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The usurpations of France upon the trade of the woollen manufacture of England briefly hinted at, being the effects of thirty years observations, by which that King hath been enabled to wage war with so great a part of Europe, or, A caution to England to improve a season now put into her hand, to secure her self by William Carter.
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Carter, W. (William)
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1645
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Wing C678A; ESTC R24254
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Stone of the Castle was shaken or any of their Men had lost the least hair of their Heads they Dishonourably Surrendred the Fort for which Treachery tho so profitable to the Enemy yet he commanded them to be Fetter'd in Chains and basely intreated in close Prisons till they had dearly redeem'd their Liberty But on the other hand in that story 't is pitty to omit an Instance of the Loyalty Fidelity and Resolution of the Lord Delacy Governor of another English Garrison in France who having received of King John the Custody of that goodly Castle Rock Andley did bravely bear of the Siege and power of King Phillip of France and his Host almost a whole Year yet they could never make entry upon them but were repulsed with slaughter till his Provision of Victuals being spent he called his Souldiers together encouraging them that it was more noble for Souldiers to Dye Fighting than Famishing and together with their own Lives to Sacrifice to their Countries Honor the blood slaughtred Enemies Whereupon fiercely Sallying forth with his Resolutes after a blody shambles made in the midst of his belegers he was by Multitude over-born and taken But in regard of his Exemplary Faith and prowess in maintaining his charge he was by King Phillips express command tho' an Enemy Honourably used and without restraint of a Prison yet this very King Phillip just as Lewis now shortly after used such Instruments to get other places that he first corrupts them that they might corrupt others to defection with great rewards and greater promises that he might in time obtain the English Diadem from King John which was very near obtained at that time in the mean-time go Roan and so all Normondy which had been in the hands of the English Kings viz. King John and his Predecessours about Two hundred Year and no less Treacherously dealt Phillip the French King with them when he caught them with the Trap of glossing proffers causing without delay their Cities goodly Walls to be utterly demolished and giving strict charge never to be built again It may not be amiss to relate the occasion why Normondy was so soon lost to the French and thereby afterwards Lewis Phillips Son to come here as by and by more of Lewis when King John had notice of the French Kings design on Normondy he prepared a very great Army and Ships accordingly to Transport them and when ready to Embark Hubert then Bishop of Canterbury that he might faciliate the French Kings design prevented that enterprise threatning Excommunication from his Holiness at Rome if he attemptsd it The like have been by some others done by hindring our attempts upon the French when opportunities have been offered but to return by King John's being hindred from going to France and loosing so much expence here and his Intrest in Normondy by which means and his adhearing to Rome the Barons War began which gave opportunity for the French King Phillip to put in Execution what he did aim at before viz. The Crown of England and to that end his Son Lewis being invited came over with an Army and after great destruction by that War as King John was going from Lynn in Norfolk to give Lewis Battle as he was passing the washes in Lincoln-shire with his Army in those Sands all his Carridges Treasure and Provision himself and his Army hardly escaping were Irrecoverably lost many likewise were the grievances into which the Barons the mean while were plunged to see their Native Country thus horribly Massacreed their own Castles and Possessions ruined by the King and which bred in them most Anxity their Faithful service in their Faithless adherance not so respected by Lewis as he and their foreruning hope had promised them while he conferred only on his French all such Territories and Castles as the hand of Victory had lent him but their distress were yet greater than those their jealousies could comprehend till a Noble French Man Vicont de Modan a Man of great esteem with Lewis having his Soul in his Sickness deadly wounded with the Sin of his Health desired private conference on his Death-bed in London with those English Barons to whom Lewis had committed the Custody of that City to whom he imparted what lamentable desolations and unsuspected ruines hung over their Heads for that Lewis with sixteen other his chief Earls and Barons whereof himself was one avowing it on the Salvation of his now departing Soul had taken an Oath if ever Englands Crown was setled on his Head to Condemn unto perpetual Exile all such as now adhered to him against King John as Traytors to their Sovereign and all their Kindred in the Land utterly to Extirpate So Coucelling them timely to prevent their misery which by the sudden Death of King John and Crowning Henry the Third was accomplished and then Lewis was forcest to be gone which had not King John been taken away so soon great misery had then befaln England I would upon this occasion crave leave to look back and consider how seasons and opportunities have been neglected to have given that common Enemy of mankind a very great check and freed England from those losses lately in our Turky Fleet and and fears of more who knows how things may be for the future or who may hereafter call any thing their own things are so uncertain whether we believe it or no I wish I may be deceived in my fears I would upon this occasion as being not Impertinent recite a passage that the Turkish History affords us viz That at the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet the Great at which time the Riches of the Conquered were no better then poverty and beauty worse than deformity but to speak of the hidden Treasure there found passeth credit The Turks themselves wondering thereat whereof if some part had in time been bestowed upon the defence of the City the Turkish King had not so easily taken both it and the City But every Man as now here was careful how to encrease his own private wealth few or none regarding the publick state its still our case until in fine every Man with his private abundance was wrapped together with his needy Neighbour in the self same common misery yet the security of the Constantinopolitans was such that tho' being always environed with their Mortal Enemies yet had they no care of Fortifying of so much as their inner Wall of the City but suffered the Officers which had the charge of it to convert the greatest part of the Money into their own Purses as appears by one Manuel Geogrius a little before a very poor Man and likewise by Neophilu an Officer who had in a short time gathered together Seventy Thousand Florens which becometh a worthy prey unto the greedy Turks Upon the whole matter I must conclude that if our Intrest and the Glory of our Nation be things of value I humbly submit to better Judgments whether the things before mentioned duly