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A43795	The interest of these United Provinces being a defence of the Zeelanders choice : wherein is shewne I. That we ought unanimously to defend our selves, II. That if we cannot, it is better to be under England than France, in regard of religion, liberty, estates, and trade, III. That we are not yet to come to that extremity, but we may remaine a republick, and that our compliance with England is the onely meanes for this : together with severall remarkes upon the present, and conjectures on the future state of affaires in Europe, especially as relating to this republick / by a wellwisher to the reformed religion, and the welfare of these countries.	Hill, Joseph, 1625-1707.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2000; ESTC R19940	128,370	120

shall be able to pursue them And indeed such is the growing greatnes of that Kingdome that it is become formidable to all Europe I need not insist on this the World is sufficiently sensible of it but it may be worth our pains to enquire into the causes thereof France formerly had severall boundaries to their Ambition which by degrees they have broken downe Severall Dukes on the one side that of Normandie Comines 1 6. c. 3. and the English after who for 400 years together latè dominati sunt in Gallia till Charles the 7. his time and that of Bretagnie till Charles the 8 gained it to the Crowne of France by the marriage of Anne Daughter of Francis the 2. the last Duke thereof and on the other side the Dukes of Bungundie till Lewis the 11. who after the death of Charles the last Duke slaine at the Battell of Nancey seized thereon and united it to the Crowne of France These three Potentates kept the French Kings continually under by their Confederations and Wars against that Kingdome Which Bands they having once broke they became at liberty to get more elbow-room in the World and become the largest compactest and strongest Kingdom of Europe were it not that their owne intestine Divisions and frequent Civil Wars hath often weakned them After France had arrived at this greatnes the following Kings Charles the 8. Lewis the 12. and Francis the first fruitlesly spent the Kingdoms strength in their Wars in Italy till Francis and Charles the 5. became competitors for the Empire and Spaine and France a fit match for each other in power Since which time such mighty contests have been betwixt those two Kingdoms as have filled all Europe with terror and amazement and all Historians with their Actions But how France hath so far prevailed as we see at present is partly by our owne and partly by the English fault we by Commission and they by Omission as we shall with what brevity we can make apparent in regard it may be usefull to us both During the reigne of Charles the 5. and Francis aforesaid the Reformation of Religion begun which occasioned great alterations to the Kingdom of France and to the Kings of Spaine in these Low Countries Wherein the Crowne of Spaine continued to prosecute their intrest in breaking downe the power of France by all means possible and especially by joyning with the Guisian faction which stiled themselves the Holy-League under pretense of opposing the Protestants Those great contests which the severall factions in France clothed with the glorious mantle of Religion are well knowne to those that are conversant in their Histories and are particularly declared by many but best in my judgement on the Protestants side by Beza the Author though not named of those 15 Bookes he stiles Commentariorum de Statu Religionis Reip. in Regno Galliae sub Henrico 2. Franciso 2. Carolo 9. Henrico 3. And on the Papists by Davila in his excellent Historie of the Civil Wars of France In which Contests in the Reigns of the four forementioned Kings the Successors of Francis the 1 and in the times of Henry the 4. who succeded them the Protestants called there Hugonots got into their Possession above 300 Garrisons and Forts in that Kingdome On the otherhand France was not asleep or awanting to prosecute their intrest in fomenting promoting and carrying on those divisions in these Low Countries to breake downe the power of Spaine into whose hands they had fallen by marriage as we have said and to remove the obstacle which these Provinces constantly were to their advancing their designes For which end they continually assisted us and whilst they pretended to fight our Battells at our charges they really fought their owne And lest the House of Austria so nearly allied to Spaine should afford them further assistance they ingage Sweden to invade the Empire and give the Emperor worke at home allowing A. D. 1631. Gustavus Adolphus 300000. Franks for levying an Army and a Million yearly for paying them every Frank being two Shillings sterling as in the years 1625. and 1635. they fathering all the Empire did on Spaine engaged us allso in more firme and constant Leagues against them This being the true State of those times between those two Crownes we therein thus doubly miscarried and erred both in our Civil and Religious Intrest First in that we thought we could never bring Spaine low enough nor assist France sufficiently against them In this blind zeale we went a great deale too far though nothing the length that France desired For had we listned to their suggestions we had to this day continued our Wars with Spaine and so have done their worke for them What arts France used to disswade us from peace with Spaine may be seen in their Historian Priol De Rebus Gallicis L. 10. as well as our owne concerning the Treaty of Munster But the States seeing the successes of France of whose greatnes they now at last and indeed too late became jealous to which they were the more awakened by the French approaches towards us in Flanders and taking of Dunkirke it being their owne proverb Aye le Francois pour ton Amy non pas pour ton voisin they resolve to take the opportunity which was put into their hands by Spaine who despairing of peace with France sought nothing more then to take off their confederates the Swede and these united Provinces especially by concluding a peace with us and procuring one allso between the Empire and Sweden For knowing their owne weaknes and great worke on their hands by the revolt of Portugall Rebellion in Catalonia the doubtfull condition of Naples the frequent losses they had received and their want of men and money to war every where they offerd us equall conditiors and we privately without the knowledge either of the French Plenipotentiaries or the Mediators Chigie from the Pope and Contaren from the State of Venice except them at last and a peace is made betwixt us at Munster January 30. 1648. and quickly after between the Empire and Sueden at Osnaburg August the 6. in the same yeare By which meanes Spaine was freed from our Wars had opportunity of Prosecuting theirs against Portugall and of creating France trouble at home by joyning with the Condean fact on in the greatnes of Mazarine and the minoritie of his present Majesty This peace so stuck on the Cardinals stomack that neither He nor that Kingdome have ever digested it but because we would not war for them any longer resolved they would war against us at last though if we had not done that too long they had never done this so succesfully Secondly we help forward France's greatnes and our owne destruction by helping to destroy the Protestant Intrest in that Kingdome For as France had the power of Spaine to keep them in on every side so they had allso a curb of the Protestants at home to check them

France's sister to support them And indeed so he was for the Ambassadors and Agents of the Crowne of England had become Caution to those of the Religion for the King of France's performance with them He therfore sends 150 sayle of ships and an Army of 10000 men under the Command of the Duke of Buckingham to take off that odium which was upon him in England for what was formerly done under K. Iames. Who published a Manifesto in the K. of Englands name July the 21. 1627. declaring that though there were other grounds sufficient for a War as the abuse of the English Merchants their ships and goods seized on and the extraordinary equipping for Sea in France yet that the sole cause of the War was the Crowne of France's not performing of Articles with those of the Reformed Religion This expedition and the causes of its miscarriage is writ by a learned pen * Expeditio in Ream Insulam authore Edovardo Herbert Baronc de Cherbury and well knowne from the moderne Histories of both Kingdoms The French and English both proceed the former in carrying on the latter to prevent if possible their designes For which end K. Charles sent the Earle of Denbigh with another Fleet which was able to effect nothing and the Earle of Linzey with the last Buckingham being assasinated by Felton the day before he was to embarke But before Linzey came such stupendous workes were raised of which Bertius hath writ a particular booke and so pallisadoed that the Cardinall sent to the English Admirall that he should have a pasport with 6 of his ablest Commanders to come a shore and view the works and if they thought Rochel relievable he would raise lost Rochel upon which followed the Duke of Rohan and the rest of the Reformists compliance the dismantling of their remaining Garrisons above 40 whereof Mantauban was the last and a peace with England and those of the Reformed Religion in France Since which time what mighty dessignes have been contrived and carried on by the two Cardinalls Richelieu and Mazarine for that Kingdome abroad whose plots they are still pursuing is not unknowne to those that are curiously inquisitive How the former wrought the revolt of Portugal the Rebellion in Catalonia the carrying on the Wars in these Countries to bring downe Spaine set on foot and fomented the distractions of Great Britaigne first by the Scots and afterwards by other means to give England worke at home tamperd with Wallesteyne for betraying the Imperiall Army for whose death he most pastionately wept failing thereby of his hopes of France's speedy comeing to the Empire engaged Sweden to serve their ends in Germany tooke Pignerol to keep Italy in aw Lorraigne is taken the Dukes of Savoy Mantua and Modena are wholly at France's service and the Princes Electors especially the Ecclesiasticall rather courting the favour of that Crown then the Imperiall This was the true State of France at the death of Richelieu in 42 and the King his Master who quickly followed him May 14. 1643. the same day of the yeare his father died and wherein he was Crowned Which I have beene the larger in first because t is for the most part the same now and in severall things greater than then especially by their alliance with England and success against these and the Spanish Netherlands and 2. that it might appeare how far they have overgrowne Spaine in power that so the world may be awakend and see to lop off their superfluous bowes lest they grow in time like Nebuchadnezars tree so great that they overshadow us all For Mazarine succeeding Richelieu as Minister of State who was his onely Scholler that proved his paralel to which two Clergy-men let me say it for it is a truth though I know the Laity may stomack it France owes their present greatnes the first 5 yeares after till 48 that tumultuous Nation was never wiselier governed in the non-age of their Soveraigne and though in the next lustre or five yeares following till 53 they had some aguish fits that shaked them in their civill wars yet they soone recovered thereof and have ever since growne stronger and stronger So that it was high time for the Neighbour Nations no longer to dance after the fidle of France And the States saw this and therefore made peace as I have said but England herein offended againe and prevaricated in the common intrest of Europe Let me shew how briefly because it may satisfie perhaps the curiosity of some that have wondred at it as much as my selfe in regard they have been ignorant of the true grounds thereof When Cromwel the Hanibal of the English Common-wealth and immortal enimie and Terror to Rome came to have the power of those three Kingdoms in his hands he saw it necessary to engage those Nations and imploy his Armies in a forreigne War for without an Army he could not maintaine the power he had got and without imploying them he could not quietly enjoy it Armies being like raised them and besides this necessity of intrest his own inclination strongly carried him and perhaps some extravagant hopes to pull downe the Pope for he once said to Lambert were I as young as you I should not doubt to knock at the gates of Rome before I died Spaine and France both courted him knowing what mettal his sword was made of and his Iron-sides wore of which competition he made his advantage obteining such conditions of France as were a wonder to all that understood the maxims of their Government That which most inclined him to the French was that he judged Spaine and Austria the two strongest Hornes of Antichrist whose fall was come as one of his Prophets whom I could name inspired him and that France might be brought to renounce Rome intending withall to get such places in Flanders and over against the coast of England that he might keep the Dutch in aw and with a few of his Ships command a toll for the passage in the Channel as the Dane did in the Sound A League thereofore is made with France March 23. 1657 for a yeare and renewed the next by Lockard his Ambassador who for his parts and sagacity was so acceptable to Mazarine that he had more acces to him and busines with him then all the Ambassadors at Paris besides These two Cromwel and the Cardinal the stronglier to carry on their designes take in the King of Sweden for a third into their confederacy Christina having resigned that Crowne and wandring about like a blazing Comet and these three Leagued together made the Triumvirate of those times Sweden was to pluck the plumes of the Roman Eagle when he had clipt the wings of his Neighbours that they might not fly upon the prey he left behind Wherein Oliver so concerned himself that when the Dane had got the Dutch for his second he sent Montague to boye up Swedens sinking intrest in the Sound and they were so neere

an engagement that they had certainly fought had not the English espied an Advice-Yacht coming towards them which bringing them newes of the Protectors death they hoyst up failes and returnd home France was to pull downe Spaine by Land with his own forces and such as the Protector could spare Which Lockard the Embassador there commanded Who having beene more used to fight in the field then play the pioneers with their spades were not so much esteemed at first by the French till the sight with Don John of Austria's Army which came to relieve Dunkirke wherein they behaved themselves with that gallantry that Don John cryed out he was beat by raging wild beasts rather then men and that great Soldjer the Prince of Conde hath often said since that he never saw the like action as was that day performed by the English Shortly after Dunkerke yielded and was put into the English hands The Protector was to bring downe Spaine by Sea which he said he would do or he and his should live on bread and water Intending allso to carrie on the designe which Sidney Rawleight and several of the wisest men of the Indies but as she had too many irons in the fire to carry on that worke so how he miscarried in it is sufficiently knowne And indeed he had broke Spaines Naval power much more then he did allthough he did a great deale at Tenerif and elsewhere had it not been for a small accident that happend which was this Admirall Blake who still principled his seamen in those Confusions and frequent Revolutions of Government that the Fleet served no Parties nor Persons but the English Nation having brought some of his great ships before Tunis batterd down the Castle and compeld them to his termes for which extraordinary service he expected the reward of gratitude at least In stead thereof by his next Advice from England he hath a pardon sent him for endangering the Fleet in such an attempt without order c. Which so stuck on the stomack of that stout and sturdy Stoick that afterwards the Spanish Fleet coming on the maine Ocean off Cadiz He reading his Commission and finding it onely for fighting them in the Mediterranean would not fall on them though the Commanders Sollicited him promised to answer it for him c. onely was willing to fight if the Spanjards begun but though the English provoked them to it and affronted them all they could yet the wary Spanjard was wiser then to ingage and so saved themselves at which Oliver stormed not a litle but Blake cared not much the Admirall heereby crying quits with the Generall Thus you see what great things a little blind zeale may doe And indeed it is not so much to be admired at in him he having had such an enthusiasticall heat as all know that knew him well nor can we wonder so much if his head sometimes run round who was so continually wrapt up in such whirlepooles of affaires as he was perpetually plunged in though to miscarry in so great a concernment for the Protestant Intrest was a capitall crime in him above all others who designing to pul down the Pope * Grotius de jure bel pac l. 2. c. 22. voluntatem implondi vaticinia sine Dei mandato non essè causam bellit by bringing downe Spaine set up France to ruine the Protestants throughout Christendome Thus Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus But these three lived not long to goe on with these designes and indeed it was well for the world they did not Oliver went first at which Mazarine was secretly glad saying when the newes was brought him as he was at play there 's then a fortunate foole gon But this was but to trample upon a dead lion whom he so ridiculously feared before that his greatest Confidents made themselves privately merry therewith Knowing how uncivily for this he put the King of England out of France and the Duke of Yorke allso notwithstanding his service and the Cavalries acclamations of vive's to him and curses of the Cardinal Yea how after his death he feared his shaddow for in the Isle of Fesant 59 at the interview of the two Kings and their Courts where the marriage was made and peace concluded betwixt them which Mazarine had reserved for his owne glory and the King of great Britaine being there received by Lewis de Haro at first with the height of a Spanish complement in the depth of the mire and treated after with all civility yet the Cardinal though courted by the Duke of Ormond durst not speake with him for feare of Lockard that was present at the Treatie But though the crafty Cardinal was no coward yet thus fearefull and timorously was he cautious for Him whom I know he hated above all Mortals and that Common-wealth above all people in the world as I can many wayes make apparent if it was of any importance to the publick But to be briefe Olivers other two Consorts followed after him quickly and these three Conquerors being cut of by death who kept all Christendome in aw whilst they lived the world had a little quiet till France got a horseback again in Flanders But betwixt and that time was that great change in England by the wonderfull providence of God in the restoration of his Majesty by which meanes the French got Dunkirke again into their hands and were therby capacitated the better to carry on their worke against these Countries Atwhich the French made themselves merry and some say abusively by having Dunkirke drawn with a purse hanging over it The English stormed and some swore Oliver would have sold his great nose rather then Dunkerke Yea this still sticks on many of their stomachs I remember at my last being in England in 66 and seeing Clarenden House and wondring a little why it was situated so neer the roade which made it both unfree and molested with dust and critising upon some other things the Oratory especially that the Chancelor that was the eldest Son of the Church of England should make his Chappel as a wag writ of Emanuel Colledge's so awry Just North and South yea verily when I came above on the leads I was so pleased with the pleasantnes of the prospect that I thought for that it might compare with any House I had seen knowing no place in England except above Greenwich that I thought comparable to it upon which the domestick had the confidence perceiving me a stranger to tell me I could not thence see Dunkirke for the Commonality had Christened it and made Dunkirke the Godfather calling the House after its name But though I confess it was against the Common Intrest of Europe that it should fall to the French againe yet whether it was against the Intrest of the King of England and that Kingdome is not so cleare to me I will onely say this that I know a person hath weighed that so well that I shall carry this