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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58828	A narrative of the wicked plots carried on by Seignior Gondamore for advancing the popish religion and Spanish faction heartily recommended to all Protestants by Rich. Dugdale, Gent.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Lerma, Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, Duque de, 1552-1625.; Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Conde de, 1567-1626.; Dugdale, Richard.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2086; Wing D2472_CANCELLED; ESTC R22577	21,050	21

the Spanish State and Romish Religion together First it is well observed by the Wisedom of our State that the King of England who is otherwise one of the most accomplish'd Princes that ever Reigned extreemly hunts after Peace and so affects the true name of a Peace-maker as that for it he will do or suffer any thing and withall they have beheld the general bounty and munisicence of his Mind and necessity of the State so exhausted as it is unable to supply his desires who seeks to have that he may give to others upon these advantages they have given out directions and instructions both to me and others and I have observed them as far as I was able And for this purpose whereas there was a Marriage propounded betwixt them and us how soever I suppose our State too devout to deal with Hereticks in this kind in earnest yet I made that a Cover for much Intelligence and a means to obtain what I desired whilst the State of England longed after the Marriage hoping thereby though vainly to setle Peace and fill the Exchecquer Here the Aroh-Bishop of Toledo Inquisitor-General stept up and interrupted Gondamore saying that Marriage was not to be thought on first for Religions sake lest they should endanger the Soul of the Young Lady and the rest of her Company might become Hereticks Secondly for the State least by giving so large a Portion to Hereticks they should enrich and enable themselves for War and impoverish and weaken the Catholicks To the first Objection the Popes N●●●io answered that his Holiness for the Catholick Cause would dispence with the Marriage and urged these following Reasons First that there was Valuable Danger in the hazarding of One for the gaining of Many perhaps of all Secondly that it was no hazard since Women especially Young Ones are too obstinate to be removed from their Opinions and abler to win Solomon to their Opinions than Solomon to work them to his Faith Thirdly it was great advantage to match with such from whom they might break at pleasure having the Catholick Cause for a Colour and besides if need were to be at liberty in all respects since there was no Faith to be kept with Hereticks and if his Holiness may dispence with the Murder of such and dispose of their Crowns as what good Catholick doubts but he may much more he may and will he in their Marriages to prevent the Leprosy-Seed of Heresy and to setle Catholick-Blood in the Chair of State to the second Objection the Embassador himself answered saying that though the English generally loathed the Match and would as he thought buy it off with half their Estates hating the Nation of Spain and their Religion as appears by an uproar and assault a day or two before his Departure from London by the Apprentices being greedy to vent their own Spleen in doing him or any of his a mischeif yet two sorts of People unmeasureably desired the Match might proceed First the begging and beggarly Courtiers that they might have to furnish their Wants Secondly The Romish Catholicks who hoped thereby at least for a Moderation of Fines and Laws perhaps a Toleration and perhaps a total Restauration of their Religion in England in which regard quoth he I have known some Zealous Persons protest that if all their Friends and half their Estates could procure the Service of our Lady if she came to be married with the Prince they would use the means faithfully to ●ight under her Colours when they might safely do it and if it came to Portion they would under-hand contribute largly of their Estates to the Spanish Collector and make up half the Portion of themselves perhaps more So by this Marriage it might be so wrought that the State should be rather robb'd and weakened which is our Aim than strengthened as the English vainly hope besides in a small time they should work so far in the Body of the State by buying Offices and the like either by Sea or Land of Justice Civil or Ecclesiastical in Church or State all being for Money exposed to Sale that with the Help of Jesuites they would undermine with meer wit without Gunpowder and leave the King but a few Subjects whose Faith he might rely upon while they were of a Faith adverse to his For what Catholick-Body that is sound at the Heart can abide a Corrupt and Heretical Head or Ruler With that the Duke Medina des Rio Setto President of the Council of War and of the Council of State rose up and said His Predecessors had felt the Force and Wit of the English in 88. and he had cause to doubt the Catholicks themselves that were English and fully Jesuited upon any Foreign Nation would rather take part with their own King though an Heretick than with his Catholick-Majesty a Stranger The Embassador desired him to be of another mind since First for their Persons generally their Bodies by long disuse for Arms were disabled and their Minds effeminated by Peace and Luxury far from what they were in 88. when they were flesht in our Blood and made haughty in Customary Conquests and for the affection of those whom they call R●cusants quoth he I know the bitterness of their inveterate malice and have seen so far into their Natures as I dare say they will be for Spain against all the world yea quoth he I assure your Honours I could not imagine so basely of their King and State as I have heard them speak nay their Rage hath so perverted their Judgments that what I my self have seen and heard from their King beyond Admiration even to Astonishment they have sleighted misreported scorned and perverted to his disgrace and my rejoycing magnifying in the mean time our defect for grace Here the Duke Pastrane President of the Counsel for Italy steps up and said he had lately read a Book of one Cambdens called his Annals wherein writing of a Treaty of a Marriage long since between English Elizabeth and the French Duke of Andiou He there observes that the Marriage was not seriously intended on either side but Politickly pretended by both States counterchangeably that each might effect their own ends there the English had the better and I have some cause to doubt since they can dissemble as well as we that they have their Aimes under hand as well as we and intend the Match as little as we do and this quoth he I believe the rather because the King as he is wise to consult and consider so he is a constant Master of his word and hath written and given strong Reasons against Matches made with Persons of contrary Religion which Reasons no other Man can answer And therefore doubtless he will not go from nor counsel his Son to forsake those Rules laid down so deliberately Your Excellency mistakes quoth the Embassador the advantage was then on the Side of the English because the French Men sought the Match now it must be upon ours