in Counsells they haue aduantage of vs. It must then be concluded to oppose this end wee must resolue the like and pursue it with the like wayes and Counsells except onely the wayes of Darkenesse to take from them those ranke parts which nourish this Concupiscence To discouer the right line of this opposition it may be enquired what Spaine did aduance in the last warre in the blessed dayes of the glorious Queene Elizabeth either vpon England France Germany Italy or Holland and the totall summe shall be found nothing Whether they lost in Flanders or of their owne is not the question for the warre was in the end defensiue and hee is beaten that assailing conquers not But that the Indies were not able to supply nor appease the mutinies of his Souldiers nor to pay the Interests of Geneua and that they had lost all Reputation and sought peace on all sides precariè Hoochstrat the Electo's their Bills protested their trauailng Fryars their owne Ambassages and the World are irrefutable witnesses To account what they haue gotten in these latter yeares of Peace onely by peace besides the daring so bold an Act as to expell many Millions of inborne Enemies and thereby raising another Indea of treasure for a designed warre at the spring tyde of their full Coffers would if it lay together make a competent estate for a-moderate Prince Somewhat in this point hath beene touched in a generall enumeration but particulars do fully instruct Alarache in Barbarie to strengthen their South Coasts of Spaine and to helpe to shut vp the Streights of Gibralterra Acon vnder the Imperiall Coulours depriued of the libertie of Conscience the Reformed Magistrates banished and the Citie reduced to their Deuotion The non Plus Vltra of the Rhyne 40 yeares defended sliptouer and thereby Wesell the Retraict and Sanctuary of our Religion made the Spanish Garrison Gulick and the Inheritance of the Heyres of Cleue possessed vnder the title of protection and kept as a pledge The Palatinate distributed to their Dependants but the Ports and Fortresses of Importance held in hostage And thus Holland surrounded The Valtoline blockt-vpp The Crownes of Bohemia and Hungary intailed and the Nobility spoiled of their priuiledge of free Election The Euangeliques vniuersally exiled and oppressed And all Germany trembling vnder the example These are the fruits of a Spanish peace If the slumbring Lyon bite so mortally what shall hee doe enraged after his pursued Prey And if in peace contrary to the nature of peace such achieuements are obtained that the ship of Spaine runne in the night so many leagues while the Pilot seemes to sleepe It is euident in peace and Warre they haue one end of Conquest Sapiens non semper it vno gradu Seneca sed vna via From these examples wee must learne bellum vtiliter inire prosequi I will not presume to vnderstand where the Spanish Empire is most sensible and weake but exhibit some generall rules that Riuers are onely to be preuented of their waters by stopping or diuerting their fountaines Aegypt depends vpon the courtesie and payes tribute to the King of Ethiopia to giue leaue to Nilus to water it The body is soonest reduced to a consumption by destroying the Liuer the Indies of blood And then demonstrate these axioms by a fewe Roman and Spanish Parallels what they did and what they suffered and leaue the application to Actine men That Princely People had no Indies but their Virtue Rome and the Senate was all while they caried their Armies abroad they had no returnes but victories and triumph and they could loose nothing except men that sold their liues dearely But when their Emuli the Carthagenians discouered by their Inuasion of Sicily that their ambition had no limits and considered that while they fought for their owne ground they could get nothing but blowes They resolued to send Haniball to the Gates of Rome where he reduced that Empire to nothing but a Colledge of braue old men prepared to dye in Maiestie Eighteene yeares this glorious Captaine trode on the spoiles of Italy and doubtlesse had finished that Dominion and in that day Hor. in which he turned to Capua had sapped in the Capitoll Si quemadmodum sciret vincere sie vti victoria scisset From whence grew the prouerbe Capuam Hanibali Cannas fuisse We must not trust in errors nor hope this Courtesie of our Enemies When the young Scipio reuiued the hearts of the Romans by vndertaking the Prouince of Spaine where his Father and Vncle and so many Legions were buried he found three Armies greater then his owne to oppose him Vulgaria emnia consilia quorum venire in mentem cuiusuis poterat omisit Polib To fight with all at once was impossible to beginne with one desperate the other two were at his back entire vincendo vinceretur And fortune must not be often tempted But when he fell vpon the consideration that new Carthage was the fountaine from whence all the diuisions were supplied the Port and harbour of succours he resolued omnes vnà aggredi by taking that City to dry-vp the streames at the spring head Thus the Enemies retraict storehouse became his tota Regio in vna vrbe superata est and he changed the face of the whole warrc by one deliberation and was victorious without the vncertaine tryall of Battell dubium an vtiliori faelicioriue concilio Lastly when there was no other way to retire Haniball out of Italy this fate of Carthage vndertooke to transport the warre to their own doores and then hee that neuer refused to fight treated sought peace and almost confessed that he was vanquished then he made that pittifull oration the most inglorious of all his Acts Si nunc esset integrum optaturum se fore Hanib ad Scip. vt neque Romani quicquam vnquam eorum quae sunt extra Italiam nec Carthagenienses eorum quae extra Affricam concupiscent To this moderation must Spaine be reduced Haniball knew hee might safelier haue lost all his battells within the Alpes then one at the gates of Carthage In them he aduentured nothing but the superfluity of youthfull blood which en gaijetè de coeur sought their desteny in the field of honour But now the Common-wealth was at stake and they plaied their Altars Liberties Wiues and Children at one game Haniball to auoid this desteny attempted Italy to wast Rome at their owne charges But Scipio had learned that wisedome of him which himselfe could not vse and finished at once a double warre and the Spaniards imitating the one part shewes vs the way to take the other Spaine while it was a single Kingdome threatned no body and in Spaine litle is to be gotten where me ate must be supplied and a victorious Army may starue Therefore that not being the roote it must bee sought from whence this cuills of ambition ariseth and as in naturall Bodies there are other parts besides the head
inforce Catholiques to built them Churches That they extinguish wholly Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction depriuing the Catholiques of the publication of Indulgences and Iubilees and of Entrance into Orders taking away all their Goods and from the Pastorall Cure of their Bishop Not suffering any to obey him nor that he should come to visit or comfort them That they permit the Heretique Ministers openly to treade downe the Sacraments of the Catholique Church and if any oppose hee is suddainly and barbarously punished in life and goods That they exclude out of the Vally almost all the orders of Religion admitting on the other part indistinctly hereticall Ministers of all Nations That they erect Seminaries and lately hereticall Colledges assigning them the profits tithes Canonryes and Benefits taken from the Curates and Catholique Church Of all these there are passed Decrees Statutes and open Edicts And of Cases particular there are publique Acts whereof the memory is too fresh and renewed by most cruell death inflicted on Catholiques and Religious men in the most Infamous maner imaginable Now what else is this but to vse manifest Tyrannie ouer the soules of the Catholique Subiects to take from them those helpes wherewith they aduance their saluation and their way to Heauen and to enforce them to embrace a new Religion which leads them downe to Hell The cause too much declares it selfe there is no neede of greater exaggeration to make it manifest and to shew it more intollerable In the rest to demonstrate the wretched estate of the said Vally it shall suffice simply to represent the maner of Gouernment vsed many yeares past it shall be sufficient to say that it hath beene giuen onely to him that would offer most money without any the least Consideration of abilitie or other parts necessary to such a charge and that the Commissaries sent in apparance to remedy the forepast iniustice were of the same quality and sometimes wors Insomuch that both the one and the other had for their ayme and thereto onely did attend to get their charges and to heape vp by all imaginable meanes so much Gold that therewith they might returne to their owne houses enrich't for euer From hence it proceeded that the liues of poore Innocents were a thousand waies ensnared and often taken away with open iniustice at the instance of their Enemyes who with great summes of money bought them and soâ—â—â—imes after sharpe Imprisonment and other torments hardly were dismissed naked by the price of all their substance which remained openly to the Officers without any shame in so much security that the miserable oppressed both in life and goods durst not thereof lament By the same meanes the estate of the Subiect in Ciuill Causes was alwaies in great danger For the Magistrates being publiquely mercenary it often happened that some did loose by an vniust sentence dearely bought of the Aduersary and others to preserue them against Iniustice were forced to present a great part to the Iudge No Sentence although confirmed passed in Iudgement whether Ciuill or Criminall was euer secure because the Successor to dig out money did renew the trouble to the partty acquitted and for a new price did often racall without any respect that which of others though iustly had beene iudged Safe-Conducts were broken at their pleasure and publique faith with vaine pretences violated to depriue life that by such death they might enrich themselues Lawes and Statutes were not now with arts and Stratagems deluded but openly despised and trodden vnder foot as if all had beene freely giuen to them in prey Orphans and Widdows and others of that Condition so much recommended both by diuine and humane law to the protection of Princes and Magistrates as vnable to helpe themselues by infamous meanes did remaine wholly exposed to the auarice of rauening wolues to the extreame griefe and compassion of good men On the other part it often occurred that those wicked men which had offended others in life goods and honor being fallen into the hands of Iustice in stead of exemplary punishment were for great bribes sometimes by vniust Iudgement absolued sometimes vnder couler of feined escape let free out of prison to the great oppression and affliction of those whom they had wronged There were seene numbers of infamous persons gracious with the officers of Iustice and by them rewarded onely because they serued as Instrumets many and many wayes to betray the life and goods particularly of Catholiques From whence did often follow the destruction and ruine now of one now of another family alwayes of the most ancient and honorable of the Valley Lastly who shall well consider that which the Sicilians did for three yeares suffer in the Roman Common wealth vnder the gouernment of the infamous Verres shall find that the vnhappy Valtelines haue endured much more a longer time from the hands of so many worse then Verres and perhapps shall not find any other gouernment so infamous and which so well resembles that as this of the Grisons in the Vally which should more clearely be manifested if it were here necessary to represent all the Cases and their circumstances one by one as it was for Cicero handling his Cause for ends far different from ours That which makes our Case more full of compassioÌ„ is that when the miserable oppressed haue attempted the refuge of their Superiors for remedy against so many Tyrannies and Acts of Iniustice the officers themselues haue opposed with seuerest banishments and imprisonments those who for the publike good intermedled and when it hath happened that all Impediments vanquished the Procurators of of the Vally haue arriued at the Community of the Three-Leagues and haue informed particularly their many and excessiue grieuances in the end after hauing receiued in diuers places such affronts that scarcely Slaues could suffer they haue rested deluded without effect or any prouision These things without doubt are sufficient to take away all hope euer to find vnder that gouernment any case of so many miseries But there are other accidents thereunto added whereby the Subiects are brought into vtter desperation The Assembly in the towne of Tosana is already notorious which was applied to nothing else but the destruction of good and Catholique men as well Grisons as Valtelines In the Diett there called many banishments and many Capitall Condemnations were decreed amongst which was that against Nicolo Rusca Arch Priest of Sondrio a Priest of most innocent lise and a true Martyr of Christ tormented and put to death with all cruelty and possible infamy without any other fault then being a good Catholique a priest Now these Iniuries and Cruelties hauing necessitated some Catholique Communities to seeke redresse of so many cuillâ— vsing their vtmost force they obtained that these Sentences being reuiewed were as barbarous and most vniust reuoked But a little time the remedy lasted because those people stirred vp by the fury of their Ministers and which more imported moued by the practices
this then I inuoke with all my spirits the attentiue mind of your Maiestie for when I shall haue demonstrated that all the Reasons of the Manifest are ill grounded and false and what the truth of the businesse is it shall together appeare that the Causes of said Manifest cannot bee other then those about specified The Reasons drawne to excuse the Rebellion of the Valtelines are reduced to two Heads Religion and Tyranny Vpon these are made great Amplifications but all is affirmed without proose A manifest signe that it is spoken without foundation Concerning Religion it is said that the Grisons vtterly haue taken from the Valtelines the libertie of Conscience and haue procured that all should be infected with Heresie shewing in euery occasion fauour to Heretiques and the contrary to Catholiques vpon some of whom they haue insâ—â—tod most cruell and infamous death onely in hatred of the Religion I repedre not euery particular It is sufficient to take this Mauiâ—â— to which all other matters are reduced and in the Manifest may be distinctly read Conterning Tyranny it goeth painting out a kind of gouernment of the Grisons in the Valteline like to that which hâ—â—fore Verres vsed in Sirtly and to speake more modernly like to some practised as well by the Ministers of your Maiestie as of your Predecessors in their States of Italys as by this discourse you shall fully vnderstand perhaps with some notable benefit to your poore Subiects who are waiting some ease from your Roy all hand But before wee discourse particularly in those two points it is fit to consider That the Grisons though diuided in two Religions Roman and Bâ—â—â—golique may it please the diume Maiestie that in time they may all agree in the vaine of the true Apostolique yet in all matters in respect of the publique good of the State thee haue constantly stood vnited in the politique Gouernment With which Concord they haue so many yeares maintained themselues free Princes vndependent of other and highly estemed of all For which cause wee know with how much diligence and charge many great Priaces haue sought their friendship But of late yeares in this part some Ministers of your Maiestie malignant to see them colleagued now with France now with Venice moued with an immoderate zeale of your seruice to which they supposed that such Confederations might bring some preiudice and iudging it most important to your Crowne that you onely should haue the free passage through the straighes of the Valreline into Germany and thâ—â— to all other Princes they should at your pleasure bee shot haue gone contriuing Inuentions and insiduous Artifices to diuide the Grisons as well in the politique gouernment as in Religion to the end they might easily stide into vtter ruins To this effect the late count de Fuentes Gouernour of Millan erected that Fort which to this day beares his name so preiudiciall as nothing more to the State of the Grisons Hauing first with money corrupted some of the chiefe of that Countrey to the end that if the Lords would oppose themselues they should with various Arts be disturbed as it came right to passe by the labor of lo Baptista Preuestâ— Pompeio Rodolfo Planta Nichole Rusea and others noted in the Manifest of the Grisons of the yeare 1618. Instantly after which Don Pedro de Toledo Gouernor of Millan in the yeare 1617. did attempt to make a perpetuall league with the Grisons vpon Articles molded by the Lord Alfonse Casale Ambassador of your Maiestie in that Republique after his owne fashion In which there was nothing inserted in the fauour of the Grisons but a delusory promise to demolish the fort of Fuentes where with it seemed to him that they should condiscend to all other things how contrary soeuer to their libettie The same men who did fauour the building of the Fort did not faile to aduance also this Confederacie perswading many that by al meanes it ought to be embraced but the crooked practises of these Patriots Enemies of their Countrey being to the Grisons discouered they would not accept these Capitulations but forming a Iuridicary and Capitall Processe against these Rebels they found so many Machinations treasons and other wicked Actions by them wrought that proceeding to Iustice it was requisite with Banishments and death to giue them deserued punishment Prom that time till now that they remained exiled aided with money by the Ministers of your Maiestie with which they proceeded maintayning fresh practices with their friends and adherents and corrupting many others they haue sollicited continually to sowe dissention among this people thereby to raise some insurrection as finally hath succeeded in the Valteline The truth of all this is clearly collected from the forealleaged Manifest of the Actions of the Grisons in the yeare 1618. to which Credit cannot bedenied as the Ministers of your Maiesty desire seeing the things therein related are matters of fact and iuridically approued where these affaires haue beene handled without passion or respect of persons as euery dispassionate mind by the reading thereof will iudge The intent then of your Maiesties Ministers was not to establish a Confederacy with the Grisons which had in bin so they would haue procured by lawfull wayes vpon Conditions reasonable as other Princes vsed and not by interuention of particular persons corrupted with gisâ—s and vpon Articles so vnsanory as among them are seene But then purpose was so cunningly to frame them that they should not be accepted because being promoued by the factious party of men corrupt and reiected by the sound part dis-interressed and louers of the publique good there might arâ—â—â— a discord sowed by this art to cast these people into Confusion so that from their diuision according to the Gospell the desolation of the State might follow For the Ministers of your Maiestie fomenting one part against the other did hope to oppresse both the one and the other and highly to merit of you by enlarging in what way soeuer your Empire This Artifice O Sacred Catholique Kingh to disunict Subiects from their Princes to send them into destruction is most proper and practised by the Ministers of your Crowne and who would here recount how often and in what maner they haue plotted disunion in the Kingdome of France should weaue a large Historie The French Lords doe well know it and it is a common opinion amongst them who best vnderst and the Affaires of State that if all the Hugonotts of France should bee reduced to the Catholique Religion the Spanish Ministers would therewith be grieuously displeased seeing that of them they make principall vse as of most deare friends to embroile that Kingdome whensoeuer they haue any doubt that the French may moue his forces to the dammage of Spaine And they doe glory not to seare at all the Armes of his most Christian Maiestie not because the are inualid but that they know the way to keepeth 〈◊〉 busied at their pleasure in his owne houseâ—
haue Princes vtterly depriued of Conscience Antonio de Leua discoursing Gie. Boteras detti memorabili l. 1. by occasion with Charles the sift Emperour concerning the Affaires of Italy did perswade him to put to death this and that Prince and to take possession of their States and to make himselfe Lord of all The Soule answered the Emperour What replied Leua hath your Maiestie a soule then renounce your Empiro This was truly too shamelesse an Impietie of Leua such I am sure as none of your Ministers would dare to propound to your Maiestie for knowing the great goodnesse of your most Catholique minde they should be sure to incurre your Roâ—all Indignation But it doth not therefore follow that they preserue not in their heads the same rules and that they doe not thereby gouerne all their Actions and thereunto conformable addresse all their Counsells the which are so much more dangerous in as much as they couer them vnder holy pretences as at present in the warre against the Grisons Wherefore your Maiestie hath so much more cause to feare and to take heed and so much more reason to accept in good part this Aduertisement But to returne to our Matter Let your Maiestie consider that to punish Heretiques as already I haue said is not the office of a secular Prince And therefore your Ministers doe ill to put their Sickle into anothers haruest and so much the worse be cause they know it And to deceiue the world they make it lawfull without the Pontificall authority to aduance he standard of the high Priest to iustifie a warre which they know to be vniust Wherefore his Holinesse whose Iurisdiction is directly offended ought not and cannot beare it And if hee haue and doe suffer many other things in the end a long abused patience is conuerted into a iust anger Besides let your Maiestie be aduised that all Heretiques are not to be treated as Rebells with extreame rigour but onely those who borne within the wornbe of the Church by their owne malice haue reuolted these which are borne nourished and brought vp in the Sect of their Parents it is true they erre but vnder an excuse of well doing they erre it is true but they knowe not their errour they are more worthie of Compassion then of penalty they deserue helpe and not punishment Multum enim interest inter illos qui in ignorantia sunt Chrisost 1. Math. Homil. 49 C. in ignorantia perierunt inter cos qui in veritate quidem nati sunt propter aliquod autem mundiale scientes ad mendacia tranfierunt perierunt in eis pereunt Illi enim forsitan aliquo modo habebunt remissionem isti antem nullam remissionem habebunt neque in hoc saeculo neque in futuro quoniam ipsi sunt qui blasphemauerunt in Spiritum Sanctum Illi enim iudicandi sunt quia veritatem non quaesierunt isti autem condemnandi quia spreuerunt Leuior enim culpa est veritatem non apprehendere quam contemnere apprehensam Let Preachers then be sent to instruct them let gentle meanes be vsed that they may hearken vnto them Let praiers be continually made for them and after leaue the case to God to illuminate them in the holy faith seeing that faith is the onely guift of God which he freely giues not giuen by Mars nor by the meanes of warre God did command that the Foxes which destroyed the Vines should be taken Cant. c. 2. not slâ—ine Capite nobis Vulpes paruulas quae demoliuntur Vineas Et siiuxta allegoriam S. Bernard tom 1. In Cant. ser 46. Ecclesias Vineas Vulpes Hereses seu potius Haereticos ipsos intelligamus simplex est sensus vt Hâ—retici capiantur potius quam effugentur capiantur dico non armis sed argumentis quibus reffellantur eorum errores Ipsi vero si fieri potest Ecclesiae Catholicaereconcilientur reuocentur ad veram fidem haec est enim voluntas eius qui vult omnes homines salnos 〈◊〉 ad agnitionem veritatis peruenire And a little after Quod si reuerti noluerit nec conuictus post primamiam secundam admonitionem vtpote qui omninò subuersus est erit seeundum Apostolum deuitandus This is the way ô Sacred Maiestie to proceed against Heretiques which this holy man doth teach and not that by the rigor of Armes which your Ministers practice Esteeme it a truth that to vse crueltie against Heretiques doth euer make them more peruerse And if this in no place should be done much lesse there where Heretiques and Catholiques are together mingled with libertie of Religion because our persecutioÌ„ of them for Religion doth teach them to do the like as well for preseruation of their own which they esteeme as good as we doe ours as for the securitie of their States liues From which so many losses haue hapned to the Church of God that it is a consideratition worthy of many teares Poore Germany into what state is it reduced by this occasion which perhaps but why do I say perhaps certainly certainly had bin in much better estate if therewith other proceedings had been vsed I call not England to witnesse the storie is too notorious What hath rained Flanders but a will to introduce with too much rigor the Spanish Inquisition And the Citie of Naples for the same cause hath it not fallen into generall tumult which if it had further proceeded to day by Gods grace it remaines Catholique that perhaps we had found with all that noble Kingdome full of heresie May it please the Diuine Maiestie that the present warre against the Grisons proue not a fire of faith and Religion in all Italy The Deuall hath prepared the wood the Ministers of your Maiestie haue kindled the flame If presently there be not some ready to extinguish it this paper God make me a liar which some will esteem foolishnes others call malignitie will perhaps be found a Prophesie from heauen But of this enough hath beene said let vs proceed to the rest The second head of Tyranny doth follow Great matters are related in the Manifest printed in the name of the Valtelines But seeing there is not one particular case obiected nor any thing proued it might be said the whole is false but wee will not vse that aduantage because wee know many things are most true Lucio da Monte with the money of forraine Princes supplied him by Pompeio Planta to the summe of two thousand florens distributed among particulars did procure the office of supreme Prouinciall Iudge of the Grison League binding himselfe to administer that charge not according to right and Iustice and the libertie of his Country but conformable to the will of the said Planta Whence it is confirmed for truth that the Gouernment was conferred vpon him who did offer the greatest price that from thence a thousand Tyrannies did proceed against the goods and liues of the Subiects there is
and the heart which being cut off or wounded cause desolution so it is possible to find a way to weaken that Monster which cannot bee killed at one blow Great preparations at mighty expences giue too great warning are subiect to many accidents and hazard too much reputation And if one State know any one Designe that may much annoy the Enemy it is like the other is not ignorant of their owne weaknesses Wise Gamesters play not all at a Cast the By often helpes the Maine Therfore both rule example hath taught vs that Spaine is more easily wasted then any part of their Christian Dominion conquered while the streame of money is open and vndiuerted But if this long and sure course threaten also a reciprocall Consumption yet that warre in Europe will bee most profitable for vs which shall be made nearest our owne Kingdome both for the keeping our forces vnited and at hand and for the easinesse of supplies in all Euents and out of Europe by a Roiall Action it is not impossible at one stroke to behead the Indies To oppose them in their Counsels we must first obserue what they are Pierre Mat. Espagne practiquant tousiours sa vieille maxime de se maintenir par la querra de ses voisins Sedition separation and disunion are the dangerous weapons wherewith they prepare to themselues easie Conquests and these Arts haue their first efficacie vnder the pretence of Treaty then is the Spaniard most to be suspected because they know how hostibus prodere prima belli tempora Tacit. and if they can raise any iealousie or variance to remoue any one all are weakned rebusque turbatis malum extremum discordia accessit The contrary then which is a firme and constant League is onely powerfull and able to arrest them In the Colleagued warre of the Common-wealths of Greece against the vnited power of the Spartans some of the Confederates who lay next the danger beginning to wauer this sentence of their common safetie was giuen Pelib vnicam spem superesse video omnibus agnisui longum tempus possidendi si Epaminondae consilio vsi omnium temporum omniumque rerum societatem sinceram inâ—er se colant To hope to diuide indivisihile is lost labour the Designes of Spaine are one vnited in the head in genere generalissimo the House of Austria which cannot be distracted They haue no other maine and important adherent but the Pope and his Ecclesiasticall Dependents and these also make but one and meet in the Center concurring in common and mingled ends And they greatly erre who suppose that it is euer possible to finde a Pope vnpartiall for Spaine or to fauour any other Prince against them Let Vrban the Eighth serue for an example rais'd and fed by France yet fallen to their enemies per ragione distato One fresh and pregnant instance will discouer both this vnitie and the aduantage of Spanish Counsells When the Treaty of Madrid for the liberty of the Valteline was not performed and roundly pressed by the French some difficulties remaining to prolong the possession the Forts of that Vally were by consent deliuered to the Pope tanquam communi Patri in Depositâ— This seemed very equall but the French were ouer-reached For they hoped vpon the iustice of their Cause and that a sentence would timely be giuen for them which was impossible For the Spaniard was content that the Deposition should remaine for euer to his vse and he knew that the Pope by accepting it was engagâ—d neuer to surrender to the Grisons because the spirituall Father could neuer deliuer his Children behold another title to the subiection and will of Heretiques and if the French should at last vse force his Holinesse was doubly intangled both in honor and conscience to vnite with Spaine to maintaine his Depositation This the French did not foresee and fel vpon a disaduantage to recouer it from the Pope a matter of dangerous consequence Who at last takes Armes in the Cause as the World knowes But when both the Pope and Spaine saw such a generall storme and Colleguation and foresaw that there was no remedie but to lose it by Armes which being victorious might quarrell with Millan or finde new obiects of their disdaine they resolued rather to surrender it and to seeme to yeeld to Iustice But who must doe it The Pope by no meanes can consent to deliuer part of his flocke to wolues so his Ambassage protested in France therefore by secret conniuence and agreement the King of Spaine doth suddenly seale the old Articles and makes the Transaction before Barbarini shall arriue to saue the Popes honor For a temporall Prince may saluâ conscientiâ restore Heretiques to their temporall rights which the Pope a higher pretender ouer soule body and goods cannot doe By this cunning they hope to separate the Princes vnited the quarrell being in outward appearance ended and by this Intelligence it is euident that the Spirituall and temporall serue one another and take turnes and shift Interests for mutuall aduantage But if examples proue not categorically let it be considered that the spirituall and temporall Monarchies affected by Rome and Spaine haue such mutuall interest and affinitie and are so woven one within the other that though natural affection or other respects of gratitude may for a time retard perhaps striue against an open declaration yet when necessitie exacteth a resolution the essence and mystery of the Papacie will preuaile It must forsake father and mother and cleaue to this double supremacie for Rome and Spaine must stand and fall together To proceed when the Romans first transported their Legions into Greece they were called in by diuision to restore that shew of liberty to a part which they absolutely tooke from all Greece Separation and disunion by them fomented opened a Port to a Dominion which vnited was like their Phalanx not to be broken And certainly this day the Spaniards haue more hope to diuide the Princes colleagued then to vanquish them To which vse they haue two dangerous Instruments Money for the Traitor and a Pope for the Conscience It is obserued that Spaine will buy Treasons dearer then other Nations doe Faith Omne scelus externum cum laetitia habetur And another noteth Tacit. that with a bit of parchment the Pope will reduce any Kingdome to him disobedient to the State of Nauarre when the true King Iohn Albret and Queene Katherine were expelled Pierre Math. l'excommunication du Pape Iules 1. aquant eu plus de forces que les armes de Castille And they are not ashamed to glory with Philip of Macedon another oppressor that the victories gotten with words are more sweet then those of the Sword For euery Souldier can fight and share the honor but Arts and deceits of Treaties are onely proper to the Prince and his Counfell I will not enter into a search of the Treaties of Spaine nor how they are maintained