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death_n	henry_n	king_n	marry_v	5,109	5	9.3955	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75283	The coppie of a letter vvritten to the Duke of Buckingham concerning the match with Spaine: discovering what dangers would happen to this state by the Kings marrying with one of a contrary religion shewed by divers presidents.	Alured, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing A2940; Thomason E115_12; ESTC R22286	5,373	8

duty of a subject a Counsellour and a Favourite but as the reasons and perswasions are known to have the better opportunity to be delivered and the more credit to be believed so in this case to be with the King as Moses one of Gods greatest Favourites and familiar servants to stand in the gap to divert the plague for so in most mens judgements it is feared how glorious and necessary soever it seeme outwardly I am confident you thinke the Kings favour and your owne fortunes are not for your owne ends alone or for any ill end at all wee have lately seene the ends of those that have proposed such ends and as Gods providence extends to the fall of a Sparrow so much more to the rise of a Favourite And who knowes but the same that raised Ioseph in Aegypt hath advanced you in England for the like end To parallel you in no disparagement you are a younger Brother by a second marriage as Ioseph was a faire person and well favoured as Ioseph was the King hath for your honour altered your name as Iosephs was you have honoured and inriched your Parents and brethren and kindred as Ioseph did Iosephs kindred were made known to Pharoah as yours to our Caesar Now my Lord seeing you follow Ioseph so farre leave him not to the end but strive to be a meanes to preserve this our Land from a spirituall famine We read not of any servant better respected of his Master than Eliazar of Damascus whom Abraham had meant had he dyed childlesse to have made his heire and we find not any service he did Abraham more at least greater then in the choise of a wife for his sonne Isaac Amongst the servants of our Patriarch The Defender of the Faith we observe none better respected than your selfe and we know not in what you may doe him better service then with Eliazar to helpe to choose a Rebecca for our Isaack Abrahams injunction is a good direction not to take her amongst the Cananite Princes for having liberty to taste of every tree in the Garden if wee shall one●y meddle with the forbidden fruit how miserable and woefull is our condition for the Serpent will not onely beguile the woman but the Philistims will intreat Dalilah she will betray Sampson so while they plough with our Heyfer they will unfold our Riddle and undoe our State Besides whatsoever Language the Father speakes the children doe commonly speake the mother tongue and wheresoever there is a Babel there is a confusion not of tongues onely but of states Whereas Christs Church is like his Coate closely woven and at peace within it selfe though some itching Seperatists seeke to make a hole in our coate and Church which the Papists labour to rent worse and the desperate Iesuit makes it past mending for wheresoever they come they turne Christs coate into Deiantar garment which as it set Hercules on fire so it set others in combustion the reason is their first founder was a Souldier and ever since The way of peace they have not knowne at least not lov'd To instance in particular not unfit for our present purpose we have not heard of any Protestant King that ever married with a contrary Religion whose raigne hath bin prosperous but very fatall and unfortunate Henry of Navar married with Mary of France which marriage was very unfortunate to the parties never having issue and being afterwards divorced and so fatall to our Religion that there was more bloud spilt at those Nuptialls than wine spent for whilst the Parents dreamed of the glory and security they should have by the match they were most miserably massacred and who doubts but what the French committed in their owne Country upon that colour would any Papists be glad to doe in this Kingdome for without breach of charity we may doubt of their sincere meaning when they seeme to desire the greatest union for in 88. while there was a Treaty of peace the Spanish Armado came upon us If therefore we either live or are led by example or precept we shall finde it was forbidden the people of the world to marry with a different Religion the injunction the reason and the effect are set downe in Deutrinomy to the Iewes And we see in Salomon the wisest King that ever was who married one of the greatest Kings daughters that then was yet we see the weakest sex withdrew the wisest man for Salomon became an Idolater his Son a foole his Subjects rebelled and the best part of his Kingdome rent from his posterity for ever If we search our Chronicles we shall finde that God hath crost if not curst our alliance and association with forraigne Princes especially with Spaine A Prince of the greatest performance that this Kingdome or Christendome ever had was the black Prince yet going into Spaine to settle Don Pedro in that Kingdome besides the monstrous ingratitude and perfidiousnesse of the Spaniard who failed of the performance of those conditions hee had promised which caused the unseperable Revolt in France to the losse of our inheritance the Prince was poysoned in that Country that hee never had his health afterwards But to come neerer to our present purpose and to our owne times which are little the better for our Spanish friendship I beseech your Lordship observe that all the marriages for this last 120. yeares except the severall second marriages of Hen. 8. have bin onely and no where else but with Spaine with how little good God hath blessed them the successe shewes Prince Arthur married the Spanish Kings daughter wee know God tooke him away presently by a sudden death without any issue In a politicke respect wee would then make a second match for Prince Henry afterwards King did marry the same daughter but doubtlesse God was lesse pleased with that match which was lesse lawfull and God tooke away all the male children and left onely a daughter in whose short reigne was shed more bloud for the true Religion in sixe yeares than for the false in these succeeding sixty yeares We made then a third adventure and married with Spaine Queene Mary with King Philip which was so discontenting to the people that it caused Wiats Rebellion so discomfortable that it broke the Queenes heart being left and neglected by her husband so dishonourable and prejudiciall to this Kingdome that meerely for the Spaniards sake we having no difference with France we lost Callis in sixe dayes which had bin above 200. yeares in our possession And though I have not so much judgement nor so little wit to presume where to match yet I assume so much as to think a match at home cannot be held any waies inconvenient Wee find that the first and the last of our Kings that ever matcht with their subjects were William the Conquerer Edward the fourth and Henry the eighth to which three matches God as it were to shew the lesse we relye upon others abroad the more hee will blesse us himselfe at home for by the two latter marriages God gave two daughters two Elizabeths two such Queenes than which there were never two such blessed instruments of Gods glory and this Kingdomes good by establishing peace in the Land and Religion in the Church untill his Majesties most happy comming who brought both with him Thus my Lord have I made bold to lay my poore single 〈◊〉 at your feete the many Talents you have cannot be better imployed than this to make you here and everlastingly a good and fait●full Servant to both your Masters if you would lye in waite for an opportunity which is happily presently offered and your honour cannot invent any occasion more pleasing to God and more laudable to the best men then by perswading secretly by humble intreaties and opposing publickly by your solid reasons this Spanish match since whatsoever the occasions or necessities of the Crowne be it will find more support by casting it selfe into the Armes of the Subjects which are the two Houses of Parliament then by seeking to any forraigne fawning foe or envious enemy whereunto whensoever wee leave and trust we shall finde the Aegyptians Reedes and their intentions rather to supplant than to support us By him that is not ambitions because not worthy nor yet afraid because not ashamed to be known to your Lordship in this businesse Thomas Alured FINIS