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A10670	Votivæ Angliæ: or The desires and vvishes of England Contayned in a patheticall discourse, presented to the King on New-yeares Day last. Wherein are vnfolded and represented, manie strong reasons, and true and solide motives, to perswade his Majestie to drawe his royall sword, for the restoring of the Pallatynat, and Electorat, to his sonne in lawe Prince Fredericke, to his onlie daughter the Ladie Elizabeth, and theyr princelie issue. Against the treacherous vsurpation, and formidable ambition and power of the Emperour, the King of Spayne, and the Duke of Bavaria, whoe unjustlie possesse and detayne the same. Together with some aphorismes returned (with a large interest) to the Pope in answer of his. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.1; ESTC S117031	21,745	45

therfore that it is rather more to bee feared then doubted that as hee first tooke Aix and Weesell for the Emperour and ever since keepes them for himselfe that right soe hee intends to deale with the Pallatynat and if your Majestie vvould but turne your back to Spayne and your eyes to the Pallatynat you will then confirme my oppinion wheras with a fearfull jelousie I apprehend that turning your backe to the Pallatynat and your eyes to Spayne you maye peradventure passionatlie oppose and contradict it For as the diseases and iniquitie of our tymes and the Vanitie of our Natures are such as manie tymes wee see Ambition gives a Lawe to Nature and the strongest sword proves most commonlie the best right and tenure Soe notwithstanding that the Emperour bee puffed upp with joy and pride for this his good success yet the King of Sayne thinckes that the Pallatynat is but a debt dewe to his Vertue and a tribute to his Ambition and Greatnesse And that your Majestie maye the more perfectlie and apparantlie consider them destinctlie or joyntlie and soe looke from theyr tongues to theyr hartes from theyr wordes to theyr actions and from the barke of theyr Friendshippe to the tree of theyr Intents Swartsenbourgh from the Emperour brought onlie Complements but noe deeds not hoapes of restitution of the Pallatynat Bosquet from the Archdutchess under the cloake of trust and consignation carried away Frankendale the last hostage and pledge of that Province and last of all Mexia with his statelie Embassye pretended from the sayd Princess but intended from the King of Spayne came to Comply with your Majestie to make fayre weather of all sydes to keepe everie byrd in his neast and your Majestie Sword still rusting in his scabberd yea if the hartes of Inijoca Mendoza and Columba whome I reverence and honnor for the honnor of theyr places were as visible and transparent as Iulius Drusus wished his house Then notwithstanding all theyr veluett wordes and silken protestations and vowes your Maiestie should see without perspective or spectacles that the most retyred Article and secret mysterie of theyr Kinges Commission to them is To give theyr Infanta to our Illustrious and famous Prince Charles but infalliblie with this proviso and reservation still to keepe the Pallatynat for the behoofe and use of the King theyr Master And what else doe all these severall Ambassadours in England and whervnto tend all theyr severall legations but onlie to conceale the Ill which is and to pretend the Good which is not in the designes and resolutions of the King theyr Master For in all theyr Treaties and Negotiations with your Maiestie and your mynisters what doe they else but purposlie play theyr prizes in practising theyr chiefest invention Arte and skill to procrastinate the restitution of the Pallatynat making everie daye produce newe Difficulties and Evasions till in the end they have made the Cure woorse then the Disease and which without the helpe and assistance of your Maiesties sword will verie shortlie prove incurable and meerlie Physique after death For the Emperour the king of Spayne and the Archdutchesse doe onlie feed your Maiestie with the emptie ayre of hoapes and with the bitter sweet sugar of manie flattering and false promises that they will restore the Pallatynat to the Prince your Sonne in Lawe whiles they in the meane tyme with as much treacherie as silence doe heerbye onlie gayne tyme in working and procuring theyr owne ends to repayre and renewe the fortifications of that Countrie till in the end they like Molewarps have therein taken firme footing and made those Cities and Castles which were easie to subdue become difficult and the difficult impregnable For the King of Spayne playes the Practicke with your Majestie whiles you professe the Theorie to him you give him contemplation for action hee returnes you action for contemplation for whiles you are entertayning and flattering your thoughts with hoape hee and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria hath crowned his hoapes and front with the Lawrels of the Pallatynat that daintie peece and rich and bewtifull Prouince of Europe neyther is it your Maiestie alone but the French King likewise who hath given too confident an eare to the Syreen tunes and charmes of Spayne for whiles their practises and machynations threw him to a pernitious sacrilidgious Warre against his owne Protestant subjects then Spayn recovered the Valtolyne and deflowred the Fortes and passages of the Grisons and whiles he by his Gondomar lull'd your Maiestie asleepe with the melodie of the Match then hee finished the Conquest of the Pallatynat Onlie your Majesties dishonnor heerin is farre greater then that of the French King because his remisnesse permitted but his Confederates to bee ruyned but your Maiestie your Confederate your Sonne in Lawe your onlie Daughter his wife and their Royall posteritie Thus as the Cyclope Polephemus devoured his passengers one after another soe doth the King of Spayne ea●e upp whole Countries and Provinces And wherto tends all this formidable Ambition power and greatnesse of his but onlie to fill the sailes of his glorie Whiles your Ma tie and other Potentates and Princes of Christendom most inconsideratlie I may say shamefullie ride at Anchor in the Portes of false securitie and therfore of true danger and wherunto tends all this but in the end to aspire to the whole Empire of the West as your Majestie heard though would not beleeue from your last Assemblie of Parliament which our sinnes and your Enemies caused you to make and intitle but a Convention All Europe can beare witnesse of your Majesties two yeares pious interceeding and Christian endeavours and resolution to have the Palatynat restored by Treatie and although the Emperour hath superficially promised and the King of Spayne artificiallie vowed it yet still your Majestie sees contrarie effects and still they fortifie the Pallatynat not for but against the Prince your Son in Lawe as if they had given a Definitive sentence and periode to theyr resolutions and made it an Orthodox Article of their Fayth still to keepe and never to restore it to him or his posteritie yea the Emperour is soe glutted with his victories and the Duke of Bavaria soe sursetted with his good fortunes in both which the King of Spayne insults with joye and triumph with exhileration that they are now soe farre from thincking of restitution as they disdayne it Alexander the Great whose generositie was yet farre greater then his fame shewed such testimonies of his moderation and Magnanimitie as hee gave those whome he subdued and conquered more cause to reioyce then repyne at his Victories yea hee shewed infinit Vertue and Charitie in his power and these twoe cannot bee better shewen then in giving lymitts to power But it seemes the Emperour is continuallie soe inflamed with choller and transported with revenge towards the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe as hee is whollie unmindfull eyther of Charitie or Vertue hee mought have added glorie

the Pallatynat I therfore most humblie beseech your Majestie to pervse and consider these three Aphorismes which I returne to the Pope in answere of his 1. That it is nowe in the Iustice of the Emperour and in the power of the King of Spaine to replace the Count Pallatyne Frederick and his Heyres in his Pallatynat and Electorat 2. That it is a Iust Charitable Honnorable resolution of the Kinges of England and Denmarke as alsoe of the Electors of Saxonie and Brandenbourg eyther with theyr pennes or swordes to seeke to annihilate and frustrate the Pope his Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria in favour of Fredericke and his Heyres and that theyr Connivencie now therin towards the Pope will infalliblie prove Crueltie to themselues and theyr owne heyres for ever heerafter 3. That the Decrees of the Church and Consistorie of Rome are revokable as having noe affinitie and resemblance with those of the Meades Persians and that the Pope and his Colledge of Cardynalls can when they please revoke theyr Confirmation of the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Duke of Bavaria and restore it to the true owner therof Fredericke Count Pallatyne and his heyres without anie newe or farther prejudice to the authoritie of theyr Catholique Church Sith if it were for the obtayning of their owne ends or the propagation of theyr Romish Religion as it is for our Protestant not onlie everie age but almost everie Popes raigne abounds with presydents of the same nature which those are infinitlie blynde whoe see not and extreamlie partiall ignorant or malicious whoe will not acknowledge And because in my shallowe concceipt and capacitie it is pittie that these three Aphorismes of the Pope should returne without Interest I therfore adjoyne and send his Holliness these other three to my three formes which in all Humilitie and Dutie I likewise prostrate to your Maiesties pervsall consideration 1. That the Princes Electors of Germanie maye make an Emperour but that the Pope cannot make an Elector nor consequentlie unmake one beeing made because it meerlie and properlie belongs to a Civill power and not to an Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction 2. That the transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat and Electorat made by the Pope from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to the Duke of Bavaria doth both subvert the fundamentall Lawes and Dignitie of the Empire and alsoe oppose and assault the prerogatives and safetie of Germanie and of all other Kinges Princes and Free Estates of Christendome 3. That the Connivencie of the Emperour and Princes Electors in tollerating the Popes sayd transaction and Donation of the Pallatynat as aforesayd openeth a Doore to the unjust intrusion of Rome over the Libertie Souveraigntie and indepencie of Germanie which hencefoorth will never bee in the power eyther of the Emperour or of the Princes Electors agayne to make fast and shutt if now they doe not Having thus given six Aphorismes to the Pope for his three I now agayne in all humilitie and Dutie embolden my selfe to recommend to your Maiesties Gracious pervsall and consideration three tymes three others which I direct and send joyntlie to the Emperour and King of Spayne or rather agaynst them to your Maiestie and the whole world therby to unmaske theyr Ambition and Vsurpation in the unjust detention of the Pallatynat from the Illustrious Prince your Sonne in Lawe 1. That the Emperour invaded the Pallatynat by the Counsell and Instigation and Conquered it by the Armes and Threasure of the King of Spaynes and without it hee could never have Conquered it And it is cleere and notorious to all the world that as the Emperour cannot subsist without the assistance of Spayne that therfore in his Detayning of the Pallatynat that the King of Spayne is more your Sonne in Lawes and your Maiesties enemie then the Emperour for take away the cause and the effect followes as take away fuell and the flame and fire will bee soone extinguished 2. That those whoe knowe the Court of Rome doe apparantlie knowe and Confesse that without the close interceeding and secret solicitation of the King of Spaynes Ambassadours and Ministers to that effect in that Court that neyther the Emperour nor Pope had dared eyther to have taken the Pallatynat and Electorat from the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to whome by all the Lawes of Heaven and Earth it appertayneth nor to have given them to the Duke of Bavaria whoe hath no other right nor clayme therto but onlie that which his excessive Ambition and insatiable desire of Vsurpation suggests and gives him 3. That it is in the power of the King of Spayne to make the Emperour and the Duke of Bavaria restore the Pallatynat and Electorat to the Count Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe and therfore that if they restore it not that then your Maiestie may iustlie and trulie conclude it lyes not in his will 4. That it is as easie for the Prince Pallatyne your Sonne in Lawe to bee restored to his Pallatynat and Electorat by the helpe of your Maiesties sword as impossible for the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria to keepe it without the assistance of the King of Spayne 5. That as long as the Pallatynat and Electorat is detayned and possessed by the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria soe long to common sence and unprejudicate judgments it is as cleere as the Sunne that their Lawe in the Detention therof is whollie and solie derived from the will and resolution of Spayne which is theyr Cynosura wherbye they steere all theyr actions and theyr Delphos from whence they fetch all theyr Oracles and Instructions 6. That it is a Castillian policie to make the Archdutchesse a Negotiatrixe in and for all Treaties depending betwixt your Majestie and the Emperour for the Pallatynat and Electorat and that shee beeing a verie olde and sicklie Princesse having as it were her Lyfe on her Lippes and her feete on the brincke of her Grave That when shee Dyes the sayd King will then cause all her promisses Contracts and assurances to dye with her and to bee lykewise buried in her Grave which are or which may bee anie way displeasing or opposite to his ambitious Designes and resolutions 7. That if the King of Spayne take not the reall and actuall possession of the Pallatynat during the lyfe of the Duke of Bavaria that hee will infalliblie doe it immediatlie uppon his Death And in the interim the Cardes are soe cunninglie shuffled betweene them that uppon the Whole Bavaria is but Spaynes Depositor and the King of Spayne Bavaria's Patrone and protector 8. That the restoring of the Pallatynat which your Majestie makes a matter of Estate the quenchlesse revenge of the Emperour and the boundless Ambition of Spayne have caused the Pope to make it meerlie a matter of Religion 9. That your Maiestie shall in the end finde that Spayne to have the fuller pretext and fayrer couller for his Ambition in causing this injust