Chapter III: Part 3

3. Expedient it was that Christ should depart from them, howe good soeuer his presence was vnto them. Wee knowe that bread is the strength of mans hart, yet sometymes it may be expedient to fast: our bloud is the treasury of our lyfe, yet sometymes it is expedient to loose it; our eyesight is deare and precious vnto us, yet sometymes it is expedient to sitt in a darke roome. And here it is expedient that Christ should withdrawe his presence, not corporal onely, but his invisible presence of grace alsoe. 1. It is expedient that children which growe fond of their parentes should be weaned. The Apostles were to full of carnall and terrene cogitacions even after his resurrection; they asked him, Wilt thou restore the Kingdome to Israell? therefore nowe it was highe tyme they should put of childishnes and be taught, as Paule sayth that henceforth they knowe him no more in the fleshe; and this must be effect[ed] by withdrawing his corporall presence, which they began to dote upon; and for the taking away the presence of his grace, that was expedient alsoe. 1. Least being to full they should begin to loath it, as the Children of Israel did manna in the wildernes. And upon this reason did the prophet threaten a famine of the word when the people, being full, contemned it. 2. That they should not growe proud with abundaunce; the Psalmist sayth, "Yf I say I cannot be removed," and "It is good that I was in trouble, for before I went wronge." Peter was soe sure and confident upon himselfe, that yf all the world should haue forsaken Christ, he would not, and therefore because he stoode soe much vpon himselfe it was expedient that suche a swollen bladder should be prickt, as he was till he denied and forswore his master; And even this withdrawing of grace was a kind of grace, that seing his owne weaknes he might possesse his soule in humility, with[out] which there is noe grace to be expected. And therefore, _expedit superbo vt in peccatum incidat_. And to this purpose are these wordes of Paule that the messengers of Sathan, _i. e._ temptacions, were sent to punish him, least he should growe proud.

Christ is our advocate in defending vs when the Divel accuseth vs falsely; he is our intercessor and mediator by pleading a pardon for vs when Sathen layes his greatest and truest accusations against us; he is our high priest to offer sacrifice for vs.

Christ left them not as orphanes, but sent another unto them whoe was equall with himselfe, otherwise they should have loss by the change.

[Sidenote: 23 May, 1602.

fo. 24.]

The Holy Ghost hath diuers offices and soe diuers effects: he enlightens the understandinge, and soe is called the Spirit of truth: he certifies the will, and soe is named the Spirit of Holines: he delivers from the bondage of Sathan, and soe is the Spirit of comfort, which is the cheife and very consummacion of all. The Holy Ghost is not given to all in the same measure, nor the same manner. When Christ breathed vpon his disciples they received the Holy Ghost; and, when the Holy Ghost came like fyrey tongues, they were filled with him: breath was warme, but fyre is hotter: there was heate in both, but not equally. Elias prayed that the Spirit of [Elijah] might be doubled upon him.

The gifts of the Holy Ghost are obteyned and perfected divers wayes; vnderstanding and fayth by the word which is the truthe; holynes of lyfe, by prayer, meditation, and good workes; consolation by receiving the sacraments.

[Sidenote: 7 Junij, 1602.

fo. 24^b.]

A lewde fellowe coming before Sir W. Rawley to be examined concerninge some wrecke which he had gotten into his handes, and being demaunded whether he would sweare to such articles as they would propound, answerd that he would sweare to anie thinge they would aske him, and then being admonished he should not be soe rashe in soe serious a matter as concerned his soule soe nearely, "Fayth," said he, "I had rather trust God with my soule, then you with my goods." (_Ch. Da._)

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[Sidenote: Junii 16^o, 1602.

fo. 25.]

AT PAULE'S CROSSE.

Mr. Barker; his text Luke ix. and the last verse, "Noe man that putteth his hand to the plough and looketh back is apt to the Kingdome of God."

The fyre from Heaven which consumed the sacrifices in the old lawe was preserved by continuall addicion of fuell, soe the heauenly virtue of Chrystian charitie being kindled in the hart of man, must be preserved by continuall meditacions on the word of God. Yf any should aske why it was commaunded in Leviticus that the people should offer _primitias_ and in Exodus that they should alsoe give _decimas_, I should make no other answer, but that wee should not onely remember our Creator in the days of our youth, but alsoe serue him in holines and righteousnes all the dayes of our lyfe.

_Aliud est incepisse, aliud perfecisse._

Some in their liues, like the image in Nebuchadnethers dreame, Dan. ii., goodly beginninges, but earthie endings.

The Diuel laboureth most against our perseveraunce because that virtue onely hath a promise of coronacion.

There be but seven steps in the ladder that leades downe to hell, and the lowest, saving desperacion, is a custom of synning.

[Sidenote: 6 Junii, 1602.

fo. 25^b.]

These combined discommodities ensue the custome of synning; _fit diabolus ad oppugnandum audacior, anima ad peccandum promptior, Deus ad condonandum difficilior._ This virtue of Christian magnanimity or perseveraunce consisteth in _patiendo et faciendo_: in _patiendo_, 2^o, in _ferendo et perferendo_; _faciendo_, by continuance in preaching fayth, and in good lyfe.

Christ compared Christian profession to a plough. And why, 1. to soe base a thing, 2. to soe laborious a thing, 3. to that onely? 1. That none howe base soever by condicion or profession should despayre of attayning Heaven; and meane thinges may be compared with the greatest. Christ sayth the Kingdom of Heaven is like a litle leaven, and to a smaller thing then that, it is like a grayne of mustard seede; and here to a plough, that none might despayre. Simon a tanner, Peter a fisher, Paul a tent-maker, Joseph a carpenter.

Some great ones, Theophilus. Some ladyes, in the Acts. Some customers, and some from the beggars, as Lazarus. And yet, that rich men might not contemne it for the baseness, he compares it to a riche jewell, a precious stone, &c.

2. The place of the preacher is a calling of great paynes and trauaile. He selected and spake of the Archbishop of Canterbury as the sunne amongst the ministers, and the old Deane of Paules[64] compared to the moone. And Dr. Overall, the newe deane, to the newe moone, gravity and learning and life; the ministers to starrs.

[Footnote 64: Dr. Alexander Nowell, died 13th Feb. 1601-2; Dr. John
Overall was elected 29th May 1602. (Hardy's Le Neve, ii. 315.)]

[Sidenote: Junij 9, 1602.

fo. 26.]

MARTI, lib. 10, Epig. 47.[65]

I take noe care to gett, my wealth was left me,
I reape the harvest of what'ere I sowe,
I stur not muche abroade, home best befits me,
I ne're received wronge, nor none I owe.
I travaile not in publique busines,
Nor ought's within my charge but myne owne soule,
My body's healthfull, fitt for exercise,
Myselfe enioys myselfe without controule.
I have a harmeles thought, an æqual friend,
My clothes are easy, and my face wants art,
I greive not when I rest, nor doe I spend
More tyme in sleepe then nature can impart.
I cast the worlde behinde, Heauen is my guide,
I would be what I am, and nought beside;
But above all, [and] which is all and summe,
I neither wishe nor feare the day to come.

TH. SM.

[Footnote 65: This epigram was a great favourite with our
forefathers, and consequently there are many translations of it.
Mr. Collier, in his Bibliographical Account of Early English
Literature (i. 223), gives two examples, one by D. T. an author
whose name is not yet discovered, and the other by Ben Jonson,
printed from his own MS. at Dulwich. We have not been able to
identify TH. SM. with any certainty.]

[Sidenote: June, 1602.

fo. 26^b.]

_Arbella Stuarta: tu rara es et bella.
Henricus Burbonius: rex bonus orbi._

[Sidenote: 12.]

Common preachers worse then common swearers, for these doe abuse but Gods name, but they abuse Gods worde. (_Curle._)

[Sidenote: 15.]

Upon a tyme when the late Lord Treasurer, Sir William Cecile, came before Justice Dyer[66] in the Common Place with his rapier by his side, the Justice told him that he must lay aside his long penknife yf he would come into that Court; this speache was free, and the sharper, because Sir William was then Secretary. (_Bradman._)

[Footnote 66: Sir James Dyer, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from
1559 to 1582. He was of the Middle Temple, the Inn of Court to which
our Diarist belonged. (Foss's Judges, v. 480.)]

There is nowe a table placed for the barresters crosse over the hall by the cuppord, which one called St. Albanes, because he said it was in the waye to Duns-table.

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[Sidenote: 16.]

"Roome! Roome!" said one, "Here comes a woman with a cupbord on hir head;" of one that had sold hir cupboard to buy a taffaty hat. (_Franklin._)

[Sidenote: 16 June, 1602.

fo. 27.]

Kentish tayles are nowe turned to such spectacles, soe that yf a man put them on his nose he shall haue all the land he can see. (_Idem._)

[Sidenote: 22.]

Sergeant Heale, since he became the Queens Sergeant, came to the Lord Keeper,[67] desyring that he would heareafter give him more gratious hearinge; otherwise, his clients already beginning to fall from him, he would nowe betake himself to his ease in the country, and leave this troublesome kinde of lyfe. The Lord Keeper made him noe other answere but said, yf that were his resolucion he doubted[68] not but the blessing of Issakar would light upon him. (_Mr. Bennet narr._) _Vide_ Gen. xlix. 14: "Issachar shall be a stronge asse couching downe betweene two burdens; and he shall see that rest is good; and that the land is pleasaunt, and he shall bowe his shoulders to beare, and he shalbe subiect unto tribute."

[Footnote 67: Egerton, Lord Keeper from 1594 to 1603. Sergeant Hele
was one of the legal butts of the time. (See Foss's Judges, vi. 141;
Egerton Papers, pp. 315, 391, 399.)]

[Footnote 68: doubt it, MS.]

[Sidenote: June 20, 1602.

fo. 27^b.]

AT PAULES, ONE OF BALIOL COLLEDGE IN OXFORD.

His text iii. Jonah, 4 et 5. "Yet forty dayes and Niniuy shall be destroyed. 5. So the people of Nineueh beleeued God," &c. He diuided his text into Jonahs sermon to the people of Nineueh, and the peoples repentaunce at the sermon; the former consists of mercy, "yett fourty dayes," and justice, "and Nineueh shall be destroyed;" Gods patience and his iudgment. He might have sayd, as the prophet David sayd, "My song shall be of mercy and iudgment."

Four things in the effect of the Sermon; fayth in beleuing God, and that was not fruitles. 2. fasting, and that was not frivolous. 3. their attyre, that was not costly, but sack cloth. 4. their number, that was not small, from the greatest to the lowest. As Noah's doue came from the floud with an oliue braunch in the mouth, soe this heauenly dove (for soe Jonah signifieth) came from the waters of the sea with a sermon of mercy in his cry, "Yett fourty dayes."

God is pitifull; it was Christ's commaundement to his Apostles that they should say "Peace be vnto you" when they entred into anie house.

[Sidenote: 20 June, 1602.

fo. 28.]

Noted by Jonahs crying in the middest of such a city, that the preachers must not be timerous to tell anie of their faults, nor feare the person of anie man. Yet he reprehended those which are to sharpe reprehenders without circumstaunce. Such as Bernard calleth _non correptores, sed corrosores_, such may be termed _bilis et salsugo_, like the people of India which are said to barke instead of speakinge; _canis et tuba vitiorum._ But, as he misliked those sharpe biters, soe must he needes speake against such preachers as flatter greate men, and sowe cushions under their elbowes. They are like Heliotropium, which turnes the flower with the sunne, though a cloud be interposed, soe they follow greatnes though clouded with synn; like the riuer Jordan, turnes and windes euery way; speake nothing but silken wordes; at last the[y] become _serui multitudinis_; say anie thing to please the people.

Nineveh, as St. Augustine in his booke _De Civitate Dei_, signifieth not the citie but the synns of the people; and soe the prophecy verryfied, for that synn was destroyed by their repentaunce within 40 dayes. But he rather inclined to expound it by way of an implyed condicion, that they should be overthrowen vnles they repented; soe was that prophecy of Isah understoode to Hezekiah, Isaiah xxxviii. "Thou shalt dy and not live."

God is slowe in punishing, yet _tarditas poenæ gravitate pensatur_.

Gratious and righteous is the Lord in sparing and punishing.

The synne of Nineveh was Idolatry.

[Sidenote: 20 June, 1601.[69]

fo. 28^b.]

[Footnote 69: There is a chronological confusion, either of the
writer or the bookbinder, in this and subsequent entries. Having in
vain endeavoured to unravel it, we have thought it better to follow
the manuscript as it stands.]

DR. BUCKRIDGE,[70] AT THE TEMPLE CHURCHE.

[Footnote 70: Subsequently President of St. John's, Oxford, and
occupant in succession of several episcopal sees. He died Bishop of
Ely in 1631.]

Compared the lawe of nature to the night, reason to the starres, the written lawe to the morning or dawning of the day, and the lawe of grace to the sunnshine of the day; the first to the blade, the second to the eare, the third to the seede of corne.

Synn must be like an hedge of thornes sett about, not within, our garden to keepe us in goodnes. In tymes past men were afeard[71] to committ synn, but ready to make confession; nowe the world is changed, for nowe every one dares comitt anie synne, but is ashamed to make confession.

[Footnote 71: "ashamed" is interlined in the MS. above "afeard."]

[Sidenote: 25 June, 1602.

fo. 29.]

Mr. Foster of Lyncolnes Inn told these jeastes of Sir Thomas Moore as we went to Westminster. One which had bin a familiar acquaintaunce of Sir Th. Moores in his meaner fortunes, came to visit him when he was in the height of his prosperitie. Sir Th. amongst other parts of entertaynement shewed him a gallery which he had furnished with good variety of excellent pictures, and desyred his frendes iudgment which he liked best; but he making difficulty to prefer anie Sir Tho. shewed him the picture of a deathes head with the word _Memento morieris_, which he commended as most excellent for the deuise and conceit. The gent. being desyrous to knowe what he conceiued extraordinary in soe common a sentence, he told him, "Sir, you remember sometymes you borrowed some monie of me, but I cannot remember that you have remembred to repaye it: it is not much, and though I be chauncellor I have vse for as little, and nowe me thinkes this picture speakes vnto you _Memento Mori æris_, remember to pay Moore his money."

After he was deprived of his place and dignity, whereas his gentlemen were wont after he was gone forth of church to signifie to their lady that his lordship was gone before, himselfe upon a Sunday came from his seate when prayer was ended, opened his ladyes pue dore, saying, "Madame, his lordship is gone before" (alluding to the losse of his place); and then, "Come wife, nowe wee may goe togither and talke."

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[Sidenote: 13 March, 1601.

fo. 29^b.]

Mr. Watts and Mr. Danvers had fiery wordes.

Commonly those which speake most against Tullie are like a dog which comming into a roome where he espies a shoulder of mutton lying upon some high place, fells to barking at it, because he cannot reache it. (_Watts._)

Vpon a tyme when Burbidge played Richard III. there was a citizen grone soe farr in liking with him, that before shee went from the play shee appointed him to come that night vnto hir by the name of Richard the Third. Shakespeare ouerhearing their conclusion went before, was intertained and at his game ere Burbidge came. Then message being brought that Richard the Third was at the dore, Shakespeare caused returne to be made that William the Conqueror was before Richard the Third. Shakespeare's name William. (_Mr. Touse?_)

[Sidenote: 14.]

Mr. Fleetewood the Recorder[72] sitting in judgment when a prisoner was to have his clergy and could not read, he saued him with this ieast, "What, will not that obstinat knave reade indeede? Goe take him away and whip him." (_Mr. Bramstone.[73]_)

[Footnote 72: Fleetwood, like the Diarist, was of the Middle Temple.
Many of his curious letters were published by Sir Henry Ellis (Orig.
Letters, 1st Ser. vol. ii.)]

[Footnote 73: The Lord Chief Justice from 1685 to 1642, whose
Autobiography was published by the Camden Society.]

He imprisoned one for saying he had supt as well as the Lord Maior, when he had nothing but bread and cheese.

[Sidenote: fo. 30.

2 Marche, 1601.]

This day there was a great Court of Merchant Adventurers; two were sent from the Counsell to sitt and see their proceedings at their Courtes, and to make relacion. At this Court two questions were moved. 1. Whether their Companie were able to vent all the clothes made in England yf they might choose their place in the Lowe Countries, and be ayded by hir Majestie for the execution of their orders? Resolved that they are able. 2. Whether they can continue a Companie to trade yf the Earle of Cumberlandes licence take effect, whereby he hath liberty to ship over what cloth he pleaseth, contrary to hir Majesties patents and graunts to the merchaunts? Resolved by handes that they cannot. (_Mr. Hull nar._)

Their Courts consist of one Gouernor, one Deputy, a Secretary, and these sitt at a table raysed a little, and 24 Assistants sitt about; the autority of these continues but six moneths; these speake, heare, and iudge of other mens speaches in Court. The greater part of the present at any Court carries the iudgment. (_Idem._)

[Sidenote: fo. 30^b.

3 May, 1602.]

Mr. Touse told that in the last cirquit into Yorkeshire the Vice President of Yorke would have had the upper hand of Justice Yeluerton, but he would not yeld. (_Mr. Touse._)

Long since, when Justice Manwood[74] roode Somersetshire circuit with Lorde Anderson, there happened a great quarrell between the Lord Sturton and Sir Jo. Clifton, in which affray the Lord Anderson himselfe, onely with his cap in his hand, tooke a sword from a very lustie tall fellowe. Of such a courage is Anderson. (_Idem._)

[Footnote 74: Sir Roger Manwood was a Justice of the Common Pleas
1572 to 1578, and Lord Chief Baron from 1578 to 1593. Sir Edmund
Anderson was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1582 to
1603. (Foss's Judges, v. 516; vi. 51.)]

My chamberfellow[75] told me of Mr. Long's opposition against him, and howe he had ouermatcht him; told me of his owne preferment to Sir Robert Cecile by the Lord Cheif Baron Periams and Lord Cheif Justice Pophams meanes, almost without his owne suite. By Sir Roberts fauour he obtayned the cancelling of an obligacion wherein his father[76] stoode bound to Auditor Tucke not to vse that office or receive the profits for a certaine tyme.

[Footnote 75: Edward Curle, who is so frequently mentioned in other
parts of the Diary. At this time he was keeping his terms in the
Middle Temple preparatory to being called to the bar. He had been
admitted of the Inn, _specialiter_, on the 29th Nov. 1594. The
Diarist subsequently married Curle's sister Anne.]

[Footnote 76: William Curle of Hatfield, one of the Auditors of the
Court of Wards.]

[Sidenote: 4.]

Those which presume upon repentaunce at the last gaspe by [the] theeves example on the crosse, doe as yf a man should spurr his horse till he speake because wee reade that Balams asse did soe when his maister beate him.

This day Serjeant Harris was retayned for the plaintife, and he argued for the defendant; soe negligent that he knowes not for whom he speakes.

Soe many accions of _Quare impedit_ in the Common Place, that it were 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."

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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.

[Footnote 94: Dr. John Spenser, fellow-student with Hooker at Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, and president of that college from 1607 to
1614. Wood states (Ath. Oxon. ii. 145) that he was "a noted preacher
and a chaplain to King James I." It was to him that upon Hooker's
death his MSS. were delivered over for completion of the
Ecclesiastical Polity. The sermon of which Manningham took such
copious notes was printed in 1615, after Dr. Spenser's death, under
the editorship of Hamlet Marshall, his curate. The author of the
Christian Year speaks of it as "full of eloquence and striking
thoughts; the theological matter almost entirely, and sometimes the
very wordes, being taken from those parts of Hooker in which he
treats of the visible church." (Hooker's Works, ed. Keble, i.
xxiii.)]

We are soe blind and peruerse by nature, that wee are soe farre from the sence of our owne imperfections and the terror of our synn, that either not seing or not acknowledging our owne weaknesses, wee runne headlong into all wickednes, and hate soe much to be reformed, that God is fayne to deale pollitikely with vs, propounding our state vnto vs in parables, as it were an others case, that thereby drawing man from conceit of himselfe, which would make him partiall, he might draw an uncorrupt iudgment of him self from him selfe. Soe dealt the Lord with David by the parable of the poore mans sheepe, and soe here he taketh up a comparison of the vine, to shewe Israell their ingratitude.

Parables are proportionable resemblances of things not well understoode; they be vayles indeed, which couer things, but being remoued give a kinde of light to them which before was insensible, and makes them seeme as though they were sensible.

The things considerable in the text are, first, The churche, resembled by the vine. 2. Gods benefits towards the Churche expressed in the manner of his dressing the vine. 3. The fruit expected, grapes, iudgment and righteousnes. 4. The fayling and ingratitude, by bringing forth sower and wylde grapes; oppression and crying. 5. God's judgment, vers. 6.

[Sidenote: fo. 40^b.]

In the Church he considered, what it is, and where it is.

The Churche is compared most aptly to the vyne, for neither of them spring naturally. _Non sumus de carne, nec voluntate hominis, sed bene-placito Dei._ 2. Both spring, and growe, first in weakenes, yet then they claspe their little hands and take hold on of an other, and soe going on _crescunt sine modo_, the increase without measure, as Pliny sayth. 3. Noe plant more flourishing in the summer, none more poore and bare[95] in winter. All followe the Church in prosperitie, and the rich, the mighty, the wise, in persequution fall away like leaves. 4. Bring forth fruit in clusters, which cheres the hart. God and men and angels reioyce when the Church aboundes in workes of righteousnes and true holines. 5. Both have but one roote, though manie branches; Christ is the true foundacion, other then this can no man lay. 6. The branches are ingrafted, and as in planting all are tyed alike with the outward bond, yet all proue not alike, soe all haue the same profession and outward meanes, yet all growe not nor fructifie alike: but it is the inward grace that maketh the true branche; as he is a Jewe that is one within. Rom. ii. 28, 29.

[Footnote 95: "here Naked" in interlined in the MS. as another
reading.]

[Sidenote: fo. 41.]

2. The Lord's vineyard is not to be knowne by the fruit (for we reade here that it bringeth forth wyld grapes), but where the roote is planted, where Christ is professed, there the Church is; it is nowe universall, not yed to anie place; we reade of 7 Churches in the Reuelacions, though all not alike pure, yet all churches: Israell is his eldest sonne, though a prodigall: as betwixt man and woman after a publique contract celebrated, though the woman play the harlot and bring forth children of fornicacion unto hir husband, yet continues shee his wife whose name shee beares vntill a publique divorce be sued. Some churches are soare, some sicke, some soe leprous that noe communion ought to [be] continued with them, yet churches still. Yf anie aske, as manie papists use to doe, where our church was before Martin Luther was borne, we aunswer that it is the same churche that was from the beginninge, and noe newe on as they terme it, for the weeding of a vyneyard is noe destroyinge, nor the pruning any planting; for we have remoued but idolatrie and a privat masse of ceremonies, which with the burying the author[?] of life in a hidden and unknowne language had almost put the heavenly light out of our candlesticke; and when the trashe of humaine inventions had raysed themselues to soe high esteeme, it was tyme to say, "Yf Ephraim play the harlot, yet lett not Israell synn."

[Sidenote: fo. 41^b.]

Jerusalem litterally is the mother Churche of all.

The Churche, like the vine that hath many branches but one roote, may haue severall members, but all knit together with the vnity of three bonds--one Lord, one fayth, one baptisme. But nowe Rome, usurping over his fellowes, speakes like Babilon in the 18 Reuel. "I cannot erre," and have encroched an article vpon the Creede, that must be beeleeved upon payne of damnation, that there is one visible heade of the Churche (which must be the Pope). And yet in an oecumenical Counsell of 330 Catholike Bishops it was decreed that Constantinople should have equall authority with Rome; which plainely confuted their usurped universall supremacy. Yet the Popes, by the assistaunce of the Emperours, haue, like ivy, risen higher then the oke by which it climed: soe much that our countriman Stapleton doubts not to call his Holines _Supremum in terris numen_.

3. The benefites and manner of dressing the vine: Genesis is but the nurse of it; Exodus, the removing; Leviticus, the ordering and manner of keeping it; Josua, the weeding, &c. God soe loued it that he gave his onely Sonne to redeeme it, and when he gave him, what gave he not with him?

Might not the Church use the wordes of the leeper in the Ghospell: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane;" and why then complaynest thou?

[Sidenote: fo. 42.]

True it is, yf we consider his power: for he that is able to rayse vp children to Abraham of stones, to make the iron sweate, &c. can purifie our corruptions yf wee regard his power, and that without our meanes; but God hath tyed himself to ordinary meanes, by his eternall decree: and he that will not heare Moses and the prophets neither will he beleeve though one should rise from the dead. Many were foule with the leprosie in Nathans [Elishas?] tyme, yet none cured but Naman.

4. The fruit. All things, euen the meanest, imitate the Creator in doing something in their kind for the common good, not themselves alone; the olive doth not anoint itself with its owne oyle; the trees and plants which spend themselues in bringing forth some fruit or berry holds it noe longer then till it be ripe, and then letts it fall at his masters feete; the grape is not made drunke with its owne iuyce.

"He that receiveth a benefit hath lost his liberty," saith Seneca; and, since we have received such benefits of God as we can not, we would not renounce, lett us glorifie him in our bodies whose we are, not our owne.