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A17810	The historie of the life and reigne of that famous princesse Elizabeth containing a briefe memoriall of the chiefest affaires of state that haue passed in these kingdomes of England, Scotland, France or Ireland since the yeare of the fatall Spanish invasion to that of her sad and ever to be deplored dissolution : wherevnto also is annexed an appendix of animadversions vpon severall passages, corrections of sundry errours, and additions of some remarkable matters of this history never before imprinted.; Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. English. 1634	Camden, William, 1551-1623.; Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1634 (1634)	STC 4499; ESTC S2549	301,814	518

them at their comming home and gaue peculiar thankes to euery particular man of any note but especially to the Earle of Essex and the Admirall whom she highly magnified with her eminent prayses When she had called to minde whome of these braue Souldiers she should make Gouernour of the Hauen of Brill which lay as a caution with her for the payment of the States money for the Lord Sheffeld had voluntarily resigned ouer his place Sr. Francis Vere Colonell of the English vnder the States seemed worthiest thereof And although many of the Nobility stood for the same nay although Essex himselfe opposed him and most of the Nobility thought the place more worthy of some nobler man The Queene that well knew his descent for hee was Nephew to Iohn Vere the fifteenth Earle of Oxford and besides found his valour and loyalty so well approued in that hee had vanquished the Spaniard at Rheinberg that hee had taken the Castles of Littenhouen and Buric and that he had recouered the Fort at Zutphen after due deliberation not onely preferred him in the election before the rest but withall gaue him leaue to keepe his place still amongst the States which many others much desired although she could confesse it was not very fitting to make one Gouernour of a Towne of the States that was pawned to her for the paiment of her money who besides was but an hyreling to the States for his pay This the Earle of Essex who had commended many to the Queene tooke heinously nay very vntowardly not hiding his anger from the simplest iudgements but worst of all when in his absence Sr. Robert Cecill was made Secretary to which office hee had before ordained Sr. Thomas Bodley by reason of his well-tried wisedome in the Low Country affaires and to the purpose had so highly extolled him to the Queene as one most fitting and bitingly calumniated Cecill with odious comparisons In the meane time the Spaniard to repaire the lost glory of Cadiz and to heale those incommodities which since that time daily grew vpon him rigging vp all ships he possibly could furnisheth his Nauy at Lisbone hee furnisheth himselfe with all the forreine ships that lay in the Hauen hee mustereth vp his Forces at Faroll from whence they were to saile into England and Ireland but in their voyage as report hath giuen vs to vnderstand a great tempest arising most of their ships either shipwrackt vpon the rockes or were suncke by the billowes insomuch that the loyall aire seemed to fight in the defence of England and her Queene for she heard of their destruction sooner then their expedition But for all that she fortifies her Castles and Forts by the Sea side at Sandford Portland Hurst Southsey Calshot S. Andrewes and S. Maudite and furnish●th them with munition And that her friendship and League with the French against the Spaniard might grow stronger shee strengthened it with these additions ALL former Treaties and confederacies shall be confirmed and continue in their force and vertue vnlesse there whereby they derogate from this present Treatie To this League shall all Princes and States be inuited whom it concernes to be carefull of the Spaniards practise Assone as possibly can be an Army shall be mustered to inuade the Spaniards Neither the K. of France or the Queene of England shall haue any treatise with the Spaniard without both's consent because the Spaniard now besets the Dominions of France that are neerest to the Low Countries the Queene shall send 4000. foot who shall serue the King of France six moneths this yeare in any place that shall not be aboue fiftie miles from Bononia by the Sea side In the next yeare following also if the affaires of England can spare them they shall serue the King as long wherein they shall stand to the assertion and conscience of the Queene When the Irish sedition shall be alayd the King shall stand to the good will of the Queene to haue 4000. sent ouer to him The English shall be vnder the French Kings pay from the time of their arriuall to the time of their departure The Queene shall from time to time supply the want of that number That the Pay-masters shall be the Queenes Seruants and her money euery moneth for which the King shall be bound within six moneths fully for to satisfie her hauing resigned ouer foure Townes If that the King shall stand in need of greater Forces the Queene shal muster them in England and the King shall pay them out of his owne moneyes The English that shall serue the King shall be subiect to the Kings officers and punished by them yet so that the English Captaines also be called by the said officers and sit with them in iudgement If the Queene chance to be inuaded and shall demand aide from the King he within two moneths shall muster vp 4000. foot and send them ouer into England at his owne charges and they shall not be drawen further then fifty miles from the shore and the Queene shall pay them from the time of their arriuall in England The said French Souldiers shall be subiect to the Queenes officers after the aforesaid manner the King shall also continually supply the number The one shall furnish the other with all kind of warlike prouision so long as it preiudiceth not the State The Merchants shall mutually defend each other in either Kingdome The King shall not suffer the English to be troubled in cause of Religion the paiments of the Captaines and Souldiers shall be set downe in a little roll And shortly after there was another Treatie wherein it was agreed that in this yeare onely 2000. English should be sent ouer which serue onely at Bononia and Monstrell vnlesse it chanced that the King was personally present in Picardy c. To the performance of these Couenants the Queene took her oath in the Chappell at Greenewich the 29. of A●gust deliuering them to the hands of Henry de la Tour Duke of Bulloigne Viscount Turene and the Marshall of France the Bishop of Chichester giuing to her the holy Testament and many Noble men encircling her round about In September next William Talbot Earle of Shrewesbury is sent ouer into France vpon an Embassie that the King might make the like oath to him in the roome of the Queene that he might present Anthony Mildmay in the place of Leager in France by reason of the death of Henry Vmpton late Leager there that he might inuest the King with the Order of St. George and shortly after Sir Thomas Baskeru●●e passeth ouer with 2000. foot into Picardy according to their last Couenants Amongst these warlike affaires that some what disquieted the peace of the Land there was also a base sort of people that hauing taken vpon them the authority and badges of the Queens Apparitors wandred vp downe England with falsified Commissions the hands of the Counsell other Delegates in

Allan with other Iesuites had deuised and sought to accomplish plots mischieuous both to Prince and people for which cause the said Cardinall was banisht the Realme yet notwithstanding that the Earle maintained an intercourse of letters with him still in some whereof he assured him of his vtmost indeauour for promoting the Catholique cause which words he argued could admit of no milder exposition than an inuasion of England The Earle made answere that by promoting the Catholique cause he meant not the subuersion of the Realme as they fancied but onely the conuersion of as many Proselites as he could The Queenes Atturney Popham vrgeth against this the confessions of Sauage Throgmorton and Babington out of which hee made his illation that by those words the Earle meant an inuasion of England by force of armes Soutl●worth Sergeant at Law hauing alleadged the Statutes lately made against Iesuites and Seminary Priests begins to vnfold the secret mischieuous purposes of sending Iesuites ouer into England concluding them to bee Traytors from a testimonie taken from the Earles owne mouth who when Val●ngers case about the Libell was tried in the Starre-chamber openly affirmed that he that was throughly a Papist must needes bee a Traytor aggrauating the matter with these circumstances be●ides that the Earle had entertained such men notwithstanding into his familiar acquaintance and that also he had reconciled himselfe to the Romane Church and tendred obedience to that See This reconcilement the Earle earnestly denied beseeching them that testimonie might be produced for confirmation but they produced none but himselfe who hauing formerly granted them that he had beene confessed his sinnes by Burges the Priest gaue them occasion to vse this argument against him he that is admitted to the vse of the Sacraments of the Church of Rome must first be reconciled to that Church but he had beene admitted by Gratley a Priest to the vse of the Sacraments of the Church of Rome and therefore they concluded his re●oncilement Heere Popham with as great vehemency of words as multip●icitie of matter argueth his reconcilement from his owne letters from his resolution to depart the Realme and from his continuall being thus at the Cardinals becke thence concluding him guilty of treason and afterwards producing letters of Gratley and Morgan to the Queene of Scots taxed him as if he professed the Romish religion not out of conscience but as a colour for his discontents if they should chance to break out into open rebellion After all this was produced a little picture foūd in the Earls casket on the one side wherof was a handshaking a Serpent into the fire with this inscription Si Deus n●biscum quis contra nos that is If God be with vs wh● can be against vs On the other side a Lion rampant with his tallents cut off but this motto Tamen leo that is I am yet a Lion To this he add●d that the Cardin●l● exhortation to the contrary diuerte● his ●esolution of departing the Realme alledging that hee might doe the Church of Rome better seruice at home than he 〈…〉 Likewise that in a letter sent the Queene he had bitterly traduced and sorely calumniated the legall proceeding of the Realme especially in the sentence of death both of his 〈◊〉 and Grandfather that the Queene of Scots had commended him to Bibington as a fit man to be the Chiefe Heade of all Catholiques That Cardinall Allan plainely intimated that the Popes B●ll was procured by the meanes of a Great man in England wh● must necessarily be the Earle himselfe since none of all the nobilitie was guilty of that familiaritie with him which the Earle by letters daily increased and augmented Then were read the confessions of William and Margaret brother and sister to the Earle Likewise some of his owne letters which he wrote when he resolued a departure of the Realme euery one magnifying euen to admiration the clemencie of the Queene who at that time qualified his offence of treas●n with a triuiall imputation of a bare contempt only To these things the Ear●e heere and there mingled an answer as that the picture was a small ordinary trifle and the gift of one of his seruants That indeed he assured Cardinall Allan of the extremity of his indeuours but yet neither against Prince nor people That whatsoeuer he had formerly written concerning the iudgement pronounced either against his Father or Grandfather the Chronicle was better able to 〈…〉 Then were read certaine letters of the Cardinall Allan to the Queene of S●ots and others of the Bishops of Rosse since the time of his intended flight concerning a fresh inuasion of England After that the Bull also of Sixtus Quintus and many sentences gleaned out of the Cardinals admonitions to his Countre● men in England the yeere before printed at Antwerpe The Title also of Philip Duke of Norfolke found in some scattered papers was layd to his charge by reason indeed that the Cardinall not long since had exhorted him to vse a Higher Title and a●l this to prooue him guilty of Treason before his imprisonment But Egerton the Queenes Sollicitor hauing compendiously collated all the premisses doth vndertake to conuince the Earle of Treason likewise since his imprisonment and that at three seuerall times as first before the Spanish Nauie came by wishing a fortunate successe vnto it then at the very time of the Nauies comming by causing Seruices Prayers and the Masse of the Holy Ghost to be sayd full foure and twenty houres without respite for the prosperity thereof and lastly at the time of its shamefull flight by more then ordinary griefe bewayling the misery of so vnexpected fortune The testimonies to confirme these allegations were ●aken 〈…〉 The Earle indeed denied not the saying of Masse or prayers but the end thereof as they imagined his end being only to diuert the cruelty of that slaughter which hee 〈◊〉 was threatned Catholiques But what Gerar● affirmed hee constantly denied and adiuring him by the terrour of the fearefull day of iudgement either so distracted his memorie or quickned his conscience that he accused none more than himselfe of folly in speaking little or nothing to the purpose What Bennet witnessed the Earle sought to suppresse the beliefe of by producing to them palpable contradictions which his whole confession was in a 〈◊〉 clad with and for the rest as being men partly condemned partly dissolute in their life and partly of small credit he not so much esteemed of their testimonie as traduced that courtesie which hee thought allow'd him companie the better to entangle him This peremptorie slighting and disreputing of the witnesse that came for the Queene being 〈…〉 with some reprehension the Queenes Sollicitor gave them notice to heare the words of the ancient law of Richard the 2. read wherein is declared that the Crowne of England is vnder no Iurisdiction except onely Gods and that the Bishop of Rome hath no right either in or ouer the same After which time

opposite against them Yet notwithstanding Baskeruile hauing placed his Souldiers in the ship-boats endeauoured strongly for a passage hee burnt one or two of the Spanish ships but being driuen backe with a shower of bullets that rained about him he listed not to renue his purpose against so stormy a violence So that hauing put from thence towards the continent or firme land they set fire on Rio de la Hach a little Village whose Inhabitants offered 34000. Duckats for their redemption Then they set fire also on St. Martha but found not one dramme of gold or siluer there Thence they went and tooke Nombre de Dios as empty of riches as Inhabitants which they burnt also From thence going towards Panama with 750. armed Souldiers they were so intangled with by-paths so ensnared in durty wayes and so pelted with shot out the woods about so abashed to finde a Fortre●●e iust against them in these narrow wayes to heare that there were two more within that blocked vp the way that being quite tyred they returned to their ships againe From thence they turned their course to Scudo an Island and from thence to Porto Bello in the meane time Sir Francis Drake hauing beene sorely molested with the bloudy-fluxe and grieued at these vntoward proceedings yeelded vp the ghost and being let downe into the Sea with a peale of Ordnance after the manner of Sea Funeralls he was buried euen in the same place almost where in his prosperous Voyages he began to be famous And now hauing begun to returne by the South side of Cuba ouer against the Island Pinor the Spanish Nauy that had tarried for them now met them but on the first onset if we may belieue them that did it Baskeruile and Throughton one in the Admirall the other in the Vice-Admirall so molested the Spaniards that they offered more harme then they receiued Afterwards some 8. moneths being expired they returned home with spoile poore enough in respect of the death of those men of worth their greatest riches being that they had made their enemy poore by burning many of his petty Townes and more of his ships Whilest these things were thus in action in the Westerne world there arose a kinde of distaste which indeed had but now growne vp to a controuersie between the States confederate of the Low Countries and the Queene Which by this meanes grew vp and as well withered away againe Burleigh the Queenes Treasurer had demonstrated to her what summes of mony from the yeare 1585. had beene spent in their warres what summes of gold and siluer had beene new stampt by them to their great gaining aduantage what store of English bloud had beene lost to keepe their cause vpright what costs and charges were necessarily to be employed to extinguish the fire of rebellion in Ireland and the practises of the Spaniard in England Besides hee shewed how the States had not onely defended themselues by the helpe of the Queene but also offended their enemies how they had now established firmely their tottering Common-wealth how they had encreased their wealth by traffiques and their power by subduing more Territories to their gouernment and then how that the Queene with the long continuance of warre and the excesse of charges was euen tyred to a kinde of pouerty The Queene considering duly these things sent Sir Thomas Bodly her Embassadour to the States to acquaint them with all these passages as first that England was now euen drawne dry both of men and money by reason of warre against the Spaniard who in no other matter professed himselfe her enemy but for that she was their friend Wherefore ●he demanded that they would ease her of the cost of her auxiliary forces and that they would repay some part of her charges and chuse some Delegates to giue account and take order how the money that had been spent in their cause which was due indeed to Sir Horatio Pallauicine of whome it was taken at Interest should be repaid him The States acknowledging these infinite courtesies receiued from the Queene professed themselues beholding to her vnder God for all their good fortunes But withall they protested they had been at such charges in eighty eight last against the Spanish Armada and in the next yeare in the Portugall expedition and after that in the expedition at Brest and besides that they had suffered such losse by vnaccustomed i●undations that they were so brought behinde hand that they could not discharge the debt vnlesse they should oppresse the poore people and vndoe their owne cause also protesting that by reason of those Townes and Territories which they had gotten from the enemy their charges were not eased but are multiplyed and encreased by reason that now they are faine to fortifie them and place new Garrisons in them And for their traffiques they shewed how equally they hung betweene losse and gaine by reason of the Arrests in Spaine and the Pyracies both of the English and of the Dunkerks Indeed they confessed that they gaue some aide to the French King but not out of the abundance of their ability or out of a fo●d insolent arrogancy or any way to rob England of the glory of succo●ring France or to draw France from England into their Patronage but onely to diuert the enemy and bring it to passe that the French made not a League with Spaine which his necessity domesticke discords and ill counsels would quickly aduise him to Yet notwithstanding they promised her some part for the present of the monies in present paiment But when as the Queene demanded a greater summe the States contended out of the agreement made 1585 that there should not be present present payment of the money backe againe till such time as the warre was ended and that if the Queene would but take as much counsell from her royall Honour as she did from some ill members that put this first into her head they knew she would not fall from her agre●ment For all this the Queene continued in the contrary opinion relying vpon the Oracles of her Lawyers and Politicians such as were these THat all contracts and agreements made betweene Prince and Prince are vnderstood to be interpreted bonâ fide Neither is a Prince bound by any contract when that contract on iust cause occasions hurt to the Common-wealth That the Peace is not broken when a Prince breaks the contract when he is occasioned to doe it by cases of contingency or when the matter is come to a new case which should haue otherwise beene prouided for if the said case had beene thought vpon That the Leagues and agreements of Princes ought not to be occasions of cauilling neither ought they to be in vertue to those who breake the couenants That in case it turne to the damage and preiudice of his Subiects a Prince is not bound to stand to couenants made or if it but