Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...

THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE.

SIR George Lisle, an honest Booksellers Son (great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs) that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries, by keeping good Society and improving Company, Ever (as he would say) consorting with those most by whom he might accom∣plish himself best. By generous pleasing, and natural∣ly bounteous disposition; by his great skill (above his years) gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia, excelling in the Command of Foot, asa 1.1 Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse: By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice, was admitted into Inferior Commands in England, where his Valor without Oftenta∣tion, his Just and Chearful Commands, without a Surly Imperi∣ousness, rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers, that with his Discipline and Courage, he led as in a Line, upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty, that he was preferred to a Superior; in which capacity he had one quali∣ty of an obliging and knowing Commander, that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action, wherein he would not hazard his own person, as at the last Newbery Fight (before his Majesties face, who then Knighted him for it) leading his men in hisb 1.2 Shirt, both that they might see his Valor, and (it being Night) discern his Person, from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath, where he gain∣ed and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army, at the first Newbery Fight, where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope; at Nazeby, where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot; and at the two Garrisons he held with the last, surrendring them with Oxford. He was approved and admired for his Judge∣ment, Direction, Dispatches and Chearfulness, Virtues that had spe∣cial influence upon every common Souldier; especially in his three great Charges (in each whereof he came to the Butt••end of the Musquet) for the first whereof, his Word was The Crown; for the second, Prince Charles; and for the third, The Duke of York; re∣solving to have gone over all his Majesties Children, as long as he had a Man to fight for them, or there was a Rebel to fight against them. Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester, and having three times scowred the Leaguer, with so much hazard, that he was twice

taken Prisoner, but rescued he was to second Sir Charles, Lucas, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him; saying over his Corps, How soon is a brave spirit expired? we shall be together presently. Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London, and expostulating with them, thatc 1.3 his life should be taken away in cold-bloud, when he had saved so many of theirs in hot, and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom, he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance, and heroick posture; saying, Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst.

It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons, that King Charles the First, upon the news of their death, wept. Monu∣ment enough, that the very Parliament was amazed at it. Epitaph enough, that a great Man, and a great Traveller too protested, That he saw many dye, but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Esteemed the best in Eu∣rope.
• b 1.2

  Whereupon th••y reported in London, that they saw a white Witch run up and down in his Majesties Ar∣my.
• c 1.3

  What a Christian note did be leave in Mr. Dol∣mans house near N••n••ery that the p••••r, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, help∣••ess men should be cared f••r.