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england_n	emperor_n	king_n	league_n	3,609	5	9.4892	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73131	Certaine reasons and arguments of policie, why the King of England should hereafter giue over all further treatie, and enter into warre with the Spaniard	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22073.6; ESTC S123281	5,414	16

by way of caution That all things should abide in the Palatinate in the place and state as they then were during the truce that all acts of hostilitie should cease that neither Allies nor friends should be offended but that both parts should enioy the peace of the League But Spaniards and their Complices did and doe still in the time of the truce exercise all kinds of hostilitie by consiscating of their goods who haue withdrawne themselues from the ruine of their countrey by abolishing religiō by dismembring transferring vnto others the better parts of the Palatinate as was done with the Lordship called the Bergstras with the Diocesses of Bleyensteine and Nevenhane and others by imposing continuall seruitudes and by often extorting new contributions from the oppessed by drawing out the blood and soule of the afflicted and by wasting and wearing out all the poore subiects with their insolent tyrannie The very Spaniards alone haue in that part which they hold in the Palatinate imposed an exaction of aboue thirty thousand Dollars a moneth ouer and aboue the ordinarie impositions Verdugo in his proposition when he imposed an exaction was not afraid to affirm that it was done with the knowledge and sufferance of the King of England and that he did to moue the people This extorsion hath now continued diuers moneths and is yet still exercised Lastly the Spaniards and their complices did neuer for all the truce lay downe armes in the Empire but went on with victorious warre against the friends of the King of England and his Sonne in law yea we yet see them to proceed on still scorning breaking this league of the truce making it a net to catch their enemies in 2. The Spaniard hath by force and armes possest himselfe of the Patrimony of the innocent infants the grand children of the King of England hath cast his Daughter and Sonne in law out of all their estates and dominions and doth detaine the Palatinate against the hope hee hath giuen and promise which he hath so oft made of restoring it hee hath besieged the Citie of Frankendale the Dowrie of his Daughter and invaded it in hostile maner neither would he vouchsafe to raise the siege at the most earnest entreaty of the King of England he compelled the forces of the King of England and his Generall sent thither to depart out of the Palatinate scoffing and deriding the protection of England by which he had falsly perswaded him that the Palatinate should be safe 3. Forsomuch as the Spaniard doth oppresse the Allies and friends ioyned in confederation and blood with the King doth cast them out of their dominions and doth pursue them with hostilitie euen against his faith giuen there is no other course left to help them but by armes treaties in this case will proue vnprofitable 4. The safety of the King and kingdome requires war For it behoues vs then to look to our selues when our next neighbours houses are on fire Princes lose both power and strength when their Allies do perish The encrease of a potent neighbor whose friendship is vnsafe as it cannot be without iust suspitiō so is it also dangerous and hurtful The liberty of Germany now ready to perish is to be relieued and the conseruation of it doth greatly concerne both the English and all the Princes of Europe Germanie is the heart of Europe for so Nature seems to haue placed it the Palatinate is the motion in the heart according to the lawes If Germanie as the heart bee possest by the Spaniard who striues to get the dominion ouer all Europe the rest of the Princes shall not long draw or enioy any vitall life or spirits The heart therefore must be succored if you would haue the rest of the members or the body to be safe But by these weake remedies of treaties you shall do no good stronger things are to bee applyed the disease still encreasing 5. Necessity requires warre Great preparations for warre are made by the Spaniard here neare at hand his mind and intentions are well enough knowne A potent Prince makes no reckoning of friends when he finds opportunity to oppresse them The English are now brought into that extremitie by their owne foresayd counsels that vnlessee they doe preuent by war they wil shortly be preuented The Spaniard knows full well that he may not trust them any longer and that it is the part of an vnwise man to stay for the first blow which is commonly the Crisis of the future war by which we may take a scantling of the euent of it which is vsually ouercome by preuention diuersion according to the saying of that prudent King Politicians say that he which consults of breaking and making war hath alreadie broken and that he is not well advised or wary enough who neglects to preuent his enemy The Spaniard who is naturally distrustful doth without question construe take this consultation and alteration of minds in England for a breach and a war and experience will shortly shew it if prudence take not place but if he see the English men remisse he wil say that they want not strēgth but corage and that it is base feare that keeps them back 6. The King of England in the yeare 1621. the 12. of Novemb. set downe the conditions of peace what he would haue to be obserued and kept by his Son in law and sent them to the Emperor for his finall declaration and did then withall protest of the effusiō of bloud that would follow of the warre which he should be compelled vnto if the Emperour would not subscribe vnto those conditions But the Emperour and the Spaniard haue not onely deluded the conditions but went boldly on with warre against the innocent infants the Kings bloud And is he not now bound in honor to recouer what he prescribed by warre which he threatned and denounced that the conditions were not performed 7. Suspension of Armes was promised at Vienna to the Lord Digby who brought the Emperors letters with him to Bruxels concerning that businesse yet by collusion was the contrary giuen in charge to the Infanta and sent thither either before or at the same instant insomuch that that suspēsion was changed into a most cruell war which was executed with the more immanitie because the King of England hath vnder-taken the protection of the Palatinate and was pleased to strengthen defend it with his owne Garrisons And 1. when the Lord Digby had in the Kings name long exceedingly solicited but in vaine the raysing of the siege at Frankendal this answer was giuen him That it was against the honor of the Spaniards to leaue a Citie which they had once besieged without the expresse commandment of the King of Spa●ne 2. In the very time of the treaty at Bruxels was Heidelberg takē and spoyled 3. If he could not then obtaine by treaties and entreaties a thing vncertaine subiect to chance which was not in their hands but onely in hope will restitution of those things which they are possest of be now procured by those former meanes The Spaniards as they will do nothing for loue so wil they also refuse nothing when they are compelled by feare force as one of themselues hath confessed 8. The Proscription which is the head of the evils which haue followed by which the Kings Son in law was declared infamous and all his grand children pronounced fallen from all right of succession was most earnestly solicited by the Archduke Albert and was consulted of in the Spanish Ambassadors house And is there not then iust cause that the Father shuld by warre vindicate the honour of his Son 9. The restitution of the Palatinate cannot by procured by treaty for this course hath bin often tryed and vsed euen by the Prince himselfe but euer in vaine Therefore there is now no other meane to be vsed saue the way of Warre 10. The honour of the King and kingdome requires that now these wrongs be sought to be righted by Warre the last arrow in necessities quiuer and the onely meane now left of preserving reputation He doth but draw on new iniuries who neglects to revēge the old espeecially so intollerable as hath been offered to the English But if now after they haue raised so good opiniō and hope of themselues in the World they should grow faint and fall backe into their former lethargie they should lose all faith reputation I cease to shew how magnanimous Princes are more bound in honour to recover the estates of their friends which they haue taken into their protection then their owne goods FINIS