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A70986	A choice narrative of Count Gondamor's transactions during his embassy in England by that renowned antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, knight and baronet ; exposed to publick light, for the benefit of the whole nation by a person of honour.; Vox populi	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Rowland, John, 1606-1660.; Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1659 (1659)	Wing S2083; ESTC R10208	19,163	38

of proceedings in this kind in all their judicial Courts whither known Catholicks Convicted as they term them are often summoned and cited threatned and bound over but the danger is past so soon as the Officer hath his Fee paid to him then the Execution goeth no further nay upon my Conscience they are glad when there are Offendors in that kind because they are bountiful and the Officers do their best to succour them that they may encrease and so their benefit and gain come in freely And if they should be sent to prison even that place for the most part is made a Sanctuary to them as the old Romans were wont to shut up such by way of restraint whom they meant to preserve from the peoples fury so they live safe in prison till we have time to work their liberty and assure their lives and in the mean time their place of restraint is as a study unto them where they have opportunity to confer together as in a Colledg and to arm themselves in unity against their single adversaries abroad but quoth the Inquisitor General how do they for Books when they have occasion either to write or dispute My Lord replyes Gondamor all the Libraries belonging to the Romish Catholicks through the land are at their Command from whence they have all such Collections as they can require gathered to their hands as well from thence as from all the Libraries of both Universities and even the Books themselves if that be requisite Besides I have made it a principal part of my employment to buy all the Manuscripts and other ancient and rare Authors out of the hands of the Hereticks So that there is no great Schollar dies in the Land but my Agents are dealing with his Books In so much as even their learned Isaac Causabons Library was in Election without question to be ours had not their Vigilant King who foresees all dangers and hath his eyes busy in every place prevented my plots for after the death of that great Schollar I sent to request a view and Catalogue of his Books with their price intending not to be out-bid by any man if mony would fetch them because Besides the damage that that side should have received by their loss persecuting the same story against Cardinal Baronius we might have made good advantage of his Notes Collections Castigations Censures and Criticismes for our own party and framed and put out other under his name at our pleasure But that was fore-seen by their Prometheus who sent that torturer of ours the Bishop of Winchester to search and sort the Papers and to seal up the study giving a large and Princely Allowance for them to the Relict of Causabon together with a bountiful pention and provision for her and hers but this plot failing at that time hath not ever done nor had the University of Oxford so Triumphed in their many Manuscripts given by that famous Knight Sir Thomas Bodly if either I had been then imployed or this course of mine then thought upon For I would labour what I might this way or any other way to disarm them either to translate their ●est Authors hither or at least to leave none in the hands of any but Roman Catholicks who are assuredly ours and to this end an especial eye should be had upon the Libraries of one Sir Robert Cotton an Ingrosser of Antiquities that whensoever it comes to be broken up either before his death or after the most choice and singular Pieces might be gleaned or gathered up Neither let any man think that descending thus low to petty particulars is unworthy an Embassadour or of small avail for the ends we aim at since we see every mountain consists of several sands and there is not more profitable conversing for States-men then amongst Schollars and their Books especially where the King for whom we watch is the King of Schollars and loves to live almost altogether in their Element Besides if by any means we can continue difference in their Church or make them wider or beget distaste betwixt their Clergy and common Lawyers who are men of greatest power in their Land the benefit will be ours the consequence great opening a way for us to come in between for personal quarrels produce real questions As he was further prosecuting this Discourse one of the Secretaries who waited in the Chamber without desired entrance and being admitted delivered Letters which he had newly received of a Post directed to the President and the rest of the Council from his Catholick Master the Contents whereof were to this effect Right trusty and wel-beloved Cousins and Counsellors we Greet you well Whereas we had a hope by our Agents in England and Germany to effect the great Work of the Western Empire and like on the other side to surprize Venice and so incircling Europe at one instant and infolding it into our arms make the easier Road upon the Turk in Asia and at length reduce all the World to our Catholick Command And whereas to these holy ends we had secret and sure Plots and Projects on foot in all these places and good intelligence in all Courts Know we that we have received late and sad News of the apprehension of our most trusty and able Pentioner Barnevelt and of the discovery of other our intendments so that our hopes are for the present adjourned till some other more convenient and auspicuous time We therefore will you presently upon sight hereof to break off your Consultation and repair straight to our Presence there to take further directions and proceed as necessity of the time and cause shall require With that his Excellency and the whole House struck with amazement crossed their fore-heads rose up in sad silence and brake off this Treaty abruptly and without tarriance took Horse and Posted to the Court from whence expect newes the next fair wind In the mean time let not those be secure whom it concerns to be rouzed up knowing that this aspiring Nebuchadnezzar will not lose the glory of his Greatness who continueth still to magnifie himself in this great Babel until it be spoken Thy Kingdome is departed from thee Dan. 4. FINIS

call Recusants quoth he I know the bitterness of their inveterate Malice and have seen so far into their Natures as I dare say they will be for Spain a●ainst all the World yea quoth he I assure your Honours I could not imagine so basely of their King and State as I have heard them speak nay their rage hath so perverted their Judgements that what I my self have seen and heard proceed from their King beyond admiration even to astonishment they have sleighted misreported scorned and perverted to his disgrace and my rejoycing magnifying in the mean time our Defects for Graces Here the Duke Pastrana President of the Council of Italy steps up and said He had lately read a Book of one Cambdens called his Annals where writing of a treaty of Marriage long since betwixt the English Elizabeth and the French Duke of Anjowe he there observes that the Marriage was not seriously intended on either side but politickly pretended by both States counterchangably that each might effect their own ends There quoth he the English had the better and I have some cause to doubt since they can Dissemble as well as we that they may have their aims under hand as we have and intend the Match as little as we do And this quoth he I beleive the rather because their King as he is wise to consult and consider so he is a constant Master of his Word and hath Written and given strong Reasons against Matches made with Persons of contrary Religion which Reasons no other man can Answer and therefore doubtlesse he will not go from nor counsel his Son to forsake these Rules laid down so deliberately Your Excellency mistakes quoth the Embassador the advantage was then on the side of the English because the French sought the Match now it must be on ours because the English seek it who will grant any thing rather than break off and besides have no patience to temporize or dissemble in this or any other Design as the French have long since well observed for their Necessities will give them neither time nor rest nor hope elsewhere to be supplied As for their King I cannot search into his Heart I must beleive others that presume to know his Mind hear his Words and read his Writings and these relate what I have delivered But for the rest of the People as the number of those that are truly Religious are ever the least and for the most part of least account so it is there where if an equal opposition be made betwixt their truly Religious and ours the remainder which will be the greater number will stand indifferent and fall to the stronger side where there is most hope of gain and glory for those two are the gods of the magnitude and multitude now these see apparently no certain supplies of their Wants but from us Yes quoth the Duke for even now you said the general State loathing the Match would redeem the fear thereof with half their Estates it is therefore but Calling a Parliament and the business were soon effected A Parliament sayes the Embassadour Nay therein lies one of the chiefest Services I have done in working such a dislike between the King and the Lower House by the endeavours of that honourable Earl and admirable Engine a sure Servant to us and the Catholick Cause whilst he lived as that the King will never endure Parliament again but rather suffer absolute Want than receive conditional Relief from his Subjects besides the Matter was so cunningly carried the last Parliament that as in the Powder-Plot the fact effected should have been imputed to the Puritans the gteatest Zealots of that Calvinian Sect so the Propositions which dam'd up the Proceedings of this Parliament howsoever they were invented by Romish Catholicks and by them intended to disturbe that Session and yet were propounded in favour of the Puritans as if they had been hammered in their Forge which very Name and Shadow the King hates being a sufficient Aspersion to disgrace any Person to say he is such and a sufficient bar to stay any suit and utterly to cross it to say it smells of or enclines to that Party Moreover there are so many about him who blow this Coal fireing their own Stakes if a Parliament should enquire into their Actions that they use all their Art and Industry to withstand such a Council perswading the King he may Rule by his absolute Prerogative without a Parliament and thus furnish himself by Marriage with us and other Domestick Projects without Subsidies when Levying of Subsidies and Taxes have been the only use Princes have made of such Assemblies And whereas some free Minds amongst them resembling our Nobility who preserve the Priviledge of Subjects against Soveraign Invasion call for the Course of the Common Law a Law proper to their Nation these other Time-se●vers cry the Laws down and up the Prerogative whereby they prey upon the Subjects by Suits and Exactions milk the State and keep it bare procure themselves much Suspition amongst the better and more judicious sort and Ha●e amongst the oppressed Commons and yet if there should be a Parliament such a course is taken as they shall never Chuse their Shire Knights and Burgesses freely who make the greater half of the Body thereof for these being to be Elected by most Voices of the Free-holders in these Countries where such Elections are to be made are carried which way the great Persons who have Lands in these Countries please who by their Letters command their Tennants Followers and Friends to Nominate such as adhere to them and for the most part are of our Faction and respect their own Benefit or Grace rather than their Countries good yea the Country-people themselves will every one stand by the great Man their Lord or Neighbour or Master without regard of his Honesty Wisdom or Religion that which they aim at as I am assured by faithful Intelligence is to please their Landlord and so to renew their Lease in which regard they will betray their Country and Religion too and Elect any man that may most profit their particular Therefore it is unlikely there should ever be a Parliament and impossible the Kings Debts should be paid his Wants sufficiently repaired and Himself left full-handed by such a course and indeed as it is generally thought by any course but by a Marriage with us For which cause whatsoever Project we list to attempt enter safely at the Door whilst their Policy lies asleep and will not see the Danger I have made tryal of these Particulars and find few Exceptions in this general Rule Thereby I and their own Wants together have kept them from Furnishing their Navie which being the Wall of their Island and once the strongest in Christendom lies now at Road unarm'd and fit for Ruine If ever we doubted their Strength by Sea now we need not there are but few Ships or Men able to look abroad or live in a Storm much lesse