Heaven. I believe that God himself is not only pleased with his own workmanship in you, as he was when he vidit omnia quod creavit, et erant valde bona; but withal is purposed to protect that worthy person of your Lordship under the wings of his cherubim. What could Sir Anthony Weldon say too bad, of the flattery of a man, who paints the great God of Heaven smitten, like an old doating Queen, with a frail phantom of his own creation?

"But though Northampton could flatter, honest Abbot could not. The Earl prosecuting some persons in the star chamber for defamation, as his infamy began to grow public; when the laws were ready to pass sentence, the Archbishop rose, and to the Earl's face told him, that those things said of him were grounded upon reason; and for which men of upright consciences had some reason to speak; and that his Lordship's own letter made evident, that he had done some things against his own conscience, merely to attain unto honour and sovereignty, and to please the King; and then pulled out a letter from Northampton to Cardinal Bellarmine; in which the Earl professed to the latter, that howsoever the condition of the times compelled him, and his Majesty urged him to turn protestant, yet, nevertheless, his heart stood with the papists, and that he would be ready to assist them in any attempt.

"But to have done with this topic, which I should gladly quit, if it were not to pass to that of blood. Howard, who always kept terms with the Cecils, and when he had presented one of his compositions to Essex, sent another to Burleigh; at the same time, with a true sycophantic art, confessing it to his friend, skirmished himself out of the misfortunes of Essex, and became the instrument of Sir Robert Cecil's correspondence with King James, which Cecil pretended was for the service of his mistress; as the confidence of her ministers would assure that Prince of his peaceable succession, and prevent his giving her any disturbance. This negociation was immediately rewarded by James, on his accession, with his favour, and with the honours I have

mentioned. But as every rising favourite was the object of Northampton's baseness, he addicted his services to the Earl of Somerset, and became a chief and striking instrument in that Lord's match with Northampton's kins-woman the Countess of Essex, and of the succeeding murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.

"Northampton, the pious endower of hospitals, died luckily before the plot came to light, but his letters were read in court; but not all, for they contained such a horrid mixture of obscenity and blood, that the Chief Justice could not go through in common decency.

"Let those who envy the pomp, and splendour which too often accompany those who fill high stations, look on the meanness, the servility, the hypocrisy, and the wickedness of this great, but guilty man; and the arts he used to obtain his greatness, and there will be more reason to turn, with horror, from the sight, than to admire dignity, which is procured by a sacrifice of every principle worth preserving."

It is not many years since that there was a stone in the chapel, against the wall, where he was interred, with the following inscription.

"Memorandum. In this place was buried the body of Henry, Earl of Northampton, Constable of Dover Castle, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, A. D. 1614; and in this place stood likewise a monument, in memory of the said Earl; whose body and monument, by reason of the ruinous situation of this chapel, were removed to the hospital of East Greenwich, in Kent, of the foundation of the said Earl, at the charge of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, governors of the said hospital, with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and of Henry, the Earl of Romney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Constable of Dover Castle."

Time, with his levelling hand, continues to obliterate and demolish what has been done to perpetuate the memory of this Earl. The chapel, belonging to Sion College, at Greenwich, was, about two years since, in a ruinous state, and it was taken down, and rebuilt. At that period, the Latin on the Earl's monument was legible; but the masons, not having any one to overlook them, defaced the inscription, and removed the sculptured stone, so that there is not any thing now remaining, but a bust of the said Earl, and the following memorandum.

“Near this monument (place) lies the body of the Right Honourable Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Baron of Marnhill, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Guardian of the Cinque Ports, Constable of the Castle of Dover, Chancellor of Cambridge, and Knight of the Garter.

"A monument (to the memory of this Earl) was first erected in the chapel of the castle of Dover, in the year 1614; but the said chapel falling to decay, the Worshipful Company of Mercers, governors of this hospital, founded 1613 by the aforesaid Earl of Northampton, caused it to be removed into this chapel, by the permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry Duke of Norfolk, and Henry Earl of Romney."

William Copledike, Lieutenant Governor of the Castle under Sir Edward Guildford, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, was interred in the chapel, on the north side of the church, and he had a fine monument erected to his memory.

Sir James Blake, who died in the year 1632, was also interred in this church.

It appears, by wills proved in the prerogative court of Canterbury, that William Horne, of Dover, was buried here, in the year 1498, before the blessed cross; and he gave six shillings and eightpence to repair the church.

John Reckenham, clerk of the Castle, was buried near his uncle Matthew, who had been clerk before him, in the year 1615.

The ground on the south-east side of the church, within the Roman fortress, has been, for many years, used for the interment of soldiers; but time has left us no memorial either of the families, or the virtues, of those who have fought our battles; and these ruins read us a melancholy lecture on human greatness, when we behold how small the difference between the commander and the commanded, in the mansions of Death; for there is no longer any trace left here of the former splendour of the rich and great.

The Saxon Ground Works, with the Walls and Towers afterwards erected upon them.

When the proud conquerors of the world were obliged to withdraw their forces from their distant provinces, to check the progress of the northern barbarians marching towards the south, they parted with the Britons with the reluctance of old friends, who had long been intimately connected; and they left them in the possession of the forts and castles which they had built, after they had instructed them in the use of arms; and the morning of independence arose upon them with a bright and flattering prospect, but it was soon over-clouded with contentions and war.

The natives, on their rising to freedom and personal consequence, fought with the enthusiasm of heroes, and drove the invaders of their country from their habitations, and their coasts; and they maintained their independence while unanimity prevailed among them. But a country divided into districts, after the manner of the Romans, with residentiary officers belonging to each of them, carried the seeds of dissolution in its own bosom. This system produced distrust, civil wars, and the slaughter of each other. A succession of tyrants continued to spring up, contending for power and conquest, which wearied

the people, and exhausted their strength, by continually opposing each other; and their leaders were obliged to submit in their turns, and yield to a more powerful adversary.

During their bloody contentions, they never looked forward to that period, in which they might be called upon to unite their skill, their courage, and their strength, against a common enemy. When that moment arrived, they found themselves deficient in leaders, in whom they could trust; and they wanted either courage or inclination to face an invading enemy.

The different piratical parties, being acquainted with the situation of the Britons, and judging that they had but little to fear from them, made frequent depredatory visits; as they knew, that they would either purchase a temporary security, or quit their residence, and leave it to be plundered by them. As these crews acted independently of each other, they kept the natives residing on the coast in continual alarm; for the complying with the demands of the first, was no security against the second; as they came either to plunder, or to receive a compensation in lieu of it.

While the natives were in this perilous situation, dissatisfied with their rulers, and unable to protect themselves, Hengist, the Saxon, arrived, with a small number of followers, and he landed in Thanet. He was liberally supplied with provisions by the natives, and he soon gained the confidence of Vortigern, the British chief, in the eastern parts of Kent.

Hengist, liking his situation, and wishing to secure it for a residence, encouraged others from the north to follow him, to partake of his fortune. The invitation induced several parties from the north to quit their frozen habitations, to enjoy the advantages of a more temper ate climate. The Saxons, from Lower Saxony; the Angles, from the dutchy of Sleswic; and the Danes and the Jutes, from Jutland, assisted in subduing the Britons.