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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11800	Symmachia: or, A true-loues knot Tyed, betvvixt Great Britaine and the Vnited Prouinces, by the wisedome of King Iames, and the States Generall; the kings of France, Denmarke, and Sweden, the Duke of Sauoy, with the states of Venice being witnesses and assistants. For the weale and peace of Christendome.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22089; ESTC S116960	20,946	37

the limits and command of the vnited Prouinces yet it would animate and stirre vp noble spirits to excellent actions and entreprizes through emulation And had a priuate souldiar after long and good seruice the least acknowledgement of his worth were it but immunitie from the excise increase of meanes or any other preuiledge it would incourage a poore man to serue brauely But to sell his flesh and blood for bread and cheese to spend his lustie youth euen till he ariue at a maymed and sickly old age for so much meanes as will only keepe soule and body togither in a miserable manner and which is worst of all if he liues in the wars 20 or 30 yeeres neuer to haue hope of due and orderly preferment but to see euery youth daunce frog-leape ouer his back this is that which quencheth the courage of all honorable vndertakeing and is the only cause soe little is performed vpon the politique and powerfull Enemy Lastly I humbly desire all Readers of both nations high and Low to pardon me and to accept of my good will which aymed heerein to do good Especially I seeke pardon of the illustrious Lords and Gouernors of this State who may thinke me too peremptorie plaine and punctuall in some pasages of discourse and in the propositions I haue made But when they shall vnderstand I haue suffered for their sake from mine owne Nation and haue beene taken and chalenged as a Man too much their owne and partiall vpon their side for what I haue done spoken and written they will perhaps the sooner intertaine my excuse and the better beare my plainenes and bouldnes And for those of myne owne Nation who haue thought me to vilifie our owne and to honor this people too much I let them know that I haue done nothing but what the truth and the necessitie of the case required For when I meete a discontented Countriman of mine owne who seekes to ease his priuare spleene and to reuenge his particular quarrell by inuectiues against the publique State of these Prouinces then as one that vnderstands how much it concernes all our welfares especially for point of Religion to be well conceited of each other and to stand togither in firme friendship iealous that many fractures should make the ioynt vnconsolidable and not knowing with what heart and intent those obiections are made nor how powerfully that scattered breath may worke whilst I see thin vapors gathering and vniteing by degrees breake out at last into boisterous stormes and blustering windes I doe what I can to oppose these in the beginning and that perhaps with a little too much violence contending for the honor of these parts But againe when I meete with an obstinate and malevolent spirit of these Conntryes arrogateing all to their owne worth slighting our King and Kingdome and seemeing to rely vpon other Princes in their opinion more potent then indignation le ts loose the reynes of my affection and reason accompaines and seconds them as farre as she is able to let such blind Braggadochies discerne what they are able to doe for themselues what wee haue done for them and how whatsoeuer they say and would faine make men bleleeue they cannot rely with that assurance vpon any popish Nation as they may vpon vs for all our seemeing ouersenes Nay that there is no Nation vnder the sunne that can be so profitable and helpefull to them as that of greate Brittanie Which they may easely see who obserue the situation and shipping of both and consider that all France though farre more potent at Land could not haue afforded vs equall assistance to that which these Countries then weake in comparison of what they are brought vs in 88 by Sea Nor can all France though they were our superiors in strength as yet no triall by battell hath giuen them the assurance so supply their wants and second their warres offensiue and defensiue by Land and Sea as wee can doe Thus incountring with English aduersaries I shew my selfe a plaine dealeing Dutchman and incountring the Dutch I shew my selfe what I am a true hearted English man But heere where I speake freely I declare impartially what I haue knowne or heard vpon both parts what greeuances ought to be remoued what cautions ought to be obserued what diligence ought to be vsed on both sides to settle and make strong this old league renued in conseruation whereof the liberty of both States yea of all Christendome yea of Christianity it selfe in some sort consisteth The wrack of Religion is that which is aymed at is that which I feare and were it not for Religion I would study and should soone finde the way to be a polititian also Now I haue sayd nothing with a purpose to ouervalue out present ayde I haue spoken asmuch of theirs or to vpbraide this State with ingratitude or as a man that grutched at what wee giue and thought it too much I wish it much more or as one that imagined the wisemen of these Lands did not see all this and more too without my light farre be this folly from me Nay rather my intention is to let the common man see this who will not vnderstand it or at least acknowledge it That when he sees the truth he may make better account of vsthen he vseth to doe For I must tell them for conclusion that our Commons the State generally for religions sake principally is ready to drop their money and their blood freely for this Nation only the wisedome of our State holds vs back because they see vs too forward and know well that what is proffered is contemned and what is too common cloyes Soe all the Remoraes and rubs these men finde in their affaires with vs is from this ground Whereas on the contrary they are the Commons of the vnited Provinces who slight our people doe vs all the wronge at home and abroade where they can take any aduantage against vs and giue vs and our State all the disgusts they receiue This I beleeue proceedes principally from that irreligious or superstitious mixture which is amongst them who eyther corrupt the rest that are truly religious and true patriots or at least by their multitudes so ouersway the good that they cannot doe for vs and themselues as they would And for this cause Their State and Statesmen yea the illustrious Lordes themselues are forced by authoritie and power to restraine them from euill and on their behalfes to doe vs all the good they can Soe you may obserue that with vs the generall currant runns strongly in fauour of these Prouinces particulars only oppose it for polecie or perhaps some for poperie but in the vnited Prouinces the generall currant runs strongly against vs and therefore their State or some particular persons of it ashamed of the common folly indeauor to mend it I make a question if this people were in peace as we are and wee in warre as they are whether or no their

to countenance the cause to deter the enemye to hold the Common man vpon the right side to assure the adverse part what ayde he is to expect from vs and to stop the mouth of the clamorous Marchant who though he had iust cause to crye yet cryes now in an vnseasonable tyme and will therefore learne to giue ouer vaine clamoures whilst he beholds the Peeres are ingaged in the worke which he would hinder And heere I cannot but present this glasse to the v●w of many young Nobles and Gentiles in these parts of the Vnited Provinces who whilst their Countrie is assaulted by malitious Enemyes and defended by honorable strangers both of our and other Nations sit still themselues and lend no hand to helpe it but hold it rather a greate indignitie to be a souldiar These must needes be ignorant of their owne honorable rootes which first sprung from Armes and must be by that most honorable profession mainetained whereof those swordes are witnesses which none but Gentlemen weare amongst them And I am perswaded therefore this grosse and effeminate conceite is bred amongst them eyther by their too tender Mothers who had rather see their Country perish then to behold their children hazard themselues for the safeguard of it or from their Anabaptisticall neighbours who suppose erroniously all armes to be Antichristian or from the Malignant papist who though he hath the libertie of his conscience amongst them yet because he may not haue the free and publique exercise of his superstition wisheth the Spanish iron yoke ouer the neck of the Belgick lyon and deters his owne and others from their Countryes seruice and hates such to death as serue to secure his libertie and life But to returne to our matter and to manifest our generall willingnes and allacritie for the vndertaking of there defence I would neither haue the Common people ignorant nor yet think vs so stupid not to vnderstand the benefite of this defensiue ayde sent ouer to them at this present which is greater then at first sight itappeareth to all eyes For besides that wee helpe to defend there frontires at our owne charge which all see wee also spend the meanes which wee receiue out of England amongst them also so they haue the vse both of our men and monye which makes tradeing something quicker setting many trades on worke and filling the publique purse something fuller by excise and other dutyes which all obserue not What ready mony hath beene disbursed in their Countrie for Hats Armes and other necessaries to furnish these troopes is apparant to all and the laborious Tradesman tastes of the dooble benefite and will blesse God for it howesoeuer the ignorant and insoleut will not acknowledge to haue receiued heereby so much as a single curtesie For I heare them obiect in scorne that all this is not giuen but lent they must repay it True as they did the money for the Cantionarie townes of Flushing in Zeland and the Briell in Holland with the Castle of Ramekins in the Iseland of Waltheren which came to 818000 lb which first vpon suite to his Maiestie they instald for 40000 by the yeere and continued the paymēt thereof for fiue yeeres but after finding it heauy they againe sought ease of his Maiestie and gratiously obtayned a generall release and possession of their townes and Castle for the summe of 200000 payde to his highnesse and of 25000 assigned by his Maiesties bownty towards the reward of the Officers Which abatement proceeded neither from our want for then it had beene a most vnthankefull part in them not equally to respect our want in the repayment as wee did their in the lending nor out of the excesse of their witt as some would arrogantly haue it but out of there humble suite and his Maiesties grations and ready graunt Who considering what became his honor would giue rather then receiue and would not defraude that trust which was reposed in his predecessor and so successiuely in him but redeliuered the Keyes of their Country into their owne possession againe And this may teach them to see that it is not in the power of one Stanly or one Yorke to staine the honor of a Nation but they may as safely trust vs as themselues prouided they be sure of their religion whome they trust If they be careles in admitting Captaynes and officers they may well suspect such so admittted but if they know them faithfull to God they neede not doubt their fidelity to them And it is not only ours but all other Nations yea their owne most of all who are to be suspected and so kept from Command if eyther they bee of no religion or popishly affected If of none then they are for any Deuill that will tempt them and Mammon especially is then the God they worship if popish then they are for Antichrist and so for the Catholique King who is his best beloued sonne and like to be the heyre of all that he can giue him For he vseth his ecclesiasticall Keyes to no other end but to open and shut the heart and all other houlds for the intertainement of the Spanish pompe and pride and for the inlargement of that quintessentiall Monarchie though the spirit of God by the Mouth of Daniell say the contrary neuer so peremtorily and plainely But some obiect the Kinges bownty in this respect proceeded from the consideration of his owne charge which he should haue beene at in keepeing those places meerely for the proffit of the vnited Provinces Perhaps indeede this was the cause which made him the more willing to part with them vpon their suite and his Counsells aduice but this doth not lessen his bownty not their obligation For to keepe a chargeable gage for an other mans benefit so long as the owner pleaseth to restore it safely and better in euery refpect then it was at the first ingagement and that when the owner desires it and vpon no termes of aduantage but vpon such as he himselfe prescribes witnesseth extraordinary honestie in the lender and deserues extraordinary thankfulnes from the borrower Indeede the first motion for reddidition of these places proceeded perhaps from some who wished well to the Spaniard and did not like the continuance of this their dependancie vpon England who was by these cautions really and perpetually in point of honor and proffit and interest ingaged for the defense of their State and title equally with themselues And this was seconded by a windie humor bred in a few others by prosperitie and peace which looked not so farre as the first mouersayme but supposeing themselues able to stand vpon their owne feete thought scorne to hold any longer of others and began to meditate how to forget the hand that helped them vp and to requite that curtesie with quarrells which they could not doe safely they saw whilst wee had those pawnes in our custody But for the carriage of our Queene of blessed memoire deceased of our present