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and therefore did not only intreate his Majeftie to caufe his Officers of the Navy to build him a Ship, called the Prince, (then the fairest of this Isle) but also to advance the Affaires of the Navy, to his Power, now and then got Leave of his Majeftie to goe in Perfon to view the Ships, and Storehoufes, which divers Times he did. Not content herewith, he did alfo practise Tilting, Charging on Horsebacke with Pistols, after the Manner of the Wars, with all other the like Inventions. Now alfo delighting to conferre, both with his owne, and other Strangers, and great Captaines, of all Manner of Wars, Battailes, Furniture, Armes by Sea and Land, Difciplines, Orders, Marches, Alarmes, Watches, Stratagems, Ambufcadoes, Approaches, Scalings, Fortifications, Incampings, and having now and then Battailes of Headmen appointed both on Horfe and Foot, in a long Table; whereby he might in a Manner view the right Ordering of a Battaile, how every Troope did aide and affift another, as alfo the placing of the Light Horsemen, Vauntguard, Maine Battaile, with the affifting Wings, and Rerewards, &c. which are out of my Element to fpeake of. Neither did he omit, as he loved the Theoricke of thefe Things, to practife the fame, entertaining in his Houfe a Dutch Captaine, fent unto him by his Excellence (Grave Maurice) a moft excellent Engineer, in all Manner of Things belonging to the Wars; caufing alfo, from Time to Time, new Pieces of Ordnance to be made, learning to shoot, and levell them right to the White: No leffe provident was he to have great Horfes, and thofe of the best, which were fent unto him from all Countryes; fo that I may truely affirme, no Prince in Chriftendome did exceed him therein. Thus in the fe, and other worldly Pleafures, which stoope for Acquaintance unto Greatneffe, did he fpend the Yeares past.

In the 19. Yeare of his Age, whether by his continuall Toile of Body, and Minde, or fome internall unknowne Caufes (I know not) where before he was of fomewhat a full round Face, and very pleasant Difpofition, his Vifage began to appeare fomewhat paler, longer and thinner than before, he himfelfe being alfo more fad and retired than ufuall, yet without any Complaint of him, or Jealoufie of his Followers, fave that fome halfe a Yeare after, he would now and then complaine of a fmall Kinde of giddy, lumpifh Heavi neffe in his Forehead; the Paine whereof moved him (as I thinke) for the most Part, ever before he would put on his Hat, to ftroke up with his Hand his Brow and Forehead; he did also use to bleed at the Nofe often, and in great Quantitie, wherein he found great Eafe, untill a little before his Sickneffe, (the Paffages being stopped) this Helpe, to his further Griefe, left him; he was now fubject to many ftrong and extraordinary Qualmes, fo that for Danger and Celerity they were forced many Times to fetch him againe with strong Waters, which being onely by Intermiffion now and then, were let paffe as they came, without any Sufpition of fo fuddaine Sorrowes,

Much about the Beginning of this Summer, there could almost be no Newes heard, but of his Sifter's Marriage, of which many Speeches went currant, according to the divers Affections of Proteftants and Papifts; fome wifhing her to be married to the King of Spaine, fome to the Prince of Savoy, VOL, I. Mmm fome

fome to the young Landfgrave, and fome to his Highnelle the Palgrave her now Husband. But he following the Streame of his Father's well fetled Affections, for Great-Britaine's eternall Felicity, and Terrour of all Papists, did onely fancy the Palgrave's Motion, fhortly after advancing the fame by all Meanes poffible at the Comming of the Right Honourable the Count Hannaw: the Palgrave's great Ambaffadour, whofe Errand as the Speech went, was to knit up this Match, unto whofe Suite his Highneffe did not onely give Way, and fecond the Bufineffe, but alfo in Signe of Love, entertaine, and countenance the faid Count (next unto his Majefty) more than any, never refting untill all was agreed (as Thankes be to God) it is now finished.

Matters now being at Reft, the Duke of Bovillon, and Count Hannaw having returned home againe, his Highneffe removed to Richmond, where he lay until the Progreffe; the Pleasure of the River running close by the House, inviting him now and then to swimme, which he endeavoured to learne in the Evening, to the Dislike of many, who did fee him swimme * after Supper, his Stomack being full, affirming it to be full of Danger, and that it was needleffe for him to adventure himfelfe in the Water; but no Remedy, he would needs continue the fame, and did untill his removing from thence. He did now alfo delight many Times to walke late at Night by the River's Side in Moone Light, to heare the Trumpets found an Eccho, which many fufpected, because the Dew then falling did him fmall good.

But the Time of the Progreffe now approaching (when as he was commanded) he must needs meet the King his Father at Beaver Castle in Nottingbambire the fecond Saturday after the Beginning of the fame, which now drawing neere, his Highneffe neither confidering the Strength of his Body, the Greatneffe of the Journey (being neere fourefcore and fixteene Miles) nor the extreame and wonderfull Heat of the Seafon, and notwithstanding my Perfuafions to the contrary, determined to ride that great Journey in 2 Dayes, according to which he fet forth on Fryday by one of the Clock in the Morning from his Houfe at Richmond, comming to Finchingbrooke befides Huntingdon, a Houfe pertaining to Sir Oliver Cromwell, Knight, Mafter of his Game, by tenne of the Clock in the Morning, which as they fay is threescore Miles, in nine Houres pofting, where he remained all that Night, the next Day having fix and thirty Miles to Beaver Castle, where he met with his Father juft at the Time prefixed.

But the Time of one Thing, I had almoft forgot to tell you, how before his Comming from Richmond in intending to feaft the Court at his Mannor of Woodstock about the End of this Progreffe (it being the first Time of their generall Meeting there, fince the Houfe became his) had given Order to his Officers to provide a moft magnifique Feaft against their Comming to the forefaid House; withall having ordained a great Summer-house of greene

* His frequent Swimming immediately after Supper, was moft pernitious to his Health; for it ftopt his bleeding at Nofe:

whereupon the Bloud putrifying, engendered that fatall Fever which followed. Doctor Mayerne.

Boughes

Boughes to be built in the Parke wherein the great Supper fhould be, all which was with Speed performed: meane while, although the Seafon was exceeding hot, his Highneffe did ride many and extraordinary Journeyes in the fame (which as was thought) did much incline his boyling Bloud towards Inflamation.

At laft, their Journies being towards an End, to Woodstock they came, where his Highneffe (according to his former Intention) did feaft the Lords and Ladies at a long Table, neere which he himselfe did beare them Company from the Wednesday Night of their Comming, untill the Sunday Night, which (unknowne to him) he had appointed for the laft great Farewell unto all his Friends; by this Time the appointed Night for this great Feast being come, his Highneffe did himfelfe in Perfon come into the banqueting House, to fee all Things in good Order, for great was his Care to give Contentment.

At last, the King and Queene being fet at a Table by themselves at the upper End of the Roome, his Highneffe with his Sifter, accompanied with the Lords and Ladies, fitting at another Table of thirty Yards long and more, by themselves, there was to be feene one of the greatest and best ordered Feafts as ever was feene, nothing wanting which any Way was fitting to adorn fuch a folemne Meeting; all which, to the generall Joy of the whole Court, his Highneffe, like to the Princely Bridegroom chearing and welcoming his Guefts, there appeared an univerfall Contentment in all; but little knew he, that it was his laft great Farewel to his Father, Mother, Sifter, yea, unto the whole Court, that it was his laft Feaft of Featts, one for all. And indeed, when we looke back unto the fame, therein beholding his Highneffe's cheerefull Carriage, the Time, Order, State, Magnificence, and Greatnefs thereof, we may behold fomewhat ominous therein."

The Monday after, the Court removing from thence, his Highneffe, after Leave obtained, hafted Home againe to Richmond, because of the Newes of the Pallegrave's Approach, whom he intended to grace with all poffible Honour. Being returned, he began to give order for every thing, and to dif patch all Affaires both of his owne, and concerning the following intended Triumphes, for his Highneffe the Palgrave's better Welcome: He now alfo of himselfe (I know not by what Motion) confidering the great Paines, Deferts, and small Meanes of a Number of his Followers, who had spent much, and gotten nothing in his Service, did give order for a Number of feverall Penfions, according to his Difcretion, to fome of them, promifing alfo, after a while (that none fhould be difcouraged) to remember the rest.

But now, whether the continuall Violences of his Exercifes, or his too frequent Eating of Abundance of Grapes, and other Fruits, or fome fettled Melancholly, engendred by fome unknowne Caufes, I cannot determine, yet did he looke ftill more pale and thinne, from Day to Day, complaining now and then, of a cold, lafie, Drowfineffe in his Head, which (as I think) moved him many Times to afke Questions of divers about him, concerning the Quality, Cure, and Nature of the Feaver, called (for the ftrange Diversitie) The new Difeafe; belike, fearing fome fuch like Thing by his Indifpofition: He also used before this, now and then, and in his Sickneffe to figh often, Mmm 2 whereof

whereof being fometimes demanded the Cause by his Phifitians, Doctor Hamond, and others neere him, he would fometimes reply, that he knew not, fometimes that they came unawares, and fometimes alfo that they were not without Cause.

At the Beginning of October, his continuall Head-ach, Lazineffe, and Indifpofition increasing, (which notwithstanding because of the Time, he ftrove mightily to conceale) whereas oft before, he used to rife early in the Morning to walke the Fields, he did lye a-bed almost every Morning untill Nine of the Clocke, complayning of his Lazineffe, and that he knew not the Caufe; during which Time (belike jealous of himfelfe) he would many Mornings before his Rifing, afke of the Groomes of his Bed-chamber, How doe I looke this Morning? And at other Times the fame Question againe; which they, fearing no Danger, to make his Highneffe laugh, would put off with one Jeft or other.

But he still continuing ill, the Tenth of the forefaid Moneth, he had two fmall Fits of an Ague, forcing him to keepe his Chamber; which his Highneffe finding, had fome Speech with Doctor Hamond, his Phyfitian, willing belike to have taken fome ftrong Phificke, the fooner to have removed the Cause. But he not daring to be too bold with his Highneffe's Body, without a further Confent, did onely give unto his Highneffe a foftening Glifter, which had its owne good Effects, ftirring the Humours.

On the Morning, being Tuesday, the Thirteenth of October, he having (as was thought) taken Cold, had a great Loofeneffe, his Belly opening 25 Times, avoiding a great deale of Choller, Flegme, and putrified Matter toward the Ende, yet for all this, on the Morrow, he finding himselfe (as he said) reasonable well, because of the Palgrave's Comming, he hafted from thence to Saint James's, wherupon he gave Order, and would needes remove on Thursday, the Thirteenth of the fame Moneth, notwithstanding any Perfwafions whatsoever to the contrary, neither was it without great Danger (as they all fhewed him) to hazard himfelfe abroad fo foone, his Body being yet open but he affirming himselfe to be very well, would needes go on with his former Determination.

At last to Saint James's he came, feeming well, but that he looked pale and ill, fo that fundry did fpeake fufpitiously of his Lookes, fearing fome Diftemper in his Body: yet fo ftrong was his Minde, that complaining of nothing, he did beare out the Matter very bravely in Shew, being fo well, that he gave his Phyfitian (who had waited a long Time) Leave to goe Home to his Houfe; meane while his Indifpofition ftill continuing and increafing, there might have beene perceived in him a fudden great Change, for he began to be difpleafed almoft with every thing, and to be exceeding curious in all Things, yet not regarding, but looking, as it were, with the Eyes of a Stranger upon them, for fundry Things fhewed him, which before he had wonted to talke of, afke Questions, and view curiously, he now scarce vouchsafed to looke upon, turning them away with the Backe of his Hand, and departing, as who would fay, I take Pleasure in nothing; yet was he wonderfully bufie in providing, and giving Order for every thing be

longing

longing to his Care, for his Sifter's Marriage, advancing the fame by all Meanes poffible, keeping alfo his Highneffe the Palgrave Company, fo much as conveniently he could, together with Count Henry his Excellencie, Grave Maurice his Brother, whom he alfo much honoured and efteemed, belike because of a Noble and Heroicke Difpofition, which he saw in him, fitting his Humour, with whom he used to play often at Cardes, and Tennis, delighting much in his Company; and above all the reft, one great Match they had at Tennis, on Saturday the 24. of October, the Day before his laft Sickneffe, where his undaunted Courage, negligently, carelefly, and wilfully (neither confidering the former weake Eftate of his Body, Danger, nor Coldneffe of the Seafon) as though his Body had been of Braffe, did play in his Shirt, as if it had beene in the Heate of Summer; during which Time, he looked fo wonderfull ill and pale, that all the Beholders tooke Notice thereof, muttering to one another what they feared: But he (the Match being ended) carried himfelfe fo well, as if there were no fuch Matter, having all this while a reasonable good Stomack to Meat; yet this Night, at his going to Bed, complaining more than ufuall of his Lazineffe and Head-ache.

But oh whether goe I now? muft I againe launch out into a Sea of Sorrowes, adding more Griefes unto our yet bleeding Wounds? Oh Death! was there no Remedy? When wilt thou make an End? Shall the Grave devour alwayes? Was thy Charge fo ftrait that thou could'st shoote neither at great nor fmall, but at the Prince of our Ifrael? Doe fweete smelling Flowers fo much delight thy grifly ghaftly Senfes Appetite, that thou wouldst gather none but our faireft well beloved, fcarce blowne, Rofe? Why didft thou fo foone robbe us? I know (but that thou, who fcorneft to reason with thy Captives, difdaineft to answer thy Slaves) thou couldst give us many Reafons: Wherefore I leave to reafon with thee, and turning againe to my dolefull Relation, will begin, &c.

For,

Quanquam animus meminiffe borret, luctufque refugit;

Quis talia fando

Temperet à lacrimis? &c.

On Sunday Morning the five and twenty of October, 1612. the Morrow after his Highneffe's violent Play at Tennies, it was told him (the Custome of his House being to have the Sermon betimes in the Morning, for the most Part where the Court lay fo neere; because he used after his owne, to heare the King's alfo) that Master Wilkinson one of his Father's Chaplaines, was ready, and did prefent his Service to preach that Morning (if it pleafed his Highneffe to heare him) which he no fooner heard, but contrary to his late ufuall Custome of long Time (although that Morning he found himselfe fomewhat droufie and ill) addreffed himselfe to be made ready, for he wonderfully delighted to heare the faid Mafter Wilkinson; ever fince the Time (long before) in which he heard him preach a Sermon of Judgement, which he did so well like of, that many Times he did fpeake of the fame, affirming it to

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