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england_n	ambassador_n	king_n	pope_n	4,544	5	7.1893	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10985	A treatise of the interest of the princes and states of Christendome. Written in French by the most noble and illustrious Prince, the Duke of Rohan. Translated into English by H.H.; De l'interest des princes. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.; Hunt, Henry, 17th/18th cent.	1640 (1640)	STC 21253; ESTC S119221	39,359	136

consult this affaire by personnes well vers'd in such matters and therein they demaund the aduice of the most famous Doctors of Europe They punctually relate the Controuersie to all the Kings and Princes their allies And to the end that their right might appeare euen to posteritie they deliuer their answer to the Pope because that if the difference were reconciled all the world might know that they were justified The same is to be noted that they neuer called home their Ambassadour before the Pope had retired his Nuntio For although the Extraordinarie went backe to testifie some ressentment after the receiuing of so many distastes the Ordinarie neuerthelesse continued there to shew that they had allwaies an eare open to agreement Lastly when they could no longer hold from breaking off they take a resolution to defend their libertie with such an vnanimous consent that in the whole Senate there was not one voice contrarie Thereby frustrating the hopes which the Pope had of disuniting them according as the Iesuites had promis'd him The Pope tooke a cleane contrary byas for men beleeu'd he cared not a jot whether he went vpon good or ill grounds He imparted not this businesse to other Princes till very late neither did he demaund the aduise euen of the Cardinalls but for fashion's sake Here is that which passed before the breach betwixt the Pope and the Venetians wherein the Venetians exactly followed that which belonged to their interest For their State being founded rather by Peace then by Warre and being more considerable for Counsell then for Armes they ought euer dexterously to auoid any rupture whatsoeuer During the time of the breach the Venetians surmounted euen their owne selues hauing giuen in this affaire a perpetuall example of perfect conduct shewing as much constancie and courage in their ressentment of the injurie which they pretended was done them as before they had shewed submission to preuent the same They euer answered those who spake to them of agreement That the remedie ought to be applied to the part whence the disease proceeded That the Pope had receiued a voluntarie displeasure the remedie whereof was a voluntary repentance This notwithstanding they rejected not any proposition but much insisted vpon this point That they had done onely what they ought That the Pope in withdrawing his Nuntio had barr'd the way to agreement That it belonged to him to make good againe what he himselfe had spoyled and That when he shall haue taken off his pretended censures they will not seeme estranged from Peace But that which had beene most remarkable here was that they were not a whit moued for all this tempest prouiding with so much prudence both within and without their State all that was necessarie to sustaine such a shock that noe alteration at all was perceiued The people remained in obedience the Townes of their Dominion offered their meanes and forces the Religious obeyed without constraint there was not shed one drop of blood The Pope in stead of shewing constancie in his resolution beganne to relent so soone as had wrought his indignation by the interdict leauing to be vnderstood vnder-hand that he would lend an eare to agreement prouided that he might saue his credit But when he saw the inflexible stedfastnesse of the Venetians he resolued to haue recourse to force and to interest the Catholike Princes in the same France had noe other scope in this affaire then to arbitrate the difference and to haue the honour of deciding so important a question between two Princes so considerable in Christendome For this effect shee shewed not any partialitie although it be true that Villeroy through his ambition to rise to a Cardinalship inclined at first to the Pope's side seruing his turne therein by the ministration of his sonne then Ambassadour at Rome But seeing himselfe disappointed of his hope he returned to the temper which a just Mediatour ought to haue So it is that oftentimes a priuate interest does prejudice the publike Happie are the States wherein those that sit at the helme of gouernment haue so noble a spirit as not to ayme at any other greatnesse then that which is inseparably conioint with the glorie of the Prince whom they serue The Spaniards conceiued it best to foment the discord betweene the two parties thinking that is was in their power to hinder the warre if their profit so required or else to make it serue their owne aduantage They therefore let the businesse runne its course without prescribing any thing to their Ambassadour which was at Rome who handsomely intertained the Pope in his opinion with intent to obtaine a Cardinalship for his Brother by this meanes The Emperour was a Mediatour the King of Poland fauoured the Republike the Princes of Germanie medled not all in the matter The King of England was glad to see this businesse dayly waxe hot He promised all assistance to the Republike of Venice as by all reason he was obliged to deale in this manner For he beleeued that this would rowse vp the other Catholike Princes which were interessed to maintaine their Lawes And that it would be an occasion to deliberate of a Councell which may determine so many Controuersies The States of the vnited-Prouinces offered to the Venetians succour of armes and munition The Princes of Italie since they saw the Pope remaine confused and wauering in himselfe as if he had manifestly repented they appeare all newters in this affaire follwing that which belonged to their true interest Onely the Duke of Sauoy let himselfe be transported by his passion For the Republike hauing written to his children with the title of Excellence as shee had accustomed to doe He in despite kept Chappell without admitting there the Ambassadour of Venice and this at the instance of the Nuntio residing neere vnto him It is not in this affaire alone that this Prince has carried himselfe rather capriciously then after the true Maxime of his interest France continued to solicite the Accord without shewing any passion for the one partie or the other following herein her true interest For because one shall hardly see an open warre betwixt two so pacifique Princes Shee could not reape any other profit by this Difference then the honour onely to haue reconciled the same The Spaniards perceiuing this beganne to recoile and desire to haue a hand in making peace since they could not haue it in warre They judged well that the Pope was disposed to cast himselfe into their armes and to goe which way they would because he had a mind to agreement But they saw also the Venetians so firme in their resolution as they had noe hope to bend them Wherefore they essayed to trouble them with the Turk to the end they might be constrained to haue recourse vnto them and that by this meanes it should be in their power to bring the Senate to accept such conditions as the Pope pleased to allow them But they failed so much in that