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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22683	A declaration of the causes, which mooued the chiefe commanders of the nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the riuer of Lisbone, certaine shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said citie prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the ports and prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie.	England and Wales.; Beale, Robert, 1541-1601. aut	1589 (1589)	STC 9196; ESTC S100708	12,466	24

A DECLARATION OF THE CAVSES WHICH MOOVED THE chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England in their voyage and expedition for Portingal to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde the 30. day of Iune in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 1589. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT A DECLARATION OF THE CAVSES WHICH MOued the chiefe Commaunders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England in their voyage and expedition for Portingall to take and arrest in the mouth of the riuer of Lisbone certaine shippes of Corne and other prouisions of warre bounde for the said Citie prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine in the ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde the 30. day of Iune in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the 31. WHereas it is a thing out of cōtrouersie that certaine Marchaunts resiant and inhabiting within and neere vnto the Sownde in the kingdome of Denmarke cōmonly called the Marchants of the Hanse townes wil grieuously exclaime among forreine Nations against the chiefe Commanders of the Fleete of the most excellent Queene of England as infringers of the law of Nations and of the ancient contracts made betwixt the Kings of England and the Hanse marchants and as contemners of the Newtralitie which the said Hanse marchants doe chalenge to themselues whereby they thinke and hold it lawfull for them to exercise the trafique of all marchandises whatsoeuer with all people whosoeuer euen in the times of greatest hostilitie betweene whatsoeuer kings and Princes by reason of the intercepting arresting of certaine of their ships passing to the ayde and furnishing of the king of Spaine with corne and prouisions of warre it seemed good vnto her foresaid excellent Maiestie in respect of her good will together with singular affection and loue to the sacred Empire the Emperours Maiestie himselfe the noble Princes of Germanie and to all singular the Estates of the Empire in this publike sort to make it manifest for what causes the aforesaid Hanse ships were stayed by the officers of her Fleete and as lawfull prises taken and confiscated Which is done to no other end or purpose but to make it euident that the same action doth stand agree with equitie and iustice and to be a thing most probable that other Princes whosoeuer their seruants and Officers in the like case and vpon the like occasion woulde not haue failed to take the like course For it is a thing notorious sufficiently knowen not onely to the fewe Hanse townes but also to all Christendome that the king of Spaine is transported with a mortall hatred against the Queenes Maiestie of England a witnes whereof is the intended but not performed inuasion of the kingdome and Dominions of England by the saide king the yeere last past furthered by him with all his force but by the mercie of God vtterly disappointed Which exulcerate malice of the Kings minde not lately sprong vp but of long time lurking in the closet of his heart yet foreseene and still preuented by the Queenes Maiestie she often by her messengers sent to him for that purpose as with most gentle medicines indeuoured to asswage to reduce him to a newe minde meeter for a Prince and so great a king as himselfe to the ende that remouing out of both their mindes not onely the staine but also the suspition of the staine of discontentments they might dispose themselues to enter and conclude a firme peace and durable friendship according to the ancient leagues betweene their progenitours and fathers and their kingdomes for the space of many yeeres happily continued The king as a man bewitched by the bishop of Rome the very firebrand and bellowes of all the ciuill warres in Christendome neglecteth the remedies and conditions of peace that haue bene offred and perseuereth according to his beginning in his hostile intēdement against her Maiestie not otherwise contentable or satisfiable then with her destruction the slaughter and bloodshed of her people most obedient vnto her and to bee short with the conquest of the whole kingdome And for the better effecting hereof hee hath oftentimes sent his messengers you woulde rather say his fireflingers into England of latest yeeres two speciall persons of all the rest most eger and furious Gyrald Despes and Bernardine Mendoza who ceased not to sound and perswade the mindes of all those whome they coulde growe in acquaintance with and were men giuen ouer to al mischiefes and diabolical practises promising them and bestowing vpon them extraordinarie rewards of purpose to stirre them vp to moue domestical conspiracies against her Maiestie And how much they preuailed in their attempts it is not materiall in this place particularly to discusse for so this worke woulde growe large The 3. principall conspiracies the one of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland and of their partizans the second of the Duke of Norfolke the third of the two Pagets brethren as also of the two Throckmortons and of their confederats whereof some were condemned and executed for their intended ouerthrow of the Queenes Maiestie and of the state of the Common wealth and the rest that are fled and wander vp and downe in vncertaine places and are to this day mainteined at the charge and by the purse of the Spanish King are in this matter very sufficient witnesses But the Patrons and complotters of these rebellious being subtile and cautelous in their actions howsoeuer apparant the factes of their seditious ministers seeme to bee yet peraduenture the Spaniard himself wil denie them to be his precepts and directions Did he then chastise those his ministers being returned into Spaine as transgressers of his pleasures Did hee detaine from them all rewards and preferments as hauing ill deserued them hath he blamed the auctours of such facts and excused himselfe to the Queene I would to God it were so But goe to let these witnesses passe May hee be taken for a man of a good spirit of no poysoned minde against her Maiestie Let then Guilielmus Cataneus the Popes Secretarie that nowe is be produced let his worke of the life of Pius Quintus sometime bishop of Rome be read The saide Cataneus in that booke of his reporteth that Philip the king of Spaine complained bitterly and with great griefe to the Cardinall of Alexandria sent vnto him into Spaine in the yeere 1572. because the conspired practise as wel against England as Ireland not long before entred vpon by his authoritie and aduise had not that