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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34727	Warrs with forregin [sic] princes dangerous to our common-wealth: or, Reasons for forreign wars answered With a list of all the confederates from Henry the firsts reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving, that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace, before the justest warre.; Answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; F. S. J. E. French charity.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6505; ESTC R221452	67,013	112

be void if Conditions on the Kings part were not performed And this unfortunate King had cast upon him as an argument of his unworthiness to govern the exacting of so great Subsidies and extorting so much money from the Shires that submitted their Fortunes unto his mercy And when Henry the 6. in anno 20. would have had a Relief from his Subjects de aliqua summa notabili of some considerable summe he had in answer Propter inopiam c. populi illud non posse obtineri that in regard of the poverty c. of the people it could not be granted The like 24. of the same King Great men have been disposed sometimes to humour the waste of Treasure in their Princes either to subject Power by Need to their devotion and awe for Princes dare most offend them whom they have least cause to use or to force Necessity to extend Praerogative so far untill by putting all into Combustion some may attain unto the end of their Ambition others the redresse of supposed Injuries Thus did the Faction of Hen. the fourth in the one and the Nobility under Hen. the third in the other who hereby quitted the State oppressed as they thought with the Kings Half-brothers the Poictovins and other Strangers Subjects feare to have the enemies of their Soveragins too much weakned least themselves become Tyrants And it is in the farthest respect in the Baronage under John Henry his son and Edward the second to feare asmuch the absolute Greatness of their Soveraign as they did the Diminution of their own estates And therefore when they found their King to grow too fast upon any neighbour Adversary then would they lend their best aid to diminish his power or fortune least by inlarging himself upon the other that poized his greatness he might forget and become a Tyrant as one saith of Henry the first Assumpserat cornua audacia tam contra Ecclesiam quam Regni universalitatem Roberto fratre aliis inimicis edomitis having once overcome his brother Robert and other enemies with audacious and presumptuous horns he goared as well the Church as the rest of the Kingdome breaking his Seal his Charter and his Oath The memory of this caused the Nobility to call in the French Kings Son when John their Soveraign began to know his own authority as they thought too much And the French Subjects aided on the other side Henry the third against their Mr. when he was almost cooped up in his Britain journey This as the Stories report being a practice usuall in those dayes THe last mischief is the disposition that Military education leaveth in the mindes of many For it is not born with them that they so much distaste peace but proceeds from that custome that hath made in them another nature It is rarely found that ever Civil troubles of this State were dangerously undertaken but where the plot and pursuit was made by a spirit so infused King Iohn had been after sine Regno without a Kingdome as he was at first sans terre without land if his rebenediction had not wrought more upon the disloyall designs of Fitzwalter and Marshall whom his own elective love had made great in opinion by the Norman Services then either his rebated Sword or blasted Sceptre could If Simon Montfort had not been too much improved in Experience and his own Opinion by the many services he underwent in the government of Gasco●gn he had never so much dared against Duty as to come over at the first call to make head against his Master and pursue him with that fury of Ambition untilt he had forced him to redeem the liberty of his person by the blasting of so many flowers of his Imperiall Crown and to set himself so far below the seat of Majesty as to capitulate with them upon even conditions which not performed I use his own words Liceat omnibus de Regno nostro contra nos insurgere it shall be lawfull for all persons in our Kingdome to rise up against us and to do omnia quae gravamen nostrum respiciant ac si Nobis in nullo tenerentur so to act all things in reference to the grievances from us upon them as if they were by no ty obliged to us If Richard Duke of York had never learned to be so great a Souldier at the cost of his Master Henry the sixth in another State he had never disquieted the calm of his Times or given just occasion to his Opposite Somerset to say That if he had never learned to play the King by his Regencie in France he had never forgot to obey as a Subject when he returned into England Our own times can afford some whose spirit improved by Military imployment and made wanton with popular applause might have given instance of these dangers if good successe had been a relative to bad intentions And every age breeds some exorbitant spirits who turn the edge of their own sufficiency upon whatsoever they can devour in their ambitious apprehensions seeking rather a great then a good Fame and holding it the chiefest Honour to be thought the Wonder of their times which if they attain to it is but the condition of Monsters that are generally much admired but more abhorred But warre some may say mouldeth not all men thus for vertuous men will use their weapons for ornament amongst their Friends against Enemies for defence And to those men their own goodness is not safe nam Regibus boni quam mali suspectiores sunt for Kings suspect good men sooner then bad Kings must have their Ministers pares negotiis fit for their businesse and not supra above it or too able for it For another mans too-much sufficiency as they take it is a diminution of their respectiveness and therefore dangerous THe meaner sort having forgot the toile of their first life by inuring themselves to the liberty of Warre which leaveth for the most part the lives of men to their own looseness and the means of getting to their own justice can never again endure either order or labour and so return but to corrupt the Common-wealth with their lawlesse manners For living more riotously then the rapine of forrein victory could warrant as for the most they doe in contempt of their own private Want and Fortune they desire a change of the publick Quiet In Tumults and Uproars they take least care for their livings howere the world goes they can be no loosers for like Silla's Army making no difference between sacred and profane Robberies for the vitors Sword seldome teacheth either mean or modesty they will be ready upon every advantage to pillage their Country-men at home For who can expect men dissolutely disciplined can ever use their armes with moderation Against the fury of such seditious Outrages many Parliaments as in the 22. of Hen. the 6. have been sollicited for redresse And that