British Library, Additional MS 22591
The
Parralell of Robert Deuoreux Earle
off
Essex, and George Villiers Duke of
Buc:
kingha
Some observations by waye of Parrarell in the Tyme of
theire Estates of Favour
Amongst those Historicall imployments wherevnto I
haue devoted my Later yeeres (For I read that ould men
live more by memorye, then by hope, Mee thought it would bee
A little tyme not ill spent, to Conferr the Fortunes & natures
of theis two Personages, of soe late knowledge, wherein, I
intend to doe them right, w
w
The begin
whollie (or in greate parte) to my Lord of Leicester / But yet
as an Introducer or Support
goe along, it will easilye appeare, that he neither lived nor
dyed by his discipline, Allwayes certaine it is, that he drew
him First into the Fatall Circle / From A kind of resoolved
privatenes att his house at Lawychies in Southe Wales, where
after
Rurall, as I haue heard him saye, and vpo
Fumes of Mellanchollie, or Traverses of discontent, But in
A Sereene, and quiett moode, that he could well haue bent his
mynde to A retyred Course / About w
of Leicester bewrayed A meaning to place him in
Favour, w
greate Artizan of Courte, to doe nothing by Chaunce, nor much
by affection / Some therefore were of opinion, that Feelinge
more and more in himselfe the weight of Tyme, and being
allmost tyred (yf there be A Satietye in power) with that
Assiduous attendance, and intensive Circumspection, w
long indulgent Fortune did require, hee was growne not vn
willing, For his owne Ease, to bestowe handsomelye, vpo
some parte of the paynes & p
Others conceyved rather, that having before for
ende, either brought in, or lett in S
haueing Found him such an Apprentice, as knew well e=
noughe, howe to sett vp for himselfe / Hee nowe meant to Allay
him w
impressions For though the said S
litle before this (whereof I nowe speake) by occasio
fallen from his former Splender in Courte / yett hee still
continued in some Lustre of A Favored man, like highe
Billowes that sincke by degrees, even when the winde is
downe that first stirred them
Thus ran the discourse At that Tyme at pleasure / yett
I am not Ignorant, that there was some good while, a very
Stiffe aversation in my Lord of Essex, from applying himselfe
not But howsoever that humor was Mollified by Tyme and by
his Mother / And to the Courte he came vnder his Lee
The Duke of Buckingham had another kinde of Germinatio
and surelye had he bine reckoned among the Sponte Nascentes
For he sprange w
Composure (as wee maye terme it) to the liking of our Late
Sou
him into his regard, taught him more and more to please him
selfe and Moulded him (as it were Platonicallye) to his owne
Idea, delighting first in the Choice of the Materyalls (because
he found him susceptible of good Forme) and afterwards by degres,
as great Architects vse to doe, in the workemanship of his Regall
hande / Nor Staying here, after he had hardened and polished
him about 10: yeeres in the Schoole of Observance (For soe A
Courte is) and in
was A Kinge
him the Associate of his heyre Apparant (together w
Lord Cotttington (As an Adiuncte of singuler experience, and
Trust) in Forraigne Travell, and in A Busines of Love, and of
noe Equall hazard, yf the Tendernes of our Zeale, did nott then
deceive vs / enoughe (the world must confesse) to kindle affectio
betweene the distantest Conditions / Soe as by varyous, & inward
Conversac
wBona Si Sua
Norint
This Duke nowe becomes soundlye seized of Favor, as it
were by discent / thoughe the Condic
lye noe more / then a Tenancye at will, or at most for
of the First Lorde, and rarelye transmitted, w
Sett downe. w
meane into
ricall inclinac Poetts whoe are otherwise of soe Lycentious
Fancye / Butt yett in this pointe, Modest enough to co
Nescio quid certe Est / quod me tibi temperat Astu m
And theise were both their Springings, and Imprimeings,
as I maye call them /
In the Profluence, on proceedings of their Fortunes, I ob=
serue likwise not onlye much difference betweene them; But
in the Earle, not A little fro
First, all his hopes of Advancem
Strangled all most in the verye Cradle, by throwing himselfe in
to Portugall voyage, w
of her knowledge / whereby hee left his Freindes, & dependa
neere Sixe Monthes in desperate suspence, what would become
of him / And to Speake Truthe, not w
For First, they might well Consider, that hee was himselfe
not well plumed in Favor, For such A Flight / Besydes
he wanted A Lord of Leicester att home / (For he was dead
in the yeere before) to smoothe his Absence, and to quench the
practizes of Courte / Butt above all, it laye open to everye
mans discourse, that thoughe the bare offence of his Soveraigne
and mistrisse, was to greate A Venture, yett much more, when
shee might (as in this Case) haue Fayrelye discharged his disple
sure, vppon her Lawes / Notwithstanding A noble reporte
cominge home before him, at his retourne all was Cleared,
grewe everye daye, more and more in her graces. Conceipt
whether such intermissions as theis doe sometymes foment Af=
fection, or that having Comitted A Fault, hee became more
obsequious, and plyant, to redeeme it / or
ceived into her royall breast, anye shaddowes of poppularitye /
There was another tyme, long after, when S
late Lord Brooke, (A man in Apparance intrinsecall with him,
or at least admitted to his Melanchollye howers) eith
espying some wearines in the Queene, or p
change in the worde thoughe more in the daunger some marckes
towards him, aand working vppo
dextrous, and Close, had allmosr superinduced into Favour the
Earle of Southampton) w
Lord of Essex choose to evaporate his thoughts in A Sonnet (being
his Com
one Hales, in whose voyce, shee tooke some pleasure, whereof
the Complott (mee thinkes) had as much of
And if thou shouldest by hir, be now forsaken
Shee made thie harte, to Strong for to be shaken
As if hee had been Casting one Eye backe to his For=
mer retyrednes / But all this likewise quicklye vanyshed, &
A good while after, there was Fayer weather overhead / Yett
Still I knowe not howe, like A gathering of Clowdes, till to=
wardes his latter tyme (when his humors grewe Tarte) as being
nowe in the Lees of Favors, it brake, into certeyne Suddayne
Recesses / Sometymes from the Courte to Wannestead / Other
whiles to Greenew
visitts forbidden, and (w
tweene, w
wherew
some pettye Contentm
grapes) yett in the meane Tyme / was forgotten the Cou
A wise, and att that Tyme Propheticall Freinde, whoe tould him,
that such Courses as theis, were like whott watters, w
at a Punge / Butt yett if they be vsed, will spoyle the Stomacke /
On the Dukes parte, wee haue noe such Abrupt Streames,
and Precipes as theis / But A Fayer, Fluentt, and vnifforme
Course, vnder both Kinges / And surelye, as there was in his natu=
rall Constituc
Speake afterwardes) soe there was an Image of itt, in his
Fortune, Run
as Smoothlye as A Numerous verse, till certaine Rubbs in
Parlyament, where of I am induced to speake, something by
the verye Subiect w
as shall conserne
Whilst my Lord of Essex stood in Favour,
were calme Naye I ffinde it A true observac
was noe Impeachm
the Raigne of Hen ry
: 6: till the 18: of K
And thus farr the Considerac
hath transported mee
Now on the other Syde I must w
to waightie and Matchfull Solicitudes (as I maye call them),
w
Bow Still bent) whereof the Dukes Thoughts were absolutelye free
First he was to wrastle w
rather w
w
more vmbracious and appe
horizons are charged w
The other was A Matter of more circumstances.
Standinge thus /
All Princes especiallie whom God hath not blessed w
w
Shye of their Successors, And (to speake w
there maye bee reasonablye supported in Queenes Regnant a
little p
Now there were in Course Two names of Power & all
most of Faction / The Essexian and Cicillian with theire
Adherent
looking for the Future / And therefore both houlding correspo
dencie w
vertisem
from the kinge himselfe as indubiture heire of this Imperiall
Crowne
But least they might detect One another, this was miste
riouslye Carryed by severall Instrum
on the Essexian syde in truthe w
Robt Cicill whoe was secretarye of State did disposse the
publique Addresses, had prompter & safer co
vpon I cannot but relate a memorable passage on eith
The Earle of Essex had accomodated one Mr. Anthonye
Baccon in A p
enterteinement / This was A Gentlemen of impotent Feete,
but of A Nimble Head, and throughe his hinderance, all the
Intelligence w
Nature contrarye to his Brother the Late viscount St Albones,
and well knowing the Advantage of A daungerous Secret,
would manye tymes most cun
if he would mend much his Fortune vnder the Cicilians, to
whom he was neere in Blood) one whoe had made (as he was
not vnwilling should be beleived) some greate proffers to wynne
him awaye, w
tokens of discontentment
Earle of North
much umbrage w
Lord of Essex, wPrimae admissionis
by his Bed syde everye morning and tells him that vnlesse
Gentleman were pr
all would be vented / This tooke the Earle att that tyme, ill pro=
vided (as indeed oftentymes his coffers were lowe) wherevpo
good old Ladye Walsingham did afterward
owne Store, w
ther Tyme by the Same skill. Soe that hee maye rate this one secret
as it was finelye handled at 4000 li in present monye besydes at
least 1000 li of an
what would hee haue gotten if he had bine able to goe about
his owne Busynes
There was another Accident of the same nature on the
Cicilian Syde, much more pleasant and lesse Charitable, For
it Cost nothinge but witt
The Queene haueing For A Good while not heard any thinge
from Scottland, and being thirstie of newes, it fell out that her
ma
then at Greenewich, And Mr Secretarye Cicill then attending her,
A Post came crossing by and blew his horne, the Queene outt of
Curiositie asked from whence the dispatch came, And being answ=
red fro
The Secretarye (allthoughe he knewe there were some Lett
from his Correspondent
Serpent
her, and asks some that were by Forsooth in great hast for a Knife
to cutt vpp the Packett (For otherwise p
A little appr
Packett in his hand, att A prettie distrance, from the Queene, hee
tould her it looked and smelled Illfavour’dlye com
Filthie Budgett, and that it should be fitt first to open it and
Ayre it, because he knewe shee was averse from ill Sents /
And soe being dismissed home he gott leasure Enoughe by
this Seasonable Shifte to Sever what hee would not haue seene /
These two accidents preciselye true and knowne to few, I haue
reported as not alltogither extravagant from my purpose to shew
howe the Earle stood in certeine perplexities wherew
dayes were not distracted / And this hath beene (as it were) in the
historicall parte touching the difference betweene them in
and Flowinge of theire Fortunes
I will nowe consider theire Severall endowments both of
person
The Earle was a pretty deale the Taller and muche the
Stronger and of the Abler Bodye &c, but the Duke had the neater
Lymbes, and of the Freer deliverye / he was allsoe
and of the more comelye Motions, For the Earle did bend A Little
in the Necke, though rather forward then downe ward / And hee
was soe farr from being A good Dauncer, that he was noe gratfull
goer / If wee touche p
of his Legg and Foote / and the Earle in the Incomp
and Fine Shape of his handes, w
praise hee tooke it from his Father / For theire generall haire, the
Earle had the more Closer and more reserved Countynance
being by Nature some what Cogitatiue / And (w
never more then at Meales, when others were least / In soe much
that he was wont to make this observation of himselfe,
Knottye Busynes, w
howers was when hee had cloaked his First appetite with
Two or three Morsells, after w
Sylent, yet hee would playe well and willinglye at some tyme
of greatest Attention, w
The Duke on the other syde, even in the mydst of soe many diver=
sions had Continuallye A verye pleasant and vacant Face (as I
maye well call it) proceeding (noe doubt) from a singuler assurance
in his temper / And yet I must heere giue him A rarer Elogie w
the malignantest Eye cannot denye him / That certainelye never
man of his place and power did entertaine greatnes more Fami
lierlye nor whose lookes were lesse tainted w
in I insist the rather because this in my Judgment was one of his
greatest vertues and victoryes over himselfe /
But to proceed in the Attyreing and ornament of theire
bodyes / The Duke had A Fine vnaffected politenes, and vpon
occasion costlye as in his Legations The Earle as hee grew more
and more attentiue to matter / Soe lesse and lesse Curious of
Clothing, in soe much as I remember those about him had a co
That possiblye sometymes when he went vp to the Queene he might
scant knowe what he had onn / For this was his Mannor his Cha
being Com
other / when he was vpp he gaue his Leggs, Armes & Brests
to his ordinarye Servants to button and dresse him w
heed, his head and Face to his Barber, his Eyes to his Letters
and Eares to Petitions, and many Tymes all at once /
Then the Gent
Shoulders, hee would make A Stepp into his Clossett, and after
Short prayer he was gone, onlye in his Bathes he was somew
dilicate / For pointe of Dyett and Luxurie they were both verye
ordinary in their Appetites, Especiallye the Earle, whoe was
by nature of soe different A Taste / as I must tell a rare thing
of him (thoughe it be but A homelye Note) that he would stopp
in the middest of any phisicall potion, and after he had lickt his
Lippes, drinke of the Rest / but I am wearie of such sleighte
animadversions
To come then to the Inward Furniture of their myndes, the
Earle was of A good Erudition, hauing beene placed at study
in Cambridge verye young by the Lord Burleigh his Guardyan
w
Docter Whitgift then M
Bishopp of Canterburye, A man (by the waye surelye of a most
reverent sacred memorye (as I maye well saye) even of
matiue temper, when the Church by lowlynes of Spirritt did
Florish in highe thexamples, w
dation of his vertues, haueing beene muche obleiged vnto him
for manye Favors in Former Tymes
About sixteene yeeres of his Age (For thither he came at
Twelue) hee tooke the Formalitie of M
publique Acts / And heere I must not smother what I haue
receaved by Constant Informac
dyed w
affection to his Second Sonne Walter Devoreux, whoe was
indeed a Dyamond of his Tyme, and both of A hardye & delicate
mixture / But it Seemes the Earle like certaine vigitables did
Budd, and open Slowlye /
Nature sometymes delighting to playe an after game
as well as Fortune w
Course /
The Duke was Illiterate, yet had learned in A Court, First
to lift A question well, and to supplye his owne defects by
or flowing vnto him of the best Instruments of experience & know=
ledge from whom he had A sweete and attractiue manner to sucke
what might be for the publique, as his own proper vse / So as the
To Consider them in theire owne naturalls I conceiue
Intellectuall Facultyes to haue bine his Strongest p
Duke his practicall / Yett all knowe that he likewise at the First
was muche vnder the expectac
Influence there is in the Soveraigne aspect / For other abillityes
of discourse or penn, the Earle was A verye accute and sound spe=
aker when he would intend it, and for his writtings, they were
beyond example, especiallie in his Familiar letters, and in thing
of delight in Courte, when hee would intermitt his serious habits,
as maye be yett seene in his impressisns and inventions of Vn=
tertainement. And aboue all in his darlinge peece of Love, and
selfe Love / his Stile was an Ellegant perspicuitie, rich of phrase,
but seldome anye bold metaphors, and soe Farr from tumour, that it
rather wanted A little Elevac
The Dukes deliuery of his mynde I conceiue not to haue bine
soe sharpe as Sollid, and againe not soe Solyd and deepe as pre
tinent and opposite to the Tymes and Occasions
The Earle I account more liberall, and the Duke more mag
nificent / For I doe not remember that my Lord of Essex in all
his liffe Tyme did either build or adorne any house / The Queene
perchance spending his Tyme, and himselfe his meanes, or oth
wise more inclyning to popular wayes, For wee know
are more apt to applaud house keepers, then house raisers
They were both great cherishers of Schollers & Devines,
but it Seemes the Earle had obteyned of himselfe one singul
poynte, that he could depart his affections betweene two ex=
treames, For thoughe hee bore allwayes A kinde of Filiall
Reu
was Bishopp / yett on the other Syde he did not A little love and
tender Mr Cartwright / thoughe I thincke truelye w
distinction betweene the Person and the Cause, howsoever hee
was taxed with other Endes in respect of that Partie /
They were both Faire Spoken gent
to detract openlye from any Man / And in this the Earle hath bine
most fully blemished in our vulgar Storye / onelye against one
man hee had forswor
Cobham, and would call him per Excellentium
as if it had beene the Embleme of his name, even to the Queene
her selfe, though of noe small insinuation w
likewise (that I maye civillye spare to nominate for her Sexe
Sake, whom he vsed to terme the Spider of the Courte / Yett
generallie in the sensitive parte of their Nature, The Earle
was the worse Philo
dissembler of the least disgrace, and there in likewise no good
Pupill to my Lord of Leicester whoe was want to put vp his
passions in his Pockett
In the growth of their Fortunes the Duke was A little
the Swifter and much the greater, For from A you
meane Estate he rose to the highest degree whereof a Subiect
was capeable either in Tytle or trust / therein I must co
morr conformeable to Charles Branden vnder Henry
whoe was equall vnto him in both
For matter of Donatiue and D
icions of Substance, I doe nott
beleeve that the Duke did much exceed him (all considered) vnd
For that w
besydes the Fees of his offices and the disposing of great somes in her
Armies, was about the Tyme of his Arraignem
to be agravated w
thousand poundes sterling in free guift to his owne vse, by the
A Strict Computest, and not ill affected towards him / And yet
it is worthie of Note in the Margent of both Tymes, That the one
was p
A Measure is popular Judgment
I cannot heere omitt betweene them A great difference in
Establishing both their Fortunes and Fames
For the First, the Duke had A Care to introduce into neere
place at Courte Divers of his Confident Servaunt
place verye Sound and grave personages / whereas (excepte A
Pentioner or Two) wee can scant name any one advanced of
the Earles breeding but S
cretarye, whoe yett came never further (thoughe marryed into
A noble house) then to be clarke of the Cou
Note that the Earle ment to stand alone like A Substance,
(For hee was not soe ill A Gramarian in Courte) but the Truthe
is in this pointe, The Cicillians kept him shorte, as verye well
knowing that there by vppon verye little Absence or disassitude
hee would be Subiect to take cold at his Backe
For the other in the Man
them A direct Contrarye wisedome, For the Earle proceeded by
waye of Appologie, w
hande att large, thoughe till his going into Ireland they were but
Ayrerie obiections / But of the Duke this I knowe, That one hav=
inge offered for his Ease to doe him that kinde of Service, he refused
w
his owne good Intentions, w
p
gies, But the Multiplying of Discourse / w
Settled Maxime / And / For myne owne perticuler, thoughe I
am obnoxious to his memorye, in the profession of Tacitus, Neq ue
Iniura Neque Benficio
In their Millitarie Services, the Charactors of the Earles
Imployments were theis
His Forwardest was that of Portugall afore mentioned
The Saddest, that of Rhone, where he lost his deare Brother
His Fortunatest Peece I esteeme, the Taking Cales, Cades,
Males / and noe lesse modest / For there hee wrote w
A Censure of his Omissions / His Iealiousest imploym
Releife of Callice / Beseiged by the Cardinall Archduke
About w
kinge, much Arte / His Iourney to the Azores, was the best, For the
His Blackest, was that to Ireland ordeyned to bee the Sepulcher of his
Father, and the gulffe of his owne Fortunes / But the First in 88:
at Tilburye Campe, was in my Iudgment the verye poyson of all that
Followed / For there while the Queene Stood in doubte of a Spanish
Invasion (thoughe it proved but A Morrice daunce) vpon our waves)
shee made him in Feilde Com
in Courte: and much graced him openlye, in veiwe of the Soldiers,
and people, even above my Lord of Leicester, vppon w
is, from thence Forthe, he Flies to Fast /
The Dukes Imployem
of Rhee, of w
and of his Ma
to redeeme it generallie from Misvnderstanding / Therefore after
delligent inquirye amongst the wyest, and indifferentest Men of
that Action, I dare pronounce, that all Circu
Tumultuarye Landing on our p
readye to receyve vs, w
watching their best Tyme of Advantage, none of their Foote being
discovered by vs, before, nor soe much as suspected, and only some
of their Horse discryed Stragling, but not in anye Bulke or Bodye
Theire Cavalrie, was A Troope of Bissoigniers, mounted in hast,
But the greater parte gent
and suche as charged home, both in Fronte, and on both Flanckes into the
verye Sea, About sixe Score of their very
Sande, and none of them, but one killed by A greate Shott / And after
this, theire Foote likewise coming on to Chardge, till not likeing
the Busines, they Fell to Flinging of Stones, & soe walked awaye /
I saye theis thinges layd togither, wee haue reason to repute
it a greate Impression, vppon an vnknowne place, and a Noble
Argument, that vppon Occasion, wee haue not lost our Au
vigor onelye / I could wishe, that the Duke, whoe then in the Anima=
tinge of the Soldiers, shewed them verye Emynent Assurance had
afterwardes remembred that Rule of Apelles, Manum de Tabula,
But he was greadye of honor, and hott, vpon the publique Endes, &
to Confident in the pPollibius
that greate Critticque of warre, Observeth of young Leaders,
whom Fortune hath not before deceived in this their Millitary
Care / and dispensac
verye Few Remarkable Occasions, vnder the Duke, saving his Con=
tinuall vigillancie, and voluntarye hazard of his p
nes to the Soldiers: both from his owne Table, and purse / For there
could be few, disorders w
noe Scope to disband / And the Inferior Com
In the Earle, wee haue two examples of his Severitie / The one
in the Island vioage, where hee threwe A Soldier, w
handes out of A Shipp / The other in Ireland, where he decimated
certaine Troopes, that had runn awaye / Renewing A peece of the
Romane discipline / On the other Syde, wee haue manye of his Lenitye
And one of his Facillitie, when hee did Conyve att the bould e
of S
had landed there against his precise Com
hee lett fall a Noble worde, For being pressed by one, whose
name I neede not remember, that att least, he would putt him
vppon A Martiall Courte. that I would doe, said hee, if he were
my frende /
And nowe I am draweing, towardes the last Acte of them both,
which was written in the Booke of necessitie / At the Earles End, I
was Abroad, but when I came home, thoughe little was lefte For
Writters to gleane, From Iudges / yett I spent some Curiositye to
searche, what it might bee, that could precipitate him, in to Suche
A Prodigious Catastiophe (and I must according to my professed
Freedome, deliver a Circu
of that Storye, w
nor after in any of his private Confessions /
There was amongst his neerest attendance, one Henry Cuffe,
A man of Secrett Ambitions endes, of his owne, & of p
Councells, Smoothered vnder the habitt of A Scholler, & Slubbered
over, w
Assemblau
This Person, not above Five or Sixe weekes before my Lordes
Fatall eruption into the Cittie, was by the Earles Speciall Comaund
Suddainelye discharged from all further attendance, or Accesse vnto
him, out of an Inwarde displeasure then taken, against his sharpe &
import
would proue the verye Instrument of his Ruyne /
I must add heerevnto, that about the same Tyme, My Lord had
receyved from the Countisse of Warwicke, A Ladye powerable
in the Courte, and indeed A virtuous vser of her power, the best
Advice, that I ever thincke was given him, From either Sex / that
when he was Free from restrainte, hee would Closelye take any
Lodginge in Greenew
abroade in A good humor, whereof shee would giue him Notice,
hee should come, and humble himselfe before her, in the Feild,
This Cou
resolved itt / But in the meane tyme, throughe the Intercession
of the Earle of Southampton, whom Cuffe had gayned, he was
Restored to my Lord
and vppon vayne Foundations of vulgar Breathe / Spunne out
the Fynall distruction of his M
his Restorer, yf his pardon had not bine wonne by Inches
True it is that the Earle in West
disclose the Euill perswasions of this Man: But the p
I haue related of his dismission, and Restituc
Brest / For some Reasonns Apparent enoughe, indeed, as I con=
iecture, not to exasperate the Case of my Lord of South
he might there w
The whole reporte I had by infallible meanes, From the p
himselfe, that both brought the Advice Fro
Ladye, and carryed the discharge to Cuffe, whoe in A private cha
was Strucken there with into A Sounde, allmost dead to the Earthe,
As if hee had Fallen fro
hope, hee had built in his owne Fancye
Touching, the Dukes Suddaine Peryod, howe others haue pr
it to their Fancyes, I cannot determyne, For my part I must p
From my Soule, that I never call it to mynde, w
double astonishment of my discourse and reason
First at the verye horror, and Attrocitye of the Facte, in A
Christian Courte, and vnder soe Moderate A governem
much more, at the impudencie of the pr
and discontented Assassinate, would after the p
honested A meere private Revenge / as by precedent Circum=
stances, is Evident enoughe, w
Respects, and would fayne, haue given it A Paryam
Thus theis two great Peeres were disrobed of their Glorye
Th’one by Iudgm
Now after this Shorte Contemplac
Diversities
For muche more might haue beene spoken, But that I was Fitter
For A Rapsedie, then A Comentarye
I am lastlye desirous to take A Sumarye veiwe of their Con=
formities, w
perchance heeded by Fewe / As are extant, in anye of the Au
Paralells
They both Slept longe in the Armes of Fortune
They were both of Au
extracc
They were bothe of Straight, and Goodlye Stature, and of
able and Active Bodyes
They weere bothe Industrious, Assiduous, and intentive,
to their Endes
They were bothe Privye Cou
in the Secrettest, and waightiest Affayres of the Courte & State /
They were both, likewise Comaunded Abroade in Cheiffe,
as well by Sea, as by Lande
Both Masters of the Horse att home / Both Chosen Chau
of the same vniversitye, Namelye Cambridge
They were both indubitablye Stronge, and highe mynded men,
yett of Sweete, and Accessable nature, allmost equally delighting
in the Presse and Affluence of dependors and Sutors which are all=
wayes the Burres, and sometimes the Bryers of Favourites
They were both Maryed to verye vertuous Ladyes, & sole
heyres, and left yssue of either Sexe, and both their wives con=
verted to Contrarye Religions
They were both in themselves, excellent and rare examples
of Temperance, and Sobrietie / But, neither of them of Co
Lastlye as they had both beene Sub
is to certaine Obliquyes of their Acc
theire Earthlye Felicitye, in vnnaturall Endes, and w
distance of Tyme, in the Space either of Liffe or Favour /
And soe haueing discharged this poore Exercise of my pen,
according to my knowledge, and Realtie / Lett, vs Comitt, theis two
Noble Peeres to their Eternall Rest, w
Abillityes, remayning in Fewe, and theire Compassionable infir=
mities Com
Finis/