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"conveyed to the Tower in a wherry-boat, I "think with only two men. King James was "wont to fay, that he was a coward to be fo "taken and conveyed, when he might easily have "made his escape from fo flight a guard.

"He there, befides his compiling his History "of the World, ftudied chymistry. I heard my "cofen Whitney fay, that he saw him in the "Tower. He had a velvet cap laced, a rich « gowne, and trunk-hose.

"At the end of his Hiftory of the Worlde, "Sir W. laments the death of the noble and most

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hopeful Prince Henry, whofe great favourite «he was, and who (had he furvived his father) "would have quickly enlarged him with re"wardes of honour. He ends his Firft Part of

his Hiftory of the World with a gallant

euloge of him, and concludes: Verfa eft in "luЯlum Cithara mea & cantus meus in vocem flen"tium." He had an apparatus for the Second "Part, which he in difcontent burnt, and faid, "If I am not worthy of the world, the world is "not worthy of my works.

"This booke fold verie flowlie at first, and the bookfeller complayned of it, and d him, that he should be a "loser by it, which put Sir W. in a paffion. He faid, that "fince the world did not understand it, they should not have his Second Part, which he took before his face and threw "into the fire, and burnt it."—Mr. Aubrey. ·

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"Old Sir Thomas Malett, one of the Justices "of the King's Bench temp. Car. I. and II. knew "Sir W.; and I have heard him fay, that not"withstanding his fo great mastership in style, " and his converfation with the learnedest and politeft perfons, yet he spoke broad Devonshire "to his dying day. His voice was small.

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"He was fcandalized with atheifm: he was a "bold man, and would venture at difcourfe which was unpleasant to the Churchmen. In his fpeech on the scaffold (I heard my cofen Whitney fay, and I thinke 'tis printed) that he fpake not of Chrift, but of that great and incomprehenfible God, with much zeale and adoration, fo that he concluded he was an "Achrift, but not an Atheist. He tooke a pipe " of tobacco a little before he went to the scaf

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fold, which fome formal perfons were scanda"lized at (but I thinke 'twas well and properly "donne to settle his fpirits). The time of his "execution was contrived to be on my Lord

Mayor's Day, 1618, (the day after Saint Simon "and St. Jude,) that the pageants and fine "fhows might avocate and draw away the people "from beholding the tragedie of the gallanteft "worthie that England ever bred.”—Aubrey's MS.

"A fcaffold," fays Sir Richard Baker, in his Chronicle, "was erected in the Old Palace Yard, upon which, after fourteen years reprievement,

"Sir Walter Raleigh's head was cut off. At " which time fuch abundance of blood iffued "from the veins, that fhewed he had a stock of "nature enough left to have continued him many years in life (though now above threefcore years

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old) if it had not been taken away by the hand of violence. And this was the end of the great "Sir W. Raleigh; great fometimes in the favour " of Queen Elizabeth, and next to Sir F. Drake "the great scourge and hate of the Spaniards; "who had many things to be commended in his life, but none more than his conftancy at his

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death, which he took with fo undaunted a re"folution that one might perceive he had a cer"tain expectation of a better life after it, fo far "was he from holding those atheistical opinions, "an aspersion whereof some perfons had cast upon

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The following lines were written by Sir Walter the night before his execution:

Even fuch is Time, that takes on trust
Our youth, our joyes, our all we have,

And pays us but with age and duft;

Who in the dark and filent grave
(When we have wander'd all our ways)
Shuts up the story of our days.

But from this earth, this grave, this duft,
My God fhall raise me up, I trust.

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LAUNCELOT ANDREWES,

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

"Was a Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge (then called Collegium Epifcop.) for that " in one time in those days there were feven of "that House. The Puritan faction did begin "to emerge in those days, and especially at Em"manuel College: they had a great mind to "draw in to them this learned young man; who (if they could make strong) they knew would "be a great honour to them. They carried "themselves antiently with great feverity and "ftrictness. They preached up the strict keep

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ing and obferving of the Lord's-Day, made it "damnation to break it, and that 'twas leffe fin " to kill a man. Yet these hypocrites did bowl "in a private Green at other Colleges, every Sunday after fermon. And one at the College (a

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loving friend to Mr. Andrewes,) to fatisfy him, "lent him one day the key of the private back"door to the Bowling-Green, where he difco"vered these zealous Preachers with their gownes "off carneft at play; but they were ftrangely furprized to see the entry of one who was not "of the brotherhood.

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"There was then at Cambridge a good fatt "Alderman that was wont to fleep at church,

" which the Alderman endeavoured to prevent, " but could not. Well, this was preached against "as a mark of reprobation. The good man was "exceedingly troubled at it, and went to Mr. "Andrewes's chamber to be satisfied in point of "confcience. Mr. Andrewes told him, it was "an ill habit of body, not of mind, and advised "him on Sundays to make a sparing meal at

dinner, and to make it up at fupper. The Al"derman did fo, but fleepe comes upon him

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againe for all that, and he was preached against. "He comes again to Mr. Andrewes with tears "in his eyes to be refolved; who then told him "that he would have him make a full hearty meale " as he was used to do, and presently after take "out his full fleep. The Alderman followed his "advice, and came to St. Marie's church the " 7 Sunday afterwards, where the Preacher was "provided with a fermon to damn all those who

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flept at that godly exercife, as a mark of repro"bation. The good Alderman, having taken "Mr. Andrewes's advice, looks at the Preacher

all the fermon-time, and fpoiled his design. "Mr. Andrewes was extremely spoken and "preached against for offering to affoyle or ex"cuse a sleeper in fermon-time. But he had learning and witt enough to defend himself."Aubrey's MS. Notes.

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