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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11797	The Spaniards perpetuall designes to an vniuersall monarchie. Translated according to the French; Dessein perpetuel des Espagnols a la monarchie universelle. English.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Baudartius, Willem, 1565-1640. Progrez des conquestes du roy d'Espagne.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Joseph, père, 1577-1638, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 22086; ESTC S116966	6,737	16

in regard of the present Rebellions and disordres in their Empire threatning ruine or at least some notable alteration might make the offer acceptable And that for the said respects it could not for the present be either dangerous or vnsafe for the King of Spaine but would be of infinite aduantage to the progresse of his affaires in these parts if so great forces as are now onely maintained for a meere defence without attempting any thing should be drawne forth into an actiue employment to haue the better meanes and leasure to go through with their businesse and conquests in Europe and by degrees make themselues strong enough to vndertake the Turke and then carrie their Armes into the Leuant And to this end it is their writers publish that it is necessary there should be but one vniuersall and absolute Monarch in Christendome and that it should be the King of Spaine who is the mightest and who by their report hath the best mirited of the Apostolicke Sea and of all Christendome For their pretences either vpon France in generall drawing a discent of the Princes of the house of Austria in a direct line from Male to Male from Meroue Childeric and other Kings of France of the first race called Merouingiens thereby inferring that the Kingdome belongs to them Or vpon the Prouinces of Burgundy and Brittany in particular These falsehoods haue beene lately solidly refuted by one of our most excellent and learned Antiquaries And touching their pretences vnto other Kingdomes and particularly to England the care and refutation thereof is to be left to those who haue most interest therein The euidence of these pretences which haue been seconded by reall vnder takings and attemps appeares sufficiently in Hereras History of Phillip the second of Spaine in Cabrera and in Camille Borrell his Booke touching the prerogatiue and dignity of the Catholicke King Our France being therefore enuironed on all sides with the Teritories and Dominions of the Spaniard and House of Austria either of their ancient domaine or new conquests which hath bin made in so short a time as it seemes a thing prodious this State hauing thereby lost all its outworkes and bulwarkes that is the best and most powerfull friends and Allies it seemes to be more then high time to awake out of this deepe and fatall Lethargie whereinto our France is fallen by the disastrous death of our great Henry and seriously to looke to our conuersation by taking it into due consideration that if the Spaniard should now picke a quarrell with vs and assaile vs againe as in the time of the league when Phillip the second would haue had this Crowne put vpon his Daughters head in preiudice of our Salique Law the passages by Land would on all sides be shut vp against vs so as we could not be relieued either with men or money from Germany Switzerland or Italie as was our late King in his great necessities And on the contrary all the Princes and people subiect to the Spaniard and those whom he hath lately subdued vnto him who were formerly our friends and fauoured vs will be constrained and bound to assist and and serue against vs and many of them to their great griefe Yet is it not meant that recourse should presently be had vnto Armes and the publique peace broken as if so great a King in so powerfull a kingdome as this is had no other meanes to protect the afflicted The late King in the like case without applying those violent remedies hath by his wisedome sufficiently shewed the way as when by a serious interposition of his credit and authority he accommodated the difference betweene the Pope and the Venetians or when by his liberallity he succoured those who besought his helpe or when by menaces he gaue cause of apprehension to those that would oppresse his friends and Allies And these are the meanes that ought to be vsed in the first place before the way of open force be taken all warres how iust so euer being both ruinous and hazardous True it is that the peace of this State the vnion and concord of the people in a due obedience to our King and the conduct of a wise Councell that knowes how to resume the wise Councells and Maximes of Henry the great and the former state of a good intelligence with the most sincere friends and ancient confederats of this Crowne are the first and principall remedies of this euill yea the supreame way for restoring this puissant and once flourishing Kingdome to its ancient splendor strength and authoritie FINIS

true that the late King of Spaine in the yeare 1611 had made himselfe Master of the Towne of Sasello and placed a garrison there but vpon the complaint and request of the Republique of Genoa restored it to the former State Neuerthelesse in Monaco and the Towne and Castle of Correggio the Spaniards keepe a strong Garrison They haue also newly erected the Fort of Sandonal vpon the Frontier of Piedmont towards Vercel And concerning the Sates of Milan Final Plumbin and other Fiefs which the King of Spaine holds of the Empire he hath vpon the instance of his Ambassador resident at Vienna receiued solemne investiture thereof by the Emperour 1621 And besides the States of Venice and Savoy are threatned by him aswell for the misunderstanding and differences past as for this new dispute and quarrell touching the Valteline wherein the greatest part of the Potentares of Italie and the Pope himselfe are also interessed And to make his way by little and little amongst the leagues of the Switzers and Grizons peoples formerly so obliged and affectionate to the Crowne of France as they did in a maner reiect all other Alliances the Spaniard hath by money promises and practises divided them into Factions thereby to weaken that body which subsists not but by their vnion and to be able to bring them against France it selfe and other neighbouring States The Spaniards haue done asmuch vnder divers pretents in the Countrie of Valey and Bishoprirke of Sion having likewise possessed themselues of the passages of Switzerland thereby to haue the wayes free and cleere for their Armies to passe from Italie to Flanders which before they were constrained to beg from the Duke of Savoy or the leagues of Switzerland To returne to Germany it is very considerable that the conquests made by the Duke of Bauaria aswell in the upper Palatinate which he hath gottē entirely into his possession as in the lower Palatinate tend all of them to the advantage of the House of Austria this Prince being neere Allie and obliged to that House by the translation of the Electorate vpon his person and other benefits lately received from the Emperour So that to fauour that Duke in hope either to bring him into suspition with the Emperour or to draw profit from him against the haire considering how strictly they are all linked together in interest and affection the one to the other and in giuing such a Councell there must be want of integrity or pure ignorance of the present State of the affaires of Germany The like must be said of the Children of the Marquis Edward Fortunate to whom the Marquisat of Baden hath beene lately adiudged by the Emperour against and in prejudice of their Cosen the Marquis of Douelach who is now turned out of it which is an extent of land somewhat considerably betweene the Townes of Strasbourg and Basle on the one side and the Palatinate and Dutchie of Wirtemberg on the other They haue likewise since a few Moneths possest themselues of a good part of the Langrauiat of Hessen vnder colour of a sentence giuen by the Emperour in fauour of the Langraue Louis of Darmstat against his Cosen the Langraue Maurice of Kassell an ancient Allie and confident of the Crowne of France upon their difference touching the Towne of Marspourg and the countrey about it And so by little and little they proceede getting footing in the Prouinces of Germany and oppressing the libertie of the Princes and Citties of the Empire thereby to make it hereditary in their House as they doe the Kingdomes of Hungarie and Bohemia which those peoples haue euermore maintained to be meerely Electiue together with the Provinces of Moravia Silesia and Lusatia incorporated to the Kingdome of Bohemia and newly reconquered by Armes and other meanes to the great increasing of the House of Austria and exceeding great aduantage of their designes We will not speake here of the Townes and Fortresses of Arache Mamora and others in the Kingdome of Fez surprised or conquered by the Spaniard since a few yeares because they are far distant and of lesse consideration to France But touching the Fort of Grauelines which they still aduance and will by snatches bring it to perfection we must blame our selues if we suffer it But it would be a farre worse matter if the Spaniard should conclude the Treaty of Marriage with England for the reasons which euery man may vnderstand for if the onely Negotiation touching that Alliance hath giuen the Spaniards time and meanes to subdue the best and greatest part of all Germany and to push their designes so forward what other thing can be expected from the accomplishment of the marriage but that in the end we must receiue Law from the Conquerour and so loose the prerogatiue of this glorious title anciently wonne by our Kings of Protectors of the liberty of Germany and which is more of Arbiters of Christendome besides the fruit which we see lost before our eyes of so many Millions employed since 100 or 120 yeares to entertaine our Allies the Switzers and Grizons and other our friends and confederates And of the expence made at the siege of Iuliers to put it into the possession of the lawfull heires of the House of Cleue whom the Spaniards laboured to dispossesse and to take it themselues as they haue now done 10 yeares afterwards For which notwithstanding our ill-affected-Frenchmen haue professed publike ioy although this place was formerly deliuered to the late Mareschall de la Chastre generall of the Kings Army being for the most part Catholicke It must be also taken into consideration that the Spaniards who for 70 yeares hath by diuers writings continuall blamed our Treaties which the Turke doth now himselfe seeke that Alliance with much instance The last from Constantinople beare that one Antonio Barili a Dominican Frier who had bin there secretly twice before was againe returned thither with two others in his company and that he hath been zealously seconded and assisted in pursute of this peace by the Emperours Ministers that were then at the Port and now lately by one Curtz who for this end hath carried thither a good summe of money of all which the Grand Vizier himselfe gaue aduertisement to some Ambassadors resident at the Port and opposite to the Spanish Party iudging his designe of the Emperor and King of Spaine to be for no other end then by this Peace a By a Peace with the Grand Signiour of the King of Spaine would yearely saue the charge of 20 m. men kept in Garrison vpon the Coastes of Naples Sicilie Sardinia and those Islands and of 60 Gallies in which are of Souldiers and Slaues well nigh 20 m. more All which great forces the King of Spaine is forced with a vast expence continually to maintaine for his owne safety and defence against the Turke And it is considerable that this proposition of Peace is made in a time when the necessities of the Turkish affaires