causes evill effects of an evill spirit evill motions proceed I cannot marvayle of the tumults of Bohemia of the many battayles and rebellions in Fâ—ance and the horrible treasons in Scotland and I may well doubt that the like which hath been in other places may fall out in England knowing by whose doctrines they were all guided and bred by what furies they were inspired and what God they served and adored who was the Authour of sinne the badge of Calvinisme But to leave the persons and their errors and come nearer to the matter let us enquire what remedies these zealous brethren prescribe to cure the wounds of the State and salve the Kings honour You have two occasions saith Tom-tell-troth to have the honour of your Mayden Armes for which the old Martyrs would have suffered death first to reestablish your own Children in Germany and next to preserve Gods Children in France And there is no way to vindicate your honour but by fighting with him that hath Cozened you and by driving the Enemy out of their Country For men hardly think you are their father for the lamentable estate you suffer them to runn into How violent and ignorant are these discontented Empericks who appoint remedies worse then the disease For no wise man would counsell you to hazard all by taking armes against the two greatest Monarches in Christendom against whom you have no just quarrell of your own part or for the Common-wealth And yet I know that Anno 1623. a pamphlet was published without the Authors name intitiled Certaine reasons why the King of England should give over all treaties and enter into war with Spaine and that for two causes the one for the prescription of the Palatin which he calls the head of all these evills And the other for that the Spaniards possesse by force the patrimony of the Infants and eject the Palatin and his wife out of the same contrary to hopes and promises made for their restitution and therefore there is just cause why the Father should vindicate the honour of his Sonne So here are two motives to perswade the King to breake off all amity and further negotiation with Spaine only and in post to proclaime war against them The prescription of the Palsgrave and the invading and detaining of his Estate War and hostility are the meanes prescribed for this restitution and the finall end of all is to breake off all treaties all entercourse and correspondencie with Spaine A Colerick course certainly whereof King James approved not and although they seeme to vilifie and abuse his Judgement yet his speech uttered in Parliament was more solid and provident then the precipitation of these projectors For said he in matters of this waight I must first consider how this course can agree with my conscience my honour and the justnesse of the cause And next how I shall be enabled to performe the same a breif speech sound and methodicall For surely if the title and Crown of Bohemia was unlawfully usurped by the Palsgrave which his wisest and greatest Friends sought ever rather to excuse then defend then his prescription was well grounded upon lex Talienis aquum bonum and reason of State And so they would perswade you to undertake the patronage of a quarrell unjust and dishonourable which would lye as a heavie and sinfull burthen upon the conscience of a pious and just Prince Therefore I take this to be the foundation of all these controversies whether the Palsgrave were lawfully and justly elected King of Bohemia For if he were not you altogether loose and not vindicate your honour to fight for him being not a King injured but an injuror For no war can be justifiable but that which is begun upon just and urgent occasions wherein Justice prudence honour and safety shall beare the standard of England Neither were it convenient that England which hath so long triumphed in her peace and prosperitie should now thus rashlie be drawn fatally to maintaine the errors of ambition and a quarrell unnecessary for you not properly pertaining to England nor to your Majestie but by consequence and participation CHAP. 2. That Ferdinand was lawfully Elected King of Bohemia ANd although I doubt not but that your Majesty hath read some partiall breviat of the cause and state of this businesse yet I will be bold to lay open the truth of it breifly without glosse or partialitie or respect to either partie fearing neither nor having any other end but that your Highnesse may not erre with the Multitude by misinformation Ferdinand Sonne of Archduke Charles and nephew to the Emperour was elected King of Bohemia An. 1617. by an Assembly of the States of Prague upon the Emperours summons when Mathias declared that seeing his glasse was almost run to leave the Kingdom setled in peace and to prevent all Civill dissention he requested that after his decease they would agree to accept of Ferdinand for his successor whom for his vertue and piety he had adopted his Sonne provided that during his life without his speciall commission Ferdinand should not intrude himself into the government of his realme and should also take his oath to ratifie and confirme the priviledges granted to the Country Hereupon the 7. of Iune the three States of Bohemia gave this answer to the Emperours proposition That for his request and for the fatherly affection that he did ever beare to that kingdom they consented and agreed to accept Ferdinand for their King and thereupon they assigned the 24. of Iulie for the day of his Coronation at Prague upon which day this decree was solemnly read and the States assembled being asked according to Custome by the cheif Burgrave if any did dislike or could shew cause to contradict this Free Election they all freely and orderly with a generall applause approved it and upon that so good warrant the Burgrave proclaimed Ferdinand King of Bohemia and offered unto him as their Custome was a certaine contribution of his inauguration So here is an Election made Frequenti Senatu plenâ curiâ the Emperours assent who was King in Esse a consent of the States in a generall assembly and modo formâ according to Law and Custome And Ferdinand himself was present and brought upon the stage to take the Oath usually ministred to his predecessors and to conclude the whole Country acknowledged his regality by doing really the homage unto him So as no defect was in the proceeding no Competitor no barre or opposition to his claime neither was there any packing or partiality in the Election and by this solemnity he was created actually King and albeit his government was not to commence untill after the death of Mathias yet the Royalty he had in Esse their Oathes at his Coronation their homages and their contribution was a full confirmation of his title in presenti and the rather because the States themselves did him all the honour appertaining to their King so he
sunt ad gubernationem Regis Regni duo Episcopi duo Barones duo Baronetti duo Baccalaurij milites cum uno Iurisconsulto Yet was this done because of the Kings minoritie and under the name and authoritie of the King The Cheif Justice of Aragon hath a large command and the States claime a power Nosque valemos tanto como vos masque vos c but this holdeth not to underpropp the usurpation of the Directors and their Conventicles for the Cheif Justice is an ancient and an ordinary Officer established by Custome and long continuance and is allowed by the King and is deposeable by him as the King gives the Office so may he take it away from him as he did from Didaco And seeing all subordinate Magistrats have their Authoritie jure humano non potestate sua sed alienâ And seeing these Directors of Bohemia were not chosen nor admitted by the whole State but which was worse usurped an Authoritie inconsulto Rege I may say of them truelie whom these usurpers elected that which God himself said Osee 8. Ipsi Regnant non ex me Principes extiterunt non cognovi eos And therefore I will conclude that this Election of the Count Palatine was contrary to Law and reason being made by Conspiratours who usurped an authoritie which they lawfullie had not and by private men and not by the King nor Officers of the Realme nor the Generall States And I the rather hold this opinion because King Iames in his oration to the Parliament 1620. used these words very judiciallie Kings and kingdoms were before Parliaments the Parliament was never called for the purpose to meddle with complaints against the King the Church or State matters but ad consultandum de relus arduis Nos Regnum nostrum concernentibus as the writ will informe you I was never the cause nor guiltie of the Election of my Sonne by the Bohemians neither would I be content that any other King should dispute whether I am a lawfull King or no and to tosse Crowns like Tennis-balls Besides if the Count Palatine had been elected in any shew of order a maine defect yet lyeth as a block in his way For the Aur. Bulla cap. de confirmat Regis Bohemiae setteth down this clause as an essentiall Axiome volentes ut quicunque in Regem Bohemorum Electus sit accedat ad nos successores nostros which Frederick did not sua à nobis Regadia accepturus which he likewise never did and it must be done debito modo solito to shew the use Custome and dutie And to take away all cavills he binds it with à non obstantibus legibus municipalibus that the pretence of impostors the name of liberties and the title of Vicarius Imperij might have no place for excuse And to prove the necessitie of his investiture Read Aur. Bullae exp. 2. and Curia Nurimbergh art 7. 8. Si quis autem Principum Electorum aliusve feudem à sacre tenens Imperio supra infrascriptus Imperiales constitutiones adimplere noluerit aut iis contraire praesumpserit ex tunc cateri Coëlectores à suo ipsum deinceps consertio excludant And surelie the Palsgrave had ill Councell and as weak a judgment to seek to dispossesse the Emperour of his right and title who was to give him the investiture of Bohemia and by disorder to seek a Crown also by men who had no power to give it by which ambition came the ruine of that mightie Familie who aspiring to a Crown it could not rightfullie challenge lost that Crown which it had lawfully long possessed CHAP. 5. Of the proscription of the Palsgrave NOw I come to the maine point which the Puritans call the head of all these evills the proscription of the Palsgrave wherein we must examine whether it were done de jure or injuriouslie and whether there be just cause why the Father should vindicate the honour of his Sonne the grounds of the proscription were too solid For after the Assemblie at Franckford 1619. where by the pluralitie of voices Ferdinand was Elected the Palsgrave not contradicting it the Count Palatine took the Crown of Bohemia as it were from the head of the Emperour he joyned with the Directors begun this unfortunate tragedie made himself head of the union the most dangerous that ever was contrived in Germany consented to the invasion of the Lower Austria and at Retz the States being assembled 2. August 1620. Fredericum Palatinum Dominum Protectorem elegerunt Besides he assisted all the malcontents of the State and raised Armies for his defence as if he had not been fullie satisfied with the Crown of Bohemia except he had likewise dispossessed him of the Empire and forced him to flye into Spaine for succour as it is evident by the Records of Cancellaria Anhaltina Nay the same Count Palatine in his Letters to the Duke of Saxonie confesseth that he took upon him the Crown of Bohemia First that the kingdom might not be longer restrained from the exercise of their Religion Secondly that they might enjoy their priviledges Thirdly and cheifly that the Election of the King of the Romanes might be in the power and choice of the Protestant Electors faire Colours on a false ground zeal to Religion out of Charity is made to break the peace of Europe and to maintaine the liberties of Bohemia he must needs violate the Laws and orders of the Empire and to enlarge the Dignitie of the Secular Electors he would tread upon all the Ecclesiasticall But to say more plainly he scorned to hold the stirrup while the House of Austria did mount and surmount him But to proceed was their end only to releive Bohemia no surely For they sollicited the revolt of Hungaria they joyned with Bethlem Gabor the Turks vassall and if you look well into the scope and intention of these correspondents you shall see a Medusaes Head For what was their project by the Rolls of Cancellaria Anhaltina the union intended to give the Palsgrave for his share more then Bohemia Alsatia and a part of Austria and to enlarge his Dominions with the spoiles of the Bishopprick of Mentz and Spires the rest of the Correspondents purposed to share the fattest morsells of Germany amongst them Onoltsback gaped for Writzburgh Barlâ—n thirsted after Brysack and to oppresse the poore Count Eberstein Anhalt hoped to supply his prodigaliâ—ies with Brambergh and some escheats in Bohemia al of them resolved by fire and sword to extirpate pied a pied the Papalty And Blessen iâ— his letters to P. Anhalt 27. November 1619. certifieth him unitat in conventu Noricâ— bellum decrevisse in catholicas Ecclesiast invasio pag. 67. Cancellariae was resolved upon and the deprecation also of Tryer and the surprizing also of that Prince Electors country and pag. 131. it was concluded ut adversae partis Provincia invadantur Besides as if they went to cast the
THE ANSWER TO Tom-Tell-Troth THE Practise of PRINCES and the LAMENTATIONS of the KIRKE Written By The Lord Baltismore late Secretary of STATE London Printed 1642. Most Gracious Prince I Know well what Reverence Subjects owe to their Soveraigne and am not ignorant of the puissance and Majesty of a King of great Brittaine believe I should not presume to write to so great a Monarch if the Loyalty of a Subject the honour of Your vertues and some particular obligations of my own did not command me to neglect all other respects and prefere Your safety honour and bonum publicum before any dangers or blame I foresee may incurre and the rather because I speake in your owne care only without publishing or imparting to others that which I delivered unto Your Majesty The cause is briefly thus Wandring abroad in the world I was informed of certaine secret conference in Holland and how to relieve the distressed estate of the Count Palatine and I have seene diverse discourses out of England of the necessity to maintaine the Ancient authority of Parliaments how to assure Religion from oppression and alteration and how to reforme the government there both in Church and Common-wealth audacious arguments and as insolently handled I meane not to trouble Your Highnesse with pedlors stuffe and so stale wares as Vox populi and votiva Angliae but to inform You of some books amongst many others T. T.Troth The practise of Princes and the lamentation of the Kirke which are the works of such Boutefeus as are able to set the whole State on fire imbroyle the Realm and aliene the hearts of people from their Prince for these Maskers under the Visards of Religion seeke to undermine Loyalty and either to ingage you abroad in forraigne wars or in danger Your person at home in Civill And yet I write not to confute these learned scriblers more worthy to be contemned then answered but to advertis Your Highnesse of them that by an obsta principiis you may upon such smoake prepare all things needfull to quench such a fire when it shall flame and first breake out which is may doe when you least looke for it For by nature these spirits are fiery hot spurs and fitter for any thing then that they most professe Piety and Patience And that they may plainely appeare in their own likenesse Your Highnesse may bee pleased to mark and consider how sawcily and presumptuously they contemne Monarches scorne and disgrace them The Emperour Tom Tell-Troth calls a quiet lumpe of Majesty and in scorne of him tells his Reader he cannot wrong a Mouse without the Spaniard which I think the K. of Denmarke Will not believe he mocks the K. of France and tells him he is not old enough to be wise and that he hearkneth to lying Prophets and to be led by spirits of illusion The King of Spaine he calleth the Catholike usurper and the great ingrosser of the West-Indies And which argueth a spirit of Frenzie he spareth no King for of King Iamâ—s himselfe he delivereth such a character as is both disloyall and most intollerable And first touching his maintenance of Religion he taxeth him mâ—st scandalouslâ— that he is only head of the Church Dormant there are so many corruptions in it that he hath more pulled downe the Church with his proceedings then raised it up by his writings and whereas he calleth himselfe defender of the Faith His faithfull Subjects saith he have just cause to question it for the Papists were never better defended as appeareth by the Kings private instruction to Iudges and prohibition of Pursevants And for his inclination to peace for which hee was most commended they wrest it wholly to his dishonour and professe they have too much cause to complaine of his unlimited peace and suspect that his peaceable disposition hath not proceeded so much out of his Christian pietie and justice as out of meere impotencie and basenesse of mind Besides touching his honour and reputation he flouts him for he saith a number of defects cover the glory of his Raigne and that the greaâ— stocke of Soveraigne reputation which our late Queene left us is quite banished and is to bee reckoned amongst other inventions we haâ—e lost through the injury of his time so as now great Brittaine is lesse in glory strength and riches then England was whereby our adverse parties have the triumph of the time and heâ— alledgeth the reasons because when Gundamore taught to juggle who knew the Kings secrets before most of His Councell so as discontent runs with a seditious voyce over the kingdome And in contempt of his choyce of a Treasurer they alledge that the Merchants feared the Court would pull down the Exchange because one of their occupation was made Treasurer so aâ— all things must be bought and sold But above all other scandalous defamations the description they make of a protestant King Page 25.26 27. is most transcendent and traiterous let him saith he excell in mischiefe let him act Nero Phalaris c. he shal not need to feâ—re nor weare a private Coate for he may have Lords temporall for hâ—s â—unuches spirituâ— for his mutes and whom hee will for his Incubus and kisse his Minions without shame Behold a Calvinist in puris naturalibus perfectly factious and under the Cloake of zeale Carnifex regum peruse Mariana and all the works of the Iesuites looke as curiously into their acts and proceedings as they were examined at Paris and you shall not find I such paradoxes of mischiefe and such prophane calumniations of Princes which may parallell and match these yet I can overmatch them or equall them for they murmure as much at Your Majesties own proceedings neither doth your Monarchie oâ— mild tempâ—r priviledge or exempt you from their tongue-shot and the poyson of Aspes in their lips The Author of the Practise of Princes printed 1630. in England pag. 11. saith that the people when King Iames died seeing our King that now is making great preparations and for ought we knew with great sinceritie Yet by the practise of the Duke and his faction retaining all his fathers Counsell which for the most part were Hispaniolized Frenchified Romanized or Neutralized and suffering some worse both spirituall and temporall to be added unto them all those forces were soone brought to nought Things are grown to a great deale worse passe then before and to the great greif of goodnesse and good men without Gods speciall mercy remedy lesse This is the picture and portraiture they make of your Government and they dare censure their Soveraign and like mad-men they also rave against your Councell pag. 13. what a miserable thing is it to see wicked Counsellors get such a hand over the King that he is wholly ruled by them neither dares he favour a good man nor his cause further then they admit Thus they currishlie barke against Kings and Councells and spitt upon the Crown like Friends of Democracies of confusion
Socinus Iu. consil 65. num 2. l. 3. Et in hoc omnes convenire affirmant And Gail l. 2. c. 13. num 21. de pace publicae And H. Rosentall is confident in this opinion that the Emperour cannot pardonne the Sonnes l. de Feud c. 10. concl 38. whereunto I cannot subscribe But to put Camerarius by Law to silence And Gail overthroweth all their plots and practises l. 1. de pace publica cap. 5. in crimen laesae Majestatis incidit qui bellum in Imperio sine Caesaris licentia gerit movet In what State then standeth he that warreth against Caesar himself and that for his own inheritance And to put all out of Controversie he yeeldeth this reason Quia usurpat sibi ea quae sunt solius Principis nam movere bellum ad solum Imperatorem pertinet It is a marke of supremacie and an inseparable prerogative to Kings Is Vicarius Imperij here excepted N for the same man c. 1. l. 9. saith conditio paâ—is publicae omnes omnium ordinum status Imperij majorum minorum gentium cujuscunque dignitatis personas aequè obligat And that you might not imagine the Lawes of the Empire are made like spider-webbs only to catch Flyes and to be broken by great ones he adds this clause licet sit contra potentiores promulgata Nay further here that great Antiquarie and a Protestant Goldastus li tit. 190. who cites this ancient Law Nemo inter Imperij fines militum sollicitate nisi de voluntate Ducis istius circuli Curetque side jussione statuum nihil se contra Caesarem Principes subditos clientes Imperij moliturum But the Directors of Bohemia begann this war against the Emperour Mathias and the Palsgrave and they continued it against Ferdinand And the said Goldastus relateth a decree made by the Emperour Ludovicus Pius against the King of the Romans and his Confederates as guilty of a high treason for attempting against him and the State for which cause the King was judged to loose his head And the like Iudgement was pronounced by Otho 1. against his Sonne Ludolphus King of the Romanes But I will conclude all with the Law of Lande-Freiden made by Maximilâ—an the first Pacem publicam armatâ manu violantibus poena proscriptionis quam Bannum Imperiale vocamus irrogatur scâ—viâ—ae necisque And so I leave this cause rather to be pittied then disputed if the offendors had not been too long Advocats of their own offences and had not sought rather to exasperate the victor then to pacifie him till it was too late CHAP. 6. Of King James his not taking Armes to vindicate the honour of his Son proscribed HAving thus curiously examined the grounds and causes of the Proscription of the Count Palatine and how they stand in Law and conscience without any partiality neither taking affection to the one part whom I know not nor to the other whom I pittie but as the truth of the cause leadeth me I aske this question Why is King James accused for not taking armes to vindicate the honour of his Son so proscribed And why should the King of England give over all treaties and enter into war with Spaine if the Palatine be not restored being the King of Spaine neither did nor could proscribe him but the Emperour For Spaine as your Majestie knoweth hath no command in the Empire nor title nor Authoritie The Archduke Albert sent aide to King Ferdinand his nephew with the consent of Spaine to aide their Familie and to revenge so intollerable injuries to the Emperour in a just cause First the Count Bucquoy and after Marquesse Spinola great Commanders marched thither whereof the one with the Emperours forces dispossessed and ejected the Palatine out of Bohemia the other invaded the Palatinate and took possession of it An. 1620. and Verdugo and others his successors did hold it aswell to weaken the Emperours competitor to discomfort their partie to force the Palatine to relinquish his title for arma tenenti omnia â—at qui â—ustanegat as also to ingage the same for a pawne to satisfie the charges of four just a waâ— and to pay the penaltie of an offence so odious And there is no reason why the King of Spaine might not succour the Familie whereof he is the Root seeing these lands were the proper possession of Charles the Fifth And by him freely given to the family Neither did Spaine breake the treatie with England an. 1604. in any article by that support and therfore they shall do well to set the saddle on the right horse and accuse the Emperour for proscribing the Palâ—tine and the imperiall diet for ratifiing the same which no wise man will do For it cannot bee honourable to justifie an unjust and condemned action or seeke to take vengeance on the execution of justice on offenders decreed by the generall consent of the whole Empire And it was wisely said of King Iames in his oration to the Parliament Quis me constituit judicem inter vos He were very well ill advised that would perswade the King to fight for the Church of Bohemia and undertake to preserve Gods children in France as they call them by the sword For as that worthy Iohannis Roffensis said lib de potestat Papaec 20. Quis tribunal illud erexerit in terris in quo Rex de Rege paâ— de pari judicet Iudex alterius Regis nemo Rexâ—conditus est et rempublin rempublicam concitant I know King Iames was defensor fidei but in his owne circle and immâ—â— intra quat nor maria for Kings like plannets have their proper spheares and bounds of authority in which they move proprio motu and may not extend their prerogative of dignitie into places where it hath no jurisdiction or influence but by intercession and graces But Spaine hath abused us they say with hopes and promises given and not performes for they keepe yet the Palatinate what do they inter upon this to trust no more your enemies but give over all treaties with them We expect saith Tom. T. T. to see an armie raised as well as subsidies and that the King would really and royally ingage himselfe in the right waie Touching the first the Spaniard can restore no more then he hath and for that it is fit Don Carolo be heard who is a man of integritie and plain dealing the Infanta hath ever had a princely compassion of my Ladies grace the Countesse Palatine and all her Councell can witnesse how really she did mediate that the town in the Palatinate belonging to her dowrie might by the Spaniards be preserved for her and not suffered to fall into huksâ—ers hands and though C. Gondamore hath beene much defamed in England for a juggler in this case yet I have heard by wise men that he imploied his friends conferred sincerely with men of action and imploiment and used al means he could invent and contrive how to satisfie the
King of England but ultra posse non est esse It is neither the fault nor the fallacie of Spaine and for the restitution of the Palatinate your Majestie well knoweth and I think hath discovered that there is a knot in that businesse which onely the Duke of Bavaria can untie The Emperour cannot except he would hazard to loose part of his owne inheritance the upper Austria and what if that cannot during the Duke of Baviers life be yet effected will you breake of all treaties with Spaine for a matter hee cannot compasse nor prevaile to effect Will you make a perpetuall deadly feud with Spaine because he cannot yet therein fully satisfie you It is a cause neither charitable nor politique for marke the reason and project of this silly states-man pag. 13 your children saith he perhaps may have committed a fault and though you thought good to purge them yet to let them still drinke of affliction you may be thought justus sed crudelis pater Well how should the King helpe his children and shew his royall wisedome as well as naturall affection and regard the kingdome as well as his cradle A secret treasure saith he lies hid in your peoples hearts wee will contribute more to redeeme the credit of our nation then to regaine the Palatinate men and mony are the engines of war send forces that shall be able to make their way thither Mark I humbly pray your Majestie how ignorance roveth and looseth it selfe and yet he saith as much as any other can object If you aske him shall they march into the Palatinate No saith he there is great difficulty to get thither the Palatinate is ill seated for us to warre in being remote from the sea and surrounded with enemies and the protestant league is beheaded which should have succoured you and therfore here solveth that you must not confirm the action to the bare Palatinate for so it will never have an end but draw it selfe into such a circle of troubles as wee may look twelve years hence to see two such armies keep one another at a bay in the Palatinate as now they doe in the low Countries So by this his Argument to recover the Palatinate you must not march thither For the reasons he wisely alleadgeth for that it is out of your way Is not this man in a labyrinth for hee wisheth a thing whereof hee hath no hope something hee would have done but he knoweth not what nor how what then qua spe quo concilis would he proceed heare a counterfeit Hanniball speak like a souldier give the Hollanders your helping hand and lend the Palatine an armie to dispose of as he shall see cause Consider well first that his plot is to relieve or revenge the Palatine but not to recover the Palatinate I hope your prudence and providence is such as you wil be assured how they wil imploy this army For if the Hâ—llanders must tutor him they will assaile Flanders or some parts of the Empire or invade Spaine or the Indies and your Majesty shall beare the name of the great Nimrod have all the blame and malice of your neighbours and yet the Palaâ—ine himselfe shall gaine nothing by these sharkers who serve onely their owne turne by you both and when you come to the account and reckoning for the charges you shall finde neither honour comfort profit thankfulnesse nor reputation by dealing with them Nay Tom T. T. in all his booke hath but one wise sentence and that touching them the Pedlers whom wee our selves set up for use are become our masters in the East-Indies and think themselves our fâ—llowes It is now given out in Holland that your Majestie meaneth not to make peace with Spaine but to confirme the treaties made with the Hollanders at Southampton before the last journey to Cales which report I cannot beleive for your wisedome may foresee many dangers and inconveniences by it it is neither for the benefit of your merchants nor for the wealth of your Realme nor the peace of Europe nor your owne safeâ—ie And I beleive France will finde in the end occasions to cast them off for the Gummarists and the Huganots draw in one line have suck't one nurse and like no royaltie Forget not your Amboyna and the imperious and cruell usage of our merchants in the east-Indies Forget not how scornefully they used Sir William Morison your Fathers Admirall of the narrow seas not without apparent contempt of your Majestie Forget not how thâ—y used your sea men and Fishers in Greâ—neland And call to remembrance how unthankfully they used Quâ—ene Elizabeth their Patrone and Protectour Anno 1594 whâ—n she seâ—t Sir Thomas Bodley to demand the mony she had laâ—ed out for them And as if they hated Royaltie and the King himselfe they cause and suffer to bee printed Tom Tell-truth and other malicious libells and scandalous to defame Majestie and bring it into contempt and secretly publish them in Brabant and Flanders Consider also how presumptuously they only use the fishing on your coasts without licence and challenge it as a due to them which the French never durst doe Besides you may discerne clearely what insolency Armata semper militia ever groweth unto and I can witnesse how falsely they dealt with the Earle of Leicester and my Lord Willoughby who was forced to write an Apology for himselfe against them And as for your glorious Father I protest for all his favours to them which were many and great yet how shamefully they spake of him both living and dead I cannot with modesty relate Nay they have dared to sheere the grasse from under their feete and laugh at his councell and therefore they have planted so many low-country-men in England to serve their turne who robbed you and transported all your gold thither that the States might make their benefit of it which your Starre-chamber can well witnesse and these men are yours externally theirs in heart and affection neither hath your Majesty cause to repose too much trust in them for their Astrologer Dr. Fink long since foretold them of a Starre rising out of the east which I perceive they long to see come into England that they might adore him But to speake freely and loyally it would be censured by forraigne Princes as a great weaknesse in so wise a Prince to hazzard your owne safety and the welfare of the Kingdome and the lives of your dearest Subjects for a cause so desperate And on the contrary part to enter into amity and league with your ancient confederates with Spaine and all men of judgement and impartiall hold it most honourable and profitable Your leagues with the house of Burgundy were ever wont to be tyed with a suâ—e knot and inviolable even by Hen. 2. Rich. the 1. and Hen 3. Edw. 1. bestowed upon Flandâ—rs and Brabant great pensions as it appeareth by the records of the Exchequer Edw. 3. loved no nation better and so did they him So long