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A96533	A three fold help to political observations contained in three discourses. Written by that learned and experienced gentleman, Sir Jsaac Wake. 1. The first concerning the thirteen cantons of the Helvetical League, or of the Switzers. 2. The second declaring the state of Italy, as it stood neer about the year 1625. 3. The third touching the proceedings of the King of Sweden in his wars in Germany. Published for the benefit of the diligent observer.	Wake, Isaac, Sir, 1580?-1632.	1655 (1655)	Wing W228; Thomason E1671_2; ESTC R208410	42,380	141

we may say good night unlesse we will deceive our selves If the king prevail it is not so for he pretending nothing in Germany for himself but intending the repatriation of divers exiled princes and proscribed States they will not be able to subsist severally of themselves without him nor he be able to maintain his army if he do give every man is due and retain nothing unto himself which may inable him to maintain both himself and those whose protection he doth undertake Herein I do finde a great difficulty for if he do live wholy upon the Catholick Princes our civil disputes will terminate in a war of religion and if he do live upon the Protestants they will be as weary of him as they are now of the Emperour if he do exact from both he will be in short time equally odious to both who will see that they have changed Dominum non servitutem But if the Emperour do lose the day he will not be so far streightned for the reverent respect due unto his Imperial Crown wil alwayes keep in devotion to his service milions of souls who do detest the barbarous proceedings of his Ministers Secondly the hereditary possessions of thé house of Austria yeeld many men and are of great extension which none can take from them in good conscience Lastly the dominions of the king of Spain are very vast and his Treasure of such consideration that it is a ridiculous thing to think that he can want mony for although he doth somtimee turn banquerupt when it doth turn him to account yet he doth alwayes finde mony for his own occasions and he that hath mony shall never want men His Majesty hath sent the Marquis Hamilton with forces to the King of Sweden those are counterballanced by the troups which the Duke of Lorain hath conducted in service of the Emperour The states may perhaps assist the king of Sweden with considerable troups when they have nothing to do but it were better for him that they had something to do because the Infanta will send as many to the Emperour as they can send to him so that the ballance doth go equal at present but for the future we have this disadvantage that if we have this disadvantage that if we be once beaten a Plat cousture we shall be worse then before Prague and if the Emperour lose the day he will prove like Anteus and rise from the ground with new strength having a good pulse of his patrimony in the conservation whereof many are interessed The point most considerable is that of religion which we are like to fall upon although we are to avoid it like a rock If inevitable necessity do cast us upon that desperate coast we must make account that at this present in Germany there is much ground possessed by those who do declare themselves on our side and thus much enjoyed by our enemies declared as may be seen by a schedule apart which shall be annexed into this discourse If we do confine our selves unto Germany onely we shall get little by the bargain and if we do go out we shall lose more In Germany the Catholicks have this great advantage that they do in Spiritualibus all acknowledge the Pope and do agree among themselves in doctrine and discipline whereas we have nothing but the confession of Ausbourg which doth binde us with so loose a chain that the names of Calvinists Lutherans Hussits are still in esse and their and their hatred one against the other greater then of them all against the Catholicks If we do go out of upper Germany there is Great Brittany Denmark Sweden and the states of the united Provinces which do come short of France Spain and Italy who will be against us when we shall come to that point for although this Pope be contrary in affection to the house of Austria yet he must contribute what may lie in his power to the maintaining of the Catholicks and the like must be presumed both of the French King and of the Venetians and Duke of Savoy who do all wish an abasing of the Austriaci but will never endure the increase of our religion in any place where they can hinder it Spain and the other Princes of Italy may well be left out here because it is too well known how they do incline and if they could agree among themselves perhaps the Duke of Nivers and Mantova might be their General with his new order of Militia Christiana I have heard some say that we must trust to our selves and never expect any good from Catholicks the first I grant but I denie the second I will say those men are very wise that will demonstrate how Protestants thorowout Europe subsist without support of Catholicks but if we can be without them it is good because they are to us like a lake of Anecie which doth yeeld fish all the yeer but in lent as these may serve us at all times but when we have most need of them Here we may put into our scale those of the religion in France whose relicks are something numerous quantum ad individua but they are light grains and of no greater consideration since the integrity of their body hath been dissolved and broken their fortifications demolished and their leaders either seduced or exiled so so that nothing can be expected from them but the aid of some few voluntaries whose zeal may transport them to offer their service unto such as do or may appear in this cause and the prayers of the Churches and good wishes of all true Protestants There is yet another thing of greater consideration which doth make for us and that is the difference among Catholicks for civil respects which wil in part help to counterpoise the misunderstandings of our religionaries in Germany of which before I have spoken though France hath not hitherto so visibly aspired to an universal Monarchy as Spain is said to have done perhaps unjustly it is apparent that their perpetuall domestick brovilleries have hindered them from executing and perhaps from projecting any such vast designes But it is certain that either envy or emulation or reciprocal jealousie have bred such an Antipathy betwixt those two nations that though they are unwilling to break yet they will alway disagree unlesse the crucifying of our Saviour do reconcile Herod and Pilate This emulation of these two Crowns doth breed as great a distraction of the Catholick body in Europe as may be equivalent to the disunion of our body in Germany only herein they have the advantage of us that their quarels being purely civil are more accommodable of themselves and that they have the Pope for Padre communé unto whom they do willingly remit the arbitrement of their differences when they are both so weary of making war that they do not care upon what conditions any peace be made pro interim whereas our differences in matter of religion are more irreconcilable for although the parties

right conclusion Onely it is to be feared that it may prove like that Capo di venere as the Italians tearm it that unparraleld Head of Venus cut out and delineated with exquisite Art and Beauty by that rare statuarie who intended to have fitted the whole body to it but was prevented by death and though there were then and bave been since many excellent Artists in that kinde yet such was the rarity and admirable sculpture of that Head that no man ever after durst put a hand to finish what was left undone However gentle Reader if thou finde either Content or profit in this or either of the other two Discourses Thine be the benefit and mine the pain And so I bid thee hartily farewell and rest Thy loving friend IGNOTUS A DISCOVRSE OF THE Thirteen Cantons OF THE HELVETICAL LEAGUE THe 13. Cantons of the Helvetical League are these Zurick Berne Lucerne Vrie Swits Underwald Zug Glaris Basil Friburg Soloure Schaphusen Appenzeil Of these four are wholy of the reformed Religion namly Zurick Berne Basil and Schaphusen Two are mixt namely Glaris and Appenzeil but the greater part in both those Cantons are Protestants and generally they do concur with the four above named towns The Popish Cantons are in number seven Lucerne Vrie Swits Underwald Zug Friburg and Soleure The first that did Cantonize themselves were Vrie Swits and Vnderwald in the year 1308. upon occasion of Tyrany which the house Austria did exercise upon them which first League was afterward more solemly confirmed by a publick Act signed and sealed at Brunen in the yeer 1315. Lucerne was the next that entred into this Alliance in the yeer 1332. The name of Lucerne was given to that Town upon occasion of a Lantern or beacon that did shine there in the night to give light to those that did passe upon the lake After Lucerne Zurick did Colleague it self with the four Cantons above named Anno 1351. and had the prerogative to be ranged in the first place by reason of the greatnesse of the Town which was very famous in those dayes and still it doth hold the chief rank among the thirteen Cantons Glaris did enter into this Alliance in the year 1352. and the same year Zug was likewise Cantonized 1352. The year following 1353 Berne entred into the same association beginning with Uri Swits and Vnderwald which three Cantons did oblige themselves to Zurick and Lucerne to succour them when they should need and to bring with them those of Berne if Zurick and Lucerne should require it as likewise Zurick and Lucerne did promise to assist Berne when the three Cantons should summon them thereunto Friburgh made first Allliance with Berne Anno 1403. and by their means were joyned to the other Cantons upon certain conditions Soleure entred likewise first into confederation with Berne Anno 1351. and held good correspondence with the other Cantons afterward having assisted the other Swisses against the Duke of Burgundy they and Friburg together were taken into the number of the other Cantons Basil was made a Canton Anno. 1501 and received into a perpetual confederation of all the body of the Swisses Schaphusen made first Alliance with some of the lesser Cantons for tearm of years and lastly Anno 1501. that Town was taken into the general league Helvetick the name of this Town is taken from Scapha or Skiffe as being seated upon the Rhine in the midst of certain rocks which cause the river to to precipitate sike a torrent by reason whereof it is impassable so that al boats that come from the lake of Constance are forced to unlade there from the number of boats the Town taketh his name Appensel is a Village situared under San Gallo a great Town on the frontire of the Grisons In this village the Abbot of San Gallo was wont to reside and from thence the village dotl derive his name Appenzel being as much as Abbatis Cella The inhabitants did first set themselves at liberty by force of arms and afterwards they did purchase both their peace and freedom with a great sum of money whicd they did pay unto the Abbot Their first Alliance was with Zurick Lucerne Swits Underwald Zug and Glaris and in the year 1513 they were received into the number of the Cantons The Alliances that the Swisses have with their neighbours are these first with the Abbot and Town of San Gallo Secondly with the Grisons Thirdly with the Valesiens Fourthly with Rotoille Fifty with Mulhouse Sixtly with Bienne Seventhly with Geneva Lastly with Neufchastel which confederations are not in general with the body of the Swisses but particular with particular Cantons some Cantons having taken some of the above named Towns into their Conbourgiosie and others taken other some the Grisons are allied with all and have besides particular alliance more straight with some particular Cantons Baliages The Baliages that are governed in common by the thirteen Cantons or the greater part of them are these Turgow Bade the Rhegujces called in their Language Rhintal Sargans the free Countrey Lugano Locarne Mendrise the vally of Madia and Bellinsone of these Rhintal and Sargans confine with the Grisons and speak that Language Lugano Locarne Mendrise the valley of Madia Bellinsone are beyond the Alpes on the othet side of the mountains San Gotard and San Bernard the other three namely Turgoro Bade and the free Countrey are properly Swisses All the Cantons have not equal authority over these Balliages but as their associations were made in divers times so likewise the right of the Cantons is divers Turgoro is commanded by the seven first and most ancient Cantons namely Zurick Lucerne Vri Swits Vnderwald Zug and Glaris who do alternatively send Bailifs thither but Berne Friburg and Soleure have likewise some little right in causes criminal Bade is subject to the same seven Cantons and Berne Sargans Rhintal and the free Countrey is likewise governed by the first seven Cantons onely in the government of Rhintal they have given part to Appensel The four Balliages beyond the hils namely Lugano Locarne Mendrise and the valley of Madia is subject to all the Cantons except Appensel who have nothing to do there as being incantonised after the winning of those places Bellinsone is subject onely to Vri Swits and Vnderwald every one of which Cantons hath a Castlel or Cittadel in the Town commanded by a particular Officer of their own That which they call the free Province is certain Castles and Villages situated along the river of Russ above and below Bremgarten the names of the chief Villages are Meyenberg Richensce and Ergow which ancienly had their jurisdiction and their Magistrate apart whereupon they were called les Provinces libres The greatest part of these Provinces were subject formerly to the house of Austria and in the reign of the Emperour Sigismond when Frederick of Austria contested with him the said Emperour perswaded the Switses to take arms against Frederick and promised them that