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 FOUR 
 
 LETTERS OF COMFORTS 
 
 FOR THE DEATHS OF THE 
 
 EARLK OF HADINGTOUN 
 
 AND OF THE 
 
 LORD BOYU. 
 
 1640. 
 
 By ZACHARY BOYD. 
 
 
 CEbinbuvgh: ^Ibcrrlxxbiii.
 
 
 IMPRESSION: 
 One hundred and fifty copies. 
 Six copies on Vellum.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 c^^^^HE work of Zachary Boyd, — the 
 well known translator of the 
 Bible into verse, — now re- 
 printed, is one of the rarer pro- 
 ductions of that prolific author. Although, 
 in itself, it contains no facts that make it 
 valuable, it is interesting as relating to the 
 deaths of two Scottish noblemen with whom 
 the author was connected, and who were 
 both intimately concerned in the struggles 
 which embittered the reign of Charles I. 
 
 The principal events in the life of Mr 
 Zachary, — the usual style of addressing a 
 Scottish clergyman of the time, — are well 
 known. He was a descendant of the Boyds 
 of Pinkell in Ayrshire, and was born in the 
 year 1585. The first place of his education
 
 2 l7itrod2ictioTi. 
 
 was the school of Kilmarnock. Afterwards 
 he matriculated as an alumnus of Glasgow 
 University in 1601. He subsequently 
 attended at the University of St Andrews 
 from 1603 to 1607, when he took the degree 
 of Master of Arts. He then went abroad 
 and studied at the College of Saumur in 
 France, the chief Protestant seminary of 
 that country, under his cousin, Robert 
 Boyd of Trochrig. He was appointed a 
 Regent in that College, and was offered the 
 Principalship, which, however, he declined. 
 After spending sixteen years in France, he 
 returned to Scotland, and in 1623 was 
 appointed minister of the Barony parish of 
 Glasgow, where he continued till his death 
 in 1653. 
 
 An interesting feature in the life of Mr 
 Zachary was the great zeal which he displayed 
 in the affairs of the University of Glasgow. 
 He was chosen Dean of Faculty in 1631, 
 and from that period to the time of his 
 decease he was almost uninterruptedly an
 
 hitroductioii, 3 
 
 office-bearer in that ancient seat of learning. 
 In a volume of deeds instituting bursaries in 
 that University, we find an accurate account 
 of his various academic appointments. *' In 
 1632 he was re-elected Dean. In 1634, 
 and again in 1635, he was chosen Rector. 
 In 1636 he was, for a third time, Dean 
 of Faculty. He was a member of the several 
 commissions of visitation named by the 
 General Assembly in 1640, 1642, and 1643, 
 By the beginning of 1644, if not earlier, he 
 had been appointed Vice-Chancellor. In 
 1645, he was for a third time named Rector; 
 and in the following years down to the time 
 of his death, he continued to officiate as 
 Vice-Chancelior, in which capacity he sat and 
 voted in the Faculty, though not otherwise a 
 member." To the University Mr Zachary 
 left a large sum, which was spent in erecting 
 the " Old College," of which building almost 
 no trace now remains. To its library he 
 bequeathed his books and MSS., including 
 his " Flowers of Zion," generally designated
 
 4 Introdtiction. 
 
 his *' Bible," a work which was travestied 
 in well-known amusing parodies. 
 
 Although Mr Zachary was originally an 
 enthusiastic royalist, and in 1633 published 
 a Latin panegyric on the Coronation of 
 Charles I. at Holyrood, which he read 
 to the king in the porch of that palace, he 
 afterwards found it necessary to take the 
 side of the Covenanters. His feelings seem 
 to have changed so completely, that after the 
 victory at Newburn, by which the Covenant- 
 ing army under General Lesly, afterwards Earl 
 of liCven, gained possession of Newcastle, he 
 published a poem, in which he exults in their 
 successes. It is entitled, "The Battel of 
 Newbvrne : Where the Scots Armie obtained 
 a notable victorie against the English Papists, 
 Prelats, and Arminians, the 28 th day of 
 August 1640."* 
 
 In this poem the author lauds General 
 
 * A copy of this rare tract will be found reprinted in 
 the second series of Laing's " Fugitive Scottish Poetry 
 of the 17th Century."
 
 Introditctioii. 5 
 
 Lesly, and gives a description of the engage- 
 ment. Some of his lines are very characteristic, 
 as the following extracts sufficiently show : — 
 
 The Scots Canons powder and balls did spew, 
 
 Which with terrour the Canterbur'ians slew ; 
 
 With hideous roaring and with sulphry flash 
 
 They blew such boast that made the clouds to clash : 
 
 Yea thundred so, as though they would have riven 
 
 The burnisht vaults, and battlements of Heaven. 
 
 Bals rusht at randon, which most fearfully 
 
 Menac'd to break the portals of the sky. 
 
 The hills about did greatly grone and grumble. 
 
 The bals did roul ; both heaven and earth did rumble ; 
 
 To hear such noise, it did give men to think 
 
 That heaven and earth, and all did shake and shrink ; 
 
 The steep mountains with their high horned tops 
 
 Did tremble sore, as they would melt in drops ; 
 
 The hardest Rocks from top to toe did quiver, 
 
 As though the earth should all in sunder shiver. 
 
 The Canons play'd with redoubled voleyes 
 
 On their leaguer, with most fearfiill saillyes. 
 
 The fire with bals did buller in the air, 
 
 Glancing, like Comets, with their bloody hair. 
 
 Such hot sei-vice done with great Canon knock, 
 
 Made mens hearts shake ; yea hardest rocks to roke. 
 
 Some bals (their trinches made of earth and mud) 
 
 Did shiver, others through their bones did scud, 
 
 Like great Grenados, or the Petard proud, 
 
 Which bars and bones break with their cracking loud. 
 
 Last, in a clap of hah there came a Cluster,
 
 6 Introduction. 
 
 Which in their trinches made zftarfull muster : 
 
 It seem'd to them to be an earthly thunder, 
 
 Which witji their Muscles Musquets brake asunder ; 
 
 The poulder blast most fiercely did remove 
 
 Their beards below, and Mustaches above : 
 
 The whisking bals made all their cheeks so smooth, 
 
 They sought no Pincers for to draw a tooth : 
 
 Yea, legs and armes which in the air did flee 
 
 Were then cut off (like gibblets) fearfully : 
 
 The Scottish Bals so dash'd them with disdain, 
 
 That hips ovr head, their skul did spew their brains. 
 
 Both legs and arms and heads, like dust, did flee 
 
 Into the air, with fearfull mutinie. 
 
 The bals their legs, the legs their heads did break. 
 
 The heads their arms, the arms did cleave their neck, 
 
 Each part another did with fury dash, 
 
 Teeth tare the tongue, and teeth on teeth did gnash, 
 
 Like paines in hell they did on other chatter, 
 
 The bloody bals made all their bones to clatter : 
 
 ^lens ribs did rattle at this service bote, 
 
 They riven, did cut the weasont of the throat, 
 
 Their foot their thigh, their breast did break their back, 
 
 Such was the Reele-dance at that thunder crack. 
 
 In this Conflict which was both soivre and surly, 
 
 Bones, bloud, and brains went in a hurly-burly ; 
 
 All was made Hodge-podge, some began to croole. 
 
 Who fights for prelats is a beastly foole. 
 
 Thus these who first did scorn our Scots voleyes 
 
 With waved caps, did smart for their folies ; 
 
 Some wanting armes, and some wanting the legs. 
 
 Did laugh at leasure, with their sporting jigs.
 
 Introduction. 7 
 
 After describing the effects of the ' pistol 
 bals ' on the English cavalry, • the victorie ' 
 is celebrated as follows : — 
 
 *♦ Thus stood the case, but God of heaven at last, 
 Fought for the Scots ; so that their foes agast 
 Did flee with fear, like H'lndes before the Hounds ; 
 Their back not face received most shamefull wounds ; 
 The cupping glasse was needfull there to b^, 
 For Scots broad swords had skill to scarifie 
 Their backs and shoulders (of this make no doubt) 
 That rotten bloud and humours might come out. 
 But they agast did run in squadrons thick, 
 Abhorring much such rough Scottish Physick ; 
 They would have given their houses and their lands. 
 To have been out of such Chirurgions hands : 
 They spar'd not spurs, to flee they were not slack ; 
 Great fear them made, like Cancers, to go back : 
 Thus having spent their courage and their poulder 
 The Scots them scutcht both upon back and shoulder. 
 Clusters of stroahes most fiercely on them fell, 
 Which made their hearts to sivelt, and backs to swell. 
 Black clouds of reek with a red fiery flood, 
 Were seene with garments tumbled into blood ; 
 Our Scottish bals like whisking winds did whirle 
 With wanton puffs their rough Heads for to curie ; 
 So God arose most swiftly us to help 
 Against our foes, and brake their hairie Scalp." 
 
 In the battle so extravagantly described, 
 the Scots lost only four or five men, one of
 
 8 Introduction. 
 
 whom, however, was the son of Sir Patrick 
 Makgie of Largo in Galloway : — 
 
 " In this conflict, which was a great pitie, 
 We lost the Son of Sir Patrick Makgie, 
 Whose great courage did thrust him in a throng, 
 Where he did die, fighting his foes among." 
 
 Of the "Four Letters of Comforts," 
 printed at Glasgow at the close of the year 
 1640, the first relates to a catastrophe which 
 caused the death of Thomas, second Earl of 
 Haddington, two days after the battle of 
 Newburn. This nobleman had succeeded 
 his father in 1637, and, attaching himself to 
 the Covenanters, had been made colonel of 
 one of their regiments. On the occasion of 
 their marching into England under General 
 Lesly, the Earl was left behind to garrison 
 Dunglass Castle, near Cockburnspath, in 
 which there was stored a considerable maga- 
 zine of gunpowder. He was also under 
 orders to watch the motions of the garrison 
 of Berwick. On the 30th of August, how- 
 ever, about mid-day, when the Earl was
 
 Introductioji. 9 
 
 standing in a court of the castle, surrounded 
 by several gentlemen, to whom he was read- 
 ing a letter he had just received from General 
 Lesly, the magazine blew up, and in an 
 instant, one of the side walls overwhelmed 
 him and all his company, with the exception 
 of four, who were thrown by the force of 
 the explosion to a considerable distance. 
 The body of the Earl was found among the 
 rubbish, and was buried at Tyninghame. 
 With the Earl there perished Robert Hamil- 
 ton, his brother ; Patrick Hamilton, his natural 
 brother ; Sir John Hamilton of Redhouse, his 
 cousin-german ; Sir Alexander Hamilton of 
 Innerwick ; and Alexander, his son and heir ; 
 Sir Alexander Erskine, fourth son of the 
 seventh Earl of Mar, brother-in-law ; Sir 
 Gideon Banks of Lochend ; James Inglis of 
 Ingliston ; and John Cooper of Gogar ; with 
 about eighty persons of inferior rank. A 
 report prevailed that Dunglass was designedly 
 blown up by Edward Paris, an English boy, 
 page to Lord Haddington, on account of his
 
 I o Inb^odiiciion. 
 
 master jestingly telling him that his country- 
 men were a pack of cowards to suffer them- 
 selves to be beaten and to run away at New- 
 burn, which so much enraged him, that he 
 took a hot iron and thrust it into one of the 
 powder barrels, perishing himself with the 
 rest.* 
 
 The first of the " Letters of Comforts " is 
 addressed to Lady Jean Hamilton, a younger 
 sister of the Earl of Haddington, who so 
 miserably perished at Dunglass. She was 
 born in 1607, and was married to John, 
 sixth Earl of Cassilis. 
 
 The second Letter refers to the death of 
 Lord Boyd, the only son of Robert, sixth 
 Lord Boyd, and Lady Christian Hamilton, 
 step-sister of the Earl of Haddington. This 
 young nobleman was only twenty-four years 
 of age when he died of fever on 17th 
 November 1640. The letter is addressed 
 to Lady Margaret Livingston, daughter of 
 
 * Douglas' Peerage, by Wood, Vol. i., p. 680.
 
 Introduction. 1 1 
 
 Alexander, first Earl of Linlithgow ; wife of 
 John, second Earl of Wigtoun; mother-in- 
 law of Lord Boyd. 
 
 The third letter is addressed to Lady 
 Christian Hamilton, mother of the young 
 Lord Boyd. 
 
 The fourth letter is addressed to Lady 
 ' Anne Fleming, daughter of the Earl of 
 Wigtoun above referred to, the young widow 
 of Lord Boyd. From an allusion in the 
 letter, her husband seems to have been, Hke 
 Lord Haddington, a colonel in the Cove- 
 nanting army ; and in the Latin poem on 
 his death at the end of the volume it is 
 stated that he had behaved manfully in the 
 campaign in England. In the letter the 
 author gives Lady Anne comfort in her be- 
 reavement after his own quaint fashion.* 
 
 That Zachary Boyd should have felt deeply 
 the loss of these two noblemen is not sur- 
 prising, as the Boyds of Pinkell, to which he 
 
 * Lady Anne Fleming afterwards married George, 
 second Earl of Dalhousie.
 
 1 2 Introduction. 
 
 belonged, were descended from a younger 
 son of Lord Boyd, the High Chamberlain of 
 Scotland, whose family was of great anti- 
 quity, and produced many leading men in 
 Scotland. 
 
 Their origin dates from about 1 1 60, when 
 Simon, brother of Walter, the High Steward 
 of Scotland, had a son, Robert, who, from 
 his fair complexion, was called Boyt or Boyd, 
 from the Celtic, Boidh, signifying fair or 
 yellow. One of this family, Robert Boyt, 
 swore fealty to Edward I. when he overran 
 Scotland in 1296; but in the following year 
 he joined Sir William Wallace. Another, 
 Sir Robert Boyd, was one of the first 
 associates of King Robert Bruce in his 
 arduous attempt to restore the liberties of 
 Scotland in 1306. For his faithful adherence 
 to his cause, he had a grant from that 
 monarch of the lands of Kilmarnock and 
 others. A direct descendant, Robert Boyd 
 of Kilmarnock, was ennobled and made a 
 peer of Parliament under the title of Lord
 
 Introduction. 1 3 
 
 Boyd in 1459. He filled several important 
 political offices, and was at one time governor 
 of the person of King James IK., and his 
 brothers during their minority. He was, in 
 1467, made Great Chamberlain of Scotland 
 for life. He took advantage of this position 
 to arrange a marriage between Mary, the 
 eldest sister of the king, and his eldest son, 
 who was created Earl of Arran. 
 
 Arran was, in 1448, appointed, along with 
 other commissioners, to arrange the marriage 
 of James III., and concluded a treaty with 
 Christiern I., King of Denmark, who gave his 
 daughter Margaret to James to wife, and 
 with her the islands of Orkney and Zetland. 
 In 1469 Arran proceeded to bring her home, 
 but during his absence the enemies of his 
 family undermined them in the favour of the 
 king. The estates and honours of his father. 
 Lord Boyd, were forfeited, who fled to 
 England, where he died. Sir Alexander 
 Boyd, his uncle, a mirror of chivalry, who 
 had superintended the military exercises of
 
 14 lidrodtLction. 
 
 the young king, was, at the same time, 
 beheaded on the Castle-hill of Edinburgh. 
 
 Arran went abroad, and after wandering 
 about, died early in life, and found an obscure 
 tomb. His only son died in his youth, and 
 the second son of Robert, the first Lord 
 Boyd, became the representative of the 
 family. The title and estates were afterwards 
 restored to his son Robert in 1536. The 
 son of this Lord Boyd was the confidential 
 friend of Mary Queen of Scots. His son 
 Thomas was also a partisan of Queen Mary, 
 and fought in her army at the battle of Lang- 
 side. He died in 1611. Robert, the sixth 
 Lord Boyd, was born in 1595, and studied at 
 Saumur under his cousin, Robert Boyd of 
 Trochrig. He was proprietor of several 
 estates, besides the barony of Kilmarnock in 
 Ayrshire. He died in 1628 when in his 
 thirty-third year. He married first, Margaret, 
 daughter of Robert Montgomery of GifFen, 
 relict of Hugh, fifth earl of Eglinton, who 
 died without issue ; and second, Lady Chris-
 
 Introduction. 1 5 
 
 tian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, first earl 
 of Haddington, relict of Robert, tenth Lord 
 Lindsay of Byres, by whom he had, besides 
 several daughters, a son Robert, seventh 
 Lord Boyd, so much lamented in the follovi'- 
 ing pages. 
 
 A portrait of Zachary Boyd, painted pro- 
 bably about the year 1630, when he was in 
 the prime of life, is preserved in the Univer- 
 sity of Glasgow. The print prefixed is a 
 copy of an engraving from this portrait, made 
 for the celebrated antiquary, John Pinkerton, 
 and inserted in his " Iconographia Scotica." 
 The open book in Mr Zachary's hand is 
 inscribed inside, "The last Battell of the 
 Soule," &c. Prints from the same picture
 
 1 6 Introduction. 
 
 have been also made for Mr Gabriel Neil's 
 edition of the above-named work and other 
 publications. 
 
 The following autograph is taken from 
 the title - page of Mr Zachary's copy of 
 Knox's 'Liturgy' (Ed. 1622) — in the pos- 
 session of D. Laing, Esq., LL.D. 
 
 J. a 
 
 ^ • •Z.^-LTp-^l-i.^ J^ O^
 
 FOUR LETTERS 
 
 of Comforts, for the 
 
 Deaths of the Earle of 
 
 HADINGTOUN, and 
 
 of the Lord BOYD, with 
 
 two Epitaphs. 
 
 I Corinth. 15, 55. 
 
 Death, where is thy Sting ? 
 
 Grave, where is thy Vidorie ? 
 
 GLASGOW, 
 
 Printed by George Anderjon^ 
 1640.
 
 An Epitaph upon the death 
 c?f Robert Lord^ojd., who 
 
 fleeped in Christ the 17. of 
 
 November 1 640. the tiventie 
 
 one yeare of his age. 
 
 JUfy mourning Mufe^ no verfses can exprejfe: 
 
 Her Well is dry^ by re of on of excejfe 
 Of pricking grief ^johich do confraine her heart 
 With tears of blood toftgh and iveep apart. 
 
 Y\Eere Ifsfweet love among the ivormes and 
 
 fime, 
 Who godly ^ ivife^ meek^Jlottt^ was in his time : 
 He fpar d no coji^ no danger he didfhun 
 At ho7ne^ abroad^ to end this work begun : 
 Though Mofes laiv permits a man a yeare 
 To fport like Ifack ivith his Lady deare^ 
 Yet for the caufe of fefus Chrift his Lord^ 
 To leave fuch things he gladly did accord : 
 From Bed to Banners he religious 
 Wenty though he ivas the Phoenix of his houfe : 
 Paffer by^ ivho thefe things fees and hears^ 
 Stand flill^ and pay due tribute wiith thy tears, 
 
 I have no ivords fuch forroivs to beivaile ; 
 
 Timantes come with Agamemnons vaile. 
 
 M . Zacharie Boyd.
 
 Ihffi 
 
 To the right Noble, and 
 
 religious Lady^ JD, ^eane 
 Hamiltoun^ Countefle of 
 C A S S I L I S, &c 
 MADAME, 
 
 N the common ca- 
 lamitie of this Nati- 
 on, the Publick fuffe- 
 red a great wound in 
 the death of your La- 
 difhips noble brother, 
 the Earle of Hadintotin, with a num- 
 ber of worthie Gentlemen, who had 
 both Hearts and Hands for the Good 
 Caufe, Your La. particular lofle hath 
 beene very great, both in his Lordfhip, 
 and in your other worthie Brethren, 
 who were fearfully overwhelmed by 
 the houfe of Dunglajfe, by treacherie, 
 blown up with powlder for to fpoile 
 the Church of God of fuch helpfull 
 inftruments, in such a time of need. Note 
 
 Such a ftroake made the viStorious 
 Law r e Is of New burn e to ohdin^Q, their 
 
 greeneft
 
 (.4) 
 greeneft Colours into black : If they 
 
 had beene fafe, Scotland had beene o- 
 verjoyed; our cup had overflowed ; If 
 our mirth had not beene marred, hard- 
 ly could we have beene kept within 
 meafure: So it pleafed the Lord to 
 temper that Scottiih vicflorie, with 
 that fearfuU tragedie, for to teach us 
 all to rejoice in trembling, and to look 
 for perfedl joy onely in the heavens. 
 As for you Madame, whom the Lord 
 hath endowed with many Chriftian 
 vertues, yea, with an heroick courage 
 to this Caufe^ I think, that your Bre- 
 threns death may be a comfort, in that 
 they died for X^tgood Caiife-. their death 
 in a manner was a Martyredome, for 
 they fuffered for the caufe of Chrift ; 
 they were readie in their life, at all oc- 
 cafions, both to do, and to die, for the 
 maintenance of Religion, and of the 
 2 Sam. liberties of their native Countrey: Of 
 »• 23. them might be faid, as David faid of 
 Sau/sLud Jonathan, They isjerefwifter 
 then Eagles, they werejlroftger then 
 Note. Lions. * Though their bodies be 
 
 dead
 
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 dead, their Names Ihall live in all the 
 memories of good Men of this age, 
 and in the Chronicles of time, for 
 all ages to come. It was a great 
 honour among the Men of War in 
 Davids dayes, to be called Davids 
 Worthies^ but it is a greater honour 
 to Be renowned The Worthies of 
 Christ : to have a heart or a hand 
 for his honour, is a praife which no 
 time fhall be able to deface ; Let all 
 thefe confiderations, and many mo 
 than I am able to exprefle, teach 
 your La. in your deepeft doole, 
 both now and in all times to come, 
 to behave and quiet your felf like Pfal- ' 3'- 
 a childe that is njuained of his 
 mother^ who ftilled, is made filent, 
 being fimple and fubmiflive, humble, 
 meek, and modeft ; what God hath 
 done, or permitted to be done, mull 
 not be faid againft. * What ever Note 
 the inftruments have beene, we 
 muft ever blefle the Lord, Job did 
 fo, after that Sathan in a mighty 
 winde, by the fall of an houfe, had 
 
 fmothered
 
 Job. I 
 
 19. 
 
 (6) 
 ^ote fmothered all his children. * As 
 
 for Jobs children, they were at a 
 banquet, in dangers of blafphemie^ 
 but your La. brethren at the very 
 blaft, were praifing the LORD for 
 a vidlorie graunted unto Chrifts 
 armie ; and from that fpirituall joy 
 and finging of hearts on the Lords 
 dajy they being Chrifts Martyrs, 
 went up to heaven, where they 
 Ihall fing Hallelujah for ever. This 
 Ihould be no small comfort to your 
 La. that God hath preferved your 
 worthy LORD, and Husband, 
 whofe zeale, wifdome, courage, 
 and uprightnefle, not declining, but 
 ftill increafmg have moft oriently 
 fhined in our army, unto his ever- 
 lasting praife. The LORD feafon 
 your La. forrowes with the joy of 
 his Spirit, that his peace may be 
 Philip, your portiofi, and his Christ your 
 advatitage, both in life and death. 
 
 y our La. humble Servant y 
 M. Zacharie Boyd. 
 
 TO 
 
 1. 21.
 
 (7) 
 
 mm?mmmmmm 
 
 To the right Noble, and 
 
 7'eiigious JLady^ D, Mar^ 
 
 garet Livinftoun^ Coun- 
 
 teffe of WIGTOVN, 
 
 MADAME 
 
 DIverfe and many difl:ra6lions 
 take up fo our time, that we 
 cannot, as we would or fhould 
 difcharge thefe dueties which we ow 
 to thofe whom we honour. 
 
 The Lord knoweth, Madame, but 
 I am forie, both for your La. forrow, 
 & for that which hath been the caufe, 
 even the removing of that worthie 
 noble Youth, who was a dear One 
 to your La, 
 
 We fee heer, Madame, that onely 
 heavenlyjoyes are eternall: This mor- 
 talitie that Adams fm hath brought 
 into the World, woundeth many 
 
 hearts :
 
 (8) 
 
 hearts : A feparation made by death, 
 
 Is very painfull to thofe that remaine 
 
 behind : The balme for this fore is 
 
 only to be found in Chrifts boxe : his 
 
 Pfal. 107 word is a he a li fig ivord^ he himfelfe 
 
 Luk.*4. was sent to heale the broken hearted ; 
 
 21. he only can rightly bind up our 
 
 wounds ; his Salve is only fit for 
 
 our Sores. 
 
 Your La. is one who hath ex- 
 perience in the wayes of God : I 
 doubt not but you will travell 
 humbly to fubmit yourfelf to Gods 
 will, and to reverence his Majeftie, as 
 well in his taking, as in his giving : 
 King- Death is a Way that he hath pre- 
 pared for all flesh ; To great men 
 Pfal. 82. he hath faid, I have called you gods^ 
 ^- but yee shall die like men : What 
 48 ■ man is hee that Hveth^ fayeth the 
 Pfalmift, and shall not fee death P 
 The greateft Monarch is not exeemed, 
 Job. 14. for as Job sayeth, His dayes are de- 
 5- terminedy the number of his moneths 
 are ivith God, hee hath appointed 
 his bounds that hee can not paffe. 
 
 As 
 
 2. 2
 
 (9) 
 As for his Lo. who is removed, 
 
 he hath been removed by God, and 
 not by the hand of man : * In time Note 
 of war he hath died in peace : he 
 walked with God in his life, God 
 was with him in his death, and now 
 he is with God, with whom he fhall 
 remaine for evermore, in the com- 
 panie of Saints and Angels. * We Note 
 are like a fhip on the fea, he is in 
 the harberie : We are heere Pilgrims 
 in a strange land^ hee is at home ; 
 we are in the way, he is at his 
 journeyes end, where he refts with 
 his LORD ; for a thoufand worlds 
 he would not return but for the 
 fpace of a day, to enjoy all the 
 pleafures of the earth. 
 
 See heere, Madame, with the eye 
 of faith what GOD hath done to 
 your Ladifhips Son, my dear 
 LORD, and moft loving Chiefe: 
 We may lament him ; it is per- 
 mitted by GODS word; but our 
 griefe muft not bee like thefe who 
 have no hope of the resurredlion : * Note 
 B We
 
 (lo) 
 
 We will never bee happy, imtill we 
 
 be where he is, never content, untill 
 
 we fee what he feeth ; never filled 
 
 with joy, untill we hear what he 
 
 heareth, the fongs of heaven, and 
 
 Revel, moft fweet founding harpes of God^ 
 
 '"^' ^" in the prefence of Chrift Jefus, the 
 
 ^^"-- chief est among te?i thousand \ To 
 
 his fpeciall comforts I recommend 
 
 your La. wounded heart, and fo I reft, 
 
 Your La. humble Servant, 
 M. Zacharie Boyd. 
 
 To the right Noble, and 
 
 religions Lacly^ D, Chri- 
 stian Hamiltoun^ La- 
 dy BOYD. 
 
 MADAME, 
 
 MAny reafons oblige mee to 
 wifh your La, comforts, yea 
 and to pray earneftly for 
 them : your Lord whom you have 
 faithfully ferved hitherto, will bee to 
 you a Husband, a Son, and a Brother: 
 
 He 
 
 Note
 
 He himfelf will fill the roome of all 
 thofe that he hath taken from you : 
 By his doings hee hath been taking 
 away your earthly roots and tenons, 
 which might have faftened your 
 heart to the ground : When thefe 
 whom ye loved beft on earth, are 
 above with him whom ye love 
 above all things, your heart will the 
 more freely mount up towards your 
 true home : Who Ihould not defire 
 to be with Chrift, the chief est among Cant. 
 ten thousand ?' This will help your 5- ^o- 
 defire, when yee remember, that 
 thefe whom ye loved beft, are ever 
 in his companie ; a few dayes will 
 joine all the godly together to their 
 head Chrift in heaven ; what have 
 wee here but toile and trouble ? 
 Wherfore came we hither, but to Note 
 make a voyage to the heavens ? j^^^^^j^ 
 What is our life, but the heat of the 20. 12. 
 day in a vineyard of pains f At 
 death we receive the pennie : Our 
 life is a warfare, at death we receive 
 the pay : It is great weakneffe of 
 faith, to be too grieved for the death 
 of Gods Servants, which is the time 
 
 they
 
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 they receive their reivards. If good 
 education of children, a good child 
 living, and dying in the feare of 
 God, beloved of all good men, honou- 
 red by the beft; if all thefe things 
 can bring conforts to an heart 
 aflaulted with forrows, your La. 
 hath fuch a meafure, that I may fay 
 2 Sam. they overflow : We will goe to 
 ^^" ^^' him^ but he ivill not come to us : 
 The day of the refurrec^ion will 
 bring all friends together : This is 
 the chiefefl Cor di all the Apoftle 
 could finde to comfort thefe that 
 mourned for the dead, that at the 
 refurredlion, we all together fhould 
 meete the Lord in the aire^ and after 
 that should beiviththe Lord for ever. 
 What fhall I fay more ? Can a 
 Ifa. 49. mother forget her child P All 
 5; earthly forrows were they never fo 
 
 fharpe, will at laft grow blunt ; and 
 will be meekned and skinned over 
 by time : Now what time can do to 
 a Pagan, let grace doe it to your La. 
 a Christian^ both by grace, pro- 
 feffion, and name. 
 
 lour La. humble Servant, 
 
 M. Zacharie Boyd. _, 
 
 I Thef. 
 4. 17. 
 
 I 
 
 Note
 
 ('3) 
 
 To the right Noble, and 
 
 religious Lacly^ D. Anna 
 Fleemin^ Lady BOTD. 
 
 MADAME, 
 
 WHen God fends troubles to 
 his Servants, it is to ftir up 
 their heart to prayer, and alfo 
 to try their patience : It is written of 
 Aaron, that when God had flain his 
 twoion^ Hee held his peace : David l^av. lo 
 Hkevvife in his great grief faid, / will p.-^ 
 jiot open my month, becanfe thou (^, 
 hast done it : God faid likevvife to Exek. 
 E^ekiel in his forrovv, Bee filent, ^4 
 forbear to cry. 
 
 * The Hebrews call a widow Note 
 Almanah, from a word that figni- 
 fieth dumb, to teach her to feal her 
 mouth with a reverent filence, and 
 to ftoup humbly under Gods hand. 
 I confeffe that your La. grief muft 
 be great, for great was your love ; 
 your flovvr hath been cropped in 
 
 the 
 
 17.
 
 (h) 
 
 the bud, yee gcte but a fhort fight 
 one of another, when God came, 
 and made the feparatlon : We muft 
 Note adore God in all his doings, * We 
 muft bleffe him as well when hee 
 taketh^ as when he giveth^ except 
 we would fay. We love the gift 
 better than the giver. The LORD 
 hath taken your Lord^ and of a Lord 
 hath made him a crowned King : 
 He was but a Lord and Colo7inel at 
 Neivcastel-y it was your comfort 
 to hear that he was well there ; 
 let your faith tell you where he is 
 now, and what he is in that Jeru- 
 falem that is above ; his honours 
 there are without hazard) his life 
 there is eternall ; his companie are 
 Saints and Angels ; his great 
 Gen er all and King is Jefus Chrift ; he 
 is without the reach of all forrovDs 
 and fores ; his joyes can not be told ; 
 for Picks, and Mufquets, and Canons, 
 he feeth nothing but peace, and 
 heareth nothing but harpes^ found- 
 ing the praife of his Lord, and he 
 with the reft is iinging Hallelujah ; 
 
 he
 
 (■5) 
 he enjoyeth that which we all 
 
 Ihould defire ; Should we not all 
 
 rejoice to goe to our reft ? within a 
 
 few yeares your Lord and your La. 
 
 will meet with greater joy In 
 
 Heaven, than ye could be able to 
 
 have on Earth : Gods Spirit be your 
 
 La. Comforter. 
 
 y our La. humble Servatit^ 
 M. Zacharie Boyd. 
 
 In obi turn D. Robert! Bo- 
 di'i, Bodiaiiie Familiar 
 
 principis^ qui diem fuum 
 
 obiit 17 Novemb. i^nno Dom. 
 
 1 640 hora nona vefpertina^ 
 
 poftquam foeliciter in Anglia 
 
 magna cum laude Tribu- 
 
 natum geffiffet. 
 
 '^Riftia Nafotiis rident^ dum trijlia noflra 
 
 Nitu7itur tristes vultus, gemitufque referre : 
 Multorum jletus rifus, dum trijlia mjlra 
 Deplorant lachrymis privata ^ publica damtia : 
 Candida ftnt aliisy nojlri stant stamina nigra 
 
 Fail
 
 Fati. Proh-cecidit pralufiri in pulvere fama 
 Spes Bodite gentis, per acerha morte peremptus : 
 Seu pacetn, feu bella geras^ Hie promptus ad omne 
 Sub Labaro Christi munusy Sponfamque reliquit 
 Dent. Ante diemjixum per facra volumina Moils, 
 ^4- S- Dum patria l^ pietas ilium ad graviora vocarent 
 Sumptibus immetifts non parcenSy mitis in omneSj 
 Et fupra tttatem prudensy castufque^ piufque^ 
 Sobrius ; Hie paucas post fe ad meltora reliquit 
 Spirantes animas : Magnus nunc hofpes Olympi 
 Parte fui tneliore vigety dum corpus in urnoy 
 Dum tnembra in placida recubant refoluta quiete. 
 
 H^ec Zacharias Bodius 
 pofuit mar ens. 
 
 I live to die, 
 
 That I may die to live. 
 
 I Chron. 29 1 5. 
 
 We arejirangers before thee^ andfojour- 
 
 ners, as were all our fathers : our 
 
 dayes on the earth are as a 
 
 Jhadow^ and there is 
 
 none abiding. 
 
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