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Show --2g-:--;--~.-:.- -eA~L::-.:et~te~r,-:t~o -:tb':~eL ;-:or~diiC:;h:a:n:ceJill:or::-,- ;&:c-. --:-~--\ i 4 Letter te tbe King, upon prefinting tbe 'Difcourfe~ touc1Jing \ ' ~ . ' the Plantation, of Ireland. . · \ 1; ~J plta{tyour txcellen; ·Maie!ty, . • . . ' I Know·not better how to exprefs, my good wlib.cs of a New Ytar, tO yottr Malefty, than DY, this littl~ Bqole, which·, in all humblenefs, I fend you. The Sule, ts a ~tileofBuline{s; rather than Curious or Elaborate. · And herem, I was encouraged, by my Ex.pcrie~~ e, of y~>Ur ~ajeft.us forme~ grace, in accep~ingof the f!kc poor Fteld·Frutts, toucrmg the Pmon : A~d certamly, I reckon this A& ion, as a Second Brother, to, the Vrtton. For I affure my Self, that 'England, Scotland, and'lrelan_d, well united, ~s fuf~ a Trifoite; as no Prince, e~cept your Self, (_who are the worth1efi:) weareth in his Crown; St potentta reducatur tn :Altum. I know w.ell, that for tne', to beat 1ny Brains, about thefe things, they be Maio- ra .quam prd Fortuna; Bttt yet they be, Minora quam pro Studio ., 4c voluntate. (For as I ~oe yet bear, an extreme Zeal~ to the Memory, of myo'id Miftru, il.!!_ltn Elizabeth; To whom, I was tather bound, for her Trujf, than her Favour; So I muRacknowledge my Self, 1nore bound, to you.r MaieHy, both for Trl!~' a11d Farr..:our.; whereof, I will never dccctve the one, as I can never deferve the other.- And fo in all humblenefs, kiffing your Majdlies facrcd hands, I remain .. t .. ' • ') • ... .J ,. . f. _ __. __ ......... ,___,.-.--~--r--'rr---r...,.--*-' ..A Letter to the Lord Chancellor) toucbing the Hiflory~ ' il B · · , ' ·• ~ · 'J u1 nta1ne• .. , · · • " Oil J I .. , • , • ' f ~. t/ 'C t It may 'pleafe _your good Lordilii p, . · · · \ som.e.late Aet ot·his M~jefly, referre~ to fom~ fe>.tmer Speech., I wliich I have heard from your .Lordfhtp,bred 1n n1e, a great De- ; 1 fire; Ahd'toe firengtb ofDefire, a. Bold~c[S) to make an humble;: Propofition, to your Lordfbip; Such, as 111 me, can b~ no ~ertcr, than a wifrJ- : But, if your Lordfbip {hould a ppreheRd lt , .1r _may rake,:fe[rtlegood, and worthy,.EffeCl:. Th.e ACtrl fpeak of,·ts the Order, giv~n by hi S'Maje~y, for the Ere.etwn of a· T~mb, o.r JJfonu· ment, fdi· our late Sove-,-aegn, !2.!!Pf! Elrz.a!Jetb ; Whereu1l n1~y I nOt~ m~d{j btu undy this, ~t this time ; that as her Maje#y, d~d alwaryes.right, to his Majeffie~ Hopes; So liis Highne[s, doth, w I all thi.ngs, Right tO her 0 emorY.; A very juH, and Princely Retribuuon. But f1:om th1s Occahon, by a very cafie Afcent, I paff'ed further, being put in 1ninde, by this Reprefentative, o! h~r Pcrfon, of the more true, and more vive, Reprefentation,wluch 1s of her Life, and Go7.Nrnmem: -For as Statues, and PiEtures, are dumb · · ' Hi~ories, A Letter, to the Lord Chancel.Jor, &c. ----- Hi ff.ori(s, [o Hijfories, arc {peaking PiHures: wh c~cin, if my Aff,:etion, be not t?o grea~or n1y Rea~1ng too final!, I am of this Opini-on; That If Plutarch, were a.l1vc, to write Lites by Pa Ill · ld bl h. r: ' ra e s , It wou tro:u e Im, 10r Venue, and Fortune bo[h, to finde for he.r, a ParaDe/, amon?fi womtn. And d~ough 01c was of the p, 1f. ji~e Se:;ce, yet her G(}7.1ernmmt, was fo Acltve, as m my fiinple Opin1Ion,. It ma~e IIdlOf·i re Imlprcffion, uron the fevcral $ tates of Europe, c 1an It rece1ve rom t 1cnc~. Bu~, I confefs, unto your Lordfhi , I c~uld not fiay.there, bt~t went a little fut;thet, inw the Confidt rauon of the Ttmes, wlHch have.paffcd, fin~:e King Henry the 8th; wherc~n I find the ·Hrangeft V artery, thar, m fu--littl..e.NUmbcr ,of Su:ceJfrons of ~ny Hatditary Monarchy,hath ever been known: The Retg!l of a Chzld: The offer of an Vfurpation, thou()'h it were but as a Dtar) Ague; The R-eign? of a Lady, married, to~ Foreiner; And the Rttgn,. of a La~y~ Soluary, a_nd Unmarried; So that; as it c?m~eth to pafs, .tn ~a!Iive Bodies; That they bave certain Trepldauons, and Wavcr111gs, befote they fix, and fettle; So it fee-meth, th.at ~Y the .Pro1.1idence_of God, this Monarchy, (before it was ~o fettle lt;l h1~ MaJeJlJ) and h1s Generations; In whieh, I hope, it 1 now efiabhilicd~ for ever;) Bath had thefe Prelufive chanQ'cs in th~f~ Barren Princes.. Neither, could I contain my Self he~e ~ (As lt 1s eafiet: to tnnlt ply, t!lan to fray a Willi;) Btit calling t~ R~me1J:?branc~; the Unworthli1e[s; of the Hif!ory o(Enj,land, in the maltl con.uiJuance ~hereof; And the Part1alitj ,and Obliqui-ty, of that of s;otlan~, m the lateft:; and Iargefi Offer, that I have feen ; I concetved, 1t ~oul~ be Honour, tor his M aj1fy , and a ~ork v~~y memorable, 1f thts Ijland of Grtat Britain, as. it is now ;or ned, m Monar~y, for the Ages to come; [o it were joyned in H~ffory, for the T1~es paft; And t~at one J~fl:; and compleat, !fiftory, ~~re comptl: d, of both Natzons~ :And tf any Man think, 1t.1nay rd:eili the Memory,,offormer. I~h(cords, he may .G1tisfy ht~ielf wuh the V ~r[e; O!zm pte~ memtnif]e ;uvahit. Fot the Cafe bemg now altered, It IS Matter of Comfotr, and Gratulation to remet~be: f?rmer Trou.bles. Thus much, if it inay plcafe y'our· Lor.dfhrp, IS .m th~ Optatz,ve ~ood. It is time, that I did, Look a litle, tnto.the Pottntttd r Wnere1h the Hope, which.! conceived was g~ounded,. upon 3·. Ob{trvations. The Firft, the Nature of thefc Ttm:s, ~h1eh floun{h 111 Lcatning, both of Art, and Language: whtch gtvcth Hope, not onely that it may be done, but that it max b.e w~ll do~e. Secondly, I doe fee that, which all the World fees, tnlus Ma1effy, both a wondcrft.tll Judgement iri Learning and a fingul~r AffeCtion towards Leatn1ng; And works, which a.re of the Mmd, ~nd .not ~f t~e Hand. For there cannot be, the hke Hon.our fougnt, 1n butldmg-of c;aUeries, and Planting of Elmfs, along tngh-wayes,. and the outward Ornaments, whetein Franu n~~ IS bufie; (_Th.mgs rath~: of Magnificence,. t~ari of Magnanimtty,) As there ts, m theYntttngofStates, Pacifymg of Controver- 1 jies, |