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england_n	duke_n	king_n	norfolk_n	2,546	5	11.4606	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

England brake forth Who but the Duke of Alva then the Kings Lievetenant in the Low-Countries and Don Guerres of Espes then his Embassador Lieger here were discovered to be chief Instruments and Practisers Having complotted with the Duke of Norfolk at the same time As was proved at the same Dukes Condemnation that an Army of 20000. Men should have landed at Harwich in aid of that Part which the said Duke had made within the Realm And the said Duke having spent and imployed 150000. Crownes in that Preparation Not contented thus to have consorted and assisted her Majesties Rebells in England He procured a Rebellion in Ireland Arming and Sending thither in the year 1579 an Arch-Rebell of that Country Iames Fitz Morrice which before was fled And truly to speak the whole course of Molestation which her Majesty hath received in that Realm by the Rising and Keeping on of the Irish hath been nourished and fomented from Spain● but afterwards most apparently in the year 1580 he invaded the same Ireland with Spa●ish Forces under an Italian Colonell By Name San Iesopho being but the Fore-runners of a greater Power Which by Treaty between Him and the Pope should have followed But that by the speedy Defeat of those former they were discouraged to pursue the Action Which Invasion was proved to be done by the Kings own Orders both by the Letters of Secretary Escouedo and of Guerres to the King And also by divers other Letters wherein the particular Conferences were set down concerning this Enterprise between Cardinall Riario the Popes Legate and the Kings Deputy in Spain Touching the Generall the Number of Men the Contribution of Money and the Manner of the Prosecuting of the Action And by the Confession of some of the Chiefest of those that were taken Prisoners at the Fort Which Act being an Act of Appa●rent ●ostility added unto all the Injuries aforesaid And accompanied with a continuall Receit Comfort and Countenance by Aud●ences Pensions and Employments which he gave to Traytours and Fugitives both English and Irish As Westmerl●nd Paget Engl●field Baltinglasse and Numbers of others Did sufficiently jus●ifie and warrant that pursuit of Revenge which either in the Sp●yl of Carthagena and San Domingo in the Indies by Mr Drak● Or in the undertaking the protection of the Low-Coun●reys● wh●n the Earl of Leicester was sent over afterwards foll●wed For befo●e that time her Majesty though she stood upon her Guard in respect of the just Cause of Jealousie which t●e Sundry Injuries of that King gave her yet had entred into no O●●ensi●e Ac●ion against Him For ●oth the Voluntary Forces which Don Antonio had collected in this Realm were by express command●ment restrained And Offer was made of Restitution to the Spanish Embassadour of such Treasure as had been b●ought into this Realm upon Proof that it had been taken by ●rong And the Duke of Anjou was as much as could stand with the near Treaty of a Marriage which then was very fo●wa●d between her Majesty and the said Duke Diverted from the Enterprise of ●landers But to conclude this Point when that some yeares after the Invasion and Conquest of th●s Land Intended long before but through many Crosses a●d Impediments which the King o● Spain found in his Plots deferred Was in the year 1588 attempted Her Majesty not forgetting her own Nature was content at the same Instant to Treat of a Peace Not ignorantly as a Prince that knew not in what forwardness his preparations were For she had discovered them long before Nor fearfully as may appear by the Articles whereupon her Majesty in that Treaty stood which were not the Demands of a Prince afraid But onely to spare the shedding of Christian Bloud And to shew her constant Desire to make her Raign Renowned rather by Peace then victories which Peace was on her part treated sincerely But on his part as it should seem was but an Abuse Thinking thereby to have taken us more unprovided So that the Duke of Parma not liking to be used as an Instrument in such a Case in regard of his particular Honour would sometimes in Treating interlace That the King his Master ment to make his Peace With his Sword in his Hand Let it then be tried upon an indifferent view of the proceedings of England and Spain Who it is that Fisheth in Troubled Waters And hath disturbed the Peace of Christendome And hath written and described all his Plots in Bloud There follow the Articles of an Vniversall Peace which the Libeller as a Commissioner for the Estate of England hath propounded and are these First that the King of Spain should recall such Forces as of great compassion to the Naturall People of France he hath sent thither to defend them against a Relapsed Huguonott Secondly that he suffer his Rebells of Holland and Zeland quietly to possesse the places they hold And to take unto them all the Rest of the Low-Countries also Conditionally that the English may still keep the possession of such Port-Towns as they have and have some half a dozen more annexed unto them Thirdly th●t the English Rovers mought peaceably go to his Indies And there take away his Treasure and his Indies also And th●se Articles being accorded he saith might follow that Peace which passeth all understanding As he calleth it in a scurrile and prophane Mockery of the Peace which Christians enjoy with God by the Attonement which is made by the Bloud of Christ whereof the Apostle saith That it passeth all understanding But these his Articles are sure mistaken And indeed corrected are briefly these 1. That the King of France be not impeached in Reducing his Rebels to obedience 2. That the Netherlands be suffered to enjoy their Ancient Liberties and Priviledges And so Forces of Strangers to be with-drawn both English and Spanish 3. That all Nations may trade into the East and West Indies yea discover and occupy such parts as the Spaniard doth not actually possesse And are not under Civill Government notwithstanding any Donation of the Pope 5. Of the Cunning of the Libeller in Palliation of his malicious Invectives against her Majesty and the State with pretence of Taxing onely the Actions of the Lord Burghley I Cannot rightly call this Point Cunning in the Libeller but rather good will to be Cunning without skill indeed or Judgement For finding that it had been the Usuall and Ready practise of Seditious Subjects to plant and bend their Invectives and Clamours Not against the Soveraigns themselves but against some such as had Grace with them and Authorities under them He put in ure his Learning in a wrong and unproper Case For this hath some Appearance to cover undutifull Invectives when it is used against Favourites or New Vpstarts and suddain-risen Counsellours But when it shall be practised against One that hath been Counsellour before her Majesties Time And hath continued longer Counsellour then any other Cou●s●ll●ur in Europe One that must needs have been Great

many wayes And namely to make a Breach between Scotland and England her Majesties Forces were again in the year 1582. by the Kings best and truest Servants sought and required And with the Forces of her Ma●esty prevailed so far as to be possessed of the Castle of Edenborough the principall part of that Kingdome which neverthelesse her Majesty incontinently with all Honour and Sincerity restored After she had put the King into good and faithfull Hands And so ever since in all the Occasions of Intestine Troubles whereunto that Nation hath been ever subject she hath performed unto the King all possible good Offices and such as he doth with all good Affection acknowledge The same House of Cuise under Colour of Alliance during the Raign of Francis the second and by the Support and pract●●● of the Queen Mother who desiring to retain the Regency under her own Hands during the Minority of Charles the ninth used those of ●uise as a Counterpoise to the Princes of the Bloud obtained also great Authority in the Kingdome of France whereupon having raised and moved Civill Warrs under pre●ence of Religion But indeed to enfeeble and depresse the Ancient Nobility of that Realm The contrary Part being compounded of the Bloud Royall and the Greatest Officers of the ●rown opposed themselves onely against their Insolency And to their Aides called in her Majesties Forces giving them for security the Town of New-Haven which neverthelesse when as afterwards having by the Reputation of her Majesties Confederation made their Peace in Effect as they would themselves They would without observing any Conditions that had passed have had it back again Then indeed it was held by force and so had been long but for the great Mortality which it pleased God to send amongst our Men. After which time so far was her Majesty from seeking to sowe or kindle New Troubles As continually by the Sollicitation of her Embassadours she still perswaded with the Kings both Charles the 9th and Hen. the 3d to keep and observe their Edicts of Pacification and to preserve their Authority by the Union of their Subjects which Counsell if it had been as happily followed as it was prudently and sincerely given France had been at this day a most Flourishing Kingdome which is now a Theater of Misery And now in the end after that the Ambitious Practises of the same House of Guise had grown to that Ripeness that gathering further strength upon the weakness and Misgovernment of the said King Hen. 3d He was fain to execute the Duke of Guise without Ceremony at Bloys And yet neverthelesse so many Men were embarqued and engaged in that Conspiracy as the Flame thereof was nothing asswaged But contrarywise that King Hen. grew distressed so as he was enforced to implore the Succours of England from her Majesty Though no way interessed in that Quarrell Nor any way obliged for any good offices she had received of that King yet she accorded the same Before the Arrivall of which Forces the King being by a sacrilegious Iacobine murthered in his Camp near Paris yet they went on and came in good time for the Assistance of the King which now raigneth The Justice of whose Quarrell together with the long continued Amity and good Intelligence which her Majesty had with him hath moved her Majesty from time to time to supply with great Aides And yet she never by any Demand urged upon him the putting into her Hands of any Town or Place So as upon this that hath been said let the Reader judge whether hath been the more Just and Honourable Proceeding And the more free from Ambition and Passion towards other States That of Spain or that of England Now let us examine the proceedings reciproque between themselves Her Majesty at her Comming to the Crown found her Realm entangled with the Wars of France and Scotland her nearest Neighbours which Wars were grounded onely upon the Spaniards Quarrell But in the pursuit of them had lost England the Town of Calice Which from the 21. year of King Edward 3 had been possessed by the Kings of England There was a meeting near Burdeaux towards the end of Queen Maries Raign between the Commissioners of France Spain and England and some Overture of Peace was made But broke off upon the Article of the Res●itution of Callice After Queen Maries Death the King of Spain thinking himself discha●ged of that Difficulty though in ho●our he was no lesse bound to it then before renewed the like Treaty wherein her Majesty concurred so as the Commissioners for the said Princes met at Chasteau Cambra●ssi near Cambray In the proceedings of which Treaty it is true that at the first the Commissioners of Spain for form and in Demonstration onely pretended to stand firm upon the Demand of Callice● but it was discerned indeed that the Kings Meaning was after ●ome Ceremonies and perfunctory Insisting thereupon to grow apart to a ●eace with the French excluding her Majesty And so to leave her to make her own Peace after her People Had made his Wars Which Covert Dealing being politickly looked into her Majesty had reason being newly invested in her Kingdom And of her own Inclination being affected to Peace To conclude the same with such Conditions as she mought And yet the King of Spain in his Dissimulation had so much Advantage as she was fain to do it in a Treaty apart with the Fr●nch whereby to one that is not informed of the Counsels and Treaties of State as they passed it should seem to be a voluntary Agreement of her Majesty whereto the King of Spain would not be party whereas indeed he left her no other choice And this was the first Assay or Earnest penny of that Kings good affection to her Majesty About the same time when the King was sollicited to renew such Treaties and Leagues as had passed between the two Crowns of Spain and England by the Lord Cobham sent unto him to acquaint him with the Death of Queen Mary And afterwards by Sir Thomas Challenor and Sir Thomas Chamberlain successively Embassadours Resident in his Low Countries Who had order divers times during their Charge to make Overtures thereof both unto the King and certain principall persons about him And lastly those former Motions taking no effect By Viscount Montacute and Sir Thomas Chamberlain sent unto Spain in the year 1560 no other Answer could be had or obtained of the King but that the Treaties did stand in as good Force to all Intents as new Ratification could make them An Answer strange at that time but very conformable to his Proceedings since which belike even then were closely smothered in his own Breast For had he not at that time some hidden Alienation of Mind and Design of an Enemy towards her Majesty So wise a King could not be ignorant That the Renewing and Ratifying of Treaties between Princes and States do adde great Life and Force both of Assurance to the parties themselves