Reign c. and of Scotland the 49. A Commission to Viscount Lisle Governour to deliver them up 22 May 14. Jac. IAMES by the grace of God c. To our right trusty and welbebeloved Cozen Robert Lord Viscount Lisle Lord Chamberlain to our dear Consort the Queen and our Governour of our Town of Vlushing and of the Castle of Ramakins greeting Whereas we by Our Letters Patents sealed with Our great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the 22. day of April in the fifth year of Out reign of England France and Ireland of Scotland the 36. for the consideration therein expressed did make ordain and constitute you the said Viscount Lisle by the name of Sir Robert Sydney Knight for Us to be the Governour and Captain of the said Town of Vlushing and of the Castle of Ramakins in the Low-Countries and of all the Garrisons and Souldiers that then were or hereafter should be there placed for Our service and guard of the said Town and Castle to have hold exercise and occupy the Office of the said Governor and Captain of the said Town and Castle by your self or your sufficient Deputie or Deputies to be allowed by Us during Our pleasure giving unto you full power and authority by your said Letters Patents to take the Oath and Oaths of all Captains Souldiers then serving or that hereafter should serve in the same Town and Castle as in like causes was requisite with divers other powers therein mentioned as by Our said Letters Patents at large appeareth And whereas the States generall of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries have divers and sundry times for many years together sollicited Us by their Resident Ambassador Sir Noel Caron Knight that We would be pleased to render into their hands the said Town of Vlushing in Zealand with the said Castle of Ramakins and the Town of Brill in Holland with the Forts Sconces thereunto belonging which We hold by way of Caution until such sums of mony as they owe unto Us be reimbursed upon such reasonable conditions as should be agreed upon between Us them for the reimbursing and repaiment of the said monies And whereas thereupon We recommended the consideration of this so weighty and important an affair to the judgement and discretion of the Lords of the Privy Councell and have received from them after long and mature deliberation and examination of Circumstances an advice that as the present condition of Our State now standeth and as the nature of those towns is lying onely Cautionary wherein we can challenge no interest of propriety it should be much better for our service upon fair and advantangious conditions to render them then longer to hold them at so heavy a charge Now forasmuch as in Our Princely Wisdom We have resolved to yeild up Our said Towns with the said Castle and Sconces belonging unto them upon such conditions as shall be most fit for Our advantage as well in point of honor as of profit And to that end by Our Commission under Our great Seal of England have assigned and appointed the Lords and others of Our Privy Councell Our Commissioners and thereby give full power and authority unto them or the more part of them for Us and in Our name to treat and conclude with the said Sir Noell Caron Knight Ambassador from the States of the United Provinces being likewise for that purpose sufficiently authorized from the said States his superiors touching the rendition and yeilding up of the said Town of Vlushing with the Castle of Ramakins in Zealand and of the said town of Brill in Holland with the Forts and Sconces thereunto belonging and of the Artillery or Munition formerly delivered by the said States with the same Towns and Castles and Forts and which are now remaining in them or any of them and have not been spent or consumed And for the delivery of the said Towns Castle Forts Artillery and Munition into the hands of the said States upon such terms as by the said Lords and other of our Privy Councell or the more part of them shall be thought fit for our most honor and profit and for the manner thereof to give instructions to our several Governors of our said Garrisons according to such their conclusion which conclusion according to our said Commission is already made and perfected We do therefore hereby give power and authority unto and do charge and command you the said Lord Lisle for us and in our name to render and yield up into the hands of the said States of the United Provinces or to such persons as shall be lawfully deputed by them the aforesaid Town of Vlushing and Castle of Ramakins whereof now you have charge by vertue of our Letters-Patents aforesaid together with the Artillery and Munition now remaining in them or any of them heretofore delivered by the said States with the said Town and Castle and as yet not spent or consumed observing and performing in all points such instructions as you shall receive under the hands of the said Lords and others of our Privy-Councel or the more part of them concerning the rendring up and delivery of the said Town And we do further give you full power and authority and by these presents do charge and command you for us and in our name to discharge and set free all the subordinate Officers Captains and souldiers under your charge of that oath and trust which heretofore they have taken for the keeping and preserving of that Town and Castle to our use and service and for that purpose to make such Declaration Proclamation and other signification of our Royal pleasure commandment and ordinance in that behalf as in your wisdom you shall think fit and these our Letters-Patents or the inrollment or exemplification thereof shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf In witness c. Witness our self at Westminster the 22 day of May in the 14 year of our reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the 49. Countess of Nottingham to the Danish Ambassador SIR I Am very sorry this occasion should have been offered me by the King your Master which makes me troublesom to you for the present It is reported to me by men of honour the great wrong the King of the Danes hath done me when I was not by to answer for my self For if I had been present I would have letten him know how much I scorn to receive that wrong at his hands I need not to urge the particular of it for the King himself knows it best I protest to you Sir I did think as honorably of the King your Master as I did of my own Prince but now I perswade my self there is as much baseness in him as can be in any man For although he be a Prince by birth it seems not to me that there harbours any Princely thought in his breast for either in Prince or Subject it is the basest that
the Earl of Essex when Sir Ro. Cecil was in France P. 42 Sir Fr. Bacon to the Earl of Essex concerning the Earl of Tyrone P. 43 Another to the Earl before his going to Ireland P. 45 Another to him after his enlargement P. 48 Sir Fr. Bacon to Sir Ro. Cecil after defeat of the Spaniards in Ireland ibi Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland P. 49 Sir Fr. Bacon to the L. Treasurer touching his Speech in Parliament P. 54 Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Northampton P. 55 To the Lord Kinloss upon the entrance of King James P. 56 To King James ibid. To the Earl of Northumberland concerning a Proclamation upon the Kings entry P. 58 To the Earl of Southampton ibid. To the Earl of Northumberland P. 58 To Sir Edward Coke expostulatory P. 60 To the same after L. Chief Justice and in disgrace ibid. To Sir Vincent Skinner expostulatory P. 66 Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Chancellor P. 71 To King James P. 72 Mr. Edmond Andersons Letter to Sir Francis Bacon P. 73 Sir Thomas Bodeley to Sir Francis Bacon upon his new Philosophy P. 74 Mr. George Brook to a Lady in Court P. 79 To his Wife P. 80 King James to the Major and Aldermen of London after he was proclaimed Mar. 28. 1603. P. 81 The Roman Catholiques Petition to King James for Toleration P. 82 Sir Walter Raleigh to King James before his Trial. P. 85 Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Car after Earl of Somerset P. 86 Sir Tho Egerton Chancellor after L. Ellesmere to the E. of Essex P. 87 Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to King James ibid. Again to the same King P. 88 Sir Francis Norris to King James P. 89 A Patent for the Admiralty of Ireland P. 90 A Commission to divers Lords c. for the delivery of Flushing Brill c. May 14. Jac. 14. P. 92 A Commission to Visc Lisle Governour to deliver them up May 22. J. 14. P. 93 Countess of Nottingham to the Danish Ambassador P. 94 Sir Charls Cornwallis Lieger in Spain to the Spanish King July 23. 1608. ibid. Again to the Spanish King Jan. 16. 1608. P. 98 Again to the Spanish King P. 100 101 K James to the Vniversity of Cambridge Mar. 14. 1616. P. 105 Mr. Ruthen to the Earl of Northumberland P. 106 Sir Henry Yelvertons submission in the Star-chamber P. 107 Ferdinand the second Emperor to the Catholique King P. 109 Ferdinand Emperor to Don Balthazar de Zuniga Octob. 15. 1621. P. 110 K. James to Ferdinand Emp. concerning the Palatinate Nov. 12. 1621. P. 113 His Imperial Majesty to King James Jan. 14. 1621. P. 116 Earl of Bristol to King James P. 117 Ab ignoto to Conde Gondomar concerning the death of Philip 3. P. 125 K. James to the Earl of Bristol Ambassador in Spain Octob. 3. 1622. P. 127 Earl of Bristol to King James Octob. 21. 1622. P. 129 K. Philip the third of Spain to the Conde of Olivarez P. 133 Conde Olivarez his answer to the King ibid. K. James to the Earl of Bristol Octob. 8. 1623 P. 136 Earl of Bristol in answer to King Iames Octob. 9. 1623. P. 137 Again to King Iames Novemb. 1. 1623. P. 141 King Iames to the Palsgrave P. 143 The Palsgraves answer to King Iames P. 145 Ab Ignoto from Madrid P. 151 A Memorial to the King of Spain by Sir Walter Ashton Ambassador in Spain Aug. 29. 1624. P. 152 The Petition of Francis Philips to King Iames for the release of Sir Robert Philips prisoner in the Tower P. 155 Oliver St. John to the Major of Marlborough against the Benevolence P. 159 The Justices of Peace in Com. Devon to the Lords of the Councel P. 182 The Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishops concerning K. James his Directions for Preachers with the Directions Aug. 14. 1622. P. 183 King James his Instructions to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning Orders to be observed by Bishops in their Dioceses 1622. P. 187 Bishop of Winchester to his Archdeacon to the same effect P. 189 The Bishop of Lincoln Lord Keeper to the Bishop of London concerning Preaching and Catechising P. 190 Instructions for the Ministers and Churchwardens of London P. 193 Mons Bevayr Chancellor of France discharged to the French King ibid. Mons Richere forced recants his opinions against the Papal supremacie over Kings P. 196 Car. Richlieu to the Roman Catholicks of Great Britain Aug. 25. 1624. P. 197 Mons Balsac to the Cardinal de la Valette ibid. Mons Balsac to the King Louis P. 200 Mons Toyrax to the Duke of Buckingham P. 201 Ab ignoto concerning the estate of Rochel after the surrender P. 202 The Protestants of France to Charles King of Great-Britain P. 204 The Duke of Rohan to his Majesty of Great-Britain Mar. 12. 1628. P. 208 Pope Greg. 15. to the Inquisitor-general of Spain April 19. 1623. P. 210 Pope Urban to Lewis the 13. Aug. 4. 1629. P. 211 The Duke of Buckingham Chancellor Elect to the Vniversity of Cambridge Iune 5. 1626. P. 213 King Charles to the Vniversity of Cambridge in approbation of their election Iune 6. 1626. P. 214 The Vniversity of Cambridge its answer to the Duke Iune 6. 1626. P. 215 The Vniversity of Cambridge its answer to the King P. 216 A Privy-Seal for transporting of Horse Iune 6. 1624. P. 217 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Duke P. 218 The Dukes answer P. 219 The Vice-chancellor of Cambridge to the King upon the Dukes death ib. King Charles to the Vniversity of Cambridge for a new election P. 220 The Earl of Holland to the Vniversity P. 221 The Vnimersity of Cambridge to the King P. 222 An Order made at Whitehall betwixt the Vniversity and Town of Cambridge Decemb. 4. 1629. P. 223 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Archbishop of York P. 224 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Earl of Manchester P. 225 The Vniversity of Cambridge to Sir Humphrey May P. 226 Instructions by K. Charles to the Vicechancellor and Heads of Cambridge for Government c. Mar. 4. 1629. P. 127 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Lord chief Iustice Richardson P. 228 The Bishop of Exeter to the Lower-House of Parliament P. 229 King Charles to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal P. 230 A Councel-Table Order against hearing Mass at Ambassadors houses March 10. 1629. P. 232 The King of Spain to Pope Urban Sept. 11. 1629. P. 234 The Councel of Ireland to King Charls in defence of the Lord Deputy Faulkland Aug. 28. 1629. P. 235 Ab ignoto Of the affairs of Spain France and Italy June 5. 1629. P. 239 The Lords of the Councel of England to the Lords of the Councel of Ireland Jan. 31. 1629. P. 240 The Lord Faulklands Petition to the King P. 242 The Duke of Modena to the Duke of Savoy July 30. 1629. P. 243 Sir Kenelm Digby to Sir Edward Stradling P. 244 Mr. Gargrave to the Lord Davers P. 253 A Declaration of Ferdinand
morall honesty of life or innated instinct of nature or for fear of some temporall punishment pretend obedience unto your Highness Laws yet certainly the onely Catholiques for conscience sake observe them For they defending that Princes Precepts and Statutes oblige no subject under the penalty of sin will have little care in conscience to transgress them which principally are tormented with the guilt of fin But Catholiques professing merit in obeying and immerit in transgressing cannot but in Soul be grievously tortured for the least prevarication thereof Wherefore most mercifull Soveraign we your loving afflicted subjects in all dutifull subjection protest before the Majesty of God and all his holy Angels as loyal obedience and immaculate allegiance unto your Grace as ever did faithfull subjects in England or Scotland unto your Highness Progenitors and intend as sincerely with our goods and lives to serve you as ever did the loyallest Israelites King David or the trustiest Legions the Roman Emperours And thus expecting your Majesties customary favour and gracious bounty we rest your devoted suppliants to him whose hands do manage the hearts of Kings and with reciprocate mercy will requite the mercifull Your Majesties most devoted servants the Catholiques of England Sir Walter Raleigh to King James before his triall IT is one part of the Office of a just and worthy Prince to hear the complaints of his vassals especially such as are in great misery I know not amongst many other presumptions gathered against me how your Majesty hath been perswaded that I was one of them who were greatly discontented and therefore the more likely to prove disloyall But the great God so relieve me in both worlds as I was the contrary and I took as great comfort to behold your Majesty and always learning some good and bettering my knowledge by hearing your Majesties discourse I do most humbly beseech your Soveraign Majesty not to believe any of those in my particular who under pretence of offences to Kings do easily work their particular revenge I trust no man under the colour of making examples should perswade your Majesty to leave the word Mercifull out of your Stile for it wil be no less profit to your Majesty become your greatness then the word Invincible It is true that the Laws of England are no less jealous of the Kings then Caesar was of Pompey's wife for notwithstanding she was cleared for having company with Claudius yet for being suspected he condemned her For my self I protest before Almighty God and I speak it to my Master and Soveraign that I never invented treason against him and yet I know I shall fall in manibus corum a quibus non possum evadere unless by your Majesties gracious compassion I be sustained Our Law therefore most mercifull Prince knowing her own cruelty and knowing that she is wont to compound treason out of presumptions and circumstances doth give this charitable advice to the King her Supream Non solum sapiens esse sed misericors c. cum tutius sit reddere rationem misericordiae quam judicii I do therefore on the knees of my heart beseech your Majesty from your own sweet and comfortable disposition to remember that I have served your Majesty twenty years for which your Majesty hath yet given me no reward and it is fitter I should be indebted unto my Soveraign Lord then the King to his poor Vassal Save me therefore most mercifull Prince that I may ow your Majesty my life it self then which there cannot be a greater debt Limit me at least my Soveraign Lord that I may pay it for your service when your Majesty shall please If the Law destroy me your Majesty shall put me out of your power and I shall have none to fear but the King of Kings WALTER RALEIGH Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Car after Earl of Somerset SIR AFter many losses and many years sorrows of both which I have cause to fear I was mistaken in their ends It is come to my knowledge that your self whom I know not but by an honorable favour hath been perswaded to give me and mine my last fatal blow by obtaining from his Majesty the Inheritance of my Children and Nephews lost in Law for want of a word This done there remaineth nothing with me but the name of life His Majesty whom I never offended for I hold it unnatural and unmanlike to hate goodness staid me at the graves brink not that I thought his Majesty thought me worthy of many deaths and to behold mine cast out of the world with my self but as a King that knoweth the poor in truth hath received a promise from God that his Throne shall be established And for you Sir seeing your fair day is but in the dawn mine drawn to the setting your own vertues and the Kings grace assuring you of many fortunes and much honour I beseech you begin not your first building upon the ruines of the innocent and let not mine and their sorrows attend your first plantation I have ever been bound to your Nation as well for many other graces as for the true report of my trial to the Kings Majesty against whom had I been malignant the hearing of my cause would not have changed enemies into friends malice into compassion and the minds of the greatest number then present into the commiseration of mine estate It is not the nature of foul Treason to beget such fair passions neither could it agree with the duty and love of faithfull Subjects especially of your Nation to bewail his overthrow that had conspired against their most natural and liberal Lord. I therefore trust that you will not be the first that shall kill us outright cut down the tree with the fruit and undergo the curse of them that enter the fields of the fatherless which if it please you to know the truth is far lesâ— in value then in saâ—ne But that so worthy a Gentleman as your self will rather bind us to you being sixe Gentlemen not base in birth and allâ—ance which have interest therein Aâ—d my self with my uttermost thankfulness will remain ready to obey your commandments WALTER RALEIGH Sir Thomas Egerton Chancellor after Lord Ellesmere to the Earl of Essex SIR HOw things proceed here touching your self you shall partly understand by these inclosed Her Majesty is gracious towards you and you want not friends to remember and commend your former services Of these particulars you shall know more when we meet In the mean time by way of caution take this from me There are sharp eyes upon you your actions publique and private are observed It behoveth you therefore to carry your self with all integrity and sincerity both of hands and heart lest you overthrow your own fortunes and discredit your friends that aâ—â— tender and carefull of your reputation and well-doing So in haste I commit you to God with my very hearty commendations and rest At the Court at Richmond 21 Octob. 1599.
I know hold it evil beseemmg so rare a greatness to come behind any King how pious vertuous soever either in the observance of the laws of mutual charity and friendship or in love or zeal to justice which to all Kingdoms and Governments gives the assuredst foundation and in defect whereof by the Spirit of God himself Kingdoms are said to be translated from one Nation to another The first King that God gave unto his people he elected of higher stature then the rest by the shoulders upwards signifying thereby how much Kings are to strive to exceed and excell in the height and measure of vertue and justice also how fit it is for them to over-look with their authorities and providences the highest head of their Ministers and to observe how they guide themselves By the contents of this paper inclosed your Majesty shall perceive the Christian and Kingly care the King my Master hath had not onely of the observances of the Articles of Peace since the same between your Majesties were concluded but of the punctuall accomplishment of the true Laws of amity and friendship which are more surely and expressively imprinted in Royall and Noble hearts then possibly they can be written or charactered by any pen in paper In your Majesties Kingdoms pardon I humbly beseech you if I speak plainly much contrary to that example the King my Masters subjects suffer all manner of spoils oppressions and miseries and are as well I may term them made a very prey to the hungry and greedy your Viceroyes and others enter their ships under cover and colour of Peace and Justice finding them rich they lay crimes to their charge whereof there appears neither proof nor probability yet serve their pretences to possess them of their goods to put the poor Merchants to a demand in Law wherein were truth alone the ballance they should be weighed by though that form of redress were far short of the immediate remedy provided by the King my Soveraign for your Majesties subjects yet were it much more allowable and to be endured but having here complained two whole years without any course at all taken for redress as in the cause with the Duke of Feria three intire years as in that with the Viceroy of Sardinia one year and more as in that of his Majesties servant Adrian Thibaut taken and spoiled by your Majesties Generall Don Luis as in that of Estry and Bispich imprisoned and bereaved of their goods by Iuan de Vendorza Alcalde of Madrid we are after so long a time spent in misery and charge countervailing a great part of the value of the goods taken from us inforced still to all punctualities and extremities of forms of law and to abide the uttermost perill of all advantages that by the inventions wits tongues of Lawyers can be devised to obscure and hide the light and right of truth The false colour given by every of these and the barbarous cruelty used to the parties would require too long and tedious a declaration It satisfieth that none of their pretences are proved nay which is more they are so false and fabulous as to no indifferent underderstanding they appear so much as probable My humble desire is your Majesty would be pleased to pass your own Royal eyes upon this paper and therefore to affect all possible brevity I will pass unto your Majesties other inferior ministers of your Ports of which few there are those in Biscay and some in Portugal only excepted where we have not divers oppressions imprisonments and unjust imbargements in Sivil especially whereof forty several suits and as many false sentences given raised and pursued by a man now dead and therefore in charity left unnamed We have hitherto in your Majesties Councel of war where before those noble Lords all passed by the equal line of Justice not failed in my remembrance in the overthrowing of any save one mistaken that passed in a wrong name and another concerning merchandise that had their manufacture in Embden whereof I suppose those Lords were not rightly informed only excepted In that Court I must acknowledge we have had redress but yet with your Majesties favour a miserable one our gain being whether we shall be owners of our own or not our expences and charges certain and the time without measure large whereby many have been undone some dead in prison in England for want of what was unjustly detained from them here Yet neither the false Judges in Sivil nor Promoters ever chastised or for any thing that I yet have understood so much as ever reprehended or found fault with I haste to a conclusion fearing lest I should dwell too long in a matter so unsavoury and unpleasing to your Majesties pittifull ears and Christian heart so much of it self disposed to all clemency and piety I will for the next resort to the ships cordage corn and other victuals and provisions taken from the King my Soveraigns subjects for your Majesties own services and the relief of the extreme necessity in your Gallies and Garrisons of the Navy of whom some have been enforced for want of payment of their monies to send their ships home unfreighted a loss extreme to poor Merchants that live by trade and time to repair to this Court and here remain some of them 14 moneths and others two years and more till their very charges had eaten out a great part of what was due unto them and in the end recover only their own without any relief or recompence either for their expences times lost or damages I will only instance two because their causes are most strange and pittifull and yet unsatisfied the one named Thomas Harrison and the other Richard Morris The first served your Majesty with his ship till the same with one of his sons and all of his men were swallowed with the seas and hath been here more then four years suing for his recompence and salary recommended by the King my Soveraign by Letters from your Majesties Ambassadors in England and by my self all that long time furthered with my earnest sollicitation which hath begot infinite promises but to this day no manner of payment or performance The other who sometimes hath been a man of wealth and reputation and falling into great poverty served your Majesty with all that in the world he was worth and all that in value above 6000 Ryals I blush I protest to think of it and my heart is grieved to mention it to so great a King of whose liberality and magnificence the world taketh so much notice His right and his necessity being well known unto your Officers he hath been more then three years and a half fed with hopes and put off with schedules and sending from one Port to another for the receipt of his mony till he hath indebted himself the most part of the sum and at present wanteth wherewith both to feed and cover him Now at last he is promised payment
after I having not in all this time stirred out of my house under colour of being ill disposed though the truth was indeed to inform my self of some particulars which concerned your Majesties service before I would speak with the Duke He being as I have since understood something troubled that in all this time I made no means to come unto him one morning by nine of the clock very privately came to my house without advertising of his coming as the custom is here untill the Coach stayed at my gate and then he sent in a Gentleman to me telling me that the Duke was there to speak with me When I had conducted the Duke into a room where we were private he fell into th' aforesaid matter and in the manner as I shall here set down unto your Majesty without making any other pretence or intent of his coming or without using in the space of an houre any speech touching any other business After some few questions of your Majesty and the Queen he began to ask many things of the Prince as of his age his stature his health his inclination to what sports he was chiefly given And then suddenly as it were with a passionate expression of affection he desired God to bless him and to make him the means by which your Majesties might be conjoyned in a neerer alliance and your Kingdoms in a perpetual amity saying unto me that he was out of doubt of my good inclination to this business both by what had formerly passed between our selves as likewise by my proceedings in England whereof he had been fully informed by the Spanish Ambassador And therefore he would in few words deal with me with much cleerness and freeness assuring himself he should receive the like measure from me and thereupon entred into a solemn protestation how much this King desired the Match and for himself he solemnly swore there was no one thing in the world he more desired to see before he dyed then the effecting thereof But my Lord Ambassador said he you must deal as justly with me to let me understand whether you conceive the like desire to be in the King of England and his Ministers and then I shall proceed to speak further unto you I answered the Duke That I ever esteemed more the reputation of a man of truth and integrity then of skill and subtilty which I did hope he did well perceive by what I was to say for that I was much more desirous fairly to go off from this business then easily to go into it And therefore if he would have me speak my conscience I neither conceived that either in your Majesty or any of your Ministers there was any kind of inclination thereunto for that they having formerly given so resolute and distastefull an answer your Majesty had just cause never again to cast so much as your thoughts this way And though it might be alleadged that the fitness of the Prince his years and other civil regards might cause new resolutions yet the difference of Religion were still the same and the same were the truths and opinions of Divines in matter of conscience and therefore it would not but be a thing of great difficulty to perswade your Majesty and your Ministers that a Match should be hearkened unto much less desired from hence but upon the same terms the very thought and remembrance whereof is yet unpleasing in England So that to deal plainly with him I neither found in your Majesty or in the Councel any kind of thought or imagination of any possibility of having any such motion again revived But this I found not to grow from any particular dislike or want of affection in your Majesty to Spain or that many of the greatest or the principallest person in England judged not the neerness and alliance of Spain equally valuable with any other of Christendom but that out of a distastefulness of the former answer given from hence all expectation of any business of this nature was absolutely extinguished and therefore again to revive it there would need more then ordinary endeavours or ordinary assurances But in case that they might be given I know that this Match would neither want well-willers nor assistants and for my own part I would freely make profession that no man more desired it then my self nor would more willingly imploy his endeavours for the furthering thereof when by the descending to particulars I should see both in regard of the conditions and the assurances of sincere proceeding the motion worthy and fit by a discreet and good servant to be offered to his Master neither then should I be wholly out of hope of good success though I would not but esteem it a business of infinite difficulty The Duke replied That any discourse that I thought fit herein should be condescended unto for that all time was lost that was spent in generalities And therefore if I so liked he would move this King that one or two besides himself might be appointed to have conference with me for that if he should only retain it in his hands by reason of his many occupations it would have a slower progress then he wished but if I would by way of conference digest the difficulties into heads and particulars he would as often as he might be present at our meeting But for his own part he said he apprehended few but what would arise out of the difference of Religion I told the Duke that I very well approved of the descending into particulars neither should I refuse conference with any herein whom the King would appoint to speak with me But if his meaning were that these persons should be nominated or joyned by way of Commission I thought fit to let him understand that I neither had any time nor did at present speak of this business either by order or direction no nor so much as by your Majesties privity but as a Minister that desired to lay hold of all occasions for the increasing of further love neerness betwixt his Master and the Prince to whom he is imployed I should be glad to the uttermost of my power to advance and further this cause as that which I apprehended to be the greatest which the world now affordeth for the firm uniting of your Majesties and your estates The Duke told me that the King would make no scruple to declare his good inclination and desire to have this Match proceeded in and that for the accommodating of the difficulties he had already used divers diligences with the Pope as likewise with the greatest Divines of this Kingdom whereof he named some unto me whom he said he found very well inclined to the Match he told me also he would be glad they might speak with me to the end I might truly understand of them all kind of scruples that could be alleadged I answered I desired nothing more and that I could not but approve of those courses he prescribed as the most
Sir COnsidering in what estate we find the Treaty of marriage between Spain and Emgland and knowing certainly how the Ministers did understanding this business that treated it in the time of Philip the third who is now in heaven that their meaning was never to effect it but by enlarging the treaties and points of the said marriage to make use of the friendship of the King of Great Britain as well in the matter of Germany as those of Flanders and suspecting likewise that your Majesty is of the same opinion although the demonstrations do not shew so joining to those suspitions that it is certain that the Infanta Donna Maria is resolved to put her self into the Monastery the same day that your Majesty shall press her to make the marriage I have thought fit to present to your Majesty that which my good zeal hath afforded me in this occasion thinking it a good time to acquaint your Majesty withal to the end you may resolve of that which you shall find most convenient with the advice of those Ministers that you shall think fit The King of Great Britain doth find himself at this time equally in the two businesses the one is the marriage to the which he is moved by the conveniences which he finds in your Majesties friendship with making an agreement with those Catholiques that he thinks are secretly in his Kingdom and by this to assure himself of them as likewise to marry his son to one of the house of Austria knowing that the Infanta Donna Maria is the best born Lady in the world Th' other businesse is the restitution of the Palatinate in which he is yet more ingaged For besides that his reputation is at stake there is added the love and interest of his Grandchildren sons of his onely daughter So that both by the law of Nature and reason of State he ought to put them before whatsoever conveniences might follow by dissembling what they suffer I do not dispute whether the King of Great Britainy be governed in this business of the Palatinate by Art or friendship I think a man may say he hath used both but as a thing not precisely necessary to this discourse I omit it I hold it for a maxime that these two Ingagements in which he finds himself are unseparable for although the marriage be made we must fail in that which in any way of understanding is most necessary which is the restitution of the Palatinate This being supposed having made the marriage in the form as it is treated your Majesty may find your self together with the King of Great Brirain engaged in a war against the Emperour and the Catholique league so that your Majesty shall be forced to delare your self with your Arms against the Emperour and the Catholique league a thing which to hear will offend your Majesties godly ears or declaring your self for the Emperour and the Catholique league as certainly you will your Majesty will find your self ingaged in a war against the King of England and your sister married with his son with the which all whatsoever conveniences that was thought upon with this marriage do cease if your Majesty shall shew your self Newtrall as it may be some will expound The first will cause very great scandall and with just reason since in matters of lesse opposition then of Catholiques against Heretiques the Armes of this Crown hath taken the godly against the contrary part And at this time the French men have taken part with the Hollanders against your Majesty your piety hath been such that you have sent your Arms against the Rebels of that Crown leaving all the great considerations of State only because those men are enemies of the faith and the Church It wil oblige your Majesty and good occasion to those of the League to make use of the King of France and other Catholique Princes ill affected to this Crown for it will be a thing necessary for them to do so and those even against their own Religion will foment and assist the Heretâ—ques for hatred to us without doubt they will follow the contrary part onely to leave your Majesty with that blemish that never hath befaln any King of these Dominions By the second the King of England will remain offended and disobliged seeing that neither interesses nor hopes do follow the Allyance with this Crown as likewise the pretext of particular resentment for having suffered his daughter and grand-children to be ruined for respect of the said Allyance The Emperour though he be well-affected and obliged to us in making the translation at this time as businesses now stand the Duke of Bavaria being now possessed of all the Dominions although he would dispose all according to our conveniences yet it will not be in his power to do it as you and every body may see And the memoriall that the Emperours Ambassador gave your Majesty yesterday makes it certain since in the List of the Souldiers that every on of the League is to pay he shews your Majesty that Bavier for himself alone will pay more then all the rest joyned together the which doth shew his power and his intention which is not to accommodate matters but to keep to himself the superiority of all in this broken time The Emperour is now in the Dyet and the translation is to be made in it The opposition in this estate is by conserving the means for conference which your Majesties Ministers will do with their capacities zeal and wisdom and it is certain they wil all have enough to do for the difficulty consists to find a way to make the present estate of affairs straight again which with lingring as it is said both the power and time will be lost I suppose that the Emperour as your Majesty knows by his Ambassador desires to marry his daughter with the King of Englands son I doubt not but he will be likewise glad to marry his second daughter with the Palatines son Then I propound that these two marriages be made and that they be set on foot presently giving the King of England full satisfaction in all his propositions for the more strict union and correspondency that he may agree to it I hold for certain that all the conveniences that would have followed the allyance with us wil be as full in this it doth accommodate the matter of the Palatinate and the succession of his grand-children with his honor without drawing a sword or wasting treasure After I would reduce the Prince Elector that was an enemy to the obedience of the Church by breeding his sons in the Emperours Court with Catholique Doctrine The business is great the difficulty greater then perchance have been in any other case I have found my self obliged to represent to your Majesty and to shew if you please to command me what I think fit for the disposing of the things and of the great Ministers that your Majesty hath I hope with the particular notice of these
with humble thanks By our own late loan of 3 5000. l. and 6000. l. more sent by Sir Thomas Wise and Mr. Stroad and yet there remains due to it for the Coat and Conduct of their own imprest Soldiers for divers voyages for the Recruits intended for the Isle of Ree for the conduct of the whole Army hence besides three Companies stand yet here for Silly and no small number of scattered sick whose mortall infection hath more discouraged the people then the charge That many and almost unaccountable are our ways of expence few or none have we of in-come for the want of Trade how then can there be any quantity of money to disburse their bodies and goods are left which we are assured will be ever ready for this Majesties defence and to be imployed in his Majesties service as far forth as ever our forefathers have yeilded them to his Majesties Royall Progenitors Particular proofs we would have made of the peoples disability to have satisfied his Majesties demands but we had rather adventure our selves and this humble advertisement upon your Lordships private and favourable instructions then to expose his Majesties honor to publique deniall and misspend his pretious time which applied to more certain courses may attain his Princely and religious ends wherein to be his Majesties Instruments will be our earthly happiness and singular comfort to be your Lordships obedient servants The Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishops concerning King James his Directions for Preachers with the Directions Ang. 14. 1622. RIght Reverend Father in God and my very good Lord and Brother I have received from the Kings most excellent Majesty a Letter the tenor whereof here ensueth Most revered Father in God right trusty and right entirely beloved Councellor we greet you well Forasmuch as the abuses and extravagancies of Preachers in the Pulpit have been in all times repressed in this Realm by some Act of Councell or State with the advice or resolution of grave and learned Prelates insomuch as the very licencing of Preachers had beginning by an Order of Star-Chamber the 8. day of July in the 19. year of King Henry 8. our Noble Predecessor and whereas at this present divers young Students by reading of late Writers and ungrounded Divines do broach many times unprofitable unsound seditious and dangerous Doctrine to the scandall of the Church and disquieting of the State and present Government We upon humble representation to us of these inconveniences by your self and sundry other grave and reverend Prelats of this Church as also of our Princely care and zeal for the extirpation of schisme and dissention growing from these seeds and for the setling of a religious and peaceable government both of the Church and State do by these our speciall Letters straitly charge and command you to use all possible care and diligence that these limitations and cautions herewith sent unto you concerning Preachers be duly and straitly henceforth observed and put in practice by the severall Bishops in their severall Diocesses within your jurisdictions And to this end our pleasure is that you send them forthwith severall Copies of these Directions to be by them speedily sent and communicated to every Parson Vicar and Curate Lecturer and Minister in every Cathedrall and Parish Church within their several Diocesses and that you earnestly require them to imploy their uttermost indeavour in the performance of this so important a business letting them know that we have a speciall eye to their proceedings and expect a strict account thereof both of you and them and every of them And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Castle of Windsor the fourteenth day of August in the twentieth year of our reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the fifty sixt Directions concerning Preachers THat no Preacher under the degree of a Bishop or a Dean of a Cathedrall or Collegiat Church and that upon the Kings days and set Festivals do take occasion by the expounding of any Text of Scripture whatsoever to fall to any let Discourse or Common-place otherwise then by opening the coherence and division of his Text which be not comprehended and warranted in essence substance effect or naturall inference within some one of the Articles of Religion set forth by authority in the Church of England and the two Books of Homilies set forth by the same authority in the year 1562. or in some of the Homilies set forth by authority of the Church of England not onely for the help of non-preaching but withall for a Patern or a Boundary as it were for the preaching Ministers and for their further instruction for the performance â—eâ—eof that they forâ—hwith read over and peruse diligently the said Book of Articles and the â—â—o Books of Homilies 2. That no Parson Vicar Curat or Lecturer shall preach any Sermon or Collation hereafter upon Sundays or Holidays in the afternoon in any Cathedral or Parish-Church throughout the Kingdom but upon some part of the Catechism or some Text taken out of the Creed the ten Commandments or the Lords prayer Funeral-sermons only excepted And that those Preachers be most encouraged and approved of who spend their afternoons exercises in the examination of Children in their Catechism which is the most antient and laudable custom of teaching in the Church of England 3. That no Preacher of what title or denomination soever under the degree of a Bishop or Dean at the least do from henceforth presume to preach in any popular Auditory the deep points of Predestination Election Reprobation or the universality efficacie resistibility or irresistibility of Gods grace but leave these Theams to be handled by learned men and that moderately and modestly by way of use and application rather then by way of positive doctrine as being fitter for Schools and Universities then for simple Auditories 4. That no Preacher of what title or denomination soever shal presume from henceforth in any Auditory within this Kingdom to declare limit or bound out by way of positive doctrine in any Sermon or Lecture the power prerogative jurisdiction authority right or duty of soveraign Princes or otherwise meddle with these matters of State and the differences betwixt Princes and people then as they are instructed and presidented in the Homilies of Obedience and in the rest of the Homilies and Articles of Religion set forth as before is mentioned by publique Authority but rather confine themselves wholly to these two heads Faith and good life which are all the subject of ancient Homilies and Sermons 5. That no Preacher of what title or denomination soever shall causelesly or without invitation of the Text fall into bitter invectives or undecent railing speeches against the persons of either Papists or Puritans but modestly and gravely when they are occasioned thereunto by the text of Scripture cleer both the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England from the
year before had received so unpleasing and unequal an answer should now be perswaded that there was here so great a change as that a match was really desired there would now need more then ordinary assurance But the Duke of Lerma continuing severall times the same profession and telling me besides that the greatest Cases might be altered by circumstances and that the Age of this Prince was much more proper then that of his brother I freely let the Duke know that in case I might see that it was really desired here and that I might be able to propound unto my Master conditions of so much advantage and certainty as might put him and his ministers out of doubt that this overture was not again revived from hence either for diversion or winning of time I would then willingly intimate unto your Majesty the inclination and desire I found here of having a proposition for this match once again set on foot The Duke told me he would have a further conference with me and that he then no ways doubted to give such satisfaction as might well assure your Majesty and your Ministers that they sincerly desired the match in generall and would omit nothing on their side for the accomodating of particulars that might give furtherance unto it But the very night before the Duke had appointed a meeting with me there came a Post dispatcht out of England from the Spanish Ambassador upon the arrivall of Sir Thomas Edmonds into England who brought word that the match with France was absolutely concluded and that within few days it was to be published Whereupon the Duke at our meeting the next morning told me that it would be needless now to descend to any particulars in the business whereof we are to treat since that they had newly received advertisement that the match with France was fully concluded And thus for the present the matter rested untill some five or six weeks after about which time my self was to go into England and so taking leave of the Duke he asked me whether I had not received advertisement that the match with France was published I told him no but I had certainly heard that it was not as yet fully concluded Whreupon he intreated me that in case I found not the French match in such forwardness as it could not be stayed I would let him know of it and that if I should see any kind of possibility that the business we had spoken of might be set on foot I would advertise him and that thereupon he would proceed to those particulars which he formerly intended for my satisfaction Herewith I acquainted your Majesty and finding the Spanish Ambassador in England had notice from the Duke of our former proceedings and order to further them by all possible means he could especially if he should understand that your Majesty were not fully resolved of the French match I thought it fit by this means to let the Duke understand in what estate I found those businesses in England and thereupon with your Majesties permission I wrote a letter unto him to this effect That although it were true that the Match with France had been treated of with much earnestness on both sides and with great likelihood of being concluded yet there daily arose so many difficulties and new cases of delay that I judged it far from any perfect conclusion neither did I see cause absolutely to despair of the businesses which our selves pretended unless the difficulty of the Conditions should make it desperate But if those things should be expected by Spain which in the Treaty for the late Princess were demanded it were better by much not to renew the business then by impossible or unfitting propositions on either side to give distaste or lessen the friendship which now was betwixt your Majesties And therefore except that in Spain they would be contented with such conditions as your Majesty most fittingly and conveniently might yield unto and all other Catholique Princes were willing to content themselves with I neither saw cause to hope for good success or reason to set the treaty on foot But in case I might know that the conditions in point of Religion might be such as I should see a possibility of your Majesties condescending unto them I should be far from despairing of some good effect for that I knew that divers not of the meanest nor least power with your Majesty were hereunto well inclined and would give their helping hands Hereupon the Spanish Ambassador dispatcht his Secretary into Spain and received answer from the Duke that he should give me all assurance that there was a great desire and inclination to the making of the Match and that at my return into Spain they no way doubted but that I should receive such satisfaction as should make it appear on their part there should be nothing wanting for the effecting of it It now remaineth what hath passed herein since my last coming to this Court. I arrived here in Madrid only a day or two before Christmass and having some six dayes after my audience appointed by the King whilst I was in a withdrawing chamber expecting the Kings coming forth the Duke of Lerma came thither to bear me company and after many respectfull demands of your Majesty and the Queens and the Princes health and some few complements unto my self concerning my welcom again unto this Court he fell to speak of the false Alarms we had in England concerning a Spanish Armado seeming much to be displeased that any credit should be given to any thing to his Majesties dishonour and want of fidelity as he termed it But your Majesty he said did never believe it And it seems he heard of some pleasant answer your Majesty should make to some one of your Ministers that in great haste came unto your Majesty when you were a hunting and told you that the Spanish Fleet was in the Channel From this he entred into great protestations of the sincerity of this Kings affection and intention towards your Majesty telling me that I should now see how much they desired to work a greater neerness and uniting between your Majesties And that of the principal business of which we had in former time spoken meaning the Marriage he desired to speak with me but it must be at more leisure I answered that I would not fail shortly to wait upon him and that he should find me answerable to the professions I had made which was that being induced thereunto by such sufficient and good grounds as might satisfie my Master both for the convenience and fittingness of having such a Treaty set on foot and likewise might take away all objections of their intents of entertaining and diverting your Majesty hereby I would be as ready to do all good offices and give furtherance to the business as any Minister the King of Spain had And this was all that at our first meeting passed in this business About some eight days
full of circumspection and unwilling to enter into play alone answereth unto all instances which are made unto him to that end That as the other Princes have their eyes upon him so hath he his upon your Majesty It is not for me to judge but since you have commanded me I will weigh them by the ballance of common judgment That the felicity wherewith God hath blessed the person of your Majesty having conjoyned the three Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland upon one head the power of the one of the three alone having done great matters in the affairs of Europe on this side the sea yea when it was counterballanced by the other gives demonstration what your Majesty may do with the joynt forces of the three together when you shall be pleased to take a resolution therein chiefly the question being for the interest of your own Children and by the voluntary contribution which we have already had in our support from your Majesty we may easily comprehend what may be promised of them when the publike authority of your Majesty shall be conjoyned with their particular affections there being no Prince in the world more loved and reverenced of his subjects nor more soveraign over their affections and means for the service of your person and Royal house Touching the Allies it is to my great grief that the unhappiness of this time hath separated a great part of them the united Provinces of Germany who make profession of the same Religion whereof they acknowledge your Majesty for Defendor and Protector But the same affection remaineth still in them entire and firm though they have been constrained to yield to the present necessity of their affairs and the occasion presenting it self your Majesty may accompt of them The rest the Estates of the united Provinces to whom we have recourse in our afflictions who support themselves by the help of God and the situation of their Country and Forces of their people alone untill this time against the puissance of Spain seconded by the Imperialists And in stead of fainting under such a burthen or of giving ear unto the overtures and submissions which from day to day are presented unto them they now put themselves to the offensive by a good Fleet prepared and ready to set sail to the West-Indies to the end they may at least interrupt the peaceable and annual return of the gold and silver of those parts by which the house of Austria doth continually advance their greatness This is commended by all good men and lovers of the publike liberty as the sole and only means to cast to the ground the fearfull power of Spain even as a great tree of large extent cut up by the root but is held too great for such a little extent of Country as this is and yet practically and to be done by forces answerable to the importance of such an enterprize And if your Majesty would be pleased to use the Forces of this estate by sea and land to the opposition of their enemies and by consequence of mine their profession of a loyall and sincere affection with the hazard of their lives and goods for the service of your Majesty grounded upon the experience of things past their present interest and the judgement which may be made of the future makes me assured that your Majesty may absolutely dispose of them and by their means being firmly conjoyned with your Majesty give the Law to Europe It is in obedience to your Majesties commandment that I have enlarged my self so far into this discourse which I will send with my most humble thanks for the continuance of your most gracious and paternall bounty particularly shewed in the care you have of the education of my eldest son in your Court who with all the rest are at your Majesties disposing and we hope to live notwithstanding our hard and dolefull condition to yeild unto your Majesty the fruits of a devout and filiall gratitude and I will remain untill the last day of my life From the Hague Decemb. 30. 1623 new stile Your Majesties most c. FREDERICK Postscript I am advertised from a good part that the Elector of Mentz and the other Princes of the Popish league are very instant with the Elector of Saxony and Brandenburgh to perswade them to acknowledge the Duke of Bavaria as an Elector of the Empire which if they obtain it were easie to judge how much it would prejudice my affairs and the common cause of the Empire I therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty that you will be pleased to prevent and hinder such an evil by the interposition of good offices and exhortations to the said secular Electors be it by some Ambassador by serious Letters or such other way as you shall hold meet and suitable to the importance of the matter which above all requireth singular celerity Your Majesty shall increase more and more my obligations and that of the publique of Germany c. Abignoto from Madrid THe Spaniard begins now to be sensible of the great disobligation and gross oversight he committed in suffering the Prince to go away without his Infanta For it hath given occasion of advantage to the English who now seem indifferent whether they match with him or no to proceed more stoutly and to add to the former Articles which the Prince had sworn at his being here certain new Propositions about the Palatinate which was thought to be unfit to motion at his being here by reason of the engagement of his person And there is a Commission sent to the Earl Bristol to treat of these two businesses joyntly and if the King of Spain give not a satisfactory answer therein then he is to return home Buckingham hath little obligation no Spain therefore for his own particular he hath good reason it he cannot prop himhimfelf this way to find other means for his support unkindnesses passed between him and Olivarez and a hot heart-burning between him and Bristol who told him here before the Prince that being so far his superior inhonor and might he might haply contemn him but he could never hate him Ever since his departure he hath attempted to crush Bristol to pieces who is out of purse two thousand pound of his own since his coming hither he is so crossed that he cannot get a peny from England If he cannot get a surrender of the Palatinate to the Kings mind he is in a poor case for he must hence presently he is much favoured of the King here and Olivarez therefore they will do much for him before Buckingham work his revenge upon him he hath received lately more comfortable dispatches from England and in the last the King sent him he requires his advice in certain things The Proxie the King of Spain had to marry the Infanta in the Princes name is proroged till March There is great resentment of the delayes in the Court here and the Infanta hath given over studing of
hoc Cancellariatu arbitremur Nos tantillos tibi in id Merâ—torum Gratiae culmen evecto quicquam vel testimonii ad aestimationem vel tituli ad gloriam contulisse Quod autem ipse aliter opinaris vestra illa pietas est haud ambitio major tua tum virtus tum decus est quam ut eis aut nostra a quidpiam suffragia addere aut aliorum possit Invidia detrahere stella in primo orbe quas fixas vocant altiores sunt quam ut ad eas valeaâ— terrarum umbra pertingere quanquam foelicissimae memoriae Jacobo pientissimoque Carolo non est quod hoc quicquid est nominis te debere dicas citra est misellum munus Academicum citra est quam ut tantos auctores mereatur quin vestram potius celsitudinem vestrum tutelare numen Nos illis Principibus imputabimus qui inde ex illius potissimum voto te elegimus unde non misi immortalia accipere beneficia solebamus Quod si nostrum hoc in vestram Excellentiam studium tibi ipsa uti scribis commendat tempestivitas nos illud saltem debituri sumus temporibus caeterum non nimis foelicibus quod tibi vel inde gratiores sumus quanquam suspicamur ut hoc totum quod de oportunitate insinuas merum sit nec magnis ingeniis insolens bene de suis cultoribus merendi artificium quae eo consilio singula suorum officia maxime tempestive autumant quo uberius sibi remunerandi argumentum auâ—upentur nam faciles credimus honorificis quibus nos dignaris promissis Jâ—mdiu est ex quo to animo atque opera Cancellarium sensimus nihilque tibi hoc tempore nostra potuere suffragia quam nomen adjicere Nolis tamen ut cum illustrissmis heroibus praecessoribus tuis te committamus in quo sane tua praedicanda modestia illorum honori memoriae consuluit ne tanti fulgoris claritudine offuscentur ut enim nulla re magis se jactat Cantabrigia quam praeteritorum gloria ac splendore Patronorum hodie tamen nescio quid solito augustius spirat tuis superba auspiciis quasi Buckinghamiensis aucta tutelis magnaque spe gravida intumescit Ad extremum nos ad concilium vocas quâ potissimum ratione quo digno monumento tuo in nos amoris memoriam posteritati cosecres verum enim vero Illustrissime Dux indulgentissimeque Cancellarie major est ea provincia quam ut nos eam subeundo simus quod tuo amori par sit monumentum tuum potest solummodo excogitare ingenium Nos interea alia manebit cura quibus nimirum apud Deum precibus quibus studiorum vigiliis officiorum obsequiis tantae Clientelae foelicitatem nobis propriam perpetuam despondeamus Datae frequentissimo Senatu nostro sexto Idus Junii 1626. Vestrae Excellentiae humillimi devotissimique Clientes Servique Procancellarius reliquus Senatus Cantabrigiensis The University of Cambridge Answer to the King Serenissimo invictissimoque Principi ac Domino nostro CAROLO Dei gratiae Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi Fidei Defens c. SErenissime Domine noster invictissime Carole multum nos fortunae nostrae sed tuae clementiae infinitum quantum debemus satis nempe erat judicio nostro satisfecisse cum illum nobis praeficeremus quem unum certissime praefici posse constabat At tua admirabilis bonitas non patitur nos gratis nobismetipsis benefacere sed tibi imputari vis quod nobis fecimus beneficium Enimvero arduam aliquam sibi materiam obsequium nostrum poscebat cujus tenuitas sublimitatem vestram assequi non posset difficultatem se molestia commendaret Tu autem à te gratiam quod tanti Patroni beneficio usi sumus qui ita nos amat ut plurimum velit ita à te amatur ut plurimum nostra causa posset per quem vestra in nos transeat benignitas difficultates nostras disâ—utiat si quae tamen in hac divina bonitate tua existere possit difficultas superasti nempe majorum titorum Clementiam qui easdem nobis immunitates indulges id etiam prospicis ut iis rectissimo utamur Et quod unum tantae foelicitati reliquum erat ut esset perpetua id ipsum precibus nostris superesse non finis praecurris eram vota nostra spem ipsam qua nihil est importunius exuperas nam ipsa fines suos habet quos tuae bonitati nullos esse experti sumus Exhausisti votorum nostrorum materiam Serenissime Regum nec quicquam nobis deinceps optanduÌ„ est quam ut tu regnes ut vincas ut nos in perpetuum simus quod sumus Datae frequentissimo Senatu nostro sexto Idus Junii 1626. Excellentissime Majestatis vestrae humillimi servi subditi Procancellarius reliquus Senatus Academiae Cantabrigiensis A Privie Seal for transporting of Horse June 3. 1624. CHARLES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and under-Treasurer of our Exchequer for the time being greeting We do hereby will and command you that out of our Treasure remaining in the receipt of our said Treasury forthwith to pay or cause to be paid unto Philip Burlamack of Lond ' Merchant the sum of 30000 l. to be by him paid over to the Low-Countries by Bill of Exchange and Germany unto Our Trusty Welbelove Sir William Belfour Knight and John Dabler Esq or either of them for levying and providing a certain number of Horse with Arms for Foot and Horse to be brought over into this Kingdom for our Service viz. for the levying and transporting of 1000 Horse 15000 l. for 5000 Muskets 5000 Corslets 5000 Pikes 10500 l. for 1000 Curasiers compleat 200 Corslets and 200 Carbines 4500 l. amounting in the whole to the said sum of 30000 l. And this Our Letter shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under Our Privie Seal at Our Palace of Westm ' the 30 of Januar ' in the third yeer of Our Reign Anno Dom. 1627. The University of Cambridge to the Duke Illustrissime Princeps QUam paterno cum affectu quam divina cum charitate vestrae hujus Academiae saluâ—em utilitatemque vestra Celsitudo semper procuraverit nec nos effari possumus nec aetas ulla contacere Ingentia beneficia seculum praesens admiratione obruunt nec alio queunt quam perennis famae immortalitatis praemio compensari Vestrae Celsitudinis singulari patrociniâ— de Typographis Londinensibus triumphavimus Hostium undequaque ferociam persensimus imminutam auctamque Academiae dignitatem Nihil nos votis expetiscere nihil vestra Celsitudo conferre potuit quod a vestra benignitate non acceperimuâ— Et quid nos praeter hanc sterilem culius nostri messem rependimus At beneficia vestra quam sancte posteritas alet quibus
Viscount St. Alban his discourses to the Earl concerning Ireland 42 43 c. concerning Tyrone 44. his huge opinions of the Earl of Essex 45 46 47. against the Subsidie in Parliament how 54 68. makes wayes to get into King James his favour 56 58. expostulates with and advises Sir Edward Cook 60 61. expostulates with Sir Vincent Skinner 66. would be Sollicitor 68 69 71. his good services to the Crown 72 See Bodley Sir Thomas Balsac impudently abuseth King James and Qu. Elizabeth 198 199. flatters the French King grosly 200 201 Barbarians of old placed justice and felicity in the sharpnesse of their swords 47 Bavaria Duke linked with the House of Austria 135. designed Elector of Rhine 113. seiseth part of the Palatinate 131 Bevayr Chancellour of France discharged complains to the King to the Government 193 194 195 196. Commanded to discharge an account for 80000 li. 195. haâ— no other fauls but that he is an honest man 196 Bishops in what manner parts of the Common-wealth 5. submitted to Kings 6. chief against the Mass 233. too remiss 185 Bodeley Sir Thomas against Sir Francis Bacons new Philosophie 74 75 76. For setled opinions and Theoremes 76 77 78 Bouillon Duke 37 198 Bristol Earl See Digby Lord. Brograve Atturney of the Dutchy 69 Broke George 79 80 Brunswic Christian Duke 148 Buckingham Duke chosen Chancellor of Cambridg 213. unkindness between him and Bristol 151. and Olivarez ibid. murthered 220. See Charles King Burleigh Lord for Kings and against usurpation 136 C Caecil Sir Robert after Earl of Salisbury in France 36. a friend to Sir Francis Bacon 69 70 Caesar d' Este Du. of Modena 243 Calvinists dangerous 112 Cambridg differences betwixt the Town and Vniversity 223 Car Earl of Somerset 86 Carlo Don Infant of Spain 126 Carlo Alessandro of Modena 243 Carlton Sir Dudley Embassadour in the Low Countries 145 Caron Sir Noel Embassadour in England from the Low Countries 92 93 Cassal S. Vaâ— beleaguered by the Spaniard 239 Causes of conscience growing to be faction 38 Charles King of great Brittain ingagement of his person in Spain cause why things were not carryed on to the height 15â— See Gregory Pope His piety and care toward the Hugonots of France 206. acknowledged by them after the losse of Rochel 208 209. his opinion of the Duke of Buckingham 214 215. A great lover of the Vniversity of Cambridg 220 223. Will rule according to the Laws wil give the Judges leave to deliver and bail prisoners according to Magna Charta and the Statutes 231. forbids hearing of Mass 232. careful to root out Papistry in Ireland 242. commands the house in Dublin to be pulled down where the Friars appeared in their habits 241 Charles the Fifth 145 Church Orders by K. James 193 of England its service damnable by the Popes decree 40 Clergy where punished 6 Cleves and Juliers pretended to 123 124 Clifford Sir Coniers 42 Coeur Marquess 240 Coke Sir Edward disgraces Sir Francis Bacon 60. described 62 63 Colledg of Dublin 52 Colomma Don Carlo 152 Commission for the Deputies place of Ireland 13. for delivery of Vlushing Bril c. 92 93. of union of the Kingdoms 72 Conde Prince 204 254 Conscience not to be forced 51 Considerations touching the service in Ireland 49 50 Constable of France the Office intended to be taken away by Henry the Great 195 Cornwallis Sir Charles Embassadour in Spaine 95 Cottington Sir Francis after Lord 130 Critory Secretary of France 38 Custome of Spain to give notice of visits 120 D Danish King 94 148 149 Davers Lord 253 Davison Secretary in disgrace 22 See Essex Earl Defiance to the Emperour Maximilian from the Grand Seignieur 12 Deputy of Ireland his power 13 14 Desmond Earl dissembles dutifulnesse 18. his Rebellion 45 Digby Lord after Earl of Bristol in Spain treats concerning the Match 117 118 119 120 121 c. zealous for it 138 139 140 142 Sir Kenhelm 240 244. See Fairy Queen Directions for preaching 184 c. Discipline See Presbytery Disloyalty the doom of it seldome adjourned to the next world 46 E Egerton Sir Thomas Lord Ellesmere and Lord Chancellour a friend to the Earl of Essex 27 87 to Sir Francis Bacon 71 sues to be discharged 87 88 89 Elizabeth Queen of England comforts the Lady Norris 10 11 her care for Ireland 5 16 50. cast not off her creatures slightly 32. Questions the Earl of Essex in the Star Chamber unwillingly and forced 32 33. Her Government in things Ecclesiastical she will not force mens consciences 38 39 40. her dealing with Papists 39. See Walsingham Sir Francis Gives stipends to preachers 52 Essex Earle a lover of Secretary Davison 20 21 c. would bring him again into favour 22 25. writes to King James in his defence 23. to the Queen being lesse graced and discontented 25 26. will not approve the Chancellors advice 29. suddenly before his Rebellion Religious 35 F Fairy Queen the 22d Staffe of the ninth Canto of the second Booke discoursed of by Sir Kenhelm Digby 244 c. Faulkland Viscount Lord Deputy of Ireland 235 236. Petitions the King for his son imprisoned in the Fleet 242 Ferdinand the second wil not restore the Palatine 112 113 c. aiâ—s to settle the Empire perpetually in the house of Austria 113. abuses K. James 113 115 116 146 his Armies in Italy 234 235 Ferdinand Infanta of Spain 254 Feria Duke 102 Fitzwilliams Sir William 42 Frederic father 123 Frederic the 2d Palatine 146 147 Frederic the fifth driven out of his estates 112 113 116. will not quit the electorate nor submit 145. see 198 French the estate of things in the minority of Lewis the thirteenth 195. authority of the French King ibid. French Kings reverence the exhortations of Popes as much as the Commands of God 213 G Gabor Bethlem Prince of Transylvania 113 l46 Gage imployed at Rome 129 130 Giron Don Hernando 130 Gondomar Conde 130 Gregory the 15 puts the Inquisitor Generall of Spain upon it to gaine the Prince of Wales to the Church of Rome fearfull of his stay in the Spanish Court 210 unreasonable in the businesse of the dispensation 130 Groillart Claude President of the Parliament of Rhoan 36 Guise Duke 240 H Hereticks abuse Scripture 2 Hall Bishop of Exceter 229 Harrington Sir Henry 18 Heidelberg taken by the Spaniards 127 Henry the 8 writes to the Clergy of York in defence of his title Caput Ecclesiae 1 2 3 4 5 c. Henry the 4 of France 36 Hessen Landgrave Philip 145 Homily bookes 184 Hoskins Sir Thomas 59 Hugonots of France acknowledge many obligations to Charles King of great Britain 204 205 Persecuted 205 206 I Jacynthus father 109 112 Jagerndorf Brandenburg Marquesse John Georg 116 James King of great Britain described 59. will take care of London 81 yeelds up Vlushing c. 94 95 his fairenesse to the Spanish King 100 101. will not make Cambridge a City his care of the Vniversity 105.
out here of your Royal chests but after so many ceremonies and circumstances to be performed with your Officers in other parts as God knows hunger may end the poor man before they begin to satisfie him By all this will plainly appear to your Majesty that your Majesties subjects are by the favour and Christian justice of the King my master entred into the new Testament and law of Grace haying restitution and remedy without the delayes of ceremony and formality and we still remain under the old and tyed in ail things to the hand-writing of the Law to the burthenous circumstances and intolerable dilatory formalities of proceeding in this your Kingdom and what else your unpittifull Ministers will out of uncharitable and unsensible minds of other mens harms charge and impose upon us Well doth your Majesty conceive that would the King my Master wink at the like courses to be taken by his subjects and ministers with such of yours as they might meet upon the seas the English are not of so little invention but they could devise as good colours and pretences nor their Lawyers of so small skill and so much conscience but they could form and protract suits nor the ships of England so weakened and lessened but they could equal and surmount their losses I have out of mine own humble affection to your Majesty out of my generall and ever continuing desire to hold firm the ancient amity so necessary for your own estates and utile for the whole common-weal of Christendom out of the force of duty I owe to my King and Country thus far adventured to unburthen my soul and thoughts not doubting but your Majesties magnanimous and Christian heart will be moved as well in desire to equal the pious and immutable example of the King my Master as in a just compassion of a Nation now confederate with you and that so gladly would entertain any cause to love and serve you to give present remedy to those wofull and intolerable oppressions and that since you have firmed and consented by your Articles of Peace of new orders which being confirmed by your oath stand now in force of Laws you would be pleased in like manner to give them a new form of indilatory execution conformable to that of the King my Soveraign c. King James to the University of Cambridge Mar 4. 1616. JACOBVS Dei gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei defensor c. Acadmiae Cantabrigiae communi salutem SI jus civitatis impetret à nobis Cantabrigia veremur ne aemula urbis potentia crescente minuatur Academiae securitas sat erit apud nos metus vestri judicium fecisse nec enim tam vobis convenit Academiae periculum deprecari quam nobis sponte nostra quicquid in speciem illi noxium sit avertere Glorietur urbs illa se à Majoribus nostris electam doctrinarum sedem ingeniorum officium sapientiae palestram Quicquid his titulis addi potest nimis non honestatur plebeia Civitatis appellatione Musarum domicilium vel sane literatorum dicatur Civitas vel quod in villa nostrae villae in incolitarum tegitur celebritate Haec ejus fuerint privilegia Academiae dignitatem comiter observare cujus frequentia facta seipsa major affluentia bonarum artium studiosos amicè excipere quorum congressu dislata est Literatorum deinque honori ancillari unde haec illa nata est felicitas hae artes quibus crevit tenenda non aucupandam titulorum novitas incerti eventus facessat popularis vocabuli fastus unde certa oriatur aemulationis necessitas quae eo turpior urbi est futura quo majori erga Academiam obstrictam reverentiam nolumus sacrum illum musarum asylum minuti praetoris ense temerari nec strepere tetrica edicta ubi septem geminus vestri Chori auditur concentus satis in vetera purpura invidiae nova pompa tam illi futura supervacua quam vobis suspecta In nostra solvis tutela post Deum opt max. Alma scientiarum Mater nostro fovebitur sceptro indefessa illius foecunditas non abortiet ad praetorii gladii terriculum nullum honoris titulum Cantabrigiae indulgemus qui cum Academiae sollicitudine conjunctus sit Valete Datum è Palatio nostre Westmonast 4 Calend. Mar. 1616. JACOBUS REX Mr. Ruthen to the Earle of Northumberland My Lord IT may be interpreted discretion somtimes to wink at private wrongs especially for such a one as my self that have a long time wrastled with a hard Fortune and whose actions words and behaviour are continually subject to the censure of a whole State yet not to be sensible of publique and Nationall disgrace were stupidity and baseness of mind For no place nor time nor State can excuse a man from performing that duty and obligation wherein Nature hath tied him to his Countrey and to himself This I speak in regard of certain infamous verses lately by your Lordships means dispersed abroad to disgrace my Countrey and my self and to wrong and stain by me the honor of a worthy and vertuous Gentlewoman whose unspotted and immaculate vertue your self is so much more bound to admire and uphold in that having dishonorably assaulted it you could not prevail But belike my Lord you dare do any thing but that which is good and just Think not to bear down these things either by greatness or denyall for the circumstances that prove them are so evident and the veil wherewith you would shadow them is too transparant Neither would I have you flatter your self as though like another Giges you could passe in your courses invisible If you owe a spight to any of my countrey-men it is a poor revenge to rail upon me in verse or if the repulse of your lewd desire at the Gentlewomans hands hath inflamed and exasperated your choler against her it was never known that to refuse Northumberlands unlawfull lust was a crime for a Gentlewoman deserving to have her honour called in question For her part I doubt not but her own unspotted vertue will easily wipe out any blot which your malice would cast upon it and for me and my Countreymen know my good Lord that such blowes as come in rime are too weak to reach or harm us I am asham'd in your Lordships behalfe for these proceedings and sorry that the world must now see how long it hath been mistaken in Northumberlands spirit and yet who will not commend your wisdom in chusing such a safe course to wrong a woman a prisoner the one of which cannot and the other by nature quality of the place may not right his own wrongs Wherefore setting aside the most honorable order of the Garter and potesting that whatsoever is here said is no way intended to the Nobility and Gentry of England in generall which I doubt not but will condemn this your dishonorable dealing and for which both my self
and I dare truly say all my Countrymen shall be even as ready to sacrifice our bloods as for our own mother Scotland I do not only in regard of our own persons affirm that whatsoever in those infamous Verses is contained is utterly false and untrue and that your self hath dealt most dishonorably unworthily and basely but this I 'll ever maintain If these words sound harshly in your Lordships ear blame your self since your self forgetting your self have taught others how to dishonour you And remember that though Nobility make a difference of persons yet Injury acknowledgeth none PATRICK RUTHEN Sir Henry Yelvertons submission in the Star-chamber My Lords I Humbly beseech you to think that I stand not here either to outface the Court or to defend this cause otherwise then justly I may only I desire in mine own person to second the submission which hath been opened by my Councel for hitherunto hath nothing been opened unto you but that which hath passed under the advised pen of others and hitherto hath appeared from my self neither open nor inward acknowledgment My Lords it may seem strange to the hearers that against a Bill so sharpned I should abruptly fall upon a submission or confession whereby I may seem to bow down my neck to the stroke But my Lords in this I weighed not my self but I did it to amplifie the honour and mercy of his Majesty from whom I may say Clemencie springs as the blood that runs in his own veins For my Lords when this Charter was sometime questioned divers of my Lords here present had out of their great wisdoms discovered that shame in it which I must here confess I did not then see had related the same to his Majesty it pleased his Maj. out of his great favour to me his unworthy servant to send me this message by two great honorable persons here present and therefore under your Lordships favour I think not fit to hide so great a favour of his Maj. from the eyes of the people who offered to my choice either to submit to himself in private or defend here openly and when I saw I fell into such faithful hands I remember my answer then was that the offer was gracious and the choice was easie and his mercy free After came this Information against me I took it but as trial whether I would make his Majesty King of my confidence or not And though there was offered unto me and my Councel such a way of defence as I might have escaped yet I protest I did reject it because I would not distrust his Majesties mercy to let go the anchor-hold I had thereof and whatsoever becomes of me I protest I shall still honour the King though I go lame to my grave I humbly confess the manifold errors of this Charter to your Lordships wherein I have miscarried and I beseech his Majesty and your Lordships to think they are rather crept in unawares then usher'd in by consent The errors are of divers natures some of negligence some of ignorance some of misprision I mistook many things I was improvident in some things too credulous in all things But I who was chosen when I had so much provoked his Majesty by mine unexperienced years and having since found so many favours from his Majesties hands and this day having served him full seven years who this day hath translated me from a low estate unto a place whereof I enjoy now only the name and now since hath so much quickned and enlightned me by his gracious countenance and assured me by his daily favours to make me to depend upon him and that I should deliberately and determinately take any flowers from his Crown to place them on the heads of others or to betray his Majesties interest into the hands of others I hope his Majesty will vouchsafe me so much favour not to value me at so low a rate as to think these things came in de industria For if I had felt any such Eccho arise in my breast I protest I would have laid hands on my self and judged my self unworthy of any society My Lords the corruption of my hands are far inferior to the corruption of the heart and the hand that runs wilfully into error works meerly from the corruption of the heart and that makes it the more inexcusable as the bleeding of a wound inwardly ever becomes mortal and were I conscious to my self I would not have any color of excuse I thank his Majesties Councel that howsoever these hands were at first mistrusted yet since they are not at all misdoubted nor the least corruption laid to my charge But this doth most grieve me that my faithfulness to his Majesty should be suspected And I humbly desire upon my knees that his Clemencie in this case may stop the issue of his Justice that though a long time his face hath been hid yet now at length his mercy will break through the clouds to support me that am now fallen I lay my self at his Majesties feet to do with me as it pleaseth him and humbly desire his Majesty would take me to his own sentence I never thought of my self otherwise then clay in his Majesties hands to mould me to honour or dishonour When I look and behold this solemnity and spectacle about me I make no other account of it then Pompa mortis and such a Prince as he is knows that Lise and Reputation are equall if the last be not the greatest I know your Lordships have such power and his Majesty takes such pleasure in you you are so dear in his eyes that he can deny you nothing and therefore I would desire you that you would be suiters in my behalf that his favour might once again shine upon me I know his grace and clemency sleepeth if I be not unworthy to partake and the rather because the River that did run another way is now turned into the Sea again and the Charter given up surrendred and cancelled I know much life might be added to the sinewes of my happinesse by your Lordships intercessions for me in vouchsafing whereof I shall pledge a perpetuall assurance of better service for the time to come and shall be bound and engaged to every one of your Lordships so that my desire is that his Majesty might first be acquainted with this submission before you proceed into the merits of the cause remaining still a prisoner to his Justice knowing his Majesty may if he please turn me to vanity Ferdinand the second Emperour to the Catholique King Most gracious King my most loving Nephew FAther Jacinthus comes over to your Court to negotiate with your Majesty in the Popes name about a business much concerning the conservation of our holy Faith and consequently the support of our Pamily as your Majesty shall understand of the said Father to whom I refer my self as also to Don Balthazar de Zuniga to whom I have written more distinctly fearing to be