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.
About this Item
Title
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.
Author
Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
Publication
London :: Printed by Thomas Milbourne for Samuel Speed ...,
1670.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
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.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48794.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48794.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
Pages
Observations on the Life of Sir Henry Martin.
HE would merrily say, That if his Father had left him fourscore pounds a year, where he left him but forty, he would never have been a Scholar, but have lived on his Lands: whereas his Inheritance being a large en∣couragement, but a small maintenance, he made up in study what he wanted in Estate; first at Win∣chester, and then at New-Colledge, where his in∣clination led him to Divinity, but Bishop Andrews his advice perswaded him to the Civil Law, where∣in he attained that great proficiency he was eminent for, thus:—
He had weekly transmitted to him from some Proctors at Lambeth, the brief heads of the most important Causes which were to be tryed in the High-Commission. Then with some of his familiar friends in that faculty, he pri∣vately pleaded those Causes; acting in their
descriptionPage 926
Chamber what was done in the Court: But Mr. Martin making it his work, exceeded the rest in amplifying and aggrava••ing any fault, to move anger and indignation against the guilt thereof; or else in extenuating or excusing it, to procure pity, obtain pardon, or at least prevail for a lighter punishment:
—Whence no Cause came a∣miss to him in the High-Commission: For, saith my Author, he was not to make new Armour, but only to put it on, and buckle it; not to in∣vent, but apply arguments to his Clients.—As in decision of Controversies in his Courts, he had a moderate and middle way: so in managing of af∣fairs in Parliament, he had a healing Method: Whence in most Debates with the Lords, where Mr. Noy's Law and Reason could not convince, Sir Henry Martin's * 1.1 Expedients could accommodate. For which services, and his other meri••s, he was made Judge of the Prerogative-Court for probate of Wills, and of the Admiralty for Foreign Trade. Whence King IAMES would say mer∣rily, He was a mighty Monarch by Sea and Land, over the Dead and the Living.
Notes
* 1.1
As about the Petition of Right, in refe∣rence to which, he & Ser∣geant Glanvile satisfied the Lords.