[377] Amongst the State Papers is the following programme, or, as it is entituled, "The proceeding" of Mr. Pym's funeral:—
Two Conductors.
Servants in Cloaks.
Friends in Cloaks.
Esquires.
Knights.
Baronets.
Divines.
The Preacher.
The Pennon borne by Mr. Faulconer.
Rouge Dragon Helm and crest.
Lancaster Coat of arms.
Mr. Alex. Pym, chief mourner.
Mr. Simons and Mr. Nicholls.
Mr. Askew.
Mrs. Symons and Mrs. Katherine Pym, and other Ladies and Gentlemen.
Then the Lords.
Then the Speaker of the House of Commons.
An endorsement shews that the three officers of arms allowed by the committee for this funeral were appointed £20 apiece, making a sum of £60. The following names also appear on the back of the document: Mr. Solicitor, Sir Arthur Haslerigge, Sir John Clotworthy, Mr. Knightley, Sir Gilbert Gerard, Sir Harry Vane, Mr. Stroud. Probably all these were present.
[378] Pym defended himself against imputations on his religious character, by saying that he had ever been a faithful son to the Protestant religion, without the least relation in his belief to the gross errors of Anabaptism or Brownism. He had sought a reformation of the Church of England—but not its overthrow. Neither envy nor private grudge against the bishops, who were personally inimical to him, made him averse to their functions, but only his zeal for religion, which he saw injured by the too extended authority of the prelates, who should have been upright and humble, "shearing their flocks and not flaying them."—Rushworth, v. 378.
Marshall in his Sermon and Baxter in his Saint's Rest would not have spoken of Pym as they did, had they not been satisfied that charges against his moral character were utterly untrue. Marshall includes chastity in the catalogue of his virtues. I can find no proof of anything improper in his intimacy with the Countess of Carlisle. For extracts from Marshall's Sermons, and the Diurnals, see Forster's British Statesmen, vol. ii. 294-302.
[379] Baillie says: "The plottings are incessant."—Letters and Journals, ii. 132.
[380] This is stated in a curious book, called Magnalia Dei Anglicana; or, England's Parliamentary Chronicle, by John Vicars, part iii., entitled God's Ark Overtopping the World's Waves, 135. A full account of these plots is given from the writer's own point of view. Vicars was a violent Presbyterian, and his book is full of party prejudice and curious information. Baillie notices these plots pretty fully, ii. 137.
[381] Mr. Nye and Mr. Goodwin entered into conference with Ogle only that they might entrap him. In the Journal of the House of Commons, January 26th, 1643-4, it is recorded "that Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, with the privity of my Lord General and some members of the House, had conference with Ogle—Resolved, 'that it doth appear upon the whole matter, that the King and his council at Oxford do endeavour and embrace all ways to raise and ferment divisions betwixt us and our brethren of Scotland, and amongst ourselves under the fair pretences of easing tender consciences; that during these fair pretences their immediate design was the ruin of the kingdom by the destroying and burning the magazines thereof; that thanks be returned to Mr. Nye and Mr. Goodwin from both Houses.'" We learn from Baillie, ii. 137, that John Goodwin is the person here intended.