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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

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

to his Victories and Raigne if his Ambition finding prosperous successe could have beene content with measure and moderation soe uecessarie in all Christians and soe requisit and relucent in Princes But what or whie speak I of Charitie or Moderation in the Emperor when all the world can testifie with mee that his quarrell is soe implacable and his malice and revenge soe inexorable to the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe and the Princes and Nobles of Germanie his adhaerents as hee hath given them all just cause to flye to such remedies as dispayre gives to necessitie therby to seeke to preserue their lyues with their honnors and their honnors with their lyues And as hoape mought but feare cannot bee capable in them to declyne their vallour and courage soe had they not then reason to banish hoape when they apparantlie sawe they could hoape for nothing but for Dispayre in the mercylesse mercie of the Emperour Hee leaves them still proscripts although it had beene farre more Noble for him whoe holdes the first and noblest Rancke of Christendom rather to have made them taste the fruytes of his mercie then to feele the effects of his Indignation and is still so erreconcilable and vindictiue as if hee hath vowed to adopt and make revenge a Vertue and resolved and sworne that it shall bee the last thing which shall die with him Neyther cann your Majestie justlie conceyue that this inveterate malice of the Emperour and boundlesse Ambition of the King of Spayne is onlie bent and intended against the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe but likewise by vertue and reason of the same rule of Vsurpation against your royall selfe Sith wee cannot cutt a finger but wee wound the Arme nor cutt offe an arme but wee indanger the whole Bodie And what doth this Imperious swallowing downe of the Pallatynat by the Emperour the perfidious usurping of the Cantons of the Grisons and the eager threatning the totall subversion of the Netherlands by the King of Spayne else portend and implye but onlie to cut off the letts and obstacles that with the more facilitie they maye after make theyr approaches to assayle your own Kingdoms Domynions which treacherous designes and resolutions of theirs if your Majestie will not now beleeue and accordingly seeke and endeauour to prevent It is to bee feared yea I saye agayn it is to bee feared that wee yonr Subjects shall feele them hereafter when wee shall have just cause left us to lament but neyther meanes power nor tyme to remedie and prevent it For thincke what your Majestie will and saye what you please yet your best subjects and not the woorst Witts and Statesmen of your Kingdoms knowe that when the Emperour and King of Spayne beate Princelie Fredericke the Sonne that at that verie instant and act they undoubtedlie threatned Royall Iames the Father and that in the loss of the Pallatynat your Majestie uppon the whole is dangerouslie wounded and strucke at through his syde aswell in the honnor of your Sacred person as in the wellfare and safetie of your Estates and Kingdoms Give not cause O Great King that the malice of the Prince your Sonne in Lawes Enemyes prevayle aboue your pittie and affection nor theyr Vsurpation aboue your Iustice and although some Spanish Englishmen and English Spanyards playe the Mercurie with you to bring the Argus eyes of your judgment and power asleepe seeming to have new Mynerva's inclosed in theyr braines therbye to inchant your sences and to cast your affection and Vnderstanding into a Lethargie yet it will bee a just and honnorable resolution for your Majestie that in regard the Emperour will affoord noe favour to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne that therfore according the sence and letter of the same rule hee deserves to have none given or shewen him by your Majestie his Father in Lawe and as your Royall hart is the Temple of Equitie and Iustice soe can there anie thing bee more just and equitable then to make the Vsurper restore yet it is as necessarie as just for your Maiestie to cause this restoration of the Pallatynat sith to speake to the Emperour or King of Spayne of the restitution therof is but to speake to the wynde And it is to deceiue your Majesties deepe knowledge and to betraye your solide judgment to thincke that ever it will bee restored except by your Sword Noe noe it must bee your Sword not your Tongue not your Treaties not your Letters not your Ambassadours which must refetch it if ever your Majestie desire and intend to haue it refetched For all other meanes are fledd and have now abandoned and forsaken you and this of Warre is onlie left you to effect it which will not fayle nor cannot deceive you in the performance therof For otherwise like Ptolomais in Suydas you maye pleade your selfe to death in expectation and hoape therof by Treaties before you see it restored And that the policie of the Emperour the King of Spayne and Duke of Bavaria maye in all respects equalize theyr Ambition and Malice in the resolute and constant Detention of the Pallatynat maye it please your Majestie agayn and agayne to cast the eyes of your Consideration to see how closlie they have dealt with the Pope to fulminate and thunder out from his Vatican some false and irreligious Aphorismes therbye the better to over-vayle and the more authentically to couller out the monstrous Deformitie of this theyr Vsurpation therin Wherof of his 29. I will at this present content my selfe to select propose unto your Majestie the three last 1. 27. That it is not now in the power eyther of the Emperour or the King of Spayne to replace Frederick and his Heyres in the Pallatynat and Electorat 2. 28. That it is an uniust request of the Kinges of England and Denmarke and of the Electors of Saxonie and Brandenbourg to seeke to revoke the Popes Confirmation of the Duke of Bavaria in the Pallatynat and Electorat 3. 29. That the Pope cannot revoke the Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria without preiudice to the authoritie of the Sacred Catholique Church Thus the Pope or rather thus the King of Spayne and the Emperour whoe have caused the Pope falslie and maliciouslie to pronounce a sentence and Decree in their owne favour agaynst the Lawfull right of the Count Pallatyne you Sonne in Lawe and his Heyres wherbye your Maiestie maye palpablie see and plainlie observe the letts and difficulties yea the impossibilitie which your Majestie maye expect for the restoring of the Pallatynat And although I justlie confesse my selfe for Power Learning and Iudgment to bee the verie meanest of all your Majesties subjects yet because I more triumph in my Fidelitie to you my sacred Souveraigne and in my zeale to all your Royall Posteritie then the Emperour doth in his Imperiall Crowne the King of Spayne in his Indyes or the Duke of Bavaria in his newe Conquest and usurpation of

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

Detention Vsurpation of the Pallatynat will for his last shift and imposture clappe the whole fault therof on the Pope by affirming hee nowe sees that it whollie derogates from the Honnor and Office of Christs Vicar and consequentlie from the Lawes and Constitutions of the holie Catholique Church for Clement IX to annihilate and revoke the Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria which his Predecessor Gregorie XV. gave him and that hee beeing the Catholique King hee dares not transgresse the Commaunds nor disobey the will and Decrees of the Pope whoe is the head of the Catholique Church the Successour of Sainct Peeter and Christs Vicar on Earth These Aphorismes most sacred Souveraigne are true not feigned and everie way worthie of your beleife and Consideration For your Maiestie shall in the end finde that the Emperour and the King of Spayne will not understand the language of Restitution because theyr Swordes and Pennes have ever practised and professe the Contrarie Yea you have small cause and lesse reason to apprehend or feare the Emperours power whoe indeede is of verie small or noe power without that of Spayne And if Spayne will still Countenance and Commaund this his usurpation of the Pallatynat then hee is your Sonne in Lawes Enemie as much or more as the Emperour and soe to bee esteemed and held of your Maiestie and noe osherwise And for the rest of the Germane Princes whoe syde with the Emperour you have noe cause to stand eyther in neede or in feare of theyr Forces power for although the honnor of the Empire bee frequent in theyr tongues yet theyr owne Interest and endes are more deeplie rooted in theyr hartes and take upp the first place in their resolutions Your Majestie hath a long tyme yea too long tyme looked from the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe in suffering him thus to bee Dejected and deprived of his Pallatynat yea and the whole world spare not to speake and affirme this truthe that you are more desirous of rest then of Honnor in permitting and tollerating it Hee is a Prince fuller of hoapes then of misfortunes and his Vallor and Vertues make him more Worthie to bee an Emperour then to bee beaten by an Emperour And all these crosses and losses of his are but the assaults of Fortune the exercyse of his patience and the tryall of his generositie and Constancie Your Majestie hath seene him ruyned and yet it lyes in your power and pleasure to repayre those ruynes of his and to make him as happie as now hee is miserable Looke uppon the Princesse his wyfe and your onlie Daughter and you shall finde that all her Husbands misfortunes and losses doe noe way blemish but rather Illustrate her vertues as if her fortitude and resolution were to Devyne to bee outbraved by anie earthlie Crosses and afflictions For the remembrance of Reason Honnor of her Blood and her Vertues comming to forme it self in her understanding makes her to entertayne different accydents and afflictions with an aequall erected constancye and although shee have onlie this Comfort and Consolation left her that shee is not the cause of her Misfortune yet those whoe fee her Bewtie and knowe her Vertues doe likewyse knowe that shee whoe is one of the Greatest Ladyes of the world should not bee reduced to this poynt of myserie and misfortune to bee one of the Poorest and least of the world Sir God hath made her your Daughter and our Princesse and adorned her with soe manie Vertues as shee rather deserves to bee Empresse of the whole world then Ladye of a small Province Shee inheriteth the Name and Vertues the Majestie and generositie of our Immortall Queen Elizabeth and is a Princesse of such excellent hoapes and exquisite perfections that I cannot speak of her without prayse nor prayse her without admiration sith shee can bee immytated by none nor parraleld by anie but by herselfe And yet will your Majestie neglect her and will you not drawe your Sworde in her just Quarrell vvhose Fame and Vertues hath drawne most hartes to adore all to admyre her Looke uppon those Princelie plantes theyr Children and your Majestie shal finde that theyr lookes and fronts doe alreadie in their Infancie justly threaten to revenge their Father his losses and indignities and sith they are Descended from your Royall Blood and loynes will your Majestie suffer them to bee ruyned as soone as borne and that the Greatnesse of theyr Blood should onlie serve to make theyr afflictions and misfortunes the greater Harmlesse and Innocent soules what have they done to your Maiestie that you should suffer them thus to bee Disinherited or rather what should not Nature prompt you to doe for them agayne to restore them to theyr Patrimonie and Inheritance For if you will affect them you must pittie them and you cannot sufficientlie pittie them except you remedie and revenge theyr wronges by repayring the ruynes of theyr decayed and Shipwracked fortunes in that of theyr Fathers All the actions of Demetrius savoured of Royaltie and none will soe much royalize your Raigne and immortalize your Fame as this of restoring your Children to their Patrimonie your famous Predecessors and Progenitors of eyther Kingdom were too generous sencible and Delicate to digest or packe upp the least affront or injurie whatsoever though from the greatest Princes and Potentates of the world much lesse soe great a one as is this of the Losse of your dearest Childrens Patrimonie from soe weake a Prince as the Emperour whose power gives the lye to his forme and comes farre too short of his Dignitie and reputation wherin the Honnor of your Sacred person and alsoe of all your Kingdomes and Estates doe most extreamlie O that I might not saye shamefullie suffer for they made it both theyr practise and glorie to strike those first whoe made but the least shew or shaddowe eyther to threaten them or to withholde that from them which they ought to restore Yea they have past the Seas with royall Fleets and Armyes aswell for Defending theyr Confederates as for keeping and reconquering of a poore Cittie And will not your Maiestie then take Armes for the regayning and restoring of soe rich a Province as the Pallatynat to the Prince your Sonne in Lawe to the Princesse your Daughter and to theyr Royall posteritie which is one of the goodlyest Countries of Europe and wherin there are soe manie strong Citties and Castles And as the French in Rome give out agaynst the Duke of Savoy that the delayes which the Pope made in the judgement of the Marquisat of Salusses were insupportable that they had too long Disputed and pleaded for theyr owne and that therfore it was high tyme yea more then tyme for them to decyde that quarrell with the Cannon in the playnes of Piedmont Soe hath your Majestie just cause to saye to the Emperor the King of Spayn and Duke of Bavaria for the restoring of the Pallatynat yea let