 
 
 beji 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 hefi tlje in my power of the colletilDi^ 
 fnentio?jed above y as left by bim-y^ and 
 to incorporate fuch particular s^ as I 
 could felcB fro7n their. ^ with other fcatt 
 tered pajfages in print or manufcript^ 
 which my former reading and later re-^ 
 fearches would fupply ?ne with ; and to 
 digefi the whole into as ?nuch order and 
 conneciiony as the nature of fuch 7na~ 
 terials would admit, T'he difficulty of 
 attai?ii7igy i?t a tolerable degree^ the feries 
 jundluraque recommended by Horace^' 
 is fcarce conceivable by a?iy but thofe^ 
 the only proper iudges on fuch an occa-- 
 fiony who have made fome trial of this 
 kind. rv 
 
 The refult of my inquiries andta-^ 
 hour is now offered to the intelligent 
 reader^ whole candour^ it is hopedj 
 will excufe the unavoidable defeEis of 
 this effay^ for the fake of 7nany faEis^ 
 which he will unqueflionably be pleafcd 
 to learny and which I was unwilling to 
 conceal. a?iy longer fro?n the public 
 
 view^ 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 %:iew, relating both to the Prhice htm-- 
 jfelTy a?id feveral other eminent charac^ 
 tfrs occajionally i72trodticed. Nor will 
 it he expeEied^ that the hi/lory of a 
 Priitce^ ISO ho lived but eighteen years 
 and eight, months^ and 7iever aimed at 
 any jloare in the conduEl of public af- 
 fairSji pould contain any vefy great 
 aEJio7ts, or great eve7Us. It will be 
 fufficient^ if it fjall furnifo the pro- 
 mi fes of the great eft ^ and unfold the 
 gradual openings of a moft exalted aiid 
 acco772pliftjed mind^ prepari77g itfelf for 
 the duties of the higheft ftatio72j and qua- 
 lified to have exhibited a7J exaTnple to all 
 fucceeding Kings^ if the azzful dif- 
 pej7fatio77S of provide?7Ce had not other- 
 '^ife determ ined. 
 
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 V 
 
 'I \ -■ , ' 
 
 A DDI- 
 
Additions and Corrections. 
 
 Page 37. laftline but fix, for Four read Faur. ~i 
 
 Pag. 4^. 1. II, 12. ^ox by the hijioriam — hinting; r. by any 
 of the h'lfiorians of the laji age, except Thuanus-, --who (U 1 29. 
 ^. 15.) but juji hints at. Sec. 
 
 Ibid, note («) after MSS. infert du. 
 
 Pag. 62. note (^ ) zhcx feledcrum, dele^. T^ , 
 
 Pag. 77. 1, 10. place the reference to the note (^ ) It thp 
 •wor A. religion, and dele it 1. 12. at the words a Utter. v- 
 
 Pag. 118. 1. 7. for 1603-4. r, 1604-5. 
 
 Pag. 215. note (I) line 5. for 1657. r. 1757. 
 
 Pag. 402. 1. 3. for [The negotiations with Spain on this point] 
 r. [A marriage was then propofed by the court of Spain with, 
 a younger daughter ; but the treaty was broken off by the 
 Englifh Ambail'ador upon a very extraordinary demand made 
 by that court, that the Prince fhould qualify himfelf for thq 
 match, by changing his religion for that of Rome. Thefe ne- * 
 gotiations] will appear, Sif^. ^\'- 
 
 Pag. 480, J. 8. from the bottom, for caji, r. cajfed, and delo 
 afide. 
 
 Pag. 496. 1.9. from the bottom, for not^ r. «ii'i>^. 
 
 J I. .« X'iH IS' 
 
THE 
 
 LIFE 
 
 O F 
 
 HENRY 
 
 PRINCE of V/ A L E S. 
 
 HENRY Prince of Wales, eldeft fon 
 of King James, the fixth of Scotland 
 and firll of England, by his Queen, 
 Anne, fecond daughter of Frederic II. and 
 fifter of Chriftiern I v . Kings of Denmark, was 
 born above four years after their marriage % 
 in the caftle of Striveling or Sterling in Scotland, 
 about three in the morning, on Tuefday the 
 19th of February, 1593-4''. His baptifm 
 was deferred for above fix months, the King 
 
 ^ It was performed at Upflo, a port- town in Norway, 
 November 23, 1589. Roberti johnftoni Hiji, Return 
 Britannic. 1. v. p. 141. edit. Amft. 1655. fol. 
 
 '' Vita Petri junii equ. auratl. p. 28. printed in Vita 
 quorundam eruditijjim. & illuji. virorum : fcriptore Thoma 
 Smithy S. T. D. Londini 1 707, 410.' and Life and death of 
 Henry Prince of J Vales: by Sir Charles Cornwallis^ Knt. 
 // Treajurer of his Highnefs's Hovjhold^ p. 5. edit. London 
 1641, in 8yo. Which edition was republifhed in 1644, 
 with fome addition to the title page. 
 
 B having 
 
1L THE LIFE OF 
 
 having thought proper to fend AmbafTadors to 
 leveral foreign Princes and States, to invite 
 them to fend their AmbafT^ors to be (jrefent 
 at that folemnity. Mr. Peter* Young, who had 
 been preceptor to his Majefty, in conjun(5tian 
 with George Buchanan, was fent to the King 
 of Denmark, and to the Dukes of Brunfwick 
 and Mecklenburg', the latter of whom wa$..; 
 great-grand-father to the young Prince by the 
 mother's fide'^. But thele two Dukes were 
 difpleafed, that they were not treated with fo 
 much refpe(ft, as to be thought each of them 
 worthy of an exprefs embally. .;3jj.rn{Ti 
 
 The Laird of Eaft Weems obtained th^ • 
 commiffion both to France and England, 
 having occafion to go to the former of thofe .^ 
 kingdoms, being fervant to Henry IV. of 
 France ; who neither made a prefent to him, 
 nor fent any Ambaffador to Scotland. Queeti 
 Elizabeth was once refolved to have done th^^ . 
 fame, till Ihe was adyertifed by her own Am- 
 baifador in France', that Henry IV. was de- 
 termined to fend none to Scotland. This ne- 
 
 ' Memoirs of Sir Tames Melvil, p, 202, lO'iirtditk , 
 
 •* Thuani Hiftor. vol. v. lib. cix* 14. p. 376." edit. '' 
 Lond. 1733. 
 
 • Sir Robert Sidney, afterwards created- Earl of 
 Lekelter, who v/as fei>r AmbafladoF to France,, in De- 
 cember 1593, ^"*^^ returned to England towards the end 
 of April 1594. Alemalrs of thi reign of ^uen Elizabeth^ 
 vol. i. p. 135, J37, 146, J69, 170. 
 
 ' ' ' glecft 
 
HENli'Y Prince of Wales. ^ 
 
 gle(5t of rife Ffeitch court induced the Queen 
 to ia new fefolfitlon, and determined her, 
 though after a loiig' delay, to appoint for her 
 Attibaffador, a n^an of very high rank, Robert 
 Earl of Suflex^ of the ancient and noble fa- 
 mily of RadclifFe, in order to convince Scot- 
 land, that fhe would always be a ready friend 
 to that kingdom, whenever France fliould 
 fhew any backwardnefs or relucftance ^. 
 
 Sir William Keith, of the Kin<^'s bed-cham- 
 ber, was fent with Captain Murray, Provoft of 
 St. Andrew^s, to the States General, who no- 
 minated Walrave de Brederode, Baron de 
 Vianen, and Jacob Valcke, treafurer general 
 of Zealand, Ambafladors to Scotland, not only 
 to be prefent at the Princess Baptifm, but like- 
 wife to endeavour to renew the ancient friend- ; 
 ihip between that kingdom and their own 
 country, and to perfuade the King to enter 
 into a general alliance agalnft Spain''. The 
 AmbafTadors fent by the King of Denmark, 
 and the Queen Dowager his mother, were 
 Chrifliern Barnicow, and Steno de Bickilde ; and 
 Adam Cruiius came in that capacity from Ju- 
 lius Duke of Brunfwick, and Joachim Brafle- 
 witZ'. from Ulric Duke of Mecklenburg'. 
 
 ' Melvil, ubi fupra^ p. 203. Thuanus, ubi fupra^ is 
 niftaken in faying Robcrtus Ebroicus, EJfexia Comes, Ro- 
 bert Devereux, Earl of Eflex. 
 
 « Melvil, p. 203. 
 
 •* Meteren, Hift. des Pays Bas. 1. xvii. /ol. 362 verfo, 
 . ' Thuanus, ubifupra. 
 
 B 2 The * 
 
4, THELIFEOF 
 
 'The nabiUty of Scotland were likewife In- 
 vited to attend the Baptifm, which was at iirft 
 appointed for the 15th of Auguft; but on 
 account of rebuilding the chapel at Sterling, 
 and the abfeijce of the Englifli AmbafTador'", it 
 was put off till the ifl of September; on which 
 day the banquet began at the caflle of Sterling. 
 However, the Earl of SuiTex not arriving till 
 the evening of the 4th, the Baptifm was agaia 
 
 ^ Mr. Robert Rowes, the AmbafTador in ordinary from 
 Queen Elizabeth, in Scotland, having by his letters frpi?t 
 Edinburgh, of the 19th of" Augull,. given Ibqie .occafioit 
 to the Englifn court to doubt, whether the BaiptifTn'inight 
 not be folemnized on the Sunday following,, though hi 
 bad advertifed the King on what day the Ear) of , iiuilex 
 ijegan his journey ; the Lord Burghley, Lord H-igh Trea- 
 f\ifer, wrote to that Earl a letter, the original of which 
 k i\'\\\ extant in the Cotton library, CuTig. D. II. dated 
 ffom the court ^t Greenwich the 28th of Auguft i594>y 
 ;*ccjuainting him, that if he fliouM ur^derftand certainly^ 
 that the ceremony of Baptifm was over, her Majefty's 
 pleafure was, that he fhould not go into Scotland, nor 
 fufFer her prefenc to be carried- thither ; but that be fhould,. 
 as of his own difcretion, without I'eeming to have direc- 
 tion from the court, advertife Mr. Bowes, that he, the 
 Earl, meant not to tome into Scotland, confidering, that 
 his meffage was only to be prefent at the Baptifm. " And' 
 ** fo, adds Lord Burghley, you fhall require Mr. Bowes 
 ** to declare unto the King, that you will not prefuioie 
 *^ to come into Scotland^ confidering the purpofe of your 
 *•' journey is already determined and at an end. And' 
 *' yet you (hall tarry at Berwick, untill' you have fur- 
 '^ i^.T direction from hence upon fuchan anfwcr, as yoa 
 " fllall receive from the Ambafiador : But, if the Chrif- 
 *' lening be not fo, but (o deferred, as you may come to* 
 *' the fame J then you Ihall continue your journey as be- 
 
HENRY Prikce of Wales, 5 
 
 deferred till Friday the 6th '; in the afternoon 
 of which day it was performed with unufual 
 magnificence. 
 
 The infant prince being brought from his 
 own chamber to the Qijeen's chamber of pre- 
 sence, and laid in a ftately bed, the Ambafla- 
 dors entered into the chamber; and the Coun- 
 tefs of Mar, accompanied with a number of 
 Ladies, took up the Prince, and delivered him 
 to Lodowick Duke of L/ennox, who prefented 
 him to the Ambaifadors. The Earl of Sullex, 
 being firft in rank, received him, and carried 
 him in his arms to the chapel, the reft follow- 
 ing in their proper order ; after whom came the 
 Ladies of honour, the chief nurfe, and others 
 of inferior quality. Before them went the 
 Lord Home, carrying the ducal crown ; Lord 
 Levingfton bearing the napkin, the Lord Sea- 
 ton the bafon, and the Lord Semple the 
 laver. Over the Englifh AmbafTador was car- 
 ried a canopy fupported by the Lairds of Ces- 
 ford, Buclugli, Duddope, and Traquaire ; and 
 the Prince's train was held up by the Lords 
 vSinclair and Urquart. Such was the procef- 
 'ffon to the chapel, a guard of the youths of 
 
 ' Memoirs of the affairs of Scotland ; containing an 
 
 impartial account of the mofl remarkable tranfadions in 
 "that kingdom, from King James the Vlth's taking up the 
 
 government in 1577, till his acceflion to the crown of 
 "England In 1603. By David Moyfes, for many years an 
 
 c'fficerof the King^s houfhold, p, 229. 23 1, edit. Edin^ 
 
 burgh^ 1755, in iinw. 
 
 "- B 3 Edui- 
 
6 THE LIFE OF 
 
 Edinburgh, well drefTed, flanding on each fide, 
 and the trumpets founding. r/...\ y.jnq 
 
 Upon their entrance into the chapdi -t^ 
 King rofe from his feat, and received the 
 Ambailadors at the door of the choir;, who 
 were conduded to their places, whicb; were 
 ordered in this manner"". \ .Ay 
 
 Before his Majcfty was placed ; la , chair 
 adorned with the arms of France. On the 
 King's right hand was fet the Earl of Suifex, 
 Ambafiador extraordinary from the Queen 
 of England, with a pall of red taftety over 
 his head; and next to him Mr. Robert Bowes, 
 the ordinary Ambafl'^dor: then the Ambaf- 
 fador from the Duke of Brunfudck; and laft 
 of all the two Dutch Ambailadors. Behind 
 the Earl of Suflex flood the Lord Wharton 
 and Sir Henry Bromley, Knt. no other En- 
 gliflmien being admitted into the chapel. 
 Upon the King's left hand fate the two Am- 
 bailadors from Denmark ; and next to them 
 the Amballador from the Duke of Meck- 
 lenburg. Upon the entrance into the chapel, 
 the Prince had been delivered by the Earl of 
 SuiTex to the Duke of Lennox, and by the 
 Duke to the Countefs of Mar, by whom the 
 Prince was held till the time of baptifm ". 
 
 Th^ 
 
 " Archblfliop Spotfwood's Hiftory of the church of 
 Scotland, p. 406. 
 
 * Manulcript account of the ceremonies of the baptifm 
 
 of 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 7 
 
 The ceremony began with a fermon 
 preached in the Scotti/li tongue by Mr. 
 Patrick Galloway, one of the Kings or- 
 dinary minifters; which being finiflied, 
 •X)avid Cunningham, Bifhop of Aberdeen, 
 difcourfed in Latin upon the fame text, 
 in order that the fubjecfb of the fermon 
 might be generally underftood by the Am- 
 bafladors. After which the Bifliop pre- 
 paring to adminifter the facrament of bap- 
 ■tifm, the Earl of Suffex arofe, and fol- 
 lowed the King, the reft proceeding in 
 .order towards the place where the Bifhop 
 ftood; the Duke of Lennox carrying the 
 Prince in his armsj and having delivered 
 him again to the Earl of Suflex, the Bi- 
 ihop afked the King, if he did prefent that 
 child to be baptifed, and to be ingrafted in- 
 to the myftical body of Chrift. His Majefty 
 anfwering yes, the Bilhop then recited the 
 creed in Latin; and having afked the name 
 of the child, and the King replying Fre^ 
 derick Henrys and Henry Frederick, the J5/- 
 Jhop baptifed him in the name of the Fa- 
 ther, Son, and Holy Ghoft, Frederick Henry, 
 Henry Frederick^ repeating the names three 
 
 of Prince Henry in the Cotton library, Calig, D. JI. 
 This paper, as well as the reft in that volume, had the 
 misfortune of being much injured by the fire, which da- 
 maged that invaluable library, then at Aihburnham Houfc, 
 06t. 23, 1731. 
 
 B 4 times i 
 
8 THE LIFE OF 
 
 times; which were then proclaimed by the 
 Heralds, with the found of trumpets. 
 
 This being done, the Lords,v\ ho had carried 
 the laver, &c. retired out of the chapel orderly 
 under the Prince's pall, fupported in the manner 
 mentiojied above. After whofe departure came 
 in two gentlemen of England, with a baiin, 
 ewer, and napkin, and went up to the Earl 
 of Siifiex, who immediately arofe in the pre- 
 fence of the King, and, in the words of the 
 MS. in the Cotton library cited above, " did 
 " all to wafli his hands, and fat down in his 
 " feat again: which was thought flrange by 
 ^* the multitude and Nobility." 
 
 The Bifhop then afcended the pulpit, and 
 returned in Latin thanks to God for the bene- 
 fit of the facrament juft adminiftered, and to all 
 the AmbaiTadors for their Ailiflance, beginning 
 with the Earl of SufTex. After v/hich they 
 went back from the chapel in order to the 
 Prince's chamber, where in their prefence he 
 was. crown'd, and created Prince and Great 
 Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothefay, Earl 
 of Carrick, Lord of the liles, and Baron and 
 Knight of Renfrew. A confiderable number 
 of Knights were then made °, and filver and 
 gold coins difperfed am.ong the people from 
 the windov/. The AmbafTadors with their 
 train and the noblemen prefent were royally 
 fealled and entertained for feveral days with 
 
 " SpotfwQod, uh'i fupra. 
 
 plays, 
 
H E N R Y' Prince of Wales. ^ 
 plays, running at tilt, and other fuch exer- 
 cilesP. 
 
 i^jAt the dole of the ceremony of the Baptifm 
 the Ambaffadors made their prefents. The 
 Earl of Suffex's gift, in the name of the Queen 
 his Miftrefs, was a cupboard of plate curioufly 
 wrought'', and efteemed worth 3000/. fter- 
 lii^'^" That of the King of Denmark was 
 two gold chains, one to the Queen, and the 
 other to the Prince. That of the Duke of 
 Brunfwick was two chains inriched with pre- 
 cious ftones, one to herMajt-lly, and the other 
 to his Highnefs ; to whom the Ambaffador of 
 the Duke of Mecklenburg prefented a beauti- 
 ful table adorned with diamonds and other 
 ftones, and to the Queen a chain of gold in- 
 riched in the fame manner ^ But the moll: 
 valuable prefent of all was that of the Dutch 
 Ambaffadors, efteemcd worth twelve thoufand 
 four hundred crowns S being two cups of fine 
 gold, with a box of the fame metal, all weigh- 
 ing about four hundred ounces, and in the box 
 a prefent from the States General to tlie Prince, 
 of an annual penfion for his life of five thou-r 
 
 P Spotfwood, uhi fupra, 
 
 ^ Moyfes, p. 232. 
 
 ' Cottonian MS. ubi fupra. 
 
 * The MS. contained a very particular defcription of 
 thefe prefents; but it is now defedive in many parts, 
 through the accident of the fire. 
 
 I Moyfes, ubi fupra, hys poirdf, 
 
 fand 
 
i<> THELIFEOF 
 
 fand florins, to be paid to the Confervator of 
 the Scots nation at Campveer in Zealand". 
 
 The Prince was Toon after, by the King's ap- 
 pointment, committed to the cuftody of John 
 Erfkine, Earl of Mar, fon of that Earl, who 
 had been chofen regent of Scotland in ^ S7h 
 on the death of Matthew Earl of Lennox, 
 and filled that important office but thirteen 
 months, dying of grief on account of the dif- 
 ficulties, which he met with in the manage- 
 ment of the public affairs, on the 28th of 
 Odober 1572"^. The Earl, his fon, had in 
 1 582 joined the difcontented nobility, who ferz- 
 ed the King at Ruthven caftle, and petitioned 
 }iis Majefty to remove Captain James Stewart, 
 who then ftiled himfelf Earl of Arran, from 
 his councils, as a perfon of evil fame, difaffed:- 
 ed to the public peace of the kingdom, and 
 an inftrument of difcontent between the King 
 and his Nobility. But the manner of this en- 
 terprife being afterwards adjudged treafonable, 
 the Earl was obliged to give up his command 
 of Sterling caflle, and tranfported himfelf in- 
 to Ireland. Thence he came over into Eng- 
 land, and joining the Lord Hamilton and 
 others, who had been outlawed during the 
 regency of the Earl of Morton, returned with 
 
 rl vn&nij" 
 " Meteren, tibi fupra. - -"'^'^ ••^■- 
 
 '^ Peerage of Scotland by George Crawfurd, Efij; p. 
 302. Edit. Edifil'urgh^ \'jib-> fol. Spotfwood-, />. 264, 
 fiys, that the Earl died the 8th of October.. 
 
 theiA 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. i i 
 thcmin 1585, to Scotland, where he obtained 
 the King's pardon, and was reftored to his go- 
 vernment of Sterling caftle, received into a 
 jjiore than ordinary {hare of his Majefty's fa- 
 ijOur, which he never afterwards forfeited*, 
 and was now honoured with the poft of Go- 
 vernor to the Prince. 
 
 He was aflifled in this charge by his mo- 
 tlier Annabella, Countefs Dowager of Mar, 
 and daughter of William Murray of Tillibar- 
 din, paternal anceftor of his Grace the prefent 
 Duke of Athol. This Lady was intruded with 
 the chief care of his Highnefs's perfon by his 
 Majefty, to whom fhe had likewife been ourfe: 
 and though the feverity of her temper, as well 
 gs the duty of her office, would not permit 
 her to ufe any indulgence towards the Prince, 
 he fliewed no lefs affedion than reverence for 
 her; nor did he behave with lefs regard to the 
 Earl of Mar, his Governor, whom he em- 
 braced with great tendernefs and even tears, 
 when his- Lordfliip parted from him, upon his 
 going to England y..;d bft£ niliai?. ^<» 
 
 But the Queen in the year 1595, being In- 
 iiuenced by fomeperfons, who envied the Earl 
 
 -* Crawfurd, uhi fupra.^ p. 303, 304. 
 "^ MS. relation of Prince Henry's noble and virtuous 
 difpofition, and of fundry his witty and pleafant fpeeches ; 
 direded to the Right Hon. the Lord Lumley, and his 
 Lady: Harl. MSS. No. 6391. This MS. muft have 
 been written before April 1609, f'^ce that nobleman died 
 on the I ah of that month. 
 .-Ai^) . of 
 
Ji THE LIFE O F 
 
 of Mar his credit and authority at the ccwirt, 
 and ambitious hcrlelf of forming a party in 
 the kingdom of her own creatures, endea-. 
 voured to llrengthen it by procuring the 
 Prince her fbn to be removed from the Earl's 
 cuflody into her own. In this defign (he had 
 engaged John Maitland, Lord Thirleftainc, 
 Yvho had been Chancellor of Scotland from 
 the year 1585, together with feveral others 
 of the council ^ The King, then at Falk- 
 land, being informed of this intrigue, went 
 to the Queen at Holyroodhoufe in Edinburgh, 
 where, having prohibited any of the council to 
 Gomcvto him till he fliould fend for them, he 
 dealt fo effed:ual!y with her Majefty, that he di- 
 verted her from the courfe, which (he hadrefolv- 
 ed'upon, and prevailed upon her to go and refide 
 at Sterling. Immediately after her departure 
 from Edinburgh, he fent for the Chancellor, 
 and fuch others of the council, as were fufpe<5t- 
 ed of having encouraged her in her deiign; 
 and exprelling high indignation againft them 
 on that account, followed her to Sterling; 
 where he did not ftay long, but returned to 
 Falkland, leaving with the Earl of Mar- a 
 warrant written with his own hand in theie 
 terms; _,^ -. .1 . ;V ,;/ 
 
 " My 
 
 ^ Mr. Thomas Lnke, afterwariJs Secretary of State to 
 King James I. in a letter to Sir Robert Sidney, dated at 
 Ncinkich, iOdtober i,- 159^, printed among the IcttersOf 
 the SiJiicy t!:*;nily, Vol. 1. p, 3^2, takes notice, thft^thc 
 
 , ,:joov/noj.i King 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales, ij 
 
 '^-My Lord of Mar, 
 
 ^ T> Ecaufe in the furety of my fon confifteth 
 " -^ my furety, and I have concredited unto 
 " you the charge of his keeping, upon the 
 ** truft I have of your honeftyj this I com- 
 ** mand you out of my own mouth, being in 
 '* the company of thofe I like otherwife, for 
 ^ any charge or neceffity, that can come from 
 *' me, you ihall not deliver him. And in cafe 
 *•■ God call me at any time, fee that neidier for 
 " the Queen nor Eftate? their pleafure you 
 " deliver him till he be eighteen years of age, 
 ** and that he command you himfelf. Strive- 
 ** ling the 24th of July 1595." 
 
 The fenfe of the King's difpleafure made fo 
 deep an impreffion on the Chancellor's mind, 
 as threw him into a languifliing diforder, 
 which put an end to his life on the 3d of 
 Qcftober following, though his Majefty wrote 
 a letter with his own hand to him, to comfort 
 him in his ficknefsj as he afterwards regretted 
 his death, and honoured his memory with an 
 epitaph in verfe \ 
 
 King of Scots refolutely oppofed the defign, of which the 
 Queen and Chancellor were the heads, of taking the 
 young Prince out of the cuftody of the Earl of Mar j 
 bis Majefty iniKuing, that bis oiun life zuculd thereby be af 
 difcretion. Mr. Lake adds, th(^t nioji of thofe ^ that were the 
 fiipporters of the device^ were at the devotion of Spain, and 
 the Chancellor himfelf; and that the fame parties, that 
 jhould be doers in that attempt, art all our hrderers, af 
 Hume, Ccsford, ^c. 
 
 » Spotfwood, p. 410, 411, 
 
 The 
 
14 THELIFEOI^ 
 
 The Prince continued under the care of the 
 Countefs of Mar, till he was about five or fix 
 years of age, when the King thought proper " 
 to appoint him a Tutor, making choice fof ' 
 that purpofe of Mr. Adam Newton *•, a native' 
 of Scotland, advanced to the Deanry of Dur- ' 
 ham in 1606; which dignity, though not in 
 Orders', he held till 1620, when he refigned 
 it, being in April that year created a Ba- 
 ronet. This gentleman was thoroughly qua-, 
 lifted for the office affigned him, both by his 
 genius'^, and his ikill in the learned and other 
 languages, and was diftinguiflied by the neat- 
 nefs and perfpicuity of his Latin ftyle, (liewn in 
 his tranflation of King James's Difcourfe againfl 
 
 '^ Gornwallis, />. 7^ 
 
 « Befides this, there are other inftances in thefe times 
 of ecclefiaftical preferments, particularly deanries, held 
 by laymen. Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State to 
 Q^ieen Elizabeth, and Mr. John Wolley, Secretary to 
 her Majefty for the Latin tongue, were fucceflively Deans 
 of Carlifle, and the latter likewife Prebendary of Wells: 
 Dr. Valentine Dale, one of the Mafters of the Requefts 
 and AmbafTador to the court of France^ was Dean of 
 Wells ; and one of Mr. Newton's own predeceflbrs, in 
 the Deanry of Durham, was Dr. Thomas Willfon, Secre- 
 tary of State to the fame Qijeen. But the A61 of Unifor- 
 mity, paficd in 1662, effcdually provided againft fuch 
 preferments being given to Laymen, by enacting, that 
 evefy perfon hereafter to be promoted to any Ecclefia* 
 llical benefice, (hall read the Common Prayer, and de- 
 clare his afient to it, within two months after induction. 
 
 ■'Dr. Thomas Smith flilcs him vir elegantijftmi iri' 
 genii. Vita Patricii Junii, p. 13. printed in Fita quorim- 
 dani erudhiJJ', isf iliujl, vlrorum. Lond. 1707, in 410. 
 
 Conrade 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 15 
 C£>nrade Vorftius % and that of father Paul's 
 Hijiory of the Council of T^rcnt^ the fix firil 
 books of which were done by him, as the 
 two laft were by Mr. William Bedell, then 
 Redor of Horningihearth near St. Edmund's 
 Bury in Suffolk, afterwards ProvofI: of Dub- 
 lin College, and at laft Bifliop of Kilmore 
 in Ireland. The Infl:ru(ftions of fo able a Tutor 
 were not loll upon his Royal Pupil, whofe ca- 
 pacity and application foon gave him a relifh 
 for polite and ufeful knowledge, and enabled 
 him to make a progrefs in it rarely equalled 
 at his age. 
 
 Not long after the appointment of Mr. New- 
 ton, the Prince was taken from the charge of 
 the women, and had alTigned him by the King 
 attendants of confiderable rank, the principal 
 
 of whom was the Earl of Mar^ together with 
 
 i. . 
 
 •"That Mr. Newton was the tranflator of this piece, 
 appears from the following pafTage of an original letter 
 to him, written by Dr. Tobie Matthew, Archbiftiop of 
 York, from Bifhopthorp, loth of Auguft, i6i2. Harl. 
 MSS. Vol. 7002. " Of all the kind friendlhips, that you 
 *' ever did me, I acknowledge myfelf moft beholden unto 
 •* you, for the defire to receive mine opinion of your 
 *' tranflation of that his Majefty's moft excellent difcourfe 
 " againft Vorftius; which albeit I had formerly read, both 
 *' the one in Englifh and the other in Latin, to mine 
 *' efpecial good content ; yet could I never be perfuaded, 
 *' that Monf. Cafaubon was the tranflator, notwithftand- 
 •' ing the common report tht-rcof, finding both the word 
 •' and phrafe to be much m.-re pure and elegant in my 
 *' conceit, thi«i were thofe other treatiles by him pub- 
 " liflied.*^ "^^*^ "* *'-'^' 
 
 *.'+ni.-o I . ^ 
 
 j£inoJ 
 
iS THELIFEOF 
 
 the iirll: and only gentleman of his Highnefs*3 
 Bed-chamber, Sir David Murray, Knt. aflifted 
 by feveral Lords, Knights and Gentlemen^. 
 
 The Prince had fcarce reached his fixtli 
 year, when the King, in 1599, compofed for 
 his ufe the beft perhaps of all his works, being, 
 in the judgment of Lord Bacon 5, excellently 
 ijcritten^ and publifhed fome time after under 
 the title of BASlAlKON AHPON, or his Ma- 
 jeflfs inflruclions to his dearejl fofi Henry the 
 Prince. It is divided into three books; the 
 firfl inftrudting the prince in his duty towards 
 God; the fecond in his duty when he fhould be 
 King; and the third informing him how to be- 
 have himfelf in indifferent things, which were 
 neither right nor wrong, but according as they 
 were rightlv or wrong ufed ; and yet would 
 ferve, according to his behaviour, to increafe or 
 lefTeii his reputation and authority among the 
 people. His Majefty had drawn up this trea- 
 tife, to ufe his own words'', " for exercife of 
 ** my own ingene, and inftrudion of him, 
 *' who, fays he, is appointed by God, I hope, 
 " to fit on my throne after me. For the pur- 
 '* pofe and matter thereof being only fit for 
 
 * Cornwallis, p. 7. 
 
 s The beginning of the Hijlory of Great Britain, pub- 
 lifhcd in Dr. Rawley's Reftifcitatlo^ p. 224, e^it, London 
 
 1657, fol. T 1 . ^ 
 
 ^ Pretace to the edition printed at London in 1603, 
 by Felix Kyngjion, for John Norton^ according to the copie 
 printed at Edinburgh, 
 
 «« a 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 17 
 
 *' a King, as teaching him his office, and the 
 *'. perjTon, whom-for it was ordained, a King's 
 " he-ii-j whole fecret counfellor and faithful 1 
 *'!i^jd4Tipnifher it miift be; 1 thought it no ways 
 *' convenient nor comely, that either it fliould 
 '^ to all be proclaimed, which to one only ap- 
 *'.. f>firtained (and efpecially being a mefTenger 
 *' betwixt two fo conjuncft perfons;) or yet 
 " that the mou'd, whereupon he fliou d fiame 
 *',Jiis future behaviour, when he comes both 
 " unto the perfection of his years and poffef- 
 " fion of his inheritance, fhould beforehand 
 " be made common to the people, the fubjed: 
 " of his future happy c^overnment. And 
 " therefore for [he more fecret and clofe keep- 
 *' ing of them, 1 only permitted feveii of them 
 *' to be printed, the printer being firft fwom 
 " for fecrecy; and thcfe feven I difperfed 
 *^ among fome of my truflieft fervants, to be 
 " keeped clofely by them, left in cafe by the 
 '* iniquity or wearing of time any of therri 
 " might have been loft; yet fome of them 
 ** might have remained after me, as witnefles 
 '*.to my fon both of the honeft integrity of 
 " my heart, and of my fatherly affection and 
 " natural care towards him. But fmce, con- 
 *' trary to my intention and expe(5lation, as I 
 " have already faid, this book is now vented 
 " and fet forth to the public view cf the 
 *' world, and confequently fubjecft to every 
 *' man's cenfure, as the current of his affec- 
 
 C '* tion 
 
i8 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' tion leads himj I am now forced, as well 
 " for refilling to the malice of the children 
 *^ of envy, who, like wafps, fuck venom out 
 " of every wholefome herb, as for the fatis- 
 *^ faiftion of the godly honeft fort in any thing, 
 *' that theymaymiftake therein, both topublilh 
 '' and fpread the true copies thereof, for de- 
 *' facing of the faife copies, that are already 
 " ipread, as I am informed; as iikewife by 
 *' this preface to clear fuch parts thereof, as, 
 " in refpecfl of the concifed fhortnefs of my 
 " flyle, may be mifmterpreted therein." 
 
 The two main points of this preface were 
 to explain fome pafTages in his book, in which, 
 on account of the feveiity of his expreffions 
 againft the factious humour of puritans, he 
 feemed to furniili grounds of dcubti?ig his fin- 
 cerity in that religion^ which he had evej' coji- 
 jlantly prof e (fed y and others, in which he was 
 thought to nouriili in his mind a vindidive re- 
 fokition againd England, or at leaft fome prin- 
 cipal perfons in that kingdom, on account of 
 the proceedings againft the Queen his Mother. 
 
 His advice to the Prince with refpe<5l to the 
 Highlands' was founded on the experience of 
 former, and has been juflified by the policy of 
 latter times, and deferves to be mentioned here 
 for the fake of the prefent age, in which the 
 writings of this Royal Author, fo much the ob- 
 ie(fl of the admiration of his contemporaries, 
 
 ' Page 35. 
 
 are 
 
ttE N RY Prince OF Wales, jg 
 
 are almofr funk in oblivion. Having remarked, 
 that the Highlands comprehended two forts of 
 people, the one, who dwelt in the main land, 
 and were for the moft part barbarous, and yet 
 inixed with lome (hew of civility ; the other. 
 Who dwelt in the iiles, and were all utterly 
 barbarous, without any fort or fhew of civility ^ 
 he proceeds thus: '' For the firft fort, put 
 ** ftraitly to execution the laws made already by 
 *' me a^^ainft the over- lords and the chiefs 
 *' of their clans ; and it will be no difficulty 
 *' to danton them. As for the other fort, 
 ** follow forth the courfe, that I have intend- 
 " ed, in planting colonies amongft them of 
 " anfwerable inlands fubjeds, that vvithin fliort 
 " time may reform and civilize the heft in- 
 *' clined amo'igft them; rooting out or tran- 
 *' fporting the baibarous and ftubborn fort, 
 " and planting civility in their rooms." But 
 his caution lo his fon with regard to marriage; 
 was a condemnation of his own proceedings 
 afterwards, both in the cafe of that Prince 
 and of his brother Charles; to the latter of 
 whom a want of attention to that rule was, 
 perhaps, the chief cauie of his misfortunes and 
 even ruin. " 1 would, fays the Khjg^, ratheft 
 ** have you to marry one, that were fully of your 
 '^^ own religion, her rank and other qualities 
 *' being agreable to your eftate. For although 
 *' that, to my great regret, the number of any 
 
 ^ Page 78. 
 
 •G 2 " Princes 
 
20 THELIFEOF 
 
 Princes of power and account, profefTing 
 our religion, be but very fmall; and that 
 tlierefore this advice fcems to be the more 
 ftrait and difficile j yet ye have deeply to 
 weigh and confider upon thofe doubts, how 
 ye and your wife can be of one fle(h, and 
 keep unity betwixt you, being members of 
 two oppofite churches. Difagreement in 
 religion bringeth ever wdth it difagreement 
 in manners i and the dilTenfion betwixt your 
 preachers and her's will breed and fofter a 
 diffenfion among your fubjedts, taking their 
 example from your family j befides the peril 
 of the evil education of your children. 
 Neither pride you, that ye will be able to 
 frame and make her as ye pleafe. That 
 deceived Solomon, the wifeft King, that 
 ever was, the grace of perfeverance not 
 being a flower, that groweth in our garden." 
 In 1600, the Prince being now advanced to 
 his feventh year, took the opportunity of a 
 voyage of Sir David Murray into Holland, on 
 account of fome affairs of his deceafed bro- 
 ther, to fend by him a letter in French to the 
 States General, dated at Sterling on the iirfl 
 of September. In this letter \ which he ob- 
 ferves to be /t'.r primlces de nojlre main^ he ex- 
 preiTes his great regard fo|" the States, and gra- 
 titude for the good opinionj which they had 
 
 ^ Harleian Col!e<51ion of MSS. in the Britiih Mufeum, 
 Vol 6986. 
 
 fo 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 2I 
 
 fo early' Conceived of him, and of which he 
 
 had received an account from feveral perfons, 
 and not long before from Col. Edmondes. And 
 though this opinion J he owned, was not merited, 
 ^et it was extremely agreeable to him j and as 
 It arofe from the frienddiip of their Lordfliips, 
 he thought himfelf highly obliged to them ; 
 and defired them to make ufe of his intereft 
 with the King, his Lord and Father, or in 
 any other refpecft, wherein they might have 
 occafion for it, till time and age (hould render 
 him worthy of their favour, and enable him 
 to teftify his good-will and affedion for them. 
 
 The ye.:r following, 1601, he began to ap- 
 ply himfelf to, and take pleafure in, adive and 
 manly exercifes, learning to ride, fing, dance, 
 leap, flioot with the bow and gun, tofs the 
 pike "", &CC. being intruded in the ufe of arms 
 by Richard Prefton, a gentleman of great ac- 
 complifhments both of mind and body", and 
 afterwards knighted, and at laft advanced by 
 the King to the dignity of Earl of Defmond 
 in Ireland. 
 
 The Prince's early progrefs in learning ap- 
 pears from a Latin letter of his, written on 
 his ninth birth-day to the King°, in which he 
 takes notice, that he had two years before be- 
 gun to write to his Majefty, in order to make 
 him a judge what proficiency he had then 
 
 "> Cornwallis, p. 8. " Johnftoji, p. 383. 
 
 ^ See Appendix, No, I. 
 
 C 3 made 
 
22 THE LIFE OF 
 
 made in his fludies, and what Unce ; as well 
 as to give him fome teftimony of his duty. 
 That it was of Httle confcquence to have begun 
 well, if the" end did not anfwer the beginning. 
 That he ho^ ed, if God fhould continue his 
 favour to him, he fhould acquit himTelf in a 
 proper manner j and wilhcd his Majefly to en- 
 tertain that opinion of him. That fiuce the 
 King's departure he had read over Terence's 
 Hecyra, the third book of Ph^edrus's Fables, 
 and two books of Cicero's Selei!:!: Epilile^ ; and 
 he now thought himfelf capable of performing 
 fomething in tlie commenda oiy kind of Epi- 
 ftles. But of this his Niajefty would be the 
 bell judge upon his return. 
 
 Some months before the death of Q£een 
 Elizabeth, the Pope, Ciem.entVlII. b- ing de- 
 firous of having in his power fo important a 
 pledge as the Prince, wrote a letter to the King 
 by Sir James Lindfey, offering, that if his Ma- 
 jefty would transfer the education of the Prince 
 to his, the Pope's, appointment, he, Clement 
 VIIl. would largely afhfl the King with fuch 
 fums of money, as might fecure and eftablifli 
 him in the throne of England. The King 
 thought proper to return the Pope an anfwer, 
 but 'Cxcufed himfelf in that point, alledging, 
 firft, that it would be an unnatural thing for 
 himfelf, whofe education from his cradle had 
 been always to the contrary, to deliver over 
 the child of his body to be nourifhed in that 
 
 dodrine, 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 23 
 dodiine, " whereof, fays he, ourfelves were 
 *^,never;yet perfuaded. Secondly, that if we 
 fjY would have afiented to any fuch thing out 
 *l^iOi any other private end; yet he was not 
 l^f^l ours only, as a child of a natural father; 
 ?*,but as an heir apparent to our body politic, 
 *' in whom our eflate and kingdoms are efpe- 
 *' cially interefted." This anfwer he fent by 
 Sir James Lindfey, whofe ficknefs, together 
 with the death of Queen Elizabeth, and the 
 King's journey to England, prevented him 
 from going to Rome till the latter end of the 
 year 1603 p. 
 
 Sir William Stewart, being difpatched to 
 Denmark by the King about April 1603, the 
 Prince fent by him to his grandmother, the 
 Queen Dowager of that kingdom, a letter in 
 Latin'', the firfl which he wrote to her, dated 
 at Sterling caftle on the 26th of March. He 
 tells her in his letter, that being fenfible how 
 nearly he flood related to her in blood, he was 
 defirous of declaring, under his own hand, how 
 much his own will and inclination concurred 
 with the bonds of nature and the force of her 
 virtues, in hightening his affe<5lion and reve- 
 rence for her: and he requeued her to make 
 
 p MS. Letter of King James, of OB:. 30, 1603, to 
 Sir Tiiomas Parry, AmbafTador in France, in the copy 
 book of Sir Thomas's leti'iers, in the library of Magdalen 
 College, Cambridge. 
 
 1 Harl. IVIS§. Vol. 7007. 
 
 C- 4 tne 
 
24 THELIFEOF 
 
 the fame duty and aftedion known to his 
 great grandfather and her father, ' who was 
 an ornament to the age, as well' as to his own 
 defcendants, among whom the Prince juftly 
 confidered it as the higheft honour to be 
 ranked. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth dyi .g at Richmond, two 
 days before the date of this letter, and an ac- 
 count of her dcceafe, and the proclamation of 
 King James as her fucceilbr to the crown of 
 England, being bro=*ght to him at Edinburgh, 
 on the 27th of ^'arch', by Sir Robert Cary, 
 brother of the Lord Hunldon, and confirmed 
 foon rifter by Sir Charles i^Q cy, brother to Henry 
 Earl of Northumbe. land, and SirThoii^as So- 
 merfet, fon of E^^wardEarl of Worcefter, fent 
 with a letter from the Lords of her late Ma- 
 jeily's Privy Council, the King immediately 
 gave orders for his journey to England. But 
 before he entered upc n it, he wrote a letter to 
 the Prince, v/hith, excepting the alteration of 
 the fpelling, peculiar to both his country and 
 himfelf, which would disfigure it, and render it 
 almoft unintelligible to a modern reader, was 
 as follows \ 
 
 * Moyfes's Memoirs, p. 34, 
 s Had. xMSS. Vol. 6986. 
 
 4^ 
 
 My 
 
HE NRY Prince OF Wales. 25 
 
 *' My Son, 
 " 'T"' HAT I fee you not before my part- 
 " -■- ing, impute it to this great occafion, 
 ** wherein time is fo precious: but that fball, 
 *' by God's Grace, be recompenfed by your 
 *' coming to me (liortiy, and continual refi- 
 " dence with me ever af^ter. Let not this 
 j(**,unews make you proud or infoknt; for a 
 ■ " King's fen and heir was y^ before, and no 
 *' more arc ye now. The augmentation, that 
 " is hereby fike to fall unto you, is but in 
 ** Cares and heavy burthens. Be therefore 
 " me;ry, but not infolent: keep a greatncls, 
 " hut /me J}i/i II : Be refolute, but not wilful! : 
 j[f^i keep your kindnefs, but in honorable fort. 
 ^ Choofe none to be your play-fellows but 
 *' them, that are well born j and, above all 
 " things, give never good countenance to any, 
 " bat according as ye {hall be informed, that 
 " tht y are in eftimation with me. Look upon 
 " all Enj>liflimen, ihat ihall come to vifit you, 
 " as your loving fLibje(fl:s, not with that cere- 
 " m^ony, as towards ftrangi°rs, and yet inch 
 " heartinefs, as at this rime they deferve. This 
 " gentleman, whom this bearer accompanies, 
 " is worthy and of good rank, and now my 
 " familiar fervitor. Ufe him therefore in a 
 " more homely loving forte nor others. I fend 
 *' you herewith my book lately printed. Study 
 " and profit in it, as ye would deferve my 
 
 *' blelTingj 
 
26 TPIELIFEOF ' 
 
 " bleffing; and as there can happen nothing 
 " unto you, whereof ye will not iind the ge- 
 ** neral ground therein, ii not the very particular 
 ** point touched ; lb mufi: ye level every man's 
 •' opinions or advices unto vou, as ye find 
 *' them agree or difcord with the rules there 
 ** fet down ; allowing and following th.ir ad- 
 ** vices, that agrees with the fame ; miftritft- 
 *' ing and frowning upon them, that advifes 
 *' you to the contrary. Be diligent and earneft 
 •* in your fludies, that, at your meeting with 
 " me, I may praife you for your progrefs in 
 *' learning. Be obedient to your mafler for 
 ** your own weal, and to procure my thanks ; 
 *' for in reverencing him, ye obey me,;ai)d 
 *' honours yourfelf. Farev/ell. 
 
 " Your loving Father_, 
 
 " JAMES R." 
 
 TTie Prince in his Latin letter of congratula- 
 tion to the King * upon this great event ob- 
 ferved,th at though he had entertained no doubt, 
 but that the people of England would call his 
 Majefly to the throne of it, from a due regard to 
 his great merits with refpe(^ to that State, to 
 the dignity of his family, and to the hereditary 
 right of fucceffion -, yet he had received an in- 
 credible fatisfadion upon hearing, that this ho- 
 
 l Appendix, No. II. 
 
 nour 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 27 
 
 nour had been conferred qn his Majefty with 
 llich zeal and unanimity of the whole nation. 
 But that being apprehenfive, left this fudden 
 event might prevent his Majefty from having 
 any opportunity of feeing him, which the 
 Prince could have much willied for, he thought 
 it his duty to teftify in writing his joy on this 
 occafion. That if the wcaknefs of his age 
 would not permit him to do that fcrvibe to 
 his Majefty, which he defired; he would moft 
 willingly perform what was in his power, by 
 daily praying to God to give fuccefs to his 
 Majefty'b government, and that he might ad- 
 minifter it fuitably to his own dignity and that 
 of his anceftors, and to the expedations of all 
 his countrymen; and he did not q leftion, but 
 that from this acceffion of dominion, himfelf 
 fhould find an addition to his Majefty's for- 
 mer aft'e(ftion ; which that he might deferve 
 by all inftances of duty and reverence, he 
 would not ceafe to implore the Almighty, 
 whom he befought to be the guide of his 
 Majefty in his prefent journey, and his perpe- 
 tual companion, protedor, and fupport here- 
 after. 
 
 His Highnefs wrote at the fame time the 
 following letter to the Queen his mother". . 
 
 f Had. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 " Madame 
 
28 THELIFEOF 
 
 " Madame and moft honoured Mother, 
 ** A/fY humble fervice remembered, having 
 «* ^^^ occafion to write to the King's Ma- 
 ** jefty my father by this accident, which has 
 *' fallen out of late, I thought it became me 
 " of my duty by writ alfo to congratulate un- 
 ** to your Majefty the happy fuccefs of that 
 " great turn, almoft above men's expedation j 
 *' the which I befcech God to blefs in the 
 ** proceedings, as he has done the beginning, 
 ** to the greater increafe of your Maj^^fty's ho- 
 '^ nour and contentment. And feeing by his 
 *' Majefty's departing I will lofe that benefit, 
 " v/hich I had by his frequent vifitation, I 
 *' muft humbly requeft your Majefty to fup- 
 *V ply that inlack by your prefence, which I 
 ** hav^e the more juft caufe to crave, that I 
 " have wanted it fo long, to my great grief 
 •' and difpleafures to the end that your Ma- 
 ** jefty by fight may have, as I hope, the 
 *' greater matter to love me; and I likewife 
 *' may be encouraged to go forward in well 
 " doing, and to honour your Majefty with all 
 ,*[' due reverence, as appertains to me, who is 
 
 " Your Majefty's 
 
 " Moft obedient, and 
 " Dutiful Son, 
 
 *' H E N R Y." 
 
 The 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 29 
 
 The King, before he let out for England, 
 which he did on the 4th '^ of April, 1603, ap- 
 pointed the Queen to follow him within about 
 twenty days after, and the Prince to remain at 
 Sterling. But her Majefty, impatient to have 
 his Highnefs in her own power, went herfelf 
 to Sterling, in order to bring him away from 
 thence, and carry him with her to England. 
 The friends of the houfe of Mar, (for the Earl 
 himfelf attended the King to England,) refufing 
 to deliver the Prince to her, fhe fell into 
 fuch an agony of grief and indignation, as 
 threvv her into a fever, and occafioned her 
 to mifcarry of the child, with which Ihe was 
 pregnant. The King, being informed of this, 
 ordered the Earl of Mar to return to Scotland, 
 fending after him the Duke of Lennox with a 
 warrant to receive the Prince, and deliver him 
 to the Queen; which was accordingly done at 
 Holyrood-houfe about the end of May. Her 
 Majefty however, not fatisfied with this, com- 
 plained in very ftrong terms of the diflionour 
 done to her ; and by a letter to the King full 
 of paffion, which (ht gave her almoner, Mr. 
 John Spotfwood, (bon after made Archbifhop 
 of Glafgow, to carry, fhe required a public 
 reparation by the punifhment of the Earl of 
 Mar and his fervants. The King, who knew 
 his Lordfhip to be biamelefs, and deiired not 
 
 ^ Spotfwood, p. 476. Moyfes, p, 311. fay tfn $th of 
 jfprll. 
 
 to 
 
30 THELIFEOF 
 
 to be troubled with fuch bufinefs at that time'i 
 returned to her this anfwer; that {he would 
 adt wifely to forget the reientment, which (lie 
 nouriflied againft the Earl, and thank God 
 for the peaceable pofTeffion, which they had 
 obtained of thefe kingdoms, which, next to 
 God's goodnefs, he afcribed to the laft nego- 
 tiation of his Lordfhip in England. This being 
 reported to the Queen by the ir.efTenger, who 
 was commanded to reprefent it to her, flid 
 in great anger replied, that fhe could rather 
 have wifhed never to fee England, than to be 
 obliged for it to the Earl. But upon her ar- 
 rival with the Prince at Windfor on the lafl 
 of June, having fpent that whole month in 
 their journey from Edinburgh, {he was recon- I 
 died to the Earl, who by an aft of council 
 was declared to have done nothing in tbe affair 
 at Sterling, that might affeft her honour'' : and 
 the King, on the 23d of June that year, gave 
 his Lordlliip, under the great feal, an honour- 
 able difcharge from his cuftody of the Prince y, 
 declaring, that hlmfelf had caufe to allow of 
 that great care, v/hich the Earl had fliewn in 
 providing for the Prince's virtuous education: 
 that his Lordlliip had obferved his Majefty's 
 direclions in the Prince's delivery; who had 
 been received in fo good ftate of health and 
 
 » Spotfwood, p. Aril- 
 
 Y Pterage of Scotland, by George Crawfurd, Efqj 
 
 P 304- 
 
 GOn- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 31 
 
 conftitution of body and mind, " that we 
 " have, Jays the King^ not only occafion to 
 **,,take comfort in God's favour thereby (o 
 f/o .confirmed to us, but do now teftify and 
 ?| declare, by virtue of thefe prefent letters, 
 " that we difcharge, acquit, and exonerate 
 " againft us, our heirs, and fucceflbrs, the 
 ^f rEarl of Mar, concerning the education and 
 " delivery of our fon; . and do notify to tlie 
 " world, that we have received full and entire 
 ** fatisfa(flion anfwerable to the truil: repofed 
 " in him, and are refolved to lay it up in 
 ** memory, as a record of his conftant love 
 ** and duty towards us; and taking ourselves 
 " bound, in the honour and gratitude of a 
 " prince, not only to give him acquittaaice, 
 " but to reward him. in time coming for (b 
 " great and memorable a fervice." His Ma- 
 jcfty had already honoured him with the gar- 
 ter, with which he was inverted on the 23d 
 of April; and he afterwards made him a grant 
 of feveral abbey and other church iandsj and 
 raifed him to the poft of Lord iJigh Treaiurer 
 of Scotland, on the removal of his diigriiced 
 favourite Robert Ker, Earl of Sonneriet, on 
 the 2d of December, 16 15, which tht Earl of 
 Mar difcharged till 1630, when he rellgned it, 
 on account of his age and infirmities, and, re- 
 tiring to his feat In the country, died the s6th of 
 December, 1637, being fc^e^^ty -nine years old*. 
 * Peer* of Scotl. by George Crav/fuid, Efqj p, 305- 
 
32 THELIFEOF 
 
 The feaft of St. George being celebrated at 
 Windfor on the 2d of July 1603, the Prince 
 was inverted with the order of the garter' ; and 
 after the ceremony was over, being in his robes 
 prefented to the Queen. Charles Hov/ard, 
 Earl of Nottingham, and the Lord Henry 
 Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton," 
 highly commended him, in the hearing of Mr. 
 Edmund Howes '', our Englifh chronicler of 
 that age, for feveral of his qidcTi witty anfwers^ 
 princely carriage^ mid re^Derefid obeifance at the 
 altar j all which appeared very ft range to them 
 and the reft: of the fped:ators, confidering his 
 tender age, and his being, till then, altogether 
 unacquainted with the hiatter and circum- 
 ftances of that folemnity. 
 
 The plague then increafing obliged the 
 Prince to remc^ve from Windfor to Otelands, 
 a royal palace near Weybridge in Surrey ^ 
 where, by appointment of the King, he took 
 houfe by himfelf, and had fuch a number of 
 attendants allotted him in every office, as was 
 fuitable to his age^ 
 
 One of the principal of thefe officers was 
 Sir Thomas Chaioner, who appears to have 
 
 ° Camdeni Anralcs Regis Jacob!, p. 2. 
 
 ^ General Chronicle of Krigland, begun by John Stow, 
 continued by Edmund Kowes, Gent, p, 826. edit. Lotid, 
 1631, fo!, 
 
 • Coriiwailis, p, 10. 
 
 been 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 33 
 
 been governor of the prince'^ ; a pofl peculiarly 
 fit for him on account of his eminent abilities 
 and extenfive knowledge, acquired both in his 
 own and foreign countries. He was fon of Sir 
 Thomas Chaloner, who died in 1565, and 
 had been ambafTador in France from King 
 Edward VI, and to the Emperor Ferdinand 
 from Qneen Elizabeth, and was author of an 
 elegant Latin poem, in ten books, de rcpublicd 
 Anglonim injiauranda^ publiflied feveral years 
 after his death. The fon diflino;uilhed himfelf 
 likewife by his poedcal talents while he was a 
 ftudent at Magdalen College in Oxford, which 
 he left, without havinsf taken a deeree, in 
 order to travel aboad, where he improved 
 himfelf in all the qualities of an ac'compli{l:ied 
 gentleman. He had the honour of knight- 
 hood conferred upon him in 1591, and, on 
 the acceflion of King James to the throne of 
 
 "* John Owen, the epigrammatift, in his fecond book, 
 tpigr. 36. p. 27. edit. Amftelod. 1647, addrefles the fol- 
 lovvinp; verfes to Sir Thomas Chaloner, whom he ftiles 
 prapcjitum dornui principis. 
 
 Prhicipis efformas tenerum fic peSlus^ trt oltm 
 Non modo regnorwn Rex fit^ a: ipfe fui ; 
 
 ^uatuor hoc quintum regn'ts ut pmferat unum^ 
 Imper'imnque [ut quattuor Imperils. 
 
 Mr. (afterwards Sir) Ifaac Wake, in his Rex Platonicu!^ 
 Jive Miifa regnanies., p. 67. edit. 4ta. Oxon. 162'?, ftiles 
 him Prlnclpi in dlfclpllnarum omnlumque Vlrtutum reglarum 
 injiuutlone honor arms PrafeSlus. And Mr. Henry Pea- 
 cham, in his Complete Gentleman., ch. 10. p. 93. edit. 
 Lond. 1622, gives him the charadter of truly honeji and 
 lever of all excellent parts. 
 
 D Engla^nd, 
 
34 THE LIFE OF 
 
 England, was appointed governor "" to the Prlnce> i 
 and became his chamberlain upon his High- 
 nelVs being created Prince of Wales. Belides 
 his fkill in other branches of learning, he was 
 no inconfiderable mafter of natural knowledge,, 
 very little cultivated in our country at that 
 time; and publiilied at London, in 1584, in 
 4to, a treatife on the Virtue of Nitre ^ wherein 
 is declared the Jimdry cures by the fa/tK effected ; 
 and about the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign 
 iiril difcovercd an alum-mine nearGifburgh in ' 
 Yorkdiire, where he had an cftate: but, it 
 being adjudged to be a mine-royal, little benefit 
 arofe from it to him or his family, till the par- 
 liamei:t of 1640 voting it a mf.uiopoly, it was- 
 reftored to the proprietors. He furvived the 
 Prince but three years, dying about the 17th 
 of November, 1615, and was interred in the 
 paridi-chuich of Chifwick in Middlefex, near 
 the body of his firft wife, Elizabeth, daughter 
 of William Fleetwood, recorder of London^ 
 by which lady he had ifTue William, created a 
 Baronet foon after his father's deceafe, Tho- 
 mas, James, &c. which two laft fat among 
 the iudoes of Kin?. Charles L His fecond 
 v/ife was Judith, daughter of William Blount, 
 of London j and by her he had feveral chil- 
 dren. 
 
 « Wood Athen. Oxon. VqL I. Col. 398. fays, by mlf- 
 tale. Tutor. 
 
 The 
 
HEN RY Prince of Wales. 35 
 The eflablifliment of the houfliold for the 
 Prince and his fifter the Lady Elizabeth*", at 
 Otelands, by the firft book ligned by the 
 King on the 20th of July, 1603, confifled of 
 feventy fervants, twenty-two of whom were 
 to be above flairs, and forty-eight below. 
 But his Majefty, fome weeks after, enlarged 
 their number to an hundred and four, fifty-one 
 of whom were appointed for the chamber, and 
 fifty-three for the houfe. They were flill far- 
 ther increafed by him before the end of the 
 fame year, 1603, to one hundred and forty- 
 onCj fifty-fix above fiairs, and eighty-five be- 
 low. But at Michaelmas term of that year 
 the Prince was removed from Nonfuch^ in 
 Surrey, whither he had gone from Otelands, 
 to Hampton- court, where he refided chiefly 
 till about Michaelmas of the year following, 
 when he returned to houfe-keeping, his fer- 
 vants having in the interval been put to board- 
 wages •". 
 
 The new year's gift, which he fent to the 
 King on the ift of January, 1603-4, in his 
 tenth year, was a {hort poem in Latin hexa- 
 
 ' She was born on the 19th of Auguft, 1596. 
 
 8 He was there on the 23d of September, as appears 
 from a letter of his to the Queen, to fatisfy her, that the 
 report of his intlifpofition was ill grounded. 
 
 ^ Sir Thomas Chaloner's papers in the 167th volume 
 of the manufcripts of Sir Julius Caefar, chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, afterwards mafter of the Rolls, which were 
 fold by auftion at London on the 14th, 15th, and 16th 
 of December, 1757. 
 
 D 2 meter 
 
36 THE LIFE OF , , ,, 
 
 meter verfe, the firfl of his offerings in that 
 kind, inclofed in a very polite and modcft let- 
 ter in the fame language '. 
 
 It is not improbable, that his tutor, Mr. 
 Newton, might have a confiderable hand in 
 this and other letters of the Prince, at leafl: in 
 corre(51:ing and giving the laft touches to them. 
 And that tlie King himfelf entertained fuch 
 a notion, appears horn the following letter of 
 his MajeRy; but the want of a date leaves us 
 at a lols to AX'hat time to alTign it, or to what 
 letter of his Ilighncfs to npply it. 
 
 " My Son, 
 
 *' T Am glad, that by your letter I may per- 
 *' -^ ceive, that ye make fome progrefs in 
 *' learning, although I fufpeift ye have rather 
 *' written than dieted it ; for, I confefs, I 
 •' long to receive a letter from you, that may 
 " be wholly yours, as well matter as form, 
 *' as well formed by your mind as drawn by 
 ** your fingers; for ye may remember, that, 
 *' in my book to you, I warn you to beware 
 " with that kind of wit, that may fly out at 
 *' the end of your fingers : not that I com- 
 *' mend not a fair hand-writing; fcdhocfacitOy 
 *' illud non omittito ; and the other is multo rnagis 
 " prcecipiiiim. But nothing will be impoflible 
 ** for you, if ye will only remember two rules ; 
 
 ' Appendix, No. Ill, 
 
 <* the 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 37 
 
 '' the one; aiide femper in all virtuous adions: 
 " truft a little more to your own ftrength i 
 *^ and away with childiili baOifulnefs ; 
 
 Aiidaces fortuna jiivaty ti??jidofque repellif. 
 
 *^ The other is my old oft-repeated rule unto 
 " you; whatever ye are about, hoc age. 
 ^'^^l am alfo glad of the dilcovery of yon little 
 *' counterfeit wench. I pray God ye may be 
 " my heir in fuch difcoverles. Ye have often 
 *' heard me fay, that moft miracles now-a-days 
 *' proves but illufions : you may fee by this how 
 *■'■ wary judges fhould be in trufting accufations 
 *' without an exa(5l trial; and llkewife how 
 " ealily people are induced to truft wonders. 
 '' Let her be kept faft till my coming: and 
 " thus God blefs you, my fon. 
 
 '^ Your loving Father, 
 
 " JAMES R." 
 
 One of the books, which was put Into the 
 Prince's hands in the courfe of his fludies, be- 
 ing the ^atrains^ written in imitation ofCafo's 
 diftichs by the celebrated Guy de Four de 
 Pibrac, prelident of the parliament of Paris in 
 the reign of Henry III. of France, his High- 
 nefs writing an English letter to the Queen his 
 mother on new year's day, 1604, enclofed in 
 it one of thofe ^atraws, letting her Majefty 
 D 3 at 
 
3^ THELIFEOF 
 
 at the fame time know, that, if this {hould 
 prove acceptable to her, he hoped, before the 
 end of that year, to learn by heart the En- 
 trains of the whole book. Thcfe ^atraim 
 are filled admirable by a polite French writer^ ; 
 and though chiefly dcfi^med for, and much 
 taught formerly, the youth; yet, in the opinion 
 of Monf Pafquier"", the great lawyer and an- 
 tiquary of France, they deferved to be imprint- 
 ed in the minds of men. 
 
 It being now thought proper to build a 
 fmall veffel for the amufement of the Prince, 
 and his inftruftipn in the bufinefs of fliipping 
 and failing, for which he afterwards fhew^ed 
 a ftrong inclination, the Lord High Admiral, 
 Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham, fent 
 orders to Mr. Phineas Petr, one of the King's 
 fhipv\rights at Chatham, to prepare fuch a 
 veiTel, which was to be in length by the keel 
 twenty-eight feet, and in breadth twelve feet, 
 adorned with painting and carving, bpth within 
 board and without. This was accordingly 
 finifhed with all pofTible expedition, andlaunch- 
 ed on Tuefday the 6th of March 1603-4, and 
 on the 14th of that month brought from Lime- 
 houfe, to anchor right agalnft the King's lodg- 
 ings in the Tower, his Majefly being there be- 
 
 ' Melanges d'Hiftoire & de Litterature, par M. de 
 Vigneul-Marville. Tom. I. p. 6o. Edit. Paris 1725. 
 
 ™ Recherches de la France, L. vii. c. 7. £dit. Paris 
 1643, /o/. 
 
 fore 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 39 
 fore his riding through London. The Prince 
 coming thither with the Lord Admiral, and fe- 
 veral other Noblemen, fliewed great delight 
 in viewing this fhip, which was furniflicd with 
 eniigns and pennants. It being brought up to 
 anchor againlt the Privy Stairs at Whitehall, 
 on the 1 8th of March, orders were fent to 
 Mr. Pett on Thurfday morning the 2 2d by 
 the Lord Admiral, to be ready to receive the 
 Prince on board that afternoon, who prefently 
 after dinner came, accompanied with his Lord- 
 lliip and the Earl of Worcefter, and divers 
 other noblemen. They immediately weighed, 
 and fell down as far as Paul's Wharf, under 
 both top-fails and forefail, ai]d there coming 
 to anchor, his Highnef?, in tlie ufual form, 
 baptifed the fhip with a great bowl of wine, 
 giving her the name of Difdm?!. 
 
 The Lord Admiral then prefented the buil- 
 der of it, Mr. Pett, to the Prince in Tuch terms 
 of recommendation, that his Highnefs imme- 
 diately received him into his fervice, in which 
 capacity Mr. Pett was the next day fworn at 
 St. James's Houfe, where the Prince then re- 
 fided". 
 
 His 
 
 » MS. Life of Phhieas Peit, Harl MSS. Vol. 6279. 
 p. 16. This Mr. Pett, fecond fon of Mr. Peter Pett of 
 Deptford-ftrond in Kent, one of the fliipwrights of Qiieen 
 Elizabeth, was born there November i, 1570, and edu- 
 cated at Emanuel College in the univerfity of Cambridge, 
 But after refiding there four years, upon the death of his 
 D 4 father 
 
40 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ^ 'His Highnefs's known relifh for books, ev'en 
 of the mofl ierious and important kind, now 
 induced Robert Lord Spencer, who had en- 
 tertained the Queen and Prince, at his feat at 
 Althrope in Northampton fli ire in their journey 
 from Scotland to England °, to fend him a 
 prefent of the Memoirs of Philip de Comines, 
 with a letter^ dated the 24!h of April 1604, 
 which his LordHiip began with taking notice, 
 that it had pleafed his Highnefs heretofore to 
 accept of fmall things at his hands, as tokens 
 of his duty, being matters merely of pleafure : 
 *^ Which your gracious acceptance, adds he^ 
 *' hath now iniboldened me to prefent your 
 " Highnefs with this book, wherein is both 
 " profit and pleafure j not profit to inrich your 
 *' Highnef-i's eflate (whereof you have no 
 need) but to inrich your mind, the efpecialeft 
 thing to be regarded. The author v/as a 
 ** Counfellor to one of the politicked Kings, 
 " that ever France bred *^, and to one of the 
 *^ richeft Dukes, that ever Burgundy had^ 
 
 father and the imprudent marria ;~e of his mother, he was 
 obliged to leave the univerfity about Chriftmas 1590, and 
 to put himfelf apprentice to Mr. Richard Chapman, a Ihip- 
 wright at Deptford ; and was afterwards made one of the 
 Shipwrights to King James I. 
 
 ° On Saturday the 25th of June 1603 ; on which occa- 
 fion Ben. Jonfon compofed an entertainment, printed 
 in his works, Vol. V. p. 202. Edit. I 756. 
 
 »• Harleian MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 5 Lewis XI. 
 
 " whofe 
 
 <« 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 41 
 ** whofe work (lieweth, that he was employed 
 *' by his mafiiers in many feveral ftates, where- 
 ** by he did know the fecrets of many coun- 
 *' tries. 1 have been bold, moft gracious Prince, 
 *< to line out certain places, that your High- 
 " nefs may the more readily read them with- 
 " out the tedious perufing the whole chapter; 
 " for Princes mufl tafte of every thing, and be 
 .", cloyed with nothing. Pardon, I moft hum- 
 .** bly befeech your Highnefs, the boldnefs of 
 ** a true affecftionate heart, which fliall ever 
 " moft faithfully pray to God, for the con- 
 *' tinuance of your happy proceeding in all 
 -' virtue and honour." This nobleman, who 
 had been created Lord Spencer, Baron of 
 WormleJghton, in the county of Warwick, 
 foon after the King's accellion to the throne 
 of England, was a man of excellent parts and 
 great knowledge of men and bufmefs, and 
 equally eminent for his public as his private 
 virtues, a zealous encourager of learning and 
 merit, and a conftant friend in parliament to 
 the liberties of his fellow fubjeds, till his 
 death in 1627. 
 
 The Prince's love of arms, which foon difco- 
 vered itfelf, and his efleem for men eminent in 
 that profeffion, recommended to his notice and 
 regard, Colonel Clement Edmondes'', a Scots 
 
 officer 
 
 ^ Mr. Henry Peach am in his Ccmplete Gentleman^ ch. i. 
 p< 5. Edit. London 1622, 410. after remarking, that 
 
 " the 
 
42 THELIFEOF 
 
 officer In the fervice of the States General, v.ho 
 had advanced himfelf by his merit. The 
 Colonel, who had been defired by his High- 
 nefs to fend him over from Holland .fome 
 armour, having been prevented for fome time 
 from executing this commillion, wrote to the 
 Prince on the 13th of May, N. S. 1604, from 
 the camp in ihe Low Countries', excufing 
 this delay, and alledging, that he could never 
 yet have time, on account of the continual 
 exercife of the wars, to perform his promlfe 
 with relation to the Prince's Corllet ; " Yet I 
 *' ho;e, fays be, with God's grace, to tie my- 
 *' felf raft upon vour Grace's body; hoping in 
 " God, that it fhall be good handfell, and 
 " that through the good hope, that it has 
 *' pleafed the Lord to bcftow upon your per- 
 
 " the truly w.lorous, or any way virtuovis, are not 
 " afhamcd of their mean parentage, but rather glory in 
 " themlclves, that their merit hath advanced them above 
 *' fo many thoufands far better defcended," adds the fol- 
 lowing reply of Col. Edmondes to a countryman of his 
 newly come out of Scotland : who defiring entertainment 
 of the Colonel, told him, that my Lord his father, and 
 fuch Knights and Gentlemen his couiins, were in good 
 health : upon which the Colonel faid to his friends, who 
 were prcfent, *' Gentlemen, believe not a word, tliat he 
 *•- fays. My father is but a poor baker of Edinburgh, 
 *' and works hard for his living, whom this knave would 
 " m?.ke a Lord, to curry favour with me, and make ye 
 " believe I am a great man born." He was a different 
 pcrfon from Sir Clement Edmondes, the tranflator of 
 Csefar's commentaries. Clerk of the Council, 
 s Had. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 " fon. 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 43 
 ** Ton, that your Grace's name begins already 
 *' to be fpread through the whole world. I 
 *' hope in God, that you {hall follow the 
 ** footfteps of the Prince of Wales, King Ed- 
 ^* ward the third's fon, who not only did fub- 
 " due France, but alfo reduced the proud 
 ." Spaniards in their o\yn country. I fhall 
 " bring with me alfo the book of FroifTart, 
 ** who will fliew your Grace, how the wars 
 " were led in thole days; and what jull title 
 ** and right your Grace's father has beyond 
 *' the feas." 
 
 The Prince returned an anfwer to the Colo- 
 nel from St. James's on the 2 ift of May 1 604, 
 thanking him for the kind remembrance 
 of his promife, the performance of which 
 would be very acceptable; and aflliring him, 
 that whenever a fit opportunity fliould be offered 
 him of repairing into England, he fliould find 
 him, the Prince, willing to requite the Colonel's 
 affecflion. But Colonel Edmondes did not live 
 long enough to receive much advantage from 
 the Prince's regard for him; for on the third 
 of March 1606-7, N. S. his widow, who figns 
 herfelf Agneta Berck, wrote a letter to his 
 Highnefs from Utrecht, acquainting him with 
 the death of her hufband, who had procured 
 a fet of arms, which he had defigned to have 
 prefented to the Prince in April following, and 
 at the fame time to have introduced his fon to 
 his Highnefs. 
 
 The 
 
44 THELIFEOF 
 
 The Prince began now to be confidered by 
 men of learning, as a proper pation of their 
 works, not only for his high rank, but like- 
 wife his relifli for tliem. Nor were writings 
 on religion thought unfultable to his tafte. 
 For which reafon the Englifh tranflation, from 
 the French original, of the difcourfe of Monf. 
 de Mornay, Sieur de Plefhs, on the truth of 
 the Chriftian religion, having been revifed and 
 correcfted by Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, a clergy- 
 man, and reprinted at London this year 1604, 
 in 4to, he adirefled it to his Highnefs, in a 
 dedication dated the 17th of May. This tran- 
 flation, which was firfl; printed at London in 
 1587, had been begun by no lefs a man than 
 Sir Philip Sidney himfelf, who undertook the 
 tafk, on account of the importance of the fub- 
 jedt and the character of the writer; and not 
 having leifure to finifli it, procured it to be 
 done by Mr. Arthur Golding, an eminent tranf- 
 lator of books in that age. 
 
 Another Divine, who about this time ad- 
 drefled one or more of his works to the Prince, 
 was that great maAer of the Plebrew language 
 and learning, Mr. Hugh Broughton, who had 
 preached before his Highnefs on the Lord's 
 prayer, at Otelands, in Auguft 1603, and in 
 1605, infcribed to him a fmall piece in reply 
 to Dr. Thomas Bilfon, Eifliop of Wincheller, 
 on a fubjedt long agitated between them, the 
 defcent of Chrift into Hades. He dedicated 
 
 likewife 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 4^ 
 likewife to the Prince his Comment upon Cohcldh 
 or Eccl'liafiei^ and his tranflation of the La- 
 mentations of Jeremiah j and fent to him a 
 Latin letter^, filling him Aiitoris prcefidhim G? 
 dulce decui, and accompanying his anfwer to 
 an Hebrew Epiftle of a learned Jew, Abraham 
 Reuben, fent fom Conftantlnople to England. 
 The Queen, whofe inclinations to the church 
 of Rom^, as well as to the interefts of Spain, 
 were not krtown to, or at leaft not mentioned 
 by, the hillorians of the lafl: age, Thuanus 
 himfelf (L. 129. §. 15.) but juft hinting at the 
 former, began now to pradife upon and infufe 
 her own prejudices into the Prince her fon; 
 though all her attempts of that kind proved 
 unfuccefsful. Monf de Harlay, Count de 
 Beaumont, Amballlidor from Henry IV. of 
 France in England, having difcovered her Ma- 
 jefty's defigns, informed that King in a letter 
 the 7th of June 1604", that the Spaniards 
 were perfuaded, that they fliould be able by 
 their intelligence with the Queen and her con- 
 fent to alter the religion in England, if the 
 crown fliould fall to the Prince during his 
 minority; and that fhe endeavoured to preju- 
 dice him in favour of Spain, and againfl 
 France, which, fhe faid, flie hoped he would 
 one day conquer like Henry V. In another 
 
 ' Rroughton's works, p. 959. edit. London, 1662, fol, 
 " Lettres MSS. Comte de Beaumont, Vol. VI. p. iig. 
 
 in tht' pojpjjion cf the Right Honourable Philip LoruVifcount 
 
 Royjlon, 
 
 letter 
 
46 THELIFEOF 
 
 letter of the 22d of Od:ober following, N. S.^, 
 the AmbalTador, after taking notice of the 
 Qmsen's immoderate ambition of governing, 
 adds, that (lie ufed all her efforts to corrupt 
 the mind of the Prince by flattering his paf- 
 fions, diverting him from his fludies and exer- 
 cifes, reprefenting to him, out of contempt of 
 his father, that learning was inconflftent with 
 the charatfler of a great General and Con- 
 queror, and propoUng to him a marriage with 
 tJie Infanta of Spain. 
 
 John Johnfton, one of the King's ProfefTors 
 in the Univerlity of St. Andrews in Scotland, 
 having compofed in Latin hiltorical Infcriptions 
 of the Kings of Scotland from the foundation 
 of the Monarchy to that time", fent his work 
 to the Prince, with a letter in Latin y, dated at 
 St. Andrews the lO: of July 1604, in which 
 he mentions his having added a new or rather 
 renewed dedication to his Plighnefs : and that 
 he thought it an honour and happinefs to 
 himfelf, that he, who was the moil: inconfi- 
 derable of his fervants, having firft undertaken 
 a work of that kind, fhould have the good for- 
 tune of confecrating it by his Highnefs's auguft 
 
 ^ !bi,L Vol. FIL p. 205. 
 
 * Printed at Amftcrdam 1602, In 4to. with the following 
 title, bifcriptio'.cs hijlorlca: Rcgum Scotorum contintiata an- 
 norum ferie a Fergnfio^ prlnio Kfgni nofiri Condttore^ ad 
 no fir a tempora^ 'Jchanne 'Johiijfono Abrcdoncnfe Scoto Author e. 
 Praf.x'ii eft Guthdus., Jive de gent'is ortgine., fragmentiim 
 jjn. Melvin't. /Iddita junt icones omniu?n regum Jiobilis 
 Famtlia: Siuartoritm in esre fculptce, 
 
 y Appendix, No. IV. 
 
 name. 
 
HEN RY Prince of Wales. 47 
 name. He adds, that if he fhould find by any 
 token, that his performance was acceptable to 
 the Prince, he ihould be excited to publifh 
 foon fome greater works under the aufpices of 
 his HIghnefs's patronage. 
 
 The ProfefTor's dedication did not pafs un- 
 rewarded J for the Prince fent hira a diamond 5 
 upon which the ProfelTor addrefled a Carmen 
 encomiajiiciwi to his Higbnefs, and tranfmitted 
 it with a letter, dated in November 1605, to 
 Mr. Newton. 
 
 Sir Henry Wotton, going Ambaflador from 
 the King to Venice in July 1604, the Prince 
 fent by him a letter in Latin to the Doge, dated 
 at London the 1 2th of that month, returning 
 thanks for two letters, which he had received 
 from the Doge. 
 
 On the 24th of September following he 
 wrote another letter in the fame language, 
 from Hampton-court to the Landgrave of 
 Heiie, in anfwer to one from the Landgrave: 
 as he did one from London on the 1 5th of 
 December to the King of Denmark his uncle j 
 another in French on the 12 th of January 
 1604-5, to the Duke of Savoy, fent by the 
 Marquis of Lullin ; another in Latin to Fre- 
 derick Ulrick, Duke of Brunfwick, on the 7th 
 of February; and another to Uladillaus, Prince 
 of Poland, on the 13th of that month from 
 Otelands. But from this time his letters 
 written to foreign Princes, and received from 
 
 them. 
 
4S THE LIFE OF 
 
 them, became too numerous to be particularlfed 
 here. 
 
 The King having refolved to honour the 
 fUniverfity of Oxford with a viiit, and to enter 
 .the Prince a member of it, went thither with 
 the Queen and his Highnefs on the 27th of 
 Auguit, 1605, from Woodflock, where he 
 had repofed himfelf for fome days, after a 
 progrefs through the counties of Eifex, Hun*- 
 tington, Bedford, and Northampton. Tho- 
 mas Sackviile, Earl of Dorfet, Lord High 
 Treafurer, was then Chancellor of Oxford; 
 and the Vice-chancellor was Dr. George 
 Abbot, Dean of Winchefler, and Mafter of 
 Univerfitv College, and a few years after ad- 
 vanced, firft to the fee of London, and then 
 to that of Canterbury. 
 
 His Majefly, being attended by moft of the 
 principal nobility and great officers of ftate-, 
 and received with great folemnity by the unR 
 verfity, had lodgings provided for him and the 
 Queen at Chriil- church, of which Dr. John 
 King, raifed to the biflioprick of London ill 
 ;i6ij, was Dean; who prefented to. their 
 Majeftles and to his Highnefs, in the name of 
 the college, a volume of congratulatory verfesi 
 Magdalen College being prepared for the refid^ 
 ence of the Prince, he was accompanied thither 
 by the Earl of Worccfter, ?v/Iafter of the horfe 
 to the King, the Lord Knollys, Treafurer of 
 the houfhold, the Earls of Oxford and EfTex, 
 Vifpount Cranborne, fon of the Earl of Salif- 
 
 bury, 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 49 
 
 buiy, and other young noblemen. He was 
 met at the entrance by Dr. Nicolas Bud, the 
 Prefident, and by the Fellows j one of whom, 
 Mr. James Mabbe, made a Ipeech to his 
 Highnefs, to whofe honour verfes were affixed 
 to the walls and gates of the college, of which 
 he was admitted a member, and as fuch matri- 
 culated of the univeriiiy, JohnWilkinlon, B.D. 
 then Fellow, afterwards Prelident, of the col- 
 lege, being appointed his tutor^. The Prince 
 being conducted to his lodgings in the prefi- 
 dent's apartments, was entertained there with 
 difputations, in which Mr. William Seymour, 
 fecond fon of Edward Lord Beauchamp, and 
 grandfon of Edward Earl of Hertford, per- 
 formed the part of refpondent, and was op- 
 pofed by Charles Somerfet, fixth fon of the 
 Earl of Worcefter, Edward Seymour, eldeft 
 fon of the Lord Beauchamp, Mr. Robert 
 Gorge, fon of Sir Thomas Gorge by the Mar- 
 chionefs of Northampton, two fons of Sir 
 Thomas Chaloner, who had himfelf been 
 educated in this college, and Mr. William 
 Burlacy, fon of a Knight ; all of whom gave 
 hisHighnefs fo much fatisfa<ftioii by the readi- 
 nefs of their wit, that, in teftimony of it, he 
 gave them his hand to kifs. He then returned to 
 the King at Chrifl-church, where the evening 
 concluded with a Latin comedy entitled Ver- 
 tumnus^ adted by the fludents of that college. 
 
 y Wood Fafti Oxon. Vol. I. Col. 173. 
 
 E The 
 
50 THELIFEOF 
 
 The next day was employed in difputationS 
 in divinity and civil law in St. Mary's church, 
 at which was preknt the King, with the 
 Prince on his left hand, and on his right 
 Chriftopher de Harlay, Count de Beaumont, 
 Ambafrador from the court of France, and 
 Nicolo Molino, Ambafladcr from Venice. 
 The two queftions in divinity were, " Whe- 
 *' ther faints and angels know the thoughts 
 ** of the heart?" and " Whether the paflors 
 " of churches are not obliged to vifit the fick 
 *' during the plague?" The refpondent was 
 Dr. John Aglionby, Principal of Edmund 
 hall; and die opponents were Dr. John Hol- 
 land, Regius- profellbr of Divinity, Dr. Thom- 
 fon, Dean of Windfor, Dr. Field, Chaplain 
 to his Majefty, and afterwards Dean of Glou- 
 cefler, and author of the learned treatife Of 
 the CImrch, Dr. Flarding, Regius pro feflbr of 
 Hebrew, Dr. Rives, Warden of New college. 
 Dr. Airay,' Provoft of Queen's college, and 
 Dr. John Gordon, Dean of Salifbury, and 
 related to the Royal family of Scotland. The 
 two queilionsin civil law were thefe; " Whe- 
 " ther a judge ought to give fentence accord- 
 ," ing to the proofs alledged in the trial, 
 "■*' 'againd the truth known privately to him- 
 ** lelf ?" and '' Whether, a frranger and enemy 
 " being detained in an hofhle port by adverfe 
 '' winds, contrary to what had been before 
 •" iftipulated in a truc:e^ aiay be juflly killed by 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 51 
 
 ** the inhabitants of that place?" Thefe que- 
 ftions were managed by Dr. Bird of All-fouls 
 college. Dr. Werton of Chrift-church, Dr. 
 Martin of New college, Dr. PTuiTcy, Principal 
 of Magdalen hall, Dr. Budden of Magdalen 
 college, and Dr. Lloyd of All-fouls college; 
 Dr. Biencovv, Provofl of Queen's college, be- 
 ing Refpondent, and Dr. Albericus Gentilis, 
 the King's ProfefTor of civil law, adling the part 
 of Moderator. At night was exhibited the 
 tragedy of Ajax flagellijer. 
 
 The difputations were continued on the third 
 day, Aug. 29. One of the two medical que- 
 flions was, " Whether children imbibe the 
 " temper with the milk of their nurfes.?"; and 
 the ether was concerning the ufe of tobacco, 
 to which the King had fo ftrong an averfion, 
 as to employ his Royal pen in order to explode 
 the ufe of it. The Refpondent was Sir Wil- 
 liam Paddy,, the King's Phyfician ; and the Op- 
 ponents Dr. Warner, the King's ProfefTor of 
 Phyfic, Dr. Antony Aylworth, and Dr. Gifford 
 of New college, Dr. Matthew Gwynne of St. 
 John's college, Dr. Afh worth of Oriel, and Dr. 
 iheynell of Corpus-Chrifti. 
 
 The Kitig, Queen, Prince, Nobility, and 
 Ambaffadors, having been entertained at dinner 
 by the Earl of Dorfet at New college, return- 
 ed to St. Mary's to a difputation in philofophy, 
 in which Mr. Richard Andrews, of St. John's 
 college, was Refpondent, and the Opponents 
 Mr.Lapworth of Magdalen college, Mr.Bafker- 
 E 2 ville 
 
52 THELIFEOF 
 
 ville of Exeter, Mr.' Clayton of Gloucefler 
 hall, Mr. Mocket of All-fouls, Mr. Pinkc 
 of New college, and Mr. Bolton of Brazen'- 
 nofe. The queflions were, " Whether gold 
 can be made by art ?" and " Whether the imst^* 
 gination can prc.duce real effects?" Thefe werip 
 followed by two pofitions in moral philofo- 
 phy, given out by the King himfelf j one, that it 
 is greater to defend than to inlargc the bounds 
 of an empire j and the other, that juft and un- 
 juft are not conftitutcd by law only, but by 
 nature. Thefe were maintained by Mr. WiW 
 liam Ballow of Ch rift- church, and oppofcd by* 
 Mr. John Barcham of Corpus^Chrifli college, 
 Mr. Langton of Magdalen, Mr. Kingof Mer- 
 ton, Mr. Winnifte of Exeter, andMr. Jucks and 
 Mr. Thornton of Chrift-church. His Majefty 
 clofed this difputation, as he had done all the 
 former, with a determination of his own ; 
 and, having given his thanks to the univerfity 
 in a fpeech, was conduced back to Chrift- 
 church, whither the Prince having attended 
 him, returned to his own college of Magdalen;' 
 where he was invited to fup. He fat alone in 
 the midft of the upper table, the noblemen 
 and courtiers in the middle of the hall, and 
 the fellows and ftudents in their habits on 
 both fides of it, whom, with great civility, he 
 obliged to put on their fquare caps; and, calling 
 for a bowl of wine, drank to all their healths, 
 profeffing his high regard for the college, and 
 
 that 
 
HENRY Prikce OF Wales. 53 
 that he iliould always remember their kindnefs 
 and hofpitallty. Mr. William Grey, fon of 
 Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton, then prefented to 
 hin, by the Preddent's order, Pandulphus Col- 
 lenuciu^'s Apologues^ a manufcript, elegantly 
 bound, and adorned with gold and pearls, with 
 a fpeech on the occafion. Another prefent was 
 made by Mr. Edward Chaloncr, fon of Sir 
 Thomas, and afterwards Chaplain to the King, 
 and Principal of St. Alban's hall, who gave his 
 Highnefs, in the name of the college, two 
 pair of rich gloves ^ as Mr. Richard Worfeley 
 did a book of verfes in foreign languages, 
 beautifully written. 
 
 The fame night the Prince attended the 
 King to St. John's college, where the members 
 reprefentcd a comedy entitled Vej'tiimnus^ Jive 
 Annus rccurrens^ written by Dr. Matthew 
 Gwynne, ProfeiTor of Phyfic in Grefliam col- 
 lege, and Phyfician to the Tower j which co- 
 medy, though it had the fame title with that aifl- 
 cd two nights before atChrifl-church, was very 
 different from it both in the plot and execution. 
 \^, On the fourth day, Auguft 30, the King 
 vihted the library lately founded by Sir Tho- 
 mas Bodley, who, after having fpent the 
 former part of his life in public bufinefs, efpe- 
 cially as a minifter in foreign countries, and 
 reFufed the pofl of Secretary of flate, devoted 
 his latter years to retirement, and the forming 
 and endowing that library, one of the mofl 
 E 3 mag-. 
 
54 THELIFEOF 
 
 magnificent of the laft or prelect age. Hi$ 
 Majcfty next viewed the divinirv-iehool, and 
 that of arts, th>; colleges of Brazen nofe, All- 
 foals, Magdalen, and Queen's ; while many 
 of the noblemen and perfons of diftindlion 
 were created Maftt-rs of art, and a tragi- 
 comedy, entitled T^'hc ^ecns Arcadia^ was 
 prefented to her Majefly and her ladies at 
 Chrilt-church, written by Mr. Samuel Da- 
 niel, the poet and hillorian, who had been a 
 commoner of Magdalen hall in Oxford, and 
 was then one of the grooms of the Qiieen's 
 privy chamber. After dinner, their Majefties 
 and the Prince left the univerfity, the King 
 cxpreffing how agreeable his four days refidence 
 there had been to him, and giving orders for aug*- 
 menting the ftipend of his Profeflbr of Divinity, 
 by annexing to that profefforfliip the living ot 
 Ewelme and a prebend of Chrifl-church. 
 
 Mr. Ifaac Wake, who had a (hare in this 
 folemnity as public orator, and v/as alterw^ards 
 knighted and employed in feveral embaffies 
 abroad, having drawn up an exadt and elegant 
 relation of this Royal vilit to ihe univerfity of 
 Oxford, publifned it in 1 607 in 4to, under the 
 title of i^^A' Platonicus.froe Mufk regnajUes^^VsAih 
 a dedication to the Prince; in which the author 
 remarked, that the univeriity had feen fo much 
 of his Highnefs's temper and genius, during 
 his flay there, as anfwered their moll: fanguine 
 wifhes. 
 
 Not 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. ^^ 
 
 Not long before the Prince went to Oxford, 
 he received a letter from Henry Howard, Earl 
 of. Northampton, then Lord Warden of the 
 cinque-ports, and afterwards Lord Privy-Seal. 
 This nobleman, who was much more eminent 
 for his abilities than his integrity, having a great 
 fliare of the King's f.ivour, to whom he had 
 been highly ferviceable by his correfpondence 
 with the Earl of Mar, before his Majefty's 
 acceilipn to the throne of England, feemed 
 now defirous of ingratiating himfelf with the 
 Prince. His letter % which is full of that 
 affecftation of ftyle, by which all his compofi- 
 tions, as v/ell as too many others of that age, 
 are diftinguiOied, begins with the following 
 compliment: " Though the time will not 
 be long, before that, to my comfort, I fliali 
 behold your Highnefs as a bright and chear- 
 ful ftar in this heaven ^ yet can I not forbear 
 to witnefs, by ih fit a mtffenger, my duti- 
 ful acknov/ledgements of your gracious fa- 
 vour to your humble fervant, who never 
 looks upon your eyes without an inward 
 fenfe of this iiland's happinefs, that may 
 alfure itfelf of fo rare a heir apparent to fuc- 
 ceed [ifi plenitudi?ie temporis) fo dear a fove- 
 reign. By the fweetnefs of your blcfToms 
 I may eafily apprehend the full perfedion 
 of feafonable fruits, which the virtues of 
 your mind, and graces of your princely per- 
 
 » Had. MSS. Vol. .7007. 
 
 ^E 4 " fon, 
 
56 THELIFEOF 
 
 ** fon, will afford to thofe, that hereafter, b/ 
 ** the benefit of your golden days, lliall find 
 " fo great cauie to blefs the memory of that 
 ** ftately Royal cedar, which leaves fuch a 
 ** branch, of more than ordinary proof, to 
 " profper and fpread after him." His Lord- 
 fhip then ndds, *' that his Maiefty, thanks be 
 *' to God, enjoyed that perfect health, for 
 *' which his loyal fuhjcclis prayed; and was 
 *' greatly plcafe 1, fays he, to tind, by that, 
 *' whiLh I received laft from Sir Thomas 
 *' Chaioner, that your Highnefs fpent the 
 " time of your laft being abroad v^ ith fo great 
 *' moderation in all degrees, matching Mer- 
 *' CLiry with Diana, and fludy with exercife, 
 " with fo good meafure, as very few can keep'^ 
 " that are as far above your years in compiita- 
 *' tion, as fhort of your difcretion in experience. 
 " His Majefty by this may fee a lively image 
 " of his own Royal mind, that did ever mix 
 *' utile dulci, and fo far regard the piefervation 
 '* of health by exercife, as he never utterly 
 " negle6led thofe parts contemplative, that 
 " made him rich/Ti? rcpuhlica." iij:>iivv uBiijf 
 He next touched upon the defign^ of Tender- 
 ing the Prince a member of the univerfity of 
 Oxford, when his Highnefs was to accompany 
 the King thither. " Oxford, fays kt\ is very 
 *' glad, and I am a little forry% that it fhall 
 
 *' have 
 
 * His LorcKhip had been educated at King's college, 
 
 and 
 
HENRY Prince ol> Wales. 57 
 
 have the firft-fruits of your refort to the 
 temple of the mufes in that mount; although 
 the juftice of your princely mind, and the 
 equity of your native difpofition, give hope 
 to Cambridge her filler alio, that, according 
 to the laws of copartionery in this land, like 
 lifters, they Ihall equally be fliarcd in the 
 comfort of your gracious affed;ion, if they 
 deferve equally. In the mean time my 
 prayer (liall be for your prefervation, and 
 ;^;imy ftudy by all means to witnefs, that I 
 !)Vi will be ever, as in duty all men ought to be, 
 your Highnefs s moft affedionate and hum- 
 ble fervant." 
 '^'iThe Prince being Duke of Cornwall, though 
 not in adual pofielTion of that dutchy, began 
 now to be attentive to the intercfts of it. This 
 appears from a letter to him from an officer 
 of his, who refided there, Mr. Richard Con- 
 nok'', dated the 12th of September, 1605% 
 ,who, in the beginning of it, obferves, that he 
 had not been more troubled in the doubtfulnefs 
 of his mind about any thing for many years, 
 than whether " I, fays he^ that am your poor 
 ''-fervant and officer, might prefume to write 
 L*^ unto you fo worthy a Prince, and, for the 
 
 "and afterwards at Trinitv-hall, in Cambridge, of which 
 univcrfity, on the death of the Earl of Salilbury in 1612, 
 he was chofcn Chancellor, 
 
 ^ Owen addrefTes an epigram, L. III. Ep, 27. ad 
 am'tcum juiim Ricardum Co7inok, 
 . ' Harl. MSS. Yo). 7Q.07., . : , . . .p . 
 
 In, ■ ' - "hope 
 
58 THELIFEOF 
 
 *' hope which is conceived of you, admired 
 " by ail men. But calling to mind, when I 
 *^ did lait kifs your hand, that your Highnefs 
 " commanded me to write unto you of the 
 " occurrences happening in this poor county 
 " of Cornwall, I then made choice rather 
 " thus, by writing, to hazard your gracious 
 *' cenfure of my errors, than by filence to 
 " break your commandments." He then 
 proceeds to inform him, that the people in 
 thofe weflcrn parts were infinitely comforted 
 to hear of the excellent qualities, with which 
 his Highnefs was endowed, and of the virtues 
 of his noble mindj but chiefly, and above all, 
 of his obedience, love, and duty towards their 
 dread fovereign the King's Majefty, his Royal 
 father, and of his atfediion towards the council 
 for the pains, which they took in the common- 
 wealth to do his Majefty and his Highnefs 
 fcrvice. That with regard to his affairs and 
 bufiiiefs in Cornwall, all went on as his Hip-h- 
 nefs could widi, and would prove profitable 
 to him againft the time, that his Majefty fliould 
 be pleafed to deliver over that dutchy into his 
 hands. But Mr. Connok feared, that Serjeant 
 Hcalc v/ould not live out the time, that the 
 Prince fiiould have a recovery againft him: 
 but what could not be done againft him, 
 might be performed againft bis heirs. 
 
 " My Lord of Salilbury, continues ke, by his 
 *' voluntary yieldjng up of the lands, which 
 
 *' he 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 59 
 
 ** he purchafed, doth owe great furtherance 
 " to your fervices here, and maketh the peo- 
 " pie believe you have good right to all the 
 
 *< reft. ucr{ oina mnw o) am bjjbnKmaior> 
 -1,^' Touching yoiir Highnefs's deanery of 
 *jV)Burian, which the King's Majelty and your 
 *f,iHighnefs are willing to bellow upon fuch a 
 *' one, as Mr. Newton lliall recommend; fo it 
 " is, that, by jMr. Newton's confent and lik- 
 "; ing, I have fcnt up one Mr. Parker for the 
 '' fame. He is both learned, and honell, adil^ 
 " creet gentleman, and a bachelor of divinity, 
 *' of whom I have willied Mr. Newton to 
 *' make choice before others, becaufe he is 
 " this country-man, and well-beloved of all 
 *' forts of men, efpecially of the bidiop of this 
 *' diocefe"*; fo as, in my opinion, he is the 
 ** meeteft man, and beftable to do you fervice 
 ** for fettling and rcftoring that deanery to its 
 " ancient jurifdidion, the fame being yet 
 " cumbered with one Gayer, a turbulent per- 
 *' fon, who, though unjuftly, claimeth the 
 ** fame during his life. Howbeit, for the 
 " allowance or difallowance of this choice of 
 " Mr. Parker, we wholly refer the fame to 
 ** your Highnefs's confideration." 
 
 The Lady Arbeila " Stewart, daughter of 
 Charles Earl of Lennox, younger brother of 
 
 •• Dr. William Cotton, confecrated to the See of 
 Exeter, Nov. 12, 1598. 
 
 • So Ihe writes her name, and pot Jrabeila, 
 
 Henry 
 
6o THELIFEOF 
 
 Henry Lord Darnley, the King's father, was 
 not lefs dear to the Prince for her near relation 
 to him, than for the accomplilhments of h^r 
 mind both natural and acquired; and therefore 
 he took all occafions of obliffin;r her. In con- 
 fequence of this, and of the fuccefs of her re- 
 commendation of a kinfman of hers to- his 
 Highnefs, fhe wrote him, on the i8th of 0<5lo- 
 ber, 1605, the following letter^, which is given 
 intire, as one of the few remains .(^t^lh^f^ill^ilri*.. 
 ous but unfortunate lady. ,"^,^ ^^^ rfjwbis '* 
 
 ^d ilcfH nam ** 
 "SIR, '<\ ^^£iq '» 
 
 Y intention to attend your Highnefs 
 tomorrow, God willing, cannot ftay 
 me from acknowledging bythefe few lines, 
 how infinitely I am bound to your Highnefs 
 for that your gracious difpofition towards 
 me, which faileth not to fhew itfelf upon 
 every occafion, whether accidental or beg- 
 ged by me, as this late high favour and 
 grace it hath pleafed your Highnefs to do 
 my kinfm.an at my humble fuit. I truft 
 tomorrow to let vcnu- Hi^^hnefs underfland 
 fuch motives of that my prefumptiohj'a^ 
 /hall make it excufeable. For your High-, 
 riefs f})all perceive, I both underfland witli^ 
 what extraordinary refpccls fuits are to be^ 
 'prefented to your Highnefsj^^^^hc} withall that] 
 
 ' Hail, MSS, Vol,: 7€<?5t^3^q ^d at 'iiSi 
 
 !* your 
 
HENRY Prince op Wales. 6i 
 
 **' j/ouFgbodnefs doth fo temper your greatnefs, 
 ** & it encourageth both me and many others 
 "to hope, that we may tafle the fruits of the 
 *'"6nc by means of the other. 
 "^^-"^The Almighty make your Highnefs every 
 "' way fuch as I, Mr. Newton, and Sir David 
 " Murray, (the only interceffors I have ufed 
 " in my fuit, or will in any I fhall prefent to 
 "' your Highnefs) wifh you; and then fliall 
 "you be even fuch as you are; and your 
 " growth in virtue and grace with God and 
 " men fliail be the only alteration we will 
 *' pray for. 
 
 " And fo in all humility I ceafe j 
 
 vi.JiJuau*.^ t|fi Your Highnefs's 
 
 \ J TT molt humble and dutiful 
 
 ibnngiH inov 
 
 abiBwc <« Arbella Stewart.'* 
 
 noqu 1 
 » 
 
 The difcovery of the plot for blowing up 
 the parliament-houfe on the 5th of November, 
 1605, when the King, Queen, Prince, coun- 
 cil, nobility, bifliops, judges, and principal 
 gentlemen fliould have been affembled in it 
 at the opening of the parliament, made fo 
 flrong an imprelfion of religious gratitude upon 
 the mind of his Highnefs, that, in memory of 
 his deliverance, and in imitation of his Royal fa- 
 ther's example, he would never after fuifer hlm- 
 felf to be prevented by any bufmeis from being 
 
 prefenE 
 
€t T H E L I F E O F 
 
 prefent at the fermon appointed to be preached 
 every Tuefday, the day of the week, on whjc^h 
 the pi .t was intended to have been executed^. 
 The detection of this horrible deiii2:n afforded 
 nibjec^ to a very zealous proteflant divine to 
 write immediately a Latin letter to his High- 
 nefs^. This divine was Leonel Shar^e, D. D. 
 who had been educated at King's college in 
 Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Earl of Effe?f, 
 whom he attended in the expedition againft 
 Cadiz In 1596, as he was afterv/ards to Prince 
 Henry. IJ^ was minifler of Tiverton in Devoii'- 
 fliire, and reilor of Malpas in Ghefhire, "arid 
 had the archdeaconry of Berkihire conferred 
 upon him about the time of writing this letter 
 to his Highnefs, which preferment he enjoyed 
 till his death in 1630. He is affirmed, by the 
 hiilorian of the univeriity of Oxford ', to have 
 been concerned in the treafons of his firft 
 patron the Earl of Eiiex : and his zeal againft 
 the meafures of King James's court expofed 
 him to the jealoufy of it; in confequence of 
 which he v/as committed to the Tower in June, 
 16 1 4, and confined there a whole year, upon 
 a charge of having fuggefled to Mr. John 
 
 8 Laudatlo funehrh Henrid WalUc^ primipis^ p. 9. b|y 
 Francis Netherfole, Orator of the univerfity of Cambridge, 
 and Fellow of Trinity college there, printed in 4to. It 
 is reprinted in Dr. William Bates's i^itcs fele^oruml^ ali- 
 quot Viroruni^ London, 1681. in 4to. p. 405. 
 .'* Appendix, No. V. 
 \ Wood Fafti Oxon. Vol. I. Col 211. 
 
 Hofkyns, 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 63 ( 
 
 Hofkyns, afterwards Serjeant at law, and one 
 of the Judges of Wales, an alluHon to the 
 Sicilian Vefper, which Mr. Hofkyns took occa- 
 fion to introduce into a very free fpeech made 
 by him in the Houfe of Commons'". Dr. 
 Sharpe in his letter to the Prince, after fpeak- 
 ing of the plot, as the moft fhocking, that had 
 been contrived fince the creation of mankind, 
 exhorts him to draw from it this threefold 
 dodrine, of humility, gratitude, and caution. 
 Of humility, that, though he was the eldefl 
 fon of a great King, he fliould think modeftly 
 of human happinefs j iince it might have been 
 overthrown in a moment by human malice, if 
 God had not prevented it. That the age was 
 a very wicked onej and whoever dared to die 
 himfclf, would venture to deftroy another, and 
 whoever defpifed his own life, was mafler of 
 another's. The fecond ufe of the event was 
 to excite gratitude, that he might ferve God, 
 who had preferved him, firfl by moving the 
 mind of the traitor to difcover (though ob- 
 fcurely) the treafon by a letter; and then by 
 fuggefting to the King, that fire was meant 
 by the letter. The laft ufe was by way of 
 caution, to beware of the Vipers, or, to fpeak 
 freely, of the Jefuits, and their followers. Dr. 
 Sharpe difavows any Intention to make all pa- 
 pifts odious to the Prince, fome of whom he 
 
 ^ Reliquix Wottonlan.ne, p. 434, 435. '^d. edit. Land, 
 1672. Camdeni Annales Regis Jacobi, /». 10, 12. 
 
 believed 
 
64 THELIFEOF 
 
 believed to be faithful fubjecfts ; but he meant 
 thofe only, who were a(ftuated by a jefultical 
 or rather diabolical fpirit. He was perfuaded, 
 that fome Jefuit was the incendiary on this oc- 
 cafion ; the defign being full of both envy and 
 malice ; of envy, which is tormented by the good 
 of others, and of malice, which takes delight in 
 their fufferings, and, what is more, in the 
 fufferings of the public. He then runs a 
 parallel between the newly-difcovered confpi- 
 racy, and that of the Earl of Gowry, on the 
 5th of Augufl 1600, reprefenting the Englifli 
 as much more wicked than the Scots traitors. 
 
 Frederick, Count Palatine, then but in his 
 tenth year^ who afterwards married the 
 Prince's fifter Elizabeth, and accepted of the 
 crown of Bohemia to the ruin of himfelf and 
 his family, being at Sedan, probably on ac- 
 count of his ftudies, when the account of the 
 gun-powder plot was brought thither, wrote 
 from thence on the 10th of December in 
 French to the Prince, to congratulate him on 
 the detedliion of it"". He remarked, that he 
 ihould think himfelf void of all feeling, as' 
 well as wanting in all duty, if he w^ere not' 
 fenfible of the joy, w^hich the v/hole world 
 received from the miraculous deliverance,' 
 
 ' He Was born the i6th of Auguft 1596. Memoires' 
 de la VI^ de Loyfe Juliane F.le<fl:rice Pulaiine, p. 51. edit>' 
 Leyde^ 1 64 5, 4to. 
 
 ^ Harl. MSS. Vol. 70c;-. 
 
 2 which 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 65 
 
 which God had fent the Prince from Heaven, 
 at the fame time, that Hell and its inftru- 
 ments had confpired his deftrud:ion. That 
 th^ fame afFedion, which raifed this joy in 
 his heart, gave him Hkewife the boldnefs to 
 teftify it to the Prince by that letter j and to 
 aflure him of his lincere devotion to his fervice, 
 which would one day, if it fhould pleafe God, 
 fecond him in maintaining and defending the 
 truth againO: the aifaults of the father of lies. 
 *' J find, adds he, that his agents do a great deal 
 *' for us in {hewing us fo early the fpirit, which 
 ** poffeires them, and the fahliood, which 
 *' they are follicitous to eftablifli ; which ought 
 *' to excite in us, throughout our whole lives, 
 " a deteftation of what we have known from 
 *' our infancy. Accept therefore, Sir, this 
 I** hearty proteflation of my zeal, as well for 
 ** the true religion, as for your fervice -, and 
 ■** honour with your good will him, v/ho will 
 ** for ever remain your moft humble and 
 ** moft affedionate fervant." 
 
 The Lord Spencer likewife fent to the 
 Prince from his feat at Althrope, in Northamp-- 
 tonfhire, a letter, dated the 27th of the fame 
 month of December 1605, and with it a prefent 
 of a fword and target, " Inftruments, fays be, 
 fit to be about you in thefe treacherous 
 times; from the which, I truft, God will 
 ever protedlyour moft royal father, my dread 
 F " Sove- 
 
 (C 
 
 (( 
 
66 THE LIFE OF 
 
 " Sovereign Lord and Mafter, and your High- 
 " nefs, as he hath hitherto done." 
 
 The regard and gratitude, which the Prince 
 had for his tutor, Mr. Newton, were defervedly 
 fuch, that immediately upon the death of Dr. 
 Matthew Hutton, Archbilhop of York, in Ja- 
 nuary 1605-6, which was likely to occalion 
 a vacancy of the Deanry of Durham, that had 
 been promifed Mr. Newton by the King two 
 years before, his Plighnefs wrote the following 
 letter to his Majcfty to remind him of that 
 promife". 
 
 SIR, • .5;,nrnriDiJi. 
 
 *' VOUR Majefly commanded 'mfe^^ to 
 " -*- write to you, when any lit occalion 
 ** were offered : and now hearing, that upon 
 *^ the death of the Archbifliop of York, there 
 *' are many fuitors for preferment, I have taken 
 *^ the boldnefs to be a fuitor alfo for my 
 ** mafcer. Not becaufe I doubt, that yoiw' 
 *' Majefly is unmindful of your promife made 
 ** at Hampton-Court, that if he would flay io 
 ** long, as till the Archbifliop were dead, he 
 " fliould have the Deanry of Durham s but 
 ** to fliew the defire I have to do good to my 
 ** mafler. I have learned, among other good 
 ''** lelTons, this out of Pibrac: 
 
 ^.-»^Harl; MSS. Vcf,^y(X)j: 
 
HEN RY Prince of Wales. 67 
 **'Tu ne ''/cauro/'s. d!ajez ample falaire 
 *'■ -Recpr/iphifer ccluiy qui faJ'oig?ie 
 " \E^n ton E?ifa?2ce; & qui fa enfeigrj 
 ^* A hien purler . ^ fur tout a bien (aire, 
 
 "^f And' I^^lcfebW ^erfed:ly, that -my mafter's 
 ff<*^ hope thefe two years paft hath refted ulto- 
 ffi'i'gether upon the expeft^tion of this Deanry, 
 (f* And fo hoping, that your Majefty will both 
 ^ accept of my humble fuit, and excufe my 
 :Jfc^ bdidnef^i I kifs your Majefty's hands. 
 
 " Your Majefty's 
 
 " Moft dutiful, and 
 Richmond, Jan. ,t r\\^ j- i. c 
 
 ^5 2j, 1605. Obedient Son 
 
 .hf! "HENRY.'' 
 
 This letter was attended with the defired 
 
 fuccefs; for upon the advancement of Dr. 
 
 William James, Dean of Durham, to the 
 
 Birtiopric, in the room of Dr. Toby Matthew, 
 
 %anllated to the Archbifhopric of York, that 
 
 'rich Deanry was given to Mr. Newton, who 
 
 ^Was inftalled in it on the 27th of September, 
 
 ^1606. 
 
 ;^ Henry IV. of France having in 'April 1606, 
 appointed Antoine le Fevre de la Boderie his 
 Ambaflador in England, gave him direcftions 
 to pay on all occalions a particular refpedt to 
 the Prince. By the inftrudtions, dated at 
 F 2 Rheims 
 
68 THELIFEOF 
 
 Rhelms on the I5tli of that month °, that Am- 
 baffador was ordered to falute the Queen, the 
 Prince, and the other children of King James, 
 vifiting them in the ufual forms, in the name 
 of Mary de Medicis, wife of Henry IV. and 
 likewife to falute the Prince on the part of the 
 Dauphin, afterwards Lewis XIII. and to in- 
 form him, that the latter cheriflied his friend- 
 fliip, and often fpoke of him and of the pack 
 of little dogs, which his Highnefs had fent 
 him, and which, he was very forry, that his 
 Governefs and Phyfician would not permit him 
 to make ufe of; hoping and defiring to be able 
 foon to make fome returns for that teftimony 
 of friendfliip, in which the Prince had antici- 
 pated him ; as he, the Dauphin, would do, 
 when his age^ Hiould render him more capable 
 of choofing fomething worthy of the Prince, 
 and of thole virtuous exercifes, which he not 
 only purfued, but likewife excelled in. The 
 Ambaflador was informed % that he /hould find 
 with the Prince Monf St. Anthoine, the riding 
 mafter, whom Henry IV. had prefented to his 
 Highnefs to inftrud him in riding; and whom 
 Monf Boderie was to admonifli to continue to 
 do his duty in that office, affuring him, that 
 
 * Ambaflades de Monf. de la Boderie en Angleterrc. 
 T'orne L p. 5, 6. edit. J75O. 
 
 p Tlie Dauphin was then not above five years and a 
 Jialf old, being born the 27th of Sept. i6oi. N. ^^ 
 
 1 Ambaflades de la Boderie, Tome J, />. 28/" "^^' •■ 
 
 his 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 69 
 
 his Majefty, Henry IV. would be as highly 
 pleafed with it, as if he ferved his own per- 
 fon. 
 
 The Prince was prefent with the King at 
 the firil: audience of Monf. de la Boderie, who 
 having faid to him what he had been inftrud- 
 ed to do, on the part both of the King his 
 Mafter and of the Dauphin, his Highnefs ex- 
 prefled himfelf well pleafed with it, and an- 
 fwered the AmbafTadof very gracioufly and 
 with great courte{y^ 
 
 Monf. de la Boderie went foon after' to fee 
 the Prince exercife himfelf in his riding fchool, 
 being informed by Monf St. Anthoine, that he 
 could not do a greater pleafure to his Highnefs, 
 who delighted in that exercife, and who was al- 
 ready a good mafter of it. The Ambaffador told 
 the Prince, that he had the particular commands 
 of the King his mafter to acquaint him of the 
 progrefs, which his Highnefs had made in that 
 art. Upon this the Prince mounted two 
 horfes in the Ambaftador's prefence, who, in 
 his letter to Monf. de Villeroy, Secretary of 
 State in France, acknowledges, that his High- 
 ^nefs acquitted himfelf extremely well : " And 
 as in truth, fiys he^ he is a Prince, who 
 promifes very much, and whofe friendship 
 cannot but be one day of advantage, I think 
 it highly proper to cultivate it, and to man- 
 age it early by all means fuitable to his age 
 ' Ambaflades de la Boderie, p. 41, 42. • Ibid. p. 59. 
 
 F 3 *^[ and 
 
70 THE LIFE O Fl H 
 
 *' and condition. The Dauphin may make 
 " a return tor the dogs lately fent him by the 
 
 . *' Prince J for St Anthoine tells me, that he 
 •' cannot gratify the Prince more, than by 
 *' fending him a fait of armour well gilt and 
 V enamelled, together with piftols and a fword 
 
 .'r/v'of the fame kind: and if he add to thefe 
 **■ a conple of horfes, one of which goes well, 
 ** and the other a baib, it will be a fmgular 
 *' favour done to the Prince." 
 
 The Earl of Northampton, who, though 
 
 vfecretly of the Roman Catholic Religion, in 
 which he unqueftionably died, had aconfider- 
 able hiind in the proceedings againfl the 
 Traitors concerned in the Gun-powder Plot, 
 and particularly againft Garnet the Jefuit, con- 
 
 •"vi<5led-of being prlv^ to it, and executed on the 
 
 r3d of May 1606, having enlarged his fpeech, 
 made at the trial of that Jefuit on the 28th of 
 March preceding, and printed it in the 7r«f and 
 .f£rfi3. relation of the whole proceedings, &c^. 
 fent a printed copy of that relation to the 
 Prince. In the letter" accompanying it, he 
 obferves,. that the firfi: fruits of his labour being 
 fent by him that morning to his Majefty, to 
 whom by prerogative they were firft due, he 
 could not fatisfy himfelf, till he had prefented 
 the next to his Highnefs, who was next in 
 
 ' PrlhtecTai'Xondon'iSofi^'ia jj.tp. by Robert Barkpr, 
 printef to the- Klines. ;."/i^-»:iiAi^ JjJiU.;._. : 
 
 » Harl. .AiSS. Vol. 70O7i^fa<j]; jrfjiw ebii; ^ 
 
 L 1 place 
 
HENRY Prince oi^ Wales, ji 
 place and worth. That by fome letters, which 
 had come of late from the other fide, it ap- 
 peared what falfe rumours and reports had 
 been publiflicd in excufe (nay he might as 
 truly fay in juftification) of Garnet's traiterous 
 attempt, upon falfe principles laid in falfe co- 
 lours. That the difcourfes now fent would open 
 the whole myftery, to the honour of the King, 
 the fatisfli(5tion of reafonable men, and the 
 credit of the (late, which rather proceeded 
 upon demonftration than purfued out of 
 humour. *' It is a kind of pleafure, continues 
 " his Lordfiip, to men, that have efcaped fear- 
 :•*< ful rocks, to look back with comfort upon 
 ,f6ithe caufes of juft fear, and fo to fet the com- 
 -ffcpafs, as by running afterwards upon the like 
 *' adventure, they fuffer not thefhipwreck^by 
 *' relapfe, from which they have been once 
 *' redeemed by God's favour. As your High- 
 " nefs fhould have had a part in the peril, if 
 ** the powerful hand of God had not proteded 
 ^ you J fo were it fit, that you were likewife 
 ^ fhared in the fatisfadlion, which particulars 
 *' afford to judicious conceits, that record mif- 
 " fortunes paftj quia hcec olim meminijfe juva- 
 '* bit, 
 
 " This book fhould have been fet forth in 
 " a richer attire, if I had not been afraid, 
 " that fomebody would have gained the ftart 
 ** of my dutiful affedion in prefenting your 
 ** Highnefs with fome copy, while I fet my- 
 ^DKiq F 4 **- feJ£ 
 
72 THELIFEOF ' 
 
 {c\f on Work w ith external flouririies, which 
 cannot countervail the value of that interiudl 
 worth, which is rather tafted in.tOcdullalhQMi 
 in coi'i 1 cc . ■:•,?')? o '^ J m ■*■; 2 ":? i ^ 
 
 r r.That, which is fufficiently performed by 
 others, your Highneis will accept: that,, 
 which is weakly and unperfedly added by 
 inyielf, 1 hope you will overlee; and ever 
 command the true affcdlion and humble 
 fervice of your Ilighnefs's affedionate, and: 
 humble fervant to be commanded." 
 Chrifliern IV. King of Denmark, the 
 Prince's uncle, coming on a vifit to England 
 in July of this year i6o6, and arriving at 
 Gravefend on Thurfday the 1 7th of that montbi, . 
 his Highnefs accompanied the King, his fa* 
 ther, thither the next mornings and during 
 the whole ftay of the King of Denmark 
 frequently attended him j and at that King's 
 departure on the iith of Auguft'", was pre-*- 
 fented by him with his Vice- Admiral and beft 
 fighting Oiip, worth with all her furniture not 
 lefs than 2500 1. and a rapier and hanger va- 
 lued at 2000 marks \ ij jBm 
 
 ^fi ^ l£dw 
 
 -\ 
 
 "* General Chronicle of England; bep;un by Joltn 
 Stow; continued by E. Howes, p. 885, 8B8. ' 
 
 ^ MS. letter of Mr. John Pory to Sir Robert Cotton^; 
 in the Cottonian Library, Julius C. III. foL 45. 
 
 The 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 73 
 
 The learned editor of Horace, Mr. John 
 Bond, having about this time prepared his 
 edition of that Poet^ with fhort but clear and 
 elegant notes, thought, that he could not do 
 a greater credit to his work, than by giving it 
 the public under the patronage of the Prince, 
 to whom he addrefled it in a very polite dedi- 
 cation, in which he takes notice of the great 
 progrefs, which his Highnefs had already made 
 in learning. This excellent Philologift had 
 been educated at Winchefter fchool, and after- 
 wards at New College in Oxford, the Warden 
 and Fellows of which having appointed him 
 mafter of the free fchool at Taunton in Somer- 
 fetfliire, his native country, he became very 
 eminent in his profeflion, and not much lefs 
 fo in that of phylic in the latter part of his 
 life, dying on the 3d of Auguft 16 12, and 
 leaving a pofthumous commentary on Perlius's 
 Satires'. ^ 
 
 The States General of the United Provinces,'* 
 on the 25th of Auguft 1606, N. S. wrote a 
 letter in French to the Prince', informing him, 
 that they had for fome time been confidering 
 what might be moft proper to gratify his high- 
 nefs with, as a demonftration of their gratitude 
 for the honour, which they had received from 
 the King of affifting at his highnefs's baptifm ; 
 
 y The preface of it is dated Auguft 7, 1606. 
 
 * Wood Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. Col. 379. 
 
 * Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 and 
 
74 THE LIFE OF f'^ 
 
 and thinking, that nothing would be fo agree- 
 able to him, as what was the producft and 
 manufadure of their own country, they had 
 charg'd Sir Noel Caron, their AmbaiTador, to 
 preient to his Highnefs in their name a fet df 
 table-linnen ; and they humbly requefted him 
 to accept of it kindly, and to love and favour 
 their ftate on all occafions; in return for which 
 they fhouid be always ready to fliew their re- 
 gard for him, and to do him all pofTible fer- 
 vice, as Sir Noel was ordered more particularly 
 to declare to him. i. /, lo; 
 
 lit 'The Prince having received a letter from 
 Henry IV. of Fn:nce, by Monf. de la Boderie, 
 wrote an anfwerin French, on the 26th of this 
 month of Augufl'^', acknowledg^ing the truly 
 paternal affection, which that King had fevjeral 
 years before teftified for him, and confirmed 
 iince from time to time by many obligations 
 and courtefies; the fenfe of which had raifed 
 in his mind a fingular refpeft and reverence for 
 that Kin?. But that thefe obliorations were 
 
 o _ o 
 
 much heightened by his lafl letter, offering 
 him under his royal hand his own friendfhip 
 ana that of the Dauphin. 
 ;• While King James was making a progrefs 
 in. September and 0<ftober this year, extremely 
 out of humour with the fky for not raining, 
 and thereby weakening the fccnt of his dogs% 
 
 " Harl. MS3. P^. 7007. « Ambaflades dd la 
 
 Boderie, Tome I. /►. 399. ^ 
 
 the 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 75 
 the Prince refided at Richmond, where the 
 French Ambaffador, who had beea obliged to 
 quit London on account of the plague, and 
 could not follow the King, becaufe he made 
 fo iittle flay in any place, was a frequent at- 
 tendant at his Highnefs's courf^. As foon as 
 the Spanifli Ambaflador heard of this, he came 
 likewife to Richmond to vifit the Prince, and in- 
 form him of fomc horfes, which were to be fent 
 him from Spain. But this did not hinder his 
 Highnefs from treating the French Ambaffa- 
 dor with great civility, and waiting with much 
 eagernefs for thofe horfes, which Tampot told 
 him the Dauphin was fending over to him toge- 
 ther with the prefent of armour. Monf de Bo- 
 derie in his letter to Monf de Puifieux, of the 
 3 1 ft of Odober 1606, in which he mentions 
 thefe circumftances, adds, that, as far as he could 
 difcover, his Highnefs's inclination was intirely 
 towards France; and that it would be a great 
 fault to neglect a Prince, who promifed fuch 
 great things. *' None of his pleafures, continues 
 " the Ambaffador, favour the leaft of a child. 
 " He is a particular lover of horfes and what 
 *' belongs to them; but is not fond of hunting ; 
 *' and when he goes to it, it is rather for the 
 " pleafure of galloping, than that which the 
 ^' ^ogs give him. He plays willingly enough 
 " at Tennis, and at another Scots diver- 
 *' fion very dike mall ; but this always with 
 
 5 Ambaflades de la Bodciie, Tome I. p. 4>co. 
 
 perfons 
 
 <f 
 
76 THELIFEOF 
 
 *^* perfons elder than himfcif, as if he de- 
 ** fpifed thofe of his own age. He fludies two 
 " hours a day, and employs the reft of his 
 ** time in tofling the pike, or leaping, or 
 ** fhooting with the bow, or throwing the bar, 
 " or vaulting, or fome other exercile of that 
 ** kind ; and he is never idle. He fhews him- 
 *' felf like wife very good natured to his de- 
 *' pendants, and fupports their intcrefts againfl: 
 *' any perfons whatever; and pufhes what 
 *' he undertakes for them or others, with 
 ** fuch zeal, as gives fuccefs to it. For be-^ 
 " fides his exerting his whole ftrength to com-? 
 ** pafs what he delires, he is already feared by 
 " thofe, who have the management of affairs, 
 " and efpecially the Earl of Salifhury, who 
 *' appears to be greatly apprehenfive of the 
 '' Prince's afcendant; as the Prince, on the 
 " other hand, fhews little efleem for his 
 " LordH-iip." 
 
 Monf de la Boderie then remarks, that four 
 or five of the Prince's court had formerly had 
 expecftations given them of penfions from 
 France; which that Ambaflador was of opi- 
 nion ought to be granted them; fmce the 
 young Prince fuffered himfelf to be much in- 
 fluenced by them, and would foon fliew, that 
 he had power. That his mother had not fo 
 much affedion for him as for his brother the 
 Duke of York% which the Prince fcemed 
 
 - * Afterwards fcing Charles i. 
 
 to 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales, '^'j 
 to have difcovered, and fometimes let fall ex- 
 preffions, that implied it : and that the King 
 often (hewed, that he was not pleafed to fee 
 him advance fo faft. 
 
 Sir Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermelyng*'/ 
 who had then been raifed to the poft of Chan- 
 cfciUor of Scotland, on the 4th of March 1604, 
 and was a good Latin Poet, as well as a great 
 mafter of polite literature, but of fufpedlcd 
 fincerity in the proteftant religion, having 
 written a^ letter to the Prince in Latin, his 
 Highnefs on the loth of February 1606-7, re- 
 turned him, from St. James's, an anfwer in the 
 fame language''. His Highnefs owned him- 
 ielf highly obliged to his Lordfhip for his very 
 kind letter, in which he had given abundant 
 
 ■ ^ He was younger fon of George Lord Seton, and edu- 
 cated in Italy, where he ftudied the laws, and became fo 
 eminent in his profeflion, that he, on his return home, was 
 appointed the 12th of March 1585, one of the extraordi- 
 nary Lords of the Scffion; in February 1587 one of the 
 ordinary Senators of the college of Juftice. He was created 
 a Peer on the 3d of Auguft 1591, by the title of Lord 
 Urquhart, ana had the grant of the rich Priory of Plufcar- 
 den in Murray, and on the 12th of May 159J, was made 
 prefident of the Scffion, and in 1595, one of the Com- 
 niifljoncrs of the Treafury. On the 3d of March 1605, 
 the year after his promotion to the Chancellorlhip, which 
 he held eighteen years, he was created Earl of Dumfer- 
 melyng, and died the i6th of June 1622. Crawfurd, 
 Peerage of Scotland, p. 11 r. 
 
 £ Staggering ftate of the Scots Statefmen, from 1550 
 to 1650. by Sir John Scot of Scotftarvet, p. 16, 17. edit. 
 Ed'tnb n rgh, 1 7 5 4 . 
 * Appendix No. VI, 
 
 2 teftimony 
 
75 THELIFEOF 
 
 teflimony of his afFedion, though lefs of his 
 judgment. For with refpecft to thofc accom- 
 pliihments both of mind and body, which the 
 Chancellor had attributed to the Prince, his 
 Highnefs was fo far from thinking, that they 
 ought to be afcribed to himfelf, that he was 
 of opinion, that an appeal might in this cafe 
 juflly lie from his Lordfhip,how eminent foever 
 he was as a Lawyer and Judge, for having given 
 a wrong judgment. " But as I am convinced, 
 " fays ibe Prijice, that this judgement, what- 
 *' ever it is, proceeded from affection ; I could 
 " not but congratulate myfelf upon this good 
 " natured miftake, and acknowledge myfelf 
 " indebted to you for thanks on that very ac- 
 " count. I am not ignorant, that the com- 
 ** miendations of perfons, who, like your 
 *' Lordfhip, prefide in Senates and Courts of 
 *' Juftice, are to be confidered as exhortations, 
 ** to excite us to attempt every thing great 
 *' and excellent. That I may fome time or 
 " other do this, in order that your compli- 
 ** ment may be thought to arife no lefs from 
 ** judgement than affection, I fhall fincerely 
 " pray the all- merciful God, to whom I 
 "• lieartily recommend tlie happy iilue of my 
 " own concerns and the profperity of your 
 ** Lorddiip and of the ilate." 
 '>The Chancellor of Scotland acknowledged 
 the honour of this letter ' in another likewife 
 
 in 
 
 ^ In a letter to Mr. Newton from Edinburgh, of the 
 
 8th 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 79 
 
 in Latin, dated the 5th of April 1607'', in 
 whicji he faid, that he might indeed feem to be 
 too unmindful of the Prince's dignity, and of 
 his own duty. By interrupting fo frequently and 
 Jq unfeafonably with his letters the ferious 
 fludies and thoughts of his Highnefs. But 
 the fenfe of the late favour conferred upon him 
 would not fuffer him to be lilent. Could it 
 have been expeifted, that fo great a Prince in 
 the fprlng of his age, and amidft his daily ex- 
 ercifes, ihould lay alide the cnfigns of royalty, 
 and employ his hand, which would hereafter 
 (as the Chancellor wilhed and hoped) conquer 
 nations, in the ufe of the pen ? That his 
 Highnefs had indeed by his writing let every 
 one fee, that he thought himfelf the true and 
 proper .fliepherd of the people, who knew 
 how to temper majefty v/ith humanity. That 
 the moft certain argument of this perfuafion 
 of his was that fmgular afFedion, which he 
 bore to his native country, and with which 
 he adorned, improved, fupported, and che- 
 riflied it, while it funk and almoft expired 
 .lender the want of tlieprefence of his excellent 
 
 8th of April 1607, the Chancellor ftiles this letter of the 
 Prince a iioji fxveet, ornate arid wife one. His Lord(hip 
 fent at the fame time to Mr. Newton a copy of his an- 
 fwer to his Highnefs, defiring him to deliver that anfwer 
 to him, when he, Newton, fhould think the time moji fit\ 
 .and to have the devotion of his fir vice at all good occajions 
 remembered unto his Highnefs. 
 ^ Appendix No. Vil. 
 
 2 father. 
 
8d THELIFEOF 
 
 father, and t)f himfd£ *' I wifli, fays he, that 
 your eyes could penetrate into the brcafts of 
 your countrymen. You would have feeti 
 there not long ago, how great their joy, 
 how fincere their regard and veneration of 
 you was, when they were informed, that 
 you heard with indignation, and with a firm 
 and refolute countenance, voice, and mind, 
 condemned and filenced the calumnies of 
 thofe bad men, who raflily, and with the 
 higheft intemperance of tongue, endeavour- 
 ed to wound the Scottifh, that is, by the 
 neareft and moft peculiar title, your own 
 nation. Go on, moft ferene Prince, as you 
 have begun, with this greatnefs of mind and 
 affection to your countrymen ; and /hew to 
 pofterity, that there is no firmer fupport of 
 government than the mutual love of a 
 Prince and his fubjedls. By this means 
 you win procure and eftablilh an everlafting 
 fame and glory to yourfelf, and a perpetual; 
 enjoyment of peace and tranquillity to your 
 people." - 
 
 The Invedives againft the Scottiili nation,, 
 mentioned in this letter, were undoubtedly 
 thofe thrown out in the Houfe of Commons, 
 in the debate concerning the union of Eng- 
 land and Scotland, by Sir Chrlftopher Pigot, 
 one of the Knights of the fliire for the county 
 of Buckingham, in February 1606-7, not long 
 before this letter was written. This gentleman, 
 
 who 
 
 ' 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 8r 
 
 who in the French Ambafladoi 's letter from 
 London of the ifl of March N. S'. to Monf. 
 de Puiiieux is called Pecquet, is reported there 
 to have fallen upon the Scots nation in fuch 
 a manner, that the moft barbarous and pro- 
 fiigae people in the world could not be worfe 
 treated. That in his fpeech he exprelfed his 
 aftonifliment, how any ear could be lent to 
 fuch an union for joining a good and fertile 
 country to one poor, and barren, and in a man- 
 ner difgiaced by na-urej and for aflbciating 
 rich, frank and honeft men with fuch, as were 
 btiggars, proud, and generally traitors and 
 rebels to their Kings. In fliort, that there 
 was as much difference between an Englilh 
 and a Scots man, as between a judge and a 
 thief. This being reported to the Scots, they 
 were thrown into the utmoft ra?e; but no 
 perfon daring to fj.^eak of it to the King 
 that evening, Ramfey*" of his bed-chamber 
 the next morning made his complaint of this 
 outrage in the name of his countrymen. His 
 Majefty upon this fent for the Earl of Salifbury, 
 and blamed him, firft for not having ipoken of 
 this affair the night before j and ihcn bj^caufe 
 he and the reft of his privy council had fhewn 
 
 ' Ambafiades de M. de la Bodcrie, Tome II. p. 87. 
 
 "^ Monf. de la Bodcrie means probably Sir John Ram- 
 fey, who, in June 1606, was created a Vifcount with a 
 grant of land of 1000 1, a year to fupport the title. Win- 
 Wood's Memorial*, Vol. II. p. 217. 
 
 G fa 
 
g2 THELIFEOF 
 
 fo much coolnefs and indifference, as to wait 
 till his, the King's, return, to punilli the info- 
 lent offender. This remonitrance of his Ma- 
 jefty was accompanied with fuch fevere ex- 
 preflions of refentment, as flruck the Earl with 
 no fmall amazement and concern. At the fame 
 time the council was fummoncd, towards 
 whom the King behaved with as little gentle- 
 nefs; and having told them, that he was a 
 Scot himfelf, and that nothing could be ap- 
 plied to the nation in general, in which he 
 had not his (hare, he added, that he would have 
 them to know, that he not only loved the 
 Scots, but that one of the moil exprefs com- 
 mands, which he would give the Prince his fon, 
 "who was then prefent, fhould be, to do the fame ; 
 and that from that hour he would give him his 
 curfe, if he fliould fail in this point. The coun- 
 cil having acknowledged in very ftrong terms 
 the juftice of the king's difpleafure, and their 
 own fault, began then to confult of the r-e- 
 medy ; and at laft it was unanimouily agreed, 
 that Sir Chriftopher Pigot fhould retraft, in 
 the fame place, all that he had faid relating to 
 the Scots nation in general ; that he fliould be 
 r expelled the Houfe of Commons, and declared 
 incapable of fitting there for the future, and 
 be imprifoned till the end of the Parliament, 
 ■ This was executed the next day; for, after Sir 
 . Chnflopher had in his feat explained himfelf, 
 and declared, thut he had no intCDtlon t<*) re- 
 "^^-' - • flea 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 83 
 
 fle<5t upon the whole Scots nation, which he 
 acknowledged to be full of men of honour 
 iind probity, but only upon fome low and 
 fcandalous fellows there, efpecialiy in the Jfies, 
 ahe was fent to the Tower j where he was, 
 siwhen the French Ambafiador wrote his letter 
 ^ko Monf. de Puifieux". But, according to his 
 account, the King was not fatisfied with this, 
 being perfuadedj that Sir Chriflophcr Pigot 
 xvoulvl not have gone fo far, bur. upon the in- 
 Sffli^ation of Ibme othc"?, and tholeof the highefl 
 rank. However the Scots univerfallv triumph- 
 ed, as much, as if they had gained a vi<5tory°; 
 and a letter was foon after written to his Ma- 
 jefty in the name of all the ftates in Scotland, 
 to thank him for the gieat zeal, which he had 
 rtiewed in defence of their count yP; a zeal, 
 which the Prince likewife Icilified on the lame 
 OGcafion. 
 
 The Royal Exchequer was now fo exhaufl- 
 cd, that the Prince had his fliare m the incon- 
 veniencies arifing from the ill oeconomy of the 
 King or his Minifters. The officers and fer- 
 vants of his Majefty's houfehold were fo di- 
 ftreded for want of the payment of their ar- 
 rears, that a conliderable number of iherai 
 flopped the Earl of Dorfet, Lord High Trea- 
 
 " He was foon after fet at liberty by the Parliamenth 
 Parliamentary H'lfl. cf England, Vol. V. p. i8i. 
 
 • AmbafTades de M. de la Boderiej Vol. H.p. 87 — 90. 
 » Ibid. 139. 
 
 G 2 furer. 
 
84. THE LI.EP;QiP , 
 
 iurer, in his coach in the open ftreet, as }^} 
 was returning to liis houfej and would rc-^, 
 fuffer h.m to pafs on till he had promifed then^j 
 payment. And the Prince's Puiveyors at th^^ 
 fame time refuled to continue furnillilng hii^/ 
 with provifions; which occafioncd his High-r^ 
 nefs to fend a peremptory meflage to tlie L(X^ 
 Treafurer for money 'J. .,vi is -^onRFmoitr/^'tli^H 
 The Prince, now in the fourteenth year of hrsi 
 age, began to difcover a mature judgment iix- 
 almoft every thing ; and as he was an attentive 
 hearer of fermons, to diftinguifli fuch preachers, 
 as deferved if, among others he took parti- 
 cular notice, in this year 1607, of the learned 
 and eloquent Mr. Jofeph Hall, then Redor of 
 Halllead in Suffolk, afterwards Dean of WoiTr 
 cefter, and fucceihvely Bifliop of Exeter and 
 Norwich. This Divine happening to be in 
 London at the houfe of his patron Sir Robert 
 Drury, and being told by Mr. Gurrey, Tutor 
 to the young Earl of ElTex, how much his 
 book of Medifdtiojis' was efteemed at the 
 Prince's Court j and being preffed to preach to 
 his Highnefs on the Sunday following at 
 Richmond, and e.MCouraged by the Earl him- 
 felf, went thither; and his Sermon gave fuch 
 
 f(-^ 'Letter of M. de la Boderie to M. de Puifieuxs ffotii 
 
 London, Jan. I, 1606-7. Ibid, /►. l^^j^giom 9id3 lol 
 
 ' Cornwallis, p. 11. 
 
 *Q Jt, Meditations and Vowes, Divine and Moral, ferving 
 
 .for direiSrjons in Chriftian and Civil Pra<^^c_^j/«,,//'^f^« 
 
 Centuries, ' ■ " Ts *'. 
 
 ; .-^ latis- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 85 
 
 fatisfadlon to the Prince, tliat he fignified his 
 defire to hear Mr. Hall again on the Tuefday 
 following; when his fecond Sermon more de- 
 lighted his Highnefs than the former; upon' 
 which heboth gave the preacher his handtokifs, 
 and engaged him in his fervice, as one of his' 
 Chaplains. And in the fecond year of Mr. 
 Hall s attendance at his Court, when he came 
 for his ailmifTion from h'S monthly fervice, 
 the Prince commanded him a longer Hay; and 
 when he granted him leave to depart, invited 
 him by Sir Thom;rs Chaioner, his Governor, 
 to rcfid'^ conftantly at the Court, while the 
 Other Chaplains waited only in their turns, pro- 
 mifing to obtain fuch preferments for him, as 
 fhould fully fatisfy him. But Mr Hall, out 
 of a modefl: diffidence, and a reludtance to 
 leave his new pation, the Lord Denny, after- 
 wards E^rl of Norwich, who had lately given. 
 h;m the living of Waltham- Abbey in EfTex, 
 rhofe to wave an offer fo honourable and ad- 
 vantageous to himfelf '. 
 
 His Highnefs's ftrld: attendance on public 
 worfhip was likewife accompanied with the 
 utmoft cp.re for the regular behaviour of his 
 family ; he ordering boxes to be kept at his three 
 houfes, St. Jam'>;-'s, Richmond, and Nonfuch, 
 for the money required of thofe, who were 
 
 * Some fjjecialties in the life of Jofeph Hall, Bifhop of 
 Norwich, ^. 23i 26, pycfjxed to his Remaining U^orksy Lon- 
 din, 1660, /\fio. 
 
 G 3 heard 
 
86 THELIFEOF 
 
 heard to fwear; which money was diflributed 
 
 to the peer". n ■ ^'\ ^ f{ f -^ I 
 
 Kis difcourie was now "raifea to all rne mCTt 
 important fubjcds, and he grew inqaifitive 
 about the ftate of foreign countries, as well a& 
 his own ; fo that he at length acquired a cori- 
 lidcrable knowledge and true judgment ibl 
 political affairs '^ "^' 
 
 The Prince de Joinville, brother to me 
 Duke of Guife, who had been obliged to leave 
 France, on account of the difcovcry of his 
 having made love to the Kine's Miftrcfs, tli6 
 Countefs de Moret% and had corne to"Ehg» 
 land on the 8th of May 1 607 >', where ha 
 was entertained at Court, and lodged witl^ 
 great magnificence, departing in the beginiiinff 
 of June^, Prince Henry fent over to Calais i^i 
 his train an Engineer in his ovvn fervice, \Ahe) 
 took the opportunity of examining all the forti- 
 fications of that town, and particularly thofe of 
 the Rix-banc. The French AmbafTador dif- 
 covered this by means of a friend, whom 1 e 
 had employed to accompany the Prince de Join- 
 ville as far as Paris, and to remark what pailed ; 
 and who drew this fecret out of the Enginedr 
 
 * Cornwaliis, p. 12. , u.U 
 
 * Ihid. p. 1 1, 12. 
 
 * iMS. Letter of Sir George Carevv, AmbafTador in 
 Trance, March 21, 1606-7. 
 
 y C?imdeni Annales Regis Jacobi, p, 5. 
 
 a Arr.baflades de M. de la Boderie, Tofne II. p. 232, 
 
 tr'T T7. T79 
 
 ^jy^ *-"/' -/3' 
 
 bunfelfj 
 
HENR Y.PiiiNCE OP Wales. 2y 
 himfelf, after entertaining him in their return 
 to London, the latter confeiTing, that he was 
 employed by Prince Henry, who had long 
 waited for fuch an opportunity. The Ambal- 
 fador immediately wrote, in a letter to Monf. 
 •de Puifieux of the 21 ft of June, N. S\ an 
 account of what he had learned 3 though he 
 though!-, that there was not (o much defign as 
 curiolity in the Prince's employing his Kngi- 
 neer for fuch a purpofe, conlidering that he 
 was not of an age nor in a condition to think 
 ferloufly of fuch things ; nor was England in 
 a fituation to undertake any defign of that kind. 
 However the AmbaiTador immediately gave 
 notice of it to Monf. de Vic, Governor of 
 Calais. Monf. de Puifieux in his letter from 
 Fontainebleau of the 30th of June, 1607, 
 N. S^ approved of the Ambaftado s fending 
 this information ; but remarked, that the vifit 
 of the Prince's Engineer to Calais was thought 
 by their Court of no great confequence. 
 
 About the iame time the French Ambafla- 
 "dor received the Armour and Arms, fent by- 
 Henry IV. as a prefent to the Prince, accom- 
 panied with a letter from that King^j which 
 his Highnefs received with great fatisfadion"^;. 
 and on the 21ft of July 1607, wrote from 
 
 ' AmbaflaJes de M. de la Bodcrie, Tome II. p. 288, 
 289. 
 
 »» Ibid,/). 307. « Ibid. p. 313. ^ Ibid. />. 338. 
 
 G 4 " Non-. 
 
88. -j^^ff'^oVIFE OH/IHIi 
 
 Nanfuch. ajetter of thrjiks in French '^'Ijl^ 
 this letter he told Plenry iV. that he cduldli 
 no; but, on all occaiicr.s repeat his acknow^l I 
 lecT^int^ntii, , 4mce his Majelly continued tb/I 
 mulnply daily his. favours to him, which wci"C 
 fuch, as could not but lay an infinite obligju?-:) 
 tion upon him. But he thought himfeif par-^ii 
 tlcularly bound to return his thanks for' the 
 prefent of aims delivered to hiim by Monf. deo 
 la Boderie, not only on account of the excel- * 
 lence of the workmanfl^ip, but efpecially as ' 
 they were given by him, who by the ule of arms 
 had acquired fuch a reputation of valour, as 
 might ferve for an example to all the gallant 
 fpirits of future ages, and an excite ment tohim- 
 felf in particular, who honour'd and admired 
 it, to Ihew himfelf more and more in effecft 
 what he profefied to be, his Majefly's mofl: 
 humble and moil: aftldicnate Nephew and • 
 Servant. ei 2bw 1' fi^irlw nioii 
 
 This Letter, with another from King James,// 
 was delivered to Henry IV. by Mr. Douglas, * 
 introd>.iced by Sir Geoj-ge Carew, Ambaflkdor ' 
 at the Court of France. The French King, 
 contrary to his cuflom, in, mediately opened 
 the I'lince's letter, and compared the writing 
 of his name with the rerl: of the letter, in order- 
 to judge, whether it were all of one hand^. which i 
 he fcemcd to doubt on account of the neatnefs 
 
 ' Harl. MSS. Vol 7007. ,^^^ ^ ,,ij| . 
 
 of 
 
H E ISF'R Y Prince op Wales. 89 
 of the chuv^dkfl^ Sii-' George Carew obferving 
 tKte King's hefitation, would have called Mr. 
 DoiTglas- 'to- Rave teftified the fa(ft : but his 
 Majcily fooii fatisfied himfelf, faying, that in 
 vrriting fair/ as in other things Hkewife, the 
 elder cnuft yield unto the younger. Sir George 
 in his letter of the 26th of Auguft, 1607^^, in 
 which he gives the Earl of Saliibury this ac- 
 count, adds: " He ever {j:eaketh with great 
 *' fhew of paffionate affection towards my 
 " Lord the Prince ; and at this time he account- 
 '' cd of him as of his own fon, as he hoped! 
 *'- his good brother of Great Britain would do 
 *' the like of the Dauphin." And he was re-'3 
 folved, as it is expreffed in a letttr of Monf del; 
 Puifieux to Monf. de la Boderie of the 20th 
 of July i6o7,N. S^. to cultivate that young' "^ 
 plaiit', lince it promifed to produce fruits much^ 
 more favourable to France, than the ftock, ' 
 from which it was raifed. And Monf Puilieux^* 
 was " of opinion, that a refolution would be 
 taken of gratifying with penfions thofe, who'^^. 
 had mofi: influence on the Prince. Monf &&" 
 la Boderie in his anfwer from London of the ^'' 
 2dof Auguft, N. S^. approved much of th^."^ 
 intention of the King his Mailer of cultivating 
 a good correfpondencc with the Prince, who, ^ 
 he. remarked, had great accomplifhments and 
 
 ' In the paper office. 
 
 « Ambaflades de Jyl. de la Boderie, Tome 11. p. 338. 
 
 * Ibid, p, 349. 
 
 " ^ courage, 
 
9^, 5:,THE LIFE QnF - , 
 
 courage, and would foon make himfelf talked 
 of, and pofTibly give jealoufy to his father, and 
 apprehcnlions to thole, who had the greatcft 
 afcendant at court. .. The Ainbail'ador thought 
 likewife, that the expence of penfions to thofe 
 about his Hii^hnefs would not be ill-beftowed. 
 But after he had farther confidercd that point, 
 as he wrote to Monf de Puifieux from Lon- 
 don, October 21, 1607, N. S. ' he was n.oi 
 fo clear with regard to the neceilicy o^ fuch an 
 expence 5 fnce the Prince already difcovered 
 himfelf to be of a difpcfifion to be direded by; 
 his own underftanding; fo tliat the perfuafions 
 of thofe about him were not likely to biafs him 
 towards any thing, but what he chofe himfelf. 
 The States General of liLer^lpjnited Provin^s 
 having occafion to fend Ambafiadocs tp Eng- 
 land in the beginning of July, 1607'', recom- 
 mended them to the Prince by a letter da^cd 
 t|ie 30th of June, N. S. \ in .^yhich they .tol4 
 him, that they had ordered their AmbafTadors 
 to kits his Highnefs's hands on their part; and 
 TO deilre him to continue his fricndihip to their 
 ^tate, and to allow their Ambaffidors a favour- 
 .^ble audience, and the fame credit as to thenar 
 
 .jr(iMr, Robert Tindal, the Prince's Gunner, 
 being employed by tlie Virginia company, 
 
 ' Ambaflad. de M. dc la Boderie, 7cme II. p. 408, 40^. 
 " jMeteran, L- 28. fol. O09.. 
 1 Harl. MbS. FiL 7C07. 
 -n;iq ■ eiia- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 9! 
 
 eflabliOied in April 1606 by his Majefly's let- 
 ters patent, in a voyage to that country in a fleet 
 of three fail of fliips, commanded by Captain 
 Chriftopher Newport, which fet fail on the 
 19th of December, 1606, and arrived at Chea- 
 feapeak bay about the beginning of May follow- 
 ing"', thought it his duty to fend to his High- 
 nefs a journal of that voyage, and a draught of 
 James river, with a letter dated at James town 
 i^ Virginia the 22d of June, 1607 ". In his let- 
 ter he remarks, that this river was difccvered by 
 his fellow-adventureis, and that no Chriftian 
 had ever been there before; and that they were 
 fafely arrived and fettled in that country, which 
 they found to be in itfelf mofl fruitful, and of 
 which they had taken a real and piblic pojfejjion 
 in the name and to the nfe of ih.Q King his High- 
 nefs's father. 
 
 Upon the promotion of Mr. (afterwards Sir) 
 John Croke, one of the Chief Juftices of a qir- 
 cuit in Wales, to a feat in the court of King's 
 bench about June, 1607, Mr. Thomas Stephens, 
 then Council, and afterwards Auditor, to the 
 Prince, wrote to his Highnefs to acquaint him, 
 that Mr. Croke's place of a Welili Judge was, 
 void, or was likely foon to be fo °. " What re- 
 *' fpecft, adds be^ your Highnefs hath to the- 
 
 " Hiftory of Virginia, by Sir William Keith, Bart, 
 
 t>- 52—57- 
 
 " Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 • Had. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 2 ** prin^ 
 
92 THE LIFE OF 
 
 **, principality of Wales, a great country aift^' 
 "dominion, containing twelve lliires, whit'tf 
 *' the Kings of this realm have ufed to confeiB 
 *' upon the Princes their eldefl: fons, is to yoqf^- 
 *' felf. But if you affed: it, it may be expedient, 
 •* that fach places as this be beftowed upon 
 *' fuch, as, being fufficient and fit for the place. 
 ** fliall be at your Highnefs's fervice. Sl^lK^ 
 " conceit of my (elf for fufficienCy or defertl^^' 
 " far from me. I defire to do your Highnef^ 
 *Vall poflible fervice I can. I thought goo^- 
 •''-not to omit the mentioiiing of this, "nd dp 
 *' humbly refer it to your confidcration.'*^^~^^-^^ 
 The King having been made free 6f'^Hi 
 Cloth workers company on the 12th of J\ml-j 
 3607, the Prince, on the i6th of the month 
 following, was admitted into that of the Me'r- 
 chant-taylors. On that day his Majcfty ana 
 the Prince, attended with a great number Df 
 the nobility and other perfons of diftindfioni 
 came in a private manner to Merchant-tayldrs 
 hall to dinner, where they were royally feafted' 
 and entertained with great variety of muflc 
 ^ind ingenious fpeeches, it being the fea?l-day 
 of the compp.ny for the elc6:ion of the Mailer 
 and Wardens. The Lord-mayor was ready 
 tp_ receive the Kinrr at: the hall, and prefented 
 ^he* fword to his Majcflv, and, receiving it 
 back from hin-i, bore it belbre him in the upper 
 large dining- room, anciently called the King's 
 chimberj and foon after, with his Maicfhy's 
 
 IcavCj 
 
H E N R Y Prince of Wales. 93 
 
 leave, went to hLs own houfe with the fword 
 bprne before him, after he was pafTed the hall 
 gates; and in the fame manner returned after 
 dinner, and attended till the King departed. 
 
 .While the King fat at dinner, the Mafter 
 and Wardens, together with divers Aldei men 
 and the Recorder of London, came to his 
 Majefty, and, in the name of the whole com- 
 pany, thanked him for honouring it with his 
 Royai prefence. The Mafler then prefented 
 kini with a purfe of gold ; and the clerk of the 
 hall {hewed him a roll, in which were regi- 
 ftered the names of feven Kings, one Queen, 
 feventeen Princes and Dukes, two DuchelTes, 
 one Archbi(hop, thirty one Earls, five Count- 
 elTes, one Vifcount, fourteen Bishops, fixty 
 fix Barons, two Ladies, feven Abbots, fevea 
 Priors, and one Sub-prior, omitting a great 
 number of Knights, Efquires, &c. who had 
 been free of that company. The King an- 
 fwered, that himfelf was already free of ano- 
 ther company; but that the Prince his eldeft 
 fon (hould be free of this, and he would him- 
 felf be a witnefs of it, when the garland 
 fhould be put upon his head. Upon this they 
 all went down into the great hall, where the 
 Prince dined, and, having faluted him with a 
 chearful and hearty welcome, the mafter pre- 
 fented him with a purfe of gold; and the clerk 
 delivered to his Highnefs the roll, which he 
 gracioufly received, and not only faid, that 
 
 him- 
 
94 THELIFEOF 
 
 himfelf would be free of the company, but 
 likewife ordered one of his gentlemen and the 
 clerk to go to all the Lords there prefent, and 
 defire thofe, vho loved him, and were not 
 members of other companies, to be free of this j 
 to which their Lordfliips immediately agreed. 
 The King, during this and the eledion of 
 the new Mafter and Wardens, flood in a new 
 window made for that purpole, and beheld all 
 their ceremonies; and then coming down into 
 the hall, was there, as well as the Prince, enter- 
 tained with the like mufic of voices and inftru- 
 ments, and with fpeeches, as at their firft en- 
 trance. The mufic confided of twelve lutes 
 equally divided, and placed by fix and fix in' a 
 window on each fide of that hall ; and in the 
 air between them was a gallant fhip triumphant, 
 in which were three men dreffed like lailors, 
 being eminent for voice and fkill, who in their 
 feveral fongs were aififted and feconded by the 
 lutanifls. In the hall was likewife the city 
 mufic ; and in the upper chamber the children 
 of the King's chapel fung a grace at his table ; 
 and, while he fat at dinner, that excellent 
 mufician John Bull, Dod:or of his faculty, 
 Profeffor of it in Grefham college, and one of 
 the Organifls of his Majefiy's chapel, who was 
 a member of the company, played in his citi- 
 zen's gown, cap, and hood, upon a fmall 
 organ placed there for that purpofe?. 
 
 * General Chronicle of England, begun by John Stowe, 
 and continued by E. Howes, p. 890, 891. 
 
 Tho- 
 
ri ENRY Prince qk^Wales. 95 
 
 ii.. Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, Lord 
 ^Chamberlain of the King's houlliold^ and 
 bRobert Cecil, Earl of Salifbury, Secretary of 
 }(Stato^jv being difappointed of their intention 
 J of waiting upon the Prince at Nonfuch in 
 ,lthe beginning of Auguft, 1607, wrote a joint 
 "idctter on the 7th of that month from Windfor 
 vjto Mr. Newton, to make their excufcs for 
 Kthat failure'!. " Although, fay they, the pur- 
 of pofe we had to have kifled his HIghnefs's 
 -•f ' hands, as foon as we had ended his Mujefty's 
 " bufnitfs in London, was croffed by a dif- 
 ^i^* patch we received to day from court, con- 
 £'^* cerning fome farther directions to be given 
 b" to his Majefty's commiffioners'', that are 
 5/' fent to the States of the United Provinces 
 ^1** (who now attend only his Majefty's figna- 
 ^p*' ture of their commilhon and inrtru(^l:ions;) 
 ii*.' yet we cannot do our own duties fo much 
 3?* injury, as not to declare both our intention 
 'Y" to have waited upon him this afternoon, 
 n** and our humble affedion to be held in the 
 •^* number of his Highnefs's faithful fervants; 
 jrf' hoping, that thefe letters fliail ferve to make 
 ^\^* our excufe for not doing that, which we fo 
 V much defired, to him, whom we io much 
 ^f*' honour. and love, and wifli happy increafe 
 -iV..of thofe excellent virtues, which promife 
 
 •^ Harl. MSS. Vd. 7-07. 
 
 ' Sir Richard Spencc and Sir Ralph Winwoocl. Sec 
 Win vood's A\cm^^y\■^^U., VoU II- p. 329. and Ambaffad'es 
 de M, de l.i Bfoderie, Tome IL p. 357, 365, 370, 
 
 " fo 
 
96 THELIFEOF 
 
 " {o much comfort to oar Royal fovereign, 
 " and conftant fafety and felicity to this glo- 
 *' rious ille of Great Britain. We have chofen 
 " you to do this office for us, which we Ihall 
 *' take for fo acceptable a pleafure, as you 
 *' may promife yourfelf a more friendly re- 
 *' quital, whenfoever occafion is offered.'* 
 The Earl of Salifbury added a poftfcript with 
 his own hand, which (hewed his attention to 
 oblige the Prince's dependants: " I pray you 
 *' let Sir David Murray know, that I will let 
 " him know by a Ihrewd boy tomorrow, that 
 *' his fuit fhall be figned at Salilbury ; and 
 " what is the caufe of the ftay all this while." 
 The Prince being known to be extremely 
 curious with regard to iliips, Mr. Pett, who 
 was in his fervice, as well as one of the King's 
 (hip Wrights, made a model of a (hip for his 
 Highnefs, which being adorned with carving 
 and painting, and placed in a frame, arched, 
 covered, and curtained w^ith crimfon taffety, 
 was, on the loth of November, 1607, pre- 
 fented to the Lord Admiral at his lodging at 
 Whitehall. His Lordfliip ordered him to 
 carry it to Richmond, where the Prince then 
 was ; which was done the next day ; and on 
 Wednefday morning, the 12th, Mr. Pett 
 having acquainted Sir David Murray with his 
 bufinefs, who informed the Prince of it, order 
 was given to have the model brought and 
 placed in a private room in the long gallery, 
 
 where 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 97 
 
 "where his Highnels determined to fee it. But 
 
 the Lord Admiral, unknown to Mr. Pett, ar.d 
 
 with a view to do him fervice, had already 
 
 informed the King of this model, and prevailed 
 
 upon him to take a journey from Whitehall 
 
 to Richmond, on pur^x^fe to view it; which 
 
 he did about three of the clock of the afternoon 
 
 i^'thte; 'fame- day ^i;>t'Liii . 'I 
 
 oi The eftabtillimisnroF the Prince's houfhold, 
 
 by the King's repeated enlargements of it, 
 
 wasinovv grown fo much beyond the allowance 
 
 for its- fupport, that Sir Thomas Chaloner, in 
 
 November, 1&07, reprefented, in a ^ letter to 
 
 the.Chaaceilor of the Exchequer, Sir Julius 
 
 ^^UxlWi'Xfae'inconveniencies of it. He began 
 
 afiis letter witli remarking, that his Highnefs's 
 
 ^loulliold, which was intended by the King 
 
 iibr Si courtly college, or a collegiate court, wsls 
 
 jl)eGome fo great a court, that it was ready to 
 
 be overwhelmed with the charge and burden 
 
 of itfelf. But the refult of this remonftrance 
 
 ••does not appear. 
 
 3jb King Philip III. of Spain, about this time, 
 fhewed more inclination than he had ever 
 done before towards a marriage between the 
 Prince and the Infan<:a Anne, his daughter, 
 married in 1615 to Lewis XIII. of Francd'; 
 ithat King's view being by this means to divert 
 
 ^' ' MS. Life o^^Mr.Jhineas Pett, p. 23. Had. MSS. 
 
 yd. 6279. """ ■ 
 
 I Sir Julius Cafar's MSS. Fol: 167, cited ahove. 
 
 -**''• H . King 
 
9^ THELIFEOF " 
 
 King James from joining too much with 
 France in favour of the United Provinces^. 
 This match had been in the thoughts and 
 wiflies of fome perfons of the greateft influence 
 in the court of Spain above a year before, 
 notwithftanding all the endeavours of France 
 to procure the Infanta for the Dauphin. This 
 is evid.tnt from a letter of Sir Charles Corn- 
 wallis, then AmbafTador in Spain, who al- 
 ledgsd many reafons ta perfuade that courts 
 that the marriage of that lady to Prince Henry 
 was preferable to the alliance with France^''. 
 
 Henry IV. of France having fent a letter to 
 the Prince by Monf. de Glas, who arrived at 
 London about the loth of December, 1607, 
 it was prefen':ed by M. de la Boderie to his 
 Highnefs, who received it with great expreffi- 
 ons of fatisfadiion ; as he did, according ta 
 that Ambaflador's account '', every thing, that 
 came from that monarch. 
 
 The Prince's annual gift to the King his 
 father, on the firll: day of the new year 1 607-8, 
 was a Latin thefis, no copy of which occurs;: 
 but the letter accompanying it is flill extant y. 
 
 ^ M. de Puifieux's Letter to M. de la Boderie froni 
 Paris, 29th of December, 1607. AmbalVades de M. de 
 la Boderie, Tome II. p. 501. 
 
 ^ Sir Charles Cornwallis's Letter to the Lords of the 
 Privy Council, Nov. 21, 1606, O. S. Winwood's Me- 
 morials, Vol. II. p. 265, 268. 
 
 " Letter to M. de Puifieux, Jan. i, 1608. N. S. frotn 
 London. Ambalfades de M. de la Boderie, Tsme IILp. 6, 7. 
 
 y Appendix, No. VIIL • .i^B ^ 
 
 In 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 99 
 
 In It he obleryes, that it was now feven years, 
 fince he had begun to pay his duty to his 
 Majefly at the opening cf every nevv^ year by 
 fbme Hterary offerings and that as now, after 
 fo long a purfuit of his ftudies, fomewhat of a 
 more important kind might juftly be expecfted 
 from him; not to difappoint fuch an exped'a- 
 tion, he was defirous to try what the fmallnefs 
 of his genius would permit him to do, in 
 confirming, according to the rules of art, a 
 fentence of that very ancient poet Menander. 
 That the fubjecfl indeed was of fuch a nature, 
 that he could not hope for any great com- 
 mendation of elaboratencfs in the expreffion, or 
 acutenefs in the reafoning; but that he did not 
 defpair of having it received as a teflimony of 
 his piety and obedience, efpecially by a mod 
 lovino: and mod benio-n father. 
 
 On the fame day Sir Henry Wotton, Am- 
 baflador at Venice, wrote from thence to the 
 Prince % that having had occafion, on account 
 of his Majefty's fervice (wherein his High- 
 nefs's was always included) to difpatch home 
 the honed Captain', the bearer of that letter, 
 he had prefumed by him, with the remem- 
 brance of his own hearty zeal, to prefent to 
 his Highnefs a poor New Year's gift. " Our 
 *' Lord Jefus, continues he, blefs you with 
 *^ many happy year?, and make your High- 
 ** nefs a Defender of his Faith, which is the 
 * Had. MSS. Vol. 7007. « Pinner. 
 
 H 2 " chiefeft 
 
100 THE LIFE OF 
 
 " chlefeft of your hereditary titles. And fb 
 *' humbly kiffing your fwcct and princely 
 *' hand, I reil: your Highnefs's long-devoted 
 " fervant." 
 
 The Prince de Joinvillc, who, as has been 
 obferved, had been at the court of England in 
 May and June, 1607, and returned to that 
 of France about the end of November follow- 
 ing'', having fent a prefent of arm.s and horfes 
 to the Prince, his Highnefs returned him 
 thanks for them in a letter dated Feb. 1 1 , 
 3607-8^ ** I perceive, my ccufin, fays he, 
 " tnat, during your flay in England, you dif- 
 *' covered my humour; fmce you liave fent 
 ** me a prefent of the two things, which I mcft 
 " delight in, arms and horfes." -/(jiw ^ 
 
 In the year 1608, the Prince's favourite 
 Chaplain, our Engliili Seneca, Mr. Jofeph 
 Hall, publilliing the fiifc volume of his elegant 
 Epijiks, containing two Decades'^, prefixed to 
 them a dedication to his Highnefs; in which 
 he obferves, that it was not from any conceit 
 of fuch worth in his labours, that they durfl: 
 Jook ^o high as the Prince's patronage. *' It 
 *' were \nc\\, fays bt\ if ought of mine could 
 " be worthy of popular eyes; or if I could 
 
 ^ M. dePuifieux's Letter to M. Je la Boderie from Paris^ 
 Dec. II, 1607. Ambaflades de M. de lii Boderie, Tovte II. 
 p. 485. 
 
 « Harl. MSS. Fol. 7007. 
 
 ^ Printed at London, in 8vo. 
 
 *^ wring 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales, ioi 
 
 " wring ought from mylelf not unworthy of 
 ** a judicious reader. I know your Highncfs 
 *-* wants neither prefents nor counfels; pre- 
 *' fents from ftrangers, counfels from your 
 "teachers; neither of them matchable by 
 '' my weaknefs. Only duty herein excufes 
 ^^•'■me from pre(umption: for I thought it in- 
 ■'^^'juftice to devote the fruit of my labour to 
 ^* any other hand befide my mailer's; which 
 ^"^ alfo I knew to be as gracious as mine is 
 ** faithful. Yet fince even good atFecftions 
 ** cannot warrant too much vilenefs in gifts 
 " to princes, left, while my modefty difpar- 
 " ages my work, I Oiould hazard the accepta- 
 *' tion ; here fhall your Grace find variety not 
 " without profit. I hate a divine, that would 
 " but pleafe; and withal think it impofiible 
 *' for a man to profit, that pleafeth not. And 
 " if, while my ftyle fixeth itfelf upon others, 
 *' any fpiritual profit fhall refied: upon your 
 " Highnefs, how happy am I! who fliall ever 
 *' think I have lived to purpofe, if by the beft 
 '* of my ftudies I have done any good office 
 *' to your foul." Mr. Hall adds farther 
 (%vhich ihefe times^ fays he, account not the 
 leaft praije) your Grace JJxill herein perceive a 
 new fajhion of difcourfe, by epijlles-y 7iew to our 
 lavgiidge, ufual to others \ and (as novelty is 
 never without fome plea of ufe) jnore free^ more 
 familiar. 'Thus we do but talk with our friends 
 by our prcfs^ and exprefs ourjelves no whit lefs 
 
 H 3 eajly. 
 
102 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 eafjy, fomewhat more digelicdly. '* Whatfoever 
 *' it is, concludes he^ as it cannot be good 
 *' enough to delerve that countenance; fo the 
 " countenance of fuch patronage (hall make 
 " it worthy of refped from others. The 
 " God of princes prote<fl your perfon, perfect 
 " your grace?, and give you as much favour 
 ** in heaven, as ycu have honour on earth." 
 
 The fourth epiftle of the firll: decade is ad- 
 drelTed to Mr. Newton, Tutor to the Prince, 
 and entitled, Gratulation for the hopes of our 
 Prince J with an ad'vifmg apprecation. It be- 
 gins thus^: " God hath called you to a great 
 *• and happy charge: you have the cuilody 
 *' of our common treafure; neither is there 
 *' any fervice comparable to this of yours, 
 " whether we re2:ard God, or the world. Our 
 *' labours, oft-times beftowed upon many,fcarce 
 *' profit one: yours beftowed upon one re- 
 *' dounds to the profit of many millions. This 
 *Ms a fummary way of obliging all the world 
 •' to you. I encourage you not in your care ; 
 *' you have more comfort in the fuccefs of it 
 ** than all worlds can give you. The very 
 ** fubflance of your pains would give an heart 
 " to him that hath none. I rather conr^ratu- 
 " late with you our common happinefs, and 
 " the hopes of pofterity, in that Royal and 
 " blefiTed ifllie. You have heft caufe to be the 
 ** befl witnefs of the rare forwardnefs of our 
 
 ! ?. 27- 
 
 " pracious 
 
HENRY Prikce of Wales. io-> 
 *' gracious maftei*; and I have feen encjugh 
 *• to make nic think, I can never be enough 
 *' thankful to God for him." He aftervv^ards 
 remarks^, that y'f/i/(?/;^ ever tbcfe years have fro- 
 mijcd, feldorn perj'crmcd fo much. " Only God 
 *' keep two milchiefs ever from witbin the 
 i^V fmoke of his court, fatte^-y and treccfjery. 
 *' The iniquity of the times may make us 
 " fear thefe ; not his inclination. '■ — How 
 ** happy a fervice fliall you do to this whole 
 ** world of ours, if you fl^iall fettle in that 
 *' princely mind a true apprchenfion of him- 
 •' felfj and fliall teach him to take his ow^n 
 *' hieht aright; and even from his childhood 
 " to hate a parafite as the word traitor j to 
 *' break thofe falfe glalTes, that would preient 
 *' him with a face not his own; to applaud 
 *' plain truth, and bend his brows upon ex- 
 " ceffive praifes. Thus affeded, he may bid 
 *' vice do her worfl. Thus fl)all he ftrive 
 ** with virtue, whether Ihall more honour 
 ** each other. Thus lincere and folid glory 
 " fliall every where follow and crown him. 
 *' Thus, when he hath but his due, he fliall 
 " have fo much, that he fhall fcorn to borrow 
 " the falfe colours of adulation." 
 
 This firO: volume o^ Epiflks was fcon fol- 
 lowed by a fccond, dedicated likewiie to the 
 Prince, and printed at London in the Jame 
 year 1608, the tenth epiftle of the diird decade 
 
 f P. 30. 
 H 4 being 
 
I04. THE LIFE OF 
 
 being addreilcd to the Gentlemen of his High- 
 7iefss coiirty and containing a Defcriptio?! of a 
 good and faithful Courtier. The third volume, 
 dedicated a^fo to the Prince, was not pubUflied 
 till j6j I. 
 
 Sir George Carew, whole Relation of the 
 State of France ^^ where he wa AmbalTador 
 from 1605 till 1609, ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^" ^^ ^^" 
 land in" 1597, is a model for works of that 
 kind, took the opportunity of tl jc return of the 
 Princes's Riding-mafter, Monf. St. Anthoine, 
 to England, to fend by him a letter to his 
 liighnefs, dated at Paris, ift of April 1608'', 
 to prefent his own humble duty, " having as 
 " yet, fays he, none other means of profeffing 
 ** my readinefs and defire to (hew my devoted 
 " affed:Ion towards your fcrvice^ which fhould 
 *' more elTedually appear, if I might have the 
 " honour and happineis of receiving your 
 " gracious commandments in any thing, that 
 *' my weak means were able to accomplifh.'* : 
 The other occaiion of Sir George's writing was, 
 to witnefs to the Prince, that by his own advice, 
 as well as by the command of the French King, > 
 Monf de St. Anthoine had made fome longer 
 flay in France, than his deiire to have attended 
 his Highnefs's perfon, in his place of fervice, ' 
 would otherwife have permitted. The reafon r; 
 
 e Publinied at the end of the Hljlorical View of tki ^ \ 
 regoUat-.ons between the courts of England, France., and 
 ^rujels^ London, 1 749, in 8vo. 
 
 *" Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 of 
 
H ENRY Prince OF Wales, io^ 
 
 of his ftay was, that he might accompany 
 the Earl of EiTex to Fontainebleau, whither 
 Henry IV. had invited his Lordfhip to come 
 to him, and treated him with refped: and kind- 
 nefs, by taking him to hunt with himfelf, and 
 fhewing other demonilrations of favour to- 
 wards the Earl. " And becaufe, fays Sir 
 " GeorgCy none of my Lord's own attendants 
 ** were acquainted with the manners and 
 *' cuftoms of this court; therefore recourfe 
 " was had to Monf. de St. Anthoine's expe- 
 *' rience and judgement in that behalf, where 
 " he hath both much (leaded his Lordfhip, 
 *' and befides been a hearer of that high and 
 " honourable opinion, which is generally held, 
 *' in thefe parts, of your noble towardlinefs, 
 " or rather accomplifhed virtues and parts of 
 " worthinefs." 
 
 The Prince, on the i oth of the fame month 
 of April, 1608', wrote a Latin letter to the 
 King""; in which he told his Majefty, that 
 there were two reafons, and thofe very juft 
 ones, why he fliould have written fooner; the 
 firft a perpetual one, to teftify his duty and 
 obedience ; the other of a late date, to return 
 thanks for the unexpedled permiflion granted 
 him of hunting. That he had however de- 
 ferred Writing for a fliort time, till he had 
 tailed fome fruit of this unhoped-for bounty, 
 from an expectation, that he fliould find his 
 
 t Harl. MSS. /V. 7007. '^ Appendix, No. IX. 
 Z fpirits 
 
jo6 THELIFEOF 
 
 fpirits ralfed by the very pleafure of hunting, 
 and more capable of performing the office of 
 returning thanks in a proper manner. This 
 he acknowledged he had found to be his cafe ; 
 and he owed all poffible gratitude to his 
 Majcfly. Not but that he was confcious, that 
 he had frequently received many and much 
 greater favours from his Majefty: but as light 
 troubles can exprefs themfelves, when great 
 ones are dumb ; fo, though he was filent and 
 amazed at the frequent recoliecftion of the vaft 
 benefits conferred upon him, yet he could wifli 
 to exprefs his gratitude for this fmaller one. 
 He knew, that his Majefly was thoroughly 
 perfuaded, that he fhould for ever retain the 
 ienfe of it in his mind, as well as exprefs it 
 in words ; and he had the fuUeft conviction 
 himfelf, that his Majefty would not abate of 
 his former kindnefs and afFed:ion to him. 
 
 Sir Henry Wotton wrote a fecond letter to 
 the Prince ^ from Venice on the fourteenth of 
 the fame month of April, 1608. In this 
 letter he took notice, that he had been ad- 
 vertifed by Captain Pinner, how gracioufly 
 his Highnefs had received the prefent fent by 
 that gentleman ; and how carefully and kind- 
 t ly he had enquired of the ftate of things 
 at Venice : " Which I, fays Sir Henry, took 
 ** occafion to make known unto the Prince 
 [^ and fenate, w^ho, I think, will exprefs by 
 » Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 ** their 
 
HENRY Prince of Walks. 107 
 *' their own AmbaiTadorj how glad they were 
 *> to be a part, not only of your remem- 
 " brance, but of your love and foUicitude at 
 *' thefe years. If I have erred in doing this 
 <<* without your commandment, my defence 
 " muft be, that my zeal towards you is my 
 *' commiffion." He then remarks, that all 
 there was well. The Prince of Savoy and his 
 brother were there at that time in their way 
 towards the court of Mantua, where was to 
 be folemnized the marriaee of their elder fifler: 
 their fecond filter being newly conduced to 
 Modena in the company of that Prince her huf- 
 band. '•' The Prince of Tufcany, adds he^ 
 " (which reneweth the remembrance of my 
 ** firft fervice to your Highnefs, when a poor 
 " counterfeit Italian "" brought you his letters) 
 " is to be married to the fifter of the Qiieen 
 " of Spain; and great preparations are in hand 
 " for it. There is alfo fome whiipering about 
 *' a match between the Prince of Savoy and a 
 *' Princefs of Tufcany. Methinks I fee your 
 ** Highnefs ftart at this lift of marriages, and 
 ** beftowing of Princes daughters, wherewith 
 
 "* Ferdinand, duke of Florence, having intercepted 
 certain letters, difcovering a defign to take away the life 
 of King James before his accefTion to the throne of Eng- 
 land, A4r. Henry Wotton, then at Florence, was pri-r 
 vately fent to Scotland with thofe letters, afTuming the 
 name and language of an Italian, and calling himfelf 
 Vttavio Bald'i. Izaac Walton's Life of Sir Henry Wot- 
 ton, prefixed to Reliqui<e IFottiniana. 
 
 " I have 
 
io8 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 'yi have prefumed to entertain you. Fear 
 "'not. Sir J there will be left for you a good 
 " wife, I warrant you; and whatfoever fhe 
 *^ be, (he fliall be glad of it. And fo humbly 
 " craving pardon for the time, that I haive 
 " taken from your Highnefs with thefe pfe- 
 " fumptuous lines, upon occafion of difpatch- 
 " ing Lome this gentleman for the King your 
 " father's fervice, I end with my prayers to 
 " God Almighty for the prefervation of his 
 " fweet blefTmgs in you, and particularly of 
 " your delight in his truth, which is the high- 
 " eft of his bleffings/' "■ ;-'''''^'" 
 
 Robert Earl of EiTex, only fon b!" the^^i*^ 
 fortunate favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and 
 afterwards well known in hiftory under thd 
 characfler of General of the forces of the Long 
 parliament againft King Charles I. going upon 
 his travels in 1608, about a year and a quarter 
 after his marriage with Frances " fecond daugh- 
 ter of Thomas Howaid, Earl of Suffolk, not 
 long after his arrival in France wrote a letter 
 to the Prince, in whofe efteem and favour he 
 had a confiderable {hare. This letter" is dated 
 at MountrellP, May 24, and in it his Lord- 
 iliip prefented his humbleft duty to his High- 
 nefs.' " Being now, continues he ^ entered into 
 *' my travel, and intending the end there(^'f"'tO 
 
 " The Earl was married to her in Janu^ry;^ 1606-7, 
 at tiM' ^ge of fourteen, and ihe of thirteen. 
 
 ° Harf. MSS. Vol. 7007. P Probably Monftreuil in 
 Picardy. 
 
 " attain 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 109 
 ** attain to true knowledge, and to better my 
 ** experience, I hope God will fo blefs me 
 " in my endeavours, as that I iliall return an 
 ** (acceptable fervant to your Highnefs. My 
 ** heart, noble Prince, ftands humbly and 
 " truly affecfled ; and the world can yield me 
 *V no fuch comfort, as to be now numbered 
 *-J,,^mongfl: thofe, that do indeed honour and 
 ** reverence you with their intirefl thoughts. 
 " I will every day pray upon the knees of my 
 V .humbleft heart, that God will blefs your 
 *J Highnefs with many and mofl: happy days." 
 Thomas Earl of Dorfet, Lord Treafurer, 
 dying on the 19th of April, 1608, andRobert 
 Earl of Salifbury fucceeding in that great poft 
 on the 6th of May'^, the French Ambaflador 
 wrote foon after, in a letter to Monf. de Pui- 
 fieux from London on the 5th of June, N. S. "■, 
 that, though the new Treafurer had the whole 
 adminiftration of affairs in his hands, he, the 
 Ambaflador, was of opinion, that his Lord- 
 fhip's authority would be lefTened by that of the 
 Prince, who already fhewed fome jealoufy of 
 him J but that it would be a conliderable time 
 before this event would take place : and that, 
 as the King and Queen were not at all ignorant 
 of the difpofition of their fon, they would pro- 
 bably keep him always fo low, and fo fur- 
 rounded with perfons dependant upon them- 
 
 1 Camden. Annales Regis Jacobi, p. 6. 
 
 •■ Anibaflades de M. de la Boderie, Tome III. p. 302. 
 
 felves, 
 
no THELIFEOF 
 
 fe] ves, that it would not be eafy for him to eman- 
 cipate himfelf. The AmbafTador received foon 
 after this a letter from Monf. de Villeroy, 
 acquainting him with the defire of the King 
 their mafter, that the Prince's friendn]ip might 
 be cultivated by all poflible means. Monf. de 
 Boderie thought it not difficult to do this, con- 
 iidering, that the Prince himfelf was well dif- 
 pofed, and thofe about him equally inclined 
 to contribute their good offices to it» That it 
 was true, that if fomething was given them to 
 fharpen their tools, they would do better. 
 That there were three perfons in particular, 
 to whom if Monf de Villeroy fhould do any 
 favour, the AmbafTador promifed to ferve him 
 faithfully. That Monf St. Anthoine did his 
 duty; but as he had already made thofe per- 
 fons exped more than he ought to have done, 
 the AmbafTador did not think proper to fay 
 any thing, either to him or them, of this new 
 deliberation, till it fiiould be brought to efFe(rt'. 
 The Prince's growing affedion for the 
 navy led him in the month of Auguft of this 
 year 1608, to make a vifit to the royal dock 
 at Woolwich. In the beginning of that month 
 he fent word to Mr. Pett of his intention to 
 come thither at his return out of EfTex from 
 the Lord Petre's houfe, whither he was going 
 in progrefs; and on the Saturday following, 
 
 s Ambaflades de la M. de Boderie, Tome III. p- 418, 
 
 419. 
 
 the 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales, hi 
 
 the 13th of Auguft, he took his barge at 
 Biackwall, and came to Woohvich about noon, 
 accompanied only with his own train. He was 
 received by Mr. Pett on (liore at the yard- flairs. 
 On the poop of the Royal Anne were placed 
 trumpets, and an enfign, and on the heads of 
 both the mizens two enfigns. Mr. Pett having 
 paid his compliments to the Prince, and repre- 
 fentcd, hov/ great a fatisfad:ion it would be to 
 all the feamen to perceive hisHighnefs fo well 
 affeded to the navy, he condudied the Prince 
 round about the dock, and fo directly aboard 
 the Royal Anne, to the very top of her poop, 
 where he gave a lignal to Mr. William Bull, 
 ihen Mafter Gunner of England, who flood 
 ready prepared upon a mount, with thirty one 
 great brafs chambers, orderly and diftind:ly 
 placed, which had been procured from the 
 ♦Tower for that purpofe by Mr. Pett, with the 
 afiiflance of the Mafler Gunner; who upon 
 the lignal made gave fire to the train, and 
 difcharged the whole volley with fuch good 
 order, as was highly fatisfa(5tory to the Prince, 
 and the more fo, becaufe it was unexpedled. 
 When the ordnance ceafed firing, Mr. Pett 
 kneeled to his Highnefs, and requeued him 
 jto accept this poor fea-entertainment as an 
 .unfeigned earned of duty to him. The 
 't'rince returned a moft gracious anfwer, 
 "and then ordered Mr. Pett to lead him into 
 all the parts of the fliip ; which having 
 
 viewed 
 
112 THE LIFE OF 
 
 viewed with a fingular pleafure, he was con- 
 duded to the Dock Yard, where the keel, 
 flem, and ftern of his own fliip, which was 
 to be buiit, lay ready framed. Having ex- 
 amined thefe with great attention, his High- 
 nefs caufed the length of the keel to fbe 
 meafured ; and being then defined to walk in- 
 to the houfe to refl himfelf, he readily con- 
 fented, and found in the parlour a fet banquet 
 of fweetmeats and all other fruits, which the 
 ieafbn yielded, with plenty of Wine, Rhe- 
 nifli, White, Sack, Greek, and Claret. After 
 he had refrelhed himfelf, and given his hand 
 to kifs to divers Gentlewomen of the town, 
 who were in the room with Mr. Pett's wife, he 
 defired to be conducted to the mount, where 
 the chambers were placed, which were again 
 charged and ranged in their former order with 
 the train made ready. This fight delighted 
 him fo much, that he was defirous to have the 
 train fired, while he flood by; but at Mr. 
 Pett's intreaty and reprefentation of the danger, 
 he ordered, that at the holding up of his hand- 
 kerchief in his barge, they fliould be difcharg- 
 ed; which was accordingly done, after his 
 Highnefs had cxprefix^d his fatisfacftion in the 
 whole entertainment\ 
 
 The King having been flightly indifpofed, 
 the Prince upon his recovery fent a meffenger 
 
 • MS. Life of Mr. Phineas Pett, fol 24. 
 
 to 
 
H E N R Y Prince of Wales, j 13 
 
 to his Majefty with the following letter, dated 
 Augnft J, luoS". 
 
 *' Pleafe your Majefly, 
 
 " T AM glad to hear of your Majefly's re- 
 
 " -*- covery, before I underltood 0^ your di- 
 
 " flempcr by the heat of the weather. I have 
 
 " fent this hearer of purpofe to return word 
 
 " of your Majefty's good health, which I be- 
 
 *' feech God long to continue ; as alfo to re- 
 
 " member my mofl humble duty. He is like- 
 
 ^' wife to acquaint your Majefly, that Monf. 
 
 " le Grand hath fent me a horfe by a French 
 
 " Gentleman, wherewith I hope your Majefly 
 
 " will be well pleafed. The next week I mean* 
 
 *' to ufe the benefit of your Majefty's gracious 
 
 " favour of hunting in Waltham foreft, the 
 
 " place appointed as fitteft for the fport beine 
 
 " Wanfted. In the mean while and after I 
 
 " will erriploy my time at my book the beft 
 
 " I can to your JVlajefty's fatisfad:ion j whereof 
 
 " hoping your Majefly vv^ill reft affured, 1 
 
 " kifs moft humbly your hands, as 
 
 *' Your Majefty's dutiful and 
 
 ^' Obedient Son 
 
 " H E N R Y." 
 
 By the fame meflenger he wrote likewife a 
 letter to the Queen his mother, as follows "^ j 
 
 ■ Had. MSS. rol. 7007, w Ibid. 
 
114 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ^'^ Pleafeyoiir'Majefty, 
 
 " T H AVE fent this bearer my fervant to 
 *' ^ kils, from me, your Majefty's hands, and 
 " to certify me at his return of your good 
 " health, which (as in duty I am bound) I will 
 ** earneftlybefeech God long to continue. And 
 " that being all the fervice, whicli in my opi- 
 " nion I am able to perform unto your Majefty, 
 *' if it fliall pleafe you to think me worthy to re- 
 ** ceive any of your Majefty's commandments, 
 " 1 will be very careful, according to my mean 
 ** power, to fliew my readinefs in obeying. 
 " Whereof not doubting but your Majefty 
 " will reft afTured, I kifs again your hands, 
 
 *' Ever your Majefty 's moft 
 
 *' Dutiful and obedient Son 
 
 ''HEN RY." 
 
 The State of Venice having fent Signor 
 Marc Antonio Correro Amball^ador to King 
 James, Sir Henry Wotton wrote a letter vto 
 
 , the Prince from Venice on the 1 6th of Aug. 
 1608", to recommend to him the Ambafta- 
 dor's fon, who appeared to Sir Henry of -.Jo 
 
 fweet a fpirky that it made him bold to prefent 
 his Highnefs with thofe few lines, and in them 
 hisownhumble and hearty zeal. "Andbecaufe, 
 
 '^ Harl. MSS. FoL 7007. 
 
HENRY PrIxNce of V\''ales. 115 
 
 ** fays he^ your Highnefs hath (as they arc here 
 *' well informed) been pleafed fiindry times to 
 " inquii-e \vm\\ much affection of the courfe 
 " of their ctifairs and quality of their minifters, 
 *' it (liall be fit for me to give ycu fome ac- 
 " count of the prefent Ambaffador, who is the 
 " third fmce the renewed friendiliip between 
 " Great Britain and this famous Republic, in 
 " the royal perfon of our good King your fa- 
 *' ther. 
 
 *' II Signor Marc Antonio Correro is a 
 " gentleman of a very noble, but none of the 
 *' four and twenty/, which they call their an- 
 " tient houfes. Strong in parentage on both 
 " iides J himfelf a fole heir in his own line ; 
 *' for one brother, which he had, is dead. 
 '* His eftate greater than both theirs together, 
 " that have preceded him, and he is likely 
 *' not to be inferior to either in the conferving 
 " of it. His complexion, as it fliould feem, 
 " not fl:rong for a long voyage, which in- 
 ** creafeth the merit of his good-will there- 
 " unto. He was here (and fo were ncne of 
 ** the other two, nor any, that I have yet 
 *' feen employed either to France or Spain) 
 *' actually a Senator; and befides hath refuftd 
 ** for this honour the regiment of Bergamo, 
 *' into which he was chofen, being one of 
 '* their principal towns in Lombard v. 
 
 " Of his internal abilities I am infufiicient 
 
 *' to judge, jieither hath the jeaioufy of this 
 
 I 2 *' govern- 
 
Ii6 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' government fufFered me much to pra(5tlib 
 " him; but by Tuch difcourfe, as hath palled 
 *' between us, he appeareth to be of a very 
 " moderate and ingenuous temper, and pro- 
 ** feileth toward his Majefty great reverence 
 " and devotion." Sir Henry in a poftfcript 
 adds: " Having made mention of tu'enty- 
 *' four antient houfes, and imagining there- 
 *' upon your Highnefs might afk which they 
 *' be, I have thought fit to include herein a 
 ** note of them, that you may know all other 
 " Venetian names to be more modern; which 
 ** yet here is no difadvantage, for the younger 
 *' families do commonly carry the Princedom." 
 Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, fon of 
 Sir Robert Stewart, who was natural brother 
 of Queen Mary, and had been created by the 
 King her fon, in 1581, Earl of Orkney, 
 thought proper to pay his court to the Prince, 
 in a letter to him from Kirke-I Tall of the 22 d 
 of Augull: 1608, offering him his moji humble 
 and affeBloJiate Jcrvice^ and exprefhng his deiire 
 to have fivolijie^ofhis Highnefs'' s hand-, " which, 
 *' fa\s he^ would be very comfortable to me in 
 *' relpedl of my far diflance from your High- 
 " nefs: but (hall not be far diftant, if it (hall 
 *' pleafe your Highnefs to command my fer- 
 *' vice." But this unfortunate Earl three years 
 afterwards was committed prifoner to the caftle 
 of Edinburgh, for great opprcffions committed, 
 by him in the iiles of Orkney and Shetland, in 
 
 order 
 
HE NRY Prince OF Walfs. 117 
 order to raife money for the repairing of his 
 eftate, which his prodigality had ruined >j and 
 beins: afterwards condemned for treafons and 
 oppreilions, was bc-headed at Edinburgh on 
 the 6th of February 16 14; whereby the title 
 of Earl of Orkney was extinguiflled^ 
 
 Among the young noblemen, who frequent- 
 ed the Prince's court, Sir JohnPIarington "" de- 
 fer ved lye n joyed the principal fliare of hisPIigh- 
 nefs's favour and even friendfliip, being indeed 
 in all refpeds one of the moft virtuous and ac- 
 complilhed youths of his time, and an example 
 to thofe of his rank in all ages. His Father, 
 of both his names, had been knighted by 
 Queen Elizabeth, and created by King James 
 a iiaron of England on the 2 i il of July 1 603, 
 by the title of Lord Harington of Exton in 
 Rudand. He was intruded by that King with 
 the tuition of the Lady Elizabeth his daughter, 
 whom, after her marriage with Frederick 
 Elector Palatin, he attended to Heydelburgh 
 in April 1613, and upon his return towards 
 England, died atWormes in Germany, on the 
 24th of Augulf following, at the age of feventy 
 three'', leaving iiTue by his wife Anne, daughter 
 and fole heir of Robert Kelway, Efq-, furveyor 
 of the court of wards, his younger fon John 
 (the elder, Kelway, dying in his Lordfhip's life 
 
 '^ Spotfwood, ^. 516. ^ Crawiuid's Peerage of 
 
 Scotland, p. 383. * He writes his name Flaryiigtori. 
 
 ^ Hugo Holland, Horoologia Anglica, Tc?ne I. p. 133. 
 
 I 3 time) 
 
ii8 THE LIFE OF 
 
 time) and one daughter Lucy, married to Ed-^ 1 
 ward Earl of Bed ford % a Lady, who was th6^ I 
 great patroncfs of, and much celebrated by; '^h^ 
 chief poets and wits of that tinie**'; Sir John Ha-^ 
 rihgtonj his fon, who had bceh created Krii^t 
 of the Bath, with the Duke of York and bthfr^i' 
 on the 4th of January 1603-4^ wa^, ^^ foon 
 as he came to years of difcretipn, remarkable 
 for his llricfl obfervancc of the duties of piety 
 both in public and private, and his application 
 to the (ludy of polite learning. At the clofe 
 of every week he examined himfelf, what pro- 
 grefs he had made in virtue and goodnefs, and 
 what fault he had committed during the courle 
 of it J and kept an exad: diary of his life. "iSl 
 liberality to the diftreffed was no lefs remaffc^- 
 able than his humanity and affability to all. 
 Thefc virtues, which began to appear in him 
 very early, fhone out more confpicuoufly after 
 his return from -his travels in 1609, Upon 
 his father's death fucceeding to his title and 
 eftate, he endeavoured to eftablifh in his fa- 
 mily the moll: perfecfl regularity of manners 
 and regard for religion; and during the fhort 
 remainder of his life, was univerfally efteemed 
 and admired. His laft fickncfs continued twelve 
 days, du ing which he made his will, and 
 fettled all his temporal affairs, and on the 27th 
 
 • Diigdale's Baronage, Vol IT. p. 416. 
 *• Mr. Wake in his Rex Platonicus., p. 20. ftiles her 
 the beloved of the mufes, Mufn ^/A-^^. '^'^"^4'] 
 
 of 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 119 
 
 o£ February i6i3-4,_ expired at Kew near 
 Richmond, not only with ^ intire-refignation 
 to the will of God, but witnierenity and joy. 
 He was interred on the 3 ift of March follow- 
 ing at Exton, widi great pomp''. Mr. Donne, 
 who the year following went into holy orders, 
 took leave of poetry in the poem, which he 
 wrote on the deceafe of this incomparable 
 nobleman '^, full of ftrong fentim.ents and a 
 copious imagination, but expreiled with his ufual 
 obfcurity of flyle and harfhnefs of verfification. 
 The friendfliip (for fuch it was) between 
 the Prince and Sir John Harington was cul- 
 tivated by a correfpondence of letters during 
 their abfence from each other, efpecially while 
 the latter was on his travels abroad. There is 
 extant one Latin letter of his, with the Prince's 
 anfwer in the fame language ; neither of which 
 has any date, but both fcem to have been written 
 before Sir John left England, and entered upon 
 his travels. In this letter ^ he declares himfelf 
 at a lofs for words to exprefs his gratitude for 
 the honour of a moil: affedionate letter from 
 his Highnefs ; to whom he fliould ever owe 
 the higheft acknowledgments, and conftantly 
 pour out his prayers to God, that his Plighnefs 
 might proceed with die fame fuccefs he had 
 begun s for that he had.npt pply entered upp^i, 
 
 • Holland, uhi fupra^ ^« I34» 135- • 
 
 ' Poems by J. D. p. 256, Edit. London 1635, 8,t;(7. 
 
 « Appendix, No. X... v . 
 
 I 4. but 
 
I20 THE LIFE OF 
 
 but almofl reached to the end of, that path, 
 which led to iionour, to virtue, and to im- 
 mortality. Since ' therefore himklf, Sir John, 
 had nothine niore in his wifhcs, than to be 
 able to caa\.p.ehend the Prince's great fenfe, to 
 admirfe his genius, to be intruded and cor- 
 rected by ris judgment, and to acquiefce in 
 his determination J he defired his Highnefs to 
 give him th. folution of a difficult paflage, 
 which hac" o.curred to him in reading Taci- 
 tus's liie of Agncoia^ and that if his Highnefs 
 v/ould condefccnd to throw light upon this 
 paragraph, with regard to which he fliould 
 btherwife perhaps be perpetually in the dark, 
 he would befeech the Almighty to continue to 
 his Highnefs that mind, which carried him on 
 with fuch zeal towards the bell things and the 
 heft men. In the poflfcript he defired the 
 Prince to excufe the jeiunenefs of this letter ; 
 lince the perfpicuity and wonderful neatnefs of 
 that of his Highnefs made himfelf fenfible of 
 the meannefs of his own childifh performance. 
 The Prince, in his anfvver in Latin ^, told 
 Sir John PLirington, that he was a pleafant 
 man, who in the beginning of his letter had 
 highly extolled him, the Prince, partly on 
 account of wit, and partly for acutenefs of 
 judgment; and then propofed to him an hard 
 and perplexed pafTage of a writer, in order to 
 iliQWj how much he was wanting in both thofe 
 
 ^ Appendix, No. XI. 
 
 qualities^ 
 
H E N R Y Prince of Wales. 121 
 
 qualities. *' Do you believe me, Jays he, to 
 ^^ be a perfon capable of untying knots, ex- 
 *' plaining riddles, and illuftrating the ob- 
 *' Icurities of difficult authors? You feem by 
 ■*' this to have affumed the perfon of Davus: 
 *' but I frankly confefs, that I am not Oedipus. 
 ^* Whether you fight on your own ground, or 
 *' "not, it is your bnfinefs to fee: but, as I am 
 ^' called upon to contend in a court, to which 
 " 1 am a llranger, it is moft proper for me to 
 " own mv ignorance. I, who am, in all kinds 
 *' of polite learning, a mere novice, and who 
 ** have made fcarce any advances from the 
 *' depths of ignorance, finding that I am not 
 *' able to comprehend any thing but what is 
 " low and contraded, never dared to look 
 ** into Tacitus, whom I had heard reprefentcd 
 " by every one, as a writer of admirable faga- 
 " city, and full of fliort and pointed fcntences, 
 " but too obfcure in his fiyle for my capacity, 
 ^^ However, fince you challenge me into the 
 " field, I am determined to follow you, though 
 ^^' with a How pace. For I have begun, but 
 ^^'' a few days ago, to read with attention the 
 *' Life of Agricola, in order, that, when I come 
 *' to the difficulty propofed hy you, I may 
 ** with the greater eafe give you my own 
 "opinion. In the mean time I thought it 
 " not improper to offer to your confideration 
 " one or two much lefs difficult paffiiges, in 
 '• the fenfc of which I could not fatisfy my- 
 
122 THE LIFE OF 
 
 " felf, not far from the beginning of that 
 " Life, &c.?\/ '. ,' . , 
 
 After Sir John Harington had left Engl.and,% 
 he wrote to the Prince in Latin', regretting 
 his abfcnce from him in very ftrong teirnisj/ 
 adding, that his grief was mitigated in fome 
 meafure by thefe coniiderationsi fiift, that by 
 his travels in other countries, and the experi- 
 ence, which he might gain by it, he fliould, 
 fome time or other be more qualified to execute 
 his Highnefs's commands, which were and 
 always Ihould be facred to him. • Next, that 
 he had opportunities of doing juftice to the 
 virtues of his Highnefs at the courts of other 
 Princes ; as he had done, and always would, 
 with the greateil fatisfa(ftion, though in a very 
 ihort and imperfedl manner, like thofe, who 
 defcribe whole countries in a fmall map. He 
 defired the Prince's excufe, if his weak tongue 
 fliould diminish the fplendor of his name; and 
 promifed to be careful to keep an exad: jour- 
 nal of his travels for the amufement of his 
 Highnefs; concluding, that he carried about 
 him day and night in his bofom, and fliould 
 for ever do fo, and often kiffed, that ring, 
 which the Prince had prefented to him, and 
 which he efteemed as a mark of his Highnefs's 
 Angular favour, in which he placed the hight 
 of all his fortunes. c;.:-:?v3kj 
 
 Appendix. No. Xlf. 
 
 Sir 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 123 
 
 Sir Johrt Harir.gton, in another Latin letter'^, 
 takes notice, that having now in the fpace of 
 feVcn weeks, travelled- through great part of 
 the Low Countries, and iQen three courts of 
 PrJAce^, rlil^^'aS many univerfities, together 
 wMi fevcfal large cities, fortified towns, and 
 ftrbncf cailles and forts, he had-fct down in 
 Latii-J, as well as he was able, fuch obferva- 
 ti^risy-'As he could make, relating to politics, 
 m'e'n eminent for authority, prudence, or learn- 
 ing, war, the preient fcate of affairs, the fitua- 
 tir>n of cities, and the manners of people; in 
 order at -a proper time to give an account, how 
 he had employed every day, to his Highnefs, 
 to whom he devoted both himfelf and all his 
 ftudies. For though he was thoroughly con- 
 fcious of die flenderrvefs of his own abilities, 
 yet he was unwilling to be one of thofe, who 
 travel only to indulge thcmfelves in a fhameful 
 purfuit of pleafjres, or with a view of merely 
 gratifying their eyes with novelties. On the 
 contrary, he afliwed the Prince of his ov/n 
 refokition to exert his utmofl endeavours to 
 improve himfelf by experience, that he might 
 be able to ferve his Highnefs with more dig- 
 nity and ability. This alone was the fum of 
 his hopes, and a fufficient incitement to him 
 to go through all labours and fatigues. He 
 was prevented from enlarging this letter by the 
 hade of the melTenger^ and therefore dclired 
 ^ Appendix, No. XIIl. 
 
 his 
 
124 THE LIF E OF 
 
 his Highnefs, with his ufual hupianity, t< 
 cufe the dcfedts of it, and to contin,U&^ttff 
 favour to him. ''^*' 
 
 '/After his arrival at Florence, he wfbtfe'M^ 
 Latin to the Prince from thence on the 2 itf 
 of November, 1608, N. SJ, though, he faicj^" 
 he was uncertain, whether his letter woultj 
 reach his Highnefs's hands; for lie was then 
 under the greatcft anxiety imaginable, by rea- 
 fon that he had not, for eleven weeks pail, 
 received, as he ufcd, any letters from his father 
 and mother, nor heard of his Highnefs's health. 
 Hi3 conjec'hire, that they were either inter- 
 cepted or loft through fome ill accident, re- 
 lieved his mind in fome degree from the fear 
 of a greater misfortune. He had writtefito; 
 his Highnefs from Francfort, as he was jiift:' 
 ready to depart for Heydelburg, where, and 
 in the univerfity of Bafil, he had fpent fome 
 days in hearing the le(flures of the profeftbrs, 
 and in converfation with them. Thence he 
 had proceeded with the utmoft expedition to 
 Florence, but did not arrive there till after the 
 day of the marriage "", tho' before the principal 
 folemnities, an account of which he fent the 
 Prince, printed in a book publifhed that very 
 day, on which he wrote his letter, in order that 
 his Plighnefs m/ight have a view of what had 
 
 ' Appendix, No. XIV. jl<J£dpiq 
 
 " Between Cofmo de JVIedicis, Prince of Tufcan3r, 
 jjnd Mngdalen of Auftria, fifter to the Qiieen of Spain. 
 
 pafted. 
 
H E N R Y Prince of Wales. 125 
 
 paiTed, ancl h^ad Been repeated upon iHe arrival 
 of the Duke of Mantua. As for his own oh- 
 fervations, which, \vere perhaps too puerile, he 
 took all potTibic pains, chat his journal might 
 not be unworthy of his Highnefs's approbation. 
 He faw no reafon to make any confiderable 
 flay at Florence, efpecially as he was delirous 
 to return through France, that he might foon 
 enjoy his former happinefs, through the lin- 
 gular and conftant favour and goodnefs of his 
 Highnefs towards him, and ipend the refc of 
 his life in his prefence. 
 
 The book, mentioned in this letter, con- 
 cerning the folemnities of the Prince of Tuf- 
 cany's marriage, did not reach the Prince's 
 hands. This gave much concern to Sir John 
 Harington, when he knew it, which he ex- 
 prelled in a French letter " to his Highnefs, 
 without a date, or nam.e of the place, whence 
 he wrote it, though it appears to be feme re- 
 public, moil: probably Venice. He was appre^ 
 henlive left thePrince might fufpe(fl: him of neg^^ 
 ligence in negleding to lend the book ; whereas 
 he had fliut himfelf up in Florence feyeral days^ 
 merely to wait for its coming from the pref^'y 
 in order to tranfmit one of the firfl copies ito 
 his Pli^^hnefs. He could not imagine where 
 the fault of its mifcarriage lay; but thought it 
 probable, that fome of the Englifli Piipifts at 
 Florence might do him that dilkindnefs, either 
 :; Harl. AISS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 i out 
 
126 THELIFEOF 
 
 out of (pitc, or with a view to gratify their 
 friends with the firft account of the mhrriag^- 
 cercmonics. He hoped and trufted in thi 
 Prince's goodncis, that himfelf iTiould be ac- 
 quitted in this point; for that he would rather 
 die a thoufand deaths, than give his Highnefs 
 the Icaft caufe to deny his favour to him. With 
 regard to the occurrences of the republic, where 
 Sir John Harington then was, he took notice, 
 that they were of two forts j either fuch,' 'as 
 every body fpoke of, and were yet unvv'orthy 
 to be read by his Highnefs ; or of great import- 
 ance, and which could not be Written without 
 danger, paper being too weak a fecurity for 
 carrying, fuch a length of way, fecrets, which 
 might prove hazardous to the writer. But, if 
 he fhould meet with a mellenger, by whom he 
 might fend a letter with fafety, he would not 
 fail to write to the Prince, or in any other 
 refped convince him, that his own greateft 
 happinefs in this world was to be efleemed 
 always his Highnefs's mod obedient fervant. 
 
 Whatever jealoufy and dillike were fuppofed 
 by the French Ambaffador, Monf de la Bo- 
 derie, as has been already remarked, to have 
 been entertained by the Prince againft the Earl 
 of Salifbury ; his Lordfliip, on his part, con- 
 iidered the rank and charaderof the heir appa- 
 rent to the crown, and efpecially fuch an heir, 
 in too important a light, to be wanting in any 
 mark of refped; to him, which it was in his 
 
 power 
 
riE':NRY Prihce of Wales. 127 
 jxow^r. to ilievv, without giving umbrage to the 
 King hinifelf. This appears from the letters of 
 that Earl llill xemaining amongft the papers of 
 the Prince, a few written diredtly to his High- 
 nefs, but the greateft part addrefled to Mr. 
 Newton, his Tutor; though without dates, the 
 want of which leaves us at a lofs to allign them 
 their proper place. Thele letters " deferve to be 
 infertcd in the very words of that able ftatef- 
 man. 
 
 " May it pleafe your Plighncfs; 
 
 ** "IXTHEN I took my pen in hand to 
 ^' ^ ^ make anfwer to your poftfcript yef- 
 " terday morning, I thought it better to defer 
 ** it till afternoon, hoping, with Horace, to 
 
 find it true, that facundi calices would 
 *' quicken my ftyle, as I found it did to Sir 
 *' Roger Afton ° his Majefty's mafier faulk- 
 ** ner's. 
 
 *' That it pleafed you, a great Prince, to 
 " vouchfafe me thanks for fuch a trifle, you 
 ** fhew how near you are to Caefar, who pre- 
 " ferred prefents of pleafure before gifts cf 
 " value. But in that you commend the 
 
 "■ Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. and 7002. 
 
 * Natural Ton of John Afton of Chefliire, and Groom 
 of the bed-chamber to the King in Scotland. He was at 
 laft made Mafter of the great wardrobe, and died May 23, 
 1612, and was interred at Cranford in Aliddlefex. VVodd 
 Fafti, Fol. I. Col. 173. He is frequently mentioned in 
 the Memoirs of the Reign of ^leen Elizabeth^ printed at 
 London, 1754, in 410. 
 
 3 . " metal 
 
 '*« 
 
128 THE LIFE O F 
 
 *' metal of fmall things, it much comforts 
 " me J for if you iliould (according to the 
 *' greatnefs of your mind and fortune) enter- 
 " tain no lefs figures than Sir Jerom Bowes, 
 •' Saliibury muft expecfl a fmall corner of your 
 " favour. I will therefore fhortly conclude, 
 ** (being, as I guefs, more merry than elo- 
 ". quent at this hour)" that my nagg is a horfej 
 " and he a good horfe, that never ftumbles. 
 ** In which refpecft I durft not have given him, 
 " if you had not chofen him. Now you have 
 ** him, I pray God he may prove as true of 
 " foot, as he is of heart, that humbly kifleth 
 " your hands, and will, ever be found 
 
 " Your humble and affedlionate 
 
 From Salifbury houfe " Servant, 
 
 this Thurfday night. 
 
 " R. Salllbury." 
 
 The following letter to Mr. Newton feems, 
 from fome fadls mentioned in it, to have been 
 written in 1608. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 *' T Send you the petition of Mr. Gybb, with 
 " -*- an anfwer, wherein my fellow in office 
 ** hath joined, which I refer to his Highnefs's 
 " gracious conftrudions, 
 
 ^' Whea 
 
HEN RY Prince of Wales. 129 
 
 ' ** When I was at Nonfuch, I told his High- 
 '' nefs, that the treaty of peace p was broken. 
 " "Since that time the French King's com- 
 ** miffioners have propounded a long truce, 
 *• wherein his Majefty has alfo joined; but 
 *' with proteftation, that religion fhall be no 
 ** part of the bargain. They are now hot in 
 ** the difputation ; and, for mine own part, 
 " (as I ever thought, fo I do rfill) they, that 
 •* were fo far off, and are come fo near, will 
 " not ealily fever. 
 
 " Of your requeft for the little ward I can 
 " only fay, that I am forry it is no better. 
 ** That, which is in me tp do, is yours; for 
 ** the true rule is to prefer friends, except in 
 " cafes where juft caufe appeareth to the con- 
 " trary. 
 
 •* And fb defiring you to kifs from me his 
 ** Highnefs's hands, I end this 2d of Aug. 
 
 ** Your aflured loving Friend, 
 
 R. Salilbury.'* 
 
 " Will. Godolphin hath brought us com- 
 " fortable news of the mine, and hath received 
 " all noble courtefy in all his journey there. 
 
 ** Be wary of Londoners; for they died here 
 *' 123 laft week." 
 
 Another letter to Mr. Newton was as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 ' Between the Spaniards and United Provinces. 
 
 K "SI R; 
 
130 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' SIR; 
 
 '^ AS foon as this came to my hands, I 
 
 " -^^ thought it my duty to fend il^ to liis 
 
 " Highnefs; and by you, becaufe yoii may 
 
 *' fend it back to me, if it plcafe him, when 
 
 " he hath read it." The King huth but now 
 
 *^ feen it, and may call for it again; otherwife 
 
 " I would not deiire the return. 
 
 *' And fo in hafte I end, affuring you, that 
 
 ** I will ufe as much dilio;ence to fend news 
 
 " of the breach, as of the conclufion. 
 
 " Your loving and affured Friend, 
 
 " R. Salifbury". 
 
 '* Whatfoever concerneth Count Maurice, 
 ** or France, I leave it in good hands, being 
 ** the fecrets of AmbalTadors advertifements 
 " to a Secretary." 
 
 The following were likewife written to Mr. 
 Newton, moil of them, probably, while he was 
 Tutor to the Prince, which he ceafe :1 to he, 
 and became Secretary to him in 16.0, upon 
 his iHighnefs's beino: created Prince of Wales. 
 
 "SIR; 
 
 " 'npHIS bearer, now his Majefly's fervant 
 " -*- in Sir Thomas Wyndebank's place, I 
 " have fent to you with the lafl difpatch from 
 " Ireland, the reading whereof will every day 
 
 " prove 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 13 r 
 ^* prove more proper for the Prince of Britain 
 " than Ariftotle or Cicero; and yet thofe alfo 
 •' mofl worthy of him. I fend him for two 
 *' caufes; one to be ready to explain to his 
 " Highnefs any thing, that is obfcure, which 
 " he can well do, becaufe I have alvvavs ufed 
 *' him in thefe difpatches. Another caufe is, 
 " in regard that he hath always loved Spain 
 ** fo dearly, and therefore was made privy by 
 ** me (I allure you on my credit) to all the 
 " pradlices I had with the Infanta concerning 
 " her title to the kingdom of England before 
 " his Majefly came to the crown. Laftly, 
 " Sir, he is none of thofe, qui dicenda et ta^ 
 ** cenda loqiamtur. And lb I end, 
 
 " Your loving Friend, 
 
 " Sahfbury." 
 
 " Mr. Newton, 
 
 ** T Have now fo much need of help, and 
 ". -^ promife myfelf from you fo much friend- 
 ** fhip in any honeft caufe, as I have fent this 
 " letter to prefect you the image of a troubled 
 " mind, and an earneft defire to be relieved 
 " with fpeed: Firft, becaufe I have offended; 
 " and next, becaufe I have already judged 
 " myfelf out of mine own confcience, which, 
 '" whilfl it is guilty, continues a Hirewd com- 
 ** panion. My fault is fliortiy this, that when 
 '^ I was come fix miles on my way, I remem- 
 K 2 " bered, 
 
132 TH E LIFE OF H 
 
 *' bered, that I had left Royfton without 
 ** Waiting on the Prince of Wales to receive 
 " his commandments. Have I done lb, be- 
 *' caule I knew it not to be my duty r Then 
 " am I worfe than Tom Dyrry. Did I forbear 
 ** it, becaufe I loved him not? God knOws 
 *' (except one) my heart is his before all the 
 " world. Shall I tell you then any true caufe 
 ** of this omiflion ? I proteft unto you, it was 
 '* no more nor lefs than a grofs and beaftly 
 " oblivion to do that, when I was out of the 
 " King's, chamber, which I refolved when I 
 " xVas in it. Not that I had any thing wor?f 
 *' thy his knowledge J for I came rather to do 
 "' my duty (being near the King) than for 
 *' any other bufmefs but that, which was 
 *fi contained in the letter I left with you: in 
 '' all which his Majefly refolves to hear far- 
 ** ther, both from Savoy and from Germany, 
 ** before he make any anfwer. 
 ! •^ Now therefore. Sir, that you have my 
 " plain confeffion, and my true contrition 
 (both which I defire this paper may prefent 
 his Highnefs by your convoy) I will hope 
 to receive fpeedy news of abfolutionj for 
 which purpofe I refolved to write thus 
 much in this place, before I went up any 
 flairs. I pray you alfo let his Highnefs 
 know, that I had thus much ill fortune, 
 that came to my feeling, when my error 
 came firft to my thoughts (which was fix 
 
 " miles 
 
 c< 
 
 <l 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 133 
 
 ** miles on this fide Royfton) and that was, 
 " putting my hand down to my knee, that 
 " was a-cold, 1 found 1 had never a garter j 
 *' fo as if you hear of any fuclji ware at the 
 "market, as a golden garter Vi'iih. a hoiiyjoit, 
 **^'ftay it for on mifi b^vol I sh/Road V\ ' 
 " Your afTured Frien3, 
 
 From Al»d!ey End. 
 
 " Mr. Newton, 
 
 ^* TF I fliould multiply my f;nfe and feeling 
 it. JL Qf your lunefl: iriendlliip verb.iliv, i 
 " ■'fhould fill this paper; which is not much a- 
 " greeable to my nature. For though it is faid, 
 ** per den da flint midta^ ut fcmcl p na^ bem-^^ytt 
 ** I, that never jfpent more than one court-ly 
 " (if it deferve the name of one ) do find my- 
 ** felf overladen with a plentiful harveil:. For 
 " what can be fo great or precious (the h'gheft 
 " only excepted) as to be righted and alfifi^^d 
 ** (b far, as to receive thanks from him, who 
 ** rewardeth, when he accepteth ? Let this 
 ** therefore, Sir, fhortly tell you, and nffure 
 " you, that you Hiall never alTume more dian 
 " I will perform, where you have place and 
 " credit; neither (hall you come lliort in 
 " whatever you can expeft of an honefi: friend- 
 ** ihip from 
 '>n.f7idi ill « Your aflhred loving Friend, 
 
 « R. Saliibury." 
 '^iin \* K 3 "SIR; 
 
134 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ^' S iRi 
 
 " T Found by the Prince his dciire to gratify 
 " -*- thele two gentlemen ; and in that refpedt, 
 " according to my duty, fhall be moft ready 
 " to fu; ther their defires, referving only this 
 *^ diflincftion, which is an eflential part of 
 *' my duty, that 1 do not give furtherance to 
 *' any fuit, which may be of prejudice to his 
 ** Highnefs, of which it pleafed him to give 
 *' me io princely a liberty of information, as I, 
 *' that know he is of the effence of the King 
 *' his father, and doth participate with him in 
 ** every accident (good or ill in this kingdom) 
 " do conclude my anfwer, that I fear me, 
 ** that this will be very inconvenient to his 
 ** Majefty, and be found diredly repugnant 
 ** to the orders under his Majefty's hand. 
 ** Sure I am, if it be not tempered, it will be 
 *' of ill found in the fubjcd:s minds in this 
 *' ifland, of which I would be glad both 
 *' father and fon fhould have pofieffion, as 
 " well by the love, as the loyalty of the people. 
 *' Other end can no honell man have of any 
 *' denial in this kind, which lofeth him thanks 
 '* and friendfhip from the parties, only to be 
 " recompenfed with the noble acceptation of 
 *' thofe, for whofe fakes we lofe itj whereof 
 " no man is more confident than I am, nor 
 " no man hath more need to beg it. 
 
 " Now, 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 135 
 *« Now, Sir, let me intreat you to fhew his 
 " Highnefs this memorial, figned by his 
 " Majefly, which containeth a direcftion to all 
 *' his minlflers and fervants for their fceking 
 '' or permiffion of any fuits for a while. It 
 *' will appear to you what is faid of fuch fuits 
 *' as this; and therefore, Sir, I have intreated 
 *' the gentlemen to be on Sunday after dinner 
 *' at Whitehall, where my Lords do meet 
 *' only to fettle fome order in thefe and like 
 *' cafes; and particularly to devife, how wcU- 
 *' deferving fuitors may have pallage in fuits 
 >' upon fuch grounds, as are like to fpeed; 
 *' and not to fpend hope and money upon fair 
 *' fliadows, devifed by pettifoggers, who care 
 *' for no more but maintenance till the end 
 *' appear, which, being good or evil to the 
 *' fuitor, comes all to one end for the informer. 
 *' My laft requefl is, that you will take the 
 " pains to bring this memorial to Whitehall 
 " on Sunday about twelve or one o'clock, 
 *' the rather becaufe my Lords would be glad 
 *' to make you acquainted Vv'ith fome orders 
 " about fuitors, which will eafe the Prince 
 '* of importunity, and yet afford fome means 
 " to gratify. 
 
 " Now have you my diflindions, wherein 
 " I hope you will not tax me for ^equivocation ; 
 " for 1 affure you, without any mental refcrva- 
 *' tion, he liveth not on the face of this earth, 
 ** that is or fhall be more glad, when he may 
 
 K 4 " per- 
 
136 THE LIFE OF ri 
 
 *' perform any honeft duty to his Highnefs,- 
 " than his father's beagle '* is, his humbltf 
 VVJ5,c;i:vant, and.,., '^ 
 
 ,i3d}o vnn nfid^ " Your aflured Friend, 
 ^di Yi) -fi ^^'^ R. Saliibury." 
 
 ' *' Bear with my fcribbling in hafte," 
 
 _r«o'> T -n?. ,?>' rn rfjiw zuib bnh 
 
 'SIR; aiojoiq g'boO o) uo^ lim '^ 
 
 " \\T HEN I opened your leffer, and* 
 
 *' ^ ^ read the contents, I was troubled 
 
 " how to find fit words to exprefs my thanks 
 
 " to you, from whofe hand fo great a favour 
 
 *' was conveyed unto me, as to be remembered 
 
 " by his Highnefs: in which doubtfulnefs, 
 
 *' by the time I had leen the poftfcript, fo 
 
 ** many farther thoughts did multiply upon 
 
 *• me, as I was once doubtful to have pre- 
 
 ** fumed to return any thing, until I had 
 
 •* waited on his Highnefs, knowing well, that 
 
 " words are now fo vendible, as all I could 
 
 *' fay were not worthy the hearing. Befides, 
 
 " Sir, you know, that cur<^ loqmmtur kves'y 
 
 *' ingentesfilent. And therefore' all, that I will 
 
 ** fay at this time to that fair and princely 
 
 ** hand, is, that it is a joy to me to fee how faif^ 
 
 ** a charad:er he ufeth, and with how fair a 
 
 ** mind he diredeth yours to deliver his prince-" 
 
 " ly favours to one, that feeketh more to pleafe 
 
 " and ferve him, than all the world, he'6i*ly^ 
 
 < So the King ufed to call the EJarl of Salifbury. See 
 Sidney papers. Vol. II, p. 325. 
 
 " ex- 
 
HEN RY Prince or Wales. 137 
 
 '.''excepted, thz.t keepeth and nffj;?pareth this 
 " little world for hirnj wherein my defire to 
 " do him fervice is an occafion, that makes 
 *' me lefs behold his eyes than any other, 
 *•* who hath a heart as dear to him (if the 
 " blood thereof were in queftion to demon- 
 ** ftrate it) as any man, that liveth. 
 
 *' And thus with many thanks, Sir, I com- 
 " mit you to God's protection. From his 
 *f Majefty's houfe at Whitehall this 2d of 
 'f- Allhollontide. 
 
 ;iA.r,,.\-' ** Your affecftionate Friend, 
 
 <. " -All our rebellions are ceafeH. The Qkcen 
 ^'* is ^vell ^ and we attend daily certain cdhi- 
 ". miflioners from the States 3 which i^ aH our 
 «* certain news." ^^^i'-'^ ^^'^ ^ ^'^ ^^'^^ " 
 
 bii: i ;.i - — ''32>i Qi b^nm *^ 
 
 * ' :/) v/oft 9lB abiow ^ 
 
 " T> EING now near the time of devotion,' 
 " " I have not had much leifure to found" 
 " this bearer in the depth of his art^ but find- 
 *^ ing in him great love to the Prince, ahd' 
 " confidence to undertake any thing' he i^ 
 ** bidden, I have thought fit to recommend 
 " Jiim only to be a regifter for a time j for to 
 ". leap into a Secretary's place fuddenly were 
 " dangerous; becaufe I have known divers in 
 *l. that profefTion make fhrewd fummerfaults 
 
 " out 
 
138 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ** oat of it } and I judge this poor man by his 
 ** face to be honed, though by his appa- 
 " rel poor ; which may amend, if he have 
 " but a fee for every virgin in London and 
 " England, that v/iiheth the Prince of Wales 
 *' her maidenhead i to whom I durft not pre- 
 *' fume to write thus much myfelf, befcaufe 
 " 1 know now how his Highnefs would take 
 " it to be diffuaded from his liking to the man. 
 ** To you. Sir, I do only for this day recom- 
 ** mend the man^ and to Sir D. Murray one 
 " to take order, that he may have his diet at 
 " fome table J the other, that he may have 
 " fome liveries, of both which if he fail, then 
 *' fend him to Tom Dyrry or to me 
 
 " Your loving Friend, 
 
 " Salifbury/* 
 
 The Prince began the year 1608-9 with a 
 prefent to the King of a Latin oration of con- 
 fiderable length, and upon a fubjed: peculiarly 
 fuited to his own rank and fentiments. The 
 main point was to fliew, that learning is more 
 neceffary to Kings, Princes, and perfons in the 
 higheft rtations, than to others ; and then to 
 anfwer what might be alledged on the contrary 
 fide of the queflion. 
 
 Robert Earl of Dorfet, fon of the late Lord 
 Treafurer, being himfelf ill of the diftemper 
 of which he died Feb. 27, 1608-9, ^^ Prince 
 
 was 
 
HENRY Prince of Walls. 13^ 
 was prevailed upon by his Lorddiip's ion Ri- 
 chard, foon after Earl of Dorfet, to v/rite from 
 St. James's the following letter to the King. 
 
 " SIRj 
 
 " A ^ ^ ^"^ often a fuitor unto your Majedy 
 *' -^^ for others, fo now I become a fuitor 
 ** for myfelf i though not of fnyfclf, but at 
 " the requefi: of another. The laH: fummer 
 " my Lord of Dorfet being fick, his fon, by 
 ** a friend of his, moved me, that, in cafe his 
 ** father fliould die, I would fue unto your 
 ** Majefty for his ward, defiring rather to fall 
 " into my hands than of another. But becaufe 
 " I found, that he was loth it fliould be 
 " thought, that he had any conceit of the 
 *' fhortnefs of his father's days, I was fparing 
 " alfo to move your Majefty, till I (hould 
 " hear of fome greater appearance of dan- 
 " gerj which being now feared greatly, I 
 " have been this day requeued of rew, for 
 " preventing other fuitors, to acquaint your 
 '* Majefty with his defire : and though it be a 
 " thing unufual to me, yet I am the bolder 
 " by reafon of the young nobleman's toward- 
 " linefsi and becaufe, if your Majefty fliou Id, 
 *' upon any refped, millike the motion, I may 
 " be direfted and advifed by your Majefty 
 *' what anfwer to make, having none, in fuch 
 ** occafions of importance, fo lit, to whom I 
 
 " can 
 
I40 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ** can addrefs me, as unto your Majefly's felf, 
 "for vvhofe fatherly affediibn 1 have great caufe 
 ** ever to praife God, and crave the continu- 
 '* ance thereof, and of a long and happy life. 
 •' Thus kifling moil: humbly your Majcfty's 
 " hands, I reft 
 
 2 \ib[£M V^iJfoMX Majefty's ^^j^^^^, 
 
 1 nuflJ bm << Moft dutiful and obedient 
 jl^ , . ** Son' and Servant, 
 
 gr- :.:■ V'H.ENRY." 
 
 ' What the fuccefs of this application was, 
 does riot appear J but the young nobleman, 
 for whofe fake the Prince wrote this letter, 
 and who was then in his twentieth year, was 
 married to the Lady Anne Clifford, daughter 
 and heir of George Earl of Cumberland, in her 
 mother's chambers in Auguftin friars houfe in 
 London, on the 25th of February, 1608-9, 
 two days before the death of the Earl, his 
 father. 
 
 In the fame month the Prince wrote another 
 letter to his Majefty : -i- 
 
 ifi ni lailnifli 
 
 " Pleafe your Majefty, '-'^^'o^ ^^^ §ni 
 
 •* ALTHOUGH! meant at this ki^ 
 " -^^ to be no further troublefome to your 
 *' Majefty; yet finding this bearer upon his 
 '* own bulinefs going to court,, I have takeii 
 
 — -"-^ i « this 
 
<c 
 
 (( 
 
 (( 
 
 HENRY Prince of Wales. 141 
 utjiis opportunity to give unto your Majefly 
 *^ moft humble and hearty thanks for your 
 " fee and fatherly dealing with me, being 
 '^vrefolved to follow your Majefly's dired:ions, 
 ** uato whom in this and the like cafes your 
 *' Majefty's direction lliall be a rule, and 
 ** your commandment a law. I may fail and 
 " overfee for not underftanding your Majefty's 
 pleafure, at earneft entreaties; and then I 
 will plead ignorance for my pardon : but 
 whenfoever your Majefty's intention fhall 
 be known unto me» I fhall ever be willing 
 to give obedience thereto, remembering, 
 that I am one of them, cui foJa obfcquii gloria 
 reliSfa eji. And fo befeecning your Majefty 
 *' ever to conftrue my a<fl:ions, I kifs your 
 *' Majefty's hands, and reft 
 
 " Your Majefty's moft 
 ^ , " Dutiful and obedient 
 
 o-8odi V ^ oervant, 
 
 Mf hr;;^' '' HENRY." 
 
 His Majefty having refolved upon knighting 
 the Prince, a confr»l ration was held at Weft- 
 minfter in this month of February, about levy- 
 ing and coUeding the aid to the King's ufe 
 for that purpofe'^. And here it fully appeared 
 from records, as well in the Tower of London, 
 as in the Exchequer and elfe where, that a 
 reafonable aid, as well for knighting the King's 
 
 ^ Harl. MSS. Vol. 250'! fol. 95. 
 
 eldeft 
 
142 THE LIFE OF 
 
 eldefl: Ton, and marrying of the King's eldefl 
 diiughter, as for knighting the eldeft fons of 
 other Lords, and the marrying of their eldeft 
 daughters, was by the antient common laws 
 of this kinn;dom to be levied at the difcretion 
 of the King or other Lords, to whom it was 
 due. Yet ufually, when the fon grew to be 
 of the age of fifteen, or the daughter of feven 
 years or more, the three eftates became fuitors 
 to the King by petition in parliament, to re- 
 duce to a certainty fuch aids, to be levied by 
 common perfons ; which was accordingly done 
 by an aft, Wefim, I. Ch. 1^6. 
 
 In purfuance of this confultation a com- 
 miflion was ilTued under the Privy Seal, on 
 the loth of May j6o9'^, for the knighting of 
 his Highnefs, reciting, that by the ftatute of 
 the 25th of King Edward IIL it was provided, 
 that a reafonable aid fliould be afked for 
 knighting the King's eldeft fon: and on the 
 2iftof June was ifTued another commiffion 
 for raifmg fuch an aid ' j and on the 1 5th of that 
 month two more for levying that aid from the 
 Univerfities of Oxford and Cambridge*. In the 
 execution of thefe and other commiffion s of 
 that kind die fubjefts were very favourably 
 treated. For whereas, by the antient law, they 
 were obliged to pay twelve pence in the pound 
 of the yearly value of their lands; the King's 
 commillioners in the feveral counties, conform- 
 
 ' Rymer, Foedera, Vol. XV I. p. 680. Edit. Lond. 17 15. 
 s Idem ibid. J Idem. p. 681, 682. 
 
 ably 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales, 143 
 ably to the tenor of their commliTions, behaved 
 with fo much moderation, that no man was 
 compelled to pay any more than he was willing 
 to give". 
 
 Sir John Harington's frequent letters to the 
 Prince engag.:J bis Highncfs to take the op- 
 portunity of unding him in return one in 
 French, dated, the ^ijith of March 1608-9, by 
 Sir Robert Douglas, 3 fcrvant of his, then 
 going abroad. " My little Knight, fays be, 
 " theie lines may afiure you of my acceptance 
 ** of your letters, and the teflimonics of your 
 *' zeal for my fervice, and of the fatisfac^fion, 
 *' which I have in hearing from all parts of 
 *' your caie and diligence to furnifh yourfelf 
 *' with ail the qualifications proper for deferv- 
 *' ing my favour; of which you will never have 
 " reafon to doubt, if you continue in the 
 " courfe of virtue and good learning, which 
 " you have fo happily begun; and which I re- 
 " commend to you for the future, as the means 
 " of preferving you always in my efteem, and 
 " making me your good friend and maffer."' 
 
 Sir Charles Cornwallis'^, AmbafTador to the 
 court of Spain, whither he had been fent with 
 the Earl of Nottingham, AmbafTador Extraor- 
 dinary, towards the end of March 1605, w^as 
 not unmindful of paying his duty to the Prince 
 
 " General Chronicle of England, begun by John Stow, 
 and continued by E. Howes, fol. 898. 
 ^ He writes his iiatnc Cornwaleys. 
 
 4 . in 
 
144 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ill a letter of the 4ti) of that month 1608-9, 
 iVom Madrid \ He began it with remarking, 
 that liis country life, and fudden fending to the 
 court of Spain, had denied him the happineis 
 to make him fell known to his Highnefs, or the 
 humble and faithful affedion, which he had 
 to ferve him. That fince his arrival in Spain 
 he had given way to time, and attended an 
 occafjon, that might offer matter worthy of 
 his Highnefs's eyes, or of that excellent con- 
 ceit and underftanding, the fame whereot had 
 reached into moft parts of the world abroad, 
 and made him fo hopeful and dear at home. 
 " Hitherto, fays he, fucceffes have not fe- 
 conded my defiresj although well it is 
 known, that I have not fpared my fludies, 
 my travels, and the uttermoft of mine endea- 
 vours, to have to your other happfnefTes (and 
 to what may with the favour of God be in 
 ** certainty expecfted from fo perfed: a compo- 
 *' lition of the graces of God and nature) in- 
 '* duced an addition of the greateft fortune 
 *' and poffibility, that this earth affordeth. 
 
 " What the weaknefs of my own ability 
 " and infirmity of my means hath not had 
 " power to effedl, I make no doubt but the 
 " luftre of the beams of your Highnefs's 
 " virtues growing now daily into their height 
 *' will in time occafion to be offered and im- 
 *' portuned. 
 
 * Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 4 " Thefc 
 
 cc 
 
 cc 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 145 
 
 *' Thefe Princes take ample and often no- 
 '' tice, that amongft the many hlefiings, that 
 '/- God hath lb plentifirlly heaped upon the 
 ** King your father, there is none greater or 
 */ fo much as comparable to hi' being pofTeiTed 
 " of fuch a fon, in whom he may hope to be 
 *' fucceeded, not only in his kingdoms, but in 
 *' his knowledge, wifdom, and odier virtues. 
 *' Your Highntfs may, therefore, with great 
 *' courage and comfort go on, in perfe(fting 
 *' and giving root to what God, in fo green 
 " years, hath fo abundantly placed and planted 
 " in your princely heart and perfon. Myfelf, 
 *' as a diviner of your future greatnefs, and 
 *' out of what I hear of your heroical difpofi- 
 *' tion, who in this fpring of your age incline 
 " yourfelf, not to what thofe years do ufually 
 " afFcdt, but totheundeiftandingof the greatell 
 *' and mod: weighty affairs, that may hereafter 
 " ingreat your fame, and make the people 
 " happy, that fhall be committed to your 
 " government ; for the firft tafle of mine 
 " humble defires to ferve you, have advcn- 
 "* tured to offer herewith unto your Highnefs 
 " a work, though favouring of a weak conceit 
 " and a country pen, yet fuch, as Alexander 
 *' the Great, in like years to thofe of your 
 *' Highnefs, was accuftomed both to require 
 *' and allow of, as well in the minifters of his 
 ** father, as thofe of other Princes employed 
 " unto him. Mine hope is your Highnefs 
 - . ^ L " will 
 
146 THELIFEOF 
 
 **. will be pleafe to accept It, not as the mat- 
 ** ter, but as the mind of him, that prefents 
 *^' It, doth and will ever endeavour to merit. 
 
 5^ 'And for my laft humbly kilTingyour princely 
 J hands, do recoirmenc^ by duty and my lifb 
 
 r ,t6 be ever commanded and difpofed of by 
 ^ your Highnefs, and of him, that will never 
 itl^be found fecond to any in unfeigned love 
 '•'^ and defire to ferve you." 
 
 \'A book printed at Paris, the fubje(5t of 
 which was to (liew, that the church of Rome 
 IS but a particular church, and never was biit 
 the fecond among the Chriftian Churches, not- 
 withftandlng its pretence of being the Catholic 
 Church, having been dedicated to the Prince y, 
 and delivered to Sir George Carew, the Am- 
 baffador in France, to be tranfmitted to his 
 Highnefs, Sir George accompanied it with a 
 letter to the Prince, dated at Paris the 4th of 
 March 1608". In this letter heobferved, that 
 though he had diverted manv heretofore, who 
 had been with him there to fend over books, 
 fome in verfe and fome in profe, which they had 
 pretended to dedicate either to the King or to 
 his Highnefs, with a view of procuring fome 
 rewards from hands, that were fo famous for 
 liberality j yet being preiTed for that, which he 
 now fent, by fome, whofe means he ufed in 
 
 "f Original letter of Sir George Carew to tile Earl of 
 Salifbury, in the paper office. 
 I Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 his 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 147 
 
 his Majefty's fervice; and having upon the 
 perufal thereof found it to be of a fabje(ft no- 
 thing vulgar, but the firft, which had been 
 publifhed in that kind, and to be handled in 
 a form fuccin(ft and judicious without tediouf- 
 nefs, he had at laft yielded to the n^iotion. The 
 caufe, why it came no fooner, partly grew out 
 of his own refufing to be ufed in this refpecft, 
 till he had read itj and then he found the fcope 
 and defign of the author not unworthy of a 
 princely patron, time being like to increafe the 
 virtues in the one and eftimation in the other. 
 " Of the folidity and true worth of the w^ork 
 *' itfelf, I, fays Sir George, have not learning 
 *' enough to judge. I fuppofed the author 
 *' had been a traveller in thofe regions, of 
 *' whofe religions he fpeaketh; but upon con- 
 *' ference with him I find, that he hath made 
 *' up his treatife upon coUedions of other 
 *' books only. He fecmeth to be a very dif- 
 *' creet and godly man, though his firft out- 
 " ward appearance make no great Hiew. His 
 " name is Marfam, which in his printed fub- 
 " fcription he diiTembleth. His profeflion is 
 *' phyfic: he is by defcent one of thofe Albi- 
 " geois, that fome hundred yeais fince made 
 *' profeflion of the reformed religion in the 
 *' parts near Alby in Languedoc. Ihope your 
 " Highnefs, by your gracious acceptation, will 
 *' both comfort him, and not make me re- 
 L 2 "pent 
 
148 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' pent to have interpofed myfelf in a matter, 
 *' Vv-hichj as I conceive, tendeth to your ho^, 
 *' nour and incrcafe of relped: with thofe ,0^ 
 " the reformed religion here. . >,, 
 
 £ bV So praying for the full accomplifhment 
 *' of thofe perfed:ions in your Highnefs, which 
 *' all this part of the world expedieth out of 
 " your noble beginnings, I humbly leave thq 
 ^* fame to tlie mofl merciful protection of the 
 " Almighty." ^ 
 
 , ^ The very learned Mr. Thomas Lydyat, the 
 antagonifl: of the great Jofeph Scaliger himfelf 
 in chronology, having in this year 1609, not 
 only finiflied, but likewife printed, his Eme?i^ 
 datio 1'emporum \ gave it to the v/orld under 
 the patronage of the Prince, to whom he de* 
 dicated it. This work was fo acceptable to his 
 Highnefs, that he took the author into his fa- 
 mily to read to him*", and appointed him his 
 Chronographer and Cofmographer''. 
 
 William Lord Vifcount Cranborne, fon of 
 the Earl of Salifbury, Lord High Treafurer, 
 
 ^ It was printed at London in 8vo. under the following 
 title: Enie7idatio Temporum compendia fa^a ab initio mundl 
 ad pro; [em ufque^ qua prater alia plurima rcfiituta funt Na~ 
 tivitas iff Baptifma ^ Cruciaius Domini Chrijii ad a?inoi 
 fere quaternos poj} vulgi calculos, confutatis opinionihus Sca^ 
 ligerana Baronianaque pariter ac y'efuitica Johannis Dhkenl 
 i^ Laiirentii SyJJyga atque Job. Kepler i Cafarei Mathe- 
 matici. . ^ ■^J-^, ^y 
 
 ^ Appendix to the life of Mr. Jofeph Mofe, p: 44. 
 prefixed to Mr. Mede's Works, Edit. Lond. 1672, fol. 
 
 ^ I Wood, Athen. Oxon. Fol. IL Col 89. 
 ' " being 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 149 
 
 beinc^ fent to travel, immediately after hi?; mar- 
 riage, on the ifl: of December 1608, with the 
 Lady Catharine Howard, youngeft daughter 
 of William Earl of Suffolk j and going firfl: to 
 France; ^wrote from thence to the Prince a 
 letter'^, in which he laid, that though he Was 
 perfuaded, that his Highnefs expected not much 
 from him, in whom he knew fo little of worth 
 to do him fervicej yet having placed both the 
 eye and hopes of his youth upon his Highnefs's 
 perfon and fortune, he fliould be loth by too 
 ong filence to fall out of his princely memory. 
 And, therefore, adds he^ where I had once 
 refolved to forbear to trouble you with any 
 letters of mine, till I might have reprefented 
 the images of my humble affedions in the 
 French tongue ; I have now rather chofen to 
 err in this prefumption, than to hazard any 
 other fufpicion, which my filence might 
 procure me. And now that I have taken 
 the boldnefs hereby to prevent any fiich im- 
 prefhon, let it not difpleafe your Highnefs, 
 that I prefume alfo to beg thefe two parti'* 
 cular favours from you, if not for my own 
 fake, yet for your ovi^n virtues. Firll:, that 
 you will grace me fo much, as to give his 
 moft excellent Majefly thanks for that great 
 grace he hath done me, in thanking this 
 great King by a letter of his own hand for 
 
 :■ Harl, MSS. Vol 7008. 
 
 l> 3 *' his 
 
(( 
 
 <i 
 
 150 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 ** his gracious ufage of me''; feeing my dcvo- 
 " tion to you, that are lb dear to him, is the beft 
 ** merit, that I can plead for myfelf : And next, 
 that you will think, that nothing could make 
 me endure the privation of your prefence 
 with any patience, but the infinite dcfire I 
 ** have to return fome way fo qualified, as he 
 ** ought to be, that hath the anibition to be 
 " worthy the fervice and favour of fo rare a 
 ** Prince and fo gracious a mafler, whofe 
 *' hands I humbly kifs." 
 .?'« The Prince's fervant, Mr. Pett, to whom 
 his Highnefs owed much of his knowledge in 
 the buUnefs of fhipping, being now involved, 
 among others, in an inquiry concerning their 
 condu(fl: in their refpedlive employments in the 
 royal Navy, the Prince fhewed a laudable fol- 
 licitude to protcd his innocence, of which he 
 was fully convinced. The occalion of the in- 
 quiry was this'^. 
 
 The Earl of Northampton, who, with the 
 Wardenfhip of the Cinque Ports, held the 
 poft of Lord Privy Seal, conferred upon 
 him in the end of April 1608, had, by the 
 inftigation of fome perfons, who had no great 
 regard either for the Earl of Nottingham, 
 Lord High Admiral, or for fome of the prin- 
 cipal officers of the Navy in fpecial favour 
 with his Lordfhip, procured a large com- 
 
 * Ambaflades de M. de la Boderie, Tome IV. />. 167. 
 { Life of Mr. Phineas Pett, />. 23—48. 
 
 miflion 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 151 
 
 miffion from the King for the inquiring into 
 all abufes and mifdemeanors committed in 
 their feveral flations, under pretence of refor- 
 mation, and of faving great fums to his Ma- 
 jefty, expended yearly in the maintenance of 
 his fliips. This inquiry was carried on by Sir 
 Peter Eucke, Clerk of the fliips, Thomas 
 Bucke, his brother, under-clcrk to him, Mr. 
 Matthew Baker and Mr. William Bright, prin- 
 cipal Shipwrights to the King, Hugh Marriot, 
 one of the fix mailers, Hugh l.ediard, Clerk 
 of the Check at Woolwich, Thomas Norrls, 
 and one Clifton, a Baker, formerly Purfer of 
 fliips in the navy, with divers others. The 
 perfons principally queftioned and aimed at 
 Were Sir Robert Manfel, then Treafurer of the 
 Navy, Sir John Trevor, Surveyor, Sir Henry 
 Palmer, Comptroller, Captain Thomas But- 
 ton, John Legat, Clerk of the Check at Chat- 
 ham, Mr. Phineas Pett, and Sir Thomas Bla- 
 ther, then Vi(ftualler of the Navy. This 
 inquiry, which began in 1608, was pro- 
 fecuted with fuch violence and malice, as not 
 only occafioned a great trouble and qxpence to 
 the perfons accufed, but likewife bi ought al- 
 moft ruin on the Navy, and a far greater 
 yearly charge upon his Majefty, than had been 
 ever known before. 
 
 The Lord Admiral, the Earl of Worcefter, 
 Mafter of the Horfe, and the Earl of Sutfolk, 
 Lord Chamberlain, being appointed by the 
 -jiiiim L 4 King 
 
152 THE L IF E OF 
 
 King to hear the caufe of complaint agalnft 
 Mr. Pelt, met at Woolwich on the 28th of 
 April 16093 and their report proved very fa- 
 vourable to him. But his Majcily relolving to 
 hear the cauic himfelf, went to Woolwich on 
 Mon'jay May the 8th, attended by the Prince; 
 and appointed Sir Thomas Chaloncr, his High- 
 nefs's Governor, .and Mr. Henry h'riggs, then 
 -ProfcfTor of Geometry in Greiliam College, 
 to decide the controverfy about the proportion 
 of the ihios. The meaiurers having; declared 
 in favour of Mr. Pett, the Prince out of zeal 
 for his injured fervant, and refcntment againft 
 the accufers, could not forbear calling out with 
 a loud voice, " Where be now thefe perjured 
 *' fellows, that dare thus to abufe his Majefly 
 *' with thefe falfe informations ? Do they not 
 " worthily dcfrve hanging r" And during the 
 whole examination his Highnefs flood near Mr. 
 Pett, to encourage and fupport him under his 
 anxiety and fatigue j and when the King de- 
 clared himfelf convinced of his innocence, the 
 Prince took him up from his knees, and ex- 
 .prelTed his own joy for the fatisfadion, which 
 his father had that day received, protefting, that 
 he would not only countenance Mr. Pett for 
 the future, but likewife take care to provide 
 for him and his family while he lived. 
 
 Sir Charles Cornwallis on the 7th of April 
 ^ 4609, O. S. wrote from Madrid afecond let- 
 ter 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 153 
 
 ter to the Prince?', taking notice, that by his 
 former he had made known to his Highnefs 
 his juft excufe for fo very long forbearing to 
 write to himj and that by this he humbly 
 prayed pardon for taking fo light an occafion 
 to trouble him. He added, that he had much 
 rather, lince the gate was opened, be blamed 
 hereafter for troubling his Highnefs with the 
 impertinency of his papers, than to omit any 
 the leafl: point in the accomplifl:iment of his 
 duties. 
 
 " In this fpirltual time, continues he^ being 
 *' the holy week, little matter temporal offereth 
 ** itfelf worthy your Highnefs's reading. Only 
 " we fay here, it hath pleafed God, thro'ig4i 
 *' the force of our fpirituai devotions, to ^-e 
 " .us this week and the laft a plentiful vn, 
 *' whereby we are delivered from the drv bt 
 " of a fearful famine. Our lady of a church in 
 *' this town called the Attocha, accuftcmed in 
 " time of necellity to work thefe effects, was 
 " iirft much ferved and obferved by the Friars, 
 ** that are there her daily attendants. But 
 " their offices having no fuccefs (according to 
 " cuftom, when they defire to fpeed) fhe was 
 " with a folemn proceffion removed out of 
 ** her own church to make a novena in an- 
 ** other, where fhe fliould be fued unto by 
 *' people of all manner of condiiions. The 
 *' proceffion was foiemn, honoured with the 
 « Had. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 " prefence 
 
1^4 THE LIFE OF^Ji. 
 
 •* pfefcnce of the Duke of Lerma (guarded 
 " with dfty of the King's halberdiers) and of 
 *' many other of the principal of the Nobi- 
 *•* lity, and an infinity of other people, who, 
 '* as the image pafled by them, in none other 
 " fort, than if God himfelf had been prefent 
 '^ in it, honoured it with falling down upon 
 *' their knees, praying and knocking upon 
 *' their breafts, moft of them defiring to be 
 "good to them, but fome of them, in the 
 " fecret of their hearts I doubt not, praying 
 *' God to pardon their fo grofs folly and breach 
 *• of his commandment. >nim ) iliri 
 
 " Amonffft the Friars there want not ibme, 
 " that underftand the elementary difpoiitions ; 
 " and if therein they fail themfelves, yet 
 " want not the affiftance of prognofticators and 
 " aftrologers ; fo careful and wary they are, 
 *' that they never remove their faint in delire 
 " of rain, but when they find an inclination 
 " in the heavens to perform it to them. With 
 " this art the Friars of that monaftery are be- 
 '^' come exceedingly rich; for our lady never 
 ** goeth on fuch a progrefs, but fhe returns 
 ** as well laden with gifts, as follicited with 
 '* vows and prayers. In this laft return to her 
 *' own home (he was attended by the principal 
 ** of all the councils, and by the chief Mini- 
 " fters of this Court and Crown, carried un- 
 " der a canopy fupported by the Duke of 
 *' Lerma^ the Earl of Baraxes^ and other no- 
 
 " ble- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 155 
 
 " blemen j kneeled, and prayed, and knocked 
 ** unto as at the going forth, and remunerated 
 *' for her fo fpecial a favour of abundant rain, 
 *' with a new gown of great cofl, many rich 
 " jewels, and great tapers of wax, to the 
 " value, as is generally efteemed, of 40,000 
 " Ducats. Worth the obfervation (in my 
 *■ judgment) it is, that this Clergy, with having 
 ** the dead and dumb images in their churches, 
 " grow rich; and that many of ours in Eng- 
 " land, with having the living and fpeaking in 
 ** their beds, prove poor. The groflnefs of the 
 *' iirft (mine hope is) grows to a ripenefs; and 
 " that the light of common reafon, if not of 
 " grace, will in time make them, underftand, 
 " bow far they are mifled with their own 
 *' adulterous inventions. And the gravity and 
 ** good example of the principal amongfl: ours 
 ** is, by proof, found a good means to draw 
 *' many of the inferior to a more cbfervance 
 " of what is expedient than what is law^ 
 " ful. 
 
 *' Yefterday the King and the Queen hen* 
 *' obferved the ceremony of wafliing the feet 
 ** of the poor. The King was affifted by the 
 " Duke of Lerma and the Pope's Nuncio. 
 " The Duke poured the water, the Nuncio 
 " wafhed, and the King dryed, who having 
 " made a crofs with his finger and his thumb, 
 " kiffed the faid crofs being laid upon the 
 " feet, that were waQied. The Queen was 
 
 ** in 
 
156 THELIFEOF 
 
 ** in like manner attended by two of her 
 *' Ladies. At the fervice of them at the 
 *' table the King both ferved and carved : 
 " the Grandees brought the meat and wine, 
 " and received the diflies from the hand of 
 '* the King, when he took them from the 
 " board, and delivered them to fuch, as there 
 " attended to keep them to the ufe of the 
 ** feveral poor, every one having an efpecia! 
 " fervice. And fo many and fo colily were the 
 *' difhes, as the guefls only tailing of a falad 
 *'^ and a little rice, the reft, that appertained 
 *' to every of them (as I am informed) they 
 ** prefently fold for 18 Ducats. 
 
 " The furniture of their churches here, 
 ** and the riches and luftre of the fepulchrcs 
 *' made in every monaftery (the general po- 
 *' verty of this kingdom confidered) are al- 
 " moll: incredible. The laity of this nation 
 *' may fay with David, though in another 
 " fort, zelus domus tWTe comedit jjje. For affured- 
 " ly the riches of the temporal hath in a man- 
 *' ner all fallen into the mouths and devour- 
 " ing throats of the fpiritual 5 which if neither 
 *' grace nor difcretion, yet neceiTity will in time 
 " make the other eflates fee, and remedy/' 
 
 Paul Buys, or, as he calls himfelf in Latin, 
 Bufius, having finifhed the impreflion of the fe- 
 cond part of his Commentary on thePandei^s^\ 
 
 printed 
 
 * The title is Pars II. P, Bujii J. C Commentarii in 
 3 Pande£liiA 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 157 
 printed at Zwoll in OveryfTel in 1608, in 4to, 
 dedicated that work to the Prince. This 
 learned writer, who was a native of Zwoll, 
 and at laft profellor of Civil Law at Franeker in 
 Frifeland ^ had before publifhed fome other 
 works on fubjedts relative to his profeffion, as 
 SL treatife De Anniiis ReditihuSy printed at 
 Colen in 1601 ; another Dc Officio yudicisy 
 ft Francfort in 1603 j and a third, intltled 
 SubtiUtatum Juris y at Colen in 1601. Thefe 
 fiad raifed him a confiderable reputation, 
 fhough he is himfclf lefs known inhiftory than 
 another of both his names, who has" been 
 confounded with him by the inaccurate Paul 
 Freher ^. This latter, who was born at A- 
 hiersfort in 153 i, and died in April 1594, 
 at the age of lixty- three, was I ike wife a civi- 
 lian, and had been advocate of Holland, and 
 enjoyed a great {liare of the favour and con- 
 fidence of William, the firft Prince of O- 
 range, and afterwards for fome time of the 
 Earl of Leiceflcr ; thoLigh he at lad fell under 
 hislorddiip'sdifpleafure, and was in July 1586, 
 jmprifoned by hitn ; but, upon the Earl's re- 
 turn to England, fet at liberty by order 
 of the States General ^ But to return to 
 profeflbr Bufius, when he fent his Commen- 
 tary above-mentioned to the Prince, he ac- 
 
 a Valcrii Antlreae Biblibthcc. Bflgica, p. 640, & Cafpari B'lrmnnni 
 
 Traie(f>um r'ruditum, p. (;6. Edit. Trajei^i ad Rhrnviin 17^0, 4tc>. 
 
 •> Thcatitim Viior. illuftr. Part II. §.4, P. 932, «^ iMelcrcn, H ll. des 
 Pay?Bas, L, XIII. fo), z'io. 
 
 com pa- 
 
!58 THE LIFE OF 
 
 companied it with a letter ' dated at ZwoH 
 II April 1609. In it he remarks, that he 
 had, in his dedication, mentioned the reafons 
 of his addreffing that work to his High- 
 nefs. After it had heen finifhed at the prefs, 
 
 - Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 Q|iamobrem librum hunc celfitudini tuae dicarim, 
 cpiftola dedicatoria declarat. KquiJem excufo jam opere, 
 diu dubius animi fui, cuinam infcriberem partem iftam. 
 Vicit tamen ingens humani generis expccftatio & anhela 
 fpes de te concepta ; qua nimirum quotquot audimus 
 EcclefijE Reformats Chriftiani, in famam indolis heroicae 
 tu.ie, vivE budatiffimi Domini kTeniHimi Regis Magnae 
 Eritanni.x', patris tui, effigiej, vultum figimus fubduitum 
 prope fuper humana. At principio mihi animus erat di- 
 care cuiquam librum hunc mihi tamiHari : fed rci dignitas 
 majeftafque patronum poflulabat, qui excellentia nomi- 
 nis ac perfona: pcnc anteiret omnes . . .Celfitudinem vera 
 tuam obfecro, ut dedicationem libri hujus accipiat de- 
 menti non mode, (ed & bcnigna manuj profe£ti nimirum 
 ab homine fiudiofiflimo cum glorias ac felicitatis veftra;, 
 turn vol maxime nominis ac fama; heroicae tuce aeternitatis. 
 Dominum denique Deum, patrem Domini noftri Jefu 
 Chrifti, quam ardentiffime precor, ut humanum genus 
 fereniflimum D. Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, Hiber- 
 niae Regem, Principem in terris optimum maximum 
 P, F. diutiflime fofpitem & Ecclefiae videat & univerfi 
 tcrrarum orbis tranquillitati ; celfitudinem vero tuam 
 dim virtutis, fapientiae, honoris & imperii paterni fuc- 
 ce/Torem talem, qualcm, fereniffime Wallias, Magn^o Bri- 
 tanni.-e, Franciae, Hibcrniasque, Princeps, Domine cle- 
 rncntiffime, conftantiflime nobis fama pollicetur. Denuo 
 qnaefo, celfitudo veflra me excufatum habeat, quod prae- 
 fens librum hunc non obtulerim, & a fcriba hoc, mi- 
 nifterio huic mihi fpeciatim ad illuftri/Ilmam excellentiam 
 veftrum deleclo, eum tam clementer ac benigne accipias^ 
 atque optem ego ilium accipi a me ipfo praefcnti. 
 
 Celfitudinis tuae humilis fcrvltox, 
 
 Zwolla;, II ^prili«, 
 St. V. anno 1603. r> n 
 
 Paulus Buis. 
 
 ho 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 159 
 
 he had been long in fulpence, to \vhom he 
 fliould infcribe that part of his Commentary j 
 but at length was determined in his choice by 
 the great exped:ation of mankind concerning 
 the Prince, and the eager hopes entertained of 
 him by all Chriftians of the reformed churches, 
 whofe eyes were raifed ahnoil above human 
 objed:s, and fixed on the charad:er and fame 
 of h;s Highnefs's forward and heroic genius, 
 the living image of his Royal father. The 
 author's firft defign had been to dedicate his 
 bcfok to fomc friend; but the dignity, and even 
 majeily, of the fubjed: of it demanded a patron, 
 whoie eminence of rank and perfon was fupe- 
 rior to that of almoft all others. The points 
 treated of were judgments of the moil: import- 
 ant kind. And how great and mofb worthy -of 
 attention muft that be, for the execution of 
 which the government of Kings at iirft, and 
 afterwards tliAt of commonwealths, were infli- 
 tuted? For they were inftituted by heaven for 
 the execution of jufticc and judgment. That 
 for this reafon, both from choice and neccfTity,'^ 
 he had rcfoived upon this dedication to his High- 
 nefs, the fon of that King, whofe wifdom and 
 maiefty were reverenced, and whofe counfel 
 was efteemed, by the whole United Provinces; 
 and who was admired by all, who were infpired 
 by God with prudence and true religion. 
 He defired the Prince not to be offended with 
 having added the differences of Canon Law to 
 
 -th« 
 
 c»ii 
 
i6o THELIFEOF 
 
 the explication of the laws ; fince he had not 
 done this with a view of allowing the Pope any 
 fupreme right over the church or flate, which 
 was inconfiftent with his own zeal for the pro- 
 tcftant faith ; but becaufe the decrees called 
 canonical, received at firft, through miftake, 
 by not a few Chriftian Princes in many points, 
 contain a great number of things agreeable to 
 the cufloms of the prefent age, which are dif- 
 ferent from the antient law. And though he 
 had compiled this Commentary under a ptculiar 
 pHvilege of his Imperial Majefly, he had done 
 it at his own private expence; on which ac- 
 count it was necellary for him to confult the 
 capacities of the majority of thofe, who were 
 engaged in civil employments and the law. 
 His intention was to have offered in perfon 
 this work to the Prince, and to have given him 
 an account of his defign in it: but he was pre- 
 vented from doing this by the public office, 
 which he held in his own country. He re- 
 turned his moft unfeigned thanks to Almighty 
 God, who had, notwithftanding the noife and 
 rage of war, hitherto blelTed his ftudies, as 
 well as the affairs of the United Provinces in 
 general j and he defired the Prince to accept 
 the dedication of his book with kindnefs as well 
 as clemency, fince it w^as the produdion of one, 
 who was in the highefl: degree zealous for his 
 Highnefs's happinefs, glory, and everlafling 
 fame. He laftly implored God, the Father 
 of our Lord Jefus Chriflj to grant, that man- 
 kind 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 161 
 
 kind might long fee the King of Great Bri- 
 tain, France, and Ireland, the greateft and heft 
 of Princes, living in health and vigour for the 
 peace of the church and of the whole world ; 
 and his Highnefs fuch a fuccefTor to his father's 
 virtue, wifdom, honour, and government, as 
 fame had invariably reprefented him. He 
 concluded with repeating his requeft of the 
 Prince's excufe for his not prefenting the book 
 himfelf ; and that his Highnefs would receive 
 the bearer, whom he had fent over for that 
 purpofe alone, with the fame benignity, as 
 he could wifli to meet with himfelf, if he 
 were prefent. 
 
 The death of John Lord Lumley, on the 
 nth of April, 1609, without leaving any ilTue, 
 gave the King an opportunity of gratifying the 
 Prince's love of books, and making a noble 
 
 I addition to the Royal library. That library, 
 which now contains both manufcript and 
 
 I . printed books, owes many valuable ones of 
 
 ^ the former kind to King Edv/ard IV. and of 
 the latter to Henry VII. who, according to 
 Lord Bacon", " was rather ftudious than 
 •' learned, reading mod books, that were of 
 *' any worth, in the French tongue: yet he 
 ** underftood the Latin, as appeareth in that 
 '' Cardinal Hadrian and others, who could 
 
 1 " very well have written French, did ufe to 
 
 • Hiftory of the reign of King Henry VII, p. 244, 
 edit. London^ 1629, fat. 
 
 M '' write 
 
i62 THELIFEOF 
 
 " write to him in Latin." Henry VIII. who 
 was very learned himfelf, and a patron of 
 learned men, both at home and abroad, and 
 who had for his Librarian the great antiquary, 
 John Leland, received prefents of the works of 
 mofl of the writers of his age. Under the Hiort 
 rei2:n of that well educated Prince Edward VI. 
 an acceflion was made to his library more 
 confiderable, than that under the government 
 of the bigotted Queen Mary. Her fifler Eli- 
 zabeth, who was miftrefs of feveral languages^ 
 both antient and modern, greatly augmented 
 her library; of which v/e have this account 
 from a German traveller, Paul Hentzner, who 
 {kw It at Whitehall in Auguft 15985^; that it 
 was well flored with Greek, Latin, Italian, 
 and French books, all bound in velvet of dif- 
 ferent colours, though chiefly red, with clafps 
 of gold and iilver; and fome adorned in the 
 covers with pearls and precious flones. King 
 James I. enriched tlie Bodleian library at 
 Oxford at the expence of his own; giving 
 a warrant to Sir Thomas Bodley, under the 
 privy feal, for the choice of any books, Vvhich 
 that gentleman fliould like in any of his 
 houfes or libraries'^. But his Majeily very 
 
 amply 
 
 f PauU Hentzneri jf. C. Ittnerarhim German'ia^ Anglian 
 Gallic-, Itnlies, p. i88. edit. NoribergJE, 1629, 8vo. 
 See like wife A 'Journey to Ev.g]and by F aid Hentzner In the 
 year 1598, publifhed by the Hon. Horace Walpole, "Efqj 
 p. 30. London, 1757, 8vo. 
 
 ' Letter of Sir Thomas Bodl :>y to Dr. Tho. James, of 
 
 Nov. 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 163 
 Amply fuppiied the place of tiiem by the- pur- 
 chafe of Lord Lumley's library, which contained 
 not only his own colleclii>n, but that of his father- 
 in-law", Henry Fitz-AIan, Earl of Arundel, 
 wh.0 had lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, 
 when, upon the diflblijtion of the monaileries, 
 he had great opportunities of coilecflingmanu- 
 fcripts, many of which, as well as of the printed 
 books in the Royal library, have tlie name of 
 j^undel and Lumley written in them. 
 
 Thefe libraries, hitherto too little known, 
 are now likely to become of general benefit to 
 the learned, being given by his prefentMajefty 
 to the Briti/li Muleum, which is opened ^ for 
 the public ufe while J am writing, and to which 
 (if I may be allowed to mention the ieaft fig- 
 nificant of the advantages of that magnificent 
 foundation) this book owes its rife and beft 
 materials, as the author does one of his moil 
 valued diilindions, as well as the higheft enter- 
 tainment of his leifure h^urs. 
 
 King James, having purchafed Lord Lum- 
 ley's library, ordered it, at the fuggeflion of 
 Mr. Newton, to be repofited, together with 
 that of kis predecefibrs, in the palace of St. 
 James's,* where the Prince refided, for the ufe 
 
 Na\\ 6. printed in the Genuine Remains of Sir Thomas 
 Bodle)', p. 205. London^ ^I^Z' ^'^"^- ^^^ likevvife p. 286 
 and 320. and Ifaac Wake's Rex Platonicta, p. 192. 
 
 ' Lord Lumley married Jane, the eldeft of the Earl's 
 two daughters and co-heirs. 
 
 * On Monday the 15th of January, 1759. 
 
 M 2 of 
 
i64 THE LIFE OF 
 
 of his Highnefs ; and Mr. Patrick Young, fon 
 of Sir Peter Young, his Majeily's Tutor, was 
 appointed Keeper of it^, and continued in that 
 office till near the death of King Charles I. 
 between which period and that of the reftora- 
 tion, both the Hbrary, and cabinet of medals'" 
 
 then 
 
 * Vita Patricii Junli, fcriptore Thoma Smith, S.T.P. 
 p. 10 — 13. publiihed in Vita quorundaTn eruditijfimorum 
 £5* illujhlum Vircrum, Londini, 1707, in 4to. 
 
 ' In Augufl^, 1648, the Library and Cabinet of Medafs 
 were preferved by Hugh Peters from the violence and 
 rapine of the foldiers, and continued under his care for 
 three or four months, at the end of which he delivered 
 up the key and cuflody of them to Major General Ireton : 
 [See H. Peter's examination, Sept. 12, 1660, in Anti- 
 'quities of Berkfljire, Vol. I. p. 103, 104.] In the end 
 of July, 1649, it having been referred by the Parliament 
 to the Council of State to preferve the Books and Medals 
 at St. James's from embezzlement, that Council propofed 
 to Bulflrode Whitelocke, Efqj [fee his Memorials^ p. 415. 
 edit. 1732.] the taking the care of them, as Library- 
 Keeper, u'ith the power of appointing a deputy under 
 him. " I knew, continues he^ the greatnefs of the charge, 
 ** and canfidered the prejudice, that might fall out by 
 '* being rcfponfible for thofe rich jewels, the embezzle- 
 " ment whereof would be endeavoured by many, and 
 ' " my other occafions would not permit me to give much 
 ' *' perfonal attendance on this bufinefs, nor to enjoy much 
 •' of the delight of perufmg them: yet, I being informed 
 *' of a dcfign in fome to have them fold, and tranfported 
 " beyond fea, which I thought would be a difhonour 
 *' and damage to our nation, and to all fcholars therein; 
 ** and fearing, that in other hands they might be more 
 *' fubjtdl to cmbezzelling ; and being willing to preferve 
 *' them for public ufe ; I did accept the trouble of being 
 *' Library- Keeper at St. James's, and therein was encou- 
 *' raged and much perfuaded to it by Mr^ Selden, who 
 
 " fwore. 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 165 
 
 then belonging to it, fuffered great depredations 
 
 amidH the confufions of thofe unhappy times, 
 ''^w .70iul Si J. 
 
 *^ fwore, that, if I did not undertake the charge of them, 
 ** all thofe rare monuments of antiquity, thofe choice 
 ** books and manufcripis, would be loft; and there were 
 •' not the like to them, except only in the V^atican, in 
 " any other library in Chriftcidom. The Council made 
 *' an order for me to be Library-Keeper of bt. James's, 
 ** and to have lodgings in the houfe belonging to the 
 ■** place; and recommended to me Mr.'Dury, a German 
 ** [Scot] by birth, a good fcholar, and a great traveller, 
 ** and friend to the Parliament, to be my deputy in that 
 ^** place, but at my liking. I was willing to have a deputy 
 '** by their recommendation, being I fliould thereby be 
 ^* lefs anfwerable; and I appointed Mr. Dury to have the 
 <* keys, to go to Mr. Patrick Young, the former Library- 
 ■** Keeper to the late King, to inquire for an inventory 
 -*' of the books and medals, and to fee an exail one made 
 -'*< forthwith of all of them." Upon the rcftoration the 
 King iflued a warrant on the loth of Sept. 1660, to Sir 
 John Robinfon, Lieutenant of the Tovi'er, to permit 
 Thomas Rofl'e and Elias Aftimole, Efquires, to examine, 
 in his prefence, Hugh Peters, then a prifoner there, con- 
 cerning the books and medals, that had been embezzled. 
 In this examination, taken two days afcer, Mr. Peters 
 declared, on oath, that he took nothing from thence, 
 but left the library as unviolated as he found it. How- 
 ever, from the account taken by Mr. Dury on the ych 
 of April, 1652, it appears, that there were then, in the 
 drawers in the library, twelve thoufand coins, of which 
 four thoufand only are faid to h^ve remained at the 
 reftoration of King Charles IL who placed them in his 
 own cabinet. Many of the books and MSS. were like- 
 wife faid to have been mifling [Smith in Fiid Patricii 
 yufjii, p. 35. J After the reftoration, Mr. Rofte, mentioned 
 above, and then Tutor of the Duke of Monmouth, had 
 the oftice of Library-Keeper conferred on him; Richard 
 Pearfon, Fellow of King's college, Cambridge, and 
 younger brother of Dr, John Pearfon, afterwards Bifhop 
 M 3 of 
 
i66 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 Sir John Har^ngton fce^is not to have re- 
 ceived the Prince's letter to him of tli^e 4th of 
 March, 1608-9, when he wrote one in French 
 to his Ilighnefs'^. It is without a date j but ap- 
 pears to have been wi irtcn from Venice, in Lent 
 of the year 1609. He tells thePrince, that having 
 been informed, by levc; al perfons, of the con- 
 tinuation of his Highnefs's favour towards him, 
 thouR-h his letters were of no ufe, and contained 
 n6t!iing but the humble aftedlicn of his heart, 
 devoted to the fervice of his Plighnefss yet he 
 prcfumcd cnce more to trouble him with a 
 letter, flom a full perfuafion, founded on his 
 
 6f Cheder, being appointed to officiate for liim by ordef 
 of his Msjelh'. In June, 1665, a warrant was pafTed to 
 Mr. RoiTe to hold that place for life, with a falary of two 
 hundred poundf^ a jcar ; and, after his dcceafe, to Mr. Pear- 
 fon alfo for life, who Cv)r.tinued Mr. Rofic's deputy, while 
 he lived, but died before himAug,ufi;5, 1670. Mr, RolFe 
 himfelf dying 0(9;. 27, 1675, a new warrant of the like 
 tenourwa'^ gr.inted toFrederjcThyiwe and James Thy nnc, 
 Efquirts, for life, \_i Sard's Lives of the Profcjfors of GtQ- 
 fham-coilege, p. 25O, 251.] To the former of thefe the 
 celebrated Monf Menry Juilel, a French proteflant, was, 
 about the year 1686, appointed deputy, and continued 
 in that office till his death in 1692, leaving behind him a 
 written cataldg^ie both of the printed books and manufcrlpts 
 in the Royal nbrary ; which catalogue was afterwards found 
 in the library of Brian Fairfax, Efq; at his death, in 1748. 
 The revere;:d and learned Mr. Richard Bentlcy, in Feb. 
 1693, had the place of Library-Keeper given him by a 
 like warrant, and he refigning it in favour of his fon, Mr, 
 Richard lientley, the latter fold it to Claudius Amyand, 
 Efq; who nov/ e.ijoys the falary, the revcrfion of which 
 •was given by his prefent Majefly to the Britiih Mufeuni'. 
 " Harl. MSS. ^^/. 7007. 
 
 High- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 167 
 HIghnefs's benevolent dlfpofition, that it would 
 meet with the fame acceptance with his former. 
 
 If he fliould write to his Highnefs an ac- 
 count of the fuperftitions, falfe miracles, and 
 relics, exhibited during that feafon of Lent, it 
 would not be a letter, but another Golden 
 Legend. He would have fent the obfcrvations, 
 which he had made, and fet down, however 
 unworthy of the Prince's pcrufal, if he could 
 have trufted the poft. 
 
 He mentioned, that, every day during that 
 Lent, frier Fulgentio, of the order of Servites, 
 preached the word of God purely and without 
 mixture. The Pope, hearing of the fermons 
 of this honeft man, fent for the Venetian 
 Am.bafiador, and told him, that he had been 
 informed, that one Fulgentio preached doc- 
 trines contrary to the catholic faith. The 
 AmbalTador anfwered, that he preached no- 
 thing biit the word of God. " So I under- 
 ** ftand, replied the Pope-j but do not you 
 " know, that to preach the gofpel, and the 
 " word of God, is to deftroy the catholic 
 '^ religion " ?" Thefe very words of the Pope 
 were written by the Ambaflador to the re- 
 public, which was very much fcandalized at 
 them. 
 
 * See father Paul's letter to Monf. de I'lfle Groflnt, of 
 the 28th of April, 1609, in the Euglijh Tranf.ation of his 
 Letters by Mr, Edward Brown, p. 106. London, 1693, 
 in Zva, 
 
 M 4 Sir 
 
i68 THE LIFE OF 
 
 Sir John Harlngton at the fame time fent 
 to his Highnefs a pidlure of Pope Alexanderlll, 
 putting his foot upon the neck of the Emperor, 
 with all the circumftances of that ftory, exadly 
 as it was rcprefented in the hall of the grand 
 council of Venice. His reafon for his fending 
 this pidure was, that, as this behaviour of the 
 Pope had been pofitively denied in the laft 
 book, publiHied under the name of 'Tcj^tus^^ 
 again fl the oath of allegiance, his Highnefs 
 might fee the effrontery of thofe men in deny- 
 ing the truth, of which that picture was a 
 perpetual monument. 
 
 Sir John Harington's letters gave fuch fatis- 
 faction to the Prince, that his Highnefs ufed 
 to communicate the contents of them to the 
 Earl of Salilhury, who, in a letter to his fon, 
 the Lord Vifcount Cranborne, written in June, 
 1609, mentioned that circumftance, in order 
 to raife fome emulation in that young noble- 
 man, whofe natural indolence feemed to want 
 fuch an excitement. " I find every week, 
 *' fays the Earl, in the Prince's hand, a letter 
 *' from Sir John Harington, full of news of 
 *' the place where he is, and the countries as 
 *■ he pafTeth, and all occurrents; which is an 
 " argument, that he doth read and obferve 
 *' fuch things, as are remarkable." 
 
 The Prince, on the 24th of May, 1609 
 honoured Sir Charles Corn wallis with a letter, 
 y Cardinal Bellarmin difguifed himfelf under that name., ' 
 
 the 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 169 
 
 the copy of which, among his HighnelVs 
 paperSj'is as.follows^: 
 
 *' A S I cannot but think well of your en-v 
 <t ,l\. deavours in the general employment ^ 
 *' of the King my father's fervice and the good ' 
 " of the ftate, fo like wife I cannot but inter- 
 *' pret unto the heft your honeft meaning in"' 
 *' thofe ftudies and travels you have employed 
 " for bringing an addition unto my fortune %:^p 
 " whereof 1 myfelf have heretofore ncver^^ 
 ** thought. But particularly I muft thank'* 
 " you for imparting unto me your obfervations " 
 " of that ftate j which being a ftudy fit for me, 
 *' and wherein I take mofl delight, I v/illsl 
 *' make the befi ufe thereof I mayj and wifh^"*- 
 *' you to acquaint me farther in that kind, asil 
 *' occafion fhall be offered; that fo the moreib 
 " you may deferve my readinefs to acknow- 
 ** ledge it. ....i v:: 
 
 ** Your good Friend, '(-ni 
 From Greenwich, ii) 
 
 May 24, 1609. " HENRY," 
 
 Sir John Harington, having at laft received 
 the Prince's letter to him, returned his thanks 
 in one in French from Venice on the 28th of 
 
 * Harl. MSS. Fol. 7007. There are fome additions 
 in the cvpy f rimed in Win wood's Memorials, rol. III. 
 p. 45. 
 
 * A marriage between the Prince and the Infanta of 
 
 3pain. 
 
 May, 
 
170 THE LIFE OF 
 
 May, 1609'', protcfting, that his own weak 
 lines were net capable of expreffing the joy 
 and happinefs, which he felt upon the deHvery 
 of hisHighnefs's gracious letter to him by Sir 
 Robert Douglas, who w.is the moft welcome 
 meiTenPcr to him, that he had ever received. 
 That he had but one life, which, ever fince 
 he had the honour of being efleemed the hum- 
 ble fervant of his Highnefs, had been devoted 
 to his fervicej to which, whenever his High- 
 nefs (liould com.mand him, he offered that 
 life, and defired to abandon it, when he {hould 
 ceafe his endeavours to render himfelf more 
 worthy to ferve his Highnefs, and more qua- 
 lined to execute his commands. 
 
 That he had a fewdaysbefore been at Verona, 
 Mantua, and other places in that part of Italy; 
 and, while he was at Verona, a magnificent 
 tilting was performed by the noblemen of that 
 city, where the flower of Lombardy was af- 
 fembled. Sir John fent the Prince the fpeeches 
 and verfes made on that occafion, hoping, that 
 thefe would have better fortune than thofe fent 
 by him from Florence ; and trufting in the care 
 and dili2;ence of the bearer^ who was himfelf 
 a worthy and learned gentleman, and nephew 
 of the very worthy and very learned Amballa- 
 dor. Sir Henry Wotton. 
 
 That AmbafTador wrote likewife to the 
 Prince by the fame meffenger on the 2 2d of 
 
 June, 
 
 > Har]. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 * Mr. Albertus Morton, ele£ted Scholar of King's 
 
 college 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 171 
 June, N. S. follovv^ing'^, that havi-ng, upon 
 occalion of his Majefty's fervicc, fent home 
 '* this poor fcholar, fays he, my nephew, I 
 *' have taken the prefumption to reprefent unto 
 *' your Highnefs my humble reverence by him, 
 *' who is a domertical witnefs, how often I do 
 " here profefs myfelf bound unto the fame for 
 ** that gracious inclination, which it pleafed 
 " you to fliew towards me in my bold fuit for 
 ** your letters to this fignory, whereof I was long 
 ** fmce, to my exceeding comfort, informed 
 " very pasticularly by your Highnefs s worthy 
 *' fervant, Mr. Newton. 
 
 *' Of our affairs here I fliall not need to 
 ** render your Highnefs any account in this 
 *' paper, having peculiarly inftrufted the bearer 
 '• for your better information in whatfoev;,- it 
 *' {hall plcafe you to demand; whom mofl 
 *' humbly recommending to your favour, and 
 *' befeeching our Lord Jefus to multiply his 
 " fweet graces and bleffings upon your princely 
 *' perfon, I reft 
 
 " Your Hignefs's obliged poor Servr. 
 
 college in Cambridge in i6o2. He went to Veni' ■• 
 Secretary to his uncle. Sir Henry Wotton, and was ?aU 
 wards agent for King James at the court of Savoys and 
 with the Princes of the union in Ciermany, Secretary to 
 the Queen of Bohemia in i6i6, one of the clerks of tiie 
 council, knighted in Sept. 1617, and at laft Secretary 'jf 
 ftate, in which poii he died in November, 1625. 
 ^ Harl. MSS. Vol, 7C07. 
 
 Sir 
 
172 THE LIFE OF 
 
 Sir Charles Cornwallis, having received the 
 Prince's letter of the 24th of May, 1609, re- 
 turned his acknowledgments for it on the loth 
 of Auguft following from Madrid". He began 
 this letter with obferving, that his Highnefs's 
 gracious and good acceptance of his iaft letters, 
 offering his humble affe<ftion and fervice, had 
 laid upon him a forcible and perpetual obliga- 
 tion ever to deiire to ferve and pleafe him. 
 The proof he left to time and to effedts. To 
 his Highnefs (whom God had in this world 
 diftinguiflied with fo much and great a per- 
 fedion of his graces) his words, he confeffed, 
 ferved ratlierfor matter of ordinary refpect than 
 of any merit, or containing any demonftration 
 fufficlently expreffive of the effects, which his 
 heart had a will to prefent to his Highnefs. 
 
 " The time, fays he^ of my remove from 
 *' hence is fo very near at hand, and the buii- 
 *' neffes, that 1 have to difpatch, fo great and 
 " many, as, joined with the barrennefs of the 
 *' prefent time, neither permit my letters to be 
 " long, nor yield me any matter worthy of 
 *' your HIghnefs's underftanding. 
 
 *' Some little road the French made upon 
 *' the borders of thefe kingdoms, and polfeff- 
 *' ed themfeives of fome thoufands of our 
 '* cattle. But fo full of patience and quiet 
 *' thoughts, I perceive, we are become, as 
 " akhough it av/aked us a little out of our 
 
 » Had. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 " fleep. 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 173 
 *' fleep, yet it hath not raifed us out bf our 
 *' beds of reft. For any thing fince this late 
 *' concluded truce, that I can yet comprehend, 
 " we are now rather inclined to ftand at mark 
 *' and ohlerve into what figures and forms 
 " future times and difpofitions of other Princes 
 " and eftates will caft themfelves, than of our- 
 " (elves to give beginning to any new attempts, 
 " whereby either our fwords may become 
 ** again undieathed, or the exhaufted breafts 
 *' of our purfes be inforced to yield blood in- 
 " (lead of milk. 
 
 " My hope is now fo fliortly to wait upon 
 " your Highnefs myfelf, and to give you ac- 
 *' count of what elfe it fliall pleaie you to be 
 *' fatisfied in, as I humbly crave pardon, if in 
 " this I feem fliort. 
 
 " God Almighty continue your Highnefs in 
 " all health and happinefs, and give you that in- 
 " creafe of greatnefs, that mine heart defireth, 
 '* and your rare and mofl excellent parts give 
 " fo ample hopes of" 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes, who had refided at 
 the court of Bruflels, from April 1605, being 
 ready to return from hisEmbally tliere towards 
 the end of Auguft I6o9^ the Archduke Al- 
 bert fent by him a very obliging letter in 
 French to the Prince, dated at Bruflels on the 
 
 ' Hiftorical view of the negotiations between the courts 
 of England, France and Brulfels, p. 306. 
 
 7th 
 
174 THE LIFE OF 
 
 7th of September N. S.^ telling his Highnefs, 
 that he was defirous by thofe few lines to inli- 
 nuate himfelf into his good opinion, and to make 
 him an offer of a mind, which fhould always 
 be difpofed to gratify and ferve him on all oc- 
 cafions, which he, the Archduke, for his own 
 fatisfa(flion hoped would be very frequent. 
 
 The Prince having honoured the Lord Trea- 
 furer's fon, William Lord Vil'count Cranborne,. 
 with a letter, his Lordfhip made his acknow- 
 ledgments in one dated at Bourdeaux on the 
 9th of September 1609''. 
 
 " When I durll not prefume, fays he^ out 
 *' of the knowledge of mine ow^n unworthinefs, 
 to exped; fo much as a gracious meflage from 
 your Highnefs, I was fo happy as to be ho* 
 noured with your mod gracious letter; a 
 favour fo far beyond my defert, as your 
 greatnefs is above my humble fortune, and 
 " which doth make me more proud, more 
 ** happy, than all the ccreiies this King doth 
 *' or can afford mc, which I efleem as nothing 
 ** in refp£(5l of the only ailurance I have you 
 *' vouch fafe to referve me fome place in your 
 ** princely memory. All I behold here is fo 
 " far under your moil: rare perfecflions, as 
 " methinks my profpe<5l is flill downwards, 
 " till it fhall pleafe God it may happily again 
 *' be raifcd to the fight of your Highnefs; till 
 ** when the greatefl joy and content I c^n §nd 
 
 tHarl' MSS. Fol. 7007. » Jbici. Vol. 700S. 
 
 '' in 
 
 <c 
 
 <« 
 
II E N RY Prince of Wales. 175 
 
 '* in this my abfence is the conftant confent 
 " of all, whereibever the courfe of my travels 
 *' leads me, in your Highnefs's praifes. Your 
 '^ perfon is better known at home; but the 
 ** rare perfcdions both of your mind and body, 
 *' daily increafed by your fludies and exercifes, 
 *' do moft glorioully fhine abroad; the fame 
 *' whereof being infinitely fpread by a num- 
 " ber of moil worthy and noble gentlemen cf 
 *^ this nation, who have frequented his M^r 
 " jefty's court, and had the honour to be cye^^ 
 " witnelTes of your virtues, overcomes the 
 " envy, that is wont to be in fo near bordering 
 ** neighbours. 
 
 " I do abftain from being troublqfome to 
 ** your Highnefs in writing ordinary news, 
 ** feeing I have not the m_eans to come bv 
 " that is worthy of your Highnefs ; which I 
 " know, (if there be any) you have from 
 *' better pens than mine; and I am afhamed 
 " to prefent this fecond time my hiunbleil 
 " duty and fervice in this old Englifli gar- 
 " ment, and dare not venture on a new French 
 " habit, knowing how able your Highnefs 
 ** is to difcover errors. Hereafter I hope my 
 " better ability will give me courage to change 
 ** my tongue, but never my heart, which 
 ** humbleth itfelf at your princely fctt^ deilring 
 " no greater happinefs, than that I may ever 
 *' be held your Highnefs's mofl humble, and 
 " moft aifeiflionate fervant." 
 
 Sir 
 
I'^e THE LIFE OF 
 
 Sir John Harington, who was come back as 
 far as Francfort in September of this year 1 609, 
 in his way to England, wrote from thence in 
 French, on the 29th of that month, to the 
 Prince', though his own ill ftate of health, 
 and the hafte with which he pafled through 
 Germany, and the confufed ftate of affairs there, 
 afforded him but little fubjeft and little leifure 
 to write; except that the approaching war'" 
 threatned both upper and lower Germany. 
 
 That in the upper parts, in Hungary the 
 noblemen of that country demanded another 
 Palatin in the room of Elias Hazi, who had 
 the negative power, as the King had the afHr- 
 mative. The want of a Palatin was the prin- 
 cipal caufe of the Hungarians not withdrawing 
 themfelves from their fubjedlion to the Em- 
 peror, and ele6ling that King. 
 
 That in Auftria was then held an alTembly 
 of the States, in order to fettle the affairs of 
 thofe provinces, and to obtain a greater liberty 
 in religion. Both parties were very alert. The 
 King had at about four leagues diflance from 
 Vienna a body of 500 armed men, and the 
 States had affembled their forces out of appre- 
 henfion of the Sicilian Vefpcrs. 
 
 That with regard to the lower parts, the 
 Eledfor of Saxony, the EIed:or of Branden- 
 
 '■ Harl. MSS. FoL 7008. 
 
 ^ Occafioned by the cxjnteft among the competitors 
 for the futxeffion of John William, Duke of Cleves, who 
 died without ifl'ue in March, 1609. 
 
 burg. 
 
 H 
 
H E N R Y PmNCE OF Wales. 177 
 
 burg, and ihc Duke de Nevers, put in their 
 pretv^nfions to the Duchy of Clevcs; and Leo- 
 pold, Aiciidulie of Aufaia, was mailer of 
 Juliers. That without doubt ail the Princes 
 of the Empire would take one fide or the 
 jodier. " But why, adds ht\ do 1 mention 
 *'. thefe particulars, when from the neighbcur- 
 *' hood of England they mud have been 
 " known to your Highnefs. before this time?" 
 He fent with diis letter a prefcnt to die Prince 
 of a little rock, which he had met with at 
 Drefden,. formed from pieces of all the princi- 
 pal mines in Germany, together with fome 
 filver in the ore. 
 
 Sir John Skene, a celebrated lawyer in 
 Scotlandi having finiilied his great Work 
 printed at Edinburgh in 1609, in fol. under 
 the title of The aidd La\vs and Conjliiutiom of 
 Scotlajid, colleBed furth of the Regifier and other 
 auld authenttck Bakes fr a the days of Kwg Mai- 
 cohn II. until the time of King fames I fent a 
 copy of it to the Prince, with a Latin letter 
 (dated at Edinburgh on the 5th of O^ftober 
 that year^ In this letter he informed his 
 Highnefs, that the King, after he had appoint- 
 ed him Keeper of the public records, had, 
 from his innate benevolence towards his fub- 
 Jeds, often commanded him to reduce his 
 own laws, and thofe of his predecelTors, Kings 
 of Scotland, into one volume j and to refcue 
 ' Appendix, No. XVI. 
 
 N them 
 
178 THfiLIFEOF* 
 
 them from errors and oblivion. For that fnofl 
 wife King knew, that die knowledge of the 
 laws .was. highly neceflary, not only to Kings 
 themfelves, but alfo to the whole people. 
 Kings keep the people within the bounds of 
 their duty, according to the laws, conferring 
 rewards on the good, and inflid:ing punifliments 
 on bad men in proportion to their guilt. And 
 the people, through fear of punifhments, and 
 delire of rewards, live in. harmony and con- 
 cord, and in the prad:ice of their duties; and 
 pay obedience to their King, and wordiip to 
 God. That he had, in purfuance of his Ma- 
 jefty's command, applied himfelf diligently, ta 
 this taflv, and colledted, the fcattered laws into 
 one body, corroding the errors, tranflating them 
 into the vulgar tongue ; and had fucceeded fo far 
 (if he did not deceive himfelf) as to have re- 
 ftored them to their former luftre, and render- 
 ed them eafy to be underftood by all perfons. 
 That what he had done befides, he left to the 
 : judgment of others. That he had fent thefe 
 laws to his Highnefs, that he might read- 
 them, as far a3 his leifure would permit; and 
 underfland them, in order tliat he might not, 
 while he was familiar with the laws of other 
 countries, be a flranger to thofe of his own. 
 He humbly requefted the Prince's acceptance 
 cf this work from a perfon, unknown indeed 
 to him, but who was bound to him by the 
 liigheft obligations, next to God and the King. 
 
HENRY Prince oP Wales, lyg 
 He prayed the^^Almiglity to g^ant, that his 
 Highncft niTght be ifliccefer, not only to his 
 Father's kingddms, bat likewife his virtues 
 andl-e!igion ; and might follow the example 
 of TheorioBiis, who gave thanks to God, not 
 fo much for making him an Emperor, as a 
 Chriflian. 
 
 Sir John Harington was returned irear to 
 his own country, and juft ready to embark 
 for it, when he wrote a letter to the Prince"^, 
 which, though the date and place do not 
 appear, muft have been written after the 
 retirement of the Prince of Condc, in No- 
 vember 1609, out of France into Flanders 
 with his wife, upon Henry IV's having difco- 
 vered a violent padion for thr.t Prlritefs. Sir 
 John begins his letter widi taking no':ice,-'tbat 
 though he was then feparated from England 
 only by the fea j yet opportunities of prefent- 
 ing his duty to his Highnefs did no^ oifer 
 themlelves oftener, or with more fecurity, 
 than when both the Sea and Alps prevented 
 him from expreffing his zeal for the fcrvice of 
 ^iiis Highnefs, to whom lie dedicated the re- 
 mainder of his days. 
 
 That there was daily expedation ift th^ 
 
 place, where he was, of the Duke of Guife, 
 
 ^•ibcompanied with the famous pirate Simeon 
 
 ^6ini'6bfcn, farnamed Danfker, who having re- 
 
 ^teiyed the French King's pardon with a pro- 
 
 ^^ " N 2 mifc 
 
i8o THE LIFE OF 
 
 mife of the command of feven fliips to be Cent 
 againft the Turks, was endeavouring to efcape 
 out of the hands of the infidel?, and furrcnder 
 himfelf to that King. 
 
 That he would fay nothing of the flight of 
 the Prince of Conde, being perfuaded, that 
 his Highncfs was well informed of it. 
 
 In the next month, December, the Prince 
 wrote the following letter to the King''. 
 
 <c J\ 
 
 CCORDING to your Majefty's 
 
 commandment, J made your excufe 
 
 unto the Queen for not fending her a token 
 
 by me ; and alledged your Majefty had a 
 
 quarrel unto her, for not writing an anfwer 
 
 unto your fecond letter written from Roy- 
 
 fton, when your foot was fore, nor making 
 
 mention of the receiving of it in her next 
 
 letter fome ten days after; whereas in your 
 
 Majefty's former journey to Royfton, when 
 
 you took firft the pain in your feet, flie fent 
 
 one of purpofe to vilit you. Her anfwer 
 
 was, that either (he had written or dreamed 
 
 it J and upon that apprehenlion had told firft 
 
 my Lord Hay, and next Sir Thomas Somer- 
 
 fet, that fhe had written before. I durfl not 
 
 reply, that your Majefty was afraid, left fhe 
 
 fhould return to her old biafs; for fear that 
 
 fuch a word might have fet her in the way, 
 
 and made me a peace-breaker, which I 
 
 /; Harl. MSS. Fol. 7007. 
 
 ** would 
 
 / 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. j8i 
 
 " would efchew, though otherwife moft happy, 
 " when I lliall be favoured with your Majcity's 
 " commandments, as he,who killing your Ma- 
 " jefty's hands, is 
 
 " Your Majefty's moft 
 " Dutiful Son, and 
 
 " Obedient Servant, 
 
 '' H E N R Y." 
 
 The company of Eafl India, to which 
 Queen Elizabeth had, in 1 59 1 , granted letters 
 patent for fifteen yeai"S, and which King James 
 had, in May of this year 1 609, incorporated by 
 a perpetual charter, having built at Deptford 
 two fliips, one of above 1 200 tuns, and the other 
 a pinnace of 250; the King and Prince were 
 invited to the launching of them, and went 
 thither on Saturday the 30th of December, 
 accompanied with the Earl of Nottingham, 
 Lord Admiral, the Earl of Suffolk, Lord Cham- 
 berlain, the Earl of Worcefter, Mafler of the 
 Horfe, and many other Lords, who were en- 
 tertained with a magnificent banquet in the 
 I chief cabin of the great fliip, and the reft at 
 a long table on the half deck. The whole en- 
 tertainment was ferved up in China diflies, 
 which all perfons w^re permitted to take away 
 with them ". His Majefly honoured Sir Thomas 
 
 Smith, 
 
 " Abridgment of the Engfifh Chronicle colledied by 
 N 3 Mr. 
 
i82 THELIFEOF 
 
 Smith, the Governor of the Company, with 
 a chain like a Collar, worth about 200/. with 
 his pic Lure hanging to it, putting it about Sir 
 Thomas's neck with his own hands ^ and named 
 the large iLip Trades Sncn afe, as the Prince di4 . 
 tlie pinnace, the Pepper Cor?i°. 
 
 ,:The Prince, now approaching to the age of 
 fixteen, propofed with great modefty his clairn 
 to. the inveftiture in the principality of Wales 
 and, Duchy of Cornwall} which was readily 
 granted by his M>t}efty with the confent of the 
 Parliament; the 4th of June 1610 l^eing ap7^ 
 pointed for the folemnity. 
 
 At the Chriflmas preceding, his Highnefs, not 
 only for his own recreation,. but likewife from a 
 laudable ambition of /iiewing the world what 
 might be e:^pc(fted from him, under the name 
 of Mo^liades^^ Lord of the liles (an ancient dtle 
 due to the firf: born of Scotland) did by fome 
 pcribns appointed for that purpofe, ftrangely at- 
 tired, and accompanied with drums and trum- 
 pets, in the phamber of prefcnce before the King, 
 
 M^ Jo^" Stow, and continued unto the year 1610, by 
 Ednu:nd Rowes, p. 494. London 16 1 1, in %vo. 
 
 " Winwoods Memorials, Vol. TIT. p. 1 r8. 
 
 P Mr. Williain Drummond of Hawthornden, in hi» 
 pan on the death qf Mceliadts, printed among his poems^ 
 phrerves, *' that the Prince was wont to ufe that name 
 ''*■ in the challenges of his martial fports and mafquerades, 
 *' which in anagram maketh a word moft worthy of 
 f fuch a Knight, as he was, Miles a Deo.'" Ben. Jonfoi^ 
 jn his Spfeches at the Prince's Barriers, calls him Meliadus. 
 
 Queeiijf, 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 183 
 
 Queen, and whole court, deliver a challenge to 
 ail Knights of Great Britain in two ipeeches, 
 the fum of which was ; that Mcel'iadcs^ their 
 noble m.lft'er, infpired with an earncft defire to 
 try the valour of his younger year$ in foreign 
 countries, and to know where virtue triumphed 
 mod, had fent them abroad to difcover the 
 fame J who, after their Icjng travels in all coun- 
 tries, at their return reported, that in no coun- 
 try, except the fortunate ifle of Great Britain, 
 (hey had found his wiflies. This giving mat- 
 ter of extreme joy to the youthful Mo^liadeSy 
 who, they faid, could lineally derive his pedi- 
 gree from the famous Knights of this ifle^ 
 was the caufe, that he now fent to prefent the 
 firft fruits of his chivalry at his Majefty's 
 feet. Addreffing themfelves then in a fliort 
 fpeech to the Queen, and next to the Earls^ 
 Lords, and Knights, excufing their Lord for 
 this their fo fudden warning, and laflly to the 
 Ladies ; after humble delivery of their cartel 
 C:oncerning the time, place, conditions, num^ 
 ber of weapons, and aifailants, they took their 
 leave, departing folemnly, as they entered^, i 
 
 During the preparations for this folemnity 
 the Prince feafted at his own apartments the 
 Earls, Barons, and Knights alTailants and 
 combatants, till the appointed twelfth night "" 
 1609-10, when the great feat of arms was 
 performed at the palace of Whitehall, in the 
 
 i^Cornwaiiis, p. 12, — 14. [ Idem. p. 14. 
 
 ' "^ ^ N 4 prefcnce 
 
l^ THE L IFE OF 
 
 prefence of the King and Queen, and the 
 AmbafTadors of Spain and Venice, and of all 
 the Peers and great Ladies of the Kingdom, 
 with a mnltitude of others of inferior rank.. 
 The aflembly was held in the great banquet- 
 ing houfe, at the upper end of which was 
 placed the King's chair, and on the right hand 
 of it a magnificent pavilion for the Prince and 
 his companions, whence they defcended into 
 the middle of the room. There his Highnefs 
 maintained the barriers againft all adventurers, 
 being ailifted only by the Duke of Lennox, 
 the Earls of Arundel and Southampton, the 
 Lord Hay, Sir Thomas Somerfet, and Sir 
 Richard Prefton, the Prince's Inftruftor in 
 arms, foon after created Lord Dingvvell, and 
 at lafl: Earl of Defmond. Againft thefe challen- 
 gers came fix and fifty defendants, confifting 
 of Earls, Barons, Knights and Efquires, who 
 in the lower end of the room had eredted a 
 very commodious apartment, where themfelves 
 remained in private with their train, which 
 was fo great, that it was not imagined, that 
 half of the number could have been concealed 
 there. Hence they ifiued in proper order, and 
 marched into the middle of the room, where 
 their Majeflies fat with the AmbafTadors to fee 
 the barriers ', with the feveral fhews and de- 
 
 ^ The fpeeches at them were compofed by Ben. Jonfon, 
 and are printed in his Works, F^ol. V.p. 353. ^ feqq. Wha- 
 , ley's Edition, 1756, in 8vo. 
 
 vices 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 185 
 
 vices of each -combatant. Every challenger 
 fought with eidit fevcral defendants two com- 
 bats at two different weapons, pufh of pike 
 and {ingle fword\ The Prince himfelf gave 
 and received thirty two piiflies of pike, and 
 about three hundred and lixty ftrokes of 
 fwords", and performed his part very well and 
 gracefully"^, and to the admiration of all the 
 fpedatorSj though not then full lixtcen years 
 of age. 
 
 ' Thefc feats of arms, with their triumphant 
 fliews, began before ten at night, and continued 
 till three the next morning, being Sunday \ 
 On that day his Ilighnefs, with his affiflants 
 all in a livery, and the defendants richly dreft, 
 rode in great pomp to conduit the King to St. 
 James's, whither the Prince had invited him 
 and all the court to fupper, the Queen only 
 being abfent '^. The fupper Vv^as not ended till 
 after ten at night; from whence they went to 
 the play; after which they returned to a fet 
 banquet in the gallery, where they had fupped, 
 at a table 120 feet in length; and the whole 
 entertainment did not end till three in the 
 morning ^. The ex pence of the Prince's table, 
 from the time of his publifliing his challenge, 
 
 ' General Chronicle of England, p, 898. '' Corn- 
 wallis, /». l<^. '^ Mr. Chamberlalnc's Letter t») 
 
 Sir Ralph Winvvooil. Winvvoond's Memorials, Vol. III. 
 />. 117. ^ General Chronicle, uhi fuprn, 
 
 f Chamberlaine, uhi fupra. ^ MS. Life of Mr. 
 
 Phineas Pctt, p. 54. 
 
 ;i. had 
 
i86 THE LIFE OF ^^^ 
 
 had been loo 1. ^dny. The three defendants; 
 upon whom the prizes v/ere bellowed, were 
 the Earl of Montgomery, Mr. Thomas Darcj>, 
 fon of the Lord Darcy, and Sir Robert- Gor- 
 don \ 
 
 The warlike difpofitionv which the Prince 
 had early difcovered, being greatly cultivated' 
 and encouraged by fome military men in his " 
 fervice, they drew up and put into his hands, 
 for that purpofe, a paper, containing proportions ■ 
 of' war and feace. To thefe Sir Robert Cot- 
 ton, no lefs eminent for his invaluable Ubrary 
 of manufcripts than for his knowledge of the 
 contents of them, drew up, in 1609, an ela- 
 borate anfwer''. The arguments for foreign 
 war were drawn; iirft from neceffjty, for tha 
 prefervatjon of our own peace, the venting of 
 factious fpirits, and the inftruding the people 
 
 * Chamberlaine, ubi fupra. ^ Ibid. ''The 
 
 Proportions and the Anj'wer to them were printed at 
 I/ondon, 1657, in 8vo, under the following title: Wart 
 with foreign Princes dangerous to our Commonwealth : Or^ 
 Reafons for foreign JVars anfwered: With a Liji of all the 
 Confederates from Henry the fir/i^s reign to the end of ^ueen 
 Elizabeth; proving^ that the Kings of England always pre- 
 ferred wijujl Peace before the jujitji War. Another Edition, 
 printed at London in 1675, in 8vo. has thi^'title: An 
 Anfwer to fuch Motives^ as were offered by certain AliliUiry 
 tnm to Prince Henry, inciting him to affe£i Arms more 
 than Peace. A4ade^ at his Highnefs^s command., by Sir 
 Robert Cotton,. Bart. With a Short Viezv. of the Life and 
 Reign cf Henry J II. King of England.^ By the fame Author^ 
 The Jccond edition, very much correiiedf and a prefact addfi^., 
 h. ^'^ 1°^^ Cotton^ Bart, •■ •: 
 
 3 '^ 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 1S7 
 in arms J and fecondly from the benefits of 
 wealth by fpoil of the enemy, and addition of 
 revenue by fubjcffted territories; of honour by 
 addition of title and dominion ; and of greater 
 facility to eife<5t this, than heretofore, by addi- 
 tion of new flrength, and the fubtradlion of 
 diverfions by means of the happy union of the 
 Britidi empire. Sir Robert Cotton's anfwers to 
 thefe arguments were, that tlie affedions, of 
 our wifeil Princes ever were to peace: that^ 
 foreign expeditions were the caufe of invafions 
 from abroad and rebellions at home, endlefs 
 taxations, vallalage, and danger to the ftate 
 froiii extent of territory; and that confederacy 
 and alliance, the means of former vidories, 
 were no ways to be reflored as heretofore. 
 Upon thefe topics that great antiquary has.- 
 Opencd all hi§ ftores of hiilorical and politicali 
 knowledge. 
 
 The Prince being impatient to fee, How flir 
 the building of a very large fliip at Woolwich, 
 under tiie direddon of Mr. Pett, was advanced, 
 made feveral viiits there, on the 31ft of this 
 month of January, on the 25th of April, and 
 on the 1 8 th of June, when it v/as almoft 
 finiftied *^. 
 
 Sir Arthur Gorges'^, who had been member 
 
 f MS. Life oF Mr. Pett, p. 54, 55. 
 
 ^ He publiflied, in 161 1, in 410. A Tranfcript and 
 Explanation of his Majejfy^s Letters patent for ereiiing art 
 ^ce^ called Thfe Public Regiftcr for general commerce. 
 
 of 
 
i88 THE LIFE OF 
 
 of feveral parliaments in the reign 6£ Queen 
 Elizabeth, having put into the Prince's hands 
 fome bill, the deiign of which does not appear, 
 reminded him of it in a letter of the 29th of 
 April, i6io% wifliing him to take care of it; 
 for that it would tend no lefs to his Highnefs's 
 own profit than to his honour and fafety. 
 '* For having, fays be, once gained thereby a 
 " general applaufe of glory and love in the 
 ** world by fo worthy and virtuous a deed ; 
 " when it is done, to fecond the fame, I will 
 *' be ready to acquaint your Highnefs with a 
 ** matter, that fliall bring unto your coffers, 
 " for the better fupporting of your princely 
 *' ftate, twenty thoufand pounds a year at the 
 " leaft, and to be effected with eafe, without 
 " wrong to the public, and not needing to 
 *' follicit the parliament for the fame: and this 
 '.' fliall follow in its due time, when the other 
 " is effecled. And, in the mean time, this 
 " may fuffice for an anfwer to all, that fliall 
 " go about to difgrace your bill in parliament, 
 * ' that it favours more of a well- policed Chr iff i- 
 *' an flate, and of the government of a wife 
 *' and godly prince, rather, with mild and 
 " provident remedies, to prevent growing 
 " mifchiefs, than afterwards to feek to weed 
 *' thern out with rigorous and bloody means, 
 *' when they are already planted." 
 
 *= Had. MSS. FoL 7007. 
 
 7 - The 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 189 
 
 The murder of Henry IV. of France by 
 Ravaillac on the 4th of May, O.S. 1610, was 
 a fevere (hock to the Prince, who had ahvays 
 had the higheft efteem of the heroic qualities of 
 that monarch, ns the latter had a reciprocal re- 
 gard for his Highnefs, and fuch a confidence in 
 rhim, that one of our hiftorians ^ affuies us, that 
 be had feen papers, which make it more than 
 probable, that the Prince was not only ac- 
 quainted with the fecret defign of the King's 
 vaft preparations, m.ade by him fome time 
 before his death, but hkewife engaged in it. 
 
 The Prince had no fooner heard of that 
 King's affafimation, than he difpatched an 
 account of it by Sir David Foulis to his cou- 
 lin Frederic Ulric, fon of the Duke of Brunf- 
 wick, then at Bath, who, in a vifit, which he 
 made to England in April, 1610, had been 
 lodged and entertained by the Prince &. Upon 
 receiving this melancholy news, he wrote to 
 
 *" Dr. Welwood's Memoirs,/). 19. edit. 1710. This 
 writer likewife informs us, " that the Duke ot" Sully be- 
 *' ing in England, to congratulate King James upon his 
 *' acceflion to the crown, laid the foundation of a flridl 
 *' friendlhip between his mafter and Prince Henry, which 
 ** was afterwards carried on by letters and meflages till 
 *' the death of that King." But this fa6t is irreconcile- 
 able with the chronology of the voyage of Monf. de Rofny 
 to England, who arrived at Dover on the i5rh of June, 
 N. S. [Memolres ouOeconomies Royales^ Tom. iV. p. 347. 
 edit. Roiien, 1663] and left the Englifh court before the 
 Queen and Prince arrived there [ibid. p. 522.] 
 
 6 Arabaflades de Monf, de la Boderie, Tome V. p. 222. 
 General Chronicle of England, />. 895. 
 
 his 
 
igo THE LIFE Of' 
 
 his Highnefs a letter in French from Bath oti 
 the 13th of May^, expreffing his aftoniihment 
 and confufion at fo execrable an a6t, and hh 
 apprehenfions of the troubles, which might 
 arife from it. He defired the Prince's e?dcu{c 
 for not enlarging upon that fubjecS in his letter, 
 which refentment and grief prevented hMi 
 from being able to do, referving it for that 
 happy hour, when he ' hoped to enjoy his 
 Highnefs's converfation, at his intended re- 
 turn within a few days to his court. 
 
 The States General having again allured the 
 Prince by letters, as well as by their -ambaf- 
 fadors, of their high regard for him, he re- 
 turned them, in a letter in French of the 14th 
 of the fame month of May', his thanks for the 
 continuation of their friendfhip. 
 
 The time appointed for the creation of his 
 Highnefs Prince of Wales drawing near, ort 
 Wednefday the 30th of May, being accompa- 
 nied by divers young noblemen, &s well as his 
 own fervants, he rode about twelve o'clock from 
 St. James's to Richmond, where he fupped 
 and repofed himfelf for that night. The next 
 day the Lord-Mayor of London, vvith his 
 brethren the Aldermen, and fifty-four of the 
 companies of the city, in their barges, diftiri- 
 guifhed by their proper enfigns, banners, aM 
 ftreamers, paiTed up the Thames to Chelfe^l, 
 wl^ere, from nine in the morning, they vs^ait^ 
 *^' < h Harl. MSS. VoK 7007. ^ Ibid. ' '^^'"^ 
 
 ^i " the 
 
tIE'N1l¥ Prince OP Wales. 19^ 
 (he Prince's coining ; whofe dinner tN'as pre- 
 pared at the court of Whitehall, ■ and thofe of 
 the Lprd-Mayor and companies at their feveral 
 halls. But,^ hy realbn of the low ebb of/jie 
 river, his Hip-hnefs could not reach Chelfea till 
 four in the afternoon, having been firil enter- 
 tained widi a banquet by the way about Barn- 
 elms. Upon his arrival at Chelfea, where the 
 Lprd-Mayor and his train attended, after 
 ipieeches made to biim by a reprefentatioh 
 of Neptune upon a dolphin, and that of. a 
 fea-goddefs upon a whale, they proceeded 
 towards the court, the infeiior companies firfl, 
 and the Lord-Mayor's barge between the two 
 .fea-monftcrs next before hi- t^^Ii^hnefs's barge, 
 followed by others, in w^hich were his fervUnjLs, 
 and the barges of the noblemen. When ihcy 
 ^ame widiin fight of Whitehall, the companies 
 vof London were ordered to keep along oh the 
 city fide, and the Prince s barge, with fcilie 
 others of the principal noblemen, to go on the 
 Lambeth fide, and fo to dired their courfe to 
 the, bridge at Whitehall. Here his Highnefs, 
 taking leave of the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen, 
 landed, and was received by the officers of the 
 King's houfhold j at th:^ gate, where he landed, 
 by tSe Knight Marfhal and the Serjeant Por- 
 iter; in the hall by the Treafurer and Com- 
 ptroller of. the houflioldi in the great chamber 
 by the Captain. of the guards; and in the pF€- 
 fence chamber by the h^v4 Cljambeflaini and 
 
192 THE LIFE OF 
 
 fo into the privy chamber, where the Kin^ 
 
 and Queen met him'^. 
 
 His Majefcy having, on Sunday, June 3d, 
 made five and tweny Knights of the bathj 
 proceeded the next day to the creation of the 
 Prince of Wales, the patent for which was 
 paffed that very day'. The place provided 
 for this folemnity was within the great white 
 chamber in the palace of Weflminiter, where 
 both the houfcs of parliament being for that 
 time aflembled, togedier with the Lord-Mayor 
 and Aldermen, and Amballadors of Spain, Ve- 
 nice, and the States General, the King enter- 
 ing in his Royal robes, and with his crown 
 upon his head, firft took his place of ftate, his 
 train being fupported by the Lord Vifcount 
 Cranborne and the Lord Burghley, fon of the 
 Earl of Exeter. After a good fpace of time, 
 the Prince entered at the lower end of the m-eat 
 chamber, having a fur-coat of purple velvet, 
 clofe girt. The order of his entrance was this : 
 the trumpets founding, in the firft place came 
 the Earls of Worcefler and Suffolk, the for- 
 mer Lord Chamberlain, the other Earl Marflial. 
 In the next place followed the tu-enty-five 
 Knights of the bath, the Earl of Oxford, the 
 Lords Gordon, Clifford, Fitzwalter, Fitz- 
 warren. Hay, Erlkine, Windfor, and Went- 
 
 •^ General Chronicle of England, p. 890. Abridge- 
 ment of the Englifn Chronicle, p. 500, 501. 
 
 ^ Rymer, Tom. XVI. p. 688. edit. London^ ^7^5- 
 
 worth. 
 
H E N RY Prince OF Wales. 193 
 
 tVorlh, Sir Charles and Sir Edward Somerfef, 
 Sir Francis and Sir William Stewart, Sir Robert 
 Sidney, Sir Henry Carey, Sir Oliver St. John, 
 Sir Ferdinando' Touchet, Sir Henry Rich, Sir 
 Edmund Sheffield, Sir Ferdinando Dudley, 
 Sir Gilbert Gcrrard, Sir Peregrine Bertie, Sir 
 Charles Stanhope,' Sir Wiiiiam Cavcndifli, 
 and Sir Edward Bruce; all in their robes of 
 purple fat'iin. Next thefe followed Garter 
 king at arms, bearing the letters patent; the 
 Earl of Sufiex the Prince's robes of purple 
 velvet; the Earl of Huntington the train; the 
 Earl of Cumberland the fi'^'-ord; the Earl of 
 Rutland the ring; the Earl of Derby the rod 
 of gold; and the Earl of Shrewfbury the cap 
 and crown. The Earls of Nottingham and 
 Northampton fupported the Prince, who, pre- 
 fenting himfelf before the King with very fub- 
 miflive reverence, kneeled upon the uppermcil: 
 Hep leading to the rtate, while his patent waS 
 read by the Earl of Salifbury, till it came to 
 the putting on of his robes, fword, and the 
 reft, by the Lords, who carried them : but the 
 crown, rod, ring, and patent, were delivered 
 to him by the King's own hands. This being 
 done, and the Prince with a low reverence 
 •offering to depart, the King ftept to him, and 
 took him by the hand, and kilTcd him. H's 
 Ilighnefs then took his place on the left hand 
 of his Majefty, fitting there in his Royal robes, 
 with the crown upon his head, the rod in one 
 
 O hand^ 
 
194 THE LIFE OF 
 
 hand, and the patent in the other, while 
 a public adt was read, teftifying his having 
 been declared Prince of Great Britain and 
 Wales. After this they returned down, through 
 Weflminfter hall, to the palace bridge in this 
 'manner; firft the Mafters of the chancery, the 
 King's council, &c. then the Officers at arms; 
 then the Knights of the bath; after them the 
 Judges ; who were followed by the whole par- 
 liament, Barons, Vifcounts, Earls, and Mar- 
 quifes, having their coronets on their heads; 
 Norroy and Clarencieux going next before the 
 Lord Treafurer and the Lord Chamberlain, 
 and Garter King at arms next before the fword. 
 Thus they proceeded to the ftairs, where all 
 took water in feveral barges; the Heralds and 
 trumpets going in the row-barge next before the 
 Knights, and landed at Whitehall bridge, where 
 the Officers of arms, the Knights of the bath, 
 and the Lords, being firft landed, attended the 
 King; and when his Majefty and the Prince 
 were landed, they went all before him into 
 the hall, and fo into the great chamber, whence 
 the Prince came to dinner in the great hall. His 
 Majefty dined privately in his privy chamber; 
 but his Highnefs was ferved in fuch flate, that 
 greater could not have been done to the King 
 himfelf. The table, being very long^ vwas 
 ferved with two mefTes of meat; and he,^,wno 
 fat nearell the Prince, was at the fuirdiitaiice 
 . of half the board from him, The Earl of Pe^- 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 195 
 broke performed the office of fewer j the Earl 
 fpf Southampton was carver, the Earl of Mont- 
 gomery cup-bearer, and the Lord Walden, 
 'eldeft fon of the Earl of Suffolk, brought the 
 ^glafs with water. The noblemen, who fat at 
 Biis table, all in their robes as well as the 
 ' prince, were the Marquis of Winchefler, the 
 Earls of Salifbury, Northampton, Nottingham, 
 'Shrewsbury, Derby, Cumberland, Hunting- 
 ^ipn, and Suffex. At a long fide- board dined 
 'all the Knights of the bath, and no other 
 perfon. During the whole time of dinner 
 the hall refounded with all kinds of exquifite 
 
 muflC"". ^ rfV^j^M 
 
 The n6xt day was graced widi a magnifi- 
 cent mafk, wliich was double. In the firft 
 " a<fl came in firfl the young Duke of York, 
 , ■ ijetween two great fea-ilaves, the chiefefl of 
 ^Neptune^s fervants, attended upon by twelve 
 ■'little ladies, all daughters of Earls or Barons. 
 One of thefe men made a fpeech to the King 
 and Prince, exprefTing the defign of the mafkj 
 and another put a fword, worth at leafl twenty 
 thoufand crowns, into the Duke of York's 
 hands, who prefented it to the Prince his 
 brother from the firfl: of thofe ladies, who 
 fwere to follow in the next mafk. This done, 
 the Duke returned to his former place in the 
 midfl of the flage, and the Jittle ladies per- 
 
 . "^ Winwood's Memorials, A/. ///. p. 179, 180. and 
 General Chronicle of England, />. 900, 991. 
 
 O 2 formed 
 
 <i 
 
1^6 THE LIFE or '^^ 
 
 formed their dance to the furprife of eveiy" 
 perfon, who faw them, confidering the tendef- 
 nefs of their years, and the many intricate 
 changes in the dance, which was fo difpofed, 
 that, which way foever they moved, the Duke 
 was ftill in the centre. After this came in 
 the Queen, the Lady Elizabeth her daughter^ 
 and the Lady Arbella Stewart, with the Count- 
 effes of Arundel, Derby, Eflex, Dorfet, and 
 Montgomery, the Vifcountefs Hadington, the 
 Lady Elizabeth Grey, the Lady Windfor, the 
 Lady Katharine Petre, the Lady Elizabeth 
 Guildford, and the Lady Mary Wintour. 
 After thefe had performed their parts, there 
 followed a banquet ". 
 
 . The third and laft day, Wednefday, was 
 not inferior to any of the former, either in 
 Hiew or performance. In the afternoon, in 
 the Tilt-yard, feveral noblemen, and other 
 perfons of diftindion, in rich armour, and 
 caparifons embroidered with pearl, gold, and 
 lilver, and fplendid habiliments on their horfes, 
 prefented their feveral devices and trophies 
 before the King and Prince ^ and then ran at 
 tilt. Thefe tilters were the Duke of Lennox, 
 the Earls of Arundel, Pembroke, Dorfet,- and 
 Montgomery; the Lords Walden, Compton, 
 Norris, North, Hay, and Dingwall; Sir Tho- 
 mas Somerfct, Sir Thomas Howard, Sir Henry 
 Carey, Sir Sigifmund Alexander, and Mr. 
 " Winwood, p. 180, 18 1. and Chronicle, p. 991. 
 
 Henry 
 
 1 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 197 
 Henry Alexander. The Earl of Pembroke 
 brought in two caparifons of peach-coloured 
 velvet, embroidered all over with oriental 
 pearls; but the Lord Walden carried away 
 the reputation of bravery for that day. At 
 night were exhibited naval triumphs on the 
 river oppolite to the court, with fliips of war 
 and gallies fighting againft each other, and 
 againft a caftle built in the water, Thefe 
 battles were followed for the fpace of an hour 
 by fireworks in that caflle, and in all the fiiips 
 and gallies, without the leaft accident to any 
 perfon, though the Thames was covered in a 
 manner with boats, and the banks with fpe^fla- 
 tors °. 
 
 Soon after the folemnity of his Highnefs's > 
 creation, that acute and learned divine Dr. Tho- 
 mas Morton, then Dean of Winchefler, and af- 
 terwards fucceffively Biihop of Cheiler, Litch- 
 field, and Durham, prefented to the Prince, 
 with a dedication, his Encou7iter againft father 
 Parfons p on a queftion, which had been agitat- 
 ed between them. It was concerning the law- 
 fulnefs oi Equivocation^ which had been ftrenu- 
 oufly maintained by that fubtle Jefuit, who had 
 even prefumed to impute the pradfice of it to our 
 Saviour himfelf : of which, however, he was 
 faid to have repented "^ before his death, that 
 
 ° Win wood, p. 18 1. General Chronicle,/*. 991. 
 P Printed at London in ^to. 
 
 1 Life and Death of Thomas Lord Bifliop of Durham, 
 by John Barwick, D. D. p. 131. London, 1660, 410. 
 
 O 3 hap- 
 
198 THELIFEOF . '1 
 
 happened in the beginning of April, 1610, 
 before the pubUcation of Dr. Morton's book. 
 Sir Edward Cet:il, third fon of Thomas Earl 
 of Exeter, and grandfon of tlie Lord Trea- 
 furer Burghley, who had long ferved in the 
 wars of the Low Countries, and was created, 
 in 1627, Vifcount Wimbledon, having been 
 appointed by King James, in March 1609-10, 
 to command the Englifli forces employed in 
 the war about the fucceilion to the deceafed 
 Puke of Cleves, wrote on the 29th of July, 
 J 610, from the camp before Juliers, a letter 
 to the Prince, who feems to have defired from 
 him an account of the tranfadions in thofe 
 parts. He requefled his Highnefs to pardon 
 him for not having written before, fince no- 
 thing had till then happened worthy of his 
 knowledge. But that now they had inverted 
 the town of Juliers, and already ufed fuch 
 diligence in their approaches, that they had 
 lodged themfelves in the points of fome of the 
 out-works. In order that the Prince might 
 more particularly underftand, how the fiege 
 had hitherto been carried, Sir Edward fent him 
 a draught of their quarters, how they lay; and 
 of the town and caftle, and of their approaches 
 !to it. *' The place, adds he^ is exceeding 
 •' ftrong by art j the governor well fur-<- 
 ■* nifhed with men and ammunition j yet we 
 ^V prcfs him fo nighly with our approaches, 
 , ,hi ■ Hiirl. MSS. Vd. yoo/i-o.) ym to 
 
 p^j " !'that, 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 199 
 ** that, if his expeded relief from the Empe-^ 
 " ror and the Archduke fail him (as without 
 ** doubt it will) the town in three weeks time 
 ** more will, in all men's judgments, be ren- 
 " dered into our hands. And I dare promife 
 " it fliajl appear to your Highnefs, that your 
 ** humble and loyal fervants have not gained 
 " to themfelves the leaft part of honour and 
 *' reputation in the carriage of the whole liege'. 
 *' 1 am only unhappy in one thing, that th^ 
 *' mutinous and unvvonhy carriage of Sir 
 " Thomas Dutton, whom your IKghnefs was 
 ** pleafed to favour beyond his merit, hath 
 " from time to time difturbed the courfe of 
 *' the fervice; having even, at his {\vi\ arrival 
 " here, braved me at the head of the troops, 
 ** daring to tell me to my face, that it feemed 
 *' his Majefty had given me a commiflion to 
 *' abufe men, when there was nothing in 
 " queftion but the doing of the duty of a 
 " captain, which he ought not to difpute 
 ** amongft us, feeing it was the fiifl time, 
 '** that ever he or his company came into the 
 *** field amongft us : and ever fmce, in all 
 *' meetings, he hath difputed my commiHion 
 " and authority fo far, and with fo much 
 *' fcorn, that, though hitherto in refpeft of 
 " your Highnefs 1 have contained myfelf; 
 "yet feeing that now again, in a public 
 ** aflembly, he hath contemptibly fpoken 
 *' of my commiflion, and, upon bafe advan- 
 ,if>ii'' O 4 *' tage, 
 
200 T H E L I F E OV^ H 
 
 *' tage, hurt Sir Hatton Cheke^ his Colo* 
 " ncl, who took upon him the defence of it, 
 " I mod humbly b^^feech your Highnefs to be 
 ** fo far from giving him countenance herein, 
 '' that your Highnefs will be rather pleafed 
 " to allow of that, which jullice here fliall 
 • * allot him ; prefuming, that your Highnefs's 
 ** princely judgment will find it expedient, 
 " that I be difchareed of fuch a bnd member, 
 " which, in the heat of his Majclly's fervice, 
 *' dare conteft with me, and be content, upon 
 " any terms, to murder his commander.' I 
 *' can wifh no greater happinefs in the world, 
 ** than that your Highnefs will vouchfafe to 
 " be judge in any thing, that may concern 
 ^' my honour J all m.y fludies and endeavours 
 *' tending wholly to this end, to make myfcif 
 ** capable of doing your Highnefs all humble 
 *' and loyal fervice. 
 
 '--;** I fear I have interrupted your Highnefs 
 *' too long ; but the confequence of thefe 
 *' bufineffes in our profeffiiOn is fuch, that I 
 *^ cannot but prefume of your princely inter- 
 *' pretation of them; and the rather, that it 
 *' touches fo highly his Majefty's and your 
 
 ^ Second fon of Sir Henry Cheke, eldeft: fon of Sir 
 John Cheke, "Fiitor to King Edward VI, Tliis Sir 
 Hatton Cheke was, foon after the furrender of Jviliers, 
 killed in a duel on Calais fands by Sir Thomas Dutton, 
 who lived many years after, dying May i6, 1634, 
 Letters of Thomas Earl of StrafForde, FoL I. p. 255 an<i 
 
 '' High- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 20 r 
 *' Highnefs's fervice; to which there is no 
 " man more devoted than 
 
 *' Your Plighnefs's moil humble 
 
 "And loyal Servant/* 
 
 The Prince acknowledged his fatisfadion in 
 Sir Edward Cecil's correlpondence by a letter 
 under his own hand ; which occafioned a fecond 
 to his Pliiihnefs from tliat peneraL dated from 
 the iiege of Gulick or Juliers on the 21 ft of 
 Augult \ 
 
 *' T Am fo full, fays /v, of that great and 
 " -^ high favour, which your Highnefs hath 
 *' vouchfafed to caft upon me by your own 
 *' princely hand, that it hath given me a new 
 *' life and encouragement to all my endea- 
 " vours; and in it hath brought me into a fair 
 *' large, field of your Highnefs's juftice and 
 *' equity, wherein I dare for ever fafely walk^ 
 *' feeing I have your Plighnefs's warrant for 
 " it: And 1 hope God will add fuch bleliings 
 " to your Highnefs's favour to me, that I Ihall 
 " gather flirength and abilities in my prefeffion 
 " to be able, in your happieft days, to become 
 *' a poor inftrument in fome remarkable and 
 ** princely undertaking of your own. It is the 
 ^' happinefs, after which I thirft, and in which 
 J' J will eafily lay down my life. 
 
 ' Had. MSS. Fo/. 7CC7. 
 
 *•' Touch- 
 
202 T PIE LIFE OF 
 
 -^M; Touching the actions of this fiege, whereof 
 ** your Highnefs is pleafed to be advertifed,' 
 '' fhis day our labour is growing towards an 
 **.icnd: for the governor hath called to parly, 
 ** demanded condition"?, and within a day or 
 ** tvv'O we look to have troops in the town^ 
 *' We were fo happily advanced in our ap- 
 *' proaches, fince I wrote my lalT: to yourHigh- 
 *' nefs, that we had long fince taken from 
 *' them their outworks, paiTed over the ditch 
 *' of the caftle with four galleries, and were 
 ** lodged at the foot of their ramparts, and 
 *' have made two great mines, which to-mor- 
 'V.row would have been ready to firej and the 
 *VfC^rxnon, in our Englifh approaches, had al- 
 *' ready played with that fury upon the foot of 
 *' the bulwark, that a great breach was made, 
 " and certainly within two days we fhould 
 ** have been entered upon that place: yet the 
 " governor had made Ihew of new defences 
 ** wiihin, by cutting off the bulwark nigh the 
 *' fhoulder, having purpofe to difpute that 
 *' as his laft retreat. But we prefTed him fo 
 " near, that he durll not attend any aflault, 
 " nor give us leave to fee the operation 6f our 
 " mines, which we much deiired, that we 
 *' might have had a true experience, how 
 powder works in fo high and fo thick a wall, 
 the like being no where to be found both 
 
 * It was furrendered the next day, Augui(^2^d» .J^io. 
 
 Winwood, Fol, III. p. 210. t.^m^\ .\ijti ,otk ■. 
 
 4 ;.ino3Joy?p 
 
 (C 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 203 
 
 ** in that and all other perfed:ions of fortifica- 
 
 ** tions, as I will make appear by tli£ particu- 
 
 " larities, when I (liall have that great happi- 
 
 ** nefs to kils your Highnefb's hands, and ren- 
 
 " der account of all that hath palled here : 
 
 " Till which time, and for ever, 1 will offer 
 
 *' up my humble prayers for your Highnefs's 
 
 *' continual happinefs, and everlaftingly ap- 
 
 '* prove myfelf ^r;;,3ii 
 
 ' *^ YouF Highnefs's mofl hurnbfe 
 .eqmri T')rl3 V ^^^ ^^^oted Servant." 
 
 The creation of his Highncfs Prince of 
 Wales made it neceffary to examine into tlie 
 rights and prerogatives belonging to a title, 
 which had not been known fince Edward, 
 fon of Henry VIII. and afterwards King him- 
 felf, to whom it had been given 1 8 Odlob. 1537, 
 he was only fix days old*. Upon all fuch 
 inquiries, Sir Robert Cotton was the mod 
 proper perfon of his time to be confulted ; 
 and accordingly Sir Thomas Chaloner wrote 
 to him the following letter " : 
 
 ** SIR} 
 
 ** A FTER our parting, I ceafcd not to 
 
 '* -^^ renew our fuit, for fo I mufl: call it, 
 
 " we both having intereft therein ; particularly 
 
 " I informed his Highnefs of your good means 
 
 *^ Lord Herbert's Life and Reign pf King Henry VIIl, 
 p. 430, edit. London, 1649. Jhl. 
 
 * Cotton Library, Ju/ms Cafaty C. Ill, 
 
 *' to 
 
ct 
 
 204 THELIFEOF 
 
 '* to let him nnderftand, what appertaineth to 
 ** him by anticnt precedents 3 which, as froni 
 
 you, he is very delirous to fee. Wherefore 
 
 I pray you to fend me a* letter, which I 
 **' may fhew him, wherein you may fpecify 
 " "your defire to do him fervice, and the good 
 ** flore vou have to accomplifh the fame. The 
 " papers I defire to acquaint him withal are 
 " thele following : 
 
 *' In what manner he ought to fign? 
 
 *' Whether the Queen or he ought iirft to 
 «' fign? 
 
 *' Whether the Queen, the Prince, or Dcike 
 " of Richmond % or Cardinal Wolfey, had a 
 " marflial or verge? 
 
 *' The office of Receiver. 
 
 " The duty of the Chamberlain in the 
 ** prefence to give notice of the King's reft. 
 
 ** Whether any records are extant of com- 
 " miflions in Wales during the Prince's times; 
 *' and whether his officers were named there- 
 *' in? 
 
 *' The commiffions of Queen Mary and her 
 *' houffiold. 
 
 " By reafon of his Highnefs's foon departure 
 
 from hence with the King, I defire to inform 
 
 him thereof with fpeed. So I reft 
 
 *' Your's alTuredly, 
 " Thomas Chaloner." 
 
 * Henry Fltzroy, natural fon of Henry VIII. by Eli- 
 zabeth daughter of Sir John Blount. 
 
 * ' Soon 
 
 <( 
 
HENRY PRINCE OF Wales. 20^ 
 Sioon after the Prince was invefted in the 
 pofleffion of the duchy of Cornwall, a pro- 
 pofal was given in to him by one Monf. Ville- 
 fi^reft, for extra<5ting lilver out of lead. The' 
 examination of this projetft being intruded by 
 his Hi^hnefs to Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir 
 William Godolphin^ ; the former, on the ifl 
 of Auguft, wrote to him the following letter'' 1 
 
 *' \/T AY it pleafe your Ilighnefs to be ad- 
 cc IVX vertifed, that, being jealous of die 
 " melTenger's diligence, by whom I addrcflcd 
 ** letters lately to Mr. Newton, I thought it 
 '' my duty, by thefe lines, to give account of 
 *' the charge committed to Sir William Godol« 
 *' phin and myfelf. 
 
 ** After conference had widi the French Am-- 
 *' baiTador, we found, that Vilicforcft, who 
 " pretends to be mafter of the fecret concern- 
 ** ing lead, had by fome kind of proof given 
 " him good aifurancc, that he was able- to 
 *.' maintain his projed. Neverthelefs our care 
 '' proceeded by tefling what the Englifli under- 
 " takers could do to draw this filver mine ta 
 
 - ^ Eminent for his fervices in the wars in Ireland againfl: 
 the rebels there. He was one of the Knights for the county 
 df Cornwall, and died in 1613. He was grandfather to 
 Sidney Earl of Godolphin, Lord Treafurcr in the reigii 
 of Qi^ieen Anne. 
 
 ; J' Harl. MSS, Fol. 7007. This letter muft be written' 
 in 1 610, becaufe the French Ambaflador mentioned in it,- 
 Monf. de la Boderie, was not in England in 161 1 ; and tha 
 Lord Treafurer, the Earl of Salifbury, was dead before 
 Auguft, 16 1 2, 
 
 " your 
 
«o6 THELIFEOF 
 
 *' your Highnefs's difpofing, upon the bert 
 " terms, that we might procure. But, by 
 " three feveral encounters with them, we had 
 *' juft occafion to fufpedl, that they grounded 
 * ' their hopes rather upon a conceit of drawing 
 ** the Frenchman to their party, than out of 
 " any certain experiment of their own . Where- 
 *^ fore, betaking ourfelves wholly to draw him 
 •* to fome ifTue (being efpecially follicited there- 
 *' unto by my Lord Treafurer) we refolved to 
 '* propound certain demands to Villeforeft, 
 '* which, being fully and clearly anfwered, 
 *' {hould be the readieft means to cut off all 
 ** delays, and to difcover, whether he were 
 *' a perfecfl artift, or to give fufficient rca- 
 *' fons to induce us to believe his words. 
 *-' This prefent day, defigned for our anfwer, 
 paffed without farther fatisfadion unto us 
 than a fliort meffage, implying, that the 
 AmbaiTador was refolved to refpite his reply, 
 ** until by his own experience he had better 
 informed himfelf of every particular fet down 
 in our demands. And for that purpofe his 
 intent is to fct up a furnace to-morrow, to 
 ** make a great aflay of forty or fifty pounds 
 ** weight at one melting. For the breaking 
 •' of his pots, or (as I fufped) the diffidence 
 ** in his own fcience, makes him to fearch 
 *' every corner of his fhifts. I pray God, that 
 ** I may have occafion to confefs my aim to 
 •* have failed. By reafon of this new reacli, 
 
 " which 
 
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 <« 
 
 <c 
 
HEN RY Prince of Wales. 207 
 
 ^ylV which is incertain. Sir William Godolphin, 
 .** whofe care and defire to ferve your High- 
 nefs hath been mofl forward, prelTed with 
 important bulinefs, is conftrained to leave 
 this town. In the mean time, my Lord 
 Treafurer ccafeth not, by daily foUiciting the 
 end of this bufinefs, to give your Highnefs 
 aflurance of his zeal to profecute any fervice 
 committed to his charge. And if the French- 
 man had been as ready to make good his 
 offer, as his Lordfhip was refolute to fign the 
 contra«ft, I had, before this time, been the 
 melTenger of good news. Yet, according 
 to your Highnefs's command, I will attend 
 to fee to what end tliefe great promifes will 
 tend ; and therewithal to let the French 
 Ambaffador undeiftand, that he is duly 
 refpeded, according to his rank and worth. 
 Fearful to offend with length, I reft 
 
 ** Your Ihghnefs & ^^^ 
 
 <( 
 
 <c 
 
 ]-*rii' 
 
 *' Mofl humble Servant, 
 Aug. I. liic ni '■* 
 
 " Thomas Chaloner.*' 
 
 The Prince, whofe attention to public affair^, 
 ^both at home and abroad, increafed with his 
 years, had engaged Sir Thomas Edmondes, 
 before he fet out on his embaffy to the cOu'ft 
 of France, v;here he arrived in the latter end 
 of May, 1610, to communicate to him fome 
 
2o8 THE LIFE OF 
 
 account of the courfe of thInG:s there. Sir 
 Thomas not having done this for feme months, 
 Mr. Newton, in a letter from Richmond of 
 the 2d of September, 1610, put him in mind 
 of his promile, and let him know, that his 
 Highnefs expeded the performance of it j and 
 that, if Sir Thomas would dire(5l his letters to 
 him, Mr. Newton, he would be careful, that 
 they lliould go no farther than that Ambada- 
 dor fliould himfelf appoints 
 
 ',The fliip, which the Prince, Ss has been 
 already obferved, had made feveral journies to 
 Woolwich to fee, while it was building, was 
 now finiflied, and ready to be launched, being 
 the largeft, that ever had been built in. England. 
 The keel was an hundred and fourteen feet 
 long, and the crofs-beam forty- four feet. "It 
 was able to carry fixty-four pieces of great ord- 
 nance, and the burthen was 1400 tuns. It was 
 likewife as remarkable for the ornaments of 
 carving, painting, and gilding, as for its fize'. 
 The King, having made a prefent of this fliip 
 to his Highnefs, went, on the 24th of Septem- 
 ber, to Woolwich, to fee it launched, attended 
 with the Queen, the Prince, the Duke of York, 
 and the Lady Elizabeth, befides a great num- 
 ber of Lords. But the narrownefs of the docJc 
 preventing its being then launched, his Majefty 
 returned, v^ith the reft of the Royal family^ 
 
 * Hiftorical Viev/ of the Negotiations between the 
 courts of England, France, and Brufl'els, p. 327, 328. 
 "General Chronicle, p, 996. 
 
 except 
 
H E N R Y Prince op W..\lks. 209 
 
 except his Highneis, who flayed foioe tlaie 
 behind them, in order to prepare for the launch- 
 ing the next morning, when he returned by- 
 three o'clock through a llorm of thunder, 
 hgbtning and rain, and fcanding on the poop^ 
 while the fhip was launched, gave it the name 
 of the Pn'/ice Royal^. 
 
 Preparations being made for the edablifli-r^ 
 ment of the Prince's houihold, which was at 
 iirfi: expected to be fettled about Michaelmas 
 1 6. JO, though afterwards deferred till Decem- 
 ber following, he had many applications for/ 
 olBces in his houfhold. 
 
 Among thefe candidates for places was John . 
 F>{k;ne, then Mafler, and afterwards Earl, of 
 Mar, fon of his Highnefs's former Governor by 
 Anne daughter of David Lord Drummond. He 
 being at Edinburgh fent an exprefs mtlfenger 
 with a letter from thence to the Prince on the 
 8th of September i6io% acquainting him, 
 that upon the affiirance of his Highnefs favour- 
 able promife, he prcfumed to prefcnt his 
 humble duty; and in regard, that he under- * 
 ftood, that his Highnefs was to fettle the order"; 
 of his houfe about Michaelmas, he deiired to 
 know, whether at that time his Highnefs 
 would have any prefent ufe of his fcrvice. 
 ** For aitho', fays he^ I perfuade myfeif (as 
 " your Highnefs (hewed me) that none are to 
 
 •'' MS. Life of Mr. Phineas Pett, p. 55. 
 ' Hail. MSS. Fol. 7C07. 
 
 P " le 
 
^10 THE LIFE OF 
 
 " be fworn of your bedchamber ; yet if any 
 " fliould be admitted to have accefs to it at 
 "*' any particular tim'.s, when your Plighnefs 
 *' {liould appoint, I hope in that cafe your 
 " Highnefs would not be unmindful of your 
 " affciftionate fervant, whofe greateft happinefs 
 " is to remain your Highnefs's moft dutiful 
 *' fubjedl and humble fervant. 
 
 *' I fhall be ready to come cr ftay, accord- 
 *' ing as I {hall undcrfland your Highnefs's 
 *' pleafure either by writ, or as you pleafe to 
 •* make it known to this bearer." 
 
 The Lord Clinton, eldeft fon of Henry Earl 
 of Lincoln, was another petitioner to the 
 Prince on this occafion i and in his letter ^ he 
 acknowledged, that his fortunes, which had 
 hitherto debarred him from attending either 
 his Majefty or the Prince, fo that it was fcarce 
 known to his Highnefs, whether there were 
 fuch a man, urged him *' to prefent, fays 
 *^ be, my fervice unto your Highnefs, whofe 
 " virtue promifeth, that it will pour the efFe(ft3 
 " of your favour as v/ell on them, that may 
 " deferve it moft, (if I feern not unworthy to 
 *' be thought of that number) as on them, 
 •' that are nearer, and beg harder. My humble. 
 *' fuit to your Highnefs is, that now, to* the 
 **, ineffable comfort and joy of this land, God 
 " hath bleiled you with thofe years, as your 
 ^' Highnefs is to increafe your houfhold, and 
 
 •« Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 " take 
 
HENRY Prince of V/alf.s. hi 
 
 "" take officers, you would vouchfafe'to accept 
 *' of me in fuch place, as fliiili It'em beil to 
 *' your Highnefs ; in whofc fervice 1 fhall think 
 *' my time moft happily beftowed ever here- 
 " after, when by courfe of nature I /hall be 
 '^ enabkd to do your Highnefs as good fervice, 
 " as others of my rank." 
 
 Sir Arthur Gorges, already mentioned, and" 
 who married Elizabeth, the fifler of this Lord 
 Clinton- thought likewife this a proper occa- 
 f)on to remind the Prince of liimfelf in the 
 foliowing.letter : 
 
 ** T> EING, as I am, the fworn fervant of 
 " -^ no Prince living, although a mofl: loyal 
 " fubje^t to my dread Sovereign your fatherj 
 ** I retain in myfelf the freer power humbly' 
 *' to make offer of my domefcic fervice tO' 
 " your Highnefs; yet not with an humour to 
 ** follicit the fame by the mediation of great 
 " men; for that were to anticipate your owri' 
 ** liking in the free eledion of your fervants, 
 ** whofe young years are moH: bleffedly fea- 
 " foned' with mature and prudent judgment' 
 ** in all your proceedings. Neither do I affed:, 
 *' by infinuation or gift, to purchafc fuch my" 
 ** hopes by the means of any in favour about 
 ** you ; forthat were bafely to defpairof my own 
 ** worth, or unreverently to fafpecft a wcak- 
 " nefs in your conftant refolutions, which I 
 ** knew to be directed with that perfect I'ion! 
 '" of reafon, that enables you to counfcl your 
 
 P 2 *^ coun- 
 
212 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' counfellor. And therefore in this purfuit 
 *' the fartiion of my life and reputation in the 
 *' world fliall only plead and teftify for me, 
 *' that only for your fake am willing of a free 
 *' man to become a fervant. Wherefore if, by 
 ** your only grace and favour, I may be re- 
 *^ ceived into any fuch place of credit or em- 
 ** ployment, as may minifter occafion unto me 
 *' to exprefs my devoted endeavours to the 
 '* honour and advancement of your fervicej 
 ** in that loyal defire, moft heroic Prince, my 
 " induftry and fidelity fliall be fo confined, as 
 *' that I doubt not, but to perform fuch ho- 
 " nefl offices, as fhall be both pleafing and 
 " profitable to fo worthy a mafler, and juflly 
 *' merit the increafe of your gracious opinion 
 *' towards me, that will ever, as I am bound, 
 " approve mylelf your Highnefs's moft hum- 
 " ble and moft faithful fervant." 
 
 Tlie laft letter, which I fliall produce on 
 this fubjedt, is from William Cecil, Lord Roos, 
 great grandfon of the Lord Treafurer Burghley. 
 It was dated from Nonefuch on the 12th of 
 Odober''. " Howfoever, y2z)'j he, I was not 
 *' remembered amongft the number of your 
 " Highnefs's attendants j yet I truft I fhall 
 " never fo far forget myfelf, as to forget my 
 " duty and fervice. And truly this is my 
 " comfort, that though my bodily fervice may 
 *' be reftrained, yet no man living fliall keep 
 " back my heait and inward aflfeSion to be a 
 * Harl. MSS. Vol. 7007. 
 
 ** con- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 213 
 
 *• continual follower and moft humble fervitor 
 *' at your Grace's command. If my inde- 
 * 'merits hath procured me this difhonour, or 
 ** want of fincere affeftion to your Highnefs's 
 " perfon, 1 wifli that this may be but the be- 
 " ginning of my misfortunes. If forgetful- 
 " nefs be the only caufe, I care not by whom 
 " I be forgotten, fo I be remembered by my 
 " King, and by you, my moft gracious Prince. 
 '' Thus I moll: humbly take my leave and 
 " commend your Highnefs to the proted:ion 
 " of the Hi^heft." 
 
 The character and condud: of this' young 
 nobleman are too fingular not to deferve being 
 a little inlarged upon in fome circumflances, 
 which do not appear in our hiftory. 
 
 He was sreat 2:randfon of the Lord Trea- 
 furer Burghley, grandfon of Thomas the firfl 
 Earl of Exeter, and fon of William the fecond 
 Earl, by Elizabeth, fole daughter and heir to 
 Edward Manners Earl of Rutland, upon which 
 Lady's deceafe in April 159T, the title of 
 Lord Roos cams to this her only fon. He 
 was fent to travel abroad under the care of 
 Mr. John Molle'', whofe refolution of not 
 
 ' He was born at South Molton in Devon/hire, and 
 had fpent his youth in France, wh^re he vas Treafurer, 
 linder Sir Thomas Shirley, to the En2 ifh arir.y in Bre- 
 tagtie. He was afterwards made examiner to the council 
 in the North by Thomas Karl of Ex; ter, who engaged 
 him to travel with his grandfon Lord Roos. Fuller's 
 Church Hijiory of Great Britain^ B. x. p. 48, .\x). 
 
 P 3 paffing 
 
214 THE LIFE OF 
 
 pafTing the Alpcs was broken through by 
 obftlnacy of his pupil, who could not be di- 
 verted from a journey to Rome, where they 
 were no fooner arrived in the year 1 607, than 
 Mr. Moile was fcized and carried to the inqul- 
 /itloji houfe, where he was kept prifoners 
 thirty y^ars till his deatli in the eighty firfl 
 year of his age. But Lord Roos was received 
 and entertained at Rome with remarkable civi- 
 lity, and was ful'pected to have changed his 
 religion for that of the place ^, as hi3 father 
 had done before him, when in his travels he 
 went thither fccretly in 1585'. 
 
 Lord Roos probably concesl'd his inclina- 
 tion to the church of Rome, while he vi^as.in 
 England ; but he gave but too much fufpicion 
 of it in a journey, wliich he made through 
 Flanders in x^pril and M^y j6ij, fpending 
 the greateft part of his time among the Englifh 
 prieds and refugees there, and cxprefiing on 
 all occafions his ailR-dion for Spain, where he 
 had relided a long while during his travels, and 
 his attachment to the Spanifh intereil ^. In 
 
 the 
 
 p Dr. Jofeph Hall's 9th Epiftle of his VI. Decade is 
 addrefled to Mr. John Mole (fo the Dodor writes the 
 Name) of a long ttme nro) prifoner under the Inquifttion at 
 Rome^ excit'.ng him to his wonted conJlamy\ and encouraging 
 him to martyrdom. ''Fuller, ubi fupra. 
 
 ' Collediicn of ftate papers relating to affairs in the 
 reign of Q^ieoi Elizabeth, publifhed by William Murdin, 
 ]i. D. p. 475. Edit. London^ ^759' 
 
 ^ Thefe circumftances are taken from an original let- 
 ter 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 215 
 
 the year 1612, he went again to Italy j and 
 was afterwards employed by King James, as 
 Ambaffador to the Emperor Matthias, and in 
 the latter end of the year 1616 fent Ambaflador 
 Extraordinary to the Court of Spain '. He had 
 in February before married Elizabeth eldeft 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, principal Secre- 
 tary of ftate™; and in July of the fame year 
 1616, his title of Lord Roos, which had been 
 difputed by Francis Earl of Rutland, was ad- 
 judged in his favour. He returned from Spain 
 ,in March 16 16-17", and in Auguft following 
 fecretly withdrew himfelf out of England °, 
 leaving his eftate in great difordcr, after having 
 fent a challenge to h:s brother-in-law Mr. 
 Arthur Lake ; and though he was required by 
 the Lords of the council to return, refufed to 
 comply with their order p. He died in the 
 fuburbs of Naples, on the 27th of June 16 18, 
 in the profeffion of the church of Rome'', and 
 not without the fufpicion of poifon ^ 
 
 ter of Mr. Thomas Lorkin to Mr. Newton, Secretary 
 to Prince Henry, written in June i6i i. Harl, MSS. Vol. 
 7002. 
 
 ^ Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton, during his 
 EmbafTy in Holland, from January 1615-16, to Decem- 
 ber 1620, p. 69, b' 106. a few copies of which were 
 printed, with an excellent hiftorical preface, by Philip 
 Lord Vifcount Royfton, at London 1657, in 4to. and 
 iince tranflated into French, and publifhed in Holland. 
 
 " Camdeni Annalcs Regis Jacobi, p. ib. " Ibid. 
 
 p. 25. " ibid- p 26. P Letters of Sir Dudley 
 
 Carleton, />. 169, 170. *> Camden, ubi fupra, p. 33. 
 
 » -Idem. p. 34. 
 
 P4 He 
 
2i6 THE L IFE OF 
 
 He appears from fuc'.i of his letters, as have 
 fallen into my hands, to have been a man of 
 good parts and v/ell educated : but his condudl 
 was 'by no means correfpondent; and it is an 
 aftoniiliing inftance of the degeneracy ot a fa- 
 mily, thtt his LofdHiip and his father, the re- 
 prefentatives and heirs of the Lord Treafurer 
 Burghley, (liould have apcftatizcd to that 
 thurch, to whofe interefts that great ftatef- 
 man had aiv/ays lhe\^-n himfelf fo formidable 
 an adverfary. .' )H 
 
 Mr. Thomas Coryat, who with no con- 
 temptible iliare of learning, efpecially in the 
 Latin and Greek Languages, had a degree 
 of /implicity, mixed with fome vanity and 
 mucli pedantry, that made him tiie obje<fr of 
 the pleafan tries of the wits, his contemporaries, 
 having in the latter end of the year 1610, 
 iiniilicd the account of his five months travels 
 in 1608 into Fiance, Italy, Germany, Sec, 
 the Prince, in whofe family he had lived ^, did 
 him the honour of accepting the dedication of 
 it. This made Mr. Coryat very impatient to 
 fee his book in print; and induced him to 
 Wii'.e a letter ■" to Sir Michael Hickes, who had 
 been Secretary to the Lord Treafurer Burghley, 
 requefling him to intercede with the Earl of 
 SaliHriury, then Lord Treafurer, that his book 
 
 » Wood Aihen. Oxon. FcL I. Col. 422. " Dated 
 
 from his cramber in Bow-lane, Nov. 15, 1610. 1 he 
 criminal is in the pofieflion of James Weft, Efq;- > - > 
 
 might 
 
H E N RY Prince OF Wales. 217 
 
 might be printed at London with fome expedi- 
 tion. It was accordingly publiihed there in 4to. 
 the year following, 161 i, with a moft affefted 
 title '^. In the dedication to his Highnefs he 
 takes notice, that the pu'ol idling of his book 
 was chiefiy owing to the importunity of fome 
 of his friends, efpecially Mr. Lionel Cranfield, 
 afterwards Earl of Middlefex, Lord High 
 Treafurer, and Mr. Laurence Whitaker, Se- 
 cretary to Sir Edward Philips, Mafter of the 
 Pvolls; and in the introdudion to the verfes 
 made upon him and his book by moft of the 
 men of wit and learning of that age, in which 
 they ridicule him in a flyle of high Panegyric, 
 which he does not feem to have been fenfible 
 of himfelf, he profefles, that the greatefl part 
 of thofe verfes were fent to him "cchintarily 
 jrom divers of his friends^ from 'whom he 
 expetled no fuch couriefy \ and that when he 
 found them fo numerous, he had refolved to 
 hci've put a ihoufand of ihem into an Index Hx- 
 purgatorius. But the Prince, who evidently 
 had ibme fhare in the diverfi(in, which the 
 prepofterous vanity of our author gave to the 
 public, laid upon him a flrid: and exprefs 
 
 "" It was this; C^ryat^s Crudities hafiily gohUd up in five 
 months travels in France^ Savoy, Italy^ Rhetia, totmuonly 
 culled the Grifons country^ Helvetia^ alias Switzerland, fome 
 parts of Hir^h Germany, and the Netherlands. Neivly di- 
 gejled in the huHgry air of Odcomhe in the county of Somrr- 
 fet, and miv difperfed to the nourijhment of the trave ling 
 numbers of this kingdom. 
 
 com- 
 
2i8 THE LIFE OF 
 
 command to print all thole vcrfes, which he 
 had read to his Highncls. 
 
 The Princ? in December 1610, fettled hit^ 
 hdu^iold, aTid appointed his officers of it "aS 
 well as of his revenues. Of the former were 
 Sir Tho. Chaloner, Chamberlain; Sir Charles 
 CornwalHs, Treafurer; Sir John Holies, after- 
 wards Earl of Clare, Comptroller ; Sir David 
 Foulis, Cofferer, and Sir David Murray, Groom 
 of the ftole. The officers of his revenues 
 were Sir Edward Philips, Mafter of the Rolls^ ' 
 Chancellor 5 Mr. Adam Newton, Secretary; 
 Sir George More, Receiver General; Sir Wil- 
 liam Fleetwood, SuiTeyor General ; Auguftin 
 Nicols, Serjeant; Mr. Thomas Stephens, At- 
 torney, and Mr. Richard Connok, Auditor. 
 
 His Hi2:hnefs made likewife dxid: orders for 
 the government of his whole houHiold, more 
 like a grave, wife, and antient Counfellor, fur- 
 veying, difpoiing and difpatching his affairs, 
 than fo young a Prince. Thefe orders well 
 defer ve to bs tranfmitted to pofterity, and will 
 therefore be inferted, together with feveral 
 papers relating to his houfliold, in the Appe?!- 
 
 There were now allotted to him certain 
 lands for his revenues, which he was fo far 
 from diminifliing, that he left them increafed 
 ibme thoufands of pounds a year. When his 
 
 ^cvja:: 
 
 Number XVII. 
 
 fervants 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 219 
 
 fervants folicited him for grants to themfelves, 
 he fliewed great reludance to gratify them 
 except with hopes, promifes, and delays ; be- 
 caufe he was unwilling, as he faid, to difpofe 
 of any thing, till he had power to do it, which 
 could not be, till either his ow^n age or the 
 Parliament fliould enable him. But as that 
 time was not yet come, he continued in his 
 own frugal courfes, fufFering almoft nothing 
 to pafs in his houfe or other affairs, which he 
 did not himfeif overfee. At lafl confidering 
 with himfeif, that the Principality of Wales, 
 and Duchy of Cornwall, had been long with- 
 out a Prince and Duke of their own, he 
 thought, that it might be proper to fhew his 
 authority by renewing and avoiding of leafes. 
 In purfuance of which refolution, having firft 
 by a writ oi fcire facias annvlled all former 
 j leafes, he brought the tenants to a general fub-* 
 miffion to compound, take, and hold anew of 
 ^ him; which they were all ready to perform a 
 I little before his death. Whereupon furveyors 
 and commiffioners w^ere appointed and dif- 
 patched to furvey all his lands, and to return a 
 true certificate of the whole value; till which 
 was done, being but a little before his lail fick- 
 nefs, he deferred all manner of fuits, becaufe 
 V he was deiirous to be firfl: informed truly, what 
 ! arid how great the demands were'-. 
 
 * CornwalHs, /». 19. 
 
 Among 
 
220 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 Amonc^ other fchcnics for the inla; sfcnicnt 
 of his revenue, there had, in or before the 
 month of October 1 6 (Oj been propofed to him 
 the obtaining from the King a grant of all the 
 forfeitures arifing, or that ought to accrue, to 
 his Majefty from Recufants; his Mighnefs pay- 
 ing yearly to him one thoufand pounds more 
 than was then anfwered for thofe forfeitures^. 
 
 This propofal being referred to the Prince's 
 council, Serjeant Nicols'', afterwards knighted, 
 and advanced in 1612, to be one of the Judges 
 in the Court of Common Pleas, and to Mr. 
 Thomas Stephens; they on the 17th of O(5to- 
 ber 1610, gave their opinion in the following 
 
 words^ '^; ^f *^;; '^;'^ ■ 
 
 ^ ** The Statutes vouched, and whereupon 
 ** this feemeth to be grounded, are miftaken : 
 
 *' For there is no fuch ftatute of the 35th 
 " of Eliz. Regi?j. for payment of 20 1. a 
 " month; but the ftatute aimed at for that 
 " point is the ftatute of 28 Eliz. Cap. 6. 
 
 ** Alfo there is no fuch ftatute for the for- 
 " feiture of the third part of the recufants 
 " lands. But by the ftatute of 28th of Eliz. 
 ** if the reculant make default of payment of 
 *' 20 1. a month, the King may then take and 
 
 ' Harl. MSS. Vcl 70C9. foL 20. 
 
 •> A man of great piety and integrity, whofe chara£ler 
 is drawn to great advantage by Robert Bolton, B. D. in 
 his Funeral Notes upon him printed with that Divine's 
 difcourfe on the four laji things^ London 1633, in 410. 
 
 [ Harl. MSS. Vol 7009. fol 23. 
 
 " feize 
 
H E N R Y Prince OF Wales. 22 r 
 
 " feize all his goods and two parts of his lands 
 
 *^ and leafcs. , ^ ^^_ dta/n 
 
 .' " Thefe mifprifions may make it ao'uDtruI, 
 
 " led likewife fome miftaking or error might 
 
 " be in the other proportions fubfequent, 
 
 " being for the moft part either conjedural or 
 
 '* in a generality (many rccufaiits) or not in 
 
 ** fuch certainty and particularity, as might 
 
 *' yield fufficient fatisfadion and encourage- 
 
 j *' ment to undergo a matter of very great and 
 
 I ** certain travel, charge, and cxpence, in ex- 
 
 ' *' pedancy of a fiuit or piofit uncertain. 
 
 " The agents in this bufinefs, which mufl 
 ** be many, in refpeft recufants are fpread over 
 ** all the realm, would with their charge, and 
 " otherwife, take away above the one half ^of 
 '* this benefit ; and the refidue will not be had' 
 j " widiout clamour and careful pains. 
 ' *' But whatfoever the benefit might be, we 
 *' hold it not fit, that the Prince's Highnef? 
 " fliould have any hand, or fliew himfelf, in 
 " this bufinefs, to have the uttermoft for- 
 *' feitures of penal laws inflitfted upon the 
 *' offenders of this kind." 
 
 Another paper of obfervatlons on the propo- 
 fal wa^ as follows ^. 
 
 " Whereas it hath been propounded, that 
 " a grant ihould be made by the King to the 
 " Prince of the whole benefit of recufants 
 " throughout the realm, for a certain yearly 
 
 " Harl. MSS. Vol. 7009. foL 21, 
 
 ^' rent 
 
222 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 ** rent to be therefore anfwered to his Majefty, 
 " and the reil: to his llighneis : and therein 
 " alfo it was intended by the draught of the 
 " grant offered, that hit; Highnefs fhould have 
 " had the whole managing of all the affairs 
 ** concerning recufants, and power to difpenfe 
 " with them, and to difpofe of their for- 
 " feitures: 
 
 *' It may pleafe his Highnefs to take into 
 " his princely confideration, whether it' may 
 " not be better to the King's liking, and as* 
 *' pleafing to his Highnefs ; 
 
 " That his Majeffy under his privy feal fig- 
 ** nify his pleafure into the Exchequer to the 
 " Treafurer, Chancellor, and Barons thereof, 
 *' that in every Eafter and Michaelmas terni 
 " yearly, there fhall be paid to the Prince out 
 " of the Exchequer by the warrant of that 
 privy feal, which fhall remain there for that 
 purpofe, a moiety, two third 'part's, or ond 
 third part, or more or lefs, of all, that fliall 
 " or ought to accrue unto his Majefty out of 
 *' the recufants eftates : or elfe a certain fum 
 *' yearly to the King, and the overplus to the 
 *' Prince, as it fhail pieafe his Highnefs to 
 ^** move his fuit. 
 
 ^"^ ** In all which cafes, other than where his 
 " Majefty is to have a cei^tain rent, fuc^h, • a^ 
 " fhall be employed in that fervice to look' 
 '' that the Prince be an Ave red his due, mufl 
 " of neceflit)' take care> that the King's Ma- 
 " . • *' jefly 
 
 cc 
 
i 
 
 HENRY Prince of Wales. 223 
 
 *f jefty be truly and juftly dealt withall, in 
 ** vvhatfbever ihould appertain unto him by 
 
 any ways or means from recufants : 
 
 ^* And that all may be convid:ed, and tlieir 
 ,/S forfeitures duly anfwered into the Exchequer, 
 ^** whither of neceflity it muft come j andifirom- 
 •-* thence the Prince's part to be paid. 
 
 " in this courfe the power of dealing with 
 ^"..recufants, according to the iav/, w'iii Itiil^ re- 
 *' main with the King, as a matter more pro- 
 " per for the crown to deal in, than, for any 
 '* other; and the intent of the lawr will, be: 
 " therein obferved, in that the power- theredi: 
 *' (liall not be transferred to any other. 
 
 *' The honour of the Prince cannot he 
 ** queftioned herein, becaufe this extends noc 
 /* farther than to have part of diat, whicirjis 
 " wholly due to the crown. 
 
 *' Neither herein can the evil afrecflions of 
 ** recufants be thrown upon the Princcy.wliofe 
 ^' malice in the other courfe might colourably 
 '' have thought, the hard meafure to have been 
 " offered them only by the Prince's means.; . 
 
 "The other courfe, and this, as to, the 
 " Court of Exchequer, are all onej becauic 
 '* all forfeitures by recufants are by law to be 
 " ajifwercd there, and to be taken from 
 " thence. 
 
 " The profit to the Crown and to th© 
 ** Prince will be. as much this way, if good care 
 *^ be had in this bufmefs, as if the Prince had 
 
 " all 
 
224 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' all by leafe, and fhould pay the King a 
 " certain rent. 
 
 *' And the honour and profit of this bufi- 
 " nefs will be more or lels, as the perfons, 
 *' who (liall deal therein for his Highnefs, fhair 
 " be of credit and judgment." 
 
 This paper was indorfed, Reciifaiits and a 
 courfe to be taken with them for the Prince's 
 credit. 
 
 Two other papers were likewife drawn up- 
 on this fubjed:, which being too long to be 
 inferted here, will be placed, together with an 
 anfwer to the opinion of the Prince's council, 
 in the Appendix '\ 
 
 The night of the new year 1610-1 1, was 
 diftinguiflied by a majfk of the Prince per- 
 formed, in the banqueting houfe at Whitehall, 
 by his Highnefs affifted by twelve others, two 
 Earls, three Barons, five Knights, and two 
 Efquires^. This mafk was written by the 
 great compofer of w^orks of that kind, Ben. 
 Jonfon, and intitled Ohcron^ or the Fairy 
 Prince^. 
 
 Sir Edward Conway, Governor of the Brill, 
 one of the cautionary towns in Holland, and 
 afterwards raifed by the intereft of the Duke 
 of Buckingham to be Secretary of State, a 
 Vifcount, and at lafi: Lord Prefident of the 
 Council, had now by means of Mr. Newton, 
 
 • Number XVIII. ' General Chronicle of 
 
 England, p. 999. e Printed in Ben Jonfon's 
 
 Works, Vol, V. p. 36S, ^/^^. PFhalefs Edition. 
 
 Secretary 
 
HE N RY Prince OF Wales. 225 
 
 Secretary to the Prince, gained a confiderable 
 {hare of the good opinion of his Highnefs, by 
 whom he was employed in particular to pro- 
 cure an eminent painter of Delft s to come over 
 to England, and enter into the Prince's fervice. 
 Sir Edward, in a letter from the Brill of the 
 5th of February, 1 6 1 o- 1 1 , O. S ^. made his ac- 
 knowledgments to Mr. Newton, that his fa- 
 vours had been of fuch a kind, as, though he 
 could not return them, he ought at leaft to 
 appear thankful for them. He defired him, 
 that, as he had inclined the Prince to entertain 
 a good opinion of him, he would alTill: him 
 to maintain it. That he had prefumed, ac- 
 cording to his Highnefs's command, which 
 was all law to him, to offer the account of his 
 endeavours with the painter of Delft to his 
 Highnefs's view in his own ill hand; to which 
 he had added, how the ftate of affairs appeared 
 tahim at his firfl coming. " I find, fays he^ 
 " the Count Maurice fick, yet without dan- 
 ** ger; Mr. Barncvelt languiHiing of a quar- 
 ** tan, and great doubt of his journey. By 
 
 % The painter's name is not mentioned in any of Sir 
 Edward Conway's letters; bvit it is probable, that he was 
 the famous Michael John Mierevelt or Michael Janfs 
 of. Delft, mentioned by Mr. Peacham in his Complete 
 Gentleman^ pr iip* as the molt excellent Painter of all 
 the Low Countries, who fometimes employed a whole 
 year about a picture; and yet, after all, would dcftroy it, 
 if he difcovcred any confiderable fault in it, 
 
 ^ Harl. MSS. V''oI. 7002. 
 
 Q_ '^ the 
 
 2 iiu: 
 
 {IfilDlDiJCi 
 
226 THE LIFE OF* 
 
 " the Indifpofitlon of thefe chief perfons the 
 " ftate is deprived of their counfel and travel 
 " in points and in a time, that much need 
 " them. You, I know, obferved, how the 
 •' common enemy kept unity in thofe pro- 
 ** vinces, by which they chiefly fublifted. 
 ** You mark, bow thofe of Utrecht have 
 *' fallen into fedition and diforder; and how 
 " they are contained from feparation only by 
 *' a garrifon and conftraint. Thofe of Frife- 
 *' land bring not in their cotation : thofe of 
 ** Zealand detain theirs alfo with a higher 
 *' hand J fo as there is a great deal of doubt 
 *' offered, that the provinces united may fall 
 " to disjoin, and fo to partialities and conten- 
 tion. Your judgment will eafily fee the 
 advantages, that will be opened to the Spa- 
 niard, if thefe men continue a mifchief, 
 which they will run into, except, both by 
 authority and wife inftruments, the affairs 
 be redified, and the queflions and differ- 
 ences moderated. Then the confequence 
 *' will be, if we help them not to watch off 
 " the blows, we fhall fmart with their wounds. 
 '* You have in your memory examples of 
 *' like kind with thefe mifchievous events in 
 *' other ftates. Forefight and timely preven- 
 " tion muft blefs and crown the work; of 
 ** which I have no doubt, knowing his Ma- 
 ** jefty's infinite wifdom, and faithfulnefs of his 
 ** counfellors. The apparenteft fafety, beft 
 
 " agree- 
 
 <c 
 
 C( 
 
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 HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 227 
 agreeing with Chriftian wifdom, and policy 
 " of ftates, were for his Majefty to rfiake fure 
 *' of his two cautionary towns, Fluiliing and 
 " Brill ; and now that Enibden is in a dan- 
 " gerous queflion between the count and 
 " citizens, with confent to take that into his 
 " protection, and fee Lire it by a garrifon of his ; 
 ** a point, that, if it fliall come into delibera- 
 ** tioh and execution, I fliall be bound to your 
 ** favour, if you fo recommend me and the 
 " memory of me to his Highnefs, that I may 
 ** be there employed. I cannot fet forth my 
 " fufficiency : my faith I will juftify. My 
 " good I fliall acknowledge to my maflei's 
 *' favour J and my thankfulnefs to you I will 
 " make fo apparent, as you ihall not think 
 " your courtefy employed upon an unworthy 
 ** perfon. I have no v/arrant or knowledge 
 *' for the matter of Embden but reafon of 
 *' ftate by way of intimation and prevention 
 " of others. I lay before your wifdom and 
 " friendly ufe the thoughts of my heart, all 
 *' parts of which I wifli you knew them as 
 I do; fo fliould you bcft know an humble 
 fervant to our mailer, and a faithful friend 
 to you. Now, Sir, for the true refped: I 
 bear you, let me intreat this favour of you, 
 that you will be pleafed clearly, freely, and 
 plainly, to let me know, if I have ufed too 
 much prefumption in writing to my mailer; 
 where in matter or form I have erred, that 
 Q 2 ''I may 
 
 <c 
 
228 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' 1 may inform myfelf, and be bound to yoa 
 
 ** for' it. 
 
 *' I have, for your more eafe, font you here, 
 ** inclo fed, a copy of the painter's letter to me, 
 '* tranflated into Englifh. It was writ fincc 
 " my conference ^vith him. I have joined to 
 *' it my opinion; and I befeech you, that I 
 *' may hear from you, whether his Highneft 
 *' will command me any farther in it, that I 
 *^ may proceed with obedience, according to 
 ** my duty and humble afFed:ion to hi^ fervice. 
 
 " Now, Sir, I will recommend myfelf to your 
 *' favour, and withall my brother, Thomas 
 *' Conway, who will be your thankful fervant, 
 ** if you vouchfafe to prefent him to his High- 
 ** nefs's gracious memory in the number of 
 " his.'-^';' ;: 
 
 " If this h^nd of mine be hard to you, for 
 " your eafe, if you iicenfe me, I will ufe ano- 
 '' ther's, and trouble you no longer in this ; 
 *' but befeech the Almighty to profper you 
 ** and all yours in honour, and intreat of you 
 *' to command me in fbmething, to help mc 
 f* to declare this truth, that I am 
 
 " Yours in all at your 
 
 ** Commandment to ferre you." 
 
 Sir George More, who had fat ih feveral 
 parliaments fince the year 1585, as member 
 cither for Guilford or the county of Surry, and 
 
 been 
 
HENRY PiiiNCE OF Walss. 229 
 
 been appointed, in 1604, Treafurei* or Re- 
 ceiver General of the Prince's revciiue&*, and 
 who, in 1610, was made ChancelloF of the 
 order of the garter, and, in 1615, Lieutenaiit 
 ot the Tower, being informed of his liigh- 
 nefs's intention to take from him tl^e title and 
 office of Treafurer, wrote a letter, dated from 
 his hotife in Cano2>Row, WeAminfter, on 
 the 1 ft of March, 2610-11, to endeavour to 
 divert the Prince from that refolution ^ He 
 took notice, that ic had pleafed his Highneis, 
 out of his gracious opinion of him, to appoint 
 him by his great feal to the place of Treaiiitcr 
 and Receiver General ^ wherein hisHighnelVs 
 great favour being alicgether undcfejved, he 
 was thereby much the more obliged to do 
 his Highneis all fait^ifu! fervice as long as he 
 ihould live. '* Wherefore, aiMs /?<?, leaving 
 *■ all private reipe<fls, 1 addrefied myfelf, with- 
 ** out delav, to be in readinefs evermore to 
 ** attend and obey your Highnefs's command- 
 ** ment; hoping and rejoicing, tliat, through 
 ** my true endeavours, 1 iliould, in the win- 
 " ter of my years, receive the comfort of your 
 " (hining grace, than which life itfelf ihall 
 ** ever be lefs precious unto me. Now, imdcr- 
 ** ftanding, tliat it is your pleafure to take from 
 " me the name and place of your Treaforer, 
 " which will not only, in lieu thereof, fix 
 
 * Wood Athen. Oxon. FsL I, Col. 492. »= HarJ. 
 
 MSS. m 7C08. 
 .'.sr-c! 0^2 « upon 
 
230 THELIFEOF 
 
 *' upon me llich difgrace in the eye of the 
 " world, as, proceeding from fo noble and 
 *' worthy a Prince, flvall condemn me of evil 
 " merits in the opinion of men; but will (as 
 " I conceive) much diminifh the honour of 
 *' your fervice3 I prefume, from the fenfe of 
 " fiich a blow, to lay before you the grief of 
 ** my heart, not in regard of my unworthy 
 " felf; but becaufe thereby a touch may be of 
 *' your princely eflate, worthy not lefs honour 
 *' than ever Prince hath been. What much 
 *^ concerns me, unfit it were I {hould refpecfb. 
 *' To your Highnefs I lift up mine eyes, and 
 *' cannot but think, that, having a Chancellor, 
 " it is fuitable to the honour of your fervice to 
 " have a Treafarer, who lliould have place ac- 
 ** cording to the charge and truft repofed in 
 " him. So it was with Prince Edward, fon to 
 ■ ' King Edward III. named the Black Prince, 
 *' He had a Treafurer, whcfe name was Walter 
 *' Rainoldes. The record of his account is an- 
 " tient, and fair to be fecn. Of the next fuc- 
 *' ceeding Princes the records are not eaiy to be 
 *' found. Thofe of later times, who had only 
 ** Receivers General for the receit and cuftody 
 *' of their treafures, though children to Kings, 
 ^' yet I dare not compare with your Highnefs. 
 *' Thus much having thought it my duty to 
 fignify, for myfelf I will fay but thisj I am 
 in your Highnefs's hands as clay in the 
 hands of the potter : If of the place of Trea^. 
 
 " furef 
 
 <c 
 
I 
 
 HENRY Prince of Wales. 231 
 ** furer I iliall feem unworthy, let me 0-0, and 
 " be forgotten, rather than your Highnels 
 *' fhall forego the leafl: preeminence belonging 
 " to your princely eftate. 
 
 " Your Highnefs I do moft humbly befcech 
 *' to think, that of your favours I am only 
 *' ambitious; and as to do you fervice I am 
 " more than defirous, fo my fuit is, that, while 
 ** I fliall be found faithful, the disfavour of 
 ** your Highnefs may not caufe it to be faid 
 " of me, though without caufe, mains miles^ 
 " qui Imperatorcm fiium gemens jeqiiitin\ For, 
 *' howfoever my heart may be grieved, my 
 ** fervice to your Highnefs (liall be faithful and 
 ** true until I die." 
 
 The Prince's younger brother, Charles 
 Duke of York, w^hen he was almoft eleven 
 years of age*, being taken from under the care 
 of the Lady Cary"", wife of Sir Robert Cary, 
 who had the charge of the Duke's houihold, 
 and who was afterwards created Baron of Lep- 
 pington and Earl of Monmouth ; fome per- 
 fons, who were not friends to Sir Robert, had 
 refolved, that he fliould quit the Duke's fer- 
 vice, when his wife went from him. For that 
 purpofe there was a Scots gentleman, of great 
 learning and very good worth, fent for out 
 of Ireland from his employment there, to be 
 
 ' He was born November 19, 1600. ^ Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Hugh IVevannior, 
 
 Q^ placed 
 
232 THELIFEOF 
 
 placed as chief Governor over the Duke, both 
 in his bL^d-chamber and over his houfliold; 
 the Prince being the chief inftrument In his 
 preferment". This gentleman, whofe name 
 is not mentioned on this occafion by the Earl 
 of Monmouth in his Memoirs, was Sir James 
 Fuller ton, who had been at fir ft uiher of the 
 free-ichool in Dublin, while another Scotfman, 
 Mr. James Hamilton, afterwards knighted, 
 and at laft created Vifcaunt Clandeboy in Ire- 
 land, was mafter of it ; the firft foundation of 
 their fortunes being laid at Dublin in the latter 
 end of Qiieen Elizabeth's reign, by conveying 
 the letters of fome great Lords of England, 
 who worshipped the riling fun, to King James, 
 and his letters back to them; that way being 
 chofen as more fafe than the direct northern 
 road". On Sir James FuUerton's arrival, a count- 
 cil was called, the King being prefent, where 
 it was propofed, that he Hiould be Chief Gen- 
 tleman of the Duke of York's bed-chamber, 
 Mafter of his robes, and Governor of his houfe- 
 hold; and that Sir Robert Gary, whom, as he 
 had ferved the Duke long, it was thought not 
 
 " Memoirs of the Life of Robert Cary, Baron pf 
 Leppington and Earl of Monmouth, written by himfelf, 
 and now publifhed from an original manufcript in the 
 cuftody of John Earl of Corke and Orrery, />. i68 — 170. 
 hond. 1759, 8w. 
 
 • Letter of Mr. John Pory to Sir Thomas Puckering, 
 Bart, from London, January 13, 1630-31. Harl. MSS. 
 Vol. 7000. ■ . ;,,.r'/. 
 
 propcf 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 23^ 
 proper to difmifs intirely, fliould be of his 
 bed-chamber flill, and Keeper of his privy 
 purfe. This was near concluded, when the 
 Earl of Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain, interpofed 
 with the King in favour of Sir Robert Cary 
 with fuch fuccefs, that his Majefty declared, 
 that Sir Robert's birth and breeding requiring 
 the chief place about his fon, he fliould have 
 it, and the Mafterfliip of his robes. And ac- 
 cordingly it was refolved by the council, that 
 he fhould be fworn Chief Gentleman of the 
 Duke's bed-chamber, and Mafter of his robes 
 and privy purfe. Upon the rifing of the King 
 and council, word was immediately fent to St. 
 James's to the Prince of what was determined ; 
 and his Highnefs was perfuaded by fome about 
 him, to go with all poiTible expedition toWhite- 
 hall, in order to procure an alteration in the 
 refolution taken. The King fent for the Lord 
 Chamberlain, to whom the Prince exprefTed 
 fome difcontentjthat his Lordfhip had interfered 
 fo much in the affair; who excufcd himfclf, 
 alledging, that he had faid nothing more for 
 Sir Robert Cary than he knew to be true. 
 After a long debate, the Prince, perceiving 
 the King to be unwilling to alter what had 
 been refolved on by the council, faid to the 
 Lord Chamberlain ; " I hope it fhall not offend 
 " you, if I can get Sir Robert Cary himfelf to 
 *' accept of the fecond place." His Lordfhip 
 ^nfwering, that he fl:iould be fatisfied with 
 4 what 
 
234 THE LIFE OF 
 
 what Sir Robert fhould confent to, the Prince 
 returned to St. James's much troubled. Sir 
 Robeit Cary, being informed of what had 
 paiTed, went to St. James's, and attended in 
 the privy chamber to know his Highnefs's 
 pleafure, looking ftill when the Prince fhould 
 call to fpeak with him. He ftaid two days, 
 and heard nothing from his Highnefs 5 who, 
 however, on the third, after fupper, called 
 him to the cup-board, and thus began : *' You 
 know my brother is to have his houfhold 
 fettled ; and there are two places about him 
 of equal worth. And becaufe you have 
 ferved him long, and are nobly born, it is 
 reafon you fliould have your choice. There 
 is the Surveyorfhip of his lands, which I take 
 to be the beft place ; and the Mafterfhip of 
 the robes. You have many friends, and 
 by having that office you may do them and 
 yourfelf good. The other I take to be a 
 place of no fuch import. I thought good 
 to know of yourfelf, which you would make 
 choice of." Sir Robert humbly thanked his 
 Highnefs, that he did him fo much honour in 
 advifing him to that, which he thought beft ; 
 but craved pardon, alledging his infufficiency 
 for the poft of Surveyor of the lands, which 
 if he fliould accept, he fliould wrong his 
 mafter, and difcredit himfelf. That, if he had 
 fkill in any thing, he thought he underfl:ood 
 good clothes 5 and therefore defired to continue 
 
 in 
 
HEN RY Prince of Vv^ales. 235 
 in his prefent poft; and that his Highnefs would 
 pleafe to difpofe of the other as he pleafed. 
 The Prince was fatisfied with Sir Robert Qary's 
 anfwer, who, within two days after, was 
 Iworn Chief Gentleman of the Duke of York's 
 bed-chamber, and Mafter of the robes 3 and 
 his competitor was appointed Gentleman of the 
 bed-chamber, Mafter of the privy purfe, and 
 Surveyor General of the lands. Sir Robert 
 foon regained his credit with the Prince, who, 
 notwithftanding the malice of fome near him, 
 thought him honeft and faithful to the King, 
 and to himfelf and his brother, and daily in- 
 creafed his good opinion of him. " But the 
 *' hopes I had of him, fays Sir Robert "^^ did 
 " quickly vanifh; for, within two years after, 
 ** it pleafed God to call to his mercy that 
 *' hopeful and brave Prince, who was a terror 
 *' to his enemies, and a fare anchor to his 
 «' friends." 
 
 About the end of March, or beginning of 
 April, 161 1, a double marriage was propofed 
 to the privy council by the Duke of Savoy's 
 Ambaflador, between the Prince of Wales and 
 the eldeft daughter of Savoy, and between the 
 Prince of Savoy and the Lady Elizabeth 'i. 
 Againfl this overture, which was very coolly 
 received, Sir Walter Ralegh, then prifoner in 
 the Tower, wrote two admirable difcourfes'', 
 
 P Memoirs, p, 177. «« Winwood, Vol III, 
 
 ^. 271 — 273. ' Printed In his IVorks^ Vol. I. p. 249. 
 
 {^ pqQ. edit. London^ ^75 '» ^?''^' 
 
 in 
 
236 THE LIFE OF 
 
 in which he has managed rfie fub\e(5l with grcaf 
 extent of political rea-foning- and knowledge of 
 hiftoty. In the former of thefe difcourfes ^ he 
 gives the Prince the title of w;/? exceUenf eniii 
 Bspefuh, the firft of which epithets he likewife 
 gives him in the introduclion to his Obfervntions 
 eor.cemiiig the Royal Nanjy mid Sat-fervic^^y 
 dedicated to his Highncfs, to whom both the 
 fobjecfc snd the abilities of the writer would 
 higlily recommend fuch a treatife. 
 
 Sir Edward Conway, being encouraged hy 
 Mr. Newton to cantinoe his correspondence, 
 as being both agreeable to, and expe(5led hf^ 
 fthe Prince, wrote a fecond letter from the Brill 
 on the 7th of April, ?6ii, requeuing Mf„ 
 Newton to keep him ali\-^ in the memory of 
 the Prince, till hrs- executioo of his large com- 
 mandments might imprint him better there. 
 Thi^ letter will be proper to be prefenred 
 intire in the Appendix "^ with others wriitesi by 
 Sir Edward Conway, till withi^n about a month 
 of the lafl fjcknefs of the Prince, for whom he 
 expreffeSj in every one, the higheft admiration 
 of his Highnef% and the w^armefl zeal fof his 
 fervice'". 
 
 Sir James Elphinfton, Lord Balmcrino, who 
 had been appointed one of the Senators of the 
 college of iuflice at Edinburgh in 1586, Se- 
 cretaiy of flate in 1598^ znd. Lord Prefideirf 
 
 » Ubi fupra, p. 249. » Ibid. Vsl II ?■(}'.* 
 
 '* Haci. MSS. /W. 7008. "^ Appendix. No. XiX-. 
 
 of 
 
H E N RY Prince of Wales, 237 
 ©f the feffion in 1605, having, in April of the 
 preceding year, been created a peer of Scotland, 
 and who, in April 5609, had been condemned 
 to death for writing a letter to Pope Clemtnt 
 VIIL and furrcptitioully obtaining the King's 
 hand to it^ thougli his life was given him, and 
 his gailt is flill very problematical to thofe, who 
 know his Majefty's difpoiition to correipond 
 with, and amufc and cajole at kail, die popiik 
 party '^; wrote on the i ith of April of 161 1, 
 the Year S^efore his death, to the Prince, who 
 had been gracious to him upon former' occa- 
 iSons % the following letter: 
 
 ^' Pleafe your facred Highnefs, 
 
 '"' pXCUSE the boldnefs of a poor ere- 
 « XL i^jte^ ty God and his Majefly's Roya! 
 *^ favour rifen from death to life. I were moft 
 '^^ unworthy of that life I enjoy, if, by the mo ft 
 " humble offer of my poor fervice, I fliould 
 *^ not acknowledge that moft princely and 
 ** gracious opinion it pleafed your Highnefs 
 "^^ to harbour in your breafl of me in all my 
 *'^ trouble,' which by God's grace I Hiall never 
 
 " See above, p. 22. 
 
 " His Lordfhip, in a Letter to Mr. N«wton of Feb. 
 1607, exprefles himfelf thus: ** How far I acknowledge 
 ** mji'tU bound to that peerlefs Prince for his gracioui; 
 *' and kind eftimation of nie, I wifli I was able to make 
 " known. But my humble and hearty prayers for tiis 
 ■*' increafe in all princely honour and fdicity is all I can 
 ** do for liis Grice." 
 
 « dc- 
 
<c 
 
 238 THELIFEOF 
 
 " deceive, ftill hoping yet to do your High- 
 " nefs feme acceptable fervice : And if, by 
 ** courfe of nature, I be prevented, I fhall 
 " train up two in that difpofition, which in 
 ** fome meafure, I hope, (hall not diflike thofe 
 ** moft rare virtues and princely graces, where- 
 *' with God has endowed your Highnefs above 
 ** the condition of all the Princes, that has 
 *' been, or that the aftwending worlds fhall 
 «' fee. 
 
 *' I have likewife directed my coufin Robin 
 *' Elphinfton, whom I have bred for fervice 
 
 about * Majefty, to enjoy the effedls of 
 " your Highnefs's promife. I fliould think 
 " me moft unhappy, if your Highnefs's in- 
 *' violated religion fliould be broken to me. 
 *' Never did any hithertill, who had half a 
 *' word of your Highnefs, find himfelf fru- 
 " ftrate; and I know it to be my misfortune, 
 ** not your Highnefs's fault, if I be difap- 
 *' pointed. I will be anfwerable for his fide- 
 *' lity, fervice, and careful obfervance. Your 
 " princely endowments will diredt the reft. 
 ** And for that his natural is fo well known. 
 ** to me, I defire he may be in fome 
 *' fervice near your Highnefs's perfon. But 
 *' wherever he be under the funftiine of your 
 
 countenance, he may think himfelf moft 
 
 happy. 
 
 If I could do your Highnefs any better 
 
 fervice than to pray for you, and bring up 
 
 4 ** ^y 
 
 <t 
 
I 
 
 HEN RY Prince of Wales. 239 
 
 " my. children in thefe virtuous exercifes, 
 ** whereby they may be the more able fome 
 *' day to do you fervice, as none living is 
 *' more bound to the undeferved favour of the 
 *^ moft rare Prince in the world, fo fhould no 
 *' man furpafs me in care and aifed:ion to 
 " approve myfelf not unworthy. But fince ad- 
 " verfe fortune has denied the ability of adtion, 
 ** my perpetual contemplation (hall be, pray- 
 ** ing God daily to increafe your honour, 
 " augment your princely graces; and, as he 
 " has made you the pattern of the Princes of 
 , J* this age, fo in his own time to confummate 
 ^^*[,you the mightleft King, that ever reigned 
 _^*f in this great ille. 
 
 *' Your Highnefs's mofl humble 
 
 *' And obedient Servant, 
 
 " Balmerinoth.'* 
 
 The Earl of Salifbury, who was willing to 
 oblige the Prince by communicating to him 
 any bulinefs of importance, having intercepted 
 a letter, which gave fome ground of fufpicion, 
 tranfmitted a copy of it to Mr. Newton for the 
 perufal of his Highnefs, with the following 
 letter to that gentleman from himfeif ^ : 
 
 '55)'^d V- ^>I '^^^^' ^^SS. Fol. 7002. 
 
 JO -'in'r 
 
 ' - ^ *' I fend 
 
24^ THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' T Send you the copy of a letter, direded, 
 *' -■- as you may perceive. He, that wrote it, 
 *' is not yet in my hands ^ but he, that received 
 *' it, and honeflly brought it unto me, hath 
 *' been divers times to leek him, and cannot 
 *' meet him. What the matter may prove, 
 " I know not; but, were it of Icfs fufpicion, 
 " I had rather err in too much caution, than in 
 ** the leaft omiflion, all circumflances confi- 
 " dered ; and therefore, until I have him, I 
 " /hall not be at repofe, hoping, if it prove 
 *' no matter of confequence, that it Hiall not 
 *' draw upon me, by any confequence, any 
 *' note of levity or rafhnefs: For I am, by my 
 *' place, one of the centinels of the ftate ; 
 " and this may concern the King and ftate: 
 ** And it is the duty of any good centinel, 
 ** whomever he meet in the dark, to fay, 
 ** qui va la? Now that I have imparted thus 
 ** much, to be delivered where you know 1 
 *^ owe fo much duty and affed:ion, I pray you 
 *' befeech his Highnefs to take no notice of it, 
 " until he hear it by his Majefly ; for I fent 
 " him news of it but yefterday. 
 
 " And thus, hoping, ere many hours, to 
 " advertife his apprehenfion, I end, from his 
 " Majefty's houfe at Whitehall, this 30th of 
 '' April, 161 1, 
 
 " Your loving Friend, 
 
 " R. Sali{bury.'* 
 
 *' I fent the original to the King." 
 
 But 
 
H E N RY Prince OF Wales. 24.1 
 
 But the fuppofed difcovery appearing ibon 
 after to be of no confequence, his Lordfhip 
 Wrote this fecond letter to Mr. Newton": 
 
 " T Have examined the party, that wrote, 
 " -*- being apprehended by thoie, that fearch- 
 " ed for him; and I find it no more than I 
 '' exped:ed; for it is declared to be a purpofe 
 " to fack an abbey in Mufcovy, and many 
 '* probabilities of it. As foon as I heard it, I 
 " fent to court ; & f.c Jlnitur fabula. 
 
 '* Your loving Friend, 
 
 *' R. Salilbury.'* 
 
 The Earl wrote liltewlfe, the fame year, 
 another letter, addrelled to Mr. Nev/ton, or, 
 in his abfence, to Sir David Murray ' : 
 
 "SIR; 
 
 « ^-p\ H £ King being determined to hear 
 
 *' -*" the matter between the merchants and 
 
 " mint-men to morrow at nine o'clock, I have 
 
 " thought it fit to advertife his Highnefs by 
 
 " you; both becaufe I find, that the King 
 
 '' (though he fend not for him) is willing he 
 
 '* Ihould be at it; fo many things of civil policy 
 
 *' being incident to that deliberation, as are 
 
 '' worthy the ears of that excellent mind, 
 
 " Flarl. MSS. rol. 7002. » Ibid. 
 
 R *' moulded 
 
242 THELIFEOF 
 
 •* moulded (In his own due time) for the 
 ** gcvernment of kingdoms. The hour is 
 '* nine at farthcft; and this is the hand of his 
 " humble fcrvant, and 
 
 ** Your loving Friend, 
 
 " R. Salifbury." 
 
 Another letter of his Lordfhip's was written 
 to the Prince himfelf : 
 
 *' May it pleafe your Highnefs, 
 
 *' /V S fbon as I came to London on Wed- 
 '* -^^ nefday night, I fent for this bearer, 
 " who rideth towards you with that, which 
 '* your fervice requireth. If 1 (hall not com- 
 ** mend his diligence, I (liall do him wrong: 
 " if I fliall iay, that I have done any more 
 *' than my duty, or half as much as the tenth 
 " part of my afFedlion would afford you (in 
 " whom God knows how much my foul de- 
 " lighteth) I fhall do notorious wrong to 
 
 " Your humblefl and 
 
 ** Moft affedtionate Servant, 
 
 At Kenfinffton, 
 this i8th. " R. Salisbury." 
 
 The Prince, whofe attention to the navy 
 of the kingdom was fuitable to the importance 
 of the objed:, being now refolved to view in 
 
 perfon 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 243 
 perfon the fhips and their florc-houfes, fcnt, 
 i on the 1 1 th of April, 1 6 1 1, a melTage to Mr. 
 Pett, to acquaint him of his intention oJ^making 
 a private journey to Chatham. His Highnels 
 accordingly, on Monday morning at five, the 
 6th of May, took barge at Whitehall, accom- 
 panied by the Earls of Shrewjioury, Arur-^cl, 
 and Mar, Sir Thomas Chaloner, Sir Oliver 
 Cromwell, Sir Robert Manfel, and fome others 
 of his houfliold fervants. About nine he came 
 on board a fmall merchant-fhip provided for 
 his refrcfliment at Tilbury Hope. Thence he 
 failed to Qneenborough, and landed at Chat- 
 ham a little before fix at night; and thence 
 walked on foot to the houfe of Mr. Lediard, 
 Clerk of the check, where fupper was provided 
 for him and his train. 
 
 On Tuefday morning his Highnefs went on 
 board his own fh'ip the Prhice, and fo from 
 fhip to (hip in the lower reach ; taking particu- 
 lar private information from Sir Robert Manfel 
 and Mr. Pett (no other perfons being fufFercd to 
 come near) of the ftate and condition of each 
 feveral fliip in his own table-book. He then 
 landed, and went to dinner, when he fliewed 
 himfelf very chearful ; fifteen great brafs cham- 
 bers being placed in the garden, and fired when 
 his Highnefs drank any healths, they being at- 
 tended by Mr. John Reynolds, Gunner of the 
 Prince's Ihip, who carefully performed his 
 'charge. 
 
 R 2 After 
 
244 THE LIFE OF 
 
 After dinner, the Prince proceeded in view- 
 ing all the (hips and pinnaces in the upper 
 reach, going on board every one of them, and 
 noting down the obiervations made upon 
 them, as he had done in the morning. 
 
 On Wednefday, after breakfaft, he took 
 his barges, and went up to Stror.d by water; 
 all the (hips of both reaches giving a Royal 
 farev/cll with thdr ordnance, which he com- 
 manded to be fhot over his barge, notwith- 
 flanding all the perfuaiions to the contrary* 
 He landed at Stroud, where his coaches at-^ 
 tended him; and thence went to Gravefend, 
 where he was received by the magiftrates with 
 all their fmall Ihot and the ordnance^ of :thc' 
 block houfes^. 
 
 The clandefline marriage of Lady Arbcl- 
 la S'cwart, about the month of July, 1610"^, 
 with Mr. William Seymour, afterward EarF 
 and Marquis of Hertford, and reftored, in April, 
 1660, to the dukedom of Somerfet, having- 
 raifed the jealoufy of the King^, which proved 
 the fource of the misfortunes, under which (he 
 laboured till her death In September, 1615', 
 
 »» MS. Life of Mr. Phineas Pett, p. 62. ' Win- 
 
 wood's Memorials, f^'oL III. p. 201. "^ The Lady 
 
 was his Majefty's coufin german; and Mr. Sevmour was 
 grandfon of Edward Earl of Hertlord by his wife the Lady 
 Catharine Cirey, daughter and heir of Henry Duke of 
 SiifFolk by Lady '^Vances his wife, eldeft daughter and co* 
 Jieir to Charles Brandon Duke of SufFolk, by Mary the 
 French Q<_iecn, youngeft daughter of King Henry VIJ. 
 
 ill 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 2^^ 
 .in the Tower, where (he had been above four 
 years imprifoned ; the Prince could not but 
 be afFecfted with concern for fo near a relation, 
 •and one whom he had fo highly efteemed. 
 ^But his pity for her diftrefs was afterwards 
 mixed with fome refentment for her attempt, 
 -in June, 161 1, to make her efcape from the 
 .houfe at Highgate, where flie was confined, 
 and to go abroad with Mr, Seymour. This 
 defign gave his Highnefs, as well as the King, 
 •ftrong apprehenfions of dangers, that might 
 .have follov/ed the fuccefs of it; thofe appre- 
 •heniions being much heightened by the iug- 
 .geflions of the Scottiih party at court, thougli 
 thought by the Englifli not well grounded'-'. 
 
 His Highnefs, who had an high eflcem for 
 'diat great general. Count Maurice de Nafiau, 
 ,afterv;ards, on the death of his elder brother 
 .Philip, in February, 1617-18, Prince df 
 Orange, endeavoured to give him fome tefli- 
 mony of his friendfliip during thecourfe of the 
 fummer of this year 161 1> but he met witli 
 fome dilliculty in effecfting what he intended*. 
 This feems to be the procuring the garter for 
 •the Count, which was at lall: obtained for him. 
 
 The Prince having, about July or Auguftjfent 
 -a prefent, accompanied with a letter, to th^ 
 young King Lewis XIII. of France, Sir Thomas 
 J^dmondes did not fiil, in difcharge of his duty 
 
 . *'Winwood, Fcl. III. p. 281. -^ See Sir Edwafd 
 
 Goxivv-y's letter uf Julv 7, 16 j r, in the Appendix. 
 
 R 3 to 
 
246 TH E LIFE OF 
 
 to his Highnefs, to afiift the bearer, (who was, 
 probably, Monf. St. Antholne) in the delivering 
 of them, and to make known to that King, 
 . and the Qneen dowager his mother, his High- 
 nefs's deiire to entertain all occalions, which 
 might give them proof of his willingnefs to fhew 
 his affedion towards them. This was well re- 
 ceived by their Majefties, who promifed on 
 their part to make due requital to the Prince: 
 " And, as, fays Sir 'Thomas , in his letter to him 
 " from Paris of the 2gth of Augujly i6i i ^, the 
 *' nature of your Highnefs's prefent was very 
 " acceptable to the King, for the pleafure he 
 " taketh in fuch recreations; fo the exercifing 
 ** i?of thefe courtefies doth breed very good im- 
 " preiTions for the entertaining of the kind 
 *S, amity of thefe princes, which deferveth to 
 *.*' be {oi much the more tenderly nourifhed; 
 *' for that I afTure your Highnefs faithfully, 
 " there is not any court in Chriftendom, 
 *■' where your Highnefs's name is more glo- 
 *'' rious, than in this of France; and where 
 *' they wifh more earneflly to have a ftridler 
 ** interefl: in your affeftions by a nearer con- 
 " juncflion with your Highnefs's perfon." He 
 concludes with remarking, that he had forborn, 
 fince his arrival in France, to give the Prince 
 advice of the occurrences of thofe parts, be- 
 
 6 MS. State Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. Vlh 
 , /). 41 1, in the popjjion of the Right Hon, P^j^klip l.^dVif- 
 eount Roy/ion, .,_, , ^,.-v.^ .„x.- 
 
 caufe 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 247 
 
 caufe he knew, that his Highnefs was made 
 acquainted by the Lord Treafurer with the 
 letters written by Sir Thomas to his Lordiliip. 
 Sir Thomas Somerfet, third fon of Edward 
 Earl of Worcefter, and afterwards created V if^ 
 count of CafTel in Ireland, being not long after 
 requefted by Sir Thomas Edmondes to deliver 
 a meflage to him for the Prince, wrote to Sir 
 Thomas an account of the fuccefs from White- 
 hall on the 8 th cf November, i6ji^. "I 
 *' have, fays he, according to your delire, pre- 
 ** fented your fervice to the Prince, who ac- 
 *' cepts your remembrance fo kindly in this 
 ** difcourfe, which I have made unto him, as 
 ** he feemeth to defire nothing more than 
 " that, which you have, by my mouth, made 
 ** offer to him. He well underilands the ilate 
 ** you live in, and allows of your courfe. 
 " If words, with proteftations, may be be- 
 " lieved, then you are happy; and 1, your 
 " friend and fervant, well pleafed to have the 
 " honour to let you know it from Lvis own 
 *' mouth. And, left I fliould not deliver it 
 ** truly, he gave it me In writing to write to 
 ** you. And thefe were his commandments, 
 ** that I fhould fay: For the offer you made 
 " him by me, he thanks you, and would be? 
 ** very glad to fee the accomplifhing of it. And 
 ** concerning your not writing to him of the 
 
 >• MS. State Papers of Sir Thomas Edmonde?, J'A. rUL 
 p. 494. 
 
 R 4 ' huii- 
 
24S T H E L I F E O F 
 
 " bufineires there, he bids me tell you, that, 
 *' feeinor bv this offer he finds, it hath not fa- 
 " vourcd of any want of affection to do him 
 *^fervice, but out of a fear of evil ufage, if it 
 *' iliould have been known j he will not think 
 *' .thq worfe of you for it. And, to the end 
 *^ tie do nothing to your prejudice, whom he 
 ".finds fo willing tp ferve him, he wills me 
 " to demand of you, whether he fhall make 
 *'- tlje King acqiiainted with this motion : And 
 ** he faith, if he do, he will not, unlefs you ■ 
 " like itj let him know it comes from you:- 
 *' and, if he do, he will ever have care of your 
 *' fafetyj and all this he warrants me to tell 
 " you as from himfelf.. Now in the margin 
 *' was written, as.it feems tome, in another 
 *' hand, to wiih you, as from mylelf, to write 
 " to him, how affairs go there. You know the 
 " author of it, and you know beft what you 
 *' have to do. You may (ce how willing he is 
 ". to have this bufinefs effected. Only I knov/ 
 *' how well pleafed he was to hear of the hope 
 " of it. 1 confefs, I wifhed him to work by 
 *' fome fecond means, that it might be made 
 *' known to you from the Treafurer, in refpedt ' 
 *' 1 did not hold my letter fuiticientin a matter 
 " of this confequence; and therefore got him ' 
 ** to fet his will down in writing. I would 
 '' wifh you to make all pcuible fpeed you can 
 *' to fend an anfwer of this letter; and I be- 
 " ing, at this time, in hafte to get it fent away, 
 
 " makes 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 249 
 *' makes me I do not now meddle with other 
 ** matters, though I find this place not better 
 *' than I expeded." 
 
 Sir Robert Car or Ker, Gentleman of the 
 Privy Chamber in ordinary to the Prince, as 
 he was afterwards of the Bed Chamber to the 
 Kings James I. and Charles I. the latter of 
 whom created him Earl of Ancram in June 
 1633, being abfent from his Highnefs's fervice 
 in Scotland, where he was employed about 
 fame affair by the King, wrote a letter from 
 Ancrani on the 27th of Odober 161 i^ to 
 Mr. Newton. 
 
 *^ TT was your pleafure, fays he, that \ 
 " -*- fl:iould trouble you in this form. There- 
 *' fore I am bold to delire the continuance of 
 *' your good will to me^ and that you will be 
 ". an inlfrument to keep me in my mafler's 
 *' favour now in my ablence; elpecially that 
 *- no detrador have power to beget an ill 
 " opinion of me for difcharge of the fervice 
 " the King has been pleafed to put in my 
 ^'' hands. It may be, that fome, becaufe 
 *' their friends or friends fervants muft fmart 
 *' for their faults, will accufe me of rigour, 
 "and hunting after glory rather nor juftice. 
 *' If it pleafe his Highnefs to keep an ear 
 ^' to me at my upcoming, I fliall render 
 *' an account of every point, that can be 
 « Harl. MSS-. Fol. 7008. 
 
 " laid 
 
250 THE LIFE OF 
 
 •^ laid to my charge: and in the mean time 
 ^^ that out of his gracious favour he will be 
 " pleafed to fecure me againfi: any, that (hall 
 " hinder my good about the King's Majefty, 
 *^*" and allow any favour the King will be- 
 ** Aow upon me ; fince I am one of the fii ft 
 " of his Highnefs's fervants, that his Majefty 
 " lias employed in this kingdom, as I fliall 
 *' prefs to be worthy of his princely favour, 
 " ?.nd of the place I have about him, which 
 •* I reckon more noi' any thing in this world. 
 *' In regarding me thus, you fhall oblige me to 
 '* remain your loving friend to ferve you." 
 
 The curiofity, which the Prince had to know 
 the ftate of affairs in foreign countries, in- 
 duced his Secretary Mr. Newton, to feek out 
 for all correfpondents likely to gratify his High- 
 nefs in that point. For this reafon he engaged 
 Mr. Thomas Lorkin, a Clergyman, who was 
 going to travel with Mr. Thomas Puckering, 
 only fon of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper 
 cf the Great Seal in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth, one of whofe daughters was mar- 
 ried to Mr. Newton, to write to him the oc- 
 eunences of France. Mr. Lorkin, who wa? 
 afterwards Secretary to tlie Embafly at Paris 
 in the latter end of the reign of King James, 
 and beginning of that of King Charles L wrote 
 feveral letters to Mr. Newton, during his ftay 
 at Paris for about fix months : And before he 
 left that city procured a very knowing perfon, 
 
 where 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 251 
 
 whofe real or alTumed name, in his letters ftlll 
 extant among the Harleian MSS. was Forboyft, 
 to fend weekly intelligence to Mr. Newton, 
 for which he was rewarded with a pen (ion, 
 probably from the Prince, of eighty pounds a 
 year paid quarterly s. 
 
 Sir Robert Sherley, fecond fon of Sir Tho. 
 Sherley of Wiftnefton or Wifton in SulTex, 
 and younger brother of Sir Anthony Sherley, 
 famous for voyages and adventures '', being now 
 in England, whither he came as Amballador 
 from the Emperor of Perfia, who had married 
 his niece to him', received fuch marks of fa- 
 vour from the Prince, that he was encouraged 
 to requefl: his Highnefs, in a letter dated at 
 London, November 4, 161 1'', to do him 
 the honour of being Godfather to his new-- 
 born fon. 
 
 " Moft renowned Prince, 
 t< 'TpHE great honours and favours it hath 
 ** -■- pleafed your Highnefs to ufe towards 
 " me, hath emboldened me to write thefe few 
 " lines, which fhall be to befeech your Pligh- 
 
 « Mr. Lorkin'sletter of Feb. 10, 1611-12. N.S. Harl. 
 MSS. Vcl 7002. 
 
 *> See Hakluyt's Voyages, Vol. III. and Purchases 
 Pilgrims, Vol. II. 
 
 ' Wood Athen. Oxon, Vol. I. Col. 552. 
 
 k Harl. MSS. Vol. 7008. This letter Ihews the falfity 
 of a paflage in Camden's Annals of King James, p. 8. 
 where he fays, that Sir Robert Sherley did not return to 
 England June 161 2. 
 
 " nefs 
 
C52 THE LIFE OF 
 
 ** ncfs to Chriften a Ton, which God hath 
 given me. Your Highnefs in this fliall 
 make your fcrvant happy, whofe whole long- 
 ing is to do your Highnefs fome iignalated 
 Jcrvicc, worthy to be efteemed in your 
 princely breall. I have not the pen of Cicero, 
 yet want I not means to found your High- 
 nefs 's worthy praifes into the ears of foreign 
 nations and mighty Princes : And 1 afTure 
 myfelf your high-born Ipirit thirfts after 
 lame, the period of great Princes ambition^; 
 and farther I will ever be your Highjjefs's 
 moft humble and obkrva.nt fervant." ,^^ u 
 The Prince complied with Sir Robert's re- 
 queft, and gave the child his own name 
 Henry, the Qiieen beijig God-mother ^ Sir 
 JRobert ilaid in England till about January 
 3612-13, when he departed wiih his Perliaii 
 lady, leaving their little fon behind them, and 
 beoueathin? him to the favour and care of 
 the Queen'". 
 
 The King's apology for the oath of alle- 
 giance having given occafion to feveral books 
 from the Popifh party, and among others to 
 an anfwer to it by Martin Bccanus a Jefuii, 
 printed at Mentz in 1610, Dr. William Tooker 
 T)ean of Litchfield, known before by his Cha^ 
 rijmajrce donum Sanitatis, printed in 1 597J in 
 proof of the power of healing in our Kings and 
 
 ' General Chronicle, *. 1003. « W4nwoQ<ii 
 
 Vol. IIL p. 42b. -- ,^.'n^;^^^*^vV..^ 
 
 Queens, 
 
HENRY Prtince of Wales. 253' 
 
 Queens, publifhed a reply" to Becanus this year 
 1611, with a dedication to the Prince, in which 
 he ftiles him the Meccenas of all the learned^ and 
 ipeaks of him in terms of as high admiration, 
 a? he does ofTeverity againft the Jefuits, whom 
 he defcribes as a focicty of fanguinary incen- 
 diaries. And about the fame time his High- 
 nefs had another piece addreflcd to him, writ- 
 ten againft Becanus, and printed at Oppen- 
 hieim", in the Lower Palatinate. 
 
 Under this Year 1611, the elegant Latin 
 hiftorian of Great Britain from 1572 to 1628, 
 Robert Johnfton^, places a ftory; which, tho* 
 unfupported by any authority but his own, and 
 improbable in itfelf, muft not be omitted here. 
 The Prince, according to this writer, requefted 
 the King, that he might be appointed to pre- 
 frdcin the council'^. This demand was fecond- 
 
 ed 
 
 ° Printed at London in 8vo, under this title, Duelhar^. 
 fwc fingulare Certa?iien cum Martina Becom yefuUd futi- 
 I'lter rcfufanVs apolo^-um t' ?nonrtoria?n prcefai'ionem od 
 Jmperaiorem^ P-cges^ i5f pri?uipcs^ tff qHadnni orthodoxaasg-- 
 mat a ferenijfimi ac plcnt'ijfpni "jaccbi Regis A'Lgna: Briti^/i- 
 nia, 
 
 ° In 161 1,, in 8vo, and intitled, Bccano-baciilzis Solcc!'- 
 brigie'rtjts ; ^r/■ Refutaiio Becarix'i Examinis Plagn: Reg'i^ 
 quoad orthodoxavi Profejiantum Dooirinam^ £3" feremjjimit 
 Regis Anglits Pritnatiwi Ecclefics Regiurn. 
 
 P Hiftoria Rcrum Britannicariim. L. XF. p. 468, 469. 
 
 ^ The Hiftorian's Words are p. 468. Per hos dies: 
 p.Ctcre injiitit a patre Henricus Privceps^ ut, decreto SenniuSy 
 Confilio p/sjidercty ac cevfevtes ConfiUarios interrogarety uii 
 didum fjl. ^0 tempore Rcff'evfis petit iommPrincipii adjuvit, 
 
 ora- 
 
254 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 ed by the King's favourite Car, Vifcount Ro- 
 chefler, who urged his Majelly to lay his fon's 
 petition before the council. But the Earl of 
 Salilhury, jealous ot the growing power of 
 Rochefter, and a thorough mafter of artifice 
 and diifunulation, ufed all his efforts, to defeat 
 whatever meafures were propofed by his rival: 
 and being aflced foon after his opinion upon 
 this point, whether it was for the public inte- 
 reft, that the Prince fliould prefide in the 
 council, anfwered, that he thought it danger- 
 ous to divide the government, and to inveft the 
 fon with the authority of the father. Many 
 others of the Privy Council having delivered 
 their opinions on the fame queftion, that of the 
 Earl of Saliftury was adopted by the Majority. 
 But his Lordfliip foon took an opportunity, in 
 a fecret conference with the Prince, to lament 
 his own fituation, and to perfuade his Highnefs, 
 that Lord Rochefter had the only influence in 
 the palace, and privately counteracfled all his 
 defigns. The Prince, on his part, refented 
 the denial of his requeft, and his exclulion 
 from public bufinefs. It was not long before 
 Lord Rochefter difcovered the Earl of Salif- 
 bury's pradlce againft him with the Prince i 
 
 oravitque Regem perferre defideria fl'ii adSenctum, adhihitis^ 
 princtpibus confiliariis. It is not eafy to determine what Mr. 
 Johnfon means here by 5'^«^/z^x, which can fcarce be applied 
 ro the Parliament, for which he generiilly ufes the word 
 Comltia ; and in fait no Parliament met from February 9». 
 1610-11, to April 5, 1 6 14. It is mofl: probable, that 
 he meant by Senatus only the Privy Council. 
 
 4 to 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 255 
 
 to whom he therefore went to clear himfdf. 
 But his Highnefs turned from him with great 
 indignation, and would not hear his juftifica- 
 tion. The Queen likewife, highly difplcafed 
 with the Vifcount, refufed to fee him, and 
 fought ail means of leilening his power. This 
 forwardnefs imputed to the Prince by the 
 hiftorian, in endeavouring to intrude himielf 
 into the management of public affairs, is not 
 at all fuitable to the chara(fler of his Highiiefs, 
 or to any other accounts, which we have of 
 him ; nor ought it to be believed upon &c 
 credit of a writer, who cites no authority for 
 it, nor indeed for fcarce any other affertions m 
 his hiftory, how extraordinary foever they :ap- 
 pear to be j and who frequently ventures to 
 enlarge upon fubjedls, which it was impoffible 
 for him to have known 3 as particularly L. VIU^ 
 p. 265. in his account of Gowry's confpiracy, 
 where he relates a fuppofed conrerfation be- 
 tween that Earl and his brother 5 whereas in 
 all probability no fuch interview then happened ^ 
 and, if it had, neither Johnfton nor any other 
 perfon could have l^own the purpofeof it, go: 
 the refolutions then taken *■. 
 
 Ilowev-eir 
 
 ^ Note of Sir David Dalrymple, Bart, on the Difcdin-ft 
 of the Confpiracy attempted by fohn Earl of Goury^ p. 24. 
 being the fpecimen of a work, intitled Hijhiical ColUfl'iuhi 
 concerning fohn Ruthven^ Earl of Goivry, and his broth,r 
 Alexander Ruthven^ zvho ivere killed at Perth on the Sth of 
 Aug. i6co. Thefe collei^tioxis, which were intended for 
 
 tJiC 
 
1S(> T H E L I f' E b F I 
 
 However it is not much to be doubted, ttiat 
 the Prince had no great ell:eem for Lord 
 Rochefter, whole rife to the power of a fa- 
 vourite and a minifter he fo much dilliked, if 
 we may believe a fatirical writer of Memoirs^, 
 that he was reported either to have ftruck his 
 Lordiliip on the back with a racket, or very 
 hardly forborne it. And another hiftorian, not 
 much lefs fatirical, Arthur Wilfon^ mentions 
 the bickerings betwixt the Prince and the Vif- 
 count; and that Sir James Elphini^on obferV- 
 ing his Highnefs one day to be difconterited 
 with the Vifcount, offered to kill him; for 
 which the Prince reproved him, and faid, that 
 if there were caufe, he would do it himfelf. 
 But to wave fuch very fufpicious authorities, 
 it will be fufficient, in order to judge of his 
 Highnefs's opinion of the Vilcount, and his ad- 
 miniftration at the vcrv heiQ;ht of it, to hear what 
 himfelf fays in a letter to Sir Thomas Ed- 
 mondes of the loth of September 1612, to be 
 cited at length in the courfe of this life: " As 
 '' matters 2:0 now here, I will deal in no bull- 
 ** neffes of importance for fome refpeds." 
 
 the illuftration of that obfcure palTagc of tlie Scotrim 
 hiftorv, and were at fitft defigned to have been piibliflied 
 by themlelves, have been, fince communicated by the very 
 learned colledlor to the Rev. Dr. Will. Robcrtfon, who 
 has made ufe of them in the fecond volume of his excel- 
 lent Hijiory cf Scotland. 
 
 ' Francis Ofbornc's Traditional Memoirs on King 
 James, §. 38. p. 530. 7th edit. 1673. 
 
 ' Life and rcigD of King James 1. p, 63. Edit. Lond, 
 1653, Fol. 
 
 About 
 
HENRY Prince of' Wales. 257 
 
 About the middle of January i6i 1-12, the 
 Prince commanded all the King's Mafter- 
 fliipwrights to attend him about a propofitioii 
 made by Mr. William Burrell for building 
 fhips in Ireland". The propofal was in thefe 
 terms "'. 
 
 "A projed: of faving henceforward well 
 V nigh half the charge his Majefty hath of late 
 *' been at in the new-building of his lliips, 
 " and that without danger eirher of an ill 
 " mould, or of unfcund materials, or of an 
 " unfubftantial frame, and without more 
 *' fparing payments out of the Exchequer, 
 " than fmce this Lord Treafurer's time hath 
 " been.accuftomed in works of the fame na- 
 ** ture: together with an offer of ferving into 
 *' the office plank and timber of extraordl- 
 " nary good condition, whereby his Majefty's 
 ** woods may be prelerved. 
 
 '* Firll, that he will undertake to build any 
 " fl:iip fromi 100 tun to 600 tun, with two 
 " decks and a half according to the ufual fer- 
 " vice of his Majefty's ililps of war, after the 
 *' rate of five pounds per tun for every tun 
 *' the faid flilp (hall contain. 
 
 " Secondly, that he will build any (hip from 
 *' 600 tun to 1000 tun, with three whole 
 " decks fore and aft (if it fhall be thought 
 " fit) after the rate of^ fevc^n pounds per tun 
 " for every tun (he contains. 
 
 • MS. Life of Mr. Pett, p. 66. * Harl. MSS. 
 
 Fol. 70C9. /o/. 42. 
 
 S ** Thirdly, 
 
258 THE LIFE OF 
 
 - ^ *' Thirdly, touching the fubftantialnefs of 
 ^-'^-"tfte work, and foundnefs of the materials to 
 ^'** be employed upon it, he is contented to per- 
 ■'"* form it according to fuch covenants, as fhall 
 
 *' be agreed upon between him and the officers 
 
 • " of the navy, with the advice of his Majefty's 
 '* Hiipwrights, and that agreement to be re- 
 ,*' ferred to the confideration of your Highnefs 
 
 • ** before any proceeding therein. 
 
 -•-• ** Fourthly, for the mould of the fliip. In 
 •' refpeCt of his art, he will deliver your High- 
 '* nefs a mould of his own draught, and build 
 ** the fame, according thereunto, or any altera- 
 " tion, that your Highnefs fliall think fit, by 
 " what advifement you pleafe to take. 
 
 " Fifthly, if it be required, that he fliall 
 ** perform the painting, carving, and joiners 
 " work belonging unto her (which is yet no 
 *' part of her hull) he will undertake that alfo 
 ** at the rate of 10 s. per tun more.^ 'j ^>^ 
 
 ** Sixthly, for all manner of mafts, yards, 
 ** boats, anchors, cables, rigging, powder, 
 ''* fhot, and ordnance, &c. which belong not 
 " to the building of the faid fliip, he will 
 " alfo tranfport the fame at his own charge 
 *' from the place, where they fliall be delivered 
 *' unto him, and difpofe of them, and rigg 
 *' her at his own charge alfo. 
 
 *' Seventhly, he will bring into Chatham in 
 " the faid n:»ip fuch quantity of four inch 
 " and three inch plank fquare, without- fliells, 
 
 *' of 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 259 
 " of 30 feet and upwards in length, and of 
 '* Ipecial knees and timber for riders, ftems, 
 " fafliion pieces, &c. hewed and fquarcd both 
 "sends to a bignefs, and iit for the prcfent 
 gi^' fervice they are afligned unto, the plank 
 '* at the rate of 46 s. per load, and the knees 
 ** and timber at 4.2 s. per load j by which fer- 
 *' vice all forts of tin3ber in this kingdom may 
 *' be preferved, till his Majeily pleafe to forbear 
 *' to make ufe of this offer, to be performed 
 " out of his realm of Ireland. 
 
 '* Eighthly, to the end the frame may be 
 *' built according to the mould agreed upon, 
 " your Highnefs fliall appoint any mafler- 
 " fhipwright to be there, to overfee his works, 
 *' fo it be at his Majefty's charge. 
 
 ** Ninthly, that he will bring the faid fhip 
 
 *' to her moorings at Chatham at his own 
 
 " charge, allowing 80 men wages and victuals 
 
 ** to tranfport a fliip of 600 tuns, and 130 
 
 ** men to a fliip of 1000 tons; and fo propor- 
 
 *' tionably to every fliip of any other burthen. 
 
 *' Laftly, he will undertake to build a (hip 
 
 ** of 600 tuns, and to launch her ready to be 
 
 *' tranfported by Midfummer come twelve 
 
 *^ months, if he be agreed withall before 
 
 ** Chriftmas next, to the end he may pre- 
 
 " fently make his provifion." 
 
 lii The undertaker's demands. 
 
 dor:* Firft, to the end, that the rules to know, 
 
 ^zV that the burthen of the fliip may be certain, 
 
 lo S 2 ' "he 
 
26o THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' he dclires the tiinnage may be meafured and 
 " allowed, according to the ufual rate of the 
 *' length, breadth, and draught in water (which 
 ** is accounted half the iliip's breadth) and ac- 
 " cording to which his Majefty's m after- fliip- 
 *' Wrights do rate all the fhips, for which his 
 ** Majefty pays timnage-moncy. '^ t)ni. 
 
 " Secondly, that his Majefty fliall appoint z 
 " Captain,- Maftcr-Gunner, and Boatfwain, all 
 *' at his own charge, to take care of the fliip 
 *' and of all her provifions committed to their 
 " charge: and that though he be at the fole 
 " charge of the tranfporting the fa'd fliip; yeC 
 " his Majefty to bear the adventure of her af 
 " fea;, after fhe is manned and vidualled by 
 " him as aforefaid. ''-'- -•^- -- 
 
 " Thirdly, that in refped he i3 at 'the Jble 
 *' charge of tranfporting the faid ftiip, and 
 " that he means to bring in her fuch fpecial 
 *' timber and planks, as his Majefty cannot be 
 *' furniftied withal 1 elfe where, he will be 
 *' pleafed to grant him the bringing of that ftuff 
 " in her, without paying any freight, and 
 " nothing to be abated of his price in that re- 
 *' fpecft. 
 
 *' Fourthly, that he may have his Majefty's 
 " commiflion to prefs all forts of men for 
 *' that purpofe, at his Majefty's ufual rates, 
 ** paying their tranfportation thither and back: 
 " as alfo to take up all forts of timber out oF 
 *' any woods, where it is moft convenient, 
 
 ** paying 
 
(C 
 
 HENRY Prince OF Wales. 261 
 
 paying ready money, according to the ap- 
 prailement of four indifferent men, two 
 for the King, and two for the fubjed:: as 
 alfo to make any river navigable for barges 
 at his own charge to tranfport the timber, 
 and for land carriage through any man's 
 grounds (leaving it as he found it) without 
 interruption. 
 
 " Fifthly, that his Majefty, for every fuch 
 (hip of 600 tuns, will be pleafed to grant 
 him five hundred pounds impreft at the 
 *" conclufion of the bargain : and from time to 
 ^' time 500 1. a quarter, till the whole fum 
 *' be paid, with licence to tranfport the fame, 
 ^' as he hath occafion to ufe it." 
 
 The Earl of Nottingham, then Lord High 
 Admiral, having coniidcred this propolal, wrote 
 his opinion of it as follows ; 
 
 * T N my judgment this is a very good pro- 
 ' -^ jedt, and lit to be entertained both for 
 your iMajefty's profit and the good of your 
 kingdom; for it will fave money in your 
 treafury, and preferve the woods of this 
 Kingdom, and chiefly your Majefty's own, 
 Vv'hieh are much wafted. Yet I think fit to 
 add one article to this projedf, that there 
 may be good bonds taken for the perfor- 
 mance ot this projeft, left in the expeda- 
 tion and truft in this your Majefty be not 
 difappointed. There is no doubt but your 
 S3 *' Majefty 's 
 
262 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 " Majefty's principal fliipwrights will make 
 .**,,fome objedions to this : but that is_ iiif^e- 
 *^,fpe(fl of themfelves, and not touching to 
 " the principal j lb fur my part it fliould be hq 
 *' objea to me." ;'_^ , 
 
 i^ut the opinion, which the flilpwrights 
 gave, was more candid than the Lrrd Admiral 
 fecmed to expedt. It was addreiled to the 
 prince'': 
 
 ,^^May it pleafe your Highnefs, 
 
 "' ACCORDING to your Highnefs's 
 t( Ix. commandment, we have with our bed 
 *' judgments perufed this projecl in each feve- 
 *' ral point and article; and in our opinion do 
 " approve it to be the beft, mod profitable and 
 ** honeft offer, that ever was propounded to 
 '* the faving his Majefty's charge in the navy^ 
 •' eafe of the lubied in point of carriage, pre- 
 *' ferving the materials of fuch natures in this 
 " kingdom, and furnifhing the yards with 
 *frftore of principal provifions. 
 
 " Touching his demand for building of a 
 iliip of 600 tuns in burden, befides tunnage, 
 '*^ which with carving, joiners work, and painting 
 *' he offers to perform for 3 3 col. his Majefty 
 *' cannot have the like fhip built here under 
 *' 7000 1. whereby above half the cbftrge is 
 
 << 
 
 » Harl. MSS. FoL 7009.- '/srijJjsM ^' 
 
 " There 
 
tt 
 
 HENRY Prince of Wales. 263 
 " There can be no colour or (hadow of ill 
 to his Majefty's fervice in this; fince firfl for 
 the point of the mould, he defires to have 
 his draughts perufed and cenfured by the 
 beft advice your Highnefs fliall be pleafed 
 to call unto you, and altered as your High- 
 nefs will dired. And for the point of work- 
 manfhip, he is defirous to have a mafter 
 fhipwriglit his overfeer, fuch as you fliall 
 hold fit to appoint; wherein he flieweth his 
 honeft intent to perform his covenants. 
 *' It then refleth your Highnefs will be 
 pleafed, not only to accept of this worthy 
 offer, tending fo greatly to the advancement 
 of his Majefty's fervice, and your High- 
 " nefs's honour; but to have the bargain with 
 ** good advice prefently concluded, 
 
 " For that we take the offer of timber and 
 " plank to be a diftindt point from the reft, 
 ** pleafe it your Highnefs to receive oiir an- 
 " fwer hereunto by itfelf 
 
 ** Whereas the undertaker intendeth to de- 
 " liver no greater quantity of timber and 
 " plank into his Majefty's ftores, than can be 
 *' tranfported in the ftiip he is to build, your 
 ** Highnefs ftiall perform a great work to per- 
 " fuade this undertaker to deliver yearly fome 
 " convenient quantity of principal plank and 
 " timber at fuch rates and prices, as he de- 
 ** mandeth in the fevcnth article. 
 
 « Matthew Baker. W. Bright. Phineas Pett." 
 "MT " S 4 Mr. 
 
264 THELIFEOF 
 
 Mr. Pett was appointed to go to Ireland to 
 fee Mr. Burrcll's performance of his contradl; 
 and every matler-fliipwright brought in plans, 
 in order that the Prince might make choice 
 'of fuch proportions and kinds of moulds, as 
 were fittcft for fervicc^'. 
 
 His Highnefs being convinced of how much 
 "importance the difcovery of a North- Weft 
 ^palTage, formerly attempted in vain, would 
 be, and being now refolved to employ for that 
 purpofe Captain Thomas Button, who had 
 been employed in 1601, at the fiege of Kin- 
 fale in Ireland % and was now in the Prince's 
 fervice, an able feaman, and eminent in other 
 branches of knowledge^ ; Mr. Pett was order- 
 ed to affift that Captain in the choice of a 
 proper fliip for the undertaking. The Captain 
 accordingly fet fail in April 1612^ with two 
 vefleh, one called the Refolnfieri^ in which he 
 failed himfelf, and the other the Difco'very, com- 
 manded by Capt. Ingram ; being both victual- 
 led for eighteen months ". They wintered 
 on board the (hips, and did not return till 
 after the Prince's death, which prevented Capt. 
 Button from making another voyage for the 
 purpofe of the difcovery"^. But from the 
 
 y MS. Life of Mr. Pett, p. 66. 
 
 ■ Pacata Hiberniit^ or an Hijlory of the late wars in 
 Ireland, p. 204. Edit. London, l^33» f°^- 
 
 » Voyage to Hudfon's Bay, by Henry Ellis, Gent. p. 
 •34. Edit. London, 1 748, 8vo. '' MS. Life <^i 
 
 Mr. Pett, p. 66. « Ellis, p 34. * Idem. p. 48. •. 
 
 obferva- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 265 
 
 ob.fervations, which he made, efpecially of the 
 tides, he came home perfedly fatisfied, that 
 a North-Weft paflage might be found; and 
 he told Mr. Briggs, the famous Profeflbr of 
 Geometry at Grelliam college, that he had 
 convinced King James of the truth of his 
 opinion ". He was afterwards knighted for 
 his fervices rendered to the public, and died 
 of a fever in April, 1634*^. 
 
 Among the Prince's papers is another re- 
 lating to fliipping, dated Od. 6, 161 1 §, which 
 deferves a place here, as an addition to the 
 naval hiftory of the laft age: J '',' 
 
 r-aV An eftimate of the charge of ten of his 
 " Majefty's fliips, viz. the Repulfe, Guard- 
 ^' land, Waftefpight, Afliirance, Mary-Rofe, 
 " Red-Lion, Dreadnought, Speedwell, An- 
 *' telope, and Adventure, together with ten 
 *' tranfporters of vi(fluals and munition, to be 
 " employed by the fpace of one wlK)le year, 
 f containing thirteen months and a day. 
 
 Men/ 
 *' Repulfe -r— — ^^o 
 ** Guardland — 300 
 " Waftefpight — 300 
 niii rar*' Afturance — ^ — 250 
 *' Mary-Rofe — 2i;o 
 . Carried over H5^ 
 
 ':^ ^W'h\y^[%y. T Letters and Difpatches of Tho- 
 
 mas Earl ol' Strafforde, Fol. I. />. 242. « Harl. MSS. 
 
 '^-'^''- I Brought 
 
266 THE LIFE OF 
 
 
 h .2 .1 
 
 Men. 
 
 
 Brought over — — 
 " R.ed-Lion — — 
 
 Z50 
 
 
 *' Dreadnought — 
 
 200 
 
 
 *' Speedwell — — 
 ** Antelope — — 
 " Adventure — 
 
 200 
 160 
 
 J20 
 
 
 *' 10 Tranfporters — 
 
 400 
 2780 
 
 
 *' For the fea- wages of 2780 
 
 1. , 
 
 .^^ 
 
 C( 
 
 men to ferve in the faid ten ,r -,^^ • 
 
 fhips above- written, and in 
 
 the ten tranfporters, to help 
 
 to carry their vi(ftuals and 
 
 ammunition, &c. by the 
 ** fpace of one whole year, con- n i ^ 
 
 ** taining thirteen months and ' " 
 
 ** a day, at the rate of 14 s. 
 *' each man per men/em, the 
 *' fum of — — 25298 o o 
 
 *' For the preft, conduct, and 
 *^ prefling charges of 1 000 men 
 *' in the remote fhires of Eng- 
 " land, of 900 men in the 
 ** fhires adjoining, and of 600 
 " men about London, at the 
 *' rate of 6 s. 4d. one with an- ;'7ni^7 '* 
 ** other — — 796 13 4 
 
 Carried over 26094 134 
 
 Brought 
 
C( 
 
 > 
 
 c 
 
 o 
 
 Ui 
 
 It 
 
 HENRY Prince OF Wales. 267 
 
 1. s. d. 
 Brought over — 26094 13 4 
 
 ** For grounding, graving, and 
 putting into ferviceable order 
 the faid ten {hips, by eftima- 
 tion — — 400 o o 
 
 *' For fail, canvas, flags, en- 
 figns, and all manner of fea- 
 ftores, by the like eftimation 4355 00 
 *' For great anchors, mafts, 
 yards, pinnaces, long-boats, 
 &c. by like eftimation 1000 o 6 
 
 fFor condudl in difcharge to "'.nii^ ^^ 
 
 1900 of the faid preft 
 
 men at 5 s. per man, one 
 
 with another — 475 ^ ^ 
 
 For bulk-heads, ballaft, &c. lo sjj.' • ' 
 
 for the ten tranfporters, 
 •{ at 15 1. one with another 150 00 
 For tunnage of the faid ten 
 
 tranfporters, being, by . 
 
 eftimation, 200 tun a- 
 
 piece, in all 2000 tun, 
 
 at 2 s. each tun per inen- 
 
 fem^ the fjm of 2600 o o 
 
 ** For travelling charges to 
 pay the faid fliips at their 
 returns, and for divers other 
 charges incident thereunto, 
 the fum of — — 80 o o 
 
 Carried over 35^54 ^3 4 
 
 Brought 
 
2,^li,.u.u.T,H E LIFE OF,i^^^,,^ 
 
 ,>:- --•■■' h :- -S. ^4r 
 
 '' Brought over — 35'i4 ^3 4 
 
 ". TMorefor the victuals of the ^'inorfT I'l? 
 
 -H • abovelaid 2780 men, . ... ; . ; 
 
 3--L lerving in the faid (hips -> ,j^u; : > ^ii'i 
 
 '$^3; and tranlporters, with all ^' hnoLT riiui^ 
 
 ^.■i>/ other charges incident, •'• 
 
 ^L\-fj the fum of — 29714 6 8 
 
 ** And more for all manner 
 *' of powder, ihot, matches, . ,- . ^^ 
 
 " &c. belonging to the whole ''^'^'^ 2irt 3V3ii ^^ 
 
 *' fleet, with like charges inci- ' "^ ''^'^^^'u 
 *' dent, by eftimation, the fum ''' '^^^^^^ 
 
 -of _ _ ^6'^^'^^:^ 
 
 ~min ~ -r-rr 
 
 r ^. 65502 6 8 
 
 T'.The Prince joined to this attention to the 
 interefts of the naval force of the kingdom the 
 flrid:eft application to his own improvement in 
 military exercifes and the whole theory of war. 
 He practifed tilting, charging on horfeback 
 with piftols, &c. He delighted to converfc 
 with men of {kill and experience in war, both 
 of his own country and foreigners, concerning 
 every part of their profeflion; and entertained 
 in his houie a Dutch captain, v^^ho was an 
 engineer, and had been recommended to him 
 by Count Maurice. He caufed new pieces of 
 ordnance to be made, with which he learned 
 to /hoot level at a mark. He was no lefs careful 
 to furnifli himfclf with great horfes of the befj: 
 
 breed. 
 
 I 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 269 
 breed, which he imported from all countries; 
 arid in this refpetft no Princes in Europe ex- 
 ceeded him^. 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes having fent to Sir 
 Thomas Somerfct a letter to be delivered to 
 the Prince, the latter acquainted him in a letter 
 from London of the 1 2 th of March, 1611-12^, 
 that his Highnefs feemed to take it well; 
 '^ and willed me, fays ht\ to let you kiK)w for 
 anfwer, that he will be careful of that buH- 
 nefs you wrote of: And, if a man may be-^ 
 lieve his words, you fliall not, if it be in his 
 power to help you, be a qian forgotten. 
 Better words of a man he cannot fpeak than 
 you have > and therefore I would widi you 
 to take occafion fometimes to write to him- 
 felf Your letters to me I have alfo prefented 
 him with ; and he doth proteft, that you 
 had very good reafon to do as you did ; and 
 he allures me he is very well fatisfied." 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes had indeed been 
 very cautious of writing to the Prince, to 
 avoid giving jealoufy to the Lord Treafurer 
 Saiilbury, whole health was now fo much* 
 impaired, that it was thought, that he would 
 not live long, as he did not, dying on the 24th 
 of May following. This caution of Sir Thomas 
 is evident from a letter of his to Mr. Newton, 
 dated at ^*aris, 13th March, 161 1- 12', where- 
 
 e Cornwallis, p. 20 — 22. * MS. State Papers; 
 
 of Sir Thomas Edmondes, yd. VII. p. 487. , * Harl. 
 ^^. Vol. 7002. 'iiV.Mr. 
 
 in, 
 
270 THELIFEOF 
 
 in, after acknowledging great obligations to 
 him, he adds: *' I fhould elleem myfeif alfo 
 infinitely happy, if, by any means of fervice, 
 I might make myfeif capable of deferving 
 his Highnefs's gracious favour, according 
 to your well-wifhings to me: And I fliould 
 acknowledge it as a lingular obligation from 
 you, that you would let me know, that 
 there were any thing in particular, which 
 his Highnefs would command me for his 
 fervice. But I hope his Highnefs will make 
 no ill interpretation of me for having for- 
 borne to give him a continual relation of 
 the occurrences of thefe parts, whereof I 
 thought there was no need ; for that 1 pre- 
 fume, that his Highnefs is therein better 
 fatisfied by the full communication, which 
 he receiveth of my letters to my Lord Trea- 
 furer: And I muft confefs unto you, that 
 loving, as I do, to walk in an upright courfe, 
 and to carry my adions free from exception, 
 I have been fearful to give caufe of difcon- 
 tentment to my Lord Treafurer, by antici- 
 pating by my private letters the advertifc- 
 ments, which his Highnefs was to receive 
 from my Lord Treafurer, wherein howfoe- 
 ver I might have valued myfeif by an offi- 
 cioufnefs towards his Highnefs, yet not- 
 withftandlng the fervice would not have 
 been fo great towards him to have been 
 ferved by fuch a private means, as the wrong 
 
 " would 
 
« 
 
 HEN RY Prince of Wales. 271 
 
 would have been great unto my Lord Trea- 
 • furer, to have diverted the thanks from him, 
 who is the great and ordinary organ for the 
 " conveyance of fuch matters: The which, 
 " confiderations being well weighed, I hope 
 " I fliall deferve to be the better juftified by 
 ** his Highnefs, for being careful to acquit 
 ** myfelf regularly in the difcharge of my duty. 
 ** But if there fliall fall out any thing in parti- 
 " cular, which may concern his Highnefs's 
 " fervice, I will make it appear (or otherwife 
 ** I will not hold myfelf worthy of his High- 
 *' nefs's favour) that I give his Highnefs a 
 *' faithful account of the diligent and zealous 
 *' performance of my duty therein. And thus 
 ** much I pray you to do me the favour to 
 ** reprefent unto his Highnefs on my behalf, 
 " whereby you fliall much increafe my obli- 
 *' gation to you. And fo I commit you to the 
 *' protedion of God. ' I es ,^niv( 
 
 " I pray you to inform his Highnefs, that 
 " it will be yet this fortnight before the Duke 
 " of Bouillon take his journey from hence for 
 ** England." 'mi s' 
 
 Sigifmund III. King of Poland, who had 
 been depofed from the crown of Sweden in 
 1600, on account of his attachment to the 
 Roman catholic religion, and his abfence from 
 that kingdom, had, about this time, made 
 great preparations of war, and was expefted 
 §tt) attack the young King of Sweden, Gufla- 
 isluow vus 
 
272 THELIFEOF 
 
 vus Adolphus'% fo illuftiious afterwards for his 
 great exploits and vidtories in Germany, but 
 then in double danger, from Denmark as well 
 as Poland. This fituation of affairs in the 
 North of Europe appeared to Sir Edward Con- 
 way fo critical a one for the interefts both of 
 Proteftantifm and of Great Britain, tliat he 
 wrote from the Brill to Mr. Newton on the 
 39th of March, 161 1- 12', that the Prince 
 could not do any a6t more fuitable to his vir- 
 tues, more honourable to the King, and more 
 for the fafety of the Reformed churches, and 
 piety of his own glorious ftate, than to digefl 
 this affair well by himfelf, and his private coun- 
 cil, and the faithful council of the flate ; and 
 then to move his Royal father to mediate a re- 
 conciliation between the kingdoms of Denmark 
 and Sweden ; at leall fuch a difpofition of arms, 
 as Sweden might wholly attend its defence 
 again fl Poland. 
 
 The Prince having fucceeded in his appli- 
 cation for the Garter for Count Maurice, Sir 
 Edward Conway was ordered by his Highnefs 
 to wait on that occaiion upon the Count, who 
 was then at Arnheim; and having difpatched 
 this commifTion, wrote to the Prince, in the 
 beginning of April, 1612, an account of his 
 difcourfe with Maurice j which letter I have 
 not been able to procure. But that, which he 
 
 ^ He fucceeded his father, Charles IX. in 161 1. ' Sec 
 
 the Appendix, Ne. X1X» 
 
 wrote 
 
HENRY Prince of V/ales. 273 
 
 Wrote at the fame time to Mr. Newton"', may' 
 be feeii in the Appendix". In another letter 
 of the 3d of May, 1612, from the Brill", Sir 
 Edward informed Mr. Newton, that Count 
 Maurice was wholly affured, that the honour 
 of the garter piiered to him arofe originally 
 from the Prince; for which the Count pro- 
 mifed ever to be his fiithful fervant, and to 
 acknowledge his obligation under his own 
 hand. In the f:me letter Sir Edward exprefTes 
 his widi. that his Highnefs would declare h;s 
 refolution not to marry but with one of the 
 Reformed religion : "a point, fiys be, that 
 would fo bind and affure all the Protefcants 
 of Chriftendom to his Majefly and. his 
 Highnefs, as would ruin the projecft of the 
 pretended monarchy, and m^ake fuch Heps, 
 and open fuch ways, as all, that is jufl and 
 lawful for his Maj^fty or his Highnefs to 
 pretend to amongil his neighbours, v/ou|d 
 offer itfelf, and be fub;e<^l; to them in few 
 years." 
 
 Mr. James Uflier, afterwards Archbifliop of 
 Armagh and Primate of Ireland, but ftill 
 more diflinguidied by his univerfal learning, 
 his piety, and his moderation, came over about 
 this time from Dublin, where he v/as then 
 Provoft of the college, to England. By him 
 Sir Oliver St. John, who was in 1616 made 
 
 "• From the Brill on the 8th of April, 1612, O. S. 
 « No. XIX. • Ibid. 
 
 T Lord 
 
274 THE LIFE OF 
 
 Lord Deputy of Ireland, and at lafl created 
 Vifcount Grandifon, lent a letter to Mr. New- 
 ton, dated at Dublin on the 3d of May, 
 1 6 1 2 P, wherein he fliles Mr. Ulher a rare 
 ornament of that kingdom ; and fays, that he 
 had fo well deferved of all men there, and of 
 himfelf in particular, for his extraordinary 
 learning and good parts, that he could riot 
 but recommend him to Mr. Newton's favour; 
 . ** and in thofe occafions, adds I:e^ which he 
 i^* fliall have there (which, I allure myfelf, tend 
 *' to his better encouragement in his great 
 ■' ** labours here among a froward and fuperfli- 
 1'^* tious people) you will be pleafed to grace 
 ^^** him, as you find him worthy, to make him 
 V"^* known to his excellent Highnefs ; particu- 
 '"^*' cularlv that you will be pleafed to procure 
 ■^''* him that grace, that he may preach before 
 ' *' his Highnefs. And when you fliall know 
 ■■'l^s' him, and be made acquaintted with fome 
 '^" of his laboufs, which he will very readily- 
 r "•^* fhew unto you, if you fliall vouchfafe to 
 Hk* require them, I make no doubt but you 
 " will value him, and comfort him with fome 
 *' tafte of your favour; v/hich I will add to 
 '* thofe greater favours, that have fo much 
 n^' bound me unto you, as I defire nothing 
 *' more than to be ei1:eemed';iiLi '^{iiguo'ioiii 
 
 '■, Ypuri very affet^ionate 
 
 " And fure Friend." 
 
 ^.bi3^ , Harl. MSS. Fol. 7002. 
 
 The 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 275 
 'The court of France having refoiyed to pro- 
 pofe to that of England z marriage between the 
 Prince of , Wales and Chriftine^ fccond daugh- 
 ter of Henry IV. and fiiier to Lewis Xlll. 
 v/ith an offer of the fame ilimtjf' 500,000 
 crowns, which had been ffivcn with Elizabeth, 
 the elder daughter, to Philip Prince of Spain, 
 the Duke of Bouillon was fent Extraordinary 
 Ambafiador to England for that purpofe. He 
 arrived at London on the 26th of April, 1612', 
 and brought vv^ith him a letter from Lewis XIIL 
 to the; Piince, who returned by the Duke an 
 anfwer in French'. In this letter he told that 
 King, that the ailuranccs of the continuance of 
 his Majelly's friendfliip were aiv/ays agreeable to 
 - Jiim,; but efpecially when they were brought by 
 fo good an hand as the Duke of Bouillon, v/hom 
 he found fo affecftionatc in entertaining their 
 mutual amity, that he thought no perfon n:iore 
 proper to fatisfy his Majefty of the readinefs 
 -\;of his own. This he had defired the Duke to 
 oJdeclare to his Majefty at large; and therefore, 
 1 [(referring himfelf to him, would embrace all 
 oiDpportunides of teftifying his afie«flion to his 
 ■ IVlajeftv's fervice. 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes's letter to Mr. New- 
 ton, of the 1 3th of March, 161 1- 12, not being 
 thoroughly fatisfadory to the Prince, does not 
 
 'i She who was afterwards married to Vi6^or Amadeus, 
 Prince, and at lafl Duke, of Savoy. ' Hiftorital 
 
 View, p. 343, 344, *" Harl. MSS. Fol. 7002. 
 
 T 2 appear 
 
276 THE LIFE OF 
 
 appear to have been aqfwered till the 17th of 
 May following by Mr. Newton' ; whofe letter^ 
 dated at St. James's, as it has fo immediate a 
 relation to the Prince, deferves a place here: 
 
 '' My Lord, 
 
 *V;,,ILJ AV IN G received your lail letter, 
 
 i( -^ -''' 1 acquainted his Highnefs therewith. 
 
 *' Reading it unto him (as my manner is, when 
 
 " I find any thing more effe(ft:ually v/ritten by 
 
 " my friends, than I ihall be able to exprefs it) 
 
 '* bccauje I found not that fatisfadion at that 
 
 *' time, which I wifhcd, I refolved to attend 
 
 *' fome better opportunity, and give time, by 
 
 " preparing him in the mean while to conceive 
 
 *' of you as you defer ved. After, this bearer, 
 
 ^' one of your own, coming into England, I 
 
 *' determined not to write before his returning 
 
 " towards you ■„ which now I do with more 
 
 *' contentment, than before I could have done. 
 
 *' For howfoever your excufe of omitting ad- 
 
 *' vcrtifemcnts by private letters^ which his 
 
 *' Hidincfs was to receive, and of late com- 
 
 *' monly did receive, from my Lord Trea- 
 
 *' furer, v/as mod juft and reafonable j ^et it 
 
 *' did not at the firfl relifli To unto his tafte,. 
 
 *' as it could be well liked of. You muft think, 
 
 *' that I omitted no arguments , to ^p,ei"fuade,. 
 
 * MS, State Papers of Sir Thomas EdmontJes, if*?/, iy/. 
 p. 62b. 
 
 I '' that 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 277 
 
 ** that my poor wit could furnifli me to that 
 *' effecfl; which I fliall not need to let down, 
 ** feeing they were founded upon the grounds 
 *' mentioned in your own letter. But of late 
 *' fignifying unto his Highnefs, that I was to 
 ** write unto you, and therefore definng to 
 ** know what fervice he would command me, 
 " and prefTing the former point, I found his 
 *' Highnefs not only not dillafted as before, 
 " but even to approve your former refolution 
 *'! with very good and kind fpeeches of you, 
 *' And therefore I am the more emboldened, 
 *' out of the kind acceptance, on your part, 
 '* of my poor well- v>'i(]:ies (for which I humbly 
 *' thank you) to urge yet dgain, that, although 
 " you acquaint not his Highnefs with ordinary 
 '^ occurrcnts ; yet, upon occafions fit for you 
 " .both, you may exprefs your refpeft unto him. 
 " . If no better means be offered, you are fure 
 *' of one, who for a world will not prove fiilfe 
 *' unto a friend. And my mafter hath lb well 
 " apprehended the inflrudions of fecrecy, that 
 '*, he hath been taught, as I fear he will keep 
 '* them too too well. You fee my freedom, 
 ** which hath no other end but your good, 
 " joined with his Highnefs's contentment." 
 
 The.learned men, both at home and abroad, 
 were now ambitious of publifl^iing their works 
 under the fandion of the Prince's name. Mr. 
 Thomas Farnaby, the moft eminent fcihool- 
 malkr of that age, publiflied this year his edi- 
 
 T 3 tioii 
 
27S THELIFEOF 
 
 tion of the Satires of Juvenal and PeiTius, with 
 marginal notes, at London, in oilavo, and a 
 polite dedicatKDn to the Prince. • 'And the lively 
 and ekgant Dominic Bandius, ProfeiTor oF 
 eloquence and hiflory at Levden, whole Latin 
 epililes are ftiil much read on account of the 
 vivacity of fentiment and ll:ylc, and who hadi: 
 in Auguft^, 1607, made a fecond voyage to 
 England to prefent his poems to the King, 
 and was well received by the Prince, having 
 printed an edition of his Glioma iambica, fent 
 it over to his Plighnefs, with a letter in Latin, 
 dated at Leyden, June 11, 1612'''. In this 
 letter he obferves, that all men, who w^ere 
 diftinguifhed by learning, virtue, or genius, 
 concurred in the laudable ambition of pro- 
 ducing fomething, which might procure them 
 the favour of fo preat a Prince as his Highnefs. 
 That, with regard to himfelf, a Profeffor in 
 an univerfity, he could for the prefent offer 
 nothing from his literary ftores, but fonie pro- 
 dudi'jns of the miufes, who, with a virgin 
 bafhfulnefs, prefumed to implore his Highnefs 
 to condefcend to allow them a hearins: at fome 
 hour of leifjre, when he was inclined to relax 
 his more weighty employments. That, if the 
 genius of the book itfelf, and the truth and 
 utility of the fentences, fhould not fix the at- 
 tention -J yet the Author, not the loweft amongft 
 
 ""'*'' boi^iinici Baudii Epiflol. CeMur. JI. Epiji. 37. 
 fi'liXi-Edii. Amfelod, id/^j. v Appendix, No. XX. 
 
 thofe, 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 279. 
 
 thofe, who cultivated good learning, was not 
 unworthy of being received by the l^rince 
 with fome countenance and favour, as he had 
 been before by his Highnefs, who had con- 
 verfed with hiin with great affability. That 
 fuch works as this, not to fpeak too highly of 
 it, were not common produdions, nor every 
 day offered to the fons of Kings j though tlie 
 Author was adiamed of the many errori>, 
 which, through the carelefsnefs or ignorance 
 of the printer, were too vifible in fo fmall a 
 piece, to his extreme regret, who had almoft 
 refolved to fupprefs it, in order to prevent its 
 coming, in fo deformed a (late, under the view 
 of illuilrious perfons. But he had recovered 
 his fpirits by the conlideration of his Highnefs's 
 goodnefs, which infpired him with hopes, that 
 the negligence of another perfon would not be 
 imputed to the writer. That his Highnefs, if 
 he would vouchfafe to take the book into his 
 hands, would fee in it many things, which 
 might not be ufelefs towards the wile and juft 
 adminiftration of government. And though 
 his Highnefs was furniflied by nature, and the 
 care of his royal father, the beft and wifeft of 
 Kings, and by his inftrudors, with every thing, 
 that might exalt him to the highefl: perfeftion 
 of virtue and glory; yet he would not refufe 
 to permit this humble ivy to creep among the 
 vidorious laurels on his brows; and to adtv.it 
 the author into the number of thofe, who had 
 
 T 4 devoted 
 
tan 
 fl 
 
 280 THE LIFE OF 
 
 devoted to his Highjiefs both themfelvcs and 
 every thing belonging to them. 
 
 M.chacl Drayton, Efq; likcwife having nbw 
 finifnedhis firft partofPfi'/j'-o/.^/o;?, and hisfriend, 
 Mr. Seldertj his very fearned lllufiratiom ^ upon 
 it, the former dedicated that work, printed at 
 London, 1613, in fol. to the Prince, as the 
 hopeful Heir of the Kingdoms of Great Britain ^ 
 whcfe delicacies^ ckorographical defer ipti on ^ and 
 hiflory\ were the [uhfeBs of that poem. The 
 poet in the d<pdiv:ai:ipjq obferved, that his foul, 
 which had feen the extremity of time and for- 
 me'', could nQt,,vetjdefpair; for that the in- 
 ucnce of fo"^' glorious and fortunate a ftar as 
 his Kighnefs might aifo reflect upon him, 
 ** v/hich had power ito give him new life, or 
 ''^ leave h'lii to die mo. e willingly and cor>- 
 *' tented.^ He prefixed to his Work a portrait 
 'of "tire" Prince in, arjTiour, with a lance in. his 
 hand, and the foilawins: lonnet upon it^: 
 
 *' Britain J behold, here portray 'd to thy fight 
 *' Henry, thy bell hope, and ,the, F.pj-Jd'$, 4^- 
 " %]it, .hnj^d nv/o lA 
 
 " Odain'd to make thy eight great Henries. 
 
 ;.,, . nine, ,^ iWvn L-).*. u>iij (rj:xi .jhoLliCiii O; 
 
 *^ Who, l^y that- virtue in the trebk:tiif^ei;rl I 
 
 ^ Dated from the Inner Temple, ^Msy 9,^ l6i2. 
 * I )' his Preface he compiaifi's, that ** the time flncq his 
 *' Majelly's happy Corriijirt'iri RHd fallen hi^p.vily upon His 
 ••' diftrefied fortune*^ afttr his '>.ealou$ fdul had laboured 
 *' fo Inrig in that, •whicli,': with the genera) happinefs of 
 " the kinoJom, feeiiied not tl-.cn impollible fomewhat 
 *' aifo to have advanced l);;)i." ^ ibid. 
 
 " To. 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 281 
 
 f' To his own goddefs (in his being) brings 
 *V Thefe feverai glories of th'eight Englidi 
 
 *' De€p knov/ledge, greatnefs, long hfe^ policy, 
 
 \ - - ,>. , - J - 7 .,,,.■ ', 8 
 
 ^^ Cdiira^e; J^eal, fortune, awful majefty. 
 *v H^e,,_, like gre^ti ISfeptune,, on tlii'ee Teas,^ 
 **'fliali rove, ' • ' 
 
 *'.)^nd' rule three realms with triple pow'r, 
 
 "'* lik:6 Jove: 
 *^ Thus in foft peace, thus in tempeiluous 
 
 *' wars. 
 
 ^' TAi from his foot his fame fhall flrike the 
 
 AHbther work, which came out under his 
 Highnefs's patronage this year, 1612, was 
 Mr. Henry Peacham's Mhierva Britan?ja % 
 containins: a colleclion of Emblems illuflrated 
 ^n Englifli verfe : fome of which the Author 
 had pfefentcd two years before tranflated by 
 him into Latin verfe, with the drawings by 
 his own hand. 
 
 Sir Henry Carcw having, upon his going 
 to Holland, bten char^^ed with a letter from 
 the Prince to Count Maurice, to whom he 
 
 * The Weft, North, and Eaft oceaiv " The 
 
 title is ?Ainervo Britannn : or a Ganlen of Heroical De- 
 vices ; furnijhed and adorned with etnhtans and iinprfjcs of 
 fu'idry ju:turei : tuii'fy drjijt'd^ morallzedy and publijhed- by 
 Hcivy P.achanh M. A. 
 
 delivered 
 
2B2 THELIFEOF 
 
 delivered it, and by wlibm it was received with 
 great thankfulnefSj wrote an account of this in 
 a letter to Mr. Newton from the Hague of the 
 9th'6f June, i6i2, O. S^\ He added, that 
 no pcrfesfl refoiution was yet taken by the 
 States eoncerning the articles of the garter, nor 
 would be for eleven days, as appeared from 
 their an Aver in writing to the Ens^lifh Ambaf- 
 fador''; fo that as yet, in Sir Henry Carew's 
 opinion, it was uncertain, whether they would 
 allow Count Maurice to be of the order, or not. 
 '* Yefterday, concludes fc, came the news hi- 
 *' ther, tliat the Archduke Matthias is chofcn 
 " Emperor ; but no King of the Romans made : 
 " which will trouble our Archduke Albertus, 
 ** who expefted to have been Emperor. For 
 " the laft we heard from Francfort was, that 
 *' he had the voices of the eccleiiaftics and of 
 *' the Duke of Saxony." i :JiidJ tS^nidJ 
 
 About the middle of June, \b 1 2^ 'Mr. Pett 
 began, by the Prince's order, a frame for a 
 fmall new fliip, which was to be as a pinnace 
 to his great (liip, the Prmce, in which his 
 Highnefs propofed to fail fometimes in the 
 narrow feas, and which therefore was appointed 
 to be fitted with a very roomy cabbin, and all 
 other accommodations for that purpofe. The 
 keel of this new (liip was laid in the launch- 
 ing place at the old dock at Chatham on the 
 laft tlav of June, being in length feventy-two 
 
 " Harl. MSS. Fol. 7002. ^ Sir Ralph Winwood, 
 
 feetj 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 283 
 
 feet, and in breadth twenty-four •, and it drew 
 eleven feet water:- the burthen was about 250 
 
 tuns'^. 
 
 William Earl of Pembroke, who was after- 
 wards Lord Chamberlain of the houfhold, and 
 Chancellor of the Univerfity of Oxford, having 
 received by Mr. Connok, the Prince's Receiver, 
 a note from his Highnefs for the Stewardlhip 
 of Devonfliire, and the Seal; and his Lorddfip 
 having already granted it to Mr. Eveleigh, 
 of that country, under this perplexity wrote a 
 letter the next day to Mr. Newton % in which 
 he faid; " his Highnefs (hall ever abfolutely 
 " command me, and whatfoever is in my 
 " power to beftow. My only requcft is unto 
 " you, but to let the Prince truly underftand, 
 " how hard this cafe falls out to me; and 
 *' then his will be done. Thefe were all the 
 ** things, that I had to beflow myfclf ; and 
 *' three days lince I palled them under my 
 *' hand and feal to Mr. Eveleigh, a man, who 
 " hath loft bodi his pradice and the judges by 
 *^ m.any years painfully upholding the Prince's 
 *' jurifdicftion of the Stanneries ; and now, if 
 *' he lofe thefe things, is utterly undone both 
 " in reputation and fortune : And lallly, Vv'hich 
 " is dearefc to me of all, the world will con- 
 " ceive, that I have fmall intereft in his High- 
 " nefs's favour, when I mufl: overthrow mine 
 
 ^ MS. Life of Mr. Phincas Pctt, fol. 68. « Hatl. 
 MSS. Fck 7002. 
 
 " own 
 
2^4 THELIFEOF 
 
 ** own grant to fo well a deferving perfon, and 
 ** beftow it on one, tliat will never execute 
 *' the place htmfelf: And when his Highnefs 
 ** knoweth thus much, I will humbly fubmit 
 " all to his p/leafure. I befeech you let me 
 '* hear from you j. for I protelt this xa^tter 
 '' doth much trouble me." ,f ^.^^ 
 
 This letter has no date, but appears to Have 
 been written in June, 1 6 j 2, from one of tliat 
 learned and eloquent prer.cher, Dr. Henry 
 Parry, Bifliop of Worccder, to Mr. Newton, 
 dated in that city, June 15, 1612^, in which 
 he has thefe words; '* For Mr. Eveleigh, as I 
 " am much beholden unto you, fo yet, I be- 
 '' feech you, both in that bufinefs and in all 
 " the like, take that leave, which you long 
 *' iince gave me; and be guided not by my 
 " letter, but by your own wifdom." In the 
 beginning of this letter he exprefles his fatis- 
 facftion in liearing fuch great things of the 
 Prince. *' Mow pleaiing and acceptable, fays 
 '' he^ is all that you write unto me .? Above all 
 *' thefe two; that liis Highnefs groweth a 
 *^ goodly Prince ; and that that noble Lord s is 
 " bleft with his favour. They are herein both 
 ^' blefl. For never fliall his Highnefs beilovv 
 *' his favours upon a more faithiul and honeft 
 *'^' (hbneft is a better word, and was before 
 *^ honourable) neither lliall his Lordliiip per- 
 
 ^ 'Harl. 'MSS.' 'foL'-j'^ii ■''^- i 'Perhaps the Earl of 
 PemWiski^. i^ftirni; 
 
 " form 
 
HENRY Prince op Wales. 285 
 
 *' form his fervices to a more noble andcon- 
 " flant Prince. But what is it, that you write f 
 " That his Highnefs fliould at any time, in his 
 ♦' many excellencies, fo abufc himlelf,' Qsnot 
 ** only to think, but alfo to fpeak,' of /nie, a 
 ** poor worm of the country? His Highriefs 
 *^ dodi herein cxprefs the image of Gody who 
 **^ makes worms, as well as angds, patt&kers 
 ** of his gocdncfs. In him tliev ]iv&i they 
 ** move, they are. And farelv I fliall never 
 " widi to breath, or be an hour longer, than 
 *' I fliall approve myfelf, in ' all my labours 
 *' and endeavours, to be his Highnels's moH 
 *' devoted and faithful fervant. 
 
 '' I cannot yet learn from you, whether 
 '' ever my book were delivered to the King 
 *' of Denmark. Belike there now Jprrmtiir 
 " oratcf\ miles ajnatur. Yet I would be glad 
 *' to be partaker of vour knowledge." 
 
 Sir Dudley Carleton, who had • been fent 
 AmbalTador to Venice, where he arrived in 
 November, 16 10, took occafion to write from 
 thence for the firll time to the Prince on the 
 24th of June, 1612, O. S. the following 
 letter'': 
 
 *' May it pleafe your Highnefs, 
 
 " T Have hitherto attended with great devo- 
 
 " -*- tion your Piighnefs's commandments in 
 
 " thofe fervices, for v/hich this place might 
 
 *' minifter occalion; and finding myfelf fo un- 
 
 \ Harl. MSS. Vol. 700B. 
 
 « happy. 
 
286 THELIFEOF 
 
 ** happy, as not to be honoured therewithal, I 
 *' have taken the boldnefs to prefent that duty 
 *' of zeal to your Highnefs, which is better at 
 " obedience than Tacrlfice, where. I may be 
 *' condemned of prefumption. My excufe at 
 " this prefent fliali be to give your Highnefs 
 " knowledge of a troop of travellers, which 
 " may be in England as foon as thcfe lines : 
 *' The chief of which is the Prince Peretti, 
 *' nepotin to a Pope, and nephew to a Car- 
 *' dinal, and yet carried with that devotion 
 " to fee his Majefty and your Highnefs, that 
 ** he ventures a fulmination, when he returns 
 *' to Rome. He hath in his company one 
 *' Roberti Obizzi, a gentleman of great poi- 
 " feffions in thefe parts, who is to take upon 
 *' him the name and condu6t of the whole 
 *^ train, while they remain in his Majefty's 
 '* dominions. 
 
 ■ ij *' I have found in one of thefe writers, that 
 *' the decay of virtue and valour in this age, in 
 " comparifon of former times, is a wrongful 
 *' complaint: that there is ever the fame pro- 
 " portion of both in the world ; but that they 
 " do pafs di provinda in provincia: Which 
 " may be a paradox; but howfoever I apply 
 *' it with lingular contentment to the fame of 
 ^' his Majefty's incomparable wifdom, and to 
 
 -...M.. thofe princely virtues, which appear in your 
 ** Highnefs, with great admiration even in 
 " thofe parts, which Vv ere wont to challenge 
 
 eviMl I 3 '' fedem 
 
HE.N'PvY PiuNcs:.oFi Wales. 287 
 
 '' fide}7t •<DiHutis ; but now they iee/it hath 
 " changed habitation..; uou orii n^;Uj jv; : 
 
 " God give all profpefous fuccdfs'tothefe 
 " hopeful expedations, and keep your High- 
 *' nefs in his holy protedioni" bsnmsbno'} 
 
 ■'Sir Jt)hh Digby, -tfeeri AfeibaiBdcrf' to^ the 
 court of Spain, and afterwards Lord Digby, 
 and Earl of Briftol, in a letter from Mkdrid 
 of the 2d of July, 161 2, to Mr. Newton', 
 took notice to him, how great an cxpecftation 
 the world generally conceived of the virtuous 
 and hopeful beginnings of tlie Prince, their 
 mafter ; " whereof you, fays he, above all other 
 *' men, are to have a double joy and a more 
 *' quick feeling; for that his good and princc- 
 " ly difpoiition cannot but in fome meafure 
 ** have relation to your indufcry and care of 
 " his virtuous education." With regard to 
 news, " this prefent, fays he^ hath very little: 
 *' Only they are now here buficd for the re- 
 " ception of the Duke de Mayne, who com- 
 *' eth Ambaflador from France for the con- 
 " eluding of the matches betwixt the two 
 ** crowns. We are in all kiiids excluded from 
 " amongfl: them: But the caufe being fo juft, 
 »' as the truth of our religion, I doubt not but 
 *' whatfoever prejudice and inconvenience we 
 ** fuffer for that, God wiil recompenfe it dou- 
 ** ble and treble unto us. 
 
 [ Had. MSS. Fol. 7002. fol 125. 
 
 ** I have 
 
288 THE LIFE OF 
 
 " I have often heard, that thefe matches 
 were like to be feconded by fome new and 
 flri(fl treaty of the catholic princes, like unto 
 the union, wherein his Majefty lately entred 
 with the Princes of Germany: the wliicli, 
 though T have not yet certain ground enough 
 to aver it as a thing refolved on, yet it is a 
 thing, that I am apt enough to believe may 
 be J for that I know it hath been often con* 
 fultcd, and is at this prefent by divers in- 
 duftrioufly laboured in. The Princes, that 
 arc chiefly fpoken of, are, the King of 
 France, the King of Spain, the Pope, a^id 
 the Duke of Florence. As for the new 
 Emperor, we cannot yet tell what to maJve 
 of him; for that new eftates and new mo- 
 tives may caufe new refolutions. But I find, 
 that they are here in great hope, ^hat he 
 will be much theirs; for they have here 
 made very great feafls, and proclaimed. a 
 folemn holy-day for joy of his elqdion. 
 If God fend us true and united hearts at 
 home, and our neighbour Plollanders^'emain 
 firm, we ill all have little cauie to fear or 
 apprehend their combinations. 5ut if there, 
 fhall be difcontents amongft ourfelyes, aod 
 diverfity of religion caufe diftradion, aijd 
 that tlie Hollanders (hall grow hoUow- 
 hearted unto us; then I confefs juilly, that 
 thefe confiderations may be of fearful appa- 
 rition unto us. 
 
 '' Wc 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 289 
 
 " We have in an ill time loft that great 
 ** minifter'^, whofe long experience and. prac- 
 *' tice in the palTages of ftate would, like the 
 " moft expert pilot, have beft guided us out 
 " of thofe flraits and exigents, vv'herein we 
 " now are. But God, I hope, as he hath 
 " given the King our mafter a deep and a wife 
 *' heart, fo he will give him faithful and in- 
 " duftrious minifters, to execute his wife di- 
 " retftions, whereby the great lofs, that our 
 *' kingdom hath lufFered in his death, may 
 ** be fiipplled.'* 
 
 The King having dhedled his favourite, the 
 Lord Vifcount Rochefter, to whom he in- 
 truftcd the chief management of public affairs 
 after the death of the Earl of Salifbury, to de- 
 fire the Prince's opinion upon the propofal of 
 a marriage between him and the fecond 
 daughter of France, his Highnefs gave it in a 
 letter to his Majefly, the original of which is 
 ftill extant'. 
 
 " May It pleafe your Majefty, 
 
 " C E E I N G that your Majefty 's pleafure, 
 " ^ fignlfied unto me by my Lord Rochefter, 
 " is, that I fet down my opinion concerning 
 *' the propofition lately made by your Am- 
 *' bafTador unto Villeroy; your Majefty muft 
 " pardon both the boldnefs of my writing, and 
 
 * The Earl of Salifbury. 
 
 ^ Cotton Library, Titus, B. VIII. fol. 4:^4. 
 
 U " the 
 
290 THELIFEOF 
 
 " the weaknefs of my opinion in a matter of 
 ** fach confcquence. 
 
 " Wherefore may it pleafe you to confider, 
 *' that for fo far, as your Ambaflador hath 
 ** hitherto proceeded in it, hath wrought the 
 " fame efFc(ft, that might have been looked 
 " for: but when it cometh unto a more 
 ** particular negotiation, whether they will 
 ** tlien yield unto fuch conditions, as your 
 " Majcdy, in your wifdom, fliall think fit, the 
 " fuccefs of their next interview will^ make 
 '* you give a more near guefs. ? {y^---* i-- 
 
 " The caufe, which firft induced your'Ma- 
 ** jefty to proceed in this propofition by your 
 •' Ambaflador, was the hope, which the Duke 
 *' of .Boiiillon gave your Majefty of breaking 
 " their other match with Spain. If the con- 
 ** tinuance of this treaty hold only upon that 
 hope, and not upon any defire to effect a 
 match with the fecond daughter, in my 
 weak opinion I hold, that it ftands more 
 with your Majefly's honour, to flay your 
 AmbafTador from moving it any more, than 
 to go on with it ; becaufe no great negotia- 
 tion fhould be grounded upon a ground, 
 that is very unfure and uncertain, and de- 
 pends upon their wills, who were the firfl 
 caufers of the contrary. Next it will not 
 be honourable for your Majefly, that the 
 world fhould fee, that when you fhall have 
 broken it off", after a long treatv, you did 
 
 " it 
 
 (C 
 
H E N RY Prince of Wales. 291 
 it only to break off the other -, feeing they 
 will fay, that it is your own fault, not having 
 made foon enough an overture for the iirft. 
 '* Whether your Majefly will proceed fur- 
 ther in it, upon the defire you have to make 
 a match with the fecond, that with the reft 
 I leave unto your Majefty's farther and bet- 
 ter judgment. But if your Majeily be re- 
 folved to continue it in refped: of itfelf, then 
 I entreat your Majefty, be fare both of the 
 certainty, and of the fending of her hither 
 upon the conclufion, or at the fartheft at 
 the going of the other into Spain. 
 " I fear I have troubled your Majefly's pa- 
 tience too long with a good talc ill told j 
 but you muft impute this fault unto your 
 command, and not unto my prcfumption. 
 I fliall ever hold myfclf very happy to be 
 commanded by him, whom I have moft 
 reafon of all others to love, honour, ferve 
 and pbcy, and who fliall ever find me his 
 
 ■'* '- " Moft humble, 
 
 *' Faithful and obedient, 
 
 Richmond, this 
 
 29th of July, • ** Son, and Servant, 
 
 
 '' H E N R Y." 
 
 Two days after the Prince wrote a letter in 
 French to the Duke of Boiiillon "", who had 
 
 "» MS. State papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Fol. 
 ■VlILfol, 119. 
 
 U 2 returned 
 
^92 THELIFEOF 
 
 returned from: his extraordinary embafTy in 
 Englana ro Ffance in the beginning of June. 
 In this letter his Highnefs thanked the Duke 
 for his readinefs to ferve him, affuring him of 
 his own ienfe of it> and gratitude for it i and 
 that he fnould be glad to have it in his power 
 to aiTift in the promotion of Sir Thomas Ed- 
 mondes, who had been recommended to his 
 Highnefs by the Duke, as well as by his own 
 merits, to which the Prince was no Granger. 
 
 The Prince wrote likewife the fame day to 
 Sir Thomas Edmond^s.the i^lowipjgji^tjt^"* 
 
 i:, •* Sir Thomas Edmondes,^^^ m^rlT »» 
 " npHE receit of your letters dated the 
 " -■- 2iit of July, was the ftay of my 
 " anfwering the former, being, ready tlie fame 
 " day to have fent you thein,07^ od h^^ 
 
 *' My fo long fhiy was occafioned by a 
 '^ rumour, which Don Pedro de Cuniga fpread 
 •' here, that the French Queen had, before the 
 ** Duke of Bouillon's coming hither, made an 
 '* overture for a match betwixt her fecond 
 '' daughter and the fecond fon of Spain ; 
 ** whereof until I had a little better affurance, 
 *' I could not write unto you. •o>l moil ' 
 
 " I delire you to acquaint the Duke of 
 *' Bouillon with itj and befides to know, 
 /■^3 whether k hath been true or not. 
 
 "He, lyyjc; Q,^^fQ papers of Sir Tbcwnas Edmondes, Foi. 
 mil, foL 12C). 
 
 ** Touching 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 2g^ 
 
 " Touching the propofition, I find that you 
 ** have fo difcreetly and wilMy carried yourielf 
 *' in it, as that no man couid have mended it. .. 
 ' " As I had written thus much of this let-i 
 *' ter, the King had fenc unto methe le'.ter 
 " you wrote unto him, and withall willed me 
 ** to' fend unto him my opinion, what I 
 '' would have him to command y<ili to do in it ; 
 *' a copy whereof, for fo much as -concerneth 
 " this matter, I fend unto you. Whereunto I 
 ** will only one thing, which is, that if the 
 ** King and I make this match upon worfe 
 " conditions, than Spain hath done with the 
 ** other, it will be very diflionourable. 
 
 ** There hath been fome fpeechc^s- fallen 
 ** here, that the Duke of Bouillon h^.th not 
 *' dealt fo clear with the Kin i^ fincc.his bcin;^ 
 ** there, as his profeflions exprefi'ed, and pro- 
 ** fefTed he would have done. Whether this 
 *' be true either in tiie general or in the par- 
 *' ticular, 1 leave it unto you, as unto the 
 *' fitteft man, to try. 
 
 ** I doubt 'not but you will, whenfoevcr 
 ** you have matter fit to be written, advcrtife 
 " me by letter. 
 
 " Concerning the intelligence they have 
 " from Rome, touching the conclafion of the 
 *' match between the filler of Florence arid 
 *' myfelf, it is falfc. 
 
 '* Thus I thought good to advcrtife you, 
 
 '* both touching the Duke of Boiiiilon and 
 
 U ^ " this 
 
294. THE LIFE OF 
 
 " this of Florence, to the end you may know, 
 
 " how clearly I deal with you, and how I am 
 
 " perfuaded both of your affed:ion and of 
 
 *' your continuance to do me fervice. Rich- 
 
 *f^jii?^fid4,his 31ft of July 1612. 
 
 ■r.fii r.i xir _ <c Yo^,r ^Q^ friend, 
 
 "HENRY P. 
 
 " I pray you commend me very heartily 
 " unto the Duke of Bouillon, and deliver 
 *' this letter unto him from me." ,, ,. _ „ 
 
 ' ■ T ? n 1 r 1 r r> r\ r' "i 
 
 In the beginning of Auguft the Prince being 
 to take his progrefs from Richmond, his fervant 
 Mr. Pett the fliipwright made a journey thither 
 on the Saturday, the ift of that month, from 
 Chatham, accompanied with Captain Thomas 
 King, and Mr. John Reynolds, mafter-gunner 
 to his Highnefs. The next day, being Sunday, 
 Mr. Pett waited to chapel and at dinner upon 
 the Prince, who had that day appointed a great 
 deal of private conference with Mr. Pett con- 
 cerning affairs of confequence. After his High- 
 nefs was rifen from dinner, and had talked 
 with him for a while at the bay-window in the 
 prefence-chamber, he gave Mr. Pett leave to 
 go to his dinner, which was prepared for him 
 and his company by Mr. Alexander, the prin- 
 cipal Gentleman U/lier, at the houfe of Mr. 
 Wilfon, his Highnefs's taylon. During the 
 4 ' dinner 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 295 
 dinner Mr. Pett was fent for three Tcveral 
 times by the Prince, who wanted fatisfadion 
 in fome points, and ordered him to attend 
 again, after he had finifhed his dinner, between 
 two and three of the clock. At that time his 
 Highnefs deiiver'd his pleafure fully to him, 
 with proteftation of the trud, which he repofed 
 in him, and the good opinion, which he had 
 of Mr. Pett's performance of what was com- 
 mitted to his charge, and with many expref- 
 lions of his favour and intentions to provide for 
 him, concluding with thcfc words, " Go on 
 *' chearfully in that, which I intrufl: you with, 
 *' and let not the care for your pofterity in- 
 ** cumber you any ways. For you Hiall leave 
 " the care both of yourfelf and them to me, 
 ** who have a purpofe carefully to provide for 
 " you." Thefe gracious fpeeches made fuch 
 an impreflion on Mr. Pett, that when he came 
 to kifs the Prince's hand at parting, he could 
 not avoid fliedding fome tears; though he then 
 little thought, that this would be the laft lime 
 he fhould fee his Highnefs alive, or thefe the 
 laft words, that he fnould ever hear from his 
 mouth''. 
 
 Monf. de Saint AnthoineP, the Prince's prin- 
 cipal Equerry, going to France on fome affairs 
 ^- -'^'-^i- of 
 
 • MSi'Liffe^f Mr. Phincas Pett, />. 67. 
 
 f Mr. Thomas Murray, Tutor to the Duke of York, 
 and afterwards provoft of Eton College, in a letter to Sir 
 Thomas Edmondcs from Richmond, the 6th of Augulf^ 
 
 U 4 i6i2. 
 
296 THE LIFE OF^ -.' 
 
 of his own, in the beginning of Augu^ 1612, 
 his Highnefs fent by him a letter to Lewis 
 XIII'', in which he mentioned, that he had di- 
 reded that gentleman to wait upon his Ma - 
 jefty, and to falu-te him in his, the Prince's, 
 name; not doubting but that his Maiefty 
 would be glad to fee him, both oh aecountof 
 the good and faithful fervices, which he did 
 the Prince every dav, and as a witnefs of the 
 obligations, which his Flighnefs thought him- 
 felf under to that King for the continuation of 
 his friendfliip. '-^ oJ yjd : 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes, foon after th^'feceit 
 of the Prince's letter of the 3 1 ft of July 1612, 
 returned an anfwer from Paris on the r4th of 
 Augufl% thanking him for his favourable 
 acceptance of his endeavours in his High- 
 nefs's fervice, whereof he hoped more and 
 more to give faithful proof, as he fhould re- 
 ceive the further happinefs to be honoured 
 with the Prince's commands. 
 
 Having not yet heard any thing from the 
 King in anfwer to his former letter concern- 
 ing the affair of the Prince, he thought it not 
 
 1612. [MS. State papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 
 "VIII. p. 171.] fent by Monf. de St. Anthoine, obferves, 
 that this gentleman, though no good Hugonot, was an ene- 
 my to all Spanijh courfes^ and intended hy all good methods 
 the continuance of amity between King James and France. 
 
 ^ MS. State papers of Sir Thomas E4mondes^ Vol. 
 
 fit 
 
I 
 
 H ENRY Prince OF Wales. 297 
 
 fit to take notice, at the court of Fiance, of 
 any diredions contained in his HighnclVs let- 
 ter, till he fhould receive farther knowledge 
 of his Majefty's pleafure in that rclpedt. 
 
 He fent the Prince a copy of a private letter, 
 ^'hich he had written the day before to the 
 King, mentioning fome late fpeet hes, which 
 had palTed between the Duke of Bouillon and 
 himfelf concerning that affair; in which the 
 Duke reprefented the breaking off the match 
 with Spain for the eldeft daughter of France 
 as not to be defpaired of. But Sir Thomas Ed- 
 mondes durft not for his own part entertain 
 the Prince with any fuch hopes. But that if 
 his Highnefs fliould pleafe to proceed in -the 
 match with the fecond daughter, there was no 
 queftion to be made, but that it might beeffedV 
 ed upon conditions to the Prince's content- 
 ment; lince it was a thing, which was infinitely 
 delired at the French Court, and Sir Thomas 
 was daily follicited by the principal perfons 
 there to know, why he did not profecute the 
 good motion, which he had begun. 
 
 He had delivered the Prince's letter to the 
 Duke of Bouillon, and acquainted him with the 
 report given out by Don Pedro de Cuniga, 
 that there had been an overture made by the 
 Queen-Mother of France for a match between 
 her fecond daughter and the fecond fon of 
 Spain. Which, the Duke defired Sir Thomas 
 Edmondes to aflure the Prince, was utterly 
 
 un- 
 
298 THELIFEOF 
 
 untrue; and that it was but one of the ae- 
 cuftomed pradlices of Spain. ■ 'f^ ^iifiuf \iimi 
 With regard to the fpeeches, which the 
 Prince had heard, that the Duke of Boiiillon 
 fliQuId not have fo well acquitted hlmfclf to- 
 wards K-ing James fince his return to FrancCj 
 as his profellions in England had exprefled; 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes allured his Highnef?, 
 that he knew no juil caufe for that report, but 
 thought, that it proceeded from the difcontcnts 
 of thofe of the Scottilli guard 3 becaufc they 
 found, that the Duke, after his return from 
 England, did not effcdt to their full content- 
 ment what they deiired ; but had propofed, as 
 he found the Queen abfolutely averfe to their 
 re-eftablifliment, that they fliould have taken a 
 recompenfe for their places. And becaufe Sir 
 Thornas would not content himfelf with that 
 fatisfadlion, nor with the former courfes pro- 
 pofed, it gave twice occalion of a warm con- 
 teft between the Duke and him concerning 
 that matter; wherein, as the poor men were 
 well fatisfied, that Sir Thomas itood fo refolutely 
 for them, fo it made them think, that there 
 was fome backward nefs in the Duke, though 
 the fault was not to be imputed to him. But 
 with refped; to the other matter. Sir Thomas 
 aflured the Prince, that it was not poffible for 
 any man more to publifh his Majefty's and his 
 Highnefs's praifes, or to fhcw more zeal to 
 their fervices, than the Duke had done fincc 
 
 his 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 299 
 his return from England. -And as Sir Thomas 
 muft juftify him for his gratitude, lb he might 
 abfolutely fay, diat there was no man, wlio 
 could be more ufeful both for the King's and 
 Prince's fervices; though he could not excule 
 the Duke, but that he had in other refpcds 
 particular imperfedhons, which Sir Thomas 
 wifhed he had not. unuU^i ..,.j|ii"<» i • 
 
 Sir Thomas concluded with his moft humble 
 thanks for ihc favour, which the Prince had 
 done him, in acquainting him fo freely with 
 the abftrad of his anfwer to the King ; which 
 Sir Thomas eflcemed the greater happincfs, as 
 he obferved thereby fo extraordinary a proof 
 of his Highnefs's wifdom, both for the abfo- 
 lute obedience, with which he fubmitted him- 
 felf towards his Majefly in an occafion of fuch 
 importance to his Highnefs's particular > and 
 alfo for fo clear and folid judgment, as he 
 had made of the matter itfelf. 
 
 Mr. Fleming, who was to carry this letter to 
 England, tarrying at Paris a day or two longer 
 than he expeded. Sir Thomas Edmondes fent 
 by him to the Prince a copy of an important 
 letter, written by him on the 1 8th of Auguft 
 to his Majefty, which would give his Highncfs 
 information of what had (ince occurred worthy 
 of his notice, with relation to the figning the 
 contrad: of marriage between the eldeft 
 daughter of France, and the Prince of Spain, 
 at Paris on the Saturday before, the 1 5th of 
 
 '...; Auguft, 
 
300 THELIFEOF 
 
 Auguft, being St. Lewis's day i and to the in- 
 trigues forming between the Prince of Conde, 
 the Count de SoiiTons, the Duke of Boiiillon, 
 and Monf D'Efdiguieres. y^ ,.|^^-,^ _,]^, ^ . ^. 
 Sir Thomas in his letter to the Prince ot 
 the i8th of Auguft', in which he inclofed Hs 
 letter of the fame date to the King, added^,; 
 *' If matters do here fall out according to ex- 
 ** pcftation, we iLall then have a fair field to 
 ** do that fervice for your Ilighnefs, which is 
 *' defired ; for the advancement whereof I will 
 *' be careful to my uttermoft, that no occafioa 
 *^ fhall be omitted." He then, took, notice, 
 that he underftood, that his Majcfty intended 
 at his return from his progrefs to difpofe of the 
 places then vacant by the late Lord Treafurer's 
 death : *' And it pleafed his Majefty, fays he, 
 ^* gracioufly to promife, that in that diftribii- 
 tion he would remember me for fbme good 
 promotion, as his Majefty 's own words did 
 import. But becaufe I doubt, that by reafon 
 of my abfence I may be prevented by others 
 importunity, I moft humbly befeech your 
 Highnefs to interpofe your efte(flual media- 
 tion towards his Majefty on my behalf, that, 
 while I am travelling in the vineyard, I may 
 not be deprived of the fruit of my labour." 
 That honeft, induftrious, and able minifter, 
 Mr. William Trumball, afterwards knighted, 
 
 * MS. State papers ,of Sir Thomas Edmondes, f^ei, 
 FIJI. p. 203. 
 
 and 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 301 
 
 and then Agent at the Court of BrufTcls,^ 
 began a correfpondence with the Prince by a 
 letter from thence of the 28th of Auguft 
 16 1 2*. He obferved in it, that nothing had 
 hitherto hindered his longing defires to tender 
 to his Highnefs the unfeigned offers of his 
 humble and faithful fervice, but the due con- 
 flderation of the Prince's greatnefs and his own 
 want of merit. *' By nature, fays he^ I am 
 " born fubjed to the great King of Great 
 " Britain, your Highnefs's moft worthy fa- 
 " ther ; and therefore owe you refpecl ; and 
 " by grace adopted to ferve his Majefty (tho^ 
 " unworthy of that charge) as his agent with 
 the Archdukes; and therefore bound to give 
 your Highnefs account of their anions. I 
 {hould think, it an ineftimable favour, and 
 no lefs honour, to have the happinefs of 
 being known to your Highnefs, and em- 
 ployed in your gracious commiflions, while 
 I refide in thefe parts. But being ignorant, 
 wherein my fervice may be agreeable to 
 your Highnefs, I do in all humility befeech 
 you, by the hand of your Highnefs's fecre- 
 tary or clerk of your council, to diredl my 
 zealous intentions; and they fliall humbly 
 endeavour, by all means poffible to my 
 poor capacity, to witnefs the fincerity of my 
 dutiful affections towards your Highnefs^ 
 
 \ Harl. MSS. Vol. 7008. 
 
 '* being 
 
 c( 
 
 Ci 
 
 (( 
 
302 THELIFEOF 
 
 " being the heir apparent to my country, the 
 ** imitator of your father's heroical virtues, 
 " and the expecftation of the better part of 
 *' Chriftendom. 
 
 *' Herewithal I prcfume, encouraged by the 
 *' common renown of your Highnefs's cle- 
 " mency, to offer at the altar of your benign 
 " acceptance a book of policy and govern- 
 " ment, as the firft fruits of my humble de- 
 *' votion : into which boldnefs 1 am led, not 
 ** by any knowledge of the contents (which 
 *' I have never perufed) but for the reputa- 
 " tion of him, to whom it is dedicated, and 
 '* the fubjed: thereof, which is the element 
 " of Princes of your rank and dignity. If it 
 *' may pleafe your Highnefs to take it in 
 " good part, I fliall have more happinefs than 
 " I could expedl, or the gift itfelf deferve. 
 *^ But if it fall out otherwife, I will lay the 
 *^ blame upon mine own unworthinefs, and 
 ** ftrive by all honeft endeavours to repair the 
 " default by my continual prayers to the 
 " Almighty, that he will preferve from all 
 *' dangers in health and happinefs your High- 
 *' nefs's moft noble perfon, and give you as 
 " great a fhare in his celeftial bleffings, as you 
 " are like, in due time, to enjoy in this 
 *' world's terreftrial kingdoms." 
 . Sir Thomas Edmondes, on the 5th of Sep- 
 tember, inclofed in his letter from Paris to the 
 
 Prince 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 303 
 
 Prince" a copy of one written by him to the 
 King, giving his Majefty an account of the 
 anfwer, which Sir Thomas had received to 
 his laft proportion concerning the match be- 
 tween his Highnefs and Madam Chriftine of 
 France : about which he hoped within a {hort 
 time to receive the full refolution of the French 
 Court ; and fo likewife, that time would pro- 
 duce fome good effefts, for the better facili- 
 tating of the occafions for his Highnefs 's fer- 
 vice> which was there purfued by his fervants 
 with all the care and dexterity poffible. With 
 regard to another long letter, which Sir Tho- 
 mas had written to the King, of general mat- 
 ters, he defired the Prince to command the 
 fight of it from Sir Thomas Lake. 
 
 The Prince's anfwer to Sir Thomas Ed- 
 mondes's letters, of the 14th and 18th of Au- 
 guft, was dated from Richmond on the loth of 
 September 1612"^, and was as follows : 
 
 " Sir Thomas Edmondes, 
 
 *' OINCE my lad I have received two let- 
 " ^ ters from you, the one of the 14th of 
 " Augufl, the other of the 1 8th of the fame. 
 *' I am very glad, that you have confirmed 
 " me in my fo llrong fettled opinion of the 
 *' Duke of Bouillon's plain and fincere dealing 
 " with us J which I find fheweth itfelf both 
 
 " State papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Fol. Fill, 
 p. 2-^. ^ Ibid. p. 301. 
 
c< 
 
 304 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' in his carriage in bufinefTeii paft, and by his 
 
 ** fpeeches to every one there of us. 
 
 " Touching the breach of the marriages, 
 *' although he and the count de Soiflons feem 
 ** to be of opinion, that they will never be 
 *' performed; yet nothing, that hath hitherto 
 *' fallen out, can make me of their mind. But 
 rather I imagine, that they would have the 
 King go forward in the propofition for the 
 fecond, hoping by that means to engage 
 him fo in it, as that he cannot in his ho- 
 nour go back. 
 
 " Concerning the ligning of the contrad:, 
 although the Princes of the blood did it 
 upon a fecond refolution, yet I hold they 
 did it upon good advifement. For if they 
 and thole of the religion do flick the one 
 with the other firmly, and if there fall out 
 no fraction amongft them, they may have 
 a very great ftroke in the greatell: and mod 
 important bufinefs of ftate. 
 " As touching their intentions of removing 
 from about the Queen fome private per- 
 ** fons, my opinion is, that uniefs they be 
 '* very well prepared for it, and go on farther 
 *' in preferving of their own ftate and fortunes 
 " againft whatfoever may fall out after that 
 ** they had fet afoot that adion, they will do 
 " themfelves wrong. For if that ftate have 
 " a fufpicion of their ftirring humours, that 
 " adion will fully affure them of it; which 
 
 " will 
 
 cc 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 305 
 
 " will make them clip their wings all they can, 
 " ftriving to difabie them from being able to 
 ** do any thing hereafter. 
 
 ** Wherefore, if you would cherifh them 
 ** in that humour, I think it would not be 
 " very hurtful for this ftate. For if there 
 '* fhould fall a great difference amongft them, 
 ** as it hath been heretofore, while two dogs 
 " were fighting together, a third dog might 
 ** fall into them, and having the one of them 
 *' on his lide, or at leall neutral, might have 
 " a great {liare amongft them. 
 
 *' This tliough you may not do as an Am- 
 " baffador ; yet you may do it as a private man, 
 " that wiflieth their welfare, and the good oif 
 " his own ftate. 
 
 " Laftly, concerning your own bufinefs, 
 " you may be affured, that although I were 
 " not carried with any particular affed:ion, 
 ** but only with the defire I have the ftate 
 ** fhould be well ferved, I would deal for you 
 " as foon as for any other. But as matters go 
 *^ now here, I will deal in no bufineftes of im- 
 ** portance, for fome refpeds j yet I will pro- 
 " mife thus much, that, if your name be 
 *' called in queftion, as a man fit for any of thefe 
 " places, you may be fure of my beft appro- 
 " bation. 
 
 " Thws, wifhing you well, I reft 
 
 *' Your good Friend, 
 
 " Henry P." 
 
 X Sir 
 
3o6 THELIFEOF 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes acknowledged the 
 reccit of this letter on the 25th of the fame 
 month of September'', thanking the Prince 
 for fo favourably enlarging himfelf by the 
 diredlions contained in it, which he would not 
 fail to obferve fully upon the occafions, which 
 ^Ihould fall out. ■-■'\- 'f 
 
 His Highnefs would underftand, by ^<? fi?- 
 clofed copy of Sir Thomas's letter to the King 
 of the fame date, what anfwcr had been given 
 him to the proportion of the marriage; which, 
 though it was not as yet to give any dire<5l fatis- 
 fadlion, on account of the interruptions occa- 
 fioned by the ficknefs of Monf de Villeroy, and 
 the abfence of the Count de Soiflbns; yet his 
 Highnefs might perceive, that there was an 
 ■afte^^iionate difpofition to proceed in the accom- 
 plishment of the faid match, if the Prince 
 ihould like thereof. 
 
 His Highnefs had great reafon to judge, that 
 the breakLng off the match with the eldeft 
 daughter wr.s a thing very cafual y and therefore 
 Sir Thomtls was bold, in the faithful difcharge 
 of b.is duty, to write with fuch freedom of it 
 in his former letters; becaufe he held, that a 
 rainifter cannot ufe too much caution in a mat- 
 ter of fo great importance. And yet it could 
 not be denied, but that the faid match did run 
 a hazard to be fhaken by many accidents, which 
 
 * MS. State Papers ef Sir Thomas Edmondes, Fol. Fill' 
 
 might 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 307 
 
 might fall out} of which there would be means 
 to make a better jufigmentj. when, it fhould be 
 {cQUj how matters were like to fliape (here after 
 the return of the,. Count de Soiflbns.iand' the 
 Djuke of Bouilion to the court. . ^ ; ■ 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes returned his thanks 
 to the Prince for iiis favourable opinion ; with 
 |he happinefs of which he fhould content him- 
 jelf. And fince he knew his Highnefs's good 
 pleafure, ,be would forbear farther importunity 
 concerning hlmfelf j and yet he would not de» 
 fpair but that there might be feme occafion 
 offered, where he might derive fome graces by 
 his Highnefs's means. And the rather, for 
 that he had been put in comfort from his 
 Majefty, that he would be pleafed to have a 
 mofl gracious confideration of his long fervicesj 
 which made him the more bold to delire, that 
 the fame might have been feconded by his 
 Highnefs's recommendation. 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes's letter to the King 
 of the fame date of the 25th of September y, 
 was, immediately after the receit of it, ordered, 
 by his Majefly to be fent to the Prince, with 
 the following letter to him from the Lord Vif- 
 count Rochefter ^ : 
 
 y MS. State Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, FoL VlIL 
 
 P' 339- 
 
 ^ HarJ. MSS. Vol. 7008. 
 
 X 2 " Pleafe 
 
•* Pleafe your Highnels, 
 
 *' T Am, by his Majefty's commandment, 
 " -■- to fend your Highnefs the dilpatch from 
 ** France, as a matter perfonally concerning 
 " yourfelf; wherein his Majefty obferves two 
 " things : Firft, that the match with the 
 " eldeft daughter is utterly defperate : And 
 " next, that this propofitlon for the fecond 
 *^ daughter is fo ftrongly apprehended, as 
 *' they will refufe no conditions, that with 
 " reafon may be demanded, and will accom- 
 *' modate all difficulties and hinderances, that 
 *' may in any fort interrupt the ifilie of a work 
 ** fo much acceptable, and by them pafTion- 
 " ately taken hold of. Only that incongruity 
 *' betwixt your Highnefs's age and hers is one 
 " inconveniency, which neither lide can help. 
 " As for the portion, which, according to the 
 " example of the elder lifter's, is but five hun- 
 ** dred thoufand crov^'ns, his Majefty, not- 
 " withflanding, under other pretences, thinks 
 " there may be hope, in rerpe(5l of their ear- 
 ** neflnefs, to increafe the fum. In concluiion, 
 " his Majefly wills, that your Highnefs con- 
 ** iider, that the Lady cannot be made riper 
 ■** nor fitter than her age permits, which is no 
 *' more than nine years; but withal defires 
 " here to hear your Highnefs's free opinion, 
 *'- what your conceit is of this particular com- 
 
 '* pared 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 309 
 '* pared with the others. So, humbly taking 
 " my leave, I Rfl 
 
 '* At your Highnefs's command, 
 
 Rnftvon, 
 
 ''"tj.„. " Ro. Rochefter. 
 
 *' Herewithal 1 return your Hiohnefs a 
 " paper delivered me by his Majefly." 
 
 To this letter the Prince returned the fol- 
 lowing anfwer * addreiled to the King : 
 
 " May it pleale your Majefty, 
 
 ** T Have received, by your dii^ecflionj from 
 " -■- my Lord of Rochefter, Sir Thomas 
 " Edmoiidcs's letter unto your Majefty, where- 
 " in the fruits of the lall conference with 
 " Villeroy are fet down, touching my marri- 
 ** age with the fecond daughter of France j 
 " and withal a command to give my opinion 
 *' therein. 
 
 " Concerning Villeroy's defire to hare the 
 " time of her fending hither to be delayed 
 *' until a year longer be expired, in my weak 
 .V judgment your Majefty hath no reafon to 
 " yield thereunto: firft, becaufe it lies in their 
 ''• hands to make the match go forward, or 
 ** otherwife, having her in their pofleffion, 
 " and by that means being able to draw her 
 
 » Harl. MSS. Vol, 7008. 'y\^i\ "^ 
 
 X 3 *^ con- 
 
3IO THE LIFE OF M/ 
 
 ** confent whither they pleafe: Secondly, by 
 ** the bringing her fooner over, there will 
 " be a greater likelihood of converting her to 
 *5-j9ur religion : And thirdly, your Majefty's 
 " credit will be the better preferved, when 
 " the delivery of both the daughters fTiall be 
 ** made at the fame time, hovvfoever the con- 
 *' clulion of the one of their marriages be 
 ** much later than that of the other. What- 
 *♦ foever be the time of the delivery of the 
 " eldeit, yet it is to be wiflied, that the Chrift- 
 •' mas come twelvemonth be the fartheft pe- 
 ** riod to be determined of her coming hither. 
 
 ./' As for the exercife of her religion, your 
 ";Majefty may be pleafed to make your Am- 
 *' baffadorgive a peremptory anfwer, that you 
 ", will never agree to give her greater liberty 
 ■" in the exeiciie of it, than that, which is agreed 
 " upon by the Savoyard, which is, to ufe his 
 " own word, prhatami^ntey or (as Sir Henry 
 " Wotton did expound it) in her moft^private 
 *' and fecret chamber. ' 
 
 ** And though both thefe conditions may 
 " feem to be fomewhat flrict j yet, if the (liew 
 " they ma!:e of their great dcfire of it do pro- 
 *' ceed from a lincere and hearty affedion, I 
 1'^ make no doubt but they will make no rubb 
 IV of them. 
 
 • " Bctwixt France and Savoy, if your Majefty 
 *' look to the greatnefs of the dowry, then it 
 <* is likely you will make choice of Savoy j 
 .- y. *' becaufe 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 3TI 
 
 ** fcecaii'ft it is not probable, that they Av ill 
 " give with the fecond a greater portion by 
 " 200,000 crowns unto your Majefty, than 
 " they gave with the firft daughter unto the 
 « King of Spdn. ^^^-^^i ^^^ ^(T iiiw 3^3 
 
 *' But if you, hyii^'g'aTide\he littlVpiccfe'of 
 " difgrace in being ferved after another, will 
 " reiped: rather v^'hich of thefe two will give 
 " the greateft contentment and fatisfacticn to 
 " the general body of prcteftants abroad ; then 
 *' I am of opinion, that you will fooner incline 
 " to France than to Savoy.^i^'^'^ "^"i^-^ sf 
 
 *' Now if your Mnjcfty be i-efolved, that 
 " your Majefty treat any farther wivh ViJleroy 
 " in this bulincfs, under your Majcfly's cor- 
 " redion, I hold it beft tliere be made k little 
 *' ftay of the banker Gabaleone's going into 
 ** Savoy j and withal to make a little delay of 
 " the ambailade, which fliould come from the 
 *' Duke of Savoy for that purpoie, until your 
 " Majefty be reiblved which way to go. 
 
 " If I have incurred in the fame error, 
 ** that I did laft, by the indiiference of my 
 ** opinion, I humbly crave pardon of your 
 " Majefty, holding it fitter for your Majelly 
 *' to refolve what ccurfe is mofl; convenient 
 ** to be taken by the rules of ftate, than for 
 ' * me, who am fo little acquainted w^th fub- 
 " je6ts of that nature : And befdes, your 
 " Majefly may think, that my part to p'iay, 
 " which is to be in love wiih any of th'cm', 
 X 4 '* is 
 
 .J 
 
312 THE L IFE OF 
 
 " is not yet at hand. So, moft humbly kiffing 
 " your Majefty's hand, I reft 
 
 ** Your moll humble and 
 
 " Obedient Son and Servant, . 
 
 Richmond, 
 the ah of 
 
 oa. i6i2. " HENRY." 
 
 ad wt ' 
 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes fent to the Prince a 
 copy of his letter to the King of the loth of 
 Odober, i6i2\ with one to his Highnefs 
 of the fame date '. By the former of which, 
 his Highnefs might perceive, with what ear- 
 neftnefs the motion was again purfued by the 
 French court for concluding of the match be^ 
 tween the Prince and madam Chriftine ; which 
 for real matters his Highnefs might effedt 
 upon fuch conditions, as he fhould think fit ; 
 fo that it refled only for the Prince to make 
 the election. 
 
 He wrote again to the Prince on the 20th 
 of the fame month '^j inclofing a copy of his 
 letter to the King of the fame date j by which 
 h"5 Highnefs might fee what apology Sir Tho- 
 m^is Was forced to make for his proceedings in 
 the ne otiation fjr his Highnefs's fervice, 
 wherein he had ufed all the care, that was pof- 
 fible for him, to fatisfy the directions fent him : 
 But being not made acquainted with the true 
 
 * MS. State papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, FoL VIII. 
 ''¥' ifsS^'''-^' ! Ibid. p. 2gi, t Ibid. p. 419- 
 
 '■iid i^iv fcope 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 313 
 
 fcope of the King's and Prince's intent, he might 
 juftly pretend to be exempted from blame, if 
 things had been carried in a contrary biafs far- 
 -ther than was meant; the rather, becaufe he 
 had been affured by the Duke of Eoiiillon, that 
 when, by his Majefty's commandment, the 
 Duke conferred with his Highnefs, to know 
 how his Highnefs flood affet^ted to the enter- 
 taining of the match with the fecond daughter, 
 in cafe that with the eldefi: couki not be 
 broken, (of which the Duke protefted, that 
 he had never given affurance) his Highnefs 
 told him, that he would be content to bear 
 the patience of her young years, fo as it might 
 be provided to fend her forthwith into England, 
 Sir Thomas now found by his Majefty's letter, 
 that this was never meant ; and that it was 
 only in hope of breaking the match of the 
 eldeft daughter, that the faid proportion was 
 fet on foot. His unhappinefs therefore was 
 the greater, that, having fo plainly difcharged 
 his duty in reprefenting the little alTu ranee of 
 that hope, there was notwithftanding njo kind 
 of other direction fent him. So that he mis^ht 
 well fay, that he had hitherto aOcd in a biifi- 
 nefs, which he did not himfelf undcrfland. 
 But, though he had not been fo happy, as to 
 advance any thing for the good of the Prince's 
 iervice to fuch purpofe, as his Highnefs dcfired ; 
 yet he had carried himfelf with that caution 
 and warinefs, that he had done nothing to the 
 prejudice of itj fo that he hoped, that his 
 
 faith- 
 
314 THE LIFiE OF^" i- 
 
 faithful nels and dutiful affe(5lion fhould ft ill 
 deferve his IIii>;hhefs*s favourable allowance. 
 
 The Prince having received three of Sir 
 Thomas Edmondes's letters, fmce he had writ- 
 ten to him laft, ordered Mr. Newton, in a 
 letter from St. James's of Odober 29, 1612% 
 to acquaint him with the true caufes of his not 
 having anfwered them. The King, being at 
 Royfton, when the Prince received the firft of 
 the three letters, imparted to his Highnefs, by 
 letters, the fame fubjetft, which was contained 
 in that of Sir Thomas Edmondes j defiring the 
 Prince to Hgnify his own opinion. And be- 
 caufe the anfwer made to his Majefty in fub- 
 flance was to be communicated to Sir Thomas 
 himfelf, the Prince was content to fpare his 
 pains therein. Upon the receit of the fecond 
 letter of Sir Thomas, his Highnefs had a full 
 refolution to write, and appointed a prefixed 
 time, when, being interrupted by the coming 
 of Count Henry de Naffau, whom his High- 
 nefs was delirous to entertain with the utmoft 
 courtefy, his indifpofition did not allow him, 
 after that, any opportunity. " It hath lin- 
 *' gerc'l, fays Mr. Newton^ upon him above 'a' 
 " fortnight, his Highnefs thinking, by thfe 
 ** vigour of his fpirit and ftrength of his bod\^,' 
 " to overcome it in fuch fort, that he fcard^- 
 *' omitted his ordinary exercifes of running at 
 *' ring, and playing at tennis. But, fince 
 
 ' ^^t MS. State Papers of Sir Thpmas Edmondes, Vol VUL 
 
 ■ « Sun- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 315 
 
 ^* Sunday ^ laft, the phyficians, fearing, that 
 ** it fnould prove either a baftard tertian or the 
 " ordinary diieafe of the time, wherewith all 
 *' the parts of the country have been much 
 *' vifited, have rang^ed him to the obfervance 
 *' of their prefcriptions, fo that he hath not 
 " had yet a convenient time to read your laft; 
 *• but, in the mean while, commanded me 
 *^ to let you underftand what I have written 
 *' concerning the caufes of his fparing to 
 " write} as alfo, that the offers of dowry made 
 ** unto his Majefty are, the one of a million 
 *' of crowns, the other of 700000. And this 
 " being all my diredlion for the preient, till his 
 *' Highnefs's better ieifure and health, I hope 
 *' you will accept of it as from your Lordfliip's 
 *' mofl affedionate to ferve you." 
 
 But, before v/e enter farther into the melan- 
 cholly fcene of the Prince's laft ficknefs, it will 
 be proper to infert the few remaining letters 
 of his correfpondence. 
 
 Sir Robert Anllruther, who was now em- 
 ployed in Denmark, and afterwards to oihcr 
 Northern Princes, wrote a letter from Copen- 
 hagen on the 26th of Odiober, 1612, to Mr. 
 Newton^: And, in order to fatisfy the Prince 
 of all that had palled there fmce his coming 
 into that country, he thought it expedient to 
 lend the true copies of all the letters between 
 the two Kings, Guftavus Adolphusof Sw<?den, 
 and Chriftiern IV. of Denmark j by which his 
 
 * Odober 25. f Hail, MSS. Vol 7C04. fcl 30. 
 
 Pligh- 
 
3i6 THE L IFE OF 
 
 Highneis might fee what was done, or likely 
 to be expcded. That, with regard to a celTa- 
 tion of arms, the King of Denmark could no 
 Way§, in Sir Robert's opinion, give way to it. 
 For, firil:, in fo doing he muft maintain his 
 army at a great deal of charges. Next, they 
 fliould lie idle, and do nothing. Thirdly, his 
 enemies might be provided of all necelfaries, 
 of which they now ftood in need ; and being, 
 perhaps, once provided, would not be fo eafily 
 dealt with. Above all, that King called to 
 memory what palled in the laft wars between 
 his father King Frederic and Sweden. The 
 Swedilh commiilarles being in Denmark, and 
 having already agreed to certain articles, Fre- 
 deric, trufting to honeft and plain dealing, dif- 
 mifTed his army. But he had no fooner done 
 this, but the Swedes fell upon Denmark, and 
 did great damage j the Danifh army, which 
 was dlfmiffed, being at fea going to Germany, 
 where the contrary winds driving them back 
 to their own country, the war grew hotter 
 than before. This was done in fight and 
 memory of many then living. 
 
 *' There is, adds Sir Robert Ariftruther^ a 
 *' meeting appointed the 29th of November 
 ** upon the borders, where the Commiilaries 
 " of both kingdoms ihall meet with full power 
 ** to end and take up the matter, fo much as 
 **^ poflibly may be: x^nd if they cannot agree 
 " upon all things, then thofe points, where- 
 *' upon they iliall differ, arc to be referred 
 
 " unto 
 
H E N RY Prince OF Wales. 317 
 
 unto his Majefty's perfon of Great Britain ; 
 if thofe of Sweden will be content of his 
 Majefty's perfon only : But, if they will 
 not, the Danes do not refufe to admit others 
 joint with him. But, in my fimple judg- 
 ment, I think it more honour to have it 
 referred to his Majefty's perfon only, in 
 regard he only hitherto hath taken care for 
 the peace, and confequently alone is worthy 
 of all honour in that bufmefs. 
 *' Since the loth of Auguft there hath been 
 no matter of moment done by land ; only 
 that along the borders the Danifh foldiers 
 are difperfed for keeping out of the enemy, 
 that he may not fall in and Ipoil or hajin 
 the country. 
 
 *' The King himfelf hath been in perfon 
 before Danzhen, in hope to have met with 
 the Swedirti fleet: But they were gone the 
 night before he came there; and ftrait his 
 Majefty went over for the coaft of Sweden, 
 and chafed them within the ftraits and a nar- 
 row water, that goeth towards Stockholm ; 
 And becaufe of a calm, and the greatnefs of 
 his (hips, he could not follow them any 
 farther. His Majefty faith, that if he had 
 with him only but three gallies, he would 
 have carried away or fpoiled the beft part 
 of the fleet. The i8th of September his 
 Majefl:y returned to Copenhagen. After* 
 wards lie had intelligence of a fleet of twenty- 
 four fliips, which the Lubeckers were mak- 
 
 ing 
 
3i8 THE LIFE O F 
 
 •' ing ready, and loading with all Torts pf com- 
 " modities, whereof the Swedes fland in need. 
 " His Majefty, knowing of tlieir intention, 
 *' fent his- Vice-Admiral with twelve Hiips, 
 ** and commanded them to keep in the Lu- 
 ** beckers fore- water, and attend their weighing 
 *' anchors, and going to fea. The Lubeckers, 
 ** lying all together in the road, and looking 
 •* only for a fair wind, did fee the Daniih fleet, 
 ** which caufed them to cut their cables, drive 
 " their fhips aii:iore, and then come to a par- 
 *' ley, and a contract, that the Danes did pro- 
 ** mife to purfue them no more, and the Lu- 
 *' beckers fhould neither fufFer fhips nor goods 
 " to go to Sweden for this year. 
 
 " In this lall ilorm, which was about the 
 ** 24th of Odober, there were four Swedifh 
 " fliips caft away under the ifland of Oeland : 
 ** The cannon were faved, and moft part of 
 ** the goods. The Grangers, that were in the 
 *' fhips were all faved; but the Swedes were 
 *' moil part drowned and killed." 
 
 The Prince having p>urchafed of Sir Robert 
 Dudley, (on of Robert Earl of Leicefter bv the 
 Lady Douglas Sheffield, widow of John Lord 
 Sheffield, the caftle and lands of Kenei worth 
 in Warwickihire, and the King being defiroiw 
 to reunite them to the crown, his Highnefs, 
 on the 18th of O(5lober, 16 12, wrote the fol- 
 lowing letter '' to Sir Julius Csfar, then Chan- 
 cellor of the Exchequer : 
 
 "" Har]> MSS. Fol. 7008. 
 
 «' Mr. 
 
H ENRY Prince OF Wales. 319 
 
 Vrr HERE AS Sir tJeorge^TVKre'^Wath 
 ' ^ acquainted me from you, that the 
 King my father is willing, that the caftle 
 and lands of Kcnelworth, for which I have 
 lately bargained with Sir Robert Dudley, 
 (hould be inferted and fettled in the entail 
 of lands to the crown j I have thought good 
 by thefe to let you underfland, that as in all 
 tilings elfe I fliall ever be ready to conform 
 mylelf to his Majefty's good pleafurc, fo I 
 do very willingly aflsnt unto tliis particular, 
 not doubting but that his Majefty will be 
 gracioully pleafed (fince this is my lirft pur- 
 chafe, and no ill bargain, as I conceive) to 
 convey the fame back again upon me^ as 
 likewife, that you will be careful to provide 
 the other three thoufand pounds, which his 
 Majefty is content to beftow for buying in 
 of the Countefs of Lcicefter's ' eflate in fome 
 things near adjoining ; for which your re- 
 fpcdive care you fhall have me to continue 
 
 r^^^ - " Your&c." 
 
 . I ado\_ to "■' 
 
 The Lord Roos, whofe charader has been 
 given above, being well acquainted with the 
 Prince's curiofity with refpe<S to foreign ftates, 
 
 * Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, and mother 
 of Robert Earl of Eflex, who was beheaded. > 
 
 2 ^j^ ^ and 
 
320 THELIFEOF 
 
 and defirous to gratify him in that point, and 
 being in Italy in 1612, drew up an account of 
 that of Tufcany, which he tranfmitted to Sir 
 David Murray to be delivered to his Highnefs, 
 who died before it was received, or even fent. 
 His Lordfliip's letter to Sir David inclofing it 
 was as follows ^ : 
 
 "SIR; 
 
 " ""^f O W I have finifhed my relation of 
 " -*'^ this ftate, which is here inclofed; and 
 *' I pray you deliver it to his Highnefs. You 
 " muft not conceive by my relation, that I 
 *' make his revenues above a million of crowns ; 
 *' for twelve hundred thoufand Italian crowns 
 *' are little more than a million of French 
 *^ crowns. And how much lefs this Duke 
 " fhall have will be ealily conceived, his three 
 ** brotliers being to have their parts out of it. 
 *' I fpeak with as much honour of his houfe 
 *' as may be, becaufe it is undecent in a rela- 
 " tion to fpeak difhonourably of Princes. 
 
 " I have humbly befought the Prince's- 
 ** Highnefs, tliat no body may have the keep- 
 " ing of my relations but yourfelf, in whofe 
 *' cuftody 1 know they are fafe from the copy- 
 " ing of others : and there is nothing in the 
 " world, which I know, that I would not 
 *' have known to you, I efteeming you the 
 
 ^ Cotton Library, Titus, B. VIL 
 
 " trueft- 
 
HE N RY Prince OF Wales. 321 
 
 " trueft friend, that I have in the world; and 
 *' in whole hands I would lay my life. 
 
 ** I cannot omit to tell you, th^it the great 
 *' Dutchefs is now informed, that you are {o 
 ** great a Puritan, that you are not only an 
 " endeavourer againft this match, but alio 
 " againft all other matches, which are popilh. 
 *' Therefore, if this match do take effedt, you 
 ** muft look to yourfelf; for there will be 
 " practices againlt you. 
 
 ** It is advertifed Sir Robert Dudley, that 
 " you have been for my Lord Lille * againft 
 " him in fome buiinelTes between him and the 
 " Prince. Therefore you muft look for all 
 " the evil offices he can do you. I love many 
 *' good parts, that are in Sir Robert Dudley, 
 " but diflike many evil ones. He hath under- 
 ** taken here by his credit with the Prince, to 
 " perfuade him by difcourfes to be firm for 
 ** this match. I pray God, that the Princess 
 *' Highnefs would match with one of his own 
 '* religion, which would be beft for him and 
 " our country. But God's will be done: It 
 ** belongs not to me to give him advice, he 
 " having many more worthy and more able. 
 
 ** The great Dutchefs here is advertifed, 
 ** that Sir Charles Cornwallis is a great dif- 
 " fuader of the Prince from the marriage. 
 " Alfo, that Mr. Sackfield hath done evil 
 *' offices in the bufinefs. 
 
 ' Sir Robert SIdnev, created Vifcount Lide in May, 
 1605. 
 
 Y '-' Thi« 
 
322 THELIFEOF 
 
 " This is all, which at this tune I have to 
 " trouble you with, unlefs it be a trouble to 
 " you the remembrance of my true love and 
 *' wifhes, as unto my own foul. 
 
 <( 
 
 I reft 
 
 Florence, " Your moft intire Friend, 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 
 '^'2- *' Will. R006. 
 
 " This morning the refident of Venice, be- 
 " ing with me, told me, that Yates, which 
 ** came hither to Sir Robert Dudley, had a 
 *' conference with the great Dutchefs of three 
 *^ hours long; and fo you need not doubt but 
 ** among riiem they have plotted which way 
 ** to place their bribes. 
 
 " The Refident told me, that Yates, be- 
 «* fides a prefect of *'^ and ** had a bribe. 
 
 " Either I ain very evil informed, or elfe 
 " there is a bribe upon the way for you from 
 " thefe Princes j for here there is no fecrecy. 
 
 " It is ftrange how they make their court 
 *' here to Sir Thomas Chaloner's fon : But yet 
 " indeed it is not ftrange; for they build upon 
 *' his father for a cliief foundation of this 
 *' match." 
 
 Robert Earl of EiTex, who has fo confider- 
 able a fliare in our hiftory during the war be- 
 tween King Charles I. and the long Parlia- 
 ment, was much efteemed by Prince Henry,. 
 
 whofe 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. .323- 
 whofe play-fellov/ he had been "". But of 
 their correfpondence by letters three only^ 
 befides one already given, are extant". 
 His Lordlhip's hrft was as follows : 
 
 ** Moft mighty Prince, 
 
 ** T E T it out of your great goodnefs be 
 *' -"-^ pardoned, if, in forwardnefs of my 
 " zeal, I took boldnefs to prefent my hum- 
 " blell: duty to your Highneis's moft gracious 
 *' acceptance. In the poornefs of my fortune 
 " I am not able to give better teflimony of my 
 '' true affected heart to your fervice ; which 
 " were it fo good, as it would give means, no 
 *' creature fhould be more careful and forward 
 " to do your Highnefs honour than myfelf : 
 " as it is, that with my life Ihall be freely 
 " expended to continue your princely good 
 " opinion of me. In hope of this Royal no- 
 *' blenefs, none fhall more truly pray for the 
 *' increafe and continuance of your Highnefs's 
 *' great happinefs, or ftand more heartily 
 *' devoted to perform all hearty obedieace,^ 
 *' than 
 
 " Your Highnefs's pooreil Servant, 
 
 ■ " Ro. EfTex;* 
 
 "" Francis Ofborne's Traditional Memoirs on King 
 James, §. 38. p. 530. " Harl. MSS, ^^/. 7008. 
 
 .®^. Y 2 Tke 
 
324 T H E L I F E O F • ^ 
 
 The Prince's letter to the Earl wa& k thcCc 
 terms: ' '^^^^^ <;i3/ui^il-i iuo^( itjvoolnarlw 
 
 . .u 
 
 *^^\/f y refped hath always been fuch unto 
 '* -^-^^ you, that I was well content to fee 
 ** '^c late remembrance of your affedion unto 
 *' me by your letter; and would be no left glad 
 ** to fee you at fome times, if your occafions 
 **'^did afford you the means according to your 
 ** "defire. But whatfoever be wanting in that 
 ** kind, I am well f erfuaded, will be fupplied 
 " by the continuance of your hearty affe<Sion, 
 '* which (hall ever be regarded by me with 
 " that kindnefs, which can be expected from 
 
 ^Mmurf flon Your very good Friend, 
 .ninvi?? krtHt^a f>nm hn/" ^^ ^ ^ ^ Y*" 
 
 The Earl of EfTex returned his thanks for 
 the Prince's letter in the following : 
 
 ;j*^. My moft gracious Prince, ^^f ^^ '|^''^^^ 
 
 " TT is my trueft contentment to receive fo 
 '' ^ noble a teftimony of your Highnefs's 
 " favour, as it hath pleafed you to grace me 
 ** within Mr. Newton's letter. I will thereby 
 ** give myfelf aflurance of your princely good- 
 ^* nefs, whenfocver I fhall be emboldened 
 ** humbly to implore the virtue thereof. And, 
 " nay moft princely mafler, I can but vow in 
 f^ « the 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 325 
 
 " the uprightnefs of my innocent heart, that 
 " whenfocver your Highnefs fhall lend your 
 *' princely hand to the railing of my poor 
 *' fortune, it fliall be to enable a lervant, that 
 *' will always be ready to do you his beft and^ 
 V^- faithfuleft femces to the laft mite of his 
 ^•* eftate, to the laft breath of his life. Thus 
 " much all your Highnels's fervants wiU be 
 V ready to offer; thus much I will ever be 
 *:* ready to perform. So moft humbly pray- 
 *- ing your gracious pardon, I prefume to kifs 
 " your princely hands, and will ever pray to 
 ** God for the long, happy, and profperous 
 *V,continuanc€ of your bleffed life.^^^j^ j^,^. . 
 
 " Your Highnefs's moft humble 
 
 Y si VI 'i H 
 
 ** And moft faithful Servant, 
 
 Toi c^-idhtu ^ixi b3iinjj3i x;iha W Ro. Eile3c.*' 
 
 The Prince in the courfe of his ftudics, 
 under the direction of Air. Newton, had for 
 a companion of them a young gentleman of 
 excellent partSj whqfe youngcft lifter Catharine 
 was married to Mr. Newton. This gentleman, 
 Mr. Thd^rias, Puckering, only furviving fon of 
 Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great 
 jSeal, who died fuddenly of an apoplexy in the 
 beginning of May, 1596, was two or three 
 years, older than tlie Prince, being born In 
 
 Y 3 I 59 I 
 
326 THE LIFE OF 
 
 11^91 or 1592 ^ In September, 1610, he 
 travelled into Fiance, being recomir. ended to 
 Sir Thomas Edmonden, the Englifli Ambai- 
 •fador at Paris, by Mr. Newton, in a letter 
 of the 2d of that months mentioning; that 
 the bearer, his brother-in-law, had Icquef- 
 tered himfeif for a time from the fervice>of his 
 mafler, the Prince, whom he had attended 
 above five years'", that he might be bettered 
 bv his travel, and made more Icrviceablc here- 
 after to hisHighnefs. HeTcturned to England 
 about June, 1611, and was knighted that 
 year, and created a Baronet on the 25th of 
 November,. 1612, while he was at Florence, 
 whence he wrote a letter to the Prince on the 
 igth-of *hat month, N. S. "", three d-ays after 
 his Highnefs's death, which his diflance from 
 Engiti \d 'prCvefTted him being for fome time 
 inforriicd of. Plis letter was as follows: 
 
 *' SIR5 
 
 H E infinite defire I have to do no- 
 
 thing difpleafmg to your Highnefs, 
 ** and to avoid, in all my adlions concerning 
 " your Highnefs, the cenfure both "of pre- 
 
 . *■ In his-epitaph, in the church of St. Mary at War- 
 wick, he is faid to he forty-five years old at his death, 
 '-on tlv^ 26:h of March, 1636-7. ' ' P MS. State Papers 
 of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. VI. />. 739. . "^ In hia 
 jqpitaph it is ffiid, that he was in pueritia in Aula Re gi a 
 ' ^er fcpttn^iitwi inmiiritus., coque honcris atque faTcris gradu^ 
 ut folus Henrico frincipi Jiudiorum tarticeps admijfus ejfet. 
 -./•yarl. MSS. Vol. j 0.08, 
 
 " fump» 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 327 
 fumption and negledt, made me a long 
 while doubtful, whether I could take the 
 hardiefle to write unto your Highnefs, with- 
 out incurrino; the danger of the former: or 
 omit this poor yet heft means I have of pre- 
 fenting my humbleft fervicc unto your High- 
 nefs, without falling within the compafs of 
 the latter. At length, finding it an im- 
 polTible thing for me to decide this doubt, 
 being diftraded one while on this fide, an- 
 other while on that fide, with a refpedive 
 fear of giving your Highnefs the leaft offence 
 in either kindj and finding befides, that it 
 belongs not to me to judge of the goodnefs 
 or badnefs of my own adions towards your 
 Highnefs, but that it depends merely upon 
 your Highnefs's own interpretation, which 
 having good caufe to hope that 1 fliould 
 find favourable, by reafon of the afihred 
 knowledge I have of your Highnefs's gra- 
 cious difpofition, having fcen fo many proofs 
 thereof, both in general towards all men, 
 and in my particular towards me^ I refolved, 
 fince I muft put it to the venture, to hazard 
 to err in being too forward rather than in 
 being too flow, to prefent niy humbleft 
 fervice to your Highnefs, befeeching moft 
 humbly your Highnefs to impute my errors, 
 both in this (if any be) and in all other my 
 actions, unto ignorance, in not knowing 
 how to do better; and to judge of them not 
 Y 4 *' pre- 
 
328 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *fiiprecifely by the outward face of them, 
 Vi^which may be iraperfed: in many things ; 
 /-jv)but by my intentions in tliem, the uttermoft 
 »*(*r-aim whereof vour Highnels, by examining 
 ** them, fhall iind to be no other, but to do 
 ** your Highnefs all' polTible fervicc, and to 
 *^ J(hew iTjyfelf in every thing 
 
 iijiii.' }'>«* Your Hi^hnefs's moft humbl^^'*'^ 
 
 {j£3d jfot bnii'waio (iifr If'' ><,- <•.'':■■•'- 
 
 ' NovT^' ifi no juq :Ai>^/Bfhjul5Qi:Ygi3fei.. 
 
 ,i^^ l'l% briu6i 5ri doid^W^iSV^^^""S- 
 
 Sir Thomas Puckcp&fg fpent' four years in 
 his travels in Italy, Spain, and France, and, 
 at his return to England, relided chiefly at the 
 Priory in Warwick, except when he attended 
 the parliaments, in which he fat as member 
 for Tamworth in Stafford fhire. By his wife 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Morley of 
 Suffex, Knt. he had three daughers, only one 
 of whom, Jane, furviv^ed him ; and, upon her 
 death, his nephew, Sir Henry Newton> Bart, 
 only fon of Sir Adam Newton, became heir to 
 the greateft part of his eftate, and tpok the 
 name of Puckering. 
 
 r.uThe Prince, in the 19th year of his age, 
 had a remarkable change in his conftitutiori, 
 occafioned by his continual fatigue of body 
 and mind, or fome internal unknown caufe. 
 For whereas his face was before fome what 
 ^jotfi.. round 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 329 
 
 round and full, and his dilpoiition chearful j 
 ^is vifage began now to appear paler, longer, 
 jand thinner; and he grew himfelt more lerious 
 j^nd retired than iifual ; but without any com- 
 plaint from himfelf, or fufpicion of his attend- 
 ants, except that, about half a year after, he 
 would now and then mention a giddy lumpifh 
 heavinefs in his forehead, the pain of which 
 obliged him to ftroke up his brow and forehead 
 with his hand before he put on his hat. He 
 ufed likewife to bleed at the nofc often and in 
 great quantity; by which he found great relief, 
 till a little before his laft ficknefs, when this 
 difcharge flopped. He was now fubjedl to 
 many and violent fainting fits, to recover hirti 
 from which it was found neceffary to make 
 ufe of ftrong fpirits. But, as thefe fits came 
 upon him only at intervals, they were little 
 regarded, and no confiderable danger appre- 
 hended from them.' to it^iagu^iu jiiiadis^ 13 
 About the beginning' of the llinftfnfer 6f the 
 year 1 6 1 2, the general difcourfe was of the mar- 
 riage of his fifter Elizabeth ; which was various, 
 according to the different affedions of the pcr^ 
 fons, as Proteftants or Papifts ; fome wrfliirl|: 
 her to be married to the King of Spain, fome 
 to the Prince of Savoy, fome to the young 
 Landgrave of Hefle-Caflel, and others to Fre- 
 deric the Eledior Palatine. The Prince highly- 
 approved of the motion for the Elector, and 
 pxerted all his intereft and endeavours to pro- 
 mote 
 
330 TH E LIFE OF 
 
 mote it upon the coming over of Count Hanau^ 
 Ambafiador from the Elecftor, in order to pro- 
 pofe that match ^ His Highnefs treated that 
 Count with great refped:, and feconded his 
 application, never refting till the great affair 
 of the marriage was concluded ^ 
 
 After the departure of the Count, as well 
 as of the Duke of Bouillon, from England, 
 which was in the beginning of June, i6j2 '^, 
 the Prince went to Richmond, where he con- 
 tinued till the progrefs. Here the river of 
 Thames, which ran clofe by his houfe, invited 
 'him now and then in an evening to learn to 
 fwim. This pracftice wns indeed objected to 
 by feveral, who thought it dangerous after fup- 
 per with a full ftomach: And Dr. Theodore 
 Maycrne declared himfelf afterwards of the 
 fame opinion ; and that this cuftom of the 
 Prince flopped the bleeding at his nofe, and 
 occafioned the fever, that proved fo fatal to him. 
 But he could not be prevailed on to diicontinue 
 the praftice, while he flayed at Richmond; 
 where he took likewife great delight in walking 
 by the fide of the Thames in moon-light, to 
 hear the found and echo of the trumpets ; both 
 the fituation and feafon expoiing him too much 
 to the evening dews. 
 
 *" Cornwallis, Life and Death of .Prince Henry, p. 2?, 
 24. The Count Hanau was in Holland in April, 16 12, 
 in his way to England. Winwood, Vol. III. p. 357. 
 
 * Cornwallis, p. 23, 24. ' Hiftor. View, 
 
 *._35i, Winwood, Vd. ill. p. 373. 
 
 - But 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 331 
 But the time of the progrefs being now 
 come, in which he was to meet the King his 
 father at Belvoir Caftle, the feat of the Earl 
 of Rutland, in Lincolnfliire ", on the fecond 
 Saturday after the progrefs began, his High- 
 nefs, without a due regard to his own confti- 
 tution, or to the length of the journey, being 
 near ninety Ci^i. miles, or to the extreme and 
 unufual heat of the weather, determined, not- 
 withftanding the remonftrances of Sir Charles 
 Cornwallis, to perform that journey in two 
 days. He accordingly fct out on Friday''', at 
 one in the morning from Richmond, and 
 came to Hinchingbroke near Huntingdon, a 
 houfe belonging to Sir Oliver Cromwell, Knt. 
 Mafter of his Game, by ten in the morning, 
 travelling threeicore miles in nine hours. There 
 ho remained that night, and the next day rode 
 ifix and thirty miles to Belvoir Caftle, wiiere he 
 met the King at the time prefixed. riQno:'j;>>o 
 Before he left Richmond, having refolved 
 to feaft the court at his manor of Wooditock 
 towards the end of the progrefs, as it would 
 be the lirll: time of their general meeting there 
 {mce the houfe became his own, he had given 
 orders to his ofHcers to make provifions for 
 
 ° Sir Charles Cornwallis, />. 28. fays Nottinghamihire. 
 
 ^ Id. ibid. Mr. John Chamberlainc, in a letter to Sir- 
 Ralph Winwood from London, 10 Aiiguft, 1612. [Win- 
 wood, Vol. HI. p. 384.] fays, " Tiie Prince went after 
 *' the King on Thurfday lafl: in poft, and, they fay, 
 *' overtook him the next day." 
 
 that 
 
532 THE L IFE OF ^ r 
 
 that purpofe ; and that a large fummer-hou£c' 
 of green boughs flioiild be ered:ed in the park: 
 for the great fupper: and during the execu- 
 tion of thefe orders he made feveral hafty and 
 fatiguing journies thither in the heat of the 
 feafon. -'* ;-> ,-^-^)i^. -.xd 1© 
 
 At the concluiionof the progrefs the coun^ 
 came to Woodllock, where they where enters;; 
 tairied by his Highnefs, from Wedneiiiay^; 
 night till the Sunday night following, when 
 he gave his great (and, as it proved, his fare«^.:; 
 well) fupper to them, himfelf having before 
 attended to diredl all the preparations for it;.» 
 The King and Queen fat at table by themfelves 
 at the upper end of the room, and the Prince 
 with his lifter arid the Lords and Ladies at 
 another table of about thirty yards in length ; 
 and the whole feaft, which was one of the 
 moft magnificent and beft ordered, that had 
 been feen, was crowned by the chearfulncfe^ 
 and vivacity of his Highnefs. J .^^mi^aniol 
 
 The court removing the next day, Monday, 
 from Woodftock, the Prince, after leave ob- 
 tained, haftened to his houfe at Richmond on 
 account of the expelled arrival of the Eledor 
 Palatine, whom he intended to receive with all 
 pofTible honour. At his return to Richmond 
 he not only began to give orders for his own 
 affairs and the reception of the Ele(^or, but 
 likewife to confider of means of rewarding his. 
 officers and fervants, many of whom had fpent 
 
 muchj 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 333 
 
 much) and gained nothing, in his fervice. To 
 (cMne of thcfche actually afligned penfians,- 
 and to the reft promised to., gratify, ihena as, 
 foon as poflible. • ^f^ct^^ -^rl ?•"=lh">,i■^ «)Kri^ V f^^:.;* 
 r fiut now, whether through the continuance* 
 of his violent exercifes, or too frequent indui-. 
 gence of himfelf in eating grapes or other 
 fruits, or from fome other unknown caufe, he 
 grew daily paler and more emaciated, complain- 
 ing now and then of a cold lazy drowzinefs in 
 his head; which induced him frequently to afk 
 queftions of ieveral of his attendants concern- 
 ing the nature and cure of the fever thcnr 
 raging, and from its unufual fymptoms called 
 the Difvafe '', imagining probably his own indif- 
 pofition to be of the fame kind. He uled alfo 
 now and then before this, and in his ficknelsit 
 often, to figh ; and being aiked the reafon of 
 it by hisPhyfician Dr. Hammond, and others 
 near him, his anfwer was, that he knew not ; i 
 fometimes, that thofe fighs broke from him^ 
 unawares; a-id at other times, that they w^rc 
 not without a caufe. ? •^or^hc^'"^/ jr--'*> 
 
 * Cornwallis, p. 25 — 29. Mr. Newton in his letter to 
 Sir Thomas Edmondes of the 29th of Odlober 1612, 
 cited above, mentions *' the ordinary difeafe of the time, 
 *' wherewith all the parts of the country have been much > 
 *' vifited." Mr. George Chapman, in a note upon his 
 Epicedi on the Prince's death, remarks, that this fever was 
 fuppofed by the Phyficians to have been brought froiii 
 Hungary.. : . ,,, „.,, ■ 
 
334 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 In the beginning of Gdrober, his contrhuai 
 head-ach, lifilefsnels and indifpofition increai- 
 ed, whicli, on account of the time, he endea- 
 voured to the utmoft to conceal ; and he, who 
 ulcd to rife early in the morning to walk in 
 the fields, now lav in bed ahnoft every morn- 
 ing till nine, complaining of his own indo- 
 lence, and that he knew not the caufe of it ; 
 during which time he would often, before he 
 rofe, afk the Grooms of the Bed-chamber, 
 how he looked that morning ? which they ge- 
 nerally anfwered, as apprehending no danger, 
 with fome pleafantry, in order to divert him. 
 
 Still continuing ill he had on Saturday the 
 loth of Odober two fmall fits of an ague, 
 which forced him to keep his chamber, and con- 
 fult his Phyfician Dr. John Hammond y, with 
 an intention, as it feemcd, of taking fome ftrong 
 phyfic to remove the caufe. But that Phyfician. 
 not venturin JT to do much without farther ad- 
 vice, only prefcribed an emollient clyfter. 
 
 On the Tuefday the 1 3th of Odober having, 
 as was fuppofed, taken cold, he was feized with 
 a violent diarrhoea, occafioning five and twenty 
 difcharges of choler, phlegm, and at laft pu- 
 
 J^ Henry, the youngeft Ton of the Do6lor, born the i8th 
 of Augufl: 1605, and v.-ell known to the learned world by 
 - his learned writings, had the honour of receiving his Chri- 
 flian name at the Font from the Prince, thai great fa- 
 vourer of meriting fervants and their relations^ as he is 
 ftiled by Dr. Fell in his Lfe of Dr, HammmcU P- 2. 2(i 
 Edit. London 1662. 
 
 trified 
 
H EN RY Prince of Wales. 335 
 trified matter. But the next day finding him- 
 felf, as he faid, realbnably well, he gave orders 
 for his removal from Richmond to St. James's 
 on the Thurfday following, that he might be 
 ready to receive the Eledor Palatine: and 
 though it was reprefented to him as very 
 hazardous to go abroad, while the diarrhoea 
 continued, he perfifted to declare, that he was 
 well enough to undertake the journey, and 
 accordingly came to St. James's. \ 
 
 When he arrived there,, the pajenefs. of his 
 countenance, and his whole appearance, raifed 
 apprehenljons in feveral peribns : but the iirm- 
 nefs of his own mind was iuch, that he made 
 no complaint, and iliewed no diforder, and 
 even gave leave to his Phyfician, who had 
 waited long, to go to his own houfe"'. 
 
 The Eledor Palatine, who landed at Gravef- 
 end on Friday night Oftober 16, being brought 
 to the Banqueting Houfe at Whitehall, , the 
 Prince attended the King, Queen and Princefs 
 there to receive him^ But his indifpofition 
 liill continuing and increafmg began to make a 
 great change in his temper 3 fo that he grew 
 difpleafed v/ith almoft every thing j and his 
 curiolity about whrxt before gave him much 
 fatisfadtion, feemed abfolutely extinguiflied. 
 However he flill employed himfelf in provid- 
 ing and giving orders for fuch things, as re- 
 
 * Cornwallis, p. 29-32. 
 
 » Winwood, FoL III, p. 403. 
 
 3 lated 
 
336 THELIFEOF 
 
 lated to the folemnity of his fifler's marriage ; 
 and ftill kept company, as much as he could, 
 with the Eledor Palatine, and Count Henry 
 de NalTau. He delighted particularly in the 
 converfation of the Count, whom he highly 
 honoured and efteemed for his noble and he- 
 roic difpofition fo much refembling his own, 
 and with whom he ufed to play often at cards 
 and tennis ; at the latter of which games they 
 played a great match on Saturday the 24th of 
 Odober. But in this match the Prince, too 
 negligent of his own weak ftate of body and 
 the coldnefs of the feafon, played in his (hirt, 
 though the fpecftators could not but be alarmed 
 with the ftrong marks of his indifpofition, ex- 
 preffing to one another their fears of the con- 
 fequences of it. But after the match was 
 ended, he feemed to be fenfible of no diforder, 
 having hitherto enjoyed a tolerable good appe- 
 tite. However at his going to bed that night, 
 he complained more than ufual of his laflltudc 
 and the pain in his head. 
 
 The next morning, Sunday the 25th of 
 October, it being the cuftom of his houfe to 
 have the fermon early, when the Court was 
 near, becaufe he ufed after his own to hear 
 the King's, when he was informed, that Mr. 
 Wilkinfon^, one of his Majefty's Chaplains, 
 was ready to preach before his Highnels, he, 
 
 ^ Robert Wilkinfon, Redtor of St. Olave's in South warlc, 
 who died in 1617. Wood, Fafti Oxon. Fv/, I, Col. 195. 
 
 con- 
 
H ENRY Prince OF Wales. 3^7 
 
 contrary to his late habit ol lying long in bed, 
 and though he found himlblt then drouiy and 
 ill, arole and began to drefs himlelf. For he 
 had a great efteem for Mr. Wilkin Ton, as a 
 preacher, ever fiiice he had heard, long be- 
 fore^ a fermon of his upon the hit judgment, 
 which his Highnefs often fpoke of with high 
 approbatio|i. He did not make the- preacher 
 wait long fo|' him in the Chapd, where the 
 fermon'' watS upon a very fealonable '^ topic, ^ 
 Job xiv. 1., Mahy ^hat is bom of a woman ^ is 
 of J}iort continuance y and full of trcuhk^\ and » 
 \ Ui r. • in » 
 
 * It was pubilih'ed by the Author, at London in 1614, 
 in 410. with another under the following title : A pair 
 of Jcrmotn fuccejftvely pi' cached to a pair of pcerhjs and fuc- 
 ceeding Princes -y the former as an ante-funeral to the late 
 Prince Henry ^ Anna Dom. l6l2, OSiober 25, the firji day 
 of his laji and fatal fuknefs : The latter preached this pre- 
 Jentyear 1614, "January 16, to the now living Prince 
 Charles^ as a prefcrver of bis life^ and Ife to his foul, 
 Thefe two fermons were dedicated by the Author to 
 Prince Charles. 
 
 *• Upon this fubjciSt the preacher (p. 38. & Teqq.) obferv- 
 cd, that it might indeed be faid, *' A King hath a royal 
 '* throne; he may fit when other men ftand ; and it" 
 *' fitting be not'eafy enough, he may lean, or lie down 
 *' to fleep, when others wake. He may eat and drink, 
 *' and dice and card, and worfe than all that; and yet«'fl 
 *' when he hath done his worft, it is well done; and who 
 ** dares fay, Why haft thou done it? Such, anfvjcrs hcy 
 *' is the error of men, to impute leaft trouble there, 
 '* where God hath placed moft. But it is not for Kings ^ 
 *' O Lemuel (Prov. 3 1 . j to drink wine^ nor far Princes 
 *' Jlrong drink. Jf men rcfpedted only q'uietnefs and 
 *' worldly eafe, a kingdom were not worth the afkin^. 
 Z « What 
 
338 THE LIFE OF 
 
 in it were reprefcnted, witk proper ibrce and? 
 extent, the miferics peculiarly attending the 
 higheft (lati ons in Ife. The Prince having com- 
 mended this fcrmon went to Whitehall, where 
 Jie heard another with the King. After this 
 he din'd with his M ijeily, and eat with a (ccm- 
 ingly good appetite ; but the palcneis of hiS' 
 countenance, and the hollow ghaftlinefs of his 
 eyes, were much remarked. After dinner, his, 
 great courage and refolution, in combating with 
 and dilTembling his dilbrdcr, gave way to the 
 ibrce of it; for about three o'clock in the 
 afternoon he was taken, not only with a fudden 
 ficknefs and faintnefs, too familiar to him of 
 ia':e, but likev/ife with a fliivering attended with 
 great heat and head-ach, which from that 
 time never left him. In this ftatc he was- 
 obliged fuddenly to take his leave, and go to 
 St. James's to bed. Here he found himfelf 
 
 " What art and great labour have Kings in the veryadl- 
 *' of government. It is an art of all arts (faith Gregory 
 *' Nazianzcn) to govern man, who is lo wild a beaft 
 " and untamed of himlelf. It was tiuly faid of Maxi- 
 *' minus, one ot the Roman Emperors, ^iO major fuero, 
 " eo magis lahoroho. Beudcs what perturbations of teitr 
 *' are in the minds of Kings more t.han of other men, 
 ** who may fear every cup, and every bit, and evcery gift ^ 
 '* who fear their enemies, and fear their friends, becaufe 
 *' they know not their enemies from their friends. From 
 " the conqueft downward, of three and twenty deceafed 
 '* Princes, eight, that is moic than a third part, were 
 *' flain. Now fure it were a moft fearful thins; among the 
 '.' comaion fort of men, if one in every three were fub- 
 ^*;* je£l to violent deaili." 
 
 extremely 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 3J9 
 
 extremely ill, continuing all that evening in an 
 agony, and tormented with an exceffive thirft, 
 never afterwards i^bated ; his eyes being dim 
 and impatient of the light of a candle. That 
 night, during which he refted ill, he was 
 ordered a cooling pdfan, with broth at the end 
 of his fit. 
 
 On Monday, Ocflober 26, he felt no abate- 
 ment of the pain in his head; his belly con- 
 tinued coilivej and his pulfe high; his water 
 crude, thin, and whitifli; which induced Dr. 
 Mayerne, his iVIajeily's chief Phylician, to 
 order him a clyfler, which operated very well. 
 After which the Prince finding £;n intermifilon 
 of his fever, which intermifiion continued all 
 that day, he rofe from his bed, and played at 
 cards ; as he likewife did the next day with 
 his brother, the Duke of York, and Count 
 Henry de NafTan. In the mean time many 
 mefiages were fent from the court and every 
 where elfe, to know how he was; all which, 
 as no danger was apprehended, were anfwered 
 with good hopes. Yet his Highnefs all this 
 while looked ill and pale, fpoke hollow, and 
 ftrangely, with dead funk eyes; his drynefs of 
 mouth and great thirft continuing; for which 
 his Phyficians ordered him that night Ihafp, 
 tart, and cooling juleps, prepared with ail 
 kinds of cordials and antidotes 'poffible ; his 
 broths and jellies being made with the fame 
 
 Z 2 care. 
 
340 THE LIFE OF 
 
 care. Yet his thirft and head-ach continued; 
 though he refted quietly that night. 
 
 On Tuefday, Odober 27, he found fome 
 eafe in the morping, fo that his Phyricians 
 were. all In hopes, that his difeafe would have 
 proved a tertian or baftard tertian at the mod ; 
 though his ghaftjy rolling eyes and uncouth 
 looks put them in fome fear. -^ >, 
 
 That day the King ordered his lurgeoh Mr, 
 Nafniith to attend the Prince in his licknefs j 
 in conference with whom, and divers others, 
 Dr. Mayerne declared it as his judgment, 
 that the fureft method for his Highnefs's 
 fafety was bleeding, before his natural heat 
 and ftrength were too much impaired or op- 
 prefTed, or the fever became continual. But 
 this opinion being flrongly oppofed by the reft 
 was not followed. 
 
 That morning the Prince rofe, and put on 
 his cloaths; but his fit returning about noon, 
 firfl with a cold, and then a great heat with- 
 out any fweat continuing till eight at night, he 
 was forced to go to bed again ; but that night 
 refted quietly. 
 
 On Wednefday, Odober 28, in the morn- 
 ing came Dr. William Butler % the celebrated 
 phyfician of Cambridge, of long pra(ftice and 
 lingular judgment in his profeffion, but a 
 great humorift. He comforted the Prince with 
 
 • He had been educated at Clare Hall in Cambridge, 
 and died the 29th of January 1617-18, at the age of 83. 
 
 hopes 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 341 
 
 hopes of loon recovering him, afTiiring him, 
 that there was no danger : but fecretly to others 
 he fpoke doubtfully, as his cullom was, that 
 he could not tell what to make of the diftem- 
 p^f; and that he did not like the appearance j 
 addihg, that if the Prince Ihould efcape, it 
 would be a confiderable time before his re- 
 covery would be completed. Nor could he 
 be perfuaded, during the whole time of his 
 Highnefs's ficknefs, to ftay longer with him 
 than about one hour every morning, and an- 
 other' In' the afternoon, to confult with the 
 reft. Whit his rcafons were for this are not 
 known ; whether it was diflike of Dr. Mayerne, 
 or refentment, becaufe the cure was not com- 
 mitted to him as chief; or fufpicion of the 
 Prince's difeafe, which made him umvilling to 
 meddle too much in the cure, which Sir 
 Charles Cornwallis*^ inclined to think the 'mofi: 
 probable caufe. But at his firft coming having 
 inquired what was done, he approved ot it, 
 and recommended it to be continued" till a 
 farther judgment might be given. The Prince 
 however found little or no eafc, though he 
 rofe and drefted himfelf. 
 
 In the preceding days and this, his flomirh 
 was not yet quite gone, but he would now 
 and then take fuch food,_ as the Phyficians 
 thought proper. Yet the Dodtors Maverne, 
 Hammond, and Butler, confidering the great- 
 
 ^ ^ Cornwallis, ^.'43. ' 
 
 Z3 nef* 
 
342 THELIFEOF 
 
 nefs of the danger, and the ftrangenefs of the 
 difeafc, the water not at all indicating the na- 
 ture of it, which made them more unwilling 
 to meddle till a crifis appeared, were defirous 
 to have had more Fhviicians called into the 
 confaltation. But the Prince reiufing to admit 
 of this on accoiint of the confufion of opi- 
 nions, that iv.ight arife, tliey unanimoufly 
 agreed, as he had then an intermilhon, but 
 was coflivc, to give jjim a purge of Senna, 
 and Rhubarb, infufcd in cordial and cooling 
 liquors, with fyrup of rofesj which operated 
 feven or eight times, and brought away a great 
 quantity of putrid choler and at iaft phlegm, the 
 urine inclining fomewhat to concodion. But 
 his Highnefs did not find afterwards the eafe, 
 which was expeded^ yet was ftill fed with 
 hopes of recovery. But night being come 
 (towards which, during his whole lickntfs, he 
 grew worfe than in the morning, when he 
 was always more compofed than in the evening) 
 his head-ach, thirif, and other fymptoms, con- 
 tinuing, though not with extremity, he relied 
 ill. 
 
 On Thurfday, October 29, the hopes of 
 him began a little to diminifh ; though that 
 morning the pain of his head was a little 
 abated, and his breath, which had been fliort, 
 was relieved. Thefe favourable circumflances 
 made him refolve to rife, as he had done be- 
 fore ; but finding his head fo giddy, that he 
 
 was 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 343 
 
 was not able to ftand alone, he returned to 
 his bed, which from that moment he never 
 afterwards left. The tingling of his ears, and 
 his leapings and boundings, now increafmr, 
 ^nd a fmall fit coming upon him with a cold- 
 iiefs, and the fever, which had but fliortinter- 
 miffions, caufing his tongue to be black and 
 dry, and all other bad fymptoms to be aggra- 
 vated, many of thofe nbout him began to fear 
 the worft. But the Phyficians, not willing 
 nor' daring to do much, till they had fome 
 farther and more certain knowledge, adviied 
 only the fupplying the Prince, who bor-e his 
 illnefs widi extraordinary patience, with all 
 forts of cordial ruleps, which art or experience 
 could fuggeft. Dr. Butler's advice was faid 
 to be the fame, that cordials internal and ex- 
 ternal, and the refloratives and diet bcp-un, 
 fhould be continued. 
 
 ^ The Prince had no evacuation hy fweat, 
 which it was thought improper to force, and 
 that nature's own time was to be expeded. 
 This night he palled very unquietly. 
 
 On Friday, Odober 30, the fixth day of 
 his illnefs, he continued in the fame flate, the 
 Phyficians ftill waiting for the iffue of the 
 eighth day. His fever was continual with all 
 the former fymptoms; for which a clyder 
 was given him in the morning, by which he 
 had fome eafe. 
 
 Z 4 About 
 
344 T H E L I F R O F 
 
 About three in the afternoon came on his 
 leiTer doubling, during which his breadi be- 
 came (hort, and his face very red, and hispuhc 
 beat extremely quick. In this fit his nofe began 
 to bleed, as feme thought, two ounces; and 
 then flopped of itfelf. By this bleeding he 
 found fome relief, not having bled, as his 
 cuflom was, for a confiderable time before. 
 
 From this time Dr. Maycrne, with Mr. 
 Nafmith, began to urge the neceflity of bleed- 
 ing, as they had done before ; nature feeming 
 to call for it, the fever being continual in a 
 conftitntion exceffively hot, and which had 
 been much ufed to bleeding. But the other 
 Phyficians being averfe to it^ nothing was done, 
 this day pafling like the refl. Ail this while 
 the excefUve pain of the Prince's head continu- 
 ed, together with his heat and thirfl, for which 
 his mouth and tongue was continually wafhed. 
 In the night he refhed ill ; but in the morning 
 he was, as ufual, fomewhat better. 
 
 On Saturday, Odober 31, there appeared 
 no (ign of amendment, his Highnefs continuing 
 in an excefTive heat; after which came on the 
 great redoubling ; and he grew delirious, with 
 blacknefs, drynefs, and clefts in his tongue. 
 He was continually plied with every thing fup- 
 pofed to be proper, but to no purpofe, except 
 giving him a little eafe for the prefent. The 
 tingling of his ears, and his boundings and 
 leapings, increafed, and his urine grew more 
 
 crude. 
 
H E NRY Prince OF Wales. 345 
 
 crude. He now found the pain of his head 
 more acute, with a fenfation as if there lay a 
 weight on his forehead ; which together widi 
 the ulceration of his throat made him un- 
 willing to fpeak, except when abfolutely nc- 
 cefTary, and then not without extreme pain. 
 
 This day, nature again, as it had done the 
 day before, pointed out the neceihty of bleed- 
 ing ; for which reafon it was prefTed with 
 more earneftnefs than ever by Dr. May erne, 
 as the only means to fave the Prince's life. At 
 length, after Dr. Butler, who had miftaken 
 the beginning of his Highncfs's illnefs, had 
 long oppofc'd it, thofe two Fhyficians and Dr. 
 Hammond agreed, that a vein fliould be 
 opened the next day. This night was more 
 unquiet than any of the former. 
 
 On Sunday the ift of November, Dr. But- 
 ler with great reluctance gave over his oppo- 
 sition to bleeding, which he had refufed to 
 confent to, on pretence that it was the eighth 
 day of the Prince's ficknefs, offering to leave 
 the other Phylicians, till he Vv^as forced to ilay 
 and give his confent; Dr. Hammond and 
 others proving to him, that it was not the 
 eighth day, his Highnefs having been ill for 
 a long time before, though he had with un- 
 common refolution and patience concealed it. 
 In the morning feven or eight ounces of blood 
 were drawn from the median vein of his 
 right arm 3 during which operation he fainted 
 
 not. 
 
346 THELIFEOF 
 
 not, but bled freely, defiring and calling upon 
 
 them to take rnore blood, when thev were 
 
 going to llrop, finding inftant eafe. The blood 
 
 being cold appeared thin and putrid, with a 
 
 blueiih water on the top, and without any 
 z:u „„ ifijj eft/-/ "iO'J i jj. , i yj-ji A^iijUc^ *, 
 
 This 5ay,''' after bleeding, the PrinceTouh3' 
 great eafe, and himfclf better than he had 
 been fince the beginning of his ficknefs, his 
 pulfe grown lefs quick, his doublings ceafed," 
 and all his ill fymptoms became lefs violent. 
 
 That afternoon he was vifited by his Royal 
 Father, Mother, Brother, Sifter, and the Elec- 
 tor Palatine, and divers others of the court j 
 all of whom conceivin-j; oood hopes departed 
 from him with much comfort. Yet that night 
 he palTed unquietly, though lefs fo than fomc 
 of the former. 
 
 On Monday, November 2, he became worfc 
 than ever ; the great redoubling coming upon 
 him, accompanied with rednefs of face, fliort- 
 nefs of breath, increafe of thirll:, blacknefs of 
 the tongue, exceffive heat, though fomewhat 
 lefs than it was two days before, and numbnefs. 
 Jn fliort, fo many ill figns appeared, that fomc 
 of the Phyficians then declared, that by the 
 violence of the difeafe, the blood and humours 
 were retired towards the brain, and over- 
 charged the veffels of it 5 as afterwards was 
 evident upon opening it. 
 
 That 
 ,4f« 
 
HENRY Prince of Walks. 347 
 
 That morning Dr. Henry Atkyns^, a Phy- 
 fician of London, eminent for his learning 
 and integrity, as well as extenfive pra(3:ice», 
 being fent for by the King to attend the 
 Prince, declared his opinion, that the cafe was 
 a putrid fever, the feat whereof was under the 
 liver in the firft paifages; and the malignity 
 of it of the higheft kind. 
 
 This day and the next the Prince was 
 vifited by his Majefty and others of the. 
 Court, whofe extreme concern was however 
 mixed with feme hopes. 
 
 All this while, though he grew every day 
 worfe, yet no perfon mentioned to him death;, 
 which his ficknefs, that day and the next,^ 
 would not permit him to refled: upon himfelf, 
 which his Phvficians v/ould have diverted hitn; 
 from doing, by telling him, that he was in na 
 danger, an opinion founded upon his extraor- 
 dinary patience ^ for he neither complained^, 
 nor could have been difcovered to be fick but 
 by his looks. . 
 
 That night his delirium increafed,; for, ha 
 called out for his clothes, rapier, &c. fayingj 
 that he mufl: be gone; he would not fiay^ 
 with other fpeechcs of as extravagant a kind. 
 
 On Tucfday, November 3, he was worfe 
 than before ; all his former fymptoms increaf-r 
 
 * He died at his houfc in Warwick-Court, near War- 
 wick-Lane, the 22d of September, 1634. Wood, Athem. 
 Oxon. Vol. I. Col. 129. 
 
 ing. 
 
34S THE LIFE OF 
 
 ing, his boundlngs being turned into convul 
 fions, his raving and numbnefs heightened, 
 and his fever more violent. Whereupon bleed- 
 ing was again propofed by Dr. Maycrne and 
 others, the Doctor affirming, that he diiliked' 
 the too fparing manner of proceeding with his^ 
 Highnefs; and that, in a cafe of fuch extre- 
 mity, they mufl, if they meant to fave his life, 
 purfue the fame method of cure, as they would 
 with an ordinary perfon, forgetting him to be 
 a Prince, whom they had in hand : Otherwifc 
 he mufl die (for ought he faw) becaufe he was 
 a Prince ; though, if he were of low rank, he 
 might be faved. But this opinion was difap- 
 proved of by mod of the others, who continued 
 and increafed their cordials, giving him a cly- 
 fter, which brought away abundance of cor- 
 rupt and putrid matter, together with forhc 
 railins, which he was thought to. Jjave ^^ 
 twelve days before. .., p^ IJ^. -^j 
 
 f^^That day, in order to eafe the Prince's pain 
 in tlie head, his hair was fhaven away, and 
 pigeons and cupping-glafles applied ; which 
 he bore with admirable patience, as if he had 
 been infenfible of pain ; but without any relief, 
 except for the prefent. 
 
 The Phylicians began now to defpair, atjd 
 feme of them to difcover it by their lool^^,; 
 for that night he became very weak, the fever 
 increaiing with the delirium, in which he be- 
 gan to be very reftlefs, finging in his fleep, 
 
 cif- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 349 
 
 endeavouring to leap out of bed, and gathering 
 up the fheets. The convulfions grew likewife 
 ftronger, and his tongue, mouth, and throat, 
 more dry than ever; though he did not com- 
 plain of thirft, or call out for relief of it; which 
 (hewed, that his diftemper had got the better 
 cf his reafon ; iince otherwife he could not but 
 have complained as before. 
 
 On Wednefday, November 4, the hopes of 
 the Prince's recovery were much leflened, the 
 Phyficians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, who 
 had hitherto been the moft fanguine, begin- 
 ning to defpair; though moft of them ftill 
 thought, that a crlfis fliould be expeded, before 
 they ought to determine ; of which however 
 there was yet fmall appearance. 
 
 That day a cock cloven by the back was 
 applied to the foles of his feet; but in vain; 
 and the cordials were redoubled in number and 
 quantify, but without any benefit. 
 
 In the afternoon his Majefty hearing of the 
 Prince's undoubted danger, though he was then 
 more compofed and fober than at other times, 
 came to fee him. But, being informed of his 
 fituation, and the probable confequences of it, 
 and what an addition of grief it would be to fee 
 his beloved ion in that extremity, he was at laft 
 perfuaded to depart without feeing him, after 
 giving exprefs orders, that, fince his Highnefs 
 was continually molefted with great numbers, 
 who came out of regard to vifit him, no perfon 
 
 fhould 
 
350 THELIFEOF 
 
 fliould be admitted except thofe, who of ne* 
 celTity mud: attend him, till the ifliie of the 
 diftemper was feen. This was accordingly done, 
 and the Prince, for his greater eafe, was re- 
 moved into another longer and more quiet 
 chamber. 
 
 Dr. Mayefne had, before this, ferioufly ex- 
 horted the Prince to commend himfelf into 
 the hands of God, and found him in a moft 
 excellent and religious frame of mind. And 
 the Archbifhop of Canterbury, Dr. George 
 Abbot, hearing of the defperate ftate of his 
 Highnefs, now thought it his duty to vifit him. 
 His firft queflion to the Prince was, whether 
 there had been any prayers fald in his chamber 
 iince his ficknefs? To which his Highnefs 
 anfwered in the negative, alledging the caufe 
 to have been the continual employment ef the 
 Phyficians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, about 
 him ; and that he had not been put in mind 
 of it till then : But that he had not failed to 
 pray quiecly by himfelf. This anfwer being 
 very fatisfadory to the Archbilhop, he again 
 aHced, whether his Hisihncfs would now hence- 
 forward be pleafed to have prayers in his cham- 
 ber ? The Prince readily confented to this; 
 inquiring which of his Chaplains were prefent; 
 and finding Dr. Milbourne \ Dean of Roche- 
 
 fler, 
 
 ^ Dr. Richard Milbourne, born at London, though of 
 a Pembrokcfbire Limily, and educated at Winchcller 
 
 Schoolj 
 
H ENRY Prince OF Wales. 351 
 
 ^er, to be attending, he ordered him to be called, 
 as one whom he had always efteemed for his 
 learning, charader, and abilities as a preacher. 
 The Archbifhop in the m8an time, not will- 
 ing too much to difquiet the Prince, faid pray- 
 ers that evening at his bed-lidc in a low voice. 
 _Upoi> which his Highnels dcfired him to raife 
 it ; and repeated the confelTion of his faith 
 word for word after his Grace. From that 
 time the Dean of Rochefter continued to pray 
 dally with the Prince at his bed- fide. That 
 night was as unquiet as the reft. 
 
 On Thurfday morning, November 5, an 
 account was fent to the King, that there now 
 remained no hopes nor means of the Prince's 
 recovery, except by defperate and dangerous 
 attempts. Which his Majefty coniidering, gave 
 abfqlute permiilion to Dr. Mayerne to do what 
 he would himfeif, widiout advice of the reil, 
 if, in fuch an extremity, any method could be 
 thought of for his Highnefs's laiety. But he, 
 weighing the importance oi the attempt, and 
 the greatnefs ot the danger, would not venture 
 upon any experiment without the advice of the 
 others, which he always tookj declaring, that 
 it fliould never be faid in after^ages, that he 
 
 School, and afterwards at Qiiccn's Collec:e Cambridge. 
 He was Minifter of Sevenokc in Kent, Chantor of th& 
 Cathedral of St. David's, and Dean of Rocheiler, and 
 advanced to the Biilioprick f>f St. David's in 1615, aind 
 frx)m thence tranllaccd in 162 J to that ofCarliflc, tiji'^o '" 
 
 nad 
 
352 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 had killed the King's eldeft Ion. His Majefty 
 in the mean while, unwilling and unable to 
 ftay lb near the gates of forrow, removed to 
 Theobald's in Hert&idfliire, to wait there the 
 event. 
 
 Bleeding was now the third time propofed 
 amongft the Phyficians, Mayerne, Hammond, 
 Butler, and Atkyns ; fome of them, in parti- 
 cular Dr. Mayerne, affirming, that the blood 
 filling the brain by its malignant acrimony and 
 quantity, caufed the ravings and convullions, 
 which, though without feeming pain, becaufe 
 the fpirits were opprelled, put his Highnefs 
 into imminent danger, more than the numb- 
 nefs, the caufe of which was within the ven- 
 tricles of the brain ; as alfo the hot and choleric 
 blood in the membranes. All which being 
 confidered, and that his Highnefs had vet fufh- 
 cient flrength of body, and his pulfe ftill able 
 to endure it, the opening of a vein was, in 
 their judgment, the only means left. But this 
 was difliked by the reft, who concluded to 
 double and treble the cordials, making a re- 
 vuliion from the head with a clyiler, which 
 had little effecff , except that the Prince became 
 more fenlible after it. 
 
 In the mean time the Archblfliop came in 
 great hafte to his Highnefs, and gently aiking 
 how he did fince he jaft faw him; and finding 
 little or no hope remaining, he began to pre- 
 pare the Prince againft the fear of death. He 
 
 obfcrved. 
 
H E N RY Prince OF Wales. 353 
 
 obferved, that the preparation for i?, and the 
 thinking and meditating upon it, could not 
 bring on the awful event the fooner -, but, on 
 the contrary, would fortify him fo much the 
 more againft it. He reminded him of the ex- 
 cellence and immortality of the foul, the in- 
 cxpreffible happinefs of good men in another 
 ftate, the mifery of the prcfent, and the infig- 
 nificancy of all the vain, inconflant, moment- 
 ary, and frail pleafures of it in comparifon of 
 the- joys of heaven ; v/ith many other topics of 
 the like nature. 
 
 The Archbidiop having thus prepared him 
 to hear, went farther, and acquainted him of 
 the exceedingly great danger, which he was in ; 
 and that though he might recover (as he hoped 
 he would) yet he might alfo die. And lince it. 
 was an inevitable and irrevocable neceffity, that, 
 all muft once die, foon or late, death being the 
 reward of fin ; his Grace afked, if it {hould fq 
 fall out, whether or no he was well pleafed tq 
 fubmit himfelf to the will of God? To which 
 the Prince anfwered, with all his heart. The 
 Archbidiop then proceeded to queftions con- 
 cerning his faith ; firft of the religion and 
 church, wherein he lived: which his Highnefs 
 acknowledged to be the only true church, 
 wherein alone was falvation to be expedied. 
 Then of his faith in Chrifl only, by whom, 
 and in whom, without any merit of his, he 
 could be afTured of the remifnon of all his fins. 
 
 A a This 
 
354 THE LIFE OF 
 
 This the Prince profellcd to be his iincerc 
 belief. Laflly, of the refurredion of the body, 
 everlalliing life, and the happinefs of heaven : 
 All which the Prince confefTcd, hoping to en- 
 joy it with all the faints. 
 
 After this conference, with much more to 
 the fime purpofe, the Archbilhop, fearing too 
 much to difquiet the Prince, took his leave of 
 him, with many pious exhortations. 
 
 That day, the Anniverfary of the Thankf- 
 giving for the Deliverance fiom the Gun- 
 powder-plot, order was given to all churches 
 to pray for his Highnefs j till v/hich time his 
 danger was unknown to the people in general. 
 
 Upon that day, and at feveral other times 
 fmce his confufion of fpeech, he would often 
 call upon Sir David Murray, in whom he had 
 the higheft confidence, by his name, Da- 
 lidj David, David : Who coming to the 
 Prince, to know his pleafure, his Highnefs 
 anfwered with a figh, '' I would fay fome- 
 .*' what; but I cannot utter it." Which form 
 he ftiii ufed, as long as he had any fenfe or 
 memory. 
 
 Now, though too late, came in, to affift the 
 pdier phyiicians. Dr. Palmer and Dr. GifFord*, 
 
 * John Gifford, M. D^ educated at New College in 
 Oxford, who took the degree of doctor of ph) fic Decem- 
 ber 7, 1598. and afterwards pradlfed at London, being 
 jmembcr of the college of phylkians there, lie died at a 
 cnnficerabh age in 1647. Wood, Fafti Oxon. P'ol. I. 
 Cel. 155. 
 
 both 
 
HEN RY pRix^CE OF Wales. ^55 
 both of great reputation in their profefllon; 
 who, with the former four, went into a con- 
 fiiltation what now remained to be done; ii 
 which confnltation v\^as again propounded the 
 neceiiity of bleeding: But the opportunity of 
 this was palled by the evacuation of his belly. 
 In the end they agreed upon Diafcordium, .as 
 the only means now rem.ainingj which, being 
 tempered with cooling cordials, was given him 
 about ten at night. The operation of this was 
 little or none J neither all this while did nature 
 incline to relieve itfelf by fweatingj the forcing 
 of which was thought to be improper. This 
 night was as unquiet as. the refc; his fymptoms 
 continuing the fame; but he fpoke now and 
 then, though fo confufedly, that he could not 
 be unde^'ilood. 
 
 Among the reft Mr. Nafmith fitting by his 
 bed-fide, his Highnefs pulled him to him by 
 the hand, fpeaking to him fomewhat, but fo 
 inarticulately, by reafon of the rattling in his 
 throat, that he could not be underilood. The 
 PrincCj perceiving this, turned from him with 
 a deep figh ; and never afterwards, unlefs urged, 
 fpoke either to him or any other perfon. 
 
 In this extremity Sir David Murray came to 
 him, and intreated him, that, if he had any 
 thing to fay, which troubled him, he would 
 make known his mind: But, his fpirits being 
 overcome, and nature weak, he was not able 
 to fay any thing, except giving order for the 
 A a 2 burn- 
 
356 THELIFEOF 
 
 burning of a number of letters in a certain cabi- 
 net in his clofetj which prefently after his 
 death was done. 
 
 Not long after, on Friday morning about 
 three of the clock, his back-bone, inoulders, 
 arms, and tongue, by reafon of the violence of 
 the convulfions, disjointing and dividing them- 
 felves, he fainted, and feemed now twice or 
 thrice to be abfolutely dead. This raifed pro- 
 digious exclamations of grief in the chamber, 
 court, and adjoining ftreets ; the noife of which, 
 with fbme other means ufed, awakened him 
 from his fwoon. The cry was fo great, that 
 all, who were in the flreets, thought him to 
 be adlually dead; and the rumour of it imme- 
 diately fpread into the city and country, and 
 occafioned an univerfal lamentation. 
 
 Thus while the Prince, redgned by all into 
 the hands of God, lay in the agonies of death, 
 now and then, till within two or three hours 
 of it, looking up, and fpeaking, or endeavour- 
 ing to fpeak, but not able to be underflood j 
 every perfon was ready to bring cordial waters, 
 and diaphoretic and quintelTential fpirits, to be 
 given him. Among thefe, one was admini- 
 llered in the afternoon, which fet the little 
 remains of nature at work, and forced a fweat; 
 which, though too late, was the firfl he had. 
 Sir Walter Ralegh alfo fent another cordial 
 from the Tov/er'', which whether or not it 
 
 fhould 
 
 * Dr. Wehvood, in his Note* on Af thur Vv^ilfon's Life 
 
 of 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 357 
 
 fhould be given him, was the fubjedl of Tome 
 deliberation. After the operation of the iirft, 
 his Highnefs refted quietly for a while ; but 
 foon falling into his former extremities,- the 
 cordial fent bjr Sir Walter Ralegh, after having 
 - been tafted and proved, was, with the leave 
 and advice of the Lords of the Council there 
 prefent, given to him. But this was likewife 
 in vain, except that, forcing the fpark of life 
 flill remaining in him, it threw him again into 
 a fweat; after which, as before, he had fome 
 little reft. But this was of fliort continuance, 
 for he foon relapfed ; his fight and fenfes failed; 
 and all the figns of approaching death appeared. 
 In this exigence the Archbifliop of Canter- 
 bury, being prefent, faw, that it was now the 
 critical moment of adminiftering fome confola- 
 tion to the Prince, if he had yet any remains 
 
 of King James I. In the Complete Hijiory of Englandy 
 Vol.11, p. 714. mentions, though without giving any 
 authority for it, that, ** when the Prince fell into his laft 
 illnefs, the Queen fent to Sir Walter Ralegh for fome 
 of his cordials, which (he herfelf had taken in a fever 
 fome time before v/ith remarkable fuccefs. Ralegli 
 fent it, together with a letter, to the Q^ieen, wherein he 
 exprefTed a tender concern for the Prince ; and, boaft- 
 ing of his medicine, ftumbled unluckily upon an ex- 
 preilion to this purpofe, that it would certainly cure hiniy 
 or any other .^ cf a fever ^ except in cafe of poifon. The 
 Prince dying, though he took it, the Queen, in the 
 agony of her grief, fhewed Ralegh's letter, and laid fo 
 much Weight on the expreflion about poifon, that, to 
 her dying day, fhe could never be di/Tuaded from the 
 opinion, that her beloved fon had foul play done him." 
 
 A a 3 of 
 
358 THE LIFE OF 
 
 of confcioiUnefs; and coming to him, put him 
 in mind of all thofe things, which he had faid 
 to him the day before; calling on him aloud in 
 his ear to remember Chrift Jcfus; to believe, 
 hope, and truft only in him with aflured hope 
 of mercy; to lift up his heart, and prepare , 
 himfelf to meet the Lord Jefus; with many 
 other fuch exhortations. He then fpoke more 
 ^ud than ever in his ear ; " Sir, hear you me ? 
 *' hear you me? hear you me ? If you hear me, 
 *' in certain fign of your faith aiid hope in the 
 " blelled refurred:ion, give us, for our comfort, 
 *' a fign by lifting up of your hands." This 
 the Prince did, lifting up both his hands toge- 
 ther. 1 he Archbifhop then defircd him to give 
 iliil another fign, by lifting up his eyes : which 
 the Prince having done, they let him alone. 
 The Archbiiiiop likewafe, with a flood of tears,, 
 poured out, by his Highncfs's bed-fide, a mod 
 pathe'ic prayer. 
 
 During the whole time, from three In the 
 morning -till night, there was continual prayer 
 in the houfe, and in every place, where thq 
 Prince's danger wus known. 
 
 His Highnefs at lal}, about half a quarter 
 before eight at night, on Friday the 6th of 
 November, 1 612, at the age of eighteen year?, 
 eight months, and fevcnteen days, expired, 
 having fapported his long illnefs with a calm- 
 nefs and compofure feldom feen K 
 
 ■ Cornv.^^!lis, p. 75. 
 
 The 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 3591 
 The next day the Lords of the Council 
 came, by appointment of his Majefty, to give 
 orders for the opening of the Prince's body. 
 This was done the fame day about five in the 
 evening, in the prefence of the phyficians and 
 furp'cons, who had attended him, of the phy- 
 fician of the Eleftor Palatine, and of many 
 Knights and Gentlemen, by the furgeons cf his 
 Majefty and his late Highnefs "". The report, 
 ligned by them, was as follows " : 
 
 " After the opening of the moft illuftrious 
 " Prince, we obferved thefe things: 
 
 1. *' That his liver was more pale than it 
 " fhould be, and in divers places wan, and 
 ** like lead ; and the gall-bladder was without 
 *' gall and choler, and full of wind. 
 
 2. " His fpleen was in divers places unna- 
 *^ turally black. 
 
 3. " His fiomach was without any manner 
 *' of fault or imperfedion. 
 
 4. " His midriff was in many places black- 
 " ifh. 
 
 5. " His lungs were black, and in many 
 ** places fpoited, and full of much corruption. 
 
 6. " He had the veins of the hinder part 
 ** of his head too full of blood, and the pafs- 
 " ages and hollow places of his brain full of 
 *' much clear water. 
 
 "" Cornwallis, p. 75, 76. » Cotton Library^ 
 
 Vefpaf. F. IX,fol. 151. 
 
 A a 4 [' Th2 
 
3^0 THE LIFE OF 
 
 " The truth of this relation we make good 
 *^ hy the fubfcription of our names, Novem- 
 *' ber 7, 1612. 
 
 " T. xMayerne. " Henry Atkyns. 
 
 *' John Hammond. " Rich. Palmer. 
 *' Jo. GifFord. '' William Butler." 
 
 The Monday after the Prince's death, the 
 Lords of the Privy Council cq^me again to St. 
 James's, to give orders for the necefiary pre- 
 parations for the funeral". Li purfuance of 
 which, the body of his Highnefs being em- 
 bowelied, embalmed, and clofed up in lead, 
 there were four chambers hung with black 
 cloth, the guard-chamber and prefence with 
 black cloth, the privy-chamber with finer 
 cloth, and the bed-chamber with black velvet. 
 ^n the midft of wliich was fet up a canopy of 
 black velvet, valanced and fringed ; under 
 which, upon treilcls, was placed the coffin, 
 with the body of the Prince, covered with a 
 large pall of black velvet, and adorned with 
 fcutcheons of his arms. Upon the head of the 
 coffin was laid a culhion of black velvet, and 
 his Highnefs's cap and coronet fet upon it 3 as 
 alfo his robes of rtate, fword, and rod of gold. 
 Thus it remained till within two or three days 
 before the funeral, being conftantly watched 
 day and night p by threefcore and ten gentle- 
 
 * Cornwalli?, p. 82. ' The Funerals of the 
 
 hiah and mioihtv Prince Henry, &c. London, printed by 
 7.'S. for John Burlge, 1613, 4to. 
 
 men 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 361 
 men of his fervants, ordinary and extraordi- 
 nary, (which were his whole number) ten at 
 a time, it being fo ordered, that the ten, who 
 watched in the night, returned to their attend- 
 ance the third day after''. And during this 
 time, every day, both morning and evening 
 prayers were read in the prefence or privy- 
 chamber by the Prince's chaplains ; at which 
 his gentlemen and chief officers attended ^ 
 
 In the mean while order was given, that 
 the funeral fhould be folemnized on Monday 
 the 7th of December following. 
 
 On Thurfday the 3d of that month, the 
 coffin was removed from the bed-chamber, 
 where it had hitherto ftood, into the privy- 
 chamber, being watched there for that night; 
 and the next day into the prefence-chamber. 
 There it remained all that nis;ht till three in the 
 afternoon of the next day, Saturday j at which 
 time the Prince's crown and cap of flate were 
 fet upon a cufhion at the head of the coffin. 
 The heralds then marching before, the coffin 
 was removed by the gentlemen of his privy- 
 chamber into the great chamber, where his 
 guards attended. In this chamber it was fet 
 down for the fpace of a quarter of an hour; 
 and then, being lifted again by the gentlemen 
 mentioned above, it was brought down flairs 
 towards the chapel, where it was fet dovN^n again 
 for fome time in the court. It v.us then taken 
 '1 Cornwaliis, p. 83. ] Funerals, Uc. 
 
 up, 
 
362 THE LIFE OF 
 
 .up, and, the gentlemen of the King's chapel 
 fmgmg mournful ditties before it, brought it 
 into the chapel, and placed it in the midft of 
 the choir there, under a canopy fet with great 
 arms of the union chained with divers other 
 fcutcheons and arms, to remain there till the 
 day of the funeral*. 
 
 Dr. Richard Neile, Bifhop of Litchfield and 
 Coventr)^ read the fervicej and the gentlemen 
 of the King's chapel, with the children belong- 
 ing to it, fung feveral anthems to the organs 
 and other wind-inftruments^ The fame was 
 performed the next day, being Sunday, when 
 Dr. Price, one of his Highnefs's chaplains, 
 preached a fermon on IL Samuel, chap. iii. 
 verfe 31. Renf your clothes -j put cji fackcloth^ 
 and 7nourn before Abner ^, 
 
 On the evening of that Sunday was brought 
 a reprefentation of the Prince, made at a (liort 
 warning, though extremely refembling him, 
 and apparelled with clothes, with his creation - 
 robes over them, his cap and crown on his head, 
 his garter and collar, with a garter about his 
 neck, his golden ffcafF in his right hand, lying 
 a little crofs; in fliort, everything, which he 
 wore at the time of his creation. This figure 
 was laid on its back on the coffin, and faft 
 bound to it, the hc^ad being fupported by two 
 cufLions, jufl as it was to be drawn along the 
 
 ^ Cornwallis, p. 83, 84. * Funerals, l^c. 
 
 I MS, Life of Mr, Phineas Pett„ p. 69. 
 
 ftreets 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 363 
 jftreets in the funeral-chariot witli eight black 
 horles, decked with his feveral fcutcheons and 
 plumes'^. 
 
 The next day, Monday, December 7, th« 
 funeral, having been four hours in marflialllng, 
 fet out about ten in the morning, attended by 
 about 2000 mourners in black '', the young 
 Prince Charles being chief, accompanied by 
 the Ele(ftor Palatine'-''. Upon their arrival at 
 Weftminfter-abbey, after the folemn mulic was 
 ended, the coffin was fct under a ilately hcrfe, 
 built in a quadrangular form, with eight pillars, 
 and covered with fcutcheons of the arms of the 
 Union, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Chefter, 
 Rothefay, Carrick, &c. intermixed with his 
 HighnelVs motto, Fax 7nentis homjia gloria ; 
 and that of the funeral- herfe, yuvat ire per 
 ahum. The whole affembly having taken 
 their places, after an univerfal filencc, the 
 Archbifhop of Canterbury, vvho was appointed 
 to the laft office for his deceafed Highnefs, 
 afcended the pulpit, and, after a little paufo 
 and prayer, preached the funeral -fermon. 
 The text was Pfalm LXXXII. 6, 7. / ha'-ce 
 Jaid ye are Gods^ and yf are children of the 7710JI 
 High. But ye fiall die like as a man^ and ye 
 Princes fiall fall like others. In his introduction 
 he fpoke of the author, occafion, fcope, and 
 
 ^ Cornwallis, p. 84, S5. * Id. p. 85, 86. 
 
 See Appendix, No. XXI. ^ General Chronicle' 
 
 oi England, p. ICC4. 
 
 mean- 
 
364 THE LIFE OF 
 
 meaning of this pfalm, dividing it into two 
 main branches: firfl, the exaltation of Princes; 
 fecondly, in what rcfpecfl: they are called Gods. 
 He then confidered their humiiiation, proving 
 by a variety of topics the vanity and incon- 
 Itancy of human greatnefs. As an inftance 
 of this he turned their attention to the prefent 
 melancholy fpedtacle of their late renowned 
 Prince, whofe virtues he enlarged upon, efpe- 
 cially his fingular piety bodi in himfelf and in 
 the government of his houfliold, which the 
 Archbidiop profeiled, that he fhould not be 
 alliamed to propofe for a rule to himfelf. For 
 confolation to them all he defcribed the great 
 happinefs, which his Highnefs had attained to 
 by his death -, and that now, in refpecft of 
 himfelf, he was not to be pitied, being com- 
 pared with thofe, v/ho had outlived him. He 
 concluded v/ith a proper exhortation to all, 
 and with many tears ^. 
 
 At the conclufion of the fermon the Earls, 
 Barons, &c. offered up the banners, which 
 they had carried ^ and the officers of the 
 Prince's HouHiold, Sir Thomas Chaloner, 
 Chaoiberlain, Sir Charles Cornwallis, Trea- 
 furer, Sir John Holies % Comptroller, together 
 
 with 
 
 ^ Ccrnwiillis, p. 83 — qc. 
 
 ^ He was highly eiteemeci by the Prince, who once 
 t-o<>k a progrcfs to Sir John's houfe, at Houghton in 
 Nottinjjhamihire, where his Highnefs was entertained 
 Uix k'vetal davs. Collins's Hijiorical ColU,^ions of the 
 N. ble Faniiiies of CavendiPn, Uc. p. 86. Lond. 1752. 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 365 
 with his three Gentlemen Uiliers, Walter 
 Alexander, Anthony Abington, and John Lum- 
 ley, having all by degrees (Sir Thomas Chalo- 
 ner beginning) broken their white ftaves and 
 rods over the coffin, the allembiy was dilTolved. 
 The coffin with the effii;;ies remained under 
 the herfe, to be ll-en of all till the 19th of 
 December, when that effigies was placed in a 
 chamber of the chapel in Weftminftcr Abbey, 
 among thofe of the former Kings and 
 Queens \ 
 
 On the very day of his funeral, it was fo^ 
 lemnized in the Univerlities of Oxford and 
 Cambridge J a fermoii being preached in the 
 former by Dr. William Goodwin, Dean of 
 Chrift Church, on Ifa. Ivii. i. 72^ Righteous 
 periJJjcth^ and no man confidcrcth it in his heart ; 
 wtd merciful men are taken away from the evil 
 to come. 
 
 The fermon at Cambridge was preached 
 by Dr. Valentine Carey, then Vice-Chancellor, 
 and Mafter of Chrift's College, and afterwards 
 BiOiop of Exeter, on 2 Sam. iii. 34. And all 
 the people wept again for him. 
 
 The two Univerlities publifhed like wife col- 
 Jedlions of verfes'', on occalion of the Prince's 
 
 death ; 
 
 * Cornwallis, p. 92, 93. 
 
 ^ That of Oxford, was printed at London, in 1612, 
 in 4to, under the title of Jujia Oxsnicnfium ; and that of 
 
 Cambridge, 
 
1 
 
 366 THELIFEOr 
 
 death ; and funeral orations in Latin were 
 made upon him at Oxford, by Mr. Richard 
 Corbet "", then of Chrift Church, and one of 
 the Proftors, and afterwards Dean of that 
 College, and fucceffively Blfliop of Oxford and 
 Norwich : and at Cambridge by Mr. Francis 
 Netherfole'^, then Orator of that Univerfity 
 and fellow of Trinity College, and afterwards 
 knighted, and Secretary to the Queen of Bo- 
 hemia. Magdalen College in Oxford was 
 likewife not wanting to teftify, in a collecftion 
 of verfes % her regret for the lofs cf fo illuf- 
 trious a member and patron. 
 
 Cambridge, printed there the fame year,, and intitled, 
 Epicedhan Cantabrigienfe in obitiun i?n?/iaft/ru?n ft/nperque 
 dejiendum Henrki liluji'rijfim'i prindpis IValli/z, (s'c. 
 
 ' His oration, which was not printed, is extant in the 
 Aftimolean Mufeum> No. 1153. 
 
 " It was printed at Cambridge in i6i2, in 4ro, and 
 intitled, A-Iemoria facra illujlrijf. potentif. principis Hen- 
 rici Wallice principis^ Duels Cornub'nc^ tffc. Lciudntio fw 
 nebrls Fr. Netherfole, Oratoris Academics Cantahrig* 
 Trin. Coll.focii. 
 
 ^ Printed at Oxford in 1612, in 4to, and intitled, 
 Lu£ius po/ibumus ; fwe erga defunctum illulhiffimurn Hen- 
 ricmn V/allice principem^ Colhgn Beatts Maries Adagdakna; 
 apud Oxsnicrifes Mecanatem longl indulgcntijjlmum^ Mag~ 
 ilalenenfiu7n officio fa pi etas. To this colledlion is fubjoined 
 Oratio fimebris hahita apud Magdalenev.fes tempore prandii 
 exequialisy 7°. Deccmbris^ quo die dcjideratijj\ principis Hen^ 
 rici funebri jiijia perfoluta fuere, by Accepted Krewen, 
 M. A. then Fellow of JVlagdalen College, and at laft ad- 
 vanced to the Aichbilhoprick of York. 
 
 There 
 
H EN RY Prince of Wales. 367 
 
 There was printed the fame year in 4to, 
 at Oxford, another colledion of verfes ^, chiefly 
 in the form of paftorals. Dr. Leonel Sharpe 
 publiflied likcwife a funeral oration in Latin 
 on his Highnefss. 
 
 The mod confiderable poets of that age 
 exerted themfelves aho in honour of the 
 Prince's memory. Mr. Donne wrote an Elegy 
 upon him, printed among his poems. Another 
 Elegy ^ confe crated to the yicver-dyhig memory of 
 Henry Frince of Wales ^ was pubJiihed by Chri- 
 ftopher Brooke, Efq; of Lincoln's Inn ; as was 
 alfo a third en the never-enough to be bewailed 
 Prijxe Henry^ written by William Brown, 
 Efq; of the Inner Temple, who deferves 
 more to be known than he is at prefent, for 
 his Britannia's Paftorals^ and his Shepherd's 
 Pipe in feven Eclogues. George Chapman, the 
 Author of feveral dramatic works, and of the 
 tranllation of Flomer's Iliad and Odyfley, de- 
 ilicated to the Prince, by whom he had been 
 much efleemed and patronifed ''j publidied 
 
 *" Intided, EuIyUia in ol'itum fidgcntijfimi HenridWallia 
 prindpis dtiodecltniy Rcmaque ruentis Terr oris maximi. 
 
 ^ Printed at London 1612, in 4tc>, under the title of 
 Oratlo funebrh in honorem Hcnrici fxcelUniiJJimi IVaUia 
 principlsy proprio?n otque int'imam ejus Effigiem prcefercnsy 
 bonifque omnibm iff dcmcjiicis iff exieris, honoris ergo, dicata j 
 Jut bore LeoncUo Sharp fa era Thcologice D oil ore. 
 
 ^ Wood, Athen. Oxon. Vol. I. Col. 592. Mr. Chap- 
 man, in the dedication of his Epicede to his affi-^ionatc and 
 true friend Mr. Henry Jones., ftiles the Prince his inojl dear 
 and heroical patron, 
 
 likewife 
 
368 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 likewlfe an Kpiccde^ or funeral Jong^ on the 
 moft difajlrciii death of the high-born Prince of 
 men^ Henry, &c. And John Webfter, another 
 eminent dramatic writer, compofed a monu- 
 mental cohann eredled to the living memory of the 
 ever-glorious Henry late Pri?ice of Wales, dedi- 
 cated to the Lord Vifcount Rochefcer. Mr. 
 Thomas Fleywood, one of the moft vohiminous 
 writers for the ftage in that age, wrote likewife 
 a funeral Elegy upon the death of the late moft 
 hopeful and ilhijirious Prince Henry, addreffed 
 to his great patron the Earl of Worcefter: 
 and another lefs known writer, Cyril Tour- 
 neur, publiflied a brief on the death of Prince 
 Henry exprejjed in a broken Elegy , according to 
 the nature of fuch a forrow. Which three laft 
 pieces were printed together at London in 
 i6i3,.in 4to, under this general title, I'hree 
 Elegies on the mojl lamented death of Prince 
 Henry, ... 
 
 Mr. Drummond q\. Hawthornden, the emi-. 
 nent Scots hiftorian and poet, filed his Tears 
 on the Death of Mceliades j and Dominic Baudius 
 of Leyden was not wanting in the exercife of- 
 his poetic talent on this melancholy occafion, 
 and compofed a Lejjiis funehns on his Higljijy 
 nefs, in iambic verfe'. -. \ •* 
 
 His Highnefs's family continued together at 
 
 St. James's till the end of December 1612, 
 
 ■ i 
 
 ' Domiuici Eaudii Poemata, /». 250. edit. Amftelod. • 
 1640. 
 
 when 
 
HEN.RY Prince of Wales. 369 
 
 when it was diflblved ; ^nd upon the day of 
 their difTolution, Mr. Jofeph Hall, his Chap- 
 lain, preached to them a moft pathetic fare- 
 well fermon, on Revel, xxi. 3 '^. In this he 
 fpeaks of his deceafed mafter in the higheft 
 terms of commendation, as the Glory of thi 
 natio7i^ or?tamrnt oj mankind^ hope cf f.olicrity\ 
 a glorious Jdi?it^y a Frince, ichnfe countenar.ee 
 was able to put life into any hsholicr "^ ; and that 
 he, who was compound d of all lovelinefs^ had 
 ■infufed an harmony into his ivhoJe family^ which 
 was " the moil loving and intire fcilowlhip, 
 *' that ever met in the court of any Prince"." 
 The exhortation, with which the preacher con- 
 xludes*", is: " Go in peace, and live as thofe, 
 " that have loft fuch a mafter ; and as thofe, 
 ** that fcrve a mafter, whom they cannot 
 **'Iofe." 
 
 The death of his Hidmefs eave o-reat con- 
 cern to the Republic of Venice, according to 
 the account of Fatlier PaulP, who was ap- 
 preheniive, that King James would be over- 
 whelmed v/ith forrow for this lofs, a greater 
 than Vvdiich he could not have fufFered. But 
 he remarked, that it would put an end to ail 
 the intrigues for marrying the Prince ; " which 
 " I, adds he^ was highly pleafed with (though 
 
 "^ Dr. Hall's Works, Vol. I. p. 545, 'd [e^q, edit. Lovd. 
 1616, Fol. ' Ibid. p. 547. "" ibid. p. 553. 
 
 * Ibid. o Ibid. />. 554. p Letter oi Decem- 
 
 ber 4, 1612. Letters, p. 353. 
 
 " B b *' I 
 
370 THE LIFE OF 
 
 *' I knew they would all end in fmoke and 
 *' nothir.g) becaufe they ferved very much to 
 ** tame fomebody, and were carried on with 
 ** much lefTening of the Pope's reputation, 
 *' that Popifli Princes fhould treat at that rate 
 " of marrying their daughters and fifters with 
 '* Proteflant Princes. But here we are where 
 ** wc were before, feeing great ,i;^en d^,.ilill 
 " in courtefy to Spain." -^ t^n hirjc'v'"' 
 
 The King paid fo much refpedl to the Duke 
 of Savoy, that he wrote to him an account of 
 the Prince's death, and another, on the fame 
 fubjedt, to the Duke's daughter Mary, who had 
 been propofed to his Highnefs for marriage'^. 
 
 The very learned and candid critic, Ifaac Ca-» 
 faubon, who had left France, and fettled in Eng- 
 land in Oi:?tober 1610, where he died the ifl: of 
 July 1 614, in feveral of his letters'^ written to 
 his friends Thuanus, Salmafius, and Daniel 
 Heinfius, within a few days after the death of 
 the Prince, whom he had the honour, of being 
 particularly acquainted with, mentions him in 
 a ftyle of the higheft admiration, as a Prince, 
 who at thofe early years difcovered nothing of 
 the young man, but was as remarkable for his 
 prudence and elevation of genius, as for his 
 piety and unaffected reverence for his Royal 
 Father and Mother ^ and was polfeffed of 
 
 ^ Letter of January 29, 1613- Ibid. p. 366. 
 ' Ifaaci Cafauboni Epiftolas, Edit. Almcloveen Rotterd. 
 1709, Fol. p. 489, 506, 507, 509, and 518. 
 
 every 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 371 
 
 every quality neceflary to fo^l'n a great Prince j 
 and that his lofs was an irreparable one to a.l 
 Ghriflendo\n. 
 
 The Lord Roos hearing at Florence of the 
 Prince's death, in a letter from thence to Mr, 
 Newton of the 15th of December 161 2' ob- 
 served, that '* it muft be grievous to all men. 
 ** But it feems, fays he, God for our fins 
 *' \yould not fufFer us to enjoy fo celeftial a 
 *' creature, who was too good to live upon 
 *' earth." Sir John Harington, the friend of 
 his Highnefs, in a letrer from London of the 
 6th of January 16 12-13, to Sir Thomas 
 Puckering then in Italy, ftiled him great 
 'Prince Henrys with whofe lofs his own fenjes 
 bad been wholly captivated. 
 
 Mr. Newton himfelf, who had peculiar 
 reafons to be affedied with that lofs, takes no- 
 tice in a letter to b''other-in-law Sir Thomas 
 'Puckering of the 19th of January 1612-13'^, 
 ?*hat it had ** till then feized fo effed:ually both 
 '^' his heart and hand, that neither of them was 
 *' able to difchargc any duty to his friends, being 
 '* wholly taken up in mourning for a mafter. 
 Vf lam even loth at this prefent to touch upon 
 ^^^ that ft', ing, and to renew that grief, whereof 
 ■'" you cannot but have your part; though being 
 ** fo far from the daily objed?, you may more 
 ." eafily bear.il; oqt, if not digeft it. If my 
 
 • Harl. MSS.">^/.'y6b4. ' Ibid. /^/. 36. 
 
 ' B b 2 " own 
 
372 THE LIFE OF , 
 
 *' own building" were to begin again, I would 
 " be adviled: but now it is ng time to repent. 
 " If I have no court-employment, 1 will 
 *' make it 7iidum SetieButis^ and make the 
 *' beft ufe I can of my former obfervations." 
 In another let::er of the 7th of February "^^ from 
 Durham-houfe," he obferves, that the late lols 
 of their mafter came (o fuddenly and fo un- 
 expcdied even then, when they were preparing 
 for nuptials and jollity, that the blow ailonifhed 
 the more. *' You know, added he, that in all 
 *' my carriage to my late mafter I was hever 
 " a follower of fortune, but did rely always 
 '^.' upon more folid and fubllantial grounds of 
 '** virtue and worth." Mr. Newton, after the 
 death of his royal pupil, though made Trea- 
 furer to Prince Charles, fpent the remainder of 
 his days chiefly in ftudy and retirement; but 
 on the 2d of April 1620, was advanced to 
 the dignity of a Baronet. One of the employ- 
 ments of his leifure hours was tranflating, at 
 the King's delire, Father Paul's WjJory of the 
 
 " at Charlton near Greenwich in Kent, the nianef 
 of which being granted to him, he built there a very fine 
 houlc. He afterwards by his laft will impowered Sir 
 David Cunningham, his brother Mr. Newton, and Mr. 
 Peter Newton, Cofferer to King Charles I. tp repair and 
 beautify the parifli church there; which truft they diT- 
 charged fo well, that it is one of the beft churches in 
 'the county. Hi/iory of Kent^ by John Harv'iSt J^<, J?' Vol. 1. 
 
 Parrll. p 67. Lojidon i7i9,"Fol.,,a jIiow smrl » 
 * Harl. MSS. AW. 7004. foL 37. 
 
 Council 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 373 
 
 Council of Trent into Latin"; the two laft books 
 being done by Mr. Bedell, afterwards Bifliop 
 of Kilmore; and the whole publidied at 
 -iivv 1 ,ja^ui^yj.ijtn:)-T7i;r London 
 
 * White he was employc-l in this work, he received a 
 letter Ifom Archbilhop Abbot, dated at Lambeth July 5, 
 1.6 1 9, the original of which is extant, [Harl, MSS. Vol. 
 -7(003] Acquainting him, that his Majeity before his dc- 
 -|jarture had given him, the Archbilhop, charge, '* to 
 ,** know of you, fays he^ how far you have proceeded in 
 •* the tranflation of the Hirtory concerning the council of 
 *** Trent, being dcfirous, that it fhould be done with all 
 **cf)nvenietit fpeed, that maybe." What progrefs Sir 
 -Adam Newton had made in this work about a year after 
 appears from the following paflage of a letter of his to 
 his brother Sir Thomas Puckering, dated from Fleet- 
 ftreet, Auguft9, 1620. [Harl. MSS. VoL 7003. J " There 
 *' remain two books yet to print, the printers having 
 ** been letted, firft by printing a book of the Biftiop of 
 ** Derr\'s [Downham] next by a book of the Bilhop of 
 " Litchtitid and Coventry [Morton] and now by fomc 
 " work of my Lord Chancellor [Bacon]. By which oc- 
 ** cafion, though I notwithflanding do employ all my 
 *• time, and muft attend the printers every day; yet f 
 "have had the more time of breathing from the work- 
 ** men ftil! calling for copy. And now I begin to find in 
 *' the 7th and 8th books, which were done by Mr. Be- 
 " dell, that which I feared much, that the inequality of 
 ** the ilyle would put me to a great deal of pains in 
 **' the altering thereof. And when I have done as much, 
 *■* as the time will permit, a diligent reader will yet eafily 
 ** obferve the difference." This paflage will ferve to cor- 
 rcft one in Dr. Burnet's Life of Biihop Bedell, p. 22. 
 where that writer fays, "* Sir Adam Newton tranflated the 
 *' two firft books of the Hijiory of the CmmciL of Trent ; 
 *' but was not mafter enough of the two languages; fo 
 " that the Archbifhop of Spalatro faid it was not the 
 " fame work : But he hif;hly approved of the two laft, 
 B b 3 " that 
 
374 THE LIFE OF 
 
 London in 1620, in Foly. On the death of 
 Fuik GrexiU, .Lord Brook, on the 30th of 
 
 *' that were tranflatcd by Mr. Bedell." To wave any re- 
 nia:Ic u[>..n the' cenfure upon Sir Adam's part of the 
 tranfiauoii,, ic is a little extraordinary, that Dr. Burnet 
 fhould not: .recoiled', that Father Paul's ////?5r)? confifts^ 
 not o\' faur^ \i\it eight books. ,,5^-. [\ni 
 
 y Under this tl,tle^ Petri Suavis Poloui Hijioria Conctln^ 
 Tridentim Libri o5io\^''ex Italicis fianma f.de y accuratione * 
 Laiini fa£ii: In the preface Sir Adam Newton takes no- 
 tice, that (everal pallagcs, that had been erroneoufly 
 printed in the edition of the Italian original, were in this 
 tranflation rcOiored to their true fenfe: variis locis, quibus 
 verba plan} diverjiim ah auSioris ?nente fenfum praferebant, 
 gfnuina Lciiicni rejiitniis : and that it had been under- 
 taken at the defue of him, who had formerly intrufled 
 the tranflator with a much more honourable employment : 
 In qua [veriione] jt cxpeS^^tationi hominum cumulate non fatis- 
 futf faltem hoc futurus jum e.xcufatior^ quod molejliam banc 
 vcvjlonis non fumpfcrhn^ aut meo., quod dicitur, jumento mihi 
 arcej^werim i fed aliunde delata?n de voluntate ejuSy cui oh 
 longe honoraiiorem ja?7i olim mihi concreditam provinciam 
 iTieipfum vieaque omnia ataiem fim debiturus, non gravatc 
 eicceperim. And here I cannot omit an unfufpeiSled tefli- 
 mofiy of the authenticity of the ori2;inal edition, pub;» 
 lifned at London in 1619, Fol. by Antonio de Dominis, 
 Archbifhop of Spalatro. This teftimony is from a v&ry 
 valuable work Delia LetieraturaVeneziana, by Marco Fojf- 
 carini Cavallere & Proccuratorc^ Vol. I. printed at Padua, 
 1752, Fol. The noble and learned writer obferves, 1, iv. 
 p. 353, 354, that the original of the Hiflory of the 
 Council or" Trent is ftill extant at Venice, in the hand 
 writing of Father Marco Franzano, amanuenfis of Father 
 Paul, with the author's corredions between the lines and 
 in the margin, and e?ca8!y agreeing with the London 
 edition, except in the title, which in the original, as alfo 
 in the Geneva edition, is fimply Jjioria del Concilia Tri- 
 dcKiiiio dc Fieir^^Siic^i^.^^^^liin^, - ,-, 
 
 September, 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 375 
 
 September, 1628, he fucceeded that nobleman 
 in the place of Secretary to the Marches of 
 Wales, worth 2000 1. a yeary; the reveriion 
 of which had been granted to him : but he. 
 did not enjoy that poft long, dying on the 1 3th 
 of January 1629-30% leaving five daughters 
 and one fon Henry, who, upon the deceafe of 
 the only furviving daughter of his uncle Sir 
 Thomas Puckering, became heir to his- eftate, 
 and allumed his name^. 
 "trhe Prince v/as of a comely ftature, about five 
 feet eight inches, of a ftrong, ftrait, well-made 
 body, with fomewhat broad flioulders, and a 
 fmall waift; of an amiable and majeftic coun- 
 tenance^ j his hair of an auburn colour; he was 
 
 ■ ■' MS. Letter of the learned Mr. Jofeph Mead to Sir 
 Martin Stuteville, dated OcStober ii, 1628. 
 
 == From the infcription on the monument ere6l€d by 
 him in Charlton Church in Kent, to his lady, and in 
 which he was interred himfelf January 14, 1629-30. 
 
 » See in Dr. Duport's Mufae fubfecivae, p. 222, 223. 
 Edit. Cantabr. itjb., Svo. a poem addrefled ad D. Hen~ 
 ricum Puckeringum^ alias Nezvtonum^ Equitem Barcnettum, 
 This Sir Henry had a fon of his own name, who was a^ 
 pupil of Dr. Duport, at Trinity College Cambridge, but 
 died before his father. 
 
 *• Ben Jonfon, in the Speech of Merlin at the Prince's 
 Barriers works^ Vol. V. p. 362. intimates, that his 
 Highnefs refembled Henry V. in his face. 
 
 " Yet refts that other thunder-bolt of war, 
 *' Harry the fifth, to whom in face you are 
 *' So like, as fate would have you fo in worth, 
 *' Illuftrious Prince." 
 Upon which paflage the commentator Mr. Whaley 
 remarks, that the poet would hardly have ftretched the 
 compliment fo far, had not the fail been fo. 
 
 B b 4 long 
 
376 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 loug-facfd, and had a broad, forenead-; a pierc- 
 il;lg eye i a i;ipi^ gracicHis fmile, witli a terrible 
 frovyn. -He- was CGUileous-, loving, aii^i ariiibie;- 
 n,a,t;uEaity mcdefl:, ajid even fhame-faced ; ir,c)fb 
 patient, v\:hich, he {hewed both in Life and 
 dc2^tA -y flow- to anger, fo that, evcrti wlien he 
 v^as oii'ende«3jj b« would, govern it, a^d r^ftraia 
 hJmfeif to filencc. He was merciful to ofl'end-: 
 crs,, after a. little puniihment, to oiake tliem 
 fcnfible of their faults ^ - . :' 
 
 ^\,^is fentiments of piety were- ftrong and 
 habitual,, and: lus zeal for the intqrefts of reli- 
 gion fuch, that he would, if he had Iived> 
 hajve ufed his endeavours for reconciling the 
 di:^ifiQns among its profeflprs ^, He ufually: 
 retired three times a day I'or his private devo- 
 tions, and was icarce once a month abfent 
 from the public prayers, where his behaviour 
 was highly decent and exemplary, and his. 
 aUention to the preacher the mofl 6xed ima-. 
 ginahle/. He had the greatei^.^eem for all 
 ^,.>,^^?<» \ \\v. .Kwt^W divines, 
 
 • Corn\VaIlis's Life and Death of Prince Henry, p. 913-, 
 94. Dr. Lionel Sharpe's dtlcription of the Pri/ice's perfoji 
 in \\h Oratio fumbris in honorem Henrici excellent ijft?m IVal'. 
 UiS^Pitiicipis^ &c. p. 3.. is, Slaiuta media Iff re^a-, dcceniior 
 ^uam fuh/'^nior ;. fncics o^lnnga ■■, fumma vimcium vculorum 
 
 frntlti^ qriihm ;'% trunfi' h juis fcape^ etiani cutn.tacfrety loq»e^ 
 atur'^,' Vultus. plac'du$, tnojefiate mxius,- ^ii Principem 
 nefq^eiy 7niign.um. vlrurn fucile crederet\ qui Jciret^ bonum 
 Jentirei. ^ Cornwallis, /),. 94.,. 
 
 ^* N^e'therfole, haudaiin funebrh in Henricum Principem. 
 The Owtoi's own word^, />. 7. deien'e to be inferted. 
 
 O 
 
KEN R Y Prince oj^ Wales. 377 
 divines, whofe chara<fters and conduct corre- 
 fponded with their profeHion; but could not 
 conceal his indignation againft fuch, as ad:ed 
 inconfiflently with it; and he above all things 
 a"bhorred Piattery and vain -glory in them . He 
 one day remarked, with regard to Dr. Mil- 
 bourne, Dean of Rochefter, his chaplain, that 
 he thought?, when he, and others like him, 
 at their firft entry into the pulpit, looked him 
 in the face, their countenance feemed to fay 
 to him; " Sir, you muft hear me diligently: 
 ''. You muft have a care to obferve what Tfay ^" 
 He had determined, if he had lived, to have 
 made choice of one of his chaplains, advanced 
 in years, deeply learned, efpecially in divinity, 
 and of great experience, difcretion, and wif- 
 dom, from whom, in all fpiritual matters, and 
 fetch as concerned the regulation of his con- 
 
 Trimepi fanffijfimey fan£i'i]Jime Princeps^ etiam mine 
 m'rht fcripti funt i/li in animo^ quoi vld't poflrcmos^ vultus tut. 
 Hahiiit turn condonem pra>ful amplijfttnus^ is qui psteji op- 
 time. F-Ji te aderam. Jrnbiiio me tenehat magyia (fatehor 
 tnim) a prlnape coram prcvfetite etfi indigjwm ajpici, aliqua 
 tamen fpetViari, Sijfeham ?ne ex adverjo; expe^abajn quam 
 max vie cum tuihd ifitueretur. Ille uni dicenti intentus ex 
 Oiul'is cpijcopi oculos tntfquam dimotit fuos. Mirabar\ a- 
 Jianies rovo quid ejf'et: refpondeni ?norem, Gaudebarn^ fpe- 
 raiatn claudcntt Jaltem c$ncione fore ut circtimfpiceret. lit 
 verb Hie prono in t^rram genu^ Jublatis manibus, oculos in 
 caelum- firit\ quale! Deus hone! quales nequeo dicere; hoc 
 t.-niiifii^ f.t tllis rfV'jrontcm in cxlos animam manife/ie cerne- 
 bam. H<ic Ji qii'.s vera an fmt amhigat^ tejhs mihi ejfe pof- 
 Jant } t'ibis/fi^-enri, qi'i out Hiic^ ant alibi tantum v'iderint. 
 . .^S'iiJoNiwkins f. 95-. 
 
 fclence^ 
 
37^ THELIFEOF 
 
 icience, he intended to have received a conti*' 
 nual direction^. 
 
 He had fuch an averfion to the profanation 
 of the name of God, that he wa"? never heard 
 to take it in vain, with the addition of any 
 other leemlngly light, much lefs horrible, 
 oaths. And the Archbiiliop of Canterbury, 
 in his funeral-fermon upon him, mentioned^ 
 in teftimony of his ftrid:nefs in this point, that 
 memorable anfwer of the Prince, when ha 
 was afked by one, who greatly rejoiced, that 
 his Highnefs was no fwearer, why he did 
 not fwear in play as well as others? that he 
 knew no game worthy of an oath''. The 
 fame kind of anfwer he gave on another oc- 
 cafion, according to the report of one of our 
 hiflorians*, who had the following account 
 from his own father, a contemporary of the 
 Prince, and fon of the Lord Juftice Coke. His 
 Highnefs being once hunting the flag, it hap- 
 pened, that the ftag, being fpent, croiTed the 
 road, where a butcher and his dog were travel- 
 li0g.'n. The dog having killed the flag, which 
 was fo large, that the butcher could not carry it 
 away, when the huntfmen and company came 
 up, they exprefied great refentment, and endea- 
 
 s Difcoiirfe of ths moll illuftiious Prince Henry, by 
 S^r Charks tJornvvaliis, printed in the Harleian Miicel- 
 lifiy, ^W/^. ./». 320, . ■ .A . 
 
 * Cornwallis's Life, />- 96. 
 
 ' Roger Coke, Kfq; DerecSion, FcL J. p. 70, 71. 
 Edii. Lo/iJo:iy i -■ 19, 'zjQi Dr. Sharpe's Oraiio funebris^ 
 
 voured 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 379 
 
 voured to incenfe the Prince againft the but- 
 cher. But the Prince anfwered coolly ; " What 
 " if the butcher's dog killed the ftag? Vv'hat 
 *V could the butcher help it?" They replied, 
 - that if his father had been fo ferved, he would 
 have fworn fo as no man could have endured it* 
 Aivay, rejoined the Prince ; all the pleajure in ■ 
 the nsjorld is 7iot worth an oath. •;*i*;i'jajii dut ,'.i* 
 Pie had a thorough deteftatidri of pofiery, i 
 though he treated thofe of that religion withj 
 great courtefy j fliewing;, that his hatred was.« 
 not levelled at their perfons^ but their opinions'^. 
 And he was fo immoveable in his attachment 
 to the proteftant religion, that, not long beforen 
 his death, he made a folemn proteftation, thatt 
 he would never join in marriage with one of a.r 
 different faiths And fome proteftant divinesi 
 feemed to have conceived no fmali hopes, thati 
 he would, if he had lived, have proved a coii-i 
 fiderable inflrument, in the hand of providence,! 
 in fuppreihng the power and fuperftition of the 
 fee of Rome. Dr. Robert Abbot, brother to the 
 Archbifliop of Canterbury, and himfelf raifed, 
 in 1 615, to the bifhoprick of Salifbury, in the 
 epiftle dedicatory to the' Prince of his T^rue- 
 antient RomaJi catholic^ y in anfwer to a zealous 
 
 U19H r>'jniiH/iiJ.>i:Jii.l 
 •^ Id. '^.97! 'Dr. Sharpe, ubi fupra^ oblervv.s likewife, " 
 Papijtas quafdivn ingenuoi patriaque amantes humaniter ^ 
 comiter exccpit. 
 
 ^ Cornvvaiiis'b Difcourfe, p. 320. 
 " Printed at London, :6ii, in 4to. >.'■ ,,., 
 
 popifh: 
 
j^o T H E L I F E O F 
 
 popiih writer, William Bifhop, dodlor of Sof* 
 
 bonne; and', in J 62 2, made Bifliop of Chal- 
 
 cedon by the Pope, defired, that this work 
 
 might go forth under the protection of his 
 
 Highnels, " whom, y?A'J be^ according to that: 
 
 ^': -cminenL wlfdom and knowledge, wherewith 
 
 f*i-God hath endued thefe your younger years, 
 
 V ^ make the judge of this quarrel: and there- 
 
 **- Fore die firfl part thereof I now tender at your 
 
 *'^ Highnefh's feet, for a teftimony of my loyal 
 
 *' and dutiful aitecftiony and for acknowledge- 
 
 ^ f^ivment of my devotions unto Almighty God 
 
 ^^■for the prelervation of your Highnels, and 
 
 **"the continusnce and increafe of his graces 
 
 " and bleifings towards you, that your princely 
 
 %' name may more and more grow great, ancf 
 
 **?^[ may be a terror to that felf-exalting kingdom 
 
 rfliand monarchy of the great Capitolian prieft, 
 
 '>}fA'^t length to work the utter ruin and con- 
 
 ■*f! fuiion thereof. Which as we believe not 
 
 ..*^ to be far off, fo we hope, that in that glo- 
 
 ^*' rious revenge of the caufe of Almighty God, 
 
 *^ your Highnefs ihall have a chief and an 
 
 " honourable part 3 and that God will ftrength- 
 
 " en your arms, and give edge to your fv/ord, 
 
 . ,*:*: to fixike through the loins of ail them, that 
 
 -ist^iiare the fuppori:€rs of that antichrillian, arid 
 
 •n^t^Micked llat$'^*S3d}o"bn£ «232Jsq ?M ^ngniis 
 -f.-The Prince-was fo exaft in all the auties of 
 
 - -ilial piety, and bore fo true a reverence and 
 j-^{pv^t.ibr xi^Q Fvii)g his father, that though 
 
 ."•' ' * ' - - ^Qj^^^ 
 
 
HEN RY Prince of Wales. 3^1 
 Sometimes, out of his own inclination, or by the 
 exc^itement of others, he moved his Maj-cfty 
 in fome things relating to the public, or his 
 Own particular interefts, or thofe of others-; 
 yet upon the lead word, or look, or fign given 
 him of his Mjefty's difapprobation, he would 
 inftantly defift from purfuing the point, and 
 return either with fatisfadion, upon finding it 
 difagreeable to the King, or with fudi a re- 
 folved patience, that he, neither in word or 
 a6lion, gave lb much as any appearance of 
 being difpleafed or difcontented. And he was 
 fo thoroughly difpofed to the fatisfying the King 
 his father in all things, that, fome confider- 
 able time before his death, he made a folemn 
 proteftation to Sir Charles Com wallis" ; that, 
 in order to avoid giving the leaft difguft to his 
 Majefty, he would, from that moment, turn 
 his thoughts from all affairs whatfoever, that 
 (hould not particularly concern himfelf, bis 
 own eflate, or the government of his houfe- 
 hold. 
 
 He adhered flridlly to jiiftice on all occa- 
 fions, and never fuffered himfelf to determine 
 raflily, or till after a due examination of both 
 parties". This love of juftice fhewed itfelf 
 very early by favouring and rewarding thofe 
 among his pages, and other young gentlemen 
 placed about him, who, by men of great judg- 
 ment, were thought to be of the beft beha- 
 
 * Difcourfe, p. 320. • Id. Life, p. 94. 
 
 viour 
 
382 THE LIFE OF 
 
 viour and mofl merits. And when he was 
 but a little above five years of age, and a fon 
 of the Earl of Mar, fomewhat younger than 
 himfjlf, falling out with one of his Highnefs's 
 pages, did him forne wrong, the Prince re- 
 proved him for it, fayirtg, ** I love you,'btt^ 
 '*' caufe yoii are my lord '•^ fon, and my cbii- 
 .^' fin : but if you be not better conditioned, 
 'i^ I will love fuch a one better j" naming the 
 child, who had complained of him. ''^\-' ,''-^'^' 
 He was of fingular integrity % 'and h'a^d 
 flattery and diffimulation'^, the latter of which 
 he efteemed a bafe quality, efpecially in a 
 Prince; nor could he ever conftrain himfelf 
 to treat thofe kindly, who did not dcferve his 
 love.- A nobleman in the higheft favour 
 with the King had written to him, by fpecial 
 command of his Majefiy, a letter, wherein he 
 recommended to his Highnefs a matter of very 
 great confequence, to be inftantly anfwered j 
 and in his fubfcription had ufed thefe words. 
 Tours before all the world. His Highnefs di- 
 reded Sir Charles Corn wal lis to draw up an 
 anfwer, who, having written it, added fome 
 
 P A Relation of Prince Henry s yioble and virtuous dif- 
 ■pofitiouy and of fundry his witty and pleafant fpeechcs^ di- 
 reSied to the right honourable the Lord Lutnley and his Lady, 
 A MS. in theHarleian colledion of MSS. in the Britilh 
 Mufeum, f^ol. 6391. , iV 
 
 ^ Cornwallis's Difcourfe, p, 324. 
 *" I Id. Life, p. 94. 
 
 words 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 383 
 
 words of favour to the nobleman to precede 
 the Prince's figning. His Highnefs having 
 read and confidered the letter, allowed it intirely 
 without alteration : But, with regard to the 
 words of fubfcription, notwirhftanding the 
 great hade, which the difpatch required, he 
 ordered it to be new written, and the words 
 objedted to by him to be left out, allcdging, 
 that he, to whom he wrote, had dealt with 
 him untruly and unfaithfully j and that his 
 hand (hould never affirm what his heart did 
 not think. 
 
 His temperance, except in the article of 
 fruity was as eminent as his abhorrence of 
 vanity and oftentation, which began to fliew 
 themfelves, when he was very yourg. V/hen 
 he was taught to handle the pike, and his 
 mafter inftruc^ed him, both by word and ex- 
 ample, to ufe a kind of ftatelinefs in marching 
 and holding of his hand, though he learned 
 all other things, he would not conform him- 
 felf to that affe(fled fafhion : and if fometimes, 
 upon earneft intreaty, he offered to ufe it, he 
 would laugh at himfelf, and prefently return 
 to his own more moded: and decent manner. 
 And though he was a perfefc m^after of danc- 
 ing, he never pradlifed it except when he was 
 ilrongly prefled to it. The fame modefty ap- 
 peared in whatever he faid or did: But it was 
 ^no impediment to his generous and heroic dif- 
 
 f Cornv/allis's Difcourfe, p.«328. '■ •'" 
 
 pofitlon, 
 
384 THE LIFE OF 
 
 pofition, which made him perform all his ex* 
 ercifes befl before much company and tlie 
 greatell; perfonages ^^ 
 
 His couraQ:e and fcarlefsnefs fliewed them- 
 fclves from his earliefl: years. Being alkcd very 
 young what inilrument of mufic he hked beft ? 
 he anfwered a trumpet, in the found of which, 
 and of drums, and of fmall aad great pieces 
 of ordnance fliot off near him, he took great' 
 delight. He was fcarce feven years oi age, 
 when a boy of good courage, and almoit a year 
 older, falling by accident to blows withiiiina, 
 and exerting his whole flrength, his Highnefs 
 not only had the fu pcriority in the conteft,= 
 when they were parted, but loved his antaga- ■ 
 nift the better ever after for his fpirit. While; 
 he was a child, he wept much iefs than moft; 
 others of his aae. Having once hurt both his 
 hands with a fall, fo that tliey bled, though 
 the fcverlty of the pain extorted fome tears, 
 yet he rofe up with a fmile, and dilfembled. 
 what he fuffered. At another time he was fo. 
 wounded in the flefh, that it was fcarce healed 
 in a month after ; yet, being then afl^icd whe- 
 ther any thing ailed him ? he anfv/ered nothing; 
 but continued to play as uiual""'. Looking at 
 another time upon fome, who were hunting a 
 deer, and being afked whether he liked that 
 fport? he anfwered. Yes j but I love another 
 '* kind of hunting better." And being aiked 
 
 ' MS. Relatijon, cited above. * Id. ibid. 
 
 again, 
 
HENRY Prince of V/ales. 38^ 
 
 again, what hunting that was ? replied, 
 *' Hantins: of thieves and rebels with brave 
 ** men and horfes." And turning to one of 
 his pages defcended of Highland parents, who 
 were reported to be thieves, he added, *' And 
 ** fuch thieves, as I take, (l^all be hanged, the 
 " great ones higher than the reft: And you, 
 " firrah, if you be a thief, highefl: of all"" 
 He was hardly ten years of age, when being 
 defirous to mount a horfe of prodigious mettle, 
 and refufed the affiftance of his attendants, 
 who thought it too hazardous an attempt, he 
 got up himfeif from the fide of a bank, and 
 fpurred the animal to a full gallop, in fpitc of 
 the remonftrances of thofe, who ftood by ; and* 
 at laft having thoroughly exercifed the horfe, 
 brought him in a gentle pace back, and dif- 
 mounting, faid to them, "^ How long (liall I 
 " continue to be a child in your opinion ?" 
 
 He col!ed:ed in his court a number of 
 young gentlemen of the greateft fpirit and 
 courage ; and he contraded and cultivated an 
 acquaintance with the mod: celebrated officers 
 in Upper and Lower Germany, and indeed 
 throuohcut Eurooe''. 
 
 His exeicifes \v€ve of the moft manly kind. 
 He ufed almoil: daily to ride and manage 
 great horfes, with which he had his ft able s 
 excellently furniftied; often to run at the ring, 
 and fometimes at tilt, both which he perform- 
 * MS. Relation, ubifupra. ' Nelhei*Ajle, p. r2, 13. 
 
 Cc cd 
 
386 T H E L I F E O F 
 
 ed with To much dexterity and flcill, that he 
 became fecond to no Prince in Chiiftendom, 
 and lupcrior to moft of thole peribns, who 
 pradiled with him. His other exercifes were 
 dancing, leaping, and, in times of the year fit 
 for it, learning to fwim. He Ibmetimes walked 
 fdd and far, to accuftom ai-.d enable himfelf to 
 make long marches, when they ihould be re- 
 quilite. But his greateil diverfion was at 
 Tennis, in which, it is acknowledged, he 
 neither obferved moderation, nor what fuited 
 his dignity and perfon; continuing often three 
 or four hours at it, and in fliort, " rather, fays 
 " Charles Cornvv^aliis"-, like an urtifan than a 
 " Prince, who in things of that nature ought 
 " only to afFe<ft comelinefs, or rather a kind 
 " of carelefsncfs in fhew, to make their acfti- 
 '^ vities feem the more natural, th^n a labo- 
 *' rious induftry." ,r,,. 
 
 To other fcfts of play or gaming he did 
 r*ot fhew much inclination ; yet would fome- 
 times divert himfelf with chefs, bilhards, and 
 cards ; but fo very nobly and like himfelf, as 
 plainly difcovered it to be only for recreation, 
 and not for appetite of game. For whether 
 he won or iofl, his countenance was ftill the 
 fame ; or, for the moil part, there was greater 
 appearance of mirth in him, v^'hen he was a 
 lofer, than v/hcn he was a gainer 3 demon- 
 flrating by this both his judgment in ventur- 
 * Difcourfe, p. 323. 
 
 ing 
 
iHEMRY'i^RiNCE OF Wales. 387 
 
 irig' fib morii tha!A ivliat he did not regard, if 
 he loft it; and his Princely magnanimity in 
 hot fufferini?; hiniielf to be difturbed or altered 
 by any ill luck/"" ' ^' ^*^' '^ bM.t.'.-i,v 
 
 ■' He difliked in fome" vouiig- "-^entlemen^ 
 \^hom he efteemcd, too ftrong a'Bii]ioiition to 
 play; and not only diiiliaded them from it, 
 but like'^vi'ife crave fome of them a valuable 
 coniideratidrt, to oblige themfelves to break off 
 
 l|4 ,the cnflom. 
 
 ^ '' For pleallires ingcnc: ■., ..^ ufed them only^ 
 ai's it were, in paflage, Without ft^eming to de- 
 fire them, or at leaft to have any inclination 
 to indulge them^ 
 
 He never defiled to live Ion";, often favinc^ 
 that it was to fmall purpofe for a brave gallant 
 man, when the prime of his days were paft, 
 to live till he were full of dileafes; and he 
 
 .^ frequently expreffcd himfelf with indifference 
 
 l^'^bout deaths 
 
 His cloaths were ufually very plain, except 
 on occafions of public ceremony, or upon re- 
 ceiving foreign ambaffadors, when he would 
 affume a magnificence of drefs, and iin air of 
 majelly, which immediately after he laid afide. 
 Having once worn a fuit of WelOi frize for a 
 confiderable time, and being told, that it was 
 too mean for him, and that he ought not to 
 keep even 1 rich fuit fo long; his anfwer was, 
 
 * Cornwallis's Difcourfe, p. 323. ^ Life, p. cti. 
 
 CC2 that 
 
388^ THE LIFE OF \ 
 
 that he was not afliamed of his country clotli^ 
 and wiifhed, that it would laft for evetS'^"'^ /^f^ 
 In quickncfs of apprehenfion and metT\6?f 
 few of the fame age ever went beyond him ; 
 and fewer ftill in a right judgement of what 
 he was taught. When he began to have fome 
 knowledge of the Latin tongue, being defired 
 to choofe a motto out of feveral Sentences 
 collected by his tutor for his ufe, after reading 
 over many good ones, he pitched upon that 
 of Silius Italicus, Fax ?ncnt}s honeftce gkria. 
 And being afked by the King one day, which 
 were the beft verfes, that he had learned in 
 the firft book of Virgil's iEneid, he anfwered 
 thefe ; 
 
 Rex erat i^neas nohls^ quo jiijlior alter 
 Nee pietate fuity 7iec hello major & &rmis* 
 
 Reading likewife another verfe of the fame 
 
 fS©g$ijf)A 2'3mudi3ri2 nM bns oj^ ,!:sdr .bnoJ ,iir 
 
 ^"^^res Tyriufve mtbi nidh d/fcrimine agetur^ 
 
 he faid he would make ufe of it with this 
 
 alteration, ^ ^ ^ , , 
 
 :. Anglus Scotufve mihYnidhdifiHWHne'agetui-^, 
 
 '" Bclides his knowledge of the learned lan- 
 guages, he fpoke the Italian and French ; and 
 had made a confiderable progrefs in Philo- 
 fophy% Hiftory, Fortification, Mathematics, 
 
 = Netherfole, p. i6. * Relation, ubi fupra, 
 
 .'Netherlule, />• 17. ■ , 
 
 -''-'' ^ ^ c^-* and 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 3S9 
 
 and Cofmography' ; in the two laft of which 
 he was inftrii(^ted by that excellent Mathema- 
 tician, Mr. Edward Wrights 
 
 He loved and endeavoured to do fomewhat 
 Qf every thing, and to be excellent in the moft 
 excellent. He greatly delighted in all rare in- 
 ventions and artSj and military engines both at 
 land and fea; in fliooting and levelling great 
 pieces of ordnance; in the ordering and mar- 
 ilialing of armies ; in Building and Gardening; 
 in Mufic, Sculpture, and Painting, in which 
 ^ja^f^Vt he brought over leveral valuable works 
 pf great Mafters from all countries''. ^ ., ,.^„ .,, 
 ^,.,H,e,.epteitained leveral learned men in his 
 court', and among the reft, as was obferved 
 above ^_y^ Mi^^ Thomas Lydiat ; whom he 
 would Iwe provided for, if he had lived'. 
 
 . ' Cornwallis's Dircourfe, /». 313. 
 
 * Ccmplcnt Gentleman, by Henry Peacham^ M. A» p. 57. 
 Edit. Lond. 1622, 4to. and Mr. Sherburne's Appendix 
 to hii tranilatian of Manilius, p. 86. The latter of thefe 
 writers informs us, that Mr. Wright being chofen Tutor 
 jn Mathematics to Prince Henry, caufed a large fphere 
 to be made for hts [-fighncfs, by the help of fome German 
 workmen ; which fphere by means of fpring-work not 
 only reprefcnted the motion of the whole cclcilial fphere, 
 but fnewed likewife the particular fyflcms of the Sun and 
 JMoioii, and their circular motions, together with their 
 places, and poflibilities of eclipfinc; each other. In it was 
 a wprk by wheel and pinion, for a motion of 1 7 100 
 years, if the fphere could be kept fo long in motion. 
 
 '^ Crtrnwalli"!, Life, p. 100, lOi. ^Netherfole, 
 
 /. 18. ^ ?. 148.^ ' Wood, Athcn. pxon. Vol. II, 
 Cot 8d <'it)Ui.J^ » .01 .q ,oIii)iua>^V^ - 
 
390 THE LIFE OF 
 
 And he (hewed great generolity on all occa-' 
 iioiis,towai;ds perlbns of genius and merit. A 
 goo4 Poet, and a very honcfl: man, prefenting 
 to l^ini a /fiii^U Foeai) the Prince received it 
 very graciouHy, and delired a gentleman, who 
 kept his privy, parfe, to bellov/ on him fome 
 mark of his favour. The gentleman afking,,- 
 whethcr a couple of Angels would not ferve .? 
 '* Fie, for ihair.e, cjijiv^rcd Lis H/gl^efi^^, give 
 *' him at leaR ten Angels'." M 
 
 Kis ChriDlains w^rc chofen bv hjm for their 
 eminence iii their own profelTion or learning 
 in general ; ar.d if the learned Mr. Thomas 
 Gataker, then Pre;icher to Lincoln's Inn, had 
 not the hononV of k place in the lift of them, 
 it was owing to his own liiodefty "". 
 
 The 
 
 ^ MS. Relation, uhi fipra. 
 
 "^ 'I'his we learn from the following paflage of Mr. 
 Gataker hinilelf, in his Difcourfs Apologet'ical^ p. 36. printed 
 at London 1654, in 410. which will likcwiie inform us of 
 fome circumdances relating to one or more great perfons 
 of the Prince's Court. " Much about the fame time that 
 " hopeful Prince Henry, whofe life in likelihood the 
 ^' fins of this land and of thefe times fhortned, keeping 
 *' his Court at St. James\s, where abode with him that 
 " mirror of Nobility, the young Lord Harington, and 
 't' attended on him that religious Knight, Sir Robert 
 " Darcie, thcfe two, with feme others of his Grace's 
 ** Court, frequented my rniniftry [at Lincoln's Inn, to 
 ^' which fociety Mr. Gataker was Preacher] in the after- 
 *' noons efpeciallyj which fot fome fpace of time I then 
 " fpent in handlincr of fome points of controverfy between 
 *' us and the papifrs, being; informed, that divers Popifh 
 ^' Prielh, or Sprites, }{ you pleafe, haunted the houfe, 
 i'. and were very bi^fy in labouring to perven the young 
 
 " crentle- 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 391 
 
 The neighbourhood of his houfc at Wood- 
 ftock to Oxford gave him Ifreqnent oppor- 
 tuniiies of rtiewing his regardifor thatUniver- 
 fity, the members of which •U'^re-alvK'ays re- 
 ceived by him with great kindnefs and affa- 
 bility". But Vvhen, upon the vacancy of the 
 Chanceilorfhip of that learned body ", he was 
 
 defired 
 
 " gentlemen. The nntes of one of thoTc fermons Sir 
 
 •■' l\.<-'icit Darcie, by mine inward and intire friend Mr. 
 
 *' ],! ,..;•/, c.ot from me und.-r the title of T^he Popes 
 
 *■• i'-*. ;, .J and Papif.s Idcl. This he and the young Lord 
 
 " [Harington] imparted to the Prince 5 and upon fuch 
 
 " further itcrms of recommendation, as they were pleafed 
 
 *' to adjoin, and his good opinion of me, as they con- 
 
 *' ceivpd, thert-by produced, they took the boldnefs by 
 
 "my worthy friend Mr. Hilderfliam, and Mr. Jacob joining 
 
 " with him, to follicit me to come and prench one day 
 
 " before the Prince at his court; not doubting to pre- 
 
 *' vail with him to bring me in to be his Chaplain, and 
 
 *' by the afTiftance of Eiftiop Montagu, then in favour 
 
 *' with the King his father, to procure for me that place 
 
 *' of conftant attendance in that kind about him, that 
 
 " was famttime defigncd to Mr. John Burges, had not 
 
 ■^' the dcfign mifcarrivd by a fermon, which he preached 
 
 ** before the, King, gnd coft him much trouble: unto 
 
 *' which ijiotion 1 defired by them to be returned, after 
 
 " thankful acknowledgement of deep engagement to 
 
 " thofe worthy perfons for their good opinion of me 
 
 *^ and, affection to me, that as I deemed mvfelf unworthy 
 
 " (jf t'<^ great a favour, fo I well knew myfclf very unfit 
 
 " for fuch an employment, being naturally of a very 
 
 " biifiiful dif^-jofition, and finding in myfelf a great in- 
 
 " difpoiition and averfenefs to courtly attendance ; and 
 
 *' rcquelted therefore of them, that no motion or men- 
 
 *<• tion might be farther made of ought in that kind." 
 
 " C.'ornwallis, Life, f. 97, q8. 
 
 ° Either at the death of Thomas Earl of Dorfct, 
 C c 4 April 
 
392 T>H£, ,V,,VrFiE OF.. 11 
 
 deiired to accept of that office, his a'nfwer 
 was, that h9.^^\p^^.^9j ^i^pq^liQi;. of botii 
 UniverfuIesP.yj^^l^ ,^^ Vr -,j,r| »' •pA^'ifbiH aifi 
 He had a jurt opinion of the great abilities 
 6f Sir Walter Ralegh, aud is reported to have 
 faid, that no King hut his /cither ivoidd hep juch 
 a bird in a cage'^. Arid it is affirmed, that his 
 Highnefs, but a few m'^nths belc're his death, 
 obtained the lands and Caflle of Sheiburn in 
 Dorfetfhire, the confifcated eftate of Sir Walter, 
 with an intension of returning it to him'. 
 That eminent Writer, Soldier, and Statefman, 
 had a reciprocal regard for the Prince, to 
 whom he had defigncd to addi efs a difcourfe 
 Of the Art of War by Sfii, which his Highr^ 
 nefs's death prevented the Author from finifli- 
 ing'. He had written likewile to the Prince 
 anothei- fiifcourfi cj' a Maritimal Voyage^ with 
 ihe^p^ffdgesmid incidents ikerein ' : But this has 
 never "yet appeared in print. He had alfo in- 
 tended, and, as he exprefles it, hiwn out a 
 
 April iQ, i6oS, or at tiiat of Dr. Richard Bancroft, 
 who died November; i2> jj^jo, and was fucceeded as 
 Chancellor of Oxford by Thomas Lord Elefmere, then 
 Loid Chancellor of England. ' Nctherfole, p. l8. 
 
 ■^ Francis Ofoorne's Traditional Memorials of Kiiig 
 James, Sc£l:. 45. p. 543. • : ' ' " " ' ' 
 
 ' Brief Rr'-ation of Sir Walter Ralegh's Troubles^ by hit' 
 Son Carnu Ralegh^ Efq; prefixed to,%hQ.JVorks of S/f,;; 
 kralter Ralegh^ Vol. 1. p. II7. 
 
 ' HiOory of the World, Lib. V. CapvlL Sedl. 6. 
 
 ' It is fDer.tioncvl b}' him in his Ohjcrvations concerning 
 ihi Royal Navy \n\i.\s IV'.rksy Vol. IL'',p4%0'-''-' ' ,' , 
 
HEN RY Prince OF Wales. 393 
 
 fecond and third volume of ^ his Ge?icral 
 Htjicr)\ which were to have been direcled to 
 his Highi^efs: '* but it has pleafed God, fays 
 'V 1^?^, to take that glorious Prince out of this 
 " world, to whom they were dire(5ted ; whofe 
 *• unfpeakable and never-enough lamented 
 '' lofs hath taught me to fay with Job, Verf(i 
 ^' eji in lu5lum C thcra mea^ ^ crganum meum^ 
 ^^ in i)ccc?n flentium.'* '"[" "'"' ] ""-'n.-u^rT 
 
 He was remarkable from hiS" eanieit years 
 for h s fidelity in keeping all fecrets intruded to 
 him '% and extremely defirous to hear and re-; 
 ceive advertifements and advices from any, of 
 whofe knowledge and experience he had an^ 
 opinion ^'^' ri:^!iu/ .' ■' ' -^^ 
 
 In the government of his houihold and ma-; 
 nagement of his revenues, though he was fo 
 very young, his example deferved to be imitated 
 by all other Princes ^. He not only gave orders, 
 but faw almoft every thing done himfelf, fo 
 that there were fcarce any of his domeftics, 
 whom he did not know by name. And 
 among thefe there was not one even fufpeded 
 papift ; his dire(fljons being very peremptory 
 for fetting down the names of all communi- 
 cants, that he might know, if there were any 
 of his family, who abfented themfelves from 
 the communion ^ _ ' ■'' i loV ,^\n?Vfti\. -t'i\\t.^^ 
 
 " Conclufion of the General Pfi/Jory of the tVorlX 
 *■ Cornwallis, Life, />. 94. Difcourfe, p. 321. 
 * Id. Difcourfe, p. 324. » Id. ibid. 
 
 '• Corjjwallib, Life, p. 98. 
 
 His 
 
394 T H E L I F E C F 
 
 ••'iMis' femi''' was large, confifting of ifew 
 lefsithan five hundred, many oF tliem youw-g 
 gentlemen borii to gr;^ai: fortunes, in the prinrie 
 of tlieir years, when their pali'ioiis and appe- 
 tites'were ilrong, their reafon weak, and theip 
 experience little. But his judgement, and^the 
 gravity oF his princely aiped', and his owrt 
 exannpk, were luflicient rcftraints up'jnitheitij 
 and his veryeye lerved inftead of a comifnand, 
 and his looks alone had more eftecft than the 
 il:iarpeil reprehendons of other Princes. If 
 any difputes or contefts arofe among his fer- 
 vants, he would put a flop to them at the be- 
 ginning, by referring them to fome of his 
 principal oflicers, whom he thought • moft in-^ 
 teliigent in points of that nature, and to un- 
 deritand beft what compenfation was due to 
 the injured, and what reproof to the offender; 
 fo that in fo numerous a family tliere was not 
 fo much as a blow given, nor any quarrel ear- 
 ned to the Icall: hipht. ' ^^ ^i : •' 
 Though he loved plenty and magnitrt'ence 
 in his houfe, he rellrained them within the 
 ruksof iii'ucralitv and moderation. He ordered 
 ■to-be fet down in writing the feveral heads of 
 all his annual charges; the ordinary expence 
 .of bishouie and his flables; that of his ap- 
 parel' and wardrobe ; his rev/ardsy and every 
 thing, elfe, that were to be ilTued yearly out of 
 his coifers. Thefe he compared with his an- 
 nual . revenue- and fo judiciouily proportioned 
 
 therr^ 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 39^ 
 
 them by retrenching what he found lliper- 
 fluous, and adding what was wanting, that 
 he reduced the whole to a certainty, luch as 
 his revenues would defray, bcfides a yearly 
 faving of fom^ thoufands of pounds^, which 
 he relerved for contingent-. and occafioeal exi- 
 
 gencies 
 
 By this occonomy he avoided the neceffity 
 of being rigid to his tenants, either by raifing 
 their farms or lines, or feeking or taking ad- 
 vantage of forfeitures. Nor was he tempted 
 to make the profit, which both law and right 
 adbrded him, of fuch, who had in the time of 
 former princes purchafcd lands belonging to 
 his Duchy of Cornwall, which could not by law 
 be alienated from it. For he gave them, upon, 
 refuming thefe lands, a reafonable fatisfad:ion. 
 
 ^ It appears from an account of Mr. William Smith, 
 Pav-maftcr of the Prince's works and building?, in Vol. 
 167, of the MSS. of Sir Julius Ciefar, that from Au- 
 gult I, 1611, to Novcnaber 30, 1612, there had been 
 expended by his Kighnefs's order on the Manfion Houfe, 
 at St. James, 1586). 17s. H d. on Richmond Houfe and. 
 Sheene, 2422 1. J 8s. 3d. on Monf. Caux's works at 
 Richmond, 303 1. 13 s. 6d. on Woodftock Houfe and 
 Ledge, 229 1. 175. lid. on the Wardrobe at the Savoy, 
 64.]. 1 8 s. bcfuies the allowances to the Pay-mafler and 
 Mafter-Artifans 223 I. 12 s. I'he cftimate of the Prince's 
 R.fbes and Stables from Michaelmas 1610, to Michael- 
 mas 161 1, was 8821 1. 2s. 8d. and from Michaelmas 
 i5i I, to Michaelmas 1612, 11,282!. 13s. The charges 
 of ihc Privy purfe, from July 1610, to. November 6, 
 j6i2, were 13,050!. lo:,. 2d. 
 
 When 
 
396 T H E L I F E O F ! 
 
 .olWhen he made any entertainment*;, he waSi 
 defirous, that they fliould be magnificent and . 
 fiiitable to his dignity j yet not without a fpecial 
 care taken, that nothing might be fpent in dif- 
 order, or the expence hightened by the want of 
 management in his officers. And he was par- 
 ticularly foUicitous on fuch occalions, that all 
 things might pafs with decency and decorum, 
 and without all rudenefs, noife, or difoider. 
 
 In every matter, either intruded or permitted 
 to him by the King his father, concerning the 
 ftate and defence of the kingdom, he was 
 exfremely careful and diligent toi acquit him- 
 fcif with the utmofl prudence and circumi'pec- 
 
 tion ^ 
 
 His exadnefs in viewing the lliips and ftores 
 at Chatham, in his vifit there in May 1611, 
 has been already remarked ^ What -further 
 might have been expeded from him, with re- 
 gard to the improvement of the Royal Navy, 
 wherein the ftrength, honour, and even fafety 
 of this kingdom confifl, appeared from the 
 quicknefs of underftanding and vigour of 
 mind, which he ("hewed upon occalion of a 
 difcourfe delivered to him by a fervant of hi& 
 own concerning a naval v/ar with Spain, Vv'hen- 
 ever that King Oiould give caufe of public 
 hofiility. Two main points of the propofal 
 were, the preparation of one fleet to be 
 
 ^ Cornwallis's Diicourfc, p. 3.-''. 1, 322. 
 <= P. 242—24.4. 
 
 fent 
 
HEN R Y Prince of Wales. 397 
 Cent to the Weft Indies, and another to cruife 
 dn the coafts of Spain, in order to prevent all 
 (liips from going into, or coming out of, that 
 kingdom. It was aflonifliing to hear fo young a 
 per (on allc fuch very judicious queftions about' 
 every part and circumftance of the defign, and of 
 the pradticabilily or difficulties of every branch' 
 of it ; infifting upon every doubt, till he was 
 fatisfied by the reafons and demonftrations of 
 die moft experienced men in fea fervice. He 
 then examined critically into every point of the 
 utility and honour, and of the danger andcharge, 
 of fuch an attempt; which having found to be 
 highly reafonable, and the advantages very 
 important, he declared to thofe, who were 
 prefent, that if the King his Father fhould on 
 any future occafion think proper to break with 
 Spain, he would himfelf, if his Majefty would 
 permit, undertake the execution of the at- 
 tempt againft the Weil: Indies'^. 
 
 His oeconomy did not reftrain him from 
 being liberal where merit or diftrefs called for 
 it ; but he was never known to give or even 
 promife any thing but upon mature delibera- 
 tion '. A little before his death, he conferred 
 upon divers of his fervants, who had longcft 
 fervcd him, and whofe circumftancts required 
 it, penlions during life, to the value of eleven 
 
 * Corinvallis's Dircoiirfo, p. 322, « Idem, 
 
 Lite, p. 99- 
 
 or 
 
39S THELIFEOF 
 
 or twelve hundred a year; and that wlthoiit 
 any mediation of other?, and at a time, wheri 
 they lead expe61:ed it*. 
 
 To ftrangers he was extremely courteous 
 iand affable, and eaiily gained their affe(5lions 
 upon a very fliort acquantance §. 
 
 Whatever abufes were r;rprefented to him, 
 he immediately redrefled, to the intire fatjsiac- 
 tion of the perfons aggrieved ^. ''^'H^^ ^^^ 
 
 In his removal from one of his houfes to 
 another, and in his attendance on the King 
 on the fame occafions, or in progrcfTes, he 
 would fufl'er no provilions or carriages t6 be 
 taken up for his ufe, without full contentment 
 given to the parties. And he was fo follicitous 
 to prevent any perlbn from being prejudiced 
 or annoj'^d by himfelf or any of his triiiri, 
 that whenever he went out to hawk before 
 harveft was ended, he would take care, that 
 iione fliould pafs through the corn ; and, to fet 
 them an example, would himfelf ride father 
 a furlong about'. 
 
 His fpeech was flow and attended with fome 
 impediment, rather, as it was conceived, by 
 cuftom and a long imitation of fome, who 
 firft infi:ru(fted him, than bv any defed: of na- 
 ture, as appeared from his having much cor- 
 reded it by uiing at home, amongft his fervants, 
 
 *" Cornwalls's Difcouife, p. 325. £ Idem, Life, 
 
 p. 99. •> Ibic]. ' Cornwallis's Difcourfe, 
 
 p. 324- ^ ^ . 
 
 firft 
 
riE.NIvY Prince of Wales. 399 
 
 lirjfl fliort difcourfes, and then longer, as be 
 found liimiWf, enabled to do ,it. , .X^t he would 
 often fay of himfelf, that he had the mofl un- 
 ferviceable tongue of any man living. 
 
 He had a certain hightof mind, and knew 
 well how to keep his diftancej which indeed 
 he did to all, admitting no near approach 
 either to his power or his fecrets ^. 
 
 He exprefled himfelf, upon occafions offer- 
 ed, to love and efteem moft fuch of the no- 
 bility, as were mofl antiently defcended, and 
 molf nobly and honeflly difpofed. 
 
 He had an intire affection for his brother 
 the Duke of York, and his fifter Elizabeth j 
 though fometimes by a kind of rough p!ay 
 with the former, and an appearance of con- 
 tradicting the latter in what he difcerned hei* 
 to dciire, he took a pleafurein giving them, in 
 their tender }/ears, fome exercife of their pa- 
 .tience^ A Writei""", of lefs authority than Sii* 
 Charles Cornwallis, from the latter of whom 
 we have thefe naiticuiars, adds, that the Prince 
 feemed to liave more affefcion for his (iiler than 
 his brother, whom he v/ouid often taunt till he 
 made hini weep, telling him, that he (l^iould be 
 a Bifliopi a gown being fittefl to hide his legs, 
 
 ^ Cornwallis's Difcourfe, p. 325. Dr. Sharpc in his 
 Or/i.'.o F.nnekrii^ p. 3. Ti'ys, d/ieris ^!ia?n Lingua promptur ; 
 r.on rhetoj-'ica uhertos, fed regia brci:itas^ fahbus ofpurja. 
 
 * v'orinfj^lis, p. 324. .; ."Francis Oi])orn,e, Ira- 
 
 iiltio/i.^-hM>'0^f^i on the reign of King jfamgSy Sc3.. 45. 
 p. 542. Edit. London 1673. 
 
 which 
 
4O0 THE LIFE OF 
 
 which were fubjed in his childhood to be 
 crooked. 
 
 A marriage was propounded and offered 
 for him in Spain, during the time of Sir 
 Charles Cornwallis's embaffy " there, who had 
 commilTion from the King to treat of it. But 
 finding, that the overture of that court grew 
 rather out of a defire to win time to advance 
 their own defigns, than a real intention to per^ 
 form it, in regard to the difference of religion. 
 Sir Charles put an end to the negotiation in a 
 manner as foon as he began it. 
 
 After Sir Charles Cornwallis's return from 
 Spain, and entrance into the Prince's fervice, 
 the like motions were made both by the Dukes 
 of Tufcany and Savoy ; by the former for a 
 lifter, and by the latter for a daughter". The 
 Duke of Tufcany went fo far, as to apply to 
 the Pope for his confent ; which was inter- 
 preted two ways, according to Father Paul's 
 account 5' i either, that being fure to have a 
 negative from England, he was delirous, that 
 it fliould rather come from the Pope ; or that 
 being excluded and denied, had a mind to 
 procure the Duke of Savoy the fame exclu- 
 fion and denial of the Pope, in order that the 
 latter might iQrvc him for an example in 
 
 " Sec above, p. 97. 
 * Cornwallis's Difcour/c, p. 334. 
 ' Letter to Monf. de I'lfle Grollut, Aiiguft 14, 1612, 
 Letters, p. 329, Rrown'j 'rraiULition. 
 
 defifling 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 401 
 
 defifting from the prolecution of the treaty. 
 " But, adds Father Paul, if that great and 
 *' wife King [James] will but follow the coun- 
 ** fel, which he gave his fon in his BafUc'.n 
 " Doron^ both the Dukes would do well to 
 *' turn their thoughts fomewhere elfe." But 
 thefe matches being thought too unequal, that 
 of Anne, Infanta of Spain, was, upon anew 
 overture by the Spanifh Ambaflador in England, 
 again entertained, and committed by the King 
 to be treated of by Sir Charles Cornwallis's 
 Succeflbr in Spain, Sir John Dighy, afterwards 
 CTeated Earl of Briftol. But after fome delays 
 there, it was upon the firft opening found to 
 have come too late; that Princefs, for whom 
 the treaty was intended, and who was the 
 eldefl daughter of the King of Spain'', and 
 
 the 
 
 *> Dr. Welwood in his notes on Arthur Wilfon's life 
 6T King James I. in the Complete H'ljlory of EnglwuU 
 Vol. II. p. 696. Edit. 1706. takes notice, that " Monf. 
 ♦* de Thou, and moft of the foreign hiflorians of that 
 ** time, mention thefteps, that King James made towards 
 ** a match for Prince Henry with the eldefl: daughter of 
 '* Spain, afterwards Qi^ieen of France, to which that 
 ** Prince fhewed an utter averfion. And there is extant 
 **~ in print a Memorial fent by Sir Dudley Carleton, 
 •* then AmbaUador at Venice, to the Earl of Salifbury, , 
 *•" fetting forth reafons againft that intended match, and 
 *' fbewing hov/ much it was thought the intereft v^i 
 " King James to match his fon to a Proteftant Princefs." 
 It were to be wifhed, that the learned Do<^or had in- 
 formed his reader, where Thuanus mentions the parti- 
 cular afcribed to him ; and where, and when, Sir Dudley 
 ■^ ' ' ■ D d Carleton's 
 
402 THELIFEOF 
 
 the only one, who in years was fit for the 
 Prince, havir.g been formerly promifed to Lewis 
 XIII. of France'. The negotiations with Spain 
 on this point will appear at large from an ex- 
 cellent relation of them, to be found in the 
 Appendix', drawn up by Sir John Digby him- 
 felt". The laft propofition was for a filler of 
 the French King j and what progrefs was made 
 in the treaty upon it has been fliewn above. 
 
 With regard to any unlawful paflion for wo- 
 men, to the temptations of which the Prince's 
 youth and lituation peculiarly expofed him, 
 his hiilorian, who knew him, and obferved 
 him much, affures us^, that having been pre- 
 fent at great feafts made in the Prince's houfe, 
 to which he invited the moft beautiful ladies 
 
 Carleton's Merri'jrial was printed. And here it will not 
 be improper to correct a miftake of Dr. Thomas Fuller 
 in his Appeal ef hijiired Innocencey Part II. p. loi, where 
 he remarks, that Dr. George Hakewill, Archdeacon of 
 Surrey, was outed of his Chapla'injhip for his oppofng the 
 Kietch [with the Infanta of Spain} zvhen firji tendered to 
 Prince Henry. But the Hilloriiin has confounded that 
 Prince with his brother Charles, to whom Dr. Hakewill, 
 his Chaplain, having in the beginning of Auguft 1621 
 delivered, without the King's knowledge, a difcourfe 
 againft the Spanifii match, he with his brother William 
 the Lawyer, Mr. Thomas Murray his Highnefs's Secre- 
 tary, and all, who were found to be privy to it, were 
 committed to cuftody. Camdcni Annale.i Regis fucobi I. 
 p. 74. See likewife Sir Anthony Weldon's Obfervations 
 upon King Charles^ p. 217, 218. 
 
 ' Coruwallis's Difcourfe, ubi fupra^ p. 324. 
 
 * Number^XXII. * Cornwallis's Difcourfe, 
 
 P- 323- 
 
 of 
 
HENRY Prince OF Walks, /^o^. 
 
 t)f the Court and City, he could not difcover 
 by his Hjorhnefs's behaviour, eyes, or countc- 
 nance, the leaft appearance of a particular in- 
 clination to any one of them ; nor was he at 
 any other tiiiie witnefs of fuch tvords or acflions, 
 as could juftly be a ground of the leaft fufpi- 
 tion of his virtue. Though he ohferves, that 
 fome perfons of that time, meafuring the Prince 
 by themfelves, were pleafed to conceive and 
 report otherwife of him. It is indeed afferted, 
 as a notorious truth, by the Writer of Aid'icu's 
 Coquinarice'^ ^ beHeved upon good grounds to 
 be William Saunderfon, Efq""'; Author of the 
 Complete Hijiory of Mary ^een of Scotland a?id 
 his fon andjuccefor King James^ that the Prince 
 made court to the Count efi of EJfex^ afterwards 
 divorced from the Earl, and married to the 
 Vifcount Rochefter, before any other Lady then 
 living. And Arthur Wilfon" mentions the 
 many amorous glances, which the Prince gave 
 her, till difcovering, that fhe was captivated with 
 the growing fortunes of Lord Rochefter, and 
 
 ** Cornwallis's Difcourfe, p. 144. Edit. Z;w^w, 1650. 
 
 * He was a native of Lincolnfliire, and Secretary to 
 the Lord Rocs, while he was AmbalTador in Spain, and 
 to the Earl of Harland, while he was Chancellor of the 
 tJniverfity of Cambridge. At the Reftoration he was 
 made Gentlenian in Ordinary of his Majefty's Privy 
 Chamber, and ktyghted. He died at Whitehall, July 15, 
 1676, aged 90, or more, and lies interred in Weftmin- 
 fter-Abbey. 
 
 ^ Life and Reign of King James \. p. 54. Edit. Loa- 
 don, 1653. Fol. 
 
 D d 2 grounded 
 
404 THE LIFE QF:,r, 
 
 grounded more hope upon him than the un- 
 certain and hopelels love of his Highnefs, he 
 foon flighted her. The learned and pious An- 
 tiquary, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, in a manufcript 
 life of himfelf written with his own hand, 
 and brought down to the year 1637 ^» ^^ pofi- 
 tive, that notwithjlanding the ijiejlimahle Frince 
 Uenrfs marital dc fires and initiation _ into^tle 
 ways of Godlinefs^ the Countefs, *' being fet on 
 *' by the Earl of Northampton, her father's 
 *' uncle, firft caught his eye and heart, and 
 *' afterwards proilituted herfelf to him, who 
 '* firft reaped the fruits of her virginity. But 
 *' thofe fparks of grace, which even then be- 
 *' gan to fhew their luflre in him, with thofe 
 *' more heroic innate qualities derived from 
 **;, virtue, which gave the law to his more ad- 
 *,^wViled adions, foon raifed him out of the 
 :*t^ilumber of that diftemper, and taught him 
 *' to rejc(5t her following temptations with in- 
 ** dignation and fupercilloufnefs." But thefe 
 authorities ought to have little weight, to the 
 prejudice of the Prince's character, againfl: the 
 dircd: teftimony in his favour from fo well- 
 informed a Writer as Sir Charles Corn- 
 wall IS. 
 
 fir. The immature death of the Prince concur- 
 ring with the public apprehenfions of the 
 power of the Papifls, and the ill opinion, 
 which the nation then had of the court, gave 
 
 'r In the Harleian Colleaion of MSS. No. 646. p. 27. 
 - im- 
 
HENRY Prince OF Wales. 405 
 
 immediate rife to fufpiclonsof its being haftened 
 by poifon. And thefe fufpicions were hightened 
 by the very little concern flievvn by fome per- 
 fons in great ftations. 'To tell you^ fays Richard 
 Earl of Dorfet in a letter to Sir Thomas 
 Edmondes of the 23d of November 1612% 
 that our rijing Jim is Jet ere fcaraly he hnd 
 j}:!one^ and that ivitb him all our glory lies buried % 
 you know and do lament as well as tve, and better 
 fhan fome do, and more truh ; or elfe you are not 
 a man^ andfenfihk of this kingdom^ s lofs. And 
 \t is certain, that this lofs made fo little im- 
 prefTion upon the King and his favourite, 
 that the Lord Vifcount Rochefler, on the 9th 
 of November, three days after it, wrote to Sir 
 Thomas Edmondes to begin a negotiation for 
 a marriage between Prince Charles and the 
 fecond daughter of France \ But the Ambaf- 
 fador, who had more fenfe of decency, thought 
 it improper to enter upon fuch an affair fo 
 foon after the late Prince's death ^. Mr. 
 Beaulieu, Secretary to Sir Thomas Edmondes, 
 jn a letter of the 12th of November 1612% 
 io Mr. TrumbuH, then Refident at Bruffels, 
 after ftiling the Prince " the flower of his 
 " houfe, the glory of his country, and the 
 ** admiration of all Grangers, which in all 
 *' places had imprinted a great hope on the 
 
 >^ MS. State Papers of Sir Thomas Kdmondes, Vol, 
 VIII. p. 547, , =■ Ibid. p. 497. b Ibid, 
 
 p. 619. '^'-- '*■ Win wood, Vol, III. p. 410. 
 
 Dd3 " minds 
 
4o6 T PI E L I F E O F 
 
 *' minds of the vvell-affe6ted, as it had already 
 " ftrickcn terror into the hearts of his enemies,*^ 
 adv, *' who perhaps (for of this lamentable 
 *' accidtiit we have yet no particular reJation) 
 *' fearing the growing virtues of that young 
 " Prince, have ufed the traiterous venom of 
 ■' their abominable pradlices to cut him off in 
 *' his youth. And this I do not apprehend 
 f ' without caufe, confidcring the feveral adver- 
 *• tifements, which I faw a month ago coming 
 ■' out of England, Holland, and Calais, of 
 *• flrange rumour§, which were in thefe parts, 
 *' of feme grea£ and imminent pracftice in 
 V hand, for the (liccefs whereof it was written, 
 '' that in fome places our adverfaries had made 
 • ' fqlcmn prayers : and out of Calais it was 
 1* efpccially advertifcd, thnt in your parts they 
 '! were in expeftation of the death of fome 
 ^' great Prince. But alas! we did little ap- 
 " prehcndj that fuch ominous prognoftica- 
 *' tions would have lighted upon the perfon of 
 " that vigorous young Prince, whofe extraor- 
 *-- dinary great parts and virtues made many 
 " men hope and believe, tha'iGod had referved 
 '»' and defined him, as a chofen inftrument, to 
 " be the Standard-bearer of his quarrel in 
 ^^ thefe mifera bis, times, to work the reftora- 
 *'. tion of his church and the deftru^ion of the 
 *' Romiih idolatry." Mr. Robert Naunton, 
 who was at this time foUiciting a public em- 
 ployment, and in January 1617-18 advanced 
 '■'•■'"'' "' to 
 
 I 
 
HENRY Prince of Wales. 407 
 
 to that of Secretary of State, in a letter fiom 
 London of the 17th of November 1612, to 
 Sir Ralph Winwood '', AmbaiTador to the 
 States General, has likewife a veiy remarkable 
 palTage. *' Touching our Palladium, which 
 " we have loft, I hold it neither fit to write 
 *' what I conceive, and lefs fit to be written to 
 ?H*- -your Lordfliip. It is given out by his con- 
 " fidents, that he had a defign to have come 
 *' over with the Palfgrave, and have drawn Count 
 *' Maurice along with him with fome promifes, 
 ** and done fome exploit upon the place, that 
 *' fliot the Palfgrave's Harbinger, and haply 
 '' to have (ccn the Landgraves's daughter, or 
 ^* I know not what : that this he meant to 
 '' have done, whatfoever it was, clara patrem & 
 *' joiatiim fmnn : and hatching fome fuch fecret 
 " defign, which was made fubjed to mifcon- 
 *' ftrudiion, it is now become abortive, like 
 *' that of Henry IV. of France. Sir Henry 
 *' Neville told me, he had vowed, that never 
 '' Idolater fliould come into his bed: and I 
 *' was afcertained, that in his fickncfs he ap- 
 " plied this chaftifement for a deferved punifli- 
 ** ment upon him, for having ever opened 
 " his ears to admit treaty of a Popifh match." 
 Sir Anthony Weldon^ fuggefts, that the Prince 
 was poifonedj and Mr. Arthur Wilfon*^ coun- 
 
 '' Winwood, Vol. ITT. p. 410, note. 
 
 ' Court and Charafter of King James, p. 77, 78. 
 
 f Page 62, 63. 
 
 D d 4 tenanceft 
 
I 
 
 4o3 THE LIFE OF 1 
 
 tenances that notion, which is likewife adopted- 
 by Dr.Welwood-^ Y-'^o in his Memoirs^ like- 
 wife, after ftiiing the Prince the darliig of 
 maiikindy and a youth of '•oajl hpes ami so/ider^i ^ 
 fid virtues, remarks, that it was the general- |] 
 rumour at the time of his dcadi, that hia, '^ 
 Highnefs was poifbned; and that there is-iji 
 print a fermon preached at St. James's upon the 
 diirolutiQn of his family, that boldly infinuat- 
 ed fome iuch, t'hipg^^ By this fermon Dr. 
 Weiwood mlift me^n that of Mr. Hall cited 
 above ; in which, however, at leall: as it is re- 
 printed in the Lonfion Edition of his works 
 in Wr^^ hi Fol. Irh-iye not met with any ex- 
 pi^Son, 'thjit Carries the leaft infinuation of 
 that kind. The Writer of the Memoirs adds, 
 that Sir Francis Bacon, in his Ipeech at the 
 trial of the Earl of Somerfet, had fome re- 
 fletftions upon the intimacy of that Lord with 
 Sir Tl'jomas Overbury, which feemed to point 
 that way i there being feveral expreilions left 
 
 ' Notes on Wilfon in the Complete Hiftory of Eng- 
 land, Vol. ii. p. 689. ift Edit. s8 ,i8.q'r 
 
 " Page 19, Edit. London J J 710. 
 
 ^ Dr. Wclwood, in his note on the Complete Hijlory sf"^ 
 F.:igl':nd, referred to above, adds, that in that Sermon ^^^ 
 ib£ preacher^ zvho had been the Princess DomejHc Chciplain,'^'>^ 
 made fiich bread hints about the wanner of his deaths thai "' 
 maltvd the tiuditory iitto a food sf tears^ and occafioned his'-^' 
 hs':>f^'lfijv'il^''d the Court. But ifor this lart circumllance "^ 
 or Ivlr. Hill's being dijhiijjcd the Courts I find not the 
 leifl. fliiidow of any other authority than Dr. Wei- 
 •wood':). ■ 
 
 out 
 
 ' -t^a 1 ^i h 
 
H EN RY Prince OF Wales. 409 
 
 GUf ■'•ePnhe printed copy, that were in the 
 fpeech. Bifliop Burnet likewife'' tells us, that 
 he was alTured by Gol. Titus, that he had 
 heard King Charles I. declare, that the Prince 
 his brother was poifoned by the means of. 
 the Vifcount Rochefter, afterwards Earl of 
 Somerfet. , 
 
 But it will be perhaps fufficient to oppofeto » 
 all fuch fuggeftions the unanimous opinion of; 
 Phyficians, who attended the Prince during- - 
 his ficknefs, and opened his body after his 
 death ; from which, as Dr. Wehvood himfelf 
 obfcrvcs', there can be no inference drawn, that 
 he was poifoned. To which may be added,-, 
 the authority of Sir Charles Cornwallis'", who{j 
 was well informed, and above all fufpicion in^f-j 
 this point, and who pronounces the rumours-^ 
 fpread of his Highnefs's having been poifoned/^^ 
 vain ; and was fully convinced, that his death 
 was natural, and occasioned by a violent fever. 
 
 ^ Hiftnry of hls own time, Vol. I. p. lo. 
 
 ^Uhifufra. 'ici i.»-' • ■ i, V '■■ 
 
 " Life, p. 81, 82. D. Leonel Sharpe likewife, in his 
 
 Oratio Funthris., p. 10, II. thinks thofe to be miftaken, 
 
 who fufpei^cJ the Prince to be poifoned. Sunt^ quiprin^,... 
 
 cipe/n vcneiio fublatum fuj'picantur : fed ill'i forfttan benevo- , .■. 
 
 lerttitt (ii^nt amove falluntur. Nam^ ut medict d'lcunt^fehrU] ^ 
 
 malrgna pruuipem juvenem ubi femel corripuijjety intra qua- 
 
 tuordec'ijii n'lcu, ventriculis cerebri fuffocatis, eheu / confecit 
 
 atque confuu-pfit^ -^- i mi u .; 
 
 ion br.a i ,\tv'^J ^^^ V/.\^w\v^ ^^u,M i.\UVi .^... . 
 
 A P P E N- 
 
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 natali ad majeftatem tuam coepi primutn 
 Icribere, ut primus conatus meos, & quafi 
 rudimenta fcripcionis ftudiorumque meorum, tum 
 temporis oftenderem. Nunc idem nono meo na- 
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 ab eo tempore progrelTum fecerim, intelligat, turn 
 pon obfcurum officii mei teilimonium habeat. 
 Parum eil enim bene incepifTe, nifi primis extrema 
 refpondeant : Qiiod quidem de me futurum, modo 
 Deus opt. max. mihi, ut ccepit, pergat efle pro- 
 pitius, confido ; & majeftatem tuam ifthuc ipfum 
 de me exiftimare vchementer cupio. Nam poft 
 difcelkim tuum Terentii Hecyram, Fabularum 
 Phasdri Librum tertium, etduos Libros feledarum 
 Epiftolarum Ciceronis edidici, ut jam in commen- 
 datorio Epiftolarum genere praeftare aliquid per me 
 poflim. 5cd qualecunque id fit, Majeftas tua, cum 
 advenerit, judicabit, cui falutem ego pcrpetuam ex 
 animo precari non defino. 
 
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412 APPENDIX. 
 
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 NUMBER il. >. 26. 
 
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 M U 
 Rex ferenifTime & amantiflime pater, -- *'' 
 
 ET S I mihi diiblum non fuit, qufn majeftatem 
 tuam populus Anglicanus pro tuis fummis in 
 cam rempublicam meritis, pro ampIifUma familice 
 dignitate, proque hazreditario fuccefl'ionis jure, re- 
 gem fafturus ellet ; tamen incredibili lastitia fum 
 a(fe6lus, cum mihi nunciatum eft tarn vehement! 
 omnium Audio rantaqne fuffragiorum confpiratione 
 cum honorem. majedati tuae efTe delatum. Et quo- 
 niam verebar, nc llibitus hie cafus majeftati tuse eri- 
 perec facuititem videndi mei, quod tamen ellet mihi 
 exoputilfimum, putavi elTe officii mei gratularionem 
 meam Jcripto teftari. Qiiod fi per aetatis infirmica- 
 cem mihi non licet rebus gerendis obfequium at- 
 que operam earn navare majeftati tux, quam ex- 
 petit animus •, faltem hoc, quod reHquum tft, prje- 
 ftabo lubentiHime, nimirum, vota apud Deum af- 
 fiduc interponam, ut hunc huiiorem velit fortu- 
 nare, atque a Lua majeftate, turn ex tua majorumque 
 dignicate, turn pro omnium popularium exped;a- 
 tione, adminiftrari. Nequc dubito quJn ab hac am- 
 plitudinis accelijonc etiam magnus ad pnftinuni 
 erga me amorem cumulus acceder, quern uc OfFini- 
 bus debit! cultus ac reverenti;'E ofriciis demereri pol- 
 fim, eundem Deum rogare non defiiiam, qucm ma- 
 jeftati tu^* in prjcfcntia itineris ducem, & deineeps 
 perpetuum comicem, cuilodcm, & ;;ad|;ii.i4i jcu^^to- 
 rcm ex afumo vovco, ioa 'o^vi ji:\ r 
 
 ■■*""?"'. N U M- 
 
A P P E N D I X. 413 
 
 NUMBER III. p. 26, 
 
 Rex ferenifiime & amancifUme pater, 
 
 CU M & publico ftrenarum hoc anni tem- 
 pore mifiitandarum exemplo, & privatim 
 gunua ciiea coni'uetudine monitus, neceflitatem 
 mihi impofitam animadvcrterem, facram majcfta- 
 tern tuam iiterario aliquo muncre falutandi, nulluni 
 pccurrebac aut convenientius tempori, auc ftudiis^ 
 meis accommodatius, aut majcftati tuse (ut ego 
 quidem exiltirnabam) acceptius futurum, quam fi 
 carmine,- i\qv^ fcilicet fcriptionis genere, ipsartl 
 donarem. Et quanquam re femel atque icerum ten- 
 tata parum ablueiit,quinoneri fuccumberem ^ tamen 
 me cum parentis amantiffimi, tum regis humanif- 
 fimi cogitatio tandem liiftentavit. Audivcram enim 
 Parentes Liberorum nssvos non excuflire foium, 
 fed interdum etiam exofculari ; ac Deos ipfos minu- 
 tilTima tejuiiorum dona ab animo grato profeda 
 non afpernari. Atque duplici hac fiduciii fretus ex- 
 iftimavi majeftatem tuam, & patrem mitiirimum,& 
 divinam in terris imaginem referentem, hxc qualia- 
 cunque Mufie mens primordia boni conlulturam, & 
 Carmina non plane bona benigna interpretationc 
 meliora.,iadturam. Vale. 
 
 M;- ] I Ad Regem Carmen. -i 
 
 Mi pater, & facra RexMajeft-ate verende. 
 Qua pater omnipotens & celfi Re6lor Olympi 
 Fronte Iblet, micamve Talis, vel thuris cdorem, 
 Aut muHlim & violas, inopis libamina dextrgc, 
 Accipere,etlocupletem ipfisprrcrerrehecatombis; 
 Hac cape fronte me^T tenuis primordia Mufre, 
 Votaquibus-fundoadDomiouni, utfeliciter annus 
 
 Incipiat, 
 
 k 
 
4^4 APPENDIX. 
 
 Incipiat, multofelicius exeat, huncque 
 Perpetua icrie fa^licia fec'la kquantur. ^ ). 
 
 o]!?^":^ onhq 
 
 NUMBER IV. p. 46. 
 
 Serenifiimc Princeps, 
 
 SU B M I S S E offero ferenitati tuas infcriptioi 
 nes hiftoricas Regum, majorum tuorum, a pri- 
 me Regni conditu ad noftra ulque tempora, in qui- 
 bus videas fa;licifiima aufpicia exortus cui. Addo 
 nunc dedicationem novam five renovatam pocius 
 auo-uftiflimi nominis tui. Hoc glorirE tu;£ &c mess 
 felicitati datum ; ut ego, tuorum minimus, primus 
 hoc Curriculum ingrefllis, Nomen tuum publica 
 Dedicatione Mufis noftris confecraverim. Quid fi 
 ha!c ferenitati tua3 grata fuiffe aliqua fignificatione 
 intellexero, ad majora excitabor propediem edenda 
 fub aufpiciis feliciffimi nominis tui, Deo volente, 
 qui te sternum fervet fofpitetque. Ex Academia 
 Regia Andreapolitana in Scotia ipfis Kalendis Juliis 
 
 anno CIOIOCIV. 
 
 Serenitati tuae 
 
 Devotus& fubditusj 
 
 JOHAN. JONSTONUS, 
 
 Pfofeflbr Regius. 
 
 'O* 
 
 N tJ M B E R V. p. 62. 
 
 Illuftriflime Princeps, 
 
 VI X decern horae intercelTerunt inter falutem 
 3c pcrniciem omnium noftrum : Ted Deo s- 
 terna gloria, qui conjurationem poll hominis natos 
 I teterrimam 
 
APPENDIX.' 4.if^ 
 
 tcterrimam tarn brevi tempore detexic ac difTipavit. 
 Triplicem ut inde doctrinam fumes tibi fuadeo, 
 princeps ; primam humilitatis, fecundam gratitu- 
 dinis, tertiam cautionis. Humilitatis, ut, quam- 
 vis fis primogcnitus Regis maximi filius, tamea 
 humanam felicitatem modcfte habeas, quae Hu- 
 mana malitia, nifi Deus prasveniflet, uno momento 
 obteri potuiflet. Sceleratum eft feculum ; & quif- 
 qiiis audet ipfe mori, audet aliis inferrc mortem : 
 quifquis eft contemptor vitse fui% eft domi-nus alie- 
 nsE. Altera eft gratitudinis, ut Deo fervias, qui 
 te fervavit ; primum cor proditoris impellendo, ut 
 proditionem per literas (licet obfcurius) indicaret ; 
 deinde animum Regis movendo, ut in Uteris ig- 
 nem fuboltaceret. Et non tu gloriam reddes Deo, 
 a quo falutem recepifti ? Tercia eft cautionis, uti 
 caveas a viperis, liberc dicam, a Jefuitis & Jefui- 
 tarum diicipulis. Non omnes tibi papiftas odio* 
 fos reddo, quorum aliquos fideles credo -, fed eos 
 tantum, quos Jefuiticus, potius dicam Diabolicus, 
 Spiritus afflavit. Sine dubio fuit aliquis Jefuita 
 fax hujus Incendii. Parmenonis tarn fcio banc effe 
 technam, quam me vivere. Duplici veneno tur- 
 get Invidix & Maliti?e : Invidi^, quae bonis cru- 
 ciatur ; Malitia:, quas malis deleftatur alienis •, &, 
 quod gravius eft, publicis. Frimus Mundus diluvio 
 periir, fecundus peribit Incendio, ut ex prophctia 
 Rex plus obfervavit. Exorti funt fcelerati in Sco- 
 tia parricide ; fed fceleratiores in Anglia. Illi Au- 
 gufti quintoRegem regiamque ftirpem baptifandam 
 in fanguine ; hi quinto Novembris ctim Rege Re- 
 giaque Stirpe Britanniam univerfam baptifandam in 
 igne cenfucranc. O prophanos Sacerdotes ! Sic 
 illi diluvium Orbi noftro, hi poftremum Incen- 
 dium inducere cogitarunt. Ergo non perirent An- 
 
4i6 APPENDIX. 
 
 glia & Scotia, nifi peperiircnt ? Nifi natos habe- 
 renc, hoftcs non haberenc ? Nifi matres efierit, in- 
 columes perpetuo permanercnt ? O niatrum opri- 
 marum terunditanem pefllmam ! Jefus Chriltus 
 Regcm, principem, procerefque Regni fervet ab 
 hac viperina progenie, uc fervati a Deo Deo fcr- 
 viamus. . i /•,. 
 
 Celfitudini tujejurcmcritoque addiflifllmus 
 
 Leonellus Sharpe. 
 
 NUMBER VI. p.77.''''^irT 
 mi Rnu)-toqqo sunirn iup ^lorn^m VJL 
 
 DE B E O tibi plufimiim, edhfdMgoiniffc ''U'^\ 
 canccllarie dilediffime, pro bumanilTimis,'' 
 quas non ita pridem ad me dedilti, Jiteris, quibu« 
 amorcm erga me tuum fatis abunde, licet judicium 
 parcius, teftificatus es. Nam qufp p"iihi tam ab 
 animo, quam a corpore cumulate tribui<^, ea tantum 
 abeft mihi adfcribenda ut exillimem, ur contra tibi, 
 magno alioqui judici ac juris juftitisque confultov-'^ 
 de hac re male judicata litem non immfrito moveii 
 poffe lentiam. Cum vero iiludiplbm qualecunque 
 judicium ab affedlu msr^re compertum habeanf/^' 
 facere non potui, quin et de benigno hoc errore^f 
 mihi plauderem, ik tibi gratias hoc nomine a nrwif''^ 
 deberi agnofcerem. Non ignore veliium talrumi^^ 
 qui in fcnatu & curia familiam dicitis, encomia 
 monitorum inftar efle nobis ad piaeclara omnia ca- 
 pefienda excitandis. Quod quidem ut a nobis ali- 
 quando fiat, quo laudum hsec commemoratio non 
 ab amore magis quam a judicio proleda credatur, 
 clementiflimus Deus fe:io nobis orandus cil, cui re-*' 
 
 rum 
 
<i 
 
 A P,P EN D I X. 417 
 
 fum mear.um felicem eventum, te reique piiblicse 
 reftr^e (taium ex animo commendoav, lEx. iiiidibus^i 
 divi J.acobi4 Id- Febr. 1606. ornsqrt.i -iTnuii):) 
 
 Euiinrf'J 2ubL I mB(rriifie>q rn^iftif- '--oi mmmn 
 flu i-^vist in^^H gopbTFibtcjApiicifliBBtti^ cJTng'i>l 
 
 H E N R I C U S. 
 
 jixninirfbibbii •MipoJram siui x»i inibojribJ 
 
 ,,,, ,Jtf U,M B. E R VII. p. 79. 
 
 SerenlfTime Princeps, 
 
 Dignitatis tuse & olTicii mel valde vidcor im- 
 memor, qui minus opportuna literarum mif- 
 lione feriis tuis ftudiis et cogitationibus quotidianus 
 interpellaiorobftrepam. Verurn fiiere non patitui v. 
 rccentis erga mc beneficii tui recordatio. Tene;!> 
 jfto falligio, astatis veie, exerciLJorum afllduitate;;* 
 fubmiffis an fepofitis Regiis tafcibus, illam multa-.:| 
 ruin (nee vana fini: vot;a) gentium olim vidtricem li 
 dexceram calamo admovifie, paria in Icribendo fac- £ 
 turam? Jftud profed:o Icriptione prsiiitifti, omnes, 
 ut intclligeremus, ilium derriuin te arbitrari vcrum 
 ede iuoneumque populoruin pallorem, qui hu- 
 matikate Majeftatem fuavi didicerit mixtura tem- 
 pcjparco Cerciilimum hujus tui ell judicii argu- 
 mentum amor ille fingularis, quo natale roium 
 conftaniiflVme proiequeris, ornas, auges, immo 
 diutino patris optimi tuique defiderio taiifcens, 6C'p 
 peric eneiftum, refocillas & foves. Utinam in tuo- n 
 rum pedora poires penetrare. Non ita pridem vi^iq 
 diiies quanta iflhic omnium eflent gaudia, quam -p 
 iincera tui veneratio & cultus, cum nunciareturJi 
 indignanti aure tibi auditas, & alacri ercdoqueo 
 
 E c vultu 
 
i 
 
 418 APPENDIX. 
 
 vultu &: animo damnatas, tuaque voce confoflas 
 improborum calumnias, quibus Scotorum, hoc eft, 
 tuam ar(itifr]mo& peculiar! imprimis titulo, gentem, 
 pro linguce intemperantia temerc profcindebant. 
 Made, fereniflime princeps, ifta animi magnitu- 
 dine, & in tuos affcdtu ; teftare pofteris nullum 
 firmius cffe imperii fulcrum mutuo principis fubdito- 
 rumque amore. Sic fiet, ut famre tibi gloriacque 
 a'terfiitatem, & tuis perpetuam folidamque pacis & 
 traiiquillitatis truitionen), parias & ftabilias. Defino 
 plura icribere, fti] non Deum obnixe venerari &: 
 orare, ut tibi alpiret, te regat & sternum beet. 
 Vale non. Apriiis, 1607. 
 
 Celfitudinis veftrse ftudiofiflimus 
 
 ' humillimufque fervus, 
 
 ,_ro}'B n9m£J bn 
 
 DUNFERMELYNE, 
 
 NUMBER VIII. p. 98. 
 
 Rex fereniffime & amantifllme pater, 
 
 SE P T I M U S agitur annus, ex quo coepi 
 primum ineuntis anni kalendis ferenifilmam 
 Majellatem tuam literario aliquo munere falutare. 
 Nunc continiiaris tot annorum circa ftudia labori- 
 bus, quemadmodum majoris operse quidpiam a me 
 •merito expedtari pofle videtur, ut expe<5tationi huic 
 non defim, tentare volui, quid in Menandri poetse 
 vetuftifiimi fententia ex artis prjeceptis confirmanda 
 mei tenuitas ingenii permitteret. Argumentum 
 
 cjufmodi 
 
APPENDIX. 419 
 
 ejufmodi efb, a quo induftrifem dicendoaut acumi- 
 nis in dififerendo magnam laudem non fpero : cerce 
 pietacis 6c obfequii non mediocre teftimor.ium, pvct- 
 iertim a patre amantii]imo& beni^niffimo, impecra- 
 rurum nie non defpero. 
 
 ,bi:<,a?^ UMBER IX. p. 105. 
 
 Rex lerenifllme & amantiirime pater, 
 
 DU M mihi erant esquc juftiffima? caufse, 
 propter quas Majeftatem veftram fcripto falu- 
 tare citius dcbueram -, una perpetua, ut cukum 
 obfequiumque a me debitum quam officioGnime 
 teftatum facerem •, altera recens, ut pro inopinara 
 venandi facultate gratias maximas haberem, Suf- 
 tinui tamen a fcribendo manum aliquantifpcr, dum 
 
 ■ infperatas hujus benignitatis trudum aliquem guftaf- 
 fcm, fperans futurum, ut ipfa obleclationis in ve- 
 nando perceptione animum mihi ad gratias alacrio- 
 rem invenirem : quod quidem mihi ufu venifle 
 mehercule agnofco, ideoque quantas maximas 
 animus meus capere potelt, a gratias me deberi 
 M. V. jam nunc intelligo. Non quod fim nefcius 
 plurima eaque multo majora Majellatis veftrns be- 
 neHciain me identidem fuifle collata: verumquem- 
 admodum cur^ leves loq^i'.Hntm\ ingentes Jlupent \ & 
 
 "licet ad ingcntium beneficiorum mcmoriam obmu- 
 cefcerem & obftupefccrem fepenumero ea animo 
 recolcns, pro leviculo hoc tamen gratitudinem ani- 
 mo conceptam verbis exprelliim imprimis cupiam. 
 Verum cam non in ore magis quam in mente per- 
 petuo futuram Majeflari V. perrualifiTimum efTe 
 Tcio, ficut ego de priftino fuo in me iludio atque 
 E e 2 aH'c6lu 
 
420 APPENDIX. 
 
 affedu nihil efie rcmiiTuram compertiflimum habeo, 
 arque uc id cjuam diurifnme efle pofTet, Deum opt. 
 max. ex animo precor. 4 id. Apr. 
 
 ^"^^V M B E R X. p. i^ar^'^^ 
 
 uup .V / O Decus noftrum, ,'q [^ 
 
 -.■> Qiias dicere grates, 
 
 Quafve reierie parem ? 
 
 OU T D enim mihi in univerfirare rerum pof- 
 fic ede fatius, quam a C. V. literas ealqiie 
 fyngraphas amoris accipere ? Atque adeo 
 multis paralangis veftra dementia meum inutile 
 lludium ofiiciun^que fuperavir, ut quid aut quo- 
 modo fcribam, aut quid omnino nori Icribam, 
 mihi non exploratum habeo. 
 
 Sed Harpocratem ago : veftras tamen C. fummas 
 omni modo gianas debeo debeboque Temper, affi- 
 due prcces fundens Deo opt. max. ut faufto, quo 
 C. V, incepit, pede progrediatur. Ulam vero in- 
 grelTa eft, & quafi propemodum viam confumma- 
 vif, quae ad honorem, qus ad virtutem, quae ad im- 
 mortaiitatem ducit. Quare cum nihil magis in votis 
 fit, quam fapientiam veftram perlpicere, ingeniuni 
 veftrum fufpicere, veftra cenfura doccri & corrigi, 
 in veftro judicio acquiefcere, liceat mihi fupplici a 
 C. V. nodi cujufdam, qui inter legendum occur- 
 rit, folutionem exorare. Tacitus inter laudes Agri- 
 ColiE hoc enumerans. quod frummti i^ tributorum 
 au^iofjcm vel exa^ionem molltvit, addit, narnque per 
 
 ludibrium 
 
APPENDIX. 421 
 
 ludihrium ajjldere claiifis hcrreis^ i^ emere idiro fru- 
 menta, ^ vendere pretio co^ebantiir : divortia iiincruin 
 & longinqiiitn.s regiomim i 'dicehatur^.ut civilalcs a 
 proximis hibernis in remf^ta ^ avia deferrent^ do ec 
 quod omnibus in promptu eicil^ paucis lucrofiim ficret. 
 AddubitatLir, quid fibi vult ajfidere claujis horreis per 
 ludibriinn, &c. ? Si lumen huic loco C. V. pra^- 
 ferre dignetur, in quo alias rsccrnum forcaffe caliga- 
 rem, Deum flagi[o, ut mejuem banc C. V. qua 
 ad optima opiinnofque accenfa rapitur, fervet. 
 
 C. V. in JEtcrnum devotilTimus, 
 
 i,. 0! I, 
 
 JoH'AtiJNES HaRYNGTO^. 
 
 oabfc 3up3A . V^i3qiDDB pnomn iLi\i\fn)>(\i\ ^ 
 
 Ignofcat C. V. (qun? eft veflra fnmma hiin'^ani- 
 tas) mcjE pudendfE jejunirari ; veftrarum enim lite- 
 rarum nitor & mira concinnitas (ut ingenue tarcar) 
 me meam puerilem exiiitatem agnofcere faciic 
 cogic. 
 
 NUMBER Xf. p. I2D. 
 
 NJE tu hoiTO es lepidus, qui mc litcrarum 
 tuarum initio partim obingenii, parti m ob 
 judicii acumen, cumulate laudibus efiVrs •, moxquc 
 difficilem fcriptoris nodum mihi proponis folven- 
 dum, ut inde quantum utroque deftituar Facile ap- 
 pareat. Num me credis efle eum, qui nodos Tolvere, 
 icnigmata intcrpretaii, arduorumque I'criptorum 
 difficultates explicate pofTim ? Fieri poteft ut his 
 talibus f"a6lis Davi perfonam induere merito vide- 
 are •, ego CEdipum me non efle ingenue conficeor. 
 Utrum in tua ipfius arena dimices, necne, ipfi tibi 
 i : ' E e 3 videndum 
 
1 
 
 422 APPENDIX. : 
 
 videndum eft : et me, quod in alieno foro Utigem, 
 ignoranriam meam profiteri a^qiiiflinuim eft. Ego, 
 qui in omni humanioruni literarum genere novitius 
 fnm arque tyrunculus, quique ex ignorantins tenC" 
 bris pedem vix movi, cum inteliigercm nihil me nifi 
 teniAC, humiie, & anguftum fapere, non aiiftis 
 furn iinqiiam Taciturn infpicere, qucm prudentia 
 admirabiiem, brevibus & acutis fentenriis reftrtum, 
 ftvio, pro meo captu, nimis obfcuium, ab omnibus 
 pn.dicari audivcram, Quando tamen me in hunc 
 campum provocas, re lento licet pede lequi mihi 
 decretum eft C a?pi enim paucis ab hinc diebus 
 Agricote vitam legere diligentcr, ut cum ad eum, 
 quc^m mihi proponis, nudum pervenero, animimei 
 fentcntiam tacilius aperiam. Interea non abs re pu- 
 tavi unum aut alterum ejufdem narrationis locum, 
 fed muito taciliorem, tibl infpiciendum ofFerre, quod 
 in eorum feniu aflequendo mihi plane non fatisfaci^ 
 am : nempe in his verbis non longe a principio. 
 [Nee Agricola licenter more juvenum, qui militiam 
 in lafciviam vertunt, neque iegnirer ad voluptat^es 
 & commeatus, titulum tribunatus & infcitiam retu- 
 iit.} Non eft mihi fatis perfpeflum, quomodo hffic 
 verba retiilit titulum trihmiatus 6f infdtiam cum 
 i'uperioribus cohsreant, nifi in retnUt fit ^vXoyU. 
 Rurftam ibi dicitur [Agricola naturali prudentia, 
 quamvis inter togatos, facile jufteque agebat] Hx- 
 reo quid \\\\id ft t inter trgntos^ utrum iplc tuerit e 
 togatis ; an potius quod homo mihtaris jus inter 
 togatos dicebat. Plura funt id genus alia, qu?e ia 
 prasfens omitto, teque interim vakrejubeo. 
 
 NUM^ 
 
APPENDIX.- 423 
 
 *^,,v? NUMBER Xil. p. 122. 
 
 SP L E N D E N IMi (ok heliotropium floret, 
 & caput erigitj abeunte vero mrefto qucdam 
 vultu fe inter folia, quafi in tenebris, ablcondic: 
 ita quid mihi in hac vita unquatn fuic jucundiuSj 
 illuftrifilme princeps et domine, quam in ocuiis 
 veftrce celfitudinis vivere, et veftri tavoris radiis 
 continue frui? Quid acerbius, quam fine confpecftu 
 Solis in terris mei, quam lolitarie & in caligine 
 peregrinari? Qiiiti aut quomodo Icribafn, 
 Nil nifi Vora fuperfunt. 
 H?ec tamen funt mei doloris levamina, pri- 
 mum, ut hac mea Regionum peregratione & re- 
 rum cxperientia tandem aliquando fiam apiior per- 
 ficiendis V. C. mandatis, quaj adeo mihi lacrol'anda 
 funt, et Temper erunt, seque ac Romanis facra im- 
 perii pignora. Ueinde, quod mihi telicitcr contigir, 
 V. C. mcritas virrutes coram principibus praL'di- 
 care. Hoc quidem officium fatcor me fecillc, et 
 fa(5lurum l^stius &: ereftius, brevi tamen, ut foient 
 qui terrarum fitus parva tabelia depingunt, Ignofcas, 
 illuftriflime princeps et domine, fi meis balbutien- 
 tibus loquelis veftri nominis Iplendor aliquo modo 
 diminitus fuerit. Quod ad csetcra attincr, dabo 
 certe operam omni mea cur^ & indullria, ut vetlras 
 celfitudini fit nota omnis dierum & itinerum meo- 
 rum ratio J f^pius annulo figens ofcula, tanti veftri 
 favoris, in quo omnes meas fortunas efle pofitas 
 judico, infigni, quemj in finu meo nocles atque dies 
 gero geflurufque lum, 
 
 Dum fpiritus hos reget artiis. 
 
 C. V. fervus devotifTimu.^ 
 
 JoH. Haryngton. 
 
 E c 4 NUM. 
 
424 APPENDIX. 
 
 NUMBER XIII. p. 123. 
 
 MAGNA parte Belgii vel Inierioris Gerrpf- j 
 nias inua has fepteni feptimanas, illuilriillme -^ 
 princeps & domine, jam pcrlullrata, tribus prin- 
 cipum aulis, toridemque vifis academiis, cum civi- 
 tatibus quibufdam amplifilmis, oppidis munitifli- 
 mis, caltris &. propugnacuJis foriiirimis, quas de 
 politia, de confiliis, de viris authoritate, prudcntia 
 & doclrina pollentibus, de milina, dc prafenti 
 rerum ftatu, de urbium firu, de p^puli moribus, 
 obiervare potui, fcriptis pro mea virili Latine man- 
 davi, ut V. C. cui me meaquGs ftudia omni modo 
 "merito debeo, omnium mearum dierum (ficut par 
 ell) tempore opportune reddatur ratio. Utcunque 
 enim meae ipfius tenuitatis fum bene confcius, nolo 
 tamen me unum efle ex iis, qui voluptaubus turpi- 
 ter indujgendis, vel novis oculcs pafcendi defide- 
 rio, peregrinas oras adire et peragrare folent. Omni 
 certe, illuilriffime princeps &c domine, vigilantia 
 ciurabo, ut ex rerum ufu aliquid prudentise com- 
 ■parando, V. C. volvintati dignius & fapicntius tan- 
 dem morem gerere vel infervire poffim. Hoc uni- 
 ,cum eft fumm.a mete fpei, ^ ad omnes fuftinendos 
 labores incicamenti fatis. Non poffum plura, il- 
 luftrifiime princeps, fic feftinat et interpeliat hie 
 Grammatophorus. Habet C. V. Epiftolam fubito 
 conlcriptam: ignofcat mihi & mels (quis ell veftra 
 llimma Temper in me manllietudo) licutlblet; & 
 ut me favore magis magifque indies beare dignetur, 
 fupplcx precor, 
 
 V. C. in perpetuum fervus dcvotiffimus, 
 
 JoH. Haryngton. 
 
 ""^^^ _ N U M- 
 
 -uun 
 
N 
 
 APPENDIX. 425 
 
 E S C I O ccrte, illuftrilTime pnriccps 83 06- 
 mine, an unquam hrj literulaj ad maniis 
 V. C. fine ventures j in prrefentiarum eninn m^gi>a 
 folicitudine afficior, quod de falute V. C. his n. 
 Septimanis per literas a parentibus (ficut fqleoj ne 
 veibum quidem audiverim. Conjcflura ftiea, vel 
 injufte cfie interceptas, vel aliquo inforttlnio inter- 
 line, meam mentem aliquo mode liberac a metu 
 gravioris mali. vScripfi ad V. C. a Francofurto dc- 
 cclTurus Meidelbergam. Ibi & in Bafilienfi Acade- 
 mia aliquot confumpfi dies audiendo profefiTores, 
 &: conterendo. Inde omni feftinatione peiii Floren- 
 tiam. Accefli tamen pod diem nupciarum, fed 
 ante praccipuas folemnitares, de quibus libelluni 
 quendam hodie editum ad C. V. mil], uc per- 
 fpiciat fingula, qua: 'propter adventum Ducis Man- 
 tuse dcnuo func repetita. Quod ad meas privatas 
 obfervationes attinec, nimis loitafle pueriles, omni 
 vigilantia et cura laboro, ut tandem omnium 
 mearum dierum ratio a V. C. probetur. 
 
 Non video caufam, illuftrifTime princeps & do- 
 mine, diu manendi in Italia, eoque magis, quod 
 defiderio redeundi per Gallias capior, ut brevi ite- 
 rum per veftrum fingularem &: conftantem in mc 
 lavorem mea priore felicitate fruar, & in oculis 
 V. C. reliquum meas vicjE curium conteram. In- 
 terim omni, qua fieri poffit a fervo devotiffimo, 
 contentione Ueum opt. max. flagito, ut V. C. 
 omni modo fervet incolumem. 
 
 Florentia \L V. C. fervus devotiffimus, 
 
 JoH. Haryngton. 
 NUM- 
 
426 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 NUMBER XVI. p. 177. 
 
 SEreniilJmus Rex, Pater tuus, Dominus meus 
 clemeiTfillimLis, cum me archivis publicis prs- 
 feciflec, pro innata fua erga fubditos bcnevolentia 
 faspe mandavic, ut fuas fuorumque majorum, re- 
 gum Scotia, leges in unum volumen redadljc, ab 
 erroribus, fitu, & fqualore vindicarentur. Intelligic 
 cnim Rex pruJentiffimus, Jegum cognitioncm non 
 folum ipfis regibus, fed etiam univerfo populo, 
 imprimis neceirariam efTe. Illi enim, fecundum 
 leges, populum in officio continent, bonis prasmia, 
 maiis pcenas, juxca delidi quantitatem, infiigunt. 
 Hie vero metu & formidine pssnarum, ac prsemio- 
 rum defiderio, in officio concors legitime vivit, re- 
 gibus obedientiam, & Deo fuum cultum tribuit. 
 Regime igitur Majeftatis mandatym, ut par eft, fecu- 
 tus in eum laborem diligentcr incubui; leges dif- 
 perfai in unum collegi •, errores emendavi, in pa- 
 trium fermonem tranftuli, ec effeci (nifi fcillor) ut 
 priftino nirori rellituta^ ab omnibus facile intelligi 
 poffint. Qiiid praeterea praeftiti, aiiorum efto ju- 
 dicium. 
 
 Has autem ad te, illuftriffime princeps, mitto, ut 
 eas, cum per otium licuerit, legas & intelligas, ne 
 in peregrinis legibus.civis in domefticis vero pere- 
 grinus videare., Et ut benigne eas accipias ab ho- 
 mine tibi ignoto, fed poft Deum & Regem patrem 
 tuum tibi devindliffimo, omni qua pofTum animi 
 ^emiffione peto. Faxit Deus, ut non folum pa- 
 ternorum regnorum, fed etiam virtutum & reli- 
 gionis fucceifor fias, & Theodofium Imperatorem 
 imiterisj qui non tarn granas Deo agit, quod Im- 
 
 perator 
 
APPENDIX. 427 
 
 perator efiet, quam quod Chriftianum impcrato- 
 rem Deus efle eum voluit. Etiinburgi, Odtob. 5, 
 1609. 
 
 T. C. addi(5lifr. & ad omnia obfequia paratiff. ' 
 
 Joannes Skene. 
 
 NUMBER XVII. p. 218. 
 
 ORDERS eftabliflied to be obferved by 
 all centlemen and officers of the Prince's 
 Houffiold "*, viz. 
 
 TH E Gentlemen of the Prince's chamber are 
 to fee the Prince July ferved, and fhall conri- 
 mand the Grooms, and others of the bed-chamber 
 whatfoever, to execute their offices carefully, and 
 to give their diligent attendance, forbidding any 
 ragged or unfweet perfons, or fuch as are not 
 allowed in the book figned by the King, to do 
 any manner of office in the Prince's chamber, or 
 to approach his perfon at any time. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen aforefaid fhall fee the 
 Prince decently arrayed and difarrayed; and that 
 for the health of his body, all things be ordered 
 by their good difcretion and forefight-, wherein if 
 any thing be defedive or wanting, they ffiall cer- 
 tify Sir 1 homas Chaloner thereof, that fpeedy re- 
 medy may be provided thereunto. 
 
 Item, The faid Gentlemen, or any of them, 
 ffiall have authority to control any, that ffiall 
 
 * The parchment roll, containing thefe orders, had belong- 
 ed to Sir Julius Caefar, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and 
 Mafter of the Rolls, and was bought by me at the fale of his 
 manufcripts, December 14, 1757. The want of a date to 
 thefe orders leaves it uncertain, whether they were not ante- 
 cedent to his Highnefs's being created Prince of Wales. 
 
 mif- 
 
428 APPENDIX. 
 
 mifbehave themfelves, by preiTing uncivilly to the 
 peribn of the Prince, or into any of the private 
 chambers, appointed either for his learning or other 
 private exercifes, or fhail mifgovern themfelves, in 
 any unfecmly fpeech or behaviour, in the prefencd 
 of the Prince. ;o 
 
 Item, The faid Gentlemen fhall wait always 
 next unto the Prince's perfon, neither fhall any, 
 whatfoevcr, prefume to carry the Prince out of the 
 houfe, before warning given to Sir 1 homas Cha- 
 loner, that he, with a convenient number of Gen- 
 tlemen, may attend him. 
 
 The ordering o^ the Prince's Chamber. 
 
 The Grooms of the chamber fhall give diligent 
 attendance in the privy-chamber, at fix of the clock 
 in the morning, and eight in the evening, or earlier^ 
 if occafion require, to be ready to do fuch offices, 
 as appertaineth to them; namely, to make the 
 fires in the privy-chamber and bed-chamber, to 
 warm the Prince's apparel, make his bed, air the 
 chambers, and keep them i'wect and cleanly, or to 
 do any other fervice they fhall be appointed unto 
 about the Prince, and efpecially to have regard, 
 that they themfelves be neat and handlbmely appa- 
 relled, not unfcemly approaching the Prince, with 
 their doublets unbuttoned, or their hofe untied. 
 
 It is alio ordered, that ibme ol the Grooms 
 fhall at all times of the day be waiting in the 
 privy-chamber, if the Prince.be not abroad at his 
 excrcife, as well to be in readinefs, if tliey are to 
 be epiployed for the Prince's fervice, as to fupply 
 the place of Gentlemen Ufhers, forbidding all 
 others to come into the privy-chamber, or with- 
 dravving-chamber, the Gentlemen of the chamber 
 
 only 
 
APPEND IX 429^ 
 
 only excepted, or fuch as the Prince fhall call for, 
 or upon fome juft occafion (liall be admitted by 
 Sir Thomas Chaloner: and if the Prince for his 
 recreation fake, or other occafions, is to be abfenc 
 for fome hours from the chambers aforefaid, fomc' 
 of the Grooms fhall caufe all the doors to be lock- 
 ed, and to be ready to attend againft the Prince *s 
 return. 
 
 The Grooms fhall lie nightly on a pallet in 
 the privy-chamber, except there be Gentlemen ia 
 ordinary of the privy-chamber, u'ho then fiiall, 
 undergo that charge, which they fhall early rer- 
 move, providing that the chambers be Itrowed, 
 aired, and made clean, befQrexh<s,Prin<;e coipe out 
 of his bed-chamber. .;rr.«?H> c^rh ^-^ -Tr-^o-'^ --'T 
 
 Item, That the Gentlemen of the chamber only 
 fiiall meddle with apparelling of the Prince, or 
 fuch as Ihall be deputed thereunto by the King's 
 Majefty. 
 
 Alfo one of the Grooms of the Prince's cham-^ 
 ber fhall diligently attend on the Qiiiery, as foon 
 as it is brought into the privy-chamber, fuffcring 
 none to approach the fame, to whom it appertains 
 not by their office. 
 
 ■Orders fcr the Prefence-Chamber, and chambers 
 where the Prince will be private. 
 
 • The Gentlemen Ufliers and Grooms of the cham- 
 ber are to forbid any to enter into thofe chambers, 
 whither the Prince is retired for his ftudy or ex- 
 ercife, the Gentlemen of the chamber only ex- 
 ce[)ted, and fuch as are appointed to inftrud his 
 Highnefs,. or to learn with him. 
 ' drr.uih 3r[j Item, 
 
430 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen Ufhers fhall be careful to 
 lee and inform all fuch, as are to do fervice in the 
 Prince's eye, to perform their duties, and to have 
 an efpscial regard, that cleanlinefs be obierved, and 
 if any do behave themfelves unreverently or un- 
 leemly in the Prince's prefence, in lewd talk," or 
 over familiar behaviour, as prefTing too near hifil, 
 &c. they fhall admonifh them thereof accordingly. 
 >': Likewife, the Gentlemen Ufliers are to forefce, 
 that none be lodged in the Princes houfe, but fuch 
 only, as are, by the orders and cufloms of the King's 
 houfe, to have lodging or furniture allowed them-, 
 and that Sir Thomas Chaloner be made acquainted 
 with the difpofing of the lodgings at every re- 
 move, and no keys to be delivered but by his 
 allent and direction. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen Ufliers alfo, at every re- 
 move, be careful, that fuch, as are by their places 
 to give the neareft attendance on the Prince, fliall 
 be lodged as near him as conveniently may be. 
 
 Item, None, that ought to do fervice to the 
 ■ Prince, fliall come booted into the prefence-cham- 
 ber, except it be at fuch times as the Prince is to 
 ride abroad, or hath lately been returned from ride- 
 ing, that they could not have time to fiiitt them- 
 ielves. 
 
 The Gentlemen Cup-bearer, Carver and Sewer, 
 fliall at Eleven of the clock in the forenoon, and 
 Six at evening, be ready attending in the prefence- 
 chamber, to receive direclions for the Prince's fer- 
 vice, by the Gentlemen Ufhers, as fliall be re- 
 quifice. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen Ufliers, at divers fit times, 
 together with the Clerks of the Cheque, are to vifit 
 the tables, and if they find any, that are not allowed 
 
 to 
 
APPENDIX. 431 
 
 to have their diet in the houfe, they muft difcretely 
 reform that dilbrder. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen Ufhers (hall have autho- 
 rity to vifit all the chambers of the l-'rince*s houfe, 
 and if they find any uncleanhaef-, whicli may breed 
 infedion or other difeafcs, they fliail admonifh them 
 CO amend it, and if they find any fervants or pages 
 to have no beds, they Ihall give information there- 
 of, that tliey may be billetted in the towns neareft 
 at hand. 
 
 Item, If they find any, that after admonition 
 fhall fljU continue to make any places noifome, they 
 fhall not allow them, from that time forward, any 
 lodging whatever in the houfe. 
 
 They fhall alfo forbid any whofoever, that is at- 
 tendant on the Prince, to lodge any boys, lackeys, 
 footmen, or fickly perfons, or fuch as have not 
 ihift of apparel and linn^n, in the houfe. 
 
 And to the end the Prince may not be unguard- 
 ed, either when he is abroad, or in his prefence- 
 chamber^ or elfewhere, when attendance is to be 
 required, the Gentlemen fliail wear their ufual 
 weapons of rapier and dagger; and have refped:, 
 that in attending him, they do not by any uncivil 
 adlion give occafion of offence through want of 
 due refpect. 
 
 The two Pages are nightly to lie in the nether 
 end of, the prefence-chamber, and at leaft one oi 
 them to be prcfent there to fupply the room of r 
 Quarter- Waiter-, they fliall make ficrs in the pre- 
 fnce-chamber, air and keep it clean, and thof 
 outerchambers alfo, where the Prince ufeth his ftud; 
 or exercife, and to be ready to do all that apper 
 tains to their ofHce, by the diredlion of thofe the 
 arc appointed to command them. When Quartei 
 
 Waitc! 
 
432 APPENDIX. 
 
 "Waiters are allowed, then the Pages fliall not fcrvc 
 in that place. 
 
 If any within the prccinds of the chief courts, 
 or places v^hcrc the Prince or his fervants are 
 ufually to repair, do by any uncleanly means, as 
 making water, &c. mak^- them unfweet, after 
 warning given, he fliall be thought unfit to be en- 
 tertained in the Prince's houfe. 
 
 Whofoever fliall contemotuoufly or negligently 
 behave themfelves to the Gentlemen Ulhers, in the 
 execution of their office, upon complaint made, 
 and adm.onition given, if they continue their for- 
 mer courfes, they ihall be difmified- 
 
 Item, None whatfoever, without efpecial licence, 
 (ball lodge any in the Prince's houfe, or receive 
 fuch, as are nct^in the li(l of the Prince's ordinary 
 fervants, to lodge in their chambers. 
 
 The Gentlemen Ulhers and Quarter-Waiters, 
 fhall always before meals clear the prefence-cham- 
 ber of ftrangers, that the Prince may take his re- 
 paft quietly, and give warning to the Ufiier of the 
 guard and porters to do the like in their charges. 
 
 The Groom Porter's man fliall, at times conve- 
 nient, bring wood and coals, and fuch things, as 
 by his office are ncceflary, for the Prince's fervice, 
 to fome place appointed, where the Grooms and 
 Pages fhall receive them. 
 
 If any ufe to demean themfelves in the courts 
 or other places, which are in the Prince's view, 
 unreverently, by playing or other iports, the guard 
 and porters fliall forbid them. 
 
 And forafmuch as private and extraordinary 
 playing at cards, dice, and fuch like games, com- 
 monly breedeth great inconveniency, therefore 
 none ought in their chambers to ufe any gaming. 
 
 Directions 
 
APPENDIX. 435 
 
 Diredlons for the Guard. 
 
 , Item, Certain of the guard Ihall watch nightly, 
 and thrice in the night or ottener, if occafion re- 
 quire, go their rounds, to hearken it any ill rulcordif- 
 order be in the lioufe or near it ; and after the fliut- 
 ting in of the gates, they Ihall learch all the corners 
 and by-places, that if any boys, mafterlefs men, 
 or other perfon, that is not of the Prince's retinue, 
 be found, they apprehend and commit them to the 
 porter's lodge. 
 
 Alfo two of the guard, with their halberts, fhall 
 attend at the gates to alTilt the porters in executing 
 their office, and the orders appointed to be obferved 
 by them. 
 
 I"he guard (hall not fufFer any ftrange fervlng 
 man, or other ftrangcr, to come into the great 
 chamber; and if by chance any do pafs them, the 
 ufhers and pages fhall not permit them to enter 
 the pre f.' nee. 
 
 At half an hour after ten, before dinner, and 
 half an hour after five, before fupper, when the 
 gates are fhut, they, which wait at the gates, are 
 to repair to their fellows, and be in readinefs to 
 bring up the Prince's fervice, fufrering no fbranger 
 to approach it, or fuch, unto whom it appertaineth 
 not to meddle therewithal. 
 
 Item, When the Prince is to ride abroad, upon 
 notice given, they fhall have their horfes in ready- 
 nefs to attend upon the Prince; and when he is in 
 the hoLile, they fhall diligently keep guard in the 
 great chamber, fuffering none to pafs through it, 
 who is not well known, or hath been admitted to 
 enier by Sir Thomas Chaloner. 
 
 Ff An 
 
434 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 An edablilhrnent of orders for the porters. 
 
 ---The porters are to be careful, that the great gates 
 be not opened, except it be for the bringing in of 
 fuch things, as (liall be neceffary tor the provifion 
 of the houfi^uld, and prefently fhall fliut them 
 again, leaving the wicket only open to pafs and re- 
 pafs in and out. 
 
 . ,- The porters fhall never be both It once abfent 
 from their charge, giving diligent attendance and 
 regard, that they fu[Fer none to enter in at the gates 
 but fuch only, as are contained in a roll delivered 
 them, or fhull hereafter, by warrant, permitted to 
 have recourfe hither. 
 
 Item, They are ro examine fuch, as are unknown 
 perlbns, from what place they come, and what 
 affurance they can give, that they come not from 
 infe6ied places -, and having informed themfelves, 
 with whom they delire to fpeak, before they'per- 
 mit them to enter, they Ihall give the party notice 
 -thereof, who fnall go out of the gates during this 
 dangerous time of infection, to confer with fuch 
 friend or ftranger, if they come fox their own prF- 
 vate bufinefs-, but if they be men of very good 
 note and quality, and fuch as are to be employed 
 in any fervice of the Prince, the principal officers 
 rnay permit them to enter, for difpatch of their 
 affairs only, provided that it be not at the hours 
 afTigned to keep the wicket clofe, wherein none 
 fhall be admitted but by Sir Thomas Chaloner. 
 
 If any ftrangers, that are not of good note and 
 quality, or fuch as are not admitted by Sir Thomas 
 Chaloner, be walking in the court, or other place 
 ^^i^hifl^tKe houfe, when the wicket is appointed to 
 Imu Jwrfl l^p^ ^^ ^i^^i ?5iB3 3^1) not a^iil m ui|^ 
 
APPENDIX. 435 
 
 be locked up, the porters fhall warn them to de- 
 parti;'-''' ''4 
 
 ?f' Tbc?porters (hall caule all dangers, Terving men 
 land oih'.rs, that are not men of quality, and fuffer- 
 cd to enter by Sir Thomas Chaloner*8 iicenc^, to 
 ■leave their weapons at the gate. 
 , Whofoever (hall otfer to let up any booth near 
 the gates, or to iell fruit or any thing near the 
 the fame, (hall be warned by the porters to de- 
 part prefcntiy •, which if they refufe, they fhall 
 fpeedily give Sir Thomas Chaloner notice thereof, 
 and they fliall enquire alfo, whether any booths 
 ior viflualiirg, or ufes dilaliowable, be let up in 
 any place near the Prince's houfe, and give ilPifor- 
 mation thereof as atorefaid. 
 
 And becaufe divers of the Prince's under officers 
 are to be lodged abroad, whole fervice is fuch, as they 
 mull be let in at the gates early in the miOrning, 
 the porters (hall, theretore, at five of ihe clock in 
 the morning in fummer, and at fix in winter, 
 open tl-vem the wicket, and they being entered, fhut 
 k up again, until fuch time as the houfhold is 
 rifen, and the guard have taken their places in the 
 great chamber, which in fummer fhall be at feven, 
 and in winter at half an hour pall: feven, and fhe 
 gates fhall be without fail clofed at nine of the 
 clock at night, and the keys delivered to Sir Thomas 
 Chaloner 
 
 Alvyays at half an hour paft ten in the morning, 
 and half an hour before lix in the evening, the 
 wicket fhall be clofed, and fuch as mail be near 
 the gates warned to repair to divine fervice -, which 
 warning if any rctuit to obey, the porters fhalJ 
 not permit tl\em to enter until the taJblcs be rifen; 
 afld in like fort the gates jhall b* kept fhut until 
 F f '^ one 
 
436 APPENDIX. 
 
 one of the deck in the afternoon, and feven at 
 evening in the lun^.mer time; for in winter, viz. unto 
 the firlt of May, ilie wicket fhall be fhut from the 
 clofing of dayUghc, and not opened, except it be to 
 let-in or out fuch of the houfe, as fliall have oc- 
 cafion to repair to any of the Prince's fervants for 
 the necelfiry bufinefs of the houlhold. 
 
 Item, If the porters know any that ought to 
 lodge within the Prince's houfe to lie out of it, 
 without the licence of Sir Thomas Chaloner, they 
 fhall certily the fame unto him. 
 
 Item, It they know, or be credibly informed, that 
 
 . any have converfed with infeftious perfons, or have 
 
 lately bt-en in any inieftious place, they fhall not 
 
 fuffer him or them to enter within the gates, .until 
 
 • they have aquaintcd Sir Thomas Chaloner there- 
 ■ withal. 
 
 Item, They fliall diligently view and mark fuch, 
 as come in and out at the gates, both that they 
 may take notice of their perfons, and of fuch 
 things as they bring in or carry out with them, 
 that no plate be carried forth, or other flufi' or 
 provifion imbezzled. 
 
 For the ftable, or fuch as lie out of the Prince's 
 houfe, by billet or otherwife. 
 
 i .,-.The Avenor fliall fuffer no lackeys, boys, women 
 or others to be about the ftables, that are not of 
 the Prince's ordinary grooms, or fervants to the 
 gentlemen, that are by his Majeffy permitted to 
 
 • have a certain number of horfes in the ftable. 
 
 Orders fliall always be taken at every remove, 
 
 that the Prince's horfes being firft placed, fuch 
 
 gendemen, as by fervicein the Prince's chamiber 
 
 . ordinarily to attend on his Highnefs, and have 
 
 ;w •> allowance 
 
A P P E N D I X. 437 
 
 allowance for their hoifc.% iliall be next fcrved, if 
 any room be fpare. 
 
 If any do purloin the hay or provender from 
 any horfes, or wilfully make wafte ti eicof, or fell 
 it, and take girths or other furniture from men's 
 faddles, wherewithal he ought not to meddle, he 
 Jliall be difmilTcd from his fervice in the ftablc. 
 
 . Such as have no beds (hall give in their names 
 to the Harbinger, that ihey may be billetted-, and 
 in cafe they retufe to be Kidged, they Ihall be dif- 
 milTed : notwithftanding, fome one or two fhall by 
 turns lie nightly in the ftable, to be ready to pre- 
 vent any hurt that may come by fighting of the 
 horfes, or other inconveniencies. 
 
 Whofoever fliall draw women, or others, to 
 haunt about the ftables, that are not by fuflicient 
 warrant to be there, fhal! be difmiifed. 
 
 Aifo all night-walkers, drunkards, quarrellcr?, 
 difobcdient and diforderly perfons, fliall be dif- 
 miifed, upon due proof of the quality of their 
 offence, except there be appearance, by their fub- 
 miffjon, of amendment. 
 
 In the winter feafon, or other times, when candle 
 light is required, none fhall carry any candle loofe, 
 or flick it on any wall or poft, or near to any fucti 
 thing, as may eafily, by mifchance, take fire. Like- 
 wife none fhall keep ill rule in any houfe or town, 
 where they arc billetted, as drinking, playing, or 
 ufing other diforderly courles, at hours and tinie 
 inconvenient. 
 
 None of the Prince's retinue, or oihcr fervant*?, 
 fliall keep any boys, lackeys or footmen, about the 
 liable, or in the towns adjoining, whofe names they 
 do not certify to the Clerk of the Check, who 
 fhall give notice thereof to Sir Thomas Chaloner. 
 F f 3 Orders 
 
43^ APPENDIX. 
 
 . ij Jim luoiiji// ,^.h^: b:>:)n io nor'lfc-j^o' 
 
 Orders generally to he oblerved by the whole 
 
 Itcrrjv That none lodge any Iir:ingers, or Inch 
 as are not o(d>e Jt'rince's r?ti|:iue, withip the Fxince's 
 
 houiev4. ,-,( ,.,,.■ L..,.,: ; , , ;..., ,^ , .^^_.., .;^,, . ^ 
 
 At the n'oiirs of half ah hour after ten, and half 
 an hour alter five, all men Iliall repair to divine 
 fervice, whofe office (do riot neceiraiity relMin 
 them from that duty. 
 
 No oiHcer or other fhall prefume tp^ bring any 
 llranger into the prefence-chamber, br'ocl'.er place, 
 where the Prince fhall be private, without licence 
 demanded of Sir Thomas Chaloner. 
 
 Item* That none fhall be a bufybody, to raife fe- 
 dition or any murmuring: if diforder or any mifcon- 
 tent grow through any delauk, it fhall be every 
 man's duty, that underflands it, to advertife Sir 
 Thomas Chaloner thereof. 
 
 When the Prince is walking abroad, or on 
 , horfeback, none fhall prefunie to prefs unto him, 
 but fuch as are the King's and his Highnefs's fworn 
 fcrvants, who ought to have refpeft, that they be- 
 have thcmfelves according to their ranks and places 
 wherein they ferve the Prince, and as gentlemen 
 of difcretion, that know, unto whom it appertains 
 to be next his perfon. 
 
 And whenfoever the Prince is in any journeying, 
 
 . or other paflime on horfebiick, the gentlemen, his 
 
 fervants, fhall attend him in a convenient diflance, 
 
 havinp; an eye to follow, ai>d, waic gn h^n,,, which 
 
 way foever he bendeth. .-f _ j ,,^-.,.,.,^.,- :r ^ 
 
 None of the Prince's fervants mall depart from 
 llpie hpufe to lodge abrojid, or to be abfent for any 
 9"'.^':'^P '■ ; : V cccalion 
 
APPENDIX. 439 
 
 Dccafion or neceflliry buHnefs, without firfl: havitig 
 had licence from Sir 'liiomas Chaloner. 
 
 If any change his fervant, already enrolled in 
 the Check roll, he fliail- give Sir Thomas Chalo- 
 ncr notice thereof, belore he receive him into the 
 houl'e, together with the name of him that dc;- 
 parteth, and of him that is entertained. " /T .,^ 
 
 After that the Prince is retired into his cha'm'feer, 
 the ufliers fliall caufe every man to depart from 
 thence, and to retire to their lodgings, that no 
 rumour or offcnfive noife be heard in the houfe. 
 
 If any having two ofrices ought by the virtue 
 of one (jf them to \\e lodged within the houfe, they 
 fhall not lodge any fervants with them, who arc 
 not allowed them in the book figned by his Ma- 
 jeily; neither fliall they ufe any occupation within 
 the houfe, or fuE'er their fervants, fo employed, to 
 refort to them ; neither fhall ihey entertain any, 
 for whofe good behaviour they will not be anfwer- 
 able. 
 
 If any perfon ftrike another, within the houfe, 
 he fliall be punifhed according to the ftatutes of the 
 King's houfhold •, and it he ^rayv any weapon, he 
 fliall loofe his fervice. 'V-'" - 
 
 The Clerk of the Check nibiil truly and cir- 
 cumfpedly execute his office, and nightly deliver 
 the names of fuch as are abfent or haunt the hotife 
 or table, being not allowed by Sir Thomas Cha- 
 loner. 
 
 The principal officers, in every office, fhall fee 
 that their offices be well exercifed, and kept to the 
 Prince's honour-, and that no extortion, bribery, or 
 unfitting rule, be fuffered in the fame. 
 
 All gentlemen, that have places about the Prince's 
 
 perfon, Hiall provide to have fufficient horfes or 
 
 r r 4 <^' geldifigs. 
 
 k 
 
1 
 
 440 APPENDIX. 
 
 geldings, to be in a readinefs to attend the Piince 
 whenfocver he fhall ride abroad, or have occafion ^ 
 to life them. ..h 
 
 No perfon, of what eftate or condition foever 
 he be, flial! ha\'e any fervice of the court at meal 
 times, to their chambers or out of the gate?, with- 
 out warrant, but that rhey keep the tables and 
 places appointed them for their diet. 
 
 All thofe of the i^rinie's retinue, as well as fuch 
 who are not employed in his fervice, who fhall pre- 
 fume to lodge thetnfelvcs, or any others, in any 
 town or houfe, near the Prince's houfe, without 
 billet Of the licence of Sir Thomas Chaloner, or 
 being fo billetted, Iha'l remove their lodging with- 
 out a new billet, upon notice given, fliali be 
 warned by the conftables of the parifhes to re- 
 move-, and in cafe, that any having neither warrant 
 nor billet to lodge any fuch, do, upon warning 
 given them, continue their mifdemeanour, the 
 Juftices of the Peace fhall fcverly punifh them, 
 and caufe the parties fo lodged to avoid imme- 
 diately, or, upon their refulal, extend tlie rigour of 
 the jaw againft them.,^as they will anfwer at their 
 perilsjciohi vsHj. noiiinomb^ 
 
 None (hallentertain his friend, kinfman, or other, 
 in any town or lodging near the Prince's houfe, or 
 give occafion, by their acquantance, to any, to re- 
 pair thereunto ohener, or for longer time, than 
 their necelTary bufincfs importeth, and fliall be ap- 
 pointed by Sir 7'homas Chaloner. 
 
 None fhall bring any into the houfe, under co- 
 lour of feeing the Prince, without leave demanded 
 of Sir Thomas Chaloner. -fyiicr 
 
 The reverfion left at the waiters tables, aiid other 
 officers, fhall not be taken or beflowcd by any, but 
 
 by 
 
APPENDIX. 441 
 
 by Rich, as are or fliall he deputed thereunto, ex- 
 cept it be to relieve luch, as are allowed in" the 
 book of the houfhoid, who, by ficknefs or other 
 occafion, are not permitted to enter within the gates. 
 Wherefore, whofoever lliall prefume, under pretence 
 thereof or other colour, to maintain hangbics, 
 boys, or others, with the alms, which cuight to be 
 relerved/or the poor, he fltiall be difmifitid'hi's fer- 
 vice. 
 
 In giving alms, efpecial regard fliall be had, 
 that vagrant perfons be not ruftered to interrr.ingie 
 themfelves with the poor of the parilhes adjoining j 
 and that the alms be dillributed in an open place, 
 diftant a convenient fpace from the gates or enrries, 
 where the houQiold is to go in or out, or have oc- 
 cafion ufually to relbrt. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen Ufhcrs, and Clerk of the 
 Check, fhall certity to Sir Thomas Chaloner 
 the names of all fuch, as fhall prefume to lodge, 
 or retain fuch, as ought not to lodge in the Prince's 
 houfe, or are not contained in the book figned by 
 his Majcrity ; which certificate Sir Thomas Chaky- 
 ner iTiall fend unto fome of the Lords of tlVe 
 Council, il upon his admonition they reform not 
 their offence. ur;)!:!)?'!^ /-Mi :■ 
 
 Item, It is the King's wiltkfid 'plearafe, that 
 every one fpeedily difmifs his boys and pages, Ind 
 furnifli himfelf with pcrfonable men of good qua- 
 lities, and keep no more fervants than is allov/cd 
 them in the book figned by the Lords; and in 
 cafe any have boys to keep their horfes, they ihali 
 not be fuffered to lodge or eat within the houfe. 
 
 Whofoever Ihall wilfully vifit any fick perfon?, 
 whofe difeafe may be contagious, or fuch, as come 
 from thofe, that are fuppofed to be infe(^iou«^, bf 
 
 receive 
 
442 APPENDIX, 
 
 receive cloaths or other things from t;hcm, where- 
 by infe6lion may be taken, he ihall be forbidden 
 to come near the houfe, or to confer with any 
 appertaining thereunto, fpr the fpace of a month 
 at the leaft, or longer time, as (hail feen>, r^^^gjrue 
 to Sir 1 homas Chaloner. ,. .;- .-T -,' 
 
 Whofoever Ihall grudgingly or difobediently 
 execute his office, or refufe to fubmit himfelf to 
 the ordinances already eftablifhed, or fuch as 
 upon ju'ft caufe (hall be hereafter publifhed or 
 annexed thereunto by Sir 1 homas Chaloner, he 
 iliall either be fufpended by Sir Thomas Chaloner, 
 from executing his office, or for his wilful behaviour 
 lofe his place» .aceoj4Mlg.lA«;he,qH|^it7,9;i\^is dc- 
 
 *^^'t' i pifl hnn ?}.'^i[](W'H ?irf no f>M^"'"'fi k 
 
 And to the end that no man fiiall plead ignorant 
 of any part of thefe ordinances eftabliflied, or that 
 fhall hereafter be thought necefTary to be added 
 thereunto, Sir Thomas Chalo«er fhall publifh them 
 to the houfhold, and deliver one copy thereof to the 
 ufhers and another to the principal officers, who 
 fhall be ready to ffiew the fame to any that require 
 ir, and to give fuch, as offend, or are ignorant of 
 the orders, true information thereof, when they 
 fee or hear that theyf break them. 
 
 Sir Thomas Chaloner, and the other principal 
 officers, ffiall, upon pain of his Majefty's high in- 
 dignation, from time to time, give information to 
 fome of the Lords of the King's mod honourable 
 Privy Council, of the behaviour ot fuch, as attend 
 the Prince, to the end that the dutiful aiay be ,/£- 
 warded, and the difobedient removed. -■;-,( r^^ ];. 
 
 Item, The holy communion ffiall be celebrated 
 four times in the year at the leaft, according to the 
 rules of the Church of England, and one of the 
 
APPENDIX. 443 
 
 Prince's Chaplains fhall, a week or a fortnight be- 
 fore, give warning thereof, chat all men may pre- 
 pare themfelves accordingly. 
 
 If any feign any excufe t(5 be abfcnt at'thc times 
 appointed, for the celebration of the holy com- 
 munion, or Ihall wilfully forbear, he fliall be dil- 
 mified of his krvicc. i ^M rjvjolodV/ 
 
 -■-----— • - ■ .-. lO ,33fBo Ziff 33UJ3X3 
 
 ^B ff^ul 10 .b^nlildpflo ybB^tlB pwncnibio sHt 
 o barflOrders for his Hig'hnefs's Chapelf^i[ noqo 
 
 Henry P. o ,,j b^bnaqlul ^di^din Iferft' 
 
 FIRST, for the honour and fervice of God, 
 every month two Chaplains fhall be appointed 
 to attend on his Highnefs and his houfliold, >\*ho 
 fliall follow the orders ufed in his Majefty's houfe, 
 and fliall not depart from their fervice, without 
 leave obtained, and fupplying their place by fuch, 
 as the Chamberlain to his Highnefs fliall allow of. 
 
 The ConfcflTor fliall duly adminifter the commu- 
 nion unto the houfhold the firrt Sunday in every 
 month, whereof netice fliall be given by the faid 
 Confeflbr Ibme fourteen days before every fuch 
 time, to the end thofe, that are to communicate, 
 may prepare themfelves for the fame. 
 
 And the faid Confeflbr fhall every day, at a con- 
 venient hour, read divine fervice in the faid chapel 
 unto the houfliold; and efpecial notice fliall be ta- 
 ken by the yeomen of the veftry of thofe, that 
 fliall omit, or at any time fail (being in the hauk) 
 to repair to divine fervice, and to the fermons, 
 that there fliall be preached, to die end, that due 
 animadverfion may be ufed to fuch defaulters, 
 without they be impedimented by their ncceflkry 
 
 .^ . frHarl. MSS, Vol. 21:2. Vol. 642. fol. 2 c 4, verfo. 
 
 attendance 
 
444 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 actenclancc in their offices, or by fome otliCr very 
 urr;ent occafions. 
 
 The yeomen of the vedry fhall be careful, that 
 upon days appointed for fermons, the chapel be 
 decently ordcieJ, rekrving one fide thereof for his 
 Highnefs's officers 5 and fhall have clpecial re- 
 gard, that the feats be not peilered and taken up, 
 by nien of mean quality, but that there may be 
 convenient room for his lii^^hnefs's fervants. 
 
 When his Highnefs is to go to the chapel, the 
 gentlemen, whofc fervice is in the prefence- cham- 
 ber, fliall go before, and his chief officers fliall go 
 next his perfon, and after his pcrfon thofe of the 
 privy-chamber and bed-chamber. 
 
 If any man fl^all wiltully forbear to receive the 
 holy communion in manner, as is aforefaid, or at 
 the lead twice in the year ; that is to fay, at Eafter 
 and at ChrKtmas ; and being admoniflied thereof, 
 ihall not within convenient time conform himfelf, 
 and receive the fame in fuch reverent and religious 
 manner, as is fitting, he fhall be difmifi'ed his High- 
 nefs's fervice, and com.manded to depart his houfe. 
 
 The like order (hall all maflers obferve v/ith their 
 fervants, if they refufe or ncgled: the fame, 
 
 1 here fhall be no gaming or exercifes ufcd with- 
 in the court, or near the gates, in the time of di- 
 vine fervice or lermons : and if there be any, after 
 admonition, that fhall continue their fiid play or 
 cxercife at fuch time as is aforefaid, then the porter 
 iTnall inform the chief officers of their contempt, 
 to the end they may give them fuch reproof and 
 chailifement, as in their difcretion fliall feem fit. 
 
 Item, One of the yeomen of the veftry fliall 
 take a note of all fuch, as receive the communion, 
 as well of mailers as of fervants, and deliver it to 
 
 the 
 
APPEND I_X. 245 
 
 the officers of the white Haves, to the end it may 
 be known, who have omitted to receive, that or- 
 der may be taken accordingly. 
 
 Item, The Gentlemen U fliers both of the privy- 
 chamber and prefence, when the Prince fliall be in 
 his oratory at morning and evening prayers, fliall 
 not permit the gentlemen and others to remain 
 within the faid chamber, but Ihall caufe them to 
 repair unto the fliid oratory, where they (hall give 
 their attendance in fuch devout and reverent mm- 
 ner, as appertaineth ; and fliall ule no talking, nor 
 make any other noife, whereby either their own 
 devotions may be diverted, or that of others im- 
 perii mcnted. 
 
 Orders for his Kighncfs's Privy- chamber*. 
 
 TH E gentlemen of the privy-chamber, at their 
 times appointed for their waiting, Ihall give 
 .their due attendance, and four of them at leaft: 
 fliall lie nightly in the privy-chamber, to be in 
 readinefs upon any occafion, wherein their fervicc 
 may be ured,'and their beds to be removed every 
 morning by the grooms. Neither fliall any of the 
 gentlemen's fervants enter into the privy-chamber 
 with their apparel or other nccefiari;.s, but deliver 
 .them at the door ro the groom for them. 
 
 That four of the grooms of the privy-chamber 
 fhall at all times of the day be waiting in the privy 
 chamber, to perform fuch fervices as appert.iincth 
 to them i and during their atrendancc there, ac- 
 cording to the antient order of the King's houlc, 
 fliall forbear to wear their cloaks and fwords. 
 
 The Gentlemen Ufliers of the privy-chamber, 
 or one of them at the leafl:, fliall give their attea- 
 
 * Harl. MSS, Vol. 252. and Voi.6^2. fol. 25 j, vciTo. 
 
 da:5ce 
 
446 APPENDIX. 
 
 dance in the privy-chamber, to fee all things there 
 in good order agiinft his Highnefs's comir>g int<i 
 the lame ; and that none fhall enter or come into 
 the privy-chamber, but fuch, as fhiK be allowed 
 by his Highnefs under his afllgnation, and fuch 
 as are his Highnefs's Iworn fci vants tor that c'ham- 
 ber. 
 
 5cJ Orders for the Prefcnce-chambcrjin lie ic 
 
 Tri E Gentlemen Ufhers, Daily Waiters, and 
 Qiiarter Waiters, fliall not fuffer any to enter 
 into the prefencc-chamber, unlefs they be fuc1i of 
 his Highnefs's fervants, and other men of quality, 
 as are fit to have accefs in the faid place, and fhall 
 have a care to fee the faid chambers well furniihed 
 with gentlemen, that ftrangers and men of quality, 
 that fliall refort unto his Highnefs's court, may 
 not find it empty, i-'-ii^-' '^y ,^i:>^(ifciji u<-'.ii laav. 
 
 Alfo the Gentlerh^n I5fhef fliall' bte' cafefut t^' feb 
 and inform all fuch, as do ffrvice in the Prince's 
 €ye, that they perform their duties -, and they fhall 
 have a fpecial regard to reprove fuch, as fhall be fo 
 hardy as to behave themfelves unreverently before 
 the Prince, cither in fpeech or adlion, as prelTing 
 too near his perfon, or approaching the flate, &'f. 
 
 The Gentlemen Cupbearer, Carver and Sewer, 
 fhall be t*eady attending in the prefence- chamber 
 every day befor<? eleven of the clock in the morn- 
 ing and fix in the evening, there to receive diredtion 
 from the Gentlemen Ulhers, concerning his High- 
 nefs's fervice. 
 
 The pages of preferice are fo lie every night in 
 the lower end of the prefence-chamber, and al- 
 ways to be in readinefs to make fires, to * * the 
 chamber, and to receive direftion from fuch, as arc 
 
 to 
 
APPENDIX. 447 
 
 to command them in any matter concerning his 
 Highncls's fervice. 
 
 After that the Prince is retired to .his lodgings, 
 the Gentleman Ufher within a convenient time (hall 
 caufe every man to depart to their chamljgr out of 
 the prefence and privy-chamber, to the end that no 
 offenfive noife or rumour be made in the houlc -, 
 and that at eight of the clock in the evening fervice 
 for all night be brought up, and the traverfe be 
 drawn. Ihat one of the Gentlemen Ufliers of the 
 prcfence-chamber fliall always keep tO; the waiters 
 table, and be there ready with the waiters to' fit 
 down immediately after the Prince rifeth from his 
 repaft -, and provide, that there be good order, as 
 well in receiving the diet, as in civil and good be- 
 haviour, by the gentlemen allowed to" thac board. 
 And that he fuifer not any of them to bring in gen- 
 tlemen and Grangers, by which the board fhould 
 be peftcred : only the carver, or with his allowan- 
 ces, according to the antient cuftom of the table, 
 to admit of one gentleman at a time, and no 
 more : and that none allowed at this board fhall 
 have more than one man to attend him there : and 
 that neither tht Carver, Sev/er, Gentleman Ufher, 
 nor other in ordinary au his table, fliall give away 
 any meat, but that the fame Ihall be all fafe and 
 untouched kept by the page appointed to the 
 fame. ,^. 
 
 A Not«' af fuch, as are to fit at the Waiters-table, 
 being ol his Highnefs's fervants *. 
 
 A Gentleman Uflier, Daily Waiter. 
 The Cup-bearer, Carver, and Sewer. 
 Four Gentlemen of the privy chamber. 
 
 , .• Harl. MSS. Vol. 293. fol, 203. ^d VpuV^z,:^!. z^^. 
 verfo. 
 
 Five 
 
4^S APPENDIX. 
 
 Five Grooms of the bed chamber. 
 
 The Prince's page. 
 
 Four Grooms ot the privy chamber. 
 
 Tvjo Pages of the chamber. 
 
 And every of them to have a man, except the 
 two pages. 
 
 Alfo it is his Highnefs*s pleafure, that the reft of 
 the gentlemen not dieted at the waiters board fhall 
 be thus diftribiited. 
 
 The Cup- bearer. Carver, and Sewer, that wait not 
 that day, to fit with his Highnefs's chamberlain. 
 
 The four other gentlemen of the privy-cham- 
 ber, and the ufher of the fame, two of them to 
 be with the groom of the ftole, and the reft with 
 the treafurer and comptroller ; every of them aie 
 allowed one. man, where they take their meat. 
 
 Orders for his Highnefs's guard. 
 
 TH E yeom.en of the guard fliall diligently 
 keep guard in the great chamber, fuffering no 
 ftranger to pafs through, unlefs they be well known. 
 
 Alfo two of them fhall, with their halberds, at- 
 tend the gate, to aiTifl; the porters to execute their 
 office and orders, appointed to be obferved in time 
 of infedion, or other occafions. 
 
 They fliall be efpecially careful to keep the 
 chamber free from ten of the clock in the morn- 
 ins until one, and from four in the evenino- until 
 feven ; that his Highncfs may quietly take his 
 repaft in the prefcnce. 
 
 The 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 449 
 
 The prices of flefh, as the Prince payeth, and 
 the weight, as they are agreed for with the pur- 
 veyors. 
 
 An ox (hould weigh 600 lb. the four quarters ; 
 and commonly 9 1. 10 s. or thereabouts. 
 
 A mutton fliould weigh 46 lb. or 44 lb. and 
 rhey coft by the (lone 2S. 3d. the (tone being 8 lb. 
 
 Veals go not by weight, but by goodnefs only : 
 their price is commonly 17 s. or thereabouts. 
 
 Lambs at 6 s. 8 d. the piece. 
 
 The names of the Prince's Highnefs*s fervants be- 
 longing to the chamber, with their wages, and 
 board-wages *. 
 
 Wages. 
 
 Chamberlain. 
 Sir Thomas Chaloner 
 
 Secretary. 
 Adam Newton 
 
 66 
 
 s. 
 
 '3 
 
 4 
 
 Groom of the Stole. 
 Sir David Murray — 
 
 22 6 8 
 
 — — Diet. 
 
 Diet or board' 
 wages. 
 
 \ Diet or boards 
 I wages. 
 
 Cup-bearers. 
 
 Roger Palmer — — 20 o o 
 Francis Godolphin — 20 o o 
 Sir Thomas Waynman, 
 Extraordinary. 
 
 • Had. MSS. Vol. 252. 
 
 Carvers. 
 
456 APPENDIX. 
 
 H -il/i Wages. 
 Carvers. ' ' /. s, d. 
 
 Sir Arthur Mainw^ring 20 o o 
 Edward Salter — —-20 o o 
 
 Sewers. 
 
 Sir Thomas V erney — 20 o O; ,.:i 
 
 Humphrey Courtyere 20 o o 
 
 Leggate, Extra, ^^^^^^ __ ^^. 
 
 Gentlemen Ufliers of the 
 Privy-chamber. 
 
 Sir Robert Darcy — 20 o o 7 -. . ^ 
 
 Sir William Erwyne 2000^ ^^*^ 
 
 Gentlemen of the Privy-chamber in Ordinary* 
 
 Sir Peregrine Bertie Sir Andrew Murray 
 
 Sir William Fleetwood Sir John Levifon 
 Sir Philip Gary Sir Robert Car 
 
 Sir John Danvers Mr. Moore 
 
 Sir Thomas Woodhoufe Mr. Clare 
 Sir John Wentworth Mr. Southcote 
 Sir George Goring Mr. Dallingtort-^.^"-'^-' 
 
 Sir Thomas Erefkinc Mr, Inneys. 
 
 Sir Edward Lewis ' *' '"' 
 
 Gentlemen of the Privy-chamb6fExtra6rdiriafy, 
 
 Mr. Bridges Sir William Maynard 
 
 Sir Thomas Mildmay, Sir Thomas Cornwall 
 Knt. and Bart. . Sir Richard Tichborne 
 
 Sir Henry Peyton Sir William Douglas 
 
 Sir Henry Bowyer Sir Robert Philips 
 
 Sir 
 
Sir Robert Yaxeley 
 Sir Francis Leigh 
 Sir Francis Wortley 
 Sir Thomas Panton 
 Sir George Ramfey 
 Sir William Alexander 
 
 ]VIr. -^ Pawlet 
 
 Mr. Brockec 
 
 Mr. James Murrey 
 
 Mr. Blunte 
 
 Mr. Conock 
 
 Mr. Gerrarde 
 
 APPENDIX. 45r 
 
 Mr. Henry Younge 
 Mr.——* Stevens 
 Mr. -^-^ — Walfingham 
 Mr. ■ — — . Colbourne 
 
 Mr. Glemman 
 
 Mr. $,av.age 
 
 Mr. AHifield 
 
 Mr. Robert Knowles 
 Mr. John Woodward 
 Mr. Nowell ' ' 
 Mr. Tufton. 
 
 Grooms of the Bed-chamber. 
 
 Wages. 
 
 »3 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 William Haydone — 
 Jiohn Sandlaufe — — 
 Thomas Barchemore — 
 David Ramfey — — 
 Henry Gibh^^^TTr'^ITP 13 
 
 Page of Honour. 
 Archibald Primrofe — 21 
 
 J. 
 16 
 
 16 
 16 
 16 
 16 
 
 81 
 
 > 
 
 10 4-^ 
 
 Board- wages 
 and Livery. 
 
 Gentlemen Ufhers Daily- 
 Waiters. 
 
 Anthony Abyng 
 Walter Alexa 
 John Lumley 
 
 ,10. 
 
 -ngton — 20 o 0*1 
 
 nder — 20 o o > — • 
 
 — — 20 o oj 
 
 — Diet. 
 
 Teacher of Mufick. 
 Walter Quine — — 50 o o 
 
 Gg2 
 
 Bowo 
 
452 APPENDIX. 
 
 Bow-bearer and Mafler of the Hounds. 
 
 'r.-':^\^-' I. S. d. 
 
 Nich. Drake — — ,^ — — 13168 
 
 :r, r 
 Groonps j^f^he Privy-chamber in Ordinaty^^^H 
 
 : ^ (.00 o-^^g"- ;n;i-ife^^c"^ 
 
 /. s. d. /. J. d, 
 
 John Harrlfon .^^-rf 13 6 8 26 13 4 
 
 John Young — — 13 6 8 26 13 4 
 
 Mich. Cavendilh — 1368 26 13 4 
 
 Thomas Trotter ■ 13 6 8 26 13 4 
 
 Thomas Davis — —^^13 6 8 26 13 4 
 
 Robert Hammond — 13 6 8 2613 4 
 
 Grooms of the Privy-chamber Extraordinary. 
 — —Herbert, John Wy dope, Simon Roberts. 
 
 Gentlemen Ufhers, Quarterly- Walters. 
 
 * Wages. 
 t.i ,j. a. 
 Peter Newton — — -i.- W ' o o?r^j 
 James Shaw — -^ ^i-a -^s- 10=° o ^3 ^ * 
 
 Wages. Board-wages. Livery. 
 
 Barber. , j i~'y 7 j 
 
 /. s. d, ^, j_^ d.. I. J. Ot 
 
 Walter Meek 20 00. ^8 i3)3ftiYHfl^3 4 
 
 Pages of the -^ _ _ aoba^W m^. . .^ 
 Bed-chamber. *^.^ ■ 
 
 Rob. Murray f 3*4^ 'm^©i^"«PBom-<l-'pS:^4 6 
 
 Hugh Hcnnc ^^ 4 ot Wages. 526 4 ^ 
 
 • ^ :^ O' Pages 
 
A P P END I X. 453 
 
 cStnuo Pages of the Chamber; i^a v : 
 
 .Si /I' X Wages. Livery. 
 
 8 ^r T* ^' s. d. ?--[--L s. d. 
 
 Thomas Pett — — 40 o o") ("4 13 4 
 
 Henry Draper — -- 40 o olpjct J4 13 4 
 Robert Lee — — — 40 o o T * j4 13 4 
 John Chellham — -«i- 40 o oj 14 13 4 
 
 Keeper of the Library. 
 
 Wages. 
 
 Edward Wright — — ^j-— .. 30 :0,~;D 
 
 rhyfician. ' -- ~ 
 Dr. Hammond — — — 140 o o 
 
 Apothecary:^^^— F'?" '"^ -^ ' 
 
 Ralph Clayton — iU ;V^2-«*;ioJo * 'g:' : 4 
 
 Chirureeon. ^ r.^^ 
 
 Lewis Rogers - :j£ .^nrfl^j^iy'-g - 
 
 Grooms of the Great Chamber 
 in Ordinary. 
 
 John Evans — — — — 53 4 o' 
 
 Henry Prefcot — — — 53 4 o 
 
 Thomas Henne — — — 53 4 o 
 
 Thomas Kenvet — — — 53 4 oij^.^^ 
 
 Bennet Kyble — — — 53 4 o 
 
 Anthony Hylden «— *— 53 4 o 
 
 John Drewe — — — ^ 53 4 o 
 
 William Weedon — — 53 4 o. 
 
 Groom of the Great Chamber Extraordinary. 
 
 William Pryde, 
 
 G g 3 Groora 
 
454 APPENDIX. fl 
 
 Groom Porter. 
 
 Wages. 
 
 Thomas Corn watlis' ' — r- 5^ 4?" o7yx. 
 
 And for his man --, -^ — 26 8 o J ^^^^' 
 
 The Robes. 
 Chrifl. Lcnman, Clerk of the Robes and Wardrobe. 
 
 Wages. ^ivery. 
 
 .. _ I s.d. ^"^^^^ s. d. 
 
 Alex. XVilibn, Teoman 100 o ol t\^ o o 
 
 John Harte, Groom — 5^ 4 o(t-s. ^ J 40 o o 
 Gawine Bov^man, Page 40 oof j 20 o o 
 
 George Eeale, Page— 40 o oj (_2o o o 
 
 l^acher to Dance. 
 Thomas Giles — — 50 o o 
 
 Wardrobe of Beds, 
 
 Wages. 
 
 I. 5. d, 
 Hugh Bower, Yeoman 100 o oIt^* 
 John Fince, Groom — 53 4 c>J ^ ' 
 
 Keeper of the Clofet. 
 T^ -n *? Diet with the 
 
 henry Burton :m° °> Chaplams. 
 
 Chaplains, that attend by two and two every month. 
 
 Dr. Milbourne Dr. Swaile 
 
 Dr. Sutton Dr. Prideaux 
 
 Dr. Hall Dr. Kylby 
 
 Dr. Fouwnes Dr. WiUet 
 
 Dri 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 455 
 
 Dr. Snowdon 
 
 Mr. Milwood 
 
 Mr. Bayly 
 
 Mr. Priore 
 
 Mr. Eaton . 
 
 Mr. Whiting 
 
 Mr. Lee 
 
 Mr. Brooke 
 
 Mr. Barlow 
 
 Mr. Cropley 
 
 Mr. Middleton. 
 
 Mr. Smith 
 
 Mr. Lancafter 
 
 Mr. Chapman 
 
 Mr. Daye 
 
 Mr. Jones. 
 
 
 MuGcians. 
 
 Dr. Bull 
 
 Mr. Hearne 
 
 Mr. Lupo 
 
 John Afliby 
 
 Mr. Johnfon 
 
 Valentine Sawyer 
 
 Mr. Mynors 
 
 Matthew Johnfon 
 
 Mr. Jones 
 
 Edw. Wormall 
 
 Mr. Ford 
 
 Thomas Day 
 
 Mr. Cutting 
 
 Sig. Angelo. 
 
 Mr. Stinte 
 
 Comedians and Players.' 
 
 Thomas Towne 
 
 Anthbny Jeffes 
 
 Thomas Downton 
 
 Edward Colbrande 
 
 William Byrde 
 
 William Parre 
 
 Samuel Rowley 
 
 Richard Pryore 
 
 Edw. Jubye 
 
 William Stratford 
 
 Charles Maflye 
 
 Francis Grace 
 
 Humphrey Jeffes 
 
 John Shanke. 
 
 Treafurer. Wages. 
 
 
 /. s.d. 
 
 Sir Charles Cornwallis, Knt. — 80 o o Diet. 
 
 Comptroller. 
 
 Sir John Hollis : 
 
 — . — — 72 Diet. 
 
 7 
 
 G g 4. Cofferer* 
 
456 APPENDIX. 
 
 H 3DaiiQpferef^i:i;: Wages:..-. 
 
 Sir David Fi)ulis*^ii^'-Um£*fil^^ 60 6 'dj't)iet. 
 
 Clerk Comptroller. 
 Richard Maudiey,\—. -- , — 22 o o Diec. 
 
 ., \ ^ , Valette Hoftycr. -!-i^pS;,,t/ 
 
 Richard Kymne, Yeoman 100 o o Diet. 
 
 Mafter of the Horfe.. •:;£§ c ' 
 Sir Robert Douglas, Knt.^^^'*^? — — — 
 
 Efqaii^es. 
 
 Sir William ;Webb, Knt. — — 20 o o? pj. 
 Mr. Hetleyniiostbfwyi/A — — 20 o o C^^^^ 
 
 ^, , 3nrt "'"'^^ ~ 
 
 ^■■- '^^■"''^French Equerries. 
 
 Monf. St. AnLhoine,%7^^r , ,,_ Monf. La Cofte, 
 Monf. Beauclerc. 
 
 John King, Mafler of the Prince's Ship. 
 John Reynolds, Mafter-Gunner. 
 Robert Tyndali Gunner. ' t- 1^^^^^^ 
 Mr. Inigo Jones, Surveyor of the Works. 
 Mr. Smith, Pay-mafter and Gverfeer of the 
 
 Works. ■ ■ -.':■-".!-; 03 -ga;^■......;.r^..wi r_ 
 
 George Blaftone, Keeper of the Riding-Houfe 
 
 at St. James*s,''--'^'-^^ 3m.e! ^aj oigin^iox^^ 
 
 5^4\;tj»!>i iiX u «..:.. V ■sua Wa {Vk^-<iVi\\'ii>p \' < 
 
 o«^j»»\ ,via\W\-\(» xvwi^t»'^VA\i;, The 
 
A P P E N D I X. 
 
 457 
 
 The copy of the book figned by Prince Flcnry, 
 for the allowance of Diet, Wages, Board- 
 Wages, Rewards, and Liveries,- belonging unto 
 his Chamber, Houfhold, and Scabies: Anno 
 Domini 1610*. ..;.-.,:.,..-. ^..ji.^ 
 
 For the Prince's 
 
 Hio-hnefs s'Breakrail. 
 
 J. Jrjjji^ ^ 
 
 fervice 
 
 Manchetf 2 
 
 Cheat fine J a - •..;-: -,'Y .^amxH b«: .. 
 
 Cheat 4 Mutton i fervice 
 
 Beer 3 gallons lafleM 
 
 Wine . . 1 pitcher Chic.ken&oQ -■!»-?-.*« 1 ' 
 
 Upon a Flefh Day. ' ' 
 
 Dinner. 
 Manchet fine 5 - 
 Cheat fine 4 
 Cheat coarfe 12 
 Beer and Ale 10 gallons 
 Wine 
 
 Supper. 
 
 Manchet fine 5 
 
 Cheat fine 4 
 
 Cheat coarfe 1 2 
 
 _ Beer and Ale 10 gallons 
 
 qpitchers Wine :'." q pitchers 
 
 Mutton boiled 2 fervices 
 Veal boiled 2 fervices 
 Chickens boil. 3 
 Pigeons boiled 4 
 Beef i "x> • i fervice 
 
 Mutton boiled i fervice 
 
 Veal boiled 
 Chickens boil 
 Pigeons 
 Mutton road 
 
 1 fervice 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 2 fervices 
 
 * Harl. MSS. Vol. 252, FoK j, and Vol. 642, FoL 241. 
 
 f Manchet, according to Harrifon, in his De/cription o/En^- 
 latid, prefixed to Hollingfhedd, p. 138. is xVepjl and mofi ex- 
 telltnt Bread, nubich iKe comriKnly. caV "i-vlsite Bread. 
 
 X Cheats according to the fame Writer, er tueaten breads is 
 fo named, hecaufe the colour thereof refemhleth the grey or yellcnv of 
 ivheat, being clean and nvell drr£ed\ and out cf this is the coarjeji 
 ■cf the bran, ufiially called gurgeons or pollard, taken. 
 
 Dinner. 
 
458 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 Veal 
 
 2 feryices 
 
 Supper. 
 Veal road 2 fervicea 
 
 ;qin3 
 
 Shoulder of 7 
 Mutton S 
 Leg of Mutton I 
 Goofe 
 Capon 
 Chickens 
 Partridges 
 Conies 
 Lamb 
 Lapwings 
 
 Conies to bake i pye 
 Pears i pye 
 
 Chewets i fcrvice 
 
 Cuftard i 
 
 Tart - )i- /I . 
 
 Leg of Mutton 1 
 
 I 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 quarter 
 
 3 
 
 Tongue 
 
 Capon 
 
 Chickens 
 
 Lapwings 
 
 Partridges 
 
 Larks 
 
 Conies 
 
 Lamb 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 2 
 
 18 
 
 3 
 
 quarter 
 
 Conies to bake 1 pye 
 
 Tongues 2 
 
 Pears 
 
 Dulccts 
 
 Tart 
 
 Manchets 
 Beer 
 
 Wine 
 
 The collation after Supper, 
 
 4 ferviccs 
 I 
 
 ^•^^"■- ^' ^ gallons; 
 
 J:.'. 
 
 ««. 03 ^m aaii-, loliaajqnpi" pitcher. 
 
 Diet for the Prince's HJghnefs, viz. 
 
 Upon a Fi(h Day. 
 Dinner. Supper. 
 
 Bread, Beer, Ale and Wine, as upon a Flefh Day. 
 Chickens boil. 4 Chickens boil. 4 
 
 Mutton boiled 2 fervices Mutton boiled i fervlcc 
 Veal boiled i fervice Veal boiled i fervice 
 Lamb boiled quarter Lamb quarter 
 
 '' p^)'Mv Duiner» 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 459 
 
 Dinner. 
 Shoulder of Tft U^V 
 Mutton roaft J i^ ^., -, 
 Veal roaft 2 lervlces 
 Leg of Mutton I 
 Capon in greafe inoqB J 
 Chickens sAoiilO 
 
 Partridges z-v;qp.l 
 
 Supper. 
 S(u?toi? roaft 2 fervices 
 
 Lapwings 
 
 Larks 
 
 Conies 
 
 Pears 
 
 Cuftard 
 
 Tart 
 
 Ling 
 
 Pike 
 
 Carp 
 
 Whitings 
 
 I pye 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I fcrvice 
 1 fervice 
 I 
 I fervice 
 
 Veal roaft. 
 
 Capon .;T 
 
 Chickens 
 
 Partridges 
 
 Snipes 
 
 Conies 
 
 Lapwings 
 
 Pears 
 
 Dulcets 
 
 Tart 
 
 Ling 
 
 Pike 
 
 Carp 
 
 Whitings 
 
 Haddocks 
 
 nfz fervices 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 3 
 3 
 
 I pye 
 
 I fervice 
 
 I 
 
 1 fervice 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I fervice 
 
 1 fervice 
 
 A Diet of one mefs of eight xiifhes to the Cham- 
 berlain ; one mefs to the Treafurer; one mefs to 
 the ComptroUor ; one mefs to the Secretary i and 
 one mefs to the Groom of the Stole. 
 
 Upon a Flefh Day. 
 
 Dinner. 
 Manchets fine i 
 Cheat 8 
 
 Beer 4 gallons 
 
 Gafcoigne-winei pitcher 
 Sack 
 
 Beef and 7 ^ ^Z 
 Mutton J ' ^^'•^^^^ 
 Veal roafted 2 fervjces 
 
 Supper. 
 Manchets i 
 Cheat 8 
 
 Beer 4 gallons 
 
 Gafcoigne-winei pitcher 
 Sack 
 
 Mutton boiled irfervice 
 
 Mutton roaft 2 fervices 
 Dinner. 
 
460 
 
 A P P E N D IX. 
 
 Dinrier.' , . i_ 
 Capon in greaie i '^ r • p 
 Chickens 5 
 
 Suits :;i .1 bslio^nojJuM 
 Lamb/ 
 Cuftard 
 Tare 
 
 3f^' 
 
 n.ojVfo%^M 
 noqc3 
 23ino3 
 
 Sijpji . 
 Capon in greafefS'O^jfip 
 
 baa 
 
 Chickens 
 
 Cocks 
 
 Lamb 
 
 Diilcets 
 
 Tart 
 
 noqfiD 
 ?.3;nOv. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 Diet to the Chamberlain, Trcafurer, Comptrollarj^ 
 Secretary, and Groom of the Stole. 
 
 " ^'"' '-v'; : .: ■ — .... :a3»ia /i. 
 UponaFiOiDay^ 2i3r{lU'n3m. 
 Dinner. -•- -^^ ^^^^~^^ ^"*^ - Supper. . •^• 
 Bread, Beer and Wine, as upon a Flefh Day. 
 Ling and Cod 2 fervices Ling and Cod 2 fervicps; 
 
 Pike 
 
 Whiting 
 
 Gurnard 
 
 Soals 
 
 Plaice 
 
 Cuftard 
 
 Tart 
 
 Jfc; 
 
 ^ 
 
 I 
 
 I • 
 
 I pair \ 
 
 :;30Lno:'iulyi 
 3tisiX> noqfiD 
 
 Pike 
 
 Whiting' 
 
 Gurnard 
 
 Soals 
 
 Plaice 
 
 Dulcets 
 
 Tart ■ 
 
 I ;, ; 
 
 I lervice 
 .. I fervicc 
 
 Butter fweet i IB. 
 
 Butter fweet 1 lb. 
 
 A Diet of one mefs of fix diflies to the Cofferer 5 
 one mefs to the Clerk ComptroIIor j and one 
 mefs the chief Cl^rk of the Kitchen. 
 
 lr>3fji3 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 Manchet fine i 
 Cheat 6 
 
 Beer 3 gallons 
 
 Ti3nni(i 
 
 .'r:.Ci. 
 
 Supper. 
 
 Manchet fine i. 
 
 Cheat 6 
 
 Beer 3 galloAS 
 
 ■ Dinner, 
 
A P P-E N:I>.I-Xi 
 
 461 
 
 Dinner, 
 
 Supper. 
 
 Gafcoignc-winei pitcher Gafcoigne-winei pitcher, 
 
 I 
 
 Sack 
 Beef and 
 
 Mutton . 
 Veal road 
 Capon 
 Conies 
 Cuftard 
 T4rt ■' '^^-^ 
 
 1 fervicc 
 
 2 fervices 
 1 
 
 2 
 I 
 
 'X 
 
 rSll/lBSlT 
 
 ^^^^ ?^ zna^bifiO 
 
 Mutton boiled i fervicePi 
 
 Mutton rbaft 2 fervices 
 Capon I 
 
 Comes 2 
 
 Dulcets 1 fervicc 
 
 Tart -nrrfDsrij 
 
 ^!o32 3nJ ^o rnoojt) bn£ ^Yri6:3i03'i 
 A Diet of one mefs of five difhes to the Gentle- 
 men Ufiiers Daily-Waiters; one mefs to the 
 Equerries; and one mefs to the fccond Clerk of 
 the Kitchen. 
 
 gallons 
 
 Dinner. 
 Cheat fine i 
 Cheat coarfc 4 .,-,.! 
 Beer 2 gallc 
 
 Wine I pitcher 
 
 Beef I fcrvice 
 
 Yeal 1 fervicc 
 
 Capon coarfe i 
 Conies .^.^i ^^^ g 
 
 Baked meats x 
 
 .^niW 'bm /35^l .bfistS 
 
 Cheat fine 
 Cheat coarfe 
 Beer 
 Wine 
 
 Mutton boiled 
 Mutton roatt 
 Capon coarfc 
 Dulcets 
 Conies 
 
 4;' :^-,^^ 
 2 gallons 
 
 I pitcher 
 
 I fervice, 
 
 I ferviccv 
 
 I ferviceii 
 I 
 
 A Diet of one mefs of four difhes to the Clerk of 
 the Spicery ; one mefs to the Avenor; one mefs to 
 the Chaplains ; one mefs to the Ry^bes ; and one 
 mefs to the eight Grooms of the Great Chamber. 
 
 Dinner. Supper. 
 
 Cheat fine i 
 
 Cheat coarfe 3 * Cheat coarfe 
 2 gallons Bc^r 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 Cheat fine ''''i'' 
 
 f Beer 
 
 ■A 
 
 2 gallons 
 
462 
 
 appendix: 
 
 -'^^^Ater?^^'^^ ''^' - ^-^ Supper. 
 Btef -■■^^''*^'^ 'i?e^vi^^~' Mutton i fervice 
 
 Veal I fervice Mutton roaft i fervice 
 
 Conies i ,>3iau^ Conies i 
 
 Baked meat i Dulcets i fervice 
 
 to^ cl9-ibnu£j orll 01 rftib pno Vo ^iCf / 
 A Diet of one mefs'of' tliree'difhesto the Gentle- 
 men Ufhers of the Privy-chamber, and fix mefs 
 of Houfhold Officers, four to every mefs. 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 Cheat coarfe 3 
 
 Beer 
 
 Beef 
 
 "Veal roaft 
 
 Conies 
 
 Supper. 
 Cheat coarfe 3 
 1 gallon Beer i gallon 
 
 1 fervice Mutton boiled i fervice 
 1 fervice Mutton roaft i fervice 
 I Conies i 
 
 A Diit'tf^?lffi^'Bite^^J^Diet''^f9M'S& k 
 
 three difhes to the 
 
 unto Mr. Connok, 
 when he (hall wait 
 upon the Prince. 
 
 ^{landing Ward-robe, 
 during the Princess 
 Highnefs*s being »c 
 Richmon4._^, { \/i 
 
 A Diet of one mefs of two difhes to the Gentle- 
 men Ufher, Quarter- Waiters J one mefs to the 
 Pages of the Bed-chamber ; one mefs to the 
 Ward-robe of Beds; and one mefs to the 
 Groom Porter. 
 
 •• v; Dinner. Supper. 
 
 Cheat coarfe 2 Cheat courfe 2 ^ 
 
 Beer i gallon Beer '- ^^^t'>,n.t'::i gallon 
 
 Beef I fervice Mutton boiled i fervice 
 
 Conies i ' Conies i 
 
 A 
 
APPEND IX. 463 
 
 A Diet of two difhes to the Keeper of the Houfe ; 
 once in the Day, viz. per Dinner. 
 
 Cheat coarfb^'^^^fii'J*^^^' Vear •; ^ i fervice 
 
 Beer i gallon Conies ' i -• 
 
 A Diet of one difh to the Laundrefs for the body; 
 and one difii to the Clock-keeper, y'lt, per 
 Dinner. ■ ;! •-.-^--.•- »^- .'^ -..;; .v . ,..iIlU 
 
 Cheat coaiTe' i vear -i iervice 
 
 Beer halt a gallon. mnlQ. 
 
 For the Yeoilrien of the Guard. * 
 
 Cheat tbatft 14 Beer 2 gallon^ 
 
 Beef or Mutton 1 fervice. '^X**^^ * 
 
 A declaration of the bouge of court of every par- 
 , ticular allowance to be i'erved to any perfon being 
 lodged within the Prince's court j and inabfence 
 ■.' ., tbi boug9 to ceafe * : 
 
 MR. Chamberlain, Mr. Treafurer, Mr. Comp- 
 trollor, Mr. Secretary, and Grv>om of the 
 Stole, every of them, to have for their bouge of 
 court per diem one mahchet, one cheat-loaf, and 
 one gallon of beer ; and from the laft of Septem- 
 ber to the laft of February, half a pound of white 
 lights, three torches for the week, four tailHieids, 
 and four faggots per diem-f and from the firft of 
 March till the firft of Ofbober, to have the moiety 
 of the faid white lights and wood, and three links 
 per /eptmana?n in mntQT. .,.■ .^ .< I 
 
 * Harl MSS. ypl^ §4«. foif. 253'. verfo. 
 
464 APPENDIX. 
 
 Mr. Cofferer, Mr. Clerk Comptroller, and Chief 
 Clerk of the Kitchen, every of them to have for 
 their bouge of court per diem, one cheat loaf, and 
 one gallon of beer; and from the lafl: of Septem- 
 ber to the laft of February, half a pound of white 
 lights, four tailHieids, and four faggots : and from 
 the firlt of March till the firft of October, to have 
 the moiety of the faid white lights and wood, and 
 two torches and three Jinks, per fepimanam in 
 winter. 
 
 All Knight*s lodged within the court, and 
 Gentlemen of the Frivy-chambcr, Cup-bearers, 
 Carvers, Sewers, Gentlemen Ufliers, Daily Waiters, 
 Grooms of the Privy-chamber, Clerks of the Spi- 
 cery, Avenor, fecond Clerk of the Kitchen, Phy- 
 fician, and Chaplains; to every lodging, where one 
 or more of thefe be lodged, for their bouge of court 
 ■per diem, one cheat loaf and one gallon of beer : 
 and from the laft of September till the laft of Fe- 
 bruary, half a pound of white lights, two tailiheids, 
 and two faggots ; and trom the firft of March to 
 the firft of October to have the moiety of the faid 
 white lights and wood. 
 
 Gentlemen Ulliers, Quarter- Waiters, Robes, 
 Wardrobe of beds, Chirurgeon, Apothecary, and 
 Confefibr, and the ftanding Ward-robe at Rich- 
 mond, for the time of his Highnefs lying there ; 
 every one to have for their bouge of court per diem 
 one cheat loaf, one gallon of beer. And from 
 the laft of September to the laft of February a 
 quarter of a pound of white lights, two tailiheids, 
 and two faggots. And from the firft of March to 
 the firft of Odober, to have the moiety of the 
 faid white lights and wood. 
 
 Officers 
 
 1 
 
A P P END IX: 46^ 
 
 Officers of the houfhold, "fourof them to'every 
 mefs. Every mefs to hax'fe for their bonge of /• , 
 court per diem^ one cheat loaf and one gallon cf' 
 beer, and from September co the lafi: of February, ') 
 a quarter of a pound of >Ahite lights, two tail- ; 
 flieids, and two faggots-, and from the firil of' 
 March to the fir ft of October, to have the moiety 
 of the faid white lights and wood. 
 
 No ho 11 ge to he increafed. And it is his High- 
 nefs's will and pleafure, that no bouge Ihall be in- 
 creafed to any perfon or perfons whacfoever, more 
 than is contained in this our book figned; nor any 
 other allowance than of neceffity hath been and'' 
 muft be ulc'd for the drefllng and ferving out of-^ 
 the kitchen of all the aforefaid diets allowed by us. -> 
 
 Allowance of waflc. ;> 
 
 And it is his Highiiefs's will and pleafure, that^ 
 the honourable allowance of wafte, viz. of thirty 
 loaves of bread, forty gallons of beer, and one 
 lervice, one pitcher of wine, having been formerly 
 allowed per dicm^ (lull have continuance, charging 
 our officers to take order tor the difpofing thereof 
 daily, that the fame may be ferved at the bars, for 
 our honour, without purloining or embezzling. 
 
 No child, page, fcourcr, or turnbroche to marry. '' 
 And it is his HighneiVs will and pleafure, that no 
 child or page of any office, or fcourer, or turn- 
 broche in the kitchen, do from henceforth prefnme 
 to marry, upon pain of lofs of their general place.'' 
 And that fuch perfons, in whom by virtue of thei'tp 
 offices the gifts of any of the faid places do reft,^' 
 db'hot'prefbme to beftow any of the faid places- 
 upon any perfon being marriedi as alorefaid, upon' 
 p-airrof owr gracious difpleafure. 
 
 H h Allowance 
 
466 APPENDIX. 
 
 Allowance of riding-charges in wintcr-journies. 
 
 And where divers of our houfhold fervants are 
 fomctimes employed in attending fome extraor- 
 dinary journey in ^yintc^, for which we underftand 
 they have not received any entertainments ; our 
 will and'pleafure is, therefore, that it (hall be law- 
 ful for our Trcafurer or Comptrollor, together with 
 the advice of our other officers, to give, by bill of 
 comptrolment, unto any fuch perfon or perfons, 
 being employed as aforefaid, fuch farther allowance 
 of wages or expences in riding- journies, either by 
 day or otherwife, as at their difcretion (hall feem fit, 
 
 A brief declaration of what yearly penfions, and 
 to whom his Plighnefs did grant the fame, pay- 
 able out of his Highnefs's Treafure, from the 
 time of his creation until the firft day of No- 
 vember 1612*, ^»^* 
 
 1616 To jolin Cockburn, Gen- j|" 
 March tleman Extraordinary of > 40 o o 
 the Privy-chamber j 
 
 To Solomon de Caux ;— - -100 o o 
 
 His Highnefs*s Muficians. .^ 
 
 161 1 To John Bull, Dodor of r ^ 
 
 June Mufic - - -_} ^° ° "" 
 
 To Robert Johnfon .■^'To^ 40 o o 
 
 To Thomas Lupo 7^:. ]— - r 40 9- ^ 
 
 To John Mynors '^•^j'jrr- 40 '6" o 
 
 1 o Jonas Wrench ''W.JrrfT 49 ."P^"; ^ 
 
 To Thomas Day ~"i,^jf7*r 40 o o 
 
 • Hail. MS?.. VqI,7P09. -H :"r 
 
 .an To 
 
APPENDIX. 41&7 
 
 To Valentine Sawyer 40 ' q o 
 
 •■' ^J"-^^ To Thomas Cutting — • — 40 o"; 9 
 
 ofii]x3 1q JqJ^o Sturte — -^ * — 40 b o 
 
 .fitebn To Thomas Fot^''^'' ^'^^6 ■ o o 
 
 -o ; 2jn-To John Alhby " " -2--^ 221' .^^ o o 
 
 vb( 3d i! To Edward Wormall ^'' 16 o 9 
 
 ^'^ pfi^f To Matthias Johnfon — — • 20 o o 
 
 ■' '^' To Thomas Lydiar, M. A. 26 ij 4 
 Auguft To John Boifclare, oncY'p .'''^' 
 
 of the Efquires of his y'jjo o o 
 
 Highncfs's Stables —J 'V -" t. 
 
 Sept. To Francis dc Champs, 7'^^'^ "'^ ;<''^ 
 
 ^ Gent. - - ^1 40 O d 
 
 £, i6ii To Thomas Ford, one of T ^ ^ 
 
 I _v March hisHighnefs^s-Muficiansj ynoHv/ o> 
 ariJ moil «'^iby way of increafe to his f* "5laB ^ 
 -■'^ T- v£b Jformer penfion* •9^: '.J--* J .v> 3fni:J 
 161 2 -* si^i ladma^ 
 
 April To George Sommer, Gent, ico o o 
 May ToWm. 01bolftone,B.D. 50 Q. O 
 
 tjune To James Prlmrofe and "J 
 ^ ■' -"' Margaret his wife during > 100 O 6 
 their lives — — j 
 
 To John Loifcau de Jour- 7 ^ 
 
 I r> r > 20 o o 
 
 nal Parifian — — ^ 
 
 To Abrahan) Y,an Nifelt, 7 . 
 
 T7 . * (i.^ >20O O O 
 
 Engineer -^ — — 5 
 
 July To Abraham Vknder Doort 50 0.0 
 
 To Conftantihe dc Seryi — 200 o o 
 
 Aviguft To Jerom Hearne, one pf ? - 00 
 
 his FIighnefs*sMuficians J 
 
 Odobct To Sir Tho. Erfkine, Knt. 100 o o 
 
 To Robert Dal lington, Efqi 100 o o 
 
 To Henry Gibbe, Efq? — 140 o o 
 
 y . H h a To 
 
 i 
 
w 
 
 46S aJidw A. ?q?. g N D I X. 
 
 To Francis Godolphin, Efq; loo 
 To Ralph Clare, Efq; — 
 To David Ramfey, Efq; — 
 Y13V ^^ To John Sandilands, Klq; 
 To The. Burchmore, Elq; 
 To Tho. Davis, Efq-, — 
 To Thomas Trotter, Gent. 
 To Robert Youncr, Gent. 
 
 
 I. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 
 224. 
 
 TH E grant intended will 
 not be good nor warranted 
 
 .NjiUoMB E R XVIII. p. 
 
 -/"'' 'HI' J^'Youching Recufants*. 
 
 Reafons. Law, 
 and Jullice. 
 
 •Jti- airii ni *^" ^^^' ^^ """^y appear, in that, 
 heretofore, the King's Majefty 
 was gracioufly pleafed to be in- 
 formed touching fuch grants of 
 penalties, forfeiced by penal Sta- 
 tutes, whether they were good 
 and warrantable in law and con- 
 veniencyj and otherwife to for- 
 bear fuch grants. And fignifica- 
 tion thereof was made by the 
 Lords of the Privy-council to all 
 the Judges ; as they conferred, 
 and refoived and certified their 
 opinions and judgments there- 
 upon, that fuch grants be not 
 good; which is reported and fet 
 forth in print by the Lord Coke, 
 Lord Chief Juftice of the Com- 
 mon Pleas. 
 
 ni 
 
 , -i brie f\{n^m 
 
 :'.kw (b^i^bioiih 
 :t3qu} 9/ 
 
 • ~>3iibni 
 
 • Had. MSS. Vol. 7009. Fol. 25. 
 
 The 
 
Honour. 
 
 APPENDIX. 469 
 
 The true copy of which cer- 
 tificate I have prerumed to fend 
 herewith inclofed*; I • ' 
 
 The profecution upon penal 
 laws, in? former and modern 
 times, has been and is very 
 offenfive to the fubje6l generally. 
 And the hateful and contemptible 
 names of promoters and infor- 
 mers, thereto commonly applied, 
 do import fo much, as conceived 
 to proceed or favour of oppref- 
 fion, and tending to fcandal of 
 juflice, fpeciaily being undertaken 
 by any of more eminent place 
 and degree. 
 
 The errors and mifdemeanors 
 •flsfeM z*nmX ^^ ^^^ agents in this bufinels 
 
 ?'if-T-n H^nVt-'*^^^^^^'^ ^'^^ be difordercd) will 
 
 vd br ^^ iniputcd to the fuperiors, un- 
 
 ...^^^ t "* der whom they will pretend to 
 
 ■^n^ ^,r.i ^: deal and proted themfelves and 
 
 ot oj aiiwi^djo ^^^'' "^T^"' /"^ / A^'^y ^,f 
 
 any Iinilter cauie or rclpcct trouble 
 
 fome wrongfully or by indiredl 
 
 courfes, or for trifles, or bribes, 
 
 underhand difpenfe and wink at 
 
 fome others worthy to be quef- 
 
 tioned, this will turn to fome 
 
 touch in honour-, and too often 
 
 experience of fuch things hath 
 
 been. . -^^ 
 q ni riJioi 
 
 
 jfngbuj 
 
 <;-'n£i§ 
 
 bri'- b?3i!oq^"t 
 
 H h 3 
 
 In 
 
47© A P P E N D I X. 
 
 In matter of The projed and reafons offered 
 
 profit. of this fuit contain no certainty 
 
 of number or quality of perfons, 
 
 from whom the profit fhould 
 
 lii 21 rfDiffw ,lBrl3 4iriffe, but only by conjeAure. 
 
 .* £3n£iu:>3>i gnim3:Experience teacheth, that the 
 
 revenues and profit of this kind 
 
 have declined, and are like more 
 
 and more to decay. ,2jnilu3 
 
 The rent offered (being more 
 
 p-l" ^a^m 3d ion than tlie revenue now hereof 
 
 1 . -adr •gnh raifed) and the charge of the pro- 
 
 ;,'.ii^ -ffn^riJ i£3 fecution (confidering withal the 
 
 multitude of agents, that muft 
 
 -, i3va3o2n3biBW be employed, and the fhifts, crof- 
 
 t».is ,ni£q £ noqu fes, delays, and oppofitions, that 
 
 3§7£dD lisdi noq will Incur) are like to drink up fo 
 
 lie jaalaiq oi ^no inuch of the profit, that in like- 
 
 ,f{li:/|{hood materiam fuperabit opus. 
 f^sHUb .Y'^3V3 3fi zs'tfj-The defperate, traiterous, ma- 
 ^rii oj \&ii ibri licious minds of many like to be 
 i.v»i, i^Tq 3-5£ fj: offended, provoked, and exafpe- 
 bSoib rated thereby, give juft caufe, 
 r,iii£4 * fioqu fS? as heartily to thank God for your 
 :>Ai IB lis W3d' princely fortitude and refolution, 
 i yinyo? ^la^'a a. fo alfo carneftly to pray for your 
 tjXkflE 3rlj 1^^ prefervation and fafety. 
 
 to "f boa sdj !c . : ..:. . .-. _ . , 
 
 fiibm o5 b?gii.ri ' 31C ^jnuoD sHj 
 
 Sn« ?fi3bisW'd3ii«iO siii bnA 
 
 ,«ja3ni3n3l3iq liodi Touching 
 
 .-gv; JoH .^00-^ :ioV ,?8M .iisH « 
 
 ^k rf H 
 
\ 
 
 APPENDIX. 471 
 
 Touching Reens i3»foiq 3fi I ^o 7333£rTj 
 ciifancs. ■' "" '^n JiioKj 
 
 Projedls and r-.. 
 
 anfwers. 
 The fubftance The anfwers to that, which is fet 
 of that, which down concerning Reculants*. 
 was dehvered > i^iiii fc^uusvat 
 concerning rcr... ^LanilDab svurf 
 cufants. ^£D3b oi aiom hns 
 
 I. That man?y - i. There cannot be many con- 
 are concealed, cealed, confidering the means 
 and not con- provided to reveal them, which 
 vided. -^ are thefe: 
 
 oiD eZ^iifft sdl bn6 ,bThe Church-Wardens of every 
 
 dj eSnoijfloqqo ' town are bound upon a pain, and 
 
 .1 qu i^IniiboJ ^A- by their oath, upon their charge 
 
 ,>!{{ m* i£dl eifio-'.at every vifitation, to prefent all 
 
 .u\<\:5 Vj'5i'^n^<\»\rssithin their parifh. 
 --m f2uoi33iBi3 ^9Jr-!vThe ordinaries at every affizes 
 ? 03 3^il YHBrn ^ certify under their feal to the 
 "' y^bns fb^Ar Judges all, which are prefentcd 
 
 fluf 3vig throughout their diocefs. 
 
 ox i6i boD Ansn? oThe Conftables, upon a pain, 
 
 • *'''"^' bnfiuh are to prefent them all at the 
 
 niq o^ Quarter-SefTion in every county ; 
 
 and the Jury then at the afiizes 
 
 fworn to inquire -, for the body of 
 
 the county are charged to indi(5t 
 
 them there and at the general 
 
 alTizes. 
 
 And the Church- Wardens and 
 Conftables are to have reward for 
 their prefcntments. 
 
 • Harl. MS3. Vol. 7009. Fol. 25. 
 
 H h 4 And 
 
472 APPENDIX. 
 
 ^ijj o'.'j Pirid the Judges do take care, 
 
 - '-^'rfiat all, which are convicted, be 
 
 .U3finfF!i. certified into the Exchequer. 
 
 2. Thatof ihofe, 
 which arecon- 
 vikftcd, their 
 forfeitures are 
 not duly faiis- 
 fied, viz. 
 
 3. Their debt 
 • will grow' due 
 
 between their 
 convidlioM and 
 leizure. nil liarii 
 ..vir oil aiv 
 
 -2. The Recufant doth forfeit 
 20/. a month, from the time of 
 hi'i conviction until the feizure of 
 ills lands and goods. Ikit fince 
 the Oatute made in i and 3 
 Regis it hath not been refulved, 
 whether that debt be gone by the 
 King^s feizinjg the land.nd yS 
 T^o -niinoD 'v.:-' ' 
 "^P 'io gnivfid fV 
 lo mo El -3T lo aiani 
 
 A. Their lands 4 This is feldom onnitted, 
 and goods not- unlefs the King accept, the 20/. 
 feized. •' ^i-Jiiiiw-per ^nonth. 
 iii'Ji.b v/on>i y^dJ ii-^i'in* ,3-' 
 
 5. Or if feized, 5. It is true, they arc for the 
 then many un- moft part undervalued, efpecially 
 dervalued. where they are given away; in 
 
 vvhich cafe the profecutors procure 
 as low a value as they can, that, 
 if they keep the lands, which 
 they feldom do, they may have 
 the better pennyworth in paying 
 a fmall rent to the King-, or, if 
 they fell them for money, they 
 rnay have the more money. 
 
 6. And the va- 
 luesjasthevbe 
 
 for- 
 
 6, If the King Ihould not be 
 anfwered the values, as the lands 
 
 be 
 
APPENDIX. 473 
 
 forfeited, not. be feizcd, there could not be any 
 zn(wGT€d» revenue of 6000/. eftablifhed, as 
 
 I'^ftn-ir; in the note it is affirmed. 
 
 7. The forfei- 
 tures upon 
 Outlawries. 
 
 8. By breach of 
 their confin- 
 ing, having of 
 fumners or re- 
 cufants in their 
 hoiifes, or re- 
 tainers. 
 
 9. By their re- 
 Japfe. 
 
 10. By their 
 wives recu- 
 fancy neglcd:- 
 ed or not 
 fought for. 
 
 7. The forfeitures upon Out- 
 lawries are not rrvuch, or now 
 rather nothing, becaufe fince 28 
 Eliz*. which is 24 years ago -f, 
 that convi6lion hath not been 
 
 8. The forfeitures by breach 
 of confining upon the Itatute of 
 35 Eliz. is not much-, becaufe 
 none go out of their limits, with- 
 out a warrantable licence, which 
 is eafily gotten. 
 
 For fervants and fumners few 
 offend. For retainers there is no 
 forfeiture, unlefs they know them 
 to be recufants, which is hard. 
 
 9. Nothing forfeited by re- 
 lapfe without a new convidion, 
 which feldom happens. 
 
 There be many things mif- 
 taken in that, which is deli- 
 vered. 
 
 * 1586. 
 
 
 f'i6io. 
 
 The 
 
474 APPENDIX. 
 
 The forfeiture is fet down to be a third part of 
 ♦heir lands and all their goods. : 
 
 Where it is, two parts of their lands and leafes, 
 and all their goods. 
 
 The forfeiture is fet down to be given by the fta- 
 lute of 35 Elizabeth: 
 
 Where it is givea by 38,£iiz. and confirmed 3 
 J^cgis. "^^^^ (non£f}:ilini;rn 
 
 It is fet down, that there is an eftablilTied reve- 
 nue of 6000 1. per annum: ■ " ' 
 
 Where there is not any revenue -eftabliflied, 
 although it may be, the revenue being caft up, 
 what it comes to commumbus annis^ may come to a 
 medium of 6000 1. or thereabouts.^ t^wIub loi 
 
 The benefit, which might accrue any way over 
 and above that, which is already found and an- 
 fwered, may appear by the premifes, can neither 
 by concealed nor oonvi<5t€d Kecufants anfwer the 
 informations. 
 
 ; The agents in this biiTinefs, which muft be 
 itiany, in refped Recufants are fpread over all the 
 realm, would, with their charges and otherwife, 
 take away above the one -half of this benefit ; and 
 the refidue will not be had without clamour and 
 careful pains. 
 
 But whacfoever the benefit might be, we hold 
 
 it not fit, that the Princess Highnefs Ihould have 
 
 any hand, or fhew himfelf, in this bufinefs, to have 
 
 the uttermoft forfeitures of penal laws infiidted 
 
 upon the offenders of this kind. -• 
 ■^ j'aidj -f 
 
 iiv. ... - :- q ii.C'{ ;gniiDbn ■ 
 
 Anfwer 
 
 
A P P E N D I X. 475 
 
 ^-i'fr 1 i "x* 
 
 Anfwer to objcdions' ef ^^-teifrteoG^dkeHiC*); 
 
 ^25l«3l b*jK ?bnt! ■,-v!j to c^Jiiq owj ^at ji 313(K/ 
 
 May it pleafe yourHighnefs^-'^^^S ''^^^J*'^„|^«' 
 
 IT is objedled underhand (which the authors 
 iherepf dare not approve, or make good in pub- 
 lic writings or manifeftation) that this Grant tGud>** 
 ing Recufants is not warrantable in kw •, where- 
 unto is annexed in Ihew, both a confirmation of 
 the Lords of hisMajefty's privy-council •, as alfoa 
 pretext of feme projevft fet forth by the Lord Cok^^ 
 now Lord Chief-Jultice of the Common-Pleas. ,y. 
 
 For anfwer whereunto, I offer unto ypur Higl^ 
 nefs*s all piercing judgment and confideraiion, that, 
 if the matter now projected, were fit to come in 
 pubhc queftion and demur, whether this Grant may 
 be honourable for your Highncfs to pafs ; three to 
 one of his Majefty's honourable privy-council will 
 think this book, as it is now drawn, both honourr 
 able, and defire,:|b«bt,y9ji#j:;Pighners fliould pj%; 
 ceed therein. ^-or^-zTrin -7^'': ;:■•■■ '.\z:/. 
 
 And touching the book now put in print, the book 
 itfeif will fpeak, that it doth not include any dif* 
 paragement, or lead diftafte to this Grant intend-^ 
 edi but rather conceives a great difpieafure from 
 his Majefty concerning fuch Grants, as either have, 
 or hereafter (hall pafs, to give Recufants hberty an4 
 toleration^ under the terms of money-bought coni-o 
 pofition : Which doth augment the credit and 
 worth of this Grant now intended by your High- 
 nefs, confidering your princely purpofe to cut off 
 the like corruptions and inconvcniencies of com- 
 pofitiQn. 
 
 • Hgrleian MSS. V9I. 7009. 
 
 And, 
 
476 A P P E N D I X". 
 
 And, whereas, the prefuming trull of fuch, as 
 your Higbnefs moft employs in your greatert and 
 ■vveightieil caufes, fpreads itfelf beyond the bounds 
 ot common relpedt to honour and honefty (which 
 they Icem, Uke.twq*faced Janus, mod to regard, 
 even to carry fire, and water in one hand) fo far 
 forth as to make comparifun betwixt this Grant and 
 many odious and contemptible Grants, that have, 
 or may hereafter pafs, concerning the opprefTing of 
 the beft, and the moft dutiful, and obedient fub- 
 je<5ls of thij (late, uncer the colour of profecuting 
 the penal ftatutes, I might humbly defire your High- 
 nefs would vouchfafe to caft your eye upon the an- 
 fwers, I have heretofore made to thefe and the like 
 frivolous and vilipended objeftions in writing, 
 uhich, without arrogancy or prefumption, I may 
 confidently affirm to ftretch without the compafs 
 of any hdiiefl and commendable reply. And be- 
 caufe they have not fcen thofe anfwers, it may haply 
 fall within their conceits, that they may the fafer 
 obtrude thefe indire6l fecondings to their former 
 propofitions and proceedings. Therefore, if it may 
 plcafe your Highnefs, to let them have the perufal 
 of thole notes, with fpecial command, that they 
 fiiall briefly and fuddenly in writing under their 
 hands anfwer the fame, I think they will not under- 
 take that tafk ; and if they do, they fhall be an- 
 fwcred fully to my credit, and fufficiendy to their 
 fhame and fcorn. 
 
 Concerning the errors and mifdemeanors of fuch 
 agents, as have been employed heretofore in the 
 like occafion •, it is true, that in many Grants paf- 
 fed, Ibme grofs abufes to the honour of God, the 
 public good of this realm, and hindrance of his 
 Majefly's profit, have been committed in that kind. 
 
 The 
 
A P P E N D rXr 477 
 
 The realbn of this abiife . and mriyemeanor 
 offered is two-fold : firft, in that his Majefty being 
 utterly ignorant of the manifold wrongs and de- 
 ceits offered before his entrance, commanded ftill 
 the care and charge of thofe bufineffes to them, that 
 moft injurioully defeated the late Queen of her due 
 in that behalf. yuiuqai^,:. j^i^rw o; <:i njiOi 
 
 Secondly, whereas it pt^lfed^lii^ 'Majefty to'- paft' 
 to many private fubjeds many feveral Grants 
 touching Recufants, the l-'atentees defirous of fome- 
 thing,' ignorant of all things in that kind, com- 
 mended the profccution of their Grants to vain and 
 bafe fpirits, which made prey of both his iVIajeity*s 
 honour and their intended good, under the terms 
 of compolition with the Recufant -, a thing moft 
 hateful to God, and all the beft and religious fub- 
 jefts of this ftate. 
 
 Both thefe inconvenienciesl arid' wrorjgs your 
 Highnefs may prevent ; for the very quality and 
 nature of this Grant is to occur the deceits and 
 abufes offered them by them, that v^'ere put in trull 
 both before and fince his Majefly's reign: and 
 alfo, to take away all matter of bale and ignobk 
 compofition betwixt the Recufant, the Patentees, 
 and their Agents. For it is rightly to be conceived, 
 that if the Patentees, fuch as had Grants, had not, 
 for prefent defire and third after profit, been con- 
 tented to have fuffered their Agents for their pre- 
 fent good to make compofition, no corruption or 
 abufe could have been committed by their Agents or 
 Sollicitors.' 
 
 Now, this Grant off your Highnefs is clean con- 
 trary ; for it admits of no fuch bafe compofidoa, 
 but aims chiefly at an honourable conformity of the 
 ■offender, according to the cru.; meaning and intent 
 
 of 
 
47^ A P P EN D IX* 
 
 of the good and wholelbine law<! and ftatuteS, iri 
 that behdlf made and provid<!d, being the honour* 
 ableil projed, that ever was or can be proceeded in". 
 My reafcuis remain with your Highnel's at large j 
 and therefore I fpare to add more in this point. 
 
 To omit all frivolous and idle dircourfes(if fchi« 
 fhall be accounted any) the matter of the project 
 i?, that your Highnefs fhrould give his Majeily, 
 <omnmnibus annis^ more for the pafling of this book 
 than his Majelly yet ever received V and yet not- 
 uithltanding fhall not decain, deduft, or withdraw, 
 by any grievous oppreffion or taxation of any 
 penal ftatutes, from the good fubjed:, or, which is 
 more, from the bad, but what only his Majefty, if 
 he were fquarely dealt withal, might and ought to 
 receive. ■ jiiuii 
 
 That no Under- follicitor or Agent candefpat 
 either his Majefty in this courfe intended-, or de- 
 fraud your Highnefs. Hereby it may appear, that 
 he Ihall but have (as before I have fei down) allow- 
 ance after fuch a proportion and rate, as your High- 
 nefs fhall think fit, without fifty pounds expence to 
 your Highnefs's coffers, omnibus viif,i^,/ripdiSf and 
 then, materiam non fuperabit opus. ^v£ri birjow isn? 
 
 The laft point is compofed of fuch intricate 
 harfhnefs, as requireth fome Delphian oracle to 
 make conftruclion of the fame. And it were con- 
 venient the author fhould explain himfelf therein : 
 tor, in my opinion, it implies neither fidelity, com» 
 mon honefty, nor fecrecy. Only I may not omit 
 to lay open Mr. Stephens thus far, that he fliould 
 entertain me, left to follicit and give him directions 
 concerning this book, with fuch outward regard, 
 yea,-falfe and fiartering thanks, for being fo careful 
 (to ufe his own terms) tp, f^end fo much tiavel in ^ 
 
 .tooT .loY .28M hftH - ^^"^^> 
 
APPENDIX. 479 
 
 eaufe, that concerned your Highnefs fo greatly both 
 in honour and confequence of profit ; and yet now 
 fhould under-hand perfuade your Higlineis, that it 
 is againft law, honour, and proftti Greater diilem- 
 bling was never heard of in this earth; which, with 
 my moft humbly devoted fervice, I commend to your 
 ftidftiwWife and princely confideration, concluding 
 always,' that if your Highnefs fliall truft lawyers 
 (though your own fuppofed) they will ever for gain 
 prove, in efFe6t, other men*s fervants, fjot yours. 
 
 N U M B E R:-XIX;"rp:i36^nt y' 
 
 r,j -tWoijo bn£ Sff^ffn 'V^^'^^^hiab ybitfip'i 31'^w -^rl 
 (*') Honourable, ;3 
 
 YO U have given mdfi^t^iu'cfi'jfiftitJl-a^ment, 
 that you vouchfaie my fcribbling, as, until 
 you reform me, I am like to importune you, when 
 I have not fo good warrant as now, that I am to 
 account to you afi'efh my endeavour with the 
 painrer, with whom 1 fpoke two days fmce, and 
 and do find him fili balanced between his council, 
 that would have h^'m wholly rely upon conditioris 
 to be made by Sir Noel Caron, and his a{Fcd;ion to 
 put himfeU upon the reward of the Prince, and 
 his necelTity to be aided with money, and guided to 
 the Court. The man is naturally phantaftical fonr^e- 
 thing, and the multitude of propofitions hath a- 
 roazed him. My wifn is, that my mafter were 
 contented and ferved any way, and therefore I 
 would not incline him by labour to my way, but 
 farther him in which way he would choofe. If it 
 be thought fit to command me any thin^ in his' ; iX 
 do attend that with duty and induilry. -' --) 
 
 ^^^■^ * Harl. MSS. Vol. 7003- 
 
 I am 
 
4Bo APPENDIX. 
 
 I am now to entreat a favour at your hand. His 
 Highnefs defircd a model of an open coach, which 
 I have befpoken and put in hand ; the body and 
 head of fuch a coach in no point differing from his 
 Excellency's, lining and covering excepted. Now 
 I hear Sir Edward Cecil hath prepared a head for 
 a coach of his exceedingly well done, which he in«- 
 tends to the Prince. His was iinifhed before my 
 coming over hither, and then I make account his 
 J-Iighnefs is fatisfied in that point already, and fo 1 
 fliould offer an unfeafonable duty. I befeech you. 
 Sir, give me your knowledge or advice in this 
 point ; for as 1 will do all the parts of duty and fer- 
 vice, fo would I not willingly do impertinent or 
 unacceptable duty. 
 
 And now my pen is at the paper, I will let you 
 fee how the comnion people, in which rank I am, 
 do conceive of the piefent affairs of the world. 
 
 The Count Maurice, who often remembers my 
 gracious mailer with infinite honour and expe6l>i- 
 tion, is now in Zealand, with more affeflion than 
 hope, to compound thoroughly the jealoufies and 
 mifunderftandings between that Province and Hol- 
 land. Thefe Provinces to ftand muft have unity ; 
 and to keep that, they mull have full contribution 
 from the particulars and the general, that fo they 
 may pay their army, in which only confifls their real 
 authority. Their army call once afide, upon every 
 offence and jealoufy, they will fly in a thoufand 
 pieces; and muft of courfej for befides tlie unruli- 
 nefs of a multitude, they have not a formed and 
 grounded government. If the Count Maurice 
 cannot effeft the work, the wifdcm of our State 
 muft forefee the evil and their intereft in it ; and his 
 Majefty muft interpofc his authority in time. 
 
 The 
 
APPENDIX. 45i 
 
 • The affairs of Germany feenfi to form to peace. 
 Lcopoldus being clean down, Matthias in Prague 
 vvich forty cornets of horfe and fome foot, the tim- 
 peror at his devotion, the fucceflion of the Em- 
 pire hi<.e to be fo too, Matthias feems fair wirh the 
 ir*roteftant Princes, and handles moderately and 
 fair with the other party; yet it is difcourfed how 
 the Bifhop Eleflor, and others of the Roman Ca- 
 tholics, were in fear and in arms, and that the 
 forces of Leopold were, with the connivance ot the 
 Emperor, raifed to difpofe and affure the fuccelfion 
 of the Empire upon Leopold •, and that both the 
 levies of Spain in Italy, and of the Savoyard, were 
 for the affairs of Germany : and hrtw the Pope and 
 the Jefuits, and all parties, will let the affairs (o 
 fmoothly fettle to Matthias, is not yet (vellafTured. 
 
 The offences between Spain and the Duke of 
 Savoy were ever conceived to be rarher formed 
 than real. The King of Spain collefts all thefe 
 levies of^ Spaniards and Italians together. Savoy 
 difarms not, nor doth undertake any thing, and by 
 proteftation fatisfied the Queen of France, that he 
 purpofeth not any attempt againll Geneva, or the 
 Cantons, in the protedion of France, but colledls 
 his army together tor reafons ot ftate known to 
 him, of which he prays the Queen not to be jealous. 
 Thofe reafons of if ate we mult expetft. '' 
 
 The Queen of France favouring the Jefuits, as 
 Ihe doth, difplacing the Proteflants, advancing the 
 old Leaguers, will in a little time force a ccm- 
 buffion. 
 
 The matches between France and Spain are con- 
 ceived to go on, and the Qiieen of France hath ex- 
 culed herfelf for the breach of the Marriage with 
 the Prince of Savoy ; and the Duke of Savoy hath 
 taken time to advife himfelf upon Ibmc parts of the 
 
 I i excufe. 
 
 \ 
 
4^3 A P P END IX. 
 
 cxcufe. But the moft quick and important point 
 of all, is the overture ot a marriage tor the blefled 
 Lady Elizabeth with the Ion of Savoy. The very 
 Treaty of tiiAC will ftiake France, the Low- Coun- 
 tries, and the Froteftants of Germany. 1 do long 
 very much to hear how it is propounded, recom- 
 mended, or hearkened' ua^to. There will not want 
 plaufibie arguments, and fuch as may found admi- 
 rably to the honour of our nation, and the particu- 
 lar honcnir and noble hutnoiu' of our mafter : But 
 there mull be more.than found. Affedion, faith and 
 duty to our mafter, makes me fay to you in confi- 
 dence, that nothing of greater confequence can be 
 propounded, than about the match of that bleired 
 and gracious Lady ; nor can there rile from any 
 place more doubtful and coniiderable points, than 
 from fuch. an alliance -with Spain. 1 fee earnelt 
 faith and duty, out of how humble thoughts foever 
 it comes, may bring forth prefumptiun •, fo I will 
 prefume no farther, 1 contefs my fault, and pray 
 excufe. 1 know all things, that are my hard 
 leflbns, were long fince your alphabet. In faith. 
 Sir, I am the humble and hearty fervant, in all 
 duty, of his princely Highnefs. 1 befeech you to 
 keep me alive in his memory, until my execution 
 of his large commandments may imprint me better 
 there. Your favours that way have made me 
 proud of your love. Your countenance in that 
 kind (hall make me rejoice to do you lervice, and 
 to take comfort in every advancement of your 
 honour •, and when you honour me with yourcom*- 
 mandmencs, I will give you proof of my thank- 
 iulnefs, and undoubted teftimony, that I am. 
 Faithfully at your commandment 
 To ferve you, 
 
 £!i/ly this'jthofjpri/, ■ - -o.^^oolj 
 
 »^"- . . Edw. Conway. 
 
APPENDIX. 483 
 
 I Have troubled you (o much' in relation of my 
 execution of his Highneli.'s charge, and your 
 inllru6tions, as I will noc multiply your trouble by 
 excufes, but rely upon your favour to beg his 
 Highnefs's pardon for me, and excufe me to your- 
 felf : And now give the trouble your encourage- 
 jBient hath pulled upon you. 
 
 '1 he affairs of thefe parts are in a great calm. 
 Thefe Provinces fland in the fea, and the mariners 
 proverb is, '* The {kies are Chen brooding a ftorm.'* 
 For the church's fake, for our neighbourhood, for 
 our intereft, I will hope better. His excellency 
 hath moved little profit by his endeavours in Zea- 
 land. Each Province feeks itfelf : few or none 
 the public good. Utrecht is maftered, but not 
 won, or wcli quieted. Frifeland hearkens atter the 
 conformity of Zealand, and will govern itfelf ac- 
 cordingly ; which is like to give no good ex- 
 ample. 
 
 We fay here, that Spinola is returning to his 
 charge, and with commiffion to treat farther with 
 thefe States, and even to conclude a peace. This 
 will rather inflame the pride and queflioris of thefe 
 Provinces, that temper them, and give opportunity 
 to the Spaniard party to bait their hooks afrefli for 
 partifans. If there be fuch a handling, it will 
 raife important confiderations for our State, and his 
 Majefty fliall have juit caufe, not onjy to provide 
 for his inrertft in thefe parts, but to lorefee, and 
 that with a great deal of providence and caution, 
 the many and great points it will concern his State 
 in. 
 
 Here they fpeak both cf reducing and cafling 
 troops of horfe antj foot. 
 
 I i 2 The 
 
48f APPENDIX. 
 
 The next week is expefted the afiemhly of the 
 States- The propoHtions there will give Tume light 
 of the temper of humours and affedions, and fhew 
 to wh.it ends the molt will tend. If I can cbferve 
 aiiy thing, that may concern, in honour or other 
 intereft, my princely Mailer, I fliall err rather in 
 diligent, than (lack, relation. 
 
 The Kledor Palatine is now in Frifeland with 
 the Count William of Nalfau, daily expedted at the 
 Hague in his way to England. You know his 
 errand, and of what fide he is. He is wifned all 
 fuccels. It the other propofition be renewed or ad- 
 vance, 1 will fatisfy your requeft, to let you know 
 the opinion of this world : but every day's trouble, 
 is enough for itfelf. 
 
 You hear how ftrong the Duke Matthias is in 
 Prague-, that he is King, and what he will. Ihole 
 of the religion prolper under his government tor 
 the prefent. I doubt yet, ii" fome diforder in 
 France divert it not, you will fee, that the Fope, 
 Spain, and Savoy, will not fuffer the affairs of 
 Germany and that Empire to fettle fo. 1 he affairs 
 of Kingdoms and Stares have not their growth like 
 ap^es, bud and ripen in a year. Yet I am per- 
 fuaded, within a year you will fee fome change in 
 the face of thofe affairs. 
 
 From Amfterdam there are letters come, but I 
 never am confident upon the firft report ; but it 
 it is written for certain, that to the 1 exell is come 
 in a (hip, that reports there hath been a great 
 blow ftruck between the King of Denmark and 
 Swediili forces : that the King of Denmark's forces 
 have had no great advantage : that there are diversi 
 fliips at fea to come to the f exell, from whom the 
 truth and particulars will be had. I am forry 
 for thcfe beginnings of war between thofe Kings ; 
 
 and 
 
APPENDIX. 485 
 
 and I fee a great deal of difficulty for his Majefty 
 and his liighnefs. Confideration of State muft in- 
 cline them by all means to fupprefs that war, which 
 is fo dano-etous for Chrillendom, the Polander be- 
 ing ready to make ufe and advantnge oi every 
 occafion, that fhall be prefented ; and a more vio- 
 lent or more dangerous neighbour cannot be let in, 
 than he would in all appearance prove. The league 
 and alliance muft incline us tb' Ddnfnark^' if vio^ 
 Jence will require part- taking : but no travel nor 
 indullry would be ipared to dcfill the caule without 
 blows, if it be polTible ; but if force muft do it, and 
 that his Majefiy \Vill command and call his forces 
 thither, if his Highnel's employ or recommend his, 
 1 ofter myielf to his memory, and lay myfelf and 
 all 1 am at his commandment. And I intreat you 
 alfo, and fo doth my brother, that you of your 
 fav^our will not fufier him to be forgotten, if his 
 iligbnefs recommend any to that fervice ; and that 
 you will fometimes tavour him with a word, that he 
 may live in his Highnefs's rnemory, until his faithful 
 fervice may approve him. 
 
 I have fpoken with the painter of Delft, who 
 hath been wonderfully confounded with the variety 
 of propofitions, and troubled, that he hath notH-e- 
 ceived anlwer of his letters from Sir Noel Caron ; 
 but now he is fully relolved to go into England, 
 and to give himfelf wholly to his Highnefs's ier- 
 vice, and depend upon his reward. He hath not 
 deferred his coming for want of money; for i have 
 been ready to furniQi him. Now he only ftays to 
 know his Highnefs's pleafure, when he may come 
 to be of ufe to him ; and when he fhall receive the 
 knowledge of the day, he hath fwoin to be before 
 that day at the Brill, and there to attend only the 
 
 li 3 firft 
 
486 APPENDIX. 
 
 firll wind', Monf. Caron hath taken no order for 
 him for the money. Forty. Pounds will I fee him 
 furnifhed widi here, and you may repay it in Lon- 
 don -, fo as now his coming depends only when you 
 will appoint. I have been fpeaking to buy fome 
 good pieces of painting; but this people will as 
 eafily be bought out of their humour of drinking, 
 as out of their affedtions to a pifture. There was 
 one piece at Rotterdam, for the mafter workman's 
 fake that made it, of fome reputation, and was to 
 be fold, and I glad to hear of a price let upon a 
 piece of work, that was antient and recommended, 
 I bought it ; and when it came home, the ftory 
 invited me to prefent it to you, that are Secretary 
 to the mod hopeful, powerful and glorious earthly 
 Prince, it being the reprefemation ot four the moft 
 faidiful, glorious and excellent Secretaries that ever 
 were to the infinite incomprehenfible Prince. I 
 cannot judge of the workmanfhip: if it be good, 
 it is as I wifh it-, if it be ordinary, let it ferve for 
 this to prove to you, that I have no fkill in any 
 kind of painting*, and that my art is only fingle- 
 nefs of heart and plainnefs, in which I confefs your 
 favours, for which I am, and ever will be, 
 
 Your's in all to ferve you, 
 
 Edward Conway. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 ry^ O fliew, that foon as 1 have health, I have 
 
 I diligence, the wind ferving, and here coming 
 
 a mip at parage for Colchefter, I fend thefe letters 
 
 by my footman that way. Your picture is in a 
 
 ), that comes diredly fpr London, and will go 
 
 J^ence 
 
f 
 
 APPENDIX. 487 
 
 hence on Thurfday, if the wind remain good. If 
 this bearer be difpatched from you before that ftaip- 
 arrive, I have given order to Wilhain Simmons, 
 box-ivakeft at the fign 0^ the Hant^.juid i-iitLcJuctc, 
 to receive it and dehvtr it, t .- ^,,, ., 
 
 Brill, this 4th of nicrr "io «f>:' 
 
 J une, lull. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 TH E wind coming yeflerday fuddenly good 
 from hence into England, as I was in pur- 
 poie to take the opportunity of a fliip paffing by 
 our haven, to dire6l to you a letter of the painter's 
 of Delfr, with the Englifli of the fame •, even as- 
 I had firft put my pen to paper, I had word 
 brought me, that the Ambaflador of Great Britain, 
 Sir Ralph VVinwood, and my brother Vere, the 
 Governor of this town, were come to vifit me. 
 So with more hafte and confufion than I defired, 
 or, I confels, became me, I wrote to you a lett-er, 
 all but the iuperfcription, aiid left it to my fcrvant 
 to put it up into a paper, together with this in- 
 clofed. But he having much of my private bufi- 
 nefs to diredl into England, made up in hafte the 
 letters, and left out thefe, the chief fubjed: of my 
 letter to you. I do not fee almoft what ufe the 
 painter of Delft can be of to our mafter, until to- 
 wards the end of Auguft, that the progrefs ends. 
 But I l^ave that to his Highnefs's pleafure and your 
 diredion, which 1 fhall readily obey, in this and 
 all things. I pray you pardon the error I made, by 
 trufling a fervant*s care in any point, that hath re- 
 ference to his Higbnefs's fervice, or fhew of my 
 rcfpe6t to yea ; ir> both which I will ever ufe all 
 i i 4 duty 
 
488 APPENDIX. 
 
 duty and faithfulntfs, anfwerable to my profeflion, 
 to approve m)reif, 
 
 .gori')ibyio v.bnsi br.4 fi-'iEiafii inv 
 Brill, in ^^e.tH've/>^ b^^ttfto'-B in all tO fcrvc you, 
 this nth ot June, II !iii n^iiii 
 
 »^i». bnfi ,3iul^3lq c'zl^iu Edward Conway, 
 .^^jj 03 TJfi'ia ,i3bio 3/ri ^.. 
 eiT ■.-»,'/ n'.'ul yd 3i lo't labi 
 
 MY hope if?, tbat his Highnefs, the rather by 
 your mediation, arkl you of your courtefy, 
 have both before this forgiven and forgotten the 
 tedious trouble I gave you with my long letters. 
 You may fee by thofe, that in points of my duty 
 I neither think ol pains or good manners. 
 
 1 (hall ever account not only my endeavour, but 
 my life, happily employed to move acceptable 
 iiTues in the affairs and commandments of my 
 mafter. It is of comfort to me, that you are pleafed 
 to advertife me, that his Highnefs vouchfafes my 
 fervice in bufinefs, that hath not a profperous iflue, 
 from whcncefoever the impediment comes. It is 
 well with the inOruments, il they have no blame. 
 In my duty to his Highnefs, I cannot do lefs than 
 wifh, that fince the conception came from a royal 
 Prince, and the purpofe was to an excellent perfon 
 both in birth and merit, and that lb large know- 
 ledge hath been taken of it, it fhould nor be let 
 tall. I am confident, that the Count Maurice will 
 receive it as honour and favour to him, with fenfe 
 of his particular obligation to his Highnefs. It can 
 be no difhonour to the otlier. I fee not, who of envy 
 or jealoi.fy fhould feem to be againft it ; and it is 
 agreeable to the conftancy and power of his High- 
 jaefs'^,, purpofe, that he perform it. As I know it 
 
APPENDIX. 4H9 
 
 to be my duty not to meddle with my ma(tei's 
 bLifinefs, without his inftrudiuns -, lb, it 1 be com- 
 manded, I will u(e faith and ready obedience. 
 
 The painter of Deltt is refolved to, be ready to 
 come at the time you will afljgn him. 'I hi reforc 
 I pray you know his Highnefs's pleafure, and ap- 
 point your time, and give me order, cither to pay 
 him his 40 /. or take order lor it by fuch way, as 
 you fliall think beft. You may be plealed to make 
 this reckoning, that he muft attend a wind to come 
 hence; and that he mull be ten or twelve days in 
 London, to make his preparations before he can 
 work. You will advife, therctore, to appoint your 
 time for his coming accotdingly. To fo dull an 
 inllrument, as 1 am, you cannot be too particular 
 m your directions, which I will attend in devo- 
 tion to obferve and obey them. 
 
 You have fo able inftruments from all parts of 
 the world, to inform our mafter, through your 
 hands, as I doubt to trouble you, rather than to 
 ferve his Highnefs, or fatisfy you with any thing 
 from me. But tell me of my faults, and I will 
 mend them. 
 
 Monf Barnevelt is now returned to the Hague, 
 and the aficmbly fpeaks together on Monday next. 
 We expetl thofe of Zealand, of whofe conformity 
 we have little hope to fettle the contributions and 
 affairs of the Provinces, which need that unity, 
 which the Spaniard would dilTolve with much 
 gold. 
 
 rhey expeft here, that fome deputies from the 
 Archdukes will come hither to propound a final 
 peace ; and to that the moft apparent difficulty is 
 the opening the river of Antwerp, a point needful 
 and precious to thofe Provinces, and of ill confe- 
 
 quence 
 
490 A P P E N D r X. 
 
 quence for thelc, for diverfion of the trade fronr 
 HoUand. 
 
 Yoo bear, that the Archduke Aibertus will 
 fl'and to be King of the Romans j and that Spinola 
 Ifcail fFjortiy be in thole parts to countenance that 
 bufmefs, and to aflift the intended conclufion of 
 peace with thefe parts. You fee how Matthias the 
 King piays the LixJn, and how tlie Emperor is the 
 Fawn: how Matthias compofeth his affairs with 
 Leopoldus by a marriage. 
 
 And now that word marriage remember us how 
 freely thefe men difcourfe of the marriages to be 
 propoLvided between Spain and England, and Savoy 
 and England. Many are of opinion, that Spain 
 ■will never proceed really, becaufe of the Pope and 
 the Jefuits, that hold us for heretics, and make it 
 a glory for Spain not to have matched fo at any 
 time. If Spain quit that point, it muft be for 
 matter of confequence -, and that of moft high con- 
 fequence with them, is degrees to the Monarchy. 
 The confiderable points in either of thofe matches 
 aare ofiniinite weight, honour, fafety, praife, pre- 
 lent and to come depending upon them, with a 
 weight of confcience at every one of them. If I 
 had the boldnefs and the warrant of my judgment 
 to be worthy to be ardmitted to it, I Hiould trouble 
 his Highnefs and you with a great deal of freenefs 
 on this fubjeft : but you are happy, that I have 
 not the prefumption, and fo you fcape the punifh- 
 ment of weak opinion delivered in ill character and 
 flyle. 
 
 The Count Maurice hath letters, that the Duke 
 of Saxe is dead. He having left no children, hath 
 fr^d his Majefty from the private obligation to 
 his pretence, if thofe affairs of Juliers fliould not. 
 
 fettle 
 
APPENDIX. 491 
 
 fettle in peace, as they are likely coongh to do. 
 Yet do we hear, that there is lately dilcovcred a 
 praftice upon three of the chief towns, and indeed 
 the keys of the country, with a Spanifh intelligence. 
 
 1 know I have overtroubled you. I intreat your 
 pardon, though your commandment be a part of 
 the caufe. 
 
 I will befeech you, to contiritie and incrcafe my 
 bonds to you, by keeping me alive in his High- 
 nefs's memory •, and, when opportunity lliall be 
 offered, m.aking me happy by his commandments, 
 wherein I may icrVe him •, and tor your favour you 
 fliall ever have power to command, 
 
 Your's, 
 „ ... , „ , . Faidifully in ail to ferve you, 
 
 Brill, in barte, tliis ^ ^ 
 
 ;thofJuly,.6u. EdT^AKD CoNWAV. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 I Have conceived it better duty, and more gcK^d 
 manners, not to write at all, than to trouble 
 your ferious affairs with impertinent lines of fo ill 
 charafter as mine. But now methinks it is time to 
 mind you of the painter of Delft for direftion, when 
 you precifcly deHre he fhould come to be at Lon- 
 don i for upon yourdiredion he now only attends, 
 his purpofe being both in the journey, and his time 
 there, to fubm^it him wholly to the pleafure of his 
 Highnefs. For the 40/. it may pleafe you to 
 fignify, whether your will be, that 1 Jhall pay 
 it here, and receive it again in England -, or 
 whether you by any other do take order for his 
 furnilliing. 
 
 I Now, 
 
492 APPENDIX. 
 
 Now, Sir, I am to intreat a great favour of you, 
 that will be pleafed to help mc to cxprefs my 
 humble thankfulnefs to his Highnefs, for a great 
 and high grace he harh vouchfafed me-, firft, in- 
 rejefting the complaint of one Bannington againfk 
 iDe; and then, as Bannington informs, for making 
 fofr.e defence for me to his Majefty. Truly, Sir, 
 my reputation is dearer to me than my life-, and 
 the height of reputation lies before thofe judges -, 
 lb as my own confcience, his Majefty, and his 
 Highntfs is all with mc boch prefcnt and to come. 
 It fnall ever be a work proper for our excellent 
 mafter to defend his innocent faithful fervants. 
 That my fincerity may the better appear to you, 
 and that his Highnefs may be the better informed, 
 I prcfume to fend you herewith a copy of that an- 
 f\ver the Governor hath given, upon examination 
 of the caule, to his Majelly's letters, which I 
 wonder how Bannington procured, confidering the 
 juftice of my aft had been before through fo many 
 trials filted. The only reverence of his Majefty's 
 recommendation and compafTion hath made me 
 able to fuffer the pride of his behaviour and cla- 
 morous fpeeches, without being my own revenger; 
 and alfo to be content to mediate for him, on 
 whom I beftow the place freely, a part of a bene- 
 volence, and to join with the Governor to fupply 
 the reft, to make him a prcfent, to excufe our 
 duties to his Majefty, that moved, fo far beyond 
 any juft pretence of Bannington, as the offer is 
 more than nothing. But this he refufed with fo 
 much contempt and threatning, as he is mad, or 
 we have loft our fenles. 
 
 1 make bold alfo to fend you herewith a note 
 taken out of the com miflary's book of mufters, 
 
 .:. . . fliewiag 
 
APPEND IX 493 
 
 (hewing his diforderly deficiendes/ I may conii- 
 dently lay I have fpent locoo/. more in the con- 
 dition of a foldier than ever 1 have received or pro- 
 fited by it. I have many witnelTes, and my ellate. 
 feels it, that I have aided and reUeved many for 
 their good fervice to th^-ir Majefties done, widiout 
 any relation to my particular intereft. li in this 
 cafe of Bannington's, or in any other within feven- 
 teen years, that 1 have had charge, it can be prov- 
 ed, that 1 have negleded the merit of any man, or 
 for malice have difpUced any, or for any the lealt 
 kind of gain placed any, or for partiality placed 
 any unworthy, 1 will fuffcr punifhment, and make 
 treble fatisfaction. With an upright heart I declare 
 it, 1 have in the excrcife of my charge, ever fought 
 the King, and not myfelf. Yet this man fiiamclefs is 
 returned again to clamour again. Jf he be heard 
 and encouraged in it, howfoever through duty my 
 innocency fufter, I fhall have juft caufe to think it 
 to be a molt milerable condition to (ervt upon fuch 
 terms, that not to have regard of his Majefty's 
 fervice, nor to obey his pleafure expreffed in ordi- 
 nances and coiTimandmcnts, is an undutiful and 
 un thing •, and to do it is a fault, though 
 
 with a great deal ot patience Such is only my 
 fault in this bufinels : and my humble fuit unto 
 his Highnefs is, that of his grace he will pleafe, by 
 fuch ways as (hall feem belt for his goodnefs and 
 wifdom, that his Maieily may have fuch right 
 undeiiianding of me, as the unjuft clamour of an 
 impudent peribn, by his Majefty's compaflTion, 
 may not giound an evil perfualion of me. I fliould 
 nor. dare to make lo high a fuit, but by the warrant 
 of my own humility and knowledge of my inno- 
 cency i and of my humble thankful^iefs, I will fay this 
 
 duty 
 
494 APPENDIX. 
 
 duty and truth, all my powers and my whole life 
 arc vowed to the obedience ot his HighiieiVs 
 fervice. 
 
 The affairs of the Empire are not yet fettled, 
 though articles accorded between th(5 Emperor and 
 his brotlier Matthias. Thofe of Aken by no means 
 will underdand the Archdukes infinuation, that 
 they are in their protedion. Thofe of Aken feem 
 refolute, and the Jefuits prefs and fharpen the 
 Archdukes as much as they can. Thofe of Mun- 
 fler land relufe the bi(hop given them by Colen, 
 and are like enough to defire to ftand ol themfelves 
 with the alliance and protedion of thefe Provinces, 
 who have lent their deputies to them, and are like 
 enough to favour them, and alfo thofe of Aken. 
 I'befe flicks acrofs may burn out our day. 
 
 We hear diverfely of the fuccefs and flate of the 
 affairs of the two Kings before Colmar, each party 
 having their fai^tions here, that deliver things accord- 
 ing to their affedions. But I fpake with a fliip, that 
 came freflily from Copenhagen, that tells, that he 
 faw the Vice-admiral of Sweden brought in prifoner, 
 I mean the fliip ; and the Swedifh Ambaffadors had 
 then order to go farther into the country. 
 
 The communication of thefe Provinces hath been 
 hitherto of very litdc fruit. The conclufion and 
 refolution will difcover much of the hope and pof- 
 fibiliry of their profperity and declination. 
 
 If t have over-wearied you, forgive me ; and if 
 my hand be over-hafty for you to reach, let me 
 know fo, and I will ufe another's : and if it be 
 poffiblc for me to be of fo much worth, as I may be 
 ot ufe to you, 1 pray you command me freely : for 
 both by my hearty affection, and your own noble 
 
 worth 
 
A P P E N D I X. 495 
 
 worth and defert, I ftand bound toferve you. and 
 to approve mylclf 
 
 Yours in all at your commandment, 
 
 Brill, the 13th of 
 
 Au-Turt, 1611. Edward Conway. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 AL L my powers arc well employed, when 
 they move any thing to the contentment of 
 our gracious mader. It is honour to me, that his 
 Highnefs vouchlafes to receive the expreflion of my 
 faith ; and i canfds a great obligation to you, that 
 you aid my rude lines with a good interpretation. 
 TheGovernor's care and minefhall ever be, fo long 
 as the charge is with us, to maintain and render the 
 garrifon in our charge to the honour and ule in- 
 tended. The deleds to us made known, with the 
 ways of remedy, our part is then to attend dili- 
 gently opportunities, and in all events to do and 
 fuffer with faith and di!ty. 
 
 Touching one to cover the coach, I have, ac- 
 cording to yoTir diredion, accorded with a fit and 
 fkiUul workman, who only attends the making of' 
 fome buckets and neceffaries, which are conceived 
 woukl hardly be found in England. Within tea 
 days he will go hence towards Iingland. 1 have 
 agreed with him as cheap as p^^nlbly I could, that 
 is, for fix (hillings a day, if he find himfelf, or 
 five fhillings a day, if he have his diet. When he 
 follows the Count Maurice in the army, he hath fo 
 much. He makes account in fix weeks he will 
 finifh the work, if the requifite materials be pre- 
 pared for him. If there be any more requifite to 
 
 trouble 
 
496 APPENDIX. 
 
 trouble you concerning him, he Ihall bring it with 
 
 him. 
 
 The painter of Delft is fo fantaftica], as I cannot 
 yet ^t his conditions ; but he promifeth to refolve 
 within fix day !^, (o as 1 hope when the laddler comes, 
 to give ground to relolve upon, and to fend his 
 Highnels's pleafure, which fhall be obeyed as far 
 as my power. 
 
 I cannot fay the affairs here are fettled^ and well 
 in order ; attd yet is there not apparent diforder 
 worth the rioting to. you; and to make judgment to 
 you of the future, is to hazard to Drove wife or a fool, 
 according as new accidents fliall produce the effefts. 
 
 The apparent danger the town of Aix was in by 
 the execution of the Emperor's ban, and the divers 
 confequences both of the Archdukes ading, and 
 this State's and other Princes, that would have 
 been jealous of the ilTue ot thofe levies, do all 
 ftand at paufe upon the death of the Emperor, who 
 hath amaffed a great treafure for his brother Mat- 
 thias, whom he moil hated, who is moft likely to 
 be Emperor, and Albertus not out of hope to be 
 King of Roman?. When the eiedfors, and admi- 
 niitrators of the Empire, have fettled their judg- 
 ments, we fliall begin to fee to what ways and ends 
 they will incline. 
 
 v.rVorftius, in whofe caufe the Kinw hath not 
 many hearts and much honour, is now here at the 
 Hague; and although the pretence be only to purge 
 himfelf in fome. points in queftion between fomc 
 private miniilers and him, yet his paffions and 
 parts are fo great, as may hazard in time the unity 
 of the Provinces •, tor the broaching and foftering 
 of thofe opinions and fadlions hath not been with- 
 out defign to Ihake the foundation of this go- 
 •vk.;>£. j».. vcrnmen't 
 
APPENDIX. 49^' 
 
 trrnment, by bringing in a freedom of all kinds 
 of religion. 
 
 Sir, I know how important thefe Provinces artf; 
 to our Kingdom ; and without breach of duty, I; 
 may not leave to retp.ember to yoli, who arc the 
 iaitlHullcft fecretary to my Prince and mailer, that 
 It is a mod necefiliry wifdom to keep power and 
 credit here. Pov/cr is by the nation continued 
 in the pay of the States, and by the cautionary 
 towns : Credit by an honourable reputation of 
 virtue and aHefllon, and ability to aid and favour 
 them. .For the firft, as occafion ihall be oflered, 
 I will call upon you. For the fecond, it feems to 
 me to be a fair opportunity, and very feafonable, 
 if his Highnefs would think of the obligation he 
 intended to the brave Prince Maurice, to call him 
 to the Order of the Garter. I proteft unto you, I 
 have no particular intereft, but as conceiving iC 
 proper for the honour. and fervice of our malter : 
 and I fhould be glad to carry the fuit and mefiage, 
 as I did that, with faith ; and conceiving it to be; 
 a good fervice and duty, (hall be glad to receive 
 and obey all commandments, that Ihall be laid uport 
 mc in it. 
 
 The French AmbafTador hath not yet had au- 
 dience. Many good patriots fear his bufinefs will 
 be new, and dangerous overtures, and having 
 relation to fome treaties with Spain and the Arch- 
 dukes. 
 
 There is now come to the Hague a young Duke 
 of Brunfwick, a fine gentleman. He came in the' 
 company of the Count of HrneRuSi whofe Lady 
 is fafely delivered of a ion. 
 
 It pleafed you in your*3 to fay, that his Highnefs 
 would anfwer my fuit. It fhall be a Princely gract: 
 done to a faithful and humble-hcartd fervant. 
 
 K k Thi» 
 
498. APPENDIX. 
 
 This grace and honour is dearer to me than any 
 profit. With my whole life I will pay my duties 
 to my mafter -, and you, to whom I muft acknow- 
 ledge the inftrumental part of the good and honour 
 I receive, Ihall receive fuch real teftimony of my 
 thankfulnefs, as fhall ferve to make you efteem 
 me worthy to be accounted in the number of your 
 friends and affedionate fervants, that fliall have 
 freedom to rely upon your favours ; to which 
 recommending myfelf, 1 befeech the Almighty to 
 blefs your counfels to the glory of our mafter and 
 your own honQur, according to the hopes and 
 
 Your moft affeflionate to ferve you^ 
 ,3moD 36n Edward Gonway. 
 
 This day Vorftius hath petitioned the States for 
 his leave to depart their Froyincesj and I doubt 
 not but will be accorded g, ^^^wj^noD 3¥/ swH 
 
 Hague, this ^8 January,, ^6|y^^,.., ^i.-^i ^jgi . 
 
 S I R, 
 
 •'.'. ■ ■ .321^6 3rij ?;;^nrU. 
 
 Y the contentment I take to do thefe little 
 
 offices, I find how great happinefs it would 
 
 be to me to fpend my beft powers and whole life 
 m the obedience to our excellent mafter, to whom 
 all the good in me is due both by right of fubje<5lion,« 
 vows, and bonds of humble affedion and fervice. 
 
 I fend you this bearer, a Ibldier by trade, and 
 fkilfully pradifed to cover an open coach. The 
 contraiSt I have made with him, I formerly wrote 
 
 to 
 
A P P E N D I X. 49^ 
 
 ^ ymrf but lo r&fredv your memory, T have ii\ 
 
 '"^his incloled expreired it. ' ■''■ ^' • '''iv' 
 
 ''' 'XVivAt iile flwll be made' of^^ff-ftiaini artd hts 
 ■fHighheffei^vouGhlMad^ofitiny dutitbt 
 J?ndeavouM, I do feit^f'to yoUr favout-, to whidi 
 as 1 attribute much f6f 'thi? 'great gtacel have 
 • received hi tTteftay lb ivUJ lj(*»itiaM opporiimities to 
 dcknowl^dge and pay' trit3th"'Td you by love, by 
 faith, and all tiie A^ofk3'*or«tMlikfi.ilneft. 
 
 I hdve rpokert with die 'painter of Delft, and 
 find him keep his affedioti and ineliri?,tiOM to make 
 a journey into Enghmd for his Highnefs*s fervi<Je. 
 But he loves himfelf and his acquaintance fo Well, as 
 can hardly refolve how to value his time and his 
 fkill. This was the time ire' took zb brin<3; me his 
 refolure demand, that I might receive your advice 
 tJpbn it. Bat yet he is not come, and 1 may in 
 part excufe it. The weather is fo here between 
 froft arid thav^, as boats cannOtr-^p'afSi- My next 
 mull be of that fubjeft. ' " '■■' ■ ■ 
 
 Here we conceive, that ftie"^^ French 'AmbafTador 
 keeps yet the ground of his ambafiage to himfelf. 
 He hath laid forth, fome ofhis accomplements, and 
 ■fome artifices to m.ake the matches between France 
 and Spain not to be had in jealoufy here -, and to 
 fhew firft, that they are only treated to do their 
 bufmefs the better •, and that the conclufions are far 
 off, uncertain, and at the choice of perfons lik^e to 
 ufe their own fancies, and tjie qccafions, that then 
 ftiall prefent themfelvev y!¥et in all events thefe 
 men fhall have faith and league kep: with them, 
 and fruit ever by the friendfliip of France. 
 
 But many fear tl-^ drift 'is to make thefe men 
 negleft the favours of his Majefty, or to be neg- 
 le(!:ted of. him, to reft upon the alliance of France, 
 c© bring, jpjfree exercife of ail religions^ j^^n^d j<^ to 
 
 K k 2 com- 
 
 k 
 
500 APPENDIX. 
 
 compound the affairs of Spain and them at the 
 devotion of France. 
 
 You fee how the affairs of the Empire are of 
 neceffity fufpended. There are many fubjedls for 
 queftions to rife on between the brothers. How 
 thefe will be quenched or inflamed, we fee not yet ; 
 and until ibme motions to the one or the other 
 may appear, judgment cannot be made by me, 
 that fee but with common eyes, and thofe of the 
 dulled fight, efpecially when I muft lay that judg- 
 ment before you, my honourable friend, whofc 
 larger information' of tliefe things from better hands 
 doth prepare your abler underftanding to forefee 
 that, which 1 fhall not guefs at before the rejatiop. 
 of the aft done. •';':"' *^i,!-'S'^T" ' 
 
 From Spain, and all other parts butt^redt-'m-i'tain,^ 
 opinion is moved, that the King of Spain will purr^ 
 fue flrongly the marriage of our bleffed Princefs:;! 
 and thai thereupon the intended treaty with the" 
 German Princes fiiall be fufpended. 
 
 From hence they difcourfe, that although the 
 King of Spain cannot in the world find fo great 
 bleffmg in a woman as in that Lady, and that it 
 would ferve him to do his affairs admirably •, yet 
 it is hardly to be believed, that the Moft Catholic 
 King, the fair child of the Pope, and the dear 
 I'overeign and humble fubjedil of the Jefuits, will 
 ever marry with one by their church counted an 
 heretic. It is alfo compared with many counfels 
 and proceedings of Spain, that fpare no way or 
 Ibbjed to do their bufinefs by ; and their turns 
 fcrved, never want excufes and pretexts to difen- ^ 
 gage themfelves, or at leaft plead a reafon : which ' 
 were a cruel fcorn, and perchance a difadvantage 
 to orhir matches, either in time or reputation: 
 
APPENDIX. 5CI 
 
 and, if it be pofTible to fucceed, to draw after it 
 ib m^ny confiderations and confequences of diffi- 
 culty and tendernefs, as if I could not have implicit . 
 faith in the infinite wifdom and bleffednefs of his-, 
 Majefty, and in the providence and judgment of^ 
 his faithful council, 1 could not without fear think 
 of the treaty. But the confidence I have of the . 
 wifdom and blefTing of his Majefty, and his royal> 
 ifTue, makes me in humble contentment expedt 
 good from all the adion, that fhall concern them, 
 moving from their royal wifdoms, and handled by ; 
 their faithful council about them, wherein yoiVj, 
 have a happy part to ad, which I befeech the;; 
 Almighty to blefs to his glory. .^..(,!^ p,^ 
 
 I befeech you, that my faith and duty fee con-p 
 tinued in the memory of his Highnefs, as his hum^ 
 ble lervant, that defires nothing more than occa- 
 fions to obey him in, and by the grace of his fa- 
 vour to be made able to (hew you, how thankful a 
 heart you have poflefled yourfelf with, that ftudics, 
 not by proteftations, bu^ |3)f |:ea^,^ipn$ and duties, 
 to prove, how I ^ni .S^ „:\^"^\^-.^,,, ,. V ,^ 
 
 , vldfiiimbfi 2iif-^ , . ,, -, 
 '^ iloM 3rii' ^X9"5.J^^n all to ferve you, 
 
 fbd'idijl Edward Conway, 
 
 It is not well with me, when I am conftrained 
 to ufc another's hand j for which I yet beg youf 
 
 Bfin, this 14 F€bruary}cj|^^i,^,jj^3j j^ ^, 
 
 K k 3 SIR, 
 
THE haftc-bPthis'beareri 'together With my 
 ill hand, made me omit in my former letter 
 a point, that 1 now willingly impart to you, having 
 a- quarter oi an hour's time given me. 
 . We received it here from good hands, that the 
 King of Poland miikes himf^lf exceeding ftrong 
 both ia horfe and toat,. antl uil prcvifiQns of war, 
 with a refulution toaticropc the kingdom of Swe- 
 den, where the King is young and unfetded , and 
 if that kingdom IliaU End, themfelves attempted 
 on one fide; by the. wau from Denmark, on the 
 other fide by the King of Poland, neceffity will 
 cp4i{lrai?i them to range themfelves to one or other 
 ^paFtcyiJtii^nd^reiioni and probability is moft for their 
 natural King ; fines, without any great miracle, the 
 opportunity, the ixjwer, and the aftivenefs of that 
 Kingof .i^-olandiCcvwlil^iireii, j>^ i$.po®bIe for him to 
 be mafter, not only of Sweden, but of a large extent 
 in thofc parts, in \ck Uian fix months. It is not to 
 be doubted but that the King of Poland is in reli- 
 gion 5 Jfrfuit ; in league and combination with the 
 Pope and with Spain; and fo not only a declared 
 enemy to the reformed . Churches and neighbour 
 States, which concerns the kingdom of Great- 
 Britain, not only by expedation of the world, that 
 his 5.T.ijefty, for his greatnefs and virtue, (bould be 
 moderator hi this end of the wodd : but it doth 
 concern, and will deeply concern, the welfare and 
 ■-interell of the kingdom of Great-Britain. 
 
 His Highnefs cannot do- any ad; more fuitabk 
 
 J3with his virtues, more honourable for his Majefty, 
 
 *'more for the fafety of the Churches, and piety of 
 
 ■:'his own glorious ftate, than to digell this affair 
 
 well by hinifelf and his private council, and the 
 
 ^ A X faith- 
 
APPENDIX. 503 
 
 faithful councils of the State ; and then to move 
 his royal father to mediate a reconciliation between 
 the kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden ; at leafl? 
 fuch a depofition of arms, as Sweden may wholly 
 attend his defence againft Poland, on i ii:di pn' ■ 
 
 It may be objeded, that, in cafe 6f dahger^ thofe 
 h concerns moft nearly, Hiould feeek aid. The 
 King of Sweden, that may be (for yet there is 
 none) is young, unfettled, and perhaps knows not 
 in what perfons, in what councils to be confident. 
 And for the Princes of Germany,, their altercations 
 in the Empire, their (low and disjointed affcdtions 
 and proceedings, is apt to err in points of real 
 wifdom and good manner. Thofe of the Low 
 Countries, who come next to be concerned, have 
 alfo their divifions and faftions amongft themfelves, 
 and begin to fleep in their lecurity with Spain, 
 "who certainly mull lliare deep in the profperity 
 of Poland. But if by neceffity, floth, or want of 
 wifdom, or good afFe<5lion, all men abandon the 
 good caufe, it is then moft time, and moft virtue, 
 to be diligent and ftiff in the good work. A more 
 pious, a more honourable, or more profitable, 
 hath not prefented itfelf in many years, than this 
 lappeafing of this war between two Princes of the 
 religion in this time, when the enemies of the reli- 
 gion do think they have fpread fuch nets to over- 
 throw her, as iht fhall not efcape. But God, I 
 know, will preferve her, and by his inftruments, 
 our royal King and his royal ifllie. 
 
 And thus, you Ihall ever fee my faith guide me 
 to affedt peace or war, as it fhall be moft for the 
 glory of God, and honour and fafety of my King 
 and my mafter, with whom I pray you employ all 
 your power for the €ffeding of this honourable 
 work. - ?i.!5vfKi ?.':• Dir '*!?))iniH V" 
 
 ."^'^if- 'Kk 4. Par- 
 
5H A P P E N D I X. 
 
 Pardon, and beg paidon for me, for this free^ 
 dom I ufe, which never proceeds from me but 
 attended with taitli and hurpility. 
 
 f>- I complain noCf thap I have not ©ncc heard from 
 you in three monthis : but I confefs I have longed 
 to hear boiii of iiis Higlmefs's hcahh, and howl 
 
 t-ttemain in his gracious , menao^:y j and how you 
 continue your favomr;tCi 
 
 .^niod^UiU^rt-'-allat your com- 
 
 Erill, 19th cf March, 
 
 16 1 1.' mandment, 
 
 i^isiiiu n'wo EDW'ARrr-CoNWAy. 
 
 ?fi.3 Zi 31 : ■ 
 
 Was now about to Imve taken the boldnefs (yet 
 with ail reverence) to have written to his High- 
 nefs, but I conceive it to be better duty, and the 
 fame thing, to deliver it to you his faithful fecre- 
 tary, that his Highnefs may fo with more eafe 
 know, how the people in thefe parts fay, that the 
 Council of Spain have done their bufinefs exceed- 
 ingly well ; the matches between Spain and France- 
 being publi(hed in their ports with all triumph. 
 That France gives a reafon of thefe matches on 
 their part for want of other alliances, that of Great- 
 Britain being fufpedled to them in refped of the 
 pretences to France ; the German Princes poor and 
 divided ; Italy f^r off; andthefe Seven Provinces fo 
 ready to run to Spain," as they only have gotten 
 the itart of them, and now ready tq bring them 
 thither t)y their mediation. 
 
 That Qve: cures of treacy,'to change the truce into 
 ^ peace, are undoubtedly already propounded by 
 
 the 
 
A P P E M^.I X. 505 
 
 the fome perfons, chat'.fiidli acteniptcd the former 
 
 Further, they fayrliere; thatifldlixJiere flrange 
 points of doctrine divulged ; hays t;be?enr foftered 
 i^r.d countenanced to prefs the generai liberty ot 
 rehgion to all Ictflaries, and amongft the reft, 
 to the Roman Catholics, who are not few in thefe 
 Provinces ; and that point gained, there- is no impe- 
 diment to thefe men's peace with Spain. For the 
 glory of the Catholic King being faved in that point, 
 and his uie and end afllired by that- admittance 
 (provided tlia.t he be but acknowledged to have 
 ihefe men difarmed) he will give them a blank 
 figned, "in which they fliall form their own other 
 conditions. To induce thefe men, there is the 
 juft pretences of Spain to them, liberty of con- 
 Icience fhall be granted, with the exerciie of reli- 
 gion to all kinds, freedom of traffic, and eafepf 
 impofiticns i and lear of a war, if they do not. 
 
 it is faid, that Spinola, accompanied with an- 
 other noble of Spain and the Count Bucquo^', 
 came with commillion into France, and fo to the 
 Archdukes: that great fums of money are made 
 over for thefe parts : that great levij?s of men. arte 
 jjkewife to come down : that the purj^ofes are to 
 change the truce into a peace -, to turn the afjfairs 
 of Germany to their advantage, and fo a^ jtfee 
 younger fon of Spain may fucceed in the Empire ; 
 and fo thcle forces will ferye both to keep in awe 
 the Princes of Germany, and fway thofe projeds to 
 their purpofe •, and alio to terrify thefe men to a 
 peace, to which they apply themfelves with fo 
 much delight and aifedion, as, if Spain have but 
 patience a year or two, rather thariiak^Vipj^riiiSi 
 iht'y will take on any. coi^dicions, ^:>li./■ y/p j^ji :. 
 
 ijuqujc/ yhiitxlif ylbaiduobau aifi <^;>6Xj ? 
 
 1% 
 
5o6 APPENDIX. 
 
 ^*-^!t is faid, that Spinola hath Ukewife charge *h 
 pafs into England, to treat about the marriage of 
 the lady Elizabeth : and it is obferved, that jult 
 about that time the journey of the Duke of Bou- 
 illon is deferred. It is Conceived, that the over- 
 ture and treaty is not really meant from Spain, 
 but only to amufe, until their other bufinefsin hand' 
 have palTage. ' 
 
 This pofition. is>hekV fcir granted, that Spain 
 pretends to the monarchy'; that if 'he^ make him-' 
 jelf mafter of the Low Couihtries fo far, as to have 
 ufe of their hat-bours and lliipping, he will make 
 no doubt to attempt Great-Britain. -^i TjnDTBt or- -^i 
 
 If it fhall be poffible, and found'i^o^ti %" his 
 Majefty, the Defender of the Faiih, to give his 
 blefTed and gracious daughter into Spain, and her 
 children to be bred up in that religion ', and for 
 the Cathohc King to be difpenfed with to match 
 ■with a blelTed Chriftian Frincefs, the dangers his 
 Majefty and his royal rlTue are expofed to from 
 the Spanifh and Jefuitical praftices are fuch, as I 
 tremble to think of them. ^Miilie h\,.-^^.., .:. 
 
 His Highnefs, as a counfellot tcJ'his ro'yal fatfhei^, 
 as heir apparent to the Crown, as having th6 
 expeftation and hope of the world caft upon his 
 excellent worth and powers, is called upon, not 
 only to obferve thefe pafTages; but to be pro- 
 vident in them as the mod faithful watchman and 
 remembrancer to his Majefty ; and forefeeing, that 
 a fmall induftry and force turns by inconveni- 
 encies, which once come and feated, will not be 
 remedied but with infinite difficulty. ^ ' 
 
 iforrYdtl,' in your place, have an honourable office 
 t6 difcharge, and a glorious part to a6l. You 
 fhall find, that the Induftry and artifices will be 
 very great to move his Majefty to contemn thefe 
 
 States, 
 
A P P END I X.- 507 
 
 States, and as great to divert the affeflion and de- 
 pendency of iheie men from his Majefty, and by 
 that means to call them for counfel and confidence 
 upon France, and fo into the power ot Spain, ^^j,^ 
 
 There are many ill-affe(^l:ed in this State : fo are 
 there many worthy patriots i for their fakes, for 
 the confequence and intereft, it is to be wiQied and 
 hoped, that his Majcfty will break all thefe defigns, 
 and keep his interell in thefe Provinces, and caufe 
 to be maintained their unity in their ecclefiaftical 
 and politic government ; though with fome extra- 
 ordinary care, and an appearance of force, which will 
 be no farther requifue, than by the countenance of it 
 to keep the evil-affe(Stj?tl in awe, an4 tjl^, good in 
 heart and life. n.^^i "-tr, y 'm^ 
 
 1 am glad, that at length we ratify the treaty 
 with the Princes of the religion, his Majefty*s Am- 
 baffador being to go on his way towards Colen for 
 that effeft. I fhould be more glad to hear, that 
 his Majelty did give countenance and encourage- 
 ment 10 the Proteltants in France. And whilq that 
 the inward affairs of thefe Provinces are not fo 
 well joined, as were to be wiflied, it would 
 coHie exceeding feafonably, and advantageoufly tor 
 his Majefty's fervice, if the Count Maurice did 
 receive fome marks pf his Majelly's favour, and 
 fome obligations from his Majcily and our mafter. 
 
 You fee whither my faithful duty and humble 
 affedion hath carried me, under this hope, that 
 his Highnefs will make a gracious conftrudion, 
 and favourable ufe of it towards me, whofe life and 
 powers arc wholly moved ro his lervice. 
 
 My confidence in you is fueh, that you will not 
 only make the beft interpretation of me, and ufe 
 for me, but exercife your favour fo much towards 
 me, as to reprove me by your letters for what 
 
 you 
 
5o8 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 you find imperrinenr, rude, or over bold; ' by that 
 way of your favour to increafe my bonds of duty to 
 you, in which I covet norMng more than your 
 commandments, and occafion, whereby to appi'ove 
 mvfelf -^^ ^-'^ "-^ ^^*'' ''''■' >■'-•':'''■'" 
 ■;'^ isoj gnilduoil moii 
 
 pi . : :r 'iluDx? oy^ra^'g jn' ajj ^o fer ve you, 
 March the iQt^.-ni laHjW a .i.ia^ 
 
 1,, JjsjqaDDfi Horn bfUi . ,iiiow «iu , ,.- ^. - 
 
 'innHitw n3lofl3 ad yefn 3fl Jsri^; ^iliri ;3nuo^ 
 S 1 R» ■ .•ViV/on>l arJ nsril bat, «■ a^iilo-^rfitb la. . 
 
 TH E fifO: of At!3i*if IffeceiVtd ^dlW's'Uith' liis 
 Highnefs's inclofed. I take it for a great 
 deal of honour and happinefs to be commanded by 
 his Highnefs, nothing being fo proper for a faith- 
 ful fervant as matter of obedience, where faith and 
 induflry may be acceptably exercifed. ? , ' 
 
 The Count Maurice was at Arnheim, thi^ee Ways^ 
 journey from hence, the folemnities of the chrif- 
 tening then not ended. I prefently, as this bearer 
 can tell you, began my journey thitherward, and 
 by accident met his Majefty's Ambaflador upon 
 his return from thence ; fo as finding, that the over- 
 ture was already made from the King, and that, for 
 fome late accidents concerning Vortlius, every fa- 
 vour ofi'ered or treated from Great-Britain to the 
 Count might be by the feditious party mifcon- 
 ftrucd, I conceived it my beft way of duty to dif- 
 charge this office laid upon me without any notice 
 to thofe, that wait but advantages. I therefore 
 left this gentleman at Utrecht, and hope he will' 
 make no ill conftru6lion of me ; and, if he fhould» 
 I pray yoy help me to fatisfy him, that the necef- 
 
A PRE N D I X. 509 
 
 Rty of my mafter's fervice, as I underfland ic, re- 
 quired my handling ic in that kind. ,^ 
 
 I have prefumed to make a particular and tedious 
 relation to his Highnefs of the manner of my ad,-^ 
 drefs to the Count Maurice, as alfo of the difcourf^.- 
 that paft. I am fo far from troubhng you wich the 
 repetition, as 1 befeech you to excufe me to his 
 Highnefs for that, which is cither impertinent or 
 ill-poHfhed. 1 will prefume to recommend to you 
 what I think may ferve our mafter to his end, to 
 make it appear his work, and moft acceptable to 
 the Count-, iirft, that he may be chofen without 
 farther difficulties •, and then the knowledge given 
 by his Highnefs to the Count himfcif of his 
 Kleiftion, and by his Majefty, or his Highnefs, 
 to the States-, and when the Order fhali be fent^. 
 Tome principal and noble peifon may be employed 
 in that fervice, this people and thofe of Germany 
 holding ihole circumtlances of form as a principal 
 part oi the honour of the matter. 
 
 I do in this, as I will ever do in all things, feek 
 my mafter and his honour in hi^-bufiaefs, and not 
 myfelf. 
 
 If any thing (ball happen, wherein his Highnefs 
 would give intimation or receive information, upon 
 commandment or inllru(5lion from his Highnefs or 
 irom you, I will hope to give a fincere and honcft 
 account of my faithful execution. -. > 
 
 The Count Hanau is coming to you. We hope 
 the bufinefs is fo cleared, as the danger of a Spanifti 
 match is paft. Believe it. Sir, the Spaniard, though 
 a fleepy King, hath great defigns; and the only 
 way to break them indeed is the unity of thefe Pro- 
 vinces, and the prefervation of his lVlajefty*s inte- 
 reft in them j the firm alliance of thofe of the reli- 
 gion in Germany, and the maintenance of thofe of 
 
 the 
 
510 APPENDIX. 
 
 the religion in France with gooti intelligence with 
 them. 
 
 It is fo precious a thing to me to be in the good 
 grace of his Highnefs, as I continue my fuit to 
 you, to recommend me ftilli to believe of my 
 faith to this, and fo to aflure it to him •, and to be 
 perfuaded thus of me, touching yourfelf, that 1 do 
 fo acknowledge your pad and continued favours, 
 that, if ever I may have the opportunity, 1 will 
 not fpare my utlermoft power; but employ it fo 
 freely in your fervice, as k ihall ferveto a^iprove 
 me to be '-^'"'J ''•^"'•■'■* -'''''ir >:/■''• 
 
 Brill, this 8th of Your's faithfully to ferve voi^,'.' 
 
 • April, i6i2> ' '^ 
 
 "' *'^'^^''^* Edward Conwa'y. 
 
 .N S I R, 
 
 IT is not eafy for me to exprefs the comfort I 
 receive by your letters and my bonds, which I 
 acknowledge for them. It were unthankfulnefs 
 in me not to obferve what pafiage you make me to 
 Hand in his Highnefs's memory and good opinion, 
 which is my principal ambition and care of my 
 life; and it ihall be great unworthinefs in me, 
 wKenfoever I part from that due acknowledgment 
 and refpeft, that belongs co you, or fail in faith- 
 ful conftancy to ferve you, in all opportunities and 
 your ufes, with my whole powers and endeavours. 
 £; 1 befeech you alTure his Highnefs, that duty and 
 affedion in me to his fervice will never fufFer me 
 to be over fcniible of ill weather, or to flop at any 
 diificuliies, the iJofifibility of my pov/ers can break 
 through. If my mean abilities can be fo happy 
 to fee on work, by his Highnefs's commandments, 
 . . 1 ihail 
 
A P P E N D I X: ^ii 
 
 I ihall hope, the bleffing belonging to them will 
 carry my weaknefs through. 
 
 I toreiaw, that his Majelly'a zealous oppofition 
 of Vorftius had fo much oftended Tome principal 
 great ones of this State, as they would be apt to 
 tormahfe any exceptions, and mifinterpret the 
 purpofe of his iVIajeily in the honour to be done to 
 Count Maurice. You have fcen their aniwers and 
 their impertinent and indifcreet demands-, but they 
 are commons, and infcniible of the perfection of 
 honour, civility, and thankfuinefs •, and althougK 
 their eftate gives them pride unduly to thiiik them-, 
 felves equal in all, yet lince theLwork is honourable 
 and leafonable for many good refpeds, 1 doubr 
 not but his Majclly, in his true greatnefs and roy- 
 alty, will pafi by their mechanical proceeding, 
 and of compalTicn to them, and for his own good 
 purpofe, fatisfy them : to which his Highnels may 
 be pleafed to bring as much help, as he fhall think 
 good, if it be not already done, becaufe the Count- 
 Maurice is wholly afllired, that the purpofe of this 
 great honour and favour is fprung from his High- 
 nefs, and hath been cherillied and brought on by. 
 him to the growth it is at : for which, if the Count 
 Maurice's proteftations may be taken, he is, and 
 ever will be, the thankful fervant of his Highnefs ; 
 and as he hath intreated me often and lately to 
 receive and deliver thole proteftations, fo did he 
 declare and purpofe to iifllire them under his hand. 
 I am exceeding glad to hear from you, that 
 thofe, whom it mofb concerns, affed not the match 
 "with Florence, a match indeed far unequal to the 
 Prince of Wales. And what is a fum of money, 
 where other circumftances concur not ? A crown, 
 . a province, that would extend dominion, or open 
 
 3 » P^^- 
 
512 APPENDIX. 
 
 a pa0age toextenfion, or were a bulwark of df- 
 tence, were confiderable amongft difficulties. But 
 a limited ium with the inconveniencies, that pre- 
 fent themfelvts in that or the like matches, de^ 
 ferve not diipute. 
 
 To you, with whom I anrfree, and in points of 
 my duty to our mafter, to whom I owe all faith and 
 ciearnels, I can never remember to^ you too often, 
 that Spain tends to the monarchy. I'hat the 
 grcateil obftacle to that defign is the mighty defen- 
 der of the faith, the King of Great-Britain, whole 
 kingly greatnefs, though bleft with all requifite vir- 
 tues in the powers of his own mind, and with the 
 mod glorious and hopeful ifilic that ever King had, 
 and thefe feconded with warlike nations^ his fub- 
 je6ls ; yet, according to human counfels, requires 
 alliances and affiftance, even for reafon of ilate, 
 concerning proper good ; befides, that the defence 
 of the faith requires protection of neighbours, if 
 our own intereft went not with it. But infallibly 
 the intereft of Great-Britain is now in difpute in 
 thefe alliances, treaties and peace handled, conceived 
 and projected . 
 
 1 am glad to hear, and long may it be feen, 
 that his Majefty will hold in heart and comfort 
 thofe of the religion in France, keep in devotion 
 thofe of the churches of Germany, and keep his 
 intereft in thefe Provinces. A match with con- 
 trariety of religion will never carry thofe ends 
 with it : for although his Majefty and his High- 
 nefs will undoubtedly keep conftanily their inte- 
 grities in that point -, yet one part will take fo great 
 difcouragcmcnt, and the other fuch prefumption, 
 as may make troublefome, if not dangerous 
 evejits,, 
 
 I am 
 
APPENDIX. ^13 
 
 Jam not wojthy to advifc; but J am confident 
 enough to wifh, that whea luch a match fball bt 
 propounded to his Highncis, he would rejeft ic, 
 with deciaracion, that he wiii not miwry but with 
 one of the rcHgion •, a point, that would fo bind 
 and alTur-e all Piocertaiits of Chriftendom to his 
 Majefty and his biighn,efs, as would ruin the pro- 
 ject of the pretended Monarchy, and make fuch 
 Uleps, and open fuch ways, as all, that is juft and 
 lawful for his Majedy or his Highnefs to pretend 
 to amongfl: his neighbours, would offer icfelf, and 
 be fubje«ft to them in a few years. You (hall be 
 fare, that the counfcls ot Spain will never, until 
 fuch a declaration, ceafe all pradtices, if not to di- 
 vert his Majefty and his Highnefs from thofe of 
 the religion, yet to divide them as much as pofTible, 
 and to caft jealoufy amonglt them. Withal you 
 Ihall fee, that they will fpare no endeavour, cod, 
 nor artifice, to move his Majefty to induce thefe 
 Provinces to peace with Spain. The truce declares 
 too much, how dangerous a peace will be, firft to 
 thcfe Provinces ; and then to all the Reformed 
 Churches of Chriftendom. 
 
 You have a noble and happy condition, that are 
 within diftance to torefee and offer your help, not 
 only to prevent inconveniencies, but to pulh for- 
 ward the- good works. God, that hath put aid 
 and terror into the hands of his Majefty and his 
 Highnefs, glorify himfelf in their great adions. 
 My life is due, and fliall ever be oftered in the leaft 
 of their motions. 
 
 Now, I pray you, pardon my tedioufnefs. Con- 
 tinue to ftay me in the good grace of his Highnefs, 
 and keep me in your good favour, as you fhajl 
 
 L i ever 
 
514 APPENDIX. 
 
 ever find my faith and afFedtion ready in all your 
 commandments.to approve me ; g^j ai dDiriv/ 
 
 ioi)inn on ?fi ,iuc>Vl)fUif§!. -faithfully to ferve you, . 
 
 07 jHiTti^'cTVnrbnE fiJi3qbi ifihjjnT£q lit : 
 
 :tri b^sn bne lc3i adj oj -jDiiij 
 
 -'• ^, I Tj aid fcf; eesloqiuq ^^^^t) y''^^^-•'> 
 
 IT is before and/ feycinc^ all bthcf dccUrrenccrs 
 this happinefs, tlrat your letters offer me the 
 alfurance, that his Highnefsvouchfafes my humble 
 
 "?duty; aiid it is beyond ail other bonds, that you 
 recommend my faith and humble affedlion to his 
 gracious acceptance. I am thankful to you for the 
 
 ,,"Work and for your letters, which have brought me 
 
 .Jjthe glad tidings. 
 
 'J' Pardon me now to.prelume with you in a point 
 of my particular. It hath pleafed God to vifit my 
 
 .':,wife with a long ficknefs, the recovery of which is 
 'hoped and advifed to be found at Spa. ' With the 
 knowledge of all ihofe in thefe partSy to whom lor 
 my place oweth any refped, I have refolved of that 
 journey, and have alfo thought it my duty to give 
 you knowledge how and where I bellow myfelf ; 
 with this knowledge farther, that I have taken 
 Juch order, that if be fo happy to be thought 
 worthy of his Highnefs''s commandments in any 
 condidon, within thr^e days after fignification 
 given ^t the Brill, ,\ it will be with me at Spa; 
 'where, God willing^"! will keep the readinefs, 
 which fhall never depart: from me, upon the firfl 
 'fumnions, to'hafle that May pccafion and my duty 
 5lull direft me. And afthough there is no appear- 
 ance 
 
 ■u 
 
A P P E N D I X. ^i^. 
 
 -a'tite^Anjr default by my abfence for two months, 
 which is the iongeft time, God willing, I Ihall 
 beftow in this pufpole •, yer, I befeech you, take mc 
 fo in your protedion and favour, as no (Iniiler 
 COnllruClion be received againft me, fince borh in 
 my ,afte<5tion and judgment 1 hoMthis'tfue pofition, 
 and that all parcicular rcipeds and ends ought to 
 give place to the real and needful duties, in the 
 integrity of my purpofes, as his HighneiVs humble 
 fervant in your fav^our,^ I iTiall go in ali fecurity. 
 
 I cannot give you much hence, nothing new. 
 The eledioa and all the ceremonies finiflied, we 
 fliall exped: how the affairs of the Empire will fettle 
 or incline to alteration. The AmbafTador of Spain, 
 which hath been v^'ith the new Emperor, comes to 
 Colen. There Spinola meets him, and there will 
 be in his eyes Aix, Juliers, and Mulheim, three 
 places of confideration •, fubjed: fit, if the v,'ills 
 be prepared, to make much combuftion. Thefe 
 mdn are unwilling to apprehend it. Juliers, as it 
 is now in ftatc, cannot refift an attempt ten days. 
 Mulhcim now in working not defenfible, and to be 
 maintained by a company of undifciplincd men. 
 Aix of no great force neither by fituation, art, or 
 hands. So as confiderable confequences, cr im- 
 mediately God muft divert the purpofes, or fome 
 or all of thefe good members of the Church wiil 
 
 ■ Theprofecutfbhs arictjealoufiesin France threaten 
 that country with a bloody ifTue. And the over- 
 tures ofj)eace, which are yet in Spinola's pocket, 
 threaten thefe Provinces with a great deal of dan- 
 ger. God blefs his Majelly of Great-Britain, and 
 his royal iffuc ; arid they may and will balance aij. 
 fhe 4fJm^Qf..Ctiriilendo^ '. .^ .v,...>. , > 
 
5i6 APPENDIX. 
 
 I fhall long exceedingly to hear of the happy 
 eftabliihment of thofe great offices of the Kingdom. 
 God blefs the counfel and choice to his glory, and 
 his Majefty's hortour and fatisfadion. 
 
 When I am at the Spa, if I meet with any thing 
 worthy of you, I will prefume to trouble you with 
 it. Now I intreat your pardon for this. I be- 
 feech you to help me to ftand and go, if it be pof- 
 fible, in his Highnefs*5 favour ; and I befcech you 
 keep in your favour and good opinion, and make 
 glad with your commandments^jg^^ g^^j io3oijiu( 
 
 Hague, this a9th of ^pur's in all to fervc you, 
 ■»^ June, i6ii.i V.^ii^alof bn^ v- 
 
 ■jm 3bem 3on ^^A ilaisJnr i^Ai ,f}33oiq I airb 39^ 
 .;^vg j! ^;[x;rn larfjbn ; rioi3£b-i lo 3/ul srij nj Ifimsq 
 
 BEING returned from- the Spa to the Brill, 
 I think it my duty to give you the knowledge, 
 that if my good fortune would offer occafion to 
 honour me with his Highnefs's commandments, or 
 to employ me in any particular of your's, you may 
 know where to find me, that ever am prepared in 
 affeftion and obedience to both thofe duties. 
 
 I conceive by that time this can find you, our 
 gracious matter will be at Woodftock. My faith 
 to his fervic: makes me not only wifh myfelf wor- 
 thy to ferve him, but that all worthy men were 
 like affcded as myfelf; and all virtuous men were 
 known to him in their feverai powers and affed:i- 
 ons, that fo his Highnefs might make choice of 
 his inftruments, according to the meafure of their 
 faith and fufficiencies, and his particular ufes and 
 ^employments. ,1 l}ayg;^hereforc chofen this gentle- 
 .•<^r ,> 5 J man. 
 
APPEND IX. ^17 
 
 marti Sir Giles Bray, to bring this letter to you, 
 by which I am an humble fuitor to you, that you 
 would be pleafed to do me the favour, and him the 
 honour, to prefent him to the kiflTng of his High- 
 nefs's hands, and to make him known to his High- 
 hefs, as a man in his rank fit to ferve and obey him* 
 i will therefore prefume to make him known to you, 
 even as I know him. He is defcended from a 
 noble family and well allied, born to an eftate near 
 Woodftock worth 1000 1. a year i lives there a 
 Juftice of the Peace; for his fpirit, difcretion, and 
 other fufficiencies, equal with the beft fort of his 
 neighbours •, to be commanded by his Highnefs j 
 and for his honefty and integrity I dare engage 
 myfelf. He is my wife's fon by a former hufband: 
 yet this I protefl:, that intereft hath not made me 
 partial in the fuit or relation •, neither fhall felf-love, 
 or particular intereft, ever prevail with me to make 
 me betray my mafter*s fervice, or abufe your judge- 
 ment. In that confidence I recommend him to 
 your favour, and Ihall account grace done to him 
 to be an honour to'-me', ^d multiplication of my 
 bonds. 
 
 You hear how much the Houfe of Auftria is of- 
 fended with the building of Mulheim, and how 
 many counfels they have had to demoliih that 
 work, under pretext only to favour and afllil: Co- 
 Icn : but the point is of greater confequence and 
 cxtention •, the reputation of the parties being in 
 queftion, which is a pointy that Princes and States 
 muft be moft careful of, as a powerful part ir) 
 their affairs. Notwithftanding the Emperor's edidl to 
 the contrary, the work is gone on with more hands 
 and hafte ; and, as they think, in defence : but if 
 Spinola fear not the mutiny of his foldiers, when 
 
 L 1 3 they 
 
5iB A P P E N D I X. 
 
 they fhall be drawn together (for they are behintj 
 with a great part of their pay) aflurcdly they will 
 demoliln that work •, and then Brandenburg will 
 fee his fault to begin fuch a work without force to 
 defend it : and Juliets will be in danger : for un- 
 doubtedly the Spaniard hath both that and greater 
 works in deliberation, which threaten our State 
 alfp^'- ' ■■ --••;: . -'■- '^ ■-' • '- A--- ,■ 
 "Wei h€jtr-!h^ Ps-htin ¥tf6\v^^ tt^Jtome towards 
 thefe parts within- foarte^a- days after the return of 
 Monf. SchoiTiberg fj'om his Majefty. 
 
 My afledlion to lay all I know before you, 
 would draw on your farther trouble, but that I con- 
 ceive it would be too old befort it find you. 
 
 1 befecch you pardon this ; help to make me Jive 
 ih his Highnefs's memory and favour; keep me 
 in your prot^eion- and gop!^ qpinioD? anjiopfntpan^ 
 fj-ecly ' --' -!>-->/i '■ .kHjoiiv , ■ . ..,^;: uni, .aui: 03 
 
 5rfffi the |thijof,: jfY^i&s.ftitirfijjlyittojgfveyou/ 
 
 ^,"2",^^i.,i^^?t^»,. .-jalo'jbaB «be))d Ibw vit? 
 
 - j^L f Bdward Conway. 
 
 uiBg5L ^HiViui. yb^JEisbom Vi-'-< ('{"i i-^^^-' c'-v 
 
 i jiniioD-^vnS n:>v3l ; bauI^aSL ni \idi ^l6i\\oq . >'< 
 
 HIS long filcncc of mine hath neither pror 
 ceeded of want of refpedt or affedion to 
 ferve you, but a great and dangerous ficknefs hath 
 maftered me, until now that the violence of the 
 difeafe declines, and I begin, I thank God, to re- 
 cover fpirius and ftrength to be able to pay duties, 
 where 1 owe thera, and Ihall be jnade happy by the 
 9Pportunities, 
 
A P.P END.! X. 519 
 
 ■ If my ftrength would rerve,<n3i!e;if J vHiould re- 
 commend by you to our mafter la view of things, 
 how in men's judgments they flaftii^ here, ,6nd in the 
 neighbour parts, and how they ar©<ontingent tm,- 
 portunity to the State of Great-Britain upon thofe 
 heads now in dehberation with the.Spanifli council ♦, 
 the redudion of Aix, the demolition^ of Mul- 
 heim, the difpofingof Cleve and Juliers, the altera- 
 tion of the prefent government of Embden to the 
 power of the Count, and the fubje(5ting of the 
 United- Provinces, by a plaufible peace by ter- 
 ror of a war, or by difuniting them in the dif- 
 putes. But the reft of dm -muft be referved 
 for another tim^' and ibme more increafe to my 
 ftrength. .. ' ^^ - ' : 
 
 The Falatin is nov/ at the Hague, to whom I 
 have not been able to pay the duties I acknowledge 
 to him, and defire to perform. I hear he is a fine 
 Prince, his ftature inclining rather to tallnefs than 
 little, his age refp^^ted": that he is of jgood pre- 
 fence, very well bred, and comely in all his aftions 
 both on horfeback and afoot. His train is noble, 
 yet, they fay, wifely moderated, having regard to 
 his poffible ftay in England ; feven Privy-Counfel- 
 lors, fix Earls of his fubjefts, chiefs of their faj;ni- 
 lies ; two young Earls pages of honour, three 
 principal Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber, four 
 Gentlemen pages, 25 Gentlemen of account. 
 Preacher, Phyfician, the fervants of thefe in lifts, 
 and the reft of his Highnels's houfliold (for fo they 
 ftile him) make the full number 200. The Couni: 
 
 Harry of Nafiau his uncle purpoleth to go with 
 him : he is truly a brave and well^faOiioncd Prince, 
 
 much affedled to the great virtues of our mailer, 
 
 $nd for many refpeds worthy of his knowledge 
 
 L I 4 and 
 
520 AFP EN D.l X. 
 
 and favoufo ,When you fhall lee and obferve his 
 perfon and parts, and confjder the circumftances of 
 his family and eniplpymenc, I recommend ic^^n4,- 
 thcm to your judicious iiandling. ^j noti . 
 
 My coniidence is in bis Highnefs's gracious in- 
 clination, and in your noble mediation to keep me 
 living in his favour, which is my uttermoft ambi- 
 tion bv thofe ways, togchcr v4th my faith and ut-r 
 termoll: worth of my life and po.ver,. to be ern-r 
 ployed in his Highnefs's fcrvice. ...j^ Ujorntoi^ ?iilfl 
 
 1 befecch you undcrftand aright this bold freedom 
 of mine with you ; and ihcn it fhall be as fure ar- 
 gument of my rcibiution and afTection, more eafily 
 and freely obey and ferve you, in meafare to ap- 
 prove myfeif thankfully to you for all your favours, 
 and firicerely ?^d truly^,^,; - ; - : "^ -nifiov'^BaiDai 
 
 - Youi-s at your commandment,^ ^^^j^ 
 
 Oaob- the sd, ^\,^ ^^'^^ y?ife -r • 
 
 N U M B;g^R,'xi. !>. ^78. ' '^ 
 
 AuguflifTime & magnanime Princeps, 
 
 OM N E S, quibus do£brina, virtus, aut inge- 
 nii gloria honeftum nomen conciliant, cer- 
 t3:im in cam laudatam ambitionem confpirant, uc 
 aliquid in medium adferant, unde gratiam & be- 
 nevuientiam tanti Principis demereri queant. Ego 
 "ProfefTor 'icademicus nihil aliud in prsefentia e litera* , 
 rio cei.fu depromere pofTum prater mufarum facra, 
 quas virginali verecundia fufiuf?e ferenitatem tuam 
 gudent blandius exorare, ne dcdigneris aliquid ipfis 
 
 Otii 
 
 . 
 
I 
 
 APPENDIX. 521 
 
 otii impartiri, quiim a gravioribus curis fenarlliby-- 
 erit. Si fcripti genius & fentcntiarUrh Veritas atquc 
 utilitas attentionem non elicer'ent, author tam,en 
 non inter humillimos lite'rariim cultores haud in- 
 digniis eflet, qiiem placido vulUi^exciecrpV & non- 
 nulio favore comple6li velles ; queWiadmodi/tn antea 
 fccifti, quum me affabili fermq*nc tup dignatus es. 
 Ne quid dicam elatiusi tailfe^'^riii^ monurhcntoruni 
 non vulgo nafdtur, nec'quotidic'obvehiuht Rcgurn 
 filiis ejufmodi hr:;iTdicates | quanquam pudft pi- 
 getque me tot crratonim, quj^ per cypcgraphi in^ 
 curiam & imperitiam paflim in tarn ^xiji opufculo 
 confpiciantur, maQ;no meo cumdolorc, aui rrone. 
 rcetum abolendum curafl"em/ pe. tarrl,,deiQrn)is^.,,i^ 
 herbum Conrpeflum prodiret: Se^ anhnum ineum 
 recrcat veftrre benignitatis aura, qu^ fpcm certam 
 adfpergit fere, ut aliena negligentia nobis nequa- 
 quam imputetur. 
 
 Videbit illic celfitudo veftra, fi libello manus 
 admovere non dedignabitur, multa, qure minime 
 futura fint infrugircra ad imperii clavum refte & 
 fapienter moderandum. Quanquam omnia tibi & 
 a naturre beneficio, iSc. a proviib patris, Regura 
 optimi fapienciflimique, & ab infpeftoribus ftu- 
 diorum contigerunt, quascunquc principem Tuprc- 
 mis laudum ac virtutum infignibus cumulare pofr 
 iunt; tamen inter vidrices laureas hanc humilem 
 hederarn tibi circum tempora Terpere non invitus 
 patieris,- meque in eorum numerum adfcifcer'e 
 dignaberis, qui fc fuaque omnia veftrj;^ ferenitati 
 dcvoverunt. Scripfi fine dolo bumiilimiis Au- 
 gufti WalliiE Principis Cli^ib'sli'' '' ' 
 
 >i lunii cnncxTi ' -^ ',1 'TS'-'-^'-i •'''' 
 
 i.ugduiu Bxitavorum. xluftut J>o,mi^jicus BaODIUS., 
 
 NUM. 
 
522 A-POPC'E^ DI X- 
 
 NUMB E'^^ ^XI. p. 363. 
 
 THE funeral-procefiion, as defcribexl in the 
 account printed Toon alccr, was as toUows : 
 The reprefentation of the Prince was laid upon 
 the corps, and both together put into an open 
 chariot, and fo proceeded in the following manner. 
 Poor men in gowns, to the Nuiiiibef iftt 44^. 
 
 Servants about 3^^rTf^"^"^ 
 of Efquires, of Barons fohs^ 
 
 Knights, , i.'"' "" ' Vifcounts fons, 
 Baronets?"'^^^^^ ^''^" Earls Tons. 
 
 Two drums and a fife ; their drums covered 
 with black cloth, and fcutcheons of the Prince's 
 Arms thereupon. u . 
 
 Portlmouth Purfuivant of Arm'^?^*.'^,*^" biod^arf: 
 
 The great ftandard of the Prince, "being a hon 
 crowned, Handing on a chapeau, borne by Sir John. 
 Wynne Knt. and Bart, the motto thereon Fax 
 mentis honejl^ gloria. ■: mnihauiri bnc sisn; )ji,-i 
 
 The Prince's houfhpld fefvants, ftctording ta 
 their feveral offices and degrees, with tradefmen 
 and artificers, who belonged to his Highnefs ^ 
 about 306. . 
 
 Trumpets, '1 
 
 The coronet of the Prince, being the three 
 feathers in a coronet, with this motto, Juvat ire 
 per allum, borne by Sir Roger Dallifon Knt. 
 and Bart. ' 
 
 Servants about 360, ' ' r Vrr j ■■, ^ *# 
 
 vifcoupts. ,,,, ,. ;"^r.,,^4 
 
 Earls, as well ErigiimT^YoreJghers. 
 ■ - Vr Ser- 
 
APPEND! X. 52J 
 
 Servants of the Duke of Lennox, 
 
 The Lord Chancellory 1 j vc - 
 Count Henry de Naffau. '^^ 
 
 Trumpets. ;i>"'^'' in-iniPt Jl.}^ inp 
 
 A banner of the Earldom cf Carrick, borne by 
 Sir David Foulis. 
 
 A horfe led by an Equcn'yof 'the ftable-, the 
 horfe was covered with black cloth, and armed 
 with fcutcheons of that - EArId©j;n, having his 
 tlieiffron and plumes. 
 
 Servants about 80, 
 
 . .anolpi Prince Palatine^ ,, > 
 Prince Charles, 
 
 Bluemantle Purfuivant of Arms. 
 
 A banner of the Earldom of Chefter, borne by 
 the Lord Howard of Effingham. 
 
 A horfe led by an Equerry of the ftable, covered 
 with black clpth, and armed with fcutcheons gf 
 that Earldpm, having his chciffron and plumes. 7/- 
 
 '-nr.vxac' 
 
 ,a9itupl3 ].. 
 
 • -A' 
 
 Falconers and Huntfmen," 
 Clerks of the Works, -/iit oo 
 
 -/nflgiH*^!^ 
 
 hn. ; ?g'5fRo 
 
 Poultry] 
 
 Acatry, 
 
 Larder, 
 
 Spicery, 
 
 Kitchin^' 
 
 Coffery," 
 
 Stable, 
 
 Avery, 
 
 Wardrobe, 
 
 Mafter of the Works, 
 
 Pay-mafter, 
 
 .if} 
 
 >. about 40. 
 
 Scr- 
 
524 APPENDIX. 
 
 Serjeants of the Vcflry, ~) rn^ijr- 
 
 Children of the Chapel, 1 
 
 Gentlemen of the Chapel in rich ! , 
 
 ^^r^or ^ about DO. 
 
 copes, 
 
 Muficians, Apothecaries, and Sur- | ^ 
 
 geons, J 
 
 DoAors of Phyfic, 6. 
 The Prince's Chaplains, 24. ) 
 
 Portcullis Purfuivant of Arms. 
 A banner of the Dukedom of Rothefcy, borne 
 by the Lord Bruce, Baron of Kinlofs. 
 
 A horfe led by an Equerry of the ftable, covered 
 with black cloth, armed with fcutcheons of that 
 Dukedom, having his cheiffron and plumes. 
 Pages of the Chamber, 1 
 
 Gentlemen, the Prince's fervants :. _.,,' 
 
 extraordinary, JbxbT^ 
 
 The Prince's Sollicitorand Coua-V .:r.rj 
 
 cil at Law, f (p f i! 
 
 The Groom-Porter, j 
 
 Gentlemen Ufhers QiJartcr- ,.1 
 
 Waiters, . f", ^!??i?5 ?.9^ 
 
 Grooms of the Privy- Chamber .'^.'{i'aibioBiix''^ 
 
 extraordinary. 
 Grooms of the Privy-Chamber 
 
 in ordinary, . -.-^ ^ , .. 
 
 Grooms of the Bed-Cnanitei*, 
 Pages of the Bed-Chamber, and 
 
 Prince's own Page,^ . .^^ ,^ j^ i:):tafi3iT 
 Rouge Dragon rurluivant. 
 A banner of the Dukedom of Cornwall, borne 
 
 by the Lord Clifford- - > ; > 
 
 A horfe led by Mr. Henry Alexander, covered 
 with black cloth, armed witn fcutcheons of that 
 Dukedom, his cheiffron and plumes. 
 
 Gen-f 
 
 :5 ^idgin^ 
 ,ai3WDl lijiv, 
 
A P P E N D IX. 
 
 5^5 
 
 Gentlemen of Count Henry and Count Pala- 
 
 Monf. Eltz, <**"' 
 Helmftadt, 
 Colbe, 
 Benefer, 
 Adolfliein, 
 Nenzkin,, , 
 
 tine, VIZ. 
 Monf. 
 
 Auckenften, 
 Gellu, -v , , 
 
 Pel linger, 
 
 BerJipps, 
 
 Shott, 
 
 Wildenftop,',;' 
 
 Croilefemor^,- 
 
 Levinfton, 
 
 Dothenes, 
 
 Cclbc, 
 
 Scultetez, 
 
 Rampf, 
 
 Davvnfier, 
 
 Maier, 
 
 Wanebach. 
 
 „r 11 ''^'^ iO 3n£vi. 
 
 Vvalbron,-, • . ^ , n 
 
 Vvaldo;rave,j -. „ 
 
 tuetes, r _ 
 
 Curden, 
 
 Berlinorer, , • . 
 
 Ororcde, , ' 
 
 Cawlc, ^ ^-, 
 
 Stenfels, '^'^ ' 
 
 RidzelJ, 
 
 Helinger, 
 
 Henbell, 
 
 ,i3Jio4-niooiTj «n '* 
 
 Prince Charles*s Gehtlemehr 
 Gentlemen of Prince Henry's Privy-Chamber 
 extraordinary j i*^a«i£nJ:YvnH sri'i io etnobjO 
 
 Knights and Gendemen of his HigKnefs's Privy- 
 Chamber in ordinary, and of his Bed-Charnber, 
 with fewers, carvers, and cupbearers. 
 
 The Prince's Secretary. 
 
 The Prince's Trcafurer of the Houfliold, the 
 Treafurer of his Revenue, and the Comptroller of 
 his Houfliold, together, bearing their white 
 ftaves. 
 
 Rouge Croix Purfuivant of Arms. -^ ^'^^ V^ 
 
 A banner of the Principality of Scotlalrid, *With 
 a label, borne by the Vifcount Fenton. 
 
Sz6 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 A horfe Jed by Sir Sigifmond Alexander, co- 
 vered with black cloth, armed with fcutcheons 6f 
 that Kingdom, his chieffron and plumes. 
 
 Baronets. '^^ ^^^-^ . ^^ bioJ._ , 
 
 Barons young^rfons. "^ ' ^'"'^ 
 
 Sir Edward Philips, Mafter of the Rolls', berrig 
 the Prince's Chancellor, going aloncjrfidlid id'^ 
 
 Knights, Privy-Counfellors to the King, viz. 
 
 Sir John Herbert, Secretary, 
 
 Sir Julius Casfar, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
 
 Sir Thomas Parry, Chancellor of the jpygliy of 
 
 Lancafter. , , ,,.^ .nifihsdmBri J 2*aDnii4 6riT 
 Barons elded fons^.j^ ^^-^^ 3^, „^3^ ^^^^(^ 
 Ihree truriipets.p t^.. ~^^u,.^rO bio J ^dT . 
 E-ancaftec Herald. -..:.&„,,;; 
 
 A banner of England, France^ ,,^4 Ireland, 
 
 quartered with Wales, borne by the ViTcount Lifle. 
 A horfe led by Sir William WebS ICnt. covered 
 
 widi black cloth, his chie^o^ an^t>b\Be£jd ibm 
 Earls younger fons/ .sniorilnA ?8 ^b 
 
 Vifcounts eldefl fons. ' . r « ■ 
 Vi Barons of Sx:otland.^'^"^^"^=*^^'^ ^ ^^^^ 
 Barons of England. -^ ^^ ^""^^^^ , 
 
 Lord Knever, Lord CaVendllli, ' 
 
 Lord Arundel and War.-" Lord Carew, 
 dour : uoma'Ji>i yo ^iv-^-* i 
 
 Lord Stanhope, , Lord Denny, 
 
 Lord Spencer,' ■' '^"^ ^ '} Lord Garrard, 
 Lord oWvcrsy ''^'*' ^^"'Lord Hartington^- 
 cLbni }^<?tre, " ^' "'Lord Rufiel, 
 
 Lord Wotton, Lord Knollys, 
 
 "'iLord Norrijjf S"^^'' f-' ' Lord Compton, 
 '^ord BunmoiH \ -' ''^- ^ Lord Chandos, 
 " Lord North, ' ' Lord Darcy of Chich. 
 
 . i iiilii \tj(4'il'i. iiii iiO J5n010'.rf 'I.^«i£' '^■iiJ —■* r A 
 
APPENDIX. 527 
 
 Lord Sheffield,. ,nonraixii?>i^'^^Kicl^» nofl A 
 JLord Wharton, LordEurc, b^igv 
 
 Lord Wentworth, Lord Windfor, A jfirfj 
 
 Lord Montegle, Lord Dudleyj^poica 
 
 Lord Stafford, Lord Dacres, ^noit M 
 
 LordMorley, , \, ,,,r[^i/Lo\d LaW^jrb.'i lu 
 The bifhops of Rochefter, jnfirf'J 2S3nnH 3/li> 
 •V „^* ^ Litchfield and Coventry, - 
 
 Ely, - .T . 
 
 .v^j^ford, i5d«3Hnnot a:. 
 ' i-J.h"-^ London. '^ilsG^ amiul ■ ' 
 TheEaVl^ofExetcr. ^^^ «^^^'^ 
 
 The Prince's Chamberlain, Sir Thomas Chaloner, 
 alone, bearing the white llaif. 
 
 The Lord Chancellor and Count Henry. 
 The Archbifhop of Canterbui^?^ ; 
 The great embroidered banner of the Union, 
 borne by the Earls of Montgomery and Argyle. 
 
 A horfeied^' called Le chccdl de ' deuil^ covered 
 with black vnvdt, and led by a chief Equerry, Monf. 
 de St. Anthoine. ''' 
 
 The Prince's atchievements of honour, carried by 
 officers of arms, viz. 
 
 The fpurs by Windfor. 
 
 The gauntlets by.Somerfet. 
 
 The helm and creft by Richmond, 
 
 The targe by York. 
 
 The fword by Norroy King of Arms. 
 
 The coat by Clarencieux King of Arms. 
 
 The GentlefDea.Ufhers to the Prince, bearing 
 their wands. '/ T '''" 
 
 The corps of the Prince, lying in an open cha- 
 riot, with the reprefentation of him invelled with 
 riches of ftate of purple velvet, furred with er- 
 ., mines ; his cap and coronet on his head, and his 
 
 rod 
 
52B APPENDIX. 
 
 rod of gold in his hand. At his feet within the 
 chariot fat Sir David Murray, the mafter of his 
 wardrobe. 
 
 The chariot was covered with black velvet, fct 
 with plumes of black feathers, and drawn by fix 
 horfes covered, and armed with fcutcheons, having 
 their chciffrons and plumes. 
 
 A canopy of black velvet borne over the repre- 
 lentation by fix baronets. 
 
 Ten bannerets borne about the body by ten ba- 
 ronets : 
 
 Sir Boyle Finch, Sir ArttTiony Cope, 
 
 Sir Thomas Monfon, Sir George Grieflcy, 
 
 Sir John Wentworth, Sir Robert Cotton, 
 
 Sir Henry Savile, Sir i ewis Trcn:iam, 
 
 Sir Thomas Brudencll, Sir Philip Tyrwhit. 
 
 Four affillants to the corps, who bore up the 
 corners of the pall, z'iz. 
 
 The Lord Zouch, 
 The 'Lord Abergavenny, 
 The Lord Burghley, 
 The Lord Walden. 
 
 "William Segar, Garter, Principal King of A rmj* 
 between the Gentleman Uflier of Prince Charles, 
 and the Gentleman Ufher of the Prince Palatine. 
 
 Prince Charles, chief mourner, fupported by 
 the Lord Privy-Seal, and the Duke of Lennox, hia 
 Highnefs's train being borne by the Lord Au* 
 bigny, brother to the Duke of Lennox. 
 
 The Prince F.leftor, Frederick, Count Palatiiw 
 of the Rhine, his train being borne by Monf. 
 Schomberg. 
 
 Twelve 
 
APPENDIX. 529 
 
 Twelve Earls affiftants to the chief mourner, viz. 
 Earl of Nottingham, Earl of Suffolk, 
 
 Shrewfbury, Worcefter, 
 
 Rutland, Suflex, 
 
 Southampton, Pembroke, 
 
 Hertford, Eifex, 
 
 Doilet, Salisbury. 
 
 Earls ftrangers, attendants on the Count Pa- 
 latine. 
 
 Count Wigenftein, 
 
 Lewis de Naflau, 
 Levingfton, 
 Hohenlo, 
 Rhingrave, 
 Erbach, 
 
 Naflau- Scarburg, 
 Lc Honan Junior, 
 Ifinberfh, ") 
 Solmes, > Pages. 
 Zeretin, J 
 The horfe of ttate led by Sir Robert Douglas, 
 Mafter of the Horfe to the Prince. 
 
 The Count Palatine's priVy-counlellors, viz. 
 The Count de Solmes, • Monf. Halmftadt, 
 Monf. Shouburg, Monf Shouburg Junior, 
 
 Monf. de Pleflau, Monf. Landfhor. 
 
 Officers and grooms of Prince Henry's ftable. 
 The guard. 
 
 The Knight marllial and twenty fervants, who 
 kept order in the proceeding. 
 
 Divers Knights and Gentlemen, the King's fer- 
 vants, who came voluntarily in black. 
 
 Mm N U M- 
 
530 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 iw ,^:fe;M:R:^ R XXII. p. 402. . 
 
 •-^ni 
 
 This dircourfe, which was never printed, is ex- 
 tant among the Harlcian MSS *, but afcribed in 
 the title to Sir Charles Cornvvallis ; but this might 
 cafily be difproved trom many circumftances in the 
 relation idelf, if the difcudlon of that point were 
 not too tedious, as well as unnecefl^iy... ..Whom it 
 was addrcfled to, does not appear.;!? lol r^i ^i\ 
 
 J rdaiwn. of ihe carriage , cf tin marriages^ that 
 Mjhculd have been made betiioeen the Prince of Etig- 
 
 land and the Infanta Major of Spain i and alfo 
 
 ^ficr with i be younger Infant a* 
 .?E viialiaq ludnoH iuo\ 03nu nwob i3l ol 
 
 SI ^,z> gtaln;ii-^5d uh;: roii^Lboun: !;ri3 '.bv. 
 
 TH E ch^rge^^^^ic!t-'ihBI([!,''ii^n^T6^Ilecef- 
 fary relation and dependency to that place, 
 to which your ■wifdom and deierts have moved his 
 Majefty to call you ; I have thought it very fit in 
 a matter of no lefs confeqfuence, than a treaty of 
 marriage for the Prince's Highnefs with a daughter 
 ol the King of Spain, becaufe I know your Ho- 
 nour fhall receive the carriage thereof fevcrally 
 and differently related from- many Princes, his Ma- 
 jefty's allies, and from his Majefty's public minifters 
 refiding abroad, to fet down truly and exaftly the 
 original courfc and iifue of the bufinefs ; to the end, 
 that you, who, under his Majefty, are like hereafter 
 to direct, may be fully acquainted with what for- 
 merly palled : And for that it is likely, that the 
 manner of this treaty fliall not only be given out, 
 
 * Vol. 2208. FQl.?l?^feqq, 
 
 but 
 
APPENDIX. 53 1 
 
 but cenfures, according to the diverfity of men's 
 affeflions ; and unto you, as unto the centre, where 
 all advertifements meet, ihefe contrarieties will 
 come, I therefore defired to arm you with this 
 truth, which as I affirm unto yourfelf, fo am 1 
 ready to juUify it to the world, if you lliall havii 
 occafion ; or that your wifdom fhall think it fit ta 
 make more public ufe of this difcourre ; the which 
 containeth in it fo much truth, that I care not what 
 eye fee it, for that 1 know no man can contrary 
 it. I flinll therefore refer it to your Honour to make 
 fuch ufe thereof, as Ihail beft • pleafe you, either to 
 inform others of thole proceedings, or for your 
 own private fatisfadion, to ^wiliGh 1 chiefly intend 
 
 it. '' -rvr- -^ . 
 
 To fet down unto your Honour perfeflly, as 
 well the introduction and beginnino; of this bufi- 
 nels, as the caufe and ilfue, to which it is brought, 
 I muft crave leave to fetch it a.little higher than my 
 own time ; yet dare affirm, that what I Ihall fay 
 therein doth contain as exadtly the truth, as that, 
 which hath pafled by myfelf ; for that I have re* 
 ceived it from his Majelty's own mouth, and often 
 from my Lord Trcafurer ; and have found it 
 acknowledged by the principal minifters here. .^- 
 
 Not long after the concluding of the peace be- 
 twixt his Majelly and the King of Spain, there fell 
 out many caufes of expoftulation betwixt them, for 
 divers wrongs offered to his Majefty's fubjedts, 
 contrary to the article of treaty ; as aifo for the rea- 
 dinefs, which was perceived in the King of Spain 
 to receive and favour pcrfons ill affeded to his Ma- 
 jcftyand the State. And thereupon his Tvlajefty was 
 contented, that it fliould be plainly told unto this 
 King's Ambaffadors refiding in England, that he 
 M m 2 cbkrved 
 
532 APPENDIX. 
 
 obferved;fo^ilrange a proceeding upon the mW 
 amity, as he. had caufe to rufpeft, that the former 
 alienaiion was rather dilguifed tor the contrivir^g of 
 ibme future ends, than fo cxtingoifhed, as he might 
 iafely build, upon fuch triendfhip. Whereupon 
 many arguments being ufed by divers of this King's 
 minirters in excufe of what had pafied, imputing 
 fome things to the flow itykof their proceedings in 
 Spain, and foiBe others to concurrency in matters 
 of con Icience .with thofc pertbns, which made 
 their retreat into the King's dominions : and for 
 the better expreOuig and intimating of this King's 
 clear and hncere affedions towards his Majeity, 
 both the.Conde dc Villa Mediana " in his time, and 
 Don Pedro de Zuniga ' fince, declared and pro- 
 ti&ed to know fo much of the Xing their marter, 
 his good intents unto his Majefty, as if he would 
 be pleafed (according, to nature and cuftom, by 
 both which the man is to fpeak firft) to begin a 
 motion for a marriage betwixt the Prince of Wales 
 and the Infanta, the fame fhould be fo well heard, 
 as it fiiould appear, that the King defired not only 
 to continue in amity, but CQ unlte.himfcl£i?y neareit 
 alliance unto his Maj efty .. rlj loi a runavo fiifi srfj 
 i To all which, though. his Majefty could but re- 
 : turn kind and thankful anfwers in the general j yet 
 tor many refpeds it pleafed his Majefty to pais 
 .over all thefe occafions given him by thole invite- 
 ."'^mt'n»s, without making any particular anfwer, un- 
 til the time of Don Alonfode Velafco '^y yet Leiger 
 
 I' The Spanilh ArnbaHador in England, yfho was recalled in 
 September, 1605. Winwbod, Vol. II. p. I33. *= Who re- 
 turned from his embafly in England about April or May i6ic. 
 ibid. Vol. ill, p. 1 4 3. •* Appointed by the court of Spain to 
 go Ambafi'ador to England, in January 1609-10. 
 
 . -wr,:.; y . there; 
 
APPENDIX. 533 
 
 there -, who renewing rhofe former? "Overtures, his 
 Majefty could no longer have remained in filencc, 
 but he mull have given jaft occafjon to retort that 
 opinion of coldnefs upon himfelf, for which he haci 
 formerly challenc^ed him. And here lean enter to 
 fpeak of the fequei pt' the ^ufmefsnpor^ my own 
 knowledgelj^ilKq b/.-ri 3£flw to alu^xa nr ei^flir: 
 
 In March i6i'i *, thd' du1<b6f Savoy Tent an 
 AmbaflTage to his Majefty, in which he gave com- 
 miflion to his Ambaflacior to m'ake^ ofter of the 
 Prince of Piedmont for the Lady Elizabeth's 
 grace, with infinuation likewiit', how glad the Duke 
 of Savoy would be, if the Prince ot Wales would 
 difpofe himfelf to like of the eldeft daughter. 
 ' To the firft his Majefty made anfwer, that he 
 Would not refufe to treat thereof upon the Duke's 
 own motion^ if it were propounded fmgle, as it 
 had been formerly moved by the Ambalfadc^r of 
 Spain. But if it came accompanied wirli the con- 
 dition of reciprocal marriage for the Prince, his 
 Majefty could herein give no anfwer, as not being 
 yet refolved about the beftowing of him. 
 
 At the fame time the Spanilh Ambaftador made 
 the firft overture for the Prince of Piedmont (for 
 the motion thereof came from him, as fo directed 
 from the King of Spain, as he affirmed and fliewed 
 in writing) he faid, that in cafe his Majefty fliould 
 be pleafed to make the like overture to the King 
 his Mafter, for the Prince of Wales to match with 
 the Infanta \ he did affure himfelf, that his Ma- 
 jefty ftiould receive a kind and honourable anfwer •, 
 intimating indeed, that the intent of this match 
 with Savoy was to be as a foregoer of the match 
 
 [* i6io-u.vi;f,nWinwood, Vol. III. p. 291.] 
 
 M m 3 betwixC 
 
534 APPENDIX. 
 
 betwixt the Prince and the Infanta : by which all 
 difficulties in matters of religion might be facili- 
 tated, that the other might find the lefs ftops and 
 hindrances, when it fliould come to be nego<r 
 tiated. . .1 . 
 
 Myfelf at the fame time being appointed to come 
 to be his Majefty's Leiger Ambafiador into Spain, 
 to fupply the place, which had been two years 
 vacant, with charge to procure fome better farif- 
 fadion in the merchants bufineffes, than they had 
 yet received -, and being fo near my departure, I 
 had my inftrudions ready drawn and pcrfeded, 
 and had alfo taken n-y leave of his Majefty, think- 
 ing within very few days to have begun my jour- 
 ney. My Lord Treafurer, upon this new invita- 
 tion of the Ambailador, fent one down to Royfton 
 unto his Majefty, to make him acquainted therewith. 
 "Whereupon his Majefty was ple^fed to give me 
 order, how to behave myfelf in the bu fi ne fs i and 
 cau fed pafticular diiedions to be added and adr 
 joined to my former inftrudions, wherein before 
 there was no kind of mention of any fuch motion ; 
 an evident argument, that the overtures of the 
 Ambafiador, and the affurance he gave his Majefty, 
 that the propcfition fhouid have all kind of ac- 
 ceptance, were the only motives, which led his Ma- 
 jefty to propound the match ; this being the true 
 manner, in v,-hichthisbufinefs wasby theAmbaffador 
 revived and by which his Majefty and this King 
 have proceeded. .^rjuhu ^n ii. 
 
 Ac my arrival here in Spain p, having procured 
 audience of this King, after I had prefented to him 
 his Majefty's kind and affedionate falutation, with 
 
 i- M all 
 
APPEND I X. 535 
 
 all princely offers of his love and friendOiip ; I took, 
 particular notice unto him ot the overture nnade 
 by Don Alonfo his Ambaflador, and in his Ma- 
 jelty's name gave him thanks for yielding lb clear* 
 and apparent teltimony of his affection. And then 
 I declared the extraordirrary value and cdimation 
 of the Infanta in every relpeiSt -, .and that to ihew 
 his willingnefs to maintairi the^-amity^ and increale 
 the alliance between lire mjj be vcas /-wilUng to 
 lay hold of that; whkh -lirst Ambairador had in- 
 timated unto him : and t;herefore had given me 
 inllruflions to prooeedv:ta-prapoun.d^ a marriage 
 unto him for the Prince^of . Walefi^ his Majei'ty's 
 fon and heir,, with- thej Infanta his ^eld^ft .dau^i 
 ttsri^ni W3n aiflj noqn /mulssiT bio J. yM .v'3a 
 • The -KiYig hereunto 'rnadc'ai'.fwer/ th.it thcfe 
 teftimonies^of his Majcfty's love werc.very accepta- 
 ble urtEfii him V And told me, cortcsi-ning this bufi- 
 ncfs, the Duke* of Lernaa Ihoul^b have order to 
 treat with rtt^/ -'C o: ^noiC-^v ,;; --<;,; >, 
 
 Within two or thte days after, the Duke of 
 Lerma came home onto meat my houfe ; to whort? 
 when I had fignified how grateful it was to his 
 Majefty, to anderftand of his good inclination to- 
 wards him and his eltate ; I declared as much 
 unto him, as formerly I had done unto the King; 
 and told him, that herein the King had relerred 
 me to negotiate and treat with himfdf. 
 
 The Duke then began with a great protefta- 
 tion, how much he defired as great a ilrictnels 
 and iiearnefs of amity and alliance, as might be, 
 between the Crowns of England and Spain i and 
 that by his means this propofition had been di- 
 vers times handled both by the Condc de Villa 
 Mediana, and fince by Don Pedro de Zun'ga ; 
 
 M m 4 alio 
 
53^ APPENDIX. 
 
 alfo by Don Alonfo, now refident in England*:. 
 and that he well knew of how great confequence it 
 were both for the good ot Spain and of England, to 
 be fo 'nearly and lb firmly united. One thing 
 there was, which he apprehended as the greatelt 
 and only difficulty, which was the difparity of 
 religion; for the accommodating whereof he would 
 make no precife judgment, being a thing de- 
 pending on the Pope, and in which neither the 
 King nor the State here would make any cer- 
 tain determination. 
 
 xjI then made him anfwer. that the King, my 
 rhafler, would herein have to do with no other 
 but the King and his minifters : and that I fup^ 
 pofed, if the Pope*s inclination had not already 
 been tryed herein, and that there might be proba- 
 bility of giving way unto the match, i fhould have 
 thoughtthere would not have been given Commifllon 
 toDon Alonfo de Vaiefco to give fuch encourage- 
 ment to the King, my mailer, for the propounding 
 of it : and that, if 1 were not much miltaken, i 
 had heard Don Alonfo lay, that the match with 
 Savoy had been already propounded to the Pope ; 
 and that he fnould feem not to be much adverfe 
 thereunto-, which match I conceived had been a 
 preparation and way -maker to the other. 
 
 I'd which the Duke replied, that the King de- 
 pendeth on none but on the Pope ; and that de- 
 pending he could not, nor mull not deny; nei- 
 ther could he proceed herein without the Pope's 
 approbation. And as for the matter of Savoy, 
 though the Pope fhould give way unto it, yet 
 there would be great difference in thefe cafes, in 
 regard that there might be greater hopes of the 
 Lady Elizabeth's. convetfion. being matched to. .a 
 
 catholic, 
 
APPENDIX. 537 
 
 catholic, and being come to live in a embolic 
 counrry : whereas, concrariwife, there might be 
 great danger of the Intama's perwcrfion, fhe being 
 to be matched,' and foto be governed by a Ptince; 
 that was not catholic : the which it the King 
 fhould fuppofe, l-.e could not, nor would not do, 
 though it were for the Tavin^ of" his kirtgdotrnoigua-^ 
 I feeing rhe Duke ftand upon lb Itrid terms;^ 
 defired him not to miftake my manner ot propofiti- 
 on, which was with thefe conditions and fettnclions, 
 that if this mo' ion fliouid not bs received with tall 
 as much forwardnefs of difpofiTion from the King 
 of Spain, as by the King my mitVer, in his defines 
 of having it elfeCfed j this bufinefs would quickly 
 be at an end. For that I have no comm.iliion to 
 treat, until I fhould be afilired, borh that the pro* 
 pofnion in general was very welcome unto them'; 
 and that they would undertake the clearing of 
 fuch difficulties, as on their fide might arife. So 
 that unlels this by them might be undergone, the 
 iflue of this bufinefs, 1 conceived, was like to be 
 no other, but that the King my mafter had ex- 
 prelfed a willinglt-fs to lay hold of any intimation, 
 that this King fhould make, of working a greater • 
 nearnefs and tlriclnefs betwixt iliem. 
 
 The Duke then feemcd to be a little altered with " 
 this my diredinefs; and began to qualify his manner 
 of fpeech, telling me, he well knew the great good " 
 and happinefs, tliat might arife, not only to thefc 
 crowns, but to the Lhriftian world in general, 
 if this match might take cfFcct : and that, which" 
 he now had faid, was not by way of anfwer, but 
 by way of propofitiun of the only difficulties hs 
 forefaw. But that the King had given him order, 
 that herein (hortly I fhould receive anfwer ; the 
 , .'fionj£j care 
 
538 A P P E"N D I X. 
 
 care whereof he would undertake ; willing rne to 
 afiiire myfelf, that it fhould be fuch, as fhould be 
 agreeable both to the King my mafler*s honour 
 and full fatisradlion. Upon thefe terms we then 
 parted. ' .^rhii. v- - -^-^ ' - 
 
 1 then fuffered tteift'''to'¥ake the leifuHf of a 
 month or fix weeks, without ufin^ any new in- 
 fiance, until their ftay was fuch, as I held it ex- 
 pedient to prefs them for their ahrwer'-' and to 
 make means for a new accefs untb th6 King, on 
 whom I was commanded to wait at the Efcurial. 
 My audience with him was very fhort •, being again 
 referred by him to the Duke of Lerma-, whom I 
 then found very Tick in bed of a fever, and fo 
 offered to have attended him fome day oRe hour 
 of his better difpofilion'. But he intreated me to 
 fit down by him,' and told me he would briefly 
 fignify unto me the fubftance of the King's anfwer, 
 which fhould be more at large delivered unto me 
 by Don John de Idiaques, who was there prefent. 
 
 He then willed me to fignify to the King my 
 malter, that this propofition, which I had made, 
 was very welcome and grateful unto this King, 
 taking it as an afTured teftimony of his affedion 
 and good will unto him: and as he had found 
 from the King a worthy and diredl proceeding in 
 the propounding of it ; fo would he ufe much 
 fincerity and direftnefs in the anfwer ; for that the 
 truth was, that before his overture made by me in 
 the King's name for the Prince of Wales with the: 
 Infanta the Lady Anne, the King was elfewhere 
 cn^ged : and that the reafon, why my anfwer 
 had been fo long delayed, was to fee, how other 
 treaties, which were already on foot, proceeded; 
 to the end, if the King fhould have found himfelf 
 b^iiD:. free 
 
A P P E N D IX. 539 
 
 free of fuch engagements and proiiiiles, as he had 
 formerly made, he might have given that accept- 
 ance, v/hich he defired, to this propofition ; the 
 which he now could not do, on the behalf of the 
 eldeft daughter the Lady Anne, becaufe thefe pro- 
 mifes and engagements, which he formerly had 
 made, were proceeded in great hkelihood of taking 
 effed. But fuch was his particular defire of giving 
 faiisfadlion to the King, tlat having other daugh- 
 ters born of the fame father and mother, and io 
 equal dearnefs and efteem unto him, that tor either 
 of them it fhould pleafe the King to make a mo- 
 tion for the Prince of Wales (if that the King did 
 think the matter of religion might be accomnio- 
 dated, and without danger of this King's daughter 
 to be altered and perverted from her religion; xhc 
 King would here be very willing unto it, and 
 would upon his Majcfty's anfwer herein, which he 
 wiihed me to procure, give order tor the nego^ 
 tilting herein to the King's full content. 
 
 He then told me what he faid fhould be more 
 amply delivered unto me by iJon John Idiaques, 
 to whom I might likewife fay any thing I had to 
 fpeak ; for that his difpofition was fuch, that with 
 much pain he had forced himfcU thus much ; and 
 fo 1 v;as accompanied to my chamber by Don 
 John de Idiaques and Don Roderigo Calderon. 
 
 From Don John I received the fame anfwer ia 
 eifeft, that I had done, though fomevvhat more 
 enlarged i with wboni though I held it to little 
 purpofe t;o argue or expoftufate ; yet when they 
 urged the King's former engagements to be long 
 before my overture, I replied, that I piuch won- 
 dered at it, fince the motives, that had invited 
 the jiCing my m^fterto^ this ^overture, had pro-r 
 33i1 '^ ceeded 
 
1^ 
 
 540 APPENDIX. 
 
 ceeded from Don Alonfo their AmbalTador, nbw 
 refidcnt in England, who had not only formerly 
 afiTurcd the King my mafter, that if he fhould be 
 plefafed to make this motion, it fhould receive a 
 kind acceptance, "and an honourable anfwer -, but 
 otherwife of late, upoh the intlant of my departure, 
 he confirmed, that he was newly inftrufted from 
 this King, that in cafe the alliance was then fpoken 
 of, not only not to refufe it, but embrace it, as a 
 matter, that fhould be moft agreeable to his King, 
 
 'matter of religion might be accommodated. 
 
 ' Don Roderigo fuddenly and peremptorily denied 
 nis having any fuch direftions fit)rn hence, feeing 
 it would not be, for that this treaty had been many- 
 months in fpeech ^ But Don John de Idiaques 
 feemed to qualify, or rather wittily '(B t'xcufe ic, 
 "by taking or the general word a'iiSue, {being, it 
 might be, he might have dire6lrons, in cafe the 
 alliance of the Prince with Spain fhould be fpoken 
 of, he fhould not refufe it ; for that it then was, 
 and is ftill defired, though not particularly with the 
 King's eldeft daughter, concerning whom the King 
 hath been already many months engaged by pro- 
 mife. ^^'-'^'' \ '--^^^ 
 
 They feemed much to defire, that the King might 
 refl fatisfied with this anfwer, telling me, there 
 was little advantage in the marriage of daughters ; 
 for that the King much efteemed, and would do 
 as much for the younger as for the elder. 
 ^' I told them, I knew not how the King my 
 mafter might herewith reft fatisfied •, yet I could not 
 but conceive many differences betweep the younger 
 and eldeft daughter^^ '""^^^f"' x^u.^myii^nj y/u/i 
 
 * See the Earl of Salifbury*s letter of 5 Nov. 1611. Win- 
 wooi. Vol. III. p. 301. 
 
 Firil, 
 
APPENDIX. 541 
 
 Firft, ^t^at kingdoms <:pm§ npt into divifion i 
 and then that a Prince of nine years of age " Ihould 
 be married to a Lady elder than, himfelf-, and 
 another of eighteen ' fl^ould tje ^oved ,tQ tarrjr 
 for an Infanta of fix years. 
 
 And this is the effed of that, which pafied at that 
 time, whereof I prefenrly gave an account unto his 
 Majefly, and tfiereupon rec,qy^dH,..,^re^icwjs,,|:(i 
 make unto tliem this reply : , , , ,, - ;' 
 
 That the King my mailer had found their an- 
 fwer to contain in it fo many incongruities and 
 unexpected paflages, that he had held it fit to call 
 the King's Ambaflador to a conference with the 
 Lords of his Council, for the juftifying of what 
 had palled from him : and had likewife command- 
 ed me to underftand from the King the reafon of 
 the proceedings, which he found both unfuitable 
 to the expeflation, and no ways to anfwer the pro- 
 mifes of his Ambaffador ; for thac he had not only 
 in former times affured the King my mailer, that, 
 if he Ihould be pleafed to propound a match for 
 the Prince of Wales with the Infanta, the King's 
 elded daughter, he ihould receive a kind and hp- 
 nourable aufwcr j but alfo very few days before 
 my departure, he confirmed his former fpeeches 
 in his King's name, acknowledging, that by a, late 
 direcfliun from thence, he was newly inftrytfted; 
 that in cafe the alliance of the Pjince of Wales 
 were fpoken of in P.ngland, that he fhould not 
 only not refufe, but embrace it, as a thing, thac 
 iliould be mod agreeable to his Majefty, if jmattter 
 of religion might be accommodated. 
 
 Now the King my mailer feeing thefe encourage- 
 ments, given by the Ambaflador, fo contrary to 
 ^ Lewis XI II. of fiance. ^ Prince Henry. 
 
 JhiH what 
 
542 A P P E N D 1 :5C. 
 
 what he found here -, for having but two months 
 before received afllirance, that if he propounded 
 the matter for the Prince with the Infanta Major, 
 it fhould find acceptance, that he fliould now re* 
 ceive anfwer, that fhe was already difpofcd of, 
 his Majefty could here but judge, that either this 
 King's proceedings were not with that clearneft 
 that he expected ; or that the Ambaffador, whom 
 the King my matter had caufe in all things to be- 
 lieve (having the public faith and credence of 
 his King) had herein much exceeded. Wherein 
 his Majefty defired firft to receive fa'isfafbion, for 
 that he was advertifed from myfelf, that fome of 
 the King's principal minifters here abfolutely denied 
 to me, that any fifch direftion or commiffion was 
 given to the faid Ambaflador. His Majefty there- 
 fore thought it fit to havethis point cleared, whe- 
 ther he had any warrant from his King to fpeak 
 what he had laid or not. For that whenfocver it 
 ihould appear, that any public minifter fhould fo 
 much forget himlelf, as to deliver that in the per- 
 fon of his mafter, which is but his own ; or 
 having fpoken the truth, fhould afterwards be 
 difavowcd by thofe, that employed him ; one of 
 thefc two things muft follow, that he is either 
 become unworthy of the place he holdeth by his 
 own a6l •, or made unworthy by his mafter. 
 
 Having delivered this both to the King and 
 Duke of Lerma, from the Duke (in the King's 
 name) I received this anfwer, that it was true, that 
 his Majefty had great reafon to take exceptions, 
 and to be difplealed with this manner of proceed- 
 ing, if that their Ambaflador had in this fort dealt 
 with his Majefty •, and that the blame and fault 
 heiaif muft light upon the Ambaflador, who had 
 
 received 
 
APPENDIX. 543 
 
 received no fuch commiflion nor dircdion from 
 hence : telling me, that it was juftice firft to hear 
 the AmbaiTador, before they would proceed againft 
 him ; but in cafe he fhould not clear himfelf, but that 
 he had proceeded in this manner, which I had fee 
 down, the coiirfe, which his King would take 
 with his Ambaflfador, IhoH^ bqt]i tully give hi« 
 Majefty fatisfadion, and fufficientiy witnefsj, that; 
 his King had given hirn no fuch commiflion, • -•? 
 
 He then detired to know tlie particulars, which 
 I alledged the Air.balTador had. faid. to his Majefty :j. 
 which I repeated unto him in this manner : ;-;-^ 
 
 Firft, that upon the motipn of the match with 
 Savoy, he told his Majefty,, that in cafe he would 
 be plealed to make the like overture to the King 
 his mafter for the E^rince his Highnefs with the 
 Infanta, his King's daughter, he did afTure him- 
 fcli, tliat his Majefty ftiiouj^- receive a kind and 
 honourable anfwer. , j^, ; -, 
 
 Secondly, in April i)6.ii,l:ie confirmed his for- 
 mer fpeeches in the King his mafter*s name, ac- 
 knowledging to be newly inftru6ted from Spain, 
 that in cafe the alliance for the Prince's Highnefs 
 were fpokeri,<jif; in England, he fljould not refufe 
 it, but embrace it as a thing, which fliould be 
 moft agreeable to his King, if matter of religion 
 might be accommodated, ^^jjcm ^! 
 
 Thirdly, and laftly, he confirmed in a confe- 
 rence with their lordfhips of his Majefty 's privy- 
 council, that he was warranted and authorifed to 
 hear and embrace any overture for the Prince's 
 Highnefs, concerning the Infanta Major; and that, 
 upon juft and reafonable conditions, fo that a 
 means might be made for the accommodating of 
 matter of religion. All which conjunctions, with- 
 
544 APPENDIX. 
 
 cut allowing fomething, and difannulling the reft, 
 the Duke oi Lerma in his King's name abiblutely 
 dilavowed, denying, thac any luch commiflion had 
 been given unto him. 
 
 The Duke then Teemed much to labour toexprefs 
 his King's afi'edions and good intents ro his Ma- 
 jelly •, alledging indeed, that it was true, that there 
 had been formerly fome ipeech ol the conveniency 
 of this match : but feeing it in no kind proceeded 
 in the King had taken the refolution, which was now 
 likely to take effeft, for the bellowing of his eldell 
 daughter upon the King of France : but that all 
 other means of entering into alliance with his Ma- 
 
 jefty, by bellowing any other ol his daughters upon 
 the Prince, his King had willingly offered, and was 
 ready to perform, if matters ot religion could be 
 accommodated ; afking me, whether I had no an- 
 fwer concerning this offer, which his King had 
 made unto him. 
 
 ■''■ I told him, I had received no dire(5tion at all ; 
 and thus for this time we concluded and parted, 
 this being in the midil of September, anno 1611. 
 
 '■ In the beginning of February next following, I 
 having occafion, for many bufinefTes of the mer- 
 chants, to repair unto the Duke, after long dif- 
 courfe therein, he expreffing an extraordinary de- 
 fire, that things niight be carried with fuch love 
 and kindnefs betwixt their Majefties, that a great 
 nearnefs might be wrought betwixt them, if it were 
 pofiible, afl^ed me, whether I had got no directions 
 concerning his King's lail proffer. 1 told him, no. 
 Then falling irico a'lany difcourfes of having Eng- 
 land and Spain united, he telling me, there were 
 very few King's daughters now left in Chriftendom j 
 and that in the matches of great Princes, there 
 
 were 
 
APPENDIX. 545 
 
 were commonly greater inconveniericies, than. the 
 difproportion of Tome few years : and urging me 
 to fpeak what I conceived thereof, I told him, that 
 out ot the conBdence 1 had in him, and for the ex- 
 prefllng of my own good inchnation of doing all 
 good oiTices betwixt their Majefties, who, I con- 
 ceived, were both well inclined to unite themfelves 
 more nearly, I would tell him both what I thought 
 in this particular, and what would be the moft pro- 
 fitable means of working fuch an cffctl. 
 
 I then faid, that the King my mailer having 
 only two fons, I fuppofed he would regard no one 
 thing fo much in the match of the Prince as the 
 hope of a plentiful and fpeedy ifTue : and the Prince 
 being already at man's eftate, and this King's 
 younger daughter not pafTing fix years of age, he 
 fhould be forced to flay the attendance of many 
 years, and the prime of his youth be fpent, before 
 there would be any hope of ilfue by him. Which 
 confideration, I apprehended, was the caufe, which 
 made his Majelly take fo much deliberation in giv- 
 ing anfwer unto the proffer. But that if he fhould 
 give me leave, merely as a private man, as having 
 no other commilTion but the warrant dormant, 
 which all Lieger Ambaffadors have, to propound 
 and difcourfe of all things, which they may think 
 may tend to the increafing of amity and good cor- 
 refpondency betwixt the Princes, where they are 
 employed, I fhould be glad to exprefs my good in- 
 tentions and deHres in this thing, by declaring unto 
 him all the mofl likely and profitable ways, which 
 I could forefee, for the producing of fuch an effedt : 
 and fo, amongft other things, told him, 1 fuppofed, 
 that a daughter of Savoy being fo iuitable in years, 
 and fo near in blood to his King, might by being 
 pkcn into his care, and being as it were adopted a 
 N n daughter 
 
546 APPENDIX. 
 
 daughter of his, and made fit tor him in regard of 
 her fortunes, as flie was m ail things elfe, to be a 
 wife un:o the Prince, iht might very ucU prove a 
 fitting fubjeift to fet the mutual defires, which I 
 conceived vvere in; both their Majeilies, o\ unit- 
 ing themlelves, on work. 
 
 The Duke thanked me very much, both for the 
 free proceeding with him, and for the good incli- 
 nation, that I expreffed, of making a greater near- 
 nefs betwixt their Majedies ; telHng me, he would 
 of what 1 had laid corifider ; feeming much to 
 approve it, and lliortly again would: fend fox, |:jje, 
 that we might confer farther thereofcrh .-^m ninrr 
 
 I earnettly intreated him, becaufe that this was -a 
 meer projeci: and propolition of my own, uichout 
 any kind ol authority or diredion, that it might 
 pafs with much ftillnefs and fecrecy ; and that it it 
 ihould appear, upon better confideration, not con- 
 venient to be farther proceeded in, that it might 
 die betwixt us two ; lell otherwife my good inten- 
 tions might perhaps turn to my prejudice : the 
 which he was pleafcd not only to promife, but very 
 folemnly to fwear unto me. 
 
 "Within fome few days the Duke fent to call m^e 
 unto him, and. then ligniHed unto me, how yvell 
 my good intents and delires of doing all good 
 cilices were accepted •, and particularly my lafi dif-: 
 courfe, that I had with him j and that he would 
 requite my kind proceedings with a real freenefs : 
 for that though the buGr.efs of Savoy, whereof I 
 • had fpoken, in his opinion might have much pro- 
 : bability of taking effe<St, yet, as the cafe now i^ood, 
 he thought the prefent no fit time to deal in it -, for 
 m regard that his King had made an offer of his own 
 daughter, to which his Majefty had yet given no 
 anfwer, he held it convenient, that this or any 
 
 othey 
 
APPENDIX. 547 
 
 other propofition of this nature might be lefpited 
 and fuTpendedv until the bufinels of hi'^ King's own 
 daughter were fully cleared, in which he conceived 
 hisMajefty had now taken much leifure ; and there- 
 fore required me hereirt' 'to" require his Majcfty's 
 refolution. ;r: v ; > 
 
 •' Thereupon 1 wrote unto his Majefty, that in a 
 little conference betwixt the Duke and myfelf, in 
 which many difcourfes pafied betwixt us, and I 
 uttering my private thoughts of luch things, as I 
 held probable to produce a greater amity and near- 
 nefs berwixt their Majellies, the Duke declared 
 unto me, that the King his mafter was in expeda- 
 
 'tion to receive from his Majeliy a direc!:!: and cer- 
 tain anfwer, concerning the overture for a march be- 
 
 ' tween iht Prince of Wales, and this King's llcond 
 daughter. 
 
 I write unto you this pafllige, though it were a 
 thing r^erely' 'of my own, without any kind of 
 inftrudion "of his Majefty, for thefe two realbns : 
 
 Firll, that I am lb defirous herein to fct down 
 the truth, that I would not conceal fo elfential a 
 circumftance, though I were certain to incur great 
 blame for it. ' 
 
 Secondly, for that this occafion drew from his 
 Majefty his anfwer to the King's oiter of his 
 younger daughter v whereby the bufinefs being 
 
 'Again renewed, hath been brought to that final 
 
 ■ iirue, where I conceive it is likely to ftand. 
 
 His Majefty, upon this inllance of mine for his 
 anfwer, firft directed me to alledge the reafons, 
 which had hitherto detained' him from making any 
 '^■■^^reply •, and then to anfwer in this manner : That in 
 the offer made by this King 6f his younger daugh- 
 ter, both as it was deliverai unto myfeh, and like- 
 
 ' - N n 2 wife 
 
548 A P P E N D I X. 
 
 wife as it was confirmed by this King's Ambafla- 
 dor there, his Majelly Itill found this claufe and 
 condition inferted, that ihis King would be mod 
 willing to entertain a motion tor a match bctwixc 
 the Prince of Wale?, and any of his younger daugh- 
 ters, if matters ot religion might be accommo- 
 d'ateiS'i- and "therefore' tO't^iS -of)'.!, that all proceed- 
 ings betwixt them ivi^^ht ^be" with much clearnefs, 
 he commanded me" ty'Wo^te this Kings that he 
 would be pFeUfcM to-d'ecfaj-e^lieif^tent of this claufe, 
 and vvhat-wis''Hit'i'W'ai>d-<5xpe6ted in the nratter of 
 leligion -, 'ifed-'-wH^ 'th^ait^idiffic'tilty was fpioften rq- 
 prerentedi"'^"''' o' ,'3:>lua pdi ' or ni£^£ mui^i oi 
 Thus riiiiidH r'd"elWre*^* unto "the- King and the 
 Puke of Lerrna;- from 'whom, afcef the deliberation 
 of. H;wd , h^HlTti)^s^ ^^ 3 rkei*MJ WW-^^plfii th^ tfee 
 King his'rtTr^fter,"ou't' f >f ^he defire' he 'bad Tci make 
 alliance with his >^ a'eltv, had ctjnfuhed • ivkh; the 
 Pope and other gnive perfons, tequifjce -'fen^lp 
 v/eighcy a btifinefs ; and if, t^r the accofniTio^aritig 
 of matter of religion,; the Prince would become a 
 Koman cadiolic, he woaUi^Wiliingly embrace' ai^d 
 efteem him as his dear fdni' '' ' -■'■■ 
 
 I fold him, that in fuch treaties and Yiegociations 
 fectwixt Princes, there was a- great difference be- 
 twixt what might be wifiied, and what was refo- 
 iUtely demanded : and that I conceived the King 
 rather expreffed herein what he would be glad 
 might be, thari what he expefled fhould be : but 
 that my directions were to intreat this King, that 
 he would be plealed to declare, not \yhat he could 
 wifh, but what he would demand. 
 ''^!^ The Duke then anfwered, that without the 
 t'rince's being a Roman catholic, it was not pof- 
 fible, but that the perverfion of the King's daughter 
 tnuft needs be hazarded : which for the world 
 '' he 
 
A P I' E N D I X. 549 
 
 teLwbuld neiiher be the dir,^^,^,f^p,r ii)4K?<^iCaufe 
 
 0^ :)!iJ.Kij t. ■ iirjt yilsrElVi 2ifl .s^arh ,-, 
 
 r- Hefcu^nl fignified-tp thj?^;pu><;f)-,ot)h,3t il^C King 
 my mafter had given me direclionsr and intb'U(i;lions, 
 how to behave myfelt^ according tp^ the anfwer I 
 fhould receive: and cli^Ffto.rp, I ^intreared him iqr 
 one day or two to give.tp^jleji,vfi..to,mopi€r this an^ 
 iwer with my dire(i:]:ions j and that he would give 
 me accefs unto him, and procure me audience with 
 the King,' fpr the farther proceeding in, the bufineis, 
 as the King my mailer had commanded me. 
 
 Within two or three days after, I was appointed 
 to return again to the Duke, to whom ac firft I 
 made this repetition of the- anfwer, v/hich the laft 
 day I had received from him : The which hkewife 
 he then again confirmed. I then defired him to 
 conlider fome few grounds,- which I fhould lay be- 
 fore him ; the which being pre-fuppofed, 1 con- 
 ceived he could not think, that the reply, which 
 the King-my -mafter had direded me to make, was 
 not grounded upon- much equity and honour. 
 
 :. . The firft> thing I defired this King fhould confi- 
 der, was, that when his Majefty dealt with him and 
 his minifterSi he prefumed fo much of the equity 
 of this King's judgment, and promifedhimleJf ib 
 much of his.aftc6lions and refpetfl unco him, as he 
 fhould never have from him any demand unworthy* 
 of him, or which this King lliould not think fit- 
 ting to be. propounded unto himfelf, wei;<? ,,;he 
 
 *rKing*s my mafter's cafe his, awn. . „ 7^^., 
 
 I; . The fecond thing, which I defired this King 
 might know, and believe, was, that there was no 
 
 v-^JPrinceiiwhatfoever more confident and certain in 
 the truth of his religion, than the King my mafter 
 
 •was in hisj in which he vv,^s not only refolveif to 
 hve and id^e, ,but vof ch0vp.i:oi;c(5lj«n.iai}d, defeoce 
 
 ■'4 N n 9 thereof 
 
5jo APPENDIX. 
 
 thereof had by fcvcral means declared himfelf as 
 iar, and would ever be ready to adventure as much 
 for the mainteiia^ice ther^ot, as any Prince living 
 
 Thirdly, I defired'it miglit be remembered, that 
 though it be true, that the King my matter caufed 
 the propofirion for the' Prince with the Infanta 
 Major to be made -, yet he was firft moved and in- 
 vited thereunto by the afllirance, which this King's 
 AmbafTador gave unto him,' Hp'w welcome this mo- 
 tion would be unto his mafter : and for that, which 
 now hath pafied in this of the fecond daughter, 
 it hat'n been likewile ftirred and moved fio'rn hence 
 by the oAer of her riiade by this King. And t6^ 
 this elTecl, being thus accompanied with thefe de- 
 mands and conditions, ! was out of thefe grounds, 
 by diredlion of the King my mafter, to n^ake this 
 anfwer ; 
 
 That whereas it is demanded, to match with this 
 King's fecond daughter, that the Prince fliould be- 
 come a Roman catholic, the King my mafter defires 
 to refer it to this King's own judgment, what cenfure 
 that King Oiould deferve, both from the hands of 
 God and the world, that having fo many ways 
 exprcffed his conftancy and love to the faith and re- 
 ligion he profeffeth, ihould fliew himfelf fo full of 
 impiety and diflionour, to perfuade his fon to make 
 a change of his foul lor a wife, or any earthly for- 
 tune whatfoever. And if this King would not for a 
 world (as he profefied) be either the dire6l or in- 
 direft caufe of the hazard of his daughter's perver- 
 fion ; the King may be pleafed toconfider, that, if 
 he be therein exaft, as befitteth a King in point of 
 religion and honour, the King my mafter is like- 
 wife fo in no lefs degree ; and therefore hath com- 
 manded me plainly to declare, that though he 
 
 would 
 
APPENDIX. 551 
 
 Would not but make a kind of princely confl:rud;ion 
 of the offer, which this King n^ade ot his daughter, 
 as judging her moil worthy ojf any Prince wiutfo- 
 ever •, yet for this demand of the f^i-ince's becom- 
 ing a Roman catholic, the King my nialU-r l,o]d- 
 eth it unworthy of hin-i ; and would abfolutejy le- 
 fufe to beftow the Prince his fon upon tlioie condi- 
 tions, were the pcrfon oiTered the fole htir of tlie 
 Monarchy of the whole world. 
 
 Hereunto the Duke made little anfwcr, not ex- 
 pecSling, I conceived, fo dired: and conclufive a 
 proceeding : Only he faid, that his King did fup- 
 pofe, that God migl t have been pieafcd to have 
 made this the means for the reducing of the Prince 
 and England to the catholic religion. .. .Arid fo from 
 the Duke I went unto the King, with whom I was 
 appointed at that time to have audience : unto 
 whom I made full and ample relation of the whole 
 courfe of the bufitiefs, and particularly fignified 
 unto him the aufwer, which in his name I had re- 
 ceived from the Duke of Lerma j and likewife his 
 Majefly's replies. 
 
 He told me, the Dake of Lerma had in all tijings 
 proceeded, as he direfted him -, and therefore he 
 would orily confirm thofe anfwers, which I had al- 
 ready received from him. 
 
 Thus having made unto you a true and exa(5l 
 relation how this bufinefs hath hitherto been carried, 
 1 will refer the judgment hereof to your own wif- 
 dom : only thele [.'aiiages I would have recommend^ 
 ed unto you as moft remarkable : 
 
 Firft, that his Majefty*3 propofition for the 
 King of Spain's eldcit daughter was out of the 
 feverai invitations of the Spanifh Ambafiador. 
 Neither can the difhonour of thefe indiredH: pro- 
 ceedings be removed, but that another will necef- 
 .... N n 4 farily 
 
^S^ APPENDIX. 
 
 iarily fall upon them. For il Princes Ihall not give 
 credit arW! belirf to fhc Ambafladors and public 
 Minirters one of another, all means of negotiating 
 betwixt them will be taken away. Herein they pre- 
 tended the giving of his Majefty fatisfadlion •, they 
 have revoked their Ambaflador, and likewife lent 
 Don Pedro de Zuniga in the interim, until the 
 coming of Don Diego Sarm.iento, whom they have 
 nominated for that employment. 
 
 Secondly, in the bufineis concerning the fecond 
 daughter, it never was in any kind any motion of 
 his Majefty's •, but merely on an offer of the King 
 of Spain's: Which God, I conceive, appointed as 
 a fitting and worthy means for his Majeily to make 
 declaration, both to them here, and to the world, of 
 his conftancy and refolution in the profefling and 
 protefting of his religion. ■■ 
 
 So that I will conclude, that if any thing have 
 pafied herein lefs honourable orlefs fincere, than be- 
 fitted the greatnefs of two fuch mighty Princes, 
 there cannot fo much as any refledion of it light 
 upon his Majefty, whofe proceedings clean through 
 have been with all direclnefs : Whereas they, if 
 they may not juftly incur cenfure of fome falfehood, 
 yet it cannot be but a great unluckinefs therein 
 unto them in a matter of fo great confequence, to 
 be forced to remove their AmbafTor. Neither have 
 they any advantage in point of honour, that a 
 daughter, whofe fex giveth ever the privilege to be 
 fought, being offered, hath not been accepted. 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
r"!^'D E X. 
 
 A. 
 BBOT (Dr. George) 
 Archbidiop of Caniter- 
 bmy, vifits the Prince in his 
 lartficknefs, ?, 50* 352, 353, 
 357. Preaches his funeral 
 lernion, 363, 364, 378. His 
 letter to Mr. Newton, 373 
 note (^). 
 
 Abbot (Dr. Robert) dedicates 
 a book $0^,the Prince, 379, 
 380. * ■ 
 
 Aberdeen (David Cunning- 
 ham, BUhop of) baptiles 
 Prince Henry, 7^ 
 
 Albert {Jtc/.'^uic) his letter 
 to the Prince, 17J. . 
 
 Alexander Ut. (Popel pic- 
 ture of his putting his feet 
 on the netk of the Emperor, 
 168. 
 
 Anne of Denmark, married 
 to King James Vf. of Scot- 
 land, I. Endeavours to 
 take her fon Henry out of 
 the Earl of Mar's cuitody, 
 12. Attempts to bring him 
 from Sterling, 29. Recon- 
 ciled to the r.arl of Mar, 
 30. Inclined to popery and 
 the Spanilh inteiell, 45. En- 
 deavours to infufe her own 
 prejudices into, and peiTert 
 the Prince her (on, 49. Has 
 not fo much affellion for 
 him, as for the Duke of 
 York, 76. 
 
 Anstruthkr (Sir Robert) : 
 • his letter to Mr, Newton, 
 3i>. 
 
 ml 
 
 . ;^N'i'rtoiN£ (Mbnf. 'de' Sft) 
 
 ::, riding mailer to the Prince, 
 
 ■ '68. " ,, .. .^,, ,^, 
 
 ATKTrN's^(l)r. Henry) fent for 
 
 to the Prince iii his laft fick- 
 
 n^fs, 34.7, 3<;2* 
 
 .^t-nflU'J 3(1: f^ A'' ^ ,^ 
 Balmerino (Ian3*F*s Lord) : 
 
 his letter to the Pi inrc, 237. 
 
 Baudius (Dominic) : hi^ letter 
 
 to thcPrincc, 278,520. Writes 
 
 a poem.on (,he,^rioc^'s cl^atJv 
 
 ^- ■*■'■ (>T rliiid ij'j'", i'j'' ■'"' 
 Be A u M'oW t^rfffopli'er du 
 
 Harlay, Oouiit''''' city.'; 'Set' 
 Harlav. ■ - • 
 
 BEDiiLL (William) Bilhop of 
 . Jvilmore, tranilates into La- 
 
 " till the tvfo lalt books of Fa- 
 "thcr Paul's Hillory of the 
 Ceuneii of Trent, 15, ^73'. 
 
 BoDERiE (Antony !e Kevre de 
 la) Ambalfador from the 
 French court to England, 
 ordered to pay a particular 
 refpctl to the Prince, 67, 6S. 
 His charaft croft he Prince, 
 69, 70^ 75, 76, 89, 90, 109. 
 Attends the Prince frequent- 
 ly It Richmond, 75. Re- 
 commends penfions to be 
 given to fomc perfons of the 
 Prince's court, 76, 89, 90, 
 I lO. His account of Sir 
 Chriftoph. Piggot's invedi; e 
 in the honic of commons 
 againft the Scots, H 1 , i teqq, 
 
 BoDi.EV (Sir Thomas) has a 
 
 ^lant from King James i. 
 
 ©f 
 
I N D 
 
 of any books or mannrcripts 
 he Hiall chool'e in the royal 
 libraries. 162, 163. 
 BoNf* (Johp) dedicates his cdi- 
 rion of" Horace to the Prince, 
 
 7^- ' — ■' - 
 
 Bouii,LOPf (Dr.ke of) fent ex- 
 trnorlinary ambailador to 
 England, 275. Letter to him 
 tiX>m the Prince, 291, 292. 
 
 Bowks (Robert) Anibafiador 
 in ordinary in Scotland, 4. 
 
 Bromley (Sir Henry) prcfont 
 at the baptifm of Prince 
 Henry, <;. 
 
 Brooke (Chrillopher) writes 
 an elegy on the l^rince, 367. 
 
 Broughton (ITugh) preaches 
 before the Prince, 44. De- 
 dicates feveral of his works 
 to him. il->id. and jj. 
 
 Browne (William) writes an 
 elegy oa the Prince, 367. 
 
 Brunswick (FredricU!ric,lbn 
 of the Duke of ) : his letter 
 to the Prince, 189,190. 
 
 BuRGHLEy (William Lord) : 
 his letter to the Earl of 
 Suffex, 4, note {''). 
 
 Burnet (Dr. Gilbert) : a paf- 
 fage of his remarked upon, 
 373, note {■^K 
 
 BuR-RtL (William): his pro- 
 pofal to the Prince for build- 
 ing Ihips in Ireland, 257, 
 & ieqq. 
 
 Butler (Dr. William) of 
 Cambridge attends the Prince 
 in his lall iicknefs,3^o, :54t, 
 342, 34c;, 3-2. 
 
 Bt/TTON (Capt. Thomas) em- 
 ployed by the Prince in the 
 difcovery of a Not ih Weft 
 paHagc, 364. 
 
 E X. 
 
 Buys (Paul of Zwoll) dedi- 
 cates a book to the Prince, 
 156, & fcqq. 
 C 
 
 C/ESAR (Sir Julius) his manu- 
 fcripts fold, 35, note (''). 
 Letter to him from the 
 Prince, 319. 
 
 Carew (Sir George) Ambafla- 
 dor in France: his letters 
 to the Prince, 104, 146. 
 
 Carew (Sir Henry) carries a 
 letter from the Prince to 
 Count A'laurice, 281. Hi> 
 letter to IVIr. Newton, 282. 
 
 Carey (Dr. Valentine) 36<;. 
 
 Cari,etok (Sir Dudley) : his 
 letter to the Prince, 285. 
 
 Cary (Sir Robert) 231 — 235. 
 
 Casaukon (Ffaac) : his high 
 opinion of the Prince, 370, 
 371. 
 
 Cccill (Sir Edward) : his letters 
 to the Prince, 198, 201. 
 
 ChaLoner (Sir Thomas) ap- 
 pointed governor to the 
 Prince, 32. Some account 
 of him, 33. 34, 49. Com- 
 plains of the eftablifhment 
 of the Prince's houfhold 
 growing beyond the allow- 
 ance for it, 97. His letter 
 to Sir Robert Cotton, 203. 
 To the Piince. 20:;. Made 
 Chamberlain to the Prince, 
 218. His fon is highly ca- 
 rciTed at the Grand Duke's 
 Court, 332. 
 
 Chapman (George) patronifed 
 by the Princs, 367. 
 
 Clement VIII. (Pope)'<iefires 
 
 by a letter to King James to 
 
 have the Prince delivered up 
 
 to be educated by him, 22. 
 
 f .T^-Au: Clin- 
 
I N D 
 
 CiiNTOK (Loru) : ..his letter 
 to the Prince, . z i c. 
 
 GoNDe (Prince of) retires out 
 of Fraiice with the Frinccis, 
 179. 
 
 CoKNOK (Richard): his letter 
 
 to the prince conccrniTigthe 
 
 ftatc of the Dutchy of Corn - 
 
 wall, 57. Appointed auditor 
 
 to the Prince j ziH.' 
 
 CoNWAV (Sir Edward): his 
 account of the llate of fclie* 
 United Provinces^ 22y Let- 
 ters to Mr. Newton, ibid. 
 225, 236, 272, 273, 4.79, S: 
 feqq. . . 
 
 Corbet (Richard) makes a fu- 
 neral oration' on the Prince, 
 
 366. • ' ''i)/! I-'. 
 
 CoRNWALi.is (Sir Charles) 
 ■ Ambafrad'or in Spain : his 
 
 letters to the Prince, 144, 
 
 152,172. Appointed Tiea- 
 . furer to the Pj-ince, 218. 
 
 Diffuades the J'rince from 
 
 the maifiaofe'with tihe Grand 
 
 Duke's filc'er, 321. 
 CoRRERO (iviarc Antonio) the 
 
 Venetian anibaiTadorinErg- 
 - land: his charader by bir 
 
 Henry Wotion^ nt;. 
 Cory AT (Tho.) dedicates his 
 . Crudities to the Prince, 216. 
 Cotton (Sir Robert) anfwers 
 
 the militaiy argutuents oifer ed 
 
 • to the Prince, 186. 
 Cranborne (William Cecil, 
 
 Lord Vifcount) : his letters 
 to the Prince, 149, i 74. 
 
 Cromwell (Sir Oliver) Mafler 
 
 of the Prince's i;ame, 331. 
 
 D 
 
 Darcie (Sir Robert) : his pie- 
 
 • ty and eltccm for Mr. Tho- 
 mas Gat;iker, 39c, note /■■'). 
 
 E X. 
 
 Dknmark (CKiiftiern IV. K, 
 of) fends Ambaffadors to 
 attend the baptifui of Prince 
 Henry, 3. His pt^^nts on, 
 that :occafjou, T:9i i t,.-VjB^s 
 England, 72. 
 
 DioBY (Sir John) ; his letter 
 to the Prince, 287, Em- 
 pltycd to negotiate a match 
 between the "Prince and a 
 daughter pf Spain, 401, a02, 
 his rektion of that negotia- 
 tion, 1:30 & feqq. 
 
 Di«EASE,an epidemical diftem- 
 per fo ca'icu, 3 23, 
 
 Donne (John) writes an elegy 
 on the Prince, 367.. 
 
 DoRSET(RichardSackvilleEaa-l 
 of) 140 — 142. 
 
 Dorset (Tho. Sackville Earl 
 o() Lord Treafurcr, flopped 
 in the Itreets by the cjfhcers 
 a^.id fervajits of the King's 
 houfiiold on account of their 
 arrears, S3, 84. Dies, 109. 
 
 Dra-ysi^oi^j (Michael) dedicate* 
 Im^oiy-Oihicn to the Prince, 
 280, 
 
 DauAJMOKD (William) pob- 
 lilbes a poem ou the Prince's 
 death,: 368* 
 
 Dudley (Sir Rob.) 31S, 321, 
 
 DUNFERMELYNG (Earl of ) : 
 
 fome account of him, 77, note 
 ,(!). Writes a letter to the 
 Prince, ibid. His letter to 
 Mr. Nev'ton, 78, note (''). 
 Another letter of his to the 
 Princ.?, 78, 79. 
 
 DuRY (John) made Deputy- 
 Keeper of the RcyalLjorary 
 at St. James's, 164, note (^)- 
 
 DuTTON (Sir Tho.) complain- 
 ed of by Sir Edward, Qccil, 
 19.% 
 
I N U E X. 
 
 199, Kills Sit Hatton Cheke 
 in a duel, 200, note [*). 
 
 EcctrsiAstTCAt prefeHnrnts 
 ^•'held formerly by laymen, 
 
 14, note ('). 
 Edmondes (Col, Clement) : 
 efteemed by the Prince, 41. 
 ^fiSome account of him, ibid, 
 note (J\ His letter to the 
 Prince, 42. Dies, 43. 
 Edmondes (Sir Thomas) re- 
 turns from his embafiy at 
 ' the court of Bruflels, 173. 
 ".', Defired to write an account 
 "." of the occurrences in France 
 'Vto the Prince, 208. His 
 ^'-letter to the Prince, 2^46. 
 ■'' To Mr. Newton, 26g-MTo 
 ^'^'^ ■ tjie Pri n ce,- -IbOy. 'kdb/ ''^o 2 , 
 
 ■ 300, 312. • ' ~- - 
 
 Elizabeth (Queen) fends the 
 
 Earl of SufTex to attend the 
 
 ' '" baptifm of Prince Henry, 5. 
 
 • 'Her gift on that occafion, g. 
 
 Essex (Frances Countefs of) 
 faid to have had a particular 
 court paid to het by the 
 Prince, 403, 404. 
 
 Essex (Robert Earl of) treated 
 
 with great refpe^t by Henry 
 
 IV. of France, 10^.' His 
 
 ; letters to the Printed io8, 
 
 /"^■'.^1C9, 323, 324. ■' ••'!?i 
 
 Exeter (William Cecil, Earl 
 of) grandfonofLordB»rgh- 
 -'^'ley, reconciled in his travels 
 '''^ to the church of Rome, z 1 4. 
 
 F 
 Farnaby (Thomas) dedicates 
 '^"his Juvenal and Ferfi*6 to 
 
 the Prince, 277. ' . 
 
 Fleetwood (Sir William) ap- 
 pointed Surveyor General to 
 the Prince, 218, 
 
 FouMs (Sir David) appointed 
 
 Cofferer to the Prince, 218. 
 Fri-wen (Accepted) makes n 
 
 funeral oration on the prince, 
 
 366, note {'). 
 FuLGFNTio (Father) preached 
 
 with great freedom at A'e- 
 
 nice, 167. 
 Ft)i,i,ERTON (Sir James) : rife 
 
 of his fortune, 232. Made 
 
 Gentleman of the Privy 
 
 Chamber to the Duke of 
 
 York, 235. 
 G 
 Galloway (Patrick) preaches 
 
 at the baptifm of Prince 
 • Henry, 7. 
 Gatakkr (Thomas) offered 
 
 to be made Chaplain to the 
 
 Prince, 300. 
 GiFFORD (Dr. John) called in 
 
 - td^ the Prince in his lall fick- 
 ' nefs, 354. ■■->:/., ; 
 
 GoDot,PHiNt^^ Sir'- William ), 
 
 129, 205. "■"'""• 
 GooDwiK (Dr. William) Dean 
 
 of Chriit- Church, 365. • 
 GoROKs(SirArrhur) this letters 
 
 to the Prince, 187, 211. 
 Gustavus Adolphus, King 
 
 of Sweden, expedted to be 
 
 attackgd by Sigifmund III. 
 
 • King of Poland, 271. At 
 war with Denmark, 272. 
 
 H 
 Hall (Jofeph) taken notice 
 •■'<)f by, and made Chaplain 
 
 - to, the Prince, 84, 85. De- 
 dicates ■ his Epijllcs to the 
 Prince, 100, & feqtf". 
 
 • Preaches a fermon to the 
 ■ Prince's houOiold at their 
 
 diflblution, 369. 
 Ha M M p N i>-('I>r. John ) ! JHiyfi- 
 :>-di .'Sni.-i orlt o? i3.i);!:cian 
 
INDEX. 
 
 ■j'jdan to the Prince, 333, 33 c. 
 
 (Attends him in his latt fick- 
 
 ii«fs, 341, 345, 352. 
 
 HAMMOND(Dr.Henry) godibn 
 
 to the Prince, 334, note i^). 
 
 Hanau (Count) comes to 
 
 England Ambaflador from 
 
 the Elc<i^or Palatine, 33c. 
 
 Harington (Sij-John) : fome 
 
 account of him, 117 — 119. 
 
 His letters- to thePrince,! 19, 
 
 i?2, 123, 1Z4, !zq, 166, 
 
 169, 176, 177. His letters 
 
 fnewn by the Prince, it8. 
 
 His letter to Mr. Nevvpn, 
 
 571. His piety and ertecm 
 
 for Mr-Tho. Gataker, 30^0, 
 
 note ("»). -n'O 
 
 Mavl lay ( Cluiftopher r ^e ) 
 
 Count de Beaumont, Am- 
 
 iv fibaKlador from France in Eng- 
 
 ->i3l'and, dilcovers the ill de- 
 
 figns of Queen Anne, 4;;, 46. 
 
 HiNty prince of Wales born, 
 
 I. Baptifed, 5, & feqq. 
 
 : ■■Committed to the cuiiody 
 
 of the Earl of Mar, lo. His 
 
 :i5::regard for the Earl and 
 
 Countefs Dowager of Mar, 
 
 *J ri : 1 1 . H is progrefs in learning, 
 
 ^hJ 35. Taken from the charge 
 
 Iliof the women, 14, 15. His 
 
 .'A letter to the States General, 
 
 ■20. Education,2 i. His letter 
 
 to the King, ibid. To the 
 
 j'j'i^Queen Dowager of Den- 
 
 melmark, 23. To the King 
 
 -y^h father, 26. To the 
 
 sxb Queen his mother, 28. 
 
 f p-jt'onics to England, 30. In- 
 
 •^rfj veiled with the Order of the 
 
 'i'"iGarter, 32. Rei'ides at Ote- 
 
 lands, ibid. His houfe- 
 
 ;. (hold eftabliihed, 35, His 
 
 '^letter to the King, ibid. 
 
 A fmall vefiel built for him, 
 38. Prefentcd by Robert 
 Lord Spencer with the Me- 
 moir? ,9f Philip, de ^o- 
 piinpe, .^^c..[,,.His love, of 
 arms, 41. Lettt;i: ,to Col. 
 EdmQndes<„;4j3.;,. To the 
 , Pog,e, 0[f ^fj^pi'oe, and otJier 
 .,;Prin<;pSp 47.. Attends the 
 , ; Jvjng his father to the. IJni- 
 vcrfuy pf Oxford, and fid- 
 niitted a member of Mag-- 
 dalen College, 4S, 49, 6c 
 feqq. Attentive tg the.ia- 
 terefts of the Dutchy of 
 Cprnvyall, .57. His reli- 
 gious gratitude for the dif- 
 ,<:overy ,Qf the gunpowder 
 ['plot, 61,62, f lis letter to 
 the King 10 defire the deanry 
 of Durham for his Pre- 
 ceptor, Mr. Newton, 6t>. 
 Treated vviih particular, re- 
 fpcct by the French, Am- 
 bafladcir, 67—69. . <■ ha- 
 raQer of liim by that Am- 
 baflador, 69, 70. His letter 
 to Henry IV. of France, 74. 
 At Richmond, 75. -Be- 
 gins to be feared by the 
 Minifters of State, 76. His 
 letter to the Chancellor of 
 Scotland, 73. Sends a pe- 
 remptory meflage to the 
 Lord Tre^ifurer, the. Karl 
 of Dorfet, 84. Hi.s aticn- 
 tion to ferraons, and Ihitl 
 attendance on public wor- 
 fhip, 84, 85. His care for 
 the regular behaviour of hi;i 
 family, 85, 86. His im- 
 provement in all ufeful 
 knowledge, SS- Sends an 
 engineer v<9i??'W?f*^w ^^'^ 
 
INDEX. 
 
 ibrtifications of Calais, ?6, 
 87- -^ij letter of thanks 
 to Henry TV", fi^r a prefcnt 
 of arms and arniOur» 87, 
 88. M^de free ^ of ' ,t^e 
 CiothworJ^ers comnany,' '92, 
 & fe<?^- Had a hiodel 
 of a fhip made for'him, 
 96. The expences of,]pis 
 houfhold grown beyond 
 t)ie allowance l»r li, qj. 
 His Latin letters to the King, 
 9S, iO!j, 113. His letter to 
 the Prince de loinviUe, 100. 
 Vifits the Royal Dock at 
 V/ooiwich, no. His letter 
 to tlie Queen, 114. ' His 
 fncndfiiip for Sir John Ha- 
 rington, 117, 1 19. His 
 Latin letter to him, 120. 
 rrefents to the Kinp- a Latin 
 oration, 138. His'Ietterto 
 h-is Majefty, 139. Knight- 
 ed by the King, 145, 142. 
 His letters to Sir John Ila- 
 rington, J43. His zeTi for 
 his fervant Mr. Pett unjuflly 
 accufed, 150 — 152. His 
 
 . letisr to Sir Charles Corn- 
 wallis i6'q, To the King^ 
 180. Prefent at the launch- 
 ing of two fliips of the Eail- 
 India Company. 181. De- 
 
 'iires inve!lture into the 
 ^Principality of Wales, and 
 Dutchy cf Cornwall, 182. 
 His feats of arm.s, ibid. — 
 186. Vifits the do:k at 
 "Woolwich, 187. Flis letter 
 to the Sates General, 190. 
 Created Prince of Wales, 
 ibid. — 197. Has a great fhip 
 given him by the King, 208. 
 Setded his houfhold,? 1 8. A 
 propofal made to him for ob- 
 
 taining the grant of the for- 
 feiture: of recufints, 220, & 
 feqq. Has a majit performed 
 on the night of the new year 
 
 .1610-11, 224. Supports at 
 
 "j'fifft Sir James Fnllerton 
 
 ' againft Sir Robert Cary,2 3 i 
 
 "-^235. Marriage propoied 
 
 * .for him with the eldeft 
 '^,, 'daughter of Savoy, 23^. Vi- 
 
 "! fits the lliips and iVorehoufes 
 at Chatham,! 12—244. Con- 
 cerned for, and dtfpleafed 
 with, Lady Arabella Sruart, 
 24J ,245. Procures theGarter 
 for Cou'it Maurice, 24 q. 
 Write? a letter to LewisXIil. 
 ibid. Diflikes Car Lord Vif- 
 count Rochefter, 256. Pro- 
 polal made to him for build- 
 ing- fhios in Ireland, 2^7, & 
 feqq. His application to mi- 
 litary exercifes, 2:58. A pro- 
 pofal of a marriage between 
 his Plighnefs and the fecond 
 daughter of Francc,2 75. His 
 letters to Lewis XIII. ibid. 
 296.ToCountMaurice,28i. 
 To the King, 289. To the 
 Dukcof Bouillon, 291. To 
 SirTho.Edmonde.^, 29 ^,303 . 
 Confers with Mr. Pett, 295. 
 His letter to the King, 509. 
 His letter to Sir Julius Cze- 
 fiir, 3 1 9. To the Earl of 
 EiTex, 324. Change in his 
 conllitution, jiS, 330. Ap- 
 proves o'c the propofal of 
 marriage between his lifter 
 Elizabeth and the Eleftor 
 Palatine, 329. .At Rich- 
 mond, 37,0. Goes the pro- 
 grefs with the King, 331. 
 Fealh the co.urt at'Wood- 
 
 I 
 
INDEX, 
 
 ilock, 331, 332. Returns 
 to Richmond, 332. Falls 
 fitk, 314, 333, & ft'qq- 
 He dies, 358. His body 
 opened, 359. .His funeral 
 folemnities, 361 — 365 . His 
 perfon, 375, 376. His 
 charader, 376, Sc feqq. 
 Pietv, 376. Averfion to 
 profane f\vearing;,378. Zeal 
 fbrProtelrantirm, 379- Re- 
 verence for the King his 
 ftuher, 380. ^Si. love' 
 of j ullice, 38 1 . Hatred of 
 flattery and difflmiiktion, 
 382. Temperance and mo- 
 dcfly, 38'^. Courage, 384. 
 Exercifes, 3S5. Difincli- 
 nation to gaming, 386. In- 
 difference to plcafures, 387. 
 Flainnefs of drefs, ibid. 
 Genius and le,arning, 38^^, 
 
 389. Love of arts, 389, 
 
 390. His anfwer upon 
 being offered the Chancel- 
 lorfliip of the Univcrfity of 
 Oxford, 392. His regard 
 for Sir Walter Ralegh, ibid. 
 His fccrecy, 393, Oeco- 
 nomy, ibid. — 396. Atten- 
 tion to the r0)-al navy, 396, 
 Generofity, 397. Courtefy 
 andjuftice, 398. Love for 
 the antient nobility, 399. 
 Propofals for marrying him, 
 400. His challity,402— 404. 
 Suppofed by fome to have 
 been poifoned, 404 — /^.rg 
 
 Hekk.y IV. of France orders 
 his Ambaflador to pay a 
 
 . .particular refpeft to the 
 Prince, 6-'. Sends a pre- 
 fcnt of arms and armour to 
 }iim, 87, His regard for him, 
 iJQ. Letter to the Prince, 
 
 98. His death gives great' 
 concjcrn to the Prince, iPg. 
 
 He V WOOD (Thcmas),pnbl!nies 
 a poem on the Prince's 
 death', 3^68. 
 
 Highlands in Scotl.ind : ad- 
 vice of Kifjg James 1, to his 
 fon 'Henry with legard to 
 
 . them, 1 8, 19. 
 
 Hox.tF.s (Sir John) appointed 
 Comptrollei' to ;:he Prince, 
 , 2181,. ^ EitccTned by him, 
 
 1 . . ■ _t^- .> ■■ _.'_ ..L- r^ii ■ ' '- 
 
 '-■Mi^^f^^y^^ ,' 
 
 jAMEAi. fCing of Great, Bri- 
 tain, married, i . At the 
 baptifm 6f Hi$' Ton Prince 
 Henry, ■■(^,".'-■7.'. , Offendetl 
 , with the (Ju'eefl, and A'lait- 
 land,Chancfcllor of Scotland, 
 for endeavouring to take the 
 Prince out of the cuilody of 
 
 /the Kail of Mar, 12, 13, 
 His letter to the Earl nf Mar, 
 I 3. Writes an epitaph on 
 the Chancellor, ibid. Ad- 
 drefles his BaJiHc(.n Dcrcn to 
 the Prince, 16. Receives 
 and anfwers a letter of Pope 
 Clement VllL to him, zt. 
 His letter to the Prince, 2^. 
 His letter to tlie Prince, 36. 
 V^ifits the UniverJity of Ox- 
 ford, 48, Si ft-qq. Impa- 
 tient of dry weather, becaufc 
 i- weakens the (cent of his 
 dogs, 74, 75. Angry with 
 his Privy Council, and the 
 Earl of SaliJbury m particu- 
 lar, 81, 82, "Vifits the 
 -Prince in his laH ficknei's, 
 346, 347, 3-!g. Goes to 
 Theobald's, 35c. Apt to 
 fvvear, 379. 
 
 John- 
 
INDEX. 
 
 JonNSTON (John) dedicates a 
 work of his to the Prince, 
 46. Rewarded by hii Pligh- 
 nefj, 47. 
 
 Johnston (Robert) : a pafliioje 
 in his hillory examined, 
 
 253—2^5- 
 joiNviLLE (Pr-oce de) comes 
 
 to England, ?6. Sends a 
 
 prefent ot' arms and horfes 
 
 to the Prince, 100. 
 
 Julie R.S befiegcd, 198, 202. 
 K 
 
 'KENELwoRTHCartleand lands 
 pufchafed by thePrince,3 1 8, 
 319. 
 
 Ker (Srr Robert) : his letter 
 to Mr. Newton, 2/4.9. 
 L 
 
 Lftckox (Lodowick Duke of) 
 attends the baptifm of Prince 
 Henry, 5, &- feqq. Sent by 
 jthc King to Scotland, 29. 
 
 Llw is Xlll. of France writes 
 to the Prince, 275. 
 
 l-iBR^RV (Royal); fliort hi- 
 floiyofit, 1 6! — 16:;. 
 
 LivDSEY (Sir James) bring'- a 
 lotrer from the Pope to King 
 James, 2?. Returr.s to 
 Rome, 23. 
 
 LoRKjN ( Thomas ) writes 
 to Mr. Newton the occui- 
 rences of France, 2^*^. 
 
 LtrMLEY (John Lord) ; his 
 library purchafed for the 
 Prince, 161 — ib^. 
 
 Lydyat (Thomas) dedicates 
 
 a book to the Prince, and 
 
 preferred by him, 14S. Pa- 
 
 tronifed by the Prince, 3 So. 
 
 M 
 
 Maitland (John) LordThir- 
 Jeuane, Lord Chancellor of 
 Scotland, engaged 111 the 
 
 Queen's defign rf taking 
 her fon Prince Henry out of 
 the Eyii of Mar's cuftody, 
 12. By which he offends 
 the Kingv \ ;. Dies, ibid. 
 
 Mar ( Annnbelia Countefs 
 Dowager of) attends at the 
 baptifm of Prince Henry, ^, 
 6. Intruded with the chief 
 care of his pcrlbn, 11, 14.. 
 
 M/iR (John F.rflcine, Earl of) : 
 feme account of him, 10. 
 Has the cuftody of Prince 
 Henry committed to him, 
 ibid. Warrant to him from 
 the King, 13. Made Go- 
 vendor of the Prince, 1 5. 
 Sent by the King from Eng- 
 land to Scotland, 29. Juiti- 
 ficd by his Majelly, 30, 51. 
 
 Mar (Malkr of) : his letter 
 to the Prince, 209. 
 
 Ma R.SAM (Monf.) dedicates a 
 book to the Prince, 1 46, 1 47, 
 
 Masks of the Prince, 193, 224. 
 
 Matvueu; (Dr. Tobie) Arch- 
 biihopofYork : extraitof a 
 letter from him, 15, noie(*). 
 
 Mat r 1 c f (Count) elkemed 
 bv the Prmce, 245. Obtains 
 the Garter by his means, 
 ibid. 272, 273. Receives 
 a letter from the Prince with 
 great thankfubiefs^ 282. 
 Goes to Zealand. 4S0. 
 
 Materne (Dr. Theodore) 
 difapproves of the Prince's 
 fwimraing after fiipper, 3 30. 
 Attends him in his Jalt fick- 
 nefs, 339, 340, 341, 344, 
 34J, 348, 350, 351, 352. 
 
 Mii.BorRNE (Dr. Richard) 
 Chaplain to the Prince, and 
 etiecmeJ by hinij 350,351, 
 377. Mp.LLE 
 
INDEX. 
 
 MoLLE (John) tutor to Lord 
 Rofs, imprifoned in the In- 
 
 , q uifition at Rome, 213,214. 
 
 M0K.E (Sir George) appointed 
 Receiver General to the 
 Prince, 2 1 S. His letter to 
 
 . the Prince, 229. ■« 
 
 Morton ( Albertus ) com- 
 mended by Sir John Ha- 
 rington, 170. Some ac- 
 
 . count of him, ibid, note {<^). 
 
 Morton (Dr. Thomas) dedi- 
 cates a book to the Prince, 
 197. 
 
 Murray (Sir David) made 
 Gentleman of the Bed- 
 chamber to the Prince, 16. 
 Made Groom of the Stole to 
 him, 218. Averfe to the 
 Prince's marrying any Pa- 
 
 . piit, 321. 
 
 Murray (Thomas) : extradl 
 of a letter of his to Sir Tho. 
 Edmondcs, 295, note (P). 
 N 
 
 Nasmxth (Mr.) the King's 
 Surgeon, attends die Prince 
 in his lail ficknefs, 340,344, 
 
 355- 
 Nassau (Count Henry de) 
 
 comes to England, 314. 
 
 Elleemed by the Prince, 
 
 ibid, and 336. 
 Neile (Dr. Richard) Bilhop of 
 
 Litchfield, 362. 
 Nethersole (Francis) makes 
 
 a funeral oration on the 
 
 Prince, 366, 377. 
 Newton (Adam) appointed 
 
 tutor to Prince Henry, 14. 
 
 Some account of him, 13, 
 
 14, 372 — 375. Made Dean 
 
 of Durham, 66, 67. Made 
 
 Secretary to the Prince, 2 1 8. 
 
 His letters to Sir Thomas 
 
 Edmondcs, 276, 314. To 
 Sir Thomas Puckering, 371, 
 
 372- ^ 
 
 NicoLs (Augufline) appointed 
 Council to the Prince, 218. 
 His opinion of a propofal 
 made to his Highnefs, 22P. 
 
 Northampton (Henry How- 
 ard, Earl of ) : his letters to 
 the Prince, 55, 76. Sets on 
 foot an inquiry into the con- 
 daCi of the officers in the 
 royal navy, i qo, & feqq. 
 
 Nottingham (Charles How- 
 ard, Earl of) approves of a 
 propofal for building fhips 
 in Ireland, 261. 
 O 
 
 Orkney ( Patrick Stewart, 
 Earl of) : his letter to the 
 Prince, 1 1 6. His unfortu- 
 nate death, 117. 
 P 
 
 Palatine (Frederic Count) : 
 his letter to the Prince on 
 the difcovery of the gun- 
 powder-plot, 64. His mar- 
 riage to the Princefs Eliza- 
 beth approved of by the 
 Prince, 330. He comes to 
 England, 335, ^ rg. 
 
 Palmer (Dr. Richard) called 
 in to the Prince in his lafl 
 ficknefs, 354. , 
 
 Parker (Mr.) recommended 
 for the Deanery of Burian, 
 
 59- 
 Paul (Father) : his remark on 
 
 the death of the Prince, 3 69. 
 
 His Hiftory of the Council 
 
 of Trent, 372, 373, 374. 
 
 Peacham (Henry) M. A. of 
 
 Cambridge,dedicates a book 
 
 to the Prince, 281. 
 
 O a • PiM- 
 
INDEX. 
 
 pEMBROKF (William Earl of ): 
 hislettcrtoMr. Newton, 283. 
 Peters (Hugh) has, for fonie 
 time, the cultody of the royal 
 library, 164, note ["). 
 Pett (Phineas) one of the 
 King's fliipwrights, em- 
 ployed to build a fmall 
 vefiel for the Prince, 38. 
 Sworn a fervant of the 
 Prince, sp. Some account 
 of him, ibid, rote (°). 
 Makes a model of a fhip for 
 the Prince, 96, 97. Shews 
 him \he Royal Dock at 
 Woolwich, lie. 111. In- 
 volved in trouble, and fup- 
 ported under it by the 
 Prince, 150 — 152. Ap- 
 proves of a propofal for 
 building fhips in Ireland, 
 262, Sc feqq. Appointed 
 to go thither, 264. Aflifls 
 Capt. Button in providing a 
 fhip for the difcovery of a 
 North-Weft PafTage, ibid. 
 Builds a new fhip for the 
 Prince, 282. 
 Philip III. of Spain fhews an 
 inclination to a marriage be- 
 tween his eldeft daughter 
 and Prince Henry, 97. 
 Philips (Sir Edward) made 
 Chancellor to the Prince, 
 218. 
 PiBRAc (Guy de Faurde) : his 
 Retrains put into the hands 
 of the Prince, 37. 
 Pir.OT (Sir Chriftopher) : his 
 inveftive in the Houfe of 
 Commons againft the Scots, 
 80, & feqq. 
 Plagub rages at London, 32. 
 Price (Dr.^ one of the Prince's 
 Chaplains, 362. 
 
 PucKKRiNc (Tho.) fon of lh€! 
 Lord Keeper, goes abroad, 
 250. Some account of him, 
 325, 32 S. His letter rio 
 the Prince, 326. • ri '• 
 
 R 
 
 Ralegh (Sir Walter) : his tWq 
 difcourfes againft the double 
 marriage with Savoy, 255. 
 His regard for the Prince, 
 236. Sends his cordial to 
 the Prince, 356, 357. His 
 efteem for the Prince, 392. 
 P.AMSEY (John) compkins to 
 the King of the inveftive of 
 Sir Chriftopher Pigot agaipft 
 the Scots, 81. 
 Rochester ( Robert Car, 
 Lord Vifcount) : a ftory re- 
 lating to him examined, 
 25:, 253. Diflikedbyth^ 
 Prince, 256. Ordered by 
 the King to defire the 
 Prince's opinion of the pro- 
 pofal of a marriage between 
 his Highnefs and the fecond 
 daughter of France, 289. 
 His letter to the Pritice, 
 
 Roos (William Lord) : his 
 letter to the Prince, 212. 
 Some account of him, 2 1 3 
 • — 215. Draws up an ac- 
 count of Tufc^ny, 320. 
 His letter to Sir David Mur- 
 ray, ibid. He advifcs, that 
 the Prince may marry one 
 of his own religion, 321. 
 His high opinion of thfc 
 Prince, 371. 
 S 
 
 Salisbury { Robert Cecil, 
 
 Earl of) offends the Kingj 
 
 8!, 82. Joint letter of hini 
 
 arid 
 
I N P E X. 
 
 And" the Earl of Suffolk to 
 the Prince, 95, 96. Ap- 
 pointed Lord Treafurer, 
 109. Cultivates the favour 
 of the Printe, iz6, 127. 
 His letters tb the Prince 
 and to Mr. Newton, 127, 
 & feqq. 240, 241, 242. 
 A ftory relating to him ex- 
 amined, 254, 255. 
 
 St. John (Oliver) : his letter 
 to Mr. Newton, 274. 
 
 Sharpe (Dr. Leoncl) Chap- 
 lain to the Prince : fbme ac- 
 count of him, 62. His 
 letter to the Prince on the 
 difcovery of the gunpowder 
 63. Publilhes a funeral 
 oration on the Prjnce, 367, 
 
 376, 379-. 
 Sherley (Sir Rbbert) : his 
 
 letter to the Prince, 2^ r. 
 Ships: an eftimate of the 
 
 charge often of King James 
 
 ^the Firft's fhips, 265—268. 
 
 Sidney (Sir Philip) tranflates 
 
 - V'hito Englifli part of Monf. 
 
 -<lu Pleffis's Difcpilrfe on the 
 
 Truth of the Chriftian Re- 
 ligion, 44. 
 SiGrsMUNb III. King of Po- 
 r land, depofed from the 
 ■crown of Sweden, 271. 
 
 Expefted to attack Gufta- 
 
 vus Adolphus King of Swe- 
 - den, ibid. 
 Skene (Sir John) : his letter 
 
 to the Prince, 177. 
 Somerset (Sir Thomas) : his 
 
 letters toMr.^ewton, 247, 
 
 269. 
 Spain : fome account of the 
 
 fupcrftitions there, 195, Sc 
 
 Spajcish Ambaljador jealous 
 of the French Ambaffador's 
 vifits at the Prince's court,75. 
 
 SpENCER(Rob.Lord) : his letter 
 to the Prince, with a prcfent 
 of the Menioirs of Philip 
 de Comines, 40 ; another 
 with a prefentof arms, 65. 
 
 Spotswood (John) fentbythe 
 Queen with a letter to the 
 fCingherhufband, 29. Made 
 Archbifhop of St. Andrew's, 
 ibid. 
 
 States General fend Am- 
 bafladors to Scotland tq 
 attend the baptifm of Prince 
 Henry, 3. Their prefents to 
 the Prince, 9. Their letters 
 to him, 73, 90. 
 
 Stephens (Thomas) Couhcil 
 to the Prince : his letter to 
 him, 91,92. Made Auditor 
 to the Prince, 218. His 
 opinion of a propofal made 
 to his Highnefs, 220, 468 
 
 —474. 478. 
 
 Stewart (Sir William) fent 
 to the King of Denmark, 23. 
 
 Stuart (Lady Arbella) : her 
 letter to the Prince, 60. Her 
 condudl lafFefls the Prince 
 with pity and indignation, 
 244, 245. 
 
 Suffolk (Thomas Howard, 
 Earl of) : joint letter of 
 him and theEarl of Salifbury 
 to the Prince, 95, 96. Sup- 
 ports the prctenfions of Sir 
 Robert Cary, 233, 
 
 Sussex (Robert RadclifFe, Earl 
 of) fent Ambaflador Ex- 
 traordinary to Scotland, 3. 
 Prefent at the baptifm of 
 Prince Henry, 5, 
 
 TiNDAL 
 
INDEX. 
 
 TiNDAL (Robert) the Prince's 
 Gunner : his letter to the 
 Prince from V^irginia, 91. 
 
 TooKER (Dr. William) dedi- 
 cates a book to the Prince, 
 252. 
 
 TouRNEUR (Cyril) publiflies 
 a poem on the Prince's death, 
 368. 
 
 Trvmball (William) : his 
 letter to the Prince, 301. 
 
 Tuscany (Duchefs of) zea- 
 lous for a marriage between 
 the Duke's filler and the 
 Prince, 321, 322. 
 U 
 
 UbHER (James) comes to Eng- 
 land, and is recommended 
 by Sir Oliver St. John to 
 Mr. Newton, 273. 
 W 
 
 Wak-e (Ifaac) dedicates to 
 the Prince his Rex Platonicus, 
 finje Mufa regnant ts., ^4. 
 
 Webster (John) pubJifhes a 
 poem on the Prince's death, 
 368. 
 
 We L WOOD (Dr.) : paflages 
 in him remarked upon, i b'9, 
 note (^), 401, note ('), and 
 408, note ('). 
 
 WHiTELocKE(Bulfl:rode)made 
 Keeper of the Royal Library 
 
 at St. James's, 1 64, hole (°). 
 
 Wharton (Lord) prefent at 
 the baptifm of Prince Hen- 
 
 ; ry, 6. 
 
 WiLcocK.s(Thomas) dedicates 
 a new edition of the tranfla- 
 tion of Monf. de PlefEs's 
 DifcQurfe on the Truth of 
 the Chriftian Religion to the 
 Prince, 44., 
 
 Wilkinson (Robert) Chap- 
 lain to King James, preaches 
 before the Prince, 336, 337. 
 
 Worcester (Dr. Henry Par- 
 ry, Bifhop bf ) : his letter 
 
 , to Mr. Newton, 284. 
 
 WoTTON (Sir Henry) goes 
 Ambaflador to Venice, 47. 
 His letters to the Prince, 
 99, 106, 114, 170. 
 
 Wright (Eldward) inftrufh 
 the Prince in mathematics 
 and cofmography, 389. 
 Y 
 
 York (Charles Duke of) : his 
 houfliold fettled, 231. 
 
 Young (Patrick) appointed 
 Library - Keeper to the 
 Prince, 164. 
 
 Young (Peter) Preceptor to 
 King James VL of Scotland, 
 2. Sent to the King of 
 Denmark, ibi4. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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