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A22683	A declaration of the causes, which mooued the chiefe commanders of the nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the riuer of Lisbone, certaine shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said citie prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the ports and prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie.	England and Wales.; Beale, Robert, 1541-1601. aut	1589 (1589)	STC 9196; ESTC S100708	12,466	24

A DECLARATION OF THE CAVSES WHICH MOOVED THE chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England in their voyage and expedition for Portingal to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde the 30. day of Iune in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 1589. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT A DECLARATION OF THE CAVSES WHICH MOued the chiefe Commaunders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England in their voyage and expedition for Portingall to take and arrest in the mouth of the riuer of Lisbone certaine shippes of Corne and other prouisions of warre bounde for the said Citie prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine in the ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde the 30. day of Iune in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the 31. WHereas it is a thing out of cōtrouersie that certaine Marchaunts resiant and inhabiting within and neere vnto the Sownde in the kingdome of Denmarke cōmonly called the Marchants of the Hanse townes wil grieuously exclaime among forreine Nations against the chiefe Commanders of the Fleete of the most excellent Queene of England as infringers of the law of Nations and of the ancient contracts made betwixt the Kings of England and the Hanse marchants and as contemners of the Newtralitie which the said Hanse marchants doe chalenge to themselues whereby they thinke and hold it lawfull for them to exercise the trafique of all marchandises whatsoeuer with all people whosoeuer euen in the times of greatest hostilitie betweene whatsoeuer kings and Princes by reason of the intercepting arresting of certaine of their ships passing to the ayde and furnishing of the king of Spaine with corne and prouisions of warre it seemed good vnto her foresaid excellent Maiestie in respect of her good will together with singular affection and loue to the sacred Empire the Emperours Maiestie himselfe the noble Princes of Germanie and to all singular the Estates of the Empire in this publike sort to make it manifest for what causes the aforesaid Hanse ships were stayed by the officers of her Fleete and as lawfull prises taken and confiscated Which is done to no other end or purpose but to make it euident that the same action doth stand agree with equitie and iustice and to be a thing most probable that other Princes whosoeuer their seruants and Officers in the like case and vpon the like occasion woulde not haue failed to take the like course For it is a thing notorious sufficiently knowen not onely to the fewe Hanse townes but also to all Christendome that the king of Spaine is transported with a mortall hatred against the Queenes Maiestie of England a witnes whereof is the intended but not performed inuasion of the kingdome and Dominions of England by the saide king the yeere last past furthered by him with all his force but by the mercie of God vtterly disappointed Which exulcerate malice of the Kings minde not lately sprong vp but of long time lurking in the closet of his heart yet foreseene and still preuented by the Queenes Maiestie she often by her messengers sent to him for that purpose as with most gentle medicines indeuoured to asswage to reduce him to a newe minde meeter for a Prince and so great a king as himselfe to the ende that remouing out of both their mindes not onely the staine but also the suspition of the staine of discontentments they might dispose themselues to enter and conclude a firme peace and durable friendship according to the ancient leagues betweene their progenitours and fathers and their kingdomes for the space of many yeeres happily continued The king as a man bewitched by the bishop of Rome the very firebrand and bellowes of all the ciuill warres in Christendome neglecteth the remedies and conditions of peace that haue bene offred and perseuereth according to his beginning in his hostile intēdement against her Maiestie not otherwise contentable or satisfiable then with her destruction the slaughter and bloodshed of her people most obedient vnto her and to bee short with the conquest of the whole kingdome And for the better effecting hereof hee hath oftentimes sent his messengers you woulde rather say his fireflingers into England of latest yeeres two speciall persons of all the rest most eger and furious Gyrald Despes and Bernardine Mendoza who ceased not to sound and perswade the mindes of all those whome they coulde growe in acquaintance with and were men giuen ouer to al mischiefes and diabolical practises promising them and bestowing vpon them extraordinarie rewards of purpose to stirre them vp to moue domestical conspiracies against her Maiestie And how much they preuailed in their attempts it is not materiall in this place particularly to discusse for so this worke woulde growe large The 3. principall conspiracies the one of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland and of their partizans the second of the Duke of Norfolke the third of the two Pagets brethren as also of the two Throckmortons and of their confederats whereof some were condemned and executed for their intended ouerthrow of the Queenes Maiestie and of the state of the Common wealth and the rest that are fled and wander vp and downe in vncertaine places and are to this day mainteined at the charge and by the purse of the Spanish King are in this matter very sufficient witnesses But the Patrons and complotters of these rebellious being subtile and cautelous in their actions howsoeuer apparant the factes of their seditious ministers seeme to bee yet peraduenture the Spaniard himself wil denie them to be his precepts and directions Did he then chastise those his ministers being returned into Spaine as transgressers of his pleasures Did hee detaine from them all rewards and preferments as hauing ill deserued them hath he blamed the auctours of such facts and excused himselfe to the Queene I would to God it were so But goe to let these witnesses passe May hee be taken for a man of a good spirit of no poysoned minde against her Maiestie Let then Guilielmus Cataneus the Popes Secretarie that nowe is be produced let his worke of the life of Pius Quintus sometime bishop of Rome be read The saide Cataneus in that booke of his reporteth that Philip the king of Spaine complained bitterly and with great griefe to the Cardinall of Alexandria sent vnto him into Spaine in the yeere 1572. because the conspired practise as wel against England as Ireland not long before entred vpon by his authoritie and aduise had not that

enemie and his Romish Confederats as her Maiestie is may at the least in this one thing seeme more tollerable and lesse difficult and labourious to bee continued in not suffering the foresaid Hanse men to transport to the forenamed common enemie out of their Kingdomes Dukedomes Ports and Straights any victuals or instruments of warre by ordeyning seuere corrections vpon the rebellious and disobedient and such as shall dare to attempt the contrary and to thinke of her Maiestie and her actions as of a Prince most careful both of the vniuersall peace of Religion and of the safetie of all and singular Princes her Confederats that they would by ioyning their Counsels forces in one vse all their power and abilitie to extinguish the practises of the Romish priesthod that so a sincere holy and largely extending peace free from treacheries may be entred concluded and established throughout all Christianitie to the honour of Almightie God and the tranquilitie of all Kings Princes and Estates with all increase of happines In which cogitation her Maiestie most sincerely and constantly abideth and will not cease God blessing her to remooue all impediments for her part to procure this good effect according to her honourable desire But nowe hauing hitherto spoken of the open violence of the Spanish King and the Bishop of Rome giue vs leaue to vse a fewe wordes also of another matter not lesse odious then the former consisting in the subtiltie of the litle foxe which is a thing so much the more diligently to be lookt vnto by how much the more close and secret it is and a thing that creepes farre without many mens knowledge It is that same priuie legation and sending as it were in corners of certaine falsly termed Iesuites and Seminaries into this kingdome to withdrawe the mindes of the simple and ignorant people from their duetifull obedience to the Queenes Maiestie and the Realme But as these kind of men doe spring of certaine runnagates and fugitiues naturally borne Subiects who at home either for pouertie growe desperate or by reason of their vicious liues could not longlie hid so being nowe sent home againe by the Pope cease not vnder the habite of their superstitious profession to runne from house to house frō Towne to Towne stirring vp the people by their whisperings to rebellion and scattering certaine popish Buls made and sent for that purpose teaching the people out of them vnder the paine of excōmunication and of a curse that there is no hope of saluation remaining them except they change their affections and cast off their due obedience to her Maiestie Those of her Maiesties Subiects which being taken with these Buls and called in question for the same haue reuealed their practises and being moued with a conscience of their offence doe returne to a better minde and doe forsake that filthie sinke or dunghill of the companie and opinions of Iesuites and Seminaries are pardoned of their former transgressions and passe without punishment but as for those that are rooted in their wickednesse and remaine stifnecked in their offence they being demaūded whether if an inuasion of the kingdome should be made by the Bishop of Rome or the Spanish King they would as good Subiects ought to do stand for the Queene or no they answere stoutly and proudly that they are bound whensoeuer it should seeme good to the said Bishop of Rome to make any such innasion of the Kingdome and Dominions of her Maiestie to assist and further the said inuasion by al the wayes and meanes they can I aske nowe of you what Prince soeuer you be hauing the authoritie of a Prince what you would doe with such monsters as these are giuen ouer after this sort to such diuelishnes would you suffer the cloke of popish religion and obedience to exempt such traytors from the seueritie of Iustice woulde you suffer them to liue that woulde you should not liue surely no Prince or Monarche ought or may tollerate such monstrous creatures except he purposeth voluntarily to neglect good lawes his people kingdome and life and sinne grieuously against God himselfe And these are the monsters that are in England committed to execution howsoeuer the companions of their treasons by their infamous libels spread amongst the people crie out and say they suffer for the cause of Religion onely and for their consciences Many of her subiects and they no obscure men but some of the Nobilitie and some others of the degree of knights are witnesses that howsoeuer they stand catholikely affected yet as long as they conteine themselues within the compasse of their duetie obedience to her Maiestie and the State are neither committed to prison nor in any ill sort vsed only for breaking the lawes of frequenting the Churches are peraduenture rated at some pecuniarie fine The ende and purpose why wee speake and publish these things is to let all good Princes and Magistrates and others desirous to know the trueth of things vnderstande howe and by what meanes as openly priuily by force of armes and practises of treacherie the state of her Maiestie and of her kingdome is assaulted by the bishop of Rome and the Spanish King and therefore howe conueniently and necessarily her Maiestie is drawen to resist this force and to auoyde these frauds and with what iniurious allegations the execution of lawes and iustice is as it were torne and rent in pieces not only by malitious imprinted Libels but also by painted tables and pictures signifying I knowe not what monstrous things resemblances of some barbarous crueltie as they falsely calumniate and exclaime to be vsed against the foresaid Iesuites and Seminarie Priests that is to say against men guiltie of high and horrible treason But as for her Maiestie she desireth to stand as a person voide of all trueth and credite with good Princes if she euer punished any of these men with any strange or newe kinde of torment then is appointed by the prescript of the ancient lawes of this Realme prouided against such persons as shall be found and conuicted for Rebels and Traytors FINIS The conspiracie of the King of Spaine against the kingdoms of England and Ireland 1570. Ships and forces twise sent into Ireland by the King of Spaine Her Maiesties Ambassadors sent into Flanders to intreate of a peace The Citie of Hamboroughs letters to the Queenes Maiestie The Queenes Maiesties letters to the Hamburgers The Hamburgers petitorie message to the Queenes Maiestie The answere to the petition of y t Hamburge messenger The Alderman of the Stilliard in London commanded to aduise the Hanse Townes The letters of the Lubeckers Hamburgers and Dantiskers The English and French enemies Charles the fift a confederate The Danes and Swethens enemies the Hanse men confederats The Emperour and the King of Poland enemies to the Moscouite the English and Hanse men friends Anno Do. 1302. An exception in the priuiledge The fauour and liberalitie of the Queene of Englande no lesse to the Haunse men then to the English themselues The desire of the Queenes Maiestie for a peace through Christendome The Bishop of Romes inuasion of England by his Iesuites The manifest treason of the Iesuites against the Queenes Maiestie the kingdome of England

successe that he looked for Adde hereunto the ships and forces sent twise out of Spaine into Ireland vnder the pretext of the Popes name As for the late treatie of peace with the Duke of Parma in Flanders entred into vpon the mediation and request of the good prince the King of Denmarke how smoothe how slie a tuche was that for her Maiestie being wholy bent to that treatie with a sincere minde and vnfayned desire beholde as then at her doores that huge mightie Fleete of Spaine beholde a sort of Armies brought out of Italie and Germanie into Flanders labouring and prouiding for nothing els but the desolation of the kingdome of England and the destruction of the Queene for the Conspiratours had as it were with their fingers appointed euery one of vs to the slaughter they had distributed our houses and lands and a newe Prince a forrener was already ordeyned created to enioy the kingdome If the Spaniards seeme to obiect against these so grieuous so deadly and so strange deuises the succours which her Maiestie hath yeelded to the lowe Countreys let them consider well and they shall finde that most of these practises haue in time preceded the transporting of any ayde to them let them denie if they can that they sollicited many English Subiects to rebell before her Maiestie so much as thought of the relieuing of her auncient confederats by her honest and iust meanes She appealeth to the King him selfe and to his Vice Royes in Flanders how often and what messengers she sent before that into Spaine and Flanders for breeding a concord and agreement betwixt the King and the Nether-landers not with hard but with honourable and equall conditions against which aduisoes and requestes when the King began to be obdurate and the auncient contracts of amitie betwixt the Nether-landers and the Kings of England could not suffer them to be depriued of their lawes and libertie and be exposed as a pray to Strangers she at the last receiued them being too much oppressed into her protection onely of a desire to releeue the poore afflicted people and not to offer the smallest iniurie to the King For if she had bene disposed to regard her owne cōmoditie she might haue taken another course but she did not so seeking rather as yet earnestly and diligently with any conditions if not too vnreasonable and such as may stand with her honor and the profite of the state of Christianitie howe a cōmodious and secure pacification may be made betwixt the King and the States of the lowe Countreys In vaine and contrary to reason hath she maintayned with great charge that honorable Ambassage to the Duke of Parma the last yeere in vaine was shee aduertised of the monstrous Nauie of Spaine and the miraculous swarmes offorces with Parma in Flanders destinated prepared for her ruine and the spoile of her kingdome she remained stil without all intention or disposition to send any further forces into Flanders and was after a sort negligent both of defending herselfe and of extending the limits of her gouernement beyonde the Seas with purpose to liue in quietnesse without feare and in peace without ambitious desire of rule And howsoeuer she may be thought greedie of other mens Dominions she sent to Parma very noble and excellent Ambassadours who being delayed from day to day from moneth to moneth without any thing accomplished she notwithstanding tooke it patiently and suffered so farre these dangerous delayes that the Spanish Souldiers panting with haste and greedinesse for the blood and butcherie of her Maiestie and people most deare vnto her were come vpon her coastes and before her doores In this sort was her hope deluded and her opinion frustrated by him contrary to the royall dignitie of both the Kingdomes of England and of Denmarke And if the victorious hand of God had not herein derided the cunning deuises and purposes of the Spaniards if it had not scattered so great a terrour to all Christendome and drenched their carkases in the Sea what should the state of the said Hanse marchants haue bene so busily and so contrary to al equitie and iustice hastening to furnish him with corne prouision for the warres whither should the long and sacred quiet of the Romane Empire haue gone to hide it selfe where should all other Nations that professe the trueth of Christianitie thinke that they might haue shrowded themselues to be free from his tyrannie and safe from his murderers and cruel executioners If they saw not that their owne destruction was ioyned with the ruine of the Queene of England either it must be saide that they woulde denie Christ or that they were blinded to their owne miserie by the vengeance of God for their secret sinnes For where the cause of hostilitie is all one the like effect and issue is to be looked for at the hands of a cruell and raging enemie of the trueth for in a maner all the inhabitants of the Hanse Townes are very good fauourers of the reformed Religion and mortall enemies to the Romish errors And would any man then beleeue that men so well instructed coulde more respect their priuate gaine I will not say their filthie lucre then their owne securitie the preseruation of their Countrey and the propagation of true Religion But what will the inhabitants of the Hanse Townes pretend that they knewe not the Queene of Englands pleasure The Citie of Hamborough by their letters written vnto the Queenes Maiestie the 21. of September in the yeere 1585. hauing besought her that their ships might passe quietly vnto Spaine and Portugal without stop or hindrance either in their passage or repassage by her Maiesties Captaines at Sea receiued not they answere to this effect We doubt not but you haue heard what occasions of discorde are lately fallen out betweene vs and the king of Spaine whereof wee cannot throughly coniecture what troubles are like to ensue If peace arise we meane to deny you nothing being our ancient confederates but if it grow to a warre we wish you aduisedly to consider that it standeth not with the safetie of our kingdome to suffer our enemies to bee ayded with corne and prouisions for warre thereby to be armed against vs. Which things according to your accustomed wisedomes you calling to minde wee hope you will demaunde nothing at our handes which may be hurtfull to our state as for the transporting of other sortes of marchandise into those partes whereby our enemies may neither bee ayded with victuals nor necessaries of warre we will not hinder you but will permit your shippes to ride on our coastes and to passe along with all fauour for the performance of their intended nauigatiō with which our answere we hope you will be fully satisfied and contented the present state of things considered Secondly whereas two yeeres after that to wit the last yeere the saide Burgomasters of Hamburrough sent Sebastian Berghen their Secretarie