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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11800	Symmachia: or, A true-loues knot Tyed, betvvixt Great Britaine and the Vnited Prouinces, by the wisedome of King Iames, and the States Generall; the kings of France, Denmarke, and Sweden, the Duke of Sauoy, with the states of Venice being witnesses and assistants. For the weale and peace of Christendome.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22089; ESTC S116960	20,946	37

with Spaine and the restitution of the Palatinate which in this Parliament haue beene cleerely discouverd and layed open vnto vs and withalll what humble aduice with one consent and voyce wee haue giuen vnto your Maiestie to dissolue those Treatyes which your Maiestie hath beene gratiously pleased to our exceeding joy and comfort fully to yeeld vnto and accordingly haue made your publique declaration for the reall and vtter dissolution of them by meanes where of your Maiestie may be happilie ingaged in a sudden warre wee in all humblenesse most ready and willing to giue vnto your Maiestie and the whole world an ample testimonie of our dutifull affectons and sincere intentions to assist yow therein For the maintenance of that warre that may heere vpon ensue and more particularly for the defence of this your Realme of England the secureing of your Kingdome of Ireland the assistance of your Neighbours the States of the vnited Provinces and other your Majesties friends and allies And for the setting foorth of your Royal Nauie wee haue resolued to giue for the present the greatest ayde which euer was granted in Parliament to be leiued in so short-Ã tyme And therefore wee doe humbly beseech your Maiestie c. Thus yow see in the body of our Lawe the State of the vnited Provinces is specially nominated and ranged in vnion with his Maiesties Kingdomes of England and Ireland and the gift limited for the defence especially of those three Which though selfconceited eyes ouersee yet is argues much respect and loue neyther doe I beleeue they haue giuen or receiued the like acknowledgement before to or from any other State nor can wee redely finde in Historie the like interchange of loue betwixt forteigne people recorded 2. Obserue the most excellent Prince of Wales his forwardnes and extraordinarie diligence to accomplish this worke I dare not say whatsoeuer I thinke that the whole frame was first of his composure but I am sure he was a principall Agent in the happy conclusion 3. Obserue his Maiestie how readely and gladly he graÌ„ted when it cam to the vpshot soe that he seemed to hold off before for politique respectes First to beget a feeleing in our friends of their owne estate who did not in his Maiesties judgement seeme sensible enough for a long tyme eyther of their owne danger or of this his royall fauoure and benefite Secondly to make his owne subiectes the more eager and earnest by the delay and so giue them tyme to debate the businesse to vnderstand the charitie and vtilitie of the worke and to open their purses the wider Thirdly to secure the Enemye by this meanes till all were ready that so wee might reflect vpon them by a thinne and slight shadow the open and grosse iniuryes they had done vs before vnder the couerture of treatyes and trust Now for the better vnderstanding of his Maiesties minde in all pointes proportionable to this description I haue inserted his privy Counsels letter to the Lords Lifetenants of Sheeres in England for the assistinge of the Earls and Commanders in rayseing men within their seuerall Countyes and that by his Majesties speciall direction for the ayde of the Vnited Provinces AFter our harty commendations to your good Lordshippes whereas the States Generall of the united Provinces haue by theyr Ambassadors humbly solicited his Maiestie as wel to renewe the anciant defensiue league betweene his Kingdomes and their Provinces as also to permit them for the better confirmation thereof to rayse some good number of voluntary souldiers within his Dominions to be imployed in theyr service in these hazardous times when the Emperour and the Romish Catholique league are preparing and drawinge downe towards theyr Countreyes divers great and threatniug Troopes to joyne with those Armies that allreadie lye vpon theyr frontiers ready to take the first opportunitie of advantage against them And that his Majestie in a constant pursuite of the good amitie and correspondentie with those Provinces hath treated and concluded a league vvith theyr Ambassadors and giuen way and permission for the raysinge of six thousand voluntary souldiers for theyr service and assistance for theyr better strength and defence against those forces of the Emperour and Romishe Catholique league Which his Maiestie hath the rather assented to in regard of his owne interest both for the security of his owne Dominions and the great part his sonne in Law his onely daughter and his grand children haue in the preservation of the Vnited Provinces where they now remaine as refugers And because the time of the yeare is so farre spent as it will be requisite to vse all possible expedition in the raysing and transportation of these men We haue thought it requisite to giue your Lordshippes this intimation of his Maiesties good pleasure and assent for the levyinge of the sayde voluntaryes to the end you may not onely permit and further our very good Lords the Earles of Oxford Southampton and Essex and the Lord Willoughby appointed Collonels and for that purpose deputed by the States Ambassadors and such other Captaines and officiers vnder them as they shall substitute to leavy and take vp such voluntary souldiers as sball be vvilling to goe ouer in theyr company but that withall you affoord them your best direction assistance and furtherance therein and giue notice of this his Maiesties pleasure to the deputie Lieutenantes Iustices of peace and other his Maiesties Ministers within the precinct of your Lieutenancy To which we doubt not but you will all readily and effectually apply your selues both in respect of the generall cause and for the ease and benefit the Countrey will finde in being disburthened of many vnnecessary persons that now want imployment and liue lewdly or vnprofitably in the Countrey And if any of those voluntaries shall after they haue accepted impresse money and so ingaged themselues into the service withdrawe themselues or runne away from theyr Captaines or Conductor his Maiesties pleasure is that vpon any such complainte you yeeld your best assistance for the apprehendinge and recoueringe of those fugitives and them to comit to prison vntill they submit themselues or otherwise punish them as is vsuall in such cases And so we bid your Lordshippes hartly farewell 20 of Iune 1624. 4. Obserue the Peoples willingnes generally to offer themselues to this seruice and the expression of extraordinarye ioy assoone as they heard the Drummes beate and that the intent of their intertaniement was published to serue the States of the Vnited Provinces against the King of Spaine and the Arch-Duchesse soe that these wordes were forced to be altered by command for present respects of State 5. Obserue the Nobles and those none of the meanest striueing for imployment in this warre not for the gaines of these poore and in comparison of them petty places but to honor their Nation to shew the world amongst what people they were nobles to defend religion and that State which ioynes with our owne to defend it

to countenance the cause to deter the enemye to hold the Common man vpon the right side to assure the adverse part what ayde he is to expect from vs and to stop the mouth of the clamorous Marchant who though he had iust cause to crye yet cryes now in an vnseasonable tyme and will therefore learne to giue ouer vaine clamoures whilst he beholds the Peeres are ingaged in the worke which he would hinder And heere I cannot but present this glasse to the vâ—w of many young Nobles and Gentiles in these parts of the Vnited Provinces who whilst their Countrie is assaulted by malitious Enemyes and defended by honorable strangers both of our and other Nations sit still themselues and lend no hand to helpe it but hold it rather a greate indignitie to be a souldiar These must needes be ignorant of their owne honorable rootes which first sprung from Armes and must be by that most honorable profession mainetained whereof those swordes are witnesses which none but Gentlemen weare amongst them And I am perswaded therefore this grosse and effeminate conceite is bred amongst them eyther by their too tender Mothers who had rather see their Country perish then to behold their children hazard themselues for the safeguard of it or from their Anabaptisticall neighbours who suppose erroniously all armes to be Antichristian or from the Malignant papist who though he hath the libertie of his conscience amongst them yet because he may not haue the free and publique exercise of his superstition wisheth the Spanish iron yoke ouer the neck of the Belgick lyon and deters his owne and others from their Countryes seruice and hates such to death as serue to secure his libertie and life But to returne to our matter and to manifest our generall willingnes and allacritie for the vndertaking of there defence I would neither haue the Common people ignorant nor yet think vs so stupid not to vnderstand the benefite of this defensiue ayde sent ouer to them at this present which is greater then at first sight itappeareth to all eyes For besides that wee helpe to defend there frontires at our owne charge which all see wee also spend the meanes which wee receiue out of England amongst them also so they haue the vse both of our men and monye which makes tradeing something quicker setting many trades on worke and filling the publique purse something fuller by excise and other dutyes which all obserue not What ready mony hath beene disbursed in their Countrie for Hats Armes and other necessaries to furnish these troopes is apparant to all and the laborious Tradesman tastes of the dooble benefite and will blesse God for it howesoeuer the ignorant and insoleut will not acknowledge to haue receiued heereby so much as a single curtesie For I heare them obiect in scorne that all this is not giuen but lent they must repay it True as they did the money for the Cantionarie townes of Flushing in Zeland and the Briell in Holland with the Castle of Ramekins in the Iseland of Waltheren which came to 818000 lb which first vpon suite to his Maiestie they instald for 40000 by the yeere and continued the paymeÌ„t thereof for fiue yeeres but after finding it heauy they againe sought ease of his Maiestie and gratiously obtayned a generall release and possession of their townes and Castle for the summe of 200000 payde to his highnesse and of 25000 assigned by his Maiesties bownty towards the reward of the Officers Which abatement proceeded neither from our want for then it had beene a most vnthankefull part in them not equally to respect our want in the repayment as wee did their in the lending nor out of the excesse of their witt as some would arrogantly haue it but out of there humble suite and his Maiesties grations and ready graunt Who considering what became his honor would giue rather then receiue and would not defraude that trust which was reposed in his predecessor and so successiuely in him but redeliuered the Keyes of their Country into their owne possession againe And this may teach them to see that it is not in the power of one Stanly or one Yorke to staine the honor of a Nation but they may as safely trust vs as themselues prouided they be sure of their religion whome they trust If they be careles in admitting Captaynes and officers they may well suspect such so admittted but if they know them faithfull to God they neede not doubt their fidelity to them And it is not only ours but all other Nations yea their owne most of all who are to be suspected and so kept from Command if eyther they bee of no religion or popishly affected If of none then they are for any Deuill that will tempt them and Mammon especially is then the God they worship if popish then they are for Antichrist and so for the Catholique King who is his best beloued sonne and like to be the heyre of all that he can giue him For he vseth his ecclesiasticall Keyes to no other end but to open and shut the heart and all other houlds for the intertainement of the Spanish pompe and pride and for the inlargement of that quintessentiall Monarchie though the spirit of God by the Mouth of Daniell say the contrary neuer so peremtorily and plainely But some obiect the Kinges bownty in this respect proceeded from the consideration of his owne charge which he should haue beene at in keepeing those places meerely for the proffit of the vnited Provinces Perhaps indeede this was the cause which made him the more willing to part with them vpon their suite and his Counsells aduice but this doth not lessen his bownty not their obligation For to keepe a chargeable gage for an other mans benefit so long as the owner pleaseth to restore it safely and better in euery refpect then it was at the first ingagement and that when the owner desires it and vpon no termes of aduantage but vpon such as he himselfe prescribes witnesseth extraordinary honestie in the lender and deserues extraordinary thankfulnes from the borrower Indeede the first motion for reddidition of these places proceeded perhaps from some who wished well to the Spaniard and did not like the continuance of this their dependancie vpon England who was by these cautions really and perpetually in point of honor and proffit and interest ingaged for the defense of their State and title equally with themselues And this was seconded by a windie humor bred in a few others by prosperitie and peace which looked not so farre as the first mouersayme but supposeing themselues able to stand vpon their owne feete thought scorne to hold any longer of others and began to meditate how to forget the hand that helped them vp and to requite that curtesie with quarrells which they could not doe safely they saw whilst wee had those pawnes in our custody But for the carriage of our Queene of blessed memoire deceased of our present

souuereigne of our Counsell and State in generall there was no passage eyther in the first taking of them on in the holding or restroreing of them but sauours of religion and honor in all apprehensions and will do so to all generations heereafter Againe they obiect that our present ayde lent them is for our owne sake since our Parliament generally apprehended these Countryes to be as the bulwarks or at least as the Counterscarfe and outworks of our owne land and it was wisely sayde of a greate Commander in his speech made to the Parliament Anno 1621. that if wee loose the Counterscarfe though it be beyond the ditch the whole fortification is accounted lost For the Rampieâ— serues but for a defence to make composition so that if wee wil be content to loose the counterscarfe then wee must presently thinke of nothing but making a faire composition or such at least as the besieger will afford vs. And wee willingly ackowledg this to be a truth wishing them to do vs good for their owne sake as they see vs do them good as they say for our owne sake If wee count them our out-workes as wee doe they ought to count vs as the marketplace or Sanctwary or heart of the Citty which those outworkes are appointed to guard They count themselues and the world generally and worthely counts them to be a wise politique and prouident people let them therefore shew it in this particular loueing vs and doeing vs all the good they can piouslie for religion sake curteouslie and readely for neibourhoods sake faithfull for friendships sake or at least politiquely for their owne sakes Againe they obiect our people are imployde by this meanes and so our State pruned drayned and disburthened of many vnruly and vnnecessarie members This is very true also for our nation as ranke soyles yeeld many weedes and ranke witts many extrauagancies bringes forth many people and withall spirits of extraordinary temper for the warre which might be attributed to our diet since wee eate more solid flesh then any other Nation in Europe but that wee likewise finde all that is bred in our Climate as appears by our Mastiues and Cocks of the game are of a more noble and generous straine as I may say then many others These fiery Spirits are often most vnruly so that their parents are weary of them and seeing they will take no course to liue otherwise cloth them furnish them with mony and expose them to the warres Many of these haue the wit and grace to come ouer well pronided as their parents send them on t others will not leaue England till their Mony be spent their clothes worne out and then ashamed with the prodigall to returne home for new supplyes they come ouer into these parts ragged as wee see a shame to their parents and Nation Others leaue their trades and runne from their Masters and this is the true canse of these ragged and naked regiments where you may see good bodyes of Men very ill apparrelled And by these ofscoureings men Gess at the pouerty of our State forgetting they come though naked from the land of Broad-cloth and that this raggednes of theirs in so rich a Countrie is one euident note that they are made and marked out for the warres Indeede therefore wee confesse these men finde imployment heere by this meanes and withall this State findes defence Besides the stock is our owne wherewithall they are set to worke for wee with our owne monye clothe them furnish and arme them in all points compleat for the feild with this charge that they should fight for these Prouinces as they would fight for Brittanie And were it not in regard of Religion which wee alwayes prize and preferre before all other respects and in regard of the safety of both States which equally concernes vs wee could haue the same imployment against them which wee haue now for them and that vpon fatre better termes Where then were they but that these respects do tye vs to them if our King which God forbid should send so much monye and so many men against them to the Enemye The most purplind and partiall person may see the issue and so behold this benefite in the contrary danger To tempt vs with iniuryes therefore and not to see their owne instant necessitie because the necessity which we politiquely feare would preuent stands in their light is an intollerable ouersight vnworthie of their wisedomes To presume they may do vs hurt without danger because wee will doe them none but indanger our selues to keepe them from hurt as being most carefull of their wellfare with respect to our owne assurance and theirs in common is a madness beyond all measure As if I should rob my neighboure and vndoe him because I know him busied in watching my house to saue me and himselfe from robbing and vndoeing Since now wee haue sufficiently declared our owne kindeness in wooing the vnited Provinces to reciprocall curtesies and the necessitie of our standing together except both of vs intend to fall I proceede breefely to perswade both Nations to take better notice of the Enemyes traines and deuises inuented to deuide vs that so wee may vnite our selues to each other more closely by vndissoluable knots of loue and amitie And because these troopes of English newly raised may some of them out of ignorance giue or take offences which might easely be auoyded I whose care and study it is to do good offices betwixt them and to preuent what is possible all shadow of vnkindnes which may arise euen in the least circumstance haue vsed that liberâ—y of speech in the discourse hitherto vnto which I am accustomed and naturally inclined Which though some may misâ—â—ke who neither know me nor the matter yet I knowe such honest and downe-right freedome to be most fit and profitable for the continueing of friendship and cleereing of the case which liberty I desire leaue to vse in that which followes also for besides that the strocks of a friend are pleasant in being profitable I vnderstand this busines hath need of plaine dealeing vnder whose seuere conduct all affayres prosper better then in the perpetuall Cockering of foolemakeing and foole-fauoring flatterie And first for my owne Nation I desire they would not bee too iealous captious and curious in takeing vnkindnes where none is offerd Some persons haue the trick to pinne their interests and particular spleenes vpon the publique sleeue and so what they haue felt or do feele in priuate must needes bee a generall greeuance but wee must be wise and wary not to suffer quarrells which may fall betwixt particulars to troble or disturbe the generall peace whilst wee see those iniuryes are not backt by authoritie and made vniversall and nationall And if wee must not suffer real actions to disturbe our affections much lesse should wee permit wordes to do it especially euill words from such persons as haue not yet learned to speake well It

is true that Ladyes and gentlewoemen passing the streets iu strange habits do often penance amongst the ruder sort as appeared by that most vnciuill and barbarous demeanoure vsed lately towards an English Lady in Amsterdam who desired to see the Cittie and supposed all gouvernements to be as ciuill as Londen but we must consider the same set of people would wonder asmuch at a Parrat or Poppiniay It is true also that men of all rankes meete often amongst boyes words of reproch but besides that wee cannot altogither cleere our owne in some rude places from that barbarisme what should such words of scorne spued from such mouthes moue vs Since indeede it is our glory to be those English Dogs that haue holpen the Shepheards to chase from hence the Spanish Wolues who else would haue worryed not only these silly Lambes but the harmeles and innocent Sheepe their Fathers Let not this stirre the courage of a Man to fury but pitty and scorne as Lyons vse to walke with contempt amongst barkeing whelpes whose shrill notes are musick whilst the Puppies bite not Assuredly these boyes would and doe too often vse their Parents thus they know no better they neuer learned a lesson of obedience much lesse of gratefullnes to honor those in duty who defend them in loue and often fauours them as the Pellicane doth her younge whome in extremetie she fosters and cherisheth with her owne blood It wil be imputed a folly to me to touch this but I haue seene some touched with it It often falls out that men who affect honor as it is the souldiars ayme are more offended with reproches and scornes then actual iniuryes And if it were not so these spirits would not sell their flesh and blood so cheape farre vnder the rate of beefe or mutton veale or porke nor would they indure heate and cold and hunger and thirst when seruants haueing more wages will not but that there is an ayer of praise and hope which they Camelion like feede vpon and it kills their hearts to heare this blowne away by a stinkeing breath with disgracefull language It were easie for them by any honest trade or course of life to liue well in their owne Countryes for meere necessitie doth not bring them ouer hither as if wee wanted meate and drinke in England France or Scotland but eyther they are brought hither to be punished for their idlenes because they would not at home doe a little easie worke for great wages are forced heere as in a house of correction to do great worke yea the hardest of all to ouercome manie wants and difficulties themselues and others for little wages Or else being men made and marked out for the warres they seeke and desire this kinde of life and would chose it amongst all others as the most honorable though they had nothing for their laboure but the oportunity and lawfull authority to erchange knocks freely For they deale for honor as marchants for proffit and they stampe in flesh and blood as the other mint in gold and siluer Now then the first sort meeteing disgracefull words meets but his desert it is part of his punishment to be reproched and reuiled but this latter who is only couetous of honor takes it ill to haue this counterfeit coine of disgrace put vpon him in stead of currant money But I would not haue any of these latter sort looke so lowe to stoope to such pettie praise nor contrarilie once cast their eye aside to these sonnes of Belial children of Bethell who would mock Elizeus if he came amonge them with a bald head or a strange habit Nay rather I would haue them doe all good they can for the generall State of these Countries with respect of those good people who are mixed amonge the wicked and mourne for the abhominations which are done in the Land Deare Countrimen you that be at home in peace pay your monyes freely for the supportance and defence of these pray for them with vnfained faith and you worthyes that are heere fight for them with vndaunted resolution and if neede bee dye for them with comfort and cheerefulnes euen as for your owne Countrye since as I haue manifested the warre is the same though a little farther remoued and besides that it is also a religious warre being for religion if the warriours themselues haue any religion in them Againe I am to exhort my Countrimen who are comprehended vnder the name of greate Brittaines to shew themselues as strong being now vnited as they haue shewne the mselues heeretofore being diuided Let both the English and Scottish Nations declare by action that they haue not lost their old hearts by takeing vpon them a new name but that they are the sonnes of those Fathers whose braue blood spilt in the warres hath inriched and manured these feilds with France Spaine and Palestine and are ready to do it againe for the propagation of Christian Religion and for gaineing free and assured passage to the glorious Gospell of our Lord lesus Christ Lastly I desire exhort with all earnestnes that they would be carefull to serue the vnited Provinces faithfully and not to deceaue them in the least respect whilst therein they serue or deceiue their owne Prince and Country with whose monyes they are payde and shall reape praise and honor or shame and obloqui of their friends at their returne home according as they behaue themselues in these imployments abroade And now haueing done with our owne I am in most humble manner to present these petitions following which I haue learned from the obseruation of my Countrimen to the considerations of my superiors in these parts in whose power it is to redresse the enormities thereby to declare that they prize vs as wee doe them First that they would be gratiously pleased to heare the Old soldiâ—rs sueing for better pay and desireing to be discharged oftheir most chargeable and vnconscionable Sollicitours who eate them vp by lewish vsurie in an vnreasonable manner Soe as I haue heard diuers conscionable Commanders say it is almost impossible for an Officer to liue though neuer so meanely and modestly vpon his meanes except he deceiued the State or Soldiar Since most of his owne meanes is swallowed vp by the sollicitor O that it would enter into the heart of those prudent Lordes to take a course for better payment that the Captaines might not haue iust occasion to complaine nor Coloure to seeke shifts by cursed attestations there by to deceaue the Country of bodyes and themselues of soules Then your Companyes would be fuller and the officer would serue with better courage because with better conscience Yea then if deceite should be vsed or offered none would pitty the guilty delinquent though he were made an publique example and spectacle of fraude vnworthy his profession I say vnworthie his profession for I know whatsoeuer othermen vainely thinke that a reall lye is more dishonorable though custome and companie cloudes

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