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A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

the Guisars hap to serve for Boutefeus in Scotland and while it shall please your Majesty but with reasonable favour to support the King of Navar I do not think the French King will ever suffer you to be from thence anoyed Therefore for France your Majesty may assure your self of one of these two either to make with him a good aliance in respect of the common enemy of both Kingdoms or at the least so to muzle him as that he shall have little power to bite you As for Scotland if your Majesty assist and help those Noble men there which are by him suspected your Majesty may be sure of this that those will keep at home And also whilst he is a Protestant no forraign Prince will take part with him against your Majesty and of himself he is not able to do much harm the better part of his nobles being for your Majesty and if in time he should grow to be a Papist your Majesty shall always have a strong party at his own doors in his own Kingdom to restrain his malice who since they depend upon your Majesty they are in all Policy never to be abandoned for by this resolution the Romans anciently and the Spaniards presently have most of all prevailed and on the contrary the Macedonians in times past the French men in our age have lost all their forraign friends because of their aptness to neglect them who depended upō them but if your Majesty could by any means possible devise to bring in again the Hamiltons he should then be beaten with his own weapons and should have more cause to look to his own succession then to be too busie abroad But Spain yea Spain it is in which as I conceive all causes do concur to give a just alarm to your Excellent Highness judgement First because in Religion he is so much the Popes and the Pope in Policy so much his as that the minde of Pope Gregory and the power of King Philip will nor can compass or bring us in all probability to be expected himself being a Prince whose closet hath brought forth geater victories then all his Fathers journies absolutely by ruling his subjects a people all one hearted in Religion constantly ambitious politick and valiant the King rich and liberal and which of all I like worst greatly beloved amongst all the discontented party of your highness subjects a more lively proof whereof one could never see then in the poore Don Anthonio who when he was here was as much at Mass as any man living yet there did not so much as one Papist in England give him any good countenance so factious an affection is born the Spaniards Now as of him is the chief cause of doubt so of him the chief care must be had of providence But this offers a great question whether it bebetter to procure his Amity or stop the course of his Enmity as of a great Lion whether it be more wisdom to trust to the taming of him or tying of him I confess this requires a longer and larger discourse and a better discourser then my self and therefore I will stay my self from roaving over so large a field but onely with the usual presumption of love yeeld this to your gratious consideration First If you have any intention of League you see upon what assurance or at least what likelihood you may have that he will observe the same Secondly that in a Parlying season it it be not as a Countenance unto him the sooner to overthrow the low Countries which hitherto hath been as a counter-scarff to your Majesties Kingdom But if you doe not league then your Majesty is to think upon means for strengthening your self and weakning of him and therein your own strength is to be tendered both at home and abroad For your home strength in all reverence I leave it as the thing which contains in effect the universal consideration of Government For your strength abroad it it must be in joyning in good Confederacy or at least intelligence with those that would willingly embrace the same Truly not so much as the Turk and Morocco but at some time they may serve your Majesty to great purpose but from Florence Ferrara and especially Venice I think your Majesty might reap great assurance and service for undoubtedly they fear his frauds and abhor his greatness And for the Dutch and Nothern Princes being in Effect of your Majesties Religion I cannot think but their alliance may be firm and their power not to be contemned even the Countenance of united powers doth much in matters of State For the weakning of him I would I must confess from my heart wish that your Majesty did not spare throughly and manifestly both upon the Indies and the Low-Countries which would give themselves unto you and rather take him while he hath one hand free and at liberty then both of them sharply weaponed But if this seem foolish hardiness to your Majesties wisdom yet I dare not presume to Councel but beseech your Majesty that what I say your Majesty without warre can give to the Low-Countries you would vouchfafe to do it since as King of Spain without the low Countries he may trouble our skirts of Ireland but can never come to grasp with you but if he once reduce the Low-Countries to an absolute subjection I know not what limit any man of judgment can set unto his greatness divers wayes are to be tryed among the rest one not the worst in my opinion might be to seek either the winning of the Prince of Parma from the King of Spain or at the least to have the matter so handled so as the jealousie thereof may arise betwixt them as Pope Clement did by the notable Marquess of Pescara for he practized with him for offering the Kingdom of Naples not so much with whom to joyn him as to make his master suspect him for when I confider that Parma is a Roman by blood a Prince born placed in the place he hath by Don John and maintained in it by the male-contents whereunto the King hath rather yeelded of necessity then any other way Lastly When I remember the Cittadel of Pierensa kept by the Spaniards and the apparent title of his Son Remutio to the Crown of Portugal things hardly to be digested by an Italian stomack I cannot see how such a mind in such a fortune can sell it self to a Forraign servitude The manner of dealing with him should be by some man of spirit with the Venetian Ambassadors at Paris and afterwards with his own father in Italy both which are in their hearts mortal Enemies of the greatness of Spain But these sheets of Paper bare witness against me of having offered too tedious a discourse to your Majesty divers of which points yet as of mittigating the oath the School hostages the heartning of tennants and the dealing with the Prince of Parma would require a more ample handling but it is first

that year no great or heavy punishment was laid upon her Popish Subjects by the Lawes precedent but now the vast projects and ambitions of Spain for subduing of this Kingdom began to be detected whereof a principal part was that a new fangled Faction should be raised in the bowels of this State which should not onely be ready to receive a forraign invader but also under pretence of the Roman Religion and power of the Popes Bull should absolve her Subjects from their Faith and Allegiance and prepare their Spirits for dangerous innovasions About that time Ireland was assaulted with open Armes scandalous Libels were cast out against the fame and government and the Queen and all things seemed to swell up in presage of greater motions I would rather think that many of the Preists were made wicked instruments of other mens malice then that all were privy to their Councel yet this is true and verified by sundry confessions That almost all the Priests that were sent over into this Kingdom from the three and twentieth to the thirtieth of this Queens raign in which year that Popish and Spanish design was put in execution had private instructions to divulge abroad that this Estate could stand thus no longer that within a while they should see a new face of things and notable alterations That the good of England was cared for by the Pope and popish Princes if they would not be wanting to themselves yea some of the Priests were manifestly found guilty of those Plots and Machinations which tended to the subversion of the State And that which moved most the carriage of their secret Councels was disclosed by letters intercepted importing that all the watchfulness of the Queen and Councel over the Papists would be utterly deluded for albeit they laboured much that no man of note or nobility should be head of the Faction yet a course was taken to effect the work by men of meaner and inferiour rancks whose mindes though they knew not one another should be linked together by secret confessions without need of Assembly Such arts were then used and of late in a case not unlike resumed which it seems are familiar with those men Thus clangor approaching like a storme put a Law of necessity upon the Queen It being now high time that such part of her subjects as were estranged from her love impoisoned without hope of cure and yet grew rich withall in a private life which freed them from publick charge should be kept under and restrained with Lawes of a more heavy nature The course of all this misery still increasing was imputed to the Priests who carried into forraign Countries and fed by the crums of stranger Princes professed enemies to this State were brought up onely in such places where the name of the Queen their Soveraign was never heard of but as an heretick and excommunicate person torn with curses and excommunications If these men were not inticed with treacherous designes they were surely known to be familiar with such as were who with the venom of their arts had pernitiously depraved the minds of many Papists and sowred their whole Lump with a new malignant livery which was sweeter and less timerous before Now therefore no safer reremedy could be found then to debar these unnatural men from all entrance into this Kingdom which was likewise decreed under penalty of their lives in the seven and twentieth of her raign Not long after when the tempest rose and fell upon this land the event well declared what love remained in these mens brests towards their dearest Country for so were they blinded with hate and envy that they rested neither night nor day binding themselves with Vowes and Sacraments to bring it into bondage of a forraign Enemy Hereupon albeit the clouds of Spain which caused this severity were blown over and vanished yet the remembrance of danger passed struck deep in the mindes of men and because it would have been accounted levity to have repealed those Lawes and unfaithfulness to neglect them once established The Queen was so drawn with weight of affairs that it was no more in her power to set them in that former estate wherein they were before in the twenty third of her raign Hereunto may be added that although there was not wanting the industry of divers Ministers to increase her exchequer and justice of others to urge exemption of the Lawes wherein they onely saw the publike safety to consist yet constant to her natural clemency she debated the keenness of their edge that the Priests who suffered death were very few in regard of their exceeding number These things I rehearse not as points of her defence this cause needeth no justification whereas both the safety of this Kingdom required no less and the whole course of this severity fell far short of the bloody examples amongst the Papists which rather flowed from pride and malice then any necessity But I am not forgetful of my first affection having by this time sufficiently shown that this Prince was moderate in cause of Religion and if any sharpness happened therein that it proceeded not from her nature but from the iniquity of the times Of her great care and constancy in true religion this may be a certain Argument that albeit popery had been established by much power and study in her sisters raign and had taken deep root by time and was still confirmed by the writ and assent of all in Authority yet since that it neither agreed with the word of God nor the primitive pureness nor her own conscience she pluck'd it up with little help and abolished it with great courage and resolution which was not done upon a rash impetuous fancy but with maturity and advice whereof among many other things we may take a conjecture by an answer so made upon a by-occasion In the beginning of her raign when Prisoners as the manner is were released for a boon of her new inauguration A certain Courtier who by custome had taken up a boldness of speech and jestingly waited for her as she went to Chappel when either of himself or set on by wiser men he put an humble petition crying out aloud withall That yet there remained four or five honest Prisoners who were unjustly detained beseeching he Majesty to set them at Liberty and they were the four Evangelists and Saint Paul the Apostle who had been long shut up in a strange language as in a Prison and kept from conversing among the people to whom she wisely answered That full inquiry should be made of themselves whether they would be released yea or no whereby she put off a sudden question with a suspended answer and stil reserved the interest of things in her own freedom and decision In which business she proceeded not by peeces or with trepidation but in a grave and setled order First calling the Synods to conference and the States to Parliament and then within compass of one year so reformed

for by number they are able to raise a great Army and by their natural and mutual confidence and intelligence they may soon bring to pass an uniting with Forraign Enemies Factious I call them because they are discontented Of whom in all reason of State your Majesty must determine if you will suffer them to be strong to make them the better content or if you will discontent them by making them weaker for what the mixture of strength and discontent are in genders there needs no Syllogism to prove To suffer them to be strong with hope that with reason they will be contented carrieth with it in my opinion but a fairer enamling of a terrible danger For first mens natures are not only to strive against a present smart but to revenge by-past injury though they be never so well contented hereafter which cannot be so sufficient a pledg to your Majesty but that when opportunity shal flatter them they will remem +ber not the after slacking but the former binding and so much the more when they shall imagine this relenting rather to proceed from fear the which is the poyson of all Government when the Subject thinks the Prince doth any thing more out of fear then favour And therefore the Romans would rather abide the uttermost extremities then by their Subjects to be brought to any conditions Again for to make them contented absolutely I do not see how your Majesty either in Conscience will do or in policy may do it since you cannot throughly discontent your faithful Subjects and to fasten an unreconciled love with the losing of certain love is to build a house with the sale of lands so much the more in that your Majesty is imbarqued in the Protestant cause as in many respects by your Majesty it cannot be with any safety abandoned they having been so long time the onely instruments both of your Councel and Power and to make them half content and half discontent methinks carries with it as deceitful a shadow of reason as can be since there is no pain so small but if we can cast it off we will and no man loves one the better for giving him the Bastinado though with never so little a Cudgel But the course of the most Wise most Politick and best grounded Estate hath ever been to make an assuredness of friendship or to take away all power of enmity Yet here must I distingiush between discontent and dispair for it sufficeth to waken the discontented but there is no way but to kill desperates which in such a number as they are were as hard and difficult as impious and ungodly And therefore though they must be discontented yet I would not have them desperate for among many desperate men it is like some one will bring forth some desperate attemps Therefore considering that the urging of the oath must needs in some degree beget despair since therein he must either think as without the special grace of God he cannot think otherwise or else become a Traitor which before some hurt done seemeth hard I humbly submit this to your Excellent consideration whether with as much sincerity of your Majesties Person and State and more satisfaction for them it were not better to leav the oath to this sense That whosoever would not bear Arms against all forraign Princes and namely the Pope that should any way invade your Majesties Dominions he should be a Traytor for hereof this commodity will ensue that those Papists as I think most Papists would that should take this oath would be devided from the great mutual confidence which now is betwixt the Pope and them by reason of their afflictions for him And such Priests as would refuse that oath then no tongue could say for shame that they suffer for Religion if they did suffer But here it may be objected they would dissemble and equivocate with this oath and that the oath would dispence with them in that case Even so may they with the present oath both dissemble and equivocate and also have the Popes dispensation for the present oath as well as for the other But this is certain that whomsoever the conscience or fear of breaking an oath doth binde him would that oath binde And that they make conscience of an oath the troubles losses and disgraces that they suffer for refusing the same do sufficiently testifie and you know that the perjury of either oath is equal So then the farthest point to be sought for their contentment is but to avoid their dispair How to weaken their contentment is the next consideration Weakned they may be by two means First By lessening their number Secondly By taking away from their force their number will easily be lessened by the means of careful and diligent Preachers in each Parish to that end appointed And especially by good School-masters and bringers up of their youth the former by converting them after their fall and the latter by preventing them from falling into their errors For Preachers because their own groweth a great question I am provoked to lay at your Highness feet my opinion touching the preciser sort First Protesting to God Almighty and your sacred Majesty that I am not given over no nor so much as addicted to their preciseness therfore till I think that you think otherwise I am bold to think that the Bishops in these dangerous times take a very ill and unadvised course in driving them from their cures and this I think for two causes First because it doth discredit the reputation and estimation of your power when the Princes shal perceive and know that even in your Protestant Subjects in whom consisteth all your force strength and power there is so great and heart burning a division and how much reputation swayeth in these and all other worldly actions there is none so simple as to be ignorant and the Papists themselves though there be most manifest and apparent discord between the Franciscans and Dominicans the Jesuites and other Orders or Religious persons especially the Benedictims Yet will they shake off none of them because in the maine point of Popery they all agree and hold together And so far they may freely brag and vaunt of their unity The other reason is because in truth in their opinions though they are oversqueamish and nice and more scrupulous then they need yet with their careful catechizing and diligent Preaching they bring forth that fruit which your most Excellent Majesty is to desire and wish namely the lessning and diminishing the Papistical numbers And therefore in this time your Majesty hath especial cause to use and imploy them if it were but as Frederick the second that excellent Emperor did use and employ the Sarazens souldiers against the Pope because he was well assured and certainly knew that they onely would not spare his sanctity And for those objections what they would do if once they got a full and entire Authority in the Church methinks they are inter