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A copie of a letter sent to the most illustrious and high borne Prince Rupert by the grace of God Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, &c. / Translated out of High Dutch. Printed according to order.
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Wing C6158; Thomason E6_4; ESTC R2718
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moving cause which wrought any thing in that work arose from that present assembling In so much that neither your wrongs had beene in any more hope of redresse then before and yet hitherto it hath beene onely a warre of many moneths and two more joint Ambassadours or your Selfe great Prince of liberty but for their sakes whom you seek to destroy What may it possibly be then which provoketh you thus against that Kingdome Is it the Justice of the quarrell for which you fight For your Religion I suspect it not for had that beene altered questionlesse they had released you before this time Yet I know you have beene often and craftily dealt withall during your restraint to alter that And this I cannot passe by the providence of God who so appointed that you should not fall into the hands of your enemies till you had actually leavied warre against the Emperour and that your liberty could not be obtained untill the assembling of the Parliament that the Kingdome of England might have therewith to stop your mouth touching the Justice of their Cause and to upbraid you with ingratitude toward them who were the chiefe Instruments of your present freedome For if to fight against the forces of the Emperour be to fight against the Emperour what doth the English Parliament to day you did not in Germany yesterday And to all intents and purposes of that kinde your Royall Grandfather of blessed memory furnished your Father and so did King Charles the Prince Elector and your Selfe Or is Prince Rupert lesse subject to the Emperour then the Parliament of England to their King that they must even to the hazard of all obey his personall commands who may so erre that the Kingdome enwrapt in the safety of the Parliament may bee destroyed when if Prince Frederick and Prince Rupert should faile or be destroyed by the injustice of the Emperour Ferdinand Prince Maurice may succeed and if he miscarry a younger brother so that there is no such danger either of the common wealth of the Palatinate or of the Illustrious Family if both the Prince Elector and your Selfe should which God avert suffer much more then the losse of Patrimony Let this be farre from the thoughts of any reasonable man Why doe I seeke for any other inducement plainly that which drew you to that party could be no other then respect of particular advantage hoping by so strictly adhering to the King your Uncles side to winde your selfe so farre into his favour 〈◊〉 now at last if his Majestie shall prevaile no let may hinder 〈◊〉 from taking Armes for you as you for him Yet give me 〈◊〉 to tell your Highnesse that so soone as thâ—◠〈…〉 abroad of a grant of your liberty I presently apprehended that the Spaniard and their faction had some thing to doe for you in the troubles of England which were then in conception because they had never beene so kinde unto you till that time and in your common Cause the two Ambassadours could obtaine nothing which was equall So at length have your enemies when they had before hindered your Allies from arming to assist you and afterward when with much labour some appeared for you disarmed them and armed your selfe against your selfe Then which what can be more done to your dishonour and dammage But in case victory shall be with the Parliment it is much to be feared that the sufferings of your House more then twenty yeers neglected will not easily be taken into their thoughts or if every Branch besides your Selfe and Prince Maâ—rice be thought worthy of the Kingdome of Englands helpe and charge notwithstanding their extreme burdens and late troubles the Commons of England will except against you both as not willing to have new burdens laid upon their shoulders for their sakes by whom they have already groaned under so many If on the other side the Partee you sight for shall be victorious it is not to be hoped that those Counsellors and their creatures who have dealt so perfidiously by your Royall Father by the Prince Elector your Brother and your whole Family for now they have that Kings eare more obnoxious then ever they had before those noble Lords who were and are your friends being retired from the Court will change their Religion their Natures or Dependencies being Persons in heart if not in publike profession Papists or Pensioners unto the Spaniard or dependents of the one or the other Will those which now fight for and with Papists in â—ritantie undoe what they have effected there by fighting against Papists in Germany And as Prince Rupert may not expect any assistance by all reason of Religion and Conscience from the Catholikes of Britaine which now and in this Cause are his greatest friends against the Emperour and Catholike King so neither from King Charles against them by the law of Gratitude forsooth the one of which released the Prince out of prison and sent him to his Uncle the other protecteth the Kings Ships though he takes the Parliaments by reprize To the more indifferent party it will be sufficient to say The French are too potent Protect the Spaniard in Artois and Flanders in point of State or make them beleeve the Palatinate not worth the recovering although your enemies account it well worth the keeping But that the Prince may not thinke of Germany perswade him to the conquest of Madagascor and intitle him to the Dutchy of Cumberland which are seated farre enough from his own Country Although your Highnesse could not but have taken it better and with lesse suspicion to have a promise made you of restoring unto you that which is properly your owne But I assure you Sir whatsoever your Selfe or some of you may intend You all fight for the King of Spaine And that you may the better know what these men are like to doe for you in time to come consider with your Selfe what they have already done They have drawne you either from peaceable abiding with your Royall Mother and the Prince Elector at the Hage or from pursuing your Right and Patrimony in Germany by joyning with the Princes of the Euangelicall Union to hazard your life in Battails Sieges Skirmishes in which if valiant Prince Rupert shall lose his life the King of Spaine can be no loser They have throwne the envy of all their Cruelties Spoiles and Villanies in Prince Ruperts face in every troop almost I heare pretending his Authority and using his name to all their Outrages and what in them lieth drawne the whole Electorall Family into hatred and by these things into feare of a helplesse condition For it is the Kingdome of England under God which must performe for that House if ever it be done the great worke of Restauration Lay downe therefore now at length High boâ—â—e Prince your Armes and although the Kingdome of England for all it hath done or meant to have done for you deserve to be thus rewarded be not cruell to your Selfe and Princely Family Sir pardon me I have told you the truth God open your eyes and heart also FINIS
A Copie of a LETTER Sent to the most Illustrious and High borne Prince RUPERT By the grace of God Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. Translated out of high Dutch Printed according to Order London printed by Moses Bell 12. Aug. 1644. A Copy of a Letter to Prince RUPERTS Highnesse translated out of high Dutch SIR THe love and honour which I owe and beare to the most Illustrious Palatine Family inforce me to addresse my selfe unto your Highnesse a Branch of that Princely Stem of extraordinary expectation to restore by Resolution and Armes to their just Possessions and Dignities Princes of an Electorall House of the Roman Empire and of the Blood Royall of Great Britaine made the scorn and mockery of the House of Austria which neither by Treatis nor Threatnings could hitherto be effected It is Sir to let you know that which none about you will or if they would dare tell you the truth in that those Counsels and Actions which now in England you so eagerly prosecute tend extremely to your dishonour and weakning Persons which are much interessed in matters may be thought not altogether fit to be consulted touching the things in which they are ingaged that I who am of neither Partee now in Arms may hope to be heard without prejudice and that you will esteeme those of your owne side in like or worse condition who being Papists they and none but they can by killing of the servants of God be meant to think they serve God or necessitous persons whom Caesar telleth you have no hope but in a Civill Warre are far the greatest number the first undertakers and most obstinate prosecutors of all that side with you And glad I am that this Paper will not feare to tell you how much you dishonour your selfe by fighting not only on the side but even for the cause of such men who have beene and still are in the number of the greatest enemies of your House Such are those very persons which have beene the Complotters and are the Fomenters of that Civill Warre Those I meane who in the Breach of Bohemia instilled their venome into your Grandfather King James his eares That your Fathers most just Title by a lawfull Election to that Kingdome was no other then by usurpation and that the Prince Elector was thereby the cause of the present troubles in Germany In the cause of the Palatinate where no pretence of Usurpation could be fastned it being your Fathers birth right they dealt more subtilly but as falsly as in that of Bohemia When it had been too open and palpable to have disswaded the King wholly from assisting his onely Daughter in recovering her Dowrie and her children their Patrimonie Your kinde enemies one while by sending too little aid and that for the most part unseasonable other times by wasting opportunities in tedious Embassies or setting on foot crosse Designes were the cause that the Palatinate was rather betrayed then neglected And what is the end and scope you aime at but the destruction of them who never assembled since the first of your sufferings but did highly resent and take to heart your wrongs and sufferings and made such large offers for the redressing of them and so earnestly pressed the sudaine and serious taking the matter in hand that the businesse of the Palatinate what pretence soever could be made was the principall cause of dissolving the Parliament in the one and twentieth yeere of that King And although it cannot be said thereupon that the Prince Electors Cause was for that of Bohemia was very odious wholly laid by yet was it never committed as was desired to the managing of the Parliament nor their Counsell asked in it lest it should have beene put into their hands who would have dealt in it Bona fide But how hath the influence of the favour of your Royall Unkle the King of great britaine toward you expressed clearely by the liberall aid sent into Germany unto the King of Sweden with respect and reference unto the sufferings of his onely Sister and Princely Nephews been stopt by sending very little supply of men or money after the first How have Ambassadours dispatched from the Protestant united Princes in Germany which had regained a very considerable part of that Country sent unto the King for aid to keep at least what they had gotten beene sent away without effect Nor could it be otherwise untill by the Prince Electors an your Personall repaire to the Court of England and standing somewhat betwixt his Majestie your Unkle and your whispering enemies you obtained some supply of both kindes But lest you should mistake and thinke them some others then those which gave the counsell in King James his time or that you are not now fallen among those very Councellors and men of their election compare the practices of them in King James his time with those which in the reigne of King Charies even to this day they have not diverted from and you shall finde still the same things Which of those men whom then you might suspect to be your enemy hath since this Parliament beene made your friend and how was the reconciliation made What though some that were then Counsellors are now dead of them undoubtedly some you suspect not others were not the principall Agents for since their death the same Counsels notwithstanding Some forces were sent at the beginning of the troubles of the â—alatinater under the raigne of your Royall Grandfather the like was sent in behalfe of the Prince Elector to the Swede at his first advancing into Germany Very little supply went from England yet some both to your Father from King James and to Him also and your Brother from King Charles Ambassadours were often sent and as often deluded in both times And as before while a Fleet was rigged and sot saile to Algier for the conquering of the Pirates the Emperour Spaniard and their Allies over-ran the Palatinate So lately when it was feared by your enemies that the Kings patience toward the Emperour and Spaniard for his Sisters sufferings and her Childrens would shortly come to am end for it was determined that if Justice were not done in the Prince Electors Cause before such a time his Majestie would endeavour by force of Armes himselfe to doe it a plot was contrived to turne the edge of the Kings anger upon the Pirates of Sally with another Fleet that the great Pirate of Christendome might once more illude the Just and Royall Indignation of King Charles conceived against the Emperour Touching this Parliament I have heard that the consideration or rather memory of your great Cause preoccupied the vehement resolution of the States then assembled Was not this preventing of the Houses undaunted constancy to appeare in the matter an Art which your Adversaries are not now to learne to wring the worke from the Parliament and mould it after their owne fashion Howsoever you cannot doubt of the principall