The Bard himself, from his Elyfian bowers,
Contemplating thy pencil's magic powers,

Well pleas'd, shall see his fame extend with thine,
And gladly hail thee, as himself, divine.

S.

ARCHBISHOP USHER

faw the execution of Charles the First from the Countess of Peterborough's house near Whitehall: he fwooned away, and, being carried to his bed, is faid to have prophefied what happened in England ever since.

Oliver Cromwell, out of an humble re"spect to the memory of fo learned and pious "a champion of the Proteftant caufe as this "learned Prelate, iffued an order to the Com"miffioners of the Treasury for two hundred "pounds, to defray the expences of his "funeral."-From a MS. Letter in the Bodleian

Library.

HENRY MARTIN, ESQ.

(Commonly called HARRY MARTIN,)

faid, during the Civil War between Charles the
First and his Parliament, " If his Majefty were
"If
"to take advice of his gunfmiths and of his
"powder-men, he would never have Peace."

When he drew up the Remonftrance of the Parliament, in which it is called a Commonwealth, he said in one part of it," restored to

its ancient Government of Commonwealth." Sir Henry Vane ftood up and reprimanded him, and wondered at his impudence in affirming fuch a notorious lie. He made the motion to call those persons to account, and to turn them out of the House of Commons as enemies to their country and betrayers of the Commonwealth of England, who addreffed Richard Cromwell, and promised to stand by him with their lives and fortunes.

This decided Republican gave the completest testimony that ever was given to the excellence of the character of Charles the First, when he faid, in the debate upon King or no King, in 1649, after the execution of Charles, that "if they must have a King, he had rather "have the laft than any Gentleman in Eng"land."

"This viper," fays Wood in his Athenæ, " which had been fostered in the bofom of Par"liament, was against the Parliament itself, and "against all Magiftrates, like a second Wat "Tyler, all Pen and Inkhorn Men must down. "This his levelling doctrine is contained in "a Pamphlet, called England's Troubles "Troubled,' wherein all rich men whatsoever

are declared enemies to the mean men of Eng“land, and in effect war denounced against them. "Befides all this, he being a Colonel, plundered "fo much wherever he came, that he was com"monly called the Plunder Master General

*

"Soon after the Restoration, after one or two "removes from prison to prison, he was fent to

Chepstowe Castle in Monmouthshire, where "he continued another twenty years, not in "wantonnefs, riotoufnefs, and villainy, but in "confinement, and repentance if he had pleased. "Some time before he died he made this Epitaph "by way of Acroftic on himself:

"Here or elsewhere (all's one to you or me),
"Earth, aire, or water gripes my ghostless duft,
"None knowing when brave fire shall set it free.
"Reader, if you an oft tried rule will truft,
"You'll gladly doe and suffer what you must.

Abbé Sieyes was asked, when he thought the Revolution in France would end: he replied, in a verfe of the Magnificat, "When the Hungry are filled with good things, and the "Rich are fent empty away."

"My

and

you,

My life was worn with ferving you "And death's my pay it feems, and wellcome too, "Revenge destroying but itself, while I "To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly.

Examples preach to the eye, care (then mine fays) "Not how you end, but how you spend your days.” Aged 78.

Athen. Oxon. Vol. ii. page 494 & 495.

"Henry Martin," adds Wood, " became a "Gentleman Commoner of Univerfity College,

Oxon, at the age of 15 years, in 1617, where "and in public giving a manifeftation of his preg"nant parts, he had the degree of Batchelor of "Arts conferred upon him in the latter end of " 1619."

He was a striking inftance of the truth of Roger Afcham's obfervation: "Commonlie," fays he, "men very quick of wit, be very light "of conditions. In youth they be readie scof"fers, privie mockers, and ever over-light and "merrie. In age they are teftie, very waspish, "and alwaies over miferable: and yet few of "them come to any great age, by reafon of their "miferable life when young; but a greate deal "fewer of them come to fhew any great counte"nance, or beare any great authority abroade "in the world, but either live obfcurely men "wot not how, or dye obfcurely men mark not "when."

THOMAS HOBBES

ufed to fay, that evil Government was like a tempeft, which may throw down a tree, here and there a fruitful tree; but Civil War, or Anarchy, like a deluge, would fweep all away before them.

"The Papacy," faid he, " is the Ghost of "the deceased Roman Empire, fitting crowned cc upon the grave. It is a fhuttle-cock kept up by the difference between Princes.

"Ambitious men wade through the blood of "other perfons to their own power.

"Words are the counters of wife men, they "do but reckon by them; but they are the "money of fools, that value them by the au

thority of Cicero, Ariftotle, and Thomas Aquinas."

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.