which I have seen, and many of them read) these treatises, viz. 1. The Characters, or Index Rerum. In 4 Tomes. 2. The Introduction to Active Philosophie. 5. The Art of Complyance. 6. The Art of Governing the Tongue. 9. The Government of Resolution. 10. The Government of Reputation. 11. The Government of Power. In 2 Tomes. 12. The Government of Servients. 18. The Government of Subserviency. 15. The Government of Enmities. 22. The Government of Amor Conjugalis. In 2 Tomes. 23. Of Amor Concupiscentiæ. 24. The Government of Felicitie. 25. The Lives of Atticus, Sejanus, Augustus. 26. The Causes of the Diseases of the Mind. 27. The Cures of the Mind, viz. Passions, Diseases, Errors, Defects. 28. The Art of Discerning Men. 29. The Art of Discerning Man's selfe. 30. Religion from Reason. In 3 Tomes. 31. The Life of Cum-fu-zu, so farr wrote by J. B. 32. The Life of Mahomett, wrote by S: Walter Raleigh's papers, with some small addition for methodizing the same. He made it his businesse to advance the trade of England, and many men have printed his conceptions. RICHARD BOYLE, FIRST EARL OF CORKE, AND HIS 7th DAUGHTER, MARY COUNTESS OF WARWICK. The Virtuous Woman found: Being a Sermon preached at Felsted, in Essex, at the Funerall of the most excellent and religious lady, the Righthonourable MARY Countesse Dowager of Warwick. By Anthony Walker, D.D. rector of Fyfield, in the sayd countie. The 2d Edition I have desired him to give these MSS, to the library of the R. Soc. corrected. Printed at London, for Nath. Ranew, at the King's Arms, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1680." (The Epistle dedicatory is dated, May 27, 1678.) Pag. 44. She was truly excellent and great in all respects: great in the honour of her birth, being born a lady and a virtuosa both; seventh daughter of that eminently Honourable Richard, the first Earle of Cork, who being born a private gentleman, and younger brother of a younger brother, to no other heritage than is expressed in the device and motto, which his humble gratitude inscribed on all the pallaces he built, God's Providence, mine Inheritance. By that Providence, and his diligent and wise industry, raised such an honour and estate, and left such a familie as never any subject of these three kingdomes did, and that with so unspotted a reputation of integrity, that the most invidious scrutiny could find no blott, though it winnowed all the methods of his rising most severely, which our good Lady hath often told me with great content and satisfaction, This noble Lord by his prudent and pious consort, no lesse an ornament and honour to their descendants than himself, was blessed with five sonnes, of which he lived to see four Lords and Peeres of the kingdome of Ireland, And a fifth, more than these titles speak, a Soveraigne and Peerlesse, in a larger province,that of universall nature, subdued and made obsequious to his inquisitive mind. And eight daughters. And that you may remark how all things were extraordinary in this great personage, it will, I hope, be neither unpleasant nor impertinent to add a short story I had from our Lady's own mouth. But Master Boyl, after Earle of Cork (who was then a widdower), came one morning to waite on S: Jeoffry Fenton, at that time a great officer* of state in that kingdome of Ireland, who being ingaged in business, and not knowing who it was who desired to speake with him, a while delayed him access; which time he spent pleasantly with his young daughter in her nurse's arms. when S Jeoffry came, and saw whom he had made stay somewhat too long, he civilly excused it. But master Boyl replied, he had been very well entertayned; and spent his time much to his satisfaction, in courting his daughter, if he might obtaine the honour to be accepted for his son-inlawe. At which S: Jeoffry, smiling (to hear one who had been formerly married, move for a wife carried in arms, and under two years old,) asked him if he would stay for her? To which he * Secretary of Estate. frankly answered him he would, and S. Jeoffry as generously promised him, he should then have his consent. And they both kept their words honourably. And by this virtuous lady he had thirteen children, ten of which he lived to see honourably married, and died a grandfather by the youngest of them. Nor did she derive less honour from the collateral, than the descending line, being sister by soul and genius as well as bloud to these great personages, whose illustrious, unspotted, and resplendent honour and virtue, and whose usefull learning and accurate pens, may attone and expiate, as well as shame, the scandalous blemishes of a debauched, and the many impertinencies of a scribling, age. 1. Richard, the truly Right Honourable, Loyal, Wise, and Vertuous, Earl of Burlington and Cork, whose Life is his fairest and most laudable character. 2. The Right Honourable Roger Earle of Orrery, that great Poet, great Statesman, great Soldier, and great Every-thing, which merits the name of Great or Good. 3. Francis Lord Shannon, whose Pocket-Pistol, as he stiles his book, may make as wide breaches in the walls of the Capitol, as many canons. 4. And that honourable and well known name |