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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75315	The anatomie of the French and Spanish faction. With a full discovery of who they are; and what they have done, from before the beginning of King Iames his raigne unto this present. Declaring in particulars, how the many miseries and the calamities which we have, and do indure by blood, rapine, and many insupportable impositions, have proceeded directly from them, seconded by the ambitious spirits of the bishops. Wherein also all our grievances, and their subtle and horrible plots are instanced; to give a more full and ample satisfaction unto all. Published according to the order of Parliament.		1644 (1644)	Wing A3060; Thomason E35_29; ESTC R20722	7,562	16

THE ANATOMIE OF THE FRENCH And SPANISH FACTION With a full Discovery of who they are and what they have done from before the beginning of King Iames his Raigne unto this present Declaring in particulars how the many miseries and the calamities which we have and do indure by Blood Rapine and many insupportable Impositions have proceeded directly from them seconded by the ambitious Spirits of the Bishops Wherein also all our grievances and their subtle and horrible Plots are instanced to give a more full and ample satisfaction unto all Published according to the Order of Parliament LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop 1644. THE ANATOMIE OF THE FRENCH and SPANISH Faction BEfore the Norman Conquest the French looked long upon the affaires of England with a greedy eye and in those innocent times maintained a partie here in England to make good their Faction The Spaniards as they are more grave in their deportment so they are more retired in their Counsailes and being then alwayes in Warres either to establish or increase their more VVesterne territories had hardly the leisure to think on England untill the Allyance of King Philip with Queen Mary since which time being taken either with the wealth or the pleasure of this Isle they have alwaies either openly by warre or privately by policie been industrious either to assault it or betray it I will not wipe off the dust of antiquity from the story of the French to represent unto you what were the designes which many yeares since they nourished to unite this Kingdome unto France neither will I ravell out your expectation or the time in any discourse upon the Spaniard more then what shall concern our present purpose which is to declare unto you how the French and Spanish for these late yeares have desperately conjoyned into one resolve of mischiefe for the subverting of the Protestant Religion and the ruin of this Kingdome which was of late the envy and is now become the pitty and the astonishment of Christendome Yet before I arrive unto their latter practises on which I chiefly would insist it will be worth your observation to consider how eagerly both nations did ambiate the marriage of the renowned Queen Elizabeth who alwayes overcame her enemies and her Sex The first who did court her in the way of marriage was Don Iohn de Austria thinking thereby to reduce our Island and Religion to the Spanish Principles but the Queen who knew very well before what was the ambition and the arts of Spaine could no wayes bee induced to heare of that illegitimate Prince The second was the Duke of Alenson brother to Henry the third then King of France a gallant Gentleman indeed and who wheresoever he came did winne upon the hearts of all by his valour and his courtesie but as the Kingdome was then blessed in a brave Queen so was the Queen blessed with as brave a Counsell and that marriage by reason of the diversity in religion and many considerations of State being also rejected the Duke returned into Flanders where either by greife or poyson he died strangely in the flower of his Age of an issue of blood which abundantly came from him out of all the passages of his bodie In the same manner also died his Elder Brother Charles the eight King of France neither did his other brother Henry the third who before hee was King of France swayed the Imperiall Scepter of Polonia descend unto his grave by a naturall or timely death so true is that of the Satyrist Ad generum Cereris sine caede sanguine pauci Descendunt Reges et sicca morte tyranni By a dry death without some bloody end Few Kings to Ceres sonne in law descend Herein you may observe how just are all the works and how constant are the wayes of God their Father Henry the second of France promised his Father on his death-bed that he would make no more warre with the Protestants nor be the occasion of any more effusion of blood in France for Religion but soon after his death forgetting his Covenant with the dead and overcome with the evill counsell of his Queen the warre began anew and the old wounds being opened the land again did sweat with blood But marke the event this Henry being afterwards at a Turnament in which himselfe would be a tilter he was struck through the eye with the splinter of a speare of which not long afterwards hee dyed His sonnes Charles and Francis miserably ended their contracted dayes by a terrible evacuation of blood the wit of Iustice punishing that blood in their bodies which they had caused to issue out of the body of the Kingdom Henry the third a great contriver of that most horrid massacre and Author of much Protestant bloodshed at the battels of Dreux and Moncontour was killed afterwards himselfe by a Friar and both the Murder and the Murderer commended by Xistus then Pope of Rome neither of such faire hopes of posterity was there any one left of the great and glorious name of Valois to succeed in the Kingdom of France I have obviously inserted this that the world might take notice how deere unto God is the safety of his people and that he hath pacified the crying blood of the Protestants with the destruction of the families of the Monarchs of the earth If you would give me the reading of it I could furnish your observation with another story which because it is very memorable I will here insert it and then returne from whence a little I have digressed Henry the third being slaine the Crowne of France was devolved unto Henry of Burbon King of Navarre who had married Margaret sister to Henry the third she was a Lady of a delicate constitution both of mind and body and admirable for her vertues and her vices who finding that the Peers of France had estranged their hearts and their loyalties from her husband by reason of his religion she perswaded him for the assurance of his Crowne and the safety of his person to turn Catholick again which indeed once before he did which was at the massacre of Saint Bartholomews some 3 or 4 dayes after the solemnization of his marriage But though that superstition be blind what cannot the Iesuits see They conceiving that this alteration of his Religion was but dissolation in the King they corrupted a villain with gold and the certainty of salvation as if the way to heaven was by murder to destroy him this desperate caitiff under the pretence of private businesse of great importance having passed the guards had accesse unto his Majesty and finding him on the top of the staires stooping and prepared to listen to him hee struck at his brest with his knife and missing it by a more mercifull errour he struck his knife through his lip against his teeth The villaine apprehended and the tumult appeased a great Personage standing neare unto his Majesty said unto him Sir You have denied God