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A31592	Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra mysteries of state & government : in letters of illustrious persons, and great agents, in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Queen Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charls : in two parts : in which the secrets of Empire and publique manage of affairs are contained : with many remarkable passages no where else published.; Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra.		1654 (1654)	Wing C184_ENTIRE; Wing C183_PARTIAL; Wing S2110_PARTIAL; ESTC R21971	510,165	642

Duke Hague 24. of January 1625. 340 Sir Dudley Carleton to the Duke Hague 16 of February 1625. 342 Sir Dudley Carleton to the Duke Hague 16. of April 1624. 343 Sir Dudley Carleton to the Duke Hague the 20. of June 1625. 345 Sir Dudley Carleton to the Duke Hague 20. of August 1625. 346 Read the Letters according to the Order of this Table E. of Sommerset to K. JAMES BY this Gentleman your Majesties Lieutenant I understand of some halt you made and the Cause of it at such time as he offered to your Majestie my Letters But soon after your Majestie could resolve your self and behold me nothing so diffident of you but in humble language petitioning your favour for I am in hope that my condition is not capable of so much more misery as that I need to make my self a passage to you by such way of intercession This which followes after I offer your Majestie though not as to your self for upon lesse motive you can find favour for me Now I need onely move not plead before your Majestie as my Case doth stand for what I seek to have done followes upon what you have already done as a Consequence and succeeding growth of your own act But to the effect that your Majestie may see that there is enough to answer those if any such there be as do go about to pervert the exercise of your Power and to turn it from its own clear excellency for to minister unto their passions I have presumed to this end to awake your Majesties own Conceipt upon this subject which can gather to it self better and more able defences in my behalf upon this view for though the acts of your mercy which are not communicable nor the Causes of them with others as derived from those secret motives which are only sensible and privie to your own heart and admit of no search or discovery to any general satisfaction and that under this protection I might guard my particular sufficiently yet my Case needs not hide it self but attend the dispute with any that would put upon it a monstrous and heavy shape For though that I must acknowledge that both life and estate are forfeit to you by Law yet so forfeited as the same Law gives you the same power to preserve as it doth to punish whereby your Majesties higher prerogative doth not wrestle with it nor do you infringe those grounds by which you have ever governed so as the resistance is not great that your Majestie hath for to give life and which is lesse in the gift of estate for that the Law casts wholly upon your self and yields it as fit matter for the exercise of your goodnesse Once it was your Majesties guift to me so it may be better not taken then a second time given for it is common to all men for to avoid to take that which hath been once their own And I may say farther that Law hath not been so severe upon the ruine of innocent posterity nor yet Cancelled nor cut off the merits of Ancestors before the politique hand of State had contrived it into those several forms as fitted to their ends and government To this I may adde that that whereupon I was judged even the Crime it self might have been none if your Majesties hand had not once touched upon it by which all accesse unto your favour was quite taken from me Yet as it did at length appear I fell rather for want of well defending then by the violence or force of any proofes for I so far forsook my self and my Cause as that it may be a question whether I was more Condemned for that or for the matter it self which was the subject of that dayes Controversie Then thus far nothing hath appeared wherein your Majestie hath extended for me your power beyond the reasonable bound neither doth any thing stand so in the way of your future proceedings but rather make easie the accesse of your Majesties favour to my relief What may then be the cause that Malice can pitch upon wherefore your Majestie should not proceed for to accomplish your own work Aspersions are taken away by your Majesties letting me become subject to the utmost power of Law with the lives of so many of the offendours which yieldeth the world subject of sorrow rather then appetite to more bloud but truth and innocency protect themselves in poor men much more in Kings Neither ever was there such aspersion God knowes in any possibility towards your Majestie but amongst those who would create those pretences to mislead your Majestie and thereby make me miserable If not this whereof the virtue and use was in the former time and now determined there is not any but your pleasure It is true I am forfeited to your Majestie but not against you by any treasonable or unfaithful act Besides there is to be yielded a distinction of men as in faults in which I am of both under the neerest degrees of exception yet your Majestie hath pardoned life and estate to Traytors and to strangers sometimes the one sometimes the other Nay to some concerned in this businesse wherein I suffer you have pardoned more unto then I desire who as it is reported if they had come to the test had proved Copper and should have drunk of the bitter Cup as well as others But I do not by this envy your favours to any person nor seek I to draw them in the yoak with my self but applaud your Majesties goodnesse m. Sir W. Elvish being in that respect in a neerer possibility to come at me Besides this to Elvish your Majestie hath given estate which is a greater gift then life because it extends to posterity who was the worst deserver in this business an unoffended instrument might have prevented all after-mischief who for his own ends suffered it and by the like arts afterwards bewrayed it To this I may adde Tresham in the Powder Treason Sir Lewis Tresham upon whose successours I do not cast any of his infamy yet he preserved himself to posterity so as what he or others such as he have defrauded by the arts of Law and whom their own unfaithfulnesse made safe I have much adoe to hold by ingenuity and Confidence How may it be that because I distrusted not your Majestie or because it returned in your power from whom I had it it is in danger to be broken or dismembred Let me hope that there is nothing which by favour may be excused or by industry might have been avoided that will fail me where your Majestie is to determine It is not I who thus put your Majestie in mind importunely It is he that was your Creature it is Sommerset with all your honours and envious greatnesse that is now in question Kings themselves are protected from the breach of Law by being Favorites and Gods anointed which gives your Majestie the like priviledge over yours Dr. Dunne As I took from Dr.

reasonable to all the world But if your Highnesse desire that these Powers should not be used they may be detained upon other just reasons which will arise in the treatie of the temporal articles And I doubt not but the Deposorio's may be deferred for some few daies upon other fair pretexts But these inconveniencies I conceive will follow First it will be of great discomfort to the Infanta who until the Deposorio's are past is not her own woman but must be governed by the pleasure of the Junto which I think she is very wearie of neither till then may she declare her self to be yours nor Comply with your Highesse in answering of your Letters and Messages and giving you those respects and Comforts which I know she would be glad to do But if she should any way judge that the delay of the Deposorios should arise from your Highnes part I conceive she would take it most heavily Secondly it will certainly raise great jealousies in this King and his Ministers and retard the resolutions that are fit to be taken with speed for the putting in execution that which is capitulated I therefore offer it unto your Highnes wisdom whether upon the satisfaction which they will give in this particular which will be whatsoever you can desire and upon the agreement of the temporal articles your Highnesse would upon the coming of the Popes approbation make any farther scruple in the delivering of your Highnesse powers If I shall I am confident they will not presse it as not decent for the womans part to urge the hasting of the Marriage But I conceive it will cast such a cloud of Jealousie and distrust upon the businesse that besides the discontent and affliction which I know it will give the Infanta which most worketh upon me it will so disorder the businesse that it will make a stand in your whole proceedings and preparations wherein they now go on chearfully and confidently and I conceive will punctually perform all that they have capitulated with your Highnesse I dare not so much as give my self leave once to question your Highnesse intentions of proceeding to the real effecting of the match which makes me desirous that all things may be executed that may any way retard or disturb it Only I shall like a faithful poor servant presume to say thus much to your Highnesse That for divers years past I know the King your father and your self have held this the fittest Match in the World and by a desire of effecting it your Highnesse was induced to undertake that hazardous journey of coming to this Court in person In the time of your being here admitting that their proceedings have been in many things unworthy of you And that divers distastes have grown by intervenient accidents Now things are reduced to those terms that the Match it self is sure the portion and the temporal Articles settled I hope to the Kings liking and yours And all other good effects that could be hoped for by this alliance are in a fair way If to these reasons may be added That on his Majestie and your Highnesse part you have already passed by and overcome the main difficulties and your Highnesse by your journey hath satisfied your self of the person of the Infanta God forbid that either any personal distastes of Ministers or any indiscreet or passionate carriage of businesses should hazard that which his Majestie and your Highnesse have done so much to obtain and whereby doubtlesse so much good and peace is to accrew to Christendom by the effecting of it and contrariwise so much trouble and mischief by the miscarrying of it Besides the individual happinesse of your Highnesse in such a Wife which the World supposeth you infinitely esteem for her person And for her Birth and Portion is no where to be matched And questionlesse for her vertue and settled affection to your Highnesse deserveth you better then any woman in the World I humbly crave pardon for writing unto your Highnesse in this manner which I hope your Highnesse well enough knowes neither the benefits I have received from Spain nor their grateful usage of me upon occasions nor I protest unto your Highnesse any other earthly respect moveth me unto it but the zeal and love I bear to your service for which I shall ever undervalue any thing that may concern my self And therefore I shall conclude by intreating your Highnesse that if you would have things go well that a Post may instantly be dispatched back unto me authorizing me to deliver the said power upon the arrival of the dispensation and having taken fitting securitie in this particular point And this I earnestly beseech your Highnesse may be done with all possible speed and secresie and that the Spanish Ambassadours may not know that ever there was any suspension made of the delivery of the powers In the interim I will find means if the dispensation come for 20 or 24 daies to alledge some other fair pretexts for the deferring of the Deposorios But herein I desire I may know your Highnesse resolution with all possible speed c. And so with c. Bristol Madrid The E. of Bristol to the Prince his Highnesse Septemb. 24. 1623. VVHen your Highnesse shall remember that your Highnesse being here in person it was not possible in lesse then a moneth to get that dispatcht which you were promised Mr. Secretary Cottington should have carried with him if your Highnesse would have but stayed him 24 hours I hope you will pardon your servants although they sometimes mistake in the time which they limit for the procuring of the dispatch of businesse especially if they depend upon the dispatches that are to be procured from them I have these 10. daies had Greisly in a readinesse to depart having every day expected a resolution from the Junto First in point of the portion and since in the daies of payment and at last I have received their answer in them both in such sort as your Highnesse will see in the paper inclosed which is an extract of the heads of the temporal Articles that we have agreed although I have onely consented unto them de bene esse until I shall receive his Majesties approbation and yours In the point of the portion I have had a tough and a knotty piece of work by reason that not onely the Conde de Olivarez but all the Junto were absolutely ignorant of what had passed in the late Kings time which I foresaw and that was the cause that I moved so earnestly at the Escurial to have the Conde de Gondomar remain here They made many presidents to be searched and found that the two millions demanded was four times as much as ever was given with any daughter of Spain in money They alledged that it would be said that the King of Spain was fain to purchase the friendship and alliance of England that this would be such a president as that Spain hereafter must marrie no

duty which you owe unto your most gracious Soveraign a duty imposed upon you not by nature and policie only but by the religious and sacred bond wherein the divine Majesty of Almighty God hath by the rule of Christianity obliged you For the four first your constant resolution may perhaps move you to esteem them as light but being well weighed they are not light nor lightly to be regarded And for the four last it may be that the cleerness of your own conscience may seem to content your self but that is not enough for these duties stand not only in contemplation or inward meditation and cannot be performed but by external actions and where that faileth the substance also faileth This being your present state and condition what is to be done what is the remedy my good Lord I lack judgment and wisdom to advise you but I will never want an honest true heart to wish you well nor being warranted by a good conscience will fear to speak that I think I have begun plainly be not offended if I proceed so Bene cedit qui cedit tempori and Seneca saith Cedendum est fortunae The medicine and remedy is not to contend and strive but humbly to yield submit Have you given cause and yet take a scandal unto you then all you can be is too little to make satisfaction Is cause of scandal given unto you yet policie duty and religion enforce you to sue yield and submit to our Soveraign between whom and you there can be no equal proportion of duty where God requires it as a principal duty and care to himself and when it is evident that great good may ensue of it to your friends your self your Country and your Soveraign and extreme harm by the contrary There can be no dishonour to yield but in denying dishonour and impiety The difficulty my good Lord is to conquer your self which is the height of true valour and fortitude whereunto all your honorable actions have tended Do it in this and God will be pleased her Majesty no doubt well satisfied your Country will take good and your Friends comfort by it and your self I mention you last for that of all these you esteem yourself least shall receive honour and your Enemies if you have any shall be disappointed of their bitter sweet hope I have delivered what I think simply and plainly I leave you to determine according to your own wisdom if I have erred it is error amoris and not amor erroris Construe and accept it I beseech you as I meant it not as an advice but as an opinion to be allowed or cancelled at your pleasure If I might conveniently have conferred with your self in person I would not have troubled you with so many idle blots Whatsoever you judge of this my opinion yet be assured my desire is to further all good means that may tend to your Lordships good And so wishing you all happiness and honour I cease Your Lordships most ready and faithful though unable poor Friend Tho. Egerton Cust Sigil The Earles Answer MY very good Lord though there is not that man this day living whom I would sooner make Judge of any question that might concern me then your selfe yet you must give me leave to tell you that in some cases I must appeal from all earthly Judges And if in any then surely in this when the highest Judge on earth hath imposed upon me the heaviest punishment without triall or hearing Since then I must either answer your Lordships Arguments or else forsake mine own just defence I wil force mine-aking head to do me service for an hour I must first deny my discontentment which was forced to be an humorous discontent and in that it was unseasonable or is so long continuing your Lordship should rather condole with me then expostulate naturall seasons are expected here below but violent and unreasonable storms come from above There is no tempest to the passionate indignation of a Prince nor yet at any time so unseasonable as when it lighteth on those that might expect an harvest of their carefull and painfull labours He that is once wounded must needs feel smart till his hurt be cured or the part hurt become sensless But cure I expect none her Majesties heart being obdurate and be without sense I cannot being of flesh and blood But you may say I may aim at the end I do more then aim for I see an end of all my fortunes I have set an end to all my desires In this course do I any thing for mine enemies when I was present I found them absolute and therefore I had rather they should triumph alone then have me attendant upon their Chariots Or do I leave my friends When I was a Courtier I could sell them no fruit of my love and now that I am an Hermit they shall bear no envie for their love to me Or do I forsake my self because I do not enjoy my self Or do I overthrow my fortunes because I build not a fortune of paper-walls which every puff of wind bloweth down Or do I ruinate mine honor because I leave following the pursuit or wearing the false mark or the shadow of honor Do I give courage or comfort to the enemies because I neglect my self to encounter them or because I keep my heart from business though I cannot keep my fortune from declining No no I give every one of those considerations his due right and the more I weigh them the more I find my self justified from offending in any of them As for the two last objections that I forsake my Countrey when it hath most need of me and fail in that indissoluble duty which I owe to my Soveraign I answer That if my Countrey had at this time any need of my publick service her Majesty that governeth it would not have driven me to a private life I am tied to my Countrey by two bonds one publick to discharge carefully and industriously that trust which is committed to me the other private to sacrifice for it my life and carkasse which hath been nourished in it Of the first I am free being dismissed by her Majesty Of the other nothing can free me but death and therefore no occasion of performance shall sooner offer it self but I will meet it halfe way The indissoluble duty I owe unto her Majesty the service of an Earle and of Marshall of England and I have been content to do her the service of a Clerk but I can never serve her as a villain or a slave But you say I must give way to time So I do for now that I see the storm come I have put my self into harbour Seneca saith we must give way to Fortune I know that Fortune is both blind and strong and therefore I go as far as I can out of the way You say the remedy is not to strive I neither strive nor seek for remedy But you say I must yeild