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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00678	A letter written by a French Gent: of the King of Bohemia his army: concerning the Emperour Ferdinand his embassage into France. Translated out of the French coppie	French Gent.	1620 (1620)	STC 10812; ESTC S115031	5,227	16

that which all the Lawes of the world and hee himselfe forbids in ordinary Suites and differences betweene party and party it being likely that before many dayes bee past the saide King Fredericke his Friends and Allyes will giue his Maiesty an account of what hath passed in this busines and acquaint him with the cause and motiues of so great a change and enterprise 3. The third inducement is the assistance and Protection that Kings owe one another especially such as are in distresse But let the Emperour be pleased to remember how hee and his Predecessors haue euermore neglected France expresly forbidden the Princes of the Empire Friends and Allyes of this Crowne to assist our Kinges of later times in their necessities much lesse that they haue euer supplyed them with men or money Let him remember also the refusall hee lately made the Duke of Neuers of the Kings mediation fauour and authority for setling the Affayres of Bohemia when they were yet in Good tearmes I meane during the Life of the Emperour Mathtas and many monthes before this new Election But if the King will fauour one of the partyes as by reason of State and for diuersion it hath beene at other times in practice there may be shewed to his Maiestie halfe a hundred Letters of the deceased King and of some of the Kings his predecessors contayning thankes for the good notable seruices performed by the house of the Prince Palatine and his Allyes to their Persons and Crownes in their occasions of need The instructions giuen to such as haue bene within these thirtie or fortie yeares sent into Germany confirme this Besides the straight alliance that King Henry the great a most wise Prince settled betweene him and the body of the Vnion in Germany a small time before his death approued since by the King now Raigning and by the Queene his Mother then Regent when the Duke of Deux Ponts came into this Kingdom to condole the last Kings murthering In like sort the Contracts Obligations vpon proofe in the Chamber of Accounts for many summes of money lent and paid before hand by the said house of the Prince Palatine his neere kindred and Allyes of a part whereof France is yet a debtor These I say are proofes sufficient of what I haue saide and oblige his Maiestie to lend his assistance rather to this then to the other party 4. The fourth induction is the dangerous example of Reuoltes for with such tearmes doe they qualifie this change to make it the more odyous without distinguishing between Kingdomes Electiue and Hereditary Especially since between Electiue Kingdomes there is difference of Condition as all the world knowes And it is to bee noted that at the Sacring and Coronation of the Kinges of Bohemia the King first sweares to obserue the Lawes and Priuiledges of the Countrey and then the people take the Oath of fidelitie And at that ioyfull entry as it is tearmed of Antwerp which is the solemnity of Creating and receiuing a newe Duke of Brabant it is deliuered in expresse tearmes that hee declares himselfe fallen from his Right and Dignity if hee make not good the Articles that hee hath promised and sworne to the people So did the deceased Duke of Anion last Duke of Brabant promise and pronounce in the yeare 1583. For betweene the proceedings of the Low Countryes and of Bohemia there is a great resemblance The enactions and Cruelties of the Duke of Alua were indifferently exercised vpon the Protestants and Catholickes The Count of Egmont whose head hee stroke off was no Hugonet no more then was the most part of so many thousand other of all Ages Sexes and Conditions whom hee brag'd at his departure thence that he had made an end of by the hand of the Hangman And it is most true that the inhumane and barbarous courses taken by the Count of Bucquoy for these fifteene or sixteene Monthes in the Warre against the Bohemians thinking with Fire and Sword to bring them to obedience which is wisdome against the hayre serued but to hasten the reiection of Ferdinand and the Election of Fredericke Not to mention the obstinate denyall made to admit or heare the Deputies of the Estates of that Kingdome and of the Prouinces incorporate vnto it at the last assembly at Franckfort when the saide Ferdinand was aduaunced to the Crowne Imperiall And of this kinde of wisdome was also the Refusall made lately by the same Emperour Ferdinand to his Subiectes of the lower Austria and Stiria who made offer to serue him with their Liues and goods in withstanding the Inuasions of the Bohemians conditionally that hee would Confirme their Priuiledges and graunt them free vse of their Religion It is hee himselfe that in the like case saide once That he had rather bee a Prince without Subiects then to haue any of a contrary Religion to his owne This humour of his expressed in that Language made such an Impression and apprehension of him in his people though hee be held otherwise a Good and a wise Prince as it was not the least reason of the Alteration wee now see Happy are those Princes that hauing neede of Counsell are able to make choyce of Wise and Faithfull Councellours such as haue no other ayme but their Maisters aduauntage without regard to their owne particuler interest There haue beene in this House Great and Famous Princes for Valour and Vertue but these of later time haue beene ill Serued and ill aduised Witnes their Losses in the Low Countryes and now and to come if they againe take not the way they haue left of sweetnes and gentlenes 5. The Fift and last principall reason is That the Turke will infallibly lay holde on the occasion of these Combustions to serue his turne and to aduaunce his Conquests to the hurt of Christendome which is not vnlikely And if hee doe it not it is either the fault of his little wisdome or of his weaknesse which yet may bee auoyded by leauing this new King in quiet Possession now that he is Elected and that without Suite or labouring of his owne nay without his owne Knowledge and beeing forcedly as it were carryed on by the Counsell of his Friends to the Acceptance of this Crowne which hath beene since set on his Head accompanyed with all the Formes and Solemnities due and Correspondent to the fundamentall and most auncient Lawes of Bohemia a Kingdome Free and Priuiledged if euer any Whereas on the Contrary if hee bee molested and dispossessed Hee will be by the law of Nature and of Reason inforced to inuite his Friendes and Allyes to ayde him As the Princes of Germany the Kings of Denmarke and Sweden the Hans Townes and the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland with whom hee and some other Princes of the Vnion are Confederate for their common Defence Not to speake of England and the Vnited Prouinces whence hee cannot but receiue Powerfull succours Not to speake also of certaine Princes and Estates Catholicke which holde good Correspondence with him Nor of the Prince of Transiluania who offreth him his best meanes and Forces In the meane time it is a false affirmation that the said King entertayneth Intelligence or commerce with the Turke hauing Friends so many and so mighty in Christendome without being driuen to seeke them else where with so great danger But if the Prince of Transiluania Fortifie himselfe on that side as hee hath heretofore done for his better setling in his Principallity at such time as the House of Austria sought to crosse him as it had donne before the vnfortunate Gabriel Battori and disturbe him in his Possession it is beside the purpose and concerneth not Bohemia nor is in any sort applyable to this new King But who knoweth not howe the greater part of Hungary and of other Principalities of that part of Christendome are in conclusion fallen into the handes of the Common Enemy of Christendome In a worde this Busines is the true Touchstone whereby to distinguish betweene good and ill Counsells and to discerne the true French from the Spaniard or fauourers of the Spanish Party * ⁎ * FINIS