Diary of John Manningham Part 9

[Footnote 56: Sir Gervase Clifton, a man of great wealth and power in Nottinghams.h.i.+re, was created a peer in 1608. In 1618 he died by an act of the same hand which had so gallantly defended his son from the bear. His t.i.tle of Lord Clifton in now united to that of Earl of Darnley.]

[Sidenote: fo. 16.

Febr. 1601.]

One Burneham of London, whoe was the Watergate officer at Flus.h.i.+nge, being troubled with the stone, soe much that it was a hindraunce vnto him in the execution of his office, ventured a dangerous cure, and was cutt for it, but dyed of it. This cure by cutting is a newe invention, a kinde of practise not knowne to former ages. There is a seame * * *

which the surgeons searche with a crooked instrument concaued at the one ende called a catheter, wherinto they make incision, and then grope for the stone with an other toole which they call a duckes bill: yf the stone be greater then may be drawne forth at the hole made by the seame, the partie dyes for it. (_My cosen._)

A certaine goldsmith in Cheape was indebted to my cosen above 100_l._ and after executed for clipping gold. Sir Richard Martin[57] seised the goodes for the Queen. After hir Majestie gave commaund by word of mouth, that all the debtes should be paid, but, because there was noe warraunt under hir Majesties hand, S^r. Richard refused to pay, yet he deliuered certaine of the goodes to my cosen, to be sold by him, which he made 30_l._ of and retained it. All the satisfaccion he could haue.

[Footnote 57: Warden of the Mint.]

_Vita coelibis bis coelestis_, considering the crosses of marriage, and the aduise of the Apostle.

[Sidenote: Feb. 24.]

AT ROCHESTER, AT THE a.s.sISES.

Mr. Thomas Scott of Scottes Hall,[58] in Kent, is Sherife of Kent.

[Footnote 58: In the parish of Smeeth. The Scotts of Scotts Hall were originally seated at Bradbourne.]

[Sidenote: fo. 16.

Febr. 1601.]

One Tristram Lyde, a surgeon, admitted to practise by the archbishops letters, was arraigned for killing divers women by annoyntinge them with quicksylver, &c. Euidence giuen that he would haue caused the women to haue stript themselues naked in his presence, and himselfe would haue annoynted them; that he tooke upon him the cure, and departed because they would not give him more then their first agreement. He pleaded theire diseases were such as required that kinde of medicine, that it was there owne negligence by takinge cold, by going abroade sooner then he prescribed, soe he was acquited.

Sergeant Daniel[59] sitting there as judge sayd he knewe that there might be a purgacion by a fume, and that to cure by cutting a gutt was a dangerous venture, and a rare skill, for he could neuer heare of anie had that cunning but onely one man, and that was learned in Turkie.

[Footnote 59: Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, 1604-1610.]

If a man kill an other (as they say) in hott bloud, excepte there appear some cause to heate his blond, the jury must finde it murder. (_Per Sergeant Danyell._)

There was one gave another rude words, whereupon a third standing by said to him to whome they were spoken, "Will you endure such an injury?

Fayth, putt vp them and put vp any thing." Hereupon the party present fetcht his weapon, mett with the other that gaue him those wordes, and [in] the presence of the setter on fought with him, and slewe him, the other standinge by and doinge noe more. Yet they were both condemned at this a.s.sises, and after executed.

[Sidenote: fo. 16^b.

24 Febr. 1601.]

There was one had his booke given him at the prisoners barr, where the ordinary useth to heare and certifie there readinge. And one Mr.

Gylburne start up sayinge, "He will reade as well as my horse;" which wordes Sergeant Daniel, havinge before allowed the cleargy, tooke verry ill, telling him playnely that he was too hasty: and yet caused the prisoner to be brought nearer that Gylburne might hear him reade, and he reade perfectly.

IN THE CATHEDRALL CHURCHE AT ROCHESTER.

Monuments. Of Jo. Somer of Newland, clerke of the Privy Signet, and Martin (_sic_) his wife, daughter to Ed. Ridge, late widdowe of Th.

Colepepper. They had 6 sonnes, but all deade, and 2 daughters: whereof the one called Frances was married to James Cromer, by whom one daughter called Frances. _Versus._

_Sunt nisi praemissi quos periisse putas._

_In Naui Ecclesiae._

_Thomas Willowbee, Deca.n.u.s 3^s, obiit anno 25 Reg. Elizab., 76 aetatis suae, et 10^o decanats._

_Gualterus Phillips, nouissimus prior et primus deca.n.u.s, obijt 23^o Nouemb. 1570, aetatis 70, decanats 30^o._

[Sidenote: May 2, 1602.

fol. 17^b.]

At Glastenbury there are certaine bushes which beare May flowers at Christmas and in January, and there is a walnut tree which hath no leaues before Barnabies day in June, and then it beginns to bud, and after becomes as forward as any other.

(_Mr. Towse narravit._)

I heard that the old Earle of Hartford[60] maried Alderman Parnels [Pranell's] sonnes widdow; shee was the daughter of Viscount Bindon.

[Footnote 60: Edward, son of the Protector Somerset, Earl of Hertford from 1559 to 1619, the same who married Lady Catherine Grey. The lady here alluded to, Frances daughter of Thomas first Viscount Howard of Bindon, became ultimately the celebrated d.u.c.h.ess of Richmond and Lennox of the reigns of James I. and Charles I.]

[Sidenote: May 9, 1602.

fo. 18.]

ATT THE TEMPLE CHURCHE.

Dr. Montague,[61] his text Joh. iii. 14: "As Moses lift up the Serpent in the Wildernes so must the Sonne of Man be lift up."

[Footnote 61: Dr. James Montague, first master of Sidney Suss.e.x College, editor of King James's Works, and subsequently Bishop successively of Bath and Wells and of Winchester.]

Speaches are either historicall of a thing past, propheticall of a thing to come, legall of a thing to be done, or figurative when one thing is said and an other ment. Figures there are in scripture, two almost peculiar, typicall and sacramentall, the one shewing one thing by an other, the other declaring what is conferred by another.

Moses had speciall commaundment to erect this Serpent, and yet G.o.d did not dispense with the 2nd Commaundment, for this Serpent was not made to be wors.h.i.+pped, but to be looked upon.

G.o.d cannot dispense with anie commandment of the first table but he should cease to be G.o.d, as the first, Thou shalt have none other[62]

G.o.ds but me; admit a pluralitie, and himselfe should be none, &c. but with the 2nd table he often dispenseth, for those concerne man immediately.

[Footnote 62: others, in MS.]

The text is hystoricall, Numb. xxi. 9, and typicall. Christ resembled by the brasen Serpent, Syn by the stinging.