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A80306	A conference betweene the Pope, the Emperour, and the King of Spaine. Holden in the castle of St. Angelo in Rome, upon the entertainment of some great persons after mentioned, touching the subverting of the Protestant profession in England, and other parts of Christendome. And concerning the present distractions here in England between the King and Parliament.		1642 (1642)	Wing C5727; Thomason E155_10; ESTC R11137	4,890	8

A CONFERENCE Betweene The Pope the Emperour and the King of Spaine Holden in the Castle of St. Angelo in ROME Vpon the entertainment of some great persons after mentioned touching the subverting of the Protestant Profession in England and other parts of Christendome And concerning the present distractions here in England between the King and Parliament London Printed for A. Coe and T. A. Iuly 14. 1642. A Conference holden at the Castle of St. Angelo in Rome betwixt the Pope Emperour and the King of Spaine Pope WElcome deare Sonnes unto our Court of Rome Apostolicke and holy blessings shield all the house of Austria from evill and advance both your fortunes and your Crownes Emperour Thy feet most holy Father I doe kisse if I misse thy blessing the Imperiall Crowne from Austria will be lost which heavens forbid for then we are undone Bohemia Rebells doe joine with Sweden the Hereticks from Danawe to the Rhyne they combine both heads armes and forces against Rome and Austria to helpe the Palatine that cursed Calvinist with his partakers those damned Schismaticks and Hereticks who upon our ruines seeke to build their fortune which makes me thus to move you Holinesse and crave your helpe now in this extremity for if we fall the worser it will be for you Pope The keyes of Peter and the sword of Paul shall shut open and cut in peeces the gates of Heaven Nations Lawes and Rights and turne the darkest nights into cleare dayes and those lands which have denyed our dignities I le make a Keldoma and field of bloud I le thunder out my Bulls against Hereticks and make their land a place of dead mens sculls I will implore the Saints and Hell and Purgatory both shall roare ere any Calvin or of Luthers Sect with Roman bayes shall insult on our teritories Emp. Your threats and curses are now despised by those vile Hereticks they hold your blessings of no more force then is the skipping of a foxes taile in briefe they are all so disobedient that whether you blesse or curse they doe not care they feare not what your Holinesse can say there is nothing that can drive them from their Heresie helpe by your counsell therefore holy Father and shew us means to quiet all this stirre Pope Thou maist by reasons and Ambassages by questions answers and the like winne time a while but these be out of date now now swords not words doe arbitrate Kingdomes and we have still used delayes and shifts so oft that all our enemies perceive our craftines send unto thy neighbours friends subjects that thou maist thy selfe defend from surprise my Legats and my Nuntioes I will hast to hatch more forces amongst the Catholicks Mentz Cullen Triers Catholicke B. varie thou hast with others in Germany from Flaunders Brabant and the Popish King thy true friends will quickly bring thee succour and though my selfe with Florence may not send our armes so soone we will lend our money the Cantons and the Switzers shall be hired who doe hold themselves ingaged to our See I le send to Urbin and to Martina to Ferar and to Genoa to Savoy and to Venice and to Piemount to France our eldest sonne and to Saint Dennis I le fetch the Saints from heaven the fiends from hell but I le quell those drunken Germane Traitors Is not thy Spanish Cousen here with thee Who doe feare Europe and the new found world the Churches Atlas and the Empires prop We hope to stoppe by strength wit or gold those proud attemps and daring of the Dutch and breake their forces cost it never so deare King of Spain If Caesar and your Holinesse have ended observe the answer of the Spanish sonne no Germane Prelates nor Bavaria can doe it nor King of Pole your selfe nor any man nor Florence Duke nor Brabant joind with Flaunders nor Cantons Switzers nor the greatest Catholicke if all were joyned in one yet could they not with all their force that can bee got by them bring timely succour against the combination those Almaines Graves have in every land expect no helpe from Venetia or Savoy who deadly hate and feare the house of Austria I looke for no helpe from my brother France for if he see us downe hee le sing and joy and Caesar if thou lookst at home for aid thy state is tottering and thy strength perisheth Thy Austrian subjects are infected also with Luthers heresie and have forsaken the Papall dignity and may combine with their fellow Lutherans and if thou dost send to Thracia for succour the faithlesse Turke thou knowest will not from Asia Spaine thou must helpe or what will Caesar doe and how can Rome helpe Spaine and Caesar also having so many places to supply which stands in need wherefore doubtlesse if I shall cause India Armies to be recald from thence and our Italian forces march from us leave Millaine Naples and our silver fountaines unguarded naked and march over the hills through Grissons Countrey leave the strength of Spaine or venture our Armado once more to narrow seas and so lose more at once then we have got in threescore years before then thou at Vienna I at Arragon may shave our heads turn Monks you count your friends but doe not count your foes whose strength whose numbers you cannot quel the Northerne tract of Europe from Britaine tending to last as farre as Transilvania save Holland and some other of their owne trifles Oh me in fourescore years how they are growne you see three Kingdomes England Scotland Ireland be with Denmarke Norway Sweden six besides those two which they have won being eight in all and our Kings are but three the number of their Princes Dukes and Earles with their free Lords and States are a great number besides their many Palsgraves and their Mootgraves with all their Landgraves and their Burgraves and as their numbers so their spirits are made great with hopes of their prodigious starre which blazed over Germany the last December portending change of State and their expositions and their combinations of situations times and Scepters and of Rome of Babell and of hills and dales of beasts of Dragons and such fearefull things wherewith they cheare themselves and triumph as though they would give us all the overthrow the eleventh and twelfth of Esdras they apply against the Imperiall Monarchy and that the Lion comming from the wood is understood of the King of Sweden and that the Lion should the Eagle foile and in triumphant sort divide the spoile The Rebels thus interpreteth this whereby the Catholiques are vext greatly therefore they say that as the Eagles they doe spread themselves ore many Catholique Kings even so the Lyon in the Armes of Sweed will sure protect those Heretiques from feare and Sued they say turn'd Anagram is the Christian Macchabeus they further say Gustavus is his name The fame of this mans fortune doth so much them cherish that their good successe makes me now to stand in