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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94341	The application of certain histories concerning ambassadours and their functions, by Francis Thynn, Esquire. Taken out of Sir Robert Cottons library.	Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1651 (1651)	Wing T1142; Thomason E1403_1; ESTC R3001	34,353	213

THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN HISTORIES CONCERNING AMBASSADOURS And their Functions Digested into severall Chapters By FRANCIS THYNN Esquire LONDON Printed for JOHN CROOK and are to be sold at the sign of the Ship in Pauls Church-yard 1651. To the Right Honourable his singular good Lord WILLIAM Lord COBHAM Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports FRANCIS THYNN wisheth perpetuall health further increase of honour and good successe in all his Honourable Attempts ALthough my very good Lord neither according to my honest desire nor your honorable desert which worthily may challenge from me a farre more dutifull service than my attendance upon you into Flandâ—rs I could not in person as I did in good will be present in the same Journey where I both might have reaped profit and your Lordship been fully ascertained of my good mind towards you for that I protest unto you remaining in this out-nook of the little world where London newes is somewhat scant and the Princes affaires very seldome known I had no intelligence of your so honourable place of Embassie in this year of Christ 1578. untill two daies after your departure The which bred some corsey of a Melancholy conceipt in me by reason of my foolish negligence that would no oftner direct my Letters to crave intelligence from London And by reason of the unkind forgetfulnes of my kindred friends remaining there who would not vouchsafe so much courtesie in a matter so much desired by me and of so small a trouble to them as to direct their Letters to me thereof Wherefore sorrowing for that which is past that I could not as the rest of my kindred friends did assume such enterprize upon me and yet not only rejoycing at your honourable entertainment of the good success of the wise Dispatch and of the orderly behaviour wherwith your Lordship was received beyond the Seas but also desirous by pen amongst the rest of your welwillers at this your happy and desired return to congratulate your Lordship with the tokens of my old yowed fidelitie as a sign of my hidden joy conceived of your safe arrival I have thought it my challenged duty to direct this tedious Discourse unto you containing aswell the unfolding of my former griefs As laying open to your sight the rejoycing of my well-willing heart And for that other occasion doth not so fitly minister cause to me in other sort to present my self unto you than by saying somewhat which may doth concerne Embassadours Therefore as wel for that the time is most apt for the man to whom I write having supplied such place for that it also putteth me in mind of your honourable courteous talk which you have often used unto me in like matters I will here in affaires of Embassie to an Ambassadour present my labours the Ambassadours of their absent Master make discourse of things belonging to Embassie Wherein I will shew the original Privileges the Wisdom the Valour the quick wits other the behaviours of Ambassadours as examples for us in all respects to immitate For as Seneca saith in his sixth Epistle Longum iter est per praecepta breve efficax per exemplum of which kind of people that is of Ambassadours Legats or Deputies Messengers of Princes and of the Orators of Kings For all these severall termes do include one Function exercised in divers manners because there are sundry sorts somewhat different from the custome of our age I will not only intreat as they were in times past amongst the magnificent Romans in the middest of their greatest glory But I wil also in like order collect and digest the usage and duty of them as they are now used put in office by Princes Kings and Emperors for the executing of their determined pleasure In which my good Lord if any thing shall be found that for want of more diligent search may seem faulty consider that Bernardus non videt omnia Wee are no Gods wee can say no more than reasonable conjecture or former Authority may lead us unto But if in the placing of the same in the apt sentences or in the sweet composition of stile there appear default impute the same to the want of leisure and to the rude hasty writing of him who was never brought up in any Vniversitie and I seek not fueum verborum so I may have ipsam veritatem materiam solidam And thus this far of that And so into my purposed matter The Table CHAP. 1. fol. 1. OF the Name or first Invention of Legates or Ambassadours fol. 1 CHAP. 2. That other Naetions besides the Romans used Ambassadours fol. 6 CHAP. 3. What persons are meete to be Ambassadours fol. 13 CHAP. 4. What Lawes and Privileges were made and allowed for and to Ambassadours fol. 34 CHAP. 5. Apothegmes or Wise and pleasant Answers given and made by and to Ambassadours fol. 50 CHAP. 6. Of Amdassadours that dyed in their Embassie fol. 73 CHAP. 7. Of Ambassadours evilly intreated in their Embassie fol. 82 CHAP. 8. The revengement of Crueltie used to Ambassadours against the Law of Nations fol. 117 CHAP. 9. Of Ambassadours evilly rewarded at their return into their Country fol. 130 CHAP. 10. Of trayterous Ambassadours towards their Masters and Princes fol. 140 CHAP. 11. Of the foolish sayings and doings of Ambassadours fol. 160 CHAP. 12. Of Persons sent divers times in Embassie fol. 176 The Application of certain Histories concerning Ambassadors and their Functions c. CHAP. 1. Of the Name or first Invention of Legates or Embassadours THE name of Legate is taken divers wayes being somtimes reputed for any kind of Magistrate or for any person that executeth an office for and under another especially in any other Countrie than his own being substitute in the place of his Superiour The which persons so appointed the ancient Romans did call Legates the Majesty of whom the Bishop of Rome presenting in his Monarchicall Government of the Church doth at this present observe having in every Countrie subject to his Dominion a Legat sometimes permanent and sometimes temporaneall called Legates Ã latere as he were his assisting Deputie or his Deputie sent from his side The Roman Legates lay their heads together as Counsellours and what so was needfull to bee done it was determined by their Counsell and agreement and at the length established by the judgement and rule of the Legate Agesilaus amongst forraign Nations is found to have supplied the place of a Legate although he were the greatest Commander of the warres so much accounted and in such great honour was this office deemed to be among them Wherein as there be many notable things besides that which hee hath uttered of Legates which most properly in this place are holden Deputies as are the name of the offices and officers amongst the Romans for there were the Lictors Questors Praetors Tribune Consul Emperour and such like whereof I mean not at this time to intreat as well for avoyding tediousness as for

mind and his Countries benefit And yet hee doing asmuch as wit by nature will give him leave and judgement by experience hath taught him is rather in my opinion to be pardoned for the overthwart successe than to be punished for those defaults which himselfe cannot remedie God having dealt no more liberally with him in imparting great wit learning or experience unto him For in truth if his Legation be not well performed the lack is rather to be imputed to the Prince that would not make better choyce than to the subject that of force must obey or else runne into further inconveniencie of his King whose displeasure saith Solomon is death But because my intent is not in any of these matters fully to say my mind and to utter what reasons I can produce to confirme any such thing depending on the shoulders of Legates but only to warrantize my assertion with authoritie of examples Therefore leaving all other ordinarie proofes I will descend to my former course and only will with one example or two for that I mean not to be tedious and intend but to give your Lordship a taste that many other examples might be vouched thereon display sufficient authoritie in that point In which Ambassadours have been evilly rewarded at their return into their Countrie as followeth Amasis the Legate being sent of King Apris to those people that were revolted afterwards became King of the Revolters upon the which there was another Legate called Paterbenus sent to Amasis who returning without doing any good in the matter was cruelly handled of King Apris Theatrum Vol. 18. li. 4. Alexander the Son of Amyntas King of Macedonia was of Mordonius whom Xerxes had left in Greece to subdue it sent Ambassadour to the Athenians to conclude a Peace between them but he departed without bringing any thing to success whereupon he was afterwards forbidden to come to Athens and so banished the Town Herodot li. 8. In both which examples what cause was there why either Paterbenus of Apris or Alexander of the Athenians should bee so cruelly handled doing what in them lay for when the obstinacie of the other party with whom they must conferre is so much that neither reason can move eloquence perswade gentle usage make willing or threatnings fear to yield unto their Ambassie what shall the poor Legates doe and if they bring not their message to effect they shall be sharply punished at their return as either faithlesse to their Masters or partiall to the enemie For mee thinks I hear some Sycophant flattering the Prince and maligning the Ambassadour either before his going for some private grudge or after his departure for his open honour in that he is advanced to his place of Legation and yet setting his own commoditie thereby doth say that if the matter come not to effect it is by the negligence of the partie Ambassadour who if hee carry not sufficient authoritie to conclude or answer all things done on the adverse part may send home for a larger Commission the which if hee doe not if thereby hee might have brought it to conclusion is to be deemed as a trayterous person to his Prince and Countrie and therefore at his return to be punished The which thing if he doe as I would not excuse it where open and not surmised negligence is found in the cause I say he is worthy therefore of double revenge at his home comming and to receive torment in place of liberalitie reproach for credit losse of life for advancement and dis-inheritance in recompence of his deserved reward And here since now I am fallen into the mention of treacherous Ambassadours it shall not be unfitting in this place to shew what persons to the shame of them and of their posteritie are registred in the everlasting Records of Trayterous Ambassadors towards their Prince and Province CHAP. 10. Trayterous Ambassadours towards their Masters and Princes AS all injuries which tend to the subversion of a Common-wealth are to bee punished because not one Citie but a Province not a part of the body but the whole body not the King alone but the subject is grieved thereby so the same wrong being injustice is not only to be avoyded by all good men as chiefe enemy to vertue but also they are to be hated and sharply punished which contrary to naturall dutie to the Prince to equity to his Countrie to good disposition towards himselfe to vertue to good men and contrary to Justice to all men in matter of trust wherin all truth is to be used do falsly and injuriously betray their Children their Parents their Friends their King their Countrie And as in all men such treason is to be abhorred so especially in Ambassadours who are the doors and gates of the Common-wealth by which Peace or Warre quiet or dissention profit or discoÌ„moditie are brought into the same This vilde fault is most abhorred and worthy to be rewarded with death a thing which in all ages amongst all men in all places and in all matters hath been misliked hated condemned and revenged Because no greater injurie can any wayes be offered than that hee who is in credit with the life with the commoditie with the honour with the state of his Prince or Countrie with the benefit of his friend or familiar should under the colour of assured dutie and friendship overthrow such State or person as giveth such fidelity unto him But what spend I many words to confirm a thing so manifestly known to be evil I will not doe it but by example set out such wicked persons as have wrought against their own head in such a villanous sort as the blott thereof will never be wiped away which examples for he is happy that can beware by the harm of others I have set down as condemning that evill fact in them and as a warning for others to beware which may fall into the like inconveniencie if fear of God discourse of reason duty to the Prince love to his Countrie and fidelity to his friends and Allies do not restrain the evill mind of mens naturall inclination alwayes of it selfe by disposition bent to the worst and ready to yield to his basest part The examples be these Labienus the Legate of Caesar in France having performed great exploits under Caesar at the length in the Civill warres traiterously fled from Caesar to Pompey of whom doth Lucan write Dux fortis in armis Caesareis Labienus erat nunc transfuga vilis The which Historie is more to be seen at large in Volater li. 16. Urban can Amasis as you heard before being the Legate of King Apris who sent him to the Egyptians revolted from him became most traiterously King of the Revolters Ibancus falling from the part of Alexius Angelus Emperour of Constantinople did defend and make strong with Castles the places adjoyning to Mount Hemo for the reconciliation of which Ibancus to become again subject the Emperour did send an Ambassadour Eunuch very

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