well a _Quare impedit_ were brought against the _Quare impedit_ for
hindering other accions.
[Sidenote: fo. 31.
28 June, 1602.]
One that would needes be married in all the [_sic_] hast, though he were
soe verry a beggar that the preist told him he would not marry him
because he had not money sufficient to pay him his duty for that
service, "Why then," said he, "I pray you, Sir, marry me as far as that
will goe. Nowe I am here I must needes have something ere I goe."
* * * * *
A Puritan scholemaister that taught litle children in their horne
bookes, would not have them say "Christ crosse A. &c." but "Black spott
A." Another being to invit his frend, desyred him come and take part of
a Nativity pie at Christ tyde with him.
When a Puritan that had lost his purse made great moane as desyrous to
haue it againe, another minister (meaning to try his spirit) gaue forth
that he was able to helpe him to it by figur-casting; whereupon the
Puritan resorted vnto him; and the day appointed for the purpose, the
other told him that when he caste a paper into the chaffing dishe of
coales which he placed before them, he should looke in the glasse to see
the visage of him that had it; but the flame being too short for him to
aduise well what face it was, he earnestly entreated to see it againe.
"Oh," said the other, "I perceue well the cause why you could not
discerne it was that you trust to much in God." "Whoe, I," said the
Puritan, "I trust noe more in God then the post doth. Lett me see it
once againe." Such hyppocrytes are those professors. (_Ch. Dauers._)
[Sidenote: fo. 31^b.
May 4.]
Mr. Fleetwood, after he was gone from supper, remembred a case to the
purpose he was talking of before he went, and came againe to tell vs of
it, which Mr. Bramston said was as yf a reueller, when he had made a
legg at the end of his galliard, should come againe to shewe a tricke
which he had forgotten.
This day there was a strange confused pressing of souldiers, carrying
soe to the ships, that they were thrust togither under hatches like
calues in a stall.
[Sidenote: 6.]
When hir Majestic had giuen order that Spenser should haue a reward for
his poems, but Spenser could haue nothing, he presented hir with these
verses:
It pleased your Grace vpon a tyme
To graunt me reason for my ryme,
But from that tyme vntill this season
I heard of neither ryme nor reason.
(_Touse._)
A gentleman whose father rose by the lawe, sitting at the benche while a
lawyer was arguying in a case against the gentleman, touching land which
his father purchased, the gentleman, more collerick then wise, sayd the
lawyer would prate and lye, and speake anie thing for his fee: "Well,"
said the lawyer, "yf your father had not spoken for a fee, I should haue
noe cause to speake in this cause to day." The posterity of lawyers hath
more flourished then that either of the clergy or citisens.
[Sidenote: fo. 32.
August 1602.]
_Notes out of a copie of a letter written by way of dedicacion of_
CHARLES THE FIFTH HIS INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS SONNE PHILLIP: TRANSLATED
OUT OF SPANISHE, _and sent to hir Majestie_ BY LORD H. HOWARD.[77]
[Footnote 77: Created Earl of Northampton in 1604-5, died 1614.]
Hir Majesties affections are not carued out of flint, but wrought out of
virgin wax, and hir royall hart hath ever suted him in mercy, whom hir
state doth represent in Maiesty.
If anie sentence were mistaken by equivocacion of wordes, or ambiguity
in sence, I onely blame the stintles rage of destinie, which ever
carryeth the best shaftes of my unluky quiuer to such endes as are most
distant from the white I aymed at.
Since I began, each fruit hath answered his blossom, each grayne his
seede, all eventes there hopes; my selfe onely, more vnfortunate then
all the rest, have sowne with teares, but can reape with noe reuolucion.
I have presumed once againe (least the ground of my deuocion, by lying
to long fallowe, might seeme either waxen wyld or ouergrowne with
weedes,) to breake the barren soyle of myne vnfruitfull brayne, that
prosperous successe may rather want at all tymes to myne endeuors, then
endeuor to my loyall determinacion.
You are that sunne to me, whose going downe leaues nothing but a night
of care.
The divel, like those painters which are skilfull in the art of
perspectiue, taketh pleasure, by false colours and deceitfull shaddowes,
to make those things seeme farthest of which are nerest hand (as death),
and to abuse our nature with vayne hopes.
[Sidenote: fo. 32^b.
August, 1602.]
As the glasse of tyme is turned euery hour vpside downe, soe is the
course of our vncertaine lyfe; as that part which before was full is
emptied, and that other which was emptied is replenished, soe fareth
this world interchangeably.
As the highest region of the ayre is cleare and without stormes, soe hir
minde free from all distemperes of affection.
Those that liue not in the safe arke of your gracious conceit, &c.
The sea can brooke noe carcasses, nor hir Majesties thoughts admit of
castaways.
The fig-tree never bare fruit after it was blasted by the breath of
Christ; noe plant can prosper that never feeles the comfort of the same;
soe, &c.
In this the difference, Adam dyed because he eat of it (_i. e._ the tree
of lyfe), but I shall dye before I looke on it.
Manie find frends to couer faults; my cloke is innocency. An eye may be
cleare enough yet not discerne without your light; a course may be
direct yet endles without your clewe. My dealings may be free from base
alloy, but yet not currant amongst honourable persons without the liuely
print of your cherefull countenaunce. What dangerous diseases breed in
bodyes naturall by putrefaction springing out of the sunnes eclipse, the
same, or rather greater by proportion, must growe in well affected
myndes by the darke vayle of your discouragement.
[Sidenote: fo. 33.
August, 1602.]
Patience like a pill by continuall vse looseth his virtue.
I wonder at your matchles worth as they that are borne vnder the North
Pole doe at the sunne, whose comfort they feele not at all, or without
anie great effect.
Praye that since there is but one period and bounder, one high water
marke both of your happie life and our countryes good, the same may be
inlarged aboue ordinary termines, defended by all extraordinary meanes,
and augmented with all speciall fauour which either death possesseth or
heaven promiseth. That ever in the zodiack, our princely virgin may
assend with assistance of all happie planets.
Such is my beliefe in your administracion of right, as with the
faythfull daughter of Darius, while I live I will deeme _me captum esse
quamdiu Regina vixerit_.
The world is governed by planets, not fixed starrs.
[Sidenote: fo. 33^b.
8 August, 1602.]
One Mr. Palmes told at supper that one Mr. Sapcotts, a Northamptonshire
gentleman, married his owne bastard; had never anie issue by hir. After
his death shee was with child, would not discover the father. Sapcotts
left hir worth some 400_l._ yearely, yet none will marry hir.
[Sidenote: October 1602.]
Mr. Kempe in the King's Bench reported that in tymes past the
counsellors wore gownes faced with satten, and some with yellowe cotten,
and the benchers with jennet furre; nowe they are come to that pride and
fa[n]tasticknes, that every one must[78] have a veluet face, and some
soe tricked with lace that Justice Wray[79] in his tyme spake to such an
odd counsellor in this manner: _Quomodo intrasti, domine, non habens
vestem nuptialem_? Get you from the barre, or I will put you from the
barr for your folish pride. (_Ch. Da: nar._)
[Footnote 78: much _in MS_.]
[Footnote 79: Sir Christopher Wray was a puisne Judge of the Queen's
Bench from 1572 to 1574, and Lord Chief Justice of that court from
that time to 1592. (Foss's Judges, v. 546.)]
[Sidenote: 9.]
Every man semes to serue himselfe.
[Sidenote: October, 25.]
As the fox and the asse were travayling by the way, they overtooke a
mule, a strange beast as they thought, and began to be verry
inquisitive, like a couple of constables, to know whence he came and
what his name might be. The mule told them his name was written in his
foote, and there they might reade it yf they would; the foxe dissembling
sayd he was not bookish, and askt the asse what he could doe. He like an
asse, without feare or witt, went about to shewe his schollership; but,
while he was taking up the foote to reade what was told him, the mule
tooke him such [a] blowe with his foote that the asse paid for his
cuning [?]. Such are meere schollers. (_Ed. Curle._)
[Sidenote: fo. 34.]
_Maiores in sacris litteris progressus proemia maiora postulant; et
plures in vita necessitates plura vitæ necessaria subsidia requirunt_:
these causes of a plurality in a dispensacion.
_Dr. Parryes Ale for the Spring._
[Symbol: Rx]. Of the juyce of scouruy-grasse one pint; of the iuyce of
watercresses, as much; of the iuyce of succory, half a pint; of the
iuyce of fumitory, half a pint: proportion to one gallon of ale: they
must be all tunned vp togither.
There is a certaine kinde of compound called _Laudanum_, which may be
had at Dr. Turner's, appothecary, in Bishopgate Streate; the virtue of
it is very soueraigne to mitigate anie payne; it will for a tyme lay a
man in a sweete trans, as Dr. Parry told me he tryed in a feuer, and his
sister Mrs. Turner in hir childbirth.
The Lord Zouche, a verry learned and wise nobleman, was made Lord
President of the Marches of Wales after the death of the old Earle of
Pembroke.[80]
[Footnote 80: Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke of that family,
died 19 Jan. 1600-1. His successor in the Presidency of Wales here
alluded to was Edward the last Lord Zouche of Haryngworth, before
the abeyance was determined in 1815.]
[Sidenote: fo. 34^b.]
My cosen told me that the custome of burning women with their husbandes
in Goa began vpon this occasion; the women of that country being
skilfull in poysoninge, and exceedingly giuen to the synn of lechery,
could noe sooner like an other, but presently their husband would dye,
that they might marry him whom they best liked: whereuppon it came
to[81] passe that one woman burried manie husbands, and soe the King
lost many subiects. And therefore to preuent this mischiefe the King
ordeined, that, whensoeuer the husband died, the wife should be burned
with him, in great solemnitie of musike and assembly of frendes,
esteeming by this meanes to moue the wiues to make much of their
husbands, yf not for the loue of their companie, yet for loue of their
owne liues, since their safety consisted in their preseruacion.
[Footnote 81: it, in MS.]
EPITAPHES IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHE.
_Hic jacet corpus H. Bellingham, Westmerlandiensis, generosi, et nuper
Socij Medii Templi, cuius relligionis synceritas, vitæ probitas,
morumque integritas, eum maxime commendabant: obijt 10 Decembr. 1586,
ætatis suæ 22^o._
On the South side on a pillar.
D:O:M
[Sidenote: fo. 35.]
_Rogerio Bisshopio, illustris interioris Templi Societatis quondam
studioso, in florentis ætatis limine morte immatura prærepto, qui ob
foelicissimam indolem, moresque suauissimos, magnum sui apud omnes
desiderium relinquens, corpus humo, amorem amicis, coelo animum
dicavit._
_Monumentum hoc amoris et moeroris perpetuum testem charissimi posuere
parentes._
_Obijt 7^o Sept. 1597: ætatis suæ 3._
EPITAPHE IN THE CHURCHE AT HYTHE IN KENT.
_Whiles he did live which here doth lye
Three suites [he] gott of the Crowne,
The Mortmaine, fayre, and Mayralty,
For Heith this auncient Towne;
And was himselfe the Baylif last,
And Mayor first by name;
Though he be gon, tyme is not past
To prayse God for the same._
(Of John Bridgman; obijt 1591.)
[Sidenote: fo. 35^b.
May.]
_W. Wats, Antagonista. Summum jus non est summa injuria jure positivo,
sed equitate._
* * * * *
[Sidenote: 14.]
Mr. Curle, my chamber-fellowe, was called alone by parliament to the
barr.
* * * * *
[Sidenote: 29.]
Those which goe to churche onely to heare musicke, goe thither more for
_fa_ then _soule_. (_B. Reid._)
One said, yong Mr. Leake was verry rich, and fatt, "True," said B. Reid,
"pursy men are fatt for the most part."
"He takes the stronger part still," of one that would be sure to drinke
stronge beare yf he could come to it.
[Sidenote: fo. 36^b.
April, 1602.]
_A medicine for the windines in the stomach._
[Symbol: Rx]. A quarter of a pint of lavanda spike water, half as much
balme water, a fewe cloues, and a little long pepper beaten together;
drinke this at twise. (_Mrs. Cordell's exper^t._)
_For the haymeroyds._
[Symbol: Rx]. Two ounces of shoemacke brayed, and put it to halfe a
pint of red rose water; warme them over the fyre, and bath the place
with it. (_My Cosen exper^t._)
The covetous man rides in a coache which runnes upon 4 wheeles. The 1.
Pusillanimity. 2. Inhumanity. 3. Contempt of God. 4. Forgetfulnes of
death. (_Dr. Chamberlayne._) It is drawne with two horses. 1.
_Rapacitas._ 2. _Tenacitas._ The divel the coachman, and he hath two
whippes. 1. _Libido acquirendi._ 2. _Metus amittendi._
[Sidenote: 6.]
This day there was a race at Sapley neere Huntingdon, invented by the
gentlemen of that country: at this Mr. Oliuer Cromwell's[82] horse won
the syluer bell: and Mr. Cromwell had the glory of the day. Mr. Hynd
came behinde.
[Footnote 82: This "Mr. Oliver Cromwell" was in truth, according to
other writers who have mentioned him, Sir Oliver Cromwell, stated to
have been knighted by Queen Elizabeth074 in 1598, created K.B. at
the coronation of King James, and uncle to his namesake the future
Protector. An ancestor of his in the reign of Henry VIII. is
described by Mr. Carlyle as "a vehement, swift-riding man."
(Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, i. 42, ed. 1846.) Sir Oliver
seems to have inherited some of the ancestral qualities.]
[Sidenote: fo. 37.
Aprill, 1602.]
While I was at Hemmingford Dr. Chamberlayne told me that Dr. Bilson was
made Bishop of Winchester[83] by the meanes of the Earl of Essex. Nowe
the Bishop, being visitor of Trinity Colledge in Oxeford by his place,
promised to the Lady Walsingham,[84] that he would make him that nowe is
President after Dr. Yeilder's[85] decease, and for this purpose expelled
such fellowes as he thought would be opposite, and placed such in their
roomes as he knewe would be sure vnto him. By this meanes Dr.
Chamberlaine was defeated of his right, being an Oxefordshire man, whom
by their statutes they are bound to preferr before anie other.
[Footnote 83: Translated from Worcester 1597; died 1616.]
[Footnote 84: Widow of Secretary Walsingham.]
[Footnote 85: Dr. Arthur Yildard died 1st Feb. 1598. Dr. Ralph
Kettell "was nominated and admitted by Thomas Bilson, Bishop of
Winchester, 12th Feb. 1598." (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 572.)]
The fellowes of that Colledge are to nominat two, and the visitor within
six weekes must elect the one of them to be President.
Upon marriage with the Lady Poliuizena,[86] Sir Henry Cromwell conueyed
his lands vnto his sonne Mr. Oliuer in marriage. Soe Mr. Oliuer with his
owne and his ladyes living is the greatest esquire living in those
partes, thought to be worth neere 5000_l._ per annum. There liues a
housefull at Hinchingbrooke, like a kennell.
[Footnote 86: "Lady Poliuizena" was Anne dau. of Giles Hoofman or
Hooftman, of Antwerp, mentioned in p. 51, and widow of Sir Horatio
Palavicini, a well known native of Genoa settled at Baberham, in co.
Cambridge. Sir Horatio died 6th July 1600: his lady, fulfilling the
customary obligations of her widowhood to the very letter, was
married to Sir Oliver on the 7th July 1601. Sir Henry Cromwell who
is mentioned in this paragraph was the Golden Knight; father of Sir
Oliver and grandfather of the Protector. He died in January 1603-4.
In the April before his death, Sir Oliver, being in possession of
his father's lands under the arrangement mentioned in this
paragraph, received King James at Hinchinbrooke on his way from
Scotland to take possession of the throne. There is no mention of
Sir Henry having been present on that occasion.]
Mrs. Mary Androes, daughter and heir to Mr. Androes of Sandey, was
married to one Mr. Mayne of Grayes In; had 1000_l._ present, and yf
Androes have issue, to have an other. Mayne had but 150_l._ per annum.
[Sidenote: fo. 37^b.
Aprill, 1602.]
I hear that the yong Lord North was married to Mrs. Brocket, Sir Jo.
Cutts his Ladies sister, being constrayned in a manner through want of
money while he liued in Cambridge; he had some 800_l._ with hir. Shee is
not yong nor well fauoured, noe maruaile yf he loue hir not.[87]
[Footnote 87: The young gentleman here alluded to, who was just
twenty years of age, was Dudley the third Lord North, who succeeded
to that title on the death of his grandfather, the second Baron, on
3rd Dec. 1600. Dugdale informs us that the lady alluded to was
Frances daughter of Sir John Brockett of Brockett Hall, co.
Hertford, and that there was issue of the marriage four sons and two
daughters. Lord North himself died on the 6th Jan. 1666-7, being
then 85 years of age. (Baronage, ii. 394.)]
On Easter day Dr. Chamberlaine was at Sir Henry Cromwells, and
ministered the communion, but without booke.
[Sidenote: 15.]
I was with my cosen in Kent, and he told me that there is one[88]
[Transcriber's Note: Blank space was in original text and is maintained
here] , a rich broker in London, whose first wife had such a running
strong conceit in hir head that the sherifes sought still to apprehend
hir, that noe perswasion to the contrary preuayling with hir, first
shee cutt hir owne throate, and that being cured, she brake hir necke by
leaping out at hir garret windowe.
[Footnote 88: Blank in orig.]
Jo. Vermeren a Dutchman, of kin to my cosens first wifes sisters
husband, had issue a daughter married to one Niepson. Their daughter was
married to one Hoofman, a notable rich man, whoe in his beginning was
but a pedler of pottes, yet after, by his good fortune and industry, he
proued soe wealthie that he gave 10,000_l._ with his daughter in
marriage to Sir Horatio Poliuizena, now deceased, and the widdowe
married to Mr. Oliuer Cromewell, the sonne and heir of Sir Henry
Cromwell. This marriage, and certaine land he had from his Uncle
Warrein,[89] cleared him out of debt.
[Footnote 89: Sir Henry Cromwell's first wife was Jane daughter of
Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London in 1536 and 1544. Sir Ralph
had an only son named Richard, who was seated at Claybury, Essex.
This was the uncle Warren here alluded to. On his death Lady
Cromwell was his heir, and upon her decease uncle Warren's lands
would descend to Sir Oliver.]
[Sidenote: fo. 38.
18 Aprill, 1602.]
My cosen concluded with William Tunbridge of Ditton to give him 115_l._
for a leas of Ditton ruffe for 25 yeares.
[Sidenote: 16.]
Dr. Parry told howe Dr. Barlowe, nowe one of hir Majesties chapleins,
received a checke at hir Majesties, because he presumed to come in hir
presence when shee had given speciall charge to the contrary, because
shee would not haue the memory of the late Earl of Essex renewed by him,
who had preached against him at Paules. "O, Sir," said shee, "wee heare
you are an honest man! you are an honest man, &c."
Hir Majestic merrily told Dr. Parry that shee would not heare him on
Good Friday; "Thou wilt speake against me, I am sure," quoth shee; yet
shee heard him.
[Sidenote: 18.]
Duke de Neveurs a Frenchman departed for France this day.
[Sidenote: 19.]
My cosen told me that Vicars, King Henry the 8. his Sergeant Surgeon,
was at first but a meane practiser in Maidstone, such a one as Bennett
there, that had gayned his knowledge by experience, untill the King
advanced him for curing his sore legge.
A light hand makes a heauy wound.
[Sidenote: 20.]
I rode to Dr. Parryes. Shee[90] said there was noe greater evidence to
proue a man foole then yf he leaue the University to marry a wife.
[Footnote 90: So in MS.]
[Sidenote: fo. 38^b.
21 Aprill.]
Dr. Parry told howe his father was Deane[91] of Salisbury, kept a
sumptuous house, spent aboue his reuenewe, was carefull to preferr such
as were men of hope, vsed to haue showes at his house, wherein he would
have his sonne an actor to embolden him.
[Footnote 91: Not Dean, but Chancellor. He was collated in 1547,
deprived during the reign of Queen Mary, but restored shortly after
the accession of Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1571. (Hardy's Le Neve,
ii. 651, 652.)]
He shewed me the sermon he made at Court last Good Fryday; his text was,
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" It was right eloquent and
full of sound doctrine, grave exhortacions, and heavenly meditacions.
_Vox horrentis_, forsaken; _Vox sperantis_, My God; _Vox admirantis_,
Why hast thou, &c. Mee! There was in Christ _Esse naturæ, Esse gratiæ,
Esse gloriæ_. God's presence 2^x [_duplex_?] by essence, by assistance;
dereliction, withdrawing, and retyring.
I returned to Bradborne.
Shee[92] would have sent a part of a gammen of bacon to the servants; my
cosen said he loued it well, &c.; and, because he wold not send that she
would, shee would not that he would, and grewe to strange hott
contradiction with him. After, when shee sawe him moued (and not without
cause) shee fell a kissing his hand at table, with an extreeme kinde of
flattery, but neuer confest shee was to violently opposite.
[Footnote 92: Evidently his cousin's wife.]
[Sidenote: fo. 39.
22 Aprill.]
The _fleur de luce_, as we call it, takes his name, I thinke, as _Fleur
de Lis_, which _Lis_ is a river in Flanders neere Artoys.
[Sidenote: 26.]
I came from my cosens to London.
[Sidenote: 27.]
Perpetuityes are so much impugned because they would be preiudiciall to
the Queenes proffit, which is raysed dayly from[93] fines and
recoueryes.
[Footnote 93: for in MS.]
One Parkins of the Inner house a very complementall gentleman; a
barrester but noe lawyer.
[Sidenote: 28.]
In the Star Chamber the benche on that part of the roome where the
Queenes armes are placed is alwayes vacant; noe man may sitt on it, as I
take it, because it is reserued as a seate for the Prince, and therefore
before the same are layed the purse and the mace as notes of autority.
* * * * *
[Sidenote: 30.]
Those which name such as they ought not, and such as they knowe to be
vnfitt, to be Sheriues of London, doe but goe a woll-gathering,
purposing to fleece such men. (_Cosen Onsloe._) And they goe a fishinge
for some 100_l._ or 2, as they nominated my cosen this yeare.
[Sidenote: fo. 39^b.
October, 1602.]
One Mr. Ousley of the Middle Temple, a yong gallant, but of a short
cutt, ouertaking a tall stately stalking caualier in the streetes, made
noe more a doe but slipt into an ironmongers shop, threwe of his cloke
and rapier, fitted himselfe with bells, and presently cam skipping,
whistling, and dauncing the morris about that long swaggerer, whoe,
staringly demaunding what he ment; "I cry you mercy," said the gent., "I
tooke you for a May pole." (_Ch. Da. nar._)
[Sidenote: 9.]
Sniges nose looked downe to see howe many of his teethe were lost, and
could neuer get up againe. (_Th. Ouerbury of Sniges crooked nose._)
Sir Frauncis Englefields house ouerthrowne by the practice of Mr.
Blundell of the Middle Temple, whoe, being put in speciall trust, tooke
a spleen vpon a small occasion against the heir, and presently in his
heate informed the Earl of Essex, that such a conveyaunce was made of
soe goodly an inheritaunce in defraud of the Queen, and soe animated him
to begg it, to the vtter ruine of that house. (_Mr. Curle nar._)
One told a jest, and added, that all good wittes applauded it; a way to
bring one to a dilemma, either of arrogance in arriding, as though he
had a good witt too, or of ignoraunce, as thoughe he could not conceiue
of it as well as others.
[Sidenote: fo. 40.
10 Oct. 1602.]
AT PAULES CROSSE.
Dr. Spenser[94] preached. He remembred in his prayer the Companie of the
Fishmongers, as his speciall benefactors while he lived in Oxford; his
text the 5 of Isay, v. 4.