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A32922	Thomas Campanella, an Italian friar and second Machiavel, his advice to the King of Spain for attaining the universal monarchy of the world particularly concerning England, Scotland and Ireland, how to raise division between king and Parliament, to alter the government from a kingdome to a commonwealth, thereby embroiling England in civil war to divert the English from disturbing the Spaniard in bringing the Indian treasure into Spain : also for reducing Holland by procuring war betwixt England, Holland, and other sea-faring countries ... / translated into English by Ed. Chilmead, and published for awakening the English to prevent the approaching ruine of their nation ; with an admonitorie preface by William Prynne, of Lincolnes-Inne, Esquire.; De monarchia Hispanica dicursus. English	Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1660 (1660)	Wing C400; ESTC R208002	195,782	247

most High and weighty undertaking if not such a one as is above the Power of Man to endeavour to Fixe them keep them in one Certain standing Condition that so they fall not from the pitch they had arrived at nor grow worse and fall to decay For in the Acquisition of any thing both Occasion Fortune and also the Enemies Errors and other the like Accidental things do very m●ch assist which are yet all of them placed without a Man But to keep what is got requires both an Excellent Wit and singular Wisedom Valour is of use for the getting but Prudence and that not Ordinary neither for the Keeping what is Gotten For the raysing of Tumults and Sedition the Vilest Persons have power enough but Peace and Quietnesse have need of Art and skill to maintain them The Lacedemonians that they might shew that it was a businesse of greater moment to keep what was Ones Own then to possesse himself of what was another mans appointed punishments for those onely that had lost their shield in fight but not those that had lost their Sword and among the Germans of old it was reputed a most Heynous crime for a man to have left his sheild behind him neither was it Lawful for any man in that Scandalous manner to be either present at their Sacrifices or to joyn with them in any of their Meetings The Romans also were wont to call Fabius Maximus the Shield of their Commonwealth but● Marcus Marcellus The Sword And it is certain enough that they made much more account of Fabius then they did of Marcellus Of this Opinion also was Aristotle who affirmes in his Politick● that the Office and Duty of a Lawgiver doth not so much consist in the constituting and Forming of Cities as in the endeavouring to preserve them when they are formed and to make them stand firm as long as possibly may be Neither need that to trouble us at all that the Propagators of Kingdoms have alwaies been more highly esteemed then the Conservators of the same for the reason of this is because that their Present Acts do more affect and take up the Eyes of men and do make a greater Noyse and shew and are fuller of Ostentation and Novelty which all People so dearly love And this is the reason why most people do more applaud and are delighted to hear of Expeditions and Conquests then they are taken with those other more Peaceful Arts of Preserving what Men had before gotten which Arts notwithstanding by how much the more Tranquillity and Quiet they work withal so much the greater both Judgment and Wit do they argue to be in him whosoever he be that knowes how to make use of them And as Constant Rivers are much more Noble then sudden Torrent● that are caused only by the Accidental falling of some Violent Showres of Rain which yet are with more Admiration gazed upon then those more quietly-flowing Rivers Just so is it with the Common People that alwaies have him in greater Admiration and Account that Wins Countries then that preserves them when they are gotten And yet the truth is that it is a much harder Task as Florus hath also observed to preserve and make good a Province then to make one These things are indeed gotten by strength but they are kept by Good Lawes And therefore I shall conclude with that of the Poet Non minor est virtus quam quaerere● parta tueri It shews as great a Skill● To keep as Conquer still And now I conceive I have treated Copiously enough touching the Prudence and Occasion that the King of Spain ought to make use of both in General and Particular notwithstanding that having been detained ten years in misery and being also sick I could not have the opportunity of furnishing my self with such things as this businesse required nor could have the help of any Books for indeed I had not so much as a Bible by me when I wrote this Discourse so that I shall the more easily deserve the Readers Pardon in case that I shall have any where doatingly failed either by setting down some things in such places as were not proper for them or else by writing some things twice I have done what I was able to do though I could not do what I would willingly have done the fuller handling of all which things notwithstanding I shall reserve for some fitter Opportunity In the mean time I desire that Your Lordship would take the pains to peruse this Tumultuary sudden Piece which yet I hope I shall revise again against the next Easter and therein I shall take the more pains and care and shall take away and adde where I shall see cause This Age of ours hath also Its Solons Lycurgusses and Iosephs which are sent by God himself but they are kept under and are not admitted to the Presence of Princes And that Common Saying namely that there are no Solons or Aristotles born now adaies is most false For indeed there are such born even in these our daies and such as are better then they too but they lye hid and concealed whiles that Gentiles are had in admiration but Christians are envied But I would have these things committed to Secret Ears for hereafter when they shall have been viewed over again and correct●d they will be more esteemed of then the Sibylls Books were by the Roman King It is not in the power of Envy to hinder me from speaking thus much for when those things which I have here delivered shall but come to be examined and made trial of Spain shall know what It hath to do and shall perceive how great my desire is to assist it in what I may Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli Books either fail or hit By th' Scale o' th' Readers Wit And thus I shall now take leave of Your Lordship whose Honours and Deserts I desire and earnestly pray that Almighty God would crown with a happy length of years and a full increase FINIS Prooemium de Iudicio Dei Iudg. 17.6.18.1.21.25 * He wou●d have said Theodora for so was Justinians wise called The Text saith on●ly 3000. Exod. 32.28

same and apply what Counsells are here given the King of Spain to their own Affaires For if it be good counsel for the King of Spain to take To procure and maintain a perfect Vnion among his own subjects at home but on the Contrary To sow the seeds of Division among his Enemies abroad the same must be as good Counsel for the King of France also to take or any other Prince or Potentate what ever If it be good Counsel to the Spaniard Never to trust so much to any peace made with an Enemy as thereupon quite to lay aside his Armes it is altogether as good Counsel for any other Prince And the same may be said of any other of the General Maxims of Policy delivered here by our Author But as for what in Particular concerns the Advancement of the Spaniard and his Designs in order to the bringing about of his Universal Monarchy whether the Rules by our Author laid down were in sufficient to do the businesse or whether hough they were every way as full and proper as could be yet having not been precisely observed the businesse hath miscarried and the Spaniard hath not as yet arrived and perhaps now is never like to arrive to the end of his Desires all this needs not hinder but that thou shouldest look upon this Author as a man of a most clear wit Judgment and prize him as one that was full of knowledge and experience in the Affaires of the World and a most industrious and studious person In the Third and last place thou art to take notice as concerning this Translation that we have therein dealt so fairely nd Ingenuuosly with our Author as that we have perfectly and entirely preserved his own sense unto him● Neither have we stopt his foul mouth where he hath either used ill Language toward any of the Protestant Princes or cast dirt into the faces of the first Reformers Luther Calvin c. For to what end should we falsifie our Original by making our Author more Civil then he had a mind to be seeing we are never a whit the worse for being so miscalled by him nor is he himself a jot the wiser for using us so And to say the Truth we our selves take the same Liberty towards them and therefore for ought I see Hanc Veniam petimusque damusque vicissim We must even be content to allow each other this Liberty on both sides An Index of the CHAPTERS CHAP. I. Of the Causes of Humane Principalities Page 1. II. The Causes of the Spanish Empire p. 4 III. Of the first Cause of Empires namely God p. 6 IV. Of the Spanish Empire considered according to the First Cause p. 9 V. Of the Second Cause namely Prudence 15 VI. How the Clergy are to be dealt withal 25 VII What may be further added concerning Prudence and Opportunity 30 VIII The Causes by which the Spanish Monarchy may be enlarged and become l●sse 31 IX Of the King 32 X. What Sciences are required in a Monarch to render Him admired by all 45 XI Of Lawes both good and bad 50 XII Of Counsel 52 XIII Of Justice and its Contrary 57 XIV Of the Barons and Nobility of the Spanish Empire 60 XV. Of the Souldiery 66 XVI Of the Treasure of Spain 81 XVII Of the Peoples Love and Hate as also of Conspiracies 93 XVIII Of Preachers and Proph●sies 105 XIX Of such Kingdomes as are properly belonging to the King of Spain and of such also as ar● his Enemies and of these which are in League with each other and which not 115 XX. Of Spain 125 XXI Of Italy 129 XXII Of Sicily and Sardinia 136 XXIII Of Germany 139 XXIV Of France 144 XXV Of England Scotland and Ireland 155 XXVI Of Poland Muscovia and Transylvania 162 XXVII Of Flanders and the Lower Germany 165 XXVIII Of Africk 185 XXIX Of Persia and Cataia 194 XXX Of the Great Turk and his Empire 197 XXXI Of the Other Hemisphere and the New World 211 XXXII Of Navigation 223 The Authors Preface THe Universal Monarchy of the World begining from the East and so coming at length to the West having passed through the hands of the Assyrians Medes Persians Greeks and Romans who were divided by the Imperial Eagle into Three Heads is at length come down to the Spaniard upon whom after so long Slavery and Division it is wholly conferred by Fate and that with greater Splendour then on any of his Predecessors to whom also according to the Vicissitude of Humane Affaires it did of right belong Now although I had not any Intention to write any thing touching either the Government or the Enlargement of the Spanish Monarchy which you most Noble Alfonso have desired me to do yet being at length delivered from my Tedious Sicknesse and my Ten years Afflictions though I am utterly deprived of the help of any Books and am as it were shut up as a Prisoner in this my Cell I shall notwithstanding in a brief and Compendious way give your Lordship an account what my Iudgment is concerning this Subject and shall give in the Causes of each several Point in General first not after a Natural nor a Theological but after a Political way and shall afterwards also descend to trea● more Particularly of the same Tho. Campanella A DISCOURSE TOUCHING The Spanish Monarchy CHAP. I. Of the Causes of Humane Principalities IN the acquiring and managing of every Dominion and Principality there usually concur three Causes that is to say God Prudence and Occasion All which being joyned together are called by the name of Fate which is nothing else but a concurrence of all the Causes working by vertue of the First And hence also is Fortune sprung which is the Successe of Earthly things whether it be good or evil which● if it be rightly known is called Prudence but if otherwise it is then called Fate Fortune or Chance As for example if a man find that which he had long sought after it is called Vnderstanding and Prudence but if he light upon a thing which he did not seek after nor knew where it was it is called Chance or Fortune Among these three Causes One sometimes prevailes in the ruling of things more then Another and perhaps more then the Other two Yet notwithstanding if we will confesse the truth they are all Three Politically concurring in the businesse Do but take notice of the Kingdome of the Iewes wherein God was the Principal Agent who by sending Moses and Aaron furnished out the Other Two Causes For Moses was a person of extraordinary Wisdome and Knowledge not onely in Divine but in Humane things also for he was well versed in all the Learning of the Egyptians and managed a War for King Pharaoh against the King of Ethiopia whom he vanquished in the War and whose daughter also he took to Wife as both Flavius Iosephus and Philo testifie And yet for all this he despised not the advice of Ieth●● his Father-in-law touching