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.

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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.
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Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Milbourne for Samuel Speed ...,
1670.
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Statesmen -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Favorites, Royal -- England -- Sources.
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800.
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Observations on the Life of William Lord Pawlet.

WIlliam Pawlet (where-ever born) had his lagest estate and highest Honour (Baron of Basing, and Marquess of Win∣chster) in Hantshire He was descended from a younger house of the Pawlets in Hinton St. George in Somersetshire, as by the Crescent in his Arms is acknowledged. * 1.1 One telleth us, That he being a younger Brother, and having wasted all that was left him, came to court on trust; where, upon the stock of his Wit, he trafficked so wisely, and prospe∣red so well, that he got, spent, and left, more than any subject since the Conquest. Indeed he lived at the time of the dissolution of Abbeys, which was the Harvest of Estates; and it argued idlenes if any Courtier had his Barns empty. He was servant to King Henry the seventh; and for thirty years toge∣ther Treasuer to King Henry the eight. Edward the sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth: the latter in some sort owed their Crowns to his Coun∣sel, his policy being the principal Defeater of Dke Dudley's Designe to dis-inherit them. I behold this Lord Pawlet like to aged Adoram, so often men∣tioned in Scriptures, being over the Tribute in the days of King a 1.2 David, all the Reign of King b 1.3 So∣lomon,

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until the first c 1.4 year of Rehoboam. And though our Lord Pawlet enjoyed his place not so many years, yet did he serve more Soveraigns, in more mutable times, being (as he said of himself) No Oak, but an Osier. Herein the parallel holds not: the hoary hairs of Adoram were sent to the Grave by a violent d 1.5 death, slain by the people in a Tumult; this Lord had the rare happiness of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, setting in his full splendour, having lived 97 years, and seen 103 out of his body. He died anno Domini 1572. Thus far Mr. Fuller.

This Gentleman had two Rules as useful for mankind, as they seem opposite to one ano∣ther.

  • 1. That in our Considerations and Debates, we should not dwell in deceitful. Generals, but look in∣to clear Particulars.
  • 2. That in our Resolutions and Conclusions, we should not rest on various Particulars, but rise to uniform Generals.

A Man he was that reverenced himself; that could be vertuous when alone, and good when one∣ly his own Theatre, his own applause, though ex∣cellent, before the world; his vertue improving by fame and glory, as an heat which is doubled by re∣lexion.

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