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A51130	Hollands ingratitude, or, A serious expostulation with the Dutch shewing their ingratitude to this nation, and their inevitable ruine, without a speedy compliance and submission to His Sacred Majesty of Britain / by Charles Molloy of Lincolns-Inn, Gent.	Molloy, Charles, 1646-1690.	1666 (1666)	Wing M2400; ESTC R7206	17,494	40

to the expence Valour or Counsel of the English of whom such glorious spirits have expired in your defence as have been thought at too too mean a rate to double the value of what they fought for Brave Sidney falling upon such ground as his glorious Mistress thought too base and ignoble to bury him in though you offered to purchase that Honour at the price of the richest Monument you were then able to erect 2. Did not the English dispute your Title at Ostend till they had no earth to plead on the very ground failing them before their Valours Yet whilst fighting there not onely against the Flower of the Spanish Army but the Plague Hunger and Cold dispaire their fellowes put you in possession of Sluce beyond your hopes So as it may be said without Hyperbole The Nobility and Gentry Queen Elizabeth lost doubled the number the Cruelty of Spaines great Philip had left you 3. Do not the Maritim Townes of Kent Essex Suffolk and Norfolk c. abound with the Issue of those Swarms the very sound of their fellowes Calamities and miseries had driven out of their Hives 4. Have you not had Liberty to Trade and to become free Denizons nay so Graciously have you been used by His Sacred Majesty and his Royal Father and by his now generous Parliament to admiration witnessing but the Acts of Natuarallizing so many of your spawne in 12o. 13o. and 14o. of His now Majesties Reign with Power to buy and purchase Land in Fee simple Tale or otherwise in any of His Cities or Countryes no mark of distinction being imposed in relation either to Honour profit or Justice 5. Has not His Sacred Majesty been alwayes so Tender of his Royal word that he made with you before he left the Hague and the Preservation whilst you needed it and friendship since God hath inabled you to subsist as he scarce had set foot on his Royal Throne here before the sence of your safety no lesse then His own Nature and Religion Inspired him with an earnestness to renew or strengthen His Royal Alliance with you not so observable in respect of any Neighbour beside doubling I am sure no lesse in their Retaliation then acceptance the poor and few marks of gratitude have dropt from you Rather expunging them with your more frequent Injuries as being more willing to impute your failings to the lesse Courtly nature of the Soyle and People then the want of gratitude and Civility in so prudent a State to such a Potent Neighbour as Britain who next to God may justly be stiled her Maker in dispensing with so many dangers and inconveniencies for your sake 6. Can you think so wise a Counsel as this Nation was steered by did not apprehend that though the making you free might fortifie the Queens out works yet it could not but as much dismantle the Royal Fort of Monarchy by teaching Subjects the way to Depose their Princes and be no loosers by the Bargain which by the way would have rendred you unacceptable to all neighbour Monarchs for thereby you 'd furnish their Subjects with a pretence upon all occasions of advantage to do the like Was not the assisting you an occasion of our Invasion in eightly eight by a Navy held invincible in the Creed of Rome till the more glorious valours of the English assisted by the Lord of Hosts had clearly confuted the Popes Title even to the amazement of the Clif●s and wonder of the World The onely reason then that kept King Philip from heading a Royal Army in his own Person was fear he did apprehend of being cast in his passage out of Spain as his Father Charles the fifth was upon the British shore knowing the English more cordial in your preservation then ever to suffer him to come and go in peace when he came on so bloody an errand 7. And though he as a magnanimous Prince and so great a Monarch as he was yet he did often desire his Sister of England to hear his just defence for his so rigorous proceedings She refusing to dispute the truth of your Complaints presuming it more probable for a stranger to be a Tyrant then that the natural Inhabitants should upon a slighter cause cast themselves into the no lesse bloody then scorching flames of a civil and uncertain War She seeming rather to forget the Obligations She owed him either as a private Person or Brother when he was King of England then her neighbours oppressions I shall not here need draw blood in your Faces by Application your own conscience does it 8. Were not your Messengers received into England in the quality of Embassadors they being then too modest to own higher Ti●les then of Poor Petitioners casting themselves prostrate at the feet of no less Potent Tribunal then what you were admitted to in the quality of Embassadors but the other day and the which you now fight against Ha! tell me Was it not such an honour you could never have attained to but through the clemency of a gracious Prince Your own Messengers at the very time in the same quality but narrowly escaped the Gallows when they went with their own Petition to his Catholick Majesty And did not his late Sacred Majesty out of his Princely goodness imbroider your Messengers with Titles unworthy such ingratitude as you afterward shewed him and his against your alliance then made and professed 9. Have not you opened your Arms to receive those into your Counsels and Pay that even the whole world does blush at the reflection of so horrid an Act such is it that at its Relation Tears fall on my Pen as if it should say Thou art not able to express its blackness Wherein Holland canst thou glory Not with colouring it with a charritable Protection O! no for sure I am that will vaile it self at the Relation of so horrid a Villany then what satisfaction can you give the world or fancy to your selves when you show a President how to protect the horridst Regicide that ever drew breath such as are culpable of no less Crime then the Blood of Kings Christian Kings nay such a one as the world when living never could nor though dead be able to match it was that glorious Prince when living that espoused you as it were into his Royal Family it was he when your Embassadors were jeered that out of the great Mass of Holland could not afford them selves Cuffs could answer It was never good world when States men took notice of such trifles It was He that could part with his Royalty and Prerogative and give you the honour and profit then to fish in his Seas when otherwise you might have starved for Fish It was He that gave you those many Priviledges that your own Cronologers have ingraved to posterity yet have you been so far from managing this Partiality or Charity within the ordinary careere of Prudent Princes who upon a less desertion of Fortune then was

though you like the Dial of Ahaz recoyled so many Degrees back in the Sphear of Policy it is naturally more proper for that hand and that Power which first made you a Free State to be touched with an Inclination ever to maintain that Honour and Interest which the blood of so many of their Brave Country-men has expired in the setting of it up Experience the true Polititian has made it apparrent how advantageous an English Confederacy and Alliance hath been alwayes to you For if you consider how Honourable it would be to Spain who hath long endeavoured it And convenient to France in regard of her claim to Artoys Hannault to convert you into a Colony you would not be so intent upon Profit as to encroach the very whole Trade in the world out of your under God Makers mouths as you now do for I know your Wisdoms do know it is esteemed by all prudent Nations far inferiour to Safety As for your Alliance with Denmark truely that is likelier to ad number then weight to friendship being lyable to bewhistled off or on according to the Inclination of His Imperial Majesty so twisted in marriages with the Catholike King with whom His Majesty has made a firm Alliance that the difficulty is as great to distinguish between their Interest● as Consanguinity and it may be he may find his Country too hot t● hold him if his Neighbour the Swede does but think they have got any thing Rich since 1657. Besides those Eastern Countries have been ever looked upon not onely as a Store-house wherein God hoards up the miseries of the Winter but also the Cruel Plagues of Incursions apparent in the Goths and Vandals whose barbarous hands assisted Time in the destruction of such Monuments in Italy as she alone amongst her Heroes Pompey and Caesar and all her other Intestine Civilians had not been able to demolish To conclude with a few Queries let me Humbly desire you to consider 1. Whether such as do now Foment this Division do not Act the Ingenious Policy of the Wolf in the Fable that perswaded the Sheep to give over their Mastives 2. What other Alliance can afford you so safe Harbourage in case of foul weather at Sea as England Scotland and Ireland if none whether Contingencies driven in by storm under our shelter your East and West-India and Straits-men may not exceed all the Coals and Tobacco-Prizes De Rutyer or young Van-Trump shall scrape up upon the Sea 3. If the raising a flying Army in the Netherlands may not one time or other be reduced to such a Faction especially when headed by one that cannot keep the same consort with you be a great cause of Resolving you into your first Principle of both Poor Distressed and Oppressed Nay it may be further reduce you to be Vassals to some of your right or left-hand Neighbours whose Aim is wholly to Root up that Vine which they perceive is likely to Eclipse their Glories in Traffick and Trade 4. If Venice may not unproperly be called the Signet on Neptunes Right-hand Whether England and the Netherlands being in a straight Confederacy may not be stiled his two Arms By which in relation to their Shipping he embraceth the Universe 5. Whether your Maiden-Towns as you call them may not longer enjoy that Title under the Alliance of England who hath many more rich and beautiful Harbours and Havens then the French King that cannot brag of the like Plenty or Conveniency for Scituation by the half 6. Whether your admitting those Taterdemalion Mushrooms of Fortune the French into your Country may not conjure up the Old Devil which they were ever possest of to be no mans friend but for their own end Your Wisdomes may understand what manner of Title they can broach c. when once they are i' th' Sadle they have got the Bridle in their hands already I do not tell you it 's a Dunkirk-one but I believe the Stirrup likewise Which if so I can but smile to think how your High and Mighty Cedars will so Artificially be turn'd into poor and low Shrubs 7. Whether the sixth Querie does not come too late 8. Whether the making an honourable Peace with England by complying to her Demands may not be said putting of mony to Interest 9. In case it so happens whether their Wisdomes do not cease two dangerous and chargeable Wars the which if not done may not if there be any such thing as a British spirit be the sole cause of having it said Their bloud was upon their own heads 10. If a Candle being extinguisht whether the snuff is pleasing to any of the senses 11. Whether in case Zealand or any other of your Provinces irritated by the Inconveniencies that must inevitably follow may not be tempted to divide and adhere to the Stronger and Honester side and which that is your VVisdomes may easily resolve from the Dispute his Royal Highness and the brave Rupert gave you Min-here Opdam 12. Whether the Dutch are not convinced of an heresie that they broacht that their Highnesses died and rose again the thirtieth day after 13. Lastly Whether the World may not afford Us and You sufficient Trade without Intruding on each others Interests And if in case there be any Wolves in Sheeps-skins amongst us that seek to destroy us have we not that blessed saying ready Is there not a David for a Shepherd to smite A Panegyrick on the Illustrious GEORGE Duke of Albemarle c. WHat Blustering Noise thus interrupts our Sleeps And Ecchoing Shouts thus cleave the Cristal Deeps And seems to call Great George from Royal Court What noise of Canon and what Mars-like sport Se-ecchoe hither by th' Issean Spring Hark with what shouts the Dales and Rocks do ring And in unusual Pomp on Tip-toes stand And full of Wonders over-look the Land What Load-star Eastward draweth thus all Eyes Whence doth this noise of Guns and Drums arise Sure Heav'n has seen our wrongs our just desires Obtained are no higher now aspires Our wishing Thoughts since to his Native clime The Flower of Princes Honour of his time Is now return'd to give Imperial Laws To France her glory and proud Belgick's Paws Thy life was kept till the Three Sisters spun Their Threads of Gold and then it was begun Scarce wast thou born when joyn'd in friendly bands Two mortall foes with other Clasped hands With Vertue Fortune strove which most should grace Thy place for Thee Thee for so high a place One vow'd thy sacred Brest not to forsake The other on I hee not to turn her back And that Thou more Her loves Effects mightst feel For Thee she left her Globe and broke her VVheel When Years Thee Vigour gave O then how clear Did smother'd Sparkles in bright Flames appear O Thou far from the Common-pitch didst rise With thy Designes to dazle Envies eyes Thou soughtst to know this Alls-eternal Source Of ever-turning Heavens their restless Course Their fixed Lamps their