66 all evil beasts. My humble motion is, that your Majesty would win him to you by pro"mises of fair treatment, or catch him by fome "ftratagem, and cut him off." After the King was beheaded, the Archbishop is faid to have spent his days in forrow, study, and devotion. He indeed only furvived his unfortunate Sovereign one year. The Archbishop was extremely attentive to the Cathedrals fucceffively committed to his care. By the kindness of PAUL PANTON, Esq. of the Island of Anglesey, the COMPILER is enabled to prefent the Public with Three Original Letters of this extraordinary perfon. The first two were written from St. John's College in Cambridge; and the other after he had loft the Great Seal, LETTER I. TO JOHN WYNNE, OF GUEDER, ESQ. IN My humble dutie remembred-I am righte heartilie forrie to fee you impute my you impute my turbulent " & paf " & paffionate Letter to ill nature, wch proceed. "ed only from fufpicious povertie, and a pre"fent feare of future undoinge, bredd and fof"tered by the fuggeftions of thofe, who either "knewe not what it was, or else would not im66 parte the beft counfaile. Well might your "Worfhippe have guefde my fault to have been ઃઃ noe blemish of nature, but fuch another as "that of foolish Euclio in Plautus, who fuf"pected Megadorus, though he had foe farre "againfte his eftate & reputation demeande "himfelfe as to be a fuytor for Euclio's daugh ter? "Nam fi opulentus it petitum pauperioris gratiam, "Pauper metuit congredi, per metum male rem gerit; "Idem quando illac occafio periit, poft fero cupit : "a faulte I have committed (for the wch I "mofte humblie crave pardonne, vowing heere before the face of God to doe you what re"compence & fatisfaction foever, how and when you will); but that faulte was not in writinge "unto you, for therein I proteste I do not "knowe that I have any way misdemened my"felfe, but it was in a certain fufpicion I con"ceived of your love towards me, caufed part"lye by your late letter, far more fharpe and "Jefs courteous than at other times, partly also " by "by the letters of others, who affured me that the money was not dewe any wayes to Thom ap Maurice. That my nature is not intem૬ perate, thofe that have ever knowne me doe "knowe, being dull and melancholicke in conftitution: neither could I ever heare that my "kindred was tainted with that uglie fpot. God "forbid that the least of these three caufes, your "greatness, my meanes, but especiallie your de "fertes towards me, might not be a fufficient ❝ motive to curbe the furie of my penne. I heere confefs (et mancat hæc non illa furore "fcripta litera) that now I am & always did ac, "count of myfelfe as one infinitely bound unto your Worship, especiallie for three things: "1. the perfwading of my Father to fende me "to Cambridge:-2. the writinge both to my Tutour as alfoe to others concerninge my "Scholarshippe and Fellowshippe:-3. the de"meaninge of your felfe foe belowe your eftate "as to meddle foe much with my poor portion, "These things are written in my hearte, what"foever frenzy writ in paper. My forrowe is farre the greater, because against my expect ❝ations you doe not forget to fend me fom money towards my Commencement, wch I "proteft I thought to have differred. Your fcoffes made me verie little, but that you "fhould "fhould befide my deferte and beyond my expectation fhewe me fuch a kind & tender "hearte, 66 "Obftrepui, fleteruntq. coma, & vox faucibus hæfit. "Three Petitions I in all humble dutie crave "at your Worships hands-if not for mine, yet "for my father and mothers fake.-First-that you would (if poffible you can) lett me have "that money in Easter Term wch you promife "in Trinity-secondly-that in your next Ire doe fende me that foolish letter of myne you " enclosed-that therein I might fee myne own "follies, wch els I cannot believe to have been "fo greate-thirdly-that if there be any "fuch follie committed, you will gentlie pardon it-affuringe yourself I will never fall into the "like againe. And thus with my humble dutie "I take my leave. ઈ LETTER II. TO THE SAME. "St. John's College, Cambridge, Aug. 18, 1611. "Whether you will be at that coste with your fon (Robert) or noe to make him Senior "Brother in Cambridge, beinge a Younger Bro"ther at home, yeat the very conceyte thereof "hath wroughte fuch miracles, as that there is "more fittinge uppe at nights, more ftudiinge " & gettinge up in morninges than either love. or feare could worke before, so that as St. "Austen speakes, there is felix error quo decipi"mur in melius. Befide his ordinarie charges "for apparaile & commencement, wch your "Wor: knows muft neceffariely be borne in 66 every Batchelor, he is befide to feaste the "Doctours and Maifters of Houses, wch will "come to fome 181. & to give the Father of "the Acte a Satten Suyte, or the value thereof; "who if it fhould prove to be myfelf, as is most likelye, that cofte may be fpared. I referre "it wholye to yr Worshippes difcretion to judge "if the creditt will countervaile the charges; "furelie it will be an honor unto him as long "as he continues in the Universitie, & to his "Brothers if they fhould followe him.-Your poor kinfman in all dutie." LET |