Q. Eliz. mas-term, he was made lord chief justice of the king's bench. He was not like that judge, who feared neither God nor man, but onely one widow, (left her importunity fhould weary him ;) but heartily feared God in his religious conversation. Each man he respected with his due diftance off the bench, and no man on it to byafs his judgment. He was pro tempore, lord privy feal, and fat. chief in the court when fecretary Davifon was fentenced in the ftar-chamber Sir Chriftopher collecting the cenfures of all the commiffioners, concurred to fine him: but with this comfortable conclufion, That, as it was in the queens power to bave him punished, fo ber highness might be prevailed with for mitigating or remitting of the fine: and this our judge may be prefumed no ill inftrument in the procuring thereof.

He bountifully reflected on Magdalene-Colledge in Cambridge; which infant foundation had otherwife been ftarved at nurse for want of maintenance. We know who faith, The righteous man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children, and the well-thriving of his third generation may be an evidence of his well-gotten goods. This worthy judge died May the eighth, in the thirty fourth of queen Elizabeth. When judge Mounfon and Mr. Dalton urged in Stubs his cafe, (that writ against queen Elizabeth's marriage with the duke of Anjou) That the act of Philip and Mary against the authors and fowers of feditious writings was mistimed, and that it died with queen Mary; my lord chief justice Wray, upon whom the queen relied in that cafe, fhewed there was no mistaking in the noting of the time; and proved by the words of the act, that the

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act was made against those which should violate Q. Eliz. the king by feditious writing; and that the king of England never dieth: yea, that that act was renewed anno primo Eliz. during the life of her and the heirs of her body.

Five particulars I have heard old men say he was choice in L. His friend, which was always wife and equal; 2. His wife; 3. His book; 4. His fecret; 5. His expreffion and garb. By four things he would fay an eftate was kept: 1. By understanding it; 2. By fpending not until it comes; 3. By keeping old fervants; 4. By a quarterly audit. The properties of infancy, is innocence; of childhood, reverence; of manhood, maturity; and of old age, wifdome: wif dome! that in this grave perfon acted all its brave parts; i. e. was mindful of what is past, obfervant of things prefent, and provident for things to come. No better inftance whereof need be alledged than his pathetick difcourfes in the behalf of thofe two great stays of this kingdome, hufbandry and merchandize: for he had a clear difcerning judgement, and that not onely in points of law, which yet his arguments and decifions in that profeffion manifeft without difpute;, but in matters of policy and government, wherein his guess was usually as near prophecy as any man's: as alfo in the little mysteries of private manage, by which upon occafion he hath unravelled the ftudied cheats and intrigues of the elofet-men to which when your adde his happy faculty of communicating himself, by a free and graceful elocution, to charm and command his audience, affifted by the attractive dignity of his prefence, you will not admire that he managed

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Q. Eliz. his jufticeship with fo much fatisfaction to the court, and that he left it with fo much applaufe from the country: for thefe two peculiarities he had, That none was more tender to the poor, or more civil in private; and yet none more stern to the rich, I mean juftices of peace, officers, &c. or more fevere in publick. He delighted indeed to be loved, not reverenced: yet knew he very well how to affert the dignity of his place and function from the approaches of contempt.

Lloyd.

Obfervations on the Life of the
Earl of Worcester.

THE lord of Worcester, (as no mean favou-
rite) was of the ancient and noble blood of
the Beauforts, and of the queen's grandfather's
line by the mother; which fhe could never for-
get, efpecially where there was a concurrency of
old blood with fidelity, a mixture which ever
forted with the queen's nature. He was firft made
mafter of the horfe, and then admitted of her
council of state. In his youth (part whereof he
fpent before he came to refide at court) he was
a very fine gentleman, and the best horse-man and
tilter of the times, which were then the man-
like and noble recreations of the court: and when
years had abated thefe exercises of honour, he
grew then to be a faithful and profound counfel-
lour. He was the laft liver of all the fervants of
her favour, and had the honour to fee his re-
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nowned mistress, and all of them laid in the places Q. Eliz. of their reft; and for himself, after a life of very noble and remarkable reputation, he died in a peaceable old age, full of riches and honour. His father's temperance reached to 97 years of age, because he never eat but one meal a-day; and his fparingness attained to 84, because he never eat but of one difh. He came to the queen's favour, because as her father fo fhe loved a man ; he kept in, because as her father too fo fhe loved an able man. His man-like recreations commended him to the ladies, his prudent atchievements to the lords. He was made mafter of the horse becaufe active, and privy councellour because wife; his mistress excufed his faith, which was popishg but honoured his faithfulness, which was Roman; it being her ufual fpeech, that my lord of Wor cefter had reconciled what the thought inconfiftent; a stiff papist, to a good fubject. His religion was not pompous, but folid; not the fhew of his life, but the comfort of his foul. A great maf ter he was of others affections, and greater of his own paffions: many things difpleafed, nothing angered my lord of Worcefter, whofe maxime was, That he would not be difordered within kim felf, onely because things were out of order without bim he had this maxime whence he had his na ture, from his prudent father fir Charles Somerfet, the first earl of Worcester of that name, whose temper was fo pliable, and nature so peaceable, that being afked (as it is usually reported of him) How he paffed fo troublesome a reign as king Henry's, fo uncertain as king Edward's, fo fierce as queen Mary's, and fo unexpected as queen Elizabeth's, with fo quiet, fo fixed, fo fmooth,

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Eliz. smooth, so resolved and ready a mind and frame? answered, it was because he understood the intereft of the kingdome, while others observed its Humours. His first publick fervice was to represent the grandeur of his mistress at the chriftening of the Daulphine of France, and his last the like at the marriage of the king of Scots, whom he honoured with the garter from his mistress, and advised to beware of papifts from the council.

The frame of this noble man's body, (as it is delineated by fir W. P.) seems suited to the noble ufe it was defigned for, The entertaining of a most pure and active foul; but equally to the advantage of strength and comeliness, befriended with all proportionate dimenfions, and a most grave, yet obliging carriage. There was a clear fprightfulness in his complexion, but a fad refervedness in his nature; both making up that bleffed compofition of a wife and winning man, of as great hardship of: body, as nobleness of spirit. Of a quick fight, and an accurate ear; a fteady obfervation, and ready expreffion: with the torrent whereof he at once pleafed king James, and amazed king Henry, being the most natural orator in the world. Among all which endowments, I had almost forgot his memory, that was very faithful to him in things and business, though not punctilio's and formalities: great parts he had, the range and compass whereof filled the whole circle of generous learning in that perfon, as it hath done in the following heroes of that family to this day.

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