Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	power_n	prince_n	3,130	5	5.4817	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

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

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

your Courage but animate your Designes and your Subiects will execute them For give them but the worde of Commaund to resetch it by Warre and your Majestie will then see they will act wonders with theyr Swordes not onlie answerable to your desires and expectation but beyond the Emperours the King of Spaynes and the Duke of Bavaria's beleife and your Nobilitie and Gentrie out of theyr true zeale and innate affection to the famous Princesse your Daughter her Husband and Posteritie will flye from Thames to Rhyne as to a Fayre or Wedding and you shall have more Gentelmen in this action then ever Germane Armie beheld or Spanish confronted And although money which is the true cyment and synewes of Warre seeme now scarce in your Kingdomes and that your Bounties hath made your Exchequer and Treasor emptie yet if your Majestie will be pleased to secure but this one doubt and feare of your Subjects that your Souldiers may eate and not your Courtiers devoure the monyes which a Parliament will give and rayse you for this enterprise you shall then assuredlie finde an Indyes in your England and more huge sommes of mony cheerfully Contributed then that action can anie way take upp or expend you shall finde that one Herauld will doe more good then all your Ambassadors have performed And as the Mathematicians hold that the rightest and straightest Lyne is still the shortest Soe your Majestie shall undoubtedlie finde that the rightest and shortest way for you to recover the Pallatynat will bee by your Sword When Scotland was not yet added by your Majestie to England England holding herselfe bound in poynt of Honnor hath sent a blacke Prince into Spayne a Drake and Essex into Portugal and an Essex Willoughbie Norrice and Fourbisher into France with statelie Fleets and Regiments to restore Disinherited Kinges to theyr Kingdomes whoe were yet but our Confederates and will not your Majestie whoe hath so happilie Vnited and Wedded Scotland to England and whoe is the powerfullest Monarch that ever swayed the Brittish Sceptre attempt and performe the like for the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Lawe and the Husband of your onlie Daughter our Princesse our hands harts and swordes beeing of as good and of as excellent a temper as ever our Predecessors were having as it were hands of Steele and hartes of Diamonds for the attempting and finishing of this Honnorable Enterprise If the King of Spayne will not abandon his Cousen the Emperour should your Majestie abandon or rather should you not assist and protect the Count Pallatyne your Son in Lawe agaynst the Emperour Or if there ensue hereon anie breach betwixt your Majestie the King of Spayn hath he not given you just cause to undertake that warre which is soe Iust Honnorable and Charitable as to the eyes and censures of the whole world it beares its perswasion with it And if your actions and resolutions be such that you resolve rather to give Spayne cause to feare you then to take anie to make your Majestie feare Spayne your Maiestie shall then infalliblie fetch securitie out of danger and drawe honnor out of shame yea if you wil couragiouslie resolve to cut this Gordion knot with Alexander and to passe this Rubicon with Caesar you shall then trulie and tryumphantlie participate of the ones Fame and of the others Glorie and this indeed will make your Maiestie live after Death and reviue agayn in your fame as the Phaenix doth out of her ashes And noe sooner shall your Drummes beate and your Coullers bee displayed uppon the banckes of Rhyne but your Majesties sword shall put a newe face uppon Germanie and make England consequentlie assume her olde one which was ever woont to looke more Martiall and lesse Effemynate lesse contemptible to our Friends and still more terrible to our Enemyes It is an action and resolution full of Religion full of Equitie and full of Glorie whervnto the honnor of your Kingdoms and your Royall person and your Maiesties naturall affection towards your Princelie Children doth both envite and conjure you to attempt and perfect it It is a worke and labour infinitlie worthie of your Sword your Sceptre your Crowne yea it will bee one of the most precious Iewels and Diamonds which your lyfe can possiblie give to the adorning of your Raigne or your Death to the embellishing of your Tombe or Chronicle Is the recoverie of the Pallatynat a great action Consider I beseech you that you are a Great King a Potent Monarche doth it produce difficulties what important enterprise ever was or can there bee without them or what cannot the hartes and swordes of Great Brittayne make easie and as success comes some tymes short of our hoapes soe manie tymes it goes beyond them doth it threaten Danger whie there is the more Glorie to surmount it and beeing well and firmlie begunne it will bee alreadie halfe ended Sith there is nothing more Couragious then a good Cause nor more Victorious then the Truthe And although your Majestie delight and glorie to bee tearmed A Prince of Peace yet lett your Peace live and flourish in Honnor and not wyther and dye in Contempt and shame For God whoe is the Protector of Princes will rather releeve then ruyne them and rather desire and authorise theyr restoration to then theyr deprivation from theyr Countryes and it will bee farre easier to beleeve then to represent the joy which all the best and truest harted of your Subjects will conceyue when they shall see your Majesties sword as deeplie ingaged in the quarrell of the Pallatynat as your Sceptre and Honnor is in the cause therof Our famous Elizabeth did beate Spayne and shall our Royall and Potent King IAMES feare it Besides we see our trustie Neighbors and Friends the Hollanders relye uppon the poyntes of theyr Swordes for the preservation of theyr Estates and Lyues and therin they infalliblie finde the securitie of the one and the safetie of the other by Detecting and Detesting the Treacheries of Spayne which is still more prevalent and powerfull in theyr calmes of Peace then in theyr tempests of Warre and it will bee noe small felicitie to your Majestie to see these valiant and constant Confederates how couragiouslie they will second your Warlike attempts in this restoration and how constantlie and resolutelie they will marrie theyr Forces to yours and with theyr best powers pushe foorth the Chariot of your triumphs agaynst the House of Austria Proceed Great King with this action soe full of Glorie and Honnor and the God of Heaven and Earth make your Majestie still happie in your Peace and victorious in your Warres And because it is a difficult poynt to satisfie our selves and the tyme together yet notwithstanding I hope that your Majestie will pardon this boldness and affection of myne except it bee held a Crime to honnor my Kinges Daughter and to desire the prosperitie and welfare of the Prince her Husband and theyr Royall posteritie which next unto that of your owne sacred Majestie and then of the Illustrious Prince Charles your Sonne I will neyther cease to doe with my best zeale nor fayle to performe with my most religious wishes and prayers From my Chamber in your Citie of London this New-yeares Eue and I beseech the Lord to give your Maiestie manie happie and ioyfull newe Yeares and Dayes Anno Dom. 1624. Your Ma ties most humble and most faythfull Subject till Death S. R. N. I. FINIS

the Pallatynat I therfore most humblie beseech your Majestie to pervse and consider these three Aphorismes which I returne to the Pope in answere of his 1. That it is nowe in the Iustice of the Emperour and in the power of the King of Spaine to replace the Count Pallatyne Frederick and his Heyres in his Pallatynat and Electorat 2. That it is a Iust Charitable Honnorable resolution of the Kinges of England and Denmarke as alsoe of the Electors of Saxonie and Brandenbourg eyther with theyr pennes or swordes to seeke to annihilate and frustrate the Pope his Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria in favour of Fredericke and his Heyres and that theyr Connivencie now therin towards the Pope will infalliblie prove Crueltie to themselues and theyr owne heyres for ever heerafter 3. That the Decrees of the Church and Consistorie of Rome are revokable as having noe affinitie and resemblance with those of the Meades Persians and that the Pope and his Colledge of Cardynalls can when they please revoke theyr Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria and restore it to the true owner therof Fredericke Count Pallatyne and his heyres without anie newe or farther prejudice to the authoritie of theyr Catholique Church Sith if it were for the obtayning of their owne ends or the propagation of theyr Romish Religion as it is for our Protestant not onlie everie age but almost everie Popes raigne abounds with presydents of the same nature which those are infinitlie blynde whoe see not and extreamlie partiall ignorant or malicious whoe will not acknowledge And because in my shallowe concceipt and capacitie it is pittie that these three Aphorismes of the Pope should returne without Interest I therfore adjoyne and send his Holliness these other three to my three formes which in all Humilitie and Dutie I likewise prostrate to your Maiesties pervsall consideration 1. That the Princes Electors of Germanie maye make an Emperour but that the Pope cannot make an Elector nor consequentlie unmake one beeing made because it meerlie and properlie belongs to a Civill power and not to an Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction 2. That the transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat made by the Pope from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to the Duke of Bavaria doth both subvert the fundamentall Lawes and Dignitie of the Empire and alsoe oppose and assault the prerogatives and safetie of Germanie and of all other Kinges Princes and Free Estates of Christendome 3. That the Connivencie of the Emperour and Princes Electors in tollerating the Popes sayd transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat as aforesayd openeth a Doore to the unjust intrusion of Rome over the Libertie Souveraigntie and indepencie of Germanie which hencefoorth will never bee in the power eyther of the Emperour or of the Princes Electors agayne to make fast and shutt if now they doe not Having thus given six Aphorismes to the Pope for his three I now agayne in all humilitie and Dutie embolden my selfe to recommend to your Maiesties Gracious pervsall and consideration three tymes three others which I direct and send joyntlie to the Emperour and King of Spayne or rather agaynst them to your Maiestie and the whole world therby to unmaske theyr Ambition and Vsurpation in the unjust detention of the Pallatynat from the Illustrious Prince your Sonne in Lawe 1. That the Emperour invaded the Pallatynat by the Counsell and Instigation and Conquered it by the Armes and Threasure of the King of Spaynes and without it hee could never have Conquered it And it is cleere and notorious to all the world that as the Emperour cannot subsist without the assistance of Spayne that therfore in his Detayning of the Pallatynat that the King of Spayne is more your Sonne in Lawes and your Maiesties enemie then the Emperour for take away the cause and the effect followes as take away fuell and the flame and fire will bee soone extinguished 2. That those whoe knowe the Court of Rome doe apparantlie knowe and Confesse that without the close interceeding and secret solicitation of the King of Spaynes Ambassadours and Ministers to that effect in that Court that neyther the Emperour nor Pope had dared eyther to have taken the Pallatynat and Electorat from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to whome by all the Lawes of Heaven and Earth it appertayneth nor to have given them to the Duke of Bavaria whoe hath no other right nor clayme therto but onlie that which his excessive Ambition and insatiable desire of Vsurpation suggests and gives him 3. That it is in the power of the King of Spayne to make the Emperour and the Duke of Bavaria restore the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe and therfore that if they restore it not that then your Maiestie may iustlie and trulie conclude it lyes not in his will 4. That it is as easie for the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to bee restored to his Pallatynat and Electorat by the helpe of your Maiesties sword as impossible for the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria to keepe it without the assistance of the King of Spayne 5. That as long as the Pallatynat and Electorat is detayned and possessed by the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria soe long to common sence and unprejudicate judgments it is as cleere as the Sunne that their Lawe in the Detention therof is whollie and solie derived from the will and resolution of Spayne which is theyr Cynosura wherbye they steere all theyr actions and theyr Delphos from whence they fetch all theyr Oracles and Instructions 6. That it is a Castillian policie to make the Archdutchesse a Negotiatrixe in and for all Treaties depending betwixt your Majestie and the Emperour for the Pallatynat and Electorat and that shee beeing a verie olde and sicklie Princesse having as it were her Lyfe on her Lippes and her feete on the brincke of her Grave That when shee Dyes the sayd King will then cause all her promisses Contracts and assurances to dye with her and to bee lykewise buried in her Grave which are or which may bee anie way displeasing or opposite to his ambitious Designes and resolutions 7. That if the King of Spayne take not the reall and actuall possession of the Pallatynat during the lyfe of the Duke of Bavaria that hee will infalliblie doe it immediatlie uppon his Death And in the interim the Cardes are soe cunninglie shuffled betweene them that uppon the Whole Bavaria is but Spaynes Depositor and the King of Spayne Bavaria's Patrone and protector 8. That the restoring of the Pallatynat which your Majestie makes a matter of Estate the quenchlesse revenge of the Emperour and the boundless Ambition of Spayne have caused the Pope to make it meerlie a matter of Religion 9. That your Maiestie shall in the end finde that Spayne to have the fuller pretext and fayrer couller for his Ambition in causing this injust