State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I.

Observations on the Life of Sir Thomas Chall••∣ner.

THis Gentlemans birth in London made him quick, his Education in Cambridge know∣ing, and his travail abroa•• ••expert. In Henry the eighth's time he reserved Charles the fifth in the expedition of Algier: where being ship-wrack∣ed, after he had swum till his strength and arms fa••led ••im, at the length catching hold of a Cable with his teeth, he escaped, not without the loss of some of his teeth. (We are consecrated by dan∣gers to services; and we know not what we can do, until we have seen all we can fear.) In Edward

the sixth's Reign, he behaved himself so manly at Muscleborough, that the Protector honoured him with a Knighthood, and his Lady with a Jewel; the delicate and valiant man at once pleasing Mars and his Venus too. The first week of Queen Elizabeths Reign, he is designed an Embassadour of honour to the Emperour; such his port and carriage! and the second year, her Leiger for business in Spain; such his trust and abilities! The first he performed not with more Gallantry, than he did the second with policy; bearing up King Philips expectation of the match with England for three years effectu∣ally, until he had done the Queens business abroad, and she had done her own at home. In Spain he equally divided his time between the Scholar and the States-man, his recreation and his business; for he refreshed his more careful time with a pure and learned Verse, de rep. Anglorum instauranda, in five Books, whilst as he writes in the preface to that Book, he lived Hieme infurno, aestate in Horreo: i. e. Wintered in a Stove, and Summered in a Barn. He understood the Concerns of this estate well, and those of his own better; it being an usual saying, engraven on all his Plates and Actions,—Frugality is the left hand of Fortune, and Diligence the right. Anthony Brown Viscount Mountacute urged with much Zeal and many Arguments the Danger and Dishonour of revolting off from the Catholick and Mother-Church: Sir Thomas Challener with more Eloquence enlarged on the just Cause for which we deceded from the Errours of Rome the true Au∣thority by which we deceded from the Usurpation of Rome, and the Moderation in what we deceded from the Superstition of Rome.

When the Spanish Embassadour urged that some Catholicks might with the Queens leave remain in S••ain; he answered him in a large Declaration, That though the instance seemed a matter of no great moment, yet seeing the Parties concerned would not receive so much advantage by the licen••e as the Com∣monwealth would damage by the President, it was nei∣ther fit for the King of Spain to urge, or for the Queen of England to grant. He was very impatient of In∣juries, pressing his return home when his Coffers were searched, but admonished by his Mistress, That an Embassadour must take all things in good part that hath not a direct tendency to the Princes disho∣nour, or his Countries danger.* 1.1 His death was as ho∣nourable as his life, Sir William Cecil being chief Mourner at his Funeral, St. Pauls containing his Grave, and he leaving a hopeful * 1.2Son that should bring up future Princes, as he had served the pre∣sent; being as worthy a Tutor to the hopeful Prince Henry, as his Father had been a faithful Servant to the renowned Queen Elizabeth.

Notes

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