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A10670	Votivæ Angliæ: or The desires and vvishes of England Contayned in a patheticall discourse, presented to the King on New-yeares Day last. Wherein are vnfolded and represented, manie strong reasons, and true and solide motives, to perswade his Majestie to drawe his royall sword, for the restoring of the Pallatynat, and Electorat, to his sonne in lawe Prince Fredericke, to his onlie daughter the Ladie Elizabeth, and theyr princelie issue. Against the treacherous vsurpation, and formidable ambition and power of the Emperour, the King of Spayne, and the Duke of Bavaria, whoe unjustlie possesse and detayne the same. Together with some aphorismes returned (with a large interest) to the Pope in answer of his. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.1; ESTC S117031	21,745	45

and obserue them with a world of Bonfires of Ioy and ioyfull shouts and acclamations of reioycing viz. The 5th of October the day of your Highness arrivall from Spayne and the 24th of March following the day that your Match with Spayne was broken off and Warres declared for the restoring of the Count Pallatyne and his Heyres to theyr Pallatynat and Electorat That as wee therin doe nowe participate of the causes of our Ioy soe they hereafter may enioye them by feeling and enioying the effects therof For for the honnor safetie of our King and of all his Royall Posteritie and for the flourishing prosperitie welfare of the Church and Estate of the Israell of our Great Brittayne hee is not a true Subiect a faythfull and loyall-harted Britton noe nor the sonne of an honnest man that is not ready and willing to beare his life on the poynt of his Sword and if occasion present to lose it rather then to retayne and preserue it in soe Iust and Honnorable a quarrell And your Highness for seconding and fortifying of this your Royall Fathers Warlike resolutions agaynst his Maiesties your owne and your Illustrious Sisters Enemyes in the Two mayne poynts of our Welfare and Honnor Englands preservation and the Pallatynats restitution will accumilate and heape upp a whole world of Blessings and benedictions on your Princelie head from your Fathers good Subiects whoe with one Tongue one heart one affection and one soule will with as much Ioy as zeale and as much zeale as Dutie Pray unto God for the long prosperous and victorious Life of the King your Father my Gracious Souveraigne of your Royall selfe of our Gracious Princess your Sister of the Illustrious Prince her Husband and theyr Royall posteritie The which none shall performe with more true Zeale and unfeigned Devotion then Your Highness his most humblie Devoted Seruant S. R. N. I. The Printer to the Reader GEntelmen the Author his remote absence from the Presse hath occasioned mee to commit manie Errours wherof hee is innocent his deserts crave and deserve you to reforme them and I likewise desire it aswell for your satisfaction as for myne owne excuse Farewell My Most Sacred Soueraigne I Should not bee that which God hath made me to be your Majesties most obedyent and most faythfull Subject if I were not a thousand times more jealous and zealous for the preservation of your Maiesties and your royall Childrens welfare and honnor then of myne owne life But sith Grace hath made me soe fortunat and Nature soe happie as alsoe composed me of a temper that I had rather die for speaking the truth then liue eyther to Conceale or Desemble it to your Maiestie Therfore in the behalfe of the forsaken Prince Palatyne your Sonne in Lawe of his sorowfull Princesse your onlie Daughter and their mournfull posteritie for the losse of their neglected Patrimonie the Pallatinat wherin my Conscience guyded by the truthe informes my soule that your Maiesties honnor extreamlie suffers Giue mee leaue O giue me leaue my Most Gratious King in all humilitie and Dutie to send these ensewing motiues and reasons to your Maiesties serious pervsal consideratiō therby to incyte and stirre up your Royall resolutions for the refetching and reconquering therof wheron at present the eyes of the whole Christian worlde are constantlie fixed And thou great God of Heaven whoe at thie pleasure and in thie providence swayest the harts and hands the affections and actions of all the Kinges of the Earth thie Vicegerents So blesse my Soveraign and all his sences in the reading therof that his Majesties Iudgement prevayle ore his passion his Courage out-braue his feare that naked Truth may take place of disguised Imposture and royall Iustice triumph ore hoodwincked and treacherous Vsurpation Although it be true that the Prince Palatyne your Son in Law committed a first errour of Estate in assuming and taking on him the Crowne of Bohemia will your Majestie therfore commit a second in permitting him to lose his Pallatinat or because hee wanted no Ambition but Iudgment to attempt that must your Ma tie therfore want affection zeale and equitie to him to the Princess your Daughter and their royall Issue to tollerate suffer this You likewise sawe and suffered the Emperour to chastice him from Bohemia and therin you shewed an act of Iustice which celebrates your fame to all Europe but if your Majestie permit him for euer to ruyne him and absolutelie to Depriue him of his and his Childrens Patrimonie that wil be a Dishonorable testimonie of too great disrepect and want of affection in your Majestie as being their Father and of too much feare pusilanimitie as beeing a Great and Potent King and this will not onlie blemish but eclipse it to all the world Doe I speake of Dishonnor O then I beseech your Majestie to consider how long Honor is purchasing how soone lost and that having sacrificed all the actions of our life to preserue it wee neede but one Errour to ruyne it and as the meanest Gentelman is bound to this rule soe the greatest Princes and Monarckes of the world haue consequentlie the greatest shares and interrests in the prevention therof For the true Matchiavillians and Emperickes of Estate who tearme honnor but smoke are deceived and ignorant of Honnor Sith to defyne it aright it is the purest golde of a Kinges crowne and the richest Diamond to embelish and adorne it yea it is a great part of that which makes a King a King because it giues him just reason to Commaund his subjects they as just cause to obey him and which is more the retaining therof pure and the preserving therof immaculate makes him to bee both feared and beloved of all his neighbour Princes whoe otherwise will haue just cause to neglect Contemne him because he first contemned and neglected it Soe were your Ma tie onlie a spectator and not an Actor or had you noe Interest in the Pallatynat you should then receiue noe Dishonnor not to attempt or seeke the restitution therof But sith for the good of your Disinherited Children you haue as deepe Interest in that famous Province as you haue in the Royall blood which streames in their hartes and veynes will it not be an honnor for your Majestie to restore it to them sith it was lost with shame and a shame if you restore not them to it with honnor And in regard the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria haue conquered it from them by Vsurpation will it not bee an action as full of Compassion as glorie for the King of Great Brittayne to reconquer it from them with Iustice. And although peradventure the current of other mens affections and passions transport your Majestie from the true way of truth in beleeuing that the Dishonnor of this losse falls onlie on the Count Pallatyne no way reflects on your Royall and Sacred person yet the best of your subjects beleeue though the woorst are

therfore that it is rather more to bee feared then doubted that as hee first tooke Aix and Weesell for the Emperour and ever since keepes them for himselfe that right soe hee intends to deale with the Pallatynat and if your Majestie vvould but turne your back to Spayne and your eyes to the Pallatynat you will then confirme my oppinion wheras with a fearfull jelousie I apprehend that turning your backe to the Pallatynat and your eyes to Spayne you maye peradventure passionatlie oppose and contradict it For as the diseases and iniquitie of our tymes and the Vanitie of our Natures are such as manie tymes wee see Ambition gives a Lawe to Nature and the strongest sword proves most commonlie the best right and tenure Soe notwithstanding that the Emperour bee puffed upp with joy and pride for this his good success yet the King of Sayne thinckes that the Pallatynat is but a debt dewe to his Vertue and a tribute to his Ambition and Greatnesse And that your Majestie maye the more perfectlie and apparantlie consider them destinctlie or joyntlie and soe looke from theyr tongues to theyr hartes from theyr wordes to theyr actions and from the barke of theyr Friendshippe to the tree of theyr Intents Swartsenbourgh from the Emperour brought onlie Complements but noe deeds not hoapes of restitution of the Pallatynat Bosquet from the Archdutchess under the cloake of trust and consignation carried away Frankendale the last hostage and pledge of that Province and last of all Mexia with his statelie Embassye pretended from the sayd Princess but intended from the King of Spayne came to Comply with your Majestie to make fayre weather of all sydes to keepe everie byrd in his neast and your Majestie Sword still rusting in his scabberd yea if the hartes of Inijoca Mendoza and Columba whome I reverence and honnor for the honnor of theyr places were as visible and transparent as Iulius Drusus wished his house Then notwithstanding all theyr veluett wordes and silken protestations and vowes your Maiestie should see without perspective or spectacles that the most retyred Article and secret mysterie of theyr Kinges Commission to them is To give theyr Infanta to our Illustrious and famous Prince Charles but infalliblie with this proviso and reservation still to keepe the Pallatynat for the behoofe and use of the King theyr Master And what else doe all these severall Ambassadours in England and whervnto tend all theyr severall legations but onlie to conceale the Ill which is and to pretend the Good which is not in the designes and resolutions of the King theyr Master For in all theyr Treaties and Negotiations with your Maiestie and your mynisters what doe they else but purposlie play theyr prizes in practising theyr chiefest invention Arte and skill to procrastinate the restitution of the Pallatynat making everie daye produce newe Difficulties and Evasions till in the end they have made the Cure woorse then the Disease and which without the helpe and assistance of your Maiesties sword will verie shortlie prove incurable and meerlie Physique after death For the Emperour the king of Spayne and the Archdutchesse doe onlie feed your Maiestie with the emptie ayre of hoapes and with the bitter sweet sugar of manie flattering and false promises that they will restore the Pallatynat to the Prince your Sonne in Lawe whiles they in the meane tyme with as much treacherie as silence doe heerbye onlie gayne tyme in working and procuring theyr owne ends to repayre and renewe the fortifications of that Countrie till in the end they like Molewarps have therein taken firme footing and made those Cities and Castles which were easie to subdue become difficult and the difficult impregnable For the King of Spayne playes the Practicke with your Majestie whiles you professe the Theorie to him you give him contemplation for action hee returnes you action for contemplation for whiles you are entertayning and flattering your thoughts with hoape hee and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria hath crowned his hoapes and front with the Lawrels of the Pallatynat that daintie peece and rich and bewtifull Prouince of Europe neyther is it your Maiestie alone but the French King likewise who hath given too confident an eare to the Syreen tunes and charmes of Spayne for whiles their practises and machynations threw him to a pernitious sacrilidgious Warre against his owne Protestant subjects then Spayn recovered the Valtolyne and deflowred the Fortes and passages of the Grisons and whiles he by his Gondomar lull'd your Maiestie asleepe with the melodie of the Match then hee finished the Conquest of the Pallatynat Onlie your Majesties dishonnor heerin is farre greater then that of the French King because his remisnesse permitted but his Confederates to bee ruyned but your Maiestie your Confederate your Sonne in Lawe your onlie Daughter his wife and their Royall posteritie Thus as the Cyclope Polephemus devoured his passengers one after another soe doth the King of Spayne ea●e upp whole Countries and Provinces And wherto tends all this formidable Ambition power and greatnesse of his but onlie to fill the sailes of his glorie Whiles your Ma tie and other Potentates and Princes of Christendom most inconsideratlie I may say shamefullie ride at Anchor in the Portes of false securitie and therfore of true danger and wherunto tends all this but in the end to aspire to the whole Empire of the West as your Majestie heard though would not beleeue from your last Assemblie of Parliament which our sinnes and your Enemies caused you to make and intitle but a Convention All Europe can beare witnesse of your Majesties two yeares pious interceeding and Christian endeavours and resolution to have the Palatynat restored by Treatie and although the Emperour hath superficially promised and the King of Spayne artificiallie vowed it yet still your Majestie sees contrarie effects and still they fortifie the Pallatynat not for but against the Prince your Son in Lawe as if they had given a Definitive sentence and periode to theyr resolutions and made it an Orthodox Article of their Fayth still to keepe and never to restore it to him or his posteritie yea the Emperour is soe glutted with his victories and the Duke of Bavaria soe sursetted with his good fortunes in both which the King of Spayne insults with joye and triumph with exhileration that they are now soe farre from thincking of restitution as they disdayne it Alexander the Great whose generositie was yet farre greater then his fame shewed such testimonies of his moderation and Magnanimitie as hee gave those whome he subdued and conquered more cause to reioyce then repyne at his Victories yea hee shewed infinit Vertue and Charitie in his power and these twoe cannot bee better shewen then in giving lymitts to power But it seemes the Emperour is continuallie soe inflamed with choller and transported with revenge towards the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe as hee is whollie unmindfull eyther of Charitie or Vertue hee mought have added glorie