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A11786	An Experimentall discoverie of Spanish practises, or, The Counsell of a well-wishing souldier, for the good of his prince and state wherein is manifested from known experience, both the cruelty, and policy of the Spaniard, to effect his own ends : chiefly swelling with multiplicity of glorious titles, as one of the greatest monarchs of the earth, that being admired of all, his greatnesse might amaze all, and so by degrees seeking covertly to tyrannize over all, when as indeed and truth, the greatest part of his pretended greatnesse is but a windy crack of an ambitious minde.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1623 (1623)	STC 22077; ESTC S1713	30,960	58

when it hath reference not onely to the offended part or member but further to cut off the roote of the evill And therefore if your Majesty shall enter into the conquest of the Netherlands you but peradventure cure the wounds of that rebellion but you shall not evacuate the causes of the beginnings of these ill humors which haue dayly sent nourishment to the disease considering England is the place which hath given sustenance to the rebellious States And though these Provinces were yours for this present disposition yet what can that be in a body subject to continuall suggestion of matter which in it owne nature presenteth in the stomack some portion of offensiue humour Your Majestie must therfore necessarily assault England to the end you may afterwards either securely digest or evacuate these concourses But to discourse more at large of the facility of the enterprise I deny not truely but that England is a very mighty Kingdome and the greatest Iland that ever wee finde any mention made of by the Ancients seeing it containeth Scotland within the same running 2000 miles in a circuit although our moderne Writers make a computation of 200 lesse By Nature it hath beene favoured with a security of a wall or with a rampart but yet notwithstanding it is most true that the reputation that that Iland holdeth in warlike actions is rather grounded on that it was in time past then that which it hath at this present and therefore as it often happeneth the minde growne great with the bundles of imaginations wherewith it is maintained though the foundation whereon it dependeth be changed and diminished Yet for all that is the estimation of England great in our mindes because wee all behold it with the selfe same eye of consideration as wee are wont to doe at all other times when as in ancient for succession of more then 300 years it possessed Normandie Britaine Gutenne and Gascoigne and made Scotland tributary and for a long time enjoyed the most part of the Kingdome of France upon which Henry the 6 was publiquely crowned at Paris But those that haue diligently observed her now when shee is deprived of so great forces and aide will judge that she is greater through the reputation of her ancient fame then for the quality of her persent power and force and that shee is now no more England so grievous and terrible to the greatest Princes of Europe and since that with so unhappy a resolution shee fell into obscurity shee hath beene driven of necessity to submit her selfe to those fearefull things which alteration of Religion and faith draw after them A most mighty and prevailent meanes to the ruine and declination of States For if Religion be the onely base of all the peoples obedience and loyalty who doubteth but that being removed all rule of life goeth to the ground and together all lawes both Divine and Humane haue dispensation In which parties or rather habites of this most pernicious beast are most miserable how much the mutations haue beene sudden and violent as aboue all other these of England haue beene which from the height of Religion threw it selfe headlong into the depth of Infidelity from whence rising againe into the Catholike light from whence it came and a fresh to fall ruinously into the darknesse of heresie which is so prejudiciall unto States as there is no greater pestilencie or that more weakens the sollidity of their forces England therefore in these outragious stormes must needs haue suffered ship wrack of which we may plainely see the effects if wee doe but obserue shee hath lost the foundation whereupon no lesse her reputation then security was grounded that is shee hath lost the power and authority which sometimes shee had in sea-affaires for in times past this Iland maintained a great number of Shippes and kept a continuall Fleete of Armes whereupon it came to passe that minding to try the strength of her owne forces the preparation was admirable amongst others wee may see that when Henry the sixth of England went against Charles the sixth of France with neere eight hundred great Ships which made a bridge over the Ocean but the quantity of that Iland is so diverse and changed that since the dayes of Henry seventh and eighth it hath not beene able to maintaine one hundred ordinary Ships which it was wont to wey and haue in readinesse for the security of the State and further this Iland hath been put to such pinches that they haue not onely beene constrained to diminish but to sell out-right a great part of their Shipping which both was and is their onely securitie from forraigne danger so much more urgent in Princes is feare of present poverty then the respect of their future safety So that now comming to resolue on the point of facility that your Majesty shall now finde in that Enterprise against this Iland I will offer to your Highnesse two principall heads the one of the Defendant the other of the Assaylant whereby I will shew that the assayled is as unable to defend as the Defendant is to assayle As for the Defendant which is the Kingdome of England it may certainly be averred that it cannot stand out in defensiue warre against the forces of your Majestie if you will but invade it with the prouisions which is easie for you to compasse and such as the Enterprise and importance of the action requireth the which I will cleerely shew for diuers respect The first is because as I haue said the I le of England is poore and therefore is her debility such as if she should go about to manage a defensiue was against so mighty and potent as your Catholike Majestie she might as well goe about to sustaine heaven on her shoulders being neither Alcides nor Atlas The second is for the consideration of the necessitie which possesseth there the State of England hath no more in readinesse such number of shippes as were sometimes maintained for the protection and security of their Kingdome The third is that the Kingdom of England by carelesnesse neglected or by pouertie omitted to haue alwayes in readinesse prepared or practised Men Armes or provision as all other Princes haue to the end they may be a present remedy to all suddain Insurrections which groweth either at home or abroad The fourth is because the desire of Innovation is proper to the Kingdome whose mindes doe alwaies aspire after change and whosoever doth not obserue former histories will judge that her seditious conspiracies and every other effect of a disturbed and moving minde haue had their proper nest being stirred up with considerations which being accompanied with the ordinary dispositiō of the people to be alwaies attempting of new things may easily of a suddaine if it were assaulted put the Realme into confusion especially when the Army of so mightie an enemie as your Majestie shall present it selfe whereby rebels may liberally discover their hearts without being chastised So as