Operation whereof was fmall or none; neither all this while did Nature of it felfe incline towards Sweating, and to force the fame they thought it to no Purpofe. This Night was unquiet as the reft, his Accidents remaining in the fame Sort, but now and then fpeaking, but fo confufedly that he could not be understood.

Among the reft this Night, about Midnight, Mafter Nafmith his Majeftie's Surgeon, fitting on his Bed-fide, his Highneffe pulled him unto him by the Hand, fpeaking unto him fomewhat, but fo confufedly, by reafon of the rattling of his Throat, that he could not be understood; which his Highneffe perceiving, giving a moft grievous Sigh, as it were in Anger turned him from him; thereafter (unleffe he were urged) never fpeaking unto him,

or any.

In this Extremity Sir David Murray (who in this one Death fuffered many) came unto him, intreating him, and afking him, that if he had any Thing to fay which troubled him, that he would betimes make knowne his Mind: but his Spirits being overcome, and Nature weake, he was not able to fay any Thing, fave that of all other Bufineffe, he gave Order for the burning of a Number of Letters in a certaine Cabinet in his Clofet, which presently after his Death was done.

Not long after (as I thinke) on Friday Morning about Three a Clock, his Back-bone, Shoulders, Armes and Tongue, by reafon of the horrible Violence of the Convulfions, disjoyntingly deviding themselves, the Effect shewing that the retentive Power was gone, the Spirits fubdued, the Seat of Reason overcome, and Nature fpent; in which Extremity, Fainting and Swooning, he feemed twice or thrice to be quite gone; at which Time there arose wonderfull great Shouting, Weeping, and Crying in the Chamber, Court, and adjoyning Streets, which was fo great (together with fomething else which they used) that they brought him againe.

This Crie was fo great, that all thofe in the Streets thought he had beene dead; whereupon it went for the most part current, in the City and Countrey, that he was gone.

I am not able to expreffe the unfpeakeable Sorrow which every where was for this wofull Newes, chiefely in that dolefull Houfe, you may imagine no Thought can thinke the Greatneffe thereof, nor Understanding conceive the fame, this little which I have faid, overlading my Weakneffe.

Thus given over of all into the Hands of GOD, did his Highneffe lie in extreame Paine; during which, ftill now and then (till two or three Houres before his Death) looking up, and fpeaking, or endeavouring to fpeake, which for Confufion and Extremity of Paine (being fo neere gone) could not be understood, all the World were ready in this Defpaire, to bring cordiall Waters Diaphoretick, and Quintissentiall Spirits to be given unto him; amongst which, one in the Afternoone was miniftred; which fet that little Nature remaining, on worke, forcing a fmall Sweat, which, too late, was the first he had, Sir Walter Raleigh alfo did fend another from the Tower, which whether or no to give him, they did a while deliberate.

After

After the Operation of the firft, his Highneffe refted quietly a little while, prefently after falling into his former Extremities; whereupon (as the laft defperate Remedy) with the Leave and Advife of the Lords of the Counsell there prefent, the Cordiall fent by Sir Walter Raleigh (after it had beene tafted and proved) was given unto him; but in vaine, fave that forcing that Sparke of Life that remained, it brought him againe into a Sweat; after which, as before, he had fome Relt for a little while. But, no Remedy, Death would needs be Conquerour; in vaine did they ftrive against the Streame, for he fhortly after became wonderfull ill againe; Sight and Senfe failing, as alfo all the infallible Signes of Death approaching; In which Extremity, the Archbishop of Canterbury being there prefent, who feeing it was now the Time of Times, before the last Gafpe, to minifter fome Comfort unto his Highneffe (if as yet there were any Sence remaining) came unto him, first fpeaking aloud; putting him in Mind of all thofe Things which he had. spoken unto him the Day before in his perfect Senfe, calling aloud in his. Eare, to remember CHRIST JESUS, to beleeve, hope, and truft onely in him, with affured Confidence of Mercy, to lift up his Heart, and prepare him to meete the Lord JESUS, with many other divine Exhortations: Thereafter calling more loud than ever, thrice together in his Eare, Sir heare you mee, heare you mee, heare you mee; If you heare mee, in certaine Signe of your Faith, and Hope of the bleffed Resurrection, give us for our Comfort a Signe, by lifting up of your Hands, which he did, lifting up both his Hands together: Againe he defired him yet to give him another Signe, by lifting up his Eyes; which having done, they let him alone; for the Archbishop had with Streames of Teares, powred out at his Bed-fide, a most exceeding powerfull paffionate Prayer.

All this while alfo, from three a Clock in the Morning untill Night, there was continuall Prayer in the House, and in every Place where the Danger was knowne; by which his Time growing neerer and neerer, and he weaker and weaker; thus did he lie, patiently ftriving betwixt Death and Life, unavoidable Neceffity, and God's Will forcing Patience, and againe invincible Courage and Magnanimity (loath to be overcome) fhewing fome Indignation. and Contempt of Death: yea Death it felfe (for all his Cruelty) ftood a long while hovering in Doubt what to doe, fo did his Highneffe's young Yeares, his Triumphes at Hand, the Teares, and exceeding Sorrow of Father, Mother, Brother, Sifter, the howling Cries of his Servants, and of the whole Land (who faid, her Loffe, above all was most unfpeakeable) move his hard Heart to Pitty But a greater Crie before this, having outcried thofe Cries (even the Crie of our Sinnes) there was no Remedy: for Death (although unwilling) not being able to refift the forepaffed Decree, muft needs ftrike the cruell Stroke; many Times did he from that Morning untill Night offer to shoote and thruft in his Dart a little, yet pulling it prefently backe againe, as it were of Purpofe delaying the Time, expecting fome mercifull Meffage from Heaven, untill at last the cloudy Night bewraying the irrevocable Doome, by Nature's Decay, the Exceffe of Paine having taken away the Senfe thereof, of meere Pitty, that thereby he might open unto him the VOL. I. Ooo Doore

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Doore of Heaven for his Paffage into Glory, being loath that the Angell, (who had long attended to convey his Soule unto Heaven, fhould make any longer Stay) he thruft his Dart quite thorow; after which, his Highneffe quietly, gently, and patiently, halfe a Quarter, or thereabouts, before eight a Clocke at Night, yeelded up his Spirit unto his Immortall Maker, Saviour, and Reftorer, being attended unto Heaven, with as many Prayers, Teares, and ftrong Cries, as ever Soule was, on Fryday the fixth of November, 1612. The Corps fhortly after (as the Cuftome is) was laide along upon a Table on the Floore, being the faireft, cleareft, and beft proportioned, without any kinde of Spot or Blemish, as ever was feene.

On the Morrow after came the Lords of the Councell, by Appointment from his Majestie, to give Order for the Opening of his Body, &c. which was the fame Night effected, about Five a Clocke in the Evening, in Prefence of the Phyfitians and Chirurgions who affifted the Cure, together with the Phyfitian of the Prince Palatine, with many other Knights and Gentlemen, in the Chamber where he dyed, by the Chyrurgeons of his Majestie, and his late Highneffe, under all their Hands, as followeth.

The Skinne, like that of a dead Man, blacke; but no Way spotted with Blackneffe, or pale Markes, much leffe marked with Purples like Flea-bites, which could fhew any contagious or peftilentiall Venome. About the Place

of his Kidneys, Hips, and behind the Thighes, full of Redneffe; and by reafon that with great Paine he had a long while lien upon his Backe, his Belly fomewhat fwollen and ftretched out, by reafon of the Windineffe which iffued out of the fmalleft Opening made in the Navill, fomewhat high naturally, incontinently the Belly falling; the Stomacke whole and wholfome. within and without, having never all his Sickeneffe Time beene troubled with Vomitting, Loathings, or Yealpings, or any other Accident which could particularly fhew that it was attainted. The Liver without, in his highest Parts, marked with fmall Spots, and in the lower with small blackish Lines, paler and blacker than was fitting: The Gall, and Bladder, void of any Humour, full of Wind: The Spleen on the top, and in the lower End blackish, filled with a blacke heavy Blood: The Kidneys faire, and without any Blemish: The Midriffe under the Filme, or Membrane, containing the Heart (which contained a little Moisture) fpotted with blacke, as it were a leadifh Colour, by reafon of the Bruifing: The Lungs almost for the greatest Part blacke, the rest all fpotted with blacke, all imbrewed, and full of aduft Blood, with a corrupt and thicke Serocitie, which by a Vent made in the Body of the Lungs, came forth foaming in great Abundance; in which doing, and in cutting the fmall Skinne which invironeth the Heart, to fhew the fame, the Surgeon by chance having cut the Trunck of the great Veine, the most Part of the Bloud iffued out into the Cheft, leaving the lower Veines empty; upon Sight whereof the Company did draw Confequents of an extreame Heat and Fulneffe, the which yet appeared more evident in this, that the Windepipe with the Throat and Tongue were covered with a thicke Blackeneffe; and amongst other Accidents, the Tongue cleft, and dry in

many

many Places: The Heart found and dry, in all Appearance, good in all his Quallities.

The hinder Veines, which are in the inmoft Filme of the Braine, called Pia mater, fwolne and ftufft with Abundance of Blood, a great deale more than naturall, the Substance of the Braine faire and cleare, but the Ventricles thereof full of a cleare Water, which after the Incifion ranne forth in great Abundance: One Part of which Accidents (as they thought) was ingendred, onely by reafon of the Fever maligne, by reafon of the Putrifaction of divers Humours gathered together of a long Time before, his Highneffe not being fubject to any dangerous Sickneffe by Birth; the other Part, by reafon of the Convulfions, Refoundings, and Benummings, which by reafon of the Fulneffe, choaking the naturall Heat, and destroying the Vitals, by their Malignitie, have conveyed his Highneffe to the Grave, without any Token or Accident of Poyfon.

Thus (or very neere thus) loft we the Delight of Mankind, the Expectation of Nations, the Strength of his Father, and Glory of his Mother, Religion's fecond Hope: Foolish People immagine, that they have done enough, when they have railed upon the Phyfitians, as though they could have altered Providence, by prolonging his Life, never truly beholding the Omnipotent Power bereaving him, which although in his Sickneffe, untill the Blow was given, could not be seene, yet now (even of the Blind) may be eafily difcerned. And I pray you, if we narrowly looke upon the Practise of the Meanes, what Omiffion of the Duty fhall we find therein? Some neere his Highneffe, together with Doctor Mayerne, at firft called and wifhed he might bleed; others againe, mifliked the fame; both learned.

The Phyfitians, although jarring at first in their Propofitions and Reasons, at laft did every Thing by a common Confent under all their Hands; nothing was wanting, which either Art or Experience could thinke thereof, whatsoever they did, they always thought most safest and best. They toiled continually Day and Night, and if it pleafed not GOD to give a Bleffing to the Meanes, muft they therefore be blamed? You know Paul may plant, and Apollos may water, but it is GOD that giveth the Increase. But imagine, there had beene any fuch Strife amongst them, the Phyfitians, as it is reported, what fhould we thinke thereof, but that the GoD of Order will fometime have his Will brought to paffe, by a Kind of Confufion, as he overthrew the Tower of Babel, with the Hofts of Midian, &c. So in Phificke, when his Will must be done, if it please him to breake and take away the Staffe of Bread, not bleffing the Meanes; who, I fay, can lett him (whose Will must be our Law) to doe whatsoever he will,

Indeed his Highneffe's great and extraordinary Patience, ftriving fo long to over master, and hide the fame in his Health, in my Judgement, did much wrong the Phyfitians, who by Reason of his Patience, never dreamed of his Danger; as alfo his moft wonderfull and matchleffe Patience all the Time of his Sickneffe, fhewing no Kind of froward Difpofition; lying in Shew (for any Complaints were heard of him) as though he had never been ficke nor fore. As alfo the Urines, which untill a little before his Death, 0002 fhewed

fhewed no fuch Danger; with the dangerous unknowne State of his greatest Griefe closely rooted in his Head (as in the Opening hath beene feene) which could not at first be fully knowne, untill too late; the Picture of Death by a ftrange extraordinary Countenance, having from the Beginning poffeffed him: vaine Rumors alfo have beene spreade Abroad, that he was poyfoned: But if the former Difcourfe be well confidered, his Death, in my Judgement, will appeare to have beene naturall, grounded upon very urgent Caufes. For the Phifitians in Opening found no fuch Caufe in his Internalls, upon his Skinne being no kinde of Spot, or any fuch Sufpition. To furmife as fome have done, that he was poifoned by a Sent, confidering the Premises, mee thinkes were great Folly, contrary to the Opinions of all the learned, who upon this Relation to his Majefty, proved him free from any fuch Infection : For my Part, my Skill reacheth not to determine of any Thing; onely I thinke it beft to hold, that he died in the Rage of a malicious and extraordinary burning Feaver, wherein his Vitals and Senfes were from the Beginning fo over-preffed, ftupified, and amazed, chiefely the Heart and Head, which notwithstanding all Cordials and other Helpes used (GOD not bleffing the Meanes) could never be releeved.

The Monday after, the Right Honourable the Lords of the Privy Counsell of his Majefty, with exceeding Care came to Saint James's, to give Order for all Things belonging to fo wofull a Bufineffe; according to which, the whole House, Chappell, great Chamber, Prefence, Lobby, Privy Chamber, and Bed Chamber, were all hung in Black with all Things fitting, thick fet with Scutcheons of his Highneffe's divers Armes, which being done, under the State in the Chamber where he first fickened, appointed for the Coffin, there was a Place erected above an Ell in Heigth, where it was to ftand to be watched untill the Funerall; Threefcore and tenne Gentlemen of his Servants, ordinary and extraordinary (which were all he had) being appointed Night and Day to attend the fame, tenne at a Time, it being fo ordered that the tenne who watched in the Night, did conftantly wait the third Day after; Meane while was Order given that the Funerall fhould be folemnized on Monday the 7. of December following; untill which Time, I will not renew Griefes in remembring the unfpeakeable Sorrow which was in that wofull House, now longing to doe their last Duty.

The Time of the Funerall now approaching, on Thursday the third Day of December the Coffin was removed from the Chamber where it ftood all this while, unto the Privy Chamber, there being watched for that Night. On the Morrow it was removed from thence to the Prefence Chamber, where it remained all that Night untill the next Day, being Saturday at three a Clock in the Afternoone, at which Time his Crowne and Cap of State were fet upon a Cushion at the Head of the Coffin; after which the Heralds marching before the fame, the Coffin was removed by the Gentlemen of his Privy Chamber unto the great Chamber, where his Guard attended, in which it was fet downe for the Space of a Quarter of an Houre; thereafter being lifted againe by the forefaid Gentlemen, it was brought downe Staires towards the Chappell, where againe for a pretty while it was fet downe in the Court;

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