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A57374	A discovrse of the originall and fundamentall cause of naturall, customary, arbitrary, voluntary and necessary warre with the mystery of invasive warre : that ecclesiasticall prelates, have alwayes beene subject to temporall princes ... / by Sir Walter Rawleigh ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1650 (1650)	Wing R158; ESTC R9599	18,812	70

could be admitted into his presence Neither yet could he otherwise get absolution then by submitting his estate unto the Popes good pleasure what was his fault He had refused to yeild up to the Pope the investiture of Bishops and Collation of Ecclesiasticall dignities within his dominions a right that had alwayes belonged to Princes untill that day It were superfluous to tell how grievously he was afflicted all his life after Notwithstanding this submission In breife the unappeasable rage of Hildebrand and his Successors never left persecuting him by raising one Rebellion after an other yea his owne Children against him till dispoyled of his Crowne he was faine to beg food of the Bishop of Spyers promising to earne it in a Church of his own building by doing there a Clarks duty for he could serve the Quire And not obteining this he pined away and dyed That Bishop of Spyers dealt herein perhaps rather fearfully then cruelly For he had to terrifie him the example of Vteilo Archhishop of Mentz chiefe Prelate among the Germans Who was condemned of heresie for having denyed that the Emperour might be deprived of his Crowne by the Popes authority If Princes therefore be carefull to exclude the doctrine of Hildebrand out of their dominions who can blame them of rigour This example of Henry though it would not be forgotten might have been omitted had it not been seconded with many of the same nature But this was neither one Popes fault nor one Princes destiny He must write a story of the Empire that means to tell of all their dealings in this kind As how they wrought upon Henry the fifth whom they had set up against his Father what horrible effusion of Blood they caused by their often thundering upon Fredericke And how they rested not untill they had made the Empire stand headlesse about seaventeene years These things moved Rodolph Earl of Habspurgh who was chosen Emperour after that long vacation to refuse the Ceremony of being Crowned at Rome though he were thereto urged by the Electors For said he our Caesars have gone to Rome As the foolish Beasts in AEsops Fables went to the Lyons Den leaving very goodly footsteps of their journey thitherward but not the like of their returne The same opinion have most of the succeeding Emperours held all of them or almost all neglecting that Coronation Good cause why Since the Popes besides many Extortions which they practised about that Ceremony Arrogated thence unto themselves that the Empire was held of them in Homage And dealt they not after the same fashion with other Kingdomes What right had St. Peter to the Crowne of Sicily and of Naples The Romane Princes wonne those Lands from the Saracens who had formerly taken them from the Empire of Constantinople The same Romanes had also been mighty defenders of the Papacy in many dangers yet when time served the Pope tooke upon him as Lord Paramount of those Countryes to drive out one King and set up another with a Bloody confusion of all Italie retaining the Soveraignty to himself In France he had the daring to pronounce himselfe superiour unto the King in all matters both Spirituall and Temporall The Crowne of Poland he forced to hold of his Miter by imposing a subjection in way of penance For that the Polish King had caused one St. Stanislaus to be slaine For the death of St. Thomas Beckett and more strangely for a Refusall of an Archbishop of Canterbury whom his Holinesse had appointed he imposed the like penance upon England Also when our King Edward the First made Warre upon the Scots word came from Rome that he should surcease for that the Kingdome of Scotland belonged unto the Popes Chappell A great oversight it was of St. Peter that he did not accurse Nero and all heathen Princes whereby the Popes Chappell might have gotten all that the Devill offered and our Saviour refused Yet what need was there of such a banne Since Fryar Vincent of Valnarda could tell Atatalipa King of Peru That all the Kingdomes of the Earth were the Popes who had bestowed more then halfe thereof upon the King of Spaine If the Pope will have it so it must be so otherwise I should have interpreted that place in Genesis Increase and multiply and fill the Earth As spoken to Noah and his Children not as directed only to Tubal Homer and Phatto the supposed Fathers of the old Iberians Gothes and Moores of whom the Spanish blood is compounded But of such impudent presumption in disposing of countryes farre remote And whereto the sword must acquire a better title the mischiefe is not presently discerned It were well if his Holinesse had not loved to set the world in an uproare by nourishing of War among those that respected him as a Common Father His dispensing with oaths taken for agreement between one King and another or between Kings and Subjects doe speake no better of him For by what right was it That Fardinand of Arragon won the Kingdome of Navar why did not the Confederacie that was between Lewis the Twelfth of France and the Venetians hinder that King from warring upon Venice why did not the like between England and France hinder our King Henry the eighth for warring upon the same King Lewis Was it not the Pope who did set on the French to the end that himself might get Ravenna from the Venetians Why was it not the same Pope who afterwards upon desire to drive the French out of Italie excommunicated Lewis and his adherents By vertue of which Excommunication Fardinand of Arragon seized upon Navarr And served not the same Warrant to set our Henry upon the back of France But this was not our Kings fault more then all the peoples We might with shame confesse it if other Countries had not been as blindly superstitious as our Fathers That a Barque of Apples blessed by the Pope and sent hither for presents unto those that would be forward in the War upon France made all our English hasty to take Armes in such sort as the Italians wondred and laughed to see our men no lesse greedy of those Apples then Eve was of the forbidden fruit for which they were to hazard their lives in an unjust War Few ages have wanted such and more grievous examples of the Popes tumultuous disposition but these were amongst the last that fell out before his unholinesse was detected Now for his dispensing betweene Kings and their Subjects we need not seeke instances far from home He absolved our King Iohn of an oath given to his Barons and people The Barons and people he afterwards discharged of their alleageance to King Iohn King Henry the third had appeased this Land how wisely I say not by taking such an oath as his Father had done swearing as he was a Knight A Christian and a King But in a Sermon at Paules People were taught how little was to be reposed on such assurance the Popes dispensation being there openly read

been ruined by such overflowing multitudes within the same space of these last six hundred yeares It were an endlesse labour to tell how the Turks and Tartars falling like Locusts upon that quarter of the world having spoiled every where and in most places Eaten up all as it were by the roots Consuming together with the Princes formerly Reigning and a world of people the very names language and memory of former times Suffice it that when any Country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it there is a naturall necessity compelling it to disburthen it self and lay the Load upon others by right or wrong For to omit the danger of Pestilence often visitting those which live in a throng there is no misery that urgeth men so violently unto desperate courses and contempt of death as the Torments or Threats of famine whereof the Warre that is grounded upon this generall remedilesse necessity may be tearmed the generall the Remedilesse or the necessary War Against which that our Country is better provided as may be shewed hereafter Then any civill Nation to us knowne we ought to hold it a great blessing of God And carefully retaine the advantages which he hath given us now Besides this remedilesse or necessary Warre which is frequent There is a Warre voluntary and Customeable unto which the offering party is not compelled And this Customary Warre which troubleth all the world giveth little respite or breathing time of peace doth usually borrow pretence from the necessary to make it self appeare more honest For Covetous Ambition thinking all too little which presently it hath supposeth it self to stand in need of all which it hath not Wherefore if two bordering Princes have their Territory meeting on an open Champaigne the more mighty will continually seeke occasion to extend his limits unto the further border thereof If they be divided by Mountaines they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the Tops And finally for the Towns that stand upon the roots If Rivers run between them they contend for the Bridges And thinke themselves not well assured untill they have fortified the further banck Yea the Sea it selfe must be very broad barren of fish and void of little Islands interjacent else will it yeild plentifull argument of quarrell to the Kingdomes which it severeth All this proceeds from desire of having and such desire from feare of want Hereunto may be added That in these Arbitrary Wars there is commonly to be found some small measure of necessity though it seldome be observed perhaps because it extendeth not so far as to become publique For where many younger sonnes of younger Brothers have neither Lands nor means to uphold themselves and where many men of Trade or usefull possessions know not how to bestow themselves for lack of Imployments there can it not be avoided that the whole body of the State howsoever otherwise healthfully disposed should suffer anguish by the greivance of those ill affected Members It sufficeth not that the Country hath wherewith to susteine even more then live upon it if means be wanting whereby to drive convenient participation of the generall store unto a great number of well deservers In such cases there will be complaining Commiseration and finally murmur as men are apt to lay the blame of those evills whereof they know the ground upon publike misgovernment unlesse order be taken for some redresse by the sword of Injury supposed to be done by Forreigners whereto the discontented sort give commonly a willing eare And in this case I think it was that the great Cardinall Francis de Amiens who governed Spaine in the minority of Charls the fift hearing tell that 8000. Spaniards were lost in the enterprise of Algier under Don Diego de Vera made light of the matter Affirming that Spaine stood in need of such evacuation forreigne Warre serving as King Fardinard had been wont to say like a potion of Rubarbe to wash away Choler from the body of the Realme Certainly among all Kingdomes of the earth we shall scarce find any that stands in lesse need then Spaine of having the veines opened by an enemies sword The many Colonies which it sends abroad so well preserving it from swelling humors Yet is not that Country thereby dispeopled but mainteineth still growing upon it like a tree from whose plants to fil a whole Orchard have bin taken as many as it can well nourish And to say what I think if our King Edward the third had prospered in his French Wars and peopled with English the Towns which he won As he began at Calice driving out the French the Kings his Successors holding the same course would by this time have filled all France with our Nation without any notable emptying of this Island The like may be affirmed upon like suspition of the French in Italy or almost of any others as having been verified by the Saxons in England and Arabians in Barbarie What is then become of so huge a multitude as would have over spread a great part of the Continent surely they dyed not of old age nor went out of the world by the ordinary wayes of nature But famine and contagious diseases the sword the halter and a thousand mischiefs have Consumed them Yea many of them perhaps were never borne for they that want means to nourish Children will abstaine from marriage or which is all one they cast away their bodies upon rich old women or otherwise make unequall or unhealthy Matches for gaine or because of poverty they thinke it a blessing which in nature is a curse to have their wives barren Were it not thus Arithmeticall progression might easily demonstrate how fast mankind would increase in multitude overpassing as miraculous though indeed naturall that example of the Israelites who were multiplyed in 215. yeares from seaventie unto 600000. able men Hence we may observe that the very propagation of our kind hath with it a strong insensive even of those daily Wars which afflict the earth And that Princes excusing their drawing the sword by devised pretences of necessity speake often more truly then they are aware there being indeed a great necessity though not apparent as not extending to the generality but resting upon private heads Wherefore other cause of Warre meerly naturall there is none then want of roome upon the earth which pinching a whole nation begets the remedilesse Warre vexing only some number of particulars It draws on the Arbitrary But unto the kindling of Arbitrary Warre there are many other motives The most honest of these is feare of harme and prevention of danger This is just and taught by nature which labours more strongly in removing evill then in pursuite of what is requisite unto her good Neverthelesse because Warre cannot be without mutuall violence It is manifest that allegation of danger and feare serves only to excuse the suffering part the wrong doer being carried by his owne will So the Warre thus caused proceeds from

A DISCOVRSE OF THE ORIGINALL AND Fundamentall Cause of Naturall Customary Arbitrary Voluntary and Necessary WARRE With the MYSTERY of Invasive WARRE That Ecclesiasticall Prelates have alwayes beene subject to Temporall Princes And that the Pope had never any lawfull power in England either in Civill or Ecclesiasticall businesse after such time as Brittaine was won from the Roman Empire By Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight LONDON Printed by T. W. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be Sold at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1650. A Discourse of the Originall and fundamentall cause of Naturall Customary Arbitrary Voluntary and necessary war with the misery of invasive warre That Ecclesiasticall Prelates have alwayes been subject to Temporall Princes and that the Pope had never any lawfull power in England either in Civill or Ecclesiasticall businesse after such time as Brittaine was won from the Roman Empire THe ordinary Theme and Argument of History is War which may be defined the exercise of violence under Soveraigne Command against withstanders force Authority and resistance being the essentiall parts thereof violence limited by authority is sufficiently distinguisht from Robbery and the like outrages yet consisting in relation towards others It necessarily requires a supposition of resistance whereby the force of War becomes different from the violence inflicted upon Slaves or yeilding Malefactors as for Armes Discipline and whatsoever else belongeth to the making of War prosperous they are only considerable in degree of perfection since naked savages fighting disorderly with stones by appointment of their Commanders may truly and absolutely be said to War Neverthelesse it is true that as the Beasts are armed with fierce teeth pawes horns and other bodily instruments of much advantage against unweaponed men so hath reason taught man to strengthen his hand with such offensive Armes as no creature else can well avoid or possibly resist And it might seeme happy if the sword the Arrow the Gun with many terrible Engines of death could be wholly imployed in the exercise of that Lordly rule which the Lord of all hath given to mankind over the rest of living things But since in humane reason there hath no meanes been found of holding all mankind at peace within it self It is needfull that against the wit and subtilty of man we oppose not only the bruit force of our bodyes wherein many Beasts exceed us but helping our strength with art and wisdome strive to excell our enemies in those points wherein man is excellent over other Creatures The necessity of War which among humane Actions is the most lawlesse hath some kind of affinity and neere resemblances with the necessity of Law For there were no use at all either of War or of Law If every man had prudence to conceive how much of right were due both to and from himselfe and were withall so punctually just as to performe what he knew requisite and to rest contented with his owne But seeing that no conveyance of Land can be made so strong by any skill of Lawyers with multiplicity of clauses and provisoes That it may be secure from contentious Avarice and the malice of false seeming Justice It is not to bee wondered that the great Charter whereby God bestowed the whole earth upon Adam And confirmed it unto the Sons of Noah being as breife in word as large in effect hath bred much quarrell of interpretation Surely howsoever the Letter of that Donation may be unregarded by the most of men yet the sense thereof is so imprinted in their hearts And so passionatly imbraced by their greedy desires As if every one laid claime for himself unto that which was conferred upon all This appeared in the Gaules who falling upon Italy under their Captaine Brennus told the Roman Ambassadours plainly that prevalent arms were as good as any title and that valiant men might account to be their owne as much as they could get That they wanting Land therewith to susteine their people And the Tuscanes having more then enough It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand if it were not yeilded quietly Now if it be well affirmed by Lawyers that there is no taking of possession more just then In vacuum venire to enter upon Land unhabited As our Countrymen have lately done in the Summer Islands Then may it be inferred that this demand of the Gaules held more of reason then could be discerned at the first view For if the title of occupiers be good in a Land unpeopled why should it be bad accounted in a Country Peopled over thinly should one family or one thousand hold possession of all the Southerne undiscovered continent because they had seated themselves in Nova Guiana or about the Straits of Magalane why might not the like be done in Africk in Europe or in Asia If this were most absurd to imagine Let then any mans wisdome determine by lessening the Territory and increasing the number of Inhabitants what proportion is requisite to the peopling of a Region in such manner That the Land shall be neither too narrow for those whom it feedeth nor capable of a greater multitude Untill this can be concluded and agreed upon one maine and fundamentall cause of the most grievous Warre that can be imagined is not like to be taken from the Earth It were perhaps enough in reason to succour with victualls and other helps a vast multitude compelled by necessity to seeke a new seate or to direct them unto a Country able to receive them But what shall perswade a mighty Nation to travaile so farre by Land or Sea over Mountaines Deserts And great Rivers with their Wives and Children when they are or thinke themselves powerfull enough to serve themselves neerer hand and inforce others into the Labour of such a Journey I have briefely shewed in an other worke that the miseries accompaning this kind of War are most extreame For as much as the Invaders cannot otherwise be satisfied then by rooting out or expelling the Nation upon which they fall And although the uncertainty of tenure by which all worldly things are held minister very unpleasant meditation yet is it most certaine that within 1200. yeares last past all or the most of Kingdomes to us knowne have throughly felt the calamities of such forcible trasplantations being either over whelmed by new Collonies that fell upon them or driven as one wave is driven by an other to seeke new seates having lost their owne Our Westerne parts of Europe indeed have cause to rejoyce and give praise to God for that we have been free about 600 years from such Inundations As were those of the Gothes Humes and Vandalls yea from such as were those of our owne Ancestors the Saxons Danes and Normans But howsoever we have together with the feeling lost the very memory of such wretchednesse as our Fore-fathers endured by those Wars of all other the most cruell Yet are there few Kingdomes in all Asia that have not