146 SOUTH-SCALIGER-CARTE-RUSHWORTH. THE Puritan preachers addressed the "EDWARD, the black Lord Herbert” (of women, "daughters of Sion and matrons of Cherbury? sic opinor,) " upon hearing the the New Jerusalem, as they called them- Scots' demands of £40,000 per month, adselves.”—See the passage, SOUTH, vol. 3, p. | vised the king not to accede to it, but to 402. It was proposed to execute Charles "in his robes, and afterwards drive a stake through his head and body, to stand as a monument upon his grave!". !"-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 435. fortify York against them. 'Reason of state,' he said, 'having admitted fortification of our most inland towns against weapons used in former times, it may as well admit these times. But he mistook the spirit of fortification against the weapons used in the times when he added that towns have been observed always averse to wars and ORDERS to examine his body!-Ibid. p. of trade and traffic; insomuch than when tumults, as subsisting by the peaceable ways 437.' To these battles what SCALIGER says upon the death of the two Larals is applicable." Nam clades æstimandæ, non numerandæ sunt: neque interest quot homines sed quos amiseris."-Ep. 182, p. 380. CLARENDON says that "no question our gamesters learned much of their play from Davila."-State Papers, vol. 2, p. 334. NALSON's papers were in the hands of Dr. Williams, senior Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge. Twenty volumes about. CARTE'S Preface to Life of Ormond. Cromwell's Age. "SURELY they that quarrel betwixt preaching and prayer, and would have them contend, never meant well to either."-SIR BENJ. RUDYARD. RUSHWORTH, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 1120. "I KNOW not how it comes to pass, but it happeneth to us, which is in no other religion in the world, that a man may be too religious and many one by that scandal is frighted into a deep dissimulation.”—Ibid. 1 See Note at the end of "Letters concerning Cromwell's Age." either great persons for their private interests, or the commons for their grievances, have taken arms, townsmen have been noted ever to continue in their accustomed loyalty and devotion.'"-RUSHWORTH, Vol. 2, pt. ↑ 2, p. 1293. He had forgotten Ghent, Constantinople, Rome. Large towns where is a populace, will always be hot-beds of sedition. OVID-MAYNARD-RUSHWORTH-WHITAKER. 147 Æthera; et augustæ resera bo oracula men- | to work during his life."--Ibid. vol. 3, pt. tis." OVID'S Met. Xv. p. 143. 1, p. 559. This was the feeling of G. Fox, and of every other ignorant enthusiast in that age. SERJEANT MAYNARD, the best old book lawyer of his time, used to say that "the law was ars bablativa."-Life of Lord K. Guildford, vol. 1, p. 26. THE time fixed for the Irish massacre was St. Ignatius's day.-RUSHWORTH, vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 398. Jan. 12, 1641. "THE likeness of the standard was much of the fashion of the City streamers used at the Lord Mayor's show, having about twenty supporters, and was carried after the same way. On the top of it hangs a flag, the King's arms quartered, with a hand pointing to the crown, which stands above with this motto, 'Give Cæsar his due.' "Sir Thomas Brooks, Sir Arthur Hopton, Sir Francis Wortley, and Sir Robert Dadington were the four chief knights baronets appointed to bear it."-Ibid. p. 784. "WHEN Sir J. Hotham was that day "The partizans of the Commonwealth made governor of Hull, with orders not were no losers by their disloyalty. But the to deliver it up, or the magazine, or any ruinous effects of this contest to the one part thereof, without the King's authority party and not to the other, are to be acsignified by the Lords and Commons in counted for, not merely from the vindictive Parliament,' to hasten this order down to spirit of the parliament, and the easy naHull, John Hotham his son was ordered ture of Charles II. equally disinclined to to go immediately with the same, and he, reward and to punish, but from the sour then standing up in the gallery of the House and parsimonious temper of the Puritans, and of Commons, thus expressed himself, Mr. the extravagant jollity and license of the Speaker; fall back, fall edge, I will go Royalists."-WHITAKER'S Craven, p. 35. down and perform your commands.’’ Ibid. vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 496. 3 April, 1642. "DEPOSITIONS were made before the House of Commons, that one Edward Sandeford, a taylor of the City of London, had called the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Warwick and the parliament traitors, curst the parliament and wished the Earl of Warwick's heart in his boots, and King Pym and Sir John Hotham both hanged. They sent for him to the bar of the house, and the sentence pronounced upon him by the Speaker was that he should be fined to our sovereign lord the King 100 marks, stand on the pillory in Cheapside and Westminster; be whipped from thence at a cart's tail, the first day to the Fleet, the second day to Bridewell, and there be kept 66 AT Gisburne Park a picture of Cromwell, by Sir Peter Lely. This," says DR. WHITAKER, "gives a truer, that is a worse idea, of the man, than any portrait of him which I have seen. It is said to have been taken by his own order, with all the warts and protuberances which disfigured his countenance. On the canvass is painted the word Now, which probably alludes to his peremptory mandate for the immediate execution of the King. This was brought from Calton Hall, and seems to have been his own present to Lambert."— Ibid. "It was a tradition at Broughton Hall (in Craven), that a son of the family was shot on the lawn; and that the village had been so compleatly pillaged of common 148 WHITAKER-DODD-ECHARD-WOOD. Or the Queen mother ECHARD says, utensils (in these wars) that an old helmet travelled in succession from house to house" that the English hated her, or suspected for the purpose of boiling broth and pottage."-Ibid. p. 97. 1638. LORD ARUNDEL in a letter to his very good lord and cousin, Lord Clifford at Skipton, says of our three poor northern shires, "it will be fitter to fit them with such light arms as they have been accustomed to use and bear, than load them with heavier, which mingled with some other, may stand in good stead, and archery to be kept on foot." DR. WHITAKER asks if this is not the latest instance of the use or intended use of archery in an English army?—Ibid. p. 299. THE very nature of the King's army rendered good discipline difficult or impossible, composed as it was in great part of men of rank and fortune, the flower of the gentry and nobility of England, serving as adventurers. The lax state of discipline which thus arose is noticed in Pharonnida. Quote that fine passage. "I AM sorry to find Sir J. Eliot in the first parliament (1625) warmly representing to the house, that six Romish priests had lately been pardoned upon the Queen's intercession. These complaints were followed with an humble petition to his majesty that the laws against Popish recusants might be put in execution."-DODD, vol. 3, p. 3. her, for her own sake, for her Church's, for her country's, and for her daughters.'" WHEN the court of wards was taken away, 1616, I am sorry to find Sir B. Rudyard, who had been surveyor of that court, indemnified with lands to the value of 6000 from the Earl of Worcester's estate. That the Lord Say, as being master, should have £10,000 worth from the same estate was only in character, and could not stain him.-WooD's Athena quoted, vol. 2, p. 237. "HENRY BARD. son of the vicar of Stains, of Eton and King's, a great Oriental Traveller, was one of the first who appeared in arms at York. The Queen soon procured him a colonel's commission. He was afterwards made governor of Cambden House in Gloucestershire, which he quitted and laid in ashes when it was no longer tenable. He was also for some time governor of Worcester. Knighted 1643, soon after created a baronet, and in 1645, made baron of Bromley and viscount Bellamont in the kingdom of Ireland. Being afterwards taken prisoner, he petitioned to be released, with a promise that he would appear no more in arms, but quit the land. 'Hitherto,' said he, I have only pursued my fortune, and have fought neither for your religion, nor for your laws, but to maintain the rights of an injured prince, whom Providence seems now disposed to abandon to some hard fate, while religion is entirely lost, and the laws become a mouse trap.' This merry and frank declaration pur HENRIETTA'S priests were impudently imprudent, 1629, they would have baptized the Queen's child in the bedchamber, if the King had not stept in and ordered one of his chaplains to perform that office.chased him his freedom, with permission to ECHARD. An Heroic Poem by William Camberlayne of Shaftsbury. London, 1659, 8vo. In his Notes to Joan of Arc, Southey said he hoped to rescue it from undeserved oblivion. retire into Flanders. After the King's murder Charles II. sent him to Persia in of his crown, the King of Persia being hopes of obtaining money for the recovery under some obligations to England, upon account of the assistance our merchant DODD-BAXTER-KENNET. 149 ships gave him at Ormuz. But Bellamont buried there, in regard his Majesty would, when crossing the desert was lost in a hurricane of sand. "He had been a Catholic for some years. Prince Rupert had a son called Dudley Rupert, by his daughter Frances; this son served as a volunteer at the siege of Buda, and was killed there. upon occasional discourse express some dislike of King Henry's proceeding in misemploying those vast revenues the suppressed abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses were endowed with.'"-Parochial Antiq. vol. 2, p. 51. WOOD quoted. BAXTER held that notion, "that the Pa "After the Restoration Lord Bellamont's widow was obliged to seek for relief at King's College, Cambridge, where her hus-pists were busy in furthering the work of band had formerly been fellow."-DODD, schism and confusion. The Papists, he vol. 3, p. 48. WOOD referred to. DODD (vol. 3, p. 58,) affirms that "at Drogheda all were put to the sword, together with the inhabitants, women and children, only about thirty persons escaping, who with several hundreds of the Irish nation were shipped off to serve as slaves in the island of Barbadoes, as I have frequently heard the account from Captain Edmund Molyneux, one of that number who died at St. Germains, whither he followed the unfortunate king James II. "As for Sir Arthur Ashton, he had his brains dashed out with his wooden leg." This agrees well with Ludlow. Had he gilt his wooden leg? Very likely, I think. This is the same Ashton who commanded at Reading. THE person who was shot for surrendering Blechingdon House to Cromwell, was Col. Francis Windebank, the secretary's second son. "Some suppose that the supposed demerits of the father had no small influence over his persecutor."-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 59. "I CANNOT," says BISHOP KENNET, "but commend the piety of those gentlemen employed to inter the body of King Charles I., who taking a view of St. George's Chapel in Windsor, to find the most fit and hoDourable place of burial, they declined at first the tomb house built by Cardinal Wolsey, as supposing King Henry VIII. was said, had begotten the Quakers, first pretending to strange revelations, visions and trances, such as commonly mentioned in the lives of their saints in the legends, and so you have here and there a Papist lurking to be the chief speaker among them; and those have fashioned many others to their turns, who yet know not their own fathers." "WE know in the latter times of our confusion a project was carried on of destroying the ancient right of tithes, and converting that pious maintenance of the clergy into settled portions of money.". KENNET'S Par. Antiq. vol. 2, p. 295. THE Hampden family are said to have been settled upon the same estate before the conquest.-Hist. of Chilton. "CHARLES was first brought before the High Court on a Saturday, the next day a fast was kept at Whitehall, where preached Joshua Sprigg, whose text was, 'He that sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:' then Mr. Foxley, whose text was, Judge not, lest you be judged:' lastly, Hugh Peters, whose text was, 'I will bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in fetters of iron;' and thus by their wicked application of the Word of God, they endeavoured to justify their most execrable murder of their lawful King."—Arbitrary Government displayed to the life, p. 37. THE five ministers ordered to adminis-them rich by trading with our money, whilst we sate contented with three per cent. for to be secure, so that our trade fell, and in some time after a scarcity of money appeared."-Ibid. p. 143. ter spiritual help to him after his sentence, were Marshal, Nye, Caryl, Salway and Dell.-Ibid. p. 39. "I CANNOT here forbear to mention Ha THE amount of the weekly meal was "Likewise in sixteen hundred, forty-five, 'Twas ordered also every man to give, selrig's bloody proposition, that six gentle-paid for half a year, according to this book, men of the best quality, royalists, might be put to death in revenge of Dorislaus,' to deter men from the like attempt hereafter." - ibid. p. 97. "THE notorious and blasphemous wretch, pander and buffoon, Hugh Peters, chaplain in ordinary to two great potentates, Lucifer and Oliver Cromwell." He is here said to have been expelled from Jesus College, Cambridge, for his lascivious life, and to have then turned player in Shakespere's company, usually acting the jester or fool.-Ibid. p. 98. A penny a week of every family, "AN eminent dissenter (Dr. Caudry, a Presbyterian minister, in his book called Independency a Schism) hath made this observation on the vast toleration that was given in the time of the Commonwealth government, that the seven years' toleration then given had done more hurt to religion, than all that could be called persecution for seventy years before that."-G. KEITH. "THE money drained away from the Royalists, and the vast sums raised on the people by taxes, assessments and excise, coming into the soldiers' pockets, they set it going into motion; which with the vast "THE holy Thorn at Glastonbury was sums raised on the sale of the King's, cut down in the civil wars by those madQueen's, Princes', Bishops' and Delinquents' men who looked upon every object of culands, made a flood of money for the pre- riosity, especially if considered with a resent, and nothing of want then appeared, ligious eye, as a monument of superstition, which was the effect rather of the tyrant's and so set themselves in open hostility to rapacity than good management. For when almost every monument of religion among this glut began to fall again into the private us."-WHITAKER'S Life of St. Neot, p. 53. sinks of rich men, who lived by the use of It was the hawthorn of Judea, brought money; and others who had any great sums by some travelling brother, from the Holy fallen to their shares, fearing the iniquities Land, where it flowers about Christmas of the times, and knowing no man could day. promise himself to be long master of his own, especially money, where the will of the tyrant was law, and whom to disoblige was fatal; they remitted vast sums for their security into the bank in Holland, making 'See Clarendon. History of the Rebellion. Bouk zii. vol. 6, pp. 297, 421. He was an agent of the Parliament, killed at the Hague. J. W. W. reckoned one of the greatest misfortunes THE taking of Dundee by Monk is that ever happened to any town in Scotland. There were at that time above sixty vessels in the harbour, and so great was the spoil, that it is said every private soldier had £60 sterling for his share. |