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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22683	A declaration of the causes, which mooued the chiefe commanders of the nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the riuer of Lisbone, certaine shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said citie prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the ports and prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie.	England and Wales.; Beale, Robert, 1541-1601. aut	1589 (1589)	STC 9196; ESTC S100708	12,466	24

of nations For that same priuiledge of Newtralitie is in such sort to bee vsed and inioyed that in helping one of our confederates we hurt not another so that hee which helpeth one thereby damnifieth another falleth from his priuiledge and contract not because he helpeth one of his confederates but because he doeth preiudice another and by that fact of his makes himselfe an enemie as offering the first iniurie and therefore in so doing he is to bee taken and reputed for an Adherent and Assistant to the enemie and a very enemy himselfe This then beeing the state of these thinges what lawe what reason or example may be obiected to the contrary but that it is lawfull for the Queene of Englād whose scepter diademe kingdome liuing and life are greedily thirsted after by the Spaniard so potent and so malicious an enemie to doe that against his fautors and fauourers so often premonished which was lawful for the Emperour for the Empire for the king of Swethen for the king of Denmarke for the Prince of Orange for the States of Netherland yea for the Hanse men themselues to doe in the like cause but not in the like danger and extremitie as this is Nay if wee thought it requisite to alleadge any thing out of the priuiledges themselues whereof they haue so often and so much complained as being many yeeres withheld from them by iniustice wee might offer the charter of Edward the first king of England to be perused granted in the third yere of his raigne in which charter wee reade these expresse wordes That all the aforesaide Marchants may at any time carrie or cause to bee carried into or out of the kingdome of England their marchandizes which they shall bring with them or buy here or otherwise come by excepting to the countreyes of the manifest and notorious enemies of this kingdome So that either they must denie that the king of Spaine hauing practised such cruell and horrible things I would to God we might not say stil practising the same is an enemie to the Queene of England or els by the wordes of the aforesaide charter they must confesse that they are included within those boundes and limites which they may not passe if they desire to bee called and accompted friendes We may adde to all this that it is a thing able to be shewed and proued in the Courts of Records of the kings of England that heretofore the warres arising and continuing betwixt the kinges of England and of Fraunce the goods of these Hanse men were so subiect here in England to arrestes as now they are vntill they grew more warie and had put in sufficient Sureties that they woulde not from that time transport any part of their goods into the prouinces and dominions of the French king By these reasons we take it plainely and fully demonstrated that her Maiesties Captaines by Sea in the present arrest of the Hanse mens goods haue committed no iniustice against their pretēded priuiledges but rather that they haue vtterly lost them for this pranke of theirs in causing victualles and martiall furnitures to bee conuayed to the countries of her manifest and notorious enemies directly contrary to the wordes specified in the priuiledges Although her Maiestie is not purposed notwithstanding all present extremities and this most vile and most barbarous part of the Hanse marchants to proceede in dealing with them according to that seueritie of law which iustly she might execute but is nowe thus farre onely resolued to confiscate all the corne and prouisions of warre and as for the shippes themselues and other sortes of marchandise in them shee is content to dismisse them for the present But nowe touching the matter of their priuiledges for which they keepe such a stirre in complayning to the Emperour the states of the Empire and al other princes els which neuerthelesse are cleerely found to haue beene broken and forfeited in the time of Edward the sixt that most noble and famous prince The Queene of Englande can sufficiently proue that these Hanse men haue deserued no benefite or fauour at her hands euen by the lawes of the Empire it selfe if her Maiestie thought the argument necessary to stande vpon It is a very apparant thing that her Maiestie neglecting and not regarding the vniust pretenses and forged suggestions wherewith these Hanse men haue charged her among strangers hath yeelded to them no lesse a benefit of free negotiation then to her owne subiects without any other restraint but this that in liewe and memorie of so singular a fauour they also on their parts should graunt the like freedome in their portes and cities to her subiects and marchantes and yet like vnkinde people and without respect to this fauour they returne to their olde byas cease not to attempt thinges dangerous to her Maiestie and by the opinions of all princes in no case to bee suffered These Hanse men were at the like controuersie sometimes with the kings of Denmarke Swethen by reason of certaine like priuileges in the kingdomes of Norway and Swethland and the matter grew so hot that it brake out to an open warre but with what fruite or gaine to the state of the Haunse men This was the issue they were forced to accept such conditions of priuiledges not as they challenged but as the foresaid kings thought iust equal By which president they might learne if they were wise not to accept only but most gladly thankefully to accept the conditions offered by her Maiestie as proceeding from such a kind of liberalitie that may make them in this case superiouts to all other Strangers equall and alike with her owne Subiects But if they continue in this their stubbernesse and ingratitude let them take heede least they plucke vpon themselues that most iust reward of their most peruerse behauiours whereof they haue felt the smart before this both in Swethlande Norway and Liuonia also Seeing then these Hanse men haue receiued from her Maiestie many great benefits but no ill deserts at any time shee desireth the Emperours Maiestie and the rest of the Princes and States of the Empire to giue no credite to the rumours spread abroad by them or by the friendes of the Romish Church or by such as are corrupted with Spanish pensions men suborned of purpose to scatter these false surmises to the ende that we being drawen to a mutual dislike and hatred they in the meane time may the sooner and the more easily bring vs and the Religion which we professe if it were possible vnderfoote And further her Maiestie intreateth that this heauie warre entred into with the Spaniard for the mainteinance whereof no small but huge summes are of necessitie required and wherein the quarrell is not in her owne behalfe onely but for the safetie of all the Kings Kingdoms and Dominions of Europe that professe the sinceritie of true Religion and for that cause are as much hated of this Spanish