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A00683	A relation of a new league made by the Emperour of Germany, with other princes, potentates and states Catholicke, against the enemies of the Roman Catholick-Religion, with the names of those princes As also, the true numbers, both of horse and foot, which euery one of them offereth to set forward so great a designe. Vnto which is added the copie of a letter sent by the King of Spaine to Pope Vrbine the 8. printed according the Spanish copie set forth at Madrill. Vnto all which is likewise added: The discouerie of a New Spanish Armado, threatning with fire and sword to inuade England.		1626 (1626)	STC 10817; ESTC S115035	9,764	30

terrifie him Tell Ahab quoth hee that thy gold is Mine also thy women and thy faire Children are Mine or else I will send my seruants vnto thee as the King of Spaine would now his Ianizaries into England and they shall search thine House and the Houses of thy Seruants and whatsoeuer is pleasing in thine eyes they shall take it in their hands and bring it away But Ahab taking Counsell of the Elders did at the second sending refuse to part from any thing Herevpon Benhadad in a rage fel a rauing and said The Gods do so to me and more also if the dust of Samaria be enough to all the people that follow me for euery man a handfull Poore Samaria was now in a terrible feare Benhadad roared Israell trembled but God casting an Eye of Compassion vpon their Calamities and an Eye of Scorne on the others tyrannies sent a Prophet to Ahab who told him this good tydings after one Army ouerthrowne by Ahab the yeere before I will deliuer this great multitude into thy hands again and yee shall know that I am the Lord. His word was true the children of Israell stood in the field in the day of Battaile like two little flockes of Kiddes but the Aramites couered the whole Countrey yet the poore Handfull had the victory the Sheepe beate the Lions and slue in that day a hundred thousand Aramites all footmen It is not Number that preuailes but goodnesse of the Cause When Iustice guardes the Standard Safetie is Generall of the Field No matter what proud defiance a daring Philistine throwes into our faces there is an Arme Omnipotent can direct a Peeble-stone beeing but put into a Sling to sticke in the Giants fore-head both to strike him dead and confound the whole Armie that comes along with him Regard not the Braues of a blaspheming Rabshecay sent from Senacherib King of Ashur to the Cities of Iuda For a voyce from the mouth of the God of Hosts shall come to an Hezekiah saying thus much As for Ashur Hee shall not enter into this Citie nor shoote an Arrow at it nor come before it with a Shield nor cast a Mount against it but hee shall returne the way he came and shall not come into this Citie What followed vpon this comfortable promise The same night the Angell went out and smote in the Campe of Ashur one hundred fourescore and fiue thousand men Senacherib escaped from the slaughter but not from Gods vengeance for afterwards as in his Temple be was worshipping Nisrech his God Adramelech and Sharezer his owne Sonnes slew him with the sword Many Examples to this purpose may bee brought into the Field of infinite Armies of Idolatrous Nations fighting against Iuda and Israell and yet were then still so long as they held in with God by weake and wasted troupes confounded For God hath still a Red Sea to stand vp an end on either side of Moses and the Israelites like a double Brazen wall to guard his people but to fall downe in rough billowes to ouerwhelme Pharao and his Host Yet wee must not presume too much vpon Gods fauour as if we were his onely Darlings and all other Nations Cast-awayes No there is no such excellence in vs that hee should dote vpon our beautie which is nothing else but a lothsome Deformitie We haue beene scourged lately with one of Dauids whips but the Beating is forgotten and therefore we were best take heed lest this second Rod drawes bloud indeed Our sinnes are in our hearts when our swords are in our hands and the mustering of the One frights vs from striking with the other Turne away the first and God will teach vs how to turne the second vpon the bosomes of our Enemies It is folly to goe into the field to fight vnlesse God sends out his Priest to haue vs serue vnder his Colours Let vs take his pay and wee must needs prooue Noble Souldiers Euery Englishman make but peace with his owne Conscience and be carefull that it betrayes him not and hee needs not feare any Spanish Inuasion Spanish Inuasion These Thunderings and Lightnings may bee but Terrors talked of and not seene or if seene not certainly ayming where to doe mischiefe they may hurt others sooner then Vs These Spanish Canons happily carrie no Bullets in them but giue onely a false fire These Rumours and Tumours Whirlewinds Vproares and Combustions filling the Christian World with Amazement and vs with expectation of some dreadfull Monster to bee presented to all wondring eyes may perchance bring forth onely That ridiculous Mouse of which the Mountaynes were so long in labour It is well if it bee so The Beati Pacifici is a string which makes heauenly Musicke in a Kingdome Yet if wee lift vp our heads to obserue what eyes the Spaniard casts at vs and what good Prayers he shoots after vs Wisdome may soone perswade that hee does not loue vs if not loue vs wee are not to trust Him albeit hee lyes still no more then to trust a sleeping Lion or a Mastiffe and therefore not to dandle our selues too much vpon the knees of securitie let vs rowse vp our English Spirits and bee armed against this spotted Beast doe come albeit hee bee not comming lest with his pawes hee teare vs in pieces when wee are not prouided for his dreadfull Encounters Spanish Bulles are fierce at the stake and worse loose and although in Madrill Siuill and others Cities they baite them for pleasure in England they would yeeld no such pastime If Fame therefore hath taught her thousand Tongues to tell Truth and that these Castilian Ecchoes mocke vs not with Lyes Is it not high time for euery man to girt his loynes with the sword and to fight Gods Battaile for this Quarrell is against Him If this holy League be knit together to teare Anointed Kings out of their hereditary thrones and to turne Nations out of their Natiue Countries It is not a Holy but a Deuillish League A Confederacie of vncleane Spirits An Vnion of Discord and Hellish Musicke Let those then who haue commands ouer Narrow Seas whose Nursing Armes most louingly embrace our Kingdomes body busie themselues in their Nauall-Military Preparations whilest they on Land muster together to guard our Kingdomes Heart Let our English Nobles giue Heroicall Confrontations to the Spanish Grandees and Dons the Gentry hearten on the Commons and the Commons goe with cheerfull faces against this Enemie as their Fore-fathers haue done when they fetched Honour from other Countries Whilest the Diuine prayes at home for successe abroad whilst the Lawyer spends some of his Golden Fees to the maintenance of Souldiers in so glorious a warre whilest Citizens open bounteous Purses though they goe not in Person to defend themselues and Country-men whilest the strong runne to fight and the weake looke to their Houses at home whilst the Rich emptie their bagges to maintaine the poore Souldiers in good clothes and wholsome diet Nay whilest euen the very Blinde and Lame when they can doe nothing else send vp their heartie wishes to Heauen night and day to crowne our Land with Conquest to confound all bloudie and execrable Confederations with ruine and shame and to send home this second Armipotent Armado if any such there be in Tempests Whirle-winds and Wracks as that was in Eighty eight To which all true hearted Englishmen will crie Amen FINIS

The certaine place of their intended Inuasion is not published but common muttering whispers in our Eares that it is for England Ireland and the Netherlands yet some suspect it is against the Venetians But leauing that be pleased to cast your Eye on these Particulars following which are accounted here for truths and so we receiue them Galleasses 200. Ships built after the English fashion 120. Hulkes 020. Pinkes 020. Catches 020. In all 330. Land Souldiers 60000. Noblemen and Gentlemen being 8000. Voluntaries 8000. Saylers 13000. Great Peeces of Ordnance 70. Poysoned Bullets for Ordnance 47000. Hollow Bullets filled with wild-fire 20000. Muskets and Caleeuers 12000. Partizans 1000. Besides double Cannons field Peeces dry-fats filled with old Nayles and broken Iron store of Carriages necessaries for Sea and Land without number three thousand Speares Armours of Musket-proofe Wines Biskets Bacon Cheese Beefe Rice Beanes Pease Oyle Lampes Pipes for fresh water Torches Candles Lanthornes Hides large Hogsheads Wheele-barrowes Wheeles Spades Mattocks Shouels Galthrops Baskets Boygh-ropes innumerable and thirtie thousand Pikes pointed with Iron The Commanders of this Fleete are to meete with Spinola who is to bee Generall of the Forces With Spinola come Tyrone and the Earle of Argile with a great number of Horses and are to be transported in flat Boats The Duke of Sauoy his Sonne is Admirall of the Spanish Sir Robert Dudley Reare Admirall Sir Griffin Markham and Sir William Stanley Colonels of the Regiments and one Neuill who termes himselfe Earle of Westmerland hath likewise a great command There are lately arriued at Lisbone twentie armed Elephants from Persia for what imployment t is incertaine And this is the most remarkable Newes of this Fleet of which the Turke is so iealous that hee stands vpon his guard With so much does a Letter sent from Marseilles acquaint vs but from Malaga come these tydings That there was neuer such warlike prouision and preparation as is now in Spaine Wine Oyle and Vineger to a great quantitie being made readie with ten thousand barrels of small shot a thousand Kintals sixe thousand Breames or Bottels sixe thousand Baskets for Pioners with an incredible number of Spades Shouels Scoops and Mattocks with powder and wild-fire From Dunkirke and other places in the Net herlands vnder the King of Spaine are expected eightie ships to be ayders in this great Expedition Of Spanish Ships these are prouided In Auero 20. In Valencia 20. In Lisbone 20. In Guinny 50. In Cales and Auero Poole 20. In Saint Sebastians 20. In Naples 40. In Barcelon 50.   240. Malaga thus as Marseilles did before hauing thundred out her story of vproares and threatned deuastation Here steps in a third Trumpetter and proclaymes other newes sounding as harshly as the former Don Fredericke of Toledo is generall of the Army by Sea and the Marquesse by land who hath vowed to lay his bones in England The Generall of the Cauallery is Don Carolo of Columbo Commissions being granted to leuy three thousand Horse aswell Burgonians as Lorrainers and some out of Luremberg If the Peace be made in Italy the greatest part of these Forces are to goe by Sea and so to fall into the Spanish Army which is to set forth on the first of Iuly Spanish Leaders and their Companies Don Iohn of Fuentes hath a Regiment of tenne Companies Don Ferdinando of Arragon 10. Don Diego of 10. Coronell Bayard 10. Marquesse of Beluedore 10. Three hundred men being in euery Company which in the fiue Regiments amount to 15000. besides two other Regiments the names of whose Coronels I haue forgotten so that the whole Army consisteth of one and twentie thousand Italian Leaders Pedro Aldobrandino Companies 10. Marquesse of Gonzales 10. Pedro of Gonzales 10. Don Carolo Spinola commands all the Italians The common rumour is that they intend their course for Ireland but the most knowing say for England the Dunkerkers as it is reported hauing sownded all the Sea-coast and assuring them an entrance free from all danger Amongst all the Engines and warlike furniture which comes alongwith them they also bring store of Ouens and Mils made of Iron or Brasse and will make their issue by the motion of wheeles on which they are mounted Thus this great Archer of the World whose Bow reacheth from the East to the West Indies and whose string is twisted together by the Hands and Hearts of Confederated Kings and Princes shoots his Arrowes at this our Kingdome of England making account to come and cleane the glory of it and then to march backe into Spaine as a Triumphant Conquerour This Nimrod is a mightie Hunter and by his good will would strike downe none but whole Nations Hauocke hee cryes what Parke so euer hee comes into and the goodlier the Herds are the more cruelly does hee scatter them Millions of poore murthered Indians being the Trophies of his bloudy Shambles But as the beginning of the first Nimrods Kingdome was Babell so the end of this second Gods Almightie Arme tumbling downe the buildings of his Ambition shall bee Confusion What though fiue Kings complot combine and incorporate their Forces in One to fight against Iosua Let not vs feare but send vp our Cries to Heauen as the Men of Gibeon a great and Royall Citie sent theirs to Iosua euen to the Host at Gilgall and as they to Him so let vs call to God and say Withdraw not thy Hand from thy Seruants Come vp to vs quickly and saue vs and helpe vs for all the Kings of the Amorites Spinolized and Spaniolized Tyrants thine and our Enemies which dwell in the Mountaines are gathered together against vs. Wee must shake off our sinnes when wee doe thus and not cry with a faint and distrusting voyce that hee will not heare vs for if we speake to him as wee ought to doe Hee himselfe will say thus to our Ioshua Feare them not for I haue giuen them into thine hand None of them shall stand against thee And as the Lord kept his Word with Him so will hee with vs Hee will smite these Colleagued Enemies to his Truth and Gospell euen to Azekah and Makkedah their Gibraltars and Magellanes and as they are chased to Beth-horon into Spaine hee will for their poysoned Bullets prepared to shoote at vs cast downe great stones from Heauen vpon them vntill more dye by that haile then by the sword Then shall these Confederated Kings of Ierusalem Hebron Iarmuth Lachish and Eglon flye to their Caues their Spanish Dens vntill the Chiefe Men of this our Israell by our Ioshua's command fetch them forth to set their feete vpon the neckes of such insolent Insulters Shall I reade to you another story of comfort Hearken then to it When Benhadad the King of Aram had assembled all his Armie with two and thirtie Kings to assist him hauing great numbers both of Horses and warlike Chariots hee besieged Samaria and sending a disdainfull message to Ahab King of Israell thus hee commanded those that went to