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A42214	De rebus belgicis, or, The annals and history of the Low-Countrey-warrs wherein is manifested, that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests, to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distressed states, have exalted themselves to the title of the high and mighty ...; Annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1665 (1665)	Wing G2098; ESTC R3740	690,015	1,031

steps of Connanus and Duarenus composed the Discipline of the Laws into an order and method of Art taking away those things which the too secure ignorance of the former age had disordered yet not so as that it should give place to modern want of knowledg which in empty dress of words hath infringed the very sinues of that kind of Learning But this man by the infection of the Earl of Leicesters party was carryed so far that he forgot not onely his Studies but even the duties of a private person and a stranger and from thence went away to Altorf For interpreting the Manners and Customs of the Romans and discoveries and dilucidations of Antiquity was Justus Lipsius who added both to his own fame and the Honour of the place by his Learning a person who by the pleasing gravity of his behaviour was honoured beyond his Profession alluring most men to delight in him by the sweetness of his Discourse for since Nature had denyed him neither Rhetorick nor Oratory he rather chose that concise manner of speaking which is intermingled with mirth which was in truth a new mode of Speech but yet in some sort resembling Antiquity which when such did strive to imitate as were not equall to him in wit and Judgement they deviated into the most corrupt conceptions But when publick fear and private injury had forced Lipsius to change his party there was sent for out of France Joseph the Son of Julius who had conferred to the Family of Scaliger from which he was descended not onely Nobility but the vertue of paternal Wisdom by the laying open all things that were to be known either concerning Nations or Ages he was not wearied with continual study even to his old Age and might solace himself with this that from his very Child-hood his Fame and Renown continually encreased The Oriental Tongues were taught by Francis Raphelenge and the Greek by Vulcanius with no little Reputation For disputation in Divinity there was Franciscus Junius a Man of a very sharp Wit and one that would with great inginuity use the subtilty of the Adversaries Arguments against themselves Here also was famous Hadrianus Julius a Hollander for his Learning in natural Philosophy and Medicine nor was he contemptible for other parts of Wisdom Hither also came that great light Aldegonde there seeking leisure to translate the divine Law into the Language of his Country And that most famous Herbalist Charles Clusius of Artois Among the rest we may reckon Janus Dowsa who was appointed by the States to oversee and govern the Students We may call him Chancellour of the University to whom Posterity will attribute great Honour for his description of quality the Honours born and enduring of the Siege of Leyden in everlasting Poetry yet in that kind his Son which bore the same name excelled him the same also being joyned with his Father for composing the Annals of Holland and 't is probable he would have been fit for greater Employments if immature death had not taken him away being a young man of highest expectation for Learning With such Masters and such examples as these were Youth trained up whose number in a short time so encreased that Arts necessary both for publick and private Commodity which before by the unfrequentedness of the place were neglected now were not sufficient for instructing Ingenuity And although others of their own accord do earnestly labour by literature and Poetry to advance their name above the vulgar Holland having never been barren in that kind of Eloquence wherein formerly excelled Peter Mannius and Janus Secundi● and his Brothers so now also the like is found in the Writings of many young men But yet the raw Studies of this Nation which rather minds the getting of Wealth were not come to their heighth for yet had it not been the Country either of Erasmus or Longolius But the Reverence I bear to the Names of these great Men and the Reputation of that more peaceable sort of Wisdom hath made run far astray both from the Common-wealth and the War But now I return There were Embassadors sent to Christian the Fourth who now being come to his full and lawful Age was of himself without a Governour King of Denmark and had taken into his own hands the full power of Government and these were to congratulate him in the name of the States with their Joy and well-wishes but they were not to present themselves before the greatest of the Solemnities were past least among so great an Assembly of Embassadors there should arise any Contest for preheminence out of envy or least they should voluntarily give place to all to the diminution of their dignity There wanted nothing but that they for the common fear of the Spanish domineering should have requested ayd The Priviledges of Amsterdam onely were confirmed Those old ones claimed by the Cities of Schidam and Enchuysen from former Kings were disannu●led yet the Emb●ssadors were dismissed with Honour and Gifts and so not long after John Baptista Taxis coming to him from the Spaniard although he brought far richer Gifts yet was not received with the like kindness The Reason hereof was believed to be this because the Spaniard who not long before had promised three hundred thousand Duckets yearly to the Dane instead of a Tribute that he would not suffer the Hollanders to come into these Streights having not performed this was afterwards convicted that he would by treachery have invaded his Castles upon the Sound whereof notice had been sent him by the Vnited States After the taking of Hulst all things about the Hollanders were quiet excepting onely some light and memorable Skirmishes between the Horse For as well theirs as the Enemies Militia was so exhausted that they could hardly defend the Borders of the Netherlands against the French And at the beginning of Autumn fulfilling his promises with an easie hope and the great favour of his Allyes sent against the Artoysians the Marshall Biron Commander of a considerable Body of Horse seeming as if he went to defend Picardy Verembonius earnestly desiring to free the Government committed to him from rapine marched with twelve Troops of Horse against the French being then not so many in number yet nevertheless he was overcome and taken Prisoner together with Count Montecuculi an Italian and several others upon whom was imposed a great Sum of money for their Ransom And presently the Conquerours falling not onely into Artois but Flanders so pillaged the whole Country that they made a greater wast and havock there than had ever been remembred to be made in France in the Wars either of Charles formerly or Philip lately The Country people and Boors flying into the Cities carryed thither not onely Poverty but Infectious Diseases Whereupon the Lord of Cimace was presently sent with a new strength to defend the Borders but he also was put to flight Ambrosio Landriano the General of the Horse undervaluing his Command who being

in so great mutations and of what advantage Forreign Affairs were to Ours or Ours to them The whole North which consisted of Kingdoms of old replete with many Priviledges and Liberties was broken out into Arms almost for the same causes that the Hollanders War began for Sigismund following the Dictates of the Jesuites had lost Sweden with great difficulty retaining Poland For in Sweden Charls laying aside he name of Duke and by the Decree of his Nobles taking the name of King and repairing his Forces after the loss he had received at the Siege of Riga approached near the borders of Livonia In Poland Amoseius the Chancellor of that Kingdome while he lived had by his Wisdome and the reverent esteem that was had of him prevailed both with the King and Nobles for the observation of Peace and support of the Law But when he was dead first discontents and hatred arose which afterwards broke out into open Force And some there were that said The Nobles were advised soon after his Funeral that their Liberty had been attempted with many artisices That he had left the Commonwealth in as good a Condition to those that survived as it was when he first received the Charge of it and therefore now They should take care that nothing therein might go amiss either out of Ignorance or Sluggishness And in truth not long after the chief of the Noblemen that are there called Palatines broke out into Arms accusing the King That after the death of his first Wife without the advice of the States of Poland he had marryed the Sister of his deceased Wife thereby at once polluting the Kingdome with Incest and by a private League obliging himself to the House of Austria and that in the disposal of Honours he carried not an equal hand but preferred Romanists before Protestants they desired also that the Jesuits might be expelled out of the Jurisdiction of Cra●ovia and that the contentions growing among Priests should be decided by Domestique Judges and not at Rome whither they must make long Journies with vast charge And thereupon the Great Council of that Kingdome being summoned they called the King before them to purge himself of his Crimes adding threats That unless he appeared they would transfer those Imperial Ensign of Majesty the Crown and Scepter which by the Custome of the Countrey they had the keeping of to another But the King collecting his Army and winning to him many by gifts although at first he was answered with divers successes yet preferring Peace a League was concluded at Sendomir whereby the Old Laws were strengthened and confirmed by New But for all this it might rather he called a laying down of Arms then a taking aw●y of Offences for as he contemned the Subjects as Conquered so their impunity made them again grow confident so that the Peace was neither safe nor durable Besides these faults before mentioned this also was objected That without the consent of the Publick he intangled Poland in a war by sending aid to Demetrius This Demetrius after Boris had invaded the Dominion sought to slay the Son of the most noted Basilides by cruelty and after him enjoyed Muscovy professing himself the Brother of Theodore another being put into his place that should be killed while he was carryed into Poland where he long dissembled the Nobility of his bloud but at last prevailed in the over-perswading many by shewing upon his body divers private marks But he managed his Arms unfortunately against Boris who was now grown old and experienced both in the Arts of War and Government When he dyed he left a son named Theodore whom we mentioned before in his tender age to be left to his Mother but a great part of the Russians who equally hate the Government of Women and Children fell to Demetrius and presently the common people let him into Mosco the Principal City slaying in favour of their new Lord both the Widow and Son of Boris But the Fortune of his Kingdome was short for the Priests were offended at the Authority of the Jesuites by whose perswasions it was reported That he had sent to the Pope with intent to change the Greek Ceremonies for the Latine Nor were the Noblemen less enraged because he chose for the Guards to his person Foreiners and made use of none but Polanders both in his Court and Privy Counsels But the common people who hate or love not voluntarily but as they are lead and instructed were provoked by common report That he was not the Demetrius as was supposed but a Fugitive Monk instructed by Magick Art and but a slave sent by the Polanders to disturb the Affairs of Russia At the time of his Marriage which he celebrated with a young Polonian Lady the daughter of the Palatine of Sendomer a great tumult arising Demetrius or whoever else he was for even after his death it remained a doubt in vain striving to avoid his ruine by leaping from on high to the ground being weakned by the fall he was presently killed And his death was attended with a great slaughter of Polonians while one Scutskye that had raised this commotion seized the Empire at first indeed very unstable and tottering while their minds were astonished with the cruelty and being very slowly drawn to consent to a new Prince but afterwards it was soon setled by fear add punishments as is usual among Barbarians Now also had the sedition of the Imperial Souldiers involved Transilvania and the parts adjoyning upon Hungary in great troubles which were also increased by the Rapines of the Governours and debarring the Protestants the liberty of their Religion the envy of the War here also being thrown upon the Jesuits as the daily fomenters of mischief At this time also broke forth divers long concealed complaints That they plainly saw they were slighted for the Prince violated that antient Custome of his Predecessors of being present in their Assemblies and hearing the Requests of his People But Robolfus keeping himself within the Court kept the chief ma●agety both of Arms and Counsels in the hands of Foreiners which is a thing very grievous even to such as are enslaved and therefore the more intollerable to them whose Laws and Foundations of Government are so confirmed to them by the Oaths of their Kings that it is accounted to them neither disgrace of Crime to resist all that would make an infringement thereupon And thus on a sudden they fell to fighting and besieging of Cities to the great rejoycing of the Turk from whom the Crown and Scepter of Hungary was sent to Steplxn Botscay a chosen Captain of the Malecontents who was besides the Publick inflamed with private injuries yet he persisted to refuse the same contenting himself with Transilvania and the Title of Prince But Peace set an end to this short War of which this was the third year The Turk being weakned by the Persians Victories and a new Rebellion in Asia and Botscay endeavouring nothing further

Multitude of the common People while others after the old manner of Mourning in a vowed Habit promise and swear Never to cut their Hair untill they had revenged the Blood of those Noble-men The Prince of Aurange with many others are cited by a Proclamation to appear and because being absent and out of their reach he laughed at their Threats of Punishment all his Goods are confiscated and his Son which was bred up at Levain in the Study of the Arts is seized upon and carried Prisoner into Spain It was a very sad thing to take notice of the Desolation and Wast that was here made partly by Slaughters and partly by Flight Some few whose exceeding Poverty would not bear out their Banishment retired into the Woods and there hiding themselves where they lived like Salvages upon the daily Spoils committed upon Priests not taking Notice of the Magistrates who came to suppress them by Force but robbing and killing them as they could find advantage until at last they were destroyed and driven away by the greater and more powerful strength of Alva So also at the Rivers Maze and Rhene a few unadvised persons being scatteredly met together and having sworn the Dukes death at the very first Rencounter were all overcome and slain And to cut off all thoughts of hope the Messengers and Curriers from Spain brought word that then was nothing of moderation more to be expected from the King than from Alva for that a publike punishment was there inflicted upon Montaigne who was sent thither in vain bearing with him the Name of an Embassador as to Enemies which among all Nations is sacred and not to be violated for it was not thought fit for Subjects to treat or deal with their Prince after such a manner and so positively denied The Marquess of Berghen by a seasonable Death prevented to himself the like Fate though not without Suspition of Poyson But the very Thoughts of such a thing was condemned as a Crime because Alva had a hand therein There was about the same time a louder though more mystical Rumour of the Death of Charles the Kings Son It was evident that he though the Heir of so many Great Kingdoms was put into Ward whether his too much forwardness in his Youth had raised a Suspition of him that he was ambitious of Rule as if his Care for the Netherlanders had been too great for his Interest there or whether the same Crime were laid to his Charge which had taken off his Step-Mother is uncertain But this is sure that shortly after he died though still very dubious what Causes could so provoke the Fathers Wrath to that heighth as to work his Sonne death The Exiles who now though at distance were every where against their Wills and in Poverty being much grieved at the Oppression of their Country did earnestly sollicies the Prince of Aurange to take up Arms which of his own accord he was not at all propense to do willing rather the the Spaniard should over-un all until all his Counsels were laid open and there might be hoped a more safe Opportunity for the Distressed to gather and unite a Force while the King should for the most part be taken up with other Wars Nevertheless some of the Exiles at present being drawn together under the Leading of Lewis of Nass● brake into Frizeland There by the Death of Arembery there slain whom the heat and reviling of his Souldiers comp●lled to fight though he thought it more Prudence● weary them out by Delays by the Rout and Overthrow his Forces became Conquerours but staying with a fruitle● Expectation of some Towns falling off to them their Mo●e●fell short for the Souldiers Pay so that all Discipline was neglected when suddaintly by the Surprize of Alva they were almost all slain Adolph the Prince of Aurange his Brother and Lewis his also being killed in the former Skirmish they had tincted the War alternately both with their own and their Enemies Bloud The Prince of Aurange being throughly moved with this Carriage of Affairs that he might be the better able to relieve his Parties both by strength and the Justice of their Government he sets forth in Books a Narrative the Reasons Causes and Justice of their taking up Arms refuting at once both the Judge and the Crimes objected against him not dissembling That now being taught better things he had l●ft the Church of Rome yet calling God to Witness That he took Arms for the Publike Weal and freeing his Countrey from Slavery That this was the Duty of every good Citizen much more of a Noble-man Of Philip he spoke honourably whose Goodness he said was perverted by the Spanish Counsels and that he did not yet despair but that he would at length resume better thoughts of his faithful Subjects and uphold their sworn and setled Laws In the mean while according to the Law of Brabant in regard of his many Errours in Government Obedience was due unto him as to their Soveraign Lastly that which seems to make most for the Justice of their Cause was this The Brabanders as they had a more special and wary care than the rest for the maintaining their Liberty so likewise to prevent the Incroachm●nt of their Princes who under pretence of the Publike did not stick som●times to break up and dissolve their State-Conventions they used to Covenant of their own proper Right that when any Prince infringed the Laws they should be free from the Bonds of their Fidelity and Obedience to him untill the Wrongs so done should be removed and satisfied And this confirmed by many Examples of their Ancestors who when formerly some of their Princes either through their own weakness or the Delusions of Flatterers had been drawn away they drew to more moderation among whom the most remarkable was John the Second of that Name either by Force or strong Decrees by them drawn up which before they would conclude any Peace they made the Princes freely promise That they would without any violation confirm and establish the same Now the Prince of Aurange though born in Germany yet had obtained many most Noble Heriditary Jurisdictions in Brabant to the Lords or Possessors whereof antient Custom had given the Dignity of being a Peer or chief Governour by which Right he urged That is did belong to him not onely to see the Laws well executed but also to defend and maintain them But here it is not to be omitted that the same Right was claimed by the like Customs by divers other of the Netherlandish Provinces and also that the Decrees of Maximilia of Austria and Mary of Burgundy were to be taken notice of which had made them by the same Sanction of the Laws individually equally with the Brabanders themselves And this appears by what the People of Frizeland Utrech● and Gelderland did in the time of the Emperour Charles their Prince when among many other peculiar Agreements and Covenants there was this one common and

the Action of this Day wherein the safety of so many men and in them of their Country and the Honours of so great a Triumph they acknowledged onely to be received from the Goodness of Almighty God But the Courtiers who are a crafty sort of Men in sowing Discord chiefly from this very time began as envying the Great Mens Authority to object the Prince's Anger and some Speeches of the Vulgar as if they being valiant enough among safe Counsels had for their own sakes onely engaged so many Armed Men and the Prince himself in so great Dangers The three first days after the Fight were spent in deliberating concerning Things of greatest moment on both Sides while the Prince advises part of his men to go and receive Oldenburg that so a Passage might be opened into the very Heart of Flanders and other parts to return to the Siege of Newport Now began the Weather to grow Turbulent both with great Winds and Rain which caused a procrastinating Delay in the Transacting of many Affairs besides the Souldiers began to be refractory to Command either grown timorous by the Review of the great Dangers they had lately passed through or else embolden'd by Victory for they quarrel'd and sometimes fought about the Prisoners whom some out of Respect to the Law of Arms or that they might not lose their Ransome endeavour'd to preserve Others especially the Scots offended for the loss of their Companions or pretending the like Wickedness from the Enemy in some Cases without any Respect to their Officers commanding the contrary openly slew them But in the interim Albertus having recollected his Courage to bear his Loss re-inforcing with strong Garrison's Oldenburg and other Forts thereabouts and not far off at Bruges prepar'd to raise a new Army out of those that survived the Fight or could be sent for from all parts of the Borders Some also fled to Newport whither afterwards Prince Maurice came but could not perfect his Siege by reason of the unseasonableness of the Weather At which time first five hundred then two thousand men conducted by Barlotte got into the Town by which means they were so well able to defend their Walls that they could make frequent Sallies and many times successfully enough Which Prince Maurice perceiving the Twelfth Day after he came thither he led away his Army and with like difficulty attempted to besiege one of the Forts about Ostend scituate among the Meadows and call'd by the Name of Isabella Hither also Claudius Barlotte came and did his best and last Endeavour being there slain with a Bullet He was a Man of a noble Courage a Lorrainer by Birth and skill'd in the Art of Chyrurgery by which he got his Living but afterwards by some unworthy Act reconciled to Count Mansfeldt whose Wife he was said to have attempted But arising to Honour he so behaved himself that he was esteem'd worthy of greater Honour every Day by which means his Death was much lamented by his General and as much rejoyced at by those who envyed his new and upstart Rising Prince Maurice being out of all hope of making War in Flanders by reason of the difficulty of the places and the recruited strength of the Enemy at length hoysted Sayl to Ostend carrying no other benefit with him of his hard-gained Victory besides the Glory thereof Before his departure he commanded Fort Albertus to be demolish'd but the Enemy quickly repaired it And as the Fleet went away the Weather by chance being Calm Spinola's Ships ventur'd to set upon some straglers thereof as they lagged behind But the Winds on a suddain rising they could scarce get safe away with all their Oars the Fleet pursuing them until they were hindred by the Shallows Some Attempts of Count Lewis of Nassaw into Brabant about this time came to nothing The rest of the Year being almost the half thereof was spent in quiet as if equally divided between these two great Enemies the one contenting himself in the happy Event of his successful Battel the other in the deserved Honour of saving Flanders from Ruine While Flanders was thus involved in War an Assembly of the States was summon'd at Bruxels according to the old Custom but of late omitted being perswaded hereto because they understood the Disposition of the Netherlanders and he was advised also to put on a moderate Carriage and to use perswasive Language and under pretence of asking Counsel to require Money He said he was very much grieved for the Evils wherewith the People were oppressed nor would he augment them by Dissimulation And if any Remedy for the same could be obtained by Peace he would be ready to further the same But if the Enemies Obstinacy gain-said a Settlement yet they should not despair for that their Cause was better For their Benefit the Spanish Wealth was consumed from whence had been drained for many Moneths to maintain their War Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Scutes Monthly But that Discipline might be restored the Souldiers employed without injurious Actions it was just that the Netherlanders themselves should give their Assistance that Pay might be raised for the Souldiers and for discharge and maintainance of the Garrisons And when the Revenues of the Prince's Patrimony was in the French Troubles laid to Pledge they ought now to be given to him and his Princely Spouse for the better Support of their Grandeur and Government While the rest of the Things were in Debate the business of Money was laid aside by which means Mutinies and Seditions began every day more and more to spread so that a new Design was laid between the Remains of those of Diest that escaped from the late Battel and the Souldiers of Hamante But the Netherlandish States by this occasion interesting Themselves more nearly in the Common-wealths Affairs fell to Inquiry What was the Advantage they received from the Spanish Aids and what was fit to supply the Garrisons and maintain the War both at Sea and Land But the main Thing they insisted upon was Peace But the Hollanders suspected many Things and not without Reason as That all the Castles in the Netherlands and the chief Offices were in the Hands of Foreiners contrary to the Laws and that which is set down in those very Instruments made of late by which the Netherlands were transferced to the Arch-Dukes For there was a Necessity imposed upon Religion the Indies shut up from them and the Princes themselves obliged to the King of Spain as Pensioners and Clients which things they found fault with partly as grievous partly as mischievous But if King Philip would take away these things and by the Princes leave it might be lawful for them to make a League with the Hollanders that so there may the greater Credit be given to their Covenants they hoped in short time to re-unite all the Provinces under one Government The Arch-Duke consented that Deputies should be sent in the Name of the several States under his Command

sent to assist Embden which entred the City at the same time when Enno drawing near with his Forces hoped to have been admitted by those of his Faction but now being kept out thence he entreth the Villages round about and erects several Forts for the shutting up of the City and the River The States being informed thereof and now after the taking of Grave having some leisure to consult about their neighbours affairs at the request of the City sent Warner Dubois a Colonel of Horse thither with some Troups of Horse and almost nineteen Companies of Foot He within a few daies assaults and wins all the Forts and sets free the City from those rude and ignorant maintainers of Warre En●o that he might remove this disgrace out of his sight with as much envy and bitterness of language as he could invent disputed the Hollanders incroachments upon the rights of anothers dominion of which the States being conscious they published in Print the cause of that action of theirs and the danger that was like to have fallen not onely upon themselves but all Germany by the Count's deeds The Twelfth BOOK of the History of the Dutch AFFAIRES THE Hollanders being oppressed with the French Peace were attended with a greater evil which was the death of Queen Elizabeth about this time whereby they were more deeply plunged in a Warre yet had lost that assistence which as it was the first so had it continued unto the last She died the third day of April being by the length of daies arrived to the toils of life from whence she supposed her old age which she had spun out even to the seventieth year now grew contemptible and that the hopes and counsels of those in whom she had put her greatest confidence were turned towards her successor It was a long reign for a Woman and famous not onely at home but abroad which produced many various censures some conjecturing at the future according as they were led by fear or hope others from the memory of former actions reckoning what prosperity and adversity she had seen during her long life Here was remembred the beheading of her Mother and that for no small fault but onely the supposed crime of Adultery whence arose those many bitter taunts of her Enemies as if she had been the Issue of an unknown Father Soon after when her Sister fate in the Throne she was cast into Prison Which was no small affliction of so great a spirit until by the means and intercessions of Philip King of Spain to whom she owed her Liberty if not her Life she was freed from thence though afterwards she requited his kindness with a long and sharp Warre Besides her Reign was accounted cruel by the execution of so many Noblemen for no other pretence but that they professed the Romane Catholick Religion and also in that no less novel then odious example to all Princes though indeed excusable enough from the necessity that by the command of a Woman not onely a Woman but a Kinswoman and she a Suppliant not as a common person but a distressed Queen was put to death Also there were some that stuck not to exprobrate the divulsions of Ireland and seditions of the English Souldiers in the Low-Countries as if they had been commanded Certainly it was the greatest of her misery that she lived so long without a Husband from whence came the incertainty of her Heir and very various were the several opinions concerning her many objecting her love to the Earl of Leicester and after him her endearments of Essex whose hot and over-hasty youth together with his contempt of her decaying and aged beauty was punished with the loss of his head though soon after her minde was more changed from hatred to repentance then before it had been from love to hatred so that it was by many judged to be the main cause of her sickness and death On the other side it was said that the long continuance of her Government and life manifested the same to be well-pleasing to God and that instead of the customary evils of youth she had shewed great prudence in her carriage and behaviour in the enjoyment of both good and bad fortune Nor was it so great a wonder that her security was established by the death of some Rebels and by Warres as that a Woman's Government after four and fourty years had not onely made England safe but flourishing nor had she at any time taken Arms but for most just causes Religion was by her reformed to the example of King Edward not by force or according to her own fancy but upon debate of the matter in the great Council of the Kingdome and in a lawful manner Nor did she rage with cruelty against those that were of another judgement unless it were when it was too late when by the doctrine and instruction of the Jesuites they had thrown off all reverence love to their Country and Government at once By her help Scotland was vindicated from the French the Prince of Conde's Party from their adverse faction and much of the Netherlands from the Spaniards And although she had so many great allurements to increase her Dominion yet she remained content with her own not desiring from all her victorious atchievements any other thing then the liberty of that Religion by her promoted and to set limits to power that was or might be defervedly suspected Thus did she restore the Towns which she possessed in France preserved Scotland for a Child and rejected the desires of the Hollanders intreating her to take the Dominion over them And now lately the old Garrisons in Ireland being taken and new ones fortified some of the Nobles being taken here some there their faction was so infeebled and the very strength and pretence thereof so weakned and Tyrone himself so broken that falling upon his knees before the Lord Lieutenant he humbly requested pardon of all his offences For that excess of Honour happened to him a little before his fall She had been courted to Marriage not by the English onely but by Charles of Austria brother of the Emperour and by Henry and Francis brothers to the King of France as also by some Kings themselves to wit Philip of Spain and Ericus of Sweden That she was thus sought was her happiness but that she refused all was her prudence because as it was unfit for her Greatness to marry a Subject so the Subjects of England were afraid she should marry a Foreiner The reproches that were spred concerning her took their beginning from her sex and the elegancy of her beauty together with the customary liberty of Princes and could onely be refuted by manlike care and diligence Nor was she onely well skilled in the arts of Government but was learned in the ancient and modern languages an excellency rarely found in Women of a private fortune which made her Name and renown great and famous and not onely terrible to and