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A92757	Scrinia sacra; secrets of empire, in letters of illustrious persons. A supplement of the Cabala. In which business of the same quality and grandeur is contained: with many famous passages of the late reigns of K. Henry 8. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charls.; Cábala. Part 2.	Bedell, Gabriel, d. 1668.; Collins, Thomas, fl. 1650-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing S2110; Thomason E228_2; ESTC R8769	210,018	264

is when a man speaketh of any subject not according to the parts of the matter but according to the model of his own knowledge And most humbly desire your Lordship that the weakness thereof may be supplied in your Lordship by a benign acceptation as it is in me by my best wishing FR. BACON Another to him after his enlargement My Lord NO man can expound my doings more then your Lordship which makes me need to say the less only I humbly pray you to believe that I aspire to the conscience and commendation of Bonus Civis and Bonus Vir and that I love some things better I confess then I love your Lordship yet I love few persons better both for gratitudes sake and for vertues which cannot hurt but by accident Of which my good affection it may please your Lordship to assure your self of all the true effects and offices that I can yield for as I was ever sorry your Lordship should flie with many wings doubting Icarus fortune so for the growing up of your own feathers be they Ostridges or other kind no man shall be more glad and this is the Axel-tree whereupon I have turned and shall turn Which having already signified unto you by some neer means having so fit a Messenger for mine own Letter I thought good to redouble also by writing And so I commend you to Gods protection From Grayes Inne c. FR. BACON Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Robert Cecil after defeat of the Spaniards in Ireland It may please your Honour AS one that wisheth you all increase of Honour and as one that cannot leave to love the State what interest soever I have or may come to have in it and as one that now this dead Vacation time have some leisure ad aliud agend I will presume to propound unto you that which though you cannot but see yet I know not whether you apprehend and esteem it in so high a degree that is for the best action of importation to your self of sound honour and merit of her Majesty and this Crown without ventosity or popularity that the riches of any occasion or the tide of any opportunity can possibly minister or offer And that is the Causes of Ireland if they be taken by the right handle For if the wound be not ripped up again and come to a festered sense by new foreign succours I think that no Physitian will go on much with letting blood in declinatione morbi but will intend to purge and corroborate To which purpose I send you mine opinion without labour of words in the inclosed and sure I am that if you shall enter into the matter according to the vivacity of your own spirit nothing can make unto you a more gainfull return For you shall make the Queens felicity compleat which now as it is incomparable and for your self you shall make your self as good a Patriot as you are thought Politique and to have no less generous ends then dexterous delivery of your self towards your ends and as well to have true arts and grounds of government as the facility and felicity of practice and negotiation and to be as well seen in the periods and tides of estates as in your own circle and way then the which I suppose nothing can be a better addition and accumulation of honour unto you This I hope I may in privateness write either as a Kinsman that may be bolder or as a Scholar that hath liberty of discourse without committing of any absurdity If not I pray your Honour to believe I ever loved her Majesty and the State and now love your self and there is never any vehement love without some absurdity as the Spaniard well saith De suario con la calentura So desiring your Honours pardon I ever continue c. FR. BACON Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland by Sir Francis Bacon THe Reduction of the Country as well to Civility and Justice as to Obedience and Peace which things as th' affairs now stand I hold to be unspeakable consisteth in four points 1. The extinguishing of the Reliques of War 2. The Recovery or the hearts of the People 3. The removing of the root and occasions of new trouble● 4. Plantation and buildings For the first concerning the places times and particularities of further prosecution in fact I leave it to the opinion of men of war onely the difficulty is to distinguish and discern the propositions which shall be according to the ends of the State here that is final and summary towards the extirpation of the trouble sfrom those which though they pretend the publick ends yet may referre indeed to the more private and compendious ends of the Councel there or other particular Governors or Captains But still as I touched in my letter I do think much letting blood in declinatione morbi is against method of cure and that it will but exasperate necessity and despair and per case discover the hollowness of that which is done already which none blazeth to the best shew For Taglaes ●nd proscription of two or three of the principall Rebels they are no doubt jure Gentium lawfull in Italy usually practised upon the Banditi best in season when a side goeth down and may do good in two kinds the one if it take effect the other in the distrust which followeth amongst the Rebels themselves But of all other points to my understanding the most effectuall is the well expressing or impressing of the design of this State upon that miserable and desolate kingdom containing the same between these two lists or boundaries the one that the Queen seeketh not an extirpation of the people but a reduction and now that she hath chastised them by Royall power and Arms according to the necessity of the occasion her Majesty taketh no pleasure in effusion of blood or displanting of ancient generations the other that her Majesties Princely care is principally and intentionally bent upon that action of Ireland and that she seeketh not so much the ease of charge as the Royall performance of her Office of Protection and reclaim of those her Subjects And in a word that the case is allowed as far as may stand with the honor of the time past which it is easie to reconcile as in my last note I shewed And again I do repeat that if her Majesties design be ex professo to reduce wild and barbarous people to civility and justice as well as to reduce Rebels to obedidience it maketh weakness true Christianity and conditions turn graces and so hath a fineness in turning utility upon point of honor or these times And besides if her Majesty shall suddenly abate the lists of her Forces and shall do nothing to countervail it in the point of reputation of a publick proceeding I doubt things may too soon fall back into the state they were in Next to this adding reputation to the cause by imprinting an opinion of her Majesties care and intention

upon this action is the taking away the reputation from the contrary side by cutting off the opinion and expectation of foreign succours to which purpose this enterprise of Algiers if it hold according to the advertisement and if be not wrapped up in the period of this Summer seemeth to be an opportunity Coelitus demissa And to the same purpose nothing can be more fit then a Treaty or a shadow of Treaty of a Peace with Spain which methinks should be in our power to fasten at least rumore tenus to the deluding of as wise a people as the Irish Lastly for this point that the Antients called potestas facta redeundi ad sanitatem and which is but a mockery when the Enemy is strong or proud but effectual in his declination that is a liberal Proclamation of grace and pardon to such as shall submit and come in within a time prefixed and of some further reward to such as shall bring others in that our sword may be sharpned against anothers as a matter of good experience and now I think will come in time And per case though I wish the exclusions of such a Pardon exceeding few yet it will not be safe to continue some of them in their strength but to translate them and their generation into England and give them recompence and satisfaction here for their possessions there as the King of Spain did by divers families of Portugal The effecting of all the which fall within the points aforesaid and likewise those which fall within the divisions following Nothing can be in priority either of time or matter precedent to the sending of some Commission of the continuance ad res inspiciendas componendas For it must be a very significant demonstration of her Majesties care of that Kingdom a credence to any that shall come in and submit a bridle to any that have their fortunes there and shall apply their propositions to private ends and an evidence of her Majesties politique courses without neglect or respiration and it hath been the wisdome of the best examples of Government Towards the recovery of hearts of the people there be but three things in natura rerum 1. Religion 2. Justice and Protection 3. Obligation and reward For Religion to speak first of Piety and then of Policie All Divines do agree that if Consciences be to be inforced at all whereby they differ yet two things must precede their inforcement th' one means of information th' other time of operation Neither of which they have yet had Besides till they be more like reasonable men then they yet are their society were rather scandalous to true Religion then otherwise as pearl cast before swine For till they be cleansed from their blood incontinencie and theft and which are now not the lapses of particular persons but the very laws of the Nation they are incompatible with Religion formed with Policie There is no doubt but to wrestle with them now is directly opposite to their reclaim and cannot but continue their alienation of mind from this government Besides one of the principal pretences whereby the heads of the Rebellion have prevailed both with the people and the Foreigner hath been the defence of the Catholique religion and it is that likewise hath made the Foreigner reciprocally more plausible with the Rebel Therefore a Toleration of Religion for a time not definite except it be in some principal Towns and Precincts after the manner of some French Edicts seemeth to me to be a matter warrantable by Religion and in Policie of absolute necessity and the hesitation of this I think hath been a great casting back of the affairs there Neither if any English Papist or Recusant shall for liberty of his conscience transfer his person family and fortunes thither do I hold it a matter of danger but expedient to draw on undertaking and to further population Neither if Rome will cozen it self by conceiving it may be some degree to the like Toleration in England do I hold it a matter of any moment but rather a good mean to take off the fierceness and eagerness of the humour of Rome and to stay further Excommunications and Interdictions of Ireland But there would go hand in hand with this some course of advantage Religion indeed where the people is capable of it is the sending over of some good Preachers especially of that sort which are vehement and zealous perswaders and not Scholastical to be resident in the principal Towns endowing them with some stipend out of her Majesties revenues as her Majesty hath most religiously and graciously done in Lancashire and the recontinuing and replenishing the Colledge begun at Dublin the placing of good men Bishops in the Sea there the taking care of the versions of Bibles Catechisms and other books of Instruction into the Irish language and the like religious courses both for the honour of God and for the avoiding of scandal and insatisfaction here by a toleration of Religion there For instance the Barbarism and desolation of the Country considered it is not possible they should find any sweetness at all of it which hath been the error of times past formal and fetched far off from the State because it will require running up and down for process of polling and exactions by fees and many other delays and charges And therefore there must be an interim in which the Justice must be only summary the rather because it is fit and safe for a time the Country do partioipate of Martial government And therefore I do wish in every principal Town or place of habitation there were a Captain or a Governour and a Judge such as Recorders and learned Stewards are here in Corporations who may have a Prerogative-Commission to hear and determine secundum sanam discretionem and as neer as may be to the Laws and Customs of England and that by Bill or Plaint without Original Writ reserving from their sentence matter of Freehold and Inheritance to be determined before a superior Judge itinerant to be reversed if cause be before the Councel of the Province to be established with fit Informations For obligation and reward it is true no doubt which was anciently said That a State is contained in two words Praemium Poena And I am perswaded if a penny in the pound which hath been spent in poena a chastisement of Rebels without other fruit or emolument of this State had been spent in praemio that in rewarding things had never grown to this extremity But to speak forwards The keeping of the principal Irish persons in term of contentment and without particular complaint as generally the carrying of an eaven course between the English and the Irish whether it be in competition or whether it be in controversie as if they were one Nation without the same partial course which hath been held by the Governours and Councellors that some have favoured the Irish and some contrary is one of the best

can be to wrong any woman of honour I deserve as little that name he gave me as either the mother of himself or of his children and if ever I come to know what man hath informed your Master so wrongfully of me I should do my best for putting him from doing the like to any other but if it hath come by the tongue of any woman I dare say she would be glad to have companions So leaving to trouble you any further I rest Your friend M. NOTTINGHAM Sir Charls Cornwallis Lieger in Spain to the Spanish King Iuly 23. 1608. YOur Majesty hath shewed the sincerity of your Royal heart in applying remedy to many inconveniences and injustice offered by your Ministers to the King my masters subjects in their goods and bodies and therein have performed not only what belongeth to your Kingly dignity but also what might be expected from a Prince so zealous of justice and of so good intention It resteth that now I beseech you to cast your Royal eyes upon another extreme injustice offered not only to their bodies and goods but to their very souls who being by your Majesties agreement confirmed with your oath to live within these your Kingdoms free from molestation for matter of opinion and conscience except in matters of scandal to others are here laid hold on and imprisoned by your Majesties Officers of Inquisition continually upon every light occasion of private information of some particular persons of their own Country who being fugitives out of their own houses and having according to the nature of our people removed not only their bodies but their hearts from the soil that bred them and from their brethren that were nourished with them do here seek to grace themselves by professing and teaching the observations of the Romish Church and that not out of any zeal but as plainly appeareth by many of their actions out of malice and envy By the Commissioners authorized by both your Majesties for the agreeing of the Peace it was clearly discerned that if upon private or particular informations his Majesties vassals here should be questioned for matter of Religion it was not possible that they should exercise any commerce in these kingdoms where they should be no one moment assured either of their goods or liberties It was therefore provided that they should in no sort be impeached but in case of scandal and that scandal with your Majesties favour must be understood to grow out of some publike action not out of private opinion or single conscience for if otherwise very vain and inutile had been that provision How the word scandal is in the most usual and common sense to be understood is in no books more evident then in the Divine Scriptures themselves Our Saviour in regard of his publique teaching of the Gospel and the abolishing of the Law-Ceremonial was said to be to both houses of Israel a stone of scandal The sin of David if it had lain covered in his own heart or been committed in private should not have been either published or punished as a scandal to the enemies of God St. Paul himself declareth that his own eating of flesh offered to Idols could not be an offence but only his eating before others of weak conscience whereby to give the scandal Besides I humbly beseech your Majesty consider how fitly that of the Apostle Quis es qui judicas alienum servum may be applied to those Officers of the Inquisition attempting to lay hands on the subjects of another Prince your Majesties confederate offering none offence to the Laws or publike prejudice to their profession yea in divers parts of your Majesties dominions the subjects of my Master have suffered this restraint The Inquisitor-Generall lately deceased who in all his actions shewed himself a considerate Minister and carefull in regard of your Majesties honour of the observing of what you have capitulated upon my complaint never failed to give the remedy that in justice I required He being now with God and one of my Soveraigns subjects having been long without cause detained by the Inquisitors in Lisbon and another of good account a man moderate and temperate in all his actions lately apprehended by that Office in Almonte and restrained in their prison at Sivil I am commanded from his Majesty and importuned by my Country-men who all with one voice complain and protest that they dare not longer continue their commerce without present order for remedy of so extream and perillous an injustice do beseech your Majesty that you will be pleased not only to give present order for the release of those that without scandal are known for the present in your prisons but also that in time to come the true intention of that Article be observed which is That without known offence and scandal the King my Masters subjects be not molested The accomplishment of this considering how much it imports your Majesty in honour your Majesty and the Archduke having in that Article in no other sort then in all the rest covenanted by especial words that your selves would provide that in no case but only in giving scandal to others the subjects of my Soveraign should be troubled for their consciences I cannot but expect from so just and sincere a Prince And therefore will not trouble your Majesty with more words but offering my self in all things within my power to your Majesties service I remain with a desire to be reckoned in the number of your Majesties humble and affectionate servants C. C. Iuly 23 stilo novo 1608. Sir Charls Cornwallis to the Spanish King Jan. 16. 1608. THe largeness and liberality of your Majesties Royall hand being such that it hath made your Greatness and Munificence of so much note through most parts of this world I assure my self it is far removed from the thoughts of your Princely heart to straiten in matter of Justice that so naturally and necessarily belongeth to your Kingly Office your Majesty hath been pleased to refer to the Constable the Duke of Infantasque and two of the Regents of your Councell of Arragon the understanding and determining of the extream and barbarous usage outrage and spoyl committed by ships set out in course under the commission at the charge of your Majesties Viceroy of Sardinia and his son-in-law Don Lewis de Calatana and others by their procurement those Lords and others there authorized by that Commission very nobly and justly desiring that of the spoyl committed there might be made intire satisfaction gave order divers months since but your Majesties Viceroy adding to his former offence contempt of your Majesties authority hath not onely disobeyed in his own person but contradicted and withstood in others the accomplishment of your commandements it seemeth that God is pleased for the good of your Majesties Estate and Government to disvizard that man and make apparent to the world how unfit he is to be trusted with your command of so great importance whose covetous