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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03724	The ambassador; Ambassadeur. English	Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636.; Shawe, James.	1603 (1603)	STC 13848; ESTC S104251	45,449	156

too farre his ordinary exhibition and especially that thereby he belie not falsly the occasion of his Ambassage For I haue seene those which haue failed in both and it hath bin told them that they named themselues the Ambassadors of misery for they came to craue succours of men and mony and yet were in their expences as if their master had possessed the Indies And here it is that an argument from the lesse to the great may be made how shall he performe a charge of importance that knoweth not howe to guide his house and order his expence Furthermore he shall manifest his wisedome in this if when hee hath receiued order to departe he take instructions sufficiently ratified for whatsoeuer he hath to say or negotiate that he may not be disallowed for any thing that he shall haue said treated or concluded as it hath befalne vnto some that haue after repented it whereof I will speake a word hereafter He must also instruct himselfe by the mouth of him that was next before him in this charge vnlesse that his predecessor do install him himselfe and at his induction doe communicate vnto him all such treaties remembrances and papers as are necessary and do sufficiently enforme him of all And because Secretaries of Estate giue not so often intelligences to the Ambassador nor alwayes send him aduice of that which passeth at Court and in the Estate so often as he gladly would and that it should many times be expedient to haue aduertizement thereof because of the false rumors which are ordinarily spread by the enemies of an Estate especially in time of warre and that it is a shame to an Ambassadour that strangers should know the newes of his countrie before him hee shall doe very well to haue some friend in court which may aduertize him often of that which is done yea euen to the least particularities by which many times he may iudge of matters of importance The griefe wherein I haue seene Monsieur de Sillary Brulart in Swisserland and in England Monsieur de Beaunoir la Nocle and many others elsewhere Indeed it was in the hottest of the troubles maketh mee to giue this aduice to those that goe on Ambassage and that they ought not to spare two or three hundred crownes a yeere this way if neede require Furthermore that man is vndiscreet that through rashnesse throweth himselfe into the danger of his enemy Neither will I counsaile any to goe on ambassage towards that Prince whom he hath offended in word or deede for Princes doe seldome forget an iniury and are patient to awaite a fit time to reuenge themselues At the least it is very likely that hee shall neuer performe his Maisters businesses so well with such a one Besides it is not meete to commit this charge to him that hath beene spotted with any crime or publike reproach Nor vnto him that is the subiect of that Prince to whom he is sent for in this behalfe it be fell out ill with the Esquire Merueilles as Millan of whom Guicciardine and du Bellay make mention at least Duke Sforza gaue his excuse in paiment as I will shew anon It being both more commodious and more conuenient for the greatnesse of the master that he which is sent bee his naturall subiect not a stranger considering that naturally he will vse therein more care and more fidelitie and it is a shame to make our want to bee knowne in this behalfe of men able capable of such a charge Not but that sometimes it hath well sorted when strangers haue beene employed Aboue all it is a thing odious and vnsauory to send vnto a neighbor Prince a subiect of his for Ambassador to whom he will euer doe honor discontentedly remembring what power and authoritie a Prince hath ouer his subiects True it is that out of this rule prisoners of warre may be excepted either to negociate the deliuerance of themselues and their companions or to treat of some good meanes for a peace truce or other good occasion as hath beene seene in the warres betweene the Romans and the Carthaginians and in those of France and England An other poynt of wisedome is to arriue in season and to take occasion commodiously which I obserue because there are some who through the hardnesse of the season or for the difficultie and dangers of the wayes or for some other light hinderance do deferre the departure or stay by the way so that at their arriuall they finde matters altered and come as a Phisitian when one is dead And to this purpose Suetonius recounteth how those of Troy sent the Deputies to Tiberius to condole the death of his sonnes seuen or eight moneths after that it happened And I saide he am very sory for the losse which sometime you had of fstanders by to laugh for countriman Hector and so made all the standers by to laugh for Hector died many hundred yeeres before He must also present himselfe in due time and place that there be no suspicion conceiued vpon the cause of his comming as Titus Liuius declareth of the Mirian Ambassadors Who kept themselues secret a while at Rome waiting peraduenture for some newe instructions from their Maister which was a cause to make them to bee stayed as spies Whereof they had somewhat to doe to purge themselues mentitur legationem qui nomen legationis non praefert suo tempore as a Lawyer saith and an Ambassage is held suspected which is not done in due time and place Seruius saith that in olde time amongst the Romans this order was kept in receiuing strange Ambassadors Legati si quando incogniti venire nunciarentur primo quid vellent ab exploratoribus requirebatur postea ad eos egrediebantur maiestratus minores tunc demum Senatus si ita visum fuisset admittebantur But concerning this point of departing in time in former times the Deputies of the Rhodians were accused for not departing at the prefixed day towards Athens about a matter of importance whereof grewe some inconuenience They defended and excused themselues throgh the Treasurers default who had not giuen them the money appoynted vnto them for their voyage but their replie and reproach was that for a matter of such importance they ought themselues to haue disbursed the mony rather than to loose an occasion which might preiudice the Estate at least that in due time they ought to haue made their diligence appeare and to haue protested against the Treasurer It is not enough to ariue time He must as before I said present himselfe and deliuer his Ambassage if it be of any importance for the lingering of some hath giuen opportunitie to Spies to discouer their secrets and the occasion of well effecting it is so lost Alcibiades vsed like subtilitie to the Ambassadors of Lacedemon who were made a iest of thereby and many like examples haue to my knowledge chanced vnlesse that there be a lawfull cause why audience should not

which are for a seuerall discourse I wil only say that if an Ambassador will reape honour of his charge it is meete that he doe honour vnto the same and that he be iealous of the degree and place which is due vnto his Maister without yeelding any iote thereof vnto an other Princes and soueraigne estates doe hold many times more deare the conseruation of their degree and dignitie than of their lands and possessions So Arcases did put his Ambassador to death for hauing surrendered his place vnto Sylla as Plutarke saith It is true that alwayes such questions doe not arise because almost euery one throughout all places knoweth the degree and place that is due vnto him In the Court of Rome for these 50. or 60. yeares the Ambassador of Spaine hath made question of precedencie with those of France There was a great alteration therein at the Councell of Trent At Venice it hath beene adiudged to him of France The late Aduocate Pithou affirmeth that in all the prouincials of all the Cathedrall Churches of Christendome that haue beene imprinted at Rome euen to this present the King of France is put the first of all other Kings being seconded by the King of England and then by him of Spaine Bodin sayeth that in the ceremonie of the Order of England the place of the King of France is at the right hand of the chiefe of the Order and so it was decreed at a Chapter helde on the eue of Saint George patron of that Order in the yeare 1555 by the knights of the Garter albeit that the King of Spaine had maried Mary the elder sister of the late Queene of England I beleeue that there would be no lesse honour done vnto him in Scotland Denmarke of many princes and potentates of Germany and Italy But the Emperor being neere kins-man of the same name and armes that the King of Spaine is giueth the precedencie to his Ambassador and the last Emperor was content that it should goe by turnes as anciently that of the Roman Consulls was and at present that of the Burghemaisters and Auoyers in some Cantons of Swisserland is to the end not to displease th' one nor the other Neuerthelesse the King sent word vnto Monsieur de la Forrest his Ambassador that he should not alter any thing in this matter without his expresse commandement The Senate of Polonia to a like question ordayned tha the first come should be the first heard At an other time at the Councell of Constance the Ambassador of England debated it with him of France whose strongest argument was the title which his Maister then tooke of King of England and France And he possessed Aquitania and pretended vnto Normandie I haue heard reported that an Ambassadour of the Kings in Swisserland being in company with the Ambassador of Spaine at the assembly of Baden and seeing that the spaniard alwaies stroue for the way made as if hee would buy something at a Marchantes shoppe where both of them staying together the French stepped out first and took the aduantage The best is in such occasions neuer to meet together vnlesse that the seruice of his maister doe require it At least he can excuse himselfe for publike places and ceremonies as hath bin practised at Rome for these certaine yeares And if so be our Ambassador chance to be present at such like altercation of other Ambassadors he must take heed not to inuest himselfe in the one side or the other or any way to interpose himselfe therein without his masters commandement It is not so for al other differences that many fal out in the countrie where he is especially if hee perceiue his Maister to haue any interest therein as when there hapneth any discord amongst the Swissers or the Grisons all which haue almost as many common-wealthes as they haue Citties and Corporations And it is very hard that in that great body so diuersly compounded with difference of customes languages and religion in one only Canton of the Grisons there are three different languages spoken there growe not amongest them as wise as they all are some occasion of disputation wherein the wise Ambassadour may make the dexteritie of his spirit to preuaile by setting them at accord imploying the affection of his Maister towardes the one side and the other to oblige them both vnto him The which thing the Sieur de Liuerdis last Ambassador for the King amongst the Grisons knewe how to handle both wisely and profitably when he sawe they were on termes of disagreeing and I can speak for a certainty that his memory is yet helde deare amongest them The Interest of the King in these two estates is that during their diuisions hee can leuie no forces nor be succoured with their people to any purpose if hee shoulde stand in neede of them About the yeere 1602. the Sieur de Dase by his wise Meditation accorded to twoo Kings of Denmarke Swethen being ready to enter into warre and both of them made choice of him for Arbitrator of their differences His Priuiledges IT followeth now to speake of the priuileges immunities of an Ambassador not only for the respect of his owne person but also of those of his family of all that appertaineth vnto him for concerning his person euery man knoweth that by the lawes of God man euen amongst barbarous nations and in the middest of the armes and armies of enemies the person of an Ambassador hath in all ages beene adudged holy sacred and inuiolable for if besides the perill and inconueniences of a long voyage to which they expose themselues they should not be in safetie in the place whereunto they goe there would neuer be any which would vndertake the hazard thereof and consequently there would neuer any longer be made any truce peace or establishment of commerce finally we should fall againe into that first Chaos and confusion of all things And likewise the punishments of those that haue done violence vnto them haue in all times beene very rigorous this lawe being growne into a prouerbe Legatus neque coeditur neque violatur And when men haue not taken punishment for the same it hath beene obserued from age to age that God hath not suffiered this offence vnpunished witnesse the subuersion of Carthage of Sirus of Thebes and of so many other Citties yea Prouinces and whole Kingdomes Dauid fought against discomfited and brought into bondage the Ammonites for this cause The histories both sacred and prophane doe afforde vs enough and too many examples hereof King Frances the first denounced warre against the Emperour Charles for the murther of Amion and Fregose his Ambassadours Yea euen a rough and haughtie word a scorne or contempt done vnto some Ambassadors hath beene oftentimes cause of the beginning of warre as that of Dalmatia whereof Nasica was Generall and a long time after that of Simon King of Bulgarie against Alexander Emperour of Constantinople By a much stronger reason