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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

Authority as we find it testified by daily Experience Or else it may indeed be desired at the Popes hands that it should be so and it may also be declared that the King is willing to yield that in all Causes whatsoever there should be Appeales to the Pope if so be that it may be but every where allowed to appeal first to a Councel of Three Bishops or else that Appeales in all Causes of the Laity shall come at length to the Pope but passing first by degrees through a Councel consisting of two Bishops and the King and so to be referred afterward to a General Councel and last of all to come to the Pope for Appeals from General Councels are very seldome heard of and besides the very Name of a Councel is hateful to the Pope So that in conclusion the determination of all Causes will alwaies rest with the King who by this means shall be a Gainer where he seems to be a Loser CHAP. VII What may be ufrther added concerning Prudence and Opportunity THat Prudence ought in the first place to agree in all things with Divine Fate hath already been shewed it remaineth now that we speak of all the rest of the parts of Prudence and shew whitherto all its Vertues and especially Opportunity ought to be referred for as much as it is the property of Prudence to know how to make use of Occasion We have already also declared upon what Interests and under what Confederacy with the Pope the Monarchy of Spain ought to proceed at least as far as was fit to be committed to writing for the most secret Arcana and Mysteries of State are not thus to be made Publick It is therefore Manifest that the Occasion which the King of Spain hath consists chiefly in this that his Neighbouring Enemies are weak and at discord among themselves touching both Points of Religion and matters of State but his Remoter Enemies are more Powerful so that these if his weaker Neighbours were once overcome seem the more easily conquerable The Spaniard hath besides a Notable Occasion from the Extraordinary advantage of Navigation and by his having Dominion in all places round about the whole Earth in a Circle And it seems to me that the attaining to the Empire of the whole World is a very feasible businesse for Him to bring about if there could be such an Uniting of things together by degrees as I shall shew hereafter according to the General Rules of Politick Prudence Where we shall at length come to Particular Actions examined according to Nearer and Remoter Relations But first of all the Politick Relation of Spain at home is to be strengthened and afterwards the Forrain is to be looked after Thus therefore I proceed on to the businesse CHAP. VIII The Causes by which the Spanish Monarchy may be enlarged and become lesse THe Occasions by which the Spanish Monarchy may be kept up or perhaps be enlarged also are these First of all The Virtue of the King Secondly the Goodnesse of the Lawes thirdly the Wisdome of the Councel fourthly the Iustice of the Officers of State fiftly the Obedience of the Barons sixtly the Multitude and good Discipline of Souldiers and Commanders Seventhly a Full Treasury Eightly the Mutual Love of the People among themselves and toward their King Ninthly Good Preachers in their Sermons speaking for subjection to Kings Tenthly the Good Agreement betwixt his own Kingdomes and the Disagreement betwixt his Neighbours And on the contrary this Monarchy hath these things that may be the ruine of it as First A wicked King Secondly Bad Lawes Thirdly an Ignorant Councel Fourthly Vnjust Officers of State Fifthly a Disobedient Nobility Sixthly the Want of Souldiers and Commanders and those He hath not well disciplined Seventhly Want of Mony Eighthly The Mutual Hatred of the People among themselves and toward their King Ninthly False Prophets or else perhaps True ones that may rise up against Monarchy Tenthly The Discord of his Own Kingdomes and the Agreement among others All which things are Prudently to be considered and weighed seeing that the present Disagreement among the Enemies of Spain and his Power at Sea all over the World have rendred the Attempt not only of maintaining but of enlarging this so great a Monarchy very feasible CHAP. IX Of the King HE cannot govern the World that cannot govern an Empire neither can he rule an Empire that cannot a Kingdom nor he a Kingdom that cannnot a Province nor he a Province that cannot a City nor he a City that cannot a Village nor he a Village that cannot a Family nor he a Family that cannot a single house nor he a single house that cannot govern himself neither can he govern himself that cannot reduce his affections and bring them within the compasse of Reason which very thin● no man is able to do except he submit himself to the will of God For whosoever rebels against God who is the Supreme Wisdom against him shall all things that are subordinate to him rebel also and that justly and by the Law of Retaliation which is most just in all both Governments and Actions of Men. Having therefore weighed in onr mind and co●sidered all the Ideas and Formes of Humane Government we say that the King of Spains endeavours must be that He may arrive to the Highest pitch of Wisdom that may be For every Virtue is an Affection of the Mind consisting in a certain Mean beyound which if it arise or fall beneath it it comes to be a Vice Now it is Reason that constitutes this Mean And therefore we are to say that Actions alone do not render a man Vertuous but to this purpose there is required also a Natural Inclination in the Person which is derived both from the Complexion of his Parents from the Aire and from the Stars Seeing therefore that the Kingdom of Spain is not an Electtive one but descends by succession I say that the King ought to have but one wife for to have more is contrary to Reason it self which is to be of a tall Stature and she must be both fruitful and Eloquent and must excel all other women in the endowments both of Body and Mind Neither must he look after the Noblensse of her Family only for so she may chance to be barren or may some other waies be not so pleasing to Him and he should be overwhelmed with all those mischieifs that Henry the Eighth was or the Duke of Mantua Whence Francis the Duke of Tuscany might seem to deserve commendation if he had married Blanch only because he wanted an Heir to succeed him The King is likewise to exercise the Act of Copulation with his Queen under a Fortunate Planet onely and after Digestion is finished and besides he must not do this till after he hath abstained some reasonable time from the said Act to the end that his seed may be the more fruitful and when ever he hath any thing to do with his

Popes as have been obstinate perverse Persons and enemies to them to appear before a General Councel but this devise of theirs the Pope hath now eluded it being openly delared to all the World that a Generall Councel hath no power at all over the Pope and a Decree being also made That No Councel shall be called but by the Pope alone And for this reason did Pope Leo X. ruine those Cardinals that were present at the Councel of Pisa and yet neither did their friends the Princes obtain what they desired Eclesiastical Princes have alwaies been wiser then Secular some of whom have found a remedy for this Evil by yeilding and submitting themselves as Theodosius the Emperour humbled himself before that Good Bishop St Ambrose and the Kings of the Goths left Rome and went to Ravenna to reside giving way to the Popes as well to the Bad as the Good And That King of England also by whose command Thomas Beck●t Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered made choyce rather to enter into Conditions of Peace with the Pope then to lose his Kingdom and so was forced to pay yearly to the Pope forty Thousand Marks of Gold and besides at his death he made the Pope his heir to the Kingdom by his last Will and Testament After the Example of these Princes it will behoove the King of Spain also to give way to the Pope whether He be Good or Bad and to lay aside what Controversies soever he shall have with him and to leave such Bishops as are his enemies to be chastised by the Pope to whom He must wholly unite himself by those waies which are before set down Alexander the King of the Iewes having drawn upon himself the hatred of the Pharises and being now upon his death bed persuaded his wife as Iosephus testifies that by all meanes she should take him and throw him down headlong out at the Window telling her that by so doing she should give full satisfaction to the Incensed Pharises who after she had done that Act would suffer her to succeed him in the Kingdom giving her Counsel besides that she should ever take head how she fell out with any Religious persons least she suffered that which himself had done But if such men as are Authorised by no Superiour Power especially if they be Clergy men such as were Arrius Savana●ola and Luth●r shall rise up against any State this is a very dangerous case and it must then be enquired into whether these men have any encouragement from the Pope to do so or not for if so be they have and He contradicts them not then is the Evill in a manner Incurable but if they have not Him for their Abettor then may an order be very easily taken with them For here it is necessary that it be considered whether these Men be Good or Bad for both may prove very dangerous and if they are Bad they must then be rooted out by the Authority of the Pope but if they are Good men they must then be cited to appear before a General Councel where by the Authority of the Pope being also interposed they may be openly convinced in like manner as Berengarius being convinced of his Errour yeilded to the Truth and submitted and this is the Course that ought to be taken where the Parties are sincerely and really Good men and not meer Hypocrites onely But if they maintain a Good Cause those Faults which they did inveigh against in their Sermons are to be mended and they themselves are to be sent for away to Rome where they should afterwards spend the rest of their Lives as was done by Bartholomaeus Miranda Archbishop of Toledo and the Bishop of Curzola who was expelled from his Bishoprick by the Venetians If they are Lay-men as was Iohn of Leyden and Philip Melancthon there is no great danger to be feared from them For these two after the breach had been first made by Luther at length rose up and when now Luther had already setled his Erroneous Religion and false Priesthood in Germany But in our Dominions no One Lay-man whatsoever would be able to bring about such a businesse without the assistance of some one of the Clergy It is an Infallible Rule that no Heresie did ever do any hurt in a Count●y unlesse the Prince himself of that Country for some Reasons of State afforded some Patronage to the same as I have shewed where I discoursed touching the Monarchy● It will therefore concern all Princes to take care that their Nobles also be not infected with the said Heresie which they may prevent by taking them off with Employments and so diverting their Minds from any such thoughts as I have delivered before Now these Rules are to be diligently observed with these aforesaid Hereticks You must be careful that you do not fall to dispute with them about Minute Quirks and subtilties in Divinity but only that you require them to give you a good account of their Calling and to produce the Names of their Authors after this manner suppose Who commanded you to teach these things publickly Were they Men or Divels rather For we cannot believe they should be any other And then if they shall answer that God● let them then make the same appear to you by doing some Miracles or other such as God heretofore armed His Messengers with namely Moses Elijah and the Apostles And if they are not able to do any such things you should then bring them to the Stake and burn them if you can and render them as Infamous as possibly you may But be sure you avoid all Grammatical Disputations and Logical Subtilties but dispute with them only according to the Principles of Divine Logick as St. Francis did in Egypt and St. Iohn Guidalbert and as I my self have endeavoured to do in my Dialogues against the Lutherans and Calvinists laying down a way how they are to be convinced by an Apostolical and Political way least out of multiplying idle● and vain words one Controversie may still be started out of another which ●o perverse and Malicious spirits will be taken for a kind of Victory I would also have them condemned to be Burnt out of the Imperial Constitutions for as much as they rob Persons in Authority of their Goods and Good name such as are the Pope and other Religious● and Pious men who have confirmed the Faith of the Church and sealed it with their Blood which indeed is more precious then what ever other Treasures in the World and therefore whosoever they are that are Refractory to and perversly oppose such Persons and seduce others to do the like they justly deserve to be punished A second Rule is that all care be taken that there be no fruits suffered to spring from such branches for the hindering whereof the best course would be to prefer only men of excellent parts to Bishopricks and Benefices and withal you are to consider that such if they be good Men will

Philosophical and Politicall Questions proposed among them that they may so be diverted from embracing Heretical Opinions But the best course the King can take for the preventing of all Conspiracies and designs against Him will be to shew Himself a Good Awful and Iust Prince● The want of the First of these Vertues was the Ruin of Nero and Acciolinus the Defect in the second undid Sardanapalus and Vitellius and the failing in the last cost Philip King of Macedonia his life who because he had denied the due Course of Justice to one Pausanias was by him killed Inequality also and Injustice was the Cause of the Ruin of Rome it self If any one Single person have any Treacherous Design against the Prince the only Course in that case for prevention of it will be to take notice of and search every one that comes into the Kings presence least they should carry any Armes Privily about them for it is a difficult businesse to prevent such Treacheries as are designed by One single Person alone And hence it was that Henry the III. of France and the King of Moab and so likewise Philip King of Macedonia were all Slain by single persons the First of them for his Religion the second for his Cruelty and the Third for his denying Justice to be done to a Subject of his But if there be Many joyned together in any Conspiracy against the Prince it cannot be but that unlesse they effect their design within fifteen or twenty daies space or except the Conspirators have fallen upon their Design out of their Love and respect they bear to Justice Piety or the benefit of the Publick and so it prove to be onely a Conspiracy contrived by Honest Men against a Tyrant it cannot otherwise be I say but that they must necessarily be discovered For every body will hope some way or other to advance himself by the Prince's Favour if he do but discover the said Conspiracy to him And hence it was that the Conspiracy of Absolon against his father David and of Catiline against his Country were detected because that those that were the Conspirators were nothing at all better or honester men then those against whom they had conspired Conspiracies are also easily and speedily too discovered by servants unlesse they be presently put into Execution as was that of Laurence de Medicis against Duke Alexander which was deferred but one night onely And whensoever Honest Men joyn in any Conspiracy against a most Cruel Tyrant notwithstanding they should delay the putting of the same in execution yet would there be no great danger of its being discovered and hence it was that the Conspiracy of Iohn de Procitha and the Barons of Sicily against the French and Charles of Anjou who miserably afflicted the poor Inhabitants was kept close above a year before the Execution of it and that too though both the Emperour the Pope and Peter King of Arragon who were Forraigners were all privy to the Same the only Reason of which was because that This was a Conspiracy made by the Nobles and others that were therein concerned against Forraigners and Tyrannical Governours The like was that Conspiracy also which was entred into by Iehoiada and the Levites against Athaliah And yet for the most part although the number of those that are in the Conspiracy be but of a few and it be besides contrived against some Wicked person too yet if it be not speedily put in Execution it comes to light and is discovered as we may see by that Conspiracy made against Nero in which even Seneca himself also was and that Other contrived against Cosmo de Medicis by the Wicked Strozzi who were themselves much worse then He. But in case any single person aspiring to some Principality shall yet bear his followers in hand that He drives at some other thing and so in the mean time winnes upon them and gaines their Affections He shall certainly bring about his designes This was the course that Iulius Caesar took in attaining to the Empire though He kept his Design close to Himself and never discovered it to any being yet wont while He was but a Youth to have this saying often in his mouth Si violandum est jus Regnandi gratiâ violandum est If I would violate the Lawes it should be to Rule And of this Design of his he laid for himself Two Foundations namely Religion and The Love of the Souldiery to whom at length He made known his purpose though under another Pretext Whereas Catiline in his attempting the same took a quite Contrary Course and having laid down to himself before hand no one particular Foundation He without any more ado at first made all of his fellow Conspirators acquainted with his drift and purpose By whose Miscarriage Caesar taking warning He attempts the same thing but with more Caution and Advisednesse The King therefore ought to use all diligence and care to discover how the Minds of His Subjects and Ministers stand affected toward Him and what they have in agitation amongst them and when He hath once found what they would have He shall do well immediately to give them Satisfaction in that Particular And besides it would not be amisse that He should bestow some gifts under hand yet without any shew at all of fear or suspition upon some one Principal person among the Conspirators who being by this meanes wrought over to the Prince will be able to acquaint Him with what ever Designs his Subjects have in hand And if any shall inform Him that there are certain Persons that have for many months together been openly contriving some conspiracy against Him He may very well laugh at such Informers For whosoever shall go about to attempt any such thing in that manner are either Fooles or very Unskilful in the Course of the World or else lastly those that gave him such Information are Liers and forged those Stories only to ingratiate ●●emselves with the Prince and get into Favour with him Thus heretofore Perseus falsely accused his Brother Demetrius of having Secretly conspired against their Father Philip King of Macedonia And in the Reigne of Tiberius and afterwards of Nero there were every day some or other that accused others of Treasonable Designs against the Emperour Which certainly is a very Villanous base thing for by this meanes the Prince is both made to suspect every body and besides He renders Himself withal suspected by every body so that the Subjects are put to act really upon Him that which Himself stands in fear of or else Innocent men are unjustly put to death both which things are of very ill Consequence to a Kingdom He ought rather therefore to seem not to believe any such Accusations although perhaps they should be true unlesse they be also manifestly proved except they be such as wherein Religion is concerned For by so doing He will shew himself to be a just and Good Prince and such a one as doth the