QUARLES, Sir Robert (1581-1639), of Stewards, Romford, Essex. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010. Available from Cambridge University Press.
b. 12 May 1581, 1st s. of James Quarles of Stewards, clerk of the Greencloth and surveyor of marine victuals, and his 2nd w. Joan, da. and h. of Edward Dalton of Moor Park, Much Hadham, Herts. educ. privately (Thomas Foster, by 1589), Emmanuel, Camb. 1599, L. Inn 1600. m. (1) 2 Sept. 1601, Hester (bur. 9 Sept. 1612), da. of Sir Edward Lewkenor I* of Denham, Suff. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 8 Apr. 1614, Anne (bur. 14 Oct. 1616), da. of William Brewster of Castle Hedingham, Essex, wid. of Sir Thomas Seckford (d.1610) of Great Bealings, Suff., 1da. d.v.p.; (3) 6 May 1617, Mary (bur. 3 Mar. 1665), da. of Henry Parvish, Haberdasher of London and Ruckholts, Leyton, Essex, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1599; kntd. 5 Mar. 1608. d. 2 Feb. 1639. sig. Rob[ert] or Rob[er]t Quarles.
Offices Held
Coroner, Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1607-8; commr. gaol delivery, Havering-atte-Bower 1610-at least 1618, sewers, Havering and Dagenham levels, Essex 1612-at least 1622, Chipping Ongar bridge to Ilford bridge, 1620, Rainham bridge to Mucking Mill 1627, inquiry, Waltham Forest 1616; j.p. Essex 1622-d.; commr. oyer and terminer, Essex (highways' repair) 1622, Home circ. 1638-d., subsidy, Essex 1624, 1625, 1628, Forced Loan 1626-7, charitable uses, 1629-at least 1637; kpr. Leyton, Wanstead and W. Hainault Walks, Essex 1634-at least 1638.
Biography
Quarles's brother, the royalist poet Francis Quarles, claimed an English ancestry stretching back to before the Conquest, but the family's earliest known ancestor lived at Ufford in Northamptonshire during the reign of Henry V. Quarles's paternal grandfather, an auditor to Henry VIII, also resided at Ufford. It was probably Quarles's father, James, who, sometime after November 1561, obtained the Essex manor of Stewards, in the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. In 1587 James Quarles, clerk of both the Kitchen and Greencloth, became victualler of the navy. Rising prices dented his profits in the early 1590s, when he allegedly spent £3,172 more than he was contractually allowed to claim. His resources were further depleted in 1594-5, when his expenditure apparently exceeded his receipts by £5,300.20 Following his death in 1599 his widow Joan pressed for reimbursement, but she sensibly dropped her demands after lord treasurer Buckhurst (Robert Sackville*) agreed to waive payment of more than £2,800, the sum the Exchequer claimed it was still owed on her late husband's accounts.
The eldest of four sons, Quarles was under-age when his father died in 1599. It was initially unclear whether he was subject to wardship, but by 1602 the matter had been settled in the affirmative, and Joan purchased the wardship for £300. Although Quarles and two of his brothers were sent to university, Joan was forced to reduce the allowances provided by her late husband for the two younger sons' education. In October 1600, less than a year after entering Lincoln's Inn, Quarles married Hester Lewkenor, one of the daughters of the Suffolk puritan Sir Edward Lewkenor I. This match hints strongly at Joan's religious inclinations, as does the fact that Quarles's brother Francis was godson to the local puritan Sir Francis Barrington*. Quarles initially lived with his wife's family at Denham, Suffolk, and remained there after Hester's parents succumbed to smallpox in 1605 and after the death of his own mother in 1606. Perhaps only his service as Havering's coroner in 1607-8 required him to spend much time at Stewards before Hester's death in 1612.
Early in 1608 Quarles was prosecuted in Star Chamber for hunting the king's deer, but he pleaded that the land over which he had hunted was disafforested. It seems unlikely that he was punished as he was knighted two months later. Ten years later Quarles was again in trouble, this time for encroaching on Havering manor. At around the same time, in June 1618, he borrowed £600 from a London widow, having earlier taken up (and repaid) at least £350 from two other lenders and sold or mortgaged property for £2,000. The purpose of these financial dealings is unclear, but Quarles may have been engaged in improving Stewards, which stood in a large park. The estate was the smallest of the properties owned by Havering's five leading families, comprising just 397 acres, but Quarles was also seised of Thundersley manor in south Essex as well as his mother's former property in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Quarles was first appointed to serve on a local commission in May 1610, but was not named to the Essex bench until 1622. In February 1626 he was returned for Colchester after Sir Harbottle Grimston plumped for the county seat. His decision to seek election is undoubtedly explained by the interests of his younger brother Francis, who belonged to an Essex syndicate which aimed to obtain parliamentary authority to manufacture saltpetre using a new method. However, as the bill failed to emerge from the House of Lords, where it was introduced, Quarles proved unable to further the syndicate's interests. He made no recorded speeches, but was named to several committees, none of which are known to have interested either him or his constituents. They concerned the sale of Barrington manor, Somerset (27 Feb.); the lands of Giles Sewster (13 Mar.); Sir Edward Fisher (23 Mar.); a Chancery decree regarding Feltwell manor (6 May); the naturalization of Sir Daniel Deligne of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire (9 May) and the sons of Sir Jacob Astley (11 May); and two provisoes in a deed regarding the 2nd earl of Exeter (William Cecil†; 24 May). Quarles received only two other mentions in the Parliament's records. On 7 Mar. he was appointed to a joint conference with the Lords concerning defence, and on 5 Apr. it was ordered that he should not be fined for being absent from a call of the House as he was sick.
Following the dissolution the government considered demanding £200 from Quarles by way of a Privy Seal loan, but the money was probably never raised. He was subsequently named to the commission for the Forced Loan, to which he contributed £20, but played no part in its collection. Much of the remainder of his life is obscure. His assessment for Ship Money in 1637 was set at the surprisingly low figure of £3.35 In April of that year, while still in good health, he drew up his will, describing himself as one of the elect and requesting burial in the chancel of Romford's 'chapel'. He died on 2 Feb. 1639 and was interred the same day. His eldest son James, whom he appointed as his sole executor, followed him to the grave less than four years later, leaving only an infant daughter. An elegy praising Quarles for his 'piety and hospitality' was composed by his brother Francis and published shortly after his death. No other member of the family subsequently sat in Parliament.
Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
To
The everlasting memory of
my dearely loving,
and as
Dearely beloved Brother,
Sir Robert Quarles,
of Romford, Knt.
Iustice of peace and Quorum,
in the County of Essex; Francis Quarles,
a disconsolate mourner,
In the depth of his just sorrow,
and height of true affection,
presents and consecrats
these sad Memorials,
in testimony of that deare love,
which
Time cannot dissolve, nor death divorse.
Page [unnumbered]
Reader,
who ere thou art,
That with an obvious eye
dost happen to peruse these lines,
taxe not my quill
whose zeale commands a taske
which may incurre
the censure of officious Partiality;
excuse that hand
which rather seekes to ease a heart
burthened with a faithfull griefe,
then
to magnifie his name
whose owne deserts
require no other Herault
than popular Report;
no other Plaudit
than the voyce of heaven and Angels.
Page [unnumbered]
His family,
If Antiquity may chalenge honour,
receivd it
before the martiall Drum
of the victorious Norman
left
to beat his conquering marches
in this glorious Island:
but,
birth nor blood,
nor what his Ancestors have done,
can chalenge ought
in him
that might redeeme his Name
from dull oblivion,
had not
his undegenerate actions
out-spoke his long-lin'd Genealogie.
His youth
Had all advantage of education
which
Carefull parents could contrive to give
and
a sweete ingenuous disposition could take;
bred
in the illustrious Academy of
Cambridge,
and
the honourable Society of
the Innes of Court;
wherein
He suckt such literature and manners,
as seasond his youth, and ripned his age;
to the honour of the Church,
to the good of his Country,
to the glory of his Family.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
The faithfull husband of three wives;
the first
Esther;
the daughter of
Sir Edward Lewknor,
in the County of Suffolke Knt.
the second,
Anne;
the Widdow of
Sir Thomas Sackford
in the County of Suffolke, Knt.
the third,
Mary;
the daughter of
Henry Parvish,
of the City of London, Esquire,
a true and faithfull Mourner.
Page [unnumbered]
His
obedience to authority
gave him
Authority to command;
and his
Gentlenesse in Commanding
made him a necessary Commander:
wherein,
he so wisely compounded
Severity and Clemency
to the making up of true Iustice
both
Commutative and Distributive,
that
the very mouth of malice
was muzl'd at his Actions,
not daring to impeach
The uprightnesse of his Civil Govenment:
Page [unnumbered]
There was no
Morall vertue,
wherein he attained not
to high Perfection;
which,
like a rich perfume,
breathd so much sweetnesse into his name;
and,
like a diademe so crownd his dayes
with
Honour and Opinion,
that timerous vice,
not daring to approach his sight,
would stand and blush,
or shrinke away,
and seeke a safe protection
From those false hearts that lov'd him not.
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
The
true sincerity of his Religion
had, but sought not
the applause
of men;
who,
pressing on towards the high Reward,
both in his practise and profession,
neither blusht nor bosted:
He was
the Orphans father;
the Oppressors Enemy;
the poore mans Advocate:
apt
to forgive, and willing to be forgiven:
Zealous without faction;
Charitable without ostentation;
Orthodoxe, without superstition.
Page [unnumbered]
His brest was
a Cabanet of
•iety, faith, and compassion,
whose
carefull keeper was,
a true Nathaniel,
In whom there was no guile:
He was
the master of his
word, wealth, and passion;
Lord
of his Affections
both
Concupiscible, and irascible;
curbing
all extremities with Prudence;
conquering
all adversities with Patience.
Page [unnumbered]
His life
was a happy continuation
of
well spent houres,
devoted to
the glory of God, the good of his country;
the service of his Prince;
wherein,
his
Piety, Iustice, and Fidelity
proposed him
an example
to all that would desire the love
of
God and Man,
and purchase to themselves
the underpriz'd Inheritance of
an honourable name.
Page [unnumbered]
His death
was
the Confirmation of a well led life,
being
the other moity of his happy story;
wherein,
he appeares just waight,
without the allowance
of the least graine
of flattery, or affection;
It was
the subject of his
Contemplation, Expectation, Preparation;
in respect of which, it was neither
strange, sudden, nor terrible,
but a welcome passage
from mortality, by corruption, to eternity.
Page [unnumbered]
And now
his blood-washt soule
hath entred the pearly gates of
New Ierusalem;
where he
sits
roabd, and crownd, and glorified;
enjoying
the beatifique vision
of
Iehovah Elohim;
triumphing
and singing to the name of
IESVS,
in the sacrosanctious Quire
of
Angels, and Archangels,
Hosannas, Anthems, and Halelujahs.
The end.
By Francis Quarles
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Sir Robert Quarles
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Quarles
b. 12 May 1581, 1st s. of James Quarles of Stewards, clerk of the Greencloth and surveyor of marine victuals, and his 2nd w. Joan, da. and h. of Edward Dalton of Moor Park, Much Hadham, Herts. educ. privately (Thomas Foster, by 1589), Emmanuel, Camb. 1599, L. Inn 1600. m. (1) 2 Sept. 1601, Hester (bur. 9 Sept. 1612), da. of Sir Edward Lewkenor I* of Denham, Suff. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 8 Apr. 1614, Anne (bur. 14 Oct. 1616), da. of William Brewster of Castle Hedingham, Essex, wid. of Sir Thomas Seckford (d.1610) of Great Bealings, Suff., 1da. d.v.p.; (3) 6 May 1617, Mary (bur. 3 Mar. 1665), da. of Henry Parvish, Haberdasher of London and Ruckholts, Leyton, Essex, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1599; kntd. 5 Mar. 1608. d. 2 Feb. 1639. sig. Rob[ert] or Rob[er]t Quarles.
Offices Held
Coroner, Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1607-8; commr. gaol delivery, Havering-atte-Bower 1610-at least 1618, sewers, Havering and Dagenham levels, Essex 1612-at least 1622, Chipping Ongar bridge to Ilford bridge, 1620, Rainham bridge to Mucking Mill 1627, inquiry, Waltham Forest 1616; j.p. Essex 1622-d.; commr. oyer and terminer, Essex (highways' repair) 1622, Home circ. 1638-d., subsidy, Essex 1624, 1625, 1628, Forced Loan 1626-7, charitable uses, 1629-at least 1637; kpr. Leyton, Wanstead and W. Hainault Walks, Essex 1634-at least 1638.
Biography
Quarles's brother, the royalist poet Francis Quarles, claimed an English ancestry stretching back to before the Conquest, but the family's earliest known ancestor lived at Ufford in Northamptonshire during the reign of Henry V. Quarles's paternal grandfather, an auditor to Henry VIII, also resided at Ufford. It was probably Quarles's father, James, who, sometime after November 1561, obtained the Essex manor of Stewards, in the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. In 1587 James Quarles, clerk of both the Kitchen and Greencloth, became victualler of the navy. Rising prices dented his profits in the early 1590s, when he allegedly spent £3,172 more than he was contractually allowed to claim. His resources were further depleted in 1594-5, when his expenditure apparently exceeded his receipts by £5,300.20 Following his death in 1599 his widow Joan pressed for reimbursement, but she sensibly dropped her demands after lord treasurer Buckhurst (Robert Sackville*) agreed to waive payment of more than £2,800, the sum the Exchequer claimed it was still owed on her late husband's accounts.
The eldest of four sons, Quarles was under-age when his father died in 1599. It was initially unclear whether he was subject to wardship, but by 1602 the matter had been settled in the affirmative, and Joan purchased the wardship for £300. Although Quarles and two of his brothers were sent to university, Joan was forced to reduce the allowances provided by her late husband for the two younger sons' education. In October 1600, less than a year after entering Lincoln's Inn, Quarles married Hester Lewkenor, one of the daughters of the Suffolk puritan Sir Edward Lewkenor I. This match hints strongly at Joan's religious inclinations, as does the fact that Quarles's brother Francis was godson to the local puritan Sir Francis Barrington*. Quarles initially lived with his wife's family at Denham, Suffolk, and remained there after Hester's parents succumbed to smallpox in 1605 and after the death of his own mother in 1606. Perhaps only his service as Havering's coroner in 1607-8 required him to spend much time at Stewards before Hester's death in 1612.
Early in 1608 Quarles was prosecuted in Star Chamber for hunting the king's deer, but he pleaded that the land over which he had hunted was disafforested. It seems unlikely that he was punished as he was knighted two months later. Ten years later Quarles was again in trouble, this time for encroaching on Havering manor. At around the same time, in June 1618, he borrowed £600 from a London widow, having earlier taken up (and repaid) at least £350 from two other lenders and sold or mortgaged property for £2,000. The purpose of these financial dealings is unclear, but Quarles may have been engaged in improving Stewards, which stood in a large park. The estate was the smallest of the properties owned by Havering's five leading families, comprising just 397 acres, but Quarles was also seised of Thundersley manor in south Essex as well as his mother's former property in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Quarles was first appointed to serve on a local commission in May 1610, but was not named to the Essex bench until 1622. In February 1626 he was returned for Colchester after Sir Harbottle Grimston plumped for the county seat. His decision to seek election is undoubtedly explained by the interests of his younger brother Francis, who belonged to an Essex syndicate which aimed to obtain parliamentary authority to manufacture saltpetre using a new method. However, as the bill failed to emerge from the House of Lords, where it was introduced, Quarles proved unable to further the syndicate's interests. He made no recorded speeches, but was named to several committees, none of which are known to have interested either him or his constituents. They concerned the sale of Barrington manor, Somerset (27 Feb.); the lands of Giles Sewster (13 Mar.); Sir Edward Fisher (23 Mar.); a Chancery decree regarding Feltwell manor (6 May); the naturalization of Sir Daniel Deligne of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire (9 May) and the sons of Sir Jacob Astley (11 May); and two provisoes in a deed regarding the 2nd earl of Exeter (William Cecil†; 24 May). Quarles received only two other mentions in the Parliament's records. On 7 Mar. he was appointed to a joint conference with the Lords concerning defence, and on 5 Apr. it was ordered that he should not be fined for being absent from a call of the House as he was sick.
Following the dissolution the government considered demanding £200 from Quarles by way of a Privy Seal loan, but the money was probably never raised. He was subsequently named to the commission for the Forced Loan, to which he contributed £20, but played no part in its collection. Much of the remainder of his life is obscure. His assessment for Ship Money in 1637 was set at the surprisingly low figure of £3.35 In April of that year, while still in good health, he drew up his will, describing himself as one of the elect and requesting burial in the chancel of Romford's 'chapel'. He died on 2 Feb. 1639 and was interred the same day. His eldest son James, whom he appointed as his sole executor, followed him to the grave less than four years later, leaving only an infant daughter. An elegy praising Quarles for his 'piety and hospitality' was composed by his brother Francis and published shortly after his death. No other member of the family subsequently sat in Parliament.
Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
To
The everlasting memory of
my dearely loving,
and as
Dearely beloved Brother,
Sir Robert Quarles,
of Romford, Knt.
Iustice of peace and Quorum,
in the County of Essex; Francis Quarles,
a disconsolate mourner,
In the depth of his just sorrow,
and height of true affection,
presents and consecrats
these sad Memorials,
in testimony of that deare love,
which
Time cannot dissolve, nor death divorse.
Page [unnumbered]
Reader,
who ere thou art,
That with an obvious eye
dost happen to peruse these lines,
taxe not my quill
whose zeale commands a taske
which may incurre
the censure of officious Partiality;
excuse that hand
which rather seekes to ease a heart
burthened with a faithfull griefe,
then
to magnifie his name
whose owne deserts
require no other Herault
than popular Report;
no other Plaudit
than the voyce of heaven and Angels.
Page [unnumbered]
His family,
If Antiquity may chalenge honour,
receivd it
before the martiall Drum
of the victorious Norman
left
to beat his conquering marches
in this glorious Island:
but,
birth nor blood,
nor what his Ancestors have done,
can chalenge ought
in him
that might redeeme his Name
from dull oblivion,
had not
his undegenerate actions
out-spoke his long-lin'd Genealogie.
His youth
Had all advantage of education
which
Carefull parents could contrive to give
and
a sweete ingenuous disposition could take;
bred
in the illustrious Academy of
Cambridge,
and
the honourable Society of
the Innes of Court;
wherein
He suckt such literature and manners,
as seasond his youth, and ripned his age;
to the honour of the Church,
to the good of his Country,
to the glory of his Family.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
The faithfull husband of three wives;
the first
Esther;
the daughter of
Sir Edward Lewknor,
in the County of Suffolke Knt.
the second,
Anne;
the Widdow of
Sir Thomas Sackford
in the County of Suffolke, Knt.
the third,
Mary;
the daughter of
Henry Parvish,
of the City of London, Esquire,
a true and faithfull Mourner.
Page [unnumbered]
His
obedience to authority
gave him
Authority to command;
and his
Gentlenesse in Commanding
made him a necessary Commander:
wherein,
he so wisely compounded
Severity and Clemency
to the making up of true Iustice
both
Commutative and Distributive,
that
the very mouth of malice
was muzl'd at his Actions,
not daring to impeach
The uprightnesse of his Civil Govenment:
Page [unnumbered]
There was no
Morall vertue,
wherein he attained not
to high Perfection;
which,
like a rich perfume,
breathd so much sweetnesse into his name;
and,
like a diademe so crownd his dayes
with
Honour and Opinion,
that timerous vice,
not daring to approach his sight,
would stand and blush,
or shrinke away,
and seeke a safe protection
From those false hearts that lov'd him not.
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
The
true sincerity of his Religion
had, but sought not
the applause
of men;
who,
pressing on towards the high Reward,
both in his practise and profession,
neither blusht nor bosted:
He was
the Orphans father;
the Oppressors Enemy;
the poore mans Advocate:
apt
to forgive, and willing to be forgiven:
Zealous without faction;
Charitable without ostentation;
Orthodoxe, without superstition.
Page [unnumbered]
His brest was
a Cabanet of
•iety, faith, and compassion,
whose
carefull keeper was,
a true Nathaniel,
In whom there was no guile:
He was
the master of his
word, wealth, and passion;
Lord
of his Affections
both
Concupiscible, and irascible;
curbing
all extremities with Prudence;
conquering
all adversities with Patience.
Page [unnumbered]
His life
was a happy continuation
of
well spent houres,
devoted to
the glory of God, the good of his country;
the service of his Prince;
wherein,
his
Piety, Iustice, and Fidelity
proposed him
an example
to all that would desire the love
of
God and Man,
and purchase to themselves
the underpriz'd Inheritance of
an honourable name.
Page [unnumbered]
His death
was
the Confirmation of a well led life,
being
the other moity of his happy story;
wherein,
he appeares just waight,
without the allowance
of the least graine
of flattery, or affection;
It was
the subject of his
Contemplation, Expectation, Preparation;
in respect of which, it was neither
strange, sudden, nor terrible,
but a welcome passage
from mortality, by corruption, to eternity.
Page [unnumbered]
And now
his blood-washt soule
hath entred the pearly gates of
New Ierusalem;
where he
sits
roabd, and crownd, and glorified;
enjoying
the beatifique vision
of
Iehovah Elohim;
triumphing
and singing to the name of
IESVS,
in the sacrosanctious Quire
of
Angels, and Archangels,
Hosannas, Anthems, and Halelujahs.
The end.
By Francis Quarles
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A10267.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Sir Robert Quarles
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Quarles
QUARLES, Sir Robert (1581-1639), of Stewards, Romford, Essex. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010. Available from Cambridge University Press.
b. 12 May 1581, 1st s. of James Quarles of Stewards, clerk of the Greencloth and surveyor of marine victuals, and his 2nd w. Joan, da. and h. of Edward Dalton of Moor Park, Much Hadham, Herts. educ. privately (Thomas Foster, by 1589), Emmanuel, Camb. 1599, L. Inn 1600. m. (1) 2 Sept. 1601, Hester (bur. 9 Sept. 1612), da. of Sir Edward Lewkenor I* of Denham, Suff. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 8 Apr. 1614, Anne (bur. 14 Oct. 1616), da. of William Brewster of Castle Hedingham, Essex, wid. of Sir Thomas Seckford (d.1610) of Great Bealings, Suff., 1da. d.v.p.; (3) 6 May 1617, Mary (bur. 3 Mar. 1665), da. of Henry Parvish, Haberdasher of London and Ruckholts, Leyton, Essex, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1599; kntd. 5 Mar. 1608. d. 2 Feb. 1639. sig. Rob[ert] or Rob[er]t Quarles.
Offices Held
Coroner, Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1607-8; commr. gaol delivery, Havering-atte-Bower 1610-at least 1618, sewers, Havering and Dagenham levels, Essex 1612-at least 1622, Chipping Ongar bridge to Ilford bridge, 1620, Rainham bridge to Mucking Mill 1627, inquiry, Waltham Forest 1616; j.p. Essex 1622-d.; commr. oyer and terminer, Essex (highways' repair) 1622, Home circ. 1638-d., subsidy, Essex 1624, 1625, 1628, Forced Loan 1626-7, charitable uses, 1629-at least 1637; kpr. Leyton, Wanstead and W. Hainault Walks, Essex 1634-at least 1638.
Biography
Quarles's brother, the royalist poet Francis Quarles, claimed an English ancestry stretching back to before the Conquest, but the family's earliest known ancestor lived at Ufford in Northamptonshire during the reign of Henry V. Quarles's paternal grandfather, an auditor to Henry VIII, also resided at Ufford. It was probably Quarles's father, James, who, sometime after November 1561, obtained the Essex manor of Stewards, in the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. In 1587 James Quarles, clerk of both the Kitchen and Greencloth, became victualler of the navy. Rising prices dented his profits in the early 1590s, when he allegedly spent £3,172 more than he was contractually allowed to claim. His resources were further depleted in 1594-5, when his expenditure apparently exceeded his receipts by £5,300.20 Following his death in 1599 his widow Joan pressed for reimbursement, but she sensibly dropped her demands after lord treasurer Buckhurst (Robert Sackville*) agreed to waive payment of more than £2,800, the sum the Exchequer claimed it was still owed on her late husband's accounts.
The eldest of four sons, Quarles was under-age when his father died in 1599. It was initially unclear whether he was subject to wardship, but by 1602 the matter had been settled in the affirmative, and Joan purchased the wardship for £300. Although Quarles and two of his brothers were sent to university, Joan was forced to reduce the allowances provided by her late husband for the two younger sons' education. In October 1600, less than a year after entering Lincoln's Inn, Quarles married Hester Lewkenor, one of the daughters of the Suffolk puritan Sir Edward Lewkenor I. This match hints strongly at Joan's religious inclinations, as does the fact that Quarles's brother Francis was godson to the local puritan Sir Francis Barrington*. Quarles initially lived with his wife's family at Denham, Suffolk, and remained there after Hester's parents succumbed to smallpox in 1605 and after the death of his own mother in 1606. Perhaps only his service as Havering's coroner in 1607-8 required him to spend much time at Stewards before Hester's death in 1612.
Early in 1608 Quarles was prosecuted in Star Chamber for hunting the king's deer, but he pleaded that the land over which he had hunted was disafforested. It seems unlikely that he was punished as he was knighted two months later. Ten years later Quarles was again in trouble, this time for encroaching on Havering manor. At around the same time, in June 1618, he borrowed £600 from a London widow, having earlier taken up (and repaid) at least £350 from two other lenders and sold or mortgaged property for £2,000. The purpose of these financial dealings is unclear, but Quarles may have been engaged in improving Stewards, which stood in a large park. The estate was the smallest of the properties owned by Havering's five leading families, comprising just 397 acres, but Quarles was also seised of Thundersley manor in south Essex as well as his mother's former property in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Quarles was first appointed to serve on a local commission in May 1610, but was not named to the Essex bench until 1622. In February 1626 he was returned for Colchester after Sir Harbottle Grimston plumped for the county seat. His decision to seek election is undoubtedly explained by the interests of his younger brother Francis, who belonged to an Essex syndicate which aimed to obtain parliamentary authority to manufacture saltpetre using a new method. However, as the bill failed to emerge from the House of Lords, where it was introduced, Quarles proved unable to further the syndicate's interests. He made no recorded speeches, but was named to several committees, none of which are known to have interested either him or his constituents. They concerned the sale of Barrington manor, Somerset (27 Feb.); the lands of Giles Sewster (13 Mar.); Sir Edward Fisher (23 Mar.); a Chancery decree regarding Feltwell manor (6 May); the naturalization of Sir Daniel Deligne of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire (9 May) and the sons of Sir Jacob Astley (11 May); and two provisoes in a deed regarding the 2nd earl of Exeter (William Cecil†; 24 May). Quarles received only two other mentions in the Parliament's records. On 7 Mar. he was appointed to a joint conference with the Lords concerning defence, and on 5 Apr. it was ordered that he should not be fined for being absent from a call of the House as he was sick.
Following the dissolution the government considered demanding £200 from Quarles by way of a Privy Seal loan, but the money was probably never raised. He was subsequently named to the commission for the Forced Loan, to which he contributed £20, but played no part in its collection. Much of the remainder of his life is obscure. His assessment for Ship Money in 1637 was set at the surprisingly low figure of £3.35 In April of that year, while still in good health, he drew up his will, describing himself as one of the elect and requesting burial in the chancel of Romford's 'chapel'. He died on 2 Feb. 1639 and was interred the same day. His eldest son James, whom he appointed as his sole executor, followed him to the grave less than four years later, leaving only an infant daughter. An elegy praising Quarles for his 'piety and hospitality' was composed by his brother Francis and published shortly after his death. No other member of the family subsequently sat in Parliament.
Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
To
The everlasting memory of
my dearely loving,
and as
Dearely beloved Brother,
Sir Robert Quarles,
of Romford, Knt.
Iustice of peace and Quorum,
in the County of Essex; Francis Quarles,
a disconsolate mourner,
In the depth of his just sorrow,
and height of true affection,
presents and consecrats
these sad Memorials,
in testimony of that deare love,
which
Time cannot dissolve, nor death divorse.
Page [unnumbered]
Reader,
who ere thou art,
That with an obvious eye
dost happen to peruse these lines,
taxe not my quill
whose zeale commands a taske
which may incurre
the censure of officious Partiality;
excuse that hand
which rather seekes to ease a heart
burthened with a faithfull griefe,
then
to magnifie his name
whose owne deserts
require no other Herault
than popular Report;
no other Plaudit
than the voyce of heaven and Angels.
Page [unnumbered]
His family,
If Antiquity may chalenge honour,
receivd it
before the martiall Drum
of the victorious Norman
left
to beat his conquering marches
in this glorious Island:
but,
birth nor blood,
nor what his Ancestors have done,
can chalenge ought
in him
that might redeeme his Name
from dull oblivion,
had not
his undegenerate actions
out-spoke his long-lin'd Genealogie.
His youth
Had all advantage of education
which
Carefull parents could contrive to give
and
a sweete ingenuous disposition could take;
bred
in the illustrious Academy of
Cambridge,
and
the honourable Society of
the Innes of Court;
wherein
He suckt such literature and manners,
as seasond his youth, and ripned his age;
to the honour of the Church,
to the good of his Country,
to the glory of his Family.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
The faithfull husband of three wives;
the first
Esther;
the daughter of
Sir Edward Lewknor,
in the County of Suffolke Knt.
the second,
Anne;
the Widdow of
Sir Thomas Sackford
in the County of Suffolke, Knt.
the third,
Mary;
the daughter of
Henry Parvish,
of the City of London, Esquire,
a true and faithfull Mourner.
Page [unnumbered]
His
obedience to authority
gave him
Authority to command;
and his
Gentlenesse in Commanding
made him a necessary Commander:
wherein,
he so wisely compounded
Severity and Clemency
to the making up of true Iustice
both
Commutative and Distributive,
that
the very mouth of malice
was muzl'd at his Actions,
not daring to impeach
The uprightnesse of his Civil Govenment:
Page [unnumbered]
There was no
Morall vertue,
wherein he attained not
to high Perfection;
which,
like a rich perfume,
breathd so much sweetnesse into his name;
and,
like a diademe so crownd his dayes
with
Honour and Opinion,
that timerous vice,
not daring to approach his sight,
would stand and blush,
or shrinke away,
and seeke a safe protection
From those false hearts that lov'd him not.
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
The
true sincerity of his Religion
had, but sought not
the applause
of men;
who,
pressing on towards the high Reward,
both in his practise and profession,
neither blusht nor bosted:
He was
the Orphans father;
the Oppressors Enemy;
the poore mans Advocate:
apt
to forgive, and willing to be forgiven:
Zealous without faction;
Charitable without ostentation;
Orthodoxe, without superstition.
Page [unnumbered]
His brest was
a Cabanet of
•iety, faith, and compassion,
whose
carefull keeper was,
a true Nathaniel,
In whom there was no guile:
He was
the master of his
word, wealth, and passion;
Lord
of his Affections
both
Concupiscible, and irascible;
curbing
all extremities with Prudence;
conquering
all adversities with Patience.
Page [unnumbered]
His life
was a happy continuation
of
well spent houres,
devoted to
the glory of God, the good of his country;
the service of his Prince;
wherein,
his
Piety, Iustice, and Fidelity
proposed him
an example
to all that would desire the love
of
God and Man,
and purchase to themselves
the underpriz'd Inheritance of
an honourable name.
Page [unnumbered]
His death
was
the Confirmation of a well led life,
being
the other moity of his happy story;
wherein,
he appeares just waight,
without the allowance
of the least graine
of flattery, or affection;
It was
the subject of his
Contemplation, Expectation, Preparation;
in respect of which, it was neither
strange, sudden, nor terrible,
but a welcome passage
from mortality, by corruption, to eternity.
Page [unnumbered]
And now
his blood-washt soule
hath entred the pearly gates of
New Ierusalem;
where he
sits
roabd, and crownd, and glorified;
enjoying
the beatifique vision
of
Iehovah Elohim;
triumphing
and singing to the name of
IESVS,
in the sacrosanctious Quire
of
Angels, and Archangels,
Hosannas, Anthems, and Halelujahs.
The end.
By Francis Quarles
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A10267.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Sir Robert Quarles
Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Quarles
b. 12 May 1581, 1st s. of James Quarles of Stewards, clerk of the Greencloth and surveyor of marine victuals, and his 2nd w. Joan, da. and h. of Edward Dalton of Moor Park, Much Hadham, Herts. educ. privately (Thomas Foster, by 1589), Emmanuel, Camb. 1599, L. Inn 1600. m. (1) 2 Sept. 1601, Hester (bur. 9 Sept. 1612), da. of Sir Edward Lewkenor I* of Denham, Suff. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 8 Apr. 1614, Anne (bur. 14 Oct. 1616), da. of William Brewster of Castle Hedingham, Essex, wid. of Sir Thomas Seckford (d.1610) of Great Bealings, Suff., 1da. d.v.p.; (3) 6 May 1617, Mary (bur. 3 Mar. 1665), da. of Henry Parvish, Haberdasher of London and Ruckholts, Leyton, Essex, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1599; kntd. 5 Mar. 1608. d. 2 Feb. 1639. sig. Rob[ert] or Rob[er]t Quarles.
Offices Held
Coroner, Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1607-8; commr. gaol delivery, Havering-atte-Bower 1610-at least 1618, sewers, Havering and Dagenham levels, Essex 1612-at least 1622, Chipping Ongar bridge to Ilford bridge, 1620, Rainham bridge to Mucking Mill 1627, inquiry, Waltham Forest 1616; j.p. Essex 1622-d.; commr. oyer and terminer, Essex (highways' repair) 1622, Home circ. 1638-d., subsidy, Essex 1624, 1625, 1628, Forced Loan 1626-7, charitable uses, 1629-at least 1637; kpr. Leyton, Wanstead and W. Hainault Walks, Essex 1634-at least 1638.
Biography
Quarles's brother, the royalist poet Francis Quarles, claimed an English ancestry stretching back to before the Conquest, but the family's earliest known ancestor lived at Ufford in Northamptonshire during the reign of Henry V. Quarles's paternal grandfather, an auditor to Henry VIII, also resided at Ufford. It was probably Quarles's father, James, who, sometime after November 1561, obtained the Essex manor of Stewards, in the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. In 1587 James Quarles, clerk of both the Kitchen and Greencloth, became victualler of the navy. Rising prices dented his profits in the early 1590s, when he allegedly spent £3,172 more than he was contractually allowed to claim. His resources were further depleted in 1594-5, when his expenditure apparently exceeded his receipts by £5,300.20 Following his death in 1599 his widow Joan pressed for reimbursement, but she sensibly dropped her demands after lord treasurer Buckhurst (Robert Sackville*) agreed to waive payment of more than £2,800, the sum the Exchequer claimed it was still owed on her late husband's accounts.
The eldest of four sons, Quarles was under-age when his father died in 1599. It was initially unclear whether he was subject to wardship, but by 1602 the matter had been settled in the affirmative, and Joan purchased the wardship for £300. Although Quarles and two of his brothers were sent to university, Joan was forced to reduce the allowances provided by her late husband for the two younger sons' education. In October 1600, less than a year after entering Lincoln's Inn, Quarles married Hester Lewkenor, one of the daughters of the Suffolk puritan Sir Edward Lewkenor I. This match hints strongly at Joan's religious inclinations, as does the fact that Quarles's brother Francis was godson to the local puritan Sir Francis Barrington*. Quarles initially lived with his wife's family at Denham, Suffolk, and remained there after Hester's parents succumbed to smallpox in 1605 and after the death of his own mother in 1606. Perhaps only his service as Havering's coroner in 1607-8 required him to spend much time at Stewards before Hester's death in 1612.
Early in 1608 Quarles was prosecuted in Star Chamber for hunting the king's deer, but he pleaded that the land over which he had hunted was disafforested. It seems unlikely that he was punished as he was knighted two months later. Ten years later Quarles was again in trouble, this time for encroaching on Havering manor. At around the same time, in June 1618, he borrowed £600 from a London widow, having earlier taken up (and repaid) at least £350 from two other lenders and sold or mortgaged property for £2,000. The purpose of these financial dealings is unclear, but Quarles may have been engaged in improving Stewards, which stood in a large park. The estate was the smallest of the properties owned by Havering's five leading families, comprising just 397 acres, but Quarles was also seised of Thundersley manor in south Essex as well as his mother's former property in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Quarles was first appointed to serve on a local commission in May 1610, but was not named to the Essex bench until 1622. In February 1626 he was returned for Colchester after Sir Harbottle Grimston plumped for the county seat. His decision to seek election is undoubtedly explained by the interests of his younger brother Francis, who belonged to an Essex syndicate which aimed to obtain parliamentary authority to manufacture saltpetre using a new method. However, as the bill failed to emerge from the House of Lords, where it was introduced, Quarles proved unable to further the syndicate's interests. He made no recorded speeches, but was named to several committees, none of which are known to have interested either him or his constituents. They concerned the sale of Barrington manor, Somerset (27 Feb.); the lands of Giles Sewster (13 Mar.); Sir Edward Fisher (23 Mar.); a Chancery decree regarding Feltwell manor (6 May); the naturalization of Sir Daniel Deligne of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire (9 May) and the sons of Sir Jacob Astley (11 May); and two provisoes in a deed regarding the 2nd earl of Exeter (William Cecil†; 24 May). Quarles received only two other mentions in the Parliament's records. On 7 Mar. he was appointed to a joint conference with the Lords concerning defence, and on 5 Apr. it was ordered that he should not be fined for being absent from a call of the House as he was sick.
Following the dissolution the government considered demanding £200 from Quarles by way of a Privy Seal loan, but the money was probably never raised. He was subsequently named to the commission for the Forced Loan, to which he contributed £20, but played no part in its collection. Much of the remainder of his life is obscure. His assessment for Ship Money in 1637 was set at the surprisingly low figure of £3.35 In April of that year, while still in good health, he drew up his will, describing himself as one of the elect and requesting burial in the chancel of Romford's 'chapel'. He died on 2 Feb. 1639 and was interred the same day. His eldest son James, whom he appointed as his sole executor, followed him to the grave less than four years later, leaving only an infant daughter. An elegy praising Quarles for his 'piety and hospitality' was composed by his brother Francis and published shortly after his death. No other member of the family subsequently sat in Parliament.
Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
To
The everlasting memory of
my dearely loving,
and as
Dearely beloved Brother,
Sir Robert Quarles,
of Romford, Knt.
Iustice of peace and Quorum,
in the County of Essex; Francis Quarles,
a disconsolate mourner,
In the depth of his just sorrow,
and height of true affection,
presents and consecrats
these sad Memorials,
in testimony of that deare love,
which
Time cannot dissolve, nor death divorse.
Page [unnumbered]
Reader,
who ere thou art,
That with an obvious eye
dost happen to peruse these lines,
taxe not my quill
whose zeale commands a taske
which may incurre
the censure of officious Partiality;
excuse that hand
which rather seekes to ease a heart
burthened with a faithfull griefe,
then
to magnifie his name
whose owne deserts
require no other Herault
than popular Report;
no other Plaudit
than the voyce of heaven and Angels.
Page [unnumbered]
His family,
If Antiquity may chalenge honour,
receivd it
before the martiall Drum
of the victorious Norman
left
to beat his conquering marches
in this glorious Island:
but,
birth nor blood,
nor what his Ancestors have done,
can chalenge ought
in him
that might redeeme his Name
from dull oblivion,
had not
his undegenerate actions
out-spoke his long-lin'd Genealogie.
His youth
Had all advantage of education
which
Carefull parents could contrive to give
and
a sweete ingenuous disposition could take;
bred
in the illustrious Academy of
Cambridge,
and
the honourable Society of
the Innes of Court;
wherein
He suckt such literature and manners,
as seasond his youth, and ripned his age;
to the honour of the Church,
to the good of his Country,
to the glory of his Family.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
The faithfull husband of three wives;
the first
Esther;
the daughter of
Sir Edward Lewknor,
in the County of Suffolke Knt.
the second,
Anne;
the Widdow of
Sir Thomas Sackford
in the County of Suffolke, Knt.
the third,
Mary;
the daughter of
Henry Parvish,
of the City of London, Esquire,
a true and faithfull Mourner.
Page [unnumbered]
His
obedience to authority
gave him
Authority to command;
and his
Gentlenesse in Commanding
made him a necessary Commander:
wherein,
he so wisely compounded
Severity and Clemency
to the making up of true Iustice
both
Commutative and Distributive,
that
the very mouth of malice
was muzl'd at his Actions,
not daring to impeach
The uprightnesse of his Civil Govenment:
Page [unnumbered]
There was no
Morall vertue,
wherein he attained not
to high Perfection;
which,
like a rich perfume,
breathd so much sweetnesse into his name;
and,
like a diademe so crownd his dayes
with
Honour and Opinion,
that timerous vice,
not daring to approach his sight,
would stand and blush,
or shrinke away,
and seeke a safe protection
From those false hearts that lov'd him not.
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
Hee
was a friend
to all goodnesse and to all that lovd it:
faithfull
without ends;
constant,
without suspition;
loving,
without dissimulation:
his words
were the exposition of his thought;
his actions
were the confirmation of his words:
in respect of which,
he was neither apt to
glory nor upbraid;
Excusing defaults, without Censure:
Acknowledging deserts, without detractiō
Page [unnumbered]
The two
great Pillours
which supported and maintaind
his
Oeconomick government,
were,
Piety and Hospitallity;
wherein,
Sobriety so moderated Plenty,
that
Men and Angels
were equally refresht at his repasts,
sweetned with the
Symphony
of
a chearefull and a charitable heart;
seasoned with the
musicke
of conjugiall Harmony.
Page [unnumbered]
He was
the faithfull servant
of two illustrious Princes,
Iames and Charles;
in whose acceptable service
He
so demean'd himselfe
in
Humility, wisedome, and fidelity;
that his
knowne faith
still rectifyed him in the gratious eye
of popular Opinion;
whose loyalty
Could have no greater Evidence
than
a smiling Conscience,
and two soveraigne Princes.
Page [unnumbered]
The
true sincerity of his Religion
had, but sought not
the applause
of men;
who,
pressing on towards the high Reward,
both in his practise and profession,
neither blusht nor bosted:
He was
the Orphans father;
the Oppressors Enemy;
the poore mans Advocate:
apt
to forgive, and willing to be forgiven:
Zealous without faction;
Charitable without ostentation;
Orthodoxe, without superstition.
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His brest was
a Cabanet of
•iety, faith, and compassion,
whose
carefull keeper was,
a true Nathaniel,
In whom there was no guile:
He was
the master of his
word, wealth, and passion;
Lord
of his Affections
both
Concupiscible, and irascible;
curbing
all extremities with Prudence;
conquering
all adversities with Patience.
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His life
was a happy continuation
of
well spent houres,
devoted to
the glory of God, the good of his country;
the service of his Prince;
wherein,
his
Piety, Iustice, and Fidelity
proposed him
an example
to all that would desire the love
of
God and Man,
and purchase to themselves
the underpriz'd Inheritance of
an honourable name.
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His death
was
the Confirmation of a well led life,
being
the other moity of his happy story;
wherein,
he appeares just waight,
without the allowance
of the least graine
of flattery, or affection;
It was
the subject of his
Contemplation, Expectation, Preparation;
in respect of which, it was neither
strange, sudden, nor terrible,
but a welcome passage
from mortality, by corruption, to eternity.
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And now
his blood-washt soule
hath entred the pearly gates of
New Ierusalem;
where he
sits
roabd, and crownd, and glorified;
enjoying
the beatifique vision
of
Iehovah Elohim;
triumphing
and singing to the name of
IESVS,
in the sacrosanctious Quire
of
Angels, and Archangels,
Hosannas, Anthems, and Halelujahs.
The end.
By Francis Quarles
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