[1] [2] In this yeare the right honorable Walter Deue|reux earle of Essex and Eu, earle marshall of Ire|land, vicount Hereford and Bourcher, lord Ferrers of Chartlie, Bourcher & Louaine, knight of the most noble order of the garter, fell sicke of a loosenesse of his bodie the one and twentith of August being fri|daie, and for the space of two and twentie daies togi|ther he was so grieuouslie tormented therwith, that finallie on saturdaie the two & twentith of Septem|ber he departed out of this transitorie life,Walter Deue|reux earle of Essex depar|teth this life. passing from hence to the ioies of heauen, as by his godlie end all that were about him gaue testimonie. The losse of this noble man was greatlie béemoned, as|well by the English as Irish, for the noble courage, vertuous q [...]lities, and tender zeale to the aduance|ment of th [...] commonwealth which appéered in him. ¶So that it were a fowle fault in the highest degree, Abr. Fl. ex con|cione funebri, vt patet in contex|tu. not to laie vp some commemoration of so worthie and well deseruing a gentleman, both of prince and people, in perpetuall records: which I will doo by Gods grace none otherwise than I am lead by such matter, yea memorable matter, as I find in a fune|rall sermon, made by the reuerend father in God Richard bishop of saint Dauis, at the buriall of this right honorable earle of Essex, in the parish church of Caermerthin in Wales, where the said bishop ta|king for his text these words of S. Iohn, in the 14 of the reuelation, Audiui vocem de coelo, dicentem: Beati mortui, &c. I heard a voice from heauen, saieng: Bles|sed are the dead that die in the Lord, &c. After he had discoursed vpon the text as the spirit of God gaue him vtterance, he descended at last to a particular treatise tending wholie to the praise of this right no|ble man: saieng in sort as followeth.