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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67902	A seasonable expostulation with the Netherlands. Declaring their ingratitude to, and the necessity of their agreement with the Common-wealth of England.	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1652 (1652)	Wing O523; ESTC R206922	10,155	20

probable for a stranger to be a Tyrant then that the naturall Inhabitants should upon a slighter cause cast themselves into the no lesse bloody then scorching flames of a Civill and uncertaine Warre Seeming rather to forget the Obligations shee owed him as a private person when he was King of England then her Neighbours oppressions I shall not here draw blood in your faces by application Yet I doe not find any tumults raised before the gates of your Messengers who were then too modest to owne higher titles then of poore Petitioners casting themselves prostrate at the feet of a no lesse potent tribunall then you have been admitted to in the quality of Embassadors An honour you could never have attained but through the mediation of those who have been so farr from receiving a like Retaliation as to their griefe they perceived most of the stormes and Thunders fell upon this Nation were first formed in your Region by which houses and Churches were demolished wherein your Ancestors had receaved shelter and Contribution And instead of opposing our Enemies and screening us by the power you must owne under God from England You rendered your selves Arbitraters of our cause And to which side you did propend appeares by the titles of Honour your Messengers partiality was branded with by the other Party Besides what a lesse respective Relator might suppose they carryed home in their Portmantos Covering under the glorious habit of Embassadours An ingratitude so ugly as can not be represented to the world without shame Were not the promises of Neutralitie extorted from you by our Agents at the expence of so much trouble treasure and time drawn up so ambiguously as if they had come from jugling Delphos not the deeply engaged Hague whose repute in relation to a just repayment of former debts hath been next her alliance with England the greatest security for her future hopes Did not the disaffection of some transport them so far beyond all extent of prudence as to avoid the countenancing of so much Ingratitude in their owne persons by conniving at the liberty the Prince of Orange took The inestimable Banck at Amsterdam was almost surprised And Fetters ready to be formed for them out of the States Silver so as they were in a faire way of loosing their owne Liberty in seeking to impede ours For this branch of the House of Nassau was so deeply rooted in this fourth descent as he began to struggle for more roome and overshadow the power of the State And apprehending this Nation too full of Gallantry and Policy to let a Servant inslave a people they had redeemed from his Master by their blood he rendered himselfe First our late Kings Sonne in Law and so our enimy till Providence had bound him up with the rest of our Opposers By what mediation we are not inquisitive our businesse being only to participate of our Neighbours felicities without arraigning the cause by which they attained them And here I desire leave to mingle my thoughts with some reports made by no strangers in the affaires of those times to whom it appeared that Queen Mary did not at first Cordially intend the Match with Holland unlesse the Prince of Orange was able to attaine the Regality which the Catholike King was so farr from being likely to hinder That a small acknowledgment would have perswaded him out of his part long looked upon by that wise Nation as a trouble to keep And after she had by the contemplation of this Marriage assured her selfe not only to receive no opposition in her designe from that corner but all the assistance his mony and power could afford she had the young Ladies consent ready either to break or confirme it who was then under yeares And to shew they feared foule play in case K. Ch. had prospered the Princesse was bedded somthing sooner then stood with ordinary custome and the Lady Stanops protests who married a Dutchman and was assigned her Gardionesse And if any consider how unsuitable this was to the high minde and Religion of the Queene of England What plenty of freer and richer Princes resided in Germany And that she never had been put in to their hands but that those new breaches called for new Counsels He cannot blame the conjecture though as things fell out she could not have been sold to a greater advantage Neither can it be rejected out of any great difficulty resides in raising a considerable party in the Netherlands by one lesse powerfull then the Prince of Orange because every severall Province or chief Town hath free Liberty of conceding or rejecting what propositions they please that in a manner they are so many free States independent one of the other Therefore not likely to combine against England who yet is as well Able to spare their Alliance as willing to Imbrace it And that this Match sprung rather from the Sinister and clandestine ends then any palpable affection The Queene carried to the Dutch is more then probable by the faint reception she formerly gave them upon all occasions suffering the Buffoons at Court to gibe their Embassadors as if they were not able to afford themselves Cuffs out of the masse of Holland they sold to others And upon consideration of the severe justice they mett with in the Star-Chamber for transporting of Gold it might have obliged them rather to have assisted the Parliament whose indulgence inabled them to committ the fault then the Crowne that had so severely punished it Yet you were so farr from managing this Partiality within the ordinary Carere of prudent Princes who upon a lesse desertion of Fortune then you observed withdraw their assistance from all parties looked upon but with an unbiass'd aspect That you adhered to the King of Scots after providence had measured out the Land in quiet before us As if nothing were more indifferent to you then who were happy so England were miserable Nay after our good God had broke their Swords and knapt their Speares in sunder you let the ribald Penne vomit out floods of reproaches in hope to destroy this Nation who was then in strong labour with peace amongst a wildernesse of distractions Forgeting that nothing could be said to their disparagement that would not in an indifferent light delineate your owne No Indecency being observable during our proceedings that is not easily to be matcht with an Enormity in Yours So as the Pope proved by accident more our friend and made better use of reason of State For finding his faction here was able to return him no more then a bare compliance in Church Ceremonies withont the welcome addition of profit The English Miter no lesse then the Crowne resolving to retaine an absolute power to dispose of all dignities both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall wheel'd about and was never found by any I could be inform'd from to foment the adversary with considerable supplyes though earnestly sollicited both by Letters and Messengers In which the wise