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HAd his Faith been as Orthodox as his Fa∣thers Faithfulness was eminent, K. Iames his gratitude, and his Uncle Northampton's po∣licy had raised him as high as his Father hath been, and his son is. But since his opinion made him a Separatist from the Church, and his tem∣per a recluse from the Court, we have him in a place of Honour only as Earl Marshal, while we finde his Brother in a place of Profit, as Lord
Treasurer—though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Counsellors, — where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his a 1.1 Uncles maxim; That a through-paced Papist could not be a true-hearted Subject; being as good an English-man in his heart, as he was a Catholick in his conscience; only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in b 1.2 Parliament; whence he endured some discoun∣tenance from the Court, insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner, when they sate 1626. would not act until after several of their Petitions he was released; when, his temper yield∣ing with years, he was very complying, only he presumed to marry his Son to an Heiress the King had disposed of elsewhere; which yet he laid upon the women that made the M••••ch. Indeed the po∣litick Observator saith; That women of all creatures are the most dextrous in contriving their designs, their natural sprightfulness of imagination, attended with their leisure, furnishing them with a thousand Ex∣pedients, and proposing all kinds of Overtures with such probability of happy success, that they easily de∣sire, and as eagerly pursue their design.
When he was sometimes barred the service of h••s own time, he studied those before him, being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity, of whose old pieces he was the greatest Hoarder in Europ••, setting aside Ferdinand•• de Medicis, grand Duke of T••sca••y, from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton, he borrowed many an Antique Sculpture, which furnished his Archives so well, (as we may guess by Mr. Selden's Marmora Arundeliana) that as my Lord Burleigh's Library was the most com∣pleat one for a Politician, my Lord Bacon's for a
Philosopher, Mr. Selden's for an Historian, Bishop Usher's for a Divine, my Lord of Northampton's for a Poet, Mr. Oughtred's for a Mathematician, Dr. Hammond's for a Grammarian, or an universal Cri∣tick; so the Earl of Arundel's was the best for an Herald and an Antiquary, a * 1.3 Library not for shew, but use.
Neither was he more in his study, where h•• be∣stowed his melancholy hours, than in Councel, where he advised three things in reference to the Foreign troubles: 1. Correspondence abroad. 2, Frequent Parliaments. 3. Oftner progresses into the Countries. Neither was he less in the Field than in Council, when General against the Sco••s (the more shame!) th••t Protestants should at a time rebel against their King, when Papists ventu∣red their lives for him: After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen••Mother of France, 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish, May it never have need of me.
It's true, some observe, that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist, yet writ under-hand to him their Noble Lord, as they did to Essex and Holland so effectually, that they had no heart to that War afterward;—and it is as true, that thereupon a schedule was now the second time given of the par∣ties that combined against the Government, viz. 1. The busie medlers that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames's time, not used in Parliament from H. 6. time to his. 2. The covetous Landlords, Inclosers, Justices of th•• Peace that ruled in the Country, and would do so in Parliament. 3. Needy men in debt, that
durst not shew their heads in time of Peace. 4. Pu∣ritans, that were so troublesom against Hatton, &c. in Queen Eliz. dayes; and under pretence of Re∣ligion, overthrew all Government. 5. Such Male-contents as either lost the preferment they had, or had not what they were ambitious of, with their Kindred and Dependants. 6. Lawyers, that second any attempt upon the Prerogative, with their Ca∣ses, Records, and Antiquities. 7. London Mer∣chants, that had been discovered by Cranfield and Ingram, as to their cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations. 8. Common-wealths-men, that had learned from Holland in Queen Eliz. days to pray for the Queen and the State. And 9. (Because there cannot be a Treason without a P—) such Recusants as were Hispanioliz'd, whereof this Earl was none: but though as a Church-Papist he had most of the Catholick Peers votes devolved on him; he never bestowed them undutifully, albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely. A great friend he was to all new Inventions, save those that tended to do that by few hands, which had been usually done by many; because, said he, While private men busie their heads to take off the Poors employment, the publick Magistrate must trou∣ble his to find them maintenance. Either be or the Earl of Northampton used to say (when asked what made a compleat man?) To know how to cast Ac∣compts: an accomplishment though ordinary, yet might save many an Estate in England.
See the Ea: of Nor∣thamptons Speech.
See Lord Spencer.
Nobly communi∣cated to all inge ni∣ous per∣sons by the honourable H. Howard of Nor∣folk, grea∣ter in his own worth than in any titles.