Table be neglected; and if your Table be also plenteous, it is alfo ferviceable for the Poor; but the laft, to have many Devices of counterfeit Meats, and also fpiced, maketh Waste in the Household, gaineth little, giveth ill Example to be followed, and is not wholesome to your Guefts, and, in the End, ferveth small to Hospitality.

Now for the Ufage of Men there in thofe Parts, as you find them at your Coming, fo as little as you may feek to alter their Eftate, (unless you fee fome Cause) let it not appear, you use any Man, with fingular Affection, above the reft, and yet you may use (indeed) as you fee Cause, Men either for Wisdom, or Credit, with refpect of others Envies, not them whom you fhall make Choice of.

In your Confultations give every Man Leave to fpeak, and bear with their Lacks, fo that you make Choice of the beft; do what you can, to make every one live acccording to his own Eftate; the Gentlemen to live of their own without Reproach, and, if you fee any young Gentlemen towards Wasting, confer with his Friends, for the Stay thereof; efpecially, if his be of any Continuance; likewife fee, that poor Men have their Right, not for Importunity of Clamour, but for Pity and Truth.

Touching the Lawyers of the Country, eteem them of Learning, fee they lack not too much Honefty, but in no wife feem to favour these Demy-Lawyers, except you fee Perfection of Honefty, for in all Countries they have leaft Skill, and do moft Harm.

Do what you can, to make the Gentlemen accord amongst themselves; and to extinguish old Factions, either by fome Device of Marrying, or by Redemption of Titles of Lands, or fuch like Incumbrances, which commonly be the Seeds of Discord. For Termination of poor Men's Suits, remit them (as much as you may) to indifferent Arbitrators to end; do not intermeddle therewith yourself, for fo fhall your Labour be bottomlefs.

Whilft you be in that Country (if you take any Servants) let them be Gentlemen's Sons, and, if you may, their Heirs, that, by their Education with you, they may know you and yours.

Set up Artillery, and neglect not the Game of Wrestling; let there be frequent Games, as, Shooting, Running on Horfe and Foot, and Wrestling; in my Country, have been used all Ways for fuch Purposes; and in this Behalf I mean, not to have you induce new Devices in that Country, if they have others of their own. But fome might ask me this, Is this the true Ufe of Holy-days forfooth? Touching that Part of the Day, where the Civil Magiftrate hath Power, I think it not much amifs; but, for the Time the Ecclefiaftical Minifter doth appoint to pray, and teach a Sermon, I think it not meet to be put to this Ufe. But therein I will not much difpute, for it belongeth to Divinity, whereunto your Commiffion extendeth not; for hereof the Bishops and others have their Charge.

Surely, my Lord, it would be Time now to leave my Scribbling, left I fhall be like the Singers, who are dainty to begin, and know not when to leave; I think your Lordship shall be weary of Reading, wherefore I will leave with a few Lines, like to my Beginning.

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Your Doings here have deferved Praise, fee you continue your Distance; fo far of your Acception here I mean, as I know. You were wont, and have profeffed unto me, that is, to ferve uprightly and truly, and to do therein as you can, and then may you be bold of Praife; and, if you mifs of that, yet, of no Difhonour; for nothing, indeed, is honourable, but Well-doing: The Weal of your Country (I mean, the Quietness of fuch, as you have Authority to govern) is your Mark, fhoot thereat, guiding your Purpose with the Fear of God, and fo fhall you gain the Love of God and Man. If you do fometime (as you fee Caufe) advertise the Queen's Majefty of the good Eftate of that Country, and of the Gentlemen there (fo it be by fhort Letters) referring, if you have any long Declaration of Things, to your Letters to the Privy-Council: If any thing to be misliked, or tedious to be advertised, procure others alfo to write thereof, and in no-wife write thereof alone: For, you know, fortunate Things are welcome from any Man, but, how the Contrary may come from you, you may doubt.

It is full Time for me to end my Folly, and your Lordship to end your Labour; beseeching you, to make my Will, in fatisfying your Request, answer the other lack Fault: And, that I may be humbly remembered to my Lady, to whom I ackowledge much Duty, and am ashamed of my fmall Deserving of her great Goodness to me wards.

From my poor Houfe at Wimbleton,

WILL. CECIL.

An Account of the Burial of King Charles the First, and of Oliver Cromwell: In which it appears, how Oliver's Friends contrived to fecure his Body from future Difgrace, and to expose the Corpfe of King Charles to be fubftituted in the Punishment and Ignominy defigned for the Ufurper's Body. MS.

Amongst other Papers, the following MS. was carefully preferved by my Lord Oxford. It contains an Extract from the Journal of the House of Commons; which konourable Houfe, refolving to difgrace the Name of the late Ufurper Oliver Cromwell, as far as lay in their Power, ordered his Body to be taken up, and to be firft hanged on the Gallows at Tyburn, and then to be burnt.

The Order was pursued by the Serjeant of that honourable House fo far, as to find a Coffin with Oliver's Name, and ufurped Titles, at the Eaft-end of the middle fle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, in Westmnster-Abbe . VOL. I. This,

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This, with an Account where the faid Infcription is, or was, within a few Years ago, to be feen, is written in a very fair Hand.

Then, in two different Hands, there follows the most remarkable Account of a Counter-Interment of the Arch-Traytor, as well as the Reason and Contrivance to fecure bis Body from that expected Ignominy, and to continue the Revenge of King Charles's Enemies, even to the Difgrace of fubftituting the Body of the beheaded King, in the Punishment intended by a justly enraged People, upon the dead Body of the Ufurper.

OON after the Restoration, the then Serjeant of the Houfe of Commons was ordered, by the House, to go with his Officers to St. Peter's Weftminster, and demand the Body of Oliver Cromwell, buried there, to be taken up, in order to be disposed in the Manner the House should adjudge fitting.

Whereupon the faid Serjeant went, and, in the middle Ifle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, at the East-end, upon Taking up the Pavement in a Vault, was found his Corpfe; in the Infide of whofe Coffin, and upon the Breast of the Corpfe, was laid a Copper-plate, finely gilt, inclofed in a thin Cafe of Lead, on the one Side whereof, were engraved the Arms of England, impaled with the Arms of Oliver; and, on the Reverse, the following Legenda, viz.

Oliverius Protector Reipublicæ Anglia, Scotia, & Hibernia, Natus 25.o April. 1599, Inauguratus 16.9 Dec.ris 1653, Mortuus 3.io Sept.ris, Anno 1658, Hic Situs eft.

The said Serjeant, believing the Plate to be Gold, took it pretendedly, as his Fee; and Mr. Gifford, of Colchester, who married the Serjeant's Daughter, has now the Plate, which, his Father-in-Law told him, he came by, in the Manner above related.

A Counter-Interment of the aforefaid Arch-Traytor, as averred, and ready to be depofed (if Occafion required) by Mr. Barkstead, who daily frequents Richard's Coffee-Houfe, within Temple-Bar, being Son to Barkstead, the Regicide, that was executed as fuch, foon after the Refloration, the Son being, at the Time of the faid ArchTraytor's Death, about the Age of fifteen Years.

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a other fuch HAT the faid Regicide Barkstead, being Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and a great Confident of the Ufurper, did among Confidents, in the Time of the Ufurper's Sicknefs, defire to know where he would be buried: To which, he answered, Where he had obtained the greatest Victory and Glory, and as nigh the Spot as could be gueffed, where the Heat of the Action was, viz. in the Field at Nafeby, Co. Northampton; which accordingly was thus performed: At Midnight (foon after his Death) being first

embalmed,

embalmed, and wrapped in a leaden Coffin, he was, in a Hearfe, conveyed to the said Field, the faid Mr. Barktead, by Order of his Father, attending clofe to the Hearfe; and being come to the Field, there found, about the Midft of it, a Grave, dug about nine Feet deep, with the green Sod carefully laid on one Side, and the Mould on the other; in which the Coffin being foon put, the Grave was inftantly filled up, and the green Sod laid exactly flat upon it, Care being taken, that the furplus Mould was clean taken away.

Soon after, like Care was taken, that the faid Field was intirely ploughed up, and fown three or four Years fucceffively with Wheat.

Several other material Circumstances, relating to the faid Interment, the said Mr. Barkstead rèlates (too long to be here inferted) and, particularly, after the Restoration, his Conference with the late (witty) Duke of Buckingham, &c.

Talking over this Account of Barkstead's, with the Reverend Mr. Sm—, of 2, whofe Father had long refided in Florence, as a Merchant, and afterwards as Minifter from King Charles the Second, and had been well acquainted with the Fugitives after the Reftoration; he affured me, he had often heard the faid Account by other Hands: Thofe Mifcreants always boafting, that they had wrecked their Revenge against the Father, as far as human Forefight could carry it, by beheading him, whilft living, and making his best Friends the Executioners of the utmost Ignominies upon him, when dead. Afking him the particular Meaning of the laft Sentence, he faid, that Oliver, and his Friends, apprehending the Restoration of the Stuart Family; and that all imaginable Difgrace, on that Turn, would be put upon his Body, as well as Memory; he contrived his own Burial, as averred by Barkstead, having all the theatrical Honours of a pompous Funeral paid to an empty Coffin, into which, afterwards, was removed the Corpfe of the Martyr (which, by Lord Clarendon's own Account, had never truly, or certainly, been interred; and, after the Reftoration, when most diligently fought after, by the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey, at the Command of King Charles the Second, in order to a folemn Removal, could no where, in the Church where he was faid to have been buried, be found) that, if any Sentence fhould be pronounced, as upon his Body, it might effectually fall upon that of the King. That, on that Order of the Commons, in King Charles the Second's Time, the Tomb was broken down, and the Body taken out of a Coffin fo infcribed, as mentioned in the Serjeant's Report, was from thence conveyed to Tyburn, and, to the utmost Joy and Triumph of that Crew of Mifcreants, hung publickly on the Gallows, amidst an infinite Crowd of Spectators, almost infected with the Noisomeness of the Stench. The Secret being only amongst that abandoned few, there was no Doubt in the rest of the People, but the Bodies, fo expofed, were the Bodies they were faid to be; had not fome, whofe Curiofity had brought them nearer to the Tree, obferved, with Horror, the Remains of a Countenance they little had expected there; and that, on Tying the Cord, there was a ftrong Seam about the Neck, by which the Head had been, as fuppofed, immediately after the Decollation, faftened again to the Body. This being whispered about, and the Numbers that came to the difmal Sight hourly increasing, Notice was immediately given of the Sufpicion to the attending Officer, who dispatched a Meffenger

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Meffenger to Court, to acquaint them with the Rumour, and the ill Confequences the Spreading or Examining into it further, might have. On which the Bodies were immediately ordered down, to be buried again, to prevent any Infection. Certain is it, they were not burnt, as in Prudence, for that pretended Reason, might have been expected; as well as in Juftice, to have fhewn the utmost Deteftation for their Crimes, and the most lafting Mark of Infamy they could inflict upon them. This was the Account he gave. What Truth there is in it, is not fo certain. Many Circumftances make the Surmife not altogegether improbable: As all thofe Enthufiafts, to the laft Moments of their Lives, ever gloried in the Truth of it.

The Coat of Arms of Sir John Prefbyter. Printed in the Year 1658.

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E bears Party per Pale indented, God's Glory, and his own Interest ; over all Honour, Profit, Pleasure counterchanged; enfigned with a Helmet of Ignorance, opened with Confidence befitting his Degree, mantled with Gules and Tyranny, doubled with Hypocrify over a Wreath of Pride and Covetousness; for his Creft a Sinifter Hand, holding up a folemn League and Covenant, reverfed and torn; in a Scroll, underneath the Shield, these Words for his Motto, Aut hoc aut Nihil.

This Coat Armour is dupalled with another of four Pieces, fignifying thereby his four Matches.

The First is of the Family of Amfterdam; fhe bears, for her Arms, in a Field of Toleration, three Jews Heads proper, with as many blue Caps on

them.

The Second is of the House of Geneva; fhe bears, for her Arms, in a Field of Separation, Marginal Notes on the Bible falfe quoted.

The Third is of the Country of New-England; fhe bears, for her Arms, a prick-eared Preachman, pearched upon a Pulpit proper, holding forth to the People a Schifmatical Directory.

The Fourth and Laft is Scotland; fhe bears in Efcutcheon the Field of Rebellion, charged with a Stool of Repentance.

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